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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 21, 1919)
OPENING OF PEARL HARBOR DRYDOCK AT HONOLULU Decalogue for Frugality Seen LATEST Y. W. C. A. UNIFORM ployer for liquidation. The bill for the ! cost resulting from the Inefficiency of the average man and housewife In the spending of money and their failure to get full value for money received Is j also handed to the employer for pay ment either in Increased demands for j wages or In increased dissatisfaction MAKE A BUDGET, COMES FIRST and industrial unrest. “So many employers are learning Keep Tab on Expenditures Hava a that, along with plans for stimulating the Interest of the worker In his Job, Bank Account, Spend Less 'ffiian there must go hnnd In hand with It You Earn, Are Other Com an education of employees In funda mandments. mental economics and in the use and St. Louis.—Ten commandments for value of money.” the guidance of a man’s financial life have been drawn up by n nntlonnl committee of bankers and others to Learns at 70 Two Can’t aid In the grent drive of 1920 against Live Cheaper Than One the cohorts of high cost of living. This decalogue for the frugal man Rosa.—“You can’t heat to stiffen his morale In a battle to save this Santa high cost- of living nohow," something from the profiteers nnd rent says Boroquez, seventy raisers is part of the program for the years John who on September 6 National Thrift week, to begin Janu married old, Adeline Young, aged ary 17 next. sixty-four, keeper of a boarding Plans for rallying the armies of house, on the theory that two money savers for the 1920 drive by could live than one. holding this Thrift week were ap They agreed cheaper divide the pro proved by the American Bank ceeds from the to boarding house. ers’ association In Its recent conven Dr. Viviu Belle Appleton In tne Boroquez asked for his share uniform tion In this city. The Idea already she will wear In Labrador, of the profits. The thrifty bride had the Indorsement of the United where sho will be stationed ns a rep States League of Building nnd Loan refused and started for the bank resentative of the social morality com Associations, Nutional Federation of to deposit the coin. Boroquez mittee of tlie Y. W. C. A. nnd of the Construction Industries, Retail Cred went to the newspapers and had Grenfell Mission nnd will tend sick it Men’s association. National Associ Inserted n notice that he had left babies and people within a radius of ation of Life Insurance Underwriters, his bride nnd would not be re 200 miles of her liut. Sho will travel Natlonnl Credit Men’s association, the sponsible for any debts contract with skis, snow shoes nnd by dog team. American Life convention, nnd other ed by her. She says her best medicine Is good ad national bodies. vice and wholesome fun. “Make a Budget," One Commandment. The ten commandments as recom mended by Walter W. Head of Omnhn, vice president of the National bank section of the American Bankers’ as sociation, are: 1. Mnke a budget. 2. Keep an Intelligent record of ex penditures. 3. Have a bank account. 4. Carry life Insurance. 5. Make a will. Daring Cavalry Leader is Terror 6. Own your home eventually. Battling Owls Make 7. Pay your bills promptly. to Bandits on Mexican 8. Invest In War Savings stamps Kansas Streets Unsafe Border. and other government securities. 9. Spend less than you earn. Republic, Knn.—The streets 10. Share with others. Thrift with of this town are unsafe for out benevolence Is a doubtful Messing. pedestrians after dark on ac The eight days of the National ANSWERS THREAT WITH SHOT count of the nightly battles be Thrift week have been named after tween lurge flocks of owls. Re some points of the financial creed, as Ability for Coping With Banditry Led maining In the trees during the follows: dny, they swarm about like lo Saturday, January 17—“Bank day” to Speedy Promotion From Ser- custs nt night and have become geant to Captain During or “National Thrift day,” to empha so numerous and vicious that Four Years. size the need for Individual thrift and they attack human beings. It Is the service a bank renders a com- unsafe for women nnd children San Antonio, Tex.