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FRIDA m 91 W tm W 1 AMW.M0 age 01 file Salem Capital Journal The Capital Journal PUBLISHED BY The Barnes -Taber Company r GBAHAJI P. TABEB, Editor and Manager. An Independent Newspaper Devoted toAmerican Principle! and the Progreu and Development of Balem in Particular and All Oregon in General. Pabllabed Every Evening Except Sunday, Balem, Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Invariably In Advance) Dally, ny Carrier, per year ...$5.20 Per month. .46c Dally, by Mall, per year 4.00 Per month. .Hoc Weekly, by Mall, per year .... 1.00 811 months. 50c rCLL L BIASED WIKK TELEGRAPH REPORT ADVEBTIBIKO BATES. Advertising ratea will be famished on application. 'New Today" adi strictly cash In advance. Want" ads and The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phono the circulation manager, as this Is the only way we can determine whether cr not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 82. LET US EACH DO OTJB PAST. THE formal opening of the promotion department of the Commercial club Wednesday evening is the beginning of a vigorous campaign for the betterment of Salem. The numerous brief speeches all were in tune, all showing loyalty to our home city and expressing a determination to do everything possible to advance her growth end maintain her prosperity. It was an enthusiastic get-together meeting that cannot fail to accomplish! good, and the effort to have similar meetings at least once a month was al move in the right direction. ' There is to be a determined effort made to get the whole city behind the club, and to get its influences in such shape that it will not be hampered in its work. The figures given by Secretary Bynon Bhowed that only about 15 per cent of the business men are members of the club and help maintain ! it. The Capital Journal takes a keen interest in the club and its work, and did its share towards bringing about the combination of the lllihee club and tho Board of Trado and the changing of the name from the lllihee to the Salem Commercial club, which it considers one of the most vitally import ant things the club has yet done. It has this Buggostion to make, that the club try tho "catch my pal" plan. Let every member determine to cause some one person to join the club, and then do it. This can be done and done easily, and in this way the membership would be doubled in a short time. Tho new members should then mute an effort to "do as they were done by,'" and In turn got one member. It is not because the pcoplo of Salem are not interested in the work, or that thoy hesitate about assisting in it, that they apparently hang back, bnt bectuise heretofore they have not been urged to take part, and their own solfish interests have not been appealed to, the benefits to themselves pointed out with sufficient clearness. It iB evidently unfair that 13 per cent of tho business meu should pay all the expense of boosting the city, while the other 85 per cent got as much benefit from tho work as they do. The property owner is really more benefitted by the growth of the city than is the busi ness man, yet ho is tho one that is most "backward about coming for ward." ThiB should all be changed and every property owner should do something, even though but a little toward the good work. Under present conditions tho willing business man buys the cow, furnishes the pasture and does tho milking, and all tlio property owner docs is to skim the cream. Self interest demands that this be changed and that we all stand together for the benof it of all. We do not believe there is a man or woman in Salem who would not do something towards tho good work, the only reason they have not heretofore done so being that they wore not properly approached, and the matter presented to them in tho proper light. Dr. Olingor made a good suggestion when he said that the club would have to do the work whethor it had 15 or 100 per cent of the people behind it and that it must get in touch with them, got among them and get what money is needed. Thia can be done in emergencies, but it is better to have a steady and Btated income, so that the club can know just what it can de pond on at all times. What evor differences of opinion there may have been about the combining of tho two bodies under the present plan, for the present, at least they are settled, and may "be settled for all time, that dopending somewhat on the re nits as shown by the working out of the scheme. In the meanwhile, and until the present .plans hpve boen tested and found wanting, if such should to tho case, every citizen of Salom who has tho good of the city at heart should givo the club loyal