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CROP REPORT IS CHEERING
GERMANY'S DILEMMA
Germany is up against it in trying to frame a reply to
the pope's peace proposal. Austria which is overwhelm
ingly catholic would approve the pope's position, while
Germany would approve it only in part. The main
stumbling block is the pope's suggestion that there be no
indemnities or annexation. Germany would approve this
in part, but in order to induce Bulgaria and Turkey to
enter the war on her side she promised each of them
territory to be taken from the common enemy. Recently
Bulgaria, evidently getting uneasy, demanded a guaranty
in writing stating what part of the plunder she was to
get. While Turkey has said nothing on the subject. So
far as the public knows, she too is no doubt wondering
where she is to get her reward. Germany was prolific of
promise but remarkably shy of fulhillment. Now her
would, if she could accept the main features of the pope's
proposal. To do this however she must go back on her
promises to both Turkey and Bulgaria. To consent to a
''peace without annexation" would be to serve notice on
those countries that she had repudiated her promise of
reward, for their services. This might disgruntle either
or both, and cause them to seek a separate peace. If she
does not accept the peace terms, she affronts Austria, and
may cause her to seek separate peace. It is a situation
requiring much diplomacy, and even with it, one that is
liable to "burn on the bottom." We would suggest that
Chancellor Michaehs might inform the Bulgarians and
Turks that promises are even more easily broken than
treaties, and a kaiser's promise is not worth as much as
"a scrap of paper."
While the wheat crop is short of the average by about
i4U,wu,wu bushels, the corn yield for the year is above
that of the five year average by 500,000,000 bushels and
oats by 250,000,000. Rye is also above the average so
we have, allowing for the wheat shortage, about 700,000,
000 bushels of cereals above the average of the past five
years. The potato crop is another that comes at an op
portune time with its more than 100,000,000 bushels sur
plus. So it seems there are foodstuffs in abundance for
all American needs, and more than the usual surplus for
foreign export, which goes principally to the allies. The
only difference is that it is not the same kind of a surplus
we have generally had. Wheat has been the big exporter,
corn going out in the shape of meats. In food value the
surplus of a quarter of a billion bushels of oats about
.stands off the wheat shortage. In this connection it is
noted that England has increased her wheat area by
650,000 acres, and will produce enough from these to
1 practically equal all the losses of breadstuffs due to the
submarines. This holds our exports to England down
to normal despite the immense losses. On top of this the
conservation of foods will by its saving add, it is esti
mated, from ten to twenty per cent to the service value
of the entire crop. The cotton and flax crops are both
short, cotton two million bales or more, which will no
doubt make cotton goods go still higher. However with
nearly twelve million bales we can skimp along without
trouble. There was one crop of which no estimate was
given by the crop experts yesterday, and it is an im
portant one this year too, far more important than usual,
and that is the bean. If other states planted as much
more than usual as did Oregon, the result should be an
eye opener. Hundreds of acres were planted to beans in
this state where none were planted before. In many
Chief Justice Andrew A. Bruce, of North Dakota, ex
pressed some real patriotic sentiment at the meeting of
the National Bar association when he said: "I speak
from the viewpoint of the foreign-born, I, and millions
of others like me, came to this country alone, without
friends. We sponged on all that America had, her free
lands, her free schools and above all, her spirit of open
hearted comradeship. She owed us nothing, put she gave
us all. We swore allegiance to her flag, her Constitution
and her laws. We would be recreants, ingrates, perjur
ers and curs if in the hour of her need we counselled with
her enemies and were disloyal to her causes." '
GHASTLY GERMAN JOKES.
A HIGH FLYER,
hi Es Did
.
I'll HIDE THI CUTFU1 ,
Fie iti T&3 CHAlrV0 NO J
ONE wiU. FlMBlT'
Twinkle, twinkle, little spud,
As among the clouds you scud;
You are doubtless feeling gay,
Casing round the milky way;
You have reached to such a height
You are surely out of sight,
Like a diamond you do seem
In your price and that's no dream.
promises rise up to thwart her. She wants peace, ancdPlacfs the yield was light owing to the unusually dry
Because the Southern Pacific company can furnish no
cars for hauling material Marion county will have no
part of the Pacific highway within its borders paved this
year. A contract had been let for ten miles of pavement
extending five miles north and south from Aurora as a
center, but the contractors were released after they
found it would be impossible to secure railway cars for
the transportation of the materials necessary to carry
on their work. This is the same old story every at
tempt of the state to improve, every opportunity to do
business is hampered if not entirely defeated by the
impotency of the Southern Pacific to serve its patrons.
