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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (Nov. 14, 1918)
mt> Scott fierald LUMINOUS PAINT IN WARFARE. Many Ingenious uses have been found of late for luminous paint. rubll»he>l «very Thursday at I«nl>. Orvton by Watches with dials which glow In the darkness an- becoming common, and A. II. HARKIS. Manager only the other day an order was given Knlerel a» M-eotal cl*«« mail matter Sebra for 100,000 marching compasses with ary u, tala, al the poal oAcaal Unu. Orv»->n luminous needles to be carried by sad under aet of t onur. ». March s 1ST». dlers at the front, says Roys’ Life. dutecripliiui price ■ U..'< ayear,inadvance Immense quantities of luminous cloth are used by the soldiers who go over I'Hoxna: Tanos ÏSM. I> M. the top. It is cut into small rect angles about ten inches long and fas tened to the collar of the uni forms. The soldiers cau thus rec ognize their own men In an Indls- . criminate tight in the «lark. The lu minous paint Is also smcanxl on the | ends of sharpened sticks which when stuck into the ground make a fairly clear beacon. Luminous tape Is also - • - This paper has enlisted used by the mile for a variety of pur- with the government in the poses. In this way the stretcher-bear cause of America for the ers mark th«» paths they are to follow. period of the war............... It has been found that on a dark night the luminous paint Is visible^or only 60 feet. A soldier can dip his hand in CLERGYMEN REMADE. Announcement that the army is still the paint and signal by describing let tn need of chaplains curries its element ters In the air or by wig-wagging, of surprise. One would imagine that knowing that the enemy cannot see the service would be irresistible, pal* him a hundred feet away. ticularly to the young man who has Not long ag«> a jury In San Francisco just completed his studies for the min found a man guilty of murder ami rec istry. There is an experience to be ommended the death penalty. This tn bad In the work that cannot be dupli itself was somewhat remarkable be cated elsewhere. The physician and cause the death penalty appears to surgeon find It so and it is just as true have gone out of fashion in most of the clergyman. Nowhere else can states, but a still more remarkable there be such constant brotherly con thing about the trial was that seven tact between the teacher of morals and women were members of th«» Jury, says religion and his flock. Mutual reli Indianapolis News. They had a ma ance and understanding between min jority and could have brought a dls- ister and the male members of his con agreement, but they readily voted for gregation are in many, many Instances the death penalty. There has been never acquired, says Portland Oregoni considerable comment on this verdict, an. The men may admire his elo as It gave u.e lie to the assertion that quence. his learning, his moral charac women would not make good jurors ter and his earnestness, but when he because of their natural sympathy, steps down from the pulpit and at sentimentalism and emotional quali tempts to talk to them of things not ties, There is ample evidence to prove connected with church or gospel, they that women are no more sentimental find him vapid and uninteresting. than men, especially tn the trial of a Why this Is true need not be gone in case In court. It is argued also that to here, but we think that the more women are no more emotional. successful clergymen recognise that their best work is not all done in the • The crop outlook indicates a harvest pulpit And the successful clergyman of from 800,000.000 to 000.000.000 is one who has, along with learning bushels of wheat. There Is promise and eloquence, an agreeable approach also of large harvests of this cereal In the countries of our allies. The eco and comradely ways. nomic situation is therefore vastly In the early days of quartz gold better than last year. It will be nec mining there ran through the mills essary, however, to make very large countless tons of powdered quartz car shipments of wheat to Europe, as Na rying from 10 to 20 per cent of the tional Food Administrator Herbert C. original gold contents. This waste Hoover explained recently before the was deposited in creek bottoms or in United States Grain corporation In dumps by the water which carried it New York. This is chiefly because of from the mills, but later was worked the greater durability of wheat over over by more thrifty methods and other grains. Corn, of which there yielded millions on the yellow metal. will be a bountiful supply in this It has taken longer to recognize the country, is perishable and Europeans value of a similar waste in coal min are ignorant of the art of making corn ing. but now the hills of dust, the bread. creek bottoms thick with black mud— It is announced