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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-12
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ln order to catch Il good string of
fish in Virginia or Vermont. or any
where else for that matter, 1t is only
necessary to bait the hook with nice,
wrlggly angleworm. make n wish and
expectorate on the unfortunate bait
and place the line in the water. Fish
will respond almost Immediately.
Snake feeders dragon nles) along
streams or In marshes indicate to all
boys the imminence of snakes. All
boys take warning upon seeing this
insect aud give the snake which it is
attending a wide berth. Nobody has
ever seen a snake feeder arranging
the snakes lunch, but 1t is known to
be positively true that the insect is the
snakes chef.
Rebus Puzzle.
III your b m put
II your B putting
II your CRATE be (great By empty put
coal ON colon; IL your crate be full
stop (perlod) putting coal on COLON.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-12

Get a better position by
reading the chances offered
each day in the Journal
Want Columns.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-12

See America first should become quite the popular cry
especially when the globe roters get home and tell all
about it-and more.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-12

Unless we are willing to admit our
ignorance We can never acquire knowi-
edge.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-08-12
Musical Monkeys.

A learned professor has been study.
ing the effect of music upon the ami
mails at the Paris ZOO. He found the
monkeys quite partial to ragtime. eS
pecially If it is played on violin OF
flute, and they stopped eating or
scratching or jumping about to listen
Elephants and rhinoceroses took no no
tlce of either ragtime or better things.
but the hippopotamus put his head out
Of the water and listened as if he were
enjoying it, waltz by the famous com.
poser Offenbach.
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Out of the Postman's Bag.
l. To remain on ones feet, lose two
letters and become shade Of brown,
9. To feel about with the hands, lose a
letter and become a thick cord.
Answer.-1. Stand. 2. G-rope.
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The Tale Of an Elk.
This is the tale of an elk.
Scarce any tale at ALI
But how can you have a long tale
When the tail of an elk is small?
Evening star., 1914-04-19
,Corr1AwDER EvAyeEL1Nr BoorH

resents more genuine followers of Christ
who practice His gospel. than can be
found outside of His visible body.
.Theologians and pastors of churches
cater largely to scholarship. intellectual
attainments. social prestige, rnoneyed par
ishioners. etc. These things were not of
the foundation which Christ laid.
The Christians textbook honors the
heart above the head"
Said Mrs. Champ Clark, leader in
reform and woman suffrage work
II would say that the crying need OF
the church l see 1t is the power
to prove beyond the shadow of doubt
that 1t is not all of life to live, nor all
of death to die.
.-Tnbelief is at the bottom of all the
apathy in the church.
People are tired OF being fed on pre-
digested food
Probably no man in the country has
had wider practical experience in re-
form civic Improvement and charity work
than Rudolph Blankenburg. Philadelphia s
''independent' mayor. Said he:
Il would say that the churchs greatest
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need is that each member of the COM
munity should devote little more time
to the correction of his own faults. and,
as a consequence. a little less time to
the correction of his neighbor's short
comings. In other words. there is "A
tendency today for the bar to correct
the mistakes of the clergy. the clergy to
suggest improvement in the work OF the
judges, the judges 10 give lay instruction
to the general public. every unit OF the
general public to reconstruct everything
but himself.
once inaugurate a policy of sincerity
with ones self in the individual and that
individual in all his relations with his
fell6w-man, whether such relations have
to do with secular or sacred matters. will
assume new value. and each movement
making for the general welfare receive a
new impulse in the right direction
The answer of Anthony Comstock, sec
retary of the Society for the Suppression
Of Vice, was:
My own conviction is that when selfish
Indifference and pleasure interfere with
church attendance on the Sabbath day
the heart grows cold and the affections
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and on the staff. During the fighting
round Plevna in the Russo-Turkish war
he was employed by Gar Alexander III
as messenger to Prince Charles of
Roumana. He lost his money in gam
bling, took to Niazemskaya Lavra, and
later to the Hot Field
X X
Every spring Jasinski disappears. and
the cadets joke grimly about his Visits
to his wife, who is said still to own Il
palace near I.iublin Jasinski surrounds
himself with bodyguard OF CRIMINALS
and hooliCaus. He is well fed. gets
money from some unknown quarter ana
nicknames the other cadets rats
The field contains other men OF diStiNc-
ton. Among them is A doctor VINO meoi-
cnes his brother cadets: man supposed
to be IA governors chief of chanceliery,
who after a bribery trial in lsss disap.
peared. and several pardoned political
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"A standard clearly defined and close
ly adhered to.
"A courage that will impartially ap-
ply in all human affairs the highest re-
ligious principles. and thus enable the
church to do it's whole duty.
"A vision large enough to cause the
church to become true leader In solv-
ing the everyday problems confronting
the individual. the home, society.
a message directed toward getting
heaven into souls, rather than souls
into heaven.
"A unity cohesive enough to permit
the church to stand as one body against
every force that seeks to compromise
weaken or undermine the principles OF
the kingdom of Cod
The president Of the National Christian
League Tor the Promotion of Purity, Mrs
Eliza beth B. Grannis, replied:
The church needs, more than ausht
else. ouickening of its spiritual life
through practical faith in Christ and
His gospel.
When the church appeals effectively
10 the people it must nave rid itself of
its palpable hypocrisy IN processing that
which a majority of it's membership ad-
here to simply nominally.
The church militant numerically rep
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frightful stencil is waited from it, and
people with sensitive noses fight shy Of
the neighborhood. But the inhabitants
are used to this. They live in what seems
indescribable misery-in rags, filth, damp,
hunger, and-when vodka runs short
thirst But being by nature vagabonds
and wastrels they enjoy life: and one OF
them lately told the writer that his life
is pleasanter in the Hot Field than when
it was spent in the salons of Moscow.
where this particular thing" once lived
as successful oculist.
The Hot Field produces surprising
types of depravity and misery. Most OF
the company are old men. nearly all
are blear-eyed and crippled with rheu
matisln. They are clad in rags, and when
raided by the police and turned out for
inspection In the cold. they look like
wild beasts at bay.
Yet in the average cadets mien there Is
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fifty-year-old 'Spridon Poworot. 'SpirI-
don Poworot' is a generic name taken
by Russian vagabonds when they want
to conceal their real names from the
police Spiridon lives in tunnel well
supplied with food and drink. His real
name is Plestcheff. and he was a pro
fessor at Petersburg University under
the reatcionary education minister Bogo-
liepoff, who was murdered by student
After a quarrel with Bogoliepoff, Plest-
chef lost his post. He took to drink,
and one day entered the Moscow prefec-
ture and slapped the projects face
Later he disappeared. and as he was
next seen near Libau harbor it was sup
posed he had drowned himself. Last
winter he was recognized in 'Spiridon
Poworot.'
The police in searching the Hot Field
for a murderer suspected Spiridon OF
being their man. Spiridon dragged out
of his rags a filthy passport. and showed
1t to the police. 1t bore the name 81
Evening star., 1914-04-19
Charles RANN KENNEDY

