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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1925
CapitaiJournal
Salem. Oreioa
An Independent Newippr Publlihed rry trenlng except 8undy
Telephone II; II
CEORGB PUTNAM, Editor end PublUher
Against Natural Law
Accusing the allopathic doctors of trying to form a
mcdicul trust and strangle other groups engaged in the heal-
ine arts, the osteopaths, chiropractors, neuropaths, eclectics:
mental scientists and other schools of curing are strongly
protesting a measure pending before the legislature
(H. B. 391) which raises educational standards by requiring
practitioners to supplement grammar and high school educa
tion with two years of university training and four years of
special training in their own particular school of healing,
before securing a license.
As might be expected, the druggists trust is heart and
soul back of the bill, for the practice of drugless doctors
threatens their thriving business of prescription filling and
peddling patent medicines. The dominant school of allopathy
is also strong for the measure, for it already requires much
training, and seeks to force others to be equally prepared,
knowing it is too late for most of them.
Great progress has been made during the past few years
in medical science and surgery altogether too much progress
for the welfare of the race, for as a result there is a preserva
tion of the unfit that nullifies nature's law of the survival
of the fittiest. Therefore ignorant practicioners fulfill a
useful purpose in helping nature take her course by main
taining the natural ratio of deaths.
While everyone desires that the surgeon that rips him
open be a learned and scientific butcher, such eruditeness
is wasted on the specialist that merely thumps your spine or
messages you. A husky physique like a blacksmiths is better
than six years of schooling. And what use is an education
to the seventh son of a seventh daughter, or to the seeress
that convincesyou are that your ailment is your own mental
delusion?
We are agin' this law not only because it creates a trust
aud provides more bureaucracy, more regulation and inter-
fcron'.e in other peoples affairs, but because it is an inherent
human right to choose your own method of death and it is
about time that we ceased legislating for the survival of
(he unfit against natural law.
Increase Their Pay
Increase in pay for the supreme court justices to $7,500 a
year, after having been favorably recommended by the
iuilii iarv committee, has been adversely reported by the
ways and means committee, which is opposed to all salary
raise, despite the fact that this was the only salary raise
recommended by Governor Pierce as necessary.
It is to be hoped that both houses override the ways and
means report and pass the bill for if there was ever a
salary raise merited, it is in the case of the over-worked
supreme court justices, upon whom depend the final con
struction of all laws passed by the legislature and all acts
of the executives.
Members of the supreme court should be the flowers of
the legal profession, for they are, in these days of a plethora
of statutes, the real governing power, the final arbiters of
destiny. Salaries should be provided sufficient to attract
men of the highest ability and the only fault with the bill
ns introduced is that it does not provide sufficient increase
in pay.
The present salary of a justice is less than the average
successful country lawyer makes in his practice, less than the
average business man realizes and less than some branches
of skilled labor pay. A justice cannot exist upon the honor
and prestige of the position and it is a shame that a state
like Oregon pays compensation that keeps supreme court
justices ill a condition of hand-to-mouth gentile poverty and
provides no way in which they can make provision for the
3 in itre.
RADIO -FAILS
IN RIX ORDINC,
SIGN OF LIFE
(Cortlnueil from Pace One)
For the first time the amplifier
tests across t lie electric light wire
leading down to Collins fulled
completely this moruinff to record
anything In the head phones. The
last successful tear at midnight
repeated the "hreat hinjr" Bound at
the regular rate of 18 per minute.
hut II. (. Lane, manager of the
electric npparatui at the cave
hiiid the test Imlirataert (he Rlolie
was out of Collin's soik and
burned out.
Carmlehael would not estimate
how soon the Sand cave tunnel
nu Kin he pier ed hut aaid ' we
I i ' a r to he veiy rloe, and I be
1 i v e we will get Col litis out
n live. "
Odors Hearten Workers
The odors of the litiKina oil
spriivrd down I'.dMin' tunnel
Riind.iy tiirlit and again Monday
ro e thr.Minh III-- Moor of Itte sli.irt
la t nif;!it to li.-.ut. n Hie tired
di'Ters. i:ti i precaution in
tln.lM ii'u' the tih.itt were m ule to
profit the wiMb-iiitn fslt.'uld the
riiif of tlie tunnel nr cavern sud
denly he V ds-'ii through.
