Editorial Page of "THe Capital Journal"
TIU KSDAV KVKXIXU,
December 7, nun.
CHARLES H FISHER,
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HAVE THE GRANARY OF THE BALKANS
According to the dispatches yesterday Bucharest, the
capital of Rumania, is in the hands of the Teuton allies.
At the same time there is a grand disruption in the Eng
lish cabinet, which this news will not tend to better.
Rumania has simply received the same treatment from
the allies that all other nations joining them have received
and is paying the same penalty as did they. At this dis
tance it would seem that the whole trouble lay in the fact
that there is no united and concerted action between the
allies. It has been the habit during the entire war for
each nation to act largely independent of the others.
When Russia was making a hard drive on the eastern
front the allies on the west laid off and watched the
fight; and when the fighting was most desperate on the
western front, Russia took a breathing spell. This is the
main cause behind the row in the British cabinet for
Lloyd George who stands head and shoulders above the
balance of the English leaders has always insisted on con
certed action and a lessening of bosses.
The object of the German drive is said not to be Buch
arest alone, but a determination to crush the Rumanian
armies and then make a further drive at Russia, with
Odessa the probable objective point. This of course is
only guess work, for the German generals are not prone
to tell their objects in advance. However, should this
prove true, the Teutons will have the biggest contract
they have yet undertaken. To advance a short distance
into Russian territory may not be very difficult, but the
country is so large and railroad facilities so poor that to
penetrate any distance into it is a difficult matter.
Napoleon went to Moscow. He also came back. That is
about all any nation can do with Russia. To send an
army thousands of miles from its base of supplies and
wjth Russia's. restricted railroad service, maintain it, is
a practical impossibility. Germany will probably be con
tent with having meted out severe punishment to Ru
mania, and will not try to go far into Russia. She has
captured great supplies of foodstuffs and is in possession
of the granary of the Balkans if not of Europe. In this
respect her victory in Rumania is of more importance'
than any of her others.
Tortland does not like pork, but at the same time dis
likes to see Tacoma get that 13,000 troop post. The
Chamber of Commerce wires Senator Chamberlain that
the proper place for the proposed headquarters is old
Fort Vancouver, Washington, which it may be incidental
ly remarked is really a suburb of Portland. e nope
Portland may get the post established at Vancouver for
several reasons, some of them sentimental, but at the
rame time would not sec our neighbor have pork thrust
upon her.
But a short time ago folks were sitting up of nights to
worry over the infantile paralysis epidemic prevalent in
New" York. With a letting up in the number of deaths,
all interest in the matter suddenly died out until it was
seldom spoken of at all. Will the present insistent de
mand for lower prices of foodstuffs follow the same
course? Prices were' high for a long time before any
one made a kick about it, but when it started, a lire is the
only thing that can grow and spread as it did.
The embargo idea has taken a firm hold on the public
and especially on congress. With the session but a few
days old there have been embargoes suggested on almost
everything. One wants it on paper, another on leather,
still others on wheat, beef, coal, wool, cotton, and so on
through practically the whole list. So far war munitions
have not been mentioned very loudly by the law makers,
especially those whose constituents are engaged in manu
facturing them.
The militant suffragettes of the type that conceived
the idea of the alimony special with the diamond head
lights, in the interests' of Hughes' candidacy, are doing
the cause much injury. These women constitute the
strongest argument against national woman suffrage.
The little city of Umatilla in Eastern Oregon has the
distinction of having all its officers women. The mayor,
or mayoress or whatever the official title should be. was
a candidate against her husband for the place and won.
hands down. It being the iirst city in the state, if not in
the United States to officer itself with women, the names
of the lot are worthy of being placed on record. The
mayor-is Mrs. E. E. Stecher; the four council "men" are,
Mrs. C. G. Brownell, Mrs. Roy F. Paulu, Mrs. B. Spinning
and Mrs. H. O. Means. Mrs. J. H. Cherry is city record
er, and Mrs. Robert Merrick treasurer. The balance of
the state will keep its eyes on Umatilla and its ladylike
officials and watch with keen interest the result of what
can be done in the way of managing a community by the
hands that rocked the cradle and chased the male bipeds
oil their old time jobs.
