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PAGE FOUR THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON THURSDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1925 CapitalJtJoiihiat Salam. Oreeon q Independent Newapnper Published Every Afternoon Except Sunday at 138 B. commercial Street. Telephone 01; News 81 GEO HO 63 PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher Entered as second claa mall matter at Salem. Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES , By carrier 10 cents a week, 4S eenli a month. IB a year In advance. By mall, In Marlon and Polk counties, one month 60 cent 8 montna ll 2a. ff months sj.ze, 1 year 14.00. Elsewhere 60 conta month. S5 a year In advance. FULL I.KASED WlltK ASSOCIATED 1'HESS KliKVICli The Associated 1'ross la exclusively entitled to the use (or publica tion of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also local news published herein. "Without or with offenso to friends or foea I sketch your world exactly as it goes." bvron. Equal Rights Fallacy As if the federal constitution had not been sufficiently mutilated by the numerous amendments destroying the character of the covenant, the National Woman's Party has had introduced into congress a resolution for another amend ment which provides that "men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction," lor the purpose of "removing all dis criminations in law." The effects of this amendment are set forth by Edward Clark Lulcens in the American Bar Association Journal, as " follows: What the amendment really means Is that neither the United States nor any state shall enact any statute under which the rights ot men and the rights ot women aro not equal, and that all existing statutes shall be Invalidated in so far as they contain instances ot unequal rights, and, furthermore, that the common-law inequalities, where still in force, shall no longer be applied by the courts.. The effect would be to render Invalid any law which gives men rights not given to women, or which gives women rights not given to men, at loust as far as such discrimination is concerned. A statute discrimin ating in favor of women would, of course, bo as Invalid as a statuto discriminating in favor ot men. Certain injustices and irregularities exist in the present laws of some states, but most of them have been removed by the passage of liberal statutes giving women property and other rights denied in the common law and every year wit nesses the further removal of ancient disabilities. It is a matter for state rather than federal action. The passage of such an amendment would deprive women of whatever privileges they now have over men. For instance, in Oregon, jury duty would be compulsory instead of option al. The legislation protecting the working conditions of women and their hours of labor, night work, etc., would be vitiated, and as such discriminatory laws would be impos sible in the future, the women worker would be brought to her former position of exploitation. Another sot of laws that the passage of this amendment would invalidate would be those providing penalties for wife desertion or failure to support. Moreover women would no longer be exempt from liability to arrest for vagrancy, or from exempMon from arrest on civil process in damage suits. Many other instances could be cited wherein women would be penalized by losing the protection of certain laws that help equalize her sex handicaps in life's struggle. In no one way could women lose more than by being forced to wear this mask of equality. Santa's Team Snnta CUii's and his reindeer attracted as much attention In Salem from the grown-ups as from the kiddies, but "the reindeer proved the most interesting, as it was the first time the legendary steeds had ever been glimpsed here in daylight. The reindeer is not a creature of beauty, but makes up in usefulness what he lacks in grace, but his thick legs, squat body and long flat horns and general clumsl ness provide a picturesqueness of their own. The reindeer has ever been a friend of man, a source of food, clothes, shelter and weapons as well as a pack and draft , servant and a source of locomotion. He has been identified with man since the first, and still ranks as a chief resource In the lands ot his habitation. The reindeer are especially equipped to withstand cold, snow and ice. The flat horns, which adorn both sexes, are used as snow shovels to uncover the tundra moss that con stitutes the winter diet, while spreading hoofs make them equally at home in snow or swamp, nnd they are just as fond oi seaweed as of moss. The lower levels of the caves of southern Europe which contain the first traces of primitive man, prove that rein deer formed part of the diet of men of the old stone age, charred and split bones abounding. The reindeer had come south with the glaciers and retreated north with them in the inter-glacial and post-glacial epochs. Reindeer wore still abundant in Cro-Magnon times (about 25,000 B. C.) and herds of them as well as bison were etched and painted by the artists of the period on cave walls, as well as on the