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"age of The Capital Journa WEDNESDAY EVENING February 26, 1919 - CHABLES H. FISHEB Editor and Publisher ton alP WVWWWWWWw vs " " - . Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon. Address AD Communications To )e DmlnHttl Journal INTERVENTION IN PwUSSIA. BALEM 136 S. Commercial St. OREGON 8VBSCEIPTT0N BATES Daily, by Carrier, per year to.OO Per Month ; 5e Cjly by Mail, per year $3.00 Per Month. 35c FULL LEASLD W1BE T1SLEUKAFH EEPOBT FOREIGN BEPBESENTATrVES W. D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. VF. H. Stoekwell, Chicago, People's Gat Building The Daily Capital Journal earner boya are instructed -to put the papers on the ores. If the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglecta getting the paper to yon on time, kindly phone the circulation manager, ai this is the only way can determine whether or not the carriers are following instructions. Phone Bl before 7:30 o'clock end a paper will be sent you by special messenger if the earner has missed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL Is the only newspaper in Salem whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations TWO MILLION BOOKS. Mnrp than two million books have been shipped to Km nop for nnr soldiers to read since the warjjeean, and still the cry is for more. Dr. Herbert Putnam, who is at the head of the A. L. A. m France, just recently camea to hpnrlniinrtprs in this country to rush as many books as possible, fiction and non-fiction. More than 800,000 books have been purchased lor tne use 01 tne army eaucauoiuu commission since the-armistice was signed. Tt U tn hp one of the eood effects of army service that many a boy who never cared to read before he went away now is going to be a dook lover; many wno never learned to read have siezed the chance offered them in camp schools to add this accomplishment to their others. Reading is a good, wholesome habit. True, there are many bad books; but there are infinitely more good ones, and any reader must insensibly get more good than harm. That branch of service which has labored ardently and faithfully to supply the soldiers the books which have been one of their greatest comforts, as well as one of their real needs, is deserving of a high place in the annals of war. 1 .:''.'' ir!. ' . The Russian problem, which has been making trouble at the peace conference, lately, may be reduced to a fair ly simple statement. - . France has long favored intervention as the best way to restore order in Russia and prevent Germany from getting control. But France has not felt equal to send ing an army herself. Great Britain has seemed to tolerate the idea of in tervention if it seemed advisable, but she has realized, even better than the French have, what a big task it would be, and has not felt like sparing the men and money de manded. Italy has not seemed much interested in the matter. ; Japan might be willing to lend an army for the purpose, ii suiiicienuy urgea ana promised suitaoie compensa tions, but the other Allies have not cared to urge her. Generally speaking, then, the world powers have been willing to send an army to straighten out Russia if the United States would supply the army. But neither Pres ident Wilson nor the American congress nor the American people show any inclination to undertake the job. The general inclination to shirk an unpleasant task may result in the peace congress deciding to make the best of a bad mess by allowing Russia to work out her own salvation. If she wants bolshevism as a permanent condition let her keep it. Mayor W. JL Thompson who during the war, boast ed that he was mayor of the "sixth German city" in the world, and positively refused to take any part in war ac tivities against Germany, has been renominated in the republican primaries by a large majority. This is prob ably the most disgraceful political episode that has ever occurred in this country. It illustrates the strength of the disloyal foreign element in many of the large cities of the country, and the danger that impends from their activities. Anyway, members like Smith of Multnomah, prevent the session becoming too seriously attentive to business. His fog-horn voice, and demagogic representation of a special class of voters in a country where there should be no class distinction, are the cause of occasional noisy dis turbances that might be classed as disgraceful disorders if staged anywhere except in the Oregon