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BETTER PREPARED FOR PEACE.
When the United States congress declared war
ajgainst Germany, we were strikingly unprepared for war,
We had to build 'our war establishment almost from the
ground up. And, on the whole; we did pretty well, as all
the world agrees foreigners, oddly enough, agreeing to
it rather more readily than we ourselves. In a period sur
prisingly short, considering what had to be done, we put
ourselves on so sound and effective war basis that We put
Germany out of the war business.
Now comes peace, and there rises a chorus of lamen
tation over our unpreparedness for it. To this Richard
Spillane, editor of Commerce and Finance, sensibly re
plies j '
"America is vastly better prepared for peace than
it was for war." !
This is a fact that the pessimists have overlooked.
During the war we have not only developed our industries
phenomenally, but we have built up, as part of our war
machine, a great, national system of business machinery
which can.be applied and is now being applied, to the
purposes of peace. , ,
Never were American business brains .so thoroughly
organized, and working in such effective co-operation, as
they are today. Consider what the War Industries Board,
acting in conjunction with strictly governmental agen
cies, has accomplished during the war. It can accomplish
just as much now in shifting American industry, com
merce and finance to a peace basis, with the active help
of the government.
"Those who are worrying now about af ter-tbe-war
conditions," says the expert quoted above, -'those who are
fearing trouble in weaving back into industry the millions
of men we have in the army and navy, losing sleep over
fear of wages being reduced, imagining all sorts of distur
bances, are as certain to be confounded in their fears as
were those who saw disaster in the world-war."
He is very likely right in maintaining that the Amer
ican people's present problem is one of preparing, not
for contraction in business, but for very great expan
sion in business. There is little danger of over-estimating
the prosperity that will soon come to the nation if we con
fidently make ready for a successful peace as we made
ready for a successful war.
There is a great era of prosperity looming just ahead
in this country, but first of all must come the re-adjustment
from the war basis to a legitimate peace standard.
All living costs must come down at least 50 per cent be'
fore we can go full steam ahead with business expansion
and national development.
RIPPLING
By Walt
GOOD
The rain is falling as I write, the cold November rain;
it is a black and cheerless night, and tomcats on my tin
roof fight, and make a noise insane. The rain is pelting,
pelting down, I hear it splash and beat; and I'm unwise to
. wear a frown and rend my spangled dressing gown this
rain will help the wheat. AH things unpleasant do us good,
so all the sages say; instead of using steaks for food we
ought to make a stew of wood, or boil some prairie hay.
To teeter in a chair and rock is pleasant, I must say; but
all the doctors come and knock and say we ought to go
and walk a hundred miles a day. If there is something we
despise, that is the stuff we need; we hate to swat the
sillv flies, but in that task, our safetv lies, so runs the
health board's screed. We all
us pale "and thin; and while we pay the doctors' bills we
know there's nothing to their pills unless they taste like
fin. Sometimes I think that life's a fake, a rather sorry
2ng down the door, like water gone to seed; it grieves my
jest; my spirit feels a throbbing ache, for everything 1
ought to take is something I detest. The rain is stream
heart, it makes me sore, and, since it is a beastly bore, I
know it's what we need.
OREGON
SUBSCRIPTION BATES
s.1.flo Per Month...'. .....45e
Per Month
35c
TELEGRAPH BEPORT
RHYMES
Mason
FOR US.
are liable to ills which make
THE DAIRY
', There is plenty of wheat now available. . There is
plenty of almost everything in this country except dairy
products milk, butter and
over the world. , .'
une great reason lor
countries so many dairy animals were slaughtered, part
ly because their meat was immediately wanted for food,
partly because their pasturage was destroyed by war,
and they could only be "Hooverized" by being eaten.
There is a loss of cattle in France of 17 per cent; in
Italy of 14 per cent; no loss, it is cheerful to state, in the
United Kingdom. But o sheep and goats, on which so
much dependence is placed in these countries for food,
there is a loss in France of 41 per. cent, or nearly half;
Italy, 1 per cent; United Kingdom, 10 per cent. '.The short
age of pigs is more serious. France shows a loss of 49
per cent; Italy 12 1-2 per cent; United Kingdom, 25 per
cent. The shortage of horses and mules, which count for
the working of farms, in France is 37 1-2 per cent; Italy,
25 per cent.
"It is highly important that the herds be restored as
soon as possible," says Dr. Vernqn Kellogg of the Food
Administration. "This can be done most effectively by
larger importations of" meat and pork products from
America to lessen the slaughtering of native animals.''
