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Ediftofial Page of The Salem Capital Journal MONDA MAR. 23, '14 :! ! 1 i M f ' ! i" The Capital Journal PUBLISHED BY Capital Journal Printing Co., Inc. kxt Independent Newspaper Deroted to American Principle and the Progress and Development of Salem in Particular and All Oregon in General. .lied Kvery tirenlng Except Hun4ar. Hilem. Oregon SUBSCRIPTION RATES: (Invariably lo Advance) tally, nj Cufler, per year ...$5.20 Per month.. 45c tally, by Mall, per 7 ear 4.00 Per month.. 86c kly. by Mall, per year .... 1.00 Rli months 40c TUX LBAHKI) W1HB TKI.KGRAPH KM POUT ' ADVERTISING BATES. Advertising rates will be furnished on application. 'New Today" Ads. strictly cash In advance. "Want" Ads. and THE SUPREME COURT'S "MAGNA CARTA." THE supreme court of Oregon was the first to pass upon a minimum wage law, and its findings are worthy of com mendation and a subject of pride for all Oregonians. It something to be in the van for the betterment of human ity, and the minimum wage law is such a step in the lead to ward ideal conditions. Those opposing took the ground that it was an unconstitutional law, because it interfered with the right of contracts and denied the employer the right to make such terms with those he employed he saw fit. Their position was the ancient and threadbare one, the remnant of the dark ages that placed property above human rights. The court applied the law and judged the rights of citizens, as such, rather than the rights of property. It said that the first and highest duty of the state is to its citizens, and their health and welfare are a sacred trust which it devolves on the state to protect. It said that the state had an interest in each and every citizen, that it was its duty to give that citizen a chance to obtain an education, to earn a liv ing under decent and wholesome conditions, to have a portion of the things its labor produced at least large enough to permit the citizens to live decently and above the fear of dire want. It recognized that the citizen was entitled not only to "life, liberty and the" pursuit of happiness," but that he was also entitled to the latter under such circumstances as would make it possible of attainment. There is no such thing as the right of property. Men have rights over property and to its possession, but the property has no rights itself, in spite of the fact that this old cry of "the rights of property" has been been made so many years that property owners believed there was something sacred about it. The man's right to own and control property is sacred, but it is a human right, not a property one. What inherent rights has a dollar? What is there divine about pulseless stones and fleshless mortar? What is there sacred 'about a sidewalk or a sewer? Man has the right to own and be protected in the ownership of property, but what rights has the inanimate of nature? The supreme court has said thus far the employer may go in the employment of labor, but beyond that all is forbidden. It has said the employe must, in order to live decently and mor ally, have a wage of not less than a stated sum. It has said that the state has an interest in all of its citizens, and to such an ex tent that it is bound to protect each and every one of them against the grasping of greed or the selfishness of avarice. It has left mankind free to act, but has fixed the lowest limit at which one person may take the time and labor of another. In doing so the supreme court of Oregon has risen above the ruts of precedents and has broken the chains of privilege. In decid ing the minimum wage law it has written another "magna car ta," and one that will be pointed to as the one great precedent, the charier of labor's liberty ; and at the same time it has laid the foundation stone on which will be erected the faultless structure of a purer and a nobler American womanhood. The people of the state may well feel proud of the splendid action of its su preme court. Truly Oregon flies with her own wings, and she flies high. The American Economist is out with a fierce demand for free tolls for American vessels at Panama. If there was any doubt of the correctness of President Wilson's position on this ques tion, the action of the Economist removes it. That paper has al ways been the advocate of all the special interests, and was nev er known to back or indorse any movement that was not dishon est, and for the interest of some person or class and against whatever was beneficial to the people. It has been the mouth piece of the protectionists, and by its unswerving