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PAGH TWO DAILY KOGCB kUVEM OODKIKJI TIll lWD.W, NOYKMIlKIt lil. IUIH. Ill ROGUE RIVER C0U1R Published Dally Except Saturday A. E. VOORHIKS, Pub. aad Propr. taterej at poatofflce. Grants Pass. . Or., as second claaa mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Display space, per Inch -. IS Leeai-personal column, par Una 10c Handera, oar Una Be - DAILY COURIER 7 mall or carrier, per year $6.00 Br mail or carrier, p.r month- .60 WEEKLY COURIER ' y mall, per year .11.50 MEMBER OF .ASSOCIATED PREba The Associated Presa la exclusively Mtltled to the nae (or republication f all news dlspatohaa credited to It ar not otherwise credited ta this japer and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication ot spe lal dlsputchee herein are also reserved. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 1U1S OREGON WEATHER " - 4 Rain In west; easterly winds ta east WHO WILL CONTROL? Apparently one of the biggest questions confronting 'America is that ot a merchant marine, and to , formulate a policy aa to its opera tion. President Wilson Is said to have expressed his desire for a great fleet of ships to carry our nation's commerce and to that end favors the continuation of the government's shipbuilding plan. Our government has invested, ac cording to the press reports, upwards of $4,000,000,000 in ships, mainly I for the transportation of troops and supplies to France. Immediately peace is assured, additional ships will be available for export trade. It is generally understood that our gov ernment will operate these vessels . for a time, but many congressmen scarcely favor the retention by the government of a monopoly of sea going tonnage and favor a return to the pre-war conditions of private ownership of our merchant marine. But the construction of most of this great fleet represents an outlay of money out of all proportion to their actual value in peace times a price greater than most private par ties can afford to pay for them. Their production being a war necessity, many of them were built regardless of cost. If taken over by private concerns this extra cost will prob ably be written off as necessary ex pense incidental to the war, and which would .be the only method that would make them attractive to Investors. The merchant marine question Is one that will no doubt be hotly con tested In the next congress, some fa voring government operation while others bitterly oppose it, and the outcome will be watched by the Am erican public with keen interest. FREE AMERICA TOO FREE America Is a great country, worth LVj finding. We have many proofs of this fact. Columbus came all the way across the ocean on a few planks to discover it. The Aztecs so loved It that they gave their last son to defend it. The Americans saw that It would make a fine little home and took it away from the Indians. The English, true to their policy of "to ,.v uu TO uo,a, put Up a lair, crap for it, but. engineered by Washington, the Americans twisted the British Lion's tail and settled the dispute, thus resulting in the j hatching of the American Eagle and the 8tr Spangled Banner and they nave Dees nying end waving ever sines unafraid. ANY TASTE PLEASED Fine Coffees 15c to 60c Pound PAPER BAGS COST YOV LES S THAX TIX CAX8 KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY ' QUALITY FIRST The flag has grown and the old bird has grown, until no nation has the temerity to reach out and pluck its feathers but here is where fools rush in and Angels stay out. Most of the fools came from Ger many, Russia, Austria and a sprink ling from the sands of other nations. Their number was augmented by a few natural-born 'Americans. Many fine people came from those coun tries, who are now among our beet and most loyal dtixens, but the fools followed, having been told that this was "the land of the free and the home of the brave" especially the home of the free, which only concerned them and they were told the truth. But an overindulgence ot any