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-11,,i;,r;;,,.!r itorial Page of The Capital Journal CHAELE3 H. I1SHZB Id. tor ud Pablisfcsr THCESDAT EVEXIXO August 15, 191 8 :"""'AK!"" f 1 ! I i- n f i I i II I i " I PUBLISHED EVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUXDAT, SALEM, OREGON', BT Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. U 8. BARNES, CHAS. H. Vlc sruscRU Pally by carrier, per year iHiily by amuil. per year .. FULL LEASED WIRE. EASIKKN KKi'KpsKSTATIVKS W. Ward, New York, Trtbun Building. Chicago, W. H. Btoekwrli, Peoples ia liuihUna; The Capital Journal carrier boys are lustrurted to put tha paprrs on the porch. 11 the carrier does not do thin, Blisses yon. or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation rcaniDK-r. an this la tbe only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following Instructions t'bone Main 8t before 7 :80 o'clock and I paper will be aent you by special mesoeuger if the carrier baa missed you. .THE DAILY CA1ITAL JOURNAL la the only newspaper In Salem whose circulation to guaranteed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations MAKING THE GOVERNOR "IT." The'consolidation commission appointed by Governor Withycombe at least recognized the authority that ap pointed it. It has made its report suggesting that the state government be turned over to the governor, and that officers now elected by tne people De appointed Dy mm. The only elective officers left are the governor, the state treasurer and the secretary of state. These are left pre sumably because the constitution provides for their elec tion and it was beyond the power of the commission to make any change. The commission also reports that it will make a great saving in the cost of running the state, but the savings are all on supposition and the commis sion does the supposing. It simply says there will be a certain amount saved, giving the items, but as it has no means of knowing what salaries will be paid the gentle men appointed by the governor to run the state, there is nothing on' which to base any estimates as to what the saving, if any, would be. It is a safe bet though that the people will not consent to having the right to elect their officers, such as are left them to elect, taken away from them and the naming of practically every officer in the state turned over to the governor. It is no wonder the governor wanted a con solidation commission, for it makes him the supreme boss politician of the state if its recommendations are accept ed: The governor manipulated tne last legislature so that the management of the state prison was taken out of the hands of the board of control and turned over to him. The history of that institution since it came under Ids sole control is such that the part of wisdom would suggest that he be not given control of anything else. The flax business at the prison has simply gone to pieces un der his management, and the prison as a place of deten tion is a state-wide joke. There will have to be a much more closely itemized statement as to savings and benefits to be derived from Professor Matthews' plan than has been made, before the people will even consider accepting it. About the only changes suggested is calling what are now commissions, "departments," and these are so arranged in the plan suggested that there is no end to the subdivisions and minor departments that can be attached to each. Appar ently the gentleman from Illinois was more interested in completing some plan that would please the governor and increase his power, than in getting a sensible work ing plan of government. It is safe to say that when the people tire of their present form of state government they will call a constitutional convention and form some other, and it will not be along the lines" of turning the state over to the governor either. This is a democracy not a monarchy, and the people will insist on having some thing to say about who shall represent them in the most important offices. When they want a little two-bit-king, they can import one from some of the German states, for there are likely to be a job lot of them available and anx ious for a boss position in the very near future. However we are not ready for that kind of petty monarchy yet. The drive in Picardy as well as that on the Soissons Marne salient has slowed up but is not yet halted. It has not yet been disclosed just what Crown Prince Rupprecht intends doing, or whether the stiff resistance he is putting up is for the purpose of assisting in getting guns and mu nitions back to the Hindenburg line, or has concluded to take issue with Foch on this line. The former seems to be the more general opinion in military circles. The allied advance is making his tenure of many important positions dangerous, and dispatches intimate that several of these Xositions will soon fall into the hands of the allies. : General March says there arc now 'M complete Amer ican divisions in France, or about 1,400,000 men. These should help make it lively for both the crown princes and at the same time give Ludendorff and Hindenburg some thing to think about as to where they should locate their next line of defense. LADD & BUSH, Bankers ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW HERE. OTIOSE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL AT THE