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I IkiifrTlnfcasaaa' ditorial Page of The CapiialJournai CHAELES EL nSHIl Editor aad Publiiae WEDXESDAT EVENING August 8, 191S -4- E PUBLISHED EVEBV EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OKEGON, BT Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. U 8. BARNES. I'reaiilcnt. t'OAI. II. riRIIKIL Vic I'rraiilMit IX) HA C. ANDRKSKS, 8c. and Trras. A "FRIENDLY DEMAND." Dully by carrier, p year Imitf by Butl. per jear .. ni iwitirrios sun: , sr. w pr Voata aiiu Her Mouth ,4!5e rtlX LKAHKD WltiK TrXEOKAI'll KKI1KT EAItl Mt.N Itfcl'Mfcrifc.VI A'l IVKH Ward. New Tort, Trlbuo Building. According to yesterday's dispatches, the "friendly demands" made on the Shipping Board by shipyard work ers for a dollar an hour pay, had, and has behind it, a I threat of a strike to enforce the demand. The law passed by the senate yesterday may put a bug in that mess of dumplings and will certainly do so if the house adopts the senate amendments, concerning "work or fight". The t- cp,t j,,., , ri ,1, Cummins amendment provides that workers may strike, VUTZm:r ,rtorK"JS?", ZIZ": I but if they do must submit their demands to a board of ar SiSS. Z'ZZ EilE J&UMri" "d 'j at'on and return to work pending a decision or accept tin. uhii nutu ui itic uiuviiuua, anu iuivc uicn piacc ill uic army. The new bill does not conscript labor but it puts a check on strikes, and compels obedience to the decision of the board of arbitrators. The bill vill become a law none too soon. One of the peculiarities of the situation is that the shipyard employers do not care what wages are paid, and are indeed interested in having wages made as high as possible for the reason that they get ten per cent above cost and the more a ship costs the more money the ship TUB DA I I.I CAPITAL JOURNAL II tb only newspaper la Balm wfaoM rtrralatlua la guaranteed by th. Audit Muraaa of Circulations FOCH IS IIINDENBURG'S MASTER. ;4; ' The situation on the western front becomes daily brighter. This not so much because of the steady gains made, as for the demonstration that Foch has taken the Ilindenburg measure, and is showing himself the latter's superior, it is ratner a paradox, vui r ocn is making me German retreat much slower than it would be if Ilinden burg was let entirely alone. That distinguished military leader wants nothing so badly as to remove nis army irom where it is to some point further back where it can dig in and try to defend itself. General Foch is hard hearted and will not permit this. He is forcing the Germans to "maintain a great rear-guard battle continuously. In or der to fall back Ilindenburg has to withdraw his heavy artillery first leaving only machine guns to hold the al lies back while getting it to a safe piace. It is when he leaves his armies in this shape thtt Foch strikes. The result is that the German losses are severe, far greater than those of the allies. By this plan Foch will have the Teutons greatly weakened when they, reach their old line ;tnd unable to do anything except make a defensive fight. This is what makes the situation brighter than at any time since the war began. The Hun's power has passed the lak, and is on the down grade, while his enemies are in creasing at a rate that will soon give them double his strength. While the itotish and rrencn are aoing an ine fighting, and beating the enemy back without any especial help from the Americans other than their holding a large sector of the front, it is no doubt part of Foch's plan to keep the Americans out of it and h..ld them for a mighty stroke when the occasion offers. When they are again sent into the fight at full strength there is going to be some interesting reading matter in the German papers, if they print the full news. Foch is using the same tactics the coyote uses on the town dog, when he gets his head pointed one way the coyote, which always fights in pairs, gets busy at the end that is not watching, and when the surprise causes the dog to turn suddenly, the other coyote takes a snap at the unguarded point. He is keeping Ilin denburg busy changing ends, and will eventually wear him out. MIMTiTE WILL BE WiS?n PART OF GREAT AKHYl sSr mmM niO OOfclM mm W an - mm mm- - ' Will Be Paid $30 a MontL Must Live In Barracks In Camp. w -J For Inants,Iava&te (Growing Cfcfldran. I Rich Milk. Malted Grain Extract in Poudet Tb Original Pood-Drink For AB Axs. OTHERS i IMITATIONS Young men who enter Willamette uni versity this fall and euliiit as members of the students' army training eoris will be paid by the government $30 a mouth. They will become in fact part of the great army, with the privilege of continuing tlieir studies whilc beuir gives their military training. According to the plang as outlined at and his board. The young man with j prospects