Daily capital journal., October 26, 1918, Page EIGHT, Image 8

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THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL. SALEM. OREGON SATURDAY. OCTOBER 26, 1918.
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Somebody's Dollars Will Do It
I Wonder if They'll Be Yours
By Bruci Barton
I WILL tell you what will happen some
night this winter in France. Some
night when its cold and dark. There
will be a rustling through the front line
trench, where our boys stand guard. And
a heavy ladeTied Secretary will make
his way along.
n his hands will be great steaming
pots: in his pocket. chocolate and ciga
rettes. . .
From one man to another he will go,
passing a cup full of hot coffee to hands
that tremble with the cold; bringing the
comfort of a bit of sweet and a smoke.
Men will hail him cheerily. slaDDinei
mm on tne pack: and when he has zone
tnings will be a little easier in that trench
because he has passed that way-
How much will it cost to make that
trip, do you suppose? Counting the
pittance that the Secretary is paid, and
the cost of the chocolate and the ciga.
rettes and all? '
But whether it is five dollars or
twenty-five, I'd like to think that it is
my five or twenty-five wouldn't you?
That some night when it's cold and lone
some, my money and yourt might send a
Secretary out along that frontlinetrench.
Let's make up our minds that we are
going to pay for a score of those trips.
A score of the nights this winter shall be
our nights
nights when the boys greet joy.
ous'.y the chocolate and cigarettes that
our money provided; and are happier
because our representative has passed.
GOVERNOR'S CONTROL
OVER PRlSOfjABSOLUTE
Oder Members Of Board Be
lieve Proposed Budget Is
' Excessive.
United War Work
Campaign
For the Boys in
the Service
Woodkrn Boys Write
From Western Front
(Woiidburn Independent.)
trmnce, Neptomber 17th.
My Pear I'olks: llt'ou a long tiiuo
iiic my lust loiter but the sumo old
r&niixe luddH good, no tinio, and wo have
1 en on the- iiiuvt1. I transferred from
tin? dniiijliboys; made two moves).' wont
ttier the top and a number of other
things 1 in tlie same week, so yon can
ce there lin been no tlmo to throw
- j .
Mave
away. Wo started this lust drive and
I think we did a good job, what do yott
thinkf Talk about your barrage, that
was the biggest ono the war hu9 ever
produced and the way the boys went
over the, top was worth $10,000 of any
body 's money to tee. It was the great
est thing I ever saw.... Fifteen minutes
after we went over prisoners were be
ing sent bark, Tho more I see of this
war the more I think the Bocho will
soon be finished. They are not made
of the stuff that can stand up to the
Aincx. . They arc beginning to realize
,it too. One Hun officer that spoke
j KnglisU told mo that the people were
'nearly worn out and were about rcudy
I to throw up the sponge.. He .said they
now they had no chanco to win. Iherc
I : .V r i-li K... ......
IS bu iimi'ii a nuiuu unu 10 lull H111 vuu-
uot until it is over, which will be be
fore many moons. The civilians were
sure glad to see us coming. The
squareheads had told them the-American
Mi-iny was finished, so when they
Governor Wit by combe has sole au
thority over and responsibility for tho
budget for the state penitentiary, At
torney General Biowu . informed t&c
statu board of control at a aieeting hold
yesterday afternoon to consider the
budgets of state institutions, '
The governor then requested the
secretary of state and state treasurer,
the other two.mcmbers of the boaid, to
volunteer to go over the budget with
him and make recommendations. But
the board did not get very far, because
State Treasurer Kay took decided ex
ceptions t0 the amount placed iu tho,
budget for maintenance.
This amount was $215,000, which
Warden Murphy said was an. increase of
40 per cent over the maintenance cost
of the institution during the last two
j years. Kay declared that it wag an
j increase of 'more than 100 per cent, and
ho wanted more information which
would show the need for such an in
i crease.
Tho total prison budget, as present
ed, is for 4-H,6rrluit the board got
no further tnan tne item tor maniie
nance because when Kay made nis uj
jections to it, Oleott pointed out that
as no one had authority iu. the mattor
but tho governor he did not feel like
going into the various items, lurtner
consideration oy tne ooaiu wus uis
continued, and the governor imu.v
would go over the budget with Warden
Murphy and report the results to the
board.
