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DAILY BOGOt KITES OOCBISR Ml' N HAY, MAY la, 1IT Ql COGUE RIVER COB Near the End of Florida Grape Fruit Season AND THE STOtTC WE HAVE NOW 18 THE FINEST OP THE SEASON FaUWtd Dally Exoet Saturday Keep Easiness X B. VOORHIBS, Pub. and Propr. Xntcred at the Postofflce, Grant Pssn, Or, as second class mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Dim lay aoaoe. ner Inch 1m html orpronalcoluau,prUMlOe Keadere. par Una. S Going DAILT COURIER Br mail or carrier, par year II. 00 BLTH1LL CHKKSK OKEAM BRICK CHEESE By mail ar carrier, par manth... WEEKLY COURIER SO Br maU, par yaar . $1.(0 1AGK FOUK. ITU VNITED PRESS LEASED WIR SERVICE MEMBER Stat Editorial AaaoclaUoo. Oraf Dally Newspaper Pub. Ansa. A boh Bureau or wreuiauon. SrXUAV, MAY IS, 117 OREGON WKAXSBB . t -a Sunday unsettled, probably ahowera; Motherly winda. ' THE FLAG I am the day's work of the weak cat man, and the largest dream, of tka moat daring. I am the consti tution and the courta, statutes and statute makers, soldier snd dread naught, drayman and street sweep, eook, counselor, and clerk. I am the battle of yesterday the mistake of tomorrow. I am the mystery of the men who do without knowing why. I am no more than what you believe me to be, and I am all that you be lieve me to be. My stars and my stripes are your dreams and your labors. Franklin K. Lane. GOOD BUSINESS John Wanamaker, sage of Phlla delphia. Is sending out a little book let which contains some real good common sense. After reciting the fact, well known to all students, that war brings a period of business ac tivity to a nation, he urges that the United States maintain its fighting efficiency by backing it up with an energetic business activity. War never causes a business de pression. On the contrary it In creases all business enormously. Sometimes fear or a false sense of economy makes local communities unprosperous, through a mistaken policy. Billions of dollars will be put Into active circulation. Patrio tism dictates that they should be kept In use that all our people may be able to bear their share of bur dea of war taxes. A psychological feeling of panic at this time would be the worst thing that could happen to the nation. Pa triotic economy means the elimina tion of waste and extravagance; the conservation of food, public health; development of co-ordinate efficiency. But It does not mean the lowering of a moderate standard of living; nor the stoppage of ordinary public ac tlvltles. Road building and public works should proceed. Railroads should continue their construction work and unbuilding of equipment. Factories should be kept going. There Is sn Increased demand for all produce. Little demands will be placed upon all of us In the way of Increased taxes. The people should be better ensbled to psy these by increased business activity. And this Is not only entirely possible but the natural outcome of the war. The vast war debt means money Is being spent now, among our own people, which coming generations will have to pay. A trifling part of that Increased ex penditure among the people should ' go back to the public treasury by way of increased taxes. 1 Business today Is very good. Last month's Increase was enormous. It requires only a proper sense of the KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY QUALITY FIRST situation to keep business humming! IB uim wuuu, luvavw Hl. wwv the sinews of war. Let common sense prevail. AKAK.N.VTK OF LEAD PRICES BREWERS' WAGON VS. BREAD CART In considering this big question of amplifying our food supply. should not look at the penny so long that we lose sight of the dollar. Nor ahould we consider only the filling spout at the top of the bin and pay no heed to the leak at the bottom. 