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October 19, 19J8
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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
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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.
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ROSEDALE
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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