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Editorial Page of The Salem Capital Journal TS, WEDNESDAY 191S. The Capital Journal Published by The Barnes -Taber Company GRAHAM P. TAHER, Editor and Manager An Independent Newspaper Devoted to American Principles and the Progress and Development of Salem In Particular and All Oregon In General PublUhfd E?er UvMilof: Nicept Huniliy, Haltm, Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Invariably In Advance) Dally, by Carrier, per year ...J5.20 rer month. .45c Dally, by Hall, per year 4.0(1 Per month.. 85c Weekly, by Mall, per year . ... 1.00 Sl montun.BQc HJI.I. LKAHKI) WlllH THI.ROHAI'II HHI'OIIT The Cnpltal Journal is more thus nnxlons to give Its subscribers the very best carrier service possible. If joh don't get your paper on time, Just phone Main 82 and a copy will he soul you by special messenger. The Capital Journal management walls all Its subscribers to receive prompt and efflcleut service your complaints registered at this office will rccelvo careful attention. Points out How Timber Is Gobbled ! THREE MEN OWX 11 PER CENT OF ALL TIMBER IX I'M TED STATES, 1)0 OWN TWO-Flr'TIIS AM) 1115 OWN MORE THAN HALF 01' IT. Terrible Suffering Eczoma All Over Baby's Body. "W'hi ii my baby was four months old his face broke out with eczema, and nt sixteen months of tine, his face, hands nnd arms were In a dreadful state. The eczema spread nil over his body. We had to put a mask or cloth over his face ami tie up his nanus. j'lnally we gave him Hood's Harsupa- rllla and In a f"v months he was en tirely cured. Today he Is a healthy boy." Mrs. Inez Lewis, During, Maine. Hood's Snrsnparllla cures blood dis eases and builds up the system. Get it today In usual liquid form or chocolated tablets culled SarsatabS. 1 line CSi icaso Store SAVE THE WATER RIUHTS. THE timber statistics of tho United Slates show that nlno men own one-seventh of all the llmbor In tho United States, and that 90 men own two-fifths of it, or twice as much a all the timber in Oregon, which is credited with having one-fifth of all avallablo timber in this country. Tills is a Btato of affairs devoutly not to be wished for. However, it Is a condition realized a thing accom plished and there is no uso In crying about or discussing it, for the milk Is spilled. It shows, though, how eas ily the peoplo's property, that Is tho government's, can bo acquired and when once acquired, tho people, tho original owners, can be made to pay any price tho present owners see fit to chnrge, for that which was their own and for which practically no con sideration was paid. It Is proper though to call atten tion to this condition, to point out the manner In which wo havo til -lowed our timber to slip out of our possession, and to seo that the same fato does not overtake our remaining possessions. Hero la Oregon wo have not only tho greatest body of timber, though It is now largely owned pri vately, In the United Stales, hut wo also havo tho most mngnlflclent wntcrpowor. This power Is very con servatively estimated at 3,000,00(1.0(10 horsepower. It Is probably nearer 5,000,0000 and this mngnlflclent prop erty which wo should keep free for tho uso of tho generations (o como after us Is rapidly going tho way of tho timber, bolng claimed and 'in proprlated by privates Individual and companies. Tho process Is sim ple. About all a company or an in dividual has to do is to fllo on It, claim It as theirs, and It Is dono. This watcrpower, whllo not now In donuind, will somo time bo worth at loast ono dollar per week per horse power, or $!0 a year. Tho lime will como when, every bit of It will bo In demand and used. It will thon "pro duco for tliu prlvato owner," If we permit It to be appropriated from $1&0,000,000 to $2110,000,000 a year. The tlmo will como when It will have to produce the light and heat for thoso who oome after us, as well as the iower for their factories. Would It not we well to at least begin to throw somo safeguards around It? True, the power should bo usod for present needs, but this can bo done without the state parting with Its rights. Ijot the rights for power pur jKisea be leased, say on fiO-yenr terms tho state collecting rental for tho uso of nnd retaining tho right to fix new derma nt tho expiration of tho lease. This would permit tho use nt small expense now, nnd provldo fur In creased chnrgo and larger monies in the future, as the demand In creased. It would also keep In the hands of tlio state the right to regu late prices, at which power must be furnished to consumers. This would provo doubly beneficial, providing