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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
BARGE Whistle Calls Birds.

A striking example Of wildbird in
telligence has been observed on the
Panama canal in connection with the
underwater blasting that is carried on
there. A barge has been especially
equipped for drilling blast holes below
the water and depositing charges in
them. When blast is ready the craft
moves off to safe distance, and be-
fore setting off the dynamite the barge
whistle is blown several times to warn
all vessels in the vicinity. Instantly
numbers of wild birds may be seen
coming from all directions, says Popu-
lar Mechanics Magazine, the reason
being they have learned that many
dead and stunned fish rise to the Sur
face Of the water following each ex-
plosion. To them this particular
whistle is like a dinner gong. More
remarkable still, they readily distin-
guish between this whistle and others.
Canal workmen and natives also share
in the harvest.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
British MUNITIONS
STRIKE IS GROWING
Hundreds OF Thousands Of
Workers Are Now Idle In
War Factories

London, July 26. - Striking muni-
tion workers now number 100000, not
including tens of thousands of persons
who have been forced into idleness by
the strike. Unless hfteences are adj
justed by Tuesday, it is believed here
that half million workers will be out
The situation is the result of an act
len taken at Leeds, when delegates
representing 100000 workers in fifty
districts throughout the united king
dom voted to strike unless the embar-
go on labor was withdrawn.
Stikers and the government are dead
locked. The government is refusing to
withdraw the embargo, offering in
stead an inquiry into conditions if the
strikers will return to work. Delegates
of the strikers at Birmingham have re-
jected this proposal.
The situation is plainly up to the
government, which must offer a fur
ther compromise or carry out its threat
to force idle army ehgibles into the
war.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
YANKEE FOUGHTHARD
TO CAPTURE EPIEDS

is on a hillside. Its tower
and front walls Of medieval Norman
are pierced with shell holes.
Boehe guns, helmets and equipment are
scattered about in profusiOn, testifying
to the losses suffered by the enemy IL
attempting to delay the Americans, the
the moppers-up already have buried the
bodies.
One big minewerfer attracts attention
on the main street, where it was hastily
deserted by fleeing boehes. Every
building testifies to wars presence with
battered down walls and eaved-in roofs.
The Germans are trying that old Bel
leau wood trick of theirs in trying to
delay the Yankee advance. They are
placing machine guns in trees. This
does not worry our men, who like to
test their sharpshooting ability on ev-
cry occasion.
"We enjoy seeing the bOches drop"
said one. 1.-THE higher they are, the
harder they fall"
Day and night German aviators are
trying to keep track of the advancing
Americans and bomb them. At night
they use parachute flares. which bright
" light the roads, but allied planes and
anti aircraft guns are effectively pre-
venting any serioas Berman air warfare.
From prisoners it is learned that the
German units are greatly weakened,
some of them being cut to less than
half their original strength. They have
lost heavily in machine gunners.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
CLASS ONE EXHAUSTED
IN Many DISTRICTS
Enlistment From One In Navy
And Marines Ordered
Suspended

Washington, July 26.-Rapid exhaus-
tion of class one to the extent that
some local draft boards may be unable
to fill the August call, was indicated
by instructions issued TO the boards by
Provost Marshal General Crowder to-
day. Crowder declared that he will be
unable to place further August calls
until the men who registered June 5
are finally examined and classified.
He ordered boards to halt immediate
ly all releases of class one men to the
navy and marine corps and emergency
fleet corporation until enough men are
in sight to fill the calls to be made
in August. Cr0wder s instructions bear
out statements by members of the house
military committee that there will be
only 100000 men left in class one by
September l..
Draft executives have been notified
by Provost Marshal General Crowder
to scrutinize carefully any local board
which fails to classify at least so per
cent of the 1918 registrants in class
one. The studies of the prior operation
of The draft, Crowder said, indicate
that so per cent had been minimum.
The only exception which can be rec
ognized by him, he said, is where an
unusually large number of registrants
of this class are aliens.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26

