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Editorial Page of T CHABLE8 H. FISHKB Editor and Publisher WEDNESDAY EVENING August 20, 191!) Published Every Evening: Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address All Communication! To , (The DaUayIpl lauraal AXJCM 138 S. Commercial St. OEEOON , SUBSCBIPTION BATES iwiw K ncrrlar. tm vear. : S5.00 Per Montll- Dally by Mall, per year S3.00 Per Month- 45e -35e FULL LEASED WIEE TELEGRAPH EEPOET FOREIGN EEPBE8ENTATT7E3 " W. B. Ward. New York, Tribune Building. (WT H. Btockwe:!, Chicago, People's Gai Building Th Dnily Capital Journal carrier loys,ara instructed to put the papers on the oreh. 1J the -carrier does not do this, misses you, or negleets getting the paper Jryou on time, kindly phona the circulation manager, aa thii is tha only way an determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone 11 before 7:80 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by spaeial messenger if the airier has missed you. ' ' lortunes through gambling in the nation's food supply. If there is no authority for preventing the gamblers from cornering the food surplus, holding it to create an abnor mal scarcity,, and then taking advantage of forced prices, here ought to be some legislation on the matter at once. If there is any law providing for punishment of the of fenders, it is time to enforce it, before they have succeed ed in their plundering enterprise. : : ABNORMAL BUSINESS STANDARDS. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOtTRNAL Jm the only newspaper in .Salem whose eirculation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations STORAGE PROFITEERS. " . Every storage house in New York City and other Atlantic ports is stuffed with food. Breweries diverted from the liquor business, are filled with it. Every avail able building is crammed from cellar to garret. Most of this food seems intended for exportation. Food exports have already reached a record volume, and that volume is said to be still growiing. Europe is clam oring for American produce. ' But the owners of the stored food do not . care whether they sell it abroad or at home. They have mov ed and started it near tidewater, with a view to taking advantage of the foreign market, but they will just as willingly release it for the home market if domestic pricey can be forced up high enough to give them as big a profit as they could reap abroad. The profit is the thing. And it is, in most cases, a profit admittedly, far in excess of any previously realized. The food hoards are estimated at no less than 10,000, 000,000 pounds in N'-w York alone. The totals for the whole eastern seaboard are beyond calculation. Who are the owners of these hoards? A., govern ment representative says: "Of the immense quantities of food stuffs , held in storage the greater percentage is at the moment in the hands of profiteers, who are- awaiting" an opportunity to mulct either the citizens of Europe or this country. It makes no difference to them whom they snare. There is a legitimate and necessary quantity held for American use, of course, and there are men honest enough to give this product .to the country at a reasonable profit, but the great percentage of food is held out of the market for purely selfish reasons. "Men who never in their lives bought a pound of but ter, cheese, meat or leather with the idea of holding it for tale at a profit have jumped into this market and will squeeze the public if they get the chance. Millions loom in front of them, and they feel they are safe in exacting them." , Here is a situation that the government authorities will do well to sift thoroughly. It is no time for reaping RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Mason DAY AND NIGHT. Our days are full of care and dread, of toil that never ceases; we trudge along, with weary tread, to gather up ,the pieces; the same old tasks we've done for years, the vtruggle and endeavor; the some old doubts, the same old fears, the same old grind forever. But there is night that brings us sleep, when we are worn and aching, the solace for the eyes that weep, the balm for spirits breaking. Through restful hours, upon the hay, we dream of youth and laughter, forgetting every bygone day, and days that Jollow after. A little while we roam afar, perhaps on astral pinions, and gaze down from a yellow star upon this world's dominions. And this is all that keeps us sane, he sleep that night is bringing, for days are full of stress and pain, of being stung and stinging. Our days are full of played out dreams, of empty words and phrases, of ruined plans and broken