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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" ATIKHAV KVI.WINO .lanunrv I. Iftlrt. CHARLES H. FISHEB, Editor and Manager " ! 1 I'UBI.IbHKn EVERY EVE XI. NO EXCEI'T St'NDAY, 8.VI.KM, OKKHON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L.S.BAKNES, (.'HAS. H. FISHER, IHJRA C. ANDKKSEN, l'r'iJi'ut Vice-president Sec. and Trcas. 8CBSCBIPTI0N RATES Daily by carrier, per year $5.n0 i'el' month 4"c luily by mtiil, per y:ir o.OO l'er month :Sjc Fl'I.I. LEASED UIHE TEEEOBAl'H KEl'OKT EASTEBX REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago WardLewii-Williams Speciijil Agency ITarry B. Fisher Co. Tribune Building 30 N. Dearborn St. The Capital Journal carrier boyii arc instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier doe not lo this. misses you, or neglects getting the juper to you on time, kindly phono the circulation manager, ax this is the only nay we can determine whether or not the carriers are follow tug: instructions. Phone Main SI, THE BABY NINETEEN SIXTEEN AN EVENT OF NATIONAL IMPORTANCE New Year's clay 1916 will be "marked with a white stone" by the prohibitionists of the United States for all time to come. They have made an uphill fight for years; criticised harshly, condemned and berated, they stood by their guns when attacked and boldly advanced in counter attacks so soon as the pressure was relieved. They were aggressive, persistent, undismayed, resourceful, deter mined, and they have won a most decisive victory. It is an event, even in so large a country as ours with its nearly one hundred million population, when six states with a population of eight million people, voluntari ly banish saloons and curtail the use of intoxicants. It is no common occasion when six of the 48 states of the Union, of their own accord, climb on the water wagon. It is not to be expected that all opposition to the move ment has ceased in these states, for there will be for a time at least violations of the law. Many look upon their be ing forcibly, as it were, denied the use of spirituous liquors, or their being hampered in securing them, as an attack on their personal liberties. In a sense this is true. Man in a state of nature could do about as he pleased if he was strong enough. In that condition with every man's hand against him, and his against all his fellow men, when might was right, he undoubtedly had the right to help himself to whatever he could get. Civilized man is a different being, because conditions are different. His personal liberties, must be curtailed in some cases for the good of all. He must pay taxes for one thing if he has property, and whether he wants to or not. He gives up certain of his rights and some of his property for the good of all. In a natural state, if he had the measles or small pox, he could still go where he pleased, and divide up his troubles with any who tried to stop him. As a civilized man he is deprived of his liberty and isolated, not as a punishment, but as a protection to his fellows. It is this view of the case that is taken by the prohibi tionists and which, it seems, was also taken by a majority of the voters in six states. However it is hard to enforce a law when a strong minority is opposed to it, and there will undoubtedly be much contention and many violations of the law. How ever those charged with the enforcement of the law have laid their plans well, have organized for a united campaign and will no doubt eventually put an end to them. No matter what any of us may believe as to the cor rectness of the law, we as good citizens must obey it, and aid in its enforcement just as we would in any other. The weather clerk proved himself a kind hearted and forgiving old chap last night, and he certainly has much to forgive. Ever since man was fired out of the garden of Eden, he and his innumerable descendants have had a grouch against the weather man. It is too hot or too cold ; too wet or too dry, never just right. When fault finding man isn't wishing it would rain, he is hoping it will clear up. When it is calm he longs for a breeze, and when Zephyr flirts even mildly with Boreas, he wants the wind to cease. When the genial old sun lets the light of his counten ance shine on the laggard earth, and wakes to life plant and blossom and verdure, man always dissatisfied longs for the clouds, or the falling of night. So it goes on for ever and ever, while the patient old weather man orders heat and cold, calm and breeze, sunshine and cloud alter nately; trying his best to please everybody and never suc ceeding, yet with utmost patience, persistently at work and sticking to a job that no one else would have, or could handle. And so last night he just forgot all the kicks and com plaints of man, and with his big generous heart and will ing hands, prepared for the coming of the little baby year, Nineteen Sixteen. He gave him a royal reception too, for as the youngster at the stroke of midnight peeped over the summits of the Cascades, he found here all in readiness for his coming. Everywhere was a fleecy