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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 27, 1915)
'ITS .. Editorial Page of "The al Journal"''. WKDNKSDAV KVKXIXU .Inn. 27, IDIS. CHARLES H. FI8HEB Editor and Manager Gapit PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. 8. BABNES, CIIAS, H. FISHER, DORA C. ANDBK8EN, 1'rrsidont Vice-President Sec. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION BATHS Doily by carrier, per year $5.00 Doily by mail, per year 3.00 Weekly by mail, per year 1.00 IVr month 45: I'er month ,'15cri Six months .10c : FULL LKAHKD WIRK TELEOBAI'U HKPORT Tbe CaDltal Journal carrier boy are instructed to nut the nanera on the porch. If tho carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the' (taper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions, f none Main 81. ARMY AND NAVY INCREASE. The Literary Digest has made a poll of the newspaper editors of the United States on the question of the pro posed navy and army increases. The result is interest ing, and in many respects instructive, as the following summary will show: "One effect of Europe's war is to raise the question of our preparedness in case war should come to us. The topic is the subject of discussion in congress, in the press, and in private conversation from coast to coast. Without any leaning to one side or the other of the debate, we have sought as a representative verdict the opinion of upward general limited compulsory service in military training." Our national defenses are adequate "for probabilities," i says the Newport (R. I.) Daily News, but not for "possi-; bilities," and although the Burlington (Vt.) Free Press j believes that "if any general move for limiting armaments : is undertaken, we will want to help such a movement," j still it holds that "submarines and better coast defenses seem to be a pressing need."' Moreover, this journal ad- j vises against building any more dreadnoughts "till the war in Europe is over and its lessons learned." - j "BUILD NOW." ! A wise suggestion to help the unemployment situation is made by The Manufacturers Record and it appears to be producing practical results. It is often observed that the gravest problems may have the simplest solution. The Record's slogan, which is being rapidly adopted in many sections, is "Build Now," the idea being that all improvements that have been planned for the near future be carried out as soon as possible. While this would result in immediate and immeasur able benefit to the unemployed, its basis is not charity but business. - The man who builds now gets the advantage not only of the low prices of building materials but also of the low ! price of labor. Dealers in building materials in Cleveland, Ohio, have oi lour nunareu editors in an pans ot the country. ve j1)nilf)imced a considel.abIe reduction in prices to all who have asked them three definite questions-namely, vvhe-j ivin build now Buiiding trades firms in Augusta, Ga., t her they believe our national defenses are adequate; whe- j ,,,.., ,lni,P(1 in an advertisement of reductions from 10 to (.her they favor a stronger standing army; and whether they favor a stronger navy. As to our defenses, 272 say that our defenses are inadequate, while 11!) think them in adequate. Favoring a stronger standing army are 240 as 25 per cent.. In many cities the movement is gaining headway. It is an idea which should particularly apply to all mu- niiM.il iMiKlin wnvlre Triic ia rh hnciu rvF trip PYtpnsivp against luS opposing it. Ihe vote tor a stronger navy is; 'r ;n Npw York citv. ...w.. . There is nothing that smacks of charity in this, noth- even more markedly allirmative, being zHo in lavor to 10!) against. "Because it is obvious that the region in which an editor lives must influence his judgment in some degree, we have classified these expressions according to the na tural divisions of states on the Atlantic or Pacific sea slope and states of the inland section. It will be found, i-crhaps, that in the states having a shore exposure the demand for a stronger army, and especially for a stronger navy, is beyond dispute. At the same time, it will be noted that in the interior, opinion is more evenly divided. Few if any, of those in favor of "preparedness," it should be remarked, show symptoms of militaristic fever. In fact, much argument is heard from all sides against the mal ady. The