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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

The state board this afternoon N
elected State Bank Superintendent Sar-
gent for the term of four years. It also
sustained his action in refusing to gran;
a charter to the State Bank of Lewiston.
1t is understood however that a char
ter has been given it by the general
government and it viii be opened as
national bank.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

denly the lights were extinouished
ohs aer's searchlights attempted to
- the ship but failed and her cap
tain ordered the vessel s course chang
ed.
Passengers, greatly excited, rushed
on deck. The CAPTAIN, convinced that
the mysterious ship was a raider, or
dered bis vessel sent forward at full
speed. The other ship was then seen off
the portside, with lights dimmed
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT

NOTICE OF ASSESSMENT
For the Improvement of the Alley in
tie South Block of Charles Cart
wright Addition to the City of Sa-
lem, from the East Line of Capitol
Street to the West Line Of 18th
Street.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

er DusIness.
Liberty Market. Portland. capital
stock 5000 and object to conduct a
public market and deal in meats, fish,
poultry and vegetables.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
PEACE CONFERENCE
IN FORMAL SESSION
BOIsheviki Commander Claims
Complete Control Of Rus
sian Armies
PEACE CONFERENCE.

London, Dec. 4.-Prince Leo
pold Of Bavaria welcomed the
Russian delegates to the confer
enee for an armistice at Brest,
Litvosk, and the armistice has
actually commenced, a wireless
message sent from Petrograd
announced today.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
Members of Congress
Bring Thrilling Story

A Pacific Port, Dec. 4.-Twenty sca
ators and members Of congress, return
ing today from Honolulu, brought a
thrilling story of dodging a myster-
ious ship believed by them TO have been
a German raider. A japanese cruiser
conveyed the vessel on which the con.
gressmen arrived.
Before the vessel sailed from Hon.
olulu, it was reported raider was
active: The japanese cruiser was then
in port.
Sunday night, during severe blow,
lights were seen 10 the starh Sud-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

TRANSFERS LISTEN-Call silvertOn
phone Black ia for wood, pole wood,
hard wood, old fir and I'd growth. in
cords, you can do well by calling
me. tt
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

be exper-
fenced in milking and feeding 3 day
test COWS, must be clean and give
good recommendation. Wages $75 per
month and board. F. A. Doerfler, Sill
verton Or tt
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

FOR FORDs = The Eisen Regulator
Positively regulates your head
lights, cam get out of order, lasts
as long as the car will. Free trial
Have one put on, takes 10 minutes:
l43 Court street. Phone 1341R. tt
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

FOR SALE CHEAP-Duroc boar, sub
ieet to register, 10 months old, 25O
pounds, "a mile northeast of Lans-
ings corner. Potter, box "a, route :,
Salem, Oregon u
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

FOR SALE-Four acres in fruit, good
buildings, best location in Salem; al
so five acres two miles out. will self
cheap if taken soon. Call and see
owner, $500 Cherry Ave, north Sa-
lem, 1913
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

SECOND hand auto will be accepted
as part payment on 5000 residence,
terms on part. Address lie care
Journal, tt
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

same period of last year.
The railway operating expenses OF
the two periods were sl0,55s.0SO and
$97, ,333. .765. which means an increase
of 1867 sos and $l3,475,6ls, respect
lively.
The net returns from operations we're
IS. .342, ,429 and S62, ,575, ia, or increases
Of $1,604,548 and $13,53J772.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

FOUND-Stray bay horse with white
spot in forehead, owner may have
same by paying for ad and feed Rt.
s, box l40. 1875
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

10 GOOD men wanted at once, inside
work, the year round We work our
men on the merit plan. Call to s
p. m. 1878 N. Cont st. 12-4
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

BED wool is high now, sell or trade
yours to us. Best market price guar
anteed. -uren's Furniture Store,
Commercial street. l2-lo
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

- SALE - Three lots on
South Commercial street, facing east
at a snap. Two lots in Oak Lodge
addition. For quick sale, see Tneo.
Roth. 12-4
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

