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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-27
Unique Emblems
of FLOWERS Fast
Being Completed

Seeing in the garden plots that are
being placed on the court house
square a lasting monument of beau
" equal to the state hospital grounds
that has been called by some the
most beautiful garden spot in the
west, many citizens are commenting
favorably on the efforts of j. w. Ma
funy and his assistants, who are ar
ranging the Shrine and Elk emblems
on the High street side of the square.
one Of the flower beds has already
peen completed; but because of the
tailure to procure the needed 1900
purple petunas for the Elks emblem,
work on it has been delayed. Effor s
70 get the petunas in Portland failed,
Mf. Maruny being able to procure on
oOO OF the desired plants. Plans are
oehg made to substitute some other
pant for the petunas and proceed
eWlth the work.
II is the plan to have the emblem
n bloom when the distinguished Elk
ana Shrine visitors come to Salem for
shelr convention meets this summer.
Inc Salem Floral society, the or
sanization responsible for the unique
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-27
Scouts to Leave
For Camp In Wild
Mountains In June

nm ths morning Of Monday. June Il
=. Roy Scouts special train will leave
s.lsm. having on board the majority
:, ssiem's 500 Boy Scouts who are
"a for the annual summer camp,
rAs train will not stop this side of Eu-
..s the boy will stage parade and
ssow Eugene just what a good bunch
sD.s coonts look like when they are on
q 81. vay to a good camp. The train
1,i, si raach Oakridge, Or. the terminus
w. = ,bs railroad and the starting point
y ,ha hike, about noon and after din
has been served, the Scouts will hit
,be trial for camp.
The Boy Scouts summer camp is In
- ~ the prettiest spots in the Cas-
.ada Range, just IL miles southeast of
oatridge. Ii is situated on the banks
- salt Creek within a mile of the IA
aous McCredie hot springs, where
aver is small geysers pour forth their
mi LIQUIDS in the Formation of many
nsculiar natural monuments. Here
.nors is a wonderful swimming pool
.hieh has been placed at the disposal
of the Scouts, and under the direction
of experts in swimming, quite num-
hor of Scouts learn to swim each year.
The water in the pool is ever changing,
and is heated by the hot springs.
number of government experts
will visit camp this year and give the
bovs Illustrated lectures on interesting
topics, including wild life. forestry, fire
preyention, camping and kindred sub
ieets. Movies have been arranged for
n entertain the camp and every boy is
lOkoing forward to these features with
a great deal of eagerness.
Not far from the camp is Salt Greek
falls, being over 290 feet high. report
cd to be the pretties falls west of the
Rocky mountains. Other points of in
terest near the camp include the nu-
merous lakes in that vicinity, Fern
Flat, Papoose Rock, Bunchgrass Ridge
and Heckletooth mountain. Each of
these bear a wonderful scenic or his
tOrical setting and from the many
quaint and picturesque by-paths
among the canyons for along the cliffs,
ont can find many pretty views such
as Verdunm Rock and Diamond Peak.
The many mountain streams and
lakes in the vicinity of the camp afford
snendid opportunities for the fisher |
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-27

and pretty flower beds. Is bandicso-
ped in advancing its work because ~
the lack of funds. The organizatio,,
has only 10 members, whose sn,sn
annual dues are not sufficient 10 car
ry out the commendable program
adopted by the society this aseason
All persons in Salem interested in the
floral and Identification movement
are qualified for membership in the
society, and are urged to join and nil
their efforts with the present member
ship in promoting the work.
Mr.. Maruny, who is directing the
work on the court house square flow
er beds is one of the most competent
landscape gardeners in the state. and
great credit was given him for the
wonderful conversion he made of the
state hospital grounds.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-05-27
Petain To Speak
For France Over
American Graves

Paris, May 27-Marshal Petain will
speak in behalf of France at the Mem
orial Day exercises at Suresnes ceme-
terry. Ambassador Hugh c. Wallace
will represent the United States and
both dignitaries will assist in decorat-
ing graves of American soldiers.
turned the pair to Independence.
The biggest grain deal of the season
at Pullman, Washington, has been
closed by the sale of 25,194 bushels for
$66,3S9.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09

