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PAGE THREE AN ANGEL IN A SALOON possessing the will to resist the friendless woman for the kindness 1 REGULATING THE YOUNGSTER. DAD AND THE BOY. ’ ness or lodge work or golf, any Legion Doesn’t Back Solicitors. temptation, fell, and in one short and eourtesy you have shown her.” (The New Age.) thing but the home, the boys grow Officials of the American Legion (Reprinted by request.) year niy dream of happiness was Before any one could reply she wr.s (Portland Oregonian.) One of the interesting celebrations I up not only without proper control post wish the public to know that One afternoon in the month of over, my home was forever deso gone. It ought not to be difficult, in of recent years is Father and Son 1 but without right guidance. No ’ the local post is in no way behind A silence for several minutes en this era of parent-teacher associa week, during which time dad is ex I lodge is as important as a boy; : the various solicitors who come to June, 1870, a lady in deep mourn lated, and the kind husband, and wealth some called mine, lost, sued, which was at length broken tions and, we hope, of reviving _ pected to cultivate the companion and no business has claims prior to Cottage Grove and use the name of ing followed by a child, entered the never to return, and all by the ac- by the proprietor, who exclaimed: realization of the value of discipline ship of his son. This is a most ex that of the lusty youngster in the the Legion as an aid to their so- one of the fashionable saloons of cursed wine cup. ‘‘Gentlemen, the lady is right, for the young, to approximate in cellent idea. The only weak part of home. : liciting. The Legion is ready to N——. The writer happened to be ‘‘You see before -------- you only a and I have sold my last glass of other cities the agreement just ar it is—the limitation to one week. Nor can a father transfer aid needy ex-service men but be- passing at the time, and impelled wreck whisky; if any of you want more, rived at in Minneapolis between the Why not extend it throughout the responsibility to the teacher in of my former self, homeless , lieves that able-bodied solieitors by curiosity, followed her to see and friendless, you will havo to go elsewhere. ” and with nothing schoolroom or tho judge of the executive committee of the Par year! I should stand on their own feet. what would ensue. Stepping up to left me in this world but this little And I have drunk my last glass ents’ and Teachers’ council and the the bar and addressing the pro child;” and weeping bitterly, she of ‘ ‘ whisky, It is customary in certain circles veni’e court. Frequently boys ’’ said the young man mayor’s commission on juvenile too much under the influence prietor. who happened to be pres affectionately caressed the golden who hud long been given up as ut crime. This has taken the form of a to berate the young people, espe women, and not one woman in a Cottage Grove Is Advertised. ent, she said: cially the boys, of today because of curls that shaded a face of exqui terly beyond the reach of those code which the council, represent thousand is capable of understand The IJiGrande Observer recently ‘ ‘ Bir, can you assist me! I have their delinquencies. Various epithets no home, no friends, and am not site loveliness. Regaining her com who had a deep interest in his wel ing the parents of the city, has of disapprobation are applied to ing the heart and mind of a boy, gave some free advertising to Cot posure, and turning to the proprie fare. especially in the adolescent years. pledged itself to use all possible tage Grove. Janies Robison, who, in able to work.” ‘‘There is a temperance organ means to enforce. That it applies them. They are lazy, rough, vio We cannot emphasize too strongly company with Mrs. Robison and He glanced at her, and then at tor of the saloon, she continued: lent, lawless and generally incor ization in this city called ‘ Temple ‘ ‘ Sir, the reason I occasionalv en the responsibility of citizenship, Mr. and Mrs. O. E. Woodson, re only to boys is nothing against it, the child, with a mingled look of Honor,’ and at their next meet since if faith is kept in this par rigible. The blame for these con but there is even a greater re cently visited there, was quoted as curiosity and pity. Evidently he ter a place like this is to implore of ditions is placed upon the church, ing I shall send my name to be ad those who deal in the deadly poison ticular it will measurably serve the school or the police; everywhere sponsibility of fatherhood. If Fa saying that of the many places in was much surprised to see a woman every purpose sought. It aims to but the