that tailors Intend nearly pure coal—are being thriftily rescued. It has taken a war to teach to stop making “cuffs” on trousers. us thrift, but in time the money cost The practice possibly arose from the of the war will be returned to us by fact that so many fashionable young cur practice of hundreds of war-taught men Insisted upon rolling up their trousers when it was raining in Lin methods of saving. don. Trouser cuffs are merely for or namentation, and we men might as The Pennsylvania railroad in June well stop trying to be sarcastic about found places for 1,148 more women em ornamentation by the lovelier sex. ployees on Its lines east of Pittsburgh. This addition makes the number of The government warns against the the road's women employees in non slaughter of heifers and cows, if we are office positions 8,354. This is remark to avoid a meat famine for a hundred able progress toward feminizing the y«»ars to come. Save the cows, boys. great railroad; but feminizhtlon nowa Kill the bulls. Conditions throughout days, in view of womun's proved ca the world Indicate that the bulls are pacity for man’s work, does not carry about to overrun the earth. Every the old signification of the term. country has a surplus. Reduce it Lord Northcliffe. in an article in the Petit Parisien, says: "I have lived both in Germany and the United States, and I believe that America alone could beat the Germans.” And there are about 100,000,000 Americans who agree with this estimate of their fighting capacity, once they get started fairly. DEMAND FOR NEW COINS. Whether or not congress will de- » When Ton Want to Move j ere,» the Issuance of coins of new d«>- nominations will depend, no doubt. Call Tabor 7707 J u | h « u whether It Is convinced that these additions will add to the «ron- vvnieuce of the public or promote thrift, says Portland Oregonian. The proposed slx-cvnt plec-», for example, would result In the saving of some time now consumed iu utuklng change RKR1DKNOK ’ in the purchase of article« which for merly were sold for a nickel and late : »«iFMtaZd.Lo.ts.o«.; ly have advanced 20 per cent. It Is a curious circuinstinice that as money becomes more plentiful the fraction of the cent Increases lu importance« This Is due to the advance tu prices, which has resulted in greater care In buying. There Is not so much to be said for th«» CORD WOOD AND rexlvul of the old two-cent piece. Th«» pennies we now use seem to be equal COUNTRY SLAB to the deutunds upon them, but their coinage ought at least to be Increased. Yard on Foster Road Among the coins formerly In circula tion which have gone out of use Is the in front of Lents Library 20-cent piece. It performed no definite Phone Tabor 7823 mission, and It caused much confute n by belug mistaken for a quarter-dolla It is not proposed to revive It now, for it accomplishes nothing which can The Herald Does All not be performed by two dimes. The Kinds oi Printing.... edx-cent piece and the eighth of a dollar are upon a slightly different plane. HIGH (»RAW SIAPLE AM) FANCY GROL L KIES FETTY’S TRANSFER : and Express Auto Truck ! • IRISH INDUS AM) VtGflABlIS 5N05 92nd Street. S. f. : Phone: labor IMI. OUR MOTTO. TO PI I 4Sß AND SA USPV MMWMaMWWMWMMMWMMMWmnalsMMlakiisaaaisMianasisiM'aUiMMlalairtMkMM' J. H. Bradbury THE PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN who I» miccMsiiil surnaimls hiinwlf with every avallabh nnsh-ru devize for m « Ing his lima sial looney. The burow«" linui w Im fsll» to use an AUTOMATIC I El.- El’ll ON E »imply c I omw I i I m amablialiincnl to lbo«i»ai>il» ol |>o«»il>!e cuztoinvni lie may never know the irai reason for hi» faillira in busim-M*. THINK ITOVER. .1 Ixing; Dixtanee Everywhere CALL A 6221 Home Telephone and Telegraph Company of Portland, Oregon Germany* probably will be a horse less «country after the wnr, for the stock of horses hus been decimated, partly by mllltury operations and part ly for food purposes. It is generally admitted that motorcar transportation will be at least as Important as the railroads of the country in the fu ture, and it is interesting to note how the fuel problem is to be coped with. It Is no secret that German capitalists are ready to grasp control of th«» great Caucasian oil fields of Russia, an«l there is hardly a doubt that this will be one of th«» first things they will at tempt as soon as they get the oppor tunity. Oil is not the only Russian product which they alm at cornering but such plans as these explain the eagerness of the empire's business class to conclude a separate pi»ace with Russia, no longer to be feared In a military war. À The striking Increase In the number of incomes over $250.000 from 1914 to 1916 shows the Justice of war-profits anil graduated Income taxes. The four classes from $3.000 to $15,000. Includ ing the great majority of all taxable