legislature. The war is estimated to have cost all the belligerents together about $200,000,000,000. Just say it over slowly, thustwo hundred thousand millions of dollars. This means that much wealth was destroyed, and will have to be replaced before the world gets back to where it was be fore the war. And yet some people want to reduce the working day to five or six hours- ine continuous snow at tiu siait; tuyiicu 10 oaiu w be costing the taxpayers $1200 a day, although the actors themselves are getting no salary. One by one the salary increase bills are put through, and it is safe to say that all will yet be passed if the ses sion continues a few days longer. If the law compelling Oregon fruit to be labeled what it is will drive packing and canning concerns out of the state, let them go. It is high time Oregon asserted its right to have its products known and advertised throughout the world properly and honestly labeled. There is not a single good argument against the proposed law. General impression of legis lators at 2:30 o'clock this after noon was that the thirtieth legis-. lative assembly would adjourn sine die after tonight's session. Maiiy of the leading members of the House were of the opinion that the flood 0f oratory would be dammed this afternoon. With the few remaining bills to be acted upon, with noining Hap pening to break the regular grind, and with Speaker Seymour Jones bustling things along, te homesick members are taking on new life. Trades CoiiscO Announces Local Referendum Vote Portland, Or., Feb. 25. After Sec retary H. W. Shaw had announced yes terday afternoon that the Pacific coast Metal Trades council had order ed a eoast wide strike April 1 unless the government, in the meantime, grant ed the demands of the men, the offi cial pre9 committee issued a statement last night that the walkout had been, put up to a referendum vote of the local councils. The statement declared the Metal Trades convention, which closed yes terday evening, ''endorsed the strike in the northwest district." The convention "unanimously went on record in favor of establishing a six hour day, in order to make em ploiymont for tho.'t? who are unem ployed,'' the statement asserted. 0 .e.-i -7s 1a ilk (' Mr. B. W. D. Barnes, i ? f3r'a Warren County, Measures on to Reanirementa. IV a - HIS LIFE A STIRRING ONE D. Barnes could A man named Herdelmeyer ran for mayor in Chicago on a platform calling for "free beer or no work." Strange to say ne was deieated. When the peace conference finishes its work at Paris, it might move over to Dublin and continue its ses sions indefinitely. Lenine is now trying to rule Russia by claiming to be an incarnation of the great Mongol conqueror, Genghis Khan. Well, if anybody can, Genghis can . ... RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Mason THE KINGS. LOVING THE GERMANS. ...$1030 uooa Buys- In Slightly Used Cars I i i i?i loo lis iiKc new Tl 1 j . 1 - 1 A. . - 4 i une lyio r ora louring gooa snape must ue J sold at once . -. $363 i I One 3-4 Special Republic Truck good as new y extra good buy ?9 J See us for bargains in used cars and trucks. Will have a carload of new Velie Sixes in soon. Place your order now. " i 'I i n . Salem Velie Company J. W. JONES, Bier. Distributors for Polk and Marion Counties i 1G2 N. Commercial St. Salem, Ore. j Inspired by psalms and sermons, and good books on the shelf, I try to love the Germans as I would love my self; but when I've loved the critters for minutes five or ten, I need a course of bitters to tone me up again.. It's hard to love the people who trampled Belgium down, de stroyed the church and steeple, and burned the helpless town. It's hard to love the blighters who raise a sickly whine when whipped by allied fighters, and shooed across the Rhine. And yet I keep on trying to love them more or less; the effort keeps me crying, and sweating, I con fess; and when I've loved the duffers a half an hour or so, no other being suffers the agonies I know. I'm weary and exhausted, as though by mortal ills, by doctors I ra accosted, who say I'm needing pills. I feel my doom's been spoken, I'm' hobbling on a crutch, I'm weak and bent and broken from loving Huns too much. A man may love the Russians nor find existence vain; but if he loves the Prus sians he cannot stand the strain. And still, inspired by sermons which teach that hate's a fake, I'll try to love the Germans until my spare ribs break. Swindlers Prey On Soldiers Relate company of New York men, presidential and poace commission guard company and the district of Paris casual company. 