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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
COUNTY COURTS MEET
/ TO SETTLE BRIDGE
AND FERRY PROBLEMS
Installation Of Free Ferry or
Repair Of Bridge To Be
Discussed

The county court of Polk county
will meet the county court of Marion
county and the city council bridge com.
mittee this afternoon at the court house
with a number of the citizens of Salem
interested in the proposition of new
steel bridge across the river at this
city. The immediate topic of import
ance is the installation of ferry or
the possibility of repairs on the old
steel bridge. The engineer who ex-
amined the bridge in 1912 reported that
the bottom chord Of the bridge could
be repaired at that time for about
$1,000 and many of the citizens of Sa.
lem ar of the opinion that the bridge
could be repaired at considerable less
than the cost of new bridge.
Assistant Engineer Sadler, in the
bridge department of the state highway
engineer, however, states that even ii
the old bridge were repaired it would
be throwing good money after bad as il
would be but an old bridge at best wher
the repairs were completed and wo
be but temporary relief at that. Mr.
Sadler who made the examination OF
the bridge few days ago says that
when this bridge was built about q
years ago it was of the lightest tyne
constructed at that time and was moi
designed for heavy traffic. In thOs,
days there were no autos, no auto
trucks built to carry five or 10 tor
. 10 nd ha 60, Ia leo
drays were scarce.
If the bridge were repaired, said Mr.
Sadler, and put in the best possibl,
shape, il would be necessary to limi
the traffic to the amount for which th,
bridge was designed % years ago les
about 25 per cent more on account O
the deterioration Of the steel. The fac
that one of the lateral rods has snappe,
without warning recently indicates tha
the steel has crystalzed to a certain
extent which is not possible to estimat
without a labortory test. II would thu
be necessary to limit the traffic furthe
to accord with the deterioration of tn
E steel
The general public understand bu
little about the actual condition Of tn
bridge as few have had the opportunit
to study the conditions surrounding tn
structure and many erroneous ideas pre-
vail. 1t will be the purpose of tn
: meeting called this afternoon to hea
4 the different opinions about the bridg
e and to have them explained by thos
= who know and it is hoped that the al
Y solute truth about the bridge may |
y brought to general knowledge.
The two county courts are endeavo
ing to work in the interests of the Ia
payers and yet safeguard the travelir
public and they are placed in n peculii
position and think that the only way
get to the bottom of the matter is
receive all of the light possible The "a
payers will be eheerfully heard and
is expected that this afternoon 3 moe
ing will bring forth some actual resul
which win meet with the approval
the thinking public,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
ALUMNI OF U. Of 0.
WILL FORM LOCAL
CLUB At BANQUET
Prominent Ex-Students VIII
Deliver Short Speeches
al Meeting

The local alumni of the University of
Oregon are making plans for reunion
to organize local alumni association at
a banquet to be held at the Hotel Ma
riOn on the eve of the Oregon-Willam-
ette game, Friday, October 80. 1t is
expected that at least so old grads
and former students will be present to
lend their assistance to the associa.
tion. Walter Winslow, president of the
U. of o. Alumni association, will be
toastmaster and Regent Ben W. Olcott,
ex-president of the alumni association,
Charles V. Galloway, and Assistant
State School Superintendent E. F.
Carleton will be heard in short
speeches.
Tom Williams, Carl Gabrielson, Clar'
ence W. Walls and Charles Reynolds
/, former members oil the U. Of o. glee
club will be heard in a few Oregon
songs and the promoters are planning tC
secure Mrs. w. Carleton Smith for a vo
cal solo.
In addition to the organization of q
/ local alumni association plans will be
made for the home coming to be held al
the University of Oregon, November
20, the date of the annual U. of 90
, A. c. game which will be played in Eu
gene this year. Efforts will be made
to have each member of the local as
soeiation wear yellow chrysanthemun
to the willamette game next Saturda,
J and to arouse a little of the latent col
lege spirit that has been subordinatet
in many of the old grads in their rusl
for fame and fortune. The banque
win be called at $3.50 sharp in the grill
room of the Marion hotel.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
Gets Is Years In Pen
For Being Intoxicated

