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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal,, MONDAY EVKXIXG, November 1, 1913. CHARLES H. FISHBB, Editor and Manager PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEIT Bl'NDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. 1.. S. BARNES, CHAK II. FISHER, DORA C. ANDRES EN, President Vice-President Soc. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily by carrier, per year $5.00 Yet month. Daily by mail, per year 3.00 Per month. .45c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES Now York Chicago Ward-Lenis-Williams Special Agency Hurry R. Fisher Co. Tribune Building 30 N. Dearborn St. The Capital Journnl carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does nut do this, mioses you, or neglects getting the jiaper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, us this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers ure following instructions. I'll (mil1 Main SI, CAPITAL JOURNAL'S GROWING CIRCULATION The circulation of the Daily Capital Journal for Sat urday was 4650 copies. Of course, some of these papers were necessary to fill orders for extra copies, but the regular edition of the Capital Journal now averages above 4000 copies daily. When an issue reaches 4G50, it shows that Salem papers are rapidly nearing the metropolitan class, and that we are taking our proper place as the second city in the state in population and in commercial and political importance. NOW LET'S ALL BE GOOD LEARNING WISDOM FROM RATS Another faddist, Dr. M. J. Greenman, head of the Wister Medical Institute of the University of Pennsyl vania, who with Dr. Helen D. King, is making tests with white rats in an effort to discover a method of controlling sex, advances some suggestive ideas: "According to Dr. Greenman, the influence of domesti cation has served to reduce the size of the brain of the rat. " 'The brains of wild rats,' he said, 'are much larger. This is because the wild rat has to hunt and scheme to get his food, while the domestic animal has to make no effort along that line. The forced mental activity of the wild rat acts as a developer of its brain. '"The same principle is applicable to human beings. That is why the bootblack, whose college is the street and the curb, frequently will rise above men who have been reared in the homes of plenty'." According to this the Congo Negro, the Hottentot or the wild tribes of the upper Amazon should have larger brains and greater intelligence than such college officials as Dr. Greenman, who have life jobs and nothing more worthwhile to do than experiment with white rats. But a few years ago some other "professors" were emphatic in the assertion, that a diet of fish increased the size of the brain and caused the bumps of knowledge to swell. This too in spite of the fact that those people, the Esquimax for instance, who lived largely on fish, were of a very low order of intelligence. Strange isn't it what assertions some of these wise ones make, and stranger still the arguments they advance to back up their assertions. But a few months ago a Port land doctor, broke into print" in condemnation of "the unspeakable bath tub," and condemned their use as severely as a democrat is said to do. His principle argu ment was that after one had taken a bath the water was dirty, and the bather could not come out of it clean: Yet it is self-evident that if the dirt that was once on the bather, was in the water after that bath, then the bather was at least cleaner than before he washed. He did not understand the matter half as well as the average boy, who instead of looking in the mirror to see if his face is clean, looks at the towel and gets positive and convincing evidence. There has been quite a tempest stirred up over an article in the Portland Telegram protesting against Valley towns getting a lower freight rate on lumber than Portland. Naturally the Valley towns all felt sore over it, and the Valley papers roasted the Portland hog. Natur ally also we think the Valley papers had the right of the dispute. However, let us hope such a thing will not hap pen again, and so forget it. It is high time that Portland and the balance of the State got in harmony on all ques tions of general interest to the State. This can only be done if we as well as Portland play fair. We are all in the same boat, and any of us that rock it is, well, foolish. We are not excusing Portland, for we think she was decidedly wrong, but what we want, and what the State needs is the doing away with all sectional disputes, and a standing together each for all and all for each. When this little millenium is reached, Oregon will prosper as never before, and until it is reached, while we are pulling op posite directions no section will prosper and the State drift backward. Now then brothers let us wipe off the slate and take a fresh start. Warren A. Browne, a bachelor, aged 34, was recently sued for alienating the affections of the wife of Joseph O'Connor St. John, who wanted $10,000 for his loss. The jury sized up the woman in the case and decided $2,000 was a fair market price for such affections as Joseph had lost. The peculiar feature of the case was, and is, that the defendant Brown, testified that never in his more than a third of a century of life he had never hugged or kissed a woman, nor had he ever even held hands with one. What a revelation is in store for him, should some live wire of a woman make up her mind he was really worth while. A Galley o Fun J The Chinese president Yuan Shi Kai wanting very much to get into the king-row replies to the request of the Powers that he keep out