I0TTDNaI waAT ANS pay
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

of the ease and smoothness of
steam roller, while the drys found
cred helplessly.
"But not this year. The wet ma
chine skidded-they had grown SO as
sured they didn't think it was neces-
sary to put on the chains. Some
thing happened to the motor, and the
tires blew up-you know how it is
with an automobile, when something
goes wrong, just everything happens.
Well, that's what happened to the wet
vehicle this year, and the Saturday
mornings harmony session is ample
proof of the real difficulties in which
the campaigners find themselves.
There's an old saying that when
thieves fall out, honest men get their
Dues"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

a number OF Investigators, consist
ing of some of the most estimable
ladies in Chicago including Mrs.
Bowen, President of the Juvenilc'Pro-
tective Association, Mrs. Mathes,
President of the Chicago Woman's
Church Federation, and Mrs. Mer-
Ram, wife of Alderman Merriam, re-
iported to a committee of the city
council that they had visited large
number of public dance halls and
found that liquor was sold in 205 of
them. What they saw may be sum-
married as follows:
Minors selling liquor to minors.
Wine and beer served until o'clock
in the morning.
Child of not more than four years
in hall until a. m.-given beer and
danced much of time.
Girls sitting in laps of men and
kissing other men.
Two fights in one dance hall.
At least six intoxicated boys and
men leaving one dance hall.
Young men asking girls to road
side houses"
Policemen looking on without OBJ
jecting.
The investigators made afidavits
showing the above conditions.
Al Ia e
Illinois show similar conditions.
Often-times boys and girls from
neighboring towns and from the
country are found in these liquor
selling dance halls.
Fathers and mothers of Illinois
should awake to the fact that the sa-
looms are Systematically debauching
their boys and girls.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
WAUKEGAN MEAT MERCHANT
SAYS DRY TOWN HELPED
HIS BUSINESS

A leading Waukegan meat mer-
chant who voted wet in the local
option election that resulted in that
city's going dry, gives this bit Of tes-
timony as to the effects Of the dry
regime upon his business:
II thought it would hurt my bust
ness If the town went dry, but after
six months without saloons, can
see steady increase in my sales. The
increase does not come so much from
new customers as from old custo-
mers who buy more and better cuts.
For example, I can mention a
dozen men who used to CONS in Just
before closing time Saturday night
after they had spent most of their
money in tho saloons. They would
order FLYER, sausage and the cheaper
kinds of meat Today these same
men. since the saloons have been
closed. order rosst-beef. steak, chops
and other choice cuts, and what Is
more. they pay their bills promptly"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
Djscord in Ranks
of Danuille Vets

Someone has thrown a monkey
wrench into the wet machine at Dam
Vile. The wet workers are calling
each other bad names and refusing to
work unless there's more money in it.
In previous years, Jimmie Dix,
Peoria newspaper man. has managed
the campaign for the liquor crowd
This year Jimmie is persona non
grata to the vets.
"What's the matter with Jimmie
Dix's brain this year." asked a wet
leader. Anybody who would have
little enough sense to write that
damphool set of questions in the
press ought TO have his brains shot
out, if he had any. He calls that adj
vertisingf Why in thunder dontcha
get somebody that knows local condi-
tons; somebody that knows what
we're up against; somebody that
knows whatcha have to fghti This
whole campaign makes me tired. No
money. no brains. no anything"
Skids Under the Vets
This Is something new under the
sum-" says the Commercial-News.
land the shoe is on the other foot,
now. For years without number the
wet machine has glided along with all
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
MAYOR MOLLMAN
SEEKS REELECTION

Mayor Mollman of East ST. Louis,
who had the courage to close the sa-
looms of that city on Sunday and
keep them closed, is a candidate for
reelection. The liquor dealers, as
might be expected, are using every
means, fair and foul, to bring about
his defeat.
THE defeat of Mayor Mollman,'
says the East St. Louis Journal,
would be urged by the victorious
opposition as verdict by the people
against Sunday closing of saloons,
and upon that theory they would
throw them wide open"
The good people of East St. Louis,
even those who do not oppose sa-
looms, but believe in law, ought to
rally to Mayor Mollman's support
without respect to party.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
What a Great
Newspaper Says

