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;;ii'fii,iir-iiiiij Editorial Page of The Capital Journal CHABLES H. FISHES I5itor ui PnbliskM THURSDAY EVENING June 6, 191 S ilillilljiiIM -Soil 1 i PCBLISHF.D EVERT EVESIXO EXCEPT BfKDAT, BAT. EM, OltEGOW, BT Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. U 8. BARNES, President. CilAS. n. FISHER, Vtcel'rwident DORA C. ANDRESEN. Bee. and Treas. Ftly by carrier, per ywir Daily by mail, per year .. SI'USCIIIITIOX RATES 5.no Per Month 45e , 8.00 Per Month Soc t'Vl.U LEASED WIRE TE1.EUKAIMI REPORT eastern repkesentativgs W. D. Ward, New Tork, Tribune Building.- Chicago, W. H. Rtockwell, People' Oaf Building The Capital Journal carrier boys are Instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, misses yon, or neglects getting the ver to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this Is the only way we ran determine whether r not the carriers are following Instructions Phone Miiin St before 7 :.1u o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger If the carrier haa missed you. TUB DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Salem whose circulation Is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. PUBLIC UTILITY COMPANIES The California Railroad commission in order to save certain public utility companies from bankruptcy allowed them to impose a temporary sur-charge of 10 per cent on all bills. At first blush it would seem that the commission was going out of its way to do an illegal thing. At the same time there are two sides to the matter, as to most other things. It would seem that public utility companies must be looked on in a different light from most others, and this for the reason that they are such companies, and their business i3 to do certain things for the public. Un der abnormal'conditions such-as exist now, such com panies are most of them losing money. This condition it is expected will continue for some time, and the question is how can such a company be expected to conduct its business on a losing basis? Most of such companies, that is electric lierht. gas, street railways and similar com panies are operating under charter or franchise granted by the cities where they operate with an agreement that the charges shall be a certain fixed sum, as for instance five cents for a carfare. To allow an increase violates a contract, which the constitution says shall not be done. Other business is conducted in times like these on a losing basis, and those conducting it can obtain no relief, but have to stand the loss and drift along as best they can un til times change. However most of these can quit, and this is more than the public utility companies can do. They must continue to operate their plants just the same under their franchises. It is for this reason the California com mission permitted the sur-charge referred to. It was for this reason the Public Service Commission of this state permitted the Portland Railway Light & Power company to increase the fares on its road from five cents which was its contract price to six cents. The promise is made by the food administration that in the near future, there will be a reduction in the price of flour substitutes. There should be, for with corn only about half the price of wheat the corn flour is selling at considerablv more than wheat flour. There is a rrrowinp are very tender of the feelings and pockets of those who have loaded up with food substitutes, and it is believed that when the stocks of substitutes now in the hands of dealers and speculators are exhausted the prices will be cut. ing the investigation into aircraft pro duction. TV Ynman Whn fhantpd l William Howard Taft' rePuWicn' is iae it Oman it no tuaagea ;Presiat,ut bison's appointee for a place By JANE PHELPS The indications are that the weather clerk is out of soris and is going to provide cloudy weather Saturday just when a fair day is desired by 'everyone, in order to see the eclipse. However it will not cost much to smoke up a couple pieces of glass and have them ready for the big show when the curtain goes up. In eastern Oregon where the grandstand is located, it is highly probable the skies will be clear, for they are seldom anything else in that region. If this proves true we can console ourselves with the thought that we will at least see the pictures, and get a movie glance at 'the big eclipse anyway. . WHEN LOVfi ASSERTS ITSELF. It seems to be increasingly difficult as time goes on to bribe the union labor leaders, with unreasonably high wages and short hours, to keep their followers at work in the shipyards and other war industries. Now the tele graph operators are about to strike, and the railroad men are