one place where the binine ther and Son week serves to im which he has lived (including Cali in such a place begging, but, with to desist, to stop a business that mitted. Who will go with me!” ‘ ‘ I, I, I, ” several exclaimed in s spreads desolation, ruin, poverty and press upon the men of the nation fornia) he likes Cottage Grove best. accomplish by consent what is properly lies—in the home. out asking any questions, gave her the supremo importance of cultivat The fact that Mr. Woodson, who some change, and turning to those starvation. Think one moment of chorus, and fifteen names were aimed at by curfew ordinances— added to his. your own loved ones, and then chums Where father and sons are ing tho confidence nnd companion has the Ford agency here, stands present, said: ‘‘Gentlemen, here is but with certain advantages inher True to his word, the owner of ent in cooperative effort. It re the boys seldom go wrong, When ship of the boys it will have served third in the state in the number of a lady in distress. Can’t some tt imagine them in the situation I am in. I appeal to your better na the saloon where this strange scene you help her a little!” quires nothing unreasonable, exacts the father is too absorbed in busi a tremendously important purpose. Ford cars sold was referred to. They all eheerfully acceded to ture. I appeal to your heart, for I was enacted, disposed of his entire nothing impossible, promises noth stock the know you possess a kind one, to next day, and is now en- the request, and soon a purse of ing but good. retire from a business so ruinous gaged in an honorable business, two dollars was raised and put in to There is due allowance for study, your patrons. ” heaven that lady with her Would to her hand, work and play. Boys between the ‘ ‘ Do you know that the money could have gone into ev- little one _ ‘‘Madam,” said the gentleman ages of 8 and 15 are required to who gave her the money, ‘ ‘ why do you receive across this bar is the ery hamlet, town, and city through be in bed at 9 o’clock and those you come to a saloon! It isn’t a same ae taking bread from out of out the country and met with like between the ages of 15 and 18 at mouths of the famished results! There are many such beg proper place for a lady, and why the wives and children of your cus gared widows, but few who arc i.bl:’ 9:30. It requires a not very vivid are you driven to such a step!” imagination to hear the howl that ‘ ‘ Sir, I know it isn’t a proper tomers f That it strips the clothes to speak so effectively.—Laramie will go up from the youngsters ut from their backs, deprives them Sentinel. place for me to be in; and you ask Urst, in particular those over 15 why I am driven to such a Btep. of all the eomforte of life, nnd who are obsessed with the idea that throws unhappiness, misery, crime, » printing. Others come here for I will tell you in one short word,’ personal liberty means license to desolation into their once hap nnd Patronise already here. You are She pointed to a bottle behind the Oh, sir, I implore, be the live wire print shop for everv- disregard the laws of health. But counter. ‘‘That is what brought me py homes! it is pretty well established by this seech, and pray you, to retire from thing in printing. iii time that nine hours’ sleep are here—whisky.” ‘‘I was once happy and sur- a business yon blush to own you good for a youngster who hasn’t engaged in before your fellow rounded by all the luxuries that are yet got his growth and the best Wi’'” Magnets Lay Nails Straight as wealth could procure, with a fond men, and enter one that will not time to get them is between about and indulgent husband. But in an only be profitable to yourself, but in Packing Boxes or Kegs 9:30 p. m. and 6:30 a. m. For that ¿W evil hour he was tempted, and not to your fellow creatures also. You will excuse me if I have spoken To lay nails straight in containers, a matter, it is doubtful if most adults get as much sleep as they could too plainly, but I could not help packer equipped with magnets is re MICKE SAYS— it when I thought of the misery ported to have been built by a Swiss use advantageously. It will be a and unhappiness it has caused me.” Inventor. The machine is said to be fine thing for a good many house holds when parents can get their ‘‘Madam, I am not offended,” he answered in a voico husky with able to fill kegs, boxes, or papier car youngsters out of tho way betimes emotion, ‘‘but thank yon from tons, and to handle wire rods, hairpins, and snatch a little much needed rest my heart for what you have said.” knife blades and fishhooks with equal for themselves. •i'Vb ‘‘Mamma,” said the ehild. who er.se. The articles to