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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-
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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.
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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.
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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.
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