1 I Other troop ships due todar are the Washington, Feb. 26. War, navy and Caserta with 1,607 men; the Turriulba, department of justice authorities are 89 casual officers; the Carrillo, 59 todav trailing a irrouu of swindlers who men: the Horedin. 91 mAD &nii thft hat. hav btn preying upon oldiers rol tloship New Mexico with number of . ioor II EVER SEEN" alives. The Rang, operating mainly in New York, 1'hiladelpbia and Chicago, sends telegrams to relatives prport iiijt to be from a soldier saying the sol dier is furlounhod or dismissed, lias not been paid and needs money. In each ease the swindler asks thtt in remitting money the seuder waive identification or send to general delivery. The war .department pointed out to- casual officers. Alaskan Town Oaks To Be Model City Of World Valdcx, Alaska, Feb. 26, Because not a single arrest has been made in this city during the last seven months day that mea on furlough must sh6wivW'' f'nis the honor of being Mae thir have money to get home, while, """M city of the world, discharged men are given traveling The offla had a bad scar last allowances. ('light when United States Marshal , ' Brehnman gathered in Fred ("Copcn- TKOOPS OK GEORGE WASHINGTON nKoa") Christensen for alleged intoxi . ration. It looked as though the proud Waitz Relieved By Tanlac Af ter Suffering Twenty Years. "Not in years," said Phillip A. Waitz, while in the French Drug store Tacoma, recently, "have I enjoyed bet ter health or felt so well generally as I do ince taking Tanjac." Mr. Waitz lives in what' is known a Old Tacoma, at 33d and Lawrence streets. He has been a resident of that city for nearly twenty five years, "Tanlac; has eertin!y been remark able in my ease," ho continued, "for it baa not only relieved me of my ter- raljle suffering, 'but 1 have actually gained fifteen pounds in weight and have just finished my third bottle. I had been bothered with my stomach and kidneys for twonty years and was never able to find anything to do me any good. The pains in the small of my .back, and shoulders and in my left hip and knee were awful. Some times 1 was in so much misery that 1 couldn't get around at all and would have 'to lay off from my work for a week at a time, or more. When the weather began to get warm last sum mer I got in such a bad fix that 1 could hardly stand it, and had to give up my work entirely and was uuable to turn my hands to a ttung ail summer. 1 moved out of town, right out into the woods thiiikiiiir if 1 lived out m the open it m;clit help me, But 1 contin ued to suffer just the game, ilv stom ach was all out of whack anil I suf fered agony from indigestion. The gas which formed on nr stomach would get up into my chest and almost cut off my breath. I had to stop dnnning coffee quit eating many things 1 Ii&e best on account of the trouble they caused me. The pain in my back and hip got so Ifcad at times 1 couldnot straighten np if I stooped- over ami my kidneys disturbed me so often at night that 1 couldn't get any sound sleep. "Finally a friend of mine wno works at the shipyards advised me to get Tanlac and as nothing else had ever lone mo any sood, I begun taking this medicine. By the time 1 had finished niT second bottle I hadn't an aehe or a pain about mo and, so, I can say Tan lac beats- anything I have ever run across in twenty years. 1 haven't had to lose a minute from my work since that time. Mr appetite is great, I thoroughly enjoy everything 1 eat and nothing hurts me. My kidneys are now in fine shape and 1 can . sleep tne whole night through, I feel like I have taken a new lease on life, for 1 feel younger, stronger and better than I-have in years." Tanlae ia sold in Hubbard bl Hub bard Drug Co, in Mt. Angel by Ben ia Gervais by John &eUy, in that all but nut him down. Here is the story told in his own words: "I had throat trouble from which no relief Beemed possible. Mv health was (tone. Finally I decided to try J'eruna and was entirely cured by four bottles. That was three years ago. I am now as well as ever; able lo ride all the time. Thanks' to Peruna." Like Sheriff Barnes, thousands owe their present health to Peruna. For catarrh of the head, nose and throat, catarrhal inflammation of Always in robust health, B. V. ride, shoot and eet his man. He was evervthinir a sheriff in Warren Co., Tennessee, should be until overtaken by a complication of catarrhal troubles. tne