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iiniin-iiiiJlilrl Editorial Page of The Capital Journal CHASLX8 H. TOHH Xditor nad Fabliahs SATtBDAY EYEXINO October 19, 19J8 u-!i".,i,;,,Nii,,., PUBLISHED EYEBY EVEXIKOEXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OBEGON, BY Capital Journal Ptg. Co., Inc. b. a. Barnes, CHAS. H. riSHER, Preaidrat. Ylee - SCBSL'BI Pally by carrier, per yar Dally by mail, per yr : rULI. LEASED WIRE S ASTERN REPRESENTATIVES ft. D, Ward, Nw Tort, Tribune Banding. Chicago, W. II. Btocnwell, Ptaple'i as. Building The Capital Joornal carrier boy ara lnatracted to pat th papers on tha porch. If tb carrier do not do thin, mleara yon, er Mgleeta Retting tba paper to yon on time, kindly phone tha circulation mannsw, aa this la tha only way w can determine whether a not the carrier! ara following lust rnct Inns Phone Main 81 before 1 :30 o'clock and a per will be aent you by aperial nieraenger It tba carrier baa mlaaed yon. TH8 DAHr CAPITAL JOURNAL la tha only newspaper In 8lcm whoae circulation if guaranteed by the Audit tturena ol Circulations THE PRICE WE ' Many homes in Oregon have been desolated by the awful toll of war. The list grows longer daily and the people, not weaker of purpose but stronger in the new found democracy of sympathy, are bearing their own af fliction and sharing. that of their neighbors with forti tude. The death of Thomas A. Townsend in the officers' training camp at Eugene wras a distinct shock to this com munity. To the editor of the Capital Journal it seemed like a personal loss. We had watched this boy's career from the time he carried papers on the Roseburg Review; saw him work his way through the state university and win the highest recognition from his fellow students be cause he deserved it, and noticed with pride his steady advancement in the field of business. Those who knew Tom Townsend best are. brought to realize the awful price the nation is paying to preserve its- menaced honor and its cherishe'd institutions of liberty. ' ' Lieutenant Leslie Orland Tooze is filling a soldier's grave in France. Leslie and Lamar Tooze, during, their student years at the university, did much work on the Capital Journal and Eugene (iuard. xney were aiwavs workers, keen and alert in all things and thoroughly de " pendable. Handsome, manly boys, who seemed to lack both lime ana inclination 10 acquire any u uie urumaiy xan ines of the college student period. . We have frequently wondered where the career of euch boys, so well equipped, mentally and physically and early grounded in character and deportment, would lead. The answer for, one has come in tne cablegram irom France and some way, somehow, it is not unexpected. He volunteered early because it seemed the right thing to do, and he was on duty when the end came, The deadly bullet struck deeply when it laid Leslie. Tooze low. His family, friends, all of us who might have benefitted in the future usefulness of such a life as his gave promise of be ing, feel the impact of that deadly shot. Manv other homes in Oregon feel their loss as keen ly, but we knew these boys m i 1 i hoys who have matte tne supreme sacniice. inai is why the nation is drawing together in closer sympathy and un derstanding. We who remain at home must not. forget why these promising lives are being sacrificed, and we will not be worthy of them should we fail in the slightest degree in our dutv as citizens: in making citizenship in the republic worth the sacrifice of its best vantages and the institutions it cherishes may be pre served. Every individual must realize the responsibility in order that Leslie Tooze and thousands of other young men will have died in vain. DO YOUR CHRISTMAS Do your Christmas shopping early ! The government has asked it; good judgment and a proper regard-for the interests of others sustain the or der. Th last closing crush at Christmas time is senseless. The clerks are overworked, often to the point of exhaus tion, and you do not get as good service or as good val ues frequently. Now the demands of the government in a time of national peril has Emphasized these things. Help is scarce, the shops and stores are all short-handed and the essential industries are calling more and more for this class of workers, making it impossible to secure the extra help needed for the holiday rush. This trade may' all be handled nicely and everybody well served if it is distributed over the next few weeks more evenly than has been the custom in the past. , This proposition seems too plain to require extended argument. Do your Christinas shopping early t LADD & BUSH, Bankers nrc receiving subscriptions now fcrths yJl ) LIBERTY ILifil BONDS DORA C. ANDRESEN. Preeldent 8c. ud Tma. PTIOH RATES 3x P Month 8.00 Per Month .45c .Rot TBLEGRAPU BEPOBT ARE PAYING. as some of you know other ... t I ml- - A. 1 blood