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;iiiiiii;ii:ii!;;!i;;::l!i! itorial Page of CHARLES H. ITSH1B Kitor aid Publish ouvna SATURDAY TVEXIXO August 3, 1918 MM Ed I he Lanital J WE3 1TUL1SUED EVEKY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. K 8. RAltSKH. rresldenr. CIIAS. II. FISHKn. Vlce-rmtldent. DORA C. A.NIiREsnN Sec. nod Treas. FOUR YEARS OF WAR. Sl'ltSl liUTIOX KATKS INilly hi carrier, per venr " Pr Month lwlljr by mall, per rear a.ni I' Month 4r,c be just as silly as I wanted to if it i was silly. i The Wom3I1 WllO CktnVeA i ThtB ne evening as I sat alone ! a i, , ! Bv JANE PHELPS KILL LKASKI) WHIR TKLKUKA1MI KEUWf W. D. Ward, New York, K AS IK it X UK t'KtiSK XT AT I V ES Tribune llulhtlng. BABY'S FIRST OUTING. I'lllcnieo, . li. KtockwiMl.- lVoples (.s HuildulK the carrier dues not do thin. miKn jrim, or nenlectn (ettinx the paper to you on time. cpvpnth .... i ....... . I . I.. . 1. I .., - . ,lulur,in. WWW WV I VIIWI Rlnaij pnone me cirriiiniimi dihwipt. m una in inw wi. - . . ....... " - - c not the canlera are fullowln Instructions l'hone Main 81 tiefor t :M o'clock and a lper will he sent you by eiwlnl memicnijer If the carrier haa mbaed yon. THE DAILY CAITI'AL JIHKNAL Is the only newspaper in Rntwu whone clrculntion la guaranteed by the Audit Uureau of Circulations A CHEERING ANNIVERSARY. It is according to the eternal fitness of things that the overwhelming defeat the kaiser has met on the Marne front comes on the anniversary of the war begun by him jnTns dream of world conquest. At all points along this front the Germans are in full retreat, met and whipped hopelessly. It is four years since they overrun Belgium and made what they believed to be an irresistible dnve on Paris. Then they had no doubt as to the outcome and marched ahead certain of victory. Their confidence was only exceeded by their arrogance, which was shown in- their violation of all rules of civilized warfare, their inhuman treatment of the civilian population and their wanton destruction of property. They thought then they were invincible, and that they never could be called to ac count for their crimes. They have had a long period ef successes, but it has come to an end, and they now find themselves the hares instead oi the hounds, retreating before a superior enemy superior in spirit and determin-ation-and they find the game very different. The Brit ish and French have driven them out of their stronghold at Soissons and the Amercians have pusnea iive-rauw As generally counted the war began four years ago today. It was on that date Germany declared war on France. Austria had declared war on Serbia six days before; and Germany had declared war on Russia Aug ust first and invaded Luxemburg. So just why August third is fixed upon as the beginning of the war is one of the things nobody knows. Four years ago the German armies were ready to enter Belgium, doing so on the Then they were confident of another such a vic tory as that at Sedan, and a quick and victorious termin ation of the war. Belgium prevented their plans carry ing, her heroic resistance giving the French barely time to get forces together to stop the victorious march at the Marne. That was the first German reverse, and as the an niversary of that battle approaches another disaster has ll 1 1 1 1 111 1 T I overtaKen tne Kaiser s iorces ai tne same place, it is ve stopped at Evelyn's on our way safe to sav no wthat the Germans have heen on the Marnel11"1"- Kurt8' mother s thr.( and J- i 1.1. A l. j,1""111 ageeing that Kenneth was all for the last time, for forces she cannot hope to combat that was desirable in so youne a child, successfully have been brought against them, and fromha 7rnd !" not tu givo up 8'i m? very'eariy unless we 'had goes this on they will fight a defensive war. That they will I with .w, first ba-, iiTwSSt tLA1 maKe new oiiensives is certain, ana it is equally certain that those offensives will result in being beaten back fur ther and still further until the end comes. The fifth year of the war opens under favorable auspices and the fight ing indicates what the final result must be. CHAPTER CALVI. The first time I was able to take my baby out, I was ao proud and ex cited that George declared if I didn't behave, hs wouldn't let me go, that he and Kenneth would go without me. I suppose evey r.other thinks her baby the sweetest, prettiest babv in the world. I am sure 1 would nave scorned the idea