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i Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" MONDAY KYKMXC.. .Tuni lrt. 191(5. CHARLES H FISHER, Editor and Manager. i s : . ' 9 ' 4 ft' )1 f f PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. Ii. 8. BARNES, CHAS. H. FISI1KR, DORA C. ANDRESEN, President Vice President bee, and Treai. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year $3.00 Per month 3.00 Per month ..4.jc ..3Jc NOTHING TO BE SCARED ABOUT FULL LEASED WTRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN BEPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward Lcwis Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, V. H. Stock wel 1, People 'a Can Building. The Capital Journal carrier boys are inMructed to pnt the paper, on he Boreh. If the carrier do not do thi, mioses you, or i-eglecta gett.tng the L. to von on time, kindle phone the circulation manager as this is the onl w we can determine whether or not the carrier are following instructions. PaWMain 81 before 7:30 o'clock an d a rP be eDt yu b 8Pecial eaienger if the carrier bas miswd you. VALLEY MUST FIND RIGHT CROPS There is no disguising the fact that for the past two or three years the Willamette Valley has not been, nor is it now as prosperous as it should be. There are some reasons for this we know, and others we do not take the trouble to discover. There is no more fertile land any where, and the climate is such that almost anything pos sible to be grown in the temperate zone can be grown here. With this wide range of products to choose from we have confined our farming to a few. Heretofore hops and prunes have been relied on prin cipally and are so to a great, too great, an extent yet. They are good standbys, but they are not enough. It is strongly hoped that flax will add another crop of con- to become one of the leaders. If results are all that are hoped for when this, year's crop has been handled, its future, and that of the. valley is assured. In the meanwhile we should everlast- ingly keep experimenting. Out of the wide range of j products surely some one or more can be found that will for the vallev. The Ira-. prove iu ltc nc mviiv-j . perial Valley in California a few years ago was a desert, but today it is supplying the coast with melons, grape fruit oranges and other citrus fruits; and is one of the most prosperous sections of the whole country. The mid- die west found corn us great truy, nu i ..... of bushels turned into meat products yearly, have made it j a farmers' paradise. Eastern Oregon and Washington: are prosperous because the world's great staple wheat ! can be grown there successfully. It can be grown here of j course, and at one time wheat was the crop of the entire. valley. But with lana at tne prices, " reached, wheat is not a sufficiently valuable crop. It will not give sufficient returns on $200 an acre soil. With, thirty bushels to the acre and the price around eighty cents, an acre will only give a money return of $24, and the interest on the investment is fourteen dollars at seen per cent. This leaves but ten dollars an acre for the labor, seed and all expenses of growing, harvesting and market ing It is not enough. Some other crop must be found that will yield greater returns. To find this will require experimenting, and every farmer should take a hand in it There will necessarily be many experiments that will not prove profitable, but until they are made this cannot be discovered. If out of hundreds of experiments one or two products that will pay well can be found the reward will be great. As an example of this, what Roseburg has done is worthy of study and imitation. For years that section has grown the turkeys for the state, and found it profitable. Not long ago after experimenting with broccoli, that has suddenly become one of the best yield ing crops of that section. Roseburg broccoli has made a name for itself, just as Hood River's applies have brought renown to that little gem of a valley. w.,inmof0 Surely there is something that the great Willamette valley can grow to better advantage and greater profit than the things she is growing now. Hops and prunes are all right, but for the former the market is limited and within the last f.ew years has become much more so. Prunes are profitable enough but the whole valley is not suited to their growth. The same might be said of hops. Our rich beaver dam lands have found one of the products for which they are especially adapted, the growm ot onions, and there will be others, though all this kind ot land can find market for its onion crop without Hooding it. Last year the growing of corn proved profitable, but it was an unusually favorable year for it, and how de pendable it will prove remains for time to show. If, as is hoped, it proves as successful as last year m- UlUaiUU, It Mill iiuu fcvi mc in great shape, for it will make possible the growing and turning off of double the number of beef cattle, hogs and other stock. This, in all