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X hJVKi.iiii Editorial Page of The Capital Journa CHARLES H. JTSHIB Editor ui Pnbluker TUESDAY EVEN1SG July 9, 191S ...-xpr..:., ,yr... ........ .y. a 'isi)'taji' jj f PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING EXCEPT BCNDAT, Eil.EM, OBBOOK, BI Capital Journal Ptg. Co.; Inc. K . BARNES, Prcaldnt CH1S. H. riSHEK, Vlce-Prealdeot DOHA C. ANDRKSBN, See. and Tll. BCBSCKIFTIOS BATK8 IHUIj bv errlr, per year .....$5.00 Per Month INU1 by null. pr year 8.00 Per Mucin .45c .85 FULL LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH REPORT EASTERN REPRESENTATIVES B. Ward, New Tork, Trunin Building. Chicago, W. H. Btockwell, Peaple's Ou Building tTw Capital Journal carrier born are Instructed to put tie paper on the porch. If Ik carrier doea not do tliia, mluen yon, or neglects getting the paper to yon on time, tladly phone tba circulation maoiiger, aa tbla ia the only way we ran determine whether a sot the carriers are following loetrvctlona l'tiona alula 81 before 1 :3U o'clock and a will be aent yon by pedal messenger II tne carrier naa miasea you. TUB DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL to the only newspaper in Salem whoso circulation in guaranteed by th Audit Bureau of Circulations. THE GOVERNOR AT THE HELM Management of he state penitentiarw causes more grief than all the other state institutions put together. Why is it? If it isn't trouble over mismanagement of the flax, it is trouble over the handling of wood contracts, or some thing else. Governor Withycombe said he wanted something for the convicts to do, so the state board of control entered into two woodcutting contracts. The convicts were to cut and deliver the wood needed for the state hospital for the insane. The hospital depended on this fuel. After piddling along all winter and spring and early summer on one of the contracts, the convict crew was hopelessly behind and the prison management appeared helpless to improve the situation, bo in order to protect tiis institution from a fuel shortage the coming winter Superintendent Steiner was obliged to buy. with state funds a new auto truck and trailer and get busy deliver ing the wood to the state hospital.' On top of this failure, Governor Withycombe an nounced that he did not have any convicts on hand to cut the wood included in the second contract, so the state will fail to realize on that business deal, which was made especially at the request of the chief executive. . Governor Withycombe has exclusive control of the penitentiary. . The doubling of wages in many occupations such as ship building has had its effect on the farms and will have a still greater one a3 the days pass, The extra "wages have drawn labor from the farms &x.& the latter are left with the alternative of either meeting the wage increase, or losing their help entirely. This will of course add to the cost of living and if the policy of the last year is fol lowed this will cause another increase in wages and this will again cause an advance in the price of all foodstuffs. The outcome will be that some arrangement will have to be made for supplying labor to the farmers, or all of us will go hungry. The unreasonable wages paid in the ship yards and other munitions works, frequently for an in ferior quality of work, is also injuriously affecting all legitimate lines of industry which cannot meet the un fair competition. The time must come when union labor will be told that it must work honestly for a fair compen sation, or fight in the trenches for $:0 a month like mil lions of real Americans are doing now. AMERICA'S PLATINUM FIELD Events are moving swiftly in Russia. The German government and the bolsheviki have broken and a counter revolution has begun. How formidable the latter may be is not yet even guessable. Its leaders are not known nor are the elements behind it. It is indicative of the German way of doing things that the allies re openly accused of having put up the job of assassinating the German am bassador. The German officials know how they would have dealt with the situation,' and imagine civilized people are guilty of cowardly murder, because that s the favorite Prussian weapon. Platinum is said to be indispensible in the making of munitions, and as Russia has been the main source of sup ply, the stock available is low. The southern tier of coun ties of this state and the northern one of California is about the only place in the United States in which platinum is found. Most of the metd from this source is a byi-product of the placer mines, and owing to its