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Newspaper Page TextFOOT THE SALEM CAPIT L .TOTTRVST WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 19H. Editorial Page of The Daily Capital Journal WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 21, 1914 TIIOAILY MmL JOURNAI PUBLISHED BI " CAPITAL JOURNAL PRINTING CO., Inc. CHASLE3 H. FISHES EDITOR AND MANAGES (PUBLISHED EVEBY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON SUBSCRIPTION BATES: Daily, by Carrier, per year $5.00 Per month., Daily, by Mail, per yenr 3.00 Per month.. Weekly, cy Mail, per year 1.00 Six months. .4ft ,.36c .50c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT The Capital Journal carrier boya are Instructed to put the paperi on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, missel yon, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only war we can determine whether or not the carriers are following Instructions, yhone Main 82. THE REAL FOES. The desperate efforts of the Germans to gain the coast of the North sea and from there strike England shows the real feeling lying back of the great war. As German newspapers come through and German thought is understood, it is amazing to find how intense is the German hatred of England. It is equalled only by the English hatred of Germany. One of the most remarkable features of the present conflict is the animosity aroused in the breasts of the Ger man people against the British nation. Germany's leaders in philosophy and science, Rudolf Eucken and Ernst Haeckel, declare that "the whole Ger man world of letters is today filled with deep indignation and strong moral wrath at the present behavior of Eng land in extending the war into a world war." The great German dramatist, Gerhart Hauptmann, whose plays have profoundly moved peoples of all lands, asserts that Germany has and has had no hatred agaist France or Russia, and that war was forced upon Germany by England. "Who was it," he asks, "that did conspire to bring about this war? Who even whistled for the Mon golian, for the Jap, that he should come to bite viciously and in cowardly wise at Europe's heels? It is with great pain and bitterness that I pronounce the word 'England'." Everywhere throughout Germany, among her citizens, in her army, the rising indignation over England's par ticipation in the war has fanned Germany's smouldering rivalry of Great Britain into a hot blast of consuming hatred. The German troops made hurculean efforts to cut off, capture and annihilate the British army in France, and it was only by the most desperate efforts that the British army escaped. The individual soldiers in the German army feel little animosity toward the French or the Russian soldiers, ap parently, but they eagerly desire to meet and to crush in the field their deeply hated foe, the English. Who knows but that the real deadly conflict and car nage are yet to begin, and that England is to be the real battlefield of the war? "THE SURVIVAL OF THE UNFIT." A dozen years or so ago David Starr Jordan wrote a monograph, "The Blood of the Nations," "A Study of the Decay of the Nations Through the Survival of the Unfit." The author takes the position that in every war it is the strongest and most virile who enter the armies, and if the war is long and severe, the fit are followed by those less fit, and these as necessity demands, by the still more unfit, until those left at home in case of a war to a finish are the physically deficient and incapable. It is from these sires, from whom the stronger have been eliminated, the race must be continued. That the race must deteriorate under such a system is undeniable. It would seem from this that it is not high living and idleness that causes the race to deteriorate, but the destruction of the strong and virile by their selection to fight their countries' battles. The evidence of this condition is before us, where the warring nations are calling first to their colors the very best of each nation's young blood, followed by the second grade, and these by the third, and so on until those abso lutely unable to fight will be left" if the war is continued long enough. The dispatches Tuesday gave the total kill ed during the war as about 100,000 and the wounded as three times that, and this does not include the deaths from .sickness which will make a larger and still larger pro portion of the total death list as exposure and hard living get in their work. The very flower of every one of the warring nations is being sacrificed and the physical stand ing of the nation in the future is bound to be lowered thereby. What is the use of kicking about that war tax bill, which, after all, is but the collecting of the running ex penses of the government from other sources than those it used to be gathered from. The war tax on Antwerp was placed by the Germans at $100,000,000, which is only $7, 000,000 leas than that levied on the whole United States. