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mt. Scon herald rubllabwt Kvary TtniraAay at tanu. Orv«on by A. H. HARRIS. Manager Unterei •> aecoi»l flau mail mailer Fvliru ary U, tal», at the pont office al Lent». Oregon under act of Con«rean. March 1 ISTM aubaerii'Oon price • U Ao a fear. In advance • * * This paper has enlisted with the government in the cause of America for the period of the war............ .. LUDENDORFF LEANS ON A REED Field Marshal Ludendorff, thorough ly Prussian, dismisses America as a factor in the ultimate decision of the war. In doing so he pits the German “will to win" against the “will to an nihilate'* of the allies and reckons on the Instability of the Americans! This attitude is so typical of the entire course of junkerdom that it might be dismissed without serious or extensive consideration. The military leaders of Germany planned to avoid any inter ference in the war on the part of America, to be accomplished by fac tional divisions among our people, says Omaha Bee. This failed, but Its fail ure has taught the Potsdam plotters no lesson. In their purblindness they cannot conceive, much less compre hend. the spirit that has brought us Into the war. Materialists in all they do, they have no thought of fighting to sustain an ideal and refuse to credit Americans with having entered the conflict for any reason more noble or worthy than the sordid considerations that animate the Germans. In meas uring his opponents by his own stand ard, Ludendorff is preparing for even greater disappointment than he has yet endured. He is leaning on a reed when he banks on success to be achieved by reason of failure of Amer icans to be steadfast In the great job. THE RUSSIAN SITUATION. Russia must be brought to know that true liberty puts upon Itself rigid alf-reatralnta. The real posses;. >r of freedom is the one who makes a con scientious use of It. says Providence Journal. It Is in the most highly de- veloped form of society—where we might expect the least trammels— that the most trammels are self-im posed. Consciousness of power rouses in any right-thinking man the-desire to employ it sparingly. It to the yel low-streaked mind that lends itself to selfish schemes of aggression. The bolshevik! are political parvenuea. They have had no experience In gov erning themselves or anybody else. They are carried away with the idea that liberty is a gift from the gods, by virtue of which they may rule their unhappy * neighbors with blood and Iron. They are as crude aud danger- ous as n small boy with a buu-saw. We can only hope that out of this tangle of theories, this welter of suf fi ring, peace and order will eventually arise. Surely the Insanity of the pres ent lawless processes cannot go ou for ever. From where the helping hand, the guidance of experience and wis dom Is to come, It is not yet possible to see. But somehow the hapless Rus sian people must and will be saved from their worse selves. From the western front the shortest route to Berlin lie» through Belgium, crosses the Rhine at Cologne and con tinues north via Minden. Hanover and Spandau. The wear and tear of war doubtless has deteriorated the road bed and the rolling stock. It will be a long, hard road to travel. There is another and shorter road to the capi tal of the German empire. It Iles In a straight line through the air. A man on a suburban train was discussing the war. “I wish.” he said, raising Ids voice, “that a thousand American bombing planes were going to drop bombs on Berlin at two o’clock tomor row afternoon." The whole car stirred. A thrill passed through everyone at the very thought The road to Berlin lies through the air. Any afternoon at two o’clock that a thousand Ameri can bombing planes drop bombs on Berlin, that afternoon at three o'clock the war will be over, says New York Herald. The bomb fest that will end the war to not as near as It should be. But It Is coming, and the German high command knows It. When It Is over, It Is cheering to learn from the the waves above the Lusitania will department of agriculture that In Au cease shrilling for vengeance and will gust there was an Improvement tn gently murmur "Peace.” spring wheat to an extent which will The kaiser’s remarkable address to add 21,000,000 bushels to the crop. This will make a spring ■yheat harvest the Krupp workmen at Essen speaks of 843,000,000 bushels, or a total wheat of his death-defying navy and of Its harvest of 860.000,oCO. This is 10L- beating the enemy, but falls to ex 000,000 bushels below the expectation plain why In face of a victory It scur That he left no last spring, but it is a pretty big pro ried back to port duction. just the same, says Buffalo stone unturned tn shorten the war Expregs. The wheat situation Is bet may be true from his point of view, ter than it has been for two yearn, but but it was only when he found the nothing like the free use of wheat can war going against him. It Is signifi be expected before the end of the war. cant also that he says, “you and tne,' With the encouraging wheat report instead of “me and yon," and that he we have a discouraging corn report— takes care to make a special addn-ss that is, there was deterioration in Au to the women. This war for democ gust which cut the prospective crop racy Is making some headway, even down by 317,000,000 bushels to 2.672. with kaiserlsm. 