stomach, bowels or other orpans, Dr. llarlman's Famous Peruna Tonic has been a standard household remedy for forty-tiv years. ! If you are sick and suffering."; w-rite The Peruna Corrptiny, Dept.! A. Columbus, ' Ohio, for Dr. Hart-! man's Health Book. It is free.1 Your dealer has Peruna in both! tablet and liquid form. If you want' health, insist upon having l'eruna.1 Your dealer will give you a Peruna Almanac. THE PROMOTER'S WIFE . BY JANE PHELPS Neil Takes Blanche Orton's Adive to Exercise CHAPTER XVn Orton wakened in, me then. She, oth or man s wife, eould influence mr husbund where I could not. I never had heard anything tnngiblo in any way against Mrs. Orton; she was re let I had seon a way. swaved me. Then again I wasi , , vJCu.unD, u uirar almost ashamed of loving him so much.!?""'. he" shwas m" than a3uMT Thi. whrn hn mo,i i,,nimi lu "lr "cuons. one was conaum- At times I felt almost afraid of my! love for NCU, so strange.y ha.i U at - f way swayed me. Then again I wasi . . , with nie as often happened. imntely clever. Very ingenus. Al lien are t.-, , . ' said to bo selfish. I had heard women B"c ,UT B0W to everything talk as if selfishnes. were bred in mcn,il hcr own availtagfi o glosg'over a and ineradicable; therefore it must be! 710e t sp,c , 1"? act,(m ,,,..nt i, -me !thfft 11 bor the look of innocence or ignorance. accepted by women. Neil was a composite. Selfish be yond anyone I ever had known in some That she was beautiful,.! could ne more deny than I conld repudiate her RVS- llnanlfiah in a Hnlinitt flnriui in . others. And a3 his unselfish actions naa thought noth were invariably accompanied by pas- i ,of heI oauety 88 miKht aert sionate love-making anu generosny to-0'',,0' "nations, until NeB t ? ?u j.!o frankly told me sne sad influeneeB -the selfish side of his nature-forjl1,!0 take b"lnR e that h. We had a butler now as well aa ma-ids and the cook. Neil was planning to entertain extensively, that rrnter When I asked him whom he desired t r invite, he said: . "Business- people mostly. .It is nce essary now a days, if ono is to get on." Tomorrow Bab is Anxious Because Neil Is Drinktog . . Turner by H. P. Ouineliua, in Wood' burn by Lyman H Shorey, in Salera by Pr. 8. C. Stone, in Silverton by Geo. A Steclhammer, in Gates by Mrs. J. P. McCurdy, in Stayton by C. A Beau champ, in Aurora by Aurora Drug Store, in St. Paul by Groceteria Stores Co. Inc., and in Donald by M. W. Johnson. A reduction of $3 a thousand on the price of ties will probably close about 20 small tie mills in Linn county. long periods at a time. Wo had moved into the new apart ment. . I felt almost lost in the im mense rooms.- I had cared for the smal ler one with a sort of joyoBS devotion and energy, because, as I told Neil, it was "my little house, my first home with him." All through my life at home with father and mother, there had been. aside from the necessary plainness of people in our circumstances, a note of simplicity. But Neil loved luxury. He often said laughingly: yl like the sensation of sinking down in things." So wo had divans with big, fat cushions, and easy chairs that once you were settled in them, you felt that never eould you get out of them without assistance. Our new home was exquisite in many ways. Yet to me it lacked the "home-iiK-ss" of the first little home. A fashionable and high priced decorator had hurj; the walls with tapestries, or soft plushes. The furniture had been selected for the place it was intended to fill with the greatest care. Bui once put where it belonged, it had to remain thore. It was absolutely incongruous auywhore else. Neil still -looked worn and tired. He was always laboring under a sort of excitement, was restless, and '.'strung up" as' father would have expressed t't. I felt anxious about him, but when I spoke of what I called hia "nervous ness' he only laughed at me. ' Ono day he came home in great glee. He nnd another man'had decided to take boxing lessons. He explained his reasons. "Everyone says I look tired. I think it is because I get no exercise. I'm sitting in an affice three-quarter,; of the time. One does get stale and soft. The softer one gets, the less is he in clined to make the effort required if he would harden, his muscels. I met Blunche Orton today, and she accused me of getting old. So I made arrange ments to box twice a week." He had done it because of Blanche Orton's criticism. I had been telling him for wetks that he looked b&dly, and ho had simply laughed