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'nV ",;, o'"..i e.hv A ,ii.iiinhiiiiiii. iiiiil Editorial Page of The GapitalJournai CHARLES H. FISHES Editor and Pabliiker SATURDAY EVENING June 22, 191$ it. tnujiiilmiiiim,.i.ii. jj.Miwiiiyyji MIIJIIM)MllmMIUH.H...,,L,!lIMIMIV Hi,. ,VMr'"l- PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING EXCEPT BCNDAI, BALEM, 0BW30H, BI Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. h. 8. BARNES. Preatdnt CHA8. H. FISHER, Vlra-Prtaldrot DOHA C. ANDRESEN, Btc. and Tteaa. SUBSCRIPTION RATES Calif by carrier, per ynr $3 00 Per Month , 45 Dally by mail, pr year A00 Per Month SOt 1'ULL LEASED WIKR TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES W. D. Ward, New York, Tribune Bullrtlnc. Chicago, W. B. BtookwHl, Pmpla'e Ou Building Tli Capital Journal carrier bora are Inatrarted to put the papers oa the porch. If tfca carrier doea aot do this, mlssea yon, ar aeglecta getting the paper to you oa tine, fcladif phone the circulation nanager, aa thla la the anly war we caa determine whether r aot the rarrlera are fuilowtng Instructions Phone Main Ml before 7 :30 o'clock and a paper will be aent 70a bj e pedal uwtiaeBger If the carrier baa aalaaed yon. THE DAILT CAPITAL JOURNAL la the only acwipaper In Salem whoae circulation la guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. MAY BE DECISIVE BATTLE It is possible that the really decisive battle of the war may be fought on the Italian front rather than on that in France. Austria has evidently staked her all on the pres ent battle and it is going steadily against her. She has attained none of her objectives and her chances of attain ing them are growing hourly smaller. That she w ill make a desperate effort to extricate herself from the dangerous position she is in, is a matter of course. But that she can do it is anparently already decided in the negative. A large section of her forces on the Piave is in danger of capture or annihilation, and either is going to put a new phase on conditions in the dual monarchy. The dispatches recently are to the effect that the larger cities are scenes of strikes, of street parades by starving people already almost hopeless. What effect a disaster such as an utter defeat in Italy will have we on this side the ocean can only -guess at, but apparently it will cause trouble that will shake the government to its foundations and may result in its overthrow. If this should happen it will be a the battle on the Italian front may be the deciding one of the battle o nthe Italian front may be the deciding one of 'he war. , A. T. Seested, general manager-of the Kansas City Star, it seems is a Prussian by birth and up to the break ing out of the war between the United States and Ger many was not a naturalized citizen of this country. Since the declaration of hostilities he succeeded in having a court in Kansas City give him naturalization papers. The Star is the paper that printed the articles for Rose Pastor Stokes which won her a 20-year prison sentence for seditious utterances. It also prints the false and malign ant statements of former President Roosevelt, who no doubt secures immunity from prosecution through the fact that ex-presidents are in a way privileged characters in this country and may say and de things that would not be condoned in other citizens. It looks very much, how ever, like a nest of dangerous traitors had been uncovered in the Star newspaper office and that Roosevelt's name; and position is being used as a cover for their dangerous activities. The Woman Wto Changed protest and in defense of the Christian j Sabbath. We would not be o sur prised at some classes of people doing but when a Sunday school class By JANE PHELPS A TKUE STOKT. WILL PUT BERLIN IN REACH A dispatch yesterday stated American airplanes carry ing crews of three or four men will cross the Atlantic within three months. These are said to be heavy bomb ing machines and they will make the trip by way of the Azores. Flying at the rate of 85 miles an hour these machines could reach the Azores in forty hours, and from there to Portugal a distance of 800 miles the trip would be only a matter of ten hours. The crossing of the Atlan tic will permit the sending of machines to the front by their own power, and save that much shipping. There is another feature that is more important than the crossing of the ocean, and that is that with such machines avail able bombing raids can be made on the cities of Germany heretofore immune on account of their distance from any allied base. A few hundred tons of bombs dropped down among the Germans would bring the war home to them and give them a taste of what they have so generously prescribed for others. That the price of wheat will