Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal" 'I IH RSDAY EVENING. November I'i. l!ll. CHARLES H FISHEB, Editor and Manager. PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L 8 BARNES. CHAS. FISHER, DORA C. AXDRESEN, ' ' President. Yicc-rresidcnt. Sec, and Trcaa. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Bally by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year .. .$n.oo . 3.00 1'it monfh Per month 45c 35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward-Lewis Williams Special Agency, Tribn Chicago, W. H. Stockwell, Pcoplo's Ons Buildin Tribune Building The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not-d( this, misses yon, or neglects getting the Der to vou on time, kindlv phone the circulation inniiagcr, as this is the only ' , . . i n,..:n.B nA f ..llntri tlrt ! fl ri t fl I 1 fill way we can itetermiiie wneincr or nut mo mim-m ni m..... .- Fhone Main 81 before 7:.i0 o'clock and messenger if the carrier has missed you. paper will be sent you by special PROHIBITION MAY BE NEXT "ISSUE" ' Bryan, the silver tongued, says he will devote his en ' tire energies to making the democratic party the cham- pion of prohibition. He has done splendid work for that cause and his efforts have borne fruit. However he has undertaken a big contract, though no bigger than he would have on his hands if he undertook to reform the republican party in this respect. One thing against this reformation is the vote of New York which would go against any party advocating prohibition, and this has heretofore been a great factor in preventing either party adopting a prohibition plank. Now that the New York bugaboo has been shown to be such, and that the country can elect a president without its aid, the matter should be easier of accomplishment. Bryan remarked a 'few days ago that he would undertake this work because the democratic party was too good a one "to fill a drunkard's grave." Whether he succeeds or not it is certain that it will be but a few years until the United States is as dry as Oregon will be after Governor Withycombe takes a whack at the proclamation business and puts the "bone dry" law into effect. It is a safe bet that if the democrats do not climb onto the water wagon in the next few years that the republi cans will, and with the sentiment growing rapidly in favor of prohibition it will win. In fact this is about the only issue left on which that party can come back. The tariff, on which it relied, is as dead as a last year's bird s nest, so far as being a political issue is concerned, for before another presidential campaign is on, the Tariff Commis sion appointed to frame a tariff on business principles in stead of predatory desires, will have finished its work, and its ideas will perforce be given a trial at least before any changes will be considered. It will not be at all surprising if one or the other old parties comes out straight for prohibition at the next election. Bunjui Suzuki, president Laborers Friendly Society of Japan, which is simply a union labor organization, told the Federation of Labor at a recent meeting that Amer ican labor need no longer fear Japanese competition for they had learned and adopted the American ways and now demanded as high wages as the Americans. He stated the movement was growing rapidly in Japan and that in a short time the society had increased from 10 000 to 30,000. Mr. Suzuki also expressed the Japanese laborer's idea about peace. "War retards human pro gress and destroys civilization," he said. "The purpose of labor is not destruction but construction. We do not wish to spend our precious blood for the glory of munition manufacturers." All of which shows that Japan, the voungest in civilization, has learned its true lesson and has gone up in the class far above some of the oldest nations. Evidently those isolated counties in eastern Oregon are in earnest about wanting the Strahorn road built, for wherever bonds were required to aid the road they were voted almost unanimously. In Lakeview a $20,000" bond issue was voted on, the money being needed to secure cer tain rights of way, and the vote was 249 for and 9 against. Klamath county voted $300,000 by a practically unan imous vote, and it looks as though practically all the con rlit inns til' pppdent. stated bv Mr. Strahorn had been com plied with. This being the case there should be something doing in the way of railroad building in the big Inland Empire next year. It will be a great day for the state when all its isolated portions are urougnt in iuucu wuu each other. While little is being said about it, it is probable an other year will see work begun on the road connecting the Coos Bay country with Eureka, California. The gap is not a large one and is such that it can soon be closed. It will open a rich mineral section and a wealth of timber, besides avoiding the haul over the Siskiyous. With the new dry law in force there is really no use longer for the road to Hornbrook except during the summer as a scenic route. WE HAVE A RIGHT TO BE WRONG There seems to be considerable meat in England's con tention that her blacklisting of certain firms is a matter of her own business entirely. Lord Gray sets up this defense, and it is certainly one