fidelity to the interests has done some good work for the country at largo, for it has made the things it worked for a stench in the nostrils of decency. Some one has extracted one of Victor Hugo's teeth from the national museum at Paris, and the French are raising lots of noise about it. It strikes us that is about the right way to ex tract teeth without pain, and the only one. It didn't hurt Victor half as much as if the tooth had been extracted from his mouth by a dentist, and, besides, it didn't cost a cent. The Oregonian, backing its course on the Mexican situation, takes Governor West as an authority. We did not think that even a war with our southern neighbor could make it come to this. 'S The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the yorch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you 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. No Lady's Coat Is Complete in These Days Without Swagger White Waistcoat, Says Margaret Dixon. SLIT IN SKIRT OF MOMENT GRADUALLY FADING AWAY. Platinum for Wedding Rings, Instead of Gold, Is Latest Freak of Fashion In Up-to-Mlnute Circles. Lapd&Busm, Rankers Tra.isact a General Hanking Business SaMy Dpos't Boxes Traveler's Checks BY MARGARET MASON. (Written for the Unitfld Press.) More nun has seen Dame Fashion From his wardrobe fine points seek To placate fickle females Always new styles sh.e must eke His walking stick she's seized on And evolved those skirts unique That ape his nether garmcnts- In a manner very -chic; Toekets, Gladstone collars, shirts. She ' adopted with much check And now his piquo waistcoats Do you wonder ho feels pique? New York, March 23. In spite of the fussy femininity of frills, puffs and ruffles so prevalent on all tho silk and lingerie, frocks and even on the suits of moire, taffeta and serge the leaning toward masculine accessories is becoming moro and more nuirked. No coat suit is complete or smart these days without its swagger white waistcoat, of pique or linen with a flaring collar attached. Of course all of tho waistcoats are tot of washable materials but those that are promise to havo tho sanction of popularity. More and more you see the walking stick, slightly longer than its masculine prototype, being taken in girlish and matronly hands, indeed at many of dansauts you see some of the most mod ishly gotten up dancers tripping tho light fantastic and tripping literally thus encumbered. You have long applied tho adjectives modest aud shrinking to tho' sky violet but tho modern violet shade, now affect ed so universally by the 1(114 belle, is as violent and blatant and unshrinkable as a guaranteed dye will mako it. There is a great run on all tho shades from royal purple' to tender lavender with the fruity effects of grnpc, pruno aud plum to boot. J While it has not yet quite vanished I from sight the slit In the Bkirt of the j moment is gradually fading into a passe j stage. Tho very latest skirt is tho j bustled ono pulled up shorter behind ,and thus allowing room to stop which I wns formerly granted by the slit. The skirts are raised well above tho heels j In the rear and afford ample room for wuiiitng. Where slits are still seen their regulation length is 12 inches just a foot for two feet. Nothing seeniB safe from tho fickle fingers of fashion. Now it's tho wel ding ring that is having the changes rung, Not content with restricting its change of style to its width as here tofore fashion has decreed that gold is no longer tho chic material. Hence tho nuptial band of platinum will en circle the third left finger of all fash ionablo 11114 brides If the bridegroom knows what's what. Tho tiny little Bummer coats anil wrnps for wear over the lacy film of lingerie frocks are almost too adorable to be adequately described in cold words. They are as limp and sfimpsy as rags but they nre royal rngs indeed. The most delectable ones are built of gaily ilyod and flowered rilk crepe ami ae lined with a contrasting shade of chif fon. They are all reversible and when worn with the chiffon side out the flowered glories of tho crepe glow through seductively. One exquisite crepe of old gold patterned in white, pink mid blue blossoms Is shirred in n louse puff around the neck nud kiuieua sleeves and hangs .ike a little loose sack to tho waist line where it Is again finished with n shirred puffing. It is lined in old blue chiffon. Tv. dolman like wraps, ono of shimmering silver grey, the other of peach blow, are fashioned from that alluring fabric, called poiiu do pooho, which in common or garden American means peach skin, NeivllosH to mention, these