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PAGE EIGHT The OREGON STATESMAN. Salem. Oregon, Tuesday Morning:. October 1. 1929 "All Quiet Z Western Front" CHAPTER XIII i The night la nnbearable. We cannot sleep. But stare ahead of t us and doze. Tjaden regrets that we wasted the gnawed pieces of j bread on the rats. We would gladly haTe them again to eat now. We are rhort of water, too, but not seriously yet. Towards morning, while it is still dark, there is some excite ment. Through the entrance rush es in a swarm of fleeing rats that try to storm the walls. Torches light up the confusion: Everyone yells and curses and slaughters. The madness and despair of many hours unloads itself in this out burst. Faces are distorted, arnu strike out. the beasts scream; we just stop in time to avoid attack ing one another. The onslaught has exhausted us. We lie down to wait again. It is a marvel that our post has had no casualties bo far. It is one of the few deep dug-outs. A corporal creeps in; he has a loaf or bread with him. Three people have had the luck to get through during the night and I 1 bring some provisions. They say the bombardment extends undim inished as far a3 the artillery lines. It is a mystery where the enemy gets all his shells. We wait and wait. By midday what I expected happens. One of the recruits has a fit. I have been watching him for a long time, grinding his teeth, and opening and shutting his fists. These hunt ed, protruding eyes, we know them too well. During the last few hours he has had merely the appear ance of calm. He had collapsed like a rotten tree. Now he stands up. stealthily creeps across the floor, hesitates a moment and then glides towards the door. I Intercept him and say: "Where are you going?" "I'll be back in a minute," says he, and tries to push me. "Wait a bit, the shelling will stop soon." He listens and for a moment his eye becomes clear. Then again he has the glowering eyes of a mad dog, he is silent, he shoves me aside. "On minute, lad," I say. Kat notices. Just as the recruit shakes me off Kat jumps in and we hold him. Then he begins to rave: "Leave me alone, let me go out. I will go out!" He won't listen to anything and hits out, his mouth is wet and pours out words, half choked, meaningless words. It is a case of claustraphobia, he feels as though he is suffocating here and wants to get out at any price. If we let him go he would run about every where regardless of cover. He is not the first. Though he raves and his eyes roll, it can't be helped and we have to give him a hiding to bring him to his senses. We do it quick ly and mercilessly, and at last he sits down quietly. The others have turned pale; let's fiope It deters them. This bombardment is too much for the poor devils that have been sent straight from a recruit ing depot into a barrage that is enough to turn an old soldier's hair gray. After this affair t.h e sticky close atmosphere works more than ever on our nerves. We sit as if In our graves waiting only to be closed in. Suddenly it howls and flashes terrifically, the dugout cracks in all its Joints under a direct hit, fortunately ODly a light one that the concrete blocks are able to withstand. It rings metallically. FNLIST SUN'S RA YS IN COMB A TTING RICKETS This Disease, Says Dr. Copeland, Is One of the Penalties of Improper Feeding Sunlight and Good Food Will Help Baby Back to Health. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Commissioner of UeaWi. Veto Tor City. CIVILIZATION demands much. She makes us pay high prices for' what she gives. Chiefly these penalties are the diseases caused by our modern mode af life and the kinds of food we eat. Rickets is such a disease. It is caused by improper diet. As a rule rickets is found among children who are bottle fed. But occasionally a breast fed baby develops the disease. Formerly, it was generally believed that bad air, lack of exercise and infection were the prin cipal causes. It is true that children taken from such surroundings when suffering from rickets and exposed to sunshine and fresh air begin to show immediate improvement. An interesting fact about this disease is its geographic occurence. It is most prevalent m America and middle Europe. Children of Italy, Spain, Greece. Norway, Denmark and of the Eskimo regions