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FOREST GROVE PRESS
T H U R S D A Y , J A N U A R Y 29, 1914
COMiNG OF HUNGRY MEN
AROUSES DISCUSSION
Articles Written to Press Discuss
Social and Economic
Conditions
Compliments Local Spirit
Sewell Station, Ore., Jan. 20, 1914.
(Editor Press.)— When I read the
account of the visit to Washington
County of the unemployed as I sat by
my fireside Saturday evening looking
over the various county papers, I re
marked to my better half, “ Now, '
will show you why I have said so
often that I would give $500 if our
beautiful home was close to Forest
Grove. Just read these-two accounts
o f those same hungry men on the
same day in the same county. Each
account expresses ’ he Qooinant spirit
o f the two towns. Some sense of
humanity in one. And while m anj«of
the individuals have passed away
since I first landed there twenty-five
years ago that gentle charity which
so binds the affection o f those who
have lived there is still alive amidst
its growth o f population and business
prosperity.”
Yours,
THOS. H. BROWN.
How to Reduce the Cost of Living
much more land to feed and clothe him
than if he subsists on the botanical
productions. Hence every family as
far as practicable should avail them
selves o f at least a small plat of land
where they can grow much stuff for
their table. Plant and replant, keep
the ground producing. If more per
sons till the soil it would lessen their
cost of living, besides benefit them
physically, mentally, and morally.
Buying small quantities cost more.
Make your purchases o f food stuffs
when most plentiful at harvest time
and larger lots, provided if they are
suen as will keep. Also put up your
own fruits at a great saving. And as
far as possible if fruits be used in
the fresh state or in a natural condi
tion they are more wholesome and
cheaper than if made into preserves.
Again we are living in an age when
there are many prepared foods (ready
cooked) on the market. Of course
they are nice, but our girls and
women should know how to cook hy-
genically and economically, and to
prepare our foods at home from the
raw materials much more satisfac
t o r ily and at a greatly reduced cost.
Even as common a food as bread
bought from the bakery eosts about
double the price o f the flour.
Pride, extravagance, discontent and
Idleness are great promoters o f costly
living, while industry, contentment,
simplicity, and frugality will lessen
the cost o f living and enhance the
nobler life.
S. H. CARNAHAN.
(Editor Press.)— It is a sad condi
tion to many that the cost o f living
Scripture
Sidelights on
Existing
has become so great. Whether this
Labor Conditions
was brought about by monopolies and
trusts, or by the increase o f city pop
Forest Grove has had a concrete
ulation above the rural does not affect
demonstration o f one feature, at least
conditions.
The thing for us individuals and I o f the present day labor agitation,
families to consider is how we can j It is not a local affair, confined to the
lessen the expense of our living so as limits of any single city, state or na
to come within the range of our in tion. It is a universal, world-wide,
come and save a little aside for an ever-growing trouble.
Now to solve it or whether or not
emergency or the proverbial "rainy
it will ever be solved this side o f the
day.”
To accomplish this, there are a judgment day, is the question. Men
number of things to be considered and have various opinions and all kinds o f
encountered, for we do not wish to solutions to offer. The men mostly
economize in such a way as to impov concerned, the laboring people them
erish our diet, or lack in sufficient ap selves, have the question solved to
parel or dwelling rooms and this their own satisfaction, at least, in
brings on suffering and sickness, theory, but they are having hard
which enhances the cost of living, if work to materialize their theories to
you call it such, and makes life un their own personal advantage.
We have labor organizations multi
pleasant, even miserable.
As examples we may try to save in plied, and what do they portend? That
proved that if man lives largely on | is the burning question o f the hour,
cost o f comfortable buildings and in- j and one not to be ignored.
Who is right s#nd who is wrong, or
ing a little more for proper clothing,
and using non-nourishing foods and what is wrong, we may not be fully
add medical and funeral expenses to able to say, but we all know there is
something seriously wrong some
the cost of a mere existence.
Some years ago a poor man tried where. Peace has fled. Union does
to live on ten cents a day and in not exist in the financial world, be
vested it in ice cream. Result: He tween capital and labor, between the
ceased to live.
Had he purchased rich and the poor.
There is an ever-deepening gulf,
bread and milk or some other sub
stantial food he would have survived and there is no human solution, and
no hope that it will ever get any bet
much longer and better.
The chief things to promote eco ter this side o f the day o f final
nomical and healthful living are con awards.
I have no pet theory, no human so
tentment, adaptability, industry, and
lution to offer, neither am I a pessi
utility.
Be contented with that which is mist. There is hope, out not in man,
within your means and do not go be There is hope for rich and poor alike,
yond your earnings in order to equal but it is not in man or men’s theories.
or surpass your neighbor in buildings Destruction and dire disaster will
or dress. And simplicity in diet is come to all those who trust in man or
cheaper and more conducive to good in their federations. I do not deny
that some pecuniary benefit accrues at
health and happiness.
