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20 THE SUNDAY OKEGOXIAX,. PORTLAND, JUNE .16,'.. 1918. COUNCIL TO FIGHT TELEPHONE BATES Cost of Business Phones Is Declared Higher Than, in Other Coast Cities. POSSIBLE MERGER TALKED City Will Launch Battle in Public Service Commission and Seek Speedy Decision in Pend ing Toll Case. With the claim that Portland is pay lng a higher rate lor business tele phones than any other city on the Pa ciflic Coast, the City Council is prepar ing to wage a determined fight before the Public Service Commission for a decrease in these rates. Some steps may also be taken by the ciy to aid in effecting the pro posed merger of the two telephone companies of Vr.e city, on the grounds that there is no effective competition, and the two companies operating as separate units are acting as an un necessary burden to all telephone sub scribers in the city. Speedy Hearing- L'rged. An early hearing on the new long, distance telephone toll system, which went Into effect on January 1, Ib de sired by the city, and a resolution directed to the Public Service Commis sion was adopted by the council at an adjourned meeting yesterday, urging a hearing immediately. The council contends that Portland telephone sub scribers are forced to pay between $2000 and $3000 monthly in excess tolls on calls from Portland to points out Bide of the city because the hearing has been delayed from time to time. No immediate action is expected in the matter of attempting to secure a decrease in the rates for business tele phone connections. The council is unanimous in the opinion that action on this subject should be deferred un til the Supreme Court has passed upon the appeal of the 6-cent carfare suit. The decision in this case, the council believes, will be an important factor in establishing the city's jurisdiction and power in connection with the con trol of public utilities. The council was told yesterday by E. M. Cousin, traffic expert in the employ of the city, that the telephone ! charge of business connections in Port land is $8. whereas the same service connections in other Coast cities costs between J5 and J6 monthly. Petition for Decrease Likely. Data pertaining, to the rates have been collected by the city and follow ing the decision of the Supreme Court in the 6-cent case, it is likely that the council will begin its fight for lower business connection rates by "petition ing the Public Service Commission for an immediate decrease. Members of the City Council, say the telephone company representatives have Informed them that Portland was forced to pay a high business rate because it was a growing city and the greater number of instruments installed caused higher cost for service. The Commis sioners hold that this policy is not con sistent when San Francisco and Los Angeles, with far more population than Portland, are paying a lower business rate. Mr. Cousin reported that the residen dential telephone rates were approx imately on a par with the rates charged for the same service in other Coast cities. The council has not yet determined how it can aid in the consolidation of the two telephone companies, but has referred this matter to City Attorney LaRoche for an investigation and re port. GIRL IN HER HOME SHOT Wedding Set for Afternoon Is Xow Postponed. SAX FRANCISCO, Cal. June 15. Special. ) With her wedding set for this afternoon. Miss Rose Bender, aged 18. of Oakland, was shot and seriously wounded in her home today by a man who entered the house through a rear window at 3:30 A. M. and fired at her as he was fleeing through the front door. The girl's mother, Mrs. Mary Bender, followed the marauder and fired three shots at him from her revolver as he ran. Mrs. Bender told the police, they say that her daughter's assailant may have been a rejected suitor, taking revenge on her wedding day; but this the girl emphatically denies and says she is positive she was shot by a burglar. The girl was rushed to the receiving hospital, where she was visited shortly afterward by her fiance, Theodore Waidley. an 18-year-old shipbuilder. employed by the Bethlehem Steel Com pany at the Alameda plant.. It was de cided to postpone the wedding awaiting -Miss tsenaer s recovery. Her wound, though seri6us, will not. prove fatal. physicians say. HOUSING PROBLEM TOPIC notary Club VII Hear Uoyd J Wentworth at Tuesday Meeting. Solution of the housing problems that confront Portland is promised by the Rotary Club at its