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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13
THE PRODUCT OF OUR SCHOOLS

There has been discussion Of the case OF tloyd
Ramp in the Portland papers. Probably these cases
would best be allowed to pass without special notlce,
since men of his stamp thrive on publicity and criticism
They crave notorety and this notoey responsible Tor
their following Without it they would probably soon
tire of making nuisances Of themselves and become 10
some extent useful citizens
One correspondent in Portland paper calls attention
to the fact that the Ramp family mas lived long IN this
country and that the young man has had fu advantage
of the educational system OF which we boast SO freely
It made Of him. the correspondent asserts the intellectual
freak he advetises himself to be- full of hafbaked ideas
that he has not the intellect to assimulate.
1t NAV be true as stated that Ramp has gone to school
but he is not educated Perhaps he fell under the ueage
of some of those freaks with which it is too much the
fashion to load up the faculties Of higher educational
institutions They teach the boys and girls everything
but the fundamental idea of their education which is to
make real men and women
The religious and moral side Of life is entirely lost
SIGHT of in most of larger Universities and colleges
and not nfrequently instructors sneer at the old
fashioned idea Of right living in the sight OF God and
man. To our mind the smaller denOminatona colleges OF
the country doing most of the really sound educational
work of the present time We did have much use
for the Of prohiboy and corrective laws that en-
cumber statute books with the idea OF forcing men
and women to live right through fear OF legal punishment
but we do have abiding faith in human nature when 1t
is trained in the proper at the proper time OF te
Young and young women are being turned out OF
the schools knowing too much about the things they
ought to shun and too little about their duty to society
and to their Creator They have not been surrounded
by the proper influences at time their habits OF thought
and living were being chrystalized.
Ramp may be an exaggerated product OF our educa-
tona system because of peculiar twist OF his intel
leet possibly account of an abnormal craving Tor
notoriety
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

W. D. Haywood has been released from Jail by
Federal Judge Landis who reduced his bail to figure
where his W. W. followers could raise it. 1t is reported
in the press dispatches that his attorney before this
action taken threatened that Something would hap
pen" if Haywood not freed This remark of itself
should have been sufficient reason for keeping him be-
hind the bars since if the W. W. can openly defy the
authorities and get away with it the very foundations of
our government are endangered There will never be a
better time to fight it out and test the power Of this
anarchstic organization. Probably Haywood would still
be in jail if any other federal judge but the erratc
socialistic Lands had passed upon his case.
HayWood's career has been one Of disturbance and
crime. Before he nationally prominent as an ag
tator he known awess dsreputibe character in
the Rocky mountain region and driven out Of many
camps by indignant miners Then came the murder Of
Former Governor Steuenburg, of Idaho Of which he
acquitted in spite Of convincing evidence and later his
prominence as head Of the l. w. w.
Such would naturally be chosen to do the dis
loyal acts that ordinary traitor would shrink from
With him it would be purely monetary consideration
with regard for the principles involved thought for
life and property destroyed.
Haywood-may now be counted upon to get busy again
with his plotting against the government outraging
every sense of decency and good citizenship.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

Since it is and always has been the proper thing for
diplomats to write memoirs VIE ought to be thankful
that President Wilson generally chose literary men to
represent us abroad.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13
WHAT SHE REMEMBERED

CHAPTER Ill.
If man forgets everything he wants
to forget, woman remembers every
thing. Each little word and action,
every slight, as well as every earess. The
sound of an old song or an old waltz
tune will carry her back to the night
when she first danced with the man she
afterward learned to love; and the scent
of some particular flower viii bring
back the day he asked her to marry
him, when she wore the flowers he had
brought her-those flowers.
Men let old things go, even sweet old
memories. Women hang onto every little
happening with tenacity as foolish as
it is strong.
So L, like other women, compared the
now with the time past, and in the COM
parison found unhappiness. To be wrap
ped in the cloak of memory perpetually
is to be clad in discomfort. The past is
gone and we have only the present.
/, like all foolish young things the world
over, had this to learn-by experience.
l thought of all the things George
had said when he was eourting me-
all the extravagant speeches-an Won
dered now why he had said them and
if he had meant them, even then. be-
lieve the old monks who tortured them
selves by wearing hair shirt were
mereiful to themselves compared to the
woman who tortures herself by con-
stantly questioning her husband s love
if SHE loves HIM.
SO 1 tortured myself. Every time
George left me, spent the time think
ing, and often weeping over, what had
been. 1 was intensely proud of George.
His position among business men-most
of them older than he-inspired a great
respect for his ability.
Often when 1 offered little evidences
Of affection, especially if he were read
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13
lis Hard to Blow Taps
For Your Solder Pal


