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Editorial Page of 'The Capital Journal" TH1 ROAY hVKM.VO. January 4, 1 ' 1 T 0HABLE8 H FIBBBB, IHlt.i nl Mi nasi PUBLISHED EVEBT EVENING EXCEPT BDNDAY, BALEM, OBEOON, BT Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. & BABNE8, CHAS. H. FISHES, President Vice President. DORA C. ANDfiRSEN, Sec. and Treat. SUBSCRIPTION BATES ally by earrier, per Tear 5.00 Per month 45e Dally by mail, per year 3.00 Per month 36c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES New York, Ward Lewia Williams Special Agency, Tribune Building Chicago, W. H. Stockwell, People' Oaa Building The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the foreh. If the earner does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, ai this ia the only ray we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be tent you by tpecial eager if the carrier has missed you. LIVING BEYOND OUR MEANS It is always a pitiful spectacle that cf people with short incomes trying to emulate in their mode of living and expenditures those who are abundantly able to live and spend as they do regardless of the sum total so spent. To the person with a moderate income such a course makes life a nightmare, and the struggle for show pathetic. For such persons the average citizen has a feeling of pity mingled with contempt. And yet these misguided ones .are only trying to live beyond their means. All of us except possibly some who are in the class referred to, consider it silly and inexcusable; and yet that is exactly what we the people of Oregon are trying to do. We are emulating in our expenditures the states with three to seven or eight times our population and many times our wealth. The state of Oregon is as large as the state of New York and Pennsylvania combined. It has a population well up toward 900,000. New York has more than 10,000,000, and Pennsylvania about 8,000,000. Among the expenses incurred in running the state that of building and maintaining roads is one of the largest items, yet we have as large an area for which to .supply roads as both these great and densely populated states with hundreds of times our wealth. This is but an example of what as a state we are up against, and shows why we cannot have roads and other things similar to those in the rich and thickly populated east. New York has a population of more than 200 to the square mile and Pennsylvania has about 180, while Oregon has less than 10. Besides this, one-sixth of Oregon is within national forest reserves and consequently can not be settled upon or made productive. This vast area pays no taxes and builds but few roads. In other lines the same conditions are confronting us. We have been extravagant and are still so, because we. are trying to have things as good as our more wealthy neighbors. They are none too good for us, but they make an eternal grind on the taxpayers to keep up appearances. YYV want good roads and need them. We want good schools, just as our rich neighbors have and they are a necessity. We want many other things that we think we cannot get along without, and perhaps should not, but they are a heavy drain on our resources and if we are to keep up appearances and have them, we must expect tfl pay the bills. The worst feature of the matter is that in order to have these things we must make our tax rate so high that it deters industries making the state their home. It prevents the growth and development of our state and the utilizing of our water power and other vast resources. There seems no way of avoiding this condition for like the woman the legends tell of who was given to the first man; "we can neither get along with or without them." SOME FIGURES ON THE WAR An expert has estimated the total cost of the war to the warfing countries at $60,725,000,000. Of this vast sum the allies have spent about $: 57,000,000,000 and the Teuton allies about $2:i,000,000,000. The death list is estimated at H.llO.OOO for the allies and for the Teuton allies, 1,725,000. There are reported as missing, mostly prisoners, for the allies ::,4:;5,OO0, and for the Teuton allies 1,655,000. The list of wounded is given at 11,:565, 000 of whom 6,855,000 were from the allies' ranks and 4,510,000 from the Teuton armies. Estimating that two thirds of the wounded recover and return to the ranks it would leave the total losses from the ranks from death. capture and wounds at 8,8:50,000 for