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THE BATjEM CAPITAL JOURNAt. SALEM. OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1914.
Editorial Page o f The Daily Capital Journal
MONDAY
OCTOBER 12, 1914
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CHEATING ONESELF.
A young lady working on a paper once said she did not
try to do very good work for her employers, because they
"did not pay much." This doing poor work because it does
not pay much is just what keeps thousands and thousands
of young people from getting on in the world. Small pay
is no excuse for doing half work or slovenly work. In
deed, the pay which one receives should have nothing to do
with the quality of his work. The work should be a mat
ter of conscience. It is a question of character, not of re
muneration. A person has no right to demoralize his own
character by doing slovenly or half-finished work simply
because it doesn't pay much. A conscientious person will
do his work just as well if he receives nothing more than
his board for it. A large part of the best work that has
ever been done in the history of the world has been only
half paid for. x
An employe has something at stake besides his salary.
He has character. There are manhood and womanhood
involved, compared with which salary is nothing. The
way one does his work enters into the very fiber of his
character. It is a matter of conscience and no one can
.vfford to sell himself because his salary is meager.
Besides, if one puts his very best self into every little
thing he does puts his heart and conscience into it, and
tries t-j see how much, and not how little, he can give his
employer, he will not be likely to be underpaid very long,
for he will be advanced. Good work cuts its own channel
:i.nd does its own talking. What matter if you do twenty
five dollars worth of work for five dollars? It is the best
advertisement of your worth you can possibly give. Bad
work, half done work, slip-shod work, even with a good
. salary, would soon ruin you. No, the way to get on in
the world is not to see how little you can give for your sal
'. ,ary, but how much. Make your emlpoyer ashamed of the
. meager salary he gives by the great disproportion between
' what you do and what you get. Character is a very great
, J actor in success, and the personal impression you make
on your employer will certainly tell. If not, it will at
, tract the attention of other employers.
Mr. Fleet is evidently a British partisan and a radical
one at that. Anything that England might do would be
; justifiable in his eyes, and it would seem that he should be
' i,n the firing line with his countrymen instead of pursuing
! ihe less dangerous occupation of waging war with a foun
. lain pen in the security of a neutral land. As to the Jaur
Kil not publishing the full report of the Belgian commit
tee, sent to this country to advertise alleged "German
atrocities," it had been discounted so fully by advance pub
lications in the dispatches that its news value was not
material and it was only handled very briefly in our press
cport, wnich is devoted mainly to carrying live news in
stead oi routine mutters of interest only to a limited num
ber of partisans like Mr. Fleet. It is only sufficient to
i;ny further on this subject that the United States is de
terminod to remain strictly neutral in this great war,
lmt knowledge of this desire should not be taken advan
tage of by Great Britain or any other belligerent to dis
regard the rights of our government, which is in duty
.md honor bound to protect the interests of its citizens on
i;ea and land alike and can permit no interference with
their personal liberties or business affairs legitimately
carried on.
It is just as well to pay no attention whatever to the
tales of atrocities coming from either side of the war
zone. It is possible, even probable, that there arc isolated
cases of atrocities on each and every side, and this not
because either or any nationality is bloodthirsty and wick
ed, but because they are men in every gathering the size
, of any of these armies, who are cruel, wicked and bestial,
and who would stop at no crime in the decalogue. That
these committed atrocities, if the opportunity offered, is
undoubtedly true, but their countrymen are not to blame
for their crimes. No one acquainted with the English,
.'German, Belgian, French or any of the other races en
raged in war will for a moment believe them capable of
tne deeds ascribed to them. There are criminals in every
j army, as there are in every city, and against these alone
;can any such accusations be truthfully placed.
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SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
The British admirality has given out the only estimates
of losses of ships since the breaking out of hostilities. This
gives the total of losses of English vessels as about 84,000
tons, covering 12 ships sunk on the high seas, eight sunk
by mines in the North sea, and 24 fishing craft. On the
other side it shows the German loss of vessels as follows:
102 vessels, tonnage 200,000, detained in English ports;
88 captured with a tonnage of :8,000, and a dozen or
more locked up in the Suez canal with a tonnage of 72,
000. The total German tonnage destroyed or detained is
610,000. The destruction of the warships is part of the
war game, but why should merchant ships be destroyed?
