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October 2, 1917
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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.
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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.
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next season?
Unless you know how
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are, how do you know
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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.
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Margaret Garrett's
Husband jhh
By JANE . PHELPS -""'
A MARTYR TO HER CONVICTIONS
CHAPTER XX.
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
Established 1968
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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
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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.