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FRUITS TO BE
PREPARED FOR
SICK SOLDIERS
Branch of National League
for Women's Service Or
ganized in Salem
CANNERS TO BEGIN WORK
Donations of Fruit and Glass
Containers Called for
This Week
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SALEM'S ONLY
UNDINE ANDREWS VANCE and TAYLOR WILLIAM MORROW
.Novelty Singing and In Comedy Nove,!ty
, D' "CORSETS" MimicrT sonn
WEEKLY as I COMEDY
Hippodrome Vaudeville
SELECTED FOR TODAY
; Before the ftrmy of the Czeoho-SIcraks arrived at nadivostok the
other day Japanese marines landed from battleships in the harbor were
in control of the city. They main-taincsl order for a long period.
Don't:
.Qsfcjlk Get Caught on
the Road
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in shape before that trip. Equip your car with an
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AUTO ELECTRIC
. SERVICE CO.
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Phone 348
SPECIAL
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NEEDLECRAFT SHOP I
4?9 Court Street
Soldiers in the hospitals at nearby
cantonments are to receive Jellies
and canned fruits prepared by the
women of Salem just as soon as a
movement instituted this week by
the National League for Women's I
Service can be put under way. Mrs.
P. L. , Campbell of Eugene, state
chairman, passed Thursday in this
city organizing a branch of the league
and explaining its work.
The object is to make Salem a
canning center and to use up, if pos
sible, surplus fruit this season. In
Portland and other large towns the
plan has proven successful. No ex-
I tra expense will be entailed, the
whole scheme being carried out by
donations. If a farmer has more
berries, cherries or other fruit on
his land than he can possibly pick,
if he will communicate with Mrs. F.
G. Bowersox by telephoning 2502J1
in the mornings and she will see that
either pickers are provided or an
automobile calls for the fruit if pick
ed. Mrs. J. J. Roberts has been, made
head of the committee in charge of
collecting donations by automobile.
Mrs. Isaac Lee Patterson is general
chairman for Marlon and Polk coun
ties. Canning Begins Thursday.
The canning will be done in the
domestic science room at the high
school every- Thursday beginning
next week. Mrs. Elizabeth Lamb and
Mrs. Louis Lachmund . will super
vise this. The fruit must be on hand
Wednesday, as well as sufficient jel
ly glasses and jars. A call for gifts
of such receptacles has also been Is
sued.
Should any women desire to put
up jams or preserves at home and
place them in empty cold cream jars
or similar containers such as usually
go to waste, they will be acceptable.
In order to pay for the sugar.
tags will be sold next Saturday for a
small sum and this will go Into the
general fund. County. Food admin
istrator F. W. Steusloff has given
the women permission to purchase
all the sugar needed.
Four Camp to Benefit
The finished product will be sent
direct to the four nearby training
camps at Vancouver, Fort Stevens.
Fort Canby and Fort Columbia.
These have been designated for the
Willamette Valley towns. All red
tape will be cut out, as the women
will simply aid the government in
providing the little luxuries which
it is unable to supply in great
quantities. There are 400 boys in
the base hospital at Vancouver alone
at the present so there is little dan
ger of too much of the preserved
fruit being sent.
Volunteers are desired both to
help prepare the fruit and to give
Jars and berries.
AMERICANS HOLD OVER
5,000 HUNS
(Continued on page G).
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Thierry.
Phone 9581
IIIMU1M
to check the allies, who, at one point.
moved forward half a mile.
The French and Americans squeez
ed the sack jn which the Germans ap
pear to be caught somewhat tighter
Saturday. At midday they had made
an average gain of more than a mile
along the line Chateau Thierry-So-issons.
while another gain of a sim
ilar distance had been made south
of the Marne and east of Chateau
KAI D IX AIjSAC'E.
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY IN
ALSACE. July 20. ..(By th As
sociated Pi ess.) A raid undertaken
by the Americans last night south
west of Munster resulted In a pene
tration of the German lines for a dl
tance of from five hundred to six
hundred meters and the capture of
five prisoners.
The raid was preceded by effective
artillery prepaiation which lasted 45
minutes. The enemy suffered heavy
casualties.
Camp Kearney Men' Already
Seeing Action on Front
CAMP KEARNEY. San Diego. Cal..
July 20. Men from this camp whom
it was announced several days ago
arrived In France, have been in ac-
Jon. oficers said here today. Their
statement they said, was based upon
notifications to relatives that some
of the men had been wounded. No
casualty list so far has indicated
men from Camp Kearney have been
in actlv-
SURVIVORS Xl'MHEIt 11B3.
WASHINGTON, July 20. Eleven
hundred and eighty-three survivors
from the armored cruiser San Diego,
sunk yesterday off the coast of Lang
Island, have been landed at New
York. Rear Admiral Palmer, acting
secretary of the navy announced today.
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CENSUS FIGURES
FAIL TO AGREE
Various Surmises Can Be
Made by Consulting Public
Utilities
Is Salem'a population Increasing
or is It on the decline?
Figures disagree, but It Is evident
that if there It- a loss on account of
the number of families moving to
shipbuilding centers since the first
or the year, the wildest guesa couia
nit place it at more than 400 persons
From the monthly report of the
telephone company Information may
be gleaned as to the present popula
tion or the city, an estimate placing
it between 14.050 and 15.000 at the
end of June. On January 1 It was
placed at 15,400 and two years ago
at 18.000.
During the summer months there
are always a large number or people
moving away temporarily. The tele
phone company lost twenty-even
subscribers in June, ten or these be
ing disconnections at public schools.
This makes the actual loss seventeen
stations. Last June It was sixteen
and in 1916. forty-nine. Since Jan
uaiy, 1918, the company has gained
four stations. The present number
In operation is 2809 in the city and
1000 farmers.
