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THURSDAY EVENING
January 23, 1919
CHARLES H. FISHEB
Editor and Publisher
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A "RICH" PRESIDENT.
With considerable surprise the public hears that
Theodore Rodsevelt was probably the richest president
since George Washington. He was certainly not very
rich judged by present-day standards. He left an estate
of about .$500,000. There are many thousands of Ameri
cans worth more than that.
5 The fact is that nearly all our presidents have been
poor. The financial difficulties of McKinley are well re
membered. Taft never ranked better than moderately
well-to-do. Wilson only had the sav ngs of a college pro
fessor's salary as his life-time accumulation of property
w'hen elected. Roosevelt might have been no better off
than any of these, despite his earnings from his writings,
if it had not been for his inheritance. He has done little
more than pass on the property received from his father.
Presidents are seldom able to save much from their sal
aries, and doubtless find it all the harder to get along
after they leave the executive office because of the lib
eral expenditures they have been accustomed to.
" It is natural and right to take much satisfaction in
modest circumstances of our presidents. It proves democ
racy. It demonstrates, better than any other fact could,
the opportunity of any American boy to rise to any po
sition he is fitted for. But it does not necessarily follow
that, having chosen poor men for presidents, we should
condemn'them to continued poverty.
'.. Poverty may be respectable; but as Grover Cleveland
found, it is difficult and embarrassing when one has held
so great an office and is expected to maintain compara
tive dignity and ease after his retirement. This fact,
raises the old, old question again of what to do with our
cx-presidents, although we seldom have more than one at
a time with us, presidential honors apparently not being
condusive to longevity. Perhaps some day we shall re
tire them on liberal pensions, just as most of the foreign
countries do with their former presidents and premiers.
As it is now, our ex-presidents as a rule are forlorn char
acters and if they attempt to enter business are more
than likely to make the lamentable failure Grant did.
THE FIFTH WORLD POWER.
The establishment of a Big Fivemstead of a Big Four
at the peace conference, with Japan as the fifth member
of the major league, is somewhat unexpected.
It has been generally assumed that Britain, France,
America and Italy woul ddecide the main problems of the
conference according to their our ideas, with Japan en-
RIPPLING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
DIRT ROADS.
The highway running east and west is but a sad and
sorry jest. 'In drouthy seasons it will do; then motor cars
along it choo, and loaded teams climb up its hills, and dis
locate no poles or thills. And this s why I sometimes say
the erovernment should do away with rain and moisture
of that stamp, so that the road may not get damp. For
when the water drips and pelts, that doggone highway
simply melts, like sugar in a cup of tea, and there's no
thoroughfare to see. Some drowning mules we may be
hold, and autos from the culverts rolled and swearing
men who ply the jaw and say tnere ougnt to De a law.
We've blown in millions more or less to make that road a
big success. We've graded and we've plowed and drag
trpfl we've engineered and cussed and bragged, we've
foundered horses by the herd.to make the highway less ab
surd. ' And when the weather's good and dry it pleases the
aesthetic eye; it's scraped and manicured so nice we think
it's surely worth tne price; we dowi aiong its ausiy nuies,
our faces wreatnea in oeammg smues. men nuvius un
corks his trough, it rains, and all the stuff is off. I won
der if we'll ever rise, unswerving purpose in our eyes, and
build the kind of roads that last through vernal rain and
wintry blast?
titled to full consideration but not to an equal voice. The
four powers evidently intended such a policy. Possibly
Japan objected and demanded equal recognition. Pos
sibly the four allies voluntarily changed their minds. At
any rate, Japan is to have five members in the conference,
the same as the others, and is thus formally admitted as
one of the five great powers whose will is to determine
the future of the world.
It goes without saying that there is probably good
reason for this move. It will hardly be argued even by
Japan herself that she has earned the distinction by
playing a part in the war equal to that of Britain, France,
America and Italy. But there are other important con
siderations. Doubtless it is Japan's potentiality rather than her
performance that is considered. . She has a unique and
powerful place in the Orient. Together with Great Brit
ain, she is in position to determine the future of the
great Asiatic continent, with its teeming millions. Thus
for what she is capable of doing for the furtherance of
civilization and the establishment of world peace, Japan
is welcomed to enjoy full fellowship of the Big Brothers of
Humanity.
