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The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-02-13
The Water Wagon

Here is stirring tribute to the water wagon from
that poet philosopher, Walt Mason:
I've the circus wagon pass with stately horses
hitched in line, all bright with shining paint and brass-t
thrill clear up spine I've the rich mans motor
car that him many thousand bones it burned the road
up far and honked in loud Caruso I've
all things that go wheels whatever be the motive power
and viewing Them fellow feels he's living in modern hour
Of all the vehicles that roll along the pike from to
of all that stir the SOUL the water takes the
bum The wagon has gilt it hauled by circus
span and all its and springs built upon STERN old
fashioned pan mehnks its wheels needing grease and
hear them squea and grind but those it ride
Peace and leave the Land of Grief behind Hang hang
thirsty boys be not dismayed by ests you're
headed for joys than you have known in many
years!
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-02-13


judgment and the leisure and inclination to attentively
observe the expression of public thought and the
evolution of public opinion upon questions OF general
This gentleman said recently that to him the
interesting development of the time is the steady
growth of the nationwide opposition the traffic in
liquor He finds active IN every section OF the coun-
try and among almost all classes of the population
This gentleman thinks this widespread opposition
is different in character from the temperance move
mens of other days when swayed great audi
ences with their passionate denuncation of the drink
evil and while he says he is unable to understand the
great forces behind the movement at this time, he
thinks it is longer a religious question and he
doubts if the agitation is being led by the churches
One thing he says is clear to him. and that is that
the present against the traffic IS irresistible
and that this generation will see the liquor business
submerged and carried away by tidal wave OF con-
demnation.
In commenting the views expressed by this
gentleman the North American dissents from his be-
lief that the old time religion spirit is absent from the
opposition and that the churches less active than
in the past but that while in the past the churches
fought the traffic almost unaided by non-churchmen
the warfare has broadened and economic forces have
Joined with religious conviction The North American
celebrates on this point as follows:
The great new to. &c which behind
and which is reinforcing the religious
sentiment so eectualy, from many different
from medical colleges and hospitals from the operat
tables of surgeons and the laboratories of chemists
where cold booded of science study the marvellous
of the human body and with minute
cuacy the deadly effects of alcohol in weakening its tissues
and deranging its functions.
from the asylums for the insane and the feeble
amshouses and PRISONS where experts analyze
degeneracy and the in countless
alcoholic 1t from those who
work to misery through deertion chldens
societies and charitable organizations and from those who
study the sunken lives in the sum and the dreadful victims
of vice.
1t from publication of the reports of county
missioners and other officials which show how large part
paid by the people absorbed caring for the
criminals and dependents created by the liquor traffic. and
the testimony of business that decrease in the
number of saloons is invariably followed by increase
in prosperity.
1t from the changed attitude of thinking persons
the dnkad and the delinquent of tainted ancestry
which regards them victims of heedty and disease rather
than wicked vioators of moral law.
1t comes from railroads, banks mercantile houses and
industrial establishments from place where efficiency
demanded the operation of which shows that of
liquor untrusworthy inefficient and of danger
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-02-13

cple that social degeneration is due alcohol and
that the marriage of those tainted by its poison should be
discouraged.
The North American points that it is the
awakened sentiment thus informed that has changed
the character Of temperance which now
finds in the daily papers The change in this kind of
news is indeed remarkable The reader now picks up
a newspaper and reads that the United States senate
refuses to confirm the appointment made by President
Wilson of man in North Dakota to be receiver of
public money because charges filed with the senate
show that the man was time speakeasy keeper
He reads that grand jury with not clergyman or a
pronounced Prohibition advocate it, recommends a
reduced number of licenses because saloons respon
sbe for most of the crime and much of the burden Of
taxation. He reads that when town goes dry and
the saloons are closed that the jail is empty, bank
deposits increased, and the business well
pleased with the change He reads that railroads and
filling their places with total abstaners for they know
that the efficiency of the who drinks in mod
Grafton is lowered by that act He reads that in Pro-
hibton states there is decrease in crime in nebrates,
in the number of insane and in the death rate. The
North American concludes its splendid editorial in
this way:
The fact is that morality and economics are one in
the that nothing is morally right which is not
economically sound and that morality really based
upon right economics. That which is wastefu of ply
sica moral spiritual strength violates not only the
law Of economics, but the law of morality and religion
as we'll No great reform that recall was ever
permanently established except through union of
ethical and economical principles which in
one and the same It is this mighty coalition which
gives the present movement against the liquor traffic
its tidal wave force and will ultimately sweep the evil
from the land.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1914-02-13
Forces Behind the Temperance Movement


