Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, February 09, 1925, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextPAGE FOUR ) .THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON MONDAY. FEBRUARY 9, 1925 CapitalJIJournal Salem. oref-on ' Aa Independent Newipapar Published trery arenlog siccpt Buaday Telephone 81; oaws 1 CKORGB PUTNAM. Eilllot and Publisher Back to Fundamentals Senator Eddy's bill requiring that certain studies be taught in the high schools of the state, as well as certain optional studies, is a meritorious measure that should pass the house as well as it did the senate, for it will go far to instill a knowledge of fundamentals that is now lacking in most high school students. Under the present law the course of study for high schools contains two years of required work, instead of four, with the result that the students scatter their energies in various elective courses in educational frills and foibles not in any way useful or fundamental, for they have not the mature judgment to select wisely. Studies provided under the bill as obligatory include: United Stales history; the history and leading principles of American constitutional law, In simple form; American literature; the English, language. Including grammar, composition, rhetoric, spelling and punctuation; penmanship; bookkeeping; practical oper ations in arlthmotlc. In addition to aaid required work, optional atudica may he provided In approved suhjecta. Hut no student shall be permitted to elect optional studies to the extent ot preventing thorough training In such required studies. Opposition to the measure can be expected from the teachers and parents organizations, under whose leadership the present demoralization of student life has been fostered, for the existing system makes more jobs for more teachers, higher salaries, more equipment, and more expenditures, but it should be welcomed by the taxpayer. The high school graduates of 30 years ago before the students ran the schools, was much better grounded in funda mentals essential in future life, and in citizenship, better trained and better disciplined, than the graduate of today and the elective system is to blame. It is high time for reform. Why the Referendum When the Oregon legislature first convened, sentiment against ratification of the child labor amendment to the federal constitution was overwhelming. It is now stated that the legislators will probably refer the meat'i'-e to the people, instead of voicing their honest sentiments. This is characteristic of the way Oregon legislators evade their duty. A small bloc of welfare workers, profiting by the example of the Anti-Saloon league, has been exerting pressure upon the individual legislators and threatening their future political ambitions and thus made cowards of them all. Every legislator secretly wants to be governor, or con gressman or senator or some other political honor and so runs along the lines of least resistance. Pattering after Governor Tierce, who is the perfect flower of the Oregon system, the legislators are for anything that has any organized support back of it and might be a stopping stone to preferment. Few have character enough to stand for the right as they see it, mere windmills that veer with popular breezes. Without platform or party responsibility or solidarity, it is an easy matter to keep them turning. During the last campaign, all the politicians, including the three presidential candidates were for the amendment, because they thought it meant votes. That portion of the press that trims for popularity was also for it. After the election, however, legislators found that the people did not want it. Wherever submitted to a referendum it was over whelmingly defeated. Farmer organizations joined manu facturers in opposing it. While the Oregon legislature has been evading the issue and trying to sidestep the amendment has been rejected by nearly all other legislatures. Three states have ratified, Arkansas, Arizona and California. Nineteen states have rejected it, Georgia, Delaware, North Carolina, South Caro lina, Louisiana, Texas, Utah, Kansas, Tennessee, Oklahoma, Ohio, Washington, North Dakota, South Dakota, Wyoming, Nevada, Connecticut and Indiana. Massachusetts rejected a referendum. In two slates it has been ratified by one house, New Mexico and Wisconsin, but faces rejection in the other branch. Thirty-six must ratify it. If the amcnlment is submitted to the people of Oregon, it will be overwhelmingly defeated. Why waste the time and money of a referendum, just to save politicians from going on record: TODAY'S CROSS WORD PUZZLE HORIZONTAL X Imaginary being S. New York (ab.) t. An oil 7. IVIilor (ah.) 8. Htmit tif Joy II. Onler u tnorit (ab.) II. t llnc li IS. Melinite article 17. 