the allies and for the Teutons 4,88o,000. University Notes As tn nrnnrtrfinnoto rncr trio ollioe cvont '7 W no blll ' be outstanding against th I--r mv.o m. p.,i .riitis tiicStUl!en, b(v 0Xl.t.t tlu.se for which That a broader scope of usefulness and co operation may be extended to the -tudents desiring to purchase arti cles from local merchants which are to be psn.l by the associated stndent body, the regular requisition system has suf lered several changes in the hands of the executive committee. Announce meut is made to the merchants of Salem that no chrage bills will be honored or recognized unless the merchant presents a requisition duly signed by the prcsi dent and treasures for a certain speci fied amount which the student making the purchase must produce at the time of the sale. Provision is made, however, that if any student desires to pay the bill per sonally and the merchant signs the same, that bill will be paid in tire course of time. This change means that Teutons paid out $2:5. In men the allies lost 88 to the Teutons 49. The population of the countries engaged is, counting Australia and Canada with the allies, about 290,000,000 on their side, and for the other about 141,000,000. On the allies side there should be about : 5,000,000 boys be coming of military age yearly, while on the German side the increase would be about 1,400,000. From these figures the reader who feels so disposed can calculate which will wear out in men and money first, or whether it will be another case of the Kilkenny cats. , When I Have Time By James M. Heady. It seems that the overrunning of enemies territory works a hardship on the victors. Owing to Germany's successes in Rumania and the other sections she has con quered, she has 26,000,000 more people to feed than she! otherwise would have had. Considenng her own shyness in the way of food stuffs this is an especial hardship. The old woman who "had so many children she didn't know what to do," and who consequently took up her abode in a shoe, would find occasion to move on account of the raise in rent if she still occupied the old dwelling. If you have not laid in your supply of scout cruisers better shop early as the price is going up, latest advance price lists indicating $6,000,000, as the minimum. They are liable to get in the same class as shoes. The lower house of congress put in the day Wednes day trying to discover if it had been insulted. If it finds it has the country will be deeply interested in learning how it was done. mittttttttt ttttM tittuT When I have Time, there is so much that I intend to DO. Of tasks there are so MANY and of hours there are so FEW. I don't expect to see THE EARTH and dwell in EVERY CLIME, although I plan to travel some- when I HAVE TIME. There are some letters that I OWE. I've owed them quite a WHILE. I fear when next those friends I SEE; I'll miss a greeting SMILE because the letter I received have asked a friendly BOON by closing with this terse request, "WRITE SOON." When I have time there are some CALLS that I in tend to PAY but Light grows into Darkness and marks another DAY that I've been too busy to get my work HALF DONE. It seems the day is finished before I'v scarce BEGUN. There is so much about me, that I would fain COR RECT, so many things UPLIFTING that I would help DIRECT, for those whose lives are burdened and filled with want and CARE, but still "I HAVEN'T GOT TT-TR nwy. Her poem entitled "Pictures, "I TIME It fills me With DESPAIR wan selected for the Anthology of An.Br-1 r, mTTvoTV t , , , u-..u college verses. volume publish-1 1 m olten very TIRED, but I don't see what I've DONE 1 m.oft in such a HURRY I miss a lot of FUN. Sometimes I'm very BUSY doing NOTHING worth the NAME and I find the folks ABOUT me, doing just about the SAME. I think when we have FINISHED and this mortal life is O'ER and we've made the LAST LONG JOURNEY that there is one consolation that no BUSY MAN should SPURN For once in our existence "WE'LL HAVE TIME TO BURN." THE ADVERTISER, "Who suggests that you take this last line EITHER WAY your CONSCIENCE dictates. requisitions are issued. The committee intends to en'forcc a strict adherence to the ruling that fair play and business dealings of the student body may be greatly expedited. The system official ly unit into effect this niurniug. More than a little attention in the innks of alumni and the older students of the university in the honor recently