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BATTKItlNS BY HOIN1) WAVKS
ABE AMONG SKW IDEAS.
By Henry Wood,
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
, WITH THE FRENCH ARMY, Jan.
30. Since the beginning of the pres
ent war, Germany has not only been
unnble to maintain her previous su
periority in military progress, dis
covery and invention, but has actu
ally been obliged to fall back and
adopt the newer and more effective
means of warfare developed by her
enemies since .the beginning of the
struggle. This is especially the case
with the discoveries and Inventions
made by the French armies.
No denial is mado by France that
previous to August, 1914, Germany
by her intense militarism rather led
the world in military progress and
Invention. She was especially quick
in equipping her entire army with
every new discovery, such as neutral
colored uniforms, the value of which
was fully rocogniied by other na
tion, who, however, not anticipating
an immediate war, were slow in
adopting them themselves.
As a consequence Germany began
the war with an uncontested super
iority of equipment, material, and
methods of warfare. Since then
however, the tables have been com
pletely turned.
Forced to concentrate the entire
1 current of French genius into the art
of making war, France insists at the
present time that her armies have
not only caught up with the Ger
, mans, but. have so outdistanced them,
that Germany has been obliged to
copy after the French many of the
most effective means of warfare and
equipment new being used.
While Germany began the war
with a full equipment of heavy artil
lery which at that time was very
small in France, the French army
began with an uncontested super
iority in light artillery, which the
Germans have never yet -succeeded in
equalling. It was tfcls superiority
that enabled the French to originate
FRENCH WARFAH
. develop and perfect the barrage tire,
which is now one of the most effec
tive weapons both for defensive and
offensive action, and which the Ger
mans have since been obliged to copy
and use as far as their Inferior qual
ity of light artillery will permit.
While the Germans now use the bar
rage fire on every possible occasion
in an effort to check an infantry at
tack, they have not yet succeeded in
perfecting ft to the degree attained
by the French, who protect their
infantry in an attack by a solid cur
tain of shell fire that moves forward
in perfect union with the foot
Soldiers.
The French were also the first to
equip their Soixante-quinze shells,
with prolonged nose and delayed
fuse which prevents the shell from
exploding until it has entered deep
into the ground. This sort of a shell
, was rendered necessary by the pres
ent ' day system of trench warfare
and dugouts.
As soon as the Germans discov
ered this new invention by the
French together with its effective
ness, they at once began to make the
name modification in their 77 and
105 shells. . The results for the Ger
mans were go effective that since
July 1, 1916, they have substituted
all their "universal" shells filled
with explosives, No. 96 and No. 14,
with the new French type of ground
piercing shells with delayed explo
sion. .
It was the French light artillery
that also discovered the "richochet"
or rebounding shells, that explode
on the rebound. Their effectiveness
proved so great that they too were
copied by the Germans.
It was the French who invented
the system of locating precisely an
enemy battery by the sound waves
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from its discharge. This has rend
ered tho French Immense service In
euanling tho Fronch batteries to gat
the exact rungo. Tho Gornuuis suc
ceeded in learning this secret from
the Fronch and it is now in full ubo
by them.
Colonial Hall, Washington's Birth
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BRITAIN'S LAST WORD
ON PEACE GIVEN OUT
By Wilbur 8. Forrest,
(United Prma SUIT CorrMpomlrnt)
LONDON, Jan. 30. Watching
Lloyd George, Great Britain's new
premier, in action, is something like
listening to the low, clear hum of a
powerful dynamo.
The diminutive Wols hstntesman
simply exudes force but he does It
gracefully. He is Jiot a "spread
eagle" political orator. His words
issue smoothly. His voice is pleas
antly low but clear. His diction is
an example of lightning thought.
His manner Is easy. , -
When the new war leader of the
British nation wants to impress his
hearers he takes an easy pose, lifts
his head slightly and enunciates
tensely through extreme determina
tion. This is the manner in which
Lloyd George uttered his forceful
words: "Complete restitution, full
reparation, effectual guarantees
against repetition," in the House of
Commons recently.
Whatever Lloyd George's words
meant to Great Britain, nor allies,
Germany and her allies, they were
spoken in a way that told every hear
er of the leader's voice that they
were far more than mere words.
Whatever follows President's Wil
son's plea to all the belligerents for
peace negotiations, the British pre
mier's brief phrase, quietly spoken
on the floor of Commons, indicates
that, so far as Great Britain is con
cerned, it was Llyod George's final
word to the German Chancellor's de
mand for what Britons call prema
ture cessation of hostilities.
WILSON CAN'T GET
BIG MEN FOR JOBS
Business Men Making Too Much in
Present Work to Accept Fed
eral Positions,
By Robert J. Bender,
(United Press Staff Correspondent.)
