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TTUB 1RB DATLT CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON, SATURDAY, JULY 11, 1914. Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal SATURDAY JULY 11, 1914 TIIE'DAILY j$L J0URXL: PUBLISHED BY CAPITAL JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Inc. CHARLES H. TlSIlia.. DITOB AND MANAGER PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT 8UNDAY, SALEM, OREGON SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Dally, by Carrier, per yoar Dally, by Mall, per year Weekly, by Mail, por year ..3.20 , 4.00 , 1.00 Per month. Per month Sit months. tin 35e 50c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGBAPII REPORT The Capital Journal carrier boyi are Instructed to put the papen on the porch. If the carrier does not do thla, misses you, 'or neglecti getting the paper to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation managor, a thla la the only way we can determine whether or not the cullers are following Instructions. Phone Main 82. COMPLIMENTS THE PRESIDENT. SENATOR TOWNSEND, in berating the president Thursday, inadvertently told the exact truth, and placed the credit for much-needed and splendid leg islation where it properly belonged with the presi dent of the United States. The senator in his desire to get into the limelight and to assail the administration, Fpoke at length. "Business is sick, and all the psychological mental heal ers cannot cure it," he said, "and especially will it not re cover so long as it is made the shuttlecock of political weavers. - t. "Much of the legislation already, written into- law and now in the process of enactment is an impeachment of the intelligence and independence of congress, for it never would have been enacted if the national legislature had followed the dictates of its own judgment as to what was best and necessary for the good of the people. "I will not charge the president with being unpatriotic or insincere. I do assert, however, that he is a theorist, I . .. , i i i : .!.! ! wno, witnoui constructive ousiness experience ui ius own, nevertheless flies into the face of all experience and in sists in driving his docile congressional adherents into danizerous and untenable grounds." The senator says in effect that the reserve bank bill is ! an impeachment of the intelligence and independence 01 congress. Very likely, but at the same time the bankers themselves now admit it is a wise and needed measure, and the fact that it is due to the president rather than to such senators as Townsend is well known to the country without an assertion of the fact by him. His admission that it would never have been enacted if congress had been left to its own devices is the highest, compliment the senator could have paid the president. The truth is the country is fast coming to understand that the senate has apparently no other object or use than as a brake on the wagon which, useful sometimes, is in this case generally applied while the wagon is going up hill. If the senate, and for that matter congress, is left to its own devices, history shows it accomplishes but lit tle. It never keeps abreast of the times, but dawdles along far in the rear, and there are few if any measures of great importance acted on by congress until popular clamor and insistent demand cause it to act. The abuse of such sen ators as Townsend is the highest compliment that can be paid the president. THE WIRELESS TELEPHONE HERE. I . COMMANDER COLIN, the inventor of a system of wireless telephony, who later conducted successful experiments with special apparatus, has received a letter from Mr. Blaye of Lyndhurst, Louth, Lincoln shire, who states that last Friday he distinctly heard con versations exchanged by wireless between Paris and Met tray, near Tours. Mr. Blaye used a special receiver. The chief engineer of the company with which Com mander Colin is connected states that this is the first time that wireless telephonic conversations had been overheard at such a long distance (over MO miles away). "We began," he said, "by making short distance experi ments, and it was then that we were informed by a man 120 miles away that he had distinctly heard our conversa tions." In and around Paris, says the engineer, are a large num ber of persons with receivers, the installation, of which costs but a small sum. These persons can hear the wire less conversations, and often ask to be informed when operations will take place. District Judge Bell of Portland has held that putting cotton seed oil in butter and using it in making "buttered popcorn" is not a violation of the pure food law. This em phasizes the fact that it is not more laws we need but more men with sense to enforce them without interpreting them off the statute books. ' A paragrapher in the Oregonian Friday said: "A Cot tage Grove hen laid an egg