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tout yi-jir or two in il( vclnpiriK thrift.
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the (government.
Opening Up a Big Sphere
for Women.
Kf Country TI of TK,
Now that New York women are en
joying the citizen's privilege of voting,
Ufey are eajrer to take on nlore of the
obligations. The Iirooklyn Women's
liar association in preparing a hill
which it expects to present to the
state legislature making women eligi
ble for jury service, including service
on the grand jury.
In a way the women may be said
to put jury duty in the class of privl-
eh-yes rather than obligations, for
their bill provides that such service
on the part of women shall he volun
tary, not mandatory. It is said that
the bill has been indorsed hy both
the Iirooklyn and Manhattan commis
sioner of jurors. Many prominent wo
men's clubs, too, are pledged tg back
the mnusure.
There is undoubtedly opportunity
for real service in this new branch of
women's activity. Trials in which
community welfare, the
'An opportunity that must prove irresistable to the woman with her coat, suit or dress
still unchbsen, your Irrestricted choice of any coat, sujt or dress in the store at 1-2 'Price
January Clearance Sale Prices on all Men's, Women's, Children's Shoes
WOMEN'S SHOES SEASON'S NEWEST COLORS AND THE LATEST
STYLES AT REDUCED PRICES
MEN'S SHOES NEW SPRING STYLES AND COLORS SALE PRICES .
ONE LOT WOMEN'S SHOES LACE AND BUTTON VALUES TO $6.C0.
YQUR CHOICE $2.49
BOYS' SHOES LACE AND BUTTON BLACK AND TAN ALL SIZES ..
YOUR CHOICE $2.50 TO $3.50
Our regular lower than elsewhere prices reduced in every department
CHARGE ACCOUNTS INVITED
MERCHANDISE DELIVERED
similar matters are concerned may be
concluded with a greater measure of
. No Place for Ifcsvolvcrs in
the Lives of Our Boys.
A bill has been Introduced in con
grans to prohibit the shipment of ex
plosives and firearms to minors. Inhumane jiulicu if women aro on the
iK meant primarily to prevent the pur- jury.
chafe of revolvers from mail order j The old cry that women engaged in
Iioum'3 by lad's likely to misuse them, jany public function, whether admin
Tl.l.s is a step in the right direction. , iH taring office, voting or anything else
Such legislation, if it proves legal andlWoiild net upon unreasoning emotion
practicable, should bo supplemented ' rather than upon sound judgment gov
y state and municipal laws calculalod lerned by facts has been largely given
not, the wife, child, grandchild, father,
mother, brother or sister named as
beneficiary in the policy will be paid
the money in regular Installments by
the United States government.
"Compensation" Is a somewhat dif
ferent matter. As explained by the
health and ! treasury department, it is intended
safety of women and children and . primarily to take care of injury coses
to keep certain types of firearms out
of the hands of minors and also of
adults who have no business with
them.
Itifles and tdiotguns for legitimate
hunting or target shooting nro one
thing; revolvers are quite another
thing. It may he granted thut even
up. Women have been voting and hold
ing office in the western states for
years, even serving ns jurors occasion
ally, and on the whole they behave
under those conditions much as the
men do. In the ear. tern states as the
women are slowly winning more of
the privileges of citizenship they are
boys, CKpce-ally In rural districts, may found to follow party lines and public
properly possess tho former If thoy j policies muc h as the men have dime
havo skill and sense enough to mo , before them.
The women have, however, been able
to bring n new angle of vision to bear
on public problems. They nro able
them properly. Hut tho time has
passed, In almost every American com
munity, when It is necufinury for any
body, young or old, with tho excep
tion of police authorities,
own pocket firearms.
Most of the primes of violence now
ndnvfl are ncrnetniled hv youths with' most nearly touching community wel
revolvers. Most of the cases of acci-! fare and health, the protection of wo
dentnl shooting are due to having men and children, tho betterment of
loaded revolvers in the house. It Is 'public school systems and many other-
and of such death cases as may not be
covered by insurance policies. It takes
the place of the old-style military pen
sion. It is paid only to a member of
tho family who, is really dependent on
the man in question for support. De
pendency must be proved. The bene
ficiary will then receive monthly pay
ments in proportion to tho degree of
disablement of the soldier or sailor. In
case of death, compensation may be
paid in addition to insurnnce, If It can
be shown that it is needed by the de
pendents. Every family interested should get
these facts clearly in mind In case of
doubt, the war or navy or treasury de
partment ut Washington will furnish
tho necessnry information.
to approach old difficulties from n iv
to carry or : new and rather specialized point of door, presuming
vkw. It is because or this that they
are particularly needed In the work
Making a Living by Exploit
ing the Uniform.
