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About Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 13, 1918)
rAOS TVU daily noom urn cocunui Tl'KShAV, At til HT lil. ! m. m to Fnbliiaed Dally Exeest Saturday" E. V00RUIE3, Pub. aad Prepr. tatored at aoatofflc. Oraata Put. Or., M Mcona eiate bui ADVERTISING RATES Display spaee, pr Uch lie lcai-peronal eoluma, per Its 10c Mr it-. Se DAILY COURIER By Ball or carrier, per yr.....00 mall or carrier. Mr snoeth.. .60 WEEKLY COURIER Wf kialL par 7ar.. ..$1.50 MEMBER But Editorial Aatoclatloa recoa Dally Nwpapr Pub. Ami MXMBER Or ASSOCIATED PREbo The Associated Preaa It exclusively taUtled to the at (or republloatloa at all atwa dlepatohee cradlted to It r aot otherwlie credited la thl paper and alto the local aews pub lished hertla. All rlghta of r publlcatloa or spe etal dtapidches herein aro alio raaerred. TIK8IUV, AIGI ST 13, 191H. OREGON WEATHER Tonight and Wednesday night fair and warmer with gentle northerly wind. FRENCH AXD SPANISH With the disappearance ot German from our Institution of learning, and with the close association with the French which our foreign expedi tion entails, has come a tremendous boom In the study of French. At home as well at abroad, civilians as well as soldiers are pouring over French phrase books and grammars. People who used to know a little French years ago are getting out their old text books or borrowing charming French stories from the li braries. Hand in hand with this study should go the study of Spanish. For several years before the war our trade with South America and our mutual understanding with Its peo ples had been quickened. . From now on, our intercourse with pur south ern neighbors will be greatly increas ed. We need to know their langu age. The knowledge of French will greatly expedite the learning of Spanish, as that of Spanish does the French. The students taking Latin In school will be better prepared for both by reason of their knowledge of the mother tongue. At a recent visit ot a party of South American diplomats to Hog Island to see the progress of the shipbuilding, Ambassador N'aon of Argentina, lately back from Buenos Aires, fully conversant with the spir it of bis people, said, "I consider that your success Is our success; that your welfare Is our welfare, and your glory Is also our glory." Ambassador Da Gama of Brazil, our ally, remarked that "our nation al and International hopes are going to be a reality." And our own Mr. Schwab spoke very simply and effectively. "We are no' more North Americans and South Americans we are Ameri cans." 1 Wherefore we need to know, to apeak, each other's language. As English will replace German In the achools to the southward, so Spanish and French must replace It with us. THE MERCIFUL BOCHE One of the most Impressive war news items that have appeared In some time Is that telling of the Ger man prisoner brought Into the Amer ican lines with i tag on his arm, at tached by his captors, saying: "This prisoner gave water to American wounded." The response was Immediate. Am- The . aft. Ed Bel CCRN STARCH fcHI Try ASK r fa N jr-i n Jt;rr. KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY QUALITY FIRST erlcan soldiers crowded around that captive overwhelming him with con crete proofs ot gratitude. They gave him "bully beef," white bread, many packages ot cigarette and other de sirable things or a quality and quan tity that amated him. He ate and smoked while his fellow captive looked on with dull envy. A German being human to wound ed enemies it was unheard or! The ordinary and expected thing Is the sort or treatment so many prisoner have told or brutal neglect and In-! suit, wounds Ignored or improperly' handled, hunger and thirst and cold Inflicted needlessly and maliciously; j and often, Instead ot these species of slow torture, a more brutal, but pos-! slbly more merciful stabbing to death ot wounded foes within their' lines. To what a pass has "Germnn hu manity" come when one little act of Christian kindliness Is deemed worthy of commemoration! The food todministrntiou Is prepar-j In? for a Ions war. The war and. nary departments are preparing for a long war. The shipping board is preparing for a long war. Let the farmers, miners, factory workers and everybody eUe do likewise and then there will not be any long war. The people of Baltimore, accord ing to 'presumably credible local newspaper reports, recently saw "a striking likeness ot the American flag formed of clouds in the western sky during a storm." That's noth ing. The German people are seeing that nOw right along. The German press, too, has been conducting a strategic retreat. RED CROSS HANDLES LETTERS TO GERMANY Follow Plan Which Is as Spy Proof as Is Possible to Devise. To prevent the possibility of valu able Information getting Into Germany, the American Red Cross, In sending letters behind the enemy lines