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PAGE EIGHT PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 1925 Capital Jl Journal BalBm. Oregon An Independent Newspaper Published Every Aftornoon Except Sunday at 136 S. Commercial Street. Telephone 81; News Xi GEORGIA PUTNAM, Editor and Publiehor lintored as seoond close malt matter at Salem, Orejfon SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier 10 cents week, 40 cenUs a month, 16 a year In advance, ay man, in juanon ana rout couuuee, one month 50 cents, montha $1.25, t months J2.2G, 1 year 54.00. Elucwhere SO conta mouth. s& a year in advance. FVl,h ll!ASl:i) WIRE ASSOCIATED I'ltI SM Kl'll Vlf'h' The Associated frost Is exclusively entitled to the uso for publica tion of all news dispatches crodlted to It or not otherwise creditod In ima ivtuiqr anu also local news published horeln. "Without or with offense to friends or foca 1 sketch your world exactly as it goes." byron. Mental Tests Some "criminologiBt", whatever that may be, has given "mental tests" to Tom Murray, Ellsworth Kelley, James Willows and William R. Lloyd, the four noblemen of nature about to expiate the sins of society against them, and has uiscoyereu mat tliese guests of the state form quite an intelligent group, being far above the averaire menlallv. Murray, we are sagely informed, is a very superior neisonquaiuieci to be the executive of a large business enterprise. Kelley is also much above the average in intel lect. Willos alone, was found slightly under the general average. Lloyd is above the average, but not quite as bril liant as Murray. These same criminologists, applying the same "mental tests" to the drafted men of the army during the war, which was a fair cross-section of the populace, discovered that we are a nation of morons, as about 80 percent of the people average lower in intelligence than Mr.' Willos. Yet with perhaps the exception of one half of one percent, this 80 percent have intelligence enough to keep out of jail and out of the shadow of the gallows which- none of these specially gifted mentalities had. This leads to the query, who gave the mental tests to the examiners and how docs their intelligence measure up in the only practical menial lest life? What is their capacity as demonstrated by accomplishment, to ask a few questions and by the replies classify another's mentality? The mere fact that such ridiculous and absurd guesswork should be taken seriously .shows there is something the matter with the mentality of the guesscrs. . These mental tests are part of the psychological bunk being taught at Our colleges and universities, part of the great delusion that people can be standardized and classified like factory products and that a universal rule of measure can be definitely applied to such an intangible thing as the human intellect. No formula ever devised can measure mentality, for nature never created any two things just alike, least of all human minds, of which we know so little. Nature which always strives to better, is so prodigal and such a great equalizer that defects in one way are likely to be more than compen sated for by development in other directions. There are so many possibilities latent in the brain that it successfully defies any standard of measure as well as efforts at standardization. Haney for Senator Bert Hanry's refusal to resign from the Shipping Board at President Coolidge's demand, and his quarrel with Admiral Palmer's policy, is said to have made Mr. Haney the logical candidate for the Democrats for United .States senate next year. Certainly no available Democrat is better qualified, and Mr. Haney's stand for Oregon development will give him a strong following among republicans. Admiral Palmer is merely currying out the president's policy, which is to withdraw the government from the shipping business because it is n losing venture. This policy works for the larger ports whose developed commerce is looked after by established lines and against smaller ports and those whose commerce is still in the process of develop ment, and to whom some such subsidy as lines operating at a loss, are necessary. Wo have here the old, old, quarrel of special interests, such as northwest ports, against the. general interests of all the government, with Mr. Haney, democrat, taking the side of special interests, against