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. . t 4 Editorial Page of The CapitalJ oumal TCESDAY EVENING October lo, 1918 CHABLE8 H. rBEU Iditor aid PablUka PUBLISHED EVERT EVENING EXCEPT SUN" DAT, 8ALEV. OBEGON, BT Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. L. . Bai:nks, freatdent CBAB. H. FISH BR, VIce-l'realdent. DOHA C. ANDRESEN. Sec. and Treaa. BIBSCUUTIO.N BATES Dally by carrier, pec rar .i 5 00 Pfr Month Pally by mall, per jer 3.0U Per Month FULL LEASED WIKB TELEGRAPH KKl'ORT KASTEItN llEl'ltESKNTATtVES W. D. Ward, Nw York, Tribune. Bunding. 4Ke ,. 35c . KAISER WILL APPEAL IN VAIN. Chicago, W . 11. ttiocawell, 1'eeple'a Uaa UuildiDS Tha Capttnl Journal carrier boya are luatructed to put the papera on the porch. If the carrier doea not do thle, mliuea you, or neglecta a.'Uing the paper to you on time, kladly phone the circulation uenitiier, as this la tha eolr way we can determine whether or Bot the carriers are following luatructiona I'hone Main 81 before t :Si o'clock and a paper will be aent you by apeWal mewenger If the farrier baa nilgaed you. TUB DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL la the only newapaper In Salem whoae circulation l guaranteed by tha Audit Bureau of t'lrculatleua WHY AN ARMISTICE IS WANTED. J. W. T. Mason, United Press war expert, calls atten tion to the fact that an armistice permitting Von Hinden burg to retire unmolested to the German frontier would give the kaiser one of the major successes of the war. The heroic struggle of the American forces north of Verdun is threatening to cut one of the two avenues of retreat for the German armies in France. Luxemburg, by ' protesting to President Wilson against the further occupation of her soil by German troops, shows a complete understanding in the little duchy of America's advance down the Meuse. Luxemburg knows the Americans are closing in on the famous Stenay line of iommunications, so necessary for Von Hindenburg's safe retirement to Germany. While General Pershing is blocking the way to the German frontier, to the glory of American arms, the kaiser appeals to President Wilson to let Von Hinden burg's defeated armies pass through Pershing's lines un scathed. The only alternative for Von Hindenburg is to fight his Way home. His forces are too large and too un wieldy to try to make a run for it. They would- be over whelmed and thrown into devastating confusion. ' It is three months ago today since the Americans threw the Germans back a'cross the Marne and started thm on their disastrous retirement. Since then Von Hin denburg has gone less than half the way home and has lost at least a million men. He may lose a half million more if he must continue to to the border. It is possible even that a great disaster involving a quarter of a million more casualties might overtake him. Besides these losses of human material, Von Hinden burg cannot get home. without abandoning vast stores of munitions and guns to the allies, unless he is given a free passage. Von Hindenburg is being forced to abandon his in tention of forming'a new reserve army to oppose the Am erican invasion of Germany. His plan to accomplish this shortning of his line and saving six thousand men per mile has been destroyedby the ceaseless attacks of Marshal Foch during the-last three months. If Von Hindenburg is given no armistice he will have less men per mile when he gets back to Germany than he did when his retreat be gan. The only way the Rhine reserve army to oppose the Americans can be created is by means of an armistice per mitting Von Hindenburg to withdraw from France and Belgium, taking' his men and guns with him. President Wilson's reply to Chancellor Maximilian however, has averted all danger of an armistice, and will cut deeply into "the German morale. It is worth more than many army corps to the allied cause, for its disinteg rating work will be effective not only among the German soldiers' in'thc field, but also among the German people at home. Three months ago today when the Americans drove a German army across the Marne, the kaiser knew America was arriving at military maturity and ordered his defeated troops to start for home. Today, the kaiser knows that his diplomatic note writers have likewise been trapped by President Wilson's greater skill. The strategy of the situation is wholly on the side of democracy. The exchange of notes' has revealed the kaiser to his people shorn of his divine right and humbly petitioning the demo cratic nations for an armistice. But it is not enough, and so the Hohenzollem intimate of Gott has even promised to abandon the conquered territory for whose possession two million Germans have been killed or