extreme fineness it is difficult to save it. Heretofore no platinum has been found, in places, at least, in quantities that would f erred to is undeniable, since that found in the black sands f erred to is undenable, since that found in the black sands has come from the disintegration of the country rocks. It would be money well spent if the government would send a few practical mineralogists through that section, to "prospect the prospect holes." That section has been pretty well examined by pocket hunters and there are thousands of prospect holes that could be easily examined and that might lead to the discovery of platinum in place, that is. in the quartz or country rock. Most of the pocket miners are not skilled in the minerals and what they look for is eold. Thev do not bother about anything else. It would cost but little to have this promising field inteli- gently examined, and if it resulted in the finding of platinum in place it would repay a millon times the cost, A few thousand dollars would do it, .and "thousands" these days are scarcely worth keeping track of. The strike of President Kerr of the 0. A. C. for in creased wages is not yet settled. The governor and the rest of the board of regents stood for the bluff and voted the increase, but the striker, Kerr, has not had the nerve in the face of publicity to draw the increase in his salary. He is apparently afraid of public opinion, and the same feeling seems to prevent the governor building that $10,000 mansion on the 0. A. C. campus for the use and benefit of the striking president. If the salary increase was "straight goods" why does not the super-Kerr draw it? If the new mansion is not built is its delay also caused by knowledge that it too -was a piece of crooked work? t The Woman Who Changed J Company M Boys Are Anxious for MaO By JANE PHELPS j "All of us Bars do watch for the mail I aud are so disappointed when we de not I get a letter." Tins is the story of almost very sol dier in France writing to his home folks ; r. . Tl. .... Ifftfaro ami Kim comuu i M.i.uve uat --urBO me.e, ,lt. ,.1(t vpr, fw ...li,- how A BETTER TJN.DERSTAJSDING Lovers of Mark Twain's writings are objecting to a book being foisted on the public a written, by him since he joined the silent majority, he writing with the aid of a spiritual medium. It is strange that scpie people can be induced to swallow this kind of trash, but they do. The poet Saxe commenting on this writing from the other world suggested: ; ' "Show not in halting prose arid splay-foot verse The spirit's progress is from bad to worse. Give us some token of your heavenly birth Write as good English as you wrote on earth." Marion county will get but . little road work done through the highway commission this year. "A New Kicker," in Monday's Capital Journal suggests that it is possible Marion county is to be punished for not voting for the bonds, and wonders -whether the commission or the governor is to blame. It may be noted in this regard that the county did r?ot give its vote to the governor at the recent primaries. When Prussianism runs up agairst nihilism the civil ized world stands back and realizes that each has met its equal. The only difference between them is as to the style of the murders committed. The New York Evening Mail and Express was a very vindictive anti-administration newspaper almost as un compromising and unfair in its attacks on the government as the Oregonian and other leading g. o. p. papers. It turns out, however, that the Mail and Express had a valid rea son for its course, since it was bought and paid for with money furnished by Count Von Bernstorff. Half a million American soldiers in the trenches by August first sounds good, though : ot having that effect on Hindenburg. If the latter ,expects to get away with that long promised offensive he should get busy soon, for with 40,000 Americans added to the forces against him every week, delay is surely dangerous. German propaganda runs up against the real thing when it undertakes to persuade or deceive nihilism. Two kinds of anarchy cannot occupy the same country at the same time, if opposed to each other. LADD & BUSH, Bankers ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW HERE. THOSE INTERESTED TLEASE CALL AT THE BANK The Italians on the Piave, and the allies on the western front keep nibbling at the enemy's lines and on both fronts are making considerable gains. They will take large bites before long. I Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason 44 UNDERSTANDING US They held the theory everywhere a theory uninviting that gold is all