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i 5 .1 i ; i -St diiorial Page of The Capital J ournai CHARLES H. ITSHEB EditoT sad Psblishs THURSDAY EYEXLNO June 20, 191S TOCKT'II!'! HM"MMIIMMlfllSl!MjlM!l .: ,1", PEBUSHF.D EVEEI EVENING EJ.CEIT 8CNDAT, SALEM, ORE00N, BZ America will aid Italy with troops in her strusrrie with Csvfsi Irii-nnl Pfrr Ce Tnr .Austria. It is not the intention to send a great force, tut apiiai journal rig VO., enough to show the Italians that America is standing ; solidly with them. ft. B. BARNES, CHAS. H. FISHER. Vlre-lnaldeat DORA C. ANDRKREN, 8c. and Trw. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Paltr by ctirlfr. per year $5.00 Per Month ,...4Se IMllj by mull, per year sou If uoutu &c FI LL LEASED WIRE TELEUHAl'H KKltiBT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES D. Ward, New Tork, Tribune Building. Chicago, W. II. Stockwell, Peeple's Gas Building The Capital Journal carrier boys an Inatructed to put tbe paper on the porch. If tfe carrier doea not do thla, missea you, or neglects getting tbe paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, aa thia ia the ouly way we can determine whether r But tbe carriera are following instruction I'bone Muln SI before 7 :30 o'clock and a a per will be aent you by apeclal neiiwDger If the carrier ha miaaed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL I tbe only newspaper In Balem whose circulation ia guaranteed by tbe Audit Bureau of Circulations. ABOUT THE COMMERCIAL CLUB The Commercial Club will hold its annual meeting to morrow' night. Officers will bfe elected and plans dis cussed for the coming year's work. .' This is a matter that concerns every resident of Salem, We want to keep up our civic work and not neglect every thing else because there is special war work to do. we simply want to speed up, do our full share of war work and try to keep our civic affairs and private business going along much the same as usual. We want to continue our efforts to make Salem a big ger city and a better one to live in. Nothing will better keep up the public morale, and this is essential in time 'of war, than to keep everything moving along as nearly as possible in a normal way. The merchant must make more money by doing a big ger business because it takes more today to meet the needs of the countryin bonds, war savings stamps and con tributionsthan when we sat securely on "top of the world" and dreamed sweetly of our own supremacy and fitness to lick all creation." . There is little need to waste words on the poor stick who sits in his pessimistic corner today and whines be cause another "drive" is in prospect or because he has just been visited by seme committee. He . is simply sulk ing because he generally measured his citizenship by what lie could get, rather than by what he could give in return for the thousand blessings showered upon him by a gen erous nation. He will be converted before the war is over. He may be deported if not converted. We intend to lick the kaiser and do the job without flipping-a cog in our daily business life and routine Instead of crying "poor business," we will all have to learn the lesson of speeding up our business to a point where present performance squares with future needs. Pessi mism is a traitor today. We don't take much stock in this talk about wearing old clothes in order to buy thrift stamps and bonds. ' Tfackle a man's job rather, buy bonds and thrift stamps, and try to wear better clothes than, ever while doing it How can people meet the financial demands of the war if business stops because the people lower their standard of living? Salem should be pushed steadily ahead and be in a posi tion to meet after the war conditions in a prosperous, growing condition. This can be accomplished only by hard work harder work than ever before, backed by ,rit and perseverance. The Commercial Club is the proper agency to work through. If it isn't the central force in the city's activities it should be made such. Mr. W. F. Woodward, one of Oregon's biggest business men and fiincst citizens not a professional boosterwill talk on these matters at the meeting tomorrow night. He never speaks on any subject without saying something worth while and he lives up to the standard of the good, progressive citizenship he advocates in his addresses. Every resident of Salem who wants to make himself useful to the community at this time ought to hear Mr. Woodward. They will gain some useful ideas of good citizenship and receive an inspiration that will be helpful in meeting the tasks of the most strenuous period which has ever confronted the country. The very magnitude of the problems before us ought to bring into play every ounce of grit in the true American make up. Salem is the Capital City of a great state and its people must live up to the responsibilities that this fact carries with it. Our commercial club is free of debt, something unusual among Oregon towns of late years; it is active and well organized. It must not be allowed to deteriorate, it must be made bigger and stronger and more efficient i'han ever during the coming year. - Every member should turn out tomorrow .nightf till of vim and enthusiasm and pledge a harder year's work in the interest of the community than he has ever been able to render in the past. Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason SOME SWEET DAY ' " " " Some day we'll see the dawn of peace, some day tne noise of war will cease, and swords IF AMFRICANS HOVE 10 ALSACE WILL HELP OFFENSIVE Germans Will Be Compelled to Move Troops In Order to Face New' Army , By J. W. T. Mason (United Press war expert) New York, June 20. Moveme saber now will march along behind the plow, amid the flies -and dust. Some day the man who fbughrj and bled will have a wreath upon his head, and honors y the ton; and we'll admire him as he walks, and say, "He helped to knock the socks from off the hideous Hun."' Some day the man who stayed at home and tilled the gumbo and the loam, to give the nations wheat, will find i we've marked his loyal game, and in our little nan of lame he'll have a parquet seat borne day the men, and women, toe, who helped to see the struggle through, with patriotic zeal, will know the joy of duty done; they've helped in all the triumphs won, and, gee, how good they'll feel! Some day the men who growled and groaned when in the -var time they were boned to cough up fifty cents, will be sr lnnpsnrrm fhov will swear,, and they will weep and rend their hair, and put up loud laments. They'll have acquired a, punk re nown, and they can never live it down in twirw hiindrW years; their tears will flow in streams and ponds as they clip coupons from their bonds with cheap mail order ftueais. me man wno laiis to looen up will find there's wormwood in his cup when peace has come again; for him there'll be no cordial hand in any corner of the land where there are loyal men. By JANE PHELPS The Woman Wno Changed; A MOMENTOUS QUESTION. LADD & BUSH, Bankers 1 ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW HERE. THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL AT THE BANK CHAPTER CIX. ' After Ooorge left iu tlw morning I wnudored about the house unablo to so myself at anything, even tho BimpU household tasks I usually did in spite ol having so innny servants. Tho flowers for the table- ami, library, other little things that I loved to do and which hcliv'd fill tho moruiug hours. I tried to practice, then to play Borne new music bat fuilcd iu both attempts. Finally I put on my street clothes aud started for a walk. I tried to think I would not listen to Morton Gray, that I would solid him word not to come. But I did nothing about it. Tlw thought of the folks at homo 'intruded; father, mother, and tho boys. David had seen that I was unhappy at times, but 1 knew he as well us tho others would be terribly shocked should I do so un conventional a thing as to leave my hus band, t soy nothing of going with an other man. Had 1 stopped loving George f Did I love Merton Gray enough to do 83 he asked? If I could only decide tiles'! two questions, I thought aa I walked along the busy streets, fortunately meeting no on0 whom I knew. Had I, I should hnvo passed them without recognition My mind was preoccupied to such an extent. Like a flash it came to me. Tell Mrs. Sexton. Ask her advice. Impulsively I turned and changed the course of my walk. But she lived at somo distance, and it now seemed as if I couldn't wn't o I hniled a taxi. For tunately she was at homo, and received me most graciously; although I imagin ed I saw a flicker of surprise in Iter fac.i at my early call. Helen Asks Mrs. Sexton ' Advice. Hhc took me into her cor.y little sit ting room, insisted upon my removing my wraps then said: "I shall keep you to luncheon, all dny if I can. This is good of you, I was feeling a bit out of sorts this morning I haw not been as well as usual late ly." She then asked about Bar Harbor had wo a good time, ote. I chatted with her, glad to put off the discussion as long as possible, yet longing to have it over. After a time I said; "I m going to shock you, Mrs. Sex ton." "Really, well go ahead! Perhaps I need a shock of some kind." She smil ed as she said it, but there was also sympathy and understanding in h,?r fac,. It was strange how my feelings about Mrs. Sexton had changed. I once had so disliked her that I would have gone home rather than keep her longer with me; and had begged Georgo to send hor away. Now of all the people I knew in th.. world, slip was the only one to whom I either could, or would go to ask advice. I realised that not even to my own mother could I confess what I was going to confess to Mrs. Sexton: that a man other than my husband had made love to me: had asked nvs to leave George aud go away with him. In spite of her remark concerning a shock being welcome, I almost hesitated to speak of my errand, so really ill did Mr. Sexton look. When I said Do she returned: I am much better than for several days past. Nothing you have to tell ma will injure mo, it may holp me by tak ing my mind from myself, my pain and aches.'