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BELGIUM STILL WITH US
It is somewhat surprising to learn that the food situa
tion in Belgium is worse than it was last year, says the
Tacoma Tribune. The utmost efforts of the relief com-!
mission and the utmost generosity of the outside world
will be required to keep the nation from starving next
winter.
"The problem becomes more difficult every day," says
the chairman of the commission. "The number of desti
tute has increased from 1,000,000 last October to 2,750,000
in June, and now grows at the rate of 200,000 a month.
And our resources, large as they are, can not keep pace
' with the need if the charitable public loses interest in
our work."
It is surprising, too, to hear that out of the $50,000,000
.spent for the first eight months of the commission's work,
the people of the United States only contributed $6,000,000
in money and food supplies. This, to be sure, is a large
amount, perhaps the largest ever given by one nation for
any philanthropic purpose. Still it is small to comparison
with the ability of the American people to give. . There are
100,000,000 of us now, and most of us are either actually
prosperous or in circumstances which are enviable com
pared with those of any European nation.
"The continued support of America," says Chairman
Hoover, "is necessary, too, to provide the commission
with the moral prestige it now possesses in the sight of the
warring powers." That support, both in money and in
sentiment, will probably be as generous now as it was last
fall, although the load of taking care of Europe's war suf
ferers is becoming a very hard one to bear.
WOULD YOU GIVE YOURSELF A JOB?
Just imagine yourself boss for a minute then check
up your record for the past week as an employe. Remem
ber now, its your own money meeting the payroll.
If you applied to yourself for a job would you get it?
Have you produced enough in the week to make a
profitable investment?
Have you asked questions, studied and improved or
have you been too wise to learn more?
Have you, as employe, filled your hours with produc
tive, conscientious labor, or have you been watching the
clock? I
Have you analyzed what you are doing and why, or
used instinct instead of reason, and got an indifferent and
methodless result?
Have you been heart and soul in your work, on the job
every minute with a breadth of vision that made the
desert of work an oasis of opportunity?
Have you gone through the week, a vision of pay-day
the only oasis in your desert of work? And have you let
this vision shut out from view all else in the work that
would build you to a size where you would give yourself
a job. . .. .
Cheek up. Be truthful, would you give yourself a job?
Here is what the paving trust has done to the beautiful
and progressive city of Medfonl, Oregon, according to the
Medford Mail-Tribune, its leading newspaper: "Council
man Sargent, in a communication in this issue, calls at
tention to the serious crisis confronting the city and ap
peals to the patriotism and civic pride of ollicals and
citizens to do their duty. The city "council has made no
effort to collect either assessments or interest upon pav
ing indebtedness. Instead, city officials are advising
property owners not to pay, and indulging in wild schemes
of frenzied finance to dodge payment of debts voluntarily
contracted. The interest upon these improvement bonds
will soon be due. There is no money to pay it. No effort
is living made to secure money owed "to meet the obligation
If the present course is continued, the city will default in
its bond interest. This spells financial ruin. Medford
will be blacklisted in every financial center of the United
States. Its securities will be worthless, because there will
le no market for them. It will be impossible to float any
kind of a bond issue, no matter what the discount offered."
The word from London is that rich American men and
women who live in England will have to pay nearly two
and a half million dollars to the British government under
the terms of the new super-income tax which is included
in the budget introduced the other dav.
The hardest hit will be William Waldorf Astor,.who
will have to come down with about a million and a quarter.
William surrendered his American citizenship, and now
knows and has the prospect of feeling in the purse what
it is to be a British subject.
A number of American heiresses went over to wear
titles, and now they'll have to help swell the big sum that
will be raised from income taxes which will be a part of
war taxes.
And still here in this land of peace with no titles or
nobility there are some who protest the payment of a
small war tax to make up what has been and is being lost
in revenue due to the tailing off of imports occasioned by
the war, a thing nobody here can help. People in this
country ought to be thankful they are living and kicking.
There is one thine about the cominc hnsphnll rham-
pionship games which every true fan will appreciate.
Columns of "dope" about the peerless leadership of
Connie Mack and John McGraw will not be reprinted and
inflicted on the helpless newspaper readers of the
country.
Those who are predicting early peace in Europe
probably base their forecast on the casualty list of either
side as furnished by the official reports from the enemy's
camp. At the present rate of slaughter the supply of
human material should run out in ninety days or less.
The Portland Journal is deliberately trying to work
up sympathy for Warden Minto's murderer, claiming he
was killed without justification. Well, who cares under
what impulse Policeman Long acted, since his shot did its
work so effectively?
The shriners will have to look sharp to find anything
le&eiHuiiiig ury aeserc sanas" to cross in Salem today.
But we imagine they will have a good time just the same.
Former President Taft asserts that he will not W a
candidate again next year. That is probably why he is
doing so much talking.
The World's baseball championship series will open
next Friday which is sure to be an unlucky day for one
of the clubs. r
A Galley o Fun!
LOYALTY.
Be may be six kinds of a liar,
He may be ten kinds of a fool
He may be a wicked highflyer
Beyond any reason or rule;
There may be a shadow above him
Or ruin and woes that impend,
And I may not respect but I love him
Because well, because he's my
Friend
I know his faults by the billion, j
But his faults are a portion of HIM; j
I know that his record's Vermillion,
He's far from a sweet seraphim; -
Hut he's alwa-i been square with
Yours Truly,
All ready to give or to lend,
And though he is wild and unruly
I like him because he's my Friend.
