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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1925
Capital JUournal
Salem, Oregon
An Independent Newspaper Published Every Afternoon ISxeept Sunday
i at 136 8. Commercial Street. Telephone 81; News 83
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I sketch your world exactly as it goes." byhon.'
Subsidizing Motor Lines
Announcement is made by an auto stage company of the
installation of parlor-buffet motor coaches, incorporating an
a la carte dining service, lavatory, smoking compartments,
and a do zen other luxuries in the huge new 32-foot cars.
Probably the next innovation will be sleeping b rths, then
long distance auto passenger traffic may fairly be said to
have arrived.
The beauty about this auto traffic development both pas
Hunger anu ireignt, is tliat it is made possible at public
expense for private profit. The public, including the tax
paying railroads generously furnish and maintain at great
1,-A.renou a nee ngnc oi way ana roadbed lor the huge busses
and trucks to hammer to pieces, then rebuild, also at
public expense. This provides an advantage over the rail
road lines, which must purchase their own rights of way,
construct and maintain their road-beds, depots, and terminals'
and then pay taxes on their total investment for the support
of the state all of which is eliminated for motor traffic.
Competition, subsidized as motor traffic is, will wreck
any system of carriers, has already compelled the curtailment
and even practical abandonment of service on trolley lines, and
branch line railroads, forced higher rates to maintain service
and brought financial embarrassment to many established
.roads so it would seem but fair if we want to keep railroads,
to subsidize them also, by making their investments tax free
and constructing and maintaining rights of way and roadbeds
lor them, so the two transportation systems will stand on an
equal basis for competition.
The other alternative, of course, is to compel the .motor
bus and truck lines to pay a tax sufficient to offset their
highway destruction and the reconstruction they necessitate.
But the motor lines resist any and all efforts to compel them
to pay for privileges they secure at public cost, even resorting
to the referendum to escape a slight tax levied upon volume
of business.
Real Communists
The only successful civilizations built up on a, communistic
basis the world knows, are those of insects, such as bees, ants,
wasps, etc., .and it would be well for those'who advocate such
a form of government to study the result of carrying into
effect the. principles they advocate. With these creatures,
the individual is nothing, the community everything.
Children are community property and thus cared for. Toilers
bring food, not for themselves but for others. All work is
segregated, assigned anil performed for the common good.
These communistic peoples of the insect world are among
the most populous and most flourishing. They have held
their own in the changing environment of the world and
multiplied as others have diminished and lost out. Yet their
socialistic philosophy has evidently restricted their progress,
because it has destroyed individualism.
Ants furnish the most remarkable example of communistic
enterprise. Their social sense is amazing. They play like
kittens, fondle each other like love birds, grow fungi and
mushroom, keep "cows" and milk them, help babies out of
the cocoon eases, travel far, fight in organized armies, clean
themselves, use cosmetics, and help the sick, wounded
anil weary.
The communistic idealism of the ant however does not
prevent it from raiding neighboring ant cities, carrying off
and enslaving the young to perform needful work. Slavery
is an established institution in antdom.
The wasp is held by some naturalists as the most intel
ligent of nil insects and the quickest to solve problems and
surmount difficulties. They as well as ants do what reason
able people with a moral sense would do. Yet their life from
a human standpoint seems a strange perversion.
Take the hive bees; the drones are stupid and eventually
murdered because of their usclessness. The quceii has degen
erated to a mere egg laying machine. The workers kill them
selves in a few weeks by overwork, which a scientist has
aptly termed "suicidal syndicalism." But their natural in
telligence survives.
What is true of the bee, is in a measure true of the ant
and the wasp and it is evident that human nature will have
to undergo a revolution if the personal sacrifice for the
public good the insects prove necessary for communism ever
becomes an actuality, niul it is questionable wneiner me cuus
attained are worth while.
unmarried, and ask you to be my
wife, would you marry me?"
"How cculd 17 I'm married to
Andrew," she reminded him. It was
as tf someone else spoke; the witch
ery of the moment was so strong
that she seemed to have drifted
into a dream, whore everything
was beautiful and unreal.
"But If you weren't married to
Andrew?" Hewitt perslHtod.
The music had begun again, sob
blnje passionately of- love. All
across the water the moonlight' lay
soft and golden. Patricia looked
u slowly, deep into Gregory Hew
itt's eyes, that held hers for a long
moment. They had changed; they
were not the keen, shrowd eyes of
one of the country's cleverest fin
anciers now, but the warm, eager
eyes of a man who was desperate
ly In love.
l'atricla looked away nt last,
tearing licr glance from his with
in effort.