countries has proved one of the most valuable features of farming, for to a certain extent the farmer becomes a manufacturer, turning his raw material, corn, into the finished product so far as the farm is concerned, fat stock. The Medf ord Sun remarks .that "the only way to ex plain the fury of the non-partisan press against Hughes is that they are scared to death." It is not at all evident that the non-partisan press is furious against Mr. Hughes, and, therefore, the reason does not exist. As a matter of fact most papers speak respectfully of Mr. Hughes, and there is no reason why they should do other wise. Mr. Hughes is a clean man, both in public and private life; and if he is elected will no doubt give the country a clean administration. He will give the best there is in him and that is all anyone can do. This coun try is going to wag along all right no matter who is elected. It will not go to the eyerlasting bow-wows no matter what is the result of the election. So far as the democratic press is concerned it has little to say about Mr. Hughes one way or the other. Naturally it is not going out of its way to sound his praises, but there is nothing it can say truthfully about Mr. Hughes that would or should reflect in anyway upon his standing in public or private life. If Mr. Hughes is elected he will be the president of the democrats as well as the republicans, and as such, will be given the respect due his position, and the support due from every citizen in every case where the honor or interests of the country are in issue. So far as being scared is concerned they have nothing to be scared about. Unless some unforseen matter comes up, the chances of President Wilson being defeated are al most nil. If the election was tomorrow he would sweep the country. It is not the non-partisans or the democrats that are scared but the republicans and this accounts for their continuous attacks on President Wilson. The allies are making a tremendous drive along the western front and have made some important gains. In spite of this the Germans are not alarmed, and consider their lines impregnable. In the light of the way the French have held at Verdun it looks as though the Ger mans had abundant reason for their belief. It does not seem possible that the allies could make any attacks more strenuous than those made by the Germans at Verdun, and it would seem that the defenses the Germans have provided are as strong as those at which they have for four months so fiercely, so persistently and so uselessly hurled their armies. They claim that if one line of de fenses is taken another equally sttrong will be to take, and that one after another these defenses can be made, and faster than the allies can hope to capture them. It is much like the situation at Verdun, and the hopelessness of attacking that stronghold has been pretty well dem onstrated. The allies are much farther from Berlin than they are from Tipperary. German enterprise and daring is reflected in the suc cessful voyage of the submarine boat across the ocean with a full cargo of dyes. On her return she will take a load of copper and rubber which the Germansjoadly need and doubtless deliver it safely in a home port. This blockade-running exploit has never before been equalled in the annals of war, but in a measure this is explained by the fact that the submarine type of vessel has only in recent years reached the practical stage as a factor in war, and also in commerce, as the successful voyage of the Deutschland would indicate. CUIS OFF EARS (Ontinned from Fage One.) May Upset Some Plans. By Webb C. Miller. fruited Press staff corresfinleiit.') Columbus, X. M.. July 111 A possibly leliiate situation for the American ex pedition in Mexico may result from the renewed Villista activity hi southern Chihuahua, according to army officers here today. This and the discovery of a quaitity of dynamite in the Mexican quarter of Columbus were generally discussed in the base camp. After a week's search, started on a tip by a Mexican member of the state militia, secret service men dug up the dynamite during the night. Three Mexicans were arrested. The hid ing place of the dynamite was thrice changed as the search became hot, in vestigation developed. The three pris oners are ausected of taking part in the Villista raid of Man-h !. That Villa personally is directing, if not actually leading the present rebel lion devastating siuitlieni Chihuahua is undoubted in authoritative circles here. "Saviour of Mexico." Villa was called by recruiting agents and agitators nho for weeks have been arousing the people in Villa's name. May Prevent Withdrawal. "The object of the American punitive expedition was the extermination of Vil la and his bandits." said a high officer whose name the censorship forbids men tioning. "Xow Villa is again beginning operations, Carranza admitted his help lossness and inability to hold the band its in check when he notified Washing ton to be on guard against raid in the Big Bend