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Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" MONDAY KVKMNC. September IS, l!'M. CHARLES H FISHEB, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVEBY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L . BABNE8, CUAS. 11. riour.n, President Vice-President UOBA C. ANDRESEN, See. and Treas. ftailj by carrier, per year IHilj by mail, per year SUBSCRIPTION BATES t $5.00 Per month " "' 3.00 Per month 45c ..35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward-Lewis-Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building . ChUago, W. H. Stockwel 1, People's Gas Building. The Capital Journal carrier boys are Instructed to put the papers on the Mt u tt. carrier doe, not do this,' misses yon, or LCglec ts get titng the K7 to you on time, kindly phono the circulation manager as tin, is the only ta we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions, nlia" ilbcfore 7:30 o'clock an d a pupe will be sent you by spec.al messenger if the earrier has mused you. THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC ON STRIKE The car-shortage problem continues to be the most important as well as the most aggravating one confront ing Oregon. Promised cars by the Southern Pacific, shippers were patiently quiet while waiting for the promised relief, but it has not materialized and from ap pearances is not going to materialize soon President . Snroule and Operating Vice-President Scott have been in Portland several days looking over the situation and though thev promised the raiiroaa commission mat u.CJ would furnish 50 cars a day until the shortage was re lieved, they are not doing it. The state is 1400 cars short now and Conditions are growing s eadily Worse Ihe people of the state want no quarrel with the Southern Pacific for they realize their interests are mutual, but the action of he road leaves them no other course. Under its franchise the Southern Pacific is bound to handle with reasonable dispatch all freight tendered it If it veto to do it then it must be made to do it. If the Public Service Commission has not the power to compel the railroad companies of the state to provide proper facili ties for taking care of their business than as the legisla ture meets soon this power should be given it. A law should be enacted compelling the railroads to move all freieht tendered them within a reasonable time. or pay the shipper losing by their neglect punitive damages.. Onlv a few weeks ago the railroads were complaining that they could not grant the eight hour day and the in creased wage without facing bankruptcy They claimed thev were being held up, as it were, at the muzzle of a cun and they wailed with an exceeding great plaint. Yet what their employes did to them or proposed do ing was nothing compared to what the Southern Pacific is doing to the producers of Oregon Mills are being closed down, fruit rotting in the orchards and business ruTn staring many in the face, because the Southern Pacific not only does not perform its duty to this state, but discriminates against it. California where the Southern Pacific has opposition has plenty ot cars. Washington where there is also opposition has cars in abundance, and it is only here in Oregon where the road has no opposition that there is a car shortage. This shows that the Southern Pacific is robbing the Oregon producer of the results of his labor in order to protect its own business. WAR TEACHING SOCIALISM The Italian government gives a boost to socialism by the seizure of ten million eggs that were held in 'cold storage, and is selling them at half the market price in order to reduce the "high cost of living" that has struck that country as well as some others. This is following the example set by Germany; and is simply a socialistic measure that the-necessities . of war conditions have forced on the warring nations. After the war the ques tion will rise up as to why conditions cannot be regulated in time of peace as well as during war, and it will be hard to find any but an affirmative answer. It might be added that business conditions in this country are tending to force public thought along the same lines. The great corporations have stated and say they have proved that no matter how large they are they can be run more cheaply by becoming still larger, and hence insists that mergers and other means of growth are in the interest of economical production, and the making of- products cheaper. This theory followed to its ultimate conclusion means government ownership and socialism. To go back: if a