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I JoUTUQl TUESDAY EVENING February 4, 1919 CHARLES H. FISHES " Editor nd Publisher ctpico. IL dttoriai raere or i ne l kjyVvJvAxXXAJ-rA-v''r-i' Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address All Communications To Bails Journal BATJ5M 136 f?. Commercial St. OREGON SVBSCRIPTION BATES I)i1v. by Carrier. rer year $3.00 Per Month- Daily by Mail, per year.. ..$3.00 Per Month.. 5e 35c rUUi LEASED WIRE TELEGRAPH EEPOBT FOREIGN REPRESENTATIVES W- D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. n. Stockwell, Chicago, People's Gas Building The Daily Capital Journal carrier boys are instructed to put the papers on the porch. If tho carrier docs not do this, misses you, or neglects gotting the paper to you on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, sb this is the only way wa can determine whotker 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. FIFTEEN BILLIONS SAVED. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper In Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations B8B EFFICIENT AND ECONOMICAL GRAM. The new state labor commissioner. Gram, was of course elected on pledges of economy and efficiency like most officials are.. This is one of the offices that if the consolidation commission was sincere in its efforts to cut out the use less jobs wouldn't last five minutes. The few duties that it performs which are useful to the state or any citizen of it might, be performed by a clerk of the Industrial Accident Commission. But the labor commissioner holds on probably be cause the office provides a number of soft political jobs for the faithful boys and there is a scarcity of jobs in which the duties consist mainly of signing the pay mil tn pn around at best. It is a self-sustaining al ike, one in which the fees extorted from the industries of the state for factory inspection go into a special fund and may all be spent to pay the salaries and expenses of aainiiiisirauun. iu wuiivd, m uwici r- ier graft of our graft-ridden state, the fish and game inn Thfi last bi-ennium under Labor Commis sioner Hoff the fees amounted to about $40,000, and Com missioner Hoff turned some $3,000 over to the state treas nrv. lacking the nerve to spend it all, and probably pos sessing certain conscientious scruples that do not enter into the make-up or his successor. Mr. Gram now comes forward and asks the ways onr! means pnmriiittee of the legislature to appropriate some $17,000 in addition to the fees of his office in order that he may deport mmseii witn tne aignny anu reg trappings becoming a full-fledged official of the great state of Oregon. Among other things Mr. Gram asks for an apartment in Portland where he may keep two regular employes on state pay probably a throne room with liv eried lackeys to wait upon ;the royal commissioner of labor of this sovereign state. Modest and economical Mr. Gram will not get abol ished of course, but he will have hard sledding getting past the ways and means committee with his request for a larger budget. The members of that committee are not in good humor; they are trying to make every dollar do the work of two, and the 6 per cent limitation law haunts them in their dreams. They are inclined to think Labor Commissioner Gram ought to be tickled to death to be allowed to live and go collecting those little fees from the over-prosperous industries of the state and spending it as he pleases, without putting in a claim for $17,000 of treasury swag that is so badly needed by other departments, which have no fee graft to sustain them, and are compelled to account for what they spend. RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Mason HAPPY AS A KING. "I am as happy as a king," I used to blithely say, when I was led to dance and sing, I felt so dad-blamed gay. But when I look around and see the kings as they are now, I thus express my heartfelt glee : "I'm as happy 'as a cow !" A lot of kings are at the dump, among their broken dreams and there the briny tears they pump, in never ending streams. And those who still hold down their thrones are sorrow stricken wights; they fill the daylight hours with groans, and walk the floor at nights. They have no wish to laugh or play, these most forlorn of men; and when I'm feeling good I say, "Fm happy as a hen !" If I had forty kinds of gout, and knew dyspepsia's sting, I might rear up a bit and shout, "I'm happy as a king!" If gifted t,urgeons, wearing bells, should amputate my wing, I might exclaim, between my yells, "I'm happy as a king!" And if the headsman chose my neck on which his ax to swing, perhaps I would remark,, "By heck, I'm happy as a king!" The world is bright and good and big, it's all that I could wish; I am as happy as a pig, as happy as a fish. S38B8B8B8 If a penny saved is a penny