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PAGE FOUB THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL- SALEM. OREGON. TUESDAY, APBIL U 1914. Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal TUESDAY APRIL 14, 1914 THE DAILY JUJlL JOURNAL kv . PUBLISH ED I1V CAPITAL JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Inc. CHARLES H. FISHES, EDITOR PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EtCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM. OREGON SUBSCRIPTION' RATES: Daily, by Carrier, per year - - .20 Par month s Daily, by Mail, per jear 00 Per month 3.e Weekly, by Mail, per year - 1QQ "Qntl" 5Qc FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT The Capital Journal carrier boyi ars Instructed to put th paper on the porch. If th carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects gottlng the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, a thia Is the only way wo can determine whether or not the carriers are following instruction. Phone Main 82. FOUR MONTHS OF NEW TARIFF. THE Literary Digest has gathered newspaper opinions on the effects wrought by the new Underwood tariff. They come from publications of varied political faith and are interesting as showing the conclusions drawn from the different viewpoints of economical discussion. Speaking generally, and mindful of certain important excep tions, these observers find that, on the whole, the Underwood tariff has so far accomplished little, either for good or ill. Its beginnings, declares the New York Sun (Ind.) "show less of revenue, decreased importations of raw and partially manu factured materials in many great industries, stimulated and en larged importation of finished products." The increased im portations of foodstuffs do not seem to have brought the con sumer any appreciable reduction in the cost of living, nor are the big industries thought to be facing ruin as a result of for . eign competition. To mention a few of the chief industries, we find the New York Journal of Commerce asserting that the steel business "had nothing to fear from the tariff changes and has not been perceptibly affected by them." The textile trades were noticeably hit, but seem to be generally prosperous and confident of keeping their grip on the domestic market and even of reaching out into foreign fields. The consumer and the farmer alike may find food for thought in the statement showing that the meat importations in the first quarter under the new tariff are almost infinitesimal compared with the na tional consumption for that period. Sugar producers and re finers are, indeed, complaining, partly because of the "tariff uncertainty."' And it might be said that some protectionist papers warn their readers that despite the small apparent dam age, the worst is sure to come. Imports did not leap as they were expected to, admits the New York Press (Prog.), perhaps because we had no money to pay for them, but "it will not be very long before the United States will be digigng down deep in to its jeans to pay its foreign bills of hundreds of millions of dollars a year !" The Kansas City Journal (Rep.) likewise warns its largely agricultural constituency that the country is about to be flooded "with imported foodstuffs, thereby reduc ing both the farmer's incomes and the consumer's ability to buy the products of the farm." The official figures for importations for the first four months of the Underwood tariff October, November, December and January last are thus quoted in the New York's Sun Washington correspondence: "The total value of all manufacturers' materials imported in the four months under the new law was $300,000,000, as against. $347,000,000 in the same month under the Payne law, a reduction of 13 per cent manufactures ready for consumption $152,000,000, against $113,000,000, an increase of about 6 per cent and foodstuffs $161,000,000,000, against $142,000,000, an increase of about 20 per cent." The fact, which the Philadelphia Record vouches for, that we spent $28,000,000 less for foreign good.- during these four months under a Democratic tariff than we did under a Repub lican tariff in the proceeding year, gives "no support to the no tion that foreigners are dumping their products upon our shores in the hope of destroying our industries.