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Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-16
OLCOTT'S TERM OF OFFICE

news story in Wednesdays Oregonian discusses
the tenure of office of Secretary of State 0cOt and
calls attention to the provision of the constitution con-
cernng the election of the secretary of state and the state
treasurer that they shall hold their offices for the term
of four years. but person shall be eligible to either of
said offices than eight in any period OF twelve
years. The author of the story apparently thought ne
had discovered something that would make the term OF
the secretary of state expire next April eight years from
the date Of his appointment by Governor West The
ton of the constitution quoted correctly but the author
of the story failed to read another section OF the cons
tuition section IL of article H. under the caption suf
frage and Elections" which provides I'm all cases In
which it is provided that an office shall not be filled by
the person more than certain number OF years
continuously, appointment pro tempore shall not be
reckoned part of that term This settles the matter so
far as Secretary Ocotts term is concerned and will per-
nit him to fill out the full term for which he elected
and which will expire in January, 1921. No doubt there
are many of the old line republicans who would like to
see the secretary put out of office quickly possible
but they will have to wait until the election two years
from now to get chance at the Ocott job
There was some question at the time of Ocotts first
election as to whether he should be elected for full
term of four years. for the nexpred portion OF Sec
retary Bensons term. Attorney General Crawford held
he should run for the full erm but the correstness OF
this opinion is doubted by many lawyers The supreme
court too in 1886 in the of the state ex rel William
S. Shaw versus Joel Ware County Clerk OF Lane county,
involving the election of circuit and supreme court Judges
held in substance that The term of office of circuit
Judge under the constitution of this state is six years.
and when vacancy occurring within the term is filled
by election the person elected holds not for the full
period of six years, but only for the remainder OF the
unexpred term This is in direct opposition to the opin
ion Of the then Attorney General Crawford 1t would
seem also from the constitution that the intent to
have all state officers elected at the general election
and that the election to fill vacancies was based on this
intent so only the unexpired term would be filled at the
next election after the vacancy and thus bring the eec-
ton Of all at the time again AS it is now the secre-
tary Of state is elected in off year, so to speak
However the water has run by this mill and cannot |.
be recalled If it was mistake it to late to recall
it now for it would be much like trying to unring bell
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-16
She SUFFERED
five YEARS
Finally Restored to Health
by Lydia E. Pinkham's
Vegetable Compound.

Key West, Fla. For five years /
suffered from Irregularities, with ter.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-16

The commercial club is about to launch campaign
for new members 1t hardly seems possible that such
move should be necessary when such organization is
more than ever necessity 1t is the centre of all the war
and conservation work of Marion county and every COM
munty movement of interest has its inception there Now
thatt out of debt well located and comfortably housed
the commercial club should never be allowed to lapse back
into the condition of inactivity that it has been in at
times in the past People of Salem should make the club
bigger andbeter and useful from year to year by
giving it their loyal support and taking keener interest
i'm its work.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-16

In normal times the candy industry uses only s.
lper cent of the sugar used per capita in This
country Right now this amount has been cut square
" in two.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-08-16

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The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11

General Pershing has ordered 10000 wrist watches for his army. It ha reached the point where almost anybody can wear a wrist watch without being slapped on the wrist. x # < i Of course, if Charley schwab wants to give away gold watch now and then, that's his own affair, but he won't be able to buy many presents out of his i dollar-a-year salary. % * *
 MT Fatty Arbuckle leads an active life, if the camera does not deceive us, yet he apparently hasn't lost a pound since we first gazed upon his manly form.
 The man of quiet tastes needn't be dis couraged by the kind of straw hats he sees in dealers windows. There are plenty of conservative lids inside. # < # After the cathedral of Amiens is com pletely demolished by German cannon the Kaiser may feel like going out and picking few more violets.
 # $ +
 Nowadays the insistent cry, Where did he get it?' doesn't apply so much to tainted wealth as to information about airplane production.
 < # < Some way should be found to let the Kaiser know that President Wilson TO gently found time to attend circus and stay through the concert.
 * * # Many a pro-German who strolls about taking the air is blissfully unconscious of the fact that the department of Jus- tice has his number.
 # :. #
 A cartoonist who pictures Wilhelm haunted by the sinking Lusltania fails to understand the Teuton temperament
 # # x Washington, the City of Magnificent Distances" is winning notoriety as the city of altitudinous prices
 <. # # Senator Bankhead is acting like a man who considers his political fences in an excellent state of repair.
 i. 4. # Give the allies a little more time and C-boating will approach state of in- nocuous desuetude
 # # # The pope evidently has no sympathy to waste on a peace dove wearing a spiked helmet.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
LAWYERS AS SOLDIERS

