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ilorial Page o f The Capital Journal THURSDAY EVEXIXO January IS, 1919 CHARLES H. FISHEB Editor nd Publisher Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address AU Communications To SALEM 136 S. Commercial St. OREGON SUBSCRIPTION RATES Dailv. bv Carrier. oer Tear $5.00 Per Month.. Duly by Mail, per year- ..$3.00 Per Month- 45e 35e FULL LEASED W1EE TELEURAPU REPORT FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES ' W. D. Ward. New York, Tribune Building. ' W. H. Stoekwell, Chicago, People's Oat Building The Daily Capital Journal carrier boya are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If the earrier 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 Bl before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the samor has missed you. .WELCOME EVERY ONE. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations ADVICE TO THE SENATE. Former President Taft, in a recent statement, gave tiece of sound advice to the United States senate, when he said: . "The League of Nations is very strong with the peo pies of Europe." It is growing stronger here. It is gokg to attract the mass of wage earners and the plain people here as it has abroad. - "The contemptuous scepticism of the senate cloak room, the cheap sarcasms of the 'old senatorial hand' and the manifest spirit of 'how not to do it' will be poor weap ons with which to combat an idealistic campaign for a definite clan for Dermanent peace and democracy." In a somewhat similar statement, speaking of the wide-spread desire for a peace federation, Secretary Baker said: "It represents the passionate demand of the man on the street, the simple and unsophisticated, who know little of the intrigues and wiles of statecraft, but who know a very great deal about the suffering and sacrifices that war entails." -v ... - There is no longer any doubt as to how the great masses, the majority of the workers and fighters and voters, think about the matter in all ' the belligerent countries. "y ' ""' ' : , Statesmen everywhere who want to retain their pres tige or their jobs will do well to take notice and fall into line. The soldier boys who are coming home broke a id must be cared for, according to the rectnstructiomsts, might be encouraged to go into politics and some of them wouldn't need much encouragement at that. There a :e more good paying political jobs in the country than tha-'e were soldiers in our army, and those who fill the places now are intensely patrioticthey say so themselves and would no doubt be willing to work for a living awhile and let the returned soldiers sign their names to the sala.-y payrolls for a while. We would just like to see the of ficeholders busy clearing logged-off lands and draining frog ponds the attractive occupations these same poli ticians are now so anxious to reward the returning sol dier with. Bolshevism is a sort of political "flu", for which the doctors prescribe three square meals a day and a steady job. Most of the patients, however, rebel against the last part of the prescription. While feeding Europe to cure bolshevism, it would help matters if the bolshevik leaders could be fed with rat poison. RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Mason WHALE MEAT. They tell us now the flesh of whales is good as quail on toast; I've read some soul inspiring tales about whale stew and roast. "The problem of man's food is solved," the scientists confess; "the whale meat diet we've evolved relieves the world's distress." So long we've eaten pork and veal, the diet's growing stale, and we should all elated feel, when gnawing ribs of whale. They're serving whale in fine hotels, boiled, roasted, poached and fried; in fact, the Whale is wearing bells, wherever it's been tried. I read and journey, unawares, to days when I was young, when they were booming Belgian hares, and you and I got stung. You may recall those golden days, while dol ing in your chairs; then every man set in to raise about a million hares. We heard how they'd supplant the stee. the mutton and the goose; we'd make 10,000 bones a year, if "hares we should produce. We raised the hares and when we went to sell them in the mart, the blamed things wouldn't bring a cent the mem'ry breaks my heart. And so no argument avails, or puts up any ice; you cannot se l me any whales, however low the price. , The state committee of Massachusetts which has in hand the program of welcoming the returning soldiers makes this suggestion to towns and cities throughout the state: "We suggest that wherever local committees of wel come have not been formed they should be formed at once, in order to make sure that no man arriving shall want for adequate attention." - This recommendation is timely, for in many cases the boys will return to their various towns singly or in twos and threes. The man arriving alone should