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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Dec. 26, 1918)
TMK MM IH.,1 . OKTA1UO. IMW fSl'HMW, I.H " "" gfftr (jfrntarui Argi GEO. K.AIKEN, Editor mid Publislin- Published Thursdays at Ontario, On wii, and entered at the Ontario post ofthr for tiatribution as 2nd class matter. SUBSCRIPTIONS 0' V'"1' lf)) A HAPPY NEW YEAR That 11)19 should Indeed ! h liappj new vear. to practically even American blest with good health is possible. There ex iats rvt-rv ivnsoti for looking forward with pltamnble anticipation to what is to come within fcfaa next L. months. Never has there been greater rntise for such anticipation In em comnuuiitv families will lr looking forward with pleasure for the re turn of hovs who. "went over there" to do th,.ir iiRi-t in the irreat stniinsle for freedom. To them the year will be a blessed one mark illtf the reunitinflLof severed ties. It mav well he a happj one for those whose sons will not conic back. Parents, particularly of those who died on foreign fields should be proud of their supreme Mr rifice. They fare far greater rifta than those who are perhaps more loudly ac claimed. While they rejoice with the moth crs and fathers of returned soldiers and lour. for their loved ones, may their pride in theii on, and the knowledge that he died scrying a cause, than whieh no more righteous one ere primed the rihVs of a noble army, nor on which justice never breathed a bleaaiUfi more divine ussunge than grief. The coming year will try thoroughly the geniui of the American people to mas ter the difficult problems of reeonatruction There will be many changes in all the as pects and activities of life. This is alread presaged in discussions on every hand. The war has taught n distinct lesson in civil government. It has demonstrated that the old idea of antagonism of interest is harmful to the promotion of the best re sult. It has shown that by community of interests the welfare of the nation con best be tnarded. That with lahor and capital working together on a definite program there is no task too great for the ability of Americans to perform. What the lesson has taught is good for war conditions will be accepted as good, to a large degree, at least, for eace. .Inst how for tlie change is social thot will go is a ques tion. There will be no curbing of individual initiative, for that was unneressary during war times. But there will be an imposition of regulation, in some form upon great in dustries so as to promote social justice. There is no denying that the American people are not ready to adopt government ownership of all utilities. The management of the railroads, tho necessary under war conditions . has not brot about a demand for state socialism as the fixed policy (f the government The working out of these problems to gether with the absorption back into private life of three million men who have been mi der ami for nearly a year; the readjust meat of the educational system of the coun try to keep step with the facts presented by war the assumption of America of a place in the concert of world powers, all these things with the many complex prob lems they present, most of which must la determined by the people themselves, indi cate that the coming year will not drat; weurismne thru its cycle. HMaVM THEY ARE COMING HOME Two years ago the sight of an Aineri can army uniform in nearly every small town in America would have attracted a mob. It would have been found, perhaps, that the man wearing it was the son of a home town family7' who had probably joined the army over parental objections. and all that sort of thing. Today conditions have changed. The sight of a uniform is common. The streets of Ontario have duriug the past week been filled with men and boys in uniform And those boys donned that narl to serve p great cause. They deserve the considera tion of the people. But, what bus been done to assure these boys that they will find em ployment nowt We have heard a great deal of talk about what we must do for the soldier boys, all of which is well and good, but nothing has been done. Our acts are not squaring with our words. Of course in this section, at this tunc. it is hard to find places for those who need them, but a job six months from now will not take the khaki clad boys thru the win ter. There are a