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.1 ESTON EADER VOLUME 41 WESTON. OREGON. FRIDAY, MAUCII 21, 1919 NUMBER 42 TELL IT TO THE MARINES IF YOU WANT TO DIE General Catlin Explain Why World I. Afraid of "Leathernecks." It iMt nlco to imr In type. Natthsr la wsr nice. This It a war story. It wss told by Brlgsdler General Catlln ' In his book. -With lha llalp of God and Taw Msrlnee." IMIesu Wood la tba salting. Tba Oanaral bid given bla troopa tba order to advance. Ilia last worda war, aa they ataried across Iba wheat fields under wltbarln lira, "Give 'am ball, boya" "Soma ooa baa reported." tha Oen aril continues, "that tbay advanced on those wooda erylni, 'Remember tba Loettaola.' It Ibay did I (allad to baar It "Somehow Ibat doesnl aound Ilka tba aort ot tblnea Iba Harloaa aay ua dar tba conditions." Tban Oanaral Catlln talla wbat tbay did aay. Wbaa Iba llnaa war wa tar ing uodar tba tarrlflo Carman Bra, a ergesnt triad out: "Coma on you do yon want to lira foreverr Tall tba Marlnaa tbat yon ars not going to taka your ehera ot tba com leg Victory Liberty Loan. WOMEN AND MONEY By Chancellor James R. Day. lyreeuse Unlvaralty. Tba balaoea wblcb aalt danlal holda In tba boras la tba relsnce ot pros parity and pesce. Ilara woman baa bar plaen and offlca la aba equal to aalt danlal? Can aba aellT Tbara la nothing ao pereueslve, ao Irresistible, aa Iba love ot n man tor tba wlla whom ba lovee. No monay la apant wltb ao mucb Joy aa tba monay tbat goes to bar and tba eblldran. Happy la that man wboaa wifa loves bin too mucb to parml blm to ba fool lab whan ba ahould ba wise, wbo la ao judicial In bar temperament ao prndaot In bar domaatlo oconomy, aa to add bar decisive to lea to tba month's allow ance, and ao brara aa to Inalat tbat tha ipandltnro muat alwaya ba at least a Uttla loan tban tba Incoma. Bba ought to aay: 1 am not seaktng c- consenting to aapport. Tbaro will be (wo ot ua. If I oannot aarn aa mucb aa you. I can aava mora. Wc will plan together. I will ba tba boma alda of your Ufa." Sine Cbancallor Day nltarad tboaa worda tba United Ststes government baa mada It possible tor tba wlfa to "add bar decisive voice to tba montb'a sllowanee." War Savings Btampa la tba way. BRITISH THRIFT Tba British War Savings Committee baa bacoma a parmanant Institution In England and tba following declaration uai baan liauad explalnina tba Engllab attitude toward thrift: "Quito aa Important both aa a aourco of revenue and aa a aoclal movement, la tha raatralnt of luxury, and growth of aoonomy and atmpllclty ot Ufa among tha well-to-do. Other wlaa gooda and services will ba wast a'. War anting appllea to all claaaat, ad appeal! to all Incomea." Bslahavlk Attaok Rapulaad By Allies. Archangel. Bolshevik forces mada t determined attempt to cut tha com munlcatlona between tha American and allied columna on tba Dtlna and Vaga rivers, but tbelr attack waa ra pulaad with heavy loeeea. Tha enemy loet 6T dead and four prisoners. Tba allied eaaualttea wara one aoldlar wounded. ! Albero Bentenaed to Serve S Years. Portland, Ore. Three yeara In pria on and a 110,000 fine ware Included Is tha sentence Impoaed on Honry Al tera, the wealthy miller, by Judge Wolvarton. for violation of the espion age act Before passing sentence, Judge Wolverton denied the motioo-ot a new trial. GERMAN MILITARISTS ARE IMPORTED TO BE IN POWER. London. Special dlepslrliea from Berlin report tbat tba euppreaalon of tba recant Bpariacan outbreak there baa abown Ibat a military and mon archlat reaction la growing and over ahadowlng tba sew goternment Tba Berlin correspondent of the Hall wbo on February ST eent a die patch outlining plana for a monarchist uprtalng In Germany baa arrlted In London, bating left Berlin on March 14 after a realdenca there of three montba. Ua relteratea tba statement In hla dUpatcb, aaylng President Ebert, Cbancallor Bcbeldemann and Minister of War Noska are merely puppets, lie declares that for tba pur pose of retaining power they bate al lowed membere of tba military caata to reappear aa organtiara of the new republican armies. 