not satisfied with the hundreds of millions of dollars awarded them in increased wages recently. It's a case of a nation being held up in time of peril by an organized gang of traitorous anarchists and one of these days the real people of the country will rise in their might and do business with the union labor leaders. They will con script them and put them to work at $1 a day building j-hiDs or making munitions ot war because they are no tetter in any respect, if within the draft age, than the young man who is drafted for the trenches. "When a woman will, she will, depend on't, And when she won't she won't, and that's the end on't." That is an old saying and it certainly applies to a granger as well as to a woman. This was illustrated yes terday by the members of the state grange when by a vote of 76 to :? they turned down the proposition to amalgamate with the Non-rartisan League. This was done despite an impassioned speech by Master Spence advocating such an union. "Non Partisanism" has so far found but few advocates in Oregon and it is not likely to find more. " The sinking of two more ships reported this morning shows the U-boats, if they are the same that have been operating along the north Atlantic coast, are moving south. It also shows that they are equipped for a much longer stay than was possible for the boats of the old type, It remains to be seen whether they have the staviner qual ities and provisions credited to them, or whether they have a tender that keeps them supplied, or a secret base somewhere along the coast. The appeal to voters not to change horses while cross ing a stream is always made by the horse already in the harness. As a matter of fact that is just the time when some horses should be changed. President Lincoln traded off George B. McClellan and a good many other military officers soon after the civil war started and it was an im provement to the service too. The right time to trade off a no-account horse is whenever the opportunity arises. This especially if it is an old political warhorse. It is hardly necessary to call attention to the fact that the most reliable and entertaining news from the great war appears daily in the Capital Journal. The mqst prominent news writers' in the war zone are daily sup plying our direct leased wire with the latest news obtain able and putting it up in a shape that is readable without over-looking the facts the public is interested in. The Capital Journal's news service is not surpassed by that of any newspaper, big or little, in the. United States. Apparently more American aviators are killed in their own country than in the war zone. This is because flying is a dangerous art to learn, and it is in the learning the accidents occur. When an aviator gets over to France he is an expert and few of them are victims of accident. Down in Texas with blue skies in plenty there is not room enough for a couple of aviators in the air at a time until they get so they can control their machines. The registration of a million young Americans who have become of age since June 5 a year ago was done so quietly yesterday, that outside of the families of the registrants the great majority had about forgotten there was such a registration and did not realize it was being made. It is announced this morning that in all registra tions of this, kind there willl be four made a year. A million more registered for service, than yesterday. That is sure setting a new mark in the way of raising t. nanny. ' W. 0. Binns of Klamath Falls has discovered pres idential timber in General Leonard Woods. LADD & BUSH, Bankers ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW HERE. THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL AT THE BANK Russia is seething with revolution against the Bolshev iki, the conspiracy extending throughout the whole coun try. While these internal troubles are spreading, the government is faced with a problem of supplying the people with bread. Since the loss of the Ukraine granary hunger has been in close touch with the Russian people and if the revolution gathers force sufficient to hamper the already inadequate railroads, starvation is not far away. The business streets of Salem should be better lighted, t nd there is no good reason why they should not be. - Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason 4 M 44 WASTED ADVICE ; If I had taken my ?dvice, and saved, in peaceful times, today I'd doubtless have the price, all kinds of useful dimes. But while I urged my friends to save, in deathless prose and verse, for vain and foolish things I gave the contents of my purse. While j. handing out the wisest words the statutes would allow, I threw my money to