Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1905-06-01
FEDERAL, STATE AND CITY OF PORT
LAND POLITICS WRITTEN
ON THE SPOT
SearChgh information Given the Public in This Newspaper
About Oregon Public Men and Circumstances

STEEL WRITING TABLE, BRAND
ISHING A FLAMING SWORD IN
ONE HAND, AND HOLDING BE-
TWEEN HIS TEETH A BAR OF RED
HOT IRON" and then complains of
the weather being cold The Journal
man will hardly be recognized by his
best friends in this picture. But who
is i. Bush Livermore1 What is the
Maverick, established three weeks ago?
We would be glad to become acquaint.
cd with such writer and il he would
call on the editor we win try TO con
vince him that we are not sleeping on
dynamite or eating giant powder cart
ridges, but simply trying to write an
interesting newspaper end say the
things a great many people feel ought
TO be said but haven't the courage TO
say them. Furthermore, this paper is
read by people because it has the nerve
to print aud express itself positively
on the very matters that other newspa-
pers are silent about, tackling the live
wire the other fellows are entirely too
willing to remain far away from-the
opposite of trucking, fawning, muz.
zled press.
The Portland Telegram announces
that an effort will be made to elect a
successor to President Catch, Of the
State Agricultural College. He has
filed that position acceptably for many
years, and the only reason for making
a change at all is his ago-there being
no question as to his high character
and ability as an educator. The Port
land papers are always engaged in un-
selfshly stirring up something for the
benefit Of the state and the chances
are there is nothing to the matter but
newspaper talk. Prof Catch has never
struck us as old and feeble. He bears
himself as a well.preserved man, walks
erect, takes pleasure in outdoor life,
and many win feel that while young
er and smarter man might he more pop
ular in some circles, THE STATE
LOSES BY NOT RETAING THE
SERVICE OF AGED MEN LIKE
PROF. CATCH AND PROF. CoNDoN.
Tho Portland paper says Prof. Catch
is an oetegenarian, which is surely a
mistake. He must be in the sixties,
and man of perfect habits and an
unusually even temperament will be
in his mature prime long after that. II
is a poor expression of gratitude that
takes the best years man can give
the public in the career of educator
and then dismiss him when he is no
longer able TO make new place for
himself in the world. Like nearly all
men who have devoted their lives to
teaching, the elder Catch is not man
of wealth He should not be removed
for age only.
What a pretty place Forest Grove isl
/ took a run up the other day from
Portland, and the hill country one pass
es through is only surpassed in beauty
by the famous Waldo Hills. On the
train met c. B. Greer, Of Lebanon,
on his way to ChareshOlm, Alberta,
where he has a daughter living. He
has resided five years in Oregon and has
son coming out from the old Minneso.
ia home to live in Oregon. He was TAX.
ing crate of Strawberries to Alberta
to surprise the people there. He is
an old Grand Army man, and prom.
ised to send him a paper, and he said
he might subscribe. 0n the train was
VIM. Hilleary and wife, going to the
State Grange. They are substantial
pillars of that organization and deeply
interested in the independent telephone
that has now connected so any of the
smaller towns of Marion county. THE
MOST IMPORTANT THING IN FOR
EST GROVE IS PACIFIC UNIVER-
sITY, a school of great influence in
the development of Oregon. The school
has five buildings and a thirty-aere
campus. Prof. j. R. Robertson, of the
chair of history, married a Salem
girl, Miss Minnie Lansing, a daughter
of the distinguished Quaker nursery
man C. f, Lansing Robertson is
plain and unassuming man WHO
WORKS LIKE A HORSE. has held
his job ten years and has horse sense
enough to treat a newspaper man right.
1 met President Ferren, a plain hard
working man, who teaches mathematics,
puts on no airs aud is well liked. He