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PAGE TWO OAILV HOGTK RITKK OUIKIKH Till H8IY, tMTOHKIt II. 1IMH. tm mn river con! Published Dally Except Saturday 4, E. VOORHIES, Pub. and Propr. atrJ at poetofflca. Grants Pass. Ore., at second class mall matter. . '; 'i ;; v 1 . ' i ' 1 1 ADVERTISING w RATES eisplay space! per inch. 16 Local-personal columa, per Una 10c tteaders par , Una....' 5c -r t " M : x y t DAILY COURIER, ; -y mafl or' carrier; par year....$S.oO my mall or carrier, per month.. .60 I ft . ' ' i , . - WEEKLY COURIER J y mall. 'par-yar....i..L-$l.B0 KEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PREbo The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to tha use tor republication 3? all news dispatches credited to It or not ' Otherwise credited In this :aper ad also the local aewa pub lished herein. All rights of republication of spe tlal dispatches herein are also rerred ti r-irvi. 1 1 ;. iiv i i -ii i" , '" '" i i" t ', '. THCKSDAV, OCTOBER 3, 1018. " OREGOJT WEATHER ' " Showers, light southerly -f winds. ' " " AX OLD FASHIONED VICTORY Speaking of the Palestine cam paign, a London dispatch says: "The war can show few examples of so wift and clean a victory." ' It is also an old-fashioned Vic tory. That fact had much to do with its swift and clean cut qualities. The spectacular stroke by which General Allenby routed and destroy ed the Turkish armies in the Holy Land la a masterpiece of "open war fare." 'After the first, quick rupture of the Turkish line, everybody was out of the trenches. "Siege warfare" was forgotten. It was such a cam paign a might have been fought in our Civil war. It was such a cam paign as Napoleon might have fought if he had possesed the requisite troops and equipment when he at tempted his own ill-fated Palestine expedition more than a century ago. There were all the elements that gave old-fashioned warfare its thrill and romance quick, bold dashes, scouting expeditions, the use of cav alry as an arm of the service no less valuable than the infantry, the pre ponderance of the human factor as against the purely mechanical factor that plays so big a part in machinery-fought trench battles. There have been a few other con tests in this war of the same general nature, particularly in Mesopotamia and the Balkans, but nothing so def initely old-fashioned. We shall 'have more of It hereafter, we hope. Re cent fighting in France has shown that even there It is possible to blast the enemy out of. his fortified trenches and drive him into the open. When Foch is ready to exert his full force, and use a million or two of Americans, fully equipped, as the spear-head of his attack, we may see a replica of that Palestine tri umph on a scale matching the scope of the war In Its main theatre. That 1b what our army wants; for our strength, even more than Brit aln's perhaps, is in open fighting. where dash, speed and initiative have full play. Occasions are not rare where per sons write checks which overdraw their accounts at the bank, but dire calamity Is very likely to befall the man who tries to pass such a chock outside his own home town. The habit some have of writing checks on banks where they never did have over 1.25 on deposit has made the public skeptical. Some day a hard jolt will he delivered to such a per eon and ne will not be permitted to (o on his iway rejoicing that he was freed from, his attempt in trying to The Heavy Fancy Pack CARSON'S CRAPES ' GRARANTEED RIPE J KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY pull off a shady deal by merely "mak ing the check good." - r The county "court in granting a franchise yesterday to the Gravity District Improvement company ' took the right step.' The matter will also come up before the city council to night, and there is little, doubt but what they will grant a franchise through the city, subject to the de cision of the voters at the next elec- tion, and It la the duty of the voters to 'see that the propoeition carries unanimously. St. Quentln, Damascua and other places yesterday were wrenched from the ' enemy's grasp, while he Is "being compelled to pack up his ill-gotten gains and beat it from the Belgian coast. The war news could not read much better. Wonder if Portland, after her mis erable failure to raise her quota of the Liberty loan while the rest of the state glided gracefully over the top,' will still claim to be the horns, hide and tall of Oregon. Apparently the rains have started. The sun has put the sugar in the grapes, the ripeness in the corn, the red in the apples and has cured the hay. Now then, let 'er pour; In the! meantime sharpen the plow. That north aide gravity irrigation proposition promises to be one of the biggest and 'best things that ever struck the Rogue river valley in the vicinity of Grants Pass. ". "CARRIES 0Nr AT 74 YEARS