—Capt. Leonard aiunlty. to venture out after dark. Sunday, January 18—"Thrift Sun J. Mntlnck, commnnder of Company In several Instances persons day,” with sermons In nil Amercnn K, Eighth United States cavalry, Is to have been struck on the head pulpits on tlie relation of economic day the most feared American that nnd rendered unconscious. One life to religious well-being and the Mexican bandits have encountered on womnn was pnlnfully hurt by a need of sharing with others. the Texas border. He is feared more attack from nn owl which Monday, January 19—“Nntlonnl In than the Texas rnngers, who for yeurs direct she had tried to ward off with surance day,” to stress the need of were tlie only official guardians of the nn umbrella. protecting one’s family. peace In that remote counntry. His Steps are being taken by the Tuesday, January 20—"Own Your men arc of the fighting, daring type, authorities to rid tlie city of Its Home day,” to show why It Is desira but Captain Matlack’s desire to go It pests. Such a condition, ble and how It Is possible to own your alone when handling difficult situa strange It Is said, was never known here own home. tions hns struck terror to the hearts before, although owls have nl- Wednesday, January 21—"Make a of Mexican evildoers who are learning ways been numerous In this sec Will day,” to urge men to mnke wills. not to commit offenses In country tion of the state. Thursday, Jnnuary 22—“Thrift In where he Is known to be stationed. Industry day,” to advocate factory When Captain Mntlnck went to thrift nnd co-operation between capi Candalnria, Tex., four years ago, he tal and labor. wns a sergeant. He took station with sudden death. It wns not long after Friday, January 23—"Family Budget hts company nt a small, isolated com a that Cano attempted a rnld and got day.” munity on the banks of the Rio hundred cattle. Mntlnck took Saturday, Junuary 24—"Pay Your Grande. They soon found themselves several up the trail, recovered the cattle, killed Bills day.” In a hotbed of bnndltry, which Mat- Cano and drove the cattle back Into Supporting this movement In an ad lack determined must be cleared. Texas. dress to the bankers In their conven Matlack Clever and Daring. In like manner he met and killed n tion here, Arthur M. East of New of Jesus Renterlns, the bnn- York, national director of the Thrift Mntlack found that the lender of the brother bandit crew In San Antonio was Chico dlt leader who held the aviators, Davis week movement, said: In captivity, pending the "Financial nnd Industrial leaders are Cano, a former captain In the Cnrran- and Peterson, of ransom money. It was Interested In the Increased cost of liv zn army. Mntlnck visited San Antonio payment who outwitted the Mexican ing because they know that In most alone at different times nnd met Cano, Matlack when he went nlone to rescuo cases the bill for the Increased cost Informing him thnt unless he ceased bandits Peterson and Davis nnd escaped with Is banded by the worker to the em his lawless practices he would meet haYf the ransom money. Inviting death for himself and the aviators. Drawn by National Committee for 1920 Drive Against High Living Costs. View of ihe 1'eurl harbor drydpck at Uuaolulu a few momenta after Mrs. Josephus Daniels, wife of Secretary Daniels, pressed the button that operuted the water controls. The project, which Is the greatest of Its kind. Is now completed. Baby Victims of Hun Horrors in War Zone Thousands of Little Unfortunates Still Show Many Traces of Savage Barbarity EDUCATION IS IN ARREARS For a Generation Children Will Con tinue to Study on a 25 per Cent Efficiency Basis— Trying to Equip Schools. “Billy Goat Is Ornery Cuss," Says Physician Santa Ana.—“The billy goat Is an ornery cuss.” This Is the verdict of Dr. W. C. Dubois, after an experience that he doesn’t care to repeat. The physician was making a professional cnll In the suburbs, and Inadvertently left the door of his car open. A billy gont was eating tin cans and Ber muda grass nearby; the auto seat looked very Inviting, and the goat entered, ensconslng himself comfortably upon the cushion. Having completed his cnll, the doctor tried to "shoo” the ani mal out, but It refused to be shooed. A grab at one of Its hind legs resulted in a brief en counter which was not disas trous, but brought the goat’s horns into play. All other means falling, Du bois then possessed himself of a long pole nnd with one mighty heave pushed the obstinate 4hlng from out his car. This done, he had to keep the goat at the end of the pole until he could start the car and make his getaway. MRS. RAYMOND ROBINS Captain Matlack Knows No Fear New York.