BANK FISHER, DORA C. ANDRESEN, - l'rtdent, Bc. and Trta. - nos bates $.1.00 rr Month 45c S.OO Per Month 30c TKI.KCJKAl'H RKPUKT The state tax commission is in session today and will consider the budgets submitted by the various institutions and commissions. It is quite certain that requests for appropriations for new buildings will have hard sledding, and if any such are granted it will have to be shown that they cannot be got along without This is a hard year for making improvements, and such cannot be made for anything like the cost in normal times. Buildings put up now will cost from fifty per cent more, up to practic ally double what they will when conditions again become normal. Good business suggests that no new buildings be undertaken unless imperatively necessary. The tax payers and citizens generally have about as much load as they can carry, and anything unnecessary added will be resented. Now little Uruguay is the wires yesterday bringing news of a strike in the capi tal city, Montevideo, in which 15,000 strikers clashed with the troops. Fiery speeches were made denouncing the president. Late Tuesday employes of the packing houses and the port workers joined the strikers, thus stopping the shipping of meats to the allies. The scarcity of food supplies in the city is said to be becoming serious ,and it is this with high prices that has caused the strike. Outside of its effect on shipments to the allies it is not probable the strike will have any serious effects. The war is causing many curious things, not the least of which is the establishing of baseball in the holy land. Americans with the British army are responsible for the arrangement, and it is contemplated to play sev eral games in Jerusalem. Four complete outfits have been sent to the Jewish Legion for Service in Palestine, which is composed of Jews from this country serving with the army who are able or below the draft age. Baseball slang in Jerusalem is sure carrying the modern things back to rub up against the things, methods and habits of a bygone age. France and Great Britain have recognized the Czecho-Slavoks as a nation engaged in war on the side cf the allies. This makes them take rank with the Jews as a nation without a country, but from the way they keep fighting they should be able to capture a country for themselves before long. They are proving the nucleus around which the Russians may rally, and may prove the salvation of that wrecked country. The Oregon Agricultural College wants $1,10:1,650 for conducting the affairs for the biennium of 1919-20. This is an increase of $205,450 of the biennium. The estimates place the salaries for the two year period at $730,000, and this does not state whether the increased salary to its president is included. If not the amount will be $1,400 larger. At first glance it seems ridiculous that gold miners should want a bonus on their product. At the same time it costs more to mine an ounce of gold than ever before, and besides the purchasing power of the gold has been reduced from a third to a half. t l Rippling 6 Walt GOING This land of ours is going dry. the eroeshoDS close their swinging doors, and soon the man who wants old rye will have to swim to foreign shores. John Barlevcorn has met his fate, he's being pushed clear off the map; and we must learn to celebrate with sparkling water from the tap. There is no ginmill in the vale, there are no ginmills on the hills; dry people call for Adam's ale, and fill them selves with babbling rills. The workman buys a house and lot with money that he used to blow .for brimming bowls of liquid rot, that filled his head and soul with woe. Tired father laps up sparkling brooks, instead of seek- ing gnaea nans, ana nas some com to spend for books, and pictures for the parlor walls. The young man hits the village pond, when thirst has given him the blues; and then he buys a U. S. bond, which is a better thing than booze. The war has killed the Demon Rum, has been a hoar and deadly frost; and men will say, in years to come, the war was worth whate'er it cost. The ginmill skuts its latticed doors, the red nosed patrons don't crowd in: the jewelled barkeep no more pours rainwater in the keg of gin. The thirsty man thinks not of beer, but to the near est hydrant tramps, and quaffs a flagon bright and clear, then buys himself War Savings Stamps. PROFITEER. By Charlog B. DrlscolL (o, wallow in your golden mire, Count o'er your bloody pelf, Kent out your shriveled soul for hire, Build monuments to Self! Stand not before the altar light In Freedom's holy fane; Begone! and let Us fight our fight, having troubles of her own, 1 over the estimated income t Rhymes Mason . DRY. While you compound your gain! You sell our hero in the mart, Your graspiuif fingers shine With jewels from his bleeding heart, Your countryman and minet He lies upon a couch, Dead, in a holy cause, While you behind his body crouch, With banknote in your clows. Beware the people you betray; They're patient, they endure; Their wrath, once awakened, none may stay. Their aim is swift ttij sure. J. A GERMAN AXEKICAN 8CHOOLMASTEE. By J. Milnor Dorey of the Vigilant. Thore is a certain German-American schoolmaster, 'somewhere in America'' who has all the earmarks of patriotism but whose general temperament and eitr eational pronuneeniciits would indicate'. otherwise. Probably