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Capital Journal THURSDAY EVENING February 20, 1919 CHABLES H. FISHEB Editor and Publisher ItOT IT w ial Page of The jLyvxyLrJkyxAN vw ww i , Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address All Communications To the Umb JjMal Journal fALEM 136 S. Commercial St. SUBSCRIPTION BATES rw;w , r,rrinr. tier Tear 45.00 Per Month- Daily' by Mail, per year $3.00 FULL LEASED W1KE FOREION REPBESENTATTVES W. D. .Ward, New York, Tribune Building. W. H. Stockwell, Chicago, Peopled Gaa Building The Daily Capital Journal earricr boys are instructed to put the papers on the orch. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, as this is the only way wo can determine whethor or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone 1 before 7:30 o'clock ud a paper will bo sent you by special messenger if the arrior has missed yon. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspapor in Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by tha Audit Bureau Of Circulations . HURRAH! AT IT AGAIN! (An editorial by the Chairman of the Membership Committee of tho Sulem Gommerc Ial !lub) That new board and those new officers of the Salem Commercial club are some live bunch. Take it from me ! The point is just this. Salem is a real live community and it is coming into its own. Look at the business part of townNew stores of all kinds opening up. Notice the streets any day, especially Saturday when the Salem Community is shopping Hundreds of autos at the curb. Our Commercial Club is alive but to keep up with the other progress our community is making, we need more members. Get that? More members! See that you answer the call 'of the Membership Com mittee and sign up one full fledged member and one non resident member at least, and have the cards ready for the district Committee man on February 25th. It will 'only take you a few minutes to get one or two members of each class. Get behind your own Community. We succeed as our Community succeeds. LEGISLATORS AND THE LEGISLATURE On the whole, Marion and Polk counties have been well represented in this session of the legislature. In the upper house Senators Lachmund, LaFollette, and Patter son are strong men,. who have looked carefully after the interests of their cosntituents. Louis Lachmund is an exceptionally strong senator. He is aggressive always and never a quitter. Usually he is right and if a man of his stamp makes a mistake occas; inally it can be easily overlooked. LaFollette is a hard worker and takes his duties ser iously and conscientiously. The chief objection lodged against La Follette is that he is non-progressive and votes 'no" altogether too consistently. Still, he is safe and is not afraid to stand up for his opinions. Senator I. L. Patterson, of our neighbor county of Polk, is almost a Salem man, and may be regarded as a representative of our poeple. He is, one of the strong est men in either branch of the legislature. In the house, Seymour Jones, as speaker, is making as good a record as any man who has filled the chair. He is fair in his rulings and strong enough to head off a whole lot of vicious legislation. The whole delegation from Marion county averages up well, and it can be said that they are always in their seats taking a real interest in the work before the house. . " Taking the legislature as a whole, a majority of the . members want to do the right thing by the tax payers and enact such measures as will benefit the state at large. Of course, there are some exceptions among the ninety members of both houses, and it is no easy matter to make - a good record when it is reviewed calmly after the ses sion is over. Tremendous pressure is brought to bear in the legis lature from all sides. State institutions, commercial clubs, women's clubs, all kinds of associations represent ing special industries, come to the sessions asking new laws, new commissions and appropriations of money. They are residents, taxpayers and voters of the state, and their insistence is difficult to overcome, even though the aggregate of their demands would swamp the state treas ury were they granted in full, and create numerous new official positions with attendant salaries and expenses. Nearly all the requests for apporopriations now go directly to the joint senate and house committee on Ways and Means. Night after night they are in session for hours hearing these requests for money and weighing the facts and evidence presented in their support Their decision is taken almost as final by the legislators, and no matter how large the appropriations' of the session, the tax payers may rest assured that requests for hun dreds of thousands of dollars have been denied. It is largely through the work in this important committee of senators like Lachmund and Patterson that scores of attempts to tap the treasury vaults are turned down. The lesson of the growing expense of state govern ment is that the people themselves are demanding too much. They seem to forget all about the matter of cost until annual tax paying time rolls around, and then the OREGON 45o 35o Per Month.. TELEUBAPJI REPOBT storm breaks. If their representatives in the legislature withstand the pressure from all sides for appropriations and new branches of government