Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, October 16, 1916, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text; - .... Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" MONDAY KVKXINU, Octuiwr Ki, wio. CHARLES H FISHES, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, 8AI.KM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. It, S. BARNES, CIIAS. n. FISHER, President. Yico-l'resident. DORA C. ANDREKEN, Hoc. und Treas. Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year ., JSl'BKt'JUlTION RATES $5.00 l'er month 45c 3.00 Per monlli 35e FILL LEASKD WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN R EPR EHENTATI VES New York, Ward-Lewis Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, W. H. Htockwcll, People's Ous Building The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly plume the circulation munager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 81 before 7:110 o'clock nnd a paper will be sent you by speciul messenger if the carrier lias missed you. JUST SPECULATION The controversy ith P.riliiin mid Fiance nliout seizure of mails may take this course: May 24, lull!. Wilson says; "Stop it." October 12, ft' III. Grey replies: "We refuse." Way 24, 1017. Wilson says: "I insist on your slopping it." October 12, 10I7- Grey replies: "We still refuse." May 21, IMS. Wilon says: "1 ng'uiii insist on your stopping it." October 12, IMS. Grey replies: "The war is over. We have tiliniiihuird the mail censorship as it has served ils purpose. Surry to have inconvenienced you. Send in your bill. If it is too high, we will arbitrate." October KI,' IMS. 'Wilson says: "Your Offer accepted. We knew you would recognize in the end thai we were riht." October J4, IMS. All the Wilson organs: "Wilson wins another diploma tic triumph." This is what would probably happen if .Mr. Wilson were re-elected Presi dent. As lie will not be re-elected, events will tnke ti decidedly different course. Oiegoniiiu. Why not continue these "speculations" far enough to tell us just what Hughes will do if he is elected? Will he fight Great Britain and France if they refuse to heed his protest? that is the only inference to be drawn from the Oregonian "speculations." Hughes has said in effect that he would have broken off diplomatic relations with Germany when the Lusitania was sunk and gone to war if necessary to gain the objects this country sought. Colonel Roosevelt, campaigning for Hughes, declares that if he had been president he would have resisted with armed force the violation of Belgium's neutrality by Germany. The Oregonian and other supporters of Hughes de mand a "stronger foreign policy" and intimate constantly as in. the above "speculations" that American demands should be backed up by armed force. This steady pressure of the Hughes' party for war is good reason why the great mass of American voters should be kept cool and not be led away by strains of martial music. ..The European war is not over it may last for years yet. Daily it is forcing grave international questions upon this country questions that should not be handled by men who are constantly demanding resort to force. If the American boys march to the front in a war with European powers many of them will never return, or they will come back home maimed and helpless wrecks. The country felt grave, and fathers, mothers and sisters and sweethearts wept in spite of heroic efforts at self control .when the boys of the National Guard entrained for the Mexican border a few weeks ago; how will they feel if the call comes to fill the trenches on a European battle front? And here is a "speculation" of our own; if Hughes is elected and carries out his promise to club Germany, the Allies and Mexico into thinking his way about matters which may come up, and war ensues as a result, we want to speculate one hundred to one that the blood thirsty editor of the Oregonian will not be on the firing line. Mr. Hughes and the colonel both insist the Adamson bill is not an eight hour measure but simply a wage meas ure. They assert that congress and the administration made a cowardly surrender to force and passed the bill under duress and without giving the subject proper con sideration. If these gentlemen are correct where do Congressmen Hawley and Sinnott get off? When these gentlemen slap the administration they also take a whack at our own congressman, Mr. Hawley. The voters are watching with more or less interest to see how Congress man Hawley will take this kind of a shaking up from his big leader. ' Will he confess and plead for forgiveness turning the other cheek? Well hardly, for the blow is square between the eyes, and he would have to turn the back of his neck, if anything. He will probably kiss the hand that smote him and feel thankful he received any notice whatever from the "potential president." California has two small issues and one large one be fore her at the coming election. The first is the Hiram Johnson race for the United States senatorship; the sec ond the Wilson-Hughes bout, and the main one the ques tion as to whether the state will remain wet, or go into the dry column. Hornibrook waits with "baited breath" for the announcement of the result; at least it has the bait. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 18G3 CAPITAL $300,000.00 Transact a General Banking; Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Now someone has discovered that the reason folks do not go back to the farm is that "man is a gregarious animal and gets lonesome away from the crowds of the cities." This might do if it was correct, which it isn't. The main reason why here in America the farm has no attractions, is that the returns for the money invested are smaller than in any other pursuit; and on top of it there is more hard work connected with securing even these meager returns. This applies to those who have money enough to buy and stock a farm. The poor man cannot go back to the farm, any more than he can go into the banking or money lending business, for the simple reason he has not the means. He cannot rent, under usual conditions for this same reason. When some arrange ment is made, if it ever is, by which a man without means can get a chance to rent farm lands and be furnished money for necessary teams, etc., there will be a move ment back to the soil, but not before. The same reason that kept American money out of the mercantile marine for so many years applies to the farm. Other industries offer better and bigger inducements. Mrs. William Kent, wife of a progressive republican congressman of California, who heads the Wilson non partisan league, is campaigning against Wilson and the democratic national caniddates, because, she says, "of the stand oi tne democratic party on suffrage. She must be a lady of acute sensibilities if she can find anv difference between the stand of democrats and republicans on this question, ihe platiorms ot the two parties are exactly the same on this subject, each saying suffrage should be settled by the individual states, and that it is not a na tional matter. It is a case of a republican pot calling the democratic kettle blackface. Mr. Hughes has simply repudiated his platform and should he be elected his party may refuse to back him up in his pledge to the rich women suffragists of the east. OPEN FORUM it MR. ALBERT MAKES CORRECTION The Oregonian says women can get the national suf frage only through the republican party, and points out that Mr. Hughes is for it. It does not state, though, that the republican convention considered the matter fully and in its platform declared for exactly the same thing the democratic platform does: that it is a matter for each state to settle for itself. There is absolutely no difference between the parties on this subject. Mr. Hughes' per sonal indorsement of it, is like a great many other things that gentleman talks about, a matter of vote getting only. And if the republican party is so keen for woman suf frage why hasn't it done something in that direction dur ing it's forty odd years of power since the Civil War? L. H. McMahan, independent candidate for present ing attorney, was the originator and leader in the munici pal bathing beach movement in Salem, and more than any one else responsible for its success. This beach has not only furnished recreation and enjoyment for thousands during the past two summers, but it has no doubt reduced the annual toll in life taken by the treacherous Willam ette river. The fathers and mothers of Salem owe much to Mr. McMahan for his work in this respect which is only one of the many movements in behalf of thj public good that he has been instrumental in carrying through Marion county will get one of the ablest and fairest of ficials it ever had if McMahan is elected. To the Editor: To correct sundry er rors in a biographical sketch of my bus iness career in last Saturday 's Journal, please say that I was born in Wheeling then irginia, February S, 1S.'19, moved wirn my -parents to Cadiz, Ohie, in 1840 an, to Nellsvillc, Ohio, in 1S45. In !" to Lansing, Iowa, was admitted to the bar .Nov. lSo", but never prac ticeu, was employed by G. W. Gray & y.o., lorwarclnig and commission and I'ruiiuec ueaiers in jrtiw; hecaine a mem ber of the tirm m 1.SII2, Mr. Gray re tiring from active business when J as sumed the management, .the firm con sisting ot Mr. Gray and myself. In isiif -Mr. ,lohn Berry was admitted to the firm and. Mr. Gray retiring from me presidency ot first .ationa bank ot Lansing, with myself as junior part ner, organizing the private bank