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THE CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON
WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1025
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I sketch your world exactly as it goes." -byron.
Teachers Enter Politics
Thri Orpimn Teacher's 'association has formally entered
the political arena by deciding at its state convention to
sponsor an initiative state income tax uiu 10 oe pwcirn un
the ballot next November, 50 percent of the derived reve
ntifia tn ho nsnl fnr school nurmises. The diversion of 50 per
cent of the inheritance tax receipts to the school fund is also
recommended. The teachers propose to unite forces with
the grange, and other semi-political organizations to put
across their program.
'The taxpayers will be asked to ratify these proposals
upon the theory that the extra funds realized will enable
a reduction in the property tax but sad experience shows
that the extra revenues derived from increased taxation are
alwavs remiired bv tax-eaters for increased expenditures
Having reached the limit of taxation of property without
confiscation, new sources of revenue are sought rather than
reduction in expenditures. ,
Evidently there is to be no limit to the financial demands
of the school machine. In 1925, some 42 percent of all the
taxes paid in Oregon went for education and the school reve
nue is so great that it keeps educators busy in devising' new
frills and furbelows on which the money can be spent.
' Education cost the taxpayers $17,484,194 last year, of
tvhich $15,010,433 was for schools, high and grade, an in
irease of $1,288,156 or 8.9 percent over the previous year,
The higher educational institutions cost $2,473,701.
According to the report of the teachers tax committee,
issessed valuation in Oregon has increased 250 percent in 20
pears, school population has increased from 108,000 to
175,000, or G2 percent, while school costs have increased 900
percent in the same period. And ihe pity of it all is, that
the pupils are not as well grounded in essentials as they
were when school costs were only a fraction of what they
are today. Evidently the more we pay for education, the less
we receive.
This astonishing increase in school expenditures has been
made possible because the public school is a sort of fetisch
with Ihq people and whatever has been demanded, has been
generously granted without question, for everyone desired
to aid the coming generation and anyone who opposed the
freak curricula has been roundly denounced as unpatriotic.
Upon similar grounds, the public will be importuned to soak
the business man a second time to provide more money for
the school machine to spend.
The teachers association follows the best traditions of up-
lifters. Its initial move is to raise assessments on the many
to be spent by the few, in securing increased public appro
priations, so as to "establish proper machinery" in the form
of a paid secretary, propaganda distributors and organizers
of the campaign. Only one important item was neglected
having appropriated Governor Pierce's platform, it failed
to endorse his candidacy for reelection but that will come
later, the politicians manipulating the teachers will see to
that.
Watch the mob spirit, or commun
ity spirit as It is called over here.
It you want to know a real Am
erican small town read Main Street
It Is an amazing photograph.
Babbitt gives you the next size,
fom the life. England taught us
hypocrisy, but you are babies to
uh now in that art. Don't let the
old hens who go over there from
here to preach Prohibition lie you
out of your personal freedom.
Mr. Norman Angelt is all right,
but when he talks of the new or
bunk America he la all wrong. If
you doubt this watch our paperw
for riuts, rapes, murders, police
and governmental, outrages, and
beatings up of citizens. I lutuvo be
longed to commercial, luncheon, ad
vertising and other clubs. I have
lived In town of one, five, ten, twen
ty-five, fifty, two-hundred thou
sand, and cities of one to six mil
lions. I know my country and '.
know It ha learned to hate-Its
neighbours (I mean one citizen
hates another citizen) because of
religion, thought and class. I know
that It Is unbelievably intimidated
by mob spirit, that it la Incredibly
hen-pecked by the repulsive old
termagants who hound the politic
ians, that it daily become more cor
rupt, that the consumption of
booze goes on, only now In the
homes and among the young, and
that the very word "liberty" uttor-
ed aloud makes people stare o
you. .1 am, Sir, &c.,
CHAS. E. U'KST.
120 Eaat Broadway, Long
Uoach, California.
Washington Official farm sta
tistics as to Manhattan island:
farmers, C: livestock, 2 mules,
oight horses, 17 cows; acreage 72,
mostly potatoes.
Home Edna Mussolini, 15 year
old daughter of the premier, has
a Carneglo medal. The award
was mnde fnr snvlnp tha Ufa nf
another girl swimmer during a
storm.
SHAKESPEARE UP-TO-DATE TELLS
MOTORISTS' TERRIBLE TOLL
SEVEN AGES OF AUTO ACCIDENTS
Per cert of total accidents fa each age-group due to auto
I -fcS? I rSS I I I "feat
Wet Lands For Drys
Prominent prohibitionists are being flooded with boom
propaganda from Florida entreating them to invest "where
it is June all the year around" and become millionaires. It
is evident that contributors to the cause of Volsteadism are
being utilized as a sucker list, a premise confirmed by the
following from "Pitts, Inc." booming a waterfront and under
water section:
You romomlior W. Q. Caldorwood, famous Prolilbltlon londor In
Mlnnosula (forniarly Motional 1'rohlbltlon Vlco-Clialnnun). You ro
mcinuor me, C. Ii. PlttH, loriuorly Now York Stnto Prohibition Cuiiii
nuin (later, National JleiHlqnarlora Sccrotnry). You -reuionibor tho
way both at us used to UUIVU THRU TO SUCCESS the tasks we un
dertook. Wol! here, as associates In Indian Oroves, we are pro
pared to 3o that energy for you.
