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3VEDNESDAY, MAY i PAGE FOUR. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL THECAPITAUDURNAL N INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published every evening except uodajr by The Capital Journal Print- is Co., lit South Commercial street. Telephone Circulation and Busi ness Office. II: Editorial room 8J. O. PUTNAM, Editor and Publisher. Kstered a second dust mail mat ter st Saiem, Oregon. SUBSCRIPTION RATES By carrier (0 cents a month. By Buul He a month, 11.15 (or three month, 12.25 for six month, M per rear In Marion and Folk countiea. Elsewhere IS a year. Vf order of U. 8. sjovemraent, all Siall subscriptions are payable In ad-nce. Advertising repreaentatlvet-W. I. Ward, Tribune Bid, New York; W. H. Rockwell, Peoples Gas bid., Chics in. ' MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED P.KE9S The Associated Press Ja exclusively entitled to the ass (or publication of ail news dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited tn this paper and also local news published herein. rAs Seen Through The Journal Window (By II, E. Browne.) A story goes that once upon a time a fish ai placed In a (rylng pan. In its agony It gave one mighty (lop and Isnded in the hot couls of fire. The story of the fable Is being en acted In renl life toduy. There Is a (Trowinif unrest among young men on the farm un unre?t which constitutes a distinct peril to the nation. Stork's of abnormally hish wages paid fur even unskilled lalior in the cities have fired the farm hand with that greatest of nil American curses a desire to get rirh quick. As n result help In the country Is scarce today and farm work is consequently retarded. The situation Is alarming In some purls of the country. In his Imagination the farmer boy sees the money rolling in, but there his imagination stops. He never thinks of It pouring out again. And In the larger cities, despite the high wages paid, there Is Quite ns much pouring as rolling. Just what bright-eyed, keen-minded and energetic young men f the country should prefer the exas perating perplexities of the city to the peaceful certoilnties of the country Is difficult for me to conceive. From in fancy they have been trained In the hnrd-headed school of experience, and the experience has nabled their fath ers to achieve success In an era when the hand of fa'te wag against every farmer when, there wns no adequate recompense for their labors when th star of hope Was ohscured by the low prices of their products. Yet all this eplendld training seems to be without avail. They wnnt to leave the fnrm. Kathers have pleaded; mothers, and ulsters, and sweethearts - have shed Utter tears; but the unrest is there. It will not sleep. True, the city newspapers are filled dally with enticingly worded advertiser ments calling for help, but wrfcn sifted down they lire more often found to be Jobs that the city man does not want. The farmer lad ts asked to come in und take the arums that remain and they take them, It Is nn unfortunate condition which faces the country and one which must be met. If the deplor able depopulation of tho farm con tinues there can be but one result. The farmer will live In peace and plenty because he can always raise sufficient for the needs of himself and family. Hut everywhere the cities will cry for food when there Is no food to be had; and the young man who leaves the (arm will be among those who experi ence the Joys of a gay life and an emp ty stomach. The greatest crown of story of the world war was placed by Marshal Koch upon the brow of the farmer boy from the mountains of Tennessee. He In the hero of heroes of the war of nil wars. The farm boy of today has an opportunity of performing fur his iionntry nn even greater service than that which made Alvlu Koike's name known wherever olvlllr.atlon exists. By remaining where life Is clean and op portimlllctt nre never lai'Ultifr, he can nld In saving ninny millions of helpless women mid children from the pangs of hunger and the depths of despair. For without the products of tho farm even life Itself cannot be FiiHtalitod. THEY WANT IT ALL. ' 'What does it mean to Marion county to have the state cap ital at Salem? . It means the expenditure of nine-tenths of the state tax money in the city and county. It means a steady pay roll and an army of employes who fur nish a market