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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 1018
OREGON WEATHER
f Fair; gentle northerly winds.
A TICKLISH PROBLEM
If the measure at Washington to
prohibit foreign immigration for
four years following the war he
comes a law, watch Japan jump Into
the air.
The country Is full of "experts,"
some of whom insist that there is
no danger whatever from immigra
tion, and others of whom insist that
. the country is about to be deluged
and ruined by a great immigrant
wave, unless remedial legislation is
quickly adopted. There are those
who want to keep some Immigrants
out, and those who want to keep
them all out, and those who want
to deport all resident aliens who
have not applied for citizenship, and
many other shades and varieties of
"antis." As for friends of the immi
grant, they are few and comparatlve
ly silent.
The one sure thing Is that out ot
all this discussion and emphatic In
sistence there Is going to come a
more drastic regulation of immigra
tion than we have had heretofore.
That is the only natural, logical
thing. The United States cannot af
ford to be made a dumping ground
for Europe's human wreckage, when
the war Is over. It cannot afford to
welcome the social and political dis
turbers to ply their menacing trade
here. And very emphatically, it can
not afford to countenance Bolshe
Tlsm. A REAL ENIGMA
England is having a strenuous
time in returning girls, who have
been earning from $18 to $20 per
week as war workers, back to their
old jobs as domestics at $3 and $4
per week. Many of the girls will
return to the old regime through
patriotic motives, but others will
teel, or imagine they feel, a bitter
sense of wrong, and may become a
menace to many an Industry. About
the same 'conditions prevail In Amer
lea. If girls who do "house work'
were paid a decent living wage, that
would go far towards solving the
problem of what to do with the girl
workers. In England, as In America,
the "hired girl" has never received
her Just dues. She has had to cook,
wash dishes, scrub and attend to the
"kids" known to her mistress as
"the little angels" for a mere pit
tance, not enough to buy a second-
class complexion at the corner drug
store.
MEANING OF WORDS
A diplomat now explains that
"open diplomacy" means that the
common people will be given all the
facts of secret intrigues after the
big pow-wow Is over. That's en
lightening, if not satisfactory, and
judging from the five-day . closed
. sessions and one "visitors' day"
each week at Paris, the said diplo
mat knew what he was talking
about. - There Is considerable In
knowing the true meaning of a word.
''Open' diplomacy" means that the
For Emergency
SANITARY
IIM'KIIERRIKS
SWEET POTATOES
KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY
QUALITY FIRST
proceedings of the peace conference
will be spread out before us as an
open book after the "framing" has
all been concluded. History reveals
that all big circuses like the one at
Paris are run on the same principle.
Possibly world democracy means
that the people must meekly abide
by any decisions made at such closed
conferences. Maybe this Is the 15 th
point
WHY NOT STOP IT?
The Turks and Tartars have Just
staged another big massacre of in
nocents, while the Bolsheviks are
murdering, burning and looting, un
hampered. It Is hard for we people
in the United States to understand
how those heads of the great nations
in peace congress assembled at Paris
can sit and talk while such whole
sale murders are repatedly com
mitted. It makes one wonder If the
old saw, "every man for himself
and the devil take the hindmost" Is
still the order of the day. If it is,
periBh the thought for the elimina
tion ot future wars.
HERE'S TO NUNN
"Paving trust plans war on State
Highway Engineer Xunn," reads a
dispatch from Salem. Here's to
Xunn may he live long and never
waver. It is said that the Warren
Construction company is determined
to get Xunn's scalp. JiiBt why the
paving trusts should be tolerated at
all is hard to conceive. It Is time
the legislators were using knock-out
drops on the trusts, thereby winning
the approval of the voters. The
great road construction era about
to be launched In Oregon should not
be hampered by paving trusts.
The members of the legislature
who have just visited the old sol
diers' home at Roseburg pronounce
that institution in first class order
and condition. A feather In Com
mandant Markee's cap.
Favored by Nature.
The largest tongue In the world In
proportion to Its owner's size Is that
owned by the North Queensland
hawk-moth, which sports a length of
six sod a half Inches, although there
Is a long-horn beetle a little higher up.
In New Guinea, which has horns meas
uring 17 Inches.
Many Bitten by Dogs.
Health department records at
Akron, O., for October show that at
least 160 Akron people were bitten
by dogs during the month. All ot
those bitten stood In fear of hydro
phobia. In consequence It became
necessary for the brains of many dogs
to 'be examined for rabies.
