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Newspaper Page Text'CUB IRE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, ' SAXEM, OSEOOK. TTTE8DAT, JT7LT 21, 1914. Editorial Page of The Daily, Capital Journal TUESDAY JULY 21, 1914 THE DAILY fiW&L JOURNAL 1TBI.ISHED BY CAPITAL JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Inc. CHABLE3 H. TISHEB EDITOR AND MANAGES PUBLISHED EVERY EYENIWO EXCEPT SONDAY. SALEM, OREGON hlBKl'KIlTlON HAT Kb: IThilv, by Carrier, per year !? 1' month..... 4.;c 1-nihV by Mail, per year 4 I'?' ' f.ekly, by Mail, per year H" mon""' -SOf I'l'U. I.KAKD WIRK TKLKUKAl'H KKl'OKT The Capital Journal carrier boys ar Instructed to put the paperi on the porch If the carrier 4os not do this, misses you. or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this Is the only wy we can determine whether or not the carriers aro following Instructions. Flione Main 82. 1 BIG OWNERS OF TIMBER. THAT 1,691 timber owners hold in fee 105,000,000 acres, over one-twentieth of the land area of the United States from Canada to Mexico, is revealed in the 1 maps just published by the commissioner of cor liorations at Washington, the first ever made of exten sive forest holdings. ! They show that the areas of concentrated ownership contain 755,000,000,000 feet of lumber, one-third of all privately owned in the country. The few enormous hold ings combined are four-fifths the size of Fiance and more than two and one-half times the area of the New England states. Their concentration in a few hands is due, Com missioner Davies says, to "lavish land grants" and "loose, ill-enforced land laws." At a time when the policy of the inhabitants was to destroy natural resources, not to conserve them, the spec ulators who got the timber and were the only conservers. They foresaw the vast increase in value of this land of which Commissioner Davies speaks s6 eloquently. Timber would have been more scarce and dearer than it is had they not stepped in and prevented the land from being cut and burned over for the purposes of grazing and till ing. The land grants were lavish and the laws could have been better enforced. Much can still be done to recover grants of disputed title and to require proper forestry even of privately owned timber. As it stands it does not represent a loss to the community. Enlightened selfish ness may yet harmonize with the public interest in its conservation. be excused so he can go home and prosecute his campaign for the democratic nomination for congress. He'should bo permitted to go just by way of example and encouragement. The California Railroad commission has begun an ex amination into the matter of the diversion of something more than a million dollars of the United Railway's funds into the Solano Irrigated Farms project, one of Pat Cal houn's properties. It is thought the investigation will disclose as bad a state of affairs as the New Haven, dif fering only in the amount of the plunder. rM. ' vi ii Late Yesterday f The attorney general of California has given out an opinion that where a church building is permitted to !x? used for lectures or any other purpose other than reli gious worship, it takes it out of the exempt class and makes it liable for taxes the same as any other property. This whether admission to such lectures or other enter tainments is charged or not. The worst feature of the wild-life-in-the-woods fake is that the man who plays Adam is to be permitted to write and send his stuff to the newspapers during his thirty days in the woods. If it was the open season for fools in southern Oregon, what a relief to the reading public it would be. As a sort of calamity anti-howl here is a statement from an Indianapolis paper: "One hundred and fifty automo biles are sold every day in Indiana, according to the rec ords in the office of the secretary of state." '' Remember to have The ( Capital Journal to follow you during your vacation. j 1 The Oregonian management should watch Cartoonist Reynolds. By showing that Woodrow Wilson is filling the American workmen's dinner pail with cheaper' food stuffs, even though it be beef from Argentine, eggs from China, batter from New Zealand and mutton from Aus tralia, Mr. Reynolds, assisted by the Oregonian, is open ing the eyes of the workmen to a real fact. It is further evident that this is being done without an injury to the farmer, for prices are higher than ever before for most food stuffs, not because the farmer or grower gets the additional price, but because the fellows that corner the market put the screws on and levy an unholy toil on the masses. If the importation of foreign food stuffs will serve to drive away these harpies, we should have more rather than less of it. Secretary of Agriculture Houston has issued dozens of pamphlets on keeping house, raising