Capital Journa FRIDAY i:'i:NiN( May f. HMO. ine CHARLES H. FISHER, Editor sad Manager. H Krlifl-nrial Pa or a of 1 rUFJMSIIKD KVF.UY KVKXIN'Ci K.WF.l'T SCXPAY, S.U.KM. ORKfiOX, I;Y Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. Ij. s. bakxks, ciias. ir. visiiiMt, ihua c. anpreskx. President Vice -President Sec. anil Treas. S('!'.S( I!imi)X KATES Daily by carrier, piT year .t'.i'u IVr month Daily by mail, jt-r year 3.00 IVr mouth ITI.L LEAKED WINK TIM.ElillAPil HKPOKT E ASTER X I ! Kl'l i KS E XT A T I V K S New York, Wiird-Lcwis-Willintns Special Agency, Tribune Huildiug Tlic Capital .fournal carrier boys are inst riu tdl to put tlu papers on the porch. If tlie carrier (loos not. do this, itiis-ort you, or neglects gctlitng the paper to you on time, kindly plume the circulation manager, as this is the only way wo cau determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phono Main SI. THE FUTURE WORLD CENTER When the great war is ended, whatsoever else may be the results, the United States will in all probability be the world centre of finance and industry, if not also of liter ature, politics and art. This is not only because Europe is being weakened, demoralized and shattered by war, but more because of the high character and ideals of the American people. America's domination of the world was bound to come in time; the Europe-shattering war has only hastened it. This mans far more in this country than mere money making. The American ideal of supply and service is not grounded in greed. The United States has set up for its citizens the high est standard; it has made the greatest demand of civic duty upon the people that any country has ever made. It did that at its birth. In great moments in its history, as when Lincoln spoke of "government of the people, for the people and by the people," that high demand has been reiterated. No other country has ever had such elements of ma terial prosperity, and upon the success of the United States in working out our government wisely and suc cessfully, in spite of dangerous influences, more than up on the success of any other country in the world, the future of mankind depends. Traditions are for a nation what habits fli'e for an individual man. And just as the man lives largely by force of habit, just as each one of us tides automatically many actions by habit and conforms to a certain moral standard which habit has formed, and would feel that he was going wrong if he"" fell below that standard, because he is accustomed to it, so nations feel bound to stand at the level of their traditions. We all of us have moments in our lives when there seem to rise up in us visions of what our own lives might be if we were able constantly to live at that standard to which we are able sometimes to rise when our emotions are touched, and it is some such ideal as this that the citizen of the United States should always keep before him. He should hold ever the splendid vision of the republic, not only prosperous, but pure and an example to the world. Judge C. A. Sehlbrede, well known in Salem, is a can didate for the republican nomination for circuit judge in trie second judicial district. Three judges are to be elect ed in that district, one of them, under the provisions of the law, from Coos county where Judge Sehlbrede resides and has practiced law for several years. Before going to Marshfield he was a resident of Roseburg for many years, representing Douglas county in the state legisla ture, afterward serving as United States commissioner for the District of Alaska. In public life the judge has an excellent record, as a lawver hp stands hiah in the rm. O vitv -y fession, and as a private citizen he has always been high ly esteemed in tne community in which he resided. Havin known Jurlfe Sehlhredp for mnnv vpnrc wp fppl t - O " - --. - certain the renublicans of the second rlistrint-. will mnb tin mistake if they endorse his candidacy at the polls and nominate mm ior tnis important judicial position. He seems admirably fitted for the place. Henry Ford says he has no desire to be president Colonel Roosevelt says he is not seeking the nomination. and W. J. B. says nothing, but realizes that he could not get either even if he so desired. It reminds one of a story about another one-time presidential possibility, who trite ly remarked: "I would rather be right than president." He was informed by a measly newspaper man that "there was little chance ot his ever being either. Secretary Morrison of the American Federation of Labor says the granting of a raise in wages to some 706, 500 workmen will cause a demand for a similar raise by more than 2,000,000,000 more. He adds that he expects