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J. Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" TTKSIUY EVKMMi, Man-li 21. HUil. CHARLES H. FISHES, Editor and Manager. VCBI.lPHr'.O EVERY EVENING EXCEl'T Sl'XDAY, SAI.EM, OKEGON, liY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. S. BARNES. (HAS. If. FISHEK. UOKA C. AX DUES EX, I'resident Vice rresident fccc. a ml Treas. !Sl HSl'UirTlON HATES Daily by carrier, per your r0( Fit month. Daily by miiil, per year o.UO Fer montli. .45c FULL LEASED WIKE TEI.EGUAFil KEl'OliT E A T El ! X IiEFIi ES K X T AT I V ES New York Chicago Ward-Lewis-Williams Special Agency Tfirry l. Fisher Co. Tribune lluilding 'M N. Ilenrbuiu St. The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on tin1 porch. If the furrier docs not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, us this is the only way we cun determine whether or not the curriers are following instructions. Fhone Main 81. LESS POLITICS AND MORE PATRIOTISM The Orcgonian a few days ago had quite a lengthy editorial on the duty of Americans getting together and working for a common purpose. Boiled down it took the position that we needed more patriotism and less politics. It is true there naturally must be two parties at least, to which the voters may turn, for there will always be a wide divergence of opinion as to the best methods of man aging public affairs, and it is impossible for all to get to gether in agreeing on many things. While this is true as to affairs of national character it is no longer true of state and county affairs. Time was when the county and state offices were apportioned out to the party in power as rewards for political activities. The man who worked hardest and did the most for his party was given office according to his deserts. The sheriff's office was always considered the plum in county offices with the county clerk's position a close second, and these officers were selected according to their merits as party workers, and not on account of their fit ness for the places. The same system exists yet as to federal appointments, the offices being considered the rewards turned over to the senators or congressmen to be apportioned to the party workers. As a result the federal offices such as collector of internal revenue and the postoffices are given as rewards for political services instead of for fitness. So far as the federal offices are concerned the rea sons that were responsible for the system still remain, that is party service. It is a bad system, for it makes the senators and con gressmen dictators in the state as to who shall fill the federal offices within the state, and is a species of bribery. Whatever reason was back of this system in state and county affairs has vanished. There is no longer such a , thing as state politics, for outside of using the name of one party or another to ride into office on, there is no state or county office that has anything to do with political affairs. When the United States senators were elected by the legislature the politics of the individual legislator was of importance. His was in a sense a political office, for his political beliefs would outside of extraneous circlum stancesJdecide the political party from which the senator would be chosen. When the election of senator was taken from the legislature the politics of the individual lawmaker ceased to be of any importance. The governor still has a remote political importance, for in case of a vacancy in the office of senator, he appoints. Outside of the governor there is not an office in the state now that it makes any difference whether the occu pant is a republican, a democrat, or of any other political faith. ' What we need is officials who are best fitted for the positions and in selecting a sheriff or any other county officer his fitness for the place, his ability to perform thi duties of the office best should be the only criterion. It would be as foolish to ask a candidate for any of these places his religion as his politics, for neither has any in fluence on his work. Oregon has a vast work before it in solving many serious problems connected with her development, and in selecting her officers for this work she should select the best without regard to what they believe about the tariff, preparedness, Baxter's hints to the unconverted or who struck Billy Patterson. One of these has just as much to do with the ability of a person to carefully and success fully manage an office as the other. In the selection of men, or women, to fill these places we should inquire into the honesty and efficiency of the candidates and not bother about their politics, religion or lodge affiliations. In this regard the Oregonian is correct. We need more patriotism and loss politics, more sense and less sensitiveness about political beliefs; more handling of public business with the same care and watchfulness we display in managing our private affairs, and we cer tainly do not inquire into the politics or religion of our lawyers, doctors or ministers. We do not ask our work men about their political beliefs but hire them for their ability to do the work we have for them. Why should we not exercise the same horse-sense in dealing with public affairs-and selecting public servants? Strange isn't it that our republican friends cannot find a candidate to suit them? With its six million voters it seems to be of the opinion that, only one man has a show of being elected, and next to him the only one with a chance is the gentleman who would be, if elected a third termer, and whether elected or not would be the man who threw down the party that placed him at the head of the nation for nearly eight years. Strange again isn't it that the party should turn