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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1919)
e Capi 6ATUEDAT EVENING March 1, 1919 CHABLES H. FISHEB Editor nd Publisher ttorm YtlCli IT I m Jrh talJou Published Eyery Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address All Communications To (IhgDailpAtttl gonial BALF.M 136 S. Commercial St. OBEGON Bl'BSCBIPTION BATES tvii fcy Pnrrinr. ber ve&r $5.00 Per Month- ' . ' - - . Daily by Mail, per year- $3.00 Per Month.. -.45 35e FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGKAPH BEPOBT FOREIGN BEPBESENTATTVES W. D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. H. etockweil, Chicago, People' Gai Building The Daily Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone tl before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the Barrier has missed you. LONDON TO BAGDAD. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Salem .whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations SB8B3 ARMY DISCIPLINE. Probably everybody who reads of the revelations be fore the senate of the extreme harshness of our army dis cipline felt a rush of indignation, and it will be with en tire public approval that army regulations are submitted to revision. There is something to be remembered how, ever, about discipline in the army, and that is that it can never successfully ,be put on a civilian basis nor can civil ian law be allowed to interfere to any great extent with military law. ; '' Vi . i. An army drawn with dispassionate equality from the ranks of the population by its very fairness consists of men not only of every occupation but of every tempera ment Among these will be men of the highest principles and courage. There will be also no email proportion lacking both qualities. In such a case the self-discipline which would hold the first faithful would not operate with the latter at all. Those last would have nothing to instigate abedience but the penal effect of disobedience. The necessity for rigorous punishment becomes evident m . Then, too, the military offense cannot be judged by itself, but must be judged on its relation to the national safety. The boy who goes to sleep on guard, be it 3000 miles from the seat of war or on sentry duty at the front, in principle jeopardizes the national safety. The rebel lious greenhorn who defies his officer is the incipient projector of widespread mutiny. It is for such reasons as these that army discipline must be stringent. -But stringency should not sway to ward cruelty any more than it should be so weak as to endanger efficiency and prompt obedience. The Jugo-Slavs and Italians want to go to scrapping again. Then the next thing we can expect will be an ap peal for aid from those countries to save them from star vationin fact such appeals are being made now. If they would rather fight than work, let them feed themselves. It's quite appropriate that those deported bolshevists are shipped back to Europe in "vessels supplied by Ger many. - The best way to get higher wages is the same as the best way to get bigger dividends produce more goods. p i u . a The New VelieSix Is the foremost in style and a standard of worth by which all other cars are judged. All the features of THE VELIE from the engine to the axles are recognized by the government as STANDARD. The Red Seal Continental Motor in a car is itself proof of the Value of the VELIE SIX. See this car now on display. A carload expected the first of the week. Salem Velie Company J. W. JONES, Mgr. Distributors for Marion and Polk counties. Terri tory open for good live dealers. Before the war there was a famous continental train called the "Orient Express", running from Paris to Con stantinople, through southern Germany, Austria and Hungary. That train now has resumed service. But it no longer runs through the Central Empires. It goes to Constantinople via southern France, northern Italy and Serbia. - There is no longer through service from Berlin to Constantinople, and is not likely to be for a long time to come. This development is of special interest in view of the well known Prussian plans for a through line from Berlin to Bagdad. The latter terminus is now a million miles from Berlin, and even the once-friendly half-way station of Constantinople has grown alien and far away. Britain and France, by way of natural penalty for German ag gression, have cut Germnay off from the Orient, Britain will soon finish the Bagdad end of the fam ous railway, connecting up