In American Magazine an author
says:
"The thing that makes the tired
business man tired is his belief that
he is tired. Believe the contrary.
There have been times when you work.
ed all day and all night on stretch.
1t did not kill you.
"Work itself, as the modern busi-
ness world is organized, cannot pos
sibly tire out the man Of average nor
NAL health. If 1t could, Edison would
have been dead at the age of thirty
five, Bell would never have produced
the telephone. Henry Ford would not
be now a king Of the automobile busi-
ness, Herbert @. Hoover would not be
controlling and directing the nations
food supply today, Woodrow Wilson
would be in a sanitarium, and Gen
eral Pershing would be taking a rest
cure instead of commanding Ameri-
can soldiers in France"
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
Interest Paid On Money BOr.
rowed to Build First
Bridge Large Sum

The city of Salem is paying this year
the sum of $1,000 for interest alone on
bonds issued for the first and second
bridges across the Willamette river. Of
this amount 5000 is for interest on the
first bridge, erected in 1886 and $1,000
for interest on bonds for the building Of
the second bridge, built in 1890.
The first bridge across the river at
Salem was completed in October of 1886
and the city issued $4,000 bonds with
which to pay its share Of the cost. I'm
til April, 1915, not a dollar had been
paid of this indebtedness of $4,000 in
cured in 1886. For more than % years.
the city had been an annual interest of
$500.
This interest amounting to $42, $50 is
not very far from the original cost of
the bridge.
In October of 1914 it was voted by
the city council to convert this $3.50, 600
bridge indebtedness into serial refund
ing bonds, to be paid at the rate of
$4,000 a year. The first payment was
made April l, 1915, reducing the indeb-
tedness to $4,000. Each succeeding
year since then, a $4,000 bond has been
paid off, until now the indebtedness OF
the city on the 1886 bridge is $4,000.
Blythe paying of $4,000 year, the in
terest account on this first bridge has
been reduced $3.50 year. Hence for
the year beginning with April of 1918,
with $4,000 still due, the city will pay
5000 interest, as the bonds draw five
per cent per annum.
The last payment on the 1886 bridge
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
QUAINT OLD INDIAN COINS
So Adulterated That They Were Not
Even Accepted in England as
Value In Metal.

In 1908 the independent state Of Hy-
derabad, India, obtained a modern mint
and called in the coins that had been
current up till that time. The old mint
of Hyderabad was little more than a
coppersmith's shop in which scrap cop
per of all sorts was melted up, hars
mered into plates, cut up into very
rough approximations Of one tola il
weight, and stamped between dies, one
Of which was in the anvil and the 9TH
er in a toll held in tongs. A blow from
a sledge hammer made the impression.
There was no regularity in shape,
weight or stamping, nor was the metal
uniform in quality.
The mint could not furnish supplies
fast enough, and licenses were issued
to coppersmlths to assist in production.
Naturally, the Scientific American
states, nonlicensed persons began to
manufacture, and adulteration with
lead was so fragrant that when several
tons Of these coins were sent to Eng
.land as old metal they were returned
on account Of their impurity and were
finally worked up into brass for local
consumption. A dub" If held in the
flame of spirit lamp, would before it
reached red heat begin to discharge
very fine jets resembling mercury; the
lead, having reached its fusing point,
burst from the copper with a force in
dicating very high internal pressure.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
China Contracts To
Build Ships For U. s.

Washington, July 26.--Blazing tho
way for bigger things in China, Chair.
man Hurley of the United Sta5es ship
pii,g hoard late today signed contract
with Minister Wellington Koo Of China,
by which the Chineas government agrees
to build eight 10000 ton SHIPS for the
United States.
Chairman !iuley remarked when af-
fixiug his name to the contract that
ships built by China were built not only
for this government, but for her neigh
bors and commercial friends as well. Ho
assured the Chinese ambassador that
America eagerly awaits opportunity to
aid China and this ship contract is only
one of many concrete expressions Of the
fri,ndlness which this government
hopes It. give.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
Village Changes Hands Sever
al fimes---War Deyas-
iates Whole Area
By Frank ]. Taylor.

