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Editorial Page of The Capital Journa FBIDAY EVENXNQ May 3, 1918 CHARLE3 H. TT3HEB Editor ad Fubliihw liigigiiilllyiSMS PUBLISHED BVEat KVENINO ESCEPT Sl'NDAT, SAI.EM, OREOON, 81 Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. fc. 8 BARNES. CIIA8. H. FISflER. Vic rrwioVat. DORA C. ANDRESEN. Sw. and Tra . KAISER WANTS PEACE AGAIN lily bj mull. kt jror . . SIBSt'KlPTIO.N KATKS .- 00 Prt Month S '''; 3.00 Per Month 3;c VVIA. LRAHKD WIRE TKl.EdltAI'H UEIVliT EASTERN KEritESEMAlIVES W. D. War New York. Tr.bu.e Bu.imn,. r prt jJMWtM Tbe Capital Jonrml farrier boy. .re Instructed to put th pper on th porch ,. If the wrr "r io. not do thU. ml, yon. or neglect, tettm tbe paper to yo on t me, ilndly phone the circulation anrer. a. this I. .the only way we can eiw "Aether or not the carrier are following liutructlon. l'hone M.iln 8J before 7 :30 e clock and a JaiW? will be wot you by apeclal roeenger If the carflcr ba. miwd you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOI KNAL I. the only newspaper In Halem whose circulation la uarantee4 by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. MILLIONS OF WAR GARDENS , -III .i I Have you planted your war garden, or made arrange ments to do so? Of course here in the Willamette vallej jf you intended to have such a garden you have'a large part of it already planted It is something that all wh, car. should do, for it gives the. gardener a measure of independence, and serves to provide those foods which owin to scarcity of labor are apt to be planted in less areasthis year than usual. Here in America the thought of food scarcity seems almost absurd. Ever since it has been a country it has been abundantly supplied with food for all It has been our boast that we can feed the world and it is not an idle boast either. The time is at hand too when we have to make good on that claim. The allies are making tremendous demands on us, and these we are not able to fill entirely. We are sending foodstuffs of the value of $160,000,000 a month to them, but this is not as much as they ask, or as we promised. It was only the voluntary going on short rations of the great mass of the American people that enabled America to keep the allies, even partly supplied. Atone time last summer New York had but a trifle more than one day s supply of wheat flour, and most of the other cities of the east less than a full week's supply. Drastic measures were taken to prevent an absolutely barren market, and a consequent scare among the masses. While nothing was pnnted at the time about it, the flour supply to the allies was re quisitioned, for American use. This was due to the fail lire of transportation facilities, and may happen again At the same time the shortage of labor may curtail production of some crops and so every pound grown in the war gardens is that much added foodstuffs for the world. Lack of labor may result in food shortage at any time when this lack occurs, and one of the problems fac ing the country just now is this same labor shortage. Ship building with its high wages has drawn thousands from the farms. Demand for labor in munition factories, in steel plants, coal mines and the countless things that require labor to absorb the money expended for things needed to carry on the war draws on the farm labor. Thi3 item alone amounts to ten biillion dollars a year. The demand for cars and railroad materials was never so heavy and this branch is taking thousands away from their regular employments. It is one of the things of vital necessity too, for last year the car shortage was what came near causing a food shortage. It was the cause of the fuel shortage, and only the taking over of the railroads by the government prevented trouble serious enough, to be classed as a calamity. There is a great car shortage still and this is another argument why the war garden should be cultivated by everyone in the Unitetd States. It saves that much transportation. It is esti mated that the value of war garden products last year was above $300,000,000. The transporting of this product to the market centers would have required thous ands of cars, and this was saved. One of the rather strange features of the situation is that the increased wages has caused an increase in the consumption of cer tain foods. Mr. Hoover has gone before congress for additional authority for control of consumption., on ac count of these. He shows the consumption of meats has increased 20 per cent, and of tats about 11 per cent. These must be reduced or the allies must go without. One rea son there has not been a greater meat scarcity is that owing to the efforts of Mr. Hoover, and his influence with the packers the size of the hogs sent to market has been greatlv increased. The quality of the bacon and hams mav have deteriorated somewhat from this but the quantity 'has been added to. Your little war garden will help. No matter if it is small, or