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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1919)
ditorial Page of The Capital'Journal CHARLES H. FISHEB Editor nd Publisher THCRSDAT EVENING March 20, 919 h 8888888 Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon, Address All Communications To f be DmlniOTxl Uountal SALEM 136 S. Commercial St. OHEOON SUBSCRIPTION BATES Daily, by Carrier, per year $5.00 Per Month 45e Paiiy by Mail, per year 3.00 Per Month 35c PUU LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT FOREIGN BEPBESENTATTVES W- D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. H. Stockwell, Chicago, People's Gas Building The Daily Capital Journal earricr 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 81 before 7:30 o'clock end a paper will be sent yon by special messenger If the terrier has mimed you. . SURRENDERED SOVEREIGNTY. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations TOURIST OR TAXPAYER---WHICH? The Oregonian seems to think it makes a difference because the construction and paving of the Mount Hood - . Hj 1 1 1 1 1 loop will be paid for out ol the tunas raisea unaer wib tho Rpqri-Rarrett bill and not from the pro- ceeds of the sale of the $10,000,000 bond issue. When it is all the money of the people ol uregon it is reany immaterial what fund it comes from. Of course, the Capital Journal is making a losing, and in certain quarters an unpopular fight, when it at tempts to assure the spending of the state road money on tha riitrhwqvs which will develon the state and take care of its growing business and population. The Oregonian announces that the Mount nooa loop win De consiruuieu and paved, and all the other Portland papers and all the influence of the big city will be in favor of .it. Once it is started with a moderate appropriation it will be complet ed, even if the cost is ten or twenty million dollars. One of the boosters for the project made the statement before the highways committee of the legislature that all they wanted was a small appropriation to start with, because once the work was started it would be finished in course of time, no matter what the cost might be. That has Tbcen the history of the lower Columbia river highway, which will give Portland a paved road to the beach all the year round. , ., The Mount Hood loop is a purely scenic road; it means little or nothing to- the development of the state at large; its advocates admit that it will be closed to travel by snow, even after it is completed and paved, for six months in the year. , This scenic road would connect up with the Columbia river highway and be of great benefit to Portland hotels and such other lines of business as cater to tourist trade. The people of Oregon need roads everywhere through out the state and all willing to pay for building them. They are not particularly enthusiastic, however, over the prospect of wallowing through the mud themselves while , they are taxed from so many different angles to build 'scenic mountain roads, as a basis upon which Portland may build a remunerative tourist business. That's all there is to this discussion over the Mount Hood loop shall our money go to the tourist or the taxpayer? , Reading from day to day of the mistakes, inefficiency and general no-account character of the men who man aged the war, in certain partisan newspapers, we begin to think that the German belief that they were the unde feated victors must be correct. Certainly our raw, rag ged, under-fed (see Oregonian) undisciplined, unequip ped and inefficiently commanded armies could never have defeated the crack German veterans. It is strange how some of the war's big lessons are forgotten. Many critics of the League of Nations object that in such a league the United States would surrender some of its national sovereignty. It may readily be granted that there will be some such surrender, no matter what final form the league takes. Any kind of government, anywhere, is impossible without some delegation of authority. And there is plenty of room for discussion over the precise amount of authority that ought to be delegated in this case to the governing body of the league. But the strange thing about most of these arguments is their apparent assump tion that it is something new. How much independent sovereignty has the United States at the present time? Let us see. We are still technically at war. We have still in existence a great military and naval establishment. And what is the status of that establishment? Up to the time of demobilization, our fighting forces are under the orders of an international war council, in which the United States has no more representation than it will have in the