liest, wed on MisB Grace Edgington who s'udie.l at old Willamette for two years in Htln !1 has been manifest since Sat Maybe if those American commissioners could meet with Mexican members named by Pancho Villa, there might be something worth while accomplished. When a baby three years old dies as the result of hard drinking, it is time to denaturize its mother. While the price of shoes keep climbing the sad story is told that all the hides purchasable on the Pacific Coast are being sent to Japan where they are made into boots for the Russian soldiers. At the same time the Russians are buying all the tallow offered. It is claimed this will be used in the manufacture of nitroglycerine, but it should not be overlooked that a good sized hunk of tallow is an appreciated and gustatory addition to the Russian ration. The commission organized for considering all matters pertaining to the border troubles between this country and Mexico has concluded it can accomplish nothing, and so has adjourned, as the Missouri sheriff said: "sine deo." It is stated the action of the American commis sioners was such as to leave the way open for the with drawal of the troops from Mexico without any agree ment being signed. As a change from war talk, it is pleasing to note that the president of the Commercial and Continental Bank at Chicago, warns the people of the United States to pre pare for the dangers of sudden peace. LADD & BUSH. Bankers Established 1868 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety, Deposit Boxes SAVINGS DEPARTMENT Battleships have gonp up in price 20 per cent during the past year, due tp the war. RipplihRhiimo! - -w 9 M a ... fit - -W -J GIVERS AND TAKERS We knowTiow cheerful givers look good, in heaven's eyes, when they distribute livers, and coin and shoes and pies. Methinks the cheerful takers deserve, as well, some praise, and I shall hand them acres of eulogistic lays. I took old Billiam Bickle, who's up against it bad, a beautiful dill pickle, the finest one I had. I heard old Billiam mutter, I heard old Billiam hiss, "I need some bread and butter, and you bring trash like this!" It shocked me be yond measure my tender heart still bleeds; such talk takes all the pleasure from doing kindly deeds. Today I took a ramble where poor folk live in huts, and gave old Gaffer- Gamble a pound of hazel nuts. The poor old man embraced me, and thanked me o'er and o er, and when I left he chased me, to thank me yet some i u . ... ii nnutomy 10 preserve rne nest poems written by college students during the preceding year. The poem was written in Eugene where Misg Edgington, now a graduate of the I'nivevsity of Oregon, is copyreader on the Kugene Morning Register. It was inspired by the beau liful millrace that passes the state uni versity campus. ..SThVwaitolP the realm of EARTHLY SHORE as conductor of the famous "Co-eds' Comer'' in the Willamette Collegian ws the delight of the student body and alumni. She was manager of the Lad ies' Glee club as -well as president of the PJiilodosian society where she served with remarkable executive abil ity for a coed. Her success in the writ er's field is being watched by her many frieqda in Salem. M. Hand. Ad ....tkAn. .... . mic . ; 1 ii . 1 ... rmwiutl o.h,;i ..b. iU, t --"" " " ""-"-." "isMiuiioii , cue xviv ciuoa, is mo man in question. natal nsfen Z f i i , u i I combined the Christmas and Easter His proteges, the high school student lb'1 tiSj&F5Z ?L ; f !9 t .CWS were walloped 57 to 0 erly ... ' j ... 7 : " ., V" . niaiun in oaiem until January is. v mie in tlie season by Marshfield hiih's hask- loiinen ui tne interests " ot mild sports- ,.,,rr.l,i,1 w,lln,.,nt, k l: , , "7 flirt mntt nnnnlav vwn.i fk.. - 11 - " - ' ' 1 . J i JV a The charter members are nt I I-j i. JT1 i T-. u ' 1 I .u " . ere numoiea Of and sophomore classes, having sung in the score of 3 to zero. the wmamette quartet, the Glee club, the First Methodist church choir as well : Halem's first opportunity to see Coach as serving as manager of the Willam- 8. L. Mathews' fighting basketball ette song book and being n member of 'team in action will occur Saturday ev the Websterian society. ; ening on the local varsity gymnasium noor. .manager amer nas collected an maahhip in keeping with the Willamette meat present busily engaged in disseetiug the respective merits of prospective candi dates for inclusion on the club's roster at the next business session. Great care is being exercised in the choice of mem-1 hers so the qualifications of candidates n..n , , . 