if it costs you all or mre than the value of its products. You have produced something toward feeding yourself, and that is the main thing. . Two weeks from today there will be a job lot of slogans to be had for the asking as they will be no use to anyone for a couple of years. The demand for them will not be great as the slogans did not "sloge" worth a cent LADD & BUSH, Bankers The Third Liberty Bond Sale is now on. We have a Liberty Bond Department in one oi our Lobby Stalls. A teller is constantly in charge ready to answer questions and take subscriptions. - The strongest indications that the kaiser is worried is the feeler sent out that his royal nibs wants peace and will make another offer using the pope as a mediator. Recently when his spies had upset Russia with their lying propaganda, he did hot want peace without indemnities or annexations, but insisted on both and even fixed the indemnity Rumania was to pay at $4,500,000,000. He also sent his armies to Finland and through Ukraine, both in direct violation of the peace terms signed by his representatives but a week or two before. Now that the drive against Amiens and the coastj on which he relied, has failed, and the Americans are rushing ever increasing numbers of soldiers across the ocean to help destroy him, he suddenly awakens to the fact that peace is a good thing. It is time now that the allies take the position so often assumed by the central powers, and that is to refuse to make peace unless there are both indemnities and an nexations. Belgium must be paid so far as it is possbile to pay for the atrocities heaped upon her, and so must Serbia. France, too must be indemnified so far as possible for the ruin of her cities, the destruction of her farms and orchards and the vandalism generally to which she has been subjected. A part at least of the tremendous debt she has forced upon other nations in defending them selves should also be borne by the central powers. Ger many must be shorn of the places she has captured, so that she cannot have the coal, the oil, the mines of iron and others that she has taken and holds. She must in fact be shorn of her strength, and therefore of her ability to again plunge the world into war. It is not like ly another crazy emperor will run amuck against the world, but at the same time the world cannot afford to take any chances. For these reasons any offer of peace coming from Germany and through the pope should be piven no consideration whatever. The pope will make no friends by' acting asjponsor for a made-in-Germany peace. I I The Woman Wto Changed ' By JAKE PHELPS . G&OKGS IS PLEASED THAT UBS. BOSS CALLED. The assessing of state prison employes to swell the governor's campaign fund harks back to the good old days of machine politics. It had generally been believed that with the direct primary and other reform ideas prevailing the plan of forcing public employes to pay the politicians for the privilege of holding their jobs would never be practical in Oregon again. It seems that this hope was not well-founded. The governor has, through his man Joe Keller, re-instated the system with some im provements, making it less burdensome upon the em ployes by first raising their salaries so that the assess ment really falls upon the public treasury. Of course no threat accompanies the request to die up but most em ployes who care to retain their jobs are wise enough to come through. 1 After many years at last a building commemorates the spot where the pioneers of the northwest by a narrow margain decided to be a part of the United States instead of Canada. There were not many of them but they sure did a good day's work, and Oregon did the proper thing ;n erecting a monument to their patriotism and good judgment. Candidate Simpson, who has just returned from a tour of Eastern Oregon, says he will carry every county in that section. While this is perhaps a mistake, it is un doubtedly true that he is gaining strength and if he does not win he will at least be well up toward the lead. His candidacy Appeals strongly to the business men of the state. ' jj Rippling Rhy mes by Walt Mason A BIRTHDAY 1 Si y JHHU WAX, I Some umphy years ago today I showed up on this planet, where northern streamlets PwCi dasn tneir wav between tall hills of granite, f 1m erowing old in count of years, that nmvu x am auuvvuig, uub i am CHipper its the steers that Adam used for plowing. If you'd convince me I am old, you'd have to bring the papers; for I am gay, my step is bold, and I cut fancy capers. Men often say, "You look so young! Your youth is scarcely civil; the rest of us by age are stung why don't you bend and shrivel?" And I reply, "The world's a joke, and life a ioke. and life a transient, flnrrv and nil mir troubles end in smoke, so I refuse to worry. To me care looks like twenty cents,: I throw it tothe foxes; it's worry ages dames and gents, and puts them in their boxes. Oh, worry will not heal a sore, there is no balm in weeping; so while you fellows walk the floor I put in nine hours sleep ing. And here I am all sound and hale, and fit' and pert and able; I take a bullock by the tail and throw it o'er the stable." Today I celebrate my birth with flares and Roman candles, while sighs reecho round the earth, brought forth by Teuton vandals. If tears would down a single foe I'd make a moist beginning; but not an ill is healed by woe, and so I keep on grinning. CHAPTER LXIX. "Mr. and Mrs. Koas called, last night an a Mr. Hunting ;on came with them" I reinarkpd at the breakfast table. 