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TIIK OHFXJON HTATKKUAN': HATl'ltPAV, AI1tlf 27, 101R i f i The Oregon lasued Dally Except Monday by HIE STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY lit 8. Commercial St., Salem, Oregon. MEMBER OP THE AHHOCTATEIr I'RKHH . .The Associated Press it exclusively entitled to the use for republication Of all newt dispatcher credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks Stephen A. Stone Ralph Glover. W. C. Squler. Frank Jaskoskl. . . DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and suburbs, 15 cents a week, SO cents a month. DAILY STATESMAN, by mall, $6 a year; $3 for six months; 60 cents a month. For three months or more, paid In advance, at rate of $S a year. 8UNDAY STATESMAN, $1 a year; CO cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued In two six-page sections, Tuesdays and Fridays, $1 a year; 60 cents for six months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 23, Circulation Department,' 683. Job Department, 683. 'Entered at the PostotficeTn Salem, THE FACT THAT Th woods are full of men who aome of them unimpeachably excellent, Rome indifferent and one or two. dangerous. Under ordinary circumstance 'there would be the .keenest kind of interest in the political campaign that is under way, ! but the present circumstances are not ordinary. No one outside the candidates themselves and their immediate followers cares a whoop about politics, for interest in the overshadow everything else. Anions all the candidates there is only one to whom attaches more than ' That one is Governor Withycombe, who asks reelection, and who has made a record as a war Governor that anyone might be proud of.- There has never been a moment in this year of. war problems when his attitude has been in doubt, and we must all admit that the auiiuic n ib ut yrrguu n nor uuiciuur nan uuu muni u uu wmi the bright patriotic record that has leen made by the state. When the I. W. W. agitation was at its highest point and the Governors of other western states were wobbling and side-stepping, Governor 'Withycombe did not, hesitate a momeift. He announced that the law must be strictly upheld and that nothing must be permitted to interfere with the conduct of the state s war activities his position has been equally firm and . resolute." His leadership has been fidence. This is a time when the usual reasons for displacing one official little appeal. The fact that looms largest is that under Governor .Withycombe' leadership Oregon has won the admiration of the en tire country. That j is the kind of leadership we wa.nt. Eugene Register , - " -; "j Petrograd is hungry; on the verge of starvation. Russia and her troubles will continue for some time to be one of the burdens of the world. For ' pity and need make the whole world (outside of Germany and her allies) kin." Even Russia, undeserving as she seems in the eyes of most peoples, is in the kinship, in her pity and need. " - ."- , . - . . .v - f " . The Germans won something of strategic vaJue, in a small sec tor, yesterday, , But it may be only temporary. And it is only an incident of the great battle, which so far leaves the Germans in y worse condition, on the whole, than when it was opened; and with three separate mountains of their men sacrificed. V- The boys of the United States, when schools close, are to be mobilized to help in the work on the farms and elsewhere. Boy power fcust come to the assistance of man-power. 1 Bitter , pill for f Holland, to.be obliged at the behest of Germany to .'cut oft the quinine supply from thu Dutch East Indies to the United .States. ' ' Some politicians are now predict ing that Simpson wll be second in jthe race for the gubernatorial nou ination on the Republican ticket, and Moser thirtf. They say Governor Withycombe J will be first, bands down, and flat there is a growing sentiment against .swapping horses Iwblle crossing the stream. '! . Raymond emunsky, an American soldier, was buried alive for three days. In the.fightinf around Selcbe- ; Prey; but finally crawled out anJ Is ready ,f or anything coming his ,way. Yon cannot keep a good man down, though you cover him with J be ei ttV - The first and second. If not the -third, semesters of German opera y tions on the western front are over. Hut school will take up again. -We will win this war. but we will ,pay the price. If we had only leaped to our duty when the Lusitsnla was sunlclr Exchange. , Suppose, for Instance, that Eng land bad not disposed of Heligoland to Germany. The story of the bot tling., up of the German fleet la the Kklcanal might have been differ ent. Germany was more than forty years becoming the nation she Is In war. A commercial nation like ours cannot become a fighting force In the twinkling of an eye. Let us have patience. LADD & BUSH, Bankers ; The Third Liberty Bond Sale Will Begin April 6th. One of our Tellers will be stationed in our Lobby to explain to those wish- "' - .e iag information and to, receive Liberty Bond Subscriptions'. Statesman .la-J. if. ft m ittC . . Manager Managing Editor Cashier ....Advertising Manager . . . .Manager Job Dept. Oregonas second class matter. LOOMS LARGEST aspire to e Governor of Oregon war and desire to .win the war ordinary interest. the war. In every other phase of of the kind that commands con political patter and the usual and putting another one in have It is claimed that French veter inarians have extracted the "bray" from the American mule, but whit we need In this country is some thing that will take the howl out of the two-legged variety in thl conn- try - ' An evangelist predicts that th? kaiser and his gang will pass eter nity In hell. What we're more intei ested in knowing Is how much more time they'll pass .on earth. Detroit Free Press. - The fact that the author of "Keep the Home Fires Burning" has been slain by the bomb of a Hun air pirate ought to add some fuel to the flame Washington Post. I BITS FOR BREAKFAST Balmy spring days. Germans scored yesterday . V S Loss of Kemmel Hill Is serious. Hut It Is not as bed a3 It might be And the Germans may not be able 10 noia tne bin. i . If. W. Stone, general secretary of the Portland Y. M. C. A. and one of tne leading men In the whole nation nd la fact In the whole world' in the great and supremely important work of this great organization, gave an mspu-ing message to a group oi representative Salem men at th rooms of the local Y. M. C. A. yes terday noon. He says It Is the bu I ness, and the only business, of tht whole world, outside of Germany? and the countries of her allies, to win the war, and that nothing, must be thought of but that great task, untl' It Is completed. The young men of the United States are In France, o- golg there, to offer their lives, and thee older men and younger boys at home, and the women of the United States, must m mobilized.' every one of them, to back up the Harrlflces of the fighting forces; to give them the full limit of the service we are able to give them. Everything else now is trivial. Nothing else matters. EARL ELSE IS ELECTED (Continued from page 1) the greatest proportion of additions to the church come from the Sunday school, but said it is not half appre ciated by parents. In closing the speaker read the parable of the prod igal father, who was too busy mak ing money to make a chum of his boy. Introducing"Scretary Stone, Pres ident Kite pointed the fart that the greatest discovery of this age is the discovery of the boy and his pos sibilities. Spakig along the line of that thought. Mr. Stone went on to stat that no generation of boys ever had such an exposure" to In spiration and opportunity as this generation has in the past year. "Hoy value Is going up every day," he said. "Every time a sola It-r is killed in France, the value of th boy at home doubles. There is no limit to the possibilities of the .Sun day school and the Y. M. C. A. In dealing with boy life. Money is the cheapest thine In the country today and boy life Is the most valuable." War Eliminates HHfUlinewM. The speaker asserted that he bad never seen the men of the nation so ready to devote themselves to the youth of the land as thev are today. The war seems to have burned self ishness out of them. ! The government Is now planning to mobilize 9000 boys In Oregon, 'and It is taking the proper steps In utll lizng them In the harvest fields and orchards. It is planned, to send them out In small units, and every nnlt li to be tinder the direction of soni" representative of the Christian church, in on'er to safeguard their moral welfare. I "The greatest disaster of the war in Europe Is the breakdown of the morals of bovs at home and at the front." said the speaker, "and the work of the Y. M. C. A. should be sneeded up tenfold. In America th Christian Influence is most marked among the soldiers; This war Is unique in the prominence that is riven to moral equipment. Never did a body of soldiers ro into camp with such lofty ideals. The standards of life at American lake are actually higher than In Portland or Salem as he reult of Y. M. C. A. and other Christian Influences." The sneaker, who has a boy of his own at the front, said that he might forgive the man who shot his boy to death, but he oonld neve forgive the man who exerted an evil Influ ence upon his soul. , ' The following additional names of delegates were enrolled yesterday morning: Mrs. A. R. Green. Portland; Mrs. Emma Fisher. Hazel Green; Mrs. Oworge Croxford. Portland: Edna Croxford. Portland; W. A. Ulrlch, Mti Scott; C. L. Trawln. H. G. Laird, A. X Drumsaker and wife, all of Mc Mlnnville; Dr. and Mrs. Frank Frown. Salem: Miss Eva .Inne. Al bany; J. iff. Mears, Shedd; Dorothy Stafford, Oregon City. The program for today follows: Horning 8:30 School of Methods. 10:30 General Assembly. . K10:10 Singing, led by Carrol Rob- erts. Prayer, Rev. IL N. Aldricn, , Salem. 10:20 "The Master's Command." Rev. H. II. Kelsey. San Francisco. 10:50 "The Call of Christ and the World Crisis," Mrs. Ella j Humbert, Eugene. Singing. 11:20 -Why the Boy Went Away,' President Levi T. Penning ton. Pacific College. 