THE LAST DITCH
((Juy Fitch Phelps)
In No Man's Land, and flat in the mud,
I u net tired with shrapnel -and Rineared with Mood,
And a dum-dum snug in my spine:
A dead Hun lying across myfeet,
(iod! How he spouted his vrine!
That's what happen when soldiers meet.
Machine gun and cannon and mine;
That's why I'm lying and dying here,
Iast of the fated line.
Kvery one of the loys cashed in.
Crucifixions are not so sweet,
Itayonets driven in hands and feet,
lietter have all of that done in the fight;
Hetter to parry with main and might;
Better Ik? lying and dying here,
Blackened and sticky with smell and smear,
Surrounded hy faces still and white.
And the shrapneled air and the shell-ripped night.
Five hundred French and three thousand Huns
And half that number of Englishmen,
Battered and scattered with hroken guns,
Like flame-killed trees in an autumn glen.
Out in the open we closed the deal,
Not a wild rose hush to give us cover,
Till the humah wheat was reaped hy steel
Like a grim-browed wood hy a gale blown over:
How will the women in Paris feel!
Think how Mary will weep in Dover!
Frozen here to the purple earth.
Only the spark in my brain still burning;
A thousand guns at their splendid mirth
The spite of the insolent Hun returning.
These and the ghastly lieajw of dead.
And the icy winds through the rap'd trees mourning:
The shock and whizz ami roar and crash
As if the sky to the earth were falling;
The bellow and bawl, the gleam and flash.
And wounded men through the darkness calling.
Here I lie at the end of the trail,
With a duurdum snug in my spine;
And a dead Hun lying across my feet.
Yielding his drops of wine;
Strange that the spark in my brain still burns.
Strange that the stars still shine I
Strange that I should W thinking of her,
Lying here in the purple mud;
Strange that her prayer comes back to me'
Strange that I should be talkipg to God!
I who have traveled the Seven Seas,
Cursing fate and my luck together;
Fighting sharks by Celebes,
Breasting Chilcoot's fiend-made weather-
Drunk as a fool at Dunedin, '
Raising the devil at Sante Fe;
A flringo loving a Gringo's sin.
In the love-hot markets of Monterey
Iiiding the White Horse Rapid through
With never a touch of helm or paddle
Going for life through Mexico ' -With
a senorita behind mv saddle.
Going the way of the truant wind,
Anting my soul with foul disgraces- '
Leaving all that is good !ehind;
Daring death in a thousand places
Strange that I should he lying here
Thinking of long-forgotten faces;
Strange that I who have done all this
Should be dying here for the old world', races!
ThtTe are ttn less water users In
the city in the last month, but to
quote the water company officials,
"that doesn't signify anything.
Many families have b-en disconnec-t-
ed from the mains while they are at 1
work In the beriy fields. In the last
three months only reventeen houses
have been shut off. Three thousand
is the average number of water users
in Salem.
Nothing but an annual record of
the number or light consumers . Is
kept at the Portland Hallway Light
A Pdwer company office. The me
ters aie not taken out each time a
family moves from a house so it Is
impossible to state exactly how many
have gone. What rigurea can be
obtained from the company's books
however, are less optimistic. For
Instance, since the first of the pres
ent month rive customers have mov
ed out of town. It Is thought that
about 100 have left so far this year.
This would bring an aveiage or 400
less residents. The Increase from
293 In December. 191C. to 3103
In December. 1917, Is due to exten
sions or the service.
When a man rets employment In
the shipyards or is dra'ted this does
not necessarily mean that his wire
and children follow him. Many re
main in their former homes and this
Is one or the big reasons why there
is not a greater railing off In popu
lation In Salem as In many of the
valley towns.
MAKING FOOD FTtOlI WASTE.
Keep this thought In mind In con
sidering the growing of nor poultry
as a war necessity: Poultry la a
means of converting Into good food
materials that can not be uUHted by
man. that can not be eaten by any
other kinds of stock, and that with
out tba poultry would be absolute
waste. Very clearly It becomes a na
tional as wtll as an Individual doty
to keep enough poultry to take 119 an
such waste materials. As long as
fowls take the bulk of their feed from
such sources and require to be fed
on train or other garnered feeds only
as a finishing process, additional food
is tx lng created.
AMEIUCAX 1IKX IN IUGH ESTEEM
Among the echoes following la the
wake of the U. S. Food Administra
tion's so-called llve-hen order" Is
this thought which harmonises with
recent developments In poultry con
ditions: "Restrictions last winter and
spring on the sale of live bens and
pullets for slaughter, says a poultry
man In discussing- the situation,
-forcibly directed the attention of
American producers to the value of
the Industrious ben who now occu
pies a place more nearly than ever
btfore on a par with other farm live
stock. The extent to which farmers
recognize ber true value is shown by
the fact that they have refused to sen
hens to any extent, even though pric
es have been unusually high ever
since the embargo was lifted.
The large spring and summer egg
trade Is ample evidence or the liberal
amount of poultry now la the country
and contributing to the nation's food
apply. Through systematic super
vision aad licensing regulations, the
food administration la now endeavor
ing to reduce to a minimum the hot-
weather spoilage of eggs. Eneourag-l
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HE'S WEARING THE BLUE SHIRT AGAIN!
The most beloved tUr of motion pictures is re-appearing in
one of his famous, favorite roles of the
great north woods
BIG BILL
FARNUM
IN
"THE HEART OF A LION"
Based on Ealph Connor's Novel "The Doctor4
Staged by Frank Lloyd
FIRST TIME SHOWN HERE ?
FINLEY NATURE PICTURE l!
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A RATTLING GOOD COMEDY 1
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