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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-01-27
Japanese Diet Convenes,
Crown Prince Presides,
Situation Held Critical
Bv Duke N. Parry

Toxic, Jan. 27.-Two factors
stand out as strong arguments
that the Takahashi Ministry viii
not live long past the present ses
sion of Japan's Imperial Diet
which opened with the Prince
Regent occupying the chair re-
served for the emperor. This was
the first time for many years that
representative of the imperial
house formally conyoked the Jap
anese. Congress, and it was pre-
dicted that it will be one of the
most colorful assemblies of the
national body Japan has ever
known.
First, the assassination of ia
pans popular premier has made
the continued stay Of the Selyu-
kai Ministry in office more doubt
full. Premier Hara was recogniz-
ed as the one man in all Japan
who was able, because Of his po-
litical adroitness and knowledge
Of men, to combine his followers
and retain power for his party.
The lack of such leader is more
strongly emphasized each day.
Then there is the Washington con
ference. Come what may for ia
pan, the result OF the conference
will be utilized by those men in
power in Toxic to overthrow the
controlling political group. II
Japan fares poorly SO much the
better for the Kenseikai and the
Kokuminto, opponent parties to
the controlling party today; il she
wins the various points being dis
cussed there will even then be
found reasons why Japan appear
ed in an unfavorable light before
the delegates of the powers, and
further argument will be used
against the Takahashi group. In
there is the labor unrest,
popular dissatisfaction against
failure of the government to ex-
tend educational faculties at home
and many other points which do
not strengthen hopes the Seiyu-
kai may hold for retention OF po-
litical prestige. Count Uchida,
Minister of Foreign Affairs, is re-
ported to resign. Premier Takan-
ashi is holding the posts today of
Premier. Minister of Fiance and
Minister of the Navy. Under
any circumstances there must be
a great reorganization in the cab
net, which few believe will leave
he present group of control.
Before he became Premier, Wis
count Takanashi, as Minister of
finance, had made tentative plans
'egarding the budget. These fig
Tres, showing a slash of 100000 i
100 yen in the total expenditures
o be mode for 1922-23, gives
ome indication of what Japan
lopes to do in this period. The
lavy budgets have been cut,
doubtless in preparation for ex-
'ected naval arms Limitations. |
rhe 1929 budget will call for
he expenditure of 1853, 900, 600
zen. For the wear ending the
'udget was 1852, 100000 yen.
nhis shows that there viii be
aving of about r0O,0o0,o0o yen.
wen if the figures pass as they
lave been prepared, which is not
t all sure. Figures in thousands
4 yen show how the expenditures
will be allotted to each department
f the Japanese empires admin
These figures show a
otal of 1000. 100000 yen, but
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-01-27

like this" | closed my eyes quick
ly for fear the tears would run
brown rivulets OF makeup down
my cheeks. swallowed sudden
ly. something hard and aching in
my throat.
Tomorrow-A Heavy Blow. :. :.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-01-27
Russians Balk at Tax

London, Jan. 27.-In six weeks
$500 Russian peasants have been
tried for refusing to pay the tax
in kind imposed by the soviet
government, says a Copenhagen
report.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-01-27
Naples Reaches Million.

Naples, Jan. 27.-Including her
suburbs the city of Naples has
passed the million mark in popu-
lation. Within the limits of the
city itself are 1858 families to-
falling 725,0s6 inhabitants, ac-
cording to the census just com
pleted. These figures how that
Naples has passed Rome by more
than 100000. The increase in
population has caused much
crowding and unusually bad hous-
ing conditions.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-01-27

Also the conference has helped
to an appreciation of the Difficult
ties and accomplishments Of the
Wilson diplomacy.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-01-27

We read that Frenchman is
able to make gold from lead. That
is nothing. Any plumber can do
that.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1922-01-27

but who wants to kiss eruptions?
Pimply men don't look like the owners
OF anything. Pimply women, too, are
puzzles, with no prospects and no
power. Young men and women, here's
the positive way out Physics and
purgatives win fail What you need
Is a scientific blood-cieanser. s. s. s.
Is one of the most powerful destroyers
Of blood impurities You can prove this
in a short time. S. S. s. has been
passed on by a jury Of millions OF peo-
pie Just like yourself. 1t is considered
one Of the most powerful vegetable
od-purtfiers and flesh builders IN
existence That's why you hear of 30
many underweight people putting on
lost flesh in hurry, why you hear Of 90
many rheumatics being freed from this
Bcourge, with S. S. S. start today with
s. s. 5. and see your face clear and
your skin get ruddier. your flesh
firmer. 1t viii give you a boost IN your
career. s. s. S. Is sold at All drug
stores. In two sizes. The larger sire
Is the more economical
, 1922-05-31
Chain From
Ocean to Ocean

