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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (July 4, 1917)
of Th w i; d xksd.vv i : v i : x i xc , July 4, If 17. , OTIQ ournai CHARLES H. FISHES Editor and Manager holding this power from the council, that all other powers PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT 8UNDAT, SAXElf, OBEQON. BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. should be also withheld from it jt it exceed them and set aside the law. U 8. BARNES, President. CHAS. H. FISHER, Vice-President. DOBA C. ANDBESEN, See. and Treaa. A CRIME AGAINST CIVILIZATION Edit I Page e uapiiai J SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily by earner, per year j .$5.00 Per month 45 Daily by mail, per year 3.00 Per month 35e FULL LEASED WIRE TELEQBAPH BEPOBT '. EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES Ward 4b Lewia, New York, Tribune Building. Jlhicago, W. H. Stock well, People 'a One Building. The Capital Journal carrier boya are instructed to put the papers on the yorch. If the earrier does not do thia, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we ean determine whether or cot the carriers are following in troetlona. Phone Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent yon by special messenger if the carrier has miBScd yon. THE CHARTER AMENDMENTS Salem's property owners do not seem to realize the im portance of the coming election, or the bearing it may have on the future of the city. They, as a general thing, are taking but little interest in it, and yet it is of vital im portance to each and every one of them. There is' a cer tain amount of money due and owing for a street im provements. That money must be paid by some one. If the owners of the property along the streets do not pay it the city must. To meet this situation the council has submitted three amendments which are to be voted on I next Monday. One of these simply provides for giving the majority of the property owners the right to say whether a street shall be improved. There should be no objection to that by anyone. Another provides for mak ing liens against property ior street improvements en forcible, there should be no objection to this for it is the acme of silliness to give the city a lien that is no lien at all. If it cannot be collected it is absolutely worthless. The nrincinal obiection to this comes from those who have had the streets improved in front of their property but have not paid for the work. Naturally it does not appeal to them, yet they have had the benefit of the improvement ana snouia ne wining 10 pay ior it. The third amendment provides for reassessing the property when through some error the original assess ment is invalid. It is against this amendment the great est fight is being waged. It will affect most strongly those living on Twelfth street, the improvement of which is still largely unpaid for. Great stress has been laid by the opponents of this measure on the mandate of the supreme court, which through an error was made to hold that the "remonstrance was sufficient," when as a matter of fact the supreme court held no such thing. What it did decide was that the attempt to replat certain portions of the property along the street was invalid and of no effect. Twelfth street presents a serious problem, and one that requires just the amendment submitted to solve it in the best manner possible for the city and for the nronertv owners, on whom the assessment bears too heavily. Section 79 which is proposed to be added to the X . , n. j; J- .nr.A. "Ciili T nnrTPi. surer nroviuinir iur a maa&t?ssiueut icaua. uum r new oi- reassessment shall be made in an equitable man ner in accordance with the law m force at the time of makine the orieinal assessment. BUT THE COMMON COUNCIL MAY ADOPT A DIFFERENT PLAN OF APPORTIONMENT OF SUCH COST, WHEN IT MAY BE NECESSARY TO SECURE A JUST ASSESS MENT." It will be seen from this that the amendment provides for making a more equitable assessment and apportion ment of the cost of the improvement, and provides the only way in which an equitable division of the cost can be made. It is also argued that the council is trying to force these cliarter amendments down the people's throats by threat ening them with a bond issue. So far as that goes the city council will not compel the city to issue bonds to meet its obligations for street improvements if the amend ments fail, but circumstances wiU. The taxpayers will either have to meet the payments for street improve ments already made and which are not paid for, by a bondj issue or bv a heavv tax levy. The city is responsible fori the bill and will have it to pay if the amendments fail to pass. It will be up to the council to provide the way, and the two mentioned are all that are available. It is either bonds or increased taxes if the amendments are not adopted, and this from force of circumstances not from force applied by the council. It behooves every citizen to go to the polls and cast his or