rarely are affected. In the southern countries it is because the intense heat keeps the children out-of-doors. In the northern regions the mothers nurse their r.VSra f ihed. Negro and Italian children in inese races prevents wis out tbesa rays there Is xeat danger of rickets. The children with rickets have dif ficulty to walking. They are pigeon breasted, knock-kneed, have enlarged Joints, bony protuberance of the skull and other deformities. - The abdom inal muscle are weak, giving a "pot bellied" appearance. The child eats nd sleeps poorly. Is nervous and irri table. exposure to the direct rays of the sun is desirable. Artificial lights have much the same effect. The hos pitals and clinics now give these Ught treatments. w - Orange, tomato and prune Juice, spinach, cabbage, milk and eggs are rich in those elements supplying the bone-building tissues. Cod-liver oil ts of great vatue and should be given rerularly. Py proper feeding and exposure to sunlight the mother may be confi dent her baby Is safe. We need not worry over an aliment so well under stood. "Anawcr to Health Queries 1 C C. K. Q. What will remove brown scars left by pimples? 2 What should a girl of twenty one, five feet four inches tall, weigh? What should a three-year-old boy weigh? A If the sears are not tfeep the X-ray may be of benefit in making the walls reel, rifles, helmets, earth, mud and dust fly every where. Sulphur fumes pour in. If we were rn one of those light dug-outs that they have been building lately Instead of this deep one, not one of us would now. be alive. But the effect is bad enough even so. The recruit Btarts to rave again and two other fellows fol low suit. One jumps up and rush es out, we have trouble with the other two. I start after the one who escapes and wonders whether to shout him in the leg then it shrieks again. I fling .myself down and when I stand up the wall of the trench is plastered with smoking sprinters, lumps of flesh and bits of uniform. I scram ble back. The first recruit seems actually to have gone Insane. He butts his head against the wall like a goat. We must try tonight to take him to the rear. Meanwhile we bind him, but in such a way that in case of attack he can1 be re leased at once. Kat suggests a game of skat; tt Is easier when a man has some thing to do. But it is no use, we listen for every explosion that comes close, miscount the tricks, and fail to follow suit. We have to give it up. We sit as though in a hissing boiler that is being be labored from without on all sides. Night again. We are deadened by the strain a deadly tension that scrapes along one's spine like a gapped knife. Our legs refuse to move, our hands tremble, our bodies are a thin skin stretched painfully over repressed madness, over an almost irresistible, burst ing roar. We have neither flesh nor muscles any longer, we dare not look at one another for fear of some incalculable thing. So we shut our teeth it will end it will end perhaps we will come through. Suddenly the nearer explosions cease. The shelling continues but it has lifted and falls behind us, our trench Is free. We seize the hand grenades,' pitch them out in front of the dug-out and jump af ter them. The bombardment has stopped and a heavy barrage now falls. behind us. The attack has come. No one would believe that in this howling waste there could still be men; but steel helmets now appear on all sides of the trench, and 50 yards from us a machine-gun is already in posi tion and barking. The wire-entanglements are torn to pieces. Yet they offer some obstacle. We see the storm troops coming. Our artillery opens fire. Machine guns rattle, rifles crack. The charge works its way across. Haie and Kropp begin with the hand-grenades. They throw as fast as they can, others pass them, the handles with the strings already pulled. Haie throws 75 yards, Kropp 60, it has been measured, the distance is Important. The enemy as they run cannot do much before they are within 40 yards. We recognize the distorted fa ces, the smooth helmets; they are French. They have already suf fered heavily; when they reach the remnants of the barbed wire entanglements. A whole line has gone down before our machine guns; then we have a lot of stop pages and they come nearer. I see one of them, his face up turned, fall into a wire cradle. His body collapses, his hands re main suspended as though he were praying. Then his body drops clean away and only his hands SR. COPELAND - This "ke the chad weU nou, in America are particularly prone :to - them less noticeable. See skin specialist for his opinion. 