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Editorial Page of .The Capital Journal TUESDAY EVEN7XG October 2, 1917 CHARLES H. FIBffEB Editor and Publisher PUBLISHED EVEBT EVENTNCr EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, 0BEG0N, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. 8. BABNE8, President, CHA8. H. FISHES, Vice-President. DOHA C. ANDRES EN, Bee. and Treaa. SUBSTITUTES THE MORE COSTLY 8UB8CKIPTI0N RATES Dally by earrler, per year.. Daily by mail, per year . .J6.00 3.00 Per month Per month 5o 35e FULL LEASED WIRE TELEORAPH REPORT EASTERN UEPKESENTAT1VE3 Ward Lewis, New York, Tribane Building. , , .,-.. Chicago, W. H. Stoefcwell People's Oae Bnilding The Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to pat the papers en the porch If the sarrier does not do thin, misses you, or negleets getting the paper to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as u is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are foHowing in fractions. Phono Main 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be tent yon by special messenger if the carrier has missed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL la the only newspaper in Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. THE WAR SITUATION Today is the fifth since practically all news from the British front has been shut off, nothing but brief state ments from General Haig having been received. Just what this means, if it means anything is a matter of guesswork purely. From German sources it is learned the British are active, many stabs at their lines being re ported. It is the same from the French front. The Ital ians have started another offensive in which they have been highly successful, capturing fifteen hundred prison ers and eainine some strong positions. The Austrian? realizing the importance of the positioons taken by the Ttalians have made strong counter attacks but unsucces fully. It is probably the situation on this front that is makinfT the Austrians so desirous for peace that the thanks of the country were extended to the pope for his peace offer. Germany is situated in regard to Austria much as she is in relation to the war generally. - Her ter ritory is safe, and if the Italians drive ahead it is Austria that must feel the result of invasion, not Germany. The continued gains of the Italians in spite of the most desperate resistance Austria is capable of must be dis heartening to the latter and set her to thinking of the final results of the struggle. She is fighting on defensive now, and from appearances that is the way she must fight during the balance of the war. More than all she realizes now that all hope of making some other country pay her war bill has vanished, and every day the war is prolonged her debts are growing by millions and they are already about as large as she can ever hope to pay. Continuance of the war means financial ruin to Austria more by far than to Germany, and it is only through the assistance of the latter she is able to continue the struggle. To an outsider acquainted with methods in Spanish American countries the action of President Irigoyen in i . j i l i - J 1 ' - i 4-kf4- relusing to listen to tne aemanas 01 nis countrymen mat Argentine break with Germany, and nis statement mat Germany's explanation was eminently satisfactory, means that the president has felt the convincing effect of Ger- man gold. It is stated ne win proclaim maruai law as soon as congress adjourns which was to be at midnight last night. This will put an end to agitationo and possibly assist i nbnnging the strike which is paralyzing tne coun try to an end. At the same time he says he will call a meeting of representatives of the South American coun tries in the hope of reaching some agreement regarding their course in connection with the war. The San Francisco shipyard strike is over and the men are back at work. It has cost them in loss of time probably nearlv two millions of dollars, and it has cost the people of the entire country a delay of two or three weeks in work necessary to their saiety ana to tne winning 01 me war. Labor has accomplished nothing for itself except to lose a host of friends and an amount of money as stated. It is claimed the strike in Portland is in a fair wav of beine arranged, and if labor can profit by any thing except actual experience, it will take advantage of the results in San Francisco and go to worK witnoui further losses. The cost of living is not growing less perceptibly, and perhaps it will not. It seems about the onlv thing that will conserve food in America is the cost, for the Amer ican accustomed to having all he wanted to eat, and of the kind he wanted, will continue to satisfy his appetite re gardless of cost, so long as he can dig up the price. When he can't buy he will quit buying and not before. It is here however that the burden falls the heavier on