It you think ot Investing (COMIC, whethor you Intend to Invest
or not), WHITE US. Thero Is no end ot money to bo lundo hero In
acreage, blocks, lots, farms and w.Hcr-fronls as prices aro stoatltly
and substantially advancing. COMB! SHK!! Then use your Judg
ment. Hut, it unable to come, but deslro a share ot certain profits,
WHITE US we will bo happy to sorvo you. Without obligation upon
your part, let us show you how wo can, together, make some tiiif.
It is evident that the occupation of living in clover off
other peoples' contributions is too much of a snap to give up,
so the erstwhile prohi lenders continue the system under a
new guise, merely promising a material reward instead of n
spiritual one. And it is significant that they chose as the scene
of their operations, the one state in the union where no at
tempt is made to enforce prohibition.
However the suckers who financed the Anti-Saloon
League will get more for their money, even if they onlv se
cure a submerged lot in an everglade swamp in Florida 'than
they got for their contributions to the dry cause
The New America
(I-'rinn the London Spectator) .
To tho Eililor: I have Jut read
Mr. Norman Angell's article, I
write because I lino Knglnnd, hav
ing been there, nnd wIhIi to warn
the British ngainst tho New Amor
lean or 1'nbbitt movement In the
United Suite. I wna born forty
funr yi '8 ago In Virginia City,
IVevT in, of native American par
Mitri, an I should know the Went.
I h.iVT traveled a quarter of a mil
lion miles tn four nations, so I
should be able to make Compar
isons, Mr. An sell toll of the Improve
ments effected by tho collective ef
forts of tho Halibuts In the West
I have lived at the Statlcr hotel
which not only do not remember
the guests' names, but aro far lew
courteous and friendly than Lon
don lintels. I have ecn tho old
rough West he sneers nt prim Ihe
"West where every man rose In
street cars to give women seats,
the wide, open, gambling, drink
ing West where thero was not Ihe
one rape case a day that takes
place in California today, nor the
dope, the snenk-thlrvos, the shop
lifters now flourishing In Incred
ible numbers. The old West wns
rough but Immensely better than
the new bunch of sanctimonious
hypocrites nnil Jlible-lotlng graft
ers that hnvo succeeded.
Beware of the new American
gang spirit that is. making this na
tion the storm-center of Interne-j
cine hate. In America, today, there
is vastly low politeness, courtesy
und common decency than ten
years ago. Wo aro Infested by pit
iful asses posing In the Ilmclicrht
of a bunk uplift. Dozens of clubs
aro spreading bunk that fools no
oouy, not oven themselves. We
have clean-up weeks, shut-down
weeks, dry-up weeks, love-othor
kinds ot weeks that nobody pays
any nttontlon to except the offic
ious busybodles that sponsor them
for tho cheap advertising that they
bring. For Instance, we have lust
had fire-proventlon week by the
wrc-insur.wice companies. We shall
next probably have the fill-your-teeth
week by the dentists, etc., etc.
Never was a people so disgusted
with this stuff and tho meddling
of an officious and puritanical gove
eminent In personal habits as the
American people are today. They
are sick, soro and disgusted from
Atlantic to I'unclflc Individuality Is
a challenge, frank speech a crime,
minority opinion nn outrage to be
beaten down with bludgeons under
Ihe eyes of the officers of the Jaw
in America today. Watch contem
porary history In America with Its
Tunnesneo trials, its Government
agents breaking In tho doors of
private nnd Innocent homo with
out warrant and In defiance of the
Inw, arrests without charge nnd
jailing without ball or trial; the
railroading of Innocent men from
communities. Look out England!
S II AKKSPK AUK'S seven nccs of mankind mude no reference to the
number who were cat off in their prime by automobiles. If he had,
suggests the Stewnrt-Wnrner Safety Council, It might have run somr
thing like Uils parody on his famous lines:
At first the in rant, "
Killed by a truck while In his nurse's arms.
And then the careless schoolboy with his marbles,
Playing In the streets after his lessons
Are over. And then the lover,
Absent-minded, walking with a box of candy
Under his arm, to see his loved one.
Is struck by a taxi and hurtled to the ground.
Next comes the gay young blood
Out for his evening's entertainment, whom
Sixty utiles an hour lands forty years too soon
Upon a slab in some unfriendly morgue.
And then the banker, full of worldly pride and honors,
Jay-walks across the street between two mighty deals of finance,
And wakes to And Saint Peter quizzing hlra.
