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PAGE TWO GRANTS PASS DAILY COUUKR TH.SDAY. JANTAltY St, HHI. Will PASS MM COURIER Published Daily Except Sunday A. . VOORHIES. Pub. and Propr. Entered at poetofflce, Q rants Pass, Ore,, as second class mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Display apace, per Inch ...15c Local-personal column, per llnclOe Readers, per Una 5c DAILY COURIER By mail or carrier, per year.... $6.00 By mall or carrier, per month .50 WEEKLY COURIER By mall, per year . $3.00 MEMBER OF, ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to it or all otherwise credited la this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. All rights of republication of spe- . dal dispatches herein are also respired. Eventually Bat Not Now COFFEE PRICES WILL COMK DOWN In I lie Mount i mo Ol'R PVRK CtHXU WILL IK) YOIT GOOD KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY QUALITY FIRST TUESDAY, JANUARY 21. I19. OREGON WEATHER Rain; increasing southeast- 4 erly winds. . THE STARVATION FUND The opposition to the $100,000,- 000 appropriation asked for by the president to teed starving friends in Europe did not emanate trqm Amer ican homes. 'It was not found iu public gatherings. Citizens discus sing the matter, in private or public would have been ashamed to look, in one another's faces and condemn so generous an action. The opposition was found only in the halls of con gress. I Congressmen went out of their way to discover obstacles. Some of them questioned the constitutional ity of the measure. An ordinary po litical "pork bill" might be legal enough, but it was held a dangerous innovation to vote money for keep ing alive through the winter certain brave and worthy foreign popula tions which are in desperate straits w and incidentally damming with food the advancing wave of anarchy, which threatens all Europe, and in directly all the world. So this fine and wise philanthropy, suggested by the world food administrator and re commended by the president, was hedged about with legislative difficulties. j nose aimculties suddenly van ished. They are swept away by a sudden wind, blowing fresh from the source of all authority In America. The obstructive congressmen beard from home. It was another striking demonstra tion of the power of public opinion. .eer was me pud;ic mma more keen and expressive than it is today, and never were lawmakers and exe cutives more conscious of their rep resentative function and more docile in obeying instructions. Those would-be strikers at Seat tle demand $S a day while the help ers men with practically no skui are demanding $6 a day. Agitators are certainly attempting to put a dis count on brains, for many men In clerical work and others holding po sitions that required several years study to attain are receiving much less than that. The I. W. W. would hare ns revert to the stone age, when the man' who could swing the biggest club got the lion's share. KI N OX IXCLE SAM'S RANK There has been a run on the Unit ed States bank lately. That is to i.ay, on the postofflce, say a report from the east. Postmasters In many cities report a regular siege on the part ot people seeking to cash their war savings stamps. There are long lines before the windows. In some places men and women with stamp books in their hands have waited for hours to draw their money. Exu-a clerks have been assigned to the work, because Uncle Sam holds it a point of honor to take care of all such demands and pay without question. Any other policy would be dangerous. aii uese depositors, of courae, have not questioned the solidity and trustworthiness or the government bank. They have been drawing out their money because they wanted it for some purpose or other. The un fortunate thing about it is that most of these purposes were really un necessary, and that the depositors by their thoughtless action have been undoing a great deal of the fine work done during the last year or two in developing thrift. There seems to be a general lm preasion that, with the war over, the government does not need the money any more, ami so the depositors might as well take it back. The Im pression is absolutely false. The war expenses still go on, and will continue for a long time to come. And the men and women who with draw and spend their savings with out compelling reason are doing themselves an injury' as well as the government. SOLDIER LETTERS The radicals at the Chicago labor convention want to recall Samuel Gompers, president of the American Federation ot Labor, and give the Job to Thomas J. Mooney. Gompers' broad vision ot what is right and Just ddlsn't set well with the Reds. They want a genuine, dyed-In-the- wool anarchist to lead