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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

whole attention and energy should be
concentrated on the vigorous, rapid and
successful prosecution of the great task
of winning the war.
No Selfish Ambition.
We can do this with all the greater
zeal and enthusiasm because we know
that for us this is war of high prin-
ciple, debased by no selfish ambition
of conquest or spoiliation, because we
know, and all the world knows, that
we have been forced into it to save
the very institutions we live under from
corruption and destruction. The purposes
of the Central Powers strike straight
at the very heart of everything we be-
lieve in; their methods of warfare out
rage every principle OF humanity and
of knightly honor; their intrigue has
corrupted the very thiught and spirit
of many of our people; their sinister
and secret diplomacy has sought to
take our very territory away from us
and disrupt the union of the states. Our
safety would be at an end, our honor
forever sullied and brought into con-
tempt, were we to permit their trl-
umph. They are striking at the very
Purpose Is High.
1t is because it is for us war of
high, distinguished purpose, in which all
the free peoples of the world are banded
together for the vindication OF right,
a war for the preservation Of our nation
of all that it has held dear of principle
and of purpose, that we feel ourselves
doubly constrained to purpose for its
outcome only that which is righteous
and of irreproaehable intention, for our
foes as well as for our friends. The
cause being just and holy, the settle
ment must be of like motive and eual-
ity. For this we can fight, but for
nothing less noble or less worthy of
our traditions. For this cause we enter
ed the war and for this cause VIII
we battle until the last gun is fired.
Nothing Is Concealed.
I have spoken plainly because this
seems to me the time when it is most
necessary to speak plainly, in order that
all the world may know that even in
the heat and ardor of the struggle and
when our whole Thought is of carrying
the war through to its end we nave
not forgotten any ideal or principle for
which the name of America has oeen
held in honor among the nations and
for which it has been our glory to con
tend in the great generations that went
before us. A supreme moment of history
has come. The eyes of the people have
been opened and they see. The hand of
God is laid upon the nations. He Will
show them favor, l devoutly believe,
only if they rise to the clear heights
of His own Justice and mercy.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
PRESIDENT ASKS WAR ON AUSTRIA-HUNGARY

riment Of the German people is that, if
they should still, after the war is over,
continue to be obliged to live under
ambitious and intriguing masters inter
ested to disturb the peace of the world,
men or classes of men whom the other
peoples Of the world could not trust, it
might be impossible to admit them to
the partnership Of nations which must
henceforth guarantee the world IS peace.
That partnership must be partnership
of peoples, not a mere partnership of
governments. 1t might be impossible, al
so, in such untoward circumstances, to
admit Germany to the free economic
intercourse which must inevitably
spring out of the other partnership
of a real peace. But there would be nd
aggression in that; and such situation,
inevitable because of distrust, would
in the very nature of things sooner
or later cure itself, by processes which
would assuredly set in.
Wrongs Must Be Rrighted.
The wrongs, the very deep wrongs,
committed in this war, will have to be
righted. That, of course. But they can
not and must not be righted by the
commission of similar wrongs against
Germany and her allies. The world will
not permit the commission of similar
wrongs as means of reparation and
settlement Statesmen must by this
time have learned that the opinion Of
the world is everywhere wIde-awake
and fully comprenends the issues in
volved. No representative Of any self
governed nation will dare disregard it
by attempting any such covenants or
selfishness and compromise as were en-
tered into at the congress of Vienna.
The thought of the plain people here
and everywhere throughout the world,
the people who enjoy no privilege and
have very simple and unsophisticated
standards of right and wrong, is the air
all governments must henceforth
breathe if they would live. 1t is in
the full disclosing light of that thought
that all policies must be conceived and
executed in this midday hours of the
world s life. German rulers have been
able to upset the peace Of the world only
because the German people were not
suffered under their tutelage to share
the comradeship of the other peoples
of the world either in thought or in
purpose. They were allowed to have
no opinion Of their own which might
be set up as rule of conduct for those
who exercised authority over them. But
the congress that concludes this war will
feel the full strength of the tides that
run now in the hearts and conscience
of free men everywhere Its conclusions
will run with those tides.
Might Have Saved Russia
All those things have been true from
the very beginning of this stupendous
war; and | cannot help thinking that
if they had been made plain at the
very outset the sympathy and enthus-
iasm of the Russian people might have
been once for all enlisted on the side
of the allies, suspicion and distrust
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
Negro Lynchers Will
Not Be Prosecuted

