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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (April 18, 1919)
» INDEPENDENT IN ALL THINGS T he P olk C ounty P ost seco n d SECTION Marjorie has beep lookiug among th* old clothes in the garret for grandma V old shawl. As soon as shf finds it she will appear among her associates and beaux in the hey da v of fashion. 7o,000 Chicago housemaids have struck because they insist on being called “ Miss.” The matrons of the Windy City (my will have to grant the demand, '¡hey’ll prefer to Miss the girls rather than miss the girls. It appears on the surface that the peace conference at Paris has reached i ed an agreement concerning a league of ualiunib that is acceptable to ail concern ed—perhaps not entirely satisfactory to f . M&gf every nation but “ good” enough to be approved. Many individuals are disap pointed that more drastic regulations ~ Til concerning disarmament were not incor porated, but when the world once more gets its head and resumes its normal con dition/it is safe to assume that the peace ïfy’Ï J C - loving people of the earth will refuse to further carry the load of militarism and will cast it off. Morris Brothers, Inc., the premier municipal bond house, of Portland, is paying for a bo-inch advertisement in 176 lie among the poppies of Flanders’ Fields in newspapers of Oregon this week in be- 'lialf of the Victory Liberty Loan at a cost France. TTo them is the war over. of approximately three thousand dollars have paid the price . T o countless other thous for as John L. Etheridge, vice president of the company, declares, “we believe in ands of these boys returning hom e m a im e d and the cause and are willing to contribute to broken the war will they will be the the full extent of our power.” Morris Prothers will lose nothing in the long run price every day, during the remainder of their lives. for expending this amount of money in behalf of a patriotic cause. All things Can we w ho stayed at home carelessly and thought being somewhere near equal, patriotic lessly assume the 99 attitude until our bal Oregonians will favor this liberal com pany for many years to come. The bread ance of account is paid—until we have redeemed our nowr cast upon the waters will eventually pledge_ float back. EVERYONE-A-G AME WARDEN (Humboldt Times.) Are you doing your bit to protect the game tliis year? Nesting and breeding i i<* should find every lover of sport a / sen -constituted game warden. ¿¿IK TOMMY AND TEA (Cleveland, Ohio, Plain Healer.) Put isn 't it rather signiticent that isn 't iiomas Lipton is coming over to renew his popularity in this country just on the eve of tiie day when we shall all become teatotallers? * Ht» n a if “A ltöl UP" THE MEETING (Portland Journal.) The imprint of fame upon the name of our fair state will turn to a stain of shame Vi Uen tne news reaches Paris that i if we do not meet the oblila‘'»on this Victory Loan represents. You are face to Lpngressman Hawley, having turned the face with the real teét of citizenship—true Americanism. Let this tesit find you searching beacon of his statesmanship measuring up one hundred per cent loyal. upon it, has decided that the League of A a nous covenant is too loosely drawn to receive his approval, the peace confer ence will probably throw up its hands and quit in despair. The government bond is the Pare nt bond of all bonds. Ba6k of the gov- eminent bond are all the assets and a 11 the resources that supply the value MRS. WILSON S HAT of all other bonds, all other securities, all other investments, The i -ivP r.Mient bond is a prior li en on lands, homes, chattels and every- (Tacoma, Wash., News-Tribune.) thing «is* an i Uie bonds to be issued ander the name of the Victory Lib- What’s the big item of gossip in the erty Loan m. uie highest of the high i n government bonds. They constitute East now about the president and Mrs. a contract of the United State? ? worn nent. entered into by unanimous vote Mrs. Wilsonfr The League of Nations? of congress, and therefore a contract a nd mortgage behind which stands the Nonsense, its Mrs. Wilson’s hat. possessions of One Hundred and To :i Million American people with their On her trip from Paris it seems that entire resources developed and undev sinned; the intelligence, ambition and Mrs. Wilson appeared in Boston with a ability Oi’ these One Hundred and Ten Million people mortgaged to pay the fascinating turban on her head and now bill. the milliners of Boston say they are hav The Victory Liberty Iioan Bonds will hear an attractive rate of interest ing numerous calls for a hat like Mrs. and, tog ihsr wi'h all other desir; Ye elements, when compared with other Wilson’s. It was bought in Paris and is investments as to strength, collateral and return, have no equal. of a peculiar henna shade somewhere be tween a maroon and a rose. Judging from reports from Boston, Mrs. Wilson This is one of 1 76 advertisements inserted simultan - started a fad and will have many imita- < >usly in every newspaper in the State of Oregon on tore. All of which causes the Philadelphia ! ?half of the success o f the Victory Liberty Loan — for North American to remark: “ Yet some 1 e believe in this cause and are willing to contribute of these miserablt old reactionaries juid io the full extent of our porver. won’t believe that that trip abroad was worth alt it cost this country.” In reply to Mutt’s question as to what JO H N I. t TH R R ID G E, Vice-President 1 ! . V- > 1 v ' , Lot did after his wife was turned into a PORT LAP iX OP F CON pillar of salt, Bud Fisher has Jeff reply .[¡ER ..O N D IIO I SF that “ he probably commemced to look around for a fresh wife.” lelrall forever Y O U LEND .•> e - . s y » T r» a little For a while , tSs: SIXTY THOUSAND OF OUR AMERICAN BOYS only in full still go on; They paying “war is over to bear the final cost no matter what its amount ? RY LIBERTY LORN is in liquidation of the debt for men and munitions we amassed, and which brought about the end of the war— saving for every day it was shortened billions more in money and thousands more in lives. MEN and WOMEN of OREGON ! The Parent Bond of Them All MORRIS BROS., Inc. ■ V