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1 sgyjg i Editorial Page. of. The Capital Journal lSAT''-l ! PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, 8ALEM, OREGON, I ways in order to protect and build up the man-made ones, Capital Journal Ptg. Co., IncJtlTJm Open Forma : u BASent cnA8- vlLt C-4NDRJSTF;. ! man has closed them. Our private opinion publicly ex-j By janFFhelps t 8luscIll,TioN batks I pressed is that God knew what He was doing and why,, . public uTrr? feoblems H.iHt I'w alontb Sac IHltt hy carrier. pr yir LWU? by mall. pr year rULL LEASED WIRE TELECKAI'll KKIDUT E tSTEUX REPKKSENTATIVEU w. a Ward, New York, Tribune Building. Chicago, W. II. Btockwell, reoslt's Gal Building Tna Capital Journal carrier bora are lnatructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier doe not de title, mimics you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone (be circulation manngcr. aa tula ia the only way we can determine whether not the carriers are tallowing Instructions Phone Main hi before T :30 o'clock and 1 taper will be sent you by special memeuger it the carrier haa missed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOIJKNAL Is the only newspaper In Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. TO RENEW RIVER TRANSPORTATION It is a condition not a theory that confronts shippers along the navigable streams of Oregon, and it is a peculiar condition too. Complaint has been made for .to be good, and not try to pull the tail feathers out of the pressed is that God knew what He was doing and why, much better than the officials who have prevented the people using the highways He provided. It is stated 40,000 Germans have crossed the border in to Mexico and for the deliberate purpose of stirring up trouble between that country and the United States. Carranza seems to take kindly to the "junkers," but at the same time seems to retain sense enough not to do some overt act that will get him into trouble. When that bunch of 50 Mexican editors coming to the United States get home they will be able to tell his whiskers and the balance of the Mexicans something about the hated gringoes that will pet them thinking. When they get an iaea 01 wnat America is doing in the way of war prepara tion they will, when they get home, tell their countrymen IT'S EXPERIENCE THAT COUNTS. To the Editor: I read with interest your editorial ia la night's Journal relative to public utility companies. Ano;her difference between a pri vate business and a public utility is that the former may charge any price it chooses for its commodity or serv ice, and is generally not limited in years that the American shipping laws has driven Amer ican ships from the oceans. While this is only true in a small part, it is quite certain that fool regulations made by the interstate commerce commission and the state commissions of some statejs have driven practically all business from the streams. The Mississippi once alive with palatial steamers and great freight carriers is aban doned almost entirely. The Ohio is almost as bare of shipping but the coal barges help give a semblance of life to that stream. Here in Oregon the same story has been told, the same results reached. Before the building of the O. R. & N. in the earlier days of the state the Columbia was the great freight high way. Private enterprise built railroad portages around the obstructious to navigation of the Columbia at Celilo and at the Cascades. A splendid line of boats brought the grain arid products of the Inland Empire to Portland and to the ship3 of the world. In time even after the building of the railroad along the Columbia the federal government built locks at the Cascades opening the river as far as The Dalles? Later it spent millions of dollars in constructing a canal around the rapids at Celilo and f,o made the great river naviagable to the mouth of the Snake. This gave an outlet to a great stretch of rich agricultural aountry and on general principles should have greatly increased river traffic. It might have done so had the commissions neglected making so many rules and regulations that the boats could not comply with them and get business. The boats were allowed only a 4 per cent differential. If the freight on the railroad paral leling the river was, for instance $1.00, the boats were not allowed to haul the same freight at a less price than 96 cents. This differential was not sufficient to cover the ex pense of hauling to and from the docks, and so by arbi trary interference and criminal ignorance in hxing rates the entire business was taken from the boats and turned over to the railroads. The same thing was repeated on the Willamette. At one time a river bearing many boats, and that should now lie the route over which thousands of tons of farm pro duce should find its way to market, but which is entirely abandoned above Oregon City. The boat line from Port land to Corvallis which has been maintained for years, the last