H E RAE I) Published Every Friday at Lents Station. Portland, Oregon J 1. UPDIKK FroprWtor I C W SMITH M.nag.r »»»»»»•»■■•<« ih > of x steep hill that rises huh over x great bend In Subscription Price • fl &O per year in Athanee the Itlver Seine lie, a little plot of earth that I, as much America as I, î Phone«: Tabor 7H24. 14—61 the national cemetery at Arlington or ,Vil2 Ninety-xecou.i Street RFSIBKNt'K the hallowed ground of Gettysburg. It • J Is a quiet and peaceful s|>ot. for al­ 9436 Foster Rd. Lents, Ore. j IM) Y OF PATRONIZE HOME INDUSTRIES? though I’arl, la near—the »lender pin­ ___________ ? nacle of the KIlTel tower la III plain What are you doing to promote home industries? view over the tries the city Is se|m- Do you smoke Oregon made cigars? Do you buy clothing rati'il from the Amerlcau cemetery at Surnesnes by the green expanae of in your home town or do you send to “Shears-Sawbuck. or the Itols t far CORD WOOD AND When you aiv sick or in distress do any of these out-of- removed from war. and yet there are town houses give you assistance? Do they extend you credit enough of the accoutrements of war COUNTRY SLAB when you are out of work or in straitened circumstance- When about It to remind the visitor that the graves here are tile graves of sol­ some one near and dear to you is taken by death do these out- THO Yard on Foster Road diers—mostly of soldiers who died of of-town stores have representatives there to place with loving their wounds on the Journey In from in front of Ix-nts Library hands flowers upon the grave to show their friendship for you .’ the front or at oue of the hospitals In or near the capital. Further up the Phone Tabor 7b23 No, they do none of these things. It is the home business •lope frown the ramparts of the fort man to whom you look for assistance in times of distress. It of Mount Vnlerien. one In the chain is from him you buy when you are in need of credit and have of defenses that surround Furls. l>uts tag hostilities planes flew from field to The Herald Dees All no ready cash. Is it fair, then, to patronize stores where your field, the drone of their motors never Kinds of Printing.... friendship and trade is wanted only as long as your money •o clear a» In this quiet countryside. And more warlike still, no occasional lasts? cannon »hot echoed from a t. -ting Patronize local stores and Oregon made goods and thus help ground In the neighborhood. The lit­ tle Cemetery Itself, with Its well- keep our money at home and our own people working. aligned row» of white wooden crosses, will some day be as green and fair a MODERN SAMARITANS. God's acre as any In France. It 1» becoming so as fast as the loving A few evenings ago in the columns of a daily paper was bands of the living can convert It Into printed the story of an old man who went to a poorhouse at one. Even In these fresli fall .lays, Milwaukee, Wis.. and asked for admittance to the institution, the graves are all abloom, ami hardy shrubs add a touch of somber beauty The urbane manager looked up the rules and by-laws and to the little corners ami round point*. pointed out to the world-weary visitor that he was not eligible —Stars ami Stripes, Farts. First-Class Sheet Metal Work and Repairing Oatanlted H a»h 'oller* ... UM tu IJ.M (lalvanlred (larbage l ene, Hout/rn l.eg* J.OO tu 4 (Ml Stove Itepalrlng and l eih mg and Express Auto Truck ! J. H. Bradbury .4. S. PI-ARCE, The lirismi th labor SS.IS loater Hoad. Opp. /». (). •♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦••♦♦♦♦♦♦•♦••♦o >•*•••**••«•«••••*•*•••« THE PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN s E R V I C E will Ì* JU. I I ahi g Dial an ce Everywhere CALL A «221 Home Telephone and Telegraph Company of Portland, Oregon for admittance because he was a resident of another state. Whereupon the venerable wayfarer brushed away a tear an< WAR DEMAND FOR PLATINUM 1 resumed his journey. It Essential in Production of Sulphuric His name and face seemed familial- to the manager, who Acid, Indispensable in Manufac­ ture of Explosives. puzzled a long time over them after the pilgrim’s departure. He finally remembered that the applicant for charity was some Two universally known pr.xluct« - years ago the millionaire president of a great western railroad. one a rare metal, the other a common —have lately •! The misfortunes of this man reminds us of an episode of •chi that Is mystifying to the laity. Flat!