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1HE CAPITAL JOJJBffAL, SALEM, OREGON
'FRIDAY, DECEMBER-
The Capital
Journal
balcm, Oregon
An tndeDcndent Newspaper
Every evening except Sunday
Telephone 81; newa 82
GEORGE PUTNAM
Editor and Publisher
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otherwise credited in this pa
per and also local news pub-
mnert herein.
The World Peril
A subject even more important to the peace and security
of mankind, the restoration of industry and re-establishment
of commerce than disarmament, is the monetary system of
the world, the huge accumulations of useless gold in America,
the depreciation of the currencies of Europe and the chaos
prevailing in exchange. Yet nothing has been done by the
international conference now in session to solve this most
vital of all international problems.
The monetary system in use has broken down, and some
other system must be devised to meet the emergency or
universal bankruptcy will overwhelm the nations, industry
be paralyzed and commerce cease. Civilization itself will
collapse.
., ,
. The currencies of Europe are becoming so worthless that
they cannot much longer be used as a medium of exchange.
In Russia, the old unit, the rouble, formerly worth 51 cents,
has a value so small that old denominations have passed out
of use and 10,000, 50,000, and 100,000 rouble notes have
become the common change in use; the Austrian crown,
formerly 20 cents, is now worth three-hundredths of a cent;
the crown of Jugo-Slavia is worth .36 of a cent, the Hungar
ian crown one-tenth of a cent, and the lei of Rumania worth
.76 of a cent. In Germany the mark, nominally worth 23.82
cents, has dropped to 35 hundreds of a cent. In Poland, the
mark is worth but three hundreds of a cent.
The increase in the volume of paper currency and its
depreciation have reacted upon each other, causing a general
advance in prices and cost of living and cost of government,
which have been met by issuing still more currency, which
Created Still further npnrwiarinn nnrl inflntinn anA nnntinn.
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Portland fair. The farmers In (his suuauiute inai uie existing currency continues 0
be used.
Open Forum
Contribution to This Column
.must be plainly written on one
skio of paper only, limited to
SOO words in length and signed
with the name of the writer.
Articles not meeting these spe
cifications will be rejected.
To the Editor: Pleasa lllow up.
section are very much opposed to
it as It takes all the surplus stuff
raised on the farm to pay taxee,
with just a scant left. Portland
gives us nothing it It a state con
cern. Put in on our utato fair
grounds and build them up.
hope you will come out with an
opposition as strong as possible,
and your farmer friend will be a
Bide partner.
MRS. A. L. COLLINS.
Gervaia, Or., Nov. 27.
To the Editor: A recent dis
cussion in your columns would
seem to call for a few words fur
ther. In an article some time ago
I justified the taking of children
from the home when the home did
not furnish the right surround
ings. This statement was criticised
editorially and by correspondence
In your columns.
We all agree that a good huroa
is the beat place on earth for chil
dren. I said a "weak sentimental
ity", demanded that children
should be left in the home of the
parents desired them, no matter
what the conditions In the borne
might be. It seems to me ibis Is
entirely wrong. In the first place,
children have rights. They have
a right to proper food, proper care
and proper , moral surrouudings.
Theae first few years of a life may
ruin the life physically, may tie
stroy the life morally, If condi
tions are not right. In the second
place, society has rights. Society
is under no obligation to let chil
dren grow up under conditions
which may mean that they will be
criminals or a burden upon so
cioty. The state institutions
around us here, which cost the
taxpayers so many hundred.) of
thousands of dollars, are In the
large majority of casei, the reaul!
of bad homes. It Is not inly the
privilege of society but the duty
of society to place children where
they will have the right kind of
care. If the home does not furnish
that care, then society has a right
to place the children In the best
circumstances that be found for
them.
It a judge and a ministerial as
sociation could be found apon
earth who would agree In taking
children from a good home, they
ought to have a special-tent in
Sella-Floto circus; they would
surely be the only ones of their
kind on earth!
B. 8. HAMMOND.
Salem, Or., Nov. 29.
J apaneselemiarSlain
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TABLOID SERMONS
For Busy People by
Parson Abiel Haile
QntovU" Ha-ra.
Takashl Hara, Premier of Japan,
who was stabbed to death In the
waiting room at the Central Rail
road station, Toklo, pf a Korean
boy, who was in hiding in the
third-class waiting room. His
murderer was arrested.
