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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 28, 1914)
Editorial P f "The Capital Journal" CHAIfLliS H. FISH KB Editor mill Manager MON DAY KVKN1M;, Dec. 2S, inn. age o rUBLISHED EVEHT EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. U 8. BARNKS, l'residont CTIAS. H. FISHER, Vice-President DOl! C. ANPKKSF.N, Sop. nril Tress. yr(iS('KH'TU). RATES Daily by Carrier, per year 5.00 Per month Daily by mail, per year ;i.UU IVr montli :..r Weekly, by Hail, per your 1.00 fix months i(o FPU, lYEASKI) WIRE TUl.KdWAI'H REPORT j The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the! north. It the carrier does not do tliis, misses you, or neglects getting the ; jiaper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can dotormine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. "Thon Main 82. BUSINESS NOT SO BAD. Trade of the United States in 191:) with the 20 Latin American republics, both in sales and purchases, exceed ed in volume that of any other single country, according to John Barrett, director general of the Pan-American Union. It was the first year, he says, the United States has achieved this, but it is only the beginning of establish ed supremacy. , Reports from leading men in various lines of business all over this country, received by a large commercial house in New York, are more than comfortably reassuring. Op timism is the tone everywhere. The best volume of business, both in quantity of orders and amount in dollars and cents per order has been com ing from the agricultural district west of the Mississippi. This section seems to be prosperous far beyond the aver-; age, due, no doubt, to the very good crops in the past two j or three years. From Massachusetts comes a report from the presi-i dent of a rubber shoe company : "The capacity of our fac tory is 6000 pairs of rubbers a day, but by working many of our departments night and day we are now turning out 9000 pairs a day, as compared with G000 pairs a day in i December, -191:5. Our actual shipments from January 1,! 1914, to November 1, 1914, are :!8 per cent ahead of the .same period in 191:5." 1 The secretary-director of the Greater Des Moines: Committee says: "The great prosperity of Iowa and the; continued increase of business among our jobbers and manufacturers convinces them that the business future is; bright." ; In the hundreds of letters received by the New York, house in answer to its inquiries, not a single discordant note comes from anywhere. The fellow who has hard times ahead of him is Old, Pessimism. ' There was a gathering in Washington recently of twenty representatives of governments on the western continent, all except Canada and Mexico being represent ed. This gathering was for the purpose of taking steps to protect the rights of neutrals. As a beginning, the broad doctrine was laid down that "the rights of a bellig erent ended where the rights of a neutral began." The old idea that because one nation was at war with another it could interfere with the business of the balance of the world was declared obsolete. It is a notice that warring nations must refrain from wrongs on sea and land which interfere with the business and affairs of peaceful coun tries. In other words, it is maintained that because a na tion goes to war that is not sufficient excuse for it turn ing pirate and preying on the commerce of its neighbors. It is reported that Nikola Tesla has invented some thing that will stop war. This is the discovery recently noted, that ammunition can be exploded at a distance. If this discovery is what has been claimed foe it, it will surely put an end to the present style of "civilized war fare." When all an enemy's ammunition can be exploded at a distance of twenty or more miles, the only way to con tinue fighting will be for the armies to provide themselves with war clubs and go to it. It is sincerely hoped the dis covery may prove all that is claimed for it and more. Judging from the estimates for the cost of carrying it on, the Oregon Agricultural College is growing rapidly. In 1911-12 it cost $649,05:5.78, and for extension service .