'That so! W,?ll, Gerald Koss is a charming woman. I should like you to be friends with her." ' She is a lot oHler than L" "I know that I It is one of the rea Mr.i I should like you .jo be with hen J (b'n't fare so much for Bert, but Gerry is all right." "What is her name! You called h.er Gerald. I thought that was a man name." "Ilur name is 'Geraldiue.' Wq al ways called her either 'Gerald' or 'Ger ry', before she was married, and most of us still k-.-ep it up. That young Huif) tington I don't care so much about. I don't know what. ails young men, now adays; they don't seem .to have ai' idea in their heads beyond having e good time. He's rather of an ass, but lias money enough to do as he pL.'nses." X was disappinted to hear George criticize Claude Huntington before I could tell him of the invito. ion to din net at tho gay little restaurant in the t'ubuibs. "He is going to give a dinner out at Craft 's soon. He asked me if you and 1 would go." . "Perhaps, if I have nothing elso to do." Oeorgo replied carelessly, and I said no more pleased to have cv.?n e tentative promise. Warm Feelings Suppressed. I do not think that anyone dream ed 1 was not perfectly happy, at thi time, or tha George wm dissatisfied uith me. But I felt tha'i 1 had failed tc mt his expectations as he had outlin eu t he in to me. He had married mo no! because he lowd me, but because hi saw my pssibilities. He had preferred t mould a country girl, than to take g'rl who would be more inclined .-o af ait herself her own individuality. Th j feeling of failure always made ms very unhappy. I knew perfectly well wbe: he said ho hoped Mrs. Ross and I woulfj he fi lends, that he said it not becaus he thought the friendship would t a phasiini one for me, but because ht thought it would be IMPROVING. X wonder if one who has not had ,;h' same experience will, or could, under stand how such an attitude affected nie. I continually felt belittled, inade quate. Then, too, I loved my husband. Wher t married, I thought Mm a veritabK prince among men; he was so handsouw; so courteous; and he certainly seemed to love mo. I was a very happy bride un til wo ended our honeymoon and wen to Morelands. Prom that time, it had b.?en a sort of a struggle a struggle to please him, a struggle to hung on to in)' happiness, and a struggle to convince myself that he still loved me when he continually found 'me so lacking in al ,h,it he .believed went to make up th attractive, successful woman of th world. It nettled me, too, that ho always in sisted upon having his own way never consulting me or my inclinations. Thii from the veriest trifles to the mos serious affairs. I had pro.'ested, at firs had tried to persuade him to allo me to do as 1 pWased, occasionally. Bui I no longer even objected. He alwny insisted upon his way, with a polit coldness, a perfunctory manner, tha' chilled and frightened nv?. A Remembered Conversation Once, when we had been married but a t.'W months, 1 '.Uied to remonstrate with him about something. I begged him to consider my feelings; I even tried indignation; then loving gentle ness. But never did he givo iu to me. "I am disappointed in you!" lw re marked, at one of these times. "You are proving yourself a foolish, tiresome gill, instead of the kind 1 though.; I was marrying." Ho didn't really love me, I concluded, and wept bitterly ov.er the thought. He merely wanted a housekeeper, a wife whom' he could train to bo diguiifed and unemotional. 1 WAS changed. Often I wondered if it were1 for tho better or uo.k Prom a loving girl, spontaneous and warmheart ed, I had become hard reserved; and at times, utterly wretched. Yet, he con sidercd mo a BIT more capable, or, as I put it iu my thoughts, ue was not Ol ITE as ashamed ot mo as at lirst 1 fel, frozea. George was so correct so dignified that even before the ser vants I was unnatural, still, lacking in thnt poise which had begun to loom as the one desirable thing in my existence, if I were to have my husband's ra sped (if not his love). Then came the M-s. Sexton episode to complete my self-abasement. And while I no longer felt toward her as I did at first, '.'he thought still rankled thnt she had been hired to teach me things I shuuld have known before I married. (Monday Helen je.?ks Happiness) Without a Rival in Its Field Unapproached in efficiency, supreme, in comfort, alone in its class; the Velie Six