of the upper Willamette boats, was withdrawn a couple of months ago. This too following the expendi ture of $80,000 last fall at the Oregon City locks. This was another foolish move on the part of the government American eagle. That bird is not in a mood to stand for Mexican "playfulness" just now. The Sinn Feiners are still making trouble in some "sec tions of Ireland. Like the pro-Huns in this country would force the hand of the government because they think it has not the time to punish them and is in fact afraid to do so. The world used to sympathize with Ireland, and to hdmire the Irish people. It does yet admire the Irish character, and the race, yet the refusal to take part in the war for world freedom and to assist their countrv in prosecuting that war is rapidly winning for them the supreme contempt of the balance of the civilized world. An Irishman who won't fight is a freak, and freaks are not in demand just now. It seems strange that Warden Murphy, should require a( deficiency appropriation to run the penitentiary. In view of the regularity with which convicts are walking away we had supposed the only possible deficiency there was in the roll of inmates. By the way, the Oregonian and Telegram used to emit some doleful howls everv time there was a request for a deficiency appropriation during the Chamberlain and West administration. Now they can't even notice . the inexcusable inefficiencv of Trr!ii i t vvunycomDe s prison management. CHAPTER XCIX. When Mrs. Collins said she was s much as seven years older than I, so getting the last word as she perhaps thought, I replied: "I was not referring to age, Mrs. Collins: I know that you and Mr. How-1 this respect in any way 'by the govern ard are about the same age, and I mcnt. As a result, a private business , ,, ... , . 7- .j.-icharges all the tiafftc will bear," should not think of calling him 'old i'.fa ony by the yalue of the com. I meant you had had infinitely more mcjitv or service to tho purchaser or experience than I and It is exper- J customer. In other words, it charges I havu'the highest "price tnnt OUU DAILY STOET . IN SPRING. ieme, not age, that counts, so the customer 1 a-ill nair f,v a. artii'lP Thid lirieP. I Kven told. It, at least, makes people' ' ,.nwl ,,,, ,,' nf th blasi destroys their enthusiasms." j article to the customer compared with "You are very wise," she did not at- the price for which he can purchase tempt to hide the sneer. I hoped George substitutes. would notice and come to tho rescue Tho sky was full of blue, the air was full of ozone, and the boulevard was full of strollers, among them Paunce fuite Wiffle and his fiancee. Oetavia. "Oh,Vauucey, just look at that pret ty girl! Isn't she cute!" cried Octavia, pointing out a painfully thin, pgeon toed creature. "And don't yon think I'm liice--poiiiting out all the pretty girls for you.f " "M'u" murmured Wiffle evasively. And tlki'y kept on strolling, breath ing in the balmy air with deep breaths and breathing it out agaiu almost im mediately. "Oh, look there! Isn't she attract ive!" exclaimed Octavia, and indicated Senators Lodge,' Chamberlain, Brandegee and all the other political mal-contents of the senate howled them selves hoarse because the war department did not give the public more information regarding the work it was doing. Now when the approvement of movement of troops to France is given, Lodge calls it "bragging and boasting "and asserts that it has probably stirred the Germans to send their submarines to our coast. Moral: no use to try to please a crowd of men whose entire lives are devoted to playing cheap politics. Harley O. White and Chauncey Bishop ought to be elected school directors without fail. They are candidates only in the senses that they have been induced to serve in response to a demand from those who are interested in keeping up the standard of Salem's public schools. They have been drafted for the public service and their election will insure efficiency and harmony in the board. Imt lie evidently had not observed. "I shall see you again before you leave, Gtcrgo," she turned to him "and in any event, I shall be close on your heels at Bar Harbor." i hum good afternoon to her at the iTocr. C tit ste, however, was outside, and nccompnni.'.'d her to the lift, and rang for her. I expected George would say some thing iiboiit our verbal tilt, but he never mentioned it. Mis. Sexton came in, that afternoon, u short time after Mrs. Col lins had V-'lt. After she had talked to O 'orge a few minutes, I took her into niv bedroom, and had a heart-to-heart tail; with her. I told her how discour aged I was how I seemed 80 unwise, so ui-irirned. in the wavs of society. Then T fold her of Mrs. Collins' call and of all that was said. Mrs. Sexton Sympathizes ana Gives Advice She laughed when I told her of my re- tnmk about age, and that I had meant experience. 1. imagine you scored one, tnerei iiu- ltii Colins f utu-is herself because ot ner vivaeitv, and brags that she has lost none of her enthusiasms." "But I don't want hr around! 