and energetic support. The club, owing to its chango of quarters and fixing up its now home, finds itself in debt about 1500. At tjhe meeting Wednesday about $275 was collected in a few moments toward moeting this and the opportunity to assist iB still open. Think over this whole proposition of tho club's efforts to build up the city and then if you think th work should be dono, get in and help do it. . . t THEN AND NOW. TIME was when highly paid talent was making the fight of its life to land Hurry Thaw in the asylum at .Matteawan. Time is when just as strenuous and oxpensivo effort la put forth to keep that young man out of tho same Institution. Thus snys tho Portland Telegram, which Is incidentally much disgusted with tho whole Thaw affair. Many queer situations arise from criminal exigency, but it is rarely Indood thnt tho criminal fights to bo kept in jail, and again is it unusual for those chiefly interested in his prosecution, to fight just as hard to got him out of jail. j Again it is rather a marvel thnt a malicious murder having been commit ted, with amplo motive shown, with the elements of rovengo, spite, hntrcd and tho impulse of a dissolute lifo toward tho gratification of theso all proved; with insanity as a plea, which wins by sheer force of tho combination of money and legal talent; with tho plain alternative, as a matter of justico to society, of punishment according to tho extreme penalty in tho case of mur der, or permanent rentnnint whore technicality, lognl wit and cash prevent tho other, that the law fuucM-onarics of two countries should find it necessary to spend days of mental wrestling and thousands of dollars in order to de termine where tho man who committed tho murder belongs. "What fools these mortals be," said Puck; and every time we get up against one of theao legal tangles whoro the shrewd lawyers and tho learned judge onnnot tell tho difference between a hawk and a handsaw, wo feel like applauding that utterance of the fairy philosopher. A POLITICAL ORGANIZATION. , ULH ALL'S testimony, which is now corroborated and strengthened by that of James A. Emery, provos conclusively that tho National Asso ciation of Manufacturers, at least as represented by its officers, was a political orgitniwtion pure and simple, says the Indianapolis News discussing the latest developments in the lobby investigation. It maintained a lobby at Washington anil employed aid agents to do its polit ical work, of whom Mulhall was one. That his services were highly appro- ciated the letters written to him by members of the association abundantly prove. These men, acting for the organization, contributed money to help elect men to congress and to defeat others. They strove to control the appointment of committees. That they labored earnestly for the election of Watson in this state is clearly Bhown. The truth, of course, is that this organization was little more than an annex of the Republican party. ' It favored the stand pat tariff policy. It wanted a tariff commission, not to help revise the tariff, but to head off revision. It opposed any legislation looking to a modifi cation of the practice with reference to injunctions. It strove even to get its friends such as Watson appointed to the cabinet. There can bo no dispute as to the truth of these statements. The or ganization was one of business men whose object was to control tho govern ment, and to mold legislation to its liking. It is not necessary to rely on Mulhall 's testimony. His letters, and the letters written to him by members of the association, prove the main charge. It is proved further by a letter of Emery, which was made public yesterday. We havo also a series of let ters written by Mr. Hanch, of this city, in the interest of Watson. These, ftnd the answers to them show that there was a vigorous campaign con ducted by the manufacturers in behalf of Mr. Watson, when he was a can didate for governor of Indiana. Such are the facts. It is no use trying to liscredit Mulhall, for he is supported by correspondence, and by other testi mony. .Further than that, he was in high favor with the very men who are now so keen to repudiate him. i The Oregonian is certainly optimistic, when it says the rain is doing no damngo and probably more good than harm. It does not look that way in this section, for the late hops and the prunes are sure to suffer, and there a still considerable grain in the fields. , There will be plenty of both hops and prunes saved, but there will also be severe loss especially if the present storm lasts for two or three days more. Among the bills before the voters this coming November will be that pro viding for county attorneys instead