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TUB OHEX STATESMAN: nilOAV. AIMST 3. lulu. i The Oregon Statesman Issued Dally Except Monday by THIS STATESMAN PUBLISHING COMPANY 216 R. Commercial St. Salem, Oregon. : MEMBER OP THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dlspatcb.ee credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published heroin. " :- ' . Manager Managing Editoi " " " ' ; . Cashier ........ '. . ." . . .V. ... . . . Advertising Manager '"''"" Manager Job Dept. R. J. Hendricks . . . Stephen A. Stone . . Ralph GiOYr. ...... W. C. Squler Frank Jahk;ski. . . . DAILY STAtESMAN. tenred by canier In Salem and suburbs. 16 cents a - ' week, -60 cents a mouth. . . . DAILY STATESMAN, by mall. $6 a year; $3 for six months; 60 cents a month. For three mir.th or more, paid In advance, at rate of 5 a year SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1 a year; 60 centa for six months; 26 cents loi three months. nrvcrrr -v otitisuim i..nH in twn (-nam sections. Tuesdays and aa.nft4 I o ft r. ft ciomw, u v. . - - a ii . ,. rif nnt tM In advance. S1.26): 60 cents for six . V . m j , " r - months; 25 cents for three months. TELEPHONES: Business Office, 28. Circulation Department, 68S. Job Department, 683. Entered atlhe Postotfice in Salem. Oregon, as second class matter. COLLAPSE OF THE GERMAN ARGUMENT he will literally talk his head off. if some one does not slit his goozle string or give him the army mule cure to prevent braying. Mrs. Annette Abbott Adims haa been appointed to succeed lnit?d 1 w States District Attorney Pieston at San Francisco. And sn will make good, jutlins; from he record in the office as chirr deputy. We may yet have a woman president. It will be necessary to amend the Constitution, hut the Constitution is nothing as between friends. Superficially the victory of the allies at the Marne may be less impressive than the showy gains maue iy me uenu-ns m x ,aiij last March, but actually its significance is far greater. It is hot merely a defeat for the German army but a puncturing of the German argument. To a Frenchman or a Belgian it is riot necessary, while a .er inan army occupies French or Belgian soil, to explain why the war must go on. , t T( mat the necessity clear to Germans is more troublesome, To the ignorant lower classes it is neeessary to repeat the stupid fictions which have worn too thin for even the ignorant to accept them without ouestion: in face of the Brest-Litovsk treaty and the Lichnowsky revelations the pretense that Germany is fighting a de fensive war is sheer absurdity. But Germany is not like Russia a country of ignorant people It is perhaps the most sophisticated nation known to history; certainly the most systematically indoctrinated nation. Unofficially its . educated classes have gone much further than its government has thought it discreet to go jn the way of avowing predatory aims and justifying them by argument. In their actions the war lords have made such aims as plain as the nose on the Crown Prince's face, but they are chary of avowals which might make more difficult the negotiation of a profitable peace. Educated Germany and the war lords, however, understand each other and they share the gospel of force which since 1870 has prevailed with ever increasing virulence. (The typical educated German honestly believes that Germany has1'' a great cultural mission in the world, and that ethics has no more to do with the case than in the conquests of Caesar and Alexander the Great. .' . The glory and prosperity of the German empire are the essen tial things, and .the all-sufficient justification is to be found in Ger man superiority. . That eventhe claims of superiority based on military victories might be vitiated by the greater attention which Germany has given to military science and to preparation for an offensive war at an advantageous moment,- would never occur to a German. But defeat is an argument that he can understand. . Let Germany be well beaten at its