entailing additional ex pense tney are branded as stuDDorn and non-progressive like La Follette, for instance. If they accede to the de mands they are regarded as wasteful of the taxpayers money when the results of the session are summed up. The people might help the legislators by asking only for what they really ought to have. In brief, the legislator who is honest and conscien tious is between the devil and the deep blue sea,, if you know what that old saying means. The average member of the legislature in Oregon realizes it full well before his forty days' of strife and worry writes the record of his work into the history of Oregon. THE PROMOTER'S WIFE BY JANE BLANCHE OBTON INSTILLS A DOUBT IN BARBAKA'S HEART. CHAPTER Xn. Once when Noil had been very free with Blaneho Orton, when I had sensed something or thought I had abouM his teasing his caresing manner with her that wus especially annoying, I said something of it to him. Ho laughingly told me that he treated other women the sumo way; bo if I were going to b juulous of his manner with Blanche, I: should bo kept busy. I folt a little con - teniptuous, but I had long ago, alth) only married a little over a year, real teed that Neil was Noil, ana that I must love him, faults and all, if I were to love him at all. I now know that men weren't perfect any more than were women. When 1 was married I had thought Neil ubso lutoly perfect. I could see no faults, ny flaws. To be truthful, I saw very fow even after living with him a yow iTet I of ton wondered where his lack of re sponsibility would lead him. Often I was worried, too, about what Neil drank. Not that I would infer that ho was a drunkard; but several timet after we commonced going with his old friends ho had takon, more than wu guod for him. Noil would laugh at me, tell me I was peeved becauso IT made me ill, and a lot of other nonsense which quieted my fears for tho timo, but in no wise ptovontcd thoir recurrence. I had lunched with Blanche Orton ono day, and sho had grown quite con fidentialwithout in the loast meaning to, I am Buro. She called my husband a certain amount of intimacy would wurra it. fcihe talked of the good timet they had before ho was married, and said that had she not already had a husband, sho would have taken him. I was in no way jealous for myself I was sure Neil lovod mo, and I war quite npart from the potty suspicion,' that aro tho Nemesis of so many mar riod woniou. It was for Neil I was Jeal ous. I wanted him to be so fine, bo far superior to other men, thu-t people- club, the Independent Order of Busy would look up to him instead of weli, bodies, tho Limd Kiln club and various imaciniiwr him a flirt 'Neil is woiiderfull" she had said "Ho wil bo a very wealthy man sonu day. He knows how to take advantage- of things, And ho hasn't any foolish , ordor that they may get in Vim nine notions about its not being right to do Might of publicity t , gQ(" I didn't quito understand her and said o. She lam-lied and replied: "Oh, nothing! Only somo mon are! such cranks, they novor got on." That niirht. wo talked together, Neil; and I. I told him how much I lovod him. that it wasn't for what ho gavo-l mo, either. I recall that, among other things, I said: "I want you to remombor, fc'cil, that I think you tho best man in tho world Nothing matters, nothing counts to m but you and our happiness together I am going to keep you always, against anybody or anything." Then I usked for moiu'y to buy a dinner gown. "Why "go much emphasis tonight?" he asked as ho drow mo to him and kissed me, telling mo to got tho gown and chargo'it. THE DOPE. (By Melvillo Jones) Now it's rumored that we'll stay here to givo weU-onio to the cnsunl and to opeed the himiebnuml soldier on his way; they've decided that we'ro needed here to keep the army specoeo up so the lucky ones can see tho U. 8. A., and it seems we've spent a lifetime wtitch iug "rookies',' buek the mess line and we're anxious to get started 'cross thj sea. Now we've lived on stew and hard' tnek ami wo'vo marched a tour wilt full pack and we've dug and filled up trenches o'er and o'er; we've taught the verdant "rookie." how to Be ," lino for ''sonpio'" and how to tell a K V, from a cook, how to wear the hand some gas mask and just how awful it ir to ask somo lieutenant you have not met for a match j how to rightly pull a night raid, how to toss the hand gren atte and how to use tin' silent bayonet with hnto; how to string the priekly wire nnd to shoot old "Jerry" -higher than the highest branch upon "Bill's" family tree, but it seems we're not C clever and I. doubt if we will ever fig ure out a way to get home very soo-j for those higher tip don't tell us exact Iv "wntinellis" the real reason for out- sticking ovor here. Thvre is nothinj; here for us but to join the anvil chor us and start growling in the good fdd army way, so we'll havo to drown out sorrowa in the thoughts of better mor rows and agree with old man Sherman lie wss right. UUtli Engineers, Angers, France. PHELPS "No special reason, only what I have I said s true." I did not tell him of the sickening foreboding Blanche Orton't half confidence about his business abil ity, had left in my heart. I did not realize what it meant tc have Fortune bring lavish gifts in one- hand, while she carried a drawn