A Mnall deft in the fde of (lie
il't ow;nd ilio north, or Smd
av,. side, w ;i- di-tovrred .it IIS1--fc.'t,
fmll ;il ins t'u uti'li i urtiiind
lion. y -tuiiitt (I .(-( ion wa neir at
iian-t. 1 lie rITldv lay.-r at the hot
torn of the h ift was fiiiiy drv.
rnmpffd to the niu.V in whUh
the dj.;-ers liae turn worKinc. ,
It in ing Infection from h in
cr.cuned 11 ilct imprisonment. !
tho physician's hopes ore strong'
that they can save Collins if he Is
reached noon. Kvery possible j
fmergfiicy tired of the physicians
hns been prepared In the Hed
Cress tent, operating room for
transfusion nmpntatlon or what
ever eln his condition Indicates.
A stretcher like appliance to
ral"e Collins through the ahaft
baa been constructed.
Snow Interferes
While exporting that Collins
soon would be reached. Carmtchael
was taking precautions against In
terrupiim of the digging. He con
ferred this morning with M. K. 8
Josey, executive secretary of the
La's highway commission, who
JAR DING TO
GET CABINET
PORTFOLIO
Continued from Page One
Mr. Jardine la president of the
Kanttaa Agricultural college, and
hie supporters eay he has the en
doraement of Secretary Hoover to
whom the president previously
had offered the agriculture secre
taryship. Hie attitude toward the
MrNary-Hitugcn farm bill ha1
been displeasing to eume of the
K ansae delegation eupportins
(hat measure, the delegation was
unanimotiri today however, In lt
endorsement of him.
air. jardine hae had many
kinds of experience that would
he of value to him as secretary of
agrtrultnre Horn on an Idahi
ranch in 1ST!, he a a cat Ik'
puncher In Montana at Che aue
of lf. and then after a course it
the t'tah Agricultural college be
came an Instructor there. In liius
hp hen an a four year period of
service In lite amiculture depart
ment here in c ha rue of cereal
problems, lie has been connected
with Kansas Atirii iiltural eotlepe
since 1 ;i I I, a ml i) he.nl mho
I!" 1 !.
later appealed to Coventor Fields
for more adequate and permanent
quarters and regular crews of
laborers.
Thus far the ee"iv;1:;;ij? tUs
ben done by volunteers from
near aud tar.
Il was to comb.it natural force
that Mr. Carmichael and Mr.
lose made their appeal to the
governor. Kvery time rescue
workers have been hopeful of
rescuing Collins, nature ha put
further obstacles in their path.
Haiti, which began falling at
midnight, turned to snow early
today. A biting wind nddi-d to
the d I scorn fortltu re of t U oso a t
the cave.
H. T. Carmichnel. In charge of
sinking the ahaft, s-itd that a mid
den striking of the cavern in
which Collins Is a prisoner would
be the only unexpected develop
ment which might possibly lead .o
an earlier rescue.
The twelfth section of timber
ing up the wall of the ahaft was
completed at noon today. Knob
section coven approximately three
fe. The eicavalon was slightly
below the last bracing put U.
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The way to solve the Cross Word Piiaile ts to Ml tai the while
squares of the diagram tlth the words which agree with the aecoin
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A Modern Marriage
An Absorbing Novel ,
By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON J
A NEW WOMAN
Am Richard Starmount vu on
hi way to the jail be pamed Jim
Kirby plodding along on foot, ev
idently bound for the acine place
The lawyer pulled bifl roadster
sharply to the curb.
"Jump in Jim. You're Juet the
man I want to see."
"You've" got the marriage cer
1 1 f ica te. Good work ! " impul
sively hazarded Kirby.
