Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal''
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August 17 1P1C.
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IT'S A GOOD OLD WORLD
Tuesday an editorial paragraph told of little Johnny
Scott who had run up against it hard who wanted a
mother to love him, but inadvertently the place where
Johny was located was not told and so several supposed
he was here in Salem. We are glad indeed the mistake
was made for it demonstrated forcibly that it is not a
hard and cruel old world we live in; but a g.'eat big
hearted world, with all kinds of great souled folks in it.
About 9 o'clock the morning after the brief editorial was
published, a little fellow about five years old came timidly
into the Capital Journal office with a little ball of news
paper wadded tightly in his fist and wanted to know
where the little boy lived that it told about. When told
he lived way back in Jersey City, New Jersey, he seemed
sorry, for he wanted to help him, and no doubt his mother
sent him to find out, so she could do something for the
little human maverick. Later in the day a Jkind-faced
elderly woman, with "mother" fairly quivering in her
kindly eyes, came to inquire about the boy and she too
was disappointed in learning that he was beyond her
power to help. Still later another inquiry was made for
him. We do not know whether Johnny has found a home
and the little mother he asked the police to get for him
who would love him, because we do not know whether
the newspapers in the Jersey city told about the hard row
he had to hoe. Here in Salem he would have found a
home inside of twelve hours after his need became known,
and humanity is the same, America over at least. Let us
hope he has a bed and did not go supperless to it last
night, but that some good motherly woman saw that he
had a clean little nightie, tucked him in and kissed him
good night, just as that other little women did who gave
up the unequal fight and went away from her boy two
years ago never to return. Anyway, Johnny, your hard
ships were not in vain, since they touched hearts way out
on this side of the world and prompted them to generous
deeds. It is a good world, a great generous hearted
world, but it is a careless one that needs to have its
memory jogged, that is all.
A JOB LOT OF BLUSHING
General Manager Scott of the S. P. wired the Public
Service commission yesterday concerning the car short
age saying: "We are giving your needs special attention,
as far as conditions will permit." That sounds all right
but to be encouraging should also show what those "con
ditions" are. If Manager Scott means that he will give
our needs all the attention possible after California's and
Washington's needs are supplied in full, his promise is
empty wind. Oregon alone in the West has a car short
age, and it has it because the Southern Pacific has it
bottled up and the crok driven in. No other road can
get its trade, hence Oregon can wait. The S. P. is a
public utility and it is its duty to serve the public. If. it
discriminates against Oregon further, as it has always
done, a suit in damages shpuld be brought against it by
those whose business is being ruined by its deliberate
neglect. Instead of facing an employe's strike it should
get an ultimatum from the public, and not heeding.it
face a strike from that source. Oregon has been the play
thing of the Southern Pacific long enough. Her indus
tries are handicapped by neglect, just as for years she has
been held back by deliberate violation of the law granting
it millions of acres of land in this state, which it
neither uses nor allows others to use. How long shall we
tamely submit unresistingly to such treatment.
: THE TATTLER
-for
It looks now like an early fall
tlie deer.
i'og in the momin',
Sunshine at noon,
Pessimists mourning,
Winter comes soon.
Keen noses can smell the hops.
If those library burglars hail taken
a certain book and read it carefully
it would have done them good.
Mrs. George W. Wickersham, whose husband was at
one time attorney general of the United States, is tired.
She admits it. She breaks into print to make the conces
sion, making the balance of the country who may read
her confession sympathize and be tired with her. She has
not worked hard, or worried over much, but has grown
weary "blushing for her country." She also admits that
she is tired "hanging her head as she has been force!
to hang it" by the miserable democratic administration
that disconnected her husband from his job. She is
against suffrage, she says; but embraces it gladly to spare
her blushes and get her head out of hang. Of course
blushing at her age we beg her pardon to alluding to so
delicate a subject but anyway it is a hard task, especial
ly when one lone woman undertakes to blush for the whole
country, and naturally suggests that she call science to
her aid not to hide, but to assist in providing blushes that
won't come off and so give the weary one a rest. She
wants to quit blushing for her country, and says so. She
wants to be proud of it, and to pass that pride on down to
her son, his son, and then his'n, etc. She says: "We
must stand before the world unafraid," and of course
wants her blushes sidetracked as she does so. It's a hard
world, Mrs. W., a tough, cruel, treacherous world, espec
ially our part of it, when we have to blush for it and
hubby loses his job. Truly its a blushing shame.
