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!l'l!!;i!i,T of The Capital Journa zfona CHARLES H. FISHES Editor end Publisher MONDAY EVENING June 3, 1918 I Page PCBLISHED EVERY EVKNI.NQ EXCEPT 81'NDAT. SALEM, OREGON, BI Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. U B. BARNES. CIIAS. H. FICflER. Vi(-l'rldent. DORA C. ANDRESEN, 8c. and Treai. SL'USCUiniON RATES Dell; br wrier, pr yft $5.0 Per Month 45c iMliy br null, pr jrwir 3. Per Month 35 FULL LEASED WIKK TELEGKAI'H RBl'OUT KiSTKIIN KKl'liESKNTAUVKS D. Ward, New Tors, Tribune Building. Clikwu, W. H. Storkwell, People'! Gas Building The Capital Journal carrier boys arc lnatructed to put the papers on the porch. If tot carrier does nut do this, miiwa you, or neglects netting the paper to jau on time, kindly pboue the circulation mauuger. as tills la the ouly way we cuu determine whether r not the carriers are following Instructions i'houe Main 81 before 7 :3u o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special meaenger If the currier has Giiased you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper In .Halem whose circulation la guaranteed bj tb Audit Bureau of Circulations. TOO MANY "SUBSCRIPTIONS For taking care of the boys "over there" the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. are thoroughly equipped, the former for taking care of the sick, the wounded and the suffering, to attend to every want caused by battle and exposure; the other as thoroughly equipped for looking ?fter the needs of the boys in camp, providing for their comfort, furnishing them healthful amusements, and looking after their moral and spiritual welfare as closely as does the Red Cross after their physical needs. It would seem that these two magnificent organizations are sufficient, and that to them the public should turn over all the funds raised for looking after our boys in France. Out of the desire "to do something" dozens of schemes have spmng up, no doubt well intended, and all that, but at the same time in their operation an injury rather than a help along the lines mentioned. It is not necessary to single out any one of many plans started for raising money for this, that and the other thing, all with the ex pressed object of doing something to make conditions better for "our boys." Of course each of these schemes turns to the public to provide the means for carrying out the idea and accomplishing the things intended. Here is where the. injury is done. Practically every loyal Amer ican realizes the great work being done by the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. and goes down deep into his pocket every time in response to the call for more money to main tain these organizations. This is done cheerfully, gladly. For this reason the promiscuous collections for various things that keep the citizens digging down every day for some new scheme tend to make him weary. He does not like to refuse the plea of a couple of girls, who aije earnest and honest in their work, to subscribe for helping a band, for buying uniforms for some organization, for the doz ens of things some of them all right, but which could, and would be better taken care of by the Y. M. C. A. and some but a few removes from silliness. Yet all of them are caused by patriotic motives, and are presumably for some patriotic purpose. Well-intentioned as' they are they are a real injury to the great organizations since they tend to cause some to turn a deaf ear to their call. The public will do a good thing and a needed one when it refuses to subscribe to most at least of these minor affairs and de votes all its "mercy money" to the Red Cross and its com fort funds to the Y. M. C. A. These organizations will never have too much. By JANE PHELPS A HARD LESSON TO LEARN. the country, and to the government. There is a scarcity of these skilled workers, and on this account this same: tl iy ' nn. rt i Western Union has asked and received exemption from ! iae "oman " Uangett the draft for its employes. Yet, while receiving this con- . sideration at the hands of the government it assumes the right to discharge from the service which is about the same in effect as discharging them from the army, these men whom the government turns over to it. The result is likely to be a paralysis of business, for the telegraphers will not stand for this work and strikes are already called in some localities as a protest against this high handed procedure.- In the South, a strike is called for Tuesday night, June 4 unless the telegraph companies change their rules and permit their men to join the telegraphers, or any other union they want to. Seattle is also facing a strike on account of these same arrogant telegraph man agers. There it is quite likely, there will be a general strike affecting more than 50,000 workers in all trades unless the telegraphers are allowed their rights as citizens of the United States. When this strike comes, as it is certain to do, these same autocrats will sit back and prate about "their patriotism and the traitorous strikers," when they and their tyrrany is the cause and they are to blame for the whole situation. The thing the government will perhaps have to do is to take over the telegraph lines and business, and when this is done to keep that branch of business taken over. This is