Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal"
Tl'KSIUV EVE.NI.MI, ,
December 21, 1!M:".
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EADIUM, AND A CRUEL GOVERNMENT
Government chemists so report says, have been en
gaged for some time in an effort to make "cheap
radium." By which it is fair to preslime is meant radium
cheaper than the present price. Such a thing as really
cheap radium will never be possible unless some material
is found that contains it in greater proportion than the
ores from which it is now extracted.
The present source is the hornblende rocks, of which
that variety known as cornotite" carries it m the great
est quantity.
The task of getting the radium from this can be bet
ter understood when it is realized that the percentage of
radium in the richest cornotite ores is less than that of
gold in sea water.
It is impossible to separate so small a portion of any
metal from its base and get a cheap product. Gold ob
tained from sea water, and all sea water contains it, would
be more valuable than diamonds if it had to be obtained
in this way.
The amusing part of the story coming from Washing
ton about the government's attempt to make radium, is
the complaint of Joseph M. Flannery, president of a Pitts
burg radium manufacturing concern, who claims his firm
was put out of business because the government took
possession of the cornotite ores in Colorado, from which
his company had been getting its raw material.
If this had been all the cornotite ore m the country
there might have been some justness in the complaint, but
such is not the case.
If Mr. Flannery had taken the trouble to investigate a
little he could have found an abundance of hornblende
ores and cornotite, as rich as any in Colorado.
Up in the Greenhorne, in Baker county there is a vast
quantity of hornblende, which is also a very common
country rock all over the coast, and some of the finest
cornotite to be found anywhere. What proportion ot
radium it carries is of course unknown, but it is at least
worth investigating. Mr. Flannery is given this informa
tion without charge and in the hope his big company will
not get discouraged in its pursuit of that most wonderful
of all metals radium, o.r be forced out of business by a
bard hearted government.
FORD PARTY DISRUPTED
the majority of the Chinese feel just as thev do about it,
It is also intimated that Japan, while ostensibly opposing
tne move is reany tne cause of it, and will utilize it as an
excuse for interfering in China's affairs, this being the
opportune time to grab while the nations of Europe have
trouoies oi tneir own.
Whenever an Oregonian thinks he has a complaint to
mane against uregon weatner he should watch the dis
patches from the East for a day or two and then cheer up
and be thankful for the rain, even though itf be some
times rather persistent. Just now while we are having
pienty ui rain tne miaaie states are storm swept and sleet
wrecked. Railroads are out of commission, telegraph
lines aown, orchard trees broken and ruined by their
loads of hail, and all other kinds of troubles due to the
weather are on hand. Oregon rain mav be
at times but to paraphrsase an old expression: "It beats
nau."
inree more davs and then Christmas Tn tWo wVin
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tailed to take the liberal doses of advice handed them bv
me ijxess gwierany to "snop early," the further sugges
tion is handed out to "shop late." That is what will have
to be done by the procrastinating ones if they expect to
beat Santa to the Christmas tree.
A relief expedition to rescue the peace explorers,
stranded on an unhospitable shore, is now in order. The
situation presents a splendid opportunity for another en
terprising automobile manufacturer to compel the news
papers to advertise him free.
A, Iffl" IN 1
CITHJOODPILE
Says He "Got What He Want
ed" When His Resolution
Was Voted Down
M lapfHIIISK
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Vblf Mason'
Whatever chance there might have been for the Ford
party to have made toward peace has been dissipated by
unfortunate dissensions, and quarrels for which there
was no shadow of an excuse. There have been recrim
inations and accusations, personal abuse and almost the
laying of violent hands on each other. This among a band
selected and brought together for the purpose of carrying
a message of peace and good will to the warring nations
of Europe. And all this bickering has accomplished
nothing except to bring ridicule on the movement, and
arouse strong personal contempt for each other.
It reminds one of the old song about the quarrels be
tween the Irish in years agone over their religion. Two
lines of the song stated the cause of the trouble, saying
they were
"Fighting one another for reconciliation,
' And hating one another for the love of God."
Diplomats at Washington anticipate a break between
this country and Austria. This is about the best evidence
that there will be no break. Occasionally a diplomat
guesses right, and this of course may be one of the times,
but as a general thing they outguess themselves as reg
ularly as the man who bucks the tiger at a crooked game.
A faro dealer in a mining camp arrested for running a
game of chance was acquitted when he proved that the
other fellow "had no chance."
TIRED
I am so tired explaining to agents, each day in the
year that they're wasting time by remaining and hnnsr..
ing their articles queer. They come, all the sample-case
unngers, mey come to mv shnnt.v in rli-mmo
they come with their washers and wringers'
they come with their back-action stoves!