schemes, and hopes deferred like j lazes. - But night comes dripping from the sky, from heaven's spangled rafter; here is the hay here let me lie, and dream of love and laughter. LADD & BUSH BANKERS Established 1868 General Banking Business Commencing June 16th Banking Hours will be from 10 a.m. till 3 p.m. " In ordinary times there is little disposition to scru tinize the profits made by'producers, manufacturers, mid .'lemen, wholesalers and retailers. It is assumed that com petition will take care of prices, and that in general any branch of industry is probably entitled to whatever extra - rofit it can make through special ability and efficiency. But these are not normal times. Competition is not operating as usual. Supplies are not accessible as usual. Transportation and credit and other factors are in abnor mal condition. All the affairs of the world are unset tled. People are harder put to it than usual to make both ends meet. , In this disturbed situation, there is little disposition to endure the piling up of fortunes .by clever men out of the necessities of the people. It is time for an abnormal restriction of profits rather than an abnormal swelling of them. Every business connected with the staple commodities of life must be looked into and the economic wrongs of 100,000,000 people must be righted. . Senators Borah and Poindexter are opposeU to the League of Nations because they are imbued with the very ideas that wrecked Germany the imperialistic notion of this country being able to whip the whole world and, therefore, should not become a member of any organiza tion designed to keep the peace of the world. This is the position they appear to take anyway and it appeals to the jingoes, of which this country has a large number, but as a matter of fact neither of these senators ever had a fixed idea on any public question. Borah was, known in Idaho always as "Slippery Bill" and his personal -reputation was f-uch that he was regarded as a hero around pool halls and bar-rooms. It is very doubtful if he has developed into much of a statesman since going to Washington, and he probably found a fitting side-kick in Poindexter. A na tional ticket made up of Poindexter andBorah might be r 11 right as giving recognition to an element in our popu lation which has never received much consideration in this country before outside the pale of the police courts. ' They have so-called public markets in a good many towns ana ciues line roruana, estaonsned wnen tnat par ticular craze was sweeping the countrw and now thev don't know what to do with them. Most of the producers , epresented tnere are Italian and Greek-'gardners, with occasional Japanese and Chinese, and they get their tooths rent-free, combining to put prices just as high as hey can. In other words it's mighty fine for the foreign city trucK garaner, ana tne public is again the goat. The police of the nation are seeking Clarence John son, ex-convict, supposed to be the brutal murderer of Mrs. Eunice Freeman, prison worker. And to think that when they get him Oregon maudlin sentamentalism has ?nade it impossible to hang such fiends. Some of those senators assert that thev learned noth ing from their interview with President Wilson yester day. Of course not, the country long ago gave up ever expecting some oi mat ouncn to learn anything trom any source. ' Hunting A Husband BY MABT DOUGLAS CL0S1XG THE HOl'SE The meat packers are trying to popularize beef by advertising its virtues. That's all right as far as it goes, but why not take a shorter cut to popularity by advertis ing lower prices? The only thing about that surplus army food supply the government is selling is that there isn't enough of it to make much of an impression on a ravenous civilian market. Here's a Friendly Tip" says the Good Judge Men who know tobacco, chew the best without iia costing them any more. They take a little chew and it's amazing how the good taste stays in a rich, high grude chewing tobacco. For lasting tobacco satis faction, there's nothing like a small chew;of that rich-tasting tobacco. THE REAL TOBACCO CHEW Put uj in kvo styles i ! RIGHT CUT is a short-cut tobacco W-B CUT is a long fine-cut tobacco -'-'"TUMni X Bag in hand I opened the gate. I was -startled. The stark look of the curtalnless, gcreenlegs windows of our little home was prophetic. Tho tele gram jthen had been true? Tho bell sounded as though clanging through an empty house. . Mother came to the door. . I "Why Sara," she said, "what brought you home?'' ! In a few minutes I was sitting at the wooden kitchen table. Mother brought mo a roll out of the breadbox. We