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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02
YAMH1LL P. O. ROBBED

Yamhill, Or, Feb. 2.-Seven hundred
dollars in stamps and $400 in currency
was the loot burglars obtained by blow
ing the postoffice here early today. The
robbers entered nearby blacksmith
shop, secured. tools and broke a hole
through the brick wall of the postoffice
building. No trace of the robbers has
been found.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02
Mammaux rs Hold-out.

New York, Feb. AL Mammaux is
a hold-out, according to reports reach
ing here today from Pittsburg. The
Young pitcher, recently traded to Brok-
lyn by the Pirates, is said to have de-
manded contract for $4,000, the same
as he received from Pittsburg. A con-
tract for So, 400 had been offered him.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02
SPECIAL MONTANA SESSION

Helena, Mont, Feb. 2.-Governor S.
V. Stewart is expected within "a hours
to call a special session of the Montana
legislature, to amend the seed grain law,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02

" something was going to happen.'' To-
day the hotel the company built recent
ly at the plant for the benefit of work
ers is a mass of ruins, and one laborer
was injured escaping from his room.
Authorities are investigating.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02
Snain Makes protest.

London, Feb. 2.-The Spanish note
sent to Berlin protesting the torpedo
ing of the Spanish steamer Giralda, re-
quested an answer within 4S hours, a
Madrid dispatch to the London Mail
asserted today.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02
British In Palestine
Swiss Are Modified.

Zurich, Feb. 2-The Twelfth infan-
try brigade, two sections of Alpine
guides, and signal company have
been ordered modified Wednesday to
reinforce the frontier guard, it was of
ficially announced today.
The order is the result of ''internal
and external conditions" it was ex-
planned.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02
COMPANY HOTEL BURNED.

st. Helens, Or, Feb. 2.-Several days
ago, officials of the Sommarstrom ship
building company heard threats that
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02
British Troons Raid.

London, Feb. 2.-Liverpool troops
raided enemy trenches southeast of
Armentieres last night, taking several
prisoners, Field Marshal Haig reported
today. An attempted enemy raid north
of Passachendaele was repulsed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02

pass law to permit Montana soldiers
in France to vote on, state matters, pro-
vide funds for state constabulary and
consider ratification of the national pro-
hihition act.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02
SIXTY-SIX ARE DEAD
Continued from page on,

Burn LIE Haut there was slight artil-
lerying.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-02
General wood Recovers.

General Wood Receivers.
Paris, Feb. 2.-Major General Wood,
who was wounded in the right arm by
shell splinter while visiting the
American front recently, left the hos
pital here today.
Wood s chief of staff and two French
officials who were accompanying the
American officer were also severely
wounded, it was announced today.
British In Palestine
Washington, Feb. 2.-British expedi-
tionary forces in Palestine again have
assumed the offensive, official war re-
ports stated today. General Allenby's
line has been advanced to Anutieh,
three miles north of Birch on the Ma
balus road, the cables state. British
forces operating out of Jerusalem have
advanced nearly twenty miles to the
northward and are starting an en-
circling movement, presumably intend
ed to render Jericho untenable for the
Turks.
The Keota news., 1918-06-07
OPEN THEIR ARMS
TO OUR OFFICERS

gan to bark. The moon was q aim
crescent In the sky. and Il was Q beau
tiful night, although cold. Presently
the faint drone Of the raiding planes
could be distinguished and there came
the reverberating rumbles Of bombs
being dropped. Finally the noise OF
the motors died away and the guns on
the coast could be heard. throwing up
their barrage at tho returning Hun
planes. and at about nix the bugies
were sounding ell clear through The
streetA
1T was reported that two Of the ten
raiders were brought down. It seems
that the crews Of these Gotha planes
wear electrically heated clothing. and
In one machine ths heating elements In
the pilots clothing absorbed 20 much
current that. being unable to discoo-
meet them. he was forced to descend.
The Go:has have wing spread Of con-
siderably over 100 feet. are twin mo-
tored. and carry q crew Of three men
pilot. gunner. sod bomber. Being twin.
motored. their son0rous double hum II
very distinctive. On the most brilliant
Of moonlight nights, when the thrum
OF their motors 10 quite strong. It -
Impossible to ses the planes at their
height Of . mile or more. On the dark.
er nights they may sometimes be
forced to show lights In order to re-
tain their flying formation. and then. II
you arr fortunate. you may glimpse
these tiny points g" light moving across
the sky.
The majority OF the people display
no fright during the raids"
The writer Of the letter was for
some time attached to the stan Of Vice
Admiral Sims and spent four months
In London,
The Keota news., 1918-06-07
GO ON,CASH BASIS

