DOINGS OF THE VAN LOONS No doubt M other can find som ething to fit any case you J u s t eny T ^ t o s e S T IC -K . s o O U R BB.L-C. r i n < î : »=r# t h a t : A NO —V---- B U T M A -A I c - c a n ' t . I H A V E THF , T H 6 R 6 . YOU A R B [ 5 ‘ T T l N t ; AROUND d o in g ; n o t h i n g vymcn T H E R a li> SO MUCH 1 T O DO -------------------- ' C jo A N D • F ^ T THE A S H E i' 5 H A K ÎN C Ï- HfflP'illWIIPIIIlHi- MODERN WARFARE FINDS YANKEES COVERING THEMSELVES WITH SLOE American officers bivouacked la a schoolhouse and converted the rooms Into offices where maps were unfurled and strung. The ink was still In the little wells In the pupils' desks and there were chalk examples and sen tences on the blackboards. We brewed coffee and breakfasted on war bread and confiture In a little white cement house where everything was In place. Dash and Courage in Second Battle - of the Marne Add New Lu The owners had to leave quickly, sav to Old Glory— Remarkable Description of the Arts, Devices ing only a few family effects. The quaint family clock was ticking on the and Camouflage Employed in Present-Day War mantel. — Spectacular Features Are Missing. Poultry cackled In the yard and two cows munched under a shelter. Cour iers on motorcycles as white as If they Modern war has knocked spots oat pictures. emerged from flour barrels, dashed Little tots slept In the eddies of of the spectacular features o f battle, back and forth. More artillery rattled these loads. I saw one huge load because It Is chiefly machine made. Into place and more trucks filled with The scenes of popular fancy— the drawn by six oxen the color o f milk. American brawn rumbled over the hill. The head o f the house was driving kind one reads about In history and There was a brief period o f deliber which have been perpetuated In poet and his wife and four children were ation, and, without sleep or food, our perched on the load. Dangling from ry und on canvas— are relics o f the men attacked, with what success the past. Seldom, If ever, anything ap the back was a bicycle, a doll’s car world already knows. It was worse riage, and In the latter were tucked proaching them occurs on the western than going over the top. It was a front. In spite of the staggering amount a toy gun and sword and a French case o f advancing through wheat fields i doll with one eye. The owner in her iof men and war equipment used. and woods In the face o f nests o f en War has been revolutionized and the mother’s lap on high had her favorite emy machine guns. dolly clutched to her little breast. second battle of the Marne proved It— There were no trenches or dngouts. Anywhere for Safety. the battle In which the American ex The child was crying and so was German prisoners said that our rifle peditionary forces by their dash and fire was so heavy and true they mis courage added luster to the folds o f her mother. Most o f the refugees were took It for machine guns. ! solemn-faced, stunned, stoic. They Old Glory. Massing of mnchine guns and light There were no snapping flags or mar were rattling over the roads anywhere j for safety, away from the Hun shells' artillery, pending the arrival o f the tial music to thrill our men In olive and poisonous vapors, when clouds of &uns °* larger caliber, destroyed any drab. They did not march Into the mass play. Our men took their ob fray en masse nor to the front in any dust appeared and there careened past jectives In little crouching groups ithem hundreds of huge army trucks thing resembling the average civilian’s which extended Into skirmish lines conception of the entry of troops Into and in them were American soldiers, when foliage enabled. But, open as faces tnnned the color o f leather and battle. It was, the fighting lacked the battle They arrived In French trucks driv every lad of them smiling or singing. field spectacle of wars o f old one sees They were coming to fight for the en by Hlndu-Chlnese chauffeurs In In pictures. Even those engaged saw clouds of dust, tumbled off, scurried rights and safety o f these old men and little? of the encounter. women and little children who crowd to cover and took ®p the camouflaged positions made necessary by the se ed the free side o f the road in their Sets Example to Five Sons. verest open fighting of the war. They flight. They were coming to strike for As an example to his five sons, who became in a Jiffy part o f the army In democracy and humanity and they were are still a few years short o f fighting visible. glad o f the chance, impatient for bat age, George Bradshaw, prosperous Feature of Modem Warfare. tle. farmer of Imperial county, California, And right there develops a feature Their cheers and their laughter and that is one o f the most curious of all their snatches o f songs had a wonder has enlisted In the engineers’ corps. “ I want my boys to realize when modern warfare— the successful con ful effect on the sorrowful refugees, cealment o f whole divisions and