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I,.,, L.ji jMi-j.x.1. Lii...iTTrr:Tirriwnr m i " ' ssm; u mwMim.ifnmiisi.nuMffiM- nwi'ifj'.p' rrr i ; i ti 1 1 I e o He Capital Joarria dona TUESDAY EVENING March 19, 1918 C1IABLES H. FISHES Editor and Publisher dill j SJ on.Hi"lHliln.KQi:i iiiiiMiiiiyiiiiiiiiiriiuiiiiii viiiiiwiiiiiiiiiuftt v.i iMiii.iir'nui- iiii-in i kiu u PUBLISHED EVERY HVBNINQ EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Pig. Co., Inc. L. S. BARNES, Prmldent C1IAS, U. FISHFR. VIce-I'rwIflMit. DORA C. ANDRESEN, Sec. and Treaa. NO MAKE SHIFT ACCEPTABLE Daily by carrier, pr year I ally tiy mail, per year .. It is intimated Germany will soon make another offer of peace based on her recent advantages, so called, in Thiccio Tf ia rTnimrr? ahf. will Vin willinor fr enrvpndpr BUBHCJill'TION RATES I "i-"". .v .. ..... " """fc, '....s.oo per Month 4Bc Belgium, and Serbia and even parts of Alsace-Lorraine 800 Per Month 3-c - , ... . .;i.i.j j. iij r.. u T UT J ui sue win lie permuieu to iiuiu vvji.ii, sue lias grauueu m The Woman Who Changed ! And He Did By Jane Phelps FLU. LEASED WIRE TdlJ'OHAPH UBPOUT KASJ'EIt.N REPRESENT ATI VRS W. D. Ward, New York, Tribuue Bulldlnc Chicago, W. H. Btockwell, Peeple'a Oas Building The Caottal Journal carrier boy are lnatructed to put the papers on the porch If the carrier doa n So thla, mlaa. you, or neglecta getting the paper to you on time, kldu nbona r ctrculnlhm manner. i thin la the only way we can determine whether I, not ?h arr ?r are f! 1 owing Instruction.. Phone Mula 81 before 7 :30 o'clock and a V" ill he .ent you by .pedal mewenger If the carrier haa missed yon. TUH DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL the only newspaper In Snlem whose clrciilnlloD la guaranteed by tha Audit llureau of Clrculatioua. GROW PLENTY OF SPUDS The weather man is evidently preparing to let us have some weather in which the fragrant onion set can be stuck in his little row and the radish and the lettuce be planted with seeds enough in a six foot row to plant a ten foot square bed. In many favored spots the ground is about ritrht for spading and is being turned upside down and prepared for whatever is comirg to it. It is time all kinds of garden truck was planted, for the earlier the better on account of the shy character of the summer rains. Don't be afraid of planting too much. Make your plans as though no one else was even thinking about making garden, and you were going to supply everybody. It is claimed too many potatoes were grown last year and while three is still quite a supply of them it is doubtful it there will be any very large surplus, ine Jungs riouui Company will make a market for a great lot of them, and the starch factory will use up another large lot, and be sides we cannot tell yet what the wheat yield is to be or whether we are to face another shortage. As a matter ot fact with the demand that will certainly be made on us, if the war continues, it is already certain that other cereals or vegetables will have to be substituted for wheat, even at the best we can do. For this reason it behooves and be-Hoovers us to grow plenty of potatoes. They will sustain life, and are in fact the only vegetable that can in a large measure supply the substitute for grains. Some one has said: "in time of peace prepare for war, and this applies to the growing of the lowly spud. It is better to have twenty million bushels too many than a million bushels too few. They are an insurance against hunger and perhaps starvation, and we will be foolish in deed it we fail to grow a goodly surplus of them, or at least prepare to, for what the crop of cereals will be no one can tell yet ABOUT THE DUTCH SHIPS ' A dispatch from The Hague yesterday stated the Netherlands government had consented to the allies oi At thp same time no details were given, or any information other than the bare statement of her that Germany would close the open lane kept for the Dutch and would here after torpedo every Dutch ship it caught. While it was stated in the early dispatches that the Dutch ships in American ports would be taken over at noon, and Amer ican sailors placed aboard there was nothing to show that this was done. It was expected Holland would set up that while she did not want to allow the allies to take over her shipping that she was powerless to help herself and so had to yield. It was expected she would take this course to square herself with Germany, for while the lat ter country might consider it camouflage, it is true just the same, for Holland cannot help herself. A feature of the day's proceedings was the protest sent Germany by Norway, which is a rather vigorous piece of diplomatic