- Wtih a 20 per cent gain in importations of foodstuffs, and 33,500,000 pounds of meat said to have been brought here dur ing the last quarter of 1913, the New Orleans Times-Democrat wonders why the addition to our domestic supply "fails to af fect retail prices noticeably." ' The Wall Street Journal's answer is that our total imports amounted to "loss than nine-tenths of one per cent" of the estimated total consumption for those three months. Secretary Houston, of the department of agriculture, points out that most of the beef coming from Argentina is con signed from our beef trust's plant in Argentina to itself. When "we study the importations of all the principal foodstuffs says the New York Sun's Washington correspondent, we find that "While importation of most of the articles has increased, the amount compared with domestic production and total consump tion has been so small that no effect upon prices is apparent. "In fact; in a large number of the articles in question the prices are higher at the latest quotations than before the change in the tariff." If predictions made by protectionist tariff debaters had come true, the woolen manufacturing industry in this country would, to use the New York World's ph rase, "have been far down the Lapp & Bush , Bankers Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes Traveler's Checks GRAHAM P. TABEB, MANAGER road to extinction.' But facts, as the World remarks, are things even more stubborn than "standpat prophecy." And now we find a number of editors glad to comment on the opti mistic note of the American Woolen company's annual report President Wilson M. Wood, the Indianapolis News (Ind.) re members, once said that no change would be made in schedule K of the Payne tariff without shaking American industry to its very foundations. But, as the Philadelphia Record now sums it up, "it is very clear that the American Woolen company suffered seriously from the strikes in the clothing trades, some what from the uncertainties of tariff discussion, and little, or not at all from the actual results of a reduction of duties." his report Mr. Wood declares that "the tariff is now settled and we are fairly prepared to do business under the conditions which it imposes." , .. . - . . . -u- THE IMMIGRANT FEEDS US. THE United States contains nearly a billion acres of culti vable lands, or to be more exact, about 935,000,000 acres. Of this only about 40 per cent i3 in cultivation, yet there f . i ii- i l 1.1 i t,i is lain, auum uie country ueiug uu lviijjer uuie iu taiec its food supply. The fact is that it is not the scarcity of lands but the unwillingness of Americans to adopt the life of a farm er that causes this condition. The whole tendency in this coun try is to seek the" cities, and there the American race assembles. We have gotten away from the old time methods, and there seems no hope of our getting back to them. Even the public schools are teaching the children to avoid the farms and to take up some other occupation. The schools are teaching carpenter ing, metal working, business methods, in fact about everything except farming. True we have agricultural colleges that teach farming, or think they do. It may be questioned though whether they turn out any farmers. Experience shows that most of those taking up the studies of the agricultural colleges either go into some other business than only to the extent of being soil experts or specialists of some kind, drawing pretty fat salaries for telling the real farmers how to farm. We do not say they accomplish nothing, but are just asserting that they are not farmers. At the same time we are, through our immigration laws, doing all we can to shut out im migrants who would go onto our vacant lands and make them productive. A cursory glance at the farmingindustry will show that if the American people had to live on what is grown by Americans they would starve to death.. It. is the German, the Swede, the hardy and thrifty farmers coming from North ern Europe, that today largely feed the American people. The back-to-the-farm movement is one the Americans will not make under present conditions. There i3 neither money enough in it, nor does it bring returns quickly enough for the speed-crazy Americans. Prospects for crops of all kinds ern Oregon. Frosts have ruined the peach, cherry and apple crops throughout the great central states down as far south as