Japan's Envoys
Closely Guard
Press Reports
By Webster K. Nolan
Washington, Dee. 2. Japan
takes the press seriously. 1 Not
that other nations do not, but
Japan takes it so seriously that it
conduces to lack of sleep on the
part of the Japanese. . This has
Editor Journal: What does it
profit a nation to talk of economy
and peace and then pursue the op
poslte course? No doubt a bpecml
session of the state legislature wi
be called to consider two problems.
why not add a third problem, the
one by which all other public
problems are solved T It is not of
ten convenient for voters to leave
their place of business and wait
at a polling booth for an hour or
more to cast ab allot. I am a legal
Toter In precinct 18, Salem, Or
and I prefer sending our ballots
(my wtfe and I) to the county
clerk direct by mail rather than
by the way of voting booth In per
son. Hundreds of persons are con
veyed to their voting places be
cause of Infirmity. Candidates
and boosters are very liberal in
ato hire to get their supporters
to the polls, and by various means
there Is many a chance for a tip
between the home and the voting
slip. If I remember correctly
Grover Cleveland defended the
acredness ot the ballot more than
any other president. Under his
administration it was made a tine
able offense to offer to buy, or
ell, a vote. The succeeding ad
ministration modified this pro
vision to read: it Is a penal offense
to aell only. The like of New
terry have been born every day
since, and there wasn't hitching
room around the next federal elec
tlon court In Ohio for the election
law rlolators. Vote by mall, why
not? David H. Clark,
Route 3, Salem, Oregon.
The committee of the League of Nations has attempted
to grapple with the problem by planning a new central bank
with note issues based on gold reserve, but without the
cooperation of the United States the great creditor nation,
is of course helpless. Other plans have been proposed by
American hankers for a great international banking cor
poration with subsidiary national banks in the several
countries, which would issue notes on a gold reserve, which
would gradually shift business to the new basis. A change become apparent following a
to a goia basis irom an irredeemable paper currency would! study of the remarkable system
prevailing in the Japanese. Em
bassy here for the dissemination
of news. The Japanese' " are
usually credited with having con
ducted the most efficient- press
bureau at the Hotel Crftlon ' dur
ing the Paris conferenSe.' They
have Improved upon that system
for the handling of information
for the Washington conference,
The stress of this efficiency is
laid upon making news ' quickly
and easily, accessible,' not to . thi
American and other correspond
but to the Japanese correspond
ents, but to the Japanese cone
spondents. There are more than
a hundred special Japanese
newspaper men covering the
Washington parley.
Captain Namura, chief adviser
ot Japan, calls the little brown
faced Bcrlbes into conference sev
eral times a week to explain in
detail to them what the Hughes
proposals mean and what the
alms of Japan are. In this" way
the cables crossing the Pacific
hum with conference news, the
trend of which is guided . cauti
ously by the Japanese delegates
here. These correspondents" con
ferences are held in the basement
of the Embassy, where the quill
quiverers gather about kitchen
tables to listen to the dictum of
the chief advisers, sipping "saTce"
the while.
"Belshazzar the King made a great feast." Daniel 5-1.
There are many Belshazzars In the world today, and they give
great feasts. Babylonia flourishes throughout the land and appears
to go in hand with surtaxes and even those whose income tax is a
matter of social shame, like to pose as small-sized Belshazzars, and
give great feasts. Babylon of old and many ot our citics-some with
only a few thousand inhabitants present no real difference in pur
pose and method. Each sets up the god of gold, and the votaries sing
songs inspired by outlaw intoxicants. Recently the Saturday Even
ing Post in thinly veiled fiction gave a fair presentation of what
actually happens. Drunken men and women, drunken boys and girls
Imitating Babylon. The only real difference is that in the
consummation of their heathen and pagan rites, the Babylonians had
the courage of their convictions and concealed nothing. But Babylon
was punished. Daniel the man of God was a captive, as are His men
today. The king, the head of the blasphemous and drunken orgies
as told in the chapter from which we take our text, had a .vision:
The other self frightened him and he knew there was trouble. Ordi
nary sycophants failed him, and he sent for Daniel. The king learned
the truth and learned that while he has been frittering away his.
time and his opportunities, he had been tried and convicted, and the
ueath sentence had been passed. His fate overtakes Babylonians to
day. He flouted the Eternal and was punished. Everyone wno
flouts the Eternal is crushed: some live to repent, while others are
snuffed out as a candle. Presently, men ot medical and surgical
renown are seeking ways to combat maladies that attend the feasters.
And with one accord the men ot science name as a first requisite for
health and serenity, the simple life, clean and , wholesome. It Is
obvious, then, there is but one way to avert the fate of Belshazzar
the king: live soberly, simply, and sanely. -
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Gloria's Character
probably be welcomed by all.
There is no question but that many nations of Europe
are drifting into bankruptcy and concerning this probability,
H. G. Wells, in one of his recent articles in the New York
World in which declares that debt is the great world peril,
says:
But we have not yet extended the Bame leniency to national bank
ruptcy as to Individual debtors because national insolvencies have
Deen rare. And so we have whole nations in Europe bo loaded with
aems ana punitive charges that every worker, every business man
will be under his share in this burden from the cradle to the crave
He will be a debt serf to the domestic or foreign creditor and all his
enterprises will be weighed and discouraged by this obligation.
