Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal
THURSDAY
AUGUST 13, 1914
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EVADING THE CONSTITUTION.
AMERICANS generally and Oregonians especially
spend some printer's ink and spoil much innocent
white paper changing and amending the state con
stitution every election or two, in order to do some
thing which it is discovered that sacred instrument pro
hibits. In most cases this is a waste of time, as a shrewd
lawyer can find a way of getting around almost any con
stitutional inhibition. For instance, the constitution pro
hibits the voting by a city of bonds for a subsidy for
any corporation. This was intended as a protection of the
people from themselves, and to prevent their being sad
dled with bonds through an idea, mistaken or otherwise,
that they were doing a good thing for themselves. How
ever, in the hands of the lawyers this provision is made of
no effect, at least in the matter of voting bonds for aid
ing in the construction of a railroad. The city cannot
vote to give the bonds or the proceeds thereof to a rail
road company, but it can vote bonds to build a certain
piece of railroad, at the same time having a contract with
a company to build the balance, arid then the road it has
built can be turned over to the company. The same re
sult is reached in each case only one violates the sacred
constitution, and the other puts its fingers to its nose and
scornfully wiggles them at the venerable but variously
patched document.
BRIEF VIEW OF BELGIUM.
BELGIUM is the most densely populated and one of the
most prosperous countries in Europe. She has an
area of 11,373 square miles, a little less than one
eighth of that of Oregon, but sustains a population
of something more than 7,000,000. The last census gave
her 7,423,000. This would make her population about 615
to the square mile or one to each acre of land within her
borders. The army has a peace strength of 45,000 and a
war strength of 75,000. She exports manufactured goods
yearly valued at $750,000,000, and her imports are said to
Ihj about $900,000,000.
She has 5401 miles of railroad, or a mile for every two
square miles of her territory. She has no navy. Liege,
where the fiercest fighting has been going on, has a pop
ulation of about 170,000 and one of its important indus
tries is the making of embroidery thread.
The Duchy of Luxemburg lies between her find Cor.
many, near the southern line, and the province or state of
Limburg, a part of the Netherlands, forms a buffer be
tween her and Germany on the northern part. This leaves
her with a frontier bordering on Germany of only about
25 miles, and Liege lies about a dozen miles from the line
1 A i 1
Detween mem.
The democrats claim Mint Dr. Withvoombo lias mudc n iiolitieul blunder i
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objected to Dr. Withycombe taking thin view, but since it is onu of the pet
. i liobliies of Dr. Smith, the democratic candidate for governor, the democrat.
? will naturally Uol on Dr. Withvoomb e's opposition us a blunder Albnnr
j' Herald (Rep.) 1
j We pass this up to the Oregonian. Before the primary
': f election, it demanded pledges in favor of the single item
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veio irom me repuDiican candidates, ana ur. Withycombe,
w the onlv one in favor of the nlrl-fashinnpd nnrlr hntwl m.
.... propriation bill, was nominated. If the Oregonian was
; j sincere before the primaries, then it must feel that Dr.
! Withvcombe has made worse than n hlnnrW in Vila ctmA
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- against this honest, common-sense idea but then you can
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never icii auoui me uregonian.
Since the war broke loose in Eurone the Cznr hni and.
denly discovered the Jews are a pretty fine people. "Jew
baiting" will stop in consequence until the war is over,
for two reasons one. that the Russians nwl tJi W
money, the other that they are in danger of being pretty
inorougniy Daitea tnemseives by the Germans and Aus
trians.
The fact is stated in many newspapers of a hopeful dis
position, that "many lifelong democrats will this fall vote
the republican ticket." This has a familiar sound and
amuses the aforesaid lifelong democrats.
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Capital
Established 18G3
$500,000.00
Transact a general banking business
Safety Deposit Boxes
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
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TOO MANY CHURCHES.
LET somebody propose a schoolhouse for every street
corner with geography a specialty in one, arithme
tic in another, history in a third, reading in a fourth,
and so through the curriculum. The vote would be
unanimous to send the proposer to an insane asylum.
The difference between the creed of Episcopalians and
Evangelicals, Methodists, Baptists, Lutherans and Pres
byterians is far less radical than the difference between
history and penmanship, or arithmetic and geography.
If children do not become confused, but may readily
acquire knowledge of all these things under one roof, why
does each slight shade of a religious belief require a costly '
individual plant for its dissemination?
Having a church at almost every corner is one way to
f'l'nnto rVii1 vpVi rclfe tn ri)T-i liffla onnm-orvofmri! fn nilo
up huge operating expenses and generally divert the fire ;
oi religious endeavor.
