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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (July 16, 1918)
THE POLK COUNTY POST. LUMINOUS PAINT IN WARFARE G R E E M E N T W IT H N O R W A Y. Many Ingenious uses have been A Mutual are secured by found of late for luminous paint. the \jnlted advantages States and In the A Semi-Weekly Newspaper. Watches with dials which glow In the new trade agreement. Norway The details darkness are becoming common, and not been made public, but the Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on only the fither day an order was given have principle By giving assur for 1 (JO,-000 marching compasses with ance that is no clear. Tuesday and Friday imports the United luminous needles to be carried by sol States or its allies, or from any goods for diers at the front, says Boys’ Life. Entered as second-class mutter March 26, 1918, ut the* postoflice at In Immense quantities of luminous cloth warded with the aid of American coal, shall go either directly or dependence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. are used by the soldiers who go over bunker indirectly Germany. Norway will the top. It Is cut Into small rect obtain all to the supplies she needs for angles about ten inches long and fas Subscription Rates: $1.50 a Year Strictly In Advance; Six Months her own use, so as the necessities tened to the collar of the uni of .he war will far $1.00; Three months 50 cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration. permit. This is the forms. The soldiers can thus rec kind of arrangement allies have al ognize their own men In an indis ways been willing to the make with the criminate tight in the dark. The lu European neutrals. But these CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor. have minous paint Is also smeared on the preferred the profits of ends of sharpened sticks which when apparently with Germany to the welfare If there must be from necessity a continued restriction stuck into the ground make a fairly trade of the of their own people. For beacon. Lumiuous tape is also tunes bulk on the use of sugar, it will be up to every patriotic family clear have been made by the few, 10c a pouch —and worth it used by the mile for a variety of pur while the masses felt more und more to keep a bee. poses. In this way the stretcher-bear the pinch of scarcity. Nor has this wlll- ers mark the paths they are to follow. 1 Ingness to help Germany Groomlylaataaomuch longer it costs In the least mo mora to chaw than ordinary p ia f been found that on a dark night protected the neutrals from About five years late, we have been assured that Oregon It the has luminous German paint is visible for only frightfulness. Norway In particular will soon have a state lime plant. In five years, we will 60 feet. A soldier P. B. Gravely Tobacco Company can dip his hand in has suffered from submarine attacks; Danville, Virginia the paint and signal by describing let probably have one. the toll of ships and lives could hardly ters In the air or by wig-wagging, have been higher if she had been at knowing that the enemy cannot see war, says Philadelphia Ledger. There The Benton County Courier rather surprisingly says him a hundred feet away. will doubtless be an effort at Berlin DEFILING THE FLAG Norway Into repudiating her there is no “war activities” in Oregon. All the \ alley Not long ago a Jury In San FrapcJsco | to new bully obligations. But Norway would will wonder what it is in Portland if it isn’t “war activi found a man guilty of murder and rec have everything to lose und nothing (Youth’s Companion.) ommended the death penalty. This in t y .” As the war goes on and the casualty lists bring home Itself was somewhat remarkable be to gain by yielding. cause the death penalty appears to Nothing is harder to get through our losses, we read of mobs forcing pro-Germans to kiss have gone out of fashion in most the head of the practical man than the flag. The crowd laughs and cheers, and the mob dis An Eastern writer has observed that according to the ' states, but a still more remarkable that only history can teach practical artists, who draw for the magazines, a woman has thing about the trial was that seven politics. His notion of practical poli perses with a smug feeling that it has done something women were members of the jury, says tics is to provide for present needs finely patriotic. contributed her share to the country in the present crisis Indianapolis News. They had a ma In reality it has done the meanest thing a mob can do. deal with emergencies as tHVy ar if she puts on a pair of overalls. Jority and could have brought a dis and rive. This is an animal Instinct of The poor fool that it has man-handled is not cured of his agreement, but they readilytvoted for adaptation to circumstances which ' 'disloyalty, but rather is confirmed iu it by having suffered death penalty. There has been This “marching up the hill and down again” of the the do for unlmul needs; hut it sur violence at the hands of American citizens; but that is considerable comment on this verdict, may renders evolution to accident nnd food administration regarding the sale of wheat Hour is as it gave li.e lie to the assertion that force among brute species, writes the least of the evil that has been done. To those of us would not make good Jurors Henry as Jones quite freely condemned by the press of the state. Some women Ford in Atlantic Monthly. who are loyal that flag represents all that we hold dearest because of their natural sympathy, If ever political development is brought and most sacred in life. It is the visible emblem of our body became too enthusiastic and slipped a belt. sentimentalism and emotional quali under the guidance