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8 THE ORCGOS TATESMABT: .FKIHAX, FEBRUAnK f ri. ray., Cash CARRY YOUR OWN You will help Uncle Sam conserve men, material and money you will help your self by saving:. . - SEE THESE .PRICES! 8 oz. French Mustard, 15c bottle. J. . Arm & Hammer Soda . . . . .'. '.. Corn Meal in bulk, per pound, ......... Fancy Boiled Oats, 3 pounds for. . Medium Karo Syrup . i f . . i .. Best Ccffe3 sold in Salem, 3 pounds. . . . Campbells Soup .1 s. V J 25c Pineapple sliced . 25c Alaska Salmon 25c Hersheys Cocoa. . It pays to investigate. . 9c . '5c . 6c .25c .48c .90c lie .16c .17c 18c FARMERS GASH STORE . I: ;' Opposite Court House. GOVERlilENT.TO FACE DEFICIT IN RUNNING ROADS Railways Earned in 1917 $958,000,000,5010 11.$. MustPayinl918 EXPENSES ITEMS HIGHER War Business Steadily Grows and Year's Net Profit to Go Down YOUNG SENATOR IS MAKING GOOD Kay Say$ McNary Makes Very Favorable Impression in L Washington Halted States Senator McNary has made a strikingly favorable" Impres sion in the United State senate, sayn 8tato Trea surer Kay. who has just , CREAM FOR CATARRH OPENS UP NOSTRILS ' Tells now To Get Quick Relief - from Head-(V.dA iTs Splendid! In, one minute your clogged ncst rils will . open, the air passages f your "head will clear and you cm breathe freely. No more hawking, snuffling, blowing. -; headache, dry cess. No struggling for breath at right; your cold or catarrh will be gone. '., r : '. i Get a small bottle of Ely's Cream Halm from your druggist now.-Apply a ' little of . this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream In your nostrils. It penertatcs through every air passage of the brad, soothed th Inflamed or swollen tmimtia membrann and r,Iitf comes instantly. ,. It's Just fine. Don't stay atuffod up with a cold or nasty catarrh Re lief comes no quickly. ' ' returned from a trip east which in cluded Yashincton. Senator Me Nary has already become one of the strong men of the senate. . Nearly all of Oregon's Interests in the senate are on the shoulders of Senator McNary for the , reason that Senator Chamberlain's work with the military .Affairs committee occupies most of his time. - , Mr. Kay found that all over New England and in Washington, Mr. Chamberlain is considered one of the biggets men In tee senate. In his controversy with the president and Secretary of War Baker he was up held,1 Mr. Kay says, by 75 per cent of the people. The sentiment in the southern states, however, was dif ferent where the people were in clined lo stand by the president. Kay Throws No Light on Election of Superintendent State Treasnrer Kay could throw no light yesterday on the probable choice of the state board of contfol of, a successor to S. G. Sargent as slate ' superintendent of banks. Mr. Kay, found a stack of letters on his derk in behalf of several candidates butftvas unable to go through all of them yesterday. , , , i , Whether Charles H. Stewart is to be ? chosen depends on M. 'Kay. Stewart isJ favored by Secretary of State Olcott, but not Iby. Governor Wlthyeombe,' and" Mr. Kay declared he has not made up his mind wheth er he will support Stewart. "Mr. Stewart If a man of ability," said Mr. Kar. "but I haven't had a chance to decide whether r he will hve mr support' '"- ; 1 r if- A Liberty 3 MATINEES AND NIGHTS Y V, 2:30 r. 31. y B:ar.3U' At",''. 9 i , ... If- - 7 i ' I " f " Starting Tuesday Feb. 12 Wi i Fox am : ; . : f PEESENtS , THE BIGGEST, MOST COSTLY AND GREATEST CINEMA SUC CESS IN ALL HISTORY 1 THEDA BAEA SUPEE SUPERB Hill mi SPECIAL ORCHESTRA AND MUSIC as Tin: siui;s okthk mle love ipire ipellinxr lo history. V A I The most com story in all love that wrecked Em- C pires and changed the map t of the world, ? J " Direct from ; eastern trl- jp?"v umps at ?z.00 prices. v f f " Now breaking all attend-! ' s . r- ' f ; ance record in PorUand. ' PRICES-KNIGHTS DOc r r I RESERVED SEATS 75c f ' MATINEES. ADULTS 50c ;CHTLDREN 25c - ; : U 1 .. V Mill V- .