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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
Regulations For Storage
of InAarnmable Materials

Five gallons of any inflammable ma
terial will be the storing limit for any
building in the business district of the
city of Salem, according to the gasoline
ordinance read the first and second time
and ordered engrossed, at the meeting
of the city council last evening.
Drug stores, vulcanizing shops, dye
shops and garages will be limited to
five gallons to be held in ordinary con-
tainers, making total amount of ten
gallons that can be stored in air tight
cans in any of the stores down town.
The ordinance as first introduced per-
mitted the storing Of 125 gallons in or
dinary air tight cans but the emphatic
remonstranoe of the insurance compan-
les induced the city council to reduce
the total to ten gallons. 1t was either
a case of reducing the amount or a
substantial advance in insurance rates
throughout the city.
All storage tanks in excess of five
gallons must be placed outside the bust
ness building and stored four feet un-
der ground. Garages are permitted to
have 800 gallon tanks of gasoline and
the limit is five to any one garage.
1t is understood that one drugstore
has or its premises three tanks capable
of each holding 80 gallons each of in
flammable materials. Other stores in the
city have so gallon tanks of gasoline,
not stored underground. According to
the proposed ordinance, if store has
more than five gallons of inflammable
materials, it will be obliged to store it
in the regulation storage tanks four feet
,nder ground
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
A. A. U. Prepares to Boost
Athletics In Army Camps

Chicago, Nov. 21.-The A. A. q. win
eliminate the red tape for which it has
been noted in concentrating its energies
to boost athletics at military camps.
That was the declaration today OF
Charles A. Dean of Chicago, newly elect
ed president of the organization.
"My effort at present will be to
raise money and encourage athletics in
the 80 camps" said Dean. "'We want
the money for equipment and the ae-
tivity- for the good of the boys who
are preparing to go to the 'front.'
Dean declared the competitions pro-
NOTED by the A. A. U. will be free-for-
alls with no questions asked about
amateur standing or fees demanded. +"
elf an amateur should find himself
opposed by professional he will not
be hailed before a critical committee,
he said. He win be as lily white at
the finish as at the start.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
Need of New Medals

Byron, H., Nov. 21.-When Sammy
distinguishes himself by some typic-
ally American feat of enterprise OF
bravery cover there he's going to
deserve some recognition more sub
stantial than his comrades "atta
boy"
This is the determination Of Medill
Mccormick, congressman from Illinois
who told the United Press that he in
tended to introduce in the next con-
gress a bill providing medals for sol
diers and sailors who perform gallant
ly in action.
Mccormick will propose three class
es of decoration-a medal for dis
tinguished gallantry," one for "gal-
lantry" and regimental decoration
for distinguished monduct." The lat
ter probably will be a silk cord to be
worn on the breast of each member of
unit that performed some unusual
fea. of bravery.
Before introducing his bill, However
Mccormick will consult with President
Wilson and Secretary Baker to obtain
any suggestions they may have to
make on the subject.
''The thing that most impressed me
on my recent visit to the western
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
Examination Will
Be Held In Salem
For Federal Positions

Within a few weeks there will prob
ably be held in Salem civil service
examination for stenographers and type
writer's Already the required number
have indicated a willingness to take the
examination provided it could be given
at some time outside of business hours.
To accommodate those wishing to get
into the service, plans are under way
for holding the examination some Sat
urday evening and for this purpose W..
1. Staley of the Capital Business col
lege has offered the use of his offices.
y The application blanks, which may be
had at the postoffice ask questions
about as follows: Are you a citizen of
the United States; where and when
were you born; of what state or terri
tory are you bona fide resident; are
you married or have you ever been mar
ried are any members of the family in
theep. S. govpxament service; have you
ever been barred from a civil service
exauihation; have you ever been dis
charge q from private employment; have
YOU ever by Indictment been charged
with a crime or misdemeanor; state full
ly the extent of your education; state
every kind of employment you have
followed; state what experience you
have had as a stenographer or type
writer; give the name of five persons
who have knowledge of your character;
and ability; do you use in
toxicating liquors; do you use tobacco.
The examinations win be given some
Saturday evening and can be completed
within three or four hours. There is no
expense and the general line of ques-
tions asked and the tests made can be
handled by those of average ability and
experience.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
know it.