—Education In northern France ceased In the autumn of 1914. It cannot recommence until Germany pays the war damages to France, and France subdivides the Indemnity into the proportions demanded by each de partment canton and commune for the erection and equipment of schools. As Germany Is only expected to pay 25,000,000 francs immediately and the rest in twenty years, the most hopeful outlook for French education is one- quarter of the prewar force and equip ment within the next two decades. In the meantime, says the Brooklyn Eagle, children who ceased to attend school In 1914 are five years In arrears, and for a generation will continue to study on a 25 per cent efficiency basis. Tlie Instructor often returns to a ruined village long before there is any Mrs. Raymond Robins, president of school for him to teach. His own home the National Women’s Trade Union is a heap of ruins and he has to com league, Is making preparations for the mence to dig among the debris to find of delegates representing any burled belongings, nnd to erect out to ten miles to the nearest school. reception women workers of ten foreign coun of the heap of stones a shelter for This walk In winter, In the fog nnd tries on their wny to participate In the himself. The government Is supplying rain nnd mud, ill-elnd and undernour International Congress of Working ns fast as possible wooden barracks, ished, Is a strain upon the frail con Women. one end of which is sometimes par stitutions thnt may result In the loss titioned for the teacher to live in, the young life. other end for the scholars to congre of The should bring the best results n children nt home, sheltered in that gate. large sum of money must be raised. the cellar of a destroyed house where The Living in Dugouts. child work is divided Into the people live together, a calico cur two phases When the government cannot supply many sometimes of mental and physicnl aid. the only wall separat the barracks, people of the town have tain Trying to Equip Schools. ing family beds, are under as unhealthy salvaged the corrugated Iron dugouts conditions nnd ns exposed ns on the To equip a schoolhouse with suffi left by the Germans called Nelssen trip to the nearest schoolhouse. If the cient books for the winter’s work $50 huts. These dugouts are like a barrel schoolhouses equipped, the jour is sufficient. To completely equip the cut lengthwise nnd bombproof; also ney to school were a winter’s day would schoolhouse with benches and desks, these Iron shelters are sweltering hot be worth while, on hut us it Is, the only mnps, blackboards, stationery, etc., In summer nnd bitter cold In winter. held out to the youth of $500 Is needed. They were meant to be placed under inducement isolnted villages is the nfrernoon Besides the schools carried on un ground. not used ns surface buildings, the “gouter” or four o’clock lunch pro der government supervision there are but any shelter in the devastated re vided by the Hoover commission and now established In some villages kin gion Is acceptable, nnd this snlvage distributed by the American commit dergarten work, domestic science work can replace the school buildings. and manual training. Any donations Inside these Improvised schoolhouses tee. Patriotic Though Suffering. for education will be turned there is nothing. An enterprising The instructors are government pnld, marked this fund to bring back to normnl schoolmaster will find planks In the their salaries varying from 150 to 300 Into mentality the children who have run nenr-by trenches, nnd If he can find a month. The French govern wild and neglected since before the nails he will knock together a bench frnnes owns the school buildings and war. Takes Long Chances. for his pupils to elt upon. If he can ment MASONIC MEMORIAL HOSPITAL STARTED equips the schools, the taxes in the Compulsory education In France obtain chalk, he hns Ills class In arith past levied On one occasion Matlack and his men on the communes making ceases when the pupil Is fourteen. metic figure on the rough wnlls in lieu were surrounded by an overwhelming this support. When communes Boys and girls of fourteen have no of a blackboard. If he has sufficient possible force of Mexicans. Instead of mak wiped out nnd buildings are non more schooling thnn they hail five memory he tenches his pupils what he are ing a stand to fight, as the bandits ex years ago. Children of ten have not existent, taxes cannot be levied, and remembers of history and geography. until a readjustment of government yet learned to read and write. Ba pected, Mntlnck ordered a charge, rode A survey made