1'cnmle deer IN. lliiiclle 20. (.reek letter '21. Knnrd 23. Iteur Admiral (ab.) 23. Olif Kimll-ll (ab.) 20. litlier 27. I'enaiiilng lo a duke VERTICAL I. ItfMiV It. troth a. Ir 4. You ft. iH)-He to South 8. Vrfxi 9. Inttvriiific nrilcle 10. iUmt K)MttlllV ixiint IS, , Alajili'ti loved by Jupiter l . Onr nirili-tcft with leprosy Id, Ivv.Ia million lil. Kuril (lib.) 20. Itcnmvt' on lor tkin 22. 1 4i r tec Niiiilie 21. Anno Domini (ab.) 20. lreMtioii HOW TO SOLVE THE CROSS WORD PUZZLE Tlie way to ardvo tho Croae Word puzzle la to fill lu the while squares of the diagram with tho wortla which agree- with tho nceom IMiiilinr definitions. The tlefliilltous lira uunibcrcd to correspond with the numbers on tho diagram. Any word defined In I he teat under ' HOIUZONT AL" tvill begin at Its number, ahown on the dlncraiu. and will extend all tho war across to the first bl'ick simce lo the right of Hint number. That Ik, tho word must begin In tlio square tlmt contains Its ldentlf)llic nnm ber, nud citcud as far aa tho white squares continue uninterruptedly. Anr word defined under "VEHTICAI." will also begin, In the while enaco that contains Its number, but will citcud downward as far as the white spucus renin uninterruptedly. BOIXTION OF YESTERDAY'S PUZZLE A1LLE.RSA1P1SMIC T HQ N O l) Rfj R A tIf e atu mTsjQ 1 C E P P I NEjjUSE CotS C D.ME LED HER rfp"rMAH WM Am E M O N El S m DQ M 1 p 'fflolq M I tji LTg" jgig emMf e t t l h T LAjmN o tffiih I A. 1 1 18 T 11 3.Q jj Copyright 1921 Cieorso Matthew Adams A Modem Marriage An Abaorbinir Novel V- - , By IDAH McGLONE Ullisum J LOOKING llACKWAItD "I couli stand It no longer. Kathl,' ah sulci. 'I could not bear to ace Dulcle so unhnpny and I told her ahe had better get a di vorce. " "When my If f tie mother told me Dick, Kathlyn Evans continued, "that the marriapf she had plan ned for her daughter had coma to grief I was more than ever deter mined that I would never marry. I did not tell her o. Instead I put my arma around her aa sha asked pathetically U she could stay with me, telling mo that her son-in-law had put her out of his house beoause he thought sha had made trouble between him and his wife. " 'Of course you can live with me mother,' I said aa I took her into my studio apartment, but the moment I ca unlit her look of but prise and disapproval na ah glanc ed around the room, I knew she did not belonr- I knew that no one belonged in that apartment but myself. - "During; the next tew days that fact was impressed more and more upon me. Mother was horrified by my free untrammelled ways, and she could not understand that my work was paramount. She had never known a woman who had done anything except to keep house for either a husband or a father and she could not under stand why me.ils In my tftudio npartihent were movable feasts. "I remember the very first nisht the came. I had told Kod I would so out to dinner with him. When he arrived, alio was aeain horri fied by the fact that I had dress-; cd for the party behind a screen. "Dick, it didn't seem possible to, me that two people could bo so , far apart as my inn I her and I, and I knew that we could not live to-' got her. I wis Ijetrinnins to suspect j that I could not live with anyone. I was thoroughly unhappy, bemuse I saw that 1 wua going to na iu fight against all her prejudice. Just as I had fought og-iinst them as a girl. "Honestly, Dick, I began to have a llttlo sympathy for George Ack ers, my brother-in-law. if my sla ter Lucile, was anything like my mother. "lhe moment th.U Kod entered the house he seemed to under stand my position and I can not tell you lnw wonderful he was during the f'W days when'I was trying to solvo the problem of mak Ing my mother happy without giv ing up my enihe ficcdom. That very night it The Lafay ette Kod sugt;eu-d that mother Ko on a tour around the world. Mother though she would need a ihapei-ono anl he told her that his father was gulr.g on the same boat. It seamed an Ideal plai and I fete that the twenty-five hun dred dollar I would-have to pay was very small in comparison to my freodoni. "IScfore Hod Iefr that night the trip had been decided upon, and mother was like a child in her joy. I could not help tmiillng a little when I found that much of that oy was hers because of the sur prise and consternation in my brother-in-Uw's family. j "Tho next three or four daysj were full of work, but in that lime it was impossible to make mother understand it was jut as res pec - table for tho working woman to live alone as it was for her bruiher. to keep a bachelor upariment. I She waa almost ready at time to give up her trip, for she thor oughly heli - ej that the wuiid had ch.ifv.je. I for the or.-;e. D.