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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1925)
CapitalJtJournal Salem. Oreion Aa Independent Newiptper Published tier?, Tenlnc except Sunday Telephone GEORGE PUTNAM. Moving the Capital "Because of the crowded condition of the state house," the office of the state superintendent of banks is to be moved to Portland although Tortland is not the state capital and there is no warrant for the move, except the superintendent personally prefers it, as his family resides there. He is not ths first state officer who found the crowded condition of the state house a convenient excuse to operate from the ir-tropolis, despite the fact that he has priority of occupation over the new departments that will presumably occupy his old quarters. The same excuse given by by every state official who prefers to live in a big city to a small one, and as each official wonder that any remain in Salem. What is the use of having a state-house and capital with half the slate offices located elsewhere, and the taxpayers footing bills for extra rentals? Of course the state house is over-crowded and a new office building badly needed, but as long as Marion county elects legislators whose main effort is to swat everything that anybody else wants, and oppose all expenditures of every kind, it cannot be expected that Marion county will secure anything more than necessary from the legislature. The money being wasted in building a duplicate state training school for boys, of which there is absolutely no need, would erect a fine office building and save the state many thousands of dollars a year in rentals but none of our legislators attempted to divert this money to this useful and needed purpose. So the game of moving the capital to suit the fancy and whim of the office-holders continues merrily a few more leaving every year, to open offices in various city business blocks where they will be free from supervision and inspection and can loaf to the heart's desire, unobserved by public or officialdom. The Clay Eaters' Edict Governor Peay, of Tennessee, has signed a bill passed by the general assembly barring the teaching of evolution in the public schools, normals and colleges of the slate. The executive declares, in a message to the legislature, that the theory of evolution is "at variance with the teachings of man's creation as related in the bible," and defends the measure as a "distinct protest against an irreligious tendency to exalt socalled science and deny the bible in some schools md quarters a tendency fundamentally wrong and fatally mischievous." For much the same reason the church three centuries ago forced Gallileo to recant, burned Bruno at the stake and placed the ban upon Copernicus, lolar system were at variance with the teachings of the bible but persecution never yet permanently blocked the pursuit af knowledge. The new law will merely handicap with Ignorance, scholarship in Tennessee and the truth in evolu tion will live despite the clay eaters' edict. The anti-evolution bill speaks for itself of the intellectual "ecadence and sterility of Tennessee and the domination of the st.ie's politics by intolerant ecclesiastics, in a spirit contrary to the Constitution and Bill of Rights, which in its first line forbids laws respecting establishment of religion or prohibit ing free exercise thereof. It is the old interference by state In religion to escajie with the colonists fled to the new world. Thomas Jefferson, who swore "eternal hostility to every form of tyranny over the mind of man," held that error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat It, but Tennessee seeks to bind reason by statute to per petuate a theory as scientifically obsolete as the bibical one that the sun do move, and thus reestablish ecclesiastical l; ranny over the mind of youth. The Tornado (From the ('urvallis Gazette Times.) Unless you liuve been through a tornado stricken tliatrict or wit lessed one ot these destructive !orres of nature in operation, you kill find it impossible tu couceive 9f tile uorror o( the miafortunc that recently stalked through Illi nois, Missouri ami Indiana. There is nothing etso unless it ho an rai'thijuake, that is calculated to muke mere man stand more in awe D( his own puulniwa. We have seen hlg buildings cut Iciuare in two, the one halt car ried to parts unknown anil the tlher