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About Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980 | View Entire Issue (May 8, 1920)
TAGE FOUR. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL THECAFITAUDURNAL AM DTDBPSNDENT NEWSPAPER Fubliahed very evening except Sunday by The Capita: Journal Print las' Col, 111 South Commercial street. telephone Circulation and Busi eaae Office. 1: Editorial rooms, it. a. PDTNAM. Editor and Publisher. Entered a second clase nail mat ter at Batera, Oregon. BOBSCRIPTION RATKS Br carrier 60 centa a month. By Mil too a month, ll.IS for three Bontha, $1.15 for aiz months. 14 per rear in Marion and Polk counties, aumfrhera J5 a year. y order of U. S. foremment, all fhxil subscriptions are parable in ad- Vmnce. Advertising representatives 'W. L. Ward. Tribune Bldg., New York: W. H. Stock well. Peoples Gaa - bldg. chiciro. MEMBER OF" ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for publication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited in this paper And also local news published herein. lit 4c AS SEEN TimV THK JOtlt.NAIi WINDOW -, $ (By Uie country editor) Sunday will be Mothers Day, and in EUlent aa in all parts of this civilized nation ehe will be honored. Why not? It l Just and right that we pay tribute to the mother of America's children. Bhe never grows old. Gray tiairx become the outward blossom of an inward soul filled with germs of love and gweetnens. When the god of suffering comes with his cup of acid to sour the life, mother love, wife love neutralizes Us cankering, rasping forces and sweetens the riven of two lives that flow from the sin Rio fountain of one heart. I have heard strains of music swell from the great orchestra; I have heard the soft and tender notes from the choic est vocal oulturo; I have heard the oraxy jtm Jams ot vocal comedians, but the sweetest song that ever reach ed the human ear was the mother lul laby, "Hush my child, be still and slumber." The cyclone of time plows furrows In mother's cheeks. The world says they are growing old together, but the sweetness and innocence of time takaa no thought of time, sees no wrinkles, and knows no care which the balm of confidence will not heal. The weetest girl of this nation Is mother. Bhe was sweet amidst the fragrance of her orange blossoms; sweeter etill when the "bleeding hearts" bloom, hut sweeter still when the chrysanthemums come on the sec ond Sunday In May to brighten the "winter of our discontent." Bweet In life, sweet In death, and a fragrance Jcft which rises with each sun as a greeting; walks as a companion of memory through each day and whis pers Its benedictions at vesper time. Salesmen's Club To Hold Regular ' Meeting Monday The regular monthly meeting of the Palem Salesmen's club will be held at the auditorium of tlio Commerclul club at I p'olock Monday evening, accord ing to announcement today by J. F. Jiutchason, president, In view of the faot that the active members have been instituting an onergetlo campaign (or additional members a large attend an oe is expected at the meeting. Spnolal entertainment is to be pro vided for the night. A committee com posed of T. K. McCroKkey, James Kl vln, J. K. Hutclmson, Robert Lellue and J. W. Chambers Jr., 'has been pro paring the activities for the meeting, and It is declared to be a lively. pro gram that they have arranged. MAKE IT "FOOL-PROOF." In its report on the investigation of Treasurer Hoff 8 office, the grand jury condemns the policy followed by the treasurer, criticises the payment of excessive profits and the partiality shown a bond house, questions the character of investment, cen sures the payment for bonds before delivery thereof, recommends the creation of a board to pass upon investments and laws com Dellintr the treasurer to buy in the open market instead of thru (brokers, but finds nothing criminal in the conduct of the office, nd no illegality is charged. The grand jury s opinion of the treasurer is summed up in the following significant paragraph: "A man may be ever so honest, and yet if he lacks business acumen as sometimes is the case among public officials he is liable to be misled in the making of investments." There is apparently no law against the treasurer's -paying excessive commissions to brokers, no penalty for purchasing questionable securities, no law preventing the purchase of secur ities before thev are issued. Therefore such acts are not illegal, ii v. i.i,. T4. ; -,, it,.i iV, ;n I tected by bond from financial loss to a certain amount, but in in vesting millions the amount might easily be exceeded. . It is evident that laws must be