be boxed up are The point is not the precise hours jt ySg meantime had been spoken to by poured into a huge vibmting hopper in as tentatively agreed on, but recog ,U» some of the gentlemen present, tak lota of about a thousand [>ounds and nition of the importance of forming ing hold of her mother’s hand, are straightened out on large trovs regular habits and especially the ‘‘these gentlemen wish me to sing below. .discipline involved in discarding Little Bessy’ for them. 8hall I non-essentials for the necessary * * * do so!” S ?! business of life. It requires no pro ‘ Yes, darling, if they wish you found research into the psychology Inexpensive Sign Hanger to. ’ ’ of habit to teach us that the time Substantial and attractive metal of choice for emphasizing this as They all joined in the request, and placing her in a chair, she sang signs can readily lie made from lengths pect of training is during youth. in a sweet childlike voice the fol of pipe and fittings and a piece of sl.es« It would bo interesting to know lowing beautiful song: metal. The hanger is attached to • how much of the reluctance to con ‘‘Out in the gloomy night sadily I building as shown in the illustration form to discipline exhibited by tho roam, youngster in the schoolroom is due XX) I have no mother dear, no pleae- no guy wires or bracing of any kind art, to jaded nerves which are the con required to support it, still it is so solid ant home; UKB sequence of want of sufficient sleep, No one cares for me, no one would that the strongest winds will not when not in indulgences which may OUR cry, loosen it. Two different designs are have been positively detrimental in Even if poor little Bessie should shown; one for mounting the sign at themselves. RùWB, die. right angles to the sides of a building But a tremendous care will have BOOT Weary and tired I’ve been wander and the other for mounting it on a been lifted from parental shoulders ing all day, fQß oorner so that it can be seen from two when it can be said with a reason Asking for work, but I’m too smnll able degree of certainty that John they say; • -X M ny is in bed, where all young boys On the dump ground I must now ought to be. Otherwise good boys lay my head— fall into unexpected temptations Father’s a druakard and mother is when not under the eyes of their dead! elders. The immediate motive of We were so happy until father the code in question was an epi drank rum,. demic of juvenile offending with, Then all our sorrow and trouble in one instance, a fatal result. It begun; had got beyond the control of the Mother grew pale; and wept every day— police. There is a limit, of course, to what school authorities can do. Baby and I were too hungry But older folks, some of whom can play; BILL BOOSTER SAYS Slowly they remember the days of their own faded until one sum - - - - Fewer AmeHcnna wore killed In l combined, the seven greatest bat tho corresponding month last yesue mer night youth and recall with gratitude tho The control of the rising deatb- Found their dead faces all silent beneficent effects of prudent re the Meuse-Arg-on no offensive, the tles of ti." Civil War In point of Elt HAVE mobs owe and white; straint, have it in their own power bloodiest engagement In which losses to the Union forces, num rat« from this cause is one of the PRIDE AMD LESS LOUMUQ to end the wave of juvenile crime. General Pershing's army partici bered several hundred fewer than unaolved problem« of polio« accid Then with big tears slowly drop FOR. TV4E OSH UMEU MJS ping I said. Parental influence can still be pated, than were killed last year the automobile deaths in the ent prevention work in AmerlcaM Father’s a drunkard and mother is made effective if parents will take in the United States by automo | United States in the last twelve cities. There to small consolation HAVE MOUEM EMOVGM ID MOVE dead! streets. The sign itself is a pieoe oi the trouble to lock the stable door biles. The death toll of the twenty- month. And the slaugh:c-r by auto in the fact that the numbee of YD A BIG GrtMl I HGARTMft .fcve army divisions, which formed niobib-s continues at an accelerated uutomobtles has also increased, and Oh, if the temperance men only heavy sheet metal attached to the pips before the horse has been stolen. that, in consequence, there aw the American First Army in “the pace. BIG etna? ARC FUVV » Pouts could find frame by means of metal clips, passed For example, the Metropolitan fewer ilt-atli« per automobile IB largest battle In American history,” Poor wretched father, and talk around the pipe and riveted to the Lithographing, engraving, steel VAO ARC SANtUQ THEIR, GQW very kind; was slightly more than 15.000 men. Lite Insurance Company, basing operation than there were fivs or die work. The Sentinel’s live wire SO THEM &*» MOMt CMt The outstanAin* It is safe to estimate the automo Its l.yures upon the mortality re ten year« ago. If they would stop him drinking, edge of the sheet metal as shown. print shop is the place.