Louisiana, and even the orange down to the central part of Flor ida is reported injured. So far even to do the proper thinning in this section. This guarantees a big crop, as nearly as such guaranty can be had at this time, and the failure in the eastern, central and southern states guaran tees a big price for the product a combination that is not al ways to be depended upon. ! '-lt vxft??fl! Clyde R. Seitz, government engineer, road and trail builder in the national forests, wants the co-operation of the Marion coun ty court in his work. He ought to have it, and we presume that he will. Mr. Seitz is a real hustler, and will spend the money of the government in a manner fit. He has done good work as supervisor of the Cascade re serve, and we are glad to know t hat the sphere of his activities has been enlarged. ; 1 John D. Rockefeller has not his and persistent silence. John D. waters, but he never let anyone given away more information about the Rockefeller business in a week at Denver than the old man let go in a lifetime. John Eurroughs, seventy-seven years old, will tour Egypt to study birds and animals. The one thing the great naturalist never learned was how to grow old. The United States supreme court has decided that bribery is bribery. As to what constitutes it that is to be decided on the merits of each individual "Gen." Kelly seems to have difficulty in keeping hia army un employed. At last accounts the 1500 recruits had dwindled to 157. .v.Vfc.Vdkl M k; The motto of the navy hereafter will be a line from the old song: "Water, water everywhere and not a drop to drink." THE ROUND-UP. MeMinlivillo is using the moving pictures in the wheels. The pictures arc shown ami then the subjects dis cussed. Coos county will hare a building of its own at the Panama exposition. Newport had a close call Saturday nitfht, when a fire started iu The Ya ouiui Electric company' store, which : is located in the heart of the businews 1 district. 1 Mrs. I.ucy S. Hopkins, widow of C ' tain Charles Hopkius, and daughter of Oregon's pioneer senator, E. D. Raker, who was killed at the battle of Balls lUuff in the beginnlug of the civil war, ; died at her aonie iu Seattle Sunday 1 night. She was 81 years old. Her bus ; baud was at one time ia tha early war , antics. United Suits marshal for the '.territory of Washington. : . . I LoaU Davidson wa.Ua hunting near St. Helens a week ago suddenly went insane, Hia companion tied hia kani I and fot, but when the sheriff, to whom farming or else go into that , '-.HiMt H&MiWi could not be better in West there has not been frost enough that will be of permanent bene daddy's aptitude for judicious poured oil on the troubled catch him at it. His kid has case. , v. they reported the facts, reached the place hfthad disapp?rared. He left his clothing and the only possible trace of him siuce ia a report that a naked man etviaod some woman and two girls for a quarter at mile on the Bachelor Flats laat Wednesday. Mrs. Edith Howe, wifo of Dr. Bailey K. Leach who was deported from Coos Bay last year, died at the home of hr parents at Parkersburg, Coos county, Tuesday, April 7. i Between March 20 and April 3, Miss Lluie Cornelius, Marion county school supervisor, organized 23 industrial clubs among the pupils of rural schools. Grants Pass cant side property owners hava orfptniseu an improvement club for street, sidewalk and other improve ment. They will begin with gravel sidewalks and a road drag. ' Median authority have mad aa ev ampla of a ly ear-old lad who smokad wiraratte ami eut corners oa nis oicyeic Ha will pay hia fine en the installment plan dollar down, dollar a waek. - Staaf Cr&aa a loc,al quarry, plumbed A WOMAN should tell a mnn everything that hoe been in hoc lifo before she marnce him. If be is willing and eager to take her in spite of her mistake, her sins, then he k a reel man and will make a real hnsband. FEMINISM AND MASCULrNISM ARE EQUALLY IMPORTANT TO THE BEST DEVELOPMENT OF THE RACE. BUT WHAT IS EVEN MORS IM PORTANT IS CO-OPERATION BETWEEN THE TWO. A woman thinks in terms of humanity. A man thinks in terms of dollars and cents. life is the greatest motive foroe for wotaec. Or ganization and intellect are the motive foroes of the roan. JUST BECAU8E YOUR HUSBAND FORGOT TO BRINQ YOU A BUNCH OF VIOLETS ON YOUR WEDDING ANNtVERSARY IS NO REASON WHY YOU 8H0ULD WALLOW IN