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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 1917)
i - 'he Capital Journal CHARLES K. FT9IIEB Editor and Publisher norm TUK6DAY EVEMVO September 4, 1H17 I Page of 7 MM PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. "fVW; . ,t,xtt ,Tr ,irinv TvnT a txt I UTTXTTM ATOM'S WAV L. 8. BABNES, President, CHAS. H. FISHER, Vice-President. DORA C. ANDRESEN, Sec. and Treas. SUBSCKIPTlUN KATKS 45e 35o FULL LEASED WlliK TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN WKPHKHKNTiiTlVJSb W.rfl A Lewis. New York, Tribune cuiming Chicago, W. H. Btochwell, People's uas nuiiamg nstructed to put tho papers on ine nnirlaets seiunir mo i'h nonHjil .Tmirnal carrier boys are rr,b Tf tha carrier does not do this, misses paper to you on time, kindly phone tha CctToY.. Phone toU 81 before! o 'clock and a paper wiU be sent you by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. vrti, nr irniilHtion manager, as this is me curriers are following in- I Is t Is the only newspaper USalem whose Audit Bureau oi cirei THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL circulation m juuiiuiictvi j WILL MR. WILCOX EXPLAIN A DISLOYAL STRIKE Up to this time Portland has escaped any serious labor troubles this year, but if the strike in the shipyard billed for 10 o'clock Friday materializes she will have her share. There are five shipbuilding firms that wi be affected, all engaged in building steel ships. The strike is called to enforce the granting of the employes demand for higher wages, shorter hours and better working conditions The employers take the ground that they cannot grant the de mands of the men for the reason that the government has taken over the plants and the Amanda of the men can only be acted upon with the consent of the government If this statement is true, then the strike is not only foolish but disloyal. It is useless to try to make s anyone do the impossible thing, and the employes should "Jo con sideration the facts and act accordingly. If they are un derpaid, or the hours are too long, the government will correct both conditions if given time. The same can be said of working conditions. . One fact stlnds out far above all others, and' that is that no man has a right to put his personal affairs above he needs of the government. We are engaged in a .wag greater than this country ever before faced, and if we tail to win it the working conditions will be far worse than they are now. The hours will be longer and work ng Siena will never be improved. . Indeed should th unwillingless of any to aid in winning the war cause SSL it mawell be doubted J regime labor will even be permitted to strike. The saiety of the country is at stake and the liberty of each and every ofTts citizens, those who are working in the ship vlrds no less than others. We do not know anything as to the merits of the demands of the men; but no matter how meritorious, they should be relegated to the back ' er?und it least tmporarily. The great need of the coun try ?s ships and anyone who delays the government in its 'effort, totttenst neither more nor less than an enemy of the nation. The 4,000 who purpose striking ; mart , Fi -day could do nothing .that, would so V?l When they strike they are doing something to; a d and , comf ort an7 enemy of the country, and if this is not traitor; ouswhatisit? Labor in America is the best treated and the highest paid of any country, and it should think twice before doing anything to destroy these conditions ffe man who does not do all he can, and wherever he can toward holding up the hands of the government is as much o 'a slackfr as the man who dodges aervice in the Ss In some respects he is worse, for win e he is not called on as is the drafted man to give his life if ne-essarv, he dodges even the less dangerous duty. It this country has come to that stage where every man is looking at the war with the sole view of what personal gain hi can make from it then the war is useless ; and the cm cker we go out of existence as a nation the better. The Se as purposed at Portland is over a matter that is not iust the Sine's of the employer and the men, but one between the men and the rest of the nation. It goes even further than that for it is a strike of the men as workmen against themselves as integral parts of the whole peopll. It is a strike of the man against he citizen. It is up to these men to think seriously before they meas ure the situation from their own individual viewpoint rather than from their position as citizens, who, as every other citizen owes a solemn duty to the nation. 