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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" MONDAY KVKN'IX", October IS, 1!1.'. CHARLES H. FISHEr" unor and Manage, PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT BCNDAY, SALEM, OREGOX, BY Capital Journal Ptg, Co., Inc. L. S. BARNES, President CUAS. II . FISHER, Vice-President DORA C. ANDREKEN, fiec. and Tress. Daily by carrier, per year laily by mail, per year .. SUBSCRIPTION RATES , $5.00 Per month. 3.00 Per mouth. . .45c ..35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT E AST ERN REPR ESENTATIY ES New York Chicago Ward I.en is Williams Special Agency Hurry K. Fisher Co. Tribune Building 30 N. Dearborn St. The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, mimes you, or neglects getting the J.aper to you on time, kindlv phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phono Main 8). IT IS UP TO THE EMPLOYERS INTEREST ON HOT AIR President Ripley, of the Santa Fe system, in his re port as to the earnings and expenses of his roads recently made, among other things says, "The average returns in bond interest dividends and improvements was only five and four-tenths per cent on the capital investment of $68:j,8o5,:)14, and the net earnings were $36,916,609. This does not seem an exorbitant return for the money invested, if the sum was as great as stated. But was it? How much of that nearly seven hundred million dol lars was actually used in building and equipping the road, and how much of it represented only the results of financial irrigation? The government is now making a physical valuation of all the railroads in the country, showing both the actual cost of construction and what it would cost now to duplicate them. Until this is done no accurate knowledge of railroad affairs will be available for the public. From the actual cost of some roads, which is known, and the value stated by the management, and unon which the ner cent of earnings is based, it is fair to The administration s plan lor ooiaining i,aw,vw presume that in most railroad valuations, one-half at least trained men lor military service, witnin six years, as a-ls the airy fabric of a baseless dream, in which the water matter of nrenaredness. will depend lor its success, largely upon the employers. It is proposed that l:"!:,000 men each year be trained for two months in military camps. That the men may be induced to take the train ing it is necessary that the employers guarantee them against loss of their jobs while attending the camps. It is also proposed that at least part of their salaries be paid them during the two months they are away from their employment. Many firms now give certain of their employes from two weeks to a month's vacation under pay, and it is sug gested that this would meet a large part of the expense attendant on the training. The government could well afford to add to this sufficient pay to make the loss to those taking the training, inconsequential. Employers, can well afford to do this too, for besides the call of patriotism, there is the selfish reason of self protection. Coming down to fundamentals, it may be said that the poor man is not interested in fighting for his country, other than as his patriotism compels. He has no property to protect, and yet he is the man who in case of war goes to the front to do the fighting. It is the employers of labor who have the property and business to protect, and since in time of war the employes risk life itself fighting for them, it should not be deemed a hardship by them to bear a goodly portion of the expense in putting those who must do the fighting, in the best condition possible to do it right, should occasion require. Whether we are to have the full limit of preparedness it seems will depend largely upon the business men. Our history shows that in time of war America's employers have been royally patriotic. It remains to be seen if they are wise enough to realize that the expenditure of small sums during times of peace, will not only tend to lessen charges made upon thorn during war, but will also tend to make war impossible, that is if preparedness can ac complish this. SOME RAILROAD FIGURES vistas are extensive, and the hot ozone in quantities peculiar to the Sahara. It will be seen from this that earnings representing