Adapt yourselves to your location times to combinations o f either capital
and environment and season. If we go or labor, but it is not permanent, and
to other countries or foreigners come the motive is usually selfish.
“ In union there is strength,” if it
here, let us all adopt the way of living
where situated rather than importing be the right kind o f union. Labor
foods and goods, or purchasing i.i the and capital should be united and
season when things arc highest’. But should not war but work together.
“ A house divided against itself can
don’t buy articles regardless of your
real needs simoiy because they seem not stand,” said Christ. Read Mat
cheap, nor try lo keep up with changfs thew 12-25. Capital cannot get along
in styles and fashions. “ Pride goeth without labor; labor cannot get along
before destruction and a haughty without capital. Both are necessary
and working in harmony produce
spirit before a fall.”
Industry is the nandmaiden t • thrif: ideal conditions, but to-day there is
while “ something for nothing” is fa l little harmony, and as a result little
lacy. Although God feedeth the birds peace, and war impending and inev
yet they ere to get out early and hunt itable, and woe to the world whenit
and s rutch for tneir living and Adam comes, bi t there is hope, as I said be
fore, not in man but in the God o f
by the
weat o f his face.” ,
was told that he v.as to earn his bread Heaven, and His solution, which all
UHIit r next comes into play i’. re could embrace, but in truth few will,
ducing nvr cost o f living and is so but God’s solution means salvation to
close v associated with industry time all who do accept, be they few or
we shail consider them together L m < e many.
God’s plan embraces all, but its de
a certain English general said, ‘ la in
land e \pects ev tiy man to u- h:. velopment depends upon the individ
duty. Bo God expects us to mr.ki vae ual’s own choice of whether he will
take God’s plan or man’s and the con
o f thin;:s at hand.
Most every country produces food sequences will be according to his
materials that will furnish tne van choice; salvation if he takes God’ s
ous elements, carbo-hydrates, sugar, plan, distinction if he trusts to man
starches and fats and albuminous or or self.
Just as verily as there was an ark
proteids most suitable to the inhabit
ants, su.’ h productions as corn. rice, provided for the antediluvian, just
yams, beans, oranges, bananas, etc., so surely is there an ark today, a
in the South, wheat, oats, peas, pota refuge from the flood ’ o f woe, ready,
toes, apples, berries, etc., ir. the soon, to burst upon the world. Just
as surely distraction will fail upon
North.
Man was created from the ground, those who do not avail themselves o f
and from it comes his living either di the refuge.
Is the matter so serious? Read
rectly or indirectly. It has been ful.y
proved that fi man lives largely on Daniel 12:1, National trouble, Inter
animal and poultry products it takes national trouble, Armageddon is com-
ng, believe it ornot. God’s word is
true. But there is a refuge in God.
His word explains it fully. Kind
ly take down the old book from the
shelf, bru^h off the dust from its
covers. Ask God to open your eyes
even to unwelcome truth. Carefully
read the 91st Psalm from beginning
to end. Then read the 5th chapte>
of James from first to last. Whei
done read Isa. 8:9. “ Associate your
selves, O ye people, and ye shall be
broken in pieces; and give ear all ol
far countries: gird yourselves and
ye shall be broken in pieces.” Quot
ed by way of emphasis. Something
important worth heeding.
Do we see associations today?
This is the binding in bundles of the
tares for final burning, but the good
wheat will not be bound with the
tares, but gathered into the garner.
Oh! God grant we each may be gar
nered with the wheat. Read on v. 10
“ Take counsel together and it shall
come to nought.”
Please read on
vs 11 and 12. V. 13 says, “ Sanctify
the Lord o f Hosts himself; and let
Him be your fear, and let Him be
your dread.”
Please read Rev. 18th chapter. Isa.
8:21, 22. Isa. 2:10-22. Isa. 24:1, 12.
17. 18.
CHARLES E. HALL.
The Comforter
A Story of President Lincoln
Founded ou Fact
By F. A. MITCHEL
PAGE N IN I
lapse ana sans down on tne ground.
His companions In arms went on.
but were soon driven back and over
him, leaving blm there wltb a stream
of blood (lowing from bis side.
Later he was picked up by a Fed
eral ambulance corps and placed on a
stretcher. He believed himself to be
dying, and. oh, bow terrible not to be
able to bid his mother goodbyl
“ Mother!" he cried. "Oh. mother!"
A tall, spare man In citizen's apparel
heard the wall and directed tbe car
riers to put down the stretcher and.
kneeling beside It. asked tenderly:
"WhHt can I do for you, my poor
boy ?"
“ You are a Yankee. You will do
nothing for me. I wlsb to send a
message to my mother, but It will nev
er reach her.”
"Give me your message and I prom- j
Ise you that I will send it for you.”
