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OUR SAMMIES MAKING
The American troops in action, though small in number, as compar
ed with' the seasoned forces of the Allies, are making splendid show
ings every day.
Though our boys are the rookies of this war, they show as splen
did dash as any of the veterans.
They are living up to the traditions of their country.
What they have taken at Catigny they have held.
What they have taken on the Marne they still possess.
The Germans are strengthening their lines around Toul, fearing
further raids and perhaps a ma, or attack from the troops fighting
underUhe Stars and Stripes. '
' I The seasoned fighters, who have been in the thick of the car
nage for three or four years, stop to witness the dashing "work of the
Amex troops, as they are called a$rbng the soldiers of the Allies.
There are great days ahead of the men from the greatest Republic
who are on the field of honor to make the world safe for democracy
and honest and decency.
Another commencement week for Old Willamette is on. The hon
ored institution with which Salem was cradled is doing great work,
despite the fact that a very large percentage of her young men are
with the American troops in France. Willamette has a glorious his
tory, and she may confidently look forward to a great future.
One authority pats It somewhat
strong when he says that the Ger
mans In their recent drives have
gained Just about enough ground o
bury their dead soldiers who were
killed in making the gains.
-f Thousands of colored men are go
ing overseas to fight for human free
dom. From Hannibal to the defeat
of the Tenth cavalry at Carrizal the
Negro has held an honored place in
the profession of arms.
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The government owes it to the men
who are swarming overseas to fight
th battles of civilization that they
be safeguarded by every means at Its
eommand. The fathers and mothers
of this land will be satisfied with
nothing less. Strike down the Hun
and his submarines.
Benjamin O. Chaptn, the moving-
picture ' actor, who bore a striking
likeness to Abraham Lincoln. Is dead
But there are a lot of fellows who
think they act Hk? the martyred pres
ident who are clogging op the scen
ery. They never would be missed.
Exchange. Oregon people remember
Chapin. He was one. of the stars of
our Chautauqua circuit.
Remember the Armenians, U3el
gians and Serbs, the Lusltania. the
Sussex and hospital' ships, Edith Ca
vefl. Captain Fryatt and the curse
of kultur; iremember- the deporta
tions of Lille and Roubaix. the In
ventors of poison gas. liquid flames.
and the air raids on defenseless el
ties, the prison camps, the sacking
and looting of churches and homes.
the Canadians crtclfled. the girls out
raged Jn France and Belgium, and
the slaughter of old men and chil
dren: to spread the terror of Prui-
sianism! Lost Angeles Times.
EVOLUTION OF "JD3 UNT GOTT.-
( Los Angeles Times).
"An Investigation employed by The
Times to look up the antecedents and
oirgin of the Hohenxoliern family
reports that the first known Hohen
sollern iwas a diseased oyster. He
was an Indestructible monad who
took an anthrppocentrie view of na
ture, and when he was wrested from
his bed in the North. Sea in the year
A. DJ 1060 and opened and found to
be sick he was tossed into the ocean
and. along with the vibrations of his
Invisible atoms, went into the con
sciousness as well as the stomach of
a ferocious Carchareas shark who
was following a boat containing ship
wrecked sailors with a view of up
setting it and lunching upon them.
The shark was defeated by a timely
blow of a harpoon, and a , passing
vulture swooped down and from the
rUTtlKM DA TVS .
Jane It. Wednesday -Commencement
day at Willamette university.
June 14. Friday Public band con
certs begin.
June 14, Friday High School grad
uation, June 14. Friday Flag day.
June 14. Friday High School com
mencement exercises.
June . 17, Monday Annual school
election.
June 10, Thursday. Reunion of Ore
goo pioneer association. Portland. -
Aurunt H. II and 28 Western Wal
nut trowtrn" Association to tour BUt
grove cf . .'.::aette vai.sr "
. . .Manager
Managing Editor
.Cashier
Advertising Manager
. . Manager Job . Dept.
Oregon, as second class matter.
A GOOD SHOWING
dying carcass of the fish extracted
the continuity of its mortal life and
went ashore with it. There the vul
ture made a nest and filled it with
eggs which were Impregnated with
the purposeful equilibrium obtained
from the shark. While the vulture
was absent a predatory rattlesnake
crowled into the nest, sucked the
eggs and thtfs became possessed cf
the properties of a rotten oyster, a
man-eating shark and a carrion bird.