Mr. Coolidge, republican, taking the side of the general public. Each reverses the historic policy of his party, for it has been the democrats who have opposed subsidy, paternalism and privilege and the repub licans who have fostered them. All of which shows how little real difference there is between the two political parties, a difference becoming less daily as government degenerates into a mere struggle for spoils. The new South, becoming industrial, wants a tariff for her industries, the middle west was specially favored for sugar, wheat and other tariffs, the Northwest wants sub sidized steamer lines, etc. Everywhere government has come to mean the doling out of pap for the few at the expense of the many. The Husband Tamer Hv Violet Dare An rni1c:tMii.t Tii.-rittimlnn Patricia hardly kunv her 5ltcr Carol when fhe firwt caught flight of her, walling in the t:w;T crow. I nl the Ir.iin (Mte. And tn for Carol fihe looked at Patricia, and then look oil at (he other anlvlnn n.is Aengerj. as If Patricia, hid not romo. It w.'in only when the pret ty mnrtrlly clad rIi! eaimht Carol In her nrmi that Carol recot; tinted her. "Oh, my dear, I'm no Rind tn nee you.' Patricia hold her veiy tii;ht, then relented her and uteppert bark to look at her once more. "You've change d you're different lt' Lcen such age!" she concluded In coherently, hugging her sister ft pa In. "You've changed, loo; yuu lonk ycungor thnn ever," Carol exclaim d. "What liai nsarrlnffo done to you? Why, Iat, jou're a mero in ff.nt beside me, though there's only three years difference fcetweeo nit. Patricia hardly knew u hat she replied. It had been a shock to see the change In her sister. Carol hnd always been o lovely; there had been ometrilnir beautifully youthful about her, something, ethereal, even nfter the bnby'sj ttlfth Itut nniu aim ,,-am anlM n rt matronly, heavier on her feet, set-j tied ilonu. She was porfectl' groomed, fashionably dressed ar-out her tttro.it te a string ef xiitidi ely cut K-ii'iH'ts, and her ear rlue4, that mauhed them, were a timmnh of tlit jeweler' art. Hut lomrthinir had vanished that had aluaya d ist I niniishcd Carol; Pa tricia puzzled over It ns they made i heir way to a taxi. "1 e t;ot to do some ..hopping; on won't mind, will you'.'" Carol murmured regret fully. "Kelt hs iing the car this afternoon, so 1 ame In on the train, and we mlpht hut ns well use the lime till the one I told him I'd romo out on to nrnp. Let' ere " she consulted n scribbled JIM. "Shirts for the baby he outgrows them so fast! 1 and Keith wauls me to exchange! the cuff links he won In the golf Uiirnamrnt last work for a belt buckle, though he had had n down luiekles new I don't see why he'd want another " "How'ii your g.-lf, Carol?" Iv trie!,, asked an they were hurtled enwa town in a taxi. "You used to iay such a good game, and liv ing at a tonntry club, you must (lay a great deal." t "Xi I don't," Carol answered, owly, "Somehow, there's no time.: Ittinninjf the tioue keeps me aol butty, and, then, pf course, there'i the baby " "But surely you have good ser vants and a nurse" "Oh, yes; but you can't leave thfnga to them, I always dust Keith's room and bis study my self; he doeBn't like to have the servants in there. And he doesn't feel that It's safe to leave the baby to Nurse, bo, of course, I look after in baby's food myself, and see that he has his bath, and all that' Carol's voice trailed Into silence again; sho seemed to have her mind so full of something else that she hardly realized that her sen tences were left dangling. Patricia lcoked at her with puzzled eyes. Could this be the guy, happy-go- lucky Carol who had had no sense 1 1 responsibility, no thought for anything that meant not being her .own mistress? They arrived at last at Green ways, the country club near which the Willoughbys had built their homo. They were one of a dozen families that had settled in a wide ef: mi circle with the club as a nu cleus; their homes wore unusually attractive, though it was the fash ion to refer to them depreciatingly. Having heard Carol chat fcr a mo ment on the train with an acquain- tr.nco about her house, Patricia was surprised when she saw It, with its beautiful lines, its porches and wide spacious rooms. 