of district attorneys as under the pres ent Bystem. It was a good bill, and how it ever came referred is a mystery. It is for the best interest of every county that it have its own attorney, who is responsible to the people of his county instead of a lot of deputies on whom the blame for the miscarriage of justice can be laid. The voter will lo well to keep this bill in mind and see that it becomes a law. The Mexican still harvests his wheat with a sickle and threshes it with a flail, but he uses a breech loader to do his fighting with, which Bhows he is up to date on his principal occupation anayway. The optimistic hop picker can amuse himself by fishing between picks, and without leaving the hop yard to do it either. The weather man surely thought the state fair was set for this week. The broadest smile in the state is that of Secretary Meredith as he hits tho street these mornings, remembers the fair is not due for three weeks yet, and notes the amount of water that is getting down and out of the way for tho season. LADD & BUSH, Bankers TRANSACTS A GENERAL BANKINQ BUSINESS. BATETT DB- I POSIT BOXES. TRAVELERS' CHECKS. THE ROUND-UP. Of all gladsome reports of Oregon products, we glean best from the Har- noy county items: "Triplets con sisting of two boys and one girl were born to Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Jones, of Corbett, and all are in perfect health." Gold Beach is having a measly time of it, if we may believe tho Globe, which says: "Through a lack of ef fort to properly control the disease, tho measles have spread into several homes in this town and will be sure to go the rounds throughout the coun try." ... "Would it not be a good idea to ad vertise our water by giving it to the people to drink!" asks the Toledo Sen tinel, which boasts that Toledo has as good water as any town in the state. It wants a drinking fountain estab lished before the fair to be held there, bow only a week or two away. ... "Few people realize the enormous amount of work that is going on right here in North Bend," says the Coos Bay narbor. It furnishes a detailed list of the railroad work, the operations of the dredge Seattle, the various stroet grading and sewer improve ments, and gives figirres going an as tonishingly long way into tho millions. ... We have the Evening Record's word for it that Marshfield covers a great, big tract of land and contains several very important streets. The Record urges the improvement of each of these and roundly condemns "the narrow policy which advocates the improve ment of one block, for the destruction of the balance of the municipality." ... We are deeply indebted to the Athe na Press for the interesting informa tion that "Donald McFadyen has gone into the chicken business not so much to raise protty feathers, perfect forms and technically combed heads, but to produce a pure strain of White Leg horns that will not only enckle every time thoy lay, but will lay every time they cackle." ... As a wild bunch of horses as were ever brought to Pendleton for the Round-lTp, according to the East Ore gonian, have been provided by Frank Roach from the ranch of tho Roach brothers, on the north fork of McKay creek. The animals have roamed the ranges without restraint, and are game for tho battle with the best broncho busters that ever cinched a saddle, ... Medford is to havo a new street railroad built from the corner of Front snd Main streets, to the Siskiyou ad dition to the city. ... Work on Cnrnegie library at Hood River has begun. It will cost complet ed 1 7,500. ... Pendleton claims to have an abund ance of cnyuses for the Round Vp and warranted to bo tho best buckers in existance, Joe Stelnhardt, an applo buyer from the east, has purchased 1 ,500,000 worth of apples in the last two weeks. He Talks on Thrift bought 200 carloads of the Apple Growers' association, at Hood River, and was only a few hours in the city doing it. ... W. C. Burns has sued the P. E. & E. for .1 2,500 damages for the loss of one of his eyes. ... William Smith, aged 50, fell through the elevator shaft at the mills of the Crown-Columbia Taper company at Oregon City Tuesday afternoon and was so badly injured he may die. ... Caught by his blouse in Ihe winder of the plant, Virgil May was dragged into the machinery, his hip crushed, and one leg broken Tuesday night at the Hawley mills, at Oregon City. ... W. M. Powell, of Ashland, known as the "Old Ciderman," who for 25 years has peddled cider at the S. P. depot in Ashland, died Tuesday. He was 76 years old. I ers. Do You Want Your House Full 0 Congenial Boarders and Roomers That's the way to get pleasure out of keepm. Empty chairs at the table and vacant