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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 13, 1914)
dlftoAal Page of Tie Salem. Capita! f ownal FRIDAY FEB. 13, 1914 The Capital Journal PUBLISHED BT Capital Journal Printing Co., Inc. An Independent Newspaper Deroted to American Principles and the Progress and Development of Salem in Particular and All Oregon in General. t'afcilibed livery Urenlng Kicept Bungay, Balem, Oregon " SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Invariably Id Advance) Mlf, nj Carrier, per year ...15.20 Per month.. 45c Bally, by Hall, per year 4.00 Per month.. 86c WaUly, by Mill, per year .... 1.00 Bli mnnthi.50e HILL LBABBD WIRB TBI.BORAPH KBl'OHT ADVERTISING BATES. Advertising rates will be furnished on application. 'New Today" Ads. 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 yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this Is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following Instructions. Phone Main 82. WHY GOVERNMENT COMES HIGH. FORMER PRESIDENT TAFT is worried over the advance of the Socialist propaganda, of which, he declares, Colo nel Theodore Roosevelt is the chief exponent. Of course, the ex-president is right in the main, every thinking man knows that, overlooking his personal reference to the Colonel. All our so-called progressive laws are socialistic, more especial ly in a state like Oregon, where we have the workingmen's compensation act, widow's pension law, and commissions and in spectors to probe into the affairs of all kinds of private business concerns, regulating hours of labor and general conduct until the proprietor has become little more than the manager, with limit ed authority. Government is becoming centralized and indi vidualism minimized more rapidly than the most ardent Social ist could have hoped for only a few years ago. Taxes are high mainly because the machinery of government is becoming more complicated. New laws are constantly call ing for additional commissions, inspectors and officials of varied rank and grade,' This vast horde of office holders is living at the expense of the taxpayers, and each successive session of the legislature and general election, through the initiative, creates more officials at the behest of the people or their representa tives. The only logical conclusion is that the taxpayer who believes in plain, old-fashioned government, has a right to object to high taxes, while the "progressive," who is constantly demanding new and expensive innovations, should take his medicine like a man when taxpaying time comes around. PANAMA CANAL TOLLS. GENERALLY speaking, the people of the country seem to take little interest in the Panama canal tolls question. It is doubtful if many of them really understand the issue raised sufficiently to form a positive opinion. No fair minded person will contend that the bill might stand if it con travenes our treaty rights with England, because the faith of the nation should be inviolable. Congress probably pnssed the bill hastily, as it has done in many cases of important legislation. None is disposed to do any injry to American shipping. Every one, on the contrary, wants to help it along in every legitimate way; but to repudiate a treaty in order to benefit this industry would be dishonest nnd short-sighted. Just what can properly bo done to stimulate our carrying trade may well engage the se rious attention of our statesmen. BONDS EASY TO ISSUE, HARD TO PAY. R. F. E. PACKARD, of the North Dakota tax commission, has an article In the Courier-News, of Fargo, on bond issues and public debts, interest, etc., which is interest ing reading. The things he states are not new, but they are in a way cheer ing, because they show that other cities are at least as foolish as ourselves. Fargo is about the same size of Salom, and is in debt almost identical in amount with ours, it being $1,205,056.73, while Salem's debt, according to the very full and detailed show ing made by Mayor Steeves early in the year, is $1,204,881.81. Mr. Tackard points out that the city has paid out more for in terest than the total of the principal, and owes the debt yet. He also calls attention to the practice of bonding without mak ing provisions for meeting the bonds when they como due. In this connection ho cites a case in Grand Forks. In 1882, when that city was a village, the citizens needed a fire engine,' or thought they did, and so bought a baby steamer, agreeing to pay $0000 therefor. For this the village issued bonds bearing 