made to protect the state when the officials lack "business acumen." It is an easy matter to secure competent advice upon investments, to buy securities in the open market and cut out middlemen, to avoid entangling al liances with profiteering brokers, to keep the cash until the se curities are delivered, but if officials do not do it laws making the treasury fool-proof must be enacted. THE FUNDAMENTAL CAUSE. Senate Document No. 259, a special report of the Secretary of the Treasury, furnished at the request of the senate following the assertion of Former Secretary McAdoo that coal operators made as high as 2000 per cent profit, contains a partial record t)f profits made by many of the big corporations and discloses a: fundamental cause of the high cost of living. Coal operators profits for "1917 were fabulous. Of 404 coalt companies, 185, nearly half, made profits exceeding 100 percent. The net income of the companies, having a capital stock of $175,- 000,000 was $78,000,000 or 45 per cent. One coal company's pro-, fit was 7856 per cent or 78 times its capitalization. . In the last ! thrpfl vpara th npnnlp Vinvo nni'rl in nor nrnfi'ta ovorv Hnllar's v - x- i i - t . v.. j it. r r !i i i j", 1 1 , wuiui oi hiuck ot an cuai tympanies arm a prom in auuiuon anu are now paying for them again. ; Meat packars made profits in the same year ranging as high as 4,244 per cent; canners as high as 2,032 per cent; furniture factories, 3,295 per cent. The United States Steel Corporation's net profit in two years amounted to $888,931,511, or $20,000,000 more than the total stock of the corporation, with half a billion of it water. But one steel company, with a capital stock of $5000 made a net income of $14,549,952 or 290,999 per cent. During the war there were 18,000 new millionaires created in the United States, a third as many as there were American soldiers killed in France. And since the war, the number has been increasing just as rapidly. It is this profiteering by the few and the mulcting of the many, that is the cause of the high cost of living and the labor unrest of the country. It is now proposed to make the people pay a billion and a (half more for soldier bonuses, by a direct tax on all sales, instead of taxing the war profits the soldier s patriotism made possible. Why does congress shield the profiteer in every line of industry ana pass every Durden onto his victim i. zr- " iqj Y ARTHUR SCOTT BAIUEY ft1 c " ' SATLTtPAYyy g I Now, Mr. unippy was unusuaiiy everything is my fauit " mild mannered. But he became great- wanted to hire a bov t i. ws -1 iy excited as soon as he heard Busty'a insects. "C'P - IUU ran t scam . THE PtTZ7XE. CHAPTER XVIII Rusty Wren looked quite crestfal len as he listened to his wife's wall. He wished that he had heeded her warning, when she declared that his r ' i 1 I j "So you can't sriire mc by ! threats." a threats. I only m ' jc, house cm.. played a with you U you cian. jour hiring a boy would certainly lead to trouble. "What's the matter with- you?" Rusty asked his helper, Chippy, Pr. "When you first ' came to work for us you could slip through our door way easily enough. But now you're altogether too big." ChitiDV. Jr.. said that the entrance to their house must have shrunk. I "How could it?" Rusty demanded' impatiently. "It rained last night," the young ster reminded him. . j Ttt. Plicitv- IWan ea tA bar ma L ' The doorway's made of tin not wood.' iou nave grown mat s tne wnoie trouble! And you've cot us into a; pretty fix." "I begin to think that it was all planned this way by his father," Mrs. Chippy wouldn't have to take care of, nis son. But I don't intend to adopt a big. overtfrown bov like him not' when I have six small children of mv own! Chippy, Jr.. couldn't helD feel luff Dotn uncomfortable and unhappv. "I want to go home!" he blubbered. "It's almost my bedtime. And my father and my mother won't If at all if I stay here all night." " "Well," said Rustv Wren "T rtnn'f know how you're going to leave our house if you can't squeeze through the door. So I'll hurry over and tell your father about this trouble. nH he can break the news sfcntiv your mother." Then Rusty went off, flying direct ly to the stone wall whe fh r-h py family lived. And sod he was ex plaining to Mr. Chippy how his son was inside their house and couldn't leave. h.ln taAlinV that Vnil'VA uiu muB j . .