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Published »‘Very Thursday at Furent Grove, Oregon.
W. C. Bei fer, Editor and Publisher.
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1 HURSDAY, JULY 4, 1018
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THE BOY NEXT DOOR
By W ill M. C bemy
I didn't vote for Wilaon; I never liked him much.
The Hold-rimmed, pinch-nosed glasses nave a aort of dudiah touch.
I didn’t like hia methoda; dialiked hia frienda atill more,
And the one that haa chaii|(od me waa the hoy next door.
My life haa been pretty happy; I’ve hed a lot of joya;
We’ve only had one aorrow we never had no boya.
Hut I’ve got a little daughter and 1 know ahe haa a atore
Of love and truat and longing for the boy next door.
And when that fateful day arrived, when we knew we’d got to fiKht,
I forgot the way I’d voted, for Aur Preaident waa right.
I couldn’t go to battle, I waa old and atilf and aore;
Hut the Drat one that enliated waa the boy next door.
And, you bet, I’m right behind him with every cent I've got.
To buy him food and ahelter, and powder, guna and ahot.
And if God will juat watch o’er him and bring him back once more,
I expect I’ll be a daddy to that boy next door.
Now there’a lota of ua old fellera, too old to go and fight.
With no aona to repreaent ua and battle for the right;
Hut we can give our money aa we never did before.
And love and hope arid courage to that boy next door.
A flush of the moat delightful vocal music—a beautiful solo perhaps, or a pleasing duet or quartet—followed by
an equally delightful program of Instrumental numbers—violin, cello or piano nolo, Instrumental duets, quartets
and ensemble numbers—such Is the program of the Schubert Serenade«, to be presented on the last day of the Chau
tauqua. Probably no other organization of six young ladles combines In Itself as much artistic talent as does
Schuberts. Few programs offer such originality, such a varied and ever-changing succession of melody and
tainment
COLLEGE CAMPUS, FOREST GROVE, JULY 24
THK OLI) MAN
When you celebrate the nation’s' the War Stamp drive, both in the
Backward, turn backward,
birthday today, try to remember pre>s and through circular«, the
0 Time, in tny flight;
that you are celebrating the birth eolicitoni found a fellow w h o
Make me a boy again,
of Liberty, not just making a lot said he "didn’t write many let
So I can fight.
of noise to amuse the children.
ters and if he needed any stamps
Make me a boy again,
he’d bu.v ’em at the pcistotlice.”
Just twenty-one,
The Hun kaiser doesn’t ask his Now, wou dn’t that ciimp your
So I can shoukler
subject for what he wants—he magoozlem?
A knapsack and gun.
just takes it, without thanks or
Give
me the muscles
apology.
H ow different t h e
There is generally a way to
1
had
years ago,
I'nited States way of borrowing reach slackers and a fellow living
Give
me
a step that’s
and paying interest.
not a thousand miles from this
Not wabbly and slow.
city, who gave tim e dollars to the
Give me the strength that
You have ra sed a war garden, Ked Cross, bought no Liberty
I may play my part.
of course? Well, see that you Bonds and refused to buy War-
All I have now for
harvest ami conserve the crop, for Stamps found it out. He is well-
War is the heart.
the war may last longer lhan we to-do and depends on thi- city
think and you may need every for a market for his produce
Give me the vim and
bean, toma o and potato you have After his refusal to buy stamps,
The vigor of youth,
raised.
I'll fight till doomsday, and
he suddenly found that no one
That is the truth.
The cemetery association of the would buy his milk and other
Turn back the decades and
Congregational church purchased i produce and he was fired from a
Give me a chance
$200 worth of War Stamps,which I j«»b on the county roads A I at
To sail with the legions for
should put to shame some of the once he saw a great beacon of en-
Far away France.
monied m< n of this town, who in- lightenment and came hot-foot to
What a chasetisement it
vested less than one dollar in a town and bought $500 wo th of
It is to be told:
thousand of their wealth.
stamps. This does not make him
——
any more of an Americ m, but it
"Back to the fireside;
The natives of France are to- helps Uncle Sam just $500 worth
You’re no good--too old.”
day celebrating the Fourth of
Time, you’re a criminal,
July, a pretty compliment to the OUTDOORS
That’s plain to see.
