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torn - : s t . . . - . . . . . - X9 itorial Page of The Capital Jour, SATURDAY EVENING- January i, 1919 CHARLES H. FISHES Editor and Publisher nal Ed Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon, Address All Communications To SALEM 130 S. Commercial St. OREGON SUBSCRIPTION BATES ruiw v Crrinr npr venr J5.00 Per Month.. Daily' by Mail, per year..... , $3.00 Per Month ...45e 35o FULL LKASKD WIRK TELEGRAPH REPORT FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES W- D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. H. Stockwcll, Chicago, People's Gag 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 gotting the paper to tou 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 earrier has missed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL It the only newspaper In Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations A TROUBLE-MAKER GONE. Von Eckhardt, the German minister to Mexico, has gone back to the fatherland. His return was involun tary. He was recalled at the request of the United States. The new German government thereby showed more in tlligence than its predecessor and established a precedent which, if followed generally, will help Germany's foreign relations in the future. . Certainly Von Eckhardt did Germany no good m Mexico. He served the old, crooked Berlin ring loyally enoughdoing the will of the kaiser and his fellow crim inals in spreading poisonous propaganda. His particular function was to arouse the natural prejudice and antag onism of the lower classes in Mexico against the Amer ican people. If he could have embroiled Mexico with the United States, his reward would have been great. He played into the hands of that other conspirator of notor ious memory, Ambassador 'Bernstorff, at Washington, and was hand-in-glove with those lesser crooks, Boy-ed and Von Papen. .. j , . - , 1 i Germany,, today, cares nothing about .Mexico, and never did, for that matter. Germany now care a good deal, however, about the United States, believing that the influence of the American people is the only power abl; to save her from destruction at the hands of the relent less allies. The new government therefore recalls Von Eckhardt as a favor to this country. It is incidntally a favor to Mexico. Our graceless neighbor is well rid of him. And that, let us hope, is only the beginning of .better conditions in Mexico. If the fussy and futile Carranza regime does not show marked, improvement in- many other respects before many months, it will be due for a stern reckoning. PROHIBITION COOKING. Wails a New York chef in despair at the prospects of 'federal prohibition: "You can hardly cook anything without wine or cor dials. Take our national dish, terrapin. You cannot cook that without sherry sauce. Plum pudding, mince pies, all need a bit of cognac, which is not at all harmful." Anyone with a bit of scientific knowledge may read ily agree that none of these precious ingredients of ele gant cookery are "at all harmful", since the heat of cook ing drives out the volatile alcohol and leaves hardly any thing but the non-intoxicating flavor of the beverage used. Otherwise the lament affords a curious and inter Jesting study in culinary psychology. " "You can hardly cook anything without wine or cor dials." . Great Scott! What has the American housewife, in anv on of the fortv-eierht states got to say to that? In j how many American homes is there any sort of alcoholic liquor usea in me Kicnen i And he hotels and restaurants, fashionable and un fashionable, in prohibition stateshow do they manage to get together an edible meal? Are the people in this state, Kansas, Maine, Montana and Michigan perishing of starvation as well as thirst? Do they never get a square meal in the "bone-dry" south? And when the whole coun try goes "dry", as it is destined to in a few months, will a nation of 100,000,000 people be condemned to starvation in tihe midst of plentyvictuals, victuals everywhere, but not a bite to eat. as it were, because they have no sherry or port or brandy or anything to do cooking with? It is indeed a sad prospect, liut it is just possiDie that the woeful chefs of Gotham have not got their cul inary perspectives on straight. Take that little additional touchy for example, about "our national dish, terrapin." How many people in this great and glorious country ever tasted terrapin? If our "naional dish" isn't ham and eggs, what is it? And who ever heard of frying ham and eggs with a "stick" in 'em? Moreover, if by some miracle a Dlate of terramn were set down before the average unterrified American, what sort of a sauce would he call for? Catsup, of course. And for that indutitablv American product which the. chef deigns to mention, mince pie, have oilr mothers t .1 . 