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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 21, 1916)
Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" MONDAY KVKMXCi, August 21. 1PK1. CHARLES H FISHEB, Editor and. Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. B. BARNES, CHAS. H. FISHER, DORA C. ANDRESEN, President Vice-President Sec. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES - Dolly by carrier, per year . 5-00 Per month Daily by mail, per year 3.01) Per mouth . ..45c ....33c CLARK OPENS CAMPAIGN FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH RETORT , EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward-Lewis-Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building Chieago, W. H. Stockwcl 1, People 'a Oaa Building. The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the oreh. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or i.eglects gettitng the aoer to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manner, as this is the only Way we can dotcrmine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Paon Main 81 before 7:U0 o'clock an d a puper will be Bent you by special messenger if the carrier bus missed you. PREDICT TWO DOLLAR WHEAT The brokers and speculators having had any fear of nnmvnmnnt inovcf icrntinn nf wheat Dl'iceS l'e- moved, went to bat again Saturday and wheat went up j four cents, rms was paruy accuiuueu ivi vy slum ping of the investigation, but principally on account of re ports from' all parts of the world showing a wheat short age. Despite fervent denial by Canadians that there was a shortage, the fact is evident that there is; and the Can adian story is largely for effect. It is to England's inter est to keep the prices down and the Canadians are patriotic. . That there is a shortage in the United States of some where near :!00,000,000 bushels is conceded, and so re ported by the agricultural department. This is partly offset by a hold-over from last year's bumper crop esti mated at between 150,000,000 and 200,000,000 bushels. However with this hold-over there is a shortage in this country of above 100,000,000 bushels. The latest reports from Manitoba show not onljra shortage but practically a failure. In many localities the farmers have discovered that the crop is not worth har vesting and are burning the fields in order to clear the land for next year. One farmer reports his fields turn ing off 10 bushels to the acre and this only 4:) pounds to the bushel. In many sections the farmers are reported as being alarmed for fear there will not be sufficient wheat fit for seed and that this will have to be imported. This will have to be bought in the United States. Re ports from England are that a very poor crop is being harvested and that is being damaged by rainy weather. In Chicago the feeling is that wheat is to make a record price; the conservatives placing it at $1.7o per bushel while other sav $2.00 wheat is a certainty. The advance in Chicago has sent prices kiting on the coast. At Walla Walla Saturday sales were reported at $1.15 for bluestem and $1.10 for club. At Pendleton an offer of $1.07 1-2 was refused for club. At Portland prices jumped, club being quoted at $1.17, forty-fold at $1.18, and bluestem at $1.20. The most pleasing, as well as the most rare feature of the advance is that it came while the farmers have at least half their crops on hand, instead of after they had sold practically all. a Generally when prices go up for wheat it is alter the speculators'have corralled the crop, and the public kicks r,;cf h;,vh m;nc fni- the l'P.ison that thev are in a sense fictitious, and like the average panic created for the oc-i casion. This time a good part oi me money win go nn uei e it belongs to the men who grew the grain. That being the case the public will instead of being sore rejoice that for once the wheat grower is getting his just dues the real value of his crop. We can all afford to pay a little more for our bread, as a contribution to the general prosperity it will bring the farmers. A few seasons of that kind and the talk ol rural credits anil other schemes to help the farmer would no longer be heard in the land. Instead of being a bor rower he would be a lender, and this is what he really should be. Mr. Hughes in his speech at San Francisco Saturday said among other things: "You can't make wages out'of turmoil. The first thing a man needs, who depends on wages is a chance to work." Is this an intimation that if he was president he would insist that railroad presi dents were philanthropists in refusing to make any con cessions to labor? That the chance to work is all they are entitled to? That they must concede everything to avoid turmoil. If not what does he mean? On top of big wheat prices, the Willamette Valley