horns, used as weapons. Probably their hides were utilized for shelter Gradually the wild-horse and the red stag replaced the reindeer as the forests the tundra, but the kitchen middies of the Baltic show that they lingered aoout its borders until historic times. The reindeer Santa exhibited in Santa are descendants of those introduced in Alaska from northern Europe by the government. They have flourished and multiplied into great herds and furnish a food supply for the future. They differ lrom the native reindeer, called caribou, being smaller and easily domesticated. They migrate in great masses north in the fall, to regions where there is less snowfall, and south in the spring. Loves Greatest Gift By VIOLET DARE KVKRYTIIIXG HIT I,OVI3 As Mary dreaeed that evening for her dinner with Hamilton aha told herself that It waa almost un believeri ble that she could enro so little about dining with him, when only the Saturday before ah had been so delighted at the prospect. She could not help feeling angry at Stewart for the chnnge in the manner toward her. That feeling spurred her on to definnnce toward him. Well, ahe showed him that It didn't matter whether he liked him or not; aho had other friends; other men would tnke her out and give her a good time. A box of flowers tame for her Jturt am aho finished dressing, Ham ilton hid sent her a corsage bou quet of tiny yellow rosebuds, or ange and pora pom chrysanthem ums In tones of soft yellow and orange. She thought she never had ceen anything so lovely; she had often aeon such flowers In the win dows of the large florist shops, but had not dreamt of having them, over. "But doe what you want ai. waya come to you at last with a heartache ?' she asked herself, sad ly, as she pinned them on. j "You're Inrgy if it comes at all,' , hor aur.t told her: she had come I Just In time to overhear Mary's re mark, which the girl had made to' herself with no thought that any one else would hear her. 'I've slaved all my life and never got what I wanted," her aunt wont I always wanted pretty cloth-, and a good time, and a nice home of my own yes, and a big family. But you know how It's been with us; when Lulu waa born I waa staying at home with my folks; when you haven't any money and your husband ojes his job, that's the only thing to do. After ward It seemed as If I waa alwtiys going home to my folka while we wont to some other town and look ed for work. "I used to make excuses for him, of courae he's the beat husband in the world, but he Just can't seem to make money. Sometimes it was aa If he was hoodooed, the way he'd get work, and then the com pany would have a strike or fail or something. 'Wo couldn't raise a big family. couldn't feed and clothe a lot of children, and anyway, I had to work so hard and Lulu was so sick ly that I was glad wo didn't Ua ve any more. It's all right to marry for love, Mary, but It's just as well to see to it that there's enough money as welt na lovo tlue days. If I'd marred a little differontly " Mary wondered, as her aunt broke off- and ran to answer the tele. phone, if all women thought that they might have married well fi nancially, If a ghostly millionaire always loomed In tho background of every woman's life, as the grew older and accepted her fate. 'it's somebody 'phoning for Mr. Hamilton, to any that he's sending a cur for you," her aunt announced rushing back. "Honestly, Mary, I novor know a man to be so atten tive as ho 1h and he's known you such a little bit of awhile, too! Do you suppose of course, you can't tell much, so soon, but well. don't you think maybe he's fallen in love with you? Hilda thinks so." 'Oh no! Why, I barely know him!" Mary protested. And yot ; tho way he'd talked to her, the, look in his eyes, the things he'd tried to say, that she had averted; did they mean? Ho was a man of tho world a man who went straight I after anything he wuntod and got It. Perhaps, then, he'd meant the things he juiid, about liking her so well. She hadn't dared jtnke them for more than mere conver sation. Married to Pat Hamilton- her thoughts swung Into that channel in a stronger tide than ever before Auntie was right, of course, about being poor though with the right man It wouldn't maUer so much. And for her that right man would be so different from Uncle! ; As she drove through the crowd ed, cluttered, noby streets la the car that Hamilton had sent for her who saw other girls like herself hur ryng to catch elevated trains and street cars, standing, waiting on corners till they could get across, running to sheltering doorways when a sudden gust of rain blew up from tho lake. And here she oat lu comfort, being carried along with no effort on her part. After all, money did make a difference! "Let's have dinner at tho Albe marle," suggested Hamilton, when he had greeted her, taking both her hands In his. "We can be more comfortable there than we can here." Through the rain again, In the big closed car that purred Its way so tjuickly and quietly through the streets, out to the restaurant whose windows overlooked the rain swept lake. "Ever been abroad?" Hamilton asked, as Mary's eyes came back to him after that first, long look over the water. She shook her head, with a rue ful little smile. How did he sup pose she could go abroad? ' "Well, you ought to go. Lord, I'd like to show you Par is -.