for the products of the county. It means a biennial session of the legislature at a cost of $118,500, which brings people from all over the state leaving a total of nearly half a million dollars in Marion county. State records for the year ending April 30, 1920, show: An average of 384 employes at the capital building, who draw $599,236 as salaries, with $157,077 as office expenditures a total oi $7ob,3i3 or state money, nearly an spent in Marion county, t, 1. LL3 U J 1 Y ARTHUR SCOTT OFF TO BLACK CREEK As soon as they reached the orch ard. Jolly- Robin exclaimed. "There's Old Mr. Crow nnv nver there nn the j renee! He's come back to get your An average population at the eight state institutions of 2887,?"'?" nd ke " t0 BW . T i .....i. have to teU him you're sorry but inmates, and 411 employes, with a payroll of $315,526.40, a total annual cost of $1,094,060.96 nearly all spent in Marion county. A total of 7S5 permanent state employes in and about Salem, drawing $914,762.40 as payroll, nearly all spent in Marion county. A total of 3682 wards of the state and state employes resid ing in and about Salem, costing a total of $1,850,373.90 per year, nearly all of which is spent in Marion county. Salem is also the headquarters from which the highway con-J struction of Oregon is directed with an annual payroll for state employes of $909,000, and work completed or under contract total ing $25,312,759. x - The state fair grounds are also located in Marion county, maintained at state expense and bringing in thousands of people and thousands of dollars from all parts of Oregon. One would naturally suppose that Marion county, reaping the benefit of state taxation, would be the last county to oppose tax ation necessary to preserve the public school system yet Mar ion county, which receives millions of dollars of the money of the taxpayers of Oregon, is the only county where the taxpayers have organized to fight taxation for schools located in other counties. If the Agricultural College and State University were located in Marion county, along with the other state institutions, our frugal taxpayers league would probably be valiantly champion ing them in the hour of their distress but being located else where, they lack the chivalry and courtesy to recognize their needs and place the dollar above the child whenit is their dol lar to be' spent elsewhere and some one else's child It is small wonder that this selfi&fi attitude, persisted in for years, has created contempt and contumely for Salem and Marion county among the people of Oregon which accounts for the unenviable reputation disenjoyed by the capital city and the per sistent talk of capital removal. However, the taxpayers league does not represent the people of Salem or Marion county it misrepresents them. It is a sur vival of the old days that have passed, the dying struggle of the old order in a vain effort to turn back the clock and stay the march of progress, you'rt .going to be too busy tomor row to go to the party." Tell him said Rusty Wren "tell him that although I expect to Public Forum. To the Kdltor: It may he of Inter cut to readers of your paper to know there Is an Increasing desire among the citizens of Salem that their Inter eats be rcpremited In the city council by women. Why not? Since every avenue of ur city's business Is open to and ef (linciitly conducted by women; and ulnre they are credited with well dp.; fined Ideals and are capable of ex pressing and maintaining these Ideals. At a recelft gathering of men and women after discussion ,tho following wis adopted: "Resolved, that it Is the sense of this meeting that present con ditions In our municipal affairs would be Improved by the presence Und In fluence of members selected from the women of Salem." It U hoped this tmetlon may receive attention nnd frank and fair discission through the columns of your paper. - ONK WHO WAH PRKSF.NT. ! BLAMING THE SYSTEM. In commenting upon the Marion grand jury's report upon State Treasurer Hoff s conduct of his office the Portland Oregon ian takes a slap at the direct primary, styling the selection of Hoff "the full fruits of the self-nominating system." Yet if occasionally an incompetent official is selected under the primary system, so were incompetents selected under the old convention system. As a whole, the selections made by the peo ple compare favorably with those formerly