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MONDAY EVENING
March 17, 1919 '
CHAKLES H. FISHEB
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LOWELL ON
Once more it is pertinent to quote the stirring lines
of James Russell Lowell, written on the occasion of 'an
other great turning-point in American history:
"New occasions teach new duties ; time makes ancient
' good uncouth.
They must upward still, and onward, who would keep
abreast of truth."
. ... And along with these noble words which Tennyson
puts in the mouth of the dying King Arthur:
. "The old order changeth, yield ng place to new;
And God fulfills himself in many ways,
Lest one good custom should corrupt the world.'.'
There is no question what either of these courageous
and clear-sighted poets would say of the present crisis.
They would urge all Americans and all Britons, along
' with all forward-looking men everywhere, to disregard a
blind reverence for a past that solved its own problems in
its own "radical way, and do the same with- our own
problems,' trusting our own judgment for the new time
as our fathers trusted theirs for the olden times. ,
1 li ' AIR TRAFFIC REGULATIONS, i
Airplane owners must be careful not to pursue wild
'duck or insect-destroying game brids while flying over
Michigan. A legislator in that state has recently intro
duced a bill which would make such pursuit illegal. ; f
His bill provides further against collisions in the air.
Two pilots flying under power may collide in mid-air
without incurring any punishment at the hands of. the
law. For one pilot running under power to collide with
a volplaning machine would be a misdemeanor. 1
Next the bill takes up the question of air-ownership.
A real estate holder may, if he wishes, make a no-trespassing
sign effective for 500 feet about the ground.
There's nothing like keeping legislation up to date.
The proposed Michigan bill opens a wonderful vision be
fore the mind's eye. It is easy to imagine the highways
of the future, laid out well above 500 feet from the
ground, with aerial billboards hung from every cloud, and
traffic cops with their colored signals stationed at suit
able intervals in the sky in anchored 'balloons.
The coming of the big paper mills and other indus
tries to Salem ought to make this a memorable year in
the growth of this city.
'" The best recommendation of the proposed League of
Nations is that the United States senate is against it.
RIPPLING
By Walt
THINGS ARE
Where late the frenzied fighters through fields of
carnage burst, now able bodied writers are doing of their
worst; the gifted lads are pouring out language weird
and soaring, where lately guns were roaring, and muddy
soldiers cursed. Where are the Teutons gory? Where
are the dauntless Seibs? They've left the field of glory
to raise string beans and herbs; and writers throng the
places where warfare left its traces; and they get down to
cases and shoot forth nouns and verbs. No more Bill's
mighty legions along the landscape reach; no more in
sunny regions the shell and shrapnel screech; the peasant
; is not yelling while foemen burn his dwelling; but writers
bold are shelling the world with parts of speech. No more
the Prussians clamor to Gott in their despair but musty
chunks of grammar are whizzing through the. air; where
Lufly used to hurry, where Hinden used to worry, : the
phade of Lindley Murray now walks, denied a chair. Oh,
hoch and donnerwetter, relieved we all must feel; a war
cf words is better than is a war of steel ; so let the scribes
be swarming in ranks for further storming, their blood
less deeds performing where armies used to reeL ? ? ,
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keeping fully abreast the growth of Salem is shown by the
record of last week which was an average week. The
Capital Journal's circulation is audited by the Audit Bur
eau of Circulations, of which all the daily papers of Port
land, and 83 per cent of all the daily papers of the United
States are members. It is an organization backed by the
great national advertisers and all the leading advertising
agencies of the country. The A. B. C. records for last
week show the Capital Journal's circulation to have been
as follows:
MONDAY, MARCH 10 ...5,155
TUESDAY, MARCH 11 5,135
WEDNESDAY, MARCH 12 5,105
THURSDAY, MARCH 13 5,216
FRIDAY, MARCH 14 ...5,210
SATURDAY, MARCH 15 d,2oo
These figures are printed in order that advertisers
wrho buy space in the Capital
what they are paying for.
POSTAGE STAMPS
The revenue of the postal service is considered one
of the most accurate barometers of business conditions.
It comes from every community in the country, and in
vades every industry. Postmaster General Burleson
finds much cheer in the present situation. . '
Last November, he reports, there was a pronounced
decline in postal receipts, due to the business slump re
sulting from the signing of the armistice and the pre
valence of influenza. In December the revenues begun to
swing upward toward normal. In January and February
they have greatly exceeded the average increase for those
months during the last thirty years. .
