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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 25, 1916)
Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" Tl'KSPAV KVKXIMI, CTlARLlvS H. FISHER, Editor and Manager. J .UlUlll'V 1 9 hi. PUBLISHED EVEEY EVENING EXCEPT S0NDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. 8. BARNES, CHAS. H. FISHER, DORA C. ANDRESEN, President Vice-President Sec. and Treas. 8UBSCRIPTION RATES Daily by carrier, per year $!.00 lVr month. Daily by mail, per year 3.00 lVr month. ,45e .35c FUEL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago Ward-Lewis-Williams Special Agency ITarry li. Fisher-Co. Tribune Building 30 N. Dearborn St. The Cnpitnl Journal carrier boys are instructed to put tlio 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, us this is tho only way we can determine whether or not the curriers ure following instructions. Phone Main 81. MORE REVENUE FROM INCOME TAX 1 The Department of Agriculture has. gone to consider able trouble to show the farmers that they lose $250,000, 000 annually on account of bad roads. The wise expert in showing this says: "The price of farm produce often goes up on those days when the roads are impassable, going promptly down again as soon as the roads are in good condition." If this proves anything it is that bad roads help boost prices, and good roads force them down. That expert was shooting at a target without taking into consideration the kick of his gun. Governor Whitman, of New York, evidently thinks he is of presidential size. He recently sent to the state comptroller a voucher for the expenses of himself and party to the Panama Exposition last summer. It showed the trip cost $20,760.4:, which being pretty close figuring, the comptroller sent the voucher back with a request that it be itemized. What would the trip have cost if Whit man had made this visit as president instead of governor? Foilowing swift on the decision of the United States supreme court yesterday upholding the income tax as I 11 J 1 . J.l-iA r i- n 4 -v amI 4' 1 . n un n Aiyrviin 1 s r V I COnsiHUllonai, cume me siiueuiem, xiuui seveiai v;un- gressmen that much more than the $80,000,000 now col lected from that source would be forthcoming in the near future. Senator John Sherman, of Ohio, years ago in defending the income tax said it was the most just tax ever levied, because it made those who reaped the great est returns under our government pay under this tax their just proportion of the expense of government. It is this class of taxes that some folks call "war taxes." That is what they generally are, for they were heretofore only levied in time of war. In times of peace the general government has collected a large portion of its revenues from a per capita tax, admittedly the most unjust tax that was ever devised. We say per capita tax for that is what the duties on im ports largely is. A tax on sugar, for instance, levies as much tax, on the common laborer as it does on Rocke feller or Morgan. An import tax on anything means that the person who uses the article must pay the tax, and this is practically a per capita tax. It is evident the statement made by the congressmen means that here after there will be a greater rather than smaller part of the war taxes collected in times of peace than ever be fore. The income and inheritance taxes have come to stay. . HELPING US TO COMMERCIAL FREEDOM A dispatch from Washington yesterday tells of the old collier Justin, now in the Mare Island navy yard being sold for $226,200, although her appraised value was only $7,500. This looks like a big sum to pay for a piece of junk, but the shipping trust will make the farmers pay the bill. That is they will collect $2.00 a bushel from Europeans for wheat she carries and split it with the farmers fifty, fifty. The European war has shown the United States as nothing else could how dependent she is on other nations. If it causes us to take steps to secure our commercial freedom it will prove of more real benefit to this country than even the vast sums of money that have been made out of the war. If by some chance we could have been shut off from communication with France and England as we have been from Germany, the lesson would have been doubly impressive, for we do not realize how much we are de pendent on those countries for the simple reason that we are still getting from them all the things we have always cot. Necessity has forced our chemists to seek the secret of certain dyes that are made in Germany, and this it is claimed has been accomplished, although as yet certain: colors are out of the market, lhe American mind has been directed to these things and it is pretty certain that when the war is over many of the things we have here tofore depended on other countries for, will be made at home, and to that extent at least the foreign maker will have lost this market. Carranza's prompt action in punishing the murderers of Americans has taken the wind out of the sails of such congressmen as were determined to have the United States intervene in Mexico. It also demonstrates that the president was right in waiting to give the Mexican de facto government a chance to enforce its own