the size(.of an ostrich egg. Na ture is doing her best to counteract, the effects of Democ racy." He is mistaken. Nature is not doing her best to counteract the effects of Democracy, but to counteract the persistent misrepresentations of such intellectual bac teria pests as the aforesaid paragrapher. . ; The law requiring applicants for divorce to live in the state of Nevada a whole year will certainly put Reno off the divorce court map. A woman wanting a divorce bad ly enough to live in the sagebrush and sand would resort to murder, if she actually had to be free, rather than lose all her chances for marrying again, and also her complex ion, beyond all hope of recovery. As We have often assprtpfl. Orprrnn lpnrta the wnrlrl in everything. The m-oof of this was Rrmwn Wp'HnpsHnv when Al Richardson, a white man, stole 77 chickens from a negro at Pendleton. It may be this was only a feature of the "round-up," but it certainly reversed the order of nature, and makes a new record in the poultry line. The state department is not quite certain what George Fred Williams said, but whatever it was it disapproves it. It is much in the same boat as the Irish orator who, in his peroration on the woes of that downtrodden coun try, said: "Ireland does not know what she wants, and she will never be satisfied until she gets it." , About the most amusing thing - politically of recent years is to see Teddy actually astride the fence and un certain on which side of it it is better to fall. The.chances are that no matter which side he lands on he will wish he had hit the other before the elections are over. The chances are that Huerta has delayed leaving Mexi co until the leaving is far from good. It is also possible that he will never see any of the millions he sent away. Anyway, he saved his mother-in-law to help enjoy his sud denly "earned" riches. : ,. Might as well quit filing initiative petitjo.ns, as the vot ers will have to hold an old-fashioned hog-killing bee this fall to get rid of the pen full of fat ones now ready for slaughtering and the subsequent stunt in the smoke house'. A New York lawyer says that under the present judicial system "it is easy to railroad a man into the insane asy lum." He evidently never heard of the Thaw case, or had a talk with Jerome about it. , ,. An Alton, Illinois, man married a Missouri woman be fore his Illinois divorce got real ripe and now he will prob ably have to "institute a suit to quiet title to himself, as both women claim him. Congress is getting in the class with the poor, who can no longer lay claim to the especial distinction of being al ways with us. ,' mayor of Bend tus caj-tui vtt by friends, i-iiuiueu uiiu uiarunett lurotigu tlie streets, and was finally exhibited at a moving picture s'juw. Remember to have The Capital Journal to follow you during your vacation. j -(' - THE ROUND-UP. ! The Smith mills at Mursh field, it is annmuici'd, will be kept ruimiug at full capacity all summer. They cut ; H'iO.OOO feet a day, and three vessels are employed enrryiug the lumber to Han Francisco. j I Ligntning started two forest ires1 Thursday in the Cascade forest reserves west of Three Fingered Jack, a promi nent peak on the eastern border of la n n county. tt w An Albany widow who had applied j for n pension wrote the eonnty judge i recently that she had secured work, did' not now need assistance, and therefore asked that her application be ignored. As a preliminary to his marriage, the The Oregon City stieot market opened for business for tho first time Friday. Uicycle stealing has become epidemic in Albany aad wheels are only safe when the owner is riding them. u Five divorce suits wore filed in Port land Thursday and two divorces grant ed. Portland is making Keuo uud Ore gon City siug small iu the divorce chorus. Tho druggists of Oregon will meet at Newport next Tuesday. A special train will leave Portland at 8 a. in. that day and will stop only at Oregon City, Woodburu,. Salem and Albany. Newport will set up a big clambake and other "Join's" in honor of the occas--siou. t B ' ' - With his intestines exposed through a gash 8 inches long, Edward Murphy, a 14-yearold boy, refused to take an anaesthetic, but lay n the operating table and watched the doctors sew up iiis wound. He received tho injury while swimming and playing about an boat that was patched with tin. Mrs. Virginia A. Fulkcrson Mr Daniel, a pioneer of IS47. died at the residence Minds of College Trained Men Back of Corruption In American Cities By RaMi STEPHEN S, WISE of New York Lapp & Bush, Bankers Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes Traveler's Checks IN the forces of corrupt government there have been found within the last generation almost as manjr recruits from tho colleges as ranged themselves under the banner of good government. The minds of loo many COLLEGE TRAINED MEN HAVE BEEN BACK OF