at the request of persons In this country, Is following carefully a plan worked out by the state department to do away with code. Americans, Germans or others In the United States wishing to communicate with relatives In Germany must now write out their messages In Bed Cross chapters throughout the country. These are sent through the division of ficers of the organization to national headquarters. Here they are rewrit ten and the wording absolutely chang Somewhere in the U. S. A. Best Starch MADE OF (XHM F.IAZOLA Cera Oil KM A Mi t AX Me 18 VOH KKCII'K HOOK THIS CIVILIAN HAS IMPORTANT WAR JOB Christian Girl, whose name has been a fertile subject for pnniKrHiiherx, Is one of the tunny civilian who are qui etly lifting Into the war department's strenuous work. It Is Mr. Girl's Job to see 'that the army gets nil the mo tortrucks It needs. ed to prevent the sending of any dia gram or secret code. The hiesKtiges are given to the censorship board and are passed or refused by them ns the case uiny be. When they reach a neu tral country, they ore translated on other paper und In moxt cases delivered by the lied Cross of the place, to which they Ri. The plan is considered ns spy proof n It Is possible to devise. During the lust US year the practice has grown up that welfare Inquiries and messages shall be permitted be tween clvtlluns In countries which are at war with ench other. The promis cuous sending of letters through or Fryiizutlons in luutrul countries could net be permitted because of the large number of enemies In the country. To prohibit entirely the sending of mes sages would, for example, prevent a loyal American from Oiullng out wheth er Ids sister, unfortunately married to n German, wux alive or dead. Pro hibit Ion wus In force for a time and pitiful appeals were received by the Red Cross from French, Belgluns and Italians liegKliij! the society to get word for them as to whether their peo ple in the occupied districts were still alive. The state deurttuent presented to the Red Cross the present plan In de tail and asked that the Red Cross put It Into effect As It was purely hu manitarian work, the government could do no more than supervise the work. Today the American Red Cross Is sending an average of 1,300 letters a dey to persons living behind the enemy lines. This work Is done through Washington headquarters of the Amer ican Red Cross by the bureau of com munication of which. Edward M. Day is acting director. NON-SINKABLE LIFEBOAT California Invention Tried and Ap proved by Federal Authorities. Built like a raft with passenger com partments on both the top and bottom so that the craft Is always right side up, and equipped with a movable cen ter weight for stability, with a self balling device, a "non-slnkable" l'.fa- ft boat recently Invented by Oept Wife Ham Jacob of Ran Leandro, Cal, was tried out by the federal Inspectors in Oakland with very satisfactory re sult. The boat was launched In the water bow first. It dived under the water, righted Itaflf, and then took a normal position after the balling vatvea bad emptied It of water. . The Inventor claims that because of the self-batltnf device the craft cannot alnk. ESKIMOS HELP RED CROSS tome In Alaska tall Furs for Friend ta Aid Soldltrs, The world war hat even extended to the polar regions and jarred the Es kimo Into making some comforts for soldiers. It wat learned through Wil liam T. Lopp, chief ot the Alaikan dl- me Meal Test of gasoline is In Its boll, ing points. InMRed Crown" they form a continuous, uniform chain, giving easy starting, quick accel. ration, power and mile age. Look for. the Red Crown sign before you fill. STANDARD OIL COMPANY (CtlUocw) aJ5fM C2 jJie Gasoline ('. it. FIKfl, Specliil Agent Stnmlird Oil Co., (irnnts la liioe si the' bursal C Hue tit. The Rsklmna raised money by sett tag furs, cutting; Ivory and longshor log for ahlpa that visit their Isolated hornet," said Mr. Lopp, who has Juat reached Washington from Atitak. "On village which ha been sav ins up for years for a sawmill and had accumulated flM, gave 1100 of Us actnty hoard," he added, to Indicate the way the peaceful Rxklmo Is sac rlrtdng for the savage white man. POLITICAL CARDS (Paid Advertisement. ) MRS. JOS. MOSS ladependeat (Vadldat for County Clerk Amy Booth Holmes Itomorrailc Candidate for County Treasurer Grants Pass & Crescent City Slage Co. V. T. Ilrreii, I'ropr. II. (lidding, A mnt Big Pierce Arrow Cars OMi'v Jowplilnn Telephone UUH Full Line of Auto Supplies TIRES-A11 Sizes C. L. HOBART CO. PRINTING THAT PLEASES WE DO 7& Kingc? ! ioar ti. a, ru4 4ii.trou. Ol' fliiulre 'Ttr 'low h t'Hii' to be mlshty nigh kin er de roe 'limits' sordn mm folks. We alia kin ral him a a 'Inter bulled, Iwkod, fried, slvwvd, conked wld cheese tn riy frtlln' ao dry mnke Im lnir flour; o' we kin "tilwU-tuto" hint fo' whent floor. 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