revenue and protecting the consumer, the manufacturer, nnd as it now appears, every person In the elate, In tho years to come, when fuel becomes scarce, nnd the wuterpower now going to waste will be harnessed anil mailo to light, and warm our building. It would seem tho part of wisdom for this legislature to lake somo steps 'towards protecting the people's rights In this vast property. The stable should be locked and the sooner the better. Wo havo lost out vnst wealth of timber, and wo should bo warned by that and take some atcps to retain possession of the wuterpower. Our big mountain ranges nro vast reservoirs for the Ktorage of water, and they nro pro vided by nature without cost to us. or to the private exploiter who Is so rapidly gathering them up. The tlmo Is coming, when If properly lakon euro of, tho Income from this source alone, will easily pay tho run ning expenses of the stale, maintain ing our schools, building our roads, nnd relieving tlio citizen of tho bur don of taxation. Is not this worth looking after? It ntay sound vision ary now but It. true Just tho same, nnd the pnsslng of a generation, at the most will demonstrate It. THE CITY ATTORNEY'S SALARY. THE city council Monday night, with but one dissenting voice, passed an ordinance increasing the salary of tho City Attorney, Rol lln K. Page, from $1200 to $1500 a year. Tho Capital Journal thinks the council made a grievous mistake, and it has a number of reasons for this position. It has no personal feeling against Mr. Pago, Its objection being to tho Increase of salary of tho of fice. Councilman Mlnton voiced ono of these objections, and in doing so touched the vital Bpot of the whole proceeding. He pointed out that tho present incumbent, when ho was Department of Labor and Commerce, Bureau of Corporations, ' Washington, January 20, 1913. Sir: I have the honor to submit herewith the full text of part 1 of the report of the bureau of corporations on tho lumber Industry. Tho essential facts contained in this report set forth In a letter of submit tal nnd summary by tho former com missioner, Hon. Herbert Knox Smith, on February 13, 1911, The report shows a marked degree of concentra tlon In the ownership of standing tim ber In the United States. The area covered by the bureau's investigation contains about 80 per cent of the pri vately owned timber of tho country. In this area three holders have 14 per cent of the privately owned timber, 90 have two-fifths and 195 have nearly half. Marked concentration In the area outside of the bureau's detailed Investigation also is Indicated. Since the amount of standing timber Is steadily diminishing and its value rapidly Increasing .this concentration Involves problems of far-reaching pub lic importance, Ir view of the facts already puh- lected to tho office, knew what tho stilary was, and accepted tho place illshed, no extended comment nppoars at tlio salary with laudablo alacrity, necessary at this tine It seems prop- Ho virtually, In accoptlng tho office er, however, to emphasize that the entered Into a contract with tho city ( present conditions of timber owner for tho period of a year, or whatever ship are largely duo, as set forth In term his office Is, that he would per- , tlil loport, to the lind policy of tho form tho duties of the offico for that .tcnoral government, especially the term for $1200 a year. Morally. It Brent federal land grants to railroads Is a violation of his contrnct, to ae-. nml faultv operation of sortie of the cept more. : general land laws. Instend of secur- Ho was elected to tho place only lnB a wl(le distribution or tho public ,1 In In thn Iw.n.Io nf a n,,,l,n- a row weeks ago una wuy ins ser- ' vices became twenty-five per cent ot Independent owners, as apparently moro valuable In a couplo of weeks contemplated, tho practical result of Is something tho individual council men should throw somo light upon, for no ono else can. The offico Is a sinecure, at tho best, and dozens of Salem attorneys would havo been willing to accept, as Mr. Pago did, tho office and Its $100 a month salary. Indeed, thero Is no evidence, at least none known to tho public, that Mr I 'ago asked for the raise, same time it Is a dead open and shut proposition that ho would not have reslgnod, had tho Balary not been raised, for as has been said, the of fice requires no very arduous labors mental or other, and whoever holds It has practically all of his tlmo to attend to othor business. No business man would pay a salary to a law- thls legislation, at least so far ns tlm norlands are concerned, has been a high