ness, prudence, boldness and skill, quail ities that are essential to successful
 military operation.
 The history of all our wars is testi- mony to the important work of the members of the bar. Alexander Hamil- ton, Gen. Winfield Scott, Andrew Jack son, Abraham Lincoln Secretary of War Stanton and dozens of other great
 names are among the bars contribution to the national defense, and Francis
 Scott Key, who wrote "The Star-Span- gled Banner" was a lawyer. Gen. Ben jamin F. Butler was lawyer, as were
 Gen. Lew Wallace, Maj. Gen. John Sedg-
 wick, Maj. Gen. Francis P. Blair, Jr.,
 Gen. John A. Logan, Gen. John A. Dix and others of the Civil war period A large proportion of the young men who attended the officers training
 camps and earned commissions in the
 army are lawyers. Many are now in
 France, and every cantonment has
 generous quota of them, capable of ficers and soldiers all. In all the crafts
 and professions of America it is proba-
 ble that no class of citizens is likely to
 show greater record of patriotic ser vice than the brethern of the bar.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
TO BEAT THE TYRANT FASHION

standardization but individualism in dress is the thing to establish. Style at it's best is personal and not general quality. Mrs. A has it in one manifestation, Mrs. E in another It is the height of folly for one of these ladies to assume that she must wear this or that because the other does, even though the other be reinforced by Mrs.C and Mrs. D.
 When our boys come back" says 8 man at Hot Springs, they will want to see charm, beauty and loveliness- not uniformed womanhood." But to perfect the joy of the sight each love- liness should be displayed in attire to suit it's own caste. Artistry is in her who makes the dress really to fit the woman. Economy lies that way as well. since most becoming effects may be wrought even in less costly goods And what becomes one prettily today need not be shelved tomorrow, once fash ions sway is broken.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
Colonel Comer,s Story

T believe my home town, Eufaula enjoys the distinction of being the only city in the country which ever had a return ticket sold for a corpse" said Col. c. l.. Conner, who responded to the address of welcome at the Bankers association.
 Tt happened in this way. A prominent Eufaula darkey moved to Montgomery and died, and one of his relatives went down and called for return ticket for a corpse. It nearly cause the ticket agent to die of heart failure What do you want with any such transporta- tion? I never heard of such a thing, the agent said.
 The darkey replied Well, cap, hits just this way. He was mighty popular at home and we figured it out it would save money if we took his body down there and let them have the pleasure Of looking at it. instead of making them spend their money to come to Montgom- cry to review the remains. "
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
British Naval Force
 Blocks Ostend Harhor

6HHE British navy has performed ls another brilliant exploit in blocking the seaway to the German submarine base at Ostend. This feat completes the operations begun with the sbottling up" of Zeebrugge. The cruiser Vindictiye, which figured gall lantly in the Zeebrugge raid and was heavily shelled was sunk across the harbor mouth after being filled with concrete.
 The British losses were amazingly light. According to the official report, there were few casualties and only one vessel was lost, motor launch dam aged and sunk in order to prevent it from falling into the enemy's hands. Both Ostend and Zeebrugge are pro- vided with elaborate defenses, includ- ing long-range guns, yet the daring British seem to have taken the Ger mans completely by surprise. At Zee brugge, there was sharp resistance and the British paid dearly for their enterprise, but at Ostend the coup was carried through apparently with out a hitch and with the utmost ease.
 Nothing accomplished by. the Brit ish navy since the war began has been so spectacular as the two raids on Germany's important submarine bases, which the enemy had taken every pre- caution to safeguard from attack. Berlin will doubtless try to beli1tle this latest exploit, but it is quite like ly that another German admiral is slated for retirement.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
From the Seattle Post-1ntelligencer.

From the Seattle Post-Inte1ligencer
 1TO OR a class of men employed in
 TJ composing human differences by moral suasion rather than force, the lawyers seem to have exhibited a strange eagerness to go to war The King county clerk has recently made a report to the Seattle Bar association showing that S5 of it's members, or practically 10 per cent are now serv practically 10 per cent, are now serv- It is notable record of patriotic per formance and should cause the bosoms of the fraternity at home to swell with pride.
 Tn recent issue of the Central Law Journal Attorney Fred H. Peterson oe this city has recapitulated the service of the brothers of the bar in the army and navy of the United States, and shows that from the days of the revo- lution to the present time the legal profession has always been largely rep resented in every war. MT. Peterson finds much similarity between litiga tion and warfare, in the strategic plan ming and counter planning of offense and defense, and suggests that the suc- cessful lawyer is trained to aggressive
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
THE TEETOTUM OF TIME

