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MONDAY EVENING
January 29, 1918
CHARLES H. FISH EE
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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL
I the only newspaper In Salem whose circulation Is guaranteed by the
Audit Bureau of Circulatlona.
NEARING A METROPOLITAN CIRCULATION
' The circulation of the Daily Capital Journal now aver
ages above 4,500 daily. Sometimes it exceeds that figure
considerably, for instance Saturday evening an edition of
4,610 was scarcely adequate to supply the demand.
When the present publishers took charge of the Capital
Journal just four years ago, it was distributing less- than
2,000 copies, and the growth in circulation has come
during a comparatively dull period "and without any
special effort on part of the publishers in the way of
promotion or soliciting. In fact very little of this char
acter of work has been carried on. The growth in circu
lation seems to have come because the people fcf the
Salem territory desired a newspaper worthy of their sup
port and have been kind enough to indicate by their
patronage that the Capital Journal is filling the bill.
The Capital Journal is a member of the Audit
Bureau of Circulations (as are all leading daily papers of
the country) and its circulation figures are absolutely
guayteed by this organization. All national advertisers
accept their reports as of unquestioned reliability.
THERE MUST BE NO SLACKERS
Reports of revolution in Austria received recently
although preceded by stories of strikes and disturbances
that indicated such an event might happen, were received
with some doubt at Washington, and in fact by the coun
try generally. It had some of the earmarks of Germany's
handiwork, of the class which deceived the Italians and
deluded for a while the Russians. Whether true or not
it will not cause any change of program in this country,
for war preparations will go on until peace is declared.
America can afford no other course. If it should prove
true, it is a tremendous blow at Frussianism even though
the Germans should be able to suppress it. With Austria
out of it, Bulgaria would soon follow suit, seeing the be
ginning of the end and Germany could not hope to carry
on the war single handed.
By JANE PHELPS
Margaret Garrett's
America went on a ration basis today, in compliance
with a proclamation of the president The object is to re
duce the consumption of wheat flour 30 per cent and to
cause similar reductions in meats and as far as possible
all foodstuffs that can be sent abroad. America has often
boasted it could feed the world, and now that its boast is
called, it has to come through even though in doing so it
has to curtail its own rations. The boast was good so
long as the balance of the world helped itself so far as it
could, America being able at all times to furnish enough
to overcome the deficiency. With the other great nations
reducing production, and the submarines taking toll of
American shipments we can no longer meet the deficiency
without sharing part of the shortage ourselves. Under
the president's proclamation, beginning today, 5 per cent
of cereal products other than wheat flour, must be used
. . . i-a-a i T "1 1 1 1 J
in all bread. This proportion will be steadily added to
until on February 24 the bread of the nation will contain
30 per cent of substituted cereals. In addition to this
there will be two whcatless days a week instead of one,
Mondays and Wednesdays, and there will be one wheat
less meal a day. There will be one meatless day, Tuesday,
and one meatless meal a day. These curtailments should
not prove of any especial hardship, for the cereal sub
stitutes are good food, and perhaps really better from a
standpoint of health than the pure white flour products
from which elements are removed that injure rather than
help the bread. Apparently arrangements bave been
made for enforcing the observance of the plan, but it is
doubtful if this is yet perfected enough to accomplish the
object aimed at. Most Americans will cheerfully regulate
their meals to comply with the president's proclamation;
but there are many who will not, and it is these that must
be reached. There must be no slackers in food conserva
tion, and the "conscription" system will have to be
brought into play. That is the entorcing oi tne pres
ident's order must be such as to compel those who do not
obey cheerfully, to do so by force. It may require a
ticketing system before the law ean be enforced for all,
but if that is the case the let the ticketing system come.
There are thousands of Americans, millions of them
in fact, who are loyally observing the meatless and wheat
less days, and endeavoring to honestly conserve food.
There are other millions and many more of them too, who
observe the days, and eat double rations the next dav.