1 I A L a.1- "L. 3 and grandmothers not maoe it ior generations witn naru cider? And there is hope that the household use of cider will not be strictlv prohibited. Anyway, most of us still have strong hopes of not being compelled to follow the example of the late Dr. Tanner and become expert tasters. These fellows who are working hardest on the so called reconstruction program scent big state apporpria tions and many good jobs. There will probably be more politicians than ex-soldiers put to work as a result of the deliberations of the coming Portland : convention. The state defense council, state food administration and mili tary police haven't the nerve to continue longer in busi ness and their $300 a month employes must have other places provided or go to work. The returning soldiers do not need jobs half so badly as these-demobilized poli ticians require pap from the state treasury. - ' The continued frosty weather is beyond doubt con tributing to the present epidemic of sickness. It is not natural Oregon weather, is provocative of colds and grippe which, are especially dangerous during the prevalence of influenza. - . -. . . - . . ' U' A newspaper publisher has just died in Los Angeles leaving a seven million dollar estate. However,' he made all this money, and more, too, before lie started a news paper. From the way the various nations have been trying to unload their problems on President Wilson since he went to Europe, anybody would think he was the trouble man of the universe. RIPPLING RHYMES BylWalt Mason THE WINTER SUN. How sweet the sunshine on a winter day, when we've grown tired of heavens bleak and gray! The clouds break up, and from a smiling sky the sun looks down and winks the other eye, and men look up and make their faces smile, which have been dark with sorrow for a while. The graybeards come from armchairs by the fire, to sun them selves, forgetting ailments dire; they smile and say they feel as good as new, and wake next day with symptoms of the flu. Some vagrant birds that failed to emigrate, hop on the lawn and perch upon the gate; they seem to think that winter's gone and lost; alas, poor things, that's where their wires are crossed. How sweet the sunshine on a winter day! The ice is thawed, the snowdrift melts away; the air is soft, and feeble minded chaps go chasing out without their winter wraps; in June attire they sit upon the porch, to read a book or smoke a five-cent torch; and then the doc, the nurse and druggist come, to feed them pills and make their savings hum; in vain the dope, the guys grow worse and worse, till the mortician brings his super-hearse. How sweet the sunshine of a winter day! Enjoy it all, but throw no duds away, or you will suffer many aches and pangs; spring isn't here by sundry parasangs. A T?ncc!"iri rrmh rnpri in kill .Tnn ParlerewskL recentlv. so Warsaw dispatches say. The average man who has . il ! ! 11! L- 1 1- i- sometime or otner paia live aoiiars ior a uciwu iu uuc of hi sconcerts will be inclined to side with the mob. Maybe the new Zionist nation might buy up those German battleships as the start tor a new navy. THEWIFE By Jane Phelps. BUTH IS CHARMED WITH MBS. LIVINGSTONE. CHAPTER CXXVII. Ruth kept tho appointment the next morning ,nnd found Mrs. Livingstone a very dulightlui nudaioagod woman. One of the many women of social prom inence who was giving not onty her monoy, but hor eutire time to war work. They took to each other at once, and Buth fult so hesitancy ' in talking of her plans. She explained that it was because her own baby had been boru after her husband had gone overseas that she was particularly interested in the wives of soldiers who were similar ly situated. Before she left for the shop, she had list of five or six to look up, sonio of whom Mrs. Living stone ssid might very urgently need help. "Two kinds of help," she said with a winning smile. "The help that mon ey brings; and that which sympathy gives. Some of them, poor things, aro naturally terribly depressed. Mr.ny of them have no one to whom to turn for either sympathy or for diversion. They will welcome you because you are young and beer.-use yon, th'rough having the same experience, know just how they feol. I am glad you are taking up this work. Even though it is homo work, it is none the loss war work." She then spoke of money feed er, and Ruth told her of her aunt'l interest, and that she was abundantly able to r.-sist her financially. But, even bo, Mrs. Livingstone made Buth proin- iso to como to hor if she needed help of any kind. "She was perfectly lovely I" Buth said with enthusiasm when she told hor aunt of her call on Mrs. Livingstono. "She is charming. And has prom ised to help me all she can. She en tirely approves of what I want t0 do. And she has given me a list of young wives and mothers to visit," she told Mr. Mandel. "I knew you would get on with her. I have known her 8 long time. She is ono of New York's four hundred. Not only because of her money and birth, but because of her good heart." Buth lost no time in locating the people on her list. With one excep tion, they were young women, like her self, and tho child their first, as Brian was hers. The exception was the one most in need of financial assistance. She had two little ones, just toddlora and the third one had come the day her man sailed. . "It was Tim's wish to have a boy, and when the boy came he wasn't here to see him. Not that he didn't like the girls; he was that fond of them. But he had set his heart on having a boy, and now likely as not he never will see him. He'll be killed, niaybi. ' "You must not feel that way," Buth said to her ,then told her of her own little Brian, whom his father also nev er had seen. Before she loft tho poor littlo Irishwoman was not quite so hope less, and Buth, in trying to cheer her, had intrigued herself also. If Buth had bwn busy before, she was overloaded. She neglected noth ing at the shop, but daily, almost, her list of mothers grew She never had an unoccupied minata. Her aunt declared she would make he:elf ill; and Mandel tried to make hcr take her outside work in a rational manner. But Buth stub bornly refused to save herself. Altho she did not concede it, she felt, in a way, that she was atoning for keeping 0pen Forum Acd Sta-ibHun And His Allies" To The Editor: We have hoped and hare worked fnr the defeat of the Hun, and would have him deprived of power ever to make further