Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal
FRIDAY
AUGUST 21, 1914
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CAPITAL JOURNAL AFFAIRS SETTLED.
HAS. H. FISHER and L. S. BARNES yesterda.v
purchased the stock in The Capital Journal Print
ing Co. held by Graham P. Taber, and now are the
sole owners of the stock in the publishing cor
poration. The arrangement was made harmoniously and
all parties to the transaction were satisfied with the
successful termination of the negotiations. Mr. Taber's
remuneration was satisfactoiy and mutual good will and
good wishes accompanied the consummation which will
in all respects be beneficial to the conduct of the paper.
Attention is called to Mr. Taber's statement printed on
this page of today's issue.
CAPITAL JOURNAL PTG. CO.
DECISION ON WATER RATES.
THE Capital Journal yesterday gave to its readers
the first news of the conclusion of the Salem
water case before the Railroad Commission and
the findings and order of that body. That the
news will be of the variety known as "good" is assured,
for Salem folk have waited long and patiently for this
announcement.
The reduction to the average householder is about
22 per cent, and the saving in the city is in round numbers
about $17,000 yearly. The average householder paid
about $2.00 per month, with a rebate of 20 cents if the
bill was paid before the 10th of the month. The same
person will pay now about $1.40 to $1.50 and the saving
in the year will be about six dollars.
The case has been long pending but those who waited
so patiently the action of the railroad commission cannot
understand the tremendous amount of work the examina
tion and investigation of the plant required. Sifting the
jinass of matter supplied by the company and making
'its own examination to arrive at the physical value of
the plant was not a labor of love, and while the final
settlement seemed to be long delayed, it would seem the
commission has done conscientious work. Ihe only
demand made by the city was that the matter be investi
gated and that equal and exact justice be done as between
the company and tlie citizens of Salem. This paper took
the position that the water company was entitled to a
fair and just return on its investment and that when
that was given it, the city had no fault to find with
whatever price the commission found it was entitled to
The reduction is perhaps not so much as many desired or
thought right, but the commission examined into it
minutely and its judgment must be taken as better than
that of the citizen who has not the mass of information
the commission dug up.
The reduction is material, nearly one-fourth, and the
grand total is about $17,000. That the price is still higher
than citizens should pay cannot be denied, but that the
company cannot furnish it any more cheaply under
present conditions must be accepted as a fact, since the
commission has so found.
"VERBOMANIA": A DISEASE.
VERBOMANIA is a newly-named malady, and means
too much talk. The word is taken from verbosity,
of course, but it is only recently that scientists
have made claims that too much talking without
thinking is in reality a disease.
M. Ossip Lourie, a Russian-Jewish writer, claims the
credit of classifying verbosity as a disease and has named
it "verbomania." M. Lourie is a noted psychologist and
he has made it plain that words are possible without the
presence of ideas, just as ideas are possible without
words.
He does not mean that society folk alone have this
disease. People in all walks of life have the habit of
talking too much, without any reason other than to say
something to take up time or to make themselves at ease.
The main point to notice in verbomania, according to
this psychologist, is the fact that words are possible
without thought behind them. Through long practice a
pianist is able to render a difficult composition without
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meet ana say many tnmgs wimoui giving mougnc 10
what they are saying.
Our rapid mode of living is held to be the cause of
this. In olden times we did not talk so much; we did not
feel bound to be on the go every minute. But today we!
must be constantly active, or if idle physically we feel as
though we must be talking. All this forced talk, M.
Lourie says, is unnatural and the result of disease.
The man who delights in playing the changes on the
mother-in-law joke is overlooking an opportunity in notf
placing the blame lor the European war on that much
maligned woman. It would be no great stretch of the
imagination to have the big fellow fighting because some
one of the other fellows is responsible for his having a
mother-in-law.
"GETS-IT." 2 Drops
Corn Vanishes!
The Only Sure Ender of All Corns.
Desperate, are you, over trying to
get rid of eornst Quit using old formu
las under new names,' bandages, winding-tapes
and cotton rings that make a
fat little package out of your too.
Early this week the thrifty hop man began to get his
baskets ready and then the clouds began to gather.
