Friendship of America O ne of the Greatest N eeds of Russia By DR. FRANK BIIJJNGS H e s d ol the A m c ik e a Kmi ( i o u Special Conmistión lo R usas R ui* la’s greatcMt need today ih aiticcre friendship from the outside, in her »triij^lo for n constitutional and democratic form of government, America can he of iminetuie service, not so much in the way of gifts of money, but by letting the people of Russia know what is going on in this country, and what the United Ktutes is doing in the war. Russia is abso­ lutely without any American news that is worth while. Most of what they hear aliout the United States in the war comes to them through pro- (Jerman propaganda, and is to the effect that this country is fighting for pecuniary gain; thut the United States is a vassal of England, and that England wants to rule the world. They havo not heard a word of Presi­ dent Wilson’s reasons why wo are in this war. However, America is looked to by tho Russians as their bent friend 'I ho further cementing of friendly relations will aid Russia in its war operations, and tho Red Cross, through its relief work already done and that which will l*e carried on, will do much to bring this about. The Red Cross commission to Russia has established a well-organized office, with an efficient personnel in Petrograd and on the road as transportation agents. Russia turns to America as her best friend, and if America will recognize the great power of the people of Russia, their inherent good­ ness of character and stability, their desire for order, their desire for democracy, by tho help which America can give she will cement that friendship for all time. With tho American Red Cross firmly established in Russia, it is to he the policy to furnish such material as may be needed in the care of tho sick and injured soldiers, and some degree for the civilian popu­ lation. The members of the cabinet of the Russian provisional govern­ ment, tho sanitary department of tho army, the Russian Red Cross, all the relief organizations, and tho “ All Union of Zenstvos” have expressed their gratitude for the aid which the American Red Cross has already afforded. A continuation of this good work by the American Red Cross will bo one of the most potent factors in cementing that friendship which is so much desired. bodies bent forw urd to represent rippling w avelets, the tiniest waves being represen ted Ity children. Q uicker nnd quicker they come on now advancing, now retreating, yet. like tru e wuves, steadily progressing and grudiiully closing on every side of the Im aginary Islet round which they play o r b a ttle a f te r the m anner of b reakers, springing high In mld ulr ami flinging th eir arm s far above th eir heads to rep resen t th e action of spray. As they leap and toss th eir heuds the soft w hite musl or native cloth —which, fo r g re a te r effect, they w ear as a tu rb an with long stream ­ ers nnd also w ear round the waist, w hence It flouts In long scnrf-llke en d s—trem bles und flutters In the breeze. T he whole effect Is most artistic, and th e o rc h e stra does Its purt by Im­ ita tin g the ro a r of th e su rf on the reef —a sound which to them has been a never-ceasing lullaby from the hour of th e ir birth . * r STATE NEWS a r .1 £ IN BRIEF • J WWWWWWWWWwwWWWWWWWWWW Families in England That Have Long Records in the Service of Their Country T he town clerk of Henley-on-Thnmes hns had th e nam e of Cooper since Henry Hacher, a painter who has 1777. W hether It has alw ays been a lived at Grants Pass for many years, ease of son follow ing fa th e r Is not was arrested this week by Sheriff clear, but the law firm of Cooper has I>;wis, accused of seditious utterances. alw ays d u ring th a t period supplied the Tum-a-Lum Lumber company mana­ tow n clerk, I» n d o n T lt-B lta rem arks. gers and their wives from different E verybody know s th a t th e nam e of points in Central Oregon are attending B uller Is one to co n ju re w ith In Devon, the annual meet of the company, at but not everybody know s th a t a