Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, January 21, 1916, DAILY EDITION, Image 2

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Newspaper Page Text-v.. 'Tf PACTS TWO DAILY KtHiUB IUVEH COVR1KH .J-'JUB.IV, JAJil'AHV ttl, 1010. Daily Rogue River Courier. Am Independent Republican News Paper. United Prees Leased Wlra Telegraph Bervlce A. B, VOORHIK8, Pub. and Proi. - WILFORD ALLEN, Editor . Entered at the Grants Pass, Ore fon. Postoffiee as second-class mall natter. SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Tear . Six Months .... Three Months .... One Month - .$5.60 ...S.Ot ...1.50 60 Payable la Advance. FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1816. 4 4 4 OREGON WEATHER 4 4 . : ; 1 4 4 Tonight and Saturday occa- 4 4 atonal rain west; unsettled, 4 4 probably rain or snow east por- 4 4 Uon; southerly winds. 4 444444 4444444444 THE TRUANT OFFICER. j . u There is a movement under way ' tor the co-operation of the county through the county court, the muni cipality and the school district tor the employment of a juvenile truant officer who will Bee to the enforce ment 'of all laws having to do with 1".. ....' i r.. i" minora. The proposal la said to be j.tor the payment. of such an officer upon the basis of one half by the county, and the balance equally by city and school district The coun cil has already approved the plan', .and has appointed a committee from its body to work out details, the com mittee being composed of Messrs. Demaray, Burkhalter and Burke. Such a plan as that proposed would undoubtedly work to a great advan tage. There are adequate laws upon the statute books for the control and guidance of the youth, and for the checking of their evil propensities, but they are difficult of application. The officers feel a hesitancy at taking action against Juvenile offenders with the machinery that is employed In dealing with the hardened criminal, and as a consequence the boy or girl proceeds on an unchecked course till they come to a point where they can be no longer overlooked. This juven ile officer would know whether the boys and girls who ought to be in school were there, and If they were not attending could take such action as might be necessary to enforce at tendance. A boy out of school with out cause becomes at once an advance agent of mischief, and from the ranks come the recruits for the courts. Parents do not or can not always give children just the home training they ehould receive, and left to follow their own inclinations, these children become a public menace. The protec tion of the public as well as the wel fare of the children is served by pro viding someone whose particular duty it is to enforce certain provisions of the law. Neglect makes a crooked boy Just as it makes a crooked tree. WILL ENFORCE AUTO LAWS. Almost anyone who' drives an au tomobile could be arrested under the laws of the state of Oregon if the officers should enforce all the sta- tutes strictly to the tetter. There are some of these laws that seem al most unnecessary to the driver of the auto, but in the interests of the public safety they should be observed, and the local police force announced that they must be more carefully regarded in the future. The regulations re garding the use of lights upon autos Is one especially intended to protect he public, and it is said by the of 'Icers, who are the custodians of the vubllc peace and safety, that drivers :nust watch out in future or they will land in court. The law requires hat not only the head lights be burn 'ig after dark, but also that the tall "ghta be burning when Old Sol is off the job. It has been a common prac "ce with a great many auto drivers f have no rear light, and a number t near accidents have resulted in f msequenoe. So observe your auto "ht if you want to escape the t rath of outraged Justice. MARLEY 2IJ IN. DEVON 2l IN, ARROW COLLARS 1 FOR 15 CENTS CLUETT nSABOPra CaiWCTKOYlPt CONSISTORY WILL BE HELD IN MARCH Rome. Jan. 21. Vital importance was attached today to the announce ment that the pope will hold another consistory in March. This is understood to be another step in the pontiff's peace program, though ostensibly it is for the pur pose of conferring the red hat upon Monslgnors Scapinelll of Vienna and