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PAOH TOUR ETEJfCQ UCSEBCRa REVIEW, WEDNflSDAr. MAT 0, 1017. EDITORIAL PAGE OF THE DAILY ROSEBURG REVIEW. PUBLISHED KVERY EVENING EXCEPT SUNDAY BY REVIEW PUBLISHING COMPANY i,. wiMitEiti.Y w. A.'l'FrrriT V. H. KISIIKK i. V. m.MHKItlT Entered at ltoshtirg, Oregon, poHtofllce as second-class matter Office, Review ftulldiug. 229 North Jackson Street. 81 ll-iCltlTTION KATES: Pally, by mall, per year $3.00 Daily, by carrier, per montb Dally, by carrier, per week " Twice-a-week, per year .j Twlce-a-week, six months I"" "I'ATUIOTIC I'OTATOKS." There is in Uii.s country an organization of literary men and others who designate themselves as "The Vigilantes." Kach one is earnestly endeavoring to "do his bit" toward u successful termination of the present world war. Among them is Kllis Par ker Uutler, the widely known author, editor and magazine owner. Crasping the universal food problem topic, here is his tribute to the humble spud or as he dubs them, "patriotic potatoes:" "There is an apple called the Northern Spy, I don't know why. 1 wish we could rename the biggest, meatiest, most prolific potato the "Kaiser's Defeat." Kvcry potato that grows in Ameri can soil this year is a steel-nosed bullet aimed point blank at the heart of autocracy. Dig guns and little guns, bullets, shells and shrapnel are doing their share on the battle front, but what America must do is to send lood, loort and still more loon, r.very extra potato grown in America this year releases food that can be sent to our fellow fighters in Kurope. "America does not ask you to give the extra potatoes you grow, or the extra beets or turnips or beans. It is a patriotic ser vice if you will just grow them and eat them yourself. Hie po tato you grow and eat lets some other potato, that you woirkl have eaten, climb aboardship and go to help a warring democracy win against a child-murdering autocracy. It is a good thing to throw n trench bomb at the Kaiser, but you can hull him worse by hit ting him in the eye with a home-grown potato. Kvery American potato eaten by the allies is poison in the stomach of tyranny. Our navy is on the job; awaken the war-winning navy bean! "Our comrades in Kurope need food. This year you can serve America as well by killing potato bugs as by killing Prussians. 'Dread and Doals' food to feed the allies and ships to carry it to them is America's war cry at the moment. Men we will send by millions when the need comes, il it doj'S, but potatoes by I he ton we must send. The hundreds of thousands of "rookies" will soon be drilling all over this broad land, and at night they will crawl into their shelters and touch gi nlly Die hhsiers on their heels, saying, 'Dlistered for America, for right, and lor humanity, by gosh!' Heaven bless the blistered heels of the embryo fighting men of our nation, but don't forget the blistered palms of the man with white hands who goes out to hoe the potatoes! lie, too, when he looks at his blisters, can say, 'Dlistered for America! Dong may she stand for the right!' The blistered heel and the blistered palm will win the war; let them be recorded in the I look of Valiant Wounds. "Corn and potatoes, wheat and beans! Speed up old Mother Karth and poke her in the ribs until she yields victory! Who knows? Our enemies may crumple in a week or a month and shriek for peace, and get it paying the penalty of aggression. Dut still we need the potato, the potato you can grow. The light is democracy against autocracy. The world is being put to the lest. Shall men govern themselves or shall autocrats make us slaves? The world crops are short this year. If the war ends to morrow it will be too late for the peasants to grow food until an other year, even if they are released from armed duty at once. Hungry nations are always the easiest prey of autocrats. When men hunger, and see their women and children starve, no one knows what they will do, and it is then the wily autocrat gives a handful of corn and wrests away the liberties won by centuries of el fori. If tile war ends tomorrow, America must still send food, to prevent riots and to prevent starvation and to allow democracy