stances been somewhat curtalled. ~
. result Of his having had to operato
on much shorter credits than he has
been accustomed to. his net profits 1t
the end Of the year. through not hav-
ing been forced to sacrifice merchan.
disc at q loss, have been materially
increased.
II u said also that the Chinese busi.
ness men have come to zee the advan-
tage0 Of the new system. and that In
all probability they will never 60 back
to the old.
The Keota news., 1918-06-07
Chinese Merchants Forced to
Change Methods.
Restricted Credits Since war Oo1an
Puts Stop . Aoe.0ld
Custom.

New York.-The benencial effects Of
restricted credits In China since the
war started In 1914. which have forced
the Chinese merchants to do business
pretty much on . cash basis. were
particularly noticeable In the unusual
~ small number Of failures on Chi
ness New Years day. which u the
annual settlement day In the Chinese
commercial world.
According to Consul General George
e. Anderson Of Hongkong. banking In
terests in China have found that the
demand for accommodation has
fallen OF Tremendously during the last
three years.
Prior to the war ard from time I'm
memorial this annual settlement day
has entailed efforts Of every sort on
the part Of the Chinese to raise money
for uouidating their debts accumulated
during the year.
Frequently they have had to cell
much Of their stock In business at Q
great loss. even personal property -
we'll. in order to raise SUFFICIENT funds
to "save their face" - It - called.
An annual street fair for the sale OF
an sorts Of property. personal and
otherwise, has been an old-sstablished
custom In Honskong for generations.
almost for centuries, while at the came
dime both foreign and domestic banks
have placed large sums on accommo-
dalton. In the last three years. how.
ever, loans have been small. property
sales have been light In comparison,
and the street fair has become the
occasion for sales to Chinese instead
Of sales BY Chinese to foreigners.
Though the Chinese merchants vol.
ume Of business has In some In.
The Keota news., 1918-06-07
John Plans Return With
One Of kaiser's Buttons

Kingman. Kan.-When John
Barneld. colored. comes home
from France. II he ever does,
and brings . button of the coat
or trousers Of Kaiser Bill he will
have paid . dne assessed against
him by Police Judge Harlow.
John recently chung a shovel"
around the neck Of q fellow
worker. He was fined q few dol.
lars. Before he paid the 6ne he
was called to the colors. The
Judge told him what he could do.
and the negro replied:
'That's shO' fair 'nough, boss.
III do nah best to bring back
dat button"
The Keota news., 1918-06-07
sars German Laneuas. Drama.

Pittsburgh. Pa.-German language
drama 10 taboo In Pittsburgh. Mayor
q. v. Babcock. when approached BY
q Cincinnati promoter. and . promi.
nent Pittsburgher for permission to
stage . play In the German language
In one Of the principal downtown the.
aters, declared emphatically 'ver-
boten." Director Of Public Safety
Pritchard recently has placed z ban
on Wagnsrian mudc here.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

The president tells us that in the
autumn "a much larger sale of long
time bonds must be effected than has
yet been attempted" This will NEAR a
Liberty Loan of more than $3,000,000,-
900, the highest figure. The fact that the
oversubscription of the third loan to-
tailed 81, 800, 900, 900 creates an impress
sion that possibly the next, call may
be for between $4,000, 100000 and
$5,000,000,00O says Syracuse Journal.
But Americans will foot the bill, what
ever it may be and~in whatever form
it may be demanded. They realize,
as the president says he does, that 1--WE
are not only in the midst of the war,
we are at the very peak and crisis
of it."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

