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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 14, 1912)
THE CAPITAL JOURNAL E. IIOFEH, Editor and , Proprietor. H. M. IIOFER, Manager toltkdnit NnnpaiMr Dovutod to Amtriam Principle and tha Prtirrm M DT-lotmnt of All Ortiiroo rwMMMd Umnr Erwaic Euopt Sunday, Salmi. Or. n5CaiPT10N RATES) Unrariably la Ailranc) iWIt. b CiitW, b max S8.00 P rnonth. DallT.br Mall Dl W 4.0O Pat nvmth- Vaaalr. br Mail nor yaar. , .,- 1.00 Six month--. FULL LEASED WIRM t ELEGRAPH BKPOK lev.. " C, - HU I 1 1 '-a- .w I ...... , Xjrk . aaaan. ... I uc r THE TRUE CONCEPT OF LINCOLN. The Lincoln day speeches in the great banquet halls of million dollar hotels have died away. The men in dress suits and women in ball room attire who ap plauded him to music and champagne have departed. But Lincoln remains what he was not of their kind. The reul Lincoln, the emancipator, lives in the hearts of the masses. He is worshipped and venerated among the poor and the lowly. He belongs to them, and not to the gilded aristocracy that re viled him when he was on earth as a boor and a buffoon. The silken-handed, fashionable minister of the gospel com pares Lincoln to Christ. But this man of culture in broadcloth docs it from habit it is his trade to dole out platitudes. It is his business to pettifog for the lowly Nazarene, who, like Lincoln, was the antipode of broadcloth. The true concept of Lincoln remains where he himself wrote it in letters immortal, in tears, in pain, in anguish for struggling, toiling humanity. o THE GOOD ROADS BILL. Governor West's bills and the Grange bills will go before the people, and some good will result. There must bo education and agitation, and finally there will be action for good roads. In the past the work of the Grange has been obstructive, rath er than constructive in effort. The Grange has been the brake on ihe wagon, and it looks good to see thorn taking the lines. It looks as though the team might go ahead and pull the ve hicle out of the mud. Having been employed in banks for many years it is nat ural Governor West Bhould favor bonds. Here is an outline of what we consider rational proceeding: 1. Create the office of State Highway Inspector, to be an en gineer and practical experienced builder. 2. Let the governor appoint him, and have authority to em ploy prisoners and give him a state appropriation. ' 3. Let the laws aouthorlze him to designate what may be known as state highways. 4. A state highway, one to bo owned by the whole state and for interstate traffic to be built under his direction. 5. Each county on bucIi a state highway to pay In proportion to its population or traffic use it may make of such highway. There will still bo the purely county and local roads to keep up by the counties and road districts. o REMEDY FOR DEFECTIVE STREETS. No ono can deny that some of the concrete streets in Salem are a failure. They should bo made good hard surfuco streets in the spring by the contractors. Then they should be coated with tar and fino crushed rock wearing surface. This is practical In other cities, and it is the only way out of the difficulty. i The asphalt wearing surface will protect the concrete from the grind of traffic. It will do away with the clouds of dust on concrete streets and the filling up of sewers. This latter is a serious matter. The city of Portland has seen tho results, in having to replace miles of concrete-clogged sewer pipe. Tho coating of tho concrete streets with a waterproof wearing surface, after they have been carefully repaired, is the only solution. OREGON LANDS AND THEIR VALUES. Tho action of tho Tolland Central liibor Council should not be taken too seriously. That organization had a right to warn working people against comina to Orcein. ; But it went too far in crying down land values. The Portland Realty Index,, official organ of the Portland Re alty Board, hits it about right. It speaks for the men w ho are a dynamic force that is driving Portland and Oregon to the front. V-nny of these nun are themselves owners of property worth millions. ' Tlicy are sub-dividers of tracts, advocates of easy terms, build ers of homes for the family of small means. No class of men are so deeply interested in promoting public welfare and bo sensitive to what keeps people out of Oregon. That them are sharpers and sharper in ihe res! cUie busi ;..; is iiimtrni as in other lucrative professions. There are scoundrels in every profession, black sheep in the ministry and blackmailers running newspapers. In no business is there such sharp competition, such vigilant Bcrutiny of every transaction as in real estate. Now hear what these men have to say in defense of conditions tn Oregon: To Whom It May (Went: Organized labor In Portland is responsible for circular letters jrvfltvtlng seriously on tho honesty of real estate men, especially thoso who are promoting immigration to Oregon. Thpy are from tho Ontral tabor Council, signed by President Will Daly and Stvrvtary A. W. Lawrence, and have