the birds, and fed it to the cow. If I had taken my advice 'twas couched in ringing rhyme I wouldn't now be buyirg ice two ounces at a time. My steak I'd purchase by the pound, like wise and thrifty gents, and I would not be chasing round to borrow fifty cents. And l could help the Red Cross game, and buy nine bonds or so, and not be shivering in shame because I lack the dough. The price of everything I use, goes up, to beat the band; the price of whisker dye and shoes, and hoeS to till the land; the price goes up, not once or twice tach day we see it scoot; if I had taken my advice, I wouldn't care a hoot I'm in the hole, I'm in the hole, I cannot pay my tax, and I'm obliged to buy my coal in little peanut sacks. My heart is sad, my feet are ice, I'm weary with disgust, because I.laughed at my advice, and burned up all my dust , I fc.'P vwMqjr-" Out ) to k.&m 1 Li CHAPTER XCVII. 1 never shall forget my sensations v.hcn I so nearly drowned. I was a good swimmer, and never hesitated to go even farther out than George, who swam indifferently. I went down, down down! The water not only seemed to elose over me, but it seemed to wrap me round and round, like, a great sheet. Twice this happened, then I felt myself liftd up in strong arms, after which I knew no more until I opened my eyes and found myself lying on the bench, with George bending over me, chaffing my hands, and one or two others trying to help bring me out of the unconscious uess into which I had drifted. "Thank God!" 1 heard George say, out his voice sounded miles away. Th ringing in my ears, like rushing water, made all other sounds faint and distant, "That was a elose shave for both of you, Howard! I thought, at one time, you were both gone," one of the men said. Then, as I Marted, "There comes the doctor now, but I guess she 's all right." I struggled to sit up. Gradually, I sensed who was talking what they were saying. George was deathly pale, I had never before seen such a look on his face, not efen at the time When I cut my wrist in the car. The doctor looked me over, then turn ed to George. "You get home immediately!" he said. Then followed directions as to what he should do. For tho first time I noticed that George was shivering vio lently. "You need care moro than your wife does." Ono of the early bathrs had gone for a ear, and we were helped into it and taken back to the hotel. Celeste got me to bed, but George refused to do as the doctor ordered, and sat in a chair beside me. He kept hold of my hand until the medicine tin' doctor save uh took effect and I slept. But before 1 closed my eves he toh' me he thought he had lost me thought that he never could get me ashon Just once hi leaned over and laid hit face to mine. "Thank God, I still have my little wife," he said, then leaned wearily back in the chair. Disarranged Plans. I slept for hours. When I awoke, I was nearly as well as ever. But George was in bed, quite ill. The doctor was there, and said that he would have t remain, in bed for a few days, anyway. He looked so serious when he said it. that I was frightened and I questioned him closely. It was his heart, the doctor told me. Not being a very good swimmer, he had not known how to spare himself, and 1 hart been a dead weight. "It was a miracle that he saved you -that both did not drown" the plivsi cian said. "At that early hour the guards are not on duty. It is a foolish thing to go out as far as you did, un less tliey are." It was my fault. I had been to blame. Had 1 remained near to Georgo, ncai the shore, it would not have happened. All day niesages poured in. It had gotten about, and we were fairly besieg ed with congratulations, and with con; dolences whu thev found George wa; ill from the effects of the strain. Abou" three o'clock, I was called to the tic phono. It was Merton Gray. Merton Gray la Anxious. "I have just heard," he snid. "Yor are all right?" "Right as can be, but Mr. Howard is quite ill." "That is too bad thank God you d' not drown! Ytm will not be leaving a. you planned, will you?" "Ivo that is, not quite so soon. George will be in bed for several days the doctor tells me." "I shall see you again, if that is th( case." Someway, when I hung up, it wa with the sume indifference with whiel I had done so, after receiving message? from casual acquaintances. Death had been so near George was so ill that everything else seemed trivial by com parison. Later, I was again called to the tele phone. This time the message did not leave me so indifferent. It was fror.' Julia -Collins. After asking me all sort of questions, each time calling Georgi by his first name, she proceeded to wold mo for putting him in such danger. That she did it in her playfully