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MONDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1018.
OREGON WEATHER
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Generally fair; cooler in east
f tonight. Gentle, southwesterly
winds.-
THE NEXT "SCRAP OF PAPER"
' In reference to the agreements to
be arrived at sg a result of the com
ing peace conference, certain cynical
critics of a league of nations point
to the Belgian "scrap of paper" as a
dire .warning against ever again
trusting in the sanctity of treaty stip
ulations.
Many, people hare looked only
upon one aide of the "scrap of pa
per", referred to possibly the wrong
side, so far as arriving at a compre
hensive and sane conclusion of how
to bring about lasting peace is con
cerned. The German side of that
"scrap of paper" is only one side of
It there is the other side, the ac
tion of England. . In covenant of the
Belgian treaty England went to war.
thereby risking the existence of her
empire but she never broke faith
never wavered when Germany foam
ed at the month and sent her mil
lions of trained soldiers against her.
England kept her faith and saved
the world from the kaiser's hordes.
The "scrap of paper," dishonored by
Germany, 'was vindicated by the Eng
lish. It depends entirely upon the
manhood of those who sign a "scrap
of paper." The allies and the Unit
ed States can at least be depended
upon to keep treaty faith, and such
a combination of powers will ever be
strong enough to banish the expon
ents of kultur and Bolsheviklsm.
THE ACID TEST
T. M. Iiveray, a discharged sol
dier who fought on the western front
and who for the past six month has
been in a hospital in New York is a
candidate for sergeant-at-arms in
the Oregon legislature, says the
Marshfleld Record. The parents of
the returned soldier reside in Rose
burg; his wife, formerly Miss Ruth
Haines, .of forest Grove, is now, be'
cause of war's necessities, teaching
high school at Hood River. Oppos
lng the man who "went over the
top" is Joe Singer, a Russian Jew
who has served several times and
whose main reason fpr having been
selected In the past is attributed to
a "drag" politically.
The acid test to show Just how
much Oregonians think of men who
Tlsked their lives over In France will
come up at Salem and it is sincerely
to be hoped the legislators will not
turn down a man who defended his
' country for a striker who is strong
politically in some city ward.
; ' From the east comes the lntelll
sjence (hat McAdoo did not have to
resign on account of his "poverty
, AT THE RIGHT PRICE
Naval Oranges
40c Dozen
KINNEY' & TRUAX GROCERY
QUALITY FIRST
that he did not have to depend upon
his 113.000 salary for his dally
bread. Be that as it may, this is a
free country and Mac has a perfect
right to begin to set his political
fences for 1920, if he chooses. The
only disquieting part of it Is, Wil
son let the most able member of the
cabinet escape.
Says the federal reserve board at
Washington In Its monthly review:
The future Is regarded with general
confidence and hut little pessimism
or tear. The readjustment period is
expected to be short." That has the
right ring.
There are all kinds of people.
Some believe that we should not
bother about what congress is doing
or reflect on what Wilson is going
to do at the peace conference, but
would rather debate on whether
chipmunks hibernate.
A man said the other day: "Mar
riage is a failure; also, remaining
unmarried is a failure." Is every
thing a failure? Hardly merely the
difference' between an optimist and
a pessimist
Irrigation is the backbone of many
small 'city In the west. Hasten
the day when all the river bottom
land near Grants Pass is under the
ditch.
Portland Is again "pointing with
pride." The latest murder . was
commuted in that city.
FROM MINDS' SECRET PLACES
Come the Materials for Dreams Which
Sometimes One Find 8o Hard
to Explain.
Yon read a book and forget every
word of It Years later a scene from I
the same book will come Into your
mind as a dream ; yon will not recog
nize It and will marvel where It came
from. Or yon will see a person casual
ly on the street and be perfectly un
conscious of It But every experience
la registered In the mind somewhere,
reguKereu in me mina somewnere,
and some day you may see that same
yvreuu iu n uivoui. remaps iwioe Ui ,
jt n i . .
the great store of Impressions hidden
away In yonr unconscious mind will
come to the surface in a dream tn such
a way that yon will feel that there is
something mysterious about It
An old lady once told the writer of
sn rno m aria tin it slftnii If m a n umvi.
nUte liwriflrarlon nf he, hHpf In
spirits. While on a shopping tour sheeral BloDe of tne country Is about
mislaid a valuable umbrella, and for tne same as where you are. They
the life of her could not remember raise a lot of grapes here, too, to
what she had done with It It worried J make their wines out of and the
her considerably, and that night she grapes make me think of the Pass,
had a dream In which she saw herself of course all of the work Is done by
go Into a restaurant hang up the nm- the omen tne old melli 8nd you
"8,,!la '-JJSElZJR W seldom .ee a middle aged man
away, forgetting It New, York World.
