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GRANTS PASS DAILT COl'KIER MONDAY, JAM Ai;V (I. II; IH. PAGR TWO Bum m ww Published Dally Ewiept Saturday A. K. VOORHIES, Pub. and Propr. Bntared at postoffloa. Grants Pass, Ora as second class mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES THanlav anlM. TIAT inch. " 15C Local-personal olumn, per Une..lOo Badra. nar line u.i So DAILT COURIER . 1 inall or carrier. Der Tear 16.00 Bt mnll or carrier. ner month .60 . WEEKLY COURIER By mall, per W .$2.00 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Proas is exclusively nimA n thm naa for rflrnnbtication of all news dispatches credited to It or all- otaerwiae oreauea in uh paper and also the local news pub Mabed herein. ' All rights ot republication of spe cial aispatcnes nerein are uh reserred. MONDAY, JANrARY , 1818. OREGON W BATHER Fair, continued cold; light -f easterly win da. . t WK GUARANTEE IT ttENTlNH EASTERN RICE WW corn KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY : : , " i. QUALITY FIRST nationalised, as the Dardanelles and Bosporus are expected to be. THE PILLARS OP HERCULES The demand of Spain for the re turn of Gibraltar calls up ancient sea memories. That famous rock, held by the British for more than two centuries, is one ot two twin promontories that have guarded the entrance of the Mediterranean since the dawn of history. The other, now called Ceuta, stands 10 miles distant, on the (tip of the Moroccan peninsula, marking the apex of the African continent. The ancients called them the ."Pil lars ot Hercules." According to the old myth, Hercules, the Greek demi god, bad. pushed them apart to make the wide, ' deep channel through which the waters of the Mediterran ean mingle wfth those of the Atlan tic. Like the myths, it doubtless shadowed forth a truth. Geologists say that Africa and Europe . were once Joined at this point by a rocky ridge. To the old Greeks those "pillars' marked the limits of the known world. In Homer's time the ocean beyond them was a Tague region of table and terror. If the Phoenicians the Britons ot antiquity were ever accustomed to venturing through them, they left little record of their adventures. Until shortly before the Christian era, therefore, Gibraltar marked the jumplng-off place of civilization. Now that little strait is the world'i greatest gateway of commerce and communication. 'And Great Britain guards it, as she guards most of the world's important eea gates, domi nating the strait from the fortified rock which has become in every civ ilized land a synonym of invincible strength. Spain asks for that rock, on the ground that it is geographically part of the Spanish peninsula. In asmuch as the accepted peace plat form is concerned with the racial rights rather than geographical tra ditlons, it is not likely that much at tendon wilj be paid to the request. Gibraltar is but a tiny place, only a couple of square miles in extent and it .Inhabitants, though speaking a sort of Spanish, have not been pre domlnantly Spanish tor 200 years The place is pretty thoroughly An glicise. . Moreover, the, world . is pretty, well , persuaded tha Great Britain -lias not .abused her. use . of the famous "pillar," and can be trusted better ' than Spain can if it is . regain,' under any,? particular nt?pnJ,sj;dinWp.j . ,.t.-.t If. Britain should glva np (Jibraltarj the strait should of want be inter- WAR SPIRIT TO MAKE PEACE . In one ot his speeches in England President Wilson told of the remark of a friend of his, "When peace Is conducted in the spirit ot war, there will be no war." And isn't it the truth? It nations gave to the promotion of peace one hundredth aa much devotion, effort and money as they give to the prose cution of wars once started, surely there would be mighty few wars. And if a tithe of thought and fore sight that statesmen have . hitherto given to preparing for wars and fighting wars were given to the con struction ot guarantees against war between timer, would there be any wars at ail? The" whole world knows how the statesmen ot the allied nations found a practical way to pool their own thinking machinery and their countries' resources when it came to a question of international units or destruction. They formed a league of armed nations, in complete co operation, and so defeated Germany and saved the world. Is there any reason why a similar spirit and effort cannot now devise a plan that will stop all such catastrophes hereafter before they start? COL. THEO." ROOSEVELT DIES (Continued treat page 1.) OCEAN OF PEACE WANTED Hundreds of thousands ot pounds of T X T, one of the high explosives much used during the war, have been dumped into the sea off the coast of New Jersey, in accordance with an order ot the railroad administration. This deadly stuff by the car load has been a standing menace ever since the armistice was signed. .Now some of it has been shipped abroad and . the rest of it is disposed of In the simplest manner