It is the earliest hope of The Oregoninn that congress will adopt the rec-
'iilut ions of the president. They would do substantial iustice to the rail
roads, the employes and the public. The minds of congressmen should now
be so free from nil thought of entering to any special interest that they will
be able to legislate calmly and. deliberately for t lie common iood." The ion-
pie do not desire that the railroad men be given less than justice; the rail
road men surely do not desire more. They should be content to lay their
case fiiirly before congress, uppenliug only to reason and trusting that all
ineir ,usi cniiins will ne granted. iJrcgoiiiuu.
Now that the election is over the Oregcnian cordially
endorses the views of President Wilson and advises
congress to heed his suggestions. Its editorials have un
dergone a great change since election day.
The interstate commerce commission has done awav"
with the $15 differential against the northern routes, as
compared with the southern lines, and visitors to the
coast can now travel as cheaply by way of Seattle and
Portland as via New Orleans and Los Angeles. It should
prove of great benefit to the northwest, as well as the
tourist, for the latter will see some scenery the like of
which can be found nowhere else. There never was any
excuse for the differential and it should have been done
away with long ago.
A big pleasant looking chap got on South Commercial
street car recently, stopping on the back platform where
little crowd was discussing the high cost of living.
"What is your opinion about it?" asked one as the argu
ment lagged. "Me," said the big one: "Well I really
have not the slightest idea." Some of the crowd turned
pale, some sat down, and some looked as though they
thought he belonged in the asylum. You see it was not
because he did not know that caused the ructions, but
because he told the truth so brazenly. ;
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The Hungry squad has completed its two weeks dem
onstration of the fact that a person could live on 40 cents
a day. This has been a well established fact in most
households in this country for the last hundred years.
Now that the doctors have discovered it they are puffed
up with pride and are telling other folks how to accom
plish what they of necessity have been doing time immemorial.
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"The Natural Shortening"
Cake that "melts in
your mouth"!
Cottcjene creams up easily and beautifully and in
sures the lightness and delicacy that good cake requires.
By using Cottolene in cake-making you will always
be sure of the best results.
This excellent pure food product is the ideal shortening for bis
cuits and pastry of all kinds. Used for frying it makes foods
better, more tasty and more digestible.
You can have it in large or small
pails, as you like. Arrange with your
grocer to supply you with Cottolene
regularly.
Almond Cream
Cake
Cream V cup of butter and
Cottolene packed togsther.add
one cup of sugar, and mix in
alternately cup of milk or
water and two cups of pastry
flour sifted three times with
two teaspoons baking powder.
Beat well, flavor and add five
stiffly beaten whites. Bake in
two layers.
Whipsweetenedcream until
stiff; flavor with almond ex
tract and sherry; add chopped
blanched almonds and spread
between and over the layers.
Garnish with cherries.
From "HOME HEWS" maifed
tret it you writ our General
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OPEN FORUM
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STREET PAVING BONDS.
bonds which will not bear liny interest
until signed and delivered. Sow as to
making new improvements, on say one
or more blocks, n petition can be pre
sented to the eity eonneil by part or
all of the people interested in the im
provement and they shall then be
furnished with an estimate of the cost
of such Improvement and before it
est and all these bonds within 2'
years, allowing a reasonable increase
in assessed valuation..
There are several reasons why this
low rate of interest is desirable, it is
so low that it will eliminate all specu
lative interests and it is high enough
that the bonds will he desirable for
savings investments. It also makes it
To the Kditor of the Daily fnnitnl
.lonnial: I desire to use your Open I "hall ue ordered by the council there assume the form, of a popular loan
l oruin for the following letter which sna " he enough money placed in the with the purchasers already provided:
I think will be of interest to the vot- hands of the city treasurer by fhe this will keep 25 to 30 thousand dollar
ers or faleni and certainly to the ) poiiiioners to cover tne expense of sunt paen year in Salem instead ot sending
property owners. improvement and in return for said 40 or 50 thousand east under the ordi-
llaving expected to see upon the bal-' f1,ln of money the council shall author- nary bonding plan, and each tax payer
lot a proposition looking to the bond- UAS tu0 ixuanee of an equal amount of will be a bond holder and s hfaiem
ing of the city for the purpose of re- "'o above mentioned bonds to the booster.
The Rochester, New York, Herald asks: "Shall biog
raphies be truthful?" Of course it is hard to look into
the future and make any prognostications as to what
writers may do, but if this species of literary vanity does
not change its skin and also its spots the answer will be
a unanimous negative.
Rather queer isn't it that the two big Standard .Oil
magnates should have the same prefix: "John D." Now
only one has it though. The other had it.