7 per cent interest. When the bonds came due $1000 was paid on the principal, and the $5000 refunded at 6 per cent bonds run ning for 20 years. The interest charges to December 31, 1013, were $10,375. The payment at time of refunding, $1000, and the total paid for the baby stenmer, which was sent to the dump pile years ago, was $11,375, and the city still owes $5000 of the original $0000, its cost price. Tho same city, in 1889, bondod for bridge building in the sum of $50,000, and at maturity $10,000 was paid and the balance, $40,000, was refunded by 20-ycar 4 per cent bonds. When tho bonds are paid the total will be $102,000 paid in interest and $50,000 principal, a total of $152,000, and the bridge is now worn out and must be replaced. Sounds like home, doesn't it? Salem, In 1880, issued bonds in the sum of $30,000 to build a Lapp & Bush, Bankers Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes Traveler's Checks wooden bridge across the Willamette. This bridge washed out in the winter of 1889-1890, but the, bonds did not; they are still with us and drawing interest at the same old rate. They were refunded in 1904, and are due in April of this year. Mayor Steeves insists they be paid, and it is hoped he can find some way to do this. There is also outstanding an issue of $20,000 bonds issued for building the steel bridge which replaced the wooden one, washed away as stated, and which will be due in 1920. This bridge is also about worn out and must be replaced, and for this purpose still more bonds must be issued before long. We will then have two bridges worn out one after the other, and neither paid for; while the third one will be wearing out and getting ready for another bridge and more bonds. We are not objecting to the issuing of bonds for needed pur poses. They are, under our system, a necessity, but we do sug gest that, while issuing bonds, we occasionally vary the monot ony by paying some of the older issues, for the interest account is growing steadily and rapidly. The city's interest debt now is about $66,000 a year. Mayor Steeves is eminently correct in insisting that we begin to pay off some of this old indebtedness. This means economy and retrenchment, and this should be the rule, until the debt is paid off. The sum of $66,000 a year now going out of the city in the way of interest would come handy. NOT A CREDITABLE PROCEEDING. EDNESDAY Governor West made public his ideas about the Fish and Game Commissions, and among these was the opinion that the expense was too great, and should De reduced. 1 he same day the Fish and Game Commis sion met in secret session, and, in order to comply with the gov ernor's ideas made two extra offices and increased the running expenses $2800 a year. The board also showed its understanding of the situation by making one of its members the state Game Warden and the clerk of the commission the Master Fish Warden. This shows talent was s.bundant among the commission members. Mr. Finley was retained and will have charge of the educa tional and biological department, and Mr. Clanton will be super intendent of hatcheries. The new commissioners will drav a salary of $2100 each, while the salaries of Finley and Clanton were reduced $700 each, leavine them with onlv S2400 n venr. But they stood for it, and did not even resign. This helps pay the salaries of the new wardens, but increases the salary account $Z8iu a year. In 1911 the expense of the game commission was about $1-1,-000 and this grew in 1912 to $123,000, and this year it was $137,000 for the first 11 months, and not including tho month of December. Despite Governor West's suggestions it is nrobable it will con tinue to grow. t There are several reasons for this belief. One of theso ia tw the commission appointed its own members to office, which is neither a clean nor a decent thing to do, for, while the appoint ments may be the best, they alwavs have the annenrnnrp nf crookedness to the public, no matter how good they may be. For anoiner reason the commission held a star chamber meeting in discussing and making these appointments, sitting behind closed doors, when their meeting should haVe been open and above ooara, ano tne public admitted. When a committee or a commission is afraid to let its proceed ings be known to the people who emnlov thpm if awakens suspicion that there is somethinc crookprl emtio- nn nn,l this suspicion is generally found well grounded. It is claimed, however, that the expenses will be reduced, in spite of the fact that there are now permanent official bosses whose salaries amount to $9000 yearly. How quickly the scenes shift in this progressive age! Only a few days ago we were told by high railroad authorities that the filing of the S. P.