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itorial Page of The Capital Journal JIuMiAV Match evening, 3. in 17. CHARLES H. FISHES Editor an Manager Ed PUBLISHED ETEET EVEXINO EXCEPT SCXDAT, 8ALEJC. OREC.ON. BY Capital Journal Pig. Co., Inc. L. a BARNES, President. CITAS. H. FTSIIER, Vice-President. DOHA C. AXDRESEN, 8ee. and Treat. SCBdCKUTlON KATES Daily by carrier, per year Daily by mail, per year $3.00 3.00 Per month Per month . 43o 3Ge FELL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN fc EI'KESENTATl VES New York, W. V. Ward, Tribune Building. Chicago, W. H. Stockwell, People's Gas Building The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not du this, misses you, or neglects getting tba paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers aro following in structions. Phone Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent yon by special messenger if the carrier ha missed you HIS SECOND TERM BEGINS While the second inaugural of Woodrow Wilson as president of the United States took place today, his second term began at noon yesterday when the oath of office was administered to him by Chief Justice White. Four years ago in taking his office he saw the world at peace, and little dreamed of the terrible upheaval so soon to take place. As he begins his second term he finds a world at war, and the edges of its black cloud shadowing the country whose destinies he is to guide for the next four years. No president in the history of the republic, save Lincoln, has had such momentous questions to de cide, such demand for clear judgment. No president has needed, or shown such broadness of mind, such unlimited forbearance and patience. Through more than two years and a half of his admin istration he has had to face the complaints of portions of his own people, whose sympathies were with one side or the other in the terrible conflict still raging in Europe. By some he has been accused of favoring one side; by others of leaning toward the other. And through it all he has had but one object: to maintain the strictest neu trality. That he has done this is evidenced by these same complaints which accuse him of being partial to both sides. He is still using his every energy to maintain that neutrality and to keep this country out of war. If he succeeds, he will have done the country inestimable serv ice; and if he fails it will be only because every conceiv able effort to avoid it has been in vain. He has asked of Germany only one thing, that the right of Americans to , travel and pursue the trade and commerce of the country on the high seas be recognized, and that Germany so con duct her undersea warfare that their lives are not jeop ardized. He has asked simply that the rules of civilized warfare be followed, and that neutral non-combatants be not attacked, or their lives endangered. Germany first recognized the fact that this request was proper and ac ceded to it. A month ago she declared she would no longer pay any attention to the rules of civilized warfare but would destroy all who came within certain zones. That is the issue now pending between this country and Germanyand, notwithstanding the opposition of a small body of senators and representatives the country at large are willing to trust President Wilson to handle the knotty problem. It is the honest and earnest wish of every true Amer ican that war with our old neighbor can be avoided, but if it must come a solidly united nation stands behind the president in anything he may do to maintain our rights and those of humanity, and to make our flag a protection to all who seek the shelter of its folds. President Wilson's first term started with the world at peace and ended while it was at war. It is the ardent hope of all that this second term starting with a world at war may end with a new world at peace, and at peace forever. A Portland man has come to the front with a substitute for potatoes. His recipe is two quarts of water, one pound soft wheat flour, one pound of potatoes, half a pound of split peas and two ounces of lard. This he says will make a cheap substitute for potatoes. Let us see: One pound of potatoes will cost say 4 cents. A pound of flour will cost at least 4 cents and half a pound of split peas will cost about the same while the two ouonces of lard will cost three cents. This would give a mixture, not counting the water, of two and five-eights pounds at a cost of fifteen cents or about six cents a pound, as a sub- smuie ior me same amount 01 potatoes at a cost of some thing less than twelve cents. This is about the way most oi tne ioou substitutes hgure out. The discoverer says it is more nourishing and fifty per cent cheaper. If his ideas of nourishment are as valuable as those about cost, his discovery is a notable one. Miss Eunice Hughes, of Los Angeles, is another who has made a discovery about food values. Eunice urges as a good and sufficient breakfast "half a pound of choco lates." She says "it will make you feel better and put you in cheerier spirits than a regular breakfast of bacon and eggs and grape fruit." This should make an ideal breakfast for a laboring man, especially if it was served in a pretty box tied with a bow of pink ribbon, and be fore the workingman crawled out of bed to do a hard days work. VICE PRESIDENT (Continued from page cue.) The poulterers of New York city are up against it. The Jewish women declared a boycott on all poultry and the result