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PAGE FOUR C apital JPour nal Salem, Oregon an Independent Newspaper Published fc"very Afternoon Except Sunday nt 13 S. Commercial tilrcet. Telephone 81; News 83 '.iiOOKUl'J PUTNAM, fcplwyj as second class mail SUBSCRIPTION RATES By o-;rrltr 10 cents a week. 46 cenus ft month, $K a year In advance. H'j "U. in Marion and Polk counties, ono month &0 cent. 8 mould J 1.25, 6 months S2.2&, 1 year $4.00. Elsewhere 60 conts a montu a year In advance. FILL I.KASKD WIIIIC ASSOCIATED I'ltliSB KlillVICE Ir.e Associated l'ress Is exclusively entitled 'to the tiHe for nuhllca n or all news dispatches credited to It or not othorwlse credited In !.i Pi;or aiul alpo local news published herein ftVH hnlit with nfltiYiao 1 sketch your world exactly as it goes." byron. Saving President Coolidge has followed his recent plea for tolerance to the American Legion, at Omaha, with an order denying Countess Karolyi, wife of Count Michael Karolyi, former president of the Hungarian republic, permission to visit the United States on a lecture tour, because of her -inown revolutionary views which is evidently the execu tive's idea of tolerance. Following the refusal to permit Count Karolyi to lecture in the United States, and the barring from admission to this country of Saklatlaya, communist member of the British parliament as a member of the inter-parliamentary union, the action is said to represent a definate policy on the part of the administration to preserve the republic by the reaction ary policy of prohibiting the discussion' of new ideas. Neither Count nor Countess Karolyi are Bolshevists or Communists, and while in power, the Count vigorously sup pressed Red uprisings. Neither is he a reactionary, and the speech he was denied permission to make in the United States but made in Canada, contained nothing revolutionary. For the first time in the history of this erstwhile land of liberty, it has become national policy to bar distinguished foreigners whose ideas differ from those of the bureaucrats in power, or whose philosophy differs from the sterotyped dogma of party political hacks. Henceforth the American people must hear, from abroad, only such ideas as the Secretary of State thinks are good for them, and all other ideas must be kept out, and if originating at home, kept down. It is fundamental of democracy 'that every citizen has a right to consult freely with every other citizen on public matters, that free speech, free press and free assemblage be preserved; that every person has the privilege of expressing his own ideas, no matter how mistaken, and to determine when and where he shall express them. If the people cannot be trusted to thresh out new ideas and winnow the wheat from the chaff, then democracy is a failure and a guardian angel like old lady Kellogg is justified, but not until then. There seems no question but that the United States from having been the greatest of democratic states is now the least democratic of any, for on all sides the basic rights of citizens of a free nation are curtailed and denied. And the worst of it all is, that under the rule of bureaucrats making America unsafe for liberty, we are becoming more and more a land of intolerance. The Thank You League ' We are in receipt of a bunch of literature from a new uplift organization that calls jtself the "Thank-You League" whoso object is to restore the almost obsolete habit of thank ing persons for small courtesies. The League was started by some returned travelers who were forcibly struck by the boorishncss of American manners as contrasted with foreigners, and so a collection was taken, a publicity man and a secretary selected, and the campaign is on. At any rate the League can't do any harm, and may do some good, besides providing jobs for the campaigners. Good manners should originate in the homo, but as the home is rapidly abdicating all of its time-honored p,vgatives, per haps it will be necessary to call on the schools and newspapers to supply the deficiency. It is for most things, nowadays. Americans are, however, among the worst mannered of peoples. Perhaps it is a privilege of democracy to be dis courteous, an expression, as it were, of our equality. As we are rapidly losing democracy, however, perhaps there is a prospect that we may acquire SECOND WIVEQ KJ By VIOLET DAUB ItRSOfjUTIONS OP THIS FtlTmtl-. The