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1SG3 Capital $300,000.00 Transact a general banking; business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT The outpouring of the people last night to see and hear ATTACKING THE Senator Chamberlain was a wonderful tribute to the per- ADCmW WST17M sonality of the man. In every town in Oregon where he UnEuUn MM till speaks the crowds are limited only by the capacity of the hall, and the people go away, after hearing the senator's! ..ZJtu'uL report of his work in congress, stauncher supporters than I pudiate . ,-atement one. They intend ever of the man who for nearly twenty years has enjoyed JffiS Zm their trust and confidence. Dunng all this long term of put the knife i nto each and nil who nilhhf RPrvipp fJunro-o PhsimVioriniri Viae navav kpcm oom-ic. declare for Statement One. ed, even by his strongest political opponents and he has few personal enemies of acquiring a dollar dishonestly or being concerned in any crooked graft at the expense of the people. He is still a poor man, dependent on his salary for a living, but his reward is of vastly greater value than riches, measured by the esteem in which he is held by his tellow citizens. Outside their usefulness as scouts in discovering the position ana strengtn oi tne enemy, tne aeroplane and the Zeppelin are apparently of little use in war. As ma chines for attack they have proved failures of the worst kind. A few bombs dropped, killing a dozen or so women and children and wrecking a few buildings, is the sum total ot their warlike achievements. One shot from one of the kaiser's big siege guns would do more actual damage than all the airships have done during the whole war. The Canadian proposal that the new world unite in a guaranty of peace sounds real sweet, but then it should not be overlooked that in Europe a few months ago the principal occupation of the kings and queens was hugging and kissing each other at family weddings. One cannot guarantee peace even in the best regulated of families. The Portland city election ballot is : inches long and about ten or twelve inches wide. It is said to resemble an old-fashioned roller towel, but whether the resemblance is to a fresh towel just hung up and unused, or one some time after the dinner bell has been rung, is not stated. In the Seattle market report yesterday, fresh ranch eggs were quoted at 4852c, and Orientals at 18c. The dreaded China egg is not proving much of a rival to the product of the old, reliable American hen. Senator Reed is mixing in the Missouri campaign and since his eyes are turned to the west, his half brother, so far as name is concerned, Reed Smoot, had better keep his eyes on the Mormon toga. The war has been used as an excuse for nearly every thing, and now the weather bureau says it can no longer make week-end predictions because the war has shut off its sources of weather knowledge. Those Canadians who are enlisting for thirty days service in the European war are not taking very serious chances. Their term of enlistment would expire before they reached the other side. Senator Sherman, of Illinois, now knows how his op ponent felt when Theodore turned his oratorical guns loose on him two years ago. Eggs are getting so scarce and high in Portland that even the Oregonian editor may soon eat Chinese hen fruit or go without it for breakfast. Politeness THE ROUND-UP 8t;idenls nl tlie linker liih school I kicked nil audit from my porch, but liave iiiiieeil unanimously to cut out did it o nolitelv. lie handed me n ten- all i'Iiiks rivalry lis it Involve ilestruc- ,.,., torch, mid unit! I acted rinhtlv. tion of property and enm'tideis bitter With bows and becks and wreathed feeluiuH. 