Editorial Page of The Capital Journal
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TIM'BSDAT KVKXIXd,
May tn, 11M7.
CHARLES H. FISHES
Editor iri Manager
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WOULD PUT NEWSPAPERS OUT OF BUSINESS
The framers of the revenue bill are making a mistake
in raising the postage rates on second class matter, un
der which head newspapers come. Every newspaper is
no doubt willing to pay its share in full of the tax neces
sary to carry on the war. It is not unwillingness to pay
this that causes objection to the proposed raise of rates,
but inability. The larger papers can afford to pay it,
perhaps, but the country press cannot. The city papers
have far the larger part of their circulation in the cities
where published, but this is not the case with the papers
in the class of the Capital Journal which have a large
part of their circulation in the country adjacent to their
place, of publication, and on which they must pay postage.
The tax on net incomes would not be objected to, for it
is only right that newspapers should bear their portion
of the burden imposed by war conditions. This would
place the newspapers on a level with other business and
would be right. The raising of postage rates however
will not add much to the revenue received by the gov
ernment, for many of the papers will be put out of busi
ness. One newspaper man after studying the situation
in all its phases suggests the government take all the net
incomes of the papers, but still allow them to continue in
business and take care of the going value of their prop
erties. It 13 not the presses and macmnery, tne material
and outfit, that give a newspaper its value, but its estao
lished field, the business and following it has built up
In other words, its "going value." With this taken away,
as it would be if the naner was forced to suspend pubh
cation, the principal value of the paper is destroyed. The
government is making a mistake if it forces this condi
tion on the press, for it needs the papers in its own busi
ness. There is hardly a day the Capital Journal does not
receive matter from some of the departments with the
request that it be given as full publicity as possible. The
Capital Journal yesterday published such an article, it
being the information as to registration. This is but one
of many such. If it was not for the newspapers which
publish such things free for the government, it would cost
it a sum many times larger than all the revenue it will
receive by raising the rates on newspapers passing
trimnD-h the innils. Tnrloed without the news papers the
government could not eive notice of any kind to the
citizens. For instance about this registration; how
would it go about notifying those required under the law
to appear on the dav set without the aid of the news
papers? It would have to send circulars out, post innum
erable notices, and then not $ret half the publicity the
papers give it freely. The press is the government's best
friend, the go-between of the administration and the peo
ple. Through it the masses are informed as to what the
administration wants and the administration learns how
the people view public matters.
The application of the increased rates to the magazines
would not work such a hardship, for their business and
incomes would stand it without causing bankruptcy.
Outside of these there are few small papers but that will
have to quit, or run at a loss, if the increase is made.
The United States has served notice on those neutral
countries that have been surreptitiously sending food
stuffs to Germany that if this is continued no more will
be sold them by this country. Uncle Sam is willing to
help feed the world except those with whom he is at war,
but he draw's the line on sendine food to one countrv
which in turn sends it along to another with which just
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uuw ne is not on inenaiy terms, ine onencung nation
will find the store door closed and it will be allowed to go
hungry so far as America is concerned. This is a power
ful club over the heads of Norway, Sweden, Denmark
and Holland as well as Switzerland, all of which have
fattened their purses by a little back door, trading with
the kaiser and his folks. This will now have to stop, for
what these countries sell will not be replaced by this
country. - . '
Herbert Hoover proposes to' stabilize prices of food
stuffs by taking a census as to what the country has, and
then cutting the expense now incurred while they are on
the way from producer to consumer. Undoubtedly there
is a vast field here for regulation and improvement.
lhere is too much cost in getting the produce of the
country into the possession of the people who consume
it. Taken as a whole it is probablv not far out of the wav
to say that the consumer pays at least double for his
foodstuffs whalt the ifaremr receives for them at his
farm. It is to regulate and reduce this that Hoover will
apply himself. It is a big job, and if Hoover makes a suc
cess of it he will have performed the apparently impossible.
HOUSE AND SEITE
DISAGREE OVER BILL
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Disagreement Is About Many !
