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TIICHHDAY KVKXIXO,
October 7, Ifil.l.
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rifBI.IsHKI) KVKRY KVKXINO KXCKIT 8CNDAV, HALEM, OREGON, BY
Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc.
U S. BARXKK,
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CIIA-S. H. FISHKR,
Vice President
XX) R A C. AXDRESKN,
Sec. and Treas.
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THE FEVER OF SPECULATION
The Walla Walla Bulletin calls attention to the re
newed activity of Wall street, after a long period of
lethergy. The mania has reached a greater height than
at any time since the Civil War. Immense fortunes are
being won and lost by big plungers; and little plungers
are risking their money and occasionally their employ
er's money with recklessness equal to anything known
in the wildest davs of the stock exchange.
Two things are responsible for this sudden outburst
after several years ot comparative caution ana conserva
tism: The boom in "war stocks" and the surfeit of money
and credit. When industrial securities rise hundreds of
points in a few months, and some have done so, and oc
casionally jump $20 or $:!0 a share over night, no wonder
speculators lose their heads.
. Much of the bull activity, however, is artificial. The
big operators have been playing the market for all it is
worth, using the legitimate jump in value of a few stocks
to boost all that have anything to do with the manufac
ture of war supplies. Some market quotations hundreds
of per cent higher than normal represent purely theoreti;
cal value, based on guesses at the profits on big war orders
which may or may not be realized. The public is being
fooled into believing that these stocks are worth what
they are quoted at, and that all "war stocks" are going to
keep on soaring indefinitely, so that a "bull" purchaser
can t lose.
Occasionally, of course, they do lose, as a defaulting
teller of a big New York bank realized the other day to
bis sorrow. Sooner or later, a great many people all over
the United States are likely to lose. The man or woman
with a few thousand dollars to invest had better keep out
of this frenzied war speculation. The best stocks to buy
are standard American stocks that don't depend on war
orders or war results for their profits.
THE PREMIUM ON SOBRIETY
umpires or of unfair practice on the part of players, the
"fans" railed at and abused and threatened to assault the
player who they thought had contributed most to the
success of the Detroit team who of course was the
"Georgia Peach." Is it necessary to be a rough-neck in
order to be a good baseball fan?
Again it begins to look as if the war would end in the
Balkans, where it began. Germany will try to force a
road through Serbia to Turkey and 'the triple entente
must if possible block that move. Great armies will no
doubt be transferred to the scene of activity by both
sides and important battles will- be fought there.
The circulation of the Daily Capital Journal, accord
ing to the sworn reports filed with the nost office de
partment, has for the past six months exceeded that of
its nearest competitor by 750 copies daily.
The greatest battle of the year berins tomorrow after
noonon the home grounds of the Philadelphia nationals.
A Galley o Fun!
WiflUJJ f.. fll
Walt Mafan
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ALMOST-PHILOSOPHY.
A public "official, we are told, should
conduct himself in his first term as if
it were his last, and no doubt he
would, only for the fact that If he does
it almost certainly is.
A fanner, while chopping out a
bees' nest in a hollow tree, found a
keg of whisky forty years old. Lots
of men would like to cut out the booze
In this way.
Diogenes took a lantern and went
looking for an honest man. It he had
taken an automobile lamp, and what
Koes with it, he'd have run into any
number of them.
A bad correspondent sometimes
makes a good husband.
All is vanity, but especially all book
reviews.
I Red Crown j
ihe gasoline
STANDARD OIL COMPANY
(California)
"Hereaftcr, all promotions of whatever character,"
says an order of the United States Steel corporation,
Vwill be made only from the ranks of those who do not
indulge in the use of intoxicating drinks."
Here is a powerful temperance sermon in two dozen
words. It is worth pondering.
To the officials of the steel corporation the drinking
of intoxicants is not a moral but an industrial question.
They know that excessive indulgence unfits men for posi
tions of responsibility. They know that one who is likely
any day to come to work under the influence of alcohol is
not to be trusted in the performance of exacting duties.
The risk is too great.
It is not the employe's health or his morals that con
cern the company primarily, but his reliability. Reli
ability and a tendency toward inebriety seldom keep com
pany; a man who has one seldom has the other.
This action affecting steel workers is in line with sim
ilar efforts to encourage sobriety throughout the world.
Industrial chiefs are issuing similar instructions every
day. Increasing thousands of employes are coming with
in the scope of regulations which discriminate between
users and nonusors of intoxicants. There is a lesson in
all this.