Woman' Born in Germany Works In Fields to Beat Kaiser. Mrs. Elizabeth Batterer of Who. wick county, Indiana, Is seventy-four years old, but she is helping the United States In war by tolling In the hot sua In wheat fields. Her plun is simple. She is savins the grain that In ordinary years is peramrea to stand in the field the wheat a binder does not get Thus lar Mrs. Batterer has cut 105 hnndiM t resulting In the saving of four bushels j 01 wneat. The aged woman was horn anil !' reared in Germany and cannot speak j uDgiisn as wen as her mother tongue, ; but she cava If she conld iHva tha bni. ' ser and his Potsdam gang a solar ' piexus mow it would be a knockout Two of her sons and one grandson ' are In military service for America. Our classified ads bring results. tfORE OF DEMOCRACY'S DEFENDERS REACHING F3A..CE t Transport loaded to the gunwales Nir-"r fir-;," f . i'i i iy.Wi.imiiii 4-$&3ta4Jk 6&M CAXJTT F1H8I ' '.'.!. AIDS IN PARCHMENTTfADINS Camera Used Successfully In Praterv. , . ing Old Writing Now Barely "" k Discernible. Before the days of books parchments became so costly thnt economical schol ars erased jwre or lens perfectly whnj had been written aVJTTsed uifTTin?? ond time. In this manner some highly Interesting and vulunlile imiiiuacrlpi! have been lust to the world, suys New York Herald. But In uitiny caws the undent characters are stlU visi ble. .- - -i -. . It was not long ago that photography was first successfully applied for this work. The color of the faded Ink of the older' writing on a palimpsest Is yellow. A photograph of such a man uscript was made through a yellow screen. The result was a negative on which the old writing was Imrely dls cernlhle, being a little darker than H e background, while the later blark writing appeared distinctly as white letters. Next an ordinary negutlve on a bro mide plate was made and from this wus produced a transparent positive on which both writings appeared dark and about equally distinct. Then the trans parency was superposed on the first negative so that the dark letters of the later writing covered the light let ters, representing the same writing In the negative. They were thus elimi nated, being Indlstlngulshahly merged with tha general dark-background pro duced by the combination of positive and negative. But the earlier charac ters, since they were dark In both eases, appeared In the combination in tensely black and distinct Tha Padre Scores. Not? and again a guy will take me off to one Ride and Ox it up with me to writ, his girl or Us mother after jjejs burnpedoff, promising to do the same B7ffie72s-.s5I, iSr7?'',w ' Yet they lotos a boot it too. Pop said to the chaplain today: "Yon won't forget that Uttle matter, padre, will your, .. "What little matter la thatr asked the chaplain. "Why, my tombstone I" The chaplain looked surprised. "You never mentioned a tombstone to me," he protested. "Sure I did ! Don't yoo remember? A bottle of rum at head and feet I" But the chaplain came back at him "No." he said gravely; 'tor then yon wouldn't He quiet." George Putullo In Saturday Evening Post ' Children and Music The value of good music in the home cunnot he overestimated. Fortunate the child whose ear is accustomed from the crudle to beautiful sounds anil mel ody. And yet eve.i more fortunate the child who Is ucriiHtnrned to hearing the singing voices of those about hlra. Children love to henr songs, children' songs, big people's songs and folk songs. They love to hear the songs of long ngo when mother wus a rhild, and the lullaby grandmother URed to sing. The child loves especially a bedtime song,, sang at the crib before the final good-night" with American soldiers arriving at a CONTROL OF AIR IS WITH ALLIES Reconstruction in England Fao i tor in Supremacy. HUNS LOSE MANY MACHINES r i Building Better and Fiittr Machines Than the Enemy Rhine Cltlea In Terror of Bombing Planes British Also Show Superiority In Aerial De fenses America Now Playing Part In Air Offensive. ' From London to Jericho the allies have obtained decided superiority over the enemy In the air. Since the war started Germany has trailed France and England In aerial warfare, Zep pelins excepted. France and England didn't waste their time with Zeppelin, which have been a dismal failure when compared with bombing machines such as the allies build and manipu late, much to the terror of the Bhlne townsT.i,."2;?!t7rivj'r . Besides forcing down and destroying three German airplane to one lost by the allies, England, France and now America are building better machines, faster machines and machines which will carry more tons of bombs each than the German. voKanaw-""" Germany has lost not less than 8.000 machines and aviators in the past twelve months. This figure, 8,000, represents Ger many's losses In all theaters of war to allied airmen. While the exact