No aoldler needs to sell foolisn lit-
tlme to class revolvers with whisky
and deadly drug:, and restrict their
distribution.
Uncle Sam's Bank Experi
encing a "Run."
There has been a run on the United
StntiiH bank lately. That is to say, on
the postoffice. Postmasters in many
cities report a regular siege on the
part of people seeking to cash their
war pavings stamps. There arc long
lines Ifc'fore the windows. In some
places men and women with stamp
books In thvir hnd'i have waited for
hours to draw their money, Kxtra
clerks have been assigned to the work,
because Uncle Sam holds it a point of
honor to take care of all such de
mands and pay without question. Any
other policy would be dangerous.
.A'l these depositors, of Course,, have
not qur-lioind the solidity and trust
worthiness of the government bank.
They have In eu drawing out their
incs of social progress.
Insuranco and Compensa
tion for Dependents.
With the swelling of the casualty
lists tens of thousands of families arc
directly interested in the monetaty
payments provided for by the govern
ment, and ninny of them are in doubt
; to their rights in the matter.
There is much confusion particular
ly between "insurance" and ''compen
sation," so that the secretary of the
treasury has recently found it neces
sary to make an explicit public state
ment explaining and distinguishing be
tween the two.
It should be clearly understood that
in every ease where a soldier with a
government insurance policy Is killed,
the insurance money is duo his people
just as surely as if he had taken the
iu.siirance in any private company. The
financial standing of the family does
not matter. Whether "dependent or
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Don' t Let it Drop!
Many people start a bank account and let it go
at that. They make no effort to keep it on the
Increase. ' .
Start your account with this bank and see to it
that it increases every month don't let it drop!
Your success in your undertakings will be meas
ured by your effort to increase your Bank Ac
count. ,
If you bank money while you earn it, you will
have money when you can't earn it.
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patriotic emblems f rom door to
upon the fact thut
hu is in uniform to insure their purchase.
No soldier needs to work in his uni
form as solicitor or agent, or in any
capacity where his uniform, and not
the value of his work or the product
he Is selling, is the drawing card.
Not only are such uses of the uni
form unnecessary, but they disgrace
the army and the whole people. Says
officer of tho iRed Cross:
It is simply the exploitation of the
uniform for the profit of the employ-
and It belittles both the soldier and
the uniform. The situations of this ki:d
coming to our attention have not been
in the class of occupation that would
encourage thrift on the. part of the
soldier or n quick and easy return to
uhstnntinl civilian pursuits.
"Any discharged soldier unable to
obtain employment will be assisted by
the civilian relief department and its
o-operating agencies to obtain worth
while employment,
In some cases where the soldier's
pay is long overdue, and be is conse
quently unable to fit himself out in ap
propriate civilian clothing, the lied
Cross has arrnnged that he may 'have
crtdit.
The wearing of the uniform is a
tignificd ami serious business. The
khaki is not designed for an advertis
ing medium, and use of it as such
opens thewny for fakes and impos
tures without limit.
Of course, those Poles have no busi
ness jumping on (Jermany when she's
lown. At the same time, the world.
remembering what Germany has done
tC the Pofos, Serbs and Pelgians, taiteg
sardonic satisfaction in their impu-
lU'nce.
The Germans are going to work
Watch for the new sign over the door,
Captuin tfoy-Kd, Undermining Kngi-ner.
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THE FORUM
The Place Where Everyone Has His Say.
STANDS HY SENATOR PIEKCE
Imbler Ore. Jan. 11. mm t
Editor of the Obaerv. : I nnfo ..
edttoriul in The 0be. ver of January
rugnra 10 senator Walter
Pierce and I second what you say in
standing by Wnltor. I have always
found him to be lovel-headed. II.
says tho best way to fiKht Bolshevism
is to removo the cause, and I think he
13 riKht, ,
I read in the Journal of January
18th Kred Lock-ley's article that it is
not Eolsheviki that is committinir the
fiimes in Kus.sia that are being laitl
to ine.ni, out ttio hundreds of thou
sands of Russian prisoners that havo
been released in Uussin nnd the Rus
sian criminals.