degree of concentration of owner ship. Tho report shows thnt the great land grants have directly resulted In enormous slnglo holdings, whllo other grent tracts of standing timber, trans ferred from tho public domain In smnll parcels to prlvnto interests, and At tho """""y w',n m lmiortnnt return to t no pumic treasury, nave peon garn ered Into large holdings by timber speculators. Concentration in the ownership of this limber, moreover, tends constantly to increnso. The national forest policy Inaugur ated In the nineties, and now in suc cessful operation, marked a funda mental chango In the Ideas which had formerly prevailed ns to the handling c settlement of the country, is practlc lyy negligible When, moreover, such lands becomo concentrated in a com paratively few hands, thero is, Instead of a public service, a serious public danger. I Without entering Into a discussion of possible solutions of certain grave problems involved in the present con centration of timber ownership, it may be pointed out that the govern ment today still owns, exclusive of the forests of Alaska, about one-fifth of the country's total supply of mer chantable timber. It is the agency best adapted to practicing reforesta tion on a large scalo Recently Im portant suits for forfeiture of exten sive timberlands have been brought by the government on the ground of non-fullflllment of conditions Imposed In the grants by which these lands were allonated from the public do main. For these reasons, it would ap pear, therefore, that tho government may later be able to materially strengthen Its relative position ns a timber owner. The facts set forth in this reKrt clearly point to the desirability ot maintaining the Integrity of the na tional forests and of extending to oth er publicly) owned timber, including forests In Alaska and tlmherlnnds that may be recovered in forfeiture suits now pending or subsequently insti tuted by the government, the cardinal principle of the national forest policy, namely, the retention of the fee to such lands at least until the timber Is removed. Decision will then have to bo made between retaining such lands for reforestation and disusing of the surface for agricultural purposes. It seems clear, moreover, that the fun damental principle to be followed In the sale of the timber Itself Is that the terms of sale should be such ns to Insure to the public treasury substan tially tho full Btumpage value at the time that such timber shall ho actu ally cut. Very respectfully, LUTHER J. CONANT, JR., Commissioner of Corporations. yer If ho had no more business for i , , ... , , . , ' , " , , ,, of public timber lands. The bnsl una , u. no c. y . prndp,c of this policy Is the reduction attorney. Why, then, did the council of ,he ffio UHe o the m Me voluntarily agree to pay this officer fn)m tmo ,o tme of (he tnbor $300 a year moro than he had con- wh ft v,pw ,o th(J whMt ug(J of the tract! for? Mr. Pago, at the ooun- gum,Ir mA to ,u propor conBomtlon, cll mooting Monday night, was re- hjP , po1cjr , Rovernment ,B ftble luwieu . -ui. ii urn. no uu. ,,,. for tn pl))1c fh(, , mar. "I do not caro to answer the argu- knt v(lluo of thg mbor ftt tho of ment. 1 am willing to leave it with ',., aI11, Rt the gnmo tme to tho council." This was boeomingiy tftn tll0 land gclf for rcfor(,Btat,oni modest on his part, for Mlnton's ar- mini, other use or disposition ns gument was unanswerable. Another statement of Mr. Mlnton's was equally unanswerable, and that may later seem advisable Attempts, howovor, are still mado to secure the transfer of public timber- was that no ono even asks that tna ilulliB t rvttie owners under the street sweepers, tho common labor- gnmo pipag of settlement which in the ers employed by tho city, hnvo their ,,nst often proved wholly specious nnd wages raised. Yet they nre a neces- j insincere Mfueh of tho tlmlborlnnd sity, while the office of city attorney 'still remaining in public ownership Is Is somewhat of a municipal luxury adapted only for tlmlier purposes. All thnt could bo dispensed with nnd not 'that could bo properly asked by greatly missed, other than that It li.bonn fide settler Is tho surfaco of ar somewhat of a habit hard to break, able land, after tho timber has lieon The Capital Journal, Just now dur- 'removed, but too frequently back of Ing the legislature, has not much , the argument made in the name of the spare space, but It will gladly devoto j'"seltler" Is the desire to acquire the some of it to tho city roumilim-n in, timber or other natural resources which to explain this generous giving rather than the