Scarcity of oil in Denmark is so
great that there has been danger at
various times that there would not be
enough for the railway signal lights
and the beacons on the coast. The
government has recently contracted
for 400 IONS of tallow for candles to
form an emergency supply for these
lamps and to be used in the farm
houses of the country. The coal *4ort-
age has made it almost impossible to
obtain dependable electric OF gas light
service. Alcohol lamps with nantes
similar to those used in gas burners
are being installed in stores and city
residences, and the government has re-
moved the ban from acetylene, in spite
of the fact that it is explosive.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03
L OF

Accepted as conclusive the general
resolution to exclude from the schools
the teaching of the German language
it would seem the part of wisdom to
substitute another and more attrac-
tive tongue, says Las Vegas IN. Nd
Optic. This is Spanish, spoken by
millions of close neighbors and the ma
tive speech of the residents of u is.
land possessions. Even now, with the
Teutonic competitor excluded, strong
efforts are being made by bankers and
tradesmen. to obtain for the United
States the commerce of South Amer
lea. The great war has operated
to turn these peoples away from
Germany and toward this country,
once unjustly suspected of an am
bition to dominate the entire western
hemisphere politically. To carry on
business with them and to be in a po-
sition to exchange the treasures of art
an imperative necessity that their
speech be acquired. The time to be-
gin acquiring it is now, and not later.
From the head of the national govern
ment, the initial and energizing i'm
pulse should be given by proclamation
calling upon the directors of educa-
ton in all the states to take up and
forward the work of installation of the
teaching machinery. In this worthy la
Dor, no doubt, valuable cooperation
would cheerfully be offered by the va
rious South American governments.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

In Pennsylvania 1t has been decreed
that crackers are in the same category
as bread, and that hereafter it will be
contrary to the food administration
rulings for oyster houses, restaurants,
quick lunches, hotels and clubs to
serve more than two ounces of crack
ers with an order of soup or oysters in
any shape. In one way it Is possible
that the restaurants will regard this
a blessing in disguise, for it is no
secret in the trade that a great many
customers consume at least one-third
the value of their soup order in crack
ers that are served as a side dish, says
Hotel Gazette. 1t will be a money
saving proposition to the restaurant
man and will doubtless be regarded
by him in that light. The admins
tration is going thoroughly into the
matter, and investigations will be insti-
tuted to find where and by whom this
order is violated in the ranks of oyster
houses and restaurants.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

Since 1t is the part of wisdom to
turn everything, even misfortune, to
use, there is considerable interest in
what good effects may be had from the
various food shortages which are with
us and in prospect. Robert Hutchin-
son points outen British Medical Jour-
nal that though a reduction in the fat
ration of half a pound a week would
entail a loss of weight, this loss is not
progressive. the individual being able
to maintain a lower weight on a d.
minished diet. This is due to the
lessened output of energy required to
transport a smaller body weight. A
lesser body surface also means a
smaller heat loss. The conclusion is
reached that there is no reason to sup
pose that smaller rations means a
lowering of health-probably the re-
verse is the case.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

The work accomplished by the
American Red Cross in April SUR
passed all records of the organization
in France, says Arkansas Thomas Cat.
Food and drink were supplied to Amer
lean soldiers. Nine rest stations and
seven canteens provided 40S,000 meals.
Nine metropolitan canteens served 454-
900 meals. Three large hospitals were
built and equipped. Three large dis
pensaries have been opened at ports
and hundreds of beds have been added
to the Red Cross military hos
pitfalls. Many convalescent homes have
been opened, laundries installed, field
kitchens set up to supply food to sol
diers going to and returning from the
battlefields and OBJ 900 bags of tobacco
and cigarettes distributed at the camps.
Each field kitchen has a capacity Of
5000 men daily. Canteens have been
established behind the American lines
where the soldiers gather at night to
smoke, play games and write letters
to the oneS at home.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

In the first enthusiasm. of food con-
servation a good many people econo-
mized valiantly in dairy products as
well as in meat and in white flour.
That was a mistaken economy, how
ever. Use all the milk and butter and
cheese you can afford to buy. They
are the best sort of food; they are
not needed for export, and the gener-
ous consumption of them will encour-
age the dairy industry to expand. Milk
and cheese and eggs are the best pos
sible substitutes for meat; the sup
ply of such foods can be increased
much more rapidly than the supply of
meat; and nothing will effect that in
crease so certainly as a steadily in
creasing demand for them.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03
AN EDISON EPIoRAM.

