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THE P O L K C O U N T Y POST. WAR ACHIEVEMENTS WOMEN OF WEST MAKE GRIM JOKE TO BETTER RECORD OF HUN EFFICIENCY ON FOURTH LOAN Stop That Missing A Semi-Weekly Newspaper. Published Twice a Week at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Tuesday and Friday , Entered as second-class matter March' 26, 1918, at the postofflce at In- Bependence, Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription Rates: $1.56 a Tear Strictly In Advance; Six Months $1.00; Three months 50 cents. All subscriptions stopped at expiration. CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor. j Austria was badly mistaken. over. There’s nothing to talk It is somewhat to the disadvantage of the American troops that they were not trained in foot racing. In order to render the Hun hors de combat it is of primary import ance to first catch him. There’s getting to be so many German prisoners in France that walking is becoming crowded, and they are all good eaters, too. “ VOTERS WILL DEFEAT GRAFT EXPENSES” (From the Salem Capital Journal.) The $940,000 asked for by the board of control for meet ing war emergency expenses will probably be defeated be cause of the graft it contains. The state council of defense seems to be wasting money on big salaries, like the $300 a month paid to a Dallas woman, automobiles and other extragances. This part of the appropriation should not be passed because the work of the council at best is of lit tle value to the state. The state guards, which is the hand-picked political body-guard of the governor, is a useless organization. Just now it is detailed to protect the coming state fair from a possible Prussian air raid. The members are supposed to get $90 a month, clothes, board and lodging. Money ex pended on this organization is wasted and it is an impos ition on the taxpayers to ask them to put up for it. There are some items in the $940,000 budget that are meritorious but they will probably be beaten because of the graft represented by other items. war engine has not reached its top speed yet. When the Americans in France, at present less than two million strong, have grown to the five million planned for next spring, the Boche will sicken in contemplation of the punishment in store for him. Our great war machine must run smoothly at whatever strength. The Fourth Liberty Loan is as necessary to its full power as the restoration to action of a missing cylinder in your automobile engine. Do your part and do it on September 28 NURSE VICTIM OF HUN AIR RAIDERS THE AMERICAN PRIVATE (Continued from Page 1.) stands ready to make, and often makes, at the end of the road. He has the greatest job in the war, because his job entails the greatest sacrifice, and this is a war of sacrifice. An officer of considerable rank saw a line of Yanks move to the attack, cheerful, nervy, on the job, as they headed for almost certain death into a machine gun nest. Later, he saw many of them come back, shot up, dripping blood and minus food and water for more than just a few hours. But, limping or reeling, they returned from the attack as they went to it— cheerful and nervy, without a whimper or complaint, only sorry they couldn’t go on to the finish with their pals. They took nothing to their credit, and they looked for no reward. They had merely done a job, and they didn’t stop to figure that it was the • biggest job of the army. And the officer, looking on, said it all: “ God! There’s no living man too good to be a private in the American arm y.” Here are the last rites being performed over the body of a nurse killed by bombs deliberately dropped upon a hospital behind the lines In France. Every batch of helpless wounded and their brave nurses- killed in these air raids was another glorious victory to Wilhelm and his Kultur bemired people until Allied raids to Cologne and Frank fort brought the lesson of sudden and unwarned death home to them. Your Fourth Liberty Loan subscription will register your desire for punishment upon the bombers. When a man gets a hankering for real tobacco satisfaction, he is on the road that leads straight to the Real Gravely Chewing Plug. U. S. TRUCK TAKES HOWITZER TO FRONT Peyton Brand Reed Gravely Chewing Plug 10c a pouch —and worth it Cruvolylaêt» 00 m ue h longue it cotta no moru to c Ae w tKu n ordina ry plug P. B. Gravely T oba cco Company ( Danville. Virginia ...................... .....................................a n J The independence National Bank Established .1889 An American army truck haultng a French 155 millimeter howit- *er up to the front In some unnamed sector shows the thorough liaison between the two forces. The scene Is perhaps in the hilly Vosgea region, and the road may be one