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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (March 4, 1920)
TAGE FCU2 THE CATITAL JOURNAL THE CAPITAL JOURNAL AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER PBbiiahed every evening except SuB' T by The Capital Journal Printing On. Ill South Commercial atroet. Telephones CSixmlatioii and Blurts mic ill editorial roema. fti. OEORGB PUTNAM. Editor-Publisher Entered aa mcond clan maU matter at Salem, Oregon. 8UBSCRIITI0N RATES By carrier (A cents a month. By mall ft cents a month, 11.25 for three montha. It lb for eix monthi. 14 per year In larion and Polk counties. Elf e here t a year. By order of IT. R (rorernment, all mail Subscription are payable In advance. Advertising representative W. D Ward, Tribune liidg.. New York; W. H tockwell. People Gas Bids. Chicago 1TEMBER OF THE ASSOCIATED PRES? The Aosoeiated Press la exclusirel) entitled to the one (or republication of all news dlnpatches credited to It or ot otherwise oreditea in tnis paper and also local new published herein 0 regon bservations Inllii. Paul Carpenter, recently eiiKsiavd h agricultural nirent for Pulk county. beBan his work Monthly. Alhany. Ambrose Rowers who has been In the senke of the Southern 1'aelfie company for forty yertvt hnn been pensioned by the company and plnced on the retired list. Portland. Forty-one ue" tuae of Influenza and two clt-r.llm from the dlHease were reported to the city health bureau Wednemlny, There have been 1" death from influent since the outlireuk of the rpidoinic. Axtoila. Mrs. Kate Urcwn of Ihvn co, died Monday fnllowiiiK nit extended Hints. She was " years old and was a grand dauithter of a noted chief of the Chinook Indian tribe. Pendleton The lutRVHt ftiiier.tl ever beld on the reservation took pluee Wednesday when the late Yum I'mkln waa hurled at the reservation. lie was BHph.vxiatetl at. Chicago while on his way to AVtiHhlnKton, J). C. on business for his trine; Ho was a famous C.tyuse uuiltin and leaves an $R0,000 estate. Medford. Mayor (!nte Wednesday vetoed n bill passed by th city coun cil Tuesday nlRht with only one dls (entliiK vote, providing for the pur chase of property for S6,000 to open up King street in till city. This Is said to be the first time a mayor of Med ford has exercised his veto power. Conallls. Ida A. Kidder, the grand old lady of the college -library and known familiarly nnd lovingly to three Keiiemtums- of college students ns "aintlvr Kidder," died Sunday morn ing at 1:';1G, her death being c.-iusei. by hemorrhage of the brain. Toledo. The first clanflr of the na tional democratic gong was sounded In Toledo Tuesday when A. I,. VVaugh declared himself a camfldate on' the democratic ticket for t0e nomination us delegate from the first conarpamm.. nl dlHtilet to the democratic national convention. n. t nonage t.rove. The presence of mind of nlne-yniir-old Levi Carpenter pined tne irB 0f his six-year-old lun. ther Lester, Hundiiy afternoon, "While me three boiin of Mrs. CJoldle Car penter were playing cm th banks of ine i oast rork, Lester fell Into the water where it was over his head. Levi waned imo the water ami pulled his in-other to shore, Portland. -Deposits In the Portland banks declined 13.25 por cent between November 17, 11)1!), nnd February -n iiccovdlngto the statements made in response to the call of the comptroller of the currency and siato supeilntend int i.l'lianks. Total deposits of $144, 7Cri.n2n.43 were shown by the hanks ht the close of business last Friday a compared with 1(I6,8S2.40P.19 at the date of the precedine Pall 103 davg before. Financiers say this Is a natural con dition and one that was foreseen ni a part of the deflation from the high tide of the war porlod. Hood River. Tjick ofsultamV cars tor moving apples In winter time Is the. most serious obstacle ugainst the fu ture success of the apple business, ac cording to 11. F, Davidson for-M-r president of tho North Pacific. Fruit distributor. "Tho losses sustained nt Hood River tllone on ncocunt of damaged apples Hhipped during the m!