THE CORRUPTION th&t has disgraced the life of American munici palities. H H It 80ME OF THE MOST CORRUPT ANO CROOKED POLITICAL BOSSES OF AMERICA HAVE BEEN SERVED AND PERPETUATED IN POWER THROUGH THEIR ALLIANCE WITH POLITICALLY PLIABLE AND MOR ALLY FLEXIBLE COLLEGE MEN. WHO HAVE DEVOTED THEIR POW ERS, SUCH AS THEY ARE, TO THINGS THAT ARE EVIL AND UNHOLY. The college men of America ought to leave a DEEP IMPRESS UPON THE SOCIAL LIFE OF THE NATION so that what they lltink UmIiiv slinll be prophetic of that which is to deepen down iuto the !i:c and aspirations of the common people on the morrow. of her son, Andrew J. McDaniel, in Portland, Wednesday. She was borntli Missouri, March 2S,"l82S, and was mar ried ia Polk county to Joshua McDan iel, a pioneer of 1S44, Oetober 15, 134". She was the mother of 12 children, six of whom survive her. I " " , . The first ear of Oregon peaches to bs shipped east from UreKon this year will leave Koseburg probably today. '" - Tho British "Steamer Lord Sefton loaded a million feet of rreosoted rail road ties at St. Helens this week, the largest load ever sent abroad by the St. Helens creosoting company. Conan Doyle We ought to give ovation to Arthur Conan Doyle, who 'a' spending his vaca tion on Freedom's sacred soil; beneath the starry banner, he's taking notes, they say, and in his sprightly manner he'll write us up somo day. At horns he has been knight ed, with Britain's chosen few, ami we should be delighted to do him honor, too. To every farthest distauce extends his will earned fame, for he has made ex istence a better, brighter "game. How every reader gloiics in good old Sher lock Holmes, in ol! Sir Arthur's stories, his essays and his poems. In letters he's the leader; romancer, bard and sage, who never bored a reader, or wrote a dreary page! They caught old Homer nodding, iu olden times, it seems; they had to do some prodding to rouse him from his dreams; and al most every author has days when he can 't write much better than a (loth or a Vandal who is tight, but Doyle hus never written a line devoid of grec-s, or sent me off a-hittin' the flaKons for a brace! We donT appreciate him or rightly gage his worth; we haven't learned to rate him with Kiants of the earth, but when he has been planted for fifty years, by jing, posterity, en chanted, will say he was a king. Attorn Nempftper 8v rric posTorncE gains. Postmaster Moses has just cast up Ihe total business of the Corvallis post office for the year endiug June 30, and made the following roport: For the year closing June 30, 1914, totul re ceipts 2l),5l7.4.'i. For year closing Juno 30, 1913, total receipts 22,lio3.12. Net Rain for Uic year just ended 3,944.33. That's going some. . In fact its go ing at a rate that is considerably bet ter than the going in any other city of which facts are known. For in stance, Oregon City's total receipts for the year show but $22,000. Med ford's receipts while considerably greater show an increase of but $1,300 over last year, and the Corvallis show ing completely overwhelms that of Albany. CIVIL SERVICE EXAMINATION. The V. S. Civil Service Commission announces that an examination will be held on August l.$, 1914, for the posi tion of stenographer and typewriter, male and female. Chances of appointment for qualified malo stenographer and typewriters is very good. Persons who desire to compete should at onco apply t o the Secretary, F.leventh Civil Service District, 20" Post Office Building, Seattle, Wash ington, for application and full information. Honesty always pays but it's often slow. Boformed. Corner Capitol and Marion streets. W. G. Xienkaemper, pastor Sunday School at 10 a. hit- Morning Worship in German at 11 o'clock; subject. "God's Covenant with Abraham.' Eveuing service in English at 7:3Q; subject, "The First and Great Com mandment." Meeting of the Heidel berg Guild at 7 p. m., John Denny, leader. Tirst PTesbytertan. In the morning the Tastor Carl H. Elliott will speak on "John G. Paton, the hero of the Hebrides"; and in the evening at T:30 on "Counting Poten tial disciples.'' Central Congregational Church Ferry and South 19th street. 10 a. m. graded Bible school. 11a. ui. public worship with discourse and Lord's Sup per. 7:4.5 p. ru. song service introduc tory to evening worship at 8:0O. Unitarian Church. Corner of Chemeketa and Cottage streets, Richard F. Tischer, minister. Sun. lay school has suspended for sum mer vacation. Sunday service at 11 o'clock,-(no evening servire); subject. "From the Old to the New." All friends of liberal religion and of pro gressive thought are must cordially in vited to our services. Tirst Methodist Episcopal State and Church street. Kirhard Xobl,. Avison, minister. 9:43 a. m. Sab bath school, Mr. If. C. Tillman, super intendent. 11:00 a. m. sermon subject. "The Man Sent From God." 12:30 p. m. class meetings. 