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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON s.vtvbd.vt, jfly 27, wis. "' By FRANCIS H. SISSON, Vice President Guaranty Trust Com pany of New York. America may well look to France for example and Inspiration iti prepar ing to develop her foreign trade after the war. In all history there Is no people whose rising to meet a seeming ly overwhcluilirg assault upon every thing they consider worth while has bad such power over the emotions of mankind. There has been a complete surrender of the baton as a whole to the Idea that every available agency should be utllzed for the single pur pose of winning the war. France has sustained every shock of war. Some ct the fairest portions of her territory have been overrun, and others are use less except for military operations. Now, with characteristic adjustabili ty, the French are transforming eincr 'gency Into opportunity. In all their , preparations for reconstruction when peace comes they are applying the principles that have been at the foun dation of their efficiency In the war. They propose to keep mobilized for a considerable period after the war Is iover that spirit of unity, co-operation and concentration In enterprise that lias kept them from vassalage since the war began. France sees clearly the double na ture of her problem. She must re store the country Itself and must re establish Its .relationship with other countries. In doUig both she looks to the United States for help. She pro poses to purchase In this country vast supplies of raw material, building sup plies and machinery, which she cannot fet from her colonies or from other nations engaged, like herself, in the work of rehubilltatioB. She proposes to pay for these things and to meet the debts she now owes by selling to this country not only an Increased .quantity of those things In the manu facture of which she excels, but nlso ' tie fctpIf(flta'Mrite r-gfyimgX , l m (ii f i; - : l - 4 ,V kA?v f'Hl a - vVHl'iii : , c v$A - v i ViJ -Atfx!-i W 4 w W AAkJJ - J) VAST AREAS OF FRENCH, ffi "--Vr V r rl TVfe''" ' "PM LAND MUST BE M , A rAf &1H5BANK OF FRANCE, FINANCIAL SWAl : " v RUlkD --g: - jy ' . 1 CENTRE OF THE . WAR WASTEV- ,1 TiwWhWf 1 t Wy mp m Hit Ml JJ&LZ ihii rv-f - -iKJ CiiL Paris ecuRSS. PARIS OFFICE OP THE GUARANTY TRUST CO. OF NEW YORK those things for which this country to the past has looked to Germany. She refuses to consider resuming purchase; of raw materials In Germany. She be lieves, too, that we sllail rather buy from her than Germany. France's determination to eliminate Germany from future economic rela tionships Is well Illustrated In her plans regarding the future of the chemical industry. Tlje French Intend from now on to develop to the limit that production of raw materials for use In the manufacture of chemicals for which the necessity of wnr has proved their capacity, and to Increase greatly the number of their factories engaged in the manufacture of chemicals. New companies have been organized, and capitalizations have been Increased since the war began, and special schools are graduating chemists. The Republican Committee of Com merce, Industry and Agriculture, which was founded In 1014 under the auspices of the Ministry of Commerce, has been surveying the possibilities of the French colonies and of friendly count lies to ascertain where products formerly Imported from Germany are to be obtained. 'Fhe French govern ment Is now concluding agreements for materials with countries which, It Is hoped, will prove to be permanent sources of supply. In preparation to meet German com mercial competition after the war the French are trying now through the medium of great fairs, like fliose nt Lyons, to acquaint all the world with the excellence of their wares, and hIkd to learn from the' exhibits of others where French importers may Jool; for their requirements. The French war-debt at the close of this year probably will be nearly 000.000,000, or about four limes what It was' before the war. For several years France has been a lender to Russia, and the present state of that country 'has postponed the payment of liils debt, t'robnuly tireal llniam anil the United Sialic will help their ally with this burden, lull een then t he task will take time to nruiii:pln:i. r'ranre lm certain i'lemei;ts stivuglh, however, upon whlrli sin relying to restnrn her former pm.-s-perir . ty. She bus u sjifetidld n::s . i-. a i i'h I soli nml an linl:'.si;i.iii. ami thrif NAUGHT REMAINS OF INDUSTRIES BUT TANGLE 0 IRON AND HEAPS OF BRICK tune at least, tlmt France of highly specialized, highly luilividualiKed and artistic mull u fact u res to which the world turned for tasteful luwles. Her leuiiers look forward to a long pe riod of sinti.lardi.ed, quantitative pro duction for l he markets of new mini tries. They expect also lo exploit the colonies I hat run pun base ; -, . urn tenuis unit absorb Unshod .rmluiS I'm II her debt.- lire paid I'niiov will be : u nation of 1 1 ii'li'i s of i l'l:in"e hi. pmie sltiollM mimuih ikt 11 goal ot hnnglfSl fni-fiv 'ru. b-i I il on i tl:o I'rU-iesi I: it'll propoi 'ililist roi l nil. uti'l 'o'l C" "i n lo HiMiri- i lo- ruiiinry ii it v private Inierliivioe uh lie work of ri'liulliliiiii nml n-hiibtliia- population, Willi her ro.ij iiml mines, her crops of wheal, grnjif. j "on hemp, thix nml Jute, her kill in loe -'he most have easy iminiifaetnre of lenilicr, hosiery, cotton 1 niiilib'iilori "'Uh lift ii goods, glassware nml silk i:oitiK lnrjoilnr nntntn.