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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 24, 1916)
Ed itoria "The Capital Journal" ! Page of TIItl.'SDAV KVKXIXli. February --M, ISUd. CHARLES H. FJ.-iHER, Editor and Manager, PUBLISHED EVEEY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. B. BARNES, President CHAS. H. FISHER, Vice-President DOBA C. ANDRESEN, Sec. uud Treas. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Bsily by carrier, per year $5.00 Per month. Daily by mail, per year 3.00 Per mouth. .45c .35c full Leased wire telegraph report EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York Chicago Vari-Lewis-Williams Special Agency Hurry B. Fisher Co. Tribune Building 30 N. Dearborn St. The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porh. If the carrier dues not do this, misses ymi, or neglects getting the jper to you 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 SI. CONCLUSIVE EVIDENCE OF GOOD TIMES The most gratifying evidence of returning prosperity in the northwest is contained in the daily dispatches which announce regularly the sale of some sawmill and the statement that it would start up in a short time. It shows confidence is returning and, that the purchasers see a chance for money in the lumber business. While Oregon is largely an agricultural state, her lum ber industry is the greatest of all her manufacturing busi nesses, in fact is about the only large manufacturing industry. Under average conditions Oregon's lumber trade amounts to around $:i0,000,000 a year. As it has been practically dead for a couple of years the loss of this vast sum has been felt keenly in all other branches of business. A large proportion of this sum is expended for wages in the mills and in the timber, and this means employment at good wages for a small army of men. This in turn means the putting into circulation from the labor side of the business alone a sum that keeps the wheels greased and business moving. It is this condition it seems that is again to be with us. The most satisfactory feature of this is that it will come to stay. The demand for lumber in foreign counries, al ready large, is bound to increase once the war ends, and the world must turn to this country for its supply. While the southern states are still furnishing great quantities of lumber the forests there are rapidly disap pearing, and before long the West will have the market largely to itself. Under these conditions, it may well be doubted if the business will ever again have so long and so serious a depression. As a matter of fact every mill in Oregon would have been running full blast long ago had the Panama canal remained open, and had there been ships available for carrying our lumber to market. The lack of ships is still handicapping the business, and will continue to affect it for some time yet. It will be a glad day for the state when the government either builds or assists private capital in building an American merchant marine. This has to be done before we are independent of foreign shipping for carrying on our business, and the sooner it is done the bet ter. When it is done Oregon will come into her own. When a person or community wants a thing, it can readily find many reasons why it should have it. This is the case with the proposition to build a first-class road around the border of the United States. Since the propo sition has been broached there are new reasons why it should be done coming to the front daily, all clamorous for a hearing. The main one is that a good hard surfaced road as suggested would be a great thing for the country in case it was threatened with invasion. There is another reason that is not mentioned and that is that it would furnish an ideal trip for the owners of autos and Fords. Death lurks in all places and in all kinds of contrap tions. In San Francisco Wednesday, a woman myster iously disappeared and only after several hours search was it discovered that a folding bed she was trying to get in place, due to broken springs, had fallen on and killed her. When one's bed gets in an assassinating .mood1, where can one turn for safety? A dispatch yesterday read: "The ice dammed waters of the Feather river today backed up through the Sierra valley and is threatening many houses there.'' This is no way for waters to act, of course, but the emphasis used in describing them was unnecessary. The senate having confirmed the nomination of Alex ander T. Vogelsang' as solicitor of the interior depart ment, there shouUfbe entire harmony in that branch of the public service. The secretary of agriculture joins the crowd in saying, Oregon grown flax is the equal of any. This makes it practically unanimous. MAY OUT-CLASS ENGLAND Rear Admiral Charles A. Badger, of the United States Naval General Board, says the American navy ranks third, with England first, and Germany second. France is a close fourth. He added for the information of con gress, that it would take four years to make the navy equal to Great Britain's, but that this could be done in two years it the armor could be secured, which under ex isting circumstances it cannot, but can be in four years. He also stated the policy of the board was to keep the American navy superior to that of Germany. The board suggests that the American navy should be stronger even than that of England. To accomplish this would require 22 more ships of the dreadnought class, and a total of 15 battle cruisers, 25 swift scouting crafts, 200 submarines and 250 destroyers. From the present temper of Amer icans it is highly probable we will yet have a battle fleet superior to that of England and this within the. next seven or eight years. It is probable when this is accomplished America can indeed almost compel peace for the world. Portland