Items Mav Delav Passage
Some Time
WEEK END 4
SUALffgB
Louis Chevrolet yesterday in his racing auto, made the
250 miles in the International Sweepstakes, at Cincin
nati, in 2 hours, 26 minutes and 27 seconds, covering the
distance at the rate of 102 and nearly a half miles an
hour. This reduced to tangible shape, means he would
at that rate have traveled from Salem to Portland, and
back in one hour. The same rate of speed maintained
for I!2 hours would carry him from Astoria to New York
City. In other words the round trip from Astoria to
New York could be made in two days and a half.
The other places in the United States wearing the
name of Salem are asked to equal the record of Salem,
Oregon, the one and really only live city of the name in
the universe. The Salem commercial club .subscribed for
$.'3,000 worth of liberty bonds, and it was the first com
mercial body in the United States to do so. Will Salem,
Massachusetts, kindly wake up and do something to
maintain the good name of Salem. Oreeoii. which is the
only one of the bunch looking after the title? If not will
it not kindly and patriotically efface itself?
The need of a new and sanitary prison is urged by
some, but why a new prison when the parole board and
pardoning power make a prison almost a mere orna
ment? A year ago there were about 400 prisoners, today
less than 300. The available labor for handling the flax
crop is getting scarce, and either the judges and district:
attorneys will have to get busy, the pardoning powers
take a rest or the flax industry will have to pass out of
the hands of the prison authorities.
Congress is not making as much headway as it should
with the revenue bill. So far as it has gone the bill is
defective and not based on proper foundations. What is
needed is a measure so framed that it will bear as nearly
equally on all as possible, for all of us should pay accord
ing to our ability to pay.
There was a dearth of European war news yesterday,
so Villa got busy and captured a small town near the
border. It is a dead certainty there is little doing any
where when the bandit breaks into the front pages.
Flowers were rather shy yesterday in Salem, but pa
triotism was abundant and of the finest quality.
Washington, May 31. The govern
ment will have to wait for the $3,000,-
uun.uuo appropriated in the annv and I
navy deficiency bill until house and j
senate conferees ean agree on big pro
visions in the bill.
Liiairman ritzgeraid of flic appro
priations committee todnv 8nhmitti.fi q
conference report on the bill disagree-'I
in;? lo tne following big items: !
An appropriation for an emergency!
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A 10.000,000 fund for the secretarv
i war lor emergency uses.
A i,4(Hi,"00 appropriation for the
purchase ot the Jamestown exposition .
gniiuiiiB ui iiampton Koails, Va.
A $1,(100,000 item for eotiiument of
a naval operating base at the James-!
town grounds.
Conferees disagreed regarding power!
to be conferred on the president under j
rue nuge inercnant shipping appropria
tion. ...
The ninoiint nrn'-idml ilia u.iia ;n ! 1
House and senate sections. j
Among the amendments agreed to
were: i
A $.100,000 appropriation for the
Council of National Defense.
A $2,0.18,413 appropriation for regis-:
tering and selecting cligibles under the
army draft law.
An amendment trivinir an armv pn-1
listed man the $100 a month provided j
ior men in oincers reserve corps.
.An increase from $100,000,000 N to
$JJl,lWil,74i tor army transportation I
ami u,muu.uuo. instead of $3ii,o 10,700.
lur automatic- machine guns.
State House News
Whether or not general farm hands
automatically come under the provis
ions of the workmen 's compensation
act is the problem that is now up tothe
Oregon supreme court, as the result of
an appeal from a decision of Judge
George Magley of Tillamook county in
the case of Wesley Reney against the
State industrial Accident commission.
Jmige Bagley, in a writ of general re
view, decided that farm hands do au
tomatically come under the provisions
of the act and that the plaintiff was
entitled to compensation.
The case was brought by . Wesley
Reney as the result of having his hand
cut off while operating an ensilage cut
ter bv i). R. Tinnorstet. The accident
commission denied the application for
compensation on account of the fact
that Tiiinerstet had not made applica
tion to ' come under the provisions of
the act.