know 1t.
According to Mr.. Werner, this IS what
the Cemawa boys have been doing:
Last Saturday they played te Fourth
Engineers team of Vancouver and came
out on top with score Of to I and
this was done notwithstanding the fact
that the Fourth Engineers team aver
aged in weight seventeen pounds to a
man heavier than the Chemawa boys.
The Cemawa average weight is 15S
pounds and the Fourth Engineer boys
averaged l70 pounds.
Besides this victory, the Indians play
ed the famous MultnOmah team with a
tie score Of to Z. Next Saturday the
toughest game Of the season win be
played with the 9lst Division team OF
Camp Lewis at American Lake. This is
the strongest team in the northwest.
This fine record was made by the
Chemawa boys with oRly six old men on
the team. All the other men are new
to the game this year. II is speed, team
work and mastery Of the forward pass
tat has done the work, according to the
coach, ". J. Warmer.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
LOOK YOURSELF
OVER CAREFULLY

And see il your condition is not
such as to make your best invest
ment the purchase of Hoods Sar-
saparilla, Peptiron and Hood IS Pills.
This course Of medicine will be
worth many times the cost when it
removes that tired feeling, that
paleness and anemic tendency, that
warning Of waning strength, that
weakness of body that opens the
way for disease, that backache and
other symptoms Of kidney trouble,
constipation, and that grouchy touch
of rheumatism,
Many people need this splendid
combination to make perfect health.
Others may not need all three, but
almost everybody needs and will find
relief in at least one of them.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
VISIT TO FRONT LINE
llontlnued from PAGE One.l
see a rustod plow.

could see a rusted plow.
II was still. Not sign of movement
showed anywhere, Nothing moved
over where the German trenches were
Suddenly an American gun cracked
twice. Shells shuffied instantaneously
over MS and detonated cover there y
in wriggly, puff-ball fashion. Perhaps
unseen Boches were sent scuFrying un-
foreground by its wicked fragments.
A crow wheeling 10 mid air was
struck by bit OF this shrapnel He
dropped to the earth like a plummet.
There amt any use writing abo%
that to the home tolks,| said the tail
Nebraska soldier, "They wouldn't be-
lievo me it told it to 'em. At that
moment the Nebrashan observed a
movement In the rank grass and weeds
among the American entanglements.
lie hadn I taken his eyes off No Man s
land. Ills rifle ,steadidd, his figure
tensed and then relaxed The grass
parted and yellow dog just plan
dog-emerged paused inquiringly, his
forefoot lifted with the graceful ges-
tnre that some pointer forebear' s blood
had bequeather him, and then he loped
from Germany to the United States.
He dropped into the American lines
--his tail wageing the signal kan
rad. He was adopted on the spot
We passed on down the trench A
Memphis, Tenn, machine gunner was
our next acquaintance.
There are plenty of ducks in Death
Valley, he volunteered, after some.
ono had mentioned the crow incident
There S a small lake midway over
No Man 5 land and they gather around
there
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
From somewhere an American snip