I knock him, I know, but I do it
The same to his face as away.
And if other folks knock well, thej
ruo It
And wish they'd had nothing to say!
I never make diagrams of him,
No maps of his soul have I penned,
For I don't analyze I Just love him
Because well, because he's my
Friend.
WHERE THEY EXCEL.
Mr. Mokeby (who plays some, In
surprise) An' yo' prefers one ob dem
autermatlc banjo players to de rea'
shtlckle?
Miss Conn Sho!
Mr. Makeby (coldly) Fo' why?
Miss Coon 'Cause It don't inteh
spersc Its music wif asinine remahks!
Quite likely the Rev. Dr. Newell Dwight Hillis consid
ers speculation a sin because he lost at the game.
John D. Rockefeller, Jr., is not at all opposed to unions
if he can organize and control them it seems.
This country has so far escaped the horrors of war but
it has the Louisianna and Texas storms.
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"COUNTRY CUSSIN'S."
t King Football reigns today in fact it is an extremely
rainy day from any viewpoint.
Well, this rain is just what the farmer and the stock
man of Oregon needed.
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GOOD WEATHER
u-iif t ... ! i th ,m,,sonie weather we've had since
ea her was designed! We've often had ten days together
of climate smooth as one could fmd. Nine-tenths of all
our davs are bullv with
everywhere; then comes a day that's wild
ami woolly, and how we groan and paw the
air! I his climate surely is the limit," thus
are our vain repinings voiced; "the fog's so
thick a man could skim it, the rain is always
damp and moist. In winter, when we need!
hot weather, they send all kinds of snow!
ur v 1 I r ' wnen we pray to-
tf'ti fo4rTv' the' so,ul s sizzling heat,"
UJLJM weather bureau couldn't hand us a1
,.,,. . "'fhat vve'd all indorse; we'd say,!
1 his sort of thing will land us out in the boneyard, 'neath1
the gorse." On tropic isles no doubt the heathen complain!
f blue and fair; they'd move up north and start
o breathin the fresh and crisp Alaska air. And 'mid the I
bleak Alaska mountains the natives say they'd give a dime,!
ll Ini'V ('fill 1(1 vn u hara
in a sunny dime. 1U squirting
MATRIMONY.
The primary impulse of all creatures
Is possession. It is this that causes
a chicken to tear around the yard with
a piece of meat in Its mouth and all
the other chickens after it. It hasn't
time, but the instinct of possession
makes him grab and keep It. The
sr;me Is noticeable among beasts. They
ItUo to get a great piece of meat In
their mouths anil then growl. It is
tills Instinct In man which provokes
him to matrimony. He wants some
thing to guard and growl over. So he
i-ceks a hollow tree, a cave, or n
house, and a wife.
THE SEVEN WONDERS.
I wonder If my wife will stand foi
that "nlght-worit-at-tb.e-oIB.ee" gag
iiguln? ,
I wonder who I can touch for a
loan?
I wonder It he'll come again to
night?
r wonder whether he's holding n
good hand or blulllng? j
I wonder how she keeps from show- !
ing her age? j
I wonder if that's her Inst year's .
hat made over?
I wonder how they keep up appear- .'
ances on his salary? '
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IMPROVEMENT. i
"Pon't you think," I Inquired of the '
prosperous-looking man with the '
heavy mustache and watch chnln, who
was dressed in the 1 1 inch balk lino
suit, "that the world is getting bet
ter?" i
"Sure!" ho replied, with a frank en- !
tmislasm of success. "Not only bet
ter, but easier." '
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Capital
Established 1SG8
$300,000.00
Transact a general banking business
Safety Deposit Boxes
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
I RETURNS FROM MARYLAND,
MIm Vcta MaMinll returned mt
r ri'lay fiom her extended eastern trin
1'imiig npiMit a delightful auinmnr.'
While OHM rdio istt.-.l will, ,i,u,.r
tmnilien t'nriiierlv of (iorvitis, who nll
think litiiiii.iKlv ,f Ore,;, .11, f-he n'ade
trii,.tu V,luiiulun, 1. C, Nnd M.ile.l
tile. Hilnl bmty, j,ol.if fiee, Iron I
r, wiir and nitw hiiiMin, Waohunt 1
tun' monument, Snntluonlmi luMitute,'
ete. In Kli limond. Virginia, hi visited
the Valentino Vi'tenm, the t'onfeder
tw imiMMim. j
t her letnm trip li upent crveral'
day with reltie m l-'ort t'ullinn, (, I
oimlo, hI,i, to.pi,i t H.nVer and Salt
l.tiko ( it v. (iervHm Mar.
STEAMER DAMAGED.
Uiminmd, WaKh., tvt. t..K antvey In
leinK iii,,de today ,.f the damage done
the Mourner Avalon when nhe wan
thrown on her Learn ends by a breaker
late yeMerday and jammed heavily in
l the bar. The hchiiigs broke and her
de.k load of jnn.iino feet of Iiii.iWt
went overboard. Th Avaloa naa towed
hen leaking badly.
GOSSIP.
First Fox-They tell me he Is Tery
wtratagant.
Second Fox Frightfully! 1 under
Hand he owes his tailor seventeen
liUkens.
- UNDER THE RED CROSS.
'How did the toot bat; game corn
Mil?"
"Four ambulance rtina lo nice ce
)t flrt aid to the Injured."
Dr. W. A. COX
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PAINLESS J)ENTIST
303 State Street
SALEM, ORE.
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