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EACH BOOSTS THE OTHER
Between the high cost of living and ever increasing
wages to meet it, it looks as though there was no place at
which the seesawing could stop. Men employed in the
ship yards, for instance, set up the plea that the increased
cost of living forces them to demand more pay. The in
creased pay attracts labor from all other pursuits and
especially from the farms where the pay is generally
smaller than at most other occupations. This compels
the farmer to demand and receive a higher price for all
his products, in order to meet the increased wage and cost
of production. This impels the shipyard worker or others
to demand still higher wages, which being received offers
a still stronger inducement for the laborer to leave the
farm and to compel the farmer to pay still higher wages
and so increase the cost ot living.
In the meanwhile the laborer outside of certain pur
suits such as ship building or other callings due to the
demands of the war, finds his occupation has its nose put
out of joint, and he must either continue to work at
practically the before tho war wage, or go at something
else, for the reason that the business is such that it can
be got along without for ,a time at least. This works a
hardship in many ways. The worst feature of the situa
tion is the injury it does the people as a whole. The de
mand for ship builders is such that the present plan of
building them and turning them over to the government
at cost plus ten per cent, results in a sort of legitimatized
robbery. No private individual or firm can take a con
tract for building a ship because of the' uncertainty of
wage conditions, and consequently of prices of materials.
This condition forced the government into adopting the
cost plus ten per cent plan. Under this system the builder
cannot lose. Instead, the greater the cost of the ship the
greater the builder's profits. Men are put at work that
know nothing about it and a few skilled carpenters direct
the work of dozens of laborers who are novices about the
carpenter or ship building trades. The result is that
work is slowly done and at the greatest expense and labor
union agitators urge their fellows to do as little work as
possible in order to make jobs for more unskilled labor
incapable of doing one-half what a skilled mechanic can
do get the same wages, so that where a wage of say six
or seven dollars is paid, the amount of work which a
skilled workman would turn out for that wage costs more
than double. In other words the payment of a six dollar
wage to tin unskilled worknTan is equal to paying twelve
to fifteen dollars for a given amount of work. In the
meanwhile the patriotic citizen digs down after money to
buy liberty bonds. The system may last for a while, sim
ply because the country just now is not in a situation to
help itself, but when the change comes as come it must
before long it will be a drastic one. Conscription of labor
will be forced on the country unless the laborer, just now
in the saddle, voluntarily quits jabbing his spurs into the
sides of the people he is riding.
Colonel John Leader, commander of the University of
Oregon battalion, will speak at the armory in Salem, next
Monday night. A moderate admission fee will be charged I
and all the receipts will be donated the Red Cross. Colonel
Leader ought to be greeted by a great audience here. He
served for many years in the British army, campaigned
in India, fighting in the Boer war and the Boxer rebellion
in China. At the outbreak of the present war Colonel
Leader had retired and was in Canada. He immediately
returned to England, quickly recruiting a regiment of
Irishmen whom he led to the front. For two years he
saw the hardest fighting of the war, being one of the
comparatively few British officers who lived through
the terrible ordeals of the early stage of the war. He was
several times wounded and finally transferred home and
placed in charge of an officers' training camp. After
negotiations extending over several months he was given
permission by the British government to accept the posi
tion of military instructor at the University or Oregon.
Colonel Leader is an entertaining speaker whose Irish wit
relieves his grim stories of the awful western front.
IT IS UP TO THE ALLIES
Since the utter break down of Rus-sia it is probable the
entire plans of Germany have been changed. While giv
ing the allies to understand that a great drive would be
undertaken in the west front this spring, it is most likely
this information was handed out for the purpose of de
ceiving them as to her real intentions. ; Recent dispatches
indicate the activities of the kaiser's armies will be
directed to cleaning up the Balkans and making a drive
against Italy. Conditions also point this out as being her
probable course. On the west front she can hardly hope
to break through the defenses, or to accomplish anything
in the way of helping her situation. If she holds the
allied armies on this front while she ravages the balance
ot Europe she can ask nothing better. All winter she has
been strengthening her position on the western front, and
has made it as strong as human ingenuity and effort can
do. With Russia out of the way and Roumania forced to
make peace she has a free hand to the east and south, and
it i ill ii j.
win De aoie to concentrate a great torce against Italy.
Especially will she be able to do this if she can conscript
the people she has conquered and force them to fight
tor her.