$5,000. For the years 1913-14 the cost was $803,164.82, with extension cost of $87,290. The estimates for this year are $954,54:5, with extension cost $194,106. The total for this period is $1,148,649. A lady who admits she is twenty-six years old says the CAPTURED FRENCH ARMY SURGEON INSPECTS WOUNDEED FRENCH PRISONERS IN GERMAN MILITARY HOSPITAL I WOUISOEO FREMCH PrllSONERS IH GERMAISY (SL. &, lion oariip ami n Kivnch army hii irt-on who wns enptiiroil (Imil. fl tnnTl's hare-faced flatten. She IS Called a CVniC. witli the black beard ami ilrk nnifu-m. Woiiivleil Froneli prisonein In Cier innv are hero neon linoil up before the ehie.f Oermau surgeon of the Aoten- The hitter was pe mitieil to mspscet the freneh pnson- 1 1 i- 1 IT .1 ,1 4- men. aie nmil CiedlUieb 10 pied&tJ. ll X gni iJieicmis wm. Ti,ia pmetiee is f'ollowe.l in nil ti e Ceiinaii military hosi.itals. In the picture the French aureeon is the ono and if she pretends to believe it, he thinks her a fool. "j On top of this she alleges all men are flatterers, or worse, j in talking to women and hence mournfully asks: "What: can a poor girl do?" ' ' I WOULD CONTROL STATE at Coining Session. With the Oregonian's editorial staff so profoundly in-; Election of sdiing for speakor First Cm-moil fia in i Vip nporls nf MlP arniv thp tiaw. finnnfes and SleP Toward Reapportionment Bill foreign affairs, it is too bad that they cannot be transfer-: ted to Washington and placed in charge of the nation's; affairs. Then all would be lovely and the national goose i would honk high. j THE HIGH COST OF WAR. One of the paradoxical things in Eastern Oregon is that skating on Hot Lake is reported good. However, those Eastern Oregon fellows do all kinds of stunts not ; known on this side of the range. Four years of war cost this country $4,000,000,000, and ; this not counting the cost to the South. Forty years after the war we had more than a million names on the pension roll, which reached its highest cost last year with $174,-' 171,660 paid out. The cost of the European war is esti mated at $20,000,000,000 a year, and if it continues for, three years, as Lord Kitchener intimated it might, there would be the studendous debt of $60,000,000,000 for Eu rope to pay. The interest on this alone, even at four per cent, would be $2,400,000,000 yearly. Of course Europe cannot pay pensions, as this country' has done, even if it desired to do so. The struggle to meet , the interest alone without reducing the principal will be a terrible one that will tax the patriotism and resources, of all the nations to their limit. The debt of $60,000,000, 000 is more than four times all the gold taken from the mines since civilization began, It represents the entire farm production of the United States, cattle and other livestock included, for ten years. Even with the war last ing but a year, it would represent the entire production of our farms for four years, and when the destruction of! property and the loss by destroyed industries' and com merce are taken into consideration, it would represent; that production for five years. With one year's war and the cost as estimated, $20,000,000,000, it would mean that it would take :!2,000 tons of gold to pay the bill, and with interest at four per cent it would require 12S0 tons yearly, to meet it. i Postoffice department officials estimate that 100,000, 000 parcels were delivered during the Christmas rush. This is about right, as that would mean one for each per son in the United States. ''The tolnl popiilutinn of the st'ile, neeorilinir to the commer cial club's figures, is 7!I."i,."iS. Mnlt iiecnnh county, tle'n, has a little mjie than nno-tlrnl the popula tion of XJromm within its honiors. " Tinier the present system willi a total of tm members in the lc'jihliittno Mnltriciidnh county liimlil have .'JO senators ami repre sentatives. ' ' I'm tliuul Or, inn. A bill to reilistrict the state fur reii reso'itntioii in the legislature "probably THE MANICURE LADY By William F. Ktrli. "Some cent that wan in hero to have his nails diil was paying the other day that. Monte Carlo is closed oil aceouut of the war," remarked tlio Manicure I.a.ly. "It's been closed some time,'1 ro- for a new legislative procedure that, will cripple fjintjf methods in the future. Tin' tiaht between Kntiti and Helline. has hcconie a tieJit between Portland fi ltd tiie counties outside of l'ortlnnd. The Oreuonian steadily maintains that its candidate, Kellinu, is certain of election, and Mr. Knton says it -has even refused him its columns to state his enso. Mr. Katun is nhrionlimr to thi countvv press and the country loislu- P'ltHt tne lU'a.l ismncr. I used to ttiinlc tors tii stand back of him. Present tll!,t " ''"V 1 v-oiibl ro over there chances of election are even between ! l'l','1,l it. but now there ain't much him and t-iolliim, he maintain. I likelihood of it ever opi-mug again. 