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e Capital Journa itona WEDNESDAY EVENING January 29, 1919 CHABLES H. KSHZB Editor nd Publlaher I Page of Th Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address AH Communication To Cbc DaUpmUql journal BALEM 134 8. Commcreial St. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Tun- w r-or .Hf ia OO Per Month 5 Daily' by Mail, per year $3.00 FULL LEASED WIRE FOREIGN BEPBESENTATIVES W- D. Ward. New York, Tribuns Building. W. H. Btockwell, Chicago, People' Ga Building Th Daily Capital Journal earner toy are instructed to pat th paper on the porch. If the carrier doe not do this, minus yon, or neglect getting th paper to yon on time, kindly phon tha circulation manager, a thi U tha only way w can determine whether or not the carrier are following instructions. Phone tl before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by peeial messenger if the sarrier ha misted you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JCUBNAI, I th only newspaper in Salem whoa eireulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulation DELINQUENT TAX SHARKS PROSPER. The publication of the delinquent tax list was discon tinued becuase a majority of the voters of Oregon, mostly in Pnrtlnnd. followed the advice of the'Orecon Journal and played into the hands of , petty gratters wnose operations were namperea vy iun riirlifMtv Already belated taxpayers, some whose property was not properly listea, ana otners wno purcnasea wiuuh the past two years are paying the penalty. They are finding out that there are extremely heavy penalties at tached to their delinquent taxes and that their titles are being mixed and endangered. In this state it is fully two years after the assessment is made that taxes become delinquent. In this interval numerous changes in interest take place. This makes the attempted notification by mail a farce, since in so many instances the person whose name and address appears on the assessment roll has no interest whatever in the pro perty or the taxes upon it. More than likely after the taxpayers have suffered from the operations of the grafters and sharks for two years, they will be ready to pass a bill re-instating the publication of the delinquent tax list, thus returning to the safe, sane and honest methods of publicity which is the. due of all property owners before their realty is sold for taxes. But in the meantime serious inconvenience and many burdensome penalties will have been suffered by the taxpayers and land titles will in many cases, be hopelessly muddled. SEVEN THOUSAND BLIND MEN. About 7,000 soldiers of the Allied armies were ren dered permanently blind by the war. One-fourth as many more may be unable to respond to treatment now being given to prevent the same catastrophe for them. In former years instead of permanently blind, we should have said "hopelessly blind," and these seven thous and men would have become mostly dependents, pitied, enslaved by a mistaken kindness. But in these days "help the blind" does not mean a tin cup for pennies and a black and tan pup for a guide. It means "teach the blind!" Teach them the amazing range of subjects for which their infirmity fits them gather than disqualifies them. It would be hard to find a more interesting or en couraging talk on the subject than an address to the blinded soldiers by King George of England, which has RIPPLING By Walt AMBITION. . Ambition's needed in your game if you would win success or fame. The gent without it seems a clod, content his treadmill way to plod, while men who have the splen did spur fill all the air with smoke and fur. Ambition, when it's safe and sane, controlled by wisdom's curb and rein, is necessary to the guy who hopes to reach the places high. But if you say, "I'll never stop until I reach the gleaming top, regardless always of the rights of other hopeful striving wights," perhaps you'll reach the top and then discover you're abhorred of men. I'd build mud fences all my days before I'd tread the higher ways, and hear some delegates exclaim, "He never played an honest game. To push himself to higher rank he'd rob his gran ny's savings bank. To gai na foot on other men, he'd swipe his mother's setting hen. His thoughts are always of himself; to gain renown or gather pelf he'd push a crip ple from the road, or touch a poet for his ode." In Hol land there's a lonely skate who hoped to be supremely great; the rights of men he laughed to scorn, and trod upon the nearest corn. What mattered it if legions died, so he increase dhis pomp and pride? And now he sits in shadows gray, and swats cockroaches all the day. His fate's a lesson to us all, the fat, the lean, the short, the tall. OREGON Per Month S5c TELEUBAI'U BEPOBT . the tax lien speculators and i j l .e.ii RHYMES Mason been printed in raised letters the men who cannot see. tie "If there is one thing is not to despair. The time was a being without resources, incapable of providing for himself or enjoying life. Hundreds of our soldiers who lost