may be on the banks of a stream, 1t
may commemorate some act Of state
wide Importance; it may be located
around a landmark, etc. All these
small parks vii, vel right in with
the national system.
A1he day of the park and OF the
great outdoors has come in America.
TIE people are getting ready to play
again. We are expecting the largest
coming season that have visited them
for a number of years.
"EoT Ave or SIX years the American
people have done very little playing.
There was the wal and there was the
expense of travel. Blu the war is owe
and travelling expenses have been ma
terially reduced.
steamship ines to Europe are adj
vertising Ii specific amount as the ex-
pense of a trip abroad, everything in
cluded. To offset this the government
park service has figured the necessary
cost, including railroad fare, Pullman
and dining ear extras and the expense
in the parks themselves. While our
service has nothing TO do with ex-
penses outside the park. 1t has every
thing to do with those within The park
boundaries. and we have forced the
total cost down to a minimum.
May Use Different Roads.
The government service has ar.
ranged with the railroads which reach
these parks to take passengers in al
one entrance and permit them to leave
the parks mt entirely different gate
ways and use a different railroad
~thenceforth, II they wish to do so.
From inquiries the park -ervice is
receiving now. we believe the word
, 1922-05-31
Group of Philosophers Live in
Bamboo Forest and Teach
Lore of Far East.
SCHOOL IN A TEA GARDEN
But a Foreign Language May Also Be
Learned by Dancing, Head Phil
osopher Finds-Comes From
Famous Family

New York.-Not many people know
that among the many interesting
things which develop in New York
city is a group of Chinese philosophers
who dwell in a bamboo forest. Know
ing hat the forest is on Macdougal
street helps, for many interesting
things come out of Macdougal street.
The head of the philosophic group is
DR.. Liu Tien Tao, who received de-
grees both in China and at Columbia,
and who, once a week, may be found
imparting knowledge of Chinese Ian
gnage. philosophy and poetry to
group of students. These include art
lists. writer's and Chinese students
The Chinese in themselves are inter
esting, for they come from different
parts of the world, where they have
lived since leaving their native land
One speaks French and does not un-
, 1922-05-31
TRACE STONE AGE IN CANADA

ing to build up the story of the evolu-
ton of the prehistoric civilization as
exemplified in the tribes which worked
out their existence between the Rocky
mountains and the Pacific. Valuable
collections have been obtained.
1t was oniy recently. however, that
British Columbia, in an effective way,
turned its attention TO the past. I'm
der the direction of Premier John
oliver, the provincial museum has
been partly rebuilt and the collections
put on exhibition.
The aboriginal occupants of the
country belonged TO the neolithic, or
new stone age, scientists determined
from the specimens obtained from old
villages and burying places. Stone and
bone tools we're In ommon use when
the first white explorers visited the
north Pacific, although iron and cop
per In small quantities were found
almost everywhere.
In some instances the native races
had developed a degree of art. One Of
he exhibits in the museum is a copy
, 1922-05-31

of a seated human figure holding a
bowl. 1t was chippec from a solid
block of stone and then polished.
There are two of these specimens very
much alike. One was discovered near
Departure bay, Nanaimo, and the
other In North Saanich, on Vancouver
island.
Perhaps the most characteristic of
the stone G are the stone axes and
hammers discovered in many places.
The stone weapons include daggers
and wal clubs. There are many ex-
amples of stone dishes, hewn from
small powders. With what appear to
have been rolling pins of somewhat
angular design the prehistoric woman
of this coast seems to have been well
supplied.
Primitive man In British Columbia
apparently did a little smoking now
and then. Old shell mounds on the
Thompson and Fraser rivers have
yielded what appear to have been
stone pipes. The early explorers
found the native races using a true
tobacco. nicotina attenuata, which
grows Wild In the Thompson river
country and was smoked alone or
mixed with grease and kihnikiuick.
, 1922-05-31
MEXICO IS NOW FAST PICKING UP