sat munching rolls and drinking milk in the elean emptiness of the kitchen. . But even there it had a look of foreboding. The volue and white kitchen ware was gone! Mother was closing up the house. She was going, to Aunt Emily 's. Aunt Emiiy was ill. Told in a few words. Yet I feel that the darkened house will never be tho same again. I wandered around fore lonily. I looked at the pictures draped in their coverings, the closed piano, the absence of till our little possessions bowls and books mid eanille-stk-ks. It all seemed to be ready for a sinister iiuiposc. I left it and hurried lip to my room. Hut even it held no comfort for me. The cheap bureau the ugly' bed the one eliuii- which badly needed caning. So cheap so hopeless it ail looked. Perhaps I had seen beauty too much --tlic luxury of Merle House the taste and daintiness of Harriet's, tho artistic carelessness of-John Carowe's, the' old family look of Dr. Bixby's. Dr. Bixby's I must write him. Iii the shrouded and silent house I sat down. I used a rusty pen that scratch scrutched over the paper. My thoughts felt rusty, too. , " This is what I wrote: . . Dr. Bixby: I am not writing to ask you to for give me. Somehow I feel that you can not do that now. But I want you to be lieve that I was sincere. , I thought that I cared for you when you were indif ferent to me. ;I wanted you to like. me. When you did but you know the rest bo well. If you would think of me without bitter ness! And believe me when I ask you not to distrust women. It is because they do not know themselves that they fail. , , !" v;, ' : ';'" J Sarah Lane.; There was nothing left to do. I leaned my head "on my hands disconsolately. I had failed miserably. ' And it wa my own fault. I know that. I would never do it again.. But I had hurt one man by not knowing myself. "Tomorrow another day," I thought "putting away packing up moth balls cedar chests, wrappings. A dismantled house and mother s-t Aunt Emily's." I could board of course. And take my meals with people who eared not for mo nor I for them. (Tomorrow The Amethyst King.) vDALilOTOMLS . (Capital Journal Special Service.) Dallas, Or., Aug. 20. Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Brown and children have returned from a month's vacation at EoekawaJ beach in Tillamook county. C. C. empsey left Monday afternoon fur Omaha, Nebraska, where he has ac cepted a position as manager of a cigar nmi tobacco store in the Fontencil hotel. He was accompanied as far as Portland by 'lis mother, Mrs. Aliee I. Dempsey who will visit at the homo of relatives in the metropolis before returning to tnis city. Airs. Ed Jacobson of Troy, Montana, is a guest at the home of her sister, Mrs. I. N. Woods on Clay trcet. Mr. and Mrs. R. Y. Morrison and chil dren have gono to Newport for a ten days outing. Mrs. C. G. Coad returned this week from a week's visit a-t tho home of Mr. and Mrs. W. Vf, Powell at Monroe. Mr. and Mrs. 13. V. Pulton, Mr. and Mrs. Halph Kiggs and Mr. and Mrs. H. Cf. Black motored to Mary 's Peak Sat uvdny afternoon for an over-cSunday out irg. Mr. ii.ut Mrs. C. L. Crider and Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Piusecki are expected to re tina this week from a two weeks' trip through southern Oregon. Mr. f.nd Mrs. Earl Shultz and little son left Saturday for a several week's out'iig at Nye beach. Walter C. V assail, vice-president of the Dallas t'i'.y bank lias returned 'from uu extensive- trip through the Yellow stone National pari:. Mis. (.'. f. 'Jowes Iirs returned from a short Imsiiiojs visit to Portland. Mi Ethel Keiley, of the Mountain States PowiT company, is spending her ucation at ho home in the capital city. AMERICAN LEGION (Continued from page one) YOUR CATARRH MAY LEAD TO CONSUMPTION Danger-oat to Use Treateent ror Unly l emporary Kelicf. There is a more serious stage of atarrn man tne annoyance caused by the stopped-up air passages, and other distasteful features. The real danger comes from the tendency of the disease to continue hi course downward until the lungs become affected, and then dreaded consumption on your path.f Your own experience hat taught ygu that the disease can not be cured by sprays, inhalers, atomizers, jellies and other local applications. S. S. S. has proven a most satis-. factorv remerfv tnr Catarrh k cause it roe Airret tn it tnnrr. and removes the germs of the dis ease irom me Diooa. bet a Dottle todav. heorttl thff nnlv eaifn tr..t. ' ment that 0-ivr real rtilt ' free medical advice write Medical tirector, tmi Laboratory, At kU, Qi, Of the $2 fixed for annual dues, 25' amendment to the national constitution cents will be forwarded