in order that its ad SHOPPING EARLY. I IT'S DIFFERENT GOING BACK. Hindenburg's hosts are Already the entire coast is channel ports are free.' The Hun grip in France day they are being pressed daries. It will be a different gang that crosses the Rhine 013 the way home, their hopes ered invincible whipped to voting their energies to defending their own territory instead of overrunning that of their neighbors. It will no longer be an arr6gant-Prussian, but a very humble and greatly tamed one that looks across the Rhine not with the eyes of conquest, but with the sadness of the conquered. Prussian madness, world domination, "might maxes ngnt doctrines, disregard of solemn treaties, these she has indorsed and tried, and she has lost Now the kaiser who at the start wiui ms armies to destroy rans or levy unnoiy tribute on the French-people will be using every effort to prevent the armies of an outraged world marching to Berlin to destroy it, or at least to destroy the Hohenzollrn family and the Prussian military system built up by and around it. Should the withdrawal from France and JBelgium take place before the end of the year as seems likely, there will be a Christmas celebration in thoe countries never equaled, even though saddened by the loss of the flower of the youth of both countries, sacrificed on the altar of liberty because of the unspeakable Hun. It will not be alone these countries, that will rejoice but the world will join with them. It owes it to the splen did democratic king and the magnificent people of little Belgium, that it today is not under the kaiser's domina tion, and when he and his gallant, little army are again in Brussels it will remember and rejoice with them. END THE SCOURGE. " -, The course of human events has been missle-stre'wn and death littered for more than four years. One people dissolved the political and commercial hands which connected them with practically all others not subjugated by them. , A decent respect for the opinions of mankind did not impel that people to declare the causes which impelled thm to the separation, r ? :-: ? w . . ... ' A decent respect for the opinions "of mankind would have made the severance of those ties impossible; f-r r win'.. w vUn J .... iiiiuYiuuaiB, one man a iiguus eiiu . Wilde an other's begin. The same is so of nations: - .Germany's disregard for all the riehts of all the peoples whose principles of commerce are planned and prescribed with an eye to world welfare, condemned her to isolation and extermination as a military menace. Your money will help destroy the despotism of Prus- sianism and return additional dollars to you. Your life is threatened. This possibility may seem re mote, but it is not. Ecoaomize. stint, temporarilv denv anil denrive vonr- self of luxurieseven comforts there is vet time to buv a Liberty bond before the books close this eveniner. End the scourge of Prussianism wiwth the surge of . L. - i puu iousm now j ' If Austria loses the war nerve of a peculiar brand out cracking a smile that they are compling with Presi dent Wilson's wishes in evacuating: conauered territory. The Serbians and their allies would assign a: very dif ferent reason for the retreat from Serbia and Albania. Rippling by Walt THE WAR The mighty German war road; the greatest engine ever seen broke down beneath its load. The wise mechanics make repairs; old Hindenburg, he paws the grounded L-nauner vvnneim swears bays Ludendorff, "This blam ed old boat will never run again; It's lost its everlastinsr goat, and we are hoodooed men." The kronprinz, smear ed with mud and grease, crawls from beneath the car. and says, "Perhaps a plea for peace, just now, would travel far. While this old ark could hit the plane at fifty miles an hour, all talk of peace gave me a pain I gloried in its power. But while we pushed it we forgot, methinks. to knock on wood; our Jonah's got us now, I wot, and peace looks pretty good." And then erclaims his haughty sire, "The blame must go your way; you would put on that wornout tire, that blew out every day. If Me und Gott had run this boat, with none to interfere, I would not mourn my royal goat, which you made disappear." Says Hindenburg, "The motor's works kick up an awful din; we'll have to telephone the Turks to come and haul us in." The war machine is in the ditch, "a sad and ghastly wreck, and Wilhelm mourns, in doleful pitch, the wind shield round his neck. being driven from Belgium. cleared of invaders, and the is now almost gone, and every back toward their own boun destroyed, their forces consid a finish, and their leaders de thought only of marching government and standards of ' , . it will not be from lack of Now her officials state with Rhymes Mason MACHINE. machine is busted in the flock around and trv to I:: THE By JANEPHELPS RUTH IS DISGUSTED WITH CLAUDE BECKLY AND HIS FAMILIARITY, - - CHAPTER LXII. A a rule Buth played a very good game of bridge. But she was go dis gusted with Claude Beckley, so annoy ed by Ms calling her "Buth," that she could not put her mind upon what she ! want to see him again. Did you hear was doing and made many blunders. ! him hint to be asked again f Consequently, Jlollie and Brian wont "Yes. He's pretty hard up,' and a very easily. (good dinner isn't to be despised when ''What ailed yout I never saw you lone is in that condition. It WAS good play sueh a rotten game," Brian said j dinner Buth. And they both enjoyed as he gathered up the cards after their it." guests had left. I ''I'm glad if you w,ore pleased.'' 