For this reason in order to make food conservation a real
thing instead of a joke to the majority, .it will be neces
sary to make the rule compulsory. To do this would re
quire a ticketing system and also a licensing system at the
restaurants and hotels under which not onlv the davs
i j -i -it i i i j 1.1 i i . . . v , e( lny cheeks belore breakfast.
would be rigidly observed, but the helpings on other days ! hurried down and drank a str,
would be regulated. Restaurants refusing to obey the
law would lose their licenses and be forced to quit. This
is the only system that will make food conservation any
thing like universal.
The advice so cheerfully advanced by some concerning
food conservation by using substitutes gets onto a fellow's
nerves. One woman whose occupation is to tell how to
make all kinds of palatable dishes out of literally every?
thing, for instance, tells us that if oysters are too high to
eat clams. This is of a piece with the advice to eat cake
if bread gets too costly. She tells us clams are cheap,
costing only 5 cents a pound. She does not mention the
fact that to get a pound of clam eatable one must purchase
five pounds of shells and that the cheapness vanishes. I
HOSTESS AT JOHN KENDALL'S
PARTY.
CHAPTER CXXI.
Nellie helped me to bed and Bob re
marked: "Don't get up in tho morning, Mar
garet, I'm afraid you are not well."
"1 could have screamed aloud. 'Not!
well!' the irony of it. But my emotions I
had exhausted me aud I soon sank into
a deep sleep. When I awoke the dawn
of a gray morning was creeping into my
windows, but it was no colder, no gray
er than the cloud over my soul. I closed
my eyea and tried to sleep again, but I
only visualized with a keenness born of
despair, the words Bob, my Bob, had
written to another. lie had addressed
her in the intimate form "Dear One."!
It could mean but one thing. He waa ill
love with whoever was to receive that
message. Or he thought he was.
1 hoped and prayed tho kilter. Jf that
was tne case perhaps 1 still had
chance. 1 rose, quietly and dressed.
looked pale and haggard, "and ugiy
and old." I added to myself as I look
ed into tho mirror.
1' or the first time m my lire J. roug
ed my ciieeka belore breakfast, then
ong cup
of coitee before Bob waa ready, makin
excuse to Delia tiiat I had a headache
I hadu 't, it was a heartache, but it
would answer.
"You gave us quite a scare," ho re
marked.
' ' It was foolish in me. I guess I was
overtired," 1 made answer.
"Yes, probably," he said and then
gave his entiro attention to his break
iast and his paper.
"It is the night of John Kendall's
dinner," I said, "You know I am to
act as hostess so we will have to get
there early."
"Do you feel up to it I If you don't
I'll make it all right with John."
"Oh, I wouldn't miss it for a good
deal," I assured him, hurt to see how
quickly he would arrange for me to re
main at home.
"Very well. I'll get home early."
I felt almost unable to attend to the
things I had planned for the day. My
trip to the beauty parlors, the final try
mg on of my finished dinner gown, a
Wonderful creation of Morton's. But I
Our January Clearance
Sale Closes Thursday
Thursday will close one of the most successful
January Clearance Sales on all lines of Merchan
dise we have ever held. To "speed up" sales the
last few days we have placed on sale our large
stock of high-class Packard Shoes. Here is your
chance to buy real, high class footwear at unheard
of savings. "Speed up" only four days remain
Until March 1 AH Shoes
The east just when it was beginning to breathe again
and believe the worst was over, was swent bv the fourth
great blizzard of the winter Saturday night. It is feared I Cd to af inX StuS
traiffic will be again stopped and still greater suffering
from lack of fuel follow. There is but one thing about
these storms that at all counterbalances the great injury
they have done and that is that they will insure good
crops if something unforseen does not happen them.
There should be a bumper crop of wheat next year.
Philadelphia is to have the largest ship-building plant
in the world. It will be known as the Hog Island Com
pany and will be able to turn out a steel ship every second
day. A representative of the company is in Portland and
has let contracts to Oregon mills for ten million feet of
Oregon fir to be used in building the plant. He says this
is only a starter, and that other contracts will be let as
rapidly as possible.