babies, washing dishes with the minimum of labor and also of soap, how to eat fruit without a knife, several ways to cook eggs and all that kind of information, about as useful and practical aa that given the old farmers by the young college ex perts. He also tells hubby how to assassinate weeds, rake up the back yard, raise a small garden and make himself generally useful about the house. These pamphlets are especially intended for the newly wedded folks and are designed to give them a start in the direction the secre tary thinks they would go. He might spring the instruc tions on Secretary McAdoo. One of the best things in the boosting line that could be done for Salem WOllhl be tn'clpnn un nnrl trim nn tlio irv There are so many vacant lots and street parkings covered with a rank growth of weeds and grass that the impres sion given the visitor is one of lack of civic pride. Even if scarcity of water or the exnensp nf irrirmtinn i tnn great for some property owners and prevents the keeping in iaw us green, iney mignt at least be mowed occasionally and be kept trim and neat. If there is not a city ordinance maKing it compulsory to mow tne grass and weeds, there should be one and it should be rigidly enforced. Congressman J. B. Thompson has broken the record in 1 . A I 1 1 1 . . ... congress oy teuing tne exact truth about his desire for a lay-off from his arduous duties of holding: down his seat in the legislative halls. He says frankly in a letter ad dressed tothe speaker of the house that he would like to THE ROUND-UP The l'ortlnml letter farriers ami mail lerks had a joint picnic nt ltonneville yuiidnv. I-4i no county claims to have more rural schools, more stanilnrdizeil sellouts, and more rural teachers than any other county in the Htate. (lervais had n eeleliration Saturday that would have been creilitable to u eitv nianv time its iw: Anion; other things was a f lvinjf machine ami u fire. flight twice over the little city. The yellow beetle, it is reported, is doing much ilimmije to the elm trees throughout the valley, especially about Ashland. A hunching of the leaves is one of the indications that the busy little pests urc at work. www llcrniintnn is planning for nn addi tional reservoir to supply water for its irrigable lands. It will have a enpaciry equal to a body ot water coveini; 10,00(1 acres one loot deep. The annual agate cnruivi"! it l'ort Orford will be held August i, 7 nml S. t is a great event in which fiiit. vbole part ot tlie coast takes purr, mm a lug piciue dinner is served. Xot only excessive speed but also ex cessive anil iiiinecessuiv pupping :inl hugging are under the ban nt The Hailed, and thief of 1'idice Kurtz an nounces that all fiends in.iv as well prepare for rigid iiinipliaiii'e. lOagle Valley is trying to give its greatest llnnest Homo leslivnl next fall, and the linker Hern hi testifies that whnt Kiigle Valley tries to do, it does, so we may lie assured of a gre-it event." The Owl heartilv indorses the de cision of the Hcaverton school board "to get a higher priced man to sunt intend the destinies of the school chil dren of this vicinity, and pay $1000 per vear. Koting progress, the l'ort Uo.'k Lapp & Bush, Bankers Transact? a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes Traveler's Checks Timen says: "The mail that left Tort land on Tuesday evening at 7 p. m., ar rived in 'ort Rock Weduesdny after noon at 4 p. in. This is coming through in 21 hours, quite, a difference from three to five days as it was a few years ago." A fire swept over quite a lnrije ace tion of the country near The Dalles Saturday. The damage was not large though there were at one time more than 40U men called Out anil fighting the flames. The timber in that section is scrubby and of little value. Eugene Register: The people of Goodpasture island are building a cablo suspension foot - bridge across the stream. The briilgo will be 400 feet long and - feet above the water at low water. It will, cost . $2."0. The posts on each bank are 25 feet long, 10 laches in diameter at the small end and set seven leet in cement. Washington. Bear-Admiral Ramsey, retired, a member of the Schley court of inquiry, died, aged 80. New York. Becky Etlalson, an 1. W. W. sentenced to three months in prison for inciting riot, declared a hunger strike. Panama. Four hundred pounds of dynamite exploded prematurely at Cucaracha slide, killing five workmen and injuring 18. Portsmouth, Eng. Lieutenant L. C. Hordern, army nviator, was killed and his mechanician badly injured by their biplane's fall. Falmouth, Eng. Sir Thomas Lipton's Shamrock IV and its couvoy, the Erin, were driven into Falmouth harbor by a storm. Albany, X. Y. The New York Cen tral ' stockholders voted 1,513,406 to 77.5 in approval of a merger with the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern. Chicago. The