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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGOII
MONDAY, FEBRUARY 16, 1925
CapitalJUournal
Salaiii, Oregon
An ladependent Newspaper Published titty evening except Sunday
Telephone tl; twi 11
CCORQB PUTNAM. Editor tod Publisher
Deserting an Ideal
That bland and beautiful belief in the voice of the people
as the voice of God, characteristic of all uplifters and
reformers, has recently sustained severe shocks. The simple
and childlike faith in the unerring wisdom of the multitude
has been shaken by recent events.
There were the people of Massachusetts voting over
whelmingly against providing a congressional mother to keep
youth idle until the 18th birthday and here were the people
of Oregon voting against an income tax law guaranteed to
cinch the classes and free the masses. As a consequence our
own welfare workers shy at submitting the child lalior amend
ment to a referendum to permit legislators escape going
on record and our political prophets object to letting the
voters say whether or not we can be free of income tax
agitation for a stated interval.
Hear the changed tunes of the siren voiced champions of
the people and arch-baiters of the corporations. Let us cite
a typical illustration. Here is Senator Joseph, best little
fighter and bleeder for the dear peepul, of them all, declaring
tl t "with money and propaganda you can put over anything
on the people," and therefore objecting to any more referen
dums. Can such things be?
It's a very interesting discovery, but was made by the
uplifters long ago. That is why we have the ballot crowded
every election with freak proposals. Reformers found out
early that propaganda and campaigning in behalf of any
measure with a special appeal could be put over the voiceless
and indifferent majority by a noisy minority as easily as
a legislature could be coerced and intimidated by a bloc of
persuasive and threatening lobbyists. But it is poor rule for
re farmers that works both ways. .
Facts of the matter are that people are "fed up" on
uplift and welfare, exasperated .by the multiplcity of
sumptuary laws, wearied of passing ujxm isssues they
have not time to study and elected legislators to decide,
have found that politicians promises are intended only to
tret them to pic-counter, and political cure-alls for economic
ills are fake nostrums, and would welome any opportunity to
escape referendums on all kinds of legislation for a stated
period of years, for all they get out of it is taxation and
regulation by bureaucracy.
As Abe Lincoln said, you can fool some of the people all
the time, some of the people part of the time, but you can't
fool all the people all the time and that is the aim and
object of the uplift and the paternalistic politicians parading
under its banner.
Prison Probe Needed
Early in the session, charges of mismanagement, ineffic
iency, lack of discipline and waste of public funds were made
against the state prison management, charges much graver
and of greater consequence than those made against the
prohibition commissioner yet the legislature, which investi
gated the latter half its session, has paid no attention to
the prison, although the welfare of its inmates is of far
greater consequence than the welfare of boot-leggers.
,' If the charges are true, and they were backed up with
considerable evidence, a serious situation exists. If they
arc not true, the warden should be publicly exonerated, and
an investigation should be demanded by him for this purpose.
Eefore adjournment, the legislature owes it to itself and
to the people to apixiint a committee on prison inquiry to
make a thorough investigation and report to the governor' at
its earliest opportunity, for it is too late now to report to the
legislature at this session.
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A Modern Marriage
' t..... An Absorbing Novel V ---- -
yBy IDAH McGLONE GIBSON )
WHERE WILL IT EVDf
- Flually after Hud aud 1 bad duv
cussed this over and over again,
continued Kathlvi Evana' manus
cript, I a pent one night wonder
ing if I would dare risk the kind
of marriage I saw all about uw
As mora lug dawned I had almost
decided that I would aceapt Rod
as my husband.
All throuKh the morning hours
was decidedly happier than I
had been for months. I was do
ing my work with a cwing that
I knew was good and I said to
myself that it was because I wan
going to marry Rodney Evans.
I wan hurrying along to finkn
a tricky shaft of light which
would fall obliquely upon myi
model who was posing fur Adonis!
when Rod buret in my studio, j
J was furious.
"Did you not see the card on
my door 'Engaged with model.
Keep out?" j
' but I didn't dream it
meant me," he answered, look in?
uhocked because I was employing
a popular male dancer to pose
for me.
"It did mean you. It meant
just what it oaid." I told him as
with a nod 1 duunicsed the model. I
Then we quarreled quarreled!
frightfully. I accused him of be-!
ing jealous of me and explained
that his e.ctlon in coming into my
studio unannounced meant tka:
he felt as though he owned mo!
and it was one of the reasons why
I would never marry him.
"My life, my mode of living Ks
my own," I told him, "and I shall
allow no man to regulate it for
me. Rather I .shall go through
life without love yes. even with
out you."
I knew immediately that It was
.1 great mistake to make this ad
mission for Rodney sprang for
ward and took ne In his arms.
I tried to draw back, exclaiming.
"Don't! Don't do that, Rodney. It
is cruel of you to take advantage
of me. You know as well as I
that when I feel your careens
arms about me I am yours. I
know now when you have enougu
to make up with me not by reas
on, not by threshing out the mat
ter and finding which is right,
but by cartiMetf nidkiug me subaiit
to your dumiuaut will, 1 know if
we were married and you tried it
often I khuuld bate you, bate you
as hundreds of other wives hate
their hu bands daily even while
they submit to their kUe and
opinions."
Then Rodney tried to reason
with me but I knew it was against
bis wilt that he oidn't eare to
reason with any woman he did
not consider them worthy of mas
culine argument.
