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itorial Page of "The Capital Jonroa 99 FRIDAY KVKXINO. AI:.v 12. !!!. CHARLES H. FISHKB, Editor and Manager. Ed rUBLlSIIKD i:'El;V EVENING KN( KIT SUNDAY, KAI.EM, OKKGO.V, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. 8. BAliNES. t U AS. II. nSIIKK, President Vice 1'icsidciit 1)(h:a c ANDIiEsEX, Sec. anil Trcas. Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year ... srnscitimox uatks $."1,110 IVr month I!. (Hi 1'er month ..4-c ..Hoc Fll.l. LEASED WIliK TKLKGRAl'H HKl'OHT EASTKI.'V IM'U'RESEXTATIVES New York, Yard Lewis-Williams, Special Agency, Tribune nuilding The Capital Journal currier boys aro instructed to put tin- paper on the porch. If the carrier doe not do this, misses you, or neglects gcttitng tho paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determiae whether or not the carriers aro following instructions. I'hone Main 81. TWO MILLION VICTIMS OF WAR The latest estimates of the number of killed during the European war vary of course; but the lowest places the total above two million. That is a large number even in dollars, but how much larger when it applies to men who have fallen on the battlefields. From Seattle to San Francisco is 9G0 miles by the rail road. To make the trip requires about forty hours. If these more than 2,000,000 bodies were laid under the rails in the place of ties they would reach the entire distance and considerably more. If they were laid side by side as closely as they could be packed they would make a row more than 500 miles long. It would take a train traveling at the rate of 25 miles an hour 20 hours to make the run the length of the row of dead bodies. Packed side by side they would cover a field solidly, a mile long and half a mile wide and placed head to foot they would reach a distance of about 2100 miles or from San Francisco to Cincinnati, Ohio. These are a few examples of what that many men means dead. What would they mean living? What potentiality was theirs? What would their daily product have been worth to the world, and how much has the world lost in the death of these, the most virile and most intel ligent of this generation? What will be the effect of their loss on the generations to come? How much will the splendid physical machine being evolved by civilization in man, be injured by their destruction? These are the questions vital to humanity, but which only time can answer. History shows that wars, however, much they add to a nation's splendor for a time, eventu ally cause that nation to decay from the destruction of her most virile men. This is especially true of such wars as that which now appalls the world. THE PEOPLE MUST PAY FOR THE RAKE OFF The fighting still goes on around Verdun, though there is little left of either the place or its defenses. Its forts are gone and in their place are the trenches, which have proven far superior to them. If the Germans capture it they have arrived nowhere and the French have lost noth ing worth fighting for, outside of the moral effect its loss would have on their armies. Its loss would mean but the falling back a short distance 'to a new line of trenches, and to the Germans but the attacking of new trenches instead of those at which they have been hammering for more than two months. The irresistible force has ap parently met the immovable body. The San Francisco officials who permitted the Roanoke to start on her fatal voyage are now going to "investi gate" to see if her cargo was properly stored. It is claimed by the survivors that it was not. This is an in vestigation that should have been made before the ves sel was given her clearance papers and the department should do a little investigating of its own officials. Perhaps the reason the Mexican leaders who can read and should know better, think they can so easily whip the United States, is, that they have read some of the arguments printed by the more rabid disciples of preparedness, and believe them. According to these any little gang of bandits could capture this country and hold it for ransom. The war season is about on again and that there will be something doing in the near future along a thousand or more miles of front is certain. It is probable the next three months will pretty nearly decide how the war is to end, if not when. After reading that letter of President Wilson indors ing Brandeis any one will admit that as a p raiser Wilson can sure "sling the dictionary right peart." MUSIC but Mayor Rolf of San Francisco sometime ago and short ly after work on the steamer Annette Rolf had started, sold the 10,000 ton vessel to T. B. Wilcox, of Portland, for .