be advanced slightly seems assured. The advancing of freight rates makes this lm nerative. for otherwise it will be taxing the farmers heav ily. They would, with a fixed price for wheat have to stand the increased freight rates with no power to pass any of the burden "on to the consumer. The country will make no objection to any reasonable raise in the price of flour. At the same time it is rapidly approaching a iramf of mind that will cause it to insist on the fixing the price oi wheat-product substitutes. Mr. Ayer said that when the big firms that had laid in large supplies of substitutes had sold them the price would be reduced. This being the case the prices should be lower now unless the big fellows corraled all the substitutes there were on the market. Hindenburg is discovering that it is one thing to order ! and another to carry those orders out. There was a time when he could tell his troops to do t his or that, and they were able to do at least in part what they were told to do. mat day nas passed.. According to prisoners taken Tuesday night at the attack on Rheims the 36,000 men making the attack were told to capture Rheims at any price. They made two desperate attempts to obey but failed in both. The French were too strong for them and drove them back with great losses. The any cost" Hm denburg spoke of was so high the picked troops selected to pay it could not dig up the price. . The books of the board of control show that over and above all indebtedness there is a balance on hand in the prison flax business of $12,720, besides 80 tons of straw unretted left from the 1916 crop, and all of the 1917 crop of straw which will yield a profit. The board's books and the governor's statement that superintendent Crawford of the prison flax plant had not made good, do not agree. There is no question but that the board's books are kept correctly. Can the same be said of the governors mental figures about Mr. Crawford's work? One or the other is wrong, and as has been stated the books are correct. After the most desperate fighting yet done by the Austrians, and with an army of more than a million and iigntmg under the eyes oi their king, the attack on a hundred mile front in Itaty has given the. Austrians no advantage. Not one of their objectives has'been attained, and it is alleged every soldier in the vast army has been engaged. There are no reserves, and so far the Italians have held the enemy to small gains of no great import ance, and this without calling on their reserves. Appar ently the backbone of the attack hfcs been broken, and the drive will prove an utter failure. It is possible an army of 100,000 Americans majr be pent to Italy and show the Austrians that America is in the war against them as well a3 Germany. It would hearten the Italians too, though just now they do not seem to need any moral backbone stiffening. An Italian will fight to the last when anyone undertakes to take his track patch away from, him, and this applies to his coun try as well as to his individual property. Yesterday was the summer solstice, and the longest day of the year. Today and two or three more days will show hardly and perceptiable shortening, but the sun has started south just the same, or rather the earth is tilting to the north again which is the same hing. General Crowder is preperly named. He is a general crowder all right and purposes to crowd every available person into some productive employment. LADD & BUSH, Bankers ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW HERE. THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL AT THE BANK Congress wants to know the administration's policy with regard to Russia, and especially to Siberia. It is said to be anxious to have an army sent to the ajd. of the Rus sians. The situation in that whirlwind-swept country is such that definite action is hard to take. The administra tion wants to avoid angering Russia, and driving her into the war on the side of Germany. The situation is a deli cate one and needs dainty handling. Portland weather sharps predict rain within a few days, but they did not speak very loud, and surely had their hngers crossed. Guards resign and prisoners walk away from the pen but Joe. Keller and the bloodhounds remain faithful to the last. t-tt - Rippling Rhymes r JSSSSm 4 t V' A 4 .