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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1909)
t v Wirtrn44mg DAIXiT CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OIIEGON, MONDAY, JUNE 28, 1000. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL E. HOFER, Editor and Proprietor .!"" ""HSWBl&L !! RAINMAKIN6 BY PRAYER GIVES THIS CITY PUBLICITY Independent Nowtpspor fteroted to American Principles and the Progress and Dorclopcmont of All Oregon. Publlabed Brery droning Except Sunday, Salem, Ore. :f 1 SUBSCRIPTION RATfiS. (Invarlablr In Advance) inllr, br CJirrlor, per rear M.00 1'cr month Wo DallT. by tnMI, per year. .... 4.00 Per month 35c Weekly, by mall, per yccr. ....... '.00 Six months 60c SALEM MORALS ARE EASILY MADE WORSE. Those who appeal to the public in the interest of improv ing the public morals are sometimes unintentionally trying to make matters worse instead of better, Some harsh criticism has been indulged because a fight Is being made to pass an ordinance to permit restaurants alongside of saloons to serve I'quors with meals. Which is better, drinking with meals or treating and bar drinking? There are but two such places in the city and the amount sold will not pay for a license because the quantity of liquor served with meals is very small. There is a saloon where meals are served in the saloon But at present no hotel or restaurant is permitted to serve any beer or wine with meals, Yet what is the difference? The bottle habit is being built up Instead of public drink ing with meals, This Is a harsh and prescriptive regula tion that will do more harm than good. It will result in the establishment of some large concern that can afford to run a dining room and bar under one business, and serve hundreds where now but a few are served, A few impracticable and visionary prohibitionists think they can make everybody come to their way of thinking. The same class are trying to drive the women in the red light district, out into Jhe suburbs, The red light district is now segregated and congested, and all who seek Its denizens are forced to do so more or less publicly. Those same mistaken moralists would drive these women into the residence parts of the city. There thov would demoralize society, carrv on vice in rooms now considered decent, and Injure property, and make the moral lines of demarcation uncertain, Mayor Lane tried that in Portland and has not helped morals in that c'ty a particle. Salem morals may easily bo made worse, by those who are unwilling to trust to education and the development of the individual members of society along right lines, Those who condemn persons who drink wine or beer with their meals want the right to use all the patent medicines or alcoholic liquors as medicines or tonics they see fit. Yot it can be laid down as a hard cold fact, that drink ing a glass of beer or wine with a meal is a highly moral act compared with the patent medicine habits ana drug hab its of some of the straight-laced sisterhood, The whole race suicide proposition is bound up in the drug habits that are glossed over by the very people who fight de cent, open and reasonable use of mild beverages. Let us all como out In tho open and practice our customs and vices and not drive decent people to practice what they boliovo Is perfectly honest and moral in secret, SALEM SOAKED PORTLAND Playing on n diamond dump with rain, and In occasional showers, which mado tho hors htdo ball slip pery and hard to handle, tho Fair mount club hull toam avongod thorn boIvou yostordfcy afternoon, on tho Asylum nvtnuo ball grounds, against tho Third Iloglnvout toatn of Port land, O. N. 0., dctontlng thorn by a scoro of 4 to 2, Elinor Dauo, Salem's twlrlor, cer tainly had tho wild foldlers on his morclloss lis. yostorday. Tho youug pltchor Blmply put tho okldoo sign on ovory ono )t thorn, and tho way ho took caro of tho Portland gonts was as easy as a cub bear handling a roasting car. and tho autfloldors had nothing to do hut muko tho regular trips In and out of tho Hold and wal lop tho ball around tho lot at tholr lolBuro, Dauo did tho rest, with tho nailstanco of Catchor West, who hold (ho bean shooter to tho mark in lino sliapo. On a fow occasions tho ball waa mot with by Portland, but they olthor had a slick bat or Daue's curvos woro too twisty, as nothing was knocked out worthy of mention. Fulrmount'a Inlleld gavo Dauo cxcol lont backing', howovor. and several snappy plays woro mado, which kept tho fairly largo crowd In good humor Aftor tho first Inning Portland's ag gregation woro strlctjy on tho bad. Any team In tho Twilight League could linvw whipped thorn to a frarrlo It would bo interesting to learn what sort of an accident ever Introduced bomo of tholr plnyera to baseball, es pecially tho! i- socond baseman. This player (checkor player, to bo morej correct) wjs amusing to look at. Of i all tho booting of easy llttlo pop flys , and groundors, nono llko It was oor boforo seen iu Salem, and it would