worth considering before condemning England for her course. He points out that Ihe blacklist is simply an order forbidding English sub jectsHrading with certain persons whom the government names and whom it considers as practically enemies, and that,;to trade with thein is .'giving comfort and aid to the erforny." He also sig6te'-'tlal;if England cannot control liwn subjects itio:'' one $se can, and that it would cey.tA'My be preposterous fo;the United States to holer she-,?coulcl control them and;aictate with whom they should or should not tracte-Ift'V other words the United States in so doing would be acting just as it ob- lects to England doing, dictating with whom hnglish sub jects should trade while denying England the same au thority over her own subjects. We do not want to overlook the fact that other coun tries can be right occasionally and this great and glorious common wealth frequently wrong. According to the law of general averages we have a right to be wrong half the time and it is fair to presume that the hustling American will keep up his average on any old thing. 'It is stated that Villa has decided to brand all Car ranza soldiers captured by him with the letters V. C. which are the initials of the de facto president's name, Venustiano Carranza. Refugees say the bandit leader ordered them branded, as traitors because they did not drive the Americans from Mexico. The most interesting part of the story is not told, for it is not stated whether the branding is to be done before or after the Carranza soldiers are stood up with their backs to the wall and shot. In other words whether they are to be branded before or after death. So far, Villa has slaughtered all the Carranza soldiers caught by him and his new order will have but little effect except perhaps to make the Car ranza troops run quicker, faster and farther than here tofore, and they will have to hurry to do any of these things. The manner in which he United States capitalist has gone into the ship-building business is shown by the re port of the department of commerce which gives the number of vessels built in this country in the past 10 months as 968, with a total tonnage of 405,894 gross tons. These were for American owners, and besides there were 157 wooden ships and eleven steel ones built for foreign owners. Portland is coming ' to the front as a ship builder and leads the northwest in this line. It looks as though the lower Willamette and part of the Columbia are destined in the near future to be one great ship yard where the Oregon fir, the best ship timber in the world, will be made into vessels to carry Oregon products to the markets of the world. Wheat broke the record in Portland yesterday when a lot of bluestem sold at $1.65. Unfortunately there is little left in the hands of the growers and not a great quantity in those of the buyers on the coast. It is esti mated that not more than five million bushels remain in the three northwestern states. . - LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1808 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Rankint Business Safety Deposit "Bnxe SAVINGS DEPARTMENT The Southern Pacific promises speedy relief from the intolerable car shortage and reports that it has 500 new cars on the way to the coast, or soon to be so. That num ber would help some but while the company is about it it should get a" plenty. It should not overlook the fact that Salem may require one of the old ones for a depot. With eggs selling at 50 cents and butter 90 cents a roll in Oregon towns it would seem as if the threat of Chinese eggs and New Zealand butter had little back of it. Ten thousand car loads of lumber have been sold by Northwest mills but it is undelivered because of the in ability of the railroads to furnish transportation facilities. RippttnRhijmQS Watt Mason in i n s - . OLD AND OUT I heard, the down-and-outer say, "I'm can ned because I'm old and grav. Employers shoo me from their doors; they want young men to do their chores. I know I'm long on sterling worth, but there's no place for me on earth, no job for me beneath the moon, for I was born some years too soon. 'Youth must be served, and age must slide down where the dump is yawning wide." 1 ve often heard this dismal spiel from gents panhandling for a meal, but in my daily walks I find that old boys do not fall be hind, if they still keep their smiles on straight, and keep their habits up to date. Too many old men sing this song, that every modern thing is wrong. They re always talk- ing of the past, and so they're also rans at last A man's gray hair will cut no grass, if he can make things come to pass, if he will blithely do his stunt with cheerful and undaunted front, Lake :csis:(s STATE NEWS n. !j Count- Kxnniinei: 'Wilder has on exhibition nt his plumb ling shop a burner which is designed for 'making n gas stove put of any sort of range. The complete -outfit includes! the tank and the burner with the pipe j attachments. The makers of the bum-, er claim that it will give us much heat j us any other fuel and nrmnged so the! heat can be regulated. It takes about . five minutes to install the burner and ' about two minutes to take it out. i Kerosene is used ns fuel. The makers also claim that it