of wealth and the yonng man who has been making his war through the world will be placed absolutely on the same basis in this army lire. Dr. loney announced today that it was not determined whether the univer sity would build the regulation barracks, or whether some of the buildings sow owned lr the university would be re modeled for army life. Chancellor El liott of Montana jras in the eitv today in conference with university official! ieao commanders opened a parley at S o'elock, which is expected to decid future events. Hostilities ended last night under an agreement by which the Americans evacuated the town of Xorales, Sonora, which they had cap tured, the Mexicans promising not ta fire before 7 o'clock this morning. When 7 o'clock arrived the Mexican were not belligerent and arrangement for the parley an hour later were made. In the meantime General Cabell ar rived from Dougl&s with American e- yaru employer maxes. ihe system is a bribe to employ- 1 f. mctuug recency neid at the rre- i i ,1 . , .. . , - Miuu uci weeu representatives of tht war ers to make the cost as great as possible. Of course there 'department and universities of the north west, and corroborated today by Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, the students' army training corps men will live in barrack's tno same as any army organization autl be subject at all tmics to rigid military discipline. Tina will mean that even the boys whoso homes are in Halem will b obliged to live the regulation army life, eating anu sleeping in barracks witn lights out each night at 10 o'clock. The ill thiit the government will pay each student will lie partly uaej in paying nis snare or maintaining the barrack. are many shipbuilders who will not take advantage of this provision, but among so many, it is a dead certainty there are some who will. There are men so constituted that if they were making 500 per cent a month profit they would think up some crooked scheme to double it. This class will be found among shipbuilders as well as in most other pursuits. As a matter of fact there is more or less pro fiteering in all classes, labor not being exempt any more than capital. The Oregonian does not take kindly to the proposed consolidation measure prepared by Professor Mathews of Illinois, which makes the governor the autocrat of the f tate. That statement in the profosesor's report that the Oregon voters do not know enough to elect their officers, and that the governor should take the job off their hands loes not fit well in the average Oregonian's thinker. As the professor was imported by the governor for the pur po.se of fixing things he evidently undertook to fix them in a manner that would suit his employer. No matter how much the governor may long for the position of Pooh Hah, it will not be given him. The state got along reason-, ally well lie fore the gentleman from Corvallis discovered how bad the form of government was, and how much the leoplo needed him to do their voting for them and 'relieve them of a burden they are not qualified to bear." Prussian militarists quickly discovered that bombing unarmed cities was against all rules of civilized wariare, when their own cities were receiving the bombs. Before that it was perfectly legitimate, because it was the allies' cities that were being bombed. However they will have to take the medicine they prescribed for others, even though it becomes necessary to hold their noses while in serting the spoon into unwilling Teuton mouths. Sweden having fount! that Spain could pull the feathers in the German eagle's tail, plucks up her courage and insists on Innng treated the same as Spa'ui Both these countries evidently now look upon the kaiser as licked. That is where they differ from some of the small er nations that did not wait until certain they were on the winning side before declaring themselves. Little Liberia declared w ar as soon as she learned the United States had done so. The socialist members of the German reichstag are now required to submit copies of any speeches they may intend to make, to the military authorities. ' This is done, it is claimed, lest the speeches contain something calculat ed to dishearten the German people and worry the militar- ifcw. ruiicy aa American congressman suDmitting nis speeches to the war department for permission to make them. This shows the militarists dare not let the German people hear any discussion of conditions confronting them The bolsheviki, and the Teuton prisoners in Siberia who are fighting for them get whipped every time they run up against the Czecho-Slovaks or anyone else that has a gun. At Archangel the Red Guards, a murderous gang unuer the direction of the Uolsheviki, got tangled with the allied troops and are still pointed toward Fetrograd, T !! Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason j BRACE UP. Cheer up, the heat may take the starch from you, this time o' year, but there will be no heat in March, and March will soon be here. Cheer up. thou eh feeline half way dead, exhausted by the erind; there's alwavs solace just ahead, and history behind. Cheer up, if tired of buy ing ice, which thins your meagre roll; for soon you will dig up the price for loads of slate and coal. Cheer up if war news shows reverse for armies of our own; the Teuts will strike a whole lot worse than ever we have known. Cheer up if bread is lacking wheat, and long on bran and chaff; the tempting loaf you do not eat means some Hun's epitaph. Cheer up if all our wires t-tem crossed, and gov ernment diseased; believe me, everything's not lost be cause you are not pleased. Cheer up if Foch is doing things you do not understand; he's out to get some Bulgar kings, anil see some kaisers canned. If some discomforts you should know, don't spring a grouchy wheeze; our boys wno lace the lighting loe don t bask on beds of ease. Cheer up ! Let every word and deed be of a hopeful stvle : cheer up, for other people need the comfort of your smile. :: THE WIFE I By JANE PHELPS TL,rAK,reT,,JRIAM'!' "Whv '- 0FnWa CUEA'EB i h" wliluy. -Other women do thin. WUAKTUUJ. . Il", ,re, j,', nmr( d11fr)l(ing 1h(ln wanning- Hot-, and tana m a k telien: I IIAITKIJ XVII. It a Wedueaday. lltiau had said ev.u ,f it u V0llr ona k;,vUtll." 11 what her aunt had Md her were traf. liu-v wo.11,1 atari out to hu.,t rheaper .nud he had Bo doubt it was. her work i""'1" it. tin utrmM uv, , wa aa food then told, aa she tlioneht of tiviiu' in a meaner ultt.e lUau thu one !ic had made aa atlrartie aa vsiMe; and liuh. even jet, Wat an eyesore to hc.r artistic nature. She looked at her hand. "Only back a wevk, and look at LADD &" BUSH, Bankers ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW HERE. THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL AT THE BANK s anv. Of course she wouldn't epect a professionals pay i't until she had proved her ability. lut even If sh work.M (,r verv little to .'art with, ae eould ue that little to hire a niaid. and keep the home "llrian nhuuldn t find fault, if 1 want t,i he!,, him," he toothed her hem he muttered . kuUiiw Urn np i ee.n,,iere, a, .he rolled hi. di.hle teherp.e. '1 hev k UU a scrub- , , Uli Mw outMe woman . hand. .Heady." , tll, hom, . h , Then ...he turned to her work .o . ho(lr him Mpfw,-ki, l hat I mW I. k. . TS"1' rmuZi,v w "d axm " r ..e reasBB, he had alwav. heard lh K,u,h. The n,o,t trivial tUBl uit aamwVv tie, thefle.er. her l.-kfat tray, ( h, h) . , kfrtrU-li the eup f t, rved . the late after- tttXmim MU., irmm .11 w.ed littr.e. .y e,wr,.t idiahle. e,(Uv fenuaiu, th. A.J wuh her ,re.B, eou.Uno.i u, lui - 8uU iuM J V A I f M to ee their breakup Ut ,-ut .way the Ut Uh. Ibe. At , f" .turned ,le a. her temety. ltJ 0 laSl aPi,i1 to wash dishes and serub floors. Hut how was she to go at it T She looked thru the advertisements in the rmpers; but there seemed to be a peculiar lark of deeoratora want ed, Suppose, .after all, she could find no one to employ herf The thought fixed her determination not to talk of her plan to Brian until it had materialized. "Ho would laugh at me, perhaps," she (aid to herself. That n i uli t Brian complained of his dinner. Vuth knew she had not taken as much pains as usual; her mind was upon other thins. - The steak was overdone, the potatoes spggy. "It seems to uie when you dun't have anything else to do, you niijjht cook the menls so a man.' could eat them," ho said impatiently. Things had been discourauing at tho office. He was tired and hungry, and the badly cooked, unappetizing dinner add ed the last straw to bis discomfort. "If 1 had soiuetliing else to do, he wouldn't expect me to eook," Ruth thought, but said nothing. At another time nis impatience would have made her weep; bjt now her minsl was taken up with other thing She was sorry, of course, that llrian didn't enjoy hi. dinner; but she never would be a good housekeeper. lie might as well timterstand it. rerhaps it might make him more willing she should try to earn money, and hire some one who could cook to please him. "Try the coffee, Brian. That's good t Know. "Coffee and bread and butter are n't very substantial fur a man's din ner, especially if he's tired and bun- jiry, lie replied in a milder tone as she carried his plate of stenk and po tatoes away almost untouched. '1 know, dear. But von see I was n't raised to be a cook," she replied, laughing at him. 