Omitted Press Staff Correspondent
With the American Expeditionary
Army, France, Jan. 1.-(By MaiD.-
Sometimes a grown man will bust right
out and cry like a kid-even a full
grown, hard-swearing bugler of sixteen.
And it helps a fellow regain control of
the bawl il a motherly woman puts her
arm around a fellow s shoulder and
SAYS there, there, little SON" just as
his own gray-haired mother would if
he were back home IN Ciarinda, Iowa.
OF course = soldier IS supposed never
to cry. But suppose you We're just SIX
teen and 1000 miles from home IL the
holiday season. And suppose your best
pal in the world was another man of
sixteen. Well, your pal gets sick with
pneumonia daring 4 long march through
the blizzards. re gets taken away to
the hospital. Next tnlng you hear is
that he failed to rally in the crisis and
passed out last night-the fellow you
enlisted with and bunked with ever
since yea came into the army.
You are the bugler told off to 90 to
the base hospital and blow taps over
your own hunkie.
There are two young American nur-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

ses at the grave-side, standing knee-deep
in snow, the wind whipping their red
lined eapes every which way. They are
dabbing at their red eyes with knotted
handkerehiefs. They nursed your bunkie
those last few days and called him 1.-The
Child.'
One of them sObs out loud.
Nothing gets on the nerves of a six
teen-year-old man so much as hearing a
woman sob.
The chaplain winds up his stereotyped
talk and you place the bugle to your
lips, You play taps as you never play
ed it before. But the blizzard hoyls
down the clear quivering notes and
browns out the struggling echoes.
We saw the little boy from Clarinda
as he came marching back into the hos
pital grounds-still soldier, chin up,
eyes front, shoulders squared. He drop
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13
The Woman Who Changed
By JANE PHELPS

ing or busy in any way, he would re-
pulse me-not rudely, but carelessly. To
be just, I expect he was often bored
when [ insisted upon detailing my love
for him; and also that l embarrassed
him by my show of affection in pub
lie.
George seemed to forget that was
young, that l had been accustomed to a
certain amount Of gayety His business
his clubs, and his sports took up most
of his time.
I begged him, one night, to take me
out with him; felt I should go mad
if he left me alone. But he was going
to a prize fight, and he informed me
curtly:
1t is no place for q woman"
"Then it is no place for you'll" 1
blurted out, not stopping to think
"When have you become my censor?"
he queried sarcastically. "When I want
any advice from you, any criticism, 1
will ask for it, and without so much
as a Goodbye" he left me.
1t seems only a little thing as 1 tell
it; but then it loomed large before me.
1t was of little things that my life
was made up, at that time-a kiss, or
the lack of it; kind word, or the
omission of it; the thoughtful deed, or
the forgetfulness of it.
1t seems to me even now that it is so
with most, if not all, women. Our lives
are made up of trifles. We are so de-
pendent upon love to bring out what is
in us. Lacking that, we wither and
die-mentally, if not physically.
George figured that if he supplied the
roast beef of life 1 could manage wit
out dessert. But l longed for the sweets,
for kisses and caresses.
To tell the truth, was already be-
ginning to be little frightened at my
future-what it would bring, Then, too,
l was lonely. A few of my husbands
bachelor friends had called; one or two
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

