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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" SATIMIIUV EVKXIXU, December 11, 1915. CHARLES H. FISHES, Editor and Manager PUBLISHED EVEBY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. S. BARNES, President CHA8. H. FISHER, Vice-President DORA C. ANDRESEN, Sec. and Tress. SUBSCRIPTION BATES ilT bv carrier, oer year $5.00 Per month. Daily by mail, per year 3.00 Per month. .45c .35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago Wsrd-Lewis-Williams Special Agoncy Harry R. 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 docs not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper 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. Phone Main 81. THE O. & C. LAND GRANT Under the decree of the supreme court which was filed in the federal court at Portland Thursday, the Southern Pacific must pay all the costs in the suits over the granted railroad lands in this state. The bill will be a big one. At the same time the company is restrained from selling any of these lands in greater quantities than 1G0 acres to one person and must not charge more than $2.50 an acre for these tracts. The decree further pro vides that the company cannot sell at all until congress takes action in the matter. . There is one matter that seems to be left somewhat in doubt. The supreme court held that the grant was absolute and that the company need not sell until it got ready to do so. The question is, that as under this ruling the com pany can never be forced to sell, can it use the lands it self? Can it cut the timber off them, or remove the mineral therefrom? The company claims it has this right. As owners in fee of the lands, which the court says the S. P. is, subject only to the proviso that the lands when sold must be sold in a certain manner, why is not the contention of the road correct? We submit that it looks that way to a layman. If this is the case is there any way in which the company can be compelled to finally dispose of the lands as provided in the grant? That is the question the land grant conference has been discussing, and so far has not arrived at -any conclusion. . It strikes us the Southern Pacific is amply trying to drive a shrewd bargain, and that if just let alone will be glad enough to let go of the lands when its bluff is called. It cannot go into the lumber manufacturing business for the simple reason that that is beyond the privileges granted it in its incorporation. It cannot create a sub sidiary company and turn the lands over to it because that would be a violation of the conditions under which the lands can be sold. In the meantime the taxes on the lands would make them a very poor investment if they were appraised at what the timber lands are worth in the market. If the company chooses to hold them and pay taxes on the first class timber lands on a valuation of $G0 an acre, the state could have no objection for it is interested in the taxes really more just now than it is in getting the lands settled. As a matter of fact the S. P. would have made more money by giving away, all its agricultural lands on a proviso that they be brought under cultivation within a reasonable time, than to have kept them. The freight on their produce would long ago have paid for the whole grant. TOVERTY A DISEASE irreconcilable with preventable poverty. Self reliance and independence are foundation' stones in strong characters. We sometimes find these high qualities in the man who is poor because he is the victim of misfortunes and dis asters he could not control. But the man who is poor because he has no courage, no faith in himself, no higher iaeai man a nana-io-nana existence wuiuiiy lacKs tne stuff that progress is made of and is so much less a man. He is voluntarily a quitter, compared with the man who, day by day, develops powerful mental and moral fibre in energetic, persistent efforts to gain a competency and make the-most of himself. The Oregon Journal has been insisting for some days that it had inside information that was reliable to the effect that the Washington supreme court had reached a decision on the prohibition contest in that state and that it would hold the law unconstitutional or at least of no force. Friday the supreme court unanimously decided this case exactly the opposite way, and sustained the law. From this we judge the Journal must have got its pointer from some mining stock broker. The discovery of trichinae in a lot of pork in Portland, and the death of several persons from trichinosis caused by eating of this diseased meat was responsible for a sud den falling off in the demand for it and left pork products almost a drug in the market. It is not an appetizing thing to think about, but the meat is harmless if well cooked, the trichinae being killed only by having the meat extra