1 ...1 ; befot. coming ur U or the fin. v te 1 LM"st vai,ab,ff aB f ,h- ' """ team mblaS of alumni vot oper, house celebration will probably "bo J?'?'0" for ho fi semester show , crans especially tor the opening game a gala event late this month at f 6 PreS('nt enrollment for the lib-1 and the spirit already shown assures the ' ' eral arts college, law and nwtsie depatr- spectator a spirited caprice at that time. Rav Metealf ex-lS of Willamette 1 ments now ttals 347 students. As Kim-.As no permanent liffe-up is announced and at pivseut a iunior i.Ahe TTr,;, I bal1 college is considered a separate in-, either from the alumni camp or Coaeh sitv of California has been spen Hng stitl,tion' ven though located on tnthewa. the personnel of the player. .i ' . . . C. 1 r,i minis the tnl-mlated cn,- n : Will likely be unknown until tKo .,-, is under way. The traveling quintet from the Okla- Mr. and Mrs R. E (Stewart, of Ath-.homft State Norml ehool will be the ena, Umatilla county, Oregon, who have sond seasonal attraction. It is sched been passing the Christmas holidays I uletl . for Tthe 1001,1 fIor on Thursday with their son, Lewis, and daughter, 1 1-'vfn'"g) January 11 Ruth, students enrolled in the sopho-1 . ' more class, returned to their home in I . V'l"fal ,0 the amount of 23,019.902 eastern Oregon last evening. Mr. Stew-, "J"" '." ,ne Pnts and equipment include that college's registration. OFFICE WORKERS FACTORY WORKERS and others who labor indoors should always take the strength compelling tonic-food in SCOTT'S EMULSION to keep up their strength, nourish their nerves and increase their energy. SCOTT'S is helping thousands - why not you ? Scott & Bonne, Bkxu-iield, N. J, to-33 art, who is engaged in farming pursuits, reports that the fall sowing of wheat in that section of,the country was unusual ly late this year, being due to a long protracted dry spell. Instead of sowing in October most of the farmers were compelled to wait on the drouth until the first of December and a few have delayed the process until spring opens up. Next year's crop promises to be normal, despite the dry Weather, ot the various timber industries! nf Oregon, according to figures compiled by State Labor Commissioner O. P. Hoff. This is exclusive of working capital and timber holdings and in cludes only the buildings, machinery and other equipment that is actually Ml in putting timber and articles manufactured therefrom on the market. Two yeare ago the total investment was $!&,!.? ii'J. Ecs'.'lmrg: That large quantities of o The sad tale of what befell a former an" P gas soon will be opened Capital Journal reporter when he at-1 UP pn tunas in the tlournoy valley east tempted to coach a football team to vic-.oC boseburg, was the announcement torv is brought back by a Willamette ! h,'re t,r,ay b" n number of property student from Coqnille. John L. Gary, J? 1wno Uave an expert examining the genial university correspondent for I ne IanlK 0ue we wa snnk to 1,2M last vear and a graduate in the Willam-1 fect 81111 indications were favorable in thi-, as well as two other wells. Hop7 HUSBAND AND I CLIFFORD INVITES BROOKE TO DINNER CHAVTER CXII. Clifford came home before we were Confirmed Suspicions. trait for a while. a a iM a. i ii j vi 1 x wouatreu it tut? c-uit was ior mm. , -j , . Soon I knew that it was from the scraps " . I""" me rrom letting As long as he waa , , ... . . i cioou x iLiiutv mm. ii -as lioui me scraps ... - m through practising, and to my surprise q C(mversaticm that floated in at tJejhim know I resented his leaving our lllOre. He Said he d long been Sighing SUCh treasures tO ; U invited both Leonard and Muriel to open door- Some one he knew well evi. ueste yes to my amazement I found obtain; for weeks he had been trying to steal some, but ta-. 