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Editorial Page of The Capital Journal
MOXDAY EVENING
Oi-lobcr 29, 1917
CHAKLES H. FIRHEH
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MU$T USE WATERWAYS
THE SHOT THAT HURT
The first shot fired by American artillery against the
Germans was sent on its way Saturday, and at the same
time the announcement was made that American troops
were in the front trenches in France. This should mark
the day, October 27, as epochal in American history,
However a more stupendous shot was fired, indeed a
genuine volley, the same day when in twelve hours the
American people after putting up four billion dollars
within a few weeks showed what they could do, and also
showed the boundless resources of the country by sub
scribing a billion dollars in twelve hours. This required
the subscribing of about $1,350,000 a minute for the entire
twelve hours. That is the biggest shell fired during the
war, and is an eloquent answer to the Prussian sneers at
America's weakness. Germany points to the successful
floating of her last loan for three billions, but this makes
the amount she has raised in more than three years but
about 60 per cent more than the United States has raised
in three months. It is also an answer to those who call
Americans "dollar chasers." These dollar chasers put
up nearly 1,800 tons of gold in twelve hours in the cause
of freedom, and for the benefit of the whole world. In
the campaign, that originally called for three billions
thev put up within about four weeks about 9,000 tons of
gold, or about one-fourth ot an mere is in uie wona. me
uhfill Saturdav marked America's active entrance into the
war, and the magnifiicent subscription emphasized her
assertion that she had entered into it with the intention of
remaining until the menace of Prussianism and kaiser
ism was forever removed from the world. The shell per
haps did no damage to the enemy, but the story of Amer
ica's subscription of a billion dollars in twelve hours
struck a blow to the cause of Prussianism that jarred it to
its foundations. The German people will hear nothing
of this, but instead will probably be told the loan was a
failure, but the kaiser and his advisers know it already,
and knowing, are far from pleased.
The Austrians reinforced by German legions have re
gained practically all the territory gained by Italy in the
year's campaign. It is claimed the Italians have now
reached their old ground, and control the mountain passes
so that further advances by the Central powers will be im
possible. At the same time the British and French keep
hammering away on the west front making steady gains,
which partly offset the losses on the Italian front. While
the Italians have lost heavily the German claim of
100,000 prisoners, is probably very much exaggerated. The
Germans are engaged in heartening their people as much
as anything else, and any story that will tend to accom
plish this is told unhesitatingly.
It is quite likely there will be few appropriations for
improving navigaoie streams, unless those sections blessed
with them put them to practical use. The Upper Colum
bia is a notable example of the expenditure of vast sums
which are to a large extent wasted. With the car short
age, which will undoubtedly exist for a couple of years at
least, it would seem that Portland should wake un to the
necessity of using the great water way, and instead of
allowing the wheat of the inland empire to be shipped into
her front door and out of the back to Seattle on the rail
roads, that she would put on enough boats to handle so
much of the crop as is within reaching distance of the
river, and have it shipped from Portland instead of the
sound. Of course just now this wheat is finding its way
east over the railroads owing to ship shortage, but with
the harvesting of the next cron there should be also a
launching ot a ship every few days that will have to go
into service between American Atlantic ports and Europe,
and there is no service they can perform as benefiicial as
carrying, each or tnem a cargo or Oregon gram. They
must carry this or lumber, and there should be enoueh for
Dotn. Another Doat line or two irom Lewiston to Port
land would prove beneficial to the wheat growers and cer
tainly equally so to Portland. It would help head off
beattie irom the grain iieids and by eliminating the near
ly 200 mile haul from Portland to that port would also help
solve the car shortage problem. Uncle Sam is everlasting
ly right. Me should not spend another dollar in improv'
ing water ways until those already improved are used.
Margaret Garrett's
Hiisbasd
By JANE PHELPS
A MORNING WALK
5 And He Kd
: The Da Novelette
One cannot realize the vastness of the United States
business better than by examining into her living ex
penses. Her bill at the grocers for sugar for a year is
about $750,000,000. Our coffee bill is about $125,000,000,
and our tea for a year costs us about $25,000,000. Our
imports of crude cocoa last year were valued at above
$35,000,000. We use three million dollars worth of
matches and half a million dollars worth of toothpicks.
When it comes to real expenses such as meat, bread, but
ter and other substantials, the figures make one dizzy.
The value of products from the American hens would pay
the 4 per cent interest on a $10,000,000,000 bond issue and
leave a handsome surplus.
. CHAPTER XLIII.
