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About The Stayton mail. (Stayton, Marion County, Or.) 1895-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1918)
* F ordson T ractors PEOPLE ASKED FOR le y FLOOR DONATIONS Freewill Offering of Exci Stocks Is Requested. FOR MEN OVERSEAS N EED GRAIN Flan Devised to Saver Transportation and Time— Local Donations to Be t and O R C H A R D S Preparing meat is only a part of Swift & Company’s usefulness. The finest meat in the world wouldn’t do you any good one hundred miles aw ty from your table. • W e have “Disk Harrows” Swift Sc Company efficiency has made it possible to place complete lines of products in the smallest and most remote communities. For the Fordson Tractors _ r t U fi Resold Locally But Release Equal; Amount at Atla .tic Seaboard For, Immediate Shipment to Ailie* an«* Troops. You Can’t Eat Meat 100 Miles Away Vick Brothers are receiving FORDSON TRAC- TORS in Regular Shipments. Demonstra tions every Saturday . Come and see the Tractor Work. Orders taken in Rotation Valley T o be sure the work is done well Swift & Company, through its branch houses and car routes, brings the m eat to the retail dealer for you. Swift & Company lays out car routes covering towns— big, little, medium si/e —which are not served by a Swift branch house. Co. Agents for Polk and Marion Counties Salesmen find, cu t in advance w hat is wanted by the dealers in every town. State and Front Streets, Salem, Oregon They are followed by refrigerator cars loaded with retailers’ orders, which are delivered at each town—fresh, clean, and sw eet—once or tw ice each week. Sw ift & Company operates m large number o f car routes like this, from four teen distributing plants. Elbert Thompson Manager This is a necessary and natural part of the packers’ usefulness. It fits into the industry in an orderly, effective w ay. It makes better m eat ch ea p er from one end o f the land to the other. SS5BE3BSaHB&B2Sasa&& .\ M A IIIM T V — O il AN ASH KT? \ WOMEN A N D THE WAR By MRS. HENRY P. DAVISON Treasurer War Work Council Nuti'mal Board Y. W. C. A. Within »lx month« after the Unltea Htntvs entered the war. the Y W. C. A. War Work Council had established Kiris' clubs near more than forty of the c a n t 0 tt menu, barracks, and navy yard«. A trained rocren tlon leader w a s placed In ehanie o f each c l u b . T h e s e worker* supplement t h • efforts of the I>- cal Associations. If those already exist. Where ’he Idea la new the workers form club centers, o r gnnlze the Kiris, «ltd arouse them to a sense of I heir responsibility In this lim e of M eat excitement and con fusion. No scoldlnK of Kiris for unwise ac tlons and no solemn finger-shaking oc curs In the clubs. Instead of dwelling on what not to do, these wise leader* urge real patriotism. All sorts of pro Jects ore suggested that are more In foresting than the dubious and dnn or oils pleasures which appeal to the 1 7 no runt and the thoughtlo-i. At parties, for Instance, these w! \ chapel ones, whom no ono ever think- of as supervisors, arrange that there shall always b o twice h s many soldiers as girls. "Twoslng" Is utterly Impossible where there are not enough girls t< k o around! Club leaders do not attempt to ban lah the gallant soldier entirely fiont the girls' world: they wish only to brine him down from glorified heights of glamour to take bis place ns nn every-day hero, subject to the same scrutiny as other men. Instriietion and relief work are not neglected. Among the activities of fared are dressmaking, cooking, knit ting, Prrnrh. athletics, dancing, sing Ing. Hed Cross work. Belgian relief, and work for the fathorless ehlldren of France. The world contains a num ber of things besides soldiers for a girl's Imagination to dwell upon Hundreds of clubs for school and business girls all over the country an offering pleasar.ter recreation than the gaily lighted street« and tha aha M r*. Davison These centers are near the canton ments. • The Bureau of Social Morality Is an Important feature of the War Work Council's program under the present a'mormul conditions. That ignorance is no shield to a girl Is well known to Its niembrrs. Instead, it Is her gravest |M>rll. Any situation shrouded in mys tery Is dangerous. Women can deal only with what they understand. A true social morality must be built on .1 foundation of knowledge, and be inspired by high aims. Fourteen women physicians are talking to groups of parents, school- ;lrls, and Industrial women. These iectcrers bend their best efforts to spresdlng Information on social ideals. Colored «'omen