Editorial Page of "The Capital Journal"
THTRSDA1 E KNIXfl
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CHARLES H FISHES,
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THE I'lTY OF IT
A boy of 18 and a young man scarcely more than a boy,
he being but 22 years old, were electrocuted at Sing Sing,
New York, Monday. They were sentenced to die Friday
next, but to save their folks the sorrow of a funeral
Christmas they both requested that their sentence be car
ried out sooner, and their request was granted. They
went to their deaths bravely, and each paid the penalty
for his crime whatever it was, in full. The law is satis
fied. Is Humanity? About the poorest use that can be
made of a man, especially a young man is to make a corpse
of him. It was a pathetic story that of the destroying
of these boys. The old father of one of them sat from
li o'clock in the morning, waiting for a chance to say good
bye to his son, but this was denied him despite his plead
ing that he might carry some message from the doomed
boy back to his mother. And so he sat unmoving for
MroitJn-i ni the Hmp when hp. could look uuon what
the law had made of his boy, could place his loving old
hands on the dead face and recall the time, the so short
time, since he held him, his first born, in his arms, a
laughing baby. It may be all l ight. Laws must be en
forced and crimes must be punished and yet it is a pity
that it punishes others so much more severely than those
upon whom it places the direct punishment.
Not counting the smaller firms in Chicago who will
remember their employes in a substantial way with in
creased wages or bonuses, there will be more than nine
million dollars distributed by the big companies and firms
such as the Armours, Swifts, Sears-Roebuck and such.
It looks like a vast sum to be voluntarily passed over to
the wage earners, and it is; at the same time it is but a
small portion of the vast earnings these companies have
made, and but a deserved division of the prosperity that
has followed the war. It is deserved not only for services
well rendered, but is really due the workers on account
of the increased cost of living due to the things that have
made fchese great profits possible. It is recognition that if
Labor and Capital are to be the friends they should be,
that Labor is entitled to a share of the increased earnings
that will make it comfortable while Capital swells its
bank account.
Gamblers are alike the world over, easily moved to
change their bets or to place coppers on mem. wnen tne
first part of Lloyd-George's speech was given to the pub
lic Monday in New York, stocks jumped several points in
a few minutes, and orders to buy poured in. It was the
same way in Chicago in the grain market where prices
advanced swiftlv. This because the first part of the
speech indicated Great Britain would refuse utterly to
entertain any talk of peace. Later, when it appeared
that England would answer the German proposal, and
ask for a definite statement as to terms proposed, the
gamblers thought they saw a chance for the war ending
and hurried to get from under such loads as they were
Carrying, and to avoid a decline in prices certain to fol
low a definite move for peace. The result was the same in
each place, ami prices dropped.
We do not pretend to say that the sending of a com
mittee back east to interest manufacturers of flax prod
ucts in the business in Oregon, is the best thing that could
be done, but it is a good move just the same, as is any
other that tends to call attention to the Oregon fiber and
lay the foundation for its manufacture here. There is
but one drawback in the way of local factories and that
is the scarcity of cheap labor. We have the fiber and can
grow unlimited quantities of it: we have the most
abundant and cheapest power in the world in our moun
tain streams; we have cheap sites but we have not the
cheap labor that can be found around the great eastern
centers. If we had the factories the labor would come
naturally; and if we had the labor the factories would be
looking this way. The puzzling question now is as to
which we can acquire first.
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SHOP EARLY j
By JAMES M. HEADY 1
NOW ON THE LEVEL-SHOULD WE?
TO MR. AND MRS. MERCHANT, Salem and Elsewhere:
"Shop Early! Shop Early!" the MERCHANTS all
SAY, buy all of your presents before CHRISTMAS DAY.'
So old MR. PUBLIC and MISS PUBLIC TOO, they!
hustle and bustle and work up a STEW. It starts in the i
FALL along 'bout THANKSGIVING when the TURKS
have decided "Life's not worth the LIVING.
Presents are purchased for MICKEY and KATE, the
folks here at home and in far distant STATE and then,
when we feel that our shopping is DONE, the whole
WAITER family starts in for the FUN.
They followed the style for a season or SO and then
AN IDEA it started to GROW. They saw that each
year about December TWENTY when of presents and
"sich" most the folks had a PLENTY, some GENT in
the PAPERS and elsewhere would STATE m
"We have Plenty of Goods for the ONES WHO ARE! J
LATE!"
"Our price is the lowest we've made yet THIS YEARjg
we're both losing MONEY, if you don't trade HERE !" I
So the TAIL ENDERS get about the same WARES I
rVmt" rho WARTY RTRFiS hirlo fnr n month OFF-T TP- i
STAIRS.
And besides by their wait for the "PRE-XMAS SALE"
they're saving themselves quite a bundle of KALE.
