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.THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY, MARCH 12, 1925
Capitaljjjournal
Salem. Oreaon
4b Independent Newspaper Published rery aranlng except Sunday
Telephone (1; news 81
GEOROB PUTNAM. Editor tod Publisher
Poison Alcohol
Census Bureau figures show a steady increase in the
death rate from alcoholism since 1920, the first year of
national prohibition. In 1920 the alcoholic death rate was
1 pjr 100,000 population; in 1921, 1.8; in 1922, 2.6; in 1923,
3.2; hospital reports indicate a substantial increase for 1921
Wyoming held the record of the states in 1923 with
- 8 .Icoholic deaths per 100,000 population. New York held
her own with 4.3, Maryland had 5.7, Massachusetts 6.6,
Pennsylvania 4.3, Washington 3.1. Among the states
showing a death rate decline for 1923 under 1922 was Oregon,
v ' :le California remained stationary.
Increase in the death rale is due largely to poisonous
lir -. The government sells for commercial purposes
60,000,000 gallons of alcohol a vear. About 1 000,000 gallons
of this is drawn pure for the use of the United States in its
various scientific activities, and the use of the states in
sanitarums, hospitals, etc. About 6,000,000 gallons more is
distributed pure for the manufacture of drugs, flavoring
extracts, etc. The balance is denatured by the addition of
poison of one kind or another for industrial purposes, of
which the federal bureau estimates that about 6,000,000 is
illegally used for beverage purposes, redistilled or manipu
lated in very dangerous and low' grade liquors.
It is the use of this poisonous liquor that has swelled the
alcoholic death rate, the government pursuing the strange
policy Of putting deadly poison like wood alcohol, strychnine,
carbolic acid, etc., into the alcohol when it leaves the distil
lery to prevent its use for beverage purposes, instead of fol
lowing up with inspectors the use of the alcohol by the pur
chasers, and defraying the cost of the inspection by tax on
the alcohol.
Alcohol is worth, without the tax 55 to 60 cents a gallon
and its uses are increasing by leaps and bounds. It is an
essential raw material for the manufacture of radio outfits,
wireless equipment, electrical machinery, electrical parts of
n 'omobiles, airplanes, motor boats, silent gears, moving
picture and kodak films, bakclite and many other articles.
Perhaps the strangest use made of alcohol is its utilization
by the old war nitrate and powder plants to manufacture
artificial silk, a new industry. Nitrocellulose, the basis of
f okeless powder, is dissolved in a mixture of alcohol and
ether, making a collodion, that is spun into fine fibre and
v 1 as a basis for all the artificial silk products we have.
Just think of our good prohibitionists, who sanction the
poisoning of the unregenerate, wearing clothing made fvom
alcohol !
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Copyright 1H2I George Matlbew Adams
men, Mothers and maids
A Romantic Serial of Modern Life
By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON
Ttte Youth Thai Was Lort
'At I throucb the time, Lille-
mar, that 1 was In bed, Ovid
Miirebmont took care of my chick
ene," Mr Vali said, "twid almoct
at the paint of a sun kept my hus
band from Belling them. In two
weeks I warn back on the Job again.
Month after month I used to ask
myself why I did not have the
courage to put on end to it all for
you and me.
Aa you grow older I managed
to send you to school, although
your father called It foolUhnes.
In this Ovid was my great help.
He would take you and 50 aTier
you if I did not have the time,
but oh, how my heart ached, my
tlarlinff, when you n you came
to understand, would come home
jjKA tell me how the other girl
made fun of your patched dresses
mid your queer little homemade
hate."
'AI-jier, mother door, why do
you think of all that just at this
lime? It Is all over now. You are
rich enough to supply your wild
est desires. Uncle Ovid told me
that It seemed to him that your
oil well j were streaming liquid
gold. You have given me nil those
wonderful things of which you
dreamed and now I hive come
homo to be with you. I'll never
leave ycu again, dear. Don't think
about that arful time." Liilemay
pleaded at her mother's sobs grew
more 1 insistent, "Life for you now
will give its c noise st blessing un
til the end."
"I know it, I know It." her
mother answered tearfully. "But as1
I told you, I nm never h.ippy
but I have been happy many times
lately that those awful davs of i
poverty do not come and haunt !
me like spectres." I
Suddenly alelissa Vail sit up
and with her hands gripping her
daughter's ahoulders, she .said
brokenly: 'Don't you understand,
child? 1 am weeping for what 1
have misued. I am sor.-owinff for
my lost youth, my lost year a that
should have b?n happy and were
not, yevr that will never come
again.
