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About The Oregon statesman. (Salem, Or.) 1916-1980 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 12, 1929)
PAnn EIGHT TnevCIlEGON STATESMAN, Cskn. Preyed, Satcrday ITcrnb?, October 1Z. 1823 ; CHAPTER XXII -There's a treat dear of polish' lag helng done. We ere Inspected et every tnrn. -Everything that li torn Is exchanged for new. I score a spotless sew thnlc out ot It and Kat, ot course, an entire uniform. A rumor Is going around that there mar he peace, hut the other story is more likely tl at we are bound for Russia. Still; what do we need new things for In Russia? At last It leaks out the Kler Is coming to review us." Ifenee all . the. Inspections. , - For tight whole days one would suppose we were In a base-camp there Is so much. drill and fuss. Everyone is peevif.h and touchy, we do not take kindly to all this polishing,' much less to parades. Such things exonerate a soldier more than the front-line. 1 ,- At lat the moment arrives. We stand up stiff and the kaiser ap - pears. We are curious to see what he looks like. He stalks along the line, and I am really rather dis appointed; fudging from his plc- : tores I Imagined him to be bigger and more porer fully built, and abore all to hare a thundering voice. - He distributes lion crosses and 'speaks to this man and to that Then we march off. v Afterwards vre discuss it. T ad- en says with astonlsment: ' "So that U the All-Highest! And ereryone, bar nobody, has to stand up stiff In front of him!' He medi tates: "Hindenburg too, be has to stand up stiff to him, eh?" - " Sure," says Kat. Tjadea hasn't finished yet. He thinks for a while and then asks "And would a king have to stand up stiff to an emperor?" . None of us is quite sure about it, but -we don't suppose so. They are both so exalted that standing strictly to attention Is probably not insisted on. "What rot yon do hatch up, ... says Kat. "The main point is that you hare to stand stiff yourself, But Tjaden Is quite fascinated. His otherwise prosy fancy is blow Ing bubbles. "But what I would like to know," says Albert, "is whether there would 'not hare been a war If the kaiser had said No." .'"I'm sure of this mach," I in terject, "he was against it from the first "Well, If not him alone, then perhaps If twenty or thirty people In the world had said No." "That's possible." t aerec. "but they damned well said Yes J '"It's queer, when one thinks about it," goes on Kropp, "we are litra Ia trnteit nnr fatherland And the French are over there to protect their fatherland. Now, who's In the ri)?ht?" 'Perhaps both." say I. without believing It "Tee, well now pursues Al bert, and I see that he means to drive me Into a corner, "but ear ! professors and parsons and news papers say that we are the only ones that are right, and let's hope so but the French professors and parsons' and newspapers say that the right Is on their side, what about that?" That -I don't know." I say. hut whichever, way It 4 there's war all the same and every month more countries coming in." . ? Tjaden is still quite excited and again Joins the conversation, won dering Just how a war gets started."---- . ;- ' ; :., "Mostly by one country badly offending another," answers Alb ert with a slight air of superior ity. , - Then Tjaden pretends to be ob tuse. 'A country? I don't fol low. , A mountain in Germany cannot - offend a mountain in France. Or a river, or a wood, or a field of wheat." "Are yon really as stupid as that, or are yon Just pulling my leg?" growls Kropp. "I don't mean that at all. One people of fends the other " "Then I haven't any business here at all," replied Tjaden. "I don't feel myself f fended."' "Well, let me tell ypu," says Albert sourly, "it doesn't apply to tramps like yon." "Then I can be going home right away," retorts Tjaden, and we all laugh. A cn, man, be means the peo ple as a whole, the State -.exclaims Muller. ."State, state" Tjaden snaps his fingers contemptuously. "Gen darmes, police, taxes, that's your State; if that's what you are talk ing about, no thank you." "That's right," says Kat. 