well done. EL THE STORE THAT SAVES YOU MONEY, The Hawley Pulp and Paper company of Oregon City' announces that it will begin early next year an addition to its plant that will increase its capacity 60 per cent. It will be, when this unit is completed, the largest paper plant on the coast, and will employ 1,000 men. Oregon City can be congratulated on the size and character of her Christmas gift. Just when the corn crop was showing" up and hoc owners ueguimng io ieei cneenui about the outlook for the industry along comes those measly little bugs, the trichinae, and knock the pork market silly. As the poet sang about the dear gazelle: "Tis ever thus," and thon some. Pendleton, home of the round-up, the last ditch stand oi tne oia iar west, must depend on coffee clubs for warmth and inspiration after January 1. The moral well draw your own. Evidently Dr. Von Bethenann-Hollweg failed to con sult Henry Ford before making his defiant address to the Reichstag. The air is full of peace talk recently, and come to think of it the Atlantic ocean is pretty well filled with the same material. A large part of the poverty of the world is a disease, the result of centuries of bad living, bad thinking and sinning. We know poverty is an abnormal condition because it ,' does not fit any human beings constitution or give him happiness. It contradicts the promise and the prophecy of the divine in man. There is plenty of evidence that abundance of all that in good was man's inheritance and if he claims it stoutly he will have it. If it were possible for all poverty stricken people in the world to firmly turn their backs on their dark and discouraging environment and bravely face the light and cheer, and resolve that they have done with poverty and a slip-shod existence this very resolution, persistently kept up, would soon revolutionize civilization. Many think they are doing their level best to get away from poverty1, when they are making not one-tenth the effort possible. The love of ease has wrecked more careers than any thing else except dissipation; and laziness and dissipation usually go together. In a strong character there are certain traits that are LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 186S CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking: Business Safety Dcpesit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT THE PAUPER ' The sad and seedy pauper has no one for a friend; his lite has been improper, and now it nears the end. Some cold and frosty morning will see him borne away, another awful warning, to sleeD till Jnr.tm.prir. TW And once he was as gilded as any blithe some swain, and palaces he builded among the hills of Spain. He had his golden vision, when he was young, like you; the future was elysian, in his ecstatic view. When they have laid the pauper behind the old gray kirk, they'll say, "He came a crop per, because he wouldn't work. Fair visions he was viewing, of fortune and renown, but when it came to doing, he wouldn't Duckie down. He took it out in dreaming of wealth in vast amounts, while t'other lads were schem ing to swell their bank accounts. And so we plant his system behind this old stone barn, and not a soul has missed him, and no one cares a darn." Oh, golden youth get busy, while you possess the years, and labor till you're dizzy, like granddad's brindled steers. Yield not to visions iruitiess, out make the kettle boil; for visions all are bootless which are not backed by toil. !h v M KM AS SPECIALS Electric Lamps, priced from $2.80 to $12.00 Library Tables priced from . $6.00 to $30.00 All Leather Rockers priced from $16.00 to $40.00 Leather Scat Rockers priced from $5.50 to $25.00 teM - -it.. -T t Our store is fast being recognized as the leading house furnishing store in this city. Our great buying power enibles us to save you moneyWe have stores in Oregon, Washington, and buy all ou merchandise in great quantities, thus enabling us to sell high quality merchandise far less money. CALEF BROS. The Store for the People Cor. Court and High Streets g ,0 THE MARKETS i ! i The wheat story is about the same, local mills paving from 80 to 82 cents. Salem dealers are of tho opinion (hat prices will change but little this winter and if there is a change, it will be to wards lower prices, lint in the pres ent conditions, one man's opinion is about as near right as another. Port land markets are weak today from the continued peace talk. Eggs are weak, several stores retail ing at 40 cents a dozen which seems to indicate that supplies nro coming in and the prices paid locally will not per mit shipment to the Portlnud markets. Prccr&'ifin&tior) is the hieF of tedb-r Grains. Hay, timothy, per ton $14.00 Oats, vetch $10.00 Cheat $9.0010.00 Wheat 8U(a8ac Oats 35c Rolled barloy $32.00 Cora $40.00 Cracked corn $41.50 Bran $25.00 .Shorts, per ton $27.00 Butter. Butterfat 33c Croamery butter, por pound 35c Country butter 30o Eggs and Poultry. Eggs, candled, No. 1, oaeh 38c Eggs, cuBe count, cash 30(3 38c Eggs, trade 3739c Eggs, storago 28c Hens, pound ' 10llc Roosters, old, per pound 7c Spring chickens, pound 10llc Turkoys, live 1510c Turkeys, dressed 1819c Fork, Veal and Mutton. Veal, drossed 78c Pork, dressed .' 