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Universal 'Combination Ganges LIGHTEN HOUSEHOLD LA IIOl AND EXl'EXSE How to prepare economical, satisfying meals with the least wasto of tlmo and materials la a problem largely solved by tho right kind of a range. Tho Universal Combination Is that kind of a range It makes for economy In food, fuel and la bor. Burns wood and coal or gas uso the fuel most desir able for tho work In hand. A turn of tho key changes from ono fuel to the other or yo.i may use both fuels at tho same tlmo, If desired. The Univer sal Combination is really two complete ranges In ono and yet occupies tho space of only one range. Your old range taken as part payment. And Ihc Famous aim: iikkk in a vakiktv of styles and sizes Our stocks of Universal heaters are most complete. We have wood heaters, coal heaters, and combination wood and coal heaters, ev ery dcslrablo style and size. The "Air Blast Universal heater will help wonderfully In the cut ting down of your fuel hills. Come In tomorrow and select your new range and heater. Trices are very moderate. WAKE YOlIt OWN TEKMS IN ItEAfeON. Swcnscn & McRae The Meaning of Style r' 'A You sacrifice noth ing when you wear clothes made without ornamentation. For style is not a matter of fancy frills true style is ex pressed in the lines of a garment. Trie cut of a lapel, tKa placing of a pocket, or tKa proportions of a coat may make or mar its Btyle. You'll find style tailored into every Born Garmert, i Retident Bom Deafer) Paulserud- Barrett JMARLEY 2VJ IN. DEVON 1YA IN. COLLARS CLUtTT. PEABOOY CO., INC. MAKKRO i Jl Jl ARROW i! m""T if. ift r? j Universal Healers "Gets-It," a Liberly Bottle for Corns! There'! Only One Genuine "Corn, Peeler'-ThatVOets-It." Ever peel a banana? That's th wty "Gets-It" peeli off corns. It's the only corn treatment that will. GeU-K"l guarantee that you NoMoroExcut for Corn or Cora-Paioi Now! won't finally have to gouge, pick, Jerk or cut out your corns. If you wunt the pleasure of getting rid of a corn, be sura to get "Gets It." It Is Its wonderful formula that has made "Gets-It" the corn marvel that It Is, used by more millions than any other corn treat ment on earth. A few drops on any corn or callus, that's all. It can't stick. It Is painless, eases pnln. You can kick your "corny feet around, even In tlKht shoes, and your corns won't crucify you. You can go ahead and work, dance, live, love and lauKh ns though without corns. "Gets-It," the guaranteed, money, back corn-remover, the only sure way, costs but a trifle ntnny rlriiR store. M'f'd by K. Lawrence in. Chlcugo, 111. Sold in Ashland and recommended as the worlf's best corn remedy by McNalr Bros. 11 Vm.KY AND COTTON MEAL FOR BRAN AND SHORTS A mixture of barley and cottonseed meal is an excellent substitute for bran and shorts mill run so ex tensively used as stock feed and now difficult to obtain, points out B. B. Fitts. extension specialist in dairy ing at tho Oregon Agricultural Col lege. "This mixture costs more than the wheat feeds but Its feeding value, pound for pound, is 18 ',4 per cent greater," says Professor Fitts. "It also provides greater certainty of se curing uniform value than the mix tures of bran and shorts sold by the flouring mills as mill run." Framed pictures. Studio Ashland. Come in and Examine the TIRE With a thous and claws. All sizes SOLD BY T1IK Overland Millner Co. W$ltt"iiSq !$ t SOI.DIEKS' LETTERS Franco, Sept. '. 1018 Miss May Spencer, Ashlund, Ore. Dear Sister: Tvc been particularly pleased this week receiving three letters! from you, bearing various dates for the lust two months. The oldest ono was Just two months to tho day in reach ing me, but was greatly appreciated Just thy same. We've moved about so much lutely that our mall has rather a hard time following us, ami all the transportation facilities are heavily taxed to carry our needed supplies, so mall Is slow to arrive. However It does come. That tvned letter was some letter, too.Vllevo me, and I sure enjoyed it. Sometimes I wonder how you can get along on my letters. There Is so much that we may write and so little that we may tell about that ll Is some Job to turn out a letter that Is of any Interest, but of course you un derstand the reason for our reticence on most subjects and can Imagine all sorts of things which aro not so real ly, and may be get some fun out ol that. In my case remember how I lived In Idaho and you will havo a fair picture of how I am going here, even to the setting for the picture re markably so, in fact. That Isn't so bad for a fighting man, now is It? Say. how would you like to take n hand scythe and garden rake and put tip the hay In the upper meadow by hand, bundlo tho hay In a blanket and carry It to the barn on your head? That is what the people do In this country. The fields ars very slinllat In kind, but the hay Is not nearly so tall nor good. I think each ono tries to put up enough hay to keep a goat or two and maybe a cow or so thru a rather long winter. If tho grass h short they cut leaves from tho trees and cure them. All their plowing seems to bo done by hand with a spade or hoe, but they raise some very good gardens and if they have anything to sell to the soldiers they oucht to get rich quick. On the whole these people are very poor as we would class people, yet they seem to be healthy and hap py. I do not understand how they can lie either, as the kids are most awfully dirty and poorly clothed, and the barns filthy and are the next room from tho kitchen. All th3 peo ple just here wear wooden shoes and look funny accordingly. 