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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 . ,),.
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