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THE POLK COUNTY POST. A S em i-W eekly N ew sp ap er. P u b lish e d FRAPPISI MONASTERY KAISER WAKTS SPARED Thousands of men have chewed Real Gravely Chewing Plug for twenty-five years and more. And every time they have tried some other brand it made them think more of Gravely than ever. T w ice a W eek a t In d ep e n d en ce , P o lk C ounty, O regon, on T u esd a y a n d F rid a y Entered as second-class matter March 26, 1918, at the postoffice at In dependence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3,1879. S u b sc rip tio n R ates: $1.50 a T e a r S tric tly in A dv an ce; Six M onths $1.00; T h re e m o n th s 50 cents. A ll su b sc rip tio n s sto p p ed a t ex p ira tio n . a Peyton Brand Real Gravely Chewing Plug CLYDE T. ECKER, E ditor. Evidently the convicts share the opinion of Warden Murphy and everybody else who ever took the trouble to investigate that the Oregon state pentitentiary is not a very desirable place to stay in; live prisoners thus far this week have escaped and four others tried unsuccessfully to do so. Oregon needs a new penitentiary (in fact two of them) worse than it needs lots of things it has been getting. The present one, a relic of the dark ages, ceased to be inhabit able about the time Andrew Jackson was elected presi dent. While it is the opinion of many that the pentitentiary is no place for a decent man to live in, still there are a lot of men who get in there that could be made decent if given half a show and not compelled to live in such a place as the Oregon institution and in close communion with con firmed criminals; why its a dirty trick to keep even the last mentioned class in the pentitentiary at Salem. HAVE A HEART, UNCLE SAM 10c a pouch—and worth it G ra v ity la tta to m ach longer it c o tti ño m oro to c h tw th a n ordinary p la g P. B. Gravely Tobacco Company Danville, Virginia An interesting development in connection with the hostile shelling of the territo ry around Mont des Cats, in the Kemmel region, where the famous T rapplst monastery is located, is the fact th a t the Germans have been bom barding this Flemish elevation heavily and the monks' home has been badly damaged. T he German em peror recently w rote a le tte r to his com mander in th a t area asking th a t Mont des Cats be spared because the aged prior of the monastery was th e only living person who knew where the em peror’s relative. Prince Max of Hnsse, had .been buried after his death In the monastery in October, 1914. The prince was attached to the cavalry which occupied Mont des Cats afte r the outbreak of the war. In an engagem ent with British cavalry. Prince Max was m ortally wounded and was taken to the monastery. While he was being nursed by the monks his com rades were driven from the hill by the British, who occu pied It. The prince died and was buried in a certain place, the location of which was not disclosed to th e world. (From the Philadelphia Record.) self or his machine. F or Fonck never has been wounded. Many of his vic Uncle Sum may commandeer all tobacco over here, and tories were won before the German the needs of “ over there” may not leave us half a share! adversary had a chance to fire a shot. Incidentally he is said to know more Uncle Sam, for mercy’s sake! We don’t care what else about Germán aviation than any other you take, wheat and beef and booze and cake, but beware man among the allies. this added ache; think of all the hearts you’ll break! All Brocard taught him to fly anything the old tobacco hearts in these cis-Atlantic parts will Lacks Even Usual Superstition and everything, Including the first a r tillery observation machine w ith two arise, O Uncle Sam, and exclaim in chorus “ Damn!” How motors. Fonck himself says he liked About Airplanes. can we be up to snuff if we do not get enough of the need every machine he ever tried except the one he attem pted to m ake out of his ful cheerful stuff! What the dickens shall we do if we m other’s buffet when he was ten years cannot get from you half a toothful for a chew? Tell us it GIVES HIS TO BEGIHNERS old. H e spoiled the buffet, he says, and th e results were painfully u nsatis is but a joke! Surely you would not revoke poor man’s factory. privilege to smoke! Unlike Guynemer, He Seldom Works, he is m odest; he keeps say Take our houses and our barns, cotton warps and wool and Then Only When He Feels F i t - ing Finally, he is lazy, and very likely he really en yarns, all the fancy clothes we use and our low and Score Now 60 Enemy P lsnes and All means it, because he keeps comparing self to Guynemer. Guynemer was lofty shoes; horses, mules and motor cars, dancing balls W ithout Scratch to Himself or Ma him always in the a ir; he w as untiring, at Knows More About German and drinking bars, movies, ball parks and bazaars, books chine— work hour afte r hour. Fonck by com Aviation Than Any Man of Allies. parison flies seldom. He never goes up and pictures, paints and chalks, sermons, after dinner he feels Just like It. He cannot talks, dogs and cabbages and kings—there’s no limit to Rene Fonck, the young ace of aces unless conquer this reluctance to systematic the things we’ll surrender on our part, if you’ll only have who recently won his forty-ninth offi daily work, he says. Which seems to recorded victory, may best be de show that, afte r all, he is human and a heart. Every blessed thing we grow, long