There are many other signs pointing the same way,
chief among them the great amount of advertising now
being published or contracted for. Present manufactur
ing and buying are on a larger scale than most people
suppose, and far-sighted business men, .are expecting a
big increase during the Spring.
Clemenceau has been made chief of the Parisian boy
scouts. Boys know a good scout when they see him."".
So the German navy, after avoiding scrap for four
years and a half, is in a fair way of being scrapped, 'f i
THE PROMOTER'S WIFE
BY JANE
BARB ABA ASKS NEIL FOB THE
SAME CONFIDENCE HE GIVES
BLANCHE.
CHAPTER XXXIII.
That night '.Noil came homo in rnro
good humor. I noticed at once that he
had been drinking not much,, but
enough to niako him a bit more talka
tive than ho otherwise would have
been. My heart sank, as it always did
when ho drank. I was so afraid it might
grow upon him. It seemed to mo he
name home more and more ofton with
tho smell of it clinging to him.
"How did Blanche Orton happen to
bo with you ana Mr. Scott this noonf"
The qudHtion was as casual as 1 could
make it.
Obviously, my question jarred
"She wanted to talk to him," he
said coldly.
I wanted Neil's confidence so badly
that these half no. not even half-confidences,
hurt me cruelly,.
"I am wondering what about. Surely
she can havo nothing in common with
that hiant"
' Like a woman want to know
everything.'?
I "drew a sharp little breath. iris
words, his tone, stnbbert me. In spite of
my burning curiosity, I said:
"I'm a wife, Neil, as well as a wom
an, ". I'spoko with all the dignity 1
could command. Curious as I was, I
would not let him think it was simply
jealous, vulgar curiosity that had
prompted my Questions. And it was not.
I foltthat it was my right as his wife
to know these things about which he
was so secretive
Now although I had firmly decided
in my mind only a few hours before
that all tho innueudos.. all the Hints I
had heard, all that Mr. Frederick had
told me, wore emanations of minds rn-
capablQ of doing what Noil could do,
and untrue now my doubts returned
in full force. loubtii of both kinds
of hit business, and his rotation with
Bluncho Orton.
I stole an annoyed glance at Neil,
Presently he lurched furward a bit in
his chair, then straightened himself
with au obvious effort to disguise from
me what I already knew: that ho had
been driuking.
'Dou't look at me like that, Bab!
what 's got into you tonight t"
'Nothing, Neil. But eomthomg has
gone into you, Please, dear, don't
drink. I am afraid, Afraid for you and
for me."
Nonsense! I enlv take a souple af
ter T am through at the office. It
braces me np I shant 'end in the
gutter' like the story books nay,
don't worrv." '
'Neil, wont vqu taV me into your
fonfidoncet" I begged. ' 1 don't like
to feel that my sex, and my power to
amuse you, and mv home-making abil-
in an insult to mv intelligence. Perhaps
I might not understand things all at.
nnA iwrKam T miltl ha nf tin tioln A
assistance to you. But I should be so J
CIRCULATION,
the 'Daily Capital Journal is
Journal may know exactly
1 .
AND BUSINESS.
PHELPS
much happier, Noil, If I felt you were
making me 'yon confidante, that yon
lot mo share ALL your life instead of
only a part of it. Women aro doing
many things now-a-days, Neil. They are
successful in business and in tho pro
fessions. It shows that it is not brain
power that has boon our luck, or the
reason wo have not competed with men
Ion gngo. I have read of women who
have been tho inspiration of the men
they married who have given them
ideas which mado for success How do
you know but that I might be such a
woman! You see, Noil, dear, you don't
give me a chance." .
Instead . of answering immediately,
ho looked at nio through half-closed
lids a moment. Then:
'You say you might give me ideaB
that would make for my success. Am 1
not successful enough to please your
ladyship! What do you want that I do
not provide! Don't you have as much,
or more, than any of the young women
who have been married four years,
and whose husbands are but thirty
years old! It seems to me that if yua
stop to think, you will not find it
necessary to make the plea to help mo,
a cover for what is just plain curiosity.
Once more I ask, Bab: what do you
want that I do not provide!"
"The same confidonco you give to
Blancho Orton." - .
(Tomorrow (Barbara nnd Noil Have
' - A Quarrel)
OpcaFcrmn
Editor Journal:..We notice that the
telephone company is asking for an
other raise in rates. When will they
be satisfied! D0 they want the earth!
They evidently see . that everything is
having a downward trend and they say,
'Now is our time or we can't got it."