policy of President Wilson, of Secretary of War Garrison, and of Secretary of the Navy Daniels outlines our true course, say some editors; while others contend that we have nothing to worry about because when this war is over Europe won't have any more fight left in her lor years to come ing of socialism in it; it is simply sound business. There is a feeling in the air that the present session of the legislature will end like most of the others with' a rush of appropriation bills which will send the grand total up higher than ever. Every session begins with a great promise of economy, and it will be noted that always a few small appropriations are lopped off with a grand flourish of trumpets, only to be replaced by measures car rying a great deal more money at the finish. Everybody is still hoping for the best, but those who are wise and experienced in legislative matters will suspend judgment until the final adjournment has been taken and the totatp are footed up. '' j A great-grandson of Thomas Jefferson, who died in Arkansas the other dav. was a successful and popular commercial traveler. Endowed with less horse sense, he lor years to come. , I might have tried to become a statesman on the family rep "lhe Philadelphia Inquirer is unqualified in its judg-j d f d gs miserably as most of the scions of merit that our defenses are inadequate and that we need h attempted it. a stronger army and navy; while the Boston Advertiser "-b"1"-" tt v-co j also favors a sufficient defense strength for "a national lit mir nf fl.itlnnnl o.iut.r" Til I a litlll'n'll rlnuQ nnf lirmpccl ,.w..vjr l.u1 ..o ' -"v in-erv twentv davs is more than some oi us to say "how or to what extent tie army and navy s nouiu, , , , . . , -d f eyen th . nQ I .e enlarged, but insists tiiat we want our national . hel.ctofore been imposed by law, outside of safety to be assured and certain." Among other journals ! . t J opinion arc the Boston Transcript and evening Record, Lowell Courier-Citizen, Providence Journal and Tribune, New Haven Times-Leader, Buffalo News, Syra cuse Post-Standard, New York Herald, Times, Tribune, Evening Mail, American, Washington Post, Star, Herald, unci Times, Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, and Savannah News. Many editorial observers in various sections agree with the Buffalo Times when it recommends the upbuild Two quarts of whiskey ' and- fifteen quarts of beer nave oeen in limitations the police Wheat is breaking price records daily, and incidentally will break a good many persons financially if it keeps up its present pace much longer. The man who held the perfect record as a pump tender on the Southern Pacific system is dead. By the way, most Willi UlC UUlliUU Hlli:a Hin.il IV iivuimm-mw n.v ufuui.u , - , rl.inH ing of the National Guard as the close adjunct of the regu- -x 1 h ct lm n ai 1 c,La jar army. Thus the Waycross (Ga.) Journal-Herald says: i ,. , j ff continuing appropriations might "We : believe in making the Na ional VT0 ! aa 5 b continued to another session. So many excep- SSSSng llnentr Z XSj & "-already to that the tle is a mi $avs that these combined with "an efficient militia with : IU)mu will solve the problem of our adequate federal pay land force." The figure of 100,000 regulars is indorsed; . V also by the Bristol (Va.) Herald-Courier, which adds that "if the navy is second only to England's, it is strong; The anti-lobby bill was killed probably lobbied to enough." Among caustic critics of our national defenses are the Grafton (W. Va.) Sentinel, which says that "we liave a fourth-rate navy and a no-rate army," and the Moundsville (W. Va.) Echo, which declares that ouv "en tire defense department naturally needs reorganizing to meet needs as European war makes apparent." In this'-:' connection it is of interest to learn from the Hampton (va.) Monitor, which argues tor an increased army ami navy, that "Bryan's universal peace is beautiful but a labored nothingness. We've got to look facts and human motives straight in the face." "Similar in tone is the warning of the Randolph (Vt.) Herald and News, which bids us "get ready for trouble when it comes it surely will"; and this journal advises a "gradual increase" of our naval strength and a "more . Slumber I i I'm- nil your worry and vonr weeping, for nil vonr pain and woo, JiihI try nn good old fashioned sleeping tin you sny, "mull tnlk i" iMcy, well