'The very idea of that Beckly call- ing me 'Buth' I'" I nearly died!" "Would you have felt the same had your doss, that Manaol, cailod you KUtA't" , "He wouldn't do such a thing. What has that got to do with it, anyway ' ''Oh, nothing, only I was wonder ing.'' " "Do you mean, Brian Haekett, that you think it all right for Mr. Beckly to call me 'Buth' when I have met him scarcely half a dozen times; and when h spends his breath telling me how nice I am because I let you and Miss King do as you like and don 't make a seene f He 'a common, vulgar! I' don't see how you stand for such people.'' Open F. run, ' WANTS NO CAMPAIGN. Salem, Ore., Oct. 20, 1918. Editor, Capital Journal: , Dear Sir: Wjll you kindly allow me spaco in your paper to explain myself on the advisability of conducting a poli tical campaign t As a candidate for the of f iee: of representative on thq Bcpub liean ticket. I made- a campaign before tlio primary election and was nominat ed by both Republicans and Democrats. bow i am asked to contribute to a cam paign fund for election. I do not ob ject to contribufiig, to maintain the party organization, but I do think it entirely wrong to spend money to make a political campaign when our country is in ncod of all ..he funds available to help conduct the war, and to relieve as much as possible the distress among our boys at the front. Oregon is far behind in the fourth liberty bond subscription, and there are surely vjwo more issue to come in the near future, we are all taxed to the straining point and no hope fof relief in si;ht. I therefore suggest that our campaign expenses Be cur .jailed as much as possible and the money be diverted to the Bed Cross fund so the boy. in the trenche9"will get the ben efit of our money. I am informed that Governor Whijyeombe and Senator Mc Nary are not going to make any cam paign. If this b true, I would suggest that Walter Pierce and Os. West terrain from further campaigning and contri bute their expens0 fund to Jhe Bed Criss. Sincerely yours, , - S. A. HUGHES, NEFARIOUS MEASURES. For some months the Oregon Journal published in .Portland by t, S. Jackson of single tax leanings, has been, day in and day out, by direct statement and by inuendo, acensing the country press of Oregon of graft because they navo dared oppose a measure, initiated by Mr. Jackson's money and placed on the ballot of the November 5 election, for prohnbiting the publication of delin quent taxes. Naturally, the country pa pers were , incensed-at. the Journal's treacherous charges, and in their re sentment told their readers of somo un pleasant truths concerning that Port land paper of hermaphroditic tenden cies. Now comes the Journal with its usual whines and says the country press, becauso it has handled C. 8. Jackson a little roughly in its editorials is using Prussian methods. It's just like huu propaganda, whimpers the Journal. - , We are rather surprised at that last tactic,, but verily, the Journal will not stopat anything to make ah impression It can even sit astride the fence and kick both legs at the stfme time; The Journal says the country press ought to use argument to bolster up their contention pf benefits for the maintenance of delinquent publications. Indeed, they have shown how such a system has- been considered indispen- sible ia other states of the Union; how the publication acts-as a stimulus in spurring to tax payment the indiffer ent citisen, who can only be driven io do his duty by the fear of publicity; they have shown how the publication of delinquent taxes is a protection for small home investors who do not re ceive titles to their property until cer tain installments have been met. But naturally the Journal's vilification has caused the emintry press to turn the light of publicity o Sam Jackson and his paper and the light of publicity has Hurt, and thns tne whine bark. The delinquent tax-prodnction bill, in truth, i of minor import in this cam paign. W hue no voter should fail to eonsidef the bill on its merit, he should also go bit further and note how the daily and its ofrvner, of single tax leanings, are trying to gain prestige by securing a majority vote o bill in itiated by that daily and its