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lailjshliaia itorial Page of The Capital Journa CHARLES H. ITSHXB Uitor tad PaMiiker :$jyf..i Ed WEDNESDAY EVENING July 24, 1913 PUBLISHED ETEBX EVENING EXCEPT BCNDAT, IAUU, OBEOON, BI Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. ft. &. BARNES. Fnvident CHA8. H nsnER. DORA C. ANDBK8EN, VIca-PreMdmt Bee. aad Ties. Sl'BSCHIPTION RATES rally by carrier, pr rar i 15.00 rr Month 1.45c twlly by mall, per year 3-UO Per M.uh S3e riJI.L LEASED WIUE TELEGRAPH REPORT E1STEUN KEPUE8EMATIVE3 w. a Ward, liew lurk, Tribune Bulldlnu. I'bicagu, W. H. Ptookwfll, PMple'i Gaa Building Yh Capital Journal carrier hoy ar Instructed to pat tb paper oa tbe parch. If t carrier doea Dot do tbla. njltuM-a you, or neglect getting the paper to you od time, hiadly phone tbe circulation manager, aa thla ia the only way we can determine whetner r But tU carileri are following instruction Pbone Main HI before T :34 o'clock and a tnr will be ent you by peiTal mesaenger It tbe carrier baa aliased you. l llii LA1LV C A I'l l A L JUUKNAJ. Ia the only aewapaper In Kaiem wboae circulation la guaranteed by ta Audit Itureau of t'lrcularioua. CONTRACTS "SCRAPS OF PAPER." The action of the Portland school board in remov ing Superintendent Alderman from his position regard less of his contract with the board under which he was to hold the position until July, 1919, brings up some rath er interesting questions. The action of the board, is in an opinion by the district attorney of Multnomah county, upheld, and the authority of the board to make the re moval is asserted. It is but a short time since the school boards were complaining because the teachers were un der the law held not bound by any contract they might make with the boards. They could quit at almost any time, and the beards thought they were badly used bo cause of this. Under the ruling of the district attorney alluded to, the shoe is now on the other foot and the boards are not bound by any contract they make, but enn discharge any employe at any time. It looks to a layman as though the law giving the school board the right to set aside. its own contracts is a violation of the constitutional provision that "no state shall pass any law impairing the obligation of contracts," but the lawyers ?udent!y see a road around this. If a person entering into a contract with a school board to teach or superin tend schools can be set at the job of "superintendent of yar work," why cannot he or she be given a 30b of curry ins mules or sweeping the streets in lieu of it? We arc- not setting our opinion up against that of the Portland . ttorney, duc merely maiung a suggestion, it sin&tj.i the average man that the law looks upon a contract about as the kaiser does on a treaty. Anyway, the school board 5s given powers of a dictatorial nature in which the only limit is the will. If it is wrong to violate a treaty when it no longer satisfies one of the parties who made it, why is it right to violate a contract under similar conditions? The two are the same thing in principle, differing only in name. U.t' C -.. v..-- TH I fill 5 '-.1- vf -, -. - Si , - v I! v ' 1 ut l A short time ago the Huns were denying there were a million Americans in France and placed the number at twenty thousand. Since the allies began their offensive the Germans have changed their opinion and now assert there are ten millions of them there. Evidently they have been given an object lesson that was convincing.. Any way it shows a great change in the estimates. The French made a gain of two miles at one point yesterday, capturing 1,200 prisoners and at another point l,g00 prisoners were taken and substantial gains in ter ritory were made. This nibbling is making the slice of bread look pretty small especially to the Germans, who in this case represent the bread. Now it is the Persians who are starving and appeal ing to the United States to send them food, which it will do. .The old boast that "America feeds the world," has proved not an idle one, for without the foodstuffs of this country fr the past four years Europe would have starved 'to death. Hoover says the food crisis is past and the submarine menace no longer reared. We have built ships enough to carry foodstuffs to the allies and supply our own boys wun everytnmg needed. Instead of being at each other's throats as the kaiser would have had them, Americans and Japanese will per- naps soon oe shoulder to shoulder driving the kaisers troops out ot Siberia. Now it is proposed to launch one hundred ships on Labor Day. That should make a splash that would be heard even in Berlin. THE MAY BE FINED. Rippling Rhymes J WW A WM M W 2 HHUtt IIMIMttW SLACKERS. A dozen or more contractors furnishing raincoats for the army have been arrested in New York for brib ery and conspiracy. The substance of the charges is that the manufacturers conspired with certain quartermaster officers to supply an nferior quality of raincoats, the officers passing them. It is claimed that these