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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
COAST HARBoRs RECEIVE
FEDERAL APPROPRIATIONS

Washington May 20.-1n a final
revision of the rivers and harbors bill,
preliminary to ordering it printed, the
senate commerce committee agred upon
large appropriations for additional
harbor Improvements. Two hundred
thousand dollars was allowed for work
in Los Angeles hafbor.
The committee also provided $4,000
to improve Grays Harbor, Washington,
and added $4,000 for improvement
of the Siuslaw river, Oregon.
For the improvement of the mouth of
the Columbia river 81 100000 was ap-
propriated and contracts were author
lied for 81 ,400, 900 more.
The house appropriation of 100000
for improvement of Willapa harbor,
Washington, was eliminated.
When the committee had finished
with the bill the total appropriations
stood at $53,50O0,OO0 as against the
$49, ,40S,000 provided when the measure
left the house.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
PROPOSALS FOR SUPPLIES
STATE INSTITUTIONS.

The Oregon State Board of Control
will receive sealed bids for furnishing
supplies to the various state institu-
tions on June Is, 1914, at 2 p. m, con-
sisting of dry goods, clothing, furnish
ings, groceries, shoes, hardware,
brooms, drugs, paints, oils, stationery,
eroekery, plumbing, etc, for the semi
annual period ending December 81,
1914.
Specifications and schedules will be
furnished upon application to the Sec
retary. Each bid to be accompanied by
a certified check in the sum of 10 per
cent of the whole amount bid, payable
to the Oregon State Board of Control,
to be held as guarantee of the faith
full performance of the contract.
TIE Beard reserves the right to re-
jeet any or all bids or to accept any
part of bid.
R. B. GOODIN, Secretary,
Oregon State Board of Control.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
RoCKEFELLER Is BITTERLY
DENOUNCED BY GOMPERS

Washington, May 29.--Bitter de-
nunciation of John D. Rockefeller, Jf.
an "anotaer claimant to divine right y
was voiced today in an editorial in the
Federationist, written by Samuel Com
pers, president of the American FEEDER
alton of Labor. The article criticized
tho supreme courts decision in the
Gompers.Mitchell case and demanded
that the democratic party exempt la
Dor unions from the terms Of the Sher
man antitrust law.
The editorial said: "RockefelleI
will learn that human right and justice
are greater than his conception of in
dividual freedom. He will learn thai
no imperial dictator can defy power
full, intelligent and aroused public opin
ion. The dead in the Colorado Goa
fields is too vivid lesson for the ma
tion soon to forget.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30

smooth, conipacted surface such as is
formed by the float. The float should
never be used unless the soil is very
cloddy, as the best mulch is formed by
a medium coarse, granular surface. The
float, if used too freely, tends to des.
;iov the granular condition of the soil,
rcducing it a dust, although the term
"dust mulch" is frequently used this
condition is extremely undesirable, the
granular "earth mulch" being the con
dition desired.
The frequency of these later surface
CIVILIZATIONS will be determined by the
condition of the surface soil and the
growth of weeds. The mulch should
be restored as often as it is lost whe-
ther by showers or by gradually set
ting together, and, Of course, the weeds
must be kept down, as they draw heav
lily of the soil moisture and the avail
able plant food.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
ALuMN1 10 MAINYAIN BUREAU
Former Students at o. A. G. Establish
Headquarters in Portland on
tournament Basis.