There is no reasonable excuse for continuing to hold
up the business, industrial and social life of Salem on ac
count of the influenza. Closing the town has no effect
upon the progress of the epidemic one way or the other,
it simply puts people in a bad frame of mind and causes
inconvenience and f requently financial loss to everybody
but the doctors and undertakers. The influenza situation
is not bad here now and it may continue to improve.
Doctors admit they know very little about it, but expect a
third "wave" of the epidemic, the one we are passing
through being the second. We had best go about
our business and occupations in the usual way and en
deavor to isolate all cases of the "flu" as strictly as pos
sible. Nearly all authorities agree that, this plan seems
the most effective weapon against the spread of the
epidemic. ' t,
The Bolshevik sentiment even in this country is
strong. Like influenza and other pestilences it follows
in the train of war, and would disrupt society and destroy
organized government. In our state legislature its repre
sentatives like Smith, of Multnomah, are.; active' in their
assaults upon the safe-guards of law and order, and worst
of all many of the politicians who make iro the member
ship of the legislature lack the backbone to'stand for good
government, frightened by. threats of losing the votes
of a few agitators.
The United States has naturalized all foreigners
serving in our forces. First naturalize, then nationalize.
They have made good soldiers, the next is,to teach them
to' be good citizens. There is room in this country for
nothing else. f
Out of our 4,000,000 men drafted or ready for immed
iate call only 1200 were unwilling to serve. There are
many reasons for hoping that all wars are over, but fear
is not one of them.
Secretary Lane says that forty different plans for a
league of nations have been presented to the. peace con
ference. Surely out of all those they ought to find one
that is workable.
THEWIFE
By Jane Phelps.
RUTH CONFIDES IN HER
EMPLOYEE.
CllAPTEB CXLIV.
Ruth realized, for the first timo, that
nothing counted save Brian. Money,
beuuty of surroundings, case and lux
ury, mount nothing compared to tho de
sjro to possess him entirely; his love as
lie had given it when they first enmo to
New York R-ul lived in tho little flat uj
tho tin flights of stairs, and sho did
her own work; when he used to come
running up three steps at a time
whistling, and catch her in his Eras and
waits about the tittle living room or
kitchen.
Sho forgot her hatred of drudgery in
her desire. She forgot also her love of
her work. Her heart ached with the
longing for his love, and tho old-time
hearty expression" of it.
But she also owed something to Man
del. Sho knew sho vu n.lmost iudis
pensiblo, now, under the aftcr-tho-war
business conditions. Blie would say
nothing to Brian not until she had
talked with Mandel. But before she
slept, that night, Euth had decided up
on a course that only a short time bo
fore she would hsve deemed impossible
Strangely, after making her dicision,
she slept more soundly than she had in
months. Once or twice during the night
she woke and raised herself on her el
bow, trying, in the darkness, to dis
tinguish tho features of "her soldier"
as he lay sleeping in the bed so close to
her on. Then dropping back to sleep
st once.
"I shall go down town today," Brian
said abruptly at breakfast. "I've
loafed long enough. My leg is pretty
nearly all' right, and I em's afford to
star idle any longer," he waited a
minute then added, "living on you."
"Oh. Brian, don't talk that way."
"It's true. Except paying the rent
I haven't done one thing toward run
ning this shebang since I came back.
It's getting on my nerves."
"How much money have you saved,
Brian His astonishment at Euth's
question was evident.
"Half niy pay, about. I haven t had
it nil, but I'll got it. Why!"
"Oh, nothing. But I wish yon would
tako a bettor offico, dear. That horrid
little two-by-four place isn't fitting for
a man wearing that" She pointed to
his breast.
"What's that got to do with itf That
is nil over now. Tho hum-drum every
day lifo enters; exit everything else."
His tono was light, yet Ruth sensed a
bitterness.
"Wait a few more days, Brian. I
don't believe you are fit to work."
"If you think I will stay another day
in this jilc-ce alone, you'vo anothor
guess coining. It's worse than the Ger
man guns, this facing tho long hours
hero with nothing to do but think. No
one to talk to but Rachel and a baby
that can't answer. No, I shall go down
this morning." Then, to he noted th
real distress on Bath 'a face, he added:
"I won 't stay long at first just an hour
or two." With tint Kuth had to be
content.
That morning Euth asked Mandel if
she might see him in his pnvate of
fice. He seceded to her request at once.
"I must leave you, Mr. Mandel, a;
soon as you find some one to fill my
place," sho said quietly.
