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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (June 28, 1918)
T H E P O L K C O U N T Y P O S T . A S em i-W eek ly N ewspaper. Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Tuesday and Friday Entered us second-class matter March 20, 1918, at the postoffice at In dependence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3,1879. Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Year Strictly in Advance; Six Months $1.00; Three months 50 cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration. CLYD E T. E C K E R , Editor. TR EATING THE GOVERNOR U N F A IR L Y Tlie Post is not a supporter of Governor Withycombe and thus it cun be presumed that we are not speaking as a friend when we dclare it is our belief that any attempt to make political capital out of certain remarks he made about four years ago is not patriotic when there is no doubt of Mr. Withycombe’s Americanism. The true test of loyalty and patriotism is what one is doing and saying now. Speaking at Hillsboro on October 24, 1914, the governor said: “ Oh, my friends, see Germany. Germany is one of the grandest countries in the world. The farmers there have cheap money. Oh, my friends, see how prosperous Germany is, and see Denmark.” While “ Germany is not one of the grandest countries in the world,” as the governor declared, tho at that time he thought*so, it goes to show that all of us, even govern ors, make mistakes and err in judgment occasionally. EXPERTS REBUILD ARMY DEFECTIVES Round Shouldered Rookie Given New Zest in Life. SEEMING MIRACLES ARE DONE Orthopedic Diviaion at Camp Oix Is Saving Many Men Otherwise Unfit— Crooked 8pines, Flat Feet and Vari. ous Joint Defects Are Remedied— Physical and Mental Wrecks Built Up. niain ward. Former cobblers among the patients sent to the hospital are now doing the work, and Incidentally are learning a branch o f their trade which will enable them to demand big wages when they return to civil serv ice. Captain Melsenbach and his assist ants render unother important service to the army in that they can quickly spot the man who may be “ stalling" in the hope o f getting out o f the serv ice. A few o f the tests they have de vised will quickly make the faker convict himself. At the same time they discover many instances o f real debility In cases that have aroused the suspicion o f officers. A New Jersey recruit, a heavy-set tnnn who hud been a hotel keeper, while drilling on the field with his company, suddenly sat down on the ground. His astonished officer shbuted an order, but the recruit did not arise. He suid he could not. Tw o fellow-re cruits lifted him to his feet, but he collapsed when he tried to tuke an other step. His company grinned when he was sent to the hospital In an am bulance, for they regarded him as “ quitter,” but the surgeons found he was suffering from a real, but rare, ailment. For days he could get about tlie ward only on all fours. Under an elaborate treatment he Is again learn ing to walk, and while he may never be fit for first-line service he can do camp duties that will release some able-bodied man fo r a line regiment. Several recruits were found strong enough physically, but unfit fo r mili tary duty because o f web fingers. Or thopedic surgeons operated to correct this deformity, and these men have gone back to their regiments with free hnnds. In another case where extra toes on each foot prevented a negro recruit from wearing shoes nnd extra fingers annoyed him in handling a gun, the surgeons obligingly took off the extra digits. Real Gravely Chewing Plug gives a pure, clean tobacco taste— a lasting tobacco sat isfaction that the chewer of ordinary tobacco doesn’t get. Peyton Brand Real Gravely Chewing Plug 10c a pouch—and worth it H e came to the big training camp at Wrightstown, N. J., In a recent draft G ravely lasts so m uch lo n g e r i t costs from a rural district in New York n o m ore to chew than ord in a ry p lu g stare. How the home board came to accept him is a mystery, for he was P. B. Gravely Tobacco Company so round shouldered he looked like Danville, Virginia huneliback. Had he arrived a few months earlier the camp examining board would have sent him back post haste, but under the new ruling widen The Spectacle of the Heavens permits the army to salvuge from this b U 'iin stream called forth by the draft much o f the