al work is u~nbounded. They crowd
the schools to full capacity ana there
nre hundreds who cannot as yet be
taken car of on recount of the lack
of teachers and other facilities. Men
and women of middle age vie with
sandal-footed youths to obtain enough
instruction to enable them to read and
write.
The teaching of the fundamentals.
which is being done in the schools. Is
supplemented by a series of educa-
tional lectures that are given in NOV
ing picture theaters on Sundays. So
successful has been this plan of teach.
ing the lowly natives the rudiments
Of reading and writing in this city
that the department OF public educa.
tion plans to extend the work TO all
Of the larger cities and many OF the
smaller communities Of the country.
President Alvaro obregon has
shown a keen interest Id this new
phase of education and has pledged
to provide the necessary financial
means for carrying 1t forward
, 1922-05-31
National Park Director Mather
Outlines Plan for System
Reaching Across Country.
is NOT GOVERNMENT PROJECT
Scheme Is Purely a State Proposition,
but viii Have Approval and As
sistance of National Govern
ment-FoiIow Rail Routes.

Omaha. Neb.-A dream of a. park
Bystem reaching from the Atlantic to
the Pacific along half n dozen or more
of the great travel highways was out
lined In Omaha by Stephen t. Mather
of Chicago. director Of the government
national park system. Mr.. Mather
emphasized that while these ark lines
are not sponsored by the government
and are purely state projects, they
nave the approval of the national sys-
TEN in every way.
at is a gigantic undertaking" says
Mr.. Mather.
Mr.. Mather is now in the West get
ting the great national parks, Yellow
stone. Yosemite, Rocky Mountain, Zion
and the. other Fairgrounds, ready for
the coming sightseeing season.
Many of the states are working on
these park lines now" says Mr..
Mather, "and we hope TO have others
interested very quickly"
Will Follow Rail Routes
Vest Of the Mississippi these park
ines, as outlined by Mr.. Mather. will
follow closely the big .ranscontinental
railroad lines. One system of parks
will follow the Southern Pacific road
from New Orleans across Texas. New
Mexico and Arizona to California. A
second line will follow the Missouri
Pacific and Santa Re from st. Louis
through Kansas City and on to the
pacitic through Kansas and the states
west. A third line of parks will fol-
low the Union Pacific from Omaha
across Nebraska. Wyoming, staii and
Nevada to san Francisco. with
branches at Ogden TO Los Angeles and
Portland. Still another park system
will extend from ST. Paul and Mime
apolis out to Seattle.
East of the Mississippi these lines OF
parks will follow trade -outes across
New York, northern Ohio and Indiana
TO Chicago; across PENNSYLVANIA. cen
trail Ohio and Indiana to Chicago and
81. Louis; across Maryland, West
Virginia, southern ohio and indiana to
st. Louis and down the Atlantic coast
and aroun to New Orleans.
The national government has moth,
ing officially Il do with these park
lines,r Mr.. Mather states, "but we are
assisting all along the line. These
parks viii be under the control of the
different states. They will be small
compared with the vast government
fairgrounds. Some Of them will con-
tain but n few acres. Here they will
lake in a bit Of rough land with an
especially fine View: there the park
may border on a small lake, again II
, 1922-05-31
Nothing but Drugs Ever Sold in
This London Pharmacy.
Worshipfui Company of Apcthecaries
Disposes Of Its Historic Shop in
City of London-Established
in Seventeenth Century.

London.-The Worshipful Company
of ~Apothecaries has sold its ancient
shop TO a London firm of druggists.
1t has been carried on by this city
company since early in the Seven
teenth century and was, as 1t were,
the classic druggists shop, with its
discreet window of frosted glass-the
a~pothecaries did not display their
wares-the shop forms, the plain
facade behind which Is hidden a dim
old courtyard and then the hall and
other rooms of the society. Almos.
next door, in Water Lane. was the
Blackfriars theater. where Shake
speare and Burbage played.
The society's prescriptions, formu-
las and special preparations-many
Of them centuries oid-are taken owe
by the new owners. The little fac
tory where the society makes drugs
wholesale. chiefly on government or
ders, has not changed hands yet.
, 1922-05-31
ANCIENT SHOP HAS BEEN SOLD