earned, so is a million dollars. The American people, then, have lust made fif teen billions. That is the amount voted back into the treasury by congress out of the $30,700,000,000 appropriat ed last year for war expenses." It represents a saving made possible by the cessation of hostilities far earlier than was expected. If this sum as a whole means little, it is worth re ducing to understandable terms. There are roughly 100, 000,000 people in the country who have to help pay for the war directly or indirectly. This $15,000,000,000 means $150 apiece for every man, woman and child in America, Counting five to a family, it means that the average Am erican family saved, right off, $750 by the signing of the armistice last November. This does not represent the entire savings by any means. If the war had continued as most of us expect ed, until the end of this year, there would have been many billions more to pay, over and above the appropriations that are still to be made for winding things up. There is the further saving involved in lower prices from now on than would have prevailed during the prolongation period One thousand dollars per family would hardly cover the total saving. There has not been much thought of such material considerations. The rejoicing has bene mostly inspired by the knowledge that the bloodshed was ended and the boys in France were destined to come home soon, sate and sound. Still it gives every one a comfortable feeling to realize that every family in the land made more than $1000 without knowing it on November 11, 1918. It was the courageous fighting of our boys that saved us that money. Let us not forget it as they come home. RETURNING STOLEN GOODS. An inconspicuous four-line news item from Paris states that a special train from Germany recently arrived in Brussels with 740,000,000 francs in specie. This gold had been stolen from Belgium by the Germans during the war. i There is great satisfaction to every right-minded man in this return of actual goods carried off by the in vaders. When the machinery and farm tools and railroad rolhne stock stolen bv the Hun armies are restored to Belgium and Northern France, and ag'much as possible of the art treasures and household ; lurrushings are broueht back, there will be still further satisfaction. The Germans must not be allowed to escape the worn of restoration, and they will not be, although there is so much that never can be restored. By returning piece by piece the loot they carried off, they may perhaps learn the shame and humiliation that will turn their minds and hearts to new ideals of decency and honesty and self-respect. :, Representatives Weeks and Hughes, of Marion coun ty, are seeking to learn the views of their constituents regarding the increase ot automobile licenses and tne gasoline tax. This is the proper thing to do and if such a course was always pursued by members of the legisla ture there would be fewer mistakes made. PROPOSE TO SETTLE (Continued from page one) the principality of Teschen. "No measure implying annexation of all or part of the said principality ei ther to the territory of Poland or of Czecho-Sla-vokia taken by interested parties shall have binding force. "The delegates of the Czech nation engage to release immediately wit! their arms and baggfige the Polish pris oners taken during the recent conflict (Signed.) "WOODROW WILSON "DAVID LLOYD-GEORGE " V. ORLANDO "G. CLEMENCEU "ROMAN DMOSKI "E. NES.' FIRST "HIGHER PAY LL PASSES HOUSE Joint Roads Committee Agrees On Half Cent Tax On Gallon Distillate. LITTLE TALKS ON THRIFT Fy & W. STRAUS, Praiint Amsriem Socidg ft Thrifl After all this talk about "Versailles", the peace con ference isn't being held there at all. But then "Versailles is easier to say-if you know how-- than "Quai d'Orsay" is if you don't. It's odd how many people who are ardently opposed to alcohol are against prohibition, and how many who are eager for everlasting peace are down on the idea of a peace league. ;. h "Climbing Cheese and Butter Prices Halted By Milk War " savs a New York newspaper headline. When butter and cheese get strong enough to climb, it is time for war. The boys lined up at the state house in favor of salary grabbing won their first round Monday when the house vot ed to givo J. A. Churchill, state super intendent of schools, an. increase of $600 a year. The bill had been put in originally asking that Mr. Churchill bo given $4500 but the salary committee ecommendett $3000. iiis present salary is $3000 a year. . As this was the test as to whetnor the increase salaries of. state officios would be smooth sledding, the big oia torical spell binders of the house go! behind the Chuchill bill with thoil heavv artillery. Smith of Baker the former nome ot Mr. Churchill spoke most emphatical ly in favor of the additional salary. He thought $3000 was a more pittanco, claiming that sheepherdors out in his part of the stato were being paid from $1500 to $1800 a year. Hughos of Marion spoke sgainst the raise saying that Mr. Churchill knew what the position paid when he ran for tho office. Gallagher came out heavy for the advance in salary bringing in the cry of educating the children. Mrs. Alexander of Tho Dalles lined np with those in favor of voting higher salaries, Loonoy of Marion county was the on ly delegate from Marion who favored the increase in salary. Martin was ab sent when the vote was taken and Weeks, Hughos end Speaker Seymour Jones voted against the salury raise. A tax of one cent a gallon on gaso line and one-half sent a gallon on di- tillate was agreed upon last evening at the joint roads and highway commit tees at a meeting held last evening. With their recommendation, the bill will probably pass and bcocme a law There was some opposition to tho tax of one-half cent a gallon on distillate as this will fall mostly on farmers, es pecially in the eastern part of the state. As tho emergency clauso is being tucked on to manv bills, mostly to pro- vent a referendum it was finally agreed after considerable debate tat tho cmer- ffoncy should be attached to tho gaso line bill. With the emergency S'ttached the bill will become a law as soon as passed by the house and senate and sign ed by the governor. T7 r T h e o d ore ( his marked characteristics, was only Roosevelt had) gained after a hard fight, and the exrr a deep under- j cise of his tremendous wiU-powct standing of j Above everything else Roosevelt was a the Talue of fighter, an aggressive crusader for all thrift. I I the causes he believed to be right. should think The secret of his success were hia ill of any (strong will and his ceaseless enera-ri Hence, there is particular significance in his statement that "the habit nl man, once he wrote, leave his chil dren a little better off ma terially than himself." At another time he wrote: "The habit of savine monev stiffens the will and brightens the energies." ' One might quote at much greater length from the sayings and writings of Roosevelt, but the two statemencs here given throw tremendous light on the character of this great American who is now mourned by the nation. The thrift , that Theodore Roosevelt understood, practiced and taught was not the narrow, selfish kind that goes no further than money hoarding. Thrift with him meant efficiency and progress. He knew that the act of saving money is more beneficial in the long run on account of the added strength it gives to the will than be cause of the direct financial gain. Theodore Roosevelt was a typical ex ample of an iron-willed man. Although he never knew the personal experiences of poverty, he had to fight bravely and courageously to gain the exalted posi tion he held in the affairs of the nation. . Even the rugged physical heultli which, during all his active years, was one of who' did not , saving money stiffens the will and brightens the energies." That Theodore Roosevelt well apprcJ ciated the direct financial advantages, of thrift was shown in the tremendous conservation policies inaugurated by; the United States government during his administration. No President whs ever responsible for carrying out such a gigantic thrift program. He put a stop to the v annual waste in a vast amount of water-power, mines, arnbla soil and lumber, he reclaimed millions of acres of arid land. In constructive statesmanship these policies stand out as among the most noteworthy achieve ments of the Roosevelt administration. To eain a .just appreciation of the character of Theodore Roosevelt one must take into account the tremendous part that thrift played in his life. He knew the mental and moral values as well as the financial ones to the indi vidual, and he was the first of our presidents to take decisive action in conservation of national resources. Cir cumstances did not make it necessary for him to go through the pennj-.savin period of life common with many illus trious Americans, but he wits neverthe less a thrifty man, whose success wns founded on the rxlom that :: sturily will is the inevitable outgrowth ol thrift habits. ' THEWIFE By Jane Phelps, Santa Teresa And Princess Mataika Are Due Soon SENATE BILLS I. B. 129. By Smith (Josephine) Amending bounty law relative to proof of death of animal 6-a shown by the polt. I. B. 130. By Baldwin. Amending the trust company law to provido that reserve requirements shall not apply to trust companies which are members of the federal reserve banking system. S. B. 131. By Baldwin. Repealing chapter 166, laws of 1915, which per mits farmers and others to establish state bajiks on the co-operative plan. 8. B. 132. Bv Strayor. Exempting pensions from attachment and execu tion. 8. B. 133. By Moser. To provid for the establishment within municipal ities tones within which the use ot property, height of improvements, and required open spaces for light end ven tilation of buildings may be regulated by ordinance. "& B. 134. By Jones. Amending see tion 507, L. 0. L., by making insanity for a year prior to commencement of suit ground for obtaining a divorce. , 8. B. 135. By Porter. To prevent fraud in tho registration of livestocl and providing penalty. 