The snake was in turn attacked and
destroyed by a skunk, and the skunk
was killed by two Hun soldiers nam-
ed Burchard and Wezel Hohenxoliern
who skinned him and used his car
cass to perfume their clothing.
Thus there were evolnted Into the
first Hohenzollerns the physical.
moral and mental qualities of a dis
eased oyster, a shark, a vulture, a
snake and a polecat and their de
scendant. Kaiser Wllhelm, exhibits
all these qualities In his every ac
tion.
WEST POINT, AS A MILITARY
ASSET.
When the gray-clad cadets of the
United States Military Academy line
up on the field at West Point to
morrow, for the annual graduation
exercises, they will receive their di
plomas from the secretary of war
under conditions more sober and Im
pressive than have ever before at
tended a commencement at that far
famed institution.
Instead of receiving the customary
assignments to this or that regiment
of infantry or cavalry or artillery, to
be stationed at a military post in the
United States or one of Its insular
possessions, the members of tha
West Point class of 1918 will. In all
probability, pass from the academy
routine of study and drill into the
real work of war. with the chances
that a1 few months hence will find
the most of the graduates of today
actively "doing their bit" somewhere
in France.
Military critics and historians
are agreed that efficiency of an army
depends fully as much upon its of
fleers as it does upon its fighting
men.: If this be true, the value of
the United States Military Academy
as a military asset, in the present
critical period of the nation's history.
can not be overestimated, for there
is no Institution of its kind in the
world where a man can attain to a
higher degree of military education
and efficency than at West Point.
West Point has been for upwards
of ' half a century the leading mili
tary academy in the world. Its meth
ods have been in several instances
adopted as a whole by foreign
schools. The standard at the United
States Military Academy has been, it
is said, that toward which other
schools have aimed. The history of
the Institution is a record of con
tinual, unceasing. Improvement in
this respect.
On more than one occasion In the
past history of. the United States the
highly beneficial effect of the com
paratively few but well trained men
from the West Point academy! baa
been observed. , Generar: Wlnfleld
Scott said: "I give it as my fixed
opinion that but for our, graduated
cadets the war between the United
States and Mexico might, and' prob
ably would, have lasted some four
or five years. Wiihin its Hrst half
more defeats than victories fell Into
our share, whereas in leas than two
campaigns we conquered a great
country and a peace without the loss
of a single battle or skirmish."
Elibu Root, when secretary of war,
said: "Since the declaration of. the
war with Spain the faithful and ef
ficient services of the graduates of
the military academy at West Point
have niore than repaid the cost cf
the instiution since Its foundation.
Brigadier General Henry Knox In
1776 was the first to suggest a mili
tary school for the United States at
the present site. His proposals were
seconded by Alexander Hamilton an1
approved by George Washington, but
they were not adopted in the form
suggested until, by an act of con
gress, approved In 1802, the presi
dent was authorized to establish a
military academy, which was for-
mallly opened July 4 of that year.
By the act of 1802 fixing the mil
itary peace establishment, forty ca
dets were attached to the artillery
and ten' to the corps of engineers,
and that corps was constituted a mil
itary academy and stationed at West
Point, the senior officer of engineers
present being the superintendent
thereof.
This was the beginning of the pres
ent military, academy, which Is now
one of the finest and most complete
in the world, and which has turned
out such masters of the military art
as Ulysses S. Grant, Robert E. Le3.
Phil Sheridan. William T. Sherman.
and a long list of others whose abil
ities and achievements as soldiers
have won world-wide fame.
The success and development of
the West Point academy owes much
to General Sylvester Thayer, who
was superintendent of the institution
during the early period of Its devel
opment, and whose statue now holds
a prominent place in the West Point
grounds. General , Thayer adminis
tered affairs at the academy for six
teen years and historians unite la
asserting that to him more than to
any other one man Is due the pres
ent prestige of the academy.
A WOSLIJI OF MILLIONS AND ,
MATRIMONY.
' When Mrs. Alfred Gwynne Vander
bilt. widow of the widely known
young millionaire ana - sportsmen
who went down with the Lusltania,
becomes the bride tomorrow of Ray
mond T. Baker, director of the U. S.
mint, It will be the third Ume she
has passed up the rose-strewn path
to the altar.