of the ancient Homan highways that still survive. The American forces probably have few guns of this size of their own as yet, but one factory In the United States Is turning out ten o f them i>er day. The Fourth Liberty Loan will iusure plenty more of these and larger guns. A Successful Business Career of Twenty-Five Years INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS H. Officers and Directors Hirscbberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. W. H. Walker O. D. Butler Ira D. Mix, Cashier I. A. Allen After they had crossed the Marne, the Americans pressed on and passed the Vesle. The war win not be won If you sell your Liberty Bonds as fast ! as you buy them. Buy More. i Demand of Fourth Loan for Huge Total Finds Response in Plans of Campaigners Even First Estimates of Possible Foes Was Faulty. Wilhelm Thought Robbery Easy American soldiers have never re- treated on French soli. If you sell Liberty Bonds you are giving up a i>o*ttion won. Buy Liberty Bonds and Keep them. ------------ ------------------ By Mrs. Haxel Pedlar Faulkner The women of the Twelfth Federal Reserve district are to be a unit be hind the Fourth Liberty Loan, accord ing to Mrs. A. 8. Baldwin, chairman of the National Woman’s Liberty Loan Committee for this territory. State chairmen who served with such ex cellent results in the Third Loan are to serve again this time, and back of each of the State executives stands an army of workers representing county, city, township and school district units. Mrs. Overton G. Ellis, of Washing ton, Mrs. W. Mont. Ferry of Utah, Mrs. Theresa Graham of Idaho, Mrs. S. R. Belford of Nevada, Mrs. E. R. Bralnerd of California, Mrs. Sarah Evans of Oregon and Miss Alice Blrd- sall of Arizona are the women to whom the work of directing their states In the Loan has been assigned. Each has an enviable record for achievement In the Third Liberty Loan. The total of their work in th* Third Loan aggregated more than $26,000,000. a That figure represents bonds ac tually sold and receipted for by the women’s committee workers and save in scattered Instances does not in clude the totals of women workers SUBMARINES W ERE who were part of the men organiza T O REBUKE EN GLAN D To properly rebuke England for tions. her temerity in daring to challenge “ W O M E N M UST German military supremacy, Wilhelm, BETTER RECORD” having failed to break through the “ The Twelfth District Is out to bet lines of the “ contemptible little” ter that record this time," said Mrs. British army eagerly accepted von A. S. Baldwin. “ Our women feel con Tlrpitz’ suggestion of unrestricted fident they can do it, and when we submarine warfare. make our final accounting of all work And that failed, though subsequent done by women In each of the States events have revealed that but for the we will have a much higher figure splendid self-denial of America In of achievement to which to point.” cutting down Its wheat consumption Twenty-five per cent of the bonds England might have suffered from sold In the Third Liberty Loan were lack of food without a submarine disposed of by members of the Wom campaign. an’s Committee, according to figures Now, with an army of five million made public recently at the National men planned to the end that the war Woman’s Committee conference In may be concluded next year, we are Chicago. all called upon for war efforts that One-fourth of the entire amount will make our previous war work raised was credited to the various seem puny. State and local committees of women, Great stores of wheat and pork working under direction of the com and beef will be needed to feed that mittee headed by Mrs. William G. army. America's farms will produce McAdoo. them. America’s ships, built by To better that record is the aim o f America's brawny shipbuilders, will the organization as it Is preparing for transport them. America’s unlimited the Fourth Loan, which is to be opened resources, which even before the war for subscription on September 28th. returned the nation a net Income of Both the amount subscribed and the nearly fifty billion dollars, will pay number of individual subscribers will for them. be points of special concentration by the women who are seeking to Increase A R M Y G R E A TE ST greatly their totals in both fields. IN W O R L D H ISTOR Y Though our splendidly equipped W E ST H A S and magnificently large army will HIGHEST PER C A P IT A eclipse anything In history, and our Following the conference of district war bill will make all previous fig and state chairmen of the Woman’s ures in world finance insignificant In Committee In Chicago recently was contrast, all but a fraction of the published the report of the honor roll huge sums spent will remain right of the highest