own game, and not merely its campaign but its whole immoral argument collapses .. Might is right? .Then if Germany is beaten Germany is wrong! -. German science makes Germany the natural "leader" of the nations? Then, if the other nations get the best of Germany even in bomb ,,u lPwon gases uermany ceases to have a mision of leader shin urhmti -Iiioi ;r;v .... ..i. : i The strategy of Ilindenhni-g and Ludendorff has been taken in Uermany as showing a manifest superiority to the clumsy war-making of. "inferior" nations. But what if even Luclon.loT ff meets his match in Foch T'' If the Germans at-.... not supermen, above the moral law thev have tm Im.vUi(.s, , B. -ium, Fraiu-e ami Russia, and a few more surgical operates by General Foch, assisted by the glorious Sam Tf nJJU8 tu asis.-t in the process, may drive that obvious logic through the hard car.ij.aie of tl Prussian-intellect : " V? "hts of Mtiuris, honor, public faith, humanity, the Prus sian intellect may not be able to understand But it understands perfectly the meaning of defeat ot I Ca? the faCt that thc bcst Prussian general has been outgeneraled ; it can realize what the collapse of the German of fen Jive coming hard upon the collapse of the Austrian cHens means" to. the, thin-blown bubble of German conquest onensUe means v.fc lucaiig hot, merely a military reverse It means that the whole G down. Another German bunch pretending to surrender to our Sammy iob. had 'hand 'grenade. up their sleeves. So the Sammy hoys took no prison- e-ia from that hunch. The Hun woui.i better stop that sort ef thins, ami this fact will soon drift hack through the German lines. Thc Yankee i.s canny. He is -o;ito" all the tricks, even if he did look like a greenhorn to Berlin that is. a few. week ago. In football terms, thc German hairback on his plunge thtough tackle fumbled and dropped the ba 1. which was instantly grabbed by tin' French fullback and carried back around the other end in a biilliant run that brought the spectator on the allied grand stands to their feet cheering. The French now have the ball for the first down on the forty yard line. A woman delegate from New York city. Mrs. L. R. Wellzmilled of the Bronx, made herself a welsome mem ber of the Democratic state conven tion in Saratoga, on July 22. She introduced and pressed a motion hat the men Le requested to remove their coats. Of course with the ther mometer above 90 degrees the sug gestion was eagerly accepted. A mow; words filly spoken those of Mrs. WellzniIIled scrv lasting record. If eoatlcss in a conention. why not elsewhere? In many a male triind this idoa has found lodgment during i these recent days, us is the case whenever extreme heat provokes it. Men have been wont to criticize the sumission of women to the conven tional, but in the matter of season able clothing women can give point to n:en. Too much fear and trem bling still attends shedding one's coal when good Bense calls for it. . - . -... ... i ih iiialn commnntier iii-tnifi - gateway to FarU and they held it! Theirs was the sector where tho Germans concentrated their heaviest battalions and forced a passage of the Marne. and then pushed irresis tibly inward toward the vital arter ies that feed the French defen-es. Overwhelmed by numl rs, mr bo s fll back. Hut did they stay bac k? It was the official and -xwrt French military opinion that thc-y might jus tifiably lest for a while and recover thoir poise. Fnder the rules cr the gan.e. they could tio so in honor. . liut hse were 'raw troops." ThVy were like the Canadians at Ypn-s. Ttny did not know'the rul-s of the game, and cared nothing Tor them. As Napoleon's diuriiinei- boy had not learned to pound "the re tieat." they had not learned to en dure one. Their Ameii' an blood w.l in their faces, tingling with the un bearable smart of shame. Their gen eral spoke for them and his words should he written in letters of gold on thc front r the capitolat Wash ington: "We regret being unable on this occasion to follow the coun