Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919, February 09, 1917, Image 4

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Newspaper Page Text1 Editorial Page of The Capital Journal CHABU3S H. FISBBB $ Editor and UuiifR lit ID AY KVKXIKli, rVbriinrt It, HUT. 5 T. . . ... . . . . . . . . ... W.VWW , ,..ft- mmm MHttiT utjoi. miMi. n ruiL.lonri r,n.ni '""'H'"' M-m Capital Journal 8. BARNES, CHAP. President. II. FiBITER, Vice-President. RIWRIITIOX Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, par year FPU. LEASKI) WIRE TKI.EORAl'H HICPOKT EASTERN BEI'RESENTATl VMS New York, W. D. Ward, Tribune BoilJing. Chicago, W. H. Ptockwell, People's Q Building. The Capital Journal carrier buys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not ilo this, misses you, or neglects getting the. paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, a thin is tho only wav we can determine whether or not the carriers are following in structions. I'hono Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. THE THEORETICAL PROFESSOR A Harvard professor wipes the people of the United States that the cost of living is j but 25 per cent higher now than in 1785. We have no j personal recollection of prices that season, but that is1 where we are on an equality with the four-eyed wisacre j from the colleere. Like most of that class of theorists i ne IS taiKinC 01 SOMlClIllIlJi Ol , , i..t tnan ne (toes Ol ine aciuai appearance ut a umusaui ui an icthyosaurus. He looks at the bones and then builds up an animal as he supposes it would or should look and nasses it off as the real thine. m ar correct as would those be of "a gnat on the back of an elephant trying to form an idea to the interior con struction of the animal from the appearance of the hide." The chances are that same professor could not tell the market price of a dozen eggs or a sack of flour without looking at the market reports, and he would have to get someone else to look up the reports for him. The man working for a salary or wage, and the good wife who samples all the groceries in an effort to make the family purse stretch a little further, can give such literary relics of a paleozoic age as get into the professor's chairs of the big colleges, more real information in five minutes about the cost of living, than they would learn by their lonesome little selves in a lifetime. For absolute and inexcusable ignorance about every day affairs, or anything useful the average college professor takes the bun, the cake and the whole bakery. If one of them by some chance had to work and earn the money that is spent tor wnat ne eats, he would know without koine the cost of living has doubled vpat-s and nlmnsr within the in it it then but sagely point out to you that the cost of living was no greater, but that "the purchasing power of a dollar is smaller, and for this reason it requires more of them to satisfy the demands of the butcher, the baker and the balance of those who furnish the consumer with the things he must have. The cost of living would of course be not increased if only the wage owner would get a corresponding return for his labor." That is his solution of the matter, and so far as the last statement is concerned it is correct for it would not matter to the average wage earner how much food stuffs increased in nriPP if his earnings increased in proportion. The pur chasing power of the dollar but v '"'"to . T-. . not increased with it. It should not taKe a reai uve col lege professor, if there are such, to hit somewhere near the correct idea if he has a pencil, paper and average intlligence, to reach results on this. Last fall butter was selling at ;!0 cents a pound. Is butter any higher now than then, when the present price is 50 cents? Flour was $1.25 a sack then, now it is $2.50; has it increased in price? Potatoes were a cent a pound then, now they are three cents. Onions were a cent a pound then now they are six; cheese has advanced 50 per cent, pork 50 per cent, mutton 100 per cent and beef is the highest it has been since the cow jumped over the moon, and yet this bewigged and befogged researcher of the antiquarian fields says the cost of living has increased but 25 per cent since 1785. He might write a learned dissertation on the fourth dimension, the canals of Mars or what is beyond the limits of the fiinite, but anything so near as his stomach, or so evident as a market report are to him mysteries as profound as the Sphinx. Indiana has followed Oregon's example and Wednes day the senate passed the bill making the state dry April 2. The house had already passed the bill and it is now in the governor's hands. It is stated he will sign it, and Indiana will edge into the great American Sahara. Old man Booze is sure having a rough road to travel, but the Hoosiers added insult to the decree killing him, by sentencing him to die on April Fool day. It would add another complication to an already badly tangled situation should a submarine happen to send a torpedo into the vessel carrying Ambassador Bernstorff home. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1868 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes .SAVINGS DEPARTMENT .V.V.V.W.'AVAWMMWA'ASI . . . - , , . Ptg. Co., Inc. DORA C AN'DREfiEN, Sec. and Tress. RATES ,.$.'.00 ... 3.00 1'cr month Per mouth . 