bo a great holp to tho Portland team's socond baseman to hang arouna tno Vaughn atroot ground3 for a whllo and eeo how tho professionals tako caro of tho batted balls. Portland's pitcher and catchor woro good, how ever, and tho toam la dosorvlng of Bomo credit for tho hnrd playing of Bomo of tholr toam, but their off plnyorB handled thonuelvos bo slow that tho Third Itoglment could not havo won tho gamo nt nny tlmo. In tho eighth Inning tho Portland pitcher grow somowhnt norvous, when Mnnngor Miller found a Hold er's mitt and took a hand In tho gamo, When Mlllor enmo to bat, tho pltchor begt.n laying them out of reach as much as possible, but ho ev idently overlooked tlu fact that tho big manager had a long reach, as a ball thrown a trltlo near tho plato was landed upon by Manager Miller, which bounded morrlly through tho l'lfleld for ono of tho prettloit hits of tho game, bringing In ono man and allowing Mlllor to squat on first. Loo Abbey outdated at tho gamo, with tho host of satisfaction, as usu-nl. SUPERIOR OFFICERS COMING TO SALEM Tho uupromo officers of tho Dogreo of Honor are coming to Snlem, and will bo entertained by tho local order, S'lvor noil Clrclo. on Friday, tho second day of tho Chorry Fair, Thoy aru about ten In number, and from tho large cltlc of tho United States, aud, with btat, officials from Port land, and Grand Chief Mrs. Harriet C. Loonoy, will bo glvon a plcnlo din ner at Marlon square and shown tho attractions of tho city. Tho mem bers uro requested to bring full bas kets and como to Marlon equaro pre pared to have a good tlmo. Mrs. Frauces 11. Oloon, of St. Paul, Minn.; Elizabeth E. Allburn, SIpux City, In.; Nelllo Avorlll, of Tawnsend, Mont,; Mary Dalloy, of St. Paul, Minn.; Maggh Uaker, Albany, Or.; Mayme Ilrlggs, of Portland, Or., tho execu tive board of tho Degree of Honor, In Portland, will entertain them. By Our Formula We produce In Hood's Sarsaparilla medicine tnac nas an unap proaohed record of cures of Scrofula, ecromn, eruptions, catarrh, rheumatism, anemia, nervousness, that tired feeling, loss of appetite, eto. The combination aud proportions of tho mora than twenty different remedial agents containod in Ilood'a Sarsaparilla aro known only to ourselves, bo there can bo no substitute. This medloino makes healthy and strong tho "Littlo Soldiers" Iu your blood, thoso corpuscles that fight tho disease genua constantly attacking you. So unusual was the proposition made by this paper that prayers be offered for rain last week that the papers of the state have given the matter columns, The Portland papers are full of it, and while the Oregonian and Statesman as usual knocked our efforts to do good, the Portland evening papers, helped the matter, and like a doubting I nomas. Dea con Hendricks gave the cause two columns Sunday morn ing when it looked as if it were going to rain, So far as The Capital Journal can learn, Rev, John Comer of the First Bap tist church was the only divine in this city who lifted his voice in prayer for rain at the suggestion of this newspaper, and he evidently was heard, for Friday night not a little rain fell, The roads in the hills east of .the city, and south, were muddy, and the spring grain looked refreshed and fairly lift ed its heads in rejoicing, The rain cut down the attend ance at the Waldo Hills pioaeer picnic, and came very near ly wetting the crowds several times, The editor of The Journal received a number of telegrams and phone calls from various parts of the country inquiring for rain, and several reported rains falling, and the timely downpours were all credited to Salem methods of praying for rain, The following telegram was received from the biggest merchant, and popular mayor of Astoria late Satur day afternoon, when it was evidently pouring on that un godly city: "Astoria, Or,, June 26, 1909, "Col, E, Hofer, Salem, Or, "Want to go on picnic tomorrow, Please stop this rain, "6:40 P, M, " HERMAN WISE," The Telegram in a two-column, double-leaded editorial, starting with poetry, says: "Within 24 hours from the time prayers for rain were ask ed for at Salem through the suggestion of Colonel E, Hofer, in The Capital Journal, a sprinkle came, "This is the quickest response by rain to prayers that is on record on the coast, And Colonel Hofer is not taking the credit to himself, saying that he is perfectly willing that any one whose business it Is to hold prayer meetings shall have the credit for bringing the showers," The Oregonian, which turns everything into politics, said Sunday: "Colonel Hofer of Salem reports the quickest answer to prayer fo rraln ever recorded in history, Will this make him governor of Oregon?" The Oregonian is sorely afraid the lightning will not strike the tall tower of the Portland political weather bureau, A lady called at The Journal and protested against any further efforts on our part, She said her Royal Ann cherries wore ripe and she wanted to do her canning this week, and didn't want her fruit all cracked, The. editor