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Journal" Tl'KSDA V KV EX I XII, .fun mi ry 11. II) HI. CHARLES It. FIBTIEH, Editor and Manager. Editorial Page of "The PUBLISWF.D EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SAI.KM, OKECOX, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. S. BARNES, CHAS. H. FISHER, 1XJEA C. ANDRF.SEN, President Vice-President Sec. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily by enrrier, per year $5.00 Per month. Duily by mnil, per your a.00 Per month. .4!c .Hue FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago Ward-Lewis-Williams Special Agency Harry R. FiaUor Co. Tribune Building . 30 N. Dearborn St. Tho Capital Journal enrrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If tho carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the fnpor to you on time, kindly phono the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 81. THE BEST SHADE TREES A prize was offered by the American Genetic associa tion for the largest shade tree in the United States. The contest brought photographs and descriptions of ?'H trees from all parts of the country, and the prize was awarded to a sycamore at Worthington, Indiana, forty-two feet and three inches in circumference and 150 feet tall. The Forest Service of the Department of Agriculture recommends the sycamore as, on the whole, the best shade tree to plant. It thrives from Maine to Florida and as far west as Kansas, it is a quicK grower, attaining goou size in ten years, and resists the attacks of insects and fungi and the effects of the smoke, dust and gases of cities better than most deciduous trees. And it averages in size larger than any other shade tree. The contest brought out some interesting informa tion as to other large shade trees. The largest elm re ported is "The Great Elm," Wethersfield, Connecticut, 28 feet in circumference and about 100 feet tall, which is estimated to be 250 years old. A sassafras at Horsham, Pennsylvania, is 15 feet, 10 inches in circumference four feet from the ground. A white birch was found in Mas sachusetts with a girth of 12 feet, two inches; a pecan was found in Louisiana with a circumference of 19 feet, six inches, and a catalpa in Arkansas with a girth of 16 feet. The tallest shade tree found is a yellow poplar in North Carolina, which is 198 feet high and has a circum ference of :U feet, six inches. The relative sizes of the coniferous trees are fairly well established, the Big Tree of California being the largest in the world; but information on the size attained by deciduous trees in this country has been hitherto very incomplete. RETROSPECTIVE WISDOM Prospective candidates are beginning to feel the cam paign stir in their legs which makes them want to run for some of lice, lhe open season for campaign slogans is fairly on and again the hackneyed phrase "Lower Taxes" drips from pen and tongue of the candidate. Surely it is not necessary to remind the would-be public servants that there were more lower tax slogans than campaign cigars in use two years ago. The last legislature was elected on a "Lower Tax" platform regardless of party or sex and look at the record of this salfsame body of official spendthrifts. What the 1914 lower taxers promised, and what they did should stand as a horrible example for the 1916 candidate. "Lower taxes" is not only a bewhiskered joke but everyone has heard it. Even in these days the famous old "Why does a chicken cross the road?" gets a husky guffaw from the rear seats but "Lower Taxes" as a promise well, it can't be done, and as a joke it's no laughing matter. The presidential year opens with one major nomina tion settled in the popular mind. The other is wholly in the realm of uncertainty. Four years ago both parties were groping for probabilities, says the Cleveland Plain dealer. Nineteen-twelve opened with President Taft and Sen ator La Follette the only avowed candidates for the Re publican nomination. Col. Theodore Roosevelt and Jus tice Hughes were widely discussed as possibilities. The judge, not yet having made it clear that he would not consider the nomination, was deemed a "highly available dark horse." The Review of Reviews was trying to per suade the public, and perhaps itself, that the colonel would not do anything so undignifed as entering a scramble for a, presidential nomination. "If the nomination should come to him in 1912," de clared the Review of Reviews, "it will not be through anything else except a yielding to the will of the Repub lican party." Alas, how many preconceptions in politics had to be revised before the end of 1912! On the Democratic side, Governors Harmon and Wil son and Speaker Clark led the discussions probably about in the order named. Later, the order was exactly reversed. Party sentiment had as yet shown no decided preference for anyone in particular. If the present year affords half the political surprises that came in the last presidential twelve months period, any opinion expressed now is likely to appear as ridicul ous in review as the statement that Theodore Roosevelt would enter no undignified