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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 16, 1919)
THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM. OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUSTS 1919. TACK F.VH mm I t irr tr7J'T?1ik flit 9 4 AWWOUNC ElENT We have takeivth agency for the famous UNITED STATES TIRES and have a complete Stock of all Sizes. . . UNITED; STATES TIRES ARE GO0D TIRES ; -- It ef the parish of Proscaji that U'.'HHt persons in his I iONTY'S T The clergy ia wio;;lit p ever the Si lrviaa question porta mure lima any body else ia Ueriiituy. A letter fro; ltstor Friebe I kaa ilwlitre that ! district are coming n:dor Polish will, lalthoagU the hare Wen proven by 'test tote to be Germaafeeliiig. Like- Iwise the North German couferene re-1 jatly adopted a reaolutioa tdtjveting tnj the peace terma, aad t'lprcMoan the hope; that OhriatiaaiU could find a ty of jreeonciliaR nation. This body wai espe cially wrought ap over the Silesinn question. jAa has been Ul before, the Gei man i 'national assembly differs little from : other national leisltitie bodic in the' ! matter of long-winded discussion. But, it wrkaiis acquired a record when in, the court, of th iast week, with ecoonitiir queatio:ia on hand, it spent long time discussing the price of cher- j rio and the printing of a new issue of j stamps commemorative of the assembly. L AC. HAPPY FARMER ROSSE ion in , I vital! ient a! VIEWS OF MAYORS ON MUNICIPAL PHONE SYSTEM When the ruis ia telephone rates win announced July 30, there was some trouj; objections, a :d the mutter wus discussed at thrt meeting of the eity eeunoil August 1. In faet, there was a eonuuitte appointed tn look into the anuttcr of a municipal telephone. In order to leara just whnt other cit ies thought of tho advance in rates, R. , municiiul telephones end how tho peo ple in general felt about it. j The mayor of Eugene, C. 0. Teterson write. "The eity of Kugene has taken no concentrated action In regard to put- tina in of an independent system. Of course there is more or less complaint rates, but I believe the The revolution in (iernmny may may j is used advisely do awav with tips fori servants. A strong movement is now afoot to r.bolish tipping, ami some hotels and; cafes have hud moderate success there-j with. But, the public, honevcr, still pays the bill j In .uiiiia nine, ft. the workers council ! not satisfied with the advance iu jutes I m,, ji,e management have agreed that I J 10 oer cent addition shall lie placed on Dan Johnson, city attorney of Albany had heard that everybody in ISaiein wi;s put in effect by the federal government , i,nd writes as follows: "I presume youj ull bills then 111 per cent extra to go tol J about the high W. Mae citv attorney, addressed a let- Z'T'lZ, 2,1 ' ter to several eity officials asking 1 ' the action of the publ en c whether there had been anv talk of commission u..-. . SUNDAY AND MONDAY HAROLD a 1 i W few me flEl jl ! not bet . ... a moncr.ig August .i. "I believe it is quite unlikely thU Eugene will take any action towards es tablishing un independent telephone system. Certainly none until the com mission has finally fixed the rates so that we may feel there will be some permuneiicv concerning it." The mayor of Portland through nls secretary writes: "The city of Port land at one time considered the pur- I chase of the Home Telephone compr.ny ' li i. L ikn tkiifnlinaA t hit u-c it.ii-u i ii 1 ntti nf t hnii nun ii I 1 1 im ' have been advised of the hearing to bciwii.,(, )hl,' workvra in ,., ,.llfl., a i l held in Portland, August 27, before the j(ltl,9 c!ainird they'd be satisfied with nublic aervicc commission, upon its own 'ti,c .vgtem, it is still noted that. with-T motion. I have been instructed by our ou (j.,, up, vice is inclined to be ruther eity council to attend this meeting, and ux, Jloreovor, in some cases, hotels as tho interests of Albuny and Salem nave fmul,i it convenient to make even are similar, I thought perhaps we might morc o,,,,, a io per cent increase in eo-operate to some extent at the hear- ytifvt under the plea ot higher wages ing. I lhall be glad to call on you be-,fur ,.mployea, whereas the employe fore the hearing and discuss tho mat-ninintai i thut they have had only jmrt ter." j of the added percentage. Germany ia soon o experience a ciga rette famine unless it gets fresh import "" " I of tobacco from other limds. It's proa- Thc Portlund Railway, Light Power Clt gupl)v ot cigarette tobacco is so company has today filed with the pub-1((W thst proilui,lv nPXt month will w.s-' lie service commission a voluiniiious s the jiga,jM.aram.8 f the real Oer-i statement of valuation, receipts mid1,,,..,, riL,r,.tte made from Turkish or! exenditures as the basis for a lu;ltiun.Kgyptian tobacco. At present, cigarette tor an increase oi reenues iwnii un po,t al)()ut itref or tuar aMece CltV 01 l Oriianil. llllS BIBirmrm Biiunc The man who owns a Happy Farmer Tractor is proud of it He knows