-C. P. dissolution Suit WOllld snpll ruin nnd disaster to the state of Oregon. Now that the suit has actually been started the same railroad sources give out the news that it will force much active railroad construction in the state, includ ing the completion of the important Natron cut-off to Califor nia. If so, the pending calamity will prove a stimulus to devel opment long overdue. W. S. Conner, one of the best local newspaper men in the stale, has sold the Cottage Grove Leader to J. D. Quellen, an ex perienced publisher, and will retire from tho - .-w-- v iiiv ay vo- ent, at least. Kansas always manages to keep in the limelight as the cham pion freak-producer. The latest is a postmaster who worried himself to death because his resignation was not accepted. , THE ROUND-UP. Work on paving tlin (Vntrnl Point Modford unit of tho Pa.-lfio Highway will begin in a few days, mid will bo com plot iM In two months. Tho pave ment will tut four inches of re inforood concrete w-ilh granitoid surface nnd will be It) feet. In width, a Ananias liickor and his wife wore guest Bt a midday luncheon at (hunts Puss Wednesday. Hoiug In Josephine county where the residents could net at him he unhesitatingly announced Hint Josephine county was the onlv one in the state where tho roads were good. David Aiinauins has the bump of dis cretion largely developed. a Thn cororer's jury at Portland holds that Mrs, Meadow, came to her death from strangulation but accused no one. Circumstantial evidence points to her former husband as the murderer. h'uscburg is Inking step to otiitlih a politic library, hut says nothing about havlnir ileMirn nn Andv. He will in nil probability not be overlooked, Joseph I.orftiuir, Jr., and John I.or sung, hi brother, fell 73 feet at Hills boro Wednesday when a Moid frame which they wore dismantling collapsed. The top of the structure struck the sub power and switch-house of the Washing ton-Oregon Corporation, which probab ly saved their lives, llotli hovs sua tained broken legs, and Joseph, Jr., Is Internally injured. Nearly 4,000 judges and clerks of election were appointed in Multnomah county Wednesday. Judge Virgil K. Water lias been ap pointed receiver of the Kinney proiier ties at Multifield. U H. Kinney 1 in a sanatorium at Can Francisco. It is said the properties will be sold, and they are estimated to be worth from K'lKVNH) to 1,000,000. When Rev. Adolph Onudlitz, of Port land, returned from a two months' visit to California last week he found his wife had secured . divorce, and that he had been deprived of his personal property and a ten acre tract of land. Tor this reiinin he asks that the divorce proceedings be re opned nnd he givot. his day in court. The Multnomah Club, of Portland "hows a gain of H3 member during HM3, and 1 on a solid financial basir a I.ou Caper and Jack Murdock, tw fnrm laborer staged a frontier ceiu likA old days, at a dance at Pendleton SALEM'S SILK HOUSE IS THE CHBCAGO STORE If you want to see silks stacked up in piles of every class and kind visit Salem's leading bargain-giver. Silks of every description and at prices from 25 cents a yard to any price you wish. Tub Silks, Charmeuse Silks, Taffeta Silks Messaline Silks and Fancy Dress and Waisting Silks. Come here for bargains. NEW SPRING Suits and Coats W l'FHIIMtl"flf"fflBi Come and see the new styles and the best bargains in Salem. The new arrivals are very classy, and best of all, we make the low prices. Up to t the hour styles, now only $7.90 $8.90 $1 0.90 AND $1 2.90 lit LADIES SHOES NOW ON SALE Another lot of the famous bargains, like we had on sale in October. $3.50 values only $1.49 New SPRING DRESS GOODS Thousands of yards to choose from in all the latest weaves and materials. Yard, 19c, 25c, 35c 49c and up EMBROIDERIES and LACES Now stacked out on our counters. Small prices is our slogan. Per Yd. 2c, 3c, 5c, 813c, 10c and up Ladies' 12'2o Hose now 4 pairs for 25c X JP . 