seventh annual con gress of American Espcrantists opened. St. Louis. icilcral Judge Adams authorized Receiver Pryor of the Wabash to issue $10,000,000 in receiv er's certificates. San Francisco. Mrs. Alfred George Thompson, wife of a Los Angeles busi ness man, sued for divorce charging cruelty ami failure to provide. Los Angeles. William C. Ralston ar lived to begin his Gubernatorial cam paign tour of Southern California. Ventnrn, Cat. Francis.), llenev suoke in the interest of his candidacy for the progressive senatorial nomination. Los Angeles. I. ,1. Evans was found Riiilty of the second degree murder of Mrl .Mundell at the Hawtelle. soldiers home. Doth were civil war veterans. Out of Debt wwwmwmmmmwwmwmmwwmm At breakfast time, at eve, at noon, t eat a cabbage anil a prune, as oft I've done before; 1 smile ami . chortle as I dine", for whnt I eat is strictly mine, and paid for at the store. No man can say to mo, '"You loon,, you ought to puy me for that prune, beforo yon eat the same"; no man has mortgage, Miiim nr li.m nt.mi IffW" A j the cabbage, rich WfiK J and ' green, with uW, .. .I 7 I A from the rill tastes better than a pint or gill of grape.juiee bought on tick; and when 1 ve chewed my victuals down. I'm the serenest guy in town, with conscience smooth and slick. Oh, bet ter tar tor any man, a can or soup, a pail of bran, a nickel's worth of tripe, than are the viands l ien and rare, winch cause n gent to tear his hair when monthly bills are ripe. 'Twere better far to gnaw a bone that you may truly call your own, than eat a cherry pie, and have the merchants look askance, and tell you htnt your name is Dance, when you drop in to buy. The worst old scheme invented yet is flint of going into debt; it keeps the people broke within my means I always keep, and while the others wail and weep, 1 sit in peace and smoke. Ailftms Nrwsiuper Sfrrloft Ideal Statesman Is the Man Who Would Lead People Awau From Extremes By Former Prudent WILLIAM H. TAFT , 5 THE MAN IS ENTITLED TO BE CALLED A STATESMAN WHO, HAV ING AUTHORITY, DEAL9 PRACTICALLY WITH PROBLEMS OF GOVERNMENT SO AS TO MAK& THE GOVERNMENT BEST SERVE ITS LEGITIMATE FUNCTION OF ENCOURAGING AND PERMITTING THE FREEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS BY THE COMMUNITY GOVERNED AND BY ITS MEMBERS. Tlint tlie ntnehine nnd boss rule which were the handmaids of threat cried plutocracy and corrupt political control are now anathemain the minus or the people and that growing out of this crusade and as purl of it is a spirit of brotherly Ioto and greater interest of all for one nn one can fail to appreciate and approve and rejoico in. Cut ACCOM PANY1XG TI1KS5K GREAT CHANGES FOR GOOD HAVE COME EXCESSES, and those who were advocates and doubtless essential to the accomplishment of this reform in the public hate lost their states manlike qualities and are now encouraging the extremes to which a peo ple aroused under sucji danger ore prone to go. THE IDEAL OF STATESMANSHIP TODAY IS THAT OF THE MAN WHO RECOGNIZES THE REFORM AND REJOICES IN IT, BUT WHO IS ABLE BY CLEAR THOUGHT AND INTELLIGENCE OF THE PEOPLE TO REACH THEM IN A POLITICAL WAY AND LEAD THEM AWAY FROM THE EXTREMES WHICH WOULD SACRIFICE THE INESTIMABLE BOON WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM OUR WASHINGTON, HAMILTON, JEFFER 80N, MADISON AND LINCOLN. TAXES ON THRIFT. There is but one practical solution of the high cost of living, and that is to raise your own produce. The home garden in a great measure will do it and do it effectively. It will stop the paying of money to the ' vegetable man and the grower a big saving. And thoso who are so situated that they can raise their own poultry and eggs, milk and butter, and a pig or two for winter s meat, with a change now and then from pork to poultry, may oe said to be directly on tne line of independence, with every cause of the high cost of living completely blocked. 1). 1). Lynch. St. Paul. The recent extension of the parcel post system, making provision for the lirect delivery or tarm produce from the producer to the consumer, is a long step in the right direction toward re- lucing tho high cost of living, as It will tend to eliminate the great army of middlemen, now between the pro ducer and consumer, each of whom must have his "bit" added to the final cost before it reaches the consumer. But this alone will not reduce- the high cost of living, for it is not at all likely that the farmer will continue to sell his produce at the present price, when he finds the middleman removed, but will proportionately raise the price. oo tno delivery direct from the pro ducer to consumer eventually will prove of greatest benefit to the farmer. l'erhaps it is only a matter of time when every man of family wiio depends upon his daily wage will be forced to