women friends. But they were so much
older than was-not in years, perhaps,
(although even in that they were five or
six years ahead of me) but in their
knowledge of the world, of men and
things Of which they unblushingly talk
ed.
L had a lovely home, beautifully fur
nlshed. Naturally was very proud of it.
30 one day when Mrs. Loring called
"a handsome woman, though cold look
lng-and she expressed her admiration,
| took her all over the house, show
ing her my linens; even the kitchen,
with all the delight of child showing
dolls house to her playmates. She
must rave criticised me for doing it, for
day or two afterward George said:
WAS Madge Loring here the other
day?"
"A Mrs. Loring called, why9"
"What did you do?''
DO! Why, nothing! Just talked. -
L replied, then. =" GU mean-Oh, [ took
her all over the house-showed her
everything. She thought it was lovely.''
Wei, she may have thought it was
lovely, but she didn t say it. / wish you
would try to be little more dignified.
1t ism t quite the thing to take strang-
ers into your private sleeping rooms and
into your kitchen. Please don't do it
again"
"But am so proud of our lovely
home, ! love to-"
please remember my request. Try
and be more dignified. !"
"I'l do anything in the world to
please you, George! The trouble is I
never know what is going to please
you, or what will offend Perhaps L will
learn If you will be patient and love
me"
'Perhaps!" he said in a doubtful
tone.
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ped from the parade and went straight
to the office of the head nurse to thank
her for the care his best pal had re-
eeived. -
Those kindly blue eyes of hers seemed
TO melt right through the stern soldier
front - of the 16-year-old soldier. Sha
called him sonny" which put him at
a disadvantage right off.
Exactly what was said in the next
10 minutes is between Sammy and the
gray-haired, motherly head-nurse. He
came out of her office smiling through
has tears of loneliness, a slab of Christ
mas pudding in one hand and the shiny
brass bugle in the other.
The head nurse says its nothing unus-
ual for grown soldier men. to ery-even
men much older than sixteen.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

And there is yet time to have little real winter here
in Oregon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

Office holding more attractive than since it has
become known that official salary exempt from
taxation.
Those G. o. p. national committeeman at ST. Louis
to be having hard tome keeping their loyalty on
straight
Anyway brave little Rumania appears to be standing
pat.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13
Ripping Rhymes
BE CHEERFUL
by Wall Mason

Don't tell your troubles to friend; it isn't
fair or proper; if you must let your walls
ascend, go, spring them on a copper. The
cops are paid a princely wage to listen to
your railing, to harken while the heather
rage, and fill the air with wailng. But we
are not in uniform, we pack no shields or
bilies; and when you come and beef and
storm, you give us all the willies. We have
them; when they're inclined to make us
blue, we do our best to can them We
boost a confidence that's fine, until the
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

Sometimes chickens come home to roost quite unex
pectedly. That man Adams who had the Craftsmanship
Of the republican national committee cnched probably
wishes now that he had not bid strong for German
American support.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

Offhand it would appear that such would be the
But there good szed well equipped armies in Russia,
such the Don Cossacks which will not recognize Trot
sys proclamation and which in favor of continuing
the 2
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

Germany might start new invasion of Russia Not
only would this meet with resistance from the Cossacks
and other anBolsheviki however but probably would
stir up the BOshev themselves to renewed resistance
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

Mayor VIM. Hale Thompson seems to have come back
life at the meeting of the republican national commit
tee We thought he had drfted into everlasting oblivion
with the late Bob La Toilette and others Of his stripe
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-02-13

