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FALLS CITY NEWS
FORM LEGION FOR
NATION'S DEFENSE
Many Noted Men Are Back of
the Volunteer Movement.
TO TAKE IN TRAINED MEN.
F o rm e r S o ld ie rs and Sailor* A r t In lh *
F irs t L in * — M a jo r C o n tro l L e o n a rd
W o o d a n d C o lo n a l R o o . e v e lt A r a t n -
lh u * ia *t io
8 u p p o rto ro — N o
M ilit a r is m
A ro u o o d .
No. 29
KALLS CITY. OREGON. SATURDAY. MARCH 20, 1916
VOL. XI
S p ir it
of
New York.—The tlr*t tluflult«» st<q»
to ira ri the «•mahll-.liuii-ut of n military
nml miuil reoervo fur nutlonal tlefcuae
Ini a Ini ii taki-u In tlm formation o f ttin
Ainerh'iiii legion, an organization wtil- li
make* lit I miw lo tlm |>ro|ile o f tills
country with tho vntbuslastlc Indorse
oient o f former I ’resltlent Theodor«
ltooaevelt and Major General I-eounrJ
Wood.
Ita plan* and purpose* hare been
worked out at Governor* Island under
the guidance o f Cnptulii Gordou John-
•ton o f Genera! Wood's stulf und Com
ma taler ltotiert K. Crank o f the United
Slates navy. There Its headquarter*
nre tem|Hirarlly located, and from there
will come presently an aunouneoment
o f the IIIIme* o f those who are to serve
ns member* o f tho executive commit-
t-o and board o f honorary adviser*.
Colonel Roosevelt hua already accepted
the rhnlrmunHhlp o f the latter body,
it Is the answer o f patriotic and prac-
tleal men to tho ugltutlon which ha*
been going on ever since the outbreak
o f the Kumpcnu war called attention
to the fact that the Unlti-d State* 1*
not prepared to defeud Itself.
It I* the purposo o f this organization
not only to enroll the tlichtIn*; men of
the couutry, the tncu who have seen
service ns soldiers or sailor*, but also
to enroll the men who have special
training lu any one o f the half hun
died calling* which under the condi
tions of modem w arfare nre ns essen
tial to success ns nre military nud
naval equipment The membership o f
this organization Is to be made up not
1 of uteti who are annually drop|>ed tram
the service, either by leslguuiloii or by
1 expiration o f term o f inllstmeuL They
simply melt away Into the great body
of the population.
• It Is o f course gem rally known that
lu tills country no da t are kept of the
I activities o f citizens Hint would enable
| the government lu tin e of war lo pick
out at tun e the man or h sly o f men
....... loliy adapted fo ra part culuraerv-
|ee T h * S i lection Is I.I m V after the
mail enlists and Ills professed qttall-
llealloiis uro discovered only by ac-
Ben ton llarbur. Mich.—In an Isolated
tuttl trial o f III* abllll es In the sortie*
shanty, set down in u secluded spot on
nf his country.
The Amortean legion p n\ ■> es to do the lake shore. Jacob Goldstein died u
beforehand Jn»t what the government day or two ugo.
lie wna a leper, an outcast, a menace
would have to <|o after It had enlisted
.i great volunteer army and nary. to mankind, a creature to be shunned
Men who have been f-allied ns soldiers Vet when bis spirit left his tortured
or sailors will be el as- (tied In detailed body Ills weeping mother and bis tie
records as to physique, education, clcir- 1 Vottd father were by Ills side, lie
could not see them, for the disease that
actor o f I r ' nli■ : nml lenrth o f service
Men o f special training lu other fields claimed him hail destroyed Ills eyes
will I k - classified lu the -ame way and | But earing nothing for any risk they
every applicant for membership will ran. mother und father were faithful to
lie carefully questioned and the nature the eud.
That hi* sou from some mysterious
o f his qunllflcntlou* thoroughly lnve«tl
cause had develo|H-d leprosy« caused
gated.
the elder Goldstein's tluuuelal ruin aud
WHO SWALLOWS DICTIONARY? hts family's ostracism. He kept a small
general store In suburban Benton flar
bor. nnd hoi and bis fnmily were In
Question Disturbing Missouri L s q is I s
comfortable circumstances w hen —
toro— H*vo Already Lost Thr**.
The whisper. "Young Goldstein is a
Jefferson City, M<>. The house 'll»
covered recently that It was struggling leper.” swelled to a cry that echoed all
along without a dictionary when a res over Beutou Harbor and far beyond Its
Overnight Goldstein's little
olutlon was Introduced to buy a new limit*.
business was ruined; former customers
one for use o f members
"I'd like to know what treonme of hurried by on the other side o f the
street; former friends suddeuly forgot
the Idg dictionary wo bought two years
they had ever known the Goldsteins
ago?" Representative J. M. Bowers
Goldstein tried to provide for bis fam
asked.
ily b 7 peddling.