1 liatc her calling my husband 'George' De- fvr? people. I hate it just as much when , ire alonel" 1 declared wun veuo nioiire. "It is bad form, dear Mrs. Howard, a'.irt perhaps she knows it annoys you r.PU does it purposely. She knows bet ter, you may be sure. But because sho and others do thoBe things, do not al low vourself to fall into the samo et- Thus, although a private business may be unable at certain times to charge and obtain a sufficient price to enable it to earn a fair return upon its investment, at ot'ier times it is ablo to .make a very liberal profit, anil thus offset the losses experienced at other times. This is not true of the public utility company, as it is Held down to a tow, but sufficient, rate of refurn by the government during prosperous times, and therefore the losses experienced in dull times cannot be recovered through a corresiKindine high rote of return during prosperous times. Therefore, it seems to be the con sensus of opinion that since tho pub lic utilities are held down to a low rata of return in .prosperous times, that it is necessary ito allow them the same return in dull times. If this is not done, the investment become unattract lve, and no ono will buy tho stock or bonds because they aro not good in vestments. This makes it impossible for the utilitv to obtji:n the money re quire!! to .provide additional facilities for supplying its service to the public Tn senile cases the income Is bo inade quate that even operating expenses cannot be fullv met. This results in the utility being unable to supply adequate sorvKio to its existing '.M- towers. Therefore, if the government does not protect the inves'or from losses during dull times, tho public will suf fer from lark of adequate service, just as they would suffer from exorbitant charges at other times, possibly, if the. government did not prevent the in vestor from earning more than a limit ed return on his investment at 'A Htlir-lliWpH tril-1 with ri crl.t.aiirtlfwl r ' " ' " - b .iit:vi cola. "llueksch," coughed Wiffle unconi niuuicatiwely. A thousand sparrows joyously begaa to sing the samo song, without keep ing together very well. "Oh, Pauncey don't you think she's perf'ly stunning?" demandod Octavia nodding towards a two hundred pound female with a vacant expression. Wiffb shrugged reticently. At that moment an absolutely ravish ing creature, with starry eyes and a queenly bearing, floated by. "Now SHE'S rather good looking, I'd say," remarked Wiffle. Octavia 's eyes blazed with anger and sho snatched a ten cent pencil from Pauucef ooto 's vest pocket and vicionsly broko it in half. "When you're out with mo, I'll thank you not to go gawking after every homely creature that passes!" she hiss ed. "She's hideous positively unsightly!" W. M. HAMILTON. return on his investment at such ' kr,w very well she was thinking jtlmea .f TVlerton Grav. BO I said: "I have seen no on. i since an 0PEN LETTEE TO item. ;r. may r " , BISHOP MATTHEW HUGHES if, us nave many imiicio. uut I in was tho first caller we have re- "iou had a very clow call, I hear." "Vei vl But Georgo had a still closer oi.c," I shuddered. "I was told that, when he thought you were dead, be was absolutely strick en. You have thought him undemon strative at time have perhaps doubt ed his love. But times like this bring the truth to the surface. Ono docs not when one gets so near ino Joy riders-these days should carry a certificate that i hey are employed- at some useful occuDation. when engineers for the river was closed right in the busiest ! streaking it over the country. Otherwise they may be season, and. the boats prevented gathering the cream of the year s trade. In France the differential allowed in favor of the water transportation is 20 per cent. The same differential al lowed in Oregon would again put boats on our rivers and prove of vast benefit to shippers. It appears on the face of the situation as though the whole attempt and purpose was deliberately to ruin all river transportation and turn it over to the railroads. Now that the government has taken over the railroads and has more business for them than they can well handle, it is turning its attention to the rivers as a means of relief from congested freight condi tions. It will follow the increasing of rates on the roads by the government, provided no change is made, in river tariffs that there will be a differential of 2: per cent and this it is claimed will permit the boats to be operated at a profit. It is rather contradictory work to enforce the Sherman law against combinations in restraint of trade, and then for government and state officials to make such a combination to drive one class of transportation out of business. Nature provided the rivers, and because over these freight can be hauled more cheaply than over the railroads the authorities that be, refuse to allow this competition, that would benefit all shippers