Crook County Journal
BY GUY LAFOLLETTE
j vnnder whloh caught my attention.
For at that hour the whole place ti
; alive with French people mostly
cnmi'il in DiaCK. OUl Wlin a imr
Entered
Prlnevllle,
matter.
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at
Oregon,
j women 111 uinv , ...
tt- n sprinkling of old mm and children
the postofflee at tmonR ,hom, Au wpr, busy at a cer-
aa aecond-claaa ,Bin ,ai,knd that task wai deco
I rating of the gravea of Americana.
'A we left the car to wai inruuan
Price $1.00 per year, payable
strictly tn . advance. In caae of
change of add rest pleaae notify ua
at once, giving both old and new
address.
flilS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGH '
ADVERTISING BY THE (
GENERAL OFFICII
NEW YORK AND CHICAGO I
BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES
EVERY THURSDAY the plot I found myself taking off my
cap; and I kept it on au mo wnue i
was there, for even before I had been
told the full story of what went on
there. I knew, t stood In the pres
ence of a moat high and holy thing,
and so I went bareheaded, as 1 should
have done In any sanctuary.
"We walked all through this God's
acre of ours, the general and 1. Some
of the women who labored therein
were old and bent; some were young;
but U of them wore black gowns.
Some plainly had been drawn from
the well-to-do and the wealthy ele
ments of the resident population;
more, though, were poor folk, and ev
idently a few were peasants, who, one
guessed, lived in village or on farms
near the city.
"Here would be a grave that was
heaped high with those designs of
stiff, brtght-hued immortelles which
the French put upon the graves of
their own dead. These are costly,
too, but there were a great many of
them. Here would be a grave that
was marked with wreaths of simple
field flow-era or with the great fra
grant white and pink roes which grow
so luxuriantly on this coast. Here
would be merely great sheaves of
loose blossoms; there a grave upon
which the flowers had been scattered
broadcast until the whole mound was
covered with the fragrant dewy offer
ing; and there, again, I saw graves
where fingers patently unused to
' such tmployment had fashioned the
READJUSTMENT SOON IX ORDER, long-stemmed roses Into wreaths and
I crosses, and even into the form of
Naturally, a question wui now ar- 8njpg
toe among farmers ana iivesiocs pro- Gnaa -w rlch and lush upon the
aucers as to what is going to happen .
graves. White sea shells marked the
to the markets for fat live stock. A;gjdeg of tnem and edged the narrow
readjustment penoa win oe m oraer. , graveied waiks between the rows. We
What will it do to the prices for cat-; came tQ tWQ newly made grave
tie, hogs and sheep? ill the ending Their occupanU had been burled
of the war curtail the demands for (Vl . j. wr- Au
meats to a point of piling up supplies . mlght te by tne markg in tne trod.
and forcing lower prices? W ith i the de turf but a carpeting ot soa cut
cessation oi nosiuiiea mere win M ( ron, a lawn somewhere had been so
once come Into the consuming mar-, 8kilIfully pleced together upon these
aei a popuianou ui Dl' ' two mounds that the raw clods of clay
millions of people who have not had beneath were quite covered up and
accessioourmarKeisaurinsuiecou-,hidd(m from gight; go ow only the
unuance oi me war ueruiauj "i;RpflmR i the ereen rnvprlMn diatin
be a customer for our meats, and Ger
many will be hungry. The recon
struction period in devastated France
will not likely be a period of product
ion to the point of meeting consump
tive demand. The allied powers that
aave won the war will not move all
ot their soldiers home for several
years. It is likely that the United
States will maintain an army of not
less than a mllion troops In Europe
guished these two from graves that
were older by weeks or months.