known to man. It, is a great pity, that every menace which war involves cannot be Just as simply and easily eliminated. The world has no more desire to be torn to pieces by war than to be blown up by T 51 T. The sooner the peace conference gets together and determines upon a policy wide enough and deep enough to swallow the disputes of the world as the sea swallowed up the explosives, the bet ter for all concerned. PAYING IP Congress, It seems, authorized ex- penditures for fighting Germany to the, tune of $55,000,000,000. The signing of the armistice made pos sible various reductions bringing the total down to something like $33, 500,000,000. This is more than $300 for every man, woman and child in the United States. If the paying of this vast bill were divided according to popu lation Instead of according to tax paying ability, how many families would have to work and pinch for years to foot the bill. But even so,, would any true Am erican begrudge his slaving and pinching and paying? This Is a na tion of good spirits, and gladly will Its citizens pay the piper tor making the Germans dance., Qulf Your Spattering, To prevent an automobile spatter lag mud upon pedestrians there has been Invented a flexible metal Hag to be attached close to a tire.' Thus Roosevelt, sometimes called a man of destiny, served tor seven years as the nation's chief magis trate. In a subsequent decade the fortunes ot politics did not favor him, for, again a candidate for pres ident this time leading the progres sive party which he himself had or ganized when he differed radically with some of the policies of the re publican party in 1918 he- went down to defeat, together with the republican candidate, William How ard Tatt. Woodrow Wilson, demo crat, was elected. Col.' Roosevelt's enemies agreed with bis friends that his life, his character and his writing represent ed a high type of Americanism. Of Dutch ancestry, born in New York City on October 27, 185S, In a house In East Twentieth street, the baby Theodore was a weakling. He was one of four children who came to Theodore and Martha Bulloch Roosevelt. The mother was ot southern stock and the father of northern, a situation which during the early years of Theodore, Jr. 'a boyhood was not allowed to inter fere with the family life of these children during the Civil war days. So frail that he was not privileged to associated with the other boys In his neighborhood, Roosevelt was tu tored "'privately, "in. New York " and during travels on which bis parents took the. children abroad. A porch gymnasium a( his home provided him with physical exercise with which , he combatted a troublesome asthma. His father, a glass Import er and a man ot means, was his con stant companion;, he kept a diary; he read so much history and fiction al books of adventure that be was known as a bookworm; he took box ing lessons; he was an amateur na turalist; and at the age of 17 he en tered Harvard University. There, be was not as prominent as some others In an athletic way, as it Is not recorded that he "made" the baseball and football teams, but his puny, body had undergone a meta morphosis and before graduation he became one of the champion boxers of the college. This remarkable physical development was empha sized by something which took place shortly after he left Harvard In 1880. He went to Europe, climbed the Materhorn, and as a result was elected a member of the Alpine Club of London an organization of men who had performed notable feats ot adventure. A few months after his gradua tion, iRoosevelt married Miss Alice Lee, of Boston. She died in 1884, leaving one child, Alice, now the wife of Representative Nicholas Longworth, ot Ohio. In 1886 Roose velt married Miss Edith Kermlt Ca row, of New York, and to them five children were born Ethel, now the wife of Dr. Richard Derby, and four sons, Theodore Jr., Kermlt, Archi bald and Quentln. The famous Rough Riders were organized by Leonard Wood and Roosevelt a band of fighting men the mention of whose name today suggests immediately the word "'Roosevelt.'' They came out of the west plainsmen, miners, rough and ready fighters who were natural marksmen, , and Wood became "their colonel and "Teddy," as he has be come familiarly called by the public, their lieutenant-colonel. In company with the regulars of the army they took transports to Cuba, landed at Santiago and were soon engaged in the thick of battle. Among the' pro motion which this hardy regiment's gallantry brought about were those of Wood to brigadier-general and Roosevelt to colonel and this title Theodore Roosevelt cherished until j the end. Some of the .Rough Riders i formed the" military escort' when he was elected president a few years later. I Vhon Cuba -had been liberated, Roosevelt returned to Now York. A gubernatorial. ,. campaign was. tu swing, with the republican pnrty in need ot a capable candidate Roose velt was nominated. Van Wyck, Ills democratic opponent, was defeated. The