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orial Page of The CapiialJour CHARLES H. FISHER Editor and Publisher THfRSHAiY EVENING December 19, 1918 Edit not Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address All Communications To iOailajSital Journal SALEM 136 S. Commercial St. OREGON .SUBSCRIPTION KATES Daily, by Carrier, per year $5.00 Per Month Daily by Mail, per year $3.00 Per Month... ..45c ..35c tfULIi LEASED WIRE TELEtiKAPH REPORT FOKEIGN REPRESENTATIVES W. D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. H. Stockwell, Chicago, Poople's Gag 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 timo, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way we can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phono 81 before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the farrier has missed you. CO-OPERATION. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Salem -whom circulation is guaranteed by tho Audit Bureau Of Circulations SINKING CAPTURED WARSHIPS. I.! ' - : The American delegates to the peace conference have been brought around to the idea of sinking the captured German vessels. First, it is proposed to inspect these ves eels carefully to see whether the naval designers can learn anything from them. This disDOsition of the vessels is intended to settle ' the difficult question of ownership, as well as to support President Wilson's declaration that the war was not based on aggression or the acquisition of property. It is just as well to sink the ships, anyway. The al lies today have no need of the battleships, cruisers and submarines. Before . jtheir surrender the allied navies were overwhelmingly stronger than all other navies of the world. With the German and Austrian fleets deprived of all their offensive power through the surrender of their best battleships, cruisers and destroyers, and of all their submarines, there is no possibility anywhere of resistance against the allied sea power. It will be decades, too, and possibly generations, be fore our late enemies will be in position to build up their naval armament again, even if such armament is per mitted hereafter by the law of nations. What enlightened men and women everywhere are hoping is that naval construction will soon be stopped for good, or at least be greatly restricted. If the peace con ference does its work thoroughly there will be little need for warships hereafter except for policing the seas under international authority. , , If such a world reform is accomplished, the sinking of the enemy warships might serve as a useful example. It seems a pity to sink ships that have cost so much money and labor. And nobody need think that any allied Rliina will hp scuttled deliberately for some time yet. But if the peace of the world were once definitely guaranteed, and it were evident that the menace had been perman ently removed, three-fourths of the warships of the world could be sunk, with the enthusiastic approval , of man kind. The Serbian relief commission is collecting cloth ing in this country for Serbian children "over eight " years old." There are none younger than that, thanks to Kultur. And still these same Prussians have the nerve to yell for help the moment their milk supply runs low. And just think that next summer we'll be engrossed in club standings and batting averages just as we used to be! There is hardly a word more used and more abused than "co-operation." Especially we have been warned that in the conver sion of business from war to a peace basis, if the transfer is made without panic or calamity, there must be "full and free co-operation between employer and employee." First the employer says it, and then the labor leader says it, and then the politician says it, just as if he had discovered something new. It is true that co-operation is vital, especially now when every question of labor and wages is a vexed one. But- too often labor says "co-operation" when operation is really meant, the thing in mind being the separation of capital from the largest wages possible with the least return of work. While the employer similarly ponders not a ffiing of benefit, but a one-sided performance which consists in getting the most production from labor for the smallest sum. Neither is fair. Both forget that co-operation means mutual understanding and effort, mutual gain, and, if necessary, mutual sacrifice. Fred C. Butler of the industrial section of the war department has said: "Heretofore our employers have thought that all their men received in their pay envelopes was money. Now they have come to realize that they re ceive in those envelopes proper or improper food, clean or dirty streets, desirable or undesirable homes, and many other things which go to make life worth living or mis erable." Well and good for the employer who does realize this and does all he can to have the pay envelopes of his men set them on the way to good and prosperous citizenship. On the other hand, the employe thinking of his en velope in the same terms should expect to render fair ser vice for his hire; to remember that his employer carries the investment with all this implies of expense and habw ity to destruction and failure, and that the purchasing power of -a dollar is no more because it is written in a check book than it is in an overall pocket. The Oregonian simply has got off wrong. Nobody wants to destroy the wooden shipbuilding industry of the northwest, but all who are interested in the development of this section would like to see it put on a permanent basis. At best it could not long be continued on govern ment subsidies which were only justified by war. Natur ally and justly war contracts are being cancelled every where and war-time operations are giving way to the ac tivities of peace. The Oregonian's content on that the government should continue to build vessels in Portland, paying the builders 10 per cent profit on a gross cost that is quadruple that of normal times, has no convincing ar gument back of it. The DIET During and After The Old Reliable Round Package RIPPLING RHYMES BylWalt Mason BAFFLED SCIENCE. I asked the doc to cure my flu, and he remarked, "Ker swoosh! Ker-chool Just hand my pill-case from the shelf I have the blamed disease myself!" "Oh, doc," I said, "I sent for you to cure me of this dreadful flu; I've taken all your pills and dope, and now I'm nearly shorn of hope ; I'm worse than when you first began to pump me full of Val ley Tan. 