'These men are lha real gorernora of Oermeny," ha eaya. "They make tba edlcta and Chancellor Bchelde mann and bla colleaguea willingly algn tbem." Similar teatlmony la given by other correapondenta In telegraphing from Berlin. The correspondent concur In tba atatament tbat eitreme bitterness baa been created agatnat tha govern ment troopa and tbat further trouble ta Inevitable. According to a dispatch to tha Mall, tha Bpartacan revolt will certainly re cur In erer Increasing force unless a miracle bappena. It adda tbat Herr Noake's forcea have bean recruited by brlbea and promise ot big ratlona and tbat to this may ba attributed noma of tha food shortage In Berlin. TREATY TO INCLUDE LEAGUE COVENANT Parlatn lha atatement Issued on the peace conference resolution with reference to tbe league or natlona In tba peace treaty. Prealdent Wllaon aatd that tha decision made at tbe pear conference at Ua plenary ses sion of January IS to tba effect that tba eetabllehment ot a league of na tlona abould be made an Integral part of tba treaty of peace, la final and that there la no basis whatever for the reporta that a change In thla decision la contemplated. If President Wilson Insists that the league ot natlona be Incorporated In the preliminary peace treaty, the Brit ish. It la understood, will concede tbe point, although they atill believe tbat tha preliminary pact la not tha proper place for tbe Inauguration ot tbe league, which, they declare, ahould be Included In the final peace pact Thta attitude waa Indicated after tha announcement that tha American delegation atrongly desired tba Inelu alon of tha league In the preliminary treaty, aa well aa In tha final pact ALLIES TO DICTATE PEACE Germane to Sign Pact or War Will Continue, la View, Paris. The present determination In peace conference clrclea la that, af ter the allied and associated powers, have reached a complete understand ing regarding the conditions to be Im poaed on Germany, tba German dele gates will ba called to Versailles, but they will not ba allowed to dlacusa tha condition, the intention of the allied and associated powera being to dictate peace. Either tha German delegates muat accept the terms and alga, or a state of war will continue. Tha general opinion here la that In view ot the Internal altuatlon In Germany, the delegatea ot that country will accept, rather tban axpoae tha country to a graver risk and mora draatlo measures. Wheat Bald to Mlllara. Minneapolis, Minn. Five million bushels ot wheat were aold to Min neapolis millers Saturday by tha Uni ted States Grain corporation In tha move to prevent an Increaaa In the price of flour and bread. Tha price average reached B2.S9 a buahel, 14 cents above ihs fixed wheat price. There are more than 15,000,000 buahela of government-owned wheat atored In Mlnneapolla elevators- Under the plan adopted the sale will continue until further orders ars received from Washington, Clgarattea Under Ban In Utah. Salt Lake City. The house of tha Utah legislature passed the anti-cigar-ette bill, which had already passed tbe senate, and tha moaaura now goaa to the governor. HE'S WATCHING YOU v' Ayr- ; OREGON HEWS HOTES P. P. Oouley, 73 yeara old, who baa lived In Marlon county atnee 18S9. when he crossed the plains to Oregon from Michigan, dted at bia borne In Balera. Jamea Asher, George Udy and Claude H. Huffman are dead aa a reault of an Internal explosion of a Scotch ma rine boiler In the basement ot the Corbett building In Portland. United Statea 8enator McNary la now visiting at Birmingham, Ala., and will not return to Oregon until April, .according to a letter received by the aenator'a brother, John H. McNary. Charlea M. Green. United Statea wool distributor and administrator for tbe Pacific northwest, baa forwarded bla resignation to Washington and will close hla office In Portland April 1. Captain Jamea P. Sbaw of Mllwau kle baa been appointed by the board of control aa commandant of tbe Sol dlera' home at' Roaeburg to aucceed Commandant Markee, who haa resign ed. Indorsements of R. A. Booth for highway commissioner and appeals that he be persuaded to remain on tha commission, are being received by Governor Olcott from all parta ot tba state. An Inspection of all tbe high schools In the atate to ace If they comply with the requlrementa for atandard high acboola la now being made by J. A. Churchill, superintendent ot public In atructlon. ' Mora tban 40 of tbe farmers of the