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VOL. XIII FALLS CITY NEWS __________ FALLS CITY OREGON . SATURDAY, MAY 26, 1917 T H E KING O F C E R E A L S / may be a hinderence as well as an extravagance. Wheat Parma th* Principal f oad af th* CivilUad World. Turning loose a horde of theo A ll » •• Fault. Both in the quantity produced Mr. Blinks (w th an invalid wife) retical regulators to meddle with June 5tk M m Been Named at tha every step of agriculture, manu and in it* value, wheat is the workfa —Look here, no r! This paper says king of cereal*. Recent statistic* nothing will in prove a woman’s “ War Census Day" facturer and transportation may •how, however, that 800,000,(lff0 health like swciping, baking, bed result in suppressing rather than peraona, or 54 per cent of the in making, diahwasriing and polishing habitants of the globe, derive their the silver. Mr*. Blinks — Hub! President Wilson lius named the promoting industry. You know very well you ncv>r gave austenance muinly from rice. 5ih day of June 1017 as Registra The most important cereal pro rr ,o any silver to polish. No won H E A LT H AND LO N G L I F E , tion Day. On that day the fight duccd in the United State*, measur der I’m ill!—London Mail. ing men will be numbered. On* W ay to Attain Tt-*m I* to 1 « ed in bushels or dollars, is corn, and Rebuking an Em parar. Modarat* In All T h ir J*. wheat stands second. Taking the Every male resident of these Once, so the story goes, Emperor Sickneoa and death have always civilized world as a whole, wheat United States between the ages the principal food of man. Nicholas of Russia asked Liszt to of 21 and 30, inclusive, must existed in the world and always will form* so long ss man’s physical constitu It ia much more widely distributed play in his presence. The musician register at their respective poll tion remains what it. is. Tho body than cither ita commercial rival, complied, but during the perform ing places on that day. This is evidently intended to last only a corn, or ita rival food cereal, rice ance the czar started a conversation includes aliens—the festive Irish certain time, although man himself It ia a prime necesaity ot civilized with an aid-de-camp. Liszt stopped playing at once. The czar asked man, the German, the English has unquestionably greatly shorten life. The quantity of wheat milled i* what was the matter. “ When the ed the length of its endurance. The man, the Jap, the Chink, the limit of threescore years and ten larger than that of all other cereal» emperor speaks,” said Liazt, “every Dago and the Dude. set by the psalmist deprives us of combined. It is essentially a bread one must be silent.” The czar smil cereal. Bananas, rice, potatoes and ingly took the hint, and the playing EXEM PTIONS many years that are our due. other soil products will sustain a proceeded. Students of longevity have estab There are no exemptions from lished the rule that the animal greater population on a given unit '.egistration of men between the body, including man’s, should en of land than wheat will, but they D istrict e f Columbia. The District of Columbia was age of 21 and 30. The exemp dure, barring accident, five times are not so well adapted to a high tions from military service will as long as it takes to reach full ma standard of living. Herein lie* the originally called the territory of Co be an after consideration; there jority, as marked by the complete , present and increasingly great im- lumbia, but it was soon changed to of wheat, for it seema to district aa a more convenient term. fore the halt, the blind, the rich, ossification of the bones. In man ortanre a the tendency of the civilized In fact, the term “district” was in that period is about twenty years, the poor and the married man, and a man should therefore live to world to raise its standard of living. use before “territory,” and for even though all his w ife’s rela round out a century. That he usu Aa the standard of living rise* many years Kentucky was designat tions be dependent, he muBt reg ally lives only half or three-uuarters wheat becomes a relatively more im ed a district of Virginia and Maine as long is his fault and the fault of portant part of human food. Rye a district of Massachusetts. ister. and oata furnished die bread of tne his ancestors. ABSENTEES A French writer once asserted great body of people in Europe dur A CONGRESSIONAL OATH Should you have a premonition tkat a man is ss old as his arteries, ing the middle ages. Wheat, was At the Gridiron Club dinner in that you will be away from your meaning that the degenerative high priced and not extensively grown. England ifarly became a Washington recently the news changes of old age were dependent usual ‘stomping grounds’ on this wheat eating nation. France and paper correspondents presented upon or measurable by the degree momentous day, you should at of hardening of the arteries. That tho other I^tin countries followed once apply to the countv clerk of is undoubtedly true to a certain ex later. Rye is still extensively used a burlesque of the organizing of the county in which you may be tent, but epigram* do not solve in Germany, but is gradually being the House of Representatives. at the time, whether in Oregon