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I P HHW ST 99 M If TUESDAY EVENING January 21,. 1919 CHABLE8 H. TISHEB Editor end Publisher (Mortal rage or mne vapitatjouma ttitri Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address All Communications To BALEM 138 S. Commercial St OBEGON SUBSCRIPTION BATES Daily. bT Carrier, per year $3.00 Per Month.. Daily by Mail, per year..- -$3.00 Per lionth.. 45e ..35 FULL LEASED WIKE TELEORAI'H BEPOBT FOREIGN BEPBESENTATIVES W. D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. H. fitockwell, Chicago, People's Gas Building The Daily Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If tho 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 tho earriori are following instructions. Phone 81 before 7:30 o'cloek and a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the amer has missed you. KEEPING IT RECLAIMED. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations THE ARMY'S PEACE MORALE. In one respect this is the most critical period of the war, militarily speaking. The armies of the various mil itary powers are finding it harder to keep up their morale, now that the fighting is done. "With the war won, they have lost interest. They want to go home. They are res tive, and their restiveness and discontent find expression in a general relaxation of standards and lapse of disci pline. ' : -' - This is said to be particularly true of the British and American armies. Both are essentially civilian, lhose in the army of occupation found the new experience in teresting at first, but the routine has begun to tire them They do not want to police Germany. They went over to fight, not to do guard duty or to stand around waiting aimlessly for nothing in particular. They want to come back to their own country, their own people, their own jobs. All this is perfectly understandable. No one can help svmoathizine with these exiled civilian-soldiers. But it will not do to sympathize too much., For there is still a military duty to perf rom, and disagreeable as it is, they will have to perform it ? ' -'. - - - Peace is not yet definitely established. - Technically the war is not ended. There may yet be armed opposi tion in Germany or Austria, especially when the peace terms are announced. At best, it will be necessary for some time to come to maintain large allied forces to use in any part of Europe where fighting starts or disorder is threatened. Considerable numbers of troops will have to be kept in Germany until the main peace conditions are complied with. Americans at home, understanding this, can help maintain the morale of the expeditionary force by taking it for granted that the soldiers over theVe will stay and play their part in a soldierly spirit until the disagreeable work is all cleaned up. It is a good sign that the boys are anxious to get out of the army. It shows that militarism has secured no hold upon them and that they would be citizens rather than soldiers. They entered the army only because that was the best way in which they could serve their country at the time. Now that Portland has its big emergency hospital ready for patients the baffling influenza threatens to go out of business of its own accord. And the incident il lustrates the tendency of officials to prepare for an em ergency after it has passed. RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Msscn GETTING NORMAL. : The war is done, and we get back to peace time's old accustomed track. We're sitting up and taking note of things that lately seemed remote. Once more I hear the auto fan explain as loudly as he can how he went up huge hills on high, and didn't have his motor die. His spiel seems relevant and sane, which would have been in war time vain. Once more the dames, when cooped indoors, are talking of the dry goods stores and of the lovely lids they've seen, all decked with doodads red and green. And they allude to Mrs. Brown, who s bought the smoothest coat in town, while her poor husband strives to make his stand off something less a fake. And once again the ill health bores describe their ailments an dtheir sores. A little time, while battles raged, their chronic sorrows were not staged, but now they're all come back again, to rasp the ears of patient men. I see the old ways coming back, and as of old the gossips clack; the private quarrels we forgot, we're resurrecting, smoking hot; the statesmen spring their oily smiles, and hand out bunk in forty styles. I wonder if we'll ever. sigh, for good old wartime days gone by, when there were themes of which to speak, and keep on speaking for a week? A great deal of attention is being given just now to land reclamation, with the idea of making available for returmng soldiers soil previously uncultivated. Ihis work calls for big drainage, irrigation and timber-cutting projects, which in turn will, of course, . furnish employ ment to soldier or other labor. In the meanwhile the farm-help shortage continues serious, and it is rumored in some quarters that many of the soldiers are not particularly interested in the reclaim ed lands. An important phase of the land problem then is to make farm wages high enough to interest laborers, and to keep the land reclaimed. In Oregon and Washington the proposition is to put