it is the leader, because he has tested it under all conditions and it has al ways served him better than he expected. He knows that in the strength of the organization which made it, in the economy of the operation, in the correct design and in the price for which ie secured it, the Happy Farmer leads the field. Mr. Farmer, you lose money by not getting your crop in the pro per time. The tractor will do your work before the team can begin. The price is rightthe Happy Farmer is all that the name im plies. Ask for a demonstration. Special terms to the first man in each neighborhood. Salem Velie Company - - . , t t t i t Marion and Polk County Distributors 162 North Commercial Street Phone 1604 X X I X STATE HOUSE NEWS ' whereas before tho war thev cost a & aXiV ATT?CT PICTURE I ':, ' ' ' ; :mrM. : ' w if- -, - - - i t t 3 liiimths, the tlephone rates have been considered exorbitant, uur efforts have been directed more m the irirection of fight the legality of the in j crease as put into effect by the federal government." I The mayor of Klamath Falls, J. E. Htruble sine up the situatiou irom ma atand)oiiit as follows: "The city of Khimath t'alls ha not heretofore taken that the valuation of all their proper ties in Portland, as fixed by the com missiou itself, is 18,io8,073.5.", and the summary of statistics goe to show that the net earning of the system during (TliC subject of establishing a separntcj lMe t.urrent year will be app'oximately Am(,ril.gn ",ommi,wrv or boudhti from svstm has b-en gr ei wim. eonaidfM- :ti2,u(X, or about 2 per ceut on their j American soldiers. Hon lately but nothing defmite ha re- valuation. The petition goe on to cite owing to the faet that an eBor- that during the year tne wage scale outlay would be nerroaary under 0f employes was raised to range from conditions ami until the lust 44) to 50 cent an hour ;and that dur ing the present season the national war board had granted another incrense to employe of about 12 per cent. This it is estimated will add not les than 330,0inrto the operating expenses for the year. While there has been no great increase in traffic, it is shewn that there has been a tremendous in crease of operating expense. In thol vear, ltfl.i, tne operating: expenses in- tion looking to the installation .portluiid amounted to $1 ,707,91 2.S.1, ()lt of tp or(1j( .,, f the Ber- while for the twelve months emting c.ri ltl j III4 1 ,.r ,.HB10 todav the story June 30, 19lf, they aggregated 3,1T9,- f a "Back Haml" persecution which 7DI.IH. wane tne comiuy name, no,,...., it ,.,..,,;. the recent anti- small fraction of a crnt apiece. Recently a quantity of American ct(j-j arette has appeared here, having beeaj smuggled in from the Cobleiix region j where thev were either Btolen from the! Deaiolixation of what is left of the German army will release 41,000,000 meters of cloth, to say nothing of hun dreds of thousands of pair of shoes. As a result, the government expects that there will be a material decrease ill the price of clothe and shoes. It propose to distribute the rlolU and shoes, which had been stored up against further prosoeiition'of the war, at low prices to deserving fnmilies, Kates will lie made according to the size of the family. fit 111 IS III THE HIT OF ITS-- SUPREMACY The latest finish and design is noted in our display. Why buy an inferior machine when the same money will pay for the Victrola with its renowned artists and perfect workmanship? siiecifie, rato or increase in their peti tion, They call attention to the fact that tho present fares are unjust aad inade quate, and they petition for such an in-1 tryinff to extort several hundred thou crease of revenue n win produce a re Hemitie limitation here. , Karl HicUe, reevatiy returned from a Bosnian prison camp, was scoitaed of a 'iv of a municipally owned teiepnone a.v tem. This is due primarily to the fact that the finnces of the city would not at this time warrant the expense uecea sarilv incident to uca, a system. It is thought however, by the city govern ment that this eity should own it own teleiihone system i;nd steps looking to that end will undoubtedly be taken ffi.turu of not less than T per ceut on their the near future. Rest assured that this, valuations. To this end they ask for city will be with you heart and soul inan immediate hearing and investigation your efforts to get away from tho prieej j Portland. of slavery thut the Oregon public serr- ico commission and the federal govern- T),,, weekly report of the industrial ment has foisted uuon u all." accident commission show that there fail E. Wimberly, city attorney of(Were :m accidents in the state during min( htj ,,,, ff,.c.t4.,l hv anti Semitic j Koseburg. in the ahsenee or tne mayor, me weca. seven 01 mem rcsuumg 1 propaganda. He had read a number of rn.wrnl Mr. MSCV S OliestlOn BB IOI sand marks from two Jewish merchants under threat of death. ! Hietse told the court h.' whs at a loss to know why he bad se it the mc- j chant "Hluck