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GliOIUiR PUTNAM,
BIBLE THOUGHT TOR TODAY
And he answered. Fear nut: for they that be with .s- are
wore than they that be with them. Kings 6:16.
Trail 'Em Backwards
The most deliberative body on earth is not, as popularly
supposed, the United States senate which Hell'n Maria
Dawes is trying to reform to speed-up, nor the house of
commons, where the destinies of the globe encircling British
empire are determined, nor the German Reichstag which can
only agree to disagree, but the Salem city council. Besides
its weighty deliberations all other parliamentary bodies pale
into insignificance. It starts more things and finishes fewer
than any known body of law-makers, despite which it enacts
a formidable array of needless laws that are forgotten the
next day.
It is now some five years since an ordinance was intro
duced providing a modern method of street parking for
autos in Salem, and after many stormy sessions and stirring
debates, after convincing demonstrations to enlighten the
bone-heads, after making nation-wide collections of their
ordinances, the obsolete method by which Noah backed out of
the ark, is still the order of the day.
In the five years interval every city, town and village in
all this broad land has abandoned that system of locomotion
copied after the crab, but it is still so much easier for some
statesmen to go backward instead of forward, that auto
owners and tourists in Salem are compelled to pursue a
similar course, to the inconvenience of themselves and the
public.
Once, some months ago, action seemed to be near but at
the critical moment, the fiery eloquence of a taxless wind
jammer, who never owned or drove or parked an auto, saved
the day for the anachronism by stampeding those aldermen
who have been going backward so long they think it is the
natural mode of locomotion, and so the old sleeping sickness
again prevailed.
"Trail 'em to Salem" but trail 'em in reverse, trail 'em
backwards, and comply with councilmanic edict. But let us
be thankful for small favors, there is no ordinance compelling
autoists to back into their garages, though to be consistent,
there should be, for if it is a good rule for the one, it is for
the other.
LaFollette
Robert M. LaFollette was the most picturesque figure in
American publii life and one of the most influential. In the
perspective of history, he will be acknowledged as the leader
of those forces that have insidiously for a generation been
destroying representative government by popularizing and
paternalizing it. Today, there is little left of the old balance
of powers designed by the fathers of the republic. Constitu
tional amendments and the constant encroachments of the
bureaucracy are changing the form of this government of
ours into a political and hysterical chaos.
LaFollette is the father of the various welfare movements
originating in Wisconsin, as well as those prescribing govern
ment by meddlesome regulation, which create paternalism and
verge on socialism. His panacea for all economic and indus
trial ills was the passage of new laws to suppress, control
or regulate, which of course, required the creation of paid
commissions to enforce, thus immensely stimulating the
growth of bureaucracy and tremendously increasing the cost
of government.
All of his life, LaFollette was an insurgent, and a crusader,
and while his insurgency was zealous and sincere, it was so
colored by megalomania that it often defeated itself and
ended in his own eclipse. He would not work for a principle
unless he ,was the acknowledged leader of the cause. He
insurged more violently against the progressivism of Roose
velt than against the stand-patism of Taft. He gloried in
his pacifism and opposition to the war. Always he demanded
the spotlight and the more hopeless the contest the more it
gratified his ego.
Reaction and hysteria following the war, made LaFollette
the natural leader of foreign and radical forces that had
opposed it and his bloc in congress secured balance of power.
Although not a radical, in Ihe meaning of radicalism of
today, which comprises the communists, syndicalists and
bolshevists, these forces rallied to his standard in 1024, but
his grandiose scheme of wrecking the democratic party and
founding a new radical party upon its ruins collapsed with
the election and his own expulsion from the republican party
followed.
My Matrimonial
Vacation byviok-tDarc
A 1)11 IKII.T I.Vi:lCi
I drrsNcd nil h more enre thnt
evening than I h:ul usrd before in
month. Kven though .11 in (11 tin".
love nic any more, I wanted to
make the beat possible Iinprcttnlon.
I wan determined to whow him, be
fore the evening was over, what
he'd lout when hf UihI me.