A SLOUGH OF SENTIMENTALITY. MAKB SENTIMENT SERVE YOU INSTEAD OF WEIGHIKQ YOU DOWN. Woman will gradually return to the happy days when she was tie perfect homemaker, grooming her husband for the battle of Itfo and sending him forth in condition to win for their family and ttuaj boms; Killing Time J. Johnson Jins has wealth to burn, though not a kopeck did he earn. His father croaked tome years ago, and left him forty kinds of douph, and he nas baskea tn glid ed ease since he was lower than vour r i II him is bleak and drear, and every hour seems like a year. He does not work like useful boys, but buys new cars and other toys, and wearies of them when they're bought, for nothing seems to reach the spot. He travels here and travels there, and ' finds new' boredom and despair; his only task is killing time, and that's a nuisance and ' a crime. There's naught on earth will take the' kinks from out the soul of J. J. Jinks, because ha .never, learned to toil, nor had to make the kettle boil. I'd rather labor in the ditch than bo so useless and so rich. This world is but a poor resort for any overloaded sport who tries to purchase cheap renown wito wealth his old man handed down. I'd rather have one silver bone, that I have earned, that is my own, than have a bundle in my till, awarded by some dead one's will. Adams jftHtflparjer 8rrle and squared by a loal monument mak er and dealer, will bo used as the cornar stone for the new Y. M. C. A. building at LaGrande, work on which is to cotti nience at once. Baker, the Democrat claims, is among the first of the counties of the Btate to niako payments on Htato taxes. A pay ment of $."0,000 has oeen made and the balance of the amount owing, $92,71J, will be made shortly. Declaring the grates in the Main street sidewalks to be a public nuisance and a menace to public health, Dr. I. (J. Temple, city physician, of Pendleton, iu bin quarterly report urges- the city council to abolish them. WASHINGTON COUNTY. As the result of a week's work in Washington County with Superintend ent Barnes and Supervisor Jack, 800 boys and girls in 22 clubs have joined the industrial hoBt of young farmers, mechanics, gardners, chicken and pig raisers, seamstresses, cooks, canners, etc. So reports Field Worker Maris to Superintendent J. A. Churchill, upon his return from Washington County, where he says he saw more good dairy herds and ftno barns than he has seen in any other county in the State. In traveling over that county, he says the benefit of road dragging was very ap parent. In some sections the dirt roads were smooth and fine, and in others, rough and bad, the use and non-use of the rond drag making the difference. Washington is one of the richest agricultural counties in the State. Mr. Maris says that he has been aasurld by County School Superintendent Barnes and the teachers of Washing ton County, that they will have one of the best school fairs in the State next fall, and a fine exhibit at the State fair. They had a good fair last fall with a school parade of about 2000 pupils. Superintendent Barnes expects to see twice that number ia line of march next fall. Completed petitions of Bert W. Ma ry, candidate for county recorder; D. G. Drager, candidate for county treas urer, and Mrs. Mildred Bobertaon Brooks, who is in the race for county recorder also, were presented for filing with the Marion county clerk yester day. Wednesday ia the last day peti tions or declarations of intention to be come candidates may be filed for the primary election on May 15. On .would snppoaa that tha Oregon iaa wouldn't have tha serve ia meatina wool for a year or two. Bat tha good ml that work both ways must work la tha same manner ia both directions, Feminism and Masculine Co -operation Important to the Best Develop ment of the Race By Mrs. ELIZABETH TOWNE. Author i! late Yesterday I Ah San Francisco. After a hard fight two policemen captured Frank C'allan, charged with perpetrating sev ersJ at least of 30 streetcar holdups in the last four months. o At San Francisco. Floyd Sparks, motoreyclist, was at the Emergency hospital probably fatally injured by collision with a farm wagon on his way to Ban Mateo. At Ban Francisco A runaway auto mobile crashed into a coupe occupied by Mrs. John J. Pershing, wife of the Presidio commander, General Pershinj and she suffered severe bruises, o At New York