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Editorial Baeof The- iCa&i&al. Journal CHARLES II. FISHER Editor and Publisher WEDNESDAY EVENING -: December 5, J917 fees iim rUBI.ISIIED EVERT EVENING EXCEPT Sl'NDAY, SALEM, OKEGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. U S. BAliNES, Resident CIIAS, II. FIHilER. Vice -President. 1XUA C. ANDRESKN, Bee. and Treas. BU1MCKUTION RA'J'EB Pally by carrier, per year .$5.00 Vat Month IniiY by mail, per ywir 3.00 Per Month .45c .85c FULL LEASED WIRE TELECSKAI'It REPORT W, EASTERN RE)'RE8ENTATIVE D. Ward, New York, Tribune Iliilldlnft- Chicago, W. lit lii gft Margzret GoTett's fare is certain, though she still keeps at it, more because it hampers the English than with the idea of accomplish ing anything permanent by it. American military and naval officers are anxious to have the American fleet get in action. They believe more can be done by this means than any other. England has been cautious about using her fleet because any disaster to it would leave her practically defenseless. America is not in the same con dition and could take the risk much more safelv than can ah the way. in on the train i specu II. Stockwell, People's Gas Building , J? nnH Tf wnuA wpm W ffcfa Vilor. mt.Tr W he trior? lat.?d. uI,on wha 1 !llould see. . Should ... & tMi ""j jv n-v. ivu x una a gay party or men smoking and The Capital Journal currier boys are Instructed to put the papers on the porch. U ariA fhjf Aiyiprira'e floor wVnVri line dlwroira rriiron cneh o tellinfr stories, or would T discover Hint the carrier does 'nut do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you ou time,; , " "'"v" "J " t - - w,7 " r"""' " " AN UNEXPECTED MEETING. CHAPTER LXXV. kindly phone the circulation manager, an this la the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers ure following instructions. 1'houe Main 81 before 7 :'M o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special nienseuger If the carrier has missed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper In Hnlem whose circulation Ib guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. THE PRESIDENT'S MESSAGE The president's message to congress yesterday out lines the wishes and objects of the American people to ward the war plainly, yet fully; He puts in plain, words what is the feeling of ninety-nine one-hundredths of the American people and of the remainder he says: "But I know that none of these speak for the nation. They do not touch the heart of anything. They may safely be left to strut their uneasy hour and be forgotten." While bitterly arraigning German autocracy he points out that we have no designs on German territory. That we are ready for peace whenever the German people, not German autocracy, are behind the terms of peace. There is neither desire nor. intent to interfere with Germany's affairs further than to remove the menace of militarism, "and when the German people have agreed to accept the common judgment of the nations as to what shall hence forth be the basis of law and of the covenant tor the me of the world we shall be willing to pay the full price for peace and pay it ungrudgingly." Answering his own question as to when we will con sider the war won, the president says: "It will be only when the German people through properly accredited representatives, say they are ready to agree to a settle , ment based upon justice and the reparation of wrongs their rulers have done." He points out that while the wrongs done by German rulers must be righted, this must not be done by wrongs on cur part. . - Concerning 'Russia he deprecates the policy which prevented the fullest statement.as to the aims of the war, and expresses the belief, that had this been done the pres ent troubles in Russia would have been avoided. As to Austria-Hungary he asserts it is necessary to place her with Germany as our enemy and at war with us. He urges this because while her government poses as an ally of Germany, it is in fact her tool. It is in no better shape so far as its freedom is concerned than are the countries which German armies have overrun. We war to save her from Prussian autocracy just as we do to save other smaller nations now under German domination. While throughout the entire message, only a feeling of sympathy for the German people who are misled by their rulers is shown, and no bitterness expressed, it was uii ferent when the president spoke of Americans who are profiting by the war. "With these the law of supply and demand" has given place to the law of unrestricted selfish ness, he said. There is fine scorn in the depicting of this class, and also a recommendation that drastic measures be taken to curb the unholy traffic in the necessities of life by these enemies of the country. Tie message will be one that will live in history, for it is the statement plain ly made of what America's objects are. It is a full state ment of our case, of the groundson which we rely for the judgment of the generations that shall come after us. It is America's brief filed in the high court of the world, and its arguments are unassailable and unanswerable. Rippling "Rhymes ii by Walt Mason MH FOOD CONSERVATION I'm cutting out fat living, since folks have let me know that eating pies is giving much