Thomas A. Edison is a man OF few
words, and. like many a man of SIM
iinr habits, often packs away a lot of
wisdom in a brief sentence. says Phil
adelphia Bulletin. He was talking a
few nights ago of the gigantic tasks
and responsibilities fne war imposed
on the nation, and particularly of the
necessity of speeding up, when he let
of what we must not do, but a question
of what we must do" If the truth
of this sentence were to be recognized
by legislators and administrators, the
task of government in war would be
easier, and results might be far bet
ter. The inventor was speaking of the
waste of mental and other energy at
Washington in seeking to put aside the
"nonessential" operations of the oun
try, and his immediate application of
his nutshell philosophy was that If
the government were to devote it's en-
tire energy to stimulating production
of the things necessary for the conduct
of the war it need not bother with non-
essentials, so long as they did not pre-
vent or interfere with wal work. But
the thought deserves a wider appli-
cation, and the substitution of "do"
for don't" would simplify a lot Of
more or less successful government
regulation.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

Yesterday 1t was only the men who
went forth to war while the women
remained behind to keep up the home
and cultivate the fields. Today the
ome still keep up the home and cul-
tivate the fields, but they also do their
part-a splendid part-in the actual
work of carrying on war. Thousands
of these women are scattered about
the United Kingdom and in France;
many of them very close to the actual
battlefront, risking their lives and CIV
ing themselves as freely, as unselfshly
and courageously as their men do to
drive from the earth all fear of the
iron heel of Prussianism, says New
Success. They are in the base and
field hospitals, and canteens and dress
ing stations, in the Y. M. G. A. huts-
everywhere, and are an Indispensable
factor in carrying on the a
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

"Old men for COUNSEL" is the say
ing, ''young men for war;" But this
war rather falsifies the old adage,
says Spokane Spokesman Review.
At seventy-seven Clemenceau of
France remains so energetic that he
still deserves his cognomen Of "the
tiger" Joffre was an old man when
he won the battle of the Marine. Lloyd
George is not exactly young. Wood
row Wilson Is past sixty. But none
of them seems to require the Osler
method of being chloroformed out of
existence. These veterans do not flag
s%uperfluous on the stage" Cato learn
ed Greek at eighty. Chaucer COM
posed his Canterbury Tales" at
sixty. Goethe toiled to the end and
his "Faust" was not completed till he
had outlived eighty. Simonides won a
prize for poetry and Sophoeles wrote
"Oedipus," when each had passed four
score. Theophrastus outdid them all,
for he was ninety when he commenced
his characters Of Men,"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

That America is capable of designing
and building speedy single scatter air.
planes for battle service Is evident
from the Berckmans speed scout, re-
Gently put through rigid tests with the
most satisfactory results, says Scien-
tific American. Plotted by Bert Acos-
ia, this little machine assembled to o.
900 feet and returned to the earth in
81 minutes. The general specifications
of this interesting little machine are
as follows Span, upper plane, 26 feet !;
lower plane, 10 feet chord, both planes,
4 feet IL inches; gap 5 feet 8 inches !;
stagger, II degrees length of machine
over all, IS feet; height of machine
over all, 8 feet 8 inches; net weight,
empty, 800 pounds; gross weight, load
ed, 1,190 pounds; useful load, $40
pounds engine, G. V. G. Gnome rotary,
seven cylinders, 100 horsepower; speed
range, 1854 m. h.. p; climbing speed
LOO feet per minute; gliding angle,
8 to 1 radius of action 2h hours.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

There is nothing mean or narrow in
the program of Major General Gorgas
for the participation of women in war
work as nurses and physicians and
surgeons. He says to the women:
"Your country needs your and he
advocates as a policy for congress to
enforce by legislation the adoption of
the principle that women doctors and
surgeons engaged In war work are en-
titled to the same military rank as
medical officers similarly engaged who
happen to be of what Artemus Ward
humorously designated as "the male
persuasion"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03
DIED..