Monarch's Costly Whim.
King Alfonso's ruined palace of San
Bdefonso at La Granja is one of the
freaks and one of the glories of Spain.
It was a Bourbon monarch who invent:
ed It at the beginning of the eigh
teenth century. Philip V was ont hunt
ing one day and rested at a sunny farm
called the Grange, occupied by monks.
The monks had humored the moun
tain upon whose slopes the farmhouse
was built and bad made their beautiful
gardens conform to the ways of the
giant
But the king compelled the moun
tain to obey him. . He blasted smooth
pluces on precipitous slopes, carry
ing away thousands of tons of earth
and stones, and from the valley be
low he brought up miles of fertile
earth to form new fields and gardens.
By the time he bad finished creating
a new landscape and filling the new
Versailles with the best pictures bis
taste suggested, Philip wus ready to
die In debt to the tune:of 45,000,000
pesetas. For that Is the sort) which
the monarch, spent on San Bdefonso.
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if vou have anything to 'Well try
SOLDIER LETTERS
' From Albert M. AUyn
October 29.
Dear Folks:
I am at last well settled so that
I have a little time to write letters.
We have been moving continually
ever since we landed In France on
October 15, hut now are through
moving for a while.
I am going to a signal school and
will probably be here for about six
weeks. The school Is on an old es
tate and the grounds are Just like a
park and very pretty great tig
shade trees of all kinds and pretty
walks and drives and it makes an
Ideal place for a school.' We do most
of our signal work out on the
grounds and It surely Is a nice place
to work. We are just about a mile
from the little town of St. Algnan,
not the St. Algnan. however, which
is straight east of Paris.
I went Into town last Saturday
and It was very interesting. The
streets are only about as wide as our
alleys and most of the shops are
little dinky affairs. There is an
old castle in the town that Is very
interesting. You can only go through
on Saturday afternons with a "Y"
man, and I was too late for the Sat
urday trip but I intend- to see It
some other time it I possibly can
r.They say It is 1,000 years old. It
is way up on a high hill, all terraced
up and is a typical old castle. I
went part way up and the' grounds
and view from there were beautiful.
There Wasn't much else In the
town of special Interest. . Of course
everything is so very different from
what we have been used to. There
are no plumbing or sewage systems
and no modern Improvements what
ever. A lot of our men are bllllted
in the French homes in the UDoer
'gtory an(1 tney nave to get n by
climbing a ladder on the outside. I
guess very few of the houses have
lnslde stalr-
We are living in ne.w 'barracks
.here and it Is a lot better than we
have had since we have been here.
The "grub" is the best we have had
also, so I am well satisfied.
I haven't received any mail yet
but we have been movlne around so
.UTnoRe ..".,, ...
imcn tnat 1 suppose our mail hasn 1
tian a .hanca tn f o tun nn with 11
v -1
I haven t met anybody I know, al
though I have talked with men from
nearly every part of the. Tnlted
states.
The country here reminds . me a
whole lot of Grants Pass. You can
e8 n,11 on slde8' and he en
not in uniform.
The war news we get certainly
Bounds encouraging now and we are
all hoping It will be settled soon. I
suppose this letter will reach you a
little before Thanksgiving and I sure
would like to be with It although I
am thankful we are not going to be
In some of the places we have been
In since we left the States.
I must stop now, as I want to
shave before I go to bed. Don't
worry about me 'because I am get
ting along fine and am -well satis
fled with everything. Just forget
the previous address and use the one
below.
November 3.
Dear Folks:
It Is raining this afternoon and is
a good time to write letters. We
haven't a thing to do on Sundays
here, except eat and look after our
wants. I wrote to Marney this
morning and this afternoon. I In
tend to shave and take a' bath. We
have stoves in our barracks so that
we can heat water for shaving, and
thees a place down the road wbeee
we can get a good hot shower, so
everything is lovely. We can also
have our clothss washed by the
French women tor about two franca
or 40 rents for -a work's wash, to 1
don't think I have any kick coming
at all.
