Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal"
WKDXKSDAY F.VK.V1X0,
September 2d, li I tt.
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AN EVIDENCE OF PROSPERITY
It is'pleasing to learn that the producers and shippers
f dvpcrnn hnvp been laboriner under a mistake with re
gard to car-shortage, which they were disposed to look,
upon as an injury to tneir Dusiness. iuuuagei ouit ui
the Southern Pacific, comes to the rescue and points out
that instead of being a calamity the car shortage is an
evidence of prosperity, and that the shippers of California
look upon it as such. .
It is cheering to know, as we dp now, that it has been
explained to us, that the carshortage is a blessing, an
evidence of that prosperity the East has been enjoying
for two years and which was just beginning to be felt
here when the car shortage came along and assured us
according to Manager Scott that it was really here.
Mills are closing down on account of this evidence of
prosperity and fruit is rotting in the orchards; but what's
the difference so long as we know the thing that causes
this condition is the very best evidence of prosperity?
Mr. Scott, in talking to the public service commission
yesterday, told it and the interested Oregonians gathered
there seeking relief from car shortage,- that "In Cali
fornia there is also serious shortage, but the people there
seem to look upon it in a different way. They regard it
as an evidence of prosperity rather than a calamity." He
asserted: "The California shippers listed the shortage
causes as, unprecedented activity in eastern manufactur
ing; deficiency of ship tonnage on both coasts; dosing of
the Panama canal; congestion of freight cars in eastern
terminals and failure of car builders to fill an order for
3,500 new box cars."
Just what satisfaction this, action of Calif ormans in
designating the cause of the trouble can afford shippers
who want cars, is something Mr. Scott did not explain.
It is about as satisfactory as showing a youngster who
wants milk, the picture of a cow. It is telling Oregon
shippers why the shortage is here instead of doing any
thing to overcome it. It is of no especial interest to the
orchardist whose fruit is rotting or the millman who must
close his plant on account of car shortage to have the rea
son explained to him why the shortage exists. It hurts
just as bad no matter what causes it. It is not the
theories of railroading that the shippers want to under
stand it is the condition they want altered. They do
not care so much for the evidence ot prosperity as iur we
prosperity itself. Mr. Scott's explanation, however,
opens the way for overcoming hard times and suggests
a remedy easily applied. In case of a dull season all that
will be required to have the evidence of prosperous times
is for the railroads to take their cars out of the state,
leaving us with a shortage. That would make us all feel
that times were real good as the evidence of prosperity
would be visible at all shipping ponits. Manager Scott
deserves the thanks of the state for pointing out this easy
road to business prosperity.
Judge Davis, of Multnomah county, is passing upon the
question of the legality of a marriage performed by a
notary public in Alaska, in the trial of Homer N. Ford
on a crimnial charge held that such marriage was a com
mon law one, and under the laws of Oregon from which
the Alaska law was copied was perfectly legal. In so
deciding he among other things said: "I believe a com
mon law marriage should be recognized by the courts of
this state the evils of failure to recognize it are much
greater than those of recognition." He added: "Mar
riage existed before codes and before creeds, and is a
natural relationship." The sentiment of the state is un
animously with Judge Davis' construction of the law,
with perhaps the sole exception of Homer N. Ford.
The sound of the hew-gag and the swish of the lariat
are heard in Pendleton again today as the annual Round
Up gets in full swing. The cowboy with legs like a pair
oi campers ana a swagger iiKe a deep sea sailor on shore
leave, is there ins neck acting as a pole for a red bandana
flag and his spurs rivalling the wheel of the old steamer
Calliope that used to ply on the Portland-Vancouver
route only bigger. Everybody else who can spare the
time and money is also there just "letting 'er buck."
With wheat way above the dollar mark, the Umatilla
farmer has money to throw at the birds and there are
plenty of that kind of songsters there. The merchants
have, so much money they have to lay awake at ngihts de
vising ways of getting rid of it, and on top of these two
"Midasites" there are numbers from the effete east whose
dads have a wad laid up from stocks, bonds and "war
brides," getting a touch of western color and adding to.
the hilarity of the occasion. They will get what they
came for, for they will see riding of a kind unknown in
the east and which can only be learned by straddling a
tornado, putting spurs to an earthquake, or slapping a
cyclone over the ears with a cowboy hat, as a starter,
and then have the finishing touches put on by years of
practice on the hurricane deck of a volcanic eruption
done up and concentrated in the hide of the toughest,
wiriest bunch of animal magnetism that ever flaunted
its bannered tail over the hills and plains of the world's
great wilds, the Oregon Cayuse.
