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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 25, 1918)
111t. Scott herald Published Kvvry Thursday al Lenta. Oregon by A. H H KRRIS. Manag r Entere I aa seeoa l * * claa mail matter Febru ary 14. M»I4. at the post office at la nla.Oregon, * under act o( Cent re *», Mandi 3 U»79. ituhacripUon price • 41 > a year, tn advance I woman Ti**« tkh . I» tk - - - Thu paper has enlisted with the government in the cause of America for the period of the war............. CANADA IN THE WAR. How many soldiers has Cnnada fur nished? The question has been asked many times during the past four years. It has not been difficult to answer ap proximately from visible evidence on the battle fronts, and in the training camps over the bonier. But for some reason the Dominion government has not made an official statement about it until now. Canada's contribution to the fighting forces, at the end of June last, amounted to 456.566 men. Of this number 383.-123 wen- overseas, m<»st of the units being on the west front, says Providence Journal. The maxi mum effort was in the year 1916. when 165.553 crossed the ocean. Consider ing that the Canadians were at the front in large numbers when battles that worked havoc In the entente ranks were being fought, it Is not surprising that the aggregate of casualties Is heavy—159.084. fully one-third of all the fore's and more than 40 per «»nt of those actually in the field. The dead alone number 42.819. more than 10 per cent of the forces in the field. It is customary to consider a casualty list of 10 per cent embracing killed, wounded and missing, as virtually de stroying the fighting capacity of the unit that suffers it until the losses can be made up. Canada's army has lost more than .90 per cent, and by killed alone has been decimated. We have a right to glory in the mag- Uificent spirit of our men at the front. But we owe it to them to understand what they are doing, not to go into hysterics over it. says Chicago Trit» une. Soldiers are already writing home to say. “Don't exaggerate what we are doing.” To our brave men nothing could be more distasteful than to ex pose them to the disregard of their vet eran comrades by blowing almut them in the fashion said to be Atnerb-an. The splendid fighting they have just done needs no oratory to advertise it. We can glory in it intelligently, anil that means that we shall let no flag- waving demagogue fill us with pot son gas for his own profit. A BIT OF FINANCIAL HISTORY. The credit of the United State« »n« eo high and unqueationahle that tn 1000. two years after the Spanish war. 2 per cent bonds were offered at par and oversubscribed. This Is a financial performance no other nation has ever equaled. United States 4 per cent bonds in 1888 sold as high ns 11)0 and in 1901 brought 139 a on the stock market. The United States has never defaulted on any of its bonds. Not one of Its bondholders has ever last a cent of principal or Interest except those who voluntarily have taken losses by selling their bonds In a period of temporary price depression, says Banker's Mouthly. One hundred cents on the dollar, principal and interest, has the United States always paid. Back of the $250,000.000.000 to $300.- 000.000.000 of our national resources stands the nigged honesty of America Liberty loan bonds are the safest se curity in the world. U. S. Grant, great-grandson of the famous Union general, recently sewed two little chevrons on his private’s blouse when he was made a corporal in the One Hundred and Second am munition train of the Twenty-sixth di vision. U. 8. A.. Spartanburg. S. C. His grandfather was Gen. Frederick Dent Grant and his father another U. S. Grant, who nerved as an aide to Colonel Roosevelt in the Spanish-Amer ican war. Corporal Grant Is a Har vard graduate and was employed by a Wall street house when the war start ed. He enlisted In the Seventh New York and was later, transferred. At the moment of the announcement of his promotion he was driving an army truck. From all accounts It does not appear that young Gnjnt desires to benefit by “pull.” says Christian Science Monitor. It is very evident that he has not benefited by It so far. physical feat and a military strata gem. Can the Prussian mind conceive of flying 800 miles at an elevation of 15,000 feet merely to bombard an en emy city with paper manifestoes? Not a house was wrecked nor a child kill ed, and the fact gives the Viennese something to think of which is of se rious moment to Berlin. In time men will stop estimating the Importance and greatness of cities by the number of people who live In them. You might as well enumerate the rats, cockroaches and bedbugs as some of the two-legged city things that are catalogued under the head of folks. Many chaplains with the allied forces in France make it a point of writing to the parents or relations of every man killed in action in their bri gade, a labor of love which Is richly rewarded by the consolation it brings to the afflicted. A distinguished Russian visitor told the Seattle Post-Int< lllgencer that the easiest language to master Is the Eng lish. Maybe