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t. ...... M, , - A1 . Editorial Base of The Capital Jouma CuAELES B. fXBHSB Editor ul FafeUffew . TCKSOAY EVENING . October 29, 1918 ! i : M J ! t PrBMSHKP EVERY T.VT.STSO EXCEPT SUNDAY, SALEM, OREGON, BY Capital Journal Pig. Co., Inc. K ft. BARNES, Frealdest CBAS H. tlSHEB, Vice-President DOBA C. ANDRESKN Sec. and Im. Dellj by carrier, p jar Daily by Biail, per year .. SUBSCRIPTION RATES 45 00 Per Month 49 3.00 Per Mouth S5c OUT OF SCHOOL LESSONS. PULL LEASED WIBH TELEOBAPH BEPOBT EASTERN KEl'liKSEM AT1VKS D. Ward, Nttr York, Trlbona Btitldlof . Chicago, W. H. Stockweli, Peaple'a Uaa Bulldm Tha Capital Journal carrier boy arc lintmcted to put th papcra on tbe porch. It the carrier don not do thia, nlaaea you, or negleeta getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone tha circulation manager, aa thia la tbe only way we can determine whether r not the earrlera are followiug instructions Phone Main 81 before 1 :ZO o'clock and a paper will be aent you by apetial meaaenirer It the carrier baa aimed you. 1HB DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL ' la tba only newipaper In Saleat wboae circulation la guaranteed by tha Audit Bureau of C'irculatleua IS IT A REAL GUARANTEE? I The latest dispatches from Berlin are to the effect that General Ludendorff has resigned, and the emperor has accepted his resignation. That he was the brains of the German armies. is generally conceded although Hin denburg has posed in that capacity. This is looked upon as a necessary preliminary to further peace negotiations, and may be such. However, it remains to be seen whether , the allies will consider the present German government as anything other than a piece of very thin camouflage. While Dr. Solf speaking for the new government insists it is supreme, there is absolutely nothing to prove this. There has been no meeting of the German people to adopt . a government, arid the present so-called government is the creature of those in authority, the reichstag and the kai ser, yet it is evident the kaiser is still supreme. It is to him General Ludendorff tenders his resignation, and by him that it is accepted. This shows he is still, the head of the government and that it is subject to his will. Should the terms finally offered by the allies, if they are offered, prove too drastic to suit the kaiser is there anything to ' prevent him resuming his full powers, and dictating the course Germany shall take? ' It is noted, too, that in allowing General Ludendorff to resign that the kaiser takes pams to pay him honor by ordering that the old regiment formerly commanded by Ludendorff shall bear his name. It may be the present make-shift government in Germany has some standing with the German people but it is certainly not ot their creation. It was formed under and by direction of tbe kaiser, and must have a more substantial foundation be fore the allies are justified in dealing with it. " It must be known that the kaiser is powerless to set aside any agree ment before any should be made with the dummy gov ernment now representing or claiming tothe German people. . . " .;, ...' .-"r.'--' 1 ." . -' ,- ' ; V "THE PERFECTED HEN", the Oreeons. the pen of biddies entered in the egg-lay ing contest at. Storrs, Connecticut, by Professor Dryden of 0. A. C, has broken all records and carried off the honors in competition with ,000 of the best laying s'trains in me umcea otaies. m nxiy weens uieir recum is'o for the average or 2,278 eggs for the ten hens in that time. The record before that was held by a pen belonging to Obed C. Knight with 2.2G5 eggs in fifty two weeks. The Oregoss have a lead of 13 eggs with two working weeks to go yet. The pen is now 171 eggs ahead of the second pen in the contest. There is no one field of endeavor along food producing lines that has shown such progress as that of poultry and especially of the production of eggs, as the last decade has shown. Under the old plan of raising just chickens, the average yield per hen was small. But a few years ago the estimate was placed at from sixty to eighty eggs to the hen. Professor Dryden's liens have produced more than three times this. True, he has not yet brought the standard of his hens up to that ' of the biddy that laid an egg every day and two on Sun days, but he has increased the output from an average of three eggs in two weeks to two eggs in three days. Yearly, more and more attention is being paid to poultry and it is preeminently right that this is so. For one thing the poul try offers the one speedy remedy for meat shortage, for the supply can be increased indefinitely in six or eight months, while to build up anyother