League of Nations council. We have fought and won this war with our navy doing the will of the inter-allied council, and with our expeditionary army of 2,000,000 men under the command of a French marshal. There is no sign of sovereignty which a nation guards more passionately than the command of its army and navy. The American government ana people sur rendered this sovereignty without a murmur, because it was so plainly necessary in order to win the war. For this war the allies, including the United States literally pooled not only their man-power and ship-power, but their industrial and banking power. Even our food supply is still subject, in a large measure,' to the decisions of an international economic council. f If the United States can surrender" or delegate so much of its national authority to win a war, it can surely afford to delegate similar authority in a smaller degree to make war impossible hereafter. The only way for the rest of the state to get any recognition from Portland would be to get inside the city limits. Why not incorporate all Oregon into the city of Portland, and then outside sections of the municipality might be allowed to receive an industry or hold it after it has been established, without having to contend against Portland s attempt to coax or bribe it to move to the mouth of the Willamette. Fair freight rates might also be secured by the outlaying wards, if we all were a pare of the city of Portland, as well as a fair portion ol the state highway funds. Let's all move into the city of Portland, or, what would be the same, have the corporate limits extend to take us in! i Slippery Bill Borah, aristocratic Henry Cabot Lodge J. Blatherskite Sherman are some of the senators most active in their opposition to the League of Nations. Nat urally one would expect these wily and oily politicians to oppose open-air diplomacy and anything that tended to make the peace of the world a permanent condition. The chief trouble with the senate, which ended in a disgrace ful f hbuster that defeated needed appropriations and legislation, is that it contains too many men of the type of Borah, Lodge and Sherman. Women Need Swamp Root Thousands of women have kidney and iladiler trotMe and nevr suspect it. Women' tomplainKs often prove to bo nothing else but kidney trouble, or the - result of kidney or "bladder dis ease. If the kidneys are not in a healthy condition, they may cause the other or gans to become diseased. Pain iu the back, headache, loss of ambition, nervousness, are often times symptoms of kidney Irowblo, Pont delay starting treatment. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root, a physician's prescription, obtained' at any drug tore, may be just the remedy needed to overcome such conditions. Get a medium or large size bottle immediately from any drug store. However, if you wish first to tost this great preparation send ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamton, N. Y., for a sample bottle. When writing ibe mire nnd monition the Salem Daily Papital gournsjj BAB DEBS FROM SPEAKING IT COULD ONLY HAPPEN IN SALEM I M4eee - Canton, Ohio, March 18. Eugene V. Debs has been barred from using tho city auditorium by a- resolution passed by the council. The socialist leader was scheduled to speak in the city owned building on March 23. He is now un dor prison sentence for seditious sw, meiits made in a speech hero Isst June. m TES 1! TO S SHOWS I SHOES "A mcldc-r in our foundry wore a pair of shoes with Neolin Soles every day for ten months and two weeks both in the foundry, and to and from his work and they are just worn out." The Sessions Foundry Company of Bristol, Connecticut, makes this report on a pair of Neolin-soled molders' 6hoes given them for test Neolin Soles have none of the short comings of other soles. They do not burn or crack under conditions such as these nor do they wear out quickly under the grind of abrasive materials. They are made by Science to be es pecially tough and durable, will stand the roughest kind of usage and so wear longer and cave money. More over, they are comfortable and water proof. You can get them on new shoes in many styles for men, women and chil drenor as re-soles. They are manu factured by The Goodyear Tire & Ru'iber Co, Akron, Ohio, who also make Wimjfoot I leels -guaranteed to outwear all other heels. , llssliss Soles THE PROMOTER'S WIFE BY JANE PHELPS RIPPLING RHVMES By Walt Mason MARCH. Windy March is now on deck; Winter gets it in the neck, and we hear him say, "By heck, it is time to loop the loops;" gentle Spring is on the way; there are balmy windi today, and the hens begin to lay in their richly furnished coops. March will try us for a spell; she