-"mi by Walt Mason THE RISING COST They've raised the cost of rubber tires until I roundly swear, by all the green graves of my sires, that it is most unfair. I'm told by Jinks, the gifted gent, who runs the rub ber store, "The price has riz fifteen per cent, and soon will rise some more." Up goes the price of motor oil, it's doubled in a year, and I am pawing up the soil and beefing like a steer. I go to buy the inner j tube Pve needed since July, and find some .ra.TMAsoN.Zj Puhk mccnanics nx my Doat and it needs fixing still they strike a most dis cordant note when thev announce their hill. "The price of gas," the dealer cries, "for kicking gives no grounds but it is shortly bound to rise, bv well known leaps and bounds." My feet are seamed with ghastly scars, put there by thorns and stones, for I have cut out motor cars they cost too many bones. O'er hill and dale 1 push my limbs because I can't afford, to blow my self for plugs and rims, for fabric tires or cord. I walk the long streets of the town, I climb the school house hill, and now and then I sit me down, and cuss old Kaiser Bill. Because he played at being Mars, and thought the world his meat, I've had to cut out motor cars, and travel on my feet. Because he sprung a martial note with bugles and with horns, I've had to soak my handsome boat, and ex ercise my corns. 1 CHAPTER CXt "But that isn't fair!" I returned when Mrs. Sexton said men took their bad natures home to their wives. "It isn't fair, but it is natural. Tou can't give notice and leave them in the lurch as the office force might do." She laughed gaily at my expression. "Now, dear, I am going to tell you a story then w,o will have something to eat; and finish our talk after luncheon." Years ago I know a couple who thought they were unhappy together. She was a gay little butterfly girl, h,. rather a staid man of some ben years older. He was very fond of her, but naturally reserved and quiet. She loved ale and gayety, he preferred to spend most of his leisure tune in their beau tiful home with his books, his pictures and his music. He never put an uihibi Hon upon her, however, she could min gle with her gay friends as much she would. She thought because he did this, because he did not appear to be jealous that he didn't, love her. She called his refusal to escort her to the gay parties she loved, neglect. She met a young man, rather a nice fellow as wen go, and thought she loved him. He told her he loved her. that he eould n't' live without her, would make her happy always if she would go with him. In gome way her. husband found this out, and offered to give her her freedom offered because he loved her better than he loved himself. She ac cepted. She got a divorce. But she did not marry the other man. When she had left her husband, when it was too late, she discovered the wealth of his love for her, it's worth. She would have given all she had in the world to win him back. "But why "Ho died two months after sho cured the divorce 1 " "How awful. And after she left him she found out she loved him. Why didn't sho go back then I" "She was too proud. I think she hoped that when her husband saw she did not marry the other man he would come to lier. That girl was my own sister. She ruined her own lifa and that of a good true man because sho didn't understand either herself or him. She it was for whom I wore mourning when I met you. She never knew a happy moment after he died, although she tried to appear so for my sake. Now we'll have luncheon," as the little maid appeared at the door. A quiet Iiuncneojn. Mrs. Sexton's simple Btory had made great impression upon me, porhaps more that luncheon had been at once announced giving me no time to talk about it. I was distrait, quiet, all thru thn meal which was delicious, and dain tily served, although very simple. It was like Mrs. Sexton horself. I told her so, and it seemed to please her. After luncheon we returned to her living room and she said briskly: "Now, my dear, we will disect Mer ton Gray." "I don't know that I want to."' "Oh, but I dol Ho is young, hand some, although not so good-looking to my way of thinking as your husband." "No one can be better looking than George!" I interrupted. "I think him the handsomest man I ever have seen "We agree on that then. Merton is rich, ho is generous 1 think. He is com panionable. But there is cno thing in connection with him that I fear you've overlooked. He is an artist. He has won a certain positon. He is established here making money, looked up to; respected. If ho takes you away he will have to give up all that. He will have to make another stur in some other place. Peo pie will blame you. They wil gay you ruined hiin, his future. In time he might come to say so too. I do not say ho would, but ho might. How that would hurt you can imagine as well as I." "But if he loves me well enough ana ' "Dear Mrs. Howard. It isn't of him I am thinking; it is of you. Do you love him well enough to endure any thing that may come to both of you you tano tins su-p. Xou W1ji jjUrt your family I have said nothing about that until the last. But from what you have told mo they would consider it a ter rible disgrace; and