swonj in tne other. Yet, for the first time, I had a sua picion that perhaps Neil, in his anxiety for money, his cliehe to "get "ton," a he called it, might perhaps do things 1 that other men, men of strict integrity might frown upon Fathor had always been so absolutely honest, he had had no patience with men who, for notorial advantage wou d quibble With honesty So I had ing-uineil in me a sort of hor ror of anything Approaching laxity. But I was young, I loved my indut gent, irresponsible husband dearly, and I soon forgot' to worry about the re mark Blanche Orton had made. Or if I thought of it at all, it wag to shrug it away with the thought that 1 had at tached a meaning to hor words which she had not meant to eonvey. Then, too, I also loved the luxury Noil 's money made possible the dainty things to wear, and the things for my homo; tho food and servants. As I soon learned to take as a matter of course and to care about, more and more, (To Bo Continued) DELEGATING WORK TO COMMIS SION IS WRONG. (La Grande Observer) Tho present legislator will find they have done a very unpopular thing if they permit the idea of delegating evoi-y big task to a commission. Mem bcrs of the legislature were elected to go to Salem and do those very jobs. The people had confidence in the members or they wouldnot have been chosen. Then why should a bunsh of men ovor 21 years of age, dismiss big under takings by putting thorn up to a com mission, members of which are to be named from the Saturday Night Whist and , sundry institutions which clairq largo membership and possess few or ganizations which in many instances lire promoted and fostered by a few in i uui law leisittiNio- uu i lb uiny miu cut out a lot of this bunk stuff about "what the peoplo will say." The pco pie will bo satisfied if we get a- square deal ana eliminate a lot or ponuein folderol which has been going on i- Oregon fnr the past decade. Leadership is needed and needed badly sane, safe leadership, not the kind that nominates himself and shrieks about some mingin New Asst. Chief Of Opera tions Navy Department ! Rear Admiral Joslah McKean was recently appointed Assistant Chief ot Operations tn th Navy Department. He succeeds Capt. W. V. Pratt who ts to go to sea. In the absence of Admiral Benson. Admiral McKesn will act as Chief of :h Bureau. In 5JIS Admiral Mc Kn took charge of m!risl sec tion of operations, continuing tn :iat capacity until aurgned to duty on the IT. S. S. ArUona. Hit pro motion to Hoar AJritral cccurrec! soon after. ary reform. Good hard sense, boys, at Sulcm, will wia you more lasting friends than all the vacillating eauscd by threata of organizations and newspapers which have a habit of blackmailing public officials. Ge to it, solve the prob lems, that's why we sent you, and if you put 'the emergency clause to every honest act, there is a great big element in Oregon who will saT "Well done." MY LITTLE FRIEND. I have a little friend so dear Though he's a bird he has no fear But sits np in the chit turn tree And sings the sweetest songs to me. Oh, then I cal as best I know And he comes to the ground below Comes closer to me shyly, surelv, I love him most sincerely, truly. I've tried to lenrn his song to sing I guess he thinks some food I'll bring When ho has taught me every note That comes from his dear warbling throat. The friendship which my heart pursues This little bird does not refuse Each morn I take the fullest measure Of this Bimple, soothing pleasure. MBS. NELLIE B. WOLFE. Gervais, Oregon, February 15, 1919. SI'IT WITH NEW STRAIGHT-LINE COAT This is one of the new coat suits with the jacket cut on straight refer lines. It lg of castor colored trico "tine tucked with fine tucks that go in couples and vested with blue chamois cloth. The broad braid that' trims vest and sleeves Is also blue of a darker Bhad. COMB DSN? ("Combien" is a French word, mean ing "how much." It is widely used by the Americans in France .Lditor) I have ma do a thousand efforts, Spending hours both night and day In a Btndy of tho language: "Monsecr, parley voo fiansay." There, i3 one word which I 'vo often Kun across to my dismay It is so dog-goned expressive, CO-MBIEN! When we've been "confined to quar .tors" 'Cause you didn't mako your bunk And you left your outfit looking Like an auction, salo of junk. Do you think you'll help things any xr you sit and think and cuss Out tho corporals and sergeants? UOMBlliM When you're dead dog tired, and hun gry And the slum don 't fill you up And you'vo signed the pledge three days before So can't seek the flowinir cup. Your thoughts go ont to "bikstek, Pommes f rites, pain and confiture '. Then you reach down in your pockeV CUAlUIfcSil Vith tho 'boucs" you've had a ses sion But the going wasn't good, And yon kept on placing "au franc" somewhat longer than you should. The next morning you remember lou'vo three presents yet to buy: Then you start to count your bankroll t'UAIiilEJN I Combien 's a weighty subject, Yes, in fact it s quite a boro, I've spent sleepless nights in seeking For its meaning by the score. It's a question, not an answer S0 I "I try it out once more. If our d-.ys in Franco aro numbered, COMBIEN! MELVILLE JONES. Master Engineer 116th Engineers, Angers. France. TAVORS ANTI-TRUST LAWS (By R. A. BOOTH) . Member of State