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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Aug. 9, 1918)
DOINGS OF THE VAN LOONS this war over here is mlea witn mat. Just the suiue there are a lot of them In France, all volunteers In the work, that get good, sound, honest Joy out of the work they are doing. It muy not be glorious, thnt work, but It’s work that counts. Most of the right ing in this particular war Is being done Only Pure-Gold Man or Woman behind the lines. WAR WORK REAL TEST OF WORTH LABORATORY ABOARD A HOSPITAL SHIP Remains. FRIED EGGS FOLLOW FLAG American Boys in France Demand Home Eats Early and Late— Much More Drudgery Than Glory for Vol unteer in This War— Writer Shows One Side What Work Means There— It's Work That Counts. of Over By M A X IM IL I A N F O S T E R . \\ ar work In France Is a crucible. Thousands who have gone abroad vi sioning themselves hs heroic tlgures at the very buttle front, only to find that there is much more drudgery than glory for the volunteer, have stood the test; Some, who were Insincere In their purpose, have'weakened. They have been sifted out and probably are back in America. Only the pure-gold man or womuu Is permitted to remain and do the burd, prosaic work which will help the men In khaki to win the war. Just to show one side of what work means over here, take one of the con ventional Y. M. C. A. huts outside the war zone. Up at the front, of course, there Is plenty of excitement to leaven the toil, the drudgery; but until a man or woman has been tried out and found able to mnke good, the red triangle is chary about sending thut man or wom an there. And so they are tried out where there Is nothing but work—Just work. Dr. Charles Park’s cafe for soldiers at Tours is such a place. The name of the establishment is the Old Port Duquesne canteen. Originally it was a cafe, one of those big flyblown, smelly buvettes so char acteristic of this part of France. In January last, when Doctor Park, a resident of Santa Barbara, Cal., went there the cafe was going out of busi ness. The war had put a crimp in its trade. The location was just the one Doctor Park was seeking, so he bought out the proprietor. They Did Much. With the doctor were Mrs. Park, her daughters, Miss Betty and Miss Nancy. They had agreed with the Y. M. C. A. not only to pay all the expenses of the place, but also to do ull the work. On January 21 last the cafe opened Its doors, the staff at the time consisting of the Park family and hnlf a dozen paid workers. These lntter did the cooking, the dishwashing and the scrubbing of the floors. The Parks did all the rest. And what they did was much. The first meal, breakfast, a regular Amer ican meal, was served at 7 a. m. That meant that someone—the Parks, it happens—rbse every day at six o’clock or earlier. When breakfast was fin ished they galloped on, getting ready for dinner. And when dinner was finished that did not mean the day’s work was ended. Till ten o’clock be lated soldiers from all over France kept dropping In, demanding fried eggs, fried potatoes, coffee, chocolate and tea. The Sunday the writer was at Tours one had literally to fight his way in side the cafe. Seventeen hundred meals were served that day. And after it was all over. Doctor Park’s two daugh ters and the six assistants who now wait with them at the tables fell into the nearest chairs. They had been on their feet, all of them, anywhere from ten to fourteen hours. No Romance in War. “Romance?” inquired the older Miss Park. “There isn’t any such animal— not in this mans’ war, at any rate.” The other Miss Park shrugged her shoulders disgustedly. “When this war’s over I hope to goodness I never lay eyes on food again. The whole war’s nothing else than foods; eggs, fried potatoes, then fried eggs, fried potatoes, after them fried eggs.” Again she gave a shrug. “Food I Ugh I" But hardly had she said it when she leaped to her feet with a smile and a quick, cheery greeting. It was a be lated soldier, a boy in the transport department, she welcomed. “How do you do, Eddy. Fried eggs? Why, certainly." And off she sped as gayly and cheerfully as ever, seeking the day’s last eggs for a hungry, tired lad In khaki. And there yon are. All work and no Dial makes Jack a doll bov. and Official pictures of the army have been abundant, but the navy seems to have been overlooked. The first of official naval pictures are now being released. This one shows a laboratory aboard the hospital ship Mercy, in American waters. Here experiments are made by chemists, and their find ings have proved of value. THIS CIVILIAN HAS IMPORTANT WAR JOB Leave it to Mother to find a w ay Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Demick and Mrs. F rank Sm ith m otored to New port today to take in the beach pleasures. —x— All the late m usic is being played on those new instrum ents at W il liam s' D rug Co. You w ill find just w hat you w ant. —x— Dr. M. J. B utler lias closed his dental office this week and has gone out into the harvest fields to do his hit helping with the harvest. —x— The Cady T hurston lectures at the Baptist church are arousing m uch interest and those attending declare the speakers have their subjects well in hand. - x— Mary Pickford in “A Rom ance of the Bedwoods" at the ISIS Sunday night, Aug. 11. "This picture ap pears to have been m ade for M ary” say the producers. —x— The ladies of the W. C. T. IT. galli- ered at the Baldw in