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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 8, 1916)
Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" SATURDAY EVENING, .lamiam 8, 1(110. CHARLES H. FISHER, Etlitor ami Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OHEOOX, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. S. BARNES, President CHAS. H. FISHER, Vice-President DORA C. ANDRESEN, fee. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES D:iilv liv enrrier. tier year 5.00 Per month '. .'Lie Daily by mail, per ye 3.00 Per month Hue FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago Ward-Lewis-Williums Special Agency Harry R. Fisher Co. Tribune Building 30 N. Dearborn St. The Capital Journal currier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier doe not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, us this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 81. A REMINDER OF OTHER DAYS Newspaper science is a wonderful thing. Here comes an inventor who has an infernal machine that, controlled by electricity, will fly through the air at the rate of 300 miles per second, and can be timed to explode in the solar plexus of any warlike nation. The story has front page space; it's printed, therefore it's true. But heretofore meteors and sich like trash, loafing along through the air at a snail's pace of 50 to 200 miles per second, have been burned to a crisp just by hitting the atmosphere. That the same fate will befall the new invention is unlikely, because it has already been thoroughly tested in the fires of imagination. No Boats Will Ply On Upper Willamette During Present Winter Steamboats would be plying up and down the Willamette river between Eu gene ami Portland, if the drawbridge of the Oregon Electric railroad near Harrisburg was in condition, accord ing to ('. E. Mctlinnis, a Eugene at torney. Mr. M"(Hiinis wu recently in Portland ami received this information from ( nptain A. H. Graham, president of the Oregon City Transportation com pany. The company intended to have the boats make two or three trips x week German people are starving to death in the . news:!" Sft,,?6 n'llT Ifi!: able that the bridge will be fixed in time to allow the passage of tho steam ships. The drnwbridge of the Southern Pa cific company is in condition to be op erated to allow the passage of the boats but the Oregon Electric bridge, crossing the Willamette, is not in -working order. Eugene Ouurd. lOippHngRhqmGsffl A Wall Street writer says that the air is filled with rumors of mergers, and new exploitations, and that those j whose memories run back ntteen years or more are re minded of the mergers, one after another, by which there was a taking over of plants under general management and control. Industries and interests were gathered in with a sweep that was astounding because of the amounts of capital involved, the prices paid to get control of properties and the problems that the f arseeing could then j apprehend. This period was followed by one of reaction in which those with a cure for the trust evil had their say, and prosecutions and decisions came and new laws in a bulk that staggered, resulted till there was cry that no man knew when he was within the provisions of law in the conduct of business. New ideas are today at work in these proposed merg ers and exploits that tend to ' fill the . industrial and financial atmosphere with rumors, and in due" time there may show up some originality it would seem from all the changes through which business has passed there could be small hope to witness. Business is going on, though, building upon new lines from year to 'year. It will be interesting to live some years hence and witness the methods then in force. WHO IS DOING THE BUSINESS? ' We have a vast supply of canned phases to the effect that the big business of the country is done by the big concerns, and these phrases have long been the chief stock in trade of agitators and politicians. . But it is not true at all that the big business is done by the big concerns. Nine-tenths of it at last is done by little concerns. Some vital facts in this connection are set forth in a report just issued by Vice Chairman Hurley of the Federal Trade Board. This official report shows that only nine out of