000,000 bushels. Corn lost 171,000,000 bushels in July. We need all we can Before getting into this war the get of all kinds of grain and this lot*-- United States government reasoned, will be felt, though, of course, not so parleyed, persuaded, almost prayerful- ! severely as would a heavy loss in ly besought the “Imperial German gov wheat ernment" to refrain from indiscrimi nate and uncivilized methods of war Up to the present time all shipbuild fare. The Hun idea was to reduce the ing records were held by the British world to ruin and despair, and then They had a highly developed Industry spread Deutschland uber «lies. Kais- that had been in full operation for gen erlsm could not be persuaded to desist erations; most Important of all, they from this idea. But now kalserdom Is had the yards and large numbers of worried about the ruin that the contin skilled workers to assure them first uation of the war will spread over Ger place. After April 6. 1S17, It was nec many and Austria. essary that the United 8tates, under extreme pressure, should create the The kaiser says the enemy’s modes yards, recruit and train the Workmen of warfare are reprehensible. They and turn out the materials before ft must be, from a Hun standpoint, for could hope to toereaae In any consid the allies have bombed no hospital, erable measure the American rate of wantonly killed no women and chil production and the annual output dren and do not torture prisoners. That is what has been actually done They have adhered as closely as pos in spite of persistent efforts to mini sible to civilized methods, and It Is mise the success of our hurried war easy to perceive how this conduct methods. It has been a marvelous comes under the ban of kultur. achievement reflecting honor upon American enterprise and skill, upon The Japanese cabinet has been American shipbuilders and ship work obljged to resign owing to the failure er«. of its» members to curb the food spec ulators. The food profiteers every Hindenburg's familiar instruction« where are beginning to realize what to his generals to do their work with war Is like, and that when everybody out pity because no general who look else Is under restrictions, their modest ed for success could be less than sav request Is not going to be heeded of age Is bearing fruit. His generals only asking to be let alone. have tried to live up to his theory. God knows. If there is any brutality The comics make a blunder In por they have failed to Inflict when oppor traying man with no apparel save a tunity offered It was because it had barrel with both ends knocked out escaped their reading, or they had not In real life there never was a man In the brains to invent ft, says Seattle the world who was lucky enough to Post-Intelligencer. Yet they are no have a barrel accessible when he hud match for the cool, smiling, humane lost bls duds. Foch, and his equally cool and smiling lieutenants. Tobacco is regarded as a necessity. The nonuser can never understand why The feat of the two British flyers some form« of It could rank ns lux In one machine who captured slxty- uries. flve Germans, and flying around them herded them into the British camp, If you want to know what a man would have aroused only derisive Is, find out what kind of phonograph smiles If set forth In a work of Action. records he buys. When the history of this war comes to bs written. Its incidents will make it Spanish Influenza In just old-fash read like an imaginative romanoa» lotted grip with a military tltla. »MMRKKRRMRmmmttuuiiMtwmdD NURSES WITH RELATIVES. Under ull the circuuintauces. It look» When Ton Want to Move as If the war department will soon Cail Tabor 7767 have to modify its order that the American wou»n cannot be sent abroad for service If they have rela tives In the ranks or among the offi i cers of the exiMHlitiouary force on the other side. The great shortage ot nuraea and the demand for nearly 40.- (MX) more nursing recruits make a sit t RKftIDKNCK uation that can hardly he met. If a J 9436 Foster Rd. Lents, Ore. rule 1» enforced that works an Injus tice to so many capable women who are ready to go abroad as nurses, but an* estopped by the present attitude of the department, says Philadelphia Ledger. It la, of course, understand able why the department decided that It was bad for the service to allow the CORD WOOD AND wives and very near relatives of the officers and men In the army to seek COUNTRY SLAB any kind of billet tn order to get abroad, no matter how high the mo Yard on Foster Road tives were that Inspired this deMre. But since those very classes that have in front of Lenta Library given the greatest number of efficient Phone Tabor 7823 men volunteers to the service of the country are Just the classes from which the largest number of cnpable nurses is also likely to come, it is plnln The Herald Does All that the government will be cutting off Kinds of Printing.... a superb source of hlgh-clnss supply If It continues to Insist that the older rule shall stand. J J First-Class Sheet Metal Work and Repairing FETTY'S TRANSFER (hvtnhtti Hsaft l»lltn ... $J.M to ftj.00 MttaliKl Garbage Cana. ^iKtdtn l.egt J.OO to 4 00 Store Repairing and Utlinlng * * : and Express Auto Truck ? J. H. Bradbury A. S, PEARCE, The Tinsmith » J ! ! Footer Hoad. Opp. P. O. Tabor MM ■ ■" — ■■ ' .1 I I THE PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN s E R V I c E who i* miccrasful aurronii<h lilinm-lf with every avsilsbh modern devise tar sating hi« time ami money. Tlie buaimwa man who (aila to tia« ai> AUTOMATIC TKl.