1 You should weigh about 126 pounds. S He should weigh about thirty two pounds. e R. A. H. a I am a girl of twelve five feet two Inches tau. What should I weigh? A. Tow should w&gh about 10t pounds. L U R. Q. What should a girl of seventeen, five feet three Inches tall, weigh? What should a girl of fifteen, five feet three inches tall, weigh? A. They should weigh respective ly 120 and 115 pounds. "A SUBSCRIBER." Q. How much should a girl aged fifteen, five feet five inches tall, weigh? t. What foods are fattening? A. She should weigh shout 115 pounds. 2 Milk, eggs, plenty of fresh fruits and vegetables. Eat of a well balanced diet and drink plenty oi water between meals. Sleep as many hours as possible. Avoid poor elim ination AH these will help to build up the system and gain weight. fwrliM. tS. X with the stumps of his arms, shot off, now hang in the wire. The moment we are about to re treat three faces rise up from the ground in front of us. Under one of the helmets a dark pointed beard and two eyes that are fas tened on me. I raise my hand but I cannot throw into those strange eyes; for one mad moment the whole slaughter whirls like a cir cus around me, and these two eyes that are alone motionless; then the head rises up, a hand, a movement, and my hand-grenade flies through the air and into him. We make for the rear, pull wire cradles into the trench and leave bombs behind us with the string pulled, which ensures us a fiery retreat. The machine-guns are al ready firing from the next posi tion. We have become wild beasts. We do not fight, we defend our selves against annihilation. It is not against men that we fling our bombs. What do we know of men in this moment when death with hands and helmets is hunting us down? Now, for the first time in three days we can see his face, now, for the first time in three days we can oppose him; we feel a mad anger. No longer do we lie helpless, waiting on the scaffold, we can destroy and kill, to save ourselves, to save ourselves and be revenged. We crouch behind every cor ner; behind every barrier of barb ed wire, and hurl heaps of explo sives at the feet of the advancing enemy before we run. The blast of the hand-grenades impignes powerfully on our arms and legs; crouching like cats we run on, ov erwhelmed by this wave that bears us along, that fills us with fero city, turning us into thugs, into murderers, into God only knows what devils; this wave that mul tiplies our strength with fear and madness and greed of life, seek ing and fighting for nothing but our deliverance. If your own fa ther came over with them you would not hesitate to fling a bomb into him. The forward trenches have been abandoned. 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They are blown to pieces, an nihilated there are only broken bits of trenches, holes linked by tracks, nests of craters, that is all. But the enemy's casualties in crease. They did not count on so much resistance. (To be continued.) GOOD-NIGHT STORIES Bj Max TreO Knarf Helps His Master "Finish" a Composition How was Knarf to know that things were going to happen so suddenly?- He had tried his best to be helpful. Goodness knows he deserved a better reward than he got. This is how it all came about. Knarf, Mil, Flor, Hanid and Yam the five little shadow-children with the turned-about names were sitting on the edge of the library table watching Frank, Knarf's master, write a composi tion. Now, Master Frank, my dears, was not very fond of com positions. In fact. If the truth must be told, he thoroughly hat. ed them. It was not in the least surprising, therefore, that when he was aboul half through he should exclaim quite joyfully: "I have no more Ink." Whereupon this lazy boy chuckled contendedly. "If I have no more ink I can't finish my composition "today," he said, peer ing once more into the empty ink well. Then he fetched a deep sigh and pretended to be very sad. "If only I had ink!" he sighed. "If only I had ink!" The shadow-children, who heard all this very well, looked