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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 9, 1916)
Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" SATURDAY EVENING, September !, HMO. CHARLES H FISHES, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. CHAS- VeSdent " faSeas. SUBSCRIPTION BATES rt.ii. it ., mr Tcir 5.00 Fer month Dslly by mail, per yar i , 3.00 Per month 45c 35c PULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH RETORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward-Lewis-Williams Special Agency, Tribune BuiUling Cbieago, W. H. Stockwel 1, People 'g Oaa Building. n Capital Journal earner boya are instructed to put the papers on the swr.h. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or leglecta getti ng the Tver to you on time, kindly phone the emulation manager, as this is the only Tar w. ian determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Pk,n Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a im? ! gent you by special snesseng er if the earrier has missed you. CONCERNING THAT EMBARGO The master bakers cannot get it out of their heads that the farmer is getting too much for his grain. They can understand readily enough, that with flour at present prices, they, the bakers, are not getting enough for their bread, or that the consumer is getting too much for his money. When the farmer sells wheat at 60 cents, barely enough to pay the cost of production, five cent bread was all right and the bakers happy, but with the farmers getting banner prices for wheat, which happens generally about once in a lifetime, it is all wrong. It may be true, probably is, that the bakers are not making profit enough on five cent loaves but the remedy does not lie in placing an embargo on wheat, thus forcing the price down, and the wheat grower to stand the entire loss, for that would be the result of an embargo. It would be saying that those engaged in one pursuit should be deprived of any profit due to unusual conditions, in order that those engaged in some other pursuit might have their business protected. That is the protective tariff idea gone to seed. ' , . , Besides if this principle is once admitted as correct what would the result be? The users of all steel, iron, copper, aluminum, lead and other metal products, which means everybody, would have a right to demand that an embargo be placed on those metals, so as to reduce the price to home manufacturers and consumers. The newspapers could insist on an embargo on print ing paper, the price of which has doubled, while the papers continue to issue at the same old price. So it would go through all lines of business and once commit ted to that means of keeping home prices down, we should 1 1 1. 1 , ...ti-U f....n.'in i-vnllrtri rlWIA lt7IV Wltfl nave an iraue vwin luieigu iuivo ." tv. fonf fiinf fho nnncnmpi- n.nvs the freight, tariff. taxes and everything else that increases the price of any thing cannot be gotten away from, and the bread con sumers will have the bill to pay. Meats go up steadily, and the consumer buys less, or less frequently, or pays more. Sugar goes up and the good housewife grumbles as she dips her fruit into the jars, but she digs up the price because she has to, or go without. The bakers are rot to blame for wanting a living profit, but they are mistaken in trying to force the loss all on the wheat grower. Two resolutions were introduced at the Master Bakers' convention, Chicago, yesterday, one asking congress for an embargo on wheat and the other asking it to fix prices on bread so the bakers can live. Neither of these things will be done. It's up to the bakers to raise the price of bread if the business is unprofitable at present prices, and the public, the consumer, will do the rest. No other plan will work, for it is worse to ask the fa'rmer to lose money on his product than it is to force the baker to lose money on his, for the reason that there are so many more of him.. AFTER THE WAR WHAT? The Germans estimate the allies losses killed, wounded, missing or prisoners, at a round million in three months. This being an estimate made by the enemy is probably somewhat exaggerated, but whatever it is, it is certainly something that two years ago would have ap palled the world. In two years of war we have become accustomed to startling figures and the death of a few thousand hardly calls for remark. If the estimate is cor rect it means a loss of more than 10,000 men a day for three months. On the other hand it is stated by the Rus sians that they have disposed of half that many Austnans mostly in the way of prisoners in that time. The losses on all sides in the past three months it is safe to say ex ceed a million and a half, or a loss of 13,000 men every day of that time. The hop outlook is far from bright either as to yields or prices. If the rain continues for a week it will prob ably save the trouble of picking the crop, but it will work a hardship on the hundreds who have gone to the hop fields at considerable expense and who will not be able to play even. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1863 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Many alleged prophets are drawing dolorous pictures of the condition of the United States after the war, when the country will be flooded with foreign-made goods. At the same time they insist there will be such an inpouring of immigrants that labor conditions will be demoralized unless Hughes is elected. Just why his election should scare foreigners away, however, is not stated. Compared to these lugubrious plaints, here is a state ment made by Frank Koester, consulting engineer and author of "The Price of Inefficiency" and other works. Writing of the results of the war, and the part of the bill the United States will be called upon to pay, he says: "The shipment of ammunition has the effect of pro: longing the war'and if the war be prolonged sufficiently the exhaustion of the nations engaged will be so great that after the treaty of peace is signed, instead of the revival of business, which for the time being usually fol lows a war, there will be a period of stagnation such as has never been experienced in modern times. The result of a prolonged war will be a commercial and industrial debacle and the populations of European countries will be barely able to subsist. "Under such conditions the rich markets which Amer ica has enjoyed in the past in Europe will be gone and our business concerns will suffer accordingly, just as if an absolutely prohibitory tariff had been suddenly raised against our goods. "A prolonged war means ruin and bankruptcy to great numbers of American business men; it means years of privation for countless American families, it means im poverishment and actual- starvation for great numbers of our people; it means all that is disastrous and nothing that is beneficial to America and Americans. Why then should we not employ every means at our command to bring about peace at the earliest possible moment?" If American trade is to suffer after the war, it is moie likely to be from conditions as Koester describes them than from the causes so loudly proclaimed by those who would mislead the voters. Secretary of State Olcott has a force at work" in Port land mailing the official election pamphlets to registered voters as required by law, these having been printed there under contract. Up to Tuesday these pamphlets had been mailed to the counties in alphabetical order down to and including Hood River and the balance will be mailed by September I?,. These pamphlets are mailed only to registered voters and the mailing lists, made up from the registration books shows that for the coming election, so far only about 250,000 have registered. In 1914 the total registration was 305,000. Ordinarily there is an increase of from 15 to 20 per cent in the vote between the biennial elections, which would make the registration this year around 350,000. In other words but little if any more than two-thirds of the Oregon voters have registered. The registration books close under the law passed in 1915, :)0 days before the election or October 7. There is a month in which to register but the fact that to date the registration is unusually light indicates that interest in the coming election is not intense. The Hughes supporters criticise the democratic congress for spending so much money, the increase being largely on account of army and navy appropriations called for by the preparedness program. This would be legitimate criticism if the same politicians did not in the next breath scold the administration because its pre paredness program is only a half-hearted excuse and as sert that a billion and a half should have been appro priated for that purpose instead of $600,000,000. Hughes attacks the child labor bill because it only affects 800,000 children, while there are 1,800,000 left for the states to look after. Well anyway that is four-ninths of them taken care of, and just four-ninths more than his republican predecessors took care of although they have been in complete control of the government most of the time for more than half a century. Ripp1ihgRhi)TRQS MBiiaafaa XII IN THE MOUNTAINS 'Mid Colorado's mighty hills . I wander, while all kinds of thrills pervade my spirit and my spine, a noble ecstacy is mine. who but recently was weak, now blithely leap from peak to peak; I'd give the cha mois cards and spades, and beat him vault ing over glades, or scaling high and dizzy slopes, although that critter's learned the ropes. Forgetting rheumatiz and gout, overpower the mountain trout; afar from busy haunts of men, I chase the rabbit to its den. One sheds the weary cares that cark at Manitou or Estes Park, forgets the; workday world of men, and thinks he is a boy again. - The years slide off mv timeworn frame; I feel quite up to any game; I whip the landlord when he tries to charge too much for mothball pies; I gaily break the chauffeurs back who d stick me with his ancient hack. The mountain air is cool ! and keen, the mountain prospects are serene; there s ! naught but "mountain" in this clime my bills are moun ' tain all the time. STATE HOUSE NEWS $ When the emergency board meets next Monday morning, it will be con fronted with a considerable amount of business. In addition to the $l(i,000 which will be required to carry the flax ' industry through to the end of the year, it is estimated by Superintendent Miuto that approximately $25.0UU will be required for the general mainten ance of the penitentiary. It is under-' stood that funds are needed by the tu berculosa hospital and the school for! the feeble minded, nut information ns ; to the amount required in each case was not available this morning. A certificate of dissolution of .T. Brounsteiu & Son of Portland was filed at the corporation department this