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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 18, 1915)
Journal" s.vrriiiuY kvkni.no, December IS, 191.". CHARLES II. FISHER, Editor and Manager Editorial Page of "The PUBLISHED ETEBY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OEEGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. S. BARNES, President CEAS. H. FISHEB, Vice-President DOHA C. ANDBEREN, Sec. and Treas. SUB3CEIPTI0N BATES Bailr by carrier, per year $5.00 Per month 45c Daily by mail, per year 3.00 Per month 35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEOBAPH BEPOBT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago Ward-Lewia-Williams Special Agency Hnrry 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 does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only ray we can dotermine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 81. THE PRESIDENT'S WEDDING It is in accordance with American ideas that the wedding taking place in Washington this evening, in which the head of the government is to be married to an American woman, who has been engaged in trade, and making a living for herself, .should have occurred in the home of the bride just as most weddings in this demo cratic country do. The chosen ruler of the richest, greatest and naturally the most powerful nation in the world, or that ever was in it, is to be married without pomp or ceremony, and will slip away to no one knows where, to indulge in the sweet dalliance belonging to every honeymoon. How different had it been, the wedding of royalty. There would have been pomp and glitter, be-uniformed men and bewilderingly gowned women; blare of bands and excess of ceremony and function; bishops in trailing robes to perform the ceremony and an army of officials, each borne down with the weight of his responsibilities In seeing his part of the gorgeous affair went off without a hitch. There would have been crowned heads or their repre sentatives from half the world to do honor to the event. The city would have been ablaze with streamers and ban ners, and all the pomp and ceremony possible would have accompanied the uniting of the hands of two persons who very likely had no liking for each other, and whose mar riage was .simply one of political policy. It is fitting too that the fair woman who today gave her hand to the president let her heart go with it, as is the custom in this land of freedom and equal rights, where there is no class or caste, other than that which comes from individual worth. The whole country regardless of politics has only the best wishes for the president and the charming woman whom he has made his wife, and sincerely hopes as well as believes she will prove indeed a helpmeet, making him forget when official duties are over the strenuous cares of the day and compensating him for all its troubles and annoyances. THE HOBBY RIDERS' Maybe when Ford's second peace ship catches up with the party now on the Oscar, the delegation on it may offer peace terms to the first that will be acceptable. Rev. Charles Aked having taken a firm stand apparently will require more than moral suasion to cause him to make any concessions. His remedy for the situation is to put everybody ashore who dots not agree with his theories. The trouble is that those disagreeing with him are as "sot in their ways" as he is. All together theydo not seem to be any more amenable to reason than the rulers they are supposed to try to persuade to show christian charity for each other, and to reach a compromise through mu tual forebearance. It is rather a suggestive fact that of all the warring nations that own and operate submarines, Turkey is the only one that has shown a christian spirit in dealing with unarmed merchant vessels belonging to an enemy. When the inghtened passengers ot an Italian steamer began to jump overboard expecting every minute to have a tor pedo exploded under their vessel, the commander, called to them not to be afraid that "we are not murderers." It is only proper to add that the commander of the sub marine was probably an Austrian. Christian nations might do well to follow the example of the "unspeakable Turk." There was a sort of preliminary arranging of the plan of battle in enforcing the prohibition law, going into olTect with the new year, when the prosecuting attorneys of the state gathered m the oil ice of Attorney General We are used to hearing it said that this is an age of specialization in occupations. But a little look backward convinces us that specialization has been the ruling order in every age. Morse, when riding his hobby, the telegraph, was spoken or. by a congressman as an old fool who wants congress to pay for stringing a wire from Baltimore to Washington, with the absurd notion that people can com municate at a distance." But the specialist won out. Copernicus was such a hobbyist that he was called crazy when he said the earth moved round the sun, and his book on the revolution of the heavenly bodies was prohibited. But his hobby carried him to fame. Galileo, compelled to abjure his hobby, still muttered under his breath, "The earth