when used in France went to pieces after a few days and were no protection whatever to the boys exposed in the trenches. It will be worth while keeping an eye on these cases to discover what punishment is meted out in case of convic v tion. The courts following the usual American plan the chances are will "fine them." This is practically no pun ishment at all, and is in fact an inducement for others to fellow their example, for if caught part of their ill-gotten gains ar taken from them, while if not either discover ed or convicted they get away with the whole plunder. The punishment for all such offenses should be a long term in prison, since capital punishment is beyond the courts to inflict, so that there will be no inducement for others to get rich by worse than theft, and by exposing the men who are fighting our battles, to rain and storm, and appropriating to themselves the money put up by the people for the boys, for their own use. If the courts do not sufficiently punish this kind of "Hunism" there should le enough red-blooded men in New York to attend to the matter, and place all that kind of profiteersmen in such a place that their legs would not reach from their bodies to the ground. The German war office continues to tell the German people that everything is lovely on the Marne and that! the allies are repulsed at all points. The present retreat 1 is called a victory, and the assertion made that the ob jectives sought by the Germans in crossing the Marne were all accomplished. If this is the case, the only object they had in crossing was to give the allies the pleasure of driving them back again. Sometime "in the course of years the German people will begin to doubt the veracity of their leaders. The men are driven forth to work, to keep the pul leys humming, and any chap who tries to shirk will surely get what's coming. The lad who used to bask all day, is busy as a gopher; in times like these it doesn't pay to show up as a loafer. Male idlers find their day is o'er; if they 've a kick they can it; the man who has no useful chore mist hunt another planet. But how about the dame se rene, through life so idly ambling, who burns up tubs of gasoline in vain and foolish rambling ? Her thoughts are still of trifling things, of laces and of collars, of blondined hair and diamond rings," and shoes at twenty dollars. She thinks the war a horrid bore to which kings are addicted; her heart of celluloid is sore, that sugar is restricted. She sees her loyal sisters strain and toil in useful service; and sights like this give her a pain, they make her tired and nervous. Oh, let's dragoon the stall-fed dames, sav to them; "Work or perish," and drag them from the silly games that they ignobly cherish. If Jack must use his strength and skill to help preserve the nation, it's only fair mac Bister jiu snouia worn out ner salvation. FREXCH CEEW PITS CAPTURED GERMAN TANK IX ORDER This German tank was cuptiire,! during tha thick of the recent fighting. It was pat in order again (having been demolished) after 12 day 's work under ena my fire and brought back to the rear line. French Official Photograph from Underwood & Underwood. ing to listen to her. But I soon left j her, anil sent Annie to help her unpack ; The Woman Who Changed XZX? on,y lu8' . "She's just lovely, Mary!'' I said By JANE PHELPS to. the t ook, as I .went into the kitchen i a moment- Mary was still mv confidant t in any household matters, altho I was not ao in need of her as when I was MB. AND MBS. BABCOCK ABBIVB. ! first married, or when I had been un happy. "She looks mice," Mary returned, by which I knew she had been peeping when my guest arrived. "She's old tho." "No, not old.' but of onrse older than I am. I want everything partic ularly nice, every iugle meal, while she k here. She has a wonderful cook." I added, so putting Mary on her met tle. "Hugh" she miffed. "I guess wo can give her as good as she gets at home. " I smiled aa I loft the kitchen. I knew there would be nothing served to my guests -which was not as perfect as Mary icould make it. A little flat tery mixed with praise of some dinner I had attended always brought the ro- siponse: "I'll take a back seat for no one, when it comes to cookin'." Then she would take particular paii Tomorrow A delightful visit ) Treble Clefs at Chautauqua Four Talented Young Ladies Present Two i lAarming I'rograms LADD & BUSH, Bankers ALL HIE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW , HERE. THOSE INTERESTED TLEASE CALL ' AT TnE BANK I ' J " 4 1 JJ TREBLE CLEF CLUB. Tqnr chormbif yonng ladles, gifted with rare ability as musicians and en tartalncrs. consUtute Uie Treble Oef Club comlnir to Chini,on. t,i. ;pony, under the lendorslilp of Jessie Rae Taylor, Las won a place among tha ion-most pmirorra orgmiiwuons. They present a splendid and varied pro irnim of yocnl solos, duets, quartets, wsturaod sketches' and readings. Miss laylor is probably the most widely known lady Impersonator upon the Chan tnuqua plutfoim aud has the distinction of being the only woman member X the Wig and Creas l'alnt Club of tha International Lyceum Association. 