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Home IWdtKh Cuttings-Me doaen
llurhank'a Winter Crintxm Rhubarb
t utting, $1.00 doara.
Superb Kvertiearlng Htrawberry
riant 'XV dosent fl.JW I4M;
$U.tX l,tNN.
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Geneva. Mar. 9. A number of
Inhabitants of Luxemburg, who have
arrived In Zurich declare that the
refusal of the young duchess of Lux
emburg to accept a Prussian prince
husband continue! to causa the
grestest Irritation In Berlin royal
circles. Nearly every three months
a prince la sent down to Luxemburg
and the dnchett ti compelled to re
ceive htm.
"Cst3-ll"-20re?v
Thsn to tea D:::o!
"Goodnight to Cora Pains-Corn
Peel Off With "Geta-It."
''flay, girls, you ean laugh at
tight ahoea, or damp, oorn-pulllng
weather, big bumpy corna, calluses
on the solas of your feat, corna be.
tween tbe toes, hard and soft corns,
Washington. Mar. . Issuance of
dally Hats of rami alt lea among the
expeditionary forces s broad ,w as dis
continued last night by the public
Information committee as the result
... . . .
or an order or th war department
under which the names of the next
of kin and emergency addresses of
soldiers whose names appear on the
Data hereafter will be withheld. Tbe
official explanation Is that the pur
pose of the order Is to keep informs'
tlon of value from the enemy.
On being Informed of the order
the committee took the position that
long lists of men killed or wounded
would be worthless to the newspaper
correapondenta without the ad
dresses, and a notice was Issued ad
vising the press that In future all In
formation regarding casualties most
be obtained from the war ' depart
ment. At the adjutant general'e of
fice It was stated th,t the lists with
out addresses would continue to be
aent to the committee and would be
available) there.
Try.
.In Used Cars
And we guarantee each car to h in perfect nrrizj cc:n
2
Here'o What We Havo
rULLEQUIPi'JiD, GOOD CASINOS, NliWLY
. Somewhere In England
January 24, 1111.
Dear Mother.
At last we are across. It took us
16 days on ship to coma across and
nothing of Interest happened. Wa
didn't bit any, mines and weren't
sunk by torpedoes, or any other such
happening. The weather was good
all the way although the wind sure
did blow fierce at some places. At
one time' the wsves cam clear over
the bow of the boat, which was a
pretty good elxrd one too. We had
quarters In the hold of the ship with
straw ticks placed on bosrds and
over this we put our blankets. The
' place ws always warm enouih so'
we didn't suffer any front the cold.1
The worst part of the whole trip was
the food, but I don't suppose any'
better could be expected In times
J Ilka these. .After we were a couple'
J of days out from lsnd the fellows'
started getting sick and. there were
I mre some sick ones on board. I had
bad headache for a day or so but
I that soon wore off and then I felt
perfectly normal. Cladd was a little
sick at one-time but the rent of the
trip was alright. We sure were sick
of the sight or nothing but water all
the time Just as far as you could
see. When we finally came In sight
of land. It did look good to us. i
We landed In one big city "no
name as usual" on Tuesday night
and laid In the harbor over night.'
The next morning we disembarked
and got on some of those little dinky
English trains and traveled for about
10 hours. You should see those
trains, each car Is about 20 feet long
and la divided Into four compart-
ments. There should he about four
persons In a compartment but we
got eight fellows In each one. The
engine Is Just about as big ss one of
those stesm rollers at home and they
didn't go much faster than one of
the rollers would. When we once
started we went rssi enougn out. u . i
seemed as If they stopped at every ,one nouges. I Till It 110 "1011" OaTH
cross roads and every cow shed. We1 Th, r.iroad ,tem Is fine took I HI INI It'll Hill IT MtM
flnellr nt In tha lint Inn at 11 n.' til .w a... . - cn .il. i IIIWMWUI h.1 lUkk VbUI
... . r I II I C V U.J. IU RU .IIUUl WW Ultima.
and walked two miles to camp where c,me through the edge of Parts. "
esch fellow was given four blankets Tell Mrg Dillingham I got the
and put In a tent, tl to tha tent. ctn)jy .nd It aure tasted good and
Tha tents were big but crowded Just , for I got the comfort kit and
the same. .It la a comfort; I Intended to write
. The last four nights on ship board Lnd tmilk tntm but t ntve go little
we were ordered to sleep with alt our .lms t0 rit. n(i you come frg.
2-1917 MAXWEJ
PAINTED.