RILEY'S BIRTHDAY
Just umpty-'Ieven years ago, he came into this world
of woe James Whitcomb Riley, he whose song has helped
us as we toiled along, has brightened many sunless days,
and smoothed for us the weary ways. Just
T 1 ' UlTlDtv-leven vpnrs nor, ha vannhaA fVilo
world that loves him so, and it is now a bet
ter place, more fitted for the human race,
because he's lived in it and sung his lyrics
in the Hoosier tongue. Today he eats a
birthday lunch with all that gifted Hoosier
bunch, whose well-earned honors do not
.fade Booth Tarkington, and "Abe" and
Ade, and Nicholson, and many more, and
guests from many a distant shore. If all
who love him rnnlr1 ha fVio.o f nnn L
bard beyond compare, they'd need a banquet hall so great
that it would reach across the state, and many herds of
slaughtered kine, and seas of mild denatured wine. But
we, obhged to stay away, still celebrate his natal day, and
send this wireless note to him, "God bless and keep you,
dear old Jim !" . . . '
UPTS'-RI
EXTREME CASES.
iiredren," aaid Parson Black, earn
estly, "dere am some folks In which de
still, small voice ob conscience keeps
a-peltin' stiller and' smaller until at
las' It 'd hab ter l'arn de deet an' dumb
Inngwidge if It wants ter attract dir
mention !"
Unique Labor War In
Full Swing In Chicago
He went to see a game of ball between the Boston and!
Detroit American lea cue to iinis find tbfn ho truiL- ha nn
in hand and wrote to the New York Times proclaiming
that "the baseball fan is the poorest sort of snort in ex
istence, if indeed his unsportsmanlike conduct doesn't bar
him from the title of 'snort' altogether." And, come to
think of it, there's something in his case. It is impossible
to imagine the supporters of the respective sides, in a
football, tennis, golf or any other kind of a match break.
Hit' Ollt in VfM'b.'ll ilhiicn ir,1 oMuai;,n . . .
, ...i.-v hum cMMiiviiiuva l'tll ill ai'lS 01 MO-'
lence against their opponents. This writer speaks of the!
v.uuav vi im- xans ai me game no saw as "atrociously
.uiLsporismaniiKo," lor although Detroit won in all fair
ness, without semblance of favoritism on the part of
Chicago, Oct. II. The American Fed
eration ot llior will make a Inst
ditch fight in behalf of the Chicago
union of school teach s. Thosn in
fluences which oppose the Chicago
Teachers' Federation are today pre
pniing their appeal from the temporary
injunction rcHtiaining the board ot ed
ucation from carry ing out tho now fa
moiiH I, neb rule expelling teacher who
decline to leave the federation, and
compelling all applicants for positions
to mgii a pledge that they will not be
come ineinlicrH of any similar organiza
tion. Of course, if the higher court upholds
the injunction, malting it permanent,
the mutter will drop there, with a glow
ing victory for organized labor. It,
however, the higher court decides in
invor of the l.oeli rule, the entire mat
ter will ultimately bo decided at the
pollw.
Members of the board of education
are appointed by t lie mnvor. If he
continues in office men nnd women op
enly antagonistic to tho teachers' union
Inlinr have threatened to elect a mayor
who will lu favorable to the union."
Mi as Margaret Haley, head of the
union, openly charges tiint big business
is back of the finht, on the federation,
which comprises perhaps one half of the
s.lUin Chicago school teachers. Import
ant Chicago interest!) hold, under verv
favorable terms, school lauds in the
heart of Chicago business district
1'nder a W year lease, they pay noin
ionl rental on a vitinntuin mtt,li n.,
lh:in that placed oa lands held in title
of private individuals, ia some Instanc
es inreciiv unjoining tno school owned
la mis.
The union school teachers, abortlv af
ter orgaiiintio I, moved for higher sal
aries, When told no money was avail
able, they pointed to low 'rentals )aid
tor school lauds, nuil to tiie fact that
many largo corporations wer iin,lr.
taxed.
"Collect the proper rentals and taxes
and tho money will be available," they
said.
They did more. They went before
tho legislature audi the tax boards.
They agitated at public meetings. They
even went to Mato'g Attorney llovne
who is now considering alleged tacts
which the union leaders want put be
fore the grand jury.
The fight was further complicated
by the religious issuo, always a factor
in tho politics of ( hiago. Factions ap
peared! in the schools antiunion
against union teachers.