Yankees who have come to their
There is no pain of the nunian
You’ve made a confounded
shores to as-ist in burying l ’rus- heart, no fever of the mind which
Old slacker of me.
nanism so deep that hell will have ¡s not assuaged and heal« d by a
—Naw York Evening Mail.
to be raked to find it after the day or an hour spent alone in
A SONG OF HOPE
war to over.________quiet fields and gardens, under
By V in rin fa Q uick, L in co ln , N eb.
These are hard times for m atri-,
°Pen 8^y»
the I ortland
Sons and brothers of the Nation,
monial slackers of all kinds. If
Hear the mighty bugle call,
they don’t marry the draft catch- _ We are at war and every heart
Coming
far across the ocean,
es them If they get divorced or
troubled and sad at war’s cost,
tail to support their wives, it an(l every mind is weary with Let us answer one and all,
catches them again T h eir o n ly ; ad less questionings. But sum- “ We are ready for the fray,
escape is th straight and narrow mer has laid her gracious hands Like a mighty wave we’re coming.
path of conjugal fidelity. Ain’t it upon the earth and hung it with And we’re sure to win the day.”
awful, Archie? -Oregonian.
green draperies of trees and grass, Thousands now are in the conflict.
filled it with soft airs, and covered Millions more are yet to come.
For we know “ our boys” will rally,
In the purcha-e of War Stamps, us all with tender skies,
some of the well-to-do people of; To all the stately wisdom of the To the sound of fife and drum.
this town bought as though they I iret.s and wide fields theie is add Underneath our glorious banner.
spending their last dime and never e(j tht. homely comfort of the all- Freedom’s cause shall never fail,
expected tc have another cent, enfolding grass and of our own Till within each port and harbor.
Truth and justice shall prevail.
If Uncle Sam gets to a point gardens,
where he has to take the money
vr
of a soldier may
from these tight-wads, the blow wa,k among her
Kind Words for the "Express”
roses, clip the
will surely kill them. Does this sweet sprays of honeysuckle or
The following letter from Miss
mean you? Not unless it fits your touch any of the bright children Beth Sexion, a former resident of
case.
of t h e s u n without a tender this city, explains itself:
Brother, if you and I spend ev thought of her boy and the flower
Wednesday the 26th
ery cent we have and all we can he loved best, without a fresh re
Nineteen
borrow to win this war, we will solve to keep her house and heart
Eighteen.
be much better off than if we sweet and sunny as a garden for Dear Mr. Benfer:
kept our money and lost the war. her son’s sake.
Inclosed please find One dollar (SI.00)
We had much better invest our
No father of a boy in service for the “ Express” for another year.
money (at interest) with Uncle can woik among his thrifty rows We just simply must have the Forest
Sam than give it to the Kaiser as of vegetables without thanksgiv Grove news and your paper seems the
indemnity. Buy War Stamps and ing that it is in his power io make only solution and it’s a good one.
Bonds until you feel good.
the earth yield food for his fight Dad and Mother are fine. We have
ing son and a ll h is brothers. a garden and enjoy it so much. We
Forest Grove went "over the These summer twilights many a have ripe tomatoes in it already.
top" in the War Stamps sales fear and heartache is hoed under Remember me to Mr. Sanford and
Friday in good shape, as she goes and buried deep in a prosperous ; thank you for past kin<fhess.
over in every thing she has under- garden. and many a quiet thought Our best regards to Mrs. Benfer.
taken, and W. J. McCready and and glorious vision is found by a
Very truly yours,
Postmaster K. P. Wiriz are en tired man digging among his veg
ELIZABETH SEXTON.
titled to considerable credit for etables.
315 Second Street,
the systematic manner in which
Now is the time that we may Oxnard, California.
they put the drive over on time. find
healing of the out-of-
You'll enjoy yourself if you go
Oregon, as a slate, did her duty, doors, the
a
balm
for all the year’s to Balm Grove today. Good
but Portland "went over” late.
wounds to mind and spirit.
speeches, music, dancing and
After all the advertising given
sports.