of it for a time, with true Ori- ental politeness under which is scarcely concealed an equally polite invitation to "go to the devil," or so near that expression as the Chinese language will permit. The smiling Oriental evidently believes all Europe is on the way to visit that personage anyway. The Oregonian paragrapher suggests that: "King George has learned that it takes finer ability to sit on a horse than to sit on a throne." As a glittering generality this is true but history records cases where thrones out bucked the most devilish watch-eyed cayuse that ever tried for the record at Pendleton or objected to his rider out on the range. The O. A. C. has another hen with a record of more than )00 eggs in a year. In view of the fact that the group of ten hens from this same institution now in the contest at the exposition will average not more than two thirds of that number, it looks as though there might be some mistake made in keeping the tally. Back in Indiana the principle occupation of the people seems to be having each other indicted for election frauds. Saturday at Sullivan 30 "wets", some of them officials of the big brewing companies, were indicted for "conspir ing to commit a felony in the last "wet" and "dry" election. S. Benson, Oregon's first citizen, has paid Hood River county $10,000, to pay expenses in excess of the $75,000, highway bond, and (hough there is still a shortage of, between $2,000 and $2,500 he has notified the county of ficials through his attorney that he will pay no more. Evidently he feels that his leg has been sufficiently: elongated and prefers not ranking so high as a citizen,' at; uiu ihicl', mi. iH'iisuii is oiiuaiiuu oie anil generous, out U evidently beginning to realize that there is on some occasions, "too much of a good thing." yam. f HE QUESTION QUEST. It'll something new," said consci entious Mrs. Housekeep. "When Henry went away on his last trip he told me that he did hope I'd begin to take an interest in the Questions of the day, and read about them in the papers; and, my dear, If I'd ever had any idea how interesting the Ques tions of the Day are, policemen and jails couldn't have kept me from them. "The Magazine Section of the Sun day Scream seems to think that the most Important Questions of the Day Is whether Clara Devere, of Hamilcar, Ohio, did'or did not put rat poison in her husband's coffee. Tliere'B two whole pages about It, with pictures. You see, they've proved that she went to the drug store and bought some thing for rats, but every woman on earth has done that. This case is es pecially complicated on account of the scrvant-glrl in the house. That's her picture up there. She's trying to look a though butter wouldn't melt in her mouth, hut I've seen those tricks be fore. It ever there was a sly hussy it's that girl. She looks the very im age of my husband's second cousin, Henrietta Kinks, who is a deceitful cat of the first water, and who leads George that's her husband a sim ply terriblo life. "But the Question of the Day that's ever more puz-zling Is the question asked In the Sunday Yell: 'Did Mrs. Vatley Tooms, of Waukegan, run away with the chauffeur because sho loved him or because she wanted to get away from her mother-in-law?' Sometimes I think one way and some times another. But this I will say: When my sister-in-law was living with us, just after Henry and I were mar ried, there were times when I would have run away with the garbageman if he'd only asked me. "The Howl, you'll notice, is offering Ave dollars as a first prize for the. best answer to the Question of the Day: 'Can a Woman Really Love a Cross-eyed Man?' I'm going to write a letter there myself. Not that I want the money, but because I Insist on saying my say. 'Does It Help a Ilaby to Teeth on a Gold Spoon?' 'Will New York Be Devoured by Oysters Before the Year 2037?' 'Who Was the Mys terious Stranger Who Kicked Willie Aalorbilt?' 'Is Ragtime Known on Mars?' 'Would You Rather Wed a Cheerful Counterfeit or a Bilious Bish op?' Of course, that's only a very gen-r-ral selection of topics, but It shows how Interesting public questions are. I'm ashamed of myself to think I'va never before looked up the Questions of the Day, but when Henry comes home, if I don't surprise him with what I know I'll eat up every last comic section on the pantry shelves." T "tti v iime snows asi ) the one way to V independence- a Dank Account rm -i The report of the doings at the exposition Saturday, "Oregon Day", among other things mentions the remarks of a Mr. Dr. Young, presumably one of the San Francisco Chronicle family of that name, who remarked incidental ly, that the name Oregon meant "big ear." As the origin of the name has never been satisfactorily established, an explanation as to whore Mr. Do Young got his informa tion might prove interesting. J.ADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18G8 Capital $500,000.00 Transact a general banking business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT It is claimed putting the lid on the saloons in Chicago, Sundays, will cause at least 4,000 out of the 7,152 in the city to close. Most of these are in the outlying districts and of the smaller class. This calls to mind the fact that Portland "wets" now have only "60 days without grace." RipplingRhijmQs AFTER HALLOWE'EN I'll have to prop my reeling brain. I wonder if I'm strictly sane? Not in the winecup do I look; my drink is from the babbling brook that courses by my humble home; it's long since I have blown the foam! from brimming flagons at the bar, or pulled the cork from jug or jar. I go not where Bacchante sings, and yet, alas, I'm seeing things. Is