Buller Walla Walla. has been a “governor"—w h atev er th a t may he—of C redlton cath ed ral church The Hood River city council has ap­ pointed Mrs. Edna C. Henderson, city for upw ard of 20 y ears w ithout a treasurer, to succeed her husband. Cap­ break. Everybody at H ltchlns know s the tain I.. A. Henderson, Engineers’ Re­ H obbs fam ily. T hey are the perennial serve corps, now at Camp Lewis. postm en of the place. T h eir g re a t­ Car shortage on the lines of the g ra n d fa th e r carried the le tte rs long be­ Southern Pacific company in Oregon fore penny (sjstage w as dream ed of Thursday totaled 679, a shortage of and th e la tter-carry in g business has 289 closed and 290 open cars. The S. been done by a Hobbs ever since. P. & S. reported a shortage of 190 P urllum ent can supply a few such cars. ••••••••••••••ee eeee eeee records. W hen th e son of Lord Derby Within two years from now, high­ put up for a division of Liverpool It Around the World. way commission officials predict, it w as said th a t It seem ed to be tuken for will be possible for a man to mount his g ran ted thut when the h»-Ir of Knows- Many of th e ostriches of flivver in Salem and ride to Walla ley becam e of age Liverpool should Routh A frica a re Incubator Walla without getting off of a paved send him to p arliam en t—and It did. hatched. road. It w as said th a t the Newdlgntes, M ost o f th e Inhabitants of B agdad live In th e cellars during John Paul William Schwinger, a w ith but slight b reaks, huve sat for a th e day. German enemy alien, was arrested Fri­ division of W arw ickshire since 1360. T he p o tato es of Greenland day at Astoria, by Federal officers, Q uite recently F. A. N ew digute re­ seldom grow la rg e r than the and is being held in the county jail on signed his seat to becom e governor of m arbles used by th e small boy. two charges. Schwinger has beer, in T asm ania. H e is th e eighteenth New­ Ila h h lt h a ir Is supplanting this county since 1912, but has never d lg ate of one fam ily—and th e re nre o th e r s !— who has been an M. P. wool In th e fe lt h a t making In­ secured citizenship papers. d u stry of A u stralia. Assisted by Baker school teachers, El F aso ’s Jail hns steel "sun * 20 of Baker’s prominent business men p a rlo rs” In which prisoners may | Lave formed a knitting class and ex­ get fresh a ir nnd sunshine with- J M other’s Cook Book. pect to receive their first instructions out possibility of escape. < this week. The first knitfest will be • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • » • • • • • • • • a a T h e w reck record of the P.al- J held in the city hall, Mayor Palmer tic sea Is g re a te r than th a t of « having offered the use o f one of the One thing thut m ade the bread th a t any o th e r body of w uter in the J | council chambers for that purpose. m other used to m ake so good, w as th e world. T he av erag e Is one a day « Roy Campbell aged 16, was shot and a p p e tite the Doys had. th ro u g h o u t th e year. J killed by his companion, Roy Norris, 1 Good T hings for the Boys. ••••••••••••••••••••••••< Friday near Mount Scott, 25 miles east It tak es a good deal of food to fill of Roseburg. The two tK>ys had been 1 Grinding Wheels Must Do ; in the woods hunting and while it has nn onllnury grow ing boy, and he needs a fram ew ork, a t The Very Finest of Work. been learned that the shooting was ac­ It the for sam he e Is tim building e using food to supply cidental, no particulars could be ob­ heat and energy fo r his dally activ ­ G rinding w heels have fine work to tained concerning how the accident oc- ities. An active boy will digest h earty ' curred. do, w rites Ellwood H endrick In the food fo r he bu rn s up a larg e am ount Scientific A m erican. Lim its of lrregu-1 The town of Halfway is lighted with in play and work. la rlty as low as 0.0003 Inches and 0.- new electric street lights, the first 00024 Inches are o ften given. And It having been turned on Saturday even­ Spiced Beef. should be rem em bered that when 0.