weekly meeting at the Motel 3enson Tuesday. Herbert Gordon, who has been giv ing a great deal of attention to . the question, has been Invited to present whaf he regards as the solution. Lloyd J. Wentworth is to head the programme by presenting the desires of the Gov ernment for proper housing conditions for a constantly growing army of workers. Carl Jones., a member of the club, will tell what the owner should expect In return lor his investment, and H. E. Mummer, City Building Inspector, will speak on the subject "What Portland Meeds." FREIGHT RATES PROTESTED City Council Says Cheap Coal for Oregon Is Threatened. Protest against the increase of th freight rates on coal shipments' was made in a resolution passed by the City Council yesterday. The resolution was addressed to the Federal railroad an thorities. who recently decided upon a general o per' cent increase in I freight rates. The resolution calls attention to th fact that cheap coal suitable for- do mestic use exists in nearby points in this state and in Washington, and that freight charges heretofore on this com modity have been" approximately SI ton. The new rates as announced will cause an aggregate advance of 4 cents a ton. A FEW OF THE PORTLAND WOMEN LINCOLN t$b ($ UJ) . .B-r.X T ' ,. --'V. " -r. 'T K ii e jr-. xt'-?'; !? . . s-.if Above Mri, Delva D. AVeller. Directori Mi Zoe Baldwin. Enrolling- Officer! Mn. H. Cheney, Slra. T. Dondrrdile, Mm. (i. W. Cotton. Mm, W. J. Rita. Mra. M . MeOreer. Mm. Marian Murphy. 51m. M. E. Lynch. Mlaa Rath UeFontalne. Mm. John Grant. Mm. H. K. Schanrr. Below Party ?t Lincoln Hlh School Clrla, While Picking Bcrrlea. Ready to Leave the Union Oepot Thursday. CA1ERS FEAR LOSS ortland Asked to Assist Saving Berry Crop. in BUSINESS MEN TAKE HAND One-Day Employment Bureau Will Be Opened in Liberty Temple to Provide Fifty Workers for Hood District. The danger to the berry crop of Ore gon does not only lurk in the fact that labor is scarce in the fields, but aleo In the scarcity of labor in the can neries, which may mean that after the crop is picked it may go to waste be cause it cannot be canned fast enough. Strawberry canners of Hood River have issued an appeal for help to can this year's strawberry crop in the Hood River Valley, in response to which call a committee of business men. working In conjunction with the Portland Cham ber of Commerce, met yesterday and determined to organize a one-day em ployment bureau in Liberty Temple to fill the demand of the cannery people for 50 workers, who must be secured at once. Mrs. T. J. Kinnard. of Hood River. explained the urgency of the appeal to the committee, which was composed of Julius Li. Meier, Guy W. Talbot. W. J. Hofmann, T. J. MulliYi and Sydney B. Vincent. 'Mrs. Kinnard said that unless sufficient help was secured at once for the cannery, the strawberry crop was in . great danger of being lost. The I cannery owners have equipped a num ber of small houses for the occupancy of their employes and furnish mat tresses, lights, fuel and water. The berry crop of Hood River Valley is one of the most valuable of the hor- CLEVER ROSE CITY PARK CHILDREN GIVE A DELIGHTFUL PROGRAMME. Left to Right Cinderella' Sttcpalatera. Alice Julia Colllna and Slllna Jevtltti a Servant, Milton Alblnl Fairy Godmother, Carol tichocne; Cinderella. Roue Robertas the Prince, Harold Krauendorf the Blahop, Walter Vheelock. The children in the fourth grade. Rose City Park School, gave an entertainment Friday in the assembly hall. Their teachers. Mrs. Katherine Meagher and Miss Rowena Arthur, wrote especially for the children two playlets "Cinderella" and "The Modern Old Woman in the Shoe." At the close of the programme Mrs. San-Juel Crawford, of the Uni versity of Portland. san for the children. She was accompanied by . Miss Ethel Vera Edick. WHO HAVE ENROLLED FOR BE RRY PICKING IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY AND DELEGATION OF HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WHO HAVE GONE TO HOOD RIVER DISTRICT. l-" 1 ticultural products of the state. In the past it has not been difficult to obtain the help necessary to harvest and can the crop, but this year, owing to unusual conditions produced by the exigencies of the war, the berrygrow ers of Hood River have been compelled to appeal to the Chamber of Commerce and other organizations for help. The farm labor situation has become so serious that a special bureau has been established in this city by the Federal