made by the bosses. We may get more self-seeking demagogues, but we get fewer political crooks. This is not the first scandal that has broken about the state treasury and all of them previously were over treasurers select ed in the "good old days" by conventions. It was long the cus tom for the treasurer to take all the state interest money aa a perquisite and many a treasurer grew wealthy at the taxpayer's expense, without a protest from the Oregonian. The state's money was used as a private asset and deposited where it would profit the treasurer. When the legislature made its biennial inspection, there was a frantic rush of gold baclc to the capital and the convention selected legislators felt lucky to count the principal and forget the interest. Finally laws were passed "to prevent its happening again." Other raids on the treasury under the "fee" system flourish-j ed when the politicians did the thinking for the people and there was a wild burst of indignation when the flat salary bill- destroy ed the incentive for office-seeking and "prevented its happening again." ' No one supposed a law was necessary to prevent, shady, busi ness transactions, such as withdrawing from the market and giv ing a monopoly of bond purchases to a broker, permitting him to make a rake-off, as high as 16 per cent. No one supposed a treasurer would pay out cash for bonds not issued or invest state funds at exorbitant prices in questionable securities but as it has been done, perhaps a law will "prevent its happening again." The grand jury blames the "system," but the system was in stalled by the present treasurer. However, the Oregonian makes the following sensible suggestion: , "We can think of another recommendation or two. (hat the grand Jury might have offered. One Is that the present state treasurer resign.. Another on the bare chance that after the statute books have been filled up there still may be some matters of discretion devolving on the treasurer and over looked by the legislature ts that that official be appointed by the governor." Rippling Rhymes )r ft '111' l:i.!ie',:l.Mms .nbinil fi'cceren tvrPri Ih I ti-'I'MKl jthoni s 1:1s un i 'i i t i , 1 if .nil I' p ,t.:c. (- .'i l.i, ul ,ii-. 1. 1 s Imr IN THE OLD TIME. When I was young a shilling was pretty hard to get; for hours a man went drilliing, in pools of honest sweat, before he'd fairly earned it, and when he drew his tin, 'twas seldom that he burned it, or idly blew it in. At Christmas time he'd holler and make some kopecks fly; and he would spend a dollar the Fourth day of July. And when the three-ring circus came lumbering to town, with grafts and fakes to work us, he'd haply blow a. crown. Then, having had his riot, he to his work returned, and, strictly on the quiet, he pickled all he earned. And when life's winter found him, it didn't find him broke; he'd comforts ail around him and greenbacks in his poke. But now such sane endeavor, such sense, we vainly seek; the Fourth is with us ever, and Christmas once a week. The money's coming easy, with equal ease it goes; the toiler, flip and breezy, just blows, and blows, and blows. With all wise rules disgusted, he blows his wad today; cheer up! we'll soon be busted; a picnic's on the way 1 And she assured her husband that she would be, delighted to have him go to Uic tailor's. be busy, I am going to my cousin's party just the .same." Jolly Robin stopped and sat down on a branch of an apple tree, he was so surprised. "My dear sir!" he cried. "You seem to have forgotten that your wife said yon wouldn't be able to accept Long Bill's invitation." "My wife " said Rusty Wren "my wife sometimes makes mistakes. And this is one of them. I wouldn't miss my cousin's party for anything. And I don't intend to, either." "Good!" cried Jolly Robin. "I'm glad to see that you don't let yoyr wife manage your affairs, though I have heard differently about you, (or some people say -that " He stop ped abruptly and looked carefully around. Whatever It may have been that he was about to say, for some reason he did not care to have his wife hear It. And he happened -to think that perhaps Mrs. .Robin might be near-by. "I don't care what people say," Rusty Wren told him. "When my vv ny it With Side UltiiiODUrr lseasss! blood. They come from, e 1 of tiny cerms ,, ! fBf ! the blood and m.df.vi'r -million. Although LZ 1 a .ii4 j. 6U counter! i vessel. You may possibly, after j they set up theSt'sfe j so long a time, succeed in mak- 0f their distnrr.nn. 11 i face of the sl a,,8?