Dyersburg, Tenn, Dec. 3,-Authorities
made no effort today to prosecute mem
bers of the mob who lynched negro in
public square here Sunday noon, after
branding him with hot irons.
To a mob "jury" of twelve men,
Ligon Scott, the negro, confessed to hav-
ing assaulted Mrs. Hermert Hudson, a
white woman. November %. Thousands
witnessed the "trial' by the jury and
the burning of the negro at stake.
The negro was arrested at jackson,
Tenn, where the mob took him from
the authorities and brought him here for
the lynching.
Mrs. Hudson was bound, gagged and
assaulted while alone with her baby in
her home.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

win the war and nothing shall turn us
aside from it until it is accomplished.
Every power and resource we possess,
whether of men, Of money, or Of ma
.erials, is being devoted and viii con
tinue to be devoted to that purpose un-
til it is achieved. Those who desire to
bring peace about before that purpose
is achieved l counsel to carry their ad-
vice elsewhere. We will not entertain
it. We shall regard the war as won only
when the German people say to us,
through properly accredited representa-
tives, that they are ready to agree to
a settlement based upon justice and the
reparation of the wrongs their rulers
have done. They have done wrong to
Belgium which must be repaired. They
nave established power over other
lands and peoples than their own over
the great empire of Austria Hungary,
over hitherto free Balkan states, over
Turkey and within Asia-which must
be relinquished.
Not Envious of Germany.
Germany's success by skill, by indus
try, by knowledge, by enterprise we did
not grudge or oppose, but admired, She
a'u 80 4modn IL III ivflnonee seenred Nv tbe
1000 of no world W. were content
-" r. at;da tho rivoir;os of marpfacturo
soia',oa "a co,nmoree +bot ,vere involv.
ad ~ ~ n ber snccess and stand or
eaIi ~ III had ~ ala nn+ bovo the
brains and the initiative to surpass her.
',t;s,,a,,al', - IL ,an has trin,nnhs of ne.ce
ouISs H. 49,, tha,o ,rav 70 es+ablish IN
si;, ehe 'n.o" a.ooa r~hat tho aor,d viii NO lon.
',ar ,er,,,;t 70 be ostablished. military
ga [,,ali+icoi doYn;notinr Inv arms by
,.hieI, 10 onst where sbe conId NOT excel
~ ,;,'ats sho nost feared and hated
Tho noaee we mako must remedy that
~ pe"fe ~ ,.,,st daI;var +ho once fair
m,os ond 4 banrv neonIes of Relginm and
a..ti,as,, 's's r,anna froi,, tbe prussion con
No. 49, "a .ha prnss;on menace Inf Il
quos' I 'tru III. tl,a ,oo,,las of Ans.
nluse = aiso uoI ~ o,,Ias fsr af 4La Raj.
,' ~. = iu"s" ,,pias sn - T,rl,ev alike
= E,sa,,a w ond < ia from tbn imnndent
aad a1ian domination ~ the Prussian
.s.;I,.ea.' aiu a. ~ nnmmarciol antocrorv
D'-'i'' UorId Not Dictate.
W. - ho,ra,-or ~ onrselves IA
-, H. IA ,,,;sb IN onv wav ia
'a,,o;'. s ~ - rearrange tbe Austro. Hun
49, - ,,,',ira II 81 No affair of ours
saiiaa III. enpa a. ,,;tb tboir own life either
;sIa,s.r;oii, W. '% or noliticallv We do not
.nauSs. i''' a;re to diotote to them in
paoPO,e We onlv des;re n see that
.1"y o.o Ia IN tboi,. own hands
- au r,attars oreat or small We shall
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