-fur j I can it Kaihlyn. she said. "I wonder why the Lord had allowed mo to bo turned out of the housd of om? of my dans tit erf hi' my oid are. X know now. 1U un derstood that my other daughter needed ma and Ha took that dras. tic wiy of eft""? nie out of my t-.irifch rut. I should stay here and take car of you.' "Kor a moment my heart stop, ped beating, but finally I persuad ed her to think that there wouli be time enough to take care of ma when ahe cama back, "At last we got her off, Dick, nod and I, with Itod's father shouldering some of the responsi bility of looking after mother. I could not help but noifcco how mother primped when ahe knew that for a while at least, ahe would be cared for by a man. "I cama back from the boat ut terly tlrel and I told Rod that I did not realise how happy I had been In my little apartment alone until my dear little mother, who had been set out In the cold by that unspeakable beast of a broth, cr-in-law of mine, crept In her. I knor now Hod that I couldu't marry any man for it would mean still more Intimate companionship, a much more con stant surveillance of my actions and the disposal of my time,' 1 said to him. 'Ion't you love me Kathlyn?' Rod asked us he put his arms about me" There was a commotion tn the hall. The doctor made his nppcar nnee. Right behind him nppeared Skelton and Ziegler and two or thieo other men from the Central ofliee. "Dk-k, Dick, what does this mean?" asked Kathlyn. "it means. Miss, that we have come to take your finger prints." an id one of the officers gruffly, "if you're well enough to write letters and well enough to talk with this man, you're well enough to put your fingers on this little ink pad." "Curse Rodney for letting them Ret hold of that letter." Dick Star mount slid to hi-nsL'lf, as he leaned over to take the manuscript from Kathlyn's shaking finders. (C'tnthricd Tomorrow) BRINGING UP FATHER By George McMunus 53 The Very Wise (I-Vnm the It.tltimore KvciiIiik Hun, The cxc'vm nf nlsdum in the present gi-nei.it I. mi nui.st Klve the Crejit r oe'.mlim for taking un unial pride In II;s hnndhvork. Con sider, iii nn ox'tmplo of hmv we have pnurrOiMi'd, the d t Islon of the New York I-'cdfi-uthm for tjMId Study. ll:i Init iven the mailer conMilri;tti.ia from the point of Mew of l'YeiKl and nlher great m -lent tits, iho federation lias cuiiir to tho ronelurttitn that the nltrhos, OL-resi nud snot a which fn in no great tt pnrt of the tradition ) lore of tho nursery must he eradicated from this tune forth. There ts t be room In the new s h'in of thins for the g.unl faiil.-s -.iftrr the child his be-ome orientated In his phylml environment and h:is acquired a nc of sochll Value"; but the bad rahy. the w;fh. the 0 re, the alirit all thee detec table creature aie lo Ret n, k-Ho Wr hai th mrht, wo noit-tclen tNt. thTt the had fairy, the mint, the os re. were symbol, reprcxnt Ing In a form ic nllly appi enable to the childish mind the rtil forces nhrottd In the land, and that the talei themselves were hiuhiy mor nl and helpful nraue, in view of the Inevitable triumph of the pood fairy nnd the mvuIiiis niarriatfe Hh the henutlful princess. thv indicated the unv.irjlng reward tf Consistent virtues'. We were taught that at most they were aolir myths, depicting the victory of summer over winter, the Inevitable return of brightness and glndnesa to the eaith after the pei b-d of atorm and ffl-iom. Resides this, we had remembered what a lot of fun uch la lee were. And we bought them for our own children as they came along. What foolish popIfr we were to ecepi such an Interpretation! The members o the federation for Child Study are almost pity their contempt f.n- sui-h lllfOri-M. II Is tvi (in ful I. eiiltd. it is pointed out. lo accu.t(in him. een In literature, to talcs in whlr-li horror. nln, cruelty, trh k-My or brutality nte emphasiz ed, lie should r 1 1 her orientate him.!,' (o tils cnvii iiiiuii'iil, where, a ( ver boily K mws, t here Is nL Mich tlilutr ii s horrtvr. pain, cm trickery or brutality, where e mn n and H ixnan k ami.iUle chai liable, whcif all things wnat the seem and fjodness I; uinn'ying rule. -II, perhaps il is A Rood lillllR for children ti mow up in ignor ance of the tiumjM they will have to met when they Ko out Into (he world. Perhaps the hothouse flow er i butter tbnn th havdy out-of-toors plant. Pcihips If we cjose our nrR to heiror. pain, cruelty, Ui:M-ry :in,l brnlalltv Ihrun ihliuw will .'.M'r In rxisi Perhaps, put we doubt it. i In j une the I IV. very ami a re the RETAIL FOOD PRICES CONTINUE TO INCREASE W sliinslon. Fell. . t'ontlniieii increme in retail rood priies -I ti r ins; the mnnlh endnl Jiimi.ti y 15 wsj shown In io out of 21! cities for which figures were ntinnii noeil todny by the Imrraii of stutisllc, of lhe lenrtmint of lnh: r. Th minimum Increase of 4 per cent w. rpHireii st I'lnclnn.ltl, Ksnasa City anil Ssrannsh. A 3 per cent tnrreuxe was shown t Uutle. Mont., l.lltl. Hwk. Ark.. Ixiuisville. Omaha and IVrlor. I!t . and 1 per fen: at Atlanta, liull! more. Murrain. Detroit. Indianapo lis. Norfolk. Portland, Mains, and Spilnzfleld. III. I I ... X i , Ml 111 I i IIJI llHWMfli I r Ml I I It innuuwEL UETWCtNSSjj AH'THW'il . 1M -bORI-f WILL "4 M CLA.D TO KNOW rZ7 7 DO COME OVER liL R;tS I rsAvrt)! I ' MACCIE. 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