"Alonrside every grave knelt
woman, alone, or else a woman with
children aiding her as she disposed
; her showing of flowers and wreaths
to the best advantage. Mainly the
, old men were putting the paths tn
j order, raking the gravel down
; smoothly and straightening the bor-
, derings of shells. There were no sol
tor two or three, possibly more, years, i riipr. imonI them- nil wr civilian.
in our own country me war aenionus i anj or tne mogt part humble appear-
of the past two years have been draw
ing heavily upon our industrial re
sources. We need manufactured
goods and machinery of every de
scription. We need more railroads
and more railroad equipment have
seeded these for several years. There
may develop a period of nervousness
and temporary depression, but there
is nothing in the ending ot the war
that does not spell a big and active
demand for all of the meats this coun
try can produce for an indefinite fu
ture. There is no question that prices
must eventually come down some
what. All commodities have been
selling too high for a long time. The
man who remarked some months ago
that "this country has gone price
crazy" was perhaps not far wrong,
but the return to price sanity will
likely be slow. There is nothing in
the conclusion of the war that threat
ens profitable prices for live stock
even the bureau of markets will ab
sorb a little common live stock mar
ket sense eventually. Livestock Re-norter.
FOR OUR DEAD rX FRANCE
The following is taken from the
Saturday Evening Post of recent date
and Is from the pen of Irvin S. Cobb,
from notes made in France very re
cently. It is reprinted here because
of the beauty of the idea embodied
and to spread the message it contains unknown graves.
lng civilians, clad In shabby garments.
But I marked two old gentlemen
wearing the great black neckerchiefs
and the flowing black broadcloth
coats of ceremonial days, who seemed
as deeply Intent as any in what to
them must have been an unaccustom
ed labor.
"Coming to each Individual worker
or each group of workers, the gener
al would halt and formally salute in
answer to the gently murmured
greetings that constantly marked our
passage through the burying ground
"When we had made the rounds we
Bat down upon the edge ot the flag-
dressed platform, and he proceeded
to explain what I already had begun
to reason out for myself only, of
course, I did not know, till he told
me, how it bad started
", 'It has been a good many months
now,' he said, 'since we dug the first
grave here. But on the day of the
funeral a delegation of the most in
fluential residents came to me to say
that the people of the town desired to
adopt our dead. I asked Just what
exactly was meant by this, and then
the spokesman explained:
" 'General,' he said to me, 'there Is
scarcely a family in this place where
we live that has not given one or
more of its members to die for
France. In most cases these dead of
ours sleep on battlefields far away
from us, perhaps in unmarked and
This is true of all
had grown a bit husky. Then he continued:
'So that was how the thing came
about: but it doesn t altogether ex
plain what you ee happening here to
day. You see, the French have no
day that exactly corresponds In its
spiritual significance to our Decora
tion Day our Memorial Day. All
Souls' Day, which I religious rather
than patriotic In tts purport, Is their
nearest approach to It. Hut weeks
ago. before the services contemplated
to-day were even announced, the
word somehow spread among the
townspeople. To my own knowledge,
some ot these poor women have been
denying themselves the actual neces
sities of I fe In order to be able to
make aa fine a showing for the graves
they 'have adopted as any of the
wealthier sponsors could make.
' 'Don't think, though, that these
gravea are not properly kept at all
times. Any day, at any hour, you can
come here and you will find anywhere
from ten to fifty women down on
their knees smoothing the turf and
freshening the flowers they constant-
keep upon the graves.. Hut I knew
that at daylight this morning all or
nearly all of them would be here, do
ing their work before the crowds be
gan to arrive for the services, and I
wanted you to see them at it, in the
hope that you might write something
about the sight tor our people at
home to read. It It helps them to un
derstand better what is In the hearts
of the French you and I may count
this time as having been well spent.' "
He stood up, looking across the
cemetery all bathed and burnished as
it was In the soft, rich summer sun
shine.
' 'God!' " he said under his breath,
" 'How I am learning to love these
people!" "
"So I have here set down the tale;
and to It I must add a sequal: Deco
ration Day waa months ago, and now
I learn that the custom which origin
ated in this coast town Is spreading
throughout the country; and that. In
many villages and towns where Am
ericans are burled, frenchwomen
whose sons or husbands or fathers or
brothers have been killed, are taking
over the care of the graves of Ameri
cans, bestowing upon them the same
loving attention they would visit, If
they could, upon the 'graves ot their
men-folk.
PHYSICIANS
HRI.KNAP EDWARDS Chas. 8.