Scholia neighborhood, aouth of Beaver ton, attended a aotla school.' conducted under tbe auspices of tbe Washington County Farm bureau, In tbe Scholia Orange ball. The Jersey' breeders of Jackson county have organised an association to aaalat In promoting tba breeding of high-class cattle, under the name ot the Rogue River Valley Jersey Breed era' association. Farmers' and bomemakera' week and rural life conferences at Oregon Agri cultural college,' wblcb were ' aban doned laat winter because ot war con ditions, will be held next winter, De cember S9 to January 8. Sutherlln will have a cannery the coming aeaaon large enough to taka care of the present fruit crop. Two buildings will be erected to taka the place of the Sutherlln Evertresh plant, destroyed by tire laat summer. It haa been announced that June 17, II and 19 have been aelected aa tbe datea tor tbe department encampment of tba Woman'a Relief Corps and the Grand Army of the Republic. The cn-, campment will be held In Tbe Dalles. Except tor the final details, the Pen dleton Golf club ..haa completed the purchase ot Its course,' lying on tbe hills north of Pendleton. Forty acres are in the tract and tha club la now planning for one ot the beat courses In the northweat Tha new high service reservoir of tha Aatorla water ayatem will be ready for uae on May 1. Tha big bowl la. located on the crest ot a hill about two miles from the central portion ot tha city, and will have a capacity ot J0.000.000 gallons. Tha Western Oregon Tie Lumber association will hold a meeting In Portland Saturday, M&roh 22, to take further action toward having the pres ent regulations tor tba purchase ot OF GENERAL OITEREST railroad lumber rescinded, ao that each railroad can buy Ita own lumber. , Tbe Oregon State Bankers 'associa tion haa aaalated county areata In tbe distribution of 2000 ot tbe first edi tion of 3000 Oregon farm record books. Fifty banks co-operated in tbe distrib ution, placing copies In the handa of the moat progressive farmera In many parta of tbe atate. Chrome mlnera who suffered losses because of the elump In tbe market for tbelr producta at tbe close of the war are urged to write to the secre tary of tbe Interior at Washington that proper blanka may be aent them or filing claims for compensation from the federal government Seven aulta for damagea aggregating about 141,000, were tiled at Prtnevllle agalnat Twoby Brother company, con tractors, by large landowners under the Ochoco Irrigation project who claim tbelr crops were damaged by the wilful diversion ot the water fol lowing tbe tearing up of canals by tbe contractors. Two more highway Improvement projecta have been added to those on which the atate highway commission will receive blda at tbe meeting In Portland on March 26. . Both are for paving contracta. They are: Oregon Washington highway, Umatilla county, from end ot Wild Horse pavement to a point two mtlee east ot Athena, nine mllea, and Columbia River highway, Wasco county, from The Dalles to Seufert'e Section, two miles. Ten thousand tone of asphalt and 60.000 barrels of cement will be used on tha two projecta. j The havoc wrought by the recent In fluenxa epidemic la shown by a report Issued by the bureau of census, which gives the deaths in Portland from this cause during tbe 2S weeks from Sep tember 14 to March 1 aa 1425, 109 of the number dying directly from pneu monia. The management of the Beaver Hill coal mine at Marahftcld bas under taken additional development and la Increasing ita output The company found the demand for fuel the past' winter greater than It could aupply and there are large orders to be tilled thta aummer. State Fire Marshal Wells attrlbutea to carelessness tire losses aggregating $134,645 in Oregon during February. Flrea In buildings with defective flues, the report says, resulted in 29 business men being put out ot occupa tion and cauaed a property loss ot 359.645. Tbe report doea not include lessee In Portland. , ' . Commercial and farming Interests ot Deschutes county are lined up in sup port ot a bond lsaue to the full amount of the 2 per cent atate limit as a meana of providing co-operation wltb the atate highway commission in the con struction of the proposed The Dalles California highway. Such an