The fact that the Oregon hens are taking a lay ofHn
stead of doing the Macduff act does not cause any appar
ent shortage of real "fresh eggs." ' i.
At present prices for meat Shylock would probably
have managed to wiggle along with half his order, or
about eight ounces.
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 18G8
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
Transact a General Banking Business
Safety Deposit Boxes
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
THE OLD SLOGAN
The frosty breezes have emerged from
lands where snow is dropping, and pretty
soon we will be urged to do our early shop
ping. Thus speed the busy months away,
by hopes and fears attended; 'twas early
spring-time yesterday, and now the Fall's
near ended. But yesterday the fields' were
green, and bugs and birds were cheery; to
day we're burning gasoline across a land
scape dreary. The old time slogan makes
me sad but never sour or surly when all
the merchants in the erad. crv. "Do vour
shopping early !" For it reminds me of the fact that
life is swiftly flying; Time has no pity and no tact; he
wants to see us dying. 'Tis but an hour since Groundhog
Day, when we were blithely skating, fir when we blew our
coin away, the Fourth a-celebrating! 'Tis but an hour,
and now we hear the Stentor loud and burly, who roars
and jars the atmosphere "Please do your shopping
early !" Well, such is life, and men and dames, and maids
with tresses curly, will brace themselves against their
hames, and do their shopping early.
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Landing the expense incurred on street party or parties paying the money.
improvements to date, and providing a . -However, the city council enn refuse
means of carrying o;i future improve- niako any such improvements if in
incuts, and not having a chance to ' judgment it is not for the best in
vote on the matter, I have a plan that terest of the city or for the public
appears to nie sufficient to cover all good. Xow for n fen- figures. These
objections that might arise, in the mat-1 bonds can Jie issued under the unit
ter, us follows: Chnngo the charter so ! system of nothing less than ten dol
that the issuance of $1,500,000 in j 'ls even multiples of that amount,
bonds can be authorized by tho proper an improvement or claim amounts
authority, bearing II per cent interest to Iii"'." issue bond for &!0l.00 and
from the date of issuance. Jieturn to . collect the $4.25 cash, or if $104.7" is
each property owner on which the se bond for $1110.00 and pay $4.75
pavement or improvement assessment enshs this will about equalize itself,
has been paid enough of these 3 perj After paying out the $750,000 would
cent bonds to cover the amount of the leave of one illion dollars, the sum of
street improvement, and in cases where . $50,0ii(i, and it is likely that sum
only part of the payment has been paid would be more than sufficient to cover
and the balance stands as a lien or jail improvements to be made for some
bond against the property, the owner j years to come.
of the property shall pay enough money i ' The interest on $1,0(10,000 nt 3 per
into the city treasury to pay the bal-1 cent would be $30,(100 per annum, an
ance due on said bond and accumulated I annual levy of : 1-2 mills will likely
interest thereon and he shall then be j be enough ' to pay the interest on ail
entitled to have issued to him the bond j issued bonds unci before a larger levy
cohering the entile amount of his (would be required the increase of
street assessment for paving or im-j values of assessable property would be
provement. If, of course, he will not more than the present $1 l,50n.uio,
make this payment as nhove providod I enough thai the II 1-2 mills would be
the eity or owner of the bond can at j the limit ever required to pay the in
its option foreclose as provided by the tetest on Outstanding improving bonds.
FRANK C. FKRGVHOX.
WHAT WOODROW COST
Washington, Dec. 7. Final re
port of the treasurer of the
democratic national committee
filed today with the clerk of tho
house shows total receipts $1,
808,348.10; expenditures, $l,t)SH,-5Mi.74.
present charter and ordinance. Now
as to the matter of extending the pres
ent improvement or making new street
improvement, I am informed that about
$750j'Oil will be required to pay off
these claims for pavement or street im
provements already made. That would
leave in the hands of the city treas
urer the sum of $750,000 in unsigned
There can be a sinking fund provided
of 2 12 mills each year and this sum
can be used each year or as often as
practicable to retire the bonds and un
der this system the levy for interest
decreasing each year; this decrease can
be added to the levy for sinking fund,
thus maintaining each year for the two
purposes a 5 mill levy will pay inter-
THE HERE FACT THAI
Scott's Emulsion
is generously used in
tuberculosis camps is
proof positive that it is
the most energizing prepa
ration in the world. It
has power to create power.
It warms and nourishes;
it enriches the blood,
stops loss of flesh and
builds you up.