government can seize eggs it of course can seize any other article and fix its price just as the Italian govern ment fixed the price of eggs at half what they were sell ing for in the open market. It will be admitted without dispute that if food products, the farmers stock in trade, can be seized and the prices of the different products fixed by law, it would be unjust to the farmer unless everything else was placed under the same law and made subject to seizure and price regulation. It would be un just to fix the price of his products and not also fix the price of the things he is compelled to buy. When this condition arises it is but a step to the governments taking charge of everything. : THE TATTLER : That is cold and raw news which comes from Minnesota. A All the best conversationalists in. the ' city are agreed that the weather here yesterday was lovely. The man who put the hop in hope , lives in Salem. I Villa kept the promise made a few days ago that he would attack Chihuahua on Mexico's independence day. He attacked according to the Carranza reports with some six hundred men and captured part of the city but was driven out with considerable loss of men. The dispatch says rather grimly that "the captured Villa followers were immediately put to death. "There is one dis tinguishing feature about Mexican warfare, and that is the list of prisoners is trifling. If any of the enemy is missing it is a pretty safe bet they are in the graveyard. Only the other day railroad managers declared that the passage of the eight-hour day law would ruin their business and virtually confiscate their capital. The law was passed on Friday and Saturday all the leading railroad stock made a new high record ifi Wall Street. An evidence probably that investors have more money than they care for and are throwing it away on worthless stocks. Of course, the railroad heads knew what they were talking about when they predicted bankruptcy as the natural consequence of the proposed law. Republicans condemn Wilson policies and the things congress has done but at the same time claim credit for originating most of these things which they condemn. "Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad." This being true it looks much as though the republicans were on the way too destruction Too many lawyers in Company M?' This is almost slander. i Thev are now using Fouls for "bull- j dogging" in some of the. wild west, shows. What do you think of that? Good work, Miss Billie Burke! "Veda, the Vampire," with Portland home talent, isn't half bud. Fnol'ind's irroeance has gone the limit in declaring! 1 I r,P it ml countries shall not trade with each other Captain Cousins of the illfated Congress lost his ship, t neiltial COlinUUS MWII nut i i:: Uf Ua AA v,rtf 1 liJc anA rVm Ufa nf o clnrrlo novonn She has issued warning mat otumuuanu that has received all Kinds ot prouucis up iu un i..., plv. and that therefore she can import no more. She has sakl to the balance of the world that it cannot trade with Scandinavia. Her excuse is that goods shipped to that country may finally reach England's enemies, which is no excuse at all. She might as well insist, that because wheat grown in the United States or the Argentine might eventually reach her enemies that those countries must not grow more than a certain amount of wheat. In this case she has gone beyond all decency and the balance ot the world will probably make her understand it. As an object lesson it might be well to place an embargo on all shipments to England. One week from today and the state fair is on. This has become one of the great occasions in Oregon and this year promises to be greater than ever before. Every thing but the weather has been taken care of and that is beyond even the state officials and fair board. With the weather clerk behaving himself, the 1916 fair will make a record that will stand for some years. The agricultural display owing to the favorable season will bt? unusual ly good and the average in Oregon is good enough for anyone. Only seven weeks until the election, but long enough to keep the voters waiting to cast' their ballots and turn their thoughts to other and more profitable things. Just now both sides are confident of winning and the only cer tain thing about it is that one of them is badly mistaken. but he did not lose his head or the life of a single person of all aboard her. It was good seamanship, good-general-ship and splendid management. But a day or two more and the boys of Company M will be home and the "cruel war be over." Arrangements are made for giving them a warm