corps. who forgot their discomforts, losses t h y are old enough to be taken Into Nobody who has not been privileged and dangers and cheered and threw rfe service that their place Is on the to go to the front and travel back of kisses to their defenders from over ttrtng line," Bradshaw said. He is the lines can begin to appreciate the seas— from beloved America. Said a thirty-eight years old. marvel. It is a case of doing a Kellar- French officer at my side : PLAYS THE ROLE OF the-Great with an army—by modern “ The spirit and exuberance o f your LADY OF CAMELLIAS military legerdemain, making thou men are overpowering. Our people sands of men, horses, mules, guns, have been fighting four years. Our great and small, disappear as If the men on the Marne have had no time earth had swallowed them. to sleep or eat. In loaning us these You can motor along country high American troops at this time your com- ways through the most delightful farm manders und your country show they ing country and scarcely catch a are heart and soul In this fight. You glimpse of the army as you go, save have given new life and courage to the truck and ambulance trains in the the refugees. You have given new life rear, the sentries and staff and regi to our fighting forces. You are coming mental headquarters. The fighting fresh and strong with what do you units are strung out over country plow call it? Oul, the punch. It is wonder ed and seeded for this season’s crops, ful. It Is superb. It has welded our but you don’t see enough of them to people more closely than ever.” conclude that there is even a good- Show Their Gratitude. sized regiment on the Job. And the French populace showed Thus has the art of eamoufln're been devoloped— a new and interesting sci their gratitude in divers ways, by the ence o f modern warfare still in Its pri eloquent ovation to our wounded on mary stages in spite o f all that has their way to 1’aris in ambulances, in speeches and public prints and In been done. As you motor well within the zone streets and highways wherever an o f high explosives, shrapnel and gas, American uniform showed itself. With all due respect to the tradition you catch fleeting glimpses 01 men and animals and chow guns between the al ties that bind France and the Unit- j foliage, and batteries ingeniously ed States, there had been periods when : screened from the eagle eyes and the the populace wond- red and doubted, i lenses of enei .y aviators and balloon Four months ago when I reached the j observers. You are astounded to note theater o f war It v as not uncommon j how cleverly the topography and the as French troops passed Americans, j beauties of nat re have been pressed to hear shouts in French which con Into use In the .-cheme o f concealment veyed the sally that American troops were ali riirht for t ■nlning camps, but ! and deception kno-.vn as camouflage. had not felt the gulf o f the front line. Army Slelght-of-Hand. Then came the fights in Apermont I The army slelght-of-hand has become such a big and necessary feature of Woods and Seicheprey and the carry war that every army post has its an ing and holding of the village o f Can- I nex of war scenery which reminds you i tlgny against u series o f savage but . . . . . . . . . . ' futile German counter-attacks, and, the , When the civil war broke out in 1861 o f a visit back to the stage between there marched away from Rich biggest and most brilliant American 1 theatrical performances. The most mond, Va., a company o f young men performance o f all in stopping the | skilled artists are doing their bit In who cast their fortunes with the drive on Paris, which molded a new this respect, nor are camouflage e f North. As they left the capital of public sentiment and a fervor o f en fects confined to them. It is amusing the Confederacy, a young belle In crin- thusiasm everywhere apparent. The to see how army cooks and buck pri v . . ! , , K„ , , ___ . , . , | ollnes bestowed upon each o f them a vates shield themselves and their ...__. . o , . ,, , v ^ bouquet o f camellias. The blossoms kitchens and their animals. Camou r v l ; ! i r CaD,Ugny ^ ^ the shrub were given as a sort of .. n' ^xes 0 Kreatei poo)j token and each soldier was flage certainly offers opportunity for . development limited only by the skill The enne * . h ” ' ™ / ' m i , cautioned not to part with the flowers The concentrat on of sufficient Amer bm t0 k them always about their and cleverness of the individual and materials offered by nature. 