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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1918)
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING The Absent Members The regular meeting o f the Ladies Bean Club was held recently and Mesdames Crank, Lank, Rank and Tank were absent. During the session, it was learned from the conversation that Mrs. Crank was so ornery that none of the members liked her, Mrs. Lank was so extravagant that her poor husband had lost a fair sized portion of his nose on the grindstone, that Airs. Rank was vulgar and chased men and Mrs. Tank was stuck up because her husband happened to inherit some money. There was a good one to tell on Mrs. Sank but she was present. - T S U I CAPTIVE GERMANS KINDLY The Rhyming Summarist Once more we eat the flour of wheat And it tastes most awful well, But just how long w e’ll have it tho, No one knows to tell; Barley, sawdust, oats and rice Which was used for baking, Say .weren’t we hooked! When it was cooked To curb our hunger’s acheing. 0 A Ladies Home Journal Story The following story from the most recent issue o f the Ladies Home Journal was much read, possibly with sufficient reason: “ A man put a bundle in the rack of the railroad car above a man sitting next to the window and sat down in the unoccupied part of the seat. It was a warm day and Switzerland fo live. 1 would go to America, but they don’t like Germans over there any more.” “ Why are you going to leave Ger many?” For an answer there was a shrug o f shoulders and a half scowl, half smile. “ Are you satisfied here?” “ It’s a lot better than being in a grave where a lot of them are.” the man under the rack had his hat in his hand. Suddenly a gentle little trickle came down from the bundle on the man’s head. Wiping the top of his head with a hand kerchief he turned to his neighbor and said: “ Something in your bundle seems to be leaking. Pickles?” “ No,” said the man, “ Puppies.” Hint For the Food Administration According to the gospel of Bill Craven, it is not essential for all ice cream to have sugar in it. There are evenings he says when it gets so sweet in his serving room that it tastes way out in the front end of the store. He advocates two kinds of ice cream— sweet and unsweetened. The sweet be served to children, married people and old maids and the unsweetened to lustrates why. in dealing with all types o f ships, gross tonnage, or the actual size regardless of the space allotted to cargo, has been chosen Internationally as more truly Indicative o f the size of a fleet. There has been a steady Increase in new ships this year, the May tonnage being three times as great as the Jan uary output, and greater than the whole output for the year 1914. In the first month o f 1918 there were 57 ships o f 64,759 tons given official numbers. In February 84 ships o f 117,601 gross tons were numbered. March saw a notable jump In the pro duction o f small ships, numbers being awarded to 138, the tonnage being 147,- 145. The record In April was 165 ships o f 163,050 tons, and In May 185 ships o f 194,465 tons. young folks hopelessly drifting toward matrimony. 0 AN UN FINISH ED POME The farmer toils in the blistering siin, He has his do to do, His wife stands o ’er a red hot stove, Rather uncomfortable too; The hired man— then we happened to think that the hired man is a creature that is rapidly becoming extinct and if any farmer has one he keeps him in a glass jar and charges an admission price to see him. 0 Homer \\ ood, who was up on a wind mill once, says that a “ pancake landing” like Lieutenant^Floyd used to jump in a French lake, means Hat. A ll right. THE A N SW E R OF THE FOREIGN BORN (Coutuiued from Huge 2.) lie would, there was always that man above— the man on the hill— whose place he could uot reach. Cleveland, O.— One o f the For that man’s sous there were schools and professions least surprising thing to be t ------------ seen on the streets o f Cleveland and places of honor. For our sous there was work, work French Generous to Prisoners De now is a taxicab driver calmly without hope, the work of stalwart, steady oxen, work for sitting In a taxi at Its stand, spite Brutal Course of a living, not for the full life of the boy’s yearning and his purling and dropping, while sox Enemy. and sweaters develop before capacity. your eyes. But the drivers a re» The girl of his heart he could not marry, for she lived girls, fo r Cleveland Is rapidly** on the hill, and the hill to him was a world apart, never to getting a large proportion o f Its M E GLAD TO BE OUT OF IT X day drivers from the other sex. be scaled by his aspiring impulse. The way of public service was closed to him, save as the servitor of the man Italian Invents Canned Lightning Sight of Long American Columns Do- above. A soldier he could be; aye, he must be, under a “NO CHILDREN’” RULE BANNED Capable of Destroying •troy» Hun Hope* of Victory— Live captain who knew him only as a shield or a spear, under a Like Happy Family In GETS BROTHER TO RECRUIT king he had no part in choosing, under a Hag that gave Trenches of Enemy. Landlords in Seattle Are Appealed to Prison Camp. to Remove Signs From Their Agent From Canada Had flot 8een him bounty, uot opportunity. Buildings. Him In Twenty Years. And we, the foreign born, are here now to do our part, With the American Forces In France. “ Why don’t you Join the army and — France knows that her prisoners In TERRIBLE ENGINE OF DEATH Seattle, Wash.