FOTTB THE BATjEM CAPITAL JOURNAt. SALEM. OREGON. MONDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1914. Editorial Page o f The Daily Capital Journal MONDAY OCTOBER 12, 1914 THE DAILY QPilL JOURNAL PUBLISHED BY CAPITAL JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Inc. OHABLE3 H. FISHES EDITOR AND MANAGER PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, 02EOON BUBSCBIPTIONJjSATES: Daily, by Carrier, per fear $5.00 Per month 45c Pnily, by Mnil, per yenr 3.00 Per month 35c Weekly, fly Mail, per year 1.00 Six months 50c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEORAFH REPORT Th Capital Journal carrier boyi are instructed to put the papers on the r iiorch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the ; tiiper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, u this is the only ' tray we can determine whether or not the carriers are following Instructions. ' Phone Main 82. 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. LADD &HBUSH, Bankers Established IS OS Capital $300,000.00 Transact a general banking: business Safety Deposit Boxes 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!. 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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. 4 INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK of Salem, Oregon Buy Your Winter Underwear M mm at Rostein & Greenbaum Children's White Union Suits at 25c each Girls' Winter Weight Union Suits at 50c each Ladies' Nice White Union Suits at 50c each Ladies' Ecru Heavy Union Suits at 50c each Boys' Heavy Fleeced Union Suits at 50c each Men's Heavy Ribbed Union Suits at $1.00 enrh Ladies' Fine Wool Union Suits ....$2.00 and $1.50 Men's Heavy Ribbed Wool Union Suits at . .$1.75 up Children's Heavy Fleeced Vests or Pants at 25c each Ladies' Fleeced Vests or Pants at 25c each Ladies' Wool Vests or Pants at $1.45, $1.25 and $1.00 Men's Heavy Fleeced Underwear at. . . . ; . .45c each Men's Heavy Ribbed Underwear at 50c each Men's Wool Underwear at $1.00 each GOOD FOR 25 VOTES For .... Address This coupon may be exchanged for votes in the con test for a trip to San Francisco in 1915, at the Capital Journal office. Not good after October 17, 1914. 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