But the dangers of dairy shortages in ravaged coun
tries are found not in immediate starvation, but in the
menace of tuberculosis. The half -fed, people need milk,
butter and cheese in greater quantities as they begin to
do the greater work of reconstruction.
The Portland Chamber of Commerce 'wants the gov
ernment to continue building wooden ships at that city,
and has induced the governor of the state to wire the
president to that effect. At the same time the Oregonian
and Telegram print figures compiled by Former Senator
Jonathan Bourne for the purpose of showing how the ad
ministration is wasting billions on war Work. To put it
mildly the .Portland papers are illogical,- or it may be
they are just seeking to trick the government into a con
tinuance of the present wasteful ship-building policy in
order to have grounds for abusing those in charge of the
yaribus war activities when it suits their, pleasure to do
so. rortiand , ought to have permanent industrial inters
ests in order to prosper as a city, but it should not beg the
government tor charity. The wooden ships cost two or
three times as much as they should, most of them are un-
seaworthy when launched, and
for them now that the emergency of war has passed.
Why should they continue to
the nation at large f If Portland wants a ship building
industry let her cet awav from the f ake buildine oper
ations of war and build real
which the legitimate commerce of the sea will stand. The
continuation of Portland's
pends, not on the government subsidy, but upon the en
terprise and business ability of her capitalists---which,
judging the city by its past record, means that it will
end when the government pap is withdrawn.
The most important thing for Salem to do now is to
build up the membership and influence of the Commercial
club, and put the organization on its pre-war efficiency
basis. We almost had a flax
cated here when the demands of war halted every new en
terprise of this character, and now. we ought to take up
that work where it was dropped. Then there is the develop
ment of our fruit interests, growing, canning, evaporating,
packing, and the great loganberry juice industry that is
making Salem as world-wide
was because of a certain beverage that came from that
city. From every standpoint Salem's future is extremely
bright if our people are awake to their opportunities, and
we ought to have a population of 50,000 before another
ten years pass.
You can legally and patriotically buy all the Christ
mas presents you want to give away, and have the money
to pay for. The bans on shopping hate been lifted, ex
cept that thfemost important regulation remains. "Do
your Christmas shopping early."
iwu &uuu items ui news
released the prunes, allowing
And the nronosed 20 ner cent
t- j A - "
is not likely to be enacted.
After all its a pretty risky thing for the president to
leave the country when congress is in session. Even the
congressmen realize this fact as their objection to his
trip indicates.
Anyway the Germans will be severely punished if
we supply them with foodstuffs at the same price Amer
icans are forced to pay. v
The official or board that seeks to regulate the price
or distribution of food, fuel or other necessities of life is
fast becoming a joke.
When German imperialists planted the seeds of anar
chy in Russia they never reckoned on the harvest they
would reap.
SHORTAGE.
cheese. These are short all
-
this is that in the warring
the government has no use
be built at the expense of
boats for, service, at prices
shipbuilding undoubtedly de
mill, possibly two of them, lo
famous as Milwaukee once
wuiay nie guvexmiieui, uxo
private buyers to take them.
war tax on loranberrv iuice
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THE WIFE
By Jans Phelps.
RTJTH'S EMPLOYER END3 HER
FLOWERS.
CHAPTER XCVIIL
They had reached the apartment at
last, Ruth had almost run the last few
steps, so anxious was she to rid her
self off her unwelcome guest. But even
at tho door he detained her with a
question:
"Aren't you going to sk mo int"
"No you .will pardon me, bnt I
wish to be alone." She was absolutely
catcless that she might offend him.
Ho was so distasteful to her, always
"ratio been. And now he had made her
so uneasy by talking of war of Brian
enlisting because Moilie wanted him
to. " Why should she intoiest herself
in Brian to such an extent, unless it
wore to get him away from mef" The
thought same to Kuth that thic and this
only could bo Mollie's reason. ,
"Don't lot yourself get sick over
Brinn-and Moilie,' 'Claude said as he
turned to go, "there arc as good fish
in the sea as ever have been caught."
his glance suggested himself as one of
tho finny tribe, one of the "zood
fish."
Ruth sighed with relief when she at
last gained her apartent and had
closed the door. She was not quite sure
but that, in spite of his dismissal,
Claudo Beekly would follow hor.
rno fool!" she exclaimed as she
laid off her hat, and made herself com
fortable. Then she took the paper and reli
giously rend every word connected
with tho war. Things did look badly.
but we were a"ncutral country. Surely
we would not fight. The Germans were
too clever to givo us any reason suffi
cient to make us join the Allies. vSo
Ruth thought, and o many others also
thought at that time. Yet an she read
of the devastation of Belgium, sho too
found her blood running faster, hor
heart beating more quickly as the
s'tory of Hun cruelty to innocent men,
womon and children was unfoldod be
fore her. v .
