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F07S THE DAILY CAPITAL JOUSNAL, SALEM. OBEnoV THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 17, 1914. Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 1 i i ' i ; 1 4 niE DAILY (tVt?i'!L JOURNAL PUBLISHED Bt CAPITAL JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Inc. THE CURSE OF ARMAMENTS. OEIARLE3 B. TISHES EDITOR AND MANAOEB PUBLISHED EVEET EVENING EXCEPT SUNDA7, SALEM. OREGON Jmily, by Currier, rer yir lnily. by Mnil. pT war . Weekly, fiv Mnil. pit year BCBSCBIPTION BATES: fS.riO IVr month 4c , .l.tM IVr month 35c , I.ikI Six months 50c FILL LEADED WIKE TELEGBAPH REPORT Tha Capital Journal carrier boyi are Instructed to pat the papers 60 the porcn. II luv carrier qbci hoi uu iuu, uuski juu, u ucich gobvuia uv paper to 70a on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, u this la the only way we can determine whether or not the carrier are following Instruction. Phone Main 82. OREGONIAN' AND THE CHINA NEST EGG. One of the small but pathetic things that everyone is familiar with is the actions of a good motherly hen when the notion strikes her she should get busy to prevent race j uicide of the gallinaceous family. Her intense feeling and self importance; her indomitable determination and feminine persistency; her self-assertive clucK and swell feathered and cross-grained importance are familiar to everyone. It is with deep regret we note these familiar symp toms evidenced on the editorial page of the Oregonian. We dislike to comment on it, or to call attention to the evident fact that the Oregonian editor, or one of him, has concluded he has laid enough eggs to entitle him to do an incubating stunt. He wants to sit or set, whichever it is, and the desire has reached such an acute stage that, like the motherly-inclined hen, he isn't particular what he tackles to incubate. This is shown by the avidity with which he tackles the china egg just as dues his feathered prototype when the incubating fever strikes her. Some caustic comment might be made as to this idio syncrasy on thp editor's part, but far be it from us to treat it lightly. Only profound regret moves us as we think of our fellow editor laboring under the fever of sed entary motherhood and nestling under his motherly wings a solitary china nest egg. It is too pathetic for laughter, too sentimental for ribald comment and yet not serious enough for tears. If there wis any possibility for his labors resulting in anything, his case would not be so bad: but to know that lie is wasting the warmth of his bosom and his time in a futile attempt to hatch something from a china nest egg, borders on the pitiful and moves one to deep Dut utterly useless regret. Thcre is only one remedy let him sit it out, or put him in solitary confinement under a box. ' PROSPECTIVE RAILROADS FOR SALEM. Last week, in Portland, President Sproule, of the S. P. Co., told the reporters that the first work that would be done in Oregon by his company, when the financial clouds I Jew over, would be to complete the Portland-Salem elec tric line, paralleling their steam road most of the way. This was an encouraging statement, showing that the com mercial importance of the Capital City is recognized by the railroad heads, and that it will before long be the ob jective point of a new line up the valley. : Another interesting item of the same character was the progress of the Valley & Siletz railroad, noted last week in the Capital Journal's news columns. Sometime ago it was reported the Oregon Electric had purchased the road from Independence to Airlie, but this proved a mistake, the S. P. beating the 0. E. to it. The latter corn )any, which is presumed to be behind the Valley & Siletz, has the right to use the road from Independence to Airlie, )ut has completed a survey for a line of its own between those points. This survey leaves Monmouth to the east. The road is completed from Airlie to about two miles above Hoskins in the valley of the Rig Luckiamute and the grading is completed to about nine miles beyond that point, and nearly to the Spaulding logging camps. It is rumored this road is to be extended to the