itorial Page of ''The Capital Journal" Ed CHAELE8 H FISHEB, Editor and Manager. THl'KsDAY KVKXIXG, October 1!, 1910. PUBLISHED EVLBY EVEXIXO EXCEPT SUXDAY. SALEM, OREGOX, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. S. BARXES, President CHAS. H. FISHER, Vice-President. DOHA C. AXDHF.SKX, Sec. und Treas. Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail. per year Sl'BSCKU'TIOX RATES $5.00 1'er month 3.00 Per month 45c 35c FULL LEAPED WIKK TELEGRAPH REPORT EASSTEUX KEPHKSEXTATIVES New York, Ward Lewis -Williams fcpeeinl Agency, Tribu Chicago, W. H. Stockwell, People's Oas Buildin Triliuuo Building g The Capital Journal carrier boys nro instructed to put the papers on the norch If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the oaner'to you on time, kindlv phone the circulation manager, as this is the oiilj waV we can determine whether or not the carriers are lulluwing instructions. Phone Main SI before 7:30 o'clock and u paper will bo sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. AMERICA'S PART OF THE WAR COST The prevailing high prices for all food stuffs are un answerable proof that supply and demand alone regulate prices. The demand from Europe for American food stuffs has drawn on the supply to such an extent that while it is not exhausted, its scarcity forces prices up. With this, is the willingness of the foreign markets to pay the prices charged by American dealers. The price the foreigner is willing to pay fixes that which the local consumer must also pay. . It is estimated the cost of living in America has ad vanced forty per cent, some estimates say fifty, or even more, since the European war began. This brings home to us the fact that we as a nation must bear our portion of the cost of the. war. At the same time it is pointed out that England's debt due to the war is some fifteen billion dollars. This seems a staggering sum, yet we on this side of the ocean, and taking no part in the war, are pay ing on account of it not less than three billion dollars a year in the increased cost of living. If the actual cost of food consumed by Americans averaged $G0 a year, then the advance of fifty per cent would amount to three bil lions yearly. If the food cost was as some estimates irive it $100 a year, the increased cost is five billions. Of course England and the other warring nations, be sides the war debt they are creating, have had an addi tional burden of living expenses to meet just as we have, only much heavier; but it is evident that we are paying our share. We point to the vast sums of gold we have Accumulated and the credits we have acquired besides the wSed out, yet all these combined would not begin U equaUhe amount taken from the pockets of American consumers bv increased living cost. , There is another side to the matter too That is that the money spent, for this increased cost of living has not lone out of the country to any great extent, it growing most of ts own foodstuffs, so that this extra expenditure has been after all but a redistribution of the money of the countiy, part of it going to the farmer and producer and another and perhaps larger part to speculators and Sdfflme " It has undoubtedly done much to better the SSSn of the farmer, and this part of it is far from rentable, but the extra rake off hat has gone to the speculator is another matter. For instance when wheat went up two cents in Chicago, Wednesday, Cleveland hakers at once added one cent to the price of a loaf of pakeis at i - , , . .,. . 100 five.cent loaves of bread. So that an increase of two cents in; the Drice of flour was passed on to me consume ujie increased fifty times. Two cents worth of flour was u rned into one dollar's worth of bread. It is the same though not to so great an extent as in the case cited, with all other products. The addition of a cent to the price of canned stuff at the cannery, grows as the goods pass through several hands on their way to the consumer. The Jobber adds a cent, and the wholesaler another and by the time it leaves the retailers hands the one cent jjas pro'wn to five and a ten cent can is sold f . or fifteen cents The producer and canner get one cent and the middlemen get four. The fact that Mount Ranier has so long retained that name instead of being given the title of Tacoma is due entirely to the Northern Pacific railroad, which when it started the town of Tacoma as a rival to Seattle and undertook to kill the latter place, gave it the name of the mountain. That was a red rag to Seattle and most of the balance of the state, which so soon as it had seemed the railroad began abusing it. It was their road and they had a right to do this and they did it. Tacoma was not acceptable because the railroad suggested it. It would be interesting to watch the angle of "Uncle Joe" Cannon's cigar as he reads what Candidate Hughes Wtv-ninfi reuubhean con- gressmen who