them. Beaume, France, Doc 7, 1918. My dear Father and Mother: It has been about a week since I have written home so will leave everything else tonight and let you know that we are both woll and get ting along fine and like the place where we are fine. We have moved around a good deal since we landed, but are at a, camp of our own now and have opened up our own hospit al. We certainly are glad to go to work again after traveling around and being bumped from one 'place to another for the last six weeks. It Is alright for a while but gets very tiresome when everything Is always in confusion, as It Is bound to be when traveling in France. We are allowed to tell a little more about our trip' now as the cen sorship isn't as strict as It need to be, so will tell a little more about it now. We were on the water ele ven days and I enjoyed the entire trip with the exception of three or four hours when I . was sick. The third day out it hit me and I was miserable for half of an afternoon, but straightened up fine after I went to the rail in a hurry Just -once. There were sixteen ships all together in the convoy, two of them being Klin bouts. All these tihlps ntllcd close together and that helped to nmko the voyage more pleasant n we know that we wero not ultino. Wo lost a ship Iu the fog one nlnlit ami had to travel slow the next day while the gun boat stepped out tthey can travel so much ranter than the transports) and brouijht her back. When wo wore a couple of tluys from land a large convoy ot destroyer camo out and mot us and took us throiiKh the dangerous wntors, We went up north or Scotland and came down through the channtl and that certainly looked good to us ns wc wore tired of the water by that tlmo. We landed at Liverpool and went from there to South Hampton to an English rent camp. We stayed, at La Hnrve, France, 17 days and we never were so glad to leave any place as that camp. We landed in Franco the day the artnlstlre was signed and came from there to this town, a little place called Beaume, or the eastern boumlry In the central part of the state. Thoy say this Is the bost part of the stato, and hope that we will ho able to stay here quite a while. We may move on any time though as this Isn't permanent. 1 don't tool the way Morris Ho cock does about coming back to tho states. Now that the war is over we are anxious to sea some of this country and then when we have seen that, I tor one can't get back to the old U.S.A. too so n. I have'nt fallen In love with France nor I won't either., no matter how long we stay here. We have a hard time when we try to speak with the nati ves. We have a number of them working for ns. Every organization here employes them as they can be gotten so cheaply. The girls and wo men work In the kitchens as K.P. We -are going to handle only con valescents and may get 1500 or 2000 so you see the cooks and K.P. have some Job feeding them. It makes the doctors and the ward men's work light. I have nothing to do with tho ward work here as I am In the de tachment office now as the 1st ser geant and certainly have been kept busy. You ask me to explcla something about my work In your last letter, but cannot tell you much by letter. You ask the recruiting officer there what are the duties of the first ser- Koaut of a company mid lie ran toll you. Yes, there Is a difference be tween tho pay of a servant In Hie medical department r.nd tho Una. Ily tho line wo nman tho artillery. Infantry, cavalry, etc. A sorta'aut Iu tho line gats $3H per, and a iter Kcnnt In the medical department net 111 pur month. Tho Increase pay for forolgu service brings our pay up to $o1, A sergeant rii nt-clnnn gets $36 In the U. S. 'and about $05 hero. Thoro lire to ho some more promotions soon and I am going to try hard for It, ho you see that will ho pretty nice If I can land It. We don't know how much, longer wo will be In France and I don't think anyoue does yet as everything hasn't been settled yot as to who shall stay here aud who shall go home. Some no doubt may stay hero sometime yot. We were very lucky to got away from Kearney when wo did as tho flu sure did hit thoro shortly after wards. We have had many letters from there and many ot our old frlonda have died from that since we left there. While we were Iu Now York many ot our boys took sick and we, had to leave thorn be hind, but heard Inter that thoy all recoverod, and many of them hovo ctimo across Blnce. Wo had quite a number of patients with the flu on the boat but had good luck ns only one died. I had charge of the hoHpltal on the ship and was with the patients all tho time and thought I was lucky to come through without getting sick. It Is raining this afternoon but we don't mind It