6:30 p. m. Epworth Fall Goods JUST RECEIVED, WHICH WILL BE INCLUDED IN July Clearance Sale at a reduction of $5 to $20 D-H.MOSHER Tailor for Men and Women Telephone 1257 344 State Street r Acme Plaster t! I I s FRESH CAR JUST IN. BUY WHILE THE PLASTER IS IN GOOD WORK ING CONDITION. Spaulding Logging Co. Front and Ferry Phone 1830 House of Half a Million Bargains Coma and see the biggest wonder In the history of Salem. We bay aad ell everything from a needle to a piece of gold. We par the highest eaah price for everything. Monster stock of all kinds of grain sacks. H. Steinbock Junk Co. ' 233 State Street. Salem, Oregon. Phone Main 284 League, topic, "Loyalty Fundamental to Noble Character"; leader, Miss Eva Scott. 7:30 p. m. sermon subject, "The Temporal and the Eternal." Sermons ny t lie minister and iuu cnorus cnoir at both services. International Bible Students. The Salem class of the International Bible Students' association will hold their regular weekly study at 433 Court street.' upstairs, Sunday at 10:00 a. m. Undenominational. All Bible students welcome. No collection. Lutheran Services. " St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Con gregation of Englewood, will celebrate its annual Mission Festival Sunday with both German and English worship. The meeting will be held in the grand stand of the High School Athletie Field on North 14th and B streets. The morning services, entirelv German, will begin at 10:30, the Kev. F. Dobberfuhl, of Sandy, Oregon, delivering the ser mon. In the afternoon the German English services commence at 2 p. the Rev. Ad. Gohl of Sheridan, Oregon, speaking in German, and the local pas tor, the Rev. II. Gross, in English. All are welcome. The First Congregational Corner of Liberty and Center, Perry j Frederick Schrock, minister. Bible school at 10 a. m. Morning worship! with Communion and reception of! members st 11 a. m.; subject of sermon,! "Reconciling the World." No eveningj service, irayer meeting on Thursday evening at 8 p. m. J ason Lee Memorial M. E. North Winter and Jeffersdn streets. J. H, Irvine, pastor. 10 a. m., Sunday School. C. M. Roberts, superintendent. 11, sermon, "True Prayer; Its Cost and Consequences. 7-:30 p. m., onion of Epworth League and congregation. Topic for discussion, "Is Loyalty Fun damental to Noble Character!" Mid week prayer meeting Thursday, 7:30 p. m. ' Lutheran Churth. East State and Eighteenth streets, George Koehler, pastor. Sunday School Lt 9:30; divine service and holy com-! mnniAn t 1ft r n -u 1. A.A:n : ' conducted in English at 8 o'clock. 1 SALEM HEIHTS HAPPENINGS. ter Martha and Olga spent tho fourth at Silver Creek Falls. Miss Doris Sawyer accompanied the Wilkbcrgs as their guest. Miss Ruth Woodward was a Rose City visitor July 4. Mrs. Warren Davis of Owatonna, Minnesota, bihI Mrs. F. Donaldson of Portland, were Monday visitors at tho P. A. Thompson home. Arthur McClain enjoyed the fourth with relatives and friends in Albany. ' Mrs. Will McCollum entertained Fri day afternoon for a few of her little girl friends. : i : Mr. and Mrs. John McDonaugh have gone to Oklahoma and Iowa for an all summer's visit with their children. Mr. Grilley had the misfortune of falling and breaking his shoudcr. Mr. Wellman has sold his home to James Gibson. Mr. Gibson's daughter and husband, Wm. Trngon, will occupy the house. Mr. and Mrs. H. Pascoe, Mr. Walter Kennedy motored to Silver Creek Falls with friends Saturday where they spent an enjoyable fourth. The picnic held in nail's grove July Fourth will be remembered by all who were present. The neighbors had an other one of their good times with everything eood to eat. which bv th way is what we always have and all we want, too. Mr. and Mrs. J. O." Kelsey and son of Portland spent the week end with Mr. and Mrs. Will McCollum. Mr. and Mrs. J. WUkberg and daugh-J DOZEN COUNTRIES IN v TOWN PLANNING CONGRESS London, July 11. Expert on town planning and housing reform from dozen countries met here today for the first congress of the International Garden Cities and Town Planning As sociation, to which are affiliated most of the important housing and tows planning bodies of the world. The countries represented were Great Brit ain, United States, Austria, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Poland, Bue sia, Spain, Denmark and Holland. The first session is being held at the Hamp stead Garden Suburb, in northwest London, but to enable the delagates te inspect the garden cities of which Eng land is the home, the remaining sessions will be held at Birmingham. Port Sun light, Liverpool and Letchworth suc cessively. Housing by municipal au thorities, by public utility societies and by private individuals and' companies will also be inspected and the principal town planning schemes recently put for ward in various countries will be ex plained by the authors. A friend in need seldom hesitates to tell yon so.