inon mny liniol It out) but ivIumi ,illi aKthnin out lit wIhm'.v, or ttu'ii lio Inn the putt, nr nliiMi blnck vnn1 willi Mm i ilrillinit, all kIc'i'P lew n li hi cvi's; lu t'liuunt uluiiibi'r for a xliillini: nml t i r li u LADD & BUSH, Bankers Lstr.Mishcd 1808 Capiial $500,000.00 Transact a general banVlnjr business Safety Deposit Poxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT I, i Tl r ' '" ' ' "1 I' -1,' V i SAGE TEA PUTS LIFE ANDCOLOR IN HAIR Don't Stay Gray I Bnxo Tea and Sul phur Darkens Hair so Naturally that Nobody Can Toll. You can turn Rrny, faded hulr licnu tlfully diirk and luntroua almimt over niRht if you'll Rot a 50 cent lmf.tli of " Wypth'a Ku)ii nnd Hnlidiiir ltnir lti'm- iily at nnv dniir nturc. jtiinonii or not TRIUMPH -.-j z. r 9. cr rx rc JT HIS busy, progressive nation is today at I L the dawn of a new era of commercial and social development. The means by which the human voice, with its slightest inflections and indications of personality, can be carried across the continent instantly, have been provided. Talking by telephone from the Pacific to the At lantic is now an accomplished fact. The celebration of .this latest nnd greatest triumph in the art of telephony has just taken place. Within a short lime the public will have, ready for it3 usn, the product of American brains, American initiative and American scientific and technical skill, a transcontinental telephone ser vice, the equal of which is not even approached in all the other nations of tho world. It is a splendid scientific achievement of the very highest character. The power that sends the human voice out over the telephone is scarcely greater than that of a breath, yet the means have been provided by which this tiny, almost imaginary impulse, made vip of as many as 2,000 separate vibrations a second, can be picked up by a' delicate instrument, conserved over'a distance of 3,400 miles, and reproduced perfectly and instantly across the continent. The human voice has been made to travel as fast as light, faster than sound unaided by technical apparatus; in deed, it rivals THOUGHT even, in the swiftness of its flight. The imagination can but fceuiy grasp,, much less attempt to measure, the far-reaching signifi cance of such a tremendous accomplishment. One hundred million people will have for their daily use a system bf communication that knows no East, no West, no North, no South. Dialects, provincialisms, sectional prejudices, must even tually yield to the closer union, the better under standing, the more intimate comradeship that the human voice establishes. The neighborliness of a whole nation is advanced by the brushing away of the physical restraints of centuries. This contribution to the future happiness and prosperity of a more closely united people has not been brought about, however, by the overcoming of a few isolated, concrete difficulties. Its success has depended upon the exercise of the highest engineering and technical skill, and the solution was found only in the cumulative effect of improvements great and small, in tele phone, transmitter, line, cable, switchboard, and every other piece of apparatus or plant required in the transmission of Speech. In this work the experimental and research department' of the Bell System, of which this Company w a part, has been engaged ever since the telephone became a commercial possibility, less than 40 years ago. With no traditions to follow and no experience to guide, this depart ment, which is now directed by a staff of over 5S0 engineers and scientists, including former professors, post graduate students, scientific in vestigators the graduates of 140 universities has created an entirely new art the art of tel ephony, and has given to the people of this country a telephone service that has no equal. It has required vast expenditures of money and immense concentration of effort, but these have been justified by results of immeasurable benefit to the public. The transcontinental tele- phone line, 3,400 miles long, joining the Atlantic and Pacific, is part of the Bell System of 2 1,000, 000 miles of wire connecting 9,000,000 telephone stations, located everywhere throughout the United States. Composing this system are the American Telephone and Telegraph Company and Associated Companies and connecting com panies, giving universal service to 100,000,000 people. Truly, This is The Triumph