meat production, even that of the prolific porker, is a matter of years. Speaking of partisanship we believe it is absolutely true that not an appointment made by Governor Withy- combe to any place even care-taker of the lawn or barn i i - jmi , i ji a. t a! r . J . J"; nas Deen iwea wim a democrat. ii uie uregoman ana a lot of pin-headed politicians are correct in their criticism of the president for wanting a democratic congress elect ed, then Withycombe, the republican governor of this state, is trying to make out that only the republicans of this state are patriotic. N6 others are appointed to any position, and in fact any recommended for appointment are turned down instantly when it becomes known they are democrats. In a certain eastern city where the serpent flu raised its head, the question of closing the school, as a prevent ative measure, was discussed. Whereupon a school offi cial gravely announced that he doubted the necessity of closing the schools, except in case of the absence of 10 per cent of the pupils. This statement, being given to the press, went broadcast through the city and with what re sult? Was there an absence of ten percent? Can a duck swim? ' : . Judging from the vacant seats the next day, the Ger mans still have something to learn about evacuation. The children cannot be blamed, they took a natural advantage of the stupidity of their elders: For the man himself, the blunder was two-fold. First the failure properly to esti mate the wit of the children for whose welfare he was responsible, and second the-failure to recognize the value of the closed sthool as a means of education. . Putting children out into the light and air as a pre ventive of infection gives them the best idea in the world of the value of these' two great germ-killers. . . Children dismissed from school because disease breeds faster, and is more easily spread in crowds, are learning one of the most valuable lessons in safeguarding the pub lic health. A t A a. J. J a, A A A A A A A A A AAA a. A A TTTTTTTTTTTT TTTf T" jThe 'Wife!; By JANS PHELPS . ; 'BRIAN, TEMPTED, SPENDS THE EVENTNO WITH MOLLIS KINO. EVDD & BUSH, Bankers c.72 receiving subscriptions now LIBERTY BONDS JNo wonder Jf resident Wilson wants a congress in harmony with his administration policies! While he has been forcing the common enemy and has prosecuted a war that has brought the Central Empires almost to their knees in less time than it was generally supposed by the world that it would take to organize for war, republican senators, like Poindexter, Lodge, Sherman, Smoot and Penrose have been seeking to discredit his acts and un dermine his influence with the allied nations. Republican newspapers of the Oregonian stripe which do not think the country is worth saving unless it is ruled bv repub licans, and smi-lunatics like Roosevelt, nave encouraged these senatorsta their campaign of villification and abuse of the president and obstruction of the prosecution of the war. The president has, accordingly, appealed to the people' openly (just as he always does), and has asked them to stand by him in the. elections and sen,d men to congress who will aid in the work of winning the. war and meeting honestly and fairly the problems of recon struction to follow the conclusion of peace. They will do it, too.; ... . ... ;, -if American guns are firing twenty-five miles on" the Meuse'lineso Correspondent Ferguson says in his special cable dispatches to the Capital Journal, today. They are bigger caliber than the boche guns which fired on Pans, so we can well understand why the Germans are not anx ious to have the Yankees get any , nearer their borders. We may not know how to make war, are the "kids" among the allies, but just the same we already have the biggest cannon, strongest airplanes and most effective machine guns ever employed in war. By the, second anniversary of our entrance into the war if it continues America will have the largest effective fighting force on the west ern front. His military advisers and also Teddy Roose velt and Senators Chamberlain, Lodge and Poindexter all told the kaiser that Secretaries Baker and Daniels couldn't do it but they have. Everv resident of Salem, who has business ororoDer- ty interests here, should take out a membership in the Commercial club and take an interest in making it an effective instrument in the advancement of all the nat ural interests of the city. It is doing good work now and is the center of all our civic and war time activities, but it can do much more and become a stronger and much better organization in every respect if all those interest ed in the city's welfare will help. The present campaign for members presents a splendid opportunity for those who have hitherto been identified with the Commercial club to come in and do their part toward making a big ger and better capital city. . :t Governor Withycombe has won fame as a state execu tive, anyway, and should have a permanent place in his tory. His administration has spent more money and cre ated more deficiencies than any other since Oregon was admitted to the union. He ha3 also made a record in the management of the state prison, the soldiers home and flax growing experiment, that the advocates of the gov ernor's re-election are very loath to discuss.