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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.
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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.
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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.
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Twenty-Five Years
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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.)