It ' was annonnced Colonel Boosevelt would sail from Bio De Janeiro direct for Europe to attend hig son Hermit's wedding in Madrid, and returning, might become bull mooe candidate for governor. . - . . At San Francisco Chemical analysis revealed arsenic in th grape juice giv en, with what barely missed being fat al effect, as a samplo to Saloonkeeper Charles T. Sale by a man who posed as a salesman of the beverage. Af Sonto Mnn;,,. I ns.ln. Tola .won. " " "" italist and ex-presidont of ths Yaiej Manufacturing company, Burlington, Vermont, diod. j o- At Los Angeles A thief snatched a handbag from 3 year old Daisy McAl lister, containing her mother's pursj and a $100 diamond ring. 0 At Yuma, Ariz. Construction started on a government-owned railroad by a federal reclamation project to a point 20 miles south of Yuma. o At Los AngclcsE. N. Metcalf, who shot and seriously wounded Gustav Vic tor Hugo at' a religious meeting, was sent to the Patton hospital for the in sane. Hureta is happy yet; Villa is still a long way off. Use' in Drinkino; WaterjS uuara your naich apramst t-atal Wtate DiarrhoePut in the drinking water WJiIfe Diarrhoea Remedy Chicks taReitreadily and doctor themselves Preventive measura and " treatment Used in time it wiB- '- sevenrHeavjTljSSse "Belter have a package on hard- Qkk him mT P"c 3 Mrf SOi money oactt If Not' VSarUfW Dlsrrhoe. Pt -Wo, Sl. S1.M CMlKv'tPoskrrMFMC! D. A. WHITE A SON8T" 251 stata street FLETOHEft ft BYBD, 349 N. Commercial Street House of Half a Million Bargains Coma and bm the biggest wVMkr & th listoir of Salem. We buy and sail v.rythin from a nef s a yaaa ef gohl Wf pay th highest ash prUa for verythiay. H. Steinbock Junk Co. 233 Stata Strast. Salem, Ortkjoa, Phoa. Main 234 !: Marion Second Hand Store ; N.w loaatioa. Bilarged !. Creator yariaty of sw aad scaend baad foaas. We bay, sal aad aaaBf aletUac -aaoaa, masieal in - traaeata, all kiads at taats. haaaaheU fanUal w.. . . . T stovas, rani, maa'a fanssHagt f aiada .! gauds aa ansasrisat . . Manon Strnwad Hand Store I " . " MM HM SalemFence Works B. B. FLEM3NO, nop. Headquarters American Wire Fsoes, Motley's Patent Hop Bas ket. Sand your orders in bow. Big stock of hop and loganbery wirt, Bnbber roofing, $1.50 np per square. Elastic roof paint, canf be beat Stock ef paints and Tarnishes si 20 pec cent . daeUon, three brands. Cedar fenoe poets and wood and Iron walk and drive gates. , 250 Court St. Phone 124 P. O. Bos 335. Bade of CtUoas Etna . i Have You Read the Advertisements Today? If not yon may have over looked an important opportunity. Each advertisement in this newspaper is a direet appeal to some one. It means profit to the one who answers as well as to the one who inserts it. Your , ppportunity may be la this very ibsus. If not today perhaps tomor row. Look and . If yon do not know it already, you will soon find out that the advertisemeaU are very interesting reading, apart from their value in other ways. 60LD DUST FLOUR Made by the T SYDNEY POWEB COMPANY Sydney, Oregon X Made for Family use. T Ask your grocer for it. Bran X and shorts always on hand. X P. B. WALLACE, Agent THE SCIENTIHG WAY f Select youxofflce Yelp1 "Scienti fically, for this factor in your business is more important than any matter of supplies. You . . want trustworthiness, intelli- genee, efficiency, so look among those where these qualities are . found. ' Such office helpers are readers i of the Want Ads, for a Want Ad - reader and uaer is a person of ' ' discernment, broad mindedness X and ambition, and that is the kind of a worker you want in your business, is it not! Only a fow lines in the "Help Wanted" Column of the Journal will give you a wide ranee of I choice, so write your Want Ad at once. j NORWICH UNION FIRE INSURANCE SOCIETY BTJBGHABDT ft MEREDITH Basident Agents. 385 State Street. READY Our April number is now off th press. You who are looking for something in tha real estate lice can call at our ofice and get a f reo copy of "OUT OF THE BUT" an;! save the commisiscn. Boom 11 Bush Bank Bldg. Household Worry Is 99 Per Cent Wash Day Good Riddance by the Laundry Remedy. Linen, blankets, curtains a p. parel all come back beautiful when we do your work. Salem Steam Laundry . 136 South Liberty Street ,' Phone 25 Dry Cleaning. Ask the Driver MOMMMMM MM MM aides Wa, . Wt also sail all f , . T raaaa Mala 28. -f Ml t