"There are too many 'If 'a be
tween your question and my an'.
Hwor,' she told him, trying hard to
bo calm, although her heart was
beating so 'iolently that sho felt
as If llie trembling of her hand.s
must result directly from that. He
witt's ardour made her suddenly
uneasy; .she was afraid, not of him
but of the situation, which she
could not control. "I wonder,"
she went on, refusing to meet his
eager gaze again, "I wonder If It
isn't getting rather lato? I have
so far to go, you know "
"Of course; we'll leave at once,"
The waiter was summoned, and
Hewitt's name scrawled across -the
check without delay. Patricia's
thoughts were so completely hold
in thrall by what had taken place
between her and Hewitt that she
Iked down tho veranda and
through the restaurant without no
ticing anyone. And all during- the
drive home but a few words were
spoken. Her mind was going back
over Hewitt's words, summoning
his expression, wondering,
speculating. If he were not iunr
rled, and If she weren't she -told
herself that such thoughts were
treachery to Andrew. '"
And yet Andrew seemed to care
so' little About being married to
her; evidently she meant not much
more to him than his excellent
secretary did! She was very useful
to him in helping him toward suc
cess, and that was all. He didn't
care for the homo that she had
tried to make, didn't want child
ren. Perhaps, after all, they wero
mlsmated; perhaps she'd married
not Andrew as ho really was, but
Andrew as she imagined him to be.
Then It wasn't really a marriage.
Bewildered, she stared at the dark
blur of the landscape, through
which Hewitt was driving with
such headlong haste.
Tomorrow Paying the Piper.
CORPUS CHRISTI DAY
' OBSERVED IN BERLIN
Burliu, Germany. For the first
Htue in 400 yeius. Corpus Chriati
day was celebrated recently at the
Gorman, capital by a public pro
cofialou. This is taken as evidence
of the much more tolerant attitude
of the republican reinie as com
pared with the old monarchical.
Under the monarchy, the official
state religion of Prussia was Pro
testant, and tho king- was at the
samo time titular head of tho
church.. Catholic processions such
as are customary In Bavaria, for
instance, on Corpus Christ! day
were forbidden. i
Loa Angeles A bed spring ho
was adjusting fell on Charles Jutl
and when help arrived he was
dead. His head was thrust thru
one corner of the spring and the
taut wire coils still maintained
their death grip on his throat.
Madhouse His Future Home.
Rusacll Scott, twice saved from the gallows as lie was about
to step forth to death in Chicago, has now been declared insane.
He goes to tho 'asylum there to stay until death or until he re
gains his sanity, when he can be executed without further
notice. His wife was tho chief aide in his escaping the noose
cor the murder of a drug clerk. (Int'I Ncwsrcel.)
OREGON PIONEER PASSES
Portland, Or., Sept.'14. (A. P.)
Edward W. Imbler, Oregon pio
neer, who crossed tho plains in
1852-53, and after whom the town
of Imbler tin the Grande Ronde
valley wai named, died at hie
home at Aulei:vald station Sat
urday, aged 82.
lie come to Oregon with his
brother, Jesse, first settling in
Lane county. Later he moved to
Dufur and thenco to the Grande
Honde valley, when this district
was first developed. After resid
ing there many years he moved to
Corvallis and 14 years ago came
to Tortland. Funeral services will
he held here Tuesday aflernoon
and tho body will be sent to Sum
merville for interment.
(Written Especially tor me i .i:h
ta oJuinal by Charles H. Muyo,
M D., Rochester, Miuu., Mem
ber Oorgas Memorial Institute.)
In tho past twenty-Iivo year.;
more has beeu uccompiished in
medicine than in ull tho couiuiIcb
before. Scientific medicine has
done about all It can tor the mass
diseases, now practically gone, but
which used to lrighten and de
stroy the people by ten of thous
ands.
In the fourteenth century fifty
million people died of the plague.
There wa3 only one way of eseap-
ina; it. and thai was tor people :i
leave their homes and run away ti
places free from it. In the cigh
(pen century many millions, pua
sibly one hundred millions, died
of nothing but smuupox.