lett standing mule hut nocking testimony o( man's infi lite lmiuiBam-c. We have seen slale roofs car tied thr.mgll the air a mile, slil li'd into pencils and driven into Ihe side ot a ham stirkiug out in til directions "like quills upon the Irelful porcupine." We have sen whole flocks of chickens wandering around in Itrnnxe barnyards apparently look lug for their fe.itheis and aonder Ing wbut it was mat hail Miildeiilv lilted Hum Into npace uinlrevil them and transported them they knew not where. We have M-rn an orihanl through which n path of upturned trees was made lined on either Bide by sweetly blossoming companion liees uulouilnd and undisturbed We bavo seen n field hordenna; a river hank strewn with (Mi mono dead and some flopping, all tuck ed rrom ihe sethlng waters. We have eeen buildings turned completely "round upon their tone foundations as though some fcwlft'e Cargantua9 had hecu pull Ing their playfu'. tricks on a llroV dingnagian Hallowe'en. We have seen the wreck and ruin made by the devastating wind whirlpool of destruction as It cut Its relentless path through a section of a eity of ISO, 000 while within u few feet of the path on ther side would be left standing houses, fences, flowers, everything s they were, in calm indifference of the fact thnt the same Wlerd Sisters cl Nature who had cast their tallman of protection over (hem had also eierrlatd the rcery that wrrughl brderllmeni II alKjii them. 81; oewe Si Editor end Publisher Mr. Bramwell could be advanced does as he please, it makes us because their theories of the We have stood in streets, close lo a cyclone cellar, and watched :he whirling, threatening black cloud approach from the south west, spread out like some gigan tic witch estired a pestilent broom. We hare listened to Ita sullen, roul-deadenlng rumble like some barrage between Coliutiis ot Nature, growing loud er nnd louder as it approached, and thin have eeen the whirling iiervlshed ot destruction suddenly lift Itself lightly Into Ihe air above and go completely over the town as thniinh Its gales had been sprinkled with the blood sign or the Passover. It Is usually made more terrify '""K by an accompaniment of harp fl ishes ot lightning, crlep tracks of thunder and drenching, wiuii-hlowu rain rr nail. We who live In the peaceful Willamette valley are moat for tunate. We have no tornadoes, no lightning, no thunder storm, no iartluii:tUu, no cinch-tuu;s, no i:rass-lioppers, no hlizzanis, no I'.roue.lila, no floods, no lorrlil went he- and little eolil. Verily, if the ordinal Garden ot Kden was half n fine as this, live never wouhl Hive eaten Ihe apple. She would have needed no knowledge to (e:o h her tn M.iy here. She would have known ii bv Intuition A THIEF S IS COMING TODAY'S HORIZONTAL 1. Fnrly i tart of the day A. Nmull street cake 7. 4rtKon (ub.) t. Ilt!ttef.il II. Jun IS. I'm noun M. .rk prefix 15. IX'iMirt 18. indefinite article It. Cover 21. Kironir drink 23. Alumni (nh.) 2a. Tu nils on 27, lravti alone; 21. T vi'-w ,0. '.UMIf( SOIATION OP YKSTKltDAVS PL'ZZLB D O L A D H J3 l jo r i onod YjTU NERS VERTICAL 1. Drinking tup 2. Sol. I . Not 4. Anici-r H. Stii;ill amphibian l. Robber H. Tu u ne v or crwybih 10. Ileyond 12. Period Hi. To lubricate 7. TV! nl 20. Drub 2. To imnrier !4. Foreiithered :. lnehwlf metallic clement '.H. lreMiilloi (I,) BRINGING UP FATHER DUMB DORA (SubsUtnting lor BarneJ Google, during Billy DcBeck'i illness) ' 7 ",' ." " "n. I 1 sue must ;w ( noo said rr v I I fSSI I MSfSs l T t M V . I Wy KRAZY KAT MUTT AND JEFF I -- ui Bin 11 aniilin " ..... ... . ( , 1 " , . . --. UoRiDl CI-l OP WCioTVj l4 V -&6 f &l K t V vS iV l h eve w know. Vou-fte p ? r Vi M" W t .r-o-. 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Ftm NcCffH Q.iim rithi. r--fv CROSS WORD PUZZLE word Pttsxlo la to fill In the white words which agree with the ftcootn-j are numbered to correspond wtui under "HORIZONTAL" will besta square cod untie uiiuiicrruntcriiy RTICAL" will also tM'ffln, lo the white but will extend downward as far me Unappreciated Talent. ah-h- (rocs A1U3IC, I CALLS TUAT- VfiSStt. V Poor Mutt. The t I 1 men, mothers and maids A Romantic Serial of Modern Life By IDA II McGLONE GIBSON A WIKKD 6CENK It seemed hours to Antoinette Norton until the heavy lids cover ins; the girl's eyes opened. A slight movement of the lips irntle her bend down to catch Ltllemay'a n-hutper; 'U it true, Nonnie? Is