11:45 "Tr-e Place of the Christian College In Tra:n;ng Teach era,, of Religious Educa tlon," Dean Alden, Willam ette University. Afternoon 1:30 Singing, led by Carrol Roberts-Prayer, Rev. F. T. Porter, Sa lem. Special Music: Ladles Quartet, First Christian Church, Sa lem. 2:00 Teen Age Time on Timely Topics: ( "Mother as Chum." Martha Ferguson., Hood River. A Girl of fourteen. "The Klud of Sunday School I Like," Jack Burleson, McMinnville. A boy of six teen. The Surprise. Singing. 3:00 "The Teen Age teacher's Opportunity." Rev. E. W. r Halpenny. 1:30 to 5:30 School of Methods. Evening: Christian Church. 7:30 Patriotic Music, led by Dr. If. C. Epley. Prayer. Rev. H. C. Stofer, Salem. Special Music: Male Quartet First Christian Church. Report of Resolutions Com mittee. 8:10 Patriotic Tageant. "The Clean Flag." Afranged and directed by Rev. Howard McConnell, Dallas. Given br the Young People of the Christian Chufch. Dallas. Assistants: Sunday School r Pupils. Salem! Address, by J "Somebody" from the Army Camp. 0:30 Pantomime Song. "The Star Spangled Banner." Lorene Porter, Salem. Ten years old. Benediction. Adjournment. Why Not Be Good to Yourself If you awaken weary and nnre- freshed In the morning, or tire early Itli ttl (. ... kllUn. af "Kin,." with coated tongue and bad breath If iyou are suffering from Indigestion or constipation you will find Foley Cathartic Ttblets quick to relieve and comfortable In action. They are wholesome and health-giving. J. C-Perry. LETTER FROM SOUTH AFRICA Mrs. Mary L Anderson Tells Interestingly of Life of " Missionary Dr. R. E. Lee Stelner. superin tendent of the state hospital, has received an interesting; letter from Mrs. Mary E. Anderson, who with her husband, is a missionary in South Africa. Tbelr station Is known as Greenville mission and is in. Pondo- land. The voyage was made to South Africa more than a year ago and the Indian liner narrowly escaped one of the German raiders. Mrs. Anderson Is known to a number of Salem church workers. She Is prin cipal of a girl's boarding school at the mission. She writes as follows: "I have not forgotten my promise to write to you, but you will think that I have taken a long time to do it. Well I have, but things move slowly in the east and an American at last succumbs to the inevitable, even though be may put up a fight to resist. "One year ago to-morrow we ar rived at this place after a very pleasant voyage of six weeks, Includ ing a few stops. We went by the South line to avoid the excltment of the war zone proper, only to be In line of that raider while It was doing so much mischief as you have read. There was no little anxiety among the officers .of our boat and though they were quiet yet they took every pains to protect the passengers. The chief engineer told my husband that they were apt to run across the enemy any moment and that the ladles should sleep with clothes on. But, thanks to Our Heavenly Father, we saw nothing to make us afraid. When wo reached Cape Town, they told us that 4 en steamers had been sunk In the line of our path and while we were In those waters. "We bad a great variety of people on board. It was an Indian liner and the coolies did us nice service. The bill or fare at the tables was not as much as we had had In the past, though we were in the first class. This was because of war con ditions and none felt to grumble. "There were the usual amusements on board, any thing that was wanted from dancing, gambling, drinking, musicals, moving picture shows, and lantern slides to show up . mission work. There were many religious services and entertainments until the time passed by very fast. "The sea was like glass, most the way, for smoothness. Very few were sea sick this time. Bat -It is not comfortable to the nerves to travel during these troublesome times, and we were so glad to reach land. "I must not infringe upon your time but I suppose you will bei In terested to hear how we are making It in this far off land. Mr. Anderson did not risk it to bring many things out with us from America. So he did his purchasing In Durham, (Port Natal). His Ford cost him $1050 and gas now is a dollar a gallon. He Is delighted with the service he gets out of bis car for our hills are dread fully steep and the Ford Just keeps right at It until we are safely up and gone. Just an ordinary saddle horse costs $75 to $80 and our cows were $100 each. We have grass the year around so the keeping of these animals Is not much. There Is so much sickness among animals. The sheep are dying this year. No rem edy seem to save them. We lost two of ours and several have been sick and recovered. But we cannot say whether the mtdlcine we gave helped or not. The people saw there Is no help. If they live they live. If they are to die they die. "The natives are behaving well so far even though they hear a lot about the war and they know tHat many An Inside Bath Makes Ypu Look and Feel Fresh ays a e'" of hot watsr with phosphate before breakfast kstps Illness away. This excellent, common-eenae health measure being adopted by