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(WEEKLY EDITION.) TT1E ORKGON 8TATKSMA2 . HrXIAV. AICIST 1. 101- : THfe Oregon Statesman InBued Daily Except Monday by TUB STATESMAN FlULIfcHIXCI COMPANY 215 S. Commercial St.. Salem, Oregon MEMBEIt OF THE ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news published herein. R. J. Hendricks .Manager Htephen A. Stone.... .i .Managing Editor Ralph Glover. ....... . . .Cashier W. C. Squler Aflvertlsing Manager Frank Jaskoski Manager job uepu DAILY STATESMAN, served by carrier In Salem and suburbs, IS cents a week, 60 cents a month. N DAILY STATESMAN, by mail. $6 a year; S3 for six months; 50 cents a month. For three months or more, paid In advance, at rate of $5 a year. SUNDAY STATESMAN, $1 a year; 50 cents for aix months; 25 cents for three months. WEEKLY STATESMAN, Issued In two six-page sections. Tuesdays and Fridays, $1 a year (If not paid In advance, $1.25); 50 cents for iftjt months: 25 cents for three months. 2 ' ' ' 'TELEPHONES: , Business Office, 23. Circulation Department, 5&3, Job Department, 583. i ' 1 ',' - ' I Entered at the Postofflce in Salem, Oregon, as second lass matter. i ' AMERICA THE ALTEUISTIO NATION America is great because she is altruistic, i l Or, would you rather have it, she is altruistic because she is great! Is not altruism the sign of true greatness ? ; In the early sixties, the United States returned to Japan about $800,000, her share of the fine of Shimonoscki, of $3,000,000, as sessed by the French, Dutch and American governments for dam age done their ships by a bombardment ordered by one of the Jap anese provincial governors. The damage to American shipping was about $20,000. So the fine was largely in the nature of exemplary damages. .;,.:. . - What did the United States do with the $800,000? She . returned it to Japan, and that country, built with it the -Yokohama breakwater, that will stand for all time a monument to the good will of this great country of ours; providing inside a haven of safety for the ships of commerce of the world. Japan chose Pourtsmouth as the place for signing the peace treaty with Russia, in 1905, because of the good feeling between i that country and the United States; on account of the return of our r portion of the Shimonoseki fine, and many other unselfish acts on ; the part of our nation and our people in. dealing with Japan and the Japanese. , . The United States returned to China her portion of the $50, : 000,000 fine assessed against China after the Boxer Rebellion. What did China do with the money! Vf She has since that day , invested the returns from it upon the education of young men and women from her country, in the schools - and colleges and institutes of America ? The United States fought a war with Spain, and we won all ' the battles on sea and land. At the conclusion of peace, our country ; paid Spain $20,000,000, after setting Cuba' free, -and taking: the I Philippines and Porto Rico in training for future freedom. Z The whole history of the United States is dotted with such al truistic dealings. . . ' Our country is now helping to end the greatest war of his tory,: pouring out billions of treasure and sending millions of our best men to offer up their precious lives, that the world may be rendered free and made safe for democracy and be insured against the horrors of war in the future. " Because of this altruism, we behold America, youngest of the nations, assuming the place of leadership. We have seen it seal the doom of kings. We see that its destiny is to strike off the last shackle tliat binds men to slavery, and to make the whole world free. America is great because it has kept the faith of the fathers of the Republic. , . ... It has never drawn the sword except in defense of its own lib erties or the liberty of others. It has never put up the sword except after victory. Our country has put a stop to the primal curse of secret di plomacy. . It will never any more be possible for a clique to rule by keeping secret from the people the nation's affairs. And because of the new principle in the world that the greatest shall be the servants of all ; that right makes might ; that thrice arm ed is he whose cause is just, America is now the richest and the strongest nation in the world. The place that Germany set out to make for itself through blood and iron is taken by America. America is the money-lender of the world, but it is not and will never be a usurer. It is the strongest, but it is not and will never be a bully. It will never demand the pound of flesh from its beneficiaries or force an unoffending neighbor to cringe at the threat of its mailed fist. , In these ways, and in others, it also becomes the greatest of the nations, in the true sense of greatness greater than Florence in its days of song,, greater than Athens in the glory of its schools. All the glories of the storied pasts of other lands shall now be America's. She shall hold dominion over the world's soul. Into her heart shall flow love's tributaries. All lands shall hail her. She shall be the Mother of Ships. - For a thousand years and ten thousand years this shall be so if we keep sacred the covenant our fathers made with God when the corner-stone of the republic was laid. If we keep the faith. Proud as the boast was to have been a Roman in the ancient days, glorious as it was to have been a citizen of Athens, it shall now be a far prouder boast to be an American. Once more we have rendered our account to the spirits