for which we ..! J- Li.' "" care, ior wxiicn wk u uo our iignung. I f I "They're money grubbers, one and all," the f I i nations cried, in ancmish: "we have our - w - backs against the wall, and still in sloth they languish; Still, still they chase the buck and bone, to strain of Yankee Doodle; they hear, the stricken peoples groan, and gather in more boodle." But now they see our legions rush across the rolling break ers, and not to gather in some cash or an nex foreign acres. They see our men go forth to fight where demolition rages, to plant the standard of the right where it may stand for ages. Across the mined and ambushed sea, thousand leagues of water, we go that nations may be free, that tyranny may totter. The wealth for which we planned and toiled in times of peace, is helping to see the war lord's program spoiled, and set his cohorts yelping. And now they see us as we are; we're slow to wrath, but, thunder! When roused we rip things all ajar and tear the map asunder. They see us standing up for right without a thought of profit; they'll see us carry on the fight until there's ice in Tophet. y . - told mo believe that I bad heard aright If I had. then my reasoning had been all wrong; Julia Collins had been, all wron. 'Do you mean what you said, Ccoige?" I asked, as I snuggled iu his arms. 'Of eour; I do!" he smiled his an swer. "What should I do wit a my mon ey, my business, if we had no children to inherit itf Nice old Darby and Joan we would be, with no young things around to keep us from getting to be a couple of old crauks.; I am to blame." he added, after a minute. "I don't know why, but in sonv way I have made you afraid oi me afraid to trust me." It was because tou so often secui- Ci displeasod with me so often eross, and impati'.'ut because I was different from your friends. Then you said you wanv-'d to n aiie me over. I tried to lot vou tried tn te as near like them as I could. I failed, I know, but I tried. Dear, 1 never wanted you to be like them, save in the things that would give you rioise would help you in hold ing your c-vii in society. I have often bf-cu very proud when yon did so." I .vnu'u. In-red the look that I had seen unoa liis face und eould not account for, It had seemed like a certain piideful look, but I was uevv.'r sure. ,;VVhv didn't you tell me, when pleased you? Yuu always told me when I aiigitred or autiuyed you." Gecrge Conitsses His Fault. "1 am sorry, Helen," ho replied ser iously, "very sorry, i thought that you knew me well enough to see when I was pleased. My only excuse is that I have d'jtic always what I thought right. I am a peculiar man, in some respects. A hard man, 1 expect," his smile soft ened tin? words, yet I knew they were true. "1 have littte patienee with in- jfricie-icv m any one. But now we un deratand tach other better,'? he said, as ho put ma back among- my pillows '.'and after this, we will talk tilings over together." T did not say so, but I recalled the (11119 that I tried to talk things over Willi him lecausc Mrs. Sexton, had ad vHd it. and how he had flung from me in anger. Biif I had felt, then, that I was tactless. I must try to learn to wait until a time when I could talk without anuoying him. .i -AVo talked a littlo mow, then George cnllel the nurse and left mo. I had not been so happy since the day I promis ed to marry him. I felt so relieved; so g nil that he wasn't fold and hard-heart-,-d a3 Julia Oollius had mado mo think. I didn't flatter myself that he would bo changed in every respect; he had said he was "a hard man", bat never again would I. let another woman especially Julia Collins make me so miserable. It may soem stinge that I was hap py in spite of the fact that Oeorgo had noi- refuted a single statement I had made when I spoke of his neglect of his dflsne to be with Julia Collins find the other .things of which I com plained; but I had lived with him long enough to know that what he had said '.lint iittk meant more than much prottfCiag would have meant from an other uun. I improved rapidly, and was soon as w.'.'ll as ever. Mother had only been able o remain until I could get up. Father wa not well, and she had to return to him and the boys. Oh, how I hated to ioe her gol I knew her loving heart had been torn by what I had said in my firot sickness that she was uneasy nnd unhappy about mo. So I had told her ns much of the conversation between (ieovgi1 and me as I thought necessary to quiet her fears. If I exaggerated some of the things 1kj said, I felt I would be forgiven, because I did it so that she might not worry. A Happy Conyalesccnce. I was almost sorry when I was able. to go out, once mono to take up my social duties again. George had be.'