Senator A. M. LaFollette is a candidate for re-election
from this county and he should without question be re
turned to his seat in the upper house. He is a capable
man and a hard worker who is busy every moment of the
session looking after the interests of his constituents.
The boards examining registrants as to physical fit
ness for service in the army are showing us how serious
ly we have deteriorated as a people. One board in Port
land has found but 50 per cent fit, while another board
has rejected all but :4 per cent. There must be something
radically wrong with our mode of living that permits such
a result.
The warm weather is not only causing the grass to
grow and trees to bud, but it also makes the hens get
busy and the cheerful cackle of the biddies is again
being heard. This should start the cohl storage eggs from
their hiding places, and that soon.
Portland besides having to pay a six cent carfare, and
this too on lapdogs, is facing the necessity of having to
pay greater water rates. This it is claimed is necessary
in order to meet the bonds issued to pay for the water
plants and these become due in 1923.
Rippling Rhymes
by Walt Masn
h
as I was able, and managed to get thru
the day.
I was dressing when Bob came in.
"Peel all right?" ho said.
"Yes."
"That's good! I called John up and
told him if you didn't show up not to
be disappointed."
"What did he say, please I"
"That he would be awfully disap
pointed if you didn 't Did you think
he would be impolite to say anything
else?"
Although Bob had spoken in a joking
tone yet L was hurt. He had implied
that John would not be so disappointed
as he pretended.
Once mbrpj I waited for his approval.
My gown was exquisite, and I knew
that. I looked very well in spite of tho
fact that I was desperately frightened
and unhappy.
"Yon have learned to dress, Mar
garet. It is wonderful what it has done
for yon," he said. Someway I felt chill
ed. If he had just given mo a kiss, and
arid r.s he used to sometimes: "You
look bnllyl" I should have been better
satisfied.
We took a cab and reached the studio
early.
"Bob gave me quite a scare." John
said as he weleomed ns. "Tie intimated
that you might not be able to come.
That von were ill. You certainly don 't
look it now, you are simply stunning.
I shall be very proud of my hostess tonight."
It was verv comforting to have him
talk like that, especially as Bob was
standing by and heard him. But I had
little time to think of his' tlattery a-s
the guests began coming almost im
mediately. The Bapps, Elsie and Tom,
Tnd all the others belonging to ,tho
isame crowd, and Charlotte Keating.
I You see I put her by herself. That is
'the way I considered her. Not as I did
jthe others. .
She waa dressed in a long gown of
I black sequins. It accentuated her silght
graceful figure, and lent distinction to
her face. Even my own gown, eaaily the
handsomest in the room, seemed to pale
into insignificance beside the one she
wore.
Bob took her in.I don 't know why,but
I knew he would. They were seated too
far from me for me to hear what they
said; but as at the other dinner they i
were entirely absorbed in one another, J
and kept up an animated conversation
all through the entire dinner.
Once or twice I saw Bob look in my
direction, and I smiled and nodded at
him. He had looked away with a puz
zled expression.
He would have understood a frown, I
thought.
(Tomorrow A Surprising Announcement)
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
A Government income tax officer will be at the
Court House from January 2 until January 30, 1918,
and will, to all those who wish it, explain the new
income tax law, and will furnish the necessary in
come tax blanks.
. All single persons having an income of $1,000 or
over, and all married persons having an income of
?2,Cno or over, will be required to make a report
20
Phoenix Silk Hose for Women
G. W. JOHNSON & CO.
UNITED STATES NATIONAL BANK BLDG.
DANIELS MAKES GOOD.
(Medford Mail Tribune)
Despite every incentivo and strenuous
effort to discredit his administration,
of tho navy, Secretary Daniels has
emerged triumphant from the various
probes by inimical senators and con
gressmen and the efficiency of his ad
ministration stands admitted by tho na
tion.