the soldiers on the logged-off landsand most of the people who advocate it do not realize What clearing up logged-off land means. Many of the soldierl who never faltered before the German trenches wiH hesitate long before deciding to devote their lives to this task. According to authorities in Mew .England, Connecti cut has 800.000 acres of agricultural land which has re verted to a wild state in the oast 50 or 60 years. New Hampshire and Vermont have 2000 idle farms apiece. Similar conditions could probably be found in any of the older far-minor sections of the country. So it will be seen that if the soldiers are to be located on farms, and these farms are to come from reclaimed or loened-off lands, the problem is a big one. It they are ex pected to become interested in farming, if the present labor is supposed to stay on the farms, then foresight and judgment must be exercised by individuals, by local com mittees, by state and federal authonties to make success ful farming possible and farm life worth living. Marshal Foch is a great general, but it does not fol low that he is a preat statesman. His advice, if he is correctly reported, to France to grab German territory is bad advice. - ' Rpnrlinrr t.hf rnmnaipTi news from Germany, we find that they have no republican party there yet. Well, there will never be any real interest in politics until they get one. '',.,"..'' 84 BILLS HAVE BEEN OFFERED IN WE Only Fifty Had Been Offered For Consideration All Of Last Week. With ft rest over Sunday to think over the legislative needs of the state, there was a flood of new bills offered yesterday afternoon when Speaker Syy raour Junes announced that the order of the day wes in the offering8 of bills. Open Forum Th Gprmarm seem to be an unobservirie people. They npvpr nntiped t.hf American military ' uneff icienCY that . v. - - v Senator unambenain taiKs aDOut. in').:' Rnnd lppialation is rrovidine most, of the interest this - O w " t O session, and no wonder there's millions in it. - f The navinp trust we have with us always but it is most in evidence when the legislature meets. THEWIFE By Jane Phelps. MOLLIS KINO, BACK FROM FRANCE TELEPHONES BRIAN CUAI'TKB CXUI. It wns tho tone of Brian's voice. moro than his words, which maHo Buth ask again: Wliyf" 'Boiauso I do not intend my com rades from over there shall know any- tiling or my anmrs," ho returned bo suivrply that Buth stared. "What affairs! What is there we do you object to having them kuowt" '.Nothing that I do! All that you aro doing." Tho old bitterness was there , and more. Thoso follows think me a man," his hal sough and closed over the cross which decorated his breast. I should like them to hold that opinion fur a while longer, if possible. That in the reason I did not ack -Mu.iol miliums to dinner; the reason I never shrll ask any of them hero." Without a word Ruth turned awav. She was very gilent all tnru dinner, althou hor aunt, sensing some sort of a strained situation, tlked more volubly than she usually did. "1 ahull buvo to argue him out of that frame of mind," Ruth thought as she watched his face almost sullen, so different from the brightness of the nt few days. "Poor boy, he's half sick yet, even if ho has been so won derful. I shall have to humor kim, not foil hurt t things ho enys and dps. So, with an effort, she joined her aunt in hor attempt to make things assume a happier complexion. Hor aunt left at eight o clock. And it was with a little sinking of her heart that Ruth bsle her giik-bye. Bri an would- be all alono during tho day until ho was ablo to go out. It would make her absence a tho more noticcabeo l'oor, sensitive Brinn. Ha woud have to get used to it. Her work neoded her, had been neglected for him as long as ho required attention. He must amuse himself with the baby and his books. It was noticeable, however, that Ruth took great pains to have all tho latest magazines ajid many of the new books, upon the table close up to the couth, convenient to his hand without causing hi in to rise. 8he also gave particular orders as regarded luncheon she came home earn day instead of going to the nearby restaurant providing every thing Brian liked. But he did not re rover his old manner. He talked little when she was. at home, and ones or twice had gone down towa and eomo home very tired. "Please don't try to go out alone, yet he said one dny. "I' shall go often as I ejipose. Pleaso let me alone" . The reply wag Bo tinlike the Brian who, even when iu.paiu as ho was at firsthad a sinie and gey answer for them all, that the tears filled her eyes and she pnt her hand pleadingly upon his arm. "Don't, Brian. You hurt." "I am not tho only one who hurts pooplo; dou't flatter yourself that 1 have a mortgage upon that emotion." "Oh Brian, I don't know what to do! You are so difficult lately." "Been better if I hadn't come back" "Please, dear!" the tears fell un heeded, "I can't bear to have you talk like that . Not como back to baby aflil me! It would have been too awful." Then one day Mrs. Curtiss came into tho shop. ' "Mollio King is back. She looks prettier thnn ever. She had had some wonderful experionecs, and you should hoar hor talk about Brian. I guess he has kept most of his brave acts to him self. She sava he was simply wonder ful