material that was for (B y Prof. Donald Beard.) merly stamped "unfit” he was ac I f you haven’t noticed Mars and Saturn in the skies cepted. For several days he drilled with his these nights you have been overlooking the spectacle of company In the depot brigade. A t least the planetary system. Both are visible early in the night he tried to drill, but nothing could get him to straighten up and throw back and their wonderful colors make them distinct objects, his shoulders. T o make matters worse Mars in the southwest and Saturn farther west. I f you his feet went “ bad” and finally he have a field glass take a look at both of them, hanging like could scarcely hobble about. Then he was sent to the buse hospital where great lamps in the sky. Use a pair of opera glasses if you he became . patient in the new ortho haven’t field glasses. And if you have a small telescope pedic department. you can see these planets as discs instead of flaring points Experts Take Charge. ‘SUCH A LIT T LE T H IN G ” of light. A fairly good small telescope will show you the Experts looked over his bent form and set to work. They massaged his rings of Saturn and the polar caps of Mars, while the back, and even “ baked” It under an (Montreal Star.) moon these nights has been a joy to one with even a pair electric heater. They compelled him Bestrides Horse He Rode Maybe you did not notice it. A fter all, it was such a to undergo exercises until he winced Major Now of field or opera glasses. A pair of field glasses makes the on Mexican Border. at the pain o f muscles and tendons little paragraph— a meager three lines: moon look like a great sugar ball sticking out in the Maj. Curtis O. Redden, with the One which had been useless fo r years. The “ One of 11. M. destroyers sank the other morning, as crooked spine became supple. With Hundred Forty-ninth A rtillery regi heavens. Mountains and plains are easily seen. ment In France, has written relatives the result of a collision in foggy weather. A ll hands are a supreme effort he could straighten at Danville, 111., that he has just re his back while In bed, but when he ceived his saddle horse which he had missing, presumably drowned.” The Cyclone Out of Sorts sat up or walked he slouched In the two years ago on the Mexican bor It was such a little thing—today. Four years ago it same old stoop-shouldered posture. der. " I t ’s no use. I can’t do It,” he would have filled the front page of the paper. W e should (Rocky Mountain Cyclone.) When the Rainbow division sailed whpn a physical director told for France the horses belonging to the We begin the publication ov the Rocky Mountain Cy have had pictures of the officers and graphic stories by pleaded him to straighten up *and go through Danville battery were left at New clone witli some phew difficulties in tlie way. The type survivors, with an editorial of the loss the empire had sus the exercises, and apparently he could port News, Va., In care o f a detail o f not. But the experts o f this new de men from the battery. Only a short jliounder phrom whom we bought our outpkit plior this tained by the sudden passing of these promising lives. partment had still another card to time ago the animals were sent across. Minting opliice phailed to supply us with any ephs or cays Such a little thing, but out of the murk of clammy fog play. They began to teach him self- The men arrived at the landing place, there screams the agonized call of the steamer’s siren. A confidence, and In a week had proved and the sergeant In charge hurried to md it will be pliour or pliive weex before we can get any. frenzied shout or two, a crash as a bulkhead gives way to his own satisfaction that he could get Into communication with M ajor W e bavé ordered the missing letters, and w ill have to get straighten those shoulders. ilong without them till they come. W e don’t lique the and a gurgling of water—that is all. True, on tlie quiver H e Is now fit, not fo r a camp job, Redden. The latter was somewhere on the ing decks there stand a few figures in great sea boots and but for a first line unit. The ortho American front, hnt the soldier kept loox ov this variety ov spelling any better than our read heavy coats shouting brave orders as the mist wreathed pedic experts actually Inverted the trying until he was able to find ers. but mistaix w ill happen in the best ov regulated hump on his back nnd made It bulge