-! it must ' "1 oual There is a Way to Get Rid of . The Torturous Suffering. You cannot boil water by ap plying the heat to the top of the ing the water lukewarm, but it will never get hoti enough to boil. Disorders which originate in the blood can be reached only through the blood, and no amount of local treatment ap plied to the surface can be expected to do any real good. The same principle applies to cousin gives a party It would be a shame if I couldn't go to It" "I quite agree with you," said Jolly Robin. "And now I'll go and give old Mr. Crow your answer." "One moment!" Rusty Wren ex claimed. "What time will my cousin's party begin T" "Five o'clock!" Jolly Robin replied. "And it will last till sundown." The next morning Rusty Wren helped his wife so spryly that long before midday the house-cleaning was finished. Although she tried heri best, Mrs. Rusty could think of no more tasks for her husband to do' except to reed the children. That was a auiy tnai would not be finished un til they were old enough to leave home and shift for themselves. On this day Rusty Wren dropped so many dainties into their gaping that she didn't dare let the voune-ithe attempt tO get lid Of Skin sters have anything more to eat until diseases by local applications of "And now' you ought to stay in the sa'ves ointments, lotions, wash nouse and have a good rest until just es, etc., remedies applied to the before sunset," she told Rusty. You've - ... . . , . , worked very hard ever since dawn. surface f tne skm whlCh Can And i know you're tired." I have no real corrective effect But Rusty declared that he muchlmKo nreferrert t, h f nf .... "uolc,u uiocaoc. t a . vwi. vm. ujyjj nig fine weather. His wife looked at him sharply when he said that All day long neither of them had mentioned the party which Rusty's cousin, Long Bill Wren, was going to gvle at five o'clock this afternoon. "I think," said Rusty, as he moved about uncomfortably under his wife's gase, "I think since I've a little time to spare I'd better go and see Mr. Frog, the tailor. You know you've been telling me that my Sunday coat Is beginning to look shiny and I suppose I really ought to have a new one." Mrs. Rusty said that it was true he did need a new coat. And she as sured her husband that she would be ueugiueu to nave him go to the inuurff, Now, she did not know that Mr. Frog had moved. She thought his shop was on the banks of Broad Brook. But that was Just another mistake of hers. And If she h known where his tailoring parlors were then located, she would certain ly have raised a good many objections to Rusty's visiting them on the day of his cousin's party. For Mr. Frog's rrtWaB 0"r the banks of Black Creek, where Long Bill Wren spent his summers. v loved me. Do you feel the same about mon seohol me now as you did then?" Smith moment Derors i evenlne. ThA .nni.in. bill by Dr. W r,.itrt connlnripl tv. Kni. . I hesItAtfld A mnmnt lWnr T at.Ai . hiw oi tne spoke and then I answered: I o ab . stand for ZT t?k & 'aV- "Yes, It Is because I love you Jmlsu r the tW edunal mucn, jonn, mat i am contemplating not living with you." "Rubbish," he exclaimed. "Now don't go off on that tangent again. I am sick and tired of Introspection, restrospection and analysis, which gets us only to which and wherefor. Haven't you realized yet that no man ever wants to analyze love. He only Wants to make it. "And not always to his wife," said. 'That's true," he answered prompt ly. "Then this Is right," I asserted as I put the anonymous letter In his hand. He read it and the veins stood out In his temples. I had never seen ' him so angry. "The she devil," I heard him whisper under his breath. "I will pay her out for this." "Oh, no, John, you need not pay anyone for it. I don't think Eliza beth Moreland is any more to blame than you are in the nintter. "How do you know that It Is Elizabeth . Moreland ?" he asked quickly. "I can't just tell, but I know that it is Elizabeth Moreland, just as you know It Is she." Talks In Rough Tones "I don't know anything about it," he said roughly. "If you are going to allow every anonymous letter writer to put you on the gridiron, I am sure I don't know how I can help you." . "I have just given you this letter so that you may make a decision." "What kind