45a 35c off his glasses and informs VVIULJl lie RHUWS iiu inuic j: ,. His opinions are about as icjt ilk. cats, I back to 1787 or 1492, that! within the past two or tnree oast vear. He would not ad has decreased, hence the cost htl " , unfortunately the wage . . i ' .1 I?" 1 THE LEGISLATURE'S JOB The senate does not seem to realize that the end of the session is near. Every day bills are re-referred and made the special order a day or so ahead, just as though there was an abundance of time. Hours are wasted wrangling over unimportant bills and when a bill comes up for final passage even though it has been through two or three committees, it is found it needs to go into the drydock for repairs before it can be voted on. The senate goes into committee of the whole to amend and correct glaring errors that should have been discovered on a cursory reading of the bill. There are six working days after today remaining in the session, and this is the sit uation. There have been 298 bills introduced in the senate and about 500 in the house. Of these, the senate has passed 115, withdrawn 11 and indefinitely postponed 21, a total of 147 disposed of in 32 days and there are 151 to be acted on in the seven days remaining, counting from Thursday night. During the passed 46 house bills and indefinitely postponed 9, or a total of 55 with about 450 yet to be acted upon. In other words the senate has passed upon a total of 202 bills and had when it began work this morning had about 600 to nass upon in the seven days remaining of the session. It VVOUIU require Hie tieiuiiK Ilu nr j i 1 tU !,,. rpu: 1J U , so a uay to ciean up tne uaienuai. im tumu uc uunc u the bills were read and acted on without discussion, but that is an impossibility. It will be seen from this that many bills will never get reported out of the committee rooms, and some will die of inanition. " 11 1 t The Rural Credits bill has passed the senate and is .. . ... i. 1.1. . 1 Ti. nOW DdOre Hie IlUUSe. LI tauseu leilginy aim tuuuumuuo protecting Chinese pheasants. The lover discussion in the senate. There was a wide divergence of I "f ,ll: ,bf.auti,fu' "ild thi"s of "ultw uistusoiuu in v. . . .... , ., .TQOi thought the closed season was not need OpiniOn aS tO many ieatUreS Ot the Dill and aS It WaS:ed it the mother birds got busy and passed; it apparently did not suit many who voted for itX?l in order to get the amendment working m some shape, i opposed the can of th e wild, and tuned ThU fnfr indicates that it Will take UP Considerable time M"? t0 tl,c V'm er- lniS laCM to from the 'ortlaiu, Koad 111 Lite IlUUSe. UUt ll SUUUIU ouicker than it did the senate should find some means of altering and correcting the unsatisfactory portions, and send it back to the senate for concurrence. The bill provides for the loaning of funds to farmers at 5 per cent interest, and also for rais ing the money up to $18,000,000, by the sale of bonds. It is certain to be among the bills going through, no matter , , j.l. ,,T fnU Utt Vi w. Reform is in the saddle and the reformers are evident ly determined to ride roughshod to the devil. In South Dakota, some legislator with an idea of keeping politics out of religion and religion out of politics has introduced a bill making it a misdemeanor to discuss subjects of a political nature in any church on Sunday. The bill is evidently framed to prevent the making of prohibition speeches from the pulpits. It is not probable it will pass, but it shows to what extent "reform" has gone, and the disposition to make every person wear the same sized shoes, and that the size that fits the reformer. Tho Nnvw-pcrinn idea as to the course to pursue in re- gard to Germany's establishing a danger zone, is that i?.nvmioa npiiimls must decide on their policy toward Germany, according to their own interests, and not ac cording to American sentiments." That is one way to look at it, but it lavs aside all principles except those of - - HoWeVei", it IS expediency tar in their own way thev shall do. Although Mayor Harley paid for the feed at the Hotel Marion last night the members of the legislature are not referring to it as a complimentary banquet, April 1. The house had already passed the bill and it is ROUGH WEATHER The wind is yelling around my dwelling, its voice is loud and shrill; its lams the case ment, from roof to basement it shakes each joist and sill. The hearth is blazing, where I sit hazing my good old trusty lyre, more verses making, while deftly baking my shins before the fire. Roll on, rough weather, and bust your tether, the time for you is ripe! With books around me, can cold confound me? Oh, not on your tin type ! When winds are speeding I like my reading more than at other times; when glf jdH storms are roaring you see me poring o'er stately prose and rhymes. Before the heater i rock and teeter, and study Bertha Clay, serene, contented oh, who invented the wild, wild winter day? Perhaps some duffer out doors may suffer, and cuss the blinked-blanked storm, while Vm perusing my tomes amusing, so snug, secure and warm. Such thoughts are silly; if he is chilly, he can't charge that to me; he hadn't orter--1 gave a quarter last week to charity ! Capital Journal Want Ads Will same time the senate has ui 'csc uinn at urc xo-w, ui j J T 4-U.r J ,a Aim I get, uiiuueii tnao uuuv umvn unlessthe legislators there wQ - iroirlo i.i.' " j J i-V. 4- Up tO them tO decide tne mat- America has no desire to say waai Get You What You Want Some Little Stories and Gossip of Senators Dimick and (ill locked horns figii again yesterday, and as usual over the'orit'.' sportsmen