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i.v;-s-yr;:K .&j;h;:.hi,;,.iSL(j im: i &ii.ii,!...:i::i!uiu.Sj'.. Editorial Page of The CapitalJourna CHASLE8 H. JIBUTI Zfa ail Pmblkkw WEDNESDAY EVEX1XU October 2, 1918 - 5 " t i. f i I' 3 S 3 I l f l PUBLISHED EVEBT EVENING EXCEPT SUXDAT, SALE1T, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. Cl B. BARNKS, Fmkieat. CHAg. H. riSilER. Vkc-Pratdeat DOHA C. ANDRESEJf, See. and Tim. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Dally tj carrier, pr year : ,..6.to Per Month 4S Dally by mail, pc yer 3.00 Per Month S5e tl'IX LKASED WIKB TELEGKAI'H KEFOHT , BASiEKN IlEl'KKSKNIAilVlSS W. D. Ward, Rr York, Tribune Banding. BORAH GETS NEAR-SIGHTED. Senator Borah, of Idaho, recently was guilty of a pre diction that is perhaps as far from being correct as any- ! thing could well be. He said in speaking of the debt the war is piling up on us. "We are mortgaging the resources j and energies of this country for 250 years." One making !such a statement shows he has not kept in touch with his- Tb. cp.t., ,on,..rrterboT.. Suppose the war debt should be fifty billions of STpto. or even double that, does the senator imagine SMS! ,br.wa,u' ir?lZl, " s"cn a surn would tax our resources ror any such length TUB DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL la tba only newspaper Is Salm whoa circulation li guaranteed by tba Audit Bureau of Circulation GET INTO THE WAR-BUY A BOND. There is no man wise enough to correctly predict what conditions will be after the war. That business will be more or less disturbed for some time seems reasonably cer tain fnr there will h.nvp to hp. a rrpnp'rnl rendinstmpnt alnnjr nil lines. Some industri.il olants now pmnlovintr many predicted it would never be pai doff. True, it has thousands of men will have to go out of business or at not all been paid yet, but this is because we did not wan of time? He overlooks the fact that the countrv is grow ing in wealth and population at a rate that in 250 years would give us a population of half a bjllion or more. He overlooks the fact that the sources of modern wealth are but being tapped, and that with most we are still hardly on speaking terms. A debt of a few millions one hundred and twenty five years ago, just half the time the senator! a e i x' I &tves us iu recover ixora uie war ueui now accumulating, seemed more than the country could bear and survive! When the civil war left us a debt of above three billions :: THE WIFE ::! By JANE PHELPS CHAPTER XLVIL one," she sighed, "and written as if Euth received Briaa's aliort n ire, -evi-f he hadn't a minute to spare for nrd." - dently dashed off in a tarry, then wat- Even hi fending it special did notj ched the mails for tha letter she wm ' ,e(""furt ber- Ho had forgtten hr sura would follow. All the next day Ruth went about her work with an alert mind, but a heavy heart. The task Mr. Mandell had given "The dear! not waiting to write, jus wiring first so I would not bo disap Doifttpfl ' sllA aa'in in HtT.-tf .1 ... read tliB mpm n t. ,,,ti. I to do was a difficult one, and need- time "Til .t a nica lonff lPtt, in ed 8,1 hcr attention. Resolutely she the mornine." But when , morning I tned to put tnoughts or Brian from came there wa3 no letter, although she "ul alur sne na Ilae Ior l" uvj sue unit iu lumtu o uu iviguv, least change the character of their products, and some of them cannot do this. This is true ot shipbuilding for one, for the present rate of production cannot be kept up in dt'initely. Then, too, while it may be some time before this industry returns to normal there will have from the very nature of things, to Be a great reduction in the sums of money that can be put in a ship. Ships like every other investment cannot cost above a certain price, for the rea son that they cannot earn a fair return on the investment if the cost is too high. In this line we of America will have to compete with the world and we cannot pay a much greater price for. the completed vessels than that other nations can and will build them for. This is barely an il lustration, for there are hundreds of other industries that will be affected the same way. Business may slacken, dull times come on, but the American people can depend on one thing not changing in value and that is the gov- eminent bond. The man who puts his spare money into government bonds now is doing not only a patriotic thing, but he is putting a strong anchor to windward against whatever may happen. In purchasing liberty bonds Am ericans are simply putting their money in the safest of savings banks and allowing their country to use the money instead of the banks doing it. Every $1,000 so placed will bring year after year with unfailing certainty $45 dol lars in income, and at the end of the time for which the government borrows it the principle will also be return ,ed. There is no other investment as certain, and few that in the long run will pay more. On top of this is the satis factory feeling that as citizens we have done our full duty to ourselves and to our countrv, and this in itselt is a really valuable consideration. We will all feel better when we see the boys come marching home again, at knowing that our dollars were put up freely to back them up and to make the world a decent place for all mankind to live m No one will envy the slacker as he sees the boys given such a welcome as never before greeted a returning army, and knows that neither he nor his money, had, or deserved any part in the victory. It is worth putting our dollars into the great purse iust for the satisfaction of knowing that we too were in the game though in a small way, and that our dollars helped eliminate the kaiser from a world that had no need of him. It is not too late yet to help, but it may be and we hope will be before long, when the govern ment will have no further need to borrow. -Now is the time to avoid getting left in this condition, and the