WASHINGTON. Jan. 30. The
high cost of prosperity in the coun
try Is hitting President Wilson.
He can't get men be wants for
big jobs now at his disposal.
Business men are making too
much money In their regular pur
suits to willingly yield them in favor
of some board or commission upon
which the president wishes them to
serve.
A mere $7500 at one time consid
ered a princely sum per annum for
any man, is now regarded as too pal
try to appeal to many men the presi
dent desires to serve the country.
That's what selection of different
committees at the president's dis
posal very difficult. It has held up
completion of the tariff commission
for weeks. It delayed selection of
the Bhipping board. Each member
of both of these commissions receives
$7500 a year.
The president himself has .pro
tested against the situation.
He attempted to have the salaries
of the tariff commission fixed at
$10,000 each. Congress declined to
put the figure above $7500.
P.-T. ASSOCIATION MEETS FEB. 6
The meeting of the Parent-Teachers'
Association, to have been held
tomorrow afternoon, has been post
poned until a week from tomorrow
at the Reid school. The subject will
be "Stories."
GRANGE TO ENTEBTAIX
There will be a card party and pie
social at the Grange Hall, Friday,
February 2. The proceeds win go
toward repairing the hall. Every
body is invited.' Ladies, bring a pie.
OREGON
NAVAL DISASTERS
Their Rarity Is a Tribute to the
Skill of Our Seamen.
THE WRECK OF THE SAGINAW.
This Cataatropha Drought Into Play tho
Wonderful Ability and Enargy of
Commander Slcard and His Officer
and Craw AnEpio of tho 6oa.
American naval ollleers are noted for
their elllcteiivy, fearlessness and en
ergy not nlono In the strops and tur
moil of war. hut also wheu emergen
cies url.se where a battle with the ele
ments muy bo more perilous than
would be tho heaviest big gun Ore of
au pueuiy.
Maritime disasters happily have been
rare In our uaval history. Their rarity
Indeed speaks volumes for the skill of
our navigators, to whom negligence or
tucouipeteuce has hurdly ever been Inv
puted. At most au overcoiiudeuce may
be urged lu one or two Instances; but.
generally speuklng. our uaval wrecks
have been caused by violent convul
sions of nature In ber angriest muod or
from causes over which our nuvul com
manders hud no control.
In the hitter cluss was the wreck of
tho United Stales steamship Saglnnw
on Ocean islund In the north Purine
Oct. 20, 1S7.0, This disaster was due to
fuulty charts that did uot show the ex
istence of an outlylug reef upon which
the vessel piled up iu the durkuess of
the night. Through the energy and
good scnuiuushlp of its coiumuudlug of
Deer, Lieutenant Coumitinder Mont
gomery Slcard, who realized at once
that his ship was a total loss, every
soul was sufely landed, together with
such stores und provisions us the time
permitted which clupsed between the
accident and the ship's breaking up.
Without delay be organized a camp
on shore, establishing and enforcing
the strictest rules, for UHn them de
pended tho lives of all concerned. Ho
managed to secure a boiler from the
wreck, and be converted it Into a dis
tiller, thus obtaining a constant sup
ply of fresh water for drinking. It Is
difficult to imagine the sufferings those
poor fellows would otherwise have un
dergone, since there was no potabie wa
ter on the island.
Recoguiziug the fact that his party
might be detained muny weeks, if uot
months, and that Ocean island was a
breeding ground for sea fowl, he at
once drew a line around his camp and
forbade any one crossing It without au
thority, lest the birds be scared away
and the ouiy source of food dlsapiiear
with them.
Raids for obtaining e-gs and fowls
were stealthily carried out out at night
under specific orders by selected and
carefully Instructed men. In this man
ner, reflecting great credit on Sicard'a
forethought, there was never any lack
of food, such as it was.
8u.ee the scene of the disaster was
a thousand mile removed from the or
dinary path of vessels traversing the
Pacific, little or no hope could be enter
tained of casual rescue. In some way
or other word bad to go to the outside
world. One of the Saginaw's boats,
prepared for this perilous service,' was
dispatched nndcr Lieutenant John U.
Talbot, with four seamen, to the Ha
waiian Islands, some 1,500 miles away
across a wintry ocean. Vino this slen-
des thread hung the salvation of a hun
dred and more men.
The difficulties, storms and dangers
encountered, the hardships and suffer
ings endured, make this trip of these
gallant sailors one of the Quest among
the countless epics of the sea. Terri
bly exhausted by privation and the
ceaseless straggle against old ocean's
fury, their oars all lost In a heavy
gale of wind, the boat pushed on under
sail, only to be capsized by the surf In
landing on the beach of the Island of
Kauai.