The New York Tribune, founded
by Horace Greeley, and acknowledged
to be one of the greatest newspapers
in the world, gave the following ex-
PLANTATION of why it discontinued liq-
uor advertising.
eve have. discontinued alcoholic
liquor advertising purely as matter
of business policy.
1--WE recognize tho fact-empha-
sized more forcibly as each year
passes--that indulgence in alcohol is
incompatible with efficiency in any
field of effort. In industry, trade and
transportation as we'll as in artistic
and professional pursuits, the man
who uses alcohol habitually imposes
upon himself serious disability.
"When alcohol Is mixed with busi-
ness, Il is alcohol which profits. not
business. 1t Is our conviction also
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
PEOTONE BETTER OFF
WITHOUT SALOONS
By P. M. Collins, President Village
Board

In the spring of 1914 Peotone
township was voted dry, and in 1916,
the question was again submitted and
the town again voted dry. The an
nual saloon license income of the vii
lage was $1,000, In the spring of
each year, during the saloon regime,
from 1910 to 1914, the largest amount
of cash on hand was $2,61o.26. In
the first of the two dry years, 1915,
it was $3,421.53; and in 1916, it was
$5,o00.35. Which would lead one to
believe that village can be ron
without the "crutch" of saloon license
money.
Peotone is unfortunate in that
country hard roads are unknown, yet
the business houses do not complain
of lessened trade, but claim a sub
stantial increase. Bank deposits have
increased beyond what one would ex-
pect, and I am advised that certain
class pay more promptly than in the
old years.
Moral conditions have been great
deal better. The tone of the usual
country saloon is so bad that it has a
demoralizing effect on the whole COM
Inunity. Now young men from the
village and country are not subjected
to its immoral influences. Law viola
tions have existed and still do exist,
but in such small way, as to be al
most unnoticeable. l am sure the
sentiment favorable to dry town has
increased. and there is no question
that we as a village are better off in
every way now than In the days oil
the open saloon.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
DIES INES GREAT
SLUMP IN CRIME
BY Mayor Hanna of Des
Moines, February IL, by
Telegraph

The first seven months OF
closed saloons in Des Moines
showed a decrease of almost
exactly SO per cent in the ar
rests for INVESTIGATIONS and from
40 to over so per cent each in
arrests for assault and battery,
disturbing public quiet, va
graney and petit larceny; also
insane commitments and the
expense at the inebriate hospi-
tai reduced about 40 per cent;
likewise instances of intoxica-
ton cited as cause for divorces.
Savings depositors have
largely increased in number.
Better sales and better collec-
tions are reported in nearly all
lines OF retail business.
Liquor sales last year with
saloons were about $2,000,000.
The average consumption now
is about one-tenth as much, as
shown by careful estimate of
express consignments.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
SALOONS CORRUPT
POLITICS SAYS
FLETCHER DOBYNS
Commercialized Vice and
Gambling Center Around
Saloon Asserts Chicago
Attorney
NO COMPROMISE

In an eloquent appeal TO the mem
bers of the Chicago City Club re-
Gently, Fletcher Dobyns, formerly As
sistant States Attorney for Cook
county, and later attorney for the
Chicago Vice Commission. character
lied the saloon as the chief source OF
political corruption and as the center
for commeroialized vice, criminals.
pickpockets and gamblers.
All who are familiar with politics,
said Mr.. Dobyns, are fully aware OF
the evil of the political control of the
wet element in our communities The
saloon interests usually manage to
have such control of the ward ma
chimes that it is almost impossible to
push through by popular vote meas
ures that would curtail the power of
the liquor traffic. Many OF the best
men in our community are deferred
from running for office because they
know that they must either be domin-
ated by the liquor element or be sub
jccted to humiiating treatment when
they dare to oppose the liquor inter-
ests. For Is years we have seen this
going on in our city. The saloon men
stand at the gateway of politics and
see that their agents have control of
the important Offices in our local gov
eminent
Time to Strike Off Shackles of Mis-
government
Whatever may be said in cxtenua-
ton of the evil effects of liquor drink
ing, nothing can be said in favor Of
the saloon as it exists today Com
mercialized vice centers around the
saloon. Our criminals, pckpockets,
gamblers and other undesirable men,
bers of society make the saloon their
headquarters. The saloon caters to
these classes of people and tries to
protect their interests and enables
them to carry forward their work
without molestation. Nothing can be
said in justification of an, institution
that lines up with all that is evil in
the community
This evil state of affairs is now COM
Ing more clearly to the attention of
the public. We have reached the same
stage in the Prohibition movement
that was reached in the slavery move
ment in our country in 1860. The
time has come when action cannot be
longer delayed. The public is realiz-
ing that now is the time to strike in
order to throw off the shackles of
misgovernment that have so long inn
peded the progress of our country.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