has inr nnmuWd harvesting its banner hay crop. From Sheridan comes an estimate that in a fifty mile square area of southern Yamhill county, at least :0,000 tons ot hay were raised, and that the price runs from $10 to $11 a ton. According to this estimate the crop of the valley should be worth several million dollars this year. Champ Clark opened the democratic campaign in Maine Saturday, and told some of the things the demo crats have done in their three years of power. The list is a good one and one of which the party may well feel proud. Speaking of Hughes' criticisms of President Wil son; Speaker Clark frankly admittetd that the president had made mistakes just as every other president had, and just as Mr. Hughes will if elected. Presidents are only human and therefore liable to err, but President Wilson's mistakes have not been serious, and against them Mr, Clark pointed to his achievements. He has had a difficult task due to conditions in Europe, but he has performed it wisely and well, and deserves the indorsement of the whole country. Just now he has one of the greatest strikes that ever threatened the country to control if he can, and he certainly is showing good judgment and great tact in trying to bring the warring elements together. If he succeeds it will be one of his crowning achievements, and if he fails it will be because the railroad presidents are determined to force the strike. The men have agreed to accept anything that is thought fair by the president, but so far the roads are not willing to submit the matter to his judgment. He is taking no sides but simply trying to bring the factions to some mutual agreement. In this he is showing the same wisdom that has generally been shown by him. He has made mistakes, of course, but is there any American citizen who has not done the same thing? When Portland grabs that money appropriated by congress for roads on reservations and builds an auto road around Mount Hood, she will be so gorged with scenery that she won't look at common folks. Douglas county could use the entire amount to good purpose and where it would be of real benefit to the state. Scenic roads are all right when we can afford them, but just now the state's crying need is roads that will open up agricul tural lands and make them productive. It is an example of the good roads faddist at his best, which means his worst. To Portland it no doubt seems the correct thing, but to the balance of the state it savors of what our Port land contemporaries call "pork." Have you made that reservation for the trip to Marsh field and the Coos Bay country? The time is drawing nigh, and if you can possibly go you will not only have a splendid outing but you will meet some of the biggest and broadest minded citizens in the state. Besides this you will help lay the foundation for business relations in the future and cement the friendship between the Capital City and the coming entrepot of Southern Oregon and the Willamette valley. : STATE NEWS J 3iC I. a. .i. ... 11 MrMiunville Telephone-Register: On Monday .1. C. Pennington begun his mh year as a thresherinan of Yam hill county grain. Of this period he bus been with the machine 47 veins, and has been owner of a machine for 21 years. He has made some wonderf ullr long runs. He holds the longest record in this county of anv one owning a ...... Him-, mm pioDiioiv a record un equalled in the state. drain this vear, so fur as possible, is turning out 'fine. Duerst liros. had a yield of 4o bushels, Henry. LeLuders ISO. M. Micholhook about :)0, K. B. McDonald SO, and irank Stout thinks the average will be about 20. W. S. Houek, the miller, savs he believes the average will be as high as :t() bushels, ami that this is a better wheat year than last bv five to 10 bushels per acre. Oreaon Cilv Oivlinr tn i, ..... " the Willamette river, which is two months later than usual, owing to the continue,! heavy rains, the grinding machines of the Crown Willuniotte pa per mill, -to in number, will practicnllv cease operation hy the last of the week, half the number being now out of commission. The grinders will re sume about November 1. when high water prevails. While ,.,,,. .,.., ,.., being lni,l off. the company anonunces that at least .