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Nix on the uon-partisan and
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German shock troops took another try at the Yankee noldier.
And the ihocKeri were RUOCKea again. Aim to n ic uu wiv um
4 of the chapter. . '
1 SACRED BO AD AS WAR MEMORIAL
Already the French jroveniincnt has decided on a memorial that
will worthily represent to the age to come the grandeur and the
horror of the present world-war. It is to take the form' of a "Ha
tred road" stretching four hundred miles, from the coast of Flan
deni to far Alsace, along the line on which for three years and more
the contending hosts have faced each other in grim battle.
.. Planted on each side with forest trees, the memorial road is
to grow year by year, century, by century, into an undying and per
petual monument which Nature herself shall raise in everlasting com
memoration of the war. V
Jn the woods at either side the eountless heroes who have given
up their lives for humanity will sleep their last sleep in graves
kept beautiful by tender and grateful hands. Thus within this long
-and narrow woodland belt will be' preserved the whole majesty, the
whole terror, the sacrifice, and abomination of war as a "memorial
and a lesson to the generations to come. .
Already active preparations are being made for the commence
ment of the scheme. By direction of the French Government, aided
by the co-operation of patriotic societies and individuals, a million
young trees have been collected, and when peace at last comes to
the world, this sacred road will spring, quickly into being.
ATT25K TWENTY-FIVE 1 HUNDRED TEARS
. X '-lh , y (Orgonian, Tuesday) " .
!l There is nothing new tuider the sun 'The prototype of the con
l scientious objector wa well known in the sixth century before
Christ.. . .1 v ' '-.; -.;..'
It was at about that period, according to more or less reliable
history, that Aesop lived and related his hTWy moral fables. Aesop
tells the following: ' v
MA boy was bathing in a river and got out of his depth and was
in great danger of being drowned. A man who was passing along
a road hard by heard his cries for help and went to the riverside
9 and began to scold him for being so careless as to get into deep
' rvater, but made no attempt to help him. 'Oh sir,' cried the boy,
V 'please help me first and scold me afterwards.' " : ,
v It was an earnest man of whom Aesbp tells, a conscientious man.
He had a duty to perform and lie performed it." Whether the boy
finally drowned the chronicler does not say, but it is a safe conclu
sion that if he did the conscientious man departed from the scene
. firmer than ever in a righteous conviction. )
We have with us in Oregon a scholarly man who will not sub-
scribe for liberty bonds because he earnestly, believes that the war
should have been financed in another way.
Wo have with us also a conscience-gifted librarian who scolds
the Nation for getting into deep water, but will not assist it to get
: OUt. : ,' - 1 I
; They are but types, they are met in all affairs. It may be the
financier who tells the pending bankrupt how he could have kept
out of financial difficulties and kindly shows him the door, or it
may be the pious person who gives a life convict tracts on the suc
cess of moral living. They are everywhere. They arc long on ad
Vvice but short on assistance. But the wonder is that in all our pro
egress we have not been able to shuck them in twenty-five hundred
,' years. ; V V: .
It Is General Foeh's move
i The tide of battle has turned.
Illndenburg Is no longer a name
to conjure with.
The Pdrtland Evening Telegrau
thinks the candidacy of Oswald West
for linked States senator, and'IMerce
for governor, on the Democratic
ticket, means the bringing Into Oregon-
of the' unsavory and notorious
ron-ptrtlsan league, whkh has track
ed its slimy trail over the politics
and business of some of the states In
the old Northwest,. It is an Inflic
tion that Oregon ought to be spared,
If possible. .
"Tho full strategic plan has not
been accomplished. The battlo ap
parently does not produce the desir
ed result," declares the Frankfurter
Zeltung. That great German news
paper might go further, afid say
truthfully that the German armi,
after the wanton sacrifice of moun
tains of men, Is in worse position
than before the drive and Infinitely
worse In morale and vulnerability
from any stroke General Foch mar
I Ian. Germany U licked; but It may
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neutral this year.
i
take some time yet to prove it to
lir people. The heads of her armlej
know it now.
The shipping board is to build a
non-sinkable ship designed by Hud
son Maxim, laifely because the Max
im device can be removed if it fails
and the ship used in regular service.