Omitted Press Staff Correspondent.)
With The American Armies In France
iuiv 25.-( Night. Americans continue
to SIT the lace in the fighting north
cas- of hatcau- fhierry.
One Yankee outfit advanced several
kiiometers through villages, woods and
grain fields, changing from street fight
ing to open battling or the Indian war
fare OF the forests without any change
ii efficiency.
German resistance is stiffening as
the enemy exerts every effort TO protect
the removal of his supplies and guns,
Villages, chateaus and crops are shat
tered as attack and counter attack
RACES back and forth across the country,
side.
I rode past fields pitted with shell
holes, uptorn trees and eongested, dug
up roads into Epieds this afternoon
where five hand to hand fights had fin
ally resulted in the Americans holding
the town. 1t was lost twice but the al
he'd artillery rabed the buildings and
streets alternately, after which machine
.gunners and infantry charged and took
the place.
Epieds lies in a secluded valley. It's
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
WHAT SALEM HAS PAID
FORBRIDGESACROSSR RIVER

will be on April /. 1924, provided the
city redeems annually $4,000 bond.
However, by that time the city will
have paid on the first bridge in interest
alone, the sum of $40, 800. Including in
terest and principal, the CITY of Salem
has paid, or will have paid by April l,
1924, the sum of $500. The total cost
of the original bridge was 49,901.11, of
which Salem was in for 100000, Polk
county $1,000 and Marion county, $15,-
900.
On the second bridge built across the
Willamette at Salem, the city owes $20.-
900. The bridge was completed October
|, 1890, and bonds for $4,000 were is
sued bearing five per cent interest. On
that bridge the city has not paid dol
lar. 1t has, however, paid annually for
2S years, the interest amounting to ST.
600 pear. The bonds were originally
for ten years and in October of 1910
were refunded for another ten, They are
due October l, 1920, and by that time
the city will have paid $4,000 interest
on its original issue of $4,000 bonds.
If the second bridge bonds are paid
in 1920, the city will then have paid
in principal and interest the sum of $780,
600 on the bridge, which is now doing
temporary duty. If the city continues
to pay off the first bridge bonds at the
rate of $4,000 a year, by April l, 1924,
when the last payment is made, the city
will have paid in principal and interest
$79,500 for the bridge which after
standing little over four years was wash
ed away in the big flood ce February,
1890.
Fortunately for Salem, the third
bridge will be paid for by Marion
county, excepting the sum of SAL
270.79 to be paid by Polk county.
The cost of the new bridge is about
$3.50, 900.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
Suttee.

The English government, after long
dIscouraging suttees, by the agency Of
Lord William Bentinck formally abol-
ished them in December, 1929, but
they have since occasionally taken
place. The wife of the son of the
Rajah of Beygoon thus perished in
June, 1854, and several wives Of Sir
Tung Bahadoor, minister Of Nepaul,
on March /, 1877. One voluntary suit
tee occurred at Poona, in November,
1890, and it has continued to the pres
ent time in isolated parts of India,
for even as late as 1905 several per-
sons who took part in a suttee in Be-
har were condemned to penal servi-
tude,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
NAVY EVER ON THE ALERT
Case of careIessness at Sea Is a Thing
That Commanders Punish With
Necessary Severity.

With not light showing the trans
ports plowed the Atlantic, bringing.
American soldiers to France, writes a
naval officer in the Saturday Evening
Post. Lookouts high and low, under
navy discipline, searched the seas for
hostile perscopes. The convoy, the
apex of which was a big cruiser, was
invisible in the black night. The Wig
ilance Of the navy training protected
the soldiers, sleeping with their life
belts on.
Suddenly out shot bright light on
the leading transport; merchant sail
or, one Jesus Fernandez Mendoza,
Spanish fireman, flashed an electric
torch, fumbling about the deck. The
light could be seen for miles. Instant
ly navy lookout reported the occur
renee to the navy officer in charge Of
the ship. A sharp command, scuf-
fe on deck, bluejacket kicking the
torch overheard stayed the Spaniard's
desire to fondle an electric flashlight
in the submarine zone. Five days sol
itary confinement ended the lesson.
Showing a light on man-o'-war at
night in time of war is court-martial
offense; even lighting a cigarette or
having matches. The navy command
er, in absolute charge, enforces mill
tary discipline on merchant vessel
carrying troops and Furnishes the
guilty.
Because of the navy, criminal care
1essness and conduct involving the
safety of thousands of men came to
naught and possible catastrophe was
averted. The navy was In command.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
CUPID NOT IN THIS DEAL
One Case of courtship That Was Con.
Quoted Along the Strietest of
Business Lines.