-' Henry McGinn says he "now knows President Wil son is a narrow' minded and biased partisan." This, com ing from Henry, calls to mind the old story about the pot calling the kettle a black-face. Everyone who knows Henry is aware that his views are so concentrated that he can look through a keyhole with both eyes at once and never disarrange the focus for either. ... ' Undoubtedly whatever the terms of an armistice may be it is certain to include the withdrawal of all German troops from Russia and Rufania. It should also provide that Trotsky and Lenine be forbidden to leave Russian territory. The Russian people should have some say as to what is to be done with the betrayers of their nation. i i i I, Texas is short of Quinine and so is Mexico. This handicaps the doctors in dealing with the influenza, and in consequence it is spreading rapidly throughout Mexico. At Saltillo 30,000 cases are reported in a population of 70,000. ' By JaiM Phelps. CHAPTER LXX. Life is habit. Nothing more or less. Brian Haekett had formed the habit of considering himself of paramount importanee. His pleasure, hig comfort, his entertainment. 80 that when he vowed to behave himself and eat at homo, "e felt as if he were a martyr like those of old. - That there was no one to appreeiato Ma sacrifice, to toil him how good he was, took all the zest from the action. . He wanted to be patted on the back, not figuratively, but literally. He wanted to hear the 'well done" he felt he deserved. So, altho he wont home to the delicious dinner Euth had or dered and Rachel prepared for him, it was ashes in his moutn. aiu had finished ,ho smoked a eignr. That too did not taste right. Perhaps because Ruth had not lighted-it for him. Then ho tried to read. " Trash 1M he muttered, a9 he turned thejeaves of a late magazine, "How people expect a fellow to spend aid time readiug auch stuff, I can't imag ine." , Finally he decided he would take a walk. That his steps led to the drive, and that a Washington Square bus hap pened that moment to pass him, Was simply a coincident. . It would kill the time to ride down and back. Of course he would not got off the bus. It was a beautiful night and it would be hard to secure a scat. Someway the eigar tastod all , right now, and he puffed away contentedly. When the bus stopped at the end of the route, without any conacidus object in view, almost without volition, he - got down with the rest of the people. i wonder if Molhe is at homeT" ho said to himself, looking in the direc tion of her studio. Of. course, had ho intended to see her, he would have called from the house and found out if she were at home. But no such thought had come to him. iiut now that he was so near it would be a pity not to run in and see her for jnst a few minutes. '.Hello, Uriani" Molhe herself op ened the door. "AIiksIh away again! " the asked with a comical looknd ac cent. ''i'es, went this afternoon. Up state somewhere, Whyt," Oh , when, the cat's away the mouse' will pluy. And look up another mouse to play with him." "Don't fool yourself." Brian re plied smiling at her nonsense. "I only came out tor a rido. I am going right back.- But I thought if you wera in, you might feel hurt if I wore io near and didn't coma in." "You are pleased to be facetious to night." r ' "I follow in your lead, fair lady." 80 they chaffed and laughed with, and at, each other, ' Brian enjoying himself hugely. Once or twice during ing the long, short to' him, hours he spent in the studio, he thought regret fully of Euth. She wag a good girl and he was hardly fair. Especially when he kissed Mollie. But who ceroid help it? Bhe lookod so provokingly pretty with hor big checked apron on, washing' up the- dishca she had made in preparing a welch rarebit for him. - He somehow wished Buth would wear a checked apron and cook thingB for him at midnight. It would bo ter ribly jolly. Then he straightway for got that Buth existed, while Mollie en tertained him with the gossip of the village and her own plans for the com ing fall and winter. It was after ens' o'clock when he rose to go. "I shall have 110 shred of