Government for the employ ment of farm laborers. J. W. Brewer, the Federal agent, with offices In. the Oregon building, is compiling a list of men and women who will work in the fields, and ' is supplying farmers and fruitgrowers with labor as fast as it can be obtained. One party of 40 Port land school teachers, especially chap eroned, is going Into the loganberry districts next week, and it is expected that members of the United States Boys' Working Reserve will also aid in harvesting the loganberry crop, which wl be ready for picking on June 24. A great many women have responded to the call for help in the berry fields and many of tlam are planning to taka their entire families with them to do this patriotic work and at the same time enjoy healthful recreation and a profitable Summer vacation. NEW FREIGHT RATE ALARMS Oregon Dealers Send Protest to Sen ator McXary at Washington. While the- Food Administration ia urging the use of potatoes in order to save wheat, the Railroad Administrator is raifcg the freight rates on this com modity to such an extent as to curtail seriously, the sale of potatoes at points distant from the place of production, according to the Oregon Potato Dealers' Association. A telegram urging the Administra tion to reconsider the proposed 25 per cent Increase in freight rates for pota toes and onions was yesterday dis patched to Senator Charles L. McNary at W ashington. The present rate on potatoes from Portland to Chicago is 75 cents a hundredweight while wheat selling at three times as much as potatoes and onions goes for 50 cents a hundredweight. Jjjv :&: . . ... . u 1 A Helen Dover. 9IIh Nellie Cochraa, Mm H. Henley. Mm. R. Honnrttr. Mn. Jane hi. II. -Brldnrr. Mra. K. H. Mor, Mra. Wko Will KdVcet School and Hooka CLINIC OPENS SOOtl Cripples of All Kinds to Treated Free. , Be EXPERT SERVICE ASSURED Training of .Reconstruction Aides at Reed College Calls for Patients Vili AH Sorts of Func tional Ailment. Cripples of all descriptions, convales cents from operations and patients with various functional ailments, are wanted in numbers at the Reed College fiee clinic, which opens Juno 24 in the old Lewis home. Nineteenth and Gllsan streets. They will receive the latest scientific restorative and reme dial treatment known to War Depart ment surgeons. Several hundred women and girls from the country west of the Missis sippi River have enrolled In the second Reconstruction Aide course at Reed College, and these aides will be trained by competent physicians and military nurses, to handle the cases of wounded men expected home from the war. It is to givo these aides practical train ing that the free clinic has been es tablished under direction of tho Surgeon-Genera! of the United States A rmy. Among the cases that will bo harjdled at the clinic, free, will ba these due to infantile paralysis, curva ture cf the spine, deformitory from in correct posture in men and women, stumps of arms and legs needing treat ment before application of artificial limbs, blindness that may be relieved by proper massage, and iiew and old accidents of minor and major signifi cance. Aim Is Thorough Training;. Until the clinic opens applications for treatment should be made to Reed College, but when the clinic opens ap plications may be made by calling Broadway 56S. Dr. W. T. Foster, president of Reed, yesterday explained that there will bt no limit to cases that can be handled. The aim ia to give the aides all the practical training possible, and to do this, innumerable cases will be want ed. The work will be done under War Department's specifications, and ' tha purpose is to prepare the reconstruc tion aides to handle wounded soldier as soon as they return. President Fos ter has ben informed by the War De partment that 150.000 wounded soldiers may be expected back in the United States within two years. The operations and treatments by the surgeons will be only the first half or the task. To prepare the disabled men to resume their places In society and make a living they will have to be taught new functioning powers, hew to use artificial limbs and a new ptychology of life. Cases handled at thf clinic, of course, wlil be subject to competent surgical !nd medical rec ommendations. A blind charge of the State has recently been sent to Port land, to be treated by one of tho aides. I: Is thought that proper massage may at least partially restore the sight furetlon. This case is being handled at Reed by one of the aides