five per cent on the inflated cost may be ten per cent or more on the actual cost. Suppose for instance this is the case with the Santa Fe system. Then the public, after paying the company five per cent dividends on its in vestment, would also be paying it an additional five per cent on a sum equal to its total investment, or in this case five per cent a year on more than $340,000,000, and this on a hot air investment. The bad lands of Montana may be properly named but it is quite certain they have improved some in the past 3,000,000 years, though the improvement must have been at a very slow rate considering their present condition. Barum Brown, a fossil hunter has dug out the fossilized skeleton of a tyraknosaurus, a species of lizard, with hind legs like a bird. This specimen is forty-seven feet long and eighteen and a half feet high. The bad lands were certainly bad for white folks when these little pests roamed at will over the country, which it is claimed they did some three million years ago. A Galley o' Fun ! MR. CULPRIT HEART. If Polly lets her lashes fall And drops her eyes with growinR scorn. Nor deigns to look on me at all As Polly chose to do this morn, My chiding mood I quick relent, I'd feln each jealous word recall. for, Rh! I grow so penitent As Polly lets her lashes fall. I feel that I should punished be l or maklne Pnllv'a lip.n-t In l.nrf- Although, between just you and me, blie did encourage Jack to flirt! My heart so quick is to repent, It bares itself to scourgings all, And deems it righteous punishment. When Polly lets her lashes fall! The United States is some railroad country, leading the world in that line. It has more miles of railroad than all Europe which has 207,132 miles to the United States 211.1W. Not only this but it has three-eights of all the railroads in the world which has a total 'mileage of 639, t)Sl miles. This mileage is apportioned as follows: Europe 207,132 miles; Asia 6:5,320 miles; Austria 19,267 miles; Africa 22,892 miles, and America 3.27,000 miles. It will be seen from this that the America contihent has 327,070 miles against 312.911 miles in the rest of the world. RipplingRhipos -fy Walt Mason t AUTUMN LEAVES The Autumn leaves are falling, and poets heave a sigh, and say that Nature's calling on living things to die. A ! pensive melancholy Fall months to poets bring; but I am' tat and jolly and gambol as I sing. I do not think of hearses when Autumn zephyrs wail, but write some cheerup verses, and earn nine kinds of kale. The skies are dark and dreary, the rain begins to spout, but people should be cheery unless they have the gout. The wind is chill and snap py, the earth is dank and wet, but people should be happy, unless they are in debt. The wind will soon be piling big snowdrifts on the plain, but people should be smiling unless they are insane. I love all kinds of weather, I love the Autumn well, when we all sit together around the fire and yell, and keep the corn a-popping, each in his easy chair; the Autumn leaves are dropping it's little that I care. The Autumn leaves are falling; I let the blamed things fall; my phonograph is squalling, "Dear uays ueyonu uecaii." mere's firelight on the rafter, and '' ' VI OTHER PEOPLE. The sweetest woman that ever I saw Didn't happen to be my mother-in-law. The richest -girl that J dined and wined Didn't fall in love with the under signed. The pool in Northern Pacific stock Knew naught of a man by the name of "lock." The "six best sellers," I'm forced to admit, Were all of them written by me aber nit! That piece of two-million' real estate Just sold wasn't mine, I'm sorry to state. The Reason. Twas the stork's, blamed fault, I'm certain of that; He ought f have left me in the other flat! The Capital Journal has for some years maintained an! noiKhi)OVS at the door "open forum" column in which anyone could give oxprcs-j ' sion to his her ideas on any subject. AH that has been or is required is that the matter be written in a clean way and that the articles be signed by the party writing them. The writer can sign any fictitious name for publication, but the Journal must know whom to hold responsible for the article. The true name will not be published if the writer does not desire it. Several communications, one signed "Farmer's Wife," are now held