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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19
LOOKING TOO FAR AHEAD

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to per-
form" saws the old hymn. If so He certainly is not alone
in so doing for the governmental departments are close
followers Of His example. Yesterday the dispatches an
nounced that there was a shortage Of steel, and that sew
eral departments were insstent OIL being supplied first.
In the same dispatch it was stated that the shipping board
had decided to let no more contracts for wooden ships. 1t
is claimed this was done because OF shortage OF dock space
in foreign countries where our vessels are landing these
DAYS, and besides when the war is over the smaller wood
enship cannot compete with the larger steel, vessels. This
latter fact may be true, but the war is not over and the
end of it is not yet in sight, Besides the shipping board
is getting too cautious and far too economical in this line.
1t is looking too far ahead. We want the ships now, not
after the war, and a ship completed and allowed to run
for one year will have more than paid for herself as an
investment and at the same time would have paid for her
self many times in helping deliver our men and supplies
across the Atlantic. The business of this country just
now is winning the war, and it takes ships and more ships,
and ships of every make and kind, anything that will
deliver munitions and foodstuffs to our boys and our
allies.
The American people are not counting the cost Of a
fleet of wooden ships, not if they will help accomplish the
work we have on hand of whipping the kaiser and his
iunker advisers to a standstill. They want ships for use,
today if possible, and they don't care what happens toI
them after the war is won. They can go into the scrap
heap if necessary and be counted as part of the price we
have paid for the privilege of helping make the world a
respectable one where a freeman could live without blush
ing over his cowardice in submitting to the dictation of
the descendant of a long line of illustrious free hooters
and robbers. The American people want a world fit for
decent people, for honest, square men and women, and
that they are going to have, please God, despite the eff
forts of the baby-kiling Prussians and militarists drunk
en- with ambition and rotten with lust for power. If
wooden ships will help accomplish these'things they want
wooden ships. Not only this but they want all kinds and
that as quickly as money even lavishly expended and
mayhap wasted to a degree, and men can build them.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19
BACK TO HIS OLD WAYS.

CHAPTER LVI.
George seemed to think he had done
all that was necessary to please me
when he had allowed me to.give my din.
lner party. For a long time afterward
he made no plans which included me. i
was much alone, and very lonely.
Merton Gray called occasionally
Those were red letter days for me. We
laughed and chatted as two young
things will. L played for him, and he
told me of his work. l became intense
ly interested in art, and he brought
me books to read. | soon became famil-
lar with many of the old masters work
in this way, and also studied, under
Merton s direction some of the modern
painters.
Evelyn .scolded me for taking up SO
many studies.
"You1l soon have no time for me-, "
she grumbled one day.
"Oh, III always have time for you'll -
1 exclaimed.
Eyes, unless it happens to be your
music lesson, your French, your art stud
les or Mrs. Sexton. A swell chance |
stand of having much of your society.
Mrs. B~usy-body."
"YOu told me | must make myself
over, so George would be proud of me-"
81 know, Helen, and you must, even
though you don t have so much time
to waste ON me-. But look out for Merton
Gray. He's awfully fascinating. You'll
get to liking him too well for your peace
of mind, | am afraid.'
A Self-Evident Fact.
"Nonsense!'' L laughed. But 1 felt
blushing. 1 DID like Merton
Gray. | liked him immensely. And why
shouldn It /? He had been kind and pa.
tient with me when 1 was practically
snubbed by all of my husbands society
friends. He had not treated me as if I
so lacking in all that. constituted
lady, that l needed to be made over
[ was worth noticing.
"By the way, have you decided what
YOU are going to do this summer9'' It
March, and Evelyn was already
making plans to go away to some quiet
place up in Maine, where Hurts could
fish and sail, and where they would be
quite away from the fashionable crowd.
ono, 1 haven't asked George, and he
lasn' t mentioned it,"
"Wouldn' t it be lovely if you and he
we're to go where Hurts and / have de-
,ided to go? I have never been up there
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19
Our Daily Story
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THE UNPARDoNABLE SIN

