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A PATRIOTIC DUTY
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of flag and country, is the duty of protecting and
safe-guarding health. When strength is well-nigh exhausted
and the resistive powers are reduced, then is the time
disease germs are the most potent and when ' (
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Prof. Thomas Garlgnu Masaryk,
loader of the Czechoslovaks, who have
declared their Independence of Aus
tria. TWELVE NATIONS
DECLARE FREEDOM
Philadelphia, History has repeated
Itself. More than 60,000.000 people of
the subjoct races of Europe have,
through their representatives, cast
: aside their Teuton shackles and, In
the same room In Independence ball
i where America's thirteen original col
onies proclaimed their Independence,
twelve nations united In a solemn pact
; of unity and a sacred pledge to "place
' our all peoples and resourcea at the
; disposal of our allien."
Dr. Thomas Masaryk, leader of the
! new Czecho slovak republic, seated in
the same chair used by John Hancock
i 142 years ago, was the first signer of
i the declaration of common alms of
j the Independent mid-European nations,
i The signers of the declaration
pledged themselves on behalf of their
respective nations to unitedly strive
, to the end that these wrongs shall be
, righted, that the Bufferings of the
, world war shall not have been In vain.
i Recomr.i' iatlons for the settlement
of the am wrongs of the people of
. middle Europe will be laid before the
peace council. It- Is hoped by that
time that they will have been Indorsed
by all the people here represented.
I The people represented constitute a
chain of nationa lying between the Bal
tic, Adriatic and the Black seas, com'
prising Czechoslovaks, Poles, Jugo
. Slavs, Ukrainians, Lithuanians, Ruma
nians, Italian Irredentists, Greeks, Al
. banians, Zionists and Armenians.
7000 SQUARE MILES TAKEN
Boehs Railroad Systema From Oise to
Meuse Are Menaced.
Washington. Summarizing the sit
uation on the western tront, General
March said the Germans have evacu
ated or been driven out of 7000 square
miles of Belgian and French territory
since July 18.
During the past week, 400 square
miles have been freed from the ene
my, General March added. All the
coal fields In northern France haw
been reconquered except for a five-
mile tract where the allies' advance
Is now being pressed near the Belgian
border.
General March pointed out that the
Franco-American lines from the
Meuse to the Oise stand nearly par
allel to the. great railway Mne near
the Belgian frontier and constitute a
threat against that line throughout its
entire length.
Noted Woman Educator Dead.
Washington. Mrs. Ella Flagg
Young, well known Chicago educator,
died here of pneumonia, Mrs. Young
was 73 years old.
Grant Rise In Express Charges.
Washington. The Interstate com
merce commission approved the pro
posed Increases In express rates.
THE MARKETS.
Portland.
Oats No. 2 white feed, $53.60 ton.
Barley Standard feed, $48.50 ton.
Corn Whole, $7377; cracked, $75
079.
Hay Timothy, $30 per ton; alfalfa,
$27.
Butter Creamery, 60c per pound.
1 Eggs Ranch, 67c per dozen.
Potatoes $1.60 $2.25 per hundred.
Poultry Hens, 27c; springs, 25
80c; roosters, 18c; ducks, 2530c;
geese, 1718c; turkeys, 3031o.
Seattle.
Hay Eastern Washington timothy,
$38 per ton; -alfalfa, $34 per ton.
Potatoes 2c per lb.
Butter Creamery, 65c per pound.
Eggs Ranch, 7275o per dozen.
Poultry Hens, 26c; springs, 25oj
roosters, dressed, 27 28c; ducks, 2o;
geese, 21c; turkeys, 30c .
the
18-4
When the Engine Stalls on
Dead Man's Curve!
THEY climb aboard their loaded
truck at sundown, fifteen miles
behind the lines. They rumbla
through the winding streets, out on the
white road that leads to Germany!
The man at the wheel used to be a
broker in Philadelphia.' Beside him sits
an accountant from Chicago. A news
paper man from the Pacific Coast fa
the third. Now they all wear the uni
form of one of these organizations.
The road sweeps round a village and
on a tree is nailed a sign: "Attentionl
L'Ennemi Vous Voitl The Enemy
Sees YoulM
They glance far up ahead and there,
suspended in the evening light, they see
a Hun balloon.
"Say, we can see him plain tonight 1"
murmurs the accountant from Chicago.
"And don't forget," replies the Phila
delphia broker, "that he can see us just
as plain.1
The packing cases creak and groan,
the truck plods on straight toward that
banging menace.
They reach another village where
heaps of stone stand under crumpled
walls.
Then up they go, through the strange
silence broken only when a great pro
jectile inscribes its arc of sound far
overhead.
They reach a turn. They take It
They face a heavy incline. For half
a mile it stretches and they know the
Germans have the range of every inch
of it The mountain over there is where
the big Bodies' guns are fired. This
incline is their target
The three men on the truck bring up
their gas masks to the alert, settle their
steel helmets closer on their heads.
At first the camion holds its speed.
Then it slackens oft The driver grabs
his gear-shift, kicks out his clutch. The
engine heaves and heaves and stalls!
"Quick! Spin itl" calls the driver.
The California journalist has jumped.
He tugs at the big crank.
" Wh-r-r-r-r-r-r-room ! "
The shell breaks fifty yards behind.
Another digs a hole beside the road
Just on ahead.
And then the engine comes to life.
It crunches, groans and answers.
Slowly, with maddening lack of haste,
h rumbles on.
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"Wh-r-r-oom!" That one was close
behind. The fragments of the shell art
rattling on the truck.
Now shells are falling, further back
along the road. And the driver feels
the summit as his wheels begin to pick
up speed.
Straight down a village street in
which the buildings are only skeletons
of buildings. He wheels into the court
yard of a great shell-torn chateau.
"Well, you made it again I see!" says
a smiling face under a tin hat a face
that used to look out over a congrega
tion in Rochester.
"Yep!" says the driver glancing at
his watch. . "And we came up Dead
Man's Curve in less than three minutes
-including one stall!"
. Later that night two American boys,
fresh from the trenches bordering that
shattered town, stumble up the stairs
of the chateau, into a sandbagged room
where the Rochester minister has his
canteen.
"Get any supplies tonight?" they ask,
"You bet I didF is the answer, "What
will you have?"
"What's those? Canned peaches?
Gimme some. Package of American
cigarettes let's see an' a cake of
chocolate an' some of them cookies I "
"Gosh!" says the other youngster
when his wants are filled. "What would
we do without you?"
You hear that up and down the front,
a dozen times a night "What would
we do without them?"
Men and women in these organiza
tions are risking their lives tonight to
carry up supplies to the soldiers. Trucks
and camionettes are creeping up as close
as any transportation is permitted.
From there these people are carrying
up to the gun-nests, through woods,
across open fields, into the trenches.
The boys are being served wherever
they go. Things to eat things to read,
things to smoke, are being carried up
everywhere along the line.
With new troops pouring into France,
new supplies must be sent more men
and women by the hundreds must be
enlisted. They are ready to give every
thing. Will you give your dollars to
help them help our men?