business and for third time Dimick weut to the mat. He took the count a day or two ago when his bill to: prevent the baiting of ducks was up.; Oill leading the fight against him. The, Multnomah senator is the especial guardian t a'l " the beautiful creature God has given us." He went into rap- tures a few days ago when idealizing the swan w ith its grace and beauty. which had become almost extinct due to: wanton hunters who killed it just be-! cause it was a fine target. That was , the one and only occasion when he and the Clackamas firebrand agreed. Dimik thought the protection of the swan a step in the right direction and stood manfully by Gill. It wan this probably that made him wrathy when the killing of ducks came up and Hie nature lover turned against him and argued that a bag of 31 ducks a day per hunter was not at all unreas onable. Dimick recalled that onlv I dav or two before Senator (iill had ridiculed wc iu.-u u. iiMirnimii wanting n leave a stream wit n 40 pounds ot cor-1 tain kinds of fish, which he was seek-j ought to be treated tenderly instead of ing to protect, but was willing to have a ' resorting to violence, hunter leave his blind with a 100 pounds That sterilization was liable to mnl of ducks. It looked too much to Dim- practice was the opinion of a number of ick, as though Gill's love for the beau chiropractors who came up to protest tiful wild things was cosmopolitan against the bill. The measure was de euough to include the Portland game dared to be cruel and inhuman. hog, which Dimick thought anything j bat a handsome bird- , The Orton tenure of office bill, which This feeling was increased the same ! provides for teachers hnldimr their inha UU whan ii;,. .;..i, i .. u. mil' V " "."' "'"""" 'emoieci oy a commission 01 three ,mu uun nuu. x mis nine me mcK- amas ornator was gerung groggy. Bux lie was line tu was like the subieet matter of his disputes -with Senator Gill, "dead game." He clashed for the last time yesterday morning with the student of the wild and lost. This time it was over the bill shutting net fishermen off from certain fishing grounds below the Willamette falls. Gill switched again and this time was for the conser vation of the fish The salmon was about as graceful a bird as the swan, and if not protected would soon be about as scarce. Besides sportsmen left lots of money with Portland hotel keepers. Dimick realizes now that these gentlemen are also included in Senator Gill's beautiful wild things, and are among thoe for which there is no open season. Dimick says about the wildest bunch of things he has run across in many days are the consolidation bills now just ready for picking, and he ardently hopes Senator Gill will love them too. This would salve the wounds he has gof fered at the hands of the Portland Gun club through its representative- Senator Fariell like a battle charger, snuffs the battle from afar and having horse sense does not snuff it at closer range. When he saw Senator Gill's bill regarding the fishing in the Willamette, was coming up for debate, he snuffed the battle all right, but evidently thought the distance was not great enough for satisfactory snuffing, and so bad urgent business in Portland. Parrel! is like Gill, a great lover of the lordly salmon, but he likes his in a can. He puts his share up that way, a u 11 1 uf w'uut to gei into an argu- as to the merits ol different modes ZtTTl VZS the first consideration in his business. During a lull while an amendment was being prepared to a bill the sen ators had a little sport among them selves and Senator Bishop unkindly ask j ed f arrell, where he had been all morn ing that he missed the debate over th HMVHUS MR. LEVERING IS A DISTURBING FACTOR CHAPTEB rXLlH. Morton Levering puzzled the while he, in a way, fascinated me. I tried to make out which of the girls we were entertaining attracted him enough to keep him staying on far beyond the alloted time for his visit, but in vain. Once or twice I had a suspicion that Elsie was more than a little pieased when he showed her any favor, out as soon dismissed it was out of the ques tion. Elsie was so full of fun. so lively, no one would possibly think that she had a serious thought auent this older man. I was rudely enlightened. "Mildred Mrs. Hammond tell me, are von Haniw 1 Hauivy in your mar ried life I mean?" he asked one day.itie." I retorted. "I hate people who are "Why. of course." I stammered, tak-(constantly changing their minds, as they en unawares. jdo their clothes " "There is no 'of course' about it! "You are delicious! Not many wo You either are or you are not. Aad men would fight for a man as you do I am very much mistaken if it is not j fight to convince themselves, I mean, the latter You see. I knew HammondiYou do not convince anyone eke." before yon HA." "What do you meant I do not "I don't know what you mean, aeith-; understand, " I answered, dreading yet er do I want to know," I lied glibly, j longing, to hear hm talk. ' ' What Mr Hammond did before I met i ' ' You know well enough what I mean, him is no more my business than it is j You are unhappy. Any one with half his how ; spent my time prior to our marriage." "It is easv to see how you spent yonr time. One has only to look around and see the environment in which you had spent yoar life. God! he didn't waste any time. 111 warrant, after he met you AVA'.WAWAVA'.WAWA'AWAW the Legislature which b was so great an auth- The answer was noiseless. Fariell nidd