No cabinet officials in years vhas had
auch a bitter personal fight, such a
propaganda of abuse and villif ication
to face and live down as Secretary Dan
iels. His cardinal sin was that he dem
ocratized the navy, thus giving unpar
donable offense to the clique of bureau
crats and snobs in control. He has
abolished, aa fas aa possible, the rule
of caste and made it possible for the
enlisted man to attain a commission.
He has bettered the lot of seamen aud
the result has shown in increased ef
ficiency.
The war found the navy prepared tor
war and ready to fight. American war
ships have done their -share in -conquering
the U-boat, in patrolling the
sea and in convoying vessels. Not a
single soldier of the hundreds of thous
ands convoyed to France has been lost
on the sea.
Daniels went to building ships before
he had authority or even money for
them. He violated precedent and cut red
tape. He arranged in advance for mu
nitions and supplies. No sailor lacked
equipment or clothes. He did not lose
precious montha in tests for new weap
ons, but bought all he needed of types
that had been proven satisfactory by
the allies. In addition, he furnished
guns and crews for hundreds of mer
chantmen. The marines are the best
clad and the best equipped today of
any branch of the military service.
Of course, his task was not to De
compared in immensity and difficulty
with that of Secretary Baker, who had
to create in a few months an army,
raise, feed, clothe, arm, snorer, rrnva
and transport a million and a half of
raw recruits and mould them into a
fitlhting unit, a task not' to be accom
plished without mistakes that worry the
politicians and patriots, but who on the
whole has made a wonuertui snowing.
But while many faults are found with
Baker, Daniels has silenced critics.
Journal Subscriber in
Ohio Tells of Weather
Luther Mvers, writing from Maumee.
Ohio, to renew his subscription to the
Journal for another year, makes some
J And He Did
I'LL PUT THIS PIECE OF UMBUffCfEU
CHEESE IN Pa'5 OVERCOAT v
TbcKET.
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Soldiers' Tobacco Fund
Over Hundred Dollars
The. following amounts have been re
ceived ' by theh f'apital Journal sol
diers' tobacco fund, since last publica
tion: Previously reported $84.25
Dr. W. B. Morse 20.00
V,'. W. Bailes, route 2 25
Albert Henniea, Turner 25
A. J. Miller, Turner 50
Mrs. ,T. Zalt, route 3 .125
Henry Nelson, 22t Court ....m 50
Geo. Weigle, 4-12 State 1.00
Miscellaneous 1.40
ROADS TO RICHES
They send me bunk by every mail, the men
with gorgeous schemes; they tell me if I'll
send them kale they'll make me wealthy
without fail, beyond my wildest dreams.
Oh, every day I get a raft of circulars and
sich, explaining how Dame Fortune laughed
on gents who tried the senders' jraft, and
they grew beastly rich. Why do I labor in
my lair, the cheerful writers ask, when, if
I'd only buy a share in oil well, mine,
or other snare, in opulence I'd bask. Why
do I strain my back to make a pittance dire
to see ? If I'd invest in some one's fake I soon
would have so bio: a stake I'd erin at nld
John D. If I'd invest in orange groves, or buy some gilt
edged stocks in mills for making wooden cloves, back
action churns, revolving stoves, I'd soon have lots of
rocks. And yet I am content to toil the old time-honored
way; 10 Durn at times tne midnight oil. that I mav see the p Aigerson Bassendsie, the young poet,
kdttlo Knil nnA hnv iha V,:l,lr, V,o,r T'., t. 1j- knit his brows, then purled one and
uv.i, vi, ""J w HI11UIV.H iic. 1 VC IV11U W 11 il 1UL Ul .,1.T,.J ti :
I j down-and-outs, poor has-beens broke and sick; and most completion.
