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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 1, 1916)
Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" Tl'KKDAY KVKXIXW, August 1, liUO. CHARLES H FISHES, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVEEY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L B. BABNFS, President CHAS. H. FISHER. Vice-President DORA C. ANDRESENV Sec. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally by tarrler, per year Dally by mail, per year , ..5.00 . 3.00 Per month Per month 45c .35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward-Lewis-Williama Spppial Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, W. H. Stockwel 1, People ' Qua Building. The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the orih. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or i.eglects. gettitng the aper to you on time, kindly phone tbo circulation manager, us this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone- Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock au d a puper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier bus missed you. THOSE FARCICAL INVESTIGATIONS Uncle Samuel, as well as the officials of the states, has a great deal of curiosity. When such things as the ter rible explosion at New York Sunday morning occur, he, along with the state, county and city officials at once puts on his specs and investigates in an effort to learn who is to blame, and why it happened. A ship is permitted to go to sea without proper life saving apparatus and when an accident happens and a number of persons lose their lives, a board of shipping and custom nouse omciais -whose duty it was to prevent it, investigate. The steam er Bear runs on the rocks and this same gang gets busy and investigates. Munitions factories go up with a bang and the wisacres get busy and investigate, to see if they can find where it has gone to. Fire sweeps through a tenement house and a dozen or a hundred lives are lost, and the necessary investigation at once follows. It matters not that never one of these investigations ever discovers anything, or fixes the blame on any one. The coroner gets busy and the higher ups gather, look wise and conclude that while someone is to blame it is impossible to discover who, and so it is pronounced unavoidable accident and the matter is allowed to drop. A peculiar feature of it is that investigations where the blame might easily be fixed never result in anything. It is only in such cases where foresight cannot be used and where paid officials are not to blame that results come from an investigation. Such cases for instance as the bomb tragedy in San Francisco not long ago. There was no official to blame for that, and the investigation promises to develop something. In the great explosion at New York it is known that explosives were handled where they should not have been; that there was left in cars hundreds of tons of slumbering death, that was a menace to the lives and property of thousands of citizens. Already as a result of the prelim inary investigation three or four arrests have been made, of persons claimed to be responsible for placing explosives where these were placed, and against the provisions of the law. The attempt is being made to punish the per sons violating the law, instead of getting after the of ficials whose duty it is to see that such laws are not violated. The port officials, those in charge fo the ship ping of the port are the responsible parties. The persons who violated the law and caused the death of the victims of the explosion should be indicted for murder, that is plain. What should be done with the officials who were' accessories before the fact, and who allowed them to violate the law and endanger life and property, even though the explosion had not taken place? The trouble with the American system of handling such cases is that the investigators supply themselves with several buckets of whitewash before tackling the job. A fellow official is never blamed. It would not be professional courtesy. On the same principle we should punish the burglar who enters and robs a house, but find nothing wrong with the policeman who stands guard after presenting the burglar the key to the house, and warns him if danger' approaches. The persons who left those explosives where they were, would not and could not have done so without the knowledge of the officials whose duty it was to prevent them so openly and deliber ately' violating the law. Who should be punished the more severely? The recent industrial inventory of the country to learn just what each state could do in case of war toward supplying the things needed shows many interesting things. Indiana can furnish canned food for any army Uncle Sam can raise. Nebraska can furnish shells at the rate of 1,000 a day. One New York silversmith is now making some millions of bullet jackets a week for allies and can do the same for Uncle Sam. And so it goes, the showing being one that is eminently satisfactory as to' what private plants could do toward supplying all things needed in war. These plants and firms have all been listed, and can be made available on short notice. There is surely an abundance of good picking in and around Salem. So far we have picked strawberries, cur rants, gooseberries, blackberries, raspberries and all such Then we picked candidates for the offices. We picked cherries and loganberries and in a short time hoppicking will begin and with it prune picking. Then we will pick a president and secretary of state, and after that we will some of us try to pick out a job at the state house next winter, and by the time that is over the strawberries will be ready for picking again. The regular army officers say it will take three months to get the militia boys in regular army shape. Reading between the lines this indicates the boys will be allowed to come home at the end of that time. This is a certainty in case that commission materializes to arrange for settling the border troubles. We will be glad to see you boys, but come to think of it you will probably be so much gladder to see us, get a drink of balem water and a square meal that we will have to stand still and