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Page iloNDAV KVKX IXl! April K. I!10. ona CHARLES H. FISHER, Editor and Manager. Edi of The Capital Journal PUBUSHED EVERY EVE.MXQ EXCEl'T SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. a BARNES, President CHA9. II. FISHER, Vice-President JXJHA C. ANDRESES, Sec. uud Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily by carrier, per year $3.00 Ver month Daily by mail, per year 45c a. 00 Per mouth 35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT New York EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES Wsrd-Lcwis-Willinms Special Agency Tribune Building The Capital Journal earner boys are instructed to put tlie papers on the poreh. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carrier are following instructions. Phone Alain 81. THE GNAT AND THE CAMEL" STRAW VOTE INDICATES WILSON'S ELECTION The Oregonian has just completed taking a straw vote as to the individual preference for president, and gave out the returns Sunday. It states the votes were taken in office buildings, industrial plants and a hotel lobby or two. The results are significant, though of course no straw vote is positive evidence because they are taken largely from one or two classes rather than from all. Another weakness of the straw vote in this especial case is that it apparently did not take into consideration the suffrage vote, which generally favors Wilson. Out of S(!l votes collected Wilson was the choice of ,'MG; Hughes, 297; Roosevelt, 155. Besides there were :G scattering votes for republicans, including 11 for Henry Ford, seven socialist votes and three democratic for others than Wilson. It may be added that there were two votes for Pancho Villa. It will be seen that Wilson leads Hughes 49 votes and Roosevelt 199. The combined vote of Hughes and Roose velt is 10:5 more than the Wilson vote. If it could be con ceded that even the great majority of the Roosevelt votes would go to Hughes, it would make the straw vote rather against Wilson; but can this be done? It is generally conceded that if the Roosevelt following is to go into the republican camp, a man strongly progres sive and satisfactory to the progressives must be named. There is but one such, and that is Roosevelt. If he is nominated there will be a considerable fraction of repub licans of the old guard who will not support him, prefer ring Wilson to the man who they think betrayed them. This element will strongly object to rewarding political ingratitude by giving the ingrate the highest gut at their command as a reward. The result from whatever angle it is viewed points to Wilson as the .next president. In the news columns of the same issue of the Oregonian is an account of a straw vote taken here in Salem which points still more strongly to Wilson. For one hour the pedestrians passing the corner of State and Commercial streets were asked to express their preference for president and 81 did so. Of these 40 were for Wilson, 22 for Hughes and 14 for Roosevelt. Besides these there were four scattering republican votes and four socialist. In this vote Wilson got the same num ber as Hughes, Roosevelt and all other republicans com bined. The Oregonian's test vote was taken with absolute fairness and its results presented its readers in the same spirit. In these days of political trickery and chicanery our big neighbor is to be commended for "giving it to us straight." To what lengths a well developed appetite for boo,e will carry one is shown in the case of an Albany man who a day or two ago drank up the baby's bath, getting away with the alcohol the mother hail secured for this purpose. When the wife remonstrated a scrap ensued, the result being that the man with the baby's bath inside of him paid a fine of $20 and costs making the "bath" cost him $:;:U0. This is almost as bad as the historical case where the sailors drank all the rum from the cask in which the admiral's body had been placed to preserve it on the way home from India, and which gave rise to the phrase ap plied to taking a drink, of "tapping the admiral." It becomes our somewhat painful duty to kill Villa again. We have no regrets for assassinating him two dozen times in the past twenty months, and no apologies to make for wounding him every few weeks or marrying him oil' occasionally. The continued slaughtering of a man, even a Mexican bandit, after lie has been killed so many times, is what is getting on our nerves, and we sincerely hope this is the last time we will be compelled to give him his "coup de glotte" whatever that is. So far as registration for the primaries is concerned, tomorrow is the last day in the afternoon. The books will be kept open until 8 o'clock. This is positively the last call. This great government can do more in the way of gagging at a gnat and swallowing a camel than any other. This is illustrated in the case of Jue Sung Gwong, a young Chinaman who came to this country when he was seven years old, and who is thoroughly Americanized. It seems some government official desperately seeking some thing that would justify his job being maintained, dis covered, quite by accident no doubt, the fact above stated, and that the youngster had come to the country in viola tion of the law. He was haled before the United States court and the facts being shown was ordered deported. He is to leave Portland if the arrangement is carried out, tomorrow. He will step from the twentieth century back into the sixth so far as civilization is concerned, for to him China is an unknown country. It is the same as though an American citizen was ordered deported into that I country. There may perhaps be a great opportunity ! awaiting him, and it may be for his own betterment, in a way, that this happens to him, but that does not change ' the asininity of the law that jumps onto Jue, while hun- l 1 1 P " 1 ' 1 . 