pnts of brine won't help in battles And it is easy
work to beam when all the boys sheery; but old
Crouch can raise a scream that makes the prospect
dreary. How often when start downtown, we're
feeling glad and gaudy; natures brow there is no
frown and nOthings base or shoddy. Then some one
up such dolefu talk we lose our pep and ginger He's
spoiled cheerful day for us day we'd spend serenely
but for that grim and grsy cuss who thinks and talks
so meany your old jug is full of ble GO plug it with
stopper bring gay and gorgeous SMILE take trouble
to copper.
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tcllers and that ilk as the hypocho
driacal are Of medical quacks. NJ
1t Is now known, though at the time
It was not, that while the Car and
Czarina were beseeching aid Of science
the Czarina was also searching out
every charlatan in Russia To get her
ear 1t was only necessary to proclaim
yourself as having supernsl powers
which might be of service in the mat
ter of the heir. With this fact before
US there Is no longer a mystery in the
ascendency OF Rasputin. \ year be-
fore the fact he predicted the birth Of
son, and after II occurred ne was
a made man at court and the Rcmn-
non an urmade dynasty.
Rasputin knew enough to maintain
his hold in the capacity of the Care
vitch's superhuman protector. Alex
andra's chronic terror had now
concerned itself with the life Of her
son. which indeed is known at least
once TO have been sought by Nihilist
assaEsins. The monk had the credit
for the boys preservation. He had
the Czarina, and through her the Gar,
completely under his influence.
We know how Rasputin controlled
a certain number of appointments and
built up his outside prestige by learn
ing in advance OF others and then pre-
dieting and boasting of them. Wa do
not yet know the full history OF the
utilization of Rasputin by the Ger
mans, though We guess with full con-
fidence at what occurred. His service
to them was TO surround the '1arina
in her household with German agents.
The fact that the Czarina was a con-
stantly unhappy mental or nervous In
valid was plain to the discerning more
than ten years before the end. What
human contacts size had had with the
/ 800 900 900 children of the Little
| Father were lost in the alteration o
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Washington was, as usual on cleo
ton night, combination Of keen In
terest In the seats OF the mighty and
stolid apathy on the part OF the man
on the street. The newspaper bulle-
tins were watched by small and rather
listless crowds.
At the White House they say the
President received the returns all
alone except for Mrs Wilson: though
Mr.. Tumulty had a group of inter-
ested politicians in the White House
offices. It's the first time since he has
Neen In the White House that the
President and his secretary have failed
10 60 home 10 vote, Even at the pri-
maries they have turned up with com
mendable regularity.
There was rejoicing that Washing
ton was to have the Truman New
berrys back from Detroit. They were
part OF tho Cabinet circe-Mr New
berry was Assistant Secretary, and
then Secretary of the Navy during the
entire four years OF Roosevelt's sec
ond torm--and arc regarded as emf
GENTLY desirable both politically and
socially.
And of course there were ses--like
that of McCormlcis VS. Lewis--where
ffectons, regardless OF politics, were
divided. People really Ike the, Ham
Lewises-even though they guy Sena =
'or Lewis's pink whiskers and his per-
'ectly lovely clothes, which are only
exceeded by his extreme personal ap.
oearance" And they really IKE the
Medill McCormicks. Mrs. McCormick
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Process Through Which Young Man Passes in Becoming
Member of the Students Army Training Corps

better carriage and new and better
walking step begin to get or their
minds and into their personalities.
The +. A. T. c. turn out good
sound product. II Private Jones
shows promise they may, after few
weeks, transfer him to an o. T. G.
ana let him qualify for II commission
IL no can. Some hundreds from Co
lumbia have been transferred, and the
authorities are thinking OF transfer
ring another batch.
High Officers From France.
The instructor officers, selected
from the younger and best qualified
faculty element, are supervised by Of
ficers with greater army experience:
the heads, Major Earnshaw and Capt.
Leerburger. have brought service
stripes bacll from FRANCE.
The scholastic teaching force, I'M
der Dean Hawkes.. who has son in
the army, has specialized it's work
I for military purposes. War topos-
Iaphy, for instance, and war hygiene,
! have replaced or utilized some OF the
usual liberal arts and many Of the
I sciences. 4 letter from a former Co
/ lumbin boy. now an officer at the
/ front. Is calculated 10 impress Private
| Jones with the Importance OF war
! topography. 1t was written to a pro-
| lessor on that subject:
NO matter how accurate mans
work is 1t is OF no use 10 us unless
he can accomplish 1t quickly and In
The time allowed by an emergency
To illustrate: A few days ago as ouI
Nattery was advancing along Il road
We were overtaken by mounted
! orderly with orders to open fire on q
certain hostile battery in forty-hve
minutes.
within that time IL was necessary
to % reconno.tre a position for the
artery. 90 reconnoItre roads fol
he ammunition supply, (S) locate the
position OF our battery on the MAG
ny traversing from known farm
'ouse one and one-half kilometer,
way, a. locate the enemy posi-
lion. (5) figure our firing data, (6l
establish communications with oui
headquarters. We accomplished thii
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WASF4INGTON'S WEEK WAS BUSY

