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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON, THTJBSDAY, APHIL 0, 1011.
Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal
THURSDAY
APRIL 9, 1914
THE DAILY (IMJ'1)L JOURNAL
CAPITAL JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Inc.
CHARLES II. FISHER,
EDITOR
OBAHAM P. TABEB,
MANAGER
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DO GOOD ROADS PAY?
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ERE nil the bnd roads to be made into good, hard, level
roads, the annual saving in hauling over the country
highways of the United States would aggregate the
mightv sum of $7,500,000,000. This one item of an
nual loss to American people would build fifteen Panama canals.
If all the highways were improved, this seven and a half bil
lions of dollars would go to those who do the country hauling,
chiefly farmers, who, in turn, would share the benefits of these
billions with the city and town people, who form the market for
the country-hauled freight. It would cut down the cost of liv
ing by cutting down the big margin existing between retail
prices in the city and coat of production in the country. It would
put these billions every year into the pockets of the American
people.
The grand total of cost of hauling by wagons over the country
roads of the nUited States today reaches the colossal figure of
$11,500,000,000 a year. The cost of hauling one ton one mile
on good roads by horse-drawn wagons is eight cents a mile. The
average cost, however, on all roads, good and bad, is 23 cents a
mile, while in certain sections the figure is as high as G4 cents
for every ton hauled one mile.
Every year, 5,000,000,000 tons of freight are hauled in wagons
over all these roads. The average haul is ten miles, giving a
total traffic of 50,000,000,000 ton miles every year. At the av
erage of 23 cents a lon-mile throughout the country, the aggre
gate cost of hauling reaches $11,500,000,000. But it is possible
by making the bnd roads good to reduce the average to eight
cents per ton-mile, the present cost on good roads. This reduc
tion from 23 cents to eight cents gives a possible total saving of
$7,500,000,000. Divided among the states and counties, the sum
still remains staggering.
There is argument aplenty here for better highway construc
tion in this locality, this state and this county, as well as through
out the country, but these figures are not all. The value of
farm real estate and buildings in the nited States is $35,000,
000,000. Of 2,300,000 miles of our roads, but 300,000 are im
proved. Improve the other 2,000,000 and we will increase farm
values a third, or approximately $10,000,000,000. There are G,
500,000 farms in the country, averaging $1500 in value. Im
prove the roads and make every $1500 farm worth $2000.
Will it pay?
The decision of the Commerc
vith the Cherry Fair was the
right, only going through a peri
closing of the saloons, and its f
the capital city of a great state,
city of its size in the West, and
section of the Willamette valley
which make it the trading cent
tory. There is nothing the ma
why the idea of abandoning an a
should ever be given serious co
at the present time is a revival
and the Cherry Fair should be
der to give the enterprising citi
together again for a bigger and
chosen last night to manage the
It. Linn and Ernest Anderson, c
They will make it go.
nl Club last night to go ahead
proper thing to do. Salem is nil
od of readjustment, due to the
uture was never brighter. It is
is the finest home and school
is surrounded by the richest
, with transportation facilities
.t of a large and populous terri-
tter with Salem, and no reason
inuinl event like the Cherry Fair
'.isideration. All this city needs
of the civic spirit, of local pride,
made bigger and better, in or
zenship an opportunity to pull
better Salem. The committee
fair, Louis Lachmund, James
ould not be improved upon.
The Del! Telephone company claims it has paid its employes
in the last five years more than the cost of the Tanama canal
by a $125,000,000, or a total of $500,000,000, The Bell Tele
phone company, however, does not tell how much money it col
lected from its patrons during this time nor how much it kept as
"profits." The statement makes one wonder how much the
company would have paid out in five years if it had paid wages
that would keep its employes' souls and bodies together. It
pnys the lowest wages for the most work of any great corpora
tion in the world.
A woman clerk of election at Chicago sized matters up about
right when the English militant suffragette, Mrs. Pethick Hy
phenated Lawrence was ordered out of the polling place by her.
The wise clerk told her, and the other hyphenated militant ca-
Lapp & Bush, Bankers
Transact a General Banking Business
Safety Deposit Boxes
Traveler's Checks
lamity with her, "you will have to move on. We can't have
loafers here." The lady with the bifurcated name and her
companion 'loafer" moved on, the former remarking it was
"glorious to see women vote."
Jim Hill, the alleged empire builder, it is claimed, will build
docks at Tillamook and dredge the harbor until it is a harbor.