.' Thon I told her. I blurted out the main thing at once., "Merton Gray wants me to go away with him." "Yes 1 am not surprised that he should want you. I have loig known lw loved you. I AM surprised, however that he hns spoken. I thought ne kuow you loved your husband." "That's just it! I don't know that I do lore Georgo, and I dou't know but I do. I cara a lot for Merton, am always contented aud happy when with him. Hc is neve, cross and impatient, nevor criti cal of me, of my actions. Ho accepts and likoE mo as I am. He doies not try to mak mo ovor." I said the last bit terly. As always when I thought of what Ueorgo had told me, that he de liberately intended to make nie over to suit himself; that h0 had cbusidercd tho kind of finished product I would make when he asked me to marry him. I grew bitter and hard toward him. "Merton is younger in years than your husbaud, and infinitely younger in disposition. That is one reason you are more 6n ruppor( with him. But because he has those characteristics you must not imagine yourself in lov,e with him, do not say you are not, I simply want you to look at tho questions from all sides. ' ' ' ' I havp tried to, Mrs. Sexton, I have honestly tried to do so. I couldn't sleep a wiuk Inst night I couldn't d.cide. Merton is coming for his answer this arteruoon. I must decide." Then 1 ad ded "Georg,, earos for Julia Collins, I know ho does! He is always hanging over lwr no matter where we go; and she takes such liberties, Booms to know thut he will approve whatever she does, It has been a horrible summer for me and I hate th very thought of going tnrougn tne winter. I shall be criticised by George, almost insulted by her. 1 know." (Tomorrow Mrs. Sexton Calms Eelcn) WUS DAILY STOKY ement of ... , ., , , , AiuKumu iiuu('3 mm Aiaace is a straiB- Wlll gather rUSt; the men Who Wield the agio measure that mist exercise a ser- loas influence on future disiposition of Von Hindeuburg's fast dwindling re serves, and. may interfere with Ms plans lor a new offensive in western Franco. The new American positions are so far away from the present area of activity along the west front as to compel Hindeuburg to organize a large separate reserve force to protect the upper Khine against, sudden American attack. These reserves must be drawn from tlile central Gerfciiart reservoirs that make good the losses incurred by Hindduburg 's futile drives in Flan ders, Picardy and Champagne. Any strengthening of the Geronan positions in Alsace as the result of Amoriia's increasing power in that sector uiust necessarily dccnease the striking forco of a German offensive towards Paris and the channel ports If Hindertburg prefers to take chances with, the Americans and weaken his Alsace lino for the. benefit of futuro operations in western France, the stars and stripes mav be planted on the banks of the Khine ahead of schedul ed time. Americans in Alsace are about 20 miles from the Khine. Capture of tho river near the Swiss boundary might sudiknly became, an immediate Amer ican objective any time in the near fu ture if Hindenburg leaves the path ways guarded only by weak detach ments. Before the German spring offensives began. Hitndemburg had a largo re serve army stationed near the Swiss border in anticipation of an American attack in that area. There is reason to believe the slaughter . of German manpower nn i landers, Picardy and Champagne compelled Hlndenburg to dcplote these reserves very considerab ly. This is doubtless one of the consid erations that led General Foch to send the new American troops into Alsace. In consequence of General Irocm s move, Hindentoiirg again is compelled to faco one of those terrible puzzles that General Foch so persistently forc es on the German general staff. If the Khine is left partly open in Alsace, an American offensive is deliberately nvited while if it is closed with heavy Gorman reserve reinforcements the slim chance ot reaching .Paris or tho channel becomes slimmer .still. This Nation Doesn't Want . Heavyweight Prize Fight By H. C. Hamilton (United Press