millions. Physicians the worJd over recotu mend the inside bath, claiming this Is of vastly more importance than outside cleanliness, because the skin pores do not absorb Impurities into the blood, causing- III health, while the pores In the ten yards of-bowels do. - Men and women are urged to drink each morning, before break fast a glass of hot water with a tea spoonful of limestone phosphate In It, as a harmless means of helping to wash from the stomach, liver, kidneys and bowels the previous day's indigestible material, poisons, sour bile and toxins: thus cleansing, sweetening and purifying the entire alimentary canal before putting more food into the stomach. Those who wake up with bad breath, coated tongue, nasty taste or have a dull, a chlff .head, sallow complexion, acid stomach; others who are subject to bilious attacks or constipation, should obtain a quarter pound of limestone phosphate at the drug store. This will cost very lit tle but Is sufficient to demonstrate the valne of inside bathing. FUTITHB DATKS April 25 to 17 Westvrn Oregon Sun day school convention in Kilrm. , My 2, Thursday. Dedication of mampoeg- memorial building. i . May 17, Friday.- Primary nomlnat Inr leetlnn. Way 20 to 27 Second Red Cross war i una campaign. May 22 and 29, - Wed net-lay and Thursday War conference in Portland. ' . a. ana 1 state urangs con Ventlon in Salem June 1. Friday High School i com mencement exerclaes. i June 20. Thursday. Reunion of Ore gon Fleeter association, ForUaad. have left South Africa for the front.1 The Pandos have always been quite lolal to the government Tor their chief invited the British government to come and stop the tribal wars In this part of Africa. "I am wondering bow my brother, Irving K. Damon, Is by tbls time. My mother writes me that he is not so well as he was. You will remem ber that I took him to Seattle for three weeks In 1916. 1 fodnd It such a bitter disappointment to him to return him. for he thought he was well enough to be released and when 1 left him I was under the Impres sion that his visit home did him more harm than good because of that. I cannot thank you enough for your kindness shown to me when I visited your Institution theie." More Men Are Classified By Local War Draft Board Several more draft men were class ified at the office of the local draft board yesterday. They were as follows: Class A-l Andrew C. Itlnier. Salem: Charles N IttiKgle. Salem; Arthur Holtzclan. Salem. Class 1-1 Arthur A. I'rlnn, Mac leay; MUhael Oeder. Mill City: Dwlght I. Klchter. Salem; Conrad II. Spencer, Stay ton; Joseph J. Hpalnnl; Merrill I). Richmond. Sa lem; I,eo Sutter. Salem; Lewis 11. Klddall, Salem; Mantey J. Stone, Me hama; Ivan G. MrDaniel. Salem: Fred Mnller. Sllverton; Ernest F. Powell, Jefferson; Arthur W. Sml'.her. Salem; Fred I Nutting. Sllverton: Samuel A. Putney. Silver ton; Fred Sitter, Stayton; Albert B. Stettler. Salem: George (1. Page, Sa lem: "Hoy A. Snoderly, Jefferson. . Class 6-G Harold K. Kooo, Sll verton; Joseph Odlntbal. Sublimity. Class 4-A Newton Knutson. Bear Lake, Alberta. Canada. . KEMMEL HILL TAKEN BY ARMY OF ENEMY (Continued from page 1) This morning the French and British 1 1 oops countered and succeeded In making some progress, cap:urlng a number of prisoners. Later In the day the enemy renewed his attacks. directing his assaults with particular Insistence against the positions from Loere to La Crytte and Scherpenberg, all the enemy's attacks have been beld, but after severe fighting. In the course of which a series of de termined attacks were repulsed with heavy losses to his troops, be succed- ed in pressing our line back In the direction of Loere. On both sides of the Ypres-Comlnes canal, the enemy also made some progress. FHKXril HKI'OIIT SUCCESS. PARIS. April 26. Counter-attacks against the German lines from VII- lers-Bretonneux to south of the Luce were launched this morning by our troops, who succeeded, despite the fierce resistance of the enemy who had brought up important forces, in retaking a large part of the ground which bad been lost In that region, says the official statement Issued by the war office tonight. Barbers of Oregon May Quit Unless Pay lstRatsed A report reaches Salem that Ore gon barbers contemplate leaving the shop for more lucrative employ ment unless they are accorded an 'ncrease In wages in the very near future. The prevailing minimum wage for barbers Is said to be $18 a week, and the argument Is made hat much easier money ran be made In the poorest paying jobs about the shipyards. No definite information concern ing the plan ran be obtained at the present .time or relative to the atti tude that may be. taken by the shop owners if a concerted demand for higher pay Is made by the-employes. EDITORIALS OF.THE PEOPLE (The Statesman Is pleased to erlnt communication upon topics of general interest at any time. There la scarcl any limit to the topics of 'reneral In. terest." It Is asked only that corre spondents refrain, from Deraonalltlt. and use care that nothing he written of a libelous nature, letters muat have