Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-01
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Fruitland, Or, Feb 1.-The ladies of
our auxiliary Red Cross have made up
a quantity of wash cloths for hospital
use.
The wisdom of Solomon ''He that is
slow to wrath is of great understand
ing" but he that is of hasty spirit ex-
ulteth folly" Prov. 1929.
ga merry heart maketh a cheerful
eountenance. Id. chapt. 1913.
pheasant words are as honey
the bones,D Id. 1924.
Is our Senator Chamberlain to be
q second Senator Lane2
In the "Open Forum" in Capital
Journal of Jan. %, was little anus
ed to note how 'Shortyo failed to dis
tinguish between heads and tails in his
toss up about evolution. He seems to
think the table writer in Fruitland, !"
"claims to endorse the Darwin doctrine
of evolution.' Shorty must have had
a disquieting dream just before writing
those words. 1 do not nor ever did en-
dorse the "Darwin doctrine of evolu-
tion. 4" nor the other forms of it--mon-
istic, agnostic and theistic. / gave q
brief statement from Darwin $ DE
scent of Man" page $50, and from the
preface, to the effect that the book
abounded in speculation and that many
of the conclusions would be later found
erroneous. stated that the work appear
ed to me to be piece of cleverly writ
ten romance, and strange to say, my
friend seems to think from this that L
indOrse evolutioni The conclusion is
quite absurd. If he will get his unabridg
ed and look up the word "romance' he
will find the threads comprising it are
mainly error, exaggerated statement and
improbability. All these are conspicuous
in 'tdescent.' sift out and save what
ever truth there is What is left is un-
safe and unscientific and it is east aside
Just one example of romance" In the
book must suffice here. Several times
the author uses the phrase, "our half
human progenitors. Think of that!
And according to the theory there was
time when they were less human than
that, nine tenths and more non-human.
1t reminds one of the centaurs and
satyrs of ancient mythology. Mr.. Hux-
ley and Carl Vogt agree with Darwin
about their monkey origin. They seem
proud of it. | do not wish to abrldge an
1ota Of the comfort they get out OF their
pedieree. There are lot of worm holes
| in the structure of evolution making 1t
weak and unsafe, also sundry dead flies
! in the pot of ointment. / believe man
was made in the image of God and not
| in that of q dumb brute. l believe we
got our souls from the Creator and not
! from ancestors who never had any them
selves. If evolution be true 1t is impossl-
BILE TO account for what is rational and
spiritual in man.
Frank Eggler is attending Junior
high school in Salem this winter. He
is taking up algebra, ctvil government,
etc. =,
o. A. c. has "spoke" again. Is it
like a man fast in bog, the more ne
| tries to get out the more he gets IN, OF
is it rather a study in psychologyT
notice a statement that the wealth
of the United States in 1912 was within
$35 for each man, woman and child, OF
$4,000. Haven It seen my share yet IN
cash.
VIM. Setak bought at the Harper sale,
west of Turner, Tuesday, high bred
cow, paying $3.50. Tho bossy is repre-
sented as giving considerable more than
half a ton of milk during lactation and
averaging so pounds of butter month
Some COW that.
/ am told that the Garden Road
Cheese factory is now selling the but
terfat of the milk now furnished by the
patrons. 1t is expected by this means to
curtail the output of cheese and to re-
duee the stock now on hand.
This morning (Thursday3l) at Z
O clock, 10 below freezing. Twenty
years ago today DIARY 1889 was warm
and pleasant. Bees out. In the evening
began TO snow and grow cold. The three
! following days low, freezing thermome
ter. Potatoes and apples exposed nara a'
walnuts. Then followed milder weather
Nav be so again. Nature like history
often repeats itself.
Mrs. Il. T. Mills has three Buff MI
norca pullet eggs that weigh ounce
less than three quarters Of pound. Ihe
birds are about nine months old.