cau lie used in heater with, as good results ns if wood is being burned. i-iImT- twisga i'v ifot Contents 15 Fluid Practo '"'trie iPtiITtTiEji ,; 8SS5S llend Bulletin : Future plans for the development of the soda ash fields of tho American Soda Products company at Alkali Lake wore discussed at a meeting yesterday in llend of several of the representatives of tho company and its employes, if. L. Emerson, of San Francisco, representative of Mr. Sprcckles, arrived-in Bend Monday and held a conference with F. L. Young, of Paisley, and other employes of the company. Nr. Emerson, with Mr. Young, will spend about ten days nt Alkali Ijilte looking "over conditions. Coos Hay Times: The Porter Wreck ing company, which nuide a lucky strike in floating tho steamer Bandon at Port Orford recently, has now un dertaken to salvage the Pear, I'nder tho agreement, the wrecking company will receive one-half of the vjnlue of the boat. If they cannot float her, she will be dismantled and they will gctonc-hulf the value of the parts re moved, the .cost of the operations be ing first taken out. Joseph Fyfe, of the Ksrabrook company, has an inter est in it. . r cnuni.-a PER CEX AftdaWeftepaialionfcrAJ suniiafiugfeFoodand He; ProinotesDistioixChcafBl- OpiuiuMurpliiueiioriUUiiii. Not Nakcotic. Tunatm ixw joist Std i (Minr fan Er lion jOuroiuuy.- . ..ml lOSSOFblEEB TuJnCOMP.iS For Infants and Children; Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the. Signature of In Use For Over Thirty Years East Oregoninn: An order for $20 000 worth of Pendleton Indian bhnket cloth was placed this morning with the rendleton Woolen Mills by the Xorth-1 em Pacific Kailwav company, which ' will use the eloth to make suits fori the members of the Northern Pacific I marching club which will participate j in tho big winter carnivnl to be held. in Ht. j-aul trom January zi to i odto ary 4, Exact Copy of Wrapper. TMC OKNTAU IOIMUITi NCW VOMK CfTT, Turner Tidings (Capita! Journal Special Service ) Turner, Ore.. Nov. 16. Arthur Kd- The order was placed in person j wards is haviiiL' some repair work done by ('. C. Kyle, superintendent of f'on- Su,1 nev porches built ou his furm oral office building, and 1. H. Richards, house. of Tacoma, general superintendent of Mr-Hmall, .Sr., and little Hollis Hones lines west of Paradise. I had up a bet on the election but when j time came to check up accounts it was Astorian: R. Lvon the sand hill; found that both were betting on the cranberry rancher was in town today delivering a portion of his HUH crop, which according ts his estimate was onlv about 2." per cent of what it should have been. Mr. Toons har vested 100 bushels and although the yield was light, the quality was superb. Mr. Lyons raises a number or varieties, but those brought in today wero Michigan Prolific and Searles Jumbo. Both kinds are large and the berries are fine keepers. II r. Lyons declared the cranberry business is not fully known here yet mid there are many things which' nffect production. He believes his shortage this year was caused by keeping the vines covered with water too loug and also on ac count of a frost lifter the vines were in blossom. Mr. Lyons finds that tilizing a cranberry patch increases the yield very materially and he plans on fertilizing every yenr hereafter. He has five acres all of which will be in bearing next full. Pendleton Tribune: Orders for new freight handling equipment aggregat ing $U,r00,000 have been placed by the X'nioii Pacific system for the O.-W. R. & X. company, according to word re ceived here. It is said thnt the com pany is paying a bonus for the rolling stock for the earliest possible delivery and that it is promised for February. The order is for 1300 standard 100,000 pounds capacity box cars and 2."00 new automobile ears. These cars now ccat 1000 each. winner. Master Hamnite Pamerton is ablo to be out among his playmates agnin, Ruth Edwards was very pleasantly surprised last Thursday evening by her classmates, tho occasion being Miss Ruth's birthday. Mrs. Bert McKay spent Tuesday at the home of Mrs. Jennlo Moore. ,YV. G. Smith is carrying the mail this week on Pearson's route. Mr. und Mrs. Lawrence Roberta were dinner guests at Fred Gunning's Sun day. Little Mervih Pearson is in the hos pital. He was operated on for appen dicitis Tuesday morning and is doing nicely. Mrs. Lou Small entertains the Ladies' Aid nt her home this week. The democratic rally and bon fire Monday night was well attended. The band boys made an agreement among themselves to celebrate the election re sults regardless of who won. So the af fair caused a great deal of .