permanently in jured. And still it is not enough. No absolute monarch can long cling to his prerogative when his impotence is thus shown to his victims. President Wilson has set the Hohenzollem throne rocking. There can be no question but that the kaiser is now in jeopardy of losing his crown by an act of expiation on the part of the German people. It is said to have proven a great shock to the Prussian junkers to find so many German-American boys fighting in the ranks of the Yankees. It shows how little they really knew of this country which never worries about a man's former nationality, so long as he is a good American citizen while here. Of course the kaiser will now appeal to his people to back him up against the enemy which refuses to listen to any reasonable peace offer and aims only at the destruc tion of Germany. We feel, however, that there will be little enthusiasm in the response from a nation that num i bers its dead by millions and has suffered hardships to the ' i l f i i j? r i i. i -T, . limit oi numan endurance ior iour years, suupiy iu grauijr the ambition of a divinely appointed ruler. The German people are pretty well fed up on the "Me and Gott" stuff and don't care very much what becomes of the Hohenzol lem family if only they can enjoy peace once more and be free from the horrors of a seemingly endless war. Secretary Baker, just back from a trip to the western front, tells of an incident that is significant: A certain German prisoner was unkempt and dirty, his face beard ed and emaciated. He attracted the attention of several newspaper correspondents and they sought to question him. For several days all efforts to induce him to talk failed. Finally, however, he drew from his ragged uni form a little package, and with tears streaming down his face opened it. It was the picture of his pretty frau and their children it was a reminder of happy, precious days. Then this prisoner sobbed out a story of how his Prussian masters refused him leave from the trenches when his wife died and his children followed her to the grave. He was bitter at the government because it show ed no heart and demanded only that hestay with his ma chine gun crew in the shell holes of no man's land. There are many thousands of such men in the Ger man army, and it is quite likely they will in time take care of the kaiser in their own way if he does not anti cipate their action, abdicate and effectively efface him self from public notice; along with the crown prince and the rest of his tribe. SALTS IP BACKACHY I Drink Lots Of Water And Stop Eating Meat For a While If Your Bladder Troub les You. LADD & BUSH, Bankers are receiving subscriptions now for the .TI I IRFRTV BONDS And those United States senators were worrying themselves almost to death and driving the country to dis traction for fear Wilson and Clemenceau and Lloyd George would make fiols of themselves over that fake German peace proposal! Charles M. Schwab sold Liberty bonds at the rate 'of a million dollars a minute in Chicago last night. If we could have, him here for just three seconds Salem would go over the top. We shouldn't be surprised if the president's reply in jured the feelings of Kaiser Bill somewhat. , The Minnesota forest fire gave German kultur a close race for the record as an agency of destructiveness. There seems little danger that the peace offensive will result in an offensive peace. ' c In the matter of chancellors the kaiser, seems harder to please than ever. -I! ' i General Foch is said to be squeezing Lille. Sly old dog, Ferdinand! -- - Rippling Rhymes by Walt Mason MAKING WAR. For fifty years or thereabouts, on this, our native shore, no captains raised their martial shouts, or made demands for gore. Along the sunny paths of peace, we took our genial way, and dealth in poultry,eggs and grease, in bacon, corn and hay. Whate'er we did, we did it well, we did with our our might; and all the goods we had to sell skinned everything in sight. At last we had to draw the sword and give a helping hand to nations which were being bored by Wilhelm's high command. And at this graft of war we went as we'd go baling hay; we said, "A scrap was never meant to last till Judgment Day. Let's take the contract on the run, and shove the blamed thing through; since we must whip the greasy Hun, let's do it P. D. Q." And all the planet is amazed, at how we do oor stunt; a host of fighting men we've raised, and sent them, to the front. Since we took hold the luck has changed, we 're winning with a whoop, and Bill, his system disarrang ed, is neck deep in the soup. It is the good old Yankee way, to do things with a rush; it is the way wre reap our hay, and hustle after cush. THE