coast and down it to San Francisco. On the right-of-way about .".00 men are at work, and bridge work and grading employs about 200 more. The Luckiamute valley is one of the richest in the state and is naturally tributary to Salem, and it is believed the Valley & Siletz will cross the river at or near Independence and come into Salem over the Oregon Elec tric tracks. A big sawmill project is supposed to be closely connected with the building of this road, and there might le an opportunity in this case for ( Commercial Club to do some good work in behalf of thecity. We have read manv times of men rVinr AvWon tn drink, but somehow or other so far as our observations ro most men are broke to lead in that direction and no chiving is required. That German army that got caught inside the dykes at Antwerp might be classed as a military island. It was a body ot troops entirely surrounded by water. LADD & BUSH, 'Bankers! Established 18G3 Capital - - - - - $300,000.00 Transact a general banking business Safety Deposit Boxes SAYINGS DEPARTMENT We are a young nation, a youth in years and a Methu selah in experience and knowledge. It therefore devolves upon us as occupying today a foremost place among the nations of earth to put our leadership in something bet ter and more lasting than mere material providence. To be the world's granary, whence men may obtain their bread and meat in return for their hard-earned coin, is a distinction ; to be the world's exemplar of liberty, where men may find their principles of freedom fairly well carried out, is a much higher distinction ; to be the vouchsafe r of peace among the nations would be bettei and nobler still. If we have reached the age of reason, wnat right have sword and bullet in the debate? If we have laid aside the swaddling clothes of savagery, why should we hesitate tc put on the plain coat of civilization? The man who dresses in mail must expect to be assailed ; the nation which is con stantly increasing its military and naval forces must have its eye on something in the gaining of which ihese forcef will be necessary; and after all, even if this be true, what use have we for great standing armies and floating forts? We have twice shown that a just cause never lacks supporters in this land, and the world over it is much the same. Reason and learning, religion and liberty, mean abso lutely nothing, if we must be guarded by guns and sentriec with swords. We should have ascended sufficiently by this time tc realize the wrong of war. Jonathan Bourne, jr., one-time senator from Oregon sent a check to the republican state campaign committet tor io(NJ a tew clays ago. In connection with the incident there are a few things worthy of special mention, vouchee tor by those who know a little about the past in Oreeor politics. In the first place, it illustrates the unreliability o; the Oregonian as a source of political information since it has been telling its readers for two years or more that Bourne and Chamberlain had formed a kind of senatorial tri'st, as it were. Bourne was to help Chamberlain this time, and in turn the latter was to assist Bourne to returr to the senate at the expiration of Lane's term a deal thai the !oOO check seems effectually to dispose of. Anothei phase of the donation is its evidence on the part of Mr. Bourne that he knows and appreciates the ef forts of his friends. Two years ago, when Bourne ran &i an independent against Ben Selling, the regular republi can candidate for senator, it was the men who brought Booth out this year who backed his candidacy, and a cir cular letter on the Booth-Kelly Lumber Company's sta tionery, signed by the manager, went out to all the republi can voters of Lane county urging them to vote for Bourne. Selling was defeated by this species of activity and Mr. Bourne reciprocates by sending his friends of two yean ago a check for $500. It was a substantial acknowledge ment of services rendered on his part, and we join with Oregonian in commending him for the possession of the virtue of gratitude. Possibly Ben Selling and the regulai republicans of two years ago may have a little hard feel ing over the fact that the men who were responsible