The end sought Is so dtslrable that
the. board Is willing to take this much
of a chance.
Germany was obliging enough to
rtop the bombardment of Paris for
the funeral of the councillor of the
fevlss embassy, killed on Good Friday
In church, and to express Its regret
to the Swiss government. It does
not, however, apologize for begin
nlng the bombardment without the
warning which it wa obligated to
give by the Hague convention to
which it was a party.
Interesting facts are given by the
Literary Digest for March 30 in re
gard to the falling off In the study
of German. An inquiry was sabmlt
ted to over 1200 school superintend
ents in the United States. Of about
1000 school systems in which tfer
man had formerly been fa tight, H9
or 15 per rent, had abandoned t.
Though the tendency appears In. all
parts of the country. It Is evidently
much stronger In the South. Ten
southern states show an average of
40 per cent for rejection, while in
ten northern the average Is but 7
per cent. To some extent this may
be due to the larger proportion of
native-born Americans In the South,
but In prt also It may be ascribed
to the fact that foreign language
study In the South Is a plant of frail
er growth. High school German and
German In the elementary school!
appear to fall tinder the same tan.
and college German suffers too, al
though on ,ebcr second thought th?
country will probably realize that
there Is a great difference between
putting the elementary schools on an
American basis and giving mature
students instruction In German.
Rifle production has by this time
sl'enced the arm-choir critics. What
ever may be true of ships and air
planes, the rifle situation, says the
North American Review's War Week
ly, Is "the most remarkable achieve
ment in small-arms design and man
ufacture that the world has ever
known."
Miss Helen Frasor, or London, the
author of "Women and War Work,"
told a Iloston audience that 258,000
women are doing farm work la Great
Hritain. 70,000 permanently on tha
land and the rest giving part time
in service. It was not so easy to
get them there, for in the early days
of the war English farmern were in
clined to think women could be of
no use to them. The method adopted
by the board of agriculture Is to train
the women from six to eight weeks
and then put them on the farms,
where they are gradually broken In.
"Women inspectors see that the tftrls
are properly housed. The pay is not
more than half of what a woman mu
nitions worker gels, so that patriot-
lem plays its part at this point.
TIIM WOULD TUKXKD KKIHOl'B.
Four years ago, America might
Lave betrn said to be the spoiled child
among the great nations of the world.
The youngest in years, she was also
the youngest in her attitude toward
the realities of life. She took tho
gifts of the gods with a light and
almost care-free heart, without, per
hsps, that fe$ilng of high responsi
bility which comes onjy with years
and after great, sorrows and great.
trials have entered Into the heart.
Isolated from the rest of the world.
m if -sufficient, rich and powerful, and
beset by no great dangers, as were
the huddled nations of Europe, she
did not realize fully the truth which
has been expressed by her own great
poet, that 'life is real, life la ear-
rest."
In the last four years, however,
America has grown up, as It were.
As a nation she has been brought
face to face with character-building
rtalltles. She has been confronted
by gigantic problems. She haa beea
baptized by dangers and tribulations,
he has been called upon to put asldd
the lighter and more frivolous things
and to enter into a gigantic struggle
to maintain the profoundest and most
exalted ideals which mankind has
yet conceived.
Yesterday America was.lightheart
cd; today she has turned serious
along with (he other nations of the
earth. The world In general has cen
tred Its energies in a titanic conflict,
the violence of which knows no par
allel in history. It is as if so mo
great cosmic year were drawing to a
close, and the world had been plung
ed Into the midst or a grim and ter
rifying winter. The darkest hour
just precedes the dawn, and the
bleakest days are those which Just
precede the spring. Perhaps even
now the dawn is waiting over the
black horizon to spread its roseate
light upon us.
- There is good, in all things, fie
neatb even the greatest tragedies
there Is bidden some divine purpose
or benevolence. We know too little
to judge the great fores of the uni
verse with our puny minds, and from
our limited point of view. Hut even
during these grim and tragic days
we may find some' blessing. In the
Mack and determined seriousness
into which mankind has been plung
ed, we are learning things which
w only vaguely guessed at before.
We are'bfccoming conscious of depth
of sacrifice and unselfishness which
e did not know existed. We are
withstanding tests and rising to
heights of achievement of. which we
did not think ourselves capable. And
we ar discovering potentialities and
possibilities which might ever have
remained hidden save under th
Hress of the present conflict. Some
thing greater than oursrlves has ta
ken hold of us snd uplifted us.