— “ No Children A l our full part, in the making of America. A ll the thous Germany are treated badly, but Ger lowed" signs must be removed by Se do your bit, friend?” said Sergt. Harry ands of years of upward struggle, the climb from serfdom man prisoners are treated humanely attle landlords from their properties. Black, on recruiting service for the and even generously In French pris Claimed Invention Could End W ar In ] according to J. W. Spangler, vice pres British recruiting mission to a roan up, has led to the land of equal chance. Thirty Days and Allies Could March ons Just the same, writes Don Martin ident o f the Seattle chamber o f com standing idly on a corner in Minne W e tied from the man above. In the New York Herald. I asked Unchallenged Into Berlin. merce. H e has Issued an appeal to apolis. Here we have no master but ourselves. Our hats come “ Beg pardon, but Is your name an officer in charge o f a French prison rooming house proprietors, hotel men Testa Prove Ite Value. camp why this Is, and he shrugged off to genius, not to rank. The great house on the hill is I and owners o f rental properties, de- Black?” was the stranger’s answer. “ Yes, it Is, but you are a strauger Ills shoulders and said m erely: Rome.— The kaiser’s dream o f vic ’ daring that owing to the scarcity of the home of one who once was a section hand. His money to me,” retorted the sergeant. “ Ah 1” quarters fo r shipyard workers and tory and world supremacy may be “ I may be a stranger, but I am also gave wages till we had money to pay wages. Unless one could see the gesture blasted out by “ canned lightning,” a ■ others engaged In war work the sltu- accompanying the monosyllable he terrible death engine Invented by an ! ution in this city Is becoming alarming. your brother,” was the reply. There was hope in our hearts and that hope has blossom A fter the first Interchange o f experi would hardly know what meaning to Italian scientist. Dazzling swords o f ed into brigbt-eved boys and girls, into homes where ences gone through In the last twenty attach to I t It really meant: fire, more deadly than are highest ex years of separation the brothers stalk pianos play, into schools and colleges and law courts and “ Oh, what’s the use o f being bru plosives, followed by annihilating ex ed Into the recruiting headquarters tal to Individuals just because some plosions, are capable o f destroying en legislatures, where our boys work beside other boys and and the civilian brother made applica one else Is? W e wish we could, but emy trenches with one blinding flash, win ahead, into honors which come with talent, leadership tion for enlistment and was accepted. w e can’t.” according to his claims. Mine sweep that comes with character, into fellowship that knows no I have Inspected several prisons, ers equipped with this device could some large and some small, and In fire mines thousands o f yards distant. BRITISH OFFER GRATUITIES circle beside a common taste, into a pride, a compelling every one I have found the Germans On the land, “ canned lightning” could pride, a spurring, life-giving pride that we are of, that we treated quite as well as civil prisoners be used to form a most successful bar Department of Commerce Gives Men Promoted From Ranke to Re In normal times and in many Instances rage and could wipe out the defenders are for— this land of equal chance. ceive Grant of $250. First War Statistics. better. Officers are rtbt humiliated In o f German trenches with unerring cer Important concessions to noncom I f justice falls in this land, ours is the fault. I f the any way. In fact they receive better missioned officers and men who receive | tainty. torch of liberty fades or fails, ours be the blame. I f our treatment, a stranger would think, temporary commissions are announced The scientist Is credited with hav than they are really entitled to. Hag falls, Jill the eager and struggling ones in other lands ing discovered a means o f concentrat SECOND ONLY TO BRITISH in a new British army order. Prisoners Live Happily. Men promoted from the ranks will will lose heart; all those who painted its starry field in ing and reflecting electric rays In snch On a low hill about 1,000 feet from a manner as to produce the results de receive a grant o f $250 fo r the provi hopeful blue and drew its stripes in courageous red will h main road of France stands a prison scribed. It Is reported that this In ! Merchant Marine of America Now sion o f kit and uniform, and those who — five low wooden buildings surround- ventor has proved to representatives reproach us forevermore. — 10,000,000 Tone— 692 Vessels Built In sign an undertaking to serve at least ad by two barbed wire fences, with o f his government that electric cur two years after the termination o f hos W e know that this freedom is at once our glory and our Last Five Months— 8ingle Month’s armed pickets always patrolling out rent can be concentrated and directed tilities will receive a further outfit al Growth In 1918 Equals Whole Num danger. For now there is no .man above; we have no will side. H ere are 200 Germans, many o f In rays. **w lowance of $537. — - —-— ber Launched in 1914— Now Reckon them prisoners taken In the early bat Tests Held on Banks of