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

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Newspaper Page TextDAILY KOGVU IUVK11 CXHUIEH MONDAY. JAM AltV 111, Ml. PAGE TWO .Published Dally Except Saturday A. E. VOORHIES. Tub. and Fropr. Entered at the Postofflee.arante Pat. Or., a cond cltM mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Display space, per Inch 15c Local or personal column, per line 1 Oe Headers, per line.... 6e MEMBER State Editorial Association Oregon Dally Newspaper Pub. Assn. Northwest Patriotic Press Assn. MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press la exclusively entitled to the me for republication of all newt dispatches credited to It or not otherwise credited In this paper and also the lcal news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of spe cial dispatches herein are also reserved. MONDAY, JAMARY 21, llt. OREGON WEATHER 4 Probably rain In western 4 portions and fair In eastern 4 part of the state. Moderate 4 4 easterly winds. 4444444 4444 444444 THE POWER OF WATER It is hard for residents of the Pa ciflo coast to comprehend the fact that America Is at war with one of the greater powers on earth. I'ntil within a few days the same condition prevailed throughout the rest of the country, but a dropping tempera ture brought about an unprecedent ed demand for fuel and the fact sud denly developed that all available hips are busy transporting men and supplies to Europe and vast quanti ties of coal are required to keep them going. Ho the weather not turned .cold he ships might have been supplied with sufficient fuel and no one would have known how ser ious the situation was. However, a sudden call for fuel to heat homes paralyzed transportation and heroic means were necessary to relieve the situation. It Is creditable to the ad ministration that it did not haggle, but promptly stopped mills and fae orles until ships can be dispatched and homes warmed. That Is the sort of action that the American people want and It is the sort they are get ting. The first business of this nation Is war, war to the hilt, and ships must move, regardless of everything else. Women and children, the old and infirm, rich and poor are suffer ing because they can get no coal. Coal is king. Business is closed by the government and millions of men are thrown out of employment, for railroads are blockaded and coal cannot be delivered. Even ship con struction is interfered with and the manufacture of war munitions suf fers. Coal, coal, give us coal. We cannot fight without coal, neither can we feed the boys In France, much less the allies. If all those ships were loading on the Pacific coast, and the mills were here and the people were here, the work would move along smoothly, for we have no intense cold, no such suffering for lack of fuel, no, we have something better. We have them going. Had the weather not even had no coal, and more than that we can get along without It, for we have something better. We have more power by water than is used in this great nation many times over, and It mostly is going to waste for it has not yet been harnessed Uncle Sam, come over here and har ness the water power . and we will help you out In this great crisis. NO HYSTERIA NECESSARY When a nation goes to war,, and especially a great nation which be lieves more in the pursuits of peace than In military aggression, It Is In evitable that national Inexperience Our Pure Extracts Pure Filtered Cider Vinegar will result in a certain degree of In- efficiency. The United States today has reus ed the period when stock taking is necessary; when the goods In r-auJ must be checked up, and also when the personnel, the mnnage nent, tin manufacturing departments, the sales force and labor Itself must be weighed in the balance. No orderly Industrial corporation becomes excited or nervous at this period. The firm of I'ncle Sam and Sons Company la fully able .to handle any situation which may arise even in war time. Uncle 8am la handling the present situation through per fectly capable Investigating commit tees and It is reasonable to believe that the responsibility for certain alleged conditions will be placed. where It belongs. It may be well to view with a. calm mind even the possibility that( nine months of supposed prepare tlon have not prepared very much: that although at war, we have an In adequate supply of guns and amniu-' nltlon and ships and other things vital to success: that your sons andi mine may be Insufficiently clothed I and exposed to unsanitary condition i, VENICE HIRED am ASSAULT OF II HORDES With the French Army In Italy. December 15. (Correspondence of the Associated -Press) Before the menace of the modern Hun, Venice, whose lagoons centuries ago furnish ed an asylum of safety for refugees fleeing from Attlla. Is today almost emptied. Of the 150,000 persons who ordinarily Inhabit the city, only