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Editorial Page of The Ca CHABLES H. FISHEB Editor and Publisher ournai THURSDAY EVENING January 30, 1919 Published Every Evening: Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address All Communications To BALES! 136 S. Commercial 8t. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Daily, br Carrior. per year $3.00 Per Month.. Daily by Mail, per year.. $3.00 FULL LEASED WIRE FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES W- D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. H. gtockwell, Chicago, People's Gas Building The Daily Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, muses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phono the circulation manager, as this is the only way wa can determine whother or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone tl before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will arner has missed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations 3B8386 UNJUST AND UNFAIR TAXATION. There is a proposal before the legislature to with draw state aid from the state industrial accident commis sion. This is expected to save $600,000 of state money, but the burden of carrying the accident insurance is to be loaded more heavily upon the industrial interests. Saw mill operators will not object to this plan and in other of the more hazardous occupations it will be accepted. It saves them the heavy expense of casualty insurance and many damage suits. The new proposal, however, o include many non , hazardous industries and make it compulsory for them to come in and contribute for the benefit of the more hazard ous occupations is palpably unjust. Take the printing and publishing business, for instance, because we know just what we are talking about when we discuss it. In over thirty years experience as a publisher, we have never had an accident that required an employe to even go to a hos pital for treatment, or to lose any time on account of an injury. Other publishers wiH give similar testimony. Why then should newspapers and printing offices be required to contribute, to this fund when they will in no wise be benefitted, and when the employes of the print ing industry do not wish to be assessed to provide bene fits only for the worker's in other trades? Printing and publishing is one of the largest industries in the state, with millions invested, and employing a large number of people. It should not be within the power of the legisla , ture to tax such an industry against its protest and with out providing some benefits or compensation for the tri bute levied. GOING WELL The peace conference so far seems to be going very well far better than might have been expected. The ap parent disharmony that prevailed for some weeks before the sessions began has disappeared. All the big powers have swung around to a support of the American League of Nations plan; and so far as can be judged from this distance, the foreign delegates are not paying it in mere lip-service they are really Ratio of representation, order of business, voting meth eds and other motters that might have given rise to delay and ill-feeling have been straightened out promptly and amicably. - There is a noticeably friendly atmosphere. Evidently RIPPLING By Walt BEARING IT. When I am full of piebald pain, I realize that kicks are vain. I'd rant around in gorgeous style, and burn up language by the mile, if I believed 'twould help me out when I have flu or mumps or gout. I've had most kinds of cheap disease; I've had rheumatics in my knees; some asthma in my bosom lurks, and indigestion in my works; my valves are often out of whack and I've lumbago in my back, ingrowing teeth and "itis" things, and everything that aches and stings. When I was young I thought relief might come from springing roars of grief, but age brings wisdomor it should and shows what's good, and what's no good. The man who calmly bears his cross is never quite a total loss. He'll always have a herd of friends until his little journey ends. But no one loves the sweating swain who beefs about a little pain. When I am crippled up and sore, I try to sing and smile the more; tears will not make my anguish quit, and now's the time to make a hit by stacking up as Sunny Jim I'll work that graft or lose a limb. And so the cheery neighbors come, and bring me jam of quince and plum, and chicken soup, and things like those; they wouldn't