to hold its own calmly and sanely until the waste of war is ad justed. "On second thought, I'd call the biggest, meatiest, most pro lific potato, not the 'Kaiser's Defeat," but the 'Hope of Civiliza tion.' Today the hoe is mightier than the sword and the beanpole more valiant than the spear. The empty belly must not win!" o . Wll.I. ASK COVKUNMKNT TO Dl'll.D UICIIWAY. Samuel Hill, the sage of Maryhill, Wash., more widely known as a gooil roads bulkier, is now on his way lo Washington, D. ('., with the avowed purpose of endeavoring to enlist the National (iovernmeiit in building a permanent highway along the Pacific Coast from Dritish Columbia to the Mexican border. Such a Na tional highway has li ng hem a matter of con jecture and ultimate probability. Now he seeks to make it an accomplished fact, upon the basis of a military necessity. "President W ilson was recently voted by Congress a large sum of money for the National defense." said Mr. Hill. "He can expend this money at hi-, own discretion. I propose to lay before him the advisability of devoting a portion of it to the defense of our coast. A coast highway would not only provide a line of de fence but it would be a great factor in our commercial develop ment. If the President will pve me the moiiev. I will guarantee to build the highway. There is no ol. 1 would like better. "I do not believe that the people of this coast and the Nation yet senses what such a highway means, not only from a purely military standpoint, but troni a commercial point of view. It would le the last link m a great highwav s stem which embraces the Pacific Highway, extending along the western slope of the Cascade mountains and forming a second line of deiense, the cen tral Oregon and Washington highway cast of the mountains, pass ing through the food producing country, and the Columbia Diver Highway, which reaches into that territory in. I constitutes an all year around connection between the coast and the interniouiitain country. "If I were called upon to construct the coast highway I would employ the I'cdcral prisoners. It is also possible that prisoners of war may be sent to this country to be cared for. We could put them at no more profitable labor than building our loads." On arriving at Washington. Mr. Hill will thst endeavor to line up the Pacific Coast Congressmen and Senators, and pi. ;enl a solid front in the advocacy of the coast military highway. "A former Coos Day man, H. ('. Kit h, now located in I'oM'.md, has invented a submarine trap and mine, for the prote.ii,.!! of rivers and harbors against the entrance of l'-boats He ins al ready placed the details of his device, and plans for it- m imiiac ture, before the (loveriimelit authorities at Washington lie a-ks no royalty or other compensation for his invention. I . mg p.,st the age for military service he makes this oiler as his ontril,u tion on behalf of liis country. While secrecy is a vital factor in regard to the construction of any dev ice of this nature, in gener.il, the trap and mine is of a flexible type and w ill lit into any chan nel or inlet, according to Mr. Kith, regardless of the depth and weather conditions, and will absolutely guard- the locality from submarine operation; also, it. will save a large corps of patrols as a single patrol can serve a large area. An electrical cable, con necting to the trap area and laid to a central point on shore or an anchored patrol, gives instant alarm when any section of the trap or mine springs into operation, thus enabling a patrol outfit to be on the spot and take care of the hostile craft caught by the trap. The mine is electrically operated and, when a submarine comes in contact with the trap, it closes' an electric circuit that causes about 1000 pounds of high explosive to be discharged on the sub marine, which, unconscious of any danger, comes in contact w ith the set trap without jar or any indication of meeting; an obstruct lion, and the results that follow prevent any knowledge of what caused the loss of the submarine. o , ,' Employment of lrt county agricultural agents and 3!J assist ants in the various counties of Oregon, is the plan evolved by President W. J. Kerr, of