foi their defeat are in the saddle, and that the organizatior is now completely in the hands of the Bourne men, but they will have to swallow their medicine like good little, fellows because the Oregonian tells them they must. The tremendous cost of the present war recalls our own terrible struggle. Government statistics show it cost $6,180,029,900. This sum would have purchased every negro slave in the United States at a price of $100,000 each and left over money enough to open the Columbia. There were enlisted on the federal side during the wai 2,859,lo2 men. Among these there were as nearly as coulc 200 Irishmen. The figures of the Germans enlisted are not at hand, but they were greater than all those named combined. A Rustam Bev.- Turkish ambassador at. VnVii got hot in the collar when Turkish atrocities were men tioned and made a few remarks about civilized and "Chris tian" warfare that were calculated to sizzle like a hot poker plunged in a tub of water. When he got through me enemies guns, ineir mourns, were pretty well spiked. The dispatches yesterday announcing the signing of the peace treaties by England, China and other nations, said the signature of Kaufu Shah looked like "the picture of a Chinese bungalow." Anyway, it did not look as badly distorted as the map of Europe is liable to appear after the war is over, and it did not cost anything. English business houses have declared a trade war on Germany. This is really a serious matter to Germany, for while not so costly in the way of lives it is a hard jolt financially, and after all that is the yard stick with which most human affaire are measured these days. A contemporary calls attention to the fact that Japan went to war with China in 1894, with Russia in 1904 and with Germany in 1914. Maybe the number four has the same hoodoo characteristics in Oriental countries that 13 has in the Occident. i Colonel Roosevelt says the administration has done i nothing for labor. Neither has it done anything for the i steel trust and the armament gang. It might be added ; that it has done nothing to labor, either. i I It is announced that Germany in order to cheapen food I stuffs for its people has removed the tariff from them This should make the Chinese poultry chirk up. THE ROUND-UP A Cottage Grove pear tree is reported ft in full titrullll itroitalilv fouled by the long dry spell ami thought the spring rains hud started. I I According to the fire chief of that city, six of the Medford churches are firetraps. The socialists of t'latsop county have placed a full county ticket in t tie field besides naming candidates for the legis lature. For the latter office, to whiih the county is entitled to two members, the candidates are both women. Parents in some of the Portland school districts are making Strang ob jections to the order of the school di rectors that children must be vaccinated or stay away from school. Portland qmst soon sell some )O,000 north of bonds, and on account of con ditions due to the war, it is reared the bonds will not bring par. Staff writers and photographers have reached Ashland and will write and picture that charming town as a water ing place, for tourists as well as loco motives. It will be exploited in the magazines. The recall election in Columbia coun ty has now reached the courts in the shape of an injunction against the coun ty cleric and sheriff. The county ha been in turmoil ever since the voting of bonds for the Columbia Highway, over the locating of that road. Th-.- trouble with. the road is that it cannot be com pleted over several different routes. Mrs. Eliza A. Wortman, mother of H. C. Wortman. of the firm of Wortman & King, of 1'ortland, died Tuesday at her home in McMinnville. She was S4 years old and a pioneer of 1S.12, The eighth annual Clackamas comiM fair opened nt Cauhy Wednesday. There was much enthusiasm and cer tainly nothing "dry" about it The Tillamook county fair opened Tuesday with a splendid array of ex hibits. The two great fixtures are the milk tests and the contest for the best cheese. Registration for the first two days iit U. A. I', has broken all records. X V. of I), registration shows about 300: n decided gain over last yea?. w "Is Sheridan progressive.'