will rant and she will yell, raising forty kinds of Hail Columbia, but it's all an empty bluff. Winter has his final fling ere the birds begin to sing, and we welcome gentle Spring; oh, the springtime is the stuff! March may dish up snow and sleet, fill with slush the village street, and annoy rheu matic feet, but no dead game sport will sigh; for the sun ' will follow fast on the coat tails of the blast; March's tantrums will be past in the winking of an eye. Soon tho bumble bee and ant on the lawn will gallivant, and the pelican will chant like a bulbul, to its mate; soon the aard vark and the owl and the common barnyard fowl. will sit up at night and howl, for old Winter pulls his freight. Oh, the rapture and the bliss when the blizzards cease to hiss, and the sunbeams come and kiss dewy-lilies and the rose! March's winds may rant and shout, but they cannot bluff us out, for we know, beyond a doubt, they are Winter s dyin BARBARA REFUSES TO GO TO A MATINEE WITH BLANCHE. C11APTKR XXXVI. Ou luncheon finished, I went direct ly homo, altho Mrs. Orton had asked me f I would go to tho niKtinee. I dis trusted herTind disliked her. I must be civil when Neil was around or it would angor him and ho would also think me jealous which I had no intention ho should do, tho I was. Mr. Frederick had evaded, when I asked him if he wore not coming to sco while in New York. Neil had heard and socondod tho invitation, and then Mr. Frederick had said. "I am leaving so soon I fear I shall net have timo. If I do I will certainly let you know." And with that we had to be content. I can't, explain the feeling which mndo mo dosiro to sco Mr. trederick again. I surely had no intention of questioning him about Neil, or his busi ness. Yet ho might have said some thing, lot drop a remark that would have mudo me feel less unsettled, hap pier over Neil and his affairs, which Complexion Rosy. 'Headache Gone. Tongue Clean. Breath Right. Stomach, Liver and Bowels Regular. m S.KBY CATH 7 ' 1 re zif fJUmf f iff Xfi he was so determined to koep to him self as fur as I was concerned. .. Noil seemed to have recovered his vi VttCity when ho came home to dinner. I said nothing about the quiet way he had acted at luncheon, but tautcu of Mr. Frederick and other things. "Did you and Ulanche go to a mat iiioot" ho asked. "No, I WU8 a little tired and so I came right homo." Didn't sho want to go, didn't sse ask youf" "Yes tho I don't think she cared particularly about going, She didn't act nt all disappointed." ' I wish, after this, when she asks you to go anywhere with her you would accept. It was precisely with that ob jeet in mind that I arranged that luncti today." "I'm sorry but, you see, Neil, I didn't know. I don't understand why you wanted mo to go with herj but if there was any real reason, you should have explained it to mo." Ho spoke so stenjy, that I could not avoid thinking that there was some thing behind it all; ho had not denied that he had planned for mo to go out with Blancho Orton, whilo at the same tiino he had made no explanation of why ho wanted mo to do so. Suddenly it flished over me that for somo reason ho wnnted me to be seen in public with Blanche. Ho had ar ranged that luncheon not because he wanted me to have a good tlmo, not be cause he wanted me with him; but be cause he wanted people to see Blanche and me together. Then he had wanted me to go to a matinee with'her doubt less for the same reason. Oh, it -was shameful the thought that intruded on the heels of this one. No, not I would not believe that of Neil. If I did it would be to believe him guilty of some sort of immoral liason with Mrs. Orton, and also to insult him by believing he would use mo, his own wife, to cover it up "by being seen with her. fcihould I say any more about it to Neil, or should I let it pass as I had so many other things f I decided to do tho latter. Neil had been very Irritable lately, alth0 we had not again como to an open quarrol. But the least contra diction angered him, and I felt I could not endure to go thru a-nothor siege of tho kind we had so short a time before. My own nerves were strung to the high est pitch, I felt that hysterics were not very far away. Re insteaa o mtying mors about Mrs. Orton, I changed the subject. Just as I cam to this decision the telephone rang. Neil picked up tho re ceiver, r "Hello what's that t My God when did it happen! Dead! Ton are sure t I'll be right down, go to the office and wait for me." Neil sank heavily into a chair. 