Since Margaret Emerson-McKim
Vanderbilt burst into national soci
ety, as a girl not yet out of her teens,
her career has comprised all the
high lights that one woman could
possibly crowd into a comparatively
short life.
As Miss Margaret Emerson, daugh
ter of a wealthy drug manufacturer
of Dal ti more, the young woman who
Is to take her third plunge into ma
trimony tomorrow was popular
among the younger set of Baltimore,
Washington. New York and Newport.
She met her first husband. Dr. Smith
Hollins McKIm, a young physician cf
a prominent Baltimore family, when
he accompanied the Emeraons as
guest, physician and surgeon to tha
party, on a yacht tour of the world.
Upon the return of the yacht to
this country their engagement was
announced. The Emerson-McKim
wedding In Recember, 1902. was one
of the events of the year In Balti
more, more than 1500 persons of
social prominence from all parts of
the country attending.
In 1908 there came reports of their
haveing separated, and Mrs. McKIm
went with her father to Reno in the
latter part of October. 1909. The
following August she received her
decree. On the same day It was re
ported In Newport that she would
marry ' Mr. Vanderbilt, fwho some
time before had been divorced by his
first wife, who was Miss Elsie
French.
These reports were denied at the
time, and the denials were given sub
stance by the departure of Mrs. Mc
KIm for Japan Immediately after se
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curing her divorce. After her return
from Japan abe lived! In Reno for a
while, but in October, 1910, she went
to New York. On the fame day that
she left Reno Mr. Vanderbilt started
for New York from Louisville, and
the gossip started up afresh. Roth
stayed at the Plaza hotel In New
York, and they were inuoti'ln eaih
other's company. The following May
both were in London, and It was
again reported they were about to
wed. In the following fall, when
both had returned to New York.
there were again rumors of a wed
ding.
After all the reports that had been
circulated about tbem the gossips
were caught napping when Mr. Van
derbilt and Mrs. McKIm. on Decem
ber 17. 1911, quietly slipped away
from London and were married at
Retgate, In Surrey.
When Alfred G. Vanderbilt fell a
victim to the German program of
"ruthless warfare." In 1915. his
death left his young widow with an
immense fortune at her disposal.
Mr. Vanderbilt had Inherited the
greater portion of the estate of his
father, Cornelius Vanderbilt. When
the will of the younger Vanderbilt
was probated.lt was fcund that he
had left an estate amounting to up
wards of $50,000,000. The will
made provision for the widow by
leaving her $2,000,000 and the In
come of $5.000,00 in trust, togeth
er with the Vanderhllt estates In the
Adlrondacks, and Gloucester Houso
in London. The bulk cf the remain
der of the vast estate was divided
equally between the two Infant som
by his second marriage. To William
H. Vanderbilt. his son by his first
wife. Mr. Vanderbilt left a trust fund
of $5,000,000, and his country place
near Newport.
Raymond T. Baker, who Is to be
come the third husband of Mrs. Em-
erson-McKim-Vanderbilt. Is a real-
dent of Nevada. He was made di
rector of the mint by President Wil
son about a year ago. Previously he
had served several years as secretary
of the American embassy at Petro-
grad.
The wedding is to take place at
Hosewood. the country liome of the
bride-elect at Lenox, In the heart of
the Berkshire. While simplicity
will be the keynote of the wedding,
it will be attended 1y a number of
guests of high station in social and
public life. Mr. Baker has selected
Key Plttman, United States senator
from Nevada, to serve as his best
man.
I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I
Wanted, badly, rain.
Great days at Old Willamette.
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There are nine rural mall carriers
out of Salem postofflce. Seven of
them are now using automobiles.
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After the first of July, the rural
carriers wil hare an Increase of 20
per cent In their pay. and those who
have routes over the regulation
length of twenty-fire miles will hare
something for the extra miles. The
pay is now 1100 a month for twenty-fire
mile routes and orer. The
carriers hsre to furnish their own
means of transportation.
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The Germans hare taken some
ground from the French in the latest
phase of their great drive; but they
have paid for it recklessly with the
lives of their soldiers.
But the American; and French
fighters have gained more ground,
and taken prisoners and thirty ma
chine guns. And the British have
straightened their lines.
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In a magaxlne article. General
Foch has committed himself in favor
of offensive warfare for victory. But
he has not given his hand away as to
time and place.
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Nick Romanoff has moved hi
quarters again in Tobolsk. Possibly
the rent was due.