soil Itself. It seems away of tho city's money, believing 1 desirable, therefore, to direct public an explanation would provo highly attention to tho fundamental differ Inlnri-Ktlrg reading for Its subscrib ers, but don't all como at once. An opinio i from City Attorney Page as to the legality of the proceeding, and also a discussion of Its moral feat ure'i would make additional good romlu-g, nnd Tho Journal will gladly pubMsh Ills reMirt. WILL SETTLE UOI'XlUltY 1IY AltlMTHATlOX Arbitration was the only method for the settlement of the boundary dispute between" Marlon nnd Linn counties that could be agreed upon at a meet ing last, night between the delegntes of the two counties nnd (ho members of the county courts. The methods of choosing arbiters will be tho choosing of ono man from outside the two counties by tho county Judge of ench county, the two men to select a third also from outsldo of the two counties. This will bo dono Im mediately, nnd ns soon us the board of arbiters baa arrived at a decision It will report to the delegations In the legislature from Marlon and Linn counties. once between disposing of agricultural lands to nctual settlers whoso Indus try contributes directly to tho mate rial and social upbuilding of the com munity and tho allenntlon of virgin tliulMMinnds, which do not require, nnd Indeed hardly permit of Improve ment by prlvnto owners, nnd the valuo of which Is rapidly rising becnuso of reduction In the supply and the In crease In population. This public ser vice Involved In the mere speculative holding of this timber for nn advance In price, under present conditions of IS SALEM'S GREATEST DRY GOODS DISTRIBUTOR OUR SPOT CASH SYSTEM enables us to give you al ways-the BEST GOODS for the LOWEST PRICES-all we ask is a com parison of qualities and prices, then you can see what has built up The Chicago Store so fast. CLEARING PRICES ON THE FOLLOWING GOODS, PROFITS NOT CONSIDERED Dress Goods and Silks, Cloaks. Suits, Hosiery, Gloves, and Under wear for Man, Woman and Child-Dress Ginghams and Domestics of all kinds. Blankets, Comforts and hundreds of other articles TO BOOST FOR HALF A MILLION FOR EXPOSITION Members of the Royal Rosarlans, of Portland, aro here to Impress upon the members of the legislature tho ne cessity of voting a $500,000 appropri ation for tho Oregon representation at the Panama-Pacific exposition. Hills for such appropriations are now pend ing In each branch. Among tho Rosar lans who will be hore all week on this errand are R. I,, Flke, J. Fred Lassan, George M. Hyland, R, W. Foster and D. W. Campbell. Senator-Elect Coming. Dr. Harry Lane will come up from Portland tomorrow to see and hear himself confirmed United States sen ator from Oregon, which will be done at noon, both houses Bitting in Joint session. The voto was taken today by each house, acting separately. Te Cnre a Cold tn One Dir. Take LAXATIVE DROMO Quinine Tablets. Druggists refund money if It falls to euro. E. W. GROVE'S .Signa ture Is on each box. 25c. DEVON RROW COLLAR ClUEXT FRABODY Or CCX TROY N.t kl patent medlclnieor madlcliM ai- vertlaed In this paper arc for salt al DR. STONE'S Drug Store SALEM. OREGOX als Dr. ytone'n The only cash drug store In Orojon owes no one, and nn one owes It, carries large stock; Its shelves, kinds for medicinal purposes. Dr. Stone Is a regular graduate tn medi cine nnd has had many years of ex perience tn the practice. Consulta tions are free. rreacrlptlons are free, and only regular price for med icine. Dr. Htone can be found at his drug store, Salem, Or. from 7 In the morning until 9 at night North Commercial street Baletn. Oregon, Hi! Fashionable Suits ow Offered at Clearing Prices $4.50 $7.50 $8.50 and $10.50 All worth more than double Handsomely trimmed and tailored Materials the newest Fashionable Coats Now on sale the best values in Salem $3.50 $5.90 $7.50 and $10.50 Values worth up to $12.50, $15, $18.00 and $22.50. Clearing prices Our Spot Cash Prices Tou Cannot Beat Percales, yd 5c Outing Flannels, yard 4c,5c,81-3c MUSLINS AT MILL PRICES Dig SHEETS 48c House Presses, all new 98c Hundreds of articles all over the store at the same cut prices. SEEDS, JiOT WORDS. Salem People Have Absolute Proof of Deeds nt Home. It's not words but deeds that provo true merit. The doods of Doan's Kidney Pills, For Salem kidney sufforors, Have made their local reputation. Proof Ilea In the testimony of Sa lem people. C. W. Hill, wagon makor, 1939 N. Front street, Salom, Oregon, says ; "I had more or less backache and my kidneys were disordered. 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