It true?" "Yes, denr. Don't talk until you are stronger. ' "Which one Is dead? Is It Rob ert?" All the nnquish of a broken heart was In Lillemay's voice as he asked the questions of her faithful friend and companion 'Who la dead?" she repeated, 'Robert or Miss Eames?" "Misa Eames," Mlsi Norton an swered Bravely. "Are you well enough for me to read the details? A long account, cabled from Par:; it Is not only very tragic but pe culiarly Interesting." "Head It, Nonnie," commanded LJ.lerr.ay in a stifled voice. Alias Norton began: On Wednes day Miss Oevaldlne Eames was thrown from her horse while rid- In? in the Bo is with her fiance, Robert McLean. She was picked up unconscious and rushed to the American hos pital at Neullly. She regained con scioiuneas and insisted that her marriage with Mr. McLean should take place at once. All the legal formalities had been perfected. Miss E.imes :nd Mr. McLean had irten'led having the civil service that afternoon. The perfect waa brought to the hospital as well as the Rt. Rev. Horaco White of the American Episcopal church. The two ceremonies followed each other as soon as possible, with only the father and mother of the bridegroom present. It was XY0PrWE twins are driving him cuckoo. V VJ9 noticed by those present that the bride seemed to grow weaker every moment. Hhe was hardly able to answer the qietiona put to her during the religious lites which followed the civit ceremony. Toward the last her voice died away in a faint whifper. Phe re vived later and aked to be UU alone with her Irultand. Mr. and Mia. M Le ui It ft the room, but lingere.l ouisi-le ihe door wating to be called a- soon as the few minutes which Mlw Kamea had requested were over. There wai no twuml from the room for about five minute. Thn an unearthly srre.im, follovcd by a heavy fall, calhd them to her bedeide. There they found thfir son prone on the floor besi.Je the bed, bub bling in delirium and their n w dauhler cold and still in death. Tenderly thy lifted the y;ulh to a ne.irbj- chaise lungue. "Jerry, Jerry, speak to me," ihe brid groom cried. "I do not de serve to be loved as you love me. But. dear, I'll be the beat of hus band to you. Slay with inc. Jerry stay with me" Then the young man opened hLs eyes and saw his mother bending over him. ".Mother, Jcry in dead. She waa dead almost Immediately af'tr she was thrown from her hore." he sud. "Hush, Robert,' his mother ex claimed, thinking her son was still delirious. "Don't you rember that you have just bet-n married to Jerry ?" "Vet", I was -named to her after she died," he said solemnly. "Oh, Robert, Robert, have you lost your mind?' wailed hLs mot her. 'So, dear, I am sane. After you nA-A-A A- RADIO - I LL . ABOUT (Hli -J " ' JSC' f TUESDAY, MARCH 24, 1925 nnd dad left the room Jerry told me that aha had come back from the shore of eternity to be married to me. 'I had to be your wife. Bob, ihe uhlnpereJ. &nd I Just made a promise that if they would let ina cc Tie ba k to earth Just Ions; enough to marry you I would re turn to them forever." "And then, mother, she seemed imbued with a kind of fictitious strength. She sat up In bed quick ly, put her arms around my neck, drew my face down to hers and pressed Iter cold lipa to mine. " 'oh, Ifb. I Jo n't wont to go batk," who said. 'I want to stay here with you. I want to be yout wife, Rob. Rob, can't you make iheii. give mc my promise back? Let me stay with you. lu fore I could do more than take her in my arms I heard hei murmur narain, I've got to keei my promise, I've got to go. Rob, dear, I nm your wife. Kiss me. Hold me tijiht. Keepfme with you I don't want to go. I don't want to go." " Ail day Mr. McLcanu Meemed to he delirious, over and over he told of his parting with his wifo. He kept reiterating: "I did try te keep he but she finally was tors from my arms." Even after houra of rest had brought a calinnew to his wordi he tttill insisted that Mint Earn en h;d come back from denth'a em brace to be marrk'd to him. He was more than ever Insist ent as to his story when a will was found leaving; "everything; I hav to my husband if he should sur vive me " The will was a holo graph, dated the day before and wit it owed by her maid and chauf feur. Mjss Karnes seemed to have had a premonition of death." "THE GOLDEN BED" t A fAnAMUUNT P C U Z Bv George McMnnus By Herrimai som& Baov s evstt-o ny letL. M-FICER e(JPP Bv Bud Fisher 1