"I: hurt me tlia that poor mis
taken man that was your father.
threw all his happiness Into the
Eoddnni cup Mhoe drea are bit -t
tmcs nnd woe. Had he been
tender I could have be.n content
with poverty,
"LUcn to me, Liilemay, you
must be happy you must let notli
ing stand in th way of your hap
piness for the next few years, l-'ill
them with gaiety and luuKuter nnd
let me trail almig behind clutching
at the skirts of your youth if I can.
"1 do not know what I would
have done while you were gone.
:ny d.iimht-sr, if it had not been for
KaroM Kennedy and the gay young
set he brought to my hou. I
want vm to be one of them, and I
want you to love them. I am so
hungry for laughte.-. I want to
nlways hear It. I am so avid for
the Irresponsible pleasures that
are tho birthright of the young
that I wan: to dance until morninp
and then B3 motoring through the
dawn singing.
'Until I was 33 years olJ, I had
never known what it was, not to be
old. Neither had I known the
glorious fatigue that comes from
swimming out oning the break -ere
with aomeone bei le yiu on
whose utrcngth you could rely If
you grew weary.
"I never reaMzcJ what It w.u
to know that blessi d rsst whk-h
comes nCter a hard fought not of
it-mil.
know all that now and It ia
Harold Kennedy that his taught
it to me.
I want you to like him, dear, a
I am sure you will when you know
him. You can't understand how
kind Harold has been to me."
"Yes I can. You are perhaiw
the richest woman In Hollywood,
mother. You are very pretty and
you've just told me that you like
to dance and sing and laugh. I
see no reison why Harold, as you
call him, has not been paid well
for his kindness."
"Don't say that, Liilemay. Oon'l
you know that in Hollywood, beau
tiful girls are us plenty as cher
ries on trees In May and don't you
know that in thtfio d y of the
1-luuted sal trie of moving picture
actrwses, th'-ro are plenty of girU
wiiufes fnc-mie is almost ad much
as your. and mine?
"I stlli irjUt (hat I am Indebt
ed to Harold Cena?dy for his
kindii"Sd to me. Why he cam lo
New oVik and to meet you, quit
a very gojd engagement, tho very
I'int he has ever had offered him
eu the screen because X asked him.
f wanted him to knaw you and
you to know him. I wm'.'d you
to realize tvhac a fine younj man
he U"
"Mother, I etill think that you
are trying to make a match be
te, eon Harold Kennedy and me"
lltaven ft.raid. You, my daugh
ter, shall chowe only the person
yju wish 10 marry."
"Then I Khali never marry,
mother dear. Men are good enough
tei nniusi nm 10 ieteh and carry
for one and I am glad to see that
this Is tho way you ft-cl about Har
old Kennedy, for the moment a
man thiulu that you love him,
that moment, yjj will be unhappy.
"1 h-s only reason that Uncle
Oviil has been so good to you all
his life is bfeause he knew you
1idn't ir.ve him rni.1 he knows you
neve- will."
"Hush child, do no jtpenk like
tl.at of the beat man I have ever
known."
Tomorrow In Cloth of fiold.
BRINGING UP FATHER
By George McMnnus
State Rights
State rights seem in a fair way to again become a
m;'or political issue In the United States. While neither
party as a party, has emphasized it. President Coolidge has
(tressed it in his budget message urging a reduction of the
fc leral aid plan and criticising bureaucratic growth.
Emphatic protest was voiced against the centralization of
power in the federal government repeatedly during the
rccrnt session of congress, and for the first time the great
bureaucratic trend that gathered its real momentum a score
of years ago, gives promise of being checked.
Opixsition to bureaucracy has been frequently voiced in
tl-.T senate during recent years by Corah, republican, Under
wood, King and Stanley, democrats, and this year Bruce and
iJ 'jurd have joined the protestants. In the House, republi
cans like Madden, Dollinger and Andrew, and democrats
such as Garrett have led the opimsition, but neither party
as a party, has declared for or against it.
That the people also are in revolt against federal inter
ference in state affairs is indicated by the overwhelming
defeat of the child labor amendment. There is every indica
tion that the pendulum having swung to its limit for
federalism, as about to swing back for a restoration of
state rights.
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boat hls'i school uuaketuall team
Id the Htato o( Oregon.
Done Mostly Gucssin?
There Is euotiKh uncerlalnty In
ills wholn tourney to keep the
most experienced donesler guesa-
InK. ond the most hardened fan
routted to a UlRh pitrll of exelle
Blent. The names of all contivt
players, with their numher,
are us followt):
Salem district No. 71. Kills;
2, llimian; 3, Unify ; 4, Asliliy; r.
J. llraeer; 6, oliiiiter; 7, It
Draper; 8. Nash. Salem has won
In a walk over every conteMInu
learn in Its district. Dope hase-t
tn allies played curly IQ Ihu sra
Hn places the locals approximate
ly on a par with rorllaud Sk-h(Hltt.