let you do the hugging. Salem is getting ready to send a big delegation to Marshfield when that city celebrates the completion of the railroad, and the Coos Bay folks when the time ar rives may konw that if there are any Salemites not there it is because, they could: not get there. We would all like to jro over and help tine prodigal, who never left home but who was shut out from it, dispose of its own fatted calf, or clams or anything else it has fattened for the occasion. ; THE TATTLER This is to be. a lovely wet evening ut me ueacn. I'ndershirts are warmiujr up for all mere is in uiem. -Miiioiiy looks worried nnv more when somebody says "Mexico."' i no warmer ine wentner tne mom does humanity spread out over the landscape. A steady demand for loganberry juice is reported from the fizz foun tains. "Try Salem first" does not mean like lurd or anything else to most folks. A dispatch from a Dutch town some fifty miles east of Brussels says that recently fifteen Germans deserted on the western front. They said it was impossible to live through the Anglo-French artillery fire without going mad, and they preferred desertion to insanity. This gives one a faint idea of the veritable hell it must be along the front where it is literally raining shells. The New York world makes a brief but pithy comment on Mr. Hughes' acceptance speech and his statement con cerning President Wilson's handling of the Mexican situa tion. It says: "His speech is a public confession of a can didate who is without a policy. His policy is to be one of firmness. But what form is firmness going to take? War? Intervention?" The government won a ten million dollar suit at San Francisco, Saturday, when the quarter section of oil lands known as the McCutcheon section was declared govern ment property and McCutcheon was ousted. This is but one of many suits involving property valued at more than a hundred millions which the government has brought to recover oil lands in southern California. It is as well to tell 'be truth. A bout the only reaj estate moving at present is on the back streets where the sprinkler don t go. Why does everybody gigiile when a grown-up iniliviiliiiil appears on the street eating an ice cream cone.' There are a few fellows in this town who have been taking their sum mer vacations ever since last fall. Rather an interesting crop report, riar or tue poultry wnii-n was weight ed with sand and gravel before being brought to market. 15 STATE NEWS Lieut Bryan, U.S.N, stated before the Am. Soc. of Naval Engineers: "Oils made from the asphalt-base crudes have shown themselves to be much better adapted to motor cylinders, asiar as their carbon-forming proclivi ties are concerned, than are paraf-fine-base Pennsylvania oils." Zerolene is scientifically refined from selected California crude asphalt-base. Highest competitive awards, San Francisco and San Diego Expositions. FarTsale by dealers every where and at senfce'stafions and agencies of the Standard Oil Company. the Standard Oil for Motor Kiddle, Ir.: The construction of a railroad from Douglas county to Sde water on Coos Hay bv the united inter ests of all the large timber owning companies is a project that is now iin- iter consideration by the representa tives of several such companies. The plan includes the construction of a main trunk line from probably Dillard on the !S. P. to Myrtle Point, with iirancli logging roads to Olalla, up Myrtle ereek and from Riddle ui the Mouth I'mpqua into the Tiller district, and co-operating over the line of the IS. P. for the connecting links. The weather bureau has promised cooler weather for Chicago, but at the same time tells New York and the northeast to get ready for what Chicago has had. With infant paralysis and the Hughes notification committee already with her, the action of the weather sharps savors of the inhuman. The story of "Sudden Jim" in the Saturday Evening Post, evidently gave some eastern Oregon persons a hunch, for the logs at the mill at Sumpter have been spiked causing no end of trouble and considerable damage. What has become of that city charter commission? It has been so long since it was heard from that most Salemites have forgotten there is such a body. Prosperity has been coming slowly to Salem and now with the opening of the bathing beach she is fairly in the swim. Many church bells in Europe have been melted to make war munitions. In that shape they should be forceful in calling sinners to repentance. This is reversing the "swords into pruning hooks" idea. RtoplMRliumGS 9 ' r i t.Ti'li X -td THE TIGHT HUSBAND LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1S6S CAPITAL - - - - - - $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Marshfield Record: Geo. Kinir. who has been to I'mpoun river district on a cattle buying expedition, arrived home yesterday. Mr. King came, down the bench and said he saw a great sight at Teumile creek. According to Mr. King s belief the silverside salmon are off Tenmile creek, for he counted HO seals at the outlet. The silverside sea son is not yet on, nlthougii the fish hover about the offing several weeks at some seasons before coming into the creek. Pnker Herald: With money sub scribed by local sportsmen, the 300,000 trout fry at the Spencer ereek hatch ery yesterday were placed in eight dif ferent creeks and rivers of Klamath county. Today there is not a fry left at the hate fiery, according to V. Paul Johnson, who had charge of "Fish day." Xew- Calcutta grain tacks will cost a fen cents more this year, another evidence that the warin Kurope. ef fects everybody. The prices for new sacks now are 1:1 and 14 cents, com pared to 10 cents, a. year ago. The scarcity of material and the fact that Kngland has control of the raw mater ials are responsible for the advance. Also the fact that hundreds of thous ands of sacks, filled with sand and dirt, are used for building fortifica tions on the firing l'ne on the western front in Kurope. Swift & Co. Will Pension Employes Chicago, July 31. Swift tc Co.. pack ers, today announced a $2,000,000 pen sion "plan for employes, including those in the main plants here and in branch houses ull over the country. A notable feature is that employes do not contribute to the fund. Swift" offic ials estimated that $400,000 a year, in addition to the income of the $2,000, 000 initiatory fund will be required to conduct the system. About 38,000 men aud women will come under the plan August 1. 