Daily capital journal., January 21, 1914, Image 2

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WEDNESDAY
JAN. 21, 1914
The Capital Journal
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OFFICERS, SALARIES AND SIDE MONEY.
THE political situation horo in Oregon is what might bo classed as con
catenated and conglomerated. It is concatenated for the reason that so
many of tho candidates for the offices of governor and United States
Benator havo qualified thoir condldocies by tho proviso that "West does
not run." It is conglomerated because well no other term could do
scribo the mix-up.
Republicans Democrats, Bull Moose rs nnd Will I'urdy are all out and
Humorously for govornor, and the woods are full of patriots of all political
beliefs, and of none, who would sacrifice themselves by consenting to take
Sonator Chamberlain's place.
Of the smallor officos tlioro is no danger of thoir being left vacant. This
naturally causes one to wonder why this inordinate desire to sorv9 tho dear
people.' We are of the opinion that it Is boeauso the salaries for public service
aro larger than for similar service in non-public employments. This is prob
ably the main and only reason for tho wild desire for the smallor offices. For
tho governorship and tho office of Senator, there may be the desire for no
toriety and "honor" at the bottom of tho wish, but this does not apply to
tho smaller office. If then we are paying our public officinls such salaries
as tempt men to quit other work and spend both time and money to get these
positions, are we not paying them too much 7
Take for instance the soveral "boards" and commissioners, fish and game
and others, created in recent years and note tho salaries paid them. They
run about 3,000 to 3,800 a year. They aro filled by fairly good men, nnd
by this we mean men who enn command in private life fnir salaries, but is
there among thorn one that can command in private lifo anything like tho
salary he is paid by tho statof If not, why should tho state pay them more
than private companies or corporations would pay for the same work? We
nre not alluding to anyono of the boards or any special offico, but to tho
wholi lot. This is not tho worst fenturo eithor of tho matter, for many of
these tamo persons aro not satisfied wire cither of tho matter, for some of
the state, but manage to get side money In such a way, that wliilo it may not
be dishonest it Is certainly not creditable, and which no private employer
would allow them to take,
The constitution provides that no man shall hold two lucrative officos at
once, and while this law, as interpreted, is not violated in fact, it is In spirit,
for somo officers draw state money for other services than those pertaining
to thoir salaries. As wo havo said timing work for tho state, on timo tho
state Is already paying them for, and thus ck out an existence by adding this .
to thoir salaries. As wo hvo snid these thills aro done within tho law, but
thoy shave the edges of tho leltimato pretty close, and they certainly should
not be permitted.
The next leglslautro should remodel tho salary bill after investigating tho
work done, or required to be done by any officer, and then fix his pay on a
basis of what a private company would pny for tho same service. In other
word tho state should pay for the service it gets just whnt it is worth and no
more. It is not doing this now. Tho totnl amount saved to the stato would
not perhaps be largo, but that makes no difference, for it is tho principle,
that is wrong, and this whether tho sum is on dollar or $100,(1(10.
Just compare the salaries paid hero in Salem to men in private business
with thoso paid to its employes by the slate, nnd at the same time remem
ber that these; snmo men in private lif.i now, could and would jump at tho
chaneo to do the work of these officials, for far less money than is paid for
the work.
There aro many offices that arc not paid too much, but' there nre many
others where tho service and tho salary is far out of proportion, and these
should bo reduced to what tho services are worth.
WOMEN IN OFFICE.
HAVK you noticed how women have coming to the front In public office
of lutfe
First, some men tried to get Klla Flugg Young out of the schoul super
Intcmlcncy in Chicago; but oh, what a kiekbnekt
For women vote In Illinois.
Mayor Mark Fngan of Jersey City bad to name an overseer of the poor.
Th0 women of Jersey don't vote, but Mayor Mark may have foreseen tluit they
are going to. Or, he may have merely wanted to get a good ovetseer, In
stead of giving a politician a place.
At all events, ho named a fine one, Miss Anita C.rish. She had been a
social worker and a probation officer, and knew her problem.
Then rame Mayor Mitchell's selection of Kate Itcmcnt Davis for tho com
missionershlp of charities and corrections In New York the womnn who
made lledford reformatory a real reclaiming station for erring girls.
Just recently two women have been appointed associate justice in the
juvenile court of St. Louis.
This Is only a beginning, Now that human values aro coming to the
front, women will naturally move forward where they belong. Fargo (N, D.)
Courier-News,
PROFESSOR TALKS ABOUT WOMEN.
ANY a modern wuninn Is engaged largely In showing off whnt a 'big
Injun' her husband Is, by wearing the most expensive clothes ho can
provide and making a holy show of herself," declarred Prof. II. J.