sel. of our iiij8lers, the French, but the American llag has been forced to retiie. Thia in unen durable and none of our soldi'TB would understand their not be ing arked to do whatever is nec essary to re-establish a situation which is humiliating to us and unacceptable to our country's honor. We are eoing t coun ter attack." And tliey did counter attack; they drove The very cream of the kaiser's "shock tioops" back to the river bank they had so triumphantly con quered. If they had failed the Ger mans would have been on their road to Paris. And our "raw troops" have been going forward ever since against the fiercest opposition the German armie? could muster, with the best Prussian and Bavarian soldiers un der the command of the kaiser' generals. Nine times Sergy changed hands, fough for ly the Bavarians dnd our "raw troops." . -'crgy iC'iiains ia the hands of our "haw troops," and they are fighting on oeyond Sergy. gain ing every battle, winning dai'y more The Big Closing Out Sale Still Continues You will find wonderful bargains in our ': dry goods, Men's Clothing, Furnishings : and U Shoes- Also great Economy Basement offerings. Do not delay buying, because we save you big money on all lines that we still have We retain the right of the use of the Court street entrance. You can reach any of our three stores, dry goods, men's cloth ing, or basement, from either Court or Commer cial street CORNER COURT AND C0MX STREET, SALEM. AX EXAMl'LK FOU HOYS. ground and holding it. aud never going back except to get a new start and advance ctill farther. The fact is, our glorious "raw troops" are on their triumphant way to Beilin. For seven yeais after his gradua tion from West Point Pershing re ceived no piomotion. Nevertheless, with o Flomary grit, he applied himself to master his pro fession. Ice became an authority on military tactics, and was s-nt to West Point as an instructor. He as there when the Spanish-American war broke out, and immediately ap plied for a command. The war de partment sent him to the 10th cav alry, a Negro troop, as a first lieu tenant, and then his rise began. His troop went to Cuba. lie led if at the battle of El Caney, and came out of that engagement a' captain "for gallantry in action." Then he went to the I'h IlppJncs. In 1906, (in recognition of his ability. President Ko'svolt male him a brigadier general and Jumped him over the hend.t of fcf,2 men. Tho boy who had won his way to' West Point by one point, the young man who had been given io promotion for seven years think of that, you fellows who grumble that nobody takes notice of hcw hard you work had at last come into his own. BITS FOR BREAKFAST ; Told you so. Foch rested Wednesday. V The fighters needed the rest. the whole German theory of the war has broken Cynical as history may sometimes appear, an,l modern Ornninv Hun morale is going down. I tut they were again yesterday. up and at them And they have objectives. A lot of new towns and hills and woods and hillocks and terrain and prisoners tcken yestc -relay. structed in such duties as protecting j park property from vandalism, main-; taining juvenile order in streets and J on playgrounds, etc. The llylan i commissioner has taken the badges ( and win no longer recognize -junior policemen". He has never Iwheveil in the plan. He has, however turned over the list of the lxys to tin !xard of education and it would U possible for tlwt Ixidy to encourage the Imijs to continue their watchful ness of the public interest along for mer lines. REVELATIONS OF A WIFE The Story of a Honeymoon A Wonderful Hcmance of Marrinl I Jfe Vnlerf ally Told by Aii:i.K ;.i;uio ) IN A SOCIAL WAY I 1 Bf rtrae Elisabeth KIkU Hut several mote pockets were created yesterday, and Hother IJoche will have to soeed i:p. . Dr. and Mrs. . A. Olson have re turned from an extended visit in the middle west. Mrs. Olson had ben visiting in Minnesota for some weeks, earlier in the summer, when Or. Olson joined her there a month Those crack bavarian troon. tried "nl nuago. to stoji the Fammics again yesterday, ... ...T. .. ,. . up bevond KerPy. ' i Mr- M". William MrtiiUhrist. S j Jr.. and children Josephine and Wil- Anci now they an- the . racked Ha- j ,ian' naTe relumed from summering varlan troops-cracked or broken. f1 Newit?,r.V .h,er AhS ..rot tage. With Miss Kthel Mc;ilchrist (lly Mnue mit.ike, the Newsi.icr Feature Service, furnLshinj lit Tbe Statesman the story, " Revelations of a NYifer! otnittetl to sen.l copy for tlie three next rhnptcn of the story. The mUsinij copy has iM-en wired for, nnl the story will he resumed as tsoon as this inivsin copy arrives no iIouM within a few daya.) mm . 4 WAR SUMMARY WHAT RAW TROOPS ARK IMM.(i. America's army now in France, even those we call "regulars" would be contemptuously defined by Herhn as "raw troops." They have never enjoyed the brutal discipline of a The kaiser is hollering his bead off, trying to pittve to his slunked troop.-? that they are not licked. Hut they know letter th' remnants of them that are alive and have their think tanks in order. ". Rome reports the next Austrian drive will be nnder the German lead ership. Hut that may not le so tak ing an advertisement as it , would have been before recent events on the Marne. as her guest. Mrs. McOilchrist and the children have been at the coast for a month. Mr. McGilchrist joined his family there, ten days ago and accompanied them home. A group of Salem .motorists will leave about Monday on an automo bile trip to Tarorua and Seattle. They will be gone for ten days. Compos, ing the party will b? Mrs. V. K. Spnulding. her sister. Miss Pearl tlty the A .JKiatcd PreJ Aft'T a fhort period f relative calm on the Soiwons Khe ii.is salient the central and western taction qf I the battle front agin hav bet-n the scnes of mUhtly struggles. On loth ' s tor the allie d force have achieved notable gains of ground which semlnrlr place ih German armies in precarieniA peti tions. Fremi the re-jrlon-feint h of So1jins to the notthwept of Fere-rn-Tarete-ols and southeast of the lat piiiii town over the urxr portion f the left branch ef the "V" salient run ning ten miles eastward fro Neli to Ville- cn-Tardenoi ami with Pt Gemme' as lt soiithern lase, Atner Ican. Frenc and Hritith trops bae pushed back th ramis of th tier man crown prince. Northwest of Fere the entire c1!mw of the ir.e where it turned eatard :ibng the northern hank of the fViree ha ! n ldttee out. making th line a straight nnt- from Fere te liar- fray, fu-tween Srlnge and Cierg resictively, northeast and southeaJi of Fere, they are knofi tohate mad goodly gains over a four-mile front and to have pushed farther tyoai Serry an I reached within a mile aoa a half cf the village of Ohamer. On the Itritish front in France m ( H..nders the bad weather has eeaseiJ and the sun Is fast drying the miJr Kround. The Crrmini arettmbard ing h-aily erieu petition bld br Field Marshal Male's men. who l turn, are answering the fire of t enemy's iuna and Weeping op with much tucecsei their annojing raid irito th German lines. Arrdin to the claims of Vienna the Austrian trwpa In Allara ha ce. in jelled the Italian to rive; up considerable portion of the rr they won In the reeent fightinc. H Is assert eel by the Austrian war ffK that the Italians are being pnrioed ! by the Anstriant. In the divorce petition of Harold Hell Wright he claimed tht his wife Miller. Mrs. Walter Spauldinc and I Miss Ila Spauldinr. They will also ! ciinE the allies mueb (Visit at (amp I-wls. The Sammies and Poilns are after them again, and the Hun is oq ti ran." President Wilson and Mr. Tumul ty, have each released a secretary for war service, and so are doln? what the rest of us have to do, give up men we especially value. Browning heavy machine guns reached an output, cf 1075 ..In the ween tnuinp July 13. They can not leach France too fast, as long aa the need lasts, being Jhe best in tha world. noisp came from Dormans. on th Marne. Ht the guns are now far tht r away from Paris and getting more distant every day thanks to the Sammies who Hun hop. are znaaipg the officer, the mechanical methods by which militaristic Germany trims, tames and torturer a man into a soldier. They can not "goose-step" j l-ette-r ground oer which to work ' in further onifUning Soiswins on ! Mr. and Mrs. It. K. farrier and the Miulh.al fn- was guilty of mental cruelty in thai Mr. and Mrs. K. J. Swafford ei.