This will compel action on the part of the allies. It is
perhaps impossible for them to meet Germany in the
Balkans, and the only way in which they can stop her
efforts in that section is to keep all her armies busy on the
western front. This means that instead of a campaign of
watchiul waiting the allies will have to become aggressive
and iorce the fighting. It will mean some desperate
struggles, no doubt, but it looks as though it is the only
course left open.
The hold-up of shipbuilding and every other war in
dustry by unionized labor is bringing labor conscription
nearer daily. The government should fix a fair wage
scale, eight-hour day and good working conditions and
tell the workingmen to get on the job and stay there or
go to the trenches. Union labor organizers and agitators
should be interned or shot or according to the amount of
trouble they have caused. If the war continues another
year this very course will be taken and not until then
will the prosecution of the war reach anything like the
point of efficiency necessary to win. .
OpenF.ro I
THE GOVERNORSHIP OF OREGON.
Fishermen are demanding that canners contract to pay
16 cents a pound for salmon during the coming season.
The fish belong to the people and it might be a good plan
to prevent their taking for a season or two. It looks as
though the consumers would have to form a society for
the purpose of boycotting all profiteersmen. At 16 cents
a pound one or two salmon a day would pay a $5 wage.
This is where the food conservation officials should get
busy. So far the only thing the price has been fixed on
is wheat. It is high time it be fixed on corn, barley, oats,
fish and practically all other foodstuffs.
The state administration, headed by Governor Withy
combe, makes it plain no American who is not affiliated
with the republican party can hold a public position in
Oregon but alien enemies can do so as long as they do not
blow up the state capitol or commit any other serious
overt act. That is the g. o. p. type of patriotism in Oregon
since Withycombe came into power.
LADD 8t BUSH, Bankers
On February 7(h we received balance of Liberty
Loan Bonds
Now prepared to make deliveries to those
buying them.
KS2
Mr. J. K. Sears is still after that exposition commission
report that apparently was never made. But why expect
Senator Hawley to make accountings of public moneys
expended when his position as prime favorite of the
governor gives him special privileges and preogatives not
possessed by the ordinary office-holder?
-- 4M-M"Mt
ippimg Rnymes
by Walt Mason
CUTTING OUT WASTE
I called my dog, as he passed by, and for an
hour harangued him, explaining why he
had to die, and then I drowned and hanged
him. He saw the point of my remarks, and
wagged his tail, forgiving; he heaved a pair
of friendly barks, and discontinued living.
The grub old Towser daily ate would keep a
soldier feeding; and Towser couldn't pull
his freight for France and do some bleed
ing. We're pampering ten million pups, in
this, our wasteful nation; and still, above
our coffee cups, we talk of conservation.
I had nine cats, as fine as silk, Maltese,
Angora critters; and every dav they lapped
up milk and mewed for meat and fritters. This morning
they'd had their lunch on liverwurst I fed them I
formally addressed the bunch; and said I must behead
them. I pointed out in ringing terms that pampered cats
are sinful, when many a weary soldier squirms because
he lacks a skin full. The kittens saw that I was right,
that feeding them was folly; they mewed a lingering good
night, and then went off their trolley. Alas, Tfind it very
hard my divers pets to slaughter; upon their graves in
my back yard my eyes are shedding water. But better
that some soldier feasts and fills his waistline flabby, than
feed boiled eggs to lazy beasts, to Towser or to Tabby. i
I l .-n.-. wsr.
"L. J- Simpson is a man of big
caliber and in our judgment would
make good in fine shape a governor.
He is enterprising magnetic, broad,
sympathetic and efficient.- C. C Chap
man in the Oregon Voter.
The Oregon Voter then proceeds to
bar Mr. Simpson's candidacy. He is
an ideal man to put new life into Ore
gon but he should (Hit on an apron and
confine himself to Eed Cross and War
Thrift Stump activity, is its main argument.
That is part of the old Oregon-boot j
style of polities of knocking in the
head aspirations of men of ability in-1
stead f welcoming them into
service of the state. Because Mr,
Simpson does noa belong to a little
Portland coterie of self-expansion and
self-adulation, he 'is to be side-tracked
as "a cipher.
Tho self-complacency of a state gov
ernment that will allow the sugar beet
industry to fail without a struggle, and
allow the second sugar factory to bo
carted off a-s junk to another state,
could certainly -be improved upon.
