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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" MONDAY KVENIXO, August 2S, UMtS. CHARLES H FISHES, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, 0KE0ON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. r. a RARKFS. CHAS. H. FISHER, President Vice-President DOB A C. ANDRESEN, Sec. and Treas. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Mx.ii. , ,.B. rwr veir 5 00 Per month JUilj by mail, per year 3.01) Per month 45c ..35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York. Ward-Lewis-Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building Chisago, W. H. Stockwcl 1, People 'a Uas Building. The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the area. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or i-eglects gettitng the Mer to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only Tar we ean determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phon. Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock an d a paper will be seat you by special passenger if the earrier has missed you. THE EIGHT-HOUR DAY IS COMING Whether we believe it is right or not to shorten the hours of labor most business men and heads of industrial concerns realize that the general eight-hour day is com ing and coming to stay. It has already been accorded to a majority of workingmen and those who are working nine and ten hours will never cease their agitation until it has been granted to them. The railroad managers are facing the inevitable and the sooner they meet the new conditions the sooner will the adjustment to new condi tions be made. Their gloomy predictions of disaster are no doubt overdrawn as they have been at various times in the past. On this point the East Oregonian pertinently S3.VS "In furthering the railroad side of the eight hour con troversy many alarming stories are sent out showing al leged tremendous added expense the roads will have to meet if the demands of the men are granted. A favorite claim is that it will mean $100,000,000 added expenditure to the railroads. "This claim would have more weight were it notloi the fact the identical figures were used in the past when ever any movement tending toward the safety ot em ployes was proposed. s , "When the air-brake law was pending the officials claimed it would cost the roads $100,000,000 to put it into effect. When the patent safety coupler was first pro posed, again the railroads stated it , would cost one hun dred million. When the movement in favor of electiic headlights was under way once more they said it would cost a hundred million. . , ': ."As a matter of fact it may be doubted if these f ore aid steps have cost the railroads anything because the roads as well as the men have benefitted from the miprove- "As to a wage advance under the eight hour plan the trainmen assert that not more than one-third of the men will be affected as far as increased pay is concerned. These men will not be the high priced men, but those who are paid the least and deserve an increase the most. "Altogether the demand of the railroad men for an eight hour law is a worthy one. It looks to the conserva tion of humanity and humanity is a subject that should have precedence over dividends or freight rates. The big special editions of the Marshfield Times and Record, on account of the railroad celebration, look like the return of the old boom time. They contain many pages filled with live advertisements and profusely illus trated. It requires a whole lot of enterprise on part ot the publishers to issue such editions and they could only do it with the support of a wide-awake community. Those watching auto races at Kalamazoo yesterday got ... m. fimii- miinpv wVipn eleven out of tour- Hll c All a till 111 i iin-ii i...."j --- . ,, teen outos in the race, piled up at the first turn during the race. ' Two are dead, one of these decaptitated and eight others injured, one of them probably fatally, "butchered to make a Roman holiday" is a tame expression to use about the American speed sports. The Cherrians having done everything else imaginable crowned the climax on the way home Sunday by taking a straw vote on president. The result showed Hughes 0' Wilson 45, but it does not want to be overlooked that Salem's sleight of hand expert Cooke Patton was on the train. That railroad from Eugene to Coos Bay is said to have cost $11,000,000. It may be some time before the company gets adequate returns on its investment but it will be a great producer sometime. Anyway it has performed a great service for the state in "getting it together. The Coos Bav visitor?, or the Salem contingent pre sented General Manager Scott a vote of thanks for the splendid service furnished by his company. Everybody signed it and it was well deserved. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1SG8 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT SEX AND SUICIDE Official statistics of suicide show some strange ways of the human mind. For instance, it appears that, all other things being equal, a married man is much more likely to commit suicide than a bachelor. But women who are single, spinsters, divorcees or widows, seem to find life less worth living than do married ones. JN either ill health nor alcohol is such a potent cause of suicide as business losses, Even unfortunate love affairs do not cause as much weariness of life as does loss of money. This is why there are few suicides committed on Sat urday. Those who have worried through the week have received their pay, and the strain is temporarily relieved, or, if being pressed hard in business affairs, there is a day of immunity at hand in which something may turn up. Monday black Mondayis the day when those forced by business disaster seem most disposed to give up the struggle. The day when women find their domestic troubles most unbearable is Sunday. And their commonest time for suicide is between 9 and 12 in the evening. Though married women do not give up to suicide as much as unmarried ones do, it looks as if the husband's being, around home for a whole day contributes to the tendency. Or. perhaps, the Saturday night and Sunday drink drives the wife to dispair and death. . But who is there that can analyze the woe which drives women to death on the day that should be the most hap py and peaceful of all the week. We call women the weaker sex, and yet in about "0,000 cases officially recorded in this country in a period of three years the suicide of men outnumber that of women two to one. An Ohio man has invented a refrigerator to be used without ice, and if some. one will next invent a way to keep food prices down some of us might be able to fill the new-fangled contrivance. Italy yesterday declared war on Germany. It wafc Sunday but would hardly come within the meaning of the proverb, "the better the day the better the deed." Coos Bay's resources are simply amazing. The wed ding has "demonstrated that the bride was not only a beauty but an heiress most generously dowered. Everybody home from Coos Bay tired but happy, and carrying with them the conviction that the people down there are the most hospitable on earth. "Democrats steal Taft reforms," is an editorial head ing in the Medford Sun. Wouldn't be more than petit larceny if they did. Now that Rumania has got into the war game the bloody Balkans will be dyed a deeper hue than ever before. RippHngRlnjnios mmm hmh i mi i BAD ROADS The roads that lead to Hayseed Center make people's tempers warm; in vain, in vain, with voice of Stentor, I clamor for re form. The roads are full of holes and ridges, that bust our costly tires, and there are sway-backed, creaking bridges, to gether tied with wires. We have a lovely, growing city, at which the tourists shy; and it seems seven times a pity bad roads must J black her eye. Our city hall is rich with r-ff gilding, we've churches and we've schools, and our large new gymnasium Diuiding is fixed with swimming pools. We have a bank and three physicians, and in our public square there is a stand where our musicians play tunes beyond compare. We ought to grow, and yet we're shrunken, because our roads are bad, for folks won't come unless they're drunken to see our lovely grad. And still we'll fool away our taxes and have our roads a wreck, till we apply our little axes to some official neck. Representative of Forestry Service in Special Work Ray H. Chnpler, who is associated with the forestry service with head quarter in Portlaud, left Saturday to resume his speeinl work at Mt. St. Helens, after a bnf visit in the city. Mrs. Chnpler and the baby will join him later at Portland. Mr. Chnpler is the. first graduate from the O. A. C. forestry school to pass the technical examination, one re quiring a much higher grade of scholar ship than that given for forest rangers. According to Mr. Chapter, he is as sociated with district number 7 of the V. S. Forest service, having in charge the national forests in Oregon, Wash ington and Alaska. His speeinl work is in the. Columbia National forests of Washington as chief of the Spirit Lake district. A look-out will be established short ly on the top of Mt. St. Helens, the second hardest climb in the Northwest, according to the Mazamas. Heretofore, I Mt. St. Helens has been under the pa i trol system, lmt hereafter will be un ! der the look out system, with Bell tele : phone connections. The. climb to the I summit is so difficult that the last four and half miles are made by sled ) diiiif only. The cabin to be erected J will be 19 by 12 feet, with an IS foot ' tower and a man will be stationed j there from the first of duly until the first September rain. As soon as the j cabin is built, Mr. Chapter will return , to his headquarters at Portland. I Boy Drowned at Celilo Body Not Yet Found The Dalles, Or., Aug. 2S Searelrers for the body of George Roos, age IS. Portland boy drowned in the Columbia river rapids at Celilo, believed today it had been carried far down stream by the swift current. Roos perished when a canoe in which he was paddling with his brother Walter capsized in a whirl pool. The boys were journeying from Lewiston, Idaho, to Portland. 