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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04
High School Notes

This afternoon at 2:30 the students
of the High school will hear lectures
on food preparedness by the members
of the o. A. C. extension department
who arrived in Salem this morning
with the 0. A. G. extension car.
These lectures will be given separate
ly to the boys and girls. The boys will
hear lectures on gardening and poultry
raising and the girls will learn about
fruit canning and the art Of preparing
food for the table.
Next Wednesday a special meeting
of the student body will be held for
the purpose of nominating officers for
next years term Of school.
The date is eagerly looked forward
to as the candidates are in doubt.
On May the IS an examination on
the Bible will be given by the state
board Of education.
By passing this examination the stu
dent gains whole credit, the equival-
ent of taking one subject for year.
The examination may be taken on
just one book of the Bible if the stu
dent so desires. For passing test on
one book of the Bible one.half credit
is given.
Principal Nelson gave a short tall
to the botany club at their last meet
ing. Mr.. Nelson is much interested in
botany and is thorough student, hav'
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04

RuSE FURNIsHED-Price
Plnger, 96l Mill. Phone 647
a 81
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04

pmall furnished house close
reasonable. R care journal.
So
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,oDa5 marx gray mare, five
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04

All American league games postpone,
account rain and cold weather.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04

FOR SALE-Cherry, currant plants
and chick brooders; bull and Aire-
dale dog. Phone 2l60J, 376 S. 24th.
5-5
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04

CASH-FOr second hand
'Rpge and Buick cars. Dwight
If
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4pt blowing done; all work
satisfactory. Phone 2Ol7J
500
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04
". ]. PATTERSON. M. D. Y.

Graduate :. Veterfn-
arian, Licensed TO
Inspect Stock. Up
toDate M Q I b o d 9,
Medicine and Op@-
ting Table.
Phones: Office 278,
Res. 1851.
420 s. Commercial
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04

The district boundary board for Ma
rion county met this afternoon at /
o o'clock for settlement of the matter of
the SCOTS Mills-Noble boundary. The
board some time ago transferred about
$4,000 worth Of property from the
SCOTS Mills district to the Noble dis
trict and the SCOTS Mills people want
the property back again.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04
NEW TODAY


WANTED AT oNCE-3 teams to work
in hop yards in Eola. Phone SIP. 81
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-05-04

At the meeting of the County Edu-
cational Board at the court house this
morning, W. G. Hopes, of the Oregon
State Normal school at Monmouth, was
elected school supervisor to take the
place of j. B. Fike, who is now teach
er in the Portland schools. The county
educational board consists of County
school Superintendent Smith, chair
man; Mrs. M. L. Fulkerson, secretary;
and George w. Hubbs, of Silverton;
j. w. Kellis of SCOTS Mills; and j. d,
Alexander of Salem, R. F. N. No. 4.
A marriage license was issued today
by the county clerk, to Albert Lloyd
Davenport, farmer of Silverton, and
Alma Josephine Wibale, also Of Silver
ton
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
MINORITY RULE
Must Exist with Democrats Victorious Until
Solid South Is Broken
he Editor OF The Tribune.

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: Is IL too late TO refer again 70 the
election and particularly 20 the question
whether Mr.. Wilson has been Endorsed by
majority of the American people1
Permit me TO call attention TO his electoral
vote. The states OF Virginia, North Carolina
South Carolina. Georgia, Florida Alabama
Mississippi and Louisiana and Ie%as are rep
resented by over seventy electoral votes. Inc
issue in these states is mainly the Fitteenth
Amendment-negro suffrage and III each
election the white men, soaring the negro
voters away from the polling places register
the same emphatic protest against the dah-
gers Of the negro in politics year after year
A popular majority for Wilson OF nearly
700, 900 votes (moge than wilson's nauonai
majorty) came from these states.
In the days Of acrid feeling following the
Civil War II was natural that the pendulum
should swing from the extreme OF slavery 70
the opposite. II may be that the desire to
punish the rebels" may have had an iniu-
encc. or, rather, let us believe that 1t was
our zest to protect the eX-slave mat armed
him with the vote.
The result for the Republican party is
boomerang To vote the "Black Republican
ticket is now declass6 in the South, and most
white men there would feel mortally ashamed
to vote for such n party. The idea OF the
negro in politics is offensive and the menace
OF negro domination with political and social
decentralization that follows is ever present
The candidate Of the Democratic party might
be perhaps almost anything bad and stlll
have these electoral votes.
They are not Influenced for or against the
tariff or "Americanism" or military policies
or any other national issue, but are dictated
by consideration Of the danger of negroes IN
politics, and as long as these conditions last
the same condition will exist
This Is minority rule, and We are having II
to-day Ones faith in the virility and Wis
dom Of a majority of the American people
need not be shaken by the election OF one so
lacking in these qualities in the last election,
as he does not represent the majority IN
those states where issues decide the vote
The nation that bans the japanese and
Chinese; that so far, as a nation, has with
held the vote from women having assoca-
tions and education in common with self
governing mankind lasting through centuries,
gives the vote 10 race that until compare
lively recent times was developed in the
iungles of Africa amidst superstition and
barbarism, and by so doing destroys majority
rule, tho cardinal principle Of our Republic
how long will it last7 NJ. f. II.
New York, Jan. 4, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
WHY Wingdale ?