him and then reported that the long- waters wrap them in their embrace. out his chest. H e carries his head looked-for horses were In France, phamilies, and ipli the ephs and es and xs and qs hold out Such a little thing. Eighty men have been blotted out. erect, his shoulders thrown back, and ready fo r action, and that among we shall ceep (sound tlie c hard) the Cyclone whirling he now walks with a confident, easy them was the one ridden by the major aphter a phasion till tlie sorts arrive. It is no joque to us; They have died a more horrible death than any soldiers, stride, for they have strengthened the in Texas. It had been returned to i t’s a serious aphair. save perhaps those who perish by poison gas. Little lone arches o f his feet Hnd have given him Danville, kept there until the battery ly figures in a great univerve of darkness. They have pass special shoes to correct any threaten was called to the colors again, and defects. then sent to Newport News. How Long Since You ed out of history and are buried in the sea they love. The ing Marvelous as has been the physical “ I f the horse comes through this record of their brave deeds is a 3-line paragraph. change. It Is surpassed by his Improved war and I survive, I am galng to buy mental condition. He was inclined to him nnd bring him home,” the major (Detroit News.) t Such a little tiling. be dull, listless, and careless. The concluded. Saw a “ canopy top” buggy ? straightening o f his body seems to JELLY, JUICES A N D JAM Marched in a torchlight procession? have given him a higher, brighter out look on life, and there Is snap even In Received a pamphlet from tlie party’s national com his conversation. The doctors have J A N I E ’S HEAD WA S P A I N I N G SOME mittee declaring tlie tariff to be the paramount issue? Whole Family of 15 Enlisted in the made n better citizen as well as a good Organization. soldier. (Falls City, Ore., News.) Ate any homemade sausage? Tom Bradshaw o f Eureka Springs, “ Puts a Man On Hia Feet,” Janie ate the cake, Janie ate the jelly, Janie went to Heard the claim that “ this trouble in Europe is none Ark., not only Is running a good race The story of tills young farmer is bed with a pain in her— now don’t get excited, don’t be one o f many cases In which wonder in the competition open to large fam of our affair?” ilies, but he Is very near the top as misled, the pain that Janie bad, was all in her head. Chewed any spruce gum? ful results have been obtained in this one o f the most patriotic fathers in new branch o f the army hospital serv Carroll county. Saw a middle aged woman riding a bicycle? ice. Like many o f the other projects DOCTOR DOCTORS DOCTOR, SO W E ASSUM E He and Mrs. Bradshaw are the fa Saw a 20-year-old girl brush? planned for the new armies o f the ther nnd mother o f 13 robust young (Outlook.) Drank an old fashioned milk shake? United States, Camp Dix has been Americans, and they find it keeps them When omi doctor doctors another doctor, does tin* doc made the experimental center for this pretty busy scratching fo r such a Listened to “ I Didn’t Raise Mv Boy to Be a Soldier?” science, which alms to “ put a mun on flock. By way o f diversion, Father tor doing tlu‘ doctoring doctor the other doctor like the his feet again.” The orthopedic treat Mother Bradshaw and all 13 o f doctor wants to be doctored, or does the doctor doing the ment does not confine Itself merely to and From Abe to Bob the little Bradshaws drove over to doctoring doctor the other doctor like the doctor doing the correction o f foot defects; It applies the schoolhopse the other night to to joints in any part of the body. A attend a Red Cross meeting which was doctoring wants to doctor him? (Philadelphia North American.) rheumatic knee, a stiff shoulder, a dis held there by Judge A. L. Kinnery of lodged vertebra, all come under the — x — From Private Abraham Fleseher of “ Over There” to Green Forest. Pa Bradshaw grew so A G I R L A N D WOMAN DON’T WONDER T H E SAME ministrations of this science; so broad enthusiastic over the Red Cross that Brother Robert Fleischer of Spriutield, Mass.: is the field covered that Lieut. Col. W. he enlisted the entire Bradshaw fam ■(Tom Thompson.) Dear Bob: Just a few lines to let you know that I am Cole Davis, commandant o f the base ily— 15 in all— as members o f the or hospital, has allotted five wards fo r A girl is always wondering who her