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About The evening news. (Roseburg, Douglas County, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 1, 1915)
"'"V " Daily Weather Report I'arlly Cloudy Tonight and Thursday; Occasional Threat ening Weallier. The News ForHesults A" you liave lout or found. Ifurou want to buy or sell. If Jou want work or worKers. UweVTlie News Classified 'Ails. 1 k 5 VOL. VI. liOSEISl'IMi, DOl'GLAS COUNTY", O IlKtiON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER- I, IBIS No. swh ill TRUTH IS FOUND IN WINE OR WAR 'Close Observer Can Read Eu rope's Thots and Motives AMERICA CALLED CONSCIENCE OF WORL D European) Will Look To This , Country at Uloso of tile War For True Meaning of Sanity. l(y William G. Shepherd. (United Press Staff Correspondent.) WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. In wine, it sometimes is said, tbere is truth. War is intoxicating, and, in the wine of war there Is truth. The nations of Europe are drunk with war, their masks are off; you can see them as they really are. Just as a drunken man shows his inner self so do the war-drunk nations of Eu, 'rope reveal, to the careful observer, 'their inner thoughts and motives. The revelations of the war in Eu rope are not confined to the nations of Europe, but extend to the United Stutes. A man who has been in Eu rope, knee deep in war, for the par.i year,, and then returns to the United ; states, sees the land of the stars and stripes In a new light. ' 1 have dis-: 1 covered America. j The first discovery was in Europe. ; In all the truthfulness of their war i intoxication, the Europeans showed ; me the United States as they saw It, i and I was not ashamed, but proud. "The United States is the con science of the world." sal a famous German college professor, now the German army censor at Munich. "The world has gone mad, but your land alone Is cool and sane and we must look to you. at the finish of this war, to tell us what sanity is." At the English Tront, after a dny in the trenches. I sat beside a grate fire In a little hotel a few miles out of shell fire; I didn't want to go to hed, for star of seeing again. In my sleep. snn of the sights I had wit nessed dui-Sig the day. Pei-hips the British officers who were sitting around felt the same. Suddenly one of them spoke. "One of. the greatest men this world ever saw," he said, "was read every hiim Lincoln that 1 do. -Yes." stioko no another P.ritlsh officer. "Do you know, I've !..ard, Lincoln mentioned ever so ninny j '.times lately. Something pn mis war, it seems, appears to have turn ed attention to Lincoln, though I can't tell why. I've just read a book about him and I know ever so many people In London who've dond the same. Tho newspapers keen quot ing him all the time, too." ALLIES LOSE BIG CRUISER BERLIN, Sept. 1. The founder ing of an enemy cruiser that was bombarding In the Gulf of Smyrna, Is reported in a dispatch from Smyr na today. Two cruisers were engag ed In the bombardment, it is stated, when one suddenly started to sink. The second attempted to rescue the stricken ship, but was driven off by the Turkish artillery. TWO DROWN AT NEWBERG, ORE NKWBERG, Ore., SepL 1. Lewis Stohel, aged 40, of Lansing, Mich", and Miss Ruth Boyle, aged 14, of Portland, were drowned In the Will amette rver near here last night. J The girl became distressed while swimming, and Stobel went to her meue, both being drowned. They wra hop yard employes. word, couid Hud about him, an, my lUffig' Mfl t&W W'M4 two little daughters and two little ! k&S'tVnM'Vfi ' K'H'A -V?4W$J 1 sons know everything about Abra- , & tVKtfelfeB, I "It's because he was always for the under dog." said the first officer. "He was brave and patient and kind and honest. You know my children love that story about him and the sixpenny pieces he had In an old sock." "Well, one time Lincoln kept nj grocer's show In a little village and tlm villncn nnstnfNrfl was in a cor- ner of his shop. He had charge of It. One day he failed In business; , ne a inea to maKe u go 01 11 ilt months, but down he went. All the citizens of the village thought he was ruined and some of the men, who were his good friends, feared that he had probably used the postoffice money In trying to save his shop. So they collected about forty 'pounds among themselves you know ev erybody who knew Lincoln loved him and took It to him. 