many strikes on this account. It is quite the natural re sult, though, for when there is a pie cut at the family table each one wants a piece. After all there is really something in caste, and privil eges for the elect of the earth denied to common mortals. Just think how grateful Sir Roger Casement must feel in the knowledge that if he is to be hanged his executioners must kave the job done with a silk instead of a hempen rope. This comes about as near being "Hobson's choice" as can be imagined. , rj "KALI DEFIES 0. S. IN REPLY" Morning Mummy's Stroke of Enterprise Ends In ' Disastrous Fiasco Strenuous timos now for editors of (J. O. F. papers. The word has evidently gone out from national head quarters that no matter what course the Wilson adminis tration pursues on any question the newspaper organs of the stand-patters must take the other side. This order naturally causes many sudden flops and quick changes, and worse still not all the editors flop at once, some naturally being quicker to think and act, and as a result we have republican newspapers on both sides ot every so called national issue. For instance, when the news dis patches report that American troops are about to be withdrawn from Mexico, that is the signal for an attack on the national administration for leaving that unhappy country to its fate. A few days later, news reports in dicate that the troops will not be withdrawn and then Wilson is criticised for an unwarranted invasion of our sister republic. The same course has been pursued re garding the German submarine negotiations and various other questions until many of our grand old party ex-, changes seem to be hopelessly adrift on a sea of contra dictory editorial utterances. ' After all, are there really any well defined national issues pending before the Amer ican people at the present time? Many Oregon towns are setting dates for clean-up days, and Saleci should do the same. The back yards and alleys should be cleaned and the rank growth of weeds and grass along the streetts and on the vacant lots cut. Nothing is more attractive to the visitor and tourist, or reflects more civic pride on part of its people than a clean, well-kept town. A new serial story, "The Lost World," will begin in Saturday's Capital Journal, from the pen of A. Conan Doyle, author of the famous Sherlock Holmes stories. We think our readers will find his newest work very en tertaining and desire to call attention to it so that the opening chapters wall not be overlooked. It is said our criminal laws are patterned after those of England. If this is true the sparking plug must be out of gear, for there three political prisoners were tried, sentenced and executed in England while the preliminaries under which their trials were to take place would not have been arranged in this country. The war clouds have disappeared once more from our national horizon. Germany concedes all our demands on the submarine, question, and Carranza is willing, ap parently, to allow us to hunt Villa to our heart's content. That is the way it looks today the story of tomorrow may be different. The stock market has assumed the position of watch ful waiting and what it will do depends largely on the con tents of Germany's reply which is expected to be made public today. In other words the market wants to know whether that note is a bull or a bear before doing any more business. The scarcity of jute has caused the grain dealers to adopt the eastern system of handling grain in bulk, and elevators are being built in the eastern Oregon grain belt, two going up at The Dalles. It will make considerable reduction in the cost of handling grain. England claims to have an army of several millions stored away somewhere, but nobody seems to know where. However if she has that many now she will have about the same number when the war is over, for she is taking awful good care of them. SATISFACTION im6 fJh nm H o VwL Hie. niOMiini' Statesman held back its city edition today until S o'clock in an attempt to. steal some of the Capital Journal's thunder. Evidently printing the news inter the Capital Journal has had it is becoming monotonous even with the old ami sleepy statesman. la this in.", however, the morning pa per made the mistake of plunging us - in to war with Germany in a wood type headline w.Vch was anything but artis tic, and of itself a provocation for war in which it said, "Kaiser Defies I'. S. in Heply." As a matter of fact the kaiser iliil nothing of the kind, bat the St'i'.:isivaii telegraph editor was prob ably getting sleepy and may not have been in harmony with this stroke of en terprise, when n stroke of paralysis was the most nit urn thing to