are blinded and there is no longing or
desire for or anticipation of the Father S
blessing.
Il think that the one essential attrac-
ton is that the minister should preach
the Word. We do not want theatrical per-
formances or any substitute for the good
seed and when that good seed is sowil
in good soil there is bound to be good
harvest.
Said Minnie Maddern tiske:
While ali religions to me possess much
that is supremely beautiful would
never he impelled TO ally myself with
any particular church because | know
of no Christian sect that includes a
proper consideration of the great dumb
creation in its creed. The world of
lower animals is A part of the universal
principle of life. but for the most part
the Christian Church has ignored that
creation. its claims upon us and our
responsibilities toward it. The creeds
or doctrines of the various denominations
have not seemed satisfying and compre
hensve or complete to me. since they
not founded on philosophy that
recognizes and preserves life as d whole.
demanding justice toward every animate
creature. whether of the human family
of the animal creation
individual ministers frequently are
live to mans duty toward the dumb
creatures committed to his care, but as
A whole the church is not \ few years
ago a petition was sent broadcast to the
ministers and clergy of the United States
for the institution of Mercy Sunday
zone Sunday in the year devoted to ask
ing for kindness and justice and COM
passion to the brute creation.) Only a
few responses to this appeal were re
ceived. Before the church can appeal
universally to the interest of mankind.
creeds must become actually human
The president of the Law and Order
Society of Philadelphia, d. Clarence Glib
beney, answered:
ITO strengthen its appeal the church
most needs: First, backbone: second. SYM
pathy: third. sacrifice; fourth, inspira ton
ard initiative
Backbone. because Christian affirma-
ton is battle against the negative forces.
Religion is conviction in action. and ac-
ton invites war Most churches are
afraid of war.
sympathy for the offender and hatred
for the offenSe. Self-confeSSion of our
own intolerant attitude. resulting in the
fastening on the people of sins which
could not exist unless we permitted them
and prof1ted by them. Illustrated by our
hypocrisy in blaming liquor evils on the
dealers and forgetting ignoring the
shameful truth that We have made their
business legal by protit-sharing license
systems. Being responsible for the ex-
istence of the rum business. we try to
fool ourselves by attempting to put the
blame for the evils of drink upon our
partners.
Sacrifice would test our capacity for
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rubbish. and in these holes began to live
like wild beasts. They next looked about
for a name and organization. and being
largely men OF education and talents they
chose good one. They called themselves
Cadets of the Golden Company ka-
deti Zolotoi Rotui. By that name they
are known today.
The rubbish hills of the "Goriatchee
Polye" are honeycombed with dwellings,
some of which are made merely by SCOOP
ing into the piled up dirt. while some are
tunneled under the earth. The system
gives protection against the minus fifteen
degrees centigrade. which north Russia
gets several times in the winter AT first
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socialist party: The church must first
of all free itself from the domination
of the moneyed class and get squarely
over on the side of the exploited masses
and fight the power that is crushing
and degrading them. There is no mid
way ground and the church is finding
II less and less possible to serve both
God and Mammon. The church today
is spiritually dying because it is in
control of the blighting power that
makes long prayers while devouring
widows houses and laying burdens on
the backs of the poor grievous to be
borne.
Jesus took His side with the suffer-
ing poor and against their opp essors
without equivocation or reservation.
and the holy hypocrites of His day had
him nailed between two thieves to the
gates of Jerusalem.
The church can only stand for re-
Iigion undefiled when it stands fear
lessly for social righteousness. and
this will so strengthen its appeal as to
give il the ear and heart of the masses
of mankind
"The trouble with the church is much
like the trouble with the school-na me
Iy. it is too far away from actual life,
said Booker I. Washington. The
church has gotten to be place where
men and women go TO hear the minister
talk; it is not an organization for
doing things. One reason the minister
no longer exercises the influence upon
the public mind that he once did is
that he no longer has anything to do.
He has become mere talker. The re-
suit is that while ministers probably
have a good deal more education, as
far as books go. than they used to have
hundred years ago, they probably
haven't near as much common sense
A man gains common sense only as far
as he lives in the actual world and
touches and handles real things.
"I have noticed that the religious or
ganizations winning the support Of the
people and bringing men and women
into touch with religious life are or
ganizations like the Young Mems Chris
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committed by her tenants, the good
princess conscience was hurt
She flew to London to consult the late
William T Stead. and promised to fol-
low his counsel to knock the Lavra
down and replace it with model dwell
ings. This was done. In the name of
hygiene and morals, the 10000 things
that once We're men were deprived of
their home. Many left st. Petersburg
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the Cadets of the Golden Company
merely dug tunnels into the rubbish.
boarded them up in primitive way to
prevent collapse. and make breathing
holes. In the holes they practically hi
bernated during the winter, leaving their
rubbish beds only once in several days
to hunt for vodka, and terrorize tea
money" out of solitary women and chill
dren.
Later. under the influence Of things
that once were architects or engineers.
the lairs were improved. Some of the
things" have tunneled far into the rub
bish heaps. and followed out several
rooms They set up primitive stoves,
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for which fuel is found in the vast guam
tity of consumahe matter cast on the
rubbish heaps. Primitive chimneys made
of stolen tubes project out of the heaps.
Some caves are luXuriously fitted in that
they have store-rooms of food and stolen
vodka. Nearly all the vodka stolen by
officials from the state drink shops goes
to the Hot Field.
In this way the field is made homelike.
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This Vital Question
swered by Such
Advanced Thinkers and
Fearless Takers as Vice
President Marshall, Eu-
gene V. Debs. Charles
Ram Kennedy. Com
mander Booth of the
Salvation Army. An
thonv Comstock, Booker
T. Washington. Mayor
Blank burg, Mrs.
Champ Clark. ID. Clar-
ence Gibboney and 9th
ers-Each in Personal
Interview Suggests a
Means of Combating
Apathy in the Church.
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Petersburg, Things That Refuge