way to do it is to subscribe all your spare money for liberty bonds. You will feel better for it now, and when the day of re joicing comes for our boys returned, it will be a source of gratification worth double the cost. Try it and see. The kaiser appeals to his subjects to "gather around him and help defend the fatherland." From this it is evident the kaiser considers himself that "fatherland," else why want his people to gather around him? And if they gather around him they will all be miles away from the battlefields and there will be none to do the fighting. The Sultan is in a "hard row of stumps." With two British armies chopping away at the shin bones of his country while recent events have left its headpiece expos ed to a beating, it looks very much as though it would have to seek the services of the doctor.' The best thing the Sultan can do is to go into the allies' hospital as Bul garia has done and wait for his injuries to heal. The weather clerk iust to be true to form got busy and gave the state fair a snort shower Saturday evening. As he acted real nice about it and put off the rain until the last day in the evening he can be, and is, forgiven. it paid, but used it instead as a basis of our monetary system. How comparatively trifling a sum it is is shown by the country this year raising by taxation double the entire cost of the civil war. We have increased osr wealth as a nation many times over since civil war days, and the rate of increase from this on will be still more rapid. This feature alone will take care of the present debt without a ripple being caused m financial circles. True we have not the vast virgin territory to be con quered that was ours when the civil war ended, but there are other fields immeasureably greater. ! We have but recently conquered the air, and sounded the under-sur face of the ocean, and through both of these will come in time increased wealth. There is another yast unexplor ed industrial country whose borders we have only touch ed, and that is its mineral wealth. True we have exploit ed the mines and have produced great wealth from the bowels of the earth, but what we do not know about the metals is everything as compared to what we do know. In the combination of metals lies one of the possible sources of our country's future greatness and wealth. We have only recently learned that steel could be hardened and toughened, doubling its strength by the addition of other metals. Aluminum has but recently come into com mercial use, and the vast field which the infinite combin ations of metals is capable of opening is beyond the aver age mind. Senator Borah is decidedly mistaken when he says it will take 250 years, or for that matter twenty five for the country to recover. A tax of ten per cent on the products of the country would pay off the entire debt in two or three years, and the raising of the same amount of revenue that was raised, or will be this year by taxa tion would pay off a debt of fifty billions in six years. No, there is nothing to worry about in our national debt, either by those who owe it or those to whom it is owing. The latter are in condition to feel especially satisfied over! it. . had spent hcr entire evening in writing mm. a long letter telling ot the work she had to do, then of how she missed him. A loving tender letter, expressive of her feeling for him. "I wonder why it didn't come," sho soliloquised she dressed to go out about the business. "It will probably coinc on the nest mail," anj although shc had not intended to do it, she went way back to the hotel at noon time to get th letter, "No, nothing for you, Mrs. Hackett," the clerk told her, then, noting the dis appointment on her face, added, "there ia another mail iu half an how. You may get something on that." The half hour gone, she asked ayuiu. Still nothing. Sadly slij returned to her task, try ing to cheer horself by saying it would surely be there when she got back 8t nilit. But her disappointment was keen. She was nearing the third day of hcr stay and not a line from Brian sav only that short wire. The thought that he night be with Mollic King stung her. If that were tho reason he was neglecting to write, he must care very little for her; and a good deal for Mollis King. This thought obtruded the entire afternoon, and when at dinner timo there was no letter, she easily persuaded herself that it was Mollie King's fault. She had intended going to a play to help pass the time, but now she had no heart for it As she bat thinking of Brian, she remembered what a ehild ho was in some things; just ft big sulky boy when thing, went wrong, and. of her determination not to be angered by anything he did. Mho wrote him again, touching light ly on her disappointment , at hearing nothing from him save the short tele gram. Slio told of what she had ao complished during the dav, and cndwl bv' saytnir that she Was vcrv tired and was going to bed, although it was only nine o cloek. Could she havo known that at nine clock Brian an,i Mollie King were sitting in a secluded cqrner of s River side drive lvstaurant, sho would per haps have been moro miserable than she was. Yet she tortured herself with joalous thoughts till she went to sleep. In tlio morning, tat fourth of her stay sho rcccied a short special delivery noto. In it he told hcr nothing of whar sho wished to know, of what hn had been doing an(i where he had bercn spending his eyenings. A notn he mifjht have written anv- The report of the secretary of the state fair shows the attendance this year was by about. 