Editorial Page of The Capital Journa
CHARLES H. FISHES
Editor and Publisher
FRIDAY EVENLNO
April 19, 1918
BY
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LOOKING TOO FAR AHEAD
The milling trust, it develops, has been robbing the
KM U h I E Ifr I III I II l Mill. 1 I mi I a I I . I Lflllll V A 7 l UllilV I i - - . . -
... ' foi ,io,.frv,nr,fo ov.a r.in00!PuWic since war begun, as boldly as the shoe manu
o w . . 1 . , TUPriirPrc TnPV nova marl a mil ir.ne rr HnriHonHa of fho
expense of a people practicing self-denial in the interest
of patriotism. In the Northwest the milling ' trust has
been especially rapacious, protected as it was by the late
1. is. Wilcox, milling commissioner and trust-made mil
lionaire. Such profiteering ought to be stopped if it
takes a firing squad to stop it; the men who are coining
the necessities of the people into dollars in time of war
are more dangerous enemies of the nation than German
spies.
God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to per
form," says the old hymn. If so He certainly is not alone
in so
followers of His example. Yesterday the dispatches an
nounced that there was a shortage of steel, and that sev
eral departments were insistent 011 being supplied first.
In the same dispatch it was stated that the shipping board
had decided to let no more contracts for wooden ships. It
is claimed this was done because of shortage of dock space
in foreign countries where our vessels are landing these
days, and besides when the war is over the smaller .wood
enship cannot compete with the larger steel, vessels. This
latter fact may be true, but the war is not over and the
end of it is not yet in sight. Besides the shipping board
is getting too cautious and far too economical in this line.
It is looking too far ahead. We want the ships now, .not
after the war, and a ship completed and allowed to run
for one year will have more than paid for herself as an
investment and at the same time would have paid for her
self many times in helping deliver our men and supplies
across the Atlantic. The business of this country just
now is winning the war, and it takes ships and more ships,
and ships of every make and kind, anything that will
deliver munitions and foodstuffs to our boys and our
allies.
The American people are not counting the cost of a
fleet of wooden ships, not if they will help accomplish the
work we have on hand of whipping the kaiser and his
junker advisers to a standstill. They want ships for use,
today if possible, and they don't, care what happens to
them after the war is won. They can go into the scrap
heap if necessary and be Counted as part of the price we
' have paid for the privilege of helping make the world a
respectable one where a freeman could live without blush
ing over his cowardice in submitting, to the dictation of
the descendant of a long line of illustrious free booters
and robbers. The American people want a world fit for
decent people, for honeSt, square men and women, and
that they are going to have, please God, despite the ef
forts of the baby-killing Prussians and militarists drunk
en with ambitioh-and rotten with lust for power. If
wooden ships will help accomplish thcse'things they want
wooden ships. Not only this but they want all kinds and
that as quickly as money even lavishly expended and
mayhap wasted to a degree, and men can build them.
THE UNPARDONABLE SIN
Our Daily Story
It is stated in a dispatch from Washington that rumors !
nave reached there 1 rom the Ukraine that Austrian;
troops in that section refuse to go to the western front orj
even to Italy. This shows the effect of association. While Exeepting t0 tew hi k Gcrmau
the Austnans and Germans were fraternizing with the military officials, the suicide of ueu
Slavs in order to betray them, the Teuton soldiers were;
themselves inocculated with the Russian peasant s desire !- f"rai miunt ai, for the first
for land. The Austrian soldiers now in the Ukraine want ip the pec?liar secret:
to stay there so that when the war is over they may be- j For two weeks the Germans had
come citizens and at the same time land owners. The in- rAiiZette1'''8 the uulB Buliau towa
dicatu ns are that the German prisoners .in Siberia are: "General'' colonel schmccrcase re
getting imbued with the same ideas and are not nearly 'j" 'Townn'ow"' S "dee
so keen to see the kaiser win as they might be. They fense has been battered0 Tnto guudun
krow the kaiser amTrealize the smallness of the chance rWr, gedoP
tnev would have at the lands should the Hnhenzollerns nie?" ,"vhv don't von ten n. .ip..
once get control of them. !lfl?MV1.Tl't.krwf-)Tr'tortid G?c'''.
I'm continuing the Ijomljardmiut is lie
cause I hate to stop the cannons while
the church is still standing. It 's such
an easy mark, too the gunners ought
to be unvpgedunipf ! (ashamed of themselves).
And the bombardment continued un
Rheumatism Back on the Job
With its Old-time Fury
No Let-Up In Its Torture.
Pretty soon you will be reaching
for the liniment bottle again, ior the
millions of little pain demons that
cause Rheumatism are on the war
path. Winter weather seems to awak
en them to renewed fury.