rooms from encouraging. ' Kth But you can overcome this kind of loss very Ml'i' The Capital Journal has a week day circul r over 3200. You can talk to this army 0f p J ran toll them what vou have. A .i ' '9 j . ...avllg in. you address, your message will attract the kind of pie you desire. P They'll call to see your room or inquire about Then you can easily show that you are in a posiUoTk satisfy them. Write an ad for the "Rooms to Rent" or "Board w Rooms" column of The Capital Journal. Vh it completed bring it, mail it or phone it to The Ctpit Journal. Main 82 No. 35. THE BATTLE AGAINST WASTE. "Somo of our greatest industrial organizations have learned their A, B, C's in waste elimination and have found themselves well repaid. The time is coming when every man who lays claim to business ability will keep the question of waste before him constantly." Thomas A. Edison. Professor Ferrero, the famous Ital ian historian, says of us: "The rapidity of your development and tho creation of a multiplicity of new needs eat up the large earnings of the peoplo, who, though they are living better than Eu ropeans, unfortunately have not ac quired tho habit of saving." It is a very good thing sometimes to 'see oursels as ithers see us." While t is not possible, as Edmund Burke said, to bring ah indictment against a whole people, there is a great deal of truth in what this distinguished for eigner says. Jn New York City and at Washington thore havo been established bureaus of standards, which nro bringing about a standardization of quality, quantity and price in materials and supplies which is resulting in an enormous sav ing of the people's money. Tho New York Bureau of Standards has been in existence only about two years, but already, on account of the immense economics effected, it has not only umply justified its establishment. but it has attracted the attention of porsons everywhere who are interested in the public welfare. Efforts are bo- ing made to establish similar bureaus in other cities and for tho benefit of the different departments of state gov erment. The state of New York has a commissioner of efficiency and econ omy who is expected to save thousands and hundreds of thousands of dollars every year to the taxpayers of the state by the waste and tho extrava gances he will stop and the economies he will institute, ' Officers of tho government aro be ginning to realize the necessity for economy in thiB era of prodigality. Business men arc waking up, too, and scientific management and economy are becoming tho watchwords. An exam pie is the big department store which employs a man whose sole duty it is to go around and turn off electric light not in use. Ho saves the store more than his waizes. J t will take a Injur time, however fnr this leaven of economy to leaven the whole lump of our commercial and in- f WL MaJ ILtJ Solid Cast Brass Steel Shackle No Two Alike growth when we openly or uncon sciously regard very careful man agement of one's personal expendi ture as a somewhat nigardly and belittling accomplishment. What are YOU going to do about itf I AFTER JiWELRY TRUST. ' UNITED FRISS UutD Willi. New York, Sept. 5. United States District Attorney Marshall announced hero this afternoon thnt Attorney Gonoral McReynolds has instructed him to proBecuto the jewelry trust under the Sherman anti-trust act. The Na tional Wholesale Jewelers' Association of Philadelphia and 172 jobbers in the East, the Middle West and the Pncific coast states aro involved. Tho beginning of tho rainy season !b wolcome. 1 DON'T LET BABY Surra Q ECZEMA AND SKIN Emjq Babies need a perfect tli. Skin eruptions cause thorn. a, tense suffering but hinder theirp- Dr. Ilobson's Kczema Ointment ; relied on for relief and jmmni, of suffering babies wiiweilua tions have made their lif, "Our baby was afflicted with out of tho Bkin all over the fu-1 scalp. Doctors and akin failed to help. We tried Dr. Hit, Eczema Ointment and wen to see baby completely cured Mini box was used," writes Mn. St Dubuque, lown. All dnigjistu mail, HOC. I'feiffer Chemiial toe St. Louis, Ho., Philadelphia, n I Perry, Salem. Isn't it queer how little top d 30,000 VOICES. And Many Are tho Voices of Salem People. Thirty thousand voices what a grand chorus! And that's the sum be. of American men and women who are publicly praising Doan's Kidney Pills for relief from backache, kidney and bladder ills. Thoy say it to friends. They tell it in the home pa pers. Salem people are in this chorus. Hero's a Salem case: W. II. Bradley, farmer, 614 South Twenty-first street, Salem, Oregon, says: "About two years ago kidney trouble came on me. First my back began to ache, then pain seemed to Bpread