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The Student
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TO BE REGULAR HERO
A Red Cross photographer at an
outing given to some of the Ameri
can wounded In 'London, was looking
around for pictures which would in
terest the folks at home, when he
saw a good looking Yank wearing
the ribbons ot several decorations
on the breast of his blue flannel hos
pital suit.
"There's a subject," said the pho
tographer to himself. "Wounded
American hero still smiles," and he
set out to track down his man, who
nad jugt disappeared in a crowd of
merrymakers.
After a search the camera man
was successful. "Have my picture
taken? Why. sure!" said the sol
dier, and he obligingly posed for sev
eral photographs.
"Now tell me what your decora
tions are," said the camera man, "I
don't recognize them."
"Oh, those," said the boy with an
odd little laugh. "I Just bought those
at a candy store!"
The photographer, laughed as
heartily as anyone, saying later, as
he Droduced the pictures, "Well
decorations or no decorations.
guess a picture of any one of our
boys 1b good enough tor the folks at
home."
But the next day the photographer
showed the picture to a military
man. "Why, those are no canay-
store ribbons," said the officer,
Those represent four Tery high
rank French and Belgian decora
tlons, indicating that the soldier has
distinguished himself on the French
and Belgian fronts. You want to
watch out for those modest fellows!'
Red Cross Bulletin.
MRS. MEDILL M'CORMICK
Mrs. Medill McCormick, wife of the
cenator-elect from Illinois, has been
made chairman of a Republican wom
an's national executive . committee
which will have headquarters In Washington.
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SOLDIER LETTERS
Karl WkIIjx'o Wannil "lUvrt War"
Erl K. Wallace, who Is serving
In the H 1st Aero Squadron writes
to his mothor, Mrs. T. E. Wallace,
ot this oily, telling how ho celebrat
ed his birthday "over there." For
tear he would be donlod seeing "real
war" he secured a pass and wnt to
the front. The letter In part fol
lows:
I'm In the Fourth pursuit group ot
the second army, station at Toul,
Aerodrome No. 1, and have - been
hore since the 19th of October. Wo
were In action only a short time and
ont of all the time I've been here I
was under shell fire only twice. The
first time In England when a Ger
man sub shelled Dover. One of
their shells struck a house and klljed
a woman and chtld and crippled an
other child. This was the only real
damage. At the same time they
sunk 11 or 13 fishing boats, which
were unarmed. Perhaps you read
about It along last March.
The last time was on my birthday
I got a pass for a town about 20
miles In the opposite direction from
the lines, so I left early In the
morning and walked out to the
crossroads. I had walked but a mile
when a -truck overtook me, and as
luck would have It, they were going
near to the lines as a truck coijld
go. which was about three mllos
from the third line trenches.
The roads were lined on each side
with burlap and painted all sorts of
colors. After leaving the truck we
walked Into the town Pont-au-Mous-
son. It sure was a wreck ot a town.
Passing through one street you could
see things just as tho people left
them. I looked Into one house and
It happened to be a millinery shop
All of the lints were on the shelves
or on the floor. In the bedroom tho
bed hadn't been disturbed.
At the end of the street we came
to a bridge' over the Moselle river.
We crossed and came to headquar
ters of tho negro division. We
got by there O. K. We walked be
tween the first and second ' line
trenches. It was here we had our
first trouble with an M. P. or guard
He stopped us and wanted to. know
where we were going. And you had
ought, to have seen the look on his
face when I told him I came up to
see a little of the war. Then I told
him I had been In England most o
the time. He told me to wait a few
minutes, that a detail would be tak
Ine mess to the men In the front
lines so I stuck around and looked
over some shell, holes. They got
there about 3 p. "m. and when they
had passed I fell In behind. We had
walked about 100 yard and a shell
came over, with a peculiar sing, the
queerest noise I ever heard
It
struck the road about a 100 yard
behind lis.
The next came lots closor, and
when the next one exploded In a tree
right ahead of us the coons dropped
everything and beat It for the dug
outs. It sure was comical. They
were coming over at this time pretty
regular. One ot them exploded in
the road and left a hole big enough
to put a mule In. Our batteries
started In right back of us and talk
about a racket. Well, I lay dow
In the road and stayed there.