The anti union majority on the school
board struck quick and' hard. "Leave
tho federation or leave tho schools,"
wie onier tn the teachers. Koine
obeyed. Some stood pat. Some, who.
had never belonged to the federation,
and really preferred not to join the or
ganization, when pledges were asked
that, they never would join, flatly re
fused to sign.
The teachers had won a salary in
crease, but it whs administered by the
.hoard. "Wign u pledge to nbandon
t he union or no salary increase," was
the dictum. Again tho courts were ap
pealed to. Again a deadlock.
( Knemies of tho lWlerntion said:
T he union has no place in tho schools.
It has disorganized the entire svstem.
Teac hers are no longer looking to the
school head for orders, but to the union
head. The teaching force is divided in
to cliques, ami the entire school dis
cipline is endangered."
Cuioa leaders in and out of the
schools met. tiiis with denials and by
counter charges that the fight agains't
the union teachers had been engineered
by corporation huvvers and union-bait-era
who had become alarmed bv the dis
closures made by union officials of tax
dodgers and deals in school land leases
and contracts.
Fathers ami mothers and even chil
dren have been drawn into the fight on
one judo or the oilier. There is no such
word as neutrality. And the most
iiniiie labor war in the history of the
central west i j its 11 swing.
BALLAD OF SOC'L MAINTENANCE.
The grocer duns us twice a day.
The butcher has his grievance, too,
The milkman wants his long-sought
pay,
The landlord's In a dreadful stew;
The baker seems to have m view
One end to dun us early, late;
Dut then what would you have us
do?
One must maintain one's social
state!
The back-stair carpet wears away,
In fact, It's ragged It's not new
Of such we make no great display
To those who stroll our parlors
through;
Our parlors to the chosen few
Present an air of riches great,
To our true plight they give no clue
One must maintain one's social
. state!
V
Iii truth, we would not could not
say
That we have found enjoyment true
In this our mode of life; but stay!
The system on us claps the screw!
Tl.e Wealthy-Wonders led the crew,
We scrimp and pinch and Imitate
What other course can we pursue?
One must maintain one's social
state!
L'Envol. ,
Around our good Dame Fashion drew
Her tinseled mantle. Lo! We wait
I'pon our knees to catch the cue
One must maintain oue's social
state!
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 1SG8
$300,000.00
Capital
Transact a general banking: business
Safety Deposit Boxes
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Yaqui Indians Raid
Town of Hermosillo
Fivtiigonia. Ariz, Oct. 0. Hefugees
arriving from llermonllo today report
ed that Yuqtiia milled that eitv Inst
Monday, burned two business blocks.
Icwed tribute on the merchants ami
Killed thirty Mexicans.
I.. Hmithers, an American mining
man, was wounded during the firing.
Auarchv reigns in Sonora as a result of
the abdication o. (Inventor Mnvtorena.
Indian are in complete eontrol. Per
sistently rumored the Yaqnis chief tain
Iiite.tds smut to declare Sonera, a Yaip.il
republic and proclaim himself president.
BURNED BT ORAVT
Tneoma. Wash., Oct. fl.- Little Con
rad Johnson, one year old, 1 suffering
from terrible burns In St. Joseph hos
pital hero today, received when the
.l:ii . .....
i mm puucu a pan or boiling gravy
from Ins Blether's eook stove and the!
contents ,,.., 1 li t
body.
Physicians sny the bapy will probab
ly recover.
JACK CASEY IS ALIVE.
larls, Oct. 0. Jack Casey, reporter-!
cartoonist, formerly of San Fraacisco.l
lter of New York,' who was reported In I
yesterday's dispatches as killed oa the
western front, has reached Chalone. lie
is wounded in the foot ami has lW
taken to a hosnitui
V ...... "0 ,M 1,10
patches reaching here.
ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS
Koine. (Vt. (1. Mount Vesuvius lias
suddenly begun a violent eruption ac
cording lg a Naple dispatch today.
Strong earthquake rocked villages
round Naples but no serious damage
has been reported vet.
AT THE BALL GAME.
lie I suppose you know what a
rooter Is?
She Why, of course. A rooter Is
man who acts as if he was crasy.
THE ORIGINAL ADVANCE AGENT.
ies, remarked Washington, after
throwing the silver dollar across the
rotomac; "times are better now. I
not only have money to throw away,
but I can make a dollar go farther
now than I used to."
A REFLECTION.
Mrs. Johnson What I said to Mrs
Simpkln was dat I didn't b'leeb yo
husband ebbah robbed a hen-root' in
bis life. .