SCOTT'S IS PURE AND RICH
AND FREE FROPJI ALCOHOL
Scott & Bownc, Bloomfield, N. J,
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THE FINAL PREPARATIONS FOR THE PARTY
, down thinking I would get up in a min- morP, but kent at ik.!,i
lite: t hat I hnit no (imp for a nnn Whan .' . vtt
I woke with a start the clock was strik- Tork lu fln nt'"'ly different
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lu spite of my almost sleepless night
I was up early. There was an unaccus
tomed softness ill Clifford's manner,
and I felt very small and humble. Sev
ern! times I was on the point of again
kent me nuiet : a feelinir that he would ' nltmir n1li,rlit n, T .nu .i . I"" a'. imagined some second
not care to discuss the subiect. . ! flush of nri,l nr,A r,l. t i l.I B0" ".?rd was kind. I at
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my
in an entirely different spirit.
and I had slept soundly for an wh.v would such thoughts always come
to me iust when T -oa hnn;D. t. l
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-...-.vv. ...... it-, ivfucy j juiiqU up UIIO. (jg (ne.
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hour.
here was something wrong about me
; I always imncined some second mi.f
Cliffo
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After he left for the office I went around. In the kitchen all was going C0I, u LL vnflJ rA.fil"1'
upstairs and looked over my wardrobe. ; as smoothly as could be, as it always , d" 71. hether
The burned dress lay on a chair, and I! did when JInndv was sunerintendinir. v. r . f . .. . .
shuddered as 1 looked nt it. But forlSavorv odors r,B from tsi ""si BI" n-"ousti i jy-know now
Clifford I might have been burned to other 'things on the stove- I lauchincrlv VL .c7 wome.n' more than men
death. I thought, and forgot entirely i declared that I wanted my dinner right ih , t '. f 3 41 V ""-v,JU8t M Io1
that I had blamed him for setting me' that minute. , wns- Ahat ther long for th
on fire. The setting of the table was my part 'n? t w ttl?T f- Zt1 1oV?' f lb?
I finally decided to wear a simple, of the afternoon's work. And as 1 ar- l J I y haM ,n,."d; Bnd "l"4
white crepe, which both Clifford and ranged the daintv china and glass, tied W "V? why 'hc-v nBV
niinw Mavsou had admired when I wore the broad pink ribbons which were to ! i u r'T Can' do to W1B
I iu me iin-iior in luuojiu, lum on--Hum me iuvor!i i.urrora naa selected t i i W
. ...nn.s ,;,,-!,,-. in iiml ttnT man
tied, I hurried downstairs to-help with: them daintv
tli.i tmnl nirniifTiininnr. fn my nnrrv I
Little Kdith was to go to Muriel's.
!he had a thoroughly competent mnid,
w ho would look after her and put her
to bed.
inns lor tne women, and k .
nnninf ..iim- ,... .v. T " "i.ninn n
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uiui lit-mrc una Kept me nappy oil uav,
in spite of what might have been the
norror or it. I felt nearer C fford. nl
rriesean keep her en-
votion IF HE TRIES;
About 0 o'clock the man came to take! most glad of the dancer beennsn nf th
up nie rugs; iiicn vnnie iut iionM. i ne , Knowledge, tnnt it aga affected hi
enure morning nits mim-ii up iintuuiiiig
the house and placing the furniture.
After a light luncheon Mandy fairly
pushed me into my room and made me
lie down.
Be a good chile and go to sleep,"
she admonished as she closed the door.
An Hour's Rest
When Mandy closed the door I lav
if I had been if ss in earne.-t in my wish
to please Cliftord, if he would hav
tried harder tJ be nice to me. At times
I had begun Jo believe that a man only
he have turned nl.1 a i.'s v l"rvB Ior tnnf "nl,1n nc is not cflnE he
to care former h T"- M these disturbing thought.
iou niruilgu 'i mum im x put iae tinish-
ing touches to my table, cave a last
Would
ceased
Disturbed Thoughts.
TtiAn T .. I I : . j . i, , .,
.. u nuuunni L 11 roiiui iia rh.t . . . L. . . . -
he would have ralcd had it been Kate . t . ,1' ,nen M,n up
or Mandy. If itwere just that a Immun VL M 1 hard Cllfford '
" w,
being was in danger that had affected
nun; not mat 11 was Mi.
After that thought came I aang no
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Arrive.)
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