of a .decision?" he asked. This letter says that yon do not care ior me; that you only are nice to me now because mother's little be quest happened to turn Itself Into a great deal of money, ter cannot be boiled until every atom has been thoroughly sat urated with intense heat, which can be accomplished only by ap plying it in the proper way. So, also, there is a proper way to successfully treat and get rjj-1 of diseases of the skin, and that is by getfing in behind the mil lions of tiny germs that cause the disorders, and eliminate them from the blood, thus going ctfrect to the source of the trou ble, and attacking them at the starting point. Those who rely upon local treatment such as ointments, salves, lotions, washes,, etc., which are applied to the surface of the skin, will never be free from - agonizing skin diseases, because they are trointf about the treatment just backwards. ' They are treating the results of; Begin taking S. S. S., today, uib uiBoraer, ana not tne aisease ar,rl writ ft -nmrfrf- Wnnr Thair n4-4-nni.:- i " r - .icaiuieub must com. r the blood. This There is no danger of em l ing afflicted with skin d as long as the blood is i3 condition. It is only Eg therefore, that the proper S ment for pimples, blotches, bodes, rough red scaly skini purify the blood of the germs that cause these di I UClo. When any of these symptoms appear on any part of Z I body, you should take vnmdt stpns in r-iA Vij I germs which cause them. And the one remedy which has wj equal as a blood cleanser, is S.S. S., the purely vegetable blood remedy which has been on the market for more than fiftr years. S. S. S. is sold by drag, gists everywhere. Do not expect to be cured o any form of skin disease by the use of lotions, salves, ointments or other local treatment, as such' remedies cannot possibly reach the source of the trouble, which is the blood. The recognized blood purl. flcr nnd tonic is S. S. S. which has been used for more thai fifty years, and Is today, more popular than ever. itself, boil water by applying the heat m tne wrong place. lhese terrifying skin rrrita' your case to our Chief Medical Adviser, who will give you spec ial instructions without charge, Incorporations, Permission for the sale of $200,000 ftmt mortgage bonds to be issued gainst their property at Fourth and Jefferson strets. Portia., ..,,. ed to the Portland Co-operative Labor association, Tuesday, by H J Schuelderman, state corporation com missioner The proc3eds from the sain of these bonds are to be used In the erection of a labor temple nt nn np proximate cost of 250,00i. Articles of incorporation wer filed Tuesday as follows: Oregon Bench Telephone company ..efterson, Malheur couutv, $5000 trunk Orlbbln, S. S. Hill. 3. o. Jllak-s-lcy. Home Laundry coninnnv hrri..... I ville, $20,000: J. M. Parrt v i Crea and H. Bornett. Oregon Towing eompan-, jv.rtlai.d $-'5.0110; Hilton Smith, E. I). Klngsley m.d S. C. Tevis. Resolution of Peace Scored (Continued from page one) ed the interesting distinction between declaring peace and declaring war at an end." The peace resolution adopted by the house last month was denounced es pecially by Mr. Hitcheock because of its proposals for an embargo against Germany within 4S a AVH in scant , nave Known letters to lie," he merman objections to the resolution aid. i and its nrovisinn fr ..-j v . ""5 riEUW 'That Is Just what I want to find out. la this the truth or Is it a lie?" Tomorrow My Husband's Ideas LOVE and MARRIED LIFE By the Noted Author IDAH McGLONE GIBSON "These Business Houses In Residence Pari Of Ciiy Opposed Declaring that "there Is no crvlnr need of business houses In the resl- uonuni districts of the city," and "that on the contrary they detract ...... .nr oeauty oi uie city and are i otnorwise objectionable to nearby res idents, the parent-teacher associa tion of Lincoln school went on record I at their meeting Tuesday evening to aiscouraee the erection of additional , business houses in the residence dis trlrts of Salem. Small business houses In the resi dence quai rs were described as "nuisances" and a resolution was passed to present a bill to the city council for passage, requiring the unanimous consent of nil property owners within 300 feet before the per mit for erection of such a building could be given. The resolution, was unanimous. A short program by the children of the school and a discussion of the higher educational tax bill by Carle under the treaty. "In -the house resolution," he said "we demand the benefits of the treaty whlch we have refused to ratify." THE ISSl'K .was my answer, nre Ruth C.aylord's chll- "What do you think about your dren," 1 said to John In explanation, new houseT" he asked again. Uls- hnplng he would say something that missing the subject of ay illness with would show he wjs a little envious. no further concern. 