- per cent of'nll affected are taken care of in other depart ment!). The rcnomiilci. uill o. .,,,.! il... intervening enforced vacation in the nop aim Harvest fields, or in doing necessary work around their homes. Albany Democrat: No prettier water agate was ever gotten out. of agate beach, Newport, than one J. It. Crawford recently took from the Wil lamette's bank this side of Corvallis. He has had it polished and it certainly is a gem. Within a month or two lie has found four fine water agates along the Willamette. Mr. Crawford 1ms demonstrated the fact flint we have some of th0 finest agates to be found iignr at nome. Among some pretty ones are several he discovered near llrownsville the other da v. The Boy Who Says L Will and then comes often to this bank and DOES IT has the stuff in him which makes success. BOYS, say right now: "I WILL have a savings account" and then come to this bank -and open one. mmmm Coorrtfbi. Huvr Slodjtu Co 8b taut UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK Salem, Oregon Member Federal Reserve Bank The peach crop is short in the northwest and prices are correspondingly high. One grower who lives north of the city told a Capital Journal man Saturday that a lot he sent to Portland brought 90 cents the small box. So the story goes about all farm products, and if the farmers are not on easy street by the time snow would fly if it snowed in this country, it will be because they raised but little of anything. When you think it is a deer, but can't be sure, have another think to the effect that you have - no business shooting at it until you know. If hunters could rig them selves up in the1 present style of woman's dress there would be no danger of mistaking each other for a deer or anything else except a dry goods emporium with the awnings down. , ; . fe . 4 Mr. Hughes says he is "the foe of invisible rule," what ever that is. That may account for his abandoning his scat on the supreme bench and getting out of the busi ness of making laws for the country that it did not want and that the court had no, right to make; the Danbury Hatters case for instance and that land grant decision. llown at Newberg the loganberry juice factory has extracted 4.1.0011 cal lous of juice, and is now preparing the same -for marketing in buttles. The plant is a good one, well equipped, and the process is more extensive than anv of us v. ould think, liosides the mash ing the juice is passed up and down and through the machinery and vats as of ten as three times, cooked, clarified and pasteurized, and the final act is the placing of the labels on the bottle by a neat little machine with a capaci ty of ;ix labels per minute. Oi-pgon's l,ees will manufacture ifilO, 00(1 worth of honey this year, according to estimates 0f O. J. Jloff. state labor commissioner, who has just completed a survey of the bee industry of Ore gon. -Mr. Huff's investigation shows that there are approximately b'0,000 bee colonies in the state and they will produce an average of l."i pounds of surplus honey to the colony. Kstimuting that each colony contains 20(1(1 bees, Oregon 's honev bee popula tion is 120,000,000. T1,n run ,.f ;,, II,- p, river this year is the greatest ever known in the history of the place. R. 1. Macleav who was here yesterday from Wedderburn says that his concern, the Weililerltiim .,i,t!iirr j.ntti mi n trill have its record pack. The company nns rniseu me price or Tisn. ine fishermen now not &'2r each for sal mon when they used the company's .. .... i j., .1.1' ..i. ...i .i. iicis ami .ti. .to cacn in -n uiev iin nished their own nets. The fishing senson closes August 2o and opens again on September 10. Hend Bulletin : As a result of meet ings held here on Thursday and Mon day nights a final decision concerning lines for a division of Crook county has been made. If agreed to by the east side, and the support necessary to obtain the tatutory 3o per cent vote is promised, division will be preceded with. Otherwise a return will be made to the county seat removal pluu. RipplthfRhmnGS mmmmmmmmi CANDIDATES LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18G3 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safely Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT I'd rather pack a hod of bricks clear up a ladder nine miles long, than fuss around in politics, when summer heat is blazing strong. A candidate pomes up to me, and hands me out his little card: "I'm out for coroner," says he, "and need your vote, you old fat bard. Your influence I now beseech : I wish you'd boost me to your friends, and tell them all that I'm a peach, pursuing patriotic ends." I d rather whack a span of steers, or dig long ditches in the earth, than drum into the people s ears a yarn about my sterling worth. I'd rather take' a mop and swab the scuppers of a guano ship tnan beg the voters for a job, and of my shining merits yip. Of all the triesome. boresome skates we daily meet, at every verst, the button i holing candidates are easily the rancid worst. How beau- ; tiful upon the hills, that member of the working clan, who news or weaves or saws or tills, and asks no help of any man ! took active parts in forming a county taxpayers' league this spring, now pro pose an organization of tlw agricultur al counties of the Willamette valley for the purpose of furthering the pro position or state owned lime deposits and machinery and the production of nine at cost. ,'c !