one thing is likely to produce evil, and here Is where loyal Ameri cans relaxed their watch free Am erica became too free. As a result of this o pen-heart ed- ness and do-as-you-llke policy, the United States hag been honey-comb ed with German spies, the seed of anarchy has been sown, Bolshevik ism is now knocking at our door, and disloyalty has crept into our nation al congress at Washington. Men yellow with dishonesty and posses sing the propensities of a copperhead have been elected to office, to help shape the destiny of our nation. One ot these is Victor Berger, of Milwaukee, elected by the pro-Ger man socialists a man four times in dicted for his seditious utterances and now lie is to take a seat in our next congress. Eugene B. Debs Is-another man who is accused of making seditious utterances, and one might name doz ens of others who have proven them selves unfit to reside in America, Bob Lafolette. at one time loved by many, displayed his broad yellow: streak when put to the loyalty test at the beginning of the war. America Is the home of the free let us keep it that way but it can not be done by allowing such men to have a hand In running the gov ernment, or tolerating their open teachings. Such men would, in time, rally to their cause a horde that would trample the Stars and Stripes and hoist the'red flag. The administration, in handling this brand of human varmints, needs not for a moment fear that "the people" will not; back him up "with power without stint," because they will. There is something wrong with Milwaukee with WIg"onsin some thing very rotten In that eectTon of Uncle Sam's domain, and Berger should never be allowed to take a seat In congress. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge of tlon" perhaps only to have part of Massachusetts, the man who was a Dodv to taS- These -high explo vllifled by the Oregon Journal be-1 Bhe1'9 are hel1' puro and lm'lle' cause he had the temerity to speak out and state his convictions on mat-1 ers national, is said to bo booked Yesterday we saw a good air fight tor the chairmanship of the com-and the American plane set fire to mittee on foreign relations of the German. They were high but senate when the republicans regain', ne" the two Germans falling control of that body after March 4. Should Senator Lodge receive this chairmanship, It would be fitting recognition of his 25 years service in the congressional body. . "One of our great works of the near future," says Director Smith of the United States bureau of labor at Portland, "will be to place the re- turned soldiers. However, sawmills and camps which have been running' " J ?" 1 ' (cant. I don't know much about the from SO to 75 per cent capacity can now run at full capacity because ot plenty ot labor." ROSCOE C. PLUMLEY GOES OVER THE TOP In France, Oct. 3, 1918. Dear Folks: This is some placo to write so I am goiug to make one letter go tha rounds. ' don't know when I caj g-'t it censored and mailed but will do my best It is pretty noisy and sometimes we are real busy dodging pieces ot shrapnel, but this division is ahead ot the ones on either flank so we are getting a little and much needed rest between Boche snells and aircraft. We went over the top at daybreak September-26, and have had some very hot and nasty fight ing, but the boys stayed with it like old "Vets" and left a good many dead and wounded Germans with the ones we lost. My battalion went over in a heavy fog and smoke bar rage, and did not meet the Germans until we had advanced two miles through the timber and their trenches. The fog lifted suddenly and left us on an open hillside with Boche machine guns on both sides and big guns in front. Every man fought like old timers and walked up- on machine gun nests like they did not know what was there. Some, of .course, fell, but so did the ma chine guns. My first experience under fire came quick and I think I was too d mad to get scared. I saw a man fall a little to one side ot me and started to him, but soon dropped and crawled