with Constantinople and ex tending to the Persian gulf. Before many years, too, there is pretty sure to be railroad communication between London and Paris, by means of a tunnel under the Eng lish channel. The German dream.will then end in a "Lon don to Bagdad" railway. And whatever of advantage or profit there may be in commercial domination of-the East will belong to the victors in the great world war. Colonel Hofer is right in saying that Salem's busi ness interests may be greatly enhanced and its growth materially hastened by a campaign of honest, intelli gent publicity. When the paving and building boom of a few years ago was on, there was nothing for the thous ands of people who were brought here to do. The country had not been brought up to a sufficient stage of develop ment to justify the influx of population, and the boom collapsed i ndue course of time. But at this time Salem wants more people to raise more produce for at least five large fruit companies which are located here and only lack the raw materials to develop them into great indus tries. As the country about Salem grows and develops, it is but natural that the city should increase in popula tion, and expand in its various lines of business, and the Commercial Club should see that it is awake to its op portunities. Hiram Johnson, Gifford Hnchot and the other old guard Progressives declare that .they will dictate the pol icy and the presidential nominee of the republican party, or they will set up a party of their own. Looks like a battle royal between the two factions! -- t Now is the time for every good man to begin to put his garden tools in order; Germany used to talk about, a strong peace, she is learning what that means.? Now RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt MasoQ HOUSE CLEANING. House cleaning! Spring house cleaning! You'll soon be here again ! Oh, words of frightful meaning to weary married men ! For spring we keep imploring-when winter's blasts are roaring, forgetful of the choring that is in or der then. We think of sunshine glowing, through wav ing branches screened, on babbling brooklets flowing to oceans submarined; alas, we are forgetting the soapsuds and the wetting, the toiling and the sweating, in shacks that must be cleaned. ; We think of tuneful zepyhrs from some bright summer sea, of sportive lambs and heifers that gambol on the lea; and we forget the mopping, the sloshing and the slopping, the cussing and the yawping of husbands tired, oh chee! The Springtime is approach ing, already she has smiled; the green grass is encroach ing where late the snow was piled; but naught my gloom can sweeten; the rugs that must be beaten, cold beans that must be eaten the prospect makes me wild! Fair Spring will soon be strewing her flowers along the wold, her gems for mortals' viewing, the crimson and the gold; but I'll be packing pillows and beating rugs with willows 'mid suds in seething billows, while women stand and scold. THE PROMOTER'S WIFE BY JANE PHELPS BABBABA DECIDES NOT TO BE JEALOUS OF BLANCHE OBTON. CHAPTER XX. When Neil camo home the next after noon I aitkod him some questions about ehe business iijion which he was engaged with the two men who were our guests the night be fore. At breakfast he had been at lutely uuapproachable, interested. If I can understand him, 1 thing I ean you, dear, when I eare se much more beeause it is you," "Oh, I want to sell some shares in prospective wells. That is all." "Are they good wells!" " We don 't know yet. It takes mon ey to find out." "Ami .hat was what Mr. Frederick meant when ho talked about being 'op en and above board,' wasn't itt Not Vhat do you want to knowt Yonj.to take money without the people know wouldn't understand if I tried to tort you." The same answer he invariably, "(rave me. But I had a reply for him, this time. "Mr. Frederick didn't seem to think me so 'dumb.' Ilo talked of the oil wells to me, and told me a great deal about them because be saw that I wts ing just what it was to be nsed for!" "I thought Frederick was garnet lie The Auto Show WAS FINE YOU SHOULD HAVE NOTICED HOW MANY HIGH GRADE CARS USED DUDE BATTERIES UNCLE SAM'S OFFICIAL CAR, THE CADILLAC, ALSO THE HUDSON, ESSEX, OLDS, COLE AND PIERCE ARROW ALL USE EXIDE BATTERIES WHY DONT YOU FOLLOW THEIR EXAMPLE AND GET THE BEST? I pes.ee in his own home." And as he so often did now when annoyed, he opened the eellarette and took a drink. I said no more. It would only make him drink more. ' Besides he wag too clever, too