Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, August 07, 1916, Image 4

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Newspaper Page TextEditorial Page of "The Capital Journal'' MONDAY EVKXIXU, August 7, IS' 10. CHARLES H FISHES, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVEBT EVEXING EXCETT SUNDAY, SALE if, OREGON, BY Canital Journal Pte. Co., Inc. L. 8. BAENES. CHAS. H. FISHER, President Viee-President DORA C. AXDRESEN, Sec. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dally by tsrrler, per year $5.00 Per month Daily by mail, per year 3.00 Per month 45c .35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New Tork, Ward-Lewis-Williamg Special Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, W. H. Stockwel 1, People' Gas Building. The Capital Journal carrier bo.vi are instructed to put the papers on the yorsh. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or teglects gettitng the paper to yoa on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Fkone Main 81 before 7:39 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special enger if the carrier bus missed you. ENGLAND'S PROPOSED TRADE WAR Let us hope the flax war is over and that with the new manager the business of gathering and treating the state's flax crop.will be done in a scientific and business like way. There have been mistakes made, but it is no use chewing the rag over these, no matter how juicy the chewing might be. What is desired is that the experi ment be given a thorough try out, the mistakes of the past avoided and the fact demonstrated that the crop is one the valley should raise or avoid. If it proves anything near what its backers hope for it, it means the making of me vviuaiueue vaiiey ana me upDUiiaing oi tne state, in many fields weeds are reported as being more abundant than the flax, and this has caused a dispute between the state and the growers, the state declining to pull those fields where the weeds are more than half the crop. Un der the contract with the growers it seems the state is responsible and should either pull the flax or pay what the yield is worth. As convict labor is used for pulling the crop, and as this labor would not be employed if not at work at this job, it would seem that the state can afford to pull the fields and separate the flax even though the returns are small. But above that fact it remains that we cannot afford to quarrel over so small a matter and sq vital a one. England's blacklisting and other movements she is in augurating indicate that so soon as the war is over a bit ter trade war will be started, presumably against Ger many, but really aimed as much at the United States as at Germany. So far her course indicates the using of sub sidies, protective duties, preferential shipping and patent laws, and a general governmental intervention in busi ness. The allies economic conference at Paris recently adopted resolutions far more drastic than the cabled resolutions indicated. They declare that the allies should, as a permanent post bellum policy, "render themselves independent of enemy countries as regards raw materials and manuiactureu articles essential to tneir economic ue velopment," which would mean practically all manu factured articles. This means the system of subsidies and financial aid given by the government to private enterprises engaged in scientific research or experiment, that all lead to the establishing of home manufacture 'of many things now purchased abroad. This is ostensibly aimed at Germany but its object is to cut off purchasing from any countries except those now known as the allies; who would thus build themselves up at the expense of not only Germany, but the rest of the world. In other words when the war is over the allies intend to make an industrial war on the balance of the world, giving each other preferential rights as against all other nations. The scheme will result in one of two things, either of which will defeat the proposed scheme. The first is that it will if undertaken drive the other nations together for mutual defense, to make such trade preferences as be tween themselves and against the allies as will deprive the latter of practically all trade with them. It will force . the balance of the world into a trade agreement with Ger many and against them. England needs raw materials, and she would find her self cut off from tho new world, or badly handicapped in trading with its countries. The United States has a wealth of raw material, and with the South American countries standing in, could send Europe to bed hungry every night if she so desired. If the allies want to try this game with Uncle Sam they can of course do so, but it is a certainty they will regret it before they are done. England is the great maritime nation and she must fund employment tor her ships. It sne nampers traae General Manager Mahar of the Third Avenue lines of witn America sne win nave pieniy oi luie vessels auu sue street railways in New York is a thrifty cuss. Recently There is one proposed amendment to the constitution about which there can be but little difference of opinion, and that is th amendment giving the governor the right to veto single items of an appropriation bill. The present system under which the governor must either approve or veto an appropriation bill in its entirety, has left wide open the opportunity for log-rolling and trading by which unmeritorious measures are passed and the funds of the state given to worthless objects. The legislatures are sometimes forced to accept these "riders" in order to get a bill passed, tor the reason that members each with a pet measure by combining can hold up the bills entirely by supporting each other's items, and when the bill goes to the governor he is forced to swallow it all. or none. The proposed amendment would put a stop to this kind of raid ing the state treasury, and would make -. the governor responsible for these items getting through. As he would have to bear the