'Here's forty pounds, Abe. they said. 'We figured that you had lost the post office money, too, in the smash, and as soon as the sheriff conies around and finds It out you'll be In trouble.' 'Just wait a minute, boys,' said Lin coln, 'I'll run upstairs and get the l'08tofflce bank and see how 1 stand.' "Pretty soon he came down stairs, carrying an old sock full of coins, tlx pences and thrupences and pen- nles and they were the very coins thnt he had been taking In at the postoffice window during all the hard months. "Lincoln counted It all out and then he said, 'Thanks, awfully beys, but I don't believe I need your money.' cent of "That's the Btory about Lincoln "WAKE UP, AMERICA pe p pBfe, . FAMOVS h at TATCcjBT By THOMAS R. SHIP. ' Three facts about the Military Camp for Business and Professional Men at Platteburg, N. Y., hit you right between the eyes. First, H is KOT a war move. Second, its main purpose is NOT to tram men to be i officers and, third. Its men an WOT j exclusively from the East. 1 Th camp has a meaning ta the I nation, which few people aeem to jreahxo. While the idea was eea tceived only a few weeks ago, H has 'been In the subconscious minds at ! thoughtful, eonserrative men for a tlong time. It is that America mast ibe awakened not only to its defense leas condition trot to its need ef "na htional discipline.1' I It took tne Crrfl War to make the ieation, but a new ginerattan baa frown up and there baa been jfismp in natienal discipline. We have foecorae tmag and seW -tinned. Even an treading on the very verge ef a 'ettoatioa that might mean tfce eem 'teta overturning, if net the eh .Uretien of everything that we aa .nation and-es Individaala bold dear, jfS AHK ASLKEA jfit) atf squad, . jrVvliJ Wf '' 'I WWjJJt ! ' ; -v 9f '"m : SUBMARINES , TO WARN I j 1 1 j bat it 1 1 DiHl il dS of WJsOn Agreed tol U, i rm a Kaiser i P..bT ACTS FO.i FUTURE CONSEOERATI jN (.eimnn Government Had Adopted Tills Policy Itefnre Llnw Arabic was ToriH'doed By a Kiilmiai'iiio. . .uiaTOa, ocit. 1. Germany has officially accepted the American terms in the controversy growing out of the submarine warfare. Von !ieru storff, acting for the German foreign office, informed the state derartnient that henceforth the Kaiser's subma rine attacks wit! conform with th interpretation of America of Interna tional law. The reply of German to the last Lusltania note forwarded by the administration, will glvn the as surance that no more liners will he sitnk without warning, provided they do not attempt to resist the subnia- that my children love the best," con cluded the Britisher. In London, some weeks later, at several book stores I discovered thc-ie had been a growing demand since the war began for books on Lincoln. r IS THE BIG IDEA BEHIND PLATTSBURG CAMP ; The big men in camp are anxious over this condition. They say that if the country could be shaken out of its complacency by some great orator like Webster, it would be sufficient Bat no sach man has arisen. Hence the camp at Platteburg. There the learning of the drill manual, import ant fat itself, is secendary to the big Idea in the mmds ef the men who made the camp a possibility that America shoo id wake op Robert Bacon, once Ambassador to France and farmer Secretary of Stats was a Piattsfearg private an til the record be made there advanced him to sergeant He says be is there as a protest against conditions that permit our preasat tmprepai edneas. The men in the ranks whose names "mean something' are toe many to attempt to record them. Company meters read Eka pages ef "Who's Who m America. For basts nre, there is Mayor Mitchel of New York, Dudley Field Hatone, eoUeeter ef the port of New York; Nebea OTjhaagh iiessi, formerly charge d'affaires ia Mexico: Ramend P. Tenner