1 As for l!li:t, when the Portland ma-! 1,f1(1 this war is going to chance chine ran over evorvthintr, "it was the' tM'"Va V"ilv realize now." must extriivauaiit s'osio OreKon ever, 11 ,.v0," ,'1"1'l 1I,(-V the wheel any had," savs Mr. I'.aton " u appvopr!. "".'V'. ,"t' t.1'"" l'.1" ,,lin,h"T?' lions totaled .Wlli.mJ. lint lor the ; 8""1, h" T.y, ' I .Ion 't think opposition ,,' the countrv members fliey! ",v" 1,0 J1,0"'""0 ,, j,,,v, ,,,,, , i "ill red was liking about the war tho uiiii t have readied 10,0iH ,1) lit. ' , .. ,, j. , j " other night, lie thinks somo or going URIEVED FOR WIFE. ! ov,'r "ni1 "f'erii'K l" services, the way i IiOnl llryon offered his services to Sun Francis,,. Doe. 2(1. (iriof over ! 0r"",p- K11 fl,,h,'r n Krrnt lft"l1- the dentil recentlv of his wife whb said proposed at the forthcoming today b) friends to have been respon- THE ROUND-UP Despotism ftiid that iliiln't )iihI(0 mv brother fonl , DDiio loo hrnvp ami manly but tho old , jjont nin 't huinorinu Wilfrod much thes-n ...,-,.,-11.. nt' ti... ....i. D. tiohlsinith. His bodv was found to-' " ... the news of how the Multnomah c.mty' dnv. Ivimr beside an urn containim- cu"ln 8 u .,,"lV,V,.w"" ' 0 n' lr" exp,.,ts to attain , ns . ontrol ; hc aslies of Mrs. (loklsn.ith. bv a ' ' ' .S,.. . .rrV.""? fulure 1,-islatures. The above quo ! friend, (ioldsmith committed suicide bv ""'" "'',' vMi-m , m,,, llllUUlUg gS, j .shows what the machine would like to " have, will be session goniaii story, which thus gently break imiciiinc 'of Multifield report taken a new start mar there, tho min ors finding their principal pay in plati num, taken from the old woi kedover mines. The pay is said to be gmil. I For yours we clump teetotal cranks I'1"1'''1' 1 "K """l have 1,'iod to slay the Demon Hum. and from our agitated ranks all sorts ot sli ricks and prayers have cimio. Kuch weapons as were at eoniiuand we have employed, as host Albany is to have a meat paeking plant wi'h a capacity fur handling Illloil hugs a year. I.uler olncr livestock will be worked up. Mrs. Mary lluuk died at the home of her sun at Pleasant H'ulgo, lo miles south of The Hallos, Christmas day. She was mini than lull years old, hav ing been born in August, l,sl I. V L ; y. we knew, ami every eoraer of tho laud has hoard our earn est howdy-ilo. We gain a little every year, small tri umphs follow every slump; a village there, a county here, cuts out the boo.e and hits the pump. Hut, oh, it is a weary task, An esteemed cniiteinnorn rv romiirks The single city uf Portland now sends that almost every father of a fiimilv lib men to the itato legislature. It has ,. understand at this time of the vea'r 12 members of the house and six mem-; why Santa (.'Inns' whiskers are white hers of the senate. In addition, it has as "Wl,n ns iin, the Multnomnh - (Tackamas - Columbin i joint place in the senate, which two I Deposits (if high grade kaolin have inemliers not on" ly represent Port land , been found near Ashland. Kxperts pro-! uf foi-tion inn iiouiv uiwa.vs uciuaiiy live in j-ori- , luniuee u ui ine ery iiuesi. ipiaury, hind. ! If under the pri.,iosod redist rioting i the ' ' ill intieo ' ' In M n It iwm.iii li nlv Calliorine May Somaster (,'ross, a do noer of S,",'J, died lloceinbor HI at lliew iismIIo. She was born in (iilliain county, Mi-souri, Christnins day, INIIX. while Itnrlev She was the mot her of II children, six still poisons Youth, and murders Ag' ot whom survive her, 1 here are "u Hut in tins country ol the free, we cun graudchildion an, itren. In is removed by giving Portland 'M legis-1 la tors instead of -0, or ouetliird the i entire membership of house and senate,! the additional III will have to come off : the up-state membership. l'"u.