Candidate Hughes condemns every piece of construc
tive legislation passed during the Wilson administration,
except the federal reserve act, which he intimates might
be allowed to stand if fixed up to suit the big eastern1
bankers. The Underwood tariff law, the shipping bill,
federal trade commission act, the rural credits law, tariff
commission act, eight-hour day law and various other
measures are to be replaced on the statutes by acts more
agreeable to the shipping combine, the big- protected
manufacturing trusts, etc. At the same time Mr. Hughes
wires congratulations to Senator Poindxeter, re-nominated
in Washington after having supported ?the entire
legislative program, and to Governor Johnson of Cali
fornia who won in that state although in sympathy with
all the progressive ideas of the Wilson administration.
HoV could Hughes consistently congratulate Poindexter
on his victory when the latter had voted for the Under
wood tariff bill and all the other measures that Hughes
is denouncing daily on the stump. How must the repub
licans of Wisconsin feel, after renominating LaFollette
by a big majority a senator who voted for all the Wil
son measures to have their party candidate for presi
dent denouncing these laws as harmful or vicious?
Bell-ans
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. One package
proves it 25c at all druggists.
State House News
Labor Commissioner Hoff reports
that there nre in Oregon sixteen in
dividuals and firms in the sign writ-:
ing business. Xine additional people
are employed, who receive a total of
8,29 in wages.
In an opinion given to the fish and
game commission yesterday, Attorney'
General Brown says that it is agains"t '
the law to catch crabs during the i
months of .Inly, August and September,'
crabs cannot legally be shipped at any
or, ine year except in cans.
The discovery has been made that
road nincliinery belonging to the state,
valued at .)0n0, has been left exposed
to the weather in Clatsop county ever
since the administration of former
Highway F.ngineer Bowlby. State En
gineer Lewis has been instructed by
the highway commission to have the
machinery, which consists of a trader.
several cars and an engine, placed un-
ler sneitor.
An interesting story under the title.
"Irish Linen Made 'in Oregon, "r np:
pears in the current issue of The Na
tion's Business, official publication of
the chamber of commerce of the United!
States. The story relates of the ex-1
perimental work in this state in grow-!
ing and rotting tlax.
Oregon
State
Fair
Are You Going?
Salem. Oregon
Sept. 25-30 inc.
' All trains stop
at Fair Grounds.
Low
Round Trip Fares
will be on sale
from all stations
in Oregon - .
Sept. 21st-30th inc.
The return limit is
OrK 4th
Ask local agent for fares, train service, etc.
JOHN M. SCOTT
General Passenger Agent, Portland, Oregon
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
The industrial accident commission
has begun suit in the circuit court to
collect $."-87 from Tra B. Lvons, a
Silverton plumber. The commission al
leges that Lyons stated his intention
of becoming subject to the compensa
tion act in July, 11)14, and that be
tween that date and the following July
his payroll amounted to $1419.17, $49.-
0 or which should have been paid to
the commission. It is snid that but
$3.85 was turned over.
The state board of control will hold
its semi-annual meeting for the eastern
Oregon hospital for the insane at Pen
dleton this week, and while in that
city will attend the round up. .Secre
tary utcott aa Ireasurer Kav, with
Secretary Goodin, will leave tonight,
and Governor Withvcnmbe will join
them from North Yakima, where" he is
attending the Washington state fair.
The Carranza leaders have promised to run Villa
down. They have been doing this for a year or more but
generally through the press reports. However they can
not say anything too mean about him. The Spanish
language is weak where the Anglo-Saxon speech is strong
and expressive. Imagine a Spaniard being forced to ex
press his opinion of Villa by asserting that "the mother
of the man Senor Villa is the lady dog." Where would be
the satisfaction in that kind of a statement?
In spite of all the doleful predictions of the railroad
chiefs, because of the passage of the eight-hour day bill,
railroad stocks, are selling higher than ever before in
the history of the country. If these same railroad man
agers believe what they say why don't they take this
splendid opportunity to unload and get out of the
business?