If wage advances are granted upon the basis
Of increased living costs, and are brought up to
the point where they equal advances in the
priceso necessaries, will those SO favored agree
to wage reductions commensurate with decreases
in the cost of living when the price tide has
turned and trends downward? If they will not
SO agree, how can the general public hope for
relief from high prices? If wages advance with
living costs as the vicious circle" expands, how
can the circle contract if wages do not bear
their, proportionate share Of the shrinkagea
The circle will not contract, but rather will
continue to expand and expand until the break
ing point is reached. Extravaganza will beget
higher prices until there will be renewed de-
mands for wage increases to meet the extreme
conditions, and all the efforts of the government
will be powerless to remedy the situation.
This government cannot undertake to guar
antee any class of workmen earnings sufficient
to offset increased prices; nor can it underwrite
the profits of any employer. Its concern should
be devoted solely to the general public, and in
the public interest its influence should be ex-
erted toward narrowing the vicious circle of
rising wages and prices until it approaches its
normal circumference, where all the people and
not favored class may share in the prosperity
and abundance with which this country is
blessed-Washington Post.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09
HINES PLAN OR PLUMB PLAN.

How far Walker D. Hines reflects the opin-
ion of his chief in the views as to the future of
the railroads may never be known Whether
the president entertains ideas that may have
been voiced by the federal railroad director, or
whether these are the outgrowth of his own ex-
perience, they are of interest because Of their
source. Also because the question Of railroad
ownership and control is to be paramount"
in the coming campaign, at least from the
democratic camp.
The plan oflcompulsory consolidation of ex-
listing lines into groups is open to several Sc
rious objections, chief of which is the danger
that the strong lines of the country will find
themselves saddled with the weaker ones, to
their detriment This is repugnant to sound
business principles. 1t is unwise and unfair to
require prosperous. well directed business to
sacrifice any part of its earnings to assist an
other that is neither prosperous nor we'll d.
rccted Senator Cummns has provided for the
pooling and pro-rating of net earnings. which
amounts to the confscation of the earning
power of strong road in favor of weak
something that lacks support in justice or
equity ...-
1t is possible to provide pooling arrange
ment of gross earnings, operating contract,
or some similar device, subject to the approval
by the government, which would meet condi-
tons contemplated in either of the three plans
now proposed Such agreements were spe-
officially forbidden prior to the war, but ex-
perienee has shown their need, and wisdom
suggests their adoption,
As to the tripartite control, shared by own
ers. employees and public, already have
something closely approaching that in the In
terstate Commerce commission. 1t is a govern
mental agency, the only means by which the
public can participate in railroad management
Railroad employees and owners are a part of the
public and in general terms their interests are
identical The owners are interested in selling
and the public in buying transportation service.
All meet and are served by the commission.
Most of the confusion in the public mind
concerning the railroads flows from the activi-
ties of miracle workers, who are going to pro-
vide cheap rates, high wages and efficient serv-
ice through some form of hocus pocus that will
set aside the ordinary rules of business, sus-
pend economic laws and afford something for
nothing. Whether the Cumnlins plan, the Esch
plan, the Plumb plan or the Hines plan be
adopted, money will be needed to build, equip
and operate railroads, and this money must
come from investors or from the general funds
If it is put in by the public it will be because
it produces an income; if from the government,
it will be drawn from the the public by taxa
ton, and that is all there is to it.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09
HIM N

whatever you think will be most
popular. Go to printer and get
a sample of whatever you are going
to use. Mark off spaces on the
card, all around the matchsafe or
the paper-holder. Go to different
business men and sell them space
for an ad. Your prices will be
gagged by the number you will be
able to put into circulation. If you
have an article which will be used
in every home, you can charge
much more for advertising than if
you are only placing it in Offices or
business houses. Ask your printer
about the price. You will give away
the article, and make your profit
from the advertising.
Another plan is to get out
acknowledgements book, or a farm
er's account book. Get some older
person to help plan it then take a
dummy" copy to your bank, or the
building and loan association, and
persuade them to buy it for free
distribution to their customers. You
can sell it for about half the actual
cost of the book, because you will
make your profit from the ads
which you can then solicit for in
side pages of the cover.
Next week: Cleaning Si1verware
for Pay.")
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09
Maeterlinck IN Phonetic
English