as Ruth Hanna grew up in their
midst and she is most attractive
woman.
Ever SO many OF the Congressional
set are Of course out OF town tins
week Recess or no recess. the men
went home for the closing hours--t
not the closing days-os their cam
paigrs, and as many OF their wives as
take a normal human interest in thcr
husbands affairs went with them,
For instance, Mrs. Nicholas Long,
worth, who went up to oyster Bay q
couple Of weeks ago TO spend the week
end with her father and help him Cel"-
brate his birthday, after a day or two
in New York at the Ritz went out to
Cincinnati 10 stay until after election.
The Cabinet circle was good deal
broken up-by the election and other
things. The Lansings and the Lanes
and the Houstons were In town Mira,
Daniels was-and is--off on business
for the Y. w c. AS War Council, and
hey husband was off electioneer!ngi
Secretary Of the Treasury McAdoo waa
off on an inspection trip, tuuCtionina
for the time being "a Director Of Rail-
roads. Tire Redfelds were IN New
| York, Mr.. Rediield IN the ttrst place
making election speeches, and remain.
/ ing to cast his vote. Secretary Will
son. who was depended upon 10 deliver
| the labor vote. was off campaigning,
and his daughters while in town were
very busy getting settled In a new
house they were moving into out al
most in the suburbs on Cathedral ave-
| mia
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terceded for his friend the Clare sitch.
and there is a more substantiated
story that this iIlustrious precipitation
finally butted in. to be coarse about
It, and precipitated the announcement
Of the betrothal.
lie got Gar Alexanders permission,
invited himself TO dinner with the
Princess's father at Darmstadt, saying
nothing about the Cars permission.
and during the meal stood up and
called for a toast to the illustrious
betrothed, Nicholas Alexandrovitch and
Alexandra Feodorovna,' who were as
tonished and thrown into blushing con-
fusion. Then the future lllustrious
candidate for hereditary presidency OF
the Germany over which he had
reigned exhibited the Cars letter.
The wishes OF the Car on his death
bod fastened the marriage, which took
place in November, 1894. The frst
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sent her as sunny. sympathetic and
rather precociously Intellectual, with
q special gift at languages. In her
teens she was credited with a passion
for sociology. and after she went to
Russia for a scientific interest in or
ganized social welfare work.
This may or may not have been the
usual hattering portrait Of q royalty.
At all events she was a great thinker,
living much within herself, and Of
exceedingly delicate constitution. She
was passionately devoted to her
father and his lnseparable companion.
In 1883 she visited st. Petersburg
in his company. and during that visit
the then Czarevitch fell In love with
her. There 10 unusually little ques-
Ntion. a. royal romances go, that this
one was genuine however much state
matchmaking may have fostered 1t.
Two sensible people in authority
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to DO sworn in as a member Of the
United States Army.
John Henry doesn't say much to the
folks at the breakfast table. Tho folks
haven't much TO say, either. But
everything else in John Henry swirls
around a rock he stands on. and the
rock Is that he's going, and almighty
glad to go.
He reported as ordered. They lined
up hundreds Of him before a Colonel
and a small, impossively interested
group OF visiting uniforms similarly
awesone. The sun was klndling the
library dome; It was bathing in fire
the folds OF a bright flag.
~ pledge allegiance repeated Pri-
vate Jones. and the thing was done.
swift, Irresistible. irrevocable. some
thing like getting married
His early days as Private Jones be-
gan at o o'clock, and by 6:lo sharp a
sergeant devoid of the finer instincts
was firing him tireless on the drill field
with setting up work. thirty. mess,
thirty 10 $40. drill Nine-thirty
to p. NJ. classes and study periods
on d cross reference schedule like
those OF college curriculum, with
mess at midday. OF course. Five-thirty
formation oh the field. Then mess and
study till taps NJ 10 o'clock
Private Jones himself has never
| been In college. As he gets acquainted
with the men Of his company he finds
hat several have. Some OF these were
far along as the upper classes. Co
| 'un,hia was their Alma Mater, They