Governor Withycombe has made an
excellent war governor- He has been
fearless in standing up for the rights
of business and industries to bo pro
tected against I. W. W-s and labor
radicalism.
But the republican party in this
state should bar no brainy man who
has done as much to build up his sec
tion of the -state aB Mr. Simpson has,
from being a candidate.
The Simpsons have been builders in
the larger sense of the word. They
have beon pioneers in ship-building, in
lumbering, in manufacturing, in com
munity building. Thus have been more
than mere parasites on the body
politic.
They have always employed labor on
a large scale and they have treated
that labor right. That nearly 800
laboring men should sign a petition
asking Mr. Simpson to be a candidate
is an important and significant matter
for republicans to consider.
If we aro to have a merely clerical
efficiency government let us elect
Mr. Olcott and be done with it- As a
matter nf fact, Mr. Olcott 's office
practically transacts the business of
the state. With the attorney general
and the department of . public instruc
tion, vho department of state, under
the administration of a man of Mr.
Olcott's ability, could run the state
of Oregon. We could dispense with, tho
govennor's office, -state treasurer and
a dozen' ether state officials and save
the state hundreds of thousands an
nually.
But when we are speaking of men
who do things we cannot brush aside
a man like L. J. Simpson. As an actual
Doer-of-Thmgs valuable to a com-
onwcilth ho is the biggest young
business man in the state and the
state should be proud to have such a
man for governor.
Idaho, Utah. Washington, Montana.
have elected business men for gov
ernors nd they are not suffering for
it.
Purely from an industrial develop
ment standpoint, and that is what we
assume tho Journal stands lor ana what
tho ''Voter" ought to stand for
primarily, we do not believe L. J.
Simpson, if he were governor, would
allow a big industry to be removed
without an effort made to keep it
A large number of good citizens place
business and industries before polities
as a patriotic duty. If we are to keep
wood shipbuilding after the war we
will have to make a fight. The dis
mantling and moving away of the
second sugar factory from this state
has probably lost Oregon that industry
forever. ho is to blame!
Mr. Simpson will not allow the
more political pasquinade of C. C,
ChniM'vm to brush him aside in the
race for governor, lie is made of bet
ten fighting material than that. The
State of Oregon needs such men as
never before. And what has become of
Governor Withycombe 's declaration
that he would be satisfied to be gov
ernor one term to roundout his public
career with that diguitv?
REPUBLICAN.
The Woman Who Changed
'", ' By Jane Phelps
; 4
GEOKOE REFUSES TO ATTEND THE
DINNER.
CHAPTER XXI,
Evelyn came over almost immediately
and we planned the dinner for her hus
baail birthday. He wa.' twrnty-thre.i
years old, nud she call 'J it he.- "Skid
do" dinner.
"I wouldn't dare say it to anyone
but you," the laughed.
After we had decided the menu and
the decorations, she said:
"Now for the list of guests."
Abide from George and myself they
weis 1,11, or nearly all, youug friend:, oi
Ivirta. fcSoiue married, some single. 1
was delighted that 1 was to meet so
manv vouiiy ueoulo. That George would
O I - - K -". D-
rn6 I refuse to go never catered my lieitd un
til ,velyn said:
' ' V'our husband seems ao much older
than any of us, do you suppOBO he'll
come?"
' Oi' course he will! Haven't I ac
ceptci jour invitation." I replied com
nier.cing to feel a little frightened. I
had Ubsurted myself foi the first timo
ii: accepting an invitation without con
noting George. What siiould 1 do if hu
refused to go nut allow me to got 'J
siould be more disappointed thau 1
culd say,
' ' 1 snould never forgive him if he
didn't allow you to come," Kvtlyn said
as she left me, after cautioning me
to remember every single thing Mrs.
Hexton told me.
George Is Told.
"We are invited to a birthday din
ner." I told George when he came in.
' Tho formal invitation will come to
morrow. ' '
"Where?"
"Evelyn .Reeve is giving a dinner for
Kurts. lie is twenty-three years old."
"It will be impossible for me to go"
he replied without even asking when
it was to be.
''But it isn't for a week!" I ex
claimed thinking he had an idea it was
the next night.
"That makes no difference! such af
fairs bore me. A lot of giggling girls
and half baked fellows. 1 know the
kind."