is there are 300,000 pounds of turkey alone left over from Sunday, instead of the whole supply being used up as usual. It is stated that if the boycott is kept up the dealers will have to take the count as they have supplies contracted for and have to accept shipments whether they sell them or not. Surely this is the "woman's age." With more than half a billion dollars appropriated for the navy the time is not far distant when Uncle Samuel will be in condition to protect not only his own shores but to assist in maintaining the peace of the world. The Oregon Agricultural College having been given a fat appropriation celebrated the event by organizing a new "Frat." The latest is the Lambda . Chi Alpha. It is not an agricultural implement. You can tell all old Oregonians today by their broad smiles. The rain began falling Saturday night. IT! aji. Ilir'ICIl ar The West Coast Lumbermen's Association's records show that the unshipped balance of transcontinental and local orders held by association mills is 17,372 cars, or mo ixi than 11,000 cars above the normal. Besides' this many mills have shut down and the cut last week was only 67,688,:7: feet, which is nearly 25 per cent less than normal. Many millions of dollars that should be circul ating in the northwest are not doing so, and all because the railroads are not doing their duty. It is claimed by the roads that conditions will get worse for a few weeks, but that about April first it will begin to get better and that in a short while, unless war. matters interfere condi tions will soon be normal again. C. C. Chapman sized up the legislature before the Portland Civic League Saturday evening in "a straddle." He said "The legislature just closed was more mediocre in the matter of the individual ability of its members, than any I have attended and more honest." Chapman generally so qualifies his statements that he saves his life; but still calling a man honest hardly balances -the of fense of saying he is mediocre. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1868 CAPITAL $500,000.00 Transact a General Banking Business Safety Deposit Boxes .SAVINGS DEPARTMENT PEACE AND WAR Peace is the noblest, greatest cause, a peace that's firm and stable; with shock absorb ers on my jaws, I boost it all I'm able. Year after year, without surcease, this theme I have been yapping; but there's a time to talk of peace, a time to talk of scrapping. When Uncle Sam is threatened sore with some great dire disaster, I don't admire the peace graft bore whose tongue goes ever faster. I don't admire the bloodless wight who thinks the land's a goner, if we would rather up and fight than wallow in 'dis honor. I didn't raise my maiden aunt to be a noisy brawl er, but when the battle charges pant, she'll step out doors and holler. I didn't raise my lovely niece to fool with swords and lances, but she, I know, will pass up peace whene'er a foe advances. I am too old and fat to fight, out where the weapons rattle, but warlike odes I'll gladly write, to cheer you in the battle. Go forth, Jbrave hearts, bold, unafraid, if there should be a riot! I'll bring you pails of lemonade whenever things are quiet. rMMai TO KEEP US SANE Perry Prescutt Riegelaiati O MY AMERICA! May (iod still iceep thee sane! At World at Wuv! With armies mooting shook on shock, With prideful legions rising but to fall like- rain. And crnshiug guns that shake tho mountains till they rock, With uutions hurling strength on land nnd sea And casting dice with death for temporal gain, Wo pray, O God, to Theo To Keep us sane. While 'round us bursts the lightning is rending, searing flash Aud blood, liKC saercd lain, deluges brother soil; While swirls the maelstrom, close with angry suck and dash, And hot-heart, white-heat brains ferment, and seethe, and boil, Hold thou the helm, O Ood of Liberty, Till eager Pence come back to earth again Aud men are brotherly . ' ' ' - , And wise and sane. ' . We see the marching men, tho bursting, tearing "Shell, - . The tongue it flame, the gaping wounds; wo hear the cries, The gruuus, the wail of babes, a sacrifice to Hell! We see the smoking ruins making night of daylight skies, The sad eved women and the rotting fields of grain, The empty hearth-stone's silent desolation, 1'iiutterod, (stabbing paia As compensation. . . . , : () gird, America, to play a brother's part, ' The Kldor ltrother of the world, whose, words unfold A Wisdom for the healing of the World's bruised heart! AMKKJt'A! 'For Truth and Klaht be r.old! Fling forth thv flnmiug sign of Stripes aud Stars, The Sign of Hope, of Christ, of Peace, of Staiu Loss Pow'r to Heaven's bars Aud keep us wine! Oreaonian: Nearly a hiilliou feet of i Orogou fir wan aboard the American steamer Saatiam when she got out of jthe Columbia river yesterday after noon at 3:10 o'clock for San Pedro. with the only cargo of lumber' to he dispatched during the day. The de parture of the Santium and the move ments of other lumber earners fornv ed the principal activity on the waterfront. in the cause of constitutional freedom. "Everywhere in America are strident vuicM proclaiming the essential ele ments of patriotism. He who seeks out of them all to aoloct one clear note of love for country may fail. I conceive it to be far more important to examine myself than to cross-examine another " "I have faith," he said, "that this government of ours was divinely ordain ed to disclose whether men are fitted by nature, or