not see any point to the joke, bnt the senators generally, just grinned. Steulisation was attacked last night before the joint meeting, of the house committee on health and public morals and the senate judiciary committee when a delegation of Portland people came up tr ask that it be not passed, The bi'l was attacked bv Mrs. I.ora C. l.ittie, o't Portland, on the ground that it went acainst the tenets of the irold- en rule, w hich savs, " ilo unto others as you would have them do unto you. She declared it would work a hardship on the poor in that they could not fight an order to sterilize and it would allow the wealthy to escape because they could fight it. She declared it was a form of vivisection. She asked what mother wanted her children sterilized- 1 he abnormality ot the weak corrects itself in the opinion of .Indue Murl rortiaiKi, wno presided as chairman ot the mce'tinir. He thonirht tho weak .in . . f ,. .:' fer charges were filed, was given n ; jing last night before the Mate e4- ,-ation committee last night and a mim- ber of Portland teachers came up to bill ttat when a teacher is hired she cannot be Wm0ved unless formal charges are made to 8 commission of three appointed by the circuit court. Transfer of teachers is to be made also by the commission. Speaking for the Orton bill were E. 11. Whitney, I. J. Melendy, president of the Portland Kduc.taional association; Mias Ludie Cake, Miss Viola Ortschild, presi - dent of the Grade Teachers' association, j and Professor Koehn, of the High School association. Miss Grace DeGraf. Hiss Johnson and Miss Alice Joyce spoke agaiust the measure. Jf the colonel didn't have a tip, he surely had a hunch that answered the same purpose, when he decided to stay home from Polynesia. Y. M. C. A. Membership Contest 1 00 Members IN 100 Hours Commencing, Feb. 7, 6 p BANDANDI in making you Mrs. Hammond." "Whv do vou say that?" I asked coldly. ' ' Because you are the type he used to say he would marry." "Give him the credit of his convic tions, then." Almost a Quarrel. "Oh, certainly. Always he was a stubborn brute once he had made up his mind." I was learning tttings of Clifford which I had often thought t should like to know his life before he met me. Yet 1 resented Morton Levering'g manner of felling: his seeming surety that I wouldn't care. "That is another good charaeteris- an eye can see your misery, your con stant worriment. Knowing Hammond as I do, there is only one deduction I Jean make. He is enamoured ot some one, and you are unhappy because of ,it." I "It is no such thing!" I declared. SALTS IF BACKACHY Drink Lots of Water and Stop Eating Meat for a While If Your Bladder Troubles You When you wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eating too much meat, says a well known au thority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they become sort of paralyzed and Id'jgy. When your kidneys get sluggish and clog you must relieve them, like you re lieve your bowels; removing all the body's urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spills; your stomach sours, tongue is vOated, ami when the weather is bad you have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy full of sediment, channels often get sore water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times dining the night. H Kither consult a good, reliable physi cian at once or get from your pharma cist about four ounces of ad Salts; take a tablespoonful in a glass of wat er before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is made from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, combined with, lithia, and has been used for genera tions to clean and stimulate sluggish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus end ing bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat eaters. It is inexpensive, cannot injure and makes a delightful, eil'er veseest lithia-water drink. British blockade restrictions on im portation of clover seed into Norway have been abolished, a consul repnrts. This will be joyous news for the Nor wegian bumblebees. That eastern woman who wants a divorce because she found she had j married, "not a man, but a store," j might have been better satisfied if she 1 had found she had married a bank. CASTOR I A Fcr Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always I the bears -re of CZM Signatu: m Sunday, Feb. 10, 10 pm "And I don't see how- you can talk to me like this. You pretend to be his friend and ' ' You make a mistake. An acquaint ance, not a friend. There is a great difference, my dear lady." "Well, I won't listen to another word- Mr. Hammond is my husband. I'll not discuss him with vou. It isn't fair." He flashed me a look of understand ing, just as Elsie joine us. "What in the world are you two dis cussing so soberly and so vehement ly f" she queried, laughingly. "One would think the fate of nations were being decided." "Not of nations, only of persons." Mr. Leverng returned in a bantering tone. "Mrs. Hammond is a stanch friend." "Why, of course! The Buttons all are." She preened herself proudly. Pride of race was one of Elsie's strong characteristics. ' ' Yes. of course, ' ' he repeated. The "I'll beat you at a game of pool, Miss Elsie." "Oh, no you wont! I'll play yon, though," she responded, secure in tier own prowess- "I have heard you were a corking player, but I know something about the game myself," he laughingly replied as they moved away. (Tomorrow Elsie Makes a Confession.)