-'i- i , - I '. WASHINGTON, Feb. 7. Railroads in 1917 earned about $958,000,000, which is near the amount the gov ernment will have to pay the roada tnis year as compensation unaer na tional operation. Tills was lndlcatel by figures on revenues, expenses and income of all roads earning more than $1,000,000 last year,, available today , in unofficial computations based on Interstate commerce com mission rerorts for eleven months and an estimate for December. , The sum the government will have to pay the roads under the bill pend ing in congress is estimated at $945, 000.000 by Chairman Smith of the senate committee having the railroad bill in charre., ? ,, , ': Government Deficit Looms. Figures for 1917? eCxow that If railway Income continues to decline as it has in recent months, the gov ernment will face a deficit In mak ing its compensation payments, aug mented by increases In wages and the constantly rising cost of mate rials r.nd supplies. . On the other band the railroad administration hopes to be able to cut operating expenses sufficiently, and economize on charges necessary only under competitive conditions. to offset th declining income. In December, the last month un der private operation, rail earnings declined aharply, according to early reports from railroads. The average red net i n of income was estimated at 30 per cent caused by the ever mounting cost of operations, doubly increased by the bitter winter weath er of December, together with a sud den drop in revenue resulting from congestion and embargoes. 1017 Earning Decline. : Compared with the estimated In come, of $968,000,000 last year the flruren for 191C were $1,087,533. 000; for 1915, $716.47,000; for 1914. $692,330,000; and for 1913. $810,510,000. Last year the total revenue from railway operations were $4,038,000, 000, and operating expenses were $2,816,000,000. leaving a net reve nue of $1,177,000,000. From this were deducted $217,00,000 taxes and minor items of uncollectable rev enue, to compute the net Income fig ure whlth fs comparable In a gen eral way to the basis of government compensation. : . " . These figures will be Increased about 4 pr cent by addition of re ports from numerous small roads, having: operating revenues of less than $1,000,000 a year, whose rec ords are not included with the re ports of standard Class 1 roads. The reason for the decline of net Income last year Is shown graphical ly hy tbe report. Operating reve nues, were 10 per cent greater than the $3,(522,000,000 of 1916, but ex penses ran more than 20 per cent above the $3,273,000,000 mark of the year previously. ' Kxrnse Items Tllcher. ' " Nearly all items of. expense were higher, v Wages Increases ; are esti mated at 20 per. cent. . Cost, of cotfft train sunplles. and repairs went up by Bounds with which the Immense receipts from freight and other rev enues did not ke.jp pace. j People traveled more in 1917 than In the year - previous, but the In creased revenues did not go far in counteracting the. steadily declining Income. War caused an immense In crease In hauling, ' and from freight the roads received most of their revenues. .. ' ...t-:: ...,.; These revenues are estimated at SZ. 808,000, 000. as compared 'with $2,073,000,000 In the7.. banner net income year of 1916. Passenger rev- enues wer $810.090.600 a com par I '"!. :. WOMEN SUFFER ' ' T MOST OF ALL From those conditions of the blood and nerves in whieh the combination treatment, Hood's Sarsaparilla be fore eating and Peptiron after eat ing, gives so much satisfaction at so little cost as compared with other medicines or phj-sieians' fees. These ; two great medicines are especially effective in cases -of physi cal weakness, nervous irritalility, run-down conditions in which there is iron deficiency. Price of each 1. ,4 Ask your .druggist for them., s GIRLS! HAVE WAVY, THICK, GLOSSY HAIR FREE FROM DANDRUFF - , ....... ;f .... . Have Your Hair! .Double. Its Beauty in a Fenv Bfoaients Try Thlst If you care for: heavy hair, that glistens with beauty and is radiant with life! has an Incomparable soft ness and is fluffy and lustrous, try Danderine. ? .. 