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EATVRIUV EVENING
April 5, 1919
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Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon.
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Bl'BSCEIPTlON BATES
Dmi'y, fcy Carrier, per year .00 Per Montlu
QHf by Wail, per year $3.00 Per Month-
I New-born Serbian babies are wrapped in paper, be-
jcause of the scarcity of wool and cotton, say the appeals
The outbreak of Bolshevism in Hunearv has swelled of relief bureaus. Anyway, paper must be cheaper there
j the chorus of criticism, here and abroad, of the "unwar- than over here or they could not afford such extravagant
ranted delay of the peace conference. juseofit.
It is hi?hlv desirable, as evervbodv agrees, to brinffl
obego.n the war fo a close and to announce definite and final peace , Infant mortality in Germany has increased 47 per
: terms as soon as possible. It has been desirable from the cent in the last vear. The Prussian vulture that preyed
XLL LEASED VUliK lELEuKAl'ii KE1 OKT
45e i moment the armistice, was signed. Many of the critics, on women and children has come home to roost
3' however, are not fair to the peace conference. Ihey
I ignore the vast amount of work and the unprecedented
! problems confronting that body, and they ignore the his
Jtory of similar bodies in the past.
The best known parallel of the present diplomatic
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Tie Daily Capital Journal carrier boy. are instructed to put the paper, on the j K"" iug ii i 0.1 is is uic wug! cca vl itruna mumu,
porta, if the carrier does not do this, misses you, or neglects getting the paper . ;n 181 4 to shape a neW Europe OUt of the Wreckage of the BARBARA OBJECTS TO EXTEB-
7 ", mi7 m x .rcu . . manage r, . .. 7 7 Nanokon c wars. Its task was not as ereat as that of the i taixing kedvs business
tl Before 7:30 o'clock and a paper will be tent job by special messenger if the.prt'Sent Palis Conference, but it Was of much the Same
THE PROMOTER'S WIFE
BY JANE PHELPS
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BOLSHEVISM AT CLOSE RANGE.
There are still people in the United States not immi
grants or aliens, but citizens of good American lineage
who persist in maintaining that the Bolshevist movement
is sound and worthy, and that Lenine and Trotsky are
doing an admirable work and paving the way for the civ
ilization of the future.
Not to mention the crazy economics of Bolshevism,
how any one with American ideas of decency and hu
manity can take the view is certainly beyond the under
standing of the ordinary citizen. Here is a little descrip
tion of Russian Bolshevism in operation, as seen by Col.
John Wood, a "radical" member of the British parliament
and an executive officer of the General Federation of
Trades Unions in England. He has been serving with the
British army on the Omsk front.
"For the love of Allah," he says, ''never more talk of
the glories of revolution. I am in it here. Friend strikes
down him he thinks his foe and finds the dead man his
brother. Princes, peasants, plutocrats, workmen, rich and
poor, go down together in one welter of blood and dirt.
The Bolshevik thinks nothing of standing 500 social revo
lutionists against the wall and shooting them down before
breakfast because of some small petty difference of opin
ion as to whether the railways should be national or com
munal. How the gods must cry with rage that men can
lie so mad. However any of our labor leaders failed to
grasp the Bolshevik creed of blood and presumed to con
done the horrors committed by this mob of fanatical man
iacs I cannot imagine. Rather pray heaven to defend our
country from such a calamity."
Among the things he tells of seeing was the cleaning
out of an old well at Ekatermberg. There was an occa
sional grand duke mixed up with the timber. Then -another
poor piece of flesh was recognized as a grand duch
ess. Then another as the foreman of a near-by iron
works. Then a few workmen and workwomen ali mur
dered, mutilated, just to prove the love of humanity.
This is a little "close up" of the Russian repimc which
certain perverted idealists in?ist is to "regenerate the
world" an economic chaos with a reign of "bloodthirsty
cut-throats who murder for the love of it."
ASSOCIATES.
nature.
That congress was in session about nine months, from
September, 114, to June, 1813. It would have taken lon
ger for the job if Napoleon had not hastened its conclu
sion by returning from Elba an incident roughly paral
lel to the present appearance of a new- war menace in
Hungary.