.'n so uniformly kind, although, as I got stronger, he went out a good deal. Hut he never failed to come homo, first aud to sec that I was comfortable. And .except a few times, ho did not remain out late. He kept me almost smothered in flowers, and as soon as I wag able to ride, he came heme early every af ternoon and took me for a spin out into tne country. Sometimes we went alone, then, again ho would stop and get Evelyn Beeves and my little namesake who had grown amazingly and was a lovely little roly poly thing, good-natured, and so cun ning. Sometimes he would call for Mrs. 8exton, and she would go with ns. I had confessed how I had hated her, at first, nnd howmuch I thought of her now. George had laughed at my confession and had remarked: "It will be like that with many things, Helen. Sometimes littlo girls don 't know what is good for them, and they have to learn it by (experience." Once to niy surprise, ho asked Merton Gray to go with us. We met him in the street. He said he was on his way to in quire for me, and George invited him to make his call in tho car. Merton had been most thoughtful, sending me flow ers and an occasional message. In fact everyone had been mora than kind in that way, even Julia Collins. (Tomorrow A Short Trip With George) lruch eood it does when the soldk'i boy Vts a letter from home. Private Elmet-S. Olson of Company M, 162d infantry, writing to his folks living on rural route 8, begin hit let ter as above. He writes probably from Nevers, on-the Loiro river, as follows: "I am s good piece behind the firing line doing guard duty at one of the large warehouses. I am in a town of 50,000 and the post where I am station ed has a f ino Y. M. C. A. If the people back home really knew what tho Y. M. C. A. is doing, they would never regict a penny they have put into the cause. '1 was a little sick a few days ago and tlvj 1'ourth family across the street brought me some eggs and milk and some strawberries. They are awful nice to us. The town I am in is on the Loire I nver and it is sure a pretty river. There is an old cathedral here built before Columbus discovered America. There is also a largo museum which has a num ber of costly paintings and old things the Romans used. I am hoping to travel over Franee a great deal before I return as it is (vertainly a pretty and interest ing country. "All the boys in Company M aro well as far as I know. Some of them are (le taehed on guard duty. On account of France having so many mountains, the railroad trains are much smaller thai they are in the XT. S., but they sure make good time and the little engines pull a big bunch of those small cars." "You just can't realize how much good it does me as well as the other boys over here to get a letter from home." How War Transforms Little 0!d French Home By Fred S. Ferguson With the American Forces in Picardy Jane 18, (By Mail). A little French sergeant came home to Picardy the other day to sec the houso where ho was Classified AJs The Journal kind get results, phone 81. r'-li fit) . NILSON TRACTORS. Built up to a standard, not down to a price. Llffht weight Strong pull Superior quality. Automatic Traction by "pull" Instead of dead weight. Stands up to hard service with mini mum expense. Nilson Senior, 24-34 H. P.; Nilson Junior, 15-2S H. P. See our local agent, or end for catalog. NILSON TRACTOR SALES COMPANY, East Morrlsoa and East Third Sts. Portland, Oregon. LIFT OFW! ; Apply Few Drops Then Lift Sore, Touchy Corns Of with Fingers Doe-m't hurt a bitt Ih-op a littl FVcezone on an aching- corn, instantly that corn stops hurting, then yon lift it right out. Yes, magic! vrit' ' o i A tiny batitlo of Freezone costs buti a few kenits et eny Arug store, but i sufficient to remove every bard. cora soft corn, or corn between the toea, and the calluses, without soreness or ii ritaition. Freezons is the sensational discovery:' of a Cincinnati genius. It is wonderful - born, where his father and mother, ani his grandfather and grandmother lived. Ac the big fireplace where- his grand mother used to sit, he saw American of- ficers, warming up from the evening: chill. As he stood in the doorway ho lookcl just to the right, and tlusre were pile of sandbags in front of the entrance t the cellar. The floor of the house wa about a foot higher than when he knew it. In every room unhewn trunks of treat a foot in diameter were sunk in the brick floor, and sapported the sealing. He went to the attie. More sandbags. Two great layers were pilod evenly over