at tbla time must meet all the problems confronting white women. Their situation Is fur ther complicated by Industrial and social conditions. Special clubs are being formed among colored girls In the neighborhood of cantonments. Workers are being placed In Industrial -•nlrrs like Doatsvlll*. Kentucky, an.1 Hopewell. Virginia. Immigrant men who formerly ta ilored in mines, on farms, and In fac tories. and now serve In our army are, iiemscives, In need of assistance. Foreign men marry young and many. ■>ven of the young ones, have large nralltes dependent upon them. Be tuse of these helpless families, the nr Work Council has translators t ho go Into the canipa. The activities of the War Work 'ouncll could not he confined to *ur own country. Our American nurses In France need the Y. W. C. A. social workers. Kvcn the most self-reliant women must have help at the front where women's welfare is a matter of nlnor importance. A central elub In Paris gives hard-worked, courageous nurses a home In a strange land. Branch clubs at all of th* base hospl- .(Is provide relaxation and recr**tioti for hours off. When the French W’omen cabled to the War Work Council, pb>uding for experts to ndvtse them In estahllsh- ng foyer-canteens for women wor«>rs u munitions und other war Industries, «xperts were sent over to have over dght of the building and equipping o t .ome of tho canteens and act as ad viser to French committees. A professionally solemn faced but - We don’t need to be told that war is wasteful. We have already sur mised It. If generals of all ages, from Sen nacherib to Napoleon, can watch us from their present habitation, they will take on an increase of cynicism. They were probably cynical enough before they died. They learned the futility of trying to create something by a policy uf destruction, and must feel some dis appointment at this epoch. We have learned nothing from their mistakes. We build cathedrals, and shoot them to bits with cannon. We raise and educate a generation to make hecatombs of it. Most of us have at least the ex cuse that we are fighting to destroy something that hoped for aggrand izement out of conquest. But it Is nbsurd that such a policy should have survived Sennacherib. Angels weep, the poets tell us. but at times the\ must feel tempted to laugh. And yet, for us in progressive America, the process is not one of waste. Our young men will return from France with a developed effi ciency heretofore undreamed of. Have you ever read figures giving details of the system of piping that carries water to the battle front? As the front changes the system changes and the new formations can never be foreseen. Here are problems which our young engineers learn to solve with a speed and precision never developed in time of peace, be cause they were unnecessary. Do you know that armored tanks ehnrge Into battle with telephone wires lnld out to keep them in touch with the main command? Field bat teries also manoeuvre without fa ll ing to get answers to “ Hello, Cen tra l." Do you know that by teamwork forty American soldiers erected a steel bridge over a hundred feet long In five minutes? We didn’t need to do these things In time of peace; so we didn’t learn how. In scores of other ways young Ami ! leans in France dally achieve the Impossible. The fruits of their experience will be reaped In America — here in Stayton -when peace Is de clared. Many peaceful trades nre danger ous. The half-built skyscraper, the (Co titii uto on page 8) Swift & Company, U. S. A. * Trover= Weigel Studio * In Stayton, will be open * * * * * THE FIRST SATURDAY AND SUNDAY OF EACH MONTH *$. Next visit to Stayton ! Saturday and Sunday October 5th and 6th 4* •$* * * * * * * * * * * »$♦ " * * * * * * * * * * * ^ The Sublimity Cider Works is now open for business* Bring your apples and kegs* I will put your cider in kegs for 2c a gallon* Sweet cider for sale at 25c a gallon if you bring your own kegs or jugs* PETER W ELTER ’ SUBLIMITY. ORE. UNIVERSITY of OREGON "cy F u lly equipped liberal culture nml (scientific d ep artm en t*. S p ecial training in C o m m erce, .lo u m aiin m . A rch itectu re, L a w , M edicine T r a r h i n g . I i h r a r v W o r k . M u n ir . I lo n m - h o ld A r t » . F h y s i r n l T r a i n i n g and H u t - A r t » . 