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GRANTS PASS DAILY COllUKR KltlU.W, AIMtlli 4, IttlO. PkOK TWO Published Daily Except Sunday A. I. VOORHIES. Pub. and Propr. KmiI at nnatftfMrM. Grants FaSS Ore., m second class mail matter. j ADVERTISING RATES Display space, per inch -15c Local-personal column, per line. 10c Headers, per line Be DAILY COURIER By mall or carrier, per year....6.00 By mail or carrier, per month .60 WEEKLY COURIER By mall, per year M-00 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or all otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. AU rights ot republication of spe cial - dispatches herein are also reserved. FRIDAY, Al'ltlL 4, 1919. OREGON WEATHER Tonight fair; cooler east portion; light frost southwest f and east portions; Saturday' fair, gentle westerly winds. 4 EXPLOSIVES FOR FERTILIZER Isaiah's promise that swords should be beaten into plowshares nd the spears into pruning hooks is given a new and wonderous ver sion in one of the peace measures adopted by the United States gov ernment. The modern equivalent for swords and spears, as everybody knows, is explosives. Instead of cutting up the enemy, we 'blow him up. And the chief ingredient of our many blowing-up mixtures is nitrate. Now, it happens, strangely enough, that nitrate is also one of the most necessary and valuable substances used in agriculture. It is just as good to make things grow as it is to smash things as good to create aa to kill. Chemists say, indeed, that the process is very much the same in tooth cases, and that the stimulus given to plant growth by the nitrate might be described as aa infinite number of Infinitely small explosions In the plant cells. So It is perfectly fitting that the war department should he turning over to the agricultural department more than 160,000 tons of nitrate of soda for distribution among Am erican farmers. That would be enough to kill hun dreds of thousands of Germans. It is also enough to produce millions of bushels of grain and save vast numbers of hungry Europeans from starvation. Wonderful are the ways of Providence. Grant's Hygiene Crackers And the best line of . Hygiene Cookies KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY Quality First sibly longer, the bee has beea a synonym of productive industry and a model for mankind. "How doth the little busy bee, etc.?" How doth she, indeed! Ac cording to recent observations of ir reverent,, hard-headed, practical ob servers, this Is the way she doth: She goes around gathering honey for two shining hours, and then she sneaks home to the hive and lays off, stuffing herself from her store of sweets, and lazily wwking her wings Just enough to keep herself cool sweet food being heating, as everybody knows. She acts precise ly like the idle women we sometimes read about who spend the afternoon dipping into a handy bon-bon box and furnishing motive power to a palm-lettf fan. After a while this gormandizing lethargy palls on Mrs. Bee. The con centrated food she consumes pro duces so much energy that she Just has to get outdoors and work ft off somehow! So she proceeds to take the only exercise she knows anything about, and makes her flower-rounds again. Two hours on duty and two off seems to to her usual schedule, The experts say they have yet to find the bee that pats in an eight' hour day. There is only one hope left the ant. And after this saddening reve lation, we're almost prepared to learn that Mrs. Ant Is a hypocritical loafer. lain always lands in offlve by an overwhelming vote ot the people while Baker elides in on appointment. In advertising her scenery and at tractive resorts, California forgot to mention "the trip over the hump front Oregon .to Hornbrook," where one may Imbibe from many "brooks" and "fords" and forget that there was ever a world war. In California you pay $400 per acre for scenery and $100 per acre for the land. In smaller tracts the climate Is sold by the yard. In Ore gon, you buy the land but the ell' mate and scenery are free. Hunting ibandits along the Rio Grande seems to be the favorite American pastime. And the Yanks generally bring home the bacon. showing the ceremony and the loe- lion ot the grave. The body lies beside those of four other Ameri cana, nud the ground If affeutlonnte ly cared for by the Kronen ni'Uh-j hors who have bordorod the mounds with shrubbery and will dou'Htlos ' 1att.tr cover thorn with flower. j I know you will want to hoar ot the dear old French lady, no doubt herself a soldier's mother, who, , when our little procesMon hailed a ! moment before her door, fount! ' somewhere an armful of late flowers and laid them tenderly on the ting draped casket. They were burled with It. j In regard to 'business matters: The disposition of your son's effect a, ' the payment ot his insurance and so ' on, you will be duly notlfiod by the proper authorities. But if there Is any further Information of a per sonal nature that you would like to have, I shall he only too happy to supply It it I can. In the meantime, may I assure you once more ot my deep sympathy and ot my regret that I cannot speak to you face to face. Yours In the faith of Jesus Christ, E. M. LAWRENCE GOULD. Chaplain United States Army M NOT ABOVE CARRYING BUNDLE Among the attractive sights along the (Rogue these days are the many alfalfa fields, which are fairly Jump ing In their growth. AX IIHJL SHATTERED One after another our traditions are toppled over and our Ideals dim mod. There Is the bee, lor example. From time immemorial, and poa Al Burleson is a jealous mortal, sure ea fate. He is seeing to it that no one becomes a greater dictator than himself. And poor Baker be tween puffs on his pipe he spits at Chamberlain, and leaves the matter to the American people. The voters would soon decide Baker's fate if only given a chance to vote. It might be said that the citizens of Chicago and Milwaukee gave com fort to the enemy. Chicago by re taining Mayor Thompson and Mil waukee by strongly endorsing Ber- ger. It's a great mixture Thomp son, Booze, Berger and Sedition. One, hut not the only difference, between Secretary Baker and Sen ator Chamberlain is that Chamber- The Tie That Binds Our Policyholders To Oregon Life 1 Liberal low premium policies. (No fine-print restrictions.) i 2 Insurance in force from date of ! - ' application if insurable. (A point to be remembered.) 