proved itself a good loser yesterday when hundreds of her prominent men went to Astoria to join in celebrating the granting of that city, terminal rates on freight from the Inland Empire, and this, though the victory, temporarily at least, is a setback to Portland. Senator Root wants to be president. In a recent speech he said: "We want a president who will use mor than words concerning Germany." This being the case do the German born citizens of the United States want Root for president? Women are getting. as technical as Thaw's attorneys. Mrs. Ella F. Murry Warren, an heiress, wants her mar riage annulled because she was married without the formality of a license. She was married New Year's day. Senator Gore announces he will insist on his right to speak in favor of warning Americans to keep off armed merchantmen. This is one American right none of the belligerents can ride over rough shod. As appropriate in connection with the discussion of county agriculturists, we note the New York World re marks: "Agriculture is what colleges teach; farming is what men do for a living." The Macon (Georgia) News expresses a mournful truth in the brief sentence: "Some women can live on their husband's incomes, but it doesn't leave anything for the husbands.'' The new style of woman's headgear may be all right from the feminine view point, but to the other sex it looks about as lovely and charming as a wart on a dill pickle. No doubt if the immortal George had been forced to listen to all the inane things said about him yesterday, he would be glad he passed away in the remote long ago. The Turks are destroying the towns they evacuate, but unfortunately they cannot destroy their decidedly bad i names. Mrs. R. T. Stewart in her will left an angora cat $1,000. This shows a woman's will is as inexplicable as her won't. If Salem's lady candidate for representative fails to become a legislator she can at least be a Page. Official Russia Overrun With Graft Prisoners In Serbia Starving l.os Angeles. Cul., Eel). 2". Stripped of his last dollar liy u Russian-Japanese syndicate which is declared to have cleaned $r..'!00,000 aiding deserters to escape, Alexander Xemirovsky. aged -5. was in l.os Angeles yesterday, luck ing for a job. He asserted he was charged ss:!.000 for .'!() passports which enabled him to flee the czar's army and reach San Fran cisco, after undergoing many hardships and viewing terrible sights "behind the scenes" in Siberia. Nemirovsky said tne average price for an escape was $:).0(Hi, although some very wealthy men in the army hail paid as high as iMO.OIio. The agency, lie avers, connives with high Russian officials. "I was called to the colors in Odes sa," said Nemirovsky. "1 served three months in the trenches and was promot ed for bravery to a sergeancv. I saw awful things at the battle of l'rzemysj. "The rank and file of the men do not know for what they are fighting. 'I know that hundreds of tliem have been shot. Its fight or death. "The agenev through which T es caped gained freedom for myself and seven other men. It was gold, gold, gold, wherever we went. Graft per meates the Russian goternmeut from top to bottom. We used forged pass ports. Sometimes we rode but more often we walked. As a Frenchman I walked from Siberia to Japan. The ther mometer registered 70 degrees below part of the time. The p.iliglit of Rus sian prisoners of war beggars descrip tion. They are hungry, ragged and in dire straits and trying to get word of their condition to the outside world. They want help. "All tne passports were taken up bv the last Japanese agent with whom Ii ilenlt, to be sold over and over again. I The average price for an escape is) ir-o.uuu ami l nave Known it to run as high as 10.000. There are probablv 20 agencies at work in Russia, conniving with high officials." Feature No. 5. MOOSE LODGE ALL STAR VAUDEVILLE SHOW THURSDAY, MARCH 2. GRAND OPERA HOUSE "4 1 4 BEERY & BElON Will present one of their favorite eominedies called "The Country Oirl and the Legit." This is a skit full of comedy, and good songs. Mr. Berry has a deep baso voice anil was formerly in grand opera work, while Jliss Benson starred in several big eastern productions. Kerry and Benson are known from Maine to Seattle and throughout anada, having covered the circuits ninny times. Miss Benson has supported six well known New York stars mid has herself stared in a number of productions, she is best known for her work in "Mrs. Wiggs of the Cabbage Patch." Mr. Benson also toured the big time circuits with a Trans-Atlantic Quartet for ninny years, lierrv and Benson are now calling Salem their home. Next feat tore will appear here Saturday. FRUIT MEN GET BUSY Big Meeting Planned at Dallas For Saturday, March i. METHUSELAH LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1863 CAPITAL $.00,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Depasit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Methuselah, that grand old gent, saw centuries pass by; the generations came and went, and he refused to die. No doubt among the ancient ranks the faddists drew their breath, and he was told by health board cranks just how to sidestep death. I seem to see them at his side, and hear them give advice. "Eat predigested hay," they cried, "that has been kept on ice. Sleep out of doors, in rain or gale, or you'll be on the blink; boil all the air that you inhale, and fry the things you drink. Eat less than half of what you wish, put sawdust in your bread; if you are fond of beef or fish, eat liverwurst instead." The faddists sprung their spiels and died; Methuselah shed tears, but would not take them as a guide and lived nine hundred years. His voice across the distance calls a cheering word to me: "I ate ice cream and codfish balls, and was from sickness