comfort to the foe. I shy at ducks and geeses, and eat things I abhor, since told that fats and greases are needed in the war. My aunt, who is a dandy, is helping on the cause; she isn't eating candy or ice cream as he was; her diet will improve her, as it will surely aid all girls who hoove with Hoover, and join the food parade. And I am feeling finer than I have "felt for years; I've been an ardent diner. pnrisnrriirior rnncforl o v-4 cleaned tne plate and platter with glutton- t . ,ous delight, and kept on getting fatter un til 1 was a sight. But now I'm eating sawdust and boiled excelsior, to help in manner modest, our country win the war. And I am feeling fitter than since I was a lad; all day I sing and twitter. I far. Vancouver the fat men bear their load, ' and they should hoove with Hoover, since I have shown the road. This fact will bear repeating in this most crucial time; we re all too fond of eating, when stuffing is a crime. And S0-'niryanguage movin& 1 do beseech, my friends, that you will do your hooving as Hoover recommends. T r ' V ' . - 'nf- HAS REACHED THE SUMMIT We have been told successively that Germany was starving, that she was weakening in man power, that she was in danger from internal dissensions and that innum erable other things were troubling her. Now press asso ciation representatives tell us that she is at the summit of her power and is at her strongest. Supposing this last statement to be true, then we at least know that from this on she will grow steadily weaker. This would make the matter of victory only a question of time. If she is at her strongest and cannot beat back the British and French on the western front, and cannot complete her attempted drive through Italy, then her worst has been done. Un doubtedly she is making one last supreme effort to win before America can make her strength felt This effort would seem too late, for if necessary there are Americans enough on the western front now to make a great showing if calied upon. That Germany has given up hope of starv ing either England or the French by her submarine war- splendid account of itself, will have a fling at the enemy IUm Zt before many months. Suddenly I remembered that Bob had ' . told me when I was last asked to join b Ilia friptwl n Tinrtipa tlmt. ho atinnlrl toll t them never to decend neon me to mako X up anv desired number of guests as I had absolutely refused to" join them again. Probably he had kept his word, and that was the reason I had been given no chance to cither accept or de cline. I took a cab from the station. My return train left m just an hour, and I must not miss it. When I arrived at l.the Coster, I oxperionaad a momentary feeling of embarrassment. It was not not usual for a woman to go on the roof unattended. Perhaps some objection would be made, and I should have to give it jip. But I boldly entered the elevator with several others, and uietly followed them out. The man standing on the roof to seo that no undesirable people found their way up evidently supposed me with them. They were uiet, inoffensive looking people, , and would not be apt to attract much attention tortunateiy for me I took a seat at a table, where, while sereened myself, I could see perfectly. I immediately ordered some sweets and lemonade, and explained to the waiter that I was waiting for a party. I would tip Mm generously when I had accom plished what I camo for. Ho had looked disappointed until I told my little un truth, when he had paid me all pos sible attention. I could see nothing of Mr. Boot," or of Bob, But just as I was about to leavo I had. concluded they had changed their minds about coming to the Coster there was a stir back of me, and Mr. and Mrs. Koot, Henry Creedmorc, John Kendall, Maud Warren, Marion Eiggs, a woman I never had seen, and Bob were seated at a table evidently reserved for thom. Bob was seated next the strange woman. He was in gay spirits laughing, gesticulating, talking in his excited way. She was lovely, of an unusual type and Bob had eves for no one but her. There was no danger that I would be discovered. I thought -bitterly, as I watched the eagerness with which he be,nt toward her, and the animation with which they both conversed. She was beautifully gowned in colors that fairly glowed. A daring costume, but immensely becoming to lior perfect blondness. The wonderrul golden hair was piled high and looked too heavy for the snrJUl head to carry. Her eyes were violet, her skin matchless. She was petito, and her tiny beautifully shaped hands emphasized all she said. But none of these things hurt me as did the fact that she was young younger than Hob, who was almost twenty eight. I should have judged her not more than twenty had she not been with those older than that. She I found out long afterward was twenty-four. I watched them until I dared wait no longer, then quietly left my table and the roof, scarcely hearing the voluble thanKs or the waiter. When I was in the cab, away from curious eyes, I found tears of anger filling my eves. I brushed hem aside. I could not afford to cry; even mothers had told m3 it made me look old. And after the sight of that girlish loveli ness I would not allow myself the lux ury of tears which always disfigured me. I caught my ten o'clock train