Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal"
MONDAY KVKMXCi,
August 21. 1PK1.
CHARLES H FISHEB,
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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
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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. J
181 North Commercial It) Tam H i
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