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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
CITY is CARRYING
MANY ASSESSMENTS
$2z.497 Owing City For Inn
Move Made
to Collect 1t

A quiet Investigation by the city
council into the city's finances has dis
closed load that the taxpayers of
Salem have been carrying some thou
| sand odd unpaid Improvement assess
ments, which have not been bonded, and
againstw hich certificates of delin-
quency have not been issued. A resolu-
ton will be introduced at the next meet
ing of the council, and it is probable
that proceedings will be started against
those who have been delinquent for a
period of more than three years.
The total amount due the city is
$22,497, and of this amount all has been
due for more than three years except
$47. Manysof those who have neglect
ed to pay up are said to be business
men who are well able to pay the assess
ments. Certificates of delinquency will
be issued at once, bearing II per cent
interest according to law, against all
the unpaid assessments.
The assessments are for almost every
improvement in the city for the past
eight years. They cover every street
which has been paved, and range in age
from one to eight years, with the big
majority well over the three year limit.
A considerable portion of the city s
unpaid assessments were covered by the
recent certificates of delinquency which
were sent out by City Attorney b. w.
Macy. These which include the $22,497,
were not covered by these, and are not
bonded according to the recently passed
bonding law. The only recourse the
city has to collect the money is by a
touch of conscience on the part of the
delinquents, or a recourse by the city to
the courts. The last plan is thought
to be much the more certain by mem
bers of the city council.
Another bill will be introduced by
Councilman Unruh, at the request of
Salem people who are interested in pro-
viding a clean and moral amusement for
the young people of the city. This is
a bill to regulate dance halls and public
dances, and has as its principal feature
the elimination of the shadow dance or
moonlight dance.
1t is provided in the proposed ordin-
ance to close all dances at midnight, ex-
cept where permission is given by the
chief of police and in case such per-
mission is given, no tickets may be
sold after midnight. No person under
10 years of age can attend a public
dance after o'clock unless accom-
panied by parent or guardian and
provision for punishing a false state
ment in regard to age is included.
Smoking will not bep ermitted in the
dance hall, or in the hall or entrance.
The moonlight dance is eliminated, and
booze is tabbOOed.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
$4,000 ORDERED TO
PREP ARE TO ENTER
THE TRAINING CAMPS S
This Closes Last Increment
Of First Draft Begins
March 29

Washington, Mar. 12.-Ninety five
! Thousand more men were ordered today
by the war department to prepare for
induction into training camps.
The movement will start March 29
and continue five days.
This is the last increment of the
first draft.
The movement will include the mo-
Utilization of 28,000 southern negroes
in northern camps.
Because of the peculiar camp situa-
ltion some districts that have complet-
led their quotas will be asked to f'urn-
ish more men and will be given credit
under the second draft.
Several thousand of those today or
dered modified will be used to fill up
the ranks made vacant by deaths and
other Withdrawals. Others will be for
industrial calls of which fifty six
.have already been made. Deputy Pro-
lwost Marshal General johnson stated.
The first contingent of industrial
workers dHafted recently went to
France, johnson said.
Today's order will take men from
all states except Iowa and Minnesota.
Following are state allctments:
AIlZOUA ltOs AIhdn5dS lDI19 RdAAANoi7
MIA 1745; Colorado 323; Connecticut
1908; Delaware sos; District of COlum
bia 102; Idaho 242; Illinois 1861; In
diana 2977; Kansas 5S7; Maine $40;
Maryland 3S2; Michigan 555S; Missou-
ri 1170; Montana 521; Nebraska 459;
Nevada 72; New hampshire PIP; New
Mexico 1877; New York 12,2SS; North
Dakota 2647; Ohio $3.50; Oklahoma
59S: New Jersey 4275; Oregon 369;
PENNSYLVANIA 1928; Rhode Island 3Ol;
Sonth Dakota 226; Texas 4043; Utah
247; Vermont 1856; Washington 63S;
West Virginia 514; Wisconsin 2214;
Wyoming 134; Massachusetts 2O69;
Alabama 1884; Florida 2506; Georgia
1925; kentucky 1851; Louisiana 1913;
Mississippi 2220; North Carolina 5l74;
South Carolina 343; Tennessee 275S;
Virginia 2178.
To suppress the news of actual troop
movements as much as possible, the
provost marshal general office de-
eided not to make public where those
in the next increment viii be sent. 1t
was stated, however, that the large
quotas of the southern states were
largely composed of negroes, most Of
whom viii be moved to northern
camps.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
flour SUBSTITUTES
AND CONSERVATION
At Meeting al Commercial
Club Tomorrow Action
VIII Be Explained