It is also part of the game to capture merchant ships and
to confiscate their cargoes, but to sink or destroy them is
the height of folly. Suppose two men should fall out and
come to blows; would it not be the meanest of crimes for
them to set fire to each other's houses or barns, shoot each
other's stock and chickens, assassinate each other's wives
and children and destroy each other's crops? Such action
would benefit neither, and would not aid in reaching a
satisfactory conclusion of their difficulties. Yet this is
the style and character of that "civilized" warfare that
sinks merchant ships and drops bombs into the homes of
the other fellows.
The Germans have captured Belgium, but they have
not conquered the Belgians. They may drive them out
of their country, but they can never drive the inborn
bravery out of them. The pages of ancient history show
this is impossible. The Belgian has been the rock against
which the waves of war have for countless centuries bro
ken and swept back, and the present generation is show
ing the blood of their ancestors flows unweakened in their
veins. Attilla, the Hun, poured his forces in a great wave
over Europe and foresaw himself the conqueror of the
world, but he dashed his armies in vain against the hardy
Belgian who set the boundaries beyond which he could
not pass. Caesar felt his prowess and was glad to let
him alone, and Napoleon in Belgium found his Waterloo.
Kaiser Wilhelm may be able to upset this long chain of
defeats by the hardy lowlanders, but if so he will break a
heretofore unbroken precedent.
The excellence of the Capital Journal's news service is
again illustrated in the daily reports of the world series
ball games. The :'.)0 edition of this paper gives the full
box score, the game by innings, and running story of the
features by Hal Sheridan, wired direct from the grounds
by Hugh Fullerton and several other of the oldest
sport writers of the country. No paper,. in any city of
Oregon is printing a better telegraphic and cable news
service of the momentous events of the day than are the
people Salem and its territory receiving through the
Daily Capital Journal, and it is due to this fact probably
more than anything else that the regular circulation of
this paper now exceeds :?400 and at times crowds closely
the 4000 mark. And it has only just begun to grow I
While it is claimed the prices generally have not ad
.onced in Europe, this evidently does not apply to the
war price for mayors. Brussels paid the Germans $6,000,
000 for the liberty of her mayor, and it is a safe statement
that there is not a mayor in the United States that wou'.d
brine: that price.
The U raves must have wrung in some of that new
French explosive, "Turpinite," on the Athletics Friday.
They died standing up and remained that way until it
was seven to one, and the game was over. They hat! not
gotten over it Saturday, judging by the results of the
second game.
In front of the Capital Journal bulletin boards Satur
day as one man started to read aloud something about the
fall of Anuverp, a man at the edge of the' crowd blurted
out: "Oh, cut it; what's the score?"
When the war is over and the French peasants get
back on their little farms, now the scene of the "Great
Battle," they and their families can make good wages at
off times by mining for lead and iron.
The city of Brussels paid a large ransom to get its
mayor out of soak to the Germans. The voters should
have tried the recall on him.
THE ROUND-UP
Mrs. Klliilieth A. 1'. Whit,., ii pio
neer, uuoil 7". illi'il HI Newborn, Thins
ilny, Oeliilior X, She mm the lint Ore
linn lender n'"iiil''l t'v On' Wonnm's
Snlinnnl t hhstinn Ti'iiipi'rniii c I'liiuii.
Mis, Klii'.iibi'th ('. 'iimivnlt, n plinieer
of Ih.vi, nuil nuo.l W yours, died nl
Mixes Klvor, ("mry enmity, Kiiu.lny, Oct.
t. Willi her hiisiniiid, "In1 hunted on a
hiiinolonil I" l urry county In I Mill, Hlic
li'iivs n Kim, I1 uriindi'hllilren, mid two
u i iMi I Kiniiililiililri'ii,
(leiiornl I'lnror nml V, t', Knlxhtnn,
slnlo iirchlloet, i ii , t . I tin' iirniiiry
reoenlly eonidotot til Wiisolntri!. They I
I'mii'ii'iivc It inn' nl' tln finest In t luv
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Til.' (lrtuii Aiti it'll 1 1 ii nil ( iilleuo la til
strut n i'Iiiss In .loiirmilion, This should
help On" fniiiiiiiit business. ,
.