free. I filled myself with scram bled eggs, and steaks from slaughtered steers, and pranced around on active legs for near a thousand years." r i ii i-y v V, Tho Folk County Fruit (irowers' as sociation is punning u big meeting tor .Saturday. March 1, when C. A. Mul- boeuf. manager of the Western Oregon Fruit Distributers, will be present anil deliver an address on "Co-operation, ' ' and when also the agricultural college will be represented bv one of its most aide experts. Mr. Malboeuf is a most interesting speiker, and being deeply interested in the fruit problem has studied the question of marketing tne Oregon product in all its various phas es. Therefore his discussion of co-operation will be from one of the best- informed growers oil the coast. The col- lego representative will discuss the (iiestion of brown rot, which is just now receiving considerable attention iinoug prune and cherrv growers in this valley, as well as elsewhere in the l'acific northwest. It is barelv pos sible tint the government's expert, who has been ordered to this section to in vestigate and eradicate brown rot, will have arrived here by that date and if so this authority, too. will be present at tne meeting, winch will he held at the court house during the afternoon. I lie 1 oik Countv Fruit drawers as sociation has issued a gener.il invita tion to orchardists of this section to attend this gathering, and hopes to ake it the largest and most profitable meeting yet held under tho auspices of that oiganizntion. Secretary Robert r.wing is now getting in touch with the glowers of tiie county, urging upon each and every one to be present on this Decision, believing that only through concerted action in matters pertaining to the industry can the best results be attained. Since the organization of this association much good has been accom plished, yet the membership js not as large as it should be. and an effort will .-.ion be made to increise the enroll ment so as to include practically every truit grower within the county.' Meet ings are held on the first Saturday of each month, at which time matters of interest to orchardists are discussed. Kspeciallv are the business men of the several towns of Folk county in vited to attend the meeting announced for March 4. Mr. M ilboeuf believes that their co-operation is worth while, and will in his nddress explain wherein they can noi very materially in enhanc ing the good of the community by giv ing support to the fruit men. 'Tlie sec retary has asked the various commer cial organizations of the county to urge Attendance upon the meeting by all within their iuridiction. and if' thev HUIE WING SANG CO. CHINESE FANCY AND DRY GOODS Goods Selling at Cost We make up Elmonas, Wrappers, House Dresses and Underwear. Gents' and Ladies' Furnishing Goods, Mattings, Blankets, Comforters, etc. 291 N. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon respond as they should the gathering will be one of the largest of the kind ever held in l'olk county. Dallas Observer. Supplementary articles of Incorpora tion were filed at the office of the cor poration commissioner today for the " V'.rste Volliner I'literstit.ting Vercin Maite Beth Maih ("nyiin" The company proposes to conduct a general business along the lines indicated liv tl. titln The Troy Lumber company was incor porated ut $5,000 with the principal nf , fice at Troy in Wallowa county. The Oregon Asbestos Mines was also incor porated at $5,000 with the principal of- fice at 1'ortlund. The Alaska Oil and jOunno company; dissolved. Dr. W. A. COX VT PAINLESS DENTIST 303 State Street SALEM, ORE. ACCIDENTS WILL HAPPEN NOSE CLOGGED FROM A C0LD0R CATARRH Apply Cream In Nostrils To Open I'p Air Passages. News From Jefferson 1 Capital Journal Special Service. j Mr. 1.. Uulgin made n trip to Salem I Monday. The play given at the rringle school house Friday night was well attended. Mr. K. C. Hnlley nns n isitor in Sa i lem Thursday, I loite n number from this neighbor hood Attended the box supper at Clover dale school .Nlturday night. Mr. Douglns Minto svas in the neigh borhood Saturday looking after his or chard interests. Mr. and Mrs. Halley, of Salem, visited in the neighborhood Saturday. Mr. inul Mrs. f'red Sheppurd were in Salem Saturday. i Mr. Monroe Wye, candidate for coun ty commissioner, was tu Salem Saturday. Aha! What relief! Tour clogged nos trils open right up, the air passages of your head are clear and yo can breathe freely. No more hawking, mining, mucous discharge, 'jendache.l dryness no struggling for breath at! night, your cold or catarrh is none. ' Don't stnv stuffed up! dot a small I bottle of Fly's Cream Balm from ynurl druggist now. Apply a little of 'this! fragrant, antiseptic cream in your nos-j trils. let it penetrate through everr air' pnssago of the head: soothe and' heal J the swollen, inflamed raucous mem-' brane. giving you instant relief. Klv'sl Cream Halm is just what every cold! and catarrh .mttervr has been seehiaj. It 'a just spleadid. Something will happen to that bad tooth of yours one of these clays, (or nights) and then you will wish that you had followed the principle of Safety First It is easier to save a tooth before it aches, than it is after, and it costs less. Let us examine your teeth and prevent the accident. Examination Free. Guaranteed Work. Lady Nurses. DR. W. A. COX 303 State Street Phone 926 Always Watch ThisAd ZIChae7 Often rmouy correct weight, square Seal and highest prices for all kinds of junk, metal rubber, hide, and furs. I pay 2Uc per pound for old ngs. t Bitf stock of all sizes second hand incubators. All kinds corrupted 1 iron for both roots and building Hoofing paper and .seond hand f linoleum. H. Steinback Junk Co. The House of llalf a Million Bargains. 302 North Commercial St P'aone 80S