'Onco I was going along the road and two little French kids were ahead of me with a bucket of slop, when suddenly something went whistling over, our h?ads and about a quarto of a mile away was a violent blatt. I Say, slop bucket went ono way and) kids another, and In the road was left just four wooden thors right In the tracks they were In tho process of making. wo, It wasn't another tragedy of the war, it was saf.'ty first. The French know when to get under cover, while our first thought i3 to run out to see what is doing. Even at that all our danger seems (o be very far off and I really be lieve it Is. I'm probably not allowed to tell that, but It struck me as rath er funny at the time, and I cannot re-J slst tho telling of It. I'm enjoying j my work here to such an extent that I am ashamed of myself. Really It does not Beem right to bo at war and let some one else do all the suffering, but I'm doing th? best I know how to do, and what I'm told, so I suppose I ought to thank my lucky stars It's so pleasant and not so utterly disagreeable as falls to tho lot of some others. J, M, SPENCER, Co. C, 318 Engineers, American E. F., France. Albums. The Camera Exchange. October 5, 1018. Mrs. A. C. Spencer, . Ashland, Oregon. Dear Mother and All: Yesterday I received your letter of August 30, Say, you sure did have some time at Portland, didn't you? Thought I was doing the travel to." the whole family but you can still go some. Started this last night but had to stop and work on our new books. We worked until after midnight as we have done for several weeks. It Is great, mother, and I'm mighty glad to put in this work for the good re sults. Today I received your letter. I got four from Hazel from dates Aug. 30 to Sept. 5. Give me James Fitzgerald's address in Washington. I may go there yet and do not want to overlook any one If I do. I want all the addresses possible of people in tho service because of my oppor tunities and I might be In the sanv place with many of them often and not know It. Where Is Dill Hurn'B branch of the tank service. Also Carl Grubb and Blng Spencer, and Frank? Bob Wlllott Is In Co. D, 54th Art , O, A. C. Latest address A. P. O. 719, and Is a Sergeant now. He will get . An International Service Built on Tiny Profits Per Pound . Some industries have been able to get in step with war demands more quickly than others. In many cases mighty plants have sprung up but at a prodig ious cost. The packing industry was able to adapt itself to unheard of demands more quickly, perhaps, than any other industry. And this was because the vast equipment of packing plants, refrigerator cars, branch houses, etc., had been gradually developed to its present state of efficiency, go that in the crucial hour it became a mighty international system for war service. And how had this development taken place ? Not by making vast inroads into the capital wealth of the country, but largely by using, from year to year, a portion of the profits, to pro vide for expansion. Swift & Company's profits have always been so tiny, compared with sales, that they have had practically no effect on the price of meat, (amounting to only a fraction of a cent per pound). And yet the owners of the business have been content with reasonable returns on their capital, and have been able, year after year, to put part of the profits back into the business to provide for its expansion. These fractions of tiny profits have been repaid to the public many fold in the form of better service, and better and cheaper meat, and made it possible for Swift & Company to meet, undaunted, the sud den cry for meat for overseas. Could any other method of financing a vital industry involve less hardship to the people of the country ? Cculd there be a better instance of true "profit-sharing" than this return in added usefulness and in Keep Year Pledge y w : Make Good for Our Fighting Men BUY WAR-SAVING STAMPS thru O. K. us he Is a mighty fine fel low. No, I have never received any of those pictures and do not think Guy had, either, tho I have not gone thru all his letters yet. LIEUT. D. M. SPENCEII. Bob Willett went out ns a private with the first company from Ashlund with the O. N. G. first call and his many friends will bo glad to learn that he has a Non Com warrant now. Miss