their sight in this war have already, thanks to their strength of soul, their patience, and assisted by profes sional education, learned to resume their former occupa tions." The marvelous part of it is that the "professional" education has been given since the men were blinded, and means intensive education to fit the man to do, without his eyes, what he did before he lost his sight. Not only to the blinded soldier, but to all who are sightless, this message is one of hope and inspiration. The blind are to be led by a way that they knew not. Begging, basketry and piano-tuning are no longer the limits which circumscribe the blind man. But just like everybody who ever accomplishes anything, he must have "strength of soul and patience." For his helpers can give him only the opportunity; his use of it depends on himself. The new consolidation bill is before the legislature. It provides for the election of the governor by the people and for the appointment of all other officials by the gov ernor. We are very much disappointed that the bill is really a compromise, in that the people are allowed to have some rights. How much safer it would be to have the commission drawing the bill name the governor them selves, thus avoiding any fool action on the part of the voters!. Or the measure might have provided that the professor of the science of government who was import ed from the East last year to frame a new consolidated government for Oregon should be named as governor and provision made for the hereditary transmission of the of fice with all its dictatorial powers. The bill as it was intro duced is only a make-shift; it gives the common people too much in allowing them to elect the czar, who still re tains the modest title of governor. Henry L. Pittock, publisher of the Oregonian, is dead at an advanced age, and with his passing Oregon loses one of its finest pioneer characters. No doubt the brilliant Harvey Scott won more fame for his work upon the Ore gonian, but it was Mr. Pittock who employed him to write editorials, and it was his business ability and grim, deter mination in trying times that carried the Oregonian through its pioneer stages to the success it later achiev ed as a newspaper. Mr. Pittock never sought public at tention m any form and as a plain, unassuming man, of pleasing, amiable disposition, he endeared himself to those who were privileged to be his friends. His death is a distinct loss to the entire Northwest in the development of which he was an important factor in a very quiet way. The annual meeting of the Commercial club tonight should be generally attended by members of the organiza tion. There is great work to be done this year and the plans should be laid which will render effective the ef forts of the club to work for The superintendent of little hazing is good for the cadets. A freshman in the school of experience out in the cold woorld generally gets hazed, and profits by it. THEWIFE By Jans Phelps. BUTH PLANS A SURPRISE rOB BRIAN. CHAPTER CXUX. j The next morning 'Brian wns obliged j to uo down towu to attend to some mat-1 torn having to do with his discharge from the army. (So Kuth went a far as the new office with hint. ''The rug and shades nil! be there early, and I want to stv to tha hang ing of the shades," she had made her excuse when he told her she was fool ish to Co out so carlv, ' now that you don't have to," he had added. Hut she had insisted Then they agreed to meet at a little restaurant near the new office for lunrheon. ' ''You'll want to see how the rug looks, ''Ruth explained when ah plan ned to meet htm. 'All right, boss! I'll be there," had been liriau's happy answer, as he kissed her, and then they both kissed the baby who was so like his father. What a busy morning Ruth had. Bhe sow the woman had cleaned very thor oughly. The window had been wash ed and the bright morning sun shone through them, making long, golden fin ger on the new rug. lighting up its somber shade (which Ruth considered appropriate for the office). After seeing that the shades were all right as to eolor and that the man knew his business, she left hint hanging tliein and made a visit to the bank where aha kept her savings. She drew out quite a large sum, then made her way to a store dealing in office fur niture. Hhe bought a solid, substantial desk, a half dosen leather chairs, a long table, fur which she ordered a glass top, and several sections of the book cases she had in mind. The clerk tried to sell her couch to match the chairs. fche was strongly tempted to buy it until she remembered llriaa't inclina tion to take thing easy. He 11 work better if he has no place to lop down," she said to herself a tho declined to buy it. so it can be easily read by says in part: which I can urge upon you, it has gone by when a bund man a Greater Salem. West Point seems to think a Tho little waiting room must also be made attractive. So Bhe purchased comfortable chair and a rug for that us well as a small table. She would see that some magazines were always kept upon