not lack for just as warm a welcome, just as open display of his towns-peo-ple's pride in him, as is extended to the troop which can parade and thus is certain of public attention. The mani fest pride of his fello wcitizens will go further toward making a good substantial citizen of him than anything else although we do not share any fear that the soldier boys will prove anything but good citizens than any other agency. The present legislative session is just now in the con solidation stage. They always open that way and some times it is pretty hard for the party leaders to line the members ud aeainst the abolishing of any good jobs. In the end, however, the political "pull" Wins and no com missions or departments are consolidated and no jobs are abolished. Always some new offices are created and a few more of the faithful attached to the state payroll to become wards of the taxpayers. - - . . -i The road committees are the only thing worth while in the present session. The member who can't bring a paved state highway through his hometown will have to sneak back home at night and then get quarantined for the "flu" until the feeling among his constituents dies down. . KERENSKY QUIETLY And a good many of the soldier boys who marched away to war so proudly will come back home just as manly and possessed of as much self-respect and self-reliance as when they went away. They will not especially welcome charity or even sympathy from the professional patriots who are now the most energetic reconstructionists. ! The longest drought on record is going to strike this country,, when only one more state legislature ratifies the prohibition amendment. Joohn Barleycorn is breathing his last dying gasps right now. Reclaiming land ought to appeal to our soldiers. After seeing the condition of the soil in the war zone, anything drainable or clearable or irrigable in' this coun try would look easy. The latter-day socialist doctrine seems to be that all armed force is wrong except when Germany weilds it. The consolidation talk you hear around the legish- ture never consolidates. Former Dictator Of Russia Leads Uneventful Life In London Friend's Home. By Edwin Hullisger (United Press Staff Correspondent.) London, Dec. 26. (By Mail.) Alex andcr Kerensky, former dictator of Rus sia, is living quietly in the home of"a friend on Cambridge Stairs Terrace, by Regent Park, in London. Iu his little study, which he occupies a large part of the day, lie i3 preparing memoirs, re reading and re-studying doc uments wnicn once represented the des tiny of Russia, and dictating to his Russian stenographer, who can write shorthand in four languages. Kerensky has just finished a book on the Korniloff mutiny. He soldoin goes outside his friend's beautiful, cozy little house. Onee every day he walks alone through the wind ing, graveled paths of Regent park just across tho road. He likes music, plays the piano fairly well, and sings. He knows by heart an enormous volume of Russian vocal mu- A WORKING GIRL'S LITE Day in and day out, month after month, she toils. Often she is the breadwinner of the family and must work that tothcrs may live. Rain or shine, warm or cold, she must be at her place of employment on time. A great majority of uh girls are on their feet from morning until night, and symptoms of female troubles are early manifested by weak and aching ibacks, dragging-down pains, head aches Jand nervouswesB. Buck ,giils are asked to try this most successful of all remedies for woman's ills, Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, which for more than forty years ha been giving girls strength to do their work. ed that if he didn't hurry, Buth would look so young he wouldn't know her. Happiness had brought back the youth- fulness, the smiles, the dimples. Then there came word he had sailed. This time not "over there" but "ov er Jiere." - T0 He continued. 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Often he sits at the piano in the little parlor on the second story, aud sings through one Russian master after another. Wife Is in Moscow. Sometimes he stops Binging to think of his wife and two littlo boys, hostag es in Moscow, imprisoned by the bolslio viki soon after tho great dcbaclo, and later released from prison whon Mrs. Kerensky signed a pledge they would not leave Russia. It js an exquisite little room, this second-floor parlor, finished in gray, with a monster white polar bear rug on middle of the floor, several big grny upholstcrcd cushiony arm-chair8 and a wonderful couch into which you sink as into a feather bed when you Bit down j Hnn irnll ia a l.anlr nt CVam.lt Tirin.' dows, through which creep the gray lights of a London day. A fire in a fireplace at one end gives a homey touch to tho scene. Was Lawyer Formerly. Kerensky was a lawyer in Russia be foro the revolution. He is still interest ed in law and ;devotos part of