Bob went immediately to sleep. I
poke to him once or twiee after I
followed him to our room but he did- ,
n't answer My head ached so dread
fully that I couldn't sleep. Then, too,
tha thought that Bob had seemed to
care so little added to my misery, al-
though I would not admit that I had :
failed. I would talk to him again in I
me morning when Ins anger had cool- j
ed: and he would surely see thines as
I did.
But the next morning Bob treated all
my overtures so coolly that I became
almost discouraged, iry head still ached,
and after breakfast I took a long walk.
It was a lovely October morning; the
air was fresh and crisp, and before
long I began to feel better. With my
headache gone, I commenced to take
a less doleful view of the way Bob
had acted; and to find excuses for
him.
He naturally was a bit angry because
I had taken the initiative, and refused '
the invitation without consulting him. j
I was to blame in that. Yet perhaps, it '
was for the best: for he had accepted t
the invitation it would have been iu
bad taste for me to decline. That must
be my cue. I must appeal to his usual
good taste in all social matters.
Refreshed, my mind made up that if
I appealed in the right way Bob would
not insist upon going to Henry Creed-
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CHESTY 'S CHANCE.
RALLY AT AURORA
Judge MoCamant spoke Monday
night to a good crowd at the band hall
more's party; I stopped In Elsie's to upon the war and its related question, tectY and caching Ts eye h! tat
have a little chat. ?Ho reviewed causes of this country 's;! jr: s J '
weu, luurgarci, nave you come iu umrance imo me war. tie ucciarea
"Hirrocks," said the coach impress
ively, 'I know you have failed to make
the team for three successive years. I
know, when you played on scrub teams
during practice games, you fumbled,
every ball that was ever passed to vou.
But I have confidence in you, Hirrocks.
Swansoug, the world's greatest quarter
back, has just had his neck jumped on
in rapid succession by nine of Yale
vard's players, and is temporarily in
disposed. Without him we are lost
unless another great quarterback ap
pears as though by magic. Hirrocks,
mis is your chance.'
Chesty Hirrocks set his jaw, rose
from the sidelines, agitated his scalp
in a slight smile, and stepped into
Swansong's place. The score was tied.
it was Yulevard's ball, and ouly three
uiinuies icic 10 piay.
"Hirrocks!" yelled the miirhtv crowd
hoarsely. ' ' Hirrocks! Hirrocks! Hickory
ham, slickery slam, Hirrocks! Hirrocksl
Hirrocks!!!" '
They look for me to win the dav."
thought Hirrocks, and something inside
him told him he could do it. Tho ball
was passed to Stooxy, the powerful
Yalovard left hinge, aud, swinging his
wonderful right leg in a complete eircle
he booted it up, up, up, till it was caught
by an upper current of wind and car
ried clear over the Southfield fence.
Before it had time to alight, the fleet
Hirrocks had clambered out into the
street and had caught it. Only five sec
onds remained to play. His ouly chance
was a kick over the "goal. Shuttins hia
As a real bluffer, Holland is the boss. She threatens
to butcher all her cattle and sell them to the highest bid
der, by which she means she will sell them to Germany.
Her bluff is not hard to call for if she. kills her cattle she
will quit furnishing Germany with butter and cheese, so
it's as long as it is broad. The only difference is that hav
ing sold her cattle to Germany hereafter she can furnish
her neither beef nor dairy products and will have neither
for herself. Germany is the country that should be scared
at the bluff.
war.
your senses f" she asKed after we had, we were forced to fight or submit to
talked a little while. I will of the imperial German tvrant-
"Come to my senses! what do you The barbarous acts of the conquerors'
mean?" or rsoigium ana northern franca were
"About tho party I I told you Bob recounted how children were murder
would go! You'll owe mo a box of gloves ed and women ravished the speaker
you see if you don'tl" jdeclaring he could not relate to a mix-
"I didn't bet, Elsie. But I am sure'ed audience the brutal and inhuman
Bob will remain at home with me." . deeds of shame comittcd by the con-
"But he told me over the phone last quenng German hordes
night that he wouldn't miss one of . 118 appealed to the people to support
Henry's partios for anything in the tn government with loans and co-op-world
" I eration in food conservation, making a
I know. It was my fault. I made ul w ioyauy ana pa-
Miss Anne Martin, a suffragette who was arrested and
served time in the workhouse at Washington for picketing
the White House, is in Portland and told the party who
entertained her at luncheon that her treatment in jail was
"far from good." This is a complaint voiced by the hobo
" and others who are so to speak, jail habitues, and so Miss
Martin's complaint is not new. However if she does not
like the treatment she can easily avoid its recurrence.
All she has to do is to quit disobeying the law. She should
also remember that jails are not supposed to be made
especially attractive. This is part of the plan to keep them
Irom being too well patronized.