blanket, white as an angel's wings, soft as the down of a cygnet, pure as a child's dream, and all just on account of the new born baby. It-was royal reception Oregon gave him, thanks to the good old weather man. And today the youngster can look over the fairest land on earth, and tread the erst while muddy highway, without soiling his tootsies or see ing the unsightly things tucked away and hidden under the big blanket. Let us hope the youngster will appreciate his recep tion and give us a prosperous reign. May he treat us all better than his predecessor, 1915, who fled over the Pacific last night never to return. School Superintendent To Resign to Accept Agricultural College Work (Capital Journal Special Service.) Dallas, Ore., Jan. 1. H. ('. Seymour, school superintendent of I'olk county, since 1007. will design from his office about the first of February and take a position at the Oregon Agricultural college ns field worker of the boys' and girls' industrial work department. The report was circulated early in the week that Mr. Seymour would resign but the report lacked confirmation. Mr. Sey mour returned AVednesduy from Med ford, where he had attended a meetinp of the Slate Teachers' association ami announced that within a few days lie would send in his resignation to take place the first of February. Mr. Seymour is one of the best known school men in the state. He began his school work in l'olk county by teaching school in the I'pper Salt Creek district He has nlso taught school in Lincoln. Tillamook and Clackamas counties. In 1IMI7 he was appointed to the office to fill the vacancy caused by the resigna tion of C. E. Starr and has held tl" office continuously ever since. Mr. Scy the schools of the state on the standard ization plun nnd the home credit system is also a product of his untiring labors for the betterment of Oregon 's schools. Just who his successor will be is un decided at this time ns there are sev eral applicants in the field for the po sition. The vacancy is filled by nppnint ment by the county court who will prob ably fill the place at their regular meeting in January. Always Watch This Ad Changes Often FOR THE WOODSMAN We have all kinds of Axei, Sledgei, Wedges, Saws and Equipments for the woods. All kinds of Corrugated Iron fur both Roofs and Buildings. J A good $300.00 Laundry Mangel, slightly used for one-fourth original cost $15 AND 120 NEW OVERCOATS AT 15.00. J I pay 1 1-2 cents per pound for old rags. I pay highest price for hide and fur. H. Steinbock Junk Co. X The House of Half a Million Bargains. 302 North Commercial Street. Phone 808. t A. J. Kissick, a suit to cancel a lease, P.v the order the lease of the plaintiff is cancelled nnd the plaintiff is re- returned to him quired to pay $'100 und each party is to pay their own cost. Carson & Brown represented the plaintiffs and E. I'. Morcoin and (leorge (I. liinghnm repre sented the defendants. mortgage and he seeks to have the con- .tract CHneellpil mi1 thn'otim nf 6-OU The report comes that the doctors will soon operate on King Constantine. This is tough on the king, but he prob ably feels that even the surgeon's knife is preferable to the aggregation of diplomatic tongues that have been operating on him for the past four months. Being talked; to death is said to be about the most painful way of as sassinating a man or reputation. This is the day for making resolutions, the next three or four days will be devoted to arguing the question out between the fellow who swore off and the fellow who wonders why he did it, and the result will be that by the time the baby year ends his first week most of those good resolutions Will be broken or at least badly bent. The fel low who wonders why generally wins out over the other self that adopted the resolutions. Riekreall Visited by Robbers. The mercantile store of I.ucas & Price, the pnstoffiee and the residence of H. C. riu kin at Riekreall were enter ed by burglars some time Wednesday morning or Tuesday night and robbei' of valuables. The postoffice, which is located in the above store was robbed of about $50 worth of stamps. Nothing of value has been missed from the store. At the Eakin residence 0 purse contain ing several dollars and a gold watch and chain was taken. The thefts are supposed to have been committed by trumps as the book that contained the stamps was found along the railroai' track leading to Greenwood the neV day. The Riekreall postoffice wns rob bed about a year ago nnd flic safe blown open and the Eakin ranch was visited by robbers some time in the early spring when chicken thieves stole about 200 chickens. Sheriff Orr has been busy on the case since Wednesday bul up to the present time no eluo as to who (he parties are lias been obtained. Judge (Inllowny handed down a de cree in his department of the circuit court yesterday in the case of Alico Me' 'ov against E. A. Thompson whore by Mr. Thompson is declared to be the owner in fee simple of lot 1 Kndley's addition to Mill City and the plaintiff is forever barred from iuterferng with or claiming any interest in the prop