the poor for the wealthy can always buy regardless of price. Another thing about the food conservation is that all the substi tutes, or practically all of them, suggested by Mr. Hoover and others in authority, are of gi things for which they are substituted. For instance corn meal is more expensive than flour, yet this is what the Amreican is asked to use m place of flour. Considering the price ol the corn and wheat the corn meal should be considerably cheaper than flour but it isn't and Mr. Hoover might do the consumer a good turn bv discovering why. The Daily Novelette NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE. The second Liberty loan is on and the limit has been raised to five billions although but three are called for, sq as to permit the accepting ot all subscriptions. It is a popular loan the bonds being in denominations of from $50 up. This makes them available for all classes, and it requires that all should take part in making the loan a success. It is the war of every man, woman and child in the United States, barring LaFollette and a few of his kind, and it is up to all of us to do what we can, and all we can. Our boys are steadily goiner to the front and it is up to us and all ot us to see that everything that will lessen their danger, shorten the war and bring them home safe, is provided. This means money. No true American will stutter between giving every spare dollar to the cause and exposing the boys to any risk or depriving them of any- thing that will add to their comfort and safety. Ships and food, munitions and medicines, nurses and doctors, everything requires money, and we who stay at home can only do our part by supplying this. Several petitions have been received by the senate ask ing that body to expel Senator LaFollette as a traitor and a spreader of traitorous doctrines. It is not likely the senate will take this course, principally because it is the one it should take. Before sending secret service men to arrest I. W, W. and other small traitors it should clean house and punish some of the big ones who disgrace the national capital. LaFollette should be put aboard a ship bound for Stockholm with a request for the Swedish gov ernment to forward him to the kaiser who owns him. In view of the Mexican incident Sweden would not hesitate about sending him through, for she has forwarded more than one evidence of conspiracy to Berlin though she never before sent such a traitorous document as LaFollette. (By the author of "A Thousand Steps to tne ttool"; "The (iirl of the .Peanut Shell Factory"; "The Hollv Hock Shop": "Nothing In It or The Lost Purse"; "Pinken Greene's Half Hol iday"; "Hitting the Pipe or The Plumber's Fall"; "A Day Ago or The Life of Luigi Appatasuzzo"; "Two in a Hammock or Smack! Snap! Bump!" "The Wisslctoffer," "Mr. Longacker greater COSt than the Sight or The Bird in the Cat"; "The liiacK Bass or in the Colored Choir;" "Tho Hindoo Zoo-zoo"; "Two Too Many or The Tiny Triplets;" "The In terrupted Shuffle or The Marked Deck"; "Specks on the Potatoe's Eyes;" and several others.) A black and shining object glittered in the muddy, crowded street. It was a pin! "See a pin and pick it up, all the day you'll nave good luck." muttered Oswald Buttcrbread lonesomcly to him- seir. As he bent down to pick it up, his eyeglasses fell off and broke in ten thousand pieces. Oh, dear!" happily murmured Os wald. While he was rescuing the old rims from the thousands of pieces, his hat fell off, and rolled under a passing auto and was smashed to a wafer. Oh, dear, dear!" sighed Oswald. Mayor Mitchell is getting some powerful backing in the matter of entering the race for the mayorality of New York as an independent candidate. Colonel Roose velt, Charles E. Hughes, Oscar Straus, Alton D. Parker and Henry Morganthau are among those urging him to make the race. If he does so, it will be a fight to a finish with the Tammany tiger. The weather is ideal for plowing though the ground is a bit 'dry yet and the crop of fall grain should be corre spondingly large next year. Wheat will be $2.05 in Port land next year so the farmers for the only time in their lives know just what the next year's crop will bring. The valley should double its grain yield next year. Gerard hit the target in the center when he said that if the Germans in this country who are sympathizing with the "fatherland" were told they would have to return to Germany that they would fight first. At long range the German position appeals to their feelings but when it comes to taking part in the war, or even getting any near er it than the Atlantic coast, the view changes. It is noticeable that the rush to return to Germany since the war-started has not crowded the outgoing steamers, nor has there been any rush to secure passports to the old country. Judge Bushey thinks perhaps the bridge will be com pleted next week, it all depending on