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PAGE SIX THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL, SALEM, OREGON. MONDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1918. 3 tL r- f 1 . t -A BE ON IIAND MONDAY MORNING BEFORE THE CROWD RUSHES IN AND GET SOME OF THE GREAT BARGAINS WE ARE OFFERING. WE ARE GOING TO CLOSE OUT PRACTICALLY OURENTIRE STOCK BEFORE WE INVOICE THE FIRST OF THE EAR. PROFITS ARE NO OBJECT. WE MUST SELL GOODS. DO NOT FAIL TO TAKE AD VANTAGE OF THIS GREAT SACRIFICE. PRICES THAT-WILL BRING CROWDS TO THIS STORE. 100 pairs Men's Lace Gun Metal Shoes, regular $8 values, go at 60 pairs Men's Dayton Loggers, regular $10 to $12 values, go at .... 75 pairs Men's Dayton 16-in. high top boots, $11 values go at 60 pairs Men's Dayton 12-in. high top boots, $10 values go at 200 pairs Ladies' Dress Shoes, but ton and lace, $6 and $7 values go at $4.95 $6.95 $7.95 $6.95 $3.95 65c, 75c, and 95c 1000 pairs Men's, Women's and children's Tennis Shoes, black and white, go at ., . 200 pairs Men's House Slippers, " gA" cents to $2.65 500 pairs Ladies' House Slippers, ' felt, comfy and leather soles, reg- nC .J- - M OC ular $1.50 to $3.50 ................1.:... .. 50 CCIUS tO $1.90 200 pairs Children's House Slippers felt, comfy and leather soles $1.00 to $2.00 grades : ......L..:..:.:. i 65 cents to 95c 60 pairs Men's Rubber Boots, $5.00 grades, whilejhey last go at 200 pairs Men's Work Shoes, tan and black, regular $6 and $7 grades go at ., 300 pairs Ladies' Party Slippers, $4 and $5 grades, broken sizes, go at 200 pair Boys' High Top Boots, tan and black, all sizes 11 to 2, at $3.95? 2 to 5 at $3.95 $3.95 $2.95 $4.95 I ALL CHILDREN'S AND BOYS' DRESS SHOES AT SUBSTANTIAL DISCOUNTS. ALL DRESS SHOES, BOT HMEN'S AND WOMEN'S, TO GO AT SPECIAL PRICES. NOTHING RE SERVED EXCEPTING HANAN SHOES AND RUBBER GOODS. I Rubber Heel Day Each Wednesday, We Put On Reg 50c New, Live Rubber Heels for HalfPrice, 25 cents J H anan Shoes . - Selfey Slices Fox Paffty Pumps 4- '- Jflir. itch Elk Boots all Band Boots AS Oil ':'' ! " f: 326 STATE ST., NEXT TO LADD AND BUSH BANtf V DECLAR binds--- DUTYTO ATTEND PEACECONCLAVE (Continued from page three) which ig worthy of your most friendly attention. Control of Shipping I have spoken if the control which must yet for a while, ovrli ajs for long whiln, lie exorcised over shipping , .because of the 'priority of service to which our fnrcca overseas arc entitled, unit which should also be accorded to shipment which are to wne recently liberated peoples from itarvation and many devastated region fiom perma nent ruin. Ality 1 not say a special word about tho' needs of U( Igiiim and northern iFrnncef No sums of money paid by way of indemnity will eo-rvo to themselves to save them from hope less disadvantage for years to conic, Something more niu.it be done than merely find the money, they had money and raw material! in abundance tomorrow, they could not resume their place in tho industry of the world to morrowthe Very 'important place they held before the flume of war swept across them. Mjiny of their, fnc toiic am la.ed to the ground. .Muck f their machinery in destroyed or has been taken away. Their people are Mat tered and many of their best workmen are dead. Their markets.will be taken toy others, if they are not in some spe cial way assisted to rebuild their fac tories and repluee tht"r lost instru ment of manufacture. They should not e left to tho vicissitude of the sharp soinpctitiun for materials mid for in dustrial facilities which is now set in. I bupc, therefore, thht tao congress will not be unwilling, if it should be oine necessary, to grant to some such geucy as tho war trade board tho right to establish priorities of export and supply for the benefit of these people whom w have been o happy to Jwist in saving from the (eruian ter ror and whom we must not row thought letwly leave to shift for themselves in a- pitijess competitive market. AVOID COUGHS AND CGUGHERS Your health and society detnand that you take something for that eough. Coughing spreads disease. Good, old, reliable HH1LOH Is guaranteed to re lieve the worst cough ia 84 hours. . SIIILOII fes Cous Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief BELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION Dotermiue Taxes Immediately For tho steadying and facilitation of our own domestic business readjust ments nothing is more important than tho immediate detcrnucaticn of tho tnxes that are to bo levied for 191H, liHtf and llt'.'D. As much of tho burden of the taxivtioii must bo lifted from business and ound uieth.ids of financ ing tho government will 1 erniit and those who conduct the greatest indus tries of tho country inns', bo toul lis exactly as1 iwssiblo what obligations to tho government they will to expected to meet in the venrs immediately ahoad of them. It will bo 01 ferious conso uuences to the country U delay remov al of II uncertainties in thisj, matter a singlo day longer than tho right pro cesses of debate justify. It is idle to talk of successful and confident bus iness reconstruction before those uu cextaintiee are resolved. If tho war had continued it wOuld have been necessary to raise. nt least eight billion dollars by taxation pay able in the year llt; but the war has ended nud 1 rei with the' secretary of the treasury that it will be .safe to