it for waiting clients to read. Kuth had wonderful faith that those clients would soon be - forthcoming. Brian llarkett was not the unknown struggling barrister he had been before the war He was known as that "brave Lieutenant Haekctt" whom his coun try had thought worthy of their high est praise. And, business woman that she was, sho would turn all this to ac count in hi after-the-war struggle for business success. . Mia intrigued the clerk to send the things at once on a special wagon. Hhe hcrselcf hurried back to the office so that she would be there when they came. The clerk did not disappoint her. lie had iu some psychological way caught a little of Huth's enthusiasm and almost at the minute he had prom ised, the furniture appeared. . Buth never had spent a happier morn ing, the dusted and arranged the booksj I hey looked very well indeed in their bravely new cases. In fact the books themselves looked almost new. Brian's practice had not required that he use them often, and he had been too indo lent to atutly as Ruth had urged not feeling the need. Bhe arranged and re-arranged the furniture until she had it placed to the best advantage. Then she cleaned up in the little wash room opening out of the waiting room, and went to meet Brian. "You look as if you had been up to mischief," he remarked after they had ordered their luncheon. ' Your eyes shine like stars." ' What mischief would an old mar ried woman like me be apt to get into" 'I '11 wager there's something. I never aw you look prettier, or more a if .vu had some wonderful secret- No one has died and left us a million or two. have theyf" . "No, dear. You are going to make all the millions we have, yourself. I ex pert you WILL make them, too." ''Don't expect too much or you will be horribly disappointed. If I can keep you and the kid in that apartment and give us all enough to eat and wear, it is all I ask. Sometimes I am afraid I shall not be able even to do that much." Oh, ye of little faith," Buth quo ed. "Don't dare question mr husband's ability, Brian Hackett! lie 'a going to be one of the rising young lawyers of the eity. That' how they express it, isn't it!" So, laughing and chatting, as hapjiv young people do, they finished their luncheon. "Whither away nowt" Brian asked a they reached the street. ''Let's go to the office and see if the shades are hung." Nothing loath to again, view the place where he was soon to spend hit days, Brian acquiesced, and they walk ed to the office. (Tomorrow Ruth Tells Brian Her Wonderful Secret). I OpenFonmi Salem, Jan. 29, 1919. To the Members of the Legislature: A few years ago, a railroad surve) wa made on the south side of the Tualatin river, from Tualatin to Hills boro, a distance of approximately 18 miles. But, for some reason, the rail road was never built, and I believe it never will be, a hard surfaced rotds and automobile and truck will be the means of transportation. ' The soil in township 1, 2 and 3, s., range 2 W, of the Willamette Merid ifcn is as good a any fonnd in Oregon, and the principal industry is dairying; but, for four months of the year, four horses would have to be hitched to a wagon in order to haul one ton of milk over it roads, and to ban! lumber wood is out of the question., some farms are unmercifully neglected, and farmer are getting discouraged on ac count of the lack of transportation. And now, Honorable Members of the Legislature, as you are about to dreft a bonding bill for several millions for road purposes, I would suggest that the part of townships 1, 2 and 3 8., range 2 W. of the Willamette Meridian, that lies south of the Tualatin river and joins Yamhill eounty on the top of the Chchalem mountains, be granted an sp propriation of the money received from auto taxes, bond issues or other mouey received from said Townships 1, 2 and 3 8., rnnsro 2 W. of the Willamette Mcridicn for road purposes. For myself, will say I own 95 acres in township 2, and, if my share should be 110 peracre, I would eonsider it a good investment. At present, I am working in a rock quarry for Washington eounty in town ship 2, running a tnnnel, and we intend to tear loose several thousand yards in one blast, but the special taxes and appropriation from the county is only a drop in the bucket-,-as we havo to work on too small a scale. . Bespcctfully yours, E. WENSTROM, President, Washington County National Farm Loan Association. : SENATE BILLS, t S. B. 93. By Thomas and Lachniund. Providing that all bids for tnu construc tion of public highways shall.be based on specifications prepared and filed previous to tho issuance of a call for bids. t 8. B. 96. By Judiciary committee. Conferring upon the chief justice of the supreme court power to assign cir cuit judges to duty in various coun ties to promote the speedy transaction of business. . 8. B. 97. By Judiciary committee. Making it unlawful for any person to solicit personal injury business. 