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About Cottage Grove sentinel and Cottage Grove leader. (Cottage Grove, Oregon) 1915-1921 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 15, 1918)
$ 1 }? £wtf«u»l will not care how many see the first loving embrace when he steps off the train again at his old home towu. sister who struggled to keep bach A Weekly Newspaper W ith Plasty the The tears wheu he went away will uot of Backbone try to hide the tears of joy when her Elbert Bede and Albert Smith Publlahara veteran brother of Frauce ends his Albert Bade................. - .......— ^ .Editor homeward journey. A firat claaa «a publico publication entered at Cot mother who smiled bravely wheu tage Grove, a. Ora., Ore., aa aeeoad-^laaa matter she The waxed good bye to the boys she had Buaiueas Office. ..412 Eaet Main nursed will show by the welcome they get that the smile of a year or more ago BUBBCKIPTION KATAS was ouly to cheer the boys mid that her Una year------- $2.00 | Throe months....60c heartstrings were tearing loose within. t>ix uiuutha.— 1.00 | Siujtle copy___6c Aud the father who kissed good bye One year, wheu paid m advance, or betore expiration___________ ___$1.15 the cooiug bab»>, who could not under This special applies only on a full stand why papa was goiug away aud year ’a subscription why mama cried, will l'iud a welcome No subscription listed for leas than 60c that will make him understand that the mother did her best to let the little tot Member of know that a father fighting in a far-off National Editorial Association Oregon State Editorial Association laud for the mothers aud babes of the Willamette Valley Editorial Association work! was coining home to his owu Lane County Publishers' Association hearth some day. The grirxled old G. A. R. veteran w ho FK1UAY, NOVEMBER 15, 1»I8 bade good bye to a sou or grandson and thought of the day when ha too TO AN UNKNOWN SOLDIER. murchod away to fight for his country '» [To accompany a Christmas comfort glory, will say, “ Old man, 1 couldn't bag. Theodora Peck, m the Burliugtou, have done it any better myself. The V erinont, Free Press. J boys of t>d are mighty proud of the boys of ’17.’’ This little Christmas bag 1 send . And the sweethaerts who have re Across the leagues of stormy sea. mained true, and whose love distance Though 1 am all unknown to you. And you are all unknown to me. has only made the stronger, will hardly back the welling stream of affec And yet, why should we not be friends! hold never.ruu dry. Although your face 1 n e ’er shall‘see, tion whose source • can • • 1 should not be unknown to you. Nor you be all unknown to me. W on’t we be proud of these men aud boysf You go to save my very all, Aud won’t there be a lot of us who Dear soldier brave of liberty; Then surely you are friend of miue, will regret that all of us could not have And 1, heuceiorth, am friend to thee. been there! And think of it, as far as we know You fight to make my country safe, You fight to make my country free there has been but uus death among From tyranny and bitter hate. the Cottage Grove boys who weut over This blessing do 1 send to thee: seas and only one death at home. All but two of those who went away A Merry Christmas, soldier dear, And many of them may you see. are coming home again. And all of them but this be spent And amid the happiness of receiving In our dear land of liberty. our own again, our hearts will go out ro those to whom Jess Me Dole aud Calvin 8o fling Old Glory heaven high Above the realms of Germany, Funk were near aud dear. Their guide a And here’s a prayer: “ God bl ess you, stars in our service flag will be revered lad: ’* throughout the years and their uames From your leal friend across the sea. and memories will be kept green at the THE DAWN OF PEACE annual reunions of the veterans. • • • Varying are the thoughts and reflec When these men aud boys tell of the tions that come with the dawn of peace. things they did over there, when they We think of the days before we got of their sufferings, when they tell into the war, when old Kaiser Bill spoke tell what the Red Cross, the Y. M. C. A., with contempt of the American army, of the Salvation Army and all the other said that it would take the Yanks five organizations to them—when they or six years to prepare to fight, said tell of what meant Liberty bond money did that France and England would be on for them—w on't Cottage Grove be their knees before we could get there to help, and bragged that he would stand proud of the part it played! no nonsense from us after Europe had And then will come the slacker's pun ishment. been whipped. In a little over a year after we got Then, too late, will the father think into it, hostilities ceased at the eleventh of the Liberty bonds he did nof buy to hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh back the boy who faced shot and shell month, and we are wondering if Kaiser in France. Bill, now a common murderer and a Then, too late, will some think of the fugitive from justice, has had any luxuries bought with money that should eleventh hour regrets of his contempt have gone to the Red Cross. Then, too late, will some think of the for the American army. We think of the many problems that wasted time they might have given to presented themselves, and the many ex war work. asperating Relays that occurred as we, None who has not done his part will the great peace-loving nation, became be able to look into the manly eyes of transformed into a great fighting na these battle-searred veterans. Like old Bill Hohenzollern they wil tion. Then we think of the remarkable ef want to hunt a hole and pull the hole ficiency developed by the indomitable in after them. And let us not forget that our part Yankee spirit. This great peace-loving nation, with is not yet done. its so-called contemptible army, taught Another great drive is in progress tricks to