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spitting. As soon as they Icarn to tuck away a little of
the shreds in their cheeks and to let it alone, they find
out the difference there is between rich tobacco and
the excess-flavored stuff. The touch of salt in VV-B
helps to bring out the tobacco satisfaction.
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Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County,
Oregon, on Friday.
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Independence, Oregon, Friday, April 27, 1917
"A man recently received a letter
from his brother, who is in the German
army. He was requested to save the
stamp as it would be the last letter ever
written by the brother. When the stamp
was removed, the words, 'We are starv
ing' were found written under it."
"A girl recently received a letter
from a sister in Germany. At the end
in Sale By
CRAVENS HUFF
SLOPER BROS, fi COCKLET
J. D. H1BBS fi CO.
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When The Monitor!
Prints It
YOU are assured of a ood
job as a skilled man does
the work.
Our Cash System enables
to beat city prices.
us
There is hardly anything we
cannot do.
of the letter she had written, 4I wish the
Kaiser was dead' and the censor had
added, 'Your sister was executed this
morning'."
Both these letters are interesting and if true,
according to our - staff war college, reveal an
astounding amount of German resource. The
first letter, according to newspaper reports and
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other news carrying mediums, has been received
in twenty-one different places in Oregon and the
second one in eight. Presuming that an equal
number have been received in the other forty-
seven states, this German soldier and eirl have ! oars ot wheat out of the country
1 008 and 3cS4 brothers and sisters in America. If
such large families as this are common in Ger
many, enough boys are born every year to make
it possible for German- to stand off the world indefinitely.
FEED THE FOLKS
AT HOME FIRST
The Courier questions whether
our patriotism should be stretched
to the extent of takinsr bread
from the poorer families of
Orejyon and shipping: it to the
fichters of Europe, because we
hae declared war on the same
country they are fiffhtinjr.
Godwin's Weekly truly ob
serves that when a man is hungry
his patriotism grows cold.
Cable reports from London and
Paris state that prices on food
pJoducts are lower in these cities
than they are in Oregon.
And the products on which
lower prices are fixed were grown
and manufactured in this country.
The wheat of the bread which
sells for less in Pari.'', was grown i
in Oregon, a part of it, the heavi
est of war transportation and in
surance risks paid on it, and it
was shipped six or eight thousand
miles.
The statement was made to
the Courier editor this week by
a Corvallis dealer that he looked
for flour to go to $20 a barrel by
August 1.
And the Oregonian played up
as a leading patriotic story in
Tuesday's issue that 100 carloads
of wheat will leave the North
west each day for Europe, and
that the railroads have agreed to
give it the right of way.
Perhaps my patriotism isn
on just straight, but anyhow
reason it out that real patriotism
commences at one's fireside, and
that it is the duty of a rea
American to provide flour for the
hungry at home before he goes
to hurrahing about shipping 100
Automatic
Protection
all the way
ft
Columbia River Route
Parallels America's
Great Highway
Stories reflecting upon the loyalty of Colonel
E. Hofer of course have been found to be false,
but it takes no denials, statements or investiga
tions to assure us ot the Lolonel s loyalty. Iho
prohibition extendsits area, jitneys run, municipal
utilities strive, railroads are regulated, union labor
holds its own and big business is restricted, de
spite these inconveniences, Colonel Hofer would
be the first man to swat any outsider who stepped
over the line.
If Theodore Roosevelt wants to go to Europe
and fight, he should be allowed to do so, and take
with him all those who desire to go. Such an
army would give a good account of itself, tho pos
sibly not be able to whip the whole German army
is a number of 1 R.'s enthusiastic friends think.
every day. Benton
Courier.
County
oo)ooooooooooooK9ooooooooaooa
"Universal military training means an
army of the people, consequently an army
in full sympathy with the. masses and the
republic. We want no other kind of
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militarism. v ooaDurn tnuepenaeni.
We hope the kind we want and the kind
get are the same.
we
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It is being hinted in Germany that it would
help some it Kaiser Bill would step down and
out. Bill's evacuation of the tnrone would not be
of much value unless all ot his gang went with
him. A complete renovation is all that will save
Germanv.
"I've
but
We have heard at least fortv voters sav
voted for George Chamberlain even time
never again." The senator's brand of militarism
is too strong for them to stand.
I While the government is hurrying along war!
: measures, one important one is being neglected.
I Federal control of the price of foodstuffs is needed
!at once.
Newspapers are the only thing that have not
advanced in price. The publishers, being all
well to do, are standing the extra expense themselves.
DISADVANTAGES OF
A CHEAP CAR
It was at a G. A. R. reunion at
Washington. Two old chaps,
one from Virginia and the other
from New Hampshire, were re
unioning. The N. H. vet noticed
an ugly scar on the side of the
Virginia vet's face.
Where did ye git that? ' he
asked.
"Oh, I got that here about ten
years ago."
ien years ago; Are you
fellers fightin' yet down there in
Virginia?"
"No, no. I didn't get that in
a fight. I got it in a feud."
"Well," said the old Yankee,
with a sigh, "that jest proves
what I wui tellin' the old woman
tne otner day. it don't pav to
buy them cheap cars. Me for a
Bu-hick.". Irvin S.Cobb.
THE FRESH BRAKEMAN
On the new brakeman's first
run there was a very steep grade.
The engineer al ways had more or
less trouble to get up this grade,
but this time he came near stick
ing altogether. Eventually, how
ever, he reached the top. Look
ing out of the cab, the engineer
saw the new brakeman and said,
with a sigh of relief: "We had a
hard time getting up.didn't we."
"We sure did," assented the new
brakeman, "and if I hadn't put
on the brake we'd have slipped
back."-ScraDBook.
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PORTLAND CITY OFFICE
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