can by education to be made fit for self government; to teach Jew ami OveXk, boudinan and free, alike, the essential quality of all men before the law and to be tender and true to humanity everywhere and un der all circumstances to reveal that service is the highest reward of life. I cannot believe otherwise when I read the words and recall the sacrifices of the fathers. If ours is not the golden lulo of government, then Washington wrought and Lincoln died in vain. World Moves Forward. "I believe that the world now ad vancing and not retreating, is neverthe less moving forward to a far off divine event wherein the tongues of Babel will ngnin be blended in the language of n common brotherhood; and 1 believe that I can reach the highest ideal of my tra dition and my lineage as an American as a man, as a citizen and as a public official when I judge my fellow men without malice and with chanty, when I worry more nbont my own motives than conduct of others. The time I am liable to be wholly wrong is when I know that I am absolutely right. In an indi vidualistic republic. I am the unit of patriotism and if I keep myself keyed up in unison with the music of the union, my fellow men will catch the note and fall into time and step. "I believe there is no finer form of government than the one under which we live and that I ought to be willing to live or to die, as God decrees, that it may not perish from off tho earth through treachery within orthrough as sault from without; and I believe that though my firt right is to be a partisan that my first duty, when the only prin ciples on which free government can rest are being strained, is to be a patriot and to follow in a wilderness of words that clear call which bids me guard and defend the ark o'f our national govern ment. ' ' Johnson Not Present. The address concluded, the vice-president administered the oath to 15 new senators, and 16 senators who were re elected. , Senator-'elect Iliram Johnson, of Cali fornia, easily the star of the incoming senatorial delegation, did not appear. Ceremonies in the senate chamber be gan at 11:45 when Senator Saulsbury, of Delaware, president pro tempore, as sumed the chair. Hp was followed by senators and senators-elect who seated themselves at the left of the vice-prosr-dent's desk. . Speaker Clark and members and members-elect of the house then were an-, nounced after the march from the op posite end of the cnpitol. They found j scats at the rear of the chamber. . I There was a stir when a senate of-! ficial with a flourish announced the am bassadors, ministers and charges of for eign embassies. ' Resplendent Diplomats. Resplendent in uniforms of many va-; rieties and colors, the diplomats, headed' by Ambassador Jusseraud of France, dean of the corps, took their seats in front at the right of the vice-president 's desk. Russian Ambassador Bnhkmeteff and Ambassador Spring-Kico with other al lied diplomats were near the head of the procession. Tho Teutonic diplomats were notice ably absent. A sharp change from the splendor of the diplomats was apparent as the su preme court of the United States fol lowed. A prayer by the senate chaplain open- if Has it made good? MANY years ago we sold our first OWL cigar. Today you can buy the OWL anywhere. One thing must have happened during these years. The OWL must have made good. It must have made many friends. The Million Dollar Cigar M. A. GUNST & CO. INCORPORATED WIS mm DRIVES OUT COLDS ed the real ceremony. bcrctary ot the Senate James M. Bak er read the already published proclama tion of the president, calling an extra ordinary session of the senate and the vice-president proceeded into tho cham ber, escorted by the eongressional com mittee on arrangements. He ascended immediately to the rostrum and took the oath. Cheers Greet President The senate had risen to greet all of ficials. It added eheers.to its greet ing when - President Wjlson, with his aides, entered the chamber. Both senate and gallery eheered while the president marched down the aisle to his seat ou the floor of the senate, directly in front of the rostrum. Ho was attended by a big committee of sen ators and representatives. In the same party were Chief of Staff of the Army Scott, and Admiral Ben son, ranking admiral of the navy, and members of the cabinet; Marshall fol lowed the oath taking with his inaugua rl address, and called to the rostrum the new and re-elected senators in al phabetical order. The new senators are: J. 0. Wolcott, Delaware; Park Tram mel, Florida; Harry 8. New, Indiana; Frederick Hale, Maine: Joseph G- France, Maryland: . Frank B: Kelloee. Minnesota; Joseph S. Frelinghansen, New Jersey; Andreus A. Jones, New Mexico; William M. Calder, New YorK; Philander C. Knox, Pennsylvania; Peter G. Perry, Rhode Island; Kenneth D. McKellnr, Tennessee; William S. King, New York; Howard Sutherland, West Virginia; and John D. Kcndriclt, Wyom ing. Evidence of German Plot Is Tiled High' in Washington Santa Barbara, Cal., March i5 "The government has evidence a mile high that would arouse the people of the United States to a high pitch of indignation did they know its nature" is the statement iust. made here hv Lucius W. -Nioman, publisher of the nT KHs for Milwaukee Journal, in discussing the disorders." latest phase of the German situation. , Fo 50c, at u was my privilege to go tnrough i muipiy as ior a Von Bernstorff and drawn in favor of a newspaper published in this conntry. We