- trick on my son prooaoiy vt pieaura -lyj come and rii t i Johnnie Green. If you don't set my down!" Mr. Chippy rl7Df tl0! boy free tomorrow morning at day- And he began 8creaminv8!rcJ break. I shall certainly make truoble chip chip" in a very shrui ' et for you." waa most annoying to hear1 Mr. Chippy's warning amased Rus- Rusty Wren did not like ,' ly wren, cui ne couiun i neip mugu- mm. bo ne Hew back a 7 ing at the idea of anybody causing bed. He only wished that It ' him any trouble. . albly for Mr. Chippv tn kZ.? to- house and rescn. rhi . "o b "I'm so deep in trouble now," he house and rescue Chippy jr .... --i- . 'viy jr. But j told Mr. Chippy, "there's nothing you tn house waa made of can do to make matters any worse knew that Mr. Chippy wa, 8J for me. I've six growing children to Til never settle in a bring up; and now I have your son again so long as I live'" v ho8 to take care of: and my wife thinks ed. tm&. Mcdford Man Dies In Hospital Here , The body of Charles H, King, 23, aon of Mr. and Mi-s, w. P. Klnsr, of Modford, was sent to Mcdford Friday by the RIgdon A Son company, In com pany with the boy's father, Mr. Kin. Ohnrlna King died at a local hospital Wednesday after an lllnesfl of only abcMit a week. The funeral will be hold in Medford Sunday. Healdoe his parent, Mr. King leaves one brother, David King, Takllma, Or., and six sister, Mrs. O. Murphy of Modford, Mrs. Minnie Permits of ltogue Itlver, Mrs. Ktta Krskin of Tet aluma, Cal., Mrs. Hattle Rader of liornbrook, Cal., Mrs. Nellie Molvin of I, os Angnlea, Cal., and Miss Julia King f Medford. Warning is issued against tourist travel in Europe. Trans portation facilities are poor, hotel accommodations meagre, ty phus epidemics prevalent, food supplies scanty so the American profiteers had better Bpend their vacations touring the far west and viewing the wonders of national parks. Rippling Rhymes L'U OF SPrUMO. The spring ww sIojv m coming, I tho njht 'bvould ne'er np piar; but now Ihs bi an humming, a i l Jayu r.nd things are here. Before the dawn of Easter warm days betokened spring; I ground my spade and greased her, and started gardening. I cried, "The winter season is buried in the past ; and spring, which has no fleas on, has come to stay at last. Farewell to winter weather, which bores me and annoys, so let me get together, and sing of vernal joys." Alas, no Easter morning old winter had re turned; ana irom its solemn warning a lesson 1 have learned. Hereafter I'll be cautious about announcing sprinjr: for Deonle comie and josh us when we give fancy wing. I will not be up- bobbin with vernal stuff again, because I ve seen a robin, or heard a lonesome wren. I will not sell the heater, or pawn my i . i . i i i . .. i . winter com, oecause u stray mosKeeier nits crooned its mournful note. Spring signs must come in legions before I will admit that in the arctic regions the blizzard works have quit. Oh, Easter was a hummer, and winter had its fling, and I will wait till sum mer before-1 look for spring. husband to protect their home from the encroachments of greedy capital and the malignant shafts of dema gogues." . "Why. Alice .a suffraeist Is truly womanly," I said, rather wondering- ly. " Ihope so, my dear. I'm one." (Monday The Coming Woman) "Talk With Mars?" "Yes!"!Says Salem Student of Stars "Within five years communication will be established between the plan ets earth and Mars," is the statement of Isam L. McAdams, who is known to thousands of Oregonions as the "Tele scope Man." "There is every reason to believe that life exists on the war planet," continues Mr. McAdams. "The planet has seasons of comparatively the same duration, with proportional periods of night and day. At certain Beasons, spectrum analysis of Mars changes, indicating the green of spring and Bummer growth." "Scientists and fiction writers hnva groped for many "years in efforts to pre-suppose me type of human life on bur near neighbor. Tfcmi.v, rn.t years of constant study of the heavens in correlation with the Bible, I have found nothing that solves this and oth er problems so well as the 'Book nf Books.' "As scientists pretty generally agree mat au planetary and solar bodies un war returned here to find they could get no work to do. By far the greater number are waiters. Thev are in a desperate plight. Owing to the great increase in the cost of living there hn been a great diminution in the number ot mose who were wont to patronize hotels and restaurants. ' Waiters fortunate enough to get Jobs at yieir calling encounter almost insup erable difficulties in providing them selves with conventional garb. There are few second-hand dress suits in Vi enna. And new dress suits now cost from 6,000 to 8,000 crowns. It has now been suggested that in lieu of dress suits they should be allowed to wear linen uniforms which could be had much more cheaper and would ren der it easier to distinguish between