""Leave met WhaJ "
"I want to tell you just -why, may
It Have you time to listen t"
"As much time as you want.''
Euth told, in a quiet, restrained voice
of her marring, of her aunt's objec
tions, of her own luxurious bringing up
and of her dislike for house work. Then
sho told of Brian, as he was when she
had marrfed him. She said nothing of
Mollie King, but she told that she near
ly had lost him before he went to war.
She did not spare herself in the telling,
tnd she elossed over Brian's faults. In
fact she did not admit that he had any
She told of the call of Major Williams,
and of how Brian felt about hia eom
rades knowing thtt she worked outside
of the home.
"Ho may be old-fashioned," she
AN ODE TO THE TLU."
When your back is broke and your eyes
are blurred,
And your shin bones knock and your
tongue is furred,
And your tonsils squeak and you hair
gets dry,
And you're doggone sure that you're
going to die,
But you're skcered you won't and
afraid you will,
Just drag to bed Mid have your chill,
And pray the Lord to see you through,
For you've got the flu, boy, you've
got the flu.
When your toes curl up and your belt
goes flat,
And you 're twice as mean, as a Thomas
cat, -jj
And lifo is a long and dismal curse,
And your -food all tastes like a hard
boilcJ hearse,
When your attic aches and your head 's
a buzz,
And nothing is as it ever was,
Hero are my sad regrets to you,
You'vo got the flu, boy, you've got the
flu.
What is it like, this Spanish flut
Ask me, brother, for I've been through.
It is by Misery out of Despair,
It pulls yoar teeth &nd curls your hair,
It thins your Diooa an irays your
bones
And fills your craw w"itk moans and
groans,
And sometimes, maybe, you'll get
Somo call it the flu, but I call it hell.
Marshficld, Or.
PRINTERS FORCE PAPERS TO QTJIT
(Editor and Publisher)
Rather than meet the demands of Al
ton Typographical Union, No. 306, for
an incroase in wcges of 1 a day, the
two newspapers of Alton, 111. the Evo
ninir Telegraph and-tho Daily Times-
have suspended publication. Tho in
crease was to have been effective Janu
ary 1.
Wcges wero Increased January, 1918,
and again voluntarily in July. " The pro-
nosed scale was $5 a day, and a con
tract for eight years wassked.
smiled as she said it, "but I love him
Mr. Mandel, and I shall never make
him feel that he cannot aBk anyone tc
his home again. I have been selfish
whilo not meaning to be so. I have
i)iado hira unhappy while looking for
happiness myself."'
Mandol skcd many questions, all of
which Ruth answered frankly. Then
he said:
"Go at once, Mrs. Hackett. You
never will know what your being here
has meant to me. I want still to, be
your friend. And if he will let mo;
your husband's friend also." He then
told Ruth of something he had in mind.
which sent her home fairly walking on
(Main And Newaakma .
Valleys Raging Torrents
Chehrlis, Wash., Jan. 23. The Che
halis and Ncwaukum valleys are raging
torrents this morning, and old timers
say the present high water equals the
record established in 1888. The Wktcr
is still rising.
Rail communication is open, to Port
land but there is none to Tacoma and
Seattle
Streetcar traffic here is tied np. Tho
rurui mt.il carriers are unable to cover
their routes.
The damage te roads and bridges in
the county amounts to thousands of dol
lars. Thirty feet of pavement on the
Pacific highway, five miles east of Che
halis, and a small bridge wore washed
out. Bridges and. culverts have been
washed away in all parts of the coun
try. The total damage cannot be esti
mated for several days.
Martha Washington And
LaLorraise Due Soon
Washington, Jan, 23. Thirty offi
cers and 1981 men including companies
E, F, G, H, I, K, L and M, supply com
pany medical detachment and head
quarters Second and Third battalions
of the 330th infantry, arc aboard the
transport Martha Washington, Brest
for Newport News, due January 28.
The transport LaLoriainc, Bordeaux
for New York, i due January 31 with
the following organizations of the SSth
division to be discharged at Camp
Dodge:
Battery F, 339th field artillery; de
tachment of 339th field artillery; med
ical detachment of same organization.