that there ever could be so pretty a one as my little brown- eyed Kenneth. I think Gsorg9 felt ing on a daintv dress for him I loved to make his clothes it came to mo with a sort of shock that George was again staying out or going out nearly every evening- He had remained home with me often, in the months before baby came, and afterward he had not gone out as frequently as had been his custom when we were first married. I dropped my work. Where was he I WHY had he begun to again spend his evenings away from home and She was married and lived in Chicago. Was there someone else Had he found some other entertaining woman with whont he now spent the time he used to devote to herf The thought was disturbing. 1 tried to sew again, but found 1 ind coast and on Rogue river and some others of southern Oregon. The government would be doing a good stroke of business to send an expert miner or two to that region along with a man of the mechanical genius sort, to see what could be done in the way of mining these sands. There is an abundance of platinum there if it could be through their defenses. Everywhere along the line burn-lsaved, but this owing to its being disseminated through inc villages and destroyed munitions mark their line of flight. It is almost a rout, ana may yet ue u "CI"""C"; The indications are that the retreat will not be stopped until the Aisne is crossed, and they are DacK at tne po sition from which they started the drive which was to have brought victory and peace according to the hopes ,nirj nnf tn iha snlfliprs and the neonle at home. Instead the worst defeat they have met has overtaken them and all they have accomplished by their drive is the loss of a half million menranu great stores 01 sumacs aim mu nitions. More than that they have lost confidence, and have learned that the boasted super-man is not a German. They now face not only the power of America, but reju venated and heartened armies whose fighting powers have been doubled by the backing of. America, and the hope, now becoming a reality of certain victory, and the end of the terrible conflict they have so grandly faced under conditions which before America entered the war had grown almost hopeless. It is not only America the iaiser must face but this spiritual force that has taken sides with the French and British. It is a great anni versary, though the Germans will hardly look at it that way. Anyway, circulation keeps booming even if the gov ernment is using all its influence to keep many lines of business from advertising in the newspapers. Those who till have the business sense to stay in the advertising columns of the newspapers will reap a greater benefit from the expenditure than ever before because much ad vertising competition has been eliminated and circulations are greater than ever before, presumably- on account of the demand for war news. The Daily Capital Journal, for instance, in spite of the most drastic pruning of its lists in accordance with government instructions finds its daily average (backed by the Audit Bureau of Circula tions) to be well above 4,700 at the present time and growing steadily. It is the loss of advertising due to the operations of half-baked fbod administratprs and fellows of that class that hurts the newspapers-- and that in spite of the fact that the government never needed the news papers so badly in all its existence before as it does at 1 he present time! England is already beginning to worry as to what policy shall be pursued after the war in commercial lines. The right time to cross a river is when you reach it, and it would seem England is beginning to worry some time in advance of the occasion for it. The dispatches say Hindenburg is using every en deavor to avoid pocket's. The last one he got into some how did not please him, and he is doing some hard fight ing to get out of it. It is nowonderhe does not want to ing to get out of it. It is no wonder he does not want to LADD & BUSH, Bankers ALL HIE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW HERE. THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL AT THE BANK bies are apt to forget that they 'have a husband, or that they owe it to themselves not to neglect other du ties.. Don't fall into that error. Love and care for your 'jaby all you want to; but remember that Mr. Howard has some rights also." ' I was astonished to have her talk so to me- She had made such a fuss over Evelyn's baby. But when