blame it would make him especially care ful to examine every appropriation bill and to see that the jokers in it were given the veto axe. It is a good amendment and should pass unanimously. AS GOOD AS A CHEW OF "SPEAR HEAD' That Means the Supreme De gree of Rich, Luscious Tobacco Flavor NO OTHER CHEW EQUALS IT Nature varies the flavor she puts into the different grades of tobacco leaf arid the best of all is the flavor of choice red Burley that pleases you so mightily when you chew Spear Head. The delicious fruity flavor of a chew of Spear Head is a revelation to the man who has never chewed or who has been chewing near-good tobacco. For chewing is the one way to get all the wholesome, healthful, appetizing flavor of the tobacco leaf providing you chew a high-grade plug like Spear Head. No other tobacco can compare with Spear Head in the wholesome satisfac tion it gives. You get more savory sweetness in a chew of Spear Head than in a whole plug of ordinary tobacco. And you get it in its purest form for Spear Head is made amid the most wholesome surroundings, in a great, new factory that's kept absolutely clean and sanitary. iTry this rich, mellow, satisfying, pure chew. Such a chew cannot be obtained in any other tobacco than Spear Head. In 10c cuts, wrapped in wax paper. I Intend to, But Haven't Begun Yet" "F the ninety pe ople in very hundred In this country who are not fortifying their futures with savings accounts, the majority would say, "I intend to, but haven't begun yet." C Time flies. The flight of time makes a savings account Increasingly valua ble. Almost before we know it a year, two years, a decade go by. Looking ahead ten or twenty years the time seems long. Looking back it seems wondrous short With how much greater satisfac tion can he look back who has put away little sums regularly in a savings account than the one who has let ten or twenty years slip away, all the while "intending to." C And with what greater peace of mind can this money saver look forward to the pe riod of life when it will seem good to "shut off steam," so to speak, and ride a clear track on the momentum of his savings account and the fortune it has made him. Are pou one that intends to"? Who not do It now? In glancing through the affirmative argument of the proposed -tight prohibition amendment to the constitution it is noted that the author makes the assertion that the present law "is undemocratic in its working. People of wealth can obtain liquor with little trouble, but the op portunity is not so readily available to the man of average means." The assertion is undoubtedly true; but it is also true about everything else. People of wealth can get most things much more easily than those who are finan cially embarrassed. This statement will be heartily in dorsed by all in the latter class. The same argument could be applied to the sale of automobiles, and the sub sequent gasoline. Both are "obtained with little trouble by people of wealth, but the opportunity is not so readily available to the man of average means." OPEN FORUM MAKING PEOGEES3. will also have plenty of idle mills. If the allies are to live within themselves they will find a hard job gathering up the money to pay off the interest on their war debts, let alone meeting any of the principle. Up until the Euro pean war England drew heavily on the United States yearly in the shape of interest and dividends on American securities, and she does so yet. With trade relations hampered this source of revenue will be slowly exhausted, for it will take a return of American securities yearly to secure the gold needed in her business and when this source of income is cut off the old country will have a hard time of it. The allies will do well to keep out of war awhile when : the present one is ended, and this whether that war is real or industrial. ' The time is approaching when Salem is to visit Marsh field, North Bend and the Coos Bay country generally. The wide awake people of that section have made ar rangements for taking care of their visitors and showing them about their territory. Myrtle Foint. Coquille, Ban don and all the smaller places are ready with picnics, din ners and everything the inner man can desire to entertain and make glad all who visit them, and these will be given the opportunity to entertain the visitors August .25th, North Bend looking after them the 24th and Marshfield the 2Gth. If vou have not yet signed up for the trip make arrangements to do so if you can, for it is the beginning of a new era for southern and western Oregon, and you want to help celebrate it. Coos Bay, all of it, is the era. Division manager passed out thirty cent lunch checks to the police guarding the company s lines, but Maher saw a chance to economize and changed the checks substitut ing titteen cent kind instead, then the commissioner would not allow the cops to receive any checks and so the general manager saved the whole expense. The Xeu- YoTk ( all of .Tunc lSlh contains an interview with Hon. SI. V. Roland, Attorney-General of Yucatan. Mexico, which shows a substantial gum for civilization, since (.'urranza begun to establish order iu that land. The big landed estates formerly held by the Spanish slave drivers ' under Dinz are being hroken np into tracts of 5S acres and given to the people for use, they paying rents of two per cent upon a value estimated by the govern ment. The plnu has worked s well, and is so satisfactory that it would sow be impossible to start a revolution in that state. There are only 700 soldiers in its borders, while over 2,400 schools have been established in the lust two fears. Farts like these give the lie to statements inspired and paid for by our big speculators and other grafters. When the Wilson adminis tration recognized -Curranza. the presi dent answered his critics by saying that this chief and established order in a large part of Mexico. The most promising feature of this order is pub lic schools. Jnspite of the pnid scrib blers, the