Thursday several lots of these baskets were taken out to
the fields and the sky at once assumed a laden hue. All
other signs may prove deceptive, but the state fair and
hop picking never were known to miss bringing a shower
or two.
This censoring of the news would not be so bad if the
censors would be content with cutting something out and
did not put something else in. Just a little of the cor
respondent's real story would prove interesting, and so
far as it went probably reliable.
Mr. Bailey told the Texas democrats that if the.'
defeated his resolution he would run for the United
States senate, and they were so anxious to get a real
solid whack at Mr. Bailey that they defeated said resolu
tions 645 to 107.
The cost of living, so far as bread and water is con
cerned at least, is holding even in Salem. Bread is higher
but water has been reduced in price.
Switzerland must feel a trifle sore as when the ulti
matums were being passed around it did not get any.
VALEDICTORY
The dio hns been cast and cast satis
factorily the Rubicon ha9 been crossed
and the forces which crossed forgot
not their purses, and today I have sold
the stock representing my one-third in
terest in the Capital Journal to L. S.
Bniues nnil Charles H. Fisher.
While both tiie snle and the price
received are satisfactory to me, there
is intermingled with my personal sat
isfaction n feeling of regret a feeling
which will not dowu. 1 must now seek
a new field, and while the new may
beckon me onwnrd with the promise of
good things, yet I cannot leave tho old
without o fueling of reluctance of re
gret. I came here a stranger and Sa
lem people were kind the business
men were generous and my stay in this
city has been most pleasant and profit
able. During the time 1 was editor ami
manager of tho Capital Journal I en
deavored to conduct the paper in tho
iuterests of the people. 1 tried at all
times to fight for what was right.
And now, no matter where I may cast
my lot, 1 shall always look back wi.ii
pleasure upon the days spent in this
city. I shall always bear the most
grateful andl.iiully feeling toward good
old iSalem and her people.
Sincerely,
OH AH AM T. TA1.EK.
No Progress
I have a sort of notion that David
Daniel Duke will never get promotion
unless it's by n fluke. He's selling
traps and cngesnt .Timpson's jimcrack
store, and draws the same old wages he
drew five years be
fore. He 's never
known to study or
rend a helpful book,
his mind is like a
muddy and dark
nnd turgid brook.
The fellow who ad
vances, who rises
from the groove,
will never sidestep
chances his know
ledge to improve;
he'll burn the mid
night candle, and to
himself he'll say,
" 'Twould be a burning scandal to
fool my time away." But David never
ponders o'er books that brace the mind,
but through tho streets he wanders
when's done the daily grind. A quiet
game of poker now holds young David
down; again, with crimson ochre he
paints the sleeping town. An evening
at the movies to David seems sublime;
while other lads improve he's just blow
ing in his time. And often in the morn
ing when he shows up for work, his
head 's a horrid warning, nnd in his
mouth there lurk those tastes of pink
and yellow, the consequence of cups,
which tastes inform a fellow he's going
to the pups. The waste of time is fate
ful, bad habits are a snare; the dump
is dark and hateful, and David's head
ed there.
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The Misses Anna and Marie Teus,
sisters who have until this week been
waitresses in the Osburn hotel at Ku
gene, have left for their old home, Ber
lin, where they expect to become nurses
in the German army.
Allen K. Stephens, aged 74, a veteran
of the civil war, died at his home at
Maple Lane near Oregon City, Tuesday,
after an illness of but a few days.
Forest fires are coming dangerously
nenr farm houses in Columbia county,
and were barely warded off Sherman
brothers' mill at Vest St. Helens.
8. G. Richardson, 72 years old and a
former councilman of Portland dropped
(lead at Kast Seventh ami Sherman
streets, Portland, Wednesday morning.
Stella Williams, a handsome Indian
girl was arrested in Pendleton for the
thirty fifth timo Wednesday. She
rides in from the reservation and in
variably manages to get tho white
man's fire water, nnd also drunk.
Tho sportsmen of Riddle are making
elaborate preparations for the venison
barbecue and shoot to be held there on
Monday, September 7. . Invitations have
been extended to all gun clubs in Doug
Ins county. A barbecue at noon will
be one of tho features.