I felt my eves fill, and tho .linH
feeling in mv throat. Rut T rlotormio,i
not to give up hope until I had pleaded
with him.
"But, Ceorgo, it is to be a lovely
party! The menu is delightful" my
uu.-u..uu u very I0I1U OI good food
--"and there is to be dancing, and
favors, and everything! Do say you'll
go."
I faid no more. I couldn't without
crying. But I ate no dinner, which made
George evtu more unpleasant.
"If you can't have your own way,
you sulk and act like a child," he said
whin I told him I couldn't eat. It was-
n i true, l never sulked, but it hurt
me t,-. nave him sav It.
me. What do you intend to wear, to
this paily you are going to without
met"
"The white dress I wore to Mrs. Lor
ing's. None of them have Been it, and
I uev-r have worn it but that once so
it is in perfect condition."
"You be sure it is, or I won't have
you going in it. I won't have people
say my wife is badly dressed, even at
a party whero she probably won't be
with people who know."
"Oh, it is perfectly all right,
Georgo," I exclaimed, frightened lest
he even now change his mind and for
bid me to. go.
"I'll be the judge of that- If you
aren't all right when you are dressed,
you'll stay at home. I shall come home
early to judge."
I knew my dress was all right, that
he could not object to it in any way.
It wasn't even crumpled, and he had
approved it. Yet I was chilled, all my
enthusiasm over the party gone for
the time.
I loved George at this time, but as I
left the room 1 had a queer feeling of
disappointment and fear. Fear of tho
the years to come.
(Monday My First Lesson in Social
Customs)
, NEW PRESIDENT
(Continued from page one)
the Kansas institution since 1910, when,
he came as an agronomist in the col
lege and experiment station. April 1,
1913. he was made director of the ex
periment station and dean of the school
of agriculture, which .positions he will
hold for the rest of the college year,
sueroeding to tho presidency of the
college in September.
Dr. Jardine is a native of Idaho, 39
years of age, and roceived his degree
of Bachelor of Science in agriculture
at tho Utah Agricultural college. He
lived and worked on ranches in Utn'
and Idaho until he was 20 years of age.
From 1904 to 1906 ho was instructor
and professor in the Utah Agricultural
college, and then spent three years as
assistant U. S. cerealist in charge of
dry land grain investigations.
He is a member of the society for
the promotion of Agricultural science.
Beta Tlieta Pi, and Alpha eta.
GERMANSTRYING
(Continued fiom page one)
ed at the disposal of three German
agents nt Vladivostok to be loaded as
merchant vessels and sent to the United
States, Japan and' the British colon
ies iu Eastern Asia. The cargo really
carried to be German agenrs to act as
'aeitators.'
somewhere else as usual, I thought itlaor any Ila-
all over. I would bo anvwnv. That It "The action of
I would unless he either iorbade me, or I meut ou tlle mi
locked me up. I reallv eonsidi-rpd h taiued."
For JUSTICE of the PEACE
FRANX DAVEY
I am asking the republican nomina
tion for justice of the peace of the
Sale-m district because I believe my
self thoroughly equipped to give the
best possible service in that important
position. I came to Salem in 1S7. over
thirty seven years ago, and in every
movement since for the betterment of
tho city and all its enterprises, for
tho development and settlement of the
state, for the safety and support of
the nation. I have taken a somewhat
prominent part with hand and tongue
and pen. My life is known to all who
have lived here a do?en years or more,
and I trust to their verdict. I am a
lawyer by education and have been in
close touch for thirty eight years with
conrts, even to the highest jurisdiction.
know the work of a justice office
thoroughly. I have not an enemy in
the world to punish and I know of no
friend who would ask .reward at the
expense of justice- Respect for law
and its enforcement without malice,
revenge or oppression is inherent in
me and has been intensified by my ex
tensive experien e in making laws,
heneo the public knows what to ex
pect from me. I ewe the people of ia
lem and vicinity for many friendships.
I expect to repay them by honest, faith
ful service at all time.
FKAXK DAVEY.