The case presents two problems that
may face the accident commission. The
supreme court recently held that farm
Hands engaged in hazard employment
come under the employers liability act
Should the supreme court decide that
the farm hands come under the com
pensation act onlv in an optional sense,
it is expected the commission will re
ceive a flood of applications.
Bicycles 10 Per Cent Discount. .
Base Ball Goods 20 Per Cent Discount.
Discount. Fishinp Tackle. 20 Per Cent
Pocket Knives 20 Per Cent Discount.
Safety Razors 10 Per Cent Discount.
Nye Oil, 10c size, 3 for 25c.
Nye Oil, 25c size, 20c.
Mark Cross Razors, 10c Each.
Durham Razors, 10c Each.
Assortment Outing Clothing at Cost;
Bicycle Tires at Cost
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Prisoners at the Maryland penitentiary : have pur
chased $2,150 worth of war bonds. That is where they
are way ahead of some outside the prison walls so far as
patriotism is concerned. One prisoner invested $250 of
the $278 he had saved from his scant wages during a long
term.
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 1868
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
Transact a General Banking: Business
Safety Deposit Boxes
.SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
Rippling Rhymes
by Walt Mason
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CHEER UP
Though days of strife be drawing near,
though war may last for many a year, it is
not well to yield to fear; cheer up! Don't
let your optimism fade; you give the foe
unlimited aid when of your fears you make
parade ; cneer up ! l have three uncles bear
ing arms; 9 cousins went to war's alarms,
and yet my smile retains its charms; cheer
up ! They say we'll soon be short of meat,
we'll be deprived of corn and wheat, but,
while we have enough to eat, cheer up !
They say we'll bear upon our backs the
burden of a frightful tax; just now no man
tnat Durcien packs; cheer up ! They re say
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The Cranmoor Manufacturing com
pany of Portland filed articles of in
corporation with the corporation com
missioner this morning with a capi
tal of $15,000. The object of the com
pany is to deal in Teal and personal
property. The incorporators are H. M.
Williams, Charles V. Fulton and F. M.
DcJieffe.
BAR
GAIN
HAUSER BROS.
State tStreet
Went Through Motions
But Got No Money
San Francisco, May 31. Twenty five
hundred men at the Presidio training
camp lined up this morning for payday
muster. The company rolls were culled
and the men answered "present."
Then when the time for passing out
the pay envelopes , came, the embry
onic officers were extended best wishes
and dismissed. (
It was payday without pav. Congress
has provided no funds to pay the of fi- j
eers' reserve corps but the formalities
were carried out and the pay roll made
up in the expectation that" eventually
the money will be forthcoming.
LEAVE FOE FRONT SOON
Paris, May 31. The American en
gineering commission conferred at
length with officials at the war office
today and announced it would shortly
leave for the front.
NEW TODAY ADS WILL BE
read in the Journal in all lire
Marion eounty homes Try 'em.
CHAPTEE LVIII.
I left mother with Norah and the
baby while I went to the hairdresser's.
Mother had had one shocx after another
as regarded our expenses, and I though
I'd say nothing about having my hair
done. It was the day of Vivian Mor
tou's dinner party; and I was deter
mined to look my best. Helen went to
the hairdresser's with me, aud laugh
ed gaily when I told her that mother
thought us terribly extravagant.
"You extravagant!" she replied
"that's funny. She should ee my
bills. But your mother's dear, Sue.
Walter has quite fallen in love with
her;" they had called on mother the
evening before, and she and Walter
had at once taken to each other.
"Isn't she?" I returned, pleased
"Mother has always lived in a small
flat unA "rViov" ovo foil-? W,vU U .V , town, Helen, and -New York seems per-
".'-j - Hiuuiie luwutu a nut- cneer up : .leetlv wondertul to ner. Awfullv wick-
ISO.
had felt badly about leaving moth-
but she said she'd have a good time
reading, ana writing to lather. When
I commenced to dresg she came into the
bed room with me.