Tbe next morning Mrs. Fitz Hugh
beard of tbe battle amt knew that her
son bad been iu It. While she was ]
wondering what might have been his j
fate a man rode up to her and gave
her a message, stating tbat It had I
come by flag of truce.
Starting for tbe front at once, the
anxious mother succeeded In bringing |
her boy home. He hovered for some
time between life and death, then be- |
gan slowly to recover. Not long after
this Richmond was evacuated by the
Confederates, and President Lincoln
went down there from Washington. ,
Wheu be was riding through the street
on which the Fltz Hughs lived Allan
wus propped up In an easy chair oil
pillows, and his mother pointed out
Mr. Lincoln to blm.
"Oh. mother!” exclaimed the boy.
“ What is it. Allan?”
"He's the man who comforted me [
when I was carried off that dreadful I
battlefield, and be sent you my mce- i
cage.”
Cruel.
When the great struggle between the
“ 1 wish you many happy returns.”
northern and southern states cauie on wrote an editor to a poet who had I
Allan I'itz Hugh, twelve years old. seut blm a poem entitled “ My Birth- |
was at school In Virginia. He was a day.”
Qelfer and Caster.
boy of delicate physique, but was full
A quaint mutch took place on a
of fire, and, bearing that Abraham
Lincoln was coming southward at the Shropshire (England* golf course be - 1
bead of an armed force, was much tweeu a golfer using the usual clubs
troubled because be wus too young to | and ball and an angler with bis rod j
sliouluer a musket and repel the in- and a two and a half ounce fishing j
vuder. He found It difficult during weight A large crowd watched, while I
those exciting times to attend to his the angler endeavored to get round the |
studies, and had It not been for the course In fewer casts than the golfer
influence of tils mother, whom he dear made strokes. The angler started fa
ly loved, he couid not bare been kept vorite. and. of course, bunkers had no
at school at all.
terrors for him. But he lost heavily
lu those days the passion attending on the longer boles, though some of
war ran high on both sides. The ids best casts were more thafi a hun
songs, the gibes, the speeches and what dred yards, and was well beaten on
was written concerning the great tbe round, taking 102 casts against
struggle were very bitter and usually bis opponent’s 87 strokes.
fur from the truth. In tbe north it
wus "We'll hang .leff Davis on a sour
apple tree." and in the south President
Lincoln was called "the buboon." The
northern schoolboy conceived tbe Idea
that President Darts was an ogre, not
realizing tbat he was an educated gen
tleman. had commanded u regiment of
United States troops in the war with
Mexico, bad been a United States sen
ator and secretary of war. The south
era schoolboy considered President
Lincoln a wild man from the western
woods who delighted In bloodshed.
Children whose minds are not devel
o|ied must concentrate upon one head
in Hny movement in which they are
interested. So Allan's thoughts dwelt
upon Mr. Lincoln, embodying in blm
the whole northern urray, which was
to him a terrible horde coming down
to destroy the south.
When Allan wus fifteen be begged
bis mother to let blm go to fight for
(he Confederacy. Naturally she clung
to her son. snd the matter was com
promised between them in tbls wise:
If tbe war wag not over In another
year Allan was to enlist wltb his
mother's consent. Many boys of his
age. both in the north and In the soutb.
broke away from parental restraint
and enlisted without permission. Foist
—
for powder was In demand, and tbe
••cniitlng officers often winked at the
fact that the recruits were under age.
But Allan was his mother's only child,
slid, being of an extremely affectlon-
a e disposition, the bond betweeu
them was doubly strong.
So Allan continued at his studies,
though lie read more about the battles
'S S
that were being fought than the sub
Jects treated of In his textbooks. He
lived iu Richmond and at one time had □ Q
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listened to tile roar of cunnoii during
the seven days' battles that bad been □ □
fought between Lee and McClellan
His admiration for soldiers wore away
some of Ills bitterness against the Fed
eral generals. Imt President Llneoln
was still the embodiment of Ills re
pugnance for the northern people. Tile
two heads—Davts of the Confederacy
and Llneoln of the Federal Union —
throughout the war continued to repre
sent the bitter antagonism felt by
either side.
lu tbe early spring of 1805 Allan
Fltz Hugh came to be sixteen years of
age. and his mother reluctantly con
sented to bis doing bis part to fill the
gaps in the southern ranks made by
northern missiles.
When tbe time
came for him to leave his mother he on
was seized with a forebodlBg that he
would not see her again. It Is ques
tionable which suffered tbe more at tbe
parting, mother or son.
Allan t'ulisted in time to take part
in one ot the last battles of the war. □ B
Ue saw a dark line of blue on the □ B
edge of a wood behind earthworks
With the Confederate line of battle
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he moved toward It. Suddenly a storm a o a o o B o o
ja a a a a a c
burst in his face. He felt himself col Q □ BCD Q O D O C
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