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General News' Section HilRIIF '(yM 'Mifinr mi i m si V . , - j A 7 f 1 ill I H li II SECTION , , T .i t fe if H pill KO . K -t 4' Sqy SALEM, OREGON, SATURDAY, AUGUST 2, 1919. PRICE TWO CENTS s Wilson Conceded Rigid War Censorship To Save European Allies From Downfall TB.A1.NB AM) UtA BJA.ND8 mi caurr Charles H. Grasty, Noted War Corre spondent of New York Times, Tells That While Restrictions on Publicity Were Paralyzing to English-Speaking Countries, They Were Necessary To Save Shell-Shocked Nations From Demoralization. er doubted u high qualities of Ameri. : talking of the wu; after the armbtice can youth s kuuiaa beings; I want to; the unfoldinir of event, was Inter- esting and a mighty hard job for repre speak of them an soldier: I don 't be- lu'V such soldiers ever exited be fore. "Mind, I am speakinir as a West Mutative of the press, Tho war ceusorahip was overdone The Pointer. At the eud of the war, the'Iai'k of information didn't make to much war correspondent, was asked by Edi- tor Publisher to relate some of his' (Mr. Crusty who 1 treasurer of the J otic .American. New York Times, for n.auy year editor ftu no reflection on the other par and publisher of tho Baltimore Sim, re- ( tieipant to say that the war couldn't turned form Europe recently with IW have been won without North Ameri dent Wilson party, after having ach-'cauisui (alway indude the Canadians loved an intei national reputation as a with Uib North American. They be- ur.i.uun rner ana interpreter ot evIu there, and Curric wa one of the ..-..is ii.mii ,uur year- service as a greatest jreneral in the wur.) "Best Soldiers In Europe." But even above my experience with the irUlll'1-Uln I'hntll - 1 miri.ii-iiil an Peace Conference, of particular inter-J much, I put mv experiences with the est to our renders. Here follow his soldier, I saw the first of them land reply, illuminating not only us regards t St. Xanaire on June 28, 1U17. Thev the censorship but the personalities were raw material then. I a the of the lenders on whom depended the Idta Infantry march- through Tnrls on fate of the Miles' cause, the staunch th following 4th of Julv. Thev were mipport given the President war poll- Hplendid fellows, but still raw mnteriul eieseie by Viscount Northcliffe, social I saw them in training around XJou uuiest in lireut Brituin, and other mat- diecourt and there was not much dif fers of keen, prosent interest to the forence. press of the t'nitod Htates, Editor ' But they were coining. Their full hitting power was shown at Cantigny By Chart. H. Graaty. , Marue, and from then' on they were You ask me foi my most interesting the best soldiers iu Europe. ' Onee experience. r.olne of th(.m not th(y a,, ro( At the top standi my experience ponded to that spirit of competition wiUi American soldiers. I went over characteristic, of North America. on the boat with General Pershinp A . t.. ti... i.i ."v-r iu inn miuusi e- niauium in J'aris, i saw a picked bat American army had so many corns d eliet that it was difficult to count them." I had s chance to talk with Marshal Focu several time. He always said that the best that could be done -was to hold the Americans. He inado good in that forecast. The French Leaden. Marshal Joffre, whom I interviewed, impressed lue as a great philosoyhe. and thinker whose moral and intellect ual leadership brought out the best ijuuiiiii-s iu me rreucn. (Jlcmuuceau is aiuerence in continental communttie, but it was paralyiiag to English peak ing countries. We depend Oa public op inion to shape publie policy. Our public lacked information before the armistice and nvor caught up af terward, though tho; censorship was re- laxed.ii Then we wore alway afraid or giving uermbny jBome kind of an edge by telling too much. It was a most difficult position, j The president hiiself wa obliged largely to waive publicity which would i is L . . . . : a great character, made to order for ! " "J?; " , T U"SD'" " the last quarter of an hour a. Joffre 1meric' Th .hell-ahocked countile. of was for the first. d( lrr, Europe couldn't have atood it under I admired Paul Paialeve. who fell I . I f "gUe ,Jr8twn8 gorernment , 1 partly at least, because ho wa a math ematician and not an orator. I hap peued tu be with him at tho War Of fice whea he made the life-saving de cision io iaae soiuior froiu his al ready thin front and aeud them to It uly. 1 went with them , and never was de moralization and consternation tran uuilizcd by such a comparatively small force as by them after Caj-a.