who fin ished the first course, which ended June l. !peclallat Service Aaaared. One of the head aides at tho Govern ment hospitals for returned soldiers at Washington has been promised to Reed College this Summer, and In ad dition Miss Ragnhlld Johansson. Stock holm graduate and for five years in Boston and New York hospitals, has bten released for service at Reed. Women already enrolled for the sec ond course come from 18 state, and all housing accommodations at the College have been engaged for the Summer. More than 10 applications out of 400 have been accepted, and It is likely that this number will be in creased steadllv. as housing "accommo dations can be obtained. 71 V r t . 3aJ BANK COURSE ENDED American Banking Institute to Award Certificates. 22 PASS IN EXAMINATIONS Portland Cliaplcr Conducts Course In Banking Practice to Prepare Men for Kxecutlve Posts in Banks. Portland Chapter of the American Institute of Banking, comprising a membership of about 300 young men from the staffs of the several local banks, has just closed its season of study. The object of the American In stitute of Bunking is to train young bankmen in the most efficient and up to-date methods of banking and to qualify them for ' executive posts in their chosen profession. To this end. a two years course of study In com merrlal law and negotiable Instruments Is provided, under the supervision of competent Instructors. The following men. having Just com pleted this course and passed the final examinations, will be awarded cer tificates by the American Bankers' As sociation: J. King Bryon, J. F. Healy, Arne C Zahl, Park B. Myers, A. T. Matthews. M. L. Eastham. Andrew Morris. Matt Harris. Edward B. Sterling, Ivan Pol lard. F. E. Epton. A. H. Herndabler, A. B. Williams, L. A. Perry, Christian Pe tersen. John F. Douglass. Henry White. Marshall A. Case. Alvln Wv Kramer, Charles Leigh. C. E. Rupp, all of Port land, and A. A. Roger. Eugene. Or. The American Bankers' Association stand sponsor for Its Juslor proto type, extending all the financial and moral support necessary In the con duct of it educational work, even to the extent of permitting a limited rep resentation of the organization at it own annual deliberations, both atata and National. At the Oregon State Banker' Conven tion, which waa held at Bend June 7-8, J. King Bryon. of the Ladd & Tilton Bank, represented the local chapter. At the recent annual meeting of the chapter the following officer were elected: President,. A. T. Matthew: vice-presi dent. A. L. Fraley: secretary. J. King Bryon: treasurer, T. F. Dunn; directors. Marshall Case. Gray Kyle. Christian Petersen. Paul I. Johnson and F.' E. Epton. The following were elected delegate to the National convention of tha American Institute of Banking, which will be held at Denver, Colo., Septem ber 17-18: A. L. Fraley. A.- T Matthew and Frank S. Meagher. The chapter will begin It next sea son' study course in Its rooms in the Oregon building tha first Tuesday of October. HONORS ARE DECLINED SENATOR POIVDEXTER AVERSE TO BEING VICE-PRESIDENT. Washington Solon Taaaka Adhcreata for I' rain a Hint to Run on Ticket With Rooaevelt In 1&20. OREGOMAN NEWS BUREAU. Wash ington. June 15. Senator Poindexter. of Washington, who recently was boomed for Vice-President on a 1920 ticket with Roosevelt at Republican gather ing at Tacoma and Kent. Wash., today followed the lead of hla proposed run nlng mate and declined the proposal. Announcing his declination, the Senator said: "I appreciate very much the sugges tion of my name for the Vlce-Preslden cy. While appreciating very much the honor, I would not under any clrcum stances be a candidate for that office and would not accept the office if ten dered. I feel that the high position which I already occupy is one of more Influence and opportunity than the of fice of Vice-President. I have been ac customed to an active life for many years and would not care at this stage to retire to the Vice-Presidency. MESSAGE CHEERS FRANCE Paris Temps Says Wilson's Words Spell Defeat for Huns. PARIS. June 15. "Su-h words are not mere words." says the Temps, comment ing editorially on the telegram from President Wilson to President Polncare in answer to the latter'a message of felicitation on the first anniversary of the landing of American troops In France. The newspaper continues: "They are aymools of powerful real ities, of intelligence In 'action and he roic sacrifice. France hears them with Joy, the enemy will