Highway Com. Eugene. Or., Feb 17. (Special) I do not think senate bills.fi" and 68, if enacted into law, would hamper the highway commission's work or prevent it obtaining the best results for the state. They largely follow the cus tom inaugurated by the commission and therefore enact into organic law what the comnufsion has considered good practice. V tho people bad' followed closely OLD . AGE STARTS WITH YOUR KIDNEYS Sdefite SBfS that old begins with weakened kidneys and digestive organ. This beinc true, it is easy to believe that by keeping the kidneys and dices tive otiana cleansed and in proper work ing order old aft can be deferred and life prolonged far beyond that enjoyed by the average person. For over 200 year GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil has bees relieving the weaknesses and disability due to advanc ing years. It is a standard old-time home remedy and needs no introduction. GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil is inclosed in odorless, tasteless capsule contain ing about 5 drops each. Take them as you would a pilL with a swallow of water. Tha oil stimulates the kidney the commission's act And if the legis lators were familiar wjth them there would not be the present insistence for legislative expression. As a matter of general policy I fav or the widest publicity for every pub lic act and believe it is especially de sirablo now in the road program t? fully inform the public and prevent, if possible, suspicion and criticism, and thereby promote good road senti ment and construction. I have not shared the view fre quently expressed that the bills men tioned are unfriendly to the person nel of the present commission, or to tha commission feature of the law. If patented pavement is used the public should ibe informed as to the amount paid for royalty, if there is justifica tion, and there doubtless is, for the be lief now quite prevalent in the state, that through patents and combinations that state and municipalities have not at all times received full bsnefit for expenditures, the belief should not be expressed by an enactment that would prevent competition. It would be a calamity to destroy opportunity for the use of any kind of road material or type of pavement whether patented or not. The possibility of wrong cannot be fully prevented by stntute. The state must depend upon the intelligence and integrity of its representatives. The highway commission has taken no action as to any pending legisla tion. Statements, therefore, must be; considered individual. Oregonian. SHOW GIVEN ONE NIGHT The "Midnight Cabaret" will ap pear but once at the state penitentiary. Whon tne program was first issued it was the intention to give the show ANOTHER BIG PIG CLUB The United States National Bank is antici pating 1919 as the greatest year of its Pig Club activities. Next Saturday at 1:30 at the Salem Commercial Club rooms, a meeting will take place for the boys and girls who are members, and for those who would like to become members. "- ' Bring or send your boys and girls Mr. Farmer. ISii-3i' Mr. Business As a matter of economy you should consult the Journal's Job Department before placing your printing-we are satisfying Salem's leading firms put us on your calling list. Phone 8 1 action and enables the organs to throw off the poisons which cause prematura bid age. New life and strength increase) as yon continue the treatment Whta completely restored continue taking a capsult or two each day. GOLD MED AL Haarlem Oil Capsules will keep too in health and vigor and prevent a return of the disease. 'Do not wait until old ago or disease have settled down for good. At the first sign that your kidneys are not working Sroperly. go to your druggist and get ox of GOLD MEDAL Haarlem Oil Capsules. Money refunded if they do not help you. Three sires. But re member to ask for the original imported GOLD MEDAL brand in sealed pack ages. . 1 . Thursday and Friday evenings of tho week. - It has .now boen decided that I the show is to be given only "Thursday evening. Those who are looking for en tertainment Friday evening might drop in late at the legislative halls in tho state house. The oie at the pen is an , annual affair and that at the state j house only once in every two years. G W. Brown, lieutenant governor -of Saskatchewan, died at Begina Monday lne striko of engineers which has closed the public Bfhools of Denver for a week has 'been settled and the schools are now open. Thorough Americanization of He brew immigrant was urged by the fif ty sixth annual convention of the or der of 'B'nai B'rith, just closed at Saa Francisco. Record prices for hogs were secur ed at an auction in Mattoon, 111, when one sow with nine pigs brought $4815, another sow $1340, and a spring pij $1205. Bohert L. Page, a shipbuilder, was shot and killed in the room of Misi Anna Barbe at San Francisco, Sunday. The woman claims she fired in de fense of her honor. Tho Nebraska legislature has passed a bill barring Catholic nuns and oth ers who wear the dress of their re ligious orders from teaching in the public schools of the state. Tho American tank steamer 3. M. Guffey, reported lest week in disaster 200 miles off Cape Race, was towed to Halifax by the British steamer Ramor-he-ad. WtedSates aalBawk Salem Oreort Man