But your Rheumatism cannot be
rubbed away, because liniments and
lotions cannot reach the disease. It
is in the blood, and only a remedy
that goes deep down Into the circula
tion, and routs out the disease germs,
can rid you of this disabling disease.
S. S. S. has given some wonderful
results in treating Rheumatism. Be
ing a purely vegetable blood remedy,
it purifies the blood of every germ,
and thu3 removes the cause of Rheu
matism. Get a bottle to-day at your
drugstore, and start on the right
treatment that will get results. Free
advice about your case can be had by
writing to Medical Director, 26 Swift
Laboratory. Atlanta, Ga.
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The Woman Who Changed j
To pay trade balances adverse to the United States
bar silver can in many cases be used to advantage and as
this is -a scarce article just now a bill has been passed by
the senate, and is before the house, providing for melting
$,foU,uUU,UUU silver dollars now m the treasury into bullion
The bill fixes the price of bar silver at $1.00 per ounce,
the highest price in many years. The job of melting tnis
silver is a pretty large one but is a trifle compared to
the recoining of the same amount which may have to be
done sometime. The sum of $350,000,000 in silver would
weigh about 10,500 tons.
In the trial of the 112 I. W. W. members for sedition at
Chicago, their attorney announces that he will "use
human exhibits illustrating the results of the present in
dustrial system in order to show that a man should refuse
to work because of the danger to" his'" health." This is
another case of asinine leniency on the part of the courts
which will allow an attorney to plead any kind of utter
nonsense in justification of anything his client is accused
of doing or leaving undone. The attorney should be
thrown into jail for contempt of court and at the-same
time made to understand that if a man does not work he
does not eat.
The Portland public library affair will not be settled
finally and satisfactory until the librarian, Miss Isom, and
W. B. Ayer and other trustees who sympathize with dis
loyalty are removed from office. One of the worst
menaces to the government is the teachings and example
of the cranks and crazy theorists who dominate our
universities, libraries and othe institutions 'of similar
character. Miss Hunt was no worse than many others
but she lacked discretion and talked too much. The
board, headed by Ayer, was perfectly satisfied with its
employes and so was the librarian under whom they
worked. Why discharge a subordinate and allow those
really responsible for the conduct of an institution, to
escape?
Ireland has furnished only 170,000 soldiers for the pres
ent war. This is the first time in history that every
Irishman that had the opportunity failed to get into the
center of any and every scrap that came under his obser
vation. There must be something radically wrong with
the present generation since it will require conscription
to get the major portion of them into the fighting. But
they will fight that.
The Willard-Fulton ten round match for the heavy
weight championship of the world has all the earmarks of
a first-class fake, in the making. It is staged to go only
t:-n rounds and jxovision is inade for a referee's decision
if there is no knock out. Of course the scrap may lie on
the square but it has a suspicious squint and if Willard
and Fulton want to fight why don't they join the army?
The mills at Vancouver, Washington, are sending lum
ber enough east every day to build 000 airplanes. It is
first-class lumber, too, and it is claimed the mills are not
working to capacity either. With 300 a day it would seem
that America should soon out fly all Europe?
The kaiser asks: ''What have I not done to preserve the
world from these horrors?" The answer is "anything."
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I Kipplmg Rhymes
By JANE PHELPS
CHAPTER LVI.
George seemed to think he had done
all that was necessary to please me.
til the tall slender spire had succumb- i whL'u lie ilu(l allowed me to"give my din
ed to German shells. illcc party, lor a long time afterward
BACK TO HIS OLD WAYS.
II.
Panting with violent emotion, in
which were mingled rage, shame, em
barrassment, remorse and astonishment
Colonel Schmeercase agahi stood before
his general. The town had been taken.
"A scout has has just reported,"
he stammered, "that the building was
not a church at nil. It was a a sau
sage factory. It seems that the manufac
turer had a fancy for spires and steep
les."
General Deutschsprccken paled, red
dened, blackened, moaned with the voice
of a lost soul, "I have destroyed a sau
sage factory!" and toppled over in a
swoon.
That night he was found dead in
his tent with his empty revolver still
clutched in his hand. Five bullets weie
embedded in his skull, but the sixth had
managed to penetrate into his brain.
Open Forum
SIMPSON WOULD BE GOOD
BUSINESS GOVERNOR
Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, will get a double shot
at the equal suffrage bill. As a member of the house he
voted for the measure, and now that it is about to come
up ii. the senat3 he will vote for it again. He was
formally sworn in as a member of the senate and took hb
seat yesterday.