had in our possession a large quan tity of similar evidence and we ex pected to publish it, and it wa my belief that the pooi.de were entitled to know that this was going-on. First, the administration was inclined to that view, but concluded that it was best to maintain secrecy and so the -iavt were never made public. "The Zimmerman letter does not. sur prise me. I have known that for two years Germany has been making war on this country, in this country. "The president has gone beyond tho limit to keep the peace. He has known for more than 18 months things that the German government has been do ing, many of them warranting as in breaking off relations, lie realised, perhaps, that they were not rational people, and he mado allowances for the fact that they could not got tbc Tight perspective in tho struggle that en gaged them." RENEWED TESTIMONY this mass of evidence in the office of the department of justice in Washing ton. In the Journal office there iB a i facsimile of a $5000 eheck signed by No one in Salem who suffer back ache, headaches, or distressing urinary ills can afford to ignore this Salem man's twice-told story. It is confirmed testimony that no Salem resident can doubt. ' W. C. Johnston, 1021 Mill St., Salem, says: "I had pain in my back, across my kidneys. My back ached at night and I was lamo in tha morning. I tired easily and was languid and nerv ous. I also had headaches and dizzy spells and my sicht burred. The kii- Iney secretions contained sediment and ttidn t pass often enough. I used Doan 's Kidney Pills and they soon re lieved me. I am going to continue aking them expecting to be cured." A -Later Statement. On April 11, 1916, Itfr. Johnston said: "It has been nearly two years since I have had oeeasion to take a kidney medicine. I couldn't recom mend anything equal to Koan's Kid- lame back and kidney all dealers. Don't kidney remedy get tne same that Doan's Kiducv Pills- Mr. Johnston has twice publicly recom mended. VnstPT.ViHum, r " n Buffalo, N. Y. siilMSTIiUS Jtene Phelps . CHAPTKR CI.XX. I was intensely shocked at what Clif ford had tacitly admitted anent his re lations with Mabel Horftm. While I had jealously mistrusted him, yet I was not prepared for his admission. 'It was easier than I thought, Leon ard," I told him when he came in the next afternoon. He will make no trou ble about Edith if I get my divorce quietly somewhere away "from here, where incompatibility, or some other excuse covers up the real cause. " ."And you will marry me at once J" he exclaimed, joyously. "I-don't-know that I shall marry you at all. Wait a minute," as he started to speak, "I want to feel perfectly free. I am not sure that I shall want to marry. I have been very unhappy more so than anyone knows- And" "But that is just tho reason you must inn rry me, so that I can make up to you for all you have lost," he argued. "But can you, ean anybody give us back our lost -deal; our happy carefree youth and belief in human naturet" "I will give yours back if " "I doubt it, Leonard." A Premise. "Try me and see," said he. "I shall leave almost at once, Leon ard, and I waut you to make me a prom ise. I want you to stay away for three months. I want to be alone with Edith, A TALK WITH LEONARD and Jlandy and my thoughts. "Will you promise V "If you exact it, I must. But it will be hard, Mildred, very hard. -I have loved you from the very .first time I met you at Muriel 's dinner. Loved you without hope for years. Don't make it harder for me than you can heip. You'll write to me, answer my letter, won't you!" he pleaded. "Yes, well write often. That will help a lotv won't itf" I queried, trvina to speak lightly. ' A crooked smile was his only answer for a minute. Then after making me promise to call on him for anything I should need he left me. I was to see him but once more, the afternoon before I left Glcmlale. He kissed my hands as he left, once he leaned toward me as if to kiss my face. "Not until I am free. I am still Clif ford's wife, and so long as I nm I shall be true in every action." "I beg your pardon, Mildred. I might have known, and I honor von for re fusing me." Mandy l Mandy 0 Mandy looked the astonishment she was too surprised" to voice. "I am going to leave Mr. Hammond tor over, Mandy, and we are going away so that I can get a divorce," I ex plained. " Yassum. An' fo do Lord takes les' us go quick! I knowd yo' would have to sum time. He's too ole fo' you honey, ho 's too ole. Lov is jes sent to young things lak yo' to mak' 'em hap py not td mak' 'em sad." " "That will do Mandv. Well say nothing unkind about Mr. Hamomnd. He s tdith's father and she loves him. e must bo careful." , "That's so, missy Mildred, that's so! well ole Mandy will be kerful. I , hurt ,he P' 111 ' ,lm' for any thin'." . "I know you wouldn't, Maudy. Now Ro and commence the packing. I want to leave day after tomorrow." ' Now that it wa decided I was in a very fever of unrest to get awar. I wrote to Elsio and Zona explaining my reasons as well as I was able, trying to be as kind to Clifford a nossihle nri putting all the trouble on the great dis- I want vnu tn rv trunks. Yon. Miss Edith and mVself are I ! y . 8 Iron going away tor a long time. Be sure and k.v. kKi ' k !l our clothes Put in father's " nA lr 1"?"" I wote, nnd mother's pictures, and that one of L, 1 P 'ting sensibly, because it is, himself that Mr. Hamniond gave EdUh ' thing t0 d" " on her birthday." ' (Tomorrow The Break.)