I knew he was quite a tempera
ment ;U a I and that our only hope
of any happiness at all fur I
have never doubted my love for
my bualand hi to lite most of
our live apart.
As usual we came to no conclu
sion and were as far apart as when
we besruti the discussion.
At laat I j.uxiu-d hiiu away from
me with all my strength.
"Why don't you go? I'm tired.
I want lo ret. I cun't stand any
more emotional strain. I want to
he alone.
Rodney looked hurl.
"Why do you fight agulnst me?
You mut kuinv, , Kalhlyn, that
there will surely come a time when
you will not want to be alone,
when you will want a husband,
when you will want children. You
know you love me as I love you.
Yon know at the present time I
am tliliikit's more uf you than uny
tiling ilse in the world at you are
of pi.
Jt is foolishness for you to say
that your drawing board and my
typewriter are of mors importance
in our lives than our love.
"Why can't you take the Joy
that Is yours today? Xliy can't
you be satisfied with our love with
out thinking of the day when your
drawing boird aud my typewriter
will put It aide as you any it will?
"Now you think as I do that the
day m lost when wa are not to
gether for soma part of It. You
look for my coming. You usually
hate to have me leave"
"Yea, Rodney, and it Is because
I always want to know the thrill
of your presence, because I never
want to be bored with ou or tired
of you, that 1 must not marry you."
"Kathlyn, If I thought you
meant that I would try to tear my
love for you out of my heart. I
would pray to God to let me forget
you. But I am sure you don't
mean it, dearest.
There was a tudden change in
his expression. He seemed afraid
of his emotion. Ha pushed ma
from him lightly.
"Go and get ready for dinner.
I'll stay here and admire your
&Ketch. It is quite wonderful."
I noticed, however, as I left the
room, Rodney was not looking at
my picture. His hands were
clenched at his sides and I am sure
that he was asking himself as I
was asking myself, "Where will It
all end?"
Tomor row Love mid Marriage
Humuhrevs Annroved
Washington, Feb. 1. The nom
ination of William E. Humphrey
to be a member of the fed.-al
rade communion was approved to
day by the senate interstate ccm
merce committee.
BRINGING UP FATHER
By George McManua
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DUMB DORA
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(Substituting for Barney Google, during Billy DeBeck'i illness)
Why Pick on the Monkey?
A preacher at Norfolk, Va., yesterday tetered a monkey
on his pulpit while he preached a sermon on "Man or
Monkey." The diapatches atate "the climax for the contcretra
tion and the monkey came when he wag held aloft in the
pulpit, a stern finder thrust toward him and the pastor
challenged anybody in the church to stand up and concede
common ancestry with the simian."
This exhibition of the simian in man was not ordinal it
hug been staged before in the pulpit by notoriety seeking
preachers and if the poor little chained captive from the
tropics could have spoken, he would probably have been the
first to disclaim relationship with his tormentor. At any rate,
the monkey played the more dignified part.
-Why pick on the monkey? The evolutionists believe that
a!! life on the planet was of common origin and that not only
the monkey and the man had common ancestry, but every
creature that roams the earth and every plant that adorns
it hud a common origin hundreds of millions of years ago
when life was first generated in the birth of the world.
Veteran Saves Dog
That Saved His Life
In No-Man's Land
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KRAZY KAT
Poor Krazy Is Misjudged
By Herrimaa
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Chicago. Kt'h. Id h, n II,m;hi
Love, lorn by machine Kun hulled
wa Halting for diutu in uo man ,
land, a dos avi'd nls llle. Vct.!. r
day he saved that iIok.
Uive, now a Hiiiiient at Norm
wes'cin university, a sivcr.lv
wounded while Hunting in i
Ariiunne when tho do, Uollr.ir.
then working for the Herman He I
Cross, found hiiu, went bark, to
surgeons and looit them to th'j
stricken man. Later Amerlran
forces captured the poKltlon am)
when Love returned to his coun
try he brought Uollvar with him
About a month ago, love. wl''i
another student lost Bolivar white
explorloc the desolate reKlons ot
Kkokie valley. For days they
aearchel In vain. Meanwhile r
ports were broucht la by niotor
is's that a "wolf" had been seen
running; across the bleak land. Vis
leaay, l-ovs at quest still, was
stopped by a policeman became
his automobile lacked a licence
tat:. At a suburban station he ex
plained his search.
"Why, we've a dog Ilka that,"
he sergeant said. "Caught bira I
it loo'i half a dozen of us ,ircr
he had scared folks in tho roj.ln.
He look half starved; he's Bilb-
jerle-l 10 be shof In the luorninf;."
' You'll have to aboot me first. "
I l.ove said.
Ilolivar w as brought in. He was I
skeleton. Hut he cleared nel
Ir.iom tn one hnund and nl:niMt
Itloorefl his uiasler with his lovous
I assaul.
GEORGIA HAD FIRST
MAIL BY AIRPLANE
Bsvannah, Ua. Claims for
savannsh as hiving insugiiraled
ins aerial mail service 14 years
ago have been set forth by Henry
lllun, who was postmaster here at
mat time.
"Aerial route Number One with
a 1 tints plsue, one of the pro-
xciiiuir 01 inose now la use
picked up letters at a baseball
srk and carried thras Is a wagon
less than a mile away," air.
lllun said.
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MUTT AND JEFF- They Flash Some Salesmanship Class on the Golf Course at Ormond ' ' By Bud Fisher
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