- M'llON E limply rhuM hie eetabltalniienl to tlioiiaaiuia <>( |.ia«tl>lc customers Ila may never know tin* teal n-waoti for liia failure» in Imam. aa. THINK IT OVER Ixing Distance Everywhere CALL A 6221 Home Telephone and Telegraph Company of Portland, Oregon “British manufacturers of automo biles arv all engagi-d on war work aud can at present make only a few curs to special license of the minis try of munitions," say*« Charles G. Har per in Motor, In the course of a very sigulficnnt discussion of post bellum conditions in the automobile industries of England and France, "But there is nothing to prevent designers think ing out and planning new cars, and most of the reputable British firms are In fact advertising thut they have long “waiting lists' for their post bellum au tomobiles. They ar«» not, however, so keen to dlvulg«» exactly where those cars of the future will differ from the old. That Is understandable. But re ceived opinions almost with one accord agree that British manufacturers are to make a bld for the custom of the small man. I indicate the man of mod erate means. They think the after-war period will be one In which the lux ury car will be an article In compara tively little demand; and thus they are going to concentrate on the light car." Control of the cotton boll weevil seems to be in a fair way of accom- j plishment by the work of an entomolo- | gist of the United States department I of agriculture. When that Insidious pest, which has been taking heavy toll ! of the cotton crop and annually ex tending his fe»*dlng grounds, stope his work of puncturing cotton squares and bolls, nnd ambles forth to quench his thirst from a dewdrop or ruindrop on the cotton plant he is likely In the fu ture to imbibe a poisoned draught which will he as effective as a knock- ' out drop. What this means to the cotton growers of the South and the '■ industry as a whole can hardly be es timated in dollars and cents, but the curtailment of the weevil's activities, even in small part, is so lmjxirtant ns to make the discovery by the depart ment of agriculture of the fact that ar senicals may be used os a powder spray in controlling this pest on»» of Its J most striking and valuable contribu- i tlons to the agricultural industry. The French government has shirted a movement to fix Individual respoosl- bllity for all violations of recognized internn tlonal law, esjK-rtnlly cases of atrocity, and to punish them after the war. as other crimes are punished. There seems to be crystallizing every- where a sentiment that those guilty of these atrocities shall not be allowed to »-scape punishment by pl»»adlng the excuse of war. To this end the evi dence available Is being carefully gath ered. ! i 1 | i i Notwithstanding all the disadvan tages under which tfce^irniy In active warfare is suffering abroad, tb<- in dustrial workers at home might have I their attention called to th«j fact that the soldiers are not striking, and thnt it Is little less than treason not to sup port them In the splendid work they are doing with al! the effort and self- sacrifice necessary. We have been warned against over- confidence, but when a man like Haig tells us the dark days are over, a rea sonable and cheering optimism can be allowed. And this optimism ought to act on all as a spur to bring the bright days of victory nearer still by omitting no means of doing so. ----------------------- — The American people are asked to save six billions more than last yonr for the war. The sum Is vast beyond the power of the mind to grasp—but divide It by 100,000,000. It Is only 860 each; more for some, less for others, ■»-cording to their means nnd needs. It can be done. The American and British soldiers get along all right so long as they keep away from two subjects. One Is Ireland »nd the other the relative mer its of baseball and cricket urn ri Hie Hard Months for yonr Battery are Just Ahead • T?ALL Touring Season has come around again, on top of all the milt» 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 during the next few months when lights go on early and its pretty sharp of morningB. Negley kills a battery quick —even a Gould—and nobody wants to waste battery materials or anything else these days. Try nur Square-Peal Rf/Kilr Service any baUary regarti- lou of maha. LENTS GARAGE AXEL KILDAHL, Proprietor 1)61 Tabor 3429. t 8919 Foster Road Dii'ailihuii/lit J I ft ■