'Twill be a pretty howdydo if I must perish of the flu, and still owe money, when I'm gone, for bitters by the dimmijohn." The doc replied, "Ker-swoosh! Ker choo! Why do you have this doggone flu? Why can't you have some sane disease like rheumatiz or housemaid's knees? I've treated you, at all times, white; to be your friend was my delight; my loyalty to you demands consid eration at your hands; and yet when you decide, you hick, to have a turn at being sick, you say, 'What ill shall I en dure? The only one doc cannot cure !' 'Tis thus you treat a comrade true, a loyal friend Ker-swoosh! Ker-choo! You might have tried out Bright's disease, which doesn't make you cough and sneeze; you might have had the mumps or croup, and I'd have pulled you from the soup; but you must fall for this blamed flu, and get my goat Ker-swoosh! Ker-choo!" Those Germans take to the allied occupation of their country easily and naturally. They always did like be ing bossed around, and now that the kaiser is gone any body who has a stock of explicit orders on hand makes a hit with them. Asa Christmas present to Germany, the Allies are going to defer the announcement of the amount of the indemnity to be levied until after the first of the year. It is adding insult to injury to say, as a ribald wit does, that there are no grounds for the coffee shortage. THEWIFE By Jane Phelps. UNDER ORDERS CHAPTER CXIV. Brian was in camp lenring to be a soldier. Ho came homo nearly every Sunday. In spite of the hard training, ho looked and said he felt better than he had in years. He was as hard as nails, tnmied the color of an Indian. Also he was full of enthusiasm and could talk of nothing but tho war, the time when he could start "over there." "I'll be in the first load, or 1 miss my guess," he said to her aftor he told her he was a lieutenant, second of course, he explained. He had neither eyes or ears for anything but 'his job" as he called it. As always he accepter what Ruth did for him as a matter of course; all SWAMP-ROOT FOR KIDNEY AILMENTS There is only one medicino that real ly stands out pre-emineut as a medi cine for curable ailments cf the kid neys, liver and bladder. Dr. Kilmer's Swamp-Root stands the highest for the reason that it has prov en to be just the remedy needed in thousands upou thousands of distress ing cases. JSwnmpRoot, a physician's prescription for special diseases, makes friends quickly because itg mild and immediate effect is soon realized in most cases. It is a gentle, hculing vege table compound. ttnrt treatment at onee. Sold at all drug stores in bottles of two sizes, medium and Urge. However, if you wish first to test this groat preparation swid ten cents to Dr. Kilmer & Co., Binghamtna, N. Y for a sample bottle. When wTitimr be istire and mention the Salun Capital Journal. the little camp comforts he was allow ed to have; as well as money to spend 'Until yoii get your pay," she told him to save his feelings. But sho ueed not havo felt afraid of hurting him. He would have taken money for his needs from any civilian without em barrassment, thinking it their duty to provide for a man who was fighting for freedom at least until tho ma chinery managed by Uncle 8am could get to work. So the time passed until mere were rumors that the time was nearly arrived for the boys to go over. Ruth heard these rumors even be fore Brian came home and told her hip time would now be short. She realized that great secrecy must of necessity surround their departure, and wonder ed once more if she should tell Brian her secret. Hud bIio any right to keep it from him Mandel had noticed that Ruth was unlike herself; that her work, always before done so easily, now seemed a burden; but he was far from suspect ing the cause. He laid her lassitude, her pale face and shadowed eyes, to the fact that Brian was Ooing overseas. His age precluded his being called to do actual fighting- To be truthful he was, perhaps, for the first timo he had known Ruth, glad he was so much older than she. Not that he was not pnrioaic, for ho was. Already he had offered his servces and hs money to the government, the former wthout psy But Brian would soon be away. He might, perhaps would, take Molli'o King with him. Mandel had kept posted up on Brian's affairs; and of late had in eluded those of Mollie King. It is easy for a man of wealth to find out almost anything he wishes to know; and Arthur Mandel knew that Mollie M going over as a mirse, and. that all her actions pointed to her going soon. He also knew and this would have surprised and distressed Ruth immeas urably, had she been aware of it that whenever Brian came homo on a fur a mihi tpc--r EI '- 3 It . 1 - main mi hhV! mm ' a v twtatsoMni wmwrOi v - . 