That is what Jim says, but what Jim means is not at all what
he hands out to the public. It looks as though "Truthful
Jeems" was trying to force Grants Pass to give up its road to
Crescent City to him, and the Tillamook bugaboo is all he could
think of with which to f lighten the folks down that way.
Hobson did not get Hobson's choice in the election in Ala
bama. Instead he got a most tremendous licking, and if it will
tend to make him keep his limelight activities cut out, and his
perennial word flow properly metered, Congressman Under
wood will have placed the whole country under profound obli
gations to him for squelching the verbose calamity.
Villa and f'arranza are determined to expel every Spaniard
from Mexico. When it is recalled that when the Spaniards
conquered Mexico they, in a few years, murdered several mil
lions of natives, it seems quite the proper thing that time should
at last set things even, and the mixed race the Spaniards are
responsible for should turn against and expel them.
Over at Vancouver the mayor has made the astounding dis
covery that when the moon is full and the skies are clear, that
the electric lights are not needed, and so thinks they can be
left dark during that period and some expense saved the city.
Some time that mayor, and, perhaps some others, will discover
the effects of the laws of gravitation.
The man who invented spring poetry is not known, but there
is a well established report that he is dead, which, in a meas
ure, atones for his crime.
The real battles of Mexico are so far apart they're harder to
remember than one of those "continued next week" yarns.
Spring Remedies
a pliL'lit. no
with water is sai, to make a first :
class qualitv of real beer with plenty '
of "kick "'to it. The law forbids thai
selling of spirituous liquors, but say
nothing about powilers. I'ook claims
"This is the i to have ten agents iu the field selling
time," the doctors the powdered beer.
say, "whon people
need our bitters;
the sunny, languid,
vernal day is hard
on human critters.
Tliey'ro always
feeling tired and
stale, their Mood is
thick and sluggish,
and so they ought
to blow their kale
for pills and potions
being told we'ro in
swallow dopo ia rivers,
just to get our kidneys acting right.
and jack up rustv livers. We pour
Portland only ran behind $3,000 on
its grand opera blow out. This docs
not include the money spent by the
high and select socioty dames for glad
rags. J
Heavy rains in Wheeler county have
greatly benefitted the wheat crop.
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By the explosioy"bf a soda, cylinder
in a Eugene store. "John Hude was
severely injured and may . lose the Bight
of one of his eyes;-. j
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Albanv can hand a lemon to anv old
place now. Walter O. Bibble, no rela-!
SUGGESTIONS
But five more days until Easter. Dear to the heart of every woman are those beautiful
togs, new millinery" and the hundreds of new styles in neckwear, novelties, gloves, etc. Nev
er was our stock more complete or style more varied.
Dame
Fashion's
Latest
Decree
Onr
has
Has been heeded.
New York buyer
been -working overtime
In order that Salem's
fair sex may excel in
stylish dressing. We
are now showing a
most complete assort
ment of tailored suits
in all of the latest
weaves and shades.
Very reasonable prices.
$7.50
$9.90
$12.50
and up
Millinery
A Riot
of
Colors
few
Hf: j
Ik
Never has onr Millinery Department presented
such an attractive appearance as at this season.
The small shapes, of course predominate. How
ever, the assortment is large. We can please you.
Hundreds of ready trimmed and pattern hats, ex
clusive in design. Prices range from
$1.98 $2.50
$3.98
and Upwards
down tea of sassafras, as ordered by tlui tioll of Tsh Ki, of that place has grown
sawbones, and chewing predigested ; ,, of tl, s01lr veinw bov9 that mca,.
gruss, no exercise our jawbones. We
swallow pints of purple pills, and fool
with costly drenches, to drive awny
imagined tills and pipe-dream aches and
wrenches. And if we'd only take the
spado, and dig the fertile gumbo, the
ghost of sickness would be laid, and
we'd be strong as Jumbo. Ot perfect
health, thai: precious boon, we'd have I
:! l.i !
1 1-1 1 i us; il ii Miiini-3. u u nil iu lull i
tires 14 1-2 inches in circumference.
T)r. A. W. Vincent, a socialist, waa
elected mayor of St. Johns at the elec
tion Tuesday. Bonds for the purchase
of an autofire engine and a park were
defeated.
each uHeruoon out where the lunpson
skies, and sunshine is a wonder; more
cures are wrought by exercise, than by
all bottled thunder. So let's forsake
the eliised-up room, and hoe weeds
cticklc-burrish, where elderberry bushes
bloom, and juniurberries flourish.