per capita county rec here at home. ords of women’s subscriptions. The The American farmer, who consti banner record per capita was In Na tutes one-third of our population will trona County. Wyoming, with a popu doubtless redeem himself gloriously lation of 5,389, where total subscrip In the responsibility of providing tions obtained by women amounted to food for the other two-thirds of the $507,450 or $94 per capita. nation and Its fighting men. His Mrs. Baldwin expressed great pride sons have been in the forefront of in the fact that the honor roll of the the battle lines where American gal highest county records embraced two lantry has struck terror to the hearts counties in the Twelfth Federal Re of the Germans, who expected an serve district. Gila County Arizona, easy victory over “ those untrained had a per capita subscription obtained troops.” In the whole history of th* by women of $45.89, and White Pine nation, the farmer has been the solid, County, Nevada, showed a per capita unshakable foundation on which all record of $41.10. The Gila County rec ord was the second highest In the our progress has been based. The great war, with its demands for country and the White Pine County the most extreme efforts from every record fourth highest. Arizona workers claimed another man of us, have placed a new re sponsibility on the farmer, however. record with their Woman’s Commit The bankers have always been relied tee subscriptions totaling 54 per cent upon to do the financing for the of the entire state’s quota. nation. First Liberty Loan Bonds are now FARM ER M UST selling above par on the New York A ID W A R L O A N S Stock Exchange. United States Two Present day demands, however, are Per Cents for years sold above par. far beyond the capacity of even our Why take less than you paid for your great banks to fill. The farmer, re second or third Liberty Loan Bonds? ceiving from his billions of bushels Besides which, if you listen to some of wheat more than twice as many specious plant for exchanging them billions of dollars, must take a for stock, the chances are ten to one large part In the financing of the war. the stock is worthless. The farmer must forsake all other plans for disposition of his money and Since the Clown Prince has ex buy Fourth Liberty Loan bonds. plained that Germany didn’t really Australia, with a guaranteed price to mean to hurt anybody, we might be the farmer of much less than a dol safe In calling off the war. But the lar per bushel, has piled up stores boys over there, having seen Paris of millions of bushels of wheat await and being keen to visit Berlin, might ing shipment, and every war loan in be peeved at being Interrupted. So Australia has been subscribed Im let’s put the F’ourth Liberty Loan over mediately. and pay their way. The man who buys a $50 or $100 Liberty Bond when he could buy a $1000 or $2000 one Is not the up standing American he should be. See that YOU are free from this taint. i While “efficient" Germany In July, 1914, was busily counting up her pos sible foes in the event she swept her armed hosts across her southern borders and robbed France of val uable iron and coal lands, and took a few million acres of needed farm land away from Russia on the north, her last thought was that the United States would lift up a hand to stay her. “ Efficient” Hun secret and diplo matic agents had given the “ All Highest” firm assurances that Italy would stand with Germany in her robberies, and that England would never shed blood over a few scraps of paper. “ Efficient” German propa ganda in the United States would make It Impossible for Uncle Sam to stir himself even If he should feel so inclined, they said. The United States was a fat and lazy nation, warm in the sun of com mercial prosperity, lost to the manly trade of arms, according to the Kaiser’s advisers. These were the first and most glaring faults revealed In the magnificent plans which were to set Wilhelm’s bloody boots on the steps of a world-throne.' D’Annunzio stirred panic in Vienna when he flew over the Austrian capi tal In his bombing aeroplane. The city recovered when it found he was Iropplng pamphlets instead of trinltro shells. But neither Vienna nor Berlin will recover from the news of the iversubscriptlon o f the great Fourth Liberty Loan. Buy AÄ B oad I T oday k ^ EAil T h is B u T T O /f You Can Stop These Casualties Quickly The Brutal, Bloody Hun will be stopped when an overwhelm ing American Army lands in France and crushes him— not be fore. The Fourth Liberty Loan is i the next step in getting that army ! across the Atlantic. BUY LIBERTY BONDS DON’ T M A K E EXCUSES M A K E SACRIFICES (Editor: This is suggested as a standing feature for display In or * alongside casualty lists.)