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Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12
He took his good fortune as a mat

He took his good fortune as a mat
ter of course.
There was Mr.. Frog! He was a
famous Jumper; but he couldn't
fly And there was Mr.. Nighthawk!
He was skillful flier; but he
couldn't jump.
Such thoughts, however. never
entered kiddie Katydids head. He
went cheerfully about his busi-
ness-which was eating, principal
ly-and Jumped or flew as the
mood seized him. Indeed, if it
hadn't been for that queer fellow,
benjamin Bat, probably Kiddie
never would have realized just what
he could-or couldn't-do.
Since Benjamin was another
katydid saw him often. Il SEEM
ed to Kiddie that fe could scarcely
mght-prowler like himself, Riddle
ever gaze at the full moon without
catching sight of Benjamin Bats
dusky shape fitting jerktly across
the great, round, yellow disk.
When Benjamin was astir in the
neighborhood, Kiddie Katydid Law
loW-or high-in his favorite tree
top At least, he kept very still
until the night was nearly gone, to
give Benjamin Bat plenty of time
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12
A B G of the League
of Nations
Irwin
IAH.-C0uld Mandates Be Forced ON Uso

. Ii we entered the leagu,
would we be forced to accept man,
dates?
A. No. II is provided In tho
covenant that no member Of the
league may be forced unwiningly
to take a mandate.
c. Would membership in the
league involve for us trouble and
expense?
a, Yes, both trouble and ex-
pense.
=. How much trouble?
4. No one knows exactly. But
less thaa arises from even a minor
war.
Q. How much eNpense9
a Loss than the normal expens-
es ~ the Interstate Commerce COM
mission. Perhaps a million dol
lars or 50 in each normal year for
OF representative
and experts abroad and for our
hare IN the current expenses OF a.
lecretariat and It's bureaus. In alb
lormal times possibly n greater ex-
than this. as for our
hare IN supplying munitions to
'cak member unjnstly attacked; or
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12

In the last extremity. and with the
approval of congress, the dispatch
of a small military expedition. In
all probability the total expendi-
ture for long term-say fifty
years-would be far less than the
cost Of even a small war, like ours
in 1895 with Spain.
Q. What is the offset AGAINST
such expenditure?
A, II the league succeeds in re-
dueing armaments it will save us
each year many times our current
expenses of membership. Since we
became a nation, wars or prepara-
lions for wars have absorbed nine
tenths Of our total revenue. our
part In the last nineteen months of
the great war cost US Ses, eco. .O0O.-
0o0-much more than our govern
ment has expended since we be-
came a nation.
Q. What familiar parallel can
YOU suggestf
\. Participation in the league of
nations Is financially in the nature
~ fire insurance. one makes an
casy annual payment in order 10
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12

cy. He believes in getting back t,
practicalities. He wants to restor,
the partnership of governmen
with business. He says there car
! be no true prosperity until we re-
trace our steps and revive the pro.
tective tariff. In all things he
! urges the people to take the back
track, on which he has covered a
considerable distance already.
Ii the popular desire for a
change is as pronounced as Sena-
tor Harding and his senatorial
Keepers assume it to be, no mat
ter how alluringly Governor Cox
and others may portray the Justice
and the value of progress, the doc
trine of skedaddle naturally be-
comes the first principle of repub-
Icanism. When an individual or
nation has advanced to a point
where doubt and alarm take the
place of resolution and courage. a
retrograde movement is the first
suggestion.
During the war we often read of
defeated armies withdrawing to a
strategic position previously pre-
pared" If the American people are
to take part in any such recess
sional as Mr.. Harding is now lead
ing, they will be similarly favored
When they come to halt they will
find themselves snugly within the
fortified lines of monopoly and
privilege with nowhere else TO 90.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12
Business Houses
at Silperton To
Close Thursday