It is no less instructive to compare the record of the
peace conference with that of the commission which pre-j
pared the Spanish-American peace treaty in 1898. That!
wfis a smnll nnrl iinrnmnlipfltpfi affair pnrl thp t.ik nf theOieir crooked
, ,.n u ' :...i u L-v Bt men "-and had t.ien
I'Vitt-e I'uiuiiiiKMuiieis v. aa iiiitue tut uie Miupiei wie lact
that most of the important questions had been settled in
the preliminary agreement or protocol of August 12.
Nevertheless it took the commission, sitting in Paris, two
months and twelve days to finish its work. That was
exactly four months after the signing of the protocol
ri'ht atmosphere fur him when he need
ed it.
"There are plentv of women who
j w ould be ulad to," had been his uiijf-
CIIA1TEK L. Uiatic reply.
I tried to sleep, but t reMie.-s and Ai"ii.l:,y Neil Makes Blanche Or
uueasy all niht. I had bked -Mr. Fred-, ton 's ii.m.o a Ken.ien ...up.)
eriek imiucuwlv alter 1 hid Leeuiue bet
ter acquainted
T.r.kcui.l tun ua u-itiii1rfi v iiT
and straight forward. He had lonuao! H" In I f!fl j) fl -itrt Tll.0C
for
Printing
The
Quickener
Press
193N Comma-cial-up ttai s
v alter 1 liiJ Lecyiue uei-'
' ierdtiul Baying Best To Be
value for their money that the United
States Tire company is looking forward
tn an enormous business this year in the
agricultural sections. Back of United
Sttilea tireu Ktlillil thp liiuti rui i im;a rf
There was a time in the lean years tho r,i((,J lU'S Tire company', great
of farming when many farmers had to t'nelnries Miirjrnn & WrigM, G. & J,
buy equipment that was poor iu quality Hartford, and Revere, nhoso name.
bectuse it was cheap, iiut tod: v the "av? s,"("1 tor nuniity in tires sinee the
al whatever he nit-ant . . , . .. '. . ,
iiieiu ui prueu allJl ine son ne naa
always wanted because lie knew it had
warned me to trv to stop ie;l in his at
tempt to nifckt money so quickly and
so much of it. Kvidt.tly he now had
tried to warn Keih
1 wished 1 knew something about Mr.
Black. Mr. 1'redenck had said that
''i4U per cent men" never got off with
liies! dues of the bicvcle.
o.l.l.w!. t T-. K.. . . . . L- . h in- t,- . ...
wor. thnn ,l,e deal, von rd liho-k , ".e Rcnuine value that made it cheaper
putting over."
I was sorrv I had listened. To knew
Continuing decline of deaths from In
fluenza throughout the country ia note!
in the long run. " the census bureau', health report.
The automobile is today part of tho IVaths for the mcjith totuled 3270.
a part of anything, is always an agra
.standard equipment of every farm. Cars
vatiou.
Une is :,' inclined to trv and f !hc dut 'ery country Uistmbances in China are due to Jau-
guess the rest, or in lieu of that, to put
a wrong construction upon it. 1 could
Jutter was
road. The farmeris considered bv thj
auto salesman to be a most discriminat-
anese cgitaticn, according to Dr. Wmif
I'hiiig Wai, who arrived at San Fram
ing buyer. He is a man used to doing cisco Thursdav from the Orient.
probably finish its task some time this month, despite re
ported complications, and if it does so only three months
will have been consumed, or five months from the sign-
in gof the armistice which ended the world's greatest
war. If it does so well as this, or anywhere near it, the
conference will deserve the admiration of the world in
stead of its criticism.
If the treaty of peace is not finally concluded until
the troubles of Russia, Poland, Ireland and all the rest
of them are settled we might as well resign ourselves to
an indefinite continuation of armistice conditions.
AUTOMOBILE PROMOTES BUSINESS.
The automobile industry is now one of the most im
portant in the country. Hundreds of millions of dollars
are invested in it, and hundreds of thousands of work
men are employed by it.
Here in balem, the center of the great Willamette
Valley, the automobile business has expanded wonderfully
during the past year, which is the natural thing to expect
in a central location like that possessed by this city. The
completion of the good roads program now being arrang
ed will make this the logical distribution point for a large,
thickly settled and prosperous part of western Oregon,
and the business here will increase very materially over
its present proportions, although a very large bbusiness is
now transacted in automobiles and machine accessories.
