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..i!:rloi,i;.:,i;.::;,. Editorial Page of The CapiialJouma CHABLE3 a nSHIB Editor tad PnbUtber MONDAY EVENING August 12. WIS iliiilllliilTiillii'lliilill:;:!!!!!'!!!! r 'A ..1 PUBLISH KI) EVERY EVENING EXCEPT St'NDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. 8. BAItNKS, Treatment CHA9. II. FISHER. Vlcel'rrattlent. DORA C. ANfinKSEN. Six. ami Tresis. HI'tlSCRUTION KATKH IWIIj by carrier, per rir $J.o Pee Month 4Sc hr uiall. per rtr 8.W I'er Munth - KI LL I.KASnil WIKK THI.IXHAi'll KKIOKT EAS'mt.N KKI'UKSK.M'ATIVKS U. Ward, New York. Trlbun Building. Chicago. H , II. Htockwell, l'rale'i 0s llullding The Capital Journal carrier hoya are lint meted te put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do thin, mlewa Jon, or neRlecta getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manuser, aa thla la the only way we can determine whether r not the carriers are following luatructioua Phone Mitln Kl before 7 :.t0 o'clock and a paper will he iteut you by special messenger If the carrier Iiaa rnlnned you. THE DAll.I CAPITAL JOl'KNAL la the onlr newspaper In Snlcra whose circulation la guaranteed by the Audit Uurran of Circulation OUR BOYS OR OUR DOLLARS. The governor,, responding to the request of George Rodgers, former Salemite, but now building ships at As toria, for permission to give employment to the state prisoners, paying them full wages and guaranteeing to return them when wanted, and to make good citizens of some of them at least, says he doubts the legality of us ing the prisoners in competition with free labor. The gov ernor may be right so far as the technicalities of the law are concerned, but as a matter of fact they would not be in competiton with free or any other labor, in the sense of interfering with the earnings of such labor. Their em- Bell-ans Absolutely Removes Indigestion. Druggists refund money if it fails. 25c BACKACHE KILLS! Don't make the fatal mistake of meg leetinjf what may seem to be a "sim ple little backache." There isn't any ployment would not make the wages of free labor any i?Ml,h lt,In"-v b? thc first warn- i" . , , , . , " inir that vour kidnevs are not working less, norwoulditkeepany man who wanted to work, from proporiT, ana throwing o the pou a job. If the convicts could be so employed, it would 0"7terhYheShcauteIoftltihais bacVTe better for them, would encourage them in well-doing, ISVao" qnfckiy"or you Uy f indtr would give each ot them a handsome little start financial- iselt ,n the nv ot an incurable aw Americans having had it brought home to them that the war could not be won without ships have responded splendidly and are building a merchant marine at a speed never before dreamed of in all history. They have had it impressed on them that in order to sustain the allies and to supply their own armies in Europe that food con servation was necessary and the response to this was a voluntary curtailing of food consumption, and the using of substitutes for such foods as were needed by the al lies, that is an example to the world of nation-wide sac rifice, such as was never before heard of. Not that the deprivation has been to the extent of causing suffering, but that the voluntary going without the foods we are accustomed to is one of those smaller sacrifices that are the more difficult in the making because they are small. They have responded generously to the call for money subscriptions, and over subscribed the amounts asked for. Now, however, within about six weeks another call will be made double that of any previous one, and we must prepare to meet it, as we have met all other demands, cheerfully, gladly, and with a heatiness that will show the world that America is in the war with every dollar she1 has and everv man. until it is finished, and finished right, We must bear in mind that this is not a fight for points, but to a finish. Either German militarism must take the count after a knockout blow, or the balance of the world must take it. It is possible, perhaps probable, the war could be won with the armies now in Europe, but there is not a preponderance of man-power with the allies to make this a certainty, and certainty is what we must have. With the present forces tolerably evenly balanced it would take years, and cost a tremendous ton oi lives Deiore the Hun could be beaten. To avoid this, and to leave no doubt as to the result, another call for men will be made &oon that will enable us to send an army of five -million men into France, or Russia if need be, and to thus over whelm the Hun by numbers alone. This will shorten the war, and it will reduce the death toll immeasurably. The call for men will be made before that for money, but the latter will come soon. So soon that it is time now to be gin to weigh the situation and to get ready, those of us Who do not have to go to the front, to do our part. The call for six billion dollars means that each man woman and child in the United States, if the money was raised on a per capita base would have to subscribe $60. There is a vast number that