not a plea for or a defense of union ism, but for the rights of the American citizen. Unionism is something there ate two opinions about. Some like it and think it all right and others do not. That is the privilege of each, but neither one nor the other has the right to tell the other 'he cannot have that opinion. The Western Union is deliberately trying to tie up the busi ness of the country, and is as much an enemy to America in so doing as is the most rabid pro-German in Berlin. Its managers should be punished as such. WESTERN UNION HELPS THE KAISER The telegraph companies especially the Western Union is as arrogant as the Prussian junkers and about as sense less. With the most vulnerable business in the world it is setting itself up as dictator to all of its employes, and peremptorily discharging them if they do not obey its commands about something which is none of its business. It demands that none of its employes shall belong to a union. It presumes to say what its employes shall or shall not do when not doing its work. The union has not asked that it deal with it as a union. This it might refuse with some show of right on its part. It presumes to do what the government does not attempt, to say its employes must not belong to a union. It presumes to do what the courts have held it has no right to do, and to take from its em ployes their rights as American citizens. A man has as much right to join this1, that or the other union as he has to join the Masons, Elks, Good Templars or any other society. The employer who undertakes to deprive him of this right is a worse autocrat than the kaiser himself. Its managers may not believe in unionism, may feel bit terly toward it, may refuse to deal with any union as such, but when it comes to discharging its men simply for doing what the law says they may do, and for disobeying the dicta of the managers it is getting off wrong foot foremost. In these perlious times every true American citizen is 'oing all he can toward winning the war. Among thee there is no more important workers anywhere than the telegraphers. They are indispensible to the business of If the king of Bulgaria and the Sultan desiie to get a moving picture of their finish, let thenv.take a look at Austria-Hungary. It furnished the pretext for the war to Germany, and entered it as Germany s ally. 'All it has accomplished is the loss of its position as a world power, and the becoming of a vassal tt) Germany. That is what Germany has done for it as a reward for four years of fighting and of suffering and deprivation on the part of its civilian population. Practically every family has at least one of its members dead somewhere on the battle fields of the various fronts. If Germany wins, a similar fate awaits the Sultan and the king of Bulgaria. Their countries are needed by the kaiser to carry out his dream of a Berlin-to-Bagdad railroad, and he will pay little at tention to the rights of others in making this dream come true once he is in condition to do so. If Bulgaria and Turkey would maintain even the semblance of a govern ment they must drop the kaiser and look after their own interests. .'u w The concrete ship, Faith, after her trial voyage, is pronounced a grand success. This should cause an in crease in the yards devoted to this kind of ship, building, j.nd as this type can be turned out more rapidly than any other they should soon be taking their place on the Atlantic and aiding in getting suppplies to our boys and our allies. LADD& BUSH, Bankers Second Installment of Twenty Per Cent on Third Liberty Bonds will be due May 28, 1918. So far but few Americans have taken part in the big battle raging on the western front. This is shown by the light casualty lists and by the dispatches. However at one point, Cantigny, the Americans charged the pick of the German army, the Brandenburgers and Bavarians, drove them out of their trenches, took possession of the town in 47 minutes and have successfully held it against all al tacks. 4-v-M-M Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason r X X fa V .wan mo GROWING WEATHER Oh, why repine? The crops are fine, the oats, the prunes, the barley; our hay, we trust, will surely bust the kaisers Bill and Charley. The wind that whoops and loops the loops, is multiplying rations, the rain and sun will can the Hun, and save the allied nations. Where'er I gaze I see men raise fine beets and peas and taters, and that will make the kaiser quake, and jar a lot of traitors. The night dews wash the growing squash, refresh the yarbs and grasses; the sorghum vine is doing fine, and we shall have molasses. The farmers sav. "We'll work all day, and keep our plows a humming, and raise the fruits that jolt the Teuts, and victory is coming. We will not stand for idle land, we'll till each perch and acre, and put a crimp in that big simp, old Bill, the war lord faker. We'll sow and reap while idlers sleep, we'll waste no time in preaching; well ply our tools and push our mules until they bust their breech ing." Our wheat and oats will get the goats of kaiser Carl and Billy; the beans we raise, the rape and maize, will drive those kaisers silly. Our wheat is great, it's green and straight, the stand is most surprising, and it will chill both Carl and Bill, and make them sick of kaismg. CHAPTER XCIV. In