-' asks the un. Ten births in four weeks is of fered as evidence of substantial prog ress. Regular train service was begun Monday on the new municipal railroad between lliants Pass and Wilderville. There are two trains daily each wav. The Oulliis Woman's club will con duct a tag day October 3 for the bene fit of the public library. Two years igo a similar project netted over 300. The Record says that Marslifield 's greatest need is more dwelling houses. "One hundred modern residem-es, av eraging from four to seven rooms, is Marslifield 's great need today," says the Record. The demand for homes is said to be unprecedented. w Committees from all cities in Coos county met at Coquille to agree on a man to represent tile county nt the San Francisco exposition. The county court will be asked to appropriate M000 this year and the same amount ;n 1915 to help finance the nn.4 p. bibit September September, the delight, entrancing, beguiling, is with ..a 4 .ill 1 t 1 V . ' luuinm. oepiemoer me pleasant, or generous fame, is answering "Pres ent! " when eatled is her name. Sep tember's the giiei don for all we have borne, the heat and the bur den that made our hearts mourn. She pays for the grill ing we got in July"; she says. "I am willing your teardrops to 'dry; come rest on by bofom, and if you have fears. Ill sea that lA(,t 'em. my own stricken dears! " She pays for the glaring of midsummer skies, the sweating, the swearing, the beetles and flies; the pains and the rigors of long August days, the fleas and the chiggers ah, nobly she jays! Her breezes caressing already have cheered; no hot winds distressing re scorehiiijr bit beard; her nights eoine a-creeping from some cooler clime, and man, in his sleeping, makes up for lost time. The meadows are golden, the heavens are blue, th year is unfoldin' its blessings to you. You cease to remember the troubles you've known, since gentle cT-i-irmut-r cumes into ner own ia . t Ma Put your Want Ad in todav telling just what sort of a man you want and what work is to W done, and how mnck yon will pay. and you will have 'a great variety of answers to choose from. It may be more blessed to give than to receive, but most of us are willing to let the other fellow have the bless ing. I i Get Ready for School We sell everything in clothing that you will ned for your children when school takes uo next day morning, and we sell cheaper than you can T' elsewhere. See our stock of Coats, Raincoats, Under., Stockings, Dresses and Suits. Buy here and sa money. ae Huie Wing Sang Co, 323 N. COMMERCIAL ST. SALEM, OREGON Isebool. ' "How much interest Jo I tl"-i TALKS ON THBIFT. , ed Annie tllobert, a 12 ye.r old " 1B the seyenth grade, as she handed ii t. : nickels and 14 pennies-aaJ-W4k Early Lessons In Thrift. "?5am.l,t0r,e,',,h,lrt "The lessons of thrift and econ- ltae J'" omy are a capital to the children ! ar it i ntn W g' U of poor paren s."-Thirv j ? T-e P'V Ult0 8 h' bank m ThoL wlo object to school savings ce",s "lore th - h banks, it is safe to say, have not looked vu. rinm f r. . i . One objection ra.sed sometimes s Unk hat received the approv" that poor ch.ldren are uiort.tied by the lK1,a y, v rcpYrUteifaT. smalluess ot heir savings as compared s,nooUi thc P( J with those ot the children of the .w ell- ,,, at ,hJ writi7 "'the rn'S llt;ll'WP,1,t' b.eeauw Miioo!. in that citv havs i IZ it is the children of the poor wno are 0ink the largest patrons of the school banks. : The- work of in!itMdon j, . Kvery individual has some hard of .,. K SwX ,,.,;,,, N k knock, coming to him ... the course of 8ute oanU, !lIld vice-president of tfa his I f. The sooner he cl d learns a,n , bauk Jt.,tiu... Amcrino Brf. to me money the better will be his Prs a,0,iatioll( for IIlinoi hi(h chances tor success w.icn he begins to ; gauization is eii.-ouruii)S The in. work tor a hung. The youuger he tiou oV tht, s,ho()1 learns the lesson ot thrift, the better : throughout the country, ami Mr.'