- example, if nil counties wore to be rodueeil to the same basis of repre sentation as that given Multnomah as j iter present basis in the Orogoniaa V : Inhlo. uiv letiisliilors iil,t .n. t ' ""C ' ."( I'OMOIll Ml, I'll,,, tlllil I. ill,, .,1,11 II t i.iu in. this toiling onward , t(,, of) 114 , ,,.,.(, 1, y, ',ore singe uy stage, substance is the deft Portland areu ment. "We have '.'77,1X:1 population and only u legislatiirs. 'I tus is one for m&Snm KM V with jug nad flask. 3" great grandchil- nut burn the bno.lng ken, or lock the, every :i,s.-.il of pomlat ion. Marion; Captain R. W. Collins, of tho U. S. Coast Artillery corps, in his report to Adjutant General Finzer, shows that he is himself an example of the danger of militarism. He asserts that those who do not believe in bigger armies and preparing for war are undesirables, and intimates they should be run out of the country. It is inferred from the tone of his remarks that he would like the job of doing the running. The doughty captain overlooks the fact that in this great land there are men of all beliefs and the same division of opinions. His rabidncss shows that he is of the most dangerous class of these, for he would deprive (lie citizens of having or expressing an opinion about military affairs, and probably about any others unless they did their thinking with the captain's thinker. After ls,"i;l, "I'ncle" Hume and "Aunt .laae Voalch have passed nearly 01 years in or near Cottage drove. T'liurs duy was their (iOth wedding anniver sary, Ho is Ml ami Mrs. Voati h s:i. A reception was given them in the Pres byterian church Tuesday, nud another lit Die homo of their sou, (. O, Veatch, TIiui'mIiiv. U lu'V have seven elnldi hun::, all hut one I it the ottage lirove (d Honzol neighborhood, county has 4(1,1) III people for seven legis lators, ami I. inn county 'J"i,lW. and five legislators, averaging 0,70:2 and "i,HI" door nod lose the key the Hoast most j linger in its den. until the l.nw. that's lossiug th, plains ti.other In hub and lame, can be persuaded of the truth, and urged to Kill the thing ot respectively per legislator. shame that buttons on the tuition 'h "If, now, Marion and l.ini untie" youth. F.alightoned ltussin knows thomro brmght down to the Multnomah way, grout ltussin, with her tyrant ' basis of representation, I hat of one for ('.iir; he twists his wrist, mid in Bleach l:l,s."i!l, their combined populations day, the lid is pieced on every bar. i w ill give them six logislutors, or five The wish is treason, much I fear, and less than they have at present.'' I am shaking In my shoes 1 wish wo, "Multnomah county legislators noint ''" hud a despot here, just Uiiik enough to i out that Multmciiaii county is diserinii ve l.:n il. i ti ...i ' ........ i i... .i '.. . i . .. . liMll-H 1,,1111-1 ,v wit, jiri'SOIIT II si lie 1 1 u g W. ,1, Tinner, who lived abnit live 'miles northwest ot Pilot Itock, wns found dead at his well Thursday. Dentil wns iiiusod by putalvsis, (.a (liaiido ropoils a snowfall of sev eral inches, which begun Christum night. It Is thought this will relieve t',ie water famine hum which Unit city hus be iilm,i . Aiuir tWrlm the enterprising citir.ons of Haines mill vicinity will land the terminus of the line nt Hint point." The mutter of building a across the Willamette river nt plan," reads the Orogoninn storv. In l!H:l, the Portland machine named, the president of the senate, lie wns a' Portland lawyer. The Portland machine, tunned the sponsor of the house, lie' wns Portland lawyer. The Portland! iiuiohiue limned the chairman of the somite ways and menus i ominitlee. He was a Portland dentist. The Portland machine named the chuirmau of ways and means eominittee in the house, lie,: I LADD & BUSH, Bankers Estrolishcd 18G3 Capita! $500,000.00 Transact a general banking: business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT bridge Hilrris- iiiieiiug .or scM-iai neons. mriI i ,eld tin null t can be learned too. was a Portion, lei. And of n.