-s I'tie fill tire is exceptionally bright. There I Is s':lp Al1 "iimi' will probably puss from view, for n been riMptSltb'tici! f,o j, iiii'i i 'Ionic prim p com il wl'li -I'liilnl ; csc'- t.n"0 ovcri'iio'iit ".'i v- Ict, A rental b pi4 M S f5v Beat u4 u ibviM f Cst r penes, i&alEitnascet wsAiaj Mj'.Ui and other things made, Shrj trmmm themselves manage their fleets and are encouraged to make them as effective as. possible by the distribution of bonuses and the replacing of ships that are sunk. Ships cannot now be built In France. The Minister of Maritime Transport and Merchant Marine holds that to! bring materials from the United Stales or England would handicap French shipbuilders because of the cost ot materials and transportation. This would mean that French exporters would have to pay higher freight rates to theowners after the ships were In the water. This would place not only ex-, porters but all French Industry undet a handicap In the competition for after-, war markets. It Is proposed, there fore, that the state shall replace do-, stroyed ships, as It can buy materials more cheaply, and therefore will be able to contract for new ships on a basis of Insuring reasonable rates to the trader. The government contracts to replace ships in this manner within three years after the war, these ships becoming the absolute property of those from whom their equivalents have been requisitioned. On the other hand, the Ministry pro poses to build a state-owned fleet for the colonies, which will be managed by ship owners, the state sharing In the profits and deficits. There will be no more subsidies for ships In which the government has no interests. With these plans go proposed harbor Im provement France has today no huN bor where ships of the largest types can dock. The government plans fur ther to co-ordinate railroads and ship- ' ping lines, especially across the Med iterranean to Algiers and Tunis. While France cannot avoid making extensive purchases of building male rials and machinery abroad, she plans to curtail largely her food Imports. Wheat, barley and rye are grown or dinarily, but the war has brought many changes, and the French arc get ting acquainted with the '';iiper cereals, Biich as Indian, eon ,nlllet and rice (lour. - In the government re port on war economy It was recom mended that every parcel of soil not cultivated be sown without delay with wheat, barley, Indian corn and oaU, and planted with potutues aud vigv tallies. - Legislation tn Inereiuse o-'il'iiUKml production Is being framed. Poscrtwi territory will be cultivated. A buck lo ilie-fiirin movement has been Iniiit gunned, ami bonuses are to be g'teu to those who tihandon their aiuleni Implement for modern agricitttiinti machinery Frame I. as no such nwin.'i-i o; cni and' nini r-i' iits ii r..ivc Crc..! HrHHla ti tut the fol'.e'l Stales. S.'if ui.'ti staii'ls tm I wltho.l! Ilie iilw ti.tt-tiMI I iipoili'iitb.ii ol ciii'i'v lo sin I. resource .' ?i- .h int.- Iii' reiised pri'Mi'tlnt.; etlirw ' ii.rm.iii "f nil lisle, nr.'! fC.iol'iif kU I'H i-to iln foreign luiuVta, Sm witi 'lie nimble lo regain '' .iUui 'milium ciiiiiiiKMi'lhl halo-in "n efi furl she is miiUli'S M' i. '' Ju it'iilred Si - T h i'bi'i,Mi( u I'.li l).p 1 Il !' .1' : t ' :ll'0-. i'l't'l.. ' '" 'Ifl- f'.U''r' "j ivl.tfl4 i iippi'ii , ..' ., ' l-" t pruOt. , MUNITIONS PLANTS COMPLETED Wafcliinglton, July 27. Despite de lays at the outsef, fifteen or sixteea canndh forging and machining plants for government work have been com pleted. The sixteenth is "05 per cent complete. Soms of the plants are pro ducing and in the others machinery is rapidly being installed. Theso plants take care of only one operation in production of mobile field artillery. Erection 'of these plants, from the ground-up, has cost the government $31,7(18,297. W. 3. ,S. are Jong rango guns with which we can all soak der kaiser. V S , . " " . ' ' ' 1 '', ' -f" '" , " ' " ' f., :4 Ik . -.;v- - & . ; ' , ' y 'if & - & t W - V 0 ' t 1 r - :fr ' : 'v 4 h7" yy Mil Insane Suspect Held; Farmer Badly Injured (Capital Journal Special Service) Dallas, Or., July 27, Sheriff John W. Orr has- confined in the Polk coun ty jail a man who is supposed to be mentally unbalanced. The stranger was pisked lp on the city streets by the local officers and will be held in the county joil until information can be secured as to his sanity. The man is about middle age and has been hang ing around the city for the past sev eral days. Dallas Man Hurts Arm. Frank Maybee, a farmer living in South Dallas is carrying his arm in a sling as a result of injuries received the first of the week while splitting a log. Mr. Maybee had placed the. wedge in a log and was driving the same when the head of the sledge flew off and the injured man's arm was brought down onto the wedgo with such force that the muscles and flesh of the arm were badly lacerated but no bones brok en. Mr. Maybee will be forced to carry his arm in a sling for several