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Monday. August II), 1018. A SIT LA XI) TIDINGS PACK KIT . QUALITY manifests itself even in soafs, washing and scouring powders. Tha Coest fabrics as well as tlie Aiootliest JwinfaJ fur (ten r not injureJ Ly tlie soolw. onJ powders wa wlT I'liuy cliunjM thorouglJy and Save Time and Effort YV tn nnlw 4 ! , a tiinA(T( km nils e( rrrntfnized retni LET U3 SLTPLY Pfaa Gocey ; iitrtv imxs auk ok i.vcAi.ri'AKi.K benefit The United States entered the war or. April 0. 1 3 1 T. Eighteen day., .liter hy a practically unanimous vote congress passed tlie L!l)?rty loan .mud Mil. On May. 2, the first Lllierty Loan nan announced, oa May 14, tlie dr--I n'.la were made pulilic, and on May 1 .'.Hi tho campaign began and closed cue month later. Tlio issue was for $2.(100,000, 00H, tiie l.onds bearing f'.i per cnt Interest and running 'or 1.1-30 years. Tlie bonds carried Hie conversion privilege, entitling tlie holder if ho clior.e to convert lliem Into bonds'of a later Irsuo bear in? u higher rate of Interest. Tour jmd a half mlllioi subscribers from every section of the country, repres enting every condition, race, and class of citizens subscribed for more tlian $3,000,000,000 of the bomb. Only $2,000,000,000 was alloted. Tho outstanding feaures of the first Liberty loan were the prompt )iessw!th which it was arranged and conducted, tlie patriotism of the pa pers, banks, corporations, organiza tions and rc: ple generally fii work ing for its success, and tlie heavy oversubscription of more than 50 per cent. Another notable feature -waB 1 hat there was no interruption to the I uslness of tlie country occasioned by the unprecedented demand upon its money resources. The second Liberty loan campaign opened on October 1, 1917. and clos ed cn October 27. The bonds of this issue bear 4 per cent Interest and run 10-25 years. They carry the con version privilege. It was announced 'hat T.O per cent of the oversubscrip tion would be taken. Nine million rubscrlbera subscribed te $4,617. f.32,000 of the bonds, au oversub pcrlptlon of !4 per cent. Only $5, N0S.7C6 130 of tho bonds was al loted. The campaign was marked with the same enthusiastic support of the public as Its predecessor. The labor i-nd fraternal organizations were es pecially active In til's campaign, am', the women of tlie country did effi cient organized work which greatly contributed to the .success of the loan. The n'n in the army and navy worked for and subscribed largely to the loan. The third Liberty loan campaign opened on April fi. 1918, one year ex rrtly after our entrance Into the L - .- . ! A FINE On Mountain ave:iuu w'.th two larg. lots, nice house and small '.am for only $1203. Good condition. Th's is well worth looking at. Buy a homo now and line it iiiKur.'d with Billings Agency Khtablished 1883. LEAL ESTATE AND REAL INSUR ANCE Ashland Traflsfer & Storage Co. C. P. IUtM, Proprietor :: Wood, "Peacock" :: and Rod Springs :: Coal m Cement- PHONE 117 l (Mice 95 02b Street. Ware house oa (rack near dcjnf. I Ashland, Oreaon PLACE 1 Latter YOUR NEEDS Telephone 78 v : r. and closed on May 4. The bonds of tills issue bear 4 i per cent In terna and run for 10 years, are not nbject to redemption prior to ma-, turity, and carry no conversion prlv Here. The loan was announced' for $3.0(10,000,000, but the right was re r?rved to accept ail additional sub scriptions. Seventeen million sub . crlbers subscribed for ?4, 170,019, G.'d cf the bondn, all of which were alioted. A great feature of this ban was it very wide distribution among the icople and throughout tho union and ilie fact that 'tlie country district Piomptly and heavily subscribed to the loan, in a great measure making up their quotas earlier than the cit ies. Secretary McAdoo pronounced The pestiferous house flys on bis way. Soon he will breed and bloom tfy the million and nttack the food and milk of the younger generation. Why not beat him to it? Screens are absolutely the greatest preven tive against this enemy, tho greatest death-dealing animal known to sci ence. Screen every door, window, and porch. We'll end a man who will measurs your entire building and give you the exact cost of perfect fitting screens. There Is no obligation to buy. Ashland Lumber Co. Phone 20 this loan the soundest ot national financing. A littel over a year ago. there was Fouio 300,000 I'nited States bond holders: there are now somewhere between 20,000,000 and 