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3 ' I Editorial Page of The Capital Journal 1 .f 1 r i Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon Address All Communications To OTbe HaUpttal lournal BALKM- 136 S. Commercial St. SUBSCRIPTION BATES Dailv. hr Carrier, ner Tear $5.00 Per Month.. Daily by Mail, per year $3.00 FULL LEASED WIRE FOBEIGN BEPBESENTATIVES W. D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. H. Stockwcll, Chicago, People's Gas Building The Daily Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone 81 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 whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations THIS YEAR With seventy-five-cent butter and seventy-five-cent eggs and other things in proportion, and no war to blame it on, this bids-fair to be the winter of our discontent. Last year there-was a glow of enthusiasm, even about paying the high prices. Nothing was too hard which would help whip the Prussiankaiser. This year it is different." The kaiser is a fugitive from' justice and Prussian pride is humbled. The. Yanks are taking peaceable possession of German soil, and find ing that, in sp te of whines, there is enough food in Hol land to last all winter. There wasn't any Herbert Hoover in Germany to get the people together with a rush of glorious self-sacrifice and co-operation so that the poor could share the necessaries with the rich. Nor was there any groundwork of unselfish public opinion upon which a Herbert Hoover could have worked. There was only a universal selfishness by which every fellow with a trif ling authority used it to get better food than the fellow with a little less, ranging from the pettiest of petty of ficials with his pound of bacon up to the cellars full of food of all kinds stored by William Hohenzollern. People here? know that the French " and Belgians are still in trouble--that ' houses are in ashes, cattle killed, farms put out of commission for years to come. But they have become dulled to it. The war is over. The rebuilding has commenced, and somehow the quickened emotions have lost their edge. This makes it hard to keep on saving. It makes it hard to face seventy-five-cent butter and seventy-five-cent eggs and other things in proportion. B.ut it is hard only because it is December, and the world faces winter instead of looking forward to the turn of the year. The ensuing season will be in many ways the hardest one of all. Can Americans face the dull deadness of pet ty difficulties before the clearing up begins as well as they faced the torture and the urge of war? THE SOURCE OF HEALTH. The Chinese pay the doctors to keep them well, a de duction being made from the fee if the patient is ill. There is much to be said in favor of this idea; or of any idea which sets up the prevention of disease as the desirable proceeding rather than elaborate methods of treatment after the harm is done. In line wih this more-intelligent method of proced ure is a sugestion made by Secretary Houston in a recent address. "To promote rural health and sanitation," says the secretary, "an effective sanitary survey should be RIPPLING By Walt KULTUR AND CULTURE. There is an end to Kultur, the kind that's spelled witfc "K"; with all the other rubbish they're carted it away; it lies with broken scepters and last year's cast off crowns, with wornout robes of ermine and princely handmedowns. We've seen what it accomplished in bringing up the Teut; it took a kindly peasant and made o fhim a brute. It gave us Wilhelm's bombast in place of Schiller's screed, displac ed the true religion and gave a sordid creed. It brought a mighty empire to ruin and decay, and so the dump got Kultur, the kind that's spelled with "K". And now the Tf euts will sample, from countries of the free, the soul up lifting Culture, the kind that's spelled with "C"; and when they have absorbed it, and got it in their souls, they would n't touch the "K" kind with tongs or ten-foot poles. Our culture will convince them, convince them soon or late, that love of man is greater than f rightfulness or hate; that jus Ucp takes, us further than panoply of might, that wrong can never conquer for long the truth and right The cul ture of our churches, the culture of our schools, will bring the light of reason to