reduce the amount to six billions. An immediate rapid decline in the, ex penses of the government is not to be looked for. l.'uutracts made for war supplies will, indeed, be rapidly can celled and liquidated but their immedi ate liquidation will make hea'vy drains on the treasury for the months just ahead of us. Tho maintenance of our forces on the other side of the sea is still necessary. A considerable propor tion of those force must remain in Kurope during the period of occupation and those which ere brought home will be trnnsjHirted and demobilised at heavy cxpeuse for month to eome. The interest on our wur debt must, of course, be paid and provision made for the retirement of the obliysiions of tho government which represent it. But, these demands will of course fall much below what a continuation f the mili tary operation "would hnve entailed and six; billions should suffiee to tfip ply sound foundation for the finan cial eperwtious of the year. T entirely concur with the s-eretarj of the treamry in reeonimtrding that the two billion needed iir adduion to the four billiond nrovtded hv nvitincr law be obtained from the p'ofits which j have accrued and shall accrue from nrr contracts and distinctly war business, but that these taxes he confined tn the war profits accruing hi UJ1S, or ia. liUtfJ railroads and for the public ture, Not Equal to Tasks Exceptional circumstances and excep tional methods' of administiation were net needed to convince us that the mil roiuls were not equal to the immense tiiskg of transportation impogod upon them by the rapid and continuous de velopment of s the industiies of the country. We anew that already. And we knew that they were unequal to it partly because their full cooperation was rendered . impossible by law and their competition made obligatory, so that it has been impossible to assign to them severally, the traffic which could bett be carried by their respect ive lines in tho interest of expedition and national Economy,. We may h;pe, I believe for the for mal conclusion of the war by treaty by the time spring "has come. Tho twen ty one months to which tho present control of the railways is limited after formal proclamation of the peace shall havo been made will ruu at the far thest, I take it for granted only to the January of 1921. The full equipment of the railways which, the federal ad ministration planned could r.ot be com pleted within any such period. The present law does not permit tho use of tho revenues of . the. several roads for from business originating in war con tracts, ; . ; ,' ,s -:. ' (Reduce Taxes I urge your acceptance of this rec ommendation that provision bo mailo now, not subsequently, that the taxes to be paid in 1920 should bo reduced from six to four billions. Any arrange ments less definite than these would add elements of doubt and confusion to tho critical period of industrial re adjustment through which tho country must now immediately pass, and which no true friend of the nation 's essential business interest cau Hfford to be re sponsible for creating or prolonging. Olearly determined conditions, clearly charted, are indefensible to the fcco nomio revival and rapid industrial de velopment which may confidently bo expected if wo act now and sweep all interrogation marks away. I take it for granted that congress will carry out the naval program which was undertaken before we entered the war. The secretary of the navy has sub mitted to your committee for authori sation that part of the progiam which overs the building plans of the next three years. These plans have been prepared along the lines and in accord ance with the policy which the con gress, established, not under the ex ceptional, conditions of the war, but with the intention of ddhering to a def inite method navy. I earnestly torruptod pursuit of that rolicy, WililM nli.ni-K- liA liiiwittu C.. ma n nf tempt to adjust our pregram to a fu- woula De -ssary to una nase inei 1. ture world policy as yet undetermined. hv"y approach to this difficult ub At L Concerning Railroads J',(,t nwUor of-decision brings us face The question which causes me the to face- 1i,fr8. wl,th .' unanswer greatest concern is the question of the:0'1 Question: What is rlit that we pohrr to be adopted towards tho rail- """'" "'"'". - remds. 1 frankly turn to you for conn- of tho public and fairness to sol upon it. I have no confident judg- ,"oir ow",r9- -. . meat of my own. 1 do not .eo how any 1 Has, No Ready Answer thoughtful' nmn can have who knows Ut me at onee that 1 have no anything of the complexity 0f the prob- answer ready. The only thing Jjiat is lent. It is a problem whih must be P"fe-'tly clear to me 11 tha: it is studied, studied immediate!,- and stud- fair t'i,h" 10 ,he T'0,l 8 own" M-rl without bias or prejudice. Nothing .rs of 11,0 railroads to leave the ques tman be gained by becoming partisans tlu' unanswered ant that it will pies of any paitieular plan of settlement. ently become my duty to relinquish It was necessary thnt the adminis- ot the roads, even before. the tration of the railroai's should be taJt- "l"r8'n of te statutory period, lin en over by the government so long as ,cs tn(,rt shol,1J l,!M'r smo, e.U;Rr the war lasted. It would heve been im- proP-rt in the meantime of a legisla posaible otherwise to estab'lsh and car- ,ve 'ton. Their release would at ry through undvr a giegle direction the IcRst Produce one element of solution, necessary priorities of . shipment. It "Vnely certainty and a quick stmiula would have been impossible otherwise tou of private initiative, to combine maximum production at the , 1 be,icvp ,bBt " W,U h? .""vieeable tneterie and mine, and farms with for me to set forth exj!:lly m pes tho maximum possible car supply to s'b,' the elternative totiMos that lie take the products to the ports and mar- to 0,,r choice, nets; impossible to rente troop ship- e can simply r.;.ea he roads and ments and fn'ight shipments without hsitk ,h oU of regard to the advantage or disadvant- :nU' wnt, un:estrcttyl tompe ago of the roa.U emnlovedi impossible i ,! 