A Canadian genteleman, a member of parliament, drew
a picture of European condition as follows: "Should Eu
ropean war come, it would mean a new story in the his
tory of civilization a kind of death grapple in the dark
ness, a cosmic catastrophe." Too bad the kinglets in the
old country did not know this. Had they realized that this
cosmic catastrophe would follow war, they might well
have hesitated betore venturing their all on the hazard
of doubtful battle, even though they were in no personal
danger in the aforesaid scrimmage.
The Prodigal Son
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Pa-.'
No doubt the Kaiser was deceived as to the course Eng
land would take when he declared he would back up Aus
tria, i ou see the Kaiser had no means of knowing, and
of course never suspected the suffragettes would quit and
thus leave England tree to join his enemies.
Foraker. who thought he could "come back" in Ohio.
was only an "also ran." He should have been warned by
the fate of Jeffries and Corbett, but, come to think of it,
Foraker was not in the heavyweight class.
THE ROUND-UP
Coos county will soon take steps to
encourage the building of the railroa 1
from Roseburg to that city, and will
give substantial aid besides. !
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Jack Hurlburt and Bill Looney, pal-v
living at (,'orvallis, got an extra dose
of "saints' delight" aboard Saturday
night and as they were about to sepa
rata for the night got in a quarrel.
Jake is in the hospital with 13 knifd
wounds presented him by his handy
menus.
A barn, three mowers and about
$1,000 worth of iiny were burned in
I'pper Langille valley, Sunday, The
barn belonged to tieorge McDonald, ot
Klamath Kails, but the other property
to George Noble, who has the place
reuted.
The council of Klamath Falls has in
structed the oity attorney to order the
United States to build a bridge across
a reclamation canal at that placo or
"take the consequence."
Dallas has sold the $.",000 bond issue
for purchasing a fair site to u loci!
bank at par.
Editor Young, of the Coquille Sentin
el, is still registering former Kansaus
for uis Sunflower club, ami his field
lias now broadened to include all ot
them in Coos county,
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A postoffice has been established at
Otter Jtock, in Lincoln county, with
mail daily for July, August and Sep
tember and tri weekly the remainder
of the year.
The Port Orford Trioune reports tli"
forests of Curry county swarming with
deer hunters, estimating that there are
twice as many as last year. Twcutv
one men were camped on Bald moun
tain the night before the season's open
ing day.
Med ford Mail Tribune: Though th"
woods are full of hunters, and the deer
are reported plentiful, the reports of
deer killed are small. Old hunters at
tribute this to the inability of the first
rush of hunters to hit anything, anl
not being acQiiainteil with the habits
of the deer.
Sumpter American: The Sumpter
Valley-Burnt Kiver fair promises ti
become a permanent Institution, and
no state or county aid has been asked
for. Last year the Sumpter exhibit at
the comity fair took second prise as a
community exhibit, but this year -are
will be satisfied with nothing less that)
first.
The Trineville News has just cele
brated its thirtieth birthday. It was
founded by Horace Oillard." Its pres
ent editor, Charles O. Pollard, says or
it: "The paper has had its ups and
downs; has met courageausly the vi
cissitudes of the frontier and' has first
and last stood by the interests o'
central Oregon thr'ongh thick and thin
as any of our old timers w.U verify.''
THE TRANCO PRUSSIAN WAR.
(New York World.)
It was in 1870. Bulletins had been
issued by both governments to the ef
fect that iance and Oermany were
on perfectly harmonious and brotherly
terms. A few davs later their armie
clashed.
Napoleon Bonaparte, 60 years earlier,
had orerrun Oermany, and had espe
cially humiliated lTusnis and grossly
insulted Louise, Prussia's adored
queen. Prussia never forgot. Bismarck
for years strengthened Prussia, not ouly
to prepare for a revenge on France,
but to sei-io the whip hiiud of Germany.
He persuaded Austria to help Prussia
in seizing the Schleawig-Holxtein duch
ies an act of international highway
robbery and then in IStiH thrashed
Austria and seized the stolen duchies
for Prussia. This made Prussia the
strongest kingdom in Oermany, Next
he made ready to whip France.
Napoleon III., pudgy charlatan and
nephew of the great Napoleon, was em
peror of France. His lovely wife, Ku
genie, ruled him, even as he ruled
France, and she in turn was ruled by
hot advisers. These advisers (prompted
or bribed, it is said, by Bismarck)
urged a war against Russia. And war
was accordingly ordained.
A relntive of Prussia's king was
named ns a candidate for Spuin's va
cant throne. France protested. The
king of Prussia withdrew the candi
dacy. Still bent on picking a quarrel,
Fnince demanded pledges that the can
didacy should never be renewed. The
king of Prussia refused to grant this
absurd mandate, and within a few days
war was declared.
Prussia had been preparing herself
for years. All Germany joined her. in
three mighty armies (each a perfect
fighting machine) the German forces
invaded France just as now three Ger
man armies are reported to have done,
41 years later. France was about as
well prepraed for war as an ex-pugilist
who has been drunk every night
for a year is prepared to put up the
ring fight of his life.