,1,'lin Hihnneer illi'il s short time sjn
lit I'l'illl'l illl. Ill' S l'llK(l'l !n linsl-'
iii'm in Albniiy fur JU yours, Ho wns,
nonrlv 70 vonrs old.
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All'iiiiv first lii'luahinl soluml fnlr
'will bo bol.l tM'ibor 11, I" mid 17. i
,lmnrs Vmi'lcri'iiol ilioil nt hi tioim !
in riiulnville, I. inn enmity, Ho'toinbor
'.'7. Ho wiiii hum In Missouri In Kl"
nml 'Hiiio nernss tin- lniiiii In Orounii
in 1 1 'l. Ho look I'lirl In the I ii'luiu
ivnrs of this stnte,
I
Nnfooriu'liors blow tlio snl'e in llio
pnstni'l ieo nl liiikioiill Kridny iiIhM,
tiihlno, I .Ml t' ii - It. but I i'U I ii u tlio
stumps, wlili li won' worth lietwoou -W
un.l :liin.
Tli' onnltnioriy over the silo for the
olovnlor In llri'Kon I lly tliiit hu boon
UiiIiiU on for t'vo yours mid linn twice
I'ooii in the miireuie court, hns boon not
tied mul coiiliii' t for riht of wny
ntriucil.
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I A l.iim county m hool onhlbit will be
one of the foiitnros of the llurrislnirK
I'otnlii Show, the lnt of thin week.
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All'iiiiv hsd n oiwonirs context Inst
w eek, oiiillnu rlntnr.lny nluht. About iVi
All'iiiiv linliiOfi wore meimureil, woiglioil
HUil jllilui'il.
The KoM'borit ('niniueroinl rluli linn
pent roiientii to I'.'il ooiitnieroinl hnilic
nikluit them to liulorie the Ahlnml
Nornml Wchool irnHitinii,
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Work on Albnny'd new foilornl hnlltl
ln In 'Mtfri""ii!Li mi'Mly. nml it In ev
I'fvloil It will be reiiily for iM-cniinmy
noon fter New Yenr'.
lllncklen till been fount mnKiin the
cMII, on the Jnnie Fleotwnc.il rinch.
on Hiimt rivet, llnkof eounty,
OPEN FORUM
Snlem, October , llU.
Kilitor Capital .loiiriinl: 1
An eilitorinl in Thursday 's !ier in
reply to a communication from ine ro
Hnnlinfl the rights of bellinernntn in
Cariliiiix nciitrul hiia, insists that my
urticlo entirely "iiiitiscM the whole meat
of th' ninttor, " ami tnte the meat of ,
the 'natter to be that (ireat Britain hail ;
searrlteil the umiU oi' a llolliiiul ves- 1
tu'l. Inasmuch us mv article wan in !
reily to two eilitorinls anil in the first
editorial no mention was mailo in any
way of mails Ijoitnj searched, but the
statement was made that (Jreut Britain
should remember that the War of
wag over "the ritfht of search." and
should take warning thereby, 1 hardly
think I missed the "nnat of the mat
ter" by quoting international law re
Kiirdin the "riyht of search."
However, since the editor seems to
have shifted his ground from the right
of search to the 'articular question oi
seur-iiiny the mails ami says very con
ridoutly that "iioilhor lOnnlainl nor any
other country will be allowed to swipe
Uncle Hum's ninils under any n-ctonsc
whatever," 1 must "till claim that ouch
language is somewhat intemperate.
Docs The .1011111111 claim that the
sending of contraband of war through
thu mails is any less n violation of neu
trality than the sending of the same by
express- or freight? The quest inn would
seem to answer itself. It should he
remembered that the parcel post is a
part of the mail service, and that sev
eral eastern firms have sent consign
ments of over a ton in weight through
the mail by dividing it up into proper
pnrools. If some dealer in war sup
plies should send a ton or more of con
traband to tlermany by V. M. mails,
does The Journal iiold that Knglaml
would have no right to confiscate same
after it had lelt American territory
Such a contention does not seem a rea
sonaide one, when we remember that
there is not the slightest doubt 11 rent
Hritain would have a perfect right ti'
confiscate sanio if sent by American
expr"s aboard the same ship.