(c ; ; t THE TATTLER Bring on your Ilaby Beavers. Love is the name of the gentle spirit who planned the recently frustrated wholesale escape of prisoners from the penitentiary. An appearance of dignity is some times caused by a stiff neck. Jt is not well to believe everything we see. Were it not for the fact that opin ions as to personal beauty vary greatly it is probable that the sensitive por tion of the general population would have died long ago. Not a bad idea, that of certain merchants who give away a package of sachet powder with each purchase. Enables their customers to save a scent or two. ANDREW CARNEGIE FAILING liar Harbor, llaine, Aug. 21. A pari'ntly in feeble condition, Andrew Carnegie, steel magnate today was off Mount Desert island in his yacht, The Surf, for a lew days stay. His weaken ed condition was plainly noticeable when he came ashore for an automobile ride. Carnegie told friends he did not "feel sick but only tired," A physi cian is conskiutlv within call and at tendants are on hand to assist the Laird of Skibo. THE PAPER SITUATION (Oregon City Enterprise) As a result of a series of meeting of the newspaper publishers of 1'hiU adelphia, called to consider the ser ious situation confronting them, caus ed by what are practically famine con ditions in the news print paper mar ket, tiie following agreement was unan imously reached: "All daily, evening and Sunday newspapers will immediately reduce the size of their issues to the extent of a total not in excess of eighty pages weekly. "That, beginning September 1 next, the accepting from wholesale purchas ers of unsold copies of all morning, evening and Sunday newspapers will be discontinued. Heretofore this priv ilege has been granted to newsboys, news agents, news stands and carriers" At these meetings facts and figure were submitted showing that the mills have been unable to supply the enorm ous increased demand for white paper. Not only have the mills been umible to lay in a reserve stock during the .summer mouths, as in former years, but at the present time they are be low their normal supply. So serious has the situation become, it was point ed out. that unless drastic reduction of consumption was enforced, some ot the newspapers throughout the coun try would be confronted with possi ble suspension of publication. The situation outlined by the Phil adelphia publishers is country-wide and almost every day the newspapers o some town in the T'nited States agrea to reduce the size of their papers and to prevent the return of unsold copies. The price of white news stock meana that the big city dailies must cut th size of their paper. The 2l- and 24 page daily is doomed if the price of white paper continues. But what if the big city daily is compelled to cut the number of itj pages? Who has time to read all ot a 20-page paper and where is the city in the I'liited States which can fill up a 2'i-page paper with properly con densed, clean, well written news.' The Nation's Favorite Butter Nut According to the latest figures, the I highest prices paid per thousand feet I for raw material bv any industry, in the state of Oregon was bv the maim-1 factiirers of vehicles and vehicle parts. Onlv small ouantities and highest grades are used. This covers not only the manufacture but the repair of wag- ons, carriages and automobiles, and in-; eludes the local demaud only. The Oregon Co-operative Creamery! association has completed its organ- i.ation. r.nough creameries have lieen signed up and enough capital stock ! subscribed to insure tne operation oi : the associations on a firm business basis. It U expected that through the . work of the association the marketing of butter and other creamery products ' will be more equitable and satisfacory. j Ashland Tidings. O. Ousafson, who resides at 3rt9 Granite street, has an; idea that he would and could trap puirrels. He set a trap and blithly j I sauntered out the next morning ex-; peetinff to find a fuzzv squirrel. ln- stead he found a skunk. He say that p any one who is collecting a menagerie ' or who would care for a skunk for anylyjYVayS Watch TTlis Ad purpose mav have it bv calling at his! house and taking it away. There Is No Better Changes Often Cosvallis. Oregon. Several promin ent farmers of Benton county, who CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of Strictly correct weight, Square deal and Ugnett prices for nil klmda sfl jntik, metal, rubber, hides nsd furs. I pay tie per pound for old rtf. Big stock of all sizes second fond incubators. All kinds eozrsfate4 iron for both roofs and building. Booting paper and second hand linoleum. H. Steinback JunkCo. The House of Half a Million Bargains. 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