1 Sara Bernhardt Sunday began positively her last tour of the United States, it being the fifty-fifth anniversary of her first appearance at the Comedie Francaise, in Paris. She took the part of Portia in a portion of the Merchant of Venice and that of the youthful sweetheart of a soldier in another play, giving a double bill. The divine Sara, although 72 years old and badly crippled, is divine still and so presented the part of a young girl as to set the audience wild. It is one of the distressing things of life that such grand characters must grow old and like all others must pass away. "The millers are eager to reduce the price of flour, bran and other wheat products as far as the new scale of prices will permit," said' Theodore B. Wilcox, federal grain commissioner for the Northwest in a story in the Oregonian Sunday. Sometime ago' the Capital Journal suggested that Mr. Wilcox, who is the grain and flour boss of Oregon, might throw some light on the rather mysterious fact that wheat prices in Oregon were higher than in Chicago. His statement Sunday says the price of flour will be reduced "as far as the new scale of prices permit." For months the price of wheat in Portland has been higher than in Chicago. The quotation showed a difference of from fifteen to twenty cents in favor of Portland. Now we are told the price at Portland will be that at Chicago less than freight which is 30 cents a bushel, but plus the freight from the" wheat section east of the mountains to Portland which is placed at ten cents a bushel. This would make the price at Portland $2.00 a bushel. What the people of Oregon would like to know is why was wheat, which we are told has for the past year had to find its way to market overland instead of having .'is old world market and its prices fixed in Liverpool, been held up in the Northwest above the price it was worth in Chicago? Was it because most of the 1916 crop was in the hands of the certain millers of the state and is whs kept high in order to keep the price of flour high? We do not say that it was, for we do not know, but we do insist that it looks very much as though that waswhat was done and that certain interests forced the price of bread considerably higher that the real value of the wheat would justify. Mr. Wilcox could throw some light on this, for he is no doubt the best informed man on the subject in the Northwest, and besides he is just now holding a position of public trust that warrants him in making this matter plain. The dispatches announce the discovery , of the germ responsible for infantile paralysis. It is pleasing to note that a young Oregon physician is given credit as being one of three making the discovery. He is Dr. Mayer Solis Cohen nephew of Mrs. Alexander Berstein and D. Solis Cohen, both of Portland. Oregon as usual is right up in front. While many workmen are ready to strike we note that Thomas Edison has sequestrated himself for some months and is giving his whole time and his magnificent genius to solving the problem of the submarine, and he is doing it without hope or desire for recompense. The men engaged in ship building at Portland are doing in their way exact ly what Edison is. Will they be any less patriotic then he ? Managers of the fraternity houses at Berkeley have placed whale steak on their menus. They say that it can be smothered in onions until it can't be told from a porter house. Very likely. Anything if sufficiently "smothered in onions" can't be told from anything else, but will pass as onions. - . Miss Helen Simon, a Portland heriess, has been work in? in a department store at San Mateo, California, as a sales girl, and giving the money she earned to the Red Cross. At the same time she was occupying a $25.00 a week hotel suite. She probably earned $15 a week. This shows that her. sympathies were much keener than her financial ability. There is a tang of Autumn already in the air in the early mornings, and if the weather man does not keep a sharp lookout some fine morning he will wake up and find the gentle rain falling without his orders. To be per fectly safe he had better get in and order rain soon. Rippling Rhymes , by Walt Mason M ' IN THE MOUNTAINS t . - 1 ..vV-' v ( v!.TWiCj Everybody takes off his hat to Pendleton, simply be cause he is compelled to do so. Once that wild and all woolly section was known on this side of the range as be ing somewhere in eastern Oregon probably near Walla Walla, Washington. No one was quite certain as to just where it was. It is different now. Other places in the Inland Empire are now located as in such a direction from Pendleton. In a few years it has ceased to be on the rim of nowhere and has become the center of everywhere east of the mountains. It has a habit of getting what it wants when it wants it, and it knows no such word as fail. As someone said about someone else it "stoops to touch what others soar to reach." Just now it is engaged in arrang ing the preliminaries of its annual round-up, which a few years ago was a local affair but which Pendleton pluck and push has converted into a national event. "Let 'er Buck," is a term understood even on Wall Street. When the seat sale opened this year boys were hired to stand in line all day to hold positions for would-be purchasers, and the mails were filled with orders. And Pendleton just takes it all as a matter of course and apparently does not realize how altogether lovely she is. She is the center of a vast wheat field and consequently is always supplied with the dough. She spends it too with a lavish hand and the guests who put their feet under Pendleton's mahogany get the best the market affords and as many helping as their systems can absorb. : And He Did : ; I'll qo cv'Ef; j &1-.P THE"") (major on t-ZW-K j . Ill J? The Daily Novelette t While reading daily of shortages of some kind it is a real pleasure to learn that the salmon pack of Alaska is an unusually large one. At the same time it is noted that this far north land which has heretofore always drawn on the northwest for its potatoes, is, now shipping the lordly spud. When the