11917 BABY OVERLAND, GOOD AS NEW. '
11917 CHEVROLET, GOOD AS NEW
1 1918 VHt SPEED WAGON, 1,500 LBS. CARRYING CAPACITY,
GOOD AS NEW.
1-1914 FORD, Al CONDITION. -
1-1912 MAXWELL, GOOD CONDITION, NEW TIRES, A BARGAIN.
1 MITCHELL LIGHT TRUCK, A BARGAIN.
1-1914 BUICK, GOOD CONDITION.
RcmeimVr the Maxwell Touring car has advanced $80.00 in price, but we shall
Rive our customers the advantage of this raise so long as our small stock of
cars we now have on hand lasts. Buy at once and save $80.00.
Rcmemher our Maxwell one-ton truck is the World's Champion; its an all
around truck; stout as a giant, a glutton for miles and a mmcr on gas.
If you are in the market, or going to be it will pay you to see us for either .
new or used cars.
Collins Auto Company
Our Garage Is Open Day and Night
1 '
1r Al Off With This run Cera New
'GmXi' bMuU."
IP VI
callus with a few drops of 'Geta-It.'
What a biassed relief It aivts to
torn pslnsl Tou won't limp any
mora; you can enjoy tha dance
every minute. Then to ae how
that corn or callus will coma rlsht
off complete, like a banana peel end
without the lenat pain, la Juat won
derful. 'Oeta-H la the biggest seller
among corn removers In the world
today, almply becauaa It Is so won-
" ilerfully simple and always works.
Be sure you get 'Gets-It.' "
"aets-Tt" Is sold at all druKglate
' (you need pay no more than SScenta
a bottle), or sent on receipt of price
by s, utwrsnce as vs.. imcaici.
Sold In Grants Pass and recom
monded as the world's best oorn
remedy by George 0. EtblB.
PERSIAN OUTLET IS
FOR GERMAN TRADE
The llngue, Mar. 9. "We have
acquired a direct free route via Rus
sia to Persia and AfKhanintan, says
a dispatch from the Wolff bureau
the German aeml-ollirinl agency re
ceived here today.
The announcement of the Wolff
bureau, If true, has an Important
bearing on the situation In western
Asia and possibly, even In India.
The peace terms forced on Russia at
Rrest-Mtovsk' took away from Rus
sia, districts In the Cla-Caucaslfln
region, through , which It would be
possible for the Germanic allies to
Kaln entrance from the Black sea or
Turkey Into Persia. Passing through
Persia probably would meet with
only nominal opposition, while a
stilt further advance Into Afghanis
tan would be possible.
A Peking dispatch dated February
clothes on and this waa the first op
portunity I had to sleep with my
clothes off. I wss snugly tucked In
bed when one of our corporals came
In and shouted. "C. W. Booth report
for guard at once."- Thla waa after
midnight and as I waa all fixed np
for a big sleep you can well Imagine
my feelings.
The American T. M. C A. Is about
one fourth mile from here and Is
pretty handy for us and sure la a
popular place.
On the trip, wo noticed all the
farms a orderly aa can be and there
Is soma beautiful scenery. The
buildings are made of . brick and
nearly all are' the same.
A strange thing Is to see small
canals all through the country, and
small barges being towed by. horses
and the horses led by women. That's
the strangest thing of all to aee the
women doing all or nearly all the
work. At one place we saw women
handling large sacks of flour, at an
other they were shoveling coal from
a box car.
What bothers us most la the
money. They say "one and " three
pence" and then they have, lo trans
late it and we find the shopkeepers
means, "one shilling and thVee
pence." ? But one always has to atop
and think. Ifa hard not to hear two
bits and four btta.-
111 wrlto more soon and be sure
and write for. It takes a long time
for a letter to get hero.
Ixve to all,
CMFTON BOOTH.
17th Aero Squadron.
' Amer. Ex. Forces.
I am all well and O. K.
Co. C. First Signal Battalion,
R. F., la my address.
Everybody write aoon.
DOM HOOD.
Port William, Ont., Mar. 9. The
"Thunder 'Eagle," sacred among the
OJIbwa Indians, as personifying the
spirit of the Mlneto, supposed to
have Its nest on the Sleeping Giant,
1,400 feet above Thunder-Bay, was
seen depicted In fire In the brilliant
display of aurora borealls here last
night. The figure o the eagio ws
sharply deflnide, traveling swiftly
southward over the bay. accompanied
by huge aiasbes ot red and green fire
which shot about It like meteors.
A coincidence was a dlspat-i re
ceived here from Du.nth telling of
the appearance of the eagle In tbe
aurora borealls there last oiht. The
form of tbe Thunder' EaxH was soen,
not only by Indians, but by scores of
white people. The Ojibwsys say the
Thunder Eagle has not been seen for
many years and that Its appearance
portends wonderful happening la
the world.