disturbance in the world. Wo have seen that the system headed by the pope has been an ally of tho Hun in this war on World Democracy. In our first writing attention was con fined to the political aspect of the papal position. Then we were treated to homilies specializing on tho temporal power of the pope. Unintentionally of course our critics havo greatly sim plified our work. In the demand for the dismember ment of Italy and the separation of Borne therefrom they confess them selves the implacable enemies of Italy. The crippling of Italy would have ser iously troubled the work of the other Allied Powers. It might have defeated it would surely have hindered us in our fight for World Democracy. Of course tho pope and his party sought to keep under cover and to appear if possible as friendly to the causo of tho Allies. But any ono can see that an attempt to ruin one of the Allied Powers would have been a blow at the causo of all of them. To the thought ful all this fight for the restoration of the temporal power to the pope aligns these contestants with our en emies. The papal power so understands it, but wo had not cxpocted our critics to make so full and frank a confession. In speaking of the pnpal attitude in the war, we then made no reference to the crimes of the popes. But when a critic claimod that the popes aro ''un married" and claimed a special sanc tity for them we rightly pointed to .the infamous corruption that has pre vailed in papnl circles, showing by authority that no Bomanist dares dis pute that during the last thousand years, a little more than one in four of all the popes has been openly and notoriously a murderer or adulterer or both This corruption of tho popos and their court is so much tho worse, because the men involved make claim to special sanctity, and special nenrncsB to God. As to tho immoralities of re cent popes Gregory, Pius IX and Leo these were so openly and shameless ly before the public that thousands of people yet living are witnesses. Thous ands of our people visited Rome during these pontificates the accounts have been freely published and, as in like cases nearer home, the parties involved have not dared prosecute anybody for slander. It is idlo to say that the native Romans who toll those things are ''in fidels" "enemies of the pope", etc. for a moment ago it was asserted that these Romans were so attached to the pope that but for Italian bayonets, they would never have" voted, a huml: red to one, to turn the pope out of the temporal power. And yet, in spite of the know villainy of some of the popes, Romanists declare that these men, each and every one of them, was an infallible teacher of Christian truth the supreme representative of the Almighty God and that every one who turned away from him, went straight to hell, without chance to escape through purgator. Then it is said that Mr. Lisle lias thrown "dirt" (the usual weapon against the Catholics). I am genuinely grateful to tho critic for this remark. It is a full confession of the truth of our statements. If we threw dirt, every one sees that we manufactured none of it. Pastor had gone digging amopg the papal records in the Vatican, and found the awful, horrible, stenching mess. Re porting his find to Pope Leo, the pope in a spasm of some sort, told Pustor to go ahead and tell the world what a scurvy set of fellows had occupied tho popal chair. No ono, friend or foe, can give a truthful account of tho popes without shovelling in the filth in which some of them wallowed. Borne Rom anists are ashamed of the papal history, but others when mention is mado of papal crimes, go yelling "bigotry," L ITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT By S. W. STRAUS, Praiitni Amtrkm Sxitigfrn Tirtfi 4 'y f t. What would you think of a business con cern that did not keep books r Cer tainly such an i n s 1 1 1 ution could not pos sibly be suc cessful. To a great rxtent tho 'i f same rule may mXJ - Ai nil irt 1 be applied to the household. Every well-ordered home should be .opcrnted on the budget plan. There .should be a definite apportionment irranged for the various items of : household expense with provision for systematic savings. i The question often is asked: "How imuch money should I save?" This is a problem that can be solved only I by the individual. Experience has j shown that those who earn large in comes ere no more inclined to save money than the earners ot smaller imoiints. j Saving money is more a matter of ; will power than of Income. It has been my obsrrvalion that i those who do not save while earn l ins small salaries do not improve 'in this regard with increased incomes. ; So the amount to he apportioned :in your household budget for savings :is a question that you must determine for yourself upon honest and sincere 'thouirlit. . " , A simple household budget can made at home, with plain card m sheet of paper about nine incbd square. Rule It off with horisont lines, one for each day of the monthV On the left side of the card, draw tw vertical lines and in the squares that formed, set down the amount of inf come you expect to receive on tht various days of the month. Possibtj by ingenuity and industry you can ia crease this amount. Over this portion of the card malo a bracket and mark it "Income." Ova the balance of the card make bracket and mark 'Expenditure.' Classify your expenditures such m food, rent, fuel, clothing, charity, sa ings, education, recreation, etc. . L each of these classifications stand a the head of two columns of squares, the bead of two double columns o squares. . In the left-hand column set dowl the amounts of your