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PAGE TWO GRANTS PASS DAILY OOVfUER Wi:iMil.V, KKIIItl'AllY.itfl, 10l Published Dally Except Sunday A. E. VOORHIE3, Pub. and Propr. ntered at poatofftce, Q rants Pass, Or., aa second class mall matter. ADVERTISING RATES Display space, per Inch .15c Local-personal column, per line.. 10c leaders, per 11ns So DAILY COURIER By mall or carrier, per year..I6.00 By mall or carrier, per month .60 WEEKLY COURIER By mall, per year U.00 MEMBER OF ASSOCIATED PRESS The Associated Press Is exclusively entitled to the use for republication of all news dispatches credited to It or ail otherwise credited In this paper and also the local news pub lished herein. AU rights of republication of apo dal dispatches herein are also reserved. WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1919 : -: OREGON WEATHER f Rain in west, rain or snow east. Strong, southerly winds. MEXICO Reports from Paris indicate that as the "mandatory" system adopted by the peace conference for the gov ernment ot German colonies and backward countries not otherwise controlled, the United States will be asked to look after Mexico. It is a logical application ot the plan. The United States is the na tural guardian of Mexico, because of the Monroe Doctrine and because that troublesome country is our next-door neighbor, and Americans have -large interests there. Many Americans and also many foreigners think we ought to have got on the job definitely and earnest ly, long ago. President Wilson's de lay seems to have been due largely to his desire to convince Latin America In general of the disinterestedness and good will of the United States. That purpose has been pretty well accomplished, by our conduct in the European war even more than by our forbearance with Mexico. There would be little criticism now of our taking Mexico in hand on our own responsibility. There could surely be none it we do so on the authority of the league of na tions, acting as a disinterested agent of the whole civilized world. And with such authority, there would probably be little resistance offered by the Mexicans themselves. Wilson and Taft to their critics: "It you fellows know of a better remedy than a league of nations, trot it out." That challenge will probably be answered when congress opens the fire works. George Wash ington said "avoid entangling agree ments with foreign nations." Wood row sajrs "jump in and form a com bine and protect the world." Time, only, will tell which one of these great statesmen is right. Some of the democrats are now accusing the republicans of favoring the league of nations plan simply because Mr. Taft Is for it. People should remember that Taft was working for a league of nations plan to preserve world peace long before Woodrow came Into the limelight, although this fact may turn some of the good old exponents of Jefferson Ian democracy againat the plan. The dangerous Roberts Mountain on the Pacific highway has been eliminated; Pass Creek canyon has been made passable; Merlin hill Is being Improved, and Grave Creek hill, where many serious accidents have occurred, has been changed in to a beautiful, broad winding road with an easy grade. Who says Ore gon is not pulling out of the ruts? Meantime the cracking ot heads 'goes merrily on between "loyal" Ger mans and the Spartacan groups. If "German thoroughness" ' is adhered to It will yet prove to be a case of elimination and Germany will be TREE RIPENED Sunkist Oranges KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERYj QUALITY FIRST whittled down to a point where Bhe will 'be no larger than one ot her neighbors. Mrs. Martin Johnson, of New York, who has just returned from a trip to the South Sea islands, says "there is no vulgarity in nakedness, be cause down there the women wear practically nothing and are more modest than a Broadway broiler." They might be, at that, but Mrs. J. has not yet introduced the South Sea fashion in this country. To avoid riots, such changes should be made by very slow degrees, Mrs. J.'s opin ion to the contrary notwithstanding. SOLDIER LETTERS Ardoll ltallry Coin Through With out m Scratch Thomas, Lachmund and Eddy may have Introduced the moBt bills at Salem, but Sldler, of Josephine, has a more brilliant record. He has touched lightly the matter of "intro duction," which tact most taxpayers will appreciate. Oregon already has about 15,000 so-called laws enough to last us until the crack of doom. The fly fisherman looks with scorn upon the bait fisherman. The bait fisherman "cusses" the fly fisherman for making light of his sport, while the majority of anglers use any old bait or method to land their fish and often pray for a stick of dynamite to throw into the water. This rainy, sloppy weather has its advantages in an economical way. A person can wear any old rags under the ever necessary overcoat, which is kept buttoned up tightly. A farmer is advertising for sale a "registered bull with papers." It's a proud bull that carries his creden tials with him. Yesterday the president approved 26 bills and resolutions. Sort or rubber stamp rapid fire. The new German flag is red, black and gold. Their naval flag should be solid yellow. Real Meaning of "Salad." Salad literally means salted and Is direct descendant of the Latin word sal, or salt The use of "salad" to mean the greens from which or on which a salad mixture is placed is on of only recent origin. The Italian insalata and the Spanish salada, meaning salad thoss languages, actually mean salted. No 8laeker. Father "Why don't yon stick to work more? It ought to be a real en joyment to you." Son "It is, sir, bat I don't like to give myself up wholly to pleasure." WatnvlUe. France, Jan. 8, 1919 My Dear Father: Your letter ot November 12 reach ed me before Christmas. I neglect ed to answer it as I had just written to you and wanted to delay long enough to be able to tell you about our holidays over here. It