homo M onday afternoon for a regular session. A social chat anil routine business oc cupied (he time. —x— Mrs. Eunice Volpi and sm all daughter are here from Pittsburg, Pa., visiting her sister Mrs. W. B. B arnett. Mrs. Volpi form erly lived here and has m any friends to w el come her. —x— George Kutch, J. S. Cooper, Riley Cooper and Dee Taylor returned M onday from a fishing trip on the Siletz. They report lots of fish and everything else to m ake a trip like that complete. ---- T ----- Miss Irene Eddy entertained a num ber of her friends at a pretty appointed dinner party at h er home last night. Music, gam es an d other am usem ents were indulged in after the dinner hour. —x— Mr. and Mrs. G ailahan of Portland are rejoicing over the arrival of a little girl. Mrs. G ailahan will he re mem bered as Miss Beta Cuthbert. She has m any friends here who are interested in the event. —x— Mrs. Alpha Baseue and Mrs. F. E. Dickson returned last night from Portland w here they have been for ten days studying Fall m illinery styles. Boxes of stunning head gear have already commenced to arrive. —x— L. Damon returned M onday from a fortnight visit w ith his daughter, Mrs. Donald Stuart of Bend. He al so visited in B urns and attended to farm ing interests on the old reser vation. Mr. Damon reports a splen Christian Girl, whose name has been did time. —x— a fertile subject for paragraphers, Is j one of the many civilians who are qui M onm outh H erald: The transfer etly fitting into the war department's of teachers to and from Independ strenuous work. It is Mr. Girl's Job ence as well as to the rural training to see that the nrmy gets all the mo centers next year is to lie m ade by tortrucks it needs. passenger truck to be operated by the G raham s, instead of m aking use of train s as heretofore. —x— CITY AND COUNTRY Slialor Eldridge’s m any friends will lie grieved to know thnt lie is .1. Bagiev has it new Ford. an inm ate of the hospital at Mare — x— M ary Pickford at the ISIS Sunday Island again. Slialor lias been in the service nearly tw o years. He night, was one of the first Independence —x— Gladys McGowan is visiting Bes boys lo join the colors. —x— sie Hoe at Pedee. Accom panied by relatives from —x— Clark Hembree has gone to W il Canada, Dr. and Mrs. R. E. D uganne lows, Cal., to harvest his rice crop. are spending this week a t the Tilla mook beaches. The doctor and his —x— The S. B. W alkers have receivetl estim able wife certainly have earned notice that L ieutenant Bay M. W alk a vacation as they have been tire less w orkers this year taking care er arrived safely in France. of liis large dental patronage. They —x— Prof. W. I. Beynolds, formerly j will retu rn home next week. —x— county superintendent, will teach at Ben C. Crow left Independence Buena Vista the com ing term. M onday for Spokane, W ash., w here —x— Eley Fluke arrived in Independ lie wil give a recital. From there ence Inst Friday from W alla W alla, lie retu rn s to Chicago to resum e the W ash., w here he has spent t h e ; pastorship of a C hristian church in th at city. Aside from his m inister sum m er. ial duties, Mr. Crow is in constant Albert Q uartier w as here several dem and because of his great musical days this week recuperating from a ability to nppear in recital for w ar severe attack of m um ps. He has funds. —x— been w orking in the shipyards the M onmouth H erald: The Indies of past nine m onths. _____ tlie M ethodist Aid of Independence KEEPING THE PEACE are exhibiting com m endable enter-1 prise these days. Now that the food . (Coutiuueil from Pago 2.) departm ent frowns on the peach | and cream and w aterm elon social | them had universal military training in its most acuto they have taken to earning money form. From early boyhood all the males were trained to by putting in wood. One job last fight and they were,not trained for anything else. Work week netted them two dollars. was a disgrace for a warrior. It was left to inferiors like —x— F. A. Patterson lias risen to women and decrepit age. Work is the ideal of democracy. take some of the honor and distinc Your thorogoing militarist will have none of it. The prog tion from "Daddy” Hedges. He says ress of the world from slavery to civilization has been thnt “Hedges is not the only great- grnnd father in Independence for along three roads. First,from fighting to work. Second, I’m one myself.” Mrs. Patterson is from slavery to machinery. Third, from caste to equality. also a proud great-grandm other. While a man is fighting or training to fight, he has no The youngster responsible for the time for for work. If he makes fighting his regular busi new titles w as horn recently to Mr. ness lie soon learns to despise work. That was the feudal and Mrs. Jam es M artin of Portland. state of mind. Whoever toiled was inferior. It is the militaristic state of mind everywhere. A world of ha bitual fighters is necessarily a world of slaves since the tighter must be fed by somebody. We all rejoice to give up many of oar accustomed liberties in order to feed and equipp our soldiers-in the field. Put we rejoice in it only because we beiieve them to be soldiers of freedom. If the American people thought for an instant that their boys in France were fighting to impose militaristic auto cracy upon the United States.their feelings would change very speedily. Thus far, praise heaven, there is no oc casion to think so, for the man at the helm of the nation