A sentence Of 10 years in the Oregon
state pen on u simple charge Of being
intoxicated is the longest on record bur
such was what happened to DR.. u. y
Elmer this morning and the prisoner
is now serving his long sentence. Ehm
cr was sent up from Baker county three
years ago on forgery charge and re-.
ceiyed sentence Of from two 10 %
years in the pen. After serving two
years AZ model prisoner Elmer was
credited with five years time and was
released last spring from the pen aud
secured q job in this city.
He was up in police court once be
fore but Parole Officer Keller let him
go on his promise TO be good in the
future. Last night Elmer was pickle.
up by the officers on drunk charge
and today he was taken back to the pen
to serve out the remainder Of his SEN
tence.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

John w. Belt, of Louisville, KY, is
the special representative Of the
United States state department now,
with General Carranza on his trip
through the northern Mexican states.
Mr.. Belt is secretary to John r. Sill.
man, President Wilson's personal
representative in Mexico, who is at
present in the United States, and in
his absence from Mexico is acting IN
Silliman's stead.
aSince entering the service Of the
state department in 1907, Mr.. Belt
has been deputy collector Of customs
at Panama, an official Of the Pan
American Union, and in 1914 went
TO Mexico on a special mission with
Mr., Silliman. He is law graduate
Of the University Of Virginia.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
VICTOR POINT aLEANINGs

Capital journal Special Service.)
Mr. Cage, near Cedar Camp, shipped
ear load Of cedar posts to Silverton
for several Of the Victor Point neigh.
bors. The price paid was nine cents
per post.
Mr.. Aart Schriber, Alexander and Joe
Doerfler and Misses Anna and May
Doerfler attended the dance at Sublim.
ity last Tuesday.
A. 7. Savage brought home 500 sheer
and goats to have them dipped. M
Savage has fine dipping vat
Mr.. Jacob Doerfler and wife and Mrs
Joe Doerfler spent several days visit
ing relatives in Portland. They made
the trip IN the Dodge.
+. Docrfler is busy getting his chick
ems ready for the Frisco fair next
month and his sheep for the Portland
show in December
7. Egan and family visited al III,
home Of Joseph Morley Sunday.
Glen Me- is building new addition
10 his store.
sylvester Doerfler sold fine buncl
Of registered ewes last week.
Charles Riches and Bill Emery Wer,
mp on the santiam Saturday LOOKING
after their cattle.
The y. p. band prnctice on Wednes
day night ns usual. The boys are Qla,
TO have Abe Oppliger with them again
Roy Fox made business trip I,
Portland last Wednesday.
Theodore Fisher has stocked np hi
new ranch with Shropshires.
Charlie Heater took coffee with th
Loske family saturday, while he va
out looking for milk COWS.
J. Darbys have just about completes
their new mansion.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
CAPTURED THE ALPHABET.

Berlin, by wireless to Sayyille, l., j.
Oct 20. Driving ncrons the llluzt dis
irct, Field Marshal Won llndcnbcrg
has reeapturcd tho Kaamirshika farm
t0days official announcement raid. To
the southwark Prince Leopold y Bayar'
ians repnlsed tho Russians east Of Bar.
anoyichi and south OF Vygonoyskoye
lake.
Gelcral Y0l Linsingen storued Rus.
sian positions cast u Kolki, aud wcai
.of Czartorysk, repulsel Slavic couA.
ter attack and took 1900 prisoners.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
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COURT HOUSE NEWS
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F. J, Nielot filed a suit today in the
circuit court of this county against
Mary NJ. Payne. 1t is alleged that the
parties to the suit entered into a
verbal contract for the lease of l0e
acres of land in this county in 1913
and the plaintiff claims that the
defendant was TO furnish Alsac clover
seed enough to sow the tillable land.
II is stated that the seed was not
furnished and the plaintiff planted the
farm to cereals and gave one.third of
the crop to the owner 1t is stated
that October 10 an action of forciblc
entry and detainer was instituted in
the court Of Honorable f. Theodore b
Brentano, justice of the peace of tn,
district Of Champoeg, and the plaintiff
asks that the defendant be estoppeC
from proceeding with the action. Me
Nary and McNary and +. NJ. Page arr
attorneys for the plaintiff.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
GRACE BUYS STEAMERS.