-ettu. It was Painluve ho put in that great general, Petaia, after the fail ure of the Nivello offensive iu April, 19'7, when the armyas almost iu a state of mutiny aad the French civil ian morale at low water murk. Petain brought the army back. I wa much at Versailles duriag the fight to put a generali(winio ia com mand. The aupport of that fight by Lloyd George against natural, nairowj homo opposition is thing that must always be remembered iu his favor.1 but Wilson' euppftrt. tliouuh easier io CONDITION OF KOADS IN WESTERN OREGON - 8AtiM Wfcfon Road: Open and ia fair condition betweea Fostor and nm nit of Cascade mouutain. Several ma chine have crossed the CWadee Into eastern Oregon this season via thil route, McKaucie Highway: Open and in good condition, Eugene to Blue river; fair condition through McKenrie Past to Sister. , Willamette: Open for machines be tween Eugene and Bigdon. Passable for wagon across summit. In fair con dition. . Many Conditions Enter Into Problem of Putting Industry On Stable Basis. Says Clews Barlow: Open between Sandy and Wnpinitia. Ia good condition, Pandy to Twinibridges; poor, Twinbridge ' to Clear ereekj fair, Clear creek to Wa pinitia. EnfMie-Florence: Open and in per manent unune,r condition, entire route Medf ord Klamath Tails; Open and in fair condition, entire length. Auto ni obi led can get to Crater Lake. Anna Creek: Open and in fair condition. Brookings; some rough places. Crescent Ctty-BrooJdngs: Open and in fair condition, Crescent City to oi iurope would have fallen. So toe President had to grin and bear It. British rolldea. l hail tho pleueurd of meeting King ueorge, an amiaoio j and monarch who aved hi monarchy by his sucriuco ana energy, and who U now aendiiij; hi heir aniong the masses to meet advancing democracy half way. I suw nmea of a Still more powerful potentate, Alfred HnVmswirth, Viseount Northcliffe, who 1 ueh a hustler that thousands of English think him Ameri can by birth. . ! Ho lielH'd the president at every tym until a aerioua illness temporarily re tired him. Oraoita Pas Crescent City: Open and in fair condition between Grant Pans and Crescent CitV. Kouuh n Oreimn sclf-deuylngl Mountain, and from there to Waldo. I California ide in good condition. Waldport-Alaea: Opfn entire length and in pajmaMo condition for summer travel. The road south from Waldportu via Yaihata and Cape Perpetua to Ten Mile treelc i open and in permanent summer condition. Biddle-Tlller: Open and in good con dition for entire length, New York, Aug. 1. There are not a few difficult problem ahead which tend to sober the excessive optimism de veloped since the war cloned. Much at tention is centered Uon the hvbor move ment, the demands for higher wage and shorter hours, the frequency of strikes and the outlook for the continuance of this movement. Capital is not unsym pathetic with the desire of labor to im prove its position, but appreciate tho consequence of shortened production and what will happen when the upward bined will put a much hctvier lead ap on the banks than ever before. Other Pressing Demands. Another financial problem of great importance is the granting of foreign credits, which are absolutely impera tive for the continuance of our export trade. Government aid in this direc tion has beea about exhausted, but local banker are carefully devising plus for meeting this situation which will urob- ably be shortly announced. 1'oreign ess. change wa strengthened considerably movement is checked by exhausting buy 'by hope that some atabilitatiou would nig power, vtpual and labor alike aro soon be established. The restoration demanding higher woges to meet rising of Europe and the future of our foreign costs, and both are likely to demand still trade must largely depend upon ima more as long a the publie will pay, or 'such successful action, and it i for until abudance take the place of car-tunate that the problem is to be left t city, which a a matter of fact is the private iuitiitrve rather tfcaa to gev only real cure. That, of couiae, mean ernment enterprise, finally ttwr ar work, and more work. the requirements of home busiaem, Heavy Load Upon Money Market I which are last, but not least. Home -The monetary outlook i also a aouree terpriae has been deferred for several of decided perplexity. While banking years, and there is a heavy aceuniula resource have grown enormously, crcd- tion of new venture a demonstrated It has also been greatly inflated, and by the number of new capital issues, the demand for money is growing fust In the Vnited Btutea these (.mounted in all direction. The amount of money I to 1,1 82,892,000, from January 1 to in circulation July I, wa 5,R12,0o0,00wjuly 1, as against $8!,i2L',000 at th compared with 58",0()0,000 a year ago j same time last year. In Great Britain the circulation per capital new being i the hrw commitment reported were. Cottag OroTO-DiMton: Open and in ?ood condition between Oottage Grove which owing to an extraordinary profit spi.xn, as against ru.BU at the same timo last year. Tho-total deposits of the national banks, according to tho lest available statement, were $15,903,000,. 