Today each man is dying his in
dividual death, and it is up to us
to see if we cannot reach him in
some manner and persuade him
that it is wortu while, when he I:
still vigorous, to loam to keep hi'
machinery from going to piecw
from neglect.
In the sixteenth century, man
had but twenty years of avcrug
life. It is fifty-eight today, anil
you wonder whether you will bo
able to reach the three score ana
ten of tho Bible. We hope to be
able to do that from a medical
standpoint within the next twen
tv-five or forty yearB.
It is coming. We know it is
coming. Ourproblem is advancing
the age of our people by teaching
men, women and children the art
of keeping well. There are thous
ands of deaths annually, winch,
with reasonable precaution, could
bo prevented. ThiB means that
society Is not availing nsoii oi tuo
medical knowledge already at its
disposal. Of the 3,000,000 people
the nation 8 sick list overy any,
ono-l'ourtli to one-third are need
lessly so.
To combat tins unnecessary sui
fering and waste of human re
sources, to induce batter houllh
aud lunger lives, a campaign of
health education such ns is now
being umlorUken by tho Gorgas
Memorial institute is of tho high
est value.
An important phase of the work
ia til? periodic health examination
or health audit, tho only known
way of discovering certain incipi
ent diseases before the individual
realises anything is wrong, lit
the beginni!!'.?, Bright's disease,
apoplexy and high blood pressure
are usually symptomless to their
victims. Hut dls-overcd in tlmo
by the health audit and by follow
ing tho advice of tho doctor you
are put on the road to recovery
before your vltnl organs are
wrecked beyond repair. Take us
good care of your health as you
would of your automobile and
have your vital structures tested
yearly to locate the enemy of your
health.
A second vital function, which
is truly preventive medicine, is
teaching the indilvduai Ihc ill ef
fects of wrons habits of living,
which if continued will lead to ill
ness. Improper eating and getting
insufficient exercise each (lay aro
among them.
DUMB DORA
By Chick Young
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"Corking" Good News at Last!"
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By Billy de Beck
The Husband Tamer
By Violet Dare
DunrliiK In the MmhiIIk1U
It was i lliiwuilan urihestr
that was itlnylhK. fi"'i It eame, not
over tho radio, but from a Iioump
furtlier down tho lake Miore, I'lnln
tlvely, nwoctly, Jrt with an liiwlut
rnt rhythm. II vjw not Jnz th.U
was being played, but native music
fnr more sodurtlve than anythtnff
elflo that l'atricla had ever heaid,
There was a wldf, clrar cpaeo
on the vcrandn, and tho floor w
perfect. CJreKry Hewitt held her
lightly but firmly; ho danced an
well an he did evoryihlntf clue.
Vfter tho f I rnt moment of- adap
tation ratrlcla renllxed tlint hq
could yield horelf completely to
bin guidance. Ills nenne of rhythm
nan lintlncllvc.
It wai a dnnce that neemed pnrt
of (ho night, of the moonlight nml
the music, of tho night winds thui
enmo whlnperlnfc ftfroiw the .water
and m urmu red I h rough the t ree
And na U.-witt held her c lower.
dancing now agnlnat the beat of
tho muflic, now with It, alio forgot
everything but tho Joy of danc
ing. An tho musln ceased she turned
Innmd their table; he held her
hand an Inalnnt longer, then re-
lea h im! ft, and took his place oppo-
nltr her, wlih the mft golden light
of the shaded ran die playing over
hl:t baiul.some face.
"I've never known anyone else
who d.ineeil ha you do," he Bald
quietly, after a moment. "That watt
an experience that I una! I never
forget. It will be a treasured mem
ory.
ratrlcla remained nilrnt, fearful
of being carried away by her own
nthifiaMm. Slie had always turn
ed mii'h remarks aside with a lit
tle t netful comment, that flail cr
e,i the men who made them and
did not Incriminate her. Hut hc
was too Mmngly moved now to do
that; It she spoke at all, oho mtmt
reveal too much o( what lay In her
heart, created by tluwe tvw mo-,
mentri of pure delight.
"Little l'at, tell mo that you en-
Joy It, too," he begged of her. I
Who nodded, her eyes on her i
own slim hands, that wero tightly
entwined In her lap.
'Tell mo that you liko me, that i
you enjoy being with me, won't
jou, please?" ho urged. I
"I do." she answered obediently.)
'JMtlle Pat. If I could eomo to I
you j I'd liko to, unencumbered, I
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