Fruhwirth of Munich. The pope, it Is believed, desires to inform himself about the conditions and possibilities for peace in Vienna and Bavaria.. JUls action In having representatives from these two points continues his plan of conferring with cardinals from the warring coun tries In the hope that from these see along may develop a tentative peace program. Diplomats of the allied . n at loss view .with concern the creation of these two new cardinals, because of Increasing the Austro-German repre sentation in the Vatican. LONE WIT ROBS LOS ANGELES BANK Los Angeles. Jan. 21. A lone masked bandit walked into the Culver City Commercial and Savings bank at noon today, thrust a gun under the nose of Cashier E. G. McHughes, compelled him to walk Into the vault, locked him In, and made off with $500. The imprisoned man was not re leased until half an hour later, when W. M. Bowen, assistant cashier, came into the building. A sheriff's posse, armed with sawed-off shotguns, left at once for the scene. WHITMAN COLLEGE PRESIDENT LOSES HOME Walla Walla, Wash., Jan. 21. President Penrose of Whitman col lege is homeless today as the result of a fire which completely destroyed his residence yesterday. The fire started from an oil stove which had been placed In the bath room to pre vent the pipes from freezing, ine loss Is estimated at $8,000. CUKW PERISHES Mil EN DUTCH SCHOONER SINKS London, Jan. 21. All aboard the Dutch schooner Ranerman perished when that vessel was sunk by a mine off the coast of Denmark, according to a Copenhagen report today. The British steamer Sutherland was submarined In the Mediterranean Monday. The crew was taken to Malta, but one sailor died from ex posure In a lifeboat en route. FRAU SCHWIMMER. Hungarian Woman Put In Chargt of Ford Peace Party. , i. & . i- v -m v ,1V fy tV ' " ' ' t M 01 ESPQNDENT SENDS UNCEHSORED LETTERS FROM (Note, Following is the fourth In stallment of Wm. O. Shepherd's un oensored story of the allied retreat from Serbia. ICdltor.) ny Wm. Q. Shepherd. Salonlkl. Hoc. 11. A French sol dier in a steel hat stopped and looked at us curiously as wo walked along the road. "Excuso mo," ho said In broken English, "but it's so long sluce I've stwn a man In clothes like yours that I couldn't help staring." The big British gun was booming at two-minute Intervals. French guns, set on nearby hillsides, were sending occasional shots to tho Bui gar lines. It was a battlefield In every sense of the word, a battle field which within 24 hours was to be the scene of an ally retreat. In cidentally, I wonder what became of the little Frenchman. "Civilian clothes seem extraordin ary," he said. "Have some choco late?" He pulled an envelope from his pocket, with a postage stamp and an address on it "This is something I got In the mall from Paris today." I took a small piece of hla precious chocolate. "Hava you heard that we're going to move from here?" he asked. "The rumor is , going around our camp. They say we are going to fait back to the Greek border. Haven't you heard anything about It back In Saloniki?" I had not His question was the first sign of the coming retreat On this .spot, the very next day, dead British and French soldiers were to He among the holly shrubs and Bui gars were to charge with bayonets, shouting their cry of "Ne pret, ne nosh." "It's cold here," exclaimed the soldier, "but I've been healthier than I've ever been before in my life. "Why when the war began I couldn't stand any hardship. If I wasn't in bed by 10 o'clock every night, I suf fered all day for it I had Indiges tion terribly. Now I have not slept in a bed for five months, and I eat anything and enjoy It. War beats pills, I tell you. "This artillery firing makes me laugh today. That big English gun Is not hitting anything, and there are three Bulgarian batteries over there that haven't hit anywhere near any body. They ought to send word to each other about how far they're missing. If they don't help each other out they'll waste an awful lot of ammunition." He had to be going at last. Would I walk along the road with him? "Right around the turn here some of the Bulgarian shells are well aim ed," he said. "They're paying a good deal of attention to this turn this afternoon." It was llko getting ready to Jump into a cold bath