if I made my woes the punk excuse for briny weeps; they'd dodge my coop, and that for keeps. j OKEOON 45e 35e Per Month- TKLEtiKAPH EEPORT be sent you by special messenger if the AT PARIS. trying to put it through. RHYMES Mason 8B8B2B the delegations really want mise their viewpoints instead everything and get away with it. The conference is actually working. It functions. It is visibly getting somewhere. Great difficulties will doubtless appear as its work proceeds; but so fine a start bodes well for the finish. The annual membership meeting of the Commercial club last night was one of the best in the history of the organization. It was those present were enthusiastic in their view of the luture growth of Salem. The officers chosen are strong, rep resentative business men, and they will have the earnest support of the membership in all their efforts to advance the interest of the community through the activity of the club. The first movement to be undertaken will be a thorough canvass of the city for new members, one of the essentials to successful work being a large member ship, representing all the varied interests of the city. The Russian situation is useful in providing editor ial matter for the newspapers.- One may write about it from many standpoints and make any sort of statements about it without fear of successful contradiction because no one really knows anything about it. It also serves as a splendid topic for bolshevik senators like Hi Johnson, when they wish to foment discontent and trouble in this country in order to make political capital. We only wish Johnson could be deported to Russia and allowed to asso ciate more intimately with his unwashed friends, Lenine and Trotsky. Clubs carried by the Paris police are filled with tiny j electric lights. What is the idea? Won't the old style clubs make the victims see stars enough? The fat, smiling Manuel thinks he will get his job back as king of Portugal, but we'll wager that he is mis taken. In this day and age With license fees doubled ed, the automobile owner ought to appreciate the good roads he is promised. He is paying for them all right. Anyhow, if Ireland gets away with her revolution now it can't be said that Germany had anything to do with it. ..... .. Maybe if they put brass footrails in the postoffices, generous citizens would treat each other to thrift stamps. The high cost of living seems to be going out with the influenza. THEWIFE By Jane Phelps. RUTH TELLS BRIAN HER WON " ""DERFUL NEWS. CHAPTKB CL. 'So this was tho mischief you were doing?" liiiun eaught Kuth in his arint and kissed her fondly. " You UUU witch! It looks like the offico of that Millionaire Uaukett you were talking about. "It is his office After ho had exumined everything Brian said: "Don't think I do not appreciate all you havo done in getting this ready for me, ltuth, but how much do wo owe for it all" with it comprehensive sweep of his arm, including even the little waiting room. 'Not a ponny, Mr. Hackott. Thero are your receipts ou file." "Hut Kuth" "No objections allowed." Then: "lou see, dear, it didn't cost mo much of anything to live while auntie was with me. Bho wouldn't let mo pity fur tilings. And as I was earning a big salary Mr, Mnndcl raised me again when he becamo so engaged with wa work, so leaving the business almost en tirely in my charge. 1 earned it, too, I assure you." 'Tour Maudoll How sad he must bo to lose you. Honest, Euth, I feel like begging his pardon. He was good to you always; now you are leaving him tc get along us best he can because your husband wants you. I used to feel jeal ous of him too. He had everything I didn't huvo. Money social position all that you craved, and that 1 couldn't give you. Is it any wonder I wag jeal oust But I know romothiiig of what he is now. And I also know you better. One couldn't be "over there" and see tho things I s.w, take part that struggle for the betterment of the world and not grow. Potty personal affairs now seem putty. Before, they appeared of paramount importance. But to get back to our mutton: You must htve 8Hnt a lot of money, Ruth. It !s ism nlv a perfectly appointed office. Noth ing liko having wife with good taste as well as mot ey. Here Brian blew his nose suspiciously hard, and ifter-j ward his eyes also seemed to need at tentior Xuth saw, but with her usual, delicacy, turned her back and com menced to talk of what more wr.s need ed. The desk for the telephone In