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August 13, lt17 i
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TO CUT COST
Ida Tarbell says it costs the merchants of the United
States $75,000,000 yearly to deliver merchandise to cus
tomers. She points out that by the merchants agreeing
and sticking to it, to make but one delivery a day, the
larger part of this cost would be eliminated, and besides
thousands of men would be set at liberty to do something
else. This latter feature she lays more stress upon than
on the actual saving, as men are needed in all lines.
There is no reason why this system should not be adopted
especially in the smaller cities. All required to make it
workable is the consent and assistance of the women, for
they do practically all the ordering both from merchant
and grocer. What's the matter with Salem giving it a
try and doing it first?.. It should be remembered though,
that if one merchant adopts this system all will have to
do so, for there are those patrons who being accustomed
to having goods delivered at any old time will get huffy
if this is not done and either all merchants will have to
stand together or it would cause the loss of trade of this
class, who would transfer their patronage to some one
who made deliveries at all hours.
In some of the cities it is estimated the cost of delivery
runs from eight to 25 cents each, and often amounts to
more than the price of the article delivered. A few cities
have stamped this real evil out. Ann Arbor, Michigan,
has for eight years had the one delivery a day system.
The result is that where 70 delivery wagons were used
formerly now there are but 18. In some cities, too few,
co-operative deliveries have been installed at a great sav
ing. At first it would undoubtedly be annoying to the
housewife who has been all her life accustomed to having
her purchases sent home at whatever hour she desired;
but this would soon wear 6ff and no thought be given it
after a little while when the new order had been in use
long enough that the ordering for the day be made all at
once had become a habit.
THE FOOD PROBLEM SOLVED
To read some of the suggestions about the consei'ving
of food is really amusing. Not ong ago one of these con
servers had a nice little suggestion that every family
should 'have chickens, which was a wise idea, but then
the argument proceeded that no grain should be fed to
fowls, but that should be saved for the allies. This was
all right too so far as it went. Another suggestion on
top of this was that in preparing meals close calculation
should- be made so there would be nothing left. This was
what the suggester called "the clean plate" idea. That
was all right too. Then it was suggested that the chick
ens should be given nothing but table scraps. By this
time the suggestive one had got the thing around to a
problem similar to that of the two snakes swallowing
each other. She (yes it was a woman) was to have no
table scraps, feed the chickens on these and live on the
eggs. It works out all right being whittled down to the
little end of nothing with the pith pushed out, but it
strikes us it would be a little hard on the hens.
The German press continue
a telegram to the president such as has been mentioned
by ex-Ambassador Gerard. They are dodging the main
fact which was that the kaiser wrote such a telegram and
handed the same to the ambassador with instructions to
send it at once. The fac smile of the telegram has recent
ly been printed. True the kaiser did not send it, he only
wrote it in his own hand, signed it and gave it to Gerard
to send. The department of state yesterday had the
copy of the telegram published Which is practically the
same as a facsimile as given out by Gei-ard.
Hogs are quoted today at $17.95. Wouldn't this be a
good time to put the famous Salem porker on the
market?
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 1863
CAPITAL $500,000.00
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
DORA C. ANDRESEN,
Sec. and Treas.
..J5.00
Per month ....-..
..45c
3.00
Per morfth 35c
TELEGRAPH REPORT
OF DELIVERY
to deny the kaiser sending
COAL, AND
The government report as to the coal production of the
United States shows Pennsylvania produced of the 509,
000,000 tons of bituminious coal 175,000,000 tons and in
addition produced-practically all the anthracite, or 88,
312,000 tons. Her total yield of all kinds of coal reached
well up toward half the grand total of the entire country.
Alaska, which is destined to be one of the great coal cen
ters when transportation is provided, produced but 2,000
tons last year. South Dakota produced but 15,000 tons
and Oregon did not make a much better showing with
only 40,000 tons. Idaho and Nevada had to join to make
a showing at all and then only produced 15,000 tons.
California produced none at all. This is where the state
that is so long on native sons, is wofully shy. If she had
the coal she would wrest the iron and steel industries
from Pennsylvania for she has the greatest body of the
very best iron ore in the world. The only trouble with
it is that it is so far from fuel. This will be overcome
after the war when bottoms are plentiful, for then the
ore can be shipped cheaply
Puget Sound by steamer. When this is done the iron and
steel, used on the coast at least, will be manufactured ou
Puget Sound.
In wars of the olden time the cost of killing a man was
reduced to a minimum. The shots fired by a two-fisted
club cost nothing but the expenditure of some muscle, and
there were no bills for either munitions or transportation.
The armies moved on foot and carried their own supplies,
or lived off what they captured. Then when the enemy
was whipped the whole country fell a prey to the con
querors and they proceeded to prey. Now it requires so
many thousands of dollars worth of ammunition to kill a
man that it is hardly worth while. In order to keep from
getting killed each side goes into the tornado cellars, built
for the purpose and the other side tries to kill him under
groimd. This makes it cost each side more than it should.
