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CHAKLE3 H. F1SHEB
Editor ai Publisher
TfESOAV FVKVINO
April 22. 1U19
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NATION DEBT NOT EXCESSIVE.
lAXJEM
138 S. Commercial St.
OREGON
SliiSCKirTION BATES
ni!T. fer Carrier, cer year $3.00 Per Month..
Daily by Mail, per yex $3.00
jnt least keep nic so busv I couldn't
think.
j I knew we owed many bills, I had fin
The United States, with all its war bond issues is notig.red a ah,af uf them when i was ux.k
heavily in debt considering its resources. Edward Cook-!"1 for pi " inventor
I'nrrViom re. n n o fro i- nf PnM 1 o nrl'cs V?frn Tor xomnoiirn I1 " to commence. Neil Uevel
land a well-known banker of that city, made the following JnL-JTbeVhapTto
statement in regard to national financial matters, m a un,e pwc weren't accustomed t
i l'ecent addreSS: trade, and not always then. Iran then)
"nnnnff tVin 4Vm. v(w f Via .! tVia rrrnoo JnrloJir. ! through. 1 saw that the total amount
Per Month-.
FULL LEA8EI WIRE TKLEUHAl'U Kiil'OKT
FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES
W. IX Ward. New York, Tribune Building.
W. II. Etockwell, Chicago, People's Oaa Building
-43e , xyi jrvcw v,x w.v . , u.vsi I as verv lame. I must speak to Neil
35e eaness 01 tne civuizea nations grew irom ?.,wuuw,uuu about them, and we must not run any
to more than $200,000,000,000. The debt of Great Britain
grew from 4 per cent to 41 per cent of that country's en
tire 'national wealth. The indebtedness of France grew
to about 45 per cent of her national wealth, and Prussia's
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i m pi ins y&Vvw a "!. 1. i . . i r n rn i. .ri
oreh. if the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper iHUeOlfUIlfSS 01 Ut'IHiaiiy Was more limn OU per CtlH OI Iltr
Tie Dily Capi:l Journal carrier boyg are instructed to put the papers on
to yon on time, kindly phono the circulation manag", thu i. tte only way i Wealth at the end of the war and that of Austria-Hungary
?? determiB. whother of not ft. earrier. . foUowmR .nrtraettoM. !, . fflnncrt Tn onmnarl.nn wiih tho onnrmmts
II before 7:3U o'clock tna a paper urui do aeni you Dy epecuu measunger n vue
arrier bu missed you.
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I the only nowepaper in Salem wboee circulation U guaranteed by the
Audit Bureau Of Circulation!
FOCII PREDICTS ANOTHER WAR.
General Foch, according to a correspondent of the
London Daily Mail, predicts that within fifty years Ger
many, if given an opportunity, will throw the world into
another bloody conflict such as the one from which it has
just emerged. He suggests holding the present allied line
along the Rhine as a safeguard against the invasion of
France and Great Britain.
But we have not heard what General Foch would
have done with the occupied territory west of the Rhine,
nor how he would patrol the frontier which he designates
The entente as a military alliance will disappear under
the League of Nations and the league does not provide
for a standing international military organization. For
France, England, or Italy to gain a hold over this terri
tory by the maintenance of a border guard would hardly
be agreeable to either of the other two and the United
States would not act in the capacity of "doorkeeper" at
this gateway.
To delegate the defense of the Rhine to a number of
small states created from the occupied territory would be
to' tax those states beyond the extent or their financial
resources and seriously handicap their economic, com
mercial and social development, and present the danger
of setting up a military autocracy like the one which the
world has bled four years to destroy.
To General Foch and his military genius the allied
cause owes much for its success, but a world seeking to
band itself together in a league of peace, free from the
strangling taxation contingent on the maintenance of
large armies and navies, can hardly endorse a program
calling for a continued military organization.
General Foch may have boon right when he said,
'Those 70,000,000 Germans will always be a menace to
us." But the menace can hardly be lessened by inviting
their armed aggression by placing at their front door
nn invitation to fight. We have learned enough of Ger
many in the past four years to know that the restraints
placed upon her in the future must be real and they must
be vigilantly, enforced. But those restraints must "be eco
nomic, striking directly at the heart of the nation, not
playing the waiting game outside.
Senator Chamberlain's side kick, Colonel Ansell, yells
fraud and coercion when the investigating committee
asks him to present facts. That is the way with fakers,
cither military or political.
more, so I laid them on top of the
desk. If they were in plain aiht 1
would not forget them.
Then I went upstair I would com
meneo the inventory with my own
room.
I became ao engrossed m my task
that time passed unheeded. Each ar
ticle I put down held some association
I lingered over many, .iiluuriiig theiu
wondering if the time ever csntv wlien
others had them if they would appre
ciate their beauty as I did.