I that officers and men loved him, and that he could do anything in the world with hish men; that thoy would follow him anywhere. You must get hor to tell you some o fthe things she told mo." i . That night when Buth reached home sho noticed at once that Brian seemed brinhtor. "You feel better tonight f" she said as she kissed him. "cYs, Mollie King is bakl She called me up and we had a regular pow wow on the telephone." "Did you ask hor to come upl? brenthloKsely Ruth waited. "Yes. . You bet your life ' didl I told her how iufornally loney I was ly ing or sitting here all day ong. She is coming tomorrow morning to sit with me." Ruth turned toward the kitshen. She feared she might say something she wond regret. " I told her not to dare to make any plans until Igotbaektotheoffieeshrdlue plans until I got back to the office," Brinn 's voice trailed after her raised a little, and in it a vibrant quality she had not noticed for days "that I should expect her to spend the days with me. I needed a nurse." "What shall I dot" Bath said when the door between them had elosed, "I can't let her get him itnerested in her again and it 's so soon." She wrung her hands in agony at the thought, "I can't! I can't." sho reiterated. Tomorrow Ruth Reviews Her Life -with Brian, Private OH M Crook of Athena has been awarded the Belgium Croix de Guerre by King Albert. C L. Barnhart, a fanner living near Pallas, dropped dead in one of his fields a few days ago whilo plowing. , j BEMEDY FOR INFLUENZA. Editor Journal: Much, has been saii and written concerning the influenza but vntil now there has been nothing definite as to its cause nor a remedy for its cure. The doctors ave all disa greed. Some said it was the old fash ioned lagrippe and others say, no. Some suy it . is a nerve disease. Some say it is an epidemic of poisoning. Some say it is a germ disease. With all the great skill of our doctors no one has been able to define it or cure it but now the pub lic becomos enlightened by a statement laying the responsibility upon the legis lature for all the ives that have been aacrificed. It dose not say but we pre sume from all causes and they h&vo a suro remedy as follows: The legislature to atone for its sins and stop this terrible carnage by appro priating 95,225- for the noxt biennium as follows: Exsdiautive office, $7,100 annually. Bureau of vital statistics, $3600 annu ally. Bureau of preventable disease, $19- ,000 annually. ' Bureau of hygiene and sanitation, $8,- 300 annually. Bureau of laboratory work, $4,450 an nually. . General expenses, $4,700 annually. For the biennium woth $725 evtra mlilod for apparatus, $95,025. We are glad to note that Mo will be everlasting henceforth in,,Orcgon pro viding qur legislature i sufficiently wise to grasp the opportunity but we cannot figure out what will become of our doctors aird undertakers and how sufficient room could be found in the hallway of the capital for that, many more signs -of bureaus and boards, com missions, etc. Should this remedy be insufficient I presume the dose would be increased two years hence, AJAX. Last Saturday afternoon the total num ber offered iB the house was 50 but by the 'time the offerings were made Monday the number had reached 84. The new ones presented yesterday are as follows: No. 51. By Gallagher of Oontario. An act providing for the payment of interest ou iffigatioa bonds. No. 52. By Westcrlund of Medford. Providing for a tax exemption of $2000 for those who had served at any time in the United States army end for their widowg as long as they remained unmar ried. No. 53. By Burdick of Redmond. j Providing that the salary of the su Iprcme judges of Oregon bo $6000 a year j The salary now is $5400. No. 54. By George W. Weeks of Ma--rion county. County assessors to secure i from all growers of fruits, grain and berries tabulated statement of crops and to keep such a record on file be sides hsving the records of crops pub lished in the annual blue book. , No. 55. By B. F. Jones of Newport. Providing for an appropriation of $2, 500,000 by the state of Oregon, if the United States will expend a like sum, for the construction of a military high way along the Pacific cocst in the coun ties of Clatsop, Tillamook, Lincoln, Lane, Doiurlas, Coos and Curry counties The highway to be known as Eooscvolt Coast Military highway. No. 56. By Sheldon of Medford. To require the state highway commission to erect signs on the highways. No. 57. By Sheldon of Medford. To allow tho state highway commission to accept money offered by counties or private individuals to assist in roads construction. No. 58. By Sheldon of Medford. Reg ulatinc the approval of claims by the state highway commission. No. 59. By Sheldon of Medford. Au thorizing state highway commission to establish an emergency fund of $30, 000.00. No. 60. By Sheldon of Medford. Em powering the state highway commission to sell obsolete equipment. No. 61. By Sheldon of Medford. Es tablshing a speed limit of 30 miles on -state highways. No. 62. By Richards of Portand-Rc-ferring to salaries of school clerks. No. 63. By Richards of Portland. Be f erring to levy of school taxes in cities of more than 100,000. No. 64, By Sholdon of Medford. Au thorizing regents of the U. of O. and 0. A. C. and the Monmouth