moment Ma lie La no had dreaded had come her firwt nicot ine with hor husband nnd the wo man becnuso of whom she had di vorced him. Sho was surprised to routine that she felt perfectly calm She held out her hand to Jnnny who took It llm ply. They talked for a moment of things that did not Interest any of them the weather, the Rolf tournament at tho club, subjects that wore like mtudts held tip bH'oro their faros. It was relief when at lust she could turn back In tho bridge table, where Therein Wlnshlp was clam orlnj: to go on playing. Tho en Bine of the nutomobfle roared, sub sided Into a hum that vanished In the night, nnd Marie, automatical ly glancing over her cards, drou a deep brent h. Thnt was over, then, thnfc first meeting. Of course. It would linve an aftermath; Hilly had asked how lonjr she was to bo a guest at Caro line's and had said that he wanted to talk with her, something about the house in town that they had bought tho year -before; she had gone n broad so suddenly when they decided to separate, that there had been no time to talk of what they were to do with it. Well, that could soon be settled; she had never been happy In lhat house, bought nfter Billy become eo successful; nil she cared about keeping was the mem ory of the days before that time. And those days had had no per manent home; they had been spent In a little, din fry flat, where other people, perhaps an poor and happy as they had been, were now liv ing. Theresa Wlnshlp was winning: It soemed ns though she forced the right cards to come to her by her very determination to win. "How terrible It must be to de Kdltor nnd Publisher matter at Halein, Oregon tn IvioviAa tnoo America courtesy. pend so on tho game," Marie thought ns Theresa jubilantly add ed it it tho score. "I'd hate to Uvo that way; I'd rathor e.-rub floors." "You owe me thirty-five dollars, Mrs. Lane." Theresa announced, interrupting hor thoughts, "and Dan Phillips, just mn It out a chock for one hundred nnd two, pleaso; luck was against you. You and I nro about even, Mr. ltandall t owo you four dollars." lan scribbled n check, nnd Murle did likewise, while Theresa count ed out four one dollar bills nnd laid them before Uandall. It seem ed to Marie that ho hated to take them. She herself had won a little over ten dollars from hi in, and lost a bou'. (ho same amount to Dan Phillips. "I Hl.outd have warned you agalnnt playing bridge with There sa." Caroline Phillips told her late that night, when she had saunter ed into Marie's room for a final chat before going to bed. "Sho t perfect shark, and I believe sun ports herself by playing bridge. Of course. don't know how you're men nnnnciaiiy: Hilly ought to give you plenty of alimony. But still, no matter nonr thlnm nro. i hnte to hnvc you losing to There- "Oh, I didn't lose much." Marie replied, cnsuntly. That was true enough, but It had been more than sho could afford to lose, even so. Hho was determined not to let Billy support her. Just as soon as possible, when sho went back . to town after Carolne's house party. In fact, she was going to find some kind of work that she could do. and make her own way; she had decided that bofore she left Paris.! She had not tried to argue with! wiiy; that would be hopeless. Hut sho could put his checks Into the bank wh they came to her Patterson Announces h Platform, Candidacy On Republican Ticket A re-uniiing of the republican party, reduction In the cost of state government with more re sponsibility for the stale's finan cial welfare placed on the should ere of tho governor by a change in the budget law, reorganization of tho slate prison system to got it away from politics and a policy of con sistent law enforcement are the principles emphasized by I. L Patterson of Bold, in making form al announcement today of his can didacy for the republican nomina tion for governor. A detailed plat form i to be made public tutor. At the outset ot his statement Senator Patterson makes an ap peal to tho farmer by announcing Mi at he oporatoa ono of the most diversified fauns in the state and through his lawyer each month and then not draw on them. Later, when sho was established, she would return the entire sum to him She wished that she knew Caro line well enough to confide In her, but, devoted friend that Caroline was, that would never do. "There's nobody I can talk it over with," she told herself, whon Caroline had at