'You have said something for once, Tjaden. State and home-country, were s a big dinerence." "But they go together." insists Kropp. "without the State there wouldn't be any home-country "True, but just you consider. almost all of us are simple folk. And in France too the majority of men are labourers, workmen, or poor clerks. Now Just why would a French blacksmith or French shoemaker want to attack us? No, it Is merely the rulers. I had never seen a Frenchman he- fore I came here, and It will be Just the same with the majority of Frenchmen as regards ns. They weren't asked about it any more than we were." "Then exaetlv what Is the war for'" asks Tjaden. . Kat shrugs his shoulders. "There must be some people to whom thewar Is useful." "Well. I'm not one of them," grins Tjaden. "Not you, nor anybody else here." "Who are they then?" persists Tjaden. "It Isn't any use to the kaiser either. He has everything he can want already." v "I'm not so sure about that," contradicts Kat, "He baa not had a war np till now. And every full : grown: emperor .requires at least one war otherwise he would- nt become famous. You look in your school" books." r "And generals too," adds Dter- ing, "they become famous through war." - "Even more famous then em perors. adds Kat. , "There are other people back behind - there who', profit by the war, that's certain," growls Det- ering. - "I think it is more a hind of fever" says Albert. "No one in particular wants It, and then all at once there it Is.' We didnt want the war, the others say the same thing and yet half the world is in it just the same." . "But there are more lies told by the other side than by us," say I; "Just think ot those pam phlets the prisoners have on them, where it says that w eat Belgian children. The fellows who write that ought to go and hang them selves. They are the real cul prits." ..ViJ Muller gets up. "Anyway, it is better that the war is here instead of la Germany. Just you take a look at the shell holes." "Truly," assents Tjaden, "but no war at all would be better atill." He Is quite proud ot himself because he has for once, scored over us volunteers. And his opin ion - is quite typical here, one meets it time and again, and there is nothing with which one can properly counter it, because that is the limit of their compre hension of the factors involved. The national feeling- of the sol dier resolves itself into thls- here he is. But that is the end of it; everything else from Join ing up onwards he criticises from a practical point of view. Albert lies down on the grass and growls, angrily. "The best thing is not to talk about the rot ten business." "It won't make any difference that's true," agrees Kat. As for the windfall, we have to return almost all the new things and take back ear old rags again. The ' good ones were . merely tor the Inspection.': : . v -. Instead of going te Russia, we go up the line again. -On the way we pass through a devastated wood with the tree trunks shat tered and the ground ploughed At several places there are tre mendous craters. .. "Great guns. something's hit that," I say to Kat, ' .-. "Trench mortars." he replies. and then points ap at one of the trees. . .. - In the branches dead men are hanging. 1 A naked soldier, is squatting in the- fork of a tree; he still has his helmet on other wise he is entirely unclad. There is only half of him sitting there, the top half. The legs are miss ing. "What can that mean?" I ask. "He's been blown out of his clothes," mutters Tjaden. "It's funny." says Kat. "We have seen that a couple of times now. If a mortar gets you it blows you almost clean out of your clothes. It's the concussion that does it." I search around. And so it is. Here hang bits of uniform, and somewhere else is plastered a bloody mess that was once a hu man limb. Over there lies a body with nothing but a piece of under pants on one leg and the collar of the tnnie around its neck. Otherwise it Is naked and the clothes are hanging up in the tree. Both arms are missing as though they had . been palled out. I dis cover one ot them 20 yards off in a shrub. The dead man lies on his face. There, where the arm wounds are. the earth is black with blood. Underfoot the leaves are scratch ed up as though the man had been kicking. "That's no Joke, Kat," says I. "No more is a shell splinter In the belly," he replies, shrugging his shoulders. . . J "But don't get tender-hearted," says Tjaden. All this can only have happen ed a little while ago, the blood Is still fresh. As everybody we see there is dead we do not waste any more time, but report the affair at the next stretcher-bearers post, After all if Is not our business to take these stretcher-bearers' Jobs away from them. f j ' (Te. bV continued) ' . G001XN1GBT STORIES For Once Knarf Was Right bat He Didn't Know It MU, Flor. Hanld, Yam and Knarf the five little shadow-children with the tumed-aboat names found themselves in Vienna. How did they come to find them selves there? Yoa will have to ask that of their masters and mis tresses, the real-children, who making a trip around the world. The ' shadows simply followed them about wherever they went, just as your shadow follows yon about wherever you go. Well, the children weren't In Vienna very long before they set out with their father to see the city, for it was new to them. The shadows were Only too glad of the opportunity to -go along, even though