PENNY.-Alex. Newton, age 80, son
of George F. and Isabelle Penny,
Pleasantville, N. j. Accidentally
killed at Bingham Canyon, Utah.
July 27.
SHAWN Linwood, on July %, Anna
A. Shaw, aged 49,. Funeral Monday
afternoon, Asbury M. E. Church,
English Creek.
TRUAX.-At her late residence,
Mortified, on Wednesday, July 31st,
Mary G. Cordery, wife of William
Truax, aged II years. Relatives
and friends of the family are invit-
ed to attend the funeral services
on Sunday afternoon at 2 o'clock at
the Absecon Methodist Episcopal
Church. Interment in the adjoining
church yard.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

In all histories of wars among civ
the rate of insanity is much higher in
the army than in civil life, but in this
war the extraordinary fatigue of mod
ern trench warfare, plus the terrific ar
tillery fire, has produced new prob
lens. Profting by the bitter expert
ence of the allies, the surgeon general
has assigned psychopathic specialists
to every camp and cantonment, and al
ready, on their advice, more than 49,
600 men have been weeded out of
the army because of their suscepti-
bility, inherited or temperamental, to
nervous shock.
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03
OIL oE COAL.

The French are studying how to do
without coal. Here are some SUCCESS
tons put forth in ILLUSTRATION by l..
Baudry de Saunier which are almost
as applicable to America as to France /:
"Why,' asks the famous scientist, are
our railroads, which burn almost 9,000,-
900 tons a year, not operated by cleo
tricity? In water power France is one
of the richest countries in the world.
But only one of u systems, that of
the Midi, is electrified, and that only
partially. Why does our shipping,
both naval and mercantile, cling to
coal heated boilers when oil furnaces
have already proved a success on sew
eral steamers? Why should not the
ed by law, some day soon, since it eats
up coal madly? And there are many
other similar ways. 1t will take time
to make these changes, no matter how
hurriedly they be undertaken, but they
must be tackled at once if the rigors
of the transition period are not to be
prolonged beyond u powers to bear
Them" And he adds hat restriction
is not q mere war measure that will
vanish as soon as peace be restored,
but a Symptom of the economic labor
that is straining the whole world like
a new volcanic outbreak, for the world
is cracking because the war is max
ing its evolution far too rapid"
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03

Saving accomplishes a double pur-
pose. 1t prevents the diversion of la
Dor to useless activity and it estab-
fishes our national credit upon a firm
and substantial basis. The integrity
Of our financial structure is only sec
ond' in importance to the development
of the highest military efficiency. "As
a people," in the words of Professor
Scott, tive now have it in our power
either to conserve and strengthen our
credit system or wreck it."
The Pleasantville press. (Pleasantville, N.J.) 1912-1929, 1918-08-03
MISTAKEN PUNISHMENT.

The man who first said: "Spare tha
rod and spoil the child" has been
dead for many years; but he probably
caused more suffering to children
than any other man before or since,
says DR.. A. Mckay Jordan in Hu-
manitarian Magazine. We have not yet
lost entirely the barbarous idea that
1t is necessary to punish a child con-
stantly in order to insure that he
should become a wise and virtuOus
man. There is no child that deserves
punishment for any of its actions.
Apart from the usual childish FRANKS
and scrapes which, through lack of
sympathy and understanding, we
elders find so annoying, any so-called
fault which a child commits is due
either to i'll health or improper train
ing, and in neither case should a sin
which is not his be visited upon the
child. "A baby cries because 1t is
hungry or otherwise unhappy, and
slapping it is but a poor remedy for
either unhappiness OF hunger. The
Juvenile delinquent errs because he
has not been correctly trained or be-
cause he is incapable of proper train
ing. In the first instance it is his
elders and not the child who deserve
punishment, and in the alternative case
all the punishment in the world will
not prove a remedy.