owner. The anti-delinquent tax bill, on its merits, deserves to be voted down by the peo ple of Oregon. But it should also be voted down as rebuke to a man who would w his sophistries broadcast nd expect to reap a harvest of freak-isms. WIFE "No Beckly is neither common nor vulgar really. Part of it is a pose, and some of it habit No you don't under stand his sort, Buth. But he isn't a bad fellow." - He may not be a bad fellow, but I shall not have him here again. His fa miliarity is disgusting to me. I never Buth did not quite realize it, but had she acted pleased to have Claude Beck ly call her 'Buth,' Brian would have resented it and have been jealous. But the fact that she did resent it that she showed her dislike for Beekly bo plainly, made Brian feel that he could safely have Beckly around when he was with Mollie. He had been most cir cumspect all the evening. Mollie had taken Jior cue from him, and not a word or look had passed between them that could possibly have been constru ed to mean! intimacy. ''Of course no one would believe that I cared anything for Mollie that is, iff any way I ought not," Brian had thought, "but Ruth might imagine things because I have taken Mollie out several times, so I will be caroful.' Buth, knowing nothing of what was passing in Brian's mind, was convinced thatrshe had been uselessly jealous. ''Bfian was lonely" ' she thought. "He only took her out for company, not because he cared particularly for her." and she hugged this idea because it eased her mind. When Buth looked at her one letter, the next morning, at breakfast, she gave a little squeal of delight. . . . ''Oh, Brian, Bachel is coming! She leaves day" after tomorrow. I am 6' glad." Tears of joy came into her eyes. - "Have you told Crawford?'' "Oh, yes, she understands. She has known ever Binto ho has been with us that as soon as Bachel could comb, she was to go. She is going with Mrs. Curtis." ''Urn hope she won't blab all she knows about us." "Why there's nothing to tell, Brian. We don't quarrel, nor gossip about people. What else is there she could say that you would care about?" ' Oh, she might talk about how hard up we were when she first earns to us before you got your job." the sarcas tic tone creeping into his voice as it always did when ho spoko of Ruth's work. -, ''Nonsense! Tou can't understand what having Bachel means to me, Brian. Sho has been with me even since I was a tiny girl, had entire care of mc. It is like having a mother eome to me.'' "Perhaps she will be discontented. She'll find a New York flat very dif ferent from Mrs. Clayborne's planta tion, and being the only servant also some change from a house where thore are so many." Brian could not explain the feeling ho had about Bachel. Yet he wished she wore not coming. Her eyes were very sharp. She idolized Buth, as he knew. He would feel sho was watching him, making sure he was doing all he eould to make Kutn happy. Not that he was n't, but he didn't like the idea of crit icism, especally from a wrvant. "Oh, she'll be happv with me! "Ruth replied. Nothing could make her sad now that Bachel was surely coming. "I hope so! It would be too bad to lose Crawford and then have Bachel want to go back (Monday Buth Hopes Kenyon Roberts Will Influence Brian for His Good.) WOMEN IN WAR INDUSTEIES. Editor Journal: The Oregonian contains a statement today that a conference has been held at the department of labor and Chief Deputy Gram announces that ''employ ment of women in hazardous occupa tions such as saw and planineg mills is not necessary at this time as thousands of men are still employed in' clerical and other light positions." Hundreds of women, many of them in comfortable "coveralls" are employed in. saw and planing mills and box factories and get ting two- to three dollars a day for eight hours. They are rendering val uable and necessay sevice in such em ployment at Salem, Silvereton and. all over the state where there are any of these branches of the lumber industry. If they like this kind of work and pre fer it and are making good on the job what right has the state labor depart ment to bar them from such employ ment, or try to force them to do cler ical work for which many of them have not the necessary preparation f At Salem young women are working in the lumber industry who were stenog raphers and clerks for the simple rea son that they can make twice the wages as patriotic war industry workers that they ever eould get in the. "light po sitions" referred to. As to Such em ployment being hazardous, it is no more so for women than for men, and many s woman has had her finger cut off or her hand mangled splitting wood or working a clothes wringer Have we no longer a free country and is our boasted equal rights for women and men a mythf It would seem so, if our labor oftieiais have their wav. COL. E. HOFER. DEATH OF