Edit ortal Page of The Capital Jo CHAELES H. FISHEB -Editor and Publisher S3 Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address All Communications To dbe Sailslal Journal BALEM 136 S. Commercial St. OEEGON Sl'BSCBIPTION BATES Daily, by Carrier, per year $5.00 Per Month.. Daily by Mail, per year $3.00 Per Month.. ..45e 35c FULL LEASED WIRE TELEUHAI'U BEPOBT FOREIGN BEPBESENTATTVE8 W. D. Ward. New York, Tribune Building. W. H. Stockwell, Chicago, People's Gas Building The Daily Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the carrier docs 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 whothcr 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. TUB DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Pal em whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations OUR FLAG ON THE RHINE. The Rhine is now virtually an American stream. The "Watch on the Rhine" is sung only by American voi ces, and those who constitute the "watch" are American troops standing "fast and true as the old song informs them, and in a sense that the author of it never dreamed of. As a final proof of domination comes word that the American flag now flies on the Rhine, as well as on its banks and over the famous forts that guard it. A fleet of nine river steamers has been taken over by the army of occupation, and every one of them steams up and down the river flying the Stars and Stripes. There, indeed, is a spectacle for the natives to gaze at. Old Glory in nowise dims the beauty of that lovely stream, but it must be a strange apparation. Most of the Germans thereabouts never saw the Staj Spangled Ban ner before. The sight will do them good, . It is a valuable element m their new, involuntary system of education. It will benefit them exactly in proportion as they recall the time when their government graciously announced its willingness to let the United States send to Europe one liner a week, following a prescribed course and point ed with barber-pole stripes, -v? - truction. Through all this seething chaos run exil cur rents of intrigue after intrigue, monarchial, Bolshevist, financial, imperialistic, clerical, atheist." And so it goes. The correspandent himself offers no solution. He merely presents the picture, and sums up the situation by saying that the present state of Europe can be portrayed only by "the imagry of Apocalypse)" which describes the end of all things. European cifilization is not necessarily doomed, for all that. Sanity and self-control still prevail west of the Rhine. But the major part of Europe is plainly in such state of chaos and helplessness as it .has not been since the Middle Ages. So far, then, as America had a duty to perform for the salvation of Europe, our work is only half done. Per haps the harder task lies ahead. We have to help Britain, r ranee ana itaiy to bring order out of that welter. The action of the officials, in closing Salem tight again on account of the influenza epidemic does not seem to be well advised. When other cities have learned that such a course is worse than useless, because it is inconven ient to everybody, we have the lid clamped on tight again closing scnoois and all gathrings. Isolattion is the only effective way of fighting an epidemic of this kind, ana 11 a ngia quarantine had been enlorced from the first the situation would have been different now. Closing up the town is merely an effort to show that the officials are active, and means nothing in the combatting of the epidemic. EUROPE'S CRISIS. America is all right. We are comfortable, well-fed, optimistic. But there 1,3 a sad o0Mrast in the old world. Peac has brought to many parts of Europe renewed hope of happier times, but actual realization is yet far off. Harold Williams, p.n American war correspondent, gives an appalling picture of the situation: "Europe is strewn with cannon, machine guns, bombs and ammunition, all the leaving of a great war, and ev eryone and none is master of these instruments of des tination. "Frontiers are swaying. Agreements are made and broken. There is scarcely a government from the Rhine eastward that is not desperately beating the air today find liable to be swept away tomorrow. "Nineteenth-century civilization has broken down. "I do