1 M . ^ » W8,f person. The girl was known there as When our men were rushed Into the ^ £ ap o i .the * merl the “ Lady o f the Camellias.” flood o f strife on the Marne and re D' meD. ^enrs in t er , when the North and the , . a lieved French units fagged by days ample supplies and ammunition and a Mtk M .. . . .. A . . the impedimenta that goes with a mod- 8ou,h nnlted ,n the fl*ht afralMt 8pan’ and nights o f Incessant fighting, hurl- lsh misrule In Cuba, the daughter o f ed back the Oermans with heavy loss- I ar" ' T theJ aP “ d the first "Lady o f the Camellias” gave _____ _ held the highway to Paris, th e . “ e German tide was stemmed. es, and they to each soldier who left Richmond a As we rode over the dusty hill at passed thousands of refugees who had bouquet o f the flowers for good luck. daybreak we saw hundreds o f colored hurriedly evacuated farms and ham Today, from the same old-fash Moroccans lu their red turbans lying ioned camellia garden, the third repre lets and towns. exhausted along the road and nnder sentative o f the family, Hepzthah E. These refugees were exhausted by the trees. We saw French artillery Kendrick Is bestowing sprays o f the ght and travel and loss o f sleep. and Infantry leave positions that had camellia to the soldiers from her na ay were pushing wheelbarrows or been filled by our men during the tive city, with the same “ good luck" baby carriages containing all the night. And, o h ! the spectacle o f our wish. The present “ Lady o f tha household uuuseuuiu treasures m w u ir s that uim they mey had uuu been uwiu s - i i___ __ . . ■ " u» able to save, while other« with more J?*** ^ „w “ " “ f*1,1“ ®; Camellias” also presents a copy o f her their broad backs and their fearless American batti eery set to the tune of warning and graatar facilities, roda oq rfl _ » _ a * a. *» “Dirlo.” carts great snd small, plied high with •**•“ ■ "* * »“ to helL e chairs and bedding and mirrors and i _____ t0 Quickly. P o s t - $ 1.50 TWICE A WEEK ONLY ONE IN COUNTY RED CROSS HANDLES LETTERS TO GERMANY Follow Plan Which Is as Spy* Proof as Is Possible to Devise. l.nVal Hewitt returned today from INSTRUCTOR OF MUSIC a w eek ’s visit in Portland. TO WED S. P. CONDUCTOR — v— W h ile p ick ing cherries Thursday m orn in g Bert Cross fell from the tree and broke his arm just above tiie wrist. —x— Mrs. J. E. P roctor o f M osier was iti Independence tins week to see her new grand daughter recently born to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Duvall. — x— M onday evening, the Merrimakers very com pletely surprised Mr. and Mrs. Dee T aylor at the George Hutch home and a verv pleasant tim e was had. —x— Miss Eleanor Crowder of Union visited Mrs. Hattie H enkle today. Miss Crow der tias been teaching in Corvallis but w ill go to Ogden, Utah, next year. —x— The Buena Vista W om a n ’s Club m em bers were delightfu lly entertain ed by Mrs. G. W . M cLaughlin at her home south of Independence lust Thursday night. — x— Mrs. W in n ie Braden, Polk County Food Adm inistrator and also County Chairman o f the W om a n ’s C ouncil o f National Defense and Miss Edna Mills, County Hom e Dem onstrator, were here today. — x— Miss Helen Butler, after several m onths close application in the tele phone office, has left the w ork. She is visiting friends in Silverton this w eek and w ill finish her vacation in Portland w ith friends. —x— The Cady-Tliurston m eetings at the Baptist church are provin g very interesting to those attending. Botli gentlem en are fam iliar with their subjects and express their opinions in a very logical manner. __j __ _ „ ■»•» >- To prevent the possibility o f valu able information getting into Germany, the American Red Cross, In sending letters behind the enemy lines at the request of persons In this country, Is following carefully a plan worked out by the state department to do away with code. Americans, Germans or others in the United States wishing to communicate with relatives In Germany must now write out their messages In Red Cross chapters throughout the country. These are sent through the division of ficers of the organization to national headquarters. Herte they are rewrit ten and the wording absolutely chang ed to prevent the sending of any dia gram or secret code. The messages are given to the censorship board and are passed or refused by them as the case may be. When they reuefa a neu- i tral country, they are translated on other paper and In most cases drilvered by the Red Cross of the place, to which they go. The plan Is considered as spy proof as It is possible to devise. During the last 25 years the practice has grown up that welfare Inquiries and messages shall be permitted be tween civilians la countries which are at war with each other. The promis cuous sending of letters through or ganizations In neutral countries could not be permitted because of the large number of enemies in the country. To prohibit entirely the sending of mes sages would, for example, prevent a L. R. Hill has been in Salem for loyal American from finding out wheth er his sister, unfortunately married to several days this week, being res a German, was alive or dead. Pro trained there on pressing business hibition was’ fn force for a time and matters. Dew ey is now able to walk pitiful appeals were received by the around all day in the capital city Red Cross from French, Belgians and and not get run over by a street car. Italians