2 !!! fWm4 ARMY , Mi., t J I Ml' 1 1 nn ii m s rs self's Malted Milk Very Nutritious, Oigestihlo The REAL Food-Drink, Instantly prepared.' Made by the ORIGINAL Horiick process and from carefully selected materials. Used successfully over Va century.; Endorsed by physicians everywhere.' andletElOrlick'STheCriginil US lug iiafns TUT ORIGINATOR OP THE JUGO SLAV MOVEMENT Mr. Nicholas Pasitch is virtually the builder .of a new state. He is the prime minister of Serbia who recently signed an agree ment with the provisional government of Agram. Croatia, providing tne union of all Jugoslav provinces of the for mer Austrian-Hungarian empire wita the Kingdom of Eerbia into a sin, state of Serbs, C'rcats and Slovenes whieh will have an area of 100,000 square miles and 10,000,000 inhabitants. (c) Underwood & Underwood. American Aviator Shot By Him After Armistice Copenhagen, Dec. l. Muruor of a young American aviator by Uerman prison guards after the armistice was signed wag reported today. 'A young American aviator named Cohcenoy, who was a prisoner in a camp near tstralsun, went outsiae tho barbed wire enclosure about seven o'clock in the evening of December 5,': a British officer declared during an in terview regarding German internal con ditions, published in tho Kocbenhavcn 'The German guards promptly shot him dead, despite the fact the armis tice had bocn signed. Cohecncy was about 27 years old." Electric Workers In Tacoma On Strike Today Tacoma, Wash., Dec. 19. This city may bo loft in darkness and without powor for many of its largest indus trios tonight. Electrical workers employed by the city went on strike in a body at 8 this morning in all the city's substa tions, the powor plant at LuUrande and on oil power lines. Tho city is making efforts to fill the strikers' places. The decision of the electricians to striko was reached at a meeting of the unions of the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers last night, as the result of the eity s refusal to grant their wage demands of $7.20 a day. 66,534 DEATHS IDT 3 MONTHS Acknowledged the standard Army Shoe on the (Joast and small wonder : "Extra Service Every Step Comfort Every Minute" That's why it is being worn by thousands or men in ail walks of life- Hiker Farmers Orcharduts Motormen Conductors Hunters Office Men Attorneys Physicians Look for the name Buckhecht stamped on the sole of every Shoe BLACK GUN METAL OR INDIAN TAN CALF Should your dealer be unable to -supply you, send his name to the manufacturers Buck ingham and Hecht. San Francisco. Enclose price of shoes you desire and we will have your order filled. pi - m Washington Dec. 19. . Influenza caused 6fi,5,'( deaths in the larger cit ies between September 14 end Decem ber 14, while pneumonia killed 38,763 more: according to census figures to day. in; of war, and what they expected to do fcr thoir country. Ho only knew that thev were together, and took it to mean that ahcy were more than ever in love with each other. Mandel was a bright man. But he was also a worldly man. He had no conception of the fire of patriotism that burned in those two who were ready to give their lives for their country also who both loved adven ture, which love, took not a whit from their love of country. Ruth drooped. Unostentatiously Mandel tried to make things easy for her, to make her happy. Occasionally ho gave her theater tickets, saying: "It must be lonely for you now that Mr. Hackett is in camp. Take some friend and see that show. It will help you to pass the time."' He wisely never offered to take her himself. Or, again, ho would ordPT some tlowers sent her, saving: "You looked a bit depressed today. I thought thev might cheer you up." Then he would com mence to talk of something else to evade her thanks. But the thonghtful ness of his acts touched her, and in a wav comforted Ruth in her loneliness. Then one night after she had gone to bed the telephone rang. Brian would rush up to see her, he said over the wire, but they were to sail immediate- Ruth stood holding the receiver in her hand for several minutes after he had hung up. While she knew he was to go, it had come with startling sud denness, as such things always do. Sud denly she sat down, her hand at her throat. It was hard to breathe- Brian, her Brian, going to leave her going lough, he always saw Mollie. He us- into such fearful danger. uauv spent an hour or two in the litale "Shall I tell him nowt" she asked studio before he went up home to Ruth" I herself again and again as she wait Naturally Mandel had no way of'ed. knowing thot their time was spent talk (To Be Continued)" ROSTEIN S GREENBAUM I - ... Christmas Suggestions: :: Ladies' Linen Handkerchiefs, Nice Big Assortment - rf All TT 11 I'M a pre-war prices zoc. utner nanaKercnieis irom 2 l-2c to 50c. Wool - Fur Knit Muffs Toques And 25c Collars ' to Sets $1.00 Bargains Scarfs $6.50? to to Match $13.50' Colored : : Silk Umbrellas : : Handles ' And t Tips - 1 ; i' $4.50, $5.00 ':': and $6.50 V.' Nice Real Table Linen, yard $1.25, $1.50, $1.90, $2.50 : t ana $6.za. Best mercerized table cloth, 2 yards wide, only 90c yd . i: Men's Suspenders 35c, 50c, 75c And $1.00 Boys Suspenders 15c and 25c Christmas Japan Men's Stand Neckwear Covers All Silk 36x36 Pretty $1.00 Patterns Bumm 35c, 50c, 65c, Scarfs And $1.00 38c to 75c Men's Fiber silk socks, good quality. Bear Brand 50c t Men's Fiber silk socks, good quality. Bar brand 50c t Petticoats Good Silk and' Beldings Satin $5.75 Others at $3.50 Pretty Plaid. Nice Fluffy Blankets a Bargain $6.50 Petticoats Special Good Values at $1.00 and $1.50 Silk Flounced $3.00 ALL WOOL DRESS GOODS FAST COLORS AND REASONABLE. . 240-246 COMMERCIAL SIKEET CAPITAL JOURNAL WANT ADS BRIG YOU RESULTS. CAPITAL JOURNAL WANT ADS BRING YOU RESULTS.