that a cow in yonder tree, or have my eyes gone back on me? Since when did cows begin to perch in yonder elm be side the church? And there's a horse that makes me blink: its form is blue, its tail is jJ pink; when steeds chromatic drift along, Jf.., U I in almost sure there s something wrong. Mark that old rooster on the fence no feathers are in evidence. When Brahma roosters are as bare of plumage as a Bartlett pear, methinks the world is in the ditch ; some warlock runs it, or a witch. I'll have to have an expert look for microbes in that babbling brook. When water makes him see such freaks, some other drink the wise man seeks. These dire phantasms I must foil I'll fill myself with linseed oil. fef par ! - V V i If V A Without effort there is little chance for accomplishment and none for opportunity. If you earn money, it is a duty to save part of it and we are ready to aid those who have the desire to become independent. Start with $. i INTERSET PAID ON SAVINGS. United States National Bank Salem, Oregon i OPEN FORUM WE SHOULD INVESTIGATE. Salem, Ore., Oct. 30, 1fM5. Kditor t'apitat Journnl: As a student of funning and farm (iioblcins, I think your idea of a commission to investi gate the farming conditions hero in the Willamette valley is a good one. Thoro is no question at all that the farmer, the country over, is not receiving the return on his invested capital, labor and industry that he should. How ever the conditions here in the valley are more acute than iu most sections of the country as statistics show. It does not seem to be crenerallv known that there was a farm survey in 1 Marion and Foils counties in 1SI1, and! mat survey snowed that the averaire capital invested by the farmers here was $14,1)17 and that the farmers re ceived a labor income of $21)1, which was the poorest showing on a survey covering eiht. states. The best show ing was in Chester county, Pennsyl vania with a labor income of $790 on an invested cnpital of $IO,4H(i. I am satisfied that the Willamette valley has not found itself auricultur- ally. We do not know the proper crop or combination of crops that are the most, prontntile. This question is so big, so complex that I do not feel that an open discussion will lend us very far, its only value would be to arouse interest and to prepare us to lav hold of the findings of such a commission. It a I'nminisHion is nplKiiiiteil it should be a largo one, and should be represen tative, it siioukl not ho composed en tirely of fanners and merchants. Tn fact 1 .nm aluioBt nersunded tho fewer wo have on it the hotter. Let the brains of the conimunitv be assembled from all walks of life as a commission to investigate all phases of the question. The Capital Journal la right. Let's havo the facts no matter who is hurt. SILAS FULLER. BLANCHE WALSH DEAD. Cleveland, Ohia, Nov. 1. Blanche Walsh, noted nctrnss nf few trnim nn and more lately vaudeville star, is dead hero. She collapsed receutly at yoiingstown, Ohio, having insisted on filling her engagement tiiero beforo she had completely recovered- from an appendicitis operation. Sh was hooked to appear on a Pa cific coast vaudeville circuit this week but death cnllel her last night. WAR NEWS OF ONE YEAR AGO TODAY Turkey's apology without rep aration for her bombardment of Russian ports was scorned by the allies ami war declara tions threatened. Vpres and Ar gnnnes advances, bombardment of C.einowiti! and repulse of Russian attacks in Kussiun Poland, were claimed by Ger many. Tho North Sea was mined and closed to commerce by tho al lies. Progress near Dixmude and a lessening of Herman at tacks gonerally was Frnuco's report. Koptilse of Germans in East Prussia, a strong offensive beyond tho Vistula with no Gor man opposition and fierce fight ing with Anstrinns on the San in (lalicia were reported by ltussia. , GREEK MET GREEK. Friend What do you think of the cntleman from Boston? Englishman A most astonishing person! Why, he thinks there Is not h- 'ng in the world to compare with Dos-; ;on; not evcu Loudon, don't, ou tnowl X'. 1 .. ,.. GERMAN EDITOR SUICIDES. : injured two veins ngo in an nulomo- bile accident and never fully recov Colonel Kd- eve. I. St. I.ouis. Mo., Nov. 1 ward L. I'reeturius, president of the, ' 1 ' 1 Herman Auieiii'nn Publishing company, i There arc few good alienists In tho publishers of the Times and WostlicliO; country, says Dr. Piitton of Princeton, Post, committed suicide early today by ami it seems the better they are the shooting hiiiiM-lf iu the head, lie was more completely thev disugrce. . DREAMING OF THE RINa FlrBt rugllist How'U yet git uu lack eye, lllM" Second Pugilist Dat's de result of Jluggsley's absent-mindedness. First Pugilist (groggy) How 'low's datT Second Pugilist Yer see, mo an' lira wuz standln' on de curb do odder lay when a passlu' motor-man rings lis gong, an' wot does Sluggsley do ut land on me free times, before lie ices his mistake, , K' ALL SHE WANTEO. Ho A maid must not expect iuch lovers as Bhe finds, to books., Few lien are paragons. Bhe Oh! I should not expect a par igoit. I should, be iBl'? llh '.over, young, liauJitbmeJ' brave, noblo Hid uuselustj, :.tZ-M- 7 IG1HTSIGO OUT soon at tho dream city in San Francisco, for the LJ Panama-Pacific Exposition closes December 4, 1915 You ranimt afford to put. off ny longer your California trip. If you are Interested in scientific ' farming, in milling, in horticul ture, In art; the study of these things at this exposition will aid you In n financial way. Low Rates. are still in effect on the Shasta Route Wrilc for our illustrated booklet "Wayside Notes'' southern;;pacific John M. Scott, General Pass. Agt. Portland, Oregon.