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t C TV ge of The Capital J ourna CHAELES H. FISHEB Editor and Put'iiasr 1MPF mm mW JA 1 - r .V-j't.Xj - -i v.-.v'IVl 1 VYV1VYV al Pa jf TIU'RMY EVENING July 3, 1919 1 Published Every Evening Except Sunday, Salem, Oregon, Address All Communication! To flLXM 138 S. Commercial St. SUBSCKIPTION BATES rvi' , fwi.r. t Tear 5.00 Ttt Month.. DUy by Mail, per yer -13.00 FULL LEASED W1KE rOKEIGN BEPBESEXTATIVES W D. Ward, New York, Tribune Building. H. StoekwelL Chicago, People's Gss Building ri Dil CiPi'l Junrnal earner bPTl re Instructed to put th pperi on ue 'kTif the wrriw doet not do this, mimt you, or negiwta Retting the paper Uyoa ob Ume, kindly uhon. the emulation manager, a. .this is th. 1 T j.,..,.-,;,,. .,.. tl...r or not the earners aro followinif instructions. 1 none 11 before 7:30 o'clock pd a paper will tamer km missed you. THE DAILY CAPITAL JOURNAL U the only newspaper in Balcm whose circulation is guaranteed by the Audit Bureau Of Circulations THE FOURTH OF JULY. This may well be called the "Glorious Fourth" for its sun rises upon a world once more at peace. True, the peace is not all that men hoped for. The treaty has been signed by the Germans with protests and grumblings which promise little for their honest fulfil ment of the terms. But the deed is done. The world stands free at last from the immediate presence o-. threat of war. The birthday of your country, always a time for sig nal rejoicing, becomes 'doubly so this year, since it marks the birth of new hope for the world. America has justified once more the courage and the foresight which brought her into being. She stands upon the threshhold of a future so full of possibilities, so full of rewards for enterprise, so bounding in avenues for achievement that it dazzles the mind. Of course there will be the most carefully planned celebration everywhere. In many places, as in Salem, this day has been set apart for welcome to the returned sol diers. Every public-spirited citizen, every being in whose breast dwells a real love for freedom and for his fellow men, should join in these festivities. We should show ourselves publicly, frankly, happy and proud to do honor to the anniversary of the nation's birth. God bless the country, and may her coming year be the best she has ever known! EASY PAYMENT OF WAR DEBT. Paying the American war debt bill will not be such a lig task, when once the heavy current expenditure on the trmv and navy comes to an end. Senator Smoot figures that the wind-up of the war RIPPLING RHYMES By Walt Mason WORK. I toled along for many years at hoeing beans and grooming steers, with weary bone and thew; and I look ed forward to the day when I could throw the tools away, and have no work to do. Then I would have no grievous t.i?k; on downy beds of ease I'd bask, and drink red lemon ade ; for me there'd be no beastly grind, I'd sleep all day :'f so inclined, and through cheap novels wade. At last the day I longed for came; bliss percolated through my frame; "At last," I said, "I'm free; this getting up at break of day to milk the cows and pitch the hay-no more of that for me!" Then for three weeks, or maybe five, exulting that I was alive, I loafed around the grad; pitched horse f hoes on the village preen, and monkeyed with the slot machine, and fancied I was glad. Hut soon my life became ix bore; I yearned to have a man-sized chore, to make me (irt'd at nighl: I longed to plow the rows of corn, and hear the old ti ndinner horn, and have an appetite. Another month of gilded ease, and my old done was full of fleas, :nd hat and things like those; the loafing life had lost its charm, and I went whooping to the farm, where toil is all that goes- I pity all the slothful shirks; true bliss is for he man who works and sweats the long day through; who knows, when comes the close of day, that he has grown a bale of hay, or, pcradventure, two. LADD & BUSH BANKERS Established 1SG8 General Banking Business Commencing June lGth Banking Hours will be from 10 a.m. till ,1 p.m. I'er Month.. TELEUKAl'U BEl'OHT be sent you by special messenger If the J will leave the United States is a Dig sum oi money, it is Dig enouen even wnen we deduct the $10,000,000,000 which represents loans to the' Allies, and which may properly be figured as an asset. But it is small when compared with the national ability to pay; and the burden can btT distributed over many OBEGON!years- 1 Even if the Allies did 4St 'and the United States were left with the whole &;0,000,- 350,000,000 to pay, Senator Smoot says it could be taken jcare of in twenty-four years by setting aside for that purpose $750,000,000 a year. That would be a short time, as such matters go. Most nations let their debts drag on ; indefinitely. j I . i . n : ; the whole thing in thirty-two years by paying $4o0,000,000 ; j a year or jn forty-foiir years by paying $;:00,000,000 a! si r j j .7 r J t i" 'year. Compared with the billions a year the nation is nowl