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Thursday, IKremlxT 27, 10IT A8HLAXD TIDINGS PAGE SIX Decorated Lacquer Boxes Make good Christmas gifts. TIm round Mid square shapes. Useful for cakes, candies, frui'.s and nuts. Prices 7."c to $1.50 CHILDRENS' DRESSES In sizes from 6 months to 8 years. Made up with plenty of thread and finish in each pack age. Embroider one for your little friend for Xtuas gift. The Handicraft Shop 15 North Central, Medford NaSD Why Not Observe 'Soapless Day'? A 'oaple33 day" has been pro posed by a Huntington, W. Va., boy, vliich might prove as valuable a war measure as some others that have received favorable approval of the authorities.' This boy, "Jimmy" NVallen by name, is credited with the jTactical aim of "saving fats so mush jirteded by the allies," but is it not j.ossib'n' a more useful purpose might he served by doing without soap one day every week? War measures, of necessity, are harsh, usually. They call for sacrifice In most cases,. Meat less days, for example, bear severely cn those persons who think meat wus made to cat, while the vegetarian contributes nothing to the common cause by foregoing beef or pork on the prescribed days. Yet who shall tay that the vegetarian is not more eJosely bound to our war to make the world safe lxcBuse meatless days afford him genuine satisfaction and Joy? Would not the patriotism of the youngsters be stimulated were they to "give up" soap one day a ?eek? Surely that would be the da erf days for them and they would feel ertaln they were doing something to nn the war. They know soap Is no food and that lu ingredients might made a patriotic sacrifice the night before. Here they would have op 1 par tunity to demonstrate what they Ihave contended since bathing of Ju veniles became an obscesslon of par ents, that a boy Is actually better If : nobody has bothered to tidy him up. For Jimmy Wallen it is said that he Is always "spick and clean," which may mean that Jimmy Is eccentric or ; merely that his mother is uncommon . ly vigilant. Anyway, If one must t wash, what's the matter with just , water? Water also would be saved on "soapless day." When a kid uses , soap he has to use an unnecessary amount of water. First he uses wa jter to get the soap on; then more water to get it off. Isn't that waste? j Any real boy can get as clean as he desires to be by merely walking past the wash basin. But not only the boys are to be considered in connection with "soap- less day." The man power of the country might be vastly Increased. Many a hobo would do a day's wor'K for his keep If the farmer's wife did not insist upon his purifying himself with soap and water before partak ing of food that Is the reward of the aimless wayfarer's Industry. On "soapless day" at least the tramps might be expected to labor with light hearts. Would that be worth some thing? Besides all that, soap Is dear er now than ever. Perhaps the sup ply is not short, but since the sugges tion has been made, what boy will feel properly patriotic unless he can forefend a soap "famine" by having comfortably dirty hands and face ona day a week? The Hen that Roosts on the Limb of an Old Apple Tree Produces Nothing Moral : Build a Hen House Ashland Lumber Co. Phone 20 better be used for more essential pur poses than scrubbing boys who don't Deed to be scrubbed,. Of course, to mal e the most ef fective saving Saturday would hava to be "soapless day." All the kids would appear at Sunday school with better consciences, if not cleaner bodies, if they could feel they had I GET THE BEAItl) RVT LEAVE THI'i KOOTS I'm not after the "pound of flesh" I leave the roots to continue their growth. "You are next." Elk Horn Harder Shop Clyde Costolo "Nearest to i Everything" Ell HOTEL MANX Powell St, at OTarrcll San Francisco In the heart of the business, shopping and theatre district. Running distilled ice water in every room. Our commodious lobby ,f ine service,and Homelike restaurant will attract you. European Plan rates $1.00 Bp. n Miiafeaest W. B. James Air Raid Is Like Deafening Thunder Like a summer thunderstorm drift ing down the Hudson, an air raid comes upon London, saj'3 the New York Ttribune. There is a distant rumbling of coast gutos, with occasional flashes of light Just over the horizon. Peo ple In the streets begin scurrying for shelter. Those far from home hav9 to decide whether to risk a dash for it or take cover in the nearest build ing. In a short while shrapnel, like the light drops of rain that precede a violent storm, begins to patter down. The last few stragglers get under cover, and with a suddenness that startles the storm breaks. A great white flash of light; fol lowed by the terrific