he is aot to blame ! ...... i . . . A , , . auuyei ue is accustomed 10 aosoiute , . . .. . rale, to dogma tie utterance, and to thj. absence -f criticism or opposition. More over, he believe! Drofuundly in the Ger man Kultur. and German efficient. Hr tells believers that it is his duty to spread these educational ideals over Anglo-Saxon civilization. Therefore while he may appear" to be talking the .war up and the kaiser down, and to be supporting everything fliat comes along, yet in his heart he is in a state of angry plethoric rebellion. THIS GERM AN'-AilERICAX SCHOOL MASTER IS PATRIOTIC, NOT BE CAUSE HE BELIEVES IX DEMOC . , - . RACY AND WANTS TO SEE IT GROW, BUT BECAUSE HE IS EN HAG ED THAT THE GERMAN MILI TARY MACHINE HAS INTERRUPT ED HIS EDUCATIONAL PROPAGAN DA. It is not the purpose here to dilate on certain well-known intellectual and temperamental' traits of the Germa sehoolniastc'r his egotism, his arro gance, his dogmatism, his tendency to generalize from insufficient data, hi" aggravating habit of borrowing ideas and exploding them as his own, his per nicious habit of instigating movement' inothers and tlieii absolving himself from responsibility, of seeing only ono sido of an argument, of making narm less discussions mattoi of bitter contro versy, of forcing Uis educational theories down others' turoats, of lack of Ust; and tact, of brtisqucncsg of manner, or over-foudaiess for red tape and adminis trative detail, of a persistent itch to make the public schools the field for all I sorts of no w experiments, or over-insis tence on the utilitarian, ot scorn of all imagination or of elements that cannot be defined and labeled. Many of these inclinations often have merit, avnen properly directed, or when taken not too seriously. He is euergetic; he believes iu promptness, system and efficiency. He is strong for the proprieties and con ventions; his morality is sound, and he bcliees in thorough drill in the funda mentals. All of us believo iu these things, cot alone for young people, and i. i,. n. i ; i .i : i . i i il vuuuu iu jiiuBipiea -wu nuve wricouicu t.:... i . linn inio wir yuuuc scuuui sysicm. But we are at war with Germany. We liavB conic to regard scaptically somo of tnoso educational ideas brought over from the Fatherland. At lenst we want them thoroughly adapted to our needs thi. In consequence, he is estop But tho German-American schoolmaster, betoro the war, wanted them just as they were. He did not want them Am ericunized. Ho believed that we needed Gorman educational ideals. He believed this profoundly. In consequence, estop ped in his grout scheme, he is baffled perturbed, alarmed, and enraged. He had the choice of abandoning them, re constructing them, or foreing them on an. He would not think of the first; he cnuuot do the second without hypo crisy, and he dare not do the third. Therefore, ho is trying the second. The German-American schoolmaster is patriotic. Oh, yes! Ho preaches pat riotism to his school. He forces it, if need lie, to sell Liberty Bunds, and to subscribe to the various funds. He does these things to conceal his wrath ut the state of things, nn,l to advertise his own patriotism and efficiency and to divert suspicion. But lie criticizes the conduct of the war on all occasions not violent ly, but craftily. He questions tho need of this. He objects to this appointment that exiunditure. He calls attentions to forms of government in other countries that operate better than ours. He im pugns tho motives of the president. He charges tins' official with playing poli tics, or criticizes another for delays he knows nothing about. He rarely men tions the president in his talks before tho school or his class, but subtly prais es the judgment of well-known opposi tion leaders. He would delay this speed that; he declaims against waste here, or urges vast expenditure there. He reads only the literature which supports his opinions, and he believes it vital that everyone should agree with him. All of this political propaganda is done in tlio name of constructive criticism, but in reality it is a half-veiled remon strance against the need of doing any thing about anything. Ho would have the country at peace o that his chief business is not interrupted. He appears to be urging the war on to a speedy and complete defeat of Germany, but in reality he is frantic to restore normal conditions lest German Kultur be com pletely repudiated. Hue), is a certain German-American si hooiinaster. He does nothing crimin al. He can point to his shore in war enterprises. He calls attention to his loyalty and his industry, and no one cau gninsav him. But to say the least he is an agaravation, a puzzling problem, object of scrutiny, something not to be ignored. Yonr day is drawing to a close, Your slowly sinking snn. A cruel, grewsome shadow throws A gallows and a gun! When yon use Journal clasaif i- fd ads get what you want th.-nt to thev work fast. ! T THE By JANE ; t J T GOOD-BYES. I all I ever had to love. I shall be rerj- llonelv. " CHAPTER VI. j "i know, and that is what saddens Ruth chattered gayly with her aunt !me. You never said it before, but I atbrekfast That Mrs. Clayborne was j ,lave ftU (kat youf u, wonI1 not ul,e P,oaseJ that Ae -en8 jbe hard to bear, and it has beea the t0 marry Bri,n sUe kncw- But' oln!y thought I have had, aside Ions as that displeasure took no other "om thinking you did not like Bnan- - ... . ... , 'form than euttina her off from snend- ng her off from spend- .uS rnunr,. num urn noi worry aoou(,to takc farf f kis wif. m j,,,,, it. For, one who has always spent I. ! 