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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1925
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I sketch your tvorhl exactly as it joes." byron.
"Duel to the Death"
William Jennings Bryan, who has taken the Lord into
partnership, is quoted as saying in a speech at Dayton,
Tennessee, where he is helping to prosecute the Scopes case:
The contest between evolution and Chrislianity is a duel to the
death. It evolution wins, Christianity goes not suddenly,
of course, hut gradually, tor the two cannot stand together. They
aro as antagonistic as light and darkness; as antagonistic as good
and evil.''
That all depends upon what Christianity means. If it
means living up to the golden rule and precepts taught by
Jesus, teaching the theory of evolution will not affect it for
there is no contest between such Christianity and science.
If it means the dogma and doctrines injected by ecclesiastic
ism, it may compel a revision of this special brand of
theology. If Mr. Bryan's theology is the true religion, it
does not need any law of man to safeguard it. If it is not, no
law of man can long safeguard it.
Mr. Bryan and the fundamentalists of the Evangelical
churches stand where the fundamentalists of the Church
stood 300 years ago, when they invoked the Inquisition
against advocates of the Copernican theory of the solar sys
tem because contrary to the teachings of the Bible. From
1616 to 1757, the works of Copernicus were on the index of
prohibited books, in the effort to save dogma, yet dogma had
to succumb to reason and abandon the bibical theory of a
flat earth around which the sun revolved, just as it will
eventually abandon the primitive theory of special creation
the authors of Genesis borrowed from ancient Sumerian
legends.
Evolution is merely another name for the law of change
growth, progress, that governs the universe. It is inexorable
and not bound by the laws of man. That there could be such
a farce as that staged in Tennessee is proof in itself of how
little humanity has progressed since the days of the
Inquisition and how densely ignorant some of those who pose
as leaders are. Evolution works so slowly that in 300 years
progress in humanity is scarcely disccrnable and the medieval
minded still hailed as prophets.
Big and Little Papers
The Astoria Budget takes the Portland Oregonian to task
for not reporting Governor Pinchot's grilling of Secretary
Mellon as "whisky distiller and whisky distributor" and his
failure to enforce the Volstead act, as the feature of the
speech made to the Christian Endeavor convention by the
Pennsylvania executive. The Oregonian is accused of
deliberately simnrossimr and coloring news to suit its
political policy.
What does the Budget expect? The Oregonian is running
true to form. Most journals as the result of the evolution
of the party organ into the newspaper, print the uncolored
facts in the news columns and opinions in editorial columns.
The Oregonian, suffering from retarded development is still
party organ. It prostitutes its news columns with opinions,
while suppressing opinions editorially, where they belong.
When a political campaign is on, the Oregonian's columns
aro filled with propaganda foisted upon the public as news.
Its local news is colored to its political leanings. When its
correspondents do not write in conformity to policy, like
H. G. Wells on the Armament Conference, their reports are
scrapixxl. But when leadership is vitally needed as in the Klan
issue, the Oregonian is editorially silent.
Our Astoria contemporary errs, however, when its infer
iority complex asserts itself in deprecation of the small
newspapers. Ethically the latter have all the advantage over
the metropolitan press, as they are conducted by their owners
and therefore free to express honest convictions, while city
papers are commercialized machines run by hired men whose
jobs depend upon the dividends they pile up for stockholders.
The small paper that lives up to its opportunity, represents
the last stand of that personal journalism that made the
press a power in the nation, and as long as it remains true to
the best traditions and keeps the editorial divorced from the
dollar, its influence will increase as the influence of the
impersonal city journalism wanes.
One Wife on Approval
By Violet Dare 0
A ni:v riui Ni)
rnili::i liiU'ulv knew what (die
did. In n'.illty he n.ink down on
tho rtirh nnd hml hf!eri('B. while
the y.mnir in:in lin li.id 1mm-n ilrJv
ItiK the fnadflter hent over hr nnd
fnmtlr-nltv tiled to t.ilm her.
"Yon killed my khh-n you kill
ed my kitlni " fhe nuliliod, ovei
and over. while the fi!i:litenM
children wtnod hy, atutint; at her
"I'll (,'i-t yon (mother- --honestly
I tn nw fully sorry, Iho youtitf
nmn n Mi u red her, billing down on
the curb hesldo her. "Isn't there
flotnethlntf I can do."