From somewhere an American snip
er's rifle cracked the deep stiffness
and then quiet settled down again. In
growing shadows we passed on down
the trench. AS we stopped there came
abruptly the unmistakablc whistling
of shells, then Instantly three baIgs
as the three shots struck a hundred
Yards away, near the first line. There
were no casualties.
Immediately the American guns took
up the challenge, measure for measure.
Then il was quiet again
That brief interchange suggested in
ouiry as to what took place in the
first lines when shells came over. A
Wyoming boy proudly showed his dug
out
HIt accommodates thirty eight or
us. also a million rats, he remarked
with grin. And forgot the dozen
or so cats
We passed still further along and got
by n machine gun post Just in time 90
see the little death dealer rattle A
lively barrage over against German
village where the Boches were seen to
be hanging out their shirts on clothes
line. The Huns fled, leaving their
laundry.
Reaching the end of the American
sector, we turned to the rear. A Anb,
like stiffness reigned at that moment.
Ii was so quiet that the loudest sound
was the water splashing and swishing
under the "duck boards' (lattice
work pavementl beneath our feet.
Half an hour later the hull was
broken. The Booches started sudden
spasm Of artillerying. They hurled fif-
ty shrapnel shells with a drum fire
speed. twenty five a minute, perhaps,
Distant thumps and red flashes near
us showed the American gun voiley
sent painstakingly in reply.
Then 1t was still again.
'eThe Boehe Just mussed up my bed
room, was the way q certain Amen
can colonel today smilingly described
tho visit Of German shell which
struck his headquarters.
The colonel ut that time was work
ing in his office at headquarters, n
chateau near the trenches. orderlies
were coming and going. A dozen Off
GERS were working in various rooms.
Suddenly the German she'll crashed in
to the roof and exploded half way
down tho second floor.
The explosion smashed windows CIV
erywhere and scattered a rain OF plas
ter over the colonel s bed,
Two minutes later we found the col.
ouel standing on his steps looking the
building over and gingerly haaSling
some hot fragments Of the she'll One
hour before the German she'll struck
home an American general had left rs
automobile near the chateau and walk
cd hundred yards away when a shell
struck near the ear. The automobile
was showered with mud and stones.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
NEW WAR MEDALS
ARE NEEDED FOR THE
=
AMERICAN SOLDIERS
Advantages Of Decorating
Soldiers On the Field Ap-
parent to Visitors
By j. w. Pegler

Omitted Press staff correspondent
American Field Headquarters France
Nov. 21.-One result Of the recent Wis
it of American congressman to the
front may be legislation granting new
medals to American soldiers for deeds
of bravery.
1t was reported today that several
Iof the representatives had announced
their intention to introduce bills at
the December session of congres, pro-
viding for two new military decora-
tions.
There was no intention on their part
to displace the present congressional
medal of honor as the highest of all
awards for gallantry in action or con-
spicuous services in time of war But
the congressman who favor the addi-
tional awards believe there should be
two new medals for recognition of ex-
peditionary army heroes medals which
could be awarded on the field and
which would correspond to the French
Croix de Guerre and Medal Militaire
and the British Distinguished Service
medal and the Military Cross
AS it stands at present, American
soldiers bravery can be recognized
only by award Of departmental med
al, or, after passage of special act of
congress, by the medal of honor.
Legislation creating medals of equal
value to the British, French, italian
and other allied governments awards,
would still further serve to put the
American soldier in the comradeship
of the men he is to be fighting with
henceforth.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
NTetropontan Handicap.

New York, Nov. 2l.-Some of the
best performers ON eastern tracks this
year were nominated for the Metropoli-
tan handicap. the Suburban handicap
and the Toboggan handicap. Nomina-
tions were made public today and in
clude Old Rosebud, Hourless and Omar
Khayyam sensational handicap horses of
the year.
They are named for the Suburban
which win be the first time the trio
of stars have been pitted against each
other.
Campfire, champion S-year-eld Of
1916, also was nominated for this event.
Sun Briar is entered in all three
events. Papp, which was one Of the
best Of this years horses, viii run in
the Metropolitan and rObOggan.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
NlIII.L|.,L!...l,.Il

ways tired and no appetite. Words
cannot express my gratitude for the
good your medicine has done me, and
through me to my family. l recon-
mend Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable
Compound to all women suffering from
female troubles, particularly TO Danish
women. Mrs. META DAMGAARD- MAT
IAN, 2l37 Kimball Ave, Chicago, Ill.
1t is positively true that Lydia e.
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound has
helped thousands of women who have
been troubled with displacements, in
ilammation, liberation, tumors, irregu-
larities, periodic pains, backache, that
bearing down feeling, indigestion, and
nervous prostration.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
Chemawa Football Team
One Of NOfthwest's S Finest