:: - : U 1 t-U Q "neie ure you, liaof eil called,
nutcam, uutsmucu it ainuuiiis tu icas uuui o yci tcm ui.,the first iutmmtion 1 ,,aJ that ho was
the national wealth, and as an offset we hold nearly $10,-i home.
000,000,000 of obligations of foreign governments, so that j " l, ISZllftiL
ii i. i i i a . mi i a. r '
me net arain on me nauon win noi exceed o per cent oi
the sum total of national assets."
debts of her allies that of the United States seems insig-
TREASURE TROVE.
RIPPLING RHYMES
By mt Mascn
TROUBLE.
Admirers of Tom Sawyer will be glad to learn that
the right of children to the buried treasure they dig up
in out-of-the-way places has at least been partially recog
nized in the settlement of a controversy in Illinois. Five
years ago a group of children found $610 buried a few
inches under the ground in an old barn. Ihey took their
parents into-the secret. The parents put the money into
the bank and, grown-up fashion, let the secret out. Then
the estate owning the land on which the barn stood put
in a claim for it as lost property.
Attorneys for the children pointed out that because
the money was underground it came under an old law con
cerning "treasure trove" and really belonged to the find
ers. The whole matter came up at intervals during sev
eral years, but was never finally settled in court. The
other day the contending parties agreed to a settlement
giving half the money to the estate and dividing up the
other half equally among the five children.
Of course Tom and Huck managed to hold onto all the
treasure they found, and these children received only
half. But what can be expected in these days, so far from
the glorious and adventurous youth of the heroes of the
Mississippi woods and islands?
The world can fully appreciate a man of the stripe
of Ole Hanson when it compares him with a "string-puller"
like Wallace M. Short, mayor of Sioux City, Iowa,
who yesterday officially welcomed an I. W. W. convention
to his city, despite the protests of a delegation of return
ed soldiers, laudel the course of the "Wandering Willies"
and told them they were on the right track for a 'more
real democracy." If the press dispatches do not carry
more news concerning Sioux City and its returned soldiers
and loyal citizens and also Mayor Short within the next
few days, we will have lost considerable respect for that
part of the state of Iowa.
self c drink from a bottle in the cellar
ette. Something he had done so seldom
lately that I showed the surprise I felt.
When he brought those men home with
hiin it had been a eommou occurrence.
Hut since he had been staying out so
much, it had been almost untouched.
"Don't look as if I were committing
the unpardonable sin because 1 am tak
ing a drink," he said impatiently, tak
ing another.
'Oh, Neil, don't! I so want to have
a good talk with you. And you never
are the same when you drink."
'I've h.ul all the talking I con stand
for one day. Frederick came lnio the
office this afternoon, and I thought he
never would go or let up on too tulk.
If you don't let me alone I shall go
down to the club for my dinner." llo
sunk into a big easy chnir, and closed
his eyes.
1 ciuietlv left him there. Mr. Freder
ick had been with him. It presaged
I'LL
PAY
FOR
THE
MAR
RIAGE
$1700 CASH
Gets $3700 Home
(Balance, Easy Terms)
Almost new bungalow; 6 rooms, beau
bath; stationary tubs; indirect light
ing; beautiful spacious fireplace;; fur
nace heat; French doors throughout
the house; built-in buffets; cemented
basement; large lot; lawn and excellent
earden spot; goo dlocation; near car
line; across street from school. Will
sell furniture if desired as I am leaving
Salem.
$1700 cash, balance $2000 on easy
terms. Will pay for marriage license for
purchasers or, if you do not care to
marry, will deduct cost of license from
purchase price.
Address
M. GRANT, JOURNAL OFFICE
Or Phone 1443, after 6 p. m.
ood I hoped.
Tomorrow Neil's Aunt Is Tu Visit
Them linther Inopportunely.
the industrial code commission provid
i ed for by act of the last legislature.
Lss to winter grain and stock ia
the Willamette valley during the win-
State Senator E. L. French of Van-i ter mmths will not exceed 1 per cent.
couver has been appointed by Acting 1 according to F. L. Kent, Oregon fiord
Governor Hart one of the members of agent of the bureau of crop estimates.
With the death of Colonel Roosevelt, Billy Sunday
has just about become the "most typical American." And
we'll water- he not results yesterday when he told an
Omaha crowd that "Uncle Sam isn't trying to jimmy a
dollar or grabs a sou out of your bank account. He's just !
r'1(innrri nn nn tVin ftirl ir3t filtVnptit lnnsiPQt mnst- smnflll-'
out bunch of rascals that ever lived and he's burying
them and wants you to help pay the funeral expenses."