Next, the family man, with years upon him.
Confused und jostled in tho crowd,
Missteps, and dies amid thanksgiving
That his last premium was paid up.
And last, hoary age, tottering nnd feeble,
Perhaps with crutch, or eye too dimmed with time.
An easy victim for somo selfish motorist,
Sans enre, sans thought, sans skill, sans everything but speed.
Love's Greatest Gift
By VIOLET DARE
FACING DEATH
Mary was happy again as she
walked along that country road
with Crandoll, with his flashlight
casting just enough light before
them so that they could see their
way, although the darkness closed
in around them tightly.
"I'm afraid Ita going to rain,"
Will told her. "The-air feels like It
Mary,, I've let you In for a lot of
discomfort I'm awfully sorry."
"But I'm not at all uncomfort
able; I don't m'ind this a bit," Mary
assured him happily. She smiled
to herself over his calling her by
her first name; she liked that. She
realized that he hadn't even known
that he was doing It.
"Well you're the best sport 'of
any girl I know that's all I have
to au." he announced. "Come on,
let'p sing."
He began to sing, In a husky,
rattier pleasing voice, that was not
very strong, but that Mary liked
better than any othGr voice she
ever heard. He sang old Bongs,
"Mother, Machreo" and "In the
Gloaming;" "Drink to Me Only
With Thine Eyes," and "My Old
Kentucky Home." and progressed
to "Dawning" and 'I Love. You."
Mary, marching valiantly along
by his side, loved hearing him sing
It made It much easier to walk
even when the sharp stones cut
through her shoes, and she turned
her ankle a little when she stepped
into a deep rut. She was too hap
py to mind such annoyances.
It did begin to rain, lightly at
first, when suddenly with such vio
lence that they took refuge under
a tree. The big drops pattered on
the leaves above their heads, and
the damp air was sweet with the
warmth oi the earth.
"Are you afraid of lightning?"
Will asked, as a streak of it shot
across the sky.
"Well I I "
Suddenly a ball of fire seemed
to roll straight at them, across the
road. Mary screamed and burton
her face on Will's shoulder. Ills
arms held her tight. Thero was a
clap of thunder that seemed to
strike them, though It waa only
nolae.
Mary opened her eyes a moment
later. She was trembling so that
she could hardly stand; If Will'.
arms had not held her up she
would have fallen to tho ground.
"It's all right, dear don't be
frightened." he told her. "That
was a scare, all right, but It's all
right now. The lightning struck
that tree over there Just nicely
missed us. Now, brace up that's
the girl."
"Oh. I'm sorry I was so fool
ish, but I couldn't hety it," Mary
told him. pushing her hair back
from her face with both hands and
leaning against the trunk of the
tree Instead of ngainst him. "I just
didn't realize I was frightened "
"Of course you didn't. That was
enough to scare anybody. I'm glad
you came along with me Instead
of slaying there in the car. I need
your company. Looks as if the
storm would let up a bit now, and
then we can start on once more."
It was an hour later when they
came to a garage, just after they
turned into the main road. A man
there took them back to Will's car,
filled the lank, and told them
where to strike a road that would
cut off several miles.
Will drove fast, but it was lung
after midnight when he stopped
Iho cur in front of tho house where-
Mary roomod,
"I can't tell you how sorry I am
that I made such a mess of things
he told her. "I dhould have had a
re.urvo can of gas in the back of
tho car; usually I do. Please go
out with mo again, and let mo
prove to you that I do not know
how to manage such tilings."
"Jiut I had a beautiful time,"
Mary told him. "Truly I did. And
I didn't mind walking a bit."
"Kulncd your shoes, though,"
ho remarked, glancing down at
them.
llo shook hands with her, when
the landlady had come grumpily
downstairs to open tho front door.
Miiry did not daro meet his eyes.
Hho had suddenly remembered
that moment who nit had seemed
that they wero going to bo struck
by tho bolt of lightning, and some
thing told her that ho was remem-ln-iing
it too. She shook hands
hastily and hurried into the house.
"There was a man hcer asking
for you," tho landlady told her.
"He seemed awful anxious to see
you. Had a' lot of flowers with
him they'ro In your room. Said
he'd come to sco you tomorrow,
hut if you got in before one o'clock
would you call him up; he left tho
'phone number on a pieco of pa
per." . t
"Oh, what was his name? asked
Alary.
"I tfon't remember," the land
lady answered grouchily. "How can
a person think of strangers' names
when they're woko up in tho mid
dle of the night to come to tho
door?"
She went oft down tho hall to
her own room, and Mary ran up
tho stairs. It .must have been' Pat
Hamilton, she told herself.
London. Eng. Most of the so
ciety brides aro wearing vaWet
rcowns at their weddings and go
ing to tlaly for honeymoons.
DUMB DORA
By Chick Young
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