3jC 3fc 3c ic 5C 3C 3jC c 3C 3jC Tfi STATE NEWS Hhcdd Monitor: Chas. Pugh's thresh ing crew pulled into an lS-ucre field, belonging to Henry Abraham, who lives tibout two and one-half miles west of Shcdd, one day this week, set their, ma chine and commenced threshing at 8 a. m. They finished the job at 1:30 p. in. and hail threshed lin'8 sacks of oats, which averaged three bushels, by weight, making a total yield of 2,004 bushels. This shows a yield of Ul bush els per acre. They were five and one half hours doing the work, un average of 2(i5 bushels per hour, or about seven bushels per minute. This is Linn coun ty for you and in the vicinity of Shedd. Clackamas county imported np proximately $10,0110 worth of liquor tho first seven months under the dry luw. The amount seems to be in creasing rapidly. For instance, 5" shipments of whiskey were received in this county in January; liHt in February; in March; 4S in April; 577 in May; 57!) in June: ami 730 in July. The niouth-by-mouth record of beer .shipments follows: January. 2: February, 111; March, 42; April," 74: May, 102; June, 200; and July, 207. Shipments of all other liquors show the same proportion of increase. A single member of the Willamette Valley Lumber Manufacturers' As sociation wonts 84 enrs and they cannot be had, which condition is alleged to be typical among the 20 members of the nssocintion, and to be responsible for the suit that is threatened against the railroads for damages. The firm that needs 84 cars is the Spaulding Lumber company, whose shortage is re ported as follows: Newberg, 37 cars; Salem, 34 cars; Noon, 12 curs. The Spaulding concern operates in Polk, Yamhill, Benton and Marion counties. It has (150,000 feet cut to ship, mostly to California. The threatening of a damage suit was ulleged by Willamette Valley lumbermen Saturday to be the result of long-continuer irritations. That ilamages really can be collected, how. ever, is the professed belief of some of them. Most of those at Friday's meeting at the Imperial hotel in Port hind, when the damage suit was author ized, have gone home, snys the Oregon- inn. Look Back a Month, Ahead a Year l.nnk hack iust one month and recall how your money went. Was every cent wisely spent ? Would tUa lirrla frampnt nf fortune, tossed after trifles, total a dollar, or two, or five? Which would you rather have now, the trifles you bought, or the coin you paid for them? Now look ahead a year: Will your present habits cause a repetition of last month's spending, until the year is gone? Today's history is part of your life his tory. What fortune are you building? To what extent is a bank account shaping your future? UNITED STATES NATIONAL "BANK Salem, Oregon Member Federal Reserve Bank DOESN'T LIKE THE GOVERNOR (Daily Astorian. Rep.) Tllrt nmupnt nri.rin Qrmnlil.la iu rlii-Act. ly in line with everything else Gover nor Withycombe has had anything to do with. There is no, use getting ex- citlil filinilt it nr trvinir in fvina it and it needs no investigation as to cause the cause is Dr. Withycombe. In every commission on which Governor Withycombe sits, or has the power to appoint, strife anil inefficiency have predominated. Lven the important high- U'flV pom mi AMinti Ima m.fr nwrmin,l tlia stnin of his nppointment-for-f riendship policy. He has turned the state depart ments into pork-barrel grab-boxes and the orison squabble reekinir with lini'dri mill POIIIltop ltllirri, in niarnlr the nrp-ordnineil result nf tlin lilnnil Withycombe administration, that's all. CANADIAN THISTLE SPREADS That the dreaded Canadian thistle is getting a start in Benton anil nearlv ev ery other countv in tha Willamette val ley is the report of road supervisors. The counties are realizing that forcible measures must he taken to rul the turnis of the dangerous pest before it spreads and gets beyond control. The Oregon lnws are very stringent and impose heavy penalties on the owners of land who do not exterminate the thistle. A snlesmnn of farm machinery who trav els over nearly all of western Oregon stated that in the western part of Clackamus and Marion counties the thistle is getting a firm foothold. Hub bard Knterprise, LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS frtsidtnt American Sacilty fir Thrift Swi'" "To find 1 1 m e," r e - I fc. a! niaritcu u hi- fj d us trio us tAy a man "never lose time." It people would form the hab it of keeping .strict account of what they do every min ute of every day they would be amazed at the amount of time they waste. It would be a good idea, merely as an enlight ening experiment if for no other reason, to provide oneself a time account book, and exactly as one keeps track of each penny he spends, (and-finds how many pen nies he wastes) keep tab on each minute and discover now many val uable hours he wastes. I venture the opinion that there would be many an astonished in dividual who has been known to say with too much frequency, "I haven't time." If he has any am bition, a contemplation of these wasted minutes and hours in which he could have accomplished so much, would serve to awaken it. For each hour that is wasted just that much money Is wasted also, for time is money any way you look at it. Children should be taught to earn money in the hours in which they are not in school. A change of occupation is what they need in stead of too much play. The pleasures of childhood are ephem eral but