Silverton. Oct. 12.-Stores ana
business houses will close next
Thursday afternoon and every Sill
Verton man and woman interested
IN a greater and better Silverton
are expected to attend the mass
meeting held in the opera house,
Prof. Mauris of the Oregon Agri-
cultural college, and Walter Den
ton of Salem are expected to be in
attendance and talk on matters
pertaining to the development of
the community. Other speakers
will talk during the afternoon and
evening. A special program has
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12

been arranged and free picture
show will be given at the close ol
each session. This is a movement
inaugurated by the Silverton Com
munity club for the betterment OF
all community interests, and it Is
expected to be the biggest event
that has ever been held i'll this
city.
The Odd Fellows lodge of this
city has just received lot of new
furniture which is being placed in
their new quarters. The lodge re-
cantly finished an addition to the
building.
f. A. Doerfler of the Waldo
Hills Jersey Stock farm expects to
leave soon for the east, to be alb
sent several weeks.
Mark Matheny has moved here
from Mohler, Ore, and will make
Slverton his home.
]. L. Largent has given up the
Silyerton hotel on account OF Mrs.
Largent's failing health. The hotel
is now in charge of Mrs. Warner.
Otto Legara and Mrs. Albert
Sather, his sister, left the iatter
part of last week for Bristol S.
Dakota, where they were called on
account of the death of their broth
er, Edwin, who passel away sud
denly while at work in his store.
Miss Viola Schafer is attending
school at Salem this year.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12

/ to satisfy his hunger. Kor Iliddis
found Benjamin Bat a much more
agreeable companion when he hac
eaten his fill. Early in the eve.
ming, soon after he had walked up
Benjamin was positively ferocious
7! But the more he ate, the pleas
anter he grew. And by the time
faint streaks of light began to show
| in the east he could smile and
crack a joke as easily as anybody
else.
Well, late one night--or early
one morning-Kiddie Katydid and
Tenjamin Bat were enjoying a
chat in the tree tops, when Ben
jamin put new idea into Kiddie's
head.
1--WE ought to have some sports
right here in Farmer Green's yard"
ne suggested. You're such fine
Jumper that you could try your
skill against Mr.. Frog. And you're
sucE a fine flier that You ana
freddie FREELY ought to have a
race. I'd suggest he
a1de did suggest that the sports
take place after dark, almost any
evening""
But Kiddie Katydid spoke up
quickly and said that he wouldn't
care to join in the fun until the
night was almost gone. He said
he was sure he could jump and
fly better at that time. And that
was quite true, because he, knew
that if Mr.. Bat swallowed him
early in the evening he wouldn't |
be able to take any part in the
sports.
Very well, then!"a Benjamin Bat
replied. But it will be the worst
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12
Just Folks n.... 4, By Cues,
Counsel.

would not bid you not to weep,
for tears of grief shall fill
your eyes,
would not bid you not to care
when you shall lose the
thing you prize,
For hurt and pain are hard to
bear and sorrow cuts into
the soul
But stand you fast and serve the
truth, and you shall come
unto your goal.
There shall be days when hope is
dim and days when joy
seems far from you.
There shall be rugged hills to
climb and dreary tasks for
you to do;
1t is no easy path you fare, no light
and simple game you're in,
Life shall beset and try your
strength-mut meet its
tests, and you shall win.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12
Benjamin Bats Plan.

OF course, Kiddie katydid was
not always to be found in his ia
yorite nook among the trees III
Farmer Green's front yard. Quite
often he went skipping about from
tree to tree or from bush to bush,
sometimes flying and sometimes
leaping. 1t really made little diff
ference to him which mode of ira
vel he used. And he never stopped
able to move SO Spryly with the
help of either his legs or his wings.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12
President Wilson's Health

covery as remarkable under all the
circumstances and are not disap.
pointed or surprised that he is not
more active now.
While he moves about sparingly,
with the assistance of a cane, and
receives his visitors usually while
in his wheeled chair, he gets
( through as much or more work
than ever.
He keeps his stenographers busy
with the enormous correspondence
which is one of the penalties of be-
ing president, signs his name hun
dTeds Of times daily to commits
sions, nominations and pardOns,
reads a digest of all the newspa-
pers, and when he has anything of
Importance to commit to paper,
such as his recent utterance on the
Jones shipping bill, he writes it out
himself in shorthand. His diver
sions are reading, mostly detective
stories and other light stuff, and
the movies produced in the White
House, but he probably gets more
enjoyment out of the book he is
writing than anything else.
Just now he is deep in politics,
and the writing he is supposed to
be engaged on is presumed to be
in relation to the league of nations
preparatory to his issuing a series
of letters and statements with a
bearing on the campaign.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12

Portland.-Lumber business il
Portland took a decidedly upward
trend for the week ending Septem-
Der 20, when total volume OF
business reached 72,19O,322 feet, OF
which approximately 40 per cent
was railroad material, A portion of
the order Of the Chicago, Burling-
ton Il Quincy railroad for 10000
900 ieet was included.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12