much, as we are pro pared for It now, which we surely were not when wo first camo. Wo had to fix up everything after we came here and now that wo are straightened around ho thnt we can stay here until we leave for tho U.S. Must quit now. Heaps of love, JUKL. 8BRGT. JUBL BKSTl'L, Base Hospital No. 00 A. P. O. 9n A. R F. rosnxa EVENTS Arteries of Co'mmcrc. Tho TtoiniuiM were tint iirent mnfl hnlldiTN of lilxtory. Itmdn were the goilem which mixtalnnd the vnxt iiior structure of llielr empire. When a now province was conquered It waa laced to thu empire with rue In. Over these hlghwiiya (hero poured Into Homo tho product of the four quar ters of the then known world Milk luces, birds, animal, tropical fruits and slaves. Anil out from Home pour ed tlx legionaries mid ths charlota. Tta Blending Praotlcal Monopoly. ' Tho IiiikIiio of tea blending Is p ' rullarly Ilrlllxli. For 1(10 years Mine- 1 Inn lane has Mended ten for the whole ! world mid brought tho work Into the region of an exact science, ' I Fob. 3, Monday Annual meeting stockholders of the Grants Pass Fruit asHoclatlon at 2 p. m. All kinds of ('nmmnr.ln' Prlmi,.. at the Courier Office. Daily Health Talks! GOING BACK TO NATURE. ' . i BT TR. W. LUCAS. i People got ilck because they go away from Nature, and the only way to get well la to go back. Something grows oal , of the ground in the form ol vegetation to curs almost every HI, Some of thee vegetable growths are understood by man, and some are not. Animals, it would seem, know what to do when they are tick better than men and women. Observers have noted that a tick horse, dog or eat will stop eating food and seek out tome vegetable) growth In ths Held or yard, which, whan found and eaten, often restores appetite and health. Haven't yon teen these) animal do this very thing yourself T Dr. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., long since found the herbs and roots pro vided by Nature to overcome constipa tion, and he had these vegetables col-' looted and made up of Mayapplr, loavrt) of Aloe, root of Jalap, Into little white sugar -coated pills, that lie called Dr. Pierce'l Pleasant PelloU. You mast understand that when your intestine are stopped up, poisons and decayed matter are imprisoned In your system, and these are carried by the blood throughout your body. Thus does yoor hcod ache, you get diity, yon can't sleep, your ikin may break out, yonr appetite declines, you gut tired and despondent. As a matter of fact, you may gel tick all over. Don't yon see how useless all this suffering iaf All that Is often needed is a few of Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets, which be hoi placed in all drug itores for yoor convenience and health. Try them by all means. They are probably tho very tiling you need right now. If all, government utilities are to become public property, who is going to pay all the extra taxes? And to run all the public utilities would re quire a great army of public officials, which would naturally make more taxes. Lot of room for thought on this subject. While prospecting near Valley Forge, Morris Barr found a sapphire and sent it to General Joffre as a present. The gTeat marshal prom ises to wear the gem Just as soon as he can throw aside his military uniform. President Wilson is not to be out done by the "stunts" of Theodore Roosevelt while the latter was abroad. While In Italy Wilson threw kisses to the crowd and led a band while it played the Italian national air. The statement of the state high way engineer that southern Oregon is the only place he can work a large force of men on the roads at the present time sounds good to Jose phlne county. Bobolink Restored to Favor. By reason of Its depredations on the rice fields, the bobolink was form erly rated the most destructive feath ered creature on this continent But the rice has moved away from the path of its migration, and on this account It has become almost harmless. Hence forward we may admire the protean bobolink without qualification, and. protected aguJnHt Its only important enemy, man, It will doubtless become a much more numerous species. Aerial Companies. Many dlfflcilltles hud to be overcome In the production of a satisfactory compnss for aerial work. Chief among these was that of neutralizing the mag netism of the engine (and In particular the magneto) and of preventing the effect of centrifugal force, which caused the card or dial inside the com paw to awing in a direction quite Inde pendent of north when the airplane was banking on a turn. However, a truly excellent compass Is now In use. All Undt Of lezsl hlnnk . ,),. Courier. WAR DEPARTMENT) s5 TH.l JU ' ' IIP III: v. 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