at each other in dismay. "What can we do?" they said. "Where shall we find ink?" Then they shook their heads. All at once Knarf broke In. "I know where. Just come with me and I'll show you." They can't imagine, as he led them across the library table, over the rug and up to the top of the bookcase, just where he expected to find ink. At length he stopped in front of an open book and said: "We'll find ink in there." It was the natural history book and was open to a picture showing YMEEDMT wdrrv JUST THE: BOUT TH4T DERj iTDvlSP SPENDTHRIFT, R&MEM&ER HE'S ,4BSLUTELV HE KEVER HAD A OR HE'r HAVE IrJEKPERlEMCED yfcT! - I HAVE I IF YOO TAKE I " . ( somethim vmporTawTI SAV To TlUHEl EU, COME AMD 5T i - - - - i t-r x i I vaiiTU -TV-IAT 1 DOVAJM - I'LL TELU " ( KERW WEU- I'LL OWE L ajou) listea.. uihej t Sou BAIL- - 9ACK f Vou a ney.ouT ffCPOOfe X f MEAMV LOAMED VbO ToMlJHE VOU CO Tfc MRS. MEAW3 tJ WES'M LONG - AMD AJOW THAT UX p CAVE Vx TVS CHANCB op Voua LIFE- ORPMAAACfc DO VOU aai'ANO I'LL UAlDERSTAMO eACKOTWSJ? ) IP vou AUKB Cooo- Po AS vxe 7&u J UAlDBSTAAJD THAT? OoANVTf&iQ tLL- SHOW Vou to VOUP X SVCCESSrOLLV AAJD WITHOUT OUtSPOAj, . L Mi T WfiStS ROL 10-1 a little creature with long arms like an octopus. Tt was under wa ter. Beneath the picture were the words: This is a squid." They gazed at it closely. No ink did they see, however. "Why," Hanid said, turning to Knarf, "there's no ink here only a little animal! "Oh, yes there Is," the shadow boy replied. And he pointed to a sentence on the other page. The sentence read as follows "The squid contains a black fluid which is used for ink." "There, you see," Knarf said triumphantly. "Now all we have to do is to borrow some." And with these words he gave a little spring and, strange to say, landed "May I bnrrov. little Ink? inside the picture. He waved to the others to follow him, which they instantly did. They found themselves at the bottom of the ocean, right next to the squid, which was lying on a flat stone. "Good morning," Knarf said to the squid, "may I borrow a little ink?" "Hm-m!" the squid replied. 'I'm Just about to write a long letter. How much do you want?" "Just a few drops," Knarf said. "My master's composition is half finished." "All right." the squid said. "I can spare that much. Here they are." And as it said this out came the bleak drops through a little faucet in front of its head. At this moment Hanid suddenly cried in alarm: "Goodness gracious, we've forgotten to bring some thing to catch It in. We'll all be "No Trespassing" SAME, OJOHl To) HM R4. i ' OH, ARl6HT! 1 Perfection Plus" HURTT Tp VOHAT1 He HAS "TO SAy 'The New "ML Set For iH.TOOTS: FORGET TUESe I'LL. if ! NEVER jrET CrVWR. W BQOO&IVUV. MY LO3S 14 THE. ft LOT U Vnil'l L MA.P i Vafi I J SEE BB HELPED' black as ink. We must Jump!" The warning came just in time for Mij, Flor, Hanid and Yam. With a spring they jumped out of the picture. But poor Knarf was too late. In an instant the black drops spread all about him like a cloud of soot and he turned pitch black. So startled was he that he jumped with all his might and landed of all places! right on his paster's pen-point just as he was telling his mother: "See, ma, I can't finish my composition to day because I have no more ink." Then he gave his pen a great shake, just to show her there wasn't a single drop left, and off fell the miserable ink-boaked sha dow directly into the composition, leaving a huge raggety-edged blot! "O-oh!" walled the boy. "Now I'll have to do the whole thing over again!" SYDNEY (AP) Sir Truby King, knighted recently in recog- i nition of his work in reducing in fant mortality, advocates an hour a day In the sunlight, clad in a linen hat and a loin cloth, as part of Australia's school curriculum. He claims it would eliminate tu berculosis. WORD (Trademark) Copyright. Alexander LlchtcnUr fa the English language there are lettfri) that begin with the letters B One of them is Jj BMAJZE 2iB;EiM I f 3BiE;MJ 4;BjE;MI 1 1 iLBEJM'ij 6;BjEMl 1 I 7iBE iM j I 8BE)M I, j NOTE Proper nounr. orisolet and archaic words, extremely unusual technical and Kcieiitifir words tint would offend go"i taste, and those plural ef nouns, and singular verb, that are formed by the addition of or are purposely deluded from Word Ilunta. The solution for today's Word Hunt will