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PAGE TWO GRANTS PASS DAILY COURIER vi:i.m:siy. rKiua tnv ia. ibio IS PASS OAHY I Published Dally' Except Sunday" A. B. VOORHIES, Pub. and Propr. Entered at postofflce. Grants Paw. Ore., as second class mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES IManliT tce." Der inch........ -15c Local-personal column, per line.. 10c steadera, per line Bo DAILY COCKIER ' By mail 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 for. republication of all new dispatches credited to it or all otherwise credited in this paper and also the local news pub lished herein.' AU right of republication of spe cial dispatches herein are , also res erred. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 12, 1019 OREGON WEATHER " - Tonight, rain in west por- tlon. fair in east portion. Thurs- 4 f day, rain west portion, rain or snow east portion; increasing f southwest winds. 4 On Your Next Order Have a Can of BAKERS FRESH COCOANUT Grated" KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY QUALITY FIRST " f- MADE PEOPLE THEXK i' Everything points to private con trol of the railways under a national supervision wHIch shall do away with the nagging state commissions. No one expects that there will be a return to that system of competition which will result In business for one road and failure foe another. But the public yearns for that competi tion which will give us something approaching the good passenger and .freight service of .the old days., By all means unify the railway systems of the country, but see to it that the lead hand of government ownership does not palsy private energy. : 1 1L 1 - V Ha.UlUMI It mere TO m iuukiubc& uibuiuuuu to our country it is the postal ser-rleeC- The morale of the officials and employes is on a plane tar below that to be found in the private en terprises which did so much by their Unflagging energy to win the war. The postoffice department is a stand ard by which we may estimate the consequences of government owner ship. It is slow, dictorlal to the point of despotism, hopelessly en tangled in red tape and the em ployes have lost ambition. In the speedy deterioration of service on the railways we can see at work the same process which took the life out of our postal service. Given time, the decadence would re sult In an even more melancholy state than that which curses the postal department of the govern ment And yet McAdoo wants us to try federal control five years more. It is an admission that control up to the present has been a failure. is a plea for time in which to "make rnnH " What would become of some . of four Industries it federal control should continue to Impose on them the icy hand of decay and death? That the railways, with their bun dreds of ' thousands of. employes would develop into the biggest po litical factor in the country under government ownership, is hardly open to question. If congress should attempt to prevent this developmen it would be compelled practically to disfranchise the entire railway per sonnel. Even then the element of political influence on ft gigantic scale , would remain. V In one sense government control has been a good thing for the coun try. It has' made the people think highly of private ownership, or, speak more correctly; of ownership by the Investing public. Goodwin v Weekly. ' i And such an aim, ambitious as t appears, seems meant only as a step to greater triumphs. They hope to win the world for prohibition. In deed, some of the more enthusiastic representative - of the movement suggest so close a date as 1930 for such-a consummation. With all due respect for the good Intentions of these reformers, one may venture to give them a word of caution. They had better be temperate. There does not seem to be any good reason for injecting prohibition conspicuously into . national politics at this time. The victory is won. and tbe-issue is settled. The coun try is to go dry next January. Then and thereafter, it may safely be as sumed, any American who happens to occupy the White House will be a Prohibition President," enforcing the liquor laws fairly and vigorously. The country does not want a third party, interfering with the function ing of the governmental system that has been developed on a two-party basis, and the big parties now exist ing have plenty to occupy them along their usual lines of division. It is Just as well, too, to go a little slow about converting the rest of the world. The gospel of prohibition can be carried to Europe more effec tively after the United 'States has given it a thorough try-out. All this, It need hardly be added. is said in the utmost friendliness to the prohibition movement. It is na tural enough for . the prohibition workers to sigh for more worlds to conquer; but they are in