I bathed, rearranged my hair which
looked a bit stiff, then laid my dress,
shoes and stockings on the bed. Moth
er's eyes nearly popped out of her head
wheu she saw it; but just that moment
Tom came rushing in to change, and
she left hurriedly without saying any"
thing.
I had seen her expression, however,
and felt a little worried as to what she
would say. I dressed, then put on my:
new evening cloak which Helen, true to,
her promise, had helped me make; then
iisbandan-d
By Jaiae .Phelps
DRESSING FOR THE DINNER PARTY
dily dressed.
ing this, and saying that, designed to knock our spirits
Rot- a-nA "4-V.t ., 4-1l,: i-1 1. 1 I
u4 mcv tue liuiunn uiruuen a nat cneer uu
Don't cross a bridge until you're there; don't look ahead !e,,j.aj:
to borrow care; don't starve until your cunboard's bare: U: hi
cneer up. uon t try to cniii the hopeful chap ; you'll never
neip urn w m a scrap Dy naving tears upon your map;
cheer up. Just now we need no talk of gloom, no prophe
cies of dole and doom; be cheerful as the flowers in bloom
cheer up! .
CAPITAL JOURNAL WANT ADS BRING YOU RESULTS.
CAPITAL JOURNAL WANT ADS BRING YOU RESULTS.
Tom and I went into the living room to
suv goou-uye to mot tier.
uoesn't Sua look gteat?" Toin
asKeji.
"It seems rather gav to me, but I
guess I'm old-fashioue'd," mother re
plied, "slip off your coat Sue, I'll be in
bed when you come in."
Tom lifted my cloak from mv should
ers and mother fairly gasped. But Tom
looked so pleased, at my appearance,
she ouly said:
"When I was a girl that dress would
have been indecent."
Overdressed.
We were the last arrivals. Dress
ed as I was a taxi had been neces
sary, aud we had been caught in a
mocKaae; and were 10 minutes late.
Vivian greeted us warmly; going
up stairs with me whil I l.-.il f .
cloak and powdered my nose. She was
simpiy crossed in a soft white crepe
with long sleeves, but open at the
HCCK.
"How lovely you look!" she ex
claimed, "but you should have kept
that dream of a dress for some more
formal affair. I told yon this was a sim
ple dinner."
i am not know what to say
made no reply: simply remarked
on the beauty of the room.
When we went down stairs I was
more embarrassed than I should have
beea even had I worn mv old white
dress. Mrs. Henderson was gowned
handsomely of course: but in ft..
same dress I had seen her wear several
times. The other women, to mv
pri&, was Larette Thompson: the
writer. She was pluinly, almost dow-
, so
up-
wished I cnnll ....
tZ ebanFe- 1 k"e'r t0 that
Tom had noticed it, and it would make
my running , debt seem so unneces-
An Attractive Man.
T i. j T-6 ?t0rod th0 drawing room
I had noticed a tall handsome man I
had never seen before; but in my
fofloZn06 80 Ver d'eSSed IhaS
"Mrs. Eandall, allow me to present
Mr Blacklock," then, "you-wiS ta
Mrs. Randall m please Carol "
n mi mre ,han ottered at the
honor," he returned o. i. .m...i
his arm. uilta me
Vivian had pa11 him n 1 . .
Blacklock What an unusual' nameX
a nian: I know n rriri n i. .
o , - " "i uuiuc uamea
tn.Y,1 8SK!f what -rou arp tank
ing?" I heard him sav.
"Oh, I beg your pardon! " I exclaim
ed embarrassed that I should have been
so lacking in politeness, then blushing
I said: "I was thinking of your name;
how unusual it was."
"Well so long as it was of me you
were thinking I will forgive you for
not answering my question; and repeat
ed; . "Ar .vou "siting Vivian f"
Why no! we live in New Tork up
town." I replied, surprised
"Wef who's we J" he laughed.
'Why, my husband and I! " I return
ed still amused.
thought Vivian introduced von as
'Hiss.' Don't blame me for feeling
disappointed."
(Tomorrow The Dinner.)