those that had been in the now. Other great drives are yet to fol war for years—and our trump trick low. was that the Yanks had not been taught The last of the boys may not get back how to retreat. It was this ignorance for a year or more, possibly some will which proved too much for German kul- not get back until later than that. tur. They have done their part. We have Then the foolish Yankee boys took not completed ours. the Germans on for a sprinting match. If we have any doubts about having Mighty sociable fellows, those Yanks, done our full duty in the past, there and the huns who couldn't outrun the is >'et time to repair the deficiency. Yanks are now prisoners behind the al There were no slackers among the lied lines. boys who went across. Let there be no The Yank is a funny fellow. He is a slackers a t home who fail to come peace loving fellow. He likes peace so across. much that he will lick the whole world, Explanations are now in order from if necessary, to get it. And h e’s the best sport on earth. He the national democratic committee and can fight one minute and forget all the various state committees which about it the next. spent oodles of money telling us that Two years ago two factions fought Germany was watching our election and one another as if the future existence that we must send democrats back to of the world depended upon the election congress or there was no telling what of the candidate of each faction to the would happen in Europe. We would like presidency. , m-k to know if any improvement would have The result is now history. One side been made upon events over there if was inevitably defeated. Cottage Oregon had sent Ossie West in place of Grove’s republican editor rode the dem Senator McNary, or was it all just par ocratie mole, and when our president tisan buncombe! declared that there must be war, all party lines were forgot in our eager ness to back him. HINGS WE THINK Only a few dayB ago another similar contest took place, and this time the Thing« Other« Think and What We republicans were victorious. Think of the Thing« Other« Think But when the news of the signing of the armistice came, party lines were Mr. Carnegie says u m an’s usefulness again forgot. In the big celebration fust begins at 70." There are too many Monday we were simply Americans, people in this world who don’t get to with the same flag, the same president • • and the same hopes. The members of There are some • wrongs can’t be one party were just as elated as the adequately punished—one that of the most members of the other over the dawn of glaring of these is the untruthful gossip peace. that hurts a woman’s character. • • • • • • And what is it that is uppermost in I t ’s sometimes laughable bow a per son will study the outside of the en our minds now! w hat’s inside. Why, that the boys are coming home. velope to try "to • guess • • If you doubt this, ask any mother An exchange says that the best young who has a boy over there. man in the world lives in Massachusetts Ask the wife who has a husband over and that be has never used tobacco, never touched liquor, never sworn, ana there. THE Q U A L I T Y STORE-COOP s e r v i c e kissed the girls. The paper must Ask the sister who has a brother over never have meant to have said that he bad there. just been buried there. He certainly Ask the children who have a father isn ’t alive. • • • over there. Every person knows that there are a Ask the boys themselves who are lot of siDs that will never be found out. * * • over there. Unwillingly, yet willingly, we bade Anyway the summer her girl way. scatters a them good bye and struggled to keep lot of sunshine • along • * 'ack « the tears. I t ’s hard to warm up to a hot air But when they come home there will peddler. • • • be no need to confine our feelings. out a plan of taking care of A well known author «»ho has had ex There are only two things the m atter I t shows superior will power to be the Working idle poor would be a good job for perience says to beware of grass wid with the cost of living, and those are alile to compel your wife to split and the idle The husband who imprinted a fond, that ows. Hey! rich. who have things to »el! want bring in the wood, but it denotes devel • • • nnd what he thought might be a last, more those opment along wronjj lines. for them and those who have to farewell upon loving and willing lips as bu^y them want to pay less. Easy, isn ’t Lawyers probably show the greatest If a person could command as quick To err is human, and so is criticism, commiseration for thi the sins of the erring. recognition when grown up as he dues h« went away in a soldier’s uniform, Glorious Peace Again C) HE whole world is re joicing over the cessa tion of battle and the beginning of permanent peace. November 11 and the signing of the armistice will remain a mo mentous day in history—a vie tory of Democracy for the world. Right Has Defeated Might ND the world has once more been freed from the grip of autocracy and imperialism. Our troops and the troops of our allies have been gloriously victorious in battle and their sacri fices have not been in vain. Never has there been a greater occasion for ♦ National Thanksgiving 05 \ X N the course of many life times there has not been such a year as this. A year when there has been so much to be thankful for. With the victory of our armies, kaiserism defeated, and the prospect our soldier boys’ home-coming. And over here we have our bit to do, too—for every one of us must stand with the nation to successfully termi nate peace, conserve food, spend without waste, keep our soldier boys smiling by subscribing to the United War Work—in fact “carry on“ until that time when the boys “over there and here” come triumphantly marching home. s when u squawking babe, what a pleas ant old place to hang around in this old world would bo. • • • You may lie brilliant by nature, but never brainy.