'Carol, It's a darling house!" she exclaimed eagerly, ns they left the club bus and walked up tho path. "It's beautiful. Now, where's the baby?" The baby was on his own small screened lawn. In tho arms of a nurse who looked so capable that Patricia wondered why Carol should feol that she was more competent than this pleasant-faced middio nged woman. But Carol fussed over him, Ofked If he had been fed, If ho had had his nap, ns if tho wo man weren't n trained nur.se, quite capable of looking after tho child's simple schedule. "Why in the world do you bother, so with him?" Patricia asked, as Carol went with her to her room. That woman looks like a perfect wonder." . $ "Well, che Is; we pay her enough goodness knows! I've given up everything I specially wanted all this last year, it seems to me, so that we could keep her! But I just feel that I have to keep an eye on her Keith likes her too." Patricia's brows went up sharp ly, and a whimsical little smile cur e3 about her pretty mouth, but she caid nothing, until she entered the delightful guest room thatvwaa to be hers. Then she was voluble in her praise. Cream-colored walla, pale green woodwork, curtains of Luff eta striped with pale green and lavender and yellow, a quaintly draped dressing table and bed, a perfectly appointed desk. "Carol, this Is the sweetest room I've seen In ages!" she cried. "Keith thinks that, too; he was awfully pleased with it when it was finished," Carol replied, flush lug with pride. "Now oh, there he is!" as a mnn's voice was heard on the drive below. Patricia tiptoed to a window as Carol fled; she was eager to see onco moro this brother-in-law whose word had become law of recent years. Tomorrow The Siren in the i House. 3 Flverft Missinc. Pari3, Sept. 7. (A. P.) The :iviatoi3 Lal'orte aud , Prtol and their three mechanicians have been nursing 48 hours since their ;liappei ranee in tho seaplane trials from Corsica to St. Raphael. th3 southeastern coast of France. Carmol by the Sea, Cal. Fred erlck Eastman, resident of thin art let colony, is running for gov ernor on p.n evolution platform. Religion Is Personal Matter Says Tully In Opening Sermon "Religion Is tho most Important and universal of all themes," sa'ld Rev. Norman K. Tulley, new pas tor of the First Presbyterian church of Salem, in his sermon yesterday evening. Dr. Tully Hpoke on the subject, "Pure Relig ion and Undcfled." "More people are interested in religion now than in any other sub ject," he said, "and all people are capable of being aroused to inlor est In It. This Is not true of any other subject. Law, medicine, ag riculture and commerce are of In calculable Imortance, but in any given place and at any given time more people are not interested in them than aro Interested In them.! "It is appointed unto all men once to die. Then the question In evitably comes, after death, what? Only religion has the answer for that question.' That is why relig ion appeals to all men, and Is the most important theme." Dr. Tully reforrea to Tolstoy's1 definition of religion as "tho rela tion which the individual estab-1 lishes between himself nnd God. "Religion Is a personal matter,", he continued. "Every man has some sort of relationship to God.' He grows In grace as that rela-j tionahip improves. A part of the work of the church Is to teach i men how to improve that relation ship." . Making reference to the sermon on tho mount, the speaker declar ed that In that sermon JesuB had defined religion In the law of ser-1 vioe, inspired by love, and measur ed by sacrifice. "That is the re ligion of the practical every day Christian," he said, "who Is need ed In the world's busy strife. Only divine love can keep a man serv ing. The service becomes Christ ian In proportion as it Is carried beyond the point of convenience and endures hardship. Such ser vice the world needs. "The apostle James, In his matter-of-fact littlo Kpistlo in the back of the Now Testament, catches tho gleam of his divine brother and carries on the idea.- Ho tells us that 'pure religion and unde filed consists in 'visiting the wid ows and fat iter less in thei dis tress,' and in keeping oneself 'un spotted from the world.' First, he emphasizes service, 'visiting.' That ties us back to Jesus' practice 'not to-be ministered unto, but to mln IsLcr.' Then he points to purity, 'unspotted from the world.' There lies our greatest practical need. Church people are so ntuch like the world that there Is no need of the world changing Its ways. We shall remain weak and crippled until we become less like the world and live more unspotted lives. 