The shop is a spacious place. lined
with Notwithstanding old bottles.
cleaning warmly with gilt and color.
You look in vain for patent medicines
or any paraphernaiia OF the modern
chemist. 1t is all drugs and nothing
but drugs, and people who come in
with prescriptions are usually known
and addressed by their names. The
shop Is ~leisurely and quiet, as BELTS
its pedigree. Many customers are
sorry that the company should be Civ
ing up Its useful service of selling
sound drugs in these days when the
city companies rarely still perform
their original functions.
In the Did days no apothecary could
open a shop in the city without a
license from the A%pothecaries' Hall,
o could he sell drugs that had not
been duly tested at the hall.
The old charter gives the company
The right to burn unwholesome drugs
in front of the offenders door. The
company is one of three bodies en-
titled to grant a medical degree. In
the early Eighteenth century there
was a fierce quarrel between the ply
sicians and the apothecaries over this,
and Doctor Garth in his %dispensary
spoke rudely of the Apothecaries' Hall
as the place where tyros take the
freedom out TO KILL"
, 1922-05-31
Doctor Rudolf Degkwitz Reports
Successful Experiments With
New Preventive.
MEDICAL SCIENCE INTERESTED
Hope to Conquer the Most Deadly Of
all chiidren's Diseases-Daneer in
Public Apathy and Ignorance
of infectious Malady.

Manchester. England.-Dr. Rudolf
Degkwitz in the Deutsche
Nedizinisclie Wochenschrift tan au-
succeeded in comforting immunity to
measles by injecting a serum prepared
from convalescent patients.
This may prove to be one of the
greatest epochs in preventive medi-
cine" writes u medical correspondent
Of the Manchester Guardian. I'm his
last series of 100 cases Degkwitz
claims hat all the contacts inoculated
were completely immunized or So pro
only in its mildest form and there was
no untoward result.
IF these results are confirmed and
the method can be effectively and gem
orally applied, the result should be an
even greater saving of life than has
accrued from Jenner's discovery of
vaccination.
Most Deadly of All.
measles, the most deadly of all
the diseases of. childhood. continues
TO he the least comfortable of the
scourges which regularly affect our
people," the Guardians correspond
ent says warningly. with the pos
sible exception of influenza there is
no form of epidemic disease in face
of which preventive medicine is so
helpless. The causes for this are
mainly two. In the first place the
disease is not only highly infective
hut it's infectivity is highest before
the symptoms can be recognized. The
child which contracts measles has
three or four days in which to infect
his family. his friends and his school
fellows before it is known definitely
that he is suffering from measles al
all. The second cause is public apathy
and ignorance of the dangerous nature
of the complaint.
"Half a century ago there appear
to have been some justification 70
regarding measles as a trifing dis
order. something that every Child mus
'get over and the sooner the better
Owing to the operation of the still
mysterious laws which govern change
in type of disease. scarlet fever, whicl
was justly dreaded, has declined II
viruience and ceased 10 be one of TIL
major dangers of childhood diphtherii
is also much milder in form and it
dangers a almost be eliminated b.
, 1922-05-31

this early use of a~nti-toxin. But
measles has become more deadly year
by year
Recer. E~o;dsn:c.
1.-THE present writer can recall one
recent epidemic of measles in a Lar
cashire town which slew IN six months
precisely the number of children that
had succufnbed to scarlet fever in len
years. Yet 1t is still not an unknown
thing for a mother to put the other
children in bed with a case of measles
SO that they may all get over it to-
gether.' and it is the constant COM
plant of doctors that they are not
called in until the child is blue from
pneumonia and beyond all aid.
Compare this apathy with the hor-
ror of smallpox. Yet, before the in
PRODUCTION of vaccination, when small
pox was regarded as the national
plague, the death rate from this cause
averaged 400 per million. In 1915 the
death rate from measles was .39S per
Million. Neither the government nor
the local authorities seem 10 have
, 1922-05-31
Remarkable Progress Being
Made in Overcoming I%Iliteracy.
Night Schools in Capital Have Taught
Many Persons to Read and Write
-Laborina Class Is Deeply
Interested.

Mexico City.-Remarkable progress
is being made in overcoming niteracy
In the capital, according to informa-
ton obtained from the department OF
public education of the federal gov
eminent.
During the first three months of the
present year approximately $4,000 per
son of the lower class were taught
to read and write. This educational
work is being carried on largely by
means of Eight schools, which are of
themselves something of IA novelty In
Mexico.
1t is stated that interest on the part
of the laboring class in this education.
, 1922-05-31
Study Chinese in
New York City