Oregon Agricultural College, Corval-
I lis, May 29.--ln order to give their own
communities what the Agricultural Col
lege has given them, the alumni have
placed their organization on perma-
nent basis and established headqnar-
tcrs in Portland. 1t is the intention
of members of the association and of
ficers Mt headquarters to advance the
general welfare of their members and
by united efforts promote the interests
of the college, the state and the nation.
The newly established headquarters
is now ready TO assist members of the
association as well as other citizens of
the state in obtaining information
relative to college work, the work of
the Experiment Station, and the serv-
ice of the Extension division. 1t will
also serve as bureau Of publicity for
matters of interest connected with the
college and also invites the press Of
the state to request from the bureau
any information concerning the college
and its present or former student body
that may be desired for publication.
The head office of the association
will also work to place o. A. G. men
and women in the hest positions avail
able for which they are adequately
suited. Men and women from other
educational institutions are also eordi.
ally invited to avail themselves of their
list of opportunities. Services are also
offered to graduates and other persons
in positions of responsibility who are
called upon to select assistants.
The office will keep current and
complete record of graduates and form
er students. The records will be of
especial use to classes preparing for
reunions, to local alumni clubs, to mem
bers of the College faculty and to
others availing themselves of the
services.
An alumni magazine will also be pub
lished containing vital matters of per-
sonal history such as engagements,
marriages, births, deaths, and changes
of employment.
1t will be the aim and purpose of the
officers in charge to conduct affairs
of alumni and student interests that
they may be of assistance in realizing
the purpose of the early pioneers in
education who made possible the Ore
gon Agricultural College.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
EXPERTS WILL INVESTIGATE
RESOURCES OF CHINA

Shanghai, May 80. - Preparations
have been in progress here for several
days for what evidently is an expedi.
tion to make thorough investigation
of the mineral resources in parts of in.
terror China.
Just what interest is back of the
project could not be learned, but it was
generally believed it was backed by
the Standard Oil company, which re-
Gently secured enormous concessions
from the Pekin government.
A number of foreign experts recently
arrived here to superintend the under.
taking, and well-equipped party of
native helpers has been organized to
accompany them.
There has been much secrecy con.
eerning the expeditions plans, but
what has leaked out gives the impress
sion that the investigation will start
with Shansi province, where high quail
ity anthracite and rich iron deposits
are said to lie almost side by side.
1t was said the party would 90 up
the Yangtse river to Hankow and then
northward by the Hankow Pekin rail.
road, branching off en- route to the
westward by the spur to Tai Yuan, the
capital of Shansi province, which it
was understood would be the prospect
ors headquarters while in that field.
The expedition was regarded here as
attended by some danger owing to the
disturbed political conditions in the in
terror, the prevalence of brigandage
and the natives superstitious objection
to eIcavating operations of any kind.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
CORN CULTIVATION.

