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About Daily capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1903-1919 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 6, 1918)
ge of The Capital Journa tdtton f FRIDAY tTENTNO Sett? leeember 6, 1918 . 8?8? ffiHjj CHARLES H. FISHEB hk Editor nd Publisher Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon, Address All Communications To BALEM 136 S. Commercial St. OREGON SVBSCRIPTION BATES Daily, by Carrier, per year $5.00 Per Month -45c Daily by Mail, per year $3.00 Per Month- aoc FULL- LEASED WIRE TELEURAPH REPORT FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES W. D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. H. Stockwell, Chicago, People's Gas Building The Daily Capital Journal earner boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, miBses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can doterrsino whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone 61 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if .the carrier has missed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Salem whoso circulation is guaranteed by the - Audit Bureau Of Circulations JUST OIL. i .. Just before the cessation of fighting abroad, are men warned that among the essentials in which conservation was actively necessary oil was the most important. The quantities of that precious fluid needed, with its by-products, for war purposes, made imminent a dangerous shortage. Dangerous, indeed, When we consider the varied uses of oil even in the normal state of peace. Beginning with light and heat, its usefulness continues" through a range of industries and domestic purposes which it staggers the mind to contemplate. Of its usefulness in the war Earl Curzon said, "The allied cause floated to victory on a sea of oil." A French senator declared that "the Germans expected to win be cause they controlled great coal deposits, but the allies won with oil, it being a victory of automobiles and rail roads." The world looks mostly to the United States for its supply of oil because American methods of drilling and manufacture have placed us at the head of the industry. American lamps blazing with American oil light Hindu temple, African hut and Chinese workshop, replac ing rags soaked in native oils whose murky, inefficient gleams gave incentive to lengthen the "short industrial day. A true bringer of light to them that sat in darkness to it many of the ancient peoples of the earth owe their firs real advance toward modern development. Miss Mabel Wharton said in a recent article: "If oil has meant light for the remote peoples, it has meant for us the combustion engine and all it implies -the automo bile, the airplane; the motor boat and hundreds of mach nes hat do everything from crossing the ocean to turning the buttons on our coats. Thus oil has spread throughout the world a lubricant for the wheels of civilization." THE POSTAGE REPEAL. That the letter postage will drop from three cents an ounce to two next July, if the new revenue bill is passed in its present form, is most satisfactory news. But perhaps the best of the postage provisions is that of abolishing the zone rate for newspapers and magazines. The country, according to the bill, will be divided into two zones, instead of eight. Newspapers and periodicals can be sent at the rate of a cent a pound with in a radius of 200 miles and at a rate of one and a half cents a pound anywhere beyond that. If there was any one agency contributing to the win ning of the war more than any other, it was the unify ing effect produced by the wide-spread circulation of newspapers and periodicals. It was largely due to them RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Mason L , GREAT DAYS. Things march so fast these fateful days, we are not jarred by any news; there's naught so strange it can amaze, or make us tremble in our shoes. We push our selves around the town, and hear the latest tidings there; some mighty king has lost his crown; we say, "Well, well," or "I declare!" We hear of thrones that are ho more, of captains on their bended knees, and hasten to the grocer's store, to see just what he asks for cheese. An ancient monarchy expires; we hear the news, and say "By jings!" And then we talk of rubber tires, and gasoline, and kindred things. We've heard so' Inany wondrous tales of streams of gore and wholesale death, the most ex citing rumor fails to make us draw a longer breath Per haps in coming peaceful years we'll get our old time poise again, and learn once more to sprinkle tears, and shud der at a tale of pain. We see the junkman haul away a load of sceptres, thrones and crowns, and beef because we have to pay high prices for our handmedowns. We've no perspective any more; we cannot grasp the news we read; we sit around the Blue Front store, and let pur whiskers go to seed. EBoBob that the great food saving of the past year was effected. The Red Cross could hardly have done half its work with out their co-operation. When it came to raising money for Liberty bonds, Victory chests and relief, they were invaluable. The newspaper is needed for two things primarily. Its quick dissemination of hews, and its intense concentra tion upon matters of local interest Outside this field, and backing it up, comes the magazine, treating more leisurely and with wider perspective of current affairs, unifying the thought of the people by spreading the same ideas, east and west, north and south. No matter what one's line of thought, he may find in his local bookshop the magazine which interests him, secure in the know ledge that others who think with him all over the country can find it also. To provincialize this united country by increasing the difficulty of