been sent to the governors of every state in tho Union and to all lending news psjMTS, with tho miut'ft that they be given wide publicity. Tin '(.Viitr.il tabor Council states that "false advertisements" hnv brought many thousands of persons into Oregon and that "large numbers of these people are now destitute and that the city council of Portland was forced to appropriate a large sum of money to rrovlde work for some of "those actually starving jMop!e." DIM CAPITA! JOITOU. TTTP5E8PAY, FEBHCABT li, 1912. HER FRIEND'S GOOD ADVICE The statement is untrue. Portland, with a population of about 230,000, has, in common with other large cities, especially seaports, a proportion of poor people who inevitably suffer during the winter. , A reasonable sum was appropriated by the civic authorities, and this, augmented by the charity of churches, etc., sufficed to relieve the wants of a not unusually large numDer 01 me y WI whom we always have with us. ' The circular next attacks the state as it were. It claims that "Oregon is in the main a great wilderness of for ests and mountains" and that it costs from $50 to $100 an acre for logged-off farm land. . This gives the false impression that there are no farm lands to be had excepting those that are logged off, whereas good tillable land can be had from $20 an acre up, according to location. To take up and operate a farm, whether it be in Indiana or Ore rmn a man must, hnvp rnnital as well as experience, but it is ut terly untrue that the Oregon farmer to be successful "must have considerable capital," as the Labor Council claims. Another false statement is touenmg our oreimru wuuo. reads as follows : . "Tho. orchard lands are held for almost fabulous prices, in the hope that Easterners can be fooled to buy them. "The same trick that was playea zv years ago in ooumeiu vai ifornia, when orange orchards sold for $1000 an acre. "The bottom of those wildcat schemes dropped out in Califor nia, and the Coxey army followed. . "The bottom of Oregon's wildcat schemes is now dropping out; hence, idleness, destitution and a general reign of crime commit ted by misled and desperate men." The fact is there is less crime in Portland than in any other city of its size in America, and the destitution and unemployment is not greater, if as great, as tnat oi any omer city oi equai owe. As regards Southern California fruit lands the Labor Council should try to get facts before making malicious statements. Listen to the facts. Says the Los Angeles Examiner, February 4, 1912 note the date: "Redlands, Feb. 3. Realty men m Kecllands lind tne demand for orange groves the strongest in years. "All report that they have buyers for ten and twenty-acre groves willing to pay $2000 an acre or more, but they do not have the groves on their lists. "During the past week it is estimated that deals nave Deen made aggregating $500,000, etc" The Los Angeles Times records, two weeks ago, sale of an or ange grove of 10 acres for $25,000 at San Dimas. The apple lands of Oregon are not held at laDuious prices. Eastern men "are not "fooled" any more than Western men in investing in Oregon orchard lands for the results, that is the profits, accriung from such investments are matters of fact, not of mere opinion. Finally, Portland is a city or nomes, a majority or w men are owned by working men who have built them out of day s wages. The opportunity to buy a lot and build a home is as -near to an industrious man here as in Chicago or St. Louis, and, allowing for some natural drawbacks, it is equally true that "Oregon is the Land of Opportunity." PUBLIC ROAD PROBLEMS AflO ROAD CONSTRUCTION (Ily a Nature 8tudent) I that are not according to the means I win next try and show some of at hand; or tho condemnation of the comparative, demonstrated pAst those in charge under Bucn conai- results tn Oregon, between what Is tlons. The Results Made This Newborg Lady Glad She Followed Suggestion. Newbnrg, Ala. "For more than a year," writes Myrtle Cothnun, of this place, "I suffered with terrible pains In my back and head. I had a sallow complexion, and my face was covered with pimples. Our family doctor only gye me temporary relief. A friend of mine advised me to try Cardnl, so I began taking It, at once, and with the best results, for I was cured after taking two bottles. My mother and my aunt have also used Cardul and were greatly benefited. I shall always praise Cardul to sick and suffering women." Cardul Is a purely vegetable, per fectly harmless, tonic remedy for wo men, and will benefit young and old. Its Ingredients are mild herbs, hav ing a gentle, tonlo effect, on the wo manly constitution. Cardul has helped a minion women back to health and strength. Have you tried It? If not, please do. It may be just what you need. N. B. Write to; Udlea' Advlwry Dt., Chttli nooaa Medicine Co., Chaltariooa, Tenn., tor bpecuU jrufrucliotu, and 64-para book. Home TreataMOt tut Wkhd," tent In plain wrapper, on request. Newport, and was selected for street commissioner; and according to