-lSt0 cold weather senson has been sufficient to Sfiliip enough refrlgnrator cars to move the entire quantity nee.,,.. tu shipped dining the cola weather," Mr. n.n 'iiiNon iissertcn. RUSSIA a NEW light upon Russia and Bolshevik rule is thrown by a series of cablegrams to the New York World by Lincoln Eyre, who has just completed a ten weeks' sojourn in Red Russia. Mr. Eyre won fame during the war as a reliable observer and his statements are the first authentic description of life and condi tions under the joint rule of Lenine and Trotsky. Eyre declares that red terror has been bleached to a pale pink by iron law and order everywhere, that the food and fuel problems in cities is acute, that the transportation system has broken down and that disease is rampant throughout Russia. The Bolsheviki f reelv state their desperate need for help from foreign capitalism, and admit capitalism is growing rapidly in communist circles. The victorious armies have been conscripted as industrial .workers and set to work rebuilding and repairing railroads, which, how ever, are useless with locomotives and rolling stock that must come from other countries. There is no danger of a Red offensive against Poland or any other country because the nation lacks the industrial-strength to support such an undertaking. The overstrained industries and railroads would completely collapse under such an undertaking. Trotsky defines the situation -as a race between economic, recon struction and reversion to savagry, and peace is essential for re construction. Hence peace and lifting of the blockade are anxiously awaited, upon most any terms. . "Lenine the thinker, and Trotsky the organizer and executive, wield a more absolute power than any czar" says Mr. Eyre. They are described as the only really strong men among the Bolsheviki or anywhere else in Russia. They have, with the bayonet, restored law and order, neither anarchv nor chaos being visible. It is no lontrer necessary to terrorize opponents into submission. The administration of the unwieldy Soviet bureaucracy, however, re veals many inconsistencies and much incoherence. Labor has been militarized and is ruled by iron discipline. Armies are turned into labor gangs. Discipline is imposed upon factory workers, who are ruled by tribunals with power of court martial. Everybody must work and work long hours, for the economic rehabilitation of the country. Soviet control has drifted into one man direction and responsibility, with a committee to serve as a board of directors for consultation. There is abundance of food in the country, but lack of trans portation prevents its being brought into the cities. The govern ment is only able to supply only 60 per cent of food required by the cities, the remainder being bought from speculators at fancy prices. Although employes, in collaboration with the central dictatorship fix their own wages, they never earn enough to cover the swiftly climbing cost of living and with this the case of the protected ruling class, the proletariat, the less favored ele ments face a ghastly situation. t. Peasants however, are rolling improsperity. They have more food than they can eat and refustKto sell products for money, except that proportion commandeered by the government at a fixed price. In private trading, they take only manuiacturea ar tides and clothing in exchange for food.. Food speculation is cie veloping a new capitalistic class and the communists confess them selves powerless to prevent it. It seems that the Russian revolution has produced a military dictatorship with the strong man as dictator as revolutions al ways produce: that Soviet rule is being replaced by individual rule; that the laborer is not only conscripted for the army, but for industrial toil, and the serf is still a sert, under a new name that the dream of communism is vanishing under the actuality of an iron tvrannv and Russia as far from real liberty as ever, Lenine has discovered that the Russians were not fit for self g6vernment and is giving them the only kind of government they have ever developed, czarism, under a new name. The ignorant Russians enthused by rainbow promises and fine phrases, have waded through blood and terrorism to exchange masters ana en throne a new rulincr class upon the ruins of the old. It took six years to establish stable government in France nfror thn revolution. It is onlv three years since the czar s over throw. The reign of terror is over, the old regime gone the way of t ho Fronch nnbilitv. Intervention by foreign nations united Kus sin in self defense, as it united France and the Red armies have similarly emertred victorious over all foes. The era ot reconstruc tion is dawning and a new Russia is emerging from the chaos of the old. as Bolshevism destroys itself. Tho old Russian order is gone forever. The new is in process of creation. The sins of Czarism have been expiated. The dream of communism is already vanishing as it vanished in r ranee, Rut there is no reason to doubt but that the new Russia will be letter than the old as the new France was better than the empire, Whatever her problems