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CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL JANUARY 3, 1918 PAGE 2 v CROOK COUNTY JOURNAL BY GCV LAKX)LLKTTK Entered at the postofflce at Prlnevtlle, Oregon, as second-clan Batter. IlHLI9ItI.U Mtni iniivu'.ii Price $2.00 per year, payable trictly in advauce. In case of cbange ot address please nottty us t once, living both old and new address. THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR F0REI6I ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO IKANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES WE IX) OIK SHARK AND MORE Every mail brings us one or more communications from some head quarters or the chairman of some ot the war committees in Portland or ether points, urging us to bring be fore the people some phase ot the var work. In one day last week we received nine ot these, and this was not an exception either. Two were from the Red Cross, one the treasury department on lib erty loan bonds, another on thrift stamps, one seeking our recom mendation for civil service ap pointment, four from the depart ment ot agriculture in its different branches, and in addition there was ne from the ever active opponents t national prohibition, and another from an individual stating that he is a candidate for some stats office and thanks us in advance for print ing a half column ot reasons why he sBould be elected to this office. For the bulletins and letters of a more personal nature from the gov ernment departments we are thank ful, and we will continue to assist in all these movements for the com mon good in so far as we are able. For the letters we receive from Ch If you are interested in a home on this new project, see me at once as this is the remain ing unsold land under this project and is selling fast R. L state headquarters ot the Red Cross, Y. M. C. A. and Liberty Loan drives we would iwommend a conserva tion ot paper and clerical labor. It is always an awful task to pull Portland and some ot the Willam ette Valley counties over the top in these matters, and if the worthy and overworked individuals at head quarters will look up the records they can easily si-e that Crook County is always among the first to complete the quota in the drives. The same applies to most ot the other counties east of the Cascades also, but always applies to Crook County. The class of people who have made a success in life in this part ot the state are ot a pioneering na ture, and such people always do their share and more Just as soon as they find what their just share is. It there are shirkers and alackvrs, of which we are almost immune, they are not of the pioneers, and they will be given an opportunity to reform or leave, and that promptly. The problem of meeting with success in public undertakings here is not so great as in some other communities. Portland for example. o BUY BABY BONDS War-savings campaigns, similar to the War-savings certificates and Thrift-Stamp campaign Just launched by the Treasury Depart ment of the United States, are prov ing highly satisfactory in England. There, as in the United Slates, the laboring classes, and their children, unable to invest in the bonds of larger denominations, do take pride and patriotic satisfaction in Invest ing their small earnings in "Baby bonds", for they realize that they are thus helping to win the war. Already the effects of the educa tional features of the propaganda are being felt. Parents and child ren alike are learning to save. They are lending to the government and at the same time are putting more money in the savings banks. Basil B. Blackett, of the British treasury, in an address to the Amer ican Bankers' Association advised that the working people ot small savings capacity in England. Wales an.d Scotland have lent their gov ernment $400,000,000 out ot six teen months' savings. Mr. Blackett speaking ot the larger features ot the campaign said: , "The war savings movement has in the first place increased savings banks deposits during the war. Still more important, it is educating OGHOCO PROJECT .eap 2. 47 acres 3 miles northwest of Prineville, all under ditch. This is a snap at $30 per acre. $150 cash and balance in 9 years at 6 per cent. 3. 80 acres 7 miles northwest of Prineville, all improved and produced a $1600 crop of hay last year. ..This place is en tirely fenced with Page woven wire fence. For quick sale will sell this 80 acres for $35 per acre; $1200 cash and bal ance on or before 5 years. 4. 40 acres, 7 miles from Prineville, raw land under Ochoco Project $22.50 per acre; $100 cash, balance in 9 years at 6 per cent. 5. 