can give nothing toward the good cause, no matter how much they may desire to do so, and it is up to those who can, to subscribe enough to make up this deficiency. The scales are balanced before us. In one end of the balances is placed our boys and in the other it is up to us to place our money. It is up to us to say whether we will let the money side of the balance swing upward, or more than counter-balance the end with our boys in it. To maintain the army proposed will require that every American, every lover of freedom go deep into his or her purse and see to it that the money end of the scales is the heavier. It is a question of bal ancing our dollars against our boys, and there can be but one answer. It will require that we deprive ourselves of some things perhaps, but who will count that deprivation against the loss of the brave young fellows who are offer ing their all and counting not the cost? Oregon's quota, it is stated will be about $: 57,500,000, and this means about $40 per capita, this being less in this state on account of :he greater wealth in the east. As it is, the sum is about double any before asked, and as Oregon has gone over the top on all other occasions of this kind, it is safe to assume she will do so again. It means the quicker ending of the war, the speedier coming of world peace and the eternal destruction of l'russianism, and autocracy. An army of five million striking autocracy's chin and a six billion dollar sack striking it in the solar plexus at the same time will do the work. Be ready when the call is made to put the weight of your money into that solar plexus blow. The railroads passing through Amiens are now out of range of the German guns, permitting the operation of trains, which is a great help to the allies. ly when their terms were out, and at the same time would prevent them taking so many useless vacations, and keep ing so many searching the woods for them.. There is con siderable merit in Mr. Rodgers' proposition. Portland will fight the petition of the Portland Rail way Light & Power company, filed with the Public Ser vice commission asking for an increased rate for powrer and lights. Ihe company contends that the increased cost of labor, material and supplies makes higher rates necessary to prevent loss. It looks as though there was a determination on the part of those who have the regu lating of public utilities to see that no company of this kind suffers loss. This is a commendable spirit, but how many firms, companies and businesses that are not so call ed public utilities, are there that have to carry on their business at a loss and wait for change of conditions? Most of the newspapers in the country are in the latter class, their expenses having doubled with no increase in rites for advertising or subscription. There are many other businesses in the same condition. Just why there should be such tender solicitude lest some great corpor ation should have a decreased dividend,, while the small fry can pocket their losses and wait for better days, is hard to account for on other than the theory that these be the days when the big corporations are in the saddle and are doing the riding. The Germans officially admit the allies have made gains in Picardy, but their admissions are not to say the least, startling. The German headquarters gave out an official communication from Berlin Saturday saying: "There has been lively activity on the part of the enemv, between the Yser and the Ancre." This is no doubt correct, J but the activity on the part of the Germans discounts that of the allies because the latter are giving the Ger mans a boost to help them answer a hurry up call. It is estimated the prisoners taken in the drive -on the Marne and that in Picardy will total about 60,000, and apparently the end of the catch is not in sight. Another such a move as Hindenburg made in his "victory offen sive" and his armies on the west front will be wiped out. Not Jess than a quarter of a million of-his men are lost to him since the drive began, and some estimates place the number much nearer the half million mark. Those put out of the fighting were his picked men, too. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules will give almost immediate relief from kidney and bladder troubles, which may be the unsuspected cause of gen eral ill health. GOLD MEDAL Haar lem Oil Capsules are imported direct from the laboratories in Holland. They are prepared in correct quantity and convenient form to take, and are posi tively guaranteed to give prompt re lief ,or your money will be refunded. Get them at any drug storo, but be suro to insist on the GOLD AILDAL brand, and take no other. In boxes, three sizes l::T HE WIFE ::! By JANE PHELPS . A FRENCH MOTHER'S LETTER. Rippling Rhymes I " by Walt Mason THE GIVERS. LADD & BUSH, Bankers ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW HERE. THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL AT THE BANK "I'm proud of all my fellowmen; they dig, and dig, and dig again, to help each worthy cause; they are a credit to the race; they