not mean merely that dilapidated trains crawl dismally; that postal communication is hardly better than in Napoleonic times; that famine and pestilence are creep ing over Europe; but that there is a collapse of human, moral energy, a revival of the primitive, barbaric in sstincts, and the fierce endeavor to have one's own little private will by force. "Little men, often well-meaning and sincere, devise shallow plans for coping with the fenacmg forces of des King George is certainly becoming democratic. Sat urday morning for instance, we are told that he walked into r resiaent Wilson's apartments at 10 o'clock and con gratulated him on his sixty-second birthday. Think of a real king getting around so early in the morning. The world do move. The Irish are askin? for reDre- sentatipn at a peaee conference, , ! x. ;,,.. THE WIFE By Jane Phelps. RIPPLING RHYMES BvZWalt Mason THE EPIDEMIC. The flu is dying out, but let us not despair we still may have the gout, and falling of the hair. The flu had quite a run, for weeks 'twas all the rage; but now its course is done, it toddles from the stage. I know it's hard to part with such a charming pest; but cheer up, craven heart, don't flutter in my breast! It's vain to weep be cause cue popular disease from public view withdraws, and people cease to sneeze. The soul heroic scorns such weaklings as may droop; we still may have our corns, our measles, mumps and croup. For potions and for pills we still may go in debt; the good old standard ills, thank Pete, are with us yet. There's no excuse for health, no pardon for the blues, since we have such a wealth of ills from which to choose. Cry out no vain alacks, and shed no briny seas, but read your almanacs, and pick soms choice disease. Friend after friend departs, and now the flu retires; but why have aching hearts, why twang se pulcheral. lyres? For there's a balm beneath the star be spangled vault;, we still have aching teeth, the rheum de scribed a ssalt. MB. MANDEL PRAISES BXNYON x ROBERTS. 1 C1IAPTEB CXXIII. r--When Mr. Mandol came , ho brought with him flowers for both.; Buth and her aunt. Ilia thoughtfulness always ap (luiuuu 10 nmn. Ana that night, as always, it gootlicd her wounded feelings to a degree " Bath really felt chagrined as woll as hurt that Brian hail as she thought consoled himself with Mollie King whei she had been obliged to be away on bus iness; and now sho was doubly huis and chagrined that she was with hhu overseas. She know that sho was Mol lie's superior in bruin and appearance. lei junan seemed to prefer Mollie, hor company. She had vot to learn that H ia the woman, not what sho is, thn attracts most men. So, smnrtinir under her feclimr of nnir- leet, Alumtol's dclicato attentions were most acceptable; and helped hor to put asido the feeling inspired by Brian's letter lie fueling of chagrin that he could find enjoyment with soiuooue sh. knew to bo lu r inferior in ninny ways. Not th.it Muth belitUed Mollio's at- minions, even io uerseu. That wai never her way. But it seemed to show weakness on Brian's part to care for such attractions n9 Mollie possessed. Ituth knew that she (Mollie) was uu practical. Thnt sho called herself "A Bohemian" could not disguise the fact that sho was coutont to live in a man ner that 110 well-brought-up girl could endure, llow Brian could find entor tniniuent with such people, nmid their more than unattractivo surroundings, when ho had an artistic home to enjoy. wn8 beyond Ruth's understanding. "She's doing something now nurs ing soldiers. That woul d appeal tu him," she had said aloud while she dressed herself for the evening. 