statements made by ex-Mayor Ben sall, of that city, there were certain streets that became practically im passible to traffic through the win ter; and that the funds for maln- . ,,j.itSS X-RAYS AND SMILES. Why not give the local auto dealerB a chance to furnish that auto fire truck! Other things being equal, why not patronize home Industries and home merchants first? The Oregouian editorial staff has underaken a job too large for its combined mentality. It Is trying to run the governor's offlce and the state Institutions. Clark being from Missouri, it's up to Woodrow Wilson to "show him" if he can. The Oregon Electric will fool around until the first thing it knows, it will have to pay for the paving on Front street. United States Senator Townsend will tour Orecon in the interest of Sarsaparilla Cures all humors, catarrh and rheumatism, relieves that tired feeling, restores the appetite, cures paleness, nervousness, builds up the whole system. Get It today In usunl liquid form or chocolated tablets called Sarsatabav aith." The next two articles expi ate upon some of tlve specific condi tions which call for measures to bring about a better social adjust ment, Mary Brown Sumner ia "A. Strike Brought About by a Bundle or Dirty Clothes, tells of tho tyranny exercised in New York over laundry workers, who labor overtime) under unhealthful conditions, by an unhap py alliance of the impatient man. with the bundle of clothes and the court of appeals, which refused to. . . .! ..... I.-.. ir in tjqq nir n ft nine, iui Oregon is already in that column If. limit the hours of labor at night for the newspapers of the properly informed. state are women. ou' rum ioaves. ; of Bread" details the causes which i led thousands of unorganized work- was not ers of foreign speech in Lawrence, Mass., to band together against be- The O. A. C. Glee club ,.on a ffoMinn nf the house Its nier- its deserved. Salem should be col- ins made to suffer a reduction in ,,n,i nrt individually ashamed Py to correspond with a two-hour of itself. cut In the working week compelled The Survey for February. ! by the state law. -.The wages of a large number of the ' men at least, were but $6 a week Morris Knowles. "In Hartford as It Is in Heaven" t in "The Flood" tolls how Pittsburgh is the attention compelling title of! has studied the way to protect the an account by Arthur P. Kellogg in Ohio Valley from Its almost annual teining such street were so small, the February "Survey" of the way damage by flood arrt shows that the that no one over there could ac- j Raymond Robblns In town after town problem is one which rightly calls complish any effective results; andjwj,ne campaigning with a "Men and for Interstate action. To what xtent that they had become discouraged, Reiigi0n Team" farters an awaken and had given up accomplishing any-'jng of our responsibility for social thing of any consequence . with the msadjustmentfl. Prof. Graham Tay funds at hand; but, not so with the lor jn an article which appropriately new street commissioner, working oecomnanles this story, tells of the j And now, I will make a few state ments, as to what Uie farmers and county road supervisors have been I accomplishing; and tha recognition they are gaining throughout Oregon and other states. I It was a Missouri farmer, by the name of King, and not a scientific called scientific road experts, and or dinary road supervisors selected from Intelligent, public spirited farmers. Our road supervisors have been supplied In the past with a road fund that generally amounted to about $10 to $25 per mile annually; and frequently Ions, for the last few road expert, that Invented the King- years; while previous to that time, j drag, that Implement that ean be with much smaller sums. Yet, in constructed and operated cheaply, the faco of those conditions, Bclentl- j yet is so effective tha It Is receiving do road experts In the employ of the rapid recognition all over the United federal government, appeared at our States. It has been so effective state fair one fall, to demonstrate to (wherever It has been thoroughly and the farmers and oad siipervlsors how to build crushed rock roads to cot from $.1,000 to $",000 per mile; but they failed to demonstrate how to pay for each mile of such roads, by the payment of from $10 to $25 annual Installment. Yet because the road supervisors did not follow, any further then they have, the teaching of these scientific road ex perts, these experts that many In telligent farmers consider as experts In spending funds, but not In getting road results; I repeat, because the road supervisors have pot gemnlly followed the teaching of such ex perts, they have ba condemned as Impractical road builders. Tray, who wero the lmpractiervl men, laboring under fulw Ignorant delusions, dur ing ttue past conditions? I do not wish to be understood as opHwlng the macadamizing of roads when practical; but I do object to plana with a King drag. . The first winter after the begin ning of such work little effective re sults were