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THE ROUND-UP.
.lames Van t russ, one of ilie bos!
known railway mail clerks iu the state,
died nt Portland Tuesday after a brif
illness from ptomaine poisoning. Hi!
was for years en the run from Tort
land to Ashland and was on the Shastiv
Limited when taken sick.
Medfonl's Iowa society will hold its
At a recent meet
ing 100 members assembled.
Canby claims honors as the largest
primary egg market of the Willamette
valley. On a recent Saturday the re
ceipts reached the record breaking total
of 3000 dozen.
The Wheeler Reporter reports the
By every express we are receiving invoices direct from the importers the very latest idoas in ladies' fur
nishings, such as Neckwear, Hosiery, Gloves, Veils and the hundreds of - fancy articles that go to make up
Milady's toilet. See them. Our stock now complete in every department.
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WICAGOr)
Medford the strike on Silver fork of I WHOLESOME COMEDY IS
Elliott creek of a two-foot ledge rf
free milling ore, some speciincus ot
which run" SS to the pound.
FROGS.
(Dedicated to Wait Alason, the Sun
flower poet.)
O, the frog, the dismal frog,
Croaking and gritting his teeth in the
bog.
Ho squats and he sings in the slippery
slime,
And pokes out his phiz with a sniilo
so sublime;
failure of overtures bv the citizens of 15,11 ,.I."8S .IUg a Bt,cK 0T & st
Vnhn1.ii, ln,,lri, in tha lulnliluhiniF . f 1S IttlT
a newspaper there, a canvass failing
to discloso sufficient business.
La Ornude boosters are ready, with
assistance from Wallowa county, to
build an exhibit hall at the O.-W. li.
& X. depot, to catch the eye of tho
overland tourist.
And his song it is mute and is sttill
everywhere.
to anyone who ean stick on "Dancer"
or "Dynaminte's" back. Many appli
cants try for the coin, but the one re
sult is jneitnlj!e they go away wiser
and without the money.
The big feature acts on the Barnes
program aro given with wild animals
A newspaper merger at Prineville , ;Y7V: V. e ' " "uu lm:"i j " wn'in ,'urs:t "P 01 "mi3' tZers
has resulted in "The l'riiievillo News . ; teoparus, Dears ana jaguars are shown.
(Li Prin'-il Kev-li But face these meat, sneaks, with all These acts are amazing and thri,,,ug,
Tuesday the Pollard is editor and proprietor. Mr: An1 tw liW f, Kr,"1 . " U0U3
A. H. Kennedv retires from tho man-; ' i.v m i.
; AuiiiL-siic luiuuuis uiso iuko a prorui-
DOCIA MCRR. i nent part in the entertainment, amonc
.t. 1.L - Tl i "
which ure rue names cnaaenge Horses
Mayor Matlock, of Pendleton, sonio
time ngo lost a watch chain he prizes
highly and advertised Jor its return, of
tering a liberal reward.
chain was returned to him bv the man
ager of a moving picture show, who ; agoemnt of tho Review,
found it in the aisle of his place, where I ' .
it had evidently bien dropped by iti
latest "owner."
IIow very like him some human frogs
nrc,
They enn sing and can shout and sound
it afar,
They can talk mighty bravo when you
i are away
r . ,.-ii, ' oun stnD 3'0ur d name and think
FEATURE OF BARNES SHOW.
A line of clean, wholesome, clevci
comedy is generously interspersed
throughout the program given by the
Barnes Wild Animal circus. The laugh
ing part of tho show is one of the dis
tinctive features.
Forty comical clown bears, dogs, ele
phants, monkeys, goats and ponies, sup
ply places throughout the entertain
ment where the visitor may relax after
seeing a "shivery" wild animal act,
and have a good hearty laugh.
A quartet of mules "Maud," "Dy
namite," "Danger," and "Milea-
mhiit," present some very laughable
situations,
ANOTHER STEP TAKEN IS
UNMERGING OF TRUST.