Again we would urge upon the state officials to request
the federal government to take over and operate the
Southern Pacific lines in Oregon as a war measure. Our
grain, fruit and lumber will be needed in the prosecution
of the war and a railroad system operated as this one is
will not be able to serve efficiently the government or
people. Why seek to reorganize the Russian railroad
system when there is so much work in that direction that
should be done at home?
weather, but even with this drawback the bean crop of
the state should discount any before grown in it. The
bean, especially in war times, is one of the standard foods.
It is of high food value, has no waste, is easily shipped and,10
cared for, and has staying qualities beyond almost any
other food as every old prospector can testify. Beans and
bacon supported the first miners in California, and some
times the -bacon was scant, and the bean had to make
good for both
(Medford Mail Tribune)
It has been said by returned travelers
among them ex-Ambassador Gerard,
that the German people have forgot
ten how to laugh since the war becau.
This does not refer to the ruling autoc
racy or the army, both of which have
their jokes every time a peculiarly ap
palling atrocity is committed.
In an articlo in the Saturday Even
ing Post for September 1, A. Curtis
Roth, for many years American vice
consul at Plauen, Saxony, which every
one should read to secure a bettor un
derstanding of Germany, he quotes
Lieutenant Enck of the 134th Saxon
regiment as describing a favorite amuse
ment of the picked troops of the west
ern front, as follows:
"Lieutenant Enck told me that the
men in these flying organizations be
come merciless savages by reason of the
blood-glut of their work. He said that
the men of these organizations seldom
give quarter, but kill both enemy
wounded and prisoners. He spoke of re
ceiving orders to take no Canadian pris
oners, when his command was doiuu-f
t. Lv, J" "OOP8. a,Wo have only longed for you;
ing contingent, and he described how
the Bavarians split the heads of their
prisoners with their keenly sharpened
intrenching tools.
"The prisoners let out just one roar"
he said "and it was funny to see them
sprawl on the ground like crazy crabs I "
now iunnyi irom tfte German view-
A CLOSED GEOLOGICAL BOOK
The Capital Journal today prints a page of made in
Oregon advertisements busines firms and industries
of Portland desiring to get into closer touch with the
people of the state. Oregon can best be built up by
fostering its industries and the people generally are will
ing and anxious to do this. Oregon-made goods, how
ever, are so little known because seldom advertised in the
papers that Oregonians can scarcely be blamed for over
looking them at times. The idea of soliciting the patron
age of the public through the newspapers is, therefore, a
most excellent one and we are sure will result in increased
business for those industries and those firms which are
going out after it in this modern and intelligent manner.
We commend these entcrprsing Portland advertisers to!
trie readers oi the Capital Journal and trust they will
give them deserved consideration.
At the request of Congressman McArthur a represen
tative of the geological department will "send a represen
tative to investigate the oil possibilities of western Ore
gon. This is a move in the right direction as Kellaher
said so frequently when a member of the legislature, but
so far as the geologist is concerned he has to study a
closed book. Western Oregon is pretty well covered with
a tremendous lava flow and the basic rock of the country
is basalt, which tells nothing as to the formation under
lying it. About the only way to learn anything of the
contents of the earth in this section is to take the
surgeon's way, cut into it and take a look. In other words
it will require deep boring, and one place is about as good
boring as another. Where the old formations are visible
the geologist can decipher nature's hand writing, but with
the basaltic covering he has nothing to look at but the
binding of the book. Someone likened a geologist with
his little hammer examining the crust of the earth, to a
"gnat on the back of an elephant trying to form an opin
ion as to the interior construction of the animal from the
phenomena of the hide." , While this is pretty far fetched,
as a general thing it applies very aptly to the geologist
who goes peeking over old mother earth's epidermis in
this section. .
Robert Falouse of Medford. who is
serving in Stanford university ambu
lance corps in France, writes to friends
of another German joke, perpetrated
upon a helpless wounded soldier he res
cued in his ambulance on the battle
field. The soldier had had both legs
broken by shot, and the rotrcating Ger
mans hacked both ears and one arm off
the helpless man.
Countless little Belgian children now
in America offer evidences of German
humor, ears cut off, and hands cut off,
maimed for life as a joke of German
chivalry.
"Man's inhumanity to man makes
countless thousands mourn" but never
Twinkle on another twink,
But you'll drive us all to drink
As we chase for needful chink.
You are sailing rather high
As you wink your shriveled eye,
Up there somewhere in the sky.
Little tuber, on my word,
As a flyer you're a bird.
Spud so mighty, tho' so small,
You make diggers of us all
Farmers dig you with a hoe,
While we have to dig for dough.
If you keep on I'll be bound
You'll bring bullion pound for pound.
You'll fulfill the adage old
That you're worth your weight in gold.