8h had acted upon her aunt's suggestion, worn a senii-cvenlng dress of blue, most becoming affair, in which she look Mrs. Curtiss.' gal, especially after Mr. Boberts came in and joined them, lie had come homt' found his wife gone, and called to see if sho woie with them, and Buth had in sisted that he have supper with, them. Hhe and Mandel got on famously. Thoy talked business a little, apologiz ing t0 the, ladies; .they discussed tho war, and, othor things, as men, will who see in each other sjoniothing congenial. xi was long aitct.Tniaiiight when, Jlie uiue party Drone up. , And Buth wfll ingly acknowledged that she had enjoy ed hersolf immensely. ' ' "We must have company often," Mrs. Claybprne had said. "We will grow stalo and unintoresting here by ourselves if we don 1," to which Buth had agreed. The next morning after again telling her how ho had enjoyed her party, Mau de! said to Buth: ' ' I liked that man. Boberts. so much. Ho is clever, ambitious sort of a chap. He'll make good some day or I'll niipj my guess." "Ho is a very hard worker," Buth returned, thinking of the difference be tween Kenyon Boberts and Brian. Both in tho same profession, one so anxious to succeed tho other so careless of hir future "A man has to be now-o-days, if he is to amount to anything," Mandol re turned. Ho had n0 faintest idea that he was hurtinsr Buth, or that his praist of her guest of the night beforo was painful on account of hop feelinc that Brian had not accomplished what ho might, simply because he lacked appli cation. Mandol wondered at Buth's lack ol interest in what he said about Boberts us she had seemed so friendly tho niL'lit before. Ho would have liked to stay longer to hor really what ho had al ready said had beeu in part designed to give nuu an oxcuso to stay near hor as long as possible. She was to go out of town for a cou ple of days and they had been o;ui ing the details. Sho was glad to go fer almost the first timo. Glad for the change in her routine work, and of some thing to do which would occudv he) whole attention, so giving her no time to tninn or Brian and Mollie King. un her way home that night she mot they do as Jesus did, that is, pray "peace, peace; when there is no peace,', throught the Christ, rather than to or uy 'Snoring, excusing, or evading Christ. Every good thought of Cariol- a ,any ,foTrm- GiI wit hthe swoid c . . .1. , of 1 ruth and Love, a Christian Scientist lan Scientist, in their continual pray- 83 a chri8tian gol'dier marclling a to ers must reflect the Christ, Trutr, for war, goes forward into battle to van- the Christ is the active idea of the quish the Goliath of material- sense. Spirit, which destroys error and in- Clad in the armor of spiritual undcr- harmony and brings an answer to theii standing, roused to the demands of di- praycrs. vine Principle, he wrestles valiantlv The reverence which Christian Scicn- with tho foe of impersonal error from cj bestows upon the ideal Christ, ami within and from without, and, having upon Jeans, ihe highest human example done all. he stands, until error, huvitir. of the perfect man, is impressive ui-d no further support, surrenders, and dos practical. Christian Sdoiico teaches troys itself. This spiritual conscious that tho hiist is made manifest thru, nesa is the real vision, and "where our improved human thoughts tara" there is no vision," the Bible savs, "the inoao qualities oi anection, uuiuiuty. people porisn." This sower, an nniritnnl lauuiuuncfes, patience, compassiun, tenir consciousness, is a present reality and perauce, morailty, which are stepping a present possibility. The vision "shall stones out of matter into Spirit. Ha- speak, and not lie," says the prophet, nmn thnnfrliiu timet n i mnr.iirail Hint, "thnini-h i. .n,. :i. l. . .. v 'r.v.i,u, wuj . "w'j, " ait ur it, uecause must become wiso and constructive, and it will surely come," and this "accept- iiiuso successive rounas pi jue laauer eu uuiu, i-aui said, is now. "Now is must be mounted step by stop before tho day of salvation," and it wiil bo complete reality is rcaclieu. li t. -y ua experienced by you acording to yout added that the textbook of C'Vistian willingness and readiness to recoive it. Scieii-.e. "Scur.ce and llea'th with Iey "For tho earth shall bo filled with the to the Scriptures" by Mary Eddy Bak- knowledge 0f the glory of the Lord, as er, mentions Jesus' name 43i separate the waters cover tho sea." times and Christ 205 additional times,' ' 1 Indeed Mrs. Eddy's veneration of Jesus f jmhin CfafYm Of Holl has been most evident to all who havo . vyilUU iJldll UI UI Ucal known her, and long ago she established a rule incorporated in the by-laws of the Mother Church that "careless com parison or irreverent reference to ChriBt Jems is abnormal in a Christian Sciti.t- 6 Bell-ans Hot water Sure Relief BELL-ANS FOR INDIGESTION as Arrives In- Germany (Capital Journal Special Service.) Dallas. Or.. Dec. 30. WnrA l... 131, u i piuuiuttuu. - iiuanuei, An. received in Dallas last woek from Cap VIII. Sec. 3.) The gentie, patient, com- tain Conrad Stufrin, commander of passionate, selfless Saviour will through Company L of this city, stating that Christian Scionco bocomo to posterity a he arrivod on tho German border with mightier and more practical cxaniplo, a battalion pf troops and would entor because Christian Science is helping to Germany soon. Captain Stafrin stated explain what Jesus meant when he in the letter that they were at a town sum, iuut wmcn is uurn ox ine nesa just south of tho Luxemburg line, is flesh; and that which is born of tho Whether ho W11R in rnmtiui n1 hie, nlrl Spirit is spirit." Science and Health, 1 troops is not known, but from the pngo 25, says, "Tho divinity of tha'mation gathered in dispatcher from the vm.at vs inaue uiauiicsi in me at- war department it is evident tho Dal- tho week end at Portland. Mr. Davia left for Bremerton Sunday afternoon. -Hiram and Gray Grazier, both in the service of Uncle Sam, were home fos l.t-l ' yuv nuiiuays. Mrs. Dclbort Boevcs is spending hci vacation with hor husband's parents. Mi. and Mrs. Fred Bcevos, of this eiU Mr. and Mrs. George W. SteclhauV mcr were shopping in Salem laBt 1'ri, day.. Mr. and, Mrs. Henry Dahl have re turned homo from California. Mr. JJarl hrs received his discharge from tho U. S. army. Carl Moser is home from Camp Led is. , Casualty Corrections About Northwest Men -Cabled casulty las Boldiers togethor with the other Oi- egon troops are near or possibly on i.Terman son by this time. inanity of Jesus." The Bible. It is not to bo wondered at. that a fleshly sense has during the mat oi ill ages crept into the Biblo and partially ! Influenza Epidemic Now Under Control obscured the original divinely inspired; The, Spanish Influenza, epidemic is. ...ett.,mn oi uio ocripiuros. mo- same , now uudcr the control of the physiciam scientific separation between the spirit-. in Dallas and surrounding country and ual Christ and the personality of Jesus, during tho past woek no deaths have oc which must bo made when readine a-j curred from the bout Christ Jesus, naturally must be de-j It is the intention of the health officers umtci; uiuuo ueiween opint aua mat- to iteop the ban on all public gather tor when reading tho Bible. The heal- inpa on til.t. hnwevnr. until iug and saving currents of true spiritu-1 has been reloascd from quarantine and ality will bo discerned on every page, 1 thereby avoid another broaking oai of ouu inB uear oiu xjioie, wnicn to so the opidemic, many uhs oeen an ancient writing Former Commercial Club , Secretary thought by them to be now inconsistent and impracticable, wills bo found to ho the same inspired Word of God, and it j Word comes from the' Capita! "City Uf un every fliwi-s iauie, ins cnici that Mrs. Winnie Braden, formerly sec guido to eternal life. retary of the Dallas Commercial club, Science and Health and Mrs. Eddy. I and tho Poik County Fair association, Tho key which unlocks the inspired had made Jill finnl leaf inn fm tlm nnai. meaning of this guide is rapidly at-: tion as manager of the Salem Commer taming its rightful place in the thots cial club. The election of a managoi of men. Mrs. Eddy named this key will probably be taken up after th Scionco and Health with Key to tho first of the new year and the Capital Scriptures." This inspired book re- City Commercial body will be exceed) quires when reading it the same definite ingly fortunate if they can secure the separation between Spirit and Matter services of Mrs. Bradon. She is per to be. made as does the Bible; then it haps the best posted woman i nthe state will bo understood and this understand- on all matters connected with the rim ing will heal tho reader, as it has done ning of these bodies and m-r! an ex in inumerablc cases. Some familiar cccdingly efficient secretary of the Dal words and torms used in Science and las organization. Her many friends in Health may at first seem incongrous, this city wish her success in socurinti and- this is as Mrs. Eddy lias expluincd, the position, because sho found in material language Washington, Dee. 30,- corrections: Wouudod