000, an'lnereaso of 1,518,000,000 in 13 months, while loan and discounts in creased in the same period 'ill,D0i),00ii. Taxation continue to draw enormous sum from productive activity, and there are no sign of relief from this-00,000,OO0 a vear ago, Tho burden, the government still being the States is also building about most infliinntinl factor in the money market. Next come trade requirements, Lloyd George i tlve greatest of all politician in a political civilization in and tho u9ston iwneh. (Closed for u. nlile harvest will be exceedimrlv heavv wnun puDiie men aro all statesmen and. to between this point and Bohemia, during the approaching autumn and I winter month. Tho larger voluino of (Continued on page ten) 'trndo and the high level of values eom- give, must bo acknowledged as the and saw him deliver n hn nlm,t or. o.-.i:. i- i--; i . . , . . . i luciur. , " . . . . "louiuui in J uris, I saw B piCKCa Dal TTo Wlluni LIAoA bauated French tho American inesKge tallon of American soldiers that out- r , . ? , of comradeship and lop ehissi'd kny I had ever seen. 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There will be a alow revolu tion that will chang0 economic oondi-l tion and throw off. the oppression of' social auiocracy in the freest of tho po litical democracies. There won't be such really beautiful arUtcruts or such pitiful lower classes, but the average will be higher. Iu many ay American and Iliilihh are the same breed. We will get on to gether. Hut we mustn't sweetheart each other. Neither will stund it. In America wo will best keep friends with tho healthy selfish British by lookin2 out for ourselves, just aa they do, God bless' em. Preparedneaa for V. S. Particularly, we must have jut bie a navy as they or anybody else ho. We owo that to our self-respctit, as well as to our coaHt line. They must scale down or we scale up. Without navaj equality this foolish old world won't pay much attention to our desire for justice and peace. The kind of altruism which the old world siugecat admire ia altruism with a kick in it. Good advice without a narv ' is mere impudence. We musn't otfend our i-.uropeun friend in this way. Then we must have universal military training ami service, not only an a pro tective peace measure but is a measure to promote American citizei.ship and ureserve the spirit of American nation alismthe real victory won br ua for ourselves in this war. j Tavors League of NaUoo. I began last autumn by being for thcao things only, said against tho Lc-' gue of .Nations, but I have born drawn toward the broad view. I want to see America go out into the world and kelp, not so much for the other a for our selves. Tht' the way to ke-p ourselves alive. There have been nation almost at great as we. Most of thm died front the ingrowing and dow breeding it ferts of narrow elfishneaa. It's be game in thi country to try the olher plan nnder the enlightenment aad afa leadership of the man was ia today ev erywhere recognized aa the world ' lead er Mr. Wilaon. WOODBTJKJI DOCTOH ILL. Dr. L. W. Otiisi was take UI the lat ter part of lest week and hi eons. 8. I. and Joan and daughter, Mx. Arthur fiegoer, ram up itna Portland to we him. 8. L Guis remained over until Monday when he areomraaitd hi father to Portland f-r trratment. Accompanying those from Portland were Mrs. John Guis and Mr. Keener. They were guests ar the hem of their brother, H. l tuis, aad wife. Independent. $$ Don't Let ea Renin K 5$ Kecp'ealallieGrcle j? about t.'ltiO.OQO.OOU, compared with 3-V 000,0(10 in 1917, for the first air months of the calendar year. Revival of home enterprise alone will require enormous sum of money, espocWIy foe raiirouds, shipbuilding and structural work. The principal cities report $.120, 000,000 of building permits for the fiist five months of this year, eompaied wltK liniterl 13 per cent of the new ship tonnage usder eoa-' structlon. Ordinarily busineim require ments are somewhat el:;tie, but ao fc-sa insistent than those above mentioned. This year they will surpass all record (Continued on Tags Tea.) A nnouncement o New Manage Y i Geo. p. Halvorsen & Co. have taken over the Marion Garage and will do a gen eral garage business. We are agents for the Oldsmo bile and Franklin automobiles. Also will have full line of parts, supplies and repair shop. Service with a smile is our motto. We solicit yOur patronage by business methods. ON GARAG GEO. E. HALVORSEN, Mgr. 2a'5-2:6 S. Commercial St. Phone :1G2 1 B m