1 1 'r, , k j Just one application doubles the beauty of your hair, besides It im mediately dissolves every particle of dandruff; you cannot have; ne: heavy, healthy hair if you have dand- rurr. This destrucitve scurf robs the hair of its lustre, its strength and its very life, and if not overcome It produces a feverlhnoss and itching or ine erajp; tne hair roots famish, loosen and die; f then the hair falls out. If your balr has ! been neglected and is thin, faded, dry, scraggy or too oily, get a small bottle of Knowl ton's Danderine at any drug tore or toilet counter for a few cents; apply a little as directed and ten minutes after you will say this was the best investment you ever made. ;.- We sincerely believe, regardless of everything else Advertised, that If you desire soft. lustrous.' beautiful hair and lots of it no dandruff no itching scalp and no more falling hair you must use Knowlton's Dan derine. If eventually why not now? ed with $708,000,000 the year be fore. Receipts from mail were actu ally smaller than in 1916, despite the fact that the bulk of mail was the fact that the bulk of mall trans ported was much greater. Only $58, 703.000 were received from the gov ernment on this account, nearly $3,- 000.000 less than In 1916. -TJie re duction is attributed to the readjust ment of tbe basis of payment from Kxpress Companies Gain. Receipts from express companies for hauling jumped from $90,293,000 in 1916 to $106,000,000 In 1917. For maintenace of way and struc tures, railroads spent. $452,900,000, about $28,000,000 ,more than the year before. For .maintenance of equipment the cost was $692,000,000 as compared with $597,915,000 in 1916. . - ', . ,.:,:t. ... The. biggest , Increase In so-called transportation expenses, - which In cludes the principal, items of train operation. " This amounted to ,$i. 525.000,000, or $341,000,000 more than .the $1484.01) 0.0 00 figure -of 1916.. A government commission es timated the added financial wage burden on railroads caused by, the Adamosn act at $61,000,000, most of which is Included In transportation expense. Other wage increases are spread out in nearly every expense classification.. . . , In addition to short hauling, and fomomn use of . facilities, the govern ment hopes to effect big savings this yearby eliminating expense of traf fic solicitation agencies. . maintained I dj inaiviauai roaas unaer ine cora petitlve system. , This expense con stitutes a large part of the $64,800,- 000 Item, . classified ' In railroad re ports of .1917 as "traffic expense." ' Freight Shipments -Huge. ' Taxes in 1 9 1 7 showed a sudden increase in the last three 'months, when railroads were able to deter mine for the first time approximate ly, what their war. taxes would be. Thev began In September to figure on the Increase in their tax accounts: and these Jumped from $17,000,000 In August to an average of . $22,000, 0(,'n each of the later months. . Other comparisons by months show that beginning in May, freight re ceipts increased rapidly as the gov ernment . was. buildin; cantonments and stimulating . big -war Industries. Although the government was given rates averaging! 40 per cent lower than rates to ' private shippers, this truffle proved . profitable because it was In large quantities, freight rev enues . reached . the peak In October, amounting then o $270,000,000, and have declined rapidl since. .Decem ber freight revenues were estimated at not more than $200,000,000, the reduction being caused by the bad wratner. ..... ' ,:,f Total railway- operating expense Increased every month s since at February, when it was $207,883,000 to; $260,000,000 In November, and December's figure Is estimated at even mora.'; FLAX rilILL HERE IS NOT FAVORED BY GOVERNFilENT Officials Tell Mr. Kay .That Airplane Linen Problem Is Solved METHODS ARE OBSERVED State Treasurer Examines Sparling Mills for Port land Chamber CASTORIA ; Forixfaats CbJMrca In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the. : Signature of Deputy Supreme Court Clerk U- Announcement was made yester day by. Arthur S. Benson, clerk of the Oregon supreme court, that W. A. i Wiest had been appointed