-and the Italian lakes and Home and Vienna and London. Let's go shall we?" There was laughter In his eyes, but It. faded Into ser iousness as ho looked at her. "J'd love to see Europe," Mary told him, dreamily. "I've always wanted to." 1 "All right let's sail, let's see shall we say a week from Batur day? You could do your shopping In New York, just enough to last till you get to Paris and buy more clothes there. Then we'd get a car and drive down through the chateau country, and on to the Mediterranean Coast and over the most beautiful road in the world Into Italy." And Mary wondered. Wondered what he meant, if Indeed he dl(J mean anything. A honeymoon abroad how marvelous It would be! No more hard work In an of fice, from nine tilt five every day, with just a hurried hour at noon nnd saving to buy clothes that weren't what she wanted. No more riding on noisy cars, shivering from from too much heat, breathing stale air, stepped on and crowded into corners by other passengers alt herded In together like cattle. And what a lot she could do for her aunt, and uncle, and Lulu what lovely things she could bring them when she came home. Hilda and her baby she could bring Jun lor such cunning little suits, Uko the English ones you saw In mag azines. She could "Like me, child?" Hamilton's voice cut through across her dreams. "Oh, I " His hand was stretch ed out to her across the table. She laid hers in It for an instant. "Yes, of course I do!" Offer. Salem Kiddies Must Be Good If They Get Presents Asked For fOnntlnuea vwmi Patre One.) too," he said. "Being away from home I can't keep in touch with everybody the way I used to. Most of them tell mo about it In their letters, though." Snntn aid before leaving here that the reception he received In Salem waa the moat enthusiastic ho bad been given at any point where to stopped. "They were more interested here than they were in Portland," he said. "Clod bless tho Utile folks. They crowd ed all around me; there waa no keeping them back. I they asked me once they asked me 100 times, the names of my reindeer. One youngster held my hand and held it and just wouldn't lot go." The special reception in his honor was held at the court house squure yes terday in spite ot the ruin. Only two ot Snuta Clans' six reindeer were brought to Salein by him yesterday. He lett his team of leaders. Dundcr and UlUzen, and bis rear team, Dasher and Vixen, in Portland, coming to Sa lem behind the middle team, Dan cer and Prancer. "I would have brought Dasher and Vixen," he said, "but Dasher had a little sore spot on his back." Yesterday's trip Is to bo the oniy expedition away from Port land that Santa CI ana Is to make, he announced. "I had planned trips to Eugene and other places," he said, "but it's hard going on this pavement when my reindeer aro us 3d to snow, so I decided to come only to. Salem, the state capi tal." When asked why he uses rein deer for his trnusportntlon, Snutii explained tlint the reindeer is the very gent last creature in the world. A child is safe amonrc a herd of "wild" reindeer. "They can flglit it they want to, by standing on their hind legs and using tftielr front feet to strike twrnM. with," said Sail la, "but by disposi tion they aro very peaceable.' The reindeer bare one peculiarity which distinguishes them from overy other animal, there is a ten don In each front boot that snaps when it puts Its foot down. When the herds up north, among which Santa lets bfs animals run In tho summer time, are on the move it sounds Uko an electrical storm. The reindeer that Drought Santa to Salem yesterday were much smaller than many people expect ed them to be. "My teams are about the size of ordinary rein deer," be suid. "Most ot the ani mals averago between 250 and 350 pounds in weight." The horn that fell off one ot bis animals just beforo It arrived in Salem yesterday will begin to grow Im mediately, he says. Considerable concern wag shown over them by Salem youngsters as they crowded around the animals at a locul sura eg yesterday afternoon, feed ing them apples and generally making much of them. Santa ucd hie only now articles of clothing fur the first time on hlii vlist to thuj city. Being accus tomed to the snow, he usually wears a great red overcoat on bis trips, but he had made a great red -dicker, with hat to match, as soon as he decided to come to Oregon. He used them both for tho first time during yesterday's rain. NEWS BiilEFS London. The balck museum ot Scotland yard, where relics ot murders and other crimes are stored, hns received a surprise visit from the Prince of Wales. Warsaw Joliboche, a square In the new part of the city. Is to bo renamed for Woodrow Wilson. Twenty unmarried old ladles In Bayou tie, France, havo formed a uuion to combat tho high cost of living. Thirty-nine per cent of the wo men employed in laundries In Washington, D. 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