issue will amount to approximately 3125,000. It haa been officially announced by the Lebanon Rod and Gun club that the annual field trials ot the atate club will be held at Lebanon in September and that the Pacltlo Coast Field Triala club ot Alameda, Cal., will ba held there at tbe aame time. The Washing ton and British Columbia cluba will alao be repreaented by several teama ot running dogs. Old tawm, cuuuljr surteyui, fxeav ly returned to ToNo from tbe Wald port country and brought with bltu aauipli-s of paraffin, asphalt and otbT oil IndUstions. lie says the people about Waldport are mucb excited over tbe prospecta for oil. One well bas been drilled to a depth of about 3040 fwt and It Is understood that tbe oper ators bave atruck a gaa flow. Aliens wbo did not make declaration of tbelr Intebtlon to become cltlxena prior to January 1 of tbia year cannot be licensed to fish In tbla atate at all, while those wbo did make aucb dec laration may bave tbelr llcenss re newed for gill net and troll fishing, but not for act net fishing, according to aa opinion given by the attorney general to Master Fish Warden Clan ton, i Bute Engineer Cupper returned Frl dsy from Inspecting four new Irriga tion districts In tbe Rogue river val ley, which, when the Irrigation sys tems are completed, will bring 39.500 acrea of rich land under Irrigation. The four dlstrlcta are: Medford. cov ering 20.000 acrea; Taknt covering 8000 acrea; Cold Hill, covering 1500 acrea, and Rogue river, covering 10. 000 acrea. While It la unlikely tbat any per manent work can be atarted before tall on tbe road between Pendleton and Echo, the Umatilla county court baa a crew of men at work now acarflylng tbe graveled portion and grading tbe dirt road. Tbla road, on the old Ore gon trail, one of the main routee from Portland to eastern Oregon, last year waa the source ot much complaint from travelers; Tbe farmers of eastern Clackamas county attended a school In practical dairying at Sandy. Lectures and dem onstrations were given on breeding and feeding dairy cattle, calf raising, herd record keeping, ailoe and silage, se lecting dairy airta and Judging dairy cattle. The Instructors were E. B. Fltta and E. L. Westover ot tbe Ore gon Agricultural college, and County Agent R. G. Scott One measure tbat waa Intended to go on the ballot at the special election on June 3, will not appear for the reaaon tbat It waa omitted from the bill calling tbe special election, doubt less by an oversight Tbe measure la aenate joint resolution No. 17, Intro duced by Senators I. 8. Smith and Handler, and providing that the right ot eminent domain be extended to tbe condemnation of property for making mine and forest roads. According to an announcement Juat made by the American Jersey Cattle club, the cow Old Man's Darling II, owned by Pickard Bros, ot Marion, Or, haa broken the world's official teat record for Junior 4-year-olds of the Jersey breed. During her yearly test, which ended on February 1, thla phe nomenal cow produced 984 86 pounds of butterfat adding 98.86 pounds to the existing record and coming wltbin 17 pounds of breaking the world'a rec ord tor mature cowa. . ; Eight fatalities, out ot a total ot 675 accidents, were reported to the state industrial accident commission for the week ending March 13, six ot which were due to recent accidents and two to accidents previously reported to the commission. Tbe fatal cases were: F. A. Stanley, Portland, steel worker; Frank Wilson, Reedsport, lumbering; Ed Hiram Hardle, War renton, lumbering; Boxo Kallcac, Port land, ateel worker; George M. Tows, Ashland, policeman; B. F. Lulck, Kroll, lineman. Deaths due to sect denta previously reported were E. B. Lawrence, Astoria, flouring mills; A. W. Pickett, Portland, ateel worker. ' KOREAN SITUATION REPORTED GRAVE v Toklo. Newspapers hero view the situation as very grave and announce that among those arrested in Seoul were three forelgnera and nurses from the American hospital Reports from the interior of Korea state that sev eral police officers have been killed. Korean demonstrations continue, ac cording to dispatches, and it is Indi cated the national independence move ment ia remarkably extensive and well organised in some of the strongest provinces. There is