Davenport of tho economis department of tho University of Mis
souri, In an address before the Home Kconmlca club recently.
"In primitive society, woman was a producer," he snid, "but with tho
growth of a more complex social order woman's work has been taken from
bnr to a large extent, and the modern feminist movement in really a ques
tion of whether the womau shall remain Idle or shall follow the occupations
etio used to have, In leaving the home for the business arena,
"Tho woman In the home used to lie Ihe mistress of an intricately organ
ised domestic society. Those tasks have been takeu over by the factory
system, Spinning han migrated to tho factory, There are no candles to make
apples are canned by a cannery, tho steam laundry clean the clothes the fac
tory made for us, the public schools aro taking the child from tho mother's
knee at an ever earlier age for an ever increasingly thorough training.
"The women have become the spenders. The men are the producers with
no leisure."
Prof. Davenport thinks itv would be far better for women to go out of
the home several hours each day as a producer than to stay at home spending
her husbnd's money and "hitting it up," on the trail to nervous breakdowns
in an effort to make a bigger show than the other women of her acquaintance.
"In a house with less bric-a-brac to dust,," he said, "fewer curtains to
keep out sunlight and increase the laundry bills, less fragile but more useful
dishes to handle, less expensive but more useful furniture, fewer changes of
apparel made of flimsy stuff woven only to display striking colors to make,
women would have to spend not more than two hours a day in housework and
the specter of the high cost of living would be laid.
"No decent self-respecting job should be withheld from women if rhey
are capable of filling it," be declared.
In the horse and mule market of the National Stock Yards, East St. Louis,
156,692 hores and mules were handled by commission firms during- 1913, and
the business done by these firms during the year was more than $21,000,000,
tho largest business of its kind in the world.
THE ROUND-UP. '
Butter is cheaper now than it has
been in January In soven years.
Senator Chamberlain has introduced
a bill giving permission to build the
bridge across tho river at Vancouver.
After it passes the consent of the War
department must also bo obtained. I
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Smallpox having broken out at St. j
Johns, drastic measures aro being used
to prevent its spread.
Whilo wo are all advertising the fact
that the winter has been bo warm, Hood
Fiver is pleased becauso it has turned
colder there. It saves the fruit is the
renson for tho welcoming of the cold
spell.
Lake county has only one pensioner
under the widow's pension law.
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OPEN FORUM.
Mayor Albee, of Fortland, has in
vited Labor Commissioner Tloff to ar
rest him for violntion of the 8-hour
law, in keeping policemen and firemen
at work longer that that time. He
wants to test the law.
Tdle army No. 2 that wns organized
near Albany recently has alrendy dis
bnnded. Army No. 1 is somo place tho ,
other sido of Junction City. It wns not 1
allowed to stop at that place, but told
to stick to the rnilroad track and keep
going.
Portland is now making an effort to
get its share of tho trade with Alaska. I
OLD SOLDIER REWARDED,
t'NITKD I'BKSH LEASED WIIIE.1
St, Marys, Po., Jan. 21. For his part
in one of the bravest acts of the Fran-'
co-Prussian War, Charles Chagnot, of
St. Marys lias just received recognition
from tho French government. And to
day he wns proudly exhibiting a hand
some brou.o modal, pendant on a green ,
nnd blnck striped ribbon. It was 42
years ago and one of the hottest bat
tics of tho long conflict that Chagnot
and sixteen comrades distinguished
themselves. Tho Prussians had cap
tured their banner and they made a
successful sally and retrieved it, Cluig-
not and thirteen of them returning to
the ranks alive. The record of their
deed was entered but it was only last
March thi'.t the Frvuch War Department j
rewarded tho old soldiers.
WOULD FIND WHAT THEY LEFT.
Editor Journal: In the early days of
tho middle-west there was a great Min
nesota emigration. An immigrant family
stopped at a wayside travern for the
night when within a day's journey of
his destination. lie expressed himself
as being- very desirous of knowing
whnt kind of a neighborhood he was
going to find in his new home, saying
he left his former home because of the
meanness and guarrelsomeness of his
neighbors, and the difficulty he was
continually having with them.
His host told him that he was well
acquainted with the neighborhood to
which ho was going and that he would
find just such neighbors there as he
had left behind.
In the mean timo another immigrant
family had arrived and applied for ac
comodation for the nijjht, who was
bound for tho snme neighborhood as
the former family. He told tho land
lord that he wns going to the new
neighborhood for tho purpose of got
ting more land than he could get at
his old home; that he regretted very
much to leave his old neighborhood as
they were all kind and accommodating
and that ho had lived among them for
many years and never had a word of
difficulty with one of thorn, and he
wondered what kind of a neighborhood
ho should find in his new home. "I
am well acquainted with the neighbor
hood to which you are going," replied
his host, "and I assure you that you
will find just such a neighborhood as
you left behind you."
