Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal"
MONDAY KVKMNG,
September 11, U10.
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' WHY SILENT ABOUT ENGLAND?
Those of German birth in this country and whose
sympathies are naturally with their native country are
disposed to criticise President Wilson over what they are
pleased to call his favoritism toward England. They
point out that he held Germany to strict accountability
over the sinking of the Lusitania and the attacks on mer
chant vessels generally by her submarines; and that he
has not been equally firm with England. For this reason
they propose to show their condemnation by voting for
his onnonent. Mr. Huehes. Of course that is their priv
ilege as American citizens, but they will be wise to take
a look at the situation with unprejudiced eyes, and take
stock of the results should President Wilcon be retired
anrl Mr. Huirhes elected.
Mr. Hup-hes is on record as blaminir the president for
not being severe enough with Germany in the matter of
the Lusitania. As in other matters Mr. nugnes aoes not
say what he would have done, but says all that President
Wilson did was wrong because it was noi severe enougn.
Supporting Mr. Hughes is Colonel Roosevelt, who is still
more rabid in his attacks on the president than Hughes.
The colonel says he would have made Germany quit long
before she did and intimates he would have done this
even if it required war to do it.
Aside from the German side of the question has any
one ever heard either Mr. Hughes or Colonel Roosevelt
criticise the president for not being severe enough with
England? If either has ever done so it nas escaped our
notice and that of most people. Why this silence concern
ing the president's course with England? The answer is
easy. It is because Mr. Hughes is the candidate of Big
Business and Big Business is hand and glove with Eng
land and her allies because they are making all kinds of
money out of them. Business has no feelings, no sympa
thies. Its arteries are the channels of trade and the coin
of the realm its blood. It can hope for no trade with Ger
many while the war lasts, but has an abundance with
Germany's enemies. If our citizens whose sympathies are
-with the Teuton allies think they are hurting England by
voting against Wilson they have several more thinks due
them. Hughes says the president has not been firm
enough with Germany, while the Germans say he has been
much harsher in his treatment of their country than of
England, yet never a word from Mr. Hughes or the re
publican press as to this. Do the voters of German birth
in this country see anything encouraging in the event of
Mr. Hughes' election. If so what?
It is really too bad that this country cannot get into
a war of some kind so as to give the editor of the Ore
gonian an opportunity to give vent to his blood-thirstiness
and wade around in gore. Nothing short of that will ever
satisfy him. Here is one of his latest concerning Wilson's
non-combativeness: "It has done nothing which all its
abundant resources of evasion, vacillation and delay per
mitted it to evade, and has sought always by the
arts of elocution and letters to allay the justifiable appre
hensions of the country, or to quell the natural and spon
taneous instinct and desire of the people to give their
sound Nationalism sturdy and effective expression."
What does or can he mean by that sentence but that he
thinks Wilson should have gotten the country into the
European war? How else were the people "to give their
sound Nationalism sturdy and effective expression?"
England, France, Russia, Germany, Austro-Hungary and
nearly a dozen other nations are now and have been for
two years "giving their sound Nationalism sturdy and
effective expression." So far it has cost several million
lives and saddled a debt on the warring nations that will
take a century of toil to get rid of, if indeed this is ever
done. This is the example the editor of the Oregonian
holds up for Americans to pattern after, an example of
"sturdy and effective expression."
' THE MAINE ELECTION
Today Maine holds her state election and the politicians
are watching for the returns with keen interest. They
look upon Maine as giving an indication of the results to
come in November. Maine is normally a strong republi
can state, nearly two to one against the democrats so it
is not as Maine goes that will furnish the hunch for
November, but how much she goes. Anything less than
20,000 republican majority can be classed as a democratic
victory. Up to two weeks ago the republican leaders de
clare they were in doubt as to the party carrying the state,
but within the last few days they are claiming it by
15,000. In 1912 when Maine gave her electoral vote to
Wilson the total vote was 129,6:57, Wilson getting 51.1::,
Taft 26,545, and Roosevelt 48,493. The Taft and Roose
velt vote combined was 74,0:58, or 22,925 greater than
Wilson received. The total vote in 1914 for governor was
141,592, a gain of about 12,000 votes in two years. At the
same proportion of gain the vote this year should be about
154,000, and the republican majority in round numbers,
25,000.
A dispatch from London says the undersea experiment
of Germany will be abandoned "because the Germans are
disheartened by the non-appearance of the Bremen,"
which the same dispatch says is now ten days over due.