Ounliner Courier: We have heard of
no one leaving this section of the conn
try for Europe for the purpose of tak
ing part in the war. It is making no
difference in construction camps of the
railroad, all tho men seeming perfectly
satisfied to remain where they are and
let them fight it out in the old country.
Pendleton East Oregonian: A man
by the name of Otto Hell and who in
variably signs his name as O. Hell,
will leave Pendleton in a few days to
join the troops of the kaiser in the
fight (.erniany is making against the
other European powers. He has been
working tor the -Newport Land & Con
struction company iu the west end of
tno county.
Item in Medl'ord Mail Tribune bear
ing on the question of safety first for
hunters: "T.- K. Daniels has a photo
he is using to prove a red shirt is the
best insurance on a deer hunt. Two
men are wearing red shirts, one a
white one. A deer lies at their feet,
The white shirt in the picture bears a
strong similarity to the deer hide. The
picture is pasted on the show window
and started several arguments this
morning.'
SOMEBODY MUDDLED!
There is here a federal commission
to lenrn what is tho matter with Ore
gon. That is easy work. There is
nothing the matter with Oregon. Ore
gon is all right. Oregonian, August -0,
"The people of Oregon who believe
in the democratic party anil what it
stands for and wliat it has done and is
doing for Oregon and the nntion, will
vote for Chamberlain. " -"The
people of Oregon who are in
different to the empty dinner bucket
will vote for Chamberlain.
"The people of Oregou who believe
iu opening up the Oregon markets to
foreign products lumber, butter,
cheese, eggs, shingles, wool and the
rest will vote for Chamberlain.
"The people of Oregon who are con
tent with prostrated industry, business
stagnation, non-employment of labor,
declining wages, unprofitable invest
ment, will vote for Cnamberlain.
"Tho people of Oregon who have not
yet been convinced, when they inspect
empty pockets and pitched trousers,
that nonpartisanship of the Chamber
lain type is a false pretense, and the
costly inefficiency of the democratic
party a disastrous reality, will vote for
( hamberlaiu. " Oregonian, August lo.
This U Am Cri of h HW . Cm"
FMUntty at "CET34T."
Quit punishing your feet by using toe
eating salves and ointments.
To use knives, files, scissors and ra
zors, slicing and hacking at a corn, only
mnko it grow faster nnd bigger. It
also brings danger of bleeding and
blood poison. The new way, the new
principle never known before in corn
history, is "GETS-IT." It's a liquid
2 drops on a corn does the work. Pain
goes, the corn begins to shrivel and out
it comesl You apply it in two seconds.
Nothing to stick, nothing to hurt, and
it never fuils. Try "GETS-IT" tonight
on corns, calluses, warts or bunions.
"GETS-IT" is sold by druggists
everywhere, 25c a bottle, or sent direct
by E. Lawrence & Co., Ihuago.
WHAT SHALL WE SAY?
David Starr Jordan in Harper's
Weekly.
(The following article was written
by David Starr Jordan, in London, on
July 17, before the acute internntionnl
situation came to a point of war be
tween Austria and Servia. As an in
terpretation of evonts which were to
follow its writing, this article by the
great peace advocnte assumes an ad
ded and unique importance. The Ed
itors.)
What shall we say .of those who
claim thnt the depression of business
la America is due to tariff reduction
and to President Wilson's activity ir
financitl reform!
We shall say that theso people are
very partisan or else very ignorant
of world affairs. To say that the
present administration's "legislative
and executive program has brought
about grave industrial depression and
suffering to business man and wage
worker alike, though perhaps most of
all to the wage worker," is to talk
mischevious nonsense.
This depression extends all over the
world, a load on every form of enter
prise, and the t'nited States apparent
ly suffers from it less than any other
civilized nation. It is the result of
the overstraining of credit. Already
pushed to the utmost, the Bulknn war
furnished the Inst straw which would
break its back.