- LADD & BUSH, Bankers
The Third Liberty Bond Sale is now on. We have
a Liberty Bond Department in one of our Lobby
s, A teller is constantly in charge ready to
answer questions and take subscriptions.
Staffs.
by Walt Mason
GARDEN PERILS
I've spaded up my acre lot, to make a war
time garden; 'twill be the smoothest little
plot you ever saw a bard in. I've sown the
kind of boneless greens that used to please
our daddies, and I have beds of peas and
beans and leeks and finnan haddies. And
neighbors come along and say, "In vain is
all your toiling! For vagrant hens will
come this way, your treasured garden spoil
ing. And dogs will come, and once or twice
they'll wallow in youriettuce; then you'll
recall our sage advice, ah, then you won't
forget us ! And when the moonlight, white,
j intense, the world in silver washes, a cow . will climb
1 1 your garden fence, and eat your Hubbard squashes. Some
night a horse, Irom halter tree, perhaps a gray with dap
! pies, will come and climb up yonder tree and swallow ail
ivmir mr)lfs. Anil hnira will pump frnm rli-stnnt iipns lnno-'state of Oregon.
i i : 1 YrYVu T1"" ian attested if neces-
k-agues they 11 come, a-kitmg, to eat the onions that theory, i want vo t0 get this before tuo
hens parsed up as uninviting. . Oh, we have raised such Vp,e t,f Oregon, a it might mtiuenee
, A i . i i. . i i someone to vote for Mr. timpson wha
garden sass, to feed ffuch vagrant varmints, and we have ,Ws I10t know him as we do here.
upiit. nnrl rriprl 'Alis'" and ' tnrn nnr hpnrrfc and Mr. ! Hoping that you can use this to his
,,Ti i i it-'Tii- t advantage, and that he will be our next j
mcnts. It s such encouragement as this I get when I am govoruorj i am, . j
North Bend (Coos Bav) Or. April 10.
To the iiditor:
J. L. Simpson should be nominated
governor by the republican party.
lhere are two incidents in Air. simp
son s career that 1 want to bring to
your attention, that you may let the
people of Oregon know just what kind
of a man he is, and that go to prove that
he would make ,iust the kind 01 a gov
ernor that Oregon needs.
He was manager oi the Kiuipson Lum
ber company at the time I am going to
tell of you of.
One incident shows tarsightedness and
the other square dealing and honesty of
purpose.
When timber land was considered not
very profitable investment he pur
chased a tract of laud that looked good
to him for the future; the purchase price
was $7j,UUO. When the dratt went to
Ban Francisco the Simpson Lumber
company turned it down; so far as they
could see it would not be a good 111
estiuent, and instead ot it not being a
good inyestment it turned out to bo
worth several million dollars. As near
as I eau find out they have sold over
wo million dollars worth of stumpage
nd would not take two million dollars
for the stumpage still "unsold, saying
nothing of the coal and laud lelt.
ihe other incident was when he was
president of the .fort 01 Coos Buy. Un
der his supervision there was a channel
three hundred feet wide and twenty five
feet deep dug for about thirteen miles,
and 111 doing so the dreugings were sold
to fill up low lauds getting the best
price that could be obtained from the
different parties benefitted. Among the
Simpson Lumber company making quite
a fill along the water front. The bul
rendered by the Port for doing so was
two thousand five hundred dollars
which the Simpson Lumber company re
fused to pay. And the Port sued thein
for the same, but the ease went to court,
the jury was impanelled and some of
the witnesses had given testimony ,aud it
was not looking very good for the Porl.
The case was defended by Edgar Simp
sou aud his lawyer, Mr. Hammond, who
were apparently feeling that they would
win the case for sure. L. J. ISimpson
came into the court room and asked the
judge if he could say a few words. The
judge asked him if it pertained to the
case. He said it did. The judge told him
that he could not do so before the jury.
lie astweu 11 1 ne jurv couiti uc arm uui
of the room for a few minutes, which 1 1
was uone. ur. oiuipsou xnen saiu: x
do not want this case to go any further;
I want to pay the twenty five hundred
dollars myself personally; I do not want
the Port to lose that amount of money."
The case was stopped. He gave his not
for the amount which he afterwards
paid in full personally and noj from the
funds of the Simpson Lumber company.
This happened before his father 's death,
when he was not so very well fixed fi
nancially, aud goes to show and prove
the kind of a man L. J. Simpson is for
honesty of purpose and square dealing
with his fellow man, that being his only
reasou for doing as he did in the case.
1 could tell you many more of his
good deeds, but these are enough to
prove that lie would make a. far seeing,
square and upright governor of the
! lie made no plans which included me
was much alone, and very lonely.