Everything was strictly business
with August Rinniek. A sign on his
desk said: "This is my busy day." and
a sign above his desk said: 'There are
a quarter of a million words in the
English language. Be brief"
He regarded his office force merely
as machines Of varying degrees of eff
fciency, and it was therefore several
months before he realized the luscious
physiognomy and many virtues of Miss
Perch, his stenographer.
But, with August Rinnick, to think
was to act, and, the very afternoon on
which he finally realized, he summoned
Miss Perch into his office.
Miss PERCH" he said, take a let
ter
And he dictated as follows:
"AIy dear Miss Perch: 1t has lately
come to my attention that you are a
young woman of exceptional facial em-
bellishments, mental endowment and
moral efficiency. The limited time at
my command will not permit me many
details, but 1 may mention that since
you have been in my employ have
never yet seen you masticating chicle
commonly known as gum-or apply
ing powder to your nose (an organ
whose extreme delicacy Of contour and
pleasing abbreyiation much impressed
me). In short, my dear Miss Perch, the
idea has come to me to endeavor to in
duce you to have your surname legally
changed to Rinnick-in brief, to be-
come my wife. / will cheerfully give
you a day to think this matter over,
and shall be pleased to hear from you
at your leisure. Very truly, A. Rinnick." !"
In the next days mail he received
the following reply: 'Mr. August Rim
nick: Dear Sir: In reply to yours of
the 30th inst, would say that am 9TH
erwise engaged. Very truly, Therly
Perch."-Exchange.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
Secretary McAdoo
Congratulates Pershing

With the American Armies in France
July 26. = General Pershing received
the following cablegram from Secretary
McAdoo:
America glories in the achievement
of your gallant army and our French
comrades.
"The country is thrilled with the
valorous deeds of our heroic soldiers. +"
Pershing replied:
"Tn the name of the American expe-
dictionary forces, thank you for your
cordial message. Our officers and men
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
EMERGENCY FLEET
FREEDOMS CAUSE
CHAIRMAN HURLEY
Commercial Freedom Of Small
Nations Must Be For
ever Assured

Philadelphia, July 26.-Ameriea de-
mands commercial, as well as polite
al freedom for smah nations. To this
end, she wiz continue her struggle for
world wide democracy even after Ger
man mihtarism has been crushed and
the after-the-war trade competition be-
gins.
This message of Chairman f. N. Hur-
ley of the United States shipping board
was given to Latin-Ameriean diplomats
from Washington at the vast Hog Is
land shipbuilding yards near here to-
day.
Hurley declared that the great emer-
geney fleet now being turned out is
dedicated to freedom; that after it has
served its immediate purpose If de-
feating the common enemy it will be
equally effective as an instrument of
an enduring peace. 1t should bring
good to al the Americas, he held.
president Wilson kas demonstrat.
ed to the world that the people of the
United States are fighting for the per-
maneney of their own liberties alone,
but for the liberties of civilization ev-
erywhere,n he said.
1.-THE unselfish purpose of this coun-
try in the present war is recognized,
think by peoples of the nations. The
United States, mobilizing all its
strength against the German govern
ment, is fighting for its own protection
and for your protection. Even Germany
recognizes the fact that the United
States has no desire to extend its own
dominion.
"America stands squarely in the
path of world conquerors. The world Z
greatest shipyards, established here
was part of our answer to the chal
lenge .of tho German government
which set out to sink our ships anc
our cargoes, and American citizens
travelling the ocean highways. 1t wal
intended primarily to serve civilization
in the great war emergency, but i
will serve civilization, as well as thu
enduring peace that will be born on
of the victory of the allies and Ameri
ca.
"You may send back to your owl
peoples the word that these ships vii
not be used exclusively for this ma
tion 8 aggrandizement in peace, an,
more than they are used for such ag
grandizement in the war that is nov
waging.
at has been laid down as rult
of conduct at homo during the progress
of this war that no excessive profit
shall be made out OF the struggle o
humanity. That rule will not be lifte'
when peace comes. 1t is the exploita
ton cf weaker nations by those tina
are stronger that has led to most o
the wars of the past, and the peac
for which America is fighting with al
her gathering strength will mark tn
end of feudal corporate greed, as wei
as feudal military rapacity.
"If our ships do not bring prosper
ity to our neighbors as well as to our
selves, our own pride in the achieve
ment will be diminished. The grea
fleet that this country is building vii
be operated after the war upon prinei
pies which recognize human and ma
tional rights and equities. That flee
will serve the Americas. 1t will serv
Latin. America as it serves the peopl
of the United States. 1t will serve tn
world as America is now serving tn
world in fighting for the cause Of lii
I'prtv -
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
KILLED HER ASSAILANT.