voted for "that cowardly surrender -to V . I'll r....nnnnfntivn M OH' ftf TriP force , tne Aaanison diu, first Oregon district was another member who voted for the bill. The Oregonian is fighting the election of George Taz well for county judge and supporting George M. McBride. In answering a criticism of its course it says: "It does not bow to the verdict of a primary of 40,000 or any other number of voters in its selection of a nominee for an important office who is not fit." This stand shows admir able backbone but the question still remains: "Is the Ore gonian correct in its estimate of the nominee or are the voters who named him the better judges?" If it has the facts to justify its stand then it is correct, for a news paper has a duty to perform for the public and this some times when the public objects to the duty being per formed. No paper is worthy of the name that will in dorse a candidate whom it knows to be unfit just because the party it is affiliated with sees fit to nominate him. There are times when blind loyalty to party is treachery to the community. County Clerk Gehlher noting an editorial in the Capital Journal anent the nuisance of registering and hoping sometime a law would be enacted that would stick and permit a voter to avoid registering every time he had a few minutes to spare; called the Journal's attention to the fact that the present law provides for the registration standing until the voter changed his place of residence. We of course understand what the present law says, and only wished to note the fact that some wise legislator at the coming session would probably discover the law needed fixing and would proceed to amend it so the whole registration business will have to be gone over again. If this is done it will be about the last tinkering with the matter for the disgusted voter will do away with the whole system. Might as' well have a- law that permits fraudulent voting as to have one that prevents the honest voter getting to the polls. A queer politicial situation exists in Wisconsin. Sen ator La Follette is running for re-election on the republi can ticket. As is well known, La Follette voted for the Underwood tariff as well as the Adamson, ejght hour bill, both of which measures are roundly denounced by the republicans in general and Justice Hughes in particular. The old-time republican organ at Madison, called The ?tate Journal, carries at the head of its editorial column this ticket: For President, Woodrow Wilson; for U. S. Senator, Robert M. La Follette; for Governor, Burt Wil liams, who happens to be the democratic nominee for that office. The chief editorial writer on The State Journal, W. T. Evjue by name, is a republican npminee for the legislature and refuses to support Governor Philipp for re-election. It is hoped Portland may see its way clear to protect the Portland Railway, Light & Power company in its franchise rights in that city and keep the jitneys from making a bankrupt of it. Salem is interested in the mat ter because she does not want, to have to make up the company's, income shortages when she pays her electric light bills. You see a railway, or even a railroad com pany always passes the buck along to someone, and in this case Salem does not want the next deal. OPEN FORUM THAT TITLE TO YOUR HOME LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1S68 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT The Oregonian is so hard driven to find an argument in defense of its varied positions politically that it actu ally has a good word for Cleveland who at one time was its favorite target, and who like President Wilson did nothing right in the eyes of the Oregonian so long as he was in the White House, but whom it now quotes as its authority. In a few years it will probably awaken to the fact that Wilson was a mighty good president. Those Denver housewives who are suggesting the sub stitution of potato bread for the. regular wheaten kind have not studied the market quotations. Potatoes are almost as dear as wheat now and the indications are they will soon be fully as expensive. Substituting $2 a bushel potatoes for $2 a bushel wheat, when the latter "goes further" is about like substituting cake for bread. When the colonel started for the south to make Hughes speeches yesterday, good old Dame Nature un dertook to balance things up with a cyclone and "earth quake. At the same tune on Wall street the gamblers changed their bets from two to one on Hughes, to ten to eight. It is less than three weeks until the election and yet Candidate Hughes has not vouchsafed a word of enlight enment on the Oregon-California land grant puzzle which he helped make. If the does not enlighten the state on the matter it will probably never know what Justice Hughes and the balance of the court did to it. " The Underwood tariff is blamed for the vacant houses in Pm-tlnnd. This is about