I hey bring me a cure-all for chickens, a
powder for Dolly, the mare; they bring me
complete sets of Dickens, and dye for my
whiskers and hair. Along up the sidewalk
they teeter, and corner me here at my door
and sell me a patent egg-beater, and wax to
oe used on tne floor. They sell me punk
woks ior my reading, thev ysell me srnnp
saucers and cups, they sell me a wig I'm not
needing, tney sell me a litter of pups. They wake me at
lufcut lium my siumoer, tney call me away from mv
snooze, and talk till they've sold me a number of traps
that no mortal could use. They come in the glow of the
morning, when nature seems wondrous and strange, and
into my cottage come horning, to sell me a cure for the
mange. They come with their smiling and jesting they
come with a crust all their own; ah me, I am tired of re
questing the agents to leave me alone !
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m The Chinese in America being familiar with the work
ings of a republic are indignant at the turning of their
native country back to monorchism. They are already
raising money to finance a revolution, and intimate that
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 1868
$300,000.00
CAPITAL
Transact a General Danking Business
Safety Deposit Boxes
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
$11,704.20 SPENT
ON CITY STREETS
- mnj YEAR
Street Commissioner Budlong
Submits Annual Report to
City Council
The city (if iSulcm Iiiih expended $11,.
7u4.ai mi its streets in .tho past yenr
according to tin- annual report of Street
ComiiiiHsioiicr Hudlong, which win sub-
miueii to the city council nut n,i
full report follows!
Th
1'ntcliod 1011 blocks of imvcim.iii ;n.
lilt' street patching (limit. .
(Inulod mid rolled 71 blocks of
streets.
Cut down the grade on Cross street
ent of .South High street.
Mug U'ou feet of ditch uud lui,l 1,20(1
feet of iloiuch dniiit tilo on Hursl ave
nue. I.ni.l 2IIO feet 20inch ilriiin tile' on
lrnde and Konth Fourteenth sheets.
Dodeekod nud reinired Noiith Com
mercial street bridge tit n cost of 75ll.-
Hodockcd North Capitol street bridge.
Kedecked South Fourteenth street
bridge over Mill creek.
l.uid S:i:i yards of pavement on South
11 ink street.
Huilt a new bridge out of old" lumber
on Mission street between Fourteenth
and Fifteenth streets.
Spread l'J.ISOU pilous of rond oil on
Houth foimticrcinl street, Saginaw and
.Mission streets.
Itesurfiieed Highland avenue from
North High street to Fnir (Irounds
road.
Hepalml Vortlnnd rond from Fnir
(lrnunds store to city limits.
Cleaned and repaired Hiver rond from
north end of Commercial street pave
ment to north city limits.
Hograveled Cherry avenue four blocks.
Graded and graveled South Twenty
fifth street from State street to Turner
road.
O railed mud graveled one block on
Turner rond.
Used S(U ynrds of gravel on streets
from Snlem Construction company.
Used 1,;M0 1-2 yards of grav'ol on
bridges and streets from Snlem Sand &
Gravel company.
Dug 1,300 feet of ditch and lnid 1,300
feet of drain tilo on North Twentv-scc
Olid Btreet connecting with stnto drain
1 1 ip.
Repaired broken sewer trunk line on
51 ill street at the river.
Built concreto bridgo ou South High
street over Mill nico nt a cost of S43.
1S. Huilt concrete bridge on Fourteenth
and Center street nt a cost of 3,831.38.
FRUITLAND NEWS
(Cnpitnl Journal Special Service.)
Holla McIIwnin started to school lust
week, taking np eighth grade work.
A very pleasant party was the ver
dict of those who were at the homp of
Mr. and Mrs. Mnthis last Saturday ev
ening. Those present from this neigh
borhood , wero Avis Williams, Ruby
Grecnfelder, Naomi Runner Susnn Ben
nett, Wni. Bellamy, Kenneth and Car
roll Runner.
Tho Fruitlnnd school district will
have an addition if n petitiou by Nich
olas Oerig is granted. At present he is
in the Swegle district which Is very
unhandy. lo being nbout three miles
from tho school house, while to Fruit
lnnd It is nbout & mile and a half.
The Lnttin fninily expect to visit
with relatives at Kugcno over Christ
mas. A number of boys and girls visited
with the Runner family last Sunday,
ami incidentally a birthday party, it
being Claudino White's sixteenth
birthday. Thoss present wer Claudino
White, Ruth and Florence Mitchell. Mil
dred Ponnldson, Harold I.attin, Ernest
Bon net t and F.lmer Otterbein.