'No! if thy time vou have spent fussing with paints and paper, chugg ing over rooms and putting on bow windows, had been spent learning to cook, we might have been more com fortable." ' Why should I spend my time in the kitchen f Aunt had cooks enough-" "Vou mij;ht. possibly have learned uiuettiing. ' ' "Oh, lui! Vou il"ii't understand the inggera, Brian. Itiey don t respect w hite people who do their workv" "(ill, well, never mind. 1 feel bet r now: I didn't mean to te cross. This eoffee is dandy " 'lcs, auiit sunt I made delicious coffee." The dinner over, Brian retired be hind his paper; and Kuth, after she had cll-sred awwy, looked over her wardrobe trying to decide which dress end sat (be bad bettor wear when (he started out on the morrow. She had made up her mind. ."-In would go to the interior decorating shops and try to get a position. But she would say nothing to Brian until slie was obliged to. And Brian, when he finished his paper, was so aorry that he had been cross about the dinner, that he pro- lised they go somewhere and ind the remainder of Mrs. (.'layborne s check for a rarebit. Tomorrow A Krien.t nt Brian's Tells liuth She Should I's Her Talent. and the result of this conference has not j inforcements and other American troop. as yet oeen announced, tnanceuor rJ- arrived from Fot Huachuca. Meiicaw liott i regional director of the educa-j federal troops were en route to th tionil committee of the war department border from the interior of ilexic. for the northwest. to assist in restoring order. When the young man enters the uni-l During the fighting lieutenant CoV Tensity thig fall and enlists in the army one! Herman, commanding the troop, student training corps, his pay from the'at Xogales, was severely wounded i government will be 30. However, as the side. He went to the rear for soon as his draft number is reached by j first aid, returned to the field and i the local exemption board he Ix-eomes few moments directed his troops i. subject to call at any time, but is per-! the occupation of Xogale, Sonora mitted to continue his studies. But with wn the city occupied, the Mex the eall of his draft number, the gov- ieans offered to declare a truce under ernmenf then navs fur his board and. which hostilities were ended. keep at the barracks. Before his eall, from the 30 a month, he is obliged to pay his share of living in the barracks. 8tudntg may take up any course of study they wish. The army training is just that much additional. This training is that the men may later be sent to the Presidio to complete a course for as signments as officers in the army. Boy. under the age of 18 years,. who cau pass tho examinations to enroll at the university, will also be given the advantages of military traiuing. These younger boys may enroll but not official ly enlifct until they have reached the age of 18. They will be given military training but receive no pay from the government. Dr. Doney reports that at the Presid io several of the Willamette bovs were asked to apply for commissions, but a" decided to return to 8alem and continue their studies for tho coming year. The government has not as yet announced the name of the officer to be assigned to Willamette university. THREE AMERCANS (Continued from page one) This morning quiet ended. The American dead are. Captain J. D. Hungerford, Tentk cavalry. Corporal Barney Lots, Company H, 35th infantry. Private W. K. Kliut, 33th infantry. The fighting started late yesterday when an American sentry halted a party of Mexicans, said to iinelud. custom, officials, whom he suspected ojittempting to smuggle a country Bira aerons the border. The Mexican, opened fire, American troops returned the fire and (oon a shower of bullet, was raining on both sides of the bor- iler. Ill feeling between Mexican and American customs guards, it was de clared here, has existed for days as a result of strict enforcement of pass port regulations by both Americans ani Mexicans. Stocks Are Livelier Oa News From Front thrme killed in yesterday's fighting- xirigaaier ueneral Cabell command ing the American border forces, is per sonally .conducting negotiations for a settlement of tho trouble with the Mex ican officer.. Story of the right Washington, Aug. 28 The American patrol at Nogales on the Arizona Mexico borderland trtanjd reinforced Now Tork, Aug. 28. The New York Cveniug Bun say. financially: The gratifying news from the battl. front, holding out every promise of de velopments of the greatest import with in the next few days, was unquestion ably the paramount influence in tovltiy'. stock market. Th. rails moved but lit tle. Steel PKjuuicd its traditional place ait lender, cmsoing 118 to a new high rjcoid pnec for the year in a good demand. f.,1 , ..I T IT!. today, readv to meet any repitition'T T "" u" 'V? , Rt' ". of yestenlaV's lirush with Mexicans. rLW.a,,,J an,d. Cr.ue,ble- a' D"",e Official hPr. -Pr ln,li.i . ,i 'relatively favorble showing. The special- .no n,u.mu uiicuuuii auu ISSUl'S 11KB C. J i., Bubber and Hide and Leather Preferred were well bought at advance