sarcastic man ner, made no difference. She intimated that I wnntd to show off before him, and had gone out so far I couldn 't got back. When I explained that I had boot taken with cramps, as are many swim mers, she replied: "I know! They all ay that when they get into trouble,." I hung up the receiver after telling her that she conM not see George for several days bating her worie thao ever. (Tomorrow An Fndesired Visit) THE CLOVEN HOOF. on tne wage adjustment board. Elihu Boot, republican, was President Wilson's appointee as head of the extra ordinary commission to Kusmb. Herbert Hoover, republican, is Presi dent Wilson 's appointee as federal food administrator, Dr. Garfkld, republican is President Wilsun's appointee as federal adminis trator. Charles II. Schwab, republican is Pre sident Wilson's appointee as head of the Emergency Fleet Corporation. Clyde B. Aitchison, republican is Pre sident Wilson's appointee from Oregon as member of the Interstate Commerce, commission. The national railroad board and the regional directors of railroad operations are mostly republicans. These are only the beginning of the list. The list could be extended indefin itely. The great places in the admin istration's war work aro largely filled by republicans. A ever was au adminis tration more nonpartisan. Take war appoiutnv.'iits in Oregon: Food administrator, W. B. Aver, repub lican; assihint food administrator W. K Newell, republican; wheat administra tor, Max llouser, republican; flour ad ministrator, Theodore B. Wilcox, repub lican, now deceased; Portland represen tative of the Shipping board, Lloyd Wentworth, republican. The special committee to recommend candidates for the officer's second training camp were all republicans. The sub-committee that selected the men sent to the camp were all republicans about a dozen iu number. The special attorney sent by the administration to investigate moral conditions nt Camp Lewis was John McConrt, republican. The u.-wly appointed federal wool ad ministrator for Oregon is John Burgnrd republican. The federal fish administrator for Oregon is Frank M. Warren, a repub lican. Every one of the five directors of the Portland, branch of the federal re servo bank is a republican. The originally appointed spruce board for Oregon was V. M. Ladd and A. S. Benson, republicans. The Oregon member of the national war trade board is H. L. Cjrbett, re publican. The directing committee in the three Liberty bond sales has, in every in. stance, been composed almost entirely of republicans. This is only a small part of the list. The national administration has "evi dently not stopped to ask questions about any man's party affiliations in making selections for war work. It has so happened that almost no democrats have been called to these positions. This is not said in complaint, but In an as sertion of the facts to correct the very apparent misrepresentation by the sen ator from Indiana. - OUB CAXLY STOBT THE BATTLE OF CONSCIENCE t. $ Rosedale Items C A. Hardy went to Portland on busi- Henrietta Wierd looked at the ffcangs the conductor had just given her a quarter and five nickels. "Goodness," she thought excitedly, "he's given me a nickel overt I'm riding for nothing!" And she quickly closed her hand over the change, and then she remembered that the conductor had rung up her fare, and that probably the nickel would, have to come out of hia own pocket. "Oh, dear!" she thought remorse fully. "Perhaps the poor man has L large family and perhaps a nickel a day is all he can afford to feed them with. I suppose I really ought to return it to him. But, no, hie hag a bad face I shouldn't be surprised if he cwatl his wife every day, and it would just serve him right to suffer for his own carelessness! Still, of course, I would n't like to feel that I am depriving hit bnby of its daily bucket of milk no. I'll keep it a man in his position has no moral right to have a large family, Goodnes;, what if he should suddenly find out he gave me too much, arl if uiand it back againf I think I '.1 get right out I'm only ten blocks from home, anyway." And at the next stop she hurriedly left the car, still clutching the quar ter and five nickels In her hand. "I'd better look again perhaps there are only four nickels, after' all," she thought. And she opened her hand and looked. No, there were five, but as slie looked the quarter slipped thru her fingers and fell on the pavement with a hollow, leaden sound. "Oh!" she gritted through her teeth, ''The dishonesty of this world!" ness Monday evening. Margery Alexander came home from Corvallis, Monday. .Ralph Fowler is visiting here a few days. Miss Lesta Cook enjoyed a visit from her mother a few