1 ' i Capital Journal Want Ads Will Get Yoa What Yoa Want CHAPTER CXXXVII. The morning we expected them, our guesttj arrived. Their train got into Morelaml very early, so 1 dressed to meet Mrs. Babeock before I went down to Ibreakfast. Then, after wo finished, I ran up to the guest room, arranged the freshly-cut flowers which had just been delivered, and hurried down to go to the station. To my surprise, George was waiting fur me. - You have been eo thoughtful, I rather imagined you might tike me to ride to tho station with you," he said when I oxpressed my surprise. "Indeed I shall! It will be ever so ninth aiieer," I told him- I knew it was my reward for doing what pleased kirn. That was his way. We hatted quite gayly, on our way, bat as we neared the Mntion some of my old fears as to my ability to play hostess arose. I gave them uterance, and, to my surprise, George only laughed at me. "Nonsnse! you will carry it off al right," he isaid, jut as we reached our destination. We had scarcely no wait at all, and "before I had time to worry or think any more about my own shortcomings, the tram was in, and we wero welcoming them. AX APPRECIATIVE GUEST. "This is so kind of-you," Mrs. Bab cock said, regarding my meeting her. "So early, too. I inely did not ex pect such consideration." Ueorge henrrt, nnd fairly warned. Altlw) he rarely praised mo himself, 1 had noticed that he was pleased when others did. Mr. Baibock went directly to the office with George; Mrs. Balicock and I drove home, altho I had told the chauffeur to take us thru, the prettiest part of the tojvn. There were eome beautiful homes in iJoreland, and as it wa s lovely bright day, they showed to good advantage. "What a charming iplaice," Mrs. Babeock .said in her low, cultivated voire, a voice that Geoge had said was like music. '.'es, it is a pretty place," I re plied, then mentioned the names of some of the residents who occupied the handsomest places, Korae of them wero familiar (to her, and she asked several questions, showing her interest. She wasn't going to 'be a bit hard to entertain, I thought, as we reached the house. I went upstairs with her, altho An nie was to wait upon her while she was with us. She was so pleased with my little preparations for her comfort, aud seemed to know that I had at tended to them myself, for Bhe said: "This is charming! and you have made it so homelike. I am going to kiss yon, my dear, may If We have talked a great deal of ' you, eince you were in Chicago. You are very like our darling girl." "I ant so glad-" I replied as I raised mv face for a kis "And 1 am also happy that you and Mr. Bab cock like me-' I am young and make many mistakes, but I want to please. I "don 't know why I should have spoken as I did. Something in her manner made me want so ten ner that I was trvinff to make myself into a woman who did things in the right way. "My dear, yon please without try ing, voa't tmntt or yonrscir as Do ing obliged to put forth nsdue effort to please people. Just be your own, sweet, natural self." A Comfortable reeling "That's the wav mother talks to me! But, you see, Mrs. Babeock, I had always before lived in a country town; lty ways and city people were so new to me, that I have felt I must be thinking of what I did and what I said oimnualty. ' "Perhaps, at first, that may been in a way, necessary, lsut it w so no longer. You have nothing to fear by comparison with eity women or your own age. You should not think of com- l-anng vourself with those who are joldrr in years nnd in experience." It gave me such a comfortable feel- Clippings From Home .... By Miss Gladys Mclntyre. (Writtea for the United Press.) ' With tho American Troops at tho The Front, Juno 19. (By Hull) Ono of tho pleasant surprises we have had since we arrived ou the fron'v are the letters aud clippings we receive from home many of them from folks we never knew. Wo had no idea when we cam.3 over that the people would write to us in such nice letters. The boys in the regiment are just he ginnine to get clippings and letters , about our experiences in Sieeheprey, and they always bring them around. They goJin as tickled as we arcover the3e dippings. We have to admit to ourselves some times, though we never do to anyone eho, that wo get homesick so far over here, and we f.oci lonesome, in spite of all the kindnesses the boys show as. I guess it 's just because wo are. girls, and aren't soldiers vet.. But tho letters from homo help out, even when they are from someone we nover have seen. A "Peachy" One." We got a peachy one yesterday from an old soldier. It was addressed to my sister, just ' ' Miss Irene Mclntyre, Some Where In France, in care 17. S. Salvation Army". But it reached us. We thought it was fuuny when we started to read it, but when we were half way through, wo were prettv Berious. As soon as we finished, I sat down and wrote tho old soldier a long letter, and told him