Tiber. I f an officer ceases to serve within | to guide but our own. We have come to the time of test. by Deadweight Tonnage. tle o f the Somme, but some taken that period the allowance o f $537 shall In describing the results o f these We will not falter; we will not weaken. The Old World more recently. They are all privates tests, held on the banks o f the be deducted from the gratuity or re and constitute as happy a fam ily as historic Tiber, F. H. Randnll, writing The steady growth o f the American tired pay due to him, but If he should shall not see us break and run when challenged. one could find where personal liberty In the Illustrated World, says that the merchant marine In all classes o f ves die before the end o f the war the What has been gained and given to us we hold for our Is the one thing desired and denied. scientist was asked to burn through sels has been revealed fo r the first 1 amount w ill be credited to his estatf I selves and our sons. _ _ J The Germans stood at their barbed a three-inch plank o f hardwood. In time since the war began In statistics TAXICAB DRIVERS KNIT BUT THEY ARE WOMEN BLASTS KAISER'S HOPE BF VICTORY OUR TRADE FLEET NOW27171 SHIPS fences hours at a time and watched an Instant, the writer says, the plank the endless line o f soldiers. When it was seared and broken as I f It had w as the blue o f France that was mov been brokpn by lightning. in g past the Germans were not pai ilcu- Officials «hen asked the scientist to la riy Interested. They bad seen that explode two bombs, one hidden along fo r years. They know France always the bank o f the river and the other In bas had an endless line of everything the bed o f the stream. Within ten needed fo r war. But when they saw minutes the bomb along the bank ex the khaki o f America filing or rolling ploded. It required a mueh longer by fo r a whole day and then fo r an time to explode the other bomb, but other, and heard the muddy shuffle o f this, too, was finally accomplished. fe e t through the night, there was a The entire outfit used by thp Inventor change In the dull expression o f those was placed on a single small barge. German eyes. It was at this time that An approximate Idea o f the power I went to the prison to learn what they o f the arcing electricity may be ob thought o f what they had seen. First tained by watching an electric furnace it should be stated that these prisoners at work. It will cut the hardest steel see little o f recent developments In like putty. To flash such a flame the war. They must form their opin through an aeroplane, submarine, bat ions from ruch fragments o f conversa tleship or a trench would leave a to tion as they hear from their keepers tal wreck. Mines placed In the North and from what they see, as, fo r In sea by the Germnns could be elim stance, from the long, long line of inated, and mine sweepers could de Americans, the first they had seen. stroy all o f these hidden terrors o f the In this particular prison the new sea located within thousands o f yards comers had brought the news situation o f the ship. up to early spring, but as for the big Death to Airplanes. offensive the prisoners knew only that I In a graphic description. Mr. Rand there probably would be one. all paints a picture o f what would Americans Surprise German*. happen with this machine In aetlon. When I asked 11 there was a German Every enemy airplane or any fleet of among the two hundred who could them would fall to earth, a crumpled apeak English, a good looking young wreck. A t the touch o f n button, a man, with a typical Teutonic mustache, bolt o f electricity would suddenly red cheeks, a glow o f health, was call shoot forward with Incredible speed. ed out. H e stepped Into my presence A few scarred parts would be all that like an automaton, clicked his heels to was left o f what had been a soaring gether and saluted the French captain. airplane a few minutes before. H e told roe he was a private; that he A scout could lurk with his deadly has a home in Lucerne, Switzerland; weapons, connected with the gener that he fought eight months, but was ators and concentrators behind the never wounded ; that he Is in the whole lines, In shell holes or craters In “ no sale dry goods business In Berlin, and man’s land.” When the enemy that he does business with John Wana- charged he could sweep the whole line maker, Marshall Field and Stern as It passed, annihilating each succes Brothers. sive wave o f advancing Germans. "W hat d if you think o f all the Am eri Mr. Randall says that he can’t say cans you have seen pasr ng here recent that this has been donfc or will be ly?” I asked him. done, but he don’t dare to suggest that "I have seen many Americans,” he It cannot be accomplished. Light, •aid. " i was surprised that you have heat and rays o f other kind can be reflected. He conclude* by saying: ao many In France.” “ Once this problem Is solved there Another prisoner, less prepossessing in appearance than the first, was asked will be no wsr. I f the allies were pos abont things In general. He spoke sessed o f equipment that would permit the arcing at a distance o f powerful English poorly. “I live in Berlin and work In a bank, electric currents, the war would be but eras In the war for two years. won In SO days and allied troops would Wbaa the war la over I am going to be marching