The first real frost of the season was that Saturday
right. Up to Saturday the tomato was in evidence at all
the local groceries, and they were "the finest ever." They
went off the market so far as new supplies are concerned
when Jack Frost made his visit. Another delicious food
substitute, green com, which has been common until with
in the last few days, went with the tomatoes. It is not
the "fodder in the shock" despite the fact the frost was
on the "pumpkin.''
The heaviest wind storm ever experienced in that sec
tion visited The Dalles Saturday, doing considerable
damage. It also gave Hood River a sample of what it
could do and shook down the late apples. Coming as it did
on the last day of the liberty loan campaign, it may be
possible it was caused by the whirlwind finish, or some
of it, getting away.
The secret service men have captured another batch of
evidence of that arch conspirator Bernstorft s perfidy.
This time evidence is found of the count's plotting in the
Irish rebellion. It shows his utter disregard for the
decencies due to his position. He wept when he left the
United States, but his flow of tears is as nothing to what
he will shed if he ever again sets foot on American soil.
Oregon came through with the $25,000,000 asked of her,
and would have made it $30,000,000 if she had known it
was wanted. She came down the homestretch, beating
her own time and without use of spur or whip.
LADD & BUSH. Bankers
ESTABLISHED 18C8
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUf TNEJS
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
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by Walt Mason
CONSERVING THINGS
I want to save the food supply, and so I fol
low every faddist, and this explains my
heartfelt sigh, and why I find each week the
saddest. Persuaded by the faddist bunch,
I started making Mondays meatless; on
Tuesdays I've a sickly lunch, for Tuesdays
are appointed wheatless. My heart that
once was lilting song, is dismal now, and
dumb and tuneless; I do not smile, the whole
week long, for every other day is pruneless.
I hope my self-denying stunt may help to
squelch the beastly foeman; I hope to aid
an mason., a things at the front by disciplining my abdo
men. The Prussian strength I hope to
break, and so my diet's stale and wooden: on Saturdavs I
have no cake, on Sundays I cut out the puddin'. I'd rob
me Kaiser oi nis tnrone, tne Kronpnnz of his martial
splendor, and so I gnaw an old shinbone, where once I ate
the sirloin tender. I am too thin to fill my duds, my cheek
is hollow, wan and hueless; for Thursdays see me shun
the spuds, and every Friday, now, is stewless. I hone the
gripes are not in vain, which now disturb my midriff
regions; I hope my colic and my pain may plav the deuce
with Wilhelm's legions. ,
.ia - Mum
him a bit angry by refusing to go
without consulting him."
"And you think he will not gof"
"I am sure of it."
"Well, all I can say iB that if you
break up the friendship between Bob
and Creedmore, I think it will be a
pity almost -wicked. Why Bob's moth
er used to call him and John Kendall
'her boys' and Bhe thought their in
fluence over Bob a good one. They are
very fine men, Margarwt."
"Bob, doesn't need them now, he has
me," I replied with a colossal egotism.
"Oh, yon think yon are all sufficient
do youl I'm sor.ry Margaret, but no
wmnAn can take the stand you are tak
ing with a full-blooded companionable
fellow liko Bob and get away with it.
You'll eome a cropper, dear, just as
sure as fate."
"I'm not afraid. It may take a lit
tle time, but when my . husband sees
that I intend to fill his life as he fills
mine there will be nothing more to
do. He doesn't yet realize that; his
mother was a bad influence."
"Why Margaret Garrett! how ean
vnn av such a thing t His mother a
h.j infinonrnt whv she was the dear
est, sweetest old lady that ever lived.
Everyone loved her."
"I don't doubt that, yet I still in
sist that her influence was bad for
Bob. She thought too much of making
him happv, too little of his duty to
her. I shall make him just as happy
after a time and ho will not forget
what he owes me, his wife."
"There's no use arguing with you,
Margaret. If I didn't really care for
you 1 should be heartily disgusted with
you and vour ideas. But I am only sorry
for you as it is. Sometime you will pay,
and pay dearly for the stand you are
now taking."
"One would think you were at least
my grandmother to hear yon talk,1 I
exploded, really angry at Elsie, Then
rose to go.
"I am older than you are in exper
ience, Margaret. I have been married
so much longer than you have. Give
Bob a little rope dear"
"So that he may hang himself J
I interrupted. ,
"So that he won't" she replied.
Then laughingly, "We seem to get very
serious when we are togdther lately.
Tot'. tnn it. We'll leave your man
agement of Bob out of the conversation.
I can't help but give you adviee, the
benefit of my own experience whea we
speak of it." .