1 I The wind Saturday nilit reached n velocity of "fi miles nu hour nt ttie mouth of the Columbia, and there wan an oxceedinuly rinicji bur. The Northern Pacific, the bi stcnin rdi'ip hiiildintf at I'hiladelphia and to be placed on the run from Klnvel to Hun Krniiclscu, was launched Saturday at the ( ramp shipyard. She will have IK" commoilntioiiM for 7i- pnioieniiors mid a crew of 2IUI, She in feet limit, IW feet heam, Ini five ileckH and in driven by three propellers. f" 1 -' "1 i v r mil i 1 cm all working well together. I Handed him some forty styles of al liKator leather, and he felt hon ored when he hit the walk and roll ed upon it, and KlitllflTll up his peddlinK kit, and went sway, don Konc it, And thus a smile will take the Minn from eaeh unplcniiiit action; instead of iillluitiir In, lit, il,.. .. '.., !..! ..... election iN, i(,u. i, , , . Tillamook hold a special ' " ",, r. ' "", ; fne-you-ll make a new one hourly, if "!'": !I ,"f r"1, 1 "b7 ' "' " '' "No." ibrn P ly o t he KIM. voter, ot the cty went to ,,,, l)urlVi jt junt as e-v, when ' " Kuv eniuos 'round, your home to bor- ", ," ;r to Kf'ot him with a tvviiiMiu eve, I'oitliiinl m olliciul Imllol in .l.i indies ami answer, "To my sorrow, old Dob and resembles an old-fashioned bin has a festered eur, and also vnller mile,' towel. Ijnud'Ts, and he has symptoms, too, I j fear ol ehiekenpoj and planders. Twould (wis County shipped, Monday, 2U please me to accommodate, and let von limes of fruits, grains and grasses to have mv thinner, ( ,e were fit to pull Sun I'lanciscii for exhibit nt the expo- his fre'iuht just nsk tne sometliiiiH , . , ;hir,.,.r." And tlieu he'll leave you 'feel inn "nd, and av yon are a iliindv; A women s auxiliary to the Mamath I know he'd help me if he could " he'll Kails Chamber of Commerce is the hit- tell his wife, Miisndv. ' est Inn to be put forward by that - "1 ornanirntion. , rnM. iih w f 'jftN , I ' "! N"-lir ferrt. ( JJr I K UTt. The Sisters correspondent of the' 1 Item! Hiilletiu writes: "Those who be Th houithold htlperi your fore the fair in spcukiiiK of it would wift nMf ean J,, foud quick- i,ln il nu utir l.'ial,.' ii..ii ..I. .ml, . ... it as 'Our Fair' and ninn what tliey will ,a;e'Z,:!;";inr,',r'' Jnal Want tin next year. 1 Astoria lluduet: Astoria has the city that thillaa has ever hail anil Inline famine. Hundreds of people are money could not be better expended seeking Humes and apartments. Not tlmii in its maintenance. " a desirable business location in the: city is available, Mr. Iliiilder, nppor-1 Tli" m (Irainle Observer iirnes the Utility is knociilnn nt your dtior. If iidoption of new Ideas resi.liiiK the yen love your city answer the call. I'm, mi enmity fair. The Observer siiii " I nests the elimination of the "bmknnio .overs of baud music nt Pallas are rouuht stuff," leaving; that to towns workiiiK out a plan for the supmrt of whie'i tan put It uu on I rnud stale, the Dallas I laud by a city tax. The ami the workinn up of "raeinu and Iteniirer armies that llie hand is "one other nttractions in the .v ,n' l.iuh. of the lnt mediums of advertising clnss entertainment." This was the iiroelnmntlon issued bv the l'ortlund Oreouinn four years ago, when an attempt was made, through the assembly, to restore the convention and destroy the Oregon system. As the Oregonian announced, it was "war to the knife and knife to the hilt" against popular government. Oregon was loudly and persistently knocked as the "fool of the family'' of states for haviag thrown off control by political horses by the Oregoaiiin. t was described as a frenk state, be cause, the rank ami file had a say in the aaming of candidates and the mnk ing of laws. Bepenteil rebuffs and consecutive de feats have altered the method of nt tack, but not the intent of the t.ttack r. The sumo forces that four ycnr since openly sought the undoing of pop ular government, still seek it. The clandestine attack has replaced the open attack the stub in the buck, the fron tal svvngger. This opposition to the direct primnrv, this wish to "modify it," as Dr. Wi thycombe puts it, comes from the cho sen few the "Lord's nnnointed" who believe they should be permitted to select the public officers and make the laws for the state of Oregon. For years, under the leadership of the l'ort lund Oregonian and its corporation partners, tliey had been permitted to do this. But the Oregon system, with its direct primary and its initiative and referendum, cut out their prerogatives, took away the scepter and overturned the thrones. Captained by the Oregnnlnn, these self-appointed guardians of the people and self-nnointed rulers uf tne com monwealth, four years ago named a complete slutc of tifficinls in their "as sembly." Among the orators who spoke in the assembly anil for the nssemblv was .Inmes Withyeomhe. Among the candidates seeking assembly nomination was James Withyeomhe. The patriarchs of the assemblr only await return to power to sink the "knife to the hilt " in the direct pr, mary ami the Oregon system. Financed by big business, their ticket led on the one hand by the pious partner nl" the Weyerlmuscrs mid the Southern