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About Grants Pass daily courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1919-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 30, 1919)
FACT TWO GRANTS PA88 DAILY COURIER TlirUHDAV, JAM AHY ;lt, !. GRANTS PASS DAILY COURIER Published Daily Except Sunday A. B. VOORHIES, Pub. and Propr. Xntered at po6tofftc, Granta Pass, Or., as second class mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Display space, per Inch .-15c LooaJ-Daraonal column, per line.. 10c Readers, per line 6c DAILY COURIER Br msll or carrier, per year $6.00 By mall or carrier, per month .60 WEEKLY COURIER By mall, per year $2.00 MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is excluslrely entitled to the use tor republication at all news dispatches credited to It or all otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. . All rights of republication of spe cial dispatches herein are also reserved. THURSDAY, JAXXARY SO, 1019. OREGON WEATHER , f Fair: gentle southerly winds. BACK PAY FOB WHAT? The Eugene Guard, a "good old dyed-in-the wool" democratic news paper, hands the war department this little package: One hundred and thirteen con scientious objectors, liberated through the big-heartedness of some high official in the war department, were recently given their freedom from Leavenworth prison, given a suit of clothes and walked away with between $400 and $500 In the pockets of each. Back pay for what? Back pay for proving themselves slackers In the time when the nation's best men were offering their lives for the flas that meant home and liberty to them? Back pay for the "streak of yellow" that permeated their sys tems and the Bolshevism that di seased their brains? - On the surface it would look as though the. war department were placing a premium on disloyalty and opening a path for these "martyrs" of a false creed to flaunt their sneaking principles in the faces of the men who have answered the call to arms and "get away with it." Far better that we should empty . the cells of our civil prisons, pre sent each and every convict with a robe of purple and enthrone them in public office with unrestricted control of public moneys in their hands. The effect would be far less . marked on the morale of the nation. As it is we feed them, clothe them and present them with "back pay" for defying the laws of the United States and their sympathizers which are few crown them with glory. And yet, the pleas of fifty mil lion people for a square deal for the boys returning from "over there" are being put aside as though un heard. WHY ABSOLVE FORD? Charging that Ford "Eagles" are structurally so defective as to make them veritable death traps, Harry Leroy, construction instructor at the plant of Ford Eagle Shipping Co., has resigned. Vital parts, he says, have been left out of boats and 50 per cent of rivets were burn ed and spoiled. He absolves 'Henry Ford of blame, saying efforts he had made to bring knowledge of condi tions to Ford had been foiled by "lackeys." Boston News Bureau. Not to be outdone by the strikers at the northwest shipyards, who are demanding higher wages, those fel lows elected and sent to the state legislature have introduced 19 sal ary increase bills. . Nothing queer nor unnatural about that. It seems to be human nature whether the party he a hod-carrier or state of ficial to get the most for the least. . The $100,000,000 asked for by President Wilson to feed the hun gry of Europe has been, granted by Pop Our Corn IT IS (iKXVIXE GLOBK 11RAX1 KINNEY & TRUAX. GROCERY QUALITY FIRST congress. Now that congress did its duty, it is up to Wilson, Lloyd George and Clemenceau to stop , the daily massacres by the Bolshevik! and Turks. Will they do It? Prob ably not they are too busy talking. BOOSTERS HAVE THEIR EYE ON THE TOURISTS Oregon will act as host this sum mer to the National Editorial Asso ciation as one of the results of the ( Is the way this new money that costs activities of the Pacific Northwest ns practically -nothing to get flows Tourist association. This body of a "S? lnt "r Uy- House Bill 76 calls tor another ap men and women Is made up of the propr,aUon t0 cover the conilng two brightest minds in the newspaper world and the results that will accrue from a publicity standpoint are be yond all computation. . During the past two years the tourist association representing Oregon, Washington and British Columbia has spent $112,000 to attract tourists to 'the Pacific Northwest and the results have been far beyond expectations when war conditions are taken into consideration. That Oregon has re ceived the greater benefit over the other commonwealths Is evident In the attendance at Crater Lake. There are 11 national parks in the United States and all but two showed a de crease in attendance except Crater Lake and Rainier National. Crater Lake showed an Increase of between 25 to 40 per cent and nearly 50,000 people visited Rainier National while all parts of the Pacific Northwest were included In the various phases of publicity. The total expenditure of the tour ists and vacation seeker per annum is not less than one billion dollars and it is to secure our fair share of this Immense revenue that this asso ciation exlBts. It Is safe to say that within a very short time the Pacific Northwest and It can be demonstrated by fig ures can derive from fifty to one hundred million dollars of actual cash from the encouragement of this travel. This cash remains In the Pa cific Northwest. It