'The grain destroyed (yes, that Is the word) last year in the United States, being converted Into Intox icating liquor would have furnished a loaf of bread every day of the year to 15.000,000 families. At five cents per loaf. It would have represented ISOO.000,000 in food value. Sold In liquor, it coat the people of the country, $2,000,000,000 money worse than wasted. We need not mention the 41.313,- 131 gallons of molasses used annual ly In distilled spirits; nor the entire hop crop; norths $139,199,000 used annually in other costs such ss heat, light, freights, refrigeration, etc No step thst President Wilson eould take at this time would bring more general satlsfsction to the great bulk of the American people than the war-time prohibition of liquor making. EASY TO HELP Let no one feel that he cannot do his "bit." There are a score of ways in which esch stay-at-home may do something to help the nation in its dark hoar, or the boys that have gone to the front. A simple one, but Important from the men's standpoint. Is suggested by a letter from the battle front in Franca from which we quote: "The folks at home can give the boys a lot of pleasure by sending them oc casional packages of newspapers. Whenever an American newspaper finds Its way to the camps In France It Is handed around, page by page among the American soldiers now with the French and British armies, until it Is worn out." Papers can be sent to any (or all) of the following addresses with the assurance that they will be greatly appreciated: Americans, 38th bat talion, military post office, France; Americans, Princess Pat's Canadian Light Infantry, military post office, France; or Americans, Royal Cana dian Rifles, military post office, France. The Grants Pass Fruit association begs to announce that arsenate of led can now be purchased at the fol lowing prices: 000 pounds at IS. 75 per 100. 300 pounds at $9.00 per 100. 100 pounds at $9.15 per 100. 50 pounds at $9.50 per 100. Please advise us of your wants promptly. GEO. a EATON. Secretary. Route No. I. Phone 609-F-4. It ArCTIOIf May 15. at Tuesday, May 15. at 2 o'clock at O. E, Moore's, 514 South Sixth street. Confectionery store. Shelv ing, show cases, counters, refrigera tor, automobile, and other articles. J. C. Randle, auctioneer. 53 Liquid Fire. The (irvek r liiiilil lire used In an clout times was made principally from naphtha or liquid liltmncu. mixed with maiv sulphur aud pitch extracted from green tires. Water, lustcad of extin guishing, quk'keued this powerful ssrent f destruction, which nothing but saud. wine or vinegar could check lor 400 years the Greeks kept the se cret of Its romposltkio. but the Mo hammedans at length discovered aud used It This fire Is not In use tqdav A classified sd brings results. NEW TODAY (CLASSIFIED AD RATES. -25 words, two Issues, 25c; six Issues, 50c; one month, $1.50, when paid in advance. When not paid in advance, 5c per line per Issue.) FOR SALE Team of light horses, buggy and harness st a bargain. Can be seen at 894 North 10th street. Phone 2S2-R. 53 LOANS $100,000 to loan on city property. Payable monthly like rent. L. A. Launer, real estate. DRY SLAB wood. Phone Williams Wood Yard. 117-R. 2tf PUBLIC STENOGRAPHER, Gene vieve McCracken, in Best-Fuller Realty company office, 206 North Sixth street ' 22tf JOS. MOSS AGENCY Fire insuN ance, plate glass liability Insur ance. 204 H Sixth street. tf TWO MEN WANTED at once; also 10 b. p. gas engine. Inquire 654 North Eighth street. C. W. Anient. AGENT WANTED For Nu Bone Corset company. See Mrs. Lundy at the Oxford bote! this afternoon or tomorrow. 52 FOR SALE: Light agate cutting out fit, complete, Including 130 h. p. motor, $20. Eel us Pollock, 502 A street, Orants Pass. 53 REWARD Suitable reward will be given for return of keys taken from post office box Sunday after noon, May 6. No questions asked. Return to No. 909, Courier. 53 APPROPRIATION FOR T LOST $5.00 gold pin lost Friday night on South Fifth street. Mrs. Ona McCurdy, 907 South Fifth 8treet. 53 SEWINO AND CUTTING SCHOOL Bring your own dresses, suits or coats while learning. Taught by latest method. LaTroll ft Wheeler, corner Sixth and D street. Phone 120-R. 57 A. R. O. BULL CALF (Registered Holstein. Dam recently made A. R. O. record of 10 pounds butter from 280 pounds milk, seven days with first cair. F. R. Steel, Win ona Ranch, Orants Psss, R. F, D. No. 1. 