up for failure to comply with this condition. NOT A TRUE PATRIOT. First Politician I don't like Square chln a bit. lie strikes mo an being nn CRotlstlcal kidlets on the floor, around me joy and laufrhter. and nmrv''is admiration for his own K-uiTi mat uuiiu V. One of the most amusing things in the political way that has happened for years, is the position taken by the Oregonian in preaching "States rights" to the democrats. Time was when the mention of states rights would almost cause the ink on our big contemporary to turn red. Chicago was dry again yesterday. First thing those jiorkopolist folks .know they will get the dry habit. Brush College Parent- Teachers Association Real Community Center NEW BOOKS FOR LIBRARY LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1S6S Capital $300,000.00 Transact a general banking business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT .M-taiit Sl.it' Superintendent of! Public liiMmciioii i.ilotou addressed' I lie l'u rent Teiu h -i s association nuvt-i inn at Hnisli ('iilei;e lust night mid re-! poil tois ii'vit union tu ln line of tlu' i Undent Hint In est essocinlious in the itute. Not on l di the parents and pillions of tlie m lund dmirn t take an active niiil int 'ilii;ent interest in nil school at't'uiis lint they talk over all other eoniinniiily problem ami ut their meeting decided to turn mil in n body! to improve the road leading up to the .school house. ' Hrus.i colloi;c hvi nil ev client or- i liestru made np of the best musicians of the district who luiuish the close hnrmouy lor all of the nuM'tin;; nnd at em h session nn outside speaker is so eiired to till in l'irt the program.; The school has imiuoved vastlv ni.ieu! the entire body uf the district him be-j riiu taking pail in tlio ultima of too .school and if it i necessary to veto n speciul tat to improve the school sys tem the tax paveis (jl'idlv contribute their share. i" Mr. taileton oddtessoil the Klkins school, in I'olk county, yestculiiy. f tenioou and Iclt tins city this ufternoon i lor Allmcc here he will deliver an adress at the I hildreus' I udiisti nil fair; w lin n is now on in that i ll v. i The following III new books have been received nt the Salem Public lib rary during the Inst wetik. The list includes- nil kinds of mib.jects from that of Happy Hawkins iii the l'anlian die" to oducuti i works and a trea tise on liussiiin literature. The new- books include: Hnring-Outline of Kussiun Litera ture. Nullork Agricultural Credit. Caldwell-IMements of General Sci ence. Coinnionweiiltli club of California Kurnl Credits. Curlis 'Munition Through Tlav, Ijevine-'l'lie Normal J.lfe. Kdwards- Popular Amusements. Kills - Impressions nnd Comments. Fitch The College Course and the Preparation for Lite. Hiirbeu The lleslred Woman ; It Novel. Meredith- I'oeticnl Works. Sienkiewicii-Kniuhts of the Cross. Snaith Anne V'evershnm. Taylor Caleb Trench. Wnson- Happy Uklns in the Pan handle. Wells -nenll.y: s Holiday. GIRL IS IDENTIFIED Second Politician Yes. sir; thnc lust the kind of a man he is! Hc'.s one or these here fellows that Insist tin making up their own minds on po litical Issues before the pnrtv has adopted Its platform. i' nine ana effort are your tools for and a Bank account proves neither were wastedr Why don't you learn the advantage of having a Bank account in a reliable Bank? To start is the thing don't be back ward because your beginning may be small, all big things had small beginnings and there is a pile of satisfaction and comfort in watching your bank account grow. We want to help you save and be somebody, if you will only give us the chance. Bep-in with $1. 4 INTEREST PAID ON SAVINGS United States National Bank Salem, Oregon New Jersey Women Make Hot Campaign Trenton, X. X, Oct. 18. From Cape May to Kittatinny ridge, the women of New Jersey today made the final appeal of their whirlwind campaign for suffrage. Mass meetings everywhere in the state were addressed by some of the most prominent suffragists in the country, while bands played suffrage tunes. Leaders urged that the ballot ing be watched closely and special iitmriB nine uecu uppouueu to guaru any frauds. Today's speech making ended one of the most brilliant suffrage cam paigns in the nation's history. Aided by their New York sisters, and spflrned on by