up. He was hard hit and I started to cut - his pack, etc., off so as to handle htm, when a Boche sniper opened up on me. He put four shots right over me and one kicked up the dirt at my !arm8 makes a target they love to shoot at. We carry them in our pockets now. Well that Is what made me mad and from that on I did not have time to be afraid. . I was a pretty sick man the first day, but now it doesn't bother me, nor do I see go much, for we are not ! on the firing line so much. We have! nlentv to do takinc cars of the wounded as they are brought in hyl,nev hlra- 1 KUP9S 8"e others the stretcher-bearers. Kot nlm ,or ne wa9 8ho' Bn,l they ... .11 v.l 1 i I don't think Sherman knew m.iehi"cru ttu ",n" 1,1 u,,ncn- about war, and trench warfare Is a picnic compared with stuff. This morning I this drive washed and ' shaved, the first time I have even washed my face in nine days. All we have Is a gas mask and our first aid outfits. At night we dig a little hole In the ground and crawl in. .Wo expect relief now and are surely ready for it. The Germans h , , . , , ave not had time to use much gaB t t,.. . . , and I have only been In It once. think this game is about over and I hope so for I have had enough. It sure Jars to fln,d what was a friend and have to tag him "Died In Ac- wb were ai me rout rront, hut only our machine guns went into action there. v... u.. very mKn ana reii. faster than the burning plane, i; know it will sound funny to you, but we all cheered Just the same, for If the Boche get hold of an allied plane they me them with our marks still ""I "1, 7 V8r v" llneS 8nd nsl the big gsns where to drop their big shells Nothing 1s too little or too dirty for them to do. I think I murt be bullet proof, for they have had no luck with met yet. I only wish I could write a letter war In general as we don't get any papers up here, but I fell sure that this Yank drive .will start the finish. I am fueling fine, but tired out and ale- but by the time you got this I will be back having a rest and get ting filled up again. October 6 Wo left the fighting front the night of October 3. after dark and are now Just boliind our own biff guns whore we feel sate and getting more to eat and rest some. We sleep ou mother earth, but have a btankot each and got along O. K. The guns are talking all the time and it sure does sound good to u. We know now what the big shells can do for we have 'been among the Hun's big shells for eight day. Thank God these are going the other way, for the shrapnel from the high explo sive shnlls Is hell and I pray I will never have to see again, what I saw In those eight days up there. Ws had a hard march to here but can move around more and have a light at night You see all marches near the front are at night and the coun try is all terrain the Yankees have taken from Huns and ig Just a mass of shell holes and ruins, therefore, is very hard to' walk through tn the dark. To make it better, It rains most ot the time and there Is mud. I could go on with this stuff for a week, but It won't help you to write ot our hard luck. I thought I had a tough time up there but I saw bo much worse and the wounded were lying around in the rain and cold with almost no covering. We used our 'raincoats and soma Boche blankets we could find for them, but it was awful and so for us fellows that had no holes in our hide and no broken bones, we shouldn't kirk. I am still dead tired and away be hind on sleep but this division Is re lieved and we are going back for real rest, where we can get some things we need and some we think we need. I can carry all my personal be longings in my pocket for I have ditched everything but my razor and watch. I don't see how it runs but It does and keeps good time even though It Is rusted until I can't open It. Now for the beet news I, or any of us have ever heard or expect to hear. An American plane flew over us and dropped some N. Y. Heralds wtth the news that the central pow ers were asking for peace under President Wilson's terms. Since we