Oh, you shall be afraid my boy be.
fore you come to victory,
Yes, you shall see the frightful
things that every man has
had to see,
And you shall feel the hurtful
blows which every man has
had to bear
But meet them as a man, my boy,
and you the crown of Joy
shall wear.
Oh, you shall look in failures
face and you shall hear the
scoffers' jeer,
And you shall feel like giving up
because no help for you is
near.
And you shall see your plans go
wrong and all your castles
tumble down
But keep the faith and start anew,
Life and you shall some day
win renown.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12

Republicanism's Great Recessional
The basic issue Of the presiden-
tial campaign has not been more
foreibly stated than by Samuel
Gompers. who says that the repuh-
hcans are going backward and the
democrats going forward. This
conclusion does not rest altogether
upon the utterances Of the candi-
dates. 1t is reasonable interpret
tation of the two platforms.
Senator Harding'S speeches may
be searched in vain for amy note
save that n retreat He is going
to reverse the entire foreign policy
OF the present administration. He
is in favor of returning to normal-
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Tuesday, oeteb,, !,
possible time g.

possible time for ma.
What do You m.,.
katydid inquired. ~
to enter any of tbe = - yss|
"oh, yes!" said p.a0ates6l
going to hang by NV ''aah|
hmb OF a tree. And ~ aessl
er SO heavy early 4 ''aes :. \
before I've had !. e,s ~
much, I'd prefer to hs. ,ane
begin soon after dars ass
But Kiddie Katyaia
there was no doubt D. d..
would win in the sno,, ssn'sl|
mead downward by b,.,aa
he told Benjamin NO, ~
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avoid a sudden and heavy financia
strain.
@. Is the probable nature of an.
other world war such as to justify
all efforts to prevent it?
A. Yes. Owing to scientific
methods of warfare, never used OF
invented before the great war,
fighting has grown dangerous to a
degree unknown in previous wars
After April s, 1915, when the Ger
mans first successfully used poi
son gas, men of science in the en-
ploy of European armies began
methodically to study the question
of chemical killing. As result
the total known loss in the great
war was nearly 100000 soldiers
dead, besides more than 5000, 900
civilians dead of epidemics, starva-
ton, accidents of war, or massacre.
@. What have been the losses
in previous wars?
a. In all the wars of the nine
tcenth century, only 4,50O,0 900 SOL
diers were killed.
@. Are the methods of scientific
warfare being developed?
A. Yes. The invention of new
letral methods begun only in 1915
is going on in spite of peace.
G. Does modern war affect wo-
men and n-combatants?
a. Yes. The great war showed
that nations must henceforth mo-
bilize all their labor in order to in
sure the last pound of munitions.
In this work women are almost as
as men; and to reduce
the labor power of your enemy is
a step toward victory. AS a result |
women and other nom -combatants
can no longer be spared from at
lacks by aircraft and long distance
guns. Owing to our fortunate situ-
alton, we ourselves may be ex-
empt for Il long period from any
war of this intensity. But Europe,
without some strong and new paci-
Tying influence, will drift on to-
ward another general war. With
he further Improvement in lethal
Methods inevitable during the next
iecade, such a war must mean vir-
ual determination for several Eu-
'opean nations.
But are there not other agencies
han the league? Does not the
Hague peace conference exist to
prevent and ameliorate wars?
a. Yes. But The Hague has no
machinery to prevent International
riction developing into crisis. Nei-
her has it the machinery to en-
orce its decision, whereas the
Aague has the economic boycott,
he Hague cannot compel nations
} resort to arbitration. 1t has no
leans of working to remove the
emote causes of war.
q. AS a substitute for the league
nations it has been proposed toI
put teeth into The Hague Trib-
nal. What does that mean?
A. II this means anything, it is
proposal to back up the decisions I
the Hague court with force. In
lat case you set up q super-state I
lch as no provision of the league ]
'Nenant even approaches. Such A
an would not be acceptable TO the I
her nations of the world, which \
'anted the league of nations all I
e authority they cared to grant \
an international body. !
Copyright. 1929, by n. Y. Eveninrl \
,st. Inc.l I
iohnorrow's n ID c of the League I
Nations viii answer the ques- ]
m: What eminent American lead
besides President Wilson have I
'ored a league for peace? IL
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12
Loganberry
Laughs
By Robert QullIen,

