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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
THURSDAY. MARCH 2t. 1925
CapitalJiJournal
Salem. Ureion
An Independent Newpper Published erery annlnc except Sundaj
Telephone 81; newt 81
CBOROB PUTNAM. Editor tod PublUher
The Enfant Terrible
Americans like to boast of their natural progress and
achievement, of their accomplishments in civilization, natural
resources and natural wealth and pronounce themselves
the perfect model for the world. Which leads W. B. Hill to
fay, in the Baltimore Evening Sun:
Kevertheleaa, we arc the child in the family of nations and, indeed,
the enfant terrible of Occidental civilization. Naturally, our procliv
ities are precisely thobe of the individual child. We waste, break and
destroy. In our early childhood, with spectacular prodigality, wa
broke our toy by killing off our wild game, and we destroyed our
''building blocks'' by devastating our vaat forests, and now we must
take hoards of pennies from our collective bunk to make new build
ing blocks, and it's a slow, expensive process. As we hare
advanced somewhat in years our destructive propensities have taken
a homicidal turn the maiming, crippling and killing of ourselves
and each other. No wonder our European seniors in the family of
civilized nations view with horror the light esteem in which we hold
human life.
In these United Stales, in lime of peace, we maim and kill,
proportionate to population, twice as many people as Great
Britain does, four times as many as France, eight times as
many as Denmark. Our industrial accidents total 2,000,000 a
year, our traffic casualties were 678,000 serious accidents in
1923 with 22,000 fatalities, as a result of our childish love of
speed.
Travel in any distant and savage land on the globe is
less dangerous than crossing one of our city streets. In even
the cities of the orient, a woman is safer akuie in a rickshaw
at night than in a taxicab in any American city. In the
matter of homicides, we murder 25 times as many in propor
tion to population as Great Britain, and in actual numbers
50 times as many.
What other country in the world, excepting Russia, toler
ates Ilerrin massacres, race riots and klan warfare? What
other is guilty of half a hundred lynchings a year? What
other presents a daily record of banditry accompanied by
murder, comparable to our own? As a matter of fact we
live in the most dangerous country on earth, with chances
of meeting violent death or disabling injury many times
greater than in any other nation.
The lack of discipline and training customary to childhood,
is shown by our childish efforts to regulate ourselves by
sumptuary statute. We pass prohibition laws because we
cannot master our appetites, yet in 1921 the deaths from
poison liquor alone exceeded by 50 percent the total mortality
from alcoholism in 1918 as reported by the United States
census bureau.
Statistics presented at the Geneva conference showed that
the United States demanded curtailment in drug commerce
for self preservation, because, since prohibition, the annual
consumption of morphine per individual in this country leads
the world, amounting to thirty-six grains, as against one
grain in Italy, two in Germany, three in England, four in
France and twenty -seven in India. And these figures do not
include consumption of crime exciting drugs, such ns cocaine
and heroin, in which we also distance other nations.
A Religious People
"Burning the holy ghost" into a person may be an effective
way of getting religion, but it proved fatal to a Californian
wno ottered himself as a sacrifice in a mysterious cult calling
itself the assembly of God.
Confession of the chief prophetess, known as "the roaring
lion of the tribe" reveals that she first rjassed the whiro-lint
trcn over her lips to purify it, then applied it to the souls of
We victims reet and his head, making the "sign of the cross"
with it, after which a "garden of E'.den" nartv was starred in
the nude. In the meantime the sacrificial victim died of
nis burns.
All of which shows that we are a reliirious rjeonle anil hist
is easy picking for cultists as the jungle negro is for the
voouooiat or the noble redman for the medicine fakir.
Most any kind of a reliirion flourishes in ntir hichlv !
civilization and keeps us busy building extensions upon our
asylums to take care of the saved.
Small wonder our legislatures pass laws to prevent the
teaching of science in public schools and colleges, to perpetu
ate bibical myth and school boards order reading of the bible
as part of the curriculum to keep the fires of fundamentalism
ourmng.