-Jollification among the "Wilson Support." S. L. Hulen was n Turner visitor Tues day. lr. Massey is away on a business trip. B. E. Robertson has returned from a visit with Mr. nud Sirs. Neal Olscn in Washington. Homer Davis is up from Tortlaud, the guest of Bazicr Small. Prof. Cole, of California, gave an en tertainment in the Masonic hall on Mon day evening. The Epworth league re ceiving one-half of the collection. A great many 'people from Turner mo tored to Salem Tuesdav night to o "The Birth of a Nation." Tho lecture at .the slate training school Sunday afternoon by the con verted gambler was well attended by Tuinerites. Mrs. Belle Busby Crnil nnd littln daughter, Mildred, of Corvallis, sponts Sunday in Turner, the guests of Mn. ' Crail's school friend, Mrs. G. W. Moore. Johnnie Chavis is ou crutches tho re sult of too much football. Miss Ruth Watson is home from east ern Oregon, the truest of her parents, Mr. and -Mrs. J. M. Watson. Mrs. Helen Potter, of Salem, is visit ing. her daughter, Mrs. J. D. Humphrey. Owing to ill health Mrs. M,. Morris has postponed her visit at Colfax, Wash. . Mrs. Alma Knight and brother, W. T. Riches, wero in Portland this weeV. Their sister, Miss Ermn Riches, is re ported much better. John Cannon and Ike Small are wear ing broad grins over election results. Joe Bowers and a large crew of mea have been workine- north of Turner for 'the past week. They are registered at 1 ' Barr s... On Friday of last week several largo flags were waving from the democratic ! houses of the town, Mis. J. M. Bones I .... i i... .j' ... nitu uj. u mi.e mree uy live linen Xing on her front porch and during tho noon time some good and true friend or friends of the defeated candidates delib erately took the flag, but, here's hop ing that the wanderer will be returned, as tho owner can not help but feel that its only a joke. Several of the homes of Tumor hav been opened to outside students whom wish to attend school, and moro room yet for those who wish to help night and morning for their board. It is a pleasant recreation to visit th Turner school and notice the improve ment from week to week. Mrs, Harad er's beginners' class of '16 are making rnpid strides and have begun to cans the second grade uneasiness nnd hard study to keep out of their way. - hu; CHAPTER LXXVII. The next morning before we had quite finished our breakfast Clifford said to me: "You better get yourself something new to wear today. Mayson is going to ask us out to the country club tomor row or next day, and I want you to look all right." "But, Clifford, I've a dress that will be all right. The only ' thing I really might need is a new coat. Is it a long ridel" "About an hour, I believe." "Then perhaps I had better get a coat. I have only my evening coat and street toats." "Get something that's right Want me to go with yout" "Oh, will you, Clifford t" I asked. It was the very first time he had ever offered to go shopping with me, and I was as pleased as could be. "Yes, I'll go," and we went directly to our rooms and dressed for the street. Such a good time as I had. - Clifford bought me a perfectly stunning motor coat, a hat to match and several other things. Finally we wandered into a jeweler's and he bought me a dear lit tle wrist watch. The bracelet which held it was a tiny band of diamonds,, and the watch was set iu blue enamel and dia monds. Then he bought Edith some lovely little pins for her shoulders. I was so delighted at his thought for her that 1 almost forgot to thank him for A DAY'S SHOPPING what he had bought me. A Lunch With Clifford. After we left the jeweler's Clifford led the way into a fascinating little lunch room' and we had the daintiest luncheon all by ourselves. Clifford was so nice, so pleasant, that I chatted and laughed unreservedly. I someway felt nearer to him than I had in months. Not once throughout the luncheon did he correct me or find fault with me, or with anything I said or did. I Then, too, ne ordered ail the dishes i uaea, ana was so careiui tney sbouid be just right. I was ashamed of myself when the thought came that because he had seen Mr. Mayson 's admiration he had found me more worth while. But all such thoughts and ideas were dissipated when he said: "Remember to be especially careful to say or do nothing to offend Mayson. I think I have him where I want him, but nothing is very certain until it is signed, sealed, and delivered. rk just be on your guard, sot to do anything to offend him." "I don't see why anything I should' ao would ottend nun anyway, I re turned. "He is nothing to me, nor me to him." "Never mind what you see or don't see. Do as I tell you. " I A Friend From Home. ' I After we finished luncheon Clifford left me, and I wandered around by my ! self for an hour, then turned toward the hotel. "Mildred Sutton! where did you coae from? " a voice called. I turned around and there stood Ma bel Frost and Clara Merri woo tier, from home. I was so delighted that t could scarcely gather my wita suffic iently to be coherent. "When did you leave hornet How are father and mother? When did you e themf" I asked, giving them no tiaa to answer. "One at a time, please Mildred," Ma bel laughed. "We have been in Chi cago a week. Your father and mother were all right when we left; I sow thesa a day or two before that. How you tell u what you are doing heret Is Mr. Hammond with youf I am afraid of him; he's so dignified." "He's not alwr u iktw jt4 fied, and there's no need to be afraid of him. We have just finiehod the jolhest kind of a luncheon together, I bragged. W I'll. I m fflut fnr nn. .. I . W Clara spoke up. "I eouldnt marry' a man as old as he is. I'd be frightened, to death of him." ''J?'11' you lunch with me at the Blackstone tomorrow and 1 11 show jt he's no ogre that is, if he has no en gagement and can be with us. He is) here on business, you know." (Tomorrow The Luncheon.)