An order was issued today by the food
administration putting the flour substi-
tute on a $3.50 basis. The telegram
received by T. W. Steusloff is being
used as propaganda for the conserva-
tion meeting tomorrow. Following IS
the telegram:
''Owing to the absolute necessity
that this country furnish wheat to our
army abroad and to the people Of
France, have positive instructions that
no sale of flour can be made without
an equal amount Of substitute, and am
putting the order into effect today
This will undoubtedly cause inconven-
ienee to many of our people, but they
must thoroughly understand that 1t IS
an absolute necessity, and the time has
come when we are all called upon to
come through and do our full part.
The meeting tomorrow at the CONNER
eiaI club in the interest of conservation
is also to be used to instruct the peo-
ple of Marion county in what is ex-
peeted of them by the government. Some
changes have been made in the program
for tomorrow S session, and another pub
lie meeting has been added.
In the evening Arthur M. Churchill
who is chairman Of the executive com
mittee in charge of the pledge card
campaign, viii address a meeting or
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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
Conservation Meeting
Called for Wednesday

Miss LOrene Parker, who is home
demonstration agent for Marion and
Claekamas county, is sending out re-
quests to tAe members of the Marion
County Home Makers committee to be
present at the Conservation meeting
al the commercial club next Wednes-
day Miss Parker believes that much
can be learned by the women from the
talks on conservation.
There are about 40 members Of the
home makers committee and as each
will bring a friend, this viii swell the
attendance at Wednesdays meeting 10
at least a hundred. It IS expected that
about 400 will Lear the address to be
made by o. NJ Churchill in the after
noon.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
Bryan Forgetting
He Was Once Paci6St

Sherman, Texas, March11.-"We are
going to win this war by whipping Ger
many; going straight through the Ger
man line is the only way we can do it. .
This was the declaration of William
Jennings Bryan here today upon his ar
rival from Mckinney, Texas.
"All of us have go to get this idea
of "going through" into our systems,
Bryan sai1 "The worst thing that has
happened since the war began, was the
investigation, or examination of Secre
tary of War Baker. Baker has outlived
all criticism and has proven the wisdom
Of President Wilson in appointing him
Baker is big enough for the job.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
AN AMERICAN RAID
SHOWED GERMANS
HAD FALLEN BACK
Trenches We're Found Empty
Australian Raiders
Take Few Prisoners

London, March 12. Australian
troops made successful raids east and
northeast Of Messines last night, kill
ing a number of Germans and taking a
few prisoners, Field Marshal Haig re.
ported today. The Australians cas-
ualties were light.
There was mutual cannonading south
cast Of Armentiercs and east and
northwest of Ypres.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
May Move Again.

Washington March ia delayed
state department cablegram from Mos
COW today said that the Russian gov
Hrnment was moving to Moscow the
ninth and that if the Germans con
tinued their advance the government
would be moved farther east. A Volo-
gda message from Ambassador Francis
reported no misfortune of any nature to
himself and no intention on his part to
move from there.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
Sunk Irish Schooner.

london, March l2.-The unarmed
Irish schooner Nanny Wignall was tor
pedoed end sunk by a submarine, it
was announced today. The submarine
shelled survivors who were picking up
their comrades from the sea.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
-Four Airplanes Downed

Paris, March 12.-Four German air
planes were brought down in last
night s raid over Paris, it was official
ly announced today. No report was
made regarding casualties OF damage.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
offered a Dnkedorn.