"Looldng Uively tonight, Nuncy,"
he remarked nn I cumo Into the
ulttlnn-room where ho wns waiting
for me. There wim about n inueh
ex predion In hi voice nn If he'd
Raid he liked the wallpaper.
I nodded nnd ml down on a couch
near the window.
'I Huppoee you and Celln have
Arranged everything," I ald, try-
inn to keep my voice from being
baky. "Really, H i aa If we were
all playing puwy wants a corner.
I'm getting a divorce no that you
can marry Cella, and ahe'a getting
one ao that ahe can marry you "
"And you're getting one ao that
you can marry ngatn," he cut In.
"Oh no. I'm not go tng to marry
again," I told him.
you whatT Oh. well, of
co u rue, you don't mean thai."
I wondered how I could con vino
him. Suddenly, more than any
thing Im In the world I wanted
to be hie wife again. I renllted
mo.o than I ever had before all
that he meant to me. I wanted to
be a real wife to him, a wife who
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kept hotiee nnd more Important
allll, kept home. I wanted to learn
to new and conk nnd dust and
sweep,
1 didn't want to he a aoeh-ly but
terfly any loitKer, I wanted to ho a
ftood wife and a good mother.
And I had lost .litn. I couldn't
ever be what 1 v anted lo!
Oh yea. I tin mean it," I told
him. "I'm through with mnnlaRO.
Jte laughed nnd lighted a cipi
reUn. "oh well, you'll won change
your mind," he aald. "8ay, I won
der where thoae fellow are; they're
lute. 1 think I'll run down to their
rooma and hurry them along. "
He w gone before I could atop
him. It alntont looked as If he
wanted to get away from me, Aa
a matter of fart, his friend who
had come on the transport with
him weren't late at all; It no
fifteen mlnutee before the time
he'd art for them to Join ua.
He came hark In about twenty
minutes with his frlenda, and we
went to one of the big reatauranta
for dinner. I loathed the place; It
waa crowded and nolay, with a Jnat
band making aurh a racket thai
conversation waa Impoulhle moat
of the time.
"But I thotuht you liked umm."
Jim aafd when I protested. "You
uaed to love It.
"I've had too much of It " t an-
time now lu &ojue quiet, restful
place."
"Bounds as If you were looking
for a cemetery," remarked one of
Jlm'a frlenda. I whed that ho
and his .companion, were In Hall
fax; there they sat, completely
spoiling what would probably be
my last evening; alone witn Jim:
We went to the theater after
ward. It was a musical comedy,
which I'd et'en before, twice. I
hard I v knew what was Koing on on
the tiUinei my thoughts were Ail of
Jim .
During the Intermission he and
nno of his fnondfl went out ana
mo':ed. The other man stayed and
alked with me, telling me little
mcedotes about life in the Philip
pines, win-re he'd been in Jim s
regiment.
"When Jim came back I aked
him how it happened that I got a
telegram from him signed "A. L."
"Don't kjtow unless the girl at
my hotel in San Francisco misun
derstood," he answered. "I tele
phoned down to the public stenog
rapher and asked her to send it
for mo."
lo hadn't even sent that wire
himself! That was the last straw.
I wished that I could hurt him,
hurt him as much as he had hurt
me.
I devoted myself to hie fiends
after that, though they seemed
frightfully stupid to me.
Jn the theater lobby, as we were
leaving, we encountered Virginia
and Dad, with some friends. Vir
ginia had - come into the hotel In
time to meet Jim, and waa In
clined to be very disagreeable be
cause the report of his death wasn't
true. !
I had an opportunity to speak i
to her alone, and told her that she!
needn't worry, aa I waa going to
get a divorce from Jim Just as i
she wanted mo to. I
She promptly began to be veryi
cordial to him, and urged that we;
all Join her party for Bupper at:
one of the dance clubs.
Jim didn't want to go, but the
others did.-
Tomorrow Jim's Plans
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To the Kdltor: It Is remarknWle
to note how the newspaper press
at present Is giving space to" the
proponents of organic evolution.