the wailing room tho extension to his pri vate office, etc. Yet she eould not help being pleased at the emotion he timl ilmwiwiivitn it aim vatitA.1 ttr j thanks. "Now sit down, Brian, and listen. to pull top-ether and corapro' of each trying to grab well-attended, harmonious, and kings never come back. and gasoline specially tax I have some wondorfur news for ypu." "It's that millionl I feel it in my bones. " "I am glad you. foci something be sides pain in those bones of yours, but you are wrong, l tola you xuu were t ,nk tlx, n,illi,n T omen.t vnn tn i and I do not bear disappointment at i all nobly. But, Brian, joking aside, 1 1 wu so glad to hear you speak of Mr. 1 Mandel as you did. You never had any reason to be jealous." Ruth flushed ever so faintly. Only too well did she' know how much Mandol cared for her I but it was his secret. He himself had no idea she realized what sho had ,rrnw tn mm.,, n Mm Tint thin knnwl-' edge bad niado it both easier and hard-jha er to leave him, "I know, dew, I was a cad. But I was sore and thought everyone must love you because I did." " 'nw l'iutiin. Urinll. "VlP- Mlinilftl knows of this office. Knows that you weks 1,1 the Sale,u bosiptal whore she aro starting in to buil'd up a practice I""1"0"' an Patl"- Hor mother, interrupted by tho war. Ho told me Mr8'. J- C. Zuiser of Hysson, Wash., is to tell you that you wore retained as'8 cyln. wlth hcr untl1 sn0 rgaius ucr his attorney, wait--you don't know what that means, but I do. We paid his lawyers every year enough for us to live on. You see, his importations etc., muko necessary IokeI advice on matters which seem simple enough but which aro not. Then, too, he also told me to tell you that ho had several friends whose business would require a lawyer s Bcrvices becauso of the con ditions caused by the wa. He would recommend you s one who would be willing to study those conditions as af fected their business and sot them straight again," .."Why, Kuth, I it's you, dearl You have done all these things for me. I WILL make thttt million, dear, if I have to live to bo a hundred to do it. And, Ruth, dear, will you forgive mo for anything I ever have done to make you unhappy without eauso, but I was too hurt and proud to explain." Kuth knew he referred to Mollie King, so she said: "1 WAS jealous of Mollio, Brian, dreadfully jealous after you went over seas and I know she was also over there. But" "Mollie is going to marry Major Wil liams, Ruth. I was silly to make you jealous of her, becauso Mollie never cared for me, only was sorry because I had so unappreciative a wife Then "as she thought." "As you let her think, you mean." Ruth was sorry the moment she spoke. That her words had gono home, was evinced by Brian's b'ush. Tn makt amends she r.dded: ' YVo will tolrphone Mollie to take dinner with u8 tnuigU also. If she is to marry the major wo might as well let hcf see thttt wo are having our second honey moon. What do you sayf" "Let's ask hcr hr rTt twrn," The transpfirf Oeorg Washington, which is to bring hack President Wil aon, sailed frcm Now York Tuesday, J, Open Forum t AGAINST HIGHER SALARIES Editor Journal: Kindly allow me space for a few suggestions to the legis lature. At the last statu primaries there wo:e six republicans and one democrat run ning for the judge of the supreme court All were .anxious to get the job at $1500. Now the incumbents are clam oring for a raise to (0O00. State school superintendent also asks for a raise. County officers, surveyors, clerk8 and all asking or trying to graft from the already overburdened taxpayers. Then comes "the ten million road bond that the most of the people will favor, if they provide that these bonds shall not be sold for less than face value. Now if tlio continual raise of salaries is not brought to a halt the people will initiate petitions for a re adjustment of salaries for all state, dis trict and county and school and colege presidents. And they will see that no Btate officers shall receive a larger sal ary than 13600 which is ten dollars a day: and no county officer more than $2500, and college presidents the samo state officers. The judges of supreme court shall not bo increased and they shall only receive $3000. Knw if thpv fl.in 't. Wflnt. the lobS. , j . . - -- 2et out and compete for jobs with tho soldier boys returning home; help build roads, clear off cut over lands, drain the swamps and make thomselves usctul more than ornamental. Thou