and short and cially scribed as th e man w ith perfect nerve, has a falling. high and low—we will give you all you need; only let us but no trace of nerves. Those who have had th e opportunity to study him keep the weed! closely believe th is superb poise Is the DEAF MUTES MAKE “ Rations of tobacco?” Scat! Nothing’s rational in secret of his success. that! All accustomed smokers scoff at the thought of To show how free he Is from fo ib les: IDEAL AIR FIGHTERS Most fam ous aviators become a t “ tapering off.” Uncle Sam, it can’t be done! We must tached to a favorite machine. When have too much or none! On our pipes, in peace, we drew they have won a few victories in it till our very gills were blue; if these ills the war had bred, they regard it w ith affection, even Successful Experiments at Min* su p erstitio n ; It is lucky. war is all that Sherman said. Let the booming cannon w ith eola May Result in Their Be By contrast, Fonck has a habit of cease! We would smoke the pipe of peace! giving his machine to any youngster ing Allowed to Enlist. FONCK, FRENCH ACE, NERVELESS FULL SPEED AHEAD (By Gordon Selfridge.) Do I believe there is any reason for American adver tisers to draw in their horns, in the light of English ex perience? 1 do not! Always remembering that in war time waste and foolish buying must be eliminated, there is no reason why a business should not go ahead full speed. In Great Britain the firms which never faltered have had results to justify their faith, and those who were frightened by the prospect have suffered. The longer the war lasts, the greater the gross volume of business seems to be due, perhaps, to the more equitable distribution of wealth among the classes, which the war brings about. If 1 were an American merchant, l should go ahead under full pressure. THEN “ YOU KIN USE YOU’ OWN JUDGMENT” (From Everybody’s Magazine.) “ ‘Tain’t gwine do ’em any good to pick on me,” said Lemuel sulkily. “ Ah certainly ain’t gwine do any fightin’. Ah ain’t lost nothin’ oveh in France. Ah ain’t got any quarrel with a-n-ybody, an’ Uncle Sam kain’t make me fight.” “ You’re right,” replied Jim. “ Uncle Sam kain’t make you tight. But he can take you where de fightin’ is, an ’ after that you kin use you’ own judgment.” JELLY, JUICES AND JAM LATE TO CHURCH BUT EARLY TO THE CIRCUS (Sport’s Cousin.) I went to a circus recently and got into the big tent early, but the family noted for arriving at church when the sermon is half over was there ahead of me. —x— OLD MAN NOAH’S MISTAKE (Awgwan.) We mortals have to swat and shoo the flies from dawn till dark, ’cause Noah didn’t swat the two that roosted in the ark. You’ll find sugar in the dictionary. who has Just won his pilot’s commis sion and who has caught the g reat ace’s fancy. "T ry th is one, lad,” he will say. “It seems to be all right,” and thus passes title to a plane In which he has downed two or th ree Germans. Then he takes the next machine sent to the camp from the factory. Built Like a Boxer. Fonck Is of medium height and weight and has the walk and carriage of a skillful boxer. Men of scientific bent say his reflexes are perfect— Incredibly sw ift and accurate. Besides this he hns extraordinary vision. It has hnppened more than once when he has led a squadron th a t he has sig naled to th e other pilots the approach of a Germnn plane, its exact location, the angle from which it should be a t tacked and its speed, all this before any of th e others had seen It a t all. It need hardly be added th at he Is a rem arkably accu rate shot, another proof of his superb vision and perfect nerve control. Like all the g reat fliers, he is a fa natic on th e subject. When he talk s j it is of nothing but motors, new mod els of planes, aeriat tnctics and ma chine guns. But more often he sits through dinner with his friends w ith out u tterin g a syllable. Speaking of tactics, he has none, o r a t least no set method. H e improvises ns he goes along. Like the oth er pu pils of th a t great Instructor of fliers. Com mandant Brocard. he Is full of in genious surprises. Incidentally, Bro card believed In him from the first. A y ear ago Georges Prade. a Journalist o f note, w as talking to the m aster, ex pressing his fears for the fu tu re of th e combat sqnadrons with Dorme, N a varre, Rochefort, Lenoir gone, and Guynemer and Nnngesser fighting on by sheer will power and determ ination despite wounds which would have crippled th e ordinary man. Brocard replied sim ply: H ad a Card Up H it Sleeve. “B ut w e have Fonck. Do you know FonckT H e 1» unique.” Fonck w as all b ut unknown. B nt he could not rem ain long in ob scurity—not a young man who kept putting down plane afte r plane (his •core now la over sixty, eleven having fallen out of eight of official observers) end alw ays w ithout a scratch to U » Army officers of the Mlneoia avia tion field believe th a t the ideal air fighter hns been found—the deaf mute. As a resu lt of tests made with recent graduates from the New York Insti tution for the Deaf and Dumb it is be lieved th a t the w ar departm ent will soon authorize their enrollm ent in the flying service and th at a new field of w ar endeavor will be opened to thou sands of young men all over the coun try. Curiously enough It has been dis covered th a t deafness elim inates one of the most dangerous factors in the training of m ilitary aviators. The man who w as born normal but who has lost his hearing