(By Luther J. Chaplin, county agri-
culturist.)
Three principal factors determine
the results of corn crop. First, the
kind of seed; second, the preparation
of the seed bed; and third the moth
ods of cultivation.
If the seed is poor-from low-yield-
ing strains, low in vitality, or other
wise weak, no amount of subsequent
care can induce maximum crop.
If the seed bed is bad, lumpy, too
loose or too compacted, or poorly drain
ed and, therefore, cold, the best of seed
and the best of tillage will fail to Sc
cure satisfactory results. So also will
the corn fail to yield the best returns,
however well the seed be selected and
planted, if the method of tillage is bad.
1t is with the methods of tillage that
| wish to deal in this article. First,
let us consider what are the purposes
of cultivation. There are three prin-
cipal reasons for cultivation--the prop.
er asration of the soil, the destruction
of weeds and the conservation of mois-
ture. If the seed bed has been prop
erly prepared, the first cultivation may
well be given with spike-tooth har-
row before the corn is up. This oper-
alton may be repeated after the corn
is three or four inches high by slanting
the teeth backward somewhat.
After this, the corn should receive
one deep cultivation with six or eight
Q a., N.ra1 n,,1N,traNnr GN,vr.,,a. a
soil deep at this time permits freer
circulation of air to the depth cultivat-
ed and consequently dries and warns
it and renders available an abundance
of plant food. This cultivation will
occur at time when the loss of mois-
ture from the surface soil will usually
be benefit rather than an injury, and
better bed will be formed for the
tiny roots. This deep cultivation will
induce the roots to form deep in search
of moisture and food rather than near
er the surface.
After the corn has reached height
of 1S inches, the roots will have met
between the rows and subsequent deep
cultivation will destroy many of them.
This root pruning is very harmful, as
it not only lessons the possibility for
maximum development but it also re-
tards the ripening of the corn. This
last effect is especially to be avoided
in the Willamette valley where the
growing season is none too long for
corn, at best.
Shallow cultivation, not deeper than
three or three and one-half inches,
should be practieed after the first deep
cultivation. This will preserve the best
mulch for conserving the soil moisture,
will not destroy the roots, and can be
made to destroy the weeds.
The best tool for this latter cultiva-
tion is spike tooth eultiyator, one
with large number of narrow teeth.
This intrument will form the best pos
sible mulch, if the soil has been prop
erly prepared @hd the first cultivation
has not been given when the soil was
too wet. If the soil is cloddy, board
drag or "float' may &c used to pull
verize it, but the cultivator should in
variably follow this Immediately, as the
loss of moisture is very rapid from a
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
OPEN FORUM.
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Editor Journals. l would like to add
few words to what has already been
written about the proposed bond issue.
from the small property owners point
of view.
The writer paid $3.50 for the home he
now lives in, number of years ago,
and it is now assessed at $500, and the
improvements added would not exceed
$3.50. My taxes last year were over
$25.
There are in this county a great
many automobiles valued all the way
from $500 to $4,000, .ffpm which the
county gets but very little revenue.
An auto valued at $1,000 assessed in
the same way that l am would net the
county $3.50. The point 1 want to
bring out is this: You propose to build
these roads with mopcy taken from n
great many people who have very little
or no choice to use them, for the benefit
of class of people who use up the
roads and do not help to pay for them
being built and kept in repair.
l am informed upon reliable author
ity that the province of Ontario, Can
ada, built q road from one end to the
other. After the road was built, a
small toll of few cents every five of
ten miles kept the road in repair and
paid the first cost of the road in n
few years. Now this seems to me to
be the only fair and just way to build
roads of this character. The persons
using them most viii pay most of their
cost.
The persons who travel between
Salem and Portland ten times year
pay more to the railroad company than
the person who only makes one trip.
All street improvements within the
city of Salem are paid for by the alb
butting property, which is already
bonded and being paid for in Install
ments.
Now you propose to add to this (ae-
cording to statements made by men
who were boosting for these bonds)
two-thirds of the cost of the road out
side. If this is not double taxation,
what is iti And it seems to me that
if carried TO the courts it would re-
ceive worse treatment than it received
at the recent election.
SUBSCRIBER.
Salem, Ore, May 81, 1914.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30

Yet many people are still old fash
,oned enough to think sermon ought
to be part of IA church service.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
EARL GREY ON vADERLAND.

Los Angeles, Cal, May 29.-Reports
that Earl Grey, former governor gen
eral of Canada, who was in Los Angeles
last week, was passenger on the Emp
ress of ireland, were denied today by
friends here. The Grey party, they
said, sailed on the Vaderland May 26.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30

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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
TWO ARE KILLED WHEN
BOILER ExPLODEs

Narshfield, May 29.--Isaae Freeland
OF North Bend and a man named Shaw
were killed and an employe named
Fuller was seriously injured today
when the Metzel sawmill at Ten Mile
Lakes was blown up by a boiler ex-
plosion.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30

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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1914-05-30
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