(Paid Adv.) 3 14
If unable to get Russian ships, the
After ue had gone to the cluVj or instructions were to 'charter vessels un-
the Russian govern-
itter has not been ascer-
That Germany will do her utmost to
finance all the projects tending to the
industrial upheaval in allied countries
ij known to be her promise. A deal
lias been made with Leiiiue to push
tnc propaganda from the Bolslieviki
standpoint and five hundred thousand
roubles have been appropriated for the
purpose. Lenine's agent is Madamoiselle
Kolontai, member of the Bolslieviki cab-
morning I didn't mention inet
But when Geore-e came ' From the purely socialist angle it ia
home at night, I showed him the invi- learned the work was to be done tin a
tation which had come by post, and ' Swedish minority socialist Lindhagen.
asked him if he wouldn't reconsider. Tlie outstanding feature of reports be
When he refused I said: ing received here is the utter fraukness
"I told Evelyn that I would come."iv't'1 which the Germans are now deal-
" Oh, you did. And how did you know! '"S witu tlie Kussian council, of the
I wouldn't object?' " ; people's commissaries iu their work to
' ' iJut you won 't, will you, George ? : weaken the allies.
They are ,t!l my ago, the girls, and ij The reports distinctly show that Len
do so want to know them " ino continues to exert his energies in
"Weil, go along! But don't ask me these channels while urging the people
to go to such baby affairs. They bore j to accept the German peace terms and
-;or'fer no counter-resistance to the in
vaders. As a result, confidential re
quite capable of the latter if 1 went con
trary to his wishes. But if he allowed
me to go, and was just cross, why I
would try and not let it spoil mv good
time. Why he wasn't so much older
than tlie rest, yet he had called them
"giggling girls, and half baked fel
lows." I wished he had been just a lit
tle younger feeling and acting.
Petty Tyranny.
I lie next
the dinner.
Todays Tabloid Tale
By Joe Blast
.
THE CONNOISSEURS.
ports received by American and allied
representatives show that "for the most
part the German invaders are being
welcomed in Russian territory presum
ably in the hope that the Teuton arrival
will mean re-establishment of order.
How far the Leniue and Gtiman prop
aganda may already have gone, has not
yet been determined. It is felt, however,
Strolling languidly down Chestnut : that in view of this growing German
street, Vermouth Sherry and Vintage j menace and in view of the exposed pro
Label connoisseurly eyes the girls as ! paganda plots, measures might well be
they passed. j taken to combat it arid further solidify
"l ipe the little blonde not so bad" tho relationships and understanding be
obsorved Sherry. "Nose a bit too short, , tween the United States and the allies,
though." It is probable that a delegation of
"intrikes me that way" agreed Label. I American public men may go to England
"The tall brunette with her, though, ; soon to preach "The American View
might pass iu a crowd a little too;r'nt" i11 the war, study the English
willowy I should say." j view and return to America to talk
"I should say ii with you old top'to this country on "the allies."
o" Sherry concurred. "What say you i The personnel of the delegation baa
10 you lassie with the naval convoy ?"j not been determined upon but it will
lie alluded to a dazzlingly beautiful include political and intellectual lead-
yoiiug woman accompanied by a sailor iers men anil women representatives
lad. .Label squinted at her. jot labor and professors in some of the
"I never could abide a girl that turns nation's leading institutions of learn
her toes out when she walks," he re- ing. '
marked. 1
'-' Same here, " said Sherry. ' ' A girl ! T ' L,-i WH1 Pirn
gotta be an absolutely all wool A-l i "VUUittl l II UJ 11U11
sample to get by with me."
"That the way 1 feel, only more
so, said Label.
Nay, gentle reader before we go Alter som-e coaxing and persuasio
For Justice of Peace
any turtiier
two heroes.
Vermouth
let us lake a look at our!'"-ne many friends of T. A. Seinhart,
of the rortland road just bevond the
Sherry was an
undersiz- i ate fa'r grounds, will be pleased t
r,l. xawpd-off. h!,i,.n,pr,l ,!,,wn .h-nv. !know that he has consented to make
liar justice of the peace of this district-
Mr. Kmehart is a native of Oregon,
os he was born, reared and educated i
tic loaning little gink with flapping :
ears and a receding chin.
V intage Label was a skinny, over-
g, , . . , .,. 13 vara;,,, ,,. I. ,!,., e IV ill
where his back should have been and " . T B "
que evebrow doing dutv as a mustache. IT iiTT " , v - 5 .
v" ui, . i """lol'"r-ited to the bar, and has practiced law.
Na, gentle reader, before we go any UrP T,;h '-. ; L .r.t
let us stop where we are. (service for two rears.
furthe