promised to consider the matter, but said the whole country was still suffering for rain, and it was a matter he could not interfere with, The people have a right to pray for rain, and if enough righteous men pray believing, they shall be heard, and the rains will descend, This is not a personal matter, tor the editor has gone to a development congress in tast ern Oregon, and will not be back until time for the Chorry Fair, and is not responsible for what the churches may do, They may overdo it and crack all the cherries, But the fact remains a little judicious praying helped the situation a whole lot and everybody recognizes now that even one small news paper and one Baptist preacher can break a drouth if they aro s'neero. BANG! BANG! BANG! Get ready for it It's comingl The day we celebrate, The day we do honor to the patriots who dared to sign their names to that docu ment of liberty, the Declaration of Independence, It was old Ben Franklin who said, when signing it, "Gentlemen, if we don't hang together, we'll hang separately," You Must Dress Well No Matter Where You Celebrate G.W.JOHNSON&CO 141 North Commercial Street !! f llllllllHHglll8salH)lHl e NOTICE! I For Sale A very choicejbuilding lot, closeto heart of city. Suitable) for flats or residence.? For information see SESSION WILL BE LONG DRAWN OUT l United rresa leased Wire. Olympic, Wash., Juno 28 Indl- cntloni today nro thnt llttlo will ho accomplished by tho legislature this nftornoon, Noltlior hoiuo will mot until 2:30 o clock, nnd when thoy do nssomblo, judging by prosont condi tions, each will ho prono to play a waiting gamo. IIopo Is not (lend among tho ad ministration force thnt tho two noulod votos to pass tho Palmer bill In tho senate, abolishing tho office of Insurnnco commissioner, can bo se cured, but It coma certain -that thoy will not bo had at this afternoon's session. Speaker Meigs announced today that ho had not yet mado up tho committee to proparo articles of Im poachmont. under tho resolution of Friday. It hardly seems possible that, oven if tho commtttoo ls.named nt tho beginning of the session, it will bo nblo to proceed far with tho articles by night, becauso of tho ex tromo caro necesHary In constructing tho document. Fow of tho members of tho legislature had roturned to this city this morning, and a slim at tendance at today's session is predicted. Tlmo, tldo and automobiles wait for no man or woman, olthor, like wise, children, chickens or dogs. CAPITAL NATIONAL BANK J, H, Albert, Pres, E, M, Croisan, Vice Pres, Jos, H, Albert, Cashier SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Pays Interest on Saving's Accounts THIRTY YEARS IN PEN, HE ASKS FOR PAROLE Nevada City, Cal., Juno 28. Chns. I). Thome, ono of tho most notorious criminals in tho onrly history of Cali fornia, today mado application for parole. Tho application was publish ed in a local paper nnd caused surprise- as It wub not thought thnt Thorno would havo tho temerity to ask for parole. Thome was sent to San Qtiontln nearly thirty years ngo nftor convlc tlou of ono of tho most eelebrnted robberies and murdors In the history of tho state, lie was ono of three robbers who hold up tho Eureka stago September 1, 1879, killing William Cummings, u banker of Moore's Flat. Cummlngs had $20,000 in gold bul lion which ho fought to keep tho robbers from getting away with. In tho moleo ho was killed. Tho rob bers escaped but were aftorwards captured in various parts of tho coun try. Thorno was tried and sent to San Quenlln for life. Ho is believed to bo tho, ono who fired tho fatal shot. After being. In San Quontin a fow years, ho was ono of four men who managed' to smuggle; in a number of firearms for tho purpose of mak ing n "jail break. .Thqrplau was f rus-trated'-nt tho tlrite b.ut later ho did mako lihescnpo and "worked 'his way east, wherov ho remntnet' fo"r somo time until 'liBMvas recaptured by de tectives. It Is not likely that Thorno will bo paroled. H. A. JOHNSON & CO. MURPHY BLOCK ufttm iff fiiciBiiiiif mminmumwt RAPID GROWTH OF ARMY OF PEACE Now York, Juno 28. Figures Il lustrative of tho Increased activity and growth of tho society for tho study and prevention of tuberculosis, woro mado public today. According to tho roport, eight million persons aro enrolled In tho fight against tho dread whlto plague, an increase of threo hundred jier cent In tho last four year. A Blgulflcant fact Is that forty-Aro jier cont of tho- onrolled are laymen. MONEY LOANED On Real Estate LONG TIME, EASY PAYMENTS Reliable Representatives wanted THE JACKSON LOAN & TRUST CO. Jackson, Miss. Fort Worth, Texas mt Look At This jor Sale A ftrst class rooming and boat ding house prop sltion at Newport, Oregon. Two houses and furnishings and lots will bo sold for less than tho cost bf tho houses. The buildings aro four years old and furnished complete. The owner Is a non-resident and needs tho money. Look Into this as a cpeculatlon. LEE WILLIAMS Newport, Ore. Inquire at Journal Office i mimHmm&is:
