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TUB TATLT CAPI"T. JOTntVat. R IEM ORBOOV. WEDNESDAY. JUNE 17. 1914. Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal WEDNESDAY JUNE 17, 1914 THE nMlY-gV!?Ml. JOURNAL PUBLlSiIED BY CAPITAL JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Inc. CHAELF.S H. ri3HEB . PUBLISHED EVERY. EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, BAXEM, OREOON SIUSCRIITION RATES: Daily, by Carrier, per yer 5.20 Ter month We Daily, by Mail, per ;ear 4.00 Per month 3j Weekly, by Mail, per yoar ICQ Six months SOc FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT The Capital Journal carrior boyi are Instructed to put the papers on the porch. IX the carrier does not do thie, misses you, or neglect getting the paper to you on tiir.e, kindly phone the circulation managor, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the CMHers'sre following Infractions. Phone Main 82. THE OPTIMISTS' INNING. HE thing which the people of the country, without regard to party or to class, are more interested in than anything else at present is the disappearance of the vaerue and unfounded uneasiness concerning the business situation which has somehow contrived to get itself into the general thought-circulation. This microbe of depression is largely manufactured for distinct effect on the public mind, either by politicians who wish to make capital out of it for party purposes or by business interests which resent any interference with their tremendous profits, and it has had an influence vholly out of proportion to its real character. It is arti ficial in most respects, and grossly exaggerated in others, and the reassuring tone of leaders in industry and com merce throughout the country has served to dissipate very largely any gloom that existed before the recent visit of the business protestants to Washington. The so-called wave of depression has reached high water mark and is now evidently receding, and all that remains is the slight nervousness and unrest that follow brain-storms of this sort. Every day takes us closer to the complete restoration of confidence and to a general revival of energy and enterprise. The wonderful crop yield that is indicated comes as a strange and encouraging coincidence just at this time. It is almost as if the heart of nature and the mind of man had been working in harmony to effect a joint purpose. Precisely at the time when nature is preparing to lay at our feet one of the finest and most splendid offerings ghe has ever made us, we meet her in the fields with our new currency delivery wagons ready to distribute her bounty to every part of the country. When untrammeled nature and an untrammeled finan cial system thus get into partnership and start working together, it may be hard to see the clouds for the rain bows, and difficult to hear the feeble voice of the croakers for the general chorus of optimism. AN OBSOLETE THERE was a time when a state constitution was con sidered a somewhat permanent thing, a sort of guard to our liberties and guide for our conduct. It is so no longer, and has come to be a sort of useless appendage to the political bandwagon. It used to be look ed upon as something sacred and not to be fooled with. Now it is only an instrument that, when it gets in the way of some scheme, just as it was intended it should, it is brushed aside with, "Oh well, if it is against the consti tution, change the blamed constitution and make it fit the scheme." As a matter of fact, the constitution has no longer any excuse for existence, since we change it when ever it inhibits or commands anything that we want changed, and so puts us to the trouble not only of making laws for the case in point, but also compels us to go to the trouble of changing the constitution. That of this state is pretty badly patched now and the "badly" goes in any sense of meaning that may be derived from the word. There are now filed with the secretary. of state several proposed amendments to the old document, and there are more that will soon be ripe enough to pick. Every amend ment suggests another, and it is only a question of time and a short time at that, until the amendments to the amendments will be in order. In fact, that time is here now, and while we are doing some changing this fall, or are to vote upon so doing, we i...: u.. . 4 uusmess uy rrpeauug musi ua mm present amendments and starting in with a clean slate for the amending business. Old Dame Nature is doing her best to stand in with the j big celebration next year. A baby volcano, born for this especial occasion, is surely old a lady as Dame Nature. Ladd& Bush, Bankers Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes Traveler's Checks! ..EDITOB AND MANAGER DOCUMENT. might do a stroke of good ! r j. i.l going some, especially for so Twenty years married, then divorced, and remarried, and now a second trip to the divorce court, is the life story of John and Bertha Greiden, of Portland. Mr. Greiden asserts that his wife belongs to a religious sect, and feels it is her duty to entertain its ministers with chicken din ners and other delicacies. He says he would not care for that if he was allowed to share in these things, but he asserts that while chicken and such things are "fed with great fluency" to the ministers, his wife thinks any old thing is good enough for him. The wife claims she di vorced him because he abused her, and that she remarried him because she was sorry for him. Judge Stevenson is absorbing the testimony and will prescribe the remedy. In our opinion, chicken for John might prove a satisfac tory remedy, and certainly satisfactory to him. A critical specialist, cranky on the conduct of prisons and the management of criminals, points out that crime costs this country $0,000,000 annually, or a cost to each family of $:i00 yearly. This is about half the value of all the crops grown in the United States," and seems rather high. Anyway, there are some families that are not pay ing the full $:!00. It might be added that this same critic says this could be stopped if it were not for the criminal indifference of the American people. He insists that if they would give him a few cents each, to help the cause of prison reform, this vast sum could be saved. Seattle, Spokane, Portland and other western cities boast of their low death rates and lay it to several causes, among them good water, climate and many other equally important things. Is it not a fact that much of this boast ed low death rate is caused by the fact that so many of the people coming into these states, which are filling up rapidly, are in the prime of life? The newcomers are mostly of an age where the death rate is at its very lowest. As a foreseer the Oregonian is no slouch. It claims to have foreseen that there would likely be important news connected with that balloon flight and so sent its corre spondent along with one of them. It overlooked a bet in not having a correspondent on the grounds when Lassen went to making political speeches or whatever it is it is trying to get off its mind and stomach. The Oregonian is also somewhat of a distinguisher. It says the democratic party is split over the tolls exemption bill because 2: per cent of the party voted against the bill while it says the republicans were not split although 36 per cent of them voted for it. As a "heads I win, tails you lose' 'argument, the position of our big contemporary is "IT." Political wires will get crossed occasionally. The col onel is criticising the democratic tariff, and yet many of the progressives voted for it. , THE ROUND UP. . I.clnnil Howanl Wakefield, member of the Oregon legislature in 1 H4. and in early ilays the postmaster at Portland, died at bin home in I'nlifornia Saturday, lie. went to Oakland, California. '.i yearn ago. His death was due to the infirmities of age. A Med ford physician is asking the ladies of that city to donate small bits of ikio to be grafted on the threw year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. 1. E. (Ireen who wan ao badly burned, recent ly that without akin grafting she will not recover. Astoria Monday granted the P. R. L. & P. Co. a franchise permitting it to extend its street car lines without any reservations. It look as though the company had cinch. The state bankers association met at Medford Monday with 1 '-'." in attend ance. They were taken through the val ley in antoa during the moruiug aud dined at the hotel Medford. At the. Polk county hih school meet at Kickreal Saturday the Monmouth boys raptured more events than all the other schools combined. Grants Pass people to the. number of 200 have, visited the Josephine caves ia the past few days, holding & barbecue there. Sometime these wonderful caves will have a world wide reputation and become one of the famous resorts of the roast. Willamina is to have a near sane Ponrth. An ordinance has been passed to prohibit the use of firecrackers within 200 feet of any building. The Hood River Clavier, closing its twenty-fifth year, "looks forward with optimism to the future progress of a community that draws visitors from all corners of the world, not only be cause of the excellence of its apples, but for the unrivalled aeeuie environ ment that is a part of it.'' Madras. Pioneer: Miss Helen Ovens was over from the Htizzard Ridge country yesterday and made, entry on a S'JO acre homestead in that vici'uity. Miss Ovens is from Chicago and hav ing boen in central Oregon only a couple of months, she says the climate certainly beats the east and intends to stick. Astorian: Astoria, with its bounti ful tains, its fresh westerly winds, and its general freedom front dirt-creating