1 n7'a tt mt mil aiiimi .nil wsmm the STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY MUHM PiIUIHJMS. ll,llMlllll imm-'t l.lHIIP.ll I j Ladies' 85c Union Suits now only 40c Tuesday night. Caper danced with a pretty school ma'am, but on asking for a second whirl he was refused and thereupon drew his gatling and fired three shots, but was overpowered and put out. He soon returned with Mur dock, one armed with a riflo and the other a shotgun, and threatened to shoot tho whole crowd. They finally left taking two horses that did not be long to them, . A Koseburg's city marshal swooped down on the local lodge of Eagles in thnt city Tuesday night, and confiscated 48 bottles of beer. On tho trial the judge held thnt thero was no ovidenco that thero had been any attempt to 'ell the beer and ordered it returned to the lodge. GOOD KOADS URGED. united muss LiiSD winu.1 Columbus, O., Feb. 13. Good roads throughout the country would menu the saving of enough money each year to build 15 Panama Canals. This was the statement today of State Highway Commissioner James K. Marker In dis cussing his pains for a publicity cam paign In connection with the depart ment's good roads movement. "The cost of hauling one ton, one mile on a good road by horse drawn wagon is eight cent," said Marker, "Tho av erage cost In the t'nited State is 23 cents. Five billion tons of freight are hauled annually over roads. The aver age haul is ten mile. This make the Mother Stanislaus Tells of Recovery Throat Tronlilra, like contlniirit rough ami colli, often seriously .fleet Tin Iuiik. If jrou liavn not found ujr tin nrmemcnt from th tretirtncnt you have tried, Invi-stlKHte tho numy report snow line Itcni-htH, mill. In numerous esse, couiitlctc rei-overli-s, lirotiuht admit by th ue of tCckiunn Alterative. Till Is nii'itli lu. fur Tliront ami l.unit 1oiiMe, fiirnrsblr k ii. nui for more ilinu tlftvea jrcsm Ilciul this esse: Convent of St. Anne, (tsnfiirit, Fl. "Oentlcmen: lu Kebrimrv. lint, four rioctnrs examined uty throat mil oro nminccd lite ueceswliir of nu ooenttiiin. IUvIiik h.md st I'eiksklll, N V Moth. erhoum. of Hie Xlstcrs of St. Krsni'll, whore 1 i visiting, of Koknisn's Altcrn tlv, I iWtormliicd a lnt resort to try It After tiiklnii four or nv bottle lurn piece of iIi,.immI iLisue cam. awns. I continued the Alterative, to my itniti'ful and dully relief. In ten moiiihs I sit restored to in-rfect honlth. I would I glint to write or tnlk to any permit who ninv hav. n uViil't alsnit It. I would Ilk. tlii'Ut to see and henr from my own lips. If they so ilolre. "II I would nv of It.'' (Sluuedi MOTIIKIt M. STAMk'UI'K. iAIhivc allirc liili-d; mote ell lenient. I K-'kniatt's Altornlli e hii I'eeu pnn ,-n l,y many yi'im' ti-iit to tie ui,t efiusrlou. for severe Tlvont nnd l.uutt A Ti I l.'-ii, llroi.i hills, Mroni hlsl Afhma. Siul-Korn Cold and In ui-l'iilldtiiK Ihe siiui. t'otitnlns no niiri-otl,-, 1010114 nr lisMt-tormina- drum. A-k for booklet telllu( of Mii terliii and write to R. kmnn IjilKiratotr. rhllndelnhla. I'a , f.r evl-arm.-.. Kor ul tr all lentllim druiulst J. C. Pwry, Dnigftjt. traffic amount to 50 billion ton-miles. At 23 cents a ton mile the annual cost is $11,000,000,000. At eight cents a ton-milo, tho good road cost, the sav ing would bo $7,500,000,000." CHBJSTOFFERSON PLANS TO PROCEED SATURDAY (UNITED fiiess leased wiiie San Frnmcisco, Feb. 13. With a larg er engine in his original machine, Avi ator SMiib ChriHtofferson plaiiB to rise from Bakersfiold Saturday to complete his flight from San Francisco to San Diego, which he was forced to aban don after four unsuccessful attempts to top tho Tehachnpi mountains. "Tho air was too cold for- my en gine," said Christofferson upon his ar rival here by train today. "With a. chilled engine I could not got high enough to cross the mountain. I am go ing to substitute a 100 horse power en gine' for my 00 horso power. With this I. will bo aide to rise 7000 or 80110 feet,, mil then will be able to cross the moun tains easily," Christofferson expected to return by train to Bakersfiold today. INDEPENDENT MARKET Good Bacon per lb. I7jc Good Sugar Cured Bacon, " 20c Best Lard He Best Eastern Cured Hams . " 19c Picnic Hams " l3c 255 Ferry Street .-. ... Phone 729 Km House of Half a Million Bargains Como and see the biggest wonder in the history of Salem. We buy and sell avorything from a needle to a pioc. of gold. We pay the highest cash price for everything. Complete tinshop iet tools for sale. H. Steinbock Junk Co. H til Ci.l. r n 3 en,, crcev. paiotn, uregon. phone Main o24 Marion Second Hand Store i A new store just opened. A great opportunity for Salem people. We sell X new goods. We buv and sell ancnnil.tinn.1 ..,:. .... . .... . . . . '""lurr, .loves, cunning, tools, hardware and men1, furnishing. We pay highe.t price, for elothmg, shoe, and furnishing. Como to u. for bargains. 119 Marion Second Hand Store Ferry BuL nmm ... 9100