In all our suffering and serious
ness msny great lessons of life have
teen borne In upon us. We have
rvrvntn datk
April.. fourth wIc Msrlti County
CtirUtlsn Kndeavor eenventlon, Rulem
Mar. Utes M st Bute Grant
convention. fUlcm.
Msy J. Thursday. Indication tof
inampoog memorial mjiMing.
Mar 17. Friday.- Crimarr nominal
In a lection
Jun ?B. Thursday Reunion f Ors
go Fiwnssr association. s'wrUaud.
Ah! That's the Spot
Sloan's I jn!mfi mnmm riafit tn ft.
Have you m, rheumatic ache or
dull throbbing; neuralgic pain? You.
can dadm quick and effectiv relief
in Sloan's Liniment. Thousands of
homes have this remedy handy for
all external pains beoauae tiro and
liMaaaiaiikaapravMifta qakWt nlfl.
t So cUaa and twr t. mppiy. In, No nib.
Maia. m UcmirMWM aa U la.
mswlkpifr e aantrnvnu. Ilyoaaaca
mm Sloaa Luuawat.yaa will mvm U wtta-
Caaarows alaai bottlaa. at all dxuggieta.
Sloan'
prirvm in) tnrrenm4 S S4M J I
learned, for instance, that" llfe'can
r.ever bo all play,' and that we can
not attain to any lieights along the
pathway of f rivolltly. j Tho world
had thought too much of mere pleas
ure-seeking, and had given too much
time to the attainment of fleeting
happiness. It had become prodigal
of its Energies, and Its gifts. It had
become wasteful of the material
things of life, and had failed to ap
preciate true Joy becauso It had not
known the other and darker side or
existence. i
The war awakened us as, if from a
dream, and by bringing to us the
trials and seriousness tff duty and
service, gave us a broader under
standing or others, teaching as a
tolerance and Insight and sympathy,
vhlch we Were beginning to lose in
our pursuit of personal pleasure. Tho
Ideals of humanity, of brotherly lov
of consideration for others, will be
strengthened by this period of seri
ousness. Already we halve begun to
live lives of human service, and the
reason this Is so is that we have
been brought to a realization of the
needs. of others, and our own duty
to a cause which Is bigger and higher
than the pursuit of our own desires,
In the soil of seriousness a new
and lovely flower of humanity has
taken root, and begun to bloom. And
when these dark days have passed
and the world can once more smile,
and seek the Joys, of life, it will b
with a saner vision and with a md
lower heart. I
CIIF.AP
LIVING.
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Some five or six years ago, when
prices agricultural products begai
to go up, and people commenced to
complain of the hight cost of living.
the assistant editor of j Wallace?'
Farmer, of Des Moines, Iowa, who Is
of an inquiring turn of mind, thought
he would, see how cheaply a man
might live and keep himself in gool
physical condition.
' He worked out a ration composed
chiefly of corn meal In different
forms, balanced with cottonseed
meal, oil meal and soy bean meal
lie calculated the amount of fool
material necessary to furnlxh the re
quired energy and repair for mus
cles of a man of 150 pounds weight
at light physical, exercir e. He start
id with an average .daily ; ration of
one and one-fourth pounds nf corn
local, one-eighth of a pound of cot
tonseed meal or oil meal or soy bean
meal, and one-half ounce of butter
For breakfast ho mixed the cotton
seed meal with corn meal in the form
or mush. For the other two meals
he used the corn meal as a corn
bread. He managed to get along
fairly well on this ration for a month,
eating an apple or a- rutabaga once In
a while, which furnished the miner
al salts that he thought possibly
might be lacking in his ration. Th
uverage dally cost of this ration was
7 cents Today It would be 14 cents.
During, the first week after going
onto this ration, ho lost about eight
pounds In weight. After that, how
ever, he maintained his weight fairly
well, and "continued the experiment
for a number of weeks.