0 Ainu?r- fa?l T.ZlTu L- Z,lthat " was because he had xu in vain. And now at last he had 'em and he could die in ltXm ( HwT, Tf..'SSg" fjTTTn peace, and sleep with Father Adam, as slick as axle them to uU Kate w4 were J".SJ!, an&L1 WV grease. I am a great believer in kindly deeds and words, and giver and receiver should both be gay as birds. Kirtland Journal: Both sections ofjdom from blight places them in the IVitland's Chinatown were closed as front rank," said Kugene H. Grubb, tightly us any other portion of the city of Urand Junction, Colo., this morn be.sinesu district yesterday in comment- ing. R"e is one of the county's fore- oiation of New Year's, despite the fact ' most authorities on potato culture and that the Ctiiuese irtlr, according jg to the Oriental calendar, begins Jnnu--r- 22 Wustimr nnd entertuinments of" various sorts started early Sunday although the districts tributary night and continued through the -small j to the lines in Oregon have not yet li i i- of the morning, but the present been covered. Mr. Grubb was one of making a survey of potato condi tions along the Southern Pacific sys- I . ,- ,,, n,,.l trt kaEA V..nn- lh., ..mn. i na- nra iv. u"f"- 'y T.lr,mrmmvg.mmr. resentment Mandv help her. Then I remained in When he rejoined us he made uo ref-1 .w7i.4 v n a . . the dining room a few moments, osten-! erenco, to his telephone call, but sipped !, hf , " W? , 1 amu fo siblv to help arrange the table, but real-! his coffee and took up the conversation j !rn w'f.ef Muriel asked, recalling mo lv to adjust mvserf. In spite of all I with Leonard where he had left it. Aft-!( a." ,fn9e.of my dntles. M hostess, could do,' the question, "WHY did Clit- cr a little Muriel proposed that I sing ,. ILwe ?aV more "nslc. OT ha we f..rd ask Brooke to dinner?" asserted it- the new song Leonard had brought me. ? ,7.??ree"nnmled bridge, or just .... ... . rn K : - self. as he planning to go out ana so to cntford. did it for a purpose, or had he really "I shall have to leave you in a few I meant to be kind! When I returned to noments," Clifford replied to her sug-J the living room the question was still gesiion. "I have some business to at-1 unanswered. ; tend to I find, although I had expeet-! At dinner Clifford was all that could ed remr.in at home this evening. If youi be desired. His manner to Leonard will sing at once, Mildred, I can w ai i was perfect. The little condescension for that," and he led the way to the he showed was not more than a man of piano- So I was right after all, I thought I talkf "Whatever the majority choose," I replied. "What shall it be, Murielt" "I am indolent tonight. A little con versation is about all I care for. How do von feel, Leonard! Rather do some-thim-f" ' ' to, if I may smoke, I won'd rather talk. " "Smoke, bv all means," I told him, and Mnriel added: "Thn tell u-s about your South 4m- Thnt was before vou knew ilisirvauee is mostly formal and. is; the commissioners from the state of i his age would naturally show a younger made out of regard to the fact that Colorado at the Lewis and Clark fair rum dining with him. Then he laughed bitterly, and he had asked Muriel and the now Chinese republic recognises in ! i i luittl in 1905. According to Mr. I and ioked with Muriel, whom he now Leonard to stay because he ex nee ted to the occidental New Year as its own. Grubb 's estimate, the vield of Oregon s reallv '.iked much to mv delight. Edith go out. Probably he had arranged to be fT" ,T,n That was be The Chinese, while outwardly willing potatoes this year is 3,000 ears, of j was allowed to sit up because "Auntie called, on the telephone, and when he M'dred. and he had ROME time. 1 to reeognixe the modern dnte, cherish ; winch 1,0(0 cars haTe come from theiMiiiiel" begged for her. and altogether found them there hod thought it a good j usnr vnn. in their heart the old one, and the Southern Pacific's Oregon line. jwe were a very merry little party. way to pacify me, so asked them to din- ioined in the reonest and natil the gongs wi'l clash in true fashion for aj "The normal consumption per capita j After dinner we returned to the li-'ner. But I let nothing of this appear in; e'oek struck 11. and Muriel declare! week beginning January 22, i is 400 pounds yearly, ' ' remarked Mr. I brary for coffee, and Edith went to bed, my manner, and sang as well as I could, j tnev ",",t he entertsined me. When i Grubb, "jnd with a total crop ia this sleepily happy over her treat. Just as Clifford complimented me, then bade 1 w6nt t( bed at 12. Clifford had not "Oregon's yield of potatoes this country of 50.000.000 bushels there will Kate passed the coffee, the telephone j our guest a cordialy bood night. come in. year is me greatest ever Known and ue only a nttlc more than a Duael tor rang, an.l Clifford went out into the aai! A lilttie Conversation. their qua'ity and smoothness and free- i every person.' to answer it. 1 After Clifford left I waa terribly die- ,T'"iorTow Broken Resolutions.)