Christ whipped the money chancers
from the Temple, saying "The foxes
hnve holes, th birds have nests, b:it
I havo not where t.) lay My head."
Horn in n manner i r.d forced to sle
in the hay, r.a womk'r He kicked 'ind
did not like it.
Now about tho worst thine that I
can fiirurc out ncninst the Rolsheviki
is that they have uot this same idea
ill their hearts that Christ hnd, that
they ouitht to have a home, nnd own
n few acres of land where they can
lay their heads down In peace.
Whenever we commit crimes ficninH
democracy and the rights of both man
and woman we must nnd will suffer
the penalty. We have allowed crimes
against humnnity riht here- in the
Uniled Ktates to po unpunished, for
which we will hnve to suffer the pen
alty: We allowed slavery to exist and
we suffered the penalty. Our public
lands have been squandered, ah'en
away nnd stolen by rich corporations.
Have we forgotten the credit mobi
leero scheme, whereby one of our rail
roads was given every othor section
for twenty miles on both sides of the
railroad? How our congressmen were
bought and given fifty thousand dol
lars npiece for their votes? This cnsi.
Is only typical of many cases nil over
our broad land. If it had not been
for this dirty work we would havo
homesteads now to give our returning
s, idiers nnd the landless that want
homes.
Governor Withyeoinbo outlines r.
plan in his message to give the sol
d'us land nnd homes. lie would sell
them stumj) land and have them p;-.y
1 l:;ir purchase price down, but then
one item in the expense bill that t'ln
soldier would hnve to assume would
'i It" SI00 an acre to clear the stoning
off. The soldier can buy lots of good
improved land nil over the country
fur less than S100 an acre.
I imagine I see the soldiers running
after the governor to get to kiss the
hem of his garment for inaugurati'if
such a grand scheme to help them. A'
though Senator Pierce owns lots of
land, I have heard him advocate in
public speeches the following descriln-d
plan, which I think better than the
governor s: He would have the gov
ernment condemn all lands over am
above a certain amount, say one sec
tion, pay the owners a reasonable sum
for it and sell it to the soldiers and
tho landless who want homes at n rea
sonable price on lojig time payments
and a low rate of interest.
A. V. WILSON'.
Be Sure to Get
"THE WORLD DO MOVE"
ACQUIRING A
PERFECT FIGURE
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Concrete floors1 can- he made almost
noiseless hy covering them with heavy 1,
tur paper, attached by cement.
An automobile Jock and pomp hnve
been combined In a single tool by a
recent Invention. One handle oper
utea both appliances.
For cleaning white shoes a powdep
holdlng glove has been patented, pow
der brine applied through an openlnj
while ttic glove rrotocte the hand.
A machine has been Invented by a
Milwaukee man that aoaks, brushes,
washes, ntcrllliea, rinses and cools
bottles at a speed of 100 a minute.
To lessen the consumption of gnsn- , J
line by automobiles on Inventor has ; i
patented a device to Introduce live.:
strain or vapor Into the Intake manl-i
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''The job now is to make, find and
fit jobs."
Another victorious retreat Laden
dorff has retired to it-fnrm
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Those German PRed.-" were four
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FARMING OUTFIT
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outfit, price $:(000.0. Might consi.Jer;,
good resilience ill town, and pay the j J
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MONEY ON CITY I'RfW'FJlTY
Jack Oliver has money He will loan
on city propey)? -n v""v cav (-,m'-
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Most women who have perfect
figures did not have' them orig
inally. They have acquired them.
A woman fradually t.lkes On
shape of her corset so the eorset
produced by the most artistic
designer is the right one to wear
to secure a perfect fifure.
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OfiJiwberaln's Tablets.
When mu are troubled with Indi
gestion er constipation, take Cham
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comfortable, .Oylish and grad
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beautiful lines that every wo
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PAULINE
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HAS ANYONE
Died , . Had a Fire
Eloped Had a Baby
Divorced Had a Party-
Embezzled Sold a Farm
Left Town " Been Ar'rftsted-1-Come
to Town . ,
Had Twins or Colic- s . '
Sold a Cow or Lost an Auto 8
Laid in a Stock cOf Whisky
Stolens,a Dog or His friend's Wife-,,
Uosnmitted Suicide, or Murder-
Fallen From an Airplars c:'
Fallen Pito a Coal Hole or
Fallen Int t Legacy?
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