4 M ilita r y S . . . . . . r ... , h a n t . »( V a r r i r o »m l l l o l . - l . ..llir r r « . D r ill. Irrtu rr» «»-( li* M ~ » r k j • II I*:tweil on t* \ p rr ■fin «' •«» |*rr***nt <nm |«lrl* » ' ‘ b 'lii of Ir c n th e a , brid^fMt H e. N lm lriila rrrt>m innitlr«l I ttr f^ in m iM io n a . O H ifto U ’t a v f f w w w t R . (K T . C . l Opportunity Is now offered, through Federal Food Administrator W. B.j Ayer, for Oregon families and inanuj far-luring firms using wheat flour, tot make a voluntary personal sacrifice^ for the benefit of Uncle Sam's boys In. the Army and N a v y . Mr. Ayer haaq announced that any family, public e»t-j lng place, or factory using wheat flour, trucb as bakeries ard cracker factories.; now has the privilege of directly con tributing to the floor bins of the Army’ and Navy by turnirg back to the gov-, eminent, at the market price, such, portion of their wheat flour allowance as they will patrioilcatly refrain from consuming themselves. Su'-h gifts of wheat flour, wh'le not going directly to France for the boy* overseas, will be turned into the gor-f eminent commissary at the neareat point, and will release an equal quan tity of wheat flour on the Atlantic- seaboard for Immediate shipment “over there.” Under this novel plan when a patriotic Oregon family goen on a wheatless diet for a week or * month, or longer period, the wheat flour they save and turn back to the 'government actually represents an ’ equivalent of wheat flour three thou- «a; d miles away, which Immediately start.« to move forward to the fighting forces. This arrangement has been’ made in order to i»ve transportation: aerrrs the continerL “I am hoping for a splendid wheat-: saving record In Oregon” said M r; Ayer the other day, “For I believe! when Oregon families and public eat ing places in the state know that the flour they save will go direct to the boys of the Army and Navy they will not hesitate to respond in the usual patriotic Oregon way. 1 bad a tele- gra: i from ?dr. Hoover today in which he ashc-d me for an estimate on what I thought Oregon could be relied upon to save under the new plan. I wished to be conservative, and I replied that my estimate would be 30 to 35 per cent of the normal wheat flour eon- nucpt'.oa. This is a much lower esJ I t mate than other states had made. and I realize that it will probably be> i unsatisfactory at Washington. I am hoping that the people of the state will exceed this estimate by a gener ous margin. The county administra tors have in hand the full details of the plan far saving wheat in this way, for the needs of cur f-ghting men. and any one wishing to personally contrib ute wheat flour should get fn touch at once with the Food Administrator o f the county in which he or she lives.”j The wheal saving plan announced by Mr. Ayer is a national one. and i t Is now* operative in all the states.1 The states of Washington, Idaho and Oregon arc now co-operating In an effort to niahe a big wheat-saving rec ord for the Northwest Federal Food' Administrators R. F. B'.cltncll of Idaho! a id Charles Hebberd of Washington. Join with Federal Food Administrator; W. B. Ayer for Oregon in the follow-; lng announcement; which gives in de tail the plan of handling the returned wheat: “Mr. Hoover has wired all Federal Food Administrators that the excess stocks of flour held by public eating places, bakers, dealers and consumers* may be voluntarily surrendered for- the use of the Army and Navy and the-' Allies. This action has been prompted by the many voluntary offerings from; different parts of the country. “The practical method of handling • such returned flour will be through* the local merchant, who is hereby re-. quested to receive all such flour an«fp pay the holding consumer the actual^ cost of same, and then redistribute It-, without any additional charge to the* ultimate consumer. Where merchants! accumulate more than their thirty, days' supply and all hotels, bakers.j etc., that have an excess amount thatj* cannot be disposed of locally, they! should immediately communicate with, Mr. M. H. Houser, Grain Commission-^ er of the Food Adm'nlstration, Board? of Trade Building, Portland, and her will arrange for the transportation to the seabcurd. All flour returned to the merchant that is resold to the consumer should be reported to Mr. Houser, In order that an equal »mount may be released for shipment to the Allies. “The whole object of the above ar rangement is to provide a channel through which all excess quantities of flour may reach the Army and Navy or the Allied armies as a voluntary, offering of the people of this country." If you have a food conservation plan or recipe pass it on to your neighbors and your friends -be "In the ta rrie s." T t.il ¡0.» I R I K . l i b r a r y o f NO.IMH» v o ln m e s . D o r m ilo r if * (o r m e« « a d w u n ri» . MR POOD ■WILL VEST t n r c . lirrr ■ ir Tt'AIL IT J H