airy little wrap trifles are worth mero than their weight in gold. The chiffon ami crepe ones actually weigh not more than a bit of down while their price ranges from fU) to $'0. (liven a length of chiffon and flowered crepe, however, anil she is a stupid feminine who cannot fashion for herself 1 Parisian creation that defies detection. Since It is now a ease of "The tango in dead, long live (he Maxixo," th. Tntwhilo tango frock has been ohrlst ned up to dale by (ho name of "ciri; 11 sept," Transited this roads, "five '11 seven" mooning tin so golden two 'muni snored to tea and toes. HANDING PORTLAND WILDCAT EXPLOITERS MILD JOLT Mrs. Minnie Knbiiti invested ,1,00i? n the Kings Heights Addition to Port II If Costive, Headachy, Bilious, Stomach Sour, Breath Bad Clean Your Liver and Bowels. Get a 10-cent bottle now. You men and women who can't get sceliug right who have headache, coated tongue, foul tatse and foul breath, dizziness, can't sloop, are bilious, nervous and upset, bothered with a sick, gassy, disordered stomach, or have backache and feel worn out. Are you keeping your bowels clean with Cascarets, or merely forcing a passageway every few days with salts, cathartic pills or castor oil? Cascarets work while you sleep; cleanse the stomach, remove the sour, undigested, fermenting food and foul gases; take the excess bile from the liver and carry out of the system all the constipated waste matter and poison of the bowels. A Cascaret tonight will straighten you' out by morning a 10-cent box from any drug Btore will keep your stomach sweet; liver and bowels reg ular, and head clear for months. Don't forget the children. They love Casca rets because they tate good never gripe or Bicken. 4- w 4. U The money was the savings of a life time. In tho kitchen of one of the big department stores, where she h,is toiled for years, sho is daily at tho taskB that como to those who must work, work, work. Tho Kings Heights Company is com posed of Borne of the best known men in Portland. It was their names that induced this work woman to put her M,000 into the Btock of the company. Their names gave her confidence that the investment was safe. Recently, she paid another $100 into tho company as a smnll payment 011 two heavy assessments that have beon levied on her stock. It wfis only a drop in tho bucket in meeting tha amount of the assessments, but it was all tho money she could spare. This is but one case. It is merely typical. Tho dismal fruit of money mad speculation in Portland lots is everywhere. The kitchen woman with her $:l,l)0, almost if not wholly lost, because sho had faith in somo of Port land's great captains of wenlth, is n sacrifice to tho craze for buying land at one price and selling i, to somebody else for more. Tho generalissimos of finance set the example. They load tho way, Dedo viled by the hope of gain, tho kitchen maids, the widows and others of slender savings invest their all, and lose it. Tho big operators in tho Kingc Heights balloon are also losers, it is said. Yet, they could finance the property and save it from wreck. If they do not do it, will the history of it not bo full of odium f Can they afford to lo answerable for the sorrows of tho Minnie Kabats? Portland Journal. I ne -New tsaimacaan Loats NOW ON SALE. All the latest materials shown. We always make the low prices for Salem. $8 57arT$?r New Spring Models In Suits $7.50, $8.50 and $11.90. New Spring Millinery Models $1.49, $1.98, $2.50 and up. ' I MMUMt MM WE ARE SALEM'S BARGAIN GIVERS SILKS AND DRESS GOODS SaJom's Silk and Dress Goods Store is nsw showing the greatest line of fash ionable spring goods we ever exhibited. At Bmall prices. Yard 19, 25, 35, 49c and up 20,000 YARDS of tho latest Spring Dresa Fabrics now on sale. It would take a whole page to tell you about this great department and its great variety of new spring goods. Price, yard 4, 5, 6 1-4, 8 l-3c and up Ladies' Spring Union Suits Now 25c SALE.M WICA OREGON, 3 TOME GO Laces All Kinds And Widths Yard 5 cf s Know Your Parker. Luck by Sir Gilbert i singlo issue of a periodical. In obtain ing publication for Munsey's Magazine, Mr. Munsey hns indeed scored ft liter ary triumph, and hot upon tho heels of this achievement comes tho addition al announcement that The Munsey com- I pany hns secured contracts from Arnold To Cure a Cold in Ono Day. j liennett, Anthony Hope, A. E. W. Ma Tako LAXATIVE BROMO QUININE ! son, Agnes nud Egerton Castle, Joseph Canrad, G. K. Chesterton, Beatrice liar Tablets. Druggists refund money if it xiais to cure. fc. W. U MOVE'S signs ture is on each box, 25c. Edward