of ficial number of German planes de stroyed, together with the allied losses, may not be disclosed, It may be stated thnt this unofficial summary la very conservative. Radical Reconstruction. At the outbreak of the war Great Britain had eighty aircraft. Every few days Great Britain Is producing more airplanes and other material for the air force than she possessed alto gether at one stage of the war. The strength of the Royal Air Force has been multiplied at least 200 tlmea In personnel as compared to the person nel at one stage, of the war. Great Britain also tns furnished a consider able number of airplanes for her allies. England's air force has undergone radical reconstruction and Its tactic have been changed, much to the dis comfiture of Germany. Briefly, these changes are: Consolidation of the Royal, Flying Corps and the Royal Naval Air Service Into one organisa tion, known as the Royal Air Force; establishment of an air ministry, cre ftlon of the independent nlr for, and UReof "cavalry" aviators airmen who hnve charged advancing Germans, bombed and machine-gunned them from a height of n hundred feet. The lndeienlent nlr force, which In said to have only one authority higher than its own commonder, this Telng the war cabinet, has been busy bomb ing German cities since Its creation three months sgo. Four-fifths of the German munition works are In the Rhine valley, ami oil of them within Striking distance of these independent air force bombers. Their plnn Is to keep a number of Rhine towns In, 1a constant state of terror by boohing works of military Importance In, those communities. One town moy be raid ed night after night for a 'week or more, or It may be visited day and night, or twice dully, whichever plan seems to cause the most consternation and demolition. In addition, railway Junctions, ammunition dumps and bar racks are bombed by this organization of flyers, which works separately and distinctly from aviators attached to certain army corps who also may be dispatched to do similar bobbing. Attack Advancing Columns. The great advantage of nvlntors for bombing and machine-gunning ailvnn- I French port clng columns was shown In the March and succeeding offensives, when time and again scores of aviators concen trated upon a certain point disorgan ised a German advance, or held a por tion of tha line that had given way until re-enforcements could be rushed up by the Franco-Ilrltlsh. On one day those aviators fired more than 200.000 rounds Into German columns. More than VJ0 toon of bomb have been dropped in one day. America Is playing a part In the air offensive. Every new contingent of American aviators which renchee France or England helps out In the general scheme of things which keeps the allies musters of the air. The Prltlsh also hnve shown they are superior to Germany In ncrlnl de fenses. There have been twenty-one raids on London In the pnst yenr, three of these by Zeppelins. Hut since the visit of eleven Zeppelins October litRt, when five of them were brought down, four In France and one In the Medi terranean, they have not attempted to visit London, where the nlr de fences are such that the Zeppellna do not dare to come lower than 20.&X) feet, which la too l.lgb for them to bomb effectively, Gothn raids a 1st are becoming quite expensive for Germany, the Inst raid. May" JOjcmilllng In seven machine being deMnlvt. - Xljenfv-nve avLt toriTtrnlncd for night f!.vUUI .fire. far more valuable to Germany than two score of civilians killed In London. The city's defensive barrage and pro tecting airplanes are too much for the Invaders. conscription Under Motes, Moses made the first conscription law' lie wanted an army and he made this rtrle: "From twenty years old and upward, all thnt are nblo to go forth to-war In Israel" were to serve. Ills reglatrntlon boards were also al lowed to grant exemptiou which In cluded men who hud new houses not yet "dedicated." and those who had vineyards of which they hud not yet eaten and nnally those who were afraid to fight- STATKMKXT OK OWXKItSMII', MA N'AtiKM K.NT. iltt TIA TION, Kit". Required by Act of August 21, 19 IS. Of the Itogue Klver Courier, pub lished daily at Grants I'ass, Oregon, for October 1, 1918. Publisher. A. B. Voorhles. Kditor, Geo. U Drummond. Managing Kditor. A. E. Voorhles. tltiHlness Manager, A. K. Voorhles. Owner, A. E. Voorhles. Average number of copies of each Issue of this publication sold or dis tributed through the malls or other wise, to paid subscribers, during the six months preceding the date shown above, 991. Bondholders, mortgagee and other security holders, holding 1 per cent or more of total amount of bonds. None. (Signed) A. E. VOOItlllEH. Suhxerlhed and sworn to before me this 3rd day of October. 1918. L. A. 'LAl'NER, i Notary Public. 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