all ovor my body, like rheuma tism. I noticed thnt the kidney secre tions wore unnatural and I knew that my kidneys were disordered. I read an endorsement of Doan's Kidney Pills given by one of my neighbors, and I got some. I found them to bo just what I needed. Before I had started the second box, I was almost entirely free from pain and my kidneys acted regularly. I have used Doan's Kidney Pills since with good results." For sale by all dealers. Price, 50 contB. Fostcr-Milburn Co., Buffalo, N. Y., sole agents for the United States. Remember the name Donn's and take no other, T OPIATES NARCOTICS FOLEY'S HONEY andTAR COMPOUND STOPS COUGHS. CURES COLDS For CROUP, BRONCHITIS, WHOOP. INQ COUGH, LA ORIPPB COUGHS, HOARSENES3 and ALL COUGH and COLDS. It is BEST and SAFEST tot CHILDREN and forGROWN PERSONS, Tie Genuine is in a Yellow Package DB. STOXS'S DRUG 8T0RR. dnstrial extravainince. whirh. it in n. serted, costs the consumer forty cent on ory dollar. An interestinir commen tary on this subject is tho fact that the humble junk business, tho trade of un considered trifles, has nrosncred in America more than in all other coun tries. In Boston lives a dealer who has accumulated more than a million dollars. The leading dealor in Provi dence, who handles nothing but scrap iron, is worth half a million, while Philadelphia has two junk millionaires and a cluster of near-millionaires in the same business. But, primarily, it is the individual itizen who is to blamo for the extrav. agance, which soemB lo be in our blood. Tho wholo American public is wild with spending." Public economy is a lost art," says James J. Hill. "Ex travagance is our national curse," says Jonn i). Kockefoller. Men and women who are livino on salaries and whose income seems as sured, do not stop to think where they woucii be it for any reason that income should cease, while times and condi tions like the present incite them to spend and spend. Living Costs much ! luxuries are common in fact, thoy are necessities" with many. The demand is always for more and more and more! If Americans economized in irnod earnest for awhile, they could do some amazing things. By cutting their linuor bills in hnlf they would cave ."00,000,000 in a year. i ne people of this country pay $57,. .innOl a year to foreigners for their supply of coffee. Should they drink one cup of coffee instead of two. tW would save $28,779705, If Americans should buy onchnlf ha hatB they do the saving would amount to .'4,uou,uOO in one year. Let the men smoke pipes, if they like, but as for dears well m.i. one cigar where you now smoke two, ami see what happens. The aggregate saving would oasily amount to $10- 1100,00(1 in a year. The "World's Work" sums up the case in this way: Three or four things are cer tain: First, the problem of mak ing both ends meet is, as it has always been, a very hard problem for the average man and the aver age family: second, the American man and family liv great deal better now than half a century ago; third, a larger pro portion of Americans than of any other nation livo well, and, fourth, a still larger proportion might live well if we had developed thrift and good management as several Eu ropean peoples have, W8 are yet in that period of our national Saturday Special 25c each SALEM HARDWARE COMPANY 120 N. Commercial St. Phone Main 111 HOHHIHOW average a 'aaMiitaaaaaqjliaupaiaapiaiaM . ' aw aaial itm mm mm sal aaw isal al M mm mm aaB ilal aWi ml rti I It ft ' -'"" FIFTY -SECOND ANNUAL Oregon State Fair Salem, Sept. 29 to Oct. 4, 1913 A whole week of pleasure and profit; $20,000 offeJ in premiums on Agricultural, Livestock, Poultry, Tei tile and other exhibits. Horse Races, Shooting Tournament, Fireworki, Bj Concerts, Eugenics Exposition, Children's PlayPJ and other Free Attractions, including Boy IJ' One-Ring Circus. Free Camp Grounds. You vited. Send for Premium List and Entry Blanki. R"K rates on all railroads. For particulars addretf : FRANK MEREDITH, Secretary Salem, Oregon aw Ed H art II 11 li II li 11 El n u it ii M El 11 11 II II 11 II II ii n ii H n ii M El II II II II U ia,inaiiMamaHimiiMa.,piRiapHMM H )tt))ttllllimWHtH i! Extra! Extra: For the first time in the history of Salem V J"j of Marion and Polk counties can secure u sacks at right prices in this city, instead "Lf their time and money in going to Portland. ing one cent a pound for all kinds of rags-, paying $13 per ton for all kinds of cast i""1- J00i prices paid for all kinds of old clothes, houien , and furniture. We buy and sell every"n i needle to a piece of gold. All kinds of W ' f , chinery and pipe bought and sold. The hou a million bargains. f H. STEINBOCK JUNK$ X Salem, Oregon. llllttttH