welcome home and Salem will sure be on hand to make the affair unanimous. if '.V Kipplin$rau IfiQS We!t Mason OLD TIMERS LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1SGS CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business - Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT When old men meet they ask. for news of friends they used to know. "Say, what's become of Hiram Hughes?" "The anthrax laid him low." "Well, what's become of William Bill, and what's become of Fred?" "They both are sleeping on the hill, and each is doubly dead." "Why, truly, friend, if these things be, we're pretty much alone; but where is Silas J. McGee?" "He sleeps beneath the stone." "I used to know a lovely maid, whose name was Julia Jones." "She's resting in the willow's shade, out in the place of bones." No wonder that the old are bent be neath their weight of gloom; they cannot gossip worth a cent and not bring in the tomb. Mirth to their discourse they, would lend, and cheerfully behave, but when they ask about a friend they hear about the grave. "Oh, what's become of Jim and Joe, and Nell and Bess and Jane?" j "They died the death long years ago, and dead they still ! remain." . Four Autoists Killed Percy Steger of Pittsburg. Those killed were: r Traffo frnwinir Mr' r"vv Pittsbum. wife dl UldUC VIUaMllg nf wv of tno n,omu,,r of the firm of " j Sieitcr Brothers. Erie. Pa.. Sept. 13. Four persons ! jir9. k. Hhipmnn, Pittsburg, believed were killed at the grade crossing of the! t0 ,e the daughter of Mrs. Sieger, tracks of the New York Central rail- j Miss Maud a Phipman, aged 13. road north of Girnrd depot today when daughter of Mrs. K. Shipman. the fast mail train number 3.". west s0gro chauffeur, name uuknown. bound struck the automobile of Mrs. Being the busiest man in town, T. O. liligli is considering the taking on of a year's additional work in the city gov ernment. 'This the mark of the live wire the world over. Enterprising citizens are mining their potatoes. 5372 MAJORITY FOB WILSON AT SPOKANE Spokane, Wash., Sept. 1S. The In terstate fair furnished an unexpected jolt to the Hughes leaders of this part of the state when the totals of tiie straw ballot taken at the turnstiles were eomputed, showing that out of 44.SH8 votes cast, Woodrow Wilson had I received a majority of 5372. " I The arrangements for the straw 1ml-1 lot were made with elaborate eare. At the entrance gate were four turnstiles through which the general admission passed. Big banners were put over each j turnstile, two bearing the name of; Wilson and two tiiat of Hughes. i The people, as they came to enter the gates, hail their attejition called to the fact that a straw vote was being taken, and each person of mnture years passing through the turnftilcs was asked to pass under the Hughes ban ner if he was a supporter of Hughes, or under the Wilson banner if he was a supporter of Wilson. ' " .Much prominence was given to t.ie balloting iu the Spokane press and much interest was aroused over the outcome. In view or the tact that the registration of a ballot was automatic, and that it cost the price of an admis sion to cast one, it was generally con ceded that the totals would be n tair index of the sentiment of the masses of people who passed through the gates. At the close of hie first day Mr. Hughes had a majority of six votes over -Mr. llsoii, but after tnat tor tne rest of the fair Wilson took the lead with a steady climbing majority. The last dav's balloting gave Wilson! 35SS and Hughes 237H. while the totals; tor the entire week of the tmr gave, Wilson 2"i,12(i and Hughes l!',74s votes.! a majority of 5372. HOW MAIL ORDER I HOUSES THRIVE Herman Rosenthal, advertising man ager for Sears, Roebuck & Co., of Chi cago, recentlv told the members of the i American Ad club one of the methods by which that company extended its trade. He said: "We have a bureau whose duty it is' to read each week the country newspapers from all over the country. There is not a paper of any consequence in our territory that our bureau does net get. This bureau looks over these papers and when we find a town where the merchants are not advertising in the local paper, we im mediately flood that territory with our IWoi-ntm-6 ft oln-iii'u hrin a i-nau If a f o in )vfnt nf thn Rnma nffnrt iinf fnrtlil in territory where the local merchants all the time use their local paper." -extend your field YOUNG men in business oFten look upon a bank loan as a favor reserved for big depositors. Under approved conditions, this bank will welcome young business men as bor rowers no less gladly than as