- ing. The power is supplied by the T ake five pounds o r more, depending 00023 of an Inch Is being ground, the Payette Power company from its Ox- heavy slide th a t c a rrie s the wheel and Bow power plant on the Snake river. upon th e size of th e fam ily, of beef wheel spindles m oves forw ard only A power line runs on from Halfway from th e rum p. T rim aw ay th e m eat and cut slits several Inches from th e h alf th a t distance. to Cornucopia to furnish power to the edge In which to pack th e stuffing, If a piece of tissu e pnper w ere sp ilt mines. m ade by using suet, crum bs and v ari­ ground glass or a p late or film Is neces­ sary. A p late la a piece of plain glass which ac ts ns n support fo r an em ul­ TO THE HOME GIRL sion. T h is em ulsion decom poses when By E dgar Rica B urroughs. • struck by light, nnd th e decom position Is m ade visible hy a process called de­ velopm ent. W ith an ord in ary photo- You have laid down your k n ittin g to grnphlc p late only one such Im pres­ r«>nd th e puper. T ho chan ces a ro sion, o r Image, can be obtained. W ith flfty-flvo o r b e tte r th a t you a re k n it­ ttie m otion-picture film, how ever, a tin g n aw enter th a t won’t fit or a sc a rf fresh piece of film ts continually ex ­ th a t la too narrow or too wide, for posed to the lens. J u s t such an arrn n g etn en t ex ists In som e soldier or sailor, and the o th er end of th e b e t—and It m ay be the the hum an eye. An em ulsion called s a fe r en d —la th a t you a re k n ittin g a visual purple ucta ns a film of g reat m ustard -co lored aw enter fo r yourself. latitu d e, renew ing Itself as soon ns tt T ho boys need sw eaters an d acorfa, Is stru ck hy the light am t discolored. tw elve tim es consecutively. It would an d m ore still they newt som ething It udapta Itself to various Intensities have th e th ickness under which these Advertisements for bids on $500,000 of light, p ro tecting the retlu a from th a t you can give th em —an d not In­ worth of the $6,000,000 State road m achines have constantly to work. too b rillian t a glare at all tim es. te rfe re w ith your kn ittin g . T hey need And yet, w hen we consider the bond issue were sent to Eastern bond asso ciatio n w ith the so rt of girl you forces p resen t In a wheel w eighing 200 papers Tuesday by G. Ed Ross, auditor a re —th e good girl, th e hom e g irl—th e Gayly Decked Fijians Do The commission pounds r o u tin g a t a speed of 1.200 of the commission. so rt of girl they w ent to see on "beau Artistic Dance Imitating revolutions per m inute, we are not re­ may sell $2,000,000 worth of bonds n ig h t” back In Hyrnrtise, o r Kscannba. year under the act, but whether a Tide Rising on a Reef m inded of a w atchm aker’s lathe, de­ this o r N am pa, o r H ertnosa. spite th e exquisite precision of the op­ the balance of the bonds will be sold T h e re a re soldiers pnsslng through or not remains to be seen. The F ijia n s are perh ap s the best eration. y our home tow n, or, tnny he, th e re Is n According to permits on file in the g re n t can lo n m en t n ear you. W hat a re d sn eers In th e world. One of the Steel Glasses for Soldiers. office of the county clerk at Dallas, a you doing for these boys th a t a k n it­ m ost curious dances th a t they p rac­ total of 225 gallons of alcohol was used ting m nchlne couldn’t do? T hey a re tice Is one rep resen tin g a tid e rising This Steel spectncles are the la te st addi­ in Polk county during 1917. th e snine kind of boys th a t you have on a reef. T he Idea to be conveyed nlw nys know n—they a re th e best boys, Is th n t of a tide g rad u ally rising on tion to th e equipm ent of th e N ether­ amount is distributed among drug th e clean est boys th a t th e co u n try has a reef till a t length th ere rem ains lands arm y fo r m odern w arfare. T he stores, hospitals and other users as fol­ Drug stores, 201 j gallons; only a little corn I Isle, round which com m ander In chief hns ordered th a t low’s: produced. You can give them som ething In­ the angry