no one invited them. Who ever invites shadows 7 Who ever notices them, even? Still they don't mind. They're not very sen sitive, you see. After walking down a broad avenue with trees on both sides, they stopped in front of a huge building. From the center of the building rose a tall elock-tower. "This is the Rathaus," father explained to the real-children, The shadows looked at each other questioningly. "What does that mean?" Yam wanted to know. Mij, Flor and Hanld shook their heads. But Knarf tried to look very wise. "Hm-m," he said, "don't you know what Rathaus means? All you have to do Is break-it in half. Rat means rat, and haus means house. It's a house for rats." Af ter this explanation he smiled. He was quite fond oft his- own clever ness. Just then, however, father said to the real-children: "I don't sup pose you know what Rathaus means. All you have to do It to break It In halt." "See!" Knarf whispered. "Just eeattnned. aa I told to!" !"Haiis."-:iathe "means house "See!" the shadow-boy exclaim ed. "i "while Rat doesn't mean rat. as some silly people might think, but advice. It's a house in which advice Is given, or, as we should say, the city-halt. This Is the city- fa all of Vienna."! Knarf turned away In disgust. "Humph, rat means rat. Anyone knows that!" They walked a little fsrther. At length they reached another large building. "I wonder what this is?" Yam asked again. This time Master Knarf was wiser than before. He waited until "This Is the Rathaus." father spoke. "This building, chil dren. is the Parliament." Then Knarf nodded. "That's right," he said, Oh, he was a very cunning little shadow-boy. There was .no end of things to be seen. There was the Onever House, the university, the Natural History Museum, the Art Gallery, several cathedrals with spires reaching into the sky, and the sta tues of Goethe and Schiller, the poets; Beethoven, Schubert and Brahms, the composers, and Gut enberg, who, you should know, in vented the printing press, b y me fens of which this very story la printed. They also saw the Danube river. Then they went to the Pra ter. Do you know what the Prater Is? It is an amusement park full of merry-go-rounds and roller coasters and a ferrls wheel that la ths highest la the world. Every where they found people eatlag frankfurters. "Oh, look." barf cried excited ly, "they're eating weenies!" Hanld frowned. "What a dread ful name. They cant be called that!" And the others, nodded to show they agreed with Hanld. Knarf was taken aback. He had been wrong so many times that he thought he ought not to insist, s "I guess, I've made a mistake," he admitted, when all at once fa ther turned to the real-chndres and said:' "You've all heard frankfurters called weenies! Well. Til tell you why they are called that funny name. They , cone from "Vienna which In German Is spelled Wlea. We pronounced It Ween. And so we can the frank furters which come from there Weenies." MU, Flor, Hanld and Yam glan ced at Knarf and laughed. . "And you were right and didn't know It," they mocked. And as Knarf didn't know what to answer he remained perfectly silent. WORD HUNT iTndtmmrkt Copyright. Alexander Uchteatas. Peieat readtac In the English language there are EIGHTEEN WORDS (each having Just BIX letters) that begin with the letters DHL One of them is To loose by undoing a lacing. (TOO supply the others.) To unload; discharge, as a load or burden. (Nautical.) Mot twisted - said of a tope or ns strands. To deprive of lands. Y To loose, as that which IB tied down. la printing: To remove leads from between the & lines of type. If not: except: supposing that not.. Dissimilar, having no resemblance. To remove lime from, aa hides. To take the lining out of. To undo: to unfasten. To live In a manner contrary to. To remove of discharge, as a load. To relieve from anything onerous. To unfasten. To open: undo: to disclose. To recall or retract, as a look. To deprive of the rank or position of a lord. Absence of love: hate. TO separate, aa things cemented or luted. UU(N1LA0E 21U1N1L 1 1 31U1N1L1 ) 41U1N1L1 1 51UINIL1 1 ; 61UIN1L1 1 1 71UNLj "F 81UINIL1 1 I 91UlNjL 1. 