The records show that Chas. E. Hughes has not voted
in any election since 1910. It is safe to assume, however,
that he will exercise the right of suffrage in the presi
dential election of next fall and he will not vote for
Woodrow Wilson, either.
Some of the convicts engaged in pulling flax seem to
prefer pulling their freight.
Mr. Hughes will return to the east with the firm con
viction that he has seen Oregon and been seen of Ore
gonians. He has done neither. He has seen the citizens
of the state's largest city and he has seen the Columbia
highway. That is all. He will be as thoroughly informed
as to the balance of the state as the Idaho man who visited
the Panama exposition and on his return home one of his
neighbors asked him: "Well, Jim; what did you see at
the fair?" He gave himself up to deep thought for a
minute and then gave out the startling information: "I
saw the gol-darndest biggest pile of oyster shells behind
a restaurant that I ever saw."
Almost anybody can make a moving
picture by hiring a truck and trans
ferring bis household goods to another
place.
After all, the state could hardly
have chosen a more entertaining crop
than flax to experiment with.
A suspicion prevails in some quarters
that there is too much "try Portland
first" in this town.
It having been observed that some
of our people are summering at New
port, and that others Hunduycd here
and there, we rise to respectfully an
nounce that considerable number of
our citizenship are forevering south
of this city.
OPEN FORUM
Wanted 30,000 Men
For Harvest Work on Immense Crops of -
Western Canada
Wages $3.00 Per Day and Board
Cheap Railway Rates from Boundary Points
Employment bureaus at Winnipeg, Begina, North Portal, Saskatoon, Tu
Frances, Kings Gate, B. C; Coutts, Calgary, Alberta.
No Conscription Absolutely No
Military Interference
For all particulars apply to the following Canadian Government Agent.
J. N. GRIEVE, Corner First and Post Streets, Spokane, Wash.
The Oregonian says it is an enemy of "pork" and its
editorial page backs up its statement, but does not every
other newspaper feel the same way about it? In the past
fifty years tons of printer's ink have been utterly wasted
roasting "pork" but the public taste for it is never satis
fied. It has been the practice under all administrations
so long that it has at least the indorsement of "Custom."
Our congressman from this district has a slice of it to
dispose of now and there is considerable feeling already
engendered between a few valley towns as ,to which shall
have it. Like Homer dead, several claim its home is with
them. -
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 1863
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
Transact a General Banking Business
Safety Deposit Boxes
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Coos Bay boosters are some advertisers. They an
nounce that a ship load of "Old Crow" and other old
brands of straight goods bottled in bond and all that,
along with beer and the "makins" of cocktails and other
fancy decoctions will be anchored just outside of the
three mile limit during the celebration of the opening of
the Eugene-Coos Bay railroad. We note that many places
are to send representatives, even San Francisco sending
a hundred though that burg is not dry. Naughty,
naughty Coos Bay !
When Mexican bands play the Star Spangled Banner,
America, and Dixie for the benefit and pleasure of the
American soldiers just across the line it can safely be
predicted that all danger of war is over. It was a nice
thing on the part of the Mexicans and no doubt thorough
ly appreciated by the boys on this side the border.
Justice Brandeis has declined to serve on the joint
commission to settle matters between Mexico and this
country. It was supposed he would accept, but Chief
Justice White, objected on the ground that his services
were needed as the court was behind in its work.
Is He An Accident? - . .
Hughest Ho discussed the tariff aft
er the fashion of 25 years ago, before
all our industries were trustified.
Blaine, in his "Twenty Years in Con
gress," said we had our golden era of
industrial development under the
"Walker Free Trade Tariff," and that
everybody was so well satisfied with it
that no political party platform men
tioned it in 185(5.
Senator I.aFollctt has shown that our
golden era of trust development was
under Roosevelt and a high tariff. We
grew from three billion to thirty billion
in trust formation duriug the colonel's
presidential reign of seven yenrs.
Hughes would have a "non-partisan"
tariff board to apply the "principle of
protection" to industries! Indeed,
non-partisan!
As interpreted by the Oregonian, Mr.
Hughes thinks war "would be prefer
able" to the conditions for which he
condemns Wilson. From what I could
get of private opinion in pnssiug about
in the crowd at Portland, I should say
the common man is for war "only as a
last resort." It is not a bad thing in
abnormal times, under abnormal con
ditions, to yield a little to circumstan
ces. Ordinarily an American would
have the light to travel from Paris to
Bi'rlin by way of Verdun, but just now
he ought, not to call upon the Amer
ican military to sustain him in that
right.