Now, I ask Mr. Merchant, do you think it is FAIR and 5
nice and CONSISTENT, in fact is it SQUARE?
To give the best bargains to those who come l,ai
who don't really help you, but linger and WAIT.
Until a real bargain is offered on TAP? I fear for
the sales-folk these don't care A RAP.
Now friend MR. MERCHANT, you think I'm
SEVERE, but this thing's increasing now Year after
YEAR. a
If each one would wait till the verv LAST DAY, be
lieve me, STOREKEEPER, there'd be THUNDER to
PAY.
So won't you next AUTUMN please startle the TOWN
by saying in the "JOURNAL" our . goods we MARK
DOWN.
To the "Shop-Early folks who are in by THANKS
GIVING, "we'll help all we can in THE HIGH COST OF
LIVING."
"But the ones who come late just before THE GLAD
DAY are the ones to COUGH-UP, are the ones who
should PAY."
So, now Brother Merchant, I've told you my TALE
and it may be perhaps that my logic will FAIL and if
I am wrong and we don't AGREE I ask as a favor
write a letter to ME. And if your correction will set the
thing RIGHT, I'll do what I can the very next NIGHT.
1 Thank You.
"THE ADVERTISER,"
Who believes the storekeeper ought to help those MOST
who help him THE MORE.
Probably President Wilson has been privately in
formed that all of the warring nations are extremely
anxious to stop fighting but just how to do it is what is
puzzling them. The president is kindly giving them an1
excuse to get together. ,
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Christmas Program at
Congregational Church
Recitation "I Wish the Stars Would
peak to He,"' by Donald Barnard.
Song " Tudor the Christmas Skies."'
Tableau "Birth of Christ" with ai-
The annnal Christmas program of the j propriate songs.
Central Congregational church will be Song "Mr. Santa Claus," by th
eiven Pridav evening. December IJ.i'8-
Members of the church have been busy
the past week preparing to make the
"Expecting Santa." by Russell Ktei
wer and Grace Litchfield.
Arrival of Santa Claus and ropine
LUMBER GETS A LETT
Portland, Or., Dec. 21. Lumber is up
$1 a thousand in all the northwestern
mills today. The increase was neces
sitated, say timbermen, by the freight
car shortage, which caused many mills
to lose monev.
urogram more extensive than those ot
former years. The services will be ; of Santa, distribution of presents
gin at 7:M o clock ami tne program is j .
"Vng-"-'. to the world," by t Masked Man Shoots
puiuiay scuooi.
Invocation.
Song' -Oh Town of Bethlehem," by
the Sunday school.
Eocitation Ruby Plummer.
Recitation "The Doll and the Bear
bv Russell Steiwer and Gertrude Soreu-
OLIVEB LUKDGREN DROWNED
Corvallis, Or., Dec. 21. Oregon Agri
cultural College students today hunted
in Marys river for the body of Oliver
I.undgren, age 22, a member" of the jun
ior class. I.undgren drowned when' his
canoe upset.
Mail Clerk in Portland Catarrh Cannot Be Cured
wun ljcal, APPLICATIONS, as they
cannot reach the sent of the disease. Ca
tarrh is a blood or constitutional diseaw,
ana in order to cure it you must take In
ternal remedies. Hall's Catarrh Cure is
taken internally, and acts directly upon
tne blood and mucous surface. Hail's
Latarrh Cure is not a quack medicine. Jt
Portland, Or., Dec. 21. Police de
tectives expected to make an arrest to
day in their search for the masked man
who called Nathan Hankia. mail dei
Recitation "The Infant Jesus, by, to the door of his home and shot him.
four girls of Mrs. Allison's da. The bullet lodged in Hankin's right!
Solo WW mwn. xorearm. regular prescription. It is composed of
Recitation "For IV by Mabel Hankm was playing "God Save the ie.l?'?t lnic known, combined with the
Harrison. Kg" on a phonograph when he heard mcou?f'ra,Ltt?Si'rtctly ?.tn"
Recitation-" What I can Do." by knock. Opening the hoor, he was eon- WgW.MWt-W I
naroio uov- . t - - " 1 v- .. wmi inn. nv
was prescribed by one of the beat phy-
'n mis rountrv for van -rt i
"Children of the King,'
i fronted bv
bv four I Jfour hour has eome! '
girl.
10 Leila Cookingham.
cried duces such wonderful results in
Hankin slam- a,?''Serid for testimonials, free.
1 ;.. "l -u- ""PS., Toledo. U.
Sold by Dramisu. Drt Tic.
Family Piua Mr conttipatloa.
jmed the door but the masked man & mlSSS
'ed through the panel. I Tk Hail s Family pin. Si