derstand English another speaks Rus
sian.
Teach Chinese.
Chinese is taught by Doctor Liu in a
semi-popular way, much as the Euro
pean languages are taught. 1t is COM
paratively simple to obtain a slight
working knowledge of the language,
the students find. The delight of writ
ing mysterious characters such as
those which grow on tea chests is
one of which the pupils never tire. In
time they expect to a certain extent
to lead Chinese poetry and philosophy.
In the meantime they imbibe it from
Doctor Liu, who later is to arrange
special courses in Chinese poetry and
philosophy, with the aid of lecturers
from Columbia.
Doctor Liu believes that his work Is
valuable in promoting mutual under
standing between Chinese and AIneri
cans He thinks each country can OBJ
tain of the other something of value
which 1t needs-that China can get
practical business methods from Amer
lea and America can feel the quieting
influence of Chinese philosophy.
In the meantime, the American stu
dents of Chinese are absorbing knowl-
edge literally in a bamboo forest. II
is something like S~hakespeare's
tongues In trees, books in running
brooks AT the Bamboo Forest the
students read-if they can make it out
Chinese poetry written on lacquered
tables. some of 1t by great national
poets and other verses contributed by
Doctor Liu himself. Big decorative
Chinese characters signifying 'happi-
ness or wisdom" cover the walls or
In Bamboo Forest.
This forest is a Chinese tea garden
! which, with American business vision.
Doctor Liu saw would have to pay
overhead charges while he was carry
ing on his chosen work and gathering
around him as applicants for Chinese
wisdom little coteries of Interested
philosophers and friends, The tables
covered with Chinese characters were
all decorated by the head philosopher
himself.
The Bamboo Forest is indoors in n
basement of the little old Macdougal
street house in winter, but in fair
weather extends to q more real bam-
boo forest in the open at the rear.
Doctor Liu is n philosophic philoso-
pher. He takes the American world as
he finds 1t and adopts its customs and
habits. He attended the recent ball
of the Independent Artists at the Wal
dorf dressed as a prince of the old
Tang period. But he danced American
dances with the rest of the American
world, an accomplishment he learned
while at Columbia.
The head philosopher of the Bamboo
Forest comes from a family Of both
students and warriors. His father was
president of a Chinese college. and an
uncle, the famous Gen. Hwang Hslng,
led the republican forces in the revo-
luton in China in 1912. !
, 1922-05-31
Existed in British Columbia as
Late as Century Ago.
ArchaeoIosIsts Make Interesting Dis
eoveries While Exploring Old Com
munity Sites, Mounds and
Aboriginal Grases-

Victoria, b. C.-The stone age,
which, scientists say, came to an end
In western Europe about 100 B. q,
was carried on for more than 5000
years later, and In Its most character
istic form existed in British Columbia
up until as late a. a century ago. In
Some districts. according to findings
Of a~rchaeologlsts who have been ex-
ploring some OF the old community
Sites, mounds and aboriginal graves
along the coast and the interior Of
the province.
The stone age in British Columbia
mas for many years been the study of
scientists Of note. who have been work
, 1922-05-31

pleasure is coming back into the
vocabulary of the ordinary people.
and this year these great western
parks will entertain their largest
crowds for many years-if not in their
histories.
The people are going to enjoy the
great outdoors more in the future tina
they have in the past, m when the
different states complete these chains
of state parks across the country the
American people will get a new idea
of what it means to be out-of-doors."
, 1922-05-31

walked up to the facts represented by
these figures. We continue to lavish
enormous sums of money On the hos
pital isolation Of scarlet fever with
very little effect on the prevalence of
tbe disease, but hospital accommoda-
ton for measles is very rarely pro-
>vided.
Scarlet fever is compulsorily noti-
fable; the notification of measles is
optional and, in these days of anti
spending as opposed to true economy,
practically in allegiance"
, 1922-05-31
Plans to Dive for Lost
Treasure of Buccaneers

Cape May. N. Jay Z. Me-
cay of Cape May, N. J., is organ
izing n syndicate to try TO re-
cover the doubloons and pieces
of-eight which formed the cargo
of the Spanish vessel Nathan
eros. sunk off Turtle Cut inlet a
century ago. Manned by pirates
aS9 en sostc From The Spanish
NAH TO New York to dispose of
the loot, the ship was driven by
a gale on The shoals off the inlet
about seven miles north of Cape
May.
, 1922-05-31
Town Puts Bar on Aviators.

Rye. N. Y-An. ordinance prohibit
ing aviators from flying less thRn
1000 feet above the land or water of
the Rye town park mt Oakland beach
has been passed by the commissioners
of parks. The ordinance forblds the
performance Of aerial acrobatics at
any height over the park. because of
The danger to persons In the park.
, 1922-05-31
Immunity in
Measles Serum

this early use of a~nti-toxin. But
measles has become more deadly year
hv uear