Job printing—phone 821.
A Telling Valedictory
OUR GREAT TASK
A country minister in a certain
location took permanent h ave of
his congregation in the following
pathetic manner:
"Brothers and Sisters: I come
to say goodbye I don’t think
Clod loves this church because
none of you die. You don’t love
one another becau-e I never marry
any of you. I don’t think you
love me, because you have not
paid my salary; your donations
have b e e n moldy fruit, wormy
apples, and ‘by their fruits you
shall know them ’
"Brothers. I am going aw’ay, to
a better place. I have been called
to be chaplain of a penitentiary.
Where I go you cannot come, but
I go to prepare a place for you,
and where I am, there may ye be
also. Goodbye.”
By H e rb e rt H oover.
If you could stan d In th e m iddle of
E urope today and survey th e land to
Its borders, you would discover Us
whole population of 400,000,000 hum an
beings sh o rt of food. M illions of peo
ple in Poland, F inland, Serbia, A r
m enia and R ussia a re dying of s ta rv a
tion and o th e r m illions a re sufferin g
from too little food. O ur A llies and
th e n e u tra ls are living on the b a re s t
m argins th a t w ill su p p o rt life and
stren g th .
This, th e m ost ap palling and d re a d
ful th ing th a t has ccm e to hu m an ity
since th e daw n of civilization, is to
m e th e o u tstan d in g c reatio n of G er
m an m ilitarism . T he G erm ans th e m
selves are n o t th e w o rst sufferers.
T hey a re e x to rtin g a t th e can n o n 's
m outh the h a rv e sts and c a ttle of th e
people th ey have o v erru a, leaving
them in desolation. If th e w ar w ere
to cease tom orrow , th e toll of a ctu a l
dead from sta rv a tio n w ithin the Oer-
m an lines would double or tre b le th e
Soldier and Sailor Insurance
5,000,000 o r 6,000,000 of m en who h av e
So far more than 3,000,000,000 been actually killed by G erm any and
h e r allies in arm s. T he 10.000,000 peo
Government checks have been sent ple
in occupied Belgium and N o rth ern
out by the Bureau of War Risk rr a n c e would have died of sta rv a tio n
Insurance, most of which were for had it not been for us and th a Allies.
W e m u st build our food reso u rces
:Jlotments and allowances to the
families and dependents of the en to stand ready for any dem ands upon
li-ted men in the Army and Navy. us by the Allies. It is of no purpose
us to send m illions of o u r best to
¡The total dishurs-ments of the to
F ran ce if we fail to m ain tain th e
bureau up to June 10 were moie stre n g th of th e ir men, wom en and
than $98,000,000, of which $97, children on our lines of com m unica
000. 000 was for allotments and tion T his U nited S ta te s is th s la s t
allowances.
reserv o ir of m en. th e la st re se rv o ir of
More than 850,000 checks a ships, the la st reserv o ir of m unitio n s
month are sent out, approximately and the last reserv o ir of food upon
35,000 being mailed out eveiy w hich the Allied world m u st depend
erm any is to be defeated and if
day. The first check for the June if we G are
to be fre e men.
allotments will be sent out on July *
1, ju>t as the first Ma\ payments I By eating m ore p erish ab les h e re a t
began on June 1. Relatives and home we m ay save o th e rs from p er
dependents of the insured men ishing “O ver T h ere.”
should lemember that the pay
ments for any month can not be T he farm as well as th e fro n t needs
mailed out sooner than the first men who see stra ig h t and shoot
itra ig h t.
day of the succeeding month.
Typewriters f o r rent at the W a r is OUR b u s i n e s s ; w e c a n ’t
2 1 - tf
, win by carry in g it as a side line.
Book Store.
The Main Street
Lumber Yard
has the largest and best-
housed stock of Building
M aterials in Washington
county.
Copeland & McCready
Phone 531
FOREST GROVE, OREGON