begging the society to get — x— word for them as to whether their peo Independence w ill soon he repre- ple in the occupied districts were still 1 sented in France by one o f the fairer alive. — The state department presented to ! sex. Miss Mabel Porterfield is in the Red Cross the present plan In de New York ready to go overseas to do tail and asked that the Red Cross put Red Cross work. She is an excellent It Into effect. As it was purely hu nurse and will d o her share tow ards manitarian work, the government relieving suffering humanity. could do no more than supervise the — x— work. Miss Vale Hiltibrnnd returned Today the American Red Cross is W ednesday m orning from an outing sending an average of 1,300 letters a o f several weeks spent near the day to persons living behind the enemy lines. Tills work Is done through Red Hills. She was in com pan y Washington headquarters o f the Amer with ten Cam p Fire girls from Airlie ican Red Cross by the bureau of com and they spent their time loganber munication o f which Edward M. Day la ry picking. T hey report an excel acting director. lent time. — x— Mr. and Mrs. James Martin are CITY AND COUNTRY rejoicing ov er tiie advent o f a little girl at their hom e in Portland this Glen Newton has gone to Gobel. week. Mrs. Martin will he rem em — x— Mrs. .Tamos Hnnna is in Inde bered as Miss Francis Patterson and is a grand daughter o f Daddy pendence. Hedges. “ D addy" declares he’s the — x— Miss T helm a W illiam s is visiting on ly great grand daddy in Inde pendence. in Portland. — x— —x— The Isis broke its Sum m er record Miss Leona Hanna w as here from for attendance tonight. T he seating Portland Sunday. capacity o f the theater w as not su f —x— Mrs. W . W . Percival o f Portland ficient to accom odate all those who desired to go over the top with Em- visited here this week. pey. A nother bum per crow d is ex — x— The O. D. Butlers m ade a trip re pected Sunday night when Rilly Burke appears in a war story of cently thru the A lsea regions. stricken Belgium . —x— Mr. and Mrs. Dean W alk er were Raptist Church Services hern from Eugene Saturday and Sunday. Rev. W. B. Stewart, Associntional — x— Mrs. A. Nelson and daughter, Ruth Pastor of Baptist churches, w ill con were here from A lban y visiting duct services in the First Baptist church of Independence next Sun friends this week. day m orning and evening. A cordial — x— Fred H ow ard and fam ily have invitation is extended to the public m oved to Silverton where Mr. H ow to attend. ard w ill w ork in a mill. — x— You w ill w an t that new piano player at W illia m s’ Drug Co. If you go and hear it dem onstrated. — x— Mrs. H. A. Childs and Miss Dor othy, n ow livin g in Portland, visited relatives and friends here this week. Miss Mary H oham , lrtiisical in structor at the State No gon e East to the ' where she will , (P C. W . Parrish, a . ju tn e in P acific conductor w h o has a run between Portland and Corvallis. KINGS VALLEY Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Harter, Mrs. B. F. West and Mrs. Joe M iller w ent to A lbany Saturday and returned Sunday. F. L. M iller and Mrs. Lizzie A llen w ent to A lbany Sunday to attend the funeral of their brother-in-law, Felix Dodele. Chester Cham bers went to A lbany Sunday. Mrs. Della M iller and children re turned Thursday from C anby and A lbany where they visited relatives the past two weeks. Born on S unday, July 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Harry Sulvln, a son. Mrs. W ni. Moser and ch ildren vis- ite<i Sunday afternoon w ith Mrs. Della Miller. A. B. Senger has bought a ear and has taken tiie A irlie m ail route. Mrs. A ndy Ayers was at the store Tuesday. Addie Graham and cousin, Sam M axfiekl, returned from C alifornia the last of the w eek where they have been for some time. WIGRICH ITEMS Mr. mill Mrs. Harry Stratton m ov ed to Salem Friday. Earl Fergerson spent Sunday w ith Ernest Chown. _ ^ Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Chow n and son ’ Ernest, spent Sunday in M cM inn ville. Mr. and Mrs. Eston Bevins and Mr. and Mrs. Frank Turner spent Sunday evening at tin; hom e o f Mr. tind Mrs. Ralph Porterfield. Mr. nnd Mrs. Adam Hartman o f Portland and Mr. and Mrs. Hartman of near Independence, relatives o f Mrs. Ralph Porterfield visited her on Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. M. M. Porterfield, daughter Hazel and grand daughters Nina and Helen Porterfield attended the opening of the bridge at Salem . Max Goldman Deals in HIDES PELTS WOOL FURS MOHAIR CASCARA BARK VEAL PORK BEEF POULTRY BUTTER EGOS r. . FARM PRODUCE WOOD WOOD GROCERIES SHOES FURNISHINGS DRY GOODS CASH OR TRADE Methodist Church Services SW OPE Dr. Talliot o f Salem , president of the W illam ette University, will preach at the Methodist ch urch next Sunday m orning. No evening ser vice ns Rev. Ynrnes is absent on his vacation. & SW OPE LAW YERS I. 0. 0. F. 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