Senator Pinckney of Maryland, in a
 Speech on the Missouri Question in 1920 N GAIN, if we are to entertain these IA\ hopeful distractions, and to re- S = solve all establishments into their
 ina ginary elements in order to recast be true that all the men in a republican
 government must help to wield it's power and be equal in rights, beg leave to ask the honorable gentleman from New
 Hampshire And why not all the wom- en? They, too, are Gods creatures, and
 not only very fair, but very rational ere atures; and our great ancestor, if we are to give credit to Milton, accounted them the "wisest, virtuousest, discreetest,
 best; although, to say the truth, he had
 but one specimen from which to draw
 his conclusion, and possibly, if he had
 had more, would not have drawn 1t at all. They have, moreover, acknowledged civil rights in abundance, and, upon ab-
 stract principles more than their mascu- line rulers allow them in fact.
 Some monarchies too. do not exclude them from the throne. We have all read os Elizabeth of England, of Gathering of Russia, and Zenobia and a long list Of royal and imperial danes, about as good
 as an equal list of royal and imperial lords. Why is it that their exclusion from the power of a popular government ! is not destructive of it's republican char acter? I do not address this question to the honorable gentlemans gallantry,8 but i to his abstraction and his theories and l his notions of the infinite perfectibilitys | os human institutions, borrowed from Goodwin and the turbulent philosophers
 of France. l For my own part, sir, if l may have lleave to say so much in the presence of this mixed, uncommon audience. I con-
 fess I am no friend to female govern
 ment unless indeed it be that which re- poses on gentleness and modesty and virture and feminine grace and delicacy; and how powerful a government that lis we have all of us, as I suspect, at sometime or other experienced.
 But if the ultra republican doctrines 1 which have now been broache6 should ever gain ground among us, I should not be surprised if some romantic re former, treading in the footsteps of Mrs. Wollstonecraft, should propose to re-
 peal our republican Salieue law and
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE
General Misnndcrstandlrg


 lhere has been general misunder- standing of the recent flour regulation. which limits each purchaser of flour to SIX pounds per month for himself and eaeh member of his family" said Frank E. spain, county food administrator. While the law does not require each merchant to keep a record of every sale or flour, it does, nevertheless, require him before selling any flour to any par chaser to inquire particularly, first, whether the purchaser has bought from any source any flour during the month, ana second. how many persons are in the family of the purchaser.
 Upon learning these facts the per- chant must not sell to each customer more than enough flour to bring the total purchases of each customer to total of six pounds per month for each mem, Der of his family, including in such total the flour purchased by him or any mem Der of his family from any source dur ing the north
 Unless these regulations are enforced by the merchants it is probable that they will be made more stringent: for it is already evident that there will not be enough flour to carry over until the new crop, and the food administration is endeavoring to distribute what we have so that each person will receive his fair share thereof.''
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
MAGPIES IN PICARnY

By Capt. T. F. Cameron Wilson. The magpies in Picardy
 Are more than I cal tell They flicker down the dusty roads
 And cast a magic spell
 On the men who march through Picardy
 Through Picardy to hell.
 (The blackbird flies with panic,
 The swallow goes like light,
 The finches move like ladies,
 The owl floats by at night; Hut the great and flashing magpie
 Ho flies as arstists night. fnsgpie in Picardy
 Told me secret things Of the music in white feathers
 And the sunlight that sings And dances in deep shadows He told me with his wings tThe hawk is cruel and rigid, He watches from a height; 1 The rock is slow and sombre, & | The robin loves to fight: But the great and flashing magpie tir He flies as lovers might. He told me that in Picardy, l An age ago, or more. While all his fathers still were eggs, l These dusty highways bore Blown, singing soldiers marching out 1 Through Picardy to war. He said that still through chaos 1 Works on the ancient plan, l And two things have altered not 1 Since first the world began l The beauty of the green earth i And the bravery of man. i (For the sparrow flies minimizing l And quarrels in his flight; The heron trails his legs behind, 1, The lark goes out of sight; But the great and flashing magpie
 He flies as poets might).
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
LUKE M,LUKE SAYS