23,000,000. Awakened patriotism has made the American people a saving people, a bond-buying people. The effect of the Liberty loans on the national eliaracter, on our national life, oi i he Individual citizen and our home iife Is Immeasurable, of incalulable feucfit. Kot less incalculable Is their effect on the destiny of the v orld as our ships plow the seas n;id our men and material In llurope beat l ack tho Hun. The fourth Liberty loan campaign will begin Saturday, September 28, and clote October 19. No American doubts Its success; uo good Ameri can will fall to contribute to Its suc- eisss The blood of our men 'fallen l Europe calls to us; our answe'" must be and will be worthy of them end our country. .NATIONAL l-OKMST SHOWS INCREASE (V RECEIPTS Receipts from the national forests n the fiscal year 1918, ending June 20. exceeded thoss for 1917 by al most $129,000, and totaled over $3, '.74,000, nearly one-fifth of which name from the 27 forests of the north Pacific district, according to District Forester G II. Cecil, of Port land. The increase does not come up to tho big Increase of the yur be fore, which was more than $600,000, I. i:t still shows a healthy growth lu most lines of business on the for ests. The cost of operating tlie for- ?'ts was about $4,000,000, and was pructlcally tlie sumo us In tlie prevl ous year. Tills Is exclusive of the .'.(Idltional expenditures caused by the very se-lous fire situation and i'or which a special deficiency appio prlctlon of over $700,000 was madi ! congress. This year's Increase In receipts, eccording to th? foivstry official's, came mainly from tiie larger num ber of livestock grazed, although cv e-ry revenue producing activity c.i the forest:! er.'cept timber business ;nd peimltu for water power con tributed Its share. The timber business fell off Li coniqquence of the general let-up In prlvato building activities on uc (cunt of the war and the dlslocutfon of transportation facilities during iniicli of the year and tho labor situ ation, especially In the northwest, whero the timber business b ordin arily largest. the falling off In receipts from water power permits was caused, It Is believed, by the uncertainty cre ated by pending legislation. Many prospective permittees are holding hack until final action had been tak en on the legislation now und'T con sideration. Timber sales yielded over $1,00, 000, and livestock grazing over $1, 700,000. Slightly less than $100, 000 was brought In from permits for water power development. Another Tonus of land occupancy, Including leases of land for Bumm?r homes, hotels, clu'i grounds, apiaries, fish hatcheries and c?.nnerlc3, bnwftht In cbout $120,000. The sale of turpen tine privileges on the Florida forest brought In a little over $8000. Much of the uso of the national forests Is free. Settlers and resi dents of the small communities In and near the forests arb allowed without charge reasonable amount. oT u-nrwl fnr fm.l In mllltnn llif Littler may obtain timber for us? In) IIe Improvement and maini; ::n;re of his farm and Is given the privilege to graro free not to exceed t.-n head cf in 1 1 eli and work animals. Fe"s for g-nzlng cattle lirmisht In ipp-oxiinatcly $1,029,000 and for i-hccp $003,000. Special effort were made during the past rar to Increase tho upo of tlio ra'.irs to the fullest etcit In ordrr to meet 'he needs of the nation for meat, "ool and hide production. O'l tlie Chelan national forest In Washing ton, new ranse fo 73,000 sheep was opened by building a special barge !o transport th? rheep across a lako to high mountain grazing lands that could not be reached in any othr way. Considerable co-cperntion wa3 also riven the forest service by grazing permittees In the construction of drift fencer and the Improvement ot watering places. Although th1? range Is bel'ig used to the limit, tiie forestry officials arc r?gul:;tl:ig tin ise carefully, with a view to prevent in;: any permanent damar.e to carry ing capacity. NEW FORMS OK Ml KM AN I'KOI'AtnXJlA KXI'OSKI) German agents and sympathizers pre s?cretly at work in the villages ?nd towns and In the farmfhg com munities of tho United Slates, and spreading enemy propaganda In tlie form of clumsy lies. Horrible tales of the conditions of American sold iers In France have been circulated broadcast for the purpose of alarm :ng the folks at home. These stor ies havo been branded as lies by the Kovernment, and a number of In stances of German