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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 13, 1917)
I. Cl p 1 c i I I 1 I PACK TWO ONTARIO, MALHEUR COUNTY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13, 1917 Ij? Gihttarut Argua (Established 189S.) GEO. K. AIKEN, Editor and Publisher. Published Thursdays at Ontario, Oregon, and entered at the Ontario post office for distribution as 2nd class matter. "SUBSCRIPTIONS; One year $1.50. Six months $1 .(. Three months GOc. Single y 5c. The Pledge. T pledge my allegiance to My Flag and to the Republic for which it stands; one nation, indivisible, with liber ty and justice for all. "P wr-PrW""""" I advancement of uiilitnrv needs. That being the ease private eapital will not be available for private investment, nor will it be at liberty to seek an open market. Even the adoption of such a law would imt effect government aid for the Wann- spriugs. This project, oomes directly under the classification ot those enterprises wliicii are of a military necessity. Ike addition of the 18.000 acres of new land which the com pletion of the project would make amiable would materially increase the supply of fond for this section "and thus MTV I Sued ftt puriMse. - i j uim i - ' ' u i ii DISPELLING AN ILLUSION f Sergeant Doc Wells did nothing else vliil, In Ontario last sreek he certainly dis pelled t Ik- illusion thai many Americans. particularly thn i- of German birth or Ger man parentage, have long maintained oon eerning German and the German people of today. ,i recruiting agent for l Dele Sam Doc Wells is i rtaiulj winner for hundreds of i tin m- Ives keyed tight in the inhuman wretches thin the speaker related. , hut one of the faculties of sincerity, he did pose see thai to BU !i U thai his audience for .led milld and einn- . of bis harrowing expert- i i ri ii, vim heard him, picture i was pictured in the story i , r ine covered castles perched ii,, hank- of beautiful riven. A land where under the dimtioii of Knightly N'nlili s. peasants weul to their daily work in the fields -iii-mu lolk songs set to music m the masti is tin ii nation produced in the ecu lories past The In nm of hate has done its work. But it alone is uol to blame. The philosophy that Germans has wooed the past hulf eeutury was not that of love. It was a religion of conceit, a worship of self, a mognHwd ob Bccssioii for power. This has been so thoroll taught the Ger mans ol all tdasaes bj the .Junkers that they bate with a consuming hatred those who op pose their march to power. They seem to think that it a-the dut of thc"'svinc." as they esll the allies, t,- lie down that they might i" honored bj being trampled on by ( ii iiiian feet. The teachings of Hegel, Keitche, Treit ashke, Bernhardt and their followers snp planted the song of the peasant, and pre pared him for the hymn of hate which with ilirreasing loss of her Soldiers destroyed the last vesta-e of Christianity and civilization from the laud and left barbarism to reign - I I 1 I i llll That is the kind of iwople we are htillg today. The horrors they havi mmitted In the name of "mv, it " pall Umii the lips. The blood boils to think of them and the eye teei red. It is nu wonder that the American people ,an not ler itt anyone who; with per hap-, the ul.a of the old Oerinuny. the tier ,,,,-,, iv f i,l, ,1- of II i i ii-. of tie,, the. Of the i :. M., i, - in his mind: expresses the li lit, -t s inpathv for th in. I'h' American people do not sympathise with halo murderers, The do uot condone the rape ,-f Belgium. No plea of is cessit; ,-an le eiiteitained. ici many ' primes against hunumity are the nation's crimes. 1'h. are not the acts of individual soldier who' violated orders. They sre the coldly call iilated set of a people determined to im press their 'kultuie" on the world. Surely in the fa. . "I the i . iilenee of one who not ,uilv saw but in himself experienced ex ampls of the alioeioits acts .,!' eCriiians no one esu longer have In his heart anything but the most profound loathing for even the word German. MtMM A MILITARY NECESSITY v...., ti,,o til., lioiilowners under the annspriugs have ilettidtel lUjtermined on seeking government sid there is but one thing to do, gi i that aid. There is now no chance for a private bond sale that any man in Ins senses would consider. And it is alto gether t i k 1 that Congress will take The authoi it of limiting bond issues Einiu ,.llt ;U,h, dee the advanced (tositiuu tie.t no l.oii.U in issued ssve for