LNN NSito
BY Robert Qulllen.
The dove of peace is provld
ing too much bill and no
enough COO.
The modern girl defines
''good provider" in terms o.
twelve cylinders.
At that, class Legislation
wouldn't be much more an
noying that Grass legislation
In these Volstead days one
can 60 out for a lark without
coming home on a bat.
y y y y
Now if those who have
put prices to rout will only
have the wit to refuse an ar
mistice.
An English writer likens
Wilhelm to a raven. Perhaps
he is the raven who said "Ne-
yer more"
n
Sole leather is high, but one
doesn't have to back it up to
a filling station every few
miles.
"Our strength is written in
Russia cries the enthusiastic
radical. Doesn't he mean rot
ten?
We began with a govern
ment Of checks and balances,
but latterly we are content
with checks alone.
Where di the professional
agitator get the idea that a
man can earn his bread in the
sweat of his jaw?
##
The fact that he knows how
to make a bomb is sufficient
proof that he will never make
a good citizen.
II - &#
The man who shouts that
all bosses should be sent to
the junk pile means that he
has a hankering to be boss.
4
These price reductions are
a comfort. One always feels
better when he learns just
how badly he has been robbed.
Germany may dream of re-
venge, but the first young
firebrand who toasts "Der !
Tag" win need to dodge a
a shower of crutches.
But when they talked of a
hand across the sea in the old
days, they were not speaking
of a hand-out.
Buying votes seldom influ-
ences an election. The man W
mean enough to sell his vote d
IS mean enough to vote the
,ther way. le
There is no place for senti- lie.
lent in these hard days. Ev- eN
n the horny-handed son of pc
Ill is neglecting his old dad.
What makes our alien in wa
strial workers so mad is
e native Americans as ss S,,
mption that he has some lar
ee in the situation. .n. %.
shs
- - -, secl
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12
Washington dispatch to New
York World.)

! OfK WOrlu.)
1t was a year ago that Presiden
| Wilson returned a sick and broker
! man to the capital from his trans
| continental trip in the interests OF
the unreserved ratification of the
Versailles peace treaty. He walk
ed from his train to an automO-
bile, but five days later was strick-
en- by the first attack of thrombo-
sis and did not leave his bed for
more than three months. 1t was
not until seven months later that
he was able to take a motor drive.
During the first two months of
his illness the president hovered
between life and death at times,
but gradually he began to show
Improvement.
In midsummer it was announced
that the president had gained 20
pounds in weight since February
and that his robust condition pres
saged greater activity on his part
but the hope has not been realized
While he weighs more than 175
pounds and appears to those who
see him on his daily motor trips to
be physically fit, he still exerts
himself very little, using a plat
form with four steps to enter his
automobile with assistance.
Those most familiar with the
presidents illness regard his re-
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12

Sole leather is high, but one
doesn't have to back it up to-
a filling station every few
miles.
Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1919-1980, 1920-10-12

"Our strength is written in
Russia" cries the enthusiastic
radical. Doesn't he mean rot
ten?
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1920-02-20

an anxious friend asked, "Have you
made your peace with God?" The poet,
who for years had been dying by inches,
replied wearily, with his last smile, 1'Do
not trouble yourself, Dieu me pardon
nera; c'est son meter (God will forgive
me; that is His trade)."
Those were Heine's last words.
He had his hours of sadness, when
even he found it hard to laugh at life,
with it's long poverty and cruel suffer-
ing. "In many moments a doubt qulv-
ers through me whether man really is
two-legged god, as Hegel assured me
five-a -and-twenty years ago. am no more
a divine biped; am no more the high
priest of the Germans after Goethe-no
more the great heather No. "a Helene
of jovial life and portly person, laugh
ing cheerfully down on dismal Nazar-
enes; only poor, death-sick jew"
Hegel, the German philosopher, great
ly influenced Heine and other thinkers
and writer's in the last century. Once
Heine and Hegel were looking at the
stars through an open window. Heine
thus describes it: 81, being young man
of twenty-five, and having just eaten
we'll and drunk my coffee, spoke with
enthusiasm of the stars, called them
the abodes of the blest, but the master
muttered to himself, THE stars! HIM!
Inn! The stars are only brilliant
eruption on the frmamentH 'What?'
cried l. 'Then there is no blissful spot
above, where virtue is rewarded after
death?' But he, glaring at me with his
pale eyes, remarked, sneeringly, so you
want bonus because you have sup
ported your sick mother and refrained
from poisoning your brother
The books that most affected and de-
veloped Heine's boyish imagination
were "Don Quixote," Sterne's 1"Senti-
mental Journey" and "Gulliver's Trav
els" Those three books, the great fairy
stories of literature, helped develop sone.
of the most beautiful imaginations that
ever lived upon the earth and sone of
the greatest warriors in the army Of
freedom. T
That fact ought to interest the so
called educators" who tell fathers and
mothers not to let their children read
fairy tales.
: You may be sure, however, that red
haired Sefehen- did more for Heine's
imagination than Cervantes, Sterne or
Swift = -
AS you read the history of this man
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1920-02-20