her ballot, for those who do not own property now, may very likely do so before the bond issue, if made, is paid off. Another argument against giving the council power to make a reassessment is that it nu-y exceed the powers given it. If this is a good argument against these amend-! ments it is equally good against the whole charter. . It follows naturally if this is a sufficient cause for with-1 The recent horror at East St. Louis is one to make civilization ashamed. It should cause every American to protest in such a way that never again could so brutal a crime be committed on American soil. For years the North has pointed scornfully at the South for its treat ment of the negro. While the accusations against the south were just, it can be said of its treatment of the negro, that it at least confined its cruelties, and its crimes H you will, to the punishment of negroes suspected of a crime. It never indulged in wholesale massacre of, the innocent; in ruthless butchery of women and girls who had committed no crime, and whose enly offense was that their skins were black. This senseless and heartless series of murders, was done ostensibly for revenge for the killing of a police sergeant by a negro. Surely this would not justify this wholesale murder any more than his killing by a murderous whiteman would justify murdering all the whites in the vicinity. This crime was, committed in one of the most populous northern states, the state that Lincoln honored by his presence, and whose hands struck the shackles from the ancestors of these very victims. Some hundreds of those who formed the mob are under arrest, and the state can only purge her self of the foul blot these persons have placed on her escutcheon by meting out to them a punishment severe enough to forever deter others from a like offense. A WORLD-WIDE ANNIVERSARY ii : 1 ,: ' ...... ..V If " li w : v. "" V 1 i: -..,.S.'-Ni-: .W..'.,--iC: : 11 -n--.j't,. i. mm j The celebration of the American day of all days, July Fourth, has become world-wide in its scope. Today Pans is eav with American flaes. and while American soldiers vot& 0N strike Wednesday few fVia fivof fimfl Qra rnli:iK'Qfiyn f l-i n loir ii n xito vi tr I . . . i ,1T . T, ,. .. Aui mow wan- ca v vv-ivwi utui uic vjr iii Trailing nviiiTH', vasn,. njiy z. Whether a Eurnnean conntrv 'thev are not. nnvtnir anv- mnrp nrn. slTike .f "ix thousand electrical work- -4 S' , n V t ef and several thousand cirls,. tolc xounu reverence ior me oanner oi rreeaom man are tne phone operators, winch would complete rtifiwnvicj rf Wvnnnn A f fVin onntn I nn lUn Dnminm I iyii(morHiue telephone comnanieH on .iwciio ui x ai.v.. Wic oo. umc u.c ituiano ai c ,e Pacific coast, will be called, will be naving a great ceieorauon oi tneir own, a real one, anai11'1" Thursday night, a conference while the American flag is not in evidence on that battle washM in tIZ Sunday front, the things that flag stands for are what is putting M' tor a strike vote in every i0cai strength in the Russians blows. The Russians are not eoa3r ror J."fatlay' fighting now as puppets of the czar; but as free men I "Mothers of Francew glorying in uiKir new iouiiu iieeuwn ana reauy to uie lot it if need be. The star spangled banner does not fly in Russia, but the same love of freedom that inspired our forefathers has found expression in the giant of the north, and hpr flao- whirh n few mnnlhR ncn stnnd fnr thf i j . . . . . . I real value of the Red Cross work of uiuot ut-iFut fcuvci mucin, in cAisicwe 10 nuw, da io uui Ameri(.a as ,ie has a!roadv invitcd the own, an emblem of a free people. The two flags today officials of the wninmctto chanter to float over a free people whose two countries i'each prac- witness the performance of this won- tically around the world. ppnoinvn t-vt i,.mo t T. i i.i.Ti. . Conywright t'nderwood & Underwood PEiTSTIING IX PARTS-LEAVIXO THE IX VALIDE8 TH IS PHOTOGRAPH TAKEX OX THE AMFRICAX general s round of official visits, 'shoung him just after he had inspected the army museum tlen. Pelletier is tol Jowing nun down the steps. Shown at Penitentiary Manager Bligh of Ye Libertv the ater gavo the inmates of the Oregon state penitentiary a chance to see the LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS PrttiJnt Amtrican Stciity ftr Thrift Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason Kit 1 LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18CS CAPITAL - - - - ... $500,000.00 TKANACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS SAVINGS DEPARTMENT THE WAR SPIRIT The martial spirit's in the air, and keeps men s blood a-boiling; I run across it every where; for glory we are spoiling. We walk with military stride, becoming to the jingo, and take a sort of wholesome pride in talk ing army lingo. The grocer's humming warlike tunes, sucu airs as "Yankee Doodle," as he wraps up his boneless nra, prunes, to gain a little boodle. The plum- a uuiiJMiig, us jiu jnumus, ui wax, axiu lie is singing, "Oh, see, the conquering hero comes, Red