shown; the second win ter the mud was about a foot deep, but light traffic was traversing over such streets; while the third winter the streets remained in good condi tion all winter, and heavy traffic passed over them with ease. (To be continued.) o OREGON IKRIGATI0X CONGRESS rortlund, February 19th to Slst 2.00 Portland Round Trip. For this meeting the Oregon Elec tric railway will sell round trip tickets from Salem to Portland, Feb ruary 18th and 19th, with return limit of February 23rd, at the rate shown above. This is an important meeting look ing toward the further development of the Irrigated sections of Oregon, and an interesting program will be presented. C. E. ALB IN, Gen. Agent O. E. Ry. 2-14-16-17 Salem, Ore. o A Vermont congressman Is coming out to tell Oregon Republicans how to vote at the primaries. "Changing Conditions of a Working people In parts of Colorado are de pendent upon if not actually subser vient to the Colorado Fuel and Iron, company, Is explained by John A Fitch in "The Steel Industry and The People In Colorado." persistently used; yet people gener ally have been so skeptical of its practicability and effectiveness, that according to an eastern publication, the legislature of the state of Iowa has passed an act making the use of the King drag compulsory; and pro viding a state tax of one-half mill for such purpose. When such a course of action Is taken In an old- er, more thickly populated state, Is It wise for the people of Oregon to Irinatllv awlimt tha twinillnir avofnm nf I building ronds; a system that I will endeavor to prove Is unnecessary and uncalled for.' A few years ago. an ex-road super visor from Marlon county, who served under Judgo Scott, moved to A. McCulloch J "Made in Oregon" EPPLEY'S BAKING POWDER I'ae II Too will And none belter made anywhere. C. JJ. ErrLEY Snlcm, Oregon Serious Costly Siclmess it far too sure to como when your bodily strength has been undermined by tho poison of bile. Headaches, sour stomach, unpleasant breath, nervousness, and a wish to do nothing are all signs of bihouness-igns, too, that your system needs help. Just the right help is given and the bodily condition which invites serious sickness Is Prevented By timely use of Beechsra's Pills. This famous vegetable, and always efficient family remedy will clear your system, regulate your bowels, stimulate your liver, tone your nerves. Your digestion will be so improved, your food will nourish you and you will be strong to DO and to resist. Yon will feel greater vigor snd vitality, as well as buoyant spirits after you know and use ZBeeeknti mlti Th dinctioBt with rrarr fcos tn valuaM-wtMcUlb; to wound. Sold nf7whra. in bout 10c, 25c OF THE MAKING OF BREAD like that of books there Is no end. You would think so anyway If you rcould see the rack after rackful that comes from our ovens, and we bak more every day. The reason? Well, there are lots of thorn. The best and most satisfactory way to learn them Is to try the bread. Just try It that's all. CAPITAL BAKERY 439 Court Street Phona 954 It you only knew the value of GOOD VISION you would not tak chance but would have your eyes x amlned NOW.. It costs you nothing and give you the satisfaction of know ing you are giving your eyes the care ful attention they deserve. No tlmt like the present no place like ours. A. McCulloch OPTOMETRIST Ne. l North rennmUU St. (Greead fleer.) rieae K 001 re Roars, Ik) X L f ! j L All patent medlctnta or medicines ad vertised la this paper are for sale at DR. STONE'S Drug Store 8 .ILEX, 0RZG03 ale DR. 8TONrS Bio m ii run pert aal 1U.IIS KEULF Which cures: Indigestion, Sour Stomach, Palata the Stomach, Gas In the Stou.ach, lilues. Despondency and "do a in tie mouth." Makes a t4 peraoa cheerful How About the Life of Your Collar Note the linen finish note the length of time you are able to wear your shirt and collar Ironed by our method and they will be clean longer. You will bo perfectly com fcrUhlo when wearing one of our collars the proof of the pudding Is In the eating of It Give us a trial. Our wagons call and deliver In all parts of the city. Capitil City Laundry ruosE sus its airveU Ask Your Grocer for it n n n ti ii ii if ii ii jtsrtassllatf wt tttminwH Low Colonist Fares Daily March 1st to April 15th, to All DnLl " u"'i on vregon ciectnc icamv y FROM St. l'aul Kansaa City. Omaha Chicago 133.00.. Cincinnati S7 on Milwaukee 31.50 St Louis 32.OO New York 60.00 Detroit 38.00 25.00 Des Moines 27.85 25.00 Indianapolis 35.65 25.00 Tlcnvor 9K flfl From other eastern points In proportion. ' Tell your friends in the East of this opportunity of moving West at low rates, ninw.t tni. . i- . . . . ualu romix) ym Turlington KOUto. norineru r.Tflni X'-.l . Bank" and Oregon. Electric raclflc, Great Northern and "North Railways. You can deposit with me and tickets will be furnished people Jn the ta Details will be furnished on request Ii. COMAS, Gcnl Frt t Pasa Agent C E. AiBIX, i mm wis ill rl "t,on' u5ck in results. urinary irregularities. Refuse substitute. RED CROSS PHARMACY.