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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
CDNESDAY, JULY 1, 1925
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"Without or with offense to friends or foes
I sketch your world exactly us it yoes."
Hear Their Silence
News that the fighting fundamentalists plan to wage
war upon the leaching of evolution in the three coast slates
by initialing bills for submission to the electorate, similar
to the Tennessee law, need surprise no one. It is part of the
wave of intolerance that is sweeping the land that would
standardize humanity in the name of the uplift.
This resort to statute to sustain dogma and limit by law
the pursuit of knowledge, is in itself a confession of the weak
ness of the cause. Tyrants always resort to sumptuary laws
to bolster tottering thrones as ecclesiasticism resorts to the
inquisition to stamp out heresy.
The Scopes' case in Tennessee is important in that, upon
the construction of the law, depends the power of the major
ity to enforce its will upon the minority. The constitution
was drafted and adopted to safeguard and protect the rights
of the minority. Freedom of instruction and the freedom
to learn are fundamental in these rights and must not be
fettered by legislation or bigotry. If these rights can be
fettered in Tennessee, similar efforts will be made in the
other states, and perhaps nationally.
If the right to teach the theory of evolution becomes an
issue in Oregon, as it is very apt to become, it will be amus
ing to listen to the editorial silence of our fearless metro
politan newspapers. So far the artful dodgers have side
stepped committing themselves in their academic discussions
of the subject, and we can rest assured that neither the
Oregonian nor Journal is going to risk losing - ' crilier
by expressing an honest conviction.
Strangely Reminiscent
Now comes the Producers Call of agrarian discontent
with a clarion call to arms to overthrow the consolidated
wrongs of the world and establish upon the ruins of the mon
opolistic combines the foundation of a new Utopia where
every prospect pleases and everyone is prosperous.
All of this has a strangely reminiscent sound. Periodi
cally the Jeremiad of the political agitator is repeated, most
ly during hard times and in the intervening good times is
forgotten. The world is strangely out of tune but as a new
toy diverts a child, so does a little prosperity the calamity
howler, and a public office the reformer.
There was dug up the other day near the site of Baby
lon some ancient tablets showing that 5000 years ago people
were complaining of the same troubles that they are today,
of the greed of monopoly, of the heavy taxation, of the cor
ruption of politicians, of the hellward bent of youth, of the
bobbed hair and lip-stick of the flapper, showing there is
nothing new under the sun, least of all in human nature, and
that history repeals itself in cycles, producing similar hu
man reactions. Hut your political reformer makes the same
old blunders.
The American electorate, like an army, travels on its
belly and all that lias to be done to win any election is
to put the fear of an empty dinner bucket in the heart of
the multitude and dangle the phantom of promised prosper
ity before them and monopoly can exploit to its heart's con
tent. But better the exploitation of big business, which at
hast offers order and system, than the rule of the ignorant,
fanatical and unscrupulous seeking power by mussing up
the world. :'
One Wife on Approval
g Hy Violet Dare
llKI AKl IIS AMI 1
"C nl Iiln!"
Jim Li'lantrs video wiia very
harsh Indeed an he spoke to lib
wife. Cynthia jumped nlnn'.it
puiltily at the wound f H. nml Phil
(ir.ihiim turned and nun at once
"Oh, Jim, I'm no ghul you're
home!" Cynthia cried, its she iw
Mho It w.'ifl who had npoken. "I
was KlliiiK tired of waitinc up tot
yrni. own though Phil v wtirh
delluhtful company."
"Th.it was ouito apparent that
lie Willi delightful company.' com
mented M. ulnine I,i-I:in( Icily, ar
knowledcliiK Cynthia' lnl roduction
of Phil with a curt nod. "And now
J:iiiip.h, if you don't mind taliiiif: me
npntalrw
Tim took her arm ami r-wotted
her up the wide stairway; she lean
ed on htm heavily, pni.-dnit om-e or
twice ns if who had Mrotitflh t
no further.
Cynthia turned to Phil Ciaham
with wide c.w.h.
"If who fei lN mo ill ns that, would
n't you think he'd rather 5lay
homo than come here?" Mie whispered.
IJU face hail flushed miKrtly nl
Madame, I.elands Rreetlnn; he
nwutiff round now on hi heel and
started for tho front door.
"Vou m nut let nio leave at once,
Cynthia," he said n he put on hi."
coil. "They don't want me here,
and I can't piwibly stay."