press into producing service a portion of his back yard, even though be may nave but a single lot, as a plot for a home garden, to reduce the present cost of living. And right now is the time to con sider this matter if you are going to do anything in the home gardening line this year, raising vegetables to lower your individual cost of Jiving ami to enable you to have a larger margin of savings in the bank. The seed companies will furnish vou with catalogs and nt the hardware store you can get tho few necessary tools. Then go to work. You will ienrn bv experience, and your henlth and your appetite will improve while you turn barrenness into beautv and vour bach- yard desert into an oasis of productive ness. And here is a hint which vou will find valuable it" you reatlv want to save money by means of your home garden plant and cultivate not onlv those things which you can eat right out of your garden during the summer, but nl o some vegetables that you can store away or preserve for winter use, such as potatoes, tomatoes, beets, carrots beans and parsnips. Hire as little help as possible. Let most of the work be done hv yourself and your family, if you want to make your garden pay. And as you watch things crow unaer your care, consider likewise how your bank account will grow with your eoii' stant attention and the eompond inter est which the bank pavs on deposits. T. D. McOBKUOR. FBTJIT CANNING TIME. Children Cry for Fletcher's The Kind Yon liaye Alwaya Bonght, and which has been In uso lor over 80 years, has oornotue elnntare ot and has been made under his per Bonal supervision since Its infancy. y. Jiteou44 Allow no one to deceive you 1h this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Juat-os-grood" are bat Experiments that trifle with and endanger tlie health of Infants and Children experience against Experiment What is CASTORIA Castorla is a harmless snbrtltuto for Castor Oil, Pare goric, Drops and Hoothlnff Syrups. It is pleaannt. 16 contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Karcotio substance. Its ago i ts guarantee. It destroys AVornis and allays Feverishucss. For more than thirty years it bus been in constant use for tlie relict of Constipation, , Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Dowels, assimilates the Fowl, glvinr healthy and natural Sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS I Bears the Signature of The Kind Yea Have Always Bought In Use For Over 30 Years that Gather all the folks together From baby up to dad! Xever mind it if the mother Makes you just a little mad! Tie that apron tighter, Willie, 'Cause you're going to stain suit; Ves, I know you're feeling silly. But we're got to can this fruit. There 's the baby eating cherries! Make her stop it, someone, quick! Well, you know she ate those berries And they made her awful sick! Take the little seeds out, honey; That's the way; just see how cute! Stop, you boys, this isn't funuy; She shall help us can this fruit. Say, you'll have to hurry, father, If you're keepiug np with Fred! Yes, of course it's all a bother When the other one '9 ahead! Just you wait tilt time fpr eating! Then I bet this sauce '11 suit! You'll be glad we hi. I tais meeting. When we canned lot of fruit"! ttt- One of the most prominent advertisers in the country says he makes it a rule to increase his ad vertising appropriation whenever business slackens and he doubles and trebles it in times of severe busi ness depression. This, is his logical conclusion: 'The new customers that I get when times are hard, I always keep when times become good. "They come to me largely from those who lose them because they fail to continue their publicity campaigns. "A business depression in this country never lasts long and it is always seed-time for me. The harvest follows when prosperity returns." 4 House of Half a Million Bargains Comeand aee the biggest wonder In tho history of Salem. We hpy asd tell everything from a needle to a pieee of gold. We pay the bighert eaah price for everything. Monster stock of all kinda of grain sacks. H. Steinbock Junk Co. S"3 Btate Street. Salem, Oregon. Phone Main 22 CLIP THIS COUPON Capital Journal To indicate yon are a regular reader yon must present Four O ..on? like this one.' The National Embroidery Outfit 13 jruamntf j I' oe the greatest collection and biggest bargain in pe' env -ver offered. The 200 patterns have a retail vxlur jf J' ct-nts each. Bring FOUR Coupons and 68 cents to ..is r'.ica and you will be presented with One Complete f jtfi including Book of Instructions and one All Wood ".ead' l Hoop and II skeins of silk. The 68 cents is o .ver iuty, express, handling and the numerous overhear exr ipcs of getting the package from the factory to yor.. 'N. B. Out-of-Town Reader will ua& S cent extra for pottage and expense of mailing.