hear them with anxiety. He Is-only beginning to know the soldier of tb,e United State. He will learn the "weight of the will of 100,000.000 citizens, united behind a chief they have elected and resolute, like him. to obtain peace by victory." Wheat Crop Benefited. HEPPNER, Or.. June 15. (Special.) Cool weather following the light shower of a few day ago 1 proving a godsend to : the wheat crop In this county. Some fields were slightly damaged by the extremely hot weather. Barring hot winds the Indication are good lor fair crops. TRUE PATRIOTISM TAUGHT 111 FRANCE Valuable Lessons Learned by America's Soldier Sons in Realm of War. NATIONAL PRIDE REVIVES Insidious Propaganda of PaclfUm, Beginning In Elementary Schools, Had Undermined Iove of Country and Love of Flag. BT RHETA C111LDE DORU. Publishcd by Arrtniraent With the Nn York Evening One thing our ngUir sons are learn ing in Franex ia irfiorc valuable than the French lanareage or history or any mere knowledge acquisition. Our men are learning the true maaniag of na tionalism, love of country ud the flag;. Of late year we bare had In the United States rucb a deluge of talk about "Internationalism" that our young men &ad almost reached the point of baing ashamed to feel patri otism. An Insidious propaganda of pacifism, beginning- in elementary areola all over the country, had un dermined the old American pride in the flag. The children went through the motions of saluting the flag. true, but In. too many schoolrooms the poison ous suggestion was given them that It was much nobler to love all flags and ( all countries equally with their own. A young Jewish soldier from the East Side of New York told me that, when he learned that he had been drafted, he actually contemplated sui cide. It seemed to him a crime for him to become a soldier. His parents had fled from Russia to escape death at the hands of soldiers, but that was not why he was opposed to all war. It was because in his school, and after ward in the city college, he had Imbib ed what Is miscalled internationalism. Own Country Cornea Klrat. "I went to training camp because 1 was afraid to resist." said this young man. "I stayed and I worked hard because 1 liked It. liked my officers, and because, being assigned to the aviation service as a ground ' man. I knew I would not be obliged to kill Germans. I still believed that it was my duty to be International at heart." And then he told me how the convic tion came to him that men cannot love all countries unless they love their own first and best. "You see that work gang over there." he said. "Those fellows are Rust-ians. They are part of the Russian division that was sent to fight in France two or three years ago. You remember what fine impression they made men. veu. after the revolution in Russia, or rather fter the Bolshevik! soldiers . began running away from the fight, murder ing their officera and clamoring for a separate peace, there was the ques Hon what to do with the Russian regi ments In France. It was impossible to trust tne Russians. Some of them, at least, l On't know how many, were Dinen with the German propaganda. They did what they could to demoralise the French soldier. Nobody knew out that thev might betray the allies in the middle of a battle. The upshot of the whole thing was that they sent the Russian troops back from the front, and now they worn in laoor gancs. They aon i warn i -v .v to their own country. Things are too bad there. One Man Without m Country. -Amor. our fliera was a young lieu tenant who was born a Russian. Not a Jew. a Russian. He was finishing his training in this camp, it was parity tha monotony and the lack of work that made him melancholy. Tou know we haven't enough practice piane anu the flying men are Idle half the time. But mainly it was the sight of those Russian laborers that got on his nerves. He used sometimes to talk to them. and they were patneticauy luiu 10 have him. because noooay eise vpoae their language and they yere lone some. "He ald to me once: nen those poor devils landed In France the bousea m-er decked with flags to greet them. The atreeta were full of cheering crowds and children threw flowers In their path. Now nobody trust them to fight. They are outcasts. They have no country and no country wants to adopt them." I tried to tell him that he was wrong, that the allies wanted to help Russia to get back, but it was ttA rood. - "By and by this man took it into hi head that he waa distrusted