Helen I'ygjilt Is in receipt of the following letter from her nephew, Verne Blue, or the I'nlted States air stutlon in Francs: Dear Aunty: Your Interesting and delightfully characteristic letter came today. A preceding one must have gone astray, tho It may come yet. The mall sys tem, considering the circumstances, is usually very efficient. , One day goes by much like anoth er. Our work just now Is Bomewhnt less arduous than It has been, and I hope It never Increases. We have been having some fine late OctolM?r days which have done the wholo camp good. . Tho last two mornings the fog has rolled In off the bay densely thick, but Is gone before noon. It gives a hint, tho, of what we may expect this winter. The other evening a young friend of mine asked me to spend the eve ning with him and see his uncle, a French aviator. This man Is now at tached to an American unit, but had been for threo years and a half on the French and Italian fronts. As ho said, ho felt that ho was entitle.) to a little rest, tho It isn't as exciting for him now. Ho speaks English quite well, having been French mas ter In an English school before tho war. Therefore we did not have to trust to my fragmentary French, which Is all right in spots, only tho spots aren't very close together. national preparedness.-" Swift & Company, U. S. A. Ashland Local Branch F. Crouch, Manager lie had with him soino soiivoiiIim In tho shape of "noses" from cxplo slvo shellsy They resembled very large, blunt-noied bullets, as largo, almost as one's fist. Ho Informed us before handling them that they wore still dangerous, sinco ono fuse was still Intact, Ills nephew, with an ex pressive grhnaco, made a motion as if dropping something, and then tossed his hands upwards to signify our ascent heavenward In case ona should bo dropped. No one nppeuTed to bo much concerned, anil 1 tried to give a good Imitation of K. II. South ern registering indifference.. lie had some wonderful photo graphs taken In Italy, most of them from his machine. Tliero were three from Venlco which made my fingers Itch. They are tho best pictures of tho city that I have ever seen, all of them taken while flying at different distances above her. No land ws visible; tho city, as compact ns If cut from a single block, appeared to float on tho still sea. Another picture which ho did not show, his dour old French mother In sisted on my seeing. It showed him being decorated by tho Italian king. Then we all drank a glass of deli cious Burgundy, and I hurried back to camp- I like France. However, I am not going to wrlto a book Interpreting the soul of France, for I think a threo months' ncquulntunce hardly entitles ono to soiil-relatlonslilpii (with countries, at least), and my Impressions of tills land aro a series of mental snapshots, memories of detached little episodes, or or Inter esting scones. 1 remember tho green rolling; meadows and fields of Brittany, cut into checkerboard Bqnares by hedges where old men and women and little boys and girls were cutting the ripe wheat with sickles. I remember the high perched ruins of an old castle destroyed In the frlghful days of tho clad stones are slowly rotting. Nea' Jacquerie. That was six hundred years ago. Tho few remaining vine It Is tho parish church, a large and graceful stone structure of Into ori gin, not more than a couplo of hun dred years old. What a symbol, theso two, standing sldo by side! The temporal passes, tho eternal rises, ever new. I have another snap-shot, too, one) that I got not long ago whllo coming hack ono Sunday afternoon from Lav Hochelle. I must dlgrcHS for a mo ment. Did you know that In 136i Hochelle was ceded to the English a a prize of tho disastrous first period of tho Hundred Year's War, but for a wholo year refused to open her gates to til 3 English king? And that twelve years later, In 13T2, bravely rebelled and returned to her French allegiance? To resume: The tram curs which run only ovory half hour, aro always crowded. As on almost all such lines In France tho conduc tors aro conductresses. For a crowd, this Sunday was no exception; the cars wore jammed, Thoro wera American soldiers and sailors, French: soldiers and sailors, civilians, offi cers, privates, men and women, a priest, French territorials from An nam and Algeria; four continents were certainly represented, and it la not Impossible that all may havo been. It was inevltablo that some body should not pay his fare, and tho conductress decided that that person was one of the Algerians. In stantly the air was filled with vehe ment denials, charge and counter charge, ardent protestations of Inno cence, shrill accusations of guilt. Everybody craned tholr nocks, and as many as could made remarks, offered advice, sought explanations. Thtf accused one's comrades rallied to hla support, increasing the quantity of sound even If not clarifying the situ ation materially. Such a row would have tried th (Continued on Page Six)