the 0. A. C. He is at the lieal of the Oregon food preparedness campaign, and is now enroute home from Washington, D. C, v."Were his plan was endorsed by the Fed eral authorities. Oivcondition that the necessary appropriation is made by Congress, $50,000 will be set apart to pay the salaries of these agricultural airents in Oregon for the coming year. It is realized that a greatly increased food production is just as essen tial at this time as an increased production of arms, ammunition and ships. o Over 80 carloads of broccoli were shipped from tlii.s county this .season and wtiich will probably bring to the growers between $.".0,000 and $1)0,000. Wouldn't it'be a line thing if this could be followed during the next month with 10 or 50 carloads of straw berries, worth approximately S2000 per car? It is probable that with a more favorable season next winter the broccoli out put next spring will be double that of the present year. Why not add the strawberries also? DEER ARE MNTIFUL SAYS GAME OFFICER WHO MADE INSPECIION TRIP That doer in lmiil;is County iue by no in' hmh in need fit exlm profec lion and are nut in danger of extinc tion In spilt- of the prcat number killed in tb past lew yrnrH, in the report or I'epuly Came Warden Orel. Thompson, who returned Monday ut ter im extensive trip (broiif-li the mountain regions of the county for ilie purpose of learning the Hitiiatiou. According to Mr. Thompson, he traveled lor several days in the dis trict east of Tiller and saw hundred-t ot' lliest ii ii i ih a Is. He even went into tin1 alt it tides where the snow was , two and three feet deep and found 'hut one carcass, while (Treat ha-tidt" I were seetr, one. of which had as many ' us 2a. As a resun of the trip, which con sumed the greater part of two weeks, Mr. Thompson declares the deer are in pood condition and are to he found -Hsily. He was greatly surprised in learning the true facts and asserts positively that. all reports to the con trary are iinfounded. Mr. Thompson heard several wolve.s, but was unable to approach or kill any. He believes, however, that these animals are mil yet h menace to the uther inhabitants of the woods. ( Krom the Gardiner Courier). A. Larson, a 1 1 -a el in; man well known in this locality, was up from Coos Hay the last of the week interview ini t tie merchants of 4 his town and I'ecdspiirt. NAMES Of. PROSPECTIVE MEMBERS Of OREGON LIME BOARD PREPARED Acting upon an invitation received from (lovernor J a men - Withycuinbe, Hubert L. Smith, secretary of the. Orejtou Slate j Tax payers' league, thin mora- ft itiK beut the nuiiieti of UentoQ J Jiojrerh, or Ashland; . H Uaugherty, of Portland; B. L. hddy, of HoHebiirg, and Sum Moore, of CorvalliH, aa notnl neh'B tor unuointment as mem berH ot the State Lime Board. The members of this board will probably be announced by Governor Withy coin be late la the present month and will be selected from names submitted by the State Taxpayers' League, the Oregon State ('range and the Farmers' I nlon. The bill providing for n uaui;u miiri ui iv iui iciliu- Ing purposes In Oregon was advocated by Sam Moore, of 4 Corvallis, and the bill was In- f trod need In the Legislature by A Senator fcddy, of this city. t'nder the provisions of the 4 measure the farmers of Oregon J will receive crushed Umerock -j. I at actual cost, plus the freight which must be paid by the per- -f sons receiving -the consign J nit nt. i MANY BUSINESS MEN 10 FORM LEAGUE FOR MORAL WitFARf; ORGANIZE SOON I'rTl A league of business men designed to further the moral weliare of the city and encourage all civic- and in tellectual Improvements, was form last evening at the Baptist Chin when about " men resolved to un dertake such an organization. A committee of five was appointed to outline the plan and the league is ex pected to take concrete shae imme diately after the carnival. According to several who were In attendance, the object of the new league is to include men taken chief ly from the various Sunday schools of the city and make t he project mainly a Sunday school undertaking. It was held that some of the most capable residents of the city are reg ular supporters of the Sunday schools but t hat for the most part (hey are content merely to attend and have given little thought to more aggressive enterprises and to the ac- i villi Vv7 Mu nu fa el urine V'x jMrt d I he A merit ail J tihdrt o Cimpan and a lament nutieirin mi the iimn u t art u i of curvting llwi.'t:t. Expert srliM'ting -af fur lYuu's Thick Chewing Tohacco "They're proud to make the best chew for American men" says Charlie Penn ''Workers in our factory at licils illc, North Caro lina, arc all experts in llu-ir line. '"pi i.i .i .i . .