Over in old London a Dr. C; H.
Mayo thinks it strange that he-re
in thLs country there should 1 bo
any question as to the truth iof
ovolution. Jle says that has been
settled long ago. It seems some
of us however have not found that
out yet. Evolutionists are still dis
cussing it. They seem to agree that
evolution Is true In a wide sense
but how under the sun to prove
it they do not know.
It is nil true but there Is no way
of proving it! Now isn't that
science? The recapatulation theory
is being abandoned. Also national
selection, tho Inheritance of acquir
ed characters and other of tho
great pillars of the temple. "What
is now left? This Dr. Mayo says
the truth of evolution Is as evident
as that water is wet! Wonder If he
thinks It is as plain that Mars Is
Inhabited as that an Icicle la cold?
He says the people over here do
not know that North Carolina also
has an anti-evolution law. Indeed.
"We should go away from home to
learn the news. If he Is aa ac
curate about the truth of evolu
tion as about this he la indeed an
oracle. Secretary of the Interior
Weeks charges that our schools
are turning out criminals. Truly a
eeiloua charge.- Evolution is free
ly taught in our universities and
colleges. Is that why?
John Fisk says our moral short
comings are but the Inheritance
we have obtained from our "half
human progenitors," as Darwin put
It! So we are' not excusable. -And
the secretary says the "theory of
evolution" should bo taught In our
schools! I voto that Professor
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By ill
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APPKAWANCE.
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Scopes urows himself an agnostic,
yet is religious in a way of his own
And what way Is that? Negative
ly the way of skepticism and doubt.
Affirmatively, that he and all man
kind Including the Smith family
and tho legislature of Tennasee
liko Topay wine not made "lAit
just growed" by natural descent
from ancestors who had neither
souls nor moral sense! Little won
der that legislature did not want
such religion taught in public
schools at taxpayers expense and
who can blame it? B.
West Salem, June 17.
EXPLORER IS
DETERMINED
TO FIND POLE
(Continued from page ono)
in all parts of the world today at
the safe return of tho Amundsen
Ellsworth north pole airplane ex
pedition. Tho return to Kings Bay, Spitz
be rgen yesterday exactly 28 days
after hopping off, was greeted with
many expressions of "I told you
so." But the words came principal
ly front explorers and scientists
who knew Amundsen's courage
and Ingenuity in coping with haz
ards of the polar regions.
Though the expedition fell ISO
miles short of landing at the pole
and was compelled to return partly
in one plane and partly by fish
ing schooners, scientists expect to
glean much valuable knowledge
from the flight.
MncMillan Relieved
Donald B. MacMillan, who sails
tomorrow from "Wiscasett, Maine,
at the head of the all-American
Arctic expedition, admitted that a
big burden had been lifted off hla
The Major Starts
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A Victim of Circumstantial Evidence
The Tourists Are With Gov. AI Smith la Albany Today
mind. Amundsen's safe return,
he said, would enable hi in to de
vote all his energies to science In
stead of first hunting for the
Amundsen party. He also altered
his plans so that the airplane base
of expedition will now be estab
ilshed at Cape Thomas instead of
Cape Columbia.
"I always thought they would
come back," said Vilhjamur Stef
ansson, noted explorer here. I
am exceeding glad of the out
come and it is another feather In
Amundsen's cap. you will recall
that we alt thought Amundsen
would go to the pole and continue
on to Alaska. But doing what he
lias done leaves tno United States
with a great opportunity to dis
cover new lands if they lie In this
area.
A re Congrn t uln t cd
The newspapers in O.s lo having
contact with the aero club posted
a bulletin of the filers' safety but
withheld the details for their morn
lng editions. The bare announce
ment, was enough however, to
start Joyful celebrations and the
government forthwith dispatched
the nation's congratulations to the
returned adventurers. '
"The government," rends Its
message, "sends you and your
brave companions hearty greetings
and congratulations on your won
derful Journey. Welcome home."