scramble for his party nomination. When peace finally comes it is probable some serious questions will have to be settled, questions that now are scarce thought of. One of these is the lesson taught by Germany with regard to the division of food, so that every person has a minimum, and this regardless of financial condition. Then Germany, too, has set the example of the fixing of prices and the curbing of speculation in food stuffs. It is a long step toward socialism for it shows the government's power to regulate the daily affairs of its citizens, and demonstrates the beneficial results of so do ing. When the war is over will not the Germans insist on the government continuing this paternalism, and will not the other nations insist on the same thing? The war is far from over yet, and before it is over who knows what examples will be set along the lines above indicated, and now many new ideas concerning the rights of man will have been evolved? A'Galteyj) Fun! REVOLUTIONARY RESOLVES (By the News Editor.) I will not announce the death or King Menelik of Abyssinia more than four times. I will use my influence to get the van fired who makes "Prison Gates It awn" in a headline. I will dash every "pretty romance" between a nurse and her wealthy ?harge unless it is certified to. I will resign before permitting a :ow to browse through ' this paper, fating dairymaids' purses containing (ne hundred and fifty dollars. I will see to it that poor relatives ivho receive $2,000,000 each from an unidentified aunt in England have to chip in and buy the paper to get their names into It. I will not permit the "fair defend ant" to be described as "beautiful," mid then print a picture shoving her to be a lemon. I will crumple up and throw In ths faces of the writers all stories of men finding J500 pearls in oysters. I will give space to the deaths of lhe "oldest Mason," the "oldest alum nus," and the "oldest survivor of the Mexican War" but one time each dur ing the coming year. I will take a course of training that I may be aide to rub paste in the hair of every reporter who allows the vie tint to be killed by "some blunt instru ment." It will take a ton of paste, but I'll get it somehow. Bulgaria has given notice of an intended attack on the British and French at Salonika in the near future. Still this may be a bluff, for if she invades Greek territory she will drive Greece over to the allies. The Germans or Aus trians might do this and the Greeks would perhaps stand for it; but they certainly will never consent to their enemy of a hundred years standing, crossing their borders with armed forces. The poor man who bewailed the prohibition law which permitted well stocked cellars only to the well to do now has the laugh on his wealthy neighbor who was so busy laying in a supply of 1916 dry goods that he forgot to lay in a supply of gasoline and the price has raised. Now comes Mrs. II. Ford with an urge to mothers to pray instead of spank. This will receive the enthusiastic endorsement of all the children, says the Macon News. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1863 CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT The progressvies, in conference at Chicago, indicate their willingness to accept any progressive republican candidate for president, provided that his name is Theo dore Roosevelt. Otherwise they will rally around Geo. W. Perkins' pork barrel and maintain a separate organ ization to the last. , , More than 60 counties in Indiana have filed Fairbanks presidential petitions. This may surprise many folk those who have forgotten that Indiana once elected Tom Marshall governor, says the Cleveland Press. "Peace with honor" is the only kind of peace the Bull Moosers will accept from the G. O. P. That is just the way they are talking across the ocean and with the result that there isn't any brand of peace in sight yet. RipplJngRhqmos 4k wait Mason ' JQ IS HARD WORK It's hard to keep smiling when troubles are piling their eie:ht on vour neck till it's snrained: it's hard to keen j v x j. grinning when others are winning the prizes for which vou have strained. It's hard to be cheerv on days wet and dreary, when everything near you looks drowned; it's hard to be sunny when all of your money is sunk in a hole in the ground. It's hard to keep laugh ing when wearily quaffing the flagon of grief to the dregs, it's harder to frolic when you have the colic, or gout at the end of your legs. But how will it aid you, when i i .i i. Li .1 '1 ' jf 1 vvoe nas wayiaui you, 10 rumoie aim grum ) jfn ble and swear? There's nothing that's heal ing jn kicking the ceiling, or biting the rungs from a chair. It's hard to look pleas ant when anguish is present, and yet it is strictly worth while; not all of your scowling and fussing and growling can show off your grit like a smile. JUNE AND DECEMBER Ah! Ereeze that flows while grows the rose That never knew December's snows, Ask if she knows the woes of those Whose purse felt dissolution's throes When winds so cold and bold unroll ed A counterplane upon the wold, And roses sold for gold tenfold As much