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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
SATURDAY, APRIL 18, 1925
CapitalJournal
Balem, Oreton
An Independent Kewspaper Published Fvery Erenlns; Bseept Bundsy
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CIEORGB PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher
TODAY'S CROSS W0RD PUZZLE
HORIZONTAL HOW TO SOLVE jUE CROSS WORD PUZZLE
BIBLE THOUGHT FOR TODAY
any of you lack visdom, let Aim ask of Cod, that giveth
to all rttot liberally, and npbraideth not; and it shall be yiv
tn him. James 1:5.
Petty Tyranny
lias a parent any right left in the education of his child,
or is the latter as much a ward of the state in Oregon as in
Soviet Russia?
This is the issue raised by the arrest of T. S. Watts, a
farmer in the Salem Heights district, for the crime of per
mitting his 10-year-old son to be taught by his own mother,
a former school teacher, along lines of a home instruction
course provided by a nationally recognized correspondence
school.
One of the numerous officers necessitated by the costly
overhead of our extravagant school system has sworn to a
complaint against the audacious farmer who dares to assert a
father's inherent right and punish him therefor, or force him
to leave the country for being too much interested in his
offspring's welfare.
The whole proceedure is an absurdity. The law was never
intended to apply to such cases, only to those cases where
parents neglect the child. Here we have been censuring
parents for not paying more attention to their children, and
when we get parents willing to sacrifice time and energy in
training and educating their children, better than the schools
can or do, make it a crime and jail them.
Such are the inevitable workings of busy-body bureau
cracy, whose red-tape rules strangle reason in the attempt
of public servants to pose as public masters, exercising a
petty tyranny contrary to the ideals of freedom and destruc
tive of inherent, natural and constitutional rights.
Just Politics
Summary removal of Ben Dorris of Eugene as game
commissioner by Governor Pierce was, of course, politics.
There never is anything but politics in the game commission
anymore than there is in the governor's office. The executive
naturally wants his own appointees to play his own kind of
politics, and when they play their own, he fires first one and
then the other.
The game commission has been a particularly flagrant
political offender, necessitating frequent removals. It won't
stay put, any more than the governor. The past few years
it has been little more than a Ku Klux Klan adjunct.
Wardens not subscribing to "the sacred and unfailing bond"
were as summarily canned as the commissioners themselves.
The good of the service never interferes with politics, and
knowledge of wild life Is a disqualification.
The governor's object now is probably reorganization, the
appointment of a new master warden with tried and true
Pierce followers on guard all along the line. There will be
loud wailing and gnashing ol. teeth from "sportsmen who
have been beneficiaries of special favors, if the chief officials
have to retire to conduct their private hatcheries, but that's
the only difference to the public.
The game commission collects something like half
million dollars a year from hunters' and anglers' licenses and
spends it as the warden desires. There is no accounting. It
is one of those tax levying bodies that also does the spending,
and takes good care to hunt up new expenditures to eat up
increased revenues. It should be reorganized, taken out of
politics, placed upon a budget basis for propagation work,
letting county peace officers look after protection, and the
surplus receipts used to reduce taxation.
Triumph of a Myth
Nomination of Field Marshall von Hindenburg by the
monarchists for president of Germany is another instance of
the triumph of fiction over fact and the survival of military
myth when in conflict with history. Hindenburg was really
a figurehead, a 'front" or "stuffed shirt", around whom
popular idolatry centered because the German people needed
a war hero and he was regarded as harmless by the kaiser.
His rout of the Russians offered the first occasion of the
war to glorify German victory and the halo placed upon his
brow has never lost its lustre. He caught the popular fancy
and imagination, and still retains it.
Although Hindenburg had little to do with any of the
campaigns in which he served, nothing at all to do with the
Hindenburg line, and as styled by Maximilian Harden, merely
a "nibl.-or stamp" who signed orders or carried out plans
mada by Ludcndorff, who later supplanted him in command,
Hindenburg got all the glory for victory and Ludcndorff the
blame for defeat when it finally overwhelmed Germany.
Consequently Hindenburg retained his popularity , and
Ludendorff lost his, as shown by his recent defeats in running
for office.
Hindenburg has had what Ludcndorff has not had, luck.
Whether it still clings to him as last hope .of the monarchists
will be demonstrated at the coming election.