Wall Street is as sensitive to events as the mercury to
changes of temperature. When Rumania entered the
war on the side of the allies Russian rubles rose material
ly and German marks declined to their lowest exchange
value. This is a pretty strong indication of what capital
thought of the effect of Rumania's action.
In the face of assertions that the Bulgars and Aus
trians are holding their own comes the statement from
Athens that the Austrians are preparing to evacuate
Trieste and the Bulgarians are moving their archives
from Monastir to Uskob preparatory to abandoning thajt
city.
RipplthgRhufliGS
iyVSltrBfon,
VACATIONERS
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 1S6S
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
Transact a General Banking Business
Safety Deposit Boxes
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
I've been where countless people went for
recreation and repose, where forty kinds
of scads are spent for motor rides and
things like those. There were, for those
who had the price, all kinds of harmless,
cheerful snares, and there was every known
device to make a man forget his cares. I
sat and watched them, all day long, beneath
a quaking aspen tree; to find so sad and
glum a throng, a funeral you'd have to see.
The tourist plodded on his way, as though
he'd lost his dearest friend: his face.
despondent, seemed to say, "I'll see this ordeal to the end."
' With gloom expressed in every act, he went the rounds,
where others went, and saw the Rainbow' Cataract, or
I gazed on fakers in a. tent. The Windy Cavern he ex
jplored. and trailed along some dizzy curve, and all the
j while he looked so bored the guides and spielers lost their
; nerve. I saw ten thousand tourists thus; they jogged
j along through scenes sublime, and looked as though
they'd like to cuss so vain a waste of precious time.
C.eorge Palmer Putnam, private sec
retary to the governor, who has been
with C oinpany M on the Mexican bor
der since June, is again at work ill tho
governor's office.
.
State Fair Notes
The ladies of Sedgwb-k Post Xo. 1,
Woman's Kelief Corps, of Salem, is
establishing headquarters in the shady
oak grove inside the Fair Grounds
where they will keep open house
throughout fair week, for the benefit
of the .old soldiers and their families
while visiting the Fair. Their spacious
tent wilf be fitted out with chairs,
couches, tables, writing materials,
books, papers, magazines, etc., and it
will serve as an ideal retreat for the
old veterans and their ladies. Mrs.
Florence Shipp, of Salem, will be in
charge.
Secretary -Manager Lea of the State
Fair has set aside the shady oak grove
within the Fair Grounds as a camping
place for the G. A. H. and V. H. C,
the Boy Souts, Hoys' and Girls' in
struction camps, the Kobekahs, Women
of Woodcraft, etc., where headquarters
will be established and where their
special social gatherings and private j
entertainments may be held. For suchl
of those who have not tents and other
necessary equipment Secretary Lea is
making nrnrngements to secure such
equipment from the Third Oregon
Kegiiueut, to be mustered out nest
.Monday. He will also secure enough
cots for tho members of tho Boys' and
Girls' camps, of 40 and 45 each,
respectively, from the Oregon soldier
commissary so that they will be pro
vided with warm and comfortable beds
off the ground.
F. P. Wolfe, well known Shetland
pony breeder of near Woodburn,
visited the Fair Grounds yesterday
and made arrangements tor the accom
modation of his entries to the pony
competition both in tho regular live
stock, and the Horse Show clnssifica-.
tions. His ponies will participate in
all of the pony races to be pulled off
during the week. Jl. S. Levy, or La
Grunde, I'nion county, who had the big
string of Shetlunds at last year's Fair
will be on hand with a bigger string
than he had before, fully equipped
with all of the paraphernalia to com
pete in all of the pony events in the i
Horse Show. His brother, George
Levy, also of La Grande, will be here
with another exhibit of Shetland so
that the entries in the pony classes
will be much bigger and the competi
tion keener than ever before.
A. C. Rub-, the celebrated importer
and breeder of thoroughbred draft and
hackney horses, with farm and stable
at Gresham, Oregon, came in with the
first carload of his horse.s, to be ex
hibited at the State Fair, yesterday
and the balance of his big exhibit will
arr've within a day or two. This ia
the first time that Mr. Ruby will have
neade an exhibit of his champion stock
for seven years and he will occupy the
whole of barn 13.- Several of Mr.