TY HEALTH
MEET ON FRIDAY
Tho program for the Marion
rounty health association, whim
meets FridilV itl tho K:ilem eh:.m.
ber of commerce rooms, h:ia been
announced an follows:
10::l0 a. m. Meeting called nt
tne chamber of commerce audi
toriiun.
l::'.o to 1 SoVloek: Itournl ta
ttle l!euro!ou of community work
1- to llf p. m. Luncheon at
the Urav Hello.
At tiiiw luncheon. Dr. Walter
H. llrown will talk on "The Ma
rion county child health dem m
tration."
Among other sneakers at th-luncli'-on
will bo Mr. Sadie Orr
Dunbar, executive secretary of
the Oregon Tuberculosis nwmrln
tlon and also Kowlnnd Whcal
don. field secretary and seal nail
director, of I'ortland.
1:30 p. m. Iteturn to the cham
ber of commerce.
1:45 p. m. lu-poru from dif
ferent committee.
2:15 p. m. Keport from nomi
nating committee.
2:3(1 p. m. Kleclion of officers.
HlGHWAHMDSlBE SOLD
Th ainte board of control yes
UrdPjr ioM $1,000,000 itat high
way refund in bond to Ifubwy
Stuart Co., of Chicaxo ftnd A. l
Wiknniin of Portland far 107 IT
op a ur,ilum of fit. TOO, mtthttitfi
a baxm of i.H per cent mm ajcniuM
th i per cent whtch th tate
wna paying on the refunded bond.
Thm rfunikt bonds are short term
Bonds sold April 1, mi, and ma
ture April 1. thu year. Fifteen bl.ls
were submitted to the Hate board
yostentay.
DATE OF SEARCH
APPEALS IS SET
A reh vriui! of the case of the
lata ne.ainst Mclloniel ami a hear
ing or llio case acainst Albert
Quarlirr have been net hv the au
.ircme court for April 11. lioth
nvohe it,,, uuetiou of the lecal-
'ly of eeirch of an automobile or
me person fur liquor without war
rant. AKiert tjuarlier in the nil
o:'nu of Dolly (Juartier, well
'mown In Portland pollen circle
The M -Manielil case wan won by
l.e rttate In the lower court, bol
the supreme court held In favor o'
McDanlel, the court standing three
to rour. It was held Hint the
eareh was lllesal for the rennon
that the officer making the search
wan Willi., nt n warrant and nude
the seaivii prior to arrtvt.
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A Romantic Serial of Modern Life
By ID AH McGLONE GIBSON
Love Xt'ver Forttives initial
Albts Norton could not help rs
morkins; Mrs. Vnlls polas an ac-
ceittlntf all these luxuries, of which
bo spoke as a mattsr of course.
Sho knew th.it HnrolJ Kennedy
had tuuKht her this for Ovid March
moot. u jurt behind Mrs. Vail.
was still asking sjuctions as to the
puwiHe coat f t die trip.
"What does it matter. Ovid,
what It coats?" exclaimed Mrs.
Vail impatiently. "Neither you
nor I havo been able to spend our
incomes for the lost tlx months."
"Don't you realize that one of
the things I must forgot, if I
must forget, if I would be happy,
is the constant counting of money
and worrying over the expense of
anything-? My only anxiety at this
moment is tho illne.sH of Lillemay.
'Has there anything in that pap
er that ah? inFited upon jour buy
ine that cause I bur to fit in t?" she
asked MiM Norton shrewdly.
'I dun't think it was that whol
ly." evaded Mins Norton. "Lille
moy has been very nervous- and
excitable for at least a month. Of
couitte, she was very niu:h excr
cmod over the tragic death of Gwr
aldine Eames junt a she was mar
ricd to Robert McLean."
