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Published every Thursday at Forest Grove, Oregon.
W. C. Henfer, Editor ami Publisher.
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at the no
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THURSDAY. OCT. 25. IsMT
“ l am sorry that you do not wear a fisc every
day and I can only ask you if you lose the phxsical
emblem to l>e sure that you wear it i\ YOl'K
H E A R T ; the heart of America shall interpret the
heart of the work!.” President Wilson.
Paid in advance
One year
Six months
Three Months
N O T K S A N 1) C O M M E N T S
Every D - r"/ , BGF~
is â shot
at * U BOAT
JIM DALE
oung Jimmy Dale, I across our street,
Is just a gawky lad.
He grew so fast, the doctors said,
His heart was mighty bail;
They wouldn’t let him do much work
“ ' Or any hearty play
But, just the same, they drafted Jim.
Ami
Jim h;ui gone awav.
:i\
was sort of a great, big kid
. to Jim
And
fooling all the w hile
.40 So, when
they ordered him to camp.
He wynt there with a smile.
Jim Dale ia in the army now,
Lank legs, bum heart and all.
To fight like other drafted men
That got the country’s call.
God, yes! Jim 's heart may drop him
dead
Or he may live to be
Shot all to pieces “over there”
1 W hat odds to you or me?
By thunder! it’s these odds to you!
If kids like Jim can go.
With smiles to fight our wars for us
We can put up the dough.
If we can buy a bond or two
An«! don't, while Jim, f>oor cuss.
Goes smiling off to death or wounds
Then hell's too good for us!
Ellis Parker Butler.
you can buy. This nation is still
a democracy and wt* must sacri
fice for each other to keep it a»;
but if you in sist on eating things
that should go to the fighters,
Uncle Sam may have to a* ume
the roll of step-father and t- li you :
ju>t how much you can ram d> wn j
your throat. And Uncle Sam
would very much hate to do that.
By W. T. Perkins, Portland, Ore.
tinies of the nations should give The U S. War D etrim ent has
TWO COLLEGE BOYS
(Dedicated to the Liberty Loam
serious
consideration to the terms, announced.that it will pay 50c a
Two boys left home with just for on the
that we sign will
in commutation of rations at
money enough to take them depend for pact
generations the peace day
Ye Sons of Freedom, bring to me
O
.
A
. (!., instead of th e 30 c e n ts
through college, after which they and future of the whole world.
With flaming hearts and bended knee
originally
promised. 'Phis is paid
defended entirely upon their own * The stake is the greatest that the
Your offering to Liberty !
human race has ever played for; in plac • of ra ions to advanced
efforts.
patience
and confidence are all members of the reserve officers’
Ye are my sons; my bounteous breast
They attacked the collegiate' that we now
need in order to I k * training corps, chiefly the juniors
Hath nourished you, and on you prest
I problems successfully, passed the certain of winning
Its richest gifts; nor sought I rest.
graduation,received their diplomas We are fighting it to ” destroy an and seniors. Payment is from the
from the faculty, also commenda institution.the continued ex stence time th e ls>ys sign up to th e end
Gaze now upon thy golden fields;
tory letters to a large shipbuilding of which would render permanent of the year, through vacations and
Mark how the earth its fruitage yields
firm with which tney desired em- j peace impossible. That is our all This mak*‘s fifteen dollars a
ployment
Beneath the star-strewn Flag that shields.
aim, stated in a sentence. month for the year. Freshmen
Ushered into the waiting-room war
Portland
Oregonian.
Behold thy cities, proud and strong;
and sophomores get uniforms, but
of
the
htad
of
the
firm,
the
first
;
Behold thy homes, where evensong
not rations, during the training
was given an audience. He pre WAR PROSPERITY
sen ted his letters.
Ascends to heaven, free from wrong.
The Oregonian has heard of period
‘•What can you lo asked the two citizens of a thriving county A desire to comply with the
My noble sons! Awake! Arise!
man
of millions.
in Eastern Oregon who have each city council’s "clean up” order
Behold sad Europe’s smoking skies;
“
I
should
like
some
sort
of
a
flocks
of twelve hundred sheep.
Gird ye my limbs ere Freedom dies.
Ernest Brown a badly cut
clerkship.”
From th ese sheep during the cur cost
leg
Saturday,
when he swung a
‘•Well, sir, I will take your rent year these sheepmen have gunny sack filled
Think now of Belgium’s fields of red;
broken
name and address, and -hould we realized €>ach $17,000 in cash, by glass against his left with
Behold
where
stricken
France
hath
bled;
leg.
the
sale
of
wool
and
lambs.
They
3 3 ^ Remember Lusitania’s dead.
have anything of the kind open
have not parted with a single ewe
will correspond with you.”
sheep.