Seattle, Wash, Oct 26.-Seattle, it is
believed will benefit by the purchase to-
day by w. R. Grace and company of a
part of the fleet of the Pacific Mail
Steamship company. 1t is predicted
that part of the new fleet win be oper
ated out of this port.
The vessels purchased are the Penn
sylvania, Aztec, Peru, City of Para
San Jose, San Juan and Newport,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
THE LIFE NOT PLEASANT

Sacramento, Cal, Oct. 26.-The plea
of Joseph d. Cornell, Sacramento at
toreny sentenced to eight years in pris-
on for forgery, that Jail life is break
ing down his health and making him
susceptible to tuberculosis, did not have
sufficient weight with the third district
appellate court to admit Cornell to bail
pending the appeal of his case, the court
today denying his application.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
MAY BREAK WITH GREECE

London, Oct. 26.--The Central News
today limited that a diplomatic break
between Greece and the allies IL pos.
sibiliiy II Greece interferea with allied
operations in the Balkans.
The note the allies representatives
handed 20 Zaimis contained this intimh.
ton, an Athens message TO the Central
News gaid,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
OPPOSE MILITARY TRAINING

Seattle, Wash, Oct. 26.-Members o.
the Ministerial Federation informally
oppressed themselves today as opposed
to compulsory military training at th'
University of Washington, in confer
ence with committee of the universit,
faculty. The federation will formal,
pass on it later.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
BOY EMBEzzLER CAUGHT

Los Angeles, Cal, Oct. ga Telegram
from Ell Paso to the police here today
announced that Howard Main, boy mes
senger. accused of embezzling $4,000
from the Commercial National banf
here had been arrested there.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

Someone says a really good cup of
coffee can't be sold for less than 40
cents. A somewhat similar opinion
about cigars is held by the 10-center
contingent; but that doesn't convince
the 5-centers.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

MONEY TO LoAN-on improves
farms at per cent annuai ns insesss ssfs
1 am representing the Commerce ga ~
Deposit & Mortgage 90. OF fOla,n l'ansS
Oregon. Quick delivery OF S' mvnsR
Write me or cal. at Marion hotei'
]. Berger, Salem, Oregon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

Street scenery looks quite as II did
thirty or more years ago, there are so
many youthful budding mustaehes'
Fashion is the great hair festorer this
time.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26
coURTMARTIALED A SPY

London, Oct. 26.--A Grman spy with
"a forged American passport has been
courtmartialed here.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

Judge Kelly, of department number
| of the circuit court, will open court
in this city Saturday, October -, to
hear the case of Fred Sehmid against
Charles Schmid, an action to collect
money alleged due on promissory
uofe
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

A suit for divorce has been filed by
Laura Fitzgerald against Milem Htz'
gerald. The couple We're married in
idaho, July 20, 1913, and no children
have been born to the union. II is al
legged that the husband deserted his
wife in November, 1913, and has since
continued to live apart from the
plaintiff. The plaintiff asks that hel
maiden name of Laura Meeker be re
stored f. p, Moreom, of Woodburn
is attorney for the plaintiff.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

A marriage license has been issued
to Frank A. Nowak, blacksmith of
Brooks, and Augusta Boirk, of Gervais
Both young people were born in Aus
tria.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

FOR sALE-A square Hallet & Davis
piano, excellent tone. A DaTgain g.1o
Phone 141M. OcloV
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

WE'LL FURNISHED HOUSE-For
W. 49, " 7t5 Oct26
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

FOR Rents room bungalow, modern
conveniences, $3.50 per mohta: %use
Phone 935. Oo1-o
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

/ HAVE CLIENTS with $500, $1,000,
sl,50e to loan. Come in at once II
YOU want it. Joha II. Scott, over tae ae
Chicago strorc. oe--S
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

W. o. DAY & co. have opened a
harness and shoc repairing shop ~.
266 Center. Oo'-O
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

WORK WANTED-By married man on
farm, or any other work. A. b., ea5e 5e
Journal. Oot-O
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1915-10-26

WANTED-By widower, houseekeePer,
between 40 and 80 years OLD .,e ln
quiro at journal office. oetzo
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