Ever since I have been here I
have been eating like a pig. I g
bark for a second helping nearly
every meal and everything tastes
good to me. The meals are very
good compared with what we got
before we came to this school. This
morning we had pancakes and mo
lasses tor breakfast, and this noon
we had pumpkin pie not the kind
that mother use to make of course
but pumpkin pie nevertheless and
I got a second helping. A soon as I
get paid I think I will spend most of
my dough down at the Y, drinking
hot chocolate and eating jam sand
wiches. I even got a 'bar of choco
late down there yesterday and It
sure was a treat.
I guess I had better write about
something besides eating or you will
think that Is all I do. We can't go
to town from here except with the
Y man on Saturday afternoon so I
haven't an awful lot to write about.
I didn't go to see the old castle
yesterday either but I surely Intend
ed to. They say it was built In the
Eleventh century. There are several
other old Interesting places that I
want to see too.
I just heard that the kaiser had
abdicate, but don't know how true
it is. We get news bulletins from
Paris every day and also a Paris edi
tion of the New York Herald and
the Chicago Tribune. The war news
certainly looks encouraging now
and It must be the beginning or the
end. I must stop now and go down
and take my bath, I hope you are
all well and I assure you that I never
felt better In my life.
As ever, ALBERT, .
PVT. ALBERT M. ALLYN,
Base Signal School,
First Depot Division, A. P. O. 727,
American Ex. Forces, France.
Finding Broken Wire.
It Is a difficult matter to locate a
broken wire In an Ignition cuble. un
less one knows how. Here Is how:
Draw ench Individual wire out some
where along the cuble. Hold a com
pass within a half-Inch of the wire. If
the. current Is flowing through the
wire, the. xuimpass wULbe deflected
from Its normal position In one way
or the other. A broken wire will hsve
no effect on the instrument, which
thereby acts as a detective.
Chinese Wedding Presents.
In social circles of the celestial em
pire the family of the bridegroom
makes presents to the family of the
bride of various articles a few days
before the day hxed for the marriage.
The presents generally consist of food,
the leg and foot of a pig, the leg of a
goat eight small cakes of bread, eight
torches, three pairs of large red can
dles, a quantity of vermicelli, and sev
eral bunches of firecrackers.
Oiling the Wheels.
No one can afford to let another per
son exceed In politeness, and there Is
nothing In the world that will oil the
wheels of life like the lubricant of cour
tesy. Try It In your dally life and see.
No one '" '' you for not being In
good form, even If you should slip In a
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age each one Is an arbiter of fashion
himself. It would be a refreshing thing
to Introduce a few of the old-fashioned
variety of social amenities at least it
would be refreshing to the elders of
some of the boys and girls of the pe
riod. Printing that pleases We do It!
Courier Job Department.
Legal Blanks at the Courier.
SEARCHING PRISONERS AFTER A BATTLE IN FRANCE
The notorious treachery of the
prisoner brought back is subjected
Utility Gifts
for
.ebrisimas.
Grants Pass
Grants Pass & Crescent, City Stage Co.
W. T. Ureen, Propr.
H. Glddintts. Agent
Big Pierce Arrow Cars
Office Old Observer Blk. Corner Seventh and Q street Phone tn
Telephone SJHJ and I A3
Bought Island Cheap,
There Is a good story telling how the
captain of a British warship came Into
possession of a smsll Island near the
New Hebrides. The captain was In
search of a place to hold the annual
prise firing, but the only suitable loca
tion .Was on 4 small -Island la South
west bay. This was tribal property
and. as the natives hsd been taught to
fear the power of big guns they Inslst-
, ed that they shonld be paid for the
island, as it would likely be destroyed.
The negotiations ended In a chief go
ing off to the ship, and It was agreed
that the commander of the warship
shonld become the owner of the Island
upon the payment of five sticks of to
bacco. A target was then erected and
the shooting took place.
Town Has Long History.
Mannheim Isn't an old town. The
village that preceded It dated back a
thousand years, but the real Mann
helm has just entered Its fourth cen
tury. It was founded by Protestant
refugees from Holland, who gave It
a strongly fortified castle and brought
no end of trouble on the place. Dur
ing the Thirty Years' war thot castle
and the town were taken and retaken
no less than five times. In 1704 It was
tn the hands of the French and then
an Austrian snnv bombarded It ho
severely thnt scarcely a building wus
left unharmed. In 1803 a grand duke
bad the fortifications raxed und Mann,
helm becdnie nn open . town.
Alas, Too True.
"Many Millions Short." Newspaper
headline. Lots of persons go on the
supposition that you can't believe ev
erything yon read tn the newspapers,
but how few, oh, how few, will doubt
this! .
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Germans U minimised by the allies, who
to a close scrutiny and thorough search.
Hardware Co.
Easy Riding
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