Melton Gray called occasionally.
Those were red letter days for me. We
laughed and chatted 11s two young
things will. I played for him, aiid he
told me of his work. 1 became intense
ly interested in art, and he brought
me books to read. I soon became famil
iar with many of the old masters' work
in this way, and also studied, under
Melton's direction some of tho modem
painters.
Evelyn .scolded me for taking up so
many studies.
" Vou'll soon have no time for me,"
she grumbled one day.
"Oh, I'll always have time for vou!"
I exclaimed. i
"Yes, unless it happens to be your
musie lesson, your French, your art stud
ies or Mrs. bexton. A swell chauee I
stand of having much of your society.
mirs. uusy-Dody. '
"You told mo I must make myself
over, so George would be proud of me."
"I know, Helen, aud you must, even
though you don't have so much time
to waste on me. But look out for Morton
Gray. He's awfully fascinating. You'll
get to liking him too well for your peace
of miud, I am afraid."
A Self -Evident Pact.
"Nonsense!" I laughed. But I felt
but Kurts says it is just the place to
rest and loaf."
"I'll ask George at dinner tonight".
"Lo, and coax him to go with us. For
a part of the summer, anyway."
j "I'm afraid coaxing wouldn't do any
good, it he doesn t want to go. iiut Eve-
Ijlyu, I should LOVE to go with you. It
would be so nice to get away from all
this the servants, the formality and
be just a girl again. We could wear old
clothes and build houses in tho sand,"
I said laughingly but someway the
tears were very near. My childhood
seemed a long way off.
George Vetoes the Plan.
I waited until George was drinking
his coffee, before I mentioned the sub
ject of his plans for the summer. I
even waited until he had lighted his
cigar and was contentedly blowing
smoke rings, watching them as they dis
solved into the air.
"Are you going away this snmmerf "
I asked, trying to keep the anxiety out
or my voice.
"Certainly."
"Have you decided upon any partic
ular place?" Then, fearing he would
say he had, and would not change, I
rushed on, not waiting for an answer:
"Evelyn was over, today, and she and
Kurts are going up to a littla place
on the Maine coast to fish and sail
and have a niee lazy time. She wanted
to know if we wouldn't go, too."
I waited, while he finished his cof
fee. Then he said:
"I surely SHALL not go to some lit
tle fishing village and bury myself all
miroij f K iiv .in, I 1,111 TlM t. 1 . . .. r . . . .
u.jom. uiuouiug. a ji u ,Ln.K uimou , summer, j. nave not quite matured my
Gray. I liked him immensely. And whylplans; when I do I will tell you wher
shouldn't If He had ben kind and pa-jwe arc to go."
tient with me when I was practically I I well finew'tliere" was"n6"app?al;"yet "
snubbed by all of my husband's society 1 1 could not resist saying: '
friends. He had not treated me as if 1 1 "I think it would do you good to g
were so lacking in all that, constituted ! to some quiet place like that, and I
a lady, that I needed to be made over should love it."
before 1 was worth noticing. "We won't rliscnaa it fnrtK
tsy the way, have you decided what impracticable."
you are going to do this summer!" It That was his way. He never discus--was
March, and Evelyn was already ; scd anything with roe. It was yea and
making plans to go away to some quiet nay with him, always. The tears wer
place up in Maine, where Kurts could verv near, lint T wnnM not lnt ti..
fish and sail, and where they would be! fall. If he would only tell me the WHf
quite away from the fashionable crowd. 'of things occasionally. It would ba
No, I haven t asked George, and ho easier for me to be contented with the
It U
hasn 't mentioned it."
"Wouldn't it be lovely if you and he
were to go where Kurts and I have de
cided to go? I have never been up there
arbitrary way he had with me. But he
never did.
(Tomorrow Georgo Refers to His Plans
For the Summer)
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. - ns iixui turn cv
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Helpful Hints on Banking
DIFFERENCE IN ACCOUNTS
FUNDS deposited to ore's credit in a check
ing account are subject- to withdrawal by
LHLUC Those placed in a savings account
may only be withdrawn upon presentation of
the depositor's Savings .Passbook. And, if
the depositor himself does not caU whoever
does must have his signed order as well as the
passbook.
Wherever money is being received and dis
bursed regularly-we suggest the Checking
account as the more practicable, mile it doel
not earn Interest like Savings-it is more
Convenient and
Businesslike.
un
iioeirg, and it destroys the
things crowing.
peacviui
utiss
I felt, to seej
Respect full v Tours,
FETF.K LOGO IE,
President Chamber of Commerce
, i i i x . 1
Sal
UedSfatos
tORiUDank
Oregon.