blood-besotted fools, will bring to slavish peoples the. truth that makes them free the cul ture that enlightens, the kind that's spelled wih "C." 3BSB8B8 OREGON .45e .35e Per Month.. TELEGRAPH BE PORT WILL TURN. RHYMES Mason made of the country, the sources of such disease as ty phoid fever should be eradicated, steps taken to control hookworm and mosquitoes, districts be given the advan tage of modern hospitals, nursing and specialized medical practice." While his remarks were specially intended for regions remote from city advantages, they are none the less worthy of attention in any community. , Effective sanitary surveys are generally too little prosecuted. The removal of the source of any disease or epidemic is the only sane method of combatting it We shall never be truly civilized until we learn that preventable disease is synonymous with disgrace, and points unerringly to culpable neglect by the individual, or, in case of epidemic by the authorities having the public health in charge. THE GERMAN WAR DEBT. The German war debt is estimated af anywhere from $30,000,000,000 to $50,000,000,000, according to the caprice of the estimater. Statisticians are such imaginative fel lows, anyhow! Be that as it may. All possible aggregations of bil lions look pretty much the same to the American citizen paying an average-sized income tax and trying to save enough over to buy an occasional thrift stamp for the baby. What the writer started out to say is this: Why should we concern ourselves about the German war debt? - They owe it to each other. Let them pay it by concelling it. Then Germany, free from domestic war obligations, can afford to go ahead and pay the indemnities she owes the allies. The good, old American : name of Jones has been dragged into the mire by a New Yorker, who calls himself Ellis O. Jones, although his name may be as false as the doctrines he preaches. Yesterday he attempted to stage a bolsheviki revolt in Central Park, New York, and as a result landed in jail without creating much excitement, red necktie and all. Notwithstanding all this Mooney strike talk, and the seditious letters appearing in the Portland Journal from day to day, backed up by wishy washy editorials of bolsheviki coloring, there is as yet no real danger of anarchy undermining this government What is needed, however, is a strong-arnj method in deal ing with the agitators, i ."' t ?- Tho best -thing Portland can do with tho Ferris and Hon gh ships " is to load them onco for tho Atlantic coast and let them stay there, then to build some real wood ships such as the Paeifc coast used to build long before; there over was a shipping board. Ore gonian. ' The Oregonian is talking sense at last. Portland money should get back of a real shipbuilding industry and build real ships, not leaky tubs for war-emergency pur poses. But this will not be done and Portland yards will close when the government subsidies are withdrawn. The telephone company 'which has been doing noth ing but pleading for higher rates even since we can remem ber, now seeks to throw the blame for the pending in crease on Postmaster Burleson, since the government took the lines over. Of course, this is all subterfuge, simply a contemptible way of shifting responsibility. The governor fired Murphy as warden of the state oenitentiarv because he thought the grand jury 'of Marion county intended denouncing the latter. "Little did he dream that the condemnation was to come his way and the way of his side partner, Joe Keller, remarks the Woodburn Independent. The returning German countrymen as "the unconquered troops, whose front has never been pierced." This is good Prussian philosophy according to which an army remains unconquered if it can run fast enough to keep aneaa 01 its pursuers. Now if con press would onlv take a vacation while the president is away, peace on would reign throughout the first time in history. Head Of University Department Of Music Seeks To Arouse Interest Professor John R. Sites, musical di rector of Willamette University, is anx ious to arouse special interest among the musically inclined poople of Salem. There is an' abundance of talent here he finds, and he would like to bring them together and make a music cen ter of the Capital City. To this end he has formed a