- irtiini i kiiow nun. iiipn re. i u l in im out ill Is Your Money Supporting the Government? At this critical period in our history our manu facturers are offering their mills, and our young men are offering their services to the United States Gov ernment. Would you like o do your share and help by put ting your money where it will support the new Federal Reserve Banking System, which the Government has established to stand back of our commerce, industry and agriculture? You can do this by oening an account with us, as part of every dollar so deposited goes directly into the new system, where it will always be ready for you when wanted. - The Douglas National Bank Member Federal Reserve System. Capita! and Surplus $130,000.00 lual good that may be done for the city and the body of people generally whom the Sunday schools never see. Men will be enlisted from all the Sunday schools and an effort will be made to handle some of the prohlemf havjug to do with better care of the children and especially to affording some place other than the streets where they ntay meet faiid be enter tained. On the committee in charge of the organization are Attorney C. V. Hopkins, chairman; Hev. K. K. .lope, Kev. J. C. Spencer, A. J. Ged des and A. L. Kitchin. VAhh VOW SCHOOL WAIUMNTS. Notice Js hereby given that all school warrants of District No. 4, Douglas County, Oregon, to and in cluding No. 1751, endorsed Jan. 9, 1917, not paid for want of funds, and prior thereto, are this day called for payment by the undersigned, and all interest thereon will cease from the date of this notice. Dated this 7th day of Mav, 1917. ROSCOK N. GREEN, Clerk of School District No. 4, Doug las County, Oregon. I.eiivo For SMkane S. A. Sanford. tho Edenhower rancher, who was yesterday appoint ed one of the iippraisers for the Fed eral land bunk, will leave Tuesday, for Spokane, Wash., to ar.su me his' now duties. .Mr. Sanford has had j much experience In this line and will ( no doubt make the Government n ; very valuable num. 1 CHICHESTER S PILLS gt J'BUirei ak your irruggu r C4-1 hl.cM.trr UlrtWo.7j.Tlr .'S i ii ia lira U l Owl 4 i Tttka ba alitor Dm jrerik.iownoDsst.S3(-.iIAUyiRHUI 1 S1LD BY DRUGGISTS EYERYHHLKf ftS 5ooo&ooocmxooooooooc Fishing Tackle lust rereiml, n large shipment of imiorttui Flies from Knltimt it ml Sent I ti nil 9 Made Especially to our Order IIiiihI nuiile. fishing roils, none better to be. found anywhere for the. money. The largest and most complete line of FISHING TACKLE West of the Rocky .Mount itins .Hitthing ton want S. B. CROUCH The Hardware Man Sheridan St. u inir tobacco made from rich, i no rr the bot chew Onlv lull length strips Icacs jo into . . r.ipc, cr feet Chewing Tobacco TPS AS Mn.I.OW AS A Jl'NE AITI.E AND AS SW EET AS A M IV TRY A 10c r.lT TOP AY The nUVtTTDni 1 irr.i New The New The little four in an cany riilinK car with 3-spwd tnmnits Mon, ooononilCHl lo nininiain i 24 mile, on a gallon of gaso line I and simple lo operate; r.illy equipped with electric lights and electric starter, top and speedometer. ruin: siii-i itos,:m iui GLENN H. TAYLOR, AGENT Show" Koom K. Oak Street, near Armory. Notice! Guaranteed ,! "rn'i ThM li tSv not wiKfy you rvcT v w rrturn It to ev dm!)" Hr ' h rrt'v uth irurd to refund ,-lhf full piMvKM ptu n If our inn ie.sul (jiiy Pfna's Ibitk send Ira crols (1iX ii sUmps inJ ?ie is It m or dt dlf r. and f Mill sf-d yi a k tut and a kalhtr poutb ii hkli Ii carry il. lohacn Ctspiay t Califoraia, Na. 1 South Paik, Sji ltmii, (al. Why Not Try one of these VACUUM CLEANERS? We will gladly send it out for a free Demonstration no obligation. Roseburg Electric Co. t: ERYTHIXG f:u:CTPJCAL. IM