1 i. 4- U 4- , , ,1 urecis ox ninese are suiuggieu into une counuy tm and the government sleuths never catch one of them. The present revolution may give Jue a chance to come to the front in his native country, for his knowledge of modern ways should place him high in the councils of the new government about to be established. The whole state is back of Portland in its rose show, but there is one feature of its preliminaries that should be cut out forever and that is the contest for maids of honor made in the cities of the state. It would be better to ask the cities to contribute certain amounts than to re vert to this almost obsolete plan of raising money, that always stirs up bitterness and ill feeling in the communi ties .where contests are held. The Saturday Evening Post last week had a stoiy concerning "a beauty Contest," conducted by Parson Custard among the colored folks,! that is applicable to the contests in question. It seems from the meager reports received from General Pershing that the fight at Parral was caused by Mexicans attacking unarmed soldiers who . had entered the town for the purpose of buying provisions. One sol dier was killed by the mob, and when their comrades came to their rescue, and the mob stood its ground and continued its attack, the soldiers cut loose and some 40 Mexicans were killed. It is claimed contrary to first re 'i ports that none of the Carranzistas took part in this row, I further than to torce tne Mexicans DacK wmcn unuer me j circumstances was not a hard job. , r j Shakespeare will have to get a reputation before ! Golden Gate park can be used for celebrating his ter ! centenary: When the committee in charge of the celebra tion called on Commissioner' Lindley of the park with a request for its use he asked "Who was this man Shake ispeare anyway? Lots of people never heard of him." I And then he refused to allow the park to be used for that , purpose. "What's in a name?" "Alas! poor Yorick!" . ! "The City of Portland" was successfully launched at lever built and will carry 2,000,000 feet of lumber. Two i sister ships are under way. This is the kind of news that j sounds good to all Oregonians? It is an industry that ! will make a market for Oregon's fine lumber and at the I same time help provide the much needed shipping, lack of which is holding back the development of the state. ! What's the matter with Portland? With 840 votes : cast for preference for president not one was for Port land's candidate, Mr. Lockhart. "Try Portland first" seems to have about as much real meaning in that city , as "try other places first," do in them. i From all sections of the state comes the report that ' Ihe importation of liquors was about double in March ! what it was in February. Is it a growing thirst, or that ! the Oregonians are just getting onto the combination and j finding out how easy it is? WILLAMETTE NOTES The Y. M. C. A. at the college n addressed by Arnold T. (iralnpp anil Jnhii L. Gary yesterday afternoon at the regular meeting. Mr. Gralupp spoke on the subject "German Religion and lis Kelution to the Great War." In his talk Mr. Ora la i outlined the religious life of tlco German people and gave an interesting discourse on what influence the pres cut war would have on religion, Mr. Gralapp spoke on the subject "Is There to Be Any Gain From the War?'' He discussed the matter from n triple viewpoint; economically, politically and moiullv. KippungKiii JHIQS UNAPPRECIATIVE MAN LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 186S CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking: Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT "My husband," sighed the weeping wife, "has made a ruin of my life. He does not seem to yearn or long for Higher Things, like Art and Song. The sordid things to him appeal; he d rather have a good square meal, than sit with me through dreamful days, reciting Robert Browning's lays. A noble painting on the wall makes no appeal to him at all; with scorn he'll pass the pic ture by, and say he'd rather have a pie. Be cause the bread is always hard, because his porterhouse is charred, because the coffee's weak and thin, he'll make a most unseemly din. He can't be made to realize that noble odes beat oyster fries, that Ibsen's pen, surcharged with ink, surpasses sausage in the link, that Handel's grand harmonic burst beats schweitzer cheese or liverwurst. So here I sit upon the I floor, and weep and wail forevermore." The regular chapel services were dis pensed with this morning and the time turned over to Lieutenant M. Swartz kopensky, formerly a body guard to the ezar of lins-sia. He told of the conditions in Russia under which the ignorant masses duell and how progress is impossible under the present condi tions; since the government is all pow erful and the voice of the common peo ple is suppressed. The right of freedom of speech, free pri'ss and liberty is denied to the Rus sinn people because the Orthodox church and the Russian government are closely linked together. Another reason that the Russian peo ple cannot stand together and present a united front is that they hate each oth er: Russian people are made up of many tribes, there are 254 dialects in Rus sia, and consequently there is continual strife between themselves. The Russian Doiima, that is made up of representatives of the people, has absolutely no power as 'far as anything of an important legislative matter i concerned. The czar appoints the chair man of the assembly, and he in turn takes care that nothing of nn erratic nature is legislated. The Russian lead ers, who occasionally rise into promin ence, do so because they take chances nith their lives to secure freedom for the masses. Tolstoi, who depicted condi tions as they are now coming to pass in his recent writings, was able to do so because he recorded them as dreams, not as his candid thoughts and hence they were allowed to be published with out great dissent; another reason was Hint Count Leo Tolstoi was a relative of Nicholas IT and that carried a great ileal of influence. "You Americans,'' said Lieutenant Kwnrl.hopensky. "are the strongest na tion in the world and it is foolishness to say you are unprepared." When this war is over the nations of Europe will be so exhausted and disgusted with war that they will never attack you the strongest nation in the world. Those who