Normal school to sell obsolete equipmont. X No. 64. By Dodd of Hcrmlston. Re lating to mechanics' liens to include dig ging, drilling and boring wells. ' No. 66. By Dodd of Hcrmiston. Re ferring to irrigation districts, their gov ernment and certification of district funds. No. 67. By Thrift of Coquile. Es tablishing time and mothod of paymont' for personal services and attorneys foes for collection of such compensation. No. 68. By Sheldon of Medford. Re-. latiug to damage of highways by tlx hauling of hes vy loads by trucks. No. 69. By Dodd of Hermiston. St inting to the organization Vf drainage distrietg and expenses. No. 70. ..By Boman of Astoria. T prevent tho giving or accepting of tips for servieo in Oregon. No. 71. By Roman of Astoria. Pro viding that county treasurer shall bo tax collector. No. 72. By Burnaugh of St. Helena. Providing that any any term of court that if the pudge does not show np by 4 o'clock court is automatically ad journed for the day. No. 73. By Gallagher of Ontario. B luting to express companies. No. 74. By tho Wasco county dele gation. Providing for salaries of coua ty superintendent and his traveling ex penses. No. 75. By Gallagher of Ontario Reasonable attorney's fees for suits brought on insurance policies. No. .76. By the Jackson and Joso phine county delegation. Appropriat ing $25,000 this year and a like sum next year for the advertising of tour ists. No. 77. By Smith of Baker county. Relative to the Industrial accident com mission and appropriating $50,000. No. 78. By Smith of Baker. Empow ering district schools boards of the first class to levy taxes. No. 79. By Gordon of Portland. Put ting the appropriation of $100,000 for returning soldiers and sailors in legnl form. No. 80. By Gallagher of Ontario. Be ative to premiums on life insurance policies. No. 81. " By Richardson of Portland. Referring to state land board suits. No. 82. By Thrift of Coquille. Pro viding relief for Mrs. John R. Stan snvrd, widow of Representative Stan nard who died Jan. 15. , No. 83. By Thrift of Coquille. T enlarge jurisdiction and right of courts -in the state. No. 84. By Jones of Newport. Re garding term of circuit court in Lincoln, county. ' Prices Stabilized Last Hour In Market Today New York, Jan. 20. Ths Evening Sun financial review today roads: A. ground swell of 'bearish sentiment rolled over Wall Street today. Wheth er this was attributable to the tradi tional dampness of spirits on Monday or to some really (fundamental cause not immediately manifest, wa diffi cult to determine-. . - - ... . . There was a fussy ruffling of price about mid-day whea everything became quiet and prices stabilized until itt th last hour, when the reaction sot in, John Wigmore of Los Angel&s, A. D. Honeywell of Geneva, N. Y., and James J. Gnoy of Pittsburg, aviation stu dents, were drowned when their air plane fell into the bay a Pensaeola, Fla. HREAT WAR DEMONSTRATES FOOD IS MOST POWERFUL MUNITION' r . 'v. fc'-w, .-,'3 yj -sf , , S ( rrrr;: . fxls? .VVV t i v - V " -r ,?, i I - - v jrniw oiuer 1 ik "Food will win the war," declared iie military experts. "Here goes!" laid the farmers ar.d by their in creased efforts demonstrated the awn of the militarists' calculations. Neva Scotia farmers hold a place lecond to none in respect to percent ile of gains achieved in increasing iheir farm products. The result has wiped out any pre-war conceptions tf Nova Scotia as wind-swept, rocky ind barren. Visitors to EvangI- ue's Land know it as land of tundred-mile long orchards: rich, lyked meadows covered with lush trasses or Wotted with haycocks on itilts; fertile fields that yield im tiense crops of potatoes the fa nous Biuenoses all aorta of grains tnd the finest of flax. : The recent reign of Mars is re iponsible for a hi increase in the wheat acreage of Nova Scotia, the trea having been practically doubled .: . . L I : ; L a,,..- , wheat mills of the best construction have been- erected under a policy adopted by the provincial Depart ment of Agriculture for the encour agement oi wneat raising. Thi is but one branch of that deDartment'. activities for it maintains several experimental farms and stands ready to aid the farmers in every phase of farming from supplying Mrs. Farm er with seeds for her flower and kitchen eardena. to nrovidimr f,.n. blooded stock for Mr. Farmer and teaching him how to get the biggest results from them. Lrection and crjuratinn nf eries goes on apace and marks the progress oi lie rrovince as a dairy Tl , n i o i . unce the beginning of hostilities in m- country. The 1918 output of ..u""7 , F uiess co-operative creameries nears the two million pound mark which resolves itself into about 5.1100 pounds per patron. The importation) and distribution oi high-grade, pure bred stock under the supervision Melville Cumming, Secretary oi Agriculture, is largely respcnsiWa for the impetus enjoyed by this in dustry. Despite the fact that 1918 weather was largely unfavorable for farnvnir, Nova Scotia has made a very credit able showing, harvesting 10.000.OOi bushels of nntatnna 1A Ulrfl full! ela of ttrrnips, 6,250,000 bushels ot oats, 700,000 bushels of wheat, near ly i,uuu,uuu tens of hay, and 500,009 barrels of annle TV, a t t - under eron in taia l,,i, apple orchards, was 2,119,862 acr,,