3 We have never disputed or com- . -promised a claim. Always paid in full on the day proofs of death were presented. 4 All assets except U. S. Liberty Bonds invested in Oregon, thereby upbuilding your own state. Orcgonlife Insurance Company - Home Office .RTO?KZ2. Portland, Ore. A. I MIUA Pres. C, g. BAH VOL. Ota- Mgr. a. N. 8TRONO, Ami. Mgr. j ; - A. B. Cornell, Dlst. Mgr. , Grants Tush, Oregon Mrs. George H. Parker, whose son. Edward Parker, died In France, the result of a fall from a motor truck, received the following letter of sympathy from the regiment's chap lain: Headquarters Foresbry, Cappieuse (Gironde) France My Dear Mrs! Parker: Before this letter reaches you, you will undoubtedly receive official no tification ot the sad accident by which your meeting with your son has been postponed until the time when you shall see him In his Heav enly Father's house, to which he has been called 'before you. I know well how little anything that can be said by a stranger can help to ease the pain of such a grief as yours must be, and yet I want you to toe sure that you have, none the less, not only my sympathy but that of ell your boy's companions and officers. I myself was, in a sense, his pas tor, 'being the chaplain of the fores try district to which his camp was attached. Unfortunately I had come so shortly before his death that I had not bad the opportunity to know him, though I have heard him spoken of as a good comrade, a loyal soldier and a faithful and willing worker. I hope you will always feel, as we do, that the manner in which he lost his life makes him no less a hero than if he had 'been killed on the field of battle. For when a m in engages to serve his country, he submits himself to other necessary risks than those of bombardment, ?nd if he loses his life through these, his death Is none the less, as the of ficial statement puts it, "In line 'of duty." To die "In line of duty!" After all, what nobler end could tome to sny life? As a greit sol dier said to a grieving mother some jtwo thousand years ago. "You could not hope your, son could live for ever. The best you could desire was that he should live happily and ille with honor. This he has done." It was with such thoughts in mind that we laid Edward's body to rest In the little American cemetery in the peaceful village of Ponbeux-les-Forges. The Christian burial ser vice was read and ail due military honors were rendered, in tho pres ence of his lieutenant, his company commander, and tho soldiers of the camp to which he helonged. - One of his friends took pictures which will doubtless ibe sent to you Spirit Shown by New York Man May Explain Why He Has Beeem a Millionaire. The following siory, -which suggests thiil mime mlllloiinlres ire no more "stuck up" than the rest of us. Is printed In Forties Miignxtne: A llroad wsy (New York city) street enr con ductor was about to forbid a man car rying a huge roll of carpet to enter his car the bundle was so huge that the conductor feared It would block . the aisle. The hearer of the burden, bow ever, smiled at blm so amlnbly and de posited bis long parcel promptly at the far corner of the platform that the con ductor -hadn't the heart to remon strate. This was at Thirty-third street, opposite a department store. At Forty-second street the passenger shouldered his bundle and walked oft. He carried It to one of New York's newest skyscrapers and Immediately proceeded to lay It upon the floor of one of the reception rooms there. He was the owner of the skyscrap er) He was Irving T. Bush, million aire creator of the famous Bush ter minal, a veritable city within ths city of Brooklyn, owner of a large shlpynrd and of other projects. To friends who chaffed him, Mr. Bush explained that the rug caught his fancy while In the store, and he particularly wished to bare It laid down before a reception that was to be held at the Buyers' club (In the Bush building) that duy. But as the store could not make Immediate deliv ery, why, the only and the natural thing for blm to do was to shoulder It himself. The spectacle of a million aire lugging along such a burden In a street car and In the street did not strike this particular mllllonalrs as In ny way funny. 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When exhibiting her pres ents she said In her best peachy. man ner: "I glved away a lot of things and I 'Joyed my Christmas so much 'came It's nicer to be a giver than a taker." Chicago Tribune. Elkay's Straw Hat Dye Easter Egg Dyes Putnam Dyes Elkay's Soap Dyes CLEMENS Sells Drugs '.. Th $&aJlJL Stum sTHDn "it" tru attachment (OCft rUKU in good shape $O0) One Trailer $30 Ford Touring Car ready to hit the road $250 New Ford Cars and Trucks C. L. HOBART CO. I BUY AND SELL In ordvr to secure more room, I have moved my stock ot second-hand goods to the brick store room, No. 614 South Sixth St. M.Utt'KM, I.ATK '17, Milt KALK AT iOOO Automobiles nud AccctMorlcs ItuKUi' Wskoiiii l-'nrm Imple ments Dig stork nluu) on linnd R. 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