the success the con tractors have in securing piling. - And He Did NOW, WIUIE JAKE YOUR BRLl OUT IfK THE TflRB HMD PLRYf l JE53E in the nice little wite cot and had a small conversation with the niiraA. hn xu waning a mine aasn lor the nat, was heard to exclaim ioyfully, "Only a horse kicked him on the left leg .one leg busted, four ribs-cracked and and threw him into the track of a motor a bump on my bean Gee, I'm a lucky truck, When Oswald Buttcrbread came to guy!" Such is life! It has a real familiar sound, the story that Villa at the head of 700 bandits has captured a town in Mexico. It is rather good news too, indicating that German money is being used in Mexico, rather than the United States. ttt Rippling Rhymes ; by Walt Mason The Portland public service commission has tierf ected a plan for calling attention of auto owners to any violation of the traffic ordinances, by mailing such owner a card with the nature and time of the violation. If that plan was tried in Salem the postoff ice receipts would get an unsuspected boost, and the members of the commission would go broke buying stamps. Traffic ordinances and state laws concerning autos are practically a dead letter in and around Salem. If anyone doubts this statement let him take a stand on South Commercial or South High any old time and see for himself. At the same time let him ride out on a street car and note how many autos stop instead of passing on the jump street cars stopped to take on or let on passengers. Seventeen hundred men employed on the buildings at the aviation camp at Lake Charles, Louisiana, went on strike yesterday. They are getting 6214 cents an hour for a ten hour day, but demand 60 cents"an hour for an eight hour day, with pay for eleven hours if they work ten. as tney would get less nav than at nresent. unless hey worked ten hours, and if they did would get onlv 35 cents a day more, it looks as though they were striking just to keep up with the fashions. Carranza's agent General Alvaro Obregon. is in San Francisco trying to negotiate a loan for $500,000,000. As that means one billion "Mex". it shows that others than departmental clerks think only in billions. - Attorneys in the Oxman case yesterday openly accused each other of lying. It will not require any great amount of evidence to make the public believe each side was correct. Every Business Man Should Have a PERPETUAL INVEN TORY SYSTEM The man who KNOWS is the man who suc ceeds. Unless you know what the value of your stock of goods is, how do you know how much in surance you should carry? Unless you know the amount of goods you sold, during a certain period, how do you know what your "turnovers" were or how much you should order for next season? Unless you know how much To-Day s Net profits are, how do you know whether you are going for ward? Unless you keep a record' of each salesman's transac tion how do you know whether your highest paid salesman is your best? These are a few of the things that my Perpetual Inventory enables you to Know. I can help, you Solve any business problem that con fronts you. Satisfied clients in Salem and elsewhere recommend my methods as worthy of your consideration. JAMES M. HEADY, Room 2, Salem Commercial Club Building Are You Fat ? Just Try This Thousands of overfat people have be come slim by following the advice oJE doctors who recommend Marmola Pre scription .Tablets, those harmless little fat reducers that simplify tho dose of the famous Marmola Prescription. if too fat, don't wait for the doe tor's advice. Go now to your druggist or write to the Marmola Co., 864 Wool ward Ave., Detroit, Mich., and for 75e procure a large case of these tablets. They reduce two, three or four pounds a week without exercise, diet ing or any unpleasant effect whatever. If too fat, try this today. If French ministers. French ffenerala French journalists and the French peo ple en masse continue long enough to insist that they mean to have Alsace- Lorraine back again the rest of the world may come to believe they mean what they say. Tho world did a lot of shushing so long as it was a matter of "Revanche I" but simple justice might prove another matter. ft Margaret Garrett's Husband jhh By JANE . PHELPS -""' A MARTYR TO HER CONVICTIONS CHAPTER XX. LADD & BUSH, Bankers Established 1968 - J r ? Bj 1 i ALWAYS SOMETHING There's always something calls for brine, if one's inclined to mope and whine. The weather man provides a day that ought to please the carping jay: the sky is smooth, the breeze a neach that murmurs through U auaieipate a fine time, the elm and beech. It is a day When normal tisf oft CyZ men tnrow up tneir ims and wnoop again, a day on which they grow, and thrive, and thank their gods that they're alive. But you will see the mournful hick who savs "You mean that you are going again next week!" I asked, in amazement. "Why you have just come home and now are planning to leave me again. 