has the great strength and endurance of high-priced cars with the economy, flexibility and simplicity that are possible only in the semi-light-weight construction. No car gives greater value for the money. The good motor car manufacturer must build better than the demands of ordinary use require. In the Velie, the purchaser is assured of this margin of quality this reserve store of power and per formance that is always ready when the need arises or when ordinary performance falls short. The fact that every unit of Velie construction is built better than is necessary f or ordinary inotoring assures the purchaser of a car that will be ready for any emergency. Salem Velie Co. 147 N. High Phone 44 Hodway Blugg as he explained how he had isolated the germ of twistamorbus, o? colic, thereby saving thousands of young liveB a year. Tumul.uous appreciation shook the dust from the rufters as Dr. Runyon r usiule announced modestly that he had discovered a fteruin to successfully coin- but the wnybacko, or germ of the re ceding chin, thereby bringing sunshine into the lives of millions of unfortun ate humans. But a questioning silence prevailed as a black robed stranger rose from his seat and held up a forbidding hand. "In ..'he name of the I. W. W. Anti- viviscctionists of the world," he an nounced, "it is my duty to proclaim that your so-called benefactions to the human race aro all at the expense of innocent young guinea pigs, rabbits and dogs, and that instead of publicity vauu.ing your deeds, you should nil be hanging your heads in some dark, ob scure corner of shame." Therif was a stunned silence, and then Dr. Roadbed Vest, the chairman, rose and said solemnly, "Stranger, are you aware that you stand before us a hypo crite? Aro you aware that every time a drop of water passes your guilty lips, you end tho innocent career of from 8,5-16,768 to 16,475,486 trustingl defence less li'.tle germs, who until your hypo critical deed had been happily basking in tho joy of living!" The stranger turned d.eathly pale, and without another word slunk out, and two weeks later was found dead from thirst. HOMES FOE CHILDREN Portland, Or., May 4. Everv time the Foundation company's yard here launches a vessel for the French gov ernment, a homeless child in France will be given a home. t or every ship launched for the Am erican government by the Standifer Construction company, a homeless Bel gian child will be helped. NOT FOE WITHYCOMBE (Woiodbuni Independent, Rt.) The Independent is not for Govern or Withycomibe to euceeed himself for several reasons. He has allowed hi judgment and actions in certain par ticulars to be guided by a clique that oared not so much for the governor 't political futnr.0 than ithe&r present wel fare. In. other words, they played him against former good friends and supporters. Ho was also used to. aid the -efforts of the insurance combine to get a bill through tho legislature killing all tho ritrong independent com panics that had been charging reason able rates of premiums or forcing them to adopt high old line rates. This has taken millions of dollars out of the state. The governor hag led the public to believe that his sym pathy was too mwh with the big monied interests and he was not force ful cnoiugb in end-eavorihg to carry out the earnest wish of tho state grange and the majority of the people of Oregon and make a success of the s'ato rural credits measure. He has seemingly coincided with the interest in the opinion that state bonds are not worth as much as municipal or schoot district bonds. He calmly lay down like a kmlb and did not raise his voice in protest when the credit of the state . of which he is supposed to bo the head was assailed. Ho siirrenilered the statea liQpor to the brokers. Hia policy rela tive to tho adjutant goneral's offics and ignoring old and tried national guardsmen has lost for him consider able support. Women employes of the Foundation company have agreed to siibsvribe $87 for each launching, which will be used to care for a French child for a year. Since there are few women employii by the Standifer company, th me ther will contribute- TRY JOURNAL WANT ADS Oar Daily Story THE L W. W. ANTI j Never, it seemed, had Science made1 such strides in a single year. The mam-i mouth Incision Auditorium packed to the doors with medical men assembled from every corner of the world for their great annual conference, resound-1 cd with applause as he speakers an-j nounced the results of their researches.' Thunderous acclamations greeted Dr. - Helpful Hints on Banking ALTERED CHECKS If an error has been made, write a new check. This is the safer and more business like way and will certainly avoid trouble if not actual loss. A correction may be made and then initialed by the maker, but this often results in confusion. Better be safe than sorry. ' Every possible safeguard is provided for the depositor here at the United States National Bank. KatloaalBank Oregon. Salem AJ