of Science The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company r Hi THE LEGISLATURE S I SIDE LIGHTS ON Since Mias Clnrko linn become a nicm lirr of tin1 arniiti', a new duty devolve upon Henntov run-ell, who m already overloaded with work n chninniin of the committer on alcoholic traffic. Mis Clarke is 1'hniriiinu of the committee on horticulture, of which the ncnntor from Mul'novnnh in a mcmlier, and it now become a pint of hii work tu announce tle of thin old, famous Sii;r. lea Itocelpo an Hold annually, tn n well- known tlrHtrnint here, becaUHO It dnrk-' eiu tho Iniir so naturally and evenly I that no one can tell it has been an I nlied. ',0j Those whose lmlr Is turning Rrny, bo- j " e i nnmlnir ruibiit ilrv MCriimrlv nnd thin lues. o speaks (,,vn ,urprii,p awaiting them, because the timid human , ftl,r r ,,v0 npiUpntlon the Rrny inlibit filled ;i ihnlr vanishes nnd your locks become f o r o li oilnitfH .lire I i,,.,.,!,.,.!. a,,,), ,1 bountiful nil dandruff Hl,ei", cnlp Itching and fulling hnlr stops. limiilier door, nnd "iiv, 'So help me ...:.... c.n.- ' ...'. ' i Albert K.hH.nl 1 II sleep or bust a , K,.f busv with Wvetl, 's HaKe sniiro." I count more sheep t.lr.y., , , , , . b(1 d. caloi hil' o tr a s i c; tun luuinuls ... h , , .' , . , ... a,e tlii, nml mcrrv. and nlwnvs miike 1 w,,h ."'ir .tnrk, handsome hair hie smile nnil frowsy, their Ioiir pjorosnion keep, and prcliy semi 1 in toemiir drnwi n ii. I then I Kin asleep. At first I counted seven billion before I (lot re pose, bol now, alien I reach half million, I nenily alwnvs dure. You wnlcli vonr eivcs and lambkins mount- vet si.k sick lcci lik,. Mi-Mnu. Is a hnldt that. folks limy acipiiie, When 1 nm I tnnel beilwiiid, nnd lock my 1 walih those muttons, soiled ! .V",r I"'""' " app- nrn,, " , liiit lhi itttlo, n tli'lum tliM-p; vnn la1 op ' on t'onnlliirf. romitini!. CMiutihtr until j von full uiliM-p. i it tu I DR. LEO. D.SCOTT I d, o,, orit. D. A Rrailunte of the I.os Angelca t'ollepi nf Osleopalhy and I,oa Anjjelea Medical (.'ullcgo of Ophthulinolimy, anil spec la I course In the t'ollejje of Osteo pathic rhysicians and Siliceous, iinuouuces the. opening of Ms of fices at renins 40." and 40(1 In the Sulem itnnk of Commerco building, for all nonto aud rhrouic wnrk, 1'lionc 4S0, for Misa Llniko meetings of tiio committee. The senate pnges of this aession are extremely high-toned, acenrding to a gray haired scribe, who says ho has been at the press desk in thn upper house for lo years. (Mi several occasions lie has requested them to perform some lit tle i'.er ice lint thev Minililv turn their Rinses in the air nnd look the other way. 'lie :mys this is toe first session he has been so treated. t Senator I.anggutli continues his nvoweil wirk of removing dead wood Ifrnm the statute books, l'p to date ho has introduced seven bills removing j sect ions of the co,e no longer iu effect. Henntor Garland Is probably the most patient mnii In the senate. The rending clerk for some unknown rensnu some times' fails to cull the senator's name when nyes and nays are being recorded. Tim senator from I. inn always arises with the announcement that "Our very efficient reading clerk has aceoilentnlly overlooked my name; 1 would like to lie recorded as voting. " - Dan Kellaher continues to be tbe cen ter of all senate pleasantries. Wjiilu making a speech on the interest that he represented and that the other nee ntois represent, Henator Garland refcr fer 0 himself as serving tho people of l.iun county, Knntor Day as serving tho people of Multnomah county and Hen tie Kellaher an serving all tho people. Senator Von der Holloa is without doubt the champion newspnper reader of the senate. No matter what measure may ne before the body the senator iias his piper and giving the speaker an oc casiiinul side glunce inutilities to devour its :nntents. I'r Vidi'iit Thompson hits quite a task ouch mnruinz in nnnnuncini' to tho j senate the long list of communication J received which lie refers to enmmittees. The (ommittee on nlcoholic trnffie is esMvially favored an endless chain of telegrams, resolution! and letter being i sent them. PREPARE FOR SPRING HUILDING TIME IS NEAtt We si'll Bath Tubs, Sinks, Wash D asins, Tiping in all sizes and all lengths, numbers' Supplies all at reduced prices. Buy hero and save money. H. Steinbock Junk Co. Phone Main 221. 2.11 Stale Street, Salem, Oregon