as e'er their cups would bold! Ask why the rose that grows and blows Class-shielded from December's snows When winds so cold and bold un rolled A sheet of white upon the wold Would always bring a smile for beanx Whose untold love was thus well tolled. When spring lias winter overbowled, And once more around June has roll ed, Why is it smiles are sparcely doled For roses wrought in nature's mold! Why Is It such caprice Bhe shows When nature's lavish hand novi throws w A ransom for the Queen of Snows Into her lap? Well, I suppose, When all at last's been said and told, She's just a maid the story's old! W ' V; A 1915 State Fair Shows Profits of $ Says Al Jones Report The state fair board will hold its aii- null I session tomorrow nt which time' the report of Secretary W. Al Jones will be submitted. The report ihow that the UM.T state fair left a profit of. IL'OS.US above cpenes and this sunij 'now remain to the eiedit of the statne: fiir fund. The books were balanced at tho end of the fiscal yenr IVccm-j her 1. From all sources the sum of, ' .'iO.IISH.IH was received by the fair hoar.l ami tin expenditure were IS, l.'il.W while the balance received from1 the llU fair fund was .Jl2.U mak ing the present balance JS.'JOS.OS. i Mr. .lone states in his report that I dividing the state into districts filed! l to bring in any new farm exhibits audi 'that the fnmi exhibtis lat year were! , almost exclusively from Southern Ore- gnu and Willamette valley, lie also! Idas plans for further improvement! In-1 side the fair ((rounds and siys that the iinrd surface pavement put down this year was only a starter. A total of if l:i,0(M).;lii was iaid out In race awards at the last fair and the largest warrant drawn by a single horse mini was $1000 paid to W, O. Hurfee. University of California Beaten by College Tossers Oorvallis, Or., Jan. 11. The Univer sity of Cnliforuiu basketball tossers, again defeated, are oa their way back to Portland today. They met another Waterloo nt the hands of the Oregon Aggies last night by a score of 2 to IT. The game whs declared to be the most sensational seeu here for years. At the cud o( the first half the Ciiliforniniis were in the lend 12 to I', and playing like demons. Onrh Stewart took his Aggies Into their dressing room and In flicted a little mental punishment on them, after which they emerged and walloped the loiithemcrs. IN STATUARY HALL. " "r Mike She can use both hands ind her without suspenders. STRIKING BACK "I tell you, Congressman Grabmore l" a fierce partisan of tho Administra tion's." .' "What has lie done?" ''.-. "Introduced a bill providing that the .overnment publish a colored supple ment to the Congressional Record In which to caricature Its caricaturers." Dr. W. A. COX PAINLESS DENTIST 303 State Street SALEM, ORE. 50 Reductions on all Dental Work during January 1916 . CLEANING FREE Plates as low as $7.50 Gold Crowns $3.50 Painless Extraction $..50 Guaranteed Work. Lady Attendant Modern and Sanitary Office. Dr. W. A. Cox PHONE 926 303 STATE ST. WORSE LUCK. Mrs. Drown You know I went to the employment agency Mrs. Jones Yes T Did you get cook that suited you? Mrs. Brown Why, no! I couldn't tven get a cook that didn't suit me!" LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS freiiJtnt Amtrica Slciily for Thrift "Save.young man, and be come respect-! able and re spected," said B c n j a in i n Franklin. "It is the quickest and surest way." To find out whether these words are true or not, begin t o save. A person will be astonished at bow much he will grow in his own self-esteem, and his attitude of self respect will compel respect from oth ers, select some solid citizen of your neighborhood who is known ta have made and saved money. Observe tiie assurance with which he walks the streets and the confidence with which lie meets people ; also how he is looked-up-to by others. Truly Benja min Franklin spoke wisely. It is very much easier to make than to save money. Nearly everyone makes money, be It much or little, but those who make little think only those who make much can save. Now anyone can save if he will. The trouble is a dime looks so small. It is only ten pennies or ten cents and ten cents is almost nothing. It is liardly missed. Yet one little ten cent piece saved every day for ten days means a dollar and each dollar set to earning for you, the earlier in life the better, will surprise you at the end of a period of time by its in dustry. A good way to create the saving habit is to determine to save a dime every day even a nickel or a cent,' in the case of a very small pay en velope. Make almost any sacrifice; to save the sum you have set out to save. Or another rather enticing form of thrift is to save every dime you get, or every nickel or every penny no matter how many you get in a day You will soon have a dollar, then ten dollars and finally it will get to be. a hundred dollars and you will feel quite a capitalist. By this time you will have journeyed far on the way to thrift and you will find It not a hard road. Be sure of one thing! You will never have anything unlesi you save