his time to logal questions. IIo is a man of remarkable personal ity. He has a smile that wins you at first meeting, a real, friendly-like smile that eouvincos you right away he is in terested in you. He ig direct and unaf fected. Ho talks immediately to the point, like an American business man, without flourish. Ho has a wondorful reserve power. His face is sensitive and extremely expressive. He can look tho most de lightfully amused one moment and tho next the most tremendously sober. Like most loaders of men, he focuses his mind completely upon each separate in cident, and nover allows his perception of the present instant to be clouded by hang-ovor ipressions from the past. James M. Cox, aged 47, -was inaugu rated governor of Ohio Monday for a, third term. r A homo for aged and dopendent lawyers-is proposed in a' bill introduced in the California legislature.' Iwmiwmirnwmrmwif THEWIFE By Jane Phelps. A FALSE THEN A TRUE FEACE PROCLAMATION. CHAPTER CXXXVni. Ruth was quietly working, one morn ing not long after Brian naa been doc orated when tho sirens and tug whis tles begau to blow; when all the bulis in New York pealed out the news which quickly spread to all the business hous- that pcu-co had come. War was over! Like the other houses, Manuel" closed his store for the day. lie aud Ruth oilier up Mrs. Clay borne, asked her to meet them, and then went to one of tin) gay restaurants to watch tho hilar ity, and to join in tho gladness the news Ui.4 brought. All of them put aside all personal feeling savo that of happiness for coun try; aud the lives which would ve saved by this early peace (Early as far as America was concerned.) liandel took them home in his ear wiiou they tired of the confusion in tho restaurunt, driving them thru the t tents where the crowd had not made going impossible. All that evening Ruth and her aunt talked of the won dorful news, of what it would meat to tho country, to them, and to others. "We will have to go right on giv ing and working for some time," Mrs. Clnybome remarked. "It will eost a lot to bring tho wounded home and care for them; and for ships to bring the troops back. We must not think that we havo done enough because there will be peace, after a little;wo will have to keep right on for a yeor of two at least." "We will be willing tool" Ruth re joinod.her voico gny with happiness. Brian was coming. That thought had been with her every moment since she first understood what the sirens were trying to tell the people. That Brian was coming had added to her gladness ths the horrible war was over that the murder of brave men, innocent women and children, would stop. Then came a doubt of the authentic ity of the news. Then it was denied. People who had exhausted their emo tions when the false news came, wont about depressed, some almost discour aged. Ruth could scsrcoly keep still a moment. She bought every paper she could get so that she might read the latest news. Never had days seemed so long. Tho Sunday following was in terminable. Monday camo, and with it also came the ratified news of pcaco. Another wild wave of enthusiasm swept tho country. Yet something of the sponta niety of the first celebration was miss ing. But a quiet happiness had taken its place in the hearts of the more re served of the population. Ruth was ono of these. She and hor aunt. They talked quietly together at homo; refusing to join Mr. and Mrs. Curtiss who wore dining out to cele brate. "I don't feel in the mood tonight," had been Ruth 's remark, when her aunt left the decision with her. "Unless you care to go, I would far rather re main quietly at home. I seem to have exhausted my desire for noise on the false report." "Aunt Louisa-," Euth continued, after a time, "I wonder if you have for given me for marrying Briant" "Why of course," Mrs. Clayborne had flushed a little, and hesitated. Not that she still felt as at first toward him, but tliKt Ruth had referred to it. "I hope so. It would make me hap pier than anything (except having him back) to know yon twe Worn guvd friends. Ton win stay with nst'J Ruth had put the question calmly, but hor heart was boating fast. She would knew by her aunt's reply wheth er she had rcslly forgiven her. "Yes and no. There dont looS so disappointed. I will promise to spend half of my time with yon. I shall ex pect you and Brian to come to me occasionally, and to let me have the baby often." Buth was eontent. Her aunt hsd said "yon and Brian." That the in eluded ' him showed that she was at. least resigned. How Buth scanned the papers now for newa of which regi ments and companya were to he the first to come b-ck. She longed inex pressibly for her husband; she wanted her boy's, father. Then, one day, she heard. He was to eeme soon; just how soon he could not tell, but within the month. Now her song was always lilting one. 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