would bo hurt ac cordingly. Yet even they have no right to spoil your life. It is your own. I am only trying to have you be honest with yourself. Kcmember dear, that no mat ter what you do, whal happens, you havo to live with yourself. That i ne porson from whom you cannot get away, no, not for a minute. It would bo ter rible to do something that made it un bearable to be on friend'y terms with ones-sou, wouldn't wnen she said that I knew, knew that I eould not S" with Morton. "May I use your telephonet" "Certainly." I called Merton Gray'i studio. Ho himself answered. "I can't go with you, Merton Yes it is final," I added in response to a question. Then he asked "may I came and see you! " "Yes, I am at Mrs. Sexton 's, come and take me home. Come in half an hour." (Monday Helen Makes a Promise Be fore Merton Gray Arrives) from an M. E. church so disregard the plain teaching of the Book they art supposed to be studying, we feel like exclaiming with Caesar, "Et tu Brutus." We tremble, not only for that particular class and the lose of spiritual life they will suffer, but de plore the precedent they are setting and the harm which may follow. No man liveta to himself." Could any one imagine nesley hiring Tvut to pick cherries, under any circumstances on the Sabbath. Our first duty is to God and obedienee to His commands. But un der the stress of these perilous times it is so easy to persuade ourselves (or try to) that a thing is all right, if it is under the guise of patriotism. If it is right for one person, it must he for all; then why not close all our churches, not onlr two Sabbaths but for two months and the minister and his congregation all go to the fields. Man in his short sightodness has ever been prone to try to improve on God's plan. Even some of the Israel ites went out to gather manna on the Sabath, but found none. "The things which are seen are temporal, but things which are not seen are eternal" and after all are not these eternal things of paramount im portancCj more even than saving a few cherries. Christian duty never con flicts with 4he law of God. Time spent in real prayer is not lost either, as has been intimated for "prayer changes things." I believe our Nation with others is being called to repentance for past wrongs and allowance of cer tain conditions, and that instead of go ing in disobedience, we should take heed. The command docs not say, remembei the Sabbath day when convenient and when the work is all done and every thing saved, but it does say, Remem ber the Sabbath day to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour and do all thy work; but the seventh day is the Sabbath of the Lord thy God, in it thou shalt not do any work, thou nor thy servant, they daughter, they men servant, nor they maid servant." I am not alone in the stand I have taken and am sorry such things are dono in the name of the church or an adjunct of it. How can we expect God's favor f A READER. PUB DAILY STOST SAFETY FIRST Open Forma To the Editor: Mv attention has been called to the plea of the "Live wire" . 8. class to work on the next two or three Sundays, and I feel that someone should raise their voico in lET ITC UCTIlWATr AW M lilil UJ LJillTUllLi urt ... All your Printing an up-to- Now office to meet your print- lng demands. TUB CAPITAL JOOENAL PHONE 81 41 Myazina Plinth was the blondest and prettiest girl t apply in answer t Gregory Mallow's advertisement for a stenographer, so, after mature deliber ation, he selected her. The first morning she reported for work, her employer greeted her with a chuck under the chin and a friendly. "Morning, dearie, make yourself right at home, and if there's" any little thing you need that would help yon in the work, such as a box of candy or a few orchids, just speak rigljt out." Then h0 sat down to look over hil mail. The first letter he opened waf anonymous. It read: "Sir: We tak6 this opportunity ts inform you that a low down trick is bo ing played on you. Your new steno grapher is really a spy in your wife's employ to report all misconduct on your part in your relations to her. A word to the wise, ,?tc. "A Friend." "Er ah er M!ss Plinth" said Mallow, "I er ar er want to apolo gize, er that is to say, explain, my greeting to you a litle while ago. You see, my attiudo t all my stenographer? has been one of strictly disinterested business, and I have never tolerated the presence of any girl who er expected mo to be in the slightest degree er personal, in my attitude towards her. Therefore, I always begin by testing every stenographer ,and I want to con gratulate you, Miss Plinth, on the coo? manner in which you took my pretend ed advances this morning. Ahem." And ho returned to his mail, and Miss" Plinth, who in her last