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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.
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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.'.'
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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.
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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.
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