number of men recent 1 d'sclnr"!';' fn m '' ' ' of work. Is there nothing that can be done now to supply that need I KSffl BSS1 GSB MONEY WELL SPENT Two of the boys who recently returned from camps in the Kast bring with them tributes to the work of the Red Cross, the V. l. A., the K. oft1., the. Jewish Welfare Hoard and others of the war dervicc organi zations. It will do those who gave liberally to these organizations good to know that the bovs praise them highly. As one of them put it: "Every eein given to any of these organizations was the best money any fellow ever spent." To illustrate what the Wed Cross mean to these boys recently this one incident may be recerded: as tohi by LaRlie Hlackaby. "1 was one of eight fellows who left Camp Taylor for Oregon, and six of the party, thru a mistake in the office had re ceived only $1.05 each for traveling expen ses, from liOtiisville, Kentucky, to Kugene, Ore. Rather than wait for an uncertain time until the mistake could he corrected they came on. "At Chicago, and eiiroiite to that city, the lied Cross canteens fed 111 all: and at !hiqago after giving us a meal they gave us tickets to (J rand Opera and to vaudeville performances. Then when we left Chicago I the boys who were short of funds were given lunches for the train and these togeth n with meals served by other canteens served to carry them across the continent "If it had not been for the Red Cms these fellows would have been 'out of mekV Sam Cretn who returned from Camp Devens, Massachusetts, tells of similar e. perieiiees he witnessed crossing the coiiti Bent, and also how while the hoys arc stand ing in line for hours to receive their dis charge papers Ucd Cross workers journeyed out from Boston fed them, from Hie truck loads of food brot out every da . "It is certainly great," says Mr. Crei in "the way in which the people nave treated the men in uniform." Those who aided in any way in 1 1 1 i expression of help for the soldier hoys has cause for pride and joy. Those who did not. well, they have missed something in their lives that they can never secure. We feel sorry for thorn. CSB3S WQI QVSS "THE LAW'S DELAYS" The question which is forever preset t ing itself for solutien: "How Mav Justice He Expcdiated," is again before the bar of the state for consideration. Far be it for a mere Layman to discuss: with authority the intangible machinery -l the bench and bar. but it seems that anyone may do so since the members of the prof ion themselves, apparently are at sea in tb"ir efforts to find a remedl Judge Helt of Hood River, in a letter t the Orcgnliiaii suggests that a large por tioli of the delays are due to the present method of selecting juries, which permit th lawyen to use this method to display their wit, and serves no other purpose, lie would have the prospective jurors questioned l Court, and have him decide as to their lit aaas. Of course the lawyers will object t ! that, some times, the Judge is as prejudiced as the attorney, and is prone, at tiiu- n have preconceived notions as to the guilt or innocence of defendants. Then the state Bar association has n program which calls f,,i- reforms in the Su preine Court by adding additional inembi I to the Supreme bench, to assist thejtew overl burdened mctlllM-rs. The State Bar rejected the proMisal to call into service of the Sn preme Court thjee Circuit Judges at i term. All these suggestions of the law ei in i have to do with Rases that have Ana lb reached the courts for adjustment Thi only t. niches the outside of the "law's .1, lays." It is perhaps true that not halt a much delay is experienced alter a cose final ly gets determined as in getting it past its first trial. And this fault dues not lie with the courts, as a rule, tho in some cases it might. In every lawyer's office in the laud there are many cases pending from one term of court to another, which have heen p poned for a multitude of reasons, main of which originate with the representatives of contending parties. Inability to get wit uesses, the intervention of more important cases, so far as different attorneys are con cerned, these and other reasons serve to de lay litigation and the enactment of justice so far as the public is concerned. U. S. HEALTH SERVICE ISSUES WARNING Increase in All Respiratory Dis eases After the Influenza Epidemio Probable. . Influr ni Expaotad te Lurk for Month. How to Guard Agalnet Pneumonia. Common Cold Highly Catching lm poruncoof Suitable Clothing Could , 8.iv" 100,000 Uvea. k-lllHSHa. D. a With theautmld nv of the tM(U'inlc f Inllncnra the Bent loo of health officer I directed to uiiintiln, bronrhltl and other fteaecg of the renlrntory ay I wli h ii'Kiilnrly nue large iihhiImt of .', Him. eaurclally during tin-winter gSaaoii .Wording to ltu..