- “King Lear,” and many stories with morals which are used by num has become virtually the king of Sunday School teachers. In the days of prosperity he lived in metals, and sulphuric arid the king of The reasons for this are marble halls with vassals and serfs by his side; he was hospitable chemicals. most simple. Platinum I. obtained and generous; he was like a fairy godfather to his daughters, chiefly from the I'rul mountains. Qwltig who lived in luxury and married rich men, and when misfortune to chaotic eruditions In Russia, of it is being mined. It Is absolutely arrived and his money was gone, and he had become a wand e re 1 essential lu the manufacture of sul­ in the land, he applied to those daughters for help. They shut phuric acid. Without a small amount the door in his face and told him to be gone, or words to that of It being present, oxygen, water and •tilphor dioxide will not unite vlivni effect. Ically. Sulphuric add, on the other The moralist might pause to indulge in some bitter reflec­ hand, wur probably the most Indis­ tions upon human ingratitude, but human nature is all right, if pensable product used In the prosecu­ tion of the war. Its tremendous affin­ rich men do sometimes have callous daughters. The urbane and ity for water made it vitally Important handsome manager o^ the poorhouse did not keep his discovery In the manufacture of klgh explosive», i to himself. He told his friends how the once wealthy man had For Instance, one obtains a fairly harmless liquid by mixing glycerin and come for charity, and among these friends were some who lur nitric add. If sulphuric add Is added. known the unfortunate man in his prosperous days, and they It combines the two chemically by taking an atom of hydrogen and one hunted him up and gave him clothes and filled his pockets with of oxygen from the nitric add. nn money and made him a welcome visitor in their homes. atom of hydrogen from the glycerin, THE BILLBOARD NUISANCE. The day is coming when the billboards as an advertising medium will be abolished, and there are many who think the day can’t come too soon. There are times when there is much enthusiasm over the idea of making towns neat and handsome, and it is a poor community that has not some kind of an or­ ganization with that end in view. About the first thing that an improvement society does is to declare the billboards a nuisance and agitate for their re- moval. This is because the boards are often used for display of advertisements which make a disagreeable impression upon re- fined people. Sometimes they contain posters which approach the indecent. This thing can have but one result and that is the destruction of the billboard. The people will not stand for ques­ tionable advertisements in newspapers and they are not likely to endure emblazonments of the lithographer upon the dead walls of buildings and billboards. Aside from this, people who have handsome lawns are op­ posed to this kind of advertising liecause the paper pasted on the billboards soon becomes loose and flaps in the wind, then blows about the streets and finally lodges in a corner and be­ comes a public nuisance. The billboard is doomed, and people who depend upon them for literary relaxation should prepare for the inevitable. forming water, and taking It unto It­ self. One then has nitroglycerin. In a similar manner sulphuric acid Is need­ ed for the manufacture of gum-otton and TNT. Thus we bad the pecu­ liar cycle of circumstances that made It unpatriotic for an Amerlcnn to have tn his iMixsesHlon more than an ounce of platinum In the form of Jewelry. Incidentally, however, there Is snld to be good reason for the belief that a very large proportion of the so-called platinum In modern Jewelry Is com­ posed wholly or nt least In part of cheaper metals.—Popular Mechanics About all those Iron croMse» are good for now Is to become Yankee sou­ venirs. Even the Iluua who v.ou 'em don’t want 'em. Nobour hh tiiuu and uaouey. Th* buaiBi4** man why fatte tc» U««> MU AUTUM ATIO Ttel. I PHON I- «imply ulnae* hi«('•labliahmojit lit IhOUMAIhltf <»f t llflltitii' J• Ilf may u* v< r know the »vai r< n«<*u for lite fallili* in Imaim w. THINK IT OVER LENTS GARAGE 4X4:7. Kll.OAIIl., Proprietor Tabor 3429. 8919 Foster Road D6I