"That's just what I haven't
got," Starmount informed him
curtly.
"You don't mean "to eay they
aren't married after all?"
"Yea, they were married.
"Then w here's the certificate?"
"Kathlyn destroyed it."
"What did fihe do that asinine
thing for?"
"She thought fihe could make
herself believe in time there had
been no ceremony performed; she
haa just told me."
"Does Hod know that?"
"No. Poor old Rod hae loved
her well enough to die for her if
necessary, but I know that he
would balk at destroying the evi
dence of a legal marriage. He1
would let Kathlyn make as great
a fool of herself as she wanted to
and play faet and loose with her
reputation and her name, but he
would never. have lived with her
a moment if be had not felt euro
he could show evidence that their
union was according to church
and state."
"What are you going to do
now, Dick?"
"I don't know. I confers I'm
up a stump. I'm on my way now
to ask Rod if he knows the name
and atldreAS of the preacher who
married him. If by any change
he has forgotten we must dig up
omeone who witnessed the mar-
iage."
Doecn't Mm. Evans know?"
"She tella me she made it her
buainerie to forget as soon as pos
sible everyone except Rod and
everything pertaining to her wed
ding ceremony."
"Well, I thought I knew some
thing about women,'' remarked
Jim Kirby. "I've met a good
many kind of them, but Kathlyn
Evans is a new one to ine. The
women I have known have always
been too anxious to get a wed
ding certificate to show. It U
only by the skin of my teeth tha:
I've been able to get out of mar
rying." "Jim, you're an (corrigible mf
oogynist. Some day you will fall
so hard that I will probably have
as hard a time picking you up
and putting you on your feet
again as I am having with Rtd."
"Heaven fnrbid! There h no
woman in the world that could
get me in Rod Evaue' place. You
working so hard trying to get
him out of this scrape his wife
has got him into is only one more
reason 1 have for not doing the
thing he lias done. When a man
falls in love with a woman his
trouble begins. I shall never
Hurry."
"Save your resolutions, Jim and
put your whole mind to Rod'
case. He is the boy who is in
pretty bad Just at present. Wait
here until I see him," he added
as they reached the jail.
"I'll go acrotis the street. Dirk.
I see a great number of the boy
are clustering around Big Tony
Sells' car. He's a darn good
jleuth, as well as a good report
er, and he Is much interested In
your case. We had a long talk
about it latU night and he bad
one or tw-o good theories. Per
haps he has pruved one of th'm
and and learned something we
ought to know."
Rodney Evans welcomed Star
mount in the tense fashion that
made the Attorney anderstand he
had been waiting for hiau
"They took It away from me,
Dick; they took it away from
me."
"Yes, I know, they took the
letter away from you."
"How do you know?"
"Because they have tnken
Kathlyn's fingerprints. I was
was there."
"What did they do to her? Did
they scud her back Into uncon
ociotidness or delirium?"
"No. She Is all right now, hut
by this time they have probably
compared tlie prints of her fingers
with t!ne on the gun."
Hod groani'd.
"What will happen if they find
them alike. Dick?"
"Kathlyn will probably be ar
rested at least as an accomplico
of youra In the killing."
"Oh, why didn't ! make a de
position at once? I might have
known this would have happened.
Dick, I depend upon you as
friend of mine. You must never
let Kathlyn be arrested. Go im
mediately and find out Just what
has happened at the identification
bureau. If it is as we think I
shall give my confession into the
hands of the prosecuting attorn
ey within 10 minutes."
Tomorrow A Good Clew
FRENCH TO STUDY DEBT
Taris, Feb. 11. (By Associated
Press.) The finance comiuiUee ol
the chamber of deputies, in agree
ment with Premier Herriot, today
appointed a eub-committeo to
study the inter-allied debts.
The sub-committee whose duti?s
are officially described as "the
study of the financial clauses of
the treaty of peace," consists of
15 members, three of whom belong
to the opposition. It will meet
Friday.
BRINGING UP FATHER
By George McManus
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