Tuber, since the coop you flew,
That our fireside you forsook
Broke our heart and pocketbook;
Never felt how we could love
Till you left and went above;
Never felt how dear you were
Till we paid four dollars per.
Ml HE DID- I
The Daily Novelette
Small potato, please come back;
In our lives there's such a lack.
For your presence we so pine
That our stomach hits our spine.
We are tired of eaTTng greens,
Stewed prunes, sauerkraut and beans;
Tis for you alone we yearn,
Darling 'tater, please return!
FIVE BROTHERS IN WAR.
In a recent conversation with F. A.
Pook, local agent for the Southern Pa
cific company, it developed that he had
five brothers in the trenches in France.
The last direct word he had from them
was a letter in June from his oldest
brother who was in a hospital in Eng-
Burke and Montague out, Moore and Alexander in.
Such is politics.
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I Rippling Rhymes
by Walt Mason
;.-r: recuperating from rheumatism con
") - W V- Wll UVLtill,JI bUlV
airy and fair play, guilty of so many
barbaric atrocities. They bomb school
houses and slay little children. They
fire at Red Cross hospitals and kill
wounded. They torpedo and sink hos
pital ships filled with sick men. They
rescu their victims aboard submarines
and then submerge to drown them. They
approach the enemy wit hands up,
claring their surrender, and then squirt
liquid fire when their enemies are with
in range.
War has boon mado more hideous by
German inhumanity. There is nothing
hateful, nothing vile, nothing atrocious
in tho history of the world that th
Germans have not been guilty of. They
have stained the fair name and for
ever damned tho face of Germany the
tracted from 18 months service in the
trenches. In all that time he had not
received a scratch, although he was in
the engagements on the Marne. His
youngest brother was slightly wounded
in May and started for the rear, and
has not been heard of since. At that
time his other brothers were still in the
trenches. Enterprise.
KNOCK-KNEES CONTRIBUTION.
(Great Invention Series)
One morning in the dawn of the
world, Knock-Knees, the caveman,
awoke with a peculiarly unpleasant
feeling on the back of his neck. And lo,
it was a boil the first boil I
"Sckroox!" screamed Knock-Knees.
"I'm bewitched!"
And he applied powder from bats'
wings found in a burying ground on a
full-moon Friday, and likewise the
blood of a five-legged toad, but all to
no avail.
By evening the boil was a full-grown
boil, and big for its size, and Knock
Knees was frantic with pain and appre
hension. But especially apprehension,
for he had a date at half -past eight with
Starry-Eyes,, the luscious daughter of
Old Egg-Top, and she had promised to
give him the answer to his question.
She must not see that he was bewitch
ed. His natural resourcefulness finally
came to his aid. Tearing a broad, stiff
leaf from a sticky henna bush, he wrap
ped it around his neck and tied the ends
together.
"Knock-Knees!" cried Starry-Eyes,
half an hour later, "I was all prepared
to reject you, but that was because I
didn't know you were a man of fash
ion. I love men of fashion, and that
lovely original arrangement around your
neek is simply irresistible!"
And thus stiff collars were given to
an already suffering world.
GRANTS GREAT GRAND CHILDREN
San Francisco, Sept. 7. Prince Mich
ael Cantacuzene and the Princess Barbe
world over. Without chivalry, irallnnr
ry, humanity, bound by no rules of i and Zeneicle of Russia, aged 17, 12 and
, iur upuisx-u worn, no 8, years respectively, left San .Francisco
regard for decency ,thev have reduced
war to horrible murder.
No wonder no one laughs in Germanv,
except autocracy and its tools. The
more misery f rightfulness and atrocity j General Cantacuzene of
iuu gicanf mo juko io mem. army,
for Washington today, having arrived
from Moscow yesterday. Their mother
was Julia Giant, grandaughter of Gen
eral TJ. S. Grant and their father is
the Russian
usbandand
THE NEW LIFE
When I
ed, different than
w
CHAPTER CXLIV.
awoke I felt rested, refresh-
Now Sweden is caught red handed in violation of
neutrality and Argentine's minister of foreign affairs
learns Germany looks upon him as a notorious ass.