'Well, they are some children I ! "I expect It Is very beautiful," I should sny." lie remarked as he said." "I was never In It but once, the picked up Ruth and sat her on his exterior and grounds are lovely." shoulder. Immediately the hands of "Then you are going home with roe and we siarted up the Quiet village than asked, and 'he slipped his hand! Abam', nd an aares 0B tn " street, Ruth making Burgling, happy under my arm and into my hand. , noises as she plunged her fingers In-; "No," I answered. to John's hair to support herself on; i a moment ' everything was his shoulder. lehant-eri. The errav look fmrenri down Slyly I looked to him when his face on John's face and almost Unconscl- was turned away from me and he ously he let go my arm, which he had certainly was irood to look nt. A been holding caressingly under his. gre.it blfr. hsmlsfmie chap, All the He stopped Just in front Of the love that I bad had for lilm before I gate to the house and said: married mm came pouring back Into Katnenne. ao you lmeaa never to my heart. 'live with me aisain?" John Sllont for a Time i And I answered: "I don't know." John didn't siv verv rouvh until- "Vlint Io Yon Menn?" we put the children doun at the tiule. "WUat do you mean by saying you unit thin Je tinned in me nnd re- don't know? Are you a child that nif);iMl inuiili-iiotv: doesn't know ii niiuJ ? Or ha jour "AMve wlr'd to' vmi Ti-ti'-e V;M'V t!t. ivilt t.'.n si'-.tk1? 1 cov.f ---s 1 do Dot "- - -.... r . ; i t (.. r , .. :!? - !!-,! ;;.! Vcu told me mice you icreatestI ioyEsnoRl i AMcmrntouiDrajna 0 " jar. (emotions ( trfSMaaad IV jntlr4 tions, eczema, tetter, boils, pjm-Write at once to Swift Specific pies, etc., nave tneir origin in Co., 185 Swift Laboratory, At a disordered condition of the lanta, Ga. Adv. Every St ate in the Union Supports Higher Education In America, Education has always been recognized as the" chief safeguard or our free institutions, and the principal bulwark against the forces that tend to destroy democracy. Education, iree to all alike, is the first necessity of a self-governing people. Higher Education in Oregon Is Imperiled These are outstanding facts in its present day of crisis: I. The Agricultural College, State University and State Normal School have 150 per cent more students than in 1913, but less than FOUR per cent more income. 2... The worldwide rise in costs has reduced tremendously the buying power of even that income. 3. There is no sign of a let-up in the increase of students. (It is well that there should not be, for the best educat ed state is the best producer, the most stable, and the best to live in.) 4. Attendance has increased ten times as fast as classroom and laboratory space. 5.' All three institutions have been con ducted with utmost economy. Their cost per student per year, and their building investment per student are far below the gen eral average. 6. They are fast losine their faculty specialists, who cannot make even a bare living while training the boys and gins of Oregon. 7. Their classes are overloaded, their floor space over crowded, their scientific instruments and apparatus low. 8. They; can no longer go on with an adequate program of teaching unless adequate support is voted. , , . How Much Will It Cost to Protect Higher Education on May 21? is your Vi Tax Dollar Do you not want your boy and girl, or your neighbor's t have the same educational chance as the boys and girls of tow1 The Higher Educational Tax Act is No. 310 on the baDot. You are respectfully urged to vote 310 X Yes. ! CThis advertisement inserted by Colin Dyment In behalf of Joint AH i Relief Committee, 614 Pittock Block, Portland, Ore.) ITS A TREAT To eat, with or without butter, a slice of our light, white, pure, BAKE-RITE bread. Children and grown-ups both are fond of our bread; it's so soft and fine flavored, like rich cake. Try loaf and judge yourself. 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