In view Of Governor Whitmans veto Of
the Towncr bill and his approval Of the
Sage bill, both passed at the last session
Of the Legislature, there is bound to be
much interest in the announcement from
Albany that the Commission on New Pris-
ous is about to report in favor of the Wing
dale site for the proposed new prison 20
replace Sing Sing. The Towner bill was
so drawn as practically to exclude any site
but Wngdale. The Sage bill offered "a
choice between Wingdale and Beekmar,
both owned by the state.
Throughout the discussion Of the TWO
bills allegations Of the unftness of The
Wingdale site for the purpose-a farm
and industrial prison-cropped out, accom-
panied by haf-veied insinuations that its
sale to the state in the first place had been
a fccc Of politics and that there was still
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
The SeIGshness of the West
IRON The Philadelphia Inquirer.

tIrOUI Inc Phtddeiphtd inquirer
Gertrude Atherton has caused quite a stir
in what is spoken Of as the great West be
cause Of her attack on the selfshncss Of that
section Of the United States. She says it has
been equally ignorant Of and Indifferent to
the European war, and unwilling to make
from, It's abundance even small contributions
to mitigate the sufFerings Of those who "are
lighting hardly less for America than for
their own countries
Bishop Becker Of Nebraska. resents this,
and says in effect that if the thing were
brought home more closely to the Westerners
they would show more sympathy and feeling
for the sufferers. But it has been pointed
out that this denial is almost an admission
and goes to prove that Mrs. Anterior knew
what she was talking about when she made
the original charge. We have heard so much
of the chivalry, the courage and the love OF
adventure in the West that this charge of
selfshness comes to many as sort OF a
shock.
The truth Of the matter is that there has
been a gradual change coming over the West
i'm the last ten years, change which has not
been observed by the dramatists, the novel
.sts and the writers Of the moving picture
scenarios And as a consequence OF their
lack of vision the people in this part Of the
country have imagined that it was the same
/ old West-blunt, plain spoken and ready to
/ fight at the drop Of the hat. The actually is
d combination Of dollsr-chasing men and OF
dear old women. frightened at their own
shadows and shaking with fear at the thought
OF America standing up for humanity or for
it's own rights. A short time ago when the
advisability Of declaring an embargo on food
stufs from this country was suggested the
West rose up in mighty protest. Because it
was not considered a humane act? oh, MOI
Simply because it might cut of the swollen
profits OF the Western growers of and specu-
Iators i'm foodstufs. How have the ishty
fa11cnt
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08

politics behind the effort to force II as the
only place to locate the new prison. When
tho Governor vetoed Senator Towner 8
bill his action was hailed by prison reform
ers as practically settling the question: Tor
they held that the relative merits OF the
two sites would leave scant possibility oil
locating the prison at Wingdale.
It is greatly to be hoped that the Com
mission on New Prisons has made no mis-
take in its choice. It's report will be
awaited eagerly so that the basis of its de-
cision may be known and study given To
its investigation of the disadvantages at
tributed to the Wingdale site. 1t is i'm
portant that the question be settled as
promptly as may be, in order that work
may be begun on the prison which is to
replace the inadequate and unsanitary
Sing Sing. But it would be a great mis-
fortune if desire to hasten this eminently
desirable beginning should lead to mis-
take in so important phase Of the under
taking as the choice Of site.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
ENGLAND A STRANGE MOTHER
Did She Not Try TO Strange Her Offspring
in the Cradle?