Mr. Editor, may not tho people and
churches of Salem be just like the
people nnd churches some of our "New
Conier" critics left behind them in
tho cast D. W.
HUERTA'S MAN CALLS ON
WILSON'S REPRESENTATIVE
llNITKO l'HCSS l.EASI'U W I UK.. 1
Vera Cruz, Jan. 21. Admitting thirt'
ho came as President lluorta's repre
sentative Jesus Florcs Mngon called on
President Wilson's emissary, John I.ind
yesterday afternoon nnd had an extend
ed conference with him. Neither would
reveal its nature but the rumor wns
current that lluerta wanted to re open
negotiations with tho Wilson adminis
tration with a view to his own retirement,
PITCHERS FOR NEW TEAM.
I NITKII 1'IIHMS I.KAHKII WIIIK.)
Chiciigo, Jan. 21. Men close to of
ficials of the Chicago Federal league
club say "King" Cole, Mussel Ford,
Ad llreunan and Kugeue Packard will
be the principal pitchers for the Chi
cago club next season.
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COST OF ROAD BONDS.
Kditor Capital Journal: Th:' law al
lows a county to issue bonds for road
building not to exceed two (2) per
cent of the assessed valuation of nl!
the property in the county. The as
sessment of Marion county Is a little
over 42,000,01)0. The petitions being
circulated call for S.10,000 in bonds so
they have gone to the limit. The peti
tion calls for twenty year bonds at five
(.") per cent interest. The county will
issup, the bonds whenever they want tho
money to do the building but whenever
they issue bonds they are for twenty
years. The court may be several years
in doing the work so it may be several
years before the bonds are all issued.
After any set of the bonds have been
issued and four years passes then the
court levies a tax yearly for a, redemp
tion fund, the yearly levy must be suf
ficient so in the aggregate the face of
the bonds will it 1.1 be in the treasurer's
hands when the bonds nre due. There
are no diivs of grnce, no rebuilding
t It 0 county to continue the debt, the In
terest must be pnid yearly and the full
face value of the bonds paid when they
are due. If some of the bonds are not
issued for five or six years and the Inst
not paid off for twenty six years the
result is the same. Uonds S50,000, in
terest at five per cent for twenty years
making for interest, S50,000, total
1,700,000 that the bond petitioners arc
wanting to mortgage the comity of
Marion for. This amount must all be
paid within tho twenty years, the time
;if the bonds. The city of Salem pays
its part of the tax. The city Is assess
cd for some over 12,000.000. The bonds
and interest is four percent of the as
snssment making for the snug little sum
of tSO.000. This is the sum petitioners
are asking Salem to bond Itself for to
build good roads throughout the county
and entirely outside of the city. The
city of Salem is already pretty heav
ilv bonded and this would add quite a
sum to the mortgage. Tax payer If you
vote this debt on yeu.'solves these is
00 reason for your complaining about
Our window
Tells the tale of how we are now selling goods during
Oar Cleanup Sale. You cannot afford to pass the bar
gains up that the big Chicago Store is now offering.
This little advertisement is only a reminder of what we
are doing at Salem's greatest bargain giver, the Chicago Store.
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Up to $12.50, $18.50
$20.00 and $25.00
SUITS and
COATS
Now Mast Go Re
gardless of Cost.
All New Styles.
Cleanup. Prices
$3.90, $5.90,
$7.90, $9.90,
$10.90 and
$11.90
DressSkirts
Up to $4.50, $5.90
and $7.50.
All new styles.
Cleanup Prices
While they last
$1.98 $2.98
and $3.90
Dress Goods and Silks
Now Specially Priced. Thousands of
yards now going at Cleanup Prices.
No such values elsewhere in Salem.
Yard 19c, 25c 35c, 49c and Up
20,000 yards of Wash Fabrics marked out on our counters
at prices that surprise everybody. Calicoes 3 1 -2c a yard.
Outing Flannels, Percales and Muslins are all reduced.