have heard more .and I pray It Is true, and I really think, part of It at lenst is true for the Huns are whipped for sure and we'll soon be on hts own soil if he don't quit now. W here we Were, they now have clear sailing to the Rhine and will soon be there. .1 saw one place where a lieutenant I knew in this regiment had shot, with his automa tic, four Germans and a German po lice dog before they got him. Three of the Germans and the dog were dead. The fourth was wounded and I took care of him. Ho talked good English and said the Yankees were 1 wonderful fighters, but easy to kill Tnat DecalI8e they "8 reckless 8n1 take DS chances, alone and In '"'nches. Another place a private got three of then wtn "Is bayonet before Now for some more good news. In the last three days I have had about tn,rty letters, mostly from you folks ana ine itoys ana also one rrom uex. Dickenson. I close now and work a while. Will wrlto where I can. October 9 Here 1 am still in the mud and still on ground taken from th Ger mans, but out of reach of their bii'tiib auu .an jiidi. ileal mil KIII19. ,,, . , : . , . . .. We expect to get out of here In the . . ,e , . . , sneiis ana can just hear tno guns, 1111,1111115 in huiu 11 11' nn auu Bt?t uuijl to where there are, whole buildings and a healthy kitchen and rest for a month. Believe me we need It after marching all over France and doing eight days up at the front. 1 have had all the war I want, but if the Oermans want more I am willing to go back and do my share. Trench warfare Is a picnic compared to this Pn(led thla gtruKK,e. Botn ,lhe Ger. manfl and Krench wer0 very comfort. able In dugouts fitted up with stoves, RhtSi etC-t and nelther Me Mre t0 ftght muoh We reached our division objective heforo we Qult( but the Beemed pr(itty t0 me, ftnd t put a tft(? on more tnan one felIow T knew that reaa ..KIlled , Actlon. 0nc) ri M by our ald lell hit near Bomo of the an4 ,took both feflt off of two men clean M Jt co)d have been done. We were lucky and KOt them etArteA to the fIeId hospHal immediately. Both were alive when they left there and more than likely W",d puH throun' but the kalar can't give them back their feet. Classified FOR BALK FOR SALE 40 tons first clitss al falfa hay, baled, lit the burn. C. D. Woolverton, Rogus River, Ore gon, n FOR SALK Thoroughbred llrowu Leghorn cockerels, 7-mouths old. C. Sohaefers, Rd. 2, lower river road. 11 i9lT CUUVKOLKT with demount able rluis for sale. 1 in best run ning condition. M. J. Barker. $07 West C street. Phone 196-tt. 3S FOR SALE Steel range good V new. price $20. Call 329 West I Street. 21 FOR SALE Young team excellent pullers), wagon, plows, harrows, hay, lumber, cedar poBts, shot gun, rifle, bedsteads, oil stove and other artloles. Phone 502-F-12, Mrs. George L. Morris, Rd. 1. Grants Pass, Ore. 42 FOR SA1JB Oood. dry, sorted corn, delivered, 2Ho per lb. around corn, cob and all, 3 renta. 924 East F street, phone 212-J. 23 FOR SALK A good piano. CnllTt 408 C street. Phono 32-R. 19tf FOR SALE Span horses with har ness, $100; weight about 1.000 pounds; 3 good pack or riding ponies, three brood sows. 0. H. Pease, Placer. Ore. 21 TO RENT FOR RENT Cottage 321 Rogue River Ave., three rooms and sleeping porch, good well and one half acre land, barn, $4. SC. tw month. Key at 208 Foundry. Oiu FOR RENT Dec. 7th. modern six room bungalow; wood house, sleeping rooms above, garage. 710 North Sixth street. And five room cottage, corner C and Second. Rents low. See N. E. Townsend, 621 A street. 3 WANTKTt " WANTBD AT ONCIi "$1,000 loun for year on 136 acres timber on Coyote Creek, two miles from Wolf Creek station, halt mile off high way, Douglus fir, some sugar plno. Cruises between 4 and 8 million. No underbrush and all smooth timber. Write Hob Roberts, Hotel Clark, Glendale, Oro. 21 MHM'KLLA.N'ltOim JITNEY SERVICE Any where, any time. Phone Mocha Car 181-R Otto J. Ksips, Resldencs 149-Y 231 HEMSTITCHING and piloting dono to order, Handicraft Shop, Mcd ford. Ore. 38 OA RACK First class work; elec trical work a speciality; satisfac tion guaranteed. Oils and gaso line. Everett Stelger Garage, 211 North Slxta Street. Phone 298. 