Evidently Hughes would make our
navy the collective agency for our spec
ulators in foreign bonds, and our army
I. ip bulwark of their speculative hold
ings in Mexico and other southern coun
tries. He would have us all taxed to
sustain an army to support a -speculation
that pays no taxes to us. Fine
statement, that, eh!
L. D. RAT I. IFF.
STATE HOUSE NEWS t
Mr. Hughes can win some substantial backing from
the newspapers by showing them how to reduce the cost
of printing paper. It ought to be an easy job for him.
RipplintfRhuTnQS
MHBMSSWi
THE FLY
One little fly, so busy, will make a strong man dizzy,
and drive him to despair; 'twill spoil a day delightful, and
fill with language frightful the palpitating air. I mur
mur, after dinner, "A nap would be a win
ner; so I shall sleep a few; some snores, in
and Latin, will make me fresh as
in half an hour or two." Then to my
epairine. I soon am smoothly farine
xv Mi into the land of dre-ims? and then a flv
comes pacing along my forehead, tracing
the furrows and the seams. Around my
eyes it rambles and then it lopes and gam
bols, along my queenly nose; then my bald
head exploring, still burrowing and boring,
industrious it goes. Maliciously it chases
around the ticklish places, which isn't right or fair; I feel
my hair grow sorrel; I am severely moral, or I would rise
and swear. At last I rise and slay it, decapitate and flay
it, and then lie down again; no use there comes another!
The dead fly left a brother, to plague the souls of men!
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Contending that the average yearly
earning of a freight car is $N!2, and
that the greatest possible revenue from
demurrage at the rate of $1 a day
would amount in a year to ifMo on one
car, or $'S7 leas than the earnings of
the car, the international demurrage
bureau has petitioned the public service
omnussion asking that the railroads be
permitted to raise the demurrage rate
from $1 to $- a day. The commission
has replied that the Oregon law al
ready provides tor a Demurrage or
a day on ears engaged in intrastate
rnftic, hut that the commission lias
no jurisdiction over cars engaged in
interstate traffic.
dero family of Mexico, now residing in I
Corpus Christi, will return to their na
tive country as the result of Carranza
granting amnesty to political refugees!
mid restoring confiscated esttaes. !
"We do not consider this any spe-j
eial concession to the Madero family,")
said Alfonso Madero, brother of Fran-,
cisco I. Madero, the martyred president, '
"but it seems to be the policy of the.
Carranza government to return all es
tates to their former owners, thus bring
ing order out of chaos. I
"There is no way of estimating the!
value of the Madero properties, which
ran into the millions. There are hun
dreds of members of the family now
living in El Paso, .San Antonio, New-
York Citv and Corpus Christi. It is our
desire to return to Mexico as soon aa,
possible, but until normal condition
are restored we don't consider it safe."
ELKUS GETS INSTRUCTIONS
Washington, Aug. 16. Ambassador to
Turkey Abrani I. Elkus, received final
instructions from Secretary of Stat
Lansing yesterday preparatory to sail
ing Thursday on the Oscar II for Copen
hagen. Elkus is understood to have been
instructed to take up immediately aft
er his arrival in Constantinople the
question of an American commission to
investigate conditions in Syria. Turkey
turned down this proposition several
days ago. Elkus saw the president this
afternoon.
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The fine of Arthur Piltz, serving j
time in Jackson county for violation;
of the liquor law, has been remitted
by Ciovernor Withycombe.
A requisition has been issued by
(iovernor Withveombe upon the gov
ernor of North Dakota for George El
liott, who is wauted in Baker tor non-
support.
A change in the text bok used in the
preparation of teachers ou the theory
and practice of teaching has been an
nounced bv State Superintendent
Churchill. 'St raver's "A Brief Course
in the Teaching Process" is to be re
placed by C.esell's "The Normal Child
and Primary Education. " The Stray
er book will be used in the examina
tions next December, but not thereaf
ter. A stntement printed in a Portland
paper to the effect that pursuant to
the solicitation of Commissioner Daly
of that city the Portland Railway,
Light & Power company has decided to
change its practice of adding 5 per
cent to its rates, and deducting same
if bill was paid within ten days from
issuance of the bill, has occasioned
some remark in the office of the pub
lic service commission. It appears
that Commissioner Daly is in no man
ner responsible for the c'nanne. which
was made following an order from the
nnblie service commission under date
of May 31, lilB, effective .Inly 1.
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to Homes in Mexico
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