crash of a bomb. Then a thundering roar as dozens of guns blaze forth. The noise rever berates through the sky and rumbles along the deserted streets. Electric lights wink and blink and sometimes go out. Shutters rattle and window panes shake with the concussions. Shrapnel pelts down In a veritable shower, punctuated now and then with a more brilliant flash and the deeper crash of explosives. It Is the noise that frightens most people. The deafening detonations as the aerial battle reaches Its height overhead set people shivering an. I trembling In their basements or hast ily improvised dugouts on the ground floor. If one stays under cover there is no dahge-r from the rain of shrap nel and only an Infinitesimal chance of being struck by the lightning of a bonil Gradually the battle noises drift off to the eastward and out over the sea. Shrapnel no longer .falls, and the lightning strikes further and fur ther away each time. One can count the seconds between the flashes and the rumble which follows. Windows go up ankl heads are thrust out. Every one Is asking his neighbor: "Did they strike near here? Is it all over?" Traffic Is resumed In the streets. The stars come out from behind the haze of smoke. The moon bathes the city in peaceful radiance. It might have been only a thunderstorm after all. After reading the Russian armis tice proposals, plain-speaking people will have no difficulty In describing what kind of fools the BolsheIkl are. Observing Internally plans for win ning the war, one wonders If the con demned trusts had not some merit af ter all. Phone job orders to the Tidings. Cleanliness, Personal Attention and Courtesy Combined to Make the Eagle Meat Market Popular INSPECT oar marHet and your conn- denct will be behind th pleasure L. Schwein of eatinft onr miati. The knowledge of cleanliness and a sanitary work shop will aid your digestion. 81 N. Main Phone 107 Latest Millinery Offerings for Winter Wear Dress huts, more or less pretentious, make up the lust offerings of milliners for this season, and already there ap pear among them demlseason hats and huts for Southern tourists that look us If spring were nenr instead of fnr away. Beautiful huts for afternoon are innde to serve for all purposes, where dressy headweur Is required as the handsome afternoon j."wn does duty for evening dress as well as din ner and afternoon weur. The matron of today is fearful of being overdressed and prefers to be conservative rather than run the risk of securing Indiffer ence to the war. Three of the latest hats for after noon or evening wear, shown In the group above, are representative of ap proved styles. Another group of all black ufternoon hats, made of mallnes combined with panne velvet, or of black satin with Jet trimming, would be equally K0,l s,v,e fln1 Sve rePre sentntion to the nil-black hRt which holds nn iinrontested place In the realm of elegant millinery. The all-black hat and other simply trimmed hats, look to shape and ma terials for distinction. Two of the hats pictured here are of black satin bro caded with gold, draped closely to shapes with unusually spirited and fine lines. It would be like painting the Illy and adding an odor to the violet to place any sort of conspicuous trim ming on them, so a finishing touch Is added by a dark fur pompon on each of these' models. A sinjrle sir.all os trich feather or small fancy fealhei might be used Instead of fur, on huts of this kind to be worn In the South. X brilliant dress hat is shown ol gray velvet and silver tissue having t brim facing of cerise velvet. Silvei soutache braid elaborates the silvei crown and two handsome gray and cerise shaded ostrich plumes, mounted at the back, curry out the color scheme. There are many other new models tliut show a return to favor ol bright colors. The sentiment with ri" gurd to the weuring of guy colors de pends upon the point of view of the Individual. We cannot expect the younger women to dress too gravely and we need "the courage of color." Youth should be accorded the privilege, of high spirit, and nothing hut our thanks Is due the young woman who brightens a somber world with pretty millinery. The Drape Skirt The 'drape skirt is still seen In tha new dresses. This may be one way back to the tight skirt. Other dresses have series of plaits In their skirts, so they seem narrow without being so un other route to the tighter models. Still another has slight draperies made of relensed skirt plaits. Tunic topR, despite their slight curves, often present a long slender dress. Army Safeguarded By Use of Vaccines The laboratory at the Army and Medical School has shipped since April 1, 1917, sufficient typhoid and ments. transmitted to the