"Phil!" Cynthia run after liltn
nnd laid rne hand on hin shoulder.
"Don't you aee I hat you imiM stay?
After all. I'm married to Jim, anil
thlA la my home. I can't let any
one treat me rut she ha."
"Hut I enn't stay, when I've al
most been thrown out." he pro
tected. "I'm your hostrws; f asked you
to come. It Isn't my fault if one
of my hualmnd'a eiicnta Is rude to
you."
"No, honey, It Isn't your fault."
he answered quietly. "And I can
oo how hard thin must be for
you here. It'w a shame. Hut hon
estly, Cynthia, you'd better Just let
m iro. Give your husband any
reason yoa like; tell htm I pot a
telegram and warn called away, or
anything esle you think of that
won't matter.
"Phil. If you ko I'll ro too," Cyn
thia cried, taking hold of hin orm.
"I'm not Kohiff to stay here and
bo treated so. ,llm mother must
realize that nils in my home, even
if he did Klve It to us."
Neithor of them realized that
Jim I, el. i ml w.ia standing nt the
head of the stair. lie started
dwon slowly, JnM as Phil (J t a ha in
bent and Ul.sed C tit bin lichtly on
top of her head, then simile out of
I he front door,
Cynthia faced him. her eye.i filt
i'tl it h :irit;i y tears.
" I'll i I'h koi to," she told him
abruptly. "And I can't blame htm,
after the way your mother arted."
"Have you paused to consider
the way joii acted.'" he asked.
'Mother and I came In to find you
pl an Ira My In (iraham'rt nrnm, t
Hit hour of the niht "
"Jim! Von know that l.sij'l (rue.
Phil and I were Kilting then on
the comb, looking at no mo kodak
picture Mi.it he had. nnd waiting
for you to eome home. Surely
there wis nothing wrong In that."
Jim shrugged hl shoulders, then
turned iiuii kJy and look her In his
arms.
"Porgli e me. divir," he begged
".Mothers had bad no, nnd I've
felt s.t upset that I Wasn't respon
sible for what I said 1o you Jn.it
now. Don't mind, I beg of you '
"I'm sorry - I was horrid," she
answered quickly. "I should have
understood."
Put ?hn could not fool any more
linldly toward her mother-in-law
because of the Incident, and reloic
ed the following day when Madame
I-etand decided to go bark to her
own home.
f rame here last night because
I couldn't hriir tD (,P alone," she
explained to Cynthia at break
fast. "Hut peihain It's better for
me not to stay."
Cynthia said nothing, and Ma
dame Leland departed when Jim
went to his office. Cjnthln spent
t he day planning for the happy
en In that he and Jim would
have together, and drevert for It
late In the aftern .on In her pict-1
ROAD BETWEEN FALLS
IS BEING IMPROVED
The road between the north unci
south Silver creek rails la now un-
der process of Improvement, ac-J
cording to County Commissioner!
Porter of Silverton, who recently!
viol ted the work, the improvement
between the falls being; only to
make a summer roud out of It,
however. Stum pi? ore beinff blown
out, tho road 13 being widened
nnd a caterpillar boin sent ovo.-
tieat frock. They'd make up for
tl.e tiff of the evening before, ehe
told herself. But at elx o'clock
Jim phoned her, regretfully an
nouncing that he would have to
dine with hla mother,
"She wants to talk over some
now development of this difficul
ty she's in," ho told Cynthia, "And
I'll have to go.1
"You haven't even told me what
sort of difficulty it is," Cynthia re
minded him. "Shall I moet you
there, or will you call for me on
the way?"
"It's financial matters that both
er her," ho answered, slowly. "Only
don't let her know that I told you;
she's very (sensitive, you know. And
I guess perhaps you'd better not
go with me, dear; she wants to talk
with me alone."
Cynthia hung up the receiver
abruptly. Her disappointment at
not having the evening alone with
him no keen that she wanted
to throw her.self down on the floor
and cry. Apparently sho was Just
at ranger In tho family, sho told
herself; she didn't really belong In
it at all. She sat down to a lone
ly dinner, and afterward spent the
evening with only Mark, the kitten
to keep her company. Try as hard
is ohe could, it was Impossible not
to feel resentful toward Madame
Leland.
Tomorrow A rirm Resolve.