A year ago. when thre was great
agitation as to the scarcity of wheat,
be determined to repeat his experi
ments. He started with a ration of
corn pancakes or mush for breakfast,
a quart of milk for the noon lunch,
and at night milk and mush or pop
corn. .This ration was lacking in iron,
Ind therefore be ate. an egg once
in a while, and a little In the way of
radishes, lettuce 'and other green
tuff aa It came In season, j
STUMEZE
KTOIH STOMACH DIHTHKKM.
Miami, Kls. "I nwr toH.so small
an amount of mrdlHn that rrliv-(t
mm ao much. Your HTLMfclZK look lh
oli.at from my atomai-h, ati;(l , ta
nervous lr-mbl!n iml I Ml ao rnurh
brtttr. I will jrala It's virtues whrrr
'W l v." dart I Davla. 20 llarnr
m. HMilv health Is necessary tha
atrcnuous dajs. No man of woman
can tx healthy who allow food to sour
and ferment In th atomarh and thua
polaon the hlooo1. N'ealert . menna mla
ery; art a hot t la of MTUMEZB today
If your atomaeit hurts. Thla reliable
atomarh medtrina offers you relief
from tha Ilia thjt beaet you. For sale
and guaranteed ley all druggists.
From about the 1st of April until
the first of July, he ffd himself at a
cost of 30 cents a day. During this
period he tasted neither wheat nor
meat in any form. Thla ration proved
to be more efficient than the simpler
latlon used in the former experiment.
it maintained his weight, and he ap
peared to feel all right la every way.
and kept up bis work on the paper
as well as on bis farm.
The exclusive corn ration, how
ever, became somewhat monotonous.
and he began to use some oatmeal
for breakfast, oats being at that timo
at a price which furnished nutriment
cheaper than either , wheat or cora.
As corn increased in prlca relative to
wheat, he began to use wheat In tho
form of bread and hi Ilk, when t
could be usVd as cheaply as corn. For
a couple of months his typical dally
ration was a quart of milk for break
fast, a nickel's worth of peanuts for
lunch, and bread and milk for sup
per, with vegetables in season. Tho
total cost was still less than 30 cent
a day. This ration proved to be sat
isfactory in every way.
If people want to get down to
solid business in this matter of eat
ing, they can .do It without the slight
est Injury to their work or their phy
deal feelings. It is possible to cut
down very much on the consumption
ct creotn, butter, sugar and meat.
Ml of these roods have cheaper sub
stitutes. Skim milk is a superior
substitute for .meat. Peanuta are a
partial substitute for meat and a
partial substitute for butter. Sugar
is very little different in Its ultimate
composition from. bread. We have
simply gotten intd the habit of using
sugar as an appetizer.
On such a ration assuggested, it
would be possible to maintain in iht
United States about twice as many
people as on oar old type of ration,
without materially Increasing the
amount of plow land. Of course. If
we should farm In any such intens
Ive system as the Japanese or Chi
nesrt we would tremendously in
crease the number of people we could
feed.
We are not making an argument
la favor of such a way of living, but
simply pointing out what can be done
if necessary. Our customary way Of
living is far better for several rea
sons. The meat-eating type of civil
ization always has resources on
which It can draw la time or real
food Scarcity; .while the vegetarian
nation Is always exposed to famine,
and at times pays a fearful penalty
far living so close to minimum cost.
It is-time for us to undersand, how
ever, some of the fundamental prin
ciples of human nutrition, ao that
we can In an emergency cot down
our living cost without doing any
real Injury to the health of. our peo
ple. A great deal of the complaint
aglnst the high cost of foodstuffs Is
psychological. People have ben ac
customed to live wastefully and cat
thoughtlessly, and they complain like
children when prices go up. They
think it Is the farmer's business to
continue to feed them cheaply.
I BITS FOR BREAKFAST I
Straight Americans?
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It is the time for them. .
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Huy Liberty Bonds till it hurts. '
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Then buy some more.
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Cool enough for winter weather.
Mt. Angel has received commend
ation from Washington for her good
record in Mherty Ilon-J buying. Put
that down to the-loyaly or Mt. Angel.
The speculations from Washington
as to what may happen next on the
western front are ail right; but there
arde also some good guessers In
Salem.
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General Foeh probably knows; but
he will not tell. x
In the meantime, where is Hyng?
Time for a llyngo from him.
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Ono guess is that Illndenburg will
not longer fix the places for the
heavy fighting. His part will likely
from now on be second fiddle.