President Wilson's pronouncement in fnvor of state of suffrage the wo men spared neither time nor monoy to make their efforts a Buccess. Conservative estimates indicate the vote will be close. The suffragists clnrmcd to be confi dent of victory, but they realized that if they win the majority will not be large. They were admittedly some what dubious as to the result in manu facturing centers where there is a strong foreign element, but they ex pected a Inige and favorable vote in the rural district to offset any unfavor able figures in the cities. OBJECT TO SENDING MUNITIONS, Automobile Parties Are Not Sanitary Sacramento, Cal, Oct. IfiV-Automo-biles are a factor iu spreading typhoid fever iu California, because of the in creased use of the automobile by camp ing parties, the state health authorities announced today. Many times these automobile camp ing parties do not exercise care in sani tation and in preventing pollution of streams. MARION WILL BE IN SHOW Seattle, Wash., Oct. IS. The state alliance of German societies today sent a protest against the sending of war munitions from the Tinted states to warring ngtinns, to President Wilson, who, with members of congress, was memorialized. Marion county will be represented iu the coming Manufacturers' & Land Products bhow, to open October 25, The feature display will be the ex hibit from the State Asylum, which made the highest ncore of all agri cultural and horticultural collection! at the recent state fair at Salem. Marion county will be one of twen ty counties to have part iu the com ing exposition, Work on the tern- Jiorary buildings to adjoin the armory las ronimenccd nnd when the strut tures are. completed there will be morn than 75,000 square feet of space for industrial and agricultural displays. Besides the drill hall of the armory, the balcony in the building will be used for exhibition purposes. Tin yenr's exposition will lie one of the largest ever held in the Unile-1 States. Practically all space hns beet tulion and the displays from fin fne tories of Oregon will show almost every article manufactured ia the state. Woodbum Independent. How sleepy matters and things when T. R. goe3 away in the Quebec woods. TERRIFYING. The lillle boy regarded the pictures at the harem skirt with stnrtlng eye balls. "Does It mean that I am to have twice as many trousers cut down for me?" he shrieked. Then he foil on his knees and prnv fd, us never before, that several sit, ters might ba vouchsafed him in the future. WEST DENIES RUMOR. I'oitliiud, Or., Oct, lit. KMiovrrnor Went tO'lav denied thai hi would lm a candidate for coinjies m the primaries iu'M tiii4, Humor bad it that hf noull make the inc. Portland, Or., (Vt. 10. The bodv of the (jirl who di,M on the operating table in the office of Pr. A. A. Anv pliuid late yesti rdnv was identified to day a Hun f m,m Ann, Anderson, a domestic in the home of Kred H. Ureen, a tniilwntiAii, When SOMEWHAT VAGUE. The Smitten Man forvently)-I.ovo you, darling? Why, before I met YOU, I thought only of having a good tiniu in life. STRAIGHT DCWN. rassengor Kr-how far aro wo from land, Cap? Captain About a mile. rasscnger-A mile? Why, I can't see It. Captain No; the water" too deep. a man bckiu tiricintr autonm. bile it's a mire in that friend Wife ill soon niilcn her clrele of old and very dear friends. HIS PHILOSOPHY. She I wish I could be as contented as you! lie-Oh t I alnt contented onlv 1 tlont think f wulh while to worn about It! AT REGULAR RATES. roet-Yes, I write poetry .n t v, raise hay; we are both prodi-. ' rainier-Ana I reckon we . about lmeon dollare t ton. 1 1 Ml !twtm The History of the World From the Dawn of Creation until 'The Great War Is depicted in art, science and industry and presented in wonderful colors PANAMA-PACIFIC EXPOSITION San Francisco This wonderful Exposition closes Dec. 4 Don't Miss It Lest you always look back to 1915 with regret Scenic Shasta Route Through the wonderful Valleys of the Willamette, the Sacramento, the I'mp qua and the Rogue offers exceptional diversion. . , Low Round Trip Fares Full particulars with copy of booklet "Wayside Notes, Shasta Route" or "California and Its Two World Exposi tions'' on application to nearest ageut SOUTHERN PACIFIC John M. Bcott, General Pasaenget Agent, Portland, Oregon. sttttummtttttamnttmtmum