L. what we here at the seat Of action
as;da, tl,a war to be for and what
-
part we mean 70 pi"s in'nee'i 'i''''s ~ y
us searching issues. we are spokesineh
of the American people and they have
a right to know whether their purpose
is ours They desire peace by the oyer
coming of evil, by the defeat, once for
ALL of the sinister forces that interrupt
peace and render it impossible, ana they
wish to know how closely our thought
runs with their and what action we
propose. They are impatient with those
who desire peace by any sort Of com
pronise-deeply and Indignantly i'm
patient-but they will be equally impa-
tient with us ii we do not make it
plain to them what our detectives are
and what we are planning for in seeking
TO make conquest of peace by arms.
Menace Of German Force.
I believe that l speak for them when
/ sav two things: First, that this in
toIerable thing Of which the masters of
Germany have shown us the ugly fact
this menace of combined intrigue and
force which we now see SO clearly as
the German power. thing without
conscience or honor or capacity for
coyenated peace, must be crushed and,
IL it be not utterly brought to an end,
at least shut down from the friendly
intercourse Of the nations; and, second,
that when this thing and its power are
indeed defeated and the time comes that
we ean discuss peace-when the German
,,eople have spoken and whose word we
can believe and when those spokesmen
are ready in the name of their people
10 accent the common Judgment of the
nations as to what shall henceforth be
the basis Of law and Of covenant for the
life of the world-we shall be willing
and clad to pay the full price for peace
aud nav il ungrudgingly.
wa lsuaw what that price will be- 1t
win be full. impartial Justice Justice
done at every point and to every ma.
tion that the final settlement must af.
feet our enemies as well as our friends
War For Humanity
You catch, with me, the voices OF
humanity that are in the air, They grow
daily more audible, more artlculate,
more persuasive and they come from the
hearts of men everywhere They insist
tbat the war shall not end in vindic-
tive action of any kind, that no nation
or people shall be robbed or punished
because the irresponsible rulers Of a
single country have themselves done
deem and abominable wrong. 1t is this
thought that has been expressed in the
formula, "No auncxations, no contri-
buttons, no punitive indemnities. just
because this crude formula expresses
the instructive Judgment as to right Of
plain men everywhere it has been made
diligent use Of by the masters of Ger
man intrigue to lead the people of Rus
sia astray-and the people Of every
other country their agents could reach,
IN order that a premature peace might
be brought about before autocracy mas
been taught its final and convincing
sN'9oi ' r A4s.;
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

Margery Daw is finding playing oppo-
site Douglas Fairbanks a strenuous ex'
istence. A wire tells of broken leg.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
DIR. JE1L1FFE MARRIED

New York, Dec. 4.-Dr. Smith Ely
.Ielliffe. noted ahenist, one of thosa
who testified for the defense in the
trial of Mrs. Blanca de Saulles at Min
cola. was married to his secretary, Miss
Bee Dnbson.
DR.. Jelliffe is 55 and his bride ~
They were married at the home of Mrs.
Cyril Taylor Of RoSlyn, with whom
they had stopped for dinner and to
whom they Unexpectedly announced
their plans
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
LivesIey News
Capital journal Special service)


Livesley, Or, Dec. 4.-The Red Cross
auxiliary will give an entertainment in
the school house Wednesday night Lo-
cal talent will be called ON and judging
from past displays good program will
be submitted. This will comprise songs,
readings and musical numbers. After
the program refreshments will be serv-
ed at reasonable price.
Aubrey johnson and college chum Ir-
win Van Frankenburg, spent their
Thanksgiving vacation at the home of
the former s parents, Mr.. and Mrs. W.
V. johnson.
E. Davis and son Charles of Payette
Idaho, and j. Pettygrew of Salem, had
dinner with Mr.. and Mrs. G. d. Query
Sunday.
FIJI. Barker and son, Roy and Miss
Helen Neugnebauer of Salem visited
Mr.. and Mrs. w. V. johnson Sunday.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
Sport Writer Dying.

Chicago, Dec. 4.-Walter Rekersall,
sport writer on the Tribune and former
football star of the University of Chica-
go, was said to be near death in st.
Luke IS hospital today. He was taken to
that institution last night and is be-
lieved to be suffering from cancer of
the stomach
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

The Rainbow division in France won t
make things look any brighter for the
Germans.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
Prosecution Rests Case
In Means Murder Trial

Concord, N. c., Dec. 3.-The state
rested in the trial of CASTOR MeaNs
on a charge of numbering his benefac-
tress, Mrs. Maude King. Revocation
of the $125,000 trust fund and the or
der to turn it over to over to Means,
signed by Mrs. King, was the closing
blow struck by the prosecution.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04
Government Will Buy
Entire Silver Output

Washington, Dec 4.-The treasury
department. announced the government
will buy up the country's entire sill
yer output, Prices will be fixed at a
fair profit " to producers, it was
stated by Director of the Mint Ray
Baker.
Great market fluctuations in silver
prices of late, due to sixty per cent
Increase in cost Of production, prompt
ed the government s move
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

CHE s made me more trouble than all
my wives" said Nat Goodwin of Ar
mold Daily during the recent "f fuss'' in
"Why Marry" which ended their
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-12-04