erty. Jn the ease of N. Derby, trustee, against the I'nitcd States Fidelity & Guaranty Co., Cnited States National Haul; and the state fair board. Judge Galloway decreed that the1 plain tiff should receive, $n25.05 from the V. S. Fidelity & Guaranty Co. and the I'. S. National Hank is to receive $io:u..".7. The first, shinment of blank Knnva ,' affidavits lias been exhausted and the I county clerk has sent in a rush order i for a fresh supply. The stock of af fidavit books for the common carriers I was first to be used up as all railroad i and express companies were obliged tn. supply each clerk with an individual book. A petition to admit the last will and testament of Caroline Provost, who died November 27, to probate has been filed in the probate court. The estate con sist;! of 110 acres of land one half mile from St. Paul and the real prop erty is valued at $9000. The personal property is valnned at $2.")0O. There are no lineal descendants of the de ceased and the only heir is Julian Pro vost the husband, aged 7S years. The only legatee is Octavia Ouidn O'Marn who petitions to be appointed executrix of the estate. An attachment has been served upon the store of Huie Wing Song Co. tit 2fl Xorth Commercial street in connec tion with the claim of Flora Hi. New man for $1')G.4S. The store was re leased upon instructions from the plaintiff's attorneys pending settlement of the controversy. Miss Ora Collins Married. Miss Ora Collins, a daughter of Judge and Mrs. J. I.. Collins, of this city, was married on December IS to J. AV. Nun ney, nn automobile dealer in Benson. Arizona. Miss Collins has been teach ing school in Arizona for the past sev eral years. New year's marriage licenses were issued by the county clerk to James Harry McAlvin, n Salem clerk, and Grace . Moore, an attendant of this city, nlso to John Kyfon Goodrich, a Medford clerk, and Nettie Tl. Frnzure, a Salem milliner. The sworn circulation statement of the Capital Journal for the month of December is the best evidence of the com-mn-ntive vmmil.iritv of morninc and evenine: newspapers. L a 4 cr v..- m. No other newspaper circulating in the Salem territory has a list of regular subscribers approximating this total within hundreds, and none is growing so rapidly and' consistently. The Capital Journal uses no fake popularity; voting contests or other discredited methods to boost its' circulation, and grows because the people like a clean, j newsy paper that covers its field, both local and general,, better than any competitor. The Capital Journal has the: best telegraphic service and does not spare any reasonauie expense to give its readers the current news. When you see the old man making a sneak for the wood house in the next day or two, just after he has sur rounded his supper, you can safely bet that when he quit smoking and discarded his pipe forever, he laid it away carefully so that in case anything should happen that it would be needed, it could be found. That something al Avays happens, too. A "pork barrel" appropriation is one that is made for some place remote from where the user of the phrase has his residence; or his property that would be benefited by the appropriation. Not necessary to swear off on the booze habit. You'll have to do some hard swearing before the proper officials in order to get enouth to make a decent jag in the future. Wu RipplmRhijraos Walt Mason mm ' The most hopeful sign of peace since the war started ic tVio nrooonf rlienccjirm nf it lipintr nnssihlp. OnfP the warring nations get the peace idea back into existence it is certain to grow and will result in some real of fere being made before long, and they need not come from the Ford camp either. By Avay of Switzerland comes reports of rioting in Ber lin and other German cities, over the food shortage, and the desire to have the war ended. While these reports may be greatly exaggerated, their persistency indicates there are at least some facts behind them. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18G3 CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT TROUBLE Old Trouble hid, inside a tree, and muttered, "Noav, dad, blind me, I think that men won't bother me they Avon't knoAV where to fnd me !" But men and Avomen everyAvhere, from Tampa to Toronto, ex claimed, the while they pawed the air, "Oh, where has Trouble gone to? When Trouble is no more about, we shed the tears unbid den; let w go forth and hunt him out, wherever he is hidden." They got search warrants at the court, and lanterns trimmed with bunting, and every dame and every sport forth to the woods went hunting:. tiXj .r They let all other business slide naught UA-Jji else was so important, and through the for est dark and wide, they scrambled, Avhere they'd ortn't. And oh, the rapture and the glee, when through a glade repairing, they found poor Trouble in his tree, and dragged him from it, SAvearing. Triumphantly they homeward went, their fears and cares, were over, for they had found the long-lost gent; thenceforth they'd live in clover. V A Capital Journal Want Ads Will Get You What You Want