incomes, decrease«! in 1915. Next year all classes Increased In number by a total of 100,000; and th«» total Income increase of those below $15,000 was just about equal to the total of In creases above $250.000. Present fig ures may show a like tendency In 1917. It Is to be hoped that that Italian I professor Is right in his claims to | have discovered a definite treatment I for tnb«rrulosls. This war Is doing a j good deal to undo what had been gained in the effort to combat this ; disease—except so far as knowledge ' la concerned—and there will be need j for all the curative ngendes which I can be summoned for control an«! eradl- j cation. Neither age, condition nor sex seems to be a bar to war activities In some j shape or form. Slackers in eith«-r mill- I tary, social or Industrial circles, are the exceptions thnt prove th«- rule. Everybody is willing and nnxlous to : do his or her bit In the individual ef fort to mobilize the Immense resources of the country In every direction. M. Stephane Lnnzanne denies the story that French aviators were per mitted to attend tb funeral of Guyne- The government has contracted with mer within the G< man lines; and his Chinese shipbuilding companb-s to authority is the French government construd four 10,000-ton cargocarriers No such thing ever happened or is for this country, with eight others to likely to happen in this most bitter of follow. In executing these orders all wars. China may get the shipbuilding habit for herself and begin what would be What Is now cnll«»d the antiloaflng a profitable development of her own law is nothing more thnn the old vaga commerce. bondage law with a wider application. Formerly only poor men were prose Americans detailed to the rear to cuted In this fashion. Now the rich work have been borrowing uniforms vagrants will have to account for them from Australian soldiers and going In- selves. to the thick of the fight. The German Th* announcement that three Amer» lean army corps of 250,000 each have been organized may Inspire further levity in the German press, but there they are, and more Americans are ar riving in a constant stream. The Von Ardennes and similar writers may There won’t be nny more “German falsify but they cannot change the silver.” Its trade name has been facts. changed to “nickel silver.” So, If The American sense of fair play is you’ve been refnslng to use any such shown in the cable of General Persh articles on account of patriotism, you ing denying some wild tales of Ger can get ’em out again. man cruelty said to be told over here In a returned soldier’s recruiting The Germans fight as if they are in •peeches. The German command j earnest. So with the French and Eng- would, In the opposite case, gladly ■ llsh. The United States will have to have seized on such tales for the pur fight that way. t«>o. or the war will be pose of exploitation. lost. And the great majority are not fighting that way yet. We can tell by the shape of the ahoes the American girls wear that it The American lists cited for bravery would not be practical for them to go abroad are increasing. We have cause barefooted this summer to serve their to be proud of our boys abroad, nn«l in country, as the German girls are asked turn, they shoul«! be made proud of the to do. It would be a desperate condi way we are backing them up at home. tion that would muke a girl willing to show the shape of her feet after Judging by reports from the battle a year or so of fushionnble footwear. front, an engineer is a man who wields a shovel or a machine gun with equal Exchange remarks profoundly that facility. the way to get 112,000,000,000 for wnr Tobacco rationing would have no costs •la to tax wealth.” And when you come to think of it how in Sam terrors for the man who “only smokes mil could it be got by taxing pov one cigar after meals”—if he really erty? does. LENTS MERCANTILE COMPANY L ' . , ’ ' | | generals, convinced with the kaiser that the Americans wouldn't fight, might take notice that deserting to the front is a peculiarly American mil- i Itary fault So the government Is going to sp«»n<! something like $156,(XM),000 more thnn it was asked to spend to put In shape the railroads It took over. More and more it becomes evident that it was a I good thing for the railroads that the I government decided to run them. Another trouble about war is that it develops a gouging propensity that i makes no distinction between the I friend an«l the enemy, except thnt the 1 friends are gouged more persistently on account of their superior accessi bility. Doctor Hirschberg says the food shoul«! be chewed until It is as soft nnd sweet as molasses. Undertake to do that at our boarding house and the boarders would clean the table before con had masticated the first mouthful, doc. 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