disbursing officer of this office. Every soldier employed at logging operations wijl board with the com pany and pay regular charges as in the case of civilians. Officers wtil make their own messing arrange- paratyphold vaccines to inoculate every man in the army. Throughout the process of making the vaccine is guarded against any contamination. It is then stored Id sealed vessels in locked refrigerators, to which only the two officers In Logging companies may extern! credit to soldiers for the purchase of clothing, tobacco and such supplies as are ordinarily carried in camp stores. The government assumes no responsibility for the collection of such store debts, but will take proper .charge have keys, and none of these disciplinary measures where men fall vessels is ever moved, except in com- ! to pay. Enlisted men will purchaso pany of one of the officers. In more ' any necessary logging clothing from their own funds and may wear same when at work. At other times they will appear in regulation uniform. than six months of large-scale pro duction not a trace of contamination has been found. One of the tests of the vaccines in cludes the inoculation of a mouse, a guinea pig and a rabbit. If too much tricresol (a coal-tar product used as a preservative and to kill the bacilli) had been added, the mouse would be killed. Should tatanus germs be pref U. OP O. TO HAVE MILITARY INSTRUCTOR Colonel John Leader of the British army, who was secured by the Uni versity of Oregon last summer to fill ent, both the mouse and the guinea (the position of military instructor, pig would be killed. With the emul-; has arrived in New York and will slon correct, as it must be to be used, j land in Eugene on December 29, ac no animal is killed, and the guinea ! cording to a telegram which has been pig and rabbit are not visibly affect- received by President v. u. campDeu, ed by the inoculation. SIGNAL CORPS WILL OPERATE INr CAMPS Signal corps troops will be avail able January 1, 1918, to supplement civilian labor In logging camps in Oregon and Washington where em ployers are unable to secure suffi cient ciltvian labor. The troops avail able for logging operations are all volunteers who have had experience In all classes of logging work. Troops only will be supplied to logging camps which are producing logs for government aircraft lumber orders. The supply of troop labor will be granted upon a basis of the amount of acceptable airplane timber fur nished In the past and promised for the future. All troops working in logging camps will work on the same terms as civilian labor employed therein and receive the same pay for the dif ferent classes of work. The government pay of each sol dier will be certified to the manage ment of the campr in which he is working, on a prescribed form, once each month, and this amount will be deducted from the soldier's wages by the logging camp management and The word that Colonel Leader has at last arrived in the United States came as a note of relief to the Uni versity authorities who have received telegrams from him for the past three months saying that he hoped to sail in circulation. The Issue Is compre- . . i t..A n,A nttrwAu a ti anottrata AotL from Ene and at an early aate. .iiei. " Colonel Leader experienced much dif ficulty in getting permission to leave England from the war department and had more trouble when he tried mate of the invaluable services of tho organization. t v There are letters to the Oregon Honor Guard from Miss Theodora to get transportation across the At-! Booth, national president; Governor lantic on account of the scarcity of , Withy com be, and Miss Lucile Dan-passenger-carrylng vessels. It Is forth, state manager, while the 75 probable that he will visit the war i remaining pages of the number are department at Washington, D. C, and ; given over to chatty articles, reports inspect the military training system j and original patriotic poems, of Harvard University before leaving j Considerable space, both in pros for the east. j f'nd verse, Is devoted to the policy ot Colonel Leader has had 21 years' 1 food conservation, while other patrl experience in the British army and ! otic enterprises are strongly support- is a survivor of the Somme contest, led. in which he was wounded while lead ing his regiment. He has spent the past few months teaching young Brit ish oflflcers. He will arrive on the campus of the University In time to take charge of the military training for the second semester, which starts January 2.. Colo'nel William H."C. Bowen, retired, of the U. S. army, has had charge of the training in the university for the past month. 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