symphony orchestra which should prove the nucleus for strong organization, and has in mind a mixed chorus as tU next step in this direction. There will be a meeting at the Uni versity chapel next Tuesday night to which all musicians of Salem are in vited. This meeting should be productive of good results and be the beginning of a reul active interest in musical de velopment here of the highest order. Real Estate Men To Charge Standard Commission Now Real estate men will hereafter charge a standard commission for handling city and farm property. This was de eiled at the meeting held last evening soldiers are hailed by their earth, good will toward men world in real earnest ior ins by the Salem Eealty Association. C W. Nicmeyer was elected president, W II. Grnbeiihorst, first vice president, J 3. Austin, second vice president, and Thomas A. Roberts secretary and treas urer. . On general sales, it was agreed that the real estate men should chargo tho same as elsewhere, that of five per eent. On exchanges, the. commission agreed on was 2 1-8 per eent and two per eent on loans. On collections of rentals, the- charge is to be 10 per cent of first monthly rentals, with a mini mum of 2 and five, per eent after wards with a tl minimum. Regular meetings will be held on Monday noons. Fifteen of the leading real estate men of the city are now members and it is hoped that within a few weeks, that every man or business firm handling in any way real estate and rentals will become associated with the Salem Realty Association. Holiday Cbeer Reflected In Down Town Decorations By Monday evening. Salem will take on a holiday cheer appearance, all due to the meeting last Tuesday evening of the Business Men's Lesgne, when merchants of the city gave liberally to wards paying the expanses of down town decorations. About 3 of the 8. A. T. C. boys of THEWIFE By Jane Phelps. RUTH SPENDS UNHAPPY HOURS, CHAPTER CX. Mollie King going to France as a nurse! Slowly the faet that Brian must be going so that he njight be near her impressed itself upon Ruth's mind. If he cared for Mollie like that, what use was it for her to try to fight it, or to argue with him because of her own need) He luid said "Mollie is going too." That lust ominous word chilled her; mado her catch her breath, and killed her speech. What user Tho dinner was eaten almost in sil ence. Thero was but one thing to talk about; and that neither spoko of again After dinner Brian took a magazine and Ruth some mending into tne Mving room. Ho stretched himself - at full length, sprawling comfortably in a huge rending chair Ruth had given him. Her lip curled as sho looked. He would leave her becnuse she worked, earned money, yet to the last ho would use the com forts she provided. How like him. Yet there was little bitterness in her thought, despite the curling lip. Brian wns so liko an. overgrown boy instead of a man. A big, spoiled boy. It was ul ways so sho thought of him, after he had hurt her. But that Mollie was going too; could it be that while she had been so busy, he and Mollie had been planning to do this thingf Suddenly she doubted Brian's roason for going rather planning to go. It was not patriotism, not a dosire to fight for a cause which he thougut just and riglitjbut a desire to be with Mollie King to be cut off from all convention with this girl whom he had known so long and whose friends had expected ho would ninrry. What should she do? What COULD she do J As sho sat darning a sock of Brian's a silk one she had given him, she wondered eagerly if she offered to givo up her work and rornain home, if it would stop him. Then sho glanced around the dainty, almost luxurious room, until finally her eyes rested on tho sprawling figure in the chair, There would be no hint of luxury if tliey depended upon what ha.earned, sho know. Hadn't she tried it when tney were first married! Brian was smoking a cigar. She knew by tho aroma that it wus an expensive one. He had smok ed cheap cigarettes then. She niwd Rachel moving about the kitchon, clear ing away the dinner things and attend ing to tho breakfast for tho next morn ing. Brian loved her delicious coffeo her waffles and Johnny cako, hot, and cut into squares. Ho doted upon her fried chicken, and corn fritters. He never failed to say that ehe made the