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FALLS CITY NEWS FALLS CITY OUFXiON, SATURDAY, SKiTEMHER 11, 1915 VOL. XII HENRY FORD CRIES FOR WORLD PEACE Will Devote Life and Fortune to Cause of Amity. WAR USELESS SLAUGHTER. A sse rts T h a t Is o la tio n of U n ite d S ta te * la S u ffic ie n t In s u ra n c e A g a in e t In * vasien and W a r n a C o u n try A g a in s t P repared ness, W h ic h H e C a lls th e Root of A ll W a r . Kotnilt, Mich.—Usury Ford’s wealth, iii'il In the pursuit o f the things of IM-ocr, will be offered to the world to aid In Its effort for an unending peace, to op|iose the spirit o f militarism In ev ery form and to challenge the Am eri can who cries for more armament for bis country. "I will do everything In my power to prevent murderous, wasteful war In America and In thu whole world; wtp devote my life to tlKht this spirit which Is now felt In the free and peaceful air "Th e United Hlnte* has spent mi than a billion dollars ou a navy n army (hut were lo cope with nu In' stun Inal never occurred and nei will occur, Ami yet the very ‘ war eg- I pert*' w ho are responsible for that Imr [ deusome army and navy admit that our army and navy would never have been uble to meet with any hope of success I boss of other so culled |»ow- ers." " I could toduy uiuke vast sums from wurfnre If I so chose, but It would tie better to die u pauper thun that any thing I have hel|M-d lo muke or thut any thought, word or act of mine should he used for the furtherance of this sljughte.. " I know o f nothing lo which I would rather give my life, nothing (hat would give mo u more certain feeling that I was doing a man's work, nothing that would make me feel more content In the knowledge that I had done a great duly ihnt had been placed liefore me. than to use that which I have to help bring to an end (1,000 years of this un justified hatred, ruthless waste, de struction and murder.” No. 2 lo flume Into Infernos when a lightning flush or a spark from a careless camp er m lire furnishes the excuse. Forest service ufliclals. while admit ting their anxiety, said tb-y were bet ter prep«red this year than ever be fore. Luring the past twelve mouths hundreds of miles o f tra^> have been built through the forests, and the tele phone system has been greatly In creased Hud Improved. The service also has drilled Its men after a new i fashion, so tlutt systematized tire fight ing hereafter will take the place o f In dividual effort. GIVE NICKNAMES TO BOMBS. A llie s H a v e th e “ H a ir b r u s h " end the “C ric k e t B e ll." Loudon.—The various kinds o f bombs now used In France and Flanders are described by un Eugllsb officer In a letter from the fron t There are, he says, four main types— the "hair brush," the "cricket hall," "the police man's club" and the “ Jam tin." Bomb throwers ure known In trench slang us "unarcblats." “ The hairbrush," explains the writ er, "la very like the ordinary hair UNITED STATES CASH NOW brush, except that the bristles are re SETTING WORLD’S STANDARD placed by a solid block of high explo sive. The policeman's truncheon has gay streamers o f tape tied to Its tall E o g ls Is th o R u le r os Exchange F e ll* lo Insure that It falls to the ground to Lo w o e t Level. nose downward. Both these bombs ex plode on Irniwct. and It Is Inadvisable New York.—The American dollar Is to knock them against anything—say CHUCK YOUR OLD HAT. THE GOOD FEEL ruling the world today with au iron tbc buck o f the trench— when throwing grip, rounds sterling, francs, lire*, them. ING YOU GET WILL BE WORTH MORE THAN THE "The cricket ball works by a time and virtually all foreign exchange fuse. The removal o f n certain pin have gone down to new depths In a PRICE OF A NEW ONE. torrent o f bills that (toured Into the releases a spring, which lights an Inter ALL HATS FOR $3.00 ARE NOT THE SAME exchange markets from American nul fuse timed to etplnde the bomb manufacturers seeking pay for the big In live seconds. You take the bomb QUALITY. TRY ONE OF “ OURS” ONCE. war contracts o f munitions and other lu your right band, remove the pin and WE*UE JUST OPENEO UP OUR NEW ONES. supplies purchased here by the war cast the thing madly from you. The jam Mu variety api>eals more partic ring uatlons o f Europe. MV! HOW PRETTY THEY ARE! Coincident with the startling decline ularly to the sportsman, as the ele- mint o f chance enters largely Into Its In exchange rates comes the assertion from au uutmpcacbnble source that successful use. It Is timed to