That if theT had a8 much patriotism
and loynlty as they have selfishness
and greed they would not ask it at this
tiuio when people have paid out all
their available means to win this war
and they don 't know how they etn
meet tho enormous Liberty loan that
is now necessary to eompleto the job.
We are also donating to keep tho Ar
menians, a Christian people from starv
ing to death, but greed overshadows ev
erything. Working at a loss, of eourso,
we don 't pretend to say. but wo know
this could be and has boeu dona in other
cases, when there was no necessity and
an ob ject to be gained. -
With the rates now chargefl and the
number of phones, we esn't see the
necessity. W have heard the claim
that the moro patrons tho higher the
cost per capita on account of connec
tions, how ridiculous. If this be true
then why put in more phones and tax
those extra who are already on the lpo
The writer in Tuesday's issue of the
Journal no doubt told the facts when
he said they have asked this enormous
raise, expecting the board to compro
mise and give them part and thus paci
fy the patrons and at the same time
give themselves an excuse for another
raise as soon as an , opportunity pre
sents itself.
As for Engloweod, the patrons have
almost unanimously expressed them
selves in writing, that in ease. of any
raise whatever that may be, their
phones will be removed, and we are sure
they mean it
DR. F. S. SCHUT.
WOOL ADMINISTRATOR -
SENDS IN EESIGNATION.
Portland, March la.r-Charles H. Green
has sent -in his resignation ua United,
States wool administrator aud distribu
tor for this district and will clo'so his
office on April 1st,
No ono could have handled the gov
ernment wool business hero more etfi
ciontly than Mr. Green and his admin
istration has been entirely satisfactory
to growers and manufacturers, aliko.
Fur moro wool was sent to Portland
thau the mills of this district could
make use of and the distance to thetho past few wccks Bsg(;8Sin(. expects! "0ne dftv 8 bi she1 dropped be
eastern manufuctunug centers has pre- j0 fjnj8n 800Ill Itwcen us and our kitchen. Lucky for
veuted tho prompt movement that was jjrg. Frank Crawford and Mrs. W. V.- il was 11 du(1, A dud 9 a 'H ex"
hoped for. The singlo auction sale that Henry were Salem shoppers Friday." "jplosive shell, that does not explode oa
wa held in this city was a success. jr Bnd jjrs. jesse Wallin" w! C. ucount a Poor U80, w,ls luy
Not all tho wools put up wore sold, but Catto'n and Lee Catton took in'the JElks for us
this was chiefly because the mills ro- play Wednosday evening. I "Ono day wo noticed a couple of
quested that certain large lots bo listed. on Monday evening a community sup- boys ruul"11S down tho hill towards us.
and then failed to bid on them. per was given at tho Lincoln school 'nen tl,ev were about 300 yards from
Tho quartermaster's department will house, in honor of Jesso Soh, who re- tn0 kitchen, along comes a shell and
take charge of tho wool remaining hero. ' turned from overseas service last f'lts wit,lin 20 feet of them. Whoa
There are about 14,000,000 pounds of week. His wife has been teaching at j tllt;y. hcard i1: coming they both dropped
the -1918 wool in storage in Portland, 'Lincoln while he was awav. and expects t0 lile Rround and due in. After tha
all bought and paid for bv the govern-
meut. Until plans are mado for dispos
ing or moving it it will remain In the
local warehouses.
BAPTISTS ALSO PLAN
FOE VICTORY DRIVE.
I
Between March 23 and March 30, tho
1,500,000 Baptists in the " churches
throughout the northern statos of the
union must raise $0,UUU-,UUU H tney are.dledalo farm of Calkins and Kicks,
the reach the goal they have sot for .
tnoir great Victory (Jampaign move-
ment. Prominent Baptist laymen, who
started this movement felt as though
the war did not accomplish all that.
DUVU1U IK O MVU PWmpiiBHtU i J
buildig the world. Ono of their mem
bers said: "The world's work is not
yet finished, and until it is special ef
fort will be necessary to accomplish
tho tasks which .will continually . con
front us, whether in political or com
mercial life, in social affairs or in the
realm of religious obligation."
Harloy E. Hallgren, director of the
campaign in Oregon says: "Oregon
must not shirk her duty.