depositors. w w w If your business Held is sus ceptible of extension; And if you have a real basis for commercial credit; The officers of this bank will be glad to confer with you concerning the na ture and amount of assistance the bank can give. Come in and see us. UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK Salem, Oregon Member Federal Reserve Bank Capital Journal Want Ads Will Get You What You Want The Nation's Favorite Butter Hot There Is No Better Always Watch This Ad" Changes Often CASTOR I A For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears the Signature HttttttttHltllHimtttttttttttttttHttmMtH Strictly correct weight, square. deal and highest prlcet for til klads H junk, metal, rubber, hides and fun. I pay 20 per pound for old mji. Big atock of all aizes second hand Incubators. All kind eomgate4 iron for both roofs and buildings. Boofing paper and second kaid linoleum. H. Steinback Junk Co. The Honse of Half a Million Bargains, IQi North Commercial St Pkaa4 HI 7Utf& CAPITAL JOURNAL WANT ADS BRING YOU RESULTS. V MILDRED HAS A VISITOR DANDIIS X MfsasV CHAPTER XXIV. My heart beat fast as I opened the drawing mum dour. T wns to receive the first man caller sinee I had been married. What would Clifford say? "Ttaauk you for seeing me," he said, after t had greeted hiin. "Thank you for coming! I was doom ed to a lonely evening, as unfortunately Mr. Hammond is out," I apologized. "That is too bad; I had anticipated meeting him." but he neither looked nor acted sorry, and soon we were chat ting away like old frieuds. About half past nine I felt hungry, and excused myself for a moment. I gave Kate the order, and she soon served a nice little supper in the library. It was more cozy there than in the formal drawing room. A Delightful Luncheon. We both ate heartily, we laughed and chatted and told stories. Once I heard a step in the hall, and saw Man dy's face back of. the portieres fairly beainin;; her approval. S-he caught my eye. then shuffled off upstair. I was enjoying myself, consequently she was happy. Mr. Brooke remained until 11 o'clock. After the door closed on him and his promise to come again soon and meet Clifford. I derided it had been the hap piest evening I had spent siuce I came to Olendnle. I hud told Kate not to sit up, and Xlandy. I knew, would be asleep. So I gathered up the supper things and took them into the kitchen, then went into nursery to kiss my darling babv good-night. As I knelt by the little bed a thought came to me unbidden, one that startled me: , "Why couldn't I have married a man like I.eonnrd Brooke a youug man who would make me and my baby happy?" Shocked that such an idea should ent er my mind, I resolutely put Mr. Brooke, and nil thoughts of our pleasant eveu I iug from me. I felt guilty, as if in a way I had been untrue to Clifford. I found a book I inought would interest me, and settled myself to read until Clifford came in. With a woman's capacity for self-torture I begau to wonder where Clifford .was, what he was doing? Perhaps Mrs. I UnMn.. k.,1 Loan . 1,1 ,r I, . his, and he was willing to have things as they were before he was married. Their elimination of me looked that way. at least. . I fouud I was getting nervous. I couldn't read, and called mvself "sil ly" and "fanciful." Clifford would I be home in a little while. He had prob- J"'; iuiu nit iiuiu wuru utr slil their parties were too gay for me. I was very little used to muck hilaritr. and was perhaps a little prudish, as many very young women are apt to be, without having the tact to dissimulate. At last I flung the book on the table. It was impossible to fix mv mind oa anything. I would go to bed' and try to get some rest, even if I couldn 't sleep. Clifford is Late. . It was after 12 o'clock when I laid down. I dozed off several times, but had not slept soundly. I heard the clock each time it struck the hour. Fin ally, at 4 o'clock, I could endure it no longer. I slipped out of bed and jlut oa a dressing gown. I went down to the library. The telephone on the desk gave me an idea. I was sure something dread ful had happened to Clifford. He had never remained out all night before. Perhaps he had been robbed, or even killed, while T Itml hnan .ni.t- :. . I " ! 1,11,1, IS I bed. Iu an agony of fenr I took the book under the light, and looked for " Hor ton" Mabel Horton. Then iust as I took the receiver off I heard his key ia the door. I had not tact enough, was not used to deceit, so unconsciously held the receiver in my hand, with the" book open on the table before me, until o came iu. (Monday A Quarrel.) MY 0