Her troops were ill trained, ill offi
cered, ill equipped. Her commanders
were incompetent. They did not have
correct maps of their own land, to say
nothing of the enemy's country. Graft,
incompetence, general crookedness were
rampant in government circles. The
best racehorse cannot win if the jockey
is worthless. Nor could the heroic
French soldiers make headway under
the burden of bad leadership. 'Yet all
Fiance was confident of quick triumph.
"On to Berlin!" was the universal
cry.
The French and German armies met
near the frontier. The French won the
first fighta small engagement at the
Snar river. It was their only real vic
tory. Steadily the Germans hammered
them back across France, winning bat
tle after battle, driving the bravely
fighting but doomed Frenchmen ahead
of them ns a star football team rushes
its lighter and weaker rival across the
field. Paris was the French goal, Ber
lin the German.
In barely a month France's armies
were whipped, France's armies over
powered, France's empire had fallen
and Napoleon III. was a prisoner. Then
Pans was besieged aud after a gallant
resistance, wss captured. France lav
at Germany's mercy. The conqueror's
demanded and received from the bro
ken foes a war indemnity of one billion
dollars. Bismarck seized the psveho-b-gical
moment to weld the victorious
German states into an empire, with
irussia s king (grandfather of the
present German emperor) as its em
peror, or kaiser.
CONSULATE UNDER FIRE.
Washington 7" n.-Secretary
Brjan was informed today by American
that ho ( hillock) had received fae
followmg message from the American
consulate at Liege:
"The consulate here has been ex-
u!t 4 -re iooe hostil'ie started.
my nnd it n At m.i,i:.l v.. i
quarters tlsewhre,"
Get a better position by
reading the chances offered
each day in the Journal
Want Columns.
" t lat I'm wise, 1 will arise, and
.eek'mv fathers shack;" thus mut
tered low the am ient bo, ami then he
hit the track. From dwellings rude
he'd oft been shnoe I, been chased by
farmers' dogs this poor eld scout, all
down and out, had
fft 'i herded with the
itr"Sv. I h"1-"'-' liis heart
I was wrong; it took
him long to recog
nize the truth, that
there's a glad and
smiling dad for
each repentant
y out h. "I will
arise, doggone niy
eyes, the prodigal
observed, "and try
to strike the old
straight pike from
which I idlv swerv
ed." The father
saw, while baling
sore and lamed; he
whooped with iov; " niv swavbacked
buy, you're welcome:'' he exclaimed.
Midst glee and mirth two dollars'
worth of fireworks then were burned;
"we'll kill a cow, ' cried father, "now
tlmt Reuben has returned!" His sis
ters sang, the farmhouse rang with glee
till ratters split, his mother sighed
with hope ii n,l pride, his granny had a
fit. And it's today the same old way,
the lamp d.ith nightly burn, to ;zti le
you home, O. boys who roam, if you
will but return.
straw, the truant,
rnirrlitit. .! hr
Atl.'in: t .t.vsps.,r Km Tic a
G. O. P. SHOWS ITS COLORS
(Mcdford, Or., Daily Sun (Pro. Hep.) )
Senator Kristnw was one of the re
publican nnliticinns of houiiiI nroi'i-ps-
sivc principles who lacked the courage
to join the progressive party.
Mta llailley, ( iimmins and- otner
embers nf tlin Mtrllililln anllm) ttri.t.ll-
declared the place for reform was with-
it, not witnout, inc u. u. J .
So he 1:111 Airninst px-Kemitor f'nrtis
for the republican nomination in Kansas
and got fairly well walloped, as most
of the progressive republicans are get
ting natiopen now.
With the Penrose victory in Pennsyl
vania, it is ns lilnin ns Kaiser Willintin 'tt
war mustache that the rpnnblicnn nnrtv
ns at present constituted is stauding as
par as tno rocK ot Gibraltar. Hard
times, the Kuropean war and other ca
lamities are being capitalized by the old
guard as a kind of Horse of Troy, in
wnicn to ninac their way within the
walls of congress again.
But they won't get there. The peo
plo in general are somewhat tired of
freak and disturbing legislation, but
they arc just as much opposed to crook
ed and privileged legislation. They do
not want to go forward quite bo fast,
but they refuse to go backward.
The temper of the country in the
main is to take bearings, digest the leg
islation on hand, temper radicalism with
common sense, and, above all, put busi
ness upon a sound and substantial ba
sis ffcuin.
The trouble with Bristow was the in
evitable trouble with tho timid.
He wns neither fish nor fowl.
As a result, Victor Murdock, the pro
gressive candidate for senator, running
against a man liko Curtis, will have an
excellent chance of election and the
stock of tiie progressive party will go
up a notch all over the country.