explode every coutract made by the American about ten seconds after the lighting manufacturers for supplies sent abroad o f the fuse. It Is. therefore, unwise called for payment In American dol to throw It too soon, as there would lars and not English pounds sterling, be ample time for your opponent to which heretofore have been the stand pick It up and throw It back. On ard o f finance the world over The the other hand. It Is unwise to bold on Immense losses, therefore, due to the too long, as the fuse Is uncertain in Its decline In foreign exchange rules will action and Is given to short cuts." tie borne by the forelgu buyers ami will not be austulued by the Ameri 18.000 LIBRARIES IN U. S. can manufacturer*. What to do to remedy the situation HAVE 75.000.000 VOLUMES. engages the attention o f bankers with International connections. It was de- * Ided to do nothing, chiefly because N u m b e r o f B o o k* H e * In creased 20,- mob is an outraged community velvety greensward. There was 000.000 Since 1908. the remedy lay across the oceau with which carries out the law, but laughter, the crackle o f peanuts, the forelgu buyers. brushes aside with mighty force and the gurgle of liquid-extract- It was generally believed that the New York.—There arc 18.000 establish present abnormal situation would not the law’s technicalities and de of-deep-tangled wildwood down im I libraries lu the UnitctT States, con be permitted to coutlnue long The dusty throats o f sportive bucks tabling more than 75,000,000 volumes, lays,” he added. obvious remedy seemed to be to sell A t these words Faneuil Hall’ assembled. Everypnp was in gala American securities held abroad. Es according to statistics just compiled by tablishment here o f a big foreign crod the United States bureau o f education. the cradle o f American liberty, day attire. The village quartet It. estimated conservatively at $500,- Tbo number o f volumes Is an Increase shudderd from turret to founda got in a 'ittle close harmony, and 000,000, was thought to be absolutely of 20.000,000 sluce 1908 necessary If exchange rates are to lie O f tbe 2,849 libraries containing 5,000 tion stone, and the bones o f Sam their execution was such • that restored to anything like normal fig volumes or over 1,844 are classified as uel Adams titte r e d like castinets. everyone favored it. A t length, ures. public and society libraries, and 1,005 But who in historic old Boston thr guests having danced them The umount o f wur contracts on are school and college libraries. Pub which full or nearly full payments will lic and society libraries have an aggre could compare with Cole Blease as selves to a standstill and gorged lie due on or before Oct. 1 approxi gate o f over 50,000,000 volumes, with an apostle o f liberty? Is he not themselves to repletion, the time mates $400,000.000 to $500,000,000. The 7.000. 000 borrowers' cards In force; the Jail Deliver o f blessed memory for the main event arrived. Tills Is in addition to the huge total 1,440 o f these libraries were entirely to some hundreds o f persecuted chief actors in this simple sylvian of more than $1,000,000,000 owed by apaches of South Carolina? And scene were ushered to the stage Europe to the United States at the free to tbe public. Libraries reporting from 1,000 to close o f the fiscal year, June 30. 5,000 volumes numbered 6,453. o f this man was the choice o f South beneath the gallows. The whites An optimistic feature o f the situa which 2,188 were public and society Carolinians for the highest honor o f their eyes rolled with fear and lion was the general belief that a sec- libraries and 3,265 school libraries. the State could confer, and he stili the crowd giggled; they were per oud large shipment of gold Is on Its These libraries contained 11,689,942 way to New York. volumes. Another group o f still small commands a respectable following mitted to address the audience, er libraries, comprising those that re - respectable in number only. So and were applauded. A fte r this ported from 300 to 1,000 volumes. In much for South Carolina Democ the trap was sprung and these creased the total by 2,901,007 volumes. The distribution o f library facilities racy and its notions of orderly two transient entertainers were Is still uneven. O f the 1,844 public government. danced on thin air to the Judge and society libraries reported for the In a town in Mississippi, recent ment Seat while the merry throng entire United States more than half were in the north Atlnntlc states, and ly, they declared a holiday and roared with laughter. The festiv they contained 24,627,921 volumes out held a hanging bee. As an in ities were over, everyone pronoun o f the total o f 50.000,000, and o f the 3.000. 