101U1NILI ) HlUlNILj 1 1 I2IU1N1L) I I31UINIL1J T MtUINlLl T 151UINIL1 1 H61UIN1L1 I 171U1N1U j j 181U1N1L1- II VOB Proper nounf, Igoltts SSS archaic wordf, extremely anntual technical tm4 scientific words that would offend rood teste, and those pluralt of nmini. and Kinfrolav Terbs, that are formed bj the addition of s er ei are purpose? excluded from Word Hunt. The solution for today's Word Hunt will be found on the Classified page POLLY AND HER PALS "Quit Yo.HcIdin', Esmeralda!" By CLIFF STERRETTj GOOD HEALTH MEANS 1 HAPPY DISPOSITION "'"li ii mi ' V Don't Go Around with a Long Face, Urges Medical - Authority, for Loss of Good Nature Is Usually . v Due to Some Cause Easily Corrected. By ROYAL S. COPELAND, M. D. United States Senator from New York. Former Committioner of Health, Hew York City. WHEN the nervous system is clogged by reason of eating too much food, or the wrong kind of food, conditions -are created within the body that Interfere with the nervous system. In consequence the victim becomes irritable, nervous and bad tempered. Yon know what happens when a furnace er stove gets clogged np with clinkers and ashes. The fire just wont burn unless the stove is cleaned out. There must be fresh f nel and fresh air if the fire is to keep going. If an Inanimate thing like a stove or fur nace is affected by being clogged up what do Ion think will happen if there Is clogging of the uman system! It cannot operate properly. The habitual use of excessive quantities of .tobacco. may result in sleepless nights. Any thing that disturbs the rest should be discoveredf . in order that it may be removed and the nervous system restored by proper sleep. Yon dont need to worry about your brain land nervous system even if you are aleenleas. 1 - You needn't think you are on the way te an v f asylum or a hospital A little common sense applied to your eating and drinking will end your troubles. more water to drink, honest perspiration, and recreation of the right sort, will do much to promote year recovery Irora sleeplessness. Yon will be restored speedily to good nature and UsemiiM . - i ' of coarse, you can't J happy er good natnred tt you are unable to sleep. For the sake ot your friends, If for Sb other reason, make an ef fort to shake off the symptoms and . get back to a normal condition. 3 If others are as sensitive to their s surroundings as I am. they always ? matter when there ts lack -of good . mun on u part assort) One 'kmc face in a treat bl ro una take the Joy out of life from all the rest at the persons who work la those surroundings. . I .aught-have greater 'sympathy for the person who suffers in this ; way. " I would have if 1 were not so . fully convinced that It is a condition - founded on some physical state which can be gotten rid of by a tt tie care. ' Rlsht eating, right drinking, right exercise, -right sleeping, right play lasus these we have the secret of getting rid ef conditions which pre 7 duce sleeplessness -and undermine rood nature. Ton have It te your own hands to shake off your Bleary. TILLIE, THE TOILER J Oft COPtlAND More exercise. ) Answers to Health Queries j - r MRS. B. . Me. Q. What should a aromas used thirty-two. free Seat . eia inches taJL weisht - - X What causes sick stomach after ; eatingT ' .v--.. l--Whai causes cold bands feet? - ".--w--- 4-rWhat causes the heart te : fast' when frightened? . - - , - a: She should weigh about ISt . pounds. -:- --'.; . 2 May be due te acidity. ' ' l This Is often due to poor circu lation. BuiM up the general health . and your circulation win Improve. 4-t-This is due to nervousness. ' Q. What causes a discharge la the throat? - - , , . - ,f A. This Is probably due to nasal ' catarrh. For further ' particulars , send self addressed, stamped envel ope and repeat your question. , ' THANK TOO. Q What tfo yen advise for falling hair? -y t What-will eradicate plmptesTV M JLvZoi prove the reaeral - health. J since this has a decided bearing oa 4fha condition of both hair and scalp. Shampoo ti-e hair about once every tea says, using a good pure soap ana warm water, rinsing thoroughly and use a stimulating tonie twice weekly. t Proper diet and general should bring about results. - e e e C K. I. -. Q. What causes small broken veins that seem to form In pa tears on the lees? . I What will reduoe a large' abdo men! - .r A. Undue -exerUon, such aa Ions standing, for-lucance. Keep off the leet aa much as Possible ana wear aa elastic bandage or stocking, during ue oayurae. - S Proper diet and resrular exercise should bring about results along this line. For further particulars send aelf addressed, stamped envelope ana repeat your question. 8. R. Q. How can one tn the white- blood corpuscles. ' I have read that these blood corpuscles are the disease warriors? X Am bothered with Itchy Notches which I believe Is due to a blood con dition. . This la most noticeable after waahttav -What would you advise? Aw If the health is good the .whits and ted blood corpuscles take care or tnemseivea. Observe the general rule for good health and you will not need to worry alone: these hnea I Watch your diet and keep the system clear. Tea probably have hives. For further parUcuhu-a send a self-addressed, stamped envelop and repeat pour sjuesUoa. - - . e 'y - ; T. C D. Q. What should a girl agea eignteea tour net tea tan weigh? v. ' . 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