Bill's Angora bringing." The chef in glowing words repeats, while !v stirs up the gravy, the story of the golden feats of heroes of our navy. The lawyer drops the points of law he s scheduled to unravel, and tells how his fore fathers saw the Hessians scratching gravel. The pasto v" l J . - S "A derful picture, ho thinks that it. is only fair tliat the members of the Red Cross at. the prison should alo have a chance to see it. Perhaps there will never bo another motion picture o vital, so beautiful, so timely and so significant as "Mother's of Prance," in which Madamo Sarah Bernhardt does the supreme work of lier career. Certainly it would be hard to conceive of any other picture being produleo under similarly intense cir cumstances, for this feature lays the bleeding heart of France bare to "the world. It carries a big- vivid message ironi the mothers of France to the mothers of America. Purchased by the uoriu rum (. orporation against the most severe competition in the history of the industry. Today nnd tomorrow will be the last times that Salem people will have the chance to see this picture. Showing at Ye Liberty theater. Economy in the home can be effected both through the elimina tion of waste and through the utilization of foods- to the best pos s i b I e advan tage. One of the most expens i v e features of the family food bill is meat. Most Americans eat too much meat. Also there is a tendency to buy the more expensive cuts and the amount of waste is heavy. The United States Department of Agriculture points out that where meat has been purchased by telephone or orders to a butcher's boy, personal shopping and careful selection may make a saving possible. In purchas ing the cheaper and often tougher cuts of meat instead of the choicer or.es. little if any nutriment is lost. If cheaper steaks are purchased a degree of tenderness may be imparted to them by the well-known method of pounding the meat. The juices am! flavors of such steaks will be retained more satisfactorily if flour is sprink led over them during the beating process ana so worked into the tibers i up, formed into balls and broiled like steak. Gieap cuts of meat may be cooked slowly with vegetables or dumplings in a casserole or any other thick walled baking dish which may ba covered, the juice thereby being re tained. 'An,-important i way in which the '. amount ot money expended for meat may be lessened is by preparing small ' quantities of meat in such a way as to extend its flavor to other and cheaper foods. I It may be ground and combined with rice or bread crumbs, to form croquettes, made into pies with rela tively large quantities of pastry, cooked with dumplings, served in the same dish with gravy and starchy foods, such as spaghetti or rice; ground and used with bread crumbs or other materials, as a stuffing for vegetables, or cut thin and wrapped around a stuffing of bread crumbs, rice, or vegetables. Left over fat may be tried out by grinding or chopping and heating in a double boiler. The tried out fat then may be boiled in water and al lowed to solidify on the surface of the water when the latter cools, im purities being scraped from the under surface of the cake. Trimmings of lern meat, gristle," and bone may be boiled slowly and used for soup stock Pverv American tiniicpn.Jf .1,1 on the surface. i take the nosition that it ic iitintrinfi'n Tougher meats also may be ground to waste the slightest particle of food. iHi VIV By Jame .Pluelps AN UNPLEASANT ENDING TO A HAPPY DAY CHAPTER LXXXVI I diiuoed with Carol Blacldock, then takes material text, a text that treats of battling, and back to' the Table, he excused MmseTf. tells how he'll be sorely vexed if he can't wield a gatling (Hr suppor was served and then avc The baker, as he moulds his bread, in fancy predetermines h;haeu Z XnJew TX. What he Will CiO With ail hlS dead, When he has met the termined to make him tell me all about fiai-manc Pnooo alwairs wnc n r1v;nm rf mino tn wri?ri heT wll" ve reached home. vj . a tuutit jl v nv.' vi viu v.. iiniivi v i i"v I j, ('ran do 11 had s L sun am paruai, ana yet n innns n y ancient spine to see to the garage when we arrived at the boys so martial. MRS. WILLIAM T. GRIM DIES and had a wide acquaintance. Hub- lart r.nterprise. Jl VUC. C4tCIV7 UO l UlVUlli MA limit,. t. V 11JLV.A1 , ,, . . ... - ' I nir, riiniieu nan spur n k mm mi- miiiiht inner, ana naa ordered a taxi to ti ke us home. He insisted upon going with us, though Tom urged him not to We drove up through the park, the'U out at in ti street. Jn some way the driver lost control of the cab- and we dashed ii.to an elevated pillar. Sir. Oandell was on one of the small seats, and as the door flew open he was thrown out. The driver also was knocked off his seat. Tom, Peggy and I were terribly shaken up, a little cut by the bioken glass but not injured After an illness of one week of pneu monia, Mrs. William Grim passed into the great beyond, Friday evening, June 2, 1917. Karly In the week the family feared the worst and wired the young est son. (iordon at Juneau. Alaska, for several months, divorce from Walter Niehok. a former MRS. MAS NICHOLS SEEKS DIVORCE Pallas, Ore., July 2. Mrs. Mae l Nichols, formerlr nf-T)nlln rtavr a roi. who has been located I (iot pt- Salem, has brought suit for a cab and took Peggy and me home. Anxious Waiting. We scarcely spoke all the way home After "om had helped ua into the house ed what he had told me to Teggy and then we went to bed. An Unsatisfactory Report. Xt didn't seem that I had been a- huu nau assured nimseir mar we were aieep more than a moment when the not hurt, he left for the hospital. He'telephoae rang- I glanced at the saw it was a little after clock, and eight. "Hello, is that you, Tom?" I called. 