'Come ye out from' among them. and be ye separate.' " Declaring that religion moans the act of binding back to God, Dr. Tully stated, "We nod His wisdom justice, power, holiness, goodness and trusty. The religion of Jesus Christ is preeminently fittoil to root, to ground, to build us up In these Qualities. All will find suc cess in fulfilling their calling, and serving their present age, by cul tivating these qualities. 1 Rev. Charles Ward, pastor of the First Congregational church, op ened the church lor th winter by preaching a sermon on the sub ject "Tho Lost Christ," at yester day morning's services. He declared that Jesus had been reared, In his youth, in a religious atmosphero, citing the fact that It -was the custom of his parents to go every year to Jerusalem at the time of the feast of the Passover. Rev. Mr, Ward described the trip to Jerusalem at the time when Jesus was lost in the temple. "Most people who have known Chlist nnd later lost Him," he said, "have lost Him when leaving the temples of worship. "People frequently say they can worship God ns weir In field and forest as In any edifice made by hands. They flit away on Sundays to somo alluring trout stream or bathing resort or picnic ground, defending their action by saying that they can worship God in the open. Put as a matter of fact they do not do so, for the spirit-of wor ship Is not in them. "Very few people who leave the temples of worship continue Ions to really worship God at all. Pub lic worship is a quest for God, a seeking of His companionship. 'And he that seeketh flndcth, and to him that knocketh It shall be opened.' Man Is never more noble than when he Is seeking God. In worship we fellowship with otiier .seekers nnd are lifted by a com mon desire of tho group. Our faith is strengthened and our courage increased by the faith of others manifested In public worship. Evory one who joins the "Jesus company' makes it a little easier for others to seek that fellowship, "In public worship our minds are fixed on Christian ideals, ?.nd no one fixes hbj mind, even for a brief Lime, on Christ-like things without becoming more like Christ. That is what Ps,ul meant when he told the Corinthians, 'But we nil be holding as In a mirror the face of the Lord are transformed into the same image.' "Wo lose through disuse in re ligion as in other things. Darwin had beenetanoeoltla etuoni etaol in old ago regretted tho loss of appreciation of music and poetry. Three had been a time when the strains of an orchestra thrilled him and when the musings of tho poeta were understood and appreciated. put other things crowded theso out of his mind for years until ho could no longer appreciate or understand them. We could elle numerous in stances of individuals who onco loved Christ nnd were found fre quently in His temples of worship, but who have lost Christ by leav ing these temples. "The lost Christ was found again in the temple. Most folks who want to find Christ know where to look. We may criticize and condemn the church and say that Christ is not in it, this Is a popular pastime with some, but no other Institution approaches the church in Christian influence. Most of our humanitarian influ ences were founded upon the church. Kings nnd "politicians have not made half the contribu tion to human well-being as have the great spiritual leaders: Moses, Isaiah, Jesus Christ, Paul, Luther, Savanarola. Wesley, Livingstone and the pilgrim fathers. "If we do not find Christ in the temple of public worship let us ex amine our own hearts. "If! our religion of any value to u? If so It Is worth propagating: if not It is not worth keeping. " 'After three days they found Him in the temple.' That is whero we shall find Him today." DUMB DORA By Chick Young 1 ALVJA.NS SPElt Too lAUO IVM-HLV UMlM X. 30 OUT WlTJ DOraA- X'U. TAKE. PAS LUS OOT TUiS T(M6 j SU&S OTC SO Good-. uookiw&.bot- I I : 1 I-. JMIJ. , ,;: IVkSI.::::! ITT 1 m r " lTEOM6 00T ( K EVCOS.E.MB. A ' -. :. . . ... ' . I ... me.,TWAS si?U f A iMsa f flssr-siN-, J. About it. , . hajjb. to . fS ,ur r.,,A ) (WtoATSl BRINGING UP FATHER By George McMnnus ( POR COODME51) tAe-THE HOTEL DON'T CB. tDlL-Lf . THA.T'5) THE. 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