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THE CIVILIZING LIE
Someone has said that "a lie is the
weak." This may he true in some cases,
food manv lies that are not told by the
who being handed a vei-y small cold lot of remnants from
the family breakfast table by the lady of the house, who
as the wanderer bravely tackled the handout inquired,
"if there was enough and if it was good;" when he, with
time Chesterfieldian politeness replied: "Madam, it is
good enough what there is of it and there is enough
of it such as it is."
This is a rather long dissertation on the subject of
lies, but the legislature is in session and we would like to
do what we Can to make their stay pleasant and not have
their labors criticized too closely.
OPEN FORUM
A WAR REMEDY
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University Notes
BANDIT TO US, HERO TO THEM
According to the latest Washington statements the
National Guard will be on its way home from the Mex
ican border by March first, and many of its units prob
ably within two weeks. General Pershing and his troops
are to be withdrawn and Carranza and his multitudious"
rebels will be allowed to scrap it out at their leisure. If
they have sense enough among them, not to interfere
defense of the
but there are a
weak or in de-lwith any foreigners or their property, they will be al-
fense of anything. Some other wise old guy who evident- j lowed to ngnt it out in a six aay go-as-you-piase, ana tne
ly spoke from experience laid it down as an axiom that! devil take the hindmost. Otherwise it looks as though,
"children and fools tell the truth." It would seem from the Mexican de facto government having been given its
this that the natural instinct 01 a human family is to
speak the truth. This may well be doubted. Children are
perhaps not naturally just liars, but they are romancers
way as to having a free hand, with no Americans on
Mexican soil, wTould have to make good and see that life
and property are protected or intervention must follow
As their minds develop and take in the great mystery of .There is a chance though that Villa, once the Americans
the world, they have visions that makes them just little : leave, will whip his Carranza friends to a finish in short
novelists Their busy little brains get to working with i oraer, as ne seems to oe in netier enape now tnan at any
rk otepvincr wwM not in wnrkine order and thev have time during his career. He seems to have plenty of am-
adventures', real to them, yet still happening only within munition and to be able to get all he wants, and he also
their own little brain cells. So that the natural instinct
while not being to lie is to invade the field of dreams, and
visions. It is the realm of untruth that is most delightful.
Civilization is the father of lies, however much that
c redit may be given to another nameless gentleman.
True, most of the lies made apparently a necessity by
social relations, are of the innocent and harmless kind,
but the world would become uninhabitable if all of us told
the truth all the time. Mrs. A. for instance calls on
Mrs. B. As the latter sees her coming she probably re
marks: "Oh dear, there comes Mrs. B. just when I am
getting ready to go down town, and I just know she will
stay for hours, and spoil my afternoon." This is what
she tells herself. What she says to Mrs. B. is different.
take oft your wraps and spend
has a larger following than before his wounding. It has
been shown that Carranza troops when given the oppor
tunity to fight him either dodged or deserted, and joined
him. From the American viewpoint Villa is simply a
bandit, and a rather malicious and cruel one, but the
Mexicans, especially the peons look-upon him as a deliv
erer. He has made good with this class, because he un
derstands it, being of it, and treats it kindly. He pro
vides food and to the peons at least he keeps his promise.
To really civilized people he is pretty poor material
for a hero, but he seems to fill the Mexican idea of that
personage. It may be that after all he will be the man to
solve the Mexican situation and bring order out of the
chaos now existing south of the border.
QViu 10 "en orljul il( Ciimii'
the afternoon. I was just thinking of you and wishing The East is having another real cold spell with snow,
vou would come, and now 1 have my wish." It is a lie of : heavy winds and shortage of fuel. Here in Oregon the
course, but what could the poor woman do? If she said mercury registers a degree or two below freezing point
to her what she said to herself, there would be a breaking at night and several degrees above during the day. It is
off of speaking when they passed by, and the result would j beautiful, clear, crisp weather that makes one's blood
fv fvnrVi f Vint" tViPVP vvrmlri he nn nnp circulate better and one's step Quicker, that is all. Be-
sneaking 'to each other. The whole world would be at sides there "is wood to burn.
each other's throats if half of it spoke the truth on such
The potato corner alleged to be corralling the crop of
the Northwest has evidently succeeded, as prices Satur
day took a sudden jump without apparent cause. This
indicates that most of the crop is now out of the hands of
the growers. Otherwise the increased pce would not
occasions.