It is proverbial that the English will not see the point of
a joke, not tor some months at least, and the Bremen is
an illustration of this trait. The Germans have never
worried about the' Bremen not showing up, although she
is now overdue some two or three months. While every
body was watching the Deutschland which presumably
was waiting for the Bremen to be heard from, Germany
did not woriy. Everything indicates that there was no
worry because there was no submarine of the name of
Bremen. It is not only possible but apparently extremely
probable that the Bremen existed only in the imagination
of the Germans who sent the report out just to see
Johnny Bull get busy and go rainbow-chasing after her.
If the undersea freighting is stopped it will be because it
is found the game is not worth the candle.
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Citizens of The Dalles are in the open working for the
nomination of Congressman Sinnot to the United States
senate in 1918. It has been a long time since Eastern
Oregon has asked or received anything in the way of the
higher offices of the state, and if the fight starts on the
question of geography that section will have some pretty
strong arguments on its side why its candidates should
be elected. It has had but one governor and never a
senator.
J STATE NEWS J
Hertford Mail: C. E. Gates is some
shot with a rifle, as any member of his
family will testify. Monday, while
coming over Green Sprint's mountain,
George Gates suddenly stopped the car,,
and pointed toward the brush. "Pop"
never said a word, but tumbled to the
back seat ami pot his trusty rifle. Five
shots hit the deer, every one in a vul
nerable spot, but the animal didn't
move. Between shots the hunter ex
plained that sometimes it affects them
that way, they're too scared to move.
However, when the magazine was emp
tied an investigation disclosed the fact
tha the deer was stuffed and safely
proped against a tree.
While Colonel Roosevelt is talking about the honor of
the United States and the duty we as a nation owe to the
world the wonder grows as to whether he ever thinks of
what he as president of these same United States did to
Columbia? Or if he points with mental self esteem at
the securing of the Panama zone?
Walla Walla will have money for autos and gasoline
both at the same time this year. Saturday more than
200,000 bushels of wheat were sold by farmers at that
place at a price around $1.35 a bushel. One' woman sold
40,000 bushels of turkey red, which is quoted higher than
bluestem, at $1.34. The wheat grower has his innings.
Mr. Hughes is loud in his condemnation of Wilson
about evei-ything except his course vrith England but
about that he, and his spell-binders and the republican
press are all silent as clams. Morgan and that class will
not allow them to do or say anything along that line.
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SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
From weather indications, judging also by what the
summer has given us the chances are the man who has a
good lot of corn will be lucky if he also has a silo. If the
season finishes as wet as it has been clear through, there
is little chance of the corn hardening, and only the silo
will permit its safe keeping.
Labor Day is past and the circus has come and gone.
Next comes the state fair now only a few weeks away,
and school begins and the hop pickers come home and
Company M too, and the first thing we know it will be
Christmas again and another year started on its way.
Judging from his cartoons in the Oregonian Reynolds
is suffering from an acute attack of trichinosis, and the
editorial page of the same paper is rabidly Hebraic on
the subject of pork.
RipplihORhqmQ
Dan J. Moore, proprietor of the Hotel
Moore at Seaside, has invvited the hotel
men of the state to visit" the Oregon
beach resort on Saturday and according
to the discussion of the Outing at the
meeting of the Portland Hotel Men's
association yesterday, it is probable
that a large delegation will go. At the
meeting, the hotel men also took up the
discussion of the good roads problems.
Ihey intend to urge upon the legisla
ture the passage of more good roads
measures. F. V. Beach, secretary, was
appointed a delegate to the northwest
ern publicity convention to be held at
Seattle this week.
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Pendleton, Ore: Pendleton's new
100,UoO federal building was formally
opened Monday and citizens called
there for their mail. The building will
house the postoffice, the officers of the
rmatilla forest supervisor and of the
I'nited States biological survev and
will also have rooms for the use of the'
I'nited States district court, which
meets here twice a year. The building
is a beautiful structure and is located
on West Alta street just a block from
Main street. It is commodious, well
lighted and modern in every respect.
I ue new central county librarv build
ing has also been occupied, though all
ot the furniture has not yet arrived.
There are M'A newspapers in the state
of Oregon, according to the eensus re
port, the total numher or newspapers
.in this couiitryU 31, (U2. The weeklies
and periodicals lend with lil.UiH. There
arc 2,51 dailies and fiiO Sunday papers.
the aggregate circulation or the daily
papvrg is 2S,4:ili, 00(1. an increase ot over
17 per cent in five years. Tnentv-fotir
states in the union have more news
papers than Oregon; 23 have less.
Baker Democrat: The Kleinsthmidt
Hardware company reports recent sales
of Empire Mechanical milkers, a great
labor saving device, which the purchas
er!! are using with great success. C.
r. Klcinsclimiut recently inr-talled an
equipment at Brown Brothers dairy
which milks from SO to 100 cows an
hour, and has sold the same outfits to
Dairymen Steve Jackson nnd Tom K.
Dixon of this vicinity.
Hood River Ore: Miss Bessie Henry,
of Colorado Springs, Colo., who has a
locul orchard tract, will market her ap
ples direct this fall. Miss Henry has
devised an attractive label and the
frut, packed especially for the high
class trade of Denver and Colorado
Springs, wil be shipped in -carload lots
to these points, .uiss Henry expects
to Harvest about tour carloads of fruit.
CAMPBELL ACQUIRES COAL MINE
Thomas K. Campbell, chairman of
the Oregon public service commission,
is at the head of the Superior Coal
company, recently reorganized at Che-
Walt Mason,
v.
THE HUGHES SPINACH - .
Though holding it a dandy date that saw
Charles Hughes a candidate, he's in the
wrong, I swear, to hide his facial scenery
behind a lot of greenery, a stack of upland
hair. Ah, long have I been laboring, to get
men hewing, sabering the hangdowns from
their chins; I've argued long and clammily
to show the human family that spinach
never wins. For men who balk at barter
ing all kinds of germs are harboring, among
their swath of hair; said germs will be at
tacking us, with painful ailments racking
us, which surely isn't fair; I view C. Hughes admiringly;
to station high, untiringly, he climbed the weary way; I'd
whoop for him, uproarious, if he, with courage glorious,
came from behind the hay. He's strong and hale and
I vigorous; in battling wrong he's rigorous; his race I
I might indorse, with fervor editorial, if he, in joint tonsor
ial, would shear away the go rse.
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place
like this with
out seeing con
stantly many of
the advantages of
habitual saving. You
know people whose suc
cessful lives are standing
arguments for you to save. You
see them taking keen enjoyment from
somebody's thrift perhaps their own, perhaps their fathers'
before them.
C Whose ever thrift it was, it found its first expression,
doubtless, in a savings account
G. First a nest egg, then a growing Investment fund, then
substantial interest additions, finally a capital.
C And It brings home to you forcibly, that after all, every
fortune must have its modest beginning;
C And that a savings account for you, now, at this bank -
has as great possibilities as there have been In thousands
of savings accounts which proved to be foundations of
comfortable fortunes.,
UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK
Salem, Oregon
Member Federal Reserve Bank
LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT
By S. W. STRAUS
Pruidtnl American Stcitljr ftr Thrift
If
A young
man in New
Jersey inher
i t e d oyer
$100,000 and
spent it all
in rapid liv
ing in two
years. He is
now support
ing his wife
and himself
on twelve
dollars a
week. The
fault was not
the young
man's nearly so much as it was his
father's and mother's. A small boy
wished to become a scientific
farmer. His parents had a very
moderate income and explained to
him that if he desired to go to col
lege, he would have to earn the
money himself. Therefore, the
young man started to deliver mag
azines and periodicals in the office
buildings in his city and saved his
money regularly. Seven years
later he entered an agricultural
college and the expenses of his
course were covered by the money
he had earned telling magazines.
A boy of thirteen began to raise
vegetables in his back yard, which
comprised half an acre of land.
He sold them at a profit and saved
the money. Later, he borrowed
$400 and erected a greenhouse,
which he has since enlarged be
cause his business is growing so
rapidly. Now, at the age of 20,
he has $3,000 in the bank the
earnings of his own labor.
These youths have started right
and will, in all probability, lead
lives of usefulness and be of some
consequence. They will probably
attain wealth, for they are not dis
regarding the uncertain future for
the sake of the shining present
The wealthy, as a rule, are those
who began to save early in life,
keeping their money at work, add
ing to it each year and looking for
new opportunities for investment
In this way their fortunes have
grown. '
Thrift is being taught some of
the mountain people of North.