to start off with him. I knew that after I got my feet to working they would. carry me along, but the hard part was not to make an excuse and return to the ravine. My right foot started, however, and then my left, and fifty feet farther on we passed tho turn and faced a mile stretch of road cut from the hills. Ilelow us was the' valley of Cos- 'torlno; across it four miles away 1 .u.. 1.111.. ..l.nHn . V. n Tn1rriflancf were. A few soldiers wero on the road, walking singly. "Along hure you may get a shell anytime," said tho French soldier. I have to walk along here a dozen times a day to get to my dug-out from tho kitchen back there In the ravino , Want to '.e my dug-out?" I did, and a quarter-mllo wallc along the road brought us to a llttlo ravine on the Bide of which wbh a ! soldier's home, partly a nolo and partly tent. Tho other soldiers in the dug-out were packing up their belongings. "J tint to bo ready If wo go," they explained. On a fire outside the dug-out was a tin pall with steaming contents. It was not coffee; it was not rum. It was hnlf-ati d-t)ulf. I must havo had two drinks of It. It had an aw ful buzz In It. "Wo get two dippers full of wlno and a half a dipper of wblHkfjy dally," explained a soldier. "And wo need It In the cold, too," I figured It out as amounting to a quart of wlno and three fifteen cent drinks of whiskey. "Aro you a tourist?" asked ono of tho Frenchmen, "Mon Dleti, you silly! " exclaimed his friend. "What would a tourist bo doing here? Ho'g a. newspaper man." I explained that six of u had iheen brought out to tho battlefield and FRONT 1 SMI that 1 bad lost the main party, but that we were to get together again t tho watting automobile at five o'clock. "Well It's time to go then," said my friend, looking at his wrlat watch. "Good luck to you." they all said as I went away. I wished them good luck, too, for they needed It more than I. What happened to these French Zouaves 24 hours later when the Bul garian rush began t don't know, Was all tho new health of the little French soldier the new health of which he was so proud ended by a Bulgarian bullet or a Bulgar bayonet thrust? On the hillside as I returned, pre haps a hundred yards from the French battery which topped the hill, another Bulgarian shell burst. "They nover shoot a shell at a single man, it's too expensive," my French friend bad told me, and It was a comforting thought. To the Bul garians across the valley the little dot of human beings that passed singly along this road were not worth potting at with shells that cost about 125 each. It was good to feel like a dot; to know that though a New York Insurance company thinks your life worth some thousands of dollars, the Bulgars counted It less than 25. Back at the autos the party was gathering for the departure from the battle ground. Every one of us had heard from some soldier that the French and British were going to fall back. We all put two and two to gether on the way back, remembered all the signs we had seen during the day the fugitives, the trains (bound for Greece and finally agreed on this: "The allies are getting ready to retreat." Later In the evening we found out that we were right SALARIES SLASHED (Continued from Page 1 ) ary at $S0 was opposed by the same four councllmen, with Demaray, Burkhalter, Herman and Bunch sup porting It. Tho deadlock was broken when Mayor Truax voted In favor of the $80 salary. The matter of leasing the bath house, together with tho other pri vileges at Klvcrsldo park for a period of ten years, came up when tho or dinance was rend the third time and placed on final passage. An observer would have caught from tho drift of the discussion about the table that tho ordinance putting tho privileges of tho city park out of tho hands of the people for tho next decade was about to pass, but Councilman Hurke cnnio forward with an objection, stat ing that ho could soe no reason what ever for turning tho park over to private Interests, and ho registered a vigorous opposition. Burkhalter said that tho most valid reason ho could seo for the action was tho fact that tho city would be relloved of all responsibility In tho matter. Ilurke retorted that If tlilB was tho attitude of tho co.iadl, then the swings had better bo taken down, the trees