is not sent out for any raw' material, nor for any other commodity, but remains here to help every Individual citizen In the development of his business, and In the payment of his taxes and the tourist is absolutely the fore runner of the settler, the new Investor and the manufacturer. Travel by rail was discouraged last . voptlk wash surprised her. We guar year and as far as going abroad Is antes a, small bottle to benefit concerned there will be nothing do-, EVERY CASE weak, strained or In ing this year. The war Is over and the flamed eyes. National Drug Store. MRS. T. R., JR., AT AIX LES BAINS, FRANCE ; WSJ ' " 1-"r, MI4i N.w.p.txr Union In center of u' ove photograph fx Mik. Theodore Koosevelt, Jr. (knitting She recently returned to this country from Alx les Buius, one of the Y. M ( A. leave areas In France, where she was direetdr. POl-COKX people have the money and a desire to travel. We have so tar expended $112,000; to attract attention to the greatest asset we have and we only need to keep up the work to secure returns based on this expenditure far beyond the desires of the most avaricious. To illustrate: Ths Park to Park Highway association at a re cent meeting In Spokane reported 10,000 machines entering Spokane over the Yellowstone highway with an average of four in a machine. Suppose these machines were gath ered together In Spokane In one day. You know what It costs you to travel. Take this amount and multiply It by 40,000 and look at the total and this years, for the same amount asked for two years ago and dependent up on Washington and British Columbia following with the same amount they gave previously. No appropria tion has secured more for Oregon or been better administered. The work Is under the constant attention. of some of our leading business men who give their time free of charge and pay their own expenses when attending the meetings of the board of directors. The state revenues are used to de velop every other asset, either by maintaining departments, enforce ment of laws, maintaining -Institu tions, and the building of roads and bridges and the simplest way to In crease these revenues Is by a devel opment more potent than any (hati has gone before which will result In the coming here of thousands of men and women, who will see us, as we are and who will In a large measure either remain permanently or leave their money for Investments. Dutch Cleanser Is 'wonderful for black stains. During his sojourn In Holland it would be well tor WI1 helm to try It on his conscience, Good Reports 1 . Please Grants Pass There has never been anything with the QUICK results of pure La voptlk eye wash. One man's eyes were so badly strained he could not read without pain. TWO applies tlons of Lavoptlk relieved him. A I lady na(i tried three different glasses for weak, Inflamed eyes. ONE La SOLDIER LETTERS Norut. CtirtMy In tioniuuiy A. K. F Germany, Docombor 28, 118. Doar Folks: Have had a lonely Christmas this year, but It Js one I will never for get. Have been In Germany for (several duys and expect we will be hore for some time yet. Wat In Belgium several days, theu ,rame here. All of Europe looks the same to me and I am sure tired of the whole works, and I will bo glad when I get home. Then I will have to start whore I left off as this war bus put all of us fellows who have been In nearly two years back about six years In reality. Of course. 1 have had lota of good experience but that doesn't get a guy a meal ttckot. Must close, hoping all had a merry Christmas. Love to all. FRED. SERGT. FRED CHRISTY, 1st class. Co. D, 56th Tel. Bat., Slg. Corps., Ilerttvrt (inrluun Heard From The following la the first loiter received by Mr. and Mrs. H. M. Gor ham, of Wlnoua, from their son, who enllsteM lu April, 1917, and left over seas last February. The letter was received a few weeks ago: Dear Folks: Just back from southern France on a seven day furlough. Have been gone 14 days. Fouud a letter ad dressed to the C. O. It Is the third one I have received from you since I have been over here. I have writ ten on an average of once month since I have been here and 1 don't see why you didn't got some of them and then I have sent different things home besides. I wonder If you have received any of them. 1 had a wonderful time when I was on my furlough. I sent a bunch of pictures homo from the places i vis lted, so If you get them you can see what kind of a looking city and sur rounding country I was In. 1 hope they get there as I want to .keep them. I gues from the looks of things It Is all over over here. Don't know when we start back but I hope It will be soon as I have had enough of this country. .... There Isn't any use of worrying about me as If anything should hup pen you would have been notified long before you could get a letter from me. The weuther Is cold here, wet and nasty now. You want to keep your eye on the papers for when the 27th Aero Squadron gets back they will sure be some bunch of wild men. Well, there Isn't mnch to write about here. Can tell you all about everything when I see yon. I only hope It Is a short time when we start. Will close for this time Your son, BERT. HERBERT M. CORHAM, Jr., Chauffer, 27th Aero Squadron. Whether you be laboring man or capitalist, this Is your country and It Is going to be up to you to decide whether you stay with American tra- dratlons and principles. DAILY HEALTH TALKS A Single Remedy Often Cures Many Diseases BY VALENTINE HOTT, H. D. 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