Debt Is one immense and universal discouragement now throughout
all Europe. There is yet another and orofounder evil in
operation to prevent people "getting to work" to reconstruct their
snatterea economic life. That is the increasing failure ot money to
do its work. Europe cannot get to work, cannot get things going
again, because over a large part of the world the medium of exchange
has become untrustworthy and unusable. That is the immediate
thing that Is destroying civilization In the Old World.
Europe without trustworthy money is as paralyzed as a brain
without wholesome blood. She cannot act, she cannot move. Em
ployment becomes impossible and production dies away. The towns
move steadily toward the starvation that has overtaken Petersburg
and the peasants and cultivators cease to grow anything except to
satisfy their own needs. To go to market with produce, except to
barter, is a mockery. The schools are not working, the hospitals,
the public services; the teachers and doctors and officials cannot
live upon their pay, they starve or go away.
It is only now that we are beginning to realize the enormity of
the disaster which this demoralization of money Is bringing upon
the world. I mean the smashing of this social order in
which we live, through the smashing of money, which has already
occurred to a large extent in Russia, which Is going on in many
parts of Eastern Europe, which seems likely to occur within a few
months In Germany, which may spread Into Italy and France, and
so to Britain, and even to the American continent, and which can
only be arrested by the most vigorous collective action to restore
validity to money.
"But it all was like fairyland
tonight, Gloria. Just like fairy
land. I didn't know that the life
of a moving picture actress was
like this."
"It isn't, my dear, it isn't. Be
ing a moving picture actress
means work from morning until
night and then, after you have
perhaps gotten a little bit ahead,
you're thrown back upon the
heap again. And then you worry
and work and wait until you get
another little part. Sometimes I
don't think it is worth all the
trouble. I get very discouraged
and so will you. There will be no
I fairyland in the geography of
your mind then. In fact, at times
all the world that lies there will
be a howling wilderness. Let's not
talk any more though. It Is two
o'clock and we have to be up early streaked my face and then laugh
ior tomorrow win ue anotner
day."
Gloria's face seemed drawn, and
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complexion of saffron tint." With
that she hurried me to her dress
ing room and seated me In the one
chair it contained, Then she un
ceremoniously left me and return
ing with another chair she seated
herself before the glass beside me.
"Here, Virgie. Use a little of
this all over your face and neck."
And she thrust into my hand a
large jar of cold cream.
"Don't take too much of it," she
said as I dipped my fingers in for
a generous portion. "You want
only enough to fill the pores of
your skin and to make your grease
paint go on easier."
After I had rubbed this in care
fully, she gave me a stick of pale
yellow grease-paint and I turned
to see Ria streaking her forehead
and her cheeks with another stick
of the same tint. Hurriedly I
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The betrothal of Princes Mary, only daughter of King George and
Queen Mary of England, to Viscount Laecelles has been officially
announced In London. Viscount Lascelles Is the oldest son of the
Earl of Harewood. He Is thirty-five years old and won distinction
lu the World War, being wounded three times and winning the Bri
tish Distinguished Service Order and the French Croix de Cuerre
rrincess Mary was twenty-four years old last April. It was learned
There are S3 active boys' and
girU' clubs la Linn county with a
tn': niAmhArfihf n nt Th it.
value of their club work this from clos8 Meni ot the couple that the wedding would take place
f .-. - is SJ0.SS. aome time between ChriaUnas and the besinning of the Lenten sessoa.
Southern Polk
Storm Damage
Net Extensive
Monmouth, Or., Dec. 2. Slight
damage was done by the storm in
south Polk county in spite of the
flooding of considerable areas of
land at various points along the
Luckiamute, which rose higher
than it has been for several years.
Some concern was felt for the
large fill at the south approacp
tojhe Luckiamute bridge four
mils south of this city on the
highway. Investigation after the
water receded Indicated that re
ports of heavy damage being done
at this point were unfounded and
that aside from washing away a
little dirt and a few planks at the
aproach to the bridge no Injury
was done.
The highway between this city
and the Luckiamute is gravelled,
and teams are constantly at work
tilling in gaps made byj theWgh
water in order to keep the road
in good condition for travel at all
time. The rainy season began be
fore, the grading on the Luckia
mute hill was completed or the
road beyond the river graded.and
through traffic is routed south of
Independence over the hill road,
which is In passable condition.
The high water has caused
much inconvenience to the farmers
la the vicinity of Louisville. I Re
ports from that section Indicate
there Is still much ground under
water and that the Burns Mill
crossing of the Luckiamute on the
Kings Valley-Yaqulna road is im
passable. The farmers report that many
sloughs have overflowed, forming
new channels and causing some
local damage.
Fifteen carloads of dairy cattle
haye been shipped since September
from Linn county to ranchers In
eastern Oregon and Washington.
long after I had gotten into my
bed I heard her tossing and sigh
ing in hers.
I did not blame her very mnch
for being so much in love with
Herbert Richardson, for he cer
tainly was one of the most fascin
ating of men and I was quite sure
that he was very fond of Ria.
However it was a battle to the
utmost.. Gloria was determined
that he should give up his wild
life and become something worthy
of his splendid intellect and attainments.
"Hurry up, Virginia," were the
words which awakened me from
sound sleep. I jumped out of
bed and found that Ria had the
coffee made and was toasting
bread.
There was just one dish of
your favorite fruit left," she said
"so I saved it for you."
" r looked at the ripe, figs long
Ingly and then Aunt Virginia's
precepts came to me. -
- uflv-aon t give-tnem to me.
Don't you-like them?
-"Yes but -you know they are
not so new to me as they are to
you." - ;
. "Let s divide them, dear," and
I industriously began to put half
of them Into another dish for her.
That little incident of the figs
was an illustration of the unsel
fishness of Ria. In all the time
we were together she was never
anything but the most generous
of friends.
Under the slangy surface which
she put on at will, she was true
blue.
I have-many times heard that
no woman can be a real friend to
another woman but I have come to
the conclusion that there are quite
as many Damons and Phythiases
among women as there are among
men.
When we reached the "lot" that
morning I found that it was a
great space enclosed with a high
board fence. In it were weird
pieces of architecture, great barn
like structures which- were called
stages. In them they can build,
exteriors and interiors of ancient
and modern houses, throne rooms
and peasant cottages, pirate ships
and desert places. Each one of
these was called a "set."
I looked around with great cur
iosity but Ria would not let me
loiter a minute.
"Hurry," she commanded, Mor
you will be late."
Just then I caught sight of the'
queerest looking man. He was1
dressed in clerical costume but his'
stirt collar and shirt were brilliant
yellow and his face was about the
same shade.
"Oh, come on, Virgie! Tou can
look at that when you get on the
set. Yon will have more time.' t
"But why yeUow, Ria?" j
Gloria laughed. "Oh. I have
seen that so much that I forgot
that you did not know. The things:
that you want to be white when
jed for I looked like an Indian in
war paint.
"Hurry up. We have no time
to lose," Ria urged as she rubbed
the tinted grease in carefully.
I did the same. "Is this right?"
I asked.
"Not at all, Virgie. Look at the
spots you have left. Remember
every spot shows itself to the cam
era." "Gloria! Gloria!" came a voice.
. "Good Lord," she exclaimeU
"Now what do you suppose Tom
my Warner wants ot me?" and
hastily getting into a kimona she
rushed out.
Tomorrow On the Lot.
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Compare Jlavor atkmspmi
KELLOGGS jf
Takes the rough edges off hopping out of the cow j
these snappy mornings just thinking about thatWH
bowl of Kellogg's Corn Flakes waiting down-stum ;
Big and brown and crlspy-crunchy flakes-a meliM
in appetizing flavor, wonderful in wholesome goodies t
the most delicious cereal you ever tasted! j
Instantly you like Kellogg's, not only because of 9 1
pealing flavor, but because Kellogg's are not "leathery
Kellogg's are a delight to eat, as the little folks u f i
as the big ones will tell youl And Kellogg's otigi' 8 j
-be best they're the original Corn Flakes! Yon tin f
only to make comparison i
that quickly!
' KELLOGG'S Corn Flakei ife
' tomorrow morning's spreadl W j
get the day started right! Wj
upon KELLOGG'S Com W -the
RED and GREEN paclojt-i
the kindvthat are not leathery! j
TOASTED
CORN
FLAKES
Fred Tschauner, Brownsville, shown on the screen must be of a
farmer, reports a yield , of 400 'yellow tint to itet the full ton-
nushels of corn this season from value."
four acre o( ground. - r . "Come on, I must -make your
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LAST CALL To Get
PANTS FREE
Jot look at a tmioa or
Jfo-Plece suit of B. A.
Underwear.
Feci tha fabric -i
Test the
Kxamine the line the
fuLP. "re
fill workmanship.
Then you wffl KNOW
why R. A. Underwear ior
women and children wears
longer, is more comfort
able and fits better.
Two or three seasons'
wear with proper care and
yet the price is reaaoaabla.
Medium and heary weight.
Unions and separate gar
ments for women and chil
dren. . .
J. C ROULETTE 4k SONS
HACEMSTOWN. atD.
rifling.
Scotch Woolen
Th s sale wa
ly close at time Sl
Only a few nw
left to avail y ;
this opportunity-
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