+1,024 of the arrests in Peoria were
those of suspected cases, dismissed
without hearing. These are omitted
from the above.
According to the committee of SO,
a large percentage of the other of
lenses for which arrests were made,
such as vagrancy, assault, etc, was
indirectly due to liquor. 1t would
seem to be a conservative estimate
that at least 80 per cent of the total
number of arrests are due directly or
indirectly to drink, and this confirms
the statement made by Ex-Governor
Foss of Massachusetts before the
Penology Congress in Indianapolis
"Our total judicial system is main
tanned at an enormous expense be-
cause of drunkenness"
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

that when alcohol is mixed with ad-
vertising, it is alcohol which benefits,
not advertising.
1.-THE Tribune wants to eliminate
from its advertising columns all
traces of evil or even suspicious asso-
citation. We feel that liquor adver-
tisements will not help to attract to us
either the readers or the advertisers
whose patronage we especially de-
sire"
Great words from a great authority.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

FATHER CLEARY SAYS
SALOON EVIL rs WORST

In appealing to the voters of
; Springfield to abolish the saloon
at the coming election, Rev.
Father I. M. Cleary, of Mime
apolis, Mimi, made the asser-
ton that the drink evil was the
worst evil of American society
today. II am not SO short
sighted" said Father Cleary,
as to imagine that there are
not other evils besides the drink
evil, no other sins besides the
sin of drunkenness, no other
vices besides the vice of intem-
perance. I know as we'll as any
other man that there are other
vices, other sins, other evils to
be conquered in human society.
But l know just as we'll as any
other man should know that
there is no other one evil that
is such prolific cause of other
evils as the one evil of intoxi-
eating liquor.
81 think I know" he contin-
ued, that there is no other vice
that is such a prolific breeder
of other vices as that of intem-
perance. With the one possible
exception of the vice of ava
rice, there is no other vice that
hardens the human heart as
does intemperance. There is
no other appetite that blinds
a man to all that is sacred and
pure to him as the appetite for
intoxicating drink blinds the
unfortunate victim. There is no
other one influence that makes
so many bad men, SO many
cruel fathers, SO many unfaith-
full husbands, SO many wayward
sons, so many unhappy and ,
blighted lives as does the de-
basing vice of intemperance."
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
After T,po Years
of Sobriety
(Waukegan Gazette

w dukGSdH bdLtltCJ
The Russian correspondent of a
large publication has prepared and
presented survey of the results of
two years Prohibition in that great
empire. The Literary Digest in speak
ing Of the survey says:
I've are more than overjoyed to
know that it has been statistically
proved that the daily producing ca
pacity of the workingman, since the
PRONUNCIATION of that message of sal
walton, has been increased by Is per
cent and that Monday, the day when
millions of muzhik farmers) were
found in the cutters, has become a
normal work-day i'll Russia. But not
only the mir (village community felt
the consequences; the life also i'll the
city was as If of sudden transformed.
The population rushed to the schools
and savings-banls, cooperative So
cieties opened their counters by the
hundred. The whole aspect of the
family life, the very looks of the peo-
pie on the street were changed. How
quickly the population graspSd the
prospective benefits of the great re-
form is best shown by the fact that
when it became known that the I'm
peral ukase, in order to become legal
ly valid, will need the express consent
of the majority of the Mrs, only an
exceedingly low percentage refused
the Endorsement. Today there is
hardly village in the vast Empire
where the blessings of heaven are not
called down OIL the Little Father in
Petrograd.
JANUARY last 1o16) the Zemstvo
County Assembly, of Moscow cir
cularized the peasants in order to as
certain in the most direct possible
way the impression of the population.
A few OF the replies made by the vii
lage elders, most of them as illiterate
as their charges, have great eco
nomic and psychological value:
"'The men feel stronger. Their
treatment of their women folk and
attitude toward their neighbors is
not the same as before
The children are now nicely
dressed and have even shoes on their
feet One hears no more quarreling
in the izbas (farmhouses).'
az was amazed to find among our
farmers some who subscribe to news
papers.
"'The people have become more
honest
"There are, however, some who do
not give up all hope to see again the
vodka bottle in its ancient glory: The
war will end with our victory; our
heroes will return, and then, OF
course, moderately, one will have to
drink again.
Our authority states that the NAL
contents are mostly found among the
lazy farm hands and the city loafers
who try to replace the old wine and
alcohol by all possible substitutes
The substitutes offered by the gov
eminent and the municipalities are
theatres, moving pictures, reading
rooms, clubs, tea-houses, and similar
| institutions.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