Kdwardi. 11. P. Belknap, rhyalolnns
Surgeons and Oculists, J'rlitevllle,
Oregon. tf
OPTICIAN
Dlt. J. O. Tl'KNKll Eye Specialist
from Portland; regular monthly
visits to Prlnevllle; watch this pa
per tor dates. 18tfc
I. H. COVE D.H.D.
DENTIST
I specialise In porcelain fill
ings and crowns which make
teeth look and feel natural.
8 I also do gold Inlay, crown and
3 bridge work; silver fillings and
? extracting.
h I do no plate' work.
My motto: "One think wll
done." .
OVER CROOK COUNTY HAXK
CLASSIFIED ADS
FOR 8AI.K
FOR SALE By owner; my 320 acre
ranch on upper Trout Creek, one
mile of Trout Creek runs through
the place. Small buildings, the
best bunch grass, 10 miles from
Ashwood, 2 miles from sawmill
uoort spring, soil, fencing, etc. on
Co. Road, t 8 per acre. R. A. Pow
ell, East 2223 6th Ave., Spokane,
Wash. 2Up
FOR SALE grain and potato sacks
Call at J. E. Stewart & Co. It4c
TITON 1O-20 TRACTOR Pulls 3 14
Inch pliws. Practically new. Are
buying larger tractor. Will sell
cheap Cor cash or terms. Will d4Ur
onstrate at ranch in Lone Pine Gap.
Patterson & ualbreath, Terrebonne,
Ore. Inquire W. F. King Co. 62tfc
FOR SALE A tew small hogs. In
quire of G. P. Reams, Cornett &
Co. 62tfc
FOR SALE A Ford In good con
dition.' Touring car 1917 model.
Inquire at Forestry office. 2tfc
FOR SALE Kimball piano, nearly
new. Cash or terms. 2tfc
FOR SALE 800 bushels excellent
seed rye. Write Tapping Imple
ment & uraln Co., Culver, Ore.
FOR SALE 200 bushels Swedish
seed Rye. Archie Powell, Prlne
vllle. 44tfc
to those who have lost some of their
dear ones in the great cause.
"I should say it waa about half past
seven whon we rode in at the gates of
the cemetery and made? for the sec
tion which, by the French Govern
ment, .had been set apart as a burial
place for our people. For more than
a year now, dating from the time I
WTlte this down, a good many thou
sands' of Americans have been sta
tioned in or near this port, and many,
many times that number have passed
through it. So. quite naturally,
though It is hundreds of miles from
any of the past or present battle
fronts, we have had some deaths
there from accident or disease.
"We rounded a turn in the winding
road, and there, before us, stretched
the graves of our dead soldiers, ma
rines, and members of labor battal
ions; whites and blacks and yellow
men; Jews and Gentiles, Catholics,
. Protestants and Mohammedans for
there were four followers of the faith
of Islam taking their last sleep here
in this consecrated ground row up
on row of them, each marked, except
in the case of the Mohammedans, by a
Iain white cross bearing in black let
ters the name, the age, the rank and
the date of death of him who was
there at the foot of the cross.
"Just beyond the topmost line of
crosses stood the temporary wooden
platform, dressed with bunting and
flags, where an American Admiral
and an American Brigadier, a group
ot French officers headed by a major
general, a distinguished French offi
cial, and three chaplains representing
three creeds, were to unite at noon
tn an hour of devotion Bid tribute to
ifiojmemorles of these three htindred-ncT-oid
men of ours who had made
the greatest of all human sacrifices.
"But It was not the sight of rows !
F graves and the lines of crosses, or j
the peculiar devices uprearine slant-!
wise at head and foot of the four,
gTaves of the Mussulmans, or thei
brave play of colored bunting upon ,
the sides and front of the platform
parts of our country, but particularly
is it true of this town, which is so re
mote from the scenes of actual fight
ing. " 'So, in the case of this brave Am
erican today is to be buried here
among us, we ask that a French fam
ily shall be permitted formally to un
dertake the care of his grave, as
though It were the grave of one of
their own flesh and blood who has
fallen, as he has fallen, for France
and for freedom. In the case of each
American who may hereafter be bur
ied here we ask the same privilege.