waiters and guests. li.'il, : i lutein First Fires In Oregon Forests ' Reported Friday Portland, Or., May 8. Six foreBt fires, the first of the season, were re ported Friday in the timbered areas oi Oregon, practically all having origi nated In slashings. Four of the fires are in the vicinity of Timber, Wash ington county, while another is near scappoose and a sixth has been ported at Flora's camp. Those near umber have been brought under con trol, reports indicate. Absence of wind aided fire fighter in oringing tne fires under control, and it is believed standing timber is In High Tension Magneto Make Your "Fordson" More Powerful . And Economical . Just as your "Fordson" increased production on your farm, so will Bosch Magneto Ignition improve your "Fordson." A Bosch High Tension Magneto will make your tractor more POWERFUL and at the same time, more ECONOMICAL, for the full, hot spark of a BOSCH MAGNETO will ignite a leaner mixture and burn it more completely than the weaker sparks produced by a multicoil system. A Bosch Megneto requires practically no attention, no ai justments and no delays. It will enable you to work more acres per day at a lower cost per acre. , ' Use the same Ignition that the big well-known tractors use. A Bosch Magneto can be quickly and easily installed without re moving any vital part of the engine. R. D.. BARTON 171 S. Commercial St. dergo the same evolutionary processes I no danser .unless an unusually high there Is everv ennd n t xii i "lu anouia set in. Areas of green timber are nrntectei to some' extent by moisture, drvlnu there is every good reason to heliove that inhabitants of Mars are beings almllo. t . KPlJeaiHiice 10 inose Who ----- . uijmy live on earth. The word nva -rimi weather having made little impression .i , ... .. 'On the foreflta. KPIDKMIO IN" SHANGHAI. Shanghai, May 8. An epidemic of rnrebo spinal menlngetls has occurred In the citle and towns ot the Yang' tsie valley and has been ftlt to some extant in Shanghai. It Is reported to have attained serious proportions In Kanhtnf. The demand for serum was' act heavy that the supply In Phnnghnl wat Quickly exhausted and emergency ealls were sent to Manila, Jnpun end the United States. LOVE and MARRIED LIFE By the Noted Author IDAH McGLONE GIBSON take a leaf out of her book. Silent ly I handed over John's note that he had sent with the flowers and with it his telegram. "Did he know I was HIT" I askeit. "I wired him," she answered. "I don't want him to come just now." I said rather querulously. "I want to make up my mind about things." "Make X'p Vonr Mind." "That's right, Katherlne," said Alice, d'do make up your mind and then stick to it one way or the other. I could do this very easily If I never saw him again. But you know, Alice, as well as I do, the influenco ho exerts overtime when he is with me." "Right here Is the chance for you to make your choice. Do you count those moments of ecstatto happiness, Katherlne, worth the depths of If so, stay with Hl'TU MISS ICS BonnY Alice returned from Ruth's with a very sad face. "What is the matter, dear," I in quired, "didn't you have a happy time with Ruth?" "No, my dear, Ruth is very unhap py. Like many women she has learn ed to appreciate her husband when she has him no more. She said to me. "I did not know how lonely I would be without Bobby coming in with his laughter and carefree manner. I thought that my children would make up for the loneliness I might have, but, Alice, I have found out differently. I wish I had kept him." "What do you mean Ruth?" I said "Would you have kept Bobby when you knew he was in love with an other woman?" "Yes, I think I would now. That kind of love wears away always. You know that Goethe and Heine, the Pair he causes you? great lovers of history, insisted thath'i: If not, set yourself free. romantic love never lasted over two "It Is a sure thing, Alice, that you years and did not last that long if have never loved a man. or you would the lovers marry. As I think of Bob- neVer gVe me this advice so coolly, by and myself today. I believe t- why you ,e me t0 mke fectlon and regard for me. ana i :",-":- """ "-"" believe in time that IWa love fi al merits of a couple of new hata. Helen would have Worn off and he In ' I not sure but that you would have come back to me." hav ""ore emotion over the Ilobby'e limrt Still True. millinery question." I laughed, for this fitted In so well " y dear, I really with just what I had been thinking cant become Intensely Interested in "Hutu thinks," ! sold, "that Hobby's ne love affairs of my frelnds. mar heart 1 still true to Pol." ' wpr ""married. Tou see I am very "And I believe Helen . thinks so, n,uc' "cited over the fact that we too." mid Alice rave!y. "Oh, my w(,om'n ar, now c"' " effalm dear, my dear. I wish I could teach ,'" nation politically, I mean." ull you women that are wearing your ood heavena, Alice, are you a lives out as devotees of the little god uffragette? of love that life is so much bigger.' .. ,,,' 1 am not n ette I m an that this thing you call love Is only' an Incident of life and as such per- stl, V haps holds a kind of Interest, but not , A"1 A" Rwponsibllltksi. the great. Important, absorbing in-,, A uffragette wants all the prlv- terest that life has, If you only look' " man. ana is not willing to ,.i i in th .u.),t .l..v. sorrow. nou! J,,f any of the responaiHlltle. latiL-hlor. team, wealth.' poverty, pleas-i?,,E Insists that a man shall give 'ure and pain, love and hate hold their "" 8PRt ln the street car, nad for-) t places In this momentous thing we thnk him for It, She U always; call life, but pot one of them Is hlg'talk,n abo he battle of sexes, and; j enough to absorb Into Its keeping life- p on ner snoukler every Contrary t' th' pop'Iar inipivHHion. , uw,f . i minute. On the other hand, my desr. a ' th' aaxoplione is a very oi musical In-1 Aunin I looked at Alice In surprise ffragtet Is a woman- who wants the' Mruinent, but It wuxn' until recent ; She was always spying something that ,,1,lu''- 'hut she can help redrem: v,. that a dance want found f fit it. slu.it e.l me a dee iter and mure sulen- v" " men. to tnat created man in his own image, In the image of Uod created he him Vnr this is our authority tn hollov tv,of there is little discrepancy between Martians and earth dwellers so tar no ulterior appearance is concerned." This is the "Telescone Man's" Into,. pretntion of the lessons taught by the planets and stars. The "TeleFcops Man" has so far re fused to fall ln line with the higher cost of living program. Eight or ten years ago a ticket to Jupiter, Mars or whatever planet was in range, was to be had upon the payment of ten cents. The rate remains the same, today. Mr. McAdams devotes the income from his five Inch Clarke's telescope to charts and accesdrles necessary in perusing his studies. By trade he is a carpenter and untillses this occupa tion as a day time pursuit, leaving evening to observation and !ctiir He hns traveled through many states, i wonting at his trade and lecturing as a sideline. "I endeavor to obviate scientific phrases and terms from my talks," states Mr. McAdams, "the heavens hold a story which should be of ab sorbing interest to every thoughtful person ,but the average individual re volts at confusing words and soon loses Interest in the subject." Mr. McAdams has ben a resident of this city for mnny years, himself and wife having a home at 245 D street. on the forests The clashing fires of this week have given trouble at an unusually early utile Waiters' And Cooks Play Losing Game In Modern Vienna Vienna May 8 Aristocratic Vien na, once famed for Its chefs, now of fers small opportunities for Hia dis play of gastronomic art. Professional cooks are regarded as "superfluities" as are also an army of waiters, all jobless and folorn. Many hundreds of Austrian who were interned ln England during the THE MISERY OF BACKACHE Removed by Lydia E. Pink ham's Vegetable Compound. Muskeiron. Mich. was so weak in my back at times that I couta hard Iv walk. Lydia E. Pi'nkham's Vegetable Cora pound was recom mended to me and it made me good and strong again so that I am able to do all my work. I highly recommend your medico ne and tell everyone I m e e t what it did for me." 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McCulloch, Optometrist 204-5 Salem Bank of Commerce Bldg. ft ' t 3- :t Jtrfti THSCCMANH NS6ltT(RI9. THREADED Rubber Insulation, which is al ways to be found between the plates of the Still Bet ter Willard, doesn't know what it is to lie dowii on the job. Any Willard Ser vice Station will tell you just as we do, that Thread ed Rubber never gives the battery owner cause to worry about reinsulation a statement that cannot truthfully made of any dtnary insulation. DEGGE & BURRELL Auto Electricians 93Q WM-ft, TI.VVi Sfroof mdXJJ lVl ly! JkXAgXA KSVJ.VWW "Through Service we Grow be or-1 A J Wilted ITS A TREAT To eat, with or without Dntw. a slice of our light, white, po BAKE-MTE bread. Chil and grown-ups both are tm our bread; it's so soft wAM .flavored, like rich cake. Try "loaf and judge yourself. Bake-Rite Bakery 457 State St. ThonejSj LADD & BUSHIO BANKERS Eitablished 1SG3 General Banking Businen Office Hours from 10 a. ra. to S f. cw tri b!n her --eM--ee-e-4M