reforms Roosevelt had favored as assemblyman ho now hud the op portunity to consummate, together with others of more importance and It wns during this administration that he tu 's.i'd first to have earned the hostility of corporations. "When the republican convention' was hold In Philadelphia In 1900 hla party In New York state demanded and attained his nomination for vice president on the ticket with William McKlnloy. In November of that year this ticket was elected. At the height of his publlo and political career, during tha four years of the terra for which he was elected, Roosevelt accomplished achievements which historians will rank high In the International and Industrial progress of the country. They Included his influential nego tiations which, conducted at Ports. mouth, N. H effected peace between Russia and Japan; maintenance of the Monroe Doctrine at a period when European powers were Inter ested In the affairs of Venezuela; the recognition of Panama as a re public and his treaty with Panama by which the inter-oceanlo canal through that country was put under way; and the settlement, through his moral Influence in the face of a situation in which there was no ade quate federal legislation of the Penn sylvanla coal mine strike. For bis part In terminating the Russo-Japanese conflict he was awarded the tha Taft polleles -qulokly .-rallied tiilow waa e.itred hi family's participation In too war. ins four sons and Ills son-lit-luw, Dr. Derby, cnrrlod nut a prediction made by the former president beforo the I'nltod Amies took up arms - that If war came they would enter service. Roosevelt's support. Roosevelt as sembled wha he formed a count mo tive Ideas as opposed to the cotisor Yiitlve ones of the so-tnllod repub lican "Old Guard." characterized thorn with the description "Progres sive" and organized the progressive party by , withdrawing with his fol lowers from the Chicago convention ot 1911. He became the new party's candidate for president. This split In the republican ranks resulted In Woodrow Wilson's election. One of tho niowt dramatic. Inci dents In Roosevelt's life occurred during tnis campaign. As no was leaving a hotel. In Milwaukee, to go to a meeting hall to make a political address, a man standing among the spectators In the street fired a shot which struck the colonel and smash ed a rib. Roosevelt Insisted he was not seriously hurt and his automo bile conveyed him to the hall. There he spoke to an audience which had knowledge of what had happened sobbing women and grave-faced men shaken with emotion by his ap pearance under such circumstance. Examination ot the wound showed It was serious and tho candidate was hurried by special train to Chi cago for treatment. Though he speedily recovered tho bullet was never removed. The assasln was sent to an asylum for the insane, With the re-election of Mr. Wil son, and America's entry Into the world war soon after, Roosevelt Im mediately supported the president and bitterly assailed the pro-Germans, pacifists and other type ot men who attempted to delay speed ing up the war. MISS ROSE SIDGWICK ! I - . i. i ' 9 , V y ' two With the I'nllafl Hlnlna . k.lll...... Nobel Peace prize In 1906. Four nan.nvmu .H.,n . ,.,, years later, once more a private clt- the eon,on. of ,ha . , zen. he was special ambassador to establish an army divMon whlrh from the United State, at the funer-; na waII nxlou, t0 take , mnre al of King Edward VII of England. Thl. division was . h. .,!..,...,. A rirt in the friendship between many of the Rough Riders who Roosevelt and hts successor as pres- were his associates In the campaign ident. William Howard Taft, led to In Cuba, and younger men of the the former's announcement of his same strenuous habits. The nnn... opposition to Mr. Taffs renomlna- sary permission for the formation of tlon. The ex-president's Influence such a force was no forth coming ..u ,rK m placing Mr. Tart even though Roosevelt expressed In the White House. Now his In- willingness to accompany It as a fluonce was equally strong in pre- subordinate officer, ventine Mr Tnr .fmn, ..... . ..wmi a c-iiiniuiUK Iteniarl ttia n.l ..1 1 .. fI;T;; there. Mlsc Rose Sldgwlck. one of the women members of the British sdue tlenal mission to the United State , Is leeturer In ancient history at tMl University of Birmingham. . Her lf polntment to this position more thasji ten ytars ago In competition with was oonsldsred most remarkable. Each Season Has Its Charms. Each aeniMin bus Its own outdoor charm, even winter, when hearf snow cover the earth. Reed Thar eau and John llurruugh and leads bow the tracks of small animals on the snow's surface show the life ot the woods and how the grace and Shadow of twigs, the beauty and vari ety of the seed x.d of weed and rh activity of birds cause the stroller ts forget the cold, while the tinkling ot small streams through a double mar gin of Icicles Is music to bis ears. PRINTING THAT PLEA3ES I '''') r " WE DO A id" IT .1. 1-