Consider the Salmon
(From the Ilaltlnmrc Ftcnliift Stin)
In all purls of America wrltini;
men, apeakr ami raaual talker
ricliaht In Maying thl: 'Mont
America ireat men com f mm
small towns." The nlfcnlftrant part
of the sentence la not the word
'mall," but the word "from
The proper strdy of mankind Is
fish. Consider the ealmon. 11
hatched In frenh water, fir from
the e-a. Month after month he re
main In freah water, with the ver
dant bank a 1 nays In slKht, tad hi
doMn't prow much. If hi home
happens to become land-blorkni
he neve- ajrowa up and the natives
call him a trout. Hut if even
loins; go well, he quits the old
home town in the spring; of the
third year and swlme down to bis
water. Once In the ee he d
velon rapidly and becomes a reff
ular salmon.
The salmon affords another Pice
Itttffon for little bora anJ sjlrla.
persona who affect a hard-boiled
aute aay that all thta talk about
making- paths smooth tar posterity
aenflmentallem. It kwt aeatl
atentalisra. It Is Wat ure a Utile
scheme, mid Nature Itn't sentimen
tal. Whe n( he spnwntiiK p;in.r up
lra'hc.l thj aithmm awtm Into
freh n uter. They aro fit and
beautiful. Ome In fieh naler
they pair off nnl go up turcani,
hundredi and hundreds .if miles.
fore In rap Pl and leintn water
fa! la. an. I hen the temperature
of the water drop to fifty four
dourer ne r bef re they dig
a little km in shallow water, de
posit their t-rc. cover the nest
with Rf.ivel and call It a diy.
The bull In wound. The nhip has
sailed. Llxtleaal the salmon float
wn stream, till flrt. They do
not eat; they do not swim; they
merely die. Their work la done.
Net one rets bark to the sea.
Nobody kn?ws why they die. For
tU.t matter, nobody knows w'.iy
they Ahmildnt. They have had
their share of fun; they have been
to era; posterity is provided for;
what else Is the to do?
There Isn't much man can do to
ust If V his existence. Just fllllne
his tummy emi rather a sordid
business, lie mutht at least kick a
few stone out of the we of ihose
who alii follow Mm.
To array
Boy
Htu-ky. black substance
Ai'jrlo-Noraian ao.)
Mr Ike at
Metal
t'oniphrtrs
I j nd measurement (pi.)
Be sorry for
IrfMfarfmrd the force of
I' rental pronoun
ralr of un animal
Turf
With one leg each' side of
something
Te way to solve the) Cross Word Panto fts fo fill la the white
source of the dlaaraos with the words which scree tilth the acvuin
tMnylnc definitions. The definitions are a umbered to ovrrespond with
the a umbers ob the diagram.
Any word defined l the text onnW "HORIZONTAL" will beln
at tts n amber, shown on she diagram, and will cstend all the way
across to the first bLick space to I be right of that number. That U,
the word mast begin in 4 he square that contains Ita Identifying nam
ber, and extend as far as the while squares continue; unbiLcrrupccriir
Any word denned wnder TTHTICAT.- will also bejrta, m the white
space that contains It nnmbcr. bat will extend downward as far ns
the white spaces renau uninterruptedly.
VERTICAL
1. Human being
2. Advert Im'iik'UI
3. Male di-cr
4. Kmoked meat
5. I'laco where weapon or- kept
. Toward the slue
a. Topped
11. Sooner than
12. Model
15. Knob
18. One who foretells event
2V. Kmall bit
21. fiunlrn lord
1M. South lnkota (ah.)
SOLUTION OF YKSTKRDAVS
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Ooprrt(b( I9ZI Geo re a Matthew Adams
men, mothers and maids
A Romantic Serial of Modern Lift
By IDAH McGLONE GIBSON
A MOTHER'S LOVE
"Of the Uti1 drama which was
Ulna; enacted hfire your eyi-
yon knew noihtr.x but Harold Ken
nedy with clearer vifjm for what
aa going on about film congratu
lated m UK unlit."
"1 eould not understand, Lille,
how Harold Kennedy could have
known that, Juat before I had met
him. and he nvl proffered his con
gratulations, I had been listening
to OT-id. who. after he told me
about your mother and how he
had never thought to love any oth
er woman, had asked me to marry
him.