the lessons of thrift learned are of lasting benefit. Delaware boys and girls recently gave an exhibit and related hour they had made a success of plots of ground by following the teachings of the extension department of the Department of Agriculture. A young man named Hartson Black stone of Durham, Me., said that ho made $145 on one and a half acrej on which he had cultivated a crop of potatoes. On an acre of beets Crystal Waddell of Mapleton, Me, made $41. It is reliably stated that 209.0(10 boys and girls joined tha gardening and canning clubs last year. Says an authority on economics; "A man who saves a dollar is a benefactor; one who teaches an other to save a dollar is a public benefactor and should be knighted by the state. A dollar invested takes root Instantly, it is not parched or burned by droughts; nor killed by frost or sleet. It cannot be injured by heat or cold, by famine or pestilence, by fire or flood. It will not be lost by a hole in the pocket, nor. borrowed by some pestilental friend or boon companion. It is beyond the reach of earthquake or lightning, accident, rfneak-thief, thug or mur CASTORIA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature of SNEERING WILL i BECOME CHRONIC (East Oregnninn.) Whenever a prominent republican comes forth for Wilson, as Jerry Rusk, William Ilanley, Emmett Calahan and others have done the Oregonian sneers and attempts to ascribe a false motive to the move: but if all republicans who support Wilson are to be sneered at tho Oregonian will need a barrel full. EPIDEMIC WEAKENS. New York, Aug. 2S. Added evi dence that tho infantile paralysis epidemic in New York is being gottea. under control was presented in today's reports to the health department. Only 43 new cases and 21 deaths were reported today, the sharpest da dine since the epidemic started to wane. Hfa yv n lip- RAM) ANDin&'i CHAPTER VI. Mildred had not turned on the lights, as in the dark she could leave the shinies up and so natch for her husband; without being seeu, even oy him. Recently it had angered him to find her! sitting up when he was late; and she in tended to run to her room the moment . she heard his step. - Two o'clock struck, then three. Phei counted the strokes aloud, and became frightened, sitting there alone m the dark. iShe had always kept Maudy with' her when Clifford was out, so now,,' when the loneliness became intolerable, she started to go to her. The Terror of the btllniess. She stood up with trembling limbs, and clutched the back of the eha.ir to steady herself. She fancied she heard peculiar noises. She imagined someone was in the room; she was sure she heard someone breathing close to her. In a sudden, unreasoning access of terror, she rushed into a small closet a smoth ered scream the evidence of her fright. When sh hod turned the key her ex hausted nerves gave way, and, crouch ing on the floor, she cried as she had never cried before; at times in her ter ror screaming aloud: at other times sobbing in a broken hearted war that was more pitiful than her screams. No one heard. Katie's room was in THE CRISIS the upper part of the htmse, and the I faithful maid slept soundly after her hard day's work. Even Mandy, whoi slept on the next floor, worn out with' me misery in ner back, was asleep, and heard uotliiug. Clifford Hammond let himself in with his latch key. his eyes glassy, his hands trembling. He stumbled over a rug in the hall, knocked against the hall-rack, making considerable noise. Mildred screamed. He heard the scream, then the wild sobbiug that followed; but for a few moments could not locate it. He fumb led in his pockets for a match, lighted a gas jet, then, as he passed the closet door, he knew wthat the sounds came from within. He tried the door and found it was locked on the inside. He pounded ang rily upon it, at the same time calling. " Unlock that door and come out of there!" Mildred heard, but for some mo ments did not realize that it was her husband: and only screamed the more loudly. Finally, when she did recognize the angry voice, a new fear possessed her the fear of his displeasure, of his ungovernable temper. "Cnlock that door, I tell fou, and come out!" he repeated. Turning the key with fingers that trembled so she could scareelv use them, she almost fell as Clifford violently jerisea me door opea. . He grabbed her by the arm and pulled her roughly from the closet, saying, as he did so: "At it again, you little fool, are yout What were you doing in that dark holel You are nothing but a blubbering cry baby!" ' With a long, shuddering moan Mil dred fell at her husband's feet. She had fainted. Mildred's Child. A long moment he stood looking at the crumped little form. then, liftinir her up, none too gently, he called Mandy; "Come down here, you lazy fool, and take care of your mistress! " then stumbled off to bed. Mandy, who had been awakened by the commotion, was already part way down the stairs when he called. Gath ering the slight form in her ayns, she carried her to her room and worked over her until she fell asleep. Forty-eight hours later, after both lives had been despaired of, Mildred' baby girl was born. (Tomorrow Clifford Becomes More Indifferent.) T