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.
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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
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