'Yes. C'randell is pretty badly in jured. They won't say much abont him though. I'm going to the office now. I'll 3ton at the hosnital ot, Fortunately he received the wire (wolP-si,:. nf ,n(, pn ,.i- nr. hours uetore the boat ten ior oatiie, Niolul,a iiog)s tnBt husband be- otherwise, arriving t mommy ihuiiii"K. enme infatuated with a voung Falls The tuneral was held at the Home city widow nnd that, as a result, their Tuesday moraine nt 10:30 conducted jH)m(, -.vaa broken nn. Mr. and Mrs. by Rev. F. O. Huiler. of Sherwood, jxiehots were married in this city in prayer was offered by !. K. l.oug. pa-storj ii)oj. Mrs. Nichols is a daughter of of the Hubbard Congregational church. t y. J. RevnoliK a former school suner- jThe morning was beautiful. In the , intendenl of Polk county. 1 l....l.l onf in a.tutli rtf the linilNC - . I the casket was placed on a mound of flowers as the service began. A itouoie qurtrtet snug the songs that were fa vorites of the departed. Mrs. P. O. But ler sane. Beautiful Isle of Some- MOVES PLANT TO PORTLAND Portland, Or., July 2. K. I Thomp son, banker and head of the Portland Woolen mills, announced todav that he had bought the ISrownsville Woolen where." After the sermon the lnrgejMills and would move the entire plant number of assembled friends followed; to Portland where the equipment will the remains to the cemetery. Mis. rim 'be installed in auxiliary relation to grew to womanhood in thia community this present plant. Tom jumped out and raised Everett in his arms and 1 heard him sav: Thank God!" He's not dead." Just theu a iolieoman came up, and helped Tom hold him. while another one turned in a call for an ambulance- Peggy was sobbing hysterically, but I was too frightened for tears. The driver the cab was dyjng, the of ficer said as thev carried aim into a drug store. Two ambulances drove clanking up. One for Everett, one for the cabbie. Tom gave our addresses to the officer; then after telling the mitlinl n ,i ja Biirffiinn tttt tin wrtitl.l m.A I to the hospital later, he called another j first changed his clothes. "I may not come back. It is two oclock now, and if there is anything I can do for Orandell, I shall stay down town," he told us, then left us alone to wait for news from the hospital. I fixei Pcggy'6 cuts, and she did, way home, so have dinner a little later the same for me. They were slight, 'than usual." yet tney added to our discomfort. 1 "What did Tom sav. Sue? How is We didn't attempt to. go to bed-1 Mr. OrandelU" Peggy called the ques We had told Tom we would not until tions from her room." we heard from him. It was so awful I "He's badly iniured. Tom doesn't to think of Everett lying unconscious, ' seem to know any more than h AiA perhaps dying in the hospital. He, last night The driver is dead." who, so short a time before had been I '"Poor fellow," Peggy said. Then our gay. laughing, generous host. j"I do hope Mr. Orandell doesn't die "If be dies 1 never want to ride in j too, it wculd be too awful!" a motor car again as long as I live!" We dressed and had breakfast, then I declared. jwent ip and told Helen all about the "Oh, jes you will!" Peggy replied, accident. fhc was very sympathetic, " With a good driver yon are as safe ' but she also was curious to know all there as anywhere. That man in some 'about what we had done; how we had way lost control of the taxi. I felt it spent the evening. It was a good wobble quite a while before we struck; thing fir us- In telling of our good the post." jtime our minds were taken from the "Well T feel that Way now," I in- gruesome ending of a happy day. sisted. "Wouldn't it be terrible if he Helen seemed very interested when I should d-.ef ' I said for the fourth or .told her Carol Blacklock was in f fifth true just as the telephone rang. It was Tom Ton girls go to bed Orandell is still unconscious. He may live though. The driver is dead. I will call tou the restanrant, and had danced with me. "That man is more than half in love with Sue." she said to Peggy. I laughed at her nonsense, but it brought back to my mind the sir! about eight o'clock and let you know, with wrom Tom had been talking whea how things are. Good night." ' Carol came up to me. I had not said word; so I repeat-) Tomorrow Jealous Twinges.