Three Killed as Car Skids Down Hill
Three passengers met Instant death and twenty-five were Injured when one Jersey City, N. J., stree(
car Bkidded down a Bleep incline during a Btorm and collided with another also loaded with passengers.
it to omooth it oat and make :t
passable to motor vehicle traffic
On the Silver creek falls road
from Silverton work Is going
ahead in the last stretch of im
provement to tho north falls, nnd
this roads, it is expected, will be
passable both eu miner and winter,
although 60 nip sections of it wiil
be rough The improvement to
the nor tit falls now being worked
on will bo 16-foot macadam.
1467 ACRES
ELIMINATED
FROM PLANS
(Continued from Page One.)
he formed, while only a few m?n
oppesed it. As near as we couid
determine, in the face of this over
whelming demand among the
properly owners who were seekinj;
relief from high water conditions
there were no valid grounds for
setting aside the district.
"It is true, it Is possible for tbe
work to be extravagantly done
and for considerable money to be
wanted. But this is possible In
any sort of improvement work
done on a scale of magnitude. On
the other hand, if the work is go'ie
at in tho ri'rlit v. ;iv tb- 0 :
can he of immeasurable benefit to
the community.
Cost Estimate lackiner.
"I admit that what should lm't
been dono would have been the
preparation of a definite ostimatc
of coats and the amount of work
to he done to have been filed along
with the petition But, these esti
mated can bo made by the direc
tors, or under their authority, sub
mitted to a meeting of the proper
ty owners whoso lands aro to be
affected and who must bear the
cost, and if the work is found too
expensive and not feasible, the
entire project can then bo aban
doned. "We hnvo so altered the boun
daries of the district from the
boundaries first naked for, that us
near as we can do it tbe hig.i
lands in tha district will not bj
benefitted are eliminated fro n
bearing a part of the burden of
tho district :.nd the costs will fall
only on those low lands which will
bo benefitted."
Under th3 new alignment of
boundaries, the lauds of K. V.
Durbin, chief remonetrutor against
the district, will be so cut up that
a part will lie within the district
and a part outside of it. Tbe out
side part will include the farm
buildings and the high lauds near
tho pavement which passes in
front of his place.
Boundaries Altered.
In a general way, in the outly
ing sections, under the original
petition the boundary ran a Ion 4
the paved road to the state insti
tutions. This boundnry has been
cut back away from the road to
exclude tbe high lands adjacent m
it.
In the city a big territory Is ut
out of the district as originally
proposed the land in the :ity
which is to be excluded, and which
was in the district under the orig-j
tnal petition being as follows; i
Beginning at the intersection
of 25th and Mill, thence south
along the west line or 25th to the
intersection with the south line of
lot 3 of block 13 of Simpson's a'l
lit :(.n. thence west along the
ismr.h line of lut 3, continuing
along the south lino of lot 20, ex
tending to the intersection wiUt
the west Hnj of 24th street and
north line of Mill street, thence
west along the north line of Mill
street to the intersection with tba
oast line of 18th street, thenoo
north along 3 8th street to Trade,
thence wost along Trade street o
15th street, thon north on 15:h
to Kerry atrot, thence west on
Kerry to 19th, north on 19th to
tho mill race, eaat along the mill
race to tho nluco of beginning, lit
addition lots i nnd 6 in block 1,
subdivision of , lot 26 of Capital
Home addition Is eliminated from
the district by nic order.
Lono- in Litigation.
The matter o the district has
heeu hanging Urn before the court
for several months. When firt
up for hearing protest was filed by
some rcmon.-ilratora, and ono of
principal attacks made on tho
district was directed agaiint the
.signature of the governor, it be
ing dialled that he signed for the
board of control, and that there
was no aulhorily of law to nratto
such signature vntvi. The mat'.er
was of extreme importance as
about 1500 acres of etato lands
aro included in the district and
without those the petition would
lack the number of acres required,
the law requiring more than 50
per cent of the acreage to be rap
resented on the petition. Tho
legislature passed an act validat
ing the governors signature and
it was for this act to become effec
tive that tho court awaited before
signing the order.
Proponents of (he district stato
that action is imperative in the
organization of the district to free
tho vast area from the annual,
floods which come at high water
and to a large extent destroy the
value of their lands as well as the
i:oir.fort of living.
At the time of the hearing Dur
bin staled in event the court au
thorized organization of the dis
trict he would take an appeal from
the order to the supreme court.
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