shell out coin with princely grace, like Col. Santa Claus. One "drive" comes on another's heels, and we are asked for many wheels, that we may squelch the Hun; and men who haven't much to spare, whose shelves are, peradventure, bare, keep digging up the mon. We have to cut out this or that, a car, a picnic, or a hat, that we may buy a stamp; we have Jo make the kind of noise one makes when helping out the boys in far-off field and camp. The man who earns his meagre pay by toil so hard it makes him gray, will split his little pile ; the woman who goes out to scrub, or works around a steamine tub. chips in, with beaming smile. I know a man who wrought ior years like Adam's yoke of sorrel steers, that he might own his shack; at last, the final payment made, he went some joyous tears and laid the burden from his back. And then upon his mind it dawned that every man should I .... 1 1 w . ouy a Dona, and in our struggles share; and so he sought the loan graft men, and put the mortgage on again, and jaugned to see it there. The proper spirit is abroad; no loyal man will hide his wad, while there's' a Hun about; we do not contemplate a strike; the more we give the more we like this thing of selling out Anarchist Newspaper Raided la Chicago Ch'ieaso, Aug. 12. Chicago polico niiil federal investigators todnv waded through a mas of material collected in a raid early Sunday on an alleged anarchist newspaper plant. It was in dicated further German plot trails had been uncovered. Twelve have been held for investigation. Officr aaid two of them were member of the anarchist propaganda group and that their corre spondence would show German monev foad been used to propagate general o cial unrest and to foster opposition to the war. Among those lipid 1 Linda Jose "the dynamite girl" arrested months agro when found in the union station here with a suitcase load of dynamite. Jonrnal Want Ads Pa? Jonrca! Want Ads Pay The committee on public information issues the following: Mis. Wilson permits publicatio of the following letter as illustrative of the view point of the mothers of i'raiiw:: Madame Woodrow Wilson: Washington, D. C. Madame: It is from the mothers and women of France that I send you these words to prove our gratitude for thc comforting and brotherly support that these young Americans bring us with such noble enthusiasm, and who aro not afraid of leaving their families, their country, and their hopes to comexto our rescue. Alas! I, myself, have given my belovud son to my unhappy and cruelly tried country, and I can understand the pain of those who see their sons zo so for, so very far away. Tell them, those mothers, those women with the sublime1 hearts, how near we are to them in thought, and how moved we are at their sacrifice. They are our sistsrs through suffering and agonizing worries and we are brought together tmuuga thc same sorrow. That we will never forget. It would make nw happy, Madame, to cor respond with some of thoso of tliC30 mothers, if ,thcy will send mo a few lines. Very respectfully, Madam,?, I salute you. MADAME M. B.VEBON, No. 1, Due du 14th Juillet, Pan-Basse Pyrenees, France. EIGHTY GERMAN PLANES REPORTED DESTROYED Result of Two Days Fighting Officially Reported By Air Ministry London, Aug. 12. Destruction of eighty Gorman battle planes and the probable loss of 42 others which are reported driven down out of control, was claimed today in. the official com munique issued by the British official air ministry. The failure of 33 British airplanes to report to their base also is" noted. Destruction of the eighty (torman planes occurred August 9 and 10. (Intense air fighting Was been in progress ovejr the battle area. Ton af ter ton of bombs has been dropped by the British air forces, principally up on bridges and stations in the Skmimo valley. All records for uso of small anus ammunition in firing upon troops from airplanes, have been broken. In addition to the battle planes re ported destroyed, the communique claimed the destruction of two hostile bombing machines, one of which was a huge airplane carrying five engines, laden with bombs. Two enemy mach ines have been brought down by anti aircraft &uns. (Jne British maejhine previously reported missing has returned. German Airship Downed. London. Aug. 12. A German airship W89 brought down in a battle off the coast of Holland yesterday, in which British light naval forces and aircraft engaged German aircraft, the admiralty announced todav. "A Gorman airship was brought down in flames north of Ameland (an island in the Xorth ken, four miles off the Dutch coast)," the statement said- "British light forces, with aircraft accompanying, reeonnoitercd the west Frisian coast vesterdav morning. Ger man aircraft attacked them, motorboats are missing." Six The Journal Jub Department will print you anything in the stationery line do it right and save you real money. , ASK FOR and GET i ran i nun Th Original - Halted Milk For Infants and Invalid OTHERS arc IMITATIONS ENGAGEMENT DATS. CHAPTER 111. But talk as she might Ruth (till remained unconvinced. She loved Bri an