l'acific. whose record us a rearttnnnry Is wlln out a progressive blemish, mid on the other hand by nil assembly fnvorite who openly expresses n desire to doctor the primary as he formerly doctored horses, with the painted Jezebel of journalism shrilly shrieking the war cry, with assembly managers and ns sembly orators, jupccss at . thn polls means nothing more nor less than a re: storntion of the assembly mid n return of the spoilsmen to power. The primary was n much-needed and lnng-deferreil reform. No one claims that the best men will always no select ed. Milt the judgment of all trie pc pie is nt least eipinl to the judgment of a few bosses and healers.' The op position to it is sordid sad selfish, the sordidncss of bundle and graft, the sel fishness of favoritism anil persona, vanity. Hut the attack upon the primary is not confined to the control of the re publican candidates. It Includes also a measure upon the ballot to restore the convention, fathered bv David M. Dunn, drawn by Attorney V. I). Fen tun of the Southern Pacific, both of whom were prominent in the assemble numbered on the ballot as ,15-1 and Mil. This is using the Initiative to kill the direct primnry and restore the political machine. The direct primary needs neither doc tors nor horse doctors. It m emanci pated the people nnd thev Intend to stay emancipated. CHAPLAIN STUBBS DESERTS REPUBLICANS (Tacotna Daily Tribune) In a letter, uuiipie and must unusual in the stress and strain of a political campaign, Chnpbiin It. N. Htulibs, writes to Charles Drury, democratic candidate for congress from the third district, de clares that he. will cast his ballot for the democratic candidate, to strengthen the ti ii t it) in 1 administration, and vindi cate President Wilson in his nntlrliiff endeavor for peace. Chaplain Hluldis declares he is not a democrat. For SI years he has voted the republican ticket. The letter in full, follows: Tiicnma, Oct. 1.1, I. Mr. Charles Drury Dear Sir: Not only for what our president, Honorable Woodrow Wilson, tins done, ami is do ing, but fur what he is, and what he is entitled to from us citir.ens of the I'lincu runes, i nun myseir power fully convicted, of (tod I believe, to do nil thai lies in my power to insure for him, and thus Indirectly, for his pence policy, the solid hacking ami cooper ation of congress, Itellcving in your Integrity, your patriotism, and your democratic iovaltv, and trusting that your election will til strength to the administration forces in this crucial hour, nnd that your voice and vol pi will vindicate the wide spread convict Ions, and demand of your fellow cltlf.ens for the support of President Wilson's peace polity, 1 propose to labor and vote for your elect loa to congress, In this, the 02nd year of my llfo, de ploring the existence of the' war now prevalent in Kiiropcs In this, the Hist year of my eitisenship In these I'lilted States, and realizing the sacredncss of that relationship, and as a minister of the "Prince of Peace, the Iord Jesus Christ," 1 ask the earnest lovers of peace to give our beloved president the fullest of their votes in this exigency. I am not a democrat. ( have but oiie motive, vis., to honor Ood and to hasten the world-wide triumphs of peace and righteousness. Kepectfullv, CHAPLAIN It, 8. HTl lillS. The Dental Trust, with all its powerful po litical organization, is moving heaven and earth to defeat the dental reform bill. In every town and city members of the Trust are out working against the bill. The Medical Trust is helping the Dental Trust by forcing nurses and druggists, un der threat of boycott, to work against den tal reform. All kinds of campaign lies are being circu lated to deceive the voters. Don't let the Trust scare you. The Trust made the present dental law. Under this law it controls the State Board of Dental Examiners every member of that board is a member of the trust. In this way competent dentists are kept out of Oregon, and the Trust prevents competi tion and keeps up prices. VOTE X YES 340 And Bust the Dental Trust -PAINLESS PARKER. Dentist. 6th and Washington Sts., Portland, Oregon. (Paid Adv.) i V M i i Pon't expect meddler, ft medal for being a Let Electricity KEEP YOUR SILVER CLEAN It will also qKSt1 8rind knive- i 1 run th saw. ing machine and make housework a pleasure "If It's electric come to us" Salem Electric Co. MASONIC TEMPLE PHONE 1200 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 24, 1914. House of Half a Million Bargains We carry the largest stock of Sack and Fruit Jars. H. Steinbock Junk Co. 133 BUU Bttwrt. Bal.m, Ortgoa. l-koat Mill IM