52tf The river and harbor bill, as It now stands In congress, has elim inated the provisions for Crescent City harbor. The Del Norte county authorities have srrsnged for W. J. Hotchklss, owner of extensive tim ber Interests near Crescent City, to go to Washington In an effort to have this item restored to the bill. Upon telegraphic request from Hotchklss, the local Chamber of Commerce Is sending data to Ban Francisco and Washington, wiring the Oregon senators and representa tives to render all possible assistance ana dob communicated with the FOR SALE CHEAP Good team, Crescent City people and Mr. Hotch- harness and wagon. Team weighs kiss offering to do any and all things) 2400 pounds. H. M. Bradford, possible to help In the effort. I phone 343-L. 67 FOR SALE CHEAP 6 H acres, two blocks from paving on Pacific highway, good new five-room bun galow, water and all necessary Improvements, family orchard, two acres alfalfa. R. D. Shook, phone 2S-J. tf This is the most patriotic answer to the universal American question, "What can I do for my country?" It applies to us all alike men, women, children. It is universal, therefore democratic; and this war is a war for democracy. A prosperous country can pay for a war, an unprosperous country cannot. A prosperous country can help the Allies, an un prosperous country cannot effectively help herself. Keep Business Going forward so that the country can effectively go forward. Keep money circulating, keep people employed, keep wages good, keep making money so that we may have it to use and to sacrifice in the common cause. .. Be economical, which means be NOT waste ful. Practice Patriotic Economy by buying carefully and using efficiency. Spend money, don't hoard it; thus your neighbor will spend money and not hoard it, for hoarding stops the wellspring of wealth, lessening the need for employment possibly in time your own employment. It is hoard ing, not war, that makes panic and disaster. Keep The Nation Progresing while thenation helps to keep the world progressing. Civic im provements must go on; road building must be carried forward; railroads must renew their equipment; factories must be kept go ing; labor must be employed; merchandise must be produced, dis tributed and used; homes must be kept up. The more we do, the more we can do. The keynote is clearly sounded for us when President Wilson Says: "It is evident to every thinking tnnii that mir indus tries, tin the farm, iii the shipyards, in the mines, in the . factories, must be made prolific and more efficient." Our industries are prolific only when patronage makes them so. Business slackens when buying slackens. And slackened business cannot grow efficient, any more than stagnant water can grow pure. Idle Business Invites Competition If American business grows inefficient through idleness, foreign business will make inroads upon it after the war. This is a thought for every patriotic American to consider NOW. It is for us all of us to keep our own industries mobile and active so that they may have the force and momentum to compete when the smoke of battle clears. Keep Business Going for our country's sake. War must be waged and won with the sinews of war. Peerloss Clothing Go. "The Kuppenhcimer House in Grants Pass" (Continued from Page 1) ten, Insist that all ranks observe discipline. Soldiers at the front, obey your chiefs, whose duty It Is to punish disobedience severely." Germany's fine hand Is seen In the mushroom growth of many move ments. Hundreds of German agents work In Petrogrsd alone. The full weight of Germany's Influence Is be hind the Stockholm socialists' con ference, The proclamation of the executive committee of soldiers and workmen shows realisation of the pro-Oerman tinge now affecting the "conference." To combat the Ger manic Influence, the duma decided to take the Initiative Itself In any peaoe moves and to assume control, If possrMe, over the meeting, oust ing the German proponents, The call for the conference specifically condemns a separate peace plan, but urges general peace, to bs achieved through conference of socialists of all belligerent countries. Amsterdam, May 12. Ths Belgian const was heavily bombarded for an hour and a half this morning, aero planes supplementing naval vessels In at attack upon Zetfhrugge, the main objective,