about 1.000 remain. But this Is not because Venice fears for her own protection. Across the battlefield of the reeds It Is believed that no In vader will penetrate to the Islands of the Venetian lagoon. The city puts her trust In the lagoons aa con fidently as she trusted to the sea In olden times. To the visitor In Venice In these days when the Invading army lies only a Bhort march distant, one of the odd memories of the war will be that of the music of the great guns bombing from the Lldl and the nests of the reedy Islets In the northern lagoon. That music accompanies you all day in Venice. The Queen of the Adrlatlcs has her face to the foe. She has shut her shops and set her merchandise away. The army or the navy have taken her young men. Those that remain have bricked up or sand bagged her churches and monuments and now await the Issue in entire calm, confident that although the enemy is no more than a long gun shot away, It is not at her own gates that Venice Is menaced. From Burano, a motor boat takes you through a maze of channels Into the canal Sllone where you thread your way between reed covered banks toward the mainland. You can see nothing but the channel and the reeds. There is not a roof nor a spire in sight. We are getting up to what may be called the artillery defense line of Venice. On the way we passed a British monitor with her hlg guns pointed Inland. The coast batteries and big gun monitors constitute another defense line. Here in the salt channel between the Islands we come suddenly upon a floating battery or pontoon, as the Italians call them. It Is a big steel barge mounting a gun which has been steadily pounding the Austrlans on the Plave Vecchia all night. She Is manned by sailors for the artil We . ALWAYS Talk Quality Kinney & Truax Grocery Ql AIJTY niWT. PHONE 11 and also that doubt aud distrust aw growing lu the minds of the people. The responsibility will be founl American Industries In Wuf Time. For a generation this region has been endeavoring consistently and persistently, to bring a development of the Oregon Caves, but the unwel come fact remains that the develop ment stands Just where It did at the beglnniug. Would It not be a good Idea to try some other plan, some thing entirely different, and not real on our oars and say, "It's no use" That Is what the frog said In 1 milk ran, then It died. Wheatless Wednesday and. Meat less Tuesday have been supplement ed with an Icecreamles Thursday by San Francisco. Optlmlltitlc Sett tie has added a Dlueless Monday, and Tacoma, not to be outdone, of fers a Jlnxless Friday. Another well-known city not calling any names haa adopted a Bathless Sat urday. And aa there is only one day left we will do our bit by ob serving a Restless Sunday Flour and Grain World. lery defense of Venice Is entirely In the bands of the navy. From Porte Orandl, as far as the eye can see the land Is covered with a, waste of muddy water with rows of half-submerged willows marking out the fields which It covers and here and there an Isolated clump of farm buildings emerging from the floods. We are here on the edge o: the Plave Inundations and In another naval artillery defense belt. High banked roads, dikes and farm houses are all that remain above water, Some of these farm house Islands are held by Austrlans and some by Italians and It Is the aim of both sides to destroy the farms held by the enemy. - A few nluhts ago some Italian sailors undertook a cutting out expedition against one of the Austrian Islands, captured and burn ed the buildings and came back with Austrian prisoners. Nothing more dismal can be Im agined than this battlefield among the reeds except the awful desola tlon of the Flanders front. Unend ing water, half drowned willows and farm houses under a bitter winter sky cm pose about as melonnholy a picture as ever war presents. On many of the Islands formed by the release of the floods to protect Ven ice are brav.e . families clinging to their homes In the hope that 1918 will see the Invader thrown back. On this sector the Italians have a superiority of artillery. It is at night that the Italian guns do their hardest work. At night the Aus trlans always attempt to consruct field works or to lay bridges of boats across the Plave Vecchia to the ra- jnals. They take a number of boats, tie them together ana swing mem out from one bank trusting to the current to float them Into place on the other side. It Is the business of the Italian floating batteries- to drive away these bridge-builders and to destroy the fruits of their Ift'jirs and this they do with surprising success. In Venice, herself, I have' seen no sign of actual damage, except a hole torn In the roof of San Giovanni and San Paolo by an Austrian airplane bomb. The front of San Marco -and the pillars of the Doge's Palace have been bricked up so that nothing of Mill 'them remains visible. The same precautions have boon taken with the famous statu of Colleoul and, in fiu'l. with all the monuments of the ton that ran be so protected. lu the I'laita di San Murco al lium! all the shops are clised, but a number are still open lu Meicerln, and, Although almost all the gondo las have vanished, It I still possible to find one to take you up lb (trend 'Canal. 