___________ then I should bo very happy bile fatalities In the United States cords of its 15,000,000 industrial fact to that whethnr people are bo- AMD UNS «4 ABMAUA* again. policyholders, states that the year Ing killed by the first or the fifth, for 1923 at 13,000. YtNJM Mt Y*« «DW0RMY Is it too late, temperance men! United States soldiers killed in 1 »23 showed an incr.MUie ot 18 per or the tenth automobile, the num- Please try. action at the battle* of GettjH- i cent, in the automobile deathrate bur of deaths caus»<l*by motor veh Or poor little Bessie must soon burg. Spot tsyl vania. the Wilder over 1922 and that |he month of icles and the automobile accldsol starve and die; ness. Anth'tam. ChanceilorsviUe, January, 1024. showed an increase d.-athrate continue to grow yeaM All the day long I’ve been bogging Chickamauga and Cold Harbor, of more than 17 par cenL over I after year. for bread— Father’s a drunkard and mother is Facilitating Handling of VIedicin« Is Fed into Lungs of A loud speaker lacking a horn was al dead! ” so tested. It was a large disk, nl*out Rowboats The games of billiards were left White-Plague Victims three fret in diameter, and connected unfinished, the cards were thrown Ordinarily it requires the efforts of For the treatment of pulmonary tu- aside, and the unemptied glasses re by wires and a vacuum tube with the wrculoais a medicine is being used mouthpiece. The device did away two men to launch a rowboat, but mained on the counter; all had pressed near, and some with pity hat is inhaled directly into tho pa- with the metallic noise, and proved one man can easily do the work if the beaming in their eyes were en it could reproduce the voice at almost rowboat is provided with a Htnall tranced with the voice and beauty bronze roller as shown in the draw any magnitude. of the child, who seemed better fit ing. The detail shows how such a * • • ted to be with the angels above roller is attached; a woollen skeg keei than in such a place. Payroll Card System Helps is fastened to the main .keel at ths The scene I shall never forget to in Avoiding Mistakes my dying day, and the sweet ca Time, expense and mistakes in dence of her musical voice still computing pay of employes of a largo rings in my ears, and every word of the song, as it dropped from her eastern company who work on an -KEEL lips, sank deep in the hearts of hourly basis are saved with the use SKEG KEEL those gathered around her. of a system of cards that indicate the With the golden hair falling length of time a man has worked and carelessly around her shoulders, her the exact amount due. When a task face of almost ethereal beauty, and Is started, a card, marked in fifteen- looking so trustingly and confiding minute inter' ds from 7 o’clock in tho ly upon the men around, her beau tiful eyes illuminated with a light morning until 6 o’clock in tho evening, -THERE GO&6 OuB OP that seemed not of earth, she .ient’t lungs through a tube and is punched to show the beginning formed a picture of purity and in TH’ MGAXKB.SV TAXPAYERS nouthpieoe. It is composed of amor- hour. Another perforation is made on nocence worthy of the genius of a IM riUNJM HE PVC» K ihous oarbon and calcium salts which, quitting. Tins card is placed upon a poet or painter. t is declared, build up the fibrous tia- master card which shows the lalior MtexGL 'Ll TW »OLLtmOU At the close of the song many iuea, arresting the progress of the dia- prices in progression from fifteen min wero weeping, men who had not SOX SN'R'f SLXJPATI VJMGM •ase. Good results are declared to utes up to and including eleven hours shed a tear for years now wept like shuffles off ' m goes -lave been obtained in ex;>eriinenta in through the perforations. For the children. One young man who had De. De J ambs _____ ____ T HBKVCU, Ht WUT FW various kind« of work, seventy master stem by means of iron plates and resisted with scorn the pleading of the east. lag-ocrews, and a recces is cut in the MUQH ~C Hit eaatxr IM TVf • * * a loving mother and the entrepties The reorganized Better Homes in movement. some five hundred skeg to accommodate the roller, which of friends to strive to lead a bet communities demonstrated Bettes B ooks tvaerb , R m ' wtfu. ter life, to desist from a eourse Amari, a moMncnt, now entering Uncle Sam Builds Highway» is held in place by means of two Homes. The next year this num- vm S h Ht'O that was wasting his fortune and Wa Ihtrd year, to und« ■ the active her was about doubled, and there Enough to Circle Earth bronze side plates. The roller must, Ford ■Mina gement of Dr. Jarr."