something. You cannot eat your cake and have It, too. The same might be said regarding this country and the waste of Iti ! natural resources. According to tho scientific report of the United States Geological Survey, there Is one-half as much coal wasted In America at is marketed. "With regard to petro leum," says the report, "the situation is a good deal more serious. Petro leum has been used for test than thirty years, and it is estimated that the silpply will last about twenty-fiva or thirty years longer. If production is curtailed and waste stopped, it may last till the end of the century. In natural gas the waste Is enormous. One hundred million cubic feet aro estimated to be wasted into air every twenty-four hours. The gas supply will last about twenty-five years. Wherever we turn - we encounter, waste. Each individual, however, can help to counteract this thriftless spirit by being careful. Now, at the be ginning of a new year, is an oppor tune time to rjsolve to become a saver of lime, health and money. FUTURE AND PRE8ENT. He What was the result of your visit to the pianist? She I've got a fortune coming to me some day, and I'm five dollars out now. , f HOW IT LOOKED. First Novice The game aeems deii ccdly shy I Second Novice Yes; somebody must have been shooting at it besides us I WAS DONE -... i-' Vuckoyle. I suppose while you were In Tarls you did as the Parisians did? Newrlche (hotly). Do you mean to call me a robber? - . WILLAMETTE NOTES Tim l,.,.fi!ri lit- V.... f P..l.a,. t (I1.,.. last iiij(ht at tho Willamette ehipel was wen attended. I lie protestor spoke on " Itiihinilrauatii Tasrore. the Hindoo lioet anil Mvstie. " iin.1 ve:ul nnvnivil leetiniis from some of his works. Ta yore, although u iiinii little hoard of, is jninio-r considerable popularity having, won the Nobel prize in 1915 'for hav-i ini; made .the best contribution to poet-1 ry duriirr the past year. His poetry is of a slllH,r-n:ltlli"tl nature mul hnu I ; of a mystical content to it. Tiirotc hns; written over Kill volumes, of which only seven or eii;ht have been translat ed into Knplish. Tiio next nl.er on the l'acultv lec fuvA ...mi,.j.i ...111 1 1 a tl, I...'n-. f ..... .v...- Mill nr ,u.lL km en u -ITUI, Helen Miller Nctm, on " Inabilities, I'os-! nihilities, Probabilities, ' ' at the chapel! .JIMlllHrV The hue ilclinrtilinnf nf VV;il in,..ltn I university will Imhl n mnnt cm.vt m.' nililit ill the county court house. The! ease to be tried 14 nrw nt tnhni i services performed. The two counsels: ...1 , . vwiu nni pieuii me case are: Mieelv, plaintiff; Paul Smith, defendant. The trial will befrin at 7:30, it is of interest to those who are taking cours es in law, as it. gives tiiem practical worn 111 inoir cnosen profession. 1 tie senior class held a short meet iii!i this mornin r nnd wern nn.;ft.i a party to be held at the home of Miss r.va nngue on aturd.iy evening. ine faculty Hold their regular month nicotine this nftormmn in 11..1. n .u. den's room, mutters concerning coin ing examinations were discussed. The intr-colleiate prohibition soci ety met this afternoon to organize and also to make arrangements lor tiie coming oratorio il contest in which Wil lamette has had a representative everv year for a long time. Tho varsity book store has changed hands. Roland .leffrev h his interest, in the store to Karl Chap-! pier, and here.u'ter Mr. Clmppler will! handle the stor" alone. When asked what he intended to do with his stock of liquid jfoods which he had left on his hands since the state wont dry, ho replied that ho would still continue to supply his patrons with either red or black. Prof. Helen Miller Sonn's class will present in the near future a part of the Merchant of Venice. Those in th cast .ire very enthusiastic over the pos sibilities of the play. REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS . Jennie Lick t U. Orabenhorst, lots is nml Hi, Orabenhorst Fruit Fa mis, No, 3, U. W. Murphy et ux to Mrs. Ida Ola Kobinson, J. T. Um h ulaiui, 10, 11, 1 J. I). Mishlor to A. Of. and Amelia Kaurtinan, part l. I.. (.. of John Con lee, No. .14, 4, 1 W. Thomas A. LimNny ct ux to Jacob Ti-miH, 1). I c. of John fouler, 54, .lidin (iioiniu,- s er nt tr. Chua A (reminds, lot 1, block 1, lots 6 Jn 7, block 1, Cnnhvell Add., Salem. Hunt and Steeves et it 1 to Lawrence. Hunt et 111, Oieo. W. Hunt claim, M. b, Ceo. 0!. Nelson et ux to Kllis H. Humboldt, part of block IS, Nob Hill Annex. Salem. '.Frank Hollowyeter et nv to Mrs. Mary Irwiu, H .. of lot 3, IlattlcCreok t nut turn! Xo. 1. W. A. Wise et ux to Western Bond t. ;M,?'ll Co- w 12 of tract 8 and I. 1-2 nt tr ict 9, Wise Acres. Western Pond & Mortgage Company, to S. A. Wise, lot 5 iu tract 15, Wise Acres. alvFo j!' Phone 81 for better carrier , Always Watch This Ad Changes Often fo,7a. woVdL" klnd, o 6l0d9, WedgM' Bl"" qpn 1 AU kinds of Corrugated Iron for both Hoofs inrl RniMin Z A good MOO.00 Laundry Mangel, .light), ed' til Kftrigia.l 1 AND 120 NEW OVERCOATS AT 15.00. 1 I pay 1 1-2 cents per pound for old rags. Z I par highest price for hides and Mr. T H. Steinbock Junk Co. $ an, arv HU Bargain.. I