propaganda hav? 1 ten exposed by tlie committee on public Information. The citizens of West Cornwall, Conn., have been stirred by a re port that one of the soldiers from that town wrote In a letter from France that ho was coming homo According to the 'story, tho soldier told his mother that he Intended to Ltart a stamp collection when he re turned and requested that she steam the stamp off the letter and save It for him. When the stamp was re moved this message was suid to have leen written: "Coming home. Iloth legs off." ' , This story of the message written. beneath tlie stamp lias been a favor ite with rumor mongers. It has been used in various forms since tlie Ger man agents l?gan their work. Th? committee on public Information Mated that there Is no reason why one of the soldiers in France should use n stamp on his letters, as the boldicrs' mall Is carried free of post age charges. The military censor ship docs not forbid the sending of such Information and the whole rtory is branded as a lie, Invented to make the relatives of the Soldiers believe that the government Is con cealing tho tr'jth from them. In Cedarvllle, Cal , "they say that there are thousands of Idl young men in England who have never l een called to the army." Since the beginning of the war Great Britain has put 7,"00,000 men into tho army and tlie navy. Of all Hie males in the. British Isles, counting the child ren and tiie agod, one out of every feur hoa been drawn Into military FC'VlCO. Reports that the government U permitting train to be used 'n brew In? be?r and distilling whisk." white tiie food adminlslraUo.i Is preachl'ig economy and enforcing conservation have been spread broadcast In the farming communities. In Milton, i'a., It wai reported t hut "the re-amp tin; president dors ::ct do a'Vr.y v.llh th? li.iuo:- treffic Is because Mit,. Wilson's family yc brcwer.t " This I.? iiii';thcr story that lias been branded as a lie. In Colorado It Is said that 'Tresl- me 1 With a. 1 MILLEE HALFS Ashland Videanizing . Works Guaranteed to Give Satisf action I COME m rsJi dciit Wlhon and Food Administra tor Hoover have decided Jhat there Ir still plenty of wheat in tho coun try to go o' with' the mnmifacti'.r'.nir of Intoxicating liquors." The com mittee on public information said that no wheat In being used in tho United States or In Great Britain for tho manufacture ot whisky. A t'.ory has luou circulated l'i Chicago that 14,000 soldiers are be- l:i; transported overseas on a sln:-'te ri.iist.ort ftnd tho ships are so crowd ed that tho men had to sleep In shifts. This Is ur.tuie. In no case have 1 4,00'J men been sent on a sin gle vessel. During the summer month's more toldlei'3 were assigned to some o.' the fast transports than there wero i e-ths below, but In no case did thi number exceed th? life boat or llf? raft capacity. SEND HIM A I'A I Ell Said Prlvat? Jimmy Barkis as he chatted v. ilh h's "hiate3. "I wonder what they're doing In the old United States; b Ty Cobb hlttin' doubles In the way he used to do? Is Speaker peggln' runnlncrs with that same old deadly throw? ! wish I had a paper from the home town, old or n?' An' could read abodt the peoplj an' the places that I know. "I can t gek. Interested In the Dally Mail or Times, I want the home town paper with its latest local crimes. I'm wondering who has married since the day I marched away, Who's been burled, since I left thre. Oil, It seems so long ago! For n copy of the paper I would give up six months' pay. Th:re's so much I'd like to read of and so much I want to know." Said Private Jimmy Barkis, "It's a funny thing to me But they seem to think a paper we don't ever want to see. They write us cheerful letters an' they send us things to wear, 'They send 'us good tobacco, an' we'ro might grateful, too, But they plumb forgot a paper from the old home town over ther.f It a thing we'd never part with till we'd read It through and through! Edgar A. Guest. Phon oh nrrter to h Tldlnm. p il Jixii 1 ii 1 1 N .o I m -aJfcwwijraBjr""-- " l..