severely, previously renorl. cd missing in action: A. Olscn, Puyallup, aWsh. Wounded, degree undetermined. nre iously reported missing: Privates B. A. Bates, Butte, Mont. C. P. Blanchard, Enumclaw. Wnh. B. II. Brackenridge, Los Angeles, Cal H. Eisner, San Francisco. D. L. Bobbins, Moscow, Idaiw, II. C. Sarff, Everett, Wsa.h B, Sabrana, Fort Bragg, Cal. N. B. Walters, Phoenix, Oregon. Aoturnod to duty, previously report, ed missing in action: Sergeant B, W. White, Tacomft, Wn, " Jrivatea . " J. J. Arnott, Parma, Idaho. E. T. Hooper, Honcut, Cal. H, L. Hutchison, Salt Lake City. Utah. ' Would Make Provost Marshal General Crowder, General d very cirlUh ond lovoly. Mrn. Olav- borne bad not fnilod to notico that Mnn I head that Mollio King has gont nVOriniiO no a mi Kim T . ...w.cn !.:. - ill I PiUI 111 BiiornilV to lr a li ,a aiiai fu.m ..... - 1 1 ,. , -"v -j". sees nor!" she asked Buth, Ruth, and that onco or twice when Mrs. lioberts had spoken, he had failed to hear. They had a dollghtful game, then about cloven o'clock, Rachel called them Into the dining room where s'uu hal prepared a dainty supper, by Mrs. Clayborne'a orders. They grew quite LESLIE SALT fl&vora all ih food evenly lis a.vcnd:rfu! SXidtocoolU Yes. He wrote me that he saw hei often," Buth returned, Perhups Mollie had written Mrs. Cur tiss, Sho would not pretend she knew nothing of her renewed intimacy witl' Brian. Tomorrow Mrs. Curtiss Expounds Her Views. LECTURE ON CHRISTIAN (Continued from pago three) mea to understand and demonstrate. Christian Science teaches that each man must awaken, and discover in himself the spiritual idea, or Christ, which is bom, not of the blood, nor the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God." This idea of man is the true man, the Christ man, the image and likeness of God, our real selfhood. The Christ, Truth, in human thought, in the measure that it is gained and maintained, is the same spiritual con sciousnesa which enables one to cast out error and to henl the sick. Then it enn never be said that Christian Science does not recognio Jesus, or that they "do not pray to Christ." Oa.the contrary, Jesus is awpted more clearly and gratefully that ever before for fr'.st what he claimed himself to be, and for hit selfless and mathchlcss mission to mankind. As for nravinir to Christ. a groat scarcity of words to cxnross the right spiritual idea, but had to use such words as woro available. A wrong sense has often been taken of the true meaning of Christ Jesus and of the Biblo. This is also tho case with "Scionco and Health with Key to the Scriptures," for such is the pervorsity and tenacity of tho material mind, and it this material and personal judgomcnt has influenced thought toward Science aud Health, it is not surprising that it has done likewise toward Mrs. Eddy her self. Prejudice, ignorance, and dis trust, however, give way beforo the facts. Those so erroneously influenced, who afterwards come to know Mrs. Ed dy, invariably experience a total change of feeling. How truo are her written words, "It is self evident that tho dis covorer of an eternal truth cannot be a temporal fraud." (Miscellany, p. Salvation. And now, my mriends, for a complete. exposition of Christian Science, wo al ways recommend the inquirer to read the Christian Science textbook "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.' This book can be obtained at any Christian Sciouce reading room. Science and Health should be read at first slowly, aud, if read with a humble, hungering, and thirsting desire to know the Truth the accurate statements sere in will quickly appeal o he recoil .el hold the interest, until the render gradually discovers for Iuidku.. tlo di vine Principle and rules of right think ing which, heal and save. Heaven is not c region or a localtiy to be entered physically, but it is a stae of purified consciousness, a sate of spiritual under standing, a salvation from sin, Bickness id, death. Death, devil, hell, sin, dis ease, and disaster are the experincs of tho old man, ' which St. Paid insists iiiU3t.bc "put off." Christian Science shows that they are not the facts of be ing, but are only illusions of material consciousness which must be woiiei out of, and in the ratio that this