I don't believe this would be good without saloons"
fore drink emporium summing HIMSELF
OF doesn't believe it. Who would him to?
a time good thing he had
believed it. That time has gone by for him.
But there other whose whole life is before
cm and such who should wake the fact that the
would be better without the saloon
lives ruined by the saloon then look this
81 don't believe" then yourself do
like hin?'Waukegan Gazette
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30

In the majority of the cities men
toned above, it will be seen that the
women voted more than three to one
dry and in only few was the dry
vote less than double that of the wet
vote.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
Enormous Cost
of Drunkenness

According to the report of the COM
mittce of fifty from which the vets
are fond of quoting, the ratio of ar
rests for drunkenness and disorder
to the total number of arrests in CO.
lumbus, Ohio, in 1890 was 1886 to
500 or 100 to 23S. That is to say,
the arrests for drunkenness and dis
order were little less than SO per
cent of all arrests. In Illinois, po-
lice statistics show that the ratio of
arrests for drunkenness in wet towns
to the total number of arrests is even
higher. Here are some typical cases:
Total Drunkenness
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
SHALL THIS TOWN BECOME Cor continue
to bc) ANTI-sALOON TERRITORY?
FINANCING A DRY CITY

will revenue if the saloon?
In local option election the liquor advocates raise this
question They argue of that the will be seriously
embarrassed financially without the liquor moneytat public i'm
will and the will have difficulty meeting its
current expenses
The short conclusive that practically ali the ILL.,
nos which have voted dry have solved this problem aa
oy What other have DONE do. This is
usually greater In almost there has
notable saving the police department. Saloon money
extravaganza, corruption Easy easy co.
the
Some Typical Cases
During the dry Rockford made larger public
improvements issuing bonds than Rockford in any
indebtedness 100000 under rule
$4,000 1914 without increasing her
Gaeburg just before the present dry administration took
the city, floating indebtedness of $4,000
and judgment confessed upon and this
judgment paid by the dry administration of the years
In spite of this fact laid than before
the history of the city and public Improvements generally
increased And Galesburg has of the lowest in
the
Peoras bonded Indebtedness the other hand the begin
ming $4,000 and the special bonds against
private property amounted $3oSI5 making total bonded
681 and yet Peoria several PROPOSE
tons for much needed improvements Where did Peoas money
go?
Joie Indebtedness last year Appropriated $65oooo and Joliet
has only a6 miles of paved of which macadam
And Joes $754 Where did oes money go?
IN VIEW OF THE FACT THAT NEARLY EVERY WET
CITY IN ILLINOIS IS RUNNING BEHIND WHILE NEARLY
EVERY DRY CITY IS ON SOUND FINANCIAL BASIS,
THE LEAST THE VETS SAY ABOUT LIQUOR HELPING A
TOWN FINANCIALLY THE BETTER FOR THE CAUSE.
The American issue. [volume] (Westerville, Ohio) 1912-19??, 1917-03-30
THE SALOON VS.. THE
SALOON
From Editorial Peoria Journal.

From Editorial Peoria Journal.
What opposition to the sa-
loon may have developed dur
ing recent years is largely due
directly to the saloon man him
self. And he now realizes
perhaps a little late-that when
another's saloon lowers TO law
violation his own saloon Is
pulled down a trifle In tho pub
lies estimation
The saloon case isn't so
much "Thc People VS.. Tho Sa-
loon" as il Is "The Saloon VS..
The Saloon"