My sons! my sons! your hearts I know;
As he passed out he remarked
to his waiting companion, “You It is a fair estimate that in an
Bring, then, thy gifts and let me go
can go in and leave your address ” ordinary year the returns in wool
With blazing sword, to meet the foe.
and lambs from a flock of 1200
The other presented himself and ewes
would be from $.‘1000 to
his papers.
$1000,
and the owner would have
Liberty Bonds pay more inter- one doubtful case, for nea ly “What can you do?” was done well.
est than the banks will pay after twenty years leave to wind up an ask,d
Here, then, is an excess profit of
‘I can do anything that a green $13,000
the first of next year and they are estate has been refu-ed.”
$14,000 for each of
can do, sir,” was the reply. these lucky to sh-emen,
free from taxation up to $5,000. It is always best to be loyal to hand
made out of
The magnate touched a bell, the war. Except for the
See the point? That’s why Sec your country. You feel much which
war they
called a superintendent
would
have
been
struggling
retary McAdoo wants the small better and your conscience will be “ Have
you anything to put a on 15-cent, or 20-cent wool along
and
investors to own these bonds.
clear, and you know you are right. man to work at?”
$1
50
or
$2
lambs.
The London Daily Chronicle No one should make a preten-e of “We want a man to sort scrap- We should say that the sub
replied the superintendent. scription in war bonds from every
says: “The war has reproduced living in the United States unless iron,”
And
the c Ikge graduate went such sheep and wool profiteer
the tragedy of Enoch Arden in not he can unhold the Stars and to sorting
scrap-iron.
ouitht to be at least $5000. Port
a few cases. Recently the wife of Stripes and be a true American,
One
week
passed,
and
the
presi
a young officer—whose death had J. D Brown, president of the dent. mee’ing the superintendent, land Oregonian.
been presumed by the war office— Farmers’ Union, and G. E. Spence, a^ke i, “How is the new man get A full line of the famous Me 2 nd LIBERTY LOAM
Kinlev 10c sheet mu^ic at the
married a clergyman. Now she master
the State Grange, have ting “ O on?”
has received a letter from her hus jointly of issued
h ,” said the boss, ‘he did his Book Store.
a letter asking the work so w ell, and never watched
band, written from a prisoners’ farmers of Oregon
to purchase the Hock, that I put him over the
camp. It should be a warning liberally of Liberty Bonds.
They gang.
against rapid remarriages. The call attention to the fact that
Your Money and Your Temper
on In one vear t h i s man had
courts are loath to presume death
by purchasing a pair of
the
first
Liberty
loan
many
farm-
reached
the
head
of
a
department
without very exact evidence. In
an advisory position with the
ers were not in position to buy and
d ia m Dollar
o n Lenses
d are Htanilaril, and are
management
a salary repre
heavily, but th e y have received sented by four at figures,
while his
Diamond
and
scientifically ground by the finest lens m anufactur
such good prices for their crops, whilom companion was “clerk” in
ers the world to supply the necessary curvature
the^e men say, that they -hould a livery stable, washing harness
to the eye lost by deneient accommodation. Nine
cases out of ten can be fitted from their different
give their government all the aid and carriages. Western Farmer.
foci. If yours is the tenth case and requires the
possible.
TEMPORARY PEACE
services of an oculist, you will he told so.
Appearance: They are equal in appearance,
Say, Mister Big Eater, do you NOT DESIRABLE
style
and finish to the $6.00 kind of II karat gold.
know that overeating kills more Those who eagerly catch at ev-
Price a little lower than the lowest, for an
article of this finish ami ap|iearartro, anywhere in
people in the United States than ^ pl‘a for P^ce which emanates
the world.
•
-- undereating’ Don’t you think it from Berlin and who constantly
Quality, a lilt I p better than t hr I ipn I that has
would be better for you and the call for a definition of our war
ever been placed before the public at thin price.
B U ,Y A
Make no vnintake, the IHnrnond lh»|lar Speetn-
nation if you stopped eating just aims’ would ,Jo weI1 to keep In
Umted States G tm n n em Bo« of tire
and KyeKlaiHia afe «nod enoiiKh for anyone.
a little before you reached the mind these wordsof GeneralSmuts,
Hundred* of thousands of customerM now wearing
and Up
limit of your capacity and left a the great Boer leader, uttered in
SECOND
these glasses will testify Is.th as to their quality
little to Jack and Bill and Sam, an interview wi t h t he Paris
and durability.
for b a ij my
have given up so much to go Journal:
iberty o p who
across^the pond and fight for you “ But before thinking of peace
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and I? Don’t think that because we must be certain of having fin-
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you have bought a Liberty Bond ished with military imperialism, ALL STYLES
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