contiguous to the rivers, and by asinine rulings close the natural high- LADD & BUSH, Bankers ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW HERE. THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL AT THE BANK held up and put at work, far, far from home and friends. That order that Americans must "work or fight," will save considerable gasoline. Not necessarily because those accustomed to burning it have gone to work, but just in order to "avoid the appearance of evil." T Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason SACRIFICES Still, still we bask in gilded ease, and soothe ourselves with fine cigars, and fill ourselves with costly cheese, and choo . around in motor cars. We put fine raiment on our backs, we buy silk shirts of gorgeous price; we haven't yet got down to tacks, we haven't made a sacrifice. We read stern tales from o'er the sea, which tell of i Britain's battered line, and buy up 'seven bonds or three, where we should call for forty-nine. We haven't helped our Uncle Sam SO much it's worth whilp tn rolntp wo eat brown bread, well spread with jam, and think we're doing something Great. We waste enough, each passing day, (because we do not use our domes) to drive the wolves of want away from fiftv thousand soldiers' homes. We waste our coin on Drincefv duds when simpler rags would do as well, we blow our change for smokes and suds, and gawds too numerous to tell. Of sacrifice we're talking large while on our padded course we romp, like Cleopatra on her barge, in luxury and idle pomp. Our loyalty is all a fake unless we show we have some steam; oh, let us prod ourselves awake, and do the things of which we dream! pretend, crossing." Wo talked tor soma lime longur, j. told her how I hated her at rirsi now I resented her presence. "I knew it, all the time exactly ImW von felt." she replied. "I knew also that the time would come when you would change. I saw that in yon Which would respond to my efforts, or I should not have persisted." Had she also discovered something in me that would yield to teaching! Was it- the same something which had made George want to marry me, to make me over to his ideas of what a wife should be? "I am glad yon did! I don't know what I should have done without you. Probably Georg.9 would have divorced me, long ago. You remember my dinner the one Morton Gray made the place cards for? It was the way you helped me, then, that made m! like you. Up to that time. I almost hated you. I felt so a -u:i.i n.4. -,. t"" small so UKc a naugiuy mu. Uvce aU men in disgrace, isow i mm a for you more than anyone in More lands. You have helped mo so mucli.' "I am very glad to hear you say that, niv d-ar." Bhe laid her delicate, aris tocratic hand over mine. "But you are can be, very loveable. I wonder, some times, if. you know how loveable? I' hurts me," and probably hurts your hus band much more, when you are not so. n i,nt. nllow vourself to benw hard and cold, while' you are learning to have the poise and social training necessary Pear Bishop: it was my great pleas ure and privilege some years ago to hoar your masterly address on Chris tian education before your own confer ence nt Long Beach, Cal., and also your more recent address on the "Mis sion of the American Christian col lege," on the occasion of the installa tion of President Ooney of Willamette university. I would respectfully call' your atten tion to the following statements in the latter address as reported in the Wil lamette Collegian, Oct 18, 1916: "This institution stands for the Christian religion." "if this mission is ignored, Willam ette has no excuse for continued ex istence." "This function of tho college is to be kript uppermost.'' ' ' I'; is because we believe that the president-elect has the vision of these ideals and will make them, effective in his labors that we give him the nlace of educational leadership as the head of our institution." I would also call your attention to the following statements printed in a local daily, Oct.. 14. 1918, from the ad dress of tho presiding officer, Hon. E. A. Booth who "struck the key note of the entire day." "We must do something that state schoo's do net and cannot do " Tho principles of the privately en dowed college are to dominate' the to fill vour position. You will loso more infinitely more, thau you will gam, .f you do." . We had tes and muffins served in with George. Ho pretended to be jea' ous lierau! we had "talked behind K i v "We said nothing against yon, l told him. ".But my ears burned. Tou were talk ing ahirt me." iiyesaaviug very mee things," Mrs. Sexton Interposed. "Thank yon!' -he said graivly. "I want Helen to think nice things of me nlwavs." (Mondny What Can One Do!) LET US ESTIMATE ON All yorrr Printing an Up-to-Now office to meet your print ing demands. THE CAPITAL JOTONAL FHONE 81 1 oubl further call your attention lo this striking quotation from tie ad dress of i'res- lioney: " A college can beat serve the world by keeping