be found on the Classified page AFTER ALL, I SFfcSE- ft Dury jo a ve the soy BEnJERT OF MyTALEsJT I HAD A COM FEii&NJCE" UJlYM "THE yESTERCAV AT LlPCETV TO rlll ILfxG TUP MATTHK that we tmcvjsseo . parr i r you come eaci I CAM PROMISE VOU PLEASE tM A FEvu DAYS 'Protege A New Start IT 3TOP VOL) iKi THB , MORTIMER CLAMBY REACS COMCCR4 THE 5TORlE3 o 8,000. NO b 5E45ATONAL VICTORY OVER. THE- , WORLDS CHAMPIOM' O t929w FVHtwra Urm A can't ..crt -n x mm - ...... r . u - 1- ijarii -i m m rn r-a ama awiHita Bits For Breakfast o o tContrnued from Tga 4.) in the Chehaleni district, Yamhill county, pfoduces two and a half tons a year. There is ready salo in the fresh fctajro at high prices for all the figs that are grown so far. The concern presided over by Mr. Amend has, besides the mother orchard nnd test gardens at Port land, test gardens also at Rose burg. After his IS years of patient work, there is a good deal of light ahead for Mr. 'Amend. He has now enough orders in good pros rect for the coming planting sea son. January to April, to make up what would amount to 75 new acres of fig orchard, and think he may reach 100 acres. That looks like rewards ahead for all the years of work and worry. The hobby looks like a new -Industry for Oregon. S S ". The fig tree takes no lay-off In the Willamette valley. It bears a crop every year. The tree requires no spraying. There are no known diseases. Only it must be of the right variety or strain. It must be self pollinating. Mr. Amend has HUNT Patent Prndir.f EIGHT WORDS (each having just six E M To bewilder: stupefy. (YOU supply the others.) To make mean, lower. To befoul with mud or dirt To bewilder, to dim. To bewail: lament; grieve. To mock, or mock at. To muddle, daee or stupefy. To make moonstruck. IS My the CAM - I ah won A BOOK- VdlMD THAT to kjdpk VOU CAflT 5 ss wmmmm, imsm m fc THAT I WltLU III fWFT?N "TV! I VI I4t4 t I rtVUeTl I r Hi a tut so-tv m 'I NO VJOOER. VCXTOB. WHEVJ : l HAD KERVOUO. IDEA THAT CASPER, IP-CAPER. EVER. FtND OUT -THAT IT SUCH A WONDEPruU FIHTEPi: CAM WA& TOO HARDLY BELIEVE- THAT HE. SCORED A. MARKET KNOCW'OOT ove. PROBA0LT KID DYNAMITE., THRASH TVfE. UFB OUT OF- TOO! Kina; Frmtmrt SinxTlatr. inc. Grafkrittia rkta i found a tree from Italy, and . . each from Syria. Persia r France that will do this. Tl, ... are tne four he now grows . i sells and recommends; guar.", tees. You can make anything i of figs that you can make vi-u any other fruit; and then som- ; preserves, marmalades, syru; , jellies, pickles, and an indefir.: number of confections, "it is -. . ture's own medicinal produc ' combines more body building -ments than any other fruit; A great food for invalids. s This is not an advertisement. is aimed to be a plain ststenit t of facts, In the Interest of a "r. -ble experiment" that seems to i . destined to give the Willame- valley a new and a very profitable industry. That would be comper. sation of the highest kind for Mr. Amend, even though lie did jn.t reap great material rewards, f..r he is the Burbank of the fig in dustry here, filled with the mar tyr fire of the Burbanks in such fields of endeavor everywhere. Old Oregon's Yesterday? Town Talks from The States man Our Fathers Read September 30, 1904 First game of the football sea son for Willamette University w;;i be played tomorrow afternoon ar. 1 will really be but a practice r. z with the Chemawa Indians. W lamette has never before had oir look for such a promising season, with every member of last year's team, with exception of -Low, back, In addition to 16 other ex perienced players, six of whom a: e members of last year's Pup 5 Sound team, which was "rated l y Walter Camp as the second tea a on the coast. Steamboat plyiug between Port land and Salem on the Willamette can now make the run without, "sparring" themselves over th bars. A government dredee whi b has been operating upon the upp r Willamette the past month is nmr working on' the last shoal, ghi t a depth of at least three and half feet In spite of low water. By CLIFF STERRETT, By RUSS WESTOVER feEvto Him vIK.Es ONB Of TVIOSE 1 MEVER. vmRQMG - SURE OF HIMRBL.R - fAZtS HIM - K.MOaJ S By BEN BATSFORD By JIMMY MURPHY MORTIMER. OM-T YOVJ WHO CAUSED it zr Hr5 LOd Wsl THE. ST&CW. HED THAT IN 60ME WAY CAf&PEtt WOULD LEARN ABOUT MORTIMER- CiAMBTS VILLAINT s