law's, as it has done so far as it can. Fred Ayer of Nome, Alaska, has established a new racing record, and also the fact that a dog team is no slouch in the matter of speed. On a fast track Sunday he made a six mile run in 21 minutes and 39 seconds, al most a H:00 gait. Not so many years ago folks would, pay good money to see a trotting horse make that time. "Any reference to a poor editor in Oregon is a poor pun. There is one at Hood River who has just been chosen president of a national bank." So says the Ore gonian; but it fails to make the distinction between poor and impoverished which is a distinction with a difference. The State Highway Commission having notified the county court of Hood River county that the county will have to stand the expense of the upkeep of the Columbia1 River Highway, the Pine Grove Grange of that county' rises to state its objections, lhe resolutions passed by the grange not only request the county court not to com ply with the Highway commission's demand, but that if necessary it clos the highway to public travel during the summer. Hood River, according to the grange, looks upon the Columbia Highway as a sort of side show be longing to Portland, and of benefit to that city alone. The county, or at least the grange, feels that it has done its part in helping build the road, and now to be taxed for its maintenance is piling it on too heavy. Tho president is loaded and ready for his tour to preach the doctrine of preparedness and defend his pro gram therefor. This will bring the subject again to the front in congress and by the time the president has com pleted his rounds the matter will have been pretty well threshed out by the lawmakers. "Cyclone" Davis, of Texas, is properly named, an extraordinarily big wind. He is LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18C8 CAPITAL - - - - - $300,000.00 Transact a General Ranking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT The postal department has tagen a big contract in trying to stop boys and girls using the mails to cor respond. "Love laughs at locksmiths," but he will only grin at postmasters who try to clip his wings. Reports from all sections of the state indicate that most of the present county officials will be willing to serve their country for another term. W6lt Mason fin' 6 EATING TOO MUCH I eat too much, the doctor tells me; with arguments like this he quells me, when I inform him that his portions, of which I've swallowed endless oceans, don't cure my shingles, mumps or tetter, or make me feel the least bit better. "There'd be less sick ness, grief and wailing, there'd be less suf fering and ailing," the doc says, pausing in his carving, "if men would leave the table starving. Oh, let your meals be slim and meager; quit eating while you -still are eager for more roast beef and spuds and gravy, and beans the kidney kind or navy Oh, leave the table while you're hollow, and while you still desire to swal low the bill of fare from A to Izzard, from soup right dowr to chicken gizzard. Then you'll be cured of your diseases, as laundered dog relieved of flea's is." Thus do the wise and learned physicians attack the modern-day conditions. We cure ourselves, by means dis tressing, and pay the doctor for his guessing. POSLAM SOOTHES M0STJIERY SKIN No Risk In Trying It Cannot Possibly Harm You take no risk in trying I'oslam. the skin remedy, as an experiment, to see what it can do. It is absolutely harmless. And the burden of proof is on I'oslam it must show results, visibly, or you will not continue to use it, much less recommend it to oth ers ns thousands are doing. ' That I'oslam possesses a merit most unusual in healing shin diseases is ap parent from first application when itching stops and in improvement day by day, until the skin is clear. I'oslam Soap never irritates. Leaves un nfter "feel" of pleasant wholesoine ness. Eor samples, send -Jc stamps to Emer gency Laboratories, 32 West 2'ith St., New' York City. Hold by all druggists. Dr. W. A. COX lit OPEN FORUM sfc sc s( 5c sc sjc c sc sjc 5jc sc sjc LETTER SHOCKED HIM 1 1 Kdi tor Caiiit.il Journnl: , Hear Sir: Mr. Tischor's letter in today's issue .of the Journal, advocut-j ing dancing, billiards, etc- for the church was a great shock to me und to a few others, I think. It seems hard to realize that we have .it Inst drift ed so far away from true Godliness: and from the teachings of Christ, that such a letter could lie written by any one, least of all by a minister. I have thought lately that since the churches; luve all forsaken God and given them selves up to worldliuossi it might be wiser to close them up altogether for a period of 10 years or so, or until someone should be raised up who would be able and willing to follow the teach ings of the llible fully and tench oth ers to do the same. I can see no sense in this weak nndVutile attempt of the church to compete with tiie world for the church can't put up as good .1 show "as the world can any way and we are all disgusted with the poor imita tion. We are all tired of setting in an empty, or almost empty church, gaz ing at b ire walls and-empty seats while some poor little two-by-four min ister talks on some social problems or tries to