Just imagine the noise in Austria
if that country, with; Its seventeen
different danguages. embarks on a
real revolution.
A woman up-stae claims to -have
In her possession an egge that is
more than fifty years old. We
thought we bought It last summer.
Los Angeles Times.
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There must this be said in favor
of the kaiser: he is taking good
care of his six lusty boys. They
must be hidden under the ammuni
tion wagons. Exchange.
Now a monk Is blamed for the let
ter Imputed to the Emperor of Aus
tria. There have been "goats" in
the world from the beginning of
time, and they are not confined to
the field of international diplomacy.
There are a few In the newspaper
game.
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Anna Held, gayest of comediennes.
Is dying in New York of "multiple
myeloma." or. being frelly translated,
from the effect of tight lacing. It
doesn't pay to Imitate the " hour
glass" figure in women.
MAST SCHOOL CHILDttEX ARB
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fort and th wlfr of their children
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They Break up Colds. Relieve Fever
Ctvnatlpatlon. Teething- Dis
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There la no smoke or odor; no dust or dirt. And yon hare all the convenience of gas
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Mrs. E. S. Lamport returned from
Portland last night following a week
end visit in Portland where she went
to bid good bye to her son, Freder
ick Lamport, who will leave today
for Bremerton following his recent
enlistment In the. navy. Mrs. Fred
erick. Lamport (Eleanor Rodgers)
will remain with her husband In Port
land until the time of hla leaving.
Mr. Lamport expects to be in
Bremerton for several months. Ills
wife will Join him there at frequent
Week ends. However, sh will kn
ooen her Salem home. Mr. and Mrs,
Arthur Benson will remain with her
for an Indefinite time at Ben Lom
aud park. ,
Mrs. L. May Baker of Eugene. Or
egon, is the house guest of her daugh
ter. Mrs. J. Frank Hughes.
Mr. and Mrs. John Farrar and Mrs.
Abie Farrar have returned from a
several months stay in California.
Accompaniel by her sister. Miss
Genevieve Cooper of IndiVendence.
Mrs. John Kraus (Frances Cooper)
and her little son were recent visit
ors In Salem. Mrs. Kraus has also
oeen visiting with her parents. Mr.
The
A WonMal Reaattet of
, "L1L" COMES VISITING.
'Slt down. LI1. Hello, Harry."
snd Lillian Gale was seated neit to
me with Dicky and her husband lean
ing over us before I had fully real
ized that the woman, the thought of
whom had so disturbed my evening
was so close to me.
"I want you to know Mrs. Graham.
Harry." Dicky said. I glowed in
wardly at the note of pride In his
voice and looked up to meet a pair
of brilliant black eyes Looking at me
with an appraising approval that
grated. He was a tall, good looking
chap, with an air of ennui that sat
oddly on his powerful frame. I felt
sure that I would like Lillian Gale's
husband as little as I did the woman
herself.
"What are you up to tonight, any
way. Dickybird?" As Mrs. Under
wood spoke I Involuntarily thought
or Dicky's description of her voice
as a Comanche yell. It was a rolre
with great possibilities of beauty In
Its tones; but she eridently did not
know how to modulate It, or did not
care to do so.
"Promise youH wh!per for the
rest of the evening and not squeal
when I show yon. and I'll let you in
on It," Dicky returned, teaslngly. I
could not help a little shlrer as 1
realized from Dicky's every intona
tion what good chums he and this
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learn haw to cook fat comfort all the
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and yjrs. J. N. Cooper, of Indepen
dence. . The Misses Elma and Norma Hen
dricks and Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Chambers have been visiting In Sa
lem. En route to their home In Buffalo,
N. Y., from touring California and
Oregon. Mrs. Thomas It. Reading and
Mrs. Millard F. Woodard have been
visiting Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Underbill.
Tye travelers are both aunts of Mrs.
Underbill. The guests were accom
panied by Mrs. L. D. Waterman of
Lyons.
In compliment to Mrs. David Hill
of Pendleton, Mrs. Will Bennett was
a hostess at a knitting bee recently
at her home. 1S5 North Fourteenth
street. Mrs. Hill has been the house
guest of Mrs. W. II. Lrtle for the
past fortnight. This is the first visit
in Salem of this charming guest and
she will remain for about ten days
longer. t
An artistic array or batrhelor but
tons decked the rooms on Thursday.