It was all over In about an hou
but there wasn't much of the road
left ahead of us. I sat right down
In the middle ot the road and let
the negroes have the dug-outs. That
ridge had been shelled so many
times you couldn't go any direction
without running Into a shell hole
I don't believe they were four feet
apart by the time we had climbed
to the top ot the hill. It was about
5 o'clock. I decided that I had seen
enough war and started for home,
and was very lucky In catching an
ambulance to our camp.
And now It Is rumored that we
are In the army of occupation and
that we are moving toward Germany
In a very sTiort time. It will be great
won't it! It is considered quite an
honor to be picked for that.
Wallace Coutont Visits Paris
St. Dizler, France,
Christmas Day.
Dear Folks:
Have spent this day waiting for
a train to take me back to my com
pany which I left a month ago.
The experience I have been
through wllj make a story of Its
own.
Will say that I have seen some of
Paris and vicinity; hence the short
letter and this note since leaving
Aix-Ies-Balns.
It has been cold and dismal and
have .loafed around the Y. M. and
Alnglnls Dames Hut all day long.
"'Lots ; of -love, - WAtiLACB.
CONGRESS DISCUSSES
Paris, Jan. 89. President Wilson
Is credited by the French press with
having brought forward during the
discussion ot the subject ot tho Uor-
man colonies the plan under which
they would be' placqd, so to speak,
under the . guardianship of the
league of Nations, which would ap
point one ot its members to admin
ister them.
Attontloh for the moment Is cn-
tereu cnioiiy on ine piun presenieu
by President Wilson for the Interna
tionalism . of the Gorman colonlul
possessions. This, Indued now Is
virtually monopolizing the attention
of the couucll, which has summoned
representatives of New Zealand, Aus
tralia and China Into the conference
hearings.
Premier Hughes claims German
New Guinea fur the Australian com-1
monwealth. while Now Zealand
clalins ttamoa. Japan ' desires the
Marshall and Caroline groups of Is
lands. A reported secret treaty bo-
ween England and Japan giving
Japan tho Islands north ot the equa
tor, stands In the way of tho Inter
nationalization plans; but It Is gen
erally bolltrvod that all secret treaties
will give way before the league ot
Nations. The Impression seems to
be that tho disposition of the Ger
man colonies will be finally arranged
by the five great powers without ref
erence to the peace conference at a
plonary session or to the various
commissions.
GENERAL DE MAUD'HUY
General Ue i. ..uu'..., i&u ecen ap
pointed governor of Met
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People
OrnH'ful thousands tell of It
Of wi-ak backs made strong
er weak kidneys made well
.Urinary disorders corrected.
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Grants Pass evidence Is now com
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llrnnts Pass testimony la confirm
ed; Heports of early relief substan
tiated. Merit doubly proved by test ot
time.
It a Grants Pans citizen etxtak.
Mrs. Amelia Lempke. 40a T
street, any
"I suffered from rheu
matic pains. There -were times when
I could hardly get around. I wsi so
stilt and lame. At night. I lay
awake for hours on account of the
pains, which went from one part or
my body to another 1 got up In the
morning so stiff and lame, It was
all 1 could do to keep up, I tried
many medicine and also used lini
ments, but without the slightest re
lief. I finally started taking Doan's
Kidney Pills. 1 was helped from the
first and almost before I knew It, I
was free from tho trouble." (State-
ment given In 1913.)
A lt4r Abatement
On March 20, 1916. Mrs. Lampk
said: "I am glad to confirm my for
mer endorsement of Doan's Kidney
Pills. 1 have never had anything
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Chase Procrastination.
A distasteful duty Is doubled by pro
rrastlnatlon. We suffer not only the
unpleasantness of the actual doing, bat
the srnrcely less discomfort of pro
ionginl dreading.
Mount Ararst Now s Republic
The iililiiiiliieeineiit of the fiirmnllon.
j ef "the ImVpentlflit llepulillc of Ars
nit" will liruxh nwiiy the fallacy which
reitnnlx Ararat n Juki ii iiimitiinln In
stead of n country nlliell the very
tiKiuiilnln on which Hie nrk rented
when the waters of the IMuue begun
I to nlinte. Genesis Is explicit eiiniik'h
to Inive prevented the mistake. It
mltthl he thought; It says quite dis
tinctly: "The ark rested llmn the
, mountains of Arnrut." In Its dny, Are-
rat was a itreat power. holding swsy
fur to the east and to the west. Dot
to western Kiimne Ararat bus long
been known as the place where the
iive nni iiui kim ine 1111 ve orancn ana
fi-iui uni nun in-r int-KniiKi- in wipe (p
the Ark.
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