anticipated e penditures for each day for the va rious items. Then, as you go alora day after day through the montk set down in the vacant square opposite each of these figures tht amounts you actually opend. At tb end of the month totuls can be madj of the various items. t These cards can be filed from montl to month and from vear to year ant will prove a tremendous help in yo CllirilS lu jhohii.v mini. - Above everything else, see that tH daily squares In the savings columt are never vacant. J the news that he had a son from Brian by doing all she could for the wives and babies of those other soldiers who, never would see,, their children, .born after they left. Whenever she tried to instill nope m fiomc young mother's heart sue always had an unexpressed fear in her own. Often as she assured them that Tim or John or Georgo would probably come back safe and sound, she woum nave to swallow hard to rid herself of the lump in hcr own throat at the thought that perhaps Brian her man might not return. But her work amorte these young wo men did her good. She forgot to lie awoke and wonder if Brian had seen Mollie King that day, and, if so, under what circumstances. 8he was wearied to exhaustion with her combined duties and hcr charitable work. She slept al most as soon as she touched the pillow. Little Brian was growing wonderful- lv liko his father. So like him, that Buth often looked at the tiny face and wondered if he would be as much liko Bricn in other things as he was in look. In some things she hoped he would; she hesitated in her thought when she thought of other traits. "I hope vou will be good and brave end strong," she said to him as she held him closely in hcr arms. W hat she meant by "strong" perhaps she herself could not have told. Yet, in that hes itation, she had put her complaint against Brian her feeling thst he was not quite all she wanted her boy his win to be. Tomorrow Buth Tells Brian of Her. New Interest. "persecution", "throwing dirt," But listen, if popes and their friends should honestly clean house, nobody would find any dirt to throw. We have known persons of the Rom ish laity whom we love, and whom we respect as clean and Godly people,, in spite of the corrupting example of murderous and adulterous popes. All honor to such persons! In our Methodist Hymnal we have several hymns that were written by Romanists, and wo use them to our great spiritual profit But the papal political machine is an other matter. It is this that has made common cause with tho Hun and the Turk in he la e war. Poor the good of the Bomish laity, the papal ruling clique should be packed off with the Hohenzollern and the Turk, after, which removal the world may have a peaoe that may abide. -' : Salem, Ore. JAMES LlSLfi.' .rt CITY AND COUNTY OFFICERS COMMENDED Every law abiding citizen will hear tily commend tho work of the city and county officers in thoir effort to ap prehend convicts, and punish these who traffic in booze in defiance of law and public sentiment. If it is true that "a select clientel of local business SB pO?D 9ABq Spjpijjo OJIUS puB U0U1 pnrcnase.rs ot the winsKey" the wnole work at the officials is not yet done. Tho purchaser is no more entitled to consideration than the sellers and should be brought to justice and pun ished as severely and with as much publicity as the other. Who is the "prominent Salem physician" men tioned as having received "one ship ment!" Who i8 othe "merchant who paid $100 for 12 quarts!" In justice to the many reputable business and professional men of this city the names of the others should be made public, and the same punishment meted out to them as has been accorded thoir part ners in this criminal business. Who are the "state officials" who have so far forgotten their duty to the people as to deliberately violate the constitution and lawj of the state! In justice to the many state officials whose conduct is above reproach in such matters, the identity of the law breaker should be mado known. Give his constituents an opportunity to reg ister a protest against that kind of rep resentation in the government of our state. It is almost unthinkable that any man sworn to respect and enforce the law of the state should be so lack ing in self respect as to become a par ty to such lawlessness. It is to be hop ed that our 'officers, if evidence cam be securod, will go the limit in ex posing and prosecuting such men. They may rest assured that the people, who in two elections wrote this law into the constitution will stand by them in their undertaking, and will be sa too tied with nothing less at their hands. R. N. AVISON. New British Cabinet To Be Announced Sooir London, Jan 4. Announcement ot. the personnel of the new British cabi net is expected to be nnado soon after Premier LloydjGeorge returns from his home in Wales. . . TEET ARE PBOZEN. Boscoo Beeves is probably the first person to arrive in Silvorton with botls feet frozen. Ho came here from North Dakota' with a car of cattle and horse belonging to A. H. Verbeck, who recent ly moved back to Silvorton from tho cold country. Roy Verbeck was also with tho car o fstock, but ho did not suffer from the cold as did the Beeves boy. While the latter 's condition is not serious he will have tender feet for i"ie time. Silverton Tribune. Our Want Ads are the Bait that catch the Big Fish Result -Try one in to-morrow't'DaDer SPRINGTEX ithe underwear with m million little springs fabric w.hich give and take with every movement of the body, and preserve the shape of the garment despite long wear and hard washings. 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