160 acres miles from Prineville, 115 acres under ditch and now in cultivation; 15 acres now in alfalfa and has a 50 per cent water right; balance of improved land seeded to rye. Has small house and barn. Electric power line and railroad pass directly in front of house. This is without SCHEE, Frame ville, Oregon a vast new army ot future clients for savings institutions after the war. Finally, it can not fall to be of enormous significance In the fu ture state of England that one in every four of Its population, at the very least, Is a direct holder of gov ernment securities." " -o OI K KNKMIKH Although all true Americans de sire peace, we must realise that in Germany we have no ordinary toe, and that the purpose of this war is to teach that country a lesson that will make it safe for mankind in the future. No nation has ever before defied every common law, violated all Its own agreements, and considered Its promises and treaties as binding only on its enemies. Poison gases were common In warfare 800 years before Christ, yet no nation has been so barbaric as to use them In modern times un til Germany did so ,in the present war. No nation, excepting the barbaric Turk has been so low as to murder helpless non combatants, women and children, until the practice ot Germany in the present conflict be came common. The only reason that Germany has not overrun the earth, and de stroyed all that Is good In it is her utter lack of power to do so. What ever is offered to the world by Ger many as peace proposals should be considered as her former treaties, binding only until it is to the ad vantage of Germany to break them. Germany must be subdued, and is perhaps easier done now than later. Peace talk is an admission of weakness and we should not be deceived. o KKK.l'IMl IT OUT OK THE PAPER Where Is the editor who has not been Importuned with tears to keep the name of some offender against the law out ot his paper? Many there are who can also remember the threats of dire vengeance if the request to "kill" a certain story was not complied with. The average publisher docs not take pleasure In parading the misfortune of some man or woman in the columns of his newspaper, but as a purveyor ot the news ot the day he is often called npon to print things he would much prefer not to. Here is the reply of John L. Sullivan, editor of the Eve ning Leader, St. Marys, 0., to those who try to prevail upon blm to over look certain matters ot news: "Life would be much more pleas ant to' the average newspaper pub- For Sn32n3Sn3Sn3S3Sn2Sn3Sn2 S8 TO uinawiiiiiiiiM S S3 w w hi All sizes and varieties! Johna thons, Spitzenbergs, Baldwins. Wagners and a number of other good winter varieties! We have a special price for a limited time of $1.65 to $1.95 per box. If you are unable to call and inspect them yourself, send us your order by mail! MICHEL GROCERY CO. raj im BR Usher If everybody were to walk in I the straight and narrow way. One I ot the real painful duties of the' publisher is to print the news con-; cernlng people's wrong-doings. That 1 may appear almost Incredible to the ; reading public, but it Is a fact. Just the same. It Is the good that men and women do that we like to pub lish, and not the evil they do. Al though the evil doings make more spicy reading matter and are re ceived with more apparent relish by those who delight In the sensational side of human life, we always try to put ourself in the other fellow's place, "There are very few dsys of the week when some one does not call Qriick doubt the best buy in Crook County. Price $3500; $1600 cash and balance on or before five years. 6. 100 acres joining City of Prineville, all under Ochoco Proj ect, $22.50 per acre. This land joins the Prineville Stock Yards and is an excellent location for feed yards for stock men. Also would make a fine poultry ranch. 7. 80 acres, 7 miles from Prineville, unimproved. Price $32 per acre. 8. 40 acres, 2 miles north of Prineville, unimproved. $30 per acre; $150 cash, balance 9 years at 6 per cent. 9. 157 acres, 8 miles from Prineville; 66 acres under ditch and balance grazing land. Price $2500; $400 cash, balance in 9 years at 6 per cent. 10. 500 acres more under Ochoco Project for sale other than listed above at a reasonable price and easy terms. 23 Apples up and request that this, that and the other thing shall be kept out of the paper. Reference Is had, of course, to matters affecting the morals of people and there Is only one answer that we can give, which Is: 'We cannot make fish of one and flesh ot the other.' That Is to signify that It we keep one offend er's name out of the paper, we muni keep the other offender's namo out of the paper, and vice versa. Fur thermore, it we kept all of their names out ot the paper, the whole community would be 'on our back,' figuratively speaking, because ths community Is not so charitable as may seem upon the surface. "Now, there Is only one way by LANDS ? which you ran keep the names of of fenders against the laws of the com monwealth out of the newspapers, and that Is to turn their footsteps Into the paths which lead to tight enusuess and not to the police court. Whenever a man or woman Is so unfortunate as to get his or her namo onto the police court blotter, the newspaper's duty to the public Is to publish' the facts, no matter whether the offender be high or low, rich or poor, learned or unlearned. Bo It Is a waste ot time and energy to give the editor curtain lectures over the 'phone simply because he hss performed a duty that Is every thing but pleasant to hlm.'-Kx-chsnge. Sale m