writer's nam and address, though net necessarily ior puDIICSllon. KQ.f Iticdon Favors Oath. Editor Statesman: I am very greatly pleased to read the oath of alle-lanre whlrh hase been freely and generally taken by he shipbuilders In the employ oPtbe Standirer corporation, a shipbuilding company. The company Is to be con gratulated In having such loyal and patriotic men !n Its employ and It is to be hoped the workers In other shipyards will follow thlsommend able act of loyalty to out country. Such men will receive the most sin cere thanks of every loyal citizen la oifr whole country, who fully appre ciate the deep' debt of gratitude due to such defenders of liberty an1 jus tice. Our boys who are fighting In the trenches and those others who are operating our battle craft upon tbe high seas, and the operators of transports and freighters will all re lolce noon receiving such welcome news. If there Is any one thing that cheers the soldier and the marine. It Is to know a loyal people are do ing all that Is possible to keep him supplied with food, clothing, medl-cln- and war munitions. Hut let ft 1so be said that It Is no more flttlnr that shipbuilders shoudl take such an oath than that all other craftsmen should also sig nify their purpose to do their utmost o help win the war, even If It re quires serious sacrifice to do so. And let me say It would be glo an unpleasant pleee of news for the kaiser's contemplation If every loyal citizen In our common country would THE RIGHT MAN FOR , V-w. I . V- - . f t . ; - . v . - Vv I -Si, ' - j 'i it. N. SUnflelJ. $ Farmer, Stock Raiser and Producer. The State is entitled to the active services of a man who knows how to work. Work for the State generally and work for the people of the State, both individually and collectively. Oregon does not need any orators for orators are a drug on the market, and like constitutional lawyers, they do not get anything. The Federal government needs all the assistance Oregon can give, but is not receiving it because it has not been put up to the department on a business basis. ' Today business men are having more to do with' the government affairs than ever before. We are spend ing twenty-four million dollars a day and the people who will pay this money are the people who actually create wealth, the farmer, producer and the toiler. Our prosperity depends upon our continued indus trial activities and every one of these should be main tained at the maximum capacity. The prosperity of the small farmer, the small pro ducer and the small manufacturer is as essential to the State and the Nation as the prosperity of the big man, tjtry out of our occupations should be given equal con sideration regardless of the amount produced. ' Every encouragement must be given to increase production and this can be obtained only through as surance that the small farmer as well as the big man is going to receive liis proportionate'share of the war expenditures, and that there will be a market for his products and a profit to him for his work based pro portionately upon his cost of production. There must be equality in all phases of our State and National industry, and the small fellow must not be forgotten, overlooked or crowded out through the rush for big things and big orders and big accomplishments. If the people of the State want a business man, a worker, a man who' knows, is thoroughly acquainted with every phase of the industrial situation in Oregon, a man who is capable, honest and fearless, a man who j hJ.hlown Iabor and though his own advancement aided in the progress and development of Oregon, they want Robert N. Stanfield. ' ' Paid Adr. by Stanfield Senatorial Leagne, 203 Northwestern T f a. g u subscribe to an oath something like the following: I hereby pledge my full and un reserved allegiance to the Stars and Stripes, the ensign of the grandest country upon thla globe. And I sol emnly promise to make whatever sacrifice is necessary to support to the best of my ability Tery measnre advanced by my government for the winning or tnis awful and cruel war. Wmm This Be fpair Directory girei Tirr niMi e as art! TOTSI RXrAIRUfO fatlsfaetios) gnaran U4. 4 rear a esper- "wee aa4 ( Wert. tit Court Bu Pbose Hi. SHANGHAI. April 28. The cas ualties sustained by the southern troops la. their revolt against the . iTSt Jernm't are estimated at S00O officers and men. while tbe northern troops are reported to have 12.000 officers and men killed and wounded. 1 ' n KIND OF A SENATOR And. further. I will earnestly and i-r. . ienuy seek to make myself se rui in aome necessary employment, and to give to that employment dil igently all the time J ran possibly spare from other Indispensable la bor. So help me. God." Now. Mr. Kdltor. If you think these are worthy of repetition, please give them space. , i . J V T 1Me4on. the principal vlacei what m m . . I;- sniaa. WATT SHIPP COMPANY We re trlsf Tea ale fUekeU la eur ewa saef Street QEORGB a WILL Repairs all Makes et Sewing MacalaM e ifpllea. Needles and Oils. 1549. 12 Booth rnaamerilsl i Y -is I 43 State SW r