-ct Fistm - in r,.ni.in.n,n i.s .r...... eric points north dear, indict the community? j A. It. Mil.-s family for a motoring j In tM fihtinc th- alli-d tr..n. ; ... . ir p on the t oiumhia lilKha. They j ,rv,. r ,ho ,;.,r,n!,n, h n ! V " ' 1 ' i . lo J',,Hin '' iisa; tenae-ioti.ly holding tv.-iti..n I i ii wrti is soeio- eiiMan' e'. r iuj iiuiun, nn uugni iaM yeai ; away. That doesn't agre-e with the j in the I.ino.ln tilch sch'eed, will also I K'torv et tho rrvl9l pjTnp t I V'ahImi ti a tiiniitt-r if t?m ftnilv German barracks, the insolent, petty, J he showed no appreciation ef bis to have early this morning for Port-! now bedding strate persconal tyranny of a Prussian sub- t ry work. Why doesn't llarold . land where they will lw joineel by the-! and northe-a.t of y, The roar of the guns on the west ern f rout was heard in Paris. The TTXHE DATES. va?."" 19 'nd U Oregon State fc.dlf.orUl convention at Cooa Buy. VicnVBt 17' Kturday Annual Iowa .-tJ"1KUt Menday-Natlonal con rwtUnV n" Rc,lef Corps in tArZ'l Tu'."',"y SPciI meeting or Commercial ctub. 1 WeKlaeaetar -Annual WIs- ?.,?'t i-AVetern Wat :V"T"".. . tour nut - V ""'"cnecie -valley. --vlWr z to jjoregon State With Pershing's trained Indians doine scout wor'; with the .mer can army in France, tbeie is a chanco for the writer of the German war biille-tins to express the horror of th Huns over the introduction of North American "savages" into European warfare. The l,?st place to keep the German prisoners of war taptnrd by the American snny may be the FniteJ States. There are now over 6000 of them. The American prisoners con fined in Germany should have an offset in the German prisoners con fined in America. Springfield Republican. for the amusement of the mult .tuck -they mieh not stand oumb ana arrt a dollar for paying thai ... ... , . , . 1 the war would come to end on Feb- motionless while a popinjay in gold rnary 30 i9i9.Kiehang braid sl?iped their faces - they think 1 mm mm m for thems-!ve3 as well as fight for j Police Conimhsioner Knrlght ha their country. ' j disbanded New York's junior police Germany has never believed that I forre ?f 60"0 'n'-. lrh was ,, , . . . . ,. . ., i formed of bov scouts, who were In- iuuiu anu wijiim iiiii. iier coni fortable doctrine has been tat, with the best will in the world we could not make an army in time to affect seriously the course of this present wai. Well, she has her answer now. It was delivered, full in her face, just south of the Marne the othe day. Our "taw troops" held the vital d.th anMt that covered the road to Paris. The mil force ,d the first German blow fell square ly iipoa these boys of ours American lads. poit ien tVe--n P'ev. ie-r lleibn and the rier and took tho bish rround north e.f Grand Reeeiy. pre-d en pat the- vll age 'f !e-a ucnejn v and arrie-d ! ' re the ilia m x e.f Craiooi llc and '"raoiaille-. The- r n ral advance was aut Iwo nub t and Cec tWrman.s me re maeSe prion r. The iiie.t important gain, however Lemon Juice For Freckles Glrfnl Make beauty lotion at noma for a few cents. Try It! 55- Mrs. f. P. Hishop will leave this morning for Portland, preparatory to a sojourn at the ceiast. In Portland she ill be joine by he r si.te-r. Mrs. (. T. Rotnrts of HimmI River' who will accompany her to Seaside Tb-y will remain for two or three- we-ekn K- j.- j "" on it,.- tip.-r western point of the "n. lotn . 7. . block 2. Ensle- Mr. and Mrs.' chauncey lii-hop "v" outi. at e.f Fere. Ik-re- the wowt Addition. Salem. and small son. Tharl Kav mote, red Wace f fierce and the Me-nnt. r-. Can rcc Townsend . to Wra. O. last night to Portland. They will -e.M .r.