Gail Hotel Chancres Hands Henry Serr has sold the Gail hotel ;,. tl.;.. :.. t ti ti I ii mi hi iv ,i. .o, iminipson, tcc owner of the property und its former proprietor, and will leave after the first of the month for Spokane, AVash., to make his future hoi::e. Air. Serr has had charge of the hotel for the past three nnd one-half years and lias en joyed n splendid business during that time. His hotel has been the head quarters of the traveling public and llis place of business nns Pinned n atntft. wide reputation as an up-to-date hotel.! rie nns neen an active member of the Dallas Commercial club nnd one of the most enlhusinstic boosters the town has ever had. The reason for his disposin" or uic notei is ror tne benefit of his wife's health, -which has hcen very poor I since coming to this city. He poos toi Spokane with the hope' that n higher altitude will be beneficial to lier. Mr. I Thompson, the new proprietor, is one of the oldest hotelmen in the state. For, the past three years he has been con nected with hotels in Albany. Stockton Has First Snow Sacremento Is Blanketed Sacramento, Cal.. Jan. 1. Snow ush ered in the year MM in Sacramento and the Capital City had a "white" New Yenr's day. Three hours after tlin utri. nf in r. .l..l, .. 1 en:.' -,, I - , 1 I'l-y.m iiiiiniir. ir came down in bin flakes and bv (1 o'clock this morninti measured three inches, ornutfc and palm trees heing eon ted in white. Cold weather continued mil the snow remained. Tk i.il,i i. t . noon there was snowballing in which the old folks and youngsters partici pated. There was enough snow to build "forts' nnd "snowmen." It was the heaviest fall in the historv of the city. Onlv a few times previously had snow fallen in Sacramento nnil t.ien there were only traces. Mrs. AVilliam Hnittie nnd son, Byuon, of Portland, nre spending New Yenr's at the home of Miss Habel Hrassf ield. T I III lK I HII W NEW? Vvv IWVUU T . . The court house revelled in a New A'enr's holiday today with the excep tion of the sheriff's office which is al ways open nnd the county clerk's of fice where County Clerk (lehlhar and rteniifi- V f! 1l.iv.ii. ...I ....,h to cleiiu up the rush of the lust year's oiikuic's n nn sinri me new year with a clean sheet. Coiiutv AsucsHor lUn Vt was also working over some of his recoras which nave neen Delated tor various reasons. Iidh courts took a legal holiday after holding court yes terday to prepare for the January term. Judge Kelly, of department number 1. yesterday afte.noon ii-sued an order for n decree in the case of .lorace A'. Thiclsen and Kiiiiiin S. Thielscn u gainst ('lain I'. Fouch has brought suit in the circuit court against Alfred Ar. liigelow, Hattie A. lfeynolds and W. ('. Reynolds to collect if'iOH alleged due on a promissory note. A mortgage was given on lot K, block 71, Wild's sub division of block 74 in North Salem. The plaintiff asks for n judgment in the sum of $")i0 with interest, and at torney's fees at $5(1 and a foreclosure of the mortgage. Kaiser Sends New Year Greeting to His Annies j Berlin, Jan. 1. Thanks for their val or, nnd for the sacrifices they have made nnd a prediction of success for j the coming- year were given today in j Kaiser Wilhelm's New Year's greeting j to the army, navy and colonial forces, i "Comrades," said the note, "a year j of severe fighting has elapsed. AA'herev i er superior forces of the enemv have ! tried to rush our lines, they have failed t before your loyalty and bravery. Kv j erywhere that I sent you into battlft , you were gloriously victorious. i llinnktully we remember all the brethren who joyfully gave their blood ' to gain security for their beloved ones, ! for their homes nnd the imperishable; glory of the fatherland. "AVIint they began, we will accomp ! Hsh. AVe enter the new veivr with (tod I for protection of the fatherland and uermanj b greatness." Breadway Welcomed Coming of Sweet Sixteen New York, Jan. 1. What a night! llrondway welcomed "sweet sii teeu" with the wildest New Years evo in all her wild historv. . I eople by thousands jammed the gav I white way; wine flowed like water in I tne big cafes. New York laughed, I danced, shouted and blew itself weary i in a pandemonium of revelry. And, when the chimes of old Tria- lty echoed out through the skvscrap U'ls canyons, they were drowned in a j riot of racket more jovous, more ear .splitting more whole-souled than any thing gay little old New York ever ; knew before. ; New York heads ached todav, but tather Knickerbocker winked one evo sagely, and remarked for publication: 'New A ears eve comes but once a year, and there's only one New York." Halpli AV. Landers filed a suit yester day in the circuit rourt against Cur field Vnget to cancel a contract for sale of 111 acres of laud in this county. The complaint states that he has paid l'ii on the contract and the defendant refuses to release the land from n (IFwnnv 33 Also a Nice Line of J cweiry. KARL NETTQEBATJEB Maaoulc Bldg, ttfctf&S If n ' m , . We Extend to One and All it ii i I 1 We Extend to One and All Best Wishes for a Happy Prosperous New Year V