husband will O. K. and hope to hear tho same of you. 1 got into an aw ganization. patients o f the orthopedic department, and a woman is always wondering where lie is. ful scrap with the Germans and they got a little tho best and already they are filled. of me. I lost my right arm and my loft eye, but I am The work o f the new department is under the personal direction o f Cnp- A SOUTH D AKO TA CRI ME getting along O. K. just the same. 1 expect to be home Landing Gear on Machine Scarce as hired girls are a South Dakota woman is ac tain Koliand Melsenbnch o f Buffalo, Did It With for tho holidays. (Yom Kippur in September). Break the and Added New Sport. and (he manner In which he has made cused of killing hers. A new sport has been added to the news gently to mother. the lame walk and performed other Your brother, Abe. Harmon Nor •eemlug miracles has convinced wur card In West Texas. P. S.— Send me some chocolate soon. department olflcinls that this new sci ton, civilian Instructor at Call Field, WOOD C O U LD N ’T ence can be made one o f the most im killed a coyote with the landing gear Norton nnd (Philadelphia Inquirer.) portant factors In the general scheme o f his Curtiss biplane. The war has gone on long enough now to reconcile most cadet flyer were doing stunts flying o f rehabilitation o f human bodies. Dr. Leonard Wood, but they won’t let him. people to hot corn bread. However, it probably would south o f Lake Wichita. Melsenbnch'» chief assistant Is Lieu Flying close to the ground they no have to run several years longer to convince some folks tenant M. A. Bluiner o f Pittsburgh. PROBLEM S L1K T H I S SET MEN C R A Z Y Experts have estimated that as ticed two coyotes following the ma that eornbread can be eaten.— Kansas City Star. Thinking to scare them off, many as 95 per cent o f negroes and 49 chine. (Emporia, Kan., Gazette.) per cent o f whites called In the draft Norton dipped down over them. One _ A certain Emporia man is undecided whether to let his have foot defects o f one kind or an- ran. hut the other stood Its ground, wife have a surgical operation which will guarantee her j other, and a large number "become snarling and showing evidence o f fight, social success or to fool awav his money on another wild- * cu,# under th» »trees of continued jumping up at the machine. Norton marching. A year ago the "flat- again drove the machine down and cat oil well. Established .1889 footed” recruit was rejected. Today this time struck the prairie w olf with he Is accepted, and eventually lands a wheel, killing It. In the orthopedic hospital for a course DISCOVERED A T L A S T ! A T R U E F IS H STO RY A Successful Business Career of French Need Work Anim als o f treatment that It would be almost (Anna Carlson.) French farmers are sadly In need Twenty-Five Years Impossible fo r him to get In civil life. The only true fish story is found in the Bible, when the One o f the patients moat recently dis o f work anlmala for the farms and are not entirely satisfied with the way disciples said, in effect, “ Master, we have fished all night charged at cured was the eon o f a the government has been seizing wealthy physician, who had been un and caught nothing.” INTER EST P A ID ON TIME able to obtain for his boy the special horses fo r the army’s needs. M. Andre — x — treatment which be received free here. Palsant, deputy from the Oise, with several o f his colleagues, has demand DEPOSITS •ulW Up “Broken" Arches, COURSE, T H A T ’S W H E R E I T IS ed a parliamentary Investigation Into ■•-called broken arches are built up the army’s methods. (Kansas City Star.) i p massage, various prescribed exer Officers and Directors A Great Bend girl complains that since the folks clean cises. development o f seU-coufidence. Makes Unusual Sacrifice. H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W . Sears, V. P. ed house last spring she can’t find her last year’s bathing and. last but not least, the equipment Miss Margaret Oockett a Y. M. G. Of the pedant with shoes specially W. S. Kurre, Cashier snit anywhere. Did she look in tlie jewel box on the bultt to overcome tos defects from A. canteen worker in France, cut bar hair short because her work left bar W . H. Walker I. A. Allen O. D. Butler wrMch he Is sufltrtac. A special cob- ao time to care tor tt dresser? & OLD MOUNT IN FRANCE RED CROSS ENTHUSIASM AIRMAN KILLS WOLF The Independence National Bank