best soups that ho had ever tasted. Ho would have to givo up all these things and cat what she cooked, drink cuffoo which he used to liken to ditch water. No it was not to be consider cd. It he didn't love her enough to be true when he, through her efforts, was made so comfortable, he would not love hor when deprived of all theso things., That men do not love because of ex traneous things, Ruth had yet to learn That it is the appeal of the woman her self that first draws them, and then holds them. Brian finished his story. Ho yawned then: - - "I belicvo I'll turn in early," ha said, "I have a lot to do tomorrow and shall havo to be down town early." Ordinarily Ruth would have asked him what it was that he had to do. But sho said nothing. Ho arose, went to the door and called to Rachel: "Have broakfast promptly In the morning, Rachel. I shall be hurried I guess you better havo it fifteen min utes earlier." "Vor YVoll, niassa Hackott." "Sho's a brick 1" Brian said when he turned to Ruth, "she never grum bles. "Of course sho, doesn't." Again Brian's absolute irresponsibility flash ed across Ruth' mind, his insouciance nnder all circumstances. Also his appicj priation and praise of the very thing.' ho blamed hor for providing. Wns anyone evor so complex! She wtintcd to talk to him about his !lnns, but more thnn even that, did she want to think. Sho felt all at Bea Hor thought refused to coalesce. But when ho left her to retire, thi. sock dropped from her fingers and lay unnoticed in her lap. Over and over sho tabulated the reasons "Brian had given her for leaving, only to eohie back to Mollie King as the only one in which she could honestly believe. Tontorow Distrust, Unbelief, and Jeal ,.ousy. Willamette University have been en gaged to go out and get the fir treos, 150 in number, and to properly place them along tho 17 blocks in the busi ness section of the city. In addition to the trees, there will be abont 600 branches and 1,000 yards of eedar rope used in placing the festoonings. The trees will be placed along the curbings of the down town section and branches used to adorn electric light posts and fronts of business houses. The idea of decorating for Christ mas cheer m most enthusiastically re ceived by Salem's down town mer chants, ltiO contributing. Once before, about five years ago, Salem attempted to decorate down town but this year will be the first time in its hisory when the idea of decorating will be artistically carried out. JOURNAL WANT ADS PAf Open Forum REPLY TO MR. LESLIE. Salem, Ore, Nov. 11, 191 8. Dear Editor: In "The Case of the Hun and Its Connection," and tho accusation tunt history has been made "so rapidly that few persons havo read up on the gener al history of the times before our own" it is just a little amusing and reminds us of tho "kettle culling th pot black." Let us turn back a few pages of his tory; not only SO years or 70, but to tho very beginning of Christianity. For nearly the first threo hundred years tho Christians worshiped for the most part in the catacombs the subteran can chambers and .passages under the city of Rome. Then Constantine the Great brought peace to the church and! gave her donations of both money and real estate. Voltaire himself tolls us, by the iu, not in satisfying their own avarice and ambition, but in tho most iaudablo works of charity and religion. "They extended their patrimony," he says, "in ending missionaries to evangelize pagan Europe, in giving hospitality to exiled bishops at Rome and in feeding tho poor." At this time an event occurred which paved the way for the partial jurisdic tion which tho popes commenced to en juy .r xwrnii ..u uu.u iuc, cum ,- tj . n..,i n.i,:i. 4L. ued to exercise till they obtained full ., ...: it. i.. . t.-: x sovereignty in tho days of King Fcpin of Fruneo. t 3o a t 4V. ,.. 4..o..,i In oil A. JJ. tho emperor transferred . . . 1 D t r, the seat of empire from Rome to Con stantinople in Turkey. A subsequent emperor appointed a governor, or ex- tJV arch, to rulu Italy, who resided in the ... , u -i mu j, .. ' . mi- 4 a bound by no family ties. Therefore city of Ravenna. This now system, an.. .. ' . J ,04 , u 4 , -j 4 , ,, mi., his motives are not personal. But the is manifest, did not work well. Tho ... .4 , . . J , . .' 