'It must be exaggerated," she said
aloud, shuddering over some particular
ly atrocious act committed against a
child. "No human being could do
fucIi things." She had still to realize
that the Hun is not humnn in our inter
pretation of the term. That from the
beginning his inhumanity has. been in
grained in him. . :
'"Would Brian go iff" she asked
herself tho question and at' once gho
know the answCr, Ho would go, and
she would not want to refuse. But she
did not, want Moilie King to Inter
fere or itci influence him in any way.
She had some tea and toast at noon,
then " yielding to Rachel's entreaties,
she lay down. She slept almost imme-
liately" and dreamed that Arthur Man-
del and Brinn went to wor, and that
Moilie King went with them. That
Mandeil killed Brian. Just then jshe
woke up to rcalizo that the door bell
was ringing " furiously.' Rachol had
gone to market sure her mistross would
not be disturbed.
turbed.
Ruth opened the door and took a
large box of flowers from the impa
tient messenger boy.
"I so been ringing for fivo minu
tes, " he grumbled.
"who could havo sent her the flow
ersf" ' ,
She opened the box and a card lay on
tho top of 'the tissue paper which cov
ered tho delicate roses.
"Rest a day or two if you like. We
will get along without you until you,
are able '-to rdturn." It was signed
in as formal a manner as the note was
written; yet Buth blushed as she lift
ed the roses, and wished her employer
would not do so much for her. "Ar
thur Mandol," she read the' name
aloud. Then added whimsically, shak
ing the immense bunch of roses at an
imaginary person," xcu aro too good
to me! I wish Brian" then she
stopped as she always did whon tempt-
d to wish thnt tfnan was more like
her employer in some things.
What should she do with the flow
ers. Brian was already jealous of Man
del. That it was without cause made
no difference: ho was unhappy, evident
ly over tho fact that Mandel was kind
to hor. The formal noto would appear
to obviate thought of any sort of inti
macy, but linan Was unreasonable. He
might not like it if he knew where
they came from.
Kuth nesitatoa a Bioment. Then
with compressed lips she arranged the
flowers arttistifallv and laid the card
conspieulously on tho living room table
where Brian would be sure to see it.
She would not insult him by even thin
king he would accuse her in his
thoughts. She did not believe that
Brian had for a single moment be
lieved any of the cruel things he had
an id. Ho was cross because she had
not wired him, and because she had
made him feel at fault in not coming
home. I
Then while she waited for him she
forgot the 'flowers and her employer.
Hor thoughts again bnsy with what
she had read Of war, and wlat Claude
Meekly had said about Moilie urging
him to go if we were compelled to
fight.
"Pshaw! It's only a shadow," she
Aid just as Brian come in. j
. (Monday Brian is convinced Ameri
ca will have to fight.)
WARSHIPS USED AS TRANSPORTS
London, Nov. "9 American warships
will be uod to transport troops to the
Cnited States, it was reported today.
It , was also reported that Admiral
Rodman 's squadron will meet President
Wilson in the English channel Decem
ber 9.
DELATIONS FROM
Continued from page one)
guard and other functionaries, and it
was obvious to both of ixi, from" the
icool politeness and studied detachment
with which we were everywhere le
ceived, that the verdict ad already gone
agains us, and that the kaiser's sate
lites, who merely echoed the war lord's
opinions, were satisfied that Bupprecht
was to be deprived of his eommanu and
disgraced. The fact that the kaiser had
made no proper provision for our re
ception pointed unmistakably in this
direction; with the result that we were
boycotted Or cold-shouldered in every
direction.
The effect of this treatment upon
the prince was soon made apparent. He
assumed a sternness and a hauteur that
soon set the gossips of Berlin and oa
varia a rumor that he did nothing to
set at rest. "Bavaria" he said to me
one night when dining incognito at one
of the most fashionable restaurants in
Berlin, "Bavaria is a "sovereign in
dependent state, whose peoplo will fol
low their rulers. And if those rulers
elect to withdraw from the present con
flict so much the worse for Prussia!"
But though the words traveled far
and wide, they succeeded not a whit in
cooling the feeling towards ns, and, but
for the wcleomo extended to us by two
residents of Berlin, we might havo been
niniost strangers in tho city, Of whose
hospitality the kaiser was wont to!
boast in almost every spoech lie made.