2,000 greater than that of last year. This does not seem possible, for most of those attending were certain the attendance would fall considerably short of last year. One reason perhaps of this was the big collisseum and the. tractor demonstra tion which scattered the crowds more than usual. At any rate it is a most gratifying report and the statement that there would be a surplus of around $25,000 is still more gratifying. for a timo, that there wag sucB a person as Mollis King, whom she believed was trying' to inveigle her husband to spend hi9 time with her. Liko most wives, Biith blamed the other woman, instead of blaming her husband. That Brian had sought out Mollie, not Mollio Brian, would not go. She had found that she could get home a day sooner than she had expect ed to. At first she was going to wire Briau to meet her. Then sho figured that she would get up to the apartment just about the time he cither came home to dinner, or that ho camo in to dress to go out. Either way she would just catch him. If he had planned to go j out sho would just catch him. If ho had planned to go out she would go too. She arrived on tinn?- and took a taxi to the appartment. No one was there. 'He is going out and has let Craw ford go home," she said to herself as she hurriedly prepared her bath. She would bo all freshened up by the timo he came in. But she bad hcr bath, was dressed and waiting, and yet no Brian. She had eaten scarcely anything on th0 train and now hunger added to her impa tience. Whcro could 1k bet By and by she went to tho ice box. It was almost empty. Evidently thero had beon little cooking done. But she made herself a cup of tea and some toast A CLEAR COMPLEXION Ruddy Cheeks Sparkling Eyes Most Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a Weil-Known Ohio Physician Dr. F. M. Edwards for 17 years treated scores of women for liver and bowel ailments. During these years he cave to his patients a prescription made of a few well-known vegetable ingredients mixed with olive ofl, naming them Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets. You will know them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-workers on tha Ever and bowels, which cause a normal action, carrying off the waste and poison ous matter in one's system. If you have a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, headaches, a listless, no-good feeling, all out of sorts,1 inactive bowels, on take one of Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets nightly for a time and note the pleasing results. Thousands of women as well as men take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets the suc cessful substitute for calomel now and then just to keep in the pink of condition 10c and 25c per box. All druggists. ea were vulgar; that they always re acted on tho one who attempted them. (Tomorrow A distressing wait and a lame explanation.) ON WAY TO PRISON. New Tork, Oct. 2. Captain Frana Von Eiutelen, convicted of having mado false manifests and also of put ting bombs on the British steamer Kirk Oswald, left here today for the fed eral prison at Atlanta. Two deputy marshals accompanying Von Rintelcn were warned that he was " a desperate man and to tako no chances, WOULD PERSUADE GERMANY Amsterdam, Oct. 2. Following the Vienna crown council meeting it was Hin cot announced that Auatria-Hunparv ia down by thj window to wait for him. i still striving to eoncludo an agreement- She would make him take her out fur with Germany for a pcaco as soon as supper. She almost wished she hadn't possible that will preserve tho mon tricd to surprise hira. She recalled' archy's integrity, according to a Buda hearing her aunt say once that surpris- j pest dispatch received today. LIKENS MAN TO PEACOCK "Next to the peacock, man is the vainest creaturo that struts .upea. tha earth," a prominent Boston society matron declared recently in an informal ' talk before the Business Women's League. "The vanity of man oxtends in a peculiar direction," alio continacd 'Frequently he is not vain regarding himself, but he aspires to have his wife or hig sweetheart outshine other women in attractiveness. A man may fume if his wife buys a new dress or hat, yet he is keenly disappointed if she docs not look as well as other women. "Now cverv man cannot afford an olnWfito .,i, i, (lesiro his wife to have. But every woman owes it to herself and to hcr hus band to keep her physical being in the very pink of condition. After all, pretty skin and lustrous hair far outeIaSs nll the prettv clothes in th0 world. n " wuumu 10 ii .eop ner SKin ana scalp clean and youth ful. Remember that gray hair is youth's ancient enemy. It is no longer nec essary for women to use dyes to hide gray hair. There- is a preparation call-. ed Q-Ban Color Restorer which restores tha nntmnl nnrl nnifnrm inr nH makes tho hair youthful and lustrous." The action of the state defense council in orderinrr all business houses closed on Sundav was a oernicious thing and wholly uncalled for. Evidently it was a clumsy attempt of the organization, which is a costly, burden to the taxpayers, to advertise its existence and iustifv the expense of its maintainance. LADD & BUSH, Bankers are receiving subscriptions now for the LIBERTY BONDS I Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason 4- .' CRUSHING THE YANKS. " Old Ludendorff bombastic cried, to gaping German ranks: "You saw how we the Russians crushed; so we will crush the Yanks." Then to his weary warriors he said, with sickly smiles, "Fall back, my brave invincibles! Retreat a dozen miles!" It's true the German crushed the Russ; the Russ was like a child, betrayed by his own parents and by Prussian lies beguiled. I wonder if Herr Ludendorff has got it in his head that citizens from free dom's shore can thus astray be led, that they will fall for German bunk as fell the childlike Slav. Such hopjoint visions m tneir neaas tne German leaders have. Or does the doughty Ludendorff imagine for a space that he has strength enough at hand to whip the Ynakee race? One lank can whip a brace of Teuts, from war tales I've in ferred, and if occasion calls for it, he will take on a third. Oh Ludendorff, begin to crush! You've told what you will do, so now hitch up your pantaloons, and put the mat ter through. 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