crafty to give me the true reasons for anything he did if ho thot I would disapprove. I spoke of Blanche Orton and remark ed that I thought she looked very stun ning the night before. I would snj nothing derogatory even of her clothea Clearly, Neil was not anxious to talk of her, and in reply he only said: "Blauehe is always stunning." "Is she happy with her husoand!" ''I don't think them suited to one another." "If he's such an invalid she may have a chance to try it a second time," 1 hoped t0 draw Neil out. "I hope she will get someone who it worthy of her if she does." When one is in love, as I was with Neil, intuition seizes quickly upon the slightest thing. His use of the word "worthy' had seemed strange when applied to Blanche Orton. "Isn't Mr. Orton a good man!" "He's a stupid ass."- "Why Neil Forbes! what a way to talk of him. I meant isn't he good mor ally, and isn't he square in business!" "Yes I guess she is both. But a clev er woman like Blanche Orton wants more than goodness in a man. She want! to be entertained, amused Interested It is a erime for her to live with that man." "How long have you Known her, Neil!" '" "I met her right after she married Orton about four years ago.' I asked no more questions, but I couldn't help wondering if, had she boon free when he met hor, ne would liavo married her! It was foolish to make myself miserable ovor such a thins, and determinedly I put it from me. He had not married Blanch, and had mar ricd mo. It would not be becauso 1 did not try to hold him by every means in my power if she, or any other woman, took him away from me. Blanche Orton boasted that she al- mnira Mt whof alia TOOnto. fllwflVA hfA her own way in life, in the big as well operative association comes right down was to0 large to make him a welcome as the little things. But surely there AUTO ELECTRIC SERVICE CO. R. D. BARTON 171 S. Commercial St. . Phone 1107 whole United Sttacs and taking advant- ATJBOBA NEWS NOTES. age of the after-war prosperity and the after-war unsettled tempers of the peo- A Canadian soldier was given sleep pie who want to make a change in ing quarters in the city jail Sunday favor of a milder climate and a surer night. Under the circumstances ; he home market for what they ean raise. ' might have been given an more hespi- Whcn the Payallup fruit growers co- table reception. But his jag of bitters was a limit to her desires, cne was a flirt that everyone know; but probab ly that was all it amounted to, just a flirtation with Neil and others because she was bored by an invalid husband. I would not be jealous. It is surprising how mueh one can ac complish even in such things if they love, and if they dj not give up to use loss repining and unhealthy emotion. 80 at .this time it was only by spells that my jealousy asserted itsolf. But that other misgiving that uneasiness concerning Neil himself, .grew npon me in spite of all my endeavors to banish it. Tomorrow Barbara Visits Neil's New Offices, t Open Forum Editor Capital Journal: I am sure many people commend your efforts to put life into the Commercial club and to call attontion to the needs of the city from a transportation and a manufacturing standpoint, There is no reason why the Commercial club should not have a membership of five hundred and carry on a campaign that will make this a city of & hundred thousand population in the next ten years. Salem is bound to become the center of a paper industry, because this city i8 nearest to an inexhaustible sup ply of timber suitable to make paper pulp. It is a remarkable fact that the bulk of the logs used in tho Oregon City paper mills are hauled right past our doors from territory all around us, from Silverton and Falls City and tho San tiam and the Silptz Basin, when it should be worked up here. On top of this we have seven hundred h&se pow er of water .going to waste right within the city limits. A paper mill industry at Salem would have no labor troubles mecause the city is an educational and cultural center that any laboring man may be proud to. have his family live in. I predict that this year will see a hrge paper mill located in the Capitol City because it is the logical yuw ior one and the supply of paper is not equal to the demand. 