'n.a-' maltifc-rHi ielation by both, to subordinate, when necessary, all s,att' a" I fedwal au;hi"ies; or we question, of convenience to the'pnblir ! r" J !0 lk 'PP0',t5 r" "d es neeesMtv; impossible to give the nee- "h Rovl-""'-n t eei 'r,.', accompan- essary financial support to the roadi"" "rc- "lry- "J " "V1 from the public treasury. But all these 1 r we can aa-iju an lnter- nrerviities have now teen served and ! in.siitte bourse of modified private the question is, what is best for the j control under a more unifiel end affir- in the fu- niative public regulation and under 1 such alterations ot the law: as will per mit wasteful 'competition to bo avoid ed and a considerable degree of unifi cation of administration to be effect ed, as for example, by regional corpo rations under which the railway of definable areas would te in effect com bined iu single systems. I stand ready and anxious to release the roads from tho present control and I must do so at very early dtito if by waiting until the statutory limit of time is reached I shall be merely prolonging the period of doubt and un certainty which is hurtful to every in terest concerned. J welcome this occasion to announce to the congress my purpose to join in Paris the representatives of the govern ments with which we have been asso ciated iu the war against the eonual empires for the purpose of discussing1 with them the main features of ,the treaty of peace. I realize the great in-1 conveniences that will attend my loav- j ing the country, particularly at this time, but the conclusion that it iCny paramount dirty to go has been forced upon me by consideration which I hope will seem conclusive to you ng they have 9eemed to me. 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I shall make my absence as brief as possible and shall hope to return with, the happy assurance that it lias been possible to translate Into action the great ideals for which America has striven. $ SHEBMAN WOULD INSULT THE PRESIDENT mo execution or sucn iuiui Biceyi, iv , eu me ubms or peace wuic- i oiuj "eo. , cence 0f them, the ealltint men of oS" W for A." , - ' ni"nt wUtaim;' U&Xlto Vu "mei itly recommend the unin- wiU lut- ml therefore,, does not af-1 have and, very reasonably uo.i.e my j consciously fought for the ideals which mit nf thai mii i. 'ford sufficient authority to jundertako personal counsel in their intcrpreta- "T k"ew to e the ideals of their lu.v ui Hint I "HI?, Jv . , - h ii i: L'.n- Crtllli'trv 1 hava amxrlil rt Avt,HAnM l. improvement upon svn:e ujiwu nuuu i iivn im Hjnuicurionf ouu 'I is uigni -- i uuuv i vi-h.-bo muse desirable that 1 should give it in or-,"ieius; tney nave accepted by state der that the sincere desire of our gov-' ments to them as the substance of their eminent to contribute without selfish 'own thought and purpose, as the asso- purpose of any kind to settlements that i' lated governments have accepted them will te of common benefit to all the .l .wc ' to them to "e to it, so far nations concerned mav be made 'fully iES in mc est that no false or mistaken manifest. .. 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I can think of j no call to eecviee which eotild trans- icend this. Asia for Support May I not hope, gentlemen of the congress, that in the delicate tasks I shall havo to perform on tie other side I of the sea in my efforts truhst and j faithfully to interpret the principles and purposes of the country we love. I may have the encouragement and the added strength of your united support T I realize the magnitude ar.d difficult jiluty I am undertaking. I am poignant lly aware of its grave responsibilities. I I am the servant of the nation. I can ! have no private thought or purpose of my own in periortmng suen an errand. I do so to give the best that is in me to the common settlement which I must now assist in arriving at i con ference with the other working heads of the -associated governments. I shall count upon your friendly conn tonance and encouragement. I shall not be inaccessible. The eables and the wires will render me available for any i counsel or service may deire of me, I and I shall be hartiv in the thnnoht ! Washington, Dec. 2. Senator Sherman, Illinois, announced he will introduce a resolution to! morrow doclaring tho presiden cy vacant for the remainder of President Wilson's term and providing that tho vice presi dent bliall assume the duties und powers of the office at onee ., Oar Want Ads are the Bait that catch tUBlg Fish Results Try one ia to-morrow's paper JOURNAL WANT ADS PAY that I am constantly in touch with the JOURNAL WANT ADS PAf i . . i i Tin mm iir-( wifii'lifi