WIFE By JANE PHELPS Brian Show Jealousy Which Puts i Buth'a Team At Rest. OHAPTKK Mill. Rulli noticed that Brian was listen ing. ''I tUink Mr. Bockley was very good to ask ts,. isn't every young man who wants au old married couple with him whoa "lie asks a young lady to din ner even though the man does happen to hH tho young lady' lawyer " ' 'title's game, all right,'' Brian said to hinuHiU att he aat down, and there was a feeling of pride that, in spite of himself, found expression in his voice as ho added: "Not much of a lawyer yet, Kuth." "Enough of one, I guess, to attend to any business Mollis can have," Claude Berkley's sarcasm was not lost upon Ruth, Mollie King, tactful as she was, blushed at tho implication, but, quick ly recovering herself, said brightly: -ls this your first visit here, Mrs. ITackett If it is, wo must point out our celebrities to you." I nevor have been here before," Ruth replied. Please tell me nil I should know." . When j-ou wake up with backache and dull misery in the kidney region it generally means you have been eat ing too much meat, says a well known authority. Meat forms uric acid which overworks the kidneys in their effort to filter it from the blood and they be come sore of paralyzed and loggy. When your kidneys gets luggish and clog you must relieve them, like you relieve your bowels; removing all the body's urinous waste, else you have backache, sick headache, dizzy spells; your stomach sours, tongue is coated, and when the weather is bad yon have rheumatic twinges. The urine is cloudy, full of sediment, channels often get sore, water scalds and you are obliged to seek relief two or three times dur ing tho night. Either consult a good, reliable phy sician at once or got from your phar macist about four ounces of Jail Salts; take a tablospoonful in a glass of wa ter before breakfast for a few days and your kidneys will then act fine. This famous salts is mado from the acid of grapes and lemon juice, used for generations to clean and stimulate slug gish kidneys, also to neutralize acids in the urine so it no longer irritates, thus ending bladder weakness. Jad Salts is a life saver for regular meat caters. It is inexpensive cannot injure and makes a delightful, eifer vescent lithia-watcr drink. GIRLS! HAVE WAViY, FREE FROM DANDRUFF Save Your Hair! Double Its Beauty In A Few Moments-Try This. If you care for heavy hair, that glis tens with beauty and is radiant with life; has an incomparable softness and is fluffv and lustrous, try Danderine. dust one application doubles the beau I ty of your hair, besides it immediate jly dissolves every particle of dandruff; you cannot have nice, heavy, healthy ' hair if you have dandruff. This de structive scurf robs the hair or its lus tre, its strength and its very life, and if not overcome it produces a feverish ness and itching of the scalp; the hair roots famish, loosen and die; then the hair falls out fast. If your hair has been neglected and is thin, faded, dry, scraggy or too oily, get a small bottle of Knowlton'j Danderine at any drug slou or toilei counter for a few ftonts: apply a lit tle as directed and teu minutes after you will say this was the best invest ment you ever made. We sincerely believe, regardless of everything else advertised, that if you desire soft, lustrous, beautiful hair and lots of it no dandruff no itching scalp and no more falling hair you must use Knowlton'g Danderine. If eventually why not now? German Military Machine Is Smashed "Claudo is about as famous a char acter asi we have,'' Mollie said with a mischevous glance at Beckly, "He both writes and paints." ''How interesting! " murmured Ruth thinking if he didn't write more sen sibly than ho talked, it might account in part for his frayed appoarance. 'Ye8, you must got him to writo some poetry not for you, but to you'' Mollio added, her eyes twinkling. Evidently she sees through hi3 pre tense as well as I, Ruth thought, and was rather pleased that tho woman whom her husband admired was not dense. It would bo impossible to be at all at her ease with a stupid woman. She would not know what to say to her, . , The only time she had seen Mollio, sho had thought her very pretty and bright. It had been at tho dinner Mrs. Curtis gave. But now she was more critical. She wanted to know well, this woman whom Brian eecmcd to like so much. Not that she wished for any in timacy; that was farthest from her thoughts. She wanted to understand her character her point of view. So as Mollio told her of the differ ent pooplo dining, she watched her while she listened. Mollie 's speech, while in a way refined and showing education, was plentifully sprinklod wit a gay, innocuous sort of