correspondence. The tonnage taken over or to be taken situate in this country, amounts to about 430.000 tons and this will go a long ways toward supplying the deficiency caused by submarine sinkings, and tide the government along until the ships now leaving the American yards are ready for service. v Considering that Germany started peace negotiations with Russia on the basis of no annexations and no in demnities, she managed to make pretty liberal terms with herself. The indemnities demanded of Russia and agreed to by the Bolsheviki amount to $4.6:15,000,000 and the annexations, if they also include Finland, a territory larg er than all of Germany. What would have been left the Russians had the negotiations been based on indemnities f.nd annexations? EVELYN HEARS A COMPLAINT. CHAPTER XXIX. The remainder of our luncheon passed off pleasantly. Georgo really exerted himself to please and entertain mo. Af ter I left him at the ofiice, I ordered the chauffeur to stop at Evelyn's. 1 wanted to show her my pearls. "Oh, you lucky girl," slio exclaimed. "They're perfectly lovely!" Then I told her of my dinner party, i t the new dress George Had ordered tor Russia and the east. This would eive her what she wanted most at the beginning of the war, an outlet to the Orient; a Berlin to Bagdad railway. It would be an acknowledgment of the kaiser's supremacy, of a German victory, and therefore can never be considered. Any peace that does not see the power of the Hohenzollerns broken and the Hun and militarism forever done away with is not a peace but a make-shift. It would simply be playing into the kaiser's hands, allowing him a breathing me, spell to renew his strength and gather his forces for another strue-cle for world suDremacv. There mav be a peace patched up, but there will be no real end to this ti war until the kaiser is thoroughly whipped or the balance ai.a, worst of aii, sho has even selected r,F 44, If nr,Afh cnrVi o r.nnrlNInr, o fararlla new maid fo1'. e. Cleorge has luted Ul LllXZ VVWllU lOi J-U Ak7 IAXLVJ UXXV- i. J LAVXi, CV vVll 1. llvll LAO -a. V.4. Rome when her greatest leader said: "Carthage must be destroyed. Peace and the kaiser cannot exist at the same time. has been awfully nice to me George likes him, tool" I added, tearing I was saying too much in favor of this friend who had made things pleasant for me. "Kurts does too But who are you to have to your dinner I" An Embarrassing Question "I don't kuowl George said we would make out the list later. I suppose that means Mrs. fciexton and he will make it out," I said bitterly. I was embar rassed, terribly so. Would George let mi- invite Evelyn and Kurts? I doubted it, and it made me so miserable that I It is claimed the French veterinarians perform an operation on the government mules that prevents them braying. Probably cut the muscles that control the rais ing of the tail. In old Apache days down in Arizona the prospectors used to muzzle the mule or burro by cinching him tight and then taking a couple of half hitches on his tail with a baling rope drowing it down tight so he could not lift it, and fasten it to the cinch. 1 he discs on a burro's victrola are in some way connected with his tail for he cannot, or at least will not, bray unless he raises his fly swatter first. The campaign for the sale of thrift stamps started in Marion county today. As a beginning about $75,000 is on hand of the $972,000 which is Marion county's quota. Returns for the past few days were about $3,000 a day, and this daily return will be required for the balance of the year, in order to make the full quota. This thnit stamp subscription is calculated to raise a grand total in the United States of $2,000,000,000. In this connection it may be stated the quota for the county is almost exactly what is required to meet the taxes levied in it. ' f.,. Secretary Baker was taken all through some port in France, Sunday, and shown what the American engineers have done toward making it a first class port of entry for American troops and supplies. Of course it is not proper for Americans to know where the port is nor what its named, but it is a dead certainty the German military leaders knew all about the work from the day it was commenced. lie is very eenerous. isn't he?" sha almost immediately left, sorry that I asked. . ! had stopped in, or that I had said auy- "Veryt But, Evelyn, it isn't every- thing to Evelyn anent the dinner until alter 1 had talked with George. ' ' Who shall we have as guests at our dinner, George?" I asked, tie had been vu-y appioachablo all through dinner aud I thought it a good time to broach "Let me see!" aiur taking out pen cil and paper he commenced to check off the names of those he