Maeterlinck's attempt at lecture in phonetic
English appears to have been about as complete
failure as it is possible to conceive Yet has
the Belgian poet in all his career had greater
personal triumph than he won over his vast
Carnegie hall audience? 1t could not compre-
bend his English and only partly understood his
French and was naturally bored by the expedient
of having his discourse translated sentence by
sentence from the platform. But it saw the thing
through, made light Of its own impotence by
cheering the lecturer and advising him what to
havior mitigated the ordeal for him and itself.
1t was an exhibition of public manners alto
gether credtable and equally remarkable as
personal tribute to distinguished visitor The
audience, to be sure, was friendly one, whose
estimate of the poet was too deeply rooted to
be altered by contretemps. It had come to
praise, but the opportunity to scott was an un-
usual one. Perhaps we have improved in these
matters since Mrs. Trollope wrote about US.
But the fact seems to be established that
even a great author cannot master foreign
language in six weeks we'll enough to lecture in
it. The expectation that he could, both on his
own part and that of his agents, showed rare
confidence in human ability. There remains the
lures in language he does not understand and
which the conditions of his contract are said to
call for. or of giving them In French. No doubt
most Of his admirers will prefer to hear him in
his native tongue and to catch only sentence
here and there in the precise and beautiful orig
inal rather than to gain the substance of the
lecture in lame and hating English dsil-
lusionng experience. And perhaps more Amer
leans now understand French more or less we'll
than is supposed. At least they have a new in
centive to learn it--New York World
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09
|meVELVET a.
HAMMER M4Ts&.lM
BY Arthur Brooks Baker 6uGAA ~23gs
THOMAS P. REYNOLDS
~ Hrthur Brooks Baker N;

The guy whose sturdy muscles put city OIL
the map is frequently, considered an incense
quental zap. The gent who digs tunnel
through a mile or two of rock, who fires a
ship around the world and steams her back to
dock, is rated in the social world at small
avoirdupois because he lacks the special gift of
radiatine noise.
But Thomas Reynolds cutivates the work
ers self-respect He poses in the public eye, up
standing and erect. When restless labor mar
shals forth its sundry crafts and trades to march
them down the avenue in holiday parades, his
distinguished stunt is furnishing the leadership,
the proud and pompous front.
And when a crowd assemblies to consult on
labors veal, his vocal talents furnish an i'm
pressive, earnest spiel. He barbs the claims OF
capital with e1oquence and wit. He gives the
heads of industry hard and heavy hit The
audience appauds him with approval long and
1our, for Toms workingman of whom his
fellow men are proud.
He ran to be commissioner and only lost
the race because his legs were not so swift and
skillful as his face. The voting public is chump
of proved and certain class, for which the only
comment is: Alas, alas, alas! In stolid inno-
cence and unapprecative calm they cast their
foolish ballots for another man than Tom
Next Subject-Charles r. Sherman.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09
f. <22hzs Folks Corner 3
Dol1ar-Making
2 Ideas g,
Soliciting Advertising.


The Want Ad section forms a
large part of the daily paper. You
may have found a job lby looking
in its columns; but did you know
that you could make money by So
Letting advertisements?
Several girls in the Jefferson Vo-
eational high school, Los Angeles,
earn 80 cents an hour after school
and on Saturdays by sitting at the
telephone in the Office Of big daily
and taking down classified ads
which come in over the wire. The
girl who, by good craftsmanship,
can emphasize the value of repeti-
ton in advertising receives cash
bonus. ......
Boys can arrange with many dali
les to solicit want ads in their home
district on Is per cent commits
sion. The neighborhood and small
town weeklies present a similar op-
portunity. A high school boy, last
year, solicited general city advertis-
ing for a suburban weekly on lib
eral percentage basis.
A good plan is to make advertis-
ing cards for display in public
places. Decide upon a calendar, a
match holder, a paper holder, or
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09
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Strong for Ireland,