-.iiwiiiyJU-Ji-tWAdjij ix.i... l. linn 5n Wo pive you Job PrintiBg that pleases. Whether your needs be . Letter Head?, Envelopes, Calling Cards or Posters, your printing will Ik? characteristic of YOU and representative of YOUR business. BE DISTINCTIVE You mipht as well le distinctive in your Printing It doesn't cost any more and we will do it promptly and well . . Give us an order' for, the first Punted thing you need use the telephone I THE ASHLAND TIDINGS I uf the AND SEE FIRST WAR PRISON IN , I'. S. WELL CONDUCTED Wnr prison camp No. 1, the firnt of tho kind In tlie U. S. since tho. davs of the Civil war, Is under fulU h.vir.g on the banks of the Ne-'.iua river, near Lancaster, Mass. There 100 German prisoners of war, all' former German sailors, 'ure lit work j on a SCO-acre farm, cultivating 2.S. 000 cabbage plants, 73 acres of po- tatoes, several acres of corn audi beans and other food crops, which It la expected, will supply the mcsi for 40,000 men at training In Camp 7) evens for a period of three months. During the fall months the German? wMl be called upon to prepare 100 c-cs for winter wheat, an cxperl nent in Massachusetts, but on which ?lves every j.ronilse of success. The entire farm is. enclosed within . barbed wire stockade, but up to I Ills time thcro has been no effort to escape and not a single case of ln hubordination. The prison camp near Lancaster is an important part of the govern ment's conservation and reclamation program. The farm work is directly iu charge of Capt. II. J. Harris, di rector of the conservation and rec liitmatlon program at Camp Deven. The best Indication of the care that is being taken of the German prisoners of war In Massachusetts 13 tlie fact that since May 22, when the tamp was opened, not a single pris oner nor Americair soldier on duty at tho camp ha3 been ordered to the hospital for treatment. In fact, the only accident of consequence report ed was an Injury to Lieut. Edward horse which backed Into a barbed wire fence after breaking Its halter The prisoners are treated In a hu nano manner. They have their own sl'ower baths, their ow-n mess hall, supply house and tents. They get everything In the way of food, cloth In? and accommodations that the men on guard enjoy. There is no discrimination but there is no Inclin ation to mollycoddle the prisoners. Every prisoner has his work and plenty of It, and they are proving to be both willing and efficient. The prisoners begin work at 7 In the morning, and work until noon, have ai hour for lunch and then work until C in the evening, with no work on Sunday. While they nre at work there Is a guard for ev ?ry five men. The guards may not svrear at the prisoners or show bit terness, no matter what the reports of how American boys are being SOLE THEM fretted by the Go-mans at their rrlson canips Tlie prisoners are paid regular German army and navy allowance? iif 23 cent a day, according" to Inter national law. Th'v ilcep In tonU" and havo learned to respect tlx "dead lino," for they I.now if they .p-p.-ereh It they will be shot down M once. At night tit? ritire stock ade !:i illumini.teJ by Mood lights mid lanterns are phed ut every fence pest. SALVATION AR.MV WAR SERVICE NEAT DRIVE riana are heii'g r?i K!y perfected lor the Oregon Stale ...ilvation War tervlce drive outside of i'o-tland, for $23,000, which opens over ail the State, Sirulay, September , 13 and c'oses Saturday, September 21. Evan gelist Jonh M. I.lntcn, of Chicago, campaign manage-, iii'.'ionnces three tlstrict campaign assistants, Prof. E. S. Hammond, of tlie Kimball School cf Theology of Salem, who will bo in charge of the counties of western Oregon, and .Mr. and Mrs. WIIllamS. Dixon, who will supervlsi the collection of funds In the coun ties of central and eastern Oregon, r. lth headquarters In Pendleton. Th? (.eneral office of the drive las al ready been opened in room 22S Chamber of Commerce building, Portland, with Dr. William Wallace Voungson, general; O. C. Bortzmey er. office manager and William M. L&dd, treasurer. Evangollst Billy Sunday, who la taking a well deserved rest on his ranch on Hood River, lias wired Mr. Linden nhe following typical com mendation of the wort!! of the Sal vation Army and Its war service. "The Salvation Army Is not an ex periment. It is trted and true, we bll found out long before war was declared. When the. kaiser and hhi Infamous crowd of blood-thirsty Huns nre licked to a frazzle and peaco once more broods over this blood stained world, nono will occupy higher place In God's Hall of Fam? than the alvtit!on Army lassies. Whatever money you give they will turn It into pie and doughnuts for cur brave defeuders across the sea." We are In the habit of thinking of ihe president of tho United States a) the greatest American, but Just now wo are not sure that he is any more important than the soldier or tho farmer I lttMMMOmHH