and tried to read an evening paper I had bought in the station to keep from cry ing. Suddenly I heard a voice say: "Well, if "this isn't fortunate!" and Mrs. Baldwin came over and sat with me. "I thought I was the only ' married woman out alonel " ..alio remarked as CPure Chewing Gum J 1 ick a aav William G. Shepherd Tells Story of Russian Revolt keeps jgip5 Trench Siclme$s aw$y Me IUV Vim J ItUIVlVUC 41 " CHESTNUTS. Following is the first series of four stories by William O. Shenherd. latv- ly United Press Staff Correspondent at Petrograd, , Three of the series were written at Stockholm on the eve of the successful BolBhevikt uprising. The fourth and con cluding story Is a summary by Shep herd, written In New York and combin ing what he saw In Potrograd with the developments of later days. bhepnerd's stories from Stockholm are striking prophetic of the uprising tuat later swept Kerensky from his power. The first article of the series fore casts the Bolshevlkl revolt. The second to De printed tomorrow tells something of Premier Kerensky 's long and bitter quarrel with the Bolshevlkl, who sub souontly triumphed over him. The Editor. By William O. Shepherd (United Press Btaff Correspondent) Stockholm, Oct. 23. (By Mail) It will be some weeks before this article will be printed iu America. At that time anything may bo happening in Kussia. But I am willing to have this article placed besido tho newest, hot from-Pet-rograd cablegram no matter how bloody and disturbing the news in it may be and have these following words run side by Ride with the description of the latest Russian crisis: Kus.sia is following the lines of all revolutions and she is htirrvinic alonir toward iromug out her difficulties. eu and children in the streets, the ter rifying of 3,000,000 citizens of the cap ital of the largest country on earth, the orgy of blood in which tho Kroustadt sauors and the working men of Petro grad indulged made it appear that lius' siaus were madmen, lusting for blood. There seemed no hope for Kussia if sucli madness were to have sway. But today, after having seen two other great crisis, and looking back the 10 weeks to those bloody days, it is easy to see that those, blood-lettings helped Hussia along tho road toward liberty and national unity. There came the second crisis of the Moscow conference, when We who sat iu tho beautiful Moscow theatre that sumiy August forenoon, expected, with good reason, that a rine shot from the troops outside the theatre or a shot or a bomb in the theatre itself would dye mighty Kussia iu. blood and set its cities and towns aflame. Tho Moscow conference ended on the edge of a cat astrophe, and again we felt that Kus sia 's case was hopeless. But today, look ing back, and putting together into one whole the red results of the Bol sheviki revolution and the bitter end ing of the Moscow conference', .Russia's approach toward success is plainer than over. Then came tho Korniloff affair when the world looked ou with flat lungs at the Cossack "uproar" not knowing the ! reasons for the extraordinary event or realizing that the Korniloff cause was Early that morning Simon Simons, honorary president of the Society of EconomidhrSports, had a brilliant idea. He had it while he was reading the ad vertisements in the Morning Tweezers. Hastily putting on his hat and cane, he made his way to Prof. Notta Tali's studio. 'Are you the man who guarantees to teach mesmerism in one lesson for $4.25" he asked. "I am," replied Prof. Notta Tall, and after collecting the $4.25, he showed Simon Simons how to make the proper passes, winks and cabalistic sounds. "JNow, thought Simon Simons glee fully when he found himself on the street, again, " I have solved the high cost of living question. I will simply mesmerize the salesmen and make them set any price for their wares that I think suitable. I'll begin on this chest nut vender and buy a pint of roasted chestnuts for two cents." And stepping in front of the vender of chestnuts, he looked him in the eye (ho only had one J, and made several rapid passes with his hands. With a wild yell, the vender leaped over his pushcart and chased Simon Simons for eleven city blocks and two country miles. For he was" deaf and dumb and knew onlv sign language, and Simon Simons had happened to spell with his J '- And He Did ' l 1EY-.ILL-FUMP UP ) fc:T THAT TIRE" FOF? MEfy fA ! AND HFninAATi I say anything of my errand, rather hands, ' ' You poor fish, who told you 0f some fictitious matter that had kept you could sell chestnuts?" . ma f i. ,,(;, !. If my American readers do not chance a lost oue evou bef ?re 14 lcgan ENGLISH PRESS (Continued from page one) LADD & BUSH, Bankers. to see this article alongside exciting news from Kussia, the chances are that the exciting news will have occurred a few days before; or that it is due to occur shortly, i'or crises fere going to occur in Russia at an alarming rate. I expect bloodshed in the streets of Rus sian towns and cities. I expect anything in the way of a human storm that im agination can picture, but I stand pat on the declaration that Kussia is being rushed through the aeries of crises that must come to auy country in a revolu tion and that each crisis makes tho lius sinn people saner and tho Kusisau re public