We promise you that, so long as these
Americans shall rest here in our land,
their graves shall be our graves, and
will be tended as we tend the graves
of our own sons.
" 'We desire that the name of each
family that adopts a grave may be
registered, so that should the adults
die, the children of the next genera
tion, as a sacred charge, may carry
on the obligation which is now to be
laid upon their parents and transmit
ted as a legacy to all who bear their
name. We would make sure of this,
so that, no matter how long your fal
len braves rest In the soil of France,
their graves shall not be as the neg
lected graves of strangers to us. but
symbolically at least, may be as the
graves of our dead song.
" 'We wish to Co these things for
more reasons than one: We wish to
do them because thereby we may ex
press In our own small, poor way the
gratitude we feel to America. We
wish to do them because of the
thought that some stricken .mother
across the seas in America will per
haps feel a measure of comfort and
consolation in knowing the grave of
her boy shall always be made beauti
ful by the hands of a French woman
whose home, also, haB been desolated.
And finally we wish to do them be
cause we know it will bring peace to
the hearts of Frenchwomen to feel
they have a right to put French flow
ers upon the graves of your heroic
dead, since they can never hope the
most of them to perform that same
office for theirs.' "
The general cleared his voice which
SEED RYE Order now. Supply is
limited. Ochoco Warehouse Com
pany. 42tfc
DR. TACKMAN
DENTIST
Room Cornett Hulldlng
Member of Preparedness League
ot American Doutlsta
FOR RENT
FOR RENT Residence of six rooms
on Second Street, partly furnished.
Inquire of Mrs. Eva Doak. 2t4p.
BUNGALOW FOR RENT 3-room
closet and pantry, electric lights
and city water. Inquire Inland Au
to Co. 62tfc
WANTED
WANTED Work for man and wile
on ranch. Experienced in fedulr.g
cattle. Frank Wilcoxen, Bend, Or
egon. St2p
WANTED All kinds of plain sew
nlg and especially children's gar
ments. Mrs. R. V. Constable.
MISCELLANEOUS
TO LEASE 100 acres under Ochoco
Project, All cleared and plowed. In
wheat stubble. R. W. Rea. 47tfc
ABSTRACTORS
CROOK COUNTY ABSTRACT CO.
Incorporated, D. H. Peoples, pres
ldent, J. B. Bell, secretary. Ab
stracts and Insurance. Prlnevllle
Oregon.
DENTISTS
DR. H. O. DAVIS Dentist. New
modern shop, In Kamttra Build
lng.
OPHTHALMOLOGIST
DR. F. H. DAY Physician, optha
mologlst, neurologist. Specialty
of eyes and nerves. Glasses fitted.
Hours: 9 to 11:30 a. m.; 1.30 to
6 p. m. Evenings by appointment.
Prlnevllle Hotel, Prlnevllle, Or. tf
ATTORNEYS
WILLARD H. WIRTZ District At
torney. Office Crook County Bank
Building, Prlnevllle, Oregon tf
M. R. ELLIOTT Attorney at Law
Court House St., Prlnevllle, Ore
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operate.
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and quality ot paper, Just the
thing tor your desk or pocket,
tor sale at The Journal office.
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eral fund warrants up to and Includ
ing Number 6586.
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pi
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TTTWE BELIEVE THAT A GOOD CAR WOULD
( prove to be the most acceptable of Christmas gifts on ac
vL count of their general utility. We have some exceptional
.JJ buys in used cars on the floor at this time, and would ad
vise an early inspection, as they will go fast. Should you be in
the market for a new car, let us demonstrate the merits of our
stock. We are proud of their many superior qualities.
REO Three passenger
Roadster, Electric Lights
and Starter, newly paint
ed and in excellent con
dition. - - - $725.00
OVERLAND 5-1917
model like new, $350 less
than price of new car.
BUICK B 25-Electric
Lights and Starter, Buick
quality throughout. $475
FORDS
Touring Car, new. $565
Touring Car, new body,
top, radiator and wind
shield, rebuilt motor and
good tires. - - - $500
Roadster 1917, almost
new, shock absorbers spot
light and other extras.
$490.
INLAND AUTO COMP'Y
PRINEVILLE, OREGON