Warden Murphy insisted that every
item in the budget wis needed, but he
admitted he did not expect all of thein
would bo allowed. He said, however, he
desired to go on record "as asking for
tlenv so if -anything happened as a re
sult of them being disallowed the ro
sponsibility would not bo upon him.
'Taking up the budget for the state
industrial school for girls, the board cut
the total from (112,210 to $52,330. - '
inquest for $1)0,000 for a new cottage
to accommodate 25 girls was eliminat
ed. The item, allowed include $13,080
for salaries; $:$!),00() lor jtiniutonaneo
$1,425 f,r improvements and $2,825 for
lepairs and betterments.
The budget for tho Eastern Oregon
state hospital was allowed in full, the
total amount being $310,700. Thig is
segregated as follows; -::..s, $88,
770jiuuintonance, $173,730; transporta
tion, $7,000 ; library and amusements,
$1,200; improvements, $17,300; repairs,
$22 !H0. - - '; - -''
Tho budget for the Soldiers Home,
which totals $70,965, was allowed, und
in ndditiitn the board will recommend
Increases in salarieg for the officials
whose compensation is fixed by law. '
The budget for the board of control
was approved for $18,000, li.nno.
meeting of the board will be hold Mon
day morning to consider tho budget of
the state training school for boys. Su
perintendent Gilbert of that institution
has been unable to attend board lneot
ig.ii because of the may eases of influ
enza there He haa been ill with the
disease himself.
IT YITT) TP
MUM,
Still Going Strong and
ody Satisfied
Everyb
III I rWl.ni I
Where Battery
"Sherlocks"
Fall Short
"If anybody looks at the outside of your battery and
tries to tell you what's going on inside you're safe as set
ting him down as a faker" says Mr. Degge, local Willard
expert. ;
"Not long ago a patron of one of these battery fortune-tellers
drove up and told me that his plates were all
uilc aiiu lam lie liccuru a new ijtici. x v;uuiu nave dwu
dim one toohe was that certain. ,
"It seems that the son of one of his neighbors had
Innkrrf nt thp hattorv nnd made a wild euess.
"After I inspected the battery I found that it was a
c lear case of undercharging caused by a loose connection.
I added distilled water, charged the battery and had it
"Another man who thought he was a Sherlock
Holmes en batteries fell down because he formed his con
clusion from performance instead of facts inside the bat
tery. This fellow thought his plates were short circuit-
aA fVvof ih Jnoiil'it-inn h iA finA TVia rvsol frniiKld WAS
that he had let his machine lie idle, and had failed to keep
the charge up, so that the plates were so hard that a long
charge was necessary.
"The only way to be safe from these diagnosis sharps
is to disregard their opinions entirely. If you suspect
there is any trouble the best thing to do is to go straight to
an expert who knows how to make the few simple, neces
sary battery tests.
Auto Electric Shop
' DEGGE & BURRELL
413 Court Street Phone 203
mHmtmtttm
Buy Many Automobiles.
During the last two yeara the state
penitentiary lias spent more than $15,
Ooo. for automobiles,, trucks and tuoiv
upkeep, according to figures available
from the state records. This includes
tli? expenditures made in connection
with the flax plant at the prison. It
does not include, however, bills for
gnsnline and oil.
The state has purchased for the peni
tentiary and flux plant lu the last two
years seven automobiles and trucks, at
it cost of $13,240, less $2,940 which was
allowed for machines traded in.
Iu addition to maintaining theso ma
chines, the state also foots the bills for
the upkeep and maintenance of the car
j-.u.ed bv Warden Murphy and another
car owned by Parole Officer Joe Keller,
With the cost of maintaining the
prison under the administration of Gov
ernor Withyconibe mounting higher and
higher, much criticism is being heard
against tho large sums being spent by
the prison management for automobiles
and their upkeep.
saw us coming they thought we Vfere
Frogs, and were sure surmised when
they found out different. We passed
through several piles of stone that
were towns St one time, but for a wall
here and there qud a dugout one would
suppose it was an old quarry or slag
heap. We are just back of where our
front line was but is now nearly in the
S. O. W. The talk is we are due for a
rest. We sure deserve it. I have not
had a letter or postal card, or a pay
ilnv. fur nearlv three months. Can you
beat it ? But 'kicp writing, it will come
I through in tune. Have you heard rrom
Hank yetT trive my love to tne rest.