Excepting to a very few high German
military officials, the suicide of Gen
eral Deutschsprecken is still shrouded
in the deepest mystery. In today IS story
tho general public will, for the first
time, share the peculiar secret:
I.
For two weeks the Germans had
been bombarding the little Belgian town
of Allumette.
General" Colonel Schmeercase re-
ported to his commander-in-ehief, awe
can take the town, now. Every de-
Tense has been battered into gutzdun-
KEN (mlncemeat).
"Pilsneressen wienerdumpf gedop-
ple?" ("Why don't you tell me some
thing 1 don't know2'O retorted Gencl-
al Deutsehsprecken. "The only reason
I'm continuing the bombardment is be
cause l hate to stop the cannons while
the church is still standing. It's such
an easy mark, too-the gunncrs ought
to be u~mpgedumpf! ASHAMED of them
selves.
And the bombardment continued an
til the tall slender spire had succumb-
ed to German shells.
II.
Painting with violent emotion, in
which were mingled rage, shame, en-
barrassment, remorse and establishment
Colonel Schmeercase again stood before
his general. The town had been taken.
ga scout has-has just reported, -
he stammered, ''that the building was
not a church at all. It was IA sau-
sage factory. 1t seems that the manufac-
turer had a fancy for spires and steep
General Deutsehspreeken paled, red
dened, b~lackened, moaned with the voice
of a lost soul, ~ have destroyed a sau-
sage factory" and toppled over in a
swoon.
That night he was found dead in
tent with his empty revolver still
in his hand. Five bullets were
embedded in his skull, but the sixth had
managed to penetrate into his brain.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19
The Woman Who Changed
By JANE PHELPS

but Hurts says it is just the place To
rest and loaf"
"I'l ask George at dinner tonight.
"Do, and OAK him to go with us. For
a part of the summer, anyway"
''I'm afraid c~oaxing wouldn t do any
good, if he doesn t want to go. But Eve
lyn, l should LOVE to go with you. 1t
would be so nice to get away from all
this-the servants, the formality-and
be just a girl again. We could wear old
clothes and build houses in the sand,"
[ said laughingly but someway the
tears were very near. Ny childhood
seemed a long way off.
George vetoes the Plan.
I waited until George was drinking
his coffee, before / mentioned the sub
ject of his plans for the summer. I
even waited until he had lighted his
cigar and was c~ontentedly blowing
smoke rings, watching them as they dis
solved into the air.
care you going away this summer9"
| asked, trying to keep the anxiety out
of my voice.
Certainly"
have you decided upon any partic-
ular place." Then, fearing he would
say he had, and would not change, I
rushed on, not waiting for an answer:
" Evelyn "a over, today, and she and
Hurts are going up to a little place
on the Maine coast to fish and sail
and have a nice lazy time. She wanted
to know if we wouldn' It go, too"
/ waited, while he finished his cot
fee. Then he said:
81 surely SHALL not go to some lit
tie fishing village and bury myself all
[ have not quite matured my
when | do I will tell you where
we are to go"
l well knew there was no appeal; yet
[ could not resist saying:
81 think it would do you good to 90
to some quiet place like that, and I
love it"
cove WON'T discuss it further. 1t is
Impractieable.'
That was his way. He never discus
5ed anything with me. 1t was yea and
nay with him, always. The tears were
very near, but I would not let them
fall. If he would only tell me the WHY
Of things occasionally. 1t would be
EASIER for me to be contented with the
arbitrary way he had with me. But he
did.
.Tomorrow-George Refers to His Plans
For the Summer)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19
Rheumatism Back on the Job
With its OId-time Fury

ton, and routs out the disease germs,
can rid you of this disabling disease:
S. S. S. has given some wonderful
results in treating Rheumatism. Be-
ing a purely vegetable blood remedy,
it purifes the blood of every germ,
and thus removes the cause Of Rheu-
matism. Get a bottle to-day at your
drugstore, and start on the right
treatment that will get results: Free
advice about your case can be had by
writing to Medical Director, 26 Swift
Laboratory. Atlanta. Ga.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19