because he had been born a Russian. It wasn't true. But he thought It was. He said mo. One day he went up In an altitude test with an obaerveT. He was acting a pilot, but the machine had a double control and the man with him was a cool and capable filer. Otherwise the thinir mia-ht have been even worse than It was. For when they were 6000 feet up and still climbing, the Russian ud l.nlr unbuckled the belt that aeeured him in hla teat and before the observer could even guess what he was scout. io do. he stepped over the Bide of the ma chine into apace. Propaaandlata Are Blamed. "That Battled me. I said to myself that 1 would rather be dead than bo a man without a country. That' what that poor fellow figured that he waa and all other Russians, nut i m not Russian, nor an Internationalist, nor anything else but a 100 per cent Amer ican and if they want me to kill bochea. f"m readv to bocrin any minute. A man without a country. Is there kt sentence In the language, any com bination of word more dreadful? Tet what the German propagandists, which I the real name of many of the paci fists and "internationalist," have been trying to do to American youtn is to take their country away irom inrm They nearly succeeded and the proof of that was the three years of indif ference we loitered through before we woke up to the fact that thta war was oura. as well aa England's. France' and Belgium's. We failed to realise that our country was in Immediate peril, because we had almost forgotten that we had a coun try. Are we all awake to the fact yet? No. because. If we were, there would not be left anywhere from the Atlan tic ocean to the Pacific one single dis loyal cltlsen. one single copperhead or so-called- internationalist. No com munity would tolerate them. There would be no corner where they could hide. Soclallats Bcajln to fee - Light. The Socialist party leaders are be ginning to see a great light on the subject of loyalty to the Government and are advocating a new policy to ward the war. Their last party plat form read like one of Trotzky s mes sages to the Petrograd Soviet, but now even the late Socialist candidate for mayor of New York, who appealed for the pacifist vote, and got it. Is begin ning to talk about revising the plat form. Unless it ia revised, the Socialists are going to lose their adherents at present serving in I-ranee. The Jew lab boy who, a little over a year ago. were orating from soap boxes against the draft and against what they called "thla profiteers' war." arc among the hottest young patriots and keenest fighters in the American Army. I saw some of those boys at Camp Upton last Autumn. I saw one who was slttinrc In a corner blubbering like a small child because he waa being sent to Spartanburg. He was being trans ferred because he was continually beg glnc to be allowed to go home. His captain told mc that the only thing to do with him was to send him so far away from New York that meek-end visits home would be Impossible. I saw other Jewish boys who were unwilling soldiers then, but every on I saw in France was enthusiastic about his work and as little of an interna tionalist as the yountc man in the avia tion camp. The Jewish soldier ha made good. I was told so by many of ficers and I saw it for myself. Merely Loathe (.rrmiB. Our soldiers have not been taught to hate the Germans and I don't think they do hate them. It ia certain that the French people witn whom our men associate do not. But they scorn and loathe the Hindcnburg method of mak ing war and this attitude our men share. They regard the Germans with horror rather than hatred and ao must all Americans who even faintly realize what is going on every day and hour In the Invaded districts of Belgium and France. Our soldiers, many of them, have seen this terrible thing and it has mad" their blood run hot in their arteries. It has set their, jaws hard and caused their eyes to blaze. What theories they have ever had about international Ism have been dissipated by the fact with which they arc faced. In a Y. M. C. A. cantonment I rm upon a young corporal who had found a s-at behind the piano, and he was sitting there weeping his heart out over a letter from home, a letter telllnc him how his brother had died when the Germans torpedoed the Tuscanis. I sat down beside this soldier. !i seemed to need fomebody. and I waa the only woman near. In a few min utes he was himself again, outwardly at least, and he read me the letter. It was from his