every twenty-five business concerns earn more than $3000 a year. One concern in fifty does a business in excess of $1,000,000 a year, and the number whose profits amount to that sum is exceedingly small. Not more than 462 business enterprises in the whole country do a yearly business of $5,000,000, but this does not include banks, railroads and public utility corpora tions, which reseive large sums of money though some times earning very small profits. Figures are given to show that a large percentage of the business of the country is struggling along under tho burden of debt and annual loss, either to fail ultimately or reach a profitable basis. Just by way of having something to do besides get out a daily. "Once Over" column, get a sob story from tho Commercial Club or cover a tanners' convention Ro Lampman has found time to publish a volume ol his ex reports printed in the allied newspapers. Probably the Germans themselves would be surprised to hear how badly they are pinched for food. News dispatches say that a pet squirrel on board Henry Ford's peace ship died of starvation. With fifty three authors, poets and "journalists" on board any energetic squirrel should be able to find a few nuts. . Some bright editor has discovered the reason for Colonel Roosevelt's clamor for a greater army and navy. He can't live always and doesn't want to leave us entirely unprotected. More lumber mills are resuming operations every day and those now running are putting more men to work. It is one of the signs of returning prosperity in the Northwest. ' Between Colonel Roosevelt and the diplomatic cor respondence of this epoch the dictionary business is get ting a look-in all right, says the New York Telegraph. Wilson's watchful waiting seems to have won another victory in the complete acceptance of the American de mands by Germany. And now the reading public must suffer from another epedemic of those crack-jaw Russian names. The Russians seem to be coming back again. Books For Children I The souls of all tho good and just, Freed from evil, enrtnly moth and rust, f Pllhlif I illr-ai-V Are l'K,'"l'l to purer climes nbove, al I UUllt LilUiaiJf Where u II is joy and peace and love. j And why may they not sometimes be The following new books for children; Ministering Angels to you and me, have been' received at the Salem public I Helping us bear our heavy luad librnrv since the first of the year: j '". tho rtT...o an up grade road? . . , , I For our i nthor would help us we know American Hoys W orkshop. j Som(, W1V 0J. ,,,. , onmitt ,ve K, Heard., I). C, Uundicratt for Outdoor, B Hil) .,. ,. iwttvs , best VH- ' i ir . So trusting and serving, we're blessed! m'cuc, jm hi 1 1 m , i-iMt 'i Wndswnrth Longfellow. Hrndv, C. T, (I'll the Old Kearsnrge. Those cherished mounds are covered be low Tl,.. l,..,,i,tif,il luMintifiil mimi- Brown. Alice, T he One-looted '''; Though wo cannot see the loved one's v niiieeon, ruumuipn i iriun- fn,.( Wo kiss the stone that marks the place, And leave them there tu sweet repose, Apart from all life's sorrows and woes We will place some overgreen o'er their bud, ,. ... With flowers und r.ose, huds nt the head, And trusting, gather strength fur life tra prime "Once Over" copy, mere are liny-six pages and a cover of unique design on and through which, to bo specific, appears a production of Howard Fisher's laugh- able caricature statue of the originator of "Tho Alibi and the "Once Over." The little book is of the salt of the earth and can only be obtained direct from Mr. Lamp man for one dollar's worth of conversation or fifty cents in cash. , The Philadelphia Inquirer says: "A man is wise in his own generation when he doesn't waste time in trying to combat the arguments of contemporary fools." The In quirer's philosopher seems to have gotten next to some of the wisdom oi Solomon wno in all nis attention to tue NOH. 1-1. Camp. W. C, Danny Fists. Cotcd, S. ,1. D., Story of Sonny Snhib. (.'rune. Walter. Baby's Opera. Dawson, .lean. Hoys and (lirls of Gar den Citv. Dodge, .Mrs. M. .U., Rhymes und .Jin gles. ExiUfincliu. A. O., Buccaneers of America. Ooodloc, Carter, College (lirls. (ioiild, V. .1.. Heroes of Pence. Could, V. .1., Visitors of Peace. tireen. E. M.. The Laird of Olenlyre. (ivv, Znme. Last of the