to an irfgrate and a renegade and adopt him as its savior? Oakland has sent out a report that owing to the La Follette seaman's bill, ships are unable to get sailors, and eighteen vessels are tied up at the wharves on this ac count. It is also stated that fully 50 per cent of the sailors examined failed to pass. Is this a follow-up of the story sent out sometime ago from the same place and of the same import, which proved to be-about 95 per cent un adulterated lie?. The soaring prices of all metals, due to the European war, has given mining a decided boost. M. M. Parks, director of the Oregon Bureau of Mines, has just turned out a statement showing that in 1915 the product of Ore gon mines was $2,000,000, against $750,000 in 1914. The estimated yield in 1916 is $:',000,000, and this is probably low judging from the unusual activity in all the mining districts. MIIIER LIKENS Slaughter Case Nears End Daughter Testifies In Her Father's Favor Rev. Slaughter on trial at Oroville for alleged mis conduct with 15-year-old Gertrude Lamson, compared himself to a flower, in his sermon, Sunday, saying its smell and its fragrance cannot be destroyed even though trampled under foot. So far as the fragrance is con cerned it would perhaps be better for the minister if it could for it is of the unpleasant class of odors. Tom Taggart is at last senator from Indiana, a place Ke has wanted ever since Sitting Bull went out of busi ness. It is probable Thomas would never have cut the mustard had not Shively died. He will hold the place until the next session of the Indiana legislature, possibly longer, but this is a remote possibility. Los Angeles' city council has recommended the doing away with the board of moving picture censors, and turn ing the job over to one commissioner at a salary of $2,100 a year. Say, wouldn't that be a snap, getting a salary like that for seeing all the movies for nothing, and the bad ones all by your little lonesome? Congress, whatever it may do towards preparedness, is certainly opposed to a large standing army. Monday Kahn's amendment to the Hay bill making the regular army 220,000 strong was voted down by 18:) to 10:, an other amendment to make it 280,000 was simply howled down before it could be put. According to the usual acceptance of the term Spring began the first of March, but as fixed astronomically it begins today, as the sun in its northing crosses the equator. The checked suit and flower garden lid are now properly at the top, that is the head pieces are, not the suits. Rumania is reported as ready to join the allies next May. Judging from her past course she will join the allies when she is absolutely certain they will win, and perhaps by that time they will not let her. Anyway the ladies patronizing the Salem street cars will all become accomplished in the intricacies of the "two step." They would much prefer a three step for a starter on the cars. ml . Oinnl LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 186S CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Depesit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Oroville, Cal., March 211. Striking nt the story of her former chum Gertrude I.ninson, Xaomi Slaughter, aged 17, daughter ot Hey. Madison Slaughter, testified today that she was in her home on the nights it is alloyed her father attacked Gertrude ther.e aail that she did not see the Lamson girl there. Miss Slaughter said she left her father alone at home one night 'and took the family autonioliile to the rail road station to meet friends, at the time it was alleged the. pastor and Ger trude were riiliucr in the machine. Miss Slaughter testified she left home at lll:.).i o'clock on that night l'roseeu tion attorneys asserted they would nrnvii slip was lint in the iintnmiiliilc but was with voting friends in the park at that time. High water this morning caused sev eral uirors to he lute in arriving, and delayed the start of the trial's third week Oroville, Cal., March lid. With the Rev. Madison Slaughter's "alibi de fease" drawing near a close, the prose cution today prepared a new corps of witnesses for the state's reobutlal in the pastor's trial on charge of assault ing Gertrude Lamson, fifteen years old. District Attorney Leonard said to day he was confident that Slaughter's alibi's would be over thrown. Slaugh ter's lawyers are equally confident that these alibis will result in a verdict of eeqnittal. In his Sunday sermon Slaughter likened himself to a flower which could be crushed and trampled under foot, while its soul could not be destroyed nor its fragrance diminished. To il lustrate this point, he tore a bright red rose, from his button hole and stamped on it. The Fallacy of Paraffine Base: Eastern oil manufac turers have long extolled the superior virtues of paraffine base motor oils. But Pacific Coast motorists have proved that Zero lene, made from selected Califor nia crude, asphalt-base, gave best results. Their experience is now supported by the testimony of in ternational experts, Lieut. Bryan stated before the Am. Soc. of Naval Engineers: "Oils made from the asphalt-base crudes have shown themselves better adapted to motor cylinders, as far as their carbon forming proclivities are concerned, than are paraf-fine-base Pennsylvania oils." Zerolene received highest competitive awards, San Francisco and San Diego Expositions. Dealers everywhere and at service stations and agencies of the Standard Oil Company. Ha hi the Standard Oil for Notor Cars Hugging Girl Employes Not Pleasure, Just Habit Portland, Or., Mar. 121. Hugging his girl employes was just a habit with A. I). Frost, state manager of a string of stores, according to his own evidence on record in municipal court tod.iy. Frost was fined till on the