Copenhagen, March 1.-THE kaiser
has been offered the "dukedom Of
Courland" by resolution of the Cour-
land dict, according to a Berlin dis
patch received today.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12

Some Of the newer fishing tackle is
equipped with a spring that casts a
line farther than it can be east by
hand, but that ism 7 necessarily going to
make it any more fun 10 catch fish.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12

The baseball bug will soon be at
sarge again. Who s going to be the first
man to Gffer a War Savings Stamp for
every home run2
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12

The man who uses his hands to fill
his trousers pockets VIII seldom have
anything else to fill his pockets with.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
Defeated peserters

Copenhagen, March 12.- German
troops defeated "strong opposition, !"
composed mostly Of Czech deserters
from the Austrian army, at Boch-
matsch, sixty miles northeast of Kieff,
according to dispatches received here
today.
The dispatches also said German
troops have arrived within nine miles
of Odessa.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
In Response Men Called I'm
der SeIectiVe Service
Will Be Sent Soon
MOBILE RESERVE FORCE
EA VITAL NECESSITY
Neither England Nor France
Can, Supply IhiS--Ifs
Up 70 Us

y Washington, Mar. 12.-France has
lmade a new and earnest appeal to the
lUnited States for more speed in ship
iping fighting men across the Atlantic.
1t was learned on high authority to-
llday that, as result of the French APP
tpeal, decision has been reached to send
labroad very soon some of the national
larmy divisi0ns-men called under the
Iselective service draft.
| The war department s initial plan
lwas to move the bulk of the national
lguard divisions before calling on the
national army to supply troops for the
firing lines. But an inspection of tho
army forces, resulting from the new
IGrench plea, has convinced army au-
lthorities that many national army di-
lwisicns are in better shape than tho
national guard.
Tho first movement of drafted sol
1diers "over there is the result of a
demand for more reserves in anticipa-
tion of the great west front action
expected this year.
More American soldiers, men able to
enter the trenches with but little more
draining, are urgently sought
, Neither France nor Great Britain,
lit is said, have enough troops to spare
to meet powerful offensive in the
west and at the same time guard
against all danger Of attack from 9TH
or quarters.
A mobile reserve force is q vital me-
cessity, it has been pointed out, and
only the United States can now furn-
Iish the necessary forces to assure re-
serves if French and British troops
Ihave to be shifted to the Italian, Sa-
llonika or other fronts that may be
Threatened.
Menace is Great
In face of the urgent demand, great
est confidence is expressed in the ma
ltional army troops. Their training, Of
ficers said today, is splendid record
of efficiency for the men who have d.
lreeted the work The national guard
Ihas been handicapped by the fact that
"a large percentage of its men had
Ismattering Of military knowledge that
lcovered great deal of ground, but
Imost of which had to be unlearned be-
Ifore the training in the newer ideas or
warfare could begin.
In their own defense, national guard
Officers have charged that in filling
ND depleted quotas with drafted men,
the poorest sort of soldier material
was sent from the national army can
tonments These men, they say, greatly
DELAYED the national guard training
program. 1t is admitted that the army
would prefer keep the national army
divisions in this country for a some
what longer period of training But the
Continued on page two)
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12

Lafe Bud talks some 0 goin in tn
auto sales business jest git his pic
ture in tn papers. Who remembers
when woman wouldn climb in a
buggy if aHybuddy wuz lookin'2
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12

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fCentinued On page threel
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12
20 Were Killed

London, March 12.-The total cas-
ualties in Thursdays enemy air raid
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12

(CeaEpued on page twol
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-12

Oregon: Tonight
and Wednesday
rain; moderate
southerly winds.
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-13

pany caused a panic on the Bourse,
because so many other companies
have been guilty of the same, sort Of
proflteering on government. contracts.
In a debate in the Reichstag' on the
Daimler scandal, the charge was
made that work for the army and
navy could in many be accom-
And it is significant that the govern
ment's attitude, toward the motions in
the Reichstag was somewhat COOL
The government cannot quarrel
with the big p%rofteers' who are its
most loyal supporters in a war for
international plumber. 1t cannot quar-
rel with them for that are in
dicated in the demand of an inde-
pendent socialist in the 'Reichstag
strike against the government should
be dealt with. in the same way that
striking workmen have been dealt
with" Germany having entered upon
a war of piracy is at h mercy Of its
own domestic pirates. The whole peo-
pie are stealing from, one another, and
they are bribing officials and intimi-
dating courts to. permit the plumber
ing. Now finally, the lower classes
are terrorized by crimes Of VIOLENCE.
This is the state in which they have
arrived with their "holy. war; and
their "Gott nit uns." Germany stands
like aitree decayed at the heart, sup
ported by the strength of that outer
shell which is. the army. The shell is
still as strong as ever. Nothing but
a military disaster can break it. But
let it once crack under the strain Of
acknowledged defeat. and the whole
rotten organization of imperial Ger
'manv promises to come down with a
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FAMOUS NEWSBOY.
OF LONDON NOW
in KHAKI UNIFORM