8. B. 136. By Eddv. Amending sec tion 13, ehnpter 293, laws of 1917, fix ing tho time that the report of road viewers must be read by the county court as s public meoting. S. B. 137. By Smith (Coos and Cur ry). To authorizo counties to become bidders for and to construct portions of stato highways. 8. B. 138. By Handloy. Regulating the use of tho initiative and referendum in municipalities other thsa incorpor ated cities and towns, as authorized in section of article 4 of the stato con stitution. S. B. 139. Bv Moser (by request) Amending section 3389. L. O. L., to give county central committees of various political parties authority to levy asses moots on all candidates of their party for funds for campaign purposes, and to give such committees authority to fill nil vacancies in the party ticket for county offices. 8. B. 140. By Porter. Amending the state livestock sanitary board law to givo the board authority to fix the sal arv of the state veterinarian at not to exceed $3600, ami making provisions relatives to the slaughter of diseased animals. S. B. 141. By Moser. Providing for formation of improvement districts in unincorporated communities. 8. B. 142. By Ritner. Increasing salaries of officials in Umatilla coun- 8. Is. 343. By Hitner. Providing stock from tunning at large in Vmt till county. a B. 144. By Ritner. Giving the publie service commission authority to fix the salaries of deputies in the grain Washington, Feb., 4. The transport Santa Teresa sailed from Bordeaux J&n uary 30 and is due to arrive in New York February 9 with 102 officers anu 2693 enlisted men. The troops aboard esusit of tho Bordeaux convalescent de tachments on to seven inclusive; 11 to 14 inclusive; 17 and 18 and 65, casual company 31, Virginia sick and wounded Tho trnansport Trinecss Mctoilta, St. Nazairo for Newport News, due to ar rived February 11 wit 141 officers and 3,3C2 (nlisted men. Aboard are tha idlowing units: A umber 104 (marines); 478 (Mon tana), 479 (regulars), 482 (California), The transport El Oricnte, Bordeaux for Newport News, is due February 9 with a group of casuals. Tho transport Dante Alighieri, Mar seilles for New York, is due February 12 with the Sixty-First regiment cott artillery. The Baltic, Liverpool for New York is due February 7, with three casuals. SCATTER AUTHOR'S ASHES BRIAN REALIZES THE JOY OF HELPING OTHERS. CHAPTER CLIV. Buth had not neglected her "war babies," nor their mothers, since Bri an's return. Now that he was nearly recovered from his wounds,, he visited some of them with her. . Ha told of th' bravery 0f the boys "over there" and gave them all tho comfort ho could if their soldier husbands were among those who never would return. He be came as interested as was Ruth in try ing to do all he could for the wiveg and babies of to mon who were lying in Flandor's Field. And in ministeriim t. them his own heart was softened, his JEWELRY AUCTION Beginning tomorrow, balance of Pomeroy & Wallace stock. Everything goes at your own price. 125 N. Com mercial St., Salem. Oakland, Cal., Feb. 4. The ashes of Herman Whitaker, the author, lie to day scattered on Round Top in the Piedmont Hills in accordance with his wish. It was on Round Top that he receiv ed inspiration to write The Planters. Fonr of his children performed the rite, but his widow, Mrs. Alice Hunt Bassett Whitaker, was not told of it until hours later. life made more unselfish. Mrs. Clayborne still remained in the south but she sent Ruth all the monej she needed for her pet charity. One little woman whose baby was delicate, and the mother-heart almost broken be cause of the Iobs of hor husband add ed to the fear she would not keep her child, she told Ruth to sond south and on the old plantation where Ruth had spent her own childood days the baby grew stronger and the young mother more resigned. "Isn't it wonderful what a help to onesself to try to mske others happy?" questioned Ruth one night as she and Brian sat planning what they could do lor one ot nor war babies' f ether who had come home terribly maimed. Yes, and Ruth had it not been for you I never sould have known much about that kind of hclpfullness. I have been very self-centered all my life, I am afraid. I have looked at things only m ine iignt or attectmg Brian Hack ctt. But between tho war and my brave little wife I have learned many things.' "We all have learned t0 feel differ ently this last year or two, Brian. Things that loomed so large beforo seem scarcely worth thinking of now. And things which passed by us because wore were engrossed by self, are taking their plr.ee. But well all get adjusted after a bit." Ruth was so happy in her home life that ho had not one single regret in her heart. She worked faithfully durinp tho morning on . plans from the shop sent her. Mandel paid her generously S'nd she insisted upon paying Rachel's wages as, without her, she would have been unable to apply herself to her tasks. Finally se and Brian came to the point where there was no more "talk, no more feeling, even, about WHO earned the money. It was a eommon purse, and spent for common needs. Brian's business did not materialize to any great extent all at once. But gradually clients came to him, some of them rich men whom he charged fair prices. Other8 soldiers who wanted ad vice and whom he charged nothing, or just enough so they would not feel ob jects of charity. "The rich must pay enough so those who cannot afford to pay can be cared for in every way," he remarked to Ruth one night in discussing the hap penings of the day. "That's just what Dr. Moore said this morning. Baby has been a- bit fret ful with his teeth, snd I dropped in to see him. A poor woman was there with a sick baby, her husband still overseas. The doctor wouldn't take a penny for what he did for her; End made the same remark you just made; that tB03Q who could afford it, mnt pay for those inspection department and making amendments of the grain inspection law. 8. B. 145. By Eddy. Bill to cure defective proceedings in the adminis tration nf estates. 8. B. 146. By Gill. Creating a state others as well as for themselves." civil service eommission and providing t Kenyon Robctfa was much interested for eivil service rules for eertain pub-1 in Brian's change of Iocs tion. They lie employes. jhad grown very intimate since Bri- 1 " 1 fan's return. Kenyon never tired of 1ATTDITII WANT PAY '''""'"e ' Brian's talks ef what had JUUuililL IT Ait I mfO I ill jbeen done; of how the boche had been licked, 6nd of the part tho splondi Americans, Canadians and the others had played in tho result. , His inability to go himself because of his laitiene&s, had been a very real and bitter trial. And he often told Brian that it was like being in the fight himself to listen to his (Brian's) graphic descriptions. In all his talk Brian eliminated him self, his own pari iji the-truggle. lis w.ud not alone in this; , it was a trait common to the men who had returned. Privates as well as, officers bolittie their own parts in the great drama, while they gave all praise to their bud dies" to the other fellow no matter what his nationality, so long as he was one of the allies, and fighting for tint same eause. Finally Kenyon yielded to Brian's urging snd took tw0 rooms adjoining those Ruth had fitted up for Bri&o. While not exactly a -partnership, they would be able to work together, iu a measure, to tho advantage of both. Kenyon 's office was very simply fan- . nished. but ho had asked Eutlr'g a-i-vice in selecting his rugs and chairs, so that they would, in a way, not be toa different from Brian's when tho doors were opened between. She gladly assist ed him, and tho result fully proved her taste, even when she was very limitej as to money. "A law firm with an intorior decor ator as a side partner," Brian sad laughingly as he kissod her. Tomorrow Mrs. Clayborno Plans to Help Ruth's "War Babies." Open Forum t . WANTS TO HEAR FROM ATJTOIST3 Am dtsirous to lesin tho attitude of the automobile owners of Marion eoira ty as Ui the ttn million dollar bond issue, the principal and interest to- he raised by doubling tho present automo bile license, and assessing one cent per gallon on all gi s line and distillate used! in the state. Kim1 y address me a eai3 at the state huu:c. OiXKGE W. WEEKS, Representative A GIT EC10I BE CAUSE OMIAR "After a trip to Kilauea, the active volcano of Hawaii, my Neelin-soled shoes were the only odea not abso lutely ruined. Many in our pay wore hob-nailed boots," said Miss Jean P. Lane of Seattle, Washington. The sharp jagged lava of Kilauea cuts an ordinary sole to pieces quickly. That Nealic Soles stood the test but emphases their toughness and dur ability. These qualities are built inta them by a scientific process. Women and men and children, too v. ho are hard on shoes should buy them with Neelin Soles. They come in many styles, and because of the extra wear they give, are a great economy. And any repairman will re-sole your worn shoes with Neelin Soles, which, are flexible and waterproof as well as long-weanm? . They are made by The Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co., Akron, Ohio, who also make Wingfoot Heels, guaranteed to outwear all ether beels. neplm Soles