- taken, a manouter which t Martin, part of bbrk 11, Mjera adJ return today. j ,-l.m-s the- German at the leottotn of 1 Rn to Salem. ' Ihe- "V at St. Ge-lMl.u- in a n-n.inrl i IteattT to R. V. Roielle. lot! Dealt in Real EiUte 1 W. F. May t A. W. McCordy. lot 11 an.l 12. block 4. Niagara. James lianion to V. A. Ifawklaa, lot Z j. HalU Home tracts. Klard T. Malvln to Martha C Malt in. lot 1 and-2. b!o-k , Krtk-- K. R. Addition. Salem. W. A. Hawkins to Jas. Hanb.n. lot II. n. 1. block 1. Tooie first ad-liiion to Woolburn. I.uctetia I Chase to O. L. rrrrl. 2j acre In J. A. Htoughtoa'a claiia, township a. It 3 V. I'e te-r Springer, to Win. Ilrown. lot 3. aplewe.od Fruit Farms. Fro-nelj rhurth to heira of Cat McCown. part of lot 17, McCowa Fruit Farms. F liv. Strlnkamp to Franc C Kil- The louder the kaiser at herlln boasts of not being seated at Amer ican help to the allies, the more the poor Hun cannon-fodder on the bat tle front showe. its Trlght. The Beast of Berlin wjll boast himself to death Squeeie the juice of two lemons into a lttle containing three ounces of firrhirH . 1, L ..ti I the sort that look you in the face!,,,,, have a quarter pint of the ler u - privauon ano pent with a ; rrckie and tan lotion, and complex. joke just the "regular fellows" who pass you with-a cheerv nod in the-stteet. They do not strut and posi and hiMIy like a Prussian s con ception of a fighting brute, intens ively trained to win battles and ter rorize women and children. Thank God they are "raw troops" they are human they are ptlli our very own. But they were chosen by a French I r-nori ir-n en l e.rnano v ne-re ne ! has bee n the guest at the Cornelius ; hotel. , . -Z- i Mrs. Fred Burhte-I of the Court ! apartments is a Portland "vl.-ltor. Mr. ane Mrs. Chauncey llutle-r vil leave today for a vacation at Seaside-, i where they will In- guests e.f Mrs Butler's father. Judge A. S. ll nu ti ion beautificr. at virv verv Kmall Mri'- Rntb-r will remain for a month cost. ' ar,d her husband for a fortnight. Your grocer has the lemons and. 'm m i u ' , . any drug store or toile t cornier will ' ..i.n L. T .n" .', lit?nt Kimniv ik t. . r, librarian at the public librarv has ?P?Tfj;?:Br?5" ' month-, stay a. t' i TxL , . .r . " 4wn i: Kort Ioi ec, Iowa and in Montana where she was the Ktest of relatives. Miss Helen Pearce is passing a I iM-e ac ion pltpht. tor f rnni the wewwt i 3 fi. 6. Richmond additloa ly fragrant lotion into the face, neck; how f, n """" V , , VI an" Br" A daughter. Miss Irene Howard of , V """' "'"-v- j itnue, Mont., w ho visited In Sab-m the RVin . rlwr for somo months, early this spring, the skin becomes. Yes! It is harm- w ..iiin - -.11 - ' . ... ind the till.iFf tho a 111... I ..... -.ill 1 Salem. able to rake- the- i:. t... .n If ik.v I r.pMe II ihould ende-ave.r to t?ake their war1 northward, the ir only avenue of t.-j cape, by an e nfilading fire. Throurb lb" rapture.- of Meuni. r. w.m the w'dlh of the "V from the fringe of; the fore st to Ki.tif-ny. e.n the rat baa 11 tut d.wn relatively to four inik-H. i As has lf n the rape d'irinr t ' lat Wee k, the (Ini'unt conle . still. iM.rnlr the- ailumi- e.f the allo-el troops, but to no avail. Simo the; attle of the Marne Ix-can. JiMy l.t hill awil ...I . inxipi nate- uirn iuor ( K'de.ttr ...... .... .... ...,... ,.r. .ner. . ht,- pre'ty Jut I mhie n.rt I l.A ft . .. Ilarrold to C.ehlbar parts or r,ts 5 and 1. Wandt addK tie.n. Sab 10. For reneral teal estate bolne. nrtgres and insurance- C. IV. Niei.Mjcr. IH Stale trct. l'hon 1 000. When Mi riifplr e.f money bad r low a British Timiy wrote hme t hl wifo tellinr ber that they h u t "t a trenrh which rttnt !-" plie.. at anv cerf-f ar. asking. W tet forward fie (x.undi t biw a hU pn" iclt for slie et ICS3. Ice. rt.te- lwick - part the American -iw... , .., n has not yet been unfolded, but theT UrnrU ,., , wi f,n., ln. eloubtlcss were in the center of th-.c,0, two ran.rs fJ hr, , battle front and In the thbk of tho!,or ,t . '