1 "What is it, doart Do tell me!" I aid. mnning to him. " "He's dend Orton---and - now that fleal will be off" ho staggered to the ee'Iarette and poured himself a drink. Then, without looking at me, or answer YESTERDAY IF yon remember IT RAINED also that it HAS RAINED other yesterdavs .' RECENTLY WELL WHEN MOST of that rain WAS COMTNO down and J. PLUVTTJS was having THE TIME of his ' YOUNG LIFE . LEE GILBERT and I STOOD. IN that rain WHILE SCORES of women AND CHILDREN - AND VETERANS and others whom WE GALLANTLY and impatiently ' CONCEDED PRECEDENCE to GET ON one of our CHEEKY COLORED little (OR AS Fred'k Schmidt insists) LOJXJ COLORED car WAITING THERE in the rain . FOR THE conductor to MAKE CHANGE and - BOUNCE NICKELS on the floor ... IT DAWNED on us why THEY SAY . - ft MAKE" CHANGE . SO WE got wet AND MAD AND JUST as I started TO CUSS the kind of ft - ' A STREETCAR that takes up . SO MUCH time when A CROWD is getting oa LEE SAID "WHATS BECOME of the guy WHO SAID we would HAVE LESS an 'less RAIN IN Oregon FROM YEAR to year as THE FORESTS were cut AWAY?" . "IF YOU sco hirn TELL HIM I would LIKE TO MEET HIM on the NEW BRIDGE ft AT MIDNIGHT SOON." 3H? American Airplane Will Make Trans-Atlantic Flight Washington, March 19. Hans for trans-Atlantic flight by an America airplano tiro being laid, Acting Secre tary of the Navy Hooscvelt announce today, The flight is expected to take place somo time after May 1. Lieutenbnt Commundcr Patrick L. Bellinger has been ordored from Norfolk to Washing ton for work in connection with prepa ration of plans for the flight, Roosevelt announced. No orders, however, have been issued for the flight itself, Roose velt said, adding that it was not likely) th&t the enterprise could' take place earlier than May. The plans are now to string destroy ers along the route of tho propose fligjit about 200 miles apart. The sea plano, equipped with radio, would be in constant radio communication, instant notice would be given of any mishap, thus insuring virtual Bafcty for the erew and the scientists who will be eboar for observation. KIDNEYS WEAKENING? BETTER LOOK OUTi Kidney and bladder troubles don't disappear of themselves. They grow upon you, slowly. Tut steadily, under mining your health with deadly cer tainty, until you full a victim to in curable disease. 1 Stop your troubles while there is time. Don't wait until little pains be come tiff aches. Don't tritle with dis ease. To avoid future suffering besin treatment with GOLD MKDAL Haar lem Oil Capsules now. Tiike three or four every dny until you feel that you are entirely free from pain. This well-known preparation has been )nc of the national remedies of Hol and for centuries. In 1696 the govern ment of the Netherlands granted a spe cial charter authorizing its sale. The good housewife of Holland would almost as soon be without food as with out her "Real Dntoh Drops," as she quaintly calls GOI-D MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. Their use restore strength and is responsible in a great measure for the sturdy, robust hcaltU of the Hollanders. Do not delay. Go to your druggist and insist on his snpplvim: you with a box of GOLD MKDAL Haarlem Oil J'apsules. Take them as directed, and if you are not satisfied with results your druggist will gladly refund your money. Look for the name GOLD MEDAL oa the box and accept no other. In seals boxes, three sizes. Senator Knox The League of Nations and A Cocked Hat Senator Knox as well as others is trying his hard est to knock the League of. Nations. But Knox's knocks wont hurt the League of Nations. The League of Nations idea is so much bigger than Senator Knox that it will knock him into a cocked hat Now what's a cocked hat? Well, we're not running a haberdashery. Let our good friends Schei, Johnson, Bishop or Sunden answer. Our specialty is printing. We might not put a tape measure on you at the right place if we undertook to measure you up for a suit of clothes; but we know just how to use our pica-rule and just what type styles and "color combination to employ to get you out a high class job of printing. And a high class job of printing has just the same . effect on the man who sees it as does a high class suit of clothes, wjiile a poor job of printing makes the same impression as a poor looking suit of clothes. ' When you go to Portland, Seattle or Frisco to atteffd a meeting of jobbers, wholesale or retail merchants you dont wear a shabby suit of clothes do you? No sir! Your printing i3 as much a manifestation of your char acter and personality and fine taste as is your clothes. A high class job of printing doesn't necessarily mean a high price. It does mean high quality workman ship and material. Yours for Business ' PHONE 199 THE QUICKENER PRESS High Class Commercial Printing Creators of Distinctive Typography 193 North Commercial G. E. Brookina, Prop. ing niv questions, he left the house. (T0 be Continued.)