agencies, ought never to need the or der of a mayor to "clean-up1. It ought to be the cleanest, wholesomest and healthiest and most desirable place in which to livo on this whole coast; and it is .just that, in spite of the few signs of disorder prevalent. Hut we'll clean up anyway; it won't bother ua much. Japan Hastft ' Anil Desire to Enaaae In WaT By NEWTON V. GILBERT, Former Vie Governor oi Philippines THERE are' man j reasons and each of thora good why there can bo no war between the Cuited States and Japan, To be gin with, the JAPANESE GOV ERNMENT HAS ALL IT CAN DO WITH. PROBLEMS RIGHT AT HOME to keep it busy fo.r years to come. So great are those problems that the country could not afford to let any of its energies be spent in another direction. THK TREMENDOUS PROBLEMS EXI8TENT IN MANCHURIA, FOR MOSA AND KOREA WHICH NOW CONFRONT THE JAPANESE PEO PLE CANNOT BE NEGLECTED BY THEM AT THIS 'TIME. THEN THERE IS THE BIQ NATIONAL DEBT OF JAPAN RESULTING FROM THE WAR WITH RUSSIA. WHICH IS ANOTHER EXCELLENT REASON WHY THAT NATION IS IN NO SHAPE TOTHINK OF A CON FLICT WITH- THIS COUNTRY. INJUB-J WILL RECOVER. Sacramento, Cal., June. 16. Physic- inns st:(ttM todav that unless complica tions developed, all of the 14 seriouslv injured in the Ione-Oalt Southern Pa cific line wreck veterhy will recover. The Rev. ,1. H. Durham, of Irvington. was instantiv killed in the crash, when the combination left the track near Conley, due to a broken flange on a freight car. DIEJ3. PRESXAI.I. At the residence of her son, at, Marion, Oregon. 11:30 o'clock Monday night. June 13, Mrs. Rachael M. Presnall. Funeral service from the Highland Friends church, S p m., Wednesday. Interment in City View cemetery, Rev. Josephine Hockett officiating. SAGE TEA TURNS It's Grandmother's Rscipe to Bring Color, Lustre and Thicknefg y Hair When Faded, Streaked or Gray. That beautiful, even shade of dark. glossy hair can only be hail by brew ing a mixture of Sago Tea and Sul phur. Your hair is your charm. It makes or murs tiis fnce. When it fades, turn itrav. streaked and lodks ...... ,,., .-"ioHhv, J...--V fin ai'i'ii- ..ation or two of hne and Sulphur en- ' nances its nppc.iia.iee a hundredfold. Don't bother to nrenare the tonic: you can get from any drug store a 5n cent bottle of "WVeth's Sage and Sul uluir Hair Remedy. '' readv to use. This can always be depended upon to bring back tbe natumi color, thickness ami luMre of your hair and remove dand ruff, stot) senh' itching "and falling hair. Kvervbodv uses 'MVveth's"i Saire and Sulphur because it darkens so nat urally and evenly that nobodv can tell it has been applied. You simply damn- on a sponge or soft brush with it and draw this tiiroiigh the hair, taking one small strand at a time; by morning the Srnv hair has disu.meared. mid after another application it becomes beauti fully iiurk ami appears glossy, lustrous and abuudaut. ,1. O. Perry, local nyent. The Bullfrog The bullfrog lias a widespread voice, the loudest ever born; hid singing makes tiie world re joice and chortle in a horn. When to their nests ;he swal lows i winj thci: way, as does the dove, the cheerful bnlltiog starts lo sing a lay of liomi nml love, lie war dies like a fro.? oi bull down in Vy JT I people plug their Jf Jr I 0!lrs w'"' woo' 8m' C-f .. .. ..... , storm around and swear. The frog oboys no rythmic rules, and folks who hear him, say, "We'd rather hear n luoiisnud mules when they rear up and bray." Kaeh night he stirs up human ginks to wild, unseemly wrath, and yet no doubt the bullfrog thinks ho a cut ting quite r swath. Perhaps he mut ters to his frnn, ns is ttio way of males: "Dmi't tnlk about your robins now, nor yet your nightingales! In some things X do not excel," the modest bull frog cries; "I doubt if I could dig a .veil or make crnhnpple pies; I do not boast about my skill at making ginger beer, but when a song is on the bill, fear I have no peer!" And I've met men and women, too, just like the bullfrog host; the very things they can not do are those of which they boast. BAD TAKE SALTS Sayi Backache Is a Sign Ton Bare Been Easting Too Much Heat Which Forms Uric Acid. When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eat ing too much meat, says a well-known authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and loggy. wnen your kidneys get sluggisn and clog you must relieve them, like vou telieveSyour bowels; removing all the body's urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when- the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels oft en get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times during the night. . Either consult a good; reliable physi cian at once or get from your phar macist about four ounces of Jad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of water before breakfast for a few dnvs and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the arid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with hthia, and has been used for genera tions to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in th? urine so it no longer irritates, thus end ing bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is meipensive. cannot injure and makes a delightful, effer vescent lithia-water drink. PARK OPEN JUNE 17. Tosemite, Cal., June 1(5. Major Lit- terbrant, superintendent of losemite t'ark. announced today that the park will be opened to a.itcurhilrs tum 17. Thoy mav enter bv the Coulterville or I Big Oak Flats raods. SEARCHING FOB VICTIMS OF BAIN STOBM IN PARIS Paris, June 17. Eleven corpses bad beea taken up today from the cave-in in Paris streets, due to Monday night 's torrential rain. Among them were the bodies of two schoolboys. A dozeu persons were still missing and it was thought the total death roll would be at least 0. - Excavation in the seaiva fur more .victims was being poshed as rapiiUy as possible. The best in all things is simplicity. The Salem Bridge I stood on the bridge at midnight, so dry, and Oh, so glum. The moon rose o'er the city, the same as it ever had done. And like the waters rushing beside the concrete pier The people of Salem passed me, each filled to the gill3 with beer. How often, Oh, how often, in the days that are to come, I can stand on the bridge at midnight and list to the autos hum. How long, Oh, Lord, how long will this town stay on the blink And force me to stand on that bridge and whistle and - wait for a drink? How often, Oh, how often, will I for freedom quiver And long for Independence, on the east side of the river? For my tongue was hot and parched and my life was far from gay, And the taxes laid upon me seemed greater than I could Pay." All the joy has gone to Dallas or is buried in the sea,' And only the bottles of others bring the sunshine unto. me. All those who cross the river on the bridge with the con crete pier Are as fresh as the wind from the ocean and light as the foam on beer. Will it last forever and ever, so long as the river flows? Must they journey to Independence to forget their cares and woes? The moon with its broken reflection and its shadows - along the ridge Is a symbol of prohi Salem and its staggering, wavering bridge. If Longfellow would only come back and see what a fix we're in, The bridge would groan at midnight, as he came home loaded with gin. WHAT'S THE NEWS ? Each line in this newspaper is of interest to some one. Each has been written and printed with a definite purpose. To many men and women the most important thing this journal offers for their consideration is the ad vertising. It is constructive, helpful, brightly written, often cleverly illustraated. It is all supposed to have a "punch" in it. . It is the news of businessthe voice of opportunity. To overlook reading the advertising is to neglect one of the best features in the newspaper. BOS r ON ARTIST TO BRAVE WILDS OF SHASTA FOREST Chicago, June 16. Jojoph Knowles. the Boston artist who stripped himself to the skin, plunged empty baaded into the New England woods and spent two months there, living !ik a savage, te prove what can be done by primitive man, was in Chicago today on his way to Mount Shasta to repeat his per formance. "Some people said," be explained, "that I succeeded in New Kngland be cause I was acquainted with the Maine woods. I want to show that I cau do the same thing in a wilderness with which I am unfamiliar. "I will wear only a broechuloih snd compel the woods to givi me a living.'' Household Worry Is 99 Per Cent Wash Day . Good Riddance by the Laundry Remedy. Linen, blankets, curtains ap parel all come back beautiful when we do your work. Salem Steam Laundry 136 South Liberty Street Phone 25 Dry Cleaning, Ask tbe Drive House of Half a Million Bargains oash price tor ererything. Moastetock of sll kind,Pog Jaeks! H. Steinbock Junk Co. 233 State Street. Salem, Oregon 4wm4m Marion Second Hand Store i s ruments. all kind, of tool,, ho.ehold furniahinV Zs, Z?l. t stores, naps, men', furnishings, gud looUl( g Ws alio UlS t kinds of goods on commission. seu an t Marlon Second Hand Store! t Ferry snd Liberty streets. p. l, M- THE OLD RELIABLE" REMEDTFORMEN ,i..r:u"",","'u'' mAk Box By MAtLSo 'tliJl " HENRYST. BROOKLYN.MY. . "StWARE OF IMITATIOMbJ. '' WHEN YOU GO AWAY Est The Journal sent to your Summer address SalemFence Works - B. B. FLEMING, Prop. Headquarters American Wir Fsncs, Morley's Patent Hop Bas ket. Send your orders In. now. Big stock of hop and loganbery wire. Rubber roofing, giso p tr square. Elastic roof patnt, cant' bo beat Stock of paisto and varnishes at 20 per cost .re daction, three brands. Cedar fence posts and wood and iron walk and drivo gats. 260 Court St Phono 124 P. O. Box 355. Back of Oblca Stat Phono Main 224 Mt "v" iiiwhhU