Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1907-06-10
MARRIAGE
AND MARKET
REPORTS
An Expression of Opinion Concerning
Professional Ideas

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DR.. j. Allen Smith, head of the de-
partment of political science at the
Washington university, has created a
sensation by advising his classes
against matrimony during the pres
ent era of high prices. DR.. Smith
also denounced the educational insti-
tutions of the west for the salaries
paid instructors, declaring It impos-
sible for any university professor to
save money.
Young people may marry in Sc
attle," he warned his classes, "but
under the existing conditions of up
in the air prices 1t requires an inter-
vention of Providence In their favor
thereafter to enable them to make
both ends meet. Until the living ex-
penses have decreased I certainly
would not advise any young man to
get married in Seattle"
With all due Difference to a pro-
fessional opinion, or rather an opin-
ion by professor, the horse editor Is
inclined to take a more optimistic
view of the marital situation than
does the educator In Seattle who
parts his name on the side, and pre-
sumably, his hair in the middle.
When marriage becomes dependent
on the price of spuds, or the amount
of sugar a dollar will purchase, II is
getting on too much of a commercial
foundation. The young couple loving
each other and possessed OF good
health, who put off marrying on ac-
count of the price of food and cloth
ing, are unworthy of each other. and
certainly not fitted for the trials OF
married life. or for that matter for
anything else. What should the
price of food have to do with Il?
If John loves Mary and Mary loves
John. do s'that prevent them eating?
Or II the price OF lingerie and store
clothes are high, docs either OF them
go unclothed while single? Is the
young man strong of muscle and
stout of heart, with the glow of
young blood In his veins, and In the
full Joy OF good health, any less able
to take care of the girl of his choice
than the same girls father Is to
support her. along with perhaps two
or three brothers and sisters? Does
their food cost less when they eat at
different tables than II they ate at
one? Does It require less clothing
for either of them while they are
single? The horse editor wots not
with a big capital w on the wot.
Then again, suppose the young
man is engaged in farming or In
some occupation that produces the ]
things, the high price OF which caus-
es the professors wall Would not |
that simply increase his income and |
make the support OF a wife that much |
Easier? Besides high prices for pro-
fucts invariably means higher salar-
es and higher wages. Seattle Is an
example of this. There is not a city
n the United States today where the
lyerage earnings of labor are higher
han In the city by the Sound. High
'riees should have nothing TO do
With the matter of marriage and the
lorse editors advice 10 young peo-
lie old enough to be married and TO
ealize in advance that under the
est OF circumstances the relation has
Is cares and worries and requires
10Th mutual forbearance and saeri-
Ices; Is to marry regardless OF the
rice OF potatoes. paragoric, or red {
annel. AS to 1t requiring an inter- I
ention Of Providence in their favor (
hereafter" as the professor states, |,
might be said that for thousands OF
ears prices of food stuffs have nuc-
nated, as they always will fiuctuate s
nd II is mighty poor man that will I
xamine the local market report be-
pre- he calls on his best girl. l
Just imagine a strong healthy Y
oung man looking deep into the pei S
icid depths OF pair OF loye-lit eyes {
nd as the moon shone down in a
ood of golden splendor on a flower
ecked world. whispering into the lit
e pink ear OF HIS best girl. Darling
would love you TO distraction II the
rice OF cabbage would come down"
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