the days following the yacht in cident, I constantly 8.'ined to do the wrong thing. No matter how hard I tried, I Buitl and did things that annoy ed Georgi. I was almost discouraged. Several times I had been on tlit point of asking him to let me go home for the rest of the suuiiiv.'', while he fol lowed out his vacation plaus without me; but each time I would remember that 1 might be giving way to some: one else, Julia Collins or some other woman, might be glad to be rid of me. Occasionally, as tha days went by, she joined some picnic or dinner party at which George and I were also guests, and although she seemed to go out of her wav to notice me, I felt a covert sneer in many things she said. To my delight, one day, Mrs. Sexton called. I never thought I should be so glad to see anyone I had once hated as 1 was to see this woman! I literally fell on her neck. And she didn't chide me Imiiiediatoly, I took it for granted that ueorge had sent for her, and 1 was terribly disappointed, when she unde ceived me. "I am not well, and am staying with friends," she told me, "But you will spend some time with me, won't you? If you only knew how I needed you knew what awful things I have been saying and doing this past week or two you'd surely stay with me!" Open Confession. "What hav,? you done that is so ter rible t" she asked smiling, "Open con fession, they say, is good for the soul so I'll invite myself to lunch with you whila you tell me all about it." "Oh, that will be fine!" I exclaimed really delighted. "George will not be is to luncheon; he has gone yachting." Why didn't you gof" She looked keenly at me. 1 " Mal-de-mer." "8urely a good reason. It certainly spoils the day for others, as well as for youru'df," she remarked; then ask ed me to tell her about the time I was so ill. I told her of my day on the yacht. And, before I knew 1, I was also tell ing her of my dislike for Julia Collins how it had increased, and how she seemed ta sn.?er at riiewhonever I was whore site was. ' ' ' "You do not look well. I am afraid you are letting these things make you unhappy that you attach too much im portance to them." "i honestly try not to. But it is hard." I know. But, my dear Mrs. Howard, in fashionable life much is said and done which.' means absolutely nothing i-tlungs which if done in the atmos phere in which you were brought up, would have a sinister meaning. I wish you would rid yourself of that idea of your own incapability; it makes you sensitive, and unable to cope with sit uations which you would dismiss as amounting to nothing, if you had more confidence in yourself." "I try to feel differently. I guess, if I had a husband who wasn't so wise, I would do better.' Yet I knew I was proud of him, his poise, his tact. Mrs. Sexton also knew it, so I could talk freely to her. Merton Giy Calls. I had had my last sitting some days before, and afterward had seen nothing of Merton Gray, until one afternoon he called. I was alone, and glad of com pany. I had been strumming the piano in our tiny parlor, and when he was an nounced I was so pleased to see him, that I showed my pleasure very plainly. "I thought you had forgotten me," I said. "No, indeed. I have missed you sad ly, and I have felt, at time, like destroy ing the portrait so I could commence another one." This foolish rionsense affected mc strangely; sonvone caredl I felt the blood rise to my face, and a thrill of gladness ran thru me. "That would be silly," I retorted, then added: "I am honestly delighted to see you. I was a little blue. Mr. How ard has gone yachting and I dread be ing alone." "Why duln t you go?" It was the same question Mrs. Sexton had asked, I gave the the same answer. ' ' Unfortunately, I am not a good sailor. ' ' "That's too bad. If yon go often you may overcome it." "No thank you! I prefer to stay on shore. You see, I make a nuisance of myself, as well as suffer tortures." "I wish you would play for me," Merton said, after "we had chatted a while. - "Certainly-" I replied, and for near ly an hour I played and sang for him. "How ran you lonely when vou he said as I arose from the piano. "It is a great help, but I guMs I like folks better than most girls. I was brought up with them, you know real people." "I understand." That was one nice thing about Morton Gray. He ALWAYS understood. (Tomorrow Merton Gray's Attentions Cause Gossip) Children Cry for Fletcher's Xhe Kind You Have Always Sought, and which has been - la .use for over over 30 years, has borne the signature of and has been made under his per f-j. Bonal supervision since its Mangy. i-cUtMtZ Allow no one to deceive vou in this. All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Just-as-good " are but Experiments that trifle with and endanger the health of Infants and Children Experience against Experiment. What is CASTOR I A Castoria is a harmless substitute for Castor Oil, Paregoric, Drops and Soothing Syrups. It is pleasant It contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other narcotic substance. Its age is its guarantee. For more than thirty years it has ' teen in constant use for the relief of Constipation, Flatulency, Wind Colic and Diarrhoea; allaying Feverishness arising therefrom, and by regulating the Stomach and Bowels, aids the assimilation of Food; riving healthy and natural