The Portland public library affair will not be settled
finally and satisfactory until the librarian, Miss Isom, and
w. B. Aver and other trustees who sympathize with dis
loyalty are removed from office. One of the worst
menaces to the government is the teachings and example
of the cranks and crazy theorists who dominate our
universities, libraries and other institutions of similar
character. Miss Hunt was no worse than many others
but she lacked discretion and talked too much. The
board, headed by Aver, was perfectly satisfied with its
employees and so was the librarian under whom they
worked. Why discharge a subordinate and allow those
really responsible for the conduct of an institution, to
escape?
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19
TEUToN SOLDIERS GET LAND HUNGER

Its stated in a dispatch from Washington that rumors
have reached there from the Ukraine that Austrian
troops in that section refuse to go to the western front or
even to Italy. This shows the effect of association. While
the Austrians and Germans were fraternizing with the
Slavs in order to betray them, the Teuton soldiers were
themselves inocculated with the Russian peasants desire
for land. The Austrian soldiers now in the Ukraine want
to stay there so that when the war is over they may be-
come citizens and at the same time land owners. The in
1ications are that the German prisoners in Siberia are
getting imbued with the same ideas and are not nearly
SO keen to see the kaiser win as they might be. They
kr ow the kaiser and realize the smallness of the chance
they would have at the lands should the Hohenzollerns
once get control of them.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19
No Let-Up In It's Torture.

Pretty soon you will be reaching
for the liniment bottle again, for the
millions of little pain demons that
cause Rheumatism are on the war
path. Winter weather seem to awak-
en- them to renewed fury.
But your Rheumatism cannot be
rubbed away, because liniments and
lotions cannot reach the disease. 1t
is in the blood, and only a remedy
that goes deep down into the circula-
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19

The milling trust, it develops, has been robbing the
public since war begun, as boldly as the shoe manu-
facturers. They have made millions of dividends at the
of patriotism. In the Northwest the milling trust has
been especially rapacious, protected as it was by the late
7. B. Wilcox, milling commissioner and trust-made mil
lionaire. Such profteering ought to be stopped--if il
takes a firing squad to stop it; the men who are coming
the necessities Of the people into dollars in time of war
are more dangerous enemies of the nation than German
spies.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19

The Willard Fulton ten round match for the heavy
weight championship Of the world has all the earmarks Of
a frst-class fake, in the making. 1t is staged to go only
ten rounds and provision is made for referees decision
if there is no knock out. OF course the scrap may be on
the square but it has a suspicious squint---and if Willard
and Fulton want to fight why don't they join the army?
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19
Ripping Rhymes
by WcLt Mason
GARDEN PERILS

I've spaded up my acre lot, to make a war.
time garden; twill be the smoothest little
plot you ever saw a bard in. I've sown the
kind of homeless greens that used to please
Il daddies, and have beds of peas and
beans and leeks and finnan haddies. And
%neighbors come along and say, I'm vain is
all your toiling! For vagrant hens will
come this way, your treasured garden spoil
ing. And dogs will come, and once or twice
they'll wallow in your lettuce; then youth
recall our sage advice. ah, then you won't
FORGET u.s. And when The moonlight. white,
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19

Senator Lenroot, of Wisconsin, viii get a double shot
at the equal suffrage bill. AS a member of the house he
voted for the measure, and now that it is about to come
up il. the senate he will vote for it again. He was
formally sworn in as a member of the senate and took his
seat Yesterday.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19

Ireland has furnished only 10000 soldiers for the pres
ent war. This is the first time in history that every
lrishman that had the opportunity failed to get into the
center of any and every scrap that came under his obser-
walton. There must be something radically wrong with
the present generation since it will require Consumption
to get the major portion of them into the fighting. But
they will fight that.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19

The mills at Vancouver, Washington, are sending lum-
Der enough east every day to build 300 %airplaneS. 1t is
trst-class lumber, too, and it is claimed the mills are not
working to capacity either. With 300 a day it would seem
that America should soon out-fly all Europe?
The kaiser asks: What have / not done to preserve the
world from these horrors?" The answer is "anything."
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19

intense, the world in silver washes, a COW will climb
your garden fence, and eat your Hubbard squashes. Some
night a horse, from halter free, perhaps a gray with dap
pies, will come and climb up yonder tree and swallow all
your apples. And hogs will come from distant pens, long
leagues they'll come, a-kiting, to eat the onions that the
hens passed up as uninviting. Oh, we have raised such
garden sass, to feed such vagrant varmints, and we have
wept and cried AlaS!' and torn our boards and gar
ments@ It's such encouragement as this get when l am
hoelng, and II destroys the peaceful bliss fet to see
things growing.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19