paying in war taxes, this latter figure looks particularly small. And if we figure on the foreign loans as collect 'ble in the same period of time, we find the whole debt could be paid off in forty-four years by devoting to it only $200,000,000 a year. That is a sum which, even now, would hardly be missed, and which will seem absurdly small a decade or two hence with double wealth and income. Salem's paper mill company was incorporated yes terday for S0O,C00, and it is understood that all the stock has been subscribed preparatory to beginning building operations. This js the biggest enterprise ever launch ed in this city and it is one of those industries which will be permanent and grow larger with constantly expanding paper markets. Today is the date "when the boys come home." And everybody in the Salem district should lay aside their work for the rest of the week and join in a welcome that will show real appreciation of their patriotism and cour age. : Italy is badly shaken up from different 'angles. The earthquake was preceded by a political upheaval which en gulfed the leaders of the junker party, who annexed a whole lot of territory which rightfully belonged to their neighbors. I Some persons will celebrate the 4th of July because the nation has officially adopted prohibition. And others will be jubilant because beer and light winfcs are still dis pensed just over the California state line The telephone strike tends to remind us that silence is golden; also it is. considerable of a relief not to hear the constant ringinc of the telephone, especially in a news paper office. Hops' at fifty cents indicates that not everybody has lost faith in the permanence of the brewery industry. Hunting a By MARY GETTING IN IJEEriil. CHAITKH VI Tonight 1 look well. I know it. Per haps I have never looked so wl! in my life. Not pretty no I c;;a i:cvo be thai. Hut I urn stunning-. 1 centered every thing on B' ono evening gown. And it 1 did not mako myself. Heft, clinging, llaci:, with a sheen. My white throat Is bare ntid unoriiainented. As are my arms. Mack iu e across my shoulders and fieri ling free is the i lie touch. 1 um almost t l.i.rmiug. iiy dull mouse colored lu.ir gives bmk the iijj'.t. It was not in va.u that 1 b'u hed it for u hundred lon strokes. Ch.ir and tolorleess my skin, f liould 1 Uiiiih it just once with a fleck of logiet That bit of color would i,we me iift. sparkle. I did. A touch to tiny and lil.t. 'hat a delicate glow just -hows on in V cheeks. 1 gr.vo one more glnnce at myself in the long tiirror my tlute colored eyes -Inning with it lament. It is Ihn fun;" .aia who would walk blinks to sav fie cenlsu Site, who mold S"fi!d just te ty cents for her lunch! Then I clenched my hands tight. I must win. Now to forget myself. To study men to lenru what tliey w.i.it to uive 1 tiem ihat. The bur if wires greeted n: fiom the drawing room. 1 saw the glimmer of butterfly colored frocks. es, and the white and drab of uniforms. The list of guests was rotnj lete. "May I prcent t'aptain Dimavfn to you." sslted our host as he l-mught up a tnll lrnd shouldered man in fcntf. mi. "Miss ue, who li:u lvcd in I'miicc," saiil our host and ief! its. I locked with frank, curiosity at litis until. A strong face. His griv fjes put in with a smutty finger, wistr.il, s-ai-th' 'intf, told me even before his vt,i-., that , his parentage was Irish. "lam to hav the pleasure !" tie ask i t il. As .laughing ami chatltrtn'J the : house 4trty emptied into tfte dieing r.MMtt. ! T' ii. y first question he cnswotcd, ithis as we lu'.t before the t.l'.' C g.im imering with candles and floworsl ' Ves, I hate just fiuitl at ria!Ubur. toon owing $;)0,000,000,000. That j not repay any of those loans, : ' . ; Husband DONGLAS i - I do not know how soon, i sail for Km nee!" I It gave me a little const ietion of the; throat. This man so young with SO( much to live for, giving up i.is hopes,) his life perhaps. lie noticed the luok which l.ud tome, i to my eyes. 1'or. when he mxt spoke i iiis voice wns loner softer. It scut a tiny thrill through me. "It is thinking of you, you women,! thnt makes us go. And long to suvj here, too." he ended, looking deep down into my eyes. ; ' Fair game! Hp would do as we'd as another to pructico on. I would learn of him. So it was with a en.ile I an-) swered him, when ho said, 4 Will you take a stroll with me this evening?" j At the background of my aiind Is, something that overshadows ti.e excite-i meat of this first evening. What Is Itf Oh yes, my meeting to b with Mn- demoiselle Xerin. I try to ti.ink s I' wait for Captain Donovan how I can: extricate myself from tho taal?. (Tomorrow "Thinking Things Out.'') SALEM PHONE GIRLS (Continued from page one) Msdfori Serrlca Slow. Med ford. Or., July 3. Telephone. ervii c is being slowly maintained acre by strikebreakers. The regular operators walked o'lt yes terday. They stated it is not a strike in sympathy with the Portland icntrals, but tliieto unsatisfactory lor tl fondi