To the Editor Of The Tribune.
Sir: / was considerably Jared this morn
ing TO read in to-day's issue the letter, "0ur
Mother Country" by one who signed himself
"a Grandson of the Revolution" While
there is much in the body of the letter that
one might find fault with, I am most con-
cerned about the title. All authorities agree
that to be a mother all that need be actually
done is to give birth to its kind. Still, in the
larger and more human sense, we, through
our education, have been led to believe that
mother is being possessed Of highest quail
ty of love for her offspring, divine and
sacred type of woman, all Of which stands for
unselfsnness and self-sacriice.
If this be true then tell me, please, how
We can truthfully call country mother"
who attempted to strangle her offspring in
its cradle; who employed for this purpose
fends in human form to crush those who at
tempted to be free of her grasping and ava
ricious control?
At no time in our existence have we had
any serious difference with any country but
England, who has ever been jealous of our
success The case with Mexico in 1S47 was
probably the dlrtiest exhibition in favor of
England By those who were no better Ameri-
cans then than We have with US to-day, for
the campaign battle cry Of James K. Polk was
"54-4O or tight and after election to satisfy
public clamor war was declared against Mex
leo. The Spain affair in 1928 was ostensibly
as a friend to the downtrodden, and though
We had no grudge against Spain, she hap.
pened to be harassiuS Cuba.
But England the mother, trying to throttle
the infant, hers, in ll7G-'S3, again in lsl2-15
and in 1876. in contradiction TO the state
ment in a letter in to-day's issue signed By an
American of Eight Generations" and also
Ia spite Of the friendly feeling existing prior
to that time. when the late Edward VII. then
Prince Of Wales, while here on visit, plant
ed a tree at the tomb OF Washington Eng
land. ever commercial sacrificed friendship
for cotton, and even before our minister. Mr.
Charles Francis Adams, had met the British
officials she hastily recognized the belliger-
ency Of the Confederacy, which John Bright
in the House of Commons characterized a.
being done with unfriendly haste"
No; governmental England was never truly
our mother The real mother of this country
is the thought of the oppressed and down
trodden for ages, without regard to race,
color or creed, and they did not have in mind
the United States of America which implies a
limited nationalism, with privileges for one
particular Kind. Americans, but an interna.
tonal feeling that all humanity might be free
from any particular centralized idea.
on, pity the man hundred years hence
whose notions of freedom are those of Wash
ngton and his followers under the misrule Of
the materialistc despot!
JANE +. WHITE.
Jersey City, y. j., Jan. 9, 1917.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
For a World Ocean Police

To the Editor of The Tribune
Sir: Germany says: wait until after the
present war Is over before considering a
peace league of the nations" Why consider
Germany? She is under indictment for muir.
der, arson, rape. kidnapping, and most all the
crimes on the list. If the Allies and neutralg
would form world ocean police force at
once, and arrange between them TO police the
seas under some arranged international code
the Central Powers could be included when
they had shown their fitness 20 JOIN the
force. IN the meantime there is plenty of
policing 20 do against the pirates which now
infest the ocean. Land policing, for a world
police force, is secondary, because any nation
who realized that her ocean trade was en-
tirely cut of would have to yield and come
20 an international court for trial. No ma
ton can live without ocean communication
Cor very long, and II any knew that she was
positively put under the world police block
ade until she gave herself up for trial T..
would be only matter OF days before she
yielded.
There is 20 time like the present 10 start
tris. Isn't there some one in the world big
enough 20 get the neutrsls and Allies TO-
Cether on this world ocean police force q.
once? WILSON D. LYON
New York, Dec. IS, 1916.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
The Country's Opinion

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: | note that one Of your contributors
does me the honor to refer to a recent CON
tribution OF mine in The Tribune in which |
nsk you 70 stand By the President in his
effort 70 secure peace for the warning ma
tions of Europe. Your correspondent asks
rs it our country or our President that all
are TO stand by"
To me the terms are Synonymous, espe-
cially in the present G Sc, where our Chief
Executive has receiveI the votes mot mine
Of the majority of his fellow citizens as an
Endorsement OF his course, and especially, /
believe it must be admitted, because of the
fact that "he kept us out of war"
To my mind the mass of our fellow citi-
zens want peace and, further, want 10 be
relieved Of all danger Of participation in the
war. Further. they are not primarily inter
ested as to whether the Entente Allies gain
their point or the Teutonic powers gain
theirs. There has been a great deal of ey-
traordinary assertion on all sides. and unless
the majority of the metropolitan journals
are wrong in their opinion Of the situation
nothing remains but 70 continue the blood
shed.
The wishes OF our country as a whole have.
however, been accurately reflected in the &C
ton of our President, and if the Entente
Allies do not heed his suggestion, as has
Germany the blame certainly does not fall
upon our country or upon our Chief Magis.
trate &
New York, Dec. 2s, 1915.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
Universal Military Service

.Hr0ai Tho Sc Louis Republic
Universal military service. worked out IN
the light Of current experience OF the needs
Of modern warfare, would not grind every
boy who was physically TT through an in
tensive training for a field service for which,
I'm the hour Of need. only limited portion Of
tho Young manhood Of the country would be
required u would take much broader
range One man would serve his period On a
training camp. another in a machine shop,
another on r. railroad, another on a coastwlse
steamer, another in a hospital another on a
farm; others in coal mines az iron furnaces
and in chemical laboratories. Readiness for
war would not mean mere readiness 20 fight;
10 would mean also readiness 70 organize
transportation, agriculture, the metal trades,
mining and the chemical industries for the
mobilization, equipment and sustenance of an
army in the field and for the highest welfare
o. the civilian population remaining at home.
Such training as that would be training IN
performing All the tasks of civilization in the
hest and most economical way, % the end
mat war might produce the minimum O. dis
.u-bance O. the welfare Of lOOOO0,000 people,
and tnat the whole nation might stand, IN the
most effective and patriotic way, a, the back
OF the army in the fsi
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
No Questions Asked