Staff Correspondent) Nw York, June 20, If it Gome's to pass that Jack Dempsey and Fred Ful ton aro permitted to meet on July Fourth in a twenty round battle at Dau bury, Conn., the folks who mado it im posible for Fulton and Willard to meet for the world 's heavyweight champion ship should have something to talk about for a long time. The coming battle, a logical meeting between the foremost heavyweights in the world, will produce a new ring chain pion, for the man who wins will be tho next opponent of Willard, provided that husky ever again makes up his mind to fight. And wli;n he meets one of these men the chances arc he will run a los ing race. As a matter of pure fact there is no difference botwecn a meeting of wil lard and Fulton and a battle with Demp sey and Fulton the principals. No doubt a scrap for the heavy weight championship now would be a fine thing for tho fight fans. No doubt also, it would he the means of raising a good sum of money for war charitv But the people are really in no mood for an advertised bout between behe moths of the ring. If Willard and Ful ton were not allowed to fight because of this sentiment, then there can be no excuse for a tangle'bctween the runners up to th,o championship. i While America is crying for contin uance of its sports, it is not including fights in its pleas. The sport lovers aro very well satisfied to let the cham pions remain champions until after the war is won. Prosecution of I. W. W. Closes Case Today Chicago, June 19 Federal Judge Lan dis held government attorneys to their word that their case against 108 I. W. W. leaders, would be concluded toilay. A final scramblo to introduce a mass of I. W. W. " literature ' and correspond ence intended to bear out charges of sedition and sabotage resulted. The de fense expects to begin tomorrow with the presentation of other "literature" supposed to prove the loyalty of the I. W. W. as a whole. Among thfl last letters read were 3 : ' r - - - 1 . n ..on rt'VT t ALliUMUl. O run , i AVeefablclVeparatioaSifM aiuiiiuM"- - , jj ThercPromoun$Di4ston i accrfulncssanflKen.i' neither Opiam,Morpruncn. fimenu. " ' stent Want Sd A hrfnful Remedy fcf ConstipationandDiarrnoe. and reverisnness lOSS OF SLEEP resulting ttiercf wi rac&raileSijnatoreot iHEGENTAVBGOMPfi For Infants and Children. Mothers Know That Genuine Castoria Always Bears the Signature of LW p In Use For Over Thirty Years iKm . Exact Copy of Wrapper. the e int a u ft eoim nv. new mm oitt. THE DULCET STOEY. The Peeves were at supper when the 'phone rang. (Of course it was really tlw 'phone bell that rang.Jiut the bes't writers always employ the idiom of their limes;. "Answer it will you, August f I've got my mouth full," said Mrs. Peeve. Peeve answered it. "Hello, xatt you, honey V said one of the softest, most melting feminine voices Peeve had ever heard. "Here's where I teas0 the wife a bit," he thought. And ho answered: "Yea, natt you, dearie!" And Mrs. Peeve, listening attentively (although her mouth was full again) heard her husband coo. "Well, darling it's so nice to hear your voice again. . . . Yes, indeed twee tie, I've been thinking of you all day. ... Oh, now, duckie ilcar, how yon do go on cer tainly I love you as much as you love mo, etc., etc., etc.," "Poor little girl," said Peeve as he came back to the table stroking his moustache lik A. Gave Lotharia, "she 'll probably feel all" upset when she finds out she got the wrong numbej." "It's a wonder to me it hasn't hap pened long ago," observed Mrs. Paeve twidgeously. "Why, whatf How to meant" said reeve. I "Why, I was around at Mrs. Squil- low's thc other evening," explained his wife, "and her colored cook, Organdie, called up her sweetheart, and thc num ber she called up was almost exactly like ours, and as I say, it's a wonder it hasn't happened he hee long ago." .Peeve continued to eat his supper m dignified silence, bur he buttered his thumb four tim.?s. some alleged to have teen written by Defendant Carl Ahltoen, Minneapolis. "Tho 'Sab-cat' has made a wonderful change in 'the standing of millionaire hop farmers in California." Ahltoen was charged with writing "They paid for their bull hoadedness," he said. Lettors said to have been written by hiin called the war capitalistic and jeered all Bed Cross and liberty loan work. Joe McCarthy of Duluth, was named as author of a letter detailing the tn,at ment of non members found on trains. "We unloaded all that didn't have a red card," he reported. FUEL ADMINISTRATOR ecretary to the national fuel adminis tration. Miller is a native aon of Washing ton sate,'the son of the late General Winlock W. Miller, banker: Seattle, Wasih., Jutno 19. Winlock ,W. Miller, regent of tho University- of Washington and a capitalist