It is related that Talbot sighted tbe
very last outlying rocky Islet of tho
Hawaiian group, fortunately recog
nized by one of his crew, and from
there beat np against tbe trade wind to
Kauai. Had he missed this islet, no
more, in all probability, would ever
nave been heard of him. and It Is
equally likely that bis shipmates on
Ocean island might not all have sur
vived until success should crown a sec
ond attempt to communicate with civ
ilization. In the overtnrning of the boat fonr
of IU occupants were drowned,- the
brave Talbot among the number. Hap
pily one seaman got ashore, more than
half dead, to bring Slcard's dispatch
es to the American - minister to tbe
Sandwich Islands, who at once char
tered a steamer and sailed tbe same
day to tbe relief of the marooned
ship's company of the Saginaw, Ex
cept for tbe sad ending to Talbot's mis
sion, this wreck, however unfortunate
In itself, is a splendid example of the
resourcefulness and skill of the Ameri
can naval of&cer and so may be re
garded wltb vastly more pride than re
gretRear Admiral Caspar F, Good
rich In Philadelphia Ledger.
. Odd Name Oddly Won.
The Inn known as the "Same Yet," at
Prestwlcu. has a curious hlKtory which
Mr. Hackwood relates: "The House
originally bora tbe 'Seven Stars,' bill
many years Jigo It become necessary
to bare its faded sign repainted." When
the painter asked the landlord what he
was to put on tho board he received
the answer. The same yet' And the
man took him at bis word." London
News. .
Dave the courage to appear poo,
and you disarm poverty of Its sbarpes'
FLOOD CONTROL IS
UNSOLVED QUESTION
WASHINGTON, Jan. SO. Flood
control problems lu tho Mississippi
valley nml in the SucrumouUi valley
nro doomed to go unsolved by this
session of Congress.
SHtuotlinrod beneath it iiuiss of up
propriatlon bills and administration
measures, thn House hill reported fa
vorubly to the senate just boforo
tho Christmas recess, will go over to
the Sixty-fifth Congress, for luck of
time to consider It.
Meantime residents of the valleys
can pray for further dollvoruuuo
from floods until the senators got
time to consider the matter.
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February M. Valentines glvou
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'THE MOUNTAIN DAISY", fciihniiiK
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THE FIGHT ON THE DAM", with
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All-Ainerlrnii Player llellovea Knowl-
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DETIIOIT. Jan. 30. The things I
learned on tho football field nro tho
ones that fitted mo for Ufa. Tho
fnrr that I wont to collexe for two
reasons to soak up knowledge and
to learn football was the greatest
point in my preparatory Ufa."
Thnt's tho way Wllllo lleston, for
mer quarterback nt Michigan univer
sity, and twleo aelertod on tho mythi
cal all-American eleven, has tho
thing sited up. Wllllo Is a police
court Jusllco now In Detroit, and ha
Isn't known as Wllllo any mora. He's
Pollen Justice William M. Huston
and ha puts it over.
Ono of tho ambition of J mine
lleaton's Ufa was to rid himself of
tho name "Willie." In school and
afterwards ho did bis best to shako
it but to no avail. Filially he got
himself elected Judge and they had
to quit calling him "Willie."
lleston declared that If every youth
wore given tho chance he had to
learn football to get the spirit of
fair competition In sports drilled Into
his system thero would be little
need for pollco court.
"I know what It has taught me,"
he said. "I boltovo It would do as
much for any other man. When I
see poor, weak, spineless unfortu
nates come before ma for one crimo or
another the wish that he could have
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THEDA 1IAKA in
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THEATRE
seen service under Yost or Koonn
Fltspatrlek hits mo right between
tho oyes. If ho could have had that
training h wouldn't bo living tho
wrong kind of life.
"Probation and parole are two
things that have resulted from my
gridiron training. 1 know that when
over wo were beaten wo always worn
cheered by tho thought that noil
year we would have another chance.
1 don't believe thorn's a man alive,
who, If given tho opportunity to put
everything behind him, would not
glory lu the thought of another
chance. That's what thn parole In
for, and I'm u firm believer In It.
"Studying football In colleges may
he the subject of n good luiiny jokes,
but it builds strength of character
und strength of body. With these
ussels a man can lie a good student.
Whan ha gets out into the world
tho traits football has put there will
innko a useful, honorable iliUen of
him."
ONE LEGGED MEN IN
U. S. WILL ORGANIZE
(llr Unlinl l'r KTh. Ii.ll, llulMIn)'
WASHINGTON, Jun. 30. Tho tap
tap of oak pegs on asphalt streets,
the thunip-thump-lhuinplng of half
hundred wooden legs, wll resound
through thn echoing streets of tho
national capital early In June.
It will mark the first national con
vention of one-legged mon here to
organlxa the National Ona-Iigged
Men's association.
"The only qualification of member
ship la lack of leg, No mere bipod
need apply. ....
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