S . . . . i a ,! i i-i At last!" he sighed soulfullv. rnf-
l't UCT , e aJY L.u"l ,a U le(1 0Ut creams, SneafIing the long hair on his alabastine
their doubts, and tried to get rich quick. Why should I i "Xo to find an editor who wiii
long for wealth to burn? Methinks it is a crime for un-iflHo,llL5ll ...
earned increment to yearn; so I am satisfied to earn oneimsn's i'istie. Algernon sprang to i.i Hari
nih p n n 1 1 r1 o iIiei, uu wun excitement, rusnea cm 1
xuuie dtu utile. IU1,0U the landing and revered the!
brand of weather they were having in
Ohio at the time he wrote. He says:
"Well, I have just seen the worst
blizzard that was ever pulled off in this
part of Ohio. For the past week it has
been 16 below, the wind 80 miles aa
interesting comments ot. the particular hour, and snow just 1-ke sand. It is drift
- ed six feet deerj and in some nlacea
room with a large packet of mail. more and packed so hard I can almost
weigho! cried he. openinsr the first i n. .1
'The Tnti 1 1 t 1 iop 01 11 ana ine enu ia noc
There sure will oe no Bhortaee in
the ice crop, but we certainly are hav
inv a (censored) time eettinz
JUV sonnet. 'The Intniw hlo rntrr,.
from the TUnnthW Hln,.. .1.. iJ'Ct
following note:
ihe rejection of this mn
does not necessarily indicate lack of
merit. Ulten the needs of a mniraino
sugar and coal."
He says the weekly Monday holidays
are not exactly suited to a maniiseriTit and slmttiug down of factories has be
Tta dj Norcktte
THE SAD CASE OF ALGEESON
EASSENDALE
gan but the people are takine it with
good graee and seem to be satiafied if
it will bring about the desired end and
distribute more coal to the needy.
Thousands Have Discovered Dr.
Edwards' Olive Tablets are
a Harmless Substitute.
Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets the substi
tute for calomel are a mild but sure
criticism of the enclosed manuscript laxative, and their effect on the liver is
"But great Scottl What have -we instantaneous. They are the result
01 ur. tQwaras determination not to treat
which will find recognition elaewhere.
now sweet the familiar words do
sound!
And here is my classic tragedv, back
a the 'Highbrow Whirl' ami UK
tie note from ye editor, Let's see Ah!
"We regret that the enclosed manu
script is not exactly what we need. By
studying the enclosed folder vou mav
be able to suit yonr stvle to that of our
publication."
"And here is my drama, 'The Arms
of the Pyjamas' back from 'The Whim
aical Review.' Well, well, 'We regret
that lack of space forbids a detailed
here!
"The editors of the "Mythological
Review " take great pleasure' in accept
ing yonr poem "The Pottows of Ka
foozalum" and beg to congratulate you
on the best poetical effusion .of "the
vear. They hop the enclosed check is
large enough to suit yon."
river and bowel complaints with calomel
His efforts to banish it brought out these
little olive-colored tablets.
These pleasant little tablets do the good
that calomel does, but bave no bad after
effects. They don't injure the teeth like
Strong liquids or calomel. They take hold
of the trouble and ouicklv correct it Why
Five honr inter nP;,.u : cure the liver at the expense of the teeth?
ranVe nndwTjVT 'VTf - Calomel sometimes plays havoc with the
? Tiw IV ivA'' P- SodostrongUquids. Itisbestnot
eernon Rassendale . attic room. They to DSt to let Dr. Edwards
found the young root crouched upon tho ( Olive Tablets take its place. .
floor, laughing wildly. I Most headaches, -dullness" and that
Lack of space!" he cried when he fcjy feeling constipation and
saw them. "Stndy the folder! More disordered livpr. TaV. IV. FdwsroV
iection slips! More checks! Har! Dlive Tahlprs irhn vrm l lnmrf nd
I "heaw." Note how the "dear" clouded
He had been patinir rejection slips. brain and how they "perk up" the spirits.
THE EXD.
10c and Zjq a bos. AH druggist