Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-01-18
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(capital journal speciai Service

large lanG owner IN Alberta, Canada
and purchased this farm last fall, pay
ing $12 600 for the 42 acres. This in
cluded some personal property, horses
COWS, grain, etc. This is the second Can
aiian family settling in FruitIand with
IN the last few months Mr.. L. L. Brown
having purchased the north part of the
.. =. Mel vain place last September
We extend these new neighbors a cor.
dial welcome and trust they will find
cur community a pleasant place in
which to live.
A writer in the Capital Journal of
January 18th says: "a few years
hence this evolution theory will be dead
and buried" Don t think it, The theory
is too fascinating and too speculative to
dle IN few years or in many years. HUI
man speculation has long lifeline and
will ever live along with reason and
common sense. Darwinism is but one
form of organic evolution, resting on
natural selection and the "survival of
the fittest in the struggle for exist
enee. Other forms will and do exist,
ct that 0i Darwin is as good ana as
sensible and as wanting in demonsrra-
tlon as any. lie has sand speaking of
his own work in preface to Ind edition
Ia74 of - Descent of Man a" cit is prob
ably, or always certain that several of
The conclusions will hereafter be found
erroneous And on page 36U, last chap
ter Many of the views advanced are
highly speculative, and some no doubt
will provs erroneous" Yet Mr.. Darwin
builds his vast structure on these same
Lot L /, h, {
my library. Have read it carefully
through, some parts two and three
times, ana must say it appears to be
a well written scientific romance. Evo-
ltion is not yet ready for burial, not
withstanding MI. Darwin S admissions.
The regents OF o. A. G. have spoken
publicly to the people through the press
Their Justification for the act of ad-
vancing President Kerr's salary L fear
viii not prove satisfactory to the tax
payers. y public servant may be eff
elent yet that may be no good reason
Tor increasing his pay. 1t might not at
/ he time be good business policy. Again
Er. Kerr could do little at the head of
the schoo! without helpers, and teachers.
Why not bring them into considera-
Kerr? That increase of $l400 is itself
much more than the income of many
small taxpayers OF whom this writer
is one. Yet we are helping to pay it.
If Mr.. Kerr did not ask for this increase
and if he at this time would stand well
with the people of the state he will
lcfuse it or return it back into the
treasury. We shall see if he does so. l
am surprised that Mrs. Waldo, Mr..
Spence and some others would lend their
influence to this affair. And the COVER
nor, too, | am sure the readers of the
Capital Journal would like to hear from
these, or others as to the real necessity,
at this time, for adding this
expense to the already burdened taxpay-
ers. Personal favoritism or desire to do
a nice tSing for a friend will not do.
with other people IS money.
suppose the columns of the journal
will be open for the purpose suggested.
Mr.. Maurer of Pratum goes his daily
rounds i'll all weathers delivering milk to
the Garden road cheese factory. He
has been on the route two years or more
and is so sure to come at certain time
that one could almost dispense with a
clock.
As | look from my window across
[ can see Clark station. Though there
s no bootleg joint within its limits
t is nevertheless a famous stopping
place for automobiles. They stop be- !
,ause they cannot go ON. The station
las its one main street and like sue |
ion pump draws in as well as down, and !
your chug chug wagon must be pushed |
md pried out like balky OK. A few
Dads of gravel applied at the proper
ime would relieve the reputation of
his spot.
The teacher informs me that his at
endance is 98 per cent of the enroll
nent. Being a country school and with 1
ain and muddy roads this is a good |
howing.
The family of John Minger have NOV
ID to Salem, the farm being sold and I
vacated.
Mrs. e. Van Altman of Stanfield, Ore
ron, is a guest in the family of Mr..
md Mrs. p. j. Eggler.
John E. Miller is building some new
ence just north of Clark station. it
S the old '(Virginia worm" variety
nd John is making the rails.
In noting a short time ago the What
md Who' of Fruitland, / forgot to
mention the church. 1t belongs to the /
Evangelical Association. The pastor il
rev. Jacob Stocker of Salem. The mem
,ership is about % perhaps, though sew
raj have moved away. There is flour
shing Sunday school and Young Peo-
lie s Alliance.
All our unmarried ladies are young
f course, as all women are young till
hey get married. Our girls are sensi-
lie, modest and good-looking. None of
our go pick up" girls, or girl variety
nd this is not strange when we con-
ider the mold and character of the
lothers. n. B. the fathers don t "eut
luch ice" as it were, in the matter.
With no 3O-eent mothers you cannot ex-
ect two-bit girls.
Is there a Frnitland edition of the !
'apital Journal Not that I am aware
f, but I guess about every in Fruitlahd
axes the G. J.
Petitions are being circulated favor Il
lg Judge Bushy for nomination to sue II
eed himself for county Judge. They :
re being numerously signed.
lade today by Arthur Luddington and t