In July, 1919, showed finances Is accomplished there Is little bies of five years old think war Is the down the Mexicans and killed 85 of that In 65 of the villages under the prospect of ndequnte school facilities natural state of affairs. All the chil their number. Matlack's men suffered supervision of the American commit In the war-wrecked area. one slight casualty. dren are undernourished. Not one In tee, 22 improvised schools had been Motoring one afternoon through the the district knows the taste of fresh Not long after this a cattle ranch opened, and four were expected to beautiful near Candalnria wns raided. Matlock , Alsne valley, where scarlet milk. open in October. From the 39 villages popples covered and his men pursued and killed the The children here were, before the the pock-maked fields still without Instructors or school shel and the great war seemed as fnr away war, the finest physical type France 1 Mexicans nnd recovered the cattle. ter, the children must wnik from three as the Roman wars, workers of the produced. The climate Is bracing and ! I.nter Mntlnck went back to look for j more cattle. While he was riding American committee on devastated there was an abundance of butter, around the town a shot wns tired from France heard the faint strains of a milk nnd eggs. The poorest family nn adobe house. The bullet went wild. owned n goat, chickens and rabbits; poor violin and the high-pitched voices Matlack boldly kicked In the door of I Twine Trail Leads to of children singing the “Marseilles.” the wealthier families had many cows. (he house and killed the Mexican who Recovery of Cash Box They stopped the motor and up on a All of this live stock the Germans j hod fired at him. In virtually every en- bluff by the roadside sgw a tiny hut took, nnd the children and nursing | counter with Mexicans Matlack hns Conneaut, O.—A ball of store to which they climbed nnd found nine mothers were deprived of protein, taken long chances, but he has always) twine led to the finding of a children grouped around a hoy of without which there Is no growth. j gotten his man. cash register containing $20 twelve playing his home-made instru which burglnrs stole from a local ment and leading the singing of their Saw Grizzly Bear. SERBIA IS FREE OF SMALLPOX meat market. When the proprie national anthem. Banff, Can.—Bert Thompson stopped tor was called to the door from The day’s Instruction was over and with some of the boys for a little while Typhus Also Stamped Out by Relief his bed upstairs by a knock he the children were about to scatter, but on his way home from work. It was Workers, Including Amer was struck by a brick hurled every day before they parted their pa dark when he climbed on to the bi icans. through a window. triotism broke forth in song. cycle and began pedaling hard to get He was only slightly Injured These are the children whose ter home In time for supper. He had a Belgrade.—For the first time In five nnd ran out the door to search rible war experiences have left them fleeting glance of a dark object ahead years Serbln Is today free of smallpox. for an officer. When he and the nervous nnd frightened and who must Just a second before he struck It and Only three caws are reported In the policeman returned the cash reg live for many years to come among was thrown to the pavement. When he whole kingdom. ister was gone. surroundings of desolation and sad sat up, rubbing his head, a big grizzly The announcement s made by the The burglars abandoned It In ness. bear wns looking down at him. Ben medical staff of the American Red a gulley several rods away after said they looked at each other and The problem In France Is not only Cross headquarters In Belgrade which trying in vain to open IL The the low birth rate, bnt the dreadful then both went away from the place a week ago made the even more grat twine was carried all the way, Infant mortality. The American com as fast as they could. Grand Master W. S. Farmer, assisted by officers of the Grand lodge, state ifying announcement that Serbia Is unraveling from the store, and mittee is doing prenatal work as well New York, laying the comer stone of the $<100,000 memorial hospital to once more free of typhus, after a i s tr u j led to finding the cash box. as child hygiene, bnt to carry this on The thumb Is stronger than all the of gle of five years. soldiers and aallors of the great war at the Masonic Uoine, U tea, N. X. with the thoroughness and extent fingers put together.