of the mighty dead. From the bloody reaches of the Marne America reports to Mad Anthony Wayne facing the ghosts of dead Hessian jaegers across the Schuylkill's storm-swept tide. The Banner of the Stars salutes Paul Jones at sea. Revelations of a Wife Whisky Is to be taxed $8 a gallon. Oregon should worry. . There will be another Hlndenbarg line But it will keep moTing back, and then it will vanish Into thin air; hot air. All the walking has not been taken up by the Germans; tney are still walking towards Berlin, when they are not running . . ! .Thousands of brare , Americana are keeping that "rendezvous with death." God rest them and give them an abundant entrance Into His kingdom. Los Angeles Times. . There was never but One able to walk on the water, but the stream UG PRICES ' - - ' 1 ' 1 ' 1 1 ' 1 1 --rr l of American soldiers going to France omes mighty near being a parade. An Oregon physician says that gnawing oQ jerked beef would lm prove children's teeth. What Is th matter with the gum-chewing habit? W ould not that icnre aa well? The jerked beef Is entirely superfluous. Los Angeles Times. Big Money Saving Sale Before Buying Rugs look at oar large assortment of new and ap-to-date pat terns. Oar prices are far below the regular price of today. Many patterns pric ed at less than today's price at the principal carpet nulls of the country. New patterns at prices that will surprise you. i $8.35 0x9 Wool Fibre Rugs. . . ,$6.75 $10.00 9x10-6 Wool Fibre Rugs....1. $7.50 $12.00 9x12 Wool Fibre. Rugs. ...... .$8.50 $11.00 8x10 Grass Rugs. ..$9.50 $13.50 9x12 Grass Rugs $11.50 $32.50 9x12 10-Wire Tapestry Rug, . .$25.50 $46.00 9x12 Axminster Rugs $38.50 $56.00 9x12 Body Brussels Rug $43.50 $35.00 9x12 Axminster Rugs $26 75 $38.50 9x12 Axminster Rugs $29.85 $57.00 9x12 Axminster Rugs $49.50 $79.00 9x12 Wilton Rugs... ..$69.50 A number of pieces of Brussels and Tapestry carpet to close out Bring in your room sizes and let us fit it with carpet at less than Factory Cost ALL SUMMER GOODS GREATLY REDUCED C -'IHIamilton-.' 340 Court Street, Salem, Oregon ". i THK LIGHT AUVAXCES. The beginning jof the end Is In sight. It is only, question of time when Germany mu.tt f drop from her nerveless hand thf shattered sword. The author of tho world's bright destiny !s whispering In the ears of the allied nations, "Arise and shine for the light has come and the glory of God Is risen upon thee." And ere many moons shall hare passed Ger many will hear the just denuncu tlon, echoed by all civilised human ity, -Depart from Me, ye workers of Iniquity. I BITS FOR BREAKFAST Sammies surprised 'em. U Took a town over In Lorraine. . Took It when they were not look ing. And Lorraine is In Germ an v. too. That Is, It was In what was claimed by Germany; stolen from France ! 1870. The Sammies started out to give the Huns a quiet little trench raid, and when they got to going, the go Inr was so good that they Juit could notNatop till the had grabbed off the town of Frapelle, five miles from St. Die. U . And they will like Ftapelle so well that they will never give It back to the Huns. And there will never be any moro "quiet sectors" for the Hans. Juat when every thing Is nice and quiet the Sammies will atart something They do not like the quiet life. In war. m Huns are still trying to get the Sammies oat of FUtnette. They ought to know that It Is their kismet to May there, till they are ready to move east. That Is another way of the Sammies; when they take a town they think it Is theirs, by right of conquest as long as they want to stay. ... jnr"rn Foch Is committed to a policy of continuous pressure. There will be something doing every day. and a great deal some days. The eat front arew aome yester day. It will be a lusty front soon. . It was agreed between the emperor of Germany and Austria that Ger many should ask for peace again, and make It more tempting than heretofore. Itnt Germany will have to come all the way. She wl eome. or Uncle Sam and the allies will go. It seems almost Impossible to get up a quarrel, over politics these days CHAPTER LX How Madge Escaped From Harry Underwood When I saw Harry Underwod hur rying toward the door of the omni bus on the top of which I was rid ing. I rose from my seat In a wild Idea or flight. I knew that he Intended to Join me.' I felt that I could not ride up Fifth avenue conspicuously seated upon the top or a 'bus with this man by my side. But a second thought made me star where I was. I could not reach the street and get away unobserved. He would meet me com ing down. I had experienced enough or his persistence to know that he would turn and walk with me wher ever I went. I was afraid be would urge mt to have lunch with him. . Unreasoning and silly as I felt the feeling to be. yet I really felt safer on the top of an omninus man would walking with him on tn street. I resolved to stay wnere was. to treat his appearance In the most matter-of-fact way. and to In vent an errand In some part or tn up-town route of the 'bus which would enable me to leave, him sud denly. So when I heard his deep voice moment later I was able to treat hi greeting coolly. Inspecting the street of the Pi Bluff? How do you like ItT" it bowed mockingly. Very much. Indeed. Why do you call It that?." If I could only keep the conversa tion at this pitch I need not fear anv unpleasantness other than the dis like I had always had or his presence. "Oh. simply because it holds more Bluffs to the square foot that any other street In the world." He