Hungerford contributes an "Speaking of thin sword " nid informative and thoroughly painstaking Brown, as ho tenderly took the onrvimr Not only is this Sir Gilbert Parker's article under "The Feminist Move- tool from tho wall, "never will I for newest novel, but is the first long book ment," illustrated with intimate por- get tho day I drew it tho first time " of his that has ever been published in a , traits of women who have made good , " I thought that blade had a historv" in tho world of business. ! remarked a guest, eagerly, "Where did Georgo Nicol contributes "America's you draw it, Mr, Brown t" Failure in the World of Sport ns an "At a 2: cent raffle," was the hap Englishman See It;" and Winthrop py rejoinder of Mr. Brown. Biddle is responsible for a most timely . - . and engrossing artido on "Tho Men Who Put Greece Buck on the Map.' Probably ono of tho most forceful contributions to the literature of mod- MUCH OF INTEREST IN APRIL MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE In its series of full book length nov els published complete in a single Issue, Munsey's Magazine for April contains a book of moro than ordinary Interest April issue 1b replete with other telling to the literary world "You Never features. COULDN'T BE DONE. A New Yorker tells of his sojourn at a certain hotel in the Carolina moun tains, unva l.intiitinntt 'a Afn.tn...... At orn problems of capital is contributed )mf ; ' ';., ' . " , radon, S. R. Crockett, E. Phillip. Op-by Mr. Munsey himself in the shape of from a 80lu, , kno, "" pcnhoim, Baroness Orczy, Maurice tt paper entitled "Starve the Railroads his door nrnb f M A Hf Willi...... I nml Wa Ktni.i.A A,,....-.! ...... H T.. .I.!.. : j'luni, v. -.1. null J. 4,1. I1IIIUIIBU11, , "v UHiJDUCfl. Ill 1 1 18 Ufi I i T 1, ,, , a J,f 1, L . . ....... in ,i i uv DIIUUICU. Tom Gallon and Ralph Connor for forth coming novels, each of them to bo pub lished complete in future issues. In addition to tho Sir Gilbert Parker novel, which would normally sell for $1,150 in book stores in cloth covers, the fi.,l M. f, ..... !.. ...1, uiuiui-j nines mi enure y new, i tm,. i, ,, , ,, ,. , .,.,.. ' ' Jelogram to you, boss," raphe J stand in defense of tho rn roads, and i i . ' . , . lw hi. . ""rn"""' nnl tho darky on tho other sido of th -V nn, 'um:i-iiiiu uiki Clean cut t00P n ,, ,, ,u lnls ur. Tho New Yorker was angered by this. f L - V , I . F I 1 wiU uot! he yelled back, of the railroad, better than any wnter!you 8lip it e (loorf una muB jur HI 11111 IMIU tllO TI18K. REDIT is the axis Around which the wheels of business turn the power that makes ono dol lar do the work of four the great economic ad vantage. It is about the most essential thing for every one to acquire based as it is upon integrity and the ability to get good pay for the dollars that are put to work. A Savings account in this safe, con sorvative bank is a groat credit build er tho dollars can be put to work drawing 4 pit cent iiitoreet. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK SALEM, OREGON. I he issue is replete with the usunl number of spocinl articles', short stories and poetry, and is, taken from every standpoint, the best rounded and inter esting ningazine that has come to 'our desk this month. "No boss. on a tray." Will you open tho doorf' Can 't was tho response; "it's TRUSTY SWORD. Brown, an elderly gentleman wns en tertaining some friends ono night, anl during the evening some of tho guests paused to admire a particular room where arms of various kinds divomtel the walls. Among the arms was a sword thnt attracted considerable attention, and one or two of the guests asked that it be fc'iken down for closer inspection. Tho host, of course, complied. Household Worry Is 99 Per Cent Wash Day Good Riddance by the Laundry Remedy. Linen, blankets, curtains ap parelall come back beautiful when we do your work. Salem Steam Laundry 136 South Liberty Street Phone 25 Dry Cleaning. Ask the Driver House of Half a Million Bargains Come and see the biggest wondr in the history of Sulem. We buy and sell everything from a needle to a piece of gold. We pay the highest cash prico for everything. H. Steinbock Junk Co. 23.1 State Street. Salem, Oregon. phone Main 224 'TTT Marion Second Hand Store A new store just opened. A great opportunity for Salem people. Wo sell t new goods. We buy and sell second-hand furniture, stoves, clothing, X tools, hardware and men's furnishings. We pay highest pricei for t clothing, shoes and furnishiugs. Come to us for bargains. Marion Second Hand Store 442 Kerry Strwt. phone Main 2,12 land. U2J ; ...4.44.4Mt,4.4,4