something that shows him not to be an
uneducated wastrel of the sheeplike
noujik or sledge-driver type. The cadets
show their mettle by their cynical speech.
their boldly expressed hatred of the law
and of society, and the demoniacal glee
they get from the humiliation of others.
The Hot Field has its hierarchy of
misery. There are classes and ranks.
One of the rubbish jewellers in the study
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mon Plestcheff." Plestcheff $ relatives
tried to rescue" him. He laughed, in
vited his cousin to debate matters in
the rubbish cave. and offered him a
lunch consisting of stolen vodka and
crusts picked from the heaps.
A casual dweller in the Hot Field is
Stanislas Jasinski. who is the Polish
count Stanislas Alsen-Jasinski. Jasinski
served in the Cavalier GUARDS Regiment
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.tbinrs that once were men are u oe
dispersed. The Hot Field is a sixty-acre
open space on the outskirts of the CITY,
where the municipality dumps mouse
rubbish and where human rubbish dumps
itself.
The human rubbish does not live In
houses. or even in huts. but in holes.
caves and tunnels in the household
rubbiSh There squat several hundred
men and women, who. as Russians say,
have lost Gods image In dirt
pestilence and crime unparalleled. And
energetic mayor. has decreed that the
Hot Field must be done away with, house
rubbish human rubbish, and all And
the things that once were men, are
desperate
Maxim Gorky popularized the phrase
"things that once were men" In Rus
sian IT is more concise-.'buivshiye
liudi. literally "ex-human beings"
Vsev olod Krestowski and other famous
writer's also used the phrase. Russia
other country. and St Petersburg has
more than any other town.
Russia is the country and St Peters
burg the city of vicisstudes. Only in
Russia are there ex-governors of prov
inces who, after stealing millions too
recldessly, now steal their daily bread;
-1niiiionaires who staked their fortunes
and their wives on card and lost:
princes and counts whom drink and de-
bauchery have made lose Gods image"
and rich men of good character who out
of mysticism or perversion have aban-
doned civilized life and Joined the amaz-
ing corps of things that once were
men" Such types herd In the rubbish
holes Of the Hot Field. There are CASH
Tered guards officers, scholars who gave
way to drink, idle ex-country gentlemen
of the type of Gontcharoff's self-ruining
"Oblomoff." men of literary genius who
prefer crime to fame. other weak and
brilliant persons with the Slav charac-
teristics. These wrecks of humanity
1oregather in the Hot Field. the strang-
est cloister of infamy. degradation and
vretchedness to be seen anywhere on
earth.
Formerly st. Petersburgs outcasts
herded in the Viazemskaya Lavra a
vast, disease-soaked complex of tene-
snents. which sheltered 10000 individuals.
The things that once were men, lived
twenty In a room, in moderate comfort.
and produced two murders a month and
enough typhus smallpox and scurvy for
the whole empire. The Viazemskaya
1.ayra brought a considerable revenue to
its owner, the good Princess Viazemsky.
and one day. when three murders were
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L S S l A s things
that OIL C e were
mem are shivering
in despair on the
brink of the Neva.
They are to lose
their last refuge,
the Hot F i e | d.
r h e "Goriatchee
Poiye," the hot
field. is to be in
closed by a high
fence, and the
H0
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BY JOHN ELFRErH WATKINS
NNnN"HED L