steps will be taken to abolish one branch of the legislature and re - a.. t. tw hrrtnh nn tn flic.eed two members from any county; and to! bo elected for four years and meet only every four yoars, and then sessions not to exceed 60 days at five dollars a day, and clerks shall be one for evory county only with imprisonment of one to five years for any violation of the same. The people elected representatives to represent their interests, not to go as salary raisers or to ereate more jobs or commissions with clerks and stenogra phers and office helpers. The great strikes m the shipyards and elsewhere are largely caused by . tho dissatisfa$ tion of labor becauso of high salaries of men who sit in offices on easy chairs furnished with all comforts end luxur ies of au easy , timo, and strikes will continuo until thero is an adjustment of wages commensurate with useful la bor against a blood-sucking, avaricious set of law making by lawyers which predominate in this legislature. Very truly yours, AN OLD SOLDIER, With Sherman from Atlanta to Sea SPRING VALLEY NOTES (Capital Journal Special Scrvico) Spring- Valley, Jan. 30. Mrs. W. D. Henry returned lest Friday from Salem whore she was the guest of Mrs. L. M. Purvine for several days. Whilo there she received medical treatment from -Mary rurvine, ana 18 mucn inl P1-ovod in health. A ten-pound daughter recently ar- "vcd,Tat the ime,rof Mr' 8nd Mrs- Eov Y"160- Mrs- Vauce fas fwmorty M'B? pl'ob,e Lol- TT M- and Mrs. D. fa Henry of Spring Valloy and their son, Worth Henry, and wlfo of b''dem have exchanged homes ?or Jh, Wlter- The elder Mr. Henry is for medical treatment as hi 'J0 ?on W0.U for ,tho Past yar' Ariel ZinBCr is working for Frank Crawford and Arthur Zinser for W. D. Henry. Mrs. Donnol Crawford returned home Sunday after a little over two , 6 Cards have been received announcing the luarringe of Miss Emma Moore and Corporal Howard Zinsor at Washington, D. C., Jan. 7. Corporal Zinser was well known here and in Salem. Miss Moore formerly was a Salem teacher. For tho present their homo will be at Washing ton. ' ' Harvey Crawford is convalescing from the influenza'. This seems to be the only case in the neighborhood al present, and we hope that thero will be no more. Sheep raisers in thig neighborhood arc becoming . very discouraged. In spito of the noed of wool and its high price, one cannot afford to keep sheep wheu dogs are constantly preying' upon tho flocks. Please, Mr. Legislator, do something about it. We like to help out the world's need of wool, and we like the nieo eheck, to put in the bank, but ,i, v-i . t.v i. . ' U1V mWUHIK V t AIWA MO M Wit" stant source of loss one must quit the business. The latest sufferer of these losses here is W. D. Henry, who has recently lost a number of fine sheep and hs-d others badly torn. He also had the trouble a few year, ago, ! bnt staved with it. Here' hoping the shoe) business will not be entirely driv en out of the valley. - William Toner of Corrallis is ship ping s car load of hay from his farm hero to "Yaquina bay. Captain P. F. Clarke was 90 years old on tha Eth. .lie is tn ratner feeble : health.- Mr. and Mrs. Vivian Cochrane! spent tho. day with Ctptain Clarke and hi wifo and he was the recipient of many congratulatory greetings. Mrs. James French and children art visiting at tha home of her mother, Mrs. Judson in South Salem. In army hospitals in the fnited States there ere 66,593 oecnpied beds and between 65,000 and 75,000 ick and wounded soldiers in France. CONfUSING UNCERTAINTIES IN GOING UPON A PEACE BASIS Vt V.nn C U.. f CICl U1 1 UitWLlCI LCC5, HUH" ever, Many Signs Of En couragement New York, Jan. 30. The financial community seemed somewhat depress ed this week, chiefly owing to a multi plicity of confusing uncertainties. Un- satislaetory relations between govern inent and corporations; adjustment of industry to a peace basis; continual de cline of oommodities: unsatisfactory . . ... . moor conditions, ana oetay in peace, negotiations, all contributed to a low ering of general confidence and a weakening of security values. Such dif ficulties are the natural sequences of a tcrrifie war, and will require time for solution. In one form c-r another thev will be with us for months to come. and the process of readjustment must be accomplished Btep by step. If the change be orderly and not violent, it will be a gain to all concerned; for business could then work liiion more utable