Hackctt; she would marry him and be poor for a little while if neces sary. Not that Ruth was unfeeling, or that she did not love her aunt, the only mother she ever hail known; bnt she loved Brian better so she thought. At least, she loved him in a different way- But all her coaxing, her wheed ling could not change her aunt' deci sion. m "You must choose between us," was her invariable reply. If Mrs. Clayborn'e hkd stormed and been cross and disagreeable, as peo ple were in the novels Kuth had read, it would have been much easier, in a way. But Aunt Laura was just as kind and gentle aa she always had been, save when thev were talking of Brian then she simply gave Buth her ultimatum. She was even gentle and kind when Brian called. But it was a cold, calm kindness which held' him off so thoroly that he remarked to Kttth: "Mrs. Clayborne, your aunt, doesn't like me." "Why do you say that? She doesn't dislike you; she told me so." "What is it then? Does she freeze me out because I am poor? For, freeze me she does." "It is because of nie, Brian. She is fearful that I will be unhappy when I get away from her, this lovely home." "It IS lovely, but Oh, a beautiful homo doesn't make people happy! I have known lots of people who had Moly homes who fought likte cata and dogs." BUI AX MAKES A PROMISE. "You don't quite understand, Bri an," Ruth was anxious that her lover should like Mrs. Clayborne, "Aunt Laura; has been very indulgent to me. I can't romember her ever denying nie anything money could buy, and" "Why should she? Uncle savs sho is as rich as mud. She is old and you are young, and I guess abe'd have a hard time getting anyone else to stick as close to her and tho place as yon have. You told me, yourself, that you never had been away from here " "No, but Brian, I didn't have a penny. My father was poor. Aunt Laura was his sister, and her money came from her hiubnnd, not from our side of the family. So you see it was awfully good of her to take me in and treat mo as she has." t "Sho ' has had value received," BritTn answered with all a lover's con fidence in the virtues of the girl he loves. "Silly! I have given her nothing but love. And oh, Brian! Mammy wants to know if sho can 'go north' with us. ion know she has taken care of me ever since I was ten years old." "Why Ruth" Brian looked dis tressed for a moment, then bright ened at a thought, "she won't per haps bo able to come right away, but after a while we will send for her that is, if your aunt can spare her." "Why, Mammy ia mine! She be longs to me!" Ruth had imbibed all the southerner's ideas of the colored servant. "She calls me 'her baby1 yet." "You're my baby now." Brian gathered her in his arms and kissed her. "You think I can have her soon?" Ruth was still thinking of Mammy's when Mrs- Clayborne had told her Ruth would not be able to take her. when she left to marry a poor man." "Yes, very soon, my baby." Brian had JiU kinds of faith in his quick success. In a way, he was niecurial lh believed fully that, because ho was rather smart, perhaps clever in some things, aaid attractive in ap pearance, he was bound to 'get there quickly,' as he express"d it when talk ing of his prospects. That these very things he valued so highly were of little ot no use in the fight for finan cial emoluments, he had yet to learn. So, with the hopefulness of youth, he promised Ruth that ahc should have her old Mammy, as well as many other things, very soon. There was one trait Brian Hackctt possessed, of which Ruth knew noth ing because sho had never seen him under thc conditions to call for its expression; Brian was of aa intensely jealous disposition. But he could easily see that the young men of the town held no attraction for Ruth, and there was nothing else of which ha could be jealous at this, period. Al'XT LAURA'S STIPULATION. When Ruth told her aunt that Briaa had promised that she soon could have Mammy Rachel, if she could spare her, Mrs. Clayborne said: "I'll let her go to yon any time yoa can assure me that she will have a good home. I cannot prevent your mar rying whom you wish; I shall not at tempt to, beyond letting you know my wishes and the consequences, if you go against them. But I can an4 will prevent any of my old servants leaving the only home they ever have known until I am positive that thoy will be comfortable. And nowaday an extra one in the family is some thing of. a hardship for a poor man. Remember, Mammy was born a slave, right here ou this plantation. Of course 'aha is free. Mr. Clayborne freed them all But she is still a child still looks 'to eomeone to take care of her whilo she lives. No, she cn'nnot go unless I KNOW she wili be comfortable. Then she can come to you if you still ineist in marry ing before Brian has shown himself capable of supporting you." "He can support mo, Auntie! The very idea of thinking he would ask me to marry him if he couldn't! He can't give me quite as much as yo have, right away, but he soon will be able to, then I'll send for Mammy." Tomorrow--A Trip to New York. 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