are advocating preparedness ure those who are deeply interested in the manufacture of war materials and na tuarlly they are desirious for prepara tion." The lieutenant showed the suit wjfich he wore while a political prisoner in Siberia, they were white and had a yel low insigniii with the words "hard lab or" printed on the breast. He also showed the heavy iron shackles which he was forced to wear in the prison camp, these are welded to the legs of the prisoners and he must work witi them on at all times. Tonight the lieutenant will speak on "What Militarism Means to Civiliza tion" and -'My Life and Esenpe Vrom n Siberian Dungeon," at the Congrega tional church. The lecture will begin at 7:'10, no admission is charged and every one is invited to attend. His nddres-s is deeply inter, -.itit.g :n,tj depii'ts conditions as they r"dly exist. He has the power of saying things in a manner that grips the atieiitien of his audience and holds it throughout the address. Body of Small Boy Found On Sidewalk San Vrancisco, April IT Charles Don aldson, stumldcd over the blood covered body of a boy at Fourteenth and How ard streets while returning home to lunch today. The child hail evidently been struck by an nutomohile or wngou. The position in which it lay on the side walk indicated that it had been picked from the street after the accident and placed on the walk. He was about nine years old. Police are investigating. FOSTER GETS OFFICE Washington, April 17 President Wil son today nominated Andre .1. Poster, of Lnkeview, Oregon, as receiver--of public moneys there. Polk Will Have Still To Extract Peppermint A peppermint 'farm will be the real ization of The group of financiers known here as the Apple Acres com pany and the first crop will be har vested next fall. The members of the Apple Acres company met early in the week and heard reports of those mem bers who went to Albany and other places on Sunday to investigate the possibilities of peppermint farming. There are a number of successful pep permint projects in that country and the local men found things here at least equally suited to the culture of this crop. Recently those interested attended a meeting at which an ex perienced peppermint, farmer presided and they are convinced that the erop can be grown successfully here. As a starter twelve acres of pep permint will be set out at once by the Apple Acres company on its laud cast of the city on the Salem road. The roots have been ordered and as soon as they arrive F. J. Coad. trustee of the company, will direct their plant ing. The ground is already being pre pared. The compnnv expects to have between Sid) and 1.001) pounds of pep permint oil from the farm the first year. Tt may be that certain lands planted to the crop will not produce properly and this yield may bp less, hut those figures are a fair average. The company will erect its own still on Our reputation on it! TT means a good deal when a firm stakes its reputation on a cigar as we have staked ours on the OWL. Yet only merit of a high order could have built up the sales of the OWL to the point they have reached. You don't buy the OWL because of our reputation but because of its own. THE MILLION DOLLAR CIGAR M. A. GUNST & CO. INCORPORATED the property and will care for the crop from beginning to end without outside agencies. The chie? value of pepper mint is in the oil that is produced, al though some profit is realized from the sale or use of the foliage, after the extraction. of oil, as fodder. Observer. May BuilaMo Coast Valley & Siletz Railroad Said to Be Seeking Salt Water Route. That the Valley & Siletz railroad will be constructed to the coast is the statement of one who claims to have inside information regarding the in tentions of the builders of that new line into the Siletz basin. This an thority states that he has inspected maps of the proposed route, and that its ultimate destination Is Siletz bay, where it will have deep water ship ping facilities. After the line leaves the liayden place it will follow prac tically a water grade through the ba- 'sin for several miles, when it will 'eii'.ounter a mountainous country. It j is said that the route has been se- lected through comparatively low : passes, where construction work will ' not be difficult, and where the grades will not be unreasonable to negotiate, j There has been no inconsiderable amount of speculation as to whom the new railroad belongs'but if the in- formation given out by this authority is reliable there can be no further j room for doubting that Hill is back of the undertaking, and that by th's means his lines will find an ocean out ! let at Siletz bo. Spaulding has been : taking an active part in the building 'of this road, but it is said that his 1 interests are for the sole purpose of ' getting into the timber owned by bis ! company, and that he is acting fur I another. The statements are given by i The Observer as presented to it, pad without comnieut. but they have this i ring of plausibility. Dallas Observer. Try Canital Journal Want Ada. Not that it matters much, but still it might be well to know if that bottle of champagne broken on the bow of the City of Portland at the launching Saturday was not in violation of law. It was not used for mechanical pur poses, medicinally or any other for which the law pro vides. Luckily it was used on this side of the river and out side of the jurisdiction of the Hon. Hi Gill. mm ImS nfi 1 13' Give Us . the BOYS for savings depositors. Let us have their acquaint ance and friendship NOW, and in ten years we'll have as our successful patrons the flower of our business men. UNITED S TATES NATIONAL BANK Member Federal Reserve Banks, Salem, Oregon Always Watch This Ad Changes Often ' MMMMMtMHMMMMM Strictly correct weigh!, iquar deal and kigheat prices for all kinds of junk, metal, rubber, bidet and fun. I pay 2t$c per pound for old riga, j ig aioca oi an sues econa nana tneutmtorj. All kinds corrugated t iron for both roofs and buildings. Eoofini rarer and second yt X linnleum. H. Steinback Junk Co. Tbs House- of Half a Million Bargains. 302 North CommerUl St Piona ICS