foundations, and labor will find relief Miv?JraaUaI roduCtion in cost of living. ThnrA hu hAm mnffh rinlnv in vlni't. Jng the Peace Conference, upon which hangs the future of the civilized world; but the outlook is for real progress dur- liminaries being about completed, An- arcny roigns in .Russia and seems des- tined ta cn(J onlv through exhaustion, : unless some solution can be reached hearings granted at the peace con- A.vuvv wu.liittlij ajn-aiB iu uv L.U- ing more settled conditions. The recent election was a decided victory for tho Liberals, or midway between the Con servatives and Radicals, indicating that the mass of Germans still believe in steady progress, backed by strong cen tralization of government. Our railroad outlook, while disquiot ing, is hardly as bad as feared. The appointment of Mr. Rines as director general met with general approval be causo of his ability, experience and high reputation. Thoro is also a bolief that congress will not act hastily upon railron-d affairs; while the disposition to give the railroads fair play is grow ing more in evidence. Moreover, there is no general desire for public owner ship, nor any real demand for extend ing government operation for another five years. The true solution 'of tho rail road problem would be private owner ship under wise public control, with due regard to compensating the roads for losses incurred by their seizuro for war purposes. We aro establishing a big merchant marine; but conditions are chaotie in this industry, and neith er builders nor owners can adopt any safe or permanent policy as long as the government continues its present threat ening building operations. No govern, ment ever made such a colossal failure or wasted such immenso sums of money in business enterprise, as in the attempt to turn out a ready made merchant marine. Such an attainment is impos sible, and the sooner the government stops this useless waste of a billion or moro, the better for all concerned. It is now expected that the next bond issue will be in April, and the amount $6,000,000,000. Public officials and public opinion are united in recog nizing that this loan should be floated upon business methods and not by hys terical appeals to sentiment. Tho lat ter would not likely bo as well receiv ed, now that the war is ovor; also be cause personal incomes have been ser iously reduced by taxes, smaller pro-! fits and the high cost of living. When the loan is issued Hecrctary Glass will have to depend considerably for success upon financial institutions and wealthy individuals. Besides it is a foregone conclusion that moro liberal terms will be offered than in previous loans, in order to meet conditions of the money market. Commodities are on the dcline. Pro gressive merchants believe that tho sooner the country settles down to a lower and more normal basis, the bet ter. Cotton, cotton fabrics, wool, wool ens, hemp, rubber, coffee, sugar, but cri p8f?si steel copper hardware etc., are all selling considerably below wsr prices, ana ttire ten to go still lower. The foil naturally causes hesitancy, since buyers await more sctted condi tions, but the movement within reason is wholesome and is surely paving the way for renewed activity later on. Tuns far the decline has been mainly confined to first hands, retailers rcfus- ing to surrender any of their extra profit until forced by competitive con ditions. But they, too. must yield to the inevitable law of supply and demand. Buying powers of the consumer have W ;uy curtailed, supplies will soon begin to accumulate and retail . , , , . Pces must follow wholesale prices ere of living, which is at bottom of much of the present discontent Food, however remain excessively v : ..X. . i, : v. J3 : : . . 1 j J labnndanT ""ia"1 th. country. Cereal crops were large, but prices remain high, partly because of government prie infixing which had set values upon tho high level in or der to stimulate big crops. Now that the war .is over, congress should re peal the law which guaranteed the far mer f2.26 pre bushel for wheat; at least on the spring wheat crop not yet sown. The'price of meats tentinues high, in spite of the fact that the number of food animals is almost equal to last year's supply, which was the largcs on Tecord. It is useless to Prpec, prices to descend ,to anything approaching pre-war levels; because, aside from government price fixing, the costs of production, transportation and distri bution have been so enhanced by high wages as to nuke decided reductions impossible. Labor problems e6ntinu a subject ul general conejrn. Wage eie high, 1-ut reductions cannot be expected with things as they are. This places tno country upon a high cost basis; a ser ious obstacle to export trado which the r0""? nceas 01 lt3 m'lls. 