has no sense of mo tion, so it is explained by MaJ. William H. Van Tassell, assistan t principal of the institution. As a result he loses the fear and the feeling of dizziness which a great altitude often cuuses in the normal mau. “A number of oar graduates have been tried out in airplanes at Mlneoia for several Sundays past,” said Major Van Tassell, “and the tests have been so successful th at it is quite likely they will be allowed to enlist. It will de pend upon how fu rth er experim enta tion, which is now In progress, turns out "The deaf have no sense of motion. If they lose the sense of hearing, after once having possessed it, they cannot tell, for Instance, w hether they are swinging in a hammock or w hether it is stationary. They never become sea sick or dizzy in high altitudes and lose all sense of dread, such as is expe rienced by normal persons. The ex plosions of airplane engines are entire ly unheard by the motes, although in ail other respects they a re exactly aa keen as anyone.” Boy Finds Box of Money. Finding an iron box full of money while playing with companions In the ruins of the Chinatown fire a t P asa dena. Cal.. Manna! Garcia, a twelve- year-old Mexican boy, mounted guard over the money until it w as claimed by its owner, Ah Sing. Yonng G a rd a e » dsavored to lift the box. bnt it was too heavy. When the excited Chinese un locked It, it was found to contain near ly $100 In email coins, moat of which w are pennies and nickels. THE DOG FENNEL a (By T en n y so n J. D aft.) S om e b a rd s m ay b lu rb of lilies fair, of asp h o d els an d roses, B ut I sin g of th e dog fen n el th a t titilla te s o u r noses W ith o d o rs old th a t call to m in d a flood of recollection A nd b rin g o u r ch ild h o o d hack a g a in in d re a m y retro sp e ctio n , W ith a c i d sm ell th a t h u m b le w eed a m ira c le d o th w o rk us, A nd ta k e s u s back to y o u th 's g lad tim e, th e d a y w h en cam e the circus. j W e live a g a in th o se joyous h o u rs w h en w e escap ed o u r m a m m a s And c a rrie d w a te r for th e y ak , th e zeb ra a n d th e lla m a s, A nd h a v in g w on o u r w ay in sid e w e m a rv e l at th e w onders, A nd alm o st lau g h ed o u r fool h e a d s off to see th e old clo w n ’s b lu n ders. T hose d ay s a re gone, a n d n e ’e r a g a in , m y se re a n d a n c ie n t b ro th er, W e’ll see a show as g ra n d a s th a t— th e y 'll n ev e r m a k e a n o th e r. “ THEY CAN’T HOLD US GUYS” (By Richard Henry Little.) American soldiers are grand fighters, but poor matinee idols. When women spring from their seats in the side walk cafes and thrust flowers in their hands they look as ashamed as a dog caught stealing eggs. The most awful suffering I saw in Paris was the case of a bjg husky from an infantry outfit. A woman of great distinction had stopped her machine in the middle of the street while the soldier was crossing, and, leaning out, enthusiastically had tied a bright pink ribbon around his neck. Amidst much rejoicing from the assembled French spectators the woman went her way and the big soldier looked as if he was just about to choke to death, although it was a very thin ribbon and loosely tied. 1 saw him an hour later and he still wore the ribbon and had turned deathly pale and was evidently in great pain. “ Listen said he in a hoarse whisper, “ the captain said we was to receive any compliments given us by the French with a smile and show ’em we appreciated it and not hurt their felings by ditching it, but if I have to wear this pink ribbon around my neck for another hour I ’ll go nuts and bite myself in the leg. For the love of Mike do something.” 1 removed the ribbon from the suffering soldier’s neck and after a while he grew calm and quite rational, and he told me some stories of the front regarding the first as sault of the Americans against Chauteau Thierry a week before. “ They can’t hold us guys,” he said. “ When we git started we jest keep goin’. There at Chatty Teery the officers were making an awful holler about the boys run ning too fast and ducking right thru the barrage and not paying attention to nothing except spearin’ bodies. Our colonel came over before we started and he was most particular like in pointing out a hunch of rock where he wanted our battalion to halt. The major said all right that he would stop his four companies right on the line of ’em rocks, and then we started. We got it right in the nose from every Hun gun in front of us, but the boys just yelled and laughed and away they went. Say they didn’t pay no more attention to the major when we came to ’em rocks than if he hadn’t been there at all. I went back to give him a message from my captain and lie was standing by the rocks, and up came the colonel, and the colonel gave the major blinking hell for not stopping the battalion where he said and the major was madder’n a hornet, and double damned the colonel right back again and he said, ‘How the crucified damnation could I stop them crazy, wild eyed sons of perdition? If that hog faced crown prince and his whole damn Hun army couldn’t stop ’em, what the hell could I do?’ ” The Independence National Bank Established .1889 A Successful Business Career of Twenty-Five Years 1 ¥ f , " ----------------- INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS f Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. W. S. Kurre, Cashier W. H. Walker I. A. Allen O. D. Butler