VERY w HERE |
am mfr onted
with placards ad :
m monishing: Go to
Church Sunday
Within the week
I have been Wis
tied in my home
by a retired com
modore of the
navy and a trust
company official,
both strangers to
Each desired me
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X
The weakness of the churches is not
in the pulpit 1t is in the pews." replied
Louis F. Post, the noted single taxer,
now assistant secretary of labor
Most intelligent clergymen know what
is needed to strengthen what you call the
appeal of the churches. but few of them
dare proclaim it. Those who do soon
the churches most need to strengthen
their appeal-assuming by this that you
mean the appeal for Christianity-is a
vitalizing sense of the original and in
separable relation of Christianity to So
cial justice.
THE dominant note of the churches
now is individual morality. very much as
once it was individual salvation from
everlasting torture. When the churches
make an appeal which relates social as
we'll as individual morality to Christian
ethics the common people will hear as
gladly as they did in Palestine. twenty
centuries ago.
But this appeal cannot very well be
made in the organized churches of to-
day In any such fashion as to ring true.
because the interests. that support
church organizations would not tolerate
SO deadly an attack upon vested priv
ileges.
ut is as true now as ever that God
and Mammon cannot be worshiped at the
same altar. And is it not also true that
the altars of the churches would have
to be abandoned for lack of financial
support if the Mamnnon of social un-
righteousness were scourged away
from them?
The answer of B. s Steaduell. presi-
dent of the Worlds Purity Federation.
was:
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me and my family. Each desired me
to attend his place of worship.
In every city and village of the coun-
try such a campaign. purposed to slim
uIate churchgoing, is being or has been
organized.
In other words. the church is nearly
everywhere fighting apathy But is it
the public which must be brought TO
the church. or the church which must,
now. be brought to the public'
What does the church most need to
strengthen its appeal"
In. recent weeks I have asked this
question of a list Of persons ma
tionally famous for their independence
of thought. courage of expression or
their wealth of experience with those
classes who most need the helping
hand.
In the terse interviews that follow
they have attacked the problem from
what would appear to be every pos
sible angle outside the church-from
the angle OF the statesman. the So
cialist. the mission worker. the civic
reformer. the woman suffragist the
slum worker. the educator and the anti
vice crusader.
II have. been to church all over Amer
lea Vice President Marshall told me
II have found. speaking in the idiom of
the day. successful and unsuccessful
churches. 1 have observed the attitude
OF ministers and people. and I reach the
conclusion that wherever there is a
church failure it may be attributable to
one of two things. namely. lack of faith
in the original principles of Christianity.
voluntary surrender to the state of
the great function of the church. that
function being. to my mind, the gather
ing together of a body of men and wom-
en- who are genuinely interested not only
in the hereafter. but are interested in
each others mental. social and spiritual
welfare.
Each individual church should be So
cialistic. not in the sense Of a division OF
property, but in the sense that each is
for all and all is for each.
said Eugene V. Debs, head of the