Hand'' letters, saying they must dciher packet of money i stitmlnted places or suffer he conse (iiieiiees. Hut, he 1I11I pleail Hint his You will never Impeach your Judgment if You Buy a Yictrola. r hSentyKtchtUVibBttr USctrniCiMiKMbxpiexiuctun mad for m 17. r n n .A YE LIBERTY ALSO TLAPPAN TRAIL, 5 NORTH OF 53" The first of the new Chester Outing Nature Pictures r "JUST PLAIN FOLKS"' KEW CHEI8TIB OOMEDT With R0BBY VERNON and DOROTHY DANE A MUSICAL TREAT by Kica Wadswcrlh EaHer lows:! "I agree with you that we must Islnnd together on the question of com batting the profiteer, bnt I believe our efforts at theprcscnt tune in tne mar- tally. These were Paul Mchonnsget, thc ,,,., pHinphlets, and then had! banner worker, Mill City; Prank An-j gnn(t to th( vlire of publication, where! rterson, oraaeman, umey, r. u. -r, , ,,,, ,w(,lltv persons were congregated. lravmsn, Pendleton; George Allen, lum ber worker, Cottage Grove; Bamuel Me- tei of the telephone should be directed; queen, logger, Holly; H. Rhodes, ship toward making as creditable a (how-j builder, Portland; Albert Alquist, pe-ina- a passible at the hearing which idestrian struck by traia, Marshfield. has been ordered by the public service lOf thetotnl number 502 were subject to commission at Portland, August 27." The mayor of The Dalles, P. J. StG-dle-man, line up for city owned phone a fallows: "I am heartily in sympathy with the subject of municipally owned f telephone systems and fully agree that uules something is done to halt the ever , advancing rate thc time i near when many fnmilies as well t bnsi ; nes houses will discontinue tho use of the telephone." The mayor of Harrisburg, B. K. Bur ton, who i also president of the First National bank there, writes; "We are unfortunately located in small village where our ervice it a back number. Our ! entire phone srstein consist of a lot of phones taat were 100 nniiquan-u im in larger towns and were kicked out there and installed here. "In regard to the recent raise m late, the city council has instructed me to register a kick with the telephone company. No town of the size of Har risburg can afford to own its own tele phone system, but in case of a state wide system, we might consider it." From Oregon City the mayor writes: "Will say that nothing las been done by the citr officially but there has been Creat deal of complaint made to e( IOT OI DISriUIUS jrura in, rill the provision of the compensation act, 4 1 3 9 SCiffiiS have a well deserved repu tation as a safe and effective r?inedy for stomach ail Kieuti. They are Quickly helpful in bilious attacks, sick headache, dyspepsia, heartburn and constipation. They act gently and surely on the organs of elimina tion, purify the blood, tone the system and very quickly , a and '. zen. j F. E. Morrison, mayor of Springfield, 1 writes: "Will say that we have not as ,a eity conacil takea up the matter but i we are expecting to, r,nd I am sure thst anything abng he line of majiieipal telephones would meet with the appro ;ti ,.r our twnule. When yoo get fur ther nkmg with the matter, let as know! u,ws.u W Ar MsWIm Im b. Wri land we shall be glad to cooperate witb sU mrrwkm bfeMw.IOb.Z9. Ivoo," Strengthen Digestion There the suggestion was made that tire Jeys should be oppressed, just a in Russia, i.nd that money should he ex torted from them wherewith to continue the propaganda work. Kictze said that he supposed this ug gestioa had been the inspiration for his own deed, for he at once set about to send letters, signed the "Secret AIW once'' to tho merchant. While they were waraed not to have anyone accom pany them, they at ouca willed in the jMilice isnd had Hietze apprehemled when he came to receive the decoy packet of marks. , Communism may come lo the alit of cnpld here. Keating that returning S'pldiers will! be deterred from marrying and making homes for themselves because of the high rot of fiiriiturc ,nn enterprising! communist has suggested that thc gov ) ernment communis the old furniture busiircos He says the stores charge too; much, whereas if the government took; them over, there 'd be nothing in the j way of returning soldier making homes 1 for themselves. HAD WHISRET ABOARD. Han Francisco, Aug. 1!). (T'nited ' Press.) John llarleycorn, exiled f rout ; the I'nited States, is migrating to China! in thousand casi" hits. With the French champagne producing district ravaged by war, there i ueh large demand throughout the Orient for California champagne and other American liqusr that, the firms caught with tremendoal supplies have a splendid thanee to "get out from under" at a srdendid prefrt before the Hhoppard act become effec. tive in January. Protesting against adtiitiooal work without additional y, L0 women laun dry worker in Spokane went oa trike. See our Window Display, then come in and have a demonstration 1 1 r ! j ;i j III nil1 I tl lii.t . .-ii: I'M f 'Hi! I 1 11 !" J '1! Ml: I' Ij '.'i , i j 'ij I It ill .HI "I. 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