There is nothing a woman hates worse than male flirt-unless he happens to be flirting with her.
 Some wives haven't enough to do to keep them busy But it is different with the woman who married man to re- form him.
 X wife shouldn't worry when her hus. band breaks a promise he made her He will go right ahead and make another one.
 Tie old-fasA.oned man who left foot. prints in the sands of time now has a son who is afraid he won't be able to GOV el up his tracks.
 Some women put on so much dog that if they, wear a Mother Hubbard around the house they call it 3 ''negligee.' Of course it is none of our business. But when girl has canary bird legs she shouldn't wear yellow stockings to advertise them. Why is it that in spite of the fact that he isn't going anywhere in particular, tramp will take so many risks to get there in a hurry! After you have discussed the war and l ihc weather and the conversation lags 1 it is time to go home. ! We have rummed around a good deal and it is our opinion that the more a man knows about the horses tie less hs wins on them.
 i A woman can mark up kitchen cal I endar and know more about the house hold finances than man would ii h, l Kept a set of books on them. l A bride always has an independent feel ing that it isn't proper to spend bus
 bands money. But it doesn't last tong. We don't know everything. But we d know that it is hard to have a ligh heart when you have heavy liver. Practice makes doctor rich a whol lot oftener than it will make him perfect
 It often happens that after man re covers consciousness in the hospital h lis willing to admit that he misjudged Iii
 enemy.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
New Poultry Husbandman

T am glad to see the government take unusual interest in the poultry in dustry,' said Harvey Chandler, who has a hobby for backyard flock.
 Ira G. Shellabarger has just been ap- pointed United States poultry extension .husbandman at Auburn, and is at serv- ice for any and all advice on this im- portant town and country side line from now on. MT. Shelabarger is a hustler and his selection means a boost to the hen and her output both of which are so important at this critical period.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11

From the New York World.
 1Nl ASHTON, which wears out more
 TJ apparel than does woman, will S not be beaten out of it's dictNor- ship by any scheme of standardized dress. The leaders who are agitating for standardization before the conven- tion of Federated Womens clubs at Hot Springs should know their sisters well enough to know that. Femininity consents to go into natty uniforms for purposes of war or for other practical service. It will never, while in it's right mind, give up the advantages of variety and color in wearing apparel which it has held long over an adoring mascu- Unity clad in all the severity of the single sartorial pattern.
 In so far as the would-be reformers of womens dress oppose the absolute ism of fashion they have a case. But the way to beat tyranny is not to sub stitute one tyrant for another. Not
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
Crop Conditions

'I live IS miles off the railroad" said P. Scott, who was in the city on Fri day.
 My home is in Blount The. boil weevil made it's appearance in mild form last year. I do not know whether this cut the cotton acreage this year in my section, but something has done it. l was glad to see a number of wheat fields scattered out over the county on my way to Oneonta. Corn in my neigh borhood is selling on the farms for sl.5o per bushel. All crops are backward on account of the cold weather"
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
THE FLOWER OF LANGUAGE

By Thorean
 What a fine and beautiful communica- tion is music from age to age, of the fairest and noblest thoughts-the asplra- tions of ancient men preserved-even such as were never communicated by speech. It is the flower of language thought colored and curved, tinged and wreathe1-fluent and flexible; it's crystal fountain purlinS ripples reflecting the green grao and the red clouds : There is as much music in the world as virtue In a world of peace and love music would be the universal language, and men would greet each other in the fields in such accents as Beethovea
 now utters at rare intervals. from dis tance.
The Birmingham age-herald., 1918-05-11
GOOD FOR ALABAMA

From the Chattanooga News.
 It may be only straw, but the farm crop acreage planted in Alabama for this year is reported to show an increase of 1,424,925 acres over last years total, or nearly If per cent. If this ratio is maintained over the country-and Il probably will be approximations can easily imagine what the results on the aggregate production will be.
 But what makes this record of Alabama all the more remarkable is the fact that
 it has been made in the face of labor
 shortage of 17.2 per cent. Intensified
 effort and improved machinery and meth
 ods are rerhaps largely responsible for
 the showing. 1t is heartening indica-
 tion of the way in which the farming
 population is responding to the require- ments of the hour.
 It is well to remember, however that
 there is a good while intervening be- tween the planting and the harvesting of a crop. It must be cultivated to 1 bring it to maturity. In the meantime the labor shortage is destined to become more acute, due to the large and recur-
 ring demands of the draft. It is period in which American resourcefulness will be put 10 it's greatest test.
 The country is passing through a cru- | cihle The situation, however, is not discourasing. American character has heretofore been equal to every emer-
 gency We believe it will continue to be. We telieve Ameriea and American ideas will finally triumph. It is time for everybody to sit tight and conserve every energy for the supreme task