distributing such means of public expression would be most unfortunate. That the complicated zone system does not meet the approval of the senate finance committee comes to the country with relief. to be Mollie who had called him. No, she would say nothing. It was the same decision at which she invariably ar rived. To say nothing because she might hurt Brian or hurt herself in his eyes. He had promised he wouldn't forget That meant he would see whoever had called him, next Friday. Was there any way she could be sure that it was moine Jtvingi Handel's kindness recurred to her, til the more plainly because of this epi sode. Would HE neglect her for an other woman Would HE "be as eare less of her happiness as was Brian? "Brian, aren't you going to tell me who telephoned? I am getting horribly jealous thinking about her." She tried to speak carelessly even laughed a lit tle Not yet would she let him know to what an extent her jealousy of Mollie King had driven her thoughts. ' What 's that t " she knew he was sparring for time, that he had heard her. 'I asked if you weren't going to tell me who telephoned?" ''No I am going to bed," and stif ling a prodigious yawn, he left .the room. '(Tomorrow Suspicion Becomes Cer tainty) , - If Great Britain insists that she must maintain the largest navy in the wor d then her protestations that she was waging war on militarism and to insure the peace of the world were not sincere. The National Non-Partisan League is only a little more radical and unreasonable than the Russian bolshe-viki-if we may pjudge it by the latest platform of prin ciples issued from St. Paul. . Wardens may come and wardens may go but Joe stays on torever. Safe Milk r Infants Invalids ,fixtiA,-.rtu..;r.'ri'i no Cooking A Nutritious Diet for All Ages. Quick Lunch; Home or Office OTHERS ara IMITATIONS PUlL-TCinHEPOUCIES These are going to be the principle elements of commercial success from now on. With a taste of pulling "one for all and all for one" which we have had for the past 20 months we should be past masters at "putting 'em over" around these parts. The United States National Bank will be found a powerful puller for prosperity. usm bis mmm vSalem IBank Oregon. TJ. S. SHIPS NOT SENT TO PERU "Washington Dec. 6. Reports from Peru that itliitee American warships wcro to bo sent there were 'denied to day at the state department. THE WIFE By Jane Phelps. BRIAN RECEIVES A MYSTERIOUS TELEPHONE MESSAGE. CHAPTER CIII. That night Buth found horself com paring Brian with Mr, Mandel in a far different spirit than ever before. She had carried a hurt in her hoart so long (because of Brian's intimacy with Mol lie King, and his seeming determina tion to belittle her work, to find fault with her because of it while he reap ed as many of the benefits as did sho) that Mandel 's actions stood out in re-, lief. And she now knew he cared for her As her employer 's thoughtf ulness, his kindness, appeared before her, so did Hnan's seeming selfishness, his thought lessnoss, also stand out. Was she los ing her lovo for Brian, and in its place learning to love Mondel. For tho first time she wavered. (She was not certain. "Whnt. an awful thing," she thought, "for me, Ifor.ny woman, not to know whethor she loves her husband or another nianl " Why it was almost as if already sho had been unfaithful, when in reulity she never before- had Allowed a thought of loving anyone savo her husband to enter her mind. Brian was late in- coming home. When ho did come he was absorbed, not talkative; evidently there was something on his mind. 'Chilli we ask Xenyon and tiara in to play cards " sho asked, not entirely to please nini, uut necouso it wouiu make her stop thinking. ''.No! I don't want to play tonight. I'm not in the mood." ''Anything gono wrong " ("No why'' '"You arc usuoily keen enough to piny." ''That 's no sign I am tonijjht." ''What bhall wo do, to "the movies I" "No." "To a ptov'.'" "No." ''Wlnt is tha matter Brim f J Know something lus giuu wrong." "Can't u man want to stay quielly at home without something being wrong?'-' ''Jiiot you. I never knew you to aet like this. Do tell me what ails you." "I told you nothing! .Now please lot mo read." liuth said nothing more, but she was watching Brian's face and, saw that he was not reading; or ir he was, that he hud no interest, in what lie, read. Sud denly the telephone shrilled. She an swered it before Brian could do so. 'Is Mr. Haekett there?" it was a woman's voice. "Yes, would you like to speak to him this is Mrs. Haekett." "What is itf" Kriau had taken tho receiver from Ruth. "Hello, this is Haekett Oh, hello no, not tonight No 1 Said next Fri dayoh, yea I won't forget good night." ''Who was it, Brian t" ''A business call,' he had resumed reading "But it was Woman.' ''Women have business which has to be attended to occasionally." There was nothing convincing about Brian's answer. Ruth was sure he was hiding something. What had he meant about next Friday-just a week hence. She was going on a short trip just un til Saturday on that day; could it be possible that Brian hnd made an en gagement for next Friday, and whoever he had made it with had mado tho mis take, and had called him up to find f-ult because he had not kept his en gagement I The voice too, she imaglnod sounded like Mollie King's, Yet she would be foolish to say so if it turned out not APEOVE REFORM PROGRAM Copenhagen,. Dec. 6. The Bavaria workmen's and soldiers' councils have unanimously approved the German gov eminent 's electoral reform program. jlcl 1 ffid national sizes SL 7 Kobt. Burns BOUQUET (Actual 9I) A brand-new -Robert Burns cigar in a con venient size for the average smoker. Robert Burns quality through out. , He Kobt. 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