As be trudged the
No member volunteered Information.
road* the frightened warning went
“ I'd like to know what became of
abend o f him. "H ere comes tbe leper'*
the dictionary we had four years ago,"
father!” All doors were closed to him
Bowers persisted.
Tbe local health authorities asked
Silence.
the state o f Michigan to care for the
"I'd like to know who took the dic
leper. The state refused. There Is
tionary we bought six years ago,” be nothing In the health ordinances pro
demanded.
viding for such a case. The Univer
More silence.
sity of Michigan was ready to furnish
"W ell. It’s getting pretty tough when Isolated quarters tor young Goldstein
they steal a dictionary from a Missouri so Its medical students might observe
legislature." remarked the gentleman tbe progress o f tbe disease, but Ann
from Wayne.
Arbor emphatically refused to admit a
Whereupon the house bought anoth letter within her confines.
er dictionary.
So the shanty was built In the se
cluded *^pot among tbe bills near by
There the pareuts o f the doomed boy
I joined him In exile. Tbe most loatb-
j some, tbe most dreaded o f all human
{ ills, the disease accursed, could not
drive his parents from the boy. Under
-constant surveillance, these three ex-
| Isted like prisoners in a stockade until
the merciful end came
PARENTS FAITHFUL TO
LEFER SON TO THE END
Father's Business iluined and
Aid Raiused by All.
WOMAN NEVER SLEEPS;
AWAKE SEVEN YEARS
Sits Up All Night In Chair and
Tries to Rest.
M AJOR U I.N K IIA I. L E O N A lli> WOOD.
of those who are willing to defend their
country, but o f those who can de
fend It.
Those who nre behind the organiza
tion nre not Imbued with the spirit of
militarism.
They agree with those
who say that at a word front the pres
ident of the United States millions of
men would swarm to the colors nnd
that II Is not necessary In time of
peace that (Ids country maintain n
great standing army such ns one as
sociates with tlie word militarism. No
military training In time o f pence Is
Involved, no Increase In standing arnt.v,
navy or militia, but there Is contem
plated a taking stock o f resources so
that In time o f war the government
would be able to lay Its hand Immedi
ately upon those who would be best
■innlltled to cope with the emergency.
There will lie two active branches o f
Iho legion. The line o f the legion will
be composed exclusively o f men who
have had army or navy service or who
can handle a high power rifle nnd nre
seasoned In taking care of themselves
In the open.
It Is n fact not generally known per
haps that the United Stales nrmy and
navy keep no account of the thousands
OPENING OF OUR NEW
“
S P R IN G GOODS
Seattle, Wash.—Mrs. Edward llauck
of this city says she has slept only half
an hour lu the last seven years.
Her husband substantiates her state
ment.
Seattle physicians say It Is Impossi
ble; that If Mr*, llauck hasn't slept for
seven years by all tbe laws o f nature
she would have l>ecn dead long ago.
T w o or three years ago one night she
dozed oil. she declares, and slept for
fully half an hour.
Oftpn now she feels sleepy aud Im
mediately lies down In the hope that
the longed for unconsciousness will
come. But It never does.
She weighs twenty-five pounds less
lhun she did seven years ago. when her
k>hg period o f sleeplessness began. She
suffered severely for ttie first tw o or
-three nights, she says. That's all.
" I t has come to be « sort o f matter
o f fact condition with me now." she
went on. "There Is no pain, only a
kind o f dull feeling that weighs down
on me. And the uights, you know, are
so long when one Is alone and every
body else In the world Is sleeping."
She passes little o f her time In tied.
Early In the evening she lies down
with her little daughter, Irene Bell,
aged a year nml n half, until the child
Is In slutnberlund
Then she gets up.
dears away her work and prepares for
her long slcgo against the coming of
daybreak.
Edward llauck, the husband. Is em
ployed as a cook. He works nights.
" I worked In the daytime until recent
ly, though,” ho said, "and slept here
at home at night, and I know my wife
Is not mistaken when she says she
spends her nights Just as wide awake
as she Is during the day. Occasionally,
when she tried going to bed, I'd wake
up and find her tossing beside me, al-
ways awake. Generally, though, she
would be sitting In our one rocking
chair, with the shaded lamp beside
her, reading.”
THE OPENING OF OUR NEW SPRING GOODS
MEANS THE SHOWING OF THc. LATEST DECREES
OF FASHION. WE INUITE EUERV WOMAN. MAN.