break ers rage, flinging they shnll be supplied to all th e m a­ physicians, 6J gallons; hospitals, 15 finitely liner th a n a sw e a te r—som e­ th e ir w hite foam on every side. At chine-gun sections of both Infantry, gallons. Ten gallons of wine was used th in g th a t will w arm them m ore than first th e dnneers form In long lines h u ssars and fo rtress artillery , as a for sacramental purposes. a scarf. You can give them a m em ­ nnd approach silently, to rep resen t protection ag ain st sp lin ters of pro jec­ Attorney General Brown has advised tiles, flying chips of stone and th e like. o ry of virtu e, and c h a ra c te r, nnd p a­ the quiet ndvnnee of th e waves. i Secretary of State Olcott, not to pay a trio tism to tnke to F ran ce w ith them A fter a while th e lines break up Stocks of th e glasses will be kep t In j claim of $791.92 submitted by the th a t will re p re se n t nn Ideal to th em — Into sm aller com panies, which ad ­ readiness to serve out to In fau try Is Warren Construction compnay. for an IdenI of home, m other, siste r, and vance w ith o u tsp read hands and case of w ar. payment of premiums on a surety bond sw e e th e a rt, of all th a t personifies for faithful performance of a contract co u n try , of nil of which th e flag Is and also for premiums on accident in­ th e em blem —nn Ideal to fight for. to surance policies taken out by the com- j d ie for. You can give them th is If pany to protect men working for the you will open your hom e to them . If concern on force account highway you will place In your window some work. sign th a t will say to them th a t any m an In th e uniform of o u r country Is School children in Benton and Polk w elcom e th ere. ! county districts will hold a rural life M any of th ese hoys have n ever be­ week February 17-23, in which they j fo re been aw ay from home. T hey are will feature George Washington as a ; farmer. hom esick. T hey aro w orked hnrd five Strategy. M utual C om plaints. an d a h alf d a y s a week nnd then they L ady—I like the "My husband accuses me of e x tra v a ­ The Umpqua river is expected to go to tow n on leave. Ity th a t tim e house very much, gance. I spent $10,000 Inst yenr.” they a re read y for n nythlng th a t will b u t I h e a r th a t it "I w ouldn’t tnlnd being scolded on become one of the industrial centers of h elp them fo rg et th e ir hom esiekness. Is h aunted. th a t basis. I have to sta n d fo r the the state, and the first of three new sawmills now under construction will H ero Is w here you can help. L andlord — My sam e accusation on $20 a w eek." be ready for operation in two weeks, j d e a r mnilntn, I nt- T h e re a re g irls who m eet them on probably, and in three certainly. tend to th n t per­ th o s tre e t c o rn ers—little fools who The Q uicker the B etter. s o n a 11 y. T h e m ean no harm nnd do n lot of It— H ack—I suppose you alw ays let your Parole Officer Keller has received ' ghosts only ap p ear w ife have th e last word. nnd th ero n re o th e r girls, w ho live u n ­ letters from three men now out on to te n n n ts who do d e r th e red light, nnd serve, unw it­ P eck—Yes, nnd I’m tickled to d eath parole tendering their services to go to not pny th e ir re n t w hen she gets to It. tingly, th e k aiser. France in event a company of prison­ nnd r e f u s e to F rom these tw o classes you can ers is selected from the state peniten­ move out. p ro te c t tho boy who hns gono aw ay D isappointed. tiary, along the line of Keller’s sug­ "W h at did you from his homo to learn to fight for gestion of a few days ago. She W as T roubled. get o u t of thnt you nnd y our home. If n bnd woman The United States government is Mrs. A.—A re you troubled m uch In wilt ense?” asked m ay h an g n sign In h e r w indow to lure making an investigation of the ship­ th e first law yer. m en to d estru ctio n , It Is y our d u ty to y our neighborhood w ith borrow ing? building possibilities of the Siuslaw Mrs. T .