as sensible as the railroads telling how they are suffering from the eight-hour day which is not in eiiect yet. - r.nvpvnnr Withvcomhe vesterdav turned loose 8 per cent of the prison population. Will the Oregonian not give us a dissertation on prison management as it used to when Uswaia west was governor: In addition to the price the war has added to the cost of all food stuffs Mr. Hughes and Mr. Fairbanks would add a tariff to make them still higher. ' Congressman Hawley is to speak here sometime be fore the election. It is a safe bet he has nothing to say about the Adamson bill, or why he voted for it. Editor Salem Journal: Some time ago I saw in your paper an article which re fered to the laws o'f Oregon us touch ing the titlo to real est .',, which I think ia of much and of great import nonce, especially to nil who are owners cf real estate (or think themselves own ern) for it seems that about all that is needed for to get any one (though it bo a poor and aged widow) in serious trou ble over the title to their home, is for some witty lawyer on some rainy day when he is at leisure, to get hold of the abstract to your Ininl and pick out the mistakes and blunders Inade bv the card lessness and ignorance of the people who in some way are (under the pres ent laws) connected with your title, and thouuh you have had your warranty deed to your home for It) years, and that there be none at any time, or none at the present time, who have claimed any right to nuy part of your property, if this lawyer can make it appear t lint any irregularities appear, by the ab stract, then you will be compelled to en gage a lawyer or two and go to court with your case, you will be compelled to mako diligent search for all of the per sons who in any way appeur to be con nected with your title (as appears from the abstract of title) to correct these ir regularities or mistakes which other peo ple have from time to time made, you will huve to put up money (liberally) for to pay the sheriff for serving no tices ant for nil sorts of affidavits, for recordings and publications and the Lord only knows what all more trouble and expense will be yours to meet after the lawyer gets hold of your abstract of title, and too Mr- Editor, the abstract itself is un imposition when a poor wid ow must pay $.'!" for a 90-pnge abstract of her title, why compel this poor wo man to purchase the history of nil the ups und downs of a fumily whom she knows nor cares a fig ubout ? n friend of mine told me some time ago while I was attundiug our oon'feience that bis sou had made as high ns $1,500 per month in the abstract business in Oregon. The abstract man and the lawyer is about all there is who enjoy any real boaefity from the laws of Oregon as touching the records of the title to your home ana land. I have a case, Mr. Editor, in hand, that of an nged widow, which I may give you in detail, a case which is about equal to leaving her nothing but the paper. P. J. GOODE. World's Greatest Water Reservoir Opened To- ... '.: ,J day in New Mexico Elephant Butte, X. M., Oct. 19. : When the gulden key which stitrted the waters of the Rio Grande river flowing through the spillways of the great new i Eli'phuut Butte dam was turned today 2(ill,u00 acres of fertile.land in the, chain, of valleys in New Mexico, , Texas und Old .Mexico were added to our acreage. i The dodicatorv exercises were held heie at the dam, about 125 miles up the riv-i er from El l'aso and about 175 miles be low Albuquerque and marked tho com-i nlction. of the reclamation service's greatest project, one of the most pre- tentionus of its kiud in the history of tho world- I The Elephant Butte dam is n mass of concreto and steel thrown across the Rio Grande river on the desert of New Mexico at tho point where n great rock, shaped like a mastodonic elephant, seems to drink from the Bio Grande. This giant impounding dam lias form ed the largest irrigation reservoir in the world. More than 45 miles in length and eight miles across, the lake stores tho melted snows of the Colorado nud New Mexican mountain ranges and these waters are allowed to flow through the spillways o fthe dam when the hind needs moisture. At the con clusion of the elaborate dedicatory ex ercises, the first session of the Twenty-third International Irrigation con gress was held at the daai. "The dedication of Elephant Butto dam today is an event of wold-wide im portance, said James G. McXnry, chair man of the board of control of the irri- tfrf Contents 15 Wnia Pntcto CASfORIH . t r num.