To pay trade balances adverse to the United States
bar silver can in many cases be used to advantage and as
this is a scarce article just now a bill has been passed by
the senate, and is before the house, providing for melting
$3.50, 100000 silver dollars now in the treasury into bullion.
The bill fixes the price of bar silver at $1.00 per ounce,
the highest price in many years. The job of melting this
silver is a pretty large one but is a trifle compared to
the recoining of the same amount which may have to be
done sometime. The sum of $350.000,000 in silver would
weigh about 10,500 tons.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-04-19

In the trial of the 112L. w. w. members for sedition at
Chicago, their attorney announces that he will fuse
human exhibits illustrating the results Of the present in
Idustrial system in order to show that a man should refuse
to work because Of the danger to his. health" This is
another case of asinine leniency on the part of the courts
which will allow an attorney to plead any kind of utter
nonsense in justification of anything his client is accused
of doing or leaving undone. The attorney should be
thrown into jail for contempt of court and at the same
time made to understand that if a man does not work he
does not eat.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-01
WHAT ARE ESSENTIALS
& Question on the BusIncas Mind and
Its Answer From Two High
Authorities,

What business, what industry is
essential and what nonessential? That
IS question on the minds of many
business men nowadays. The best
answer was perhaps given the other
day by Thomas y. Edison when he
made little talk before a convention
OF photosraphers. He said: No lcSiti-
mate industry IS nonessential except in
so far as 1t iuterferes with the con-
duct of the war, and then only to the
extent TO which il interferes."
Reviewing the situation and refer
ring 10 MIR. Edisons answer. the Won-
man Review. OF New York, says:
I'VE do not believe that any opinion
can be accepted safely as 4 guide as
10 what enrichment should occur in
the manufacture OF so-called noncssen-
tials, but we do think that, broadly
speaking anything that does not aid
the government in prosecuting or
bringing TO SPEEDY close the struggle
which is now convulsing the world
shall be classed as 4 nonessentiai and
1t is the government itself which in
the course OF time. will bring home TO
the people what these essentials and
nonesscntials are"
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-01
TRYING To FIX PRICES
War Industries Board and Cotton
manufacturers Aiming TO Agree.
Dry Goods Men Waiting

Fixing prices OF standard or staple
cotton goods has become the all
important topic OF conversation in dry
goods circles everywhere. and Rich
mond is no exception TO the rule. The
announcement was made last week that
the war industries board had deter
mined 10 stabilize the prices asked for
cotton fabrics. and had called upon
the leading cotton goods manufacturers
ana distributors TO name the prices
that should be asked for various
grades Of cotton goods and to explain
the basis on which the prices suggested
had been determined. The answers to
this inquiry were TO be considered last
week by joint committee represent
ing the war industries board. on the
one hand, and the National Association
OF Cotton Manufacturers. on the other
These people got together on Thursday
last in Washington. but the results OF
their conference and deliberations have
not been made public yet, if indeed
they have reached any definite conclu-
Sions. and the dry goods men are wait
ing with all the patience at their COM
mand 10 hear from them.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-01
IN AND OUT OF TOWN.

Misses Isabel and Elisabeth Scott
are in Richmond as the guests of re-
! latives for a few days.
Miss Matte Lee Adams is leaving
this week for New York. where she
will remain until October studying
piano and pipe organ music.
Miss Elizabeth Pul!iam is leaving to-
night TO camp with It party OF friends
in Southwest Virginia
Miss Nellie S. Hill left Friday for
New York City. where she will spend
several weeks with friends.
Remon Houston Beitt. U. s. ~, is
spending n furlough with his grand
father. a. C. Houston. at 1915 West
Main Street. He is a graduate of the
Harvard Radio School. and is now a
wireless operator in the navy.
Miss Elizabeth Taylor left last week
to join camp in New England for the
summer months.
Miss Julia Dawes. of Baskerville, has
received word that her brother, DR..
John T. Dawes, who left the University
Hospital in Baltimore, June .. has
arrived safely overseas
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-01
MORE TROUBLE AHEAD
Wooden Goods Situation n Little Mixed
md Indications Are IL VIII
Get Worse.