Omaha, Jan. 6.-To the Editor of
The Bee: Your editorial on mo
Place for Racial Groups in today's
pee Is surprising. 1t is a piece of
bfltlsh propaganda, pure and sim
PIE. Your paper has been hitherto
Tree from this vicious influence and
interrupted by British propagandist
FUNDS; hence the amazement at find
ing this article, like a bolt from a
clear sky. But you have evidently
been seen" Else why do you de-
part from your topic of mo Place
Tor Racial Groups" to take wal
Top at determination?
when did you discover that this
principle contains the germ of
much mischief" Does the PROPOSE
tion, Governments derive their just
powers from the consent of the gov
erned, also contain the germ of
much mischief" 1t contained the
germ of mischief for England in
lTb, all right, determination
and self government are Identical
propositions and they are both 100
per cent American.
The reason for your covert at
TACK on elf-determination is per-
1ectly plain: The campaign for sale
or bonds of the Irish Republic be-
gins here next week. English prop
aganda is trying to head 1t off.
English propaganda has more
money behind it than the Irish will
De able to raise by the sale of their
ponds. Hence England can obtain
the publication of articles like this
editorial where the American advo-
Gates of justice to Ireland cannot
get stickful.
Granted, we want no racial groups
mere, either Irish or Hebrew, Ger
man. Russian or Anglo Saxon.
But l am an American who has
worn the uniform of his government
When he didn't have to do it; and
as an American l want to see the
American principle of self-govern-
ment applied to every civilized ma
ton. ] denounced Prussian tyran-
ny in Belgium and France, and
nave the same right to denounce
English tyranny in Egypt, Hindus-
tan and Ireland. now that the war
with Germany is over We are no
longer an ally of England nor even
an associate. AS the American
Legion Weekly" advises, Let us
stop press agenting for John Bull"
Time was when Americans be-
l1eVed, through English propaganda,
that Irishmen were unable to gov
ern themselves, but Irishmen in
America, in Canada, in Australia.
and even in England, have demon
strated that that was all rotten bosh.
The Ulster argument is also found
to be hollow. Now the only excuse
left them is the recent statement of
Sir Ian Mcpherson, who says: Ire
land cannot be free because she is
the key to the Atlantic"
Who gave John Bull the right to
keep the key to the Atlantic' in
the pocket of his ample breeches?
EDWARD Fl. WHELAN,
American Legionary and O. r. c.,
U. S. A.
Editors Note: A couple of years
ago The Bee was roundly denounced
as having sold out to England be-
cause 1t objected to the German
hyphen. This did not deter it then
from standing for what it believed
to be right, The Bees interests are
in and for America, first, last and
all the time. We have only passing
concern for the affairs of any other
country, no matter where. That is
why we publish this letter.
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09
SHOULD MAKE A
MILLION FOR HIM
Cincinnati man discovers drug
that Ioosens corns so they
lift out.

Local druggists are having ire
mendous cali for freezone, the drug
which is said to shrivel corn, root
and all, without any pain.
A few drops applied directly upon
a tender, aching corn relieves the
soreness at once, and shortly the
entire corn, root and all, lifts right
out with the fingers.
This new drug is being dispensed
at small cost in quarter ounce bot
Ties. which is sufficient to take off
every hard or soft corn from ones
feet. 1t is a sticky substance which
dries at once and does not inaame
or even irritate the surrounding It's
sue or skin: There is no excuse for
anyone inviting death by infection
or lockjaw from cutting their corns
nov
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09
DR.. Butler ON Prohibition
From the New York Times.