technical charge of assault and batter on two pretty stenographers. He and his wire both admitted that, he had a habit of petting ami fondling the girls who worked for hint. The I r t in-1 1 :i I compl.iinnnt was a girl grad uate of Whitman College who applied to I) i in for a position ns stenographer. "lie put his anus around me and kissed me three times," testified the girl. "Then I fainted.'' Two Women Wanted ; for Counterfeiting Sin Francisco, Mar. 21. Federal se cret service agents hunted two women today in connection with their probe of an alleged eoastwide counterfeiting conspiracy. Tile women vanished when six men, were arrested in San Francis co ami Seattle and a bad money en graving plant here riided. Henry Davis, one of the men caught here, is held on 2.un0 bail charged with manufacturing 1 ill counterfeit federal reserve bank notes. Charles J. Grooms is held on the same bond, accused of having ten of the notes in his possession. .Mrs. Clayburg Roasts Seattle Sheriff Hodge Los Angeles, Cal., Mar. 21. Ch uig ing from the passive attitude she has persistenly maintained throughout the preliminary phases of the Seattle "bad ger" case, Mrs. Isabel Clayburg came out today with a red hot attack on the Seattle sheriff, seeking her extradition. "Shenfr Hodge, who 1 understand is an avowed candidate for governor of Washington is attempting to make pol itical capital out of me," she declared. "He is attempting to wre.ik vengeance on members of the liainier club of Se- I .u ne. ii ne nas one nn or evnience or a single; photograph showing me in a compromising position with any man, I will drop my extradition fight and re turn north. He has no picture; he has no evidence. ' ' Mrs. Clayburg 's habeas corpus hear ing will come up in Feder.il Judge Trippet's court tomorrow-. Elastic rubber jardinieres may now be had, which will accommodate a flow er pot of any size. PUT CREAM IN NOSE AND STOP CATARRH Tells How To Open Clogged Nos trils and End Head-Colds. j You feel fine in a few momenta. Tour ! cold in head or catarrh will be gone, i Your clogged nostrils will open. The air ; passages of your head will clear and I you can breathe freely. No more dull ; ness, headache; no hawking, snuffling-, ; mucous discharges or dryness; no strug gling for breath at night. leu your druggist you want a small bottle of Ely's Creaui Balm. Annlv a j little of this fragrant, antiseptic cream j in your nostrils, let it penetrate througli i every air passage of the head; sooths I and heal the swollen, inflamed mucou I membrane, and relief comes instantly. It is just what every eold and catarrh sufferer needs. Don 't stay stuf ted-up ! and miserable. i Get prices on commercial printing at Tiie Capital Journal office. l 2 CALIFORNIA y I MCCON I IX. Dirt f f I I CUCTRK I I Ctl I J Y nAnrrr i im ES3 rUK 1 LJiU ANOTHEK WARRIOR TALKS waltMcrtcn POPULATION Prune Center is a hustling town. For liveliness it has renown. The leading boosters stand and crow, "Just watch our population grow !" All new arrivals have their charms; they're welcomed there with open arms. All sorts ot cheap and worthless lads, the deadbeats from the other grads, the loafers who, for vagrant ways, have drawn ten dollars or ten days, who'll work the town for grub and coal just as they swell the census roll, they're welcomed with a hip-hooray, and told to camp right down and stay. If I were owner of a town, and wished to give it high renown, I'd see that no one settled there, without a record clean! and fair. I d have a censor in each street, the new-arriving gents to meet, and he would warn the worthless skate to turn around and pull his freight. You don't invite the worthless dub to seek your home and eat your grub. Then why invite him to your town, and beg that he will settle down ? I'isiidena, Cal., Mar. 21 James 11. Caifield, secretary of the interior un der I'resident lioosevelt and son of the late I'resident Carfield, strongly advo cated preparedness today. "In America, an invading force could go through the country from end to end and meet no effective opposi tion, except in a few places, he told an assembly .it the Throop College of Technologv. "The volunteer svstem is worse than useless. Why idiould one man volunteer and another stay at home Every man should know how to take care of him self in the field and be an intelligent unit in an army. Fast Time by the Route De Luxe 5. S. Northern Pacific Sailing EVERY SATURDAY An Ocean Liner in Coastwise Service With the t Speed of an Express Train. ; i The North Bank Road Steamer Express leaves I Portland 9 A. M. I S. S. arrives San Francisco Sunday Mid-afternoon, t Fares include meals and berths and extra comforts. PUMPED HIM OUT Venice, Cal., Mar. 21. After being rushed to a hospital, his stomach pump ed out and every precaution ngaiust poisoning taken. YV. C. .lansen today told physicians he hid merely suffered from A little fainting spell. TRY JOURNAL WANT AD9. Los Angeles (fcCC Round Trip pOO San Diego Round S $61.50 I Keep the j Stomach Righti Six months limit stopover privileges. t I For tickets and reservation call on or write, j J. V. RITCHIE, Agent, Oregon Electric Railway, Salem, Oregon. and when it shows any signs of distress, Always Watch This Ad Changes Often ... L-l i. gie neip at once, u HOSTETTER'Sj Stomach Bitters has been found very helpful! as a tonic and appetizer. Try it. Strictly correct weight, square deal and highest prices far t'J kind of junk, metal, rubber, hides and furs. I pay 2UC per pound for old rigs. Big stock of all sizes second hnd incubators. All kinds corrugated iron for both roofs and buildings. Roofing paper nd tecond hand linoleum. . H. Steinback Junk Co. The House of Ha:f t IMlioa Bargain. 302 Xorth Commercial St t t i X Paon SOS t t