itself unspotted from the world." From the foregoing we would seem .jimtified in concluding that Willam ette stands for the best for the high est Christian ideals and standards for burning Chris'ian evangelism evan gelism, tho most progressive and ag gressive the most searching and thor oughfor the truth 'that "the church" or college " that ceases to be evangelistic will soen eease to be evangelical." You well know how our own. in common with other denomina tions, has declared against that "abom ination of desolations, " the Sunday nawnpaiper, which Dwight L. Moody, with his wide experience and Observa tion, to whom Willamette owes so much through T. S. McDanlel, has declared to be the greatest frw of evangelical religion worse than the galooi. It was, as I recall, in the summer of 1888 shortly aftor tho now famous college s'tirtent conferences bad been launched at Xorthfield. while driven in a hack from the R. R. station to the NoTtUfield. seminary grounds by one of Mr. Moody's students, that he remarked that Mr. Moody had been stirring up things by preaching against the Sun day newspaper, that the annual Yale Hnrvrd boat races, an event of great excitement, had eome off on a previ ous Saturday and among others Mr. Moody's elder son, now the- illustrions W-m. Ik Moody, appointed by his fath er his only authorized biographer and hi, successor as head of the North field schools, but then a fmfon Yale, was reported to nave bought. liko cithers, a Sunday paper containing an account of the race and that the driver 'believed was why Mr. Moody at that time had preached that sermon. Such a deed was certainly in keeping with the character of that noble evan gelist and reminds .me of two notable addtfoss.-e delivered Iby .Pres. Doney not long .beforo his departure for Fraiwe, both cf whkh he closed with the same fino illustration with telling effect, adding let us take the place of our boys in their fiht with the devil- Do you not think that a Christian col lege, especially this pioneer Methodist institution standing empnati-oally for militant Chrjisjiianitiy ifor Ohiristiani ty in earnest should always and ev erywhere, throughout world wide Meth odism, stand with the boys and their friends in their fight, against, that aibominable nuisance, the Sunday news, paper devil! Also, is it right or wise In this pro gressive bone dry state, in this day of the square deal, of open air diplomacy of open and above board methods- tor ft Christian college of marvelous fu ture possibilities whioTi lifts aloft and strives to realize) the highest Christian ideals and standards, is it right or wise, I ask, for such a college to give tho highest place of honor on its com- ineiK'eiiiiont -day program ta a disciple of "invisible government," a political heeler of the notorious anti-prohibition hosses Lodge and Penrose, a member of a corrupt political gang of an hypo- ritical ungodly old liquor party, over forty years behind the times, ruled by liquor and tobacco? Who. out of sympa thy wi:ih our "narrow" views caa " ch us not only how to be broad and liberal with our Christian Sabbath, but perhaps also with any of the other commandments of the decalogue! As "this institution stands for th Christian religion and has no exeuss for its continued existence if this mis sion is ignored," and must keep "it self unspotted from the world," as wi do not wish her doors to be closed and as the man you gave "the place of ed ucational leadership as the head of our institution." as new overseas some niiero in France, will you not, Dear Bishop, in big absence, kindly take ths place of our ibova in their fight witll the dcvM to keep, old Willamette un spotted from the world, the flesh and tho devil, and "make these ideals ef fective!". Yours respectfully, WILLIAM N. TAFT. Woman and Son Are Sent to Jail Portland, Or., June 8, Mrs. Elber tiua Brandel and her son Edwin must sorre ten days each in jail. She was found guilty today of attempting to ob struct the draft and he of attempting to avoid military service. The Brandels live Li Linn county near Lebanon. Officers who wont to learn why Edwin did not appear for entrapment to Camp Lewis had to force their way through two doors before they found him. Mrs. Brandel was declared to have assailed the supreme court for declaring the draft law constitutional. She insist ed that her son should not enter the army. President Ready For Telegraphers Strike Washington, June 8. President Wil son has taken a direct hand in the threatened strike of telegraphers thrn out the nation. He will confer shortly both with Xewcomb Carlton, president of the Western Union and President S. J. Konenkamp of the Commercial Tele- ' graphcrs Union, in an effort to avert a walkout, it was learned today, i This afternoon the president conferi red with Secretary of Labor Wilson. Hundreds of telegrams have reached the White House . demanding that the threatened strike be prevented. The submarine menace seems to hays been somwhat submerged.