Portland, Or, Dec. 4.-Hugo Bezdek,
University of Oregon football coach and
manager of the Pittsburgh Pirates, to-
day has under consideration definite
offer to coach the Mare Island team for
the New Year Pasadena game. In case
Bezdek accepts the proposition, he will
postpone his trip to Chicago until early
in January and go to San Francisco i'm
mediately.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17
CANADA LIFTS DUTY /.
ON AMERICAN WHEAT
Action Automatically Opens the Mar
ketS of the United States to
the Dominion

OTTAWA, Ont, April 1.-THE gov
eminent has placed wheat, wheat flour
and semolina on the free list, thus open
ing United States markets to Canada
aud Canadian markets to the United
States in these products.
Upder the reciprocal clauses of the
American tariff the United States will
admit free wheat and wheat products
Of any country which admits American
wheat without duty. The Canadian
tariff has heretofore prevented the priv
ilcgc being awaited of.
The action taken by the Canadian
government today removes the duty
and automatically opcns the markets
of each country to the Di,,er.
The order Is due. to difficulty Of cx-
port abroad owing TO shortage Of ocean
tonnage and the fact that the British
market has been practically closed for
Canada wheat Of lower grade.
The duties removed ares 10 cents q
bushcl on wheat and h cents barrel
on flour.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17
Three Vermont Railroads.

What is railroad! This story is
written partly TO answer that question.
Briefly, for Nermonters = railroad IS
not Only "the Rutland, the G. ", I"
but il is the Bristol railroad, the Wood
stock railroad, the White River rail
road and the Hoosac Tunnel linz, So
called because it doesn { touch the tun-
mol. The first three of the aforesaid
are 6, ii and 20 miles long, respective
ly.
During the heyday of their 2 osper-
itv there used to be q trolley line
about $50 yards long, betwceI the Man.
haitian Beach and Oriental hotels
which Admiral Dewey didn't use: and
Salesville and Woodlawn. r. l.. admit
having q railroad named after then
which covers only two miles of terra
tirma; but thee arsn't III Vermont.
The Pathfnd2r-not Mr.. Coope. !:
novel, but the railroad guide-give'
The Bristol first place among shor'
| runs when il doesn I walk. from New
| Haven junction tn E}ristol and ~
Other stations. Three trains are III.
/ daily except Sundays, when saws ii,
time card none runs at AL. The su
pcrintendent used TO be the engineer
and mixed traias. passenger an,
freight combined, ere the rule. Til
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17

road does operate one train for passen-
gers only, however. 1t is standard
gauge road. like the others and con
meets with the Rutland
The Woodstock : II miles extend
from White River junction TO Wood.
stock, stopping at Hartford, Dewey s
Mills, Queehcc and Taftsville on the
way. The general manager IS also the
conductor and collects four cents 4
mile from his passengers. Mixed trains
abound There are two each way dally
except Sunday, and an extra one each
way for passengers only, on " dnes
day ana Saturday. Sunday is rest day
Last SUNNI the schedule was diff
fercnt, and four trains 4 day were rur
each wa. On Snaday . stage lin.
looks after passengers.
The White River railroad connects
Rochester and Bethel. and has TIVE
steps, Stockbridge and Gaysville. ant
| four flag stops. Nacationists use it Ii
| summer. Two trains go west and cas-
| daily except Sunday. In summer ;
| big autobus, 4 steamer with q capacity
of 30 to 40 pa spngers, the nearcs
thing in appearance to first coache
fused in the country, is operated. /
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17
A MOTHERS TROUBLES

A mothers unending work and
devotion drains and strains her
physical strength and leaves its mark
in dimmed eyes and careworn ex-
pressions she ages before her time.
Any mother who is weary and 1anguid
should start taking SCOTS Emulsion Of
Norwegian Cod Liver Oil as strengthen
ing food and bracng tonic to add rich
ness to her blood and build up her
nerves before it is too late. Start Scott 3
Emulsion today--its fame is worldwide,
1t is free from alcohol
Scott g. Bovine. Bloomfield, NJ. h-s
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17
BIcHLoRIDE VICTIM ESCAPES.
Charles Valade, Who Took Poison BY
Mistake, Pumped Out in Time.