priees. The equipment shares were in excel lent demaid also. Marino referred wu. slow in 'tuning, but at about mid-day it pushed through 101. American Sumatra Tobacco Dud General Motors on the oth er hand guttered sharp reverses. Senator O'lie James Of Kentucky Dead the iui'ident as of comparatively little importance, except for the fact that it was the first outbreak of any size along the border in a long time. The border is strongly patrolled at all' essen tial points and there is no apprehen sion as to the extension of the inci dent. American troops, it was assured. can cope thoroughly with any raider.. The war department this forenoon received a full report of the engagement but declared there were reasons for not making it public uistil later in the dv. A joint investigation of the affair by Mexican and American military au thorities is under way and the Mex ican, have indicated there will be no further trouble, according to state deportment word this afternoon Baltimore MJ., Aug. 28 Vnitel S ates Senator OHie M. James, Ken tucky, died at 0:35 q, 'clock this morn ing t the Johns-Hopkins hospital her The department said it proposes no'',,r several months the Kentucky sen- action of its own pending come of the military probe. the out-1'0' had been a patient at the hospit- iBl suffering from stomach trouble. Two official telegrams received re-i"hn he was admitted to the institu- ardmg the Nogales incident werei'"" it was not believed that he wai made public today. The first was:"' y immediate danger, buf his con front Nogales and follows: jdition became critical several week. hngagitiicnt started 4:10 p. m. Ko. frenator James was contideut until brought about by an effort upon the i bis last hours that he would recover, pa't of American custom, guards to I His wife, Mrs. O. M. James, ani halt a susjieeted smuggler- Man halt- j brother, Edward K. James, were at th. ed at the line and during a conversa-' bedside when the senator died, tion with customs men. a man ran out I No definite announcement of th. of th depot on the Mexican side of I funeral arrangements were to be had. trie line and tired at an American " e win prooamy De buried in th. sentrv coming down the line and wound- 'J home cemetery in Kentuckv. ed him. Oencral firing then started from a cover on the Mexican side. American military guard on duty, from ti and 11 compauics of the 30th infan try, returned the fire from a prostrate skirmish formation, continuing the same all along the line as fresh troops came u The Industrial Club Of The Porter School ADD LITTLE PEP TO MEALS FOR VARIETY W1 d Ml cawot N con- f ' XftUrHlS AN Bl.tSilsM fOWrs H fc Hon pntPAKtotHtss fm it Keadera of thia paper who will and a two-cent .tamp for poU(. to tfi National War Garden Com. missicn at Wahin(toa wiH get lrte book on tbu ail important tub. jeet. The Industrial Club met at th. tniuads of infantrvmen be- home of e. J. Moser last Fridav. The side the di H.t on the American aide meeting was made more pleassnt and suffered four casualties before their interesting by the presence of K, hfwi ammunition gave out. Balance of the 1 f!ijervir. W. L. tmith and Mrs. V. line is being re!d by skirmishers, tak- j I- Fulkerson from iialeni. who talked ing advantage of the terrain along the j to the club members oil the varion. tine, (Vlonel Hemiwn ws wounded j pha. of club work in the eoimtT. Jlri, through tha right knee early in the ; Fulkerson is taking Mr. linnu-r place, aktraiish. Not aerioua. lasualtie. at ihe having entered Cede Ham's ertict .letnt en the American ile, Corporal tin July. Itoriwl Uvtx, company O, 35th infautry, j The roemher. present were- CUrene. killed, shot through body; Paul leppoe.' porter,, president; Annie Porter vice company II, 3..th infantry, wounded president; Vera Moser .aecretarv M through left hand; Priv.t. Hi.5itiki,ldre,1 Kir. Hele. and Cheater Maul shot throu left .houlder. Thew eaa- iB(r. Ra ll Motw M(, TM S Btie oecurea in detachment under i!Ji-; Yrti,n Annual . mediate command of Lienteaant Fan niHi near lrpt- fairing ha now eeaa etl ail along the line, following coaft cicr between Colonel Herman aat Mexican commander at international bridjf. naacsnj tak Truce. Xogales, Arit., Aug. i. Thrve -.!icr ti.a.l.'S' wounded and two eiv ijians in Negate, wuitaded, was the toll of Americans irj last night', battle wiih Mciicaa bandits at the border iwi here. This mora:Bg, the Anjcri.su and Hex RICE RIOTS ENDED LoBdcii. Aug. SI A qnarter of a million person, participated in recent rice riots at tVake, according to dis pa.tc.es received from that city. Two hundred a,nd ninety were killed or injured at Oaase. whiU another 2v casualties were reported at Moji. At the Minei-he colliery, 39 misers attacked the comnusoary August II and taer. were fitty casualties- Th. populatioa i bow quiet. m