is done, salvation is attained, Will you choose the material, afflictivv, and ir-' isfaaule, or will you choose the health- giving, joy-inspring nnd permfcacf "Choose you this day whom ye will serve; whether the gods which youi fathers served that were on the other side of the flood, or the gods of the Amorites, ... as for me and my hous." said Joshua, "we will serve the Lord." Christian Scientists are the most joy oua people in the world, because they strive to serve the Lord in Truth and spiritual understanding. But they know that they do not serve the Lord by go ing to sleep at their posts, or by crying Mr. and Mis. Snmuel Orr of Portland are spending the Christmas holidays at the homo of their son, Sheriff John W Orr and family on Washington street Glen Holnian and Harry Graves ,twp Dallas boys in the radio service of Un cle Sam's navy, are home for the holi days for a short visit with their par ents. They are stationed at Goat Island near San Francisco. Bcv. D. A. MacKcuzio, formerly pas tor of tho Dallas Presbyterian church was homo from Vancouver aBrracks on Christinas for a short visit with his family. Bev. MacKenzio is a Y. M, O A. secretary at that place. Mr. and Mrs. Cliff Johnson of Sea side are guests at the home of Mrs. Johnson's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Goo. Scott. Hany Byers, a civil engineer working on an extension of the S. P. railroad to tho headwaters of tho tido near the 8i letz agency, spent Christmas with his family in this city. Mr. and Mrs. E. K. Piasscki spen. Christmas with relatives in the Capital City. Floyd D. Moore, recently elected as clerk of Polk county, spent Christmas with his parents at Monmouth. Mr, Moore is just recovering from an at tack of influenza and pneumonia. Judgo and Mrs. E. C. Kirkpatrick were guests of friends in Salem Wed nesday night. Floyd tlhs, a member of the medi cal department of the navT at Breni orton, is visiting at the hoem of his par cuts, Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Ellis, on Jef- terson street. SILVERTON NEWS (Capital Journal Special Service.) Silverton, Or., Dec. 30. Sunt. B. T. Youcl was amono those who attended the annual- teachers' association at Portland last week. Harvey Lincoln of CamD Lewis spent Christmas at home. The J. L. Robinson homo lint the scene of a happy family reunion on Christmas day. All of tho children at well as a number of other relatives were together for the first time in sev eral years. Mrs. Guy Husband of Portland is vis iting with her parents, Mr. and Mrs J. H. Sherlock. Mi Elma Hutton, Mrs. Mary Osburr and Mrs. Phillipi, all daughtera of Mr. and Mrs. Tillman Hutton, visited their parents at Silverton daring the holi-, days. j Mr. and Mrs. George W. Davis spent Washington. Dee. 80. A movomnnt i. afoot today to mako Provost Marshal, General Crowder a lieutenant cenOTal or a full genoraL Mixed up with, the movement in a considerable amount of national and military politics. It is claimed that tho republican mainly favor tho promotion. Somo democrats allege that the pr vost marshal general-is a man of ex tremo ambitions and that he has built up a considerable political machine i. cidental to his work. Lines Of Communication With Germany Severed With the American Army of Occu pation, Dec. 28. (Delavod The Am- erican Third army has severed all lines of communication between th occupied zone and the remainder nf Germany, with the exception of two. trunk wires to Berlin. These wirc ara connected with American headquarter and are used only for official businesa or such private messages as are ap proved. The wires were cut at the edga of the "Coblcnz, bridgehead. TYPHUS CLAIMS WORKER Vladivostok, Doc. 30. Grace Me Bride of tho Shanghai chapter of th Bed Cross died of typhus at Tiumea on December 23, it "wag learned her today, There are, two cases of typhus, ia Vladivostok. SYKUP FIGS OF CHILD'S LAXATIVE look At Tcssras! Remove Poi sons From Stomach, Lyier And Bowels. Accent "Califomi." n. -r- only-look for the name C.lifc,!. 5 tho package, then vnn .r. ., . child is having the best and most harm less laxative or physie for. the link stomacr liver and Stowels. Child love its delicious fruity taste. Fall & reetions for child rin.a n Give it without fear.