Some of the evidence before the
New York state Factories Commits
sion Is burdened with horror.
II has to do with the Sweat shops"
OF New York, and tho women and chill
dren who work in those sweat shops
and the things that are made in those
Sweat shops"
1t Ia an old story to trade unionists,
district visitors and settlement work
ers but Il is new story to the pub.
lie. 1t shows condition that ought
to be done away with Mt once.
| 1t Is a cause in which there can be
no excuse for delay. No court VIII
canceh legislative remedy on the
ground that 1t takes away property
without due process of law"
! Here are some of the cases brought
before the commission, and they rep
resent condition general to the "out
side" work in the tenement house dis
tricts.
There are more than 125,000 women
and children doing Sweat shop" work
in those tenement houses.
In one district where 49, sweat
shops" were inspected there were
people in seventy-nine of those places
suffering from contagious diseases.
In some of those Sweat shops
were women and children engaged in
making monogram" cigarettes for the
'higN-class trade"
In one two-room apartment" nine
teen men and women and children did
their work, ate their food and slept
when they were not working.
In the room of one tenement q
mother and four children were en-
gagged in running ribbons through cor
set covers. In the same room the
father lay dying of tuberculosis.
In the room of another tenement O
number of women and children were
working on feathers. Four of those
trying to work were actually suffer
ing from typhoid fever.
A young woman was found making
dolls clothing. She had to keep a
it sixteen hours a day to maintain
herself in Subsistence wages" II
the room in which she worked ant
slept and took her food her father la!
on a cot, dying of tuberculosis.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
GOOD MEN --- AND WHAT
THEY STAND FOR

blighted pulling out basting threads
or making artificial flowers under the
whip of a brutal sweat-shop boss. No
little lungs will ever again be filled
with cotton lint or coal dust.
In that day no destitute woman will
stand on the brink of the water, try
Ing to decide whether to end 1t all or
sell herself into prostitution.
No man will then cringingly beg
some exploiter for job,--for chance
to exc out an existence.
Compare this in your mind with
the skinny, petty, worried, hurried
uncertain method of living today.
! But have you heard your good
men" candidates say anything about
creating this new order of society?
No, for they would not then be
good men"
They would be Socialists.
They would have the Socialists
hopes and ideals.
| THEY WOULD HAVE SOME e.
THING AT STAKE BESIDES AN
OFFICE.
They would be using the press, they
would be on the street-corners teach
ing those who do not understand, the
underlying causes of poverty and its
attendants-war, prostitution, insan
ity, hunger, disease, over-work, and
no work. They would be teaching the
remedy for existing evils.
But they can do none of these
things.
Their only qualification is that they
are good"
GOOD FOR WHAT?
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
CHILD LABOR

The evil of child labor canpat-"ne
eradicted under the nS.er system. 1t
is part and parcel /of the capitalist
mode of production. 1t can only be
intensified by the growing perfection
of machine production. Mechanical
ingenuity has taken the place not on
ly of the artisans skill, but of the
mans strengthen even a woman's.
A child's attendance is all that is re-
CURED as an adjunct to machines that
can do everything but think.
No manufacturer can hire adults
to take the children's places at the
machines, and successfully compete
with the manufacturer who continues
to work with child labor. He cannot
even raise the wages of children in
his factory above the scale adopted
elsewhere. An attempt to gain for
the little girls in the cotton mills of
Oakland, California, q barely living
wage ended in failure. because the
owners had to adjust their wage scale
with that prevailing in the democratic
South.
The alternative presented was,
work for what we offer, or we close
the mills" The children were liter
ally starved back to their ill-paid
tasks. Patch the system up in one
n1ace and If breaks ont in another
Raise the wage scale uniformly thru
out the United States, and our COM
petitor nations get the orders. And
there you are. There is but one rem
edy for the evils of capitalism, Of pro-
duction for profits, and that is, abo-
iition of capitalism, and the institu-
ton of a system of production for
USE!
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
What Non-Socialists Vote For