wished to invite. The same crowd, practically, Uiat were at Mis. Loring's. "But you haven t mentioned Kik. and Evelyn," I said boldly, my hea't in my mouth, however, at my daring. "They are too young lor this dinnet, and " "But George it will be such a slight! They were so very nice to nie have p butler, and insists that 1 need a lady 'a maid. I begged him to let iuu cep. ai ;'ie, but he say3 she isn't competent. Annie is to be parlor maid." "You'l have quite an establishment won 't you?" "Isn't it horrid? I just hate the idea of all those servants in the house. I'll j'Sver have a minute's privacy.' "Oh, yts you will! You'll soon leein how to manage them." "Yes with that Mrs. Sextoa to teach nie," I said bitterly. Then, "I don't know what I should do if I di-ln't j been ever since I met them. Please have know you. And so have someone to tell ; them for my sake. I shall be so embar i i ;'" i t" HOI n THF LIGHT ) l.- l'k) i1 IwiFEY AND ILL PI) fTTjp !! jTHlo LFAK-?j-r LbLSSc i 1 my troubles to. I owe Merton Gray an everlasting vote or thanks for bring ing you to call on me that day." Merton Ta Eulogized. "So do I. When I agreed to go with him that day, I did so thinking only that it was nice of him to ask me; not that I should find a dear friend. 1 rassed if you don 't ' '. "No they would not fit in at all. But don't look so distressed. Y'ou can give another dinner just as soon as you like and invite them." "Oh, may I? And will you promise me to come to my dinner?" I asked, knew tliinkinflr that Uiis dinner wasn't mini- Mr. Howard was very oitfercnt rrom anyway. It was his and Mrs. sexton's. About the biggest thorn in the s-ide of the militarists just now is the British army in Mesopotamia. This draws most of its supplies from India and hence is not a drain on the resources of the allies. At the same time it keeps the Turk from getting lonesome and may eventual ly result in eliminating him from the war. ADD & BUSH, Bankers In the light of the indemnities levied on the Russians by Germany it would be a prolific field for calculations for the citizens of this country to size up the probable de mands Germany would make on them should she prove the winner. Measured by ability to pay the United States could dig up fifty billions as easy as Russia could pay the sum demanded of her as preliminary to accepting a Ger man made peace treaty. The signal corps it is claimed has fallen down harder than any other department, and has failed to deliver any thing like the number of airships promised. It is stated that to date it has in fact delivered none or at the most a handful. General Pershing is said to have to rely on the French for air service. The Dayton shops need a shak ing up. . When the average Slav gets it through his head, which will no doubt require considerable time, since it is almost solid ivory, that he has to pay Germany sotremqndous a sum for peace, he will make up his mind quickly that war is cheaper. -- " Rippling Rhymes On February 7th we received balance of Liberty Loan Bonds Now prepared to make deliveries to those buying them. by Walt Ma&on BOOKS FOR SOLDIERS Undoubtedly you've stored away about a. million books; the helpful works of Bertha Clay, those Voyages of Cook's. Best sellers of the days gone by, lire stacked away up stairs; they gather dust on shelving high, they're burdening th; chairs. Now, in the army training camps, the boys for such things plead, and there is briny in their lamps, because they've naught to read. All kinds of books will hit the spot, and sweeten evenings sour, and e'en Nick Carter's clam my rot will cheer a dismal hour. For read ing matter soldiers yearn, they're yearning even now; and you have books, and books i to burn, and books to feed the cow. You'll rustle through your happy homes, when you ve read this, I trust, and gather up the helpful tomes that merely gather dust You'll send them to the training camps, . where heroes hold the fort; then buy more baby bonds and stamps, and be an all round spot. i. id 1 L ... ' tho men in our set, more dignified and well, and highbrow, and I thought that you were probably like him.' "Mo high brow I" l interrupted witn a laugh. "I'm anything but that, al though I may be some day. I surely will Yes. I nromise," and I knew he would keep his word, I think George was a little sorry for me, that night, when he saw how desperately I wanted to have Evelyn and Kurts. "That's fine! Thank you!" I relurn- if Georg2 has his way with me. But ed as calmly as I could, for my joy m isn't Morton Gray a dear? He goes with Ms promise. tnose people too, George's set, but1 he "Now, we'll forget them, if you c sjc sc fc ijc Jc jc Our Daily Story sjs 5C 3S dC 5j" sc jfc ?JC 3(C SjC SOFA