1010, when it will go into operation. M en in the employ of the company 25 years who have reached the age of liO, may be pensioned. When they reach located near the head of Shorthorn gulch on the divide between Grave and jump-off Joe creeks. They are also working on a ledge of chrome. Coos Bny Times: About 2.10,000 east ern brook trout are to be distributed ia the various Coos county streams which are believed to be adapted to them. Frank Smith is looking after the distribution, I-are numbers will be distributed next year from the Coos river batcherv. Cecil Carter of Myrtle Point, a cou sin of Marshal Carter of Marshfield. has begun suit in the federal court in California to establish an eighth inter est in the Searles-liorax Lake in the M.o.iive desert in California, which government experts figure is worth 800,U00,00Q. the age of 65, they must retire on pen sion. Women's ages are fixed at f iv years less. Pensions for incapacitate : employes who have served less than iS I years are provided. Xo pension will be less than $210 per year aud none over $5,000 a year. Ia. general pensions are to be one-half of the average salary received by the etn- ploye for the five years preceding re tirement. I m .Will Canvass Vote 1 of the Brotherhoods j Cleveland, Ohio, July 31. President jW. S. Stone, of the Brotherhood of Lo : comotive Engineers, today announce . that the district chnirman of the four railway Drotnernoocis win meet in New York tomorrow to canvass the Vstriko vote." This referendum vote of the brother hood membership, it is predicted, will give officials power to "act" in cas they are unable to reach an agreement with the railroad managers' committee regarding an eight hour day at 10 hour pay and time and a half for overtime Over SOO.OOO employes are effected. President Stone said that he expected the. vote would be counted by August S. When it is counted, the' brother hoods committee will meet the railroad managers. JEWISH PAPER DYNAMITED Gold Beach Reporter: Last Thurs day and Friday V, M. Hunter employ ed n crew of men and weut out to the locks off shore and made a killing of sea lion pups, getting ia the neighbor hood of 300. Mr. Hunter claims that under the Oregon law he is entitled to. $1 per head bounty on seals for the scalps he brought in. County Clerjk Staiinnrd went to the river and mark ed the scalps but decided not to issue scalp warrants at once, as there wasi a question raised as to whether thei scalps came within the meaning of the law. j Rogue Kiver Courier: Jim Tiush.j Hugh Wortcn and A. Tracy, who have! been working on a ledge carrying' high values iu gold, eoper and tung-j sten, yesterday reached a depth of 40 feet in .the shafts and' the last siioti uncovered exceedingly rich ore on a! ledge six tet wide. The property is Medford Mail: The extensive new trout feeding poudj at Butte Falls, constructed this year by the state fish aud game commission, which now con tain a million young trout, together with almost a' mile of canal and flnme for conveying the water from beauti ful Hutte creek through the virgin for est to the hatchery site, are now a mong the principal points of interest in that interesting district. Chicago, Aug. 1. Several thousand udollars damnge was done ami the fara I ily of editor A. M. Ueblinir of tho Jewish Daily Press were blown from, their beds early Today when tw bombs were exploded ill the businetia office of the puper on the floor be low. The explosion shattered window panes in houses for a distance of sev eral blocks. Liebling says he was re cently threatened because of testimony given at a labor trial. Rubber bands encircle new bowlif pins to deaden their noise as they are. knocked down in allevs. "I wish you'd give me half a plunk," said timid Mrs. Spry. "Some calico and other junk I think I ought to buy." "You're always thinking up some plan for blowing money in," her husband said, "and that is why I'm always short of tin. A rouble here, a kopeck there, 'tis thus the money goes, a doubloom for some hand made hair, a yen for furbelows. It is no wonder married gents in mental anguish dwell; now, I will give you fifteen cents, so spend it wisely well." A million wives, and: ctouotiess more, are up against this spiel, when they approach the husband-bore, to touch him for a wheel. It is not strange the modern maid cuts out the wedding veil; she'd love to love, but she's afraid she'd have to beg for kale. That husband leads a misfit life who's stinerv with his mon. who doles out pennies to his wife, and groans for every one. Here Is Good News for Stomach Victims - l Some very remarkable results are be-j iug obtained by treating stomach, liver ( and intestiual troubles with pure vege- table oils which exert a cleansing,! of poisonous fecal matter aud gases and' preventing their absorption by the j blood. This done, the food is allowed ; free passs"e from the stomach, fer- mentation ceases and atonuch troubles, quickly disappear. I George H. Mayr, for twenty years a leading Chicago druggist, cured himself! and many of his friends of stomach,' liver and intestinil troubles of years'! standing by this treatment, an so sue ressful was the remedy he devised that I it has since been placed in the bauds of j druggists all over tne country, . who nave sold thousands of bottles. Though absolutely harmless, the ef fect of the medicine is sufficient to convince jny one of its remarkable ef fectiveness, and within 24 hours the sufferer feels like a ew person. Mayr 's Wonderful Remedy is sold by leading druggist everywhere with the positive understanding that tour money will be refunded without question or quibble if OXK bottle fails to give you absolute satisfaction, for sale b, J. C. Perry, druggist. The Nation's Favorite Butter Nut There Is No Better Always Watch This 'Ad Changes Often MM lilt t Strictly correct woigkt, tqun deal ud higheat price for all klmda e4 junk, metal, rubber, hides and fnra. I pay 2H per pound for Jd nn. 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