expect in that establishment, and so jumped at conclusions, before the noto was com pleted mid ordered the paper to press with this country hanging over the precipice of war." Then to make matters worse there was also a front page story in the same edition bragging about the Statesman's enterprise, and the excellence and relia bility of the Associated 1'ress service which furnishes its telegraph news. Why the poor, old Associated l'ress, which is doing the best it can at it decrepit age to serve its patrons faith fully should be wrung into the mix-up we can't quite understand. If the tele graph editor had waited long enough it would have got the news to him about right in the end, but it is nn or ganization that above everything ele objects to being hurried. The moral to be drawn from this unfortunate attempt of our esteemed contemporary to print the news first at leust once in its life, is that walk ing while asleep is as dangerous a habit for a newspaper ns an individual. The awakening is apt to be rude and start ling as was this case. Since the public is getting the (ler- man reply in 'full in the Journal, and as the Statesman's-circulation is quite restricted and exclusive, no particular damage has been done, and probablv no diplomatic notice will be taken of" the kaiser's virtual declaration of war. .Progressives Instruct Delegates for Roosevelt Seattle, Wash., May 3. "It's the most advanced and idV.r statement in behalf of preparedness extant," is the way County Chairman J. Y. C. Kellogg viewed the state progressive platform touuy. The platform, adopted at the conven tion yesterday, not only pledged the 11 delegates from Washington to Theodore Roosevelt, but declares for "a small standing army of not less than n quar ter of u million men and universal training." It also declares for "the most efficient and one Oi the largest navies in the world," and the manu facture of munitions of war by t tit fed eral government. The preparedness program was ado, t ed without dissension and the conven tion did not even hear the mention of any name but Koosevoit's for the presidency. jP ioii "VTOU can't mellow goodness into either Tobacco or fren' ship by forcin' you must let time do the work. (jjgfrl&f' It takes two year9 (or the choicest Kentucky Burley Tobac co to be matured into VELVET the smoothest Smoking Tobacco. w n 3C ZIO- IJ- $ sjc 5; $ $ jj 5); FOUR MORE LEADERS SHOT Dublin, May .". Four more 'fi leaders of the Irish rebellion have been convicted and shot, it mis officially announced to- day. They were Joseph Plunk- ett, 'Kdwn'rd Daly, Michael O' III ahan and William I'earse. Fifteen other Irish rebel lead- ers were condemned to death and thir sentences comunitd to !: 10 years imprisonment. One :! other was sentenced to eight and two others to ten years. Further trials are proceeding. $ ( !( 5j $ Jj! S HIS RECORD GOOD Motorman Finds Woman Holding Body of Husband T.os Angeles, Cal.. May S. Hurrying back through darkness to 'find the vic tim his car had struck before daylight today. Motorman P. (). Rerg. came upon Mrs. Frank Bedel sitting on the ground with the buttered body' of her husband in her arms. Almost demented witu grief the wo man was crying hysterically for him to speak to her. Hedcl, aged ';!(!, had been siuiciv nv a vMcuuoru car. me car was proceeding at such high speed that Ben did not realize he hud strucii n man un til after the incident had occurred. Two small children survive the dead man. Thomas Brown, of Salem, is a candi date for reelection to the legislature before the republican primaries. He served in the session of two years ago and made a clean record. It is on this record that Mr, Brown seeks endorse ment at the hands of the republican voters of Marion county. Here are the salient features of that record: Author. of gopher and mole bounty act. Act to increase reserve of farmers mutual insurance companies. Act to tax trading stamp conipuni ies. Efforts in house succeeded iu abolish ing expensive accountancy department. His slogan follows: "Economy! irs legislation: fair treatment of state in stitutions in llariou' county." A good record and a brief comprehen sive platform constitute his appeal for endorsement at the polls. SUGAR AT 15 CENTS TOMORROW Portland. Or., May 5. The price of sugar, already at a rec ord mark, will advance lo cents more tomorrow morning, local dealers announced today. This jump will make one hund red pound of sugar cost $S.40 Try Capital Journal Want Ads. Your Stomach Bad! JUST TRY ONE DOSE of MAYR'S Wonderful Remedy and Bo Convinced That You Can Be Restored to Health. gar lt Here p.-i JWJ Try Capital Journal Wsnt Ada. 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