w? were going to adopt him for o'lr grand father. We haven't any grandfathers to be afraid, except lam. ' Misses Gladys and Irene Mclnty re: ' ' You may no doubt be surprised to re If $ Joy To Cook For Yankee Lads &T Miss Irene Mclntyre. (Written lor tho United Press.) With the American Boys at the Front, June 19. (By Mail.) W are grateful to bo over here with our army and feel we are havinir wonderful luck to bo abte to make doughnuts and pies iur vur wt m in-e war. Wo had no idlca at all what our work would ibe when we first camo but we wero quite prepared for nnvthinir. Wa only feared that we would not be sent to tho front and would bo doomed te remain in the rear. At Bonleau, whea I landed and met the colonel, my first words were to ask. him to send me as far forward as he could. Ho smiled and said nothing. so 1 waited in susneniie. Gladys, my sister, had come over oorlier, and was then "somewhere in France at the front.'' There was joy for me when tho colonel gave me orders to go to the little village where my sister was working, the most advan'ce point at which women were allowed ia our army, and probably in any army. Order Brings Joy, I had anticipated a gradual advaacs into tho zone of the army from on ipost to another and was trying hard to keep from lotting my eagerness to g where they were thickest front getting the best of me. My delight was all the greater on that account aiii little sister and I had a joyous re union. There is no way to tell how happy we are to bo herj. Our soldier bnv are the best in the world. The, ap preciate tho tiniest thina we do for thorn and surprise us constantly wita grioner Kindnesses than we ever show them. They are awfully good and gen tle and thoughtful around us. in sriite of the strain they are under out here in the trenches. The other niht during a heavv bar rage from both sides, when shells were breaking on Uio edge ol our woods, a uuugiwwy stood under our -window te reassure us if we became lalarmed. Wo did not learn of it until morning wnen ue asxed us it we had beea scared. I said, "Why, no, you didn't hear us make a sound, did'yout" He Was On Guard. "Xo," he responded, "You didn't say a word for two hours but I stayed there ibecause I knew you couldnlt ba asleep and must befrightened. If any thing had happened, I might have helped you," At the time of the bombardment of our kitchen in the Siecheiprey batla, when I was picking up a few things in the hut preparatory to our enforced departure by the general's orders, the shells were bursting on all sides with ia a few yards- A eainoufleur who had 'been verT good to us came in to holp me, and as the shells burst ho said in such a quiet voice, "I think we had better stand against this wall for a few minutes, If a shell should strike in, the wall would fall so hero wo will be safe." Then ho went on talking" nuietlv a- bout other things, and made me forget eflivo a. letter from an old soldier you never saw or heard of, but in my paper I read about your brave and heroic ser vice ou the front, somewhere in France. POLK CHOP IS PROMISING Erckreall, Or, July 24. A survey completed in .Polk county with respect to tho fruit crop this season shows that the county ha9 a prospect of har vesting a crop of 9-250,Of)0 pounds of prunes this season. The survey was where you braved the gas and shells of by a committee from the Commer the Hum to serve hot coffee, and dough-!''1"1 clm m JWas. Ihere are now 46JJ nuts to the Yankee bovs, for more than) 81:1,09 Vae trees in the county, a week, and then retired onlv npon or- L!,st ycr the Armsby packing plan dors of the commanding officer. J' handled 5,000,000 pounds of "You don't know how proud I was ,11- Pkmts at Monmouth and Dallas when I read that account! But I said.!11 Tr"te th,s 'all and .thf.,e. r? 'That's American .and those two n-irlsif Cral othef, maUT and ?d;vlllu1 Ml I ' T am on Ml. 0VC.T 0y, OWned Dy tU growers themselves. Many thousands of dollars will ac- are of the true blood!' I am an old sol dier of tho war of '61-'65. We didn't have such bravo girls as you to ehecr us on and serve us with hot coffee. Wa had to do without until we could serve ourselves. "Wa Will Win." "Xow, with such brave heroines in our camps and in the tranches to cheer ,411.9 boys on, wo will win. I have one soa in the service, but he has not left the states yet. He's a first lieutenant in the 338th infantry, company I, locat ed at Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich. There is only one thing I regret, and that is that I am too old to go mvself. But such brave boys and girls will never crue to ithe growers as the fall harvest the result of let that grand old flag that we preserve ed in the 60 's, trail in the dust. "May God's protecting hand save yo from ail harm is my prayer. "Jesse E. Pauley, "Soldiers Home, Danville, 111." " "P. S. If this letter reaches you and it is possible for you to answer it,' I want you to tell me all about yoursel ves, aud all the news you can tell with out violating tha rules of the censor."