Your loving son,
ISllr. ROY E. HARPER.
B Co., 1st Kield Bn., Bignat Corps.
From Chas. Demacon t His Mother.
France, Sept. 25.- I have had some
very exciting times since I last wrote
you. I went over tjie top the other
day for the first time. I had seen
ouite a bit of fighting this summer, but
didu 't have a chance to go over. This
time 1 went over the first move and
sure had some time,
We landed in the trenches about 12
o'clock at night. It was raining at the
rate of 2:40. We bad to wait until
darkness to go over. We had to stand
in mud up to our ankles, but didn't
mind that a bit, expecting fun or hell
would start in a little while. We could
hear our big guns booming bark in the
distance and the shells winging over
our head. Some of the fellows would
laugh and says "There goes one for
Frits to dodge."
When we got the, order to go ovor
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THE PAST WEEK has been the largest week's business in my history in Salem. This fact proves beyond a
doubt that the discounts I am making on every article in stock is satisfactory to the buying public. We will ,
continue to keep prices down after moving into our new location (The Imperial Furniture Company's Store). '
We do not make specials to get people into our store and then sell them something else at a much greater
price in' order to break even. AH of our prices are as close as consistent business judgment will permit.
Boy yomf Wimteir
eedls NOW!
Now is the time to Buy your winter needs. Do ycu need a heater? We have them
in all styles Wood, Coal, Combination, Fire Place Heaters, etc. Heaters for every
purpose and prices to suit every purse. See our stock of heaters before buying.
THERE STILL REMAINS A FEW DAYS IN WHICH LIBERAL DISCOUNTS ON ALL FUR
NITURE WILL BE GIVEN
N
YOU GET MORE
FOR YOUR
MONEY AT
MOORE'S
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Al4iiVil''"' ' J
A Carload of New Furni
ture Is on the Way For
Our NewNLocation.
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the top everybody wanted to go ever
first, so it 'didn't take but a momc-it
to be whoro the firoworks were the
prettiest. Lt was a very pretty sight to
see tho shells bursting in tnw ..,
pecially the shells that shoot fire, light
ing up like day. After we had gone a
mile or two we could seo' Huns running
in all directions. They -suro can run.
I saw one run for about two miles and
he didn't stop to look back either.
I wag vory lucky; didn't rfet hurt. A
bit of high explosive shell tore my
blouse shirt and two undershirtg I had
on, but it just took a little skin off of
my shoulder; not enough' to draw
blood, and I got that after we had run
the squareheads for about 11 miles.
I received a lottcr from Gilbert, who
i8 at Camp Lewis, and says he likes it
fine. Of course soldioriug in the states
foot. In tho country we are at present
person has to 'soldier in this country.
Expect I hiked over half of Franco
this summer and saw two-thirds of the
West front, and didn't ride around ip
a Hudson to seo it cither; done it all on
And get peace for all the allies
there are a lot of grapes. They will be
ripe in about ten days. They are not
very good eating grapes more of a
rough compound.
. CHAS. DEMACON.
Hdqrs. Co., 23rd Inf., Amor E. F.
VALLEY HILLS GtT
Conspiracy Of Portland Mills
To Throttle State Industry
Is Defeated.
a bulwark of strength against the A
grafting proclivities of men who de-
sired to loot the public treasury. As a Rfteflrlola Nrtfoe '
legislator his record as a senator has UOSCualc DOieS .
been ono thut tho people of Marion ,
county should take a great pride. AtlsicsiJsitsicjK
tho lust "session of the legislature he I ' ,
stood like a stone wall between the peo
ple and those who were determined to
Lewis J. Hadley and wifo visited their
son, Chester Hadley last week end. Mr.
force the taxpayers to part with their j Hadley preached at the church Sunday.
. Washigton, Oct. 25.- A. widespread
and important effect upon certain
freight rates is expected to result from'
a decision of .tho interstate coini"e -e
commission that the application of tlie
25 per cent increase, recently ordered
by Railway Director McAdoo, to the
Willamette Valley Lumbermens Asso
ciation of Oregon, "is bound .to be rela
tively unreasonable, unjust, unduly
prejudicial" to the extent that it im
poses a rate upon the association in ex
cess of that exacted from" other laci
fic coast groups." .