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Ml, .".I i .' in ., L. 1. 1. in j .i L.ui'ii.ijimiiiiiiii"wi,HM'"i piPM""SiiWMWii.iij7jpeiiiyw!i wii 75c I
4 pair the STORE THAT SAVES YOU NONEYf?, j CZ 8
for25c ' " .m1,., ",..':- :"?:" ."" ' 1 25C
tin Mum n yn mi mi, .ni m MMHniyi urn ii im ii ii iii i irjun mMiniiiriiiml SI
high taxes. If you can stand it and
you think it will be paying investment
then do it but I advise you to go a little
slower and pay tho bills as tho improv
mcnts are made and it there is no mon
ey in hand to make iniprovmcnts then
do not make them. If I have mado
any mistako in figuring, please some
ono show mo whero It is and I will
gladly correct it. Sixty five yonrs ago
when I went to school in the log school
house and snt on the soft side of a
slab six hours a day, we spent a good
leal of time doing sums and when we
inailo mistimes tno scnooi inn uiu or
master would make us keep at them
till we did them so as to get the answer
ns it wns in tho book. During those
vcara I learned to do my sums, tho
abovo is one of tho sums, now teacher
tcfl mo if I have the answer as it is in
tho book and if I have not I will work
it over again. DF.XTF.R FIELDS.
Snlem, Oregon, .Tan. 10.
GETS FINAli DECREE.
I'NITED I'llESS LEASED Willi!. 1
San Francisco, Jan. 21. Mrs. Clara
Francis I'hipps, society dancer, was
granted a final divoico yesterday from
James Henry I'hipps, theatrical pro
moter.
House of Half a Million Bargains
Come and see the biggest wonder in the history of Salem. We buy and
sell everything from a needle to a piece of gold. We pay the highest
cash price, for everything.
H. Steinbock Junk Co.
233 State Street.
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Salem, Oregon.
Phone Main 224
Mova Acids, Oases and Clogged-Up
Waste From Stomach, Liver,
Bowels Cure Indigestion.
Got a 10-cent box now.
That awful courness, belching of acid
and foul gases; that pain in the pit
of the stomach, the heartburn, nervous
ness, nausea, bloating after eating, dis
tress and sick headache, means a dis
ordered stomach, which cannot be reg
ulated until you remove the cause. It
isn 't your stomach 's fault. Your stom
ach Is as good as any.
Try Cascarets; they Immediately
oleause the stomach, remove the sour,
undigested and fermenting food and
foul gases; take the excess bile from
the liver and carry off the constipated
waste matter and poison from the
bowels. Then your stomach trouble is
ended. A Cascaret tonight will
itraighten you out by morning a 10
'ont box from any drug store will keep
vour stomach sweet; liver and bowtds
regular for months. Don't forget the
Ichildrvn their little inside need a
food, gentle cleansing, too.
LOOTING OF HARTFORD
ROAD USED AS ARGUMENT
UNITED I'llESS LEASED WIIIE.
Washington, Jan. 21. What has hap
pened to the New York, New Haven &
Hartford system stockholders, was held
up to tho senate yesterday by Senator
Kenyon, of Iowa, as an argument for
government ownership of the country's
railroads.
Speaking for the Alaska railroad bill
the senator said: "Is it any consolation
to tho widows and orphans holding New
Haven stock, who nre told lhat a divl
dent has been passed to know that
$50,000 of the company's funds was
donated to the Republican national
campaign fundf"
Referring tothe Now Haven deals,
Kenyon said: "I believe tho profits
of such deals are to be found in the
bnnk accounts of tho snmo people who
sought to plunder Alaska. Bank rob
bers are more to be respected than these
railway plunderers, for it takes courage
to rob a bank."
SHORT COURSES FOR PAINTERS
AND DECORATORS GIVEN
f I'NITED MESS LEASED WmK.l
Ames, la., Jan. 21. While many
states have "short courses" of instruc
tion for the benefit of farmers, fruit
growers and stock raisers, and even
house wives, in connection with the ed
iicational scheme of state colleges, Iowa
has broken the ice in the way of indus
trial education by organizing the first
short course for painters and decorators
held in connection with the stato con
vention of union painters and deco
rators. The engineering college has charge of
the work and the f:rst session found
l"n) painters and decorators from all
over the state in attendance. It was
expected that the short course for other
trades will be a feature In the future
and is likely to spread to other states.
Tradesmen and manufacturers in Mas
sachusetts, Connecli'iitt, Pennsylvania,
Ohio, Illinois, and Wisconsin are inves
tigating the idea with a view of or
ganizing similar courses in their states.
With the passing cf the apprentice sys
tem of education, tho short course un
der the stnte auspices is thought to h
the next step toward education of mo
chanics in many lines.
WILLEY IS NAMED.
I'XITED PIIESS LEAHED WIKE.
Washington, Jnn. 20. J. M. Willey,
Jr., of Salem, today received an ap
pointment as accountant in the inter
state commerce commission. His salary
will be $3,000 per year.
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Itineraries prepared
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Salem, Oregon