-ii Mine, Bin,'. n Ocncrnl of the United states Puhllc llinllli Service, these ,II,M , will I eaueclHlly prevalent tlila win ter niileaa I lit- people are oartlriiluily can nil to ohey health Instruction. 'I'lii' present epidemic," oald Bur geon Oenorml nine. "Su taught by bit ter iierleiiee how readily a condition beginning apparently n a alight cold mm go on to pneumonia and death. Kit hough tho worat of the epidemic la o, i there will continue to he a large amber of scattered ease, many of them mild and unrecognized, which Will he danger aiMita to he guarded ggnlnsl " The Surgeon llenernl likened the present situation to that after great lire, Raying, "No fire chief who nti'h'iitlnndu hli huslncas atopa playing the hoe op the charred dehrla aa aoon Hie (lumen and visible lire have dla ai'i'cnrtil. On the contrary, he eon Hnuea the water for horn and even da mi. for he know that there la dan ger of ihe (Ire rekindling from amol oVrlng emhera." "Then j on fear another outbreak of Infliicnxa?" he waa aaked "Noi neoea BnrllN another large epidemic," aald the Surgeon Ccneral, "lint unleaa the people learn to realise the seriousness of the danger (hey will lie compelled to pay a heavy death toll from pneumo Dla and oilier reaplratory dlwaaea. Common Cold Highly Catching. "It la eiicmiraglng to ohaerve that people are beginning to learn that or Binary cough and cold are highly catililng and ar spread from person to permm by mean of droplet of germ laden miiciia. Such droplet ar ap rayed into the air when rarolcaa or Ignorant people cough or aueeze with out covering their mouth and mate. It I also good to know that people bav letiilied Houietlilng about the alue of freah air In aummer, when people ar largely out of door, the reaplra tory dlaenae (cougha. cold, pneumo nl. etc.) are Infrequent ; In the fall, a people begin to remain Indoors, the reaplratory dlaeasea Increase; In the whiter, when people are prone to stay In hadly eutlluteil, overheated' room the reaplrutory illseiiaee liegome very prevalent. Suitable Clothing Important "Still another factor in the produc tion of colda, pneumonia and other r aplrntory dlw-uaea I careJeasnaas or Ig norance of the people regarding lult abl clothing during the aeaaona when the weather auddviily chnngca, aiding In warm room too heavily grossed or, what la even more common, eeclally among women, dreaalng so lightly thut window are kept closed In order to be comfortably warm. Tbla la a vary In jurious practice. Could Sav 100,000 Llva. "I lni!ew we could eaally aava on hundred thoiiaaud Uvea annually In the United Slate If all the people would adopt the ayateio of freah air living followed, for example, lo tuber culoid auuatoria. There la nothlug myaterluuM about It no ipecldc medl elll fill kill.. Ilk.. 'I'll.. Ilnluirluiil lk,ll, i right Hvlng, good food and plenty of freh air. Droplet Inftction taplalnad In Clotures. "The Hureau of Public Health, Treasury lertiuent, haa nt laaued a atrlklng poster drawn by Herrymau, the well knowu Washington cartoonist. The poster exeinpllOv the modern nuiiioil of health education. A few years ago, under similar circumstances, the health aillhorllles would Mbv Is sued an official dry but scientittcally accurate bulletin teuehliig lie role of droplet Infection In the spread of re spiratory disease. The only one who would hae understood the bulletlu would have been those who already knew all about the aubjoct The mau in the street, ihe plain eltlien and the many millions who loll for their living would hse hud go time and no desire lo whiIc Ihioiigh the technical phraseology," USE THE HAMnW7IVii.. , fOLIC rue mof The Arirus wishes all its rtaden a Ha1 COLAS. INtlUCNZA. PNEUaKMUA, AMD itasCTcunan am stiuao tub way t'opiea f tbla poster can be o taioeil tree of charge by writing to the Kurreon tleneral, V 8. I'nbllc lleeat We Wish You a Happy New Year! AL. 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