Henry Smith attended church In Sn
lem Inst Sunday evening.
Scarlet fever' has broken nnt In the
adjoining neighborhood of Auburn, lie.
oessitntinir, the closing of the school and
the Sunday services.
Hilda I.enti and her brothers, Ous
and Adolph, spent Snndnv iftern.ion
with the Otterbein fnmlly."
In spito of a bnd niin and n-ind.
storm a large crowd was nt the Y. V. A
Stindnr evening. Of special lnforest
was the rending by Mrs. T. C. White
and talks by Mr" Ransom and Mr,
V'ithlm.
The city council lust night voted to
install a system of red lights for police
alarms and Councilman Yon Kschen de
clared there was "a nigger in the wood
pile," otherwise the session was large
ly devoted to routine business. The
question of the hidden Ethiopian came
up when Mr. Von Kschen introduced a
resolution relative to the municipal
bonds. Ho asked that experts bo put
on tho books of the city to give the
exact amount of bonds voted by the
city, tho amount paid off, the amounts
that the property owners had paid in
and a lot of other informntion relative
to bonds for the last seven years.
Mayor lnte replied that the con
dition of the bonds wns stated in every
annual report and that the report might
uc seen at tne ottice of the city record
er at any time. He said further that
to employ experts to check over the
bonds would cost nt least 1,5(10 and
that since the matter hud been covered
every year that it appeared to be need
less expense, in his opinion. The mayor
said he would ratther the matter came
to a vote in order that the councilmen
might pass upon it and that if they
desired a chocking over the accounts
that this would be done. The resolution
was put to a vote and lost.
"I got just what I expected," said
Couneilmim Von Kschen, "I wanted it
spread upon the minutes, however, just
to show that I asked that the status of
the bond question be exported and the
councilmen did not want it."
The police alarm system will consist
of two (10 candle power electric lights
in red globes, one to be placed at the
intersection of Court and Commercil
streets and the other on Stato and Lib
erty. Whenever a call is sent into the
station for an officer the desk sargennt
will switch on one or both of the lights
from his desk and the officers will call
in at the station to answer the alarm.
It is estimated that the cost of installa
tion will be uboitt $130.
It was voted to mako a new garbage
dump near the penitentiary as the pea
officials desire to huvo tho old channel
of the creek filled up. The uew channel
which was dug some timo ago vacated
tho old one for some distance and the
stato board of control takes this means
to again level the ground. Muyor White
explained that the mutter of keeping
up tho road to the city dumping ground
was expensivo during the winter months
and as thero was a good road to the pen
thnt tho city would profit by the
change while the pen grounds would bo
improved. j
Tho recorder was authorized to adver
tise for bids on the printing of the new
city ordinances. Applications for plumb
ing and sanitary inspector were re
ceived from . W. Wtubbs and William
I.eroy Bryant and placed on file to be
referred to the incoming council. The
sum of $1,975.08 was ordered paid to
William Ksch ns sheriff as tho amount
of the tax against property in the Oaks
addition in which the city has nn inter
est through improvement liens.
Tho bids for the 10 year sewer bonds
amounting to $0.70l).7 were opened.
Morso Bros, bid par and interest and
85 premium; Kurlsten & Karl, bid par
and accrued interest plus a premium
ui i. per cenr; uiua s jjubu but pur
ami Interest plus a premium of three
! per cent. E. K. Petmison asked that
ins license on the Wexford theatre be
remitted and the matter was referred to
me license committee.
uic i. u., i & i, company was no
tified to install 400 candle power light
"V lliieiBVCllou OI INOrTU xiith
street and bhippmg street. The matter
or iignts at Liberty and Academy,
tairinount and Owens was referred to
mo incoming council. In the matter
or tne South Salem sewer petitioned
for" by A. Dnue and others it was order
ed that the matter bo referred to the
sewer committee with power to act ami
they wero allowed to spend (W0 to re
pair the difficulty.
i HUBBARDNEWS
I. J. Butcher, of Portland, was in
Hubbard last week getting a lineup on
me locnl telephone aiinution. Mr.
ouTcner is with the Tapifie telephone
company nnd gives his attention to the
long distanco service.
'Iho subscription circulated by the
i nreiu-icnciier association for the
muslpiil instrncent for the school show
about $70.00 and nt this rate it is snfe
to any tho instrument will bo purchased
if tho rest of us give it the support
tho movement merits.
Miss Frances Weaver went to Scotts
Mills Monday in answer to a phone
message stating Mrs. Rimms hnd been
stricken with pnrlysis. Miss Frnnccs
returned Wednesday and said Mrs.