While 1 am not aware that any such
case I. as arisen, yet it is possible such
a c:i:;e may nrise. For that reason it
seems to me that The Journal is some
what too positive ami belligerent in
tone when it says that "no country
will be ii 1 to wed to swipe I'licle Sam's
mni 1.4 under any pi"teuse whatever."
It would aH depend upon whether the
so-called "pretense" was a fair and
legitimate "reason" or not.
However, us 1 remarked in my pre
vious letter, no difficulty hns yet oc
curred in regard to the searching of
Ammicnu vessels, though numbers of
them nave been son relied. Thereloie
it would seem to be the part of wisdom
and the spirit of neutrality to refrain
from bellicose language where no rea
son hits been given for same, to keep
our imaginations from running awuv
with us, iiud to cross bridges when vc
come to them and not before.
A. DA VI KM n.KKT.
I'. R Why did not The .loiirual pub.
lish Ihe statement issued on Thursday
by th llolginn legation to the American
public, giving Belgium's side of the
ense ill regard to the (ionium invnsion.'
It wus published by The .lournal's con
temporaries. Was it because the state
ment was such a terrible indictment of
(iermnuy botore the bar of public opin
ion,' Or was it simply because The
.lournal was " scooped. "
EDITOR 8EE8 THE LIGHT.
(Woodliurii Independent, Hep.)
We are today hnving practlcullv the
samo as prohibitive tariff In go far as
the lending foreign countries are con
cerned. This is the same as the high
est protective tariff wall ever built
around the I'nited Htntcs, for our lin
portnlions have fallen oft so much that
we are compelled to have a war tux in
time of pence here. Vet with nil this
high protection equivalent, with more
markets of the world open to us than
ever before on account of loss competi
tion, It is strange thiit this whole conn
try Is not fairly booming by now. Is
it possible that the limine III I question
is 'liter all more iinpnrtnnt tliun the
tnriff question It would seem so from
Incts and figures, if not from n poli
tical standpoint. It Is to be regretted
Hint Hie tariff is not tnken out of poli
ties nml placed in the hands of n com -mission,
so thnt we eoiild devote more
time and attention to olhor topics thul
might be more importnnt.
Dinnertime
mi.
When dinner is rendy my worries de
part, all gone are Ihe sorrows thnt bur
dened my heart; the scent of the vie
tunls brings calmness nml ponce, the
scent of the enb
buge, the onions,
the grease; my
thoughts nre nl'
turnips nml early
f mie pons, of pie
and id' pudding,
spaghetti nml
choose. I kick up
my heels ami I
stnnd on my head,
for I am an opti
mist when I am
fed. The woes of
my life are a pes
tiient lot; they
keen lin excited
ami worried and hot; the bills I must
pnv with no money In sight, the four
that my health Isn't perfectly right, the
dren I of results If I chance to full sick,
the cool I must buy nml thov won't
ell on tick, the high cot of living
thnt 'a keeping me broke, the shriveling
Income that goo up in smoke sorb
worries are milking me m.ich like a
wreck, but all are forgt.tton when din
ner's na diH'k! The iliiiner gong calls
to the succulent roast, the scalloped po
(ntoes, the ten mid the toast. The din
ner gong sounds and I've no time to
wa!e, 1 Imp over tnbles and chairs In
my hate. Ooue, gone Ihe foreboding,
the hro,?ing, the dread, (or I am an
optimist when t am fed.
Wmnr You are '
hMMtrKT not cnnkA 5n
I i VS w ar
the wheel of
time unless you
save part of what
ou earn"
1
Never mind how little you can save,
there is no obligation on your part in
seeking our advice we are here to serve
you.
We will be glad te give you the same
help we have tendered others who have
succeeded in building Bank accounts
that are a credit and a comfort to their
owners. We have seen many small
steady savings grow into large sums;
why not yours? Start with a dollar.
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