'ln " mcrcnant neet are to linn, lucrative oceupation- Our soldiers are pouring back in thousands daily; only to fi id industry slowing down and jogs diffi cult to get. Discontent is natural, ca pecially on part of those who have suf fered and sacrificed for their cuontry 'a u,i. v,t v,. i. i,;. ii, ....j nnyj, w.v xin.u IVDb ,Ii:l JUI BUU tHH" not find pthers. Add to this the pre vailing distemper bred by war and impending changes, an 1 it is easy tt sympathize wih, if not always ag'ee with, the present attitudo of labor. Fortunately tho rank aid file of Am erican labor is too intelligent to ser iously consider the anarchistic doctrines of Bolshevism which have thrown ltus nia and parts of Europe into anarchy. Under present conditions labor and capital are so absolutely essential t each other, that warfare between thorn is folly. Neither can prosper without "Iworkine together and reaching a com. mon ground and a better understand- ' ? .... ;ing or eacn otner's cijficulties. t.,j i, a k. u wag dight rec0Very in Stock Exchanjta values, apparently on the theory that there present drawbacks had been pretty well discounted. Thero was also a bet ter feeling in tho monoy market, tbe banking situation being sound and loan able funds being more abundant. Tho placing of a British short term 6 per cent loan was an incident confirming tho idea that our Victory loan would be issued on moro attractive- tonns than previous Liberty loans. All thing considered, it would appear ub if con servative investments could now be made without excessive risks. HENRY CLEWS. Quits Cathartics Internal Baths Relieved Permanent!? Mr. Joseph A. Wcls, Hotel Ven dome, Washington, D. C, write Tyr. rell' Hygienic Institute of New York as follows! "On tha 15th of June, 1915, I pur chased a 'J. B. L. Cascade.' The re Suits it has produced are simply mar vellous. Tor 20 years I used cathartic but havo used nothing but the Cascade for almost a month. I feci like a now man; I want to be pleasant to every body. Before I used the Cascade I wa a grouch. Did not like anybody and could not be pleasant." If you bathe internally with tho " J. B. L. Cascade" you will find yourself always bright, confident and capable. Poisonous waste in tho lower intostina makes .us bilious, blue, dull and nerv ous. Interna bths are Nature's own cure for constipation--just antiseptia warm water properly applied. Drugs force Nature the " J. B. L. Cascade" gently assists her. It is (the invention of Chas. A. Tyr rell, M. D., of New York, who special ized on Internal Bathing for 25 years, and will be shown and explained to you by Daniel J. Fry, wholesale drug gist and mfg. pharmacist, Salem, Ore., who will also be glad to give you freo on request an interesting booklet call ed "Why Man of Today is Only 50 per cent Efficient," which covers the subject in a very thorough way. Clip this out as a reminder, and ask for the' booklet the first time you aro in the neighborhood. Sixty-one percent of the men of O. A. C. who wont into the service wcra commissioned or non-commissionod of ficers. . On account of the storing and high water all train service is stopped on the Tacoma Eastern railroad. The influenza epidemic has subsided in Weston and the schools reopened this week with an attendance of 81 per cent. The Oregon West Colonization com pany will open up 10,000 acres in Wis Malheur valley, from Ontario to Vale, April 1. Use Soothing Musterole When those sharp pains go shooting through your head, when your skuu seem as if it would split, just rub a tittle Musterole on your temples and leek. It draws out the inflammation, soothes sway the pain, usually giving quick relief. Musterole U a dean, white ointment; made with oil of mustard. Better than a mustard plaster and does not blister. Many doctors and nurses frankly rec ommend Musterole for sore throat, bron chitis croup, still neck, asthma, neural gia, congestion, pleurisy, rheumatism, lumbago, pains and aches of the back or oints, sprains, sore muscles, bruisasv chilblains, frosted fxt colds of the chest (it often prevents pneumonia). It is always dependable. 30c and 60c jars; hospital size $50l