is a lover of democracy. President Wilson expects this war to put an end to war. In other words, he expects to defeat the Germans, not to be defeated by them. If they impose their militarism upon us we shall be de The Independence public library will ho closed from next M onday feated, no matter what happens on the battlefield. Amer until Hie com m encem ent of school icanism will have perished and Prussianism will have next month. conquered. The Roosevelt politicians seek«*o distinguish between MR. AND MRS. J. S. COOPER DELIGHTFUL DINNER HOSTS 1 permanent military training and militarism hut they can not do it. The training sinks into the soul of the nation Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Cooper were and seats the war god on the throne. It was so in Ger delightful dinner hosts to e few friends last Tuesday evening. The many. It must be so everywhere. France has been saved large p latter of beautiful trout serv from the worst effects of militarism because the people ed for the fish course was proof con felt poignantly that they were armed to defend their lib clusive thnt .1. S. Cooper plnys hnvor erties. We could have no such feelings when we knew with the finny tribe at every oppor tunity. The guests also proved they that our liberties were not in danger. If we adopt uni were equally destructive w ith them versal training as a permanent policy we must justify it when prepared for the tnble. Little to ourselves by self-deception. Jam es Shelby III. was assistant host Fifty years ago the Gormans were a peaceful people, mid dem onstrated that w ith a few perhaps the most peaceful people in the world. Their years added he will keep up the record of the I. and II. Covers were brightest minds were occupied with music, poetry, art. laid for nine w hich included Hie Goethe wrote to enfranchise the mind. Schiller wrote for family circle, Mr. and Mrs. Clyde political liberty. The Germans adopted universal mili Eckcr and Riley Cooper of Chehalis, tary training “to keep the peace.” They kept it up for W ash. At the end of a perfect meal, let half a century, dethroning Christ and idolizing the god of ters w ere received from Lieutenant war. And look at the Germans now. Like causes produce J. S. Cooper, Jr., and Ma jor and Mrs. like effects. We can not iihitate the policy of the Germans Barker. Ted w rites from overseas thnt he is enjoying all the home and hope to escape its evil consequences. THIS SUBMARINE IS SURE SOMEWHAT OF A WHALE lu e mystery or tne recently report ed submarine in the Gulf of Mexico, it is now believed, has been solved. Of ficers on a steamer plying between Culm and Gulfport report they sighted a whale 65 miles off Sandy Light, at the mouth of Mobile buy. When sight ed the whale was asleep, looking not unlike a submarine, the big fin some- whut resembling u periscope. The ves sel bumped into it and the whale dis appeared. PUBLIC LIBRARY CLOSED UNTIL SCHOOL COMMENCES comforts of a well-to-do French fam ily. The P arkers w rite from Fort spent Tuesday (’veiling w ith Mr. and Saturday to visit his sister. Hancock, Georgia, that they arc lo Ralph Porterfield. cating a num ber of their Oregon Mr. and Mrs. Jam es Tann of Cor friends. va I is visited relatives hero on Sun day. C hristian Church Services Chester DeForest visited Monday Lord's Day Aug. 11, 1918. night w ith F rank McComas in Sa Bible School at 10 A. M. Commun HIDES ion services at 11 A. M. Subject, lem. PELTS “Are W e C hristians or Church Mem KINGS VALLEY WOOL bers Only." Services in the evening begin at 8. Subject, "Choked or FURS Spiritual Suicide by Strangulation." Lillie Townsend left for Eastern MOHAIR Oregon W ednesday. A cordial invitation#to all. CASCARA BARK M. L. Petelle, Pastor. G ertrude M urphy and Stella Moser VEAL went to M onmouth Tuesday to visit PORK WIGRICH ITEMS their sisters who are going to tin* BEEF F rank McComas of Salem was a Normal. POULTRY week end visitor w ith his uncle, Mrs. A. B. Senger of Airlie visited BUTTER W illiam Rooney. EOOS the first of the week w ith her par Mrs. G. L. Spencer of McMinnville ents, Mr. and Mrs. Tip Maxfleld. FARM PRODUCE visited W ednesday evening at the F ran k M iller w as a t the storo WOOD home of Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Chown. WOOD On T hursday m orning she received Thursday. GROCERIES a message saying that her husband Mrs. H arter of Alsea is visiting SHOES had been hurt, so returned home on her son. H. C. Harter. the m orning train. FURNISHINGS Mrs. Tip Maxfleld visited the first DRY GOODS Mr. and Mrs. F. I., Chown and son, of the week w ith her daughter. Ernest, visited in McMinnville Sun Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Senger and day. Mrs. Tip Maxfleld were Corvallis CASH OR TRADE Miss W ilm a Shafer was a week visitors Saturday. end visitor w ith the Misses Nina j Misses Gertrude Moser and Evn and Helen Porterfield. M urphy returned from M onmouth SWOPE & SWOPE Miss Lula McComas of Salem nr-1 the last of the week where they have rived on T uesday to spend several j been attending Normal. LAWYERS days w ith her uncle and aunt, Mr. | Mrs. H arter and Mrs. H. C. H arter and Mrs. W m. Rooney. visited w ith Mrs. Della M iller Sun I. O. 0. F. Building Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Bevens and day afternoon. « daughter, Othel, and Mr. and Mrs. Oregon F. E. T iim pr and two daughters Tony Shay went to McMinnville Independence, Max Goldman Deals in