unchallenged Into Bar- from the department o f commerce. They show that In the first five months o f this year there have been built in this country and officially numbered , by the bureau o f navigation a total of 629 vessels o f 687,055 gross tons. The merchant fleet o f the United States now amounts to approximately 10,000,000 gross tons, not Including merchant craft under control o f the army and naviy as transports and sup p ly ships. A t the beginning o f Jan uary 26,242 merchant vessels o f 9,353,- 224 gross tons were flying the Stars and Stripes on trips across the Atlan tic with food and munitions, Into the Caribbean and Pacific with American products fo r foreign customers and on the lakes and rivers o f this country as part o f the nation’s domestic trans portation system. Includes New Vessels. This tremendous fleet is second only to the merchant tonnage o f Great Brit ain. It Includes all new vessels built under the direction o f the shipping board and thousands o f other ships, smaller In tonnage but greater in car rying capacity, which play so large a pHrt in commerce and the maintenance o f a favorable balance o f trade. A ll merchant vessels are required by law to register with the bureau of navigation o f the department o f com merce and to receive an official Iden tification number, before being per mitted to fly the flag o f the United States. The number is awarded when the finished ship is measured fo r gross tonnage capacity, which is the content o f the ship in terms of 100 cubic feet and the internationally accepted meth od o f expressing size. The shipping board, building exclu sively cargo ships, has adopted dead weight tonnage as the medium o f com puting new tonnage, deadweight capa city being the actual weight o f cargo and bunker coal which can be carried. Indicates Fleet's 8lze. The deadweight tonnage o f a cargo ship la about 50 per cent greater than Its gross tonnage, but In a passenger vessel is less, because the space la oc cupied by passenger accommodation. Tho form er German liner Vaterland. now the Leviathan, has a gross ton nage o f 54.000, but a deadweight capa city o f only about 5.000 tons, which 11- WHY GUYON FIGHTS This French Poilu Is Fire-Eater. iront une. READY FOR A CHARGE Regular l g » r. — Bride Taken Prisoner and Horribly Abused by Huns, Escapes to Tell 8tory. t \r 0 „ Jÿr* <*•:'* Parts.— Guyon’s a regular fire-eater. H e has been cited six times. He wears a erolx de guerre and a medallle d’hon- neur. H e captured a German mitrail leuse single-handed. He went out alope In No Man’s Land to bring back a wounded comrade. H e’s been wounded himself four times. When he Is back o f the lines, off duty, he helps a Y. M. C. A. secretary hand out writing paper to his com rades In a foyer du soldat. But It Isn’t active enough fo r him. Since Xugust, 1914. he doesn't seem to need to rest. When he Isn’t in the trenches he works off his surplus energy cuss ing out the way the war Is run be cause he Isn’t In active service every minute. There are a lot o f poitus like Guyou. Get thrtn ten kilometers back o f the front and they growl and roar all day. Put them In the trenches and you sim ply can’t hold them In. Probably a story lies back o f most o f them Jnat as one explains Guyon. When the war broke out Guyon had Just married. He and his w ife were living In a little town np near the Bel gian border. O f course he was called and le ft fo r the front. For more than a year he did not hear from his w ife— not a word. A t last he received'* let ter from her. mailed In Parts. She had been taken prisoner at the time o f the Invasion and deported In to Germany. A fter a year o f horrible auffertng and abuse, she escaped Into Holland and got back to France by way o f London. A t last she reached Paris and went to work In a munitions fketory, where she Is still working. Onyon told his story to the Ameri can Y . M. O. A. secretary with typical French calmness. His fury against the Bochee be puts Into action In tho T \ ' -<X:r ' Z À OREGON HAS NO W A R PLANTS ’TIS CLAIMED (Benton County Courier.) Oregon has a nation-wide reputa- I lion as I lie most patriotic of states, ; yet within its big boundaries there is not a fori, offntnnmeiit, aviation field or any oilier federal war activity. Washington and California are full of them. Whv is it? # ' fr - »r Max Goldman Deals in HIDES PELTS WOOL FURS MOHAIR CASCARA BARK VEA L ! PORK BEEF POULTRY BUTTER EGGS These French grenadiers are pre paring fo r a raid on the German lines. States soldier n o w serving In France. Dallas, Ore.— Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Woods received a letter from their son, Laird Woods, recently, and In It he stated that h“ had Just received his first mall since arriving In France. The mall consisted o f 84 letters and six package«. Young Woods together with several other Company L boys of this city, were left behind In a hospital In Neyv York when the Oregon troops •ailed fo r France, and he sailed on a later date but never caught up with the regiment. He was finally assigned to a com pany in the old Montana National Onard and la serving with that regi ment somewhere near the fighting front la France now,__________________ ] FARM PRODUCE WOOD WOOD GROCERIES SHOES FUR NISH ING S DRY GOODS CASH OR TRADE SW O PE & SW OPE LAW YERS I. 0. 0. F. Building Independence, , Oregom