1. , I, : . . i ' s vaiue. Mrs. Clayborne had allowed Ruth her own way in regard to their wedding It was no part of her plan to alienate her niece. So Ruth was to be mar ried in tho little church she had at tended ever since Boe eame to "The Terrace." The same old white-haired minister who had patted her on the head, then, and said he hoped she would help her aunt forget her sorrow be - cause of the death of her husband, was to marry her to Brian. There were to be no engraved invitations- Ruth her self had gone from house to bouse and invited the few whom she wished to eo:8 to the church, and to tho wed ding breakfast afterward. There were only a few a dozen young people, and some old friends of Mrs. Clayborne 's perhaps twenty in all. Ruth laughed when she overheard one of the ser vants say: . "Dat Miss Hopkins' Eliza said dat Miss Ruth warn't havin' no kind of weddin' at all. She said she warn't in- vitin' nobody and that she was mar- n nn rn man " 'sho wa3 nlarrying a poor mtt p,. hau. but ho wouuin't be coor very longt He had told her he wouldn't. And ho couldn't be so VERY poor; he dressed nicely, and his uncle was a prominant man in the town. Ruth was clever, in many ways, but in others she was as ignorant as, when a child of ten, she had come to live with her wealthy aunt. After breakfast she went tip-stairs and quietly went ever the entire house, not missing a room. "What yo all doin'f" Rachel asked, "I'se .got yo dress and the rest of yo things on the bed lak yo told me. Twelve o'clock comes mighty soon, missy Ruth." (Twelve o'clock was tho hour for the wedding ) THE DEAR OLD HOUSE. "I'm saying goodbye to the rooms, Rachel. I'm going a long way and ".'" time not get back to visit for some It ain't dem rooms what s gwoin . tO miss yo, honey; it am old Rachel and Missy Claiborn, aud all the rest of we tins." "1 know, Rachel, but you will soon bo with mo. And Aunt Laura got mar ried when she was young. younger than I am. I am almost twenty-one. She was only eighteen, and she was happy, too," she added, a wistful tosfl is her voice, "she told me she was that sho was always happy until Uncle Clark .died. If I ever have a boy, Ra chel, I shall namo him 'Clark.' It would please her so much. I haven't told her, but I made up my mind, years ago, that I would." " Yo sho'ly is quarc, missy Ruth talkin' about naiuin' a baby," and old Rachel laughed and cried together as Ruth went into her aunt's room to talk, a few moments, before she put on the shimmering satin dress spread out upon the-dainty lace-covered bed. Mrs. Clayborne was sitting quietly by the window, the morning paper still unfolded in her lap. Her thoughts were sad, and she did not hear Ruth enter the room. "Guess who it is?". Ruth said gay ly, putting her hnmls over Mrs. (.'lay borne 's eyes, then leaning over to kiss her before she took a chair beside her. "RHitli, dear, you haven't much time. It is eleven o'clock." "I know, but I wanted to talk a lit tle. I shall be ready in time. Rachel has everything laid out for me. 1 know you don't liko Brian, Aunt Lau ra" "You are mistaken, Ruth, I do liko him. I simply do not believe he ig the right man for you to marry." Strong Ties "But, Auntie, please don't stop lov ing mc because I ean't do as you want mo to, will 5'onf I just couldn t bear it if you did! " "I shall never stop loving vou, dear. You and my dear husband have been A FINISHING TOUCH . . HELPS 'EM SO MUCH BEAUT V PARtOft STEP-IN. IN PREPARING FOR use Mitnic pEAMS,PINAQM ONO OTHER UK E UEfr rmj BE BOH.EO IN WATER pOO IN THf PROPORTION OF 11- P WATER..TMI IMPROVES THtitOLOfU ur IHB PRODUCT, Get tbe free drying book that will be sent any reader of this paper by the National War Garden Commis sion of Washington for a twexerrt stamp and save the garden crop. f 1 7 XdrTeo Joaicox WIFE PHELPS I .ton' mi re shout the mnnev one hit. ;f a.ont re aixiut tne money one Dit, ; Auntie. Anyway, it is a man's place savs: and of eonrse, I know that Briaa '..ill .1.. nv. Lwl MJ ,bm n 1.1 r t now that I know yon love me just the same as ever, I must run away. A bride must not be late to her own wedding, . must she!-' Ruth threw her arm around her aunt and kissed her fondly. "This is our real good bye. The other will be before people." For a few moments longer, Mrs. Clayborne sat quietly by the window. The paper had slipped to the floor u j noticed. Rvoroi time hA wiped the tears from her eyes and whispered I shall be so lonely." Then, she called her maid, and carefully made herself attractive for the wedding of the child she was to lose. When slie joined Ruth for the short ride to the church, she was the same calm, diugified woinan she always nai been. While Ruth, her cheeks flushed, her eyes shining, talked and laugne and cried little, all the way. (To be continued) I WANT YOU TO TRY MY CATARRH REME DY 15 DAYS Oil MY There is No Apparatus, In halers, Salves, Lotions, Harmful Drugs, Smoke or Electricity It is a new way. It is something absolutely differ ent. No lotions, sprays or sickly smelling salves or creams. 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