$900,000. Two months ago, owing to shortness of ton nage, Wilcox sold the ship back to Rolf for $1,500,000. Thursday Rolf again sold the vessel for $1,750,000. The men who built the ship did so under contract, receiving $800,000 for her. Wilcox cleared $(500,000 on the deal, and Rolf $:)50,000. That is big business. When the war is over and freight rates should be reduced, there will be a mighty howl go up from the owners of just such ships, that they cannot earn fair returns on their investment, and the consumers of products handled by them will be expected to pay the bill. They will be expected to pay interest on both Wilcox and Rolf's rake-off -or on $1,750, 000 instead of $800,000 and they probably will do it. The shipping trust will see to that. Ti-i 4lm 4 1'! nl iir Iii P.-wvnii Pociiivwmf I'm- fiuinorm tlm ili. 1 111 lilV. 11 tell tL kll LlV'i,Vl V.Ulllll.Ul iWi HVIU'lAl, w.v. fense should have no trouble in proving him insane, at least on the subject of Home Rule for Ireland. He is an intelligent man, and as such must have realized the utter hopelessness of accomplishing anything by his mad feat. The man who does such a thing as he did, is either a mad man or a fool, and no one will say that this brilliant Irish man is a fool. Sane enough otherwise, he is utterly insane on this one subject: and being so, should not be punished. There is evidently still great room for improvement in the handling of the flax crop, but this will come with experience. In Ireland and other flax growing countries the per cent of fiber is about .10 while with us it will not reach five. In other words about two-thirds of what should be fiber goes into the tow output. Next year the per centage of fiber will probably be much larger. Flax experts say the loss is due to the using of the grass sys tem of retting instead of the pool. With troops arriving daily at the French front from Russia, Australia, Canada and New Zealand it does look as though the whole world was arrayed against Germany. Grief is brooding at my portal, woe is knocking at my door; I no longer sing and chortle, as I did in days of yore. I'm not whistling as I labor, no one hears my merry laugh; for, alas, my next door neighbor has a new cheap phonograph. It has got a tone tin-panny, and it makes me' writhe and sweat, and I say to Gentle Annie, "It will drive me dippy yet." Now it roars, in tones of Stentor, some old spiel that should be canned, "Uncle Si at Punkin Center," with refrain by Batty's Band. And the songs it reproduces give me fantods in the toes; they are sung by cheap excuses who make music through the nose. And it's going al ways, all day long I hear it wheeze, till I rear and tear my galways, throw a fit and bite my knees. I have called on Bob, the copper, begged that peeler, till I'm hoarse, to invoke the law and stop her, but he says there's no recourse. So I suffer pain immortal, and my hrart is sick and sore; grief is brooding at my portal, woe is knocking at my door. IAL Says He Was Never In Los Angeles Until Taken There a Prisoner Los Angeles, Cal., May 12. David Cm (dun went on the staiol wsterday and denied emphatically that he had ever conspire, I with any person or per son to wreck the Times building in this city. Jle said: " do not believe I have rejil the Time nce in my lite, f never bought dynamite; never was in the launch ' Pastime know absolutely nothing of any plot against the Times; was at iiome during the month of Sep tember every day and every evening with my wife and children. I never came to T.os Angeles in September, 11110, nor in my lite, until 1 was brought here a prisoner." t'nplnn declared that he wis never at the home of .Mrs. fjellc l.avin, where the alleged conspiracy is said to luuo been hatched. lie denied ho knows .1. B. McXamara, ami entered specific denial against every charge made by the prosecution. fiplan related in detail his relation with P. B. Meserve. the Bums opera tive, whom he said he wanted to treat as n father would a child. His examination will be continued this afternoon. 3 mm 1 r t'" If .e 1 . ,V ' SMOOTH A ,'.'. U .'l'. ...'.. . ..M J' viif '"f'w! tit F7h n MHvi 2 Hljl tii A PIPE of VELVET burns those bridges that we are always tryin' to cross befo we get to 'em. VoWiWrfry.iiil DC n DRY LAW DECREASES ! prison. Superintendent Boncn of the , SUPPLY OF CONVICTS honor road camp says today there will Wenatchee. Wash.. -May 1-. Because be an actual shortage of efficient hue the dry law is curtailing the number of or camp labor at the penitentiary '.y able bodies convicts sent to the state ' Julv. Arguments Have Begun Los Angeles. Cal.. Afar P' Vinnl arguments in the trial of David fan- I urn, in mi- lii'uuus iiwi.inniH conspirai'v case here will probably begin today. With Caplan himself as the last wit ness, final evidence was submitted yes-terdar. Deimtv district attorney Asa K began outlining the case' to the .itiry. ami ue win no loiioweil later by .vile Cogiilan, for the defense. District At tornev Woolwiue is exnectcil to niilm the closing address late today or to- nignr. it arguments are not complet ed by toniulit. they will he completed tomorrow, Judge Willis' instructions instructions triven and the i-nsc will Jin in the hands of the 12 men probably j not later tuan tomorrow noon. TOO WEAK TO FIGHT The "Come-back" man was really never down-and-out. 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