By a strange irony tho first Of those
residents was none other than the crown
prince of Germany himself, who, sent
for in hot haste by tho kaiser, after
one of his innumernblo escapades, was
now cooling his heels in Berlin, penii
ing the return of his father.
The Crown Prince in Trouble
Littlo 'Willie, had welcomed us with the
vociferous and almost boisterous gonial
ity that he could assume so woli when
it suited his purpose.
''We Bhould be friends," he told tho
Prince Itupprecht, wringing his hand
heartily "close friends. We have the
same enemies, and onght to net togeth
er. The same people who poisou inj
father's mind against me, take care to
set him against you also. Wo must
take steps to have them removod. Pots
dam and tho marble palace want a new
broom badly. The kaiser is proving un
equal to the strain of war, and ho must
be made to listen to younger men, who
are the moro in touch with events. If
needs be, he must bo compelled. You
and I can do it. You' have Bavaria
behind you, and I alt Berlin and half
Germany" and he went on in the boast
ful strain, he so constantly assumes. di
lating at length on his hold on the!
peopio. : -
Prince Rupprecht listened to this out
burst with the cold and restrained hau
teur which he has so often assumed
that it has become part of his nature.
That he was greatly surprised, I . do
not suppose. It is, of T-ourse, well
known that Little Wille and his father
have been for months, nay years, at
each other's throats, and have not hesi
tated to uso tho most envenomed weap
ons against each othor. More than
onco tho kaiser has been actually in
danger of losing his throne to the mad
cap son, who has tried him beyond en
duranco, but whose popularity, strange
and inexplicable as it is, renders him
too powerful to bo summarily dealt
with. For the crown prince has suc
ceeded in convincing huge masses of
the German pooplo that the kaiser, and
the "old gang" have robbed them of
victory, and that, had matters been left
in his hands, all would have been well.
The kaiser, on his part, while longing
to wound, is yet afraid to strike at the
idol of the people,
An iivil Fate.
To those who know the Hohenzollerns
there is nothing new or strange about
this. An evil fate has pursued tho dy
nasty ever since the earliest days. Fred
trick the Great was sentenced "to death
by his own father, and lived to speak
of his nephew and successor with scarce
ly disguised'eontempt. The kaiser him
self was at varianco with his prede
cessor, Frederick, the Noble, who in his
turn had been ruthlessly thrust aside
by Bismarck and the king. From tho
earliest dnwil of the dynosty down to
our own day, tho houso of Hohonzollern
has been riven by hatred, intrigues and
treachery.
Hence, the crown prince's speech
caused little surprise, and Prince Hup
precht accepted with avidity an invita
tion to dine with him that evening, an
evening that, as it happened, was des
tined to be fruitful of remarkable de
velopments, and which I do not think
I shall ever cease to remember.
1'or one thing the contrast let ween
tho two men was remarkable. Tho
crown prince was, as is his wont, truc
ulent, loud-voiced, and . imperkus.
Prince Bupprecht was taciturn and sar-j
dome, listening to the other 's glowing
periods with a calm scepticism that 1
speedily detected. .
"We young men," little Willie said,
"shffuld learn to trust, and know eacii
other and act together. It is true, as
I have told yon, ttov the kaiser must
be made to adopt ino vigorous meth
ods, or to make way for more vigorous
men." He drained his glass, and then
struck the table with his clenched fist.
"It is time we acted," he said. "The
people are sick with the sickness Of
hope deferred. They have been led to
expect an early victory, and that ean
rtot be secured for them unless and un
til the kaiser listens to reason. We
need a more vigorous submarine pol
icy" which he outlined, adding: "Gad!
If you and I had control over the Ger
man war machine we would have Eu
rope at our feet within six months."
"But as we have not," snid Bup
precht, calmly, "What, therefore, do
you proposer"
Willie 'I Plot
The crown prince Sunk hi- voice to
a whisper. "To supplant the kaiser,"
he said. "Already peoplo are-beginning
t0 realize that ho and his adviterr
are effete. Half the army are on my
side. Let Bavaria como ocer to us,"
and he slapped Bupprecht on the shoul
der, "and we shall be masters of the)
situation and .able to dictate terms."