was the first letter from Oregon and how I did enjoy it. The mall Is coming direct to us now as the kaiser hasn't got us quite so busy. Thank God It Is all over and I am in the dry these awful stormy nights. . for the rain has been pouring down I for weeks. Imagine me lying In a shell hole awaiting for daybreak, to go over the top. I was glad to hear from Gene. You speak as if he had been wounded. His division Is In Germany now near Straussburg I think. He had a taste of war If he went over the top four times. In the Argonne Forest we used to go over every morning before breakfast and got so busy we didn't eat breakfast for several days. I have wondered how Zern Kubll came out. I haven't met anyone from Oregon, whom' I knew, but while at school I talked to a few boys from Medford. I am feeling fine, except that I have a bad cold, but have had that since I landed here. I have not been on the sick call and am coming home without a scratch. None of the shells had my name on them. A machine gun tried to get me but only tore up the round around my head and cut a sapling oak down on me, but It only filled my eyes, ears and hair full of dirt and splinters. Another time a piece of a large shell hit my bunkle In the knee while lying In a hole alongside ot me. I have had four bunkles as the first one was shot dead, the second shot through the side, the third bit In the knee and my pal now ' went through O K, but got his pack shot off ot his back. I don't know when I will be home, but It won't be long. There Is talk of moving off the front In a few days. I'll be glad to get south where there is civilization, and where things are not so scarred up with war effects. Our little town here Is badly torn up. Maybe too I can get a softer bed. I am rather tired of the floors and woven wire bunks. Our battallion had a tine Christ mas. We deeorated our rooms with mistletoe and had little Christmas trees. We received a box from the Red Cross through the Y. M. C. A., which took the place of the one youJ couldn't send on account of me not sending the permit. We had more than we could eat for dinner and tfere served walnuts, apples and' co coa. New Years we had a big teed 0 Conflicting Thoughts and I received my first orange and some fine grapes as welt as walnuts. We had lots of mimic from our band. Our captain gave each a cigar for ChrlBtmns and Now Year. The flu seems to have been rag ing In the statos. It Is too bad tor It seems to have taken the lives or thousands.' Tho American people are surely backing us boys up with the "kalo" and in return we, have helped to make America the leading nation In the world In all respects. The day the armistice was signed the Huns came out and shook hands. They said the yanks fight llko they play ball. They were afraid of us any time we got near them when fighting. Mess Is ready and I must close. Your son, AUDEI.U PVT. ARDELL BAILEY, Co. K, 109th Infty., American Ex. Forces. France. Still IUmIiik on French Highways Stvry-sur-Meuse, Jan. 19, 1919. Dear Folks: Have your letters of December 9 and 1 which were received yester day when the courier came over with the mall and for reports. I have seen Dana Ament about ten minutes since October tonth, when he left the company to go to school somewhere. Whei he got back I was out on detached service and rode upon a truck with him one day. There Is absolutely no chauce ot going anywhere on a visit, I guess, for so far even the boys whose peo ple (mother and father) live In Itlay Scotland and Norway do not get a chance to go there on thoir fuloughs. You wonder why we did not cele brate the night the armlstl e was signed." We did not know It for sure until the next day's papers came out and It was too late then. We heard ot It, but one hears so many things In the army that he does not believe anything until he sees II In black and white and sometimes not thon. For Instance, we hear that we will be on the boat January 29, and also that we will be her until next An gust. You can believe one as- well as the other. You will know more about whon, where and how we will be dischar ged than I will, until It Is all said and done and I am a civilian again. I sure wIbIi I could be there to help the pipe laying and overhauling, but at present I am watching the coons patching roads. 1 don't know why they don't make the Huns do the road work, unless It Is because we are here and they cannot lot us be Idle. According to tho papers there is plenty ot road work to be done In the U. S. Our work Is going on as usual with nothing of importance along that line. Took a hike over to annervoux yesterday afternoon and investiga ted a 38 cm. gun which apparently was used in the recent bombardment of Verdun. It was manufactured at the Skodawerke Akt, Ger. In 1917, weighs about 34 tons and shoots a projectile which weighs about 2200 pounds. The distance it shot was 12 miles or a little over and must have done a great deal of damage before they, the Germans, blew the breech of it off. The breech was about a hundred yards back of the gun and was a' mammoth affair as was the whole apparatus. Must write anoth r letter before I retire. With lots of love, v WALLACE. Ben W. Coutant, Co. A, 23d Engineers, Amer. Ex. Force. Perhaps. Lucky Is the man who mnrrles a widow whose first husband was mean to her. Chicago Evening Post. Optlmlstlo Thought Merit does not alwa1 receive Its reward. Unshaken Testimony Time is the test of truth. And Doan's Kidney Pills have stood the test in Grants Pass. No Grants Pass resident who suffers backache, tr annoying urinary Ills can remain unconvinced by this twice-told testi mony. W. A. Trefren. 731 Highland Ave., Bays: "I suffered for a long time from my back and kidneys and never found anything that would give me much relief until I began using Doan's Kidney Pills. They strength ened my back and eased the dull pains that had, settled across my Kidneys." 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