—Y es; a good deni. My neigh­ “A h u ndred amt d isp lay an em blem upon y our home river. A. A. Eichler, of Oakland, th a t will offer th ese m en th e hom e life b ors n ev er seem to have a th ing I fifty th o u san d dol­ Cal., special investigator for the lars,” replied the w hich Is th e only n ntldoto fo r the w a n t Emergency Fleet Corporation, has ar­ hom esickness which d rives them to second law yer. rived at Glenada, and will check up A dvantageous M arriage. p u rc h a se evil com panionship. “G o o d r o u nd reports on the river now on file in Mrs. Jlg g s— So your d a u g h te r m a r­ sum , eh?” Washington. ried a surgeon? “ Y e s , b u t I Photographic Lens and the Mrs. N oggess— Y es; I’m so glad. At th o u g h t th e old The dangerous crossing of the Pa­ Human Eye Are Quite Alike. la st I can afford to hnve appendicitis. m an le ft m ore cific Highway and the Southern Pacific th a n th a t." tracks at Divide, just south of Cottage T h a t tho h um an eye nnd th e photo­ H ered itary In s tin c t Grove, must be eliminated during the g rap h ic lens n re very m uch alik e In B oarder—M adam , I am told yo u r fa ­ U p-to-t he- M In ute. coming year, according to an order of design nnd o p eratio n In a well-known th e r w as a railro ad official. “Is M abel still devoted to th a t the Public Service commission. An fa c t. If you look th ro u g h a photo­ L andlady—So he w as. W hat of It? young m an who ow ns th e 12-cyllnder overhead crossing must be constructed, g rap h ic lens you will see noth in g c le a r­ B oard er— N othing, only it accounts car?” the railway bearing 40 per cent of the ly. T o perceive th e Image, aays th e fo r your tendency to keep c u ttin g “No. She passed him up fo r an expense, the county 30 per cent and P o p u la r Selene* M onthly, a piece of down th e fare. i arm y av ia to r.’ the state 30 per cent. ous herbs w hich a re enjoyed, pepper, sa lt and a g ra tin g of nutm eg or a pinch of m ace. A fter stuffing, rub th e m eat all over w ith salt, pepper, cloves, allspice, then w et w ith vinegar. L et stan d over night. In th e m orning p n t Into a k ettle w ith a cupful of w ater and cook slowly (very) fo r several hours, allow ing a h a lf h o u r fo r every pound of m eat, tu rn It o ften while cooking so th a t th e gravy will season all p a rts of th e m eat. Serve h o t or sliced cold. T hicken th e gravy and serve w ith th e m eat. Apple Pancakes. Rub to a cream a tablespoonful each of sw eet fa t and sugar, add tw o beaten eggs, one and a h a lf cupfuls of flour sifted w ith a teaspoonful of baking pow der and a cupful of chopped ap ­ ples. F lav o r w ith nutm eg or cinnam on and add milk to m ake a m edium b a t­ ter. F ry as o rd in ary griddle cakes and serve In an overlapping row around the p la tte r of ro a st pork o r sausage. Apple Dowdy. Rub an e a rth e n w a re dish well w ith sh o rten in g nnd line w ith slices of bread, also sp read w ith a b u tte r sub­ stitu te, then fill th e dish w ith sliced apples, sp rin k le w ith brow n sugnr nnd n little nutm eg, tu rn In h alf n cupful each of hot w a te r nnd m olasses, then cover w ith slices of b u tte re d bread, b u ttered side up. Cover th e dish for the first hour of baking th en uncover nnd bake fo r n n other hour. Serve from the baking dish, w ith pow dered sugar and cream fo r a sauce. :3 IRISH PEASANT SONG I k n ead an d I spin, b u t m y life Is low th e w hile. Oh. I long to be alo n e, a n d w alk ab ro a d a mile. Y et It I w alk alone, a n d th in k o f no u g h t a t all. W hy, from m e t h a t 's young should the w ild te a r s fa ll? T h# sh o w e r-s tric k e n e a rth , th e e a rth -c o l­ ored stre a m s, They b re a th e on m e aw ak e, an d m oan to m e In d ream s. A nd y o n d er Ivy fo ndling th e b ro k en castle w all. It pulls upon my heart till the wild tears fall. The cabin door looks down a fu n s lighted hill. And far as Letghlln Cross the fields are green and still; But onoe I hear the blackbird in Leigh- lln’s hedges call. The foolishness Is on me. and the wild Uars fall. —Louise Imogen# Quins*.