Ia the Loudon Chronicle of this
morning (July 17) I read that while
the London stock exchange "watch
with gladness the flight of Huerta,
thankful that one long endured source
of suspense has gone, it does not in
suro an immediate and general revival
of business." There have been mo
ments when their fears have vorged
upon panic." .but .Mexico tnougn a
great cause of anxiety has not been
the solo menace brooding over the
markets. Serious troubles and constant
sources of anxiety have sprung up in
ninny directions. . . A gloom has
overspread markets and deepened the
depression there. . . As the bank re
turn clearly shows, there is no great
abundance of credit at this moment in
Lombard street."
The credit of the world is shaken.
The demand for coin is abnormally
great because the nations have wasted
money as they never did before. The
rate of interest is so high as to for
bid enterprise. And this rnte of in
terest is due not to excess of good op
portunities for investment but to dis
trust of the future, and above all to
the inordinate waste of capital and
labor in Europe The waste of labor
shows itself in the enormous standing
armies, millions of men supported nt
public expense, and pnid from half a
cent to five cents a day, when they
ought to be earning on tho average a
dollar. Capital which should be used
for enterprise and for the employment
of lnbor is wasted on armor plate, sus
picion and fear.
Tho actual destruction in the Bal
kan war, appaling as it is, and ruin
ous to all the nations directly con
cerned, is but a drop in the bucket
compared to the waste it has indirectly
caused. Austria, the nearest neighbor
to the Balkans, hns lost her Danube
trade, has spent millions on millions
in mobilization through fear of Russia,
has lost all confidence in herself, and
is virtually a bankrupt nation held to
gether mainly by the fear of something
worse, should she actually dissolve.
And tiie rule of fear, waste and demor
alization in Austria, as in Japan and
Italy, is marked by a rise of political
corruption.
The demoralization of the war
wasted lands has its reflex effect on
other nations. The jingoes of Ger
many uso it as an excuse to pile higher
and higher the military burden borne
unwillingly by Germany's magnificent
industrial organization. France spends
more and more in the throes of her im
possible condition, that of a military
republic. The French banks are over
loaded with bonds of derelict or ex
panding nations, evidences of indebted
ness they can no longer sell. Russia is
borrowing on a grand scale, not to meet
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its own needs, but rather those of its
greedy aristocracy.
The demands of tiie various nations
for money to meet deficits, mainly
caused by military waste for the cur
rent year, rises to upwards of $2,000,
000,000. The only nations which find
that their tax roll meet their expenses,
so far as 1 know, are Denmark, Hoi
lnnd, Switzerland and the United
States, and even these favors of peace
leave their past debts unpaid.
What shall we say of those who trace
our financial depression in America to
a conspiracy of the "money lords" of
New yorkl We shall say that this, too,
is vicious nonsense. This is no matter
of New York alone, powerful as are
its monetary combinations. There is no
possibility of such a world-wide con
spiracy, no advantage in it, no money
in it. The scares, the fears, the pre
parations for war, the waste in sol
diers, in armament, in mobilization, the
withdrawal and hiding of gold, the rise
in the cost of living, due to waste of
labor and capital, all these matters are
of world-wide significance.
The year 1913 was Europe's banner
year of wnste; for a parallel we must
go back a hundred years to the days
cf Napoleon. But in those days there
was no such interlocking of commerce,
of business, of human interests, as pre
vails today. The ruin of one nation
was of little financial consequence to
its neighbors. In our days, they stand
and fall together, and Europe has stood
about all it can of military waste. The
great safeguard against the armies and
navies Europe has gathered for war is
that Europe is not rich enough to use
them, and is too human and humane
to want to use them. The Armaged
don of which some people lightly talk
would make a desert of civilization,
even as the little Balkan war has made
a desert of Macedonia.
The war of armed peace which pre
vails today is not a war between na
tions. It is a war between privilege
and democracy. The upholders of aris
tocracy, of privilege, of oppression, of
armament, of the patriotism which ends
in envy and hate, the upholders of war,
of exploitation, of imperialism, the
wona over, are one and the same. And
we who are bound to them in the alli
ance of common citizenship and com
mon finance, must pay our part in all
their orgies.
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OUT 0- TOURNAMENT
Chicago, Aug. 21. niness forced Mc
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retire today from the golf tournament
in progress at the Midlothian link.
Francis Ouimet made the morning
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