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GRANTS PASS DAILY COURIKR Tt'KMII.W, KKIHU'AltY 4, 1019- r ACT TWO I ! A I III ERAHTS PASS DAILY COURIER "j Published Daily Except Sunday i A. B. VOORHIES, Pub. and Propr. 1 Entered at poatoffloe, Grants Pass, Ore., m second claaa mall matter. I ADVERTISING RATES Display ape.ce, per Inch....- ..15c Local-personal column, per Une..lOo Keadera, per line Be DAILY COURIER 1 By mall or carrier, per year $6.00 By mall or carrier, per month .60 WEEKLY COURIER By mall, per year :. $2.00 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press is exclusively entitled to the use tor republication of all news dispatches credited to It or all otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news' pub lished herein. AD rights of republication of spe cial dispatches herein are also reserved. TVESDAV, FEBRUARY 4, 1019. OREGON WEATHER OREGON Probably rain in west; rain or snow east, dimln- ' lshing westerly winds. VARIETY CATSUP WALXXT MUSHROOM MVSTAltn TOMATO KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY QUALITY FIRST ' THE "DRY MYSTERY" Is there any more remarkable epl sode in American history than the sudden sweep of national prohibl tion? The New York Tribune, comment ing on the ratification of the federal amendment with such celerity and unanimity, finds it a plumbless mys tery. There was nothing in contem porary politics or life, the Tribune holds, to explain any such action. "It Is as if a sailing ship on a windless ocean were sweeping ahead, propel led by some Invisible force." There was, indeed, not much vis ible and indisputable evidence that this movement was near so great a climax. Everybody recognized that prohibition sentiment had grown rapidly during the war, and Beveral states had joined the dry column. Still, some states had refused last year to step into line. Among the latter was California, whose legisla ture has now committed it to prohi bition within a few months of the popular repudiation. Economic considerations seem to have bad little effect. Great indus trial communities, hitherto regarded as naturally and permanently in fa vor of the liquor traffic, have turned against it. States with big cities have yielded about as completely as states with small urban populations. Self-interest failed to Interfere. "Whiskey states" like Kentucky, beer-manufacturing states like Ohio and Wisconsin and Missouri, wine growing states like California, have Voted dry along with the rest. Racial tradition and preference seem to have exerted just as little restraining, power. "German" cities like Milwaukee and Cincinnati and St. Louis, and cities like Boston and Chicago with large mixed foreign populations accustomed to moderate drinking, have! gone the way of more typically American communities. How explain it? The Tribune, even while calling it a mystery, sug gests the answer. "Perhaps our leg islators are right, and there is a strong, unseen, popular current to account for the phenomenon." There Is. It Is a current so strong that even state legislators, ungifted as' they often are in accurate reading of their constituents's minds, have caught this magnetic appeal from the general public mind an appeal just as definite and strong, though Intangible, as that in favor of a peace , league of nations and have been unable to resist It. May there be a similar "mystery" at Versailles In the matter of doing away with future wars. to make an honest effort to find em ployment elsewhere, but he Is not be ing forced. Any enlisted man wnose unit is being demobilised may hand In a written request to remain. He will then be retained until he ob tains civilian employment. His sal ary will be paid as usual, and it he is married his family will continue to draw its allotment of his pay. The men held over will be attached to to the most convenient units and used "where their services will be most useful." There is no lack of work to which these men might be put. If the bus iness situation should be such as to keep large numbers in the service, they could be utilized on a big scale in irrigation and drainage work, clearing forests, building . docks or dams and other activities of a con structive and conservational nature. MRS. BESSIE S. FERNALD THE JOBLESS SOLDIER It was a wise rule made last week by the war department permitting soldiers to remain in. the army until they can obtain civilian jobs: ' . . ; It amounts to letting the soldier decide when he will leave the' ser vice. He Is expected, presumably, 'J' I s T ' SOLDIER LETTERS Mrs. Bessie 8wift Fern a Id, daughter of the Chicago millionaire packer. Louis 8wlft, in her Red Crois uniform. For