of tirav i!c (Jo. of which 1 was cashier. In ixi. we ihi1) out at Lansing and arm ed in Salem July IXCm, when G. W. Gray, John Berry and myself as part ners opened a general merchandise store under the tirm inline of G. W. tirav & Co. at the comer of State and Liberty. the present location of the liarr Jewel ry store. In ISliS 1 withdrew from the firm, and entered the employ of Ladd A: IJusn, opened tho bank as cuslner, filling that position for more than 17 years until Oct. 1S,S", when associated with the late R. S. Wnllm-e, we organ ized the Capital National bank. My long association with a gentleman of Mr. Kusli 's character and attainments I regard as the most potent educational factor of my life. About 1S77 with G. W. Gray as a partner, under the firm name of G. W. Gray & Co., we bought the Linseed Oil Mills from the Pioneer I Oil (o., insolvent. I wns not active the business. After, some two vears of profitnWe business I sold out mv inter est ami tho business wns conducted thereafter bv G. W. Grnv and Sons. J. H. ALBERT. Hello! If you're already an OWL smoker, we just want to say "Hello! Wo smoke it, too 1" If you haven't started yet why, my dear Sir! do you realize you've missed another whole day of good smoke enjoyment? Better step right over to the 'counter now and exchange your nickel for an OWL. Or make it two, if you insist. Now you're talking! THE MILLION DOLLAR CIGAR X M. A. GUNST & CO. INCORPORATED TELLING WOMEN HOW TO VOTE. The weather bureau is a regular killjoy. One week ago it announced that it would rain during the latter part of the week in this section. After' putting a dash of cold water on all western Oregon, which was enjoying the best brand of weather put up anywhere, the weather man's predictions tailed to materialize and the weather. was per feet. Today the same prediction of rain at the last of the week is made, and this while we are having ideal Fall days. It is bad enough to have bad weather announced the day before, but when it comes to spoiling things a week ahead with prognostications that may not material ize it becomes almost a crime. Rlpplftif-RlMjraQ ' J3 1)4 PERVERSITY. The doctor says that pies are harmful, I must eat them no more; and that is why they seem so charmful I'd like to eat a score. Before me there are wholesome vit tles that I may safely try; I'll have of them no jots or tittles, my system shrieks for pie. I didn't much enjoy my smoking until the doctor came, informing me I'd soon be croaking unless I quit the same. ' Then fascinating and enchanting seemed my old pipe of oak, and here I'm sitting, yearning, panting, for something I can smoke. Last winter, when the boys were skating a sport of which I'm fond I, too, began absquatulating along the village pond. The boys all said I was a winner, for fluent legs are mine, until I saw, where ice was thinner, a big square "Danger" sign. I skated up to see it closer you should have seen me sink! .It took two blacksmiths and a grocer to drag me from the drink. Who cares a kopeck for a warning? Man to his doom inclines because he takes a pride in scorning all sorts of danger signs. ' ; (From the Tucoinn Tribune.) On Friday Tncoma is to be treated to the most amazing spectacle of an amazing campaign. A tram load of eastern women, whose expenses are paid by the millionaire wives of Wall street manipulators, will arrive in this city to tell women here how they should vote in tho coming election. The east, which lias never had the Vote, is coming to tell the west, which has had the ballot for years, what to do with it. The most con vincing campaigners, one might sup pose, are those who take a practical as well as an' 'academic interest in voting. The women of the west, who won the ballot years ago, might take a great deal more interest in the. mes sage that the eastern women are preaching if the easterners had had a little more success in getting tha bal lot themselves. The. west is proud of its women voters and the part they have played in the ntfuirs ot the country. It be lieves that the women of the east have plenty of. evils in their own bailiwicks to correct without traveling 3000 miles to conduct a school in bnl lot marking. hv not send back a trniiilond of western women to show the easterners a few practical things about the gentle art of vtotegotting. Nothing Immoral in Death Though Nude New York, Oct. Ki. There's nothing immoral in a picture of a mule woman when the woiaaii is "dend." l'oticeman Riley, former sign painted, played this role before his superiors today and set a new precedent for Kcw York's censor ship. The police received a hurry call to send a censoi to a Fifty-first street art store where a shocked citizen said nn indecent picture twas on display in the window, Riley was nssigned as censor. He found a picture