Mrs. Black Yo done meanto Insln
nlwat he ain't got de nerve?
HI! CONJECTURE.
Mr. Newrocks-I don't know' Jim
what they mean by "the embarrass,
ment of riches."
Mr. Newrocks Maybe It's the but-
A poor or inferior butter will make the best
bread distasteful
THEREFORE
ASK YOUR GROCER FOR
Marion Creamery Butter
. "Meadow Brook"
U costs no more and you Get the Best
-
STATE NEWS
Coos Ray Times: The world hurries
too last for tho Marshfield police, that
IS. ns Imtfr na 41, n. i if. .
..... ......, lmlnl, wuiK) anu now
thief Jack (arter says he wants a
" '"at uie Kidities throw
........,. iMHi moiies ottimes at
niKht make awful fusses-and then
disappear with a "Hickcy the Bull "I
like forked I irhtn .
;c r; 1 says mar
It the COII.ll.il n-,,l.l . .
it W0.I.1 I n " , I"'" .' " W'le"
. ... . .,..,, ,-umer to round un
such violent transgressors of the law.
Prosperity's one drawback in the
HerTS.a8,hnterprise
has i,, " i ' "eiRnt tmsiness
nas been so heavy on the Wallown
l 1 ur nine, ror a da lv
freif.nt t.aia. The train pow comes n
three times a week, ami nen Lli"
nii'it, it in .,..,,. i. ' , .
to iii,. ! " ",t0- scheduled '
, a me at Knterpriso before 6 p. m I
it shows un niivwl., . In-'
oVlockandmorninp.; "B,wren 8
Marshfield Uecnr,!- Tr i...... i
wi.h8hLfaV'0r,VC
J "e".h? '"'o! hnt, durii,!
of Portia,. 1 V ""-v ,1,e tnres ;
Kimnliu f, T? : .
'nut-lit it with rod and line in the riv!
The SI. I
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ceived m '"H,lM,lor whi,,h he re
fr :!n,rA oth 'JZJ?M.'oeolt.
' 'loos not r.vjan. " ,Urm-
nrkvo"d . Va,1
"osticntes: 'M onee ni, tllf Vtag-
Mill '--heaitaS lUuefZ n'"'
lietion that it will ii,ln. .J ,hp V
Kurope-and tlm , mP '
tl.es! hool l ook li ,,0P"1t
raphies." ' K'o?-
shook"";'" A ' ,i,,f h"
- th .J,' '"",hwi,,"t tree and
n, , ' " ' thousand walnut.s.
for capture. " 0h",rvf'1 too
Halter Herald- T it.
sinner. ,.t ? ' V tht Pty eoinmis-
ashinton are takinff . lmn? J,
he ,,"r,
o ,Kn ,,f,"K n"X'"'er than (he
Dr. W. A. COX
f "ti
SINLESS DENTIST
303 State Street
SALEM, ORE.
The Milestones of Life
are indicated by the
Teeth.
By preserving the teeth
you help prolong life at
the same time enjoy life
as you go along.
Let me attend to your
tooth troubles.
Examination free.
Lady attendant always
present.
PHONE 926.
CRAMPS GET CONTRACT.
Washington, Oct. 6. Tac Crnmrs
company of Philadelphia was tiie lo
est bidder today on torpedo boat de
stroyers No. 09 to 74. Their offers were
sr,2,000 each for two and S42,000 for
three. Other bidders included the
Union Iron Works of Sna Francisco
which bid $915,000 for one boat sail
the Seattle Construction and Drydock
company $885,000 for one and $S70,001)
for two. The specifications call foj
delivery at Mare Island, and that H
the vessels must be finished within
twenty months.
Beware of Ointments for
Catarrh that Contain Mercury
at mercury will surely destroy the
of smell and completely deraiif
whole system when enterln It (hrnu"
the mueoua surface. Such articles snoura
never be used except on prescription"
from reputable physk-lani, as the oamsffj
hey will do Is tan fold to the food yn
can posslhly derive from them.
Catarrh Cure, manufactured by V.
Chi-ney Co., Toledo, O., contains no
mercury, and Is taken Intornally. aot n
dlrcily upon the blood and mucous r
fnces of the system. In buylnff H
Catarrh Cure be sure you rt the (rcnu
ne. It Is taken Internally and made
Toledo. Ohio, by F. J. Cheney ft Co.-Testimonials
frrt. Ji
Sold by tmiirlt. Price 75c per bof
Tmf Hun r.miir Pint t"' ci.nswp-"""
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