7 l-2c Pork, on foot 5 l-4c Spring lambs 6 l-2c Steers S5 l-2c Cows 34c Bulls 3c Ewes 8c Wethers 44 l-2c Vegetables. Cabbage 40c Tomatoes, California $1.251.50 String garlic 15c Potatoos, cwt 75c Brussels sprouts 10c Sweet potatoes $2.75 Bcot . 40c Carrots 40c Turnips 40c Celory 4070c Onions $1.25 I'ulifornia head lettuce, ease $2.73(3.00 Green beans 12 l-2c v: ,y;y vspA' p 1 , Dl? Co 5CMJS- Mu siptem of cjivinqj firaf cl55 dental work cl & low cost has heljcied many & fcxmilLj in solving the high cos! of living. Examination Free Lady Nurse Modern Office Courteous Treatment 303 State Street Phone 926 Calves, $7.007.50, Spring lambs, $7.50. Butter: City creamery, 32c. Eggs: Selected local ex., 42e. Hens, ll14c. Broilers, 12(! 13c. Geese, 7(5 Sc. SPOKANE HAS EARTHQUAKE OPEN FORUM WATER ON SIDEWALKS. Spokane, Wash.. Dec. 11. Spokane was excited today when it learned that the slight enrthquake shock felt yesterday afternoon, origiuated 'within lU'J miles of the city. This was report ed by father V. J. Adams, of Cionzngaj umvei-i-ity, after consulting tho uni versity seismograph. SLEET IN ILLINOIS Chicago, Dec. 11, Interurban traffic in Illinois, Indiana and Iowa was tied ! up, and communication with central j Illinois was cut off for several hours todpy a? a result of the season's first i sleet storm. Later, .the sleet began to j turn to snow. Lake shipping ,in nearby ports was! practically abandoned. j Editor Journal: Just a few words in regard to water on the sidewalks. Would it not be a good thing to dig trenches along the low placeB so that the great puddles of water that stand on tho wnlks could be drained off It seems to me that a little work ou the part of the city or the property owner would call forth words of commendatio from the pedestrians if such were done, it sure is trying on one to walk down t tie streets and step in water nearly to the shoe toiis. Some action will be duly appreciated by hundreds of peoplo who nre compelled to nso the sidewalks every day through n lack of money to use the street cars or a lack of other conveyance to bring them to their plac es of work. VOX rOPULI. Prosperity Sweeping the Entire Country New York, Dec, II. ltenl prosperity is sweeping (he entire country in the opinion of presidents of six big insur ance euiupnnies expressed today in op timistic interviews with the ' United Press, Prosperity In the east, they said, is luo to war orders. Elsewhere tiiey credited it to the reaction from depres sion following the outbreak of the war. All u nn n i mou sly declared "prosperity . nere. Those Interviewed are here attend tho annual convention of the Associa tion of Life Insurance presidents. After describing the unprecedented prosperity of the Pacific coast, Presi dent tleorge. I'ochian of the Pacific Mutual company of San Francisco scouted the suggestion that a slump will follow the closing of the exposition there. He declared (lint the result of the exposition would he that niunv of its visitors will invest in western lands. Moreover, he declared that the San Diego extinction, still continuing would serve to "ease down" me coast should there be tiny decline in present prosper ity, by preventing anv abruptness in such a slump. ft SHERIDAN HAD A BREEZE. San Pruneiseo, Ieo. 11. Af ter escaping from the grip of the most terrific tvphoon that ever hit the Philippines, the United States transport Sheri dan is Hearing San Eraneiseo. 1'or .several hourB the trans port was" lashed about by a wind which ranged between 200 and 2."t miles an hour. The Sheridan will arrive Monday with the 7ti U. S. cavalry. ft Fruits. Oranges, Valencia $5, Oranges, Navels $3.75((f4, .Tapiinese oranges $1. Lemons, per box $4.25(74. Biuiiinas, pound 61- California grape fruit .... $5.00(111). Dates, dromedary, case $3. Pard dates $1, Ornpes, barrels $5. Cranberries ..! $10.0012. Pineapples 7 1- Honey $3. Retail Prices. Eggs, por dozen, frosh ranch ,.4045c Eggs, storage 30c Sugar, cane $7.15 Sugar, D. O $0.95 Croamery butter 40c Flour, hard wheat $1.50(cl'2.40 Flour, valley $1.201.51 PORTLAND MAREXT Portland, Ore., Dec. 11 Whent: Club, 91(rffl4o. Bluestem, Pitfi? Oats: No. 1 white feed, $24.00(7? 24. 50. Barlev: Feed, 2fl.0O(fr'2S.00. Browing, $2S.00fli 29.50. Hogs: Best live, $5.(10(0 (1.00. l'rimo steers, $i).50fT7.00. Fancy cows, $5.00 5.50. A poor or inferior butter will make the best bread distasteful THEREFORE ASK YOUR GROCER FOR Marion Creamery Butter "Meadow Brook" It costs no more and you Get the Best