The case OF Mrs. Madillna Vitrianl
was put In evidence as being typical.
Mrs. Vitriapa lives at 70 Sullivan
street, which ia the West Side dock.
tenement district of New York.
SHE HAD FIVE CHILDREN. THE
YOUNGEST OF THEM IS AGED
FIVE YEARS. THEY ALL WORK
EIGHTEEN HOURS A DAY. Usu
ALLY THEIR COMBINED LABoRs
BRING THEM SO CENTS A DAY. ON
RARE OCCASIONS THEY EARN "a
CENTS A DAY. ONCE THEY EARN
ED 81.
THE CHILDREN IN THESE
"sWEAT SHOPS" OFTEN FALL
ASLEEP FROM EXHAUSTION ANC
ARE SOMETIMES TOO TIRED TIC
WORK STEADILY. WHEN THEY
ARE SLEEPY THEY ARE WHIP
PED TO KEEP THEM AWAKE
WHEN THEY ARE TIRED THEY
ARE WHIPPED TO "sPEED THEN
UP"
THE WHlPPlNGs ARE NOT PUN
IsHMENT. THEY ARE MERELY
AN INCENTIVE TO LABOR EFF
ClENCY.
1t seems incredible, but 1t happens
to be true. 1t Is true not only of thu
cases cited here, but of an economic
condition that Is general among thu
women and children engaged on "out
side work" in the sweat shops" o
New York, and all outside work o
this kind is sweat shop work.
The presentation of these fact'
should produce an immediate remedy
Civilization cannot afford to invoke
the penalties that such condition
makes inevitable.
The instance of the women ant
children working in the midst of con
tagion at the making of monogram
cigarettes for high-class trade" is i'm
pressive But that is because 1t need
no imagination to realize its meaning
Thousands of other cases may seen
more remote, but they are actuall
just as intimate, and there is no goo
reason why civilization should kee
company with such industrial squalol
No reason, at least, excepting that tn
working-class themselves stubborn
vote against Socialism, the one an
only remedy for such evils.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
DREAMERS
BY Ernest Crosby


I chose to be a dreamer
A dreamer whose dreams come true.
You may choose to fight IL you like
To skirmish and strike
To worry and toll and build.
You may count the towns you have
founded,
The men you have killed.
You may fill the world with hustle,
And shout and scream;
You may jostle and hustle;
i dream.
1 can see what is hidden from you
The army Of man
Passing on in review
The fighters and workers and all,
From the rear of the van.
There they go with the banners and
streamers.
The best and the worst;
But 10! the poor dreamers
March first!
So I chose to be a dreamer
A dreamer whose dreams come true.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
CONTINUED from Page II

We Socialists know that the chno-
tic condition In which society finds
itself today Is brought about largely
by lack OF understanding, by the
masses OF THE CHANGE BROUGHT
ABOUT BY THE RAPID AND MAR
Vicious EVOLUTION OF THE MA
CHINE, UNDER PRIVATE OWNER
SHIP.
You ask: WHAT ARE YOU so
CIALISTS GOING TO DO ABOUT
IT?" First we will educate, educate,
and again educate, until we have gain.
ed political control Of the city, coun-
ty, state and nation.
We already have control of many
cities.
, Sooner or later we will make Ev-
erett link in the rapidly lengthening
chain.
When we have gained sufficient po'
litical power, we will establish an In
dustrial Democracy.
Things will then be made FOR
USE, not FOR PROFIT as now.
This will set the children free.
1t will set the human race free.
1t will put men and women at work
for few hours day producing in
abundance everything that is neces
sary to develop the best that is in the
race.
1t will put baby dolls and wagons
and hobby-horses and laughter, song
and music into all childrens' lives.
No baby ears will ever again be
broken by the whir Of machinery. No
baby eyes will then be prematurely
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
"THE CRY FOR JUSTICE"
BY n. C. Evans

We want to draw our readers at
tention to the book we are advertising
THE Cry For Justice" 1t is a re-
markable book It is different from
other Socialist books. 1t is a fit
book for anybody's library and is in
fact a library in itself No Socialist
that can possibly afford the price,
$500, should be without it. We can
truthfully say that no Socialist will
be disappointed in this book once hav-
ing bought one. 1t is a book you can
refer to every day and get something
refreshing out Of 1t is well bound
and contains 30 striking illustrations
and 955 pages. H, w. w.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21
1T RESTS WITH YOU

1t rests with you either to palter
continually with your conscience and
in the end to say enc fine day Per
ish humanity provided can have
plenty Of pleasures and enjoy them to
the full, SO long as the people are
foolish enough to let me- Or, once
more the inevitable alternative, to
take part with the Socialists, and work
with them for the complete transfer
nation Of society. 4 vast and most
enthralling task; a work in which
your actions will be in complete har-
mony with your conscience; an under
taking capable Of rousing the nobIest
and most vigorous naturea.-Prince
Kropotkin's Appeal to the Young, p.
IS.
The Northwest worker. [volume] (Everett, Wash.) 1915-1917, 1915-10-21

Are you going to allow the trust
magnates, the bankers and the land
grabbers to retain possession of that
which you must have access to in or
der to live or are you going to get
up like men and women and take that
which is necessary to your well-being?
When we say TAKE we mean that
you shall get control of the powers of
government and LEGISLATE these
natural resources into the possession
Of the men and women that do the
useful work of society.