1 1 COUNTY AGENTS i NOTES j The I "nuil ii Mclioul Prof, Mrown will open the prun ing si-noot at the court nouse new Monday, January 8, at 10 o'clock a. in. At mat time ne win give a ie tme on pruning to which every one Is Invited. The remainder of the week will be given to field work. Provision are being made to handle SO people In the field. This num ber will be divided Into two divi sions, one division being given the forenoons and the other the after noons. If you have not already enrolled for this work, do so at once. You ran drop us a card or a letter or do so In perxon. RnoVnl Otntrul We are going to take up the "dig ger squirrel" work agnln this year, and right along the same line we are going to do some work with gophers and moles Mr. Shafer of the 1'. S. depart ment will lie with us for a week a little later. During hli time here we will hold a series of meetings at which time Mr. Shafer will demon strate methods of control of these pests. Reeil Oral Have you secured your grain for spring planting? February will be here In a few days and, no doubt, you will want to do much of your seeding during that month, and If you wait until you are ready to seed before securing your grain you may not 1e able to get It with out con siderable delay. Better pin re your order now, C. D. THOMPSON, a County Agricultural Agent. Neatly printed stationery at th Courier office. Mary PicKford and the Marines IF! V7r- ::V-. JC A V - - ... - t .:::'.V"-'- ... . " "f ' " ' Car Bargains (ilKYKOl.KT X r:ltl.V MAV NKW Tilt KM HIO lilTTI.K til ANT, l TON THI'CK, tiOOD CONDITION 'JMI KOItO IIHll, (iOOD TlltKH " C. L. HOBART CO. E Washington, Jan. St. The right of the German emperor to the ex clusive making of war or peace haa been reaffirmed In the Prusslun chamber of lords by the adoption of a resolution presented by Berlin rep resentatives, said a dispatch from Heme. 'As quoted In the dispatch the resolution said: "The chamber of lords firmly hopei that when peace Is concluded the government will see that the rights of the emperor of Oermany are safeguarded. "These right are conceded to him by the constitution and peace should be commensurate with the sacri fices which have been made for the political and economic Interest ol the country." Accompanying the -resolution was 'this commentary: "The president of the I'ulted IStatea has asked If the (lerninn ne gotiation at Brest-I.ltovsk are In 'the name of the majority of the jrelchstag or In the name of the mill 'tary party. For our part we affirm J that It Is the (lerninn emperor who In the term of the constitution ha the 'executive right to imike war and peace.'.' j ONE ADVERTISEMENT WTXI l NOP MAKE YOU K FORTUNE, j BUT 1 11 WILL BEttVE AS A STONE IN THIS FOUNDATION ! OF BUSINESS SUCCESS It it '- t '.' jj. ,;, ; .t'; - - ir- .-ff; T. .. a. GOODRICH NEWS RURPAU (GOODRICH NEWS BUREAU t yS'v'S- MAHY PK'KFOItl) WAS CIIKKHKI) I1Y THOIHANDH AH HHK MAIlf H Kll DOWN MAItKKT STKKKT, HAN KHANCIHCX), ltKKNTIY AT THH 1IKAD OK THK FAMOIH MAIIH INLAND MA It INK COUPS HANI) IN AN KFH)HT TO HTIMI'IjATK It KCIH'ITINtJ. . HPACK IK)NATKD MY California-Oregon Power Company IN Umdoii. Jan. 11. The Vosslcha Zeltung (September Si) report a meeting of the Gorman Society for Children's Theurapeutlc In the lae lure room of the children' cllnlo of Upalg university, at which I 'ro fea sor Schlossmann gave a leclura oa children's disease and the war. Ho mentioned the decrease In the birth rate and (aid that, for Instance, In the Dusseldorf district th nun ber of birth had decreased from 100.000 In 1H to 80,000 In till. Also In the Rhine district a great decline had to be reckoned with. It I reported from all parts of Oar many that the newborn children r lu very good condition In spit of 111.1 tinull food rations available for the mothers. Standard of Deetrln. The Apostles' nml the Nleene Creed, and the Thirty-Mine. Articles are the atniidiinU of doctrine In hold the Eng lish, and Amerlnin brunches of the Kpls'niiHil church. The American church mulls ihc Atliiiiiinlun Creed, which the KiikIMi . Iimeh ftnlns, and hn mnde some iill-i'i.li.uiH In the Thirty-nine Article, i. minim; Article 21. The chimb wUtou l iluiw wu snrra iiii'IiIn. linptWtn mi l Hii' Lord's Hupper iim genmilly it"' .:r t xnlvntlon, prnctl'VK InfuM Iim ii l to, mluilt ne one to rmiiimiiili.n Wit'l ( ''.'lruird or rcinlv fittd ililrniik In In- ciiitftrmwl, permits tltoi' uiilv to iillMMto us mln- I Inters who huve received Kpleom1 i order, mill dues mt iiu'ive il.utrtiinlty I with either Arinenluin or CnlvluUta. . . . ' y'Tt.