of Seat tle has been appointed state fuel ad ministrator, to succeed David Whit com, who left several week m for i Washington, D. C, to becomo executive move the bowele. They are easy to LARGEST PENSION BILL Washington. June 19. The senate to day passed the largest pension bill in its history, calling for $220,050,000, an increase of $12.000000 over the record breaking bill lof 1912. Proper Food for Weak Stomachs The proper food for one man may be all wrong for another. Every ne should adopt a diet suitable to bis age and occupation. Those who have weak stom achs need to be especially careful and should eat slowly and masticate their ' food thoroughly. It is also important that they keep their bowels regular. When they become constipated or when they fool dull and stupid after eating, , they should take Chamberlain's Tab-. lets to strengthen the stomach and YOUR HEALTH By ANDREW F. CURRIER, M. D. Pott's Disease. ' Tuberculosis of the spinal verte brae was very carefully studied and described 150 years ago by the dis tinguished English surgeon Perci val Pott, and is now commonly known as Pott's Disease. This disease begins in the softer part, or as it Is technically known the cancellous tissue of the main portion or body of a vertebrae, spreading slowly, involving the car tilage between it and the vertebrae adjacent, and may extend to other contiguous vertebrae until they be come, as It were, honeycombed and rotten, collapse and produce a pro jecting hump, usually on the back ot tbe spine, but occasionally on the side; any portion of tbe spine may be involved from top to bot tom. An abscess, that is an .accumula tion ot pus results from this di sease, which may be large or small, the pus being sterile and compara tively harmless in some cases and Infectious, that Is containing tuber cle or other bacilli In others. If the abscess Is large and presses upon the spinal cord it may cause more or loss extensive paralysis. If It is in the upper part of the spine it may press upon the wind pipe or the lungs and when it comes to a head, It may break and dis charge through the wind-pipe and bronchial tubes, perhaps causing pleurisy or pneumonia and choking or nearly strangling the patient In his efforts to expectorate the pus. If the abscess Is In the lower part ot the spine it may press upon the bladder or rectum or aome other portion ot the Intestine, perforating and discharging through one ot these channels, or it may burrow through the muscles at the sides ot the pelvis called the psoas muscles. It is a disease which occurs prin cipally in children and may be pre cipitated by Injury or by some .other form of disease, i While frequently fatal it is not always so, particularly It one is ahl to have good care and treat ment. Including the various me chanical supports resulting from the Ingenuity ot modern and not ably .American orthopaedists. The symptoms are those of in flammation, namely, pain, spasm in' the muacles, headache, moderate fever, and inability to lie down, without adequate support. , Certain groups of symptoms will depend upon the part of the spina which is attacked and they may ba misleading, for Instance if the ver tebrae opposite the stomach are in volved, the pain may be referred to the front ot the chest and a diag nosis of indigestion be made; if the pain Is lower down the diagnosis may be colic or appendicitis. The gait of children who have this disease is characteristic, they,, walk on their toes, or support thenw selves with chairs, or endeavor lrxl other ways to prevent painful Jarr ing of the spine and if the upper, vertebrae are Involved they hold' the head between the hands to. guard against painful motion. A careful and thorough examina tion of a child who Bhows these symptoms is imperative, the child being stripped for the purpose and the bones and joints cautiously in terrogated. Th"e treatment must be regarded from two standpoints, one the Im provement of the child's nutrition by an abundance of simple, whole some, easily digested food, particu larly rich, fresh milk, and tho other, rest ot the diseased parts with the use ot mechanical sup ports. These must be so applied that they will be as little burdensome as possible, will not cause friction and Injury to the skin, and will so sepa rate diseased structures that pres sure will be obviated and they will have a chance to recuperate. If an abscess discharges by ths skin or it is deemed necessary to open it, the wound must be proper ly dressed and drained and ths principles ot asepsis followed. ' But these are of course matters which belong to the skilled doctor and it is always desirable when possible that one who Is familiar with orthopaedic practice should be in charge of such cases.