ef P- kmj Guiuji watrton Pepper, femoea Philadelphia lawyer: i. W. nekermg ef Maisathaestts: WSIlard Straight of e J. P. Morgan firm; Mafcare rine. Neither will liners be torpe , doed without providing for the sute- ty of the lives of the non-combatants, ! which assurance carries with it the ! implication of visit and search and I the allowance of ainplo time In which non-combatants maybe remov ed before the ship Is sent to the bot tom. The state department is f.ir- hpr Informed that Germany adopted ,n" P"Cy r' ,C W"8 lur- j pedoed and sunk. This amounts to a I practical disavowal of th destruction i or tne Aramc wnicn resulted in ;ne loss of two American lives. 1 WASHINGTON, Sept. 1. Secre tary Tumulty announced at noon to day that the state department had received a written copy of the Ger man not of acceptance. The com munication is being prepared for the president, he said. A later report states that Germany has accepted the demands of the United States as to the conduct of future submarine war fare. Von Bernstorff has submitted to Secretary Lansing the substance of the reply from Germany to the last noto of the president to Berlin. It consists In the acceptance of the representations made by the t'nltod' States. Von Bcnstorff had not yet translated It into English, so he de livered it ornlly to Lansing toduy. In effect, Lansing said, Germany agreed to all the American demands as to warnings being given before ships are torpedoed, and also requiring a visit and search before a ship was sunk. The communication is In rela- ton to Attacks In the future. It Harding Davis; the Cabots and Ban croiui ot massacnuseitB; me images i of North Carolina; the Roots and Roosevelts and Hamilton-Fishs, the , Morgans, the Pierrepoi.ts, the Chan lers and the Iselins of New York: ' Haughton and Wheeler, the football 1 stars, and the Poea; there are three ' nephews of Henry James, who re cently renounced his American citiz enship aod men like G. F. Porter, of Chicago, and Murray Cobb and Basil Miles, of Washington, and R- B. Me dare, ef Piedmont, Calif.; G. A. Ireyfoas, of New Orleans; J. S. Miller, Jr, of Winnetka, 111.; E. C StarreU, of Sheldon, la.; H. L. George, of Pittsburg; J. H. Bstchelor. ef Kansas Qty, Mo.; Cleveland Mather, of Denver; W. M. Bullitt, of Looisville, Ky.; R. H. (Piek) Little, of Chicago, and others from every where. General Leonard Wood and thirty ether officers of the army are at the elbows of these prominent Ameri cana, teaching them intricacies ef the 1ml of the soldier. And the mea dont shirk. They are op at day break. They drill all day. Ther are learning .hy hard work the fal lacy ef the argusneat that America eeM raise an araay over night. m AN BAND T LEADER KILLED Orozco Was One of Huerta's Trusted Lieutenants DEATH FOLLOWS R1IX ON TEOS MICH- War liopartnicnt Orders Out Two Itogiinenta to Protect liordor -Garriwon Bays Jio Knicrgeiicy KxiHts. SIERRA BIANCA, Tex., Aug. 31. The body of General Pascual Oro zoco, hero of the aiadero revolution of Mexico, lies tonight in an under taker's parlors ot Van Horn, Texas. Beside him are the bodies of his com panions killed In the running fight Monday with a posse of troops of the 13th cavalry, custom house officials and civilians. The body has been positively Identified as that of Oro zoco by a govefirment official from El Paso. Ilaids IMnnned by Orozoco. It Is believed here that the attack on the Love ranch which led to the running fight and their death, was the result of their failure to meet a band of nearly 100 "Colorados" led by Eduardo Salinas who Is known to have started from the vicinity of Marfa to the Bosque Bonite country, Mox., near where the running fight terminated. Owing to the non-arrival of Salinas, It Is believed Oroz co and his companions, pressed for food, decided to hold up the Love ranch. The five bodies are being held hero awaiting the arrival of Mrs. Oroz co from El Paso. According to tes timony, Orozco and hla band had fir ed on several Americans and had stolen stock belonging to different Americans. Later Iho bodies were loaded in a