14- , 1 . higher interests which he subserves aro cmporor of Constantinople reforred all , " . ,. . ., . , , . . .. i. 4 1 j 4- t j to vindicate the eternal laws of justice matters to his deputy in Ravenna, and .,4. .. , , 4 -, and Christ's religion. Hence the three the deputy was more anxious to eoncil- ... " . 14. . 4 41 .1 4 1. 41 titles of tho pope to the papal stales late the emperor than to satisfy the peo , . , 1 .. v . , lo f Rome temporal power are thoroughly mio- Thus left to itself, Rome became a of Barbttrians of tho north that then tciiiui-iug M'vr ,u n.o uumi,..,... iic.u. ..,.,K.. ,.. 4. 41.. ,...,,. devastated Italy. Tho city was first attacked by the Boths under Alario, then by the Vandals under Genserio , ' 4 . ... ... I. and was then threatened by tho Huns ,1.- A4il., TTl,lx. !,!, from the emperor in Turkey or tho gov- th,I1!8 8.ald th 'J01"4 " ernor at Ravenna, tho citizens of Rome ""corning the United State, were ap looked to tho popes &s their only gov Praised nt th"r rU6 f' t n ernors and protectors, and the only Bal-th."a wss for. th ?er vation in their extremity. , man cause at the Vatican, , a that a When Attila, "the Scourge of God," Pw of underhand methods' of the approached the city with an armv of P0' ,Wre t ipie. at Wash- 500,000 men, Pope Lc0- tho Great went ",Ston, D?f8 w"tcr out to meet him unattended by troops," Pfove "underhand methods" of His mild eloquence won the day, saved P'dent WUsont the city from pillage and the peoplJ uly the article docs not ment the from destruction. Genserio mi I ah-o tiee I.1lave lv?,n 1 ! andt 1 8hould no met by the same Pope, and while he Jnye vaid-any attention to it, were it was unable to protect Rome from tho no . tI,at ma" PB0Pe hav erroneous plunder of the Vandals, he nevertheless n"'10ns on the samet I"08'10" and it saved the lives of the inhabitants. affords m a" opportunity of present Such acts as these bound the Roman in 80mo fact whlch 7? people moro and more strongly to tho' , , popes to whom they looked for protec tion and help. In the eighth century, 754, Astolphus, king of tho Lombards, invaded Italy, captured some Italian cities mid threat ened to advance on Romo. Pope Steph en III sent an urgent appeal to Emper or Constantino Copronymus of Constan- tinoplc, imploring him to come to the relief of Rome and his Italian prvin-' cos. Th emperor was indifferent and received the message in coldness and neglect. In tho emergency Stephen crossed the ' Alps in person and begged King rcpin I of France to protect the Italian people ; 4i..i. i.ii... t; La the invading Lombards and placed tho,"ady- ,"r ca8ual". J" boeu lairly pope at the head of the conquered land. I rayy b" we ?re w.umulR 1116 mosl Charlemagne, the successor of Pepin, not only confirmed the grant of his fathor, but increased the temporal do main of the pope by donating him some additional provinces. This small piece of territory, scarcely as large as one of our small eastern states, the Roman pontiffs continued to govern from that time till 1870 with tho exception of brief usurpation by foreigners at various times. As the popes were not actuated by a love of gnin in possessing temporal dominion, neither had they any desire to cnallenge their territory, small as it was. Tho authority of tho popes in the Middle Ages was almost unbound ed. Had they wished then, they could easily have increased their territory; yet they have always been content with what Providence has placed lu Heir hands. It was too small to provoke the fear and jealousy of foreign pow ers, yet it is necessary that the pope, as tl.r head a.id ruler in spiritual mat ters of approximately 300,000,000 tonls should not be hampered by any gov-! HIGHLAND PARENT-TEACHERS eminent or country. The Churet is' ASSOCIATION HOLDS MEETING. Catholic, or universal, and is spread ov-: er the entire known world. I The Parent-Teachers association of It is true, as the article states, that ' Highland held a very interesting meet in 3870 Victor Emmanuel stole this ter- ing Wednesday, December 11th. Rev. ritory the word is exactly that and Lee of the Friends church gave an in tho Roman people voted it away. Interesting talk. the plebistieum, or popular vote, they) Mr. Davidson spoke on "Our Loyalty exprrssen tneir aesire to be annexed to tho Piedmontose government. But this plebistieum was undertaken by the au thority and guided by the insuirntion of the Italian troops. It i, like a man held up by a robber at the point of a rnvAlcn b-.1 . 