tiona. ( Seattle. Wash., July 3 Mn'.. ng tele . phone ctnploves weretotlay eoxictl of uiiv iuiplit-ati'tn in the disabuaent of trunk cables here, when it w an i "i-uiicej that the lines were afridVrtal . Iv put out of coininissittii Wednesday by Boikmen layin; a eitv write; plp in ;thc street. - Itiindreils of subscribers were enm- pletely cut off from rnmuil ni.stitm 'when their phone went 'Slciid' Wed . l estlav as a result of the cable strident, j ... Salem's a Good Place to Trade THE COVENANTER LETTERS A discussion of the League of Nations Covenant, article by article, written by William B. Taft, ex-president of the United SUlss, George W. Wickeraharo, formerly United States attorney general, A. Lawrence Lowell, president of EUrrard University, and Eeury W. Taft, of the New York bar. HISTOKUWt. BACKOKulXD The Hague (Jonveutiou The nniHl HuKue co ifcroiito ii: 1!H7 ngrecd upon a convention fui I ho aii fie st'tUi incut of ititi'riiationu UifcjiuH'S. It esluililii'd a Mrmt:m'iit court of ar bitration to sit at The Iluuc, and it provided that "iu questions of a legal natu.e a lit especially in the interpretation or application of international con ventions arbitration is rviogisicd by the contracting powers as the most effective and ut the same time the most equitable means of set tling disputes which dopliuiacy las fulled to settle, fonseipieu! ly it would le desirable that in ('Imputes about the above mentioned ques tions the contracting parties should, if the case crose, liavo lecourst to arbitration Insofar as cirtum stances permit." The 1'uited Mates senate, in ratify this treaty on April 2, if , did so with the following proviso, iiunielyi "Nothing coulained iu t.iis co.i. ventine slcill Po n foHsffite'l The Real Mv4vW '$fFFWl A Put United States Tires under your car and you'll find thern the real thing. They're built to wear to give you the kind of economical service you want. And that's just what they do. Hundreds of thousands of regular users will vouch for that lots of them right around here. There are five distinct types of United States Tires one for every need of price or use. We have exactly the ones for your car. United States Tires are Good Tires We know United Stales Tires are GOOD Tires. That's why we sell them. . :J G. G. Quackenbush A. L Bones, Turner. Oregon. :l C. G. Miller, Jefferson, Oregon. 1 Salem Vclcriang Works, (W. EL Hughes) W. J. Piersca & Son, Marion Oregon. 1 Lilly Hardware Co.-Stayion Rickreall Trading Co.-A. R. Cadle-Rickreafl require the I'nited States oi Aaier-ii-u to depart from its tra.litionU policy of not intruding upon, inter fering with, or entangling itself In the political iUtstious of jmIict or internal administration of any fui eien trade; nor shall anritung con tained in the said couvcMifn be construed to imply a relinquish ment by the I'nited Nates of its traditional altitude toward purely American questions." And further: "That the I'nited States ap proves this convention wi'.h the un dc rntamliiig that recourse to th i permanent court for the settlement of differences can be had only by I agreement thereto through general I or special "treaties of urt'tia'.ion I heretofore or hereafter concluded between the parties in dispute." It further declared that the I'nited States exercised the option contained in Article LIII of the convention, which excluded from the permanent ri.;irt the power to frame tho submission for ar bitration required bv fi-efPml er speelnl r :.' vtr fir i i! t s m is . i a V".-' 9 ' f' Thing Right Through 'treaties concluded, or tliercaf.er to b ' concluded, by the I'nited r-'tnies, and that the submission required by auy treaty of arbitration to which tao flu ted Ktr.tes should be a party mvut ha settled by a iecial agreement bi'faee the parties, unless the treaty shouUl .otherwise expressly provide. ; Boot Treaties. j Following the Hague couvtniion, Sec retary Boot negotiated a series Of sep arate treaties with different counuiea, whereby it was agreed all iu Stibsvaa tislly the stmc form that differeoeae) which might arise between the partioa of a legal nature, or relating to tho interpretation of treaties, which it might uot have bce-i possible to tettla by diplomacy, should be refer.ed to tli IHrnianent court of arbitration estab lished by the Hague convtutioi, pro vided they did not affect the vital interests, the independence, or the boa or of the two contracting sUtes, and did not concern the interests of third lAirties. Three treaties further iit viileil that in each individual case the contracting parties should conclude special agreement defining the nn tcr ii dispute which was to be jit'.mitted to arbitration, which agreement-: . nould lie made by the president by . ml with the advice and consent of the senate. Most of these treaties were limited to a period of five 'ar; a number of tlier have since been extended, and urc i.osr in fon e. The countries with v.liii.h they were made include among others Oreat (Tontimied on Pnpe Six 1 Plain'