danger of arousing resentment and hurting their own cause if, they throw the machine Into high and attempt to convert the world in a. day. , ! A PROHIBITION PRESIDENT? Leaders, of the anti-ealoon league, . flushed with, the success of their campaign for federal prohibition, are talking already of new .conquests. They propose to launch soon 'a cam palgn for- the. presidency, aljnlnsjo place in the executive chair, some. candidate who will stand "four square for prohibition."' SOLDIER LETTERS - r- - -, Fiorina J. Bauer With U. 8. Marines Florian 3. Sauer, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Sauer of this city, was! bom at Melrose, Minn., March 17, j 1897. He came to Grants -Pass with his parents In 1902 and after finish-' ing the grammar school attended high school two years. ' It was while : visiting in Minnesota that he enlist-: ed in the United States marines at. St. Paul. In 1916. After being sta tioned at Paris Island, on the Atlan-, tic coast, he was sent to San Domln-1 go, Hatl, where an Insurrection was, in full flare. j After the Insurrection was quelled, 1 Mr. Sauer was returned to Washing- j ton, D. C, along with a number ot other marines,, later being selected j among a few other marines to go to : Paris. He was then placed in anj executive office, where he served for , about nine months, but a naval cap-1 tain under whom he served took a fancy to him and took him back toj London, where he. Is. at the present ; time. - Mr.' Sauer had two other brothers in the service, both of whom were volunteers, but the younger brother, Leo, has been mustered out. Fol lowing are a few excerpts from Mr. Sauer's letters to his parents: San Francisco, Feb. 11. "I am cold and hungry." Mutely symbolis ing the suffering and voicing the ap peal of Serbia an enlarged photo graph of which this is the title hangs in the exhibition of official Serbian war pictures on display here. The photograph is that of a boy apparently eight or ten years old. His clothing tellB the story of priva tion through which his nation has passed in the four years of fighting. Instead of trousers, his legs sre covered by what, looks like gunny sacks tied at the ankles and brought together at the hips. Patches upon patches on his coat are eloquent of severest want. The hand Is raised In a pleading gesture which the pained expression on the face - ex plains. In place of the other hand there dangles from his tattered, coat sleeve the empty cuff of his shirt. f - .-.T5J7 Florian J. Saner Will iustmeh' V .-Policies;'' C 1BD- - St. Paul, Minn., Oct. 6, 1916. "In joining the marines I am get ting a job where I will have to stick I think that will do me good, as I am too independent' Santo Domingo, Hatl, April 16, 1917 "We left La Vega and hiked down here to the capital. We broke all records and made' it In three days: We had 16 pack horses to carry the chow. There were 80 privates and three officers. I am on the Memphis guard with 15 other privates and sergeant. The Memphis is a battle ship that was washed ashore, here last October. There is a salvage crew, working on it. They are tak ing off the 12 and 14 inch guns. They claim about 190 people were killed on it. There is a large rock etrick- 1 "Wo insure every Willard Hatter)' for 90 days from the date of purchase, provided the buttery is registered immediately at the nearest Willard Service Station. If any repairs are necessary during this period, the same , will be made without charge to tho owner. Recharging is not considered repairs and the owner is expected to pay for any recharging that may be necessary. . 2 During the fourth, fifth and sixth months of own ership, if a battery needs any repairs the 'same will be' made on a basis satisfactory to the customer. 3 During the seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh and twelfth months of ownership, if repairs are necessary the owner will be given the option of paying tho regular charge for the same or he may exchange tho old batterv for a new one by paying a fractional part of , the retail irice, based on the number of months of service received from the old battery. For example: If the battery has given eight mouths service, tho adjustment price for the new battery would be eight-twelfths (8-12) of the retail ' price. , 4 Willard Service Stations will keep dealers' stock batteries fully charged at a minimum cost to the dealer, and will register and accept responsibility for them under our service policv, provided they are not over six months old at the end of the storage period. 5 All questions concerning batteries which have not been registered or -which may have attained some age at the time the car- is delivered, arc to be settled in .the cus tomer's interest between the ear dealer and the Willard Service Station dealer. 6 Batteries shipped bone dry with the ears and pre pared by tho Willard Service Station at destination, will be registered by 'them at the .same time, Hone dry bat teries prepared by the dealer himself are to be registered at the nearest Willard Service Station in the regular way. 7 With motor car dealers located in places where there is no service station, the nearest station will make arrangements with the dealer "whereby all Willard ser vice and adjustment policies will be handled through the dealer. Dir.; Spark Through Service We Grow This boy was one of 30,000 taken , throueB the engine, room by the fleeing Serbian army in thewWch milM u impossible to move tragic Albanian retreat to prevent the adolescent manhood of Serbia falling into the hands of the enemy. He may have been one of the 6,000 boys who survived the rigors of that terrible mountain journey. The Serbian war pictures, which It has been announced are to be shown in the cities of the Pacific coast, and for which requests have been made by Canada and Australia, are by no means a grewsome and shocking lot of views. . Quite the contrary. Though they depict the dramatic story, of Serbia, showing the historic figures, an effort was the boat. It is about 10 yards from the shore. : . . , "Indications are that we will de clare war on Germany. I would like to see the U. S. better prepared be fore she declares war on anybody. "I have seen a little of the world and I have found the best place is Grants Pass, and I want to receive all the news from there I can. ; "We bad a shot for record the' other day and j re-qualified as sharpshooter.- I just misrted 'expert' by two points. I made 251, which is 12 points bftter than I trade the with the rifle and received bis medal.) ' "I expect we will have to go to France If the war lasts much longer. Twenty six hundred marines that have served in Santo Domingo, Hatl, and Cuba, will go to France Immedi ately. Ton see the marines are al ways first. I would like to go to France myself and I hope It will not be long until we get orders to leave." ' ', QuanUco, Va., Nov. 23, 1917. . VI have just been transferred to the aviation headquarters , detach ment. A gunner picked 60 men out of four companies and I was one of the lucky men. We all have to have excellent records to get in this de tachment We will leave for France within the next few days." m Paris, France. "I have a hunch that, the end of this month wlU find me in London. I Teally would hate to leave Paris. The longer I stay here the better I like it. Several wealthy American residents here have told me that they have tried to leave and forget Paris, but' that they couldn't stay away any great length of time without re turning.. The French and the Amer ican! are getting to. understand each other and ere not so shy , as at first. The girls are casting their nets for American husbands." ' Jnterest shall be charged and col lected on any tax or half of a tax, not so paldat the rale of 1 per cent per month or a fraction of a month until paid. All taxes remaining unpaid on the fifth day of October next following shall become delinquent' and on the fifth day of November next following a penally of five per cent shall be charged and collected thereon In ad dition to the Interest provided here in. - GEO, W. LEWIS, Sheriff and Tax Collector for Jo sephlne County, Oregon. made by Sampson Tchernoff,': who i last time. The next time I shoot I took them under the direction of the will make 'expert.' That Is the best Serbian, headauarters. to avoid the qualification there Is. There were grotesque and heartrenderlng scenes that so frequently have been des cribed. ' ' 1 only three men who had better stores than mine." ' , (Later Mr. Sauer made "expert." NOTICE TO TAXPAYERS We have, just installed a most complete arid modern 1 Vulcanizing Plant and are 'now prepared to take care of all kinds of work on all sixes, of tires. , If you live In town call at our shop with jrowr . cawing, if not send tliem In to an for Iniipoctlon. i - After examining them If we find the tire fa worth rep4rtng-r-will save yam money the work will be un conditionally .; guaranteed to ont last the remainder ol the casing, ' . Auto Service Company Phone 821-J fio.l South Sixth Street Taxes for the year 1918 are now due and payable at the sheriff' office'"-:.' The following Is the Oregon Tax Law relating to the collection of taxes: i The first half of all taxea legally levied and charged shall be paid on or .before the fifth day,of: April fol lowing, and the second half on or before the fifth day of October fol lowing. ' ' '' , , V. T. Ureen, l'rir. ; GraiitS; Pass & Ciresclent City- Stage Co. Big, Easy Riding Pierce Arrow Cars Office ofd Observer Blk. Corner Boveatta and 0 streets Phone ?T ; , , , i-7 '' 't , .'" , TWeplieos B2N-4 and lfl , ; . '"t-j-