morning. The Palace Garage company, of Portland, capitalized nt $3,000, filed nrticles of incorporation. The Smith Powers Logging company of Marshfield has filed its annual re-, port with the public service commis sion. The company -shows a surplus I tif H,n nn.l f tha vonr ,.t i", ".llll nn.l n ! total surplus of $5lSMi9.ti2. ' ' , The Nation's Favorite Butter Nut There Is No Better The secretary of state, as secretary of the A. E. Burbauk trust fund, which the governor, secretury of state and state treasurer are trustees, has disbursed to the baby's home of Portland and the boys' and girls' aid society of Ore gou, beneficiaries under the Burbank will, interest earnings for the year end ing June o0, 1010. The total amount pnid into this fund for the year was $1,5 14.53, of which each of the institu tions named above receives one-half, or $757.20. The public service commission will hold hearings in Lane countv Mondnv and Tuesdav, Always Watch This Ad" -Changes Often Btrictly correct weight, square deal and highest prices for til klmdj el junk, metal, rubber, hide and furs. I pay 2c per pound for old nf i. X Big atock of all sizes second hand incubators. All kinds eorxagated I iron for both roofs and buildings. Booting paper and second kud T linoleum. H. Steinback Junk Co. The Hons of Halt a Million Bargains, na nt X t 191 North Commercial St H. Beckwith, C. E. Albin and Dr. F. H. Thompson, of the industrial accident office, attended this week the quarterly meeting or the Central uiley Jlemcnl association at Eugene. The visit was made in order that the workings of the commission might be explained in detail to the medical men. 1 tie full co-operation of the medical profession is neces sary, in the opinion of the commission, to the successful handling of cases. At tins meeting, which was attended by about 60 doctors from. Lane. Linn, Ben ton 11 nd Lincoln counties, explanations or tne workings ot the compensation act were given. It was stated by the doc tors that they have noted an improve ment in the handling of accideut cases since the fixing of a standard of pay ment and an assurance of payment for services rendered had been given. Mr. Xlbiu said this morning: "We found that every one of these men was in fa vor of the compensation law, and while the scale of fees is considered low in coniparisiiu with those charged in reg ulur practice there is no dissatisfac tion." . During the past week, September I to 7, inclusive, there were reported to the stute industrial accident commission 2!I5 accidents, none of which were fa tal. Of the total number reported, 219 were subject to the compensation law, 20 were from firms and corporations which have rejected the provisions of the act, 23 were from public utility cor porations, and one was from a firm op erating under the provisions of the law, a traveler on the highway being injured. The secretary of state's office is in receipt of a letter from the secretary of the International High commission, connected with the federal treasury de partment, asking that it be furnished with a copy of the miniug laws of the state of Oregon, and also with informa tion as to what measures have been tak en in this state to protect the merchant creditor from the resale by the purchas er of merchandise for which he has not paid. The commission is now engaged in assembling material upon which to base concrete recommendations to Cen tral and South American governments in certain'tields of commercial law. All things come to those who wait, but it takes a life time 10 prove the truth of this. Valley Livestock Wins at Spokane Spokane, Wash., Sept. ft. J. G. S. Hubbard, of Monroe, Oregon, got all awards at the Interstate Fair here on Shrnpshires and Southdown, and all firsts on Hampshire's, and, in addition, second on Hampshire rani lainU under one year and ewe under one year; third on Hampshire ewe one year and under two, and third on flock and pen. Edward Schole, of Tangent, Oregon, took second on Hampshire ram one year and under two; second on ewe, flock and pen; third and fourth on rani lamb uuder one year; third and fourth on ewe under one year; fourth on ewe one year old and under two. SCHOOLS OPEN SOON RETURNS FROM ALASKA The Aurora high and grade .schools will open Monday, September 18. The principal of the high school, Carl F. Anderson, will be here a few days be fore school opens. The grammar grades will be in charge of Mrs. Miller this year; Miss Canning will teach the inter mediate grades and Miss Marie Smith the primary. The Can by high school will open Sep tember 11, and the Hubbard schools op en September 18, in its new $15,000 modem brick building. Like Cnnby it offers a full four year high school course. The Hubbard board of educa tion haa issued a neat little four-page pamphlet, showing the courses, the equipment, faculty, school board, and various other information. Aurora Ob server. STOLEN AUTOS FOUND ,To the surprise of everyone, O. C. Eksmnn, at one time owner of the Stnyton Housefuruishing company, got off the stage in Sinyton mt night. (!us is just as genial as over, and declares that he has spent the finest summer of his life (he's no spring chicken either) in Alaska. He stated that he would probably be here for a couple of weeks. Mr. Kksninn brought a copy of the Anchorage Daily Times with him dated August 14, and iu looking it over it was discovered that Guy Kearns bad blos somed out into a regular league ball player, holding down the first sack in the Mntnnuska nine. In the game of the 1,1th of August the Times gives Kearns quite a recom mendation for his stock work and pre dicts great things. Glen Porter and Guy. Kearns like the country fine and both boys have good jobs. Mail. FREE TUITION AT STAYTON Roscoe Langley received word Thurs day morning that his Ford automobile which was stolen from his garage at his home on McClainc street, on the night of August 2. hns been found up side down in Canyonville creek, 20 miles south of Roseburg. The report was that the car is badly smashed. Mr. Langley and Floyd Allen left the same afternoon prepared to get the enr out of the stream and bring it home. Silverton Appeal. Stayton has gone to a considerable expense to put up a school building second to none in equipment for the I higher grades, and with a choice of a I course of study that ranges from pure- t lv nlauuistal tn nnmniiMinl n .1 n.l.. nnr mi'.M i i.i in out ui iiiiu I ug uia- tricts. There were many pupils to pass tha eighth grade last year, in fact the larcrest class in the histurv of Marion I county. Stnyton offers you a full four !year high school course; one that leads ! directlv to the state linivprai'tv: flnil j the cost of tuition will be assessed on the districts that do not keep up a high school. Solom has placed their cost per pu-" pil nt $72.57, of which $32.57 must he paid by the pupil. Come to Ktayton and get free tuition. Mail. STAYTON SCHOOL CLERK At the special school .election Tues day for the purpose of electing a clerk, V. A. Weddle was chosen for the po sition. Only two nominations were mnde, V. A. Goode and W. A. Weddel and the latter was elected by a aiajor ity of one vote. Mr. Goode receiving 10 votes and Mr. Weddle 11. But a small crowd turned out to the meeting. Mail. 6 MP AUDI 'M H.- ',v, - J, CLIFFORD DINES OUT CHAPTER XVII. I did not have long to wait to find out if Clifford intended to accept L. G. ' invitation. His dinner finished, he went imemdintely up stanrs. From the sounds, I knew he was dressing. Mak ing nnexcuse, I too went up, just as he was struggling with a refractory collar button. "Here, see if you cau button the thing!" he said impatiently, as I enter ed the room. I soon buttoued it for him. and then, as I saw his dress clothes on the bed. my heart sank. But I asked as casual ly as I could: " "Are you going out. Clifford?" "You ought to know! You took pains to open and read my letter! " he sneer ed, not looking up. "Shall you be latef" I persisted, de termined to make him talk. "Yes, I expect I shall! And see here. Mildred, I want you to jro- to bed. I don't want to come home and find you blubbering in your usual fashion. You may as well got accustomed to my going out! I don't intend to be tied to your apron strings, and you may as well un derstand it first at last." Mildred Scores. "I have every reason latelv to know that you don't intend to be tied to me in aay way, an "Still fussing over that letter, are you? Well, it serves you right for be ing so curious." "Please let me finish," I returned, astonished at my ability to talk calm ly to him. "I had no idea of sitting up for you. I simply thought if you were goiug to be late I would sleep' in the other room, so that you wouldn't disturb me when you came in." Then I felt like adding that he would never see me cry. or blubber, as he called it, again, but iustead I asked quietly if I could be of any further assistance. "Xo! I'm nearly ready," looking at his watch, then euriously'at me. I had scored for the first time since we had been married, and he did not know what to make of it. He kissed me good-bye when he left a few minutes later, anil told me: "I'm glad you have decided to be sensible. Go to bed early aad get your beauty sleep. You have fallen off in your looks lately,", with which com forting remarks he left me. The door closed, and I sat quietlv in his room for some time trying to plan, to think. I was not quite 19 vears old. My mirror told me I was at least as good looking as the ordinary woman. I had tried to nlne n K ....... - - r .' "m-uiuu, IU DUHC nim happy, aud to be happy mvelf- u inm-u in noin. ow I would take Mother's and the doctor's advice be happy in spite of him, of my envir onment, my spoiled life. I should nev er have married a man so much older than I, was my final conclusion, al though I had never felt that way be fore. And with a sigh at the lonely evening before me I picked up a maga zine. . I opened it carelessly at a storv aDout the woman, who, no matter what hap pened, always paid. The man never. The End of Illusion. So my ideas of marriage, taken from the happy life of my father and mother were all wrong. They were the wonder ful exception, according to the story, not the rule. I became thoroughly en grossed in the tale so much so, that I torgot to worry about the letter, or where Clifford had gone. But when at itSt V'""lshe' "'. and the clock struck 11, all the shame of a neglected wife, rushed over me. and T uniL-.i k.l. i forth with eyes dry and tearless; but with tears of anguish in mv heart, and bitter words trembling on my lips. Oh how I wished I had the last two vears" to live over again, that I was once more iather's little girl. Then I thnnirlit l mn L.l... ' , , - - " ""j , , uu man ing to her. I knelt , by her cradle and thnnb txA flnJ l . 4ur UVTt praying Him to e t tvi iuj wieea wish, (Tomorrow itildrea Blossom Out.)