so, but hobod * can say that about the American language. There are aged men in this country who have studied both English and Work will not correct all the defects American all their lives and don’t of human character, but our statisti know yet what “Atta boy!” means. cians have figured it out that not one man in a thousand who puts in a full Doctor Hirschberg says poison ivy is day six days a week will he very apt peculiar more to the southern states to steal anything more serious thac a than elsewhere. If the Doc had ever watermelon. wandered around in the brush any where from New England to Minnesota “Save food by eating potatoes,” ad without looking where he was going vises a contemporary, which really he would know better than that. means save food by eating food. Head Don’t make a hero out of a boy who merely does his duly. It is better to fan the seat of his pants off if be doesn't. The hero is the chap who steps beyond the confines of duty and strives courageously and nobly in an altitude of unselfishness. ings are sometimes wise and some times otherwise. Lambs have made a new record j price in the stock market. But, then, as we have said on other like orca- ! slons. there is no law that requires us: to eat lamb. Even End of Hostilities Would Not Change This. Though the war should cease Im mediately it is said that every cent of the $170,500,009 sought in the United War Work campalgu in th« Uuited States, for the seveu approved organ Hations ministering to the Auierleau fighters, will be needed just the same Thia is the word of leaders of the fund raising campaign and their ex planation is easily comprehended. In the first place. It has been officially estimated that IS mouths to two years must elapse before all the American boys - can be returned from foreign soli. There are the mon of tunny other countries to be transported home when the war ends, so the number of boats for use of the Yankees will be limited Then there Is also the fact that thou sands must remain so long aa the great properties and store * of the United States have not ben di p< cd of or returned. Immediate cessation of war actlvl ties in Europ«' would plainly create grave problems connected with the care of the men. Remove the great motive which actuates every man at the front today and throw him Into dull Inactivity, wi h nothing much to do but await his chance to return to home and loved ones, and the work of keeping him cheerful increases tn tuag nitude. The soldie.' welfare orgunlzu tions foresee all phase« of this grave contingency. They foresee how great would be the need 1 >r reading matter, entertainments, an isemen i. recrea tion and the cheery personal touch. WARNS OF PUBLICITY LENTS MlKGANTILt COMPANY ; HIGH (RADI SIAI’II AND IANCY GROURItS FETTY’S TRANSFER î IRISH t Kill IS AND VI GIUDI IS and Express Auto Track ; 5H05 92nd Street. S. t. ; Phone: labor IMI. ; RESIDENCE OIR MOTTO: 9436 Foster Rd. Lents, Ore. ; TO PI t: 4Sf! A VO 3ATISPY L IMMMMW ■ J. H. Bradbury THE PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN who is •iice.-wdql surrounds liiinscll with every avsilnl'l * * mtMler tievisr for saving his lime and money. Tlw business man who fails t«> iiar an AUTOMATIC TEI. F,I'll! IN E .imply clows his waablisliinent tn thousands of ptiaaibl * customers Hr may never know the leal reason for Ills failure in liusinM *. THINK IT OVER. CORD WOOD AND COUNTRY SLAB Yard on Foster Road in front of lA *nts Library Phone Tabor 7823 ¡»ng Distance Everywhere CALL A 6221 Home Telephone and Telegraph Company of Portland, Oregon RAINY DAY.S Come to everybody. Life has more ups and downs. Right now, while you are making, you ought to be saving; then when the downs come you will have something to fall back on. Where is the money you have been earning all these years? You spent it and somebody else put it in the bank. Why don’t you put your money in the bank for yourself why let the other save what you earn? GERMAN Germany’s efforts to Involve th»' United States and her Alite« Into a consideration of peace terms und an armistice did not Impress jam'« F. Pershing, brother of General l*> rshing. as being sincere and designed to give the world what it Is praying for Mr Pershing, who was in Oregon recently in the interest of the United War Work drive, which opens November 11. cau tioned the American people against the too-comnion tendency to become apathetic under the Idea that peace and the cessation of hostilities are at hand. "When heaven is ready to negotiate with hell,” he declared, "then will America be ready to make peace with Germany." He told of the great work being done tn Europe by the Y. M. C. A., Knights of Columbus. Salvation Army and other agencies, and called on Americans to respond lite rally In supporting the campaign about to open for raising money with which to carry on these activities. Movie managers want a 15-cent piece to facilitate making change. Before setting the mints to work on the pro posed new coin, perhaps movie patrons could be Induced to have the exact change ready. Certainly an Indulgent public is not disposed to see the mana gers of its favorite amusement sub jected to any