What S the matter with the foot ball
team Of the Chemawa Indian Training
sehoolf According to its coach, w, j.
Warner, Chemawa has the finest foot
ball team in the northwest and they
have the team work, pluck and mastery
Of the forward pass to prove it.
1t seems tat while other teams have
been basking off in the lime light, the
Chemawa players have been making a
wonderful record and no one seemed to
The American army chauffeur ducked
his head, donned his "tin hat" and
stuck to his wheel
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21

DTOVtu l II IlChltkl
with the first bot
tie Of Lydia E. Pink
h q IN $ Vegetable
Compound; afte r
taking two bottles
| am entirely well.
Before taking it /
could not do any
kind of work with
out q pain in my
back as / suffered
so much from in
hammatfon. | had
headaches. was all
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
six pav Bicycle Race.

New York, Nov. 81. Two more teams
for the annual six day bicycle race
were announced here today. They are
Bobby Walthour and Paul Suter and
Tom Bello and Vicenzo Madonna. Pro-
moter Wellman still is casting about
for a man to pair with Frank Kramer.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
EOla Items
Capital journal Special service)

(Capltal journal Spec1al SerV1cel
Eola, Or, Nov. 21.-Mrs. Alice Odom
Of Dallas was in Eola Sunday visiting
her relatives the Antricans.
Rev. Ballentine of Rickreall preach
ed at the Eola scool house last Sun
day afternoon. Not many were out so he
was calling at the homes Monday to
see if they would try and come out
better or he will quit coming.
Miss Leona Hayden came up from
Portland Saturday to see her relatives
the Hayden Is and Thackers.
Mr.. Holman is running two plows
digging his crop of potatoes. He is TAX
ing all the help he can get picking
them up and sacking them. He is anx-
ious to get them under cover before
it rains again. The yield is very good.
Mr.. Dave jacobson was in Eola. Wis
iting Saturday and Sunday with rela-
tives. Mrs. Jacogson and daughter Ar
gil Stanton were with i'm. They have a
fine twenty-six hundred dollar car now.
. The Glover family have moved from
Eola, to the Zelliche farm near Airlie
to work for Mr.. Zelliche.
Bryan Ferguson went to Salem yester-
day to see DR.. Morse. Bryan has been
in poor health for quite a while.
Mr.. Pug has finised digging his po-
tatoes. His crop was extra good.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
ITALIAN POET SAFE

Washington, Nov. 2l.-An official
dispatch from Rome says Gabrielle
d Annunzio, the aviator-poet. report
ed missing after flight over the enc
my lines, actually is at the front, dis
playing great activity
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
Excellent Laxative
For Elderly People

AS we pass the prime Of life the
various organs of the body have
q tendency to weaken, especially
the bowels. Regularity In this
Important function Is so essential
to good health that old folks
should be very careful to avoid
constipation. A congestion of
stomach waste In the bowels occa-
sions dizziness, headache, drowst-
ness after eatingg- binousness,
belching, bloat, piles, etc, and
ghould bo corrected Immediately;
1t Is the direct cause OF much se-
cicrIs disease.
Tho lnost effective remedy for
constipation Is q combination of
simple laxative herbs with penstn
sold IN drug stores under the
name of Dr. Ca1dwel1's Syrup Pop
sin. It costs only fifty cents a
bottle, is mild in Its action, does
not grippe or strain, and brings Te-
lief quickly II an easy, natural
manner. Get . bottle of 1t from
your druggist and keep It in the
house; 1t 10 the ideal family REM
cdy. a trial bottle can be OBJ
tained free of charge by writing
to DR.. w. d. Caldwell, ass WASH
Sngton ST., Monticello, Illinois.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21

front, - said Mccormick, "was the
speedy way in which any exceptional
gallantry was rewarded.
elf a Poilu went over the top on
Friday and performed some unusual
stunt, the regiment or battalion would
be called together on Saturday and ha
would receive a medal" ("
Mccormick said he would suggest
that the major medal to be provided
for in his pEopoSed lbill shoulS be
awarded by the war department on the
recommendation of the colonel within
q week after it was earned. The mi
nor medal, he said, should be awarded
by the brigade commander, on recon-
mendation Of the colonel or major
within day or two.
Mccormick is at his country home
here.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21