The fuitomobile business has revolutionized living
standards and methods of transacting business, and over
turned tho old order in many ways. It has not, however,
brought about the calamities that many predicted only
a few years Pgo would occur as a result of the automo
mobile "craze" because it was not a craze, but a new era
things himself, and not delegating jobs
his information
Fiorn nmmtit inrlinnf inne tVin nnorui nnrfovonnu urillinot help but feel that the J
J1' l ?1 i! CL! L .1 - " " J ---"-; nlhora. infr.m.qtinn 1. ....!.. V:.. 1.1. ..:.! Willi... O 31 t. -
feeling of guilt toward .Neil. , I L I v l ,'1- ,"1 "' ""ri" ' TD- "
Another thing that added to that feel-!flrst. hand- and he kn0,v, Just wtat he P!te.l to arrive In Kew York from
ing a. his generosity and kindness tow''T"t?- . .... , 1 1 J'ance next Sunday, is t0 be president
me. 1 had learned to love luxury oulvL1 the fa,r"'Cr,8 rT!r t1' Mva,.'r" coIlcKe &t K'wpwtp
a little less than he did, and 1 pentiltv and thc,r u't""'"u" M,B. I,
money reckle.sjy to gratify my now
extravagant tastes. iNo one would have
dreamed 1 was the samv girl who, a lw
years before had been satisfied with
a hoiue-niude trousseau, and who hud
objected to the hotel bill when on her
honeymoon. I now spent lavishly part
ly perhaps because there seemed always
to be "more where that came from,"
as Neil sometimes had told me. 1 had a
lovely home, yet it was, even so, a con
stauit temptation to buy things to make
it more ntractive. Then baby I was
horribly extravagant for him. Even the
best was scarcely good enough for him.
land I searched the shops, nn ordered
made tho most laborate and expensive
things imaginable.
I had learned to have the same care
less feeling about money that .Neil had.
1 sometimes wonder, ns I look back up
on our lives together, which is the worst
attribute of the two to be a miser, or
to luck perspective where money is con
cerned. I have educe learned tht-t men of
Neil's typo, tho cureless, easy-eonie-easy
go kind, where money is concerned,
are usualy lovable characters in them
selves; and also that Ihey are easily
a prey to the professional hangers-on,
not bcin" successful themselves, are al
ways ready to receive .all the benefits
possible from tl.oso who aie linajHiul
successes.
lint 1 neither knew" nor saw anything
of this class at that time. Uf the other,
however, the coarse common moneyed
claw 1 s,;w miiiiv. It had liven with
ol progress in the manner and methods of doing business jnn i;'ny that .v-ii had brought Mr,
1 il. ! i" -r - i-rr i . i l i i .on uonie. am ne u so liail iee.. a
lot shame-laced when he bruuat othei.
mm
inc. "TATtf "EAFir&ni
RIPPLING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
FIX UP.
The long war made us sick and faint, we had no heart
to hump; and so, alas, we did not paint the cowshed and
the pump; we read long ta'es of bones and woe, and let
vur chores to thunder go, and now our houses look as
though they should be at the dump. We had no heart to
trim the trees, or bear dead cats away, when mighty le
gions, o'er the seas, engaged in bloody fray; and while
those legions thundered on, the tin cans gathered on the
lawn, with broken dish and demijohn, and heaps of leaves
and hay. While still upon the kaiser's brow the tyrant's
crown was seen, we had no heart to broom the cow, or
plant the pinto bean ; we had no heart to decorate the lawn
swing and the garden gate; we merely stood and railed at
fate, and cussed the submarine. Now in a castle queer
and quaint the mildewed kaiser sits; and we should buy
pome rich red paint, and throw some clean up fits; for
kalsomine of gaudy hue, to make the shack look good as
new, for clover seed and blue grass, too, we ought to blow
fix biU. We've talked of war a weary while, of admirals
and kings; now let's put on our peace time smile, and
think of other things; let's fix the roof lcfore there's
rain, replace the broken window pane; a lot of duties in
its train this smiling season brings.
anu me inauguration 01 a cuuerent standard ot living
Some businesses' suffered during the re-adjustment to !,,f kin'1. !id ked me to"bo ni.e
the new conditions but that has passed, and cities like i" &fZ " ':!! 'Vi::'J
C..1 l - I . . l .,-.- ., . u mo
aiem are enjoying renewed commercial activity necnus.'
of the automobile industry. Hundreds of "highly paid
mechanics and other employes are kept busy here, and
scores of buildings filled with automobile concerns. The
automobile industry makes business because all business
is created by the activity of the people in a community or
cominonwcalth, and by interchanging their wares, buy
big i.nd selling and thus keeping money in constant circu
lation. For instance, Salem might be the richest city in
the world per capita, and yet, if the people stayed in their
homes and kept their money hoarded away out of circu
lation it would also be the "deadest" place on earth from
a business standpoint. People must stir about, bargain,
trade and spend money in order to create business.