stood expectantly by my seat. I had hoped he would take either the seat opposite to me or the one be hind me. and I had nt made room ror him. But he laid his hand on th back of the seat as If he were going to sit down, and, willy-nilly, I had to move over. The seats on the top of the "busses are narrow when two slenderly-built people share them. I am slender but Harry Underwood Is a big man. tall and massive framed. I shrank over aa close to the side of the seat a I could get. but I could not escape being crowded uncomfortably against him. "Now we are nice and coiy," he id audaciously slipping his arm across the back or the seat. I had made many trips on the om nibus In the old cousinly days with Jack. Before we- were married Dicky and I had taken two or three blissful rides upon this seat, or one just like It The memory of those rides, the peaceful and blissful ones, made this enforced one taken In the company of a man I detested, even more hate ful than It would have been ordin arily. "How la Mrs. Underwood this morning?" I resolved to take th conversation Into my own hands an keep It there. "Very well. I thank you." he put his finger la his mouth and mim icked a small girl repeating a flrsf lesson In courteous answer. I am so glad. I said. Ignorta his buffoonery. "I was afraid she would be 111 after her hard work last night." "She was a bit uiset after we rot home but she was all right this morn ing when she left for the studio." I wonder what business of profes sion this man could have to enable him to stroll IdVr down Fifth avenue in the late afternoon, while his wife was busv at the studio. I meant to ask Dicky about It "But I didn't come up here 1a talk about LI I. my dear Miss Ice berg." I Interrupted him hastily. I had no Intention of letting our talk get away rrom me. "Do you know I experienced most embarrassing, annoying sequel to our adventure of last night?" The speech showed my despera tion. Ten minutes earlier I could have Imagined no emergency which would lead me to retail my exper ience of the morning. But I was determined not to let this man be gin his embarrassing Personalities- "Ton don't say!" He was all pre tended interest. I saw that he (mag. ined I had dropped my unfriendly at titude toward him. "Tes. Indeed. The maid brought back the hot water bottle early this morning before we were up. and told Katie the baby was better." Rather ungracious way to return Keep the Money Flowing Into the Treasury THIS is more necei xary at tbc present criti cal stage of the war game than e?er be fore. Until the 4th liberty Loan is started, U. S. Government Treasury Certificates of Indebtedness are being issued through the United States National and other banks. These bear 4V& per. cent Interest, are for a short period of maturity and may either be re deemed in cash or exchanged for War Bonds. Doa't permit a patriotic pexxaj to remain idle. f T Vl W A SJB 111 1 A SaIom OroOTL ' j the handlnr before anrone came tolmy brain for an.exeus to ret dow the door." I from the bus without his follovlsg lie slapped his knee with his open palm. "By George, that spice of the devl that breaks out In yon once In a while Is the most attractive thing about you. Got a nice little trmper or your own. haven't you?" How I longed to give this un pleasant ogler a taste or the temper he was commenting on. A primitive childish Impulse to slap his lac stirred In me. I locked my gloved ringers tightly together. I was afraid I might yield to the Impulse. "I was very much ashamed of my self after I had walked away." I said sedately. Ignoring his last speech. "That woman's discourtesy, which, of course, she did not Intend me to bear, was no excuse for my being so childish, but I was really very angry." While I was talking I was rarklnr me. The aignt or a cuocisie a siga gave me a dee. We were paaslag through one of the side streets before laming on luifniaf irive. "Here Is where I stop t said quickly. Doa't bother to come with me. My errand la with a dressmaker, and yon know what a long time that means. Good-by." I stood up to pass him. but he arose with me. "Ton cant get lid or me like thU. little girt." he aa!d with his cynical smile. I'll take yon to your dress maker's door at least." Ills m saner rhnwed tfca he saw-through my ruse, and determined to make me admit I had no errand. "Very well." I said demurely. (To be continued) , Read the Classified Ads. TTTHB DATm. in.ti.1 . . . . " womsas Kciir Corps la a iisinu. ,""u" TafMir-Special BaeeOag of Commercial club. " Aoaut 7. Wednetsr Annual "WIs- iMr-mc ii r air srrounaa. Auruat J. Saturday Registration of ouths who have become n since June 'Aureat l. J7 and i Watr w.i. out Growers association to tour nut i " II 'IFt'VIlel lit??. il Thafa what I told Dicky. But he ald they were probably so upset that they did not think of conven tionalities." , "That's Just like old Dicky. Il si ways has an eicuse for everybody." . "Yes. I know, nut when I tell him what happened I think he will ad wit my flrit,'judgment of them was right "Tell me. I sra sure you are al ways right." "Whfn I started ror my walk I 'bought it would only be deceat to "top at the door and Inquire about he baby." "Did you get the door slammed l your face?" "Not quite. Itot the maid left ne standing outside whll she weal n and told her mistress I was there Then I heard the baby's mother say la a low tone: -Oh. that woman from across the hall. I supos I shall hsve to see her. 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