moves just the same." And it does. Franklin rode his hobby, electricity, and when folk sneered, "of what use is it?" he replied, "What's the use of a boy? He may become a man." When Westinghouse went to Vanderbilt with his air brake the railroad magnate told him he "hadn't time to talk to fools." Westinghouse worked twenty years to get his hobby accepted. He specialized in the fullest sense. The successful worker today, and always, is he who singles out from the vast number of possible employments some hobby and rides it whip and spur. The specialists have made the industrial and scientific world. Yuan Shi Kai recently president of the republic of China by the will of the people and now the emperor of China by the will of himself and a coterie of politicians, explains his acceptance of the crown by saying that "the pressure brought to bear on him by the people was such that he could not refuse." We have known many poli ticians in this country to be affected the same way, and the pressure was not exceedingly heavy either. There is in politics nothing like being in a receptive mood. Next year just a little gentle pressure would convince Root, Marshal, Cannon, Clarke, Roosevelt, Borah, Hobson, and dozens of others who would like to occupy the presiden tial chair, and democrat and republican alike, that the urging was irresistible and the pressure dynamic. A Galies; o Fun ! LIGHT ON A DARK SUBJECT. The suburbanite is a man v. ho spends his daytime In the city and hi. salary In the country. He usually is old enough to know belter. The suburban ite Is a patron saint of transportation companies, snow-shovel mnkeni, re ambulator manufacturers, lawn-mower grinders, and growers of seed grass, garden, and canary. He lunches at Thompson's, dinr.i : home, and eats his breakfast on th road to the station. He knows his way home in the duvlr but probably would fail to reco.rrnizf bis bungalow if he were to run ut against it in the daytime. The suburbanite usually has a wife four children, la grippe, and no per manent cook. - He sleeps all day Sunday drpismlnj of trial-balances. Week-days tli? ba bies are silll slumberlns when he leaves for the city in, the mnvniir:, and abed when he reaches heme at' night. pilsprlng of BiibmbiH know only by heresay that they 1..; a father. i All suburban jokes on record were written by cave-dwellers. Suburban life is no joke to the suburbanite. lie jBides, he has no time for foolishness , the seven-thirty local walla for no man. IT l - rrocr&stin&Tior) ,,y2 is tlx fief of 1 1 ii . KM Di?Co5&y5- Mtj 5i5tem of (Jiving firsf c!cx55 denfd work cj a lew cost bos helfxd many zx family in soKiixj the high cost of. living- Examination Free Lady Nurse Modern Office Courteous Treatment 303 State Street Phone 926 Always Watch This Ad" 'Changes Often The Russian forces have occupied the Persian town of Hamaden. The place is of no great importance in a com mercial way but its capture serves to show how the war, starting' on the borders of Germany has reached even into the lands and scenes of biblical times. Hamaden, which is the ancient city of Orontes, is said to be the burial place of Esther and Mordecai. According to recent reports the site of the garden of Eden has already been over-run by armed forces. This is carrying the war back to first principles. Besides remembering to shop early, which by the way you will be late in doing unless you commence at once it is also well to remember that is if you like your morn ing's morning, that January first is but two weeks dis tant and that the druggists will not have anything in the morning line for sale. The law permits you to have it around the house so long as you had it in your possession before the law went into effect. This is only a hint for those who have not yet acquired the dry habit. Chauncey M. Depew claims that it is a mistake to re tire from the usual pursuit of life whatever it may be, and regrets that he has done so. Chauncey is mistaken in the idea that he has retired. He was always an after dinner talker and is at it yet. The only trouble with Chauncey is that he has talked so long that he has noth ing left to say without repeating himself and so is no longer in the urgent demand he once was. So far as the prohibition law going into effect is con cerned there are many who will indorse the republican idea of a much more thorough "preparedness" than the democrats have planned. AN INTERESTED PARTY. "Yes! Cholly has taken up hunllng. I believe his doctor recommended it." "His doctor? I thought it might have been his tailor?" RippHngRhijmos ifiv wa t Maton DOING GOOD We all are bent on doing good, when it's not too ex- 7 7 I rown Friday. The law was gone over thoroughly andj pensive; when coin is asked, it's understood we're all on t is fair to presume that the attorneys are well supplied! the defensive. With helpful word and kindly smile, I trot xvith munitions of war and are generally in a state of ar0Und the village, but if you'd touch my preparedness" for old demon Rum no matter what shape TOT little pile, I talk of graft and rillaee. I 'V UkVUV akj W4V444 A4le j I 7 ' Sfc I TYl LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18G3 CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking: Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Weei) for those flffliftflrl Sprrie ivrin u-arlp in blood and slaughter; not all vour con solation curbs the flow of briny water. But when I'm asked to loosen up, to help to buy some iriuers, so an tnose hungry Serbs may sup, you find me with the quitters. I mourn for those heroic Poles, whom Fate is always beating, who tighten up their belts three holes whene er they think of eating. For mourning doesn't cost a cent, and tears are cheap as blazes, and any sympathetic gent can hand out feeling phrases. But when I'm asked to spill a bean, to buy the Poles a dinner, I say, "I need for gasoline my coin as I'm a sinner 1" WHAT IT COSTS. Running an auto is now so much of i necessity that I should like to give my experience. I am deeply pained from time to tlmo as I notice the gross extravagance of my friend.:, and I think it is Tilgh tlmo that the real figures Bhould be given. When I was getting fifteen dollars a week, I talked the matter over with my wife, and we . decided that, we could deny ourselves the auto for an other six months, but at that time I was suddenly raised to sixteen; no obslaclo then preventing, I gut my first car. . The cost of a car should be cave fully considered. My csperlewo Is that It Is better to get the best CHr ou can for the money, o I ('.id not hesitate. I secured a modest Utile runabout for only five thousand dol lars, paying the agent out of r..y first week's salary. The balance wa fur. nit lied by my mother-in-law, who has the privilege of using It once, every spring. i I have had the car now for Fix months; during this period we have been to California twice and wo took n hurried trip over the Alpit, besides (his I have used it to go to and from my office. The car has had very rough lipase, and yet the total cxpenso counting gasoline and three tire pl'.ir.H, lias been only three dollars, How do 1 ac count for this? I don't. I simply give the facts. I might add that I am iislnp; the Fame spark-plugs as when I flailed, and I have been offered three times what they cost me. I Intend 'lo uso them for a year or so longer, how ever, when I confidently expect to sell them for even more than thli. J PROGRESSIVE FARMING. "Well, yes," confessed honest Farm er Hornbeak, the while a grim grin wrinkled his weather-beaten complex ion. "It's a good 'eal o trouble, but ,the satisfaction I feel amply repays me for the extry work. Ye see, by degree! I'm eharpenin' tip the top of every ttump on the place, and in the roilrse o' time I hope to have mat ters so arranged that the hired mnn will find It fully as comfortable to stand up durln' the day as to sot down." . u v i O TRUE. Willis I see a fellow In New Yorit took out $250,000 Insurance on $20U worth of goods, 4 GiUls That's nothing. I know a lot or fellows who carry $25,000 lite Insurance on a thirty-cent life. FOR THE WOODSMAN We have all kinds of Axes, Sledges, Wedges, Sawi and Equipments for the woods. All kinds of Corrugated Iron for both Boofs and Buildings. A good $800.00 Laundry Alangol, slightly used for one-fourth original cost $15 AND $20 NEW OVERCOATS AT 85.00. I pay 1 1-2 cents per pound for old rags. I pay highest price for hides and fur. H. Steinbock Junk Co. , The House of Half a Million Bargains. 302 North Commercial Street. Phone 808. WILLAMETTE NOTES The oratorical contest will be nn in teresting ono this year due to the fact that there is two prizes for tho winner. This is the result of combining the regular inter-collegiate try-out with the Walter Kcyes contest. So that tho ne cessity of two try-outs is dispensed with and tho results will be known sooner. The winner will bo Willamette repre sentative in the inter collegiate contest in which eight colleges of Oregon par ticipate; in addition the winner will also receive Jfcl5 in gold, the first prize offered by Attorney Walter Keyes. Tho rules governing the contest are: The oration will be limited to 1,!)00 words, contestant shall choose and write their own orations. There will bo two sets of judges; one for thought mid composition, tho other for delivery. There are a number of men and women who have signified their intention of entering the contest as it is a free for all university students. Several letter men of previous years are awakening and will pen orations during the Christ mas holidays, to compete with the under-class aspirants. Manager Paul Smith has hopes of seeing Willamette take first place in the inter-coilegiiite contest this year, for never before has there been the en thusiasm in forensics. This is perhaps due to the fact that this year has seen the iurtdouctiou of a department, of public speaking, of which Professor Helen Kenn is the head. Hhe will coach individually every contestant privately in addition to the instruction given in the class room. Dr. .lohn O. Hall, head of the econ- MARTIN PHILLIP MTJESSIO Martin Phillip .luessig, aged H2 years, II months and 5 days, died at the home of his daughter, Mrs! Chas. Kei Friday night, December 10, about 7:110 o'clock. The funeral was hold