The automobile is expensive. It costs money to run
it and this fact, coupled with the fact that it has made
business and industry move more rapidly than before!"
!L JaL i m . 1 .!
u came imo use is one 01 ine principal causes 01 tne great1
- J .i. ii i; i , , .
auviince mane ia an lines oi liiuuMry ana DUSiness in re
cent years.
The automobile business is a great circulator of money
and is productive of more activity than any other agency
on earth. The reason the automobile has come to stay is
because we are now living upon an automobile standard
and doing business at a high-powered, rubber-tired speed,
and this is a country that never slackens its pace. We
will not return to the horse-drawn vehicle, either on the
farm or in the city.
fact that a cousile of men would
with us. Sometimes adding:
Iiook as well as you can. A good
front means a lot to these dulw," or
"I'luy up to these fellows. They think
a lot of the kind of a wife a n an has.
If she put on a lot of style, yet is af
table to them, it flatters them aud
makes them open up."
1 hated this. Often I argued with
.Veil against his making a business place
of his home, even while I wanted to
fenow all ubout that business. I would
not luive objected, had he brought only
refined, companionable men home with
him, but cultured men were the excen
tion; the other kind, the rule men who
talked loudly, who drank too much, who
ate vulgarly, but who had great wealth.
"I w't ait at the table with such
boors," I once said when he had
broucht home a man r. little more ob
jcciioiiuiiic tiian any ot the others 1 had
let. ",'ot even to help your busincf..
ill I stand for men like him." I had
grown censorious. 1 was just beginning,
t) have social aspirations. Little Rob
ert was growing fast. We must be sure
we had the rij;ht kind of friends, the
A OREAT INDUSTRY
I h Imow BeN.lcI.cru performance- Ke Itnowg
t.tt tn a pinch, whan ho stfips on the acctler
lor, every hersc in lite big, powerful motor is
there, on the bit and pullin-.
He knows -what Bethlehem
rnnclrnrtinn . 1 , ,
,.v.i. mcaua uerausA h'a
strength
had his
a, i . " m.-g o nu j Ilia
true on the road every working day, week in
and v,eek out. No costly aup4. K0 time
I i. . - -w -. v t o 1.1 jt ilalllu
and pl ,hat electric starting and Anting
He appreciate, the acoibilit of PvCry , nrt Mi
adjustment, can be made in a miiU7JAimJ
save.
nor
Salem must have industries like the paper mill that
is seeking to locate here In order to become a real citv.
That is why the citv councilmen. instead of trvinc to shut 'here. Tho
it out, should do everything in their power to induce it toiVm" s""n'
" I fic'iir frrtm Alar inn fnunfv irrnwpi
come.
(Aurora Observer.)
The great dehydration plant of the
Balem King's Products company of Sa
lem is an institution that will be of in
calculable benefit to the farmers of this
Taller. Their seeds for this season
are 14,000 tons (or 2S.On.0O0 pounds)
of potatoes, pens, squash, onions, eelerr,
eitthaffc. carrots, sidnach and striov
Ibeans. Ther also ran ne the rwrrioe
from ifloo acres of loganberries, black
berries. rsspberrie, blackcaps and
strawberries. All these crops prow well
ill briii(j from 3 to 10
Capb! Jonrcal Want Ads WE! Get Yoa Whit Yen War.1
ficnres from Marion eouaty (fro
prove this statement. IViirreHsive farm
ers can cxierimet alone thtae lines to
satisfy themselves that there is profit
in these crops with a sure market
wholir independent of the supply or the
demand.
n.i.i-i ., .
Ask your truck question, of th. ma:1 at th. wheel of .
own.1" thTheVr'.rTr;n C'"i "f B'l.he .ati.rW
BethU Sem, U.e internal cear drivn f.rl. .
teirtAite ",dfkn- The truck
11-4 ton, with cab $1555
2 14 ton, with cab $2220
Prices f. o. b. Salem
For further information call
SALEM VELIE COMPANY
J. W. Jones, Mgr.
162 N. Com'l. St. . Phone 1604
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