wagon nnd, guarded by cowiiovs lo prevent demonstrations by Colorados, driven to Van Horn. It is believed here thn Orozco plan ned n well orgnnlzed raid on the Texns border al Valentine nnd Marfa with the forces or Salinas and to raise the standard of Ihe new bor der party, the nationalists, believed to lie a revival of 'the frustrated Iliterta plot. Tliiw HcirimiMils Ordered Out. WASHINGTON". Aug. 31 Two regiments of Infantry nnd one of cavn'rv were ordered from Galveston tonight to reinforce American troops 1'i'trnMlne (lie Mexican border. So"-, retarv Garrison nnnounced that tl'o v-n- department was sending Iho ad ditional forces at Ihe request Jf General Ftinstnn, commanding the border patrol. The soorolarv i exnlnlnod that no emergency existed at this time so fur as he knew, nnd Indicated that the rnon movements comprised merely a part or a general pian evoiveu General Ennnlon for strengthening his positions. harrTthaw" wants divorce PITTSIlUItO, Sept. 1. A suit for divorce from Evelyn Nesblt Thaw was filed by the attorneys for Harry If. Thaw, who presented the petition In Judge Rcid's court. Thaw charges Infidelity, and names John Francis as alleged re-respondont. THREE SUICIDE IN ONE FAMILY OREGON CITY, Ore., Sept. 1. Godfrey Boese, aged 60 and a farmer, mentally deranged, sat on 25 pounds of dynamite today and fired the ex plosive, blowing himself to atoms. His father and mother both suicided on the same farm 25 years ago. agrees that all rules laid down by the United States be compiled with, and the mattess of past attacks will be left open for future consideration. MISHAPS COME PORTLAND, Sept. 1. R. E. Bry an, a broker, dropped dead from heart failure, and his wifo collapsed from fright. The hired girl became excited and turned In a fire alarm. IS HELD UP NEW YORK. Sept. 1. With two hundred persons quarantined oa board the liner President Lincoln, suspected of having cholera, the city health authorities are taking every precaution possible to prevent spread of the disease. It Is said to have broken out among refugees from -China. RUSSIANS HAVE ENORMOUS LOSS BERLIN, Sept. 1. Since the be ginning of the Tuoton drive in the east, an entire Russian field army of 1,47)0,000 men have been captured or annihilated, the official review of the campaign In Poland and Gallcla stated. It is estimated that 300,000 Russians have been killed and wound ed, the remainder are hold as pris oners. This review covered the Ger man operations from the tlrno of the capture of Gorllce to tho present. WELSH COAL STRIKE SETTLED CARDIFF, Sept. t. All danger ot a general strike In tho Welsh coal fields is removed. Tho miners of South Wales at n conference, rati fied tho agreement entered Into yes terday between representatives of thu workers and Ihe government. - . GIIODNO WILL SOON FALL; ;i:i;m s attack foutkksh IIIOItLI.V, Sept. 1 Tho German forces are now beforo Grodno, and ure preparing to attack the fortress, i' is announced from tho eas'crn front. COMMITTEE OX l'lt l l:i H it U .MAKES Altlt.N(;E.MENTS FOH LAND SHAN'T COFEItEXCK SALEM, Or., Sept 1. (Special.) The committee on procedure for the Oregon Land Grant Conferonco, to to held here on September 16, mot today and arranged a program aos follows: "Purposes of the Conference," Governor Withycombe, "Legal AspectB," Attorney General Brown. "Point of View of the Fodcral Government," United States Forester Graves. "Representing the Counties," A. R. Norton, Grants Pass, and "R. iA. Booth. "Presenting Company's Views," representative of the S. P. "His Point of View," ex-Governor West. "Constitutional Anpcets," C. W. Falton. Other speakers will be Senators Chamberlain and Lane, Congressman It was decided to ask the county Hawley, McArthur and Blnnott. assessors to stnte the character of the land In the grant. W. I. Vawter was elected chair man, and C. C. Chapman, secretary of the committee, and they will be the temporary officers of the conference. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Thompson and daughter, of Oakland, were among those who were "lb the elty yester-ay. J