8. B. 98. By Shanks. Eliminating tho old procedure of remonstrances against the construction of county high way. a. B. 99. Br Smith of Coos. Pro viding method for counties to surren der cities or towns jurisdiction over cer tain county roads. BOMB THINGS TO SEE. It certainly was royal fun To see the kaiser on the sun; And then again it pleased n much To see ex-kciscr with the Dutch, I should not worry, nor should you To see ex kaiser have the flu; 'Tis far more fun than any "lark" To set) ex -kaiser "toe tho mark," To cover face with crime all smeared To see ex-kaiser growing beard. When nations gather to make good To sec ex kaiser "sawing wood." We wait 'with longing, fervent hope To see ex-kaiser stretch the rope. 'Twould be rare sport eould wc be there To see him dangle in the air A warning to nations unfair T0 leave him always dangling there, That those who hold for fighting rone Might ever hear his clanking bones; Tho clanking should resound so far 'Twould warn them never more to war. Twill be by ail men understood What's left' of bad is doing good. Jan. M, 1919. H. E. B. Kc When yon us Journal classifi ed ads get what you want them to they work fast. JOHNSON SPLITS WITH (Continued from page one) trine. I will not for one instant con cede that it is the dutv of this repub lic to maintain order in Jugo-Slav, Czecho-Slovak or any other new state. I am opposed to American boys polic ing Europe and quelling riots in every new nation's backyard. "Keep in mind that the establish ment and maintenance in part of these peoples must be paid for by our al ready overburdened taxpayers. . But aside from the material considers tions, I would not shed the blood of American boys in the internal disturb ances of an Esthonia, Livonia or Cour land. "Our help to 16 nations which would be created 'in establishing them selves with ordered governments' must be the aid which our arms would give to one faction or another in these new states end I am not ready to shed Am erican blood for any factions of any foreign state, or in maintaining the government in any Baltic province. "America Wants Peace" "America wants peace. Let us have peace and get out of. Europe." Taking up President Wilson's four teen peace terms, Johnson declared the first, calling for "open covenants of peace, openly arrived at," has ueen "distorted and misunderstood." 'Anyone really ought tounderstand that when we say open covenant of peace openly arrived at, we mean se cret covenants secretly arrived at," said Johnson. He assailed the method of handing out "homeopathic doses" of peace eonference news to the American peo ple and charged' that in spite of as surances to the contrary the news from Paris is being censored. Of point two, freedom of the seas, he said. "It has been lost for a considerable period in historical mystery and rests in oblivion, with the unrealized dreams of the Akound of Swat and the Maha rajah of Burtania. "Peace point three, for the removal of economic barriers, four for the re duction of national armaments, and five, for the impartial adjustment of all colonial claims,' apparently have been submerged in weightier questions and no longer agitate the over bur dened minds of statesmen. The sixth peaco point regarding Russia, I will' mention hereafter. "All of the other peace points, with the exception of the league of nations, deal with territorial adjustments. Now, the difficulty of the president in' interpreting his peace poii.ts as to tentorial acquisitions is that long ago, England, France and Italy reach ed their conclusions and the president is up against the contracts, signed, sealed, and delivered and in the pock et of tho tallies. Treaties Quits Definite "The secret treaties which -were ex ecuted before our entrance into the war were quite definite in form and apportioned territories to the three great belligerents and also to Bussia, These secret treaties with the elimi nation of Russia, I feel sure, are deem ed effective and binding; nor do I doubt that substantially tie territory they embrace will be divided in ac cordance with their provisions." Taking up the Russian situation, Johnson demanded Immediate return of American soldiers. He declared this government' policy of "criminal in tervention has lengthened the life of the bolsheviki and is resulting in starv ing, not the bolsheviki leaders, but the women and children of Russia, for whom this and the allied governments profess love. ".Russia's treatment by the United States and the allies shows that 'our idealistic statements on the rights of self determination have gone into ob livion with the rest," he said. Declaring he does net defend "ih any degree the soviet power of Len ine and Trotsky, Johnson said: ".Why, our dealings with Bussia have not only been an exhibition of the crassest stupidity, but have con tributed to the woeful tragedy there. Bead Document Johnson then put into the record a document hitherto unpublished in the United States which was sent to the allies by the Soviet government in March, 1918. A favorable answer to this, said Johnson, would have pre vented the signing of the Brest -Li-tovsk treaty Bind would halve kept Russia in