"Of course, I accepted.
"Lille, I would not disturb the
friendship bet wen your mother
and Ovid for anything In the
wurld. It Is one ot the most beau
tiful things 1 have ever known be
tween a man and a woman, but It
is only friendship.
"Vou must also know that X
have always loved you more than
anyono else hi the world until I
met him.
"Your mother loves Harold Ken
riedy. She finds in him a youth
fulncet that Ovid never had. Does
it not look aj thouph following the I
story hooks we 3hall all be happy
ever aftr?" I
'I am not so sure. Nonnle. Of
cou rse, you will be happy ever
after, for knowing Uncle Ovid as
I do I know you could not be other)
wise. Of mother I am leas certain;
Do you not think she could be
happy if abe did not marry Har
old? Are you sure she loves him
loves him, for Instance, as you
do Uncle Ovhi? I am sure he doe.i
not loT,e her."
"Why ara you so sure nf that.
Lille? I think lie doe lovo her.",
'Konnfe, of course you under
stand that mother Is mush older
than he."
What difference does that
make? Do you know that your
Imo'htr Is very charming wom
an. She is younger In spirit, dea
i.ite all the troubles shi has been
ihroush, than you are. my dear,
uho.hvo betn pampered all your
lifer
That iray te, Xonnfa, bu' "
'Ves. 1 knew. To yon 'mutht-r'
U Just uoihei.' A woman is never
anything else to her. children. Hhe
Is net rraite a human helnjc lil:
any other woman. Sac lit omc-th-ng
-t above and apai. She Is
ju.U mother. They cannot cof-i-ive
ft her inspiring a passionate Iv?.
They cannat conceive ot hfr wnt:!
ing to leve paMlon.itely. n r;ne
ful. Lille; ou must renuml)?r you
are very ounr and inexperienced.
Y u may be mistaken In both ynur
mother and Harold Kennedy, my
dear.
"I cannot see why a man like
Harold should not like a woman
like yevr mother If she did not
have a cent. You forget how much
he owes to Mrs. Vail. Don't let
our prejudices influence you."
"Do you glrW know that your
brcakfaats are ready?" nked Ovid
Jtlarchmont. "James told me that
you were out her and I came out
to get you to come In to eat with
me."
"I'me very plart you dl.T. Uncle
Ovid," LHIem-iy paid, turning
about to fHce Alarchmont and hold
ing out both hands to him. "It gives.
ne a chance before Harold and
mother cin 6r so, to congratulate
you. I think you nre Koin to
marry one of the two bct women
I know. .She baa been mother,
confidant, te ichor and friend to
me for n;iny years and I havo nov-
irknown her to fail In aay of these
capacities. If I were to search the
world over I am sort that I could
find no woman who eouH make
you happier than Nonnle
Ovid Marchmont beamed. He
copped LUlemay's face In his
hands and kissed her upturned
mouth.
Then, lth his Arms lightly
nbout both the women, he proceed
cd to the dir. ing room.
"Did I hear you going through
the car very early this morniug,
Lille?" Marchmont aakel as they
seato I themselves at a table.
"Yes," Nonnie said before Lille
could answer. 'I think the yoang
worn in has resumed her practice
of sun worshipping.
'I don't exactly know what you
mean hy that,' 'remarked March
mont, "bat If H is sun Lille it ante ,
sho will find plenty of it where
-he Is going.
"I wish there were fo!ng to be
a more sunshiny homecoming for
your mother, XiMe. I got a Los
Ar.geles paper this morning and
w that It was estimated It would
take 4 IOC. 000 to put your mother's
oil we Ms in commission again after
the fire.
"Of course, the ones that hare
been drowned In salt water will
never be any good again. I haven't
known very much of her business
since Harold became her adviser,
but I do know that she bought at
Itcst $100,004 worth cf pictures
v.iile she was In New York.
"This. he told me, took about
all of her available cash at the
time. I am afraid nhe will be
prenfly embarrassed financially for
a few months.1'
"Thit reems slllr. doesn't It
Uncle CAld, when both you and I
aland rendy to help her with all
our res-iurces?'
Mondiiy TJip Cur of Gold.
What's Doing?
You can find out in
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