railroads open the country, "Seward's folly" will surprise the world, by furnishing a tremendous amount of its wheat and rye. Besides it has if treasure, or The Ham Bone under , , , ... . , , . , . i -i the Kennel": "Fast and Grow Fat"; an lnexnaustaDie quantity oi coai wnicn win come nanay. ..The Adventures of sbakem ooode"; THE NEST EGO. (By the author of "The Good Ship 'Ahoy' ", "The Parrot that Swore in Chinese, or The Laundryman 's Bo- venge," "Aloysius Twinriddle"; 'Bur- FOFE'S PEACE PROPOSAL (Medford Mail Tribune) The proposal of peace made by Pope Benedict call for a restoration of the status quo, as existing before the war, tho restoration of sovcrignty to Bel gium, Serbia and Rumania, tho peace ful solution of the problems of Alsace Lorraine, Thent, Trieste and Poland, and the return to Germany of all her colonies. . i Such a proposal will meet with in stant favor in the central empires, for it will leave Germany victorious, her dream of "Mittel-Europa" an accom plished fact, and breathing time in which to prepare anew for the longed for conquest of Europe. It will leave Prussian autocracy triumphant. Germany has devastated Europe- She has not been damaged, save in loss of man power. Belgium, France, Serbia, Rumania and a large portion of Russia is in ruins. These lands must be re built and repopulated, while the Teu tons suffer no suih hardships. While Germany has not been trium phant over her enemies, she has been over her own allies. Thero is no more Germany it is now all Prussia. The ar mies of Saxony, of Bavaria, of Wur temburg and the other German states have been sacrificed as shock absorbers for Prussian ambition, and are no more. They have borne the brunt of all the battles, while the Prussian forces were reserved to "guard the Rhine." The Austrian, Turkish and Bulgarian armies are officered by Prussians and their governments administered by Prussians. They have become vassals of Prussia and Prussia now extends from the Baltic and North sea to the Persian eulf. The pope's peace would sound the death knell of democracy. It would on ly delay the final day of reckoning. Only a short time would intervene bc- "Enuff Jones, or The Twelfth and Last fore a ruined Belgium and Serbia end Daughter of PerSlflage . JoneB ; an exhausted France would again be "She Never Knew, or Tho Writing Un- seized and America attacked by the tier the stamp," etc. eie. strengthened Prussian, to whom might j I. is right and who knows no law save I "Newlie," announced Mrs. Newlie necessity, whose only god is self ag- Wedd, "I have the wondcrfulest scheme grandizement, to whom all treaties and for getting round the high cost of liv peace agreements are ' ' scraps of pa- ingl It occurred to me while I wa per, " to be torn up at will. ! putting a penny in a salted peanut aia- Wittingly or unwittingly, the pope chine you know, then you turn a knob Is playing tho Prussian game. He is and five salted peanuts come out. Well, helping create division in the ranks of 0CCurred to me that if we start to the allies. Ho is striving to save Prus- gave aii the pennies that we throw away sian autocracy from threatened anni- hei.e anj there for nothing at all, it hilation. . . , would mount up in no time and make One wonders why the pontiff has had uuite a little nest egg 1 " . v no tears for the sufferings of Catholw , H 1A geventeen karat idea! " exclaim Belgium and France, why he has not ed Wedd and th started in that gama been moved to protest the German p,ltting all their .pennies into a reign of terror why he has neve, de- J- V f fnAi them. nouueed the awfulness of f rightfulness S l A cept Hto&J lnAlZS&tF faily Wjrj. chewing gum, and every, its war against civilization-but it thing that didn't cost exactly even must be remembered that the church i money, such as vegetables, meat, bread hierarchy is by its nature reactionary i etc., there was $111.11 in pennies in the and thruont its long history has always cigar box. aided autocracy and fought democracy. And Mrs. Newlie took it down town The pope's peace pleas will fall upon and bought an ebony and ivory dog deaf ears. The world has suffered too kennel with it, in case someone should much to risk a repetition of its woes, ever give them a dog. Tho pope cannot save Germany froml 1 " the ever widening circle of the .foes Coal men tiho are going to be forced she has made. There will be no peace to give the consumer a fair shake need until the curse of Prussianism is for-' n 't feel so sore about it. Let them think ever removed, for there is no palliation ! f the grain and flour men and the for the malady from which humanity takers. People are hungry all the time, is surrering save ine removal or iiie,hut thev are cold onlv in winter. it- .U , I " cause ine cancerous gruwiu ui auiuc racy. So much steel is lying about on the field of Verdun that already offers of large sums have been made for the laud, for its junk values. Advocates of war for war's sake may well note this point for future use. It is as good an argument as any. 7 1 FOR RHEUMATISM and NEURALGIA Dennis Eucalyptus Ointment AT ALU DRUG STORES Tubes 2Sc Jars 60C minsbandmril f By Jaime .Piidps READY ON TIME CFAPTEB CXL. place was a Tom I did not know. A At noon we took a bold bite. I want-! stern relentless man of whom I was ter ed to leave the apartment in perfect ribly afraid. order, and with