1 hope you will reconsider," my eheeki were burning, but I tried to speak calmly. "Of course I am going next week; we have made ell our plans. If the weather is favorable we are going down to the club on Thursday night and so have all day Friday on tho links. Tom has invited Homer and John to go with us, so we win nave our own foursome. and be wont CAPITAL - $500,000.00 TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS SAVINGS DEPARTMENT hoped to win out. "But, Bob!" I expostulated. "Have you entirely forgotten the duty you owe me, your wifef " "I don't understand in what I have failed in niv nntv tn vmi Varn.Mt " such weather makes him sick. He says the v1 have sat here atone ever since cuioot snrl KqIthv hraa Jo onrooii'nir' "may nigtu. lou have been away hav microbes and disease. Unless we lug a good time, and now. almost be- SOOn ! you are back you are tilannins to have snow and frost," he mutters, "we shall l' !?0.'? get time" it IS SO easy 10 Oe gay, m tniS Old planet niamr, .Margaret! you didn't have to F.tJlV. so pjisv tn riiswnvpr crnnH in 5inv earrhlv " ,v you wantea to. xour ? -"-"-"J i mother and t.ie hnth wnnl.l I,. )... all be lest where we neighborhood, it is a marvel there are gents who still are delighted to have had you stay with sulking in tneir tents. I go forth in the Autumn dawn,!'..;,,?. r,T; , 1 i . i . , , , . , , '! 3y place is in my home and vours and loaf around upon my lawn, and see a world so bright ; tter You played tennis" and and fair. I can t believe it's stocked with care. And then " un,m". " i -nnot p W'Tft Trl TiMI Fi .-! I.f Ka Bob said something under his breath.. I bustled about, got the chafing dish Had he bean n t..,4, t .. i i i I , . . o uiau x suumu ana nxea lm iuouSni ii an oatn. nut as he was appeared to not. l probably was mistaken. After a! chatted cherrilv whil. . a nice little sunner. TTa enjoy it immensely and moment he remarked: lou will of course suit yourself." lueu iook tne papers and set He tied himself to read altho it was ten 0 'clock. "Aren't you coming to bed!" I ask ed, as I laid my magazine aside. V1 haven't seen the papers, run along 1 11 come after I have run thru them. ' ' "Had you remained at home with me we could have read them together. ' ' I received no answer to this verv ob vious speech, and as I did not intend to go to bed and leave him. reading, I again settled myself, this time with a book. "If you're tired, Margaret, go on to bed. Don't think you are obliged to wait for me." "I should think you would want me to," the tears were now very near. "If I had left you for as long as von left me, I shouldn't think of leaving you." "ery woll," and he turned to lis paper, an impatient look on hia face. and save to answer a question he did not speak until the clock struck eleven. Then he asked: Is there anvthinsr in the Margaret? I believe I'd like something to eat before I go to bed." "Of course vou would! how of me," my house wifelv feeling at once excited. "Come on, IH fix up something." "Never mrad fnssing. Ill just take "When it comes to the eats, Margaret you can't be beaten unless it' is by your mother; and I don't know that she cooks any better." "Thank you, Bob, but is it ouir be cause I eau eook that you caW for mel" I asked, remembering what he had said aneut his mother, and food. "You are a very silly girl to ask such a question. But it is very nice to have a wife who knows how to make one comfortable." I started to say something about his staying with her then, but eaught my self in time. We hadn't been married very long, I would still be patient. But at the time I determined to fihd some way to keep Bob with me the next Sun day. I absolutely would not allow him to leave me Kgain if it were possible in any way to prevent it. So we talked amicablv (tired, and Bob kissed me good night usuau cut ne nearlv spoiled it br saying: " "I hope next week you will be a sen sible girl and go over to vour mother's while I am away, instead of staying here and moping. It isn 't good for yoa nor pleasant for me." "But I am going to keep von at home," I thought, and returned his kiss without making any remarks anent my plans. He would have been. aatnninlJ had he known them. mv neighbor veils across. "This ronntrv i s tntl lCc t .V L LT-Z i .i.u I ! i f. bAte ?' wbaS th. is- oat y . . - . . J w - " - Tiuu kit u me air maxes one so hunerv ' invy re jacking up uie income lax break our backs." until it's hniinH tn alone whB Fn " wy. When you are UIUU 11 S DOUna lO smilsing yourself you can think of mv I lonliness, my unhappincss at being left aione. In the morniusr we Darted u Bob suenwtine that We im ft irtMH rav I restaurant for dinner. "Where did you have your dinner!" "It will be a change for vou." ha At the club. And it was a eorking remarked, good one too, but I am as hungry as . Tomorrow An Evening of Disappoint if I had had none." J meat.