entertain ns in some other way. If it is entertainment wo want we could all be nincii better entertain ed almost anywhere else. But most of the few poor souls who continue to at tend church regularly do so with the desire to please God .iiid with that end in view are willing to endure the mis ery of a church service, "having re spect unto the recoinpse of the ever and." I nm beginning to think, how ever, that those of us who really be lieve the Hible and try to follow its teachings would be doing a better serv ice to the cause of Christ .mil the llible if we withdrew from the church altogether for a time. If the worldlings were left to themselves they would soon find the church too heavy a bur den and give it up. Tub churches would then die a nautiiil death and, perhaps, other church teachings a pur er religion lie raised up, or spring up of themselves. In the New Testament Christ teaches us th.it there is a future life of happiness nwniting those who serve llim in this life, lie also teaches that there is n "hell'' prepared for those who reject Him. Nothing that 1 ever heard of his happened to prove that Christ's words were not true, yet ministers with one consent seem to havo agreed to ignore tho awful fact that men and women are dying every moment and entering another life of eternal agony everlasting fire! Can nnv minister nrove with ilisolnic i'er- Itninty that Christ lied when Ho warn ed people that such a ulace is awaitinc I the ungodly 1 If they can not prove it, and if there is even a faint sus ! picion that lie may havo been speaking too trutli and that there really is such a place or condition, then the" duty of the minister Is to warn people to "flee from the wrath to como. " That would be much more needful than to oive jthem dancing lesons. The minister who j does not believo the doctrine of eternnl : punishment does not believe any of the j llible and should not be .1 Bible teach er. The minister who does believe in j eternal punishment and fails to warn I people of their dangers is cruel nnd in , human to a degree hardly conceivable, i Would it not be better, therefore, for ! true Cliristinns to leave the church and i its ministers to themselves until they PAINLESS DENTIST 303 State Street SALEM, ORE. My Guess Is 1160 Teeth Says One of Leading Men Three prizes offered for the nearest guess on the number of teeth in show case at :03 State Street. It costs you nothing to guess and you may win first prize. 3 Prizes Offered Remember, 50 per cent cut on dental work the balance of this month. All work guaranteed. Lady Attendant. Modern sanitary office. Dr. W. A. COX 303 State Street. Phone 926 cease to dishonor God by making Him .1 liar f i'or that is what they arc do ing when they show so plainly that they do not believe His words. Siucerelv, R. STUNK, j Wilsons to Entertain For Ambassador Bernstorff (By Vnited Press.) Washington, Jan. 2o. President and Mrs. Wilson this evening will en tertain Count Juhnnn von Bernstorff, ambassador from Germany; representa tives of the other central powers and ambassadors .ind ministers from a num ber of neutral countries. The dinner is the second of the two diplomatic dinners, instead of the single dinner usually tendered a.11 the diplomats, made necessary this year on account of the war. The Gorman ambassador, being next in rank in the diplomatic corps of Ambassador Jusserand of Franco, to whom the first dinner was tendered, will be the guest of honor, accompany ing Mrs. Wilson in to dinner and being seated at her right nt t.ible. Ambas sador Von Bernstorff will meet the new White House mistress for the first time. It also will lie tho first occasion of his meeting President Wilson since this country has been plunged into va rious crises with the central powers. Countess Von Bernstorff is not now in Washington and hence will not be pres ent at tiio function tonight. Ambassa dor A. Husteni Bey of Turkey, also is absent and Abdul' If.ik Hussein Hey, the Turkish charge mid Madame Hey will attend in place of the ambassador. Baron Krich Zwiediuek, charge d 'Af faires of Austria-Hungary pending the n .lining of a successor to Ambassador Diiinba, whose recall was asked by this country, will represent his country nt the dinner. Countess Zwiedinek is not in Washington, Stephen Puniiretoff, the Bulgarian envoy und Mrs. Ijiinare toff will represent tiio fourth of the central powers at the dinner. The prize hog raiser in the country around Butler, l'u., is an eight-year-old boy, Bay Powell, who won over n score of experienced farmers in a recent con test. The points considered were the age of the animal when weighed In and its average increase in weight each dav. Young Powell's hog weighed 337 pound when 245 days old. 