Legislators Would Have
Raise In Their Salaries
Salaries of Oregon's representatives
and senators will be increased from
$3 to $5 per day, providing a house
joint resolution introduced today by
Representatives Lewis and Hare is
passed. Tho resolution provides lor a
legislative session of not to exceed
60 actual working days, as against 40
days under the- present law, and a
salary of not to exceed $300. The du
ration of extra sessions would else- be
limited to a period of not to exceed 20
days, under the terms of the resolu
tion, with tho same pay for tho legis
lators as provided for regular sessions.
Progress on the municipal railroad
ifrom Klamath FallR to Dairy, 20 miles
ig being made under increasingly fav
orable circumstances.
California's gold production for 1918
wan 17.207.000. her nearest competi
tor being Colorado whose production
approximated $12,8o3,500.
Wheat misers of Grande Eonde val
ley are jubilant over the protracted
raing that have set dn over a wide area
of the Blue Mountain region.
80 YEARS OLD- "
ATTRIBUTES HEALTH
TO INTERNAL BATHS
Mr. D. C. Newcomb, 704 N. 4t4 ave,
Atchison, Kan., writes Tyrrell's Hygi
enic institute of New York as follows:
"My next birthday is July 13th 80
years old. Have used Tyrrell's 'J. B.
L. Cascade' for more than 20 years.
Best and only remedy that brings ro
lief without the use of drugs. My ex
perience proved1 that it always relieves.
No danger from it. My ailments wer.
principally Uric Acid, Biliousness, Jo3
tiveness, etc."
This is by no means an exceptional
letter for Tyrrell's Hygienic Institute
to receive, ag there are now over half
a million Americans using Dr. Tyrrell '
"J. B. L. Cascade" with like results.
By the scientific use of nature'
cleanser warm water it eliminate
all poisonoiig waste from the lower iui
testine and gives Nature a chance te
work unhampered.
You will be astonished at the dif
ference in your feelings the morning
after an internal bath. ,
The "J. B. L. Cascade" will be
shown and explained to you by Daniel
J. Fry, wholesale druggists and mfg.
pharmacist, Salem, Oregon, who will
also give you free on request an in
teresting booklet by Dr. t'has. A. Tyr
rell, " Why Man of Today iB Only GO .
per eent Efficient."
Get this booklet and know just why
Internal Bathing is so effective in the
promotion of better health.
Well Known Banker Of
The Dalles Dies Of Fla
The Dalles, Or., Jan. 23. Max A.
Vogt, president of the First National
Bank, one of tho best known bankers ia
the Pacific Northwest, died here this
morning after a short illness with in
fluenza. ' " '
SUCCUMBS TO HIGH COSTS.
(Editor and Publisher)
The Brantford (Ont.) Courier hal
censed to be published. It Fas founded
under its present name in 1839, but
claims 1833 as the date of birth. The
publishers say:
"The step decided upon h bcea
reached as tho result of the greatly in-,
creased cost of everything which goes
to the output of a paper, the constantly
increasing levies renderhig an inade
quate return on capital invested."
Lieutenant James MoCullough, at-,
fnlin tn tfm army's aerial eunnerT
school near San Diego, shot and kill
ed a small whale with the machine .
gun of his airplane off Imperial Beach
Captain George R. Wilbur, -who- rep
onr,oJ TTnnrl River and Wasco coun
ties in the twenty ninth session of the
legislature, has been discharged from
the army and nag rciumea w iu-.
River.
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A
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Yous
When you pick up your morning or afternoon news
paper and glance over the advertising you quite uncon
sciously multiply yourself a thousand times.
In half or three-quarters of an hour you can, meta
phorically speaking, visit every progressive store in town.
You virtually poke your head into every department of
every department store. You run into the florist's, the
confectioner's, the oculist's, the leading groceries, banks
theatres, all the various places that supply the things that
make this the twentieth century and life worth the living.
Here is a greater choice in clothing, food, furniture, books
pictures, musical instruments, travel, entertainment, op
portunities for investment, the service of public utility
corporations than any monarch of old could command.
It would easily take a thousand yous, traveling hard
all day, to find out for yourself what the advertisements
tell you in a few minutes morning or evening.
They deserve your attention. They deserve your con
fidence. Without them, without the progressive spirit of
the merchants and manufacturers who back them, the
great abundance of things you now enjoy would be a
memory or something still to be realized. Without ad
vertising the prices you would have to pay for many of
the necessities you now buy for a few pennies would make
a dollar look like a snow ball on the kitchen range.
Read the advertisements. Read them for your own
information and advantage. Read them to encourage the
advertisers who are making these better things possible
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