If the object of war is to kill as many of the other fellows
as possible, then in the interest of economy each side
should come out in the open and fight like men instead of
getting under ground and
expense.
Eve, so the sacred pages tell us, had no use for clothes
until the serpent put her wise to the apple. After that
she spent all her loose change and all she could shake out
of her hubby's pockets for fancy stuffs for her personal
adornment. T.ime however sets all things' even and takes
ns back to the old styles. Considering the tendency of the
female to get back to first principles, andTto imitate "the
first lady in the land" in the way of exhibiting more and
more of her anatomy; is it not about time for the gulieful
snake to show up again and "pass the apples?"
Governor Withycombe takes exception to the state
ment that he had decided to wait until forest fires broke
out before taking action in the matter of closing the
deer hunting season. He says it was based on an un
authenticated news story and is ridiculous on its face.
We quite agree with the governor and do not for a
moment believe that he made the foolish statement ac
credited to him. The editorial comment, made though
lessly last evening no doubt did the governor an injustice.
China has declared a state of war exists between that
government and Austria and Germany. A few days ago
it was Liberia, one of the smallest governments, that
made this declaration and now it is the largest in point
of population. If this thing keeps up the only nations
that will be on speaking terms with these autocracies
will be those whose territory joins theirs, and who on that
account, speak when they meet, simply through fear.
The indications point to Kerensky having put courage
and vim into his followers and the Russian army, which
is putting up so strong a resistance in the Carpathians
that the German advance is slowing up. Recent dis
patches from that front indicate the Russian soldier is
again in fighting trim, and better still is the news that
Kerensky is in full control and has the situation at the
capital under control.
George N. Davis, judge of the circuit court of Mult
nomah county, was the only Oregonian to win a commis
sion higher than a captaincy. He is now a full-fledged
major. This is one of the cases where Oregon was not
first. "It would seem from this that there was in this as
in most similar affairs an element of pull, else surely
Oregon's contingent would have made a better showing.
Considering the cost daily of the war, none of the
belligerents are getting much returns for their money
along the western front.
A TREASONABLE PROPAGANDA
(Corvallis Gazette-Times)
We are in receipt of several long let
ters from the "Peoples' Council" of
New York. In the first place, we are
always very suspicious of any kind of
Ian organization which assumes for its
title a generic name. It is not honest
to start with. It assumes a virtue that
it is impossible for it to have. For in-
stance, the "Peoples Party" no more
! represented the people than did the
j Democratic or Republican party. It
represented a very small part of it
'only and tried to fool all people by
!the hvpneritieal pretense of a name. .
la this iustance, the "Peoples' Coun-
LACK OF IT
from southern California to
doubling and multiplying the
oil" represents a much smaller propor
tion of the people than did the Peo
ples' Party. It seems to be an auxil
iary of the German reischtag and is
making an effort to hide its functions
hv troclaimin2 itself a uartv orizan-
ixei to promote peace. It is stronz for
peace. It is especially strong for peaee
without indemnities or annexations,
This, it says, it proposes to emphasize
series of advertisements it is soon
to put ut in the magazine. In support
of the correctness . of it theories it
quotes t ie Socialist Council of Russia.
We don't know how other people feel
about :t, but it seems to the G T that
the ijoeialist Council of Russia is not
in very good odor at home. It's fool
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glad I'm called to do my share, you bet your
bottom dollar! So for this day my labor ends the news
this fact determinesI want to go and tell my friends
that I'll be potting Germans. I want to tell a certain girl
that I have been elected to make the Irni
cun, and make the pnnz dejected." I handed Jim a bunch
of flowers, and said, "Go, do your playing: I'll only dock
yuu seven nours wnen wnen
When he was gone my eyes
fervor. "The country's safe
are here to serve her!"
theories have been responsible for all
the woes that have afflicted Russia
since it overthrew the ezar. It has cost
Russia thousands of lives and the
.poison of its insidious propaganda is
directly responsible for the loss nf
Galicia to the Huns. In Russia, Keren
sky announces that it i. definitely
proved that their propaganda is fin
anced by the Hun government.
ur course that couldn't be true in
this country, for the "Peoples C'oun
cil" is backed by David Starr Jordan, '
Amos Pinchot and the rest of that
bunch of long haired men whose other
propaganda was the conscription of
all incomes of over $100,000, and whose
plans were indorsed by tho Corvallis
Home Guard last April.