stronger. Kerens- knows revolutions by heart; as a physician might desirp to hasten the various stages of a disease in order that the euro" may be made the more quickly, Kerensky has not avoided one But all these crisis are connected and sPr?t yesterday's speech and the only natural in any revolution. They would happen in any country under sim ilar circumstances and they are as much to be expected, in a .revolution as a wind in a storm. I want to toll about them, in three articles. They show how Russia is head ing and speeding toward strength and safety. XOTE The next article wilt depict tho Bolshcviki uprising in Petrograd last July and describe how it was a natural part of the good progress of Russia toward freedom and strength. EDITOR. PACIFIC FOOTBALL GAMES. ESTABLISHED 1803 CAPITAL - $300,000.00 TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUf TNELS SAVINGS D35f ARTMENT San Francisco, Dec. 5. Tentative single crisis. Bloodshed at wholesale, :',ates rr fovea football games between danger of death, the apparent risk ot .colleges of the Pacific intercollegiate civil war he has shrunk from none of thletic conference have been arrang these. He will not shrink, if his life is ,f,1 lt was announced today, but these spared, from anv crisis that mav come,'maJ. 8,1 changed later, iu the future. This grim man knows ofJ T!!ey October 2, Washington onlv .... imth f,,r th. H.winn ,.v,it:,n 'v9 O. A. C at Corvalh; Nov. 2, Ore- I to take; it is the path that all coun- XVathinffton v WiiVhinVii St i5811".'' wwted the tries must follow, and he knows there ! a, "- n v" W ""'"V0 8,atf ntl "Clear far sighted and .. , i.;... .:,,!. ... , 'Pullman; Nov. 16, Washington cTata I 'r, lar sipnrea ana alongside that rocky, bloody- v !',", -7 "T" ' v o ,, . - . - ... H alitorma at Berkeley; Xov. 2S, O. A. .rUil9 TlVn Ty, 'm,' I"? HTk- " W t Portland and Califort cnsLS thrill alter thrill, shock altor,ia v, Washineton at artle. Wash, shock u hussm-but .t will all moan int(M, St8t( lwitT o that Uosaia s forging ahead toward ,,!thprn California at Los Angeles, neff strength. '-Nov 5 - s . I have been in Russia almost six j' California will also arransrf games months; and throngli three great crisis. Bter- with St. Marr's, Occidental, The first criais was a bloody one SVthittier and V. S. C. the Itolsheviki uprising in Petrograd i a and other cities and towns of Russia. j"Iavid Garrick" is to be produced . huh urnac hs jo?e iaua ;nn me screen spirit of knockout blows or of economic warfare or of post-war boycotts." The Daily News held up the pres ident's speech to more praise than it has greeted any previous utterance of on American executive, judging it "another example of comprehension by which he clarified fundamental issues of the war." Speaks for the World ''It would be affectation to pretend that the speoch eachoes the declarations of allied statesmen," the editorial con tinued. ''His vision comprehends tho world; thoir's only half." The Times still refused today to agree with the president 's differentia tion between the German government and the German people. "President Wilson," the "Thunder er" said, "has re-stated the allies' purpose with uncompromising force. With a straight-forward statement of war aims, the last hopes of the paci fists must founder." "As a reaffirmation of previous war utterances, the speech is of first class Chronicle. statesman like," was the Express' opinion. . Practically every editorial referred to the messagp as the most emphatic announcement of America's determina tion to wage war to the limit. The president's recommendation that Wir be declared on Austria was regarded is one further evidence of this inflexible deterciiuaiion. soon as she was comfortably settled. iou see you are mistaken," 1 re plied. "I lost the early train, and so 1 tele phoned Joe I wouldn't come home to dinner. It would have been spoiled any way by the time I got there and then, too, it does a man good to be left alone once in a while! he knows more how a woman feels." So that was the way some women did. Remained out, let thier husbands shift for themselves. I knew I never could do that with Bob, it would hurt me more than it would him. Neverthe less I could not help admiring Mrs. Baldwin for her independence. Should "Mr. Garrett was obliged to remain in town tonight, so I ran in to see a friend." I finally said in an explana tory manner. It was the second untruth I had told that night, and my conscience troubled me. "That's the way to do I some women stay at home and mope. I have no pa tience with them. If Joe is out I go out too! I am glad you do the same." ' "But I seldom, do," I Teplied, anxr ious to set her right. "I do not care to go without him. Tonight was an excep tion. " - "Better make it the rule!" and she laughed knowingly. (Tomorrow A Serious Question.) in Russia. Tho killing of 500 men, wom-hhe title role.' "Germany to have tanks next STrina " biivj a headline. She has a lot with Dustin Parnum in of them already. Esr-eciallv amonir her army officers. ''7' '---tr-- "- mil e. -r Go East Union Pacific System 3 Through Trains East Every Day CHICAGO 10 a.m. KANSAS CITY : SALT LAKE 6:15 p.m. 11 pjn. from Portland Union Station, thrmuth tne nuuesttc Columbia Kiver borge Wan Mtlkmr, i.f.L, fertiart J- - I x ' ---5 - j