Those who were bidden to ineet Mrs,
Hill, besides Mrs. Lytle. were Mrs.
William S. Walton, Mrs. John CaUkh
ell. Mrs. O. C. Locke. Mrs. J. O. Wil
son. Mrs. H. II. dinger and Mrs. C.
C. Locke.
Miss Dorothy Kezar was a delight
ful hostess Tor a merry group ef
her school friends. Saturday at the
home of her mother. Mrs. L. A. Kezar
130 North Commercial street. A
lawn party was the diversion and the
young folks frolicked In games.
Those present were Mardt Dabner.
Pearl Hill. Wllma Coursey. Edith
ion. juaniia Williams. Mlneta
Story of a Hon
Married Life Wonderfully
woman matt be.
"Cross my heart,
action to the word.
She suited the
Remember that cover I've bn
trying to work out for that new the
atrical magazine? What do you
right behind us; restrain our en
thusiasm." '
He handed her the prosram with
Its marginal drawing. She studied
them Intently for a minute.
"Dickybird, these will t the tet
things you have ever done." she said
and when I saw by Dicky's fac that
he felt nattered by this woman's
opinion, knowing as he did her own
ability in his lln. and realized that
praise of hla drawings from his
standpoint and hers, were merely the
conventional opinion of the outsider
I felt a tiny pang-of what? Jealousy
I feared to. I
I glsd when the outer curtain
began slowly to rise, showing that
the second act was about to begin.
Mrs. Underwood rose with a no!sr
rustling or draperies. She evidently
was one of those women who can do
nothing auletlr. and turning to me
said, cordially:
"Be sure to wait for us In the
lobby vhn this is over. We have a
plan." and before I had time to reply
she had rustled away to her own seat,
her tall husband following at some
is f 2i m&
year round. It Is New
Williams. Ether Cdbper. Leolyn
Barnett. Clarice Ritchie; Gladys Bew
ley. Lois Hockett. Juanlta Hockett.
Dorothy Kezar. Rhea McCoy. Miss
Thelma. Owen. Miss Florence Pope
and MUa Vera, Kezar.
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OP INTEREST TO WOMEN
The first normal school for wo
men teachers .was opened at Lexing
ton. Maaa In 1839.
McGIll University. Montreal, has
decided to admit women to the study
of medicine and dentistry.
The Indian women of Bolivia are
usually auperlor to their lords la both
Mrgy and latAll'gence.
STOMACH DEAD
MAN STILL LIVES
People who suffer from sour stom
ach, fermentation of 'food, distress
after eating and Indigestion, and
seek relief in large cbunka of artifi
cial dlgestors. are killing their atom
achs by inaction Just as surely aa
the victim of morphine Is -deadening
and Injuring beyond repair every
nerve la hla body.
What the stomach of every suf
ferer from Indigestion aeds la a
good prescription that will build up
hi stomach, put strength, energy and
elasticity into it, and make it sturdy
enough to digest a hearty meal with
out artificial ,.,
The beet -prescription for Indiges
tion ever written is sold by drug
gists everywhere and by Daniel J.
Klf.nd.v r,rW,r i-raated to
bui d up the stomach and cure InJi
geUon. or money back.
This prescription U named Ml-o-ua.
and U sold la small tablet form
in larg boxes, only a few cents. He
member the nam Yfi. w
tablets. They never fall
Told hj ADELE GARRISON
dltance behind her. but apparently
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w.s 'ti? J, h?vCa ' He4 tnat It
TIa f th bt rady scenes
!tJ ad?er rn' botB its llae. and
Kir I- d In,'i f0r D I"
I" ' mJ room which my
mother had trained me to take every
day since childhood
r.?iour!: r'Uxed lBt LI"'"
a supper party after the theatre.
in the lobby after the lat act. Upon
the way that I received that Invita
tion must depend mr future conduct
toward this woman. I could not
make one of the proposed party and
arterward decline to know her. My
instlncta all cried out t me to avoid
Lillian Gale, she outraged all ray
canons of goM taste, although even
through my prejudices I hsd to ad
mit there was something oddly at
tractive about her la spit of her
atrocious make-up.
But. on the other hand, she and
her husband appeared to be on roost
Intimate terms with Dicky. Wonld
I seriously offend him If I refuaed to
treat his friends with friendliness
equal to that which they seemed
ready to shower upon me?
(To be continued). 4 J