. Another thing that this outfit de
mands is that America state her war
aims. That is a bright idea, but it is
not -original. It was first demanded
by the Tathorland" a Hun magazine
published in New York. Before that,
tho same idea was conveyed in the
famous question which the witness
asked the lawyer. The lawyer insisted
that the witness answer all questions
with "yc." or "no." Tho witness
said it couldn't bo done. The lawyer
insisted that it could. So the witness
asked the lawyer this question: "Have
you quit beating your wife?" To say
yes would imply that he had formerly
been in the habit of administering
corporal punishment to the partner of
his sorrows' and to say "no" would
convict him of continuing to do so.
And so this bunch of buccaneers wants
to try to commit this government to
somo kind of a statement concerning
what it proposes to stand for in the
way of peace terms. They care not
at all, excpt that it will furnish them
with more thunder wherewith to
oppose the war.
The Gazette-Times has no sympathy
with this outfit of pettifoggers or any
body tIso who advocates a "no in
demnity" peace. We agree with the
Irishman who was pirmmeling an ad
versary as he held him on his back. A
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CHAPTEK CXXII.
Soon everyone wo knew was back in
New York. Wo were constantly invited
out, aud so of course gave many little
affairs in return. Affairs which strain
ed my housekeeping accouut, and whiii
kept ma constantly in debt. My bill
from Callman'. had been sent rcgnlar
ly, but without the usual 'please remit'
which invariably was written on most
of my accounts. Vet I felt I must pay
them something the how I was to do it
I didn't know.
I had to have several new things to
wear because of going out so much. And
I kept the children very nicely dress
ed. I wasn't going to have the other
children in the apartment look better
than did our I told Tom when he com
plained that it wasn't necessary to
spend so much on them.
Tom had grown thin and Vivian Mor
ton said 'oliK'r looking'.
"You must be working too hard,
Tom, ' ' she said one night when we were
playing cards. "You look very tired."
"I am tired," he responded and
changed the subject.
Tom never complained so perhaps I
might be forgiven that I had not notic
ed he didu't look as usual.
Temptation.
Carol Blaikloek was awfully good to
me. I saw him verv frequently, and he
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wiv in
oftou sent his car for me to use, either jing with Vivian about," and he gave
wheu I was shopping, or to take the j me four crisp fifty dollar bills from a
children for a ride. Sometimes he. roll whose size made me stare,
would go with us, but usually not. I Yielding.
However, he often would drop in I
about four o'clock aud have tea withjdrawing back.
Rhymes
Mason
DRAFTED
Jim Brick was hewing wood for me, a
wholesome, cheerful fellow, so husky he
was good to see, without a touch of yellow.
And while, to earn a shining bone, he plied
the ax, stout-hafted, his father called him
up by phone, and said, "My boy, you're
drafted!" An instant Jim looked rather
sick; perhaps he thought of mother, and
all the family of Brick, the sister and the
brother. A sweat stood out upon his brow;
I saw his pale lips quiver, and thought,
"Alas, this young man, now, has got a
chicken's liver." A moment Jim looked full
of care, then raised a cheerful holler: "I'm
- iuvi i T illOAVl O
comes tne time for paying."
grew dim with patriotic
while boys like Jim,' I said,
pacifist came along and said, "you
musn't hit a man when he's down."
"Shure," says Pat, "then why did I
wur-rnck so hard for to get him
down?"
Gerard says in his scries of articles,
that thsre are too many writers and
speakers in this country. He means of
course, theoretical idiots. We . have
pampered that kind of nuisance for
many years in the name of "progress."
Any man with a thimbleful of brains
knows that if wo get licked we will
nave to pay and pay dearly. We know
that Prance had to pay twice the eost
of tho Franco-Prussian war in addition
to losing Alsace-Lorraine. We can ex
pect no mercy from the Hun. All the
admiss.ible evidence in the world goes
to show that Germany started this war
maliciously, promeditatedly and with
out the rlightest excuse, cause or pro
vocation. . There may be some- who live
on theory and the rarified atmosphere
of the clouds who favor spanking Ger
many and then returning to her all her
provinces and asking no reparation for
the inestimable injury she has done.
We believe such an idea is the person
ification of piffle. Germany can never
restore the lives she has ruined or the
cities aud homes she has wrecked, the
men, women and children she has mur
dered, but she could be made to pay
the enormous pension debt that the
Allies w ill have at the close of the war.
It will bo impossible to collect from
her, for many generations at least, even
bare monetary cost of tho war that
she deliberately imposed upon the rest
of the world, but she should be re
quired to pay as much of it as it is
possible to collect.
Germany has forced us to send our
men over there to be shot at and the
least she can expect to do is to pay
! their expenses.