I speke to Evelyu about it, some tays later, she said her mother iu-law had talked just tho same to her that she had cautioned her not to neglect Kurts, or her home and social duties. When this country. Most of this is in the black sands of theiireP,'a,edwll'lt8nel"tdaidtoGcor8c' "She's a very level-headed woman. oecause you love JKenneth, it is no reason why you should stop loving me." "Why whoever beard of such a thing! "Stop loving you" that's not what she said. She meant not giving you as much time as before aud" ' ' Well I said it, and I do not intend to be shoved aside for that young ras cal. Eemember that.pleo.se, Mrs. How- t" His tone was light, but I had The government is in urgent need of platinum, but is taking no steps to get it from the country's mines. Coos and Curry county and a northern county or two of Cali fornia contain about all the platinum, so far as known, m exactly as I did. even if he iid niakn 1 . ... ' . .-.i ..-.j . fun of me. , , .., ., .6.,. ,. lt . . little after eleven. I must go to bed. He would not like it if I was wait ing up for him. it had become a habit, since baby came, to go to bed guests or I had rge hail been coming in. 1 haa been tired ana gone directly, to sleep. Dut altho 1 went to bed 1 could not sleep. 1 tossed and tumbled until after one o'clock. When fhftlly 1 dropped into an uneasy, uarestful sleep, George had not yet come in-To-morrow Plain Talk. 1 ih lighting H Battery I VMOTOR UNDER THIS FLAG TF YOU WANT good vie from your elf starter be a lire your battery Is in good shape. We specialize in storage battery work. We are dis tributors for the famous 4,JxOC" Battery, "tho giant that lives in a box. All makes of batteries inspected free of charge. If 148 S. Com'L Phone S48 BaU Championship Series In U' S- Navy Great Xakes, 111, Aug. 3.-The first jnoon Ewiu fieIJ for the l)cnent ot fl mass nf snmp twn dn7.pn rmnprnls nil nf arpnr snppifici1"''1 ., ., . i .,, , , . i jia feeling that he really meant what giavitv, ito caving, cuuiig vviui uic line gviu at&ouciaicu he said- with it is a difficult task. If some mechanical genius or some chemist can find a way for handling these sands so the platinum can be saved, the government needs could all be supplied from this source. It would cost but a few thousand dollars to do some experimenting along this line and it would be money well expended. Owing to unfavorable weather and the attacks of in fects the grain crop of the coast will be considerably short of government estimates, but still more than twenty mil lion bushels more than last year. The potato crop will also be short of last year, according to government es timates perhaps ten million bushels. Other crops gener ally are about the ten year average. There are a million fighting Yankees in France, and we repeat that Hindenburg can't marshal enough Ger mans to stop them if they are turned loose and ordered to take Berlin. The boys are marching straight to Berlin. Rippling Rhymes j by Walt Mason 1 COMING BACK. The gray haired men are coming back, for duty they-1 're enrolled, the men who one time got the hack because hey were too old. The younger men have gone to fight, j'nd shake the tyrants' thrones, and there is need for every wight who has ten finger bones. And now the genfwith wintry locks may vindicate his claim that Osier's much exploited talks were but a sin and shame. "Young blood" for years has been the cry, in every busy mart; the .gray haired man might go and die, or wilt and break his heart. The gray haired man has made his roar, for justice he has called; they shooed him off from every door, be cause his head was bald. And now he has the wished for chance to show he's good as w,heat; now he may conquer circumstance and get there with both feet. Old preju dice he'll trample flat, and show he's good as new, and he will prove that Osier's hat was used for talkin through. The old boy leaves his easy chair, his slippers and his books; his coattails flapping in the air, he's doing things, gadzooks! ' - SCHOONER IS SUNK. Washington, Aug. 3. A schooner was reported sunk by a submarine at II: Jo a. m. yesterday, .) nines ri-wiun of Hriar island, near the t ot'Xo s..ntln the nsvv department an- 'nonnoed today. This report was brought in by nine survivors iu a dory, who landed at GanivH Rock. The navy department's advices said the men reported a siilimariue 200 feet long was responsible, taking provisions off the vesvl and then setting