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
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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.
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