000 volumes added to library col stance o f the progress which that ced the holiday a success, and lections for the year 1913 almost one- State has made since its admission now, perhaps, they look forward half were for the same section. to the Union in 1817 it only fair to to the condemnation o f “ some Now York state had 7,842,621 vol umes in her 214 libraries; Massachu say that the two negros who more niggers." And such is the Washington.—Extraordinary precau setts. 7.380,024 In 288 libraries; Penn starred in the theatricals on this Mississippi Democracy and its tions are Lelng taken by the United sylvania. 3,728,070, and Illinois, 3,168.- occasion had been legally ( so far notions of orderly government. States forest service to prevent the 765 volumes. Four-fifths o f the bor spread ttf fierce forest fires In the na row ers’ cards In use were In the north as Mississippi legality would per InGeoreia * • • * Leo Frank. tional reservations, especially In those Atlantic and north central states. mit) adjudged guilty and senten The country is familiar with the of the northwestern states. There was ced to death. Lynching was in particulars. They beggar descrip such little snow lastt winter, and the high favor a short while ago. We tion. The former governor who rainfall has been below normal In the SOUTHERN MOBOCRACY mountainous countries, that the woods are told that the hanging took commuted his sentence to life im are dry as tinder. Field agents and place in a wood reserved for pic prisonment dare not return to his “ When mobs are no longer pos forest riders have reported to the serv ice here that ndt In ye.ars have condi sible liberty will be dead," de nics. A large crowd attended. native State. The mayor of A t tions been so dangerous. clared Cole Blease, former govern There was a barbecue. The town lanta, at the San Francisco Expo August, September and October Rre band enlivened the bosky dells sition, publicly gloried in the shame the most dreaded raontlts. and It is In or o f South Carolina to the con this comparatively short space o f nine vention of governors now in Boston with lilting music. The country ( Concluded on page 4 ) ty days that millions o f dollars In Mass. “ In the South an aroused swains “ sashayed pardners” over Iregs In. the.national ftwtwts nrg ready N. S E L IG ’S FALLS CITY D E P A R T M E N T STORE rtioto by American Press Association. HENRY rOltD. o f the United States the spirit o f mil itarism. mother to the cry o f ’ I’reparod- nett*,’ the root o f all war.” These words, uttered by Henry Ford, mark the beginning o f what henceforth will be the life work o f the m an —to strike with everything he commands at what he declares to be the direct cause o f all war and all national an tipathies that breed wur— prepared ness. “ I would tench the child at Its moth er's knee," said Mr. Ford, "w hat a horrible, wasteful and unavailing thing wnr Is. In the home and in the schools o f the world I would see the child taught to feel the uselessness of war, that wnr Is a thing unnecessary, that preparation for wnr ran end only in war. “ I have prospered much, and I am ready to give much to end this con stant, wasteful ‘preparation’—not by building peace, not by Inspiring fear ful peace by powerful armament, but by teaching the men, women and chil dren of Amerlcn that war does not threaten us, that war will not reach ns. and that the fullness o f peace Is (heir Inheritance, not the burden of militarism. “They have called In Thomas Kdlson to help their w-nr plans. Let me say that Mr. Kdlson never has had and. In my opinion, never will use his grent brain to make anything which would destroy human life or human property. He could destroy nothing. Ills mind Is a constructive mechanism that ab hors destruction, and war Is destruc tion. Ho Is a man of peace, for he realizes the true inennlngof wnr wan ton. unnecessary and unreasoning de struction. death and disruption of all that peace hns butlded. “ We build a vnsf naval machine to day. A few months hence If Is sur passed by that o f another country and Is practlenlly useless. We give our sol diers a denth dealing rifle Tomorrow another nntlon’s soldiers have a weap on that surpasses ours. FOREST ¡-IRES FEARED IN THE NORTHWEST Dry Weather For Months Has Made Conditions Dangerous.