it afire. Navel patrol vessels are seeking to catch tip with the trail of the submar ine. Whether this Is the same vessel which operated off Massachusetts and Maine more than a week ni;o was unknown. It is conceivable that the es?l wont out to sea 500 miles or more, where one or two recent sinkings have occurred aud tfcen made her way back to t Iv? At lantic coast again. DOWN 29 PLANES FOOLISH DEVOTION. Aa the months passed and my boy grew moro interesting, I could scarcely drag myself away from h'm. He was so cunning, and he seemed o love me so dearly. Ho satisfied that longing f,r expressed affection that 1 had felt sinco my marriage. He was such an'affoc tionate little fellow. "1 am glad he is -aftecuonaEo," I said to Evelvn. "Why?" "Oh, Geogo is so undemonstrative, and it is hard for a woman to take everything for granted when she is married to a niau who never shows that he cares." "Don't marry that baby off just yet!" she laughed, then, "I'll bet a pair of gloves that Mr. Howard cares just as much for you as if he made a fuss over you, Helen- I havo seen him look at you. with such a proud sort of look in his eyes." '"I lluiuw occasionally. When 1 please him he does look that way, and once in a while he acts loving, llut I would give anything in the world if he was like Kurts, and would give me a bear hug, aud dance me around the room kissing and teasing mo as I havo seen Kurts do with you. Sometimes I fairly ache to have him do something like that. I don't mind ao much now that 1 have the. baby, tho. When I want to bo loved and petted, I jusrt. hug him so I almost hurt him, and he loves me back in tho same way, his little arms tight around my neck-" "You are worse than I was when Helen was his age. You are perfectly foolish over him. If he isn't spoiled, it won't be your fault." "I'll be strict w:.th him when he gets older." "I see you being strict with him. That's a joke!" Evelyn returned with a lauu'h. DISTURBING THOUGHTS. I wondered, after she left, if I was foolish to ba so entirely devoted to my baby. I concluded I was not; that he was MY baby, and I was going to game of a scries of three for the base ball championship of the navy was to be played hem this afternoon between the Great Lakes team and a club rep resenting the Atlantic fleet. Kabbit Ma ranvillo and Del Gainer are nvjmbeis of the Atlantics. Bed Faber, White box hero of the last world's serins, was bill ed to pitch for Great Lake3. Jim Dundee Wins San Francisco, Aug. 3. Jimmy Dun cV?o of Oakland was given the verdict over Hairy Pelsinger at Dreamland rink here last night in a four round speed session. Athletic Carnival San Francisco, Aug. Z. One of the largest athletic carnivals ever held on tli.-.' coast Will be held here this after- ed of making seditious utterances- the Ued Cross. Besides boxing, foot racing and num erous other athletic events, there wiU be a ball game between the army anil navy. Rixey or Lsverena will harl for the army. Ehmke or Earl Hamilton wi3 pitch for the navy. NEGRO INCITED REVOLT Fresno. Cal., Aug. 3 E. P. Fisher, wealthy negro rancher of Frosno coun ty, will go on trial bcfoTe fede'ial Judge Trippett here Monday, charge with having attempted to foment a ne gro revolt. It is alleged, Fisher offered Califor nia negroes $5 a day to enlist in a ne gro nrmy for a revolt against the Unit ed States government. He also is accur I ! CANNING SEASON l TAKE advantage of each season's crop of fruits, berries and vegetables Mrs. House wifeand keep the kitchen canning pot boil ing. It will help distribute home grown pro ducts locally, cut down next winter's high cost of living and contribute toward the govern ment's food conservation activities. With the money thus saved start a bank account here at this bank. States National. f. Os-i '.S it" w r I fliiGiljn win 3 MiQiinlBa.il vSalem. Oregon- London, Aug. 3. Twentv nin Ger man airplane, were, destroyed and nine others forced down out of control dur ing bombing and fighting operations, the British air ministry reported yes terday. Only five British machines failed to return. U. S. MARINES AWAITING IN READINESS ANY POSSIBLE fJAS attapitc! These U. S. Marines or Teufle Hunden (a German nickname for devil dogs) are pre pared for anv possible eras attacks. Stationed in thpsp nnrpfniiw . iu I j i Till, T. "v vuiuuutreu HCHCiie and with their gas masks adjusted, these fighters are ready to withstand any enemy v ..uu..uj attacks. Underwood & Underwood