Many women will participate in
the eleventh annual convention of
the Kebekah lodgo which will be held
In this rlty, Saturday April 27, wltn
representations from ten lodges. Mm.
Itay W. Hlmersl of Salem will art as
the chairman of the district. Among
the honored guests will be Mrs.
Mary A. Iinkester of Astoria, who
fl the stale president of the !(
bekah assembly of Oregon, and Mrs.
Oro Cosper or Dallas, who Is tho
state secretary. -The meeting will
be held both afternoon and evening.
At nlaht the degree work will be ex
emplified by the Salem starr. In
district number 4, the towns which
will send delegates besides Salem,
are SUVerton. Woodbtirn. Gervals,
Hubbard, Canby, Scotts Mills. An-
g.rora. Needy. and Turner.
Mr. and Mrs, Frederkk Schmidt
are being showered with felicitations
I IN A SOCIAL
WAYEZ3
By rirae KUaabatfc XUaU
the sun with . Sif
VAi UUUNiUlilin LI
Ulslon for a moment, those far oft ports
beyond the trackless seas
From Arctic ice, to the. torrid lands
beneath the Southern Cross
From towns tucked in the mountains, to
the busy river's mouth
VR1GLEY5 is there.
There, because men find
comfort and refreshment
In Its continued use.
Because of Its benefits
and because
upon the arrival of a son. born to
them last night,' at the Salem hos
pital. .The Schmidts came to -Salem
In, February from Olyjupla. Wash.,
and have been making their home at
104 Hellevue street. Mr. Schmidt la
a brother of Frank Schmidt ami n
cousin of Paul Schmidt; both or
Salem.
Mr. and 'Mrs. John Wlthycombe
motored tn Portland lor a Sunday
visit and bronght home with them
little Miss Sarah Elizabeth Cannon,
the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. M.
Cannon of Portland. Mrs. Cannon
Is a sister of Mrs. Wlthycombe. The
Wlthycombes are building a country
place near Lake Labish.
Mr. and Mrs. 11. N. Hoover enter
tained as their guests over the week
end Mr. Hoover's brother and his
bride, Mr. and Mrs. W. It. Hoover or
Portland, who are on a bridal tour
from the east. They were married
Kaster morning at the home of the
bride's parents in Kansas City. Mrs.
Hoover was Miss Myrtle Hilty and
has been popular with a large circle
of friends In Portland, where siie
recently lived. Prior to hit marriage
Mr. Hoover visited with relatives In
Pennsylvania. Kn route to the west
the couple. were the guests of a slmer
nf the bride in Joplln, Mo., and In
California they made a special so
journ. Mr. and Mrs. -Hoover left
yesterday ror Portland and later will
go to Hood Klver oft their ranch rov
the summer.
Mrs. G. W. Jones hss returned to
her home In Albany after vlsltlns
for some days with her daughter,
Mrs. Lela IMer, of North Liberty
street.
Mrs. II. II. Richmond will be at
home to the iiM.inl. r of lb- Knale
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WSAeetD
wood United Brethren church at aa
aid meeting to be held at Jaer resi
dence tomorrow afternoon. ; :
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8. I). F.fljott has as bis guest his
slter, Mrs. l M. ll'irks and the lat
ter's daughter, Mlxs Hosemary
Purks. of Montana. ' They will re
main for several days.
.
Mr. and Mrs. Paul Krack of Port
land were the guests of Mr. and Mr.
Horace Sykcs of 1251 Center street
over Sunday. . . . ,.,'r
Judge Praises Work of
: Lieutenant McQaarrie .
That one can't say too much id
praise of the work bcoing done for t
l 1:1 , .. . . '
tor MacQuarrie, recently returned
from France, is the opinion of Jus
tice Lawrence T. Harris of the su
preme court, who heard the speaker "
in JCugenc, when Jie gave an address
several days ano. Lieutenant Mac
Quarrie w:Ul rpeak In Salera Wednes
day night, but Justice Harris hs
the Rood rortiine to hear him earlier
and Is very enthutlastlc over the
points which the Canadian soldier
brought out in bis speech. - --'
MOTHER CRAY'S
SWEET POWDERS
FOR CHILDREN, '
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