Carolina in such a way as to bring
returns on a large scale. They
have a natural industrial talent
and in order to develop it a school
was started to teach the menj
women and children basket-making,
pottery-making, wood-carving,
toy-making, weaving and needle-'
work. The products of this school
now find a large market in north-"
ern cities, and the people ar
learning to be self-supporting, and
by their own industry and thrift
are learning the essentials of good
citizenship. One of these indus
tries is said to do a business of
$18,000 a year, and has become a
very important enterprise. j
Out of the latent talent of these
people, rightly and wisely devel
oped, has this business grown and
an industrious and thrifty -vn.
munity been estiMished.
uulis. Washington The new company Campbell, son of the president, has
takes over the Murphy & Johnson eoal been made local manager and is now
mine, located just north of the busi- at cliehalis.
ness venter of t hcliulis, and will hetiin! - -
levelopnient work at once with n view tit.jj- t i-
to incrcnsinir the output and widening! ""'"S vitauons, Announcement
the market. The coal is said to be a m Calling Cards Printed at the Jour-
plendid quality of lignite. Thomas R. nal Job Department
vJane Phelps
MILDRED BLOSSOMS OUT
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ANDIOfl
I finally wont to bed. - But the last
thing I remember oefore I slept was
wondering who L. G., was, and of how
intimate she and my husband must be.
And then woman-like I woudered if
she were pretty.
In the morning t luford sum nothing
about the previous evening, and while
I wanted to ask questions, I would not.
He was in an unusually good humor,
and read me extracts from the paper
while he was drinking his coffee and
kissed me kindly wheu he left.
"He must have had a good time the
night before," I thought, as I watched
him go down the street with the free,
swinging gait that had been one of his
attractions for me. Then I again won
dered what this woman and her friends
were to him that they could make him
act so differentf Usually he was grou
chy at breakfast, ready to find fault
with me and the food that, is, he had
been o for the last few months.
The more I thought of ordering my
life without reference to him, as he
was ordering his without reference for
me, the more the idea appealed to me.
Fate. Chance, helpen me.
Neighbors.
Among the few wha had called on us
since we hail settled in Glendale were
a young married couple to whom I had
taken a great fancy; but in whom CUf
ford took 'no interest. I was not old
enough to realize that Mr. Franklyn
was too young, too unsophisticated to
be agreeable to a man so much older, ilvns.
I thought them all that was charming,
and felt hurt that Clifford did not
agree with me. ,
The day after Clifford's visit to I..
G. Mrs. Franklyn called.
"I want you and Mr. Hammond to
come to a little dinner I am giving
tomorrow night. yuite informally."
she told me.
"Oh, thank you! that will be so
nice!" I exclaimed enthusiasticallv,
then blushed that she had seeu my de
light at the invitation.
. 1 feared she might suspect how lonely
I was, and the reason. o I at once
asked her if she wanted to see the baby,
aim Kepi ner so interested that I was
sure I had dispelled any impression she
had received. She remained nearly half
an hour, and when she left I felt that at
last I knew at least one person that
promised to prove congenial.
When Clifford. came home I told him
of the iuvitatun, and that I had ac
cepted it.
Go, if
you wish to: hut nlomu
don't put on that abused look. It isn't
at an becoming," and he wett out
whistling.
Old Man Even.
The next morning I called up Mrs.
Franklyn on the telephone.
"Mr. Hammond has an engagement
the evening oi your dinner, an engage
ment he cannot break," I told her.
"Oh, I am so sorry!" she returned, '
"and can't you come eitherf Or are
you so much a bride that you would
not come without Mr. Hammond 1"
"O, I have never been anywhere
without him!" I hesitated, meaning all
the time to go if she made .it plain I
would not be the odd one, and so spoil
her dinner party. I knew an nnnttn.
ed woman was usually de trop at a din-
"But you will pome, do please!" she
was saying.
"If you are sure that you want me,
and that I won't be the odd one "
"T'll ba a Ln.t -r ,
come at the
know Mr
He is fprriKlv
nice, and I am sure will waiv. all r.rJL
mony and come, especially when I tell
him what a charming little lady he is
to take in to dinner! Good bve," and
she rang oft '
"lou i should consult me before yonlyoung fellow I can get to
accept dinner or other invitations. It eleventh hour, now that I
happens I have an engagement for that Hammond isn't coming He
"Oh, but, Clifford! Can't you break
it! It's the first time anybody my own
age has asked me anrwhere in so long' "
T -:!.. j '
& iKcmy answerttl.
"No!" he replied eoldlr. "I W J
intention of breaking my engagements Tommorow Clifford . rn-
to spend an evening with the Frank-1 ' of fashion Conno,S5ear