BURLINGTON, April 17.-Charles
Valadc, 81, who took some bichloride
Of mercury in the barber shop at the
New Sherwood hotel late Saturday
evening, was discharged yesterday from
the Mary Fletcher hospital. As the
man was rushed to the hospital i'm
mediatclv after he had taken the pois
on and his stomach thoroughly cleaned
out by means of a stomach pump, il is
not thought he will suffer am i'll effects
from his act.
Nalafc, whose people live at Mallets
Bay and who is supposed TO be en-
ployed in newspaper work in New York
stated that he took the tablets by mis-
take. thinking they were aspirin which
Le had been taking for a headache. H.
had been drinking for some time anC
was intoxicated at the time he tool
the poison.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17

WASHINGTON, April l7.-Canada 5
order today putting wheat and wheat
products on the free list will be deeid-
cdly 10 the advantage of Dominion pro
dueers, officials here said tonight The
American duty ON imports of Canadian
wheat will disappear automaticallv and
if the American crop is short the Unit
cd States may become good market
for Canadian product.
For the present it is not believed
the order will have practical effect, as
Canada 5 visible supply is as short as
| this country S.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17
THE GROWING GIRL.

A girl when in her teens is passing
through a critical period of her life.
The transition from childhood to ma
turity is not always easy; consequently,
in many cases health breaks down en-
tirelv and the girl goes into a decline
and dies Young If she escapes this
fate, she may fan into state of perma
nent illhealth 1t is Of the utmost
Importance, in order to insure normal
and healthy development, that proper
precautions be taken, and nothing has
proved more helpful than the faithful
use of Lydia E. Pinkham S Vegetable
Compound, the great woman s medi-
cine and tonic.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17
TRAINING AT NORWICH.
Young Men Can Take Short Course of
Military Training.

Norwich university vii accept i
limited number of mca Of college prep
aration. or college training, for an in
tcnsive course in military instruction
the course to sNtend until June l7tn.
This work win in no way be connected
with the academic courses. but will BE-
run as separate del artmcnt. 1t is
planned to make room for limited
number bv doublng up in the bar
racks. The course is calculated to pre-
pare those taking it for examinations
for commissions in the United State;
officers reserve corIs.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17
WOODEN MILL TO CLOSE.
Loss of Saytons River Industry Hard
Blow to the Village.

STATIONS RIVER, April 17--It is
reported here on good authority that
the Saxtons River wooden mill viii shut
down Saturday evening. This mill for
wears has been the most important in.
dustrv Of this village and employed
about 80 men. For several years i
was conducted by John Koran, who
died a few months ago and since then
the business has been conducted by the
administrator of the estate, Attornes
\. l. Bolles Of Bellows Falls.
Vermont academy did not open last
fall and if the mill closes this village
viii feel the result from 4 fnancia
standpoint.
The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1917-04-17
URGES PUBLIC TO BUY BONDS.
Bank Funds Needed for Industry and
transportation.

NEW YORK, April Il, l9l7.-Amcr-
lea is urged TO enlist its wealth as well
as its manhood for the war, in book
let entitled Mobilizing None Tor War,
issued by the Guaranty Trust company,
which LAYS stress on the Importance
OF wide popular subscription to the
$4,000 00o,o00 bond issue. The book
let points out the need for education
among the peopla, since Only one per-
son in five hundred III this country
owns government bond, while in both
France and England eleven persons in
every hundred have helped as individ
uals to finance their country 5 part III
the war.
Our national income is estimated to
have increased oLe-tnird in the last
seven years, and nearly III per cent Ill
the last seventeen wears, while the
government s outstanding interest.
bearing public debt Is less than $ ,000,-
600 600, principal--ouIv oac-fougth of
the nation 5 present annual income.
Furthermore it is cited, the United
States possesses one third of the
world 5 gold st)ck-nearly $3,0oo,000,-
| QQQ14 49,. ..r.. .... ,,a, .,.a
! Attef SttIa2 1uEtn IullhcI atSu
ments in favor of general participation
| in the issue. the booklet SAYS.
While the banking institutions OF
thr United States may be confident :,
relied upon TO take their full share OF
this loan, it must be. remembered thai
these institutions are relied upon by
ou' great manufacturing and tlads en-
t1rprises, whose activities vii, prob
ably be increased by our entrance in
to war. TO provide them with credi
with which to carry en- their activities
Aav reduction Of such credits, neeassi
: tatcd by too large 4 participation Il
tn, government lean, would he q bloN
to the country's industries. 1t is cvi
dent, therefore, that the bulk Of tn
loan should he talte4 by the public a
/, large. and not 10y bankers