FOR FRECKLED, TANNED,
RED OR WRINKLED SKIN
Just beneath that freckled, tanned or
reddened complexion there's an exquis
itely .beautiful skin of youthful tint
and delicacy. If you could only bring
this complexion to the surface, dis
carding the discolored one! You can
in the easiest, simplest, most natural
mnnner imaginable. Just get at any
drug store an ounce of ordinary mer
colized wax, apply nightly like cold
cream, removing it mornings with
warm water. The wax assists Nature
by gradually peeling off the lingering
particles of scorched and half-dead sur
face skin, causing no discomfort what
ever. Cutaneous defects like pimples,
blotches, liver spots, motii patches,
freckles, of course disappear with the
old skin. Nothing else will accomplish
such wonderful results in so short a
time.
Fine lines and even deeper wrinkles
often appear at this season. In such
cases nothing is better than a face bath
made by dissolving 1 ot. powdered sax
olite in Vj pint witch hazel. This is
remarkably effective.
THREE REPORTED KILLED
IN MINE EXPLOSION
Bakersfield, Cal., Aug. 13. Three
miners were reported to have been
killed today and several others en
tombed by an explosion in a mine near
Kernvillo.
Members of the Bakersfield fire de
partment, with smoke helmets started
for the scene in an automobile.
LOS ANGELES GETS IT.
Los Angeles, cal., August. 13. The
International Tvnoirraiihiiial Union
convention at Providence, B. I., 'se
lected Los Angeles todav for it. lflin
convention, according to messages re
ceived by the local union. Los Angeles
received 100 Votes to 113 for Washington.
CRAWFORD FUNERAL TOMORROW.
The funeral .ar,-;.i.. . at
n " vi a uerman
y,M di.ed Wedlay. Aug.
. u iuriiina, -win DO Held tomorrow,
rnday at 5 o'clock it tho a.i tvn .
cemetery. The body will arrive tomor
row anernooa at 4:30 o'clock on the
Oregon Electric. Mr. Crawford, who
was 44 1 years old died following an Ul
nes. of heart disease, at the home of
his sster, Mrs. Dora Robertson in Port
land. He leave two brothers,' rrea and
we
Gasoline
of Quality
The best gasoline the Standard Oil Company
can make. Dealers everywhere. Ask out
nearest agency about delivery in bulk.
Standard Oil Company
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Salem
THAT SPECIAL
SUNDAY EXCURSION TRAIN
WILL CONTINUE
EVERY SUNDAY THIS SUMMER
VIA THE
IUb0tNaHA5Ta
ROUTES
The Exposition Line 1915.
TO NEWPORT AND RETURN
This Special will continue every Sunday nntil the close of
the Summer Excursion Season, starting from Woodburn
and stopping at all intermediate points on the following
SCHEDULE
Lv. Woodburn 5:35 a. m. Lv. Turner.... 6:30 a. m.
" Gorvais 5:42 a.m. " Marion 6:42 a.m.
" Brooks 5:43 a.m. Jefferson 6:50 a.m.
" Chemawa C:00 a. m. ' Albany 7:20 a. m-
" SALEM 6:15 a. m. Ar. Newport 12:20 p. m-
RETURNING
Leave Newport 6:00 p.
Arrive Salem .".'." .','.', 11:51 p-
" Chemawa 12:00 night
" Brooks V. .V.V.V.V. ! 12:08 a. m.
" Gervais 12:17 a.
" Woodburn . . . . 12:25 a. m.
ROUND TRIP FARES TO NEWPORT
Woodburn, Gervais, Brooks, Chemawa, Salem and Turner 2-52
Marion . .... ...35
Jefferson !.'.'..'.'!!.'.'."!.'.'!.'.'!.'..'.'!!".' .".2-25
SIX HOURS FUN AT THE BEACH
Surf bathing, boating, deep-sea fishing, roller skating, warm salt plunge
in the Natatorium, ete.
Pull niartlnnl-i.. .V. , a T 1 -t
uvuima iivui fcUV U C ( I v n . o. JT. Hgoofc
JOHN M. SCOTT, General Passenger Agent, Portland. Oregon.
NOMINATION COUPON :
GOOD FOR 1000 VOTES
For
Address
A free trip to the Panama-Pacific Exposition in
1915. One nomination only allowed each contestant
Must be used within 10 days from date, Aug. 7, 191-
i .
William M. Crawford of Amitv. two
sistera, Mrs. Dora Kobertson, of Port
land, and Miss Belle McCanaey of Am-
itw , ,...;. t t. .
-' - ' """"" omvage, ot tsaiem,
and othr relatives in thia vicinity. He
aa member of the Odd
lodge t Amity nd e B. V. -
at McMinaville. Friends 3t
rtembeta are invited to attend
eraL y
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