some uneasiness at Seoul, but the situation there ta said to be under control. , The movement is notable for its extent rather than its violence, among those prominently identified with it being government achool students. Christian converts havs been kept under control through out tba trouble by the missionaries, it is reported. GLASS SLAPS CARPERS AND LOANCRITICS Americans Who Join Croak er and Quibblers Not Worthy of Name. Secretary of the Treasury Carter Class lilt out straight from tbe aho-il-der today at tbose "Americans" wbo, now that tbe guns are cooling, are unwilling to pay for American victory. Heaald: "Tbe coming Issue of government bonds bas been designated the victory liberty loan and It aeema to me It might well be termed tbe thanksgiv ing loan, for It ever a people 1st cause for thanksgiving wo are tbet people. Could Stand It "Conalder If the war bad lasted an other year wbat wouIJ bata been our atate. Instead of alxty tboosand dead we likely would bave bad hundreds of thousanda. In time we might bate equaled tbe record of France, with ber two million slain. And yet soma of us grumble because the government must spend further money to main tain tbe comfort and bring home in safety those boya whose Uvea wars spared. "Congress Is writing off the books fifteen billions of dollars, expenditure of which had been authorlxed and which would have had to be expended, with billiona of other dollars, bad the war gone on another year. Wo aU are glad, ot course, tbat It la not neces sary to apend these additional bil lions, but bad it been necessary the spending of tbem atill would not hate brought the nation down to ruin. -We atlU would have been far be hlud France In the amount of our debt compared to wealth and popu lation. With our man-power practi cally intact wltb bar towue and fao toriea and farms undamaged, ahoald we be cowed by a monetary obliga tion lighter far than the one France facea unafraid? "Thos Americans .who today hsve Joined the carpers and the quibblers are not worthy of the name. Tfcey are not worthy the boya they aent forth to make. If need be. the su preme sacrifice that liberty might live. Dollars and Sons. "It Is Incomprehensible to me that . k mhn pAVA their sons till J VI L O - ao gladly and so proudly to their country in Its hour of peril should turn so quickly to cold ana calculat ing contemplation of the dollar. Had tbe war gone on they would, with e.ual pride, bave offered other sons and would bave continued to give of their wealth ungrudgingly. Now that tbe coming of peace has restored their sons to them, will they tighten up their purse-atrtaga and adopt an attitude which would aeem to aay: Let tbe go-emment go bangr "1 think the number of croakers relatively is very small, but their wall lngs and lamentations travel far and tend to discourage otbera who are ' not atout of heart. Plain Patrlota. -1 do not believe that tbe plain people of America either are fearful r ... .. .. - 1L.N : of the future or aisirustiui oi iueir government When the next loan is offered I have every confidence they will understand ita necessity and will gladly meet its requirements. "Plain fathers and mothers through out the land have not ao soon cessed to be thankful tbat the ending of the war bas restored their sons to tbem." Watch Our Neighbor! Australia bas made war bond buying compulsory. Every one of the British countries Is still buy Ing, and France France with ber Industries laid waste, ber farms dev astated, ber land shell blown, and ber homes destroyed France is buying short term bonds st da creased rata of interest In small amounts but great numbers. i ne popuiar memory is provertmtny ahort, but there is no danger of son forgetting this war. The prices will keep It la constant If not fond memory. . London women are objecting because a high tax bas been put on woollen un derclothing. In America there would be no protest against or revenue from such a tax. - When experts tell us that cooties killed 500,000 persons in the war, wo admire the patience and daring of the experts in running down and exposing the marauders. The Influenza, after creating much hardship and apprehension, runs it course and disappears. Bolshevism, though a malady of tha mind, may poa albly do the same.