line with the allies. "In this document, the soviet gov ernment asked what the allies, partic ularly the United States would give in the struggle against Germany if the Erest-Litovsk treaty was denounc ed. "This communication was received apparently with indignant and con temptuous silence," said Johnson. "Thi may have been proper," he said, but pointed out that the United States government had begged Nen1 York socialists and anarchists to cable Lcnino and Trotsky to refuse the i Brest-Litovsk treaty and continue the) war. "If the emergency and the crisis justified the government in using the1 anarchists of New York to eommuni-l eate with, the anarchists of Petrognad.j it would have justified the United States government answering the com-1 muniearion of the soviet government,! without recognition of government at all and in encouraging it by its ans-j wer to renew the war with Germany said Johnson. Cited Examples Johnson cited examples of allied eo- oKxation with bolsheviki. He said: The Brttish and -Trench troops co operated with boUheviki troops in keeping order in retrorad. That the bolsheviki let CI-otc Creel representative use th"ir TrHtin rr!s i to run -off copies cf rreMerit Wit- son's speeches and appropriated funds i of the soviet government for the pnr-1 pose. I Ttiski tta IliAft mitttni-v niwiAnl 1 ft TV'S .unififSTKW 1 6 Bell-ans i Hot water Sure Relief BELL-AN 5 FOR INDIGESTION KM TO ASK 'WHIP' of mm foods Students Of Food Problems Tell Housewives To See Retail Prices Go Down. Washington, Jan. 29. A resolution. directing the department of agricul ture to inform the senate whether there f-ro large surplus supplies of foodstuff in warehouses, is to be introduced by Senator Kenyon, Iowa. Kenyon an nounced today he will ask this informa tion to get the real facts. Packers representatives .testifying; before, congressional committees, have declared there is a large surplus of pork They have hinted also large overstocks of grains and other foods. Kenyon wantg to know where the sur pluses are, if they exist, and by whom they are held. If they do exist, he will try to find out, he said today whether they are beiag held in an effort to keep up the present high prices of food. Neutral Markets Thrown Open. While Kenyon was plnnning to ua cover the surplus the neutral markets for pork products were thrown open t the packers by an order of the war trade board issued at the instance of the food administration. Meanwhile students of the food prob lem hero warned housewives to sco that thoir retailers brought prices down t meet drops in the wholesale markets already reported by the bureau of mar kets. "Betail prices are the hardest things in the world "to force down, once they get up," Walter L. Fisher, former sec retary of the interior and activo in the investigation against the packers, de clared today. "A drop" of ten cents in the wholesale price of meat for in stance, might not be reflected in retail prices for a month." IS GROWi President Seitz Declared That Peoples Victory Has Emerged. By Prank J. Taylor (United Press Staff Correspondent.) Berne, Jan. 28. (Delayed.) New Austria is as different from the old Hapsburg Austria, as is Poland, Czccho biovaka or any of the other nation which have broken away from the for mer monarchy, President Seitz of the Austrian republic declared in an inter view today. Bcitz, who came here to attend the International Labor aud Socialist Con gress, was raised, in a Vienna orphan age. His parentage is uuknwn. Ho educated himself while a tailor's ap prentice. Later he became a teacher and finally a figure in politics as fc socialist leader. "Wo have had a people's victory in Austria, the same as in other ps-rt of tho former empire," he said. "The idea seems prevalent in entente circles that Austria is merely the old empire -shrunken as the result of separatism! Thi is not truo. We revolted just a the others did. "Under the principle of self-determination, we wish to join with Germnny. A confederation of the elements of thr old dual monarchy is impossible." help train the bolsheviki red army. Had Protection of Bolsheviki That the Red Cross mission from America had the full protection of the bolsheviki in PetrOgrad and Moscow for seven months after Creel's em had fled. "Why did we enter Bussinf" John son asked. "I answer for no very good reason; and we have remained for no reason at all. "What is our policy toward Russia! I answer we have no policy. We have engaged in a miserable misadventure, stultifying our professions and set ting at naught our promises. We have punished no guilty; we have but brought misery and starvation ani death to the innocent. We have gar nered none of tho fruits of the victory of war but suffer the odium and in famy of undeclared warfare. We have sacrificed our own blood to no pur pose, and into American homes kav) brouaht sorrow and anguish and suf fering. "Bring the American boys home from Kussia." The Journal Job Department will print you anything in ths stationery line do It right and save y.u real money.