(This article, by Mr.. Brisbane, which
is reproduced by special permission, re-
Gently appeared in the entire Hearst
chain of newspapers, reaching an audi
ence exceeding 100000 readers.)
This is about Heinrich Heine, greatest
literary genius of the Jewish race and,
in his special line, greatest poet of any
race.
If deep patriotism turns you from
German name, know that the Hohenzol-
lerns hated Heine more bitterly than you
hated any Hohenzollern.
Human beings are dull, level plain,
in the background, few mountain
peaks Heine is one of the peaks. Not
to know him and his work gives you
every right to call yourself uneducated.
Heine was born with the last century,
His father was a happy-go-lucky man,
fond of music, not practical. His fathers
brother, Solomon, the banker, was one OF
the richest men in Germany.
His mother was the daughter of an
able Jewish physician, DIR. Simon Won
Geldern. From his father, who played
the flute assiduously, Heine got the ro-
nance in his nature. From his highly
intelligent mother he inherited his brain
power, intense love of freedom and wit.
The mother was Jewish, but not exactly
orthodox. She described herself as "a
philosophical Deist of Voltaire's school"
That was the start of the young thinker
and poet told by his mother. in child
hood. "Reason is the sole arbiter in the
puzzle of religious and other beliefs"
Heine was recognized as one of the
great poets of Germany when mere
boy. At 80 he was called "second only to
Goethe" not exactly pleasing to Goethe,
who said of Heine after the young man
had called at Weimar, "Heine has all
gifts except love-"
Let your children learn by heart many
of Heine's songs; for instance, the eight
beautiful lines that begin:
"Ein Fichtenbaum steht einsam."
=" "a pine tree standeth lonely
On a far norland height,
1t slumbereth, while around it
The snow. falls thick and white.
"And of a palm it dreameth,
That, in a southern land,
Lonely and silent standeth
Amid the scorching sand"
Many of Heine's songs have. been set
to music by German musicians worthy
of the task All children should be
The American Jewish world. [volume] (Minneapolis ;) 1915-current, 1920-02-20

"The Lorelei," and others.
Heine was baptized in the Lutheran
Christian Church, much against his will,
and baptized Harry" an added horror,
although it reads "Heinri" on his tomb.
He consented to baptism because Prus-
sian law would not allow Jew to prac
tice law without it. This baptism of
their greatest poet has distressed many
Jews, proud Of their ancient faith, but
it need not. Il
Heine was never first-class Chris
tian. He said: "T consider it degrada-
tion and stain upon my honor to sub
nit to baptism, to qualify myself for
state employment in Prussia" He got
even with the Hohenzollerns on every
occasion, and did it thoroughly.
Pressure by his rich uncle Solomon,
who didn't want to support nephew,
sent Heine into the lawIvia baptism.
That practical uncle, who lives in his
tory thanks to the nephew, used to say:
eff Heinrich had amounted to anything
he wouldn't have been driven to make
books for living"
Heine never took the trouble to learn
what Christianity had done for democ--
racy, or to read st: James, the original
radical, who would be promptly deported
walk out of the New Testament now
and begin his preaching from a soap
box. Heine's idea of Christianity was
thus expressed: christianity, by incul-
eating houndlike humility and angelic
patience, has proved the surest support
of despotism."
When he was lying on his mattress
tomb" slowly dying in Paris, religion
came to him, but in typical Heine fash
ion. He thus describes it:
"a religious reaction has set in upon
me for some time God knows whether
the morphine or the poultices have any
thing to do with it. I believe again in
personal God; to this we come when
we are sick, sick to death. and broken
down. If the German people. accept the
King of Prussia in their need, why
should not I accept personal God?
When health is used up, money used up
also, and. sound human senses used up,
Christianity begins. For the sick
man it is very good religion"
He never changed, alas, lived and died
a heathen Four hours before his death