reputation left if you stay so late," she had. said to him. "But it is good to have you." ' "And. it is good to come." Biian really meant it. Mollie had given him just the adulation for which his soul hungered. When he described his lonely dinner with only old Bachel in the house she condoned with him as if he had no dinner at all instead of a delicious one. Who ft he told of the lonely home to which ho was doomed to go, she potted him and told him it was a shame that a domcstie man should have married a Woman who cared noth ing for a home. 80 that when Brian again mounted the bus. he wag in a beatific mood. The time hud , flown, he had been enter-1 tnined, fussed over, praised and con soled. What more eould man askf Ar rived at home, he found Kuth's tohv gram. "If it wasn't so late I'd send her an answer," he yawned sleepily. "I'll do it in the morning, " .then went to bed to dream of Mollie in a -ehecked apron making rarebits which cavorted ail over the table, and which he vainly trid to eatch.' While, in a hotel, Buth tossed and torn Wed, sleepless, wonder ing if he .had received her wire and if he had spnt the evening at home, or wjfh Mollie King. ' Tomorrow Brian and Mollie Are Uuconscions That They Are Watched. Berger And Associates Are Oat Oa Bends Milwauke Wis. Oct. 29. Victor L. Berger socialist and five other Wiacon sinsin wirty leads under indictment bv the federal grand jury ea charge of violations of the enriionage law were to day at liberty following , posting of bonfla with Judge P. A. Geiger I'nited States district court. Burger furnished l6f00 bond and the others $5000. 1 Their trial will probably be held dur ing November, v h " tvisJi it trot hossible fnr erervnttt itikn ( I suffers from constipation to know about Dr. CaldweWs 'Syrup PepstK "'It is pleasant to. the taste, docs not gripe, arid the result is surer ( From a letter to Dr. Caldwell writ ten by Mr. R. Laney, Alexandria, La. Dr. Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin is a com bination of simple laxative herbs with pepsin, pleasant to the taste, gentle in action and posi tive in its effect It relieves constipation quickly, without griping or strain, and is a y standard family, remedy. DR. CALDWELL'S Syrup Pepsin The Perfect Laxative Sold by Druggists Everywhere 50cts.(lZ)$1.00 TRIAL BOTT.E CAN BE OBTAINED. FREt Of CHARQE. BY WRITING TO ' DR. W. B. CALDWELL, 459 WASHINGTON STREET, MONTICELLO, ILLINOIS HMttttHHtOMMtttMMtttMMMMMmH t Rippling Rhy me8 by Walt Mason ItMttttttHIIIIIHtHlttHMHttmttimttMMlim ON THE RUN. The Bulgars, slow and stately, consider haste a crime:; and so it jars them greatly, the way they're making time. There horror on their faces, there's anguish in their souls; they hit the higher places, in search of hiding holes. To men who look on hurry as being tinhorn goods, it brings a lot of worry to hustle to the'woods. I seem te hear them yapping in 'dire distress of mind, 1 hear -their coat tails flappingiid seethe smoke behind.3 The'Turks are lazy critters, they loathe 'all exercise; they are such shirks and quitters they will not swat the flies. They like to sit 'round joshing, in some nice shady spot;; the while their wives take washing, that garlic may be bought But, like the Bulgars, lately, they're bulging for the brush, and oh, it jolts them greatly,-this mad, unseemly rush! No more the foe they're facing they're tired of , that, I guess; they're loping and they're paciner like Dex ter or Maud S. The .words they use are tinting the aif around them blue, as they go sprinting, sprinting, the mountain passes through. Why- doesn't Wilhelm chide them for such indecent haste, denounce them and deride them, for showing such poor taste? He has no heart for preaching to Turks or horse marines; his Huns are alse leaching the world what sprinting means. " . With the British in possession of Aleppo they are getting very near the back door of Constantinople. It is high time the Turk began throwing up his hands and shouting the Turkish equivalent for "kamerad", if there is such an equivalent. News comes from Switzerland" that "Austria's reply to President Wilson's note is ready." This may be con-" sidered a sort of voice from the tombs a national corpse still speaking. . . , Do This Each Morning, You Won't Need Cascarets and uraat exercise! Keeps Stomach, Liver Bowels active. Nothing like it! SnlPnrf;,tr But if you insist upon taking your exercise in an easy chair you simply must take a laxative occasionally. The very, very best laxative is Cascareti 10 cents a box. "They work while you sleep." ' if Breath is Tainte SmS B"-i0US' 9"5tiP"d r night. Wake up next Zr kIiJ J Ch w,' )I,st take a Cascaret never gripe or sukea cLTnTuLl?' ascarrt