Franklin, the Portland entry, lia.
defeated Salem hy oik pnint. but
the point caniii as u re-ult tf a
fte throw allow d when a fuut
H call d oil l!n' erov.-d.
Wallowa, dislnet No. 1 1.
llaird; i. H.-lul. Taou; 3. (treer; i
Itlnl'.er; u, lluns'.e; H, Slnilli: 7.
Jolnujn; 8, OliviT. Wallowa
ccnus from the lar east, ss it
were. It li.it; d'-teated Jo.-ph hy a
two point marKm, Hlid eliininati-il
Uaker aiur a hare; nimble. Until
linker HM.l JOM ih have appear, it
al tile state tut't In years gone hv.
J.(-itti is reilH-inheied us litonK In
Ktit;etic liy a rattier lure ininKin
Id the lir,l rouud uf une tourmy
Astoria, district No. 91. An
derson; 1, CarUon; 3, Larsou; 4.
IjiUKlilm; 5, l'oiky; 6, Clay; 7.
Huyntond; 8, Lukinen. Astoria i
bne of the most consistent visitors
At the tournament, entering a
learn nearly every yeur. Astoria
bus never won the title, hut sev
rul limes has puslied the wiunei
to their hardest games.
Mi'Mlnnvllle. district No. I 1.
Green; t, Mille; J. Waakeman; t.
lauglklln; i, Trawin; . Warren,
T. Van Atta; 8, Hewitt. Mc.Mlnn
yille Is another habtiual entry. I!
held Raleia to a ll to 18 win na
the McMloovllle floor oarly In the
eason, although on the Kalvni
floor the locals t.oii 25 to 8. The
McMlnnrllle-Arago contest will be
watched with interest aa ona of
tho motit titieerlain of tile series.
Arngo, district No. 5 1, Doyl
2. Farrier; 3, Cornwell; 4, Kobin-
son; 6, Hoover; 7, Schroedor; 8.
Halter; 0, Sluk; 10. limit. Till.,
team has defeated the strong
.Marahtieid team by one point
Otherwise little lo known of iu
i eeord.
Kugene, district No. 6 1. Pally;
2, (.'. lOherliart; 3, Coleman: 4.
Olson: 5. KmmoHs; 6. Klklns; 7,
Srhrader; 8, J. Kberhart; .
Ilarneo. Kugene enters the tour
nament hy virtue of its win over
Cm va I lis last Saturday night, uft-ei-
Corvallis had barely eliiuinated
I lilversity high of Kugene In a
mulch played on the Willamette
court.
Hood Kiver. district No. 3 3.
iVriglil: a, Troplette; 7. KoheiK;
II l llnl; III, Ilathoi n; 11, .Miller;
13. Foreman. Hood ltiver elim
inated 11, ml In a touriiuinent held
last week for the championship
of the central Oregon district, nnd
il.o riKlit to enter the meet at Sa
iem. The Hood Kiver- Kugene cou
lest Is another of the outstanding
i:urcrl.iiuiies of trie tournament.
IY.iil!.-!n. dit rict No. 2. 10
Hill; 11. Suger; 12, K.iytu"nd; 13.
lUrlhronit: 14, Kay; 15, Hale; 10
i.i,ndnilii; 17. Sullivan; IS, .lolin-
on. ren.liclon one year lusted as
ar as tl.e lin.ils. Iomiii: onlv to
hland. It usually has 0110 of
!he ptreiu.'st te.irus In the tale
nd dojiesLeis state that very poi-
lily it could heat most of the
ams in the toiirnaiueni ev,-..i,t
Meiltord or FranUllu. one of whom
will 11:1 against Frulnv nielii at
s 3 0 '
Franklin, district . ini
I'lMis; 2. I.nwr, tree; 3. lloyle; 4.
Foster; 5. Douslas: 6. Kr..i-,'...'t..r-'
tlr.-pn; 8. Seallon: 9. l'oii..r-
lo, roti.. Franklin la iim.ii,,.. i.,.i
linmpion of the Porilni.,! 11,
league, which Is cnouuh in Itself
m convince any fan that it wm
ve a gid account of itself.
Medtvird. district Kn A 1
1-alna; I. Knlps; J. Allen; 4
llidan; . Williams: 7. C rhul.h
f. M. ( hsttain: . While. Thi.
rar'a Neil ford teaaa la vlriu.ltv
lha same aggregation lh.it took
the slate trophy away with them
a year ao
Offllrah for the entire tourna
ment will he Coleman and Schil
ler, both of the couching tBff at
Ihe Oregon Agricultural college.
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