deputy clerk. ' Mr. Benson was elected by the court to succeed the late Judge J. C. Moreland. and Mr. Wiest take the place vacated by Benson as dep uty. .. . n - , , .... r ,:; , ! Mr.. Wiest taught school for sev eral years in Salem. Later he serv ed as secretary to Justice Moore of the supreme court and is now a prac-. ticing attorney in Salem. Mr. Wiest was private secretary to Chief Justice Moore during the years 1915 and 1916. He had much experience . with -. the court dockets which will be of value to him in his new position., Mr. Wiest was grad uated from . the law college of Wil lamette university in May. 1917, but was admitted to the bar the prev ious October.. lie was graduated from the Oregon Normal school at Monmouth in 1907 and has been in Salem since I9t0, having been prin cipal of one of tlu. schools for three years. At the present time he Is noble grand of Chemeketa Iod?e. No. 1, I. O. O. F. The position of deputy clerk carries a salary of $1800 a year. '- Mr. Wiest was recently made legal representative of the Salem Business Men's league, but It will be neces sary for him to drop bis law practice In' accepting the deputy clerkship. State Hospital Inmates ( ; Subjected to Sterilization The sterilization law was applied to six Inmates of the. state1 hospital for the Insane yesterday and to six others the day previous. The appli cation of the law was by order of tho state board of eugenics. Herbert Merilhew. alias Curtis, on whom the law has been ordered ap plied, has appealed his' case to the circuit court. The Merit hew rase Is the first appeal and will serve to test the constitutionality of the law. State Treasnrer. Kay, who has re turned after a trip, east In behalf of the Oregon flax industry, brings tho report that government officials do! not consider it practicable at thl3 time to advance money toward th? establishment of linen mills .in Sa lem. The Salem Commercial club has been negotiating with the gov ernment . relative to : the .'establish' ment here of mills for the-produc tion or airplane linen. - . -federal, officials explained -to Mr. Kay that the linen problem Is solved satisfactorily for the present, and say further that transportation of machinery, mos of - -which would have to come from Europe, would be Impracticable. , , , , c Flag Is Made Study. ; Mr. Kay's trip east was as a rep- resentauve of the Portland Chamber of. Commerce to . investigate .meth ods used by J.' Sidney Starling in hl3 factory at North Ton a wan da. N Y. coneernlng: this he said - he would make no statement until be reports to the Portland Chamber of Com- aneree, other-than to say that he In-vestia-ated .the plant and its meth ods thoroughly.. He investigated other factories at Lockport, . H. Y., and ; at Andqyer..3Iass., tbe . latter the oldest flax establishment In th3 United States. All eastern flax men with whom Mr.lKay conferred con ceded that Oregon produces the best flax fibre in the United States.' All of them offer encouragement to Ore gon to produce the raw material for manufacture In the east. The ques tion to be solved by the Portland chamber1 Is whether the Oregon pro duct can be manufactured without retting according to tbe Starling processes.-' - ..', Business Conditions - OUserred. Mr. Kay made a careful observa tion of business and industrial con ditions while traveling through the east and south. He says one thing tbat impressed him was the increas ed cost of. living and the poorer ac commodations received in the eaat as compared with tho west.. "llPtl charge In the ast are at least 25 per cent higher than on the coast for the same accommodations, both for lodging and eating,"' said Mr. Kay. 'There Is a railroad) con gestion that doesnt' exist on the coast, trains are rarely on schedule t!mo and their accommodations are poorer,.. , . ...- "Laboring people Teceive slightly higher wages than in the west, but the .higher cost f .living more than offsets the dlfferenco.'