- 3 PER CEKE . AVetabkPrepanltaiforAs siiniiaiii(lieIoodanunfOiU titlark SltmixteaudJBowtM .ProinotesDisliottClic: Opiumlurpluae uorlunf ai NriT Narcotic. JlxStnufiy Prmtrwjn - fkmi.tttd I a IossofSier jnsignatoco1 USTOil For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature In Use For Over Thirty Years Exact Copy of Wrapper. TMC CtttTAim BOHMNY, NEW VOflK CITY. RippfinfRliuiiiQS THE BOOB I often think that old Bill Wax should oc cupy a padded cell; his intellect is full of cracks, like some outworn, discordant bell. All lunatics should be in charge of keepers, at the booby place; that old Bill Wax re mains at large you will admit, is a disgrace. I talk with him from day to day, no word of mine to him appeals; disputing every thing I say, he makes me hot, from head to heels. When I explain that Charley Hughes is, as a statesman, truly great, old Bill hands out his moldy views, indorsing t'other candidate. When I rebuke the" kaiser's course, and say his conduct is a shame, old Wax will argue, till he's hoarse, that Nicholas must bear the blame. Whatever argument I make, whatever words of truth I say, old Bill the other side will take, and chew the rag for half a day. And I have heard that he explains to those who'll listen for a spell, that I have weevil in my brains, and should be in a padded cell ! v i gation congress. "It will justify the faith of the people of the southwest, who have staked their all on the fertil ity of the sdil tihd the ubility of the project to carry waters to the lands when most needed. It will reward the pioneer men and women of the lower Rio Grande valleys from Albuquerque to Old Mexico. ' 4 Recent borings in Texas brought to light rich deposits of potash salts. The borings were made to a depth of nine hundred feet. There is every indication that n large basin of potash lies in thtt vicinity. Journal Want Ads Get Besultt To Want Try one and lee. Mi CHAITER LIII. "Clifford, I want you to meet Mr. Frnnklyn. I am dining with him and his wife," I said in a steady voice, entire ly ignoring the seiintion I very evid ently had made. "Please present us to your friends." That Clifford wag angry was obvious. He turned white, and the veins In his forehead stood out ltko great cords. But in a coldly polite toue. he replied: "It was kind of Mr. Frauklyn to in vite you- Ladies, allow me to introduce Mrs. Hammond, and her host for the ev ening, Mr- Frankly n." Not a name had he mentioned. In a wav my little ruse had failed. "Am I not to meet your wife, Ham mond f What have I done that I should be denied uch a privilege!" "It is Mr. Lockwood, isn't it? ' I asked with nil the aplomb I could must er before Clifford could answer. As Mr. I.ockwood bowed, I extended my hand and he bent gallantly over it. A look of something very like admiration pass ed over Cut ford's face; but was follow ed -almost Immediately by one of the scowling kiud I had learned to dread. Without liugering long enough to give him a chance to say anything I took Burton's arm, and bowed to them, say ing "I have promised the next dance, to INTRODUCTIONS you will excuse me," and we walked away. "By gad, but you ARE a brick!" Burton declared with emphasis when wc were out of henring. "Am I not!" I laughed, this time glad to reply. I felt a certain exhilaration, as though I had gone through some great battle and come off victor. Vet in my heart I knew I should have to suffer for what ,1 had donej that Clifford would make me pay- The Dance With Leonard. The next dance I danced with Leon ard Brooke, and as we passed Clifford, this time dancing with the woman in blue, I nodded gaily at him, and threw some little laughing remark over my shoulder. Leonard looked very hand some in his evening clothes, and danced almost as well as Clifford. I heard my husband's companion say as we passed them "Who is that good-looking youug fellow dancing with your wifef " I strained my ears but couldn't catch his answer; then smiled to myself as I imagined it. "Oh, some young cub! " he had prob ably told her. Cub being his favorite name Tor very young men. An Invitation. We all sat out the next dance. Bur ton had ordered a pitcher of delicious fruit cup, and we chatted and watched the dnncers while we sipped it. I resolutely avoided looking in the direction of Clifford's party, and as resolutely tried to put him and the con. sequences of my action from my mind. '!Y,0,1! are Pely stunning to night! Leonard Brooke told me. "Isn't she Muriel t" "Indeed she 'is! I never saw her looking better." Then to me, "Yo should wear a great deal of that shade of yellow, Mildred, it is wonderfully be- -coming." ' There was nothing small or menn nhnitt Afl.nnl t 1.1 ... . ...,.r, irnumyn. tne was al ways rendy with her appreciation of an other woman, to eompliment or praise her. Now when T , i.i... t -Ii; that it is a rhr.-t..,iu,; ... . i .v..n,.v urn iiu9rsse by many r.omen. i w Tntt"' " k for tho next dance. Mrs. Hammond !" I turned at the voice, and looV.ed on into the blnsi. face of Hal Lockwood, the millionaire who had been so anxious to meet me. "Certainly," I replied. Purely there could be no harm in dancing with mr husband's friend. I introduced him to Leonard and Muriel and then we left them. (Tomorrow A Bequest to Call.)