New York; April 9. Representative
of the American Telephone & Telegraph,
company on the directorate of the
Western Union Telegraph company,
were dropped from the latter organiztt
tion at its annual meeting here yester
day. Iu announcing this action, Presi
dent Theodore X. Vail said:
"As to government purcli.je and
operation of the telegraph I will say
thnt this property cannot bo taken over
without just compensation; that is, the
full and proper equivalent for prop
erty taken must be returned to its
owners. In such event, the share-
nouiers should receive,
..-.v i u.iv.i.iu .vvi., ua ( IUII1IU1UIU,
A dollar per minute is paid ! an amount far in excess of the prescut
mnrKet value ot the Bliares."
Every married man knows how mucht
easier it is for his wife to discover A
hole in his pocket than that a buttoi
is missing from his coat.
, Walter Garrisou, interested in mir
ing in Jackson county, has reported in
a peep.
love nnd then she is miserable.
Harney county is smiling today ovei
tho heavy rains that have fallen there
this week and which insuro bumpei
crops of all kinds.
Astoria f ishermon have fixed the !
price of salmon at (i cents a pound fori
"eunncrs'' and 7 1-2 cents for cold j
storage fish, which is all above 25
pounds.
The Multnomah county commission
ers rescinded a contract they had given
the Irwiii'llodson company of. Port
laud for furnishing 50 record books,
the district attorney advising them
that they did not have to give nu
Oregon firm tho preference. The bid
was $tiS7.0 ttnd a California firm had
in a bid for $o7.5. The latter company
was given the contract.
Portland autosist have asked thr.
city authorities to amend th; ordin
ance eoucerning street crossings so
that tho pedestrians must look out for
themselves aud the autoists will be hold
blameless in case anyone fails to hear
their warning toots and being slow
about getting out of the way get hint.
The Tort of Astoria commission has
appointed O. W. Taylor of Portland to
act as industrial agcut for the port ii
serve without salary.
E. Cook was arrested in Eugeno
a few days ago, but the authorities are
up against it ia trying to convict htm
He is soiling a powder whicii mixed
Too Much Production of Verse With Too
Little Appreciation of It
But a girl is. happy until she. falls in 1 and pouies, said to be the fines collec
tion ever assembled. These horses are
all actors, An fact the entire entertain
ment provided by "the Barnes show is
given with educated animuls over 600
of them. Sixty-five features and ji-:ts
are presented by these animal actors.
Performances are given at 2 and 8
p.m. and the new feature, mile-long
street parado at 10:30. The show will
exhibit in Salem, Tuesday, April 14.
By ALFRED NOYES." Engluh Poet
A mother is seldom a heroine to he-16-year-old
daughter.
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 Drives
POETRY is steadily gaining in popularity. Re
cently I met a man who is tremendously inter
ested in verse. Ho is a manufacturer, nnd last
year when he was in England ho made a SPECIAL
TrJP TO THE HOME OF A GREAT CRITIC
MERELY TO TALK TO HIM ABOUT FOETRY.
And tho critic said to him, "You are the third Amer
ican manufacturer who has come to talk poetry with
mo this week, and I don't see the connection." Well,
we aro very soon about to see that connection.
THE STUDENT SHOULD WRITE VERSE IF HE
REALLY HAS THE POETIC INCLINATION. OTHER
WISE IT IS SIMPLY A WASTE OF TIME. THERE IS
TOO MUCH PRODUCTION OF VERSE AND TOO LIT-
TLE APPRECIATION OF IT. WE ARE CONTENT TO
ADMIRE SCULPTURE WITHOUT ATTEMPTING TO
CREATE IT. WE SHOULD REGARD POETRY IN THE SAME WAY. WE
8HOULD STOP THE GREAT WASTE OF ENERGY WHICH COMES FROM
VAIN EFFORTS TO WRITE VERSE ON THE PART OF PEOPLE WHO
HAVE NO REAL REASON TO MAKE THE ATTEMPT.
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Fhoto by Americas
1'rea AMoctatton.
House of Half a Million Bargains
.ome ami see tne Diggcst wonder w the history of Salem. We buy and
sell everything front a needle to a piece of gold. We pay the highest
cash price for everything.
H. Steinbock Junk Co.
233 State Street. Salem, Oregon. phone Main 22i
Marion Second Hand Store
New location. Entarged space. Greater variety of new and second- f
hand goods. We buy, sell and exehange elothing, shoes, musieal in-
stmrnects, all kinds of tools, household furnishings, trunks, suit cases,
lows, rungvi, men luruiaamgs, garden tools, etc. We also sell all
kinds of goods on commission.
Marion Second Hand Store
Ferry and Liberty streets. . pn0M Main 2329.r