- WMT ruining his health, now approached teacutlve director, pictur. ! of course, turn freely between these is assurance this year that tho l»ll More than 8,000 miles of romls of mmoqb ol the ehild. and taking both her lit Dr Ford la a natlcnall plates. A steel or iron roller should 'u cwn rtirure will be considerably sur all type» were completed with federal tle hands in his. while tears passed in the number of commun not be used, as it soon rusts and then ambro ' streamed down his pale cheeks, ex hansing specii'llst. and bn.- ! -n ities demonstrating Better Home* aid during the year which ended June ranted a year’s leave by Harvard tiecomes useless. The roller should be 30, 1923, according to a government claimed with deep emotion: nlreratty in order to take charge during the we. k set ata do aS rejort. Thia, added to the mileage kept well groaned in order to obtahl ”B tt-r Homes W< -k"— May 11 ‘‘God bless you, my little angel! o? this edueai tonal work. the lx«t results. completed previously, brought the to You have saved me from ruin and Dr. John M. Grtca, pictured with to ! V see disgrace, from poverty and n Dr Ford, to one of the member» I’articular stress is being laid tal for finished projects up to 26,53fi Two-Element Tube Needs No drunkard’s grave. If there were of the board of director» of Better this year on homes for American milea, or more than enough to circle ever angels on earth yon are one; Ho.nee in An rb u. He 1» at the families of moderate means, and the earth. The projects under con cards am used in the factory. They B-Batteries bless you, God bless you I ” head of the LHi’toion of Building loeal eommltt. s have been asked struction at the close of U k > year are kept in a handy index so that they Makers of reflex-circuit sets will be putting a bill in the hands of an ! Housing of the Department of to demonstrate homes which, com amounted to 14.772 miles, and were may be found immediately. mother, said: ‘‘Please accept Commerco. pletely furnished. would ooms ■wtimated at 53 per cant oompiste. The accompanying illustration interested in a tube that has recently trifle as a token of my regard As reorganized. Better Hnmca In within tho reach of such fanilllea. rfiows a Mtn pie payroll card marked mads its appearanoe. The tube has • • • esteem, for yosr little girl has America to en.lrely educational and Another particular alm of tbs but two elements, hence its name - Lamp Is Lighted by Wireless with forty-two hour divisions for the the "diode " It is said to oombine the done me a kindness I can never re pon-commerclai. being supported campaign this year to to extend the timekeeper i- punch. pay. And remember, whenever you by public gif’a Transmission of Power Herbert Hoover. movement to rural parts of ths • • * clear reproduction of the crystal with are in want you will find me a Secretary ot Commerce. 1s again country as far as postable. Better Just a glimpse of the future possi- {[Don't attempt to use tho lighting the sturdiness and reliability of the true friend.” at the same time president of the organisation, and Homes in America to sensing to riving her hie name and address. President Coolldg'-. for the second convey to every American family oiHtiea of the wireless transmission of circuit as an antenna without first tube, and to operate on less than H Taking her ehild by the hand, time, warmly endorsed the move that beauty and comfort tn tho ...wer was given in the east recently, finding out the principles of tho idea. amp. from a single dry cell. No B- she turned to go, but tmusiag at moot in hto letter to secretary homo need not ba strangers to ehen an ordinary 110-volt incandes One fan did. with the result that his batteries are required. It is adaptco Hoover accepting the chairn^n- economy. cent lamp was lighted while being held hands were l.uzfly burned, and the fire for use in all reflex circuits, and r the door, said: Headquarters ar<- at H64 Pen a foot from a vacuum tube containing department wm obliged to render first quires no adjustments for ohanges ‘‘God bless you gentlemen! Ac ship of the Advigory Council. During the first year of tho nsylvania Avenue, Washiagton. cept the heartfelt thanks of a poor. 2JXJOJ100 cycles of alternating current. aid to both fan and house. wave length. Thousands Killed Annually By Motors In United States Exceed Fatalities of Battle Housing Experts Head Movement For Better Homes in America; Educational Drive Under Way TH’ OLE GROUCH