at the residence .Monday at 11 o'clock, and buriul took place in the Aurora ceme tery, the Rev. Burns, of the German Lutheran church, officiating. Mr. Muessig is survived by three (laughters, Mis. Chas. Keil, Mrs. ,los. Resell, Mrs. ('has. Haetter; and three sous, Phillip Muessig, of Manlieim, Oerninny, and (ieo. Muessig and Henry Muessig, of Aurora. Ho is also sur vived by 10 grand children and seveu great grand children. A sister lives in Germany. His wife died about two years ago. Mr. Muessig was ii native of Oer muny. Ho followed shipping on the Khiue for more than HI years. In INKS) he cnino to Oregon, where he ran Boone's ferry for 12 years. He and his wife have made several trips to Ger many since !mjo. Aurora Observer. POLK DOCTOR 18 SUED FOR 4,800 Dnllas, Ore., Dec. IS. Asking 4,00 as damages, .Mrs. A. J. Barhnm, of Dallns, yesterday filed action ngninst Dr. L. A. Bollman, one of Polk coun ty's lending physicians and surgeons, charging malpractice. Mis. Burhara al leges she sustained an injury and that the doctor made a wrong dingnosls of the rase, and for several weeks treated her for trouble that did not exist. Hhe alleges that as a result her arm became paralyzed. HOP BUSINESS NOW AT LOWER QUOTATION Portland, Ore.", Dee. 18. While the market for hops is quiet, occasional sales are reported at frnctioiinlly lower prices. The latest denl reported is the sale by Conrad Krebs of 1HO hales to Durbiu of Halcin at 11 cents a pound. Dealers in general report a lack of new business available here or elsewhere along the coast. Why are we popular? Be- caoae we tell yen every day, the news ef the world. lie omics department, has inaugurated 11 unique scheme for the study of econ omics. He has divided his class into six groups for the purpose of research work. Each group selects a chairman, who then assigns to each member of the group a topic for his individual research work; all of the topics which he hands oua bear directly on the main subject which his group was to consider. Then when all havo compiled their reports the group takes charge of the class and imparts the knowledge they have assim ilated to the class. This system has made the subject a very interesting one to study, as each student has a certain responsibility placed upon tiim which he most dis charge. Dr. Frank Wilbur Chnce of the col lege of music will take both tho men's and ladies' glee clubs for an extensive tour during tho spring vacation; tho trip would have been made sooner, hut. Dr. Chaco is desirous of working out n program that will be worthy tho praise of the most critical audience. The pro gram will contain a skit, or musical comedy that will be arranged for Wil lamette characters. In addition there are to be two soloists and the male quartette, as well as several others who will appear in "stunts." The tour will be through northern climes, as far north as Seattle, and retuming they will ap pear at Aberdeen, Chehalis and Castle Rock. Joseph Gerhnrt, head of the extension department of the Y. M. C, A., is mak ing arrangements to take a deputation team to several of the smaller towns ad joining Salem, during the Christinas vacation. The purpose of these trips is to interest young men in Y. 31. C. A. work. The manner of program to be put on is: The deputation team will play bas ketball with a team in the town which they are visiting, after the game it will be announced that the noxt morning, which will usually be Sunday, a mass meeting will be held, at which the col lege men will take charge and ronder a nniBicnl program and later speak on the interests of the Y. M. C. A. and col lege. This will be a new ventnre for the local college Y., but it is thought will bo successful. Ernest V. Baker, a graduate of the 'U class in law is the author of a book of poems entitled, "The Heart of tho Last Frontier." The first issue of 1,000 will be out next week. While in school at Willamette Mr. Baker wrote consid erable poetry for a number of the lead ing magazines, so his work enji be con sidered really of worth. Paul It. Hmith, forensics manager, re turned from Portland this morning where he has been endeavoring to com- , plotc arrangements for forensic work. While gone Mr. Smith attended a party at St. Helen's hall, a young ladies' finishing school, and reported as hnving had a very enjoyable time. Last, even ing he was tho guest of Rufus C. Hoi mnn, Multnomah county commissioner, to a theatre party. Fred McMillin, assistant in the chem istry department and Prof. Clark of Sa lem high school, have arranged Jo hold a demonstration of the physical and chemical properties of liquid air. This demonstration was docided upon by in quiring of the students as to what ex tent they were interested in the matter. Such a demand for the demonstration was immediately manifested that the two professors have sent east for the liquid air. The demonstration will be held early in January after the opening of school. Healthful Preparedness You are splendidly preparej to coun teract a spell of Indigestion, Colds or Grippe so long as you keep Ue "in ner man" strong and active. When help ii needed TRY Ii JOSTETTER'S J Stomach Bitters