"I don't want another rat, and
you can't do nnythiiiK," deehtrrd
Cynthia, nnd went ntumhlinft Into
tho honne.
As Cynthia went runnliiR Into the
Jonse, her hnndkcrrhief to h
eyas, tho young nmn who had rtin
' over Mark, slowly followed her,
his fare grave with re-Bret. She
turn hied Into tho home, nnd he
hesitated In lh doorway, hat In
tinnd. looking down nt her as sh
sank Into the nearest chair and
obbed unrestrainedly.
'You can't understand he wan
the only thing I had," she ei
clalmcd through her tears. "And I
loved him eo."
7 flo know how It Is," he told
her. "My dog wrm killed just ft few
Weeks ngo, a dog I'd hftd for yenrs,
and for a, while life seemed too
mpty to endure.' j
Who looked up it him then, ami
motioned toward mm! her chulr.
"Won't you sit down?" who. n.sked.
"I want to (ipidouize for being so
rudo as I must have been a mo
mm I nso. I dn't know what I
!:ild. but haled you no Cor run
nlng over my cat, and then offer
-lie to pet me another one, tlut
didn't rate what I said."
"It ;is crude of nie to suRgest
I hat." he nnsw cred. "Mnt It's not
a bad Idea, you know; when n pet
of yours dicn. if you pet nnother
one nt once It help n lot. Now, If
you'd let me give you another klt
lfn "
She shook her liend dbminlly.
"I couldn't hnve another one; It
would make ine think of Mark."
"A dotr then. I'll tell you. I saw
sumo stunning police d"K this
morning, puppies Just five months
Id. I wn thinking of netting one
myself. Now, why not let me send
ou one of those? Honestly, If you
only would It would mnke mo so
happy. I foci nhominnhle over
having killed yours. He was under
the wheels before I saw him,"
"Oh, know that it wnsn't your
fault; those children frightened
him, and you couldn't powdhly
hnve helped hitting him, uhen he
ran Into the street so suddenly.
That doesn't make It any cssler to
lose him, though." Her eyes filled
with tears again.
Of course It doesn't. Hut how
about the dug? Won't you let me
give him to you?
"I don't know." Cynthia hod
suddenly realized that this nice
young man who sat talking with
her so pleasantly was an utter
stranger. What would her mother-
1 i-Iaw cay?
Tleae do. It's the only thing I
can do that will make me feel lean
like a murderer. Do be kind to me,
please. '
Cynthia, hesitating, looked at
film, lie was very good looking.
vary attractive. As if ho'rcad nor
thoughts, ho introduced himself.
"Do let me tell you who I am-
I'm Noel (J ai .liter. I've just como
ircuml the world. I'robuhly that a
what has kept mo from meeting
you; 1 used to know everybody In
town.
'No, It Isn't," she answered, with
hy little smllu. "I've boen hero
only a short time. I'm Mrs. Leland
JaiiH-H Lelrind's wife."
"Not really! "Why, I received
your wedding announcement in
Paris. Jim nnd I are old friends,
Isn't that great! Now surely you'll
et mo give you that dog, won't
you ?
She Inughed softly. He was the
nicest one of Jim's friends that
.she had met, sho told herself; she
liked him tremendously even after
this short acquaintance.
Yea, I'll let you end me the
doer," she told him, rising. "It's
iwfully kind of you to offer him
me."
"Not liu I f kind enough. If you
know how like a brute I fee you'd
understand that it's you who are
kind."
She walked down to the curb
with him, averting her eyes from
tho lifeless little body of Mark
which lay In tho street.
"I'll take care of him, If you'll
let me," (.iardner offered. "Do lot
me. And aren't we going to see each
other again soon. I'd like to bring
hat pup over to you."
"I m staying with Madame Le
ant! just now, as my husband is
out of town," she answered. "I'er-
:aps you'd better wait till Jim
comes horn. We'd love to havoyou
come over then." J '
"Hut perhaps we'll meet before
then," he uggcsteu. "Are you go
ing to the At water 'a dinner this
evening?"