lust loft her alone. Thero was someone, though Bob Randall. When she had known him a little longer, felt a llttlo moro at home with him, she'd tell him how things were and ask his advice. Inexperienced though she was, there must bo some way in which she could earn enough to support herself. Thero wore few things that she could do. She could take care of llttlo children but a position as DUMB DORA tuelee's MoTaiwGV r3 I'd ukb. to vwttw kn-dO UW& A NCE S 3'.UtlE. TrWT, 1 HoESE. WOO A. CAM-tfcR. rt TflE ) BOX NOO -KWOUl J WAsTT.WHSS? J, . BRTNaiNG UP FATHER 1 iKl '-i 1 M f LEFT IT ON THE 'ffi "SI IB l! '''"'' 'T' :X ' 1925 y IMT'L Fcxun Servici. Inc. W C H ' j 8 WlP1 C Crl Dril.m n,M. rorvid - " j , ffilr 'TfcljJ' ilr-t llllL. ' BARNEY GOOGLE Barney's All Set For a Sleep Marathon Ity Biliye Bcck wr spam mi : " k j xs;mjzizz mA mwA. &w iu r vr-xnvn s y m w fiwnr.n : rrvi usk i w yS fltellsi mMm mmm MUTT AND JEFF ' Mutt Saw An "Out" and He Cerlainly Took It By Bud her A'WrCSf TTSS:: .N) ?R.-.A BIG V P oN .M-itje A speAk English? I ffiGri 'sPaAK -nits. rRN,cH cop. domt I iwllcRfi tou Ger yZy9) ? SAP! AM - VT T V. ENGLISH." JA ' 1 ' . ' - - " e i n..c ... . . i ' -PIIT T. - THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON understands the farmers' prob lems. As for lax reduction he says a redistribution of taxee is not suf ficient, and that by the term "tax reduction" ho does not mean the creation or a deficit to make an artificial appearance o tax reduc tion. Senator Patterson, If elected, proposes to ask an amendment to the state budget law whereby the governor, Instead of the ' state budget commission or board of control, will prepare the state budget and thereby be mainly re sponsible for etato finances. Ho would phw.o tho state peni tentiary under the board of con trol and aboHeh the state parol board. Tho functions of the lat- mother's helper would not pay much. She could become a clerk In a department store, at twenty five dollars a week; that would bo enough to get along on, and she might study stenography In the evenings. The contrast between what her life would be then and what it was at that moment, when she was so completely surrounded by luxury, made her smile. From the home of a millionaire to a hnll bedroom quite a leap! Sho'd be riding in the subway or on street cars instead of In limou sines, and eating in cheap restau rants, washing out her own clothes, Instead of being waited on by we'll trained maids. "Oh well, it will be good for me," she told herself. 'I've been poor before this." Tomorrow A Blow For Billy. t V ' ' -J I. L. I'ATTHHSON lor he would place in the board of control. 4 The statement follows In full: Announcement la announcing my candidacy for the nomination for governor on tho republican ticket at the pri mary election in May, 1926, I de sire to call attention to my busi ness experience, including my ac tivity as a practical farmer for many years. In early life I was engaged in mercantile business, but am now, and Cor many years have been, conducting one ot the most diversi fied farms in the Willamette' val ley. I understand and appreciate the many farm problems confront ing the farmers of this state. I have had legklatlve experience as a member of the slate senate through lour regular and two spe cial sessions of the legislature and believe I have a knowledge and grasp of stato affairs that would enable mo to be of service to the people of Oregon, I am going to make a vigorous, clean and constructive campaign for the republican nomination on Issues, saying nothing and doing nothing against any other candi date that could be used against him in event of his nomination; a campaign that will tend, as far as possible, to unite the republi can party so that the nominee may have the entire party suppor:, thus insuring his election. Tax Reduction. If elected to the office of gov ernor, it hi my Intention to bring about a reduction in tuxce. I desire that this statement b'j understood to mean proclsoly what it says. I make no gesture to give it enlarged or uncertain influence. I do not refer to one kind of taxes to the exclusion of other kinds ot taxes. 