Why Beefsteak Is High
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THE PROMOTER'S WIFE
BY JANE PHELPS
CllAl'TKK 1.XXVI
IWKHAK.Y I'l.ANH 1! KTKENYUM ENT
I meant what I xitid to T.ormme Aor-
ton when I met her in the paik; that
I hnuld have made it my business to
know where So much money came from;
how so voang a man us Neil could niuko
ii .nth to afford sin h luxuries. Yet
ad out, 1 nan ac-
ly angered Neil.
Suddenly there mine to me the mur
mured sentence I overheard w hen father
leaving lis . and hsvd wnriirti 411O to
try and jH'rsuade Nell to "go mwuy.'
"'A house of curds!" "Who else
hail used that same cxprenslont vMiy,
Mr. Frederick, of course. He had said
he wu 11 fluid Neil was building 'A
hoiiM" of cards' that afternoon we drove
in the park, ami had our first talk to
gether, Lorraine insisted Uhir walking home
with me. She was really distressed, and
plainly showed it.
"You are not to blame," she re-
pressing Red at home, who would o'erthrow the law, he'll i'"''i '; ' "v i-ft me. "And
, , ,, ' , . , , 1,. ... . I remember 1 know vou are nut. nml will
have to chase some Red abroad, and soak him in the jaw; ii. jst the same fne.i o matter what
ipeoole snv. 1 will do all f ran Tor Ieil
I too. 1 shnn't allow anyone to malign
I In 111 when 1 urn around."
'Thank you Lorraine. That makes
two."
"What ore yuu talking about, what
makes twof"
'.Nothing -I was talking to myself
Pardon me." I meant it made two real
friends 1 still had, Lorraine ami tred
crick. 1 think I xrhps might have
felt nil that bad happened more even
than 1 did had I been the sort of wom
an who has iiiiiit intimates. 1 wain t
Mnt of my friends were out of the city,
so 1 heard little gossip, as while I had
I look around, across the sea. and what I there hehok
. . , 11 , , , r . eii'.:iigli to atronl sin t
puts goosemlesh on my marble brow, and makes my feet hen i had tried to tin.
crow cold. The blooming nations over there don't seem to i'i;''';i "
care for peace; they haven't hail enough of war they
hate to have it cease. With chips upon their shoulder
blades they paw around and cuss, and seem to hope some
locoed gent will start another fuss. I wouldn't care a tin
ker's hoot how much those nations fought, if they'd con
fine their scrapping to their own ten-acre lot, and not ex
pect the outside world to drop its usfeul tools, and take up
swords and guns again, to curb a bunch of fools. Alas, I
fear that Uncle Sam will be, in future years, kept busy do
ing peeler's work in both the hemispheres; when not sup
he'll have to help out ten cent kings and jack up sagging
thrones, and every fifteen minutes he must blow a mil
lion bones. The nations aH have come to look on Uncle
Sam as one who works the scales of justice and looks on
the job as fun. I should le proud of this, no doubt, but
I'm a mossback jay, and I regret the bygone times, the
old contented way, when Uncle Sam was satisfied to run
cur native land, and warble "Hail Columbia," an eagle in
each hand.
many calling ai'nimintanros, Lmnatne
was almost my only Intimate rriend.
Ought vii) uot to givo up our beauti
ful home? Had we tho right to ltve in
itt Would Neil consent to retrench
to nn extent thi-.t would amount to any
thing! 1 walked back and forth, from
room to room, restless, uneasy, wantinv
dinner time to come So thnt 1 might see
Neil, talk to him, and at the same time
dreading to again accuse him of Ihm'ij
not quite fair in his business, meth
ods. Perhaps we will rent the house,' 1
n:. iil o mvst-lf; then took pencil hmo po
per. 1 would make a list of everythitst
we owned. It might bo necessary some
dav. T would have It ready. It would
Profitable
printing
Our printinjr is profitable
to us only through beinjr
profitable to our customers-it
must have dollars
and cents value to them in
returns. Careful and skill
ed work on our part pives
it this valutj.
Thone 199
The
Quickener Press
O. E. Brooking, Prop.
ir3 North Commercial up stairs
Thii chart was copied from Bulletin No. 226, U. S. Bureau of Labor
Statittlcs. It is the laUst that has been Uiued. 1001916 price.
Remember when beefsteak was 20c a
pound ?
Now it's 40 and 50 cents a pound.
Why?
This chart shows that the price packers
have had to pay for cattle has gone up with
the price received for beef.
In fact, it shows that the "spread" be
tween cattle and beef prices has been
gradually reduced during the past 30 years
owing to competition among packers,
their increased efficiency, bigger volume,
and elimination of waste.
The packer's profit of only a fraction of
a cent per pound of meat has helped to
narrow this "spread."
Increased farm-production costs have
made higher cattle prices necessary.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.