of reflection and right to worship God as we please; our righfito free speech ties. There is ample evidence to prove choice, it is by studious to that women are no more sentimental the lessons of history. It atterttlon and a free press; our right to put whom we choose into was by ef Oregon’s Jonathan Bourne is out with the statement than men, especially in the trial of a fort of this character—of which Rie office, and to hold, ourselves, any office that we have the case in court. It Is argued also that federalist is the literary monument— that “the tariff is the leading issue..” Ever since Tige women ability to attain. It stands for our right to make our own are no more emotional. that this country was lifted out of an laws and to repeal them when they no longer please us. was a pup, the tariff has been more or less an issue, but outlook indicates a harvest archy in 1787. unfortunately for the country a political issue rather than of The from crop 800,000,000 It is an omnipresent and indestructible memorial to the to 900,000,000 English army doctors, finding city faith and courage and self-sacrifice of our fathers who a non-partisan one. bushels of wheat. Thera is promise boys keener of ear than country boys, died for it, and our sons who are dying for it now. It is also of large harvests of this cereal adopt the theory that the quietude of as in the countries of our allies. The eco dear as a sister, as beautiful as a mother. The German people have been told by the military nomic situation is therefore vastly rural districts explains the difference. And into the presence of that symbol of purity and Urban noises, they argue, keep the clique that has them by the throat that it may be neces better than last year. It will be nec aural nerves in a state constantly re noble sentiment you lead a traitor and force him to press essary, however, to make very large sponsive. Looking across seas, these sary to go barefooted in order that kultur be established shipments his foul lips to its immaculate folds! The flag cannot re wheat to Europe, as Na savants may discover that the keen the world over, the kaiser crowned king of the universe tional Food of Administrator Herbert C. est human ears ever known, those of sist, hut how every fibre of it must shrink and revolt! It explained recently before the Indians and the frontiersmen, have cannot repel the assault or protest against the insult, but «and the Hun claim of partnership with God lx* impressed Hoover United corporation In been developed In the silences of Amer upon all mankind with an imprint of blood. Germans, New York. States This Grain is chiefly because of ican forests and prairies. It seems forever after it must float a little less proudly, must carry who came to America should be mighty thankful that they the greater durability of wheat over probable that hearing, like many an it self with a little less lofty consciousness. other grains. Corn, of which there other faculty, depends for its active To he allowed to kiss the flag is not a penance, hut a got away. will be a bountiful supply In • this strength upon the exercise due to ne privilege—the privilege of patriots, patriots only. It is country. Is perishable and Europeans cessity. It Is need, rather than noise, not for traitors. ignorant of the art of making corn which keeps a listener's nerves on the Congress will be obliged during the present session to are bread. alert pass a new revenue bill for the purpose of paying the enor Real Gravely Plug has been chewed for its real tobacco satisfaction ever since 183L I t ’s made the good old Gravely way. Peyton Brand Real Gravely Chewing Plug mous expenses of the war which is now figured in billions. Luxuries, incomes and war profits will bear the burden of taxation, as they should, but the question is can it be framed so the people will not have to pay it after all. If a tax is placed against the products of a concern, those products are raised in price to tlx* people and the manu facturer escapes taxation. It has been demonstrated that as far as revenue is concerned that the people are contrib uting most of it. Possibly*, the only equitable method of taxation would be a direct one levied against the property and income of all. The Non-Partisan League, which has been somewhat under a cloud for several months, being charged with treason,.disloyalty and other crimes, has been grinning.at its accusers for the past few weeks. The Minnesota su preme court has ruled that the organization is not disloyal and in Nebraska where the council of defense put the “yellow” brand on several League heads, the same heads proceeded to bring libel suits against the officers of the defense council, causing the latter to back up and take it hack. Then the League ticket swept North Dakota like a whirlwind in the primaries and cast such a large vote in the Minnesota primaries as to become the balance of pow er. ’The old parties in every state where the League is or ganized and in fighting trim, have something to worry about and keep them in hot water. Perhaps if the old parties had gone in for a title more “reform” themselves, they would not be plagued by a third gang. STAR BEAMS (Kansas City Star.) Nobody can accuse the early cantaloupes of having used too much sugar this season. We find that the trouble with some of the city men who went to tin* harvest fields was that they used profane lan guage and expected it to shock the wheat. Things continue to break right for the small boy. A Maryland professor says the proper way to eat a meal is to eat vnur dessert first. Nowadays a boy merely eats his way thru a lot of bread and meat nnd potatoes to his des sert. By putting the dessert out in front, he would attain his objective directly, and