Plainsmen. Iley'liger, William. Hartley, Freshman Pitcher. How ells, W. D., A Boy's Town. Mull. Eleanor. Hoys' Cuclmlain. King, Charles, To the Front. ' Lear, Edward, The .lumblies. Mabie. II. W. Eil.. Heroines Every Child Should Know. Mcliruw. .1. Mow. to Play Baseball.1 Mother (loose. Mother (loose Jllustrat oil by Kale Breenaway. . Mulle r, Margaret the Elsboth. Peck. 11. V.. Adventures of Mabel. Porter. L. S.. (leaevieve. j I'vle, Howard, Twilight Land. li'ciuick. (I. M.. .lane Stuart's Chum, j Uiclumls. L. E. 01.1, Toto's Merry Winter. I S, hupp. Oltoknr, William of Orange. Smith, (ierlrude. Stories of Peter and; Ellen. . i ' steeiluian. Amy, When They Were Children. . Stevenson. Augusla, Plays for the Home. , j Tileston, 'Mrs. M. W.,Sugur and Spice. and All That's Nice. , Tonilinson, E. T., Three Young Co"-! tinentnls. , I Waller, M. E Daughter of the Rich. Warde, Mrs. E.' S. (P.), Gypsy's Cousin ,l.oy. . ! Wilmut Buxton, N. M.. .Iciinno d Arc Portland Police Idle Since Town Went Dry Portland, Or., .Inn. 8. The Portland police aren's half as busy since tie stnfe went dry. Figures announced today at the end of the first week of prohibition, show that only IHo arrests were made by the entire police department during the first seven days. The first week in December shows 42.') arrests, and that w is -a small week 's business. The de crease is principally in "drunks.'" The first week in December 2H were ar rested for drunkenness and thus far in January the police blotter shows only H.j similarly charged. This in cludes 411 or more arrested last Satur day, still carrying Friday's "jag." Policeman Officiated at Birthjjf Baby Boy Portland, Or., Jan. 8. There was no body but v policeman- to officiate at his birth, but Baby Nelson is happy to day just tho same. Answering a frantic, cry for help, Patrolman ,1. W. Jlorelock last night dashed upstairs into a three story ten ement building. In a cold. damn, un furnished room he found a young worn-1 an, aiono ami in agony, lie tried to telephone for help. He couldn't get it quick enough, lie lighted i gas stove, took off his coat and stood his ground like a true officer. Fifteen minutes Inter when nu ambu lance arrived, an eight pound baby had been born. American Survivor Says No Warning Given Washington, Jan. 7. Consul Gnrrels, nt Alexandria, Kgypt, cabled the state department today that he hnd affidav its from ChnrlcB H. Grunt, American, and 20 other survivors of the Persia SELFISHNESS Jim Kickshaw has a touring car, in which he journeys near and far. There's room for seven in the same, and Jim might bring to many a dame who seldom has a chance to ride, pure happiness ten cubits wide. But Jim would rather ride alone, than take some poor old gent or crone. He'd take a banker or some skate who's made a pile in real estate' he'd load his car with -damsels fair, and still insist there's room to spare. He'd gladly take a joyous crew, to whom such rides are nothing new. But there are men with spavined limbs, and poor old dames with worn-out glims; and crippled kids who sit and sigh, as gorgeous cars go whizzing by: and mothers, tired until their hearts just yearn for rides in choo-choo carts ; and maiden aunts who'd trade their hair for three long breaths of country air. ' But these will never ride with Jim; they're poor, and don't appeal to him; the men don't wear their whiskers straight, the women's hats are out of date, the kids have seedy pinafores, from rolling round on un washred floors. There's nothing in it, any way ; you haul the poor for half a day, and all you get for it is thanks; they have no assets in the banks. tk I sinking, say there was no warning of attack, and that none saw a submarine. barrels said that the officers und confer with tho admiralty before swear ing the circumstances of the sinking. PROF. GAUNTT WILL RUN Within a world of sin and strife, Until wo, too, do hither lie And meet them in the "sweet bve and bye," So we will leave them as we go, I'nder the snow, the pure white snow. R. J. S., Route 4. It is stated as a positive fact by those who know, that Prof. W. C. Ciuuntt, of the Staytou schools, has An nounced himself as enndiadto before the republican primary for county school superintendent. The present incumbent, W. M. Smith, has hud the office for three terms, and it is not known whether