'H'i8"H I HEAD STUFFED FROM I UAIAnnrl UK A UULU f Says Cream Applied in Nostrils t I Opens Air Passages Itight Up. Instant relief no waiting. Your clogged nostrils open right up; tho ai passages of your head clear and you enn breathe freely. No more hawk ing, snuffing, blowing, headache, dry ness. Xo struggling for breath nt night and your cold or catarrh disappears. (let a small bottle of Fly's Cream Balm from your druggist now Apply a little of this fragrant, antiseptic, healing cream in your nostrils. It pen etrates through every air passage of i no neau, soothes the inflamed or i swollen mucous membrane and relief comes instantly. It's just fine. Don't stay stuffed up with a cold or nasty catarrh. French Remedy Aids Stomach Sufferers Franco lias been called the nation without stomach troubles. The French have for genera lions used a simple mix ture of vegetable oils that relievo stom ach and intestinal ailment and keep the bowels free from foul, ioisonou mat ter. The stomach is left to perform Its functions normally. Indigestion nnd gastritis vanish. Mr. Geo. II. Ma.vr, a loading druggist of Chicago, cured hnmself with this remedy in n short time. The demniul Is so great that he Imjurls these oils from France and compounds them under the name of Mnyr's Wonderful Kem eilv, people everywhere write and tes tily to the marvelous relief they have received using this remedy one dose will rid the body of poisonous accre tions that have accumulated for years and convince the most chronic suffer er from stomach, liver or intestinal troubles. Mayr's Wonderful neiuedy is sold by lending druggists everywhere with the positive understanding that your money will be refunded without ques tion or quibble if OXK bottle fails to give you nbsolut satisfaction. FOREST RESERVE NOTES Portland, dr. Jan. 2'.'. Paring the past five years more than 14.nu0,0trt ncres have been eliminated from the national forests, and more than I.IH'O, 000 acres h ive been male available for the benefit of ROOD settlers. Of the l.soo.Oiio water horsepower in ! tho western states, 50 per cent is in j plants constructed in whole or in part on the national torests ami opera ten 'Under permit from the department of agriculture. It has been necessary in the east to acquire by purchase the same diss of lands which, in the west, were put in to national forests by proclamation. ! An appropriation of ll,iKHUHH) was innde available for this purpose, to be expended during 1910 to 11' 1.1. It Is I expected that ll.flnO.OOO acres will be ipurchised. Of this amount, 1.317,000 i acres has already been acquired. In the work of compiling the 191" lumber cut, the forest service hn sent out. requests to 027 snwtnills In Wash ington and sawmills in Oregon. Additional requests have been sent to 111 shingle mills in Oregon and to 3!' shingle mills in Washington. I The commercial sales from the Alas kx nnttonal forests during the past fis- i'Ul year ninoilllieil TO n,-tif-"i.'i' oimru feet, valued at ilS,;j. The Alnska forests are much more than self-supporting. STOMACH TROUBLES DUEJO ACIDITY Bo-called stomach troubles, such ns ln- digestion, wind, stomach ache and in- I ability to retain food, are in probably nine cases 'out of ten simply evidence j 'that fermentation, the result of excess: incid, Is taking place in tho food eon-j . icims or me Binmncn causing tno torin alien of gas. Wind distends the Btoin nch and causes that full, oppressive I feeling sometimes known as heartburn, ! while the acid Irritates and Inflames the delicate lining of the stomach, The trouble lies entirely In the excessive secretion of acid and tho fermentation of food. Such fermentation Is un natural and may involve harmful con sequences if not corrected. To stop or prevent fermentntion of food contents of the stomach and to neutralise the acid, and render it btnnd and harmless, a teaspoonful of Disunited Magnesia, perhaps the best and most effective corrector of acid stomach known, should be taken in a quarter of a glass of hot or cold water immediately after eating, or whenever wind or acidity is felt. This stops the fermentation, and neutrnlir.es the acidity in a few mom ents Fermentation, wind and acidity are unnecessary. Stop or prevent them by the use of a proper antacid, such ns Bis urntcd Magnesia, which can be obtained from any druggist, and thus enable the stomach to do its work properly with out being hindered by gas and excessive acid. Another Year Panama- California Exposition at San Diego This beautiful exposition will continue ull the year 1010 bigger and better thnn ever, Many of the best exhibits from .San Francisco have been transferred to San Diego. If you neglected to see San Diego in ll'lo do not fail to see this beautiful city this year. The winter i-i the logical time too. Six months round trip 'tickets are on sale daily from all Pacific Northwest points to Southern California. 3:32 A. M. CALIFORNIA EXPRESS 2:42 P. M. EXPOSITION SPECIAL 5:13 P, M. SHASTA LIMITED Train De Luxe 10:38 P. M. SAN FRANCISCO EXPRESS 4 Eve ictween Salem Trains Every Day between and San Francisco Through standard and tourist sleeping cars, dining and observation cars. Steel couches make traveling a pleasure. Ask our local agent for further infer mntioti or write SOUTHERN PACIFIC John jr. Pcott, General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon. Always Watch This Ad Changes Often rvjjr inc. VVUtjiisaiAN W ( all linAa A DU,U ur.i . . for the wood.. " "' "a W" A11 klJ,aA,CCTr,l,a IroB for b0,h Ronf 4 BulUlnti, eost Laundry Alangol, slightly use! for ona-fourtk i original 15 AND 120 NEW OVERCOATS AT 15.00. I pay 1 1-9 cents per pound for old rags. ' X pay highest prk for hide and fur. H. Steinbock Junk'Co.