three positions had made everything cojmfortable fon herself by working the same little an onymous nbte game, merely smiled chill' lly and sharpened her pencils. New Books Received at Public Library Bridges Poetical works. Depew Gunner Depew. the fighting laughing American boy. Those who havs enjoyed "Over the top" and "Pri vate Peat" will enjoy "Gunner De' pew" his story as told by himself. Gates Becreation and the church. Hyde Quest of the lest. Maeterlinck Wrack of the storm. Tennyson Idylls of the king, edited by Van Dyke. Fiction Atherton Julia Franco and her times. Brown Tho country road. Grey The TT. P. trail. Several replacements of popular fic tion. For the Children ' C!risey Story of foods. Gask Treasury of folk talcs. ' YOUR HEALTH By ANDREW F. CURRIER., M. D, Narcotics. A narcotic is a substance which makes yQU stupid, partly or com pletely unconscious, more or less In sensitive to pain. Some narcotics will make you en tirely oblivious of what 13 going on; with others you may be semi conscious, but have little sensitive ness to pain; while with others you wlH have dreams, hallucinations and sometimes great mental dis tress. A narcotic is very apt to discover your real nature and disposition. When one is drunk or narcotized, lie can usually be depended upon to speak the truth. The effect of a narcotic Includes (1) that which happens while you are taking it, (2) what happens while you are under its influence (3) what happens after the in fluence of the narcotic is spent when the body is trying to elimin ate or get rid of it The first effect of a narcotic is often agreeable; it may cause ex citement, exhilaration, or calm and contentment, with oblivion of life's Ills and miseries. This is what makes narcotics so attractive to many. The opium usor has it, and it often comes with the inhalation of ether or chlo roform. Then follow stupidity and unconsciousness, when poisonous effects result and may prove fatal. Finally the chemistry of the body tries to get rid of the drug through the intestines, kidneys, lungs and Iktn. A gas or vapor narcotic, like ether, chloroform or laughing gas, is partly taken up by the blood vessels of the lungs, more or less changed, carried to the kidneys and passed out with the urine, the re mainder being exhaled from the lungs with exhaled air. A liquid narcotic.' like alcohol. Is eliminated chiefly by the lung3 and kidneys, part of it stimulating the liver and being absorbed by It, and part being absorbed by other organs. A solid narcotic. Ilk opium, undergoes - various chemical changes, is absorbed by the blood And eliminated by the kidneys. There are six classes of narcotic drugs which it is worth while to remember, typical representatives of these classes being: alcohol. opium, cocaine, Indian hemp, scopo- its possibilities. lamlne and ether, all but the last two being well recognized as habitt forming drugs. ! Alcohol is the essential element in fermented and distilled Hquora, and in many of the patent medi cines. Alcohol is useful in preventing decomposition In animal and reg$ table tissues, but only five or Six per cent. Is required for this puw pose In most cases. When fifty oij sixty per cent, is used, as is thj) case in many patent medicines, th object of using it is not to cura disease, but to cause intoxication. , . The exact amount of alcohol lrf every patent medicine ought al ways to be printed on the label oil the bottle. Opium, in some form, is used lnj cough' medicines, soothing syrupa and medicines for relieving pain, either in its gum or resinous form, or in the form of morphine, codeines heroin, Dover's powder, laudanum, paregoric, or some other deriva tive. Cocaine is a very useful loca anaesthetic, but is often dangerous, even in small quantities, and other less dangerous substitutes are nonf in uso, Including eucaln, stovaln, novocain and others. The habit of using cocaine ia easily acquired; larger and larger1 doses are constantly called for, anl finally It makes the one who uses it a mental and nervous wreck. Indian hemp, from which hash, eesh is obtained, is much used id the Orient and produces a wild di Drum, often inciting to the commis ion of crime. It is too dangerous a drug fo general use. ; Scopolamine, which Is the samtf chemically as hyosctne, is useful id surgical operations, and a fe1 years ago was much exploited la obstetrical cases producing the aot called "twilight-sleep." , Ether is most used as a general anaesthetic, and belongs to tha class of narcotics which rolatlliza at ordinary temperatures and art of great value in surgical work. , It is not Infrequently used for M intoilcatlng effects; and because it may produce serious results. It should not be trifled with nor used by those who are unfamiliar wlti