- v ' " ' ' ' January 2. 191S
Dear Mother.
I guess you think it is about time
for me to write a line or two.
I am somewhere In France.
Don't worry about me for I am
well and feeling fine.
This Is a swell country and the
27, said the governor of the ,,r6v- "l u" flne' b,,f w? can,t n
I nee of Sin Klang had reported that
the Turks and Gevinans were active
among the Mohammedans there. Sin
Klang Is J lint to the northeast of Af
ghanistan and abuts the northern
border of India.'
I 'tirrhcsd that will pleas you, at
the Courier.
A classified ad bring results.
derstand them very veil.
We haven't had any Chrtstmas
mall yet. I have been working on
telenhona lines all this week. Hnve
only been at this place a week.
We are now allowed to write very
much. The people are about ot)
years behind the times around here.
All the fanners live In villages.
' The towns are about three miles
apart.
Our company lives In bnrns nndj
We Are at Var 7ith Germany
The Germans as a Chosen People
The foundation cause of this war Is Germany's firm belief that she alone has the right to di
rect the progress of the world and to exploit its resources. For the last thirty years the military
autooracy of Oermany has seen to It that this belief was taught in the schools, and today that auto
cracy Is reaping the benefits of a blind obedience to Its -will. German' political writing of recent
years Is full of 'the Idea that the German people is "God's chosen people, destined to impose Its
'Kultur' upon all other peoples."
"The German soul Is the world's soul, God and. Germany belong to one another." "Germany
la the center of God's plans for the world." "We hope that a great mission will be allotted to us
Germans . ... - and thla German mission is: to look arter the world." "Germany Is chosen, tor
her own good and that of other nations, to undertake their guidance. Providence has placed the
appointed people at the appointed moment, ready for the appointed task."
"The German people Is always right, because It is the German people, and numbers 87.000,000
souls." '"Kultur U best promoted when the strongest Individual Kultur. that of a given nation, en
larges Its field ot activity at the expense of the other national Kulturs." "The attempt of Na
poleon to graft the Kultuf of Western Europe upon the empire of the Muscovite ended In failure.
Today history has made ua Germans the Inheritors of the Napoleonic Idea." "The further we carry
our Kultur Into the east, the more and the more profitable outlets shall we find for our wares.
Economic profit is of course not the main motive of our Kultur-acUvlty, but It Is no unwelcome by-,
product." "Our belief Is that the salvation of the whole Kultur of Europe depends upon the vic
tory which German Militarism' is about to achieve."
These quotations are but few of hundreds of like expression, and the last one cited is from a
manifesto signed by thirty-five hundred teman proffoora and lecturer. Reduced to simple terms,,
the German belief at the beginning of this war was: "God directs Germany. . ClvllixaUon ad
vances only by combats between Kulturs In which the stronger and God-directed one has the right
to prevail and must prevail. The Immediate and present object Is to make our Kultur prevail In
the East (In "Muscovy"), and In accomplishing this we shall also gsln economic" advantages.- This
is the first step In our world domination," . -
Where does America stand In this theory of a "chosen people?" America denies that theory:
she denies that Cod has chosen any one people as His own; she asserts rather that there are many
civilizations, each with Its own merits and defects, and that to each must be left the working out
of Its own problems. -.. "
Wt 'Americans are unable to understand, or sympathize with, a people who conceive of them
selves as a chosen people, chosen of God a people to whom all things and actions, however Inhu
man or brutal, are regarded as permtssable, even holy, because of a faith In their superior mission
and civilization. To ns awh a belief la direct evidence, not of lending, but of a lagging rivtlhatton.
This German Ideal, when expressed merely In' theory, even though taught In Germany for the
last thirty years, stirred but indifferent interest In other European nations. In this waf Germany
has revealed in the application of her theory a lust for world power at the expense of other peo
ples, a lack ot good faith, a brutality that have stamped her theory as Involving a return to bar
barism. . . , .
., By the application of German theory we were forced, unwillingly, to go to war. But today we
know that there was no escape from a war between two contradictory ideals. Germany's economic
objects are many and large tthey will be pointed out), but the baste cause of this war was the Ger
. man Ideal of a dominant nation. That Ideal, by Germany's own challenge, is on trial in arms.
Against it we must prevail, or we shall perish.
This Is the first of a series of ten articles by Professor Ephrlam Douglas Adams, , Executive
Head of the History Department, Leland Stanford Junior University. .
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