MBS. FBONKEIGHT Mrs. Eliza J. Krsnkright died"at the home of her daughter. Mrs. C. F. Straw Scollard Station, Friday morning last, SinFaSL 8 ' ft-' "Se4 80 TearsiBn ot St. John,,' besii and 6 davs. t 1 -1- ROSEDALE " -1 Bosedale, Or., Oet. 19. Thomas Crom er and family visited Fred Croacr Sunday." C. A. Bear and family were over from Turner Sunday to visit Mrs, Stroud, who has been sick for few day. School will begin next week. Dorothy Cole, Helen Cammack and Norman Alexander were attending High school in italem until the schools were closed. George Wilde and family returned to Vancouver, Saturday, after helping Cro zer's harvest their prunes. , WEAK STATE EXECUTIVE. (Mcdford Mail Service.) We arc reminded that this is election year and that a general election ia ap proaching by the presence in th city of Walter N. Pierce of La Grande, den-, ocratic candidate for governor, and by the czar-like attempt of that petty par tisian habitual tax-eater, County Clerk ! Gardner, to lwep the democratie nom inee for shoriff off the ticket. Generally speaking politics is ad journed. The war i, absorbing out in terests and our efforts to finance the Liberty loans and various war funds, and make bofti vn'ds meet, leaves but little time or inclination t discuss poli tics. Nationally, we believe in support ing those who will best support the ad- uiiuiairuiiun in maaing tne war a sue- cess Iu state nd local affairs, the condi tions am different National issues do not govern and it becomes merely a question of personality and efficiency in administration. Mr. Pieree has the advantage over Govornor Whitycoinbe in that he is of ' admittedly gubernatorial size. For many years he has bmn prominent in. state affairs. He is known as careful and conservative, a man of poise and judgment ,a plain commonsense man of the people. Govornor Whitycombe, personally a most affabV old gentleman, is badly handicapped by his rocord. His con duct of the state prison, for which he is personally responsible, hag been a continuous record of scandal. Abolish ing the oxcolelnt system his predeces sor installed, he instituted a regime of oppression and cruelty resulting ia mutiny and murder. Then he went to ' the other extreme in lenioncy, with re sulting demoralization. Hi8 flax ex periment proved a costly failure to the ' taxpayers. No appointments ever made by an executive of Oregon have aroused ater Potest than thoso by Governor Whitycombe. He has constantly play ed politics even with the supremif court his latest being to appoint a police court judge .to the supreme bvnch because the latter conducted his personal press bureau in his campaiga for re-election. In Other words, be has used the supreme court to pay off poli tical debts regardless of the fitness of appointees - and tbe same pernicious principles have govern-ed all of hi. dis tribution of patronage. i A t0 the claim that ho deserves re election becauso he happens to bo gov- :, 1 ' c , was ""fared, and is therefore a "war govemoi- .! said that he ha, no part or parcel in the conduct of the war. Ife has of course been loyal, as have the other governors, but. he has inaugurated no regime that has materially helped the people of Ore gon in war preparations Hi3 sofe cre ation, the military police, is an effort to supplant civil authority by an es pccmllv created military branch. here has been a painful lack of ad ministration ability, business efficiency ' and common sense' economy in Governor WithyeombVs .regime that militates his candidacy and Jiressnges defeat Hi spite of the general apathy of the public towards politic. - . Z r"'Unoiiana' and "as born Oc--moved 't18-' In h" arl? ynth K, 7i1CTe ahe ,narricd George C. Kronknght on October 13, 1858 To thbl union five children were born, tie eld vl I M3- Joha Li"eeart, Oneill, Mont tni 5 ronkriKhtr Bosebud, Mon- tl! ?'.egon' with wh0 e lived the short tune she was in Oregon.' J""' K'onkright moved front loa to fcebraska. who o, years. From there they moved to Moa- n T". l el 1i;ed 'ears Prio' to the death of Mr. Kronknght. Sh had been a widow for th. venrs. - . ' er of 21 g'undc.iildrRn Va i.,c great grandchildren. She led a Chris tian hfe and was a member of the Bap tist church Woodburn Independent. DEATH OF OBANDMA fiEGUIN. Bosalie Segain, widow of Int. Antoinc Scguin, died Tuesday morning at 2 o'clock at her horn, in Gervais, aged 83 years. She had been i poor health for many yars, and has had sev eral severe sick snells in t, . ycarr that would seem to be ier last, but she would rallv pr sg of her relates and fri6nds; she tkl end m'nt81 faculties daw She was a native nf Ca j o Oregon in the early sixties and settl ed in Ais section where she has since resided. . She is survived by the following child ren: Ckface Seguin of Gervais, Felix and Henry of St .Paul, and Mr. j- 2 native of 'fSSfst.,''4 Eliza J. Bodgers was a