the entire top floor. Thien he lookct about at strange objects in the corners. They were heirlooms, but so wrapped that he eould not recognize them at first. Old pictures, woodcuts old glass flower vases (everything that was dear to him and to his father una mother h4 been earcf ully put away. . The little sergeant smiled. Being a soldier ho knew what aU tne sand-bag the raising of the floor, and tine support meant. Tliu house bad been made ' safe as possible from shell fire. It is just a uttle house of four rooms in a village that is now under the firs of tne (.orraan t,jns. The sergeant's people fled whcit the iloche thrust forward and captured Moutdidier. He had been fight ing in another sector, and obtained per mission to visit his home to see how things at homo, wore, with none of th family to look after them. When he leffi to return to his regiment he was happy as happy as a man can be when war has forcod his father and mother to flee from the fV'nrest plnee to them on earth. mm HEALTH By ANDREW F. CURRIER, M. D. Bright's Disease No. 1. This term is commonly used for a variety of forms of inflammatory disease of the kidneys which were described about a hundred years ago by the English physician Rich ard Bright Th proper term for kidney in flammation is nephritis which may be an acute disease lasting a few weeks and often ending in recov ery, or becoming chronic with dif ferent types and varieties lasting a year or two and ending in more or less complete recovery, or else con tinuing twenty or thirty years with vps and downs, relapses and ap parent recoveries and finally prov ing fatal unless the patient is cut off by some other disease which has intervened. Acute inflammation of the kid ney happens to anybody, but more frequently to those who are young and they usually get over it In children it may bo a sequal ot scarlet fever, or some other disease, or it may coma to old or young after any great strain or exposure. Exposure of soldiers to the damp ness and other hardships of the trenches, exposure in boats at sea after a ship has been sunk, expo sure to cold and wet and fatigue in the woods and many other causes will bring on an attack of acute nephritis. : One who is thus attacked will liave fever, pain, aching in the loins, the quantity of urine voided will be small, and It will contain, albumen, blood and other substan ces which are not found In norma! urine. If be lies quietly in bed for a week or two, takes very little solid food and plenty of nourishing fluids, es pecially milk, the kidneys will gradually resume their ordinary work, none or very little of their structure being destroyed, and they niay again become as sound as ever they were. Not SO. however If ih. ...... i, bease develops into the chronic, for in that case change in the struc tural tissue of the organs take place, the filtering apparatus which separates the urine from the blood is gradually destroyed and ita place is taken by new, hard, connective tissue which cannot do the work of normal tissue. Consequently the impure sub stances and poisons in the blood are not separated from it as they should be and the individual is slowly poisoned by his own decora. I posted cells. j The disease thus becomes esseo-, tially .a fatal one because the nor-! mal kidney tissue which has been ! Octroyed cannot be replaced. The process is so slow and grad- ual, however, that it may continue many years, and the patient may, have during much of the time a! very fair degree of health, indeed, j he may not know that anything In ! particular is the matter with him. ' I Thin chronic form of Bright' Dl-' seaBe comes in middle and ad-' vanced life and the degenerative changes referred to may go on for years not only in the kidneys, but in the heart; arteries, liver, and Ftomach without knowledge or sus picion on the part of the patient He may not feel exactly well but he may not be sick enough to have to give up work or go to bed. or consult a physician. If he has vices and dissipation he will probably get warning but he may not heed them until It it too late. Questions and Answers. Mrs. A. 8. For tux yean I have had tapeworm, and have tried a number of patent cures, without r Hef. Is there anything that yo icould suggest which can be taken to relieve this difficulty f AnswerIt you would send ft stamped and addressed envelope. I would be very glad to mail you aa article on tape worm. It may be ot .KM.. jw iu you. . w jvu. and .ddrd"nlopJ ?'AT"? ll::ntdilCtl'n Pfi with stamp .dor ia to educate and FJtL T. ,TA"r ZUrh taraat. Ta tr. 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