days last week. ISchool closed Friday and Miss Cook return ed to Portland Saturday afternoon. The Parent-Teachers' Association elected Mrs. Goode president, Mrs. Cole vice president and Miss Floy Monney secretary the coming year. Miss Helen Hndley is visiting at the home of her brother Chester Hadley. You will miss some thing fine if you fail to attend the public meeting of the Bed Cross Friday night. Stella Warner visited her sister Bes sie Bates last week end. ? LET US ESTIMATE ON : & All your Printing an TJp-to-Now office to meet your print ing demands. THE CAPITAL JOURNAL PHONE 81 YOUR HEALTH By ANDREW F. CURRIER, M. D. Thread Worms. v (The Oregon Journal) The cloven foot of peanut partisan ship showed itself at the state republi can primaries in Indiana. Iesertuig his seat lor the time m the federal senate, Senator New journeyed to Indianapolis to tell the convention that President Wilson plays politics, that President Wilson is partisan, and that President Wilson "is the most un compromising in his partisanship of ny man who has occupied the White House since Andrew Jackson." Charles E. Hughes, republican is Pres-j ident Wilsono appointee for conduct-' Tbcso troublesome parasites, also called pin worms or seat worms, or awl worms on account of the awl shaped caudal extremity, occur occasionally in adults and frequent ly In young children. Thoy are small, rcTund, and white, occasionally In clumps or bunches, and found in the large Intestine or the lower part of the email intes tine. By preference they choose the lower end of the large Intestine or rectum for their residence. They are occasionally found In the stomach and have been ob served in the mouth, probably . reaching It with the vomited con tents ot the stomach. They are lively and active and frequently crawl from the rectum to the adjacent skin, sometimes appearing upon a child's clothing. The female lays many eggs which must be swallowed by man or ani mal; they do not develop outside the body. Within two weeks after the eggs reach the Intestine they become full grown worms, not easily destroyed, and migrate toward the rectum. The mature females then lay their eggs, which may be passed out of the body or remain and be come a now colony of worms, this process continuing indefinitely un less they are expelled andxtermi nated. The eggs are taken into the body with food or water or by means of infected hands. There is no difficulty in detecting either the worms or the eggs, the ever-present symptom being intense itching which is very sleep disturb ing. Other symptoms are irritability, and fretfulness, burning pain, rest lessness, disturbance of the func tions of the bowels and bladder, loss of appetite and anaemia. It is not unusual for sensitive children who suffer with thread worms to have convulsions or St. Vitus dance. , Their complete expulsion la often a difficult task, they breed so rapid ly and find so many places for concealment Cleanliness Is Imperative, and after each movement of the bowels an Infected child should be care fully sponged with a 1 to 10,000 so lution of bi-chloride of mercury. Treatment should be undertaken as soon as the parasites are dls covered, and the campaign may last several weeks. No uncooked or partly cooked food should be allowed; the child' nails should be kept short; and the Angers must be frequently moist ined with an Infusion of quassia. Castor oil, senna, or Epeom salt! may be given at night, but not in excessive doses. Every morning, or every other morning, for two or three weeks, if necessary, an enema should be giv on through a rubber tube or cath eter, which has been carefully in troduced four or five inches inta the bowel. A pint of warm water, or soap and water, or boric acid solution, may first be used to cleanse th rectum, this being followed by half a pint of 1 to 10,000 solution of; bl-chlorlde of mercury. v i Another excellent enema is an; Infusion of quassia, two ounces ot' quassia chips being, boiled in a pint of water. Other enemas frequently used trr solutions of carbolic acid; turpsn. tine; vinegar; sulphur, etc., but those which have been mention t will usually be found efficient if employed carefully and InsistecUy. Question and Answer j P. B. Walking or climbing itatrs makes breathing very HffVi cult for me. After sitting down for a while, I can breathe naturallf again. What can I do to owr come IhU tronblet Answer Xn troubles of the heart, it is always desirable toi have th heart carefully examined, from time to time, by one who is compet ent in the treatment of such trou bles. Sometimes serious dlseaM can be antlcImtAH if tlens am taken. I copy of the article on ValvtJlar! wifceaaa, wnicn may be of interest to you.