to national head ' granting the right of suffrage to won- quarters, and 50 cents to state headquar- en; but . . . - , tcrs. . This year the stae headquarters i "Whereas, There exists no present will use most of its funds in sending emergency that warrants tho calling of delegates to the national meeting to be! the legislative assembly of Oregon; held in the east late this fall. The therefore delegates from the local post to attend the state convention in Portland, bep tember 18 and 19 will be appointed at "Kesolvcd, That Sulem Orange No. 17, in regular session ,ie opposed to tho calling of a special session of tho lcgis- the next meeting, to be held early in ' lative assembly to ratify said amond September. Imcnt to the national coutitution except Bobin Day presided at the meeting in case an emergency shall dccviup last night. Speaking of one of the ob-1 whereby the ratification of -said amend? jeets of the American Legion, he said it ' ment to the national constitution prc was to look after the interests of the vious to November 1, 1919, shall depend boys who left their jobs and went into' upon the approval of sueh amendment the. war. He referrod to one instance j by the state of Oregen. where a soldier applied for his former) Resolved further, That the-secretary work at tho state house ar.d was turned ; be and hereby is instructed to furnish. down for a man who had seen no serv ice. Mr. Day said the post should act as. one man and demands its rights. Dr. Carlton Smith, upon his election as president, said he appreciated the Governor Olcott a copy of these resolu tions and also that a copy of resolutio .a be furnished the Sulem newspapers." New York. Mrs. Samuel Perlmuttet' honor, especially as Capital Post No. 9 sat on her husband lap in a crowded represented the brawn and brains or ( movie. Court new it was violation or American citizenship. He recalled that the fire Jaws. Sentenco was suspended, he had been with the boys for two years . and knew just what each one thought I when called out of bed at o:ii) in tne morning during the "war, and what the boys thought" of the daily gymnastics and how they felt at the mess call." All these things make a community in terest," said Dr. Smith. "This organ ization will grow. Twenty years from now the American Legion will bind you together in a, union of feeling and sym pathy, the liko of which has never been known." " Grange Opposes Special Session Of Legislature Expressing the opinion that no emer gency exists at the present justifying Governor Olcott in calling a special ses sion of the legislature to ratify the women's suffrage amendment, Salem Grange No. 17, P. of H., has passed the following resolution: . "Whereas, Salem Grange No. 17, P. of H., is unreservedly in favor of the nourishing ' POIWEIAH OLIVE OIL "altoayt frshM Prescribed by Physicians . . ' , for ' Bodybuilding . Sold Everywhere m i. w o People Who Neglect Their Teeth Soon Have No Teeth to Neglect lj DR. PARKER trance fee and also'the $2 annual dues. The state convention of the American legion will be held in' Portland Septem ber 17 and 18 and Salem will be entttled to four delegates with four alternates. At this convention Theodore Roosevelt Jr., will be present. j It was also announced last fveniag, that the American Legion, Capital Post ' No. 9, would be CHtertained one dav at 1 the state fair by the W;-.r Camp Com-' inanity service and wnuM also be given By DR. PARKER Founder and Executive Hsad of the E. R. Parker System pECAY is the thing that kills. People die because some part of the body decays and gives out. The only one who can stop tooth decay is a dentist, and the more a dentist knows, the better advice he can give and the better work he can do. - The knowledge of one dentist is limited, but the knowledge of sev eral dentists put together amounts to a great deal. That is the advantage offered you by offices using the E. R. Parker System, where a number of dentists combine their knowledge and skill and work together. You can come and have your teeth examined free. You can find out if some of your teeth are decaying and if disease is establishing itself in your mouth. It ought to be worth your while to learn exactly what condition your teeth are in, particularly as it costs noth ing to find out. God gjves us all but one set of permanent teeth, and it is little short of a crime to neglect them. Wallace Hylander, Fred G. Bunch, Ray J. Greer Registered Dentists Using the E. R. PARKER SYSTEM 303 State St. Salem, Ore. Mm r j PHONE 199 The Quickener Press 193 R Com! -over Gale & Co. G. E. 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