"I really don't know; I'll have, to
look at my engagement book to
find out," she confscsed. t
"I see you're not enough Inter
ested in the social doings of our
town to care what your engge
monts are," he laughed. "All right
here's hoping that you'll1 be
there, and that if you are, I'll sit
next to you. Good-bye for just now
and do please forgive mo for the
sorrow I've causod you, if you
n.
"There's nothing to forgive," sho I
assured him, and stood there for
an Instant as he got Into his car
and drove away, the warm, firm
pressure of hla hand still making
hers tingle.
She turned then and walked
back to the house, thinking about
him. He had impressed her moro
favorably than anyono else she had
met since coming to her new home
as Jim's bride. She went straight
to her sitting-room and looked at
her engagement book. Yes the
Atwatom' dinner dance was down
fur that night.
She hummed softly to herself as
:ihe went to the closet to select the
frock that she would wear.
Tomorrow Woi'ho Than Kvcrl
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To tho Editor: The dog poison
ing cases horu in West Salem h.-.ve
brought out the report that othiv
dos have alfic been poisoned. 'E'lia
writes doo3 not poison dogs da'l
whoever gels in this kind of work
he, of course, docs not know. Cer
tain it is tliers are about a acore
or more of worthless curs iviiwe
owner allow them ute run of the
town. These dugs are, to eay the
least, a common nuisance and it
need not t-e thought strange if
omo of them become eliminated.
I know of hut two whose owneru
keep the chained. At least ivo
of these loose dogs will bite if
not guarded against. About twu
years ago one of the biting lrnd
ended his mortal life by being shot
and what a roar the owner did
make. There is many a doso-
maulac, they put a fictitious value
on a worthless cur. like neighbor
Aschcnbrenncr, who values iiis
poisoned ones nt $500 each tl c
value of six or seven good milch
cows! .Now '.lint is all silly enoug.i
but it marks th.j dogomaniac. A
few days ago in uonversatin wi.!i
a mau living here, be stated t!ia.
any man who would kill a doi
belonging to him would sure suf
fer the same fate, thus making
the life of a h'liiian being of no
more value than that of a dog.
Now lot such a man be on a jury
considering a 'Jog-killing case acd
what could one expect? And on
about every jury most of the mem
bers are apt to be daft ou dogs.
li.
West Salem, Or., July 7.
To the Editor: I just want to
iiay "amen" to your editorial of
today, "Defense Day Bunk," and
commend you for being an editor
who has the "backbone to print
whet he thinks.
JOS. H. ALBERT.
Salem, Or., July 3.
r
I have taken The Capital Journal
for years. Always have it sent to me
wherever I go. It is worth all of the
50c a month on a vacation. "
BILYEU QUITS
AS
Gwilliam Brothors Bakery com
pany, Baker; incorporators, F. S.
Gwilliam, El wood S. Gwilliam,
George S. Gwilliam, J. H. Gwill
iam; capital, $5000.
Dallas, July 8 C. N. Bllyeu,
senior councilman of the third
ward, tendered his resignation at
tho regular meeting or the coun
cil Monday night. Tho resignation
was accepted and Dr. A. B. Star
buck was elected by tiie council to
fill the vacancy. The nomination
Wiia made by Loif Finseth, the re
maining third ward councilman,
and election was by unanimous
vote.
Mr. Bllyeu was chairman of the
fire and water committee. He re
signed chiefly because of tho de
mands made upon his time by the
duties of cuiiiicilman. lie had been
interested in the city Improve
program which has now practical
ly been completed. There Is some
question ns to whether Dr. Star
buck can accept the office as he Is
already a member of the school
board.
GRAIN FIRE DESTROYS
BIG STAND NEAR TURNER
BRINGING UP FATHER
Turner, Or., July 8. Fire m
mably caused from a tractor de
stroyed sevural acres of standing
grain and some bundles lying on
the ground. A call was sent to
Turner for uien by a wood truck.
The citizens responded and soon
Unci the blaze under control. Ttio
rain bclnnsed to Peter Peten.ra,
who was cuUini; In the field with
a tractor nt tho time. The quick
rosnons-.o to the call for help en
abled him to save considerable oS
l lie Krain.
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