Ruby's animals will be entered in th
different classes in the big Horsa
Show, principally in the draft and
hackney events.
The free-camping grounds at the
Fair Grounds have been taking on the
appearance of a tented city within tha
past week. There are over 50 camp
ers already on the grounds and they
are arriving daily in considerable num
bers. The reservations have been very
heavy this year and the indication
are that there will be n greater popula
tion camped upon the grounds for thu
Fair than of many years. The accom
modations are very much improved and
hundreds of families from the city
and all parts of the valley and state
make it a point to camp at the Fair
Grounds during Fair week where they
enjoy pleasant social intercourse and
reunions.
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A NEW CREATION AND A NEW SURPRISE
CHAPTKR XXVII.
I now realize perfectly that when I
was first married I was nothing but a
silly girl-wife, with all kinds of foolish
ideals of love and marriage. About each
of us being the counterpart of the oth
er, and nil that kind of stuff, that is
so seldom, if ever, true the "Two souls
with but a single thought. Two hearts
that beat as one," idea, and a lot of
more of that nonsense! I am wiser
now.
A few days after my attempt to
plan something so that I could meet
Clifford's friends. Leonard Brooke call
ed. I was feeling peculiarly lonely
and alone, and was correspondingly glad
to ee him.
" Do stay and have tea with me." I
urged. "I have a terrible fit of the
blues this afternoon. It is so good to
have a friend drop in."
A Friend Lends Sunlight.
"I am glad you called me that." he
said gently. "I want you to know me
well enough to believe that I am your
friend."
"Oh. I do believe that now!" I ex
claimed impulsively: "and I met you
just when I needed a friend," then, a
bit ashamed of my frankness. I added,
"I knew no young people then, and I
had so many young friends at home."
I don't Vnow why I should have
srtnken as T did. It wns the ininnl
of the moment. Had I conveyed morel
than I meant? Had I allowed him to
realize my loneliness and my unhappi
ness more than, was proper for a married
womanf I was so unhappy most of the
time that I often felt that nothing
mattered much, yet now I knew that
someway it was not wise to let this
young man who was so congenial know
too much of ray troubles.
He had awakened in me a desire for
the something I had missed in my life
with Clifford. He was so entertaining,
so sympathetic, acted as if I were worth
while; instead of being in the way.
That was how I had commenced to feel
with Clifford that I was in his way.
Mr. Brooke remained and had tea
with me. although he had at first de
clared it was impossible, that he could
only remniu a few minutes. He told me
such droll stories, was so jolly and full
of fun, that I forgot I was a' neglected
wife; forgot that the day was dull and
colorless; forgot that my plans for our
happiness had all gone awry; and all
other disagreeable things.
After he left I still retained the
plessant feeling his company had in
spired. And when Clifford came home
I tried to be as nice as possible, and
not say anything be wouldn't like. This
was the only rec-on that I did not men
tion Mr. Brooke's call. There was no
reason i snoui.i n.ire it Clifford had
told me to hnvr r.iv vmmn i , : r
wanted them. He had also told me not
to bother him about them. So I keDt
still. '
Tickets for the Theatre.
After dinner he produced some thea
tor tickets and told mo if I could b
ready in half an hour he would take
me to the theatre. I remembered yet
how astonished and pleased I was. I was
so taken by surprise he had been so
cross lately tlmt I just stood still and
looked at him.
"If you don't want to go. sav sol
but don t stand there staring liko a
fool." "
"Oh, I do want to go, Clifford! ' I
was so surprised that you asked me,
that s all,' I blurted. Then fearing that
my tactless speech would -make him.
angry I added "I'll be ready in lea.
than half an hour, dear."
"See that you look as well as yon
can. I don't care to take a woman
out looking like a frump."
'I'll look all right." I called back.
Jot for nothing had I determined to
make the most of mvself. Only that
morning I had a lovely g0wn sent home
trom the new modiste's into whoaa
hands I had put myself until I should
learn how to dress. I could scarcely
wait to hear his verdict as Mandv help
ed me into the lovely rose-colored crea
tion and threw the new velvet wren
over my shoulders.
(Tomorrow An Evening at the
Theatre.)
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