so much to do' Norahj I wanted to ask him what he was go would have no time to wash a lot of ing to do, I was crazy to know if he dishes. Tho baby was put to bed, and 'was going to remain in the apartment, by promising Junior all sorts of thingsf he did would he have people there, we goi mm to lie uowu axso. It was just a little after one when eame in. Are you nearly ready t " he asked. Majestic mountains round me stand, with awful gorges by them; I find them noble, solemn, grand the blue prints don't belie1 Tom them. Here I have lived while happy weeks S11U SO 1 CUUIUU I Ullie Uiein; 1 Ve gazeu Up- the trunks ana putting on our thiugs,"lwas beeause on the snowcapped peaks, and never wished;1 my,voico trembling. . i-i.ii i-ii ii i-i " ery well. I 11 attend to the trunks. to climb them. I look upon the mighty you have plenty of time, it is stm at- Vnllo hv u.-ViifiVi men coom liVo mirlcrpc nnrl teen minutes before the taxi will be i i . .. ... i? i Titere. But the express man is outside nave as many pleasant tnrUlS as UlOUgn I waiting for the luggage." and he eaU climbed their ridges. And I aione am sane and safe, yes, I, who do this rhyming; for all the Other tOUristS Chafe tO Climb and ll0me anJ. ToIU Sucl1 is the 01!ity o thejbnt his Toiee held no promise, though . , . , . , ' human niinu rnat i reu a tnnu or com- nis woras qui Keep on cum Ding, wneneer tney looKupon fort because i had roasted a chicken would Miss Coleman visit him? My mind dwelt upon her for a moment. Could it be possible that he was send ing me away so that he could be with "All ready but locking and strapping :herf I knew that it was not so; that it of my own unprincipled actions I was being banished, yet the jealous thought remained, stinging like the sting of some small inseet after one has been greatly wounded. Junior had not forgotten that I had told him perhaps daddy would come. cd down to the hall-boy to send him up. j and kept 'urging him to 'come and play When the tiunks had been carried out wiv granny's doggies.' it came over me that I was leaving my "Perhaps little man," Tom told him, he LADD & BUSH, Bankcrc Established 18GS CAPITAL $500,000.00 TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS SAVINGS DEPARTMENT a peak, they say, "It's quite a boulder; we'll !?nd ff,de hii Lavo.? Yheu climb it if we take a week, and bust a shin or shoulder." i had not icaiiy given up hope that And so with alpenstocks and ropes, and other doodads j r'tZ silly, they re wearing out the mountain slopes, and spoil-1 his face, when the last trunk had been ng vistas hilly. And here in this great pleasure ground Jyl that they labor nine times harder than when at home they go on The "way to The station, their round, to fill the family larder. At home, if they th wtV" T1!0 . i.i ,i . .,1 i him to talk to me, to tell me some- worked half as hard, they d prance in righteous rages, and; thing of his plans, xorah sat with the bfnd out protests by the yard, and strike for higher h c0"ld ,have d,,m T- i . i . , , . so if he would. He did not mention wages. If one can call his labor play, you 11 never see hinijcaroi Biaekwk's nam?, and i hadn't veirv: he'll cut in nineteen hours a dav. and still be fresh the Bve.t do so-.He looMl nar,l , , ' " ' I so unforgiving, ana so old. My gay quieted the child. Just before we reached the station 1 said to Tom: "Won't you forgive me before I go!" "We won't talk about it, Sue," he answered curtly. "Won't you tell me something of what yon intend to do! It is horrible to seud me away like this!" "What I intend to do is nothing to you, none of your affair. I will order my life as seems best to me. You have the children. I have nothing. You have no cause for complaint." At The Station. I said nothing more. I couldn't. We were a little early and Tom found seats for us while he bought the tickets. n- debonnair Tom was gone and in his then bought some picture books for Junior, and thg afternoon papers which he laid on top of my hand-bag with no comment. "Your mother wired me that she would be very glad to have you all for an indefinite length of time. When that arrangement proves uncomfortable for her I will think of something else," Tom said, then he picked up our bags and took us to te train. I tried to talk to him; tried to think of something to say to show my sorrow, but the words would not come. I had reached the limit of my endurance. I felt sick and faint, and Tom's voice as he bade good bye to the children and exacted a promise from Norah to take good eare of them sounded faint and far-away. The train started. "Tom! " I called rushing to the door. The porter caught my arm. "Too late ma'am", he said, and I stumbled back to my seat. , Then for a while everything was Hack. Whether I fainted or whether the terrible strain of the last few hours, the parting with Tom had numbed me 1 never knew. But I was saved the an guish which had been mine for a time by the oblivion which came over me. Norah proved herself a treasure. She of course sensed there was something terribly wrong, but made no reference to it, and in so far as she could she kept the children from annoying me. They were both very good and the baby slept most of the time. Oh, how I dreaded facing mother. I could not teli her the truth. If Tom couldnt' understand my actions, if h beiieved them to be unexplainable. what would she think f