purpses SAVING FOOD IS A NECESSITY Announcement has been made that the United States has already sent to the allies the full surolns of wheat and meat over the ni'rliiiiirv eoiisinnotion diiriuir times of ocaee. It is therefore evident that every pound m wheat, ever' hiiiikii meat mat is sent irom the I'nited States from now until the next crop is harvested is a pound of wheat saved. Of a pound of meat which some American has denied luniselt or herself that those wlm With the food suoolv of the nation at such a Mint there is an insistent demand for food for the armies of the allies, as well as for American soldiers, steps should immedi ately be taken to curb the food hogs in America. There are some such in Ontario who should be made to feel the effect of gOV- ernmeiital supervision. Sue iiversatnuial patriots slioiilU he r.n-ced to take their chances with everyone else in the distribution of the necessities of it'.. The man with a million IS no more en titled to be fed than the man with a dollar. Moth are Americans, no more and no less. There is evidence sufficient extant to show that Uncle Sam is treat inc. the food problem just that way and the rich as well as the poor will have their food cards unless In voluntary actiou the people accept the situation and patriotically give their eo- tpcration in saving food now. THE ALLIES GIFT TO CHRISTENDOM authorised bj Cou md needed for the ly appropriate. After more thau 1200 years Jerusalem, is in the hands of Christians. It is the allies rift in Christianity for Christmas 1917 and millions of devoted followers, and those who barely proteased belief in The Saviour's teachings will rejoice. The capture of Jerusalem is but another of the strange outcomes of the war. When the conflict began in 1914 Great Hritiau en- deavred in vain to localize it to the Halkin i. linsnlii hut (ti rinanv would Hot listen to i" --- , - such a proposal for she dreamed of hei em pire from Autsrrup to tue reman unii. During the early stages of the war its hor rors were fax from the Holy Land, and few indeed speculated that ill the course of events the Turks would be driven from it. To the student of history the fall of tin -acred city has more than passing interest. For its release from the impossible Turk thousands of lives have been iked. Some of the most inspiring acts of Knightly hcorisui were iM-rfonucd bv the Crusaders who sought to wiu the Holy (trail. Indeed one of the atraiigesl things anoiu flu- whole age long struggle for possession til- Citv of The Master is the fact that it has fallen in a war started l the German a de scendants of the people who saw thousands ..... I l... V In. .. of ellinirell lliarcil on uvci wic .i--. ... stniggle and die in a fanatical attempt to win the ll.'U City. MIIMt MAKE IT A RED CROSS CHRISTMAS If 1 had. had, one more bandage. iu arm would hav. beeu saved." said Sergeant Wells to Outarians the other night in his admonition to them to help the Red Cross Think of the sigiuncanee ot that remark Next year, or next mouth the hoy lying In No Man's Laud may le an Ontario boy. Will vou have a bandage there for liimf You can help to by joining the Ued Cross or asking some one ewe to join. Speaking about climate have you noticed the variety that Ontario has enjoyed during the past mouth. Tins shirtsleeve weather i vastly different from the brand that is being used "back East." SSJ in Minnesota, from whuh so many Ontarians come. No doubt the Gophers have noticed it. Hut rather than have them over look it the ArgUS jus! nun t ions it. Ontario and tin Snake River Valley bj -..iiil; to have another opMrtunity to demon ute that it- heait is right in the war. The ( Hiristmas drive of the Red Cross is peeuli Cutting the "Eat" Out of Wheat. Meat and Sweet j . i.u:- t,m.i iiMfiiiirntliirKtiilliiSlif Kvetl if Are you aoing iuibi c 'ft""f. ., done to a considerable extent it is but a small HwrWce. Lett. . W consider the requests of Food Administration Omcisls than cr.at, the necessity of food card distribution. It is much easier to prac tice self-restraint than to have restraint placed upon us. Its up to those who are in daily contact with the consumers to promo e the substitution of those commodities of which we have S liberal sup ply for those that we arc Urged to use sparingly. We suggest tin Following SS substitutes: CannedFisl.es for Meat. Syrups, in place of SUgsr. Graham, in place of VY bite E lour. WILSON BROS. THFCKOt'KUS . 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