AND NO FUBTHER. seems to enjoy us just as much." please until after our first dinner -is I would if I Jarvis Swipe, gazing more than ft mile into the fathomless depths of her liquid brown eyes, started desperately" to propose and then coughed and mur mured somo platitude about the Japan ese being wonderful little people. Ho thought "fearfully: "I wonder if I gut up steam enough to pop tho ques tion if she'd say yes? I wonder if sha "He certainly is a darling, Helen, ' over.' " And stooping over, he kissed me, A,ia 'l0. but I sort of imagine he wouldn't like telling me to go to bed as ho would be did?' looked yearningly at her U9 so well were you not one of us. Don't ' later. blush, there's nothing wonderful about i his admiring you. Most any man would. And he's an artist you know." ' ' I never think of him as an artist, Evelyn,".! returned. "I just think of j quarrel had been because I him as I would of any nice young rei- lum. low who makes himself agreeable. Ho' (Tomorrow The Last Straw Oh, how I wanted to ask where he was going, when he left me so nonchal antly night after night! But !. didn't dare. Our only really, really serious j'ie.ttiuuca UNDER THE CAMOUFLAGE INTIMATE WAR EXPERIENCED AND OBSERVATIONS OF LOWELL MELLETT (United Press Staff Correspondent) London, Jan. 29. (By Mail). If George Creel, or whoever has the pick ing, hasn't picked a chief naval censor yet here are the specifications: A man who looks as Lord Fisher would have looked if he had turned out handsome instead of the way he did; if his nose hadn't turned up so far and his mouth down so far; if lie had found it easier to smile than to scowl and easy enough to do either as circum stances required; if tht wind on tho sea had put an English blush in his cheeks without dimming the sharp blue of his eyes. That would be a man like Commo dore Sir Dounlaa Browurigg, who keeps tho lid ou British naval secrets as well as it is possible to do so which by the vote of American correspondents is sui- ficieutly well. It probably won't De possioie in Amer ica to find a man so facially adapted to work as Sir Douglas is. When 1 met him today in the musty old part qt the Admiralty building where he has his office, he looked as though he had just staff being swamped and in delaying publication of news until it wasn't news, he said that the contrary ig the case. The day staff cleans up all its work during its own hours ami the night staff does the same. Only in rare in stances where it is noeessary to place some highly technical question before the proper authority and this authority is not immediately available, ao ?ney fail to get the censoring done in time for publication in the edition intended. In matters of policy Sir Douglas has practically the last word. He has occu pied his present post from the beginning of the war through the successive ad ministrations of Prince Louis of Batten- burg and the others on down to the pre-1 sent. All these he has known intimate ly for years and as censor has known their views and their desires. Wherefor he has been in position to matters for left dimple, took his fountain pen out of his pocket and put it back again, ana remarked, ' ' They don 't seem to be able to do much with the high cost of living, do they?" With an indescribable, gesture, sh lightly powdered her nose. He almost fainted with rapture. , f Steve Brody took a chance," ha . thought. And he gritted his teeth together res olutely until he discovered that hi tongue was between them. Suddenly she Bpoke, and her word came out one by one, each in its pro per place. "I think I'll turn you down," ah. said steadily. Jarvis Swipe was dumbfounded, bow led over, floored, staggered and flab bergasted. Yes, I think I'll turn you down," she repeated. And she rose and turned down the lamp until the room was al most in darkness. Five minutes later they were both prisoners for life. with Will Johnson and family in South. Salem and they report a fine visit. Mrs. Lafalet is spending a few weeki with Mrs. B. It. Bine. E. P. Mills and family spent Thursday evening with Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Far hon, that has moved out ou the Charley Willson farm. The official calculation is that1 a sol dier wears out nine pairs ot shoes in a year or a pair in about six weeks. They're the hobnailed kind too, so we'll expedite have to admit that our three-year-old he Press. And that he says : youngster doesn't hold the record after he considers one of the most important features of his job. Just how important Sir Douglas con siders the iw-imIs of the Press his secre- all. finished eatins one American journalist tarv indicated to nie-The Chief, the see- missiimary ami was Hungry ior anoiuer. But