sister, because, sho said, mother was taking it very hard and couid not write yet. When the ship went down brother managed ti get on a raft which was very much overcrowded. There were so many men on the raft that the brother' chum, who was in bad shape with a broken leg. was pushed off into the water. Brother was a good swimmer and he managed to rescue his chum and to get him back on the raft. Rut while he was In the water two more men. half drowned and desperate, had climbe-l aboard, the the raft was now several inches under seas. So this heroic young American soldier, unwilling to Jeopard ize his comrades' lives, gave up his own. "Tell my mother and the family that I am sorry I didn't have a chance to fight for America." he said." and sank into the black and icy ocean. "Well. I can fight." said the soldier who read me that letter. "And every time I am allowed to go over the top I shall remember how they killed my kid brother In the dark." American men arc accustomed from their childhood to see women treated with respect and children with tender ness. They see with horror-stricken eyes the women and children refugees from the war-invaded districts flying before a foe that knows no pity, that treats combatants and noncombatant with equal cruelty and wrath. Itefngrca a Pitiable Plght. I have told of a Sunday I spent in a railroad station In the first days of the grt-at Spring offensive, and of tho southward bound trains beating tho wounded and the homeless. With m on that platform were several Ameri can soldiers, two or three members of the military police. They were there primarily to look after our soldiers passing up and down the "line, but they worked hard to help the strK-ken refu gees, hundreds of whom were fed ami ministered to that day by the French Red Cross. They were mostly women and chil dren and old men, and their plight was pitiful. This was the second time that they had fled before the German hordes. Last November, after the "victorious retreat." they had crept back to their ruined and desolated villages and farm and with the aid of their government and the American societies for French reconstruction had begun life again. In their shells of houses and in their shattered little farms they gladly took up the work of gaining a little bread. Then, without any warning, the awful flood of war swept over them again. They fled, half clad, never pausing to collect their poor belongings. With out the blessed help of the Red Cross they would have died of starvation on the road. Everything they ever had waa gone. They stumbled off the trains, dazed, with white, blank faces and staring, empty eyes. I saw those American soldier car rying old women and little children into the Red Cross canteen, feeding them, ministering to them, all the time mut tering curses on the fiends who had brought them to this bitter pass. "Oh. we have work to do over here." one of these men said to me. "God help the Kaiser when we get fairly into this war." And then he exclaimed: "Are there really any pacifists left In America? If there are I wish they could see what we have seen today." I wish so, too. I wish I could show the theorlsta. the "internationalists." what I saw of those French refugees, the poor, despoiled working people and farmers who fled, as the hordes of old fled before Attilo, another scourge of God, but one not less tigerish or void of soul. Something of what I saw I shall attempt to describe. Step Lively! Corns Quit With "Gets-It IT The Great Corn - Loosener of the Ace. Never Fails. Painless. Watch my step? What's the use! I go along "right side up without care." even with corns, because I use "Gets It." the painless, of f-llke-a-banana-peel corn remover. I tried other ways galore, until 1 was blue in the face and Corn Sunnly Can't "los Vs. W Im "(.el-It :" red in the tors- No more for me. Use "Gets-It." It never fails. Touch any corn or callus with two drops of "Gcts-lt." and "Gets-It" does the rest. It's a relief to be able to stop cutting corns, making them bleed, wrapping them up like packages and using sticky tape and snlves. It removes any corn clear and clean, leaving the toe as smooth aa your palm. You can wear those new shoe without pain, danco and be frisky on your feet. It's great to use "Gets-It." "Gets -It." the guaranteed, money back corn-rcmover, the only mrt nay. costs but a trifle at any drunr store. M'f'd by E. Lawrence & Co., Chicago. 111. Sold in Portland at all stores of th Oil Urus Co. Adv.