Behind the British Lines in France,
March NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. of the
Associated. Press.)--one of the IA
miliar characters Of pre-war days in
who sold papers outside one of @the
hotels most fr~eauented by American
visitors. Delighting in the! nickname
t"brog-faced :,Eich,"ns he won the adj
d mirationt Of Visitors as. al master Sof
repartee, varying his nightly refrain
of All the Winners" and .,Orrihie
Murder with ironical comments on
the worlds events, and .caustic replies
to 'pedestrianscwh Nentured. to. handy
words with him as they, passed.
/ ersons who knew Itch Tapley, in
the old days, would.;scarcely :necognize
hirh.now In his khaki uniform, with a,
crowned" ribbon on his breast indi-
eating that he has been twice award
ed the priced Military Cross. His COM
over declare that If he had been
awarded a medal on every occasion
on which he has.mer4ted it, he. would
be covered with ribbon from head to
foot OF his d~ininutive body.
Too small to go into the. army by
the regular channels. Itch after sew
eral trials. was accepted as a stretch
er bearer In the London regiment: At
the front, he quickly became one of
the most popular. men in the. regiment.
One of his officers in d report to
headquarters, said of him, Cheerful
ness. courage, devotion to duty, and
disregard. Of danger. are as much q
part of his equipment as his haver-
sack and his waterbottle."
Tapley probably looks less like a
hero than any other man in his lat
TALON. But his .caustic; good-natured
humor, which. was little more than
an amiable diversion in civilian life,
became an Invaluable aaset..in the
trenches, keeping UP the morale and
optimism of the whole. battalion. His
' officers find themselves continually
paying tribute to his usefulness In this
respect. One of them wrote. in "a let
ter a short time ago:
His. gospel. whether Consciously
orf@not, rs the gospelsof cheeffulness.
and in practice 1t .wOrkssouts that his
spirits grow. 1lighter in proportion az
hangers and, discornforts' grow heav-
Ter. His .jests in time Of stress provide
just the electric spark thatAfurns the
hearts of men fromsglooniy pessimisrn
The iex.newsbOy. has the reputation,
!; from Lens tos.SA. Quentin. ofssbeinR
absolutely fearless. In :*;hfsaWork as
streteher-bearer n he. goes busil!y about
among . the falling shellg, always
whistling q popular tune. With an evz
er-ready word Of .sympathyl and ems
couragenert for the woundeds. He III
generally locked upo1t.as one. WHO
bears g, charmed life. for shs 1'af never
presence is regarded IA d mascot.
Tapley ~on the SECOND IF his stwo
decorations under heavy Nell fire In
the Chalk PIT nprth 81 I.oos whom,
single handed, he bandaEed ana car.
Red 70 a.safe par Of the trenrh q!
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-13
(From The Independent, New York,
April 10. $3.50

For some time there have been
symptoms of a systematic breakdown
in h body of the German state. 1t
has been apparent not in the labor
TROUBLES only-the peace strikes which
the military authorities have s. thor
oughly repressed. And it was not in
dictated merely by the loss of morale
been put down as successfully as the
strikes were. 1t vas shown. most
clearly, in the reports of the Illicit
trade in foo that was continuing
throughout Germany in spite of every
effort of food regulation and d!stri-
button. And it has come suddenly to
the surface, now, in an epidemic of
crime, in an exposure of commercial
scandals. in proofs of the wholesale
vice, in the discovery of a complete
loss of security in the mails, and in
evidences of all n Of p~rofteering
not only in civilian business but in
contracts for the government and sup
plies for the fighting line
1t is as if all classes OF the German
people had at last realized hat they
were not supporting a holy war of
self-defense." but a piratical war of
aggression for imperial conquest and
trade expansion: and as if, with that
/ dtIOi, SlAS a e 1c1
minds to making for themselves what
ever profit they could take out of the
general pillage.
The workingman struck first and
vas dubbed into subsection, but he is
evidently looting. The news dis
patches report that the suburbs of
Berlin are being terrorized by bands"
of criminals. The companies that in,
sure against theft are threatened with
bankruptcy, so numerous are the: cases
Of housebreaking. "A wagon cannot
stand on the street or the railroad
track, unguarded,' says the Volks.
blatt Of the manufacturing town Of
Bochum. Parcels of food. fuel and
similar scarce necessaries of life are
regarded as outside the protection "
the law. The worst part of it is that
the abuses have extended to; the Off
Gals. Who should wonder, i then,
when post parcels are lost and rail
shipments reach their destination
with but half their contents?" IS
Food cards arc stolen all over the
country. There nave been such whole
sale infringements Of the food ,regu-
~lations thai the newspapers have, re-
ported the arrival of carloads Of illicit
food supplies in the larger cities. I
do not want to generalize nor. above
all to cast aspersions on the mass of
regular officials" writes the Volks-
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-13
-ROlp 4 tho Yoroh
Shortage OF Labor
Handicaps Railroads