Simniobnd hud a light stroke, but was
very much improved when alio left.
George Wolfcr wont to Canby Mon
day to spend the day with his 'brother
Ham, whoso health has not been the
best of lnt. He found him rather
weak and not able to get about tho
house very well.
W. J. Culver, county road master,
wns In Hubbard going over tho roads
iu district No. 8 with Supervisor Sam
Dnniels Inst Mondnr. There wero aomo
places north of town that were need
ing draining and his trip hero was to
prepare for this work.
Mr. 8. Merrill, of Sherburne, New
York,' arrived In Hubbard Monday to
spend a few rtnya the gnost of his
uncle, Mr. 8. Rhoales. Mr. Merrill will
take n vivid Impression of tho West
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Dr. W. A. COX
Dental Prices Cut
PAINLESS DENTIST O
303 State Street
SALEM, ORE.
All work guaranteed 15 Years.
Best Plates $7.50
Gold Crowns $3.50
Silver Fillings .-. 50c and up
Gold Fillings $1.00 and up
Clean your teeth FREE.
Trained Nurse for assistant.
For appointment Phone 926
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home on his return ns his trip included
Los Angeles, San Francisco, and by
boat from there to Portland. Ho ex
pects to spend a week in Hubbard.
As a number ot cases of whooping
rough are in evidence about town n
number have asked the Knterprise to
request the parents of tho littlo folk
having the cough at this time, to keep
them from attending public gatherings
where other children will be subject
to it. It may seem hard to make this
request, but ninny parents whoso chil
dren have escaped thus fnr are fearful
of exposing their littlo folk to tho
contagion.
Wnllape Tiros, began plastering tho
new school building last Modnny. As
tho lathers are far enough nhead thero
is nothing to hinder this part of the
work being pusod to completion. Tho
windows have been placed in tho frames
and tho fprnace work is progressing
nicely. No definato times has been set
for the completion o fthe job, but if tho
building is ready for school by tlie (
milium ui I'euruury, gooa IIUIO will
hnvo been mndo.
T), S. Yoder, a former resident of
Hubbard, left Hubbard Wednesday
morning for Tratum to visit his mother
Mrs. E. Hostotler. While hero Mr.
Yodor was tho guest of his brother-in-lnw
D. 8. Yoder as well ns many other
friends. Mr. Yodor at one time taught
tho Whito school several terms when
Henry, Georgo and Lnwrenco Seholl
lived in the district and attended that
school. It has been twelve years since
Mr. Yoder established his homo in 8nn
Francisco, California, nnd as this is
the first trip hore since moving to
California, many of his old friends did
not recognize him.
The finance committee for tho com
munity Christmas tree wns calling on
everybody Monday and receiving their
cash offering to buy the treat for the!
little tolks to be given at the closo of
the entertainment at the Armory hall
Christinas eve. Everybody gavo blndly
and it wns easy to see that Christmas
had begun in anticipation with them.
Thero will be- 250 boxes filled with,
candy nnd nuts for distribution at tho
treo and if thorn are more boys and
girls nt tho hall than the committeo is)
prepared for or detained at home, tho
committee will locate them and sea
that they get their trout.
Among othor patients at the hospital
thero wns born to Mr. and Mrs. Hoy
Krnpf in the maternity ward last Snt
urdny 'morning a nine and three-fourth
pound boy.
To Mr! and Mrs. S. P. Martin nt
their home, a 10 pound boy 8undny
night.
Briefly stated: Dave Devall wns
treated for a vory soro eye paused by
powder burn; Mrs. James Dallas is suf
fering with a sore hand Paused by a
burn; Sam Egli was treated for a severe
attack of neuralgia of the bowels Mon
day night; Mrs. Kathorine Weaver is
afflicted with an attack of shingles at
her home near Needy; Mrs. Peter Roma
of Mt. Angel is at the hospital for
treatment; Mrs. Josso Troyer and her
bnhv boy went to their home Saturday.
Enterprise
Washington Brewers to -Test
Prohibition Law
Seattle, Wash., Dec. 21. Another le
gal test is to bo made of tho state wide
prohibition law, passed by the voters
of Washington, and the validity of
which has already been upheld on sev
eral points by the state supremo court.
It is uudorstood a brewer in eastern
Washington, probably North Yakima,
will continue to oporuto his plant after
the first of the yenr.
He will ninke'a test fight in federal
standing on his constitutional
rights against confiscation of his prop
erty. This will put a new phase of the
law up to the courts.
There is not believed to bo any
chance, however, that the federal court
will order the law held inoperative
pendin" settlement of this new ease.
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ljpj highest prtc for hide and far. ' ('
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