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FAGS TWO GRANTS PASS DAILY COCKIER MUM.VV. M IU If IT, 10111. fiUflS PUSS DHLT1 COURIER' Published Dally Except Sunday I A, B. VOORHIES. Pnb. and Propr. ; : : i Bntered at potoffloe, Grants Pass, Ore., aa second class mail matter. , ADVERTISING RATES j Display apace, per Inch 15c, Igca-peraonai column, per llne..lOc headers, jer line 5c j DAILY COURIER j By mall or carrier, per yer....l6.00 ; By mall or carrier, per month .50 . .. . WEEKLY COURIER J By mall, per year 3.00 j MEMBER OP ASSOCIATED PRESS j The Associated Press la exclusively j entitled to the use for republication of 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 res erred. There are times . Whenou Want THE BEST KINNEY & TRUAX GROCERY Quality First' MONDAY, MARCH 17, . OREGON WEATHER Rain; southerly gales along 4 the coast. GETTING TOGETHER ON THE LEAGUE t In a statement . issued since the adjournment of congress, Senator Lodge, leader of the senatorial oppo sition to the league of nations con stitution, says: "My desire is simply to have the constitution for a league proposed by the commission of the peace confer ence thoroughly and carefully dis cussed and considered. If it will not bear discussion, it is not fit for adoption. If it is what it ought to be, discussion will only strengthen it." No reasonable person of any party can Tery well disagree with this proposition. And it looks like a startingpolnt for the getting to gether of all who in their hearts sin cerely want to see an effective league of nations, and are simply at odds over the rules and specifications for It '" In starting from this position, however, it is not likely that any body will get very far unless he adopts the present draft of a con stitution with whatever ' imperfec tions it contains, as the basic work ing plan. For It represents what the peace conference so far has been able to agree on; and if it is thrown away - bodily, as some extremists .would like to have it, there is little possi bility of the conference being able to frame any substitute. It would leave the conference in chaos. The thing to do, obviously, is to go about, not to kill the present con stitution but to do whatever Is neces sary to make It satisfactory and workable. The critics must work in a constructive spirit, desiring not to make this, plan a failure, but to make It a success. And if everybody tackles the Job in this way, the ne ceseary amendments will be made, and it will be a succes. TEACHING USE OP BANKS Foreign-born residents of the Unit ed States have been making more money in recent years than formerly. Also, because of the war, they have been unable to send so much of it to relatives in the Old Country.. The American Bankers association esti mates that during the past four years they have amassed in this country nearly $4,000,000,000. Some of this money has. been in rested in liberty bonds and war sav ings otamps. Some of It has been put into safe keeping in savings banks. There are, however, a good many foreign-born earners who do not understand the savings bank Idea, who have an ignorant timidity about turning over their money to the banks, and who still keep It pre cariously hidden in their homes or carry it about on their persons. The American Bankers association will conduct an Americanization campaign along this line of banking. it will teach people in every part of the country the character and use fulness of the savings banks, the kinds of banking Institutions that are safe and reputable and the wa to go about making use 'of the bank ing facilities offered in any locality The reputable bank offers its pa trons so much in service, couven lence and security in handling their money,' and so cheerfully took on during the war days the extra work that came its way, that it seems more than ever deserving of the confidence and support of the pub lic. This new campaign, particular ly, should be aided by publlo good will. It successful, it will work perhaps more good to the people who are taught how to use the banks than It will to the banks themselves. GRANTS PASS WEATHER Following in a summary of the weather observation at Grants Pass for the month of February, 1919: Date Max. Mln. Range Pre. 1 51 22 29 2 4$ 26 22 3 40 22 18 .04 4 47 36 11 .12 5 51 42 9 .12 6 56 35 11 .82 .7 57 40 17 8 64 45 19 .17 9 55 40 15 2.20 10 53 41 il .46 11 59 - 35 24 .07 12 42 31 11 .01 13 42 35 7 .08 14 53 35 18 .10 15 56 31 25 16 52 35 17 .18 17 48 38 10 .30 18 53 . 29 24 19 53 35 18 .05 20 49 33 16 21 , 47 33 14 .30 22 41 34 7 .10 23 46 32 14 