La Grande evening observer., October 23, 1917, Image 4

TUESDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1917. ,
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KEEP BUSINESS ON THE UPWARD TREND.
In fighting to keep business active and prosperous the
merchant is fighting for his country just as surely as is
the man behind the gun.
Our enemies would rejoice at an appearance of business
stagnation in our country more than they would rejoice at
a series of victories for their arms against our forces. .K. ji
tney would see in stricken businesses and industries the
sure signs of National weakness at home, with its sure re
action iipon our fighting effectiveness at the fronts.
The business man who "quits," who slackens his efforts
ito keep trade healthy and active, is as unpatriotic as would
be .the soldier who should flunk in the face of the enemv.
WE SHALL HAVE NO SUCH SOLD1KRS NOR
SHOULD WE HAVE ANY SUCH BUS IN KSS MKN !
This country must be the mainstay, commercially, of all
of our allied nations in this war. Upon our industrial
strength they must be ever welcome to rely for the sinews
1 of war, for the material tilings which contribute to military
Buccesa in the fight to make the world "safe for democ
racy." i 'h, . $
Advertising, the force which in peace and in war times
keeps business going, keeps trade stimulated, keeps peo
ple informed about their buying tasks advertising must
play, now and hereafter, a stronger part in the Nation's life
than ever before. It affords the merchant his channel of
communication with his customei-s with those upon
whose .trade he must rely for his business prosperity, and
to whom his store means a service institution.
Merchants, through their advertising, mav keen the peo
ple heartened and optimistic They may counteract the
influence of the pessimist who not only fears to act cour
ageously in business affairs but who tries to influence
others to join his company of "quitters."
Merchants must HAVE confidence and thev must
'PREACH CONFIDENCE.
NOW IS THIS TIME.
If there was ever a time to prove our Americanism now
is the time. Our soldiers are on the. battle line to help our
allies to make the world safe for democracy.
Not all of us can soi-vo in the trenches or risk our lives
going over the top across No Man's Land,. but all of us can
take part in "Hoover's Drive" to save food for the men
who are fighting our battle in Europe. We are not asked
to stint ourselves or go without food, but simply to eat
The
Woman
Who Pays
by check instead of in currency escapes a lot
of worry about money matters. She has an
accurate record of where her money goes
and a receipt for every penny she has pai l
out. Besides it's so much safer to have tin;
cash in the bank than in the home. Our spo
cial department for women will be glad to
give information.
wisely and without waste, and to use substitutes and other !
concentrated foods that can readily be shipped across the
water. Remember that the person who wastes food dur-!
ing war time js giving aid and comfort to the enemy. This
war will not be won .on the battle line alone, but on the
bread line, as well, and every one of us can be soldiers in
the fight for conserving our food supplies.
Pledge Card Week takes place between October 28 and
November 4. Every loyal housewife should be willing and
glad to promise co-operation with the Food Administra
tion Department. We can render efficient service by using
homegrown supplies, which will save transportation, by
practicing, the gospel of the clean plate, by -cooking no
more than necessary, by using corn or rye bread for at
least one meal each day, byboiling and baking more and
frying less.
The united co-ordinated effort of the Nation will win
the war. Do your part and get others to do likewise.
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A Bit! .TASK.
The Quartermaster Department, with the approval of
the Secretary of War, announces that the task of equip
ping ait Army of nearly 2,000,000 men is progressing as
rapidly as the peace-time industries of the country can be
extended to meet war conditions.
Minor inconveniences and shortages, which develop as
the contoninents are opened, will be temporary. The
(uartoi master Department and those filling equipment
orders have overcome a number of handicaps, and under
the circumstances the response of American industry to
extraordinary demands has been remarkable.
With the outbreak of the war the War Department was
confronted with the task. of equipping a great, Army, and
the work began almost from the ground up. More than
,000,000,000 must be expended by the Quartermaster De
partment for the first year of the war. The department
and the industries of the country, with the machinery and
capacity of peace times, was unexpectedly called upon to
clothe, feed, and house an Army many times larger than
the peace strength .Army of a nonniilitaristic nation.
Difficulties arose from the outset. There was a shortage
of wool, a shortage of duck for tcntage and leggings, a
shortage of fast dyes for uniforms, and a shortage of la
bor. There was no appreciable shortage of cotton, but a
shortage of looms.
These difficulties have been and are being gradually
overcome. All along the line industrial establishments
had to be expanded to meet unprecedented demands.
The food situation of each cantonment and abroad is re
ported as gratifying and the Quartermaster Department
has experienced few difficulties in the supply of food. Such
shortages as may occur in equipment are attributable to
the cause outlined above. - '
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A NATIONWIDE CAMPAIGN.
The week of, October 28 has been selected for a nation
wide campaign to complete, the enrollment of our forces
in conservation of our food supply. This is a duty of ne
cessity, humanity and honor. As a free people we have
elected to discharge this duty, not under autocratic decree,
but without other restraint than the guidance of individual
conscience. Herbert Hoover.
Wit and Humor
sword and the like!" ,
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
THE FIGHTING RACE
By Joseph I. C. Clarke
(In the Oregonian.)
(A Popular Spanish-American
Poem.)
And Shea, the scholar, with rising joy,
Said, "We were at Ramillies,
Wa left our bones at Fontenoy r
And up in the Pyrenees,
Before Dunkirk, on London's plain, ,
Cremona, Lille and Ghent, .