such serious Inconveni ence as nickels and dimes upia-ar to cause them. Prince Uchnowsky, former German ambassador to London, whose private memorandum, recently published, put the onus of beginning the war on Ger- many, is now a prisoner, with no es- pecially cheerful prospect. Telling the truth is an offense of iese majesty of so deep a dye that it ranks among the The frequent fatalities reported from unforgivable crimes in the eyes of the th< airplane training camps of the Hohenzolkrns. country have given to some people the Rectors who cannot tolerate the flng. impression that personal careh sness and faulty construction have prevailed professors of sociology who refuse to to an inexcusable extent. But the accept the restraints of the law and fucts now given out tend to modify conscientious objectors who would such a Judgment(greatly. It hns failed rather go to prison than to war are to take into account the large num queer products of present conditions. bers of men engaged and the extraor That Is, they are queer unl<-ss we ac dinary measure of their combined ef cept them as more or less conscious fort A world's record for safety in disciples of German propaganda. air training for war is established that This is a war of nations, not of from September 1 last year to July 20 this year there has been but one fa armies, and the man w ho <loe* his full duty at home serves his country no tality to every 3.300 hours of flying. leas truly than the most heroic soldier, • The more the 800-mlle flight of with the added burden of never being d'Annunzlo’s airplane squadron to kissed with the utmost abandon by Vienna and back Is considered the anyone outside of the immediate more remarkable It seems both as a family. UNITED WAS FUND SURE TO BE NEEDED PERSHING Some ornamental barberry bushes do not harbor the rust that injures wheat and other cereals. The danger comes when the bad barberry is plant ed in place of the benign variety. Gar den Director Prost of the Illinois state council of defense advises against planting the common or green bar berry or the purple leaved barberry. These two varieties should be eradi cated. The low spreading Japanese barberry is harmless. I BL 1.NDEPLNDI.NI AND START A BANK ACCOUNT WITH MULNOMAH STATE BANK Lents Static n Portland, Oregon ---------------------- GENERAL PERSHING MODEST MAN d ; j , | j 1 “All that General Pershing wants I now is the success ot the American' boys In France, and to avoid, so far as possible, any glory for himself,” | declared James F. Pershing, brother of America's leader in the field, in an ( address delivered in Portland recently ' In behalf of the United War Work drive, which opens November 11. The j speaker paid a tribute to the men in the ranks, and gave his audience an idea of the high esteem In which the boys are held by their commander. , He showed the importance of war, work in this country as an imperative 1 necessity to the victory of the Allies ; in the battles for Democracy, and, urged that no dimunition in speed be | allowed to result through recent peace 1 proposals. Unqualified indorsement ' of the United War Work drive was ■ voiced by Mr. Pershing who Is one of the leading authorities on conditions now existing along the battlefront, and he was especially desirous that there be no relaxation of efforts io behalf of the several war work funds. Best Big Sisters. The T. W C. A. is known as "The Best Big Sister in the World.” Of the $170,500,000 to be raised in the United War Work Campaign $15,000,000 will go to the work of this organization. Hospitality to the fighting man and to his visiting friends, is the motto i of the War Community Service, s mighty necessary thing. f - “CARRY ON,” 18 CRY OFFICIAL — The caution Issued recently in Portland by James F. Pershing, brother of General Pershing, against relaxation of war work activities, has been echoed in messages issued by departmental heads In Washington. D. C., copies of which were sent to Executive Secretary John Kol lock, of the Oregon State Council of Defense. "Carry on” is the theme of those telegrams, whose senders felt the German peace proposals might interfere with campaign plans just formulated. Consequently, the United War Work drive, which opens Novem , ber 11, will be conducted with even more vi^pr than had Ger many not sought to bring about peace on her own terms. The departmental heads, as well as Mr. Pershing, emphasize the need of continued activities by the several affiliated organize tions participating in the drive, even after hostilities have team i' I The Hard Months for your Battery are Just Ahead • T?ALL Touring Season has come around again, on top of ail the mile age you ran up during the summer. Have you given your battery the benefit of regular inspection? Better drive around today for our Free Inspection Give the battery every chance to make good, especially durirg the next few month * when lights go on early and its pretty sharp of mornings. Neglect kill * a battery quick | —even a Gould—and nobody wants to waste battery materials or anything else these days. Try our Square-Deal Repair Servire any battery regard- Ini of muke. LENTS GARAGE J