She must
raise her total quota of $65,000 andjduty with tho army o( ocnepation. In
raise it on time. The future oi Baptist U letter to his father C. W. iJcan, Sa-
Cross
Red
Cross
iShoej
1
1 missions both in America and foreign
lands depends upon tho success of this
movement. The extra expenses imposed . German one I sent you and we are sura
upon the church during the war has gl&4 to wear them when old Frita gets
piled up a debt that means the shutting to shelling as. Tho last time we were
down of large numbers of mission plants on the front we were under fire every
throughout the world if the members do 1 day for 27 days and that was in tlie
not respond to the appeal being madejArgonne forests. .
and give of their substance to this "i was driving a four line team at
cause. Tho Victory campaign of won the time we reached a- Bmall town ant
niocns victory in more tnan one Bensee all tied our hones and cruwled ua
to the Baptist denomination. It means dcr wagon when they began shelling
that the many missionaries now in the 'us. A Wurman airplane came sailing to
foreign field will not have to be called ward us firing with his machine gun.
home and that the reconstruction work We all made a dive under the wagons
now going on in France, Belgium, Bus- and as they were filled with shovels
sia and India need not cease and thw
the missionaries in the home field can
still stay at their posts and teach the
ignorant foreigner the principles ofi
Christianity and American citizenship
and stamp out the revolutionary fires
of bolshovism that have been started
in some hearts by unscrupulous anar-
chistie leaders."
SPRING VALLEY NOTES
(Capital Journal Special Service.1
6prine Valley, March 14. Mrs. W.
Tfpnrv i, !,, h k0
to finish tho term. The supper was su-!
perb, a regular "befo-do-wa' " affair,'Juln"ca "P u"u ran ior kclien. AU
and all passed a most pleasant evening, ! of us b"'3 bcKan to laugh at them and
glad to welcome the return of the na-,uskci1 thom wht """T wa-"
tion's defenders. .
R. C. Shcpard was a business caller
in Salem, Thursday. .
W, Harvey Crawford and Wm. N.
Crawford are building up a herd of
Guornsevs. seven head beine shipped
here Wednesday from the famous Mid-
Goshen. Ore. These include Queen of
the May, senior and erand champion
male at. the Oreeon state fair, and sot-
eral other blue ribbon animals, among
them Boss Langdon, a most promising i
young bull.
Marion Bean Writes From
Occiipatias Army KGemjuijj
Marion Bean, who formorly lived
with his parents at Hollywood, on rural
routo 7, now d::tcs his rcters in Ger
many as ho happened to be one of the
'fortunate soldiers who were amiened to
A smart shoe so
comfortable
you forget you
have it on!
So stylish are these new Red Cross Shoes that
they will give you a delightful feeling of assur
anceeven on the smartest occasions!
And yet the easy lasts they ore made on and
the way they "bend with your foot" makes
them so perfectly comfortable that through long
hours of war work, long afternoons at exhibitions.
' at concerts and meetings, they never give you
a moment of discomfort! Even the day they
are new!
Come in today and let us show you these attrac
tive new models of the Red Cross Shoe while our
stock is complete. Learn for yourself that you
do not have to choose between style and comfort
in footwear fpr these Red Cross Shoes are so
smart that you will want them at once and so
comfortable that you will forget you have them
on! '
Special Accredited Agents
You cannot bay them if
we cannot properly fit
you.
lem, route 7, he writes in part: ,
"Our tin hats are as heavy as tua
and our engineering tools, the bullet
could not come through.
Saw Interesting Battles.
"At night when a gas shell would
burst, a guard would blow a horn t
wuke everybody up. We saw several
inleiestiug air battles and nine out of
every ten, tho German picue eauia
down. Many a time have I seen them
jcome down iu a blaze as the mahcin
gun bullets would set them afaire.
I "One day a German plane came over
I us when we had no airplane. So all
!of us boys got out our rifles and final-
ly succeeded in bringing him down f
mother earth.
8h''npncl nnd dirt quit flying pust, they
Pallia Arrivred Today With
65 Officers And 1,456 Men
Now York, March 1". The 304ta
tank brigado headquarters with 65 offi-
fo-icers and 1,450 men arrived today on the
transport Patria, Colonel Georcc Pat-
ton, Jr., San Gabriel, California, was in
command, having been detailed to that
organization trom lioneral .Pershmgi
staff, which he .mined as a captaia
when he first reached France.
Of tho three battalions in the organ-
New
action ia
8t. Mihiol and the Argonne. Other or
ganizations aboard were; Casual eom
panies 1902, Louisian; 1905, ' Texas;
1099, Arkansas; 192, Now York; 1913,
North Dakota and 1914, South Dakota.
There were also 67 casual officers
aboard, of whom thirty-four wore in tha
ait service. ,
1 , , Red v
V , Cross