1' come buck to our Commercial club, it should not only have rive-uunrded members but it should pU;e before the world what is being done here in the fruit industry. It is admitted that we can produce loganberries, red and black raspberries, the everbearing Snu other ! varieteis of blackberries, Koyn-1 Anne and other kinds f cherries for canning , in unlimited quantities and finer in eol- j or and flavor than any section in the , world. Salem is the ntturaly appointed I and divinely-annointed center of these j natural products of the soi.l as im proved by man. Add to this tho Bimplo : fact that four canneries, several fruit evaporators, and two of the largest fruit-juice, jelly preserve factories, one of them a million dollar concern, to say nothing of the large prune packing in- j dustry, have been established hero with in a comparatively short time, and you have two facts to appeal to tne wnole world with, to bring thousands of the finest families in our country to make their homes in Salem. If one of these firm, can afford to spend, as reported in the press, 168,000 advertising its , finished prodnet, what eonld we not af ford to spend in the interest of the whole community to advertise the op- mto Salem territory and makes ten- year contracts for small fruits, is not that atribute to the superiority of our soil and climate from the standpoint of production! We should arouse and spread to the world the plain facts about our community and our soil and climate and what we produce and the industries that thrive hore and let the sober lawabiding population tha-t wants to live in an ideal community eorao and share the blessings with us. In place of one million dollar fruit juice, jelly and preserve works we should h&ve ten such working up the products of ten thous and five and ten aero tracts. We can do that inside of ten years because we have the facts in our favor and all we need is the intelligence and the assur ance to place the facts before the world in the right way. Tho paper industry and the fruit industries are our natural belongings as much as raisins belong t0 Fresno and citrus fruits to Califor nia, but we cannot come to our own sit ting still and sucking our thumbs. COL. E. HOFEB. CrevToieib Chevrolet Chevrolet We have moved to our new location 151 North High St. in the building for merly occupied by The Farmers Cash Store. Our service will be better than ever. Salem Automobile Co, Medora, HI. Page the Pied Piper. Medora is advertising for a competent rat catcher. guest elsewhere. Aurora waB the first teoinmamry in Marion county to- report its full quota raised for the "Near East" fund for the Armenians and Syrians. Dr. Gietiy forwarded a check for $76 to the eounty headquarters Tuesday. No regular cam paign was conducted as heretofore, but many voluntarily contributed to the .. Among the boys who recently arrived in New York on the C&nopic are the following, woll known here: Hand Ser geant Ira White, Mail Sergeant Alviu Miller, both of Headquarters company, and Corporal Gifford L. Osborn, all of Aursra; and Sergeants Warren 8. Hicks Granville Alleman and Geo. E, Richards of Woodburn. Julian Do Jardin, a former member of Co. I, Third Oregon, is now chief filing clerk for the Peace commission at Paris a confidentian post of great Import ance as all papers and documents pass through his hands. Mr. De Jardin 's home is at Paris. He i9 a member of the well known De Jardin family of that place. Obs",', Oeihago T. ' , - ,ry ;t. The "inspector for ii': i-.'-.(-uj" not only lifted Mrs. ?irs 'La,s mo's $10,000 diamond . ; '.iB, bub he cnarg ed her $9.50 for his time. JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY I CAM is a regular old woman. But he doo-s'nt j portunity for industrious families to have all the say, not by a lougshot. I '11 i g"i tho raw material for that product , ... .. . . ... v- and find a ready market ror arj they put the thing through in sp.te of him.f(m ee WJ Aonld be a(,vortisig Now for pity's sake don't ask any these iWQ fa(,tg ebout ,j,8 Willamette more questions! Do give a man a little valley and Salem industries to the PBELL'S AUTO EXCHANGE '.. .... . : Will Move' About MARCH 20th To Marion Garage,, across from Marion hotel on . Commercial Street IP YOU WANT TO BUY OR SELL A CAR SEE ME FIRST. All kinds of bargains in used cars : 229 State Street OPEN SUNDAYS If you want to buy or sell a car come and see me. Maxwell, almost new, bargain. Buick roadster, $325. Paige touring car, big bargain. Ford, perfect condition, $425. Ford, fully equipped, demountable rims, $500. Studebaker, perfect condition, $300. 1912 Cadillac, good shape $400. Elgin, good as new $1125. Ford Touring, perfect $375. Ford Bargain, $350. -Overland, Perfect Condition, Bargain. PHONE 362 m