portraying a man on his knees, weeping beside the body of a woman. Riley was About to hide the pieture behind newspapers he intended to paste on the window, when an art loving pedestrian objected. "Why man, tho woman's dead," Rilev was told. "Then I' guess she can't hurt any one," replied Riley, and he so reported lo headquarters. Argontino is spending 1(00,000,000 on nn irrigation system. American moving picture films ar being sold in increasing quantities ia. France owing to the curtailment of tho French and Italian film output due to the war. Swine provided 00 per cent of the t. tal meat consumed in the German em pire last year. The Conveniences of a Checking Account T3 OVER ninety per cent of the transfers of funds are made by the convenient bank check. The, reasons for this are. first, it offers security for funds. It is extremely unsafe to carry large sums on the person, or keep them about tne premises. Then, check being drawn in favor of a certain person or firm, if lost, .is worthless to the finder. It may be mailed across the city at a great saving of time. It involves no question of making proper change ; it is, in itself, an acknowledgment of the payment ot an obligation, tor upon being paia Dy Dans.n. is re turned to the orte who drew it, and becomes indisputable evidence of the payment. Lastly, the practice Of depositing one's funds in bank, and paying taem out Dy cnecK, establishes an acquaintance there, open ing the way to many privileges wnicn oa the stranger to the enjoy. bank does not UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK Salem, Oregon Member Federal Reserve Bank AN ATTRACTIVE PLACE TO DINE wr. (isn't she graceful?" Muriel exclaimed CHAPTER I.. 'What makes you so quiet?" Burton asked just before we reuched the restau- rnnt- "Why nothing!" I replied, not con scious that I had been so engrossed in my thoughts of Clifford. Now I exert ed myself, aud chatted continuously uu til we drew up before the brilliantly lighted place. "Oh, how lovely!" I gasped, as. aft er disposing of our wraps and dabbing our noses with powder, we rejoined Bur ton. "Does look rather nice." doesn't it?" he returned, as he led the way to a table marked "reserved." "I'm glad I telephoned for a table. We might not have been able to get oue if I hadn't." I was too excited to talk. The restau rant was beautifully decorated. There were wonderful plants and flowers on the tables anil scattered about the room. The men and women were all in evening dress and made such a brave showing. I remembered thinking it would take a very courageous man or woman w hoi self to the dinner, and to mv host and would appear there in afternoon clothes, hostess, trying to forget to wonder The orchestra was placed oil a raised! where Clifford was and what he was do plutform. not too near, yet where weiiiig. But with indifferent success, could hear the music perfectly. Really . Professional Dancers, nothing could be nicer, I thought. I "There they are! look quick, Mildred! A Good Dinner. While our dinner was nnd we were mhnlmir nn tho hn A . I oeuvres, the dancing commenced. First. "ho are they? one couple then another would leave j in admiration. their dinner and take a few- turns) "They are the professional dancer. iirmitwl the mnm. I .l. i 1 . . . "al uuueera i..;, u "7 ;w , A . "uu u"4e "n nired to da ......... .. vu . i.t Ur me season." woum you preier to wan until atter we have our dinnerf" itr. Franklyn asked. "Dinner first for me!" iiuriel de clared. "I'm terribly hungry." "Would you like a turn first?" Bur ton turned to inc. "No thank you! I feel just as Muriel does. I'd rather have my dinner." "For real comfort give me two sen sible women like you two," Burton laughed- "I'm as hungry as a bear. I shall enjoy dancing much more after I have eaten. Here comes "our waiter now. " ' , He had ordered a delicious dinner. As 'again turned to our iLil" "nnged the table audi S.f Zu!d sav Bn.tu iur tuu, x iuukoi arouna to see if there was any one there I knew. I could discover no one: so devoted mv- ' I asked, as I gazed once here for Oh, isa't she wonderful" T as I watched the slender hrwlv perfect rhythm with the music. "She me most graceful creature I have ever seen!" Dinners were left untasted, vc-vm. turns halted as the dnncer. glided around the space reserved for dancirur. When they finished the applause was thunderous. Clearville had seldom beca so entertained. ''le'8 pe?h! and her partner isnt u recunu. uurtnn remarked. nftrti tl,An I.-i j , .ry uuu uuncea an encore, wa dinner. SAV nnt TTa : . i . . rru. -Ana isn't that clon of gray tulle she is wearing the loveliest thing?" "She is wonderful!" I repeated, mr cheeks burning with excitement, t don t wonder the dances professionally when she can dunce like that! " (Tomorrow A Surprise.)