One of The Tribune's readers in Florida
called attention the other day to tho loss Of
two ships whose disappearance had caused
little or no comment, though shipping men
generally were satisfied that they had been
sunk at sea by German submarines.
This" he remarked, "is the final effort of
the Germans to save themselves from de-
struction. 1t has long been noticed
that dead men tell no tales, and it has
been the custom of pirates from the earliest
times to avail themselves of this simple
means of concealing their work.
There is, indeed, sufficient reason to ap-
prehend that the possibilities Of disposlng
completely OF all evidence of outrage are
multiplied by the endurance and increased
radius of action of the newer German sub
marines. The earlier vessels could not
work very far from home, and had but
brief period to spare for their operations;
now, however, with greater speed and a
radius of 10000 miles or so, it is easy
enough to do much damage far from land
and with relatively little fear of discovery.
1t would be a mistake, however, to sup
pose that the Germans and their allies are
grown more reckless. They have more
wavs of working destruction without Gre
ating international complications, but the
will was never wanting. When the master
and crew of the Coquet were put into leaky
boats a year ago in the middle of winter
the commander Of the submarine must
have known that they had but little chance
Of surviving long enough to reach the
shore. The risk did not apparently trouble
his conscience-he was doubtless acting un-
der ordors-nor is there any reason TO sup
pose that it would be seriously troubled by
the presence of neutrals, provided the I'M
possibility Of rescue were thoroughly es-
tabished.
Possibly way may be found to avoid
acrimonious correspondence with trouble
some neutrals by a more general use Of
mines. For mines can occasionally be
turned to good account in an active man
ner by sowing them in the course of an
approaching vessel. It is not unlikely that
some of the German submarines are capa-
Die after determining the course Of an on
coming ship of strewing a suficiency Of
mines in her anticipated path, cheaper
and safer way Of dealing with neutrals
than bv wasting torpedoes.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-01-08
COOPERATION THE REMEDY
Farmers by Combination Can Lower the
Cost of Living

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: There has been much talk in the press
and on the platform concerning remedial
measures to correct the high cost Of living as
concerns foodstufs, the high cost of every
thing else being apparently taken for granted.
! Keeping in mind that there is no earthly
reason why the price of foodstuffs should be
low when the cost of all other commodities,
including labor, is high, the matter resolves
itself simply into the question of eliminating
by scientific methods of distribution such
part Of the cost as is unnecessary and waste
full. This done, the prices of food will come
automatically TO their proper level
Out OF all Of the plethora of talk and "in-
vestigation" there has come one plan that
will produce the desired result II is not
new-we see It in operation all around US in
other lines Of production and distribution.
But it has the dsconcerting merit Of being
able TO accomplish the intention-it will
work.
In this plan there is no idea of eliminating
any middleman who has an economic reason
for his existence as such. IL is well under
stood that the fsrmer-producer cannot be
also retail merchant, except in very linn
tied sense. But it will enable producers 20
sell collectively and to transport and dis
tribute economically and advantagcously,
both for themselves and the consumer. the
commodities which they have found IL diff
cult TO market individually.
Take a typical example: 4 hundred farm
ers surrounding town or shipping point
have things to sell-eggs. fruit. vegetables,
pigs, poultry, potatoes, etc. The quantity in
the hands or any one farmer at given time
may be insufficient TO render profitable a
special trip or an individual shipment TO
distant market, while collectively their prod
ucts would swamp and kill" the local mar
ket. AS result many of these things. par
tlcularly those that are perishablc. 20 to
waste on the farm or arc shipped at loss.
while at the same time dealers I'm the local
towns may be purchasing similar commodi.
ties IN case or carload lots from distant
points.
II this group of farmers, by cooperating
can have their individual products collected
at arranged times and taken, as proposed by
Mr.. Dillon, TO central local point, graded
and assembled, the local dealers supplied
hrst and the surplus shipped to the larger
centres. TO public markets or dealers there
the evils Of the present system or lack Of il
would be done away with and all parties
rlghtfully concerned would benefit.
Naturally, however, anything so obvious
and so busnesslike must produce an erup-
ton OF oratory, objection and opposition
VIII 1t succeed in blocking or sdetracking
the proposed reform? II may for a time
But--consider what happened in North Da-
Sotsl HOWARD GOLDSMITH.
New York, Jan. ., 1917.