( t , " what the legislature will do about the other important senate and house ( orvalbs is wise and tests every changing the boiindui y line between I committees, the chairmen were named load o asphalt placed In its sheet pay. , ,,, ,, ,,, ,,,,,(,, , ,, ,mjnt,bv , lti t In it.l ma. hine, nad in each nig. Kesult, got.l pavement. where the channel, it Is alleged, has case the holder was a lWtliiiulor or an 1f5lTi(lWl "'iVjf;'.'"l V 2SZ23XJt A most popu lar and effect ive remedy for breaking up a COLD. Satisfaction Guaranteed Pharmacy I rirTTi'i'iih J t iresoiit debts in Knglaud need not be ; paid. It wouldn't make no difference to my brother if he lived over there, as he is the original niorntarium kid aay ! way, but Min e lie heard about issuing j Hint declamation he ain't had even the faintest, notion of settling for nothing, land Units' why father don't look nt, him these days with tender aad undying shining out or his dear old I eyes. j "I wouldn't blame the poor people : over there for not paying what they 1 owe during these terrible times. The win' will leave tho.m without a coat anyway, so I don't suppose moratoriums are necessary, (iee, deorge, it seeina terrible to think nbout folks hating each other in these civilized times." "Times nin't so eivili.ed, it seems to me," said the Head Harbor. "Polka wns just beginning to think we was civilized when along cornea thii fierce big disturbance, and all iho civilization nad kindness men hnve talked ahout i. thrown Into the discard and forgotten. ! This war may not take very long, but it will take a long, long time to get j over the effects of it." "Wilfred says he hates to talk about I it because lie is a poet and it makes him I sad, I always thought oth'i' peoplu j could be sad too. but he snyj drenmera I see so many things in tho t Jturo that I other people eoaaot.see. The old geat said ho wished he could 101 far enough, into the future (0 know wh'n brother would get something to do, and wha Wilfred started to read rv poem that he had wrote about -the Hreatnesa pnd (irandeur of (I lory the old gout told him to take it out on tho 1'ii" escape and road it to the old clothes innn that, was hollering down 111 tho court. All 1 re member was "The greatness and gr.niib'iir of glory Are most in our minds today; And many a wonderful story Will come from the wnr, I daresay." "1 wish he could take a little run over there and get a job with wim (( thorn powers,'' said the Head llarber. "Men are getting shot thore for losa than writing that kind of poetry." 1 In nfter years a girl with auburn 1 tresses becomes n led-hended woman. .... , . ,. if hanged until the line is marked by a lln hipl,t clinch ,,t '.""'!" '. slough, Instead of tho river, ,,,ii n , , i , u -,-s uy,,, M,u in- it-mull. Money eiucigii has been subscribed thill, with that coining from liisiininco, pro , vides 7li(H) for the purpose. The total of sttunp sales for IDI4 snys the Hudget, "will nearly reach I IP.ili"), which is the amount of bnsi- linker Herald: The Kagle Valley "ess reipiired to place Astoria among News of Kieliland says two bonding ,ln' first class offices," companies liave signified their willing aess to flout the bonds for n railroad to Kagle Valley us soon us J'.;iH),lll)(l of the stock Is taken by Maker county people. The News adds this throat": "Now let the ('omuierclal club of lin ker got busy, or if they don't hustle for thin exercise, The singing of t'hristmns carols In the streets is an innovation enjoyed by the people of The Dalles this your, inaiiKs in ,irs. iiinron r. Williams, outsider who had boon pulled into the orguniation. One of those men has ngaia been set aside this y,ar to become president of the senate, for know, gentle reader, that the Portland uiachine is not uvor looking control of Hie 1111.1 legislature. Per speaker of the house the Portland delegation has united on Hen Helling, the Poitland clothing merchant. Helling 's only oppuient is Allen II. Katun, representative from l.nae u, uni ty since I )". Mr. Pnton's platform calls lor a reduction or ''. tier rent. who trained a band of some (10 singer ! and more If possible, in the expense of running hie legislative session. It calls 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 Capita Journal office. Not good after January 1, 1915.