"Oh, wa that in the paper? I
did not see it," Mrs. Vail exclaim
ed. "No wonder she was shock
ed. Were they both friends of
hers? fchc has often written to
me about Mr. McLean, but I do
not remember that sh? has ever
mentioned Miss Karnes."
Mies Earn 03 had recently come
to Paris and LUIcmay did nol
know her as well as Mr. McLean,
but she saw a lot of her after her
arrival. She had come to buy her
trouKseau, you koow, nnd they ex
pected to come home on the same
boat with us nnd be married In
New York. I think you will find
it a r.uher queer stury when you
read it I have the paper here"
Ncinnio Norton thrust tho paper
into Mrs. Vail's hands and made
her escape, for he was bure that
Llilemay's mother su.-f;ected that
there was much more behind her
daughter's fainting s."U than she
had yet found out.
LUIemay, who h;id heard the
voices outside hr door, prt-t ended
to be askep when her mother tip
toe,) in from her sitting room.
"Daughter." h'.' sai.l, an ehe bi'nt
over the girl on the bed vhue
face was turned so far away that
fhe ccukl not see It.
There wis no answer and hhe
softly left the room.
Although hor mi-lher's voice was
low. Lillcinays heaiins became
acute as bbe iieard her say: ''You
have no right to repe.it any of
LhoHe things to nie, Ovid."
"Then, bec iuse I have loved you
nil my lifrt gives me no right to
looii out for yyur welfare," observ
ed O' id Marchmont bitterly but
Hoftly.
"1 deny that you reaJly know
what is best for mo. I insist that
what yoti call looking out fur my
welfare is making me do tilings
that do not want to d at all. I
must have time s'y in the way
that my life shall be ordered from
now on, good or bad.
"You know very well too well
whit I suffered when Tom liv
ed. Many times I came to you
in tears and asked you to take me
away from him. It was then that
you and your puritanical ideas of
marriage being until death, per
suaded mo for the sake of Lille
may to go back jutt to go back
and suffer.
"You say you have loved me all
my life. I do not know what you
call loving. Love to me means
something that cannot be dsnltd.
You did not love me well enough
to take me away from Tom Vail,
although Z begged and begged you
to do so."
"Ion't reproach me, Mclfoy.
You ennnoe realise, what I suffer
ed when I knew that X bud sent
ou buck to live with a man you
h iied, a man that abused you. ltul
MellKay, I loved you so much thai
I was afraid, afraid thai sonu
;imo in the future you and Lille
may would bo:h hute nie."
"Ovid, I think the r3membranct
if duly d'-ne in torture and at oka!
silmc-? at the cost of all one s hup-pit-.t'&i
in more year lug than thi
hitler tt-uj-a of r.fgtet over a dere
liction wiikh brouulit at least s
fleeting joy. 1 have forgiven you
long ;ni- because you did not love
me well emtUKh to tauo me when
I nffored myself to yu, but I can
not forget, and neither does love
forj,-et.
"Yr?u not only denbj me, Ovid,
Imt you denied love aJ i love never
forgives his denial."
MeliKy, It breaks my heart to
hear you ape-ik cnically. Vou
luiuw ycu are trying to persuade
ouiHclf that a few months of bliss
with this young man who is glain
ou; d by tlie great wealth that w
flowing into yaur lap is worth all
that you can give."
"Aa I so completely without
chirm that Harold Kennedy would
not look iU me if I did not have
money
forgive n,e, forgive me, dear, I
.11 it not mean that. U was my
jealousy that spoke. You, are to
me the one woman of irresistible
c h ar m in all t h wo rl d. I lov ed
you wheu you were toil-worn,
when you had no beauUful clothes
to frame your loveliness and I love
you n.tw whon you have everything
;o enhance your beauty."
Then why is it that you think
no other man can find me charm
lug?" T'HiiciTOH What Love Teaches
BRINGING UP FATHER
Bv Geortre McMarrus
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