1 J 4 1 a aim cuuiiunuuru o nana over ins vaiuaoies. no care not resist. (Jo it was with the plebistieum. But even had it been the sincere de sire of the Roman people to be annex ed to Italy, they eould not give what did not belong to them. The papal territory was granted to tho popes in trust, for the use and benefit of the church, i e.. the Catholics of Chrieten dom. The Catholic world therefore and not a mere handful of Roman peopl must give its consent before such - a transfer can be declared legitimate. Rome is to Catholic Christendom what Washington is to the United States. As the citizens of Washington have no power, without he eoneurrenca of the United States, to annex their city to Maryland or Virginia, neither :hu the li'.rzeuo of Rome had over the city to the kingdom of Piedmont witit out the acquiescense of tho Catholics dispersed throughout the world. There aro threo titles which render the tenure of a prince honest and in contestable . Long possession; 8. Leg itimate acquisition and, 3. A just use of the original .grant confided to him. No one can dispute tho claim of the papal dynasty to its length of posses sion. It is probably the oldest in Eu rope, if not in the world. Second, the pope's civil authority was established not by the sword of conquest nor tn violence of usurpation. He did til mount the throne upon the ruins of out raged liberties Or violated treaties; tut he was called to rule by tho unanimous (Voice of B RratefuI poople. Heuee the UOBU ""infidel Gibbon was forced to say: "Their (the popes') temporal domin ion is now confirmed by the reverenee of a thousand years, and their noblest title is the free choice of a people whom they redeemed from slavery." Thirdly, What is the use or advant age of temporal powerf This is well v.iiith considering, as many havo errou cous notions on the subject. It is not the aggrandizement or the enriching of the pope. He is an old man whoa ho ascends tho papal chair when human ,,,, hnmn ,,;,:. . t ., ... ' exist, are On the wane. His expenses foi personal needs are small and he has no wlfe nt" children to enrich with the ., . . . . spoils of office, sinco ho is an nnmnr- ried man. Neither is the office hered itary but elective and tho Holy Father i a ... .....I. J V-.. 4 1 I.- U1CMLUU. , In regard to tho flattering things the , : .,' .j .4, 41. ,, rt.41.l r.""1 DU"1 " u .T V ' V- i 4-Y , Z aforntioned article, was there not G'an propaganda also . the United States? Yet the United States was not lu-i:iimiii was ill pro-German was itf And the flattering Sergeant Earl Helrick Sees Much Hard Fighting Sergeant Earl Hedrick writes his mo ther on November 1st as follows: Ro- eeivci your loving lotte'r and was very glad to hear from you. I havo been uponl the -line fivo times already in battles AlBaW Chateau Thiwrr Soissons Verdun and St. Mihicl. I haven't beea , , , -, , . wouu , T T,Ug J 1 eace..ls 0"v a and w nre a huppy a if it were hore al- important ground on the entire Wimtera front. The Germans, have their best troops opposite us, but they will not fight and surronder by companies. The machine gunners stay fairly loyal, tho mostly becauso they are chained to their guns. Yci, we had cooties and have them yet, three kinds, Ameriean Rrench, German. Somo of the lenuD cooties are big old timers and have four years service stripos and wear iron crosses. The best way to got rid of them is to take your shirt off, then run as fast as you can to get away from it and then throw rocks at it, also it is best to have a rifle and bayonet han dy in case of a counter attack. It ip aw fully muddy here and rains all the time. My division the 32nd will prob ably come home fourth when peace is declared, so you see, dear mother, it will not be long. Must close now and go to messnge center to work. With love, your son, EARL. to Uur Country." Arrangements were made to plant Memorial trees in honor of onr soldier boys, both living and dead. The asso ciation will give a pay entertainment in February the proceeds to eo toward . 1 " paying ior a V ictrola. CALL 854 for CLEANING. PRESSING, ALTERATIONS AND REPAIRING We Call and Deliver