slang that gave it point. Sho occasionally told a story about some ono of whom sho was speaking, and told it well. Ruth had to acknowledge, even before the "dinner was scarcely commenced, that Mollie King was an interesting talker and would prove a delightful companion to any man if she was so inclined. tes, she must not underrate Mollie, sho thought, as sho turned to reply to some remark of her host. ''It's jolly, having you here!" she heard Brian say as soon as her atten tion wns obviously taken by Beckly. ' "Claude is terribly hit with Mrs. ITackett. He raved before you came.'' ".Pool! " 'Not sauce for the goose, eh, Brian;" ".Not on your life!'' Brian's answer was -so emphatic Mol lio laughed gayly. But Ruth felt com forted. ISho had heard every word. If Brian loved her well enough to be so jealous of her, ho would hesitate long before ho did anything really wrong The thought mado her happier than she had been since Beckly had joined them on the Koof Garden te night before. Brian was silly, of course, to be jeal ous of anyone; but of a man like Claude Beckly it was really ridiculous. Then enme the thought. If I am at tractive to others, perhaps ho will care for me moro as I want him to; hositato to leave me or to take the risk of mak ing me angry by being so much with Mollie. So she commenced to talk with Beckly, simply laughing at his extra vagant compliments, and leaving Mid lie and Brian to entertain each other. With a litle smile, she saw Brian get ting restless. Occasionally he would break into iho conversation with some impatient roiaark when Beckly had been particularly fulsome finally he soid: ''Here, you two! this dinner is a foursome. Suppose we talk about some thing in which wo are all interested." "Or suppose we finish our dinner, and then dance I' Mollie broke in. "Oh, do!'' Ruth agreed at once. She knew she was a good dancer, and the loved to dance. To tell the truth, she was becoming tired of Bcckly's com pliments. ''Thank the gods I can dance-" Beck ly said so fervently they nil laughed. Ruth danced first with him, then with Brian. When it came time to go, acting en the spur of the moment, she. invit ed both Beckly and Mollie King to dine with them a week from that night. "Well be there, won't we Mollie," Claude asked? ''Indeed we will, and thank you!" Mlolie said graciously, but witB a look than Ruth could not fathom; a look directed at her. (Tomorrow Happr Days Follow The Pinner In The village.) $ ' Washington, Oct. 15. The 4c Gorman military machine has broken down, according to the belief prevalent in Hwitzorlaud 4c diplomatic dispatches declared today. The report says cstablish- nient of a preliminary cabinet was not so much from pressuro by tho Gorman people as from acknowledgement of tho military leaders that they are unable to cscapo defeat on tho field, it is said. German newspapers are quoted in support of this contention. v SORETHROAT Colds, Coughs, Croup and Catarrh Be lieved in Two Minutgs Is your throat sore? Breathe Hyomei. Have you catarrh? Breatho Hyomei. . Havo you a cough? Breathe Hyomei. Have you a cold? Breathe Hyomei. Hyomei is tho one treatment for all nose, throat and lung troubles. It does not contain any cocaine or morphine and all that is necessary is to breathe it through the little pocket inlmlor that comes with each outfit. A complete outfit costs but little at dnggists everywhere and at Dan'l J. Fry's Hyomei is guaranteed to banish catarrh, croup, coughs, colds, sore throat and bronchitis or money back. A Hyomei inhaler lasts a lifetime and extra bottles of Hyomei can be obtain ed from druggists. SEWIML! DINTISTRY 1 Nineteen Painless Parker offices in the United States repair the teeth of over 100,000 people annually.' Salem Office State and Commercial Streets . The Journal Job Department will print you anything in the stationery line do it right and save you real money. . . ' 3 There Is Enough Furniture .Bedding. Rugs acl Linoleums to supply every body; experts tell us we must conserve and we know you all will Don't buy fursiture if yoa don't need it. and on the other hand if you need it buy it to day or buy it soon. we said above there is enough to supply all, yet the supply is getting less and very soon in the rug line at least it will not be getting what yoa may want-But take what yoa can get The prjees are going higher and higher each day. That is the wholesale market-but with us your money is doing as much as you could expect We are selling many articles today at what they would cost wholesale. Of course when we rebuy, retail prices will have to advance. Do not buy anything in Furni ture or Rugs without first get ting our prices. CHAMBERS AND CHAMBERS 467 Court Street