42 VIOLIN. PIANO, mandolin and ban- Jo lessons; good methods and ex perienced teachers. Music fur nished; stringed instruments re paired; violin bows repulred. G. M. Kellogg, 725 South S-venth Street. 23 TAXI It going or coming call the White Line Taxi.. 8afety first. Call at the Spa confectionary. Phone 202-R. Residence phone, 320-R. 45 I think I have been all over Franco and mostly ou foot. If Rol- lie really wants a Job, let him try marching over a slicslied ami trennhod forest flllod with barbed wire etc., on a dark night with a shell dropping often enough to keep up your interest. It's a great life even If you do weaken. Young Courtney of Grants PasR was wounded in tho log. I had din ner with Herbort McKenzle aftr we came out. lie is in our field hos pital you know. Well I will close now. 1 am feeling fine only In need of sleep and a good rest. ROSCOE C. PLUMLEY, 363rd Infantry, Medical Detachment, A. P. O. 776, Amer. Ex. Forces. Grants Pass & Crescent City Stage Co. W. T. Breen, Propr. H. Glddiags, Agent Big Pierce Arrow Cars Office Old Observer Blk. Corner Seventh and O streets Phone 20 Telephone 228-J and 108 Advertising PHOTO HTIIUO THIS PICTl'RK MIIL for fine photo graphs. Optn dally txrept Sun day from 10 a. in. to $ p. ni. Sun day sittings by appointment only. Thons Mill. 283-H. or rssldono 140-J. (7tt """""PMYSICIANM L. 0. CUSMMNT, M. 0., PracUoo limited to diseases ot the eye, ear, nose and throat Glasses fltled. Offlrs hours 9-U, a -5. or nn ap pointment Office phoue 62. real denes phone IS9-J. &LOUO UR1DQ G, II. V., Pbysloisji and surgeon. City or country calif attended day or sight IUldeno phons 389; offloe pboo 111 Sixth and H. Tuffs Hldg. DrTTT '6NIlrLkY,Pbyw"oTaTiM urgsoa. Lundburg Oldg. Healttt officer. Office hours, 9 In II a. tn. and 1 to 0 p. m. Phonw 310-J. A. A. WITHAM. U. O. Internal medicine and nervous dJteasos; 03 Corbett Hldg., Portlaud.i Ors. Hoars 9 a. m. to 1 p. in. A. m'R8ICl,I M. D. O. C In block north of poatofflce. corner Sixth and D street surgical, electrical, chlropratlc and osteopathic treat ments. Office phons 197-R; resi dence phone 833-11. VKTKKINAJtY Kl'HUICON ' ' DR. R. J. BE8TUL, Veterinarian. Offlos. rssldsnce. Phons 101-R. ATTOHNKYK II. D. NORTON, Attorney-at-la. Practices In all Dials and FsdersJ Courts. First National Bank Bldg. COLVIU ft WILLIAMS. Attorneys-at-Law, Grant Pass Basking Co. Illdg., Grants Pass, Orogau. E. fl. VAN DYKE. Attorney. Prao tlos la all court. First National Bank Bld. r. 3. HLANi HARD, ttornsy at Law. Uuluen Hula Building Phono 270. Grants Pass. Oregon, HI.A.M'ilAKD k nLA.NCHAKD. At lufltays, Albert Bldg. Phos. 2S8-J. Practice In all courts; las board attorney. C. A. 81DLBH".AttoreyT7-LTri-. sree In bankruptcy. Masonl temple. Grants Pass, Or. B. C. MACY, 1). M. I. ""lrsl-li. dentistry. 109 South Blitb, street. Grant Pa, Oragen. I 'HAY At. K AM Tll.lNl. ul COMMEKUAL. TK ANdl- EK IAJ. At kind of drayugv ana lrnf. work carefully and proutMUy lnn i'bone 181-J. Stand at tre'.gh) depot. A. Shad, Prop. Ti7kw6rLD MOVES; odo w"Z Hunch Bros Transfer Co. Pbons 3K7-R. K. ti. iSHAM. Ufajke and transfer, Safes, ilaoot and furniture moved, packed, hl,.e1 and tor ed. Phone Clnrk ft dolman. No. SO. Residence phone 124-R. The California and Oregon Coast Railroad Company , TIME CARO Effective Nov. 19, 1918. Trains, will run Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday Ijenve Grants l'asm 1 p, m. Arrive Waters Creek 2 P M 1enve Wntm Crok ... 3 p. m. Arrive Grunts Pans 4 p. m. For information regarding freight n:!l pa:;t.Mi;.r rates call nt tho ortloo of the company, Lundburg building, or telephone 131. CARD OF THANKS To the nuiny friends, and Order of Eastern Star, we desire to ex press our heartfelt thanks and ap preciation for tho beautiful flowers and tho kind words of sympathy of fered in this, our sad hour. MRS. FLORENCE MEIKLE. O. II. KESTERSO.V. Easy Riding 'ft It