problem! or even explain facts. It superseded by wheat. Even Russia "Joe Cannon” administered the or elsewher, who will dll out your affords slight comfort to know that is using more wheat flour than she oath of office. It was as follows: did twenty years ago. “Hands up! You 'ought to be registration card. He will then we are aa old ns our arteries if we The great intrinsic food value of able to do that after the railroad do not know how to prevent them give you the card, which you from aging prematurely. wheat, its ease of cultivation and brotherhoods taught you how. must mail to the tegistrar of Fortunately we do know many of preparation for use, its wide adapta Do you solemnly swear to sup tion to different climutcs and soils, your home precinct, in care of the causes of the presenile degen its quick and bountiful return and port the Constitution as amended eration that cuts us off before our the sheriff of your home county, the fact of its being pumferous and from time to time, either by the time. Heredity counts for much. in time to reach the registrar by Some families are long lived. In ■ yielding such a vast number and va War Census Day. Remember, others most or all of the members riety of products are all factors that Supreme Court or the White the burden of having your card die young. That sounds hopeless, l enhance the value of the wheal House; also the constitution of the Federation of Labor; act reach the registrar of your home vet we can do much by hygienic liv grain. Its combined qualitative and promptly on telephone calls from quantitative importance gives to precinct by War Census Day is ing to lengthen our days even if wheat a great superiority over any Tumulty, keep in close touch we come of a short lived family. on you. More than that, we can transmit to other cereal. As an essential part with Sam Gompers, soak the rich THE SICK our descendants a still higher de of the food of civilized man it be by increasing the income tax, of an importance so vital as Men of military age who are gree of stamina. The other causes comes ♦o be dominating. — From “The jolly the poor by bunk embargo of early aging may be summed up in too ill to go to the voting booth investigations of the high cost of tho one word excess — overwork, Book of Wheat.” to register must send a comp mental or physical, worry, overeat living, scrap in public and fix it G r a v ita tio n . etent person before War Census ing and even oversleeping. Modera up in private, vote for prohibi Gravitation as a supposed inz'^e Day to the county clerk to ex tion (not insufficiency) in all things power was noticed by the Greeks tion and hope it won’t pass, play plain the circumstances, and se —eating, drinking, working, play and also by Seneca, who speaks of politics with women suffrage, cure instructions from the Fed ing, sleeping — is the secret of the moon attracting the waters, reduce the milage to 5 cents and health and longevity. — Youth’s eral regulations which these of Companion. about 38 B. C. Kepler investigated beg the senate to keep it at 2 0 - tho subject about 1615, and Hooke in short, in the last analysis, do ficials will receive from the Gov devised a system of gravitation you swear to act as first-class ernment. Salad Draaalng Boilad. about 1674. The principles of grav politicians on to their job.” The following boiled dressing, is PENALTY very nice with tomato, jelly, fish ity were demonstrated by Galilei at Failing to register, or making salads and fresh green salad herbs Florence about 1633, but it was not any false statement will subject and with a bit of onion or cress until th$ great Newton stepped The Oregonian has to say of you imprisonment, and your wife makes a delicious filling for sand upon the stage that the matter was the Conscription act:—“ For want fairly settled. The others had guess- if you have one, will not benefit wiches; it may also be used on j ed. Newton proved, and to Newton of a better name it is called draft bread or rolls when a butter famine by the “widow’s pension act.” unquestionably belongs the high or conscription, when it really is shoots up prices: Beat two eggs to honor of having shown us the true the volunteering of the entire gether, add a tiny pinch of suit, two mechanism of the heavens. nation.” This universal (?) ap tablespooufuls of sugar, half a scant Don’ i Overload proval of the bill, doubtless influ teaspoonful of ground mustard and L e n g t h of th* Law. half a cupful of milk. Mix well enced Congress to deny the peo The phrase “the length of the Employes are being added to and then stir in a quarter of a cup ple a vote on it; brought about government payrolls by the thou ful of vinegar. Cook the mixture law” owes its origin to the enor mous length of some of the parch an insurrection in Texas to resist sands. Alleged expert super until it thicken*, taking care to stir ment rolls upon which the ancient it; caused the migration of thou visors, teachers and inspectors, it constantly to prevent curdling. statutes of Great Britain were in sands [of young men to Canada Upon removing from the fire let it together with an army of clerks, cool and then add a few drops of scribed. The present day official to evade it. Heretofore it has title of the “master of the rolls” is are being engaged as rapidly as olive oil. never been deemed necessary to a reminder of this ancient custom. official ingenuity can devise Some faint idea of the bulk of the provide a punishment for volun Th* S h r a w m o u ia . methods of spending money from English records may be obtained teers who declined to volunteer. The smallest mammal in the Brit the gigantic appropriarions made from the fact that a single statute, All this attests to the truthful ish isles is the shrew-mouse. This is by Congress. not only the smallest British nura- the land tax commissioners’ act, ness of the Oregonian’s state Uncle Sam’s credit is good, al, but, with tho exception of one passed in tho first year of the reign ment. Why not face the situa thus making it certain that these other of tho same genus, the small of George IV., measures when un tion fairly and squarely and call rolled upward of 900 feet! est in Europe. The harvest mouse thousands of new employes will things by their " s c r i p t u r a l is sometimes thought to be even draw their salaries promptly. F ish Daluaions. smaller, but the length of its head names?” Every anxious patriot hopes and body is often two and a half There are two popular delusion* about fish—one that they cannot this is all for the best, because inches, while that of tho lesser CENSORSHIP ESTABLISHED the cost must all be paid by the shrew is rarely more than two live out of water and the other that they can live in any pure wa inches. The tail measures about great producing masses of the Without waiting for action by ter, the food supply taking care of people in the increased price of one and a third inches, and its itself. Aa a matter of fact, there Congress, Secretary Lansing has teeth are so extremely small that a are fish in Africa which, having to instituted ajpensorship of news food, raiment and shelter. lens is required to detect them. oxiat in absolutely dry rivers for a from the State Department In so far as these employes are portion of the year, have developed Th* G ia n t Petrel. necessary to a large military lungs, while in many an amateur’s which clamps down the lid far , The gianl petrel of the arctic establishment, commensurate regions will feed on offal until it is aquarium fish cannot live in the wa- stronger than any which is to be with our country’s stupendous so absolutely gorged as to be unable 1 ter provided owing to lack of food. found at any Foreign Office in duty in this great war, they must to rise off the ice in flight. Then Europe. Not only are under of Siam *** Cloth#». be employed, and the nation will it nine along the ice if chased, ficials of the State Department In Siam both men and women not feel nigardly about millions spreading its wings out as sails. Be wear the “panung," which is describ forbidden to talk to any news fore being captured, however, the of added expense. ed as a piece of ailk or coiton cloth paper men about any matter,' But in so far as these expenses petrel will suddenly stop and din- wound round the hips, the alack be however insignificant of fact or gorge a quantity of food and then are for multitudes of supervisors go off on a run again. If overtak ing rolled up, passed between the detail, but any of them who to interfere in the production en a second time it will repeat the legs and hitchoa up behind in such utters a word upon which a criti way aa to give the appearance of and distribution of foodstuffs and performance and when once it has a a pair of loose knickerbockers. For cism of the administration’s war other necessaries of life, they4 got rid of its dinner flics away. w»jat_ coverings the women wear 1 policy may be based will be iost- jackets or wear coat*. REGISTRATION DAY b.Muscs, No. 39. umJ the men E C O -O P E R A TIO N We co-operate with those who patronize this bank, in every manner permitted by best conserv ative banking methods. We assist by extending credit where credit is due, by advice, by counsel, by giving the customer the benefits of our knowl edge and experience and taking an active interest in his welfare..................................................... We have money to loan on improved farms and write Fire Insurance in several reliable companies. BA N K O F FALLS C ITY . antly dismissed. The prevailing atmosphere in Washington just now is not condusive to the de- velopement of freedom. It is small wonder that when a Sena tor met a Congressman the other day and said, “ How are you?” the Congressman replied, “I would like to tell you, but the censorship forbids it.” SEEK AND Y E SHALL FIND A thoro search should be in stituted for the old fashioned orator who used to argue that if the democrats were elected, corn would rot in the crib, wheat would sell for 15 cents a bushel and hogs and cattle and butter , and eggs would have practically no value on the market.—James town Optimust. It will not be necessary to search very far This orator will be found just around th-» corner, listening to the Petno- cratic orator that in the cam paign of 1912 urged the election of Wilson a9 a means of reducing the high cost of living and of government and in the campaign of 1916 urged the re-election of Wilson because he would keep us out of war.—Beloit Gazette. i