,,i .k.u Ka aiiIv too clad. Elsie,
have been tempted to tell you as I told
mother: 'That 1 wouiu anenu m
without her help.' "
So your mother too on, i
so yon "told her thatt"
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'I wont offend again, Margaret,
Come on up to the aursery, the baby
...t . tnoth this morains; and Charlie
is to delighted tat he is constantly pull
: v:. t;r in her mouth to feel ot
:iBrri. .n't turn her back for
a minute that he doesn't do it. And his
t 1ti clean, you know.
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KWh.t fnnr vear oiu uuy
responded as we climbed the stairs 10
tuJ .,,.. wkom Babv Madge was
being annoyed by her small brother.
(Tomorrow iMew
Willamette Uniyersty
Grad'jaies at Kosebsrg
The ainiag room of the ITmpqna Hotel
this morning was the seme oi one ni
the prettiest banquets eve' given iu
Roseburg, whea the Alumni and x-
students of Willamette University hal
reunion banquet breakrsisr. The com
pany filed lute tne ainiagreoia ai
promptly T e 'clock aad sat down to an
exceptionally well decorated table. The
table was long and narrow, with place?
for 22 guests. Down the center red and
I triotism of his auditors.
Bollin K. Page, one of the Marion
county "four minute", men, described
tho liberty loan bonds and passed out
several bonds for inspection. He mado
a straight forward talk that won tho
sympathy of his hearers.
Guy N. Hickok introduced the speak
ers, and made gome pertinent remarks
and statements concerning the bond as
investments.
Mrs. Ruhn of Salem sang a solo
which was enthusiastically applauded,
and Miss Levy, a talented young vio
linist, rendered two violin selections.
Mrs. VV. H. Burghardt, Jr., was the accompanist.
Mrs. Uuy N. Hickok also rendered
several selections which were appreci
ated by all. Observer.
His yells brought the dormitory jan
itor and four classmates, who between
them managed to extricate his toes
from the bed-rail.
green autumn leaves wen beautifully
placed between boquets of large yellow
chrysanthemums and ferns.
The breakfast was aervol in eoufsss
and between each coure the guests
IEA WHITE WHITES a-OivIE
FEOM CAMP GEEENE, N. 0.
A letter from Ira White, of the
Third Oregon infantry band, at Camp
Greene, describes that place as a beau
tiful spot, about three miles from
Charlotte, N. C. It is reported thero
that 150,000 troops will be assembled
at Camp Greene for the winter. Hih
letter says, in part: "We eot a irood
glimpse of the south and its ways on
our trip. If we are here long we may
bo talking the southern 'brogue' It
seems to me tho farther south we came.
the blacker tho colored people became.
Theold plantations still have their
colored quarters which must look much
as they did in slavery days.
"One man asked me, 'where did yon
all come from!' Another wanted to
know if Oregon was as far away as
UKianonne. utners thought street
ears must be something new to us. Ono
school ma'am informed us that Bho
knew all about Oregon, that she had
'seen it on the map.' Tho colored folks
seem scared to death and look up to
this war as they did the Civil war."
Aurora Observer.
BERLIN IS REJOICING
Amsterdam, Oet. 29 Berlin today
gave over to rejoicing at the success
'ZZJZtt? M ? TheVneral nublit
was that the victorious advance of the
Austro-German armies would hasten
ceremonies. Principal Emer Doane cf
Yoncalla. The guests present were: Hon.
and Mrs. J. H. Booth, Supt. and Mrs.
O. C, Brown, Bev. ana Mrs. J. C. Spen
cer, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Sawyers, Attor
ney Geo. Neuner, Jr., the Misses Lei'a
Lent, Buby Coryell, M. Abrams, Emma
peace.
The Berlin press not only rejoiced,
but their editorial comments carried
the hint that the. Austrians had been
taught a needed lesson on what could
Miuton, Kuth Hodges,. Mary Aitkeus. be accompUhhed with German heln
auu, conversely,- wnat might happen if
Austria attempted a separate peace.
Attorney Carl E. Wlmbrfrly, Fred Mc
Millan, Emery Doane, of Yoncalla; Mis.
Maye Lovelace-Iler and tha guest of
honor, Dr. Carl Gregg Doney, president
of Willamette University Roseburg
Review.
TRY JOURNAL WANT Am
Austrians Lose 20,000.
Berne, Oct. 29. Twenty-thousand
Austrians and Germans have been lost
so far in the drive against Italy, ac
cording to information from Austrian
sources received liPre today.
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v.,. AwAwxr nxxu xxi3 iKUUi- tint photograph received in
tSP,-Mt eommander XittempuTS .over
throw provisional government and mike himself dictator.
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