thousands of pounds of meat and wheat would be saved for the Allies every month. No more "dago “ . f ie It is announced that tailors Intend to stop making "cuffs” on trousers. The practice possibly arose from the fact that so many fashionable young men Insisted upon rolling up their trousers when It was raining in Lon don. Trouser cuffs are merely for or namentation, and we men might as well stop trying to be sarcastic about ornamentation by the lovelier sex. We must have “territorial quanti ties" is the new phrase of the German Junker, cheered by costly victories to resume his demand for annexations in France and Belgium. Vorwaerts links this with th, rejection of the Prussian ballot-reform commission: The “mil itary sacrifices of the heroes in the west who went through almost impas sable fields of mud and crater holes,” for Junker war aims are to be reward The government warns against the ed “by cheating them of political re slaughter of heifers and cows, if we are forms without which Germany cannot to avoid u meat famine for a hundred be u free country! years to come. Snve the cows. boys. Kill the bulls. Conditions throughout The kaiser, seeing the desolation in the world Indicate that the bulls are France, gave thanks that It was not about to overrun the earth. Every his country which was so ruined. And country has a surplus. Reduce It. seeing the slaughter wrought in the ranks of his army by the latest Hln- M. Stephane Lnuzanne denies the i denburg drive for the fatherland, he story that French avintors were per- I can still give thanks that it is not his mltted to attend the funeral of Guyne- j family which will lie put in mourning mer within the German lines; and his In fact, no matter where he looks, he authority is the French government. has always something to be thankful No such thing ever hnppened or is for. likely to happen in this most bitter of all wars. A peculiar type of American citizen ship is that which patronizingly hints What Is now called the antlloaflng that the United States Constitution has law Is nothing more than the old vaga largely outlived Its usefulness, and bondage law with a wider application. then bravely asserts that the govern Formerly only poor men were prose- founded on that Constitution Is cuted in this fashion. Now the rich a ment model for the democracies of the vagrants will have to account for them world. selves. “The lack of tact," says n Boston There won’t be any more "German preacher, "results In much Irritation.” silver." Its trade name has been Possibly It does, hut what is called a changed to "nlcke! silver.” So, If lack of tact Is in most cases but a you’ve been refusing to use any such form of brutal candor. That is much articles on account of patriotism, you more easily endured than the irrita- can get 'em out again. tlons growing out of n lack of sense. The Germans light as If they are In Is evident thnt the new Russian earnest. So with the French and Eng 6ng It which bears the legend, “Roslsky lish. The United States will have to Sotzlaiyiticheskaya Federativnaya So- tight that way, too. or the war will be vlestskaya Respubilcn.” will have to lost. And the great majority are not be manufactured In a Job printing es lighting that way yet. tablishment. The American lists cited for bravery A cable says the kaiser is believed abroad are increasing. We have cause to ba weakening menially and that he to be proud of our boys abroad, and in Is the victim of hallucinations. There's turn, they should be made proud of the nothing new about his being the r. of way we are backing them up at home. h. That trouble hegnn tn the summer of 1914. Judging by reports from the battla front, an engineer is a man who wields The Interior of the thinking appa a shovel or a machine gun with equal ratus of a fellow who has a son to facility. the American army and the kaiser's picture In his room ought to be Inter It looks as though the dove of paaca esting material for a neutral psychol had gone to meet the passenger pigeon. ogist. \ i THE RECENT FLOUR FIASCO ( Jefferson Review.) Of all the darn foolishness this monkey work with flour is the worst. A short time ago valley dealers were order ed to ship al their wheat flour to Portland, and there was a shortage and it was needed for army use. All complied promptly with the order. Now they are told there is no shortage and to have it shipped back. This will cost the consumer 70 cents per barrel, just to allow some pinhead to show he had a little authority. There has been no shortage of wheat flour and it does not seem probable that there will he with harvest at hand and big wheat reserves in Argentine and Australia. Why not stop the sale of substitutes for a while? THE ANSWER OF THE FOREIGN BORN (By Franklin K. Lane, Secretary of the Interior.) We came to America to help in the making of this new land—for our own good and for the good of our children. The gate was open; we gave nothing to enter. The paths that other feet had beaten we followed. The lands others had fouqd and fought for were given us if we would make them into homes. In the old land, the motherland, we worked for a living; here we worked that we might really live. Hope filled our hearts. In the old land, the motherland, our hoys could he no more than we had been. Their way was barred hv the man above, the man born to land and position and preference. Always there was the man above, to whom he must doff his hat in token of deference and subjection. Strive as he might, sacrifice as (Continued on Page J.) \ The Independence National Bank Established .1889 • > A Successful Business Career of Twenty-Five Years INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. W. S. Kurre, Cashier W. H. Walker L A. Allen 0. D. Butler