and dis missed it with a shrug. But the mo ment Bhe spoke to him he had been awake to the necessity for action. I think that jealously of Blanche Cheese production in Tillamook coun ty last year reached a total of 5,036,- (WO pounds, valued at more than t V j oua matter in one's system. A CIEUt COMPLEXION Ruddy Cheeks Sparkling Eyes Most Women Can Have Says Dr. Edwards, a WeH-Known Ohio Physician Dr. F. M. Edwards for 17 yean treated cores of women for liver and bowel ) ailment During these years he gave to bis patients a prescription made of a few well-known vegetable ingredients mixed with olive oil, naming them Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets, You will know them by their olive color. These tablets are wonder-workers on the liver and bowels, which cause a normal ; action, carrying off the waste and poison- Walker C. Smith, a socialist printer lanrested at Seattle on a charre of New York, Feb. 26. The liner George reeorti had been shattered. Washington, from which President Wil- 'CopnnS-n" is the best mimie son landed in Boston, arrived hero to- - drunken man off the yandeville day with 2,337 officers and soldiers, stage. Me eouwn t resist pumng oti,erimina, ,Barchy, has been released on me organisations aooara inciuue me,- -v xs&li. 14fith machine sua battalion complete. rem rerora. i Tie p0ik County Farmers' Cocpera- Mareha!) Brennham says he'll smell t;ve Warehouse eompanv at Pailas has their breath before rnnnyig them ia ec tared a six per cent dividend. aftet this. Id officers and Hi enlisted men; Jifth engineers and rnjineers tram rumiete. 47 officers and 1,60 men; one cteual If you bare a pale face, sallow look, dull eyes, pimples, coated tongue, headaches, a hstless, no-good feeling, all out of sorts, ir active boweli foa take one of Dr. Edwards Olive Tablets nightly for a time and note the pleasing results. Thousands of women as well as men take Dr. Edwards' Olive Tablets the suc cessful substitute for calomel now and then just to keep in the pink of cosdittoa, 10c sad 25c per cos. Ail diuggists, HAIE OFTEN RUINED BT WASHING WITH SOAP Soap should toe used very carefully- if you want to keep your hair looking its best. Most soaps and prepared" shampoos. contain too much alkali. Thia dries the scalp, mokes the hair brit elc. anJ ruins it. The best thing for steady use is just ordinary mnlsified coeoanut oil (which is pure and greaseless), and is better than the most expensive soap or any thing else you can use ., 0n or two teapaonsfuls will cleanse the hair and scalp thoroughly. Simply moisten tho hair with water and rtr it in. It makes an abundance of rich, creamy lather, which rinses out easily, removing every particle of dust, dirt, dandruff and excessive oil. Tho hair dries quickly and evenly, and it. leaves the scalp soft, and the hair, fine an siihy. bright, lustrous, fluffy and easy to mannge. You enn get mulsifiprl inpnn.,t t at any pharmacy, it's very cheap, an a few ounces will snnnlv ber of the family for months. HAZE GREEN NOTES- Mrs, A. Weinort and daughter. TO- eanor, returned Saturday from a viait with relatives at Boring. Miss Myrtle Rominger, who has beea m the Salem hospital for throe weeks on account 0f a severe case of anrwuii- itis, came home last week. Miss Freda Chumuau rtiirn, 1, from Sheridan last Tuesday. Hurry Rhodes came np from PortIan Saturday to spend Sunday at home, C. J. Latham and itumntn. v d.l , . I .- nun. Jones, autocd to Monmouth Tuesday of last week. The Chapman children had to. K of school a part of last week on account or sickness. Mrs. W. H. Davia snent h r last week with relatives in Salem, prior to her sisters departure for Hansaa. The U. B. Endeavor society Wlta fan. . ored Sunday evening by the appearance of Mr. Sagamore, an educated Japanese " " on mse Laoish. He gave a very interesting account of tne con ditions in Japan. ired Chapman and Maurice Dunurasi are pulling stumps' on the formers farm. George Farmenter has just eompletet a hotbed in which to raise cabbage ant tomatoo plants for sale. A. Weinert and family were dinner guests at the V. B. Parsonage Sunday. M V Edmonds and Pat Baxter have been chosen supervisor of diking im provement district No 8 of Cowlirs county. Sale of 35,000 worth of bond will provide funds for the improvement Among he officers who land at New York from France Sunday were Colonel John Poison of Boise. Idaho, and Major J. M. Handley of Mandan, N. D., judge- in the fifth judicial dis trict of that state.