cut, and tho bars put upright, that the city havo absolutely no responsibility In case some child fell from swing or tre. Soino of tho new council men wanted to know more of tho pro. posed lensing plan ibeforo voting, and the final vote was postponed till the next regular meeting of tho council, when tho ordinance will bo either passed or defeated, j Action upon tho billboard ordln lanco was llkewlso postponed through j the reference to t ho city attorney of itho ordinance that had been pre pared by the people who built the boards around tho city. Tho pur pose of tho new ordlnnnce Is to have tho license fee reduced from $200 per annum to $10 or $20 per annum. C. H. Domaray, who was re-elected a member of the council at tho last election, was elected president of the council. Petrograd, Jan, 21. The Russians have occupied Sultanabnd, GO nilU's southeast of Hnmadan, Persia, ac cording to Teheren dispatches today. The Turks are heading southwest to ward BuruJIrd. OH) IfKTiKT KXIVIOH WANTED as part payment on the pur chase price of a new ono. Price ranges from 10 to 75 cents. ROOIII RIVKR HARDWARE THE CIY MEAT Aiitliipnten the hwIm or every la of iMMiplo,' hikI It ha mimetliltm hmmI Iii Mm for VOl Variety ami flue quality of limit itmken tliU the pepulnr tn fur the luniM-keeer. SATURDAY SPECIAL For Cash Sirloin Steak, per lb. . 15c Loin Pork Chops, per lb. I2lic Pbrk Shoulders, per lb. . 8c Gray & HarbecK. Proprietors PHONE oa T. R. WANTS LARGE HAVY, SMALL ARMY Philadelphia, Jan. 21. Trealdent Wilson and ex-Preatdont Roosevelt may differ In politics, ibut they agree In their view of hyphenated Ameri cana Speaking here before the Na tional Conference on Amerlcanliatlon, the colonol likened the "hyphenates" to the "man who loves other women as well as his own wife." He expressed himself in favor of the creation of an Intenam spirit of Americanism, of national solidarity; he favored, too, a large efficient navy and a small efficient army. In the matter of Interstate com merce and on the subject of social Justice, he declared the efforts of Governor Johnson of California to obtain right treatment for railroads had boon nullified by the rulings of neighboring state commissions. Roosevelt deiiured for centralised control of Interstate commerce at Washington. Ninety-Sixth Half Yearly Report of The German Savings and Loan Society SWIM. (THE GERMAN BANK) .Wil (WMI'OKNI STREET SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA iKi emtier it 1st, I Ul 5 ASSETS I lilted Stales, Stale, Municipal and other IIihuIn (market value 1 1 f , standing on books at .1,i7,7A7.ni I,MiiiM on Ileal linle, secured by first mortgages K,(lUJ,;t7H.(ll Nnwim on Itoiidf and Stocks (CilM.1l. 72 Hunk IliillrilituN mid IrfitA, Main and Branch O lilies (value $1(00,000.00), standing on books at I. (HI Other I ten I KMale (value $ I ON, 000. 00), standing on books at 1.00 KniplovceN' Pension Fund ($211,238.03), standing on hooks at I .on ftisil n,oo,;l7l.lft Total (ll,H 111.0(12.01 LIABILITIES Due DepoHltol'N $.1N,M CO.OIMI.iW Capital Htmk actually paid In I,(HH,00.00 Reserve will Contingent Fund 2,OOH,I02.0 1 Total 0l,MltMKW.Ol! N. Ollli.MT, (1KO. TOI RW, Preslilont. Managor. Subscribed and sworn to before mo this 3tst day of December, 1015. (SliAU) CIIAS. V. DUISUNUERG, Notary Public, For the 0 months ending December 31st, 1915, a dividend to depositors of 4 per annum was declared. For the New Year Bknk Books MwiiiiiiMiiiniiliiiMiilulaaaaBij Filing DcVlCCS Otticc Supplies Pemaray's sia&L MARKET ,1.! (By United Press Leased Wlra.) Portland. Jan. ll.Knute Nelson. a retired Baptist preacher, ld to be worth nearly $1,000,000, was found dead In his bed at the Portland Com mon this morning. Bo humble was he In appearance and habit that none uspectcd his wealth until an examin ation of his effects at the morgue at noon today disclosed deeds to Van couver, 11. ft, property, and great quantities of mining stocks, some or which ere valuable. Nelson came to Portland recently from Vancouver and had engaged In work at tho Portland Commons. Llttlo U known of him here. letters among hi effects spoke of numerous relatives In Minnesota and at Nor man, Wash. Keen Kutter tools and cutlery at tho Rogue River Hardware 649 OtMMKIK'I.U. MAN ORTH MILLIOfJ PORTLAND ......