The appeal of the association to the-j false are his calumiators.
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commission for relief from the increas
ed rate wag directed at tho Southern
Pacific Eailwav company, after it Is
said, tho railroad administration had re
fused to afford it such relief. .
The decision of the commission is the
first it ha9 made with regard to the
new rate.- Several other cases similar
to that (if the association are now pend
ing before it. - ' .
The contention of the association was
that tlie increased rate was. being ap
plied to concerns using railroad frelgut
lines irrespective of the fact that some
of them were alrendy paying higher
rates taan otuers previous 10 tne aic-
Adoo order. The association also claim
ed that the 2o per cent increase virtu-
illy boosted the increased rate it was
forced to pay to the Southern Pacific 40
per cent when its rate .was compared
with that exacted fronr other . Pacific
coast groups.
This decision is considered a victory
for tho Willamette valley mills in their
plea to be included in the same freight
rate group as other lumber produc
ing sections of the northwest on ship
ments consigned to the territory adja
cent to St. Paul and Minnesota on lines
of the Great Northern Northern Pacific
and Milwaukee railways. The situation
was complicated by the recent appaca
tion of the 25 per cent horizontal Increase.
A WORD ABOUT MB. LATOLLETT.
hard-earned money. Every taxpayer
who values tho efforts of an honest .and
trustworthy legislator should support
him regardless of polities.
Tho taxpayers' bunions have becomo
of such a character that they should
not hesitato to vote pr a man who has
tho courage and ability to secure laws
that will not tax them unnecessarily.
In this contest tho "Taxpayers" will
bo up against LaFollett. The taxpay
ers and those who are in favor' of good
government willsbe for him.
Mr. LaFollett has lived in Marion
county for 08 years. His public and
privato life is an open book. He is
very different from his traduccrs. He
docs not live in a glass house that is so
transparent as to show how untrue aud
Chester Hadley and family motored
to Portland Monday afternoon taking:
his father nnd mother ome.
Mrs. Alico Cook as returned from
Hoquiam, Wash., where she has been
visiting her sister.
Mis. C. Bloom and Mrs. Irwin visited
Mrs. Krebs; who is very sick in the hos
pital in Portland last Tuoday.
Mr. A. E. Kiser visited in town on
Tuesday.'
AURORA DRUGGIST DIES.
Not a public or private act of Mr.
Tho sad news reached Woodburn that
Will Nibler, the Aurora druggist, after
a week's attack of Spanish influenza,
died at his homo yesterday morning at
7 o'clock aged 28 years. He Was a
son of Frank Nibler of Gervais, and
leaves a wife, child, a father. thre
; " u cnuciseu. iu brothers and five sisters. Mrs. Nibler
his public life it has been such to ha, aieo been critically ill, but is much
commend him to all right-thinkmg eiti- better at this writing. Mr. Nibler was
zens. In lug private life it has been wUh joUnson & Shorcy for awlile ,in
one that all our people could emulate, this Hty. and was very popular Here.
Alex LaFollett 1, , a man among men, When he purchMed the iiug business
with high and lofty ideals of good gov-.iu Aurora he left fc frf ds
, Uicr n here .ho Billcercly t heari f
for the best interests of tho. country, m. j..-.:.. Tll f' , rin k
Friday and interment will be in Ger-
As a farmer and legislator he stands in
the cliiss of honest men and will receive
the support and good will of the people
of Marion county. .
Turner Tribune.
vaig cemetery.
JOURNAL WANT ADS PAf
For Studebaker and Hudson Owners
.Hon. Alex LaFollett, who is a candi
date for state senator from Marion
couutr at the coming election in No
vember, is entitled to the support of
all true and tried men who believe in
honestr and integrity and in assisting
men who have stood by the people when'
it "was proper to d,o to to protect them
from persons and interests that would
deal with' them unfairly.
Mr. TFnllett has at alt time, been
(liberal when it was necessary for the
'public good to be so, but he has been
VICE
We have experienced men to care for
Studebaker and Hudson owners and will
give you the best of service.
This service will fill a long felt want and
should be appreciated by owners of the
above cars.
Valley Motor Go.
Front and State Sts., Elbert Thompson, Mgr,
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