are, only Russians can solve them and there seems no mason why the world should longer withhold as sistance. BY ARTHUR SCOTT BAILEY avy THE NEW WHEELBARROW . There wat something that Jimmy Rabbit wanted. He had teased for it for a long time. And at last, after he had almost given up- his mind that he wasn't going to get It, one day to his givat Joy his falher brought home 4 If "But I don't want to wheel yuu, said Frisky. tho very thing Jimmy had begged for. It was a wheelbarrow! Jimmy Rabbit could hardly believe his eyes. "Well, young man, you ought to be pretty grateful tor this," Mr. Rabbit said. about the dooryard. "I'm going to play with piy wheelbarrow all the time after this," Jimmy said. "I reckon you can do a little work with It, too." Mr. Rabbit said. "I shall expect you to bring home the vegetab les for the whole family, every morn ing." "Yes, father!" Jimmy exclaimed. He thought that would be great sport. He didn't stop to think that It would take a good many vegeables to feed his father and his mother , his four sisters and his two brothers and himself. "I hope now, to have a little tlm for recreation," Mr. Rabbit told him. "It's too bad you have to work so naru. sum jimmy. Kecreation, was a big word. Jimmy supposed that It was some kind of specially hard work. He did not know it meant play. "I'll go down to Farmer Green's garden right away and get a load of his best vegetables!" Jimmy exclaimed. Down in Farmer Green's garden I Jimmy worked busily, loading his new wheelbarrow to the very top. And then he trundled it home again. No prouder youngster was ever seen in Pleasant Valley than Jimmy Rnnrt. pushing that, little 'wheelbarrow up the hill. "Let me push it!" Frisky Squirrel begged. Yes father!" .Tioimv answered. He oul ""'" tiaoDit satd that he must picked up the handles of the wheel- "ot let anybody else play with that barrow and began pushing it proudly i w "eeioarrow. me tawe noui of one handle!" Billy Woodchuck pleaded. . Rut Jimmy Rabbit told him' that that KA i Rippling Rhymes BY WAL" MASON BREVITY If vou desire to make a hit it's well to bear in mind that brevity's the soul of wit, the wisest scheme you'll find. Long winded men are always shunned, they till our souls with care although thev may possess a fund of knowledge rich and rare We all detest the dreary chump who tells a rambling tale, so long it reaches from the dump clear to the county jail. v e are bored by dizzy birds who know not when to stop, who pile up endless words on words, nnd other words on top. How comforting the silent irent. who makes a brief retort, who's always said just what he meant, and cut the .saying short! The words he pushes through his face are chosen as the best ; for brevity's the soul of grace and sense and all the rest. The man who lectures lor an hour will make his hearers mad ; he'll see the faces turning sour that at the start were glad. Ten minutes are enough, I wot for any speaker's junk; for nearly all we say is rot ; the rest is mostly bunk. LOVE andMARRIED LIFE Idah MSGlone Gibson rt H'lu f i 4u.ii iu.. umi nut. I nm afraid 1 would not have made "Well, my dear, you've certainly an nseetlc. I am extremely susceptl-i starting something!" it began. 'When ble to physical contentment and nfter John found that you were In earnest Helen nail none I spent at least half- and had taken the reins Into your own hour or pure delight in swimming, hands he was nearly beside himself limit the groat sail water pool, which i with anger. He came out of his hid- wns heated Just enough to make It ; ing place nnd did not ao to New York the temperature of the ocean in July. , at nil. Or course, the first thing he Then, after n cold shower . which did was to accuse me of lending you made my body tingle I came upstairs money to go with. I told him that I Quito happy. , had offered It to you. but you would I have always found that when I not accept a loan, 'Wheue did she get am well groomeifcand have put myself it?' he asked me. "Katherine has a Into my prettiest frock and donned, number of very Iwautlful pieces of cnarmtng nt, me nattlo against jewelry that you have given her. She discontentment und Unhapplness Is probably raised some money on one more thsn half won. ot them. I know it is the thing I So I hurried Into my smartest sport should do under the circumstances, tog and. taking a warm sweater with And had my husbaud treated me 'I bf'ieve I'll go t' th" perh on 'Americanism' at Metodeon H ill t'nlte ik if I e.in t git a little i-ei.", me. I went to the dining room for, about iuont'y as you have Katherine I ' 'la'. lf better fjtoaat nnd c. ftVe. Titer I found Helen should have left 'you long ago!" I told lot th.ti: try V ick still lingeiine over her mall. Beating him. 