sleep. The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend. ENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS Bears the Signature of Id Use For Over 30 Years The Kind You Have Always Bought THE C1NTAUW CeFANV, NtW VOWfC CITV. GERMAN U-BOATS (Continued from page one) "Captain Nowconibe of the Col stated that his vessel was attacked by a German submarine which boarded him, took away Ms paper and placed boniib9 on board. The captain and crew took to the boats. Captain Newcoonbe stated that tho sniUmarine which at tacked him was about 200 feet long ana carnea two large guns one for ward and one aft and a smaller gun amidshiips. He stated that he saw dis tinctly one other submarine beside the ono which attacked him the second submarine being in the near vicinity submerged with periscope showing." Only a short time 'before the an nouncement was made, Secretary Dan iels had parried questions concerning reports of U-boat chaser activities near Cape May last night. His only com ment was that naval boats were accus tomed to get busy over any report that their services might be needed, but h rofuscd to confirm or deny that the chasers had been opeiaring last night. Tho startling news that U-bouts have gone so far aifiold as to actually come within fifty miles of the New "jersey coast, came as a shock to Washington. Tho report spread rapidly throughout congressional and diplomatic circles where it was the foremost topic under discussion. That the navy department already has actod against the enemy threat was learned. First information of the pres ence of lh,o U-boat reached the depart ment yesterday and immediately U boat chasers and other anti-submarine craft were cnt to the vicinity in which the enemy wag reported to be operat ing. At the same time discussion ot recent reports of submarine activities off the t'oast arose ar.d Daniels admit ted that the navy "is more vigilant now " than two weeks ago. He cave as the reason the fact that the Presa dont Lincoln wns sonic far off the Eu ropean coast, while persistent stories of U-boats off the American coast have 'reached the di'iiertiment from time to time. One of the first recent stories was a wireless from an American mer chant transiiort in-bound, sayinc she was being chased by a aubmariue- At about the sam time, a rciiort of a sub- "marine in the iFlor.ida straits was heard The checking out process . however. failed to prove that any U-boats were operating at that time off the United States. All Hands Were Saved Boston, fass., June 3. Captain New combe of the schooner Edwin H. Cole, sunk by suAwnarinc off the coast, telephoned owners of the vessel here 'today to report all hauds safe. He said the Gorman comnrandor gave the crew ten minutes to abandon shin but that all were clear in half that time. The Cole was a freighter, carrying complain of being ;,T'f" '"VT" "B ual "m have yeur mttsict" p.. 'i t, ... ... i itvciicu ucrw iuib aitemoon added the California to the list of ships reported sunk off the New Jersey coast. There rri teven ships of that name six steamers and one bark. Two of the steamers ere American vessels, the largest having a tonnage of 5,093. A report was also received that one of the German submarines has been cap- lureu or suns. It was rumored this afternoon that a ship had been sunk by a German U bflkt off Cape Cod. naval district. Admiral Wood said he was not surprised to hear of the U. boats being off the coast.' Jhero were many reports in Boston tkig afternoon of American ships hav ing beer destroyed off the Massachus etts coast. Provisions and other towns on the coasts of Massachusetts aitlTMaino, however, could not confirm thiEe rumors. Lookout Is Ordered Atlantic City, N. J., June 3. Life saving sta'ions aloug tho Jersey toast this afternoon were ordered to be on tho lookout for castaway crews of Ger man submarine victims. Western Union Operators Get Ready for Strike Washington, D. C, June 3. Presi dent Konenkamp of the Commercial Telegraphers Union was to confer ..with Samuel Gompers here today before call ing a strike of union men in the Western Union Telegraph company, Konenkamp 's decision to order a strike followed failure of the negotia tions opened by the national war lubor board to mediate between the WB3ter Union and those of its employes wh wanted to join the union. It is understood that the Postal Tele graph company and railroad telegraph ers probably will not bo involved, but will not carry messages for the West ern Union during the strike, if it ma terializes. Konenkamp intends to urge' government ownership of telegraph lines. Gompers, it is known, will advise Ko nenkamp to make another effort for mediation before calling a strike. We still have with us War Savins' Stamps at $4.16. Lend your savings to Uncle Sam and help win the war. PLAGUE IN SPAIN. Madrid, June 3. The mvsterious plague which resembles influenza, has spread to Morocco, according to a dis patch received here todav. The Spanish garrison there has become affected. Saturday's dead in Spain totalled lit. Port of Boston Closed Boston, Mam.. June 3. The Port of Boston was closed this afternoon on ac count of submarines operating off the coast. Admiral Spencer S. Wood In tlv last ton days, plague victim have.tbe closing of the oort. 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