The order recently issued by Wool
Administrator Nichols that in fleece
woods quarter blood and three cighths
must be sorted and separated. and that
any of the new clip showing more than
10 per cent OF threc-eighths wool must
lac graded, says the last issue OF Dry
Goods Economist. is being freely COM
mented On in Boston, according TO u
report from the Dry Goods Economist
Office in that city.
1t has been the custom OF most Eos
ton houses 10 grade their stocks care
fully. but this order falls somewhat
harshiy in some quarters. especially
when taken with the other order that
all Maine and Canadian woods must be
graded separately and not blended.
1t is considered that this will lead
20 the taking Of all medium grades by
the government, leaving in the dealers
hands all OF the undesirable grades,
while the holding OF all grades subject
10 the demand OF the government mea ms
expense OF holding and uncertainty
of selling when the remaining wool is
released.
Manufacturers who are not making
fabrics for the government are on the
anxious seat. Not a pound of wool IS
being distributed to them, even though
there is wool above the requirements
Of the government contract fabrics.
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-01
ALL AROUND RICHMOND
THINGS LOOK BRIGHT
business In Town Good, With Few
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES I'm Country.
Crop Outlook Fine.

Bradstreet's review of trade condi-
tions. crop outlook. etc, for the past
week for the territory that trades with
Richmond is quite cheering. 1t says:
Trade continues generally good in
all essential lines, and the continued
consumption of merchandise is evil
dent Manufacturing is active in most
lines, the output being limited only by
the ability TO obtain raw supplies and
labor. Manufacture OF tobacco of all
kinds is particularly active. Producers
OF trunks and bags are also very busy.
Shoes, hats. clothing and dry goods
ut Wholesale are i'll good demand, and
these commodities in most grades con-
tinue TO advance in price. The retail
season has been somewhat backward
because of unfavorablc wcaihera and
other specific conditions, and in some
lines dealers expect decrease in
future consumption because OF high
prices. Except in the vicinitics OF
camps and other government activi-
ties, the stocks of retailers arc fairly
full. and many have anticipated their
wants far i'll the future. Large gov
eminent orders and construction ac-
Nvitics are decidedly the outstanding
feature i'll trade. General building is
at IL low ebb. and real estate is in
active. Labor is in great demand and
in some lines scarcity exists. Bank
ciearings continue TO increase. and
money on short time Is in fair de-
nand. Collections are fair to good, and
failures are at almost minimum,
showing a decrease in this district of
about 30 per cent in comparison with
June OF last year. Produce and vege-
tables are generally scarce under an
active demand. Freight congestion
continues a handicap, but shows some
Improvement Crops throughout the
district had begun 10 need moisture.
but Improvement is evident following
Tobacco =
late. Corn is in only fair condition.
Cotton is late, but can yet be 4 full
yield under favorable conditions.
Vegetables are generally backward. y
fair crop OF wheat and oats has been
harvested. The acreage of most sum-
mer crops Will not equal that of last
year, largely because OF scarcity Of
farm labor
Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-07-01
DUTCH ARE IMPRESSED
Correspondents in France Gain High
Opinion of Achievements
of Americans.

AMSTERDAM, June 3o.-Dutch news
paper correspondents who have been
permitted TO view American achieve
ments in various points in France are
vastly impressed by the tremendous
energy AMI ability with which the
Americans have built railroads. barbor
works and hospitals at a rate of speed
bewildering to old-fashioncd European
nations. In a long, detailed descIip-
ton, the correspondent of the Nicuwc
RotterGamsche Courant writes from
BourGes, l40 miles south OF Paris. as
follows:
The country is simply saturated
with Americans. 1t is here that the
close contac. of the two nations will
surely bear the first fruits"
From conve-sat tons with local
Frencimen, the correspondent is able
10 testify to the unfcigned admiration
of the French for the American SOL
dier-like qualities. breezy vigor and
self. confidence. coupled with their
ready desire to learn. The CORE
spondent pays a tribute to the high
type or American officer, who cheerful
~ accepts giganti: casks behind the
lines.