'Hut, Alice,' John tried to be i,i f u.1 with jour wits. myself. I opened the f.-a mteslv that patient nnd explain, 'doesn't Kather- ine have everything she wants?' 'I told him that you did. That with the exception of having no ready cash was no way to wheel a wheelbarrow. at any time, no voice in the matter of Somehow, the next day Jimmy did where you should live, Whom you not have so much fun getting the vege- should meet, what you should buy tames. Ana the day after that he ae- and where you should buy It, how tually began to think that gathering your rooms snouiu De oecoraieu, wnat vegetables was a good deal like work. menus you snouiu annex, ana now Ana before a week has passed he Just you snouia spend your time, you naa natea the sight of Farmer Green's qnne everytning you waniea. iveea- garden less to say he did not like my sarcasm. I But nil Jimmy's friends still crowded " 'No woman knows how to spend around and begged him to let them .....,,.. pusn tne wheelbarrow. And all, the -,. wnile ne haa bee firm. H had mother and you have done to me all ot eWen on- nt thpni ,, the barrow. At last Jimmy Rabbit had an idea.. J II tell you what I'll, do." he said your lives " 'Simply because you treated us as you are now treating Katherine,' I "'Tom' seems have no. trouble1 1" 8,ky ?im,,rre1' If wre"1 ' with me now that' I .rn'MnrrM tn "l ",r,,n la never miok of such a him." I added triumphantly. 'Very', th ns' T J0U .""' xpect I'm lew women would have mw trouhla nm " "" wiuu- an Income of f 250,000. Of course you Do what?" Frisky aslfcd. "Why, wheel my wheelbarrow! said Jimmy. Frisky Squirrel Jumped high up In me air, ne was so pleased. "Hurrah!" he cried. "May I push It now, before you fill It with vegetables?" know I can not give her that.' John snapped. 'Katherine seemed to get along all right On a veiy small in come before she married me,' said hs. "I answered: Well, a small income meant something,' but now she has nothing.' I " 'Well, we won't worry about that. "Well no! It's getting late," said I have something of greater Import- Jimmy. I'll let you wheel the vegetab anco to think about. I told Katherine le home for me. But first, "you must that if she went away with Helen Van gather them." Ness Gaylord, we would call it all off.'l Frisky Squirrel was more th(in will '"Why don't yob?' I asked. ing. And he filled the barrow with I don't want to lose Katherine. I cabbages and turnips, lettuce and didn't think she would defy me in this peas, while Jimmy Rabbit looked o.. way I thought she loved me!" j and ordered him about Katherine, I really felt sorry for1 "There!" said Jimmy, when the -tkn b'ut'hlsS i.,. ".. . loan anil ast down. on his side and utter submission on yours. "What's that for?" asked Frisky I don't understand where John got' ... ' ' ...Ke.ep tne vegetables from this idea, unless It wag because moth- , Jimmy explained. "You er has always been so nneeinirlv n,i .e' ?.ou don 1 know how to wheel a stubbornly aggressive. When I Was a "arrow. You'll be tipping it, first little girl I remember that if my , ana ,nen the other- And we father voiced an opinion it unerringly ' w.0,lld nuve to ston every few steps and meant that she would contradict him : "le,k u" a trniD or a cabbage." But my dear, it's up to vou. I nm! 1 uonl wt to wheel vou!"' Just telling you what he an id to me ;sa d Friky. "You're too heavy!" "Karl Shepard is nearly all rlirht oh' Vfr' well, then!" Jimmv nn- agaln. Tom went to see him while I 8W-'l'd. "If you don't care to wheel the was at your house and he told Tom 1 wheelbarrow it's all the mm. n , ... : A...1 .......... . . .v. ... or.m aoniB nowers to you with , """ """'tea to jump down from his uoio. i sent tnem to the train. Did- "t n top of the load. l"m in time? xom said Karl "o, no:" Frisky cried. "rnn't . seemed to be heartbroken for fear you oft! I can manage all right ji' After would think he had unnecessarily fathering all those vegetables he did m .ggeu you mto all thla notoriety. not want to lose the fun of nnshin WhftA V n ala J IT , V, ...1 o gne! Oh, my dear, my dear" I "Wniir fa A ToniorrowWhite Violets I "We're late already.' mmimHHfiTnimtnfTmiimtmmmrMt.M..- K....H irtilliiuiuwiiniiiiitt.iiii4rt-i.UH.iMii No Waste Motion Here The packing business is netted for the elimination of waste in manufacturing;. Swift & Company is equally effective in saving waste in the distribution of products. 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