country. But Carranza 's or der preventing us to move south, east or west against the bandits is still in force. "Xow. either the United States or Carranza must back down. If we arc not to be allowed to carry out the or iginal intention of the expedition, ottr only consistent course is withdrawal. While Villa was believed dead and his bands scattered, talk of withdrawal was natural. But now a new army of bandits has begun operations at a moment when the relations between the two govern ments are fraught with grave possibili ties. It looks like a typical Villa move and I believe Villa is still alive and is directing It. In my opinion, it will lead to a tnrniitg point in the present situation." The sudden activities of the Villistas may give our friend Carranza enough fighting to make him real anx ious for peace with Uncle Samuel. Villa has generally managed to keep his whiskerettes busy. Victor Murdock refuses to talk politics. This shows that he is a bigger and brainier man than he was sup posed to be. All things come to him who waits. The Orpet trial will perhaps end this week. RippHngRhumos ii K7. OBEDIENCE LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18GS CAPITAL - - - - $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT I heard the bonehead parent say, "Now, Clarence, put your toy away, and toddle off to bed!" And Clarence, pampered little boy, proceeded to dissect the toy, to am putate its head. In half an hour the parent said,. Now, Clarence, you must go to bed I told you once before !" But little Clarence paid no heed; his hobbyhorse he ran with speed, around the parlor floor. Ten min- 7 "v J utes later Father cried, "Now son, I will not r be denied it's time you were asleep." But Clarence hearkened not to that; he pushed some pins into the cat," and made the critter weep. And then I thought of other days, of other parents and their ways, and of my father stick; he. never gave an order twice; and if I balked I paid the price, which made me sore and sick. Perhaps my father was too prone to lam my person till each bone felt like an aching tooth; but since i that parent made me scream, we've reached the opposite ; extreme, the boss is giddy youth. And how I yearn to have a club when some precocious litttle dub ignores his dad's commands; how I would like to comb his hair, and groom his person with a chair, and pat him with my hands 1 70,000 Troops on Border. San Antonio, Texas, July 10. The L'uited States now has more than 70. 0OU troops on the Mexican border. This army is being constantly increased by the arrival of additional militiamen. The recent bandit raids in the Big Bend country and the report that a large band of Villistas is headed that way. has caused General Funston to plan the disposition of most of the na tional guardsmen in that region. The Big Bend country presents great dif ficulties to the maintenance of an army, as each town must be reached by motor trucks from the railroad, necessitating the use of hundreds of trucks. Cuptaiu Abbott reported to Funston from Uoquill.is, Texas, that Austin and Roy SSwasey. and X. O. McKuight, the International Mining company employes who escuped into the brush when their truck train was attacked by bandits near Boquillas, Mexico, had teleplioued from the Mexican side that thev were safe and would make their wav back to the mines as soon as possible. runston remuiued at one of the rail road stations until late last night to greet some of the officers of the First Kansas, who were en route to Laredo. Thev were men who had served under him in the Twentieth Kansas during the l'hilippine campaigns. Big Battle Expected Kl I'aso, Texas. July 10. A battle between 3.IMMI Villistas under Calixto Contrerens mid an equal number of I inniii.ifta soldiers is imminent at Las Nievas, Durango, General Gonzales an- ouuecd this afternoon In Juarez. Con- treicas "Withdrew from Baca to Las Nievas. pursued bv the Carranza col umn limler Generals Domingo Arrieta and Mateus Romos, Gonzales stated. The illistns are entrenched and a sanguinary battle is exected. m i He was Scotch all right, was Sandy MacGregor, and had mislaid his wallet containing 500 at the railway statioa. . He telegraphed his loss to the rail- i way station agent and the wallet nasi kept until his return a month Inter. j the tinder, a young clerk, Hamlet! MacGregor the missing wallet and stood in an attitude of eager expectation.' The Scot unheediiigly counted his mon-; ey and then looked long and suspicious-, ly at the young clerk. tsn t it rigiitt aiamuiereu tue iai-' ter in bewilderment. 'Right! Eight! It's right enough." said MacGregor. "but whur's the mouth's interest!" tx. , Don't Forget to insert that little Want Ad that you had in mind get it ia to-morrow paper What comes first? WHEN you smoke a cigar what quality do you look for first of all? Why, fragrance first. And close on that comes mellowness. You get both of these qualities in the Million Dollar OWL. 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