Alfred Goulett refused to race with
Kramer, figuring the veteran could not
last through a six-day grind.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
RUMoR OF PEACE

cy quotations on belligerents' moneys
rose on the bourse as the result of
peace rumors from an uneonfirrned
source.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21

In our search for the most useless
thing on earth we came across a belt
on a man s coat.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1917-11-21
DANISH WOMAN
REGAINS HEAL TIL
Tells Everybody What Lydia
E. Pinkharn's Vegetable
Compound did for Her.

Chicago, Ill.-'fIt gives me great
pleasure to let others know that / i'm
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
viii PoIvgGmy Be LegaIized?
When War Ends There Will Be 1000, 900
Unmarried Women in Europe.

VIENNA.-W Whether or not Europe will
be obliged to change its marriage laws as
the result of the war is a question which
has recently occupied sociologists in the
central states. Most of them are of the
opinion that material notifications must en-
sue; a few think that legalized polygamy
must be established in order to provide for
the surplus of women which two years of
warfare has made one Of the problems of
all Europe.
The total population of the states at war,
elem f Russia; excepted
is roughly 373,000,000, of which, according
to best sources, $4,000 900 are women and
1S5,0O0,000 men. For the countries of Eu-
rope where exact statistics are available the
proportion is LOS males to 107 females. For
Europe this leaves in normal times an excess
of 100000 females, of which number a
third would be marriageable.
To this million of women who at pres
emit can find no husbands for the reason that
nature, while insuring an excess in the birth
Of males, permits more of them to die in
infancy, will be added at least 5000. 900
whom death on the battlefield and incapac-
itatlng wounds has also deprived of mates
Europe, therefore, is face to face with the
question of how these 100000 women are
to be cared for.
Economically, the problem has been
solved by the women themselves by show
III A1eAiAy O1 Industry
they are able to fill place. But sociolo-
gists point out that, except the state makes
provisions tending to avert this, certain
natural law would increase greatly the rate
of ilegitimacy of children, which even now
is serious matter
At the conclusion of the thirty years
war similar conditions prevailed. 1t was
met In many of the central European states
by making polygamy legal. When the pro-
portion of males and females had been
readjusted by the coming Of later genera
tons these laws were repealed
For the time being the European parlia-
ments are too occupied with matters af-
fecting the continuation of the war, but ex-
pressions on the subject agree that some
sort of legislation will be necessary.
1t is impossible to say just how Euro
pean legislatures will meet the situation.
Legal polygamy is so unwelcome to Eu-
ropes social system and religion that OPP
position to it will be great. The belief
is held, for this reason, that legally at least
LEGITIMACY will be abolished and that laws
will be passed giving the child born out of
| wedlock every right upon the care and
property of its father. 1t is argued that
| this measure of expediency would meet the
situation easily and that it would violate no
social arrangement now in force, giving in
its most extreme application nothing but an
expression to tendency which has mani
tested itself in Europe for several years
past.
The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1917-01-03
The Thank YOU In Business

1t is doubtless true that business is newt
ably more or less of cold-blooded propo-
stion, and yet, it seems to be fact that
those who have been most successful are
those who have preferred not to be SO. cold
blooded in its prosecution. Public patron
age is tickle quantity There exists today
no broad variations in prices. Standard ar
ticles of food, clothing and other commodi-
ties and Injuries sell about at the same fig
ures at one establishment or at another, and
the people who buy are developing more and
more an inclination to eaary their dimes
and dollars to him whose employees mix
something Of courtesy and graciousness with
their alertness
The human element cannot be relegated
The sraile and the polite "Thank You" are
becoming increasingly potent as strade
pullers. They are remembered by the mar
and the woman, and even the child does no
forget. The memory clings through the
days and nights, and the utterance is Z
magnet which almost unfailingly draws ths
customer back again.
1t pays in dollars and cents To be cour
teous in this day and time.