several months past she has been nursing the American wounded at Neuilly. i - DAILY HEALTH TALKS The Best Way to Treat Constipation BY 8. C. BABGOCK, M. D. The medical books name many drugs that will move the bowels. The drug store sneives are loaaea aown witn laxatives, purgatives and pills. The trouble with most of them is the after-effects. Con stipated people know that pills work all right for a little while, but they soon lose their effect, and a change has to be made to gometnmg else. . I he constant taking of pills results in a form of bowel inactivity that is difficult to cure. . The system be comes so accustomed to laxative drugs that the organs Just won't work without them, and so the pill habit becomes as bad as constipation itself. Dr. Pierce, of Buf falo, N. V., seems to me to have the right idea. He says the bowels should first be gently moved with Pierce's Pleasant Pel lets, and in the meantime laxative foods only should be eaten. Pigs, prunes, olive oil, spinach, bran, vegetables and fruits are fine for constipation. Chew every bite thoroughly, eat little meat, and be as active as possible. Now, doesn't that seem sensible? Pleasant Pellets will start the bowels working right: then it is up to you to keep them right by right eating. Try Pleasant Pellets for sick headache, coated tongue, biliousness, dizziness, tor pid liver or to break up a cold. They are just fine! ? .. Dr. Pierce's Anodyne Pile Ointment soothes, cools and heals piles in a most gratifying way. Perhans there is no other remedy for this torturing trouble that relieves so surely and quickly. Dr. Pierce believes Anodyne Pile Ointment will over come any case that caiv.be overcome by medical treatment.- Try it rieht now. Dr. Pierce's Anuric Tablets are intended for people who suffer from kidney dis orders whose backs ache, and whose systems are overrun with uric acid. Nearly everybody has too much uric acid. Anuno Tablets dissolve uric acid quickly, as they are made double strength. ; Labut. Franca, December 28, 1918. Dear Folks: - :. well, Christmas Is all over and I took a couple of days off and went to Mont de Marsauis, a burg about 20 miles from here, to celebrate. It rained part of the time but I enjoyed the stay Just the same. I don't know how large a place It Is but think about 20,000. It Is hard to estimated these French towns they spread out over so much territory. I went to one of the swellest ho tels in town for my Christmas din ner.! I had: soup, olives, salad, caul iflower, beefsteak, chicken, mashed potatoes, bread and oranges. It cost me $1, which is a very reasonable price here. I haven't received my Christmas box yet, but a good many of the other .boys haven't so I think I will get it all right. I took my furlough in a wonder ful place called Moule Dore. It is in the mountains about the town- all higher than around Grants Pass, and closer. It is a famous mecca for tourists and sporting people. In the Casino, now the Y. 3S. . A. headquarters, there is a large gamb ling room where the sports used to throw away their francs. The hotels there are among the largest and fin est In France and I got my share of the accommodations. The govern ment pays all the bills. The town had only lately been opened up to ths soldlors and I was one of the first to arrive. On the way up tUore I stopped In Bordeaux about two hours to wait for a train and as I was watking along the main street of the city 1 ran across 2nd Lieut. Geary Mc Crackon of Grants Pass. I walked up to him, saluted and shook hands, but didn't have much time to talk to I him as I had to report back to the depot "tout suite." He said he was on his way to Tours. v I am feeling fine I think this army lire has toughened me up lot I think you had better fix up place In the woodshed or barn tor me to sleep tn when I get home. have slept on nothing hut boards or a cement floor for a long time now The best bed I have struck was tn a Frenchman's barn with straw un der me after a three days and two nights ride in one of those 40 men or 8 horse cars. It was a Rita Carl ton hotel compared to a box car. .We have nothing reliable as to when we are going home but It can't be too soon for me. If I stay here until February 26th though, I will got my second foreign stripe. Your loving son, ED. PVT. EDWARD F. PARKER. ISth Co., 20th Engineers, American Ex. Forces, France. 1918 Ford Imo tor perfect, new tirei 1918 Ford in fire ihape Nearly new Ford with new Amesbilt .body - - -Ford Bug - - - - ' -1914 Ford - - - - - $450 $425 $650 $300 $325 C. L. HOBART CO. TAKES ADLER-I-KA! "I had serious' bowel and liver trouble. 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