LADD & BUSH. Banker
EtaM5shed IRfix
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
LOSING A FRIEND
I had a friend, I loved him well, wre ne'er
had fuss or friction; he'd sit with me in my
hotel, and talk of verse and fiction. We'd
talk of Shelley, Moore and Scott, of Cole
ridge, Burns and Dickens; such conversa
tion hits the spot, the jaded mind it quick
ens. Now nearly every modern skate will
only talk of getting, of stocks and bonds
and real estate, of rents and contracts
letting. And so I loved the man who
spieled of books and those who penned
them, from Homer down to Eugene
Field, to roast them or defend them. And
then one night he sought my den. and told
a taie ot sorrow, and ere he left he bor
rowed ten, which he'd return tomorrow. 'Twas long ago,
and nevermore my friend and I foregather; he does not
knock upon my door, but shuns my portal, rather. No
more he makes the keen remark that set my pulses hum
ming, but slides into an alley dark whene'er he sees me
coming. I can't get close enough to say, "That debt I
have forgiven; oh, visit me, the good old way, for I'm to
boredom driven." Perhaps you have a cherished friend,
who makes your life more sunnv? Tf
him to the end, don't lend him any money.
like to live in the country? There is ajett were also there, and hannv tears
was really with me. that h-th in tiT;" wT '.u.er.e i m1"" """smngs also tad their appeal.
gotten me, but thai he now believed all" 'about it f" IT 1 T t,ver, never could I
too happy for words. Indeed we can, Sue. And I have the g
R... " t Sl,Urjr "P. and. get well, Refusal of tl.eplace so we shall consid-l Six years L a,,
tetor -r f..1i!,..?"h- ".is.de- fends-are still our f7s. Often th
back in a day ,tw vJT,? i.8 , "". : . "" 1 " iX0,raI1 P?i the day with us. We have bought
Up; 1,1 haU have o go'Bies aul chickens, and as Norah likes1 spend the dav with
liay or two. Evert io ,1; t in cmiutrt- ,. ,. i t i e , . . - - wun
mj work while I am 7A,r?Alrt .n:A":. "laua Pni tor
a onrf of o i " " " I . . . . . . . " "":i to tne tne Happiest, croudi
momenr me rl g We conaidered her
- imu j8 necessary. " aiiuosi one or. tne tauulv.
.uotiier was delighted.
"New York is no place to bring up
children," sh declared. "I have felt
Everett and Peggy had taken a house
down on Long. Island. He would never
be strong again, and went into business
but seldom, depending upon Tom to at
tend to everything. All this, and much
more, Tom had told me in the longTvs
when we sat side by side on the wide
porch with the ehil.lrn nio;. ,
, , time us alwaya mak
ing something for little Vera.
"lou can go whenever it is neees-
To L" I answered happily.
I I T. Rt J kBOW J 8ti" love me
I shall soon bo well."
Plans fop the Future.
The day before Tom left we had a
long confidential talk. A talk in which
we eased our hearts of any burden of
ur misunderstanding. Tom had
forgiven me fully and freelv. I had been
punished so severely that I am sure
he felt that never again would I be
tempted to do anything wrong. One
thing at which I was surprised was that
is mother and sister both wrote me love
ly letters, expressing their sympathy,
and their hope that I would" soon be
well again. 8o also did Helen Thurston
and Vivian Morton. The latter said:
"We shall be delighted to welcome
yon again. Our circle has missed you!
sadly. " j
When I showed this to Tom he re
marked gravely: , I
"Sue, I have a plan. How would you
nome. Ann "nm m
happiest, proudest man T In.w T.,-
lor is a big boy and goes to a private
school for boys where he can come home
every Friday and stay over Sunday.
Vera is a lovely child, and hr Hftio
sister. HOOT 'fniir T-no wa V.
that way ever since Junior was lost in! and joy. ' ' f-ara
for you all " WM" 1 t0 nder if I am the same
i i m . , woman who so nearly wrecked my own
h78 d- T,m T't thf he lifB and ttat of my husband. I never
had had the house cleaned, the furni- have run a penny 'in debt s nee Tom
ture taken from the storehouse and put took me back! If I haven't the money
m sape. That Peggy ad superintended to pay for thine, T wait nn n T h J
bTSSf aud that he hoped 1 would HTon? " 1"
Pleased!"l should have been happy in Io hX with' theTork InST 'h''
an attie with Tom And so I wroteim. ft tZ "my friend's!
How the days flew by now that we were Carol Blacklock has never ben back to
reconciled. In a little over two weeks New York Vivi., ..i,.7 7, -2
from the time he left te doctor said I j fZ iZyV weTaw if
could travel To my delight mother in- suddenly f That is all I Lye heTrd of
formed me that she was going with me him. I know now that in al hfs ter
and see our new home. Tom had paid rible trouble and anxiety Tom shielded
might do o i visas us as also does hi. sister. I am
A Cloudless Sky. 1 a happy, happy wife.
There were no clouds in the sky of: I am closing my story with a prayer
my life when at last we were on the in my heart tht U ; j prayer
train going to Tom. That was the way wgo'oT maJ Z tiTntXe!
I thought of it. "Going to Tom." He similar to mine mistakes
met us at the station, aud went down to
the new home with us. Peggy and Ever- THE EVD
"Margaret Garrett's Husband." a serial story by Jans PheTp
will begin in Monday's Capital Journal