GIRL AND BOV. TO COME. SEE OUR NEW SPRING
GOODS. OUR STYLES ARE RIGHT: OUR MATER
IALS ARE RIGHT: OUR PRICES ARE RIGHT.
YOU WILL LOOK NO FURTHER FOR W HAT YOU
WANT FOR SPRING WHEN YOU SEE OUR NEW
GOODS: YOU WILL BUY AND BE PLEASED.
N. S E L IG ’S
FALLS C ITY D E P A R T M E N T STO R E
would be a “ back number” in
every sense; and it may be sur
prising to learn that many o f its
Mrs. Hauck says she find* she can news paragraphs would not ap
get more physical relaxation In a chair pear to be out o f place in a paper
at night than In bed. She makes the
of today, while the subjects o f its
chair comfortable with bedclothes, par
tially disrobes and lies back to count leading articles are just as much
off the hours.
in the public mind now as then.
"She's such n plucky little person,"
For instance the progress o f the
her husband explains, “ that she hardly
ever complains about It and seems anx European war, in which we read
ious only that baby ami 1 get our o f the “ Allies,”
intrenchments,
rest.”
the prospect o f peace, and the
Mrs Hauck sought relief from physi
cian* in the east before coming to intimation that Great Britian is a
Seattle, three years ago from Berlin, little too ambitious about “ ruling
tint., but could get none, she says. She
the waves.” Other subjects dis
has bought drugs nnd sleeping pow
ders nt vnrlous times, both with nnd cussed are the situation in Mexico
without the advice o f physicians. But Prohibition laws, “ The Horrors of
nothing has helped, she says.
W ar,” the need o f more enlist
ments in the United States Navy,
B o y P la n s O w n F u n e ra l.
and
“ Submarine Explorations;”
Minneapolis. —Kenneth Booth Merrill,
student at West High school, was bur these last were by means o f an
led recently In a casket o f his own se
improved diving bell.
lection. Flowers used at the funeral
In the article on prohibition the
nnd the music were chosen according
to his expressed desire. Merrill hnd editor is confident that such a law
known more thnn a year ago that he
will be passed in Pennsylvania
could not recover, and during the last
He believes that
few weeks hnd mnde all arrangements within a year.
for his own funrral.
the best possible means o f con
trolling the liquor traffic, and con
siders it only a matter o f time
when it will prevail for the entire
country. Doubtless, however, he
The Allies, Mexico and Prohibition
| did not foresee how much time.
Subjects ot Newspaper Com
The war. o f course, was the
ment Then at Now
Crimean, in which the Allies, En
gland and France, were combined
against their present ally, Russia.
“ th e well-worn saying “ history
W e see by the market reports that
repeats itself," was never better
it had the same effect as the pres
illustrated than when reading a
ent war on the price o f grain,only
copy of a newspaper called “ Gra
more so. Wheat is quoted at
ham’s Daily Mail,” which fell in
$2.50 to $2.75, flour. $11.50 a bar
to our hands the other day. The
paper was dated at Philadelphia, rel, rye $1.50, corn, $1.10, oats,
,79c. Cotton was selling from six
Pa., April 21, 1886. One might
to ten cents a pound; sugar at
think that a periodical o f this date
SIXTY YEARS ACO
about present prices. But coffee
is quoted at ten and eleven cents,
and bacon eight to ten, hams ten
to twelve and a half a pound.
Another very modern touch ap
pears in the market report, where
against certain items is, “ Nothing
doing.” —Ex.
BOARD JOB BARS SALES
School Director Must Not Soil Sup
plies to District. Ruling.
Salem, Or., March 14. —Attor
ney-General Brown, in response
to a query by Frank Steiwer, Dis
trict Attorney o f Umatilla County,
held that it is unlawful for a
school director, who is a merchant
or a stockholder and manager o f
a corporation, to sell supplies to a
school district.
The Attorney-General quotes
section 4052 and section 4063,
Lord’s Oregon laws, to sustain his
opinion. For violation the penalty
is a fine o f not less than $25 nor
more than $100, or imprisonment
in jail not less than six months, or
both fine and imprisonment.
THE WEEK IN HISTORY
Monday, 15.—Caesar assassinat
ed B‘. C., 41.
Tuesday, 16.—James Madison born
1751.
Wednesday, 17. — St. Patrick's
Day. Grant takes command of
army, 1864.
Thursday, 18.—Cleveland born,
1837.
Friday, 10. — Bryan born, 1860.
Saturday, 20.—Great Boston fire,
1760.
Sunday, 2 1 ,-F irst day o f spring.