Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1911-06-29
EDITORIAL NOTES.

Can you pick out ten business men in this city who are not
In favor of this city exhaustng all its available resources in Sc
curing a gravity system of mountain water? There would be no
advertisement to the world so great as a pure supply of water for
this city and the public institutions.
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The common council has named three men to help draft a COM
mission form of government-Messrs Eldridge, Waring and H.
o. White. The Board of Trade has named H. w. Meyers, H. H.
Olnger and Geo. F. Rodgers. The Business Mems League will
name three members of the committee tonight. Although this
city has fallen down on parks, on mountain water and bridges,
there ought to be enough gray matter and red corpusces to get
the commission system.
If you want to get along in the world it is just as well to not
keep other people waiting.
Not only Portland, but all the rest of Oregon will be unted by
rail with Tllamook.
The state of Oregon offers more opportunities for progress
and improvement of the individual, for the lettering of the con-
dtion of families, for health, long life and prosperity, than any
state in the Union. If people would investigate this they would
always feel grateful for having taken the time to stop and con-
slider that there is a great deal worth living for besides an
immediate financial return. We have always felt that if the
whole city of Philadelphia and Washington, D. c., would turn
out to our funeral we would not be willing to furnish the corpse.
Nearly three hundred Capital Journals sold onthe streets last
night in one hour shows The way Salem is growing and the
crowds take a live local paper that is not afraid to print all the
news that is worth knowing about.
Have you sent your friends a postal card invitation to attend
the Salem Cherry Fair July 6, 7 and 8? Free at Board of Trade.
AS only two prisoners have eloped under Governor Vests pa
role system, it cannot be that it is West TRUSTEES that are holding
up the Southern Pacific trains i'll the Cow Greek canyon.
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The Falls City celebration will take the Salem picnic crowd and
family pleasure seekers to that beautiful resort in the foothills
of the Coast range. The falls of the Luckiamute are well worthy
of visit. The people over there seem disposed to preserve the
natural beauty of the canyon through their little city.
A frst-class highway from Salem to Portland would be the
first step in the solution of the good roads problem. Such a high
way would have an enormous volume of travel and would be
open to half the people of the state. 1t should be made good
enough to be travelled day or night, summer or winter. In a
few years is would be lighted by electricity. 1t would be lined
with fine residences and the land would be worth $500 an acre.
The governor is alive to the Importance of this matter, but can
he get live men to take hold of it?
The city of Salem has the bes, future of any city in the North
west, but only on progressive business lines. Petty and dirty
politics never helped a man or a town. Cut it out, gentlemen,
and stand shoulder to shoulder for progress.
The old Mission rose is still left blooming in a few neglected
places. Why not form a club and make it the popular rose of all
the roses? 1t is the sweetest, the prettiest, the freest bloomer,
will survive the most cruel neglect. 1t is the rose brought from
old CASTLE by the Spaniards when they first settled the Pacific
coast. 1t fought its way up the coast from Mexico, and is part
OF the history of civilization. No rose garden is complete with
out the Mission rose, that originated in Persia, and has the true
altar of roses odor.