truth about Mexican progress is slowly coming out. .It is likelv that Hughes' indictment of Wilsou's pro claimed peace policy for Mexico will find some hard sledding before the campaign ends. L. D. RATI.1FF. i UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK Salem, Oregon Member Federal Reserve Bank LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W 5TRA.CS frtiidint Amtrisa Sttitif fir Tirik Who will be the first editor to stand on the rim of Crater Lake and say, "Well, I'll be damned!" Medford Sun. Of course at this distance it's only guess work, but be it understood, the Capital Journal always leads. RipplingRhuTKQS ess THE DANGER CAR u jn - m- l l 0 LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 186S CAPITAL - $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT The auto, as a grim destroyer, is difficult to beat. Just yesterday I killed a lawyer, while scorching up the street When first I got my car I uttered a vow that I'd go slow. "This speeding mania," I muttered, "is what brings death and woe." But I got going fast and faster, like many another scout; and now there's always a disaster, whenever I go out When home I come from some brief journey, my wife asks, "Who was slain?" I say, "Three clerks and an attorney lie dead upon the plain." I go kerwhooping every morning o'er valley, weald and wold, all rules and regulations scorning, l knock the records cold. of dust, a roar and rattle, and I'm beyond your ken, as deadly as a modern battle, a menace to all men. The rural cops would like to pinch me, but can't get close enough; some day a bunch of men will lynch me, and that will be the stuff. And while for such a stunt they hanker, I'm scorching, far and near, today I crumpled up a banker, and maimed an auctioneer. THE TATTLER We may as well remember, when fig uring on the hops. That bad weather merely threatened never damaged any crops. Ve shall beam to suspect presently that flax is a somewhat troublesome crop. rieasnnt little joke of the weather man, those clouds yesterday morning. The aver age Ameri c a n house wife of today destroys what she lias use for no ' o n g e r, in cluding o I d clothing and paper and this destruc tion of ma terial that could be used again represents iu tnnney, it is said, a hundred million dollars a year. Rajjs and paper nrc badly needed by paper manufac turers, for they arc unable to get the raw material from abroad now. So great is this demand that ad vertisements of the high prices paid for old rags and paper have ' been placarded in various public places to catch the eye of the housewife and even the United - States government has taken a band. The president of a large paper company in the East is quoted a saying that American thriftlessness in destroying old rags and papers is responsible for B score of abandoned paper mills in that immediate section of the country. They simply could tint get the raw material to work with. False pride is responsible for much of the lack of thrift in Amer ica, but, happily, our great business institutions are not so afflicted. President T. P. Shonts, of the lo terborough Rapid Transit Con pany of New Vork, announces that the discarded newspapers picked up by the train guards are convert cd into real money and used to de fray the expense of keeping the trains and stations neat During me last six mom in the passengers on the subway left more than nine hundred tons of newspapers be hind them when lliey - left thV' trains, an averago of five tons a d.iy, These discarded newspaper! net the company about $8,000.l0 a year. When the National Guard regi ments were ordered to the border a few weeks ago, many of tha members found themselves in a sad prcdirament. They were forced to go and leave behind dependent families. Just before leaving Chi cago a serious-faced guardsman swung himself on a street car and fell into conversation with the man next to him. 'T always made a pood salary," he said. 'T?ut we lived it all up as we went along and now 1 don t know what will be come of my wife and children." If a man only knew for a certainty that he would have to meet ait emergency, and if he knew what kind of an emergency it would be, he would know how to prepare for; it. and he would nrenare. The tron. blr is lie dors not know. Prepar. edni-ss-for the rainy day is often the best means of warding it off. , Capital Journal Want Ads Will Get Yoa What You Want EX) Nice, sporty little question to bet on: When will the Center street bridge! be replaced by a new one. It is noted that hv the use of a box' to put the youngsters in, a reasonably I large ramily may be transported on one motorcycle. The Inst loganberry of tiie summer is in sight. Most folks, male and female, gossip too much. Ami the publication of such items as this doesn 't stop them a bit either. All the Willamette vullcy asks of eastern people at present is thut they drink u glass ot lonauberry juice a day. i We mail your paper to you during rour vacation. Phone 81. CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of NOTICE Xotiee is hereby given that H. Bunt iiitr Sinn tinvf. rnmnlptixt their fnt- A ClOlld ' tract for road improvements in road districts -nos. 41 and a; on tne btucm and Prstum road, and that the county roadmastc-r hag filed his certificate of completion fbr the same. Any per son, firm or corporation having ob jections to file to the completion of said work, may do so on or be-fore the ISth day of August, IP16, at twelve o'clock soon, iu the office of the conn- 4 I r. G. BOYEB, County Clerk. 1 The Nation's Favorite Butter Nut There Is No Better Always Watch This Ac Changes Often mi Mtl Strictly correct weight, square deal and highest criees for ll ihx. junk, metal, rubber, sides and furs. I pay per pooid for trid jan. f Big stock of all sisea second hand iaenbators. All kinds eosnfatai t - - fif aaa second linoleum. H. Steinback'Junk'Co. Toe House ef Half a MUBom Bargain, I0S North Commercial It soooeoeoosls' ' ' " ' t 1 t I I M t I 111 1 j ; .