1 shall never point to mere redistribution of tho present tax burdens as fulfill ment of this pledge, although 1 believe that the tax burden should be readjusted, nor shall I over of fer as the fulfillment an expen sive temporary expedient, Bitch as postponement of imraedlute obli gations or creation of a deficit to make superficial show ot tax re duction. By reduction ot taxes, I mean exactly that which the people com monly understand reduction of taxes to be. I means by it a re duction of tho total sum derive! by taxation from all sources. I mean, In short, a reduction in the cost ot government, Budpet- Ab an oarnest ot my purpose to bring about reduction in taxes, I invito a larger responsibility on tho part ot tho governor for the cost of state government. I shall recommend an amendment to the state budget lnw, and hy Us terms tho governor shall propare the general budget of state expend turea for submission to the legis lature. Preparation of the budget is now In the hands of the state board ot control The state board of control is also ono of our most WtU,NoO KNOW (X'M& Willi important agencies fur expend -- ture of publl- funds. I believe the budget makii, power of the state or any sub division of the state should bo an far romoved as possible from tne spending power or body. I believe it ia a rifiht principle, no muttor bow sincerej honest and intelligent tho board or man clothed witii duel authority may be. In our national government, the president is the budget nmhins officer. Likewise In many states of the union, the governor is the budget making official. I favor in this state malting rue governor the budget muking offi cer. Uudor olir law, the governor has tho power to veto any appropria tion mado by the legislature, or any single Itoin in an approprii tion bill. If given th.9 power to make th? budget, the governor would b-1 solely responsible for stato ex penses nnd could not ovado the re sponsibility. The only way ho could be relieved of any part of it would bo by tho legisluturo over riding his veto which requires a two-thirds vote ot both houses. Penitentiary The slato penitentiary has for years been used as a political football for furthering the inter ests ot politicians and politic U parties at the expense of the tax payers. Any department of the state, the employes of - which hold positions by reason of political aC' tivity and contributions to cam paign funds, and lose thorn hy failure to qualify in this rospeef, Is necessarily extravagant and in efficient. The net result ia that the taxpayer Is actually paying the campaign expenses of candidates and party organizations. We have the example ot the ap pointment of six wardens at the penitentiary in a period of six years. No private business could pro3 por with annual changes ot man agement, no matter how nblo the ) I TGOESS NOO'D BETTER. C3WE. S. . A HORSE N M 'n THURSDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1925 ...auucru. No one can hope for any per manent officient, economical ud ininjitratiou of the penitential under til's system. Hoanital nn Exfiinnle. For comparison, luku the stats hospitals at Salem and Pcndletoa operated by the stato board of con trol. There inmates are mentally deficient and yet the per capita cost at theso institutions, from October 1, 1922, to September 30, 1D24, was about $10.32 less par month than at the penitentiary whore moet of the Inmatos uio able bodied. The per capita tost ot caring tor prisoners at the penitentiary, us shown by reports of tho warden for l!)2o and 1924, was $33.15 per mouth, or moro than tho per cnpilu cost of living of the aver ago family in Oregon. I favor placing tho penitentiary mid or the board of control, as it Is tho only state Institution not now under the board, to the cud that the tenure ot office at tho peni tentiary may depend solely on merit, as It d.ies at other stuu institutions. That is the only way to remove it from politics. Wo can then reduce tho cost and hope, In time, to make It self-supporting. Also, I fnvor abolishing tin parole board and placing the pa roling of prisoners under the board of control, thus reducing, hy one, the already too numerous stato boards. Further, I favor the hoard of control's acting in an advisory ca pacity to tho governor in the mat ter of pardons. law Enforcement. I believe In the impartial en forcement of all laws, and, If elect ed, will work to that end and will appoint no man to enforce a law who is not known to observe the law. There are many other mattera of vital importance to the people ot Oregon that will discuss. In a platform to be issued at a iaier date. By Chick Young By George McMunua