In London, where Amundsen is
well known and where his great
adventure has been watched with
eagerness and latterly with anxiety
gratification was expressed and
the newspapers display their dis
patches prominently.
The Times, commenting editor
ially says: lf
"If they failed In their primary
object of reaching the pole, they
have at least added to the checker
ed story of polar exploration an
other chapter of gallant endeavor
In the face of difficulties and dan
gers that to the ordinary man
would be Insurmountable.
"Their happy escape from the
graver fate will be hailed with ad
miration and relief throughout the
civilized world."
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Bernon S. Prentice, brother-in-law
of Lincoln Ellsworth, financial
backer and lieutenant of the ex
pedition, expressed gratification
of the American advisory com
mittee over the flight. When
anxiety for Amundsen's safety wj.s
widespread several weeks ago, It
was Prentice as head of the com
mittee that headed organization."
of relkf parties.
The . Norwegian government,
which on June 4, sent two relief
planes to Kings Bay, cabled con
gratulations to Amundsen. Earl
Ro.ssman, explorer and big game
hunter, who. Just returned to New
York from two years in the Arctic
told how Eskimos said they would
wait for Amundsen and Ellsworth
at tho former's supply depot at
Wainwright, Alaska. Rodman met
Amundsen at Nome in 1923, he
said, and It was then the explorers
intended to fly over the pole to
Alaska.
It -was in an attempt to fulfill
tho second great dream of his life
that Amundsen organized tho north
pole flight. Having discovered the
south pole, the northwest passage
and tho north magnetic pole, he
wanted to odd the north pole to
his conquests. Financing the ex
pedition was a trying tusk until
Ellsworth advanced a sum report
ed to have been $8b,)oi, about
two thirds of the total cost.
The flight has aroused keen dis
cussion as to the effectiveness of
airplanes in tho polar regions.
John B. Burnham, oxplorer nnd
hunter, said the outcome of the
flight convinced him that Stefans-
son had the xight Idea In suggest
ed submarines as the best means
for Arctic explorations. Continual
fog, he said .renders low flying
and landing perilous.
Captain Anton Helnan, former
Zeppelin pilot and advisory con
structor of the dirigible Shenan
doah, also scoffed at the use of
airplanes, but advocated dirigibles.
He said there were 3000 miles of
ideal flying conditions between
Lakehurst, N. J., and the pole and
could not understand why the navy
department would not send either
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FRIDAY, JUNE 19, 1925
the Shenandoah or the Los Angeius
on such a trip.
Henry Woodhouse, president of
the Aerial League of America,
however, claimed that Amundsen's
tV-nt revolutionized Arctic explora
tion. "In 28 d;'.vs," he said, "Amund
aon has done what he could not
have done in the old way in less
than a year."
60 m TO CARRY
KING'S 2 TON RUli
WiuUsur on Thames. Hub- Of
all the spring cleimiliK jolis lu tho
houses ot ruyuliy, that at Windsor
castle is tho most difficult because
nt a two-ton carpel which covers
Ihc floor of tho Waterloo chamber
a'ld which has to be taken out
doors and beaten by hand.
The Waterloo chamber Is used
as the royal dining room during
Ascot week, when King Goorga
and Queen Mary make Windsor
their hcadnuarters. A force of
about 00 men is required to carry
the massivo carpet down stairs to
the lawns. It is SO feet long alld
10 feet wido and was woven In
India by tho prisoners of Agra,
who were engaged on tho task
seven years.
JAP PARTY OFF ON
LONG TREASURE HUNT
Tokyo, Japan. A party of Jap
anese, including expert divers, ex
pects to leave soon for Port Said
to engage in salvaging the govern,
ment transport Yasaka Maru,
which was sent to the bottom of
tho Mediterranean by German
submarines during the World war.
The transport bad on board gold
bullion valued at $500,000.
The Japanese will attempt alas
to salvage the British liner Egypt,
which was sunk by submarines
near Marseilles with $1,000,000
aboard.
By George McManus
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TO CATCH Voun CAT Out IT
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