We're all over Austria, France and
War! Spain,
i.i Wherever they pitched a tent.
"Read out the names!" and Burke sat V f
-IV ugl'li tauw vsuq
And still theie's enough for a corps or
IIER.MISTON 000 D PLACE.
If the Coverniuent must have another cantonment there
can be no better dace found for it than at Hermiston.
There are abundant grounds for drill, the water suply is
of the best, and a day's inarch will put the boys on a Gov
orunient forest reserve where all kinds of target practice
THE OUTBURSTS OF EVERETT TRUE
back,
And Kelly droped his head,
While Shea they call him Scholar
Jack
Went down the list of the dead.
Officers, seamen, gunners, marines,
The crews of the gig and yawl,'-'
The beaided man and the lad in his
teens,
Carpenters, ccal passers all.
Then, knocking the ashes from out his
pipe,
Said Burke in an offhand way:
"Wo're all in that dead man's list, by
Cripe!
Kelly and liurko and Shea.'
"Well, here's to the Maine, and 'm
sorry for Spain."
Said Kelly jnd Burke and Shea.
"Wheiever thcre'3 Kellys there's trou
ble," suid Iurko.
"Wherever fighting's the game,
Or a spice of.ucnger in grown man's
work." j
Said Kellv. "vou'll find mv name."
"And do we fall short," said Burke,
getting mud,
"When it's touch and go for life?"
Said Shea, "It':: thirty-odd years, be-
dad,
' Since i chafed to drum and fife
Up Marye's Heights, and my old can
teen (Stopped a rebel ball on its way;
There were blossoms of blood on our
sprigs of ereen
Kelly and Btike and Shea
And the dead didn't brag." "Well,
here's to the flag-"
Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
"I wish 'twas in Ireland, for there's
the place,"
Said Burke, "that we'd die by right,
In the cradle of our soldier race,
After one good, stand-up fight.
My grandfather fell on Vinegar Hill.
And fighting was not his trade;
But his rusty pike's in the cabin still,
With Hcsshn blood on the blade."
"Aye, aye," said Kelly, "the pikes
were great
When the woid was 'clear the way!'
We were thick on the roll in ninety
eight Said Kelly and Burke and Shea.
'.'Well, here's to the (pike and ;he
crew;
Kelly and Burke and Shea."
'Well, here is to good honest fighting,
blood!"
Said Kelly and Brrke and Shea.
"Oh, the fighting races don't die out.
If they seldom die in bed,
For love is first in their hearts, no
doubt,
R.uLo- rhon Tfnllv sniH-
"When Michael, the Irish archangel,
stands,
The angel with the sword,
And the battk-dead from a hundred
lands
Are ranged in one big horde,
Our line, that for Gabriel's trumpet
waits,
. Will stretch three deep that day,
From Jehosa.hat to the Golden Gates
Kelly and Burke and Shea."
"Well, here's thank God for the race
and the sod!"
Said Kelly a.id Burke and Shea.
THE DEVIL'S RESIGNATION.
The Devil sat by the lake of fire on a '
pile of sulphur kegs,
His head was bowed upon his breast
and his tail between his legs.
A look of shame was on his face, the
sparks dripped from his eyes,
He hud sent his resignation to the
throne up in the skies.
"I am down and out," the Devil said,.
and said it with a sob;
"There are others now that have me
beat, and I want to quit my
job,'
I'm a has been and a piker, and
therefore I resign.
"One ammunition maker with his
bloody shot and shell knows
more nbcut damnation than all
the imps of hell."
Give the job to the Kaiser, the author
of this war.
He understands it better a million
times or more."
I hate to leave the old home, the spot
I love so well.
iBut I feel that I'm not up to date in
tho art of running Hell.
can be had without danger to anyone. If established it
should be named "Camp Baker, or "Camp Joe Lane."
Salem Capital Journal.
LAWRENCE II. KNAPP.
Mayor Lawrence II. Knapp is dead as the result of an
operation for appendicitis. He was a distinguished officer
in the Oregon National Guard, and an able assistant to Ad-,
jutant General White in the great work of mobilization
and draft. His death is a great loss to the country.
Rippling Rhymes
By WALT MASON
; tea BEte,.
CAN'T I "TURN MY BACK A MINUTC In THIS I ! I
OFFICE 10 l-IHOUT HWiNiS C.VCR.YTHINQ ON MY I 1
desk. Vweo ovtw ano put out of fe?! , f
jASKjro KNOW V, rjk ' )
Autumn Weather.
The nights are bleak and chil
ly, the wind has dismal note:
Pali weather gets my billy
(the garden name for goat). In
Summer I am healthy, as
husky as can be; no ailments
punk or stealthy arc bringiug
grief to me. Existence then is
sweeter, although in heat I
fry, the while I shoo the skeet-
But when the
Autumn wold,
er, and swat the noisome fly.
frost falls whitely upon the
and wire-edged zephyrs nightly grow colder
and more cold, I feel rheumatic twinges, I feel
lumbago's shock, and all my joints and hinges
arc creaking as I walk. The doctor and the
plumber are busy with my bones, and so I long
for Summer with useless sighs and groans;
just as I long for Autumn, when Summer is
on deck, and there's no top or bottom to siz
zling heat, by heck. Alas ! There is no season
that suits me to the ground; I always find"
some reason to raise a doleful sound. I'm ul
ways longing, yearning, for something that is
past, for Summer weather burning, or Win
ter's angry blast.
(Copyright 191" by George Matthew Adams.)
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