weeks as a result of the accident. iiKrn itn Mtr ?. ...... . in n. THE FLOOR BELOW f GOLDWVH PICTURES COMING TO THE LIBERTY FOB THREE DAYS STARTING NEXT HURSDAY . Polk Farmer Losea Horse F. J. Bissell, a farmer living in the Salt Creek community has notified Sheriff John W. Orr that a fine young sorrell horse of his that was confined in a pasturo on his place is mUsing and that all evidence goes to show that thetnimal has been stolen. The cotin 'ty official immediately notified offi cers in different parts of 'the state to be on the lookout for such an animal and hopes are entertained for its recovery. Former Dallas Boy Called to Service. Dr. Bert Elliott of Grants Pass, bro ther of Mrs. Conrad fctafrin and the Elliott boys of this city has been call ed by Uncle Sam to serve under the colors ai.d has been commissioned ft first lieutenant in the Dental Reserve corps. Dr. Elliott has been called into service and will report this week at Camp Lewis. Ben J. Werner Now Canadian Farjner Ben J. Werner, a former Dallas boy who left the first of fhe year to take a position in a railway office in Seat tle, writes friends in, this city that he severed his connection with railroad ing and has purchased a big wheat ranch in Canada where he will make his future home. Mr. Werner was Mar ried shortly before leaving Dallas to Miss Rose Pratt of Salem and they have ince been making their home in Seattle. C. L. Starr, a prominent tax attorney of Portland is in Dallas this week on business. Mr. Starr was formerly secre tary of the state tax commission at Salem. . Mr. and Mrs. Eugeno Haytcr left this week for a mouth's visit at the home of their daughter, Mrs. H. E. Patterson at Blind Slough, Oregon, on the Columbia river. Mrs. Howard McConnell and children left tfie first of the week f er a month's visit at the home of her mother at Moscow, Iduho. Benjamin Rickli, who has held the position as clerk at the Sterling furni ture company's store for the past year has resgned and will leave soon for San Francisco, California, whero his parents recently moved. R. S. Snyder of Tacoma has been visiting friends in Dallas this week. Mr. Snyder was formerly connected with tho office of the Oregon l'ower Company in this city. Dr. and Mrs. V. 0. Stoats and Mr. and Mr3. Hugh Black havo returned from a fishing trrip on tha McKenzie river. Government Is Buying Thousands Of Pounds Of . Candy For Soldiers Tho Seattle Post Intelligencer re cently published an editorial on candy, eigarottcs and gum, from which we quote as follows: "War is a great destroyer of theor ies, and no less than thrco of our firm I ly held notions regarding candy, ti I garettes and gum have gone by the jboards in actual experiment. I Tho present war may be Kaid to be I fought on candy, cigarettes and gum, (much to tho disgust, we imagine, of the I sturdy veterans of our civil war who I fought that war on bacon and chew I ing tobacco. "It isn't so long ago that candy was considered to be a health-ruining dissi pation for children, to which ptueutal consent was reluctantly given. Chil dren's teeth wero alleged to be at the mercy of candy, and all faulty denti tion was attributed to a taste for I sweets. Exporionco has, however, prov I cd that it was the absenco of the tooth I brush, rather than the presence of the gum drop, that was renponsibio tor tho deterioration of tho children's teeth. "Asido from our past belief, we are today Confronted with the government calling for three quarters of a million pounds of candy to feed it to its blood thirsty soldiers. The chocolate soldior is no longer an ironical creature of the imagination, but a two fisted fight inj fact." Candy which went into the war, con Kidercd by most, people to be a purely non essential luxury, has established it self today aa a food product of won derful value. While tho conservation of sugar is necessary and tlicrcforo the. food ad- J - .-.Ski J.?CH"iEr ,-r&cEST FOCH'S PIXCER8 AT WORK IX THEIR ATTACK ON THE WEST WIXO of the Champagne salient between arrows 1 and 2 the Aliles won ground on the greater part of the front. An Italian advance was made in the direction of ar row "3. The solid line indicates tho present fightinjf front. Tho dotted line in dicates the battle line before the German drive of July 15 and the Aliled offen sive of July IS. The diagonally shaded area is ground won by the Allies in the first day of their drives launched July 18. The horizontally shaded region is territory occupied by the Germans in their fifth great offensive of 1918, start ed Julv 15. ministration has asked for general cur tailment, to whilch the candy mauufao turcrs have patriotically responded by sacrificing one half of their require mentis, tho general public is now real izing that the boycott on candy which a short time ago bucafine a popular in door sport for many woll meaning tho misinformed people, as not at all in ac cord with the real interests of the country. Conservo on candy, but do not try to destroy a great inuusty, gecme to bt the proper attitude) in these times Conserve on sugar in candy, just ns yon conserve on sugar on tho table, but enjoy tho candy which the rood admin istration authorizes candy manufac turers to mako. 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