st. Paul, Mimi. April ia. gem
ieral shortage OF labor will seriously
handicap railroad maintenance and
betterment work, 80. vitality essential
to the successful prosecution Of the
war because Of the pressure on trans
p%ortation facilities, according to Off
Gals OF lines c%entering in st. Paul.
The shortage prevails throughout
the nation. Is more serious in dis
tricts adjacent to the great manufac-
turing centers but is a matter Of
great concern in the northwest also,
these officials declared.
The shortage ranges from 10 to so
per cent, the shortage in the north
west being about 20 per cent, it is
said.
Marked decreases in the number of
foreign laborers coming to this coun-
try because Of the war. the draft and
enlistments and. loss Of nan skilled
employees in engineering departments
are held responsible for the short
age. ~ ~
Essential work will be done but
it means a1greatly restricted pro-
gram" said A. M. Burt. acting gen.
eral manager Of the Northern Pa
cific railroad. , RI II n :,
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-13
+ d. FOSS IS A
CANDIDATE FOR
: STATE SENATE

St, Paul. Mimi. April 1a.-F. 9.
Foss Of stony Brook, who won much
publicity twenty-five years ago, When
as a member Of the lower mouse q
the state legislature. he introduceg
a bill requiring all actresses wneh ot
the stage to wear Q skir.s; .,a ~ Z
announced that he will be a
for the state senate from the 4sthslee-
islatiye district, made UP ct Gran|
Traverse, Big Stone and Stevens cou'
ties. =,
member OF the lower house, ccora
ing to the stories told at the
capitol did not reach the house as tr
proposed was turned over p
q COMMITTEES which attended mary
theater performances to determine
the need for regulation of skf.t
length. The committee failed to =
port the bill. s,r
Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1918-04-13

Christian Endeayor Leader
Makes Investigation Of
Camps.

S London, March l9.-(Correspond-
enceS of' the Associated Press. )-"Ten
weeks spent in the zone c%onvinces
me that the morale and morals OF the
American soldier. in France are in full
accord with the finest traditions OF
American arms and a credit to the
social and religious standards Of
American society" said DR.. Daniel A.
Polling OF Boston, associate president
OF the United Society Of Christian En-
deavor, in an interview with the As
sociated Press on his arrival in Lon
don On his way to America.
"My Investigations" he said. car
ried me into every American landing
port in France; into rest camps and
training camps, and for ten days I
was practically in our front line, in
cluding two nights and three. days In
q front, lire dugout. / was right with
them, slept with them and expert
enced two barrages with them.
my whole experience convinced
me that the administration Of our war
activities in France is amazingly eff
fictent. Our railroads, our camps, our
food, our water supply, and our rap.
idly increasing military equipment are
miracles Of swift and thorough
achievement M
I'm h business of keeping our
soldiers physically and morally fit
the program Of our military authori.
ties is. the most comprehensive and
aggressive ever laid out by a nation a,
war. The stories Of wholesale drunk.
Ienness' and vice circulated in some
quarters at home. concerning the
American expeditionary force were
false. While some men and groups o.
men have committed grave excuses
and shamed their uniforms, the small
number Of these in proportion to tn.
total number under. arms is a source
of qualification and pride to ever.