' "Whatever other details the crowa
prince had then in big mind concerning
this plot against his father, we were
not to learn them that evening, for but
a moment or so later he was interrup
ted. Baroness Elsa Baronin Schwoirin,
one of the many ladies at Whom he hai
set his cap, joined tho party, whose Bo
hemian character became now so ob
vious as to make tho discussion of any-:
thing like high politics out of the ques
tion. Tho Baroness was a witty and vi
vacious companion, who had attracted
the crown prince's attention while stiH
a member of the corps de ballet, and
though tho first bloom of her youth;
had passed, she possessed a charm of
manner and a natural distinction .that
obviously impressed both of .their royal
highnesses. For the moment they for
got tho troubles of the German empire
and ceased to part the kaiser 'g gar
ment. Both laid themselves out t
pleaso tho baroness, who; quick-witted
and entortaining, was in welcome con
trast to the ordinary, heavy, and some
what uncouth German woman. Fast anS
freely did the champagne flow, and
one mad joke' and wild Btory succeeded
another. Every chnracter in German ,
political life was satirized and brought
beneath tho acrid wit of the crowa
prince, who did not sparo either friend (
or foe in his vehement outpouring ot
scandal.
That was by no means the last I saw
of Baroness Elsa Sehweirin.- For the
next few days Rupprecht devoted the"
whole of his thoughts, time, and energy
to the pursuit of the woman, who ha8.
tfust so strong a spell ofer his affection
that he seemed incnpablo of shaking
off an alloglanco ahat I realized might
easily bo fatal. .
Gone was the recollection of slight
he had endured atfftho hands of the
Prussians who had snubbed us so ..
ily when we arrived at Berlin.
Gouo was his indignation at tho kais
er rebuke; his letters from the front
wcro unopened, hig business as a com
mander neglected. Ho lived, thought,
and worked only for the ex-ballet girl, .
in whose hands ho soon became as put-
The Prince akd the Ex-Ballet Girl
Rupprecht loaded her with jewols and
lavished presents upon hor. The pas
sion that had soized him became one .
of- the standing jokes of the cafos of
Berlin, whose wits : and. gossips; loved
to dilate on this victory over the Ba
varian crown prince.
But there was one person in Berlin :
who- certainly did not relish tho tura
events had taken, and that was tho
crown prince.
In the first place, ' ' Little Willie''"
bitterly resented the fact that his old
flame had encouraged Rupprocht'g ad
vances, because it hurt his vanity.
Secondly, the intimacy botween the
two was fraught with danger to him
self. For the baroness was a wuinna
of keen political ambitions and unus- .
nnl intelligent), and thero could be ne
deubt that some of the secrets of the
crown prince that sho hud in her keep
ing would, if disclosed to his frionil.
Rupprecht, prove awkWnrd weapons in '
the hands of the laltor.
Hence, "Littlo Willie" as I soon r.er
ceived, set himself to the task of end
ing romance that, had it matured
might have introduced some clement ot
softness and humanity into the iroa
soul of tho Bavarian chief. He dii
this with characteristic subtlety.
Affcctin to encourage bolh Kup
precht and the woman in their liaison,
ho yet left no stone unturned to intei
cst them both in tho .grand plot that
he was hatching agRinst his father, the
kaiser. Ho even promised tho bar
onOss that, should he succeed, a hand- ;
same state pension should be hers, While
to placato Rupprecht tho position of :
Bavaria in the German scheme ol
things was to bo entirely altered, and.
after Prussia, that country, was to be
come the most important in tho whole
of the federation.
(To be continued.)
scons mis nms
(Capital Journal Special Service)
Scotts Mills, Or., Nov. 3(1 Our school
recommenced Monday. Tho influenza
scare being about over. Thero are some
of the pupils out of school on account
of having the mumps.
('. A. Phillips was quite sick last
week and was.taken to Salem for treat
nWnt. ' We have iot heard since as te
his condition.
Mr. and Mrs. J, A. Taylor made a
hurried trip to Newber glast Tuesday.
tteiurning in tho evening.
. Thanksgiving scvices were held at
the Friends church, Rev. Harris gave
the message.
Mr. and lira. D. D, Coulson and fit
tic son, David, motored over from New
berg to take Thanksgiving dinner at
tho J. E. Coulson home.
Ret. and Mrs. Harris tJSok dinner
with Mr. and Mrs. W. L. .Taylor oa
Thanksgiving day. .
Enid Lamb is home for Thanksgiving
from Eugene where she is attending
school at the University.
The work at the prune association's
packing plant is progressing well. Can
arc being packed and sent out from
Mt. Angel almost every day.
George Kellog who is attending
school at Corvallig is home for Thanks
giving. Miss Lnla tnle has again commenfei
her school which has been closed for
some time on account of the influenza.
Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Brougher hai
quite a family "reunion on Thanksgiv
ing day.
- Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Taylor and Ren
Williams took Thanksgiving dinner at
the L. C. Russell home.