. i ."'A i .i m- .i. , . . "i i" receipt of applications from 11 Jn Duluth, Minn, the school savings additional schools which desire t i system is a success. One of the banks rtM i,auks thi8 iM placed in the hands of each pupil a T. u m.kGHEGOB. booklet, entitled, "How Fortunes He-; . gin and How They Grow." It is a text-' tn hook on thrift, and undoubtedly it will j inspire the ambitions of many boys and ; CALIFORNIA BARLEY CP. girls in a way that will make tor their1 lasting good. ! T.os Augclcs, Cal., Sept. 17.-J Last spring the first public school i o. K. Keese, owner of a 3M t sayings bank in llmago opened at the;. ram., enr Hnnford, ii in Wicker lark school with a hundred de- Los Angeles today. I I,0'itorf- I "Three weeks 'ago," Rt At the start of banking hours 8:14 ' said, "barlev sold for 75 centa to 9 a. m. and 3:30 to 4:30 p. m. a 0g 87'., "cents is offmM score of youngsters stood in line in or- bv European buvcrs. They in der to deposit their marble and candy aiso after our horses and mule). allowance in the care of their fellow Ranchers in niv district Mini t "'IJ! . 1 that the war in Europe m Thirteen-year-old Frank Koraleski, abundant prosperity forth! son of the county assessor, who had American farmer. This pn been apiointed cashier, was kept busy. peritv alrcadv is reflected ii taking tue pennies, nickels anil dimes general agricultural activity." I handed to him by the boys and girls of t the seventh and eighth 'grades of the No. 9021." REPORT OP THE CONDITION OF The I'nited States National Bank, at Snlem, in the iState of Oregoa, at the eld of business, Sept. 12th, 1914: KKSOl'KCES. DolhA Loans and Discounts $ 574,1113 Overdrafts, secured and unsecured t 4,4fl7K 1. S. Bonds to secure circulation J1,W Other securities to secure circulation No 1'. S. Bonds to secure l S. Deposits, none; to secure Postal (Savings none Jioe Other Bonds to secure I. S. Deposits, none: to secure Postal Savings, $18,250.00 ....! 1S,8CJ C. S. Bonds on hand None. Premiums on I. S. Bonds J,(",,ll Bonds, Securities, etc. (other than Stocks) 414,71 Stock in Federal Reserve Bank, none; all other stocks, none Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures Other Real Estate owned Due from National Banks (not reserve agents) m' Due from State and Private Banks and Bankers, Trust Companies, and Savings -. Due from approved Reserve Agents and Central Reserve Cities, 044,247 .01; in other Reserve Cities, :tn,8t3.51 '1llZ Checks and other Cash Items ........ JJ Exchanges for Clearing House JCj,'- Notes of other National Banks a Fractional Paper Currency, Nickels, and-Cents ' Lawful Money Reserve in Bank, viz: ..r-sS Specie ! 144.;78.33 IW' l-egnl-tender Notes '. None. Redemption Fund with U. S. Treasurer (3 per ceut of circulation).. ' Due from 1'. S. Treasurer -JJ t , i ' ' tl 57l tf Total Wtirt. LIABILITIES .n Capital Stock paid in lW'oo( Surplus Fund .' ft.31tS I'udhided Profit., less Expenses and Taxes paid -oW Reserved for Taxes , gsiW National Bank Nctes outstanding u. State Bak Notes outstanding anK Due to other National Barrtts jssiS Due to State and Private Banks and Bankers ,jBft Due to Trust Companies and Savings Banks Due to Approved Reserve Agents in Central Reserve Cities, none; in other Reserve Cities, none Dividends unpaid J0&3- Individual Deposits aubjeet to Check ' 15,1m Demand Certificates of Deposit jT,r"8 Time Certificates of Deposit parable within 30 days Time Certificates of Deposit pavnble after 30 days or after notice 01 j 30 daya or longer ." :tf Certified Checks 1,97" Cashier's Checks outstanding ot' L'nited States Deposits S.6I7J1 Postal Savings Deposits 'j, ' 1". S. Bonds borrowed without furnishing collateral security for stl, V. S. Bonds borrowed for which collateral security was furnl 'os Other Bonds borrowed without furnishing collateral security for Other Bonds borrowed for which collateral security was furnifca.. Notes and Bills rediseounted Nt Bills payable, including obligations representing money borroc Liabilities other than those stated above I -"TU I1.4SJ- Total State of Oregon, County of Marion,' is. ' ' , ,.nlv ' I. E. V. Hazard. Cashier of the above-named bank, do "VTehcf the above statement is true to the best of my kn01"'"I"zXSJ'' Subscribed and sworn to before me thi J 7th ppT NotV CORRECT Attest: JE . .T. P. KOOEBS, D. W. EYRE. l S. PAGE, Directors.