DR.. Nicholas Murray Butler, undoubtedly
the httest of all proposed candidates for the re-
publican nomination for president has given
clear answer to the superintendent of the State
Anti-Saloon league, who asked his views about
prohibition Like so many others he has "long
believed the saloon to be public nuisance that
should be abated," but he hasn't supported pro-
hibition because he did not believe it either "a
Just or proper way to deal with the problem.
But the eighteenth amendment is become part
of the fundamental law. "As such it has the
same claim to the respect and obedience OF the
people as other provisions Of the constitution"
1t may be discussed in congress and argued in
the courts, but for the executive department OF
the national government it is closed issue"
A candidate for president should not, presi-
dent cannot, use other language. The constitu-
ton must be obeyed. And yet it may be
matter of curious speculation whether the pro-
hibition amendment will be and can be enforced;
whether it may not ultimately fall into that IN
nocuous desuetude which enwraps one or two
Of its predecessors. While it may have the
same claim to the respect and obedience of the
people as other provisions of the constitution,
it is obvious that it doesn't have it. Not in this
generation, at least, will it be sustained by that
overpowering PUBLIC opinion which is the real
sanction of law. In Kansas and some other
severely Puritan states it has that sanction; yet
even there the bootlegger and the blind tiger
are found All over the country now we see
wood alcohol slaughtering on a great scale.
There has always been certain small, steady
percentage of fatalities from this source. Their
appalling increase in this last month, since the
beginning of rigorous prohibition and the BAN
ishment of beer with even the modest alcoholic
content of 275, startles even the prohibitionist
of the strietest sect, but hardly surprise any
body who has seen prohibition inflicted upon an
unwilling community.
Moonlight stills, huggermugger traffic diff
fcult to stop, a multitude of household manufac-
lures and substitutes world of evasions and
frauds sure. An immemorial and worldwide
habit will make long and bitter resistance.
Have not our earnest reformers gone too far,
tried to do too much at once? Beer and light
wines, as common and regarded as harmless as
water, have long been used in continental Eu-
rope. Prohibition makes them impossible, prac-
tcally forces the of strong drinks or their
deadly counterfeits. 1t is improbable perhaps,
that congress, still trembling before the Anti
Saloon league lash, will dare to deviate into
common sense to permit the use of light wines
and beer That is way to moderation, to tenn
perance. which the prohibtionists mistake for
total abstinence. In their sagerness to destroy
the saloon, the too Jealous friends of prohibi-
ton bringing about the prevalence of
much more sinister and psrious means of liquor
supply, supply of much more than Intoxicating,
OF extermnating liquors
Omaha daily bee., 1920-01-09

Socialists Put to Test.

A startling and somewhat drastic action by
the legislature of New York will have the eff
feet of putting socialism squarely before the
people. In requiring that the five avowed So
cialists elected to the house give proof of their
qualification to sit way is opened to determine
something of the nature of the political
doctrine they profess.
The so-called party is nebulous, vague and
nchoate body. The spectrum of its doctrine
ranges from the mira red of mild protest to the
ultra violet of downright anarchy. 1t is d.
vided and subdivided into groups, loosely artic-
uated, composed of people of uncertain mind
revolving around some individual of positive or
negative capacity, all cropping for something
they have not got.
So far as its alleged fundamentals are con-
cerned, they have uniformly been rejected by
civilized society Community in property long
ago vanished before the rising sun of enlighten-
ment; such revolving doctrine as community in
women, public provision for the production and
care of children, and their accompaniment,
even savage races have abandoned. The "dicta-
torship of the proletariat" means control by
the unfit; the a1truism Rugged By the dreamers
never did and in mans imperfect state never
will exist.
Most manifestations Of socialism are harm
less, the danger only arising as they lead the
individual on by imperceptible gradatons until
he becomes a destructive instead of con-
structive agent. For the Utopia TO which they
look will only be attained when all existing
forms are destroyed and new relations set up.
In New York the socialists are challenged
Just now on a definite point. They owe al
legiance to an organization, agreeing to be
bound by its determinations which has openly
opposed the government of the United States
Into that organization terms of equality
enemies of the United States have been ad-
mtted. On this the right of the represent
atives OF the party to participate in the gov
eminent of the state of New York is questioned
The answer will be interesting to all Americans