All that the People's Council will do
is to encourage that pernicious Band of
profligate socialist agitators calling
themfel,-es the I. W. W. Instead of
harrassin;? the president with a de-i
maid (hat he state America's "aims"
By Jame .Pfiretps
MONEY, AGAIN
me, and if I mentioned that I was to
be down-town the next day, he would
plan for me to lunch with him. Some
times I told Tom of his calls and that I
-had lunched with him, but oftener I
' said nothing about it. Tom seemed ab
sent minded, not so interested in me,
and our home as he used to be,
Often
he wouldn't hear a word I Baid. And I
made up my mind that if he didn 't care
to listen, there was no use tellinar him. .
One day I happened to mention thatl" and that only occasionally," I
I should like a new gown for a dance, told him the thought of Helen's num
Claire Henderson was goiug to give. 1 orous loans iu my mind. -Vivian
Morton and I were talking and ! "It ia time you began then," he
she had told me she had just ordered j laughed." Whats the use having friends
one of Heloise. It was at an afternoon if you ean't borrow what you need of
sffail and Carol Blacklock overheard, themf That's right, put it away. Now
He took me home in his caj of course get whatever you want. Your accouut
Tom couldn't get away in the afternoon ! " guaranteed and they will not make
and asked me why I didn 't get what i you miaerablo by dunning you. They
I wanted at Callman 's. Jbavea't, have theyj"
"I am ashamed to because I have I "No, they haven't said a word." J
f"" """"s 'y urn as yei,r-
replied, esaabuxrr .de . retaoin :
I replied, embarrassed.
"That needn't worry you," he ans-
vercu ugnuy, mo x tnouglit 1 saw a
fleeting look of surprise cross his face.
"How much is itt"
"Nearly two hundred dollars," I
told him, flushing.
"That's nothing!" he laughed. "I
thought from your manner it was a
couple of thousand at least. Go get
vtuat you want
Here, take this and!
pay them up
then you will feel free
to buy that new dress you were talk
-Oh, but I couldn't!" I exclaimed
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X The Daily Novelette t
NOT A CHANCE.
"Poor man," murmured Fairwcather
Pighart as he dropped six tobacco eon
pong in Tired Toddies' outstretched
hand.
"Many t'anks for yer sympathy,"
said Tired Toddles, and a tear glis
tened in his whiskers. 'De trouble wid
me is, I ain't never had no chauct."
"No chance! How sadl" sighed Big
bart. Aud he fished in his pockets till
be found an out-dated car ticket, and
dropped it in after the tobacco cou
pon.. "I suppose, as a child, your fath
er aud mothor, and all your little en
vironments and friends did not exert
the right kind of influence."
"Oh, I ain't got nuttin against me
f adder or me mudder nor nuttin. It's
a chauct I'm talkin' about. The trouble
wid me is, I ain 't never had no chanct.
Take the case o' Lefty Swope. Lefty
had a ehanct, ho did. De place he lived
in re rear of was right next door to a
bank,, and all -Lefty hatta do was to
bore right through to help hihself and
live happy ever after. Take Doughy Mo
Nabb. Doughy had a chanct. De poor
stiff he woiked for trusted him with
$10,000, and Doughy skipped to New
Squeeland and lived happy ever after.
But de trouble wid mo is, I ain't never
had no ehanct."
Fairweather Bighart, who was pois
ing a ticket over Tired Toddles' hat on-,
titling the bearor to six shoe shines, re
turned it hastily to his pocket and
walked thoughtfully on.
FALLS CITY MOTOEISTS.
Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pratt of Myrtle
Creek, and small nieces, Miss Helen
and Miss Geraldine Selig, who are driv
ing from southern Oregon to Falls City,
were overnight visitors at the home of
Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Van Guilder, Satur
day. Eugene Guard.
in the war, "The People's Council"
should be helping to suppress the
miemies of our countrv at home. Our
chief "aim" in the war just now is
to lick the Kaiser and it is every loyal
citizen's duty to help. That ought to
be "aim" enough for anybody.
"Why not? You can repay me when
ever you like. Aren't we good enough
friends so that you can borrow a little
from me. It it merely a trifle anyway.
Why make any fuss about it. Just put
it iu your purse, and forget all about it
until you go to Callman 's."
"You are sure it ia all right for me
to borrow itf " I asked, slowly opening
my purse to do his bidding. "I have
never borrowed save
from - a woman
"I, just sent tne regular state-
ment. "
"I thought it would be so," he re
plied, then changed the subject and
chatted merrily all the way home.
I was so relieved that the bill was to
be paid, so Lappy that I could have
the gown I coveted, that I was quite
hilarious. To be sure I would owe Carol
instead of the store, but he was so
rich, and so willing to lend me the
money I wou'dn't limv tn wnrrv ahnut
paying him. Of eourse T should iv him
as soon as ever I could save it.
That I was doing anything very
WTong in accepting this loan from Carol (
Blacklock never entered my mind. But
in thinking it over I decided not to
tell Tem. But simply because he made
a fuss over debt; "not because Carol
had loaned me the money.
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