st. Louis, Mr. July 26.-Berniee Jen.
nings, Y year old night telegrapher at
the lonely Eureka, Mo-, station Of the
Fresno road, early today shot and kill
ed James MeGraw, aged 49, who, she
said, attempted to attack hcr. In the
course of a struggle she reached her
key and called for help. Before aid ar
rived she found her revolver and kill
ed her assailant.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
Singing Makes Work Easy.

Singing makes the daily work easier
Of accomplishment. Sailors were
among the first to recognize this and
they sang as they stored away the car
go, keeping time with the music as
they pulled on ropes and windlass,
changing to presto when the work de.
manded 1t. Here is a favorite dltty:
A Yankee ship and a Yankee crew,
Tally hi no, you know.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
Damn The Kaiser"
Says Judge On Bench

Chicago, July 2G.-Eighteen \
men representing eight nations \
wearing THE Ahhki of Uncle \
Sam s army, stood before Fed }.
eral Judge Lands and took the 4
final oath that made them citi- ).
zens Of the United States. Con- 4
cluding the ceremony, Judge \
Lands addressed the men. ;.
II hope it falls to the lot of i
one of you men, said the \
judge, to puncture the line of \
the army that is defending the !
kaiser s sons. 1 hope it will fall \
to the lot of one Of you to kill y
one of the kaiser's s sons and i
then the kaiser himself. !
"Damn the kaiser" F." the
the judge concluded, and the 4
new citizens echoed enthusiast \
ically.
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26

are filled with the national spirit Of
determination to win. They are superb
soldiersD
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
Japan Fully Agrees
To American Plan

London, July 26.-Japan has ;
decided to accept the Amer
lean proposal to assist the !
Czechs in Siberia, an agency
dispatch said today.
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-07-26
PUT THEM TOGETHER

Community canning proves that
two heads are better than one and
three are better than two. Join forces
with your neighbors. Free book Of
instructions on canning and drying
may be had from the National War
Garden Commission, Washington,
d. C.. for two cents to pay postage.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-01
CAPTURED BY U. S. TROOPS
Several Complete Portable Electric
Light Plants Taken

With the American Forces in
France, Nov. 1-Several complete
portable electric light plants were
captured from the Germans in the
drive which wiped out the St. Mi
hiel salient, some of which were used
by the Americans in equipping the
headquarters of different units. One
of the largest outfits taken was found
in Thiacourt, the Germans having
abandoned the plant without having
damaged it in the least. Within two
days after the Americans entered
Thiacourt the German motor was
turning out electricity for the Am
orleans. The equipment included
wires, incandescent lights, lamp
shades of metal, tacks and all appli-
ances used by electricians, there be-
ing enough material to "wire" sew
eral villages.
The evening Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1918-1920, 1918-11-01
ESSEX COUNTY OVER
Raised It's Quota in Last Liberty
Loan by Over $500

Loan by over $500
Editor Caledonian:
I notice ir your daily of the 23rd,
also weekly of the Both, that your
county chairman, G. M. Campbell, of
the Fourth Liberty loan committee,
makes tie statement that every coun-
ty in the state except Essex went
over the top.
The facr is Essex went over by
more than $500.
We do not know why MI. Campbell
should have made this statement I'M
til he hal been fully informed re-
garding Slime, but we do not like the
sound OF Essex being called Stacker
when it IS rot so.
If Mr. Campbell had been chairman
of Essex county instead of Mr. L. B.
Jones of Island Pond we wonder just
what would come of it. l hardly
think he would have raked after the
cart quite as clean as it has been
done.
All we ask is that the little county
of Essex gets her credit in the eyes
of the public and not have the chair
man of some other county come out
and call us slackers.
Yours truly,
L. w. HASTINGS,
Chairman Fourth Liberty Loan COM
mittee for the town of Concord.
Nov. 1, 1915