he will be a candidate. Prof. Cinuntt, will come before the people well equipped for the position. He is thirty-live years of nge. has been in Oregon nine years, ill of which have been spent, as principal of Scotts Hills, Hubbard, Corvuis, Capital Normal, Su lem, and Staytou. Prof, (lauatt came from I ml in dm ' and hns five years of teaching to his credit in th.it state. Staytou Mail. NEW YEARS IN WALDO HILLS The nnnunl New Year's dinner of the Waldo Hills neighborhood was held at the W. H. Tate home. The day was spent in visiting and vocal and instru mental music. A good time was en joyed by all those present who were: Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Tate, .Mr. and Mrs. B. Wagner, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Ashby, Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Barrow's. .Mr. aiid .Mrs. C. ,T. Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. K. C. Downing, .Mrs. and Clarica and Alice Downing. Stay- ton .Mail. BRIEF NEWS BY WIRE Si UNDER THE SNOW I'nder the snow our loved ones lie, affairs Of the WOrld about him found time tO Write to But their souls nr.. where they never die some length about fools and their folly, both ot which have been pretty much alike in all ages of the world. The Ford jokes seem to have been switched from the auto to the peace ship. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1863 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Hanking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Covering nil from mortals view j Of that which hurts us, yet comforts' too. I Yes, under tho nor, the pure white i snow j Those we loved and rlierishril sot But there are memories pure and sweety Ot! tiioso whom e'er long, wo hope tu . meet! But tf we Ito to that homo above ! i Wo must receive the Haiur' love, (Trust 1 1 i in and serve ltini with our, might, i ' And He'll receive us and gUo us light! If not privileged thus to go And iw their beds beneath the snnwj We enn almot see them in our thought,1 And the toft cov ring the snow has wrought, 1 Hut while it is so sweet to know ! Their bodies resting under the snow, Kept from sin and every harm, ' Sorrow, sickness and all alarm Yet thro' love and faith 'tis sweeter fur To view them where they really are. CASH 2E ATI Tl T osolntely 1 TTT TT" T7"" 3 Take a look in the show case at the entrance to my office, SO:'. State street, and estimate how many ex tracted teeth the case contains. HERE ARE THE PRIZES Closest Estimate $5.00 Second Closest Estimate $3,00 Third Closest Estimate $2.00 IT COSTS YOU NOTHING Put your estimate,, with your name and address, on paper and either bring or mail it to my office, 30:) State street. ANY PERSON CAN PUT IN ONE ESTIMATE EVERY TERSON sending an estimate will receive a substantial prize. Teeth will be counted February 1st, by three Salem business men. DR. W. A. COX, DENTIST, 303 State Street, Salem, Ore. Amanda King of Salem, C. J. Seibel, Dick, Tom and Elbert Tate, Marion Hunt, Lester and Frederick Barrows, crew started for Englnnd before their j Earl Dow ning' and the Misses Helen. affidavits could be obtained-. The stute ! Hunt, l.encvieve fatton, l-.lla walK, department believes that they wished to I Edua Tnte, Georgia and Rachel Hunt Yuba City, Cal., ,laa. S. A year ago Judge K. S. Million of Sutter county, advocated the use of divorce couponi on marriage certificates. Now he de in.vuds gilt edge evidence before he'll grant a divorce, which he hasn't don for six months. Seymour, 1ml.. Jan. M. Lonesome, for her lover, who had been quaran-, tined for smallpox, Uoldie Anderson, nge-1 li), voluntarily exposed herself to the disease and was quiirautiued with him. Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 8. Using a butcher knife, Mrs. S.iniuel Hokensen. today beheaded her four day old baby, and then attacked her nurse, Miss La belle, who, however, escaped with only slight injuries. Tokio, Jan. S. Emperor Yuan Shi ICui, of China, was reported here today to have fallen suddenly ill with ap oplexy. Though the story was uncon firmed, his illness w is said to be serious. San Krancisco. dan. S. The first! battles of the Chinese revolution against Yuan Shi Kai's monarchy broke out today on the outskirts of Shanghai, according to cablegram re ceived here this afternoon. :;1 i