.w-! Fuel Order Deplored. The Garfield fuel order caused much dissatisfaction Ir-' th east," Mr. :fwH - ATS and H GOATS Arriving Daily ...: - ..... . splendid assortment ju:t ....... . , , . .. ., . . - received by today's exprers. Our prices always the lowest. GALE 4 G(0 ; , Commercial and Court Streets Formerly Chicago Store. - Ptone 1072 Kay observed, and the people con tldered It necessary. : ; . . ! ' "I returned home through the southern states," said Mr. Kay; "and passed through coven or eight can tonments, five of which were in Tex as. The five cantonments contain ed 250,000 men and I was. told by a prominent man at one cantonment that there was Just one gun for every five men." . . ; i . xoncE. ; .. - Sealed proposals will be received at, the office of the secretary of the state, fair board, 210 . State House, Salem, Or., up to 3 o'clock p. m. February --20, 1918, for the .erection of the first two units of the stadium building to be built on the state fair grounds, according to the plans an specifications which may be obtained at the office of Lewis I. Thompson, Atelier ; Building, ' 91 North Tenth street. Portland,. Or. A deposit of $2S will be required upon delivery of the plans and specifications. Board of State Fair Directors. Dy A. II. Lea, . Secretary-Manager. , War Department Answer - Is Several llonihs Late Tho rapidity with which the Unit ed States war department untangles itsred tape is shown by a telegram that was received by the state high way commission yesterday; . f Last fall some ttroe the commis sion made application to move th old Marlon-Polk county bridge fifty feet up stream to make way for the building of the new bridge. No ref) ply was received from the war def partment. Some way the appHcaf lion was lorgotien ana tne - okl bridge went in fifty feet up stream anyway and served for traffic for several months. Some - piers of the wold bridged were washed 'out by th high water in ; December, and v bridge was closed. It wis suf; . ciently repaired to, .allow trsf: again and is being used. All t' 5 l:as happened sinco the appllcati 1 was' made ' to the war departmt-; to move the bridge fifty feet u stream. - , ' Yesterday, some official In V -ington accidently ran across ii: communication of last fall. He ra' ; up a messenger boy and sent a e: -gram granting permission of the v-.; eepartment to move the brid?. State Highway Engineer Nunn fca! to go back In memory sever:' months to. figure out what the tel egram meant. ' 4 TAKE "CASCAllETS" IF HEADACHY, BILIOUS . AliD C0HSTIPATD Best for liver and bowels, Itad brent:., oad colds, sour stomach. Get a lOccent box. : . - Sick headache, biliousness, coat ! tongue, head and nose clogged f with a cold a ways trace this to torpid liver; delayed, ferment:. food Jn the bowels or sour, ga: f stomach. .1 Poisonous matter clogged in ttc Intestines, Instead of betas:' cast o .t of the system is re-absorbed I;., j the blood.. When this poison ncUi the delicate brain tissue It est:- 1 congestion and that dull, throlL'-: sickening headache. - Cascarets Immediately cleanre t!. stomach, remove th sour undlRt'ttc i rooa and foul gases, take the rxcen bile from the liver and carry-out &:i the constipated , waste matter .and poisons in. the bowels. . . A Cascaret to-nlrht will urolt straighten you out by morning. h! work wile you sleep a 10-cent V.i from. your druggist-mean your liver nd bowels Ye rtl lar for montha." ' " 'ft AS :,,'" iti J'tftt ,1 .'...." uh Joaini the 1x1.1 . , " W PI, is m m ..v 1 r , .. ... : ill - - t i ill ' III . STARTS TdDAY3 DAYS . JESSE L LASKY Presents (Mm mm in THE LIFE'S .HISTORY, OF THE , GREATEST WOMAN THE WORLD HAS tiVER KNOWN OF ARC" THE BELOVED IMMORTAL PEASANT. GIRL . OF FRANCE, TODAY'S GUIDING dPDlIT OF THE FRENCH ARMIES PARAMOUNTS GREATEST ACHIEVEMENT A Mighty 12 Part Photo-Spectacle 8UPIOHTlXa . . - CAST . Wallace Held . rbcodore. Itobetts . . . Ilohfu-t Iloswvtrth Tally Marhjill Ilaymond llatton Cliarles tlary William Conklin Walter Ixnff and . ,TbnNanU XHhcr , s Produced TO3er Supervision)! CECIL B. DE fiilLLE T0DAYATOW)AV--SUNDAY , On account of mu sIcioM .not lor available there will he no 4trchlr . bPKCIAL 1'itICKS 20c Matiny & Evening Vr Tif , Included