appearances do deceive: He was very gentle and kind. It -was Meatless Friilav and he had been lunching, he said, ou a fascinating work of fiction. "It is an excellent dook, ne sum, but it never will see the light of pub lication. The author writes too weti. " Too well?" Tnn convincingly. He's got one chapter describing the shooting of some , that late, I can." rotary said, worRs three nights a weeK till midnight, In the first' mouths of the war he worked that late practically every night and often much later. I asked him about this. He disclaimed any excess of zeal, reminding me that ; there is a war on and adding, "Withj some of these First Lords the best i time to get at them Is half past one I in the morning, and if they can work German prisoners they deserved to be bo shot, according to tue siory uou in the dark cellars of London Tower. It really wouldn 't be bad propaganda in Germany perhaps. It might be a warn in" to a certain well known type of our .,r..i,.,i.l onemv. But it's written too onvincingly. leu couldn't persuaue Germans who read it that u is $ Which puts a different light on the "stupidity of the censorship." I'll havo to think it oWr. Glass of Hot Water Before Breakfast a Splendid Habit Open sluice of the system each morning and wash away the poisonous, stagnant matter, fiction. And that migni oe uau ii ish prisoners in Germany. This led the Chief Censor to dis cuss some of the things he has to think about. He recalled various isolated aud 3c jfs ifc ifc ijc sj( 3(c (6 3)c 3jC 3C LACHMTJND. Mrs. Ranthman, Mrs. Mabel Labranch and Mrs. E. P. Mills spent Monday with Mrs. Albert Jackson. Mr, Those of us who are accustomed to Ifeel dull and heavy when we arise; !eplitting headache, stuffy from a cold,, j'foul tongue, nasty breath, acid atom jiwh, lame back, can, instead, both look and feel as fresh as a daisy always by I'Washinir the twiisona anil t.mrina from the body with phosphated hot water each morning. Wo should drink, itefore breakfast, a glass of real lict water with a tea- Kusel has for the past several snminfiii nf iin,atnn ina.j,oi- apparently insignificant little news stor-j jays been hauling cinders from the asy- to flush from the stomach, liver, kid iea that it had been found necessary to ; ium fixing the mud holes in his barn neys and ten yards cf bowels the pre- suppress. Each by itseii was uarmicM. j yar j anJ als prlVate road. They make vioua day s indigestible waste, soar But some of them pieced together and.a fine filling for muddy roads. jbile and poisonous toxins; thus cleant- added to other bits of information al- j jjr- fisher was called to the home ! ing, sweetening and purifying the e ready obtained by German intelligence 0f Albert Jackson Sunday afternoon as 'tire alimentary tract before putting officers would give them information , Mr j:tl ksyn nad a bad attack of ton-1 more food into the stomach, they undoubtedly were working hard to! gilitis, but she was much better Monday. I The aerion of limestone phosphate get. Earlier in the war the British in- Vivian McAhster and wife visited atftnd he water on" an empty stomach, tvlligence officers hadv found the Ger- tue lome 0f". p. Mills Sunday. Theyj1 wonderfully invigorating." It eleaas made the trip wuh a motorcycle. !'ou' ' sour rermentations, gases, Mr. Clarke is improving the pen road' waste and acidity and gives one bv dragging it ana pitting ou gravel j?lendid appetite for breakfast and it "We understand, that Homer Bray" is i1? t0. tat 1 Uttle wnle until ... - ,i i i -the roses boein to snnAar in tha hppka , uv , . . uui vja w nwi ai'i icw uays wailing f . -- i " many a story aarnuess cuimu ..i .. to sw lt- ne takes tne measies as his 11 F"m i limestone pno- aud 'written in the best of faith." brother in-law, Fred Caulson was visit-i'p e , ost erv. Ut,!e at the druS man provincial papers, win lut. quential news sheets, a most fertile field of exploration for just this rea son. "So", he said, "we nave to Hn H ovnlninml the workings of the na val censorship. A striking feature of it is th cers some own omee work ing at their place from Portland and while there had the measles. We under- , store, but is sufficient, to one who is bothered with handle practically all the trees the last few davs. Asked if that didn t result in the I make any-biliousness. constipation, stomach trouble or rhea- sm a real enthusiast on the aub- spraying his first jVoa are lha, "l,,, Li v,. E. P. Mills and family spent Sunday ml m every ws sao"" e smallness of the staff. Xine offi- stand that Fred is all right ao-ain and working at the Press Bureau and'has returned to his home in Portland i t ?thig less than that in Sir Douglas' R, Pcrlach haa been spraying his first