The man who to please his wife goes out to spend the-j
( veiling when he had arranged tor something else, and
who for instance has a shoe and a corn that are not work-inn-
in harmony, after several hours spent in suffering
the tortures of 'the damned, smiles like a gentleman as he j have materialized.
tells his hostess what a delightful evening he has had and
lies like a hero. What else can a poor man do? Without Grain dealeis are already gambling
the polite lie cheerfully told the world would he in a state j wheat crop
of chaos, society would cease to exist, and a mans or
woman's most bitterest enemies would be those with
whom he or she came most often in contact. Wherefore
it is conceded that "it is better to lie a little than to be
unhappv much."
If you don't believe it start down town some morning
with the determination to tell the truth and he whole
mo nn overv occasion during the day. It is a safe bet
on the coming
It is claimed many sales of the coming wheat
crop have been made at a price of $1.10 per bushel at
Pendleton.
save a sub-
If filial inns of the Oregon state
:. will be the only solon at
traition fur Willamette student this
'year. Although tradition of many
yearn standing in anattered by the tie-
Roehester, X. Y., .Ian. 1, Iftl 7 . eisiou of the Wehsterian society mem
Editor Salem Capital Journal: ktt.f I mora legislature will convene
the war what.' Moat likelv a defensive on VY "inpna at this aHh biennial as
, . ,, . isemhlage of the lawmakers. It had
alliance for all the huropean Mates w,ll , ,,e for tm. mvml),. .
he the outcome of thin last great war: reaper ive men 'a societies to lay aside
among them. A eertnin arction of ; party lines and form a legislature idea
these warring nations who trusted ta!"1 nature wi,h h "f ,h' s,nt
. j that due consideration ot legislature
the power ol might t inquer ami ,. , - .. ,
1 " procetlure might profit the members.
rule all the world, aa. well as the re-1 Considerable nonsense prevailed at the
maining ones who believed only loss iv.aBt session two vpara ago which so
the power of arms MafcUMMMta, will I clogged the wheel's of good intentions
thai the Websterinns believed it bet
thus be led to see that the brother
hood of man is the basic principle of all
permanent peace.
Awful as the present experieuee in
dorians i
a merger
Europe is. it has probably hastened by strt-ot.
hundreds ot years the universal ac
knowledgement and adoption of the
principle that right, not might, is the
best law for the welfare of nntions.
Then why prolong (two and one third
years' carnage has been decisive of
nothing) an nnaei aaaaij and aaaoai
conflict, that can only result in the rs
hanatlon af rhaac self same powers mo!
ter to abandon tne tradition ami be
silent observers of the bona fide solons
HOB at the state house across Ho
lt is unlikely that the I'hilo
ii Clirestophilians will atleinpt
such a purpose
C. T. DOH
WANTS TO BUT YOUH
POULTRY
AND
EGGS
WHYS FISH and
POULTRY MARKET
121 S
WILL
COMMERCIAL ST.
OPEN JANUARY
PHONE 500
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Until Feb. l, then telephone
number will be changed
the cciitiiiv long miserv ot
masses af all these peoples?
Ila'iuc coiil'erence were to sit continu
ously until the peoples of these conn
tries compelled their rulers to submit
their differences to its decisions, peace
might come sooner than .inyone would
imagine. What greutei role could Am
erica have than to be the first to lake
this decisive atep, and work for it in
cessantly until its fulfillment came 1
Your vi i-v truly,
i L. P8HBAUGH.
ASTIGMATIC
( I'endleton Kust OregoniaiO
Senator I. a Kollette ot Marion eoun
ly, thut beloved region that gets its
living off the state yet recently east
a 50O0 majority ot its own against
an Eastern Oregon normal school is
"agin" a coyote bounty by the state
He says coymes are better than jack
rabbits ami declared he had been in
formed thai- eastern Oregon people had
more nionev invested in raising coyotes
lous
Woiidrously clear for stellar obser
vations were the heavens last night
ami I'rof .lames T. Alatthews' class in
general astronomy took advantage of
the opportunity offered. Through the
rourlesv of Mr. I. 1. Mr Adnmn. Salem '
the gra-t j popular astronomer, the big Alvan O.
Il a new OUrk teleaeom with Hie R-lneh rfM.
tor was available and was set up on the
campus near Enton hall. Saturn and
his three rings were in splendid range
m was also a nebula in Orion. Of iiar-
tieular interest were the seven moons i v
of Jupiter which were distinctly with-l
ill the t'ield of vision Prof KtHllMK Til
and Mr. McAdams furnished the class
numbers with some very interesting
chin acteristics ot the respective heaven
ly bodies, and despite the frosty night
.no
tioll
approaches, meetings of the H-A club
are not as numerous as in the past. The
members believe in preparedness first,
so they have temporarily abandoned
the call to indulgence in mild forms or
"amusement in keeping with the Wil
lamette ideal" and have substituted a
severe two weeks session with neglect
ed text books. The proposed "At
home" of the elob members is t hero
fore delayed until a later date in the
mystic realm of darkness will
be illuminated next Wednesday even
ing by the Chrestophilian society mem
bers With a travelogue journey on the
mirroscoi e to Holland, the laiid of the
lass was loathe to turn its atten-1 Aiydcr ee and wooden shoes, I'aui
from hoMvenlv search to the less Honey is the lecturer ol the occasion.
spectacular things of earth.
than in raising cattle. 1 lie stupemious , WHS president of the student hodv, ed
knowledge of eastern Oregon affairs jtor f tJ)e p0jjj
ian and all around ath
possessed bv I he lion. Mr. I.a roneiie
Sidelights on current events on the Hu-
jropenn and on the American situation
As the generations come and go the will also be presented by the Messrs.
jinsitutioh Willamette is always plail W'illiuii! Holt and Kenneth l.egge, re
j to welcome her old students to the j spert ively.
ampus and to renew the old ties that!
istill bind. Murray Shancks, senator I Vocal solos by students enrolled in
(from Wasco county, is the latest mem-the music department of the universi-
ber of ihe solons to shake hands with I ty furnished a pleasing diversion Mon-
his old Alma Mater. While in Willam- j day morning in the regular devotional
,ette in the davs of 190t-8 Mr. Shanrks i services. Mr. Archie Smith very pleas
inyh snug Del Riego's "Slav.- Song,"
and Miss Hazel Horkensmith delighted
ete ol considerable nrominriire Itr
is most startling ei appeals ewutwtmbi- expect) to address the Webstenan so
istie of the section from which he hails. I ,.j,.!v tomorrow evening on the ups and
There are too many people in that re-, downs of his varied career as a stu
gion who have the opinion that the dent, as a Websterian, and as a repre
state of Oregon is bounded on the west Mutative of the best interests of "the
bv the Pacific ocean, on tne norm u deali i-eonle
. . . . iL. . 1... HC llT..l 1
the I o In in hia, on so
di bills and on the
belt.
niiu'it till' twm'ii cluud rnnm inutino
THE TOWN IS ALRIGHT! ARE YOU? when Plt)fi Kl,Kem, A ,!au,(.k Ill(,t
the classes M.ondav morn'.ne. The work
easi
m me imi
south by the rain Students who were Registered for
with "For You Alone"
Browning's "LoVe ilut
music bv lleach.
by Qeuwi ami
a Day" with
if
to live in the kind of a ;
vou want
town
Like the kind of a town you like.
Vou needn't slip your clothes in a grip,
And start on a long, long hike.
You'll only find what you left behind,
For there's nothing that's really new.
It's a knock at yourself when you knock
your town,
It isn't the town it's YOU.
Real towns are not made by men afraid
Lest somebody else gets ahead,
When everybody works and nobody
shirks
You (Ktn raise a town from the dead.
Ami if, while you make your personal
stake,
Your neighbor can make one too.
Your town will be what you want to
see:
It isn 't the town it 's YOl1.
Kxrhange.
sing undertaken by
X
the new prOflV
Of interest to Salem and the dele
gates especially who are attending the
state friends association meeting at
the Highland Friends church will be
Dr. George H, Alden 's address to the
Convention this evening. Dr. Alden is
always popular with various civic anil
religions bodies and is in constant de
mand as n s)ieaker. He has also ac
cepted the invitation to address the
Monmouth February
sor at a great dtsad vantage with liutjOregon state normal school students at
less than two weeks intervening before
examinations. However, Prof. Han
cock has already struck the popular
chord of enthusiasm and the students
anticipate pleasant work this year un
der his tutelage.
1 A visiting reporter and former stii
jdent in Willamette in 1911-12, Harry
la. Critehlow of the Portland Evening
I Telegram, attracted more than a little
attention on the occasion of his recent
address to the members of the Webster-
ian society. Mr. Critehlow is at pres
;ent reporting the doings of the house
of representatives for the Portland or
gan with which he is affiliated. Unus
Sual significance attaches itself to the
fact that he is the youngest reporter
assigned by that Portland paper to
cover'' such an important assignment.
On second thoughts
to the esteemed allies
to keep on licking :
licked all his future
it might occur
that if you had
, man .until you
fighting ititen
tions out of him you would have to
Sinkine- a $7,000,000 cruiser trvine to
iv.m.Jnr. ic nn avtemraranca tVint cVinnlrl VP rhsilPrisPn With. ! keen on licking him until he was dead,
nirtxi ic , cm v.wiv.c.sw r " I Applv that to a nation, and where does
Admiral Caperton is going to investigate the matter to itYCad. it has been a good many years
see if someone should not be courtmai'tialed on account ; a whole people was exterminated
.. T , , m i -.Li 4.u j; to the last man.
01 It. JUSt now mat IS going 10 eimer suve uuj uivci ui
that il' vou do and stick to your resolution, that before! the cruiser is one of the things no fellow can find out.
... . , si i 11 itt 1J 1 i VwJ,- -fill oil vnnni Pa.
noon you will have made -n enemy or practically every Mowever 11 an liivesugauun i& uem, tuaL ,,o m""
person vou have conversed with; have been roundly ! ments, no matter whether the report of the results of the
,a l il l 1 1 3
;-worn at some dozens ol times; prooamy neen ncKeu a
time or two. and if not in the hospital by night you will
at least need the srevices of a doctor, and will receive the
sympathy of your wife who at the same time will, while
expressing sorrow, feel that you only got what you de
perved, and will only lie about it because she does not
want to start a family row---by telling the truth. And
yet you can hardly offer a greater insult to a person
than to tell the truth about him and call him a liar. You
don't do it. You say instead he or she is mistaken, or
their source of information was polluted or they were
misinformed, or something of that kind; anything to
avoid telling the truth. You lie rather than tell the other
fellow he is doing so, and he accepts what he knows to be
a lie, as the genuine truth and so lies to himself about it
simply because he has no one else to pass the lie along to.
Of course the style of lies spoken of are of the class
known as "white lies," hut some of them when closely
analyzed are shaded from a dark gray through all the
shades of brown and border, some of them on the faded
black. We have always admired the spirit of the hobo
investigation are ever made known or not.
of investigation.
This is an era
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Safety Deposit Boxes
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RELIEF COMING
The winds are blustering and rough, the
frost keens at it, steady; a little winter is
enough, you've had your share already
Your's tired of winter, grim
dear, you're tired of all his poses.
and
Carl A. Reetz, a senior in the college
of liberal arts, returned to Salem ves
terdiiy to resume his studies. A post
graduate vacation attack of measles de
tained him at his home at Newberg for
the past 'wo weeks. His return is
heralded with delight by his fellow
classmates.
As the semi annual period of gloom
in the lace of semester examinations
Prosprity paragraph- in Baken Demo
crat: 'Baker stores are busy. They
have been since early fall and wiil
continue so for a long time to come.
The revenues from field, farm and
range have made all comfortable
financially, and generally people are
in a position to buy what they need
and indulge in a little extravagance,
too, if they desire."
A GOOD WINTER HABIT
Many people dread winter because
the sudden climatic changes bring
colds, grippe, rheumatism, tonsilitis or
bronchitis. But thousands of well
informed men and women today avoid
much sicknessfor themselves and their
children by taking a few bottles of
Scott's Emulsion to make richer blood,
fortify the membranes of the throat
andchestandcreate body-warmth to re
sist sickness. Soldiers at war receive cod
liver oil; it will also strengthen yoa.
Scott & Bowne, Bloomfield, N. J. e-3
IMY HUSBAND AND 1
bp jjr Jane Phelps -r-
MILDRED CONFIDES IN MURIEL
I sionable to a degree. My father and
mother had been ideally happy, I now
know. Then I supposed Al.l. married
: people were the same. I was soon dis
illusioned. Kven on my wedding trip
I ceased to interest Clifford- I presume
I it was my fault. I was childish, ready
at the slightest cold word or
know. 1
CHAPTER UXXII.
"Whatever has that womau been say
met" Muriel asked when we were
alone-
"Oh the most awful things about
Clifford and Mabel Horton," I confessed.
"The horrid old cat! Muriel ex-1 to ex
claimed. 'She 's the most dangerous wo-; action. We seemed to have no interests, poBe I have thought of it, of Edith,
man I know. If she had her way hull '.nothing in common. Clifford always be-1 liay and night for months, yes for years,
the people in Glendale would be in the i came very angry when I cried, an But Mildred, when Kate Jordou came
divorce court. Do vou want to tell me j would call me names, like 'cry-babv and today and sympathized with me because
P VlPPr ' what she said ? Don 't if vou feel you ' wet blanket. ' Oneo 1 cried it was be-1 of Clifford s intimacy with Mabel Hor-
miller uoi, I'll! ll a tvut-.i lusi vui Bin inn1 r.iiiin vs uuiu uui t-rii lu ov wu mr iub. lua-utu nuu
Muriel Urges Caution.
"Yes, there is Edith," Muriel re
peated slowly, "And Mildred, for her
sake if not for your own, you must go
slowly. "
"I know, oh Muriel, don't vou bud-
' v u . lUlltei UUI, nut I. x iviir.i ,ui " uui Hvii xjiiiiu nun ...',11 uvi v , . u m .'i . j ... .v. .... vuw. .ii.tir, 1 ,iuu
The SUrinC Will SOOn be here, WlCniway spreading (round I milu k btter jrie) could I confidt the details of that ! he had been together while father was
nightingales and roses! lou re urea 01
blowing in your roll that you may keep
from freezing, for cords of wood and tons
of coal it surely isn't pjeasing. You're
tired of toiling day by day, to feed the
hungry heaters. Cheer up ! The spring is
on the way, with meadow larks and sKeet-
able to denv it for of course there
nothing in it."
"I am not so sure," I said slowly, all
my doubts and fears returning, "part
of it at least was true."
terrible night when I hid in the closet. ! dying, and while we were burying him,
"and because of what happened I swore I end declared that she would leave Tom
that he never should see me cry again. I if he did such things, and called me
I think that time crushed out my real namby-pamby for putting up with it, I
rove for Clifford, but not mv pride m inougnt i snouia die it l couldn't talk
to someone, that's why I am inflicting
myself on you."
"Are you sure that what she told
Now Mildred, vou are not going to his looks, his ability. Until the night
let Kate Jordon make you unhappy, are I accepted your dinner invitation, when
yout" I Clifford refused to go. I had not known
"No I was unhappy before she one persen my own a,e since I married, i you is true? Kate Jordon doesn't mind
came," I replied. il had been absolutely alone. No, do stretching things a bit, you know."
You poor child," Muriel returned, not be sorry for me, I cant boar it."; I am sure that he could not be lo-
1 told her as she was about to speak. ; eaten in i mcago. I sent several
ror a lony lime 11 was easier. ioii.nivis, aim i am sure ne will not
nies
talk
ers! You're tired of falling half a block, when streets letting loose aii the flood gates of my
... . si , fi 1 j - n. miserv bv her compassionate tone.
mil ICC are Slippy , yuu re tireu ui ticaimig suuwj " -i must toll someone, Muriel! do you will never know what your friendship of that time with me. I have tried sev
and Others labors dippy. YOU fain WOUld SOUnd a note Ot think you can stand it if I tell you m.v has meant to me, then 1 had Ned and 1 era times."
. , . "T , . . , rrvL troubles f I know it is selfish, but I Leonard and the rest to help me forget; "Have you asked him pointedly to
gl'ief, With CymbalS timbrels, COrnetS. L-neer UP'. ine cn't keep atill anv longer, and you are Clifford's neglect. He ha, neglected 1 tell vou where he was, and whv he did
spring will bring renei, and dodoiioks ana norneis. saTrat v? , ;""T" ' "u,'u",';np B,n wirrae " re- ne-, not eep m l0ucn with youi-
V. C3 . . .. . .. trvimr in smile, and feeiui' like ervinir. crleetivl rr.e for Mabel Hoirfon Ho re. "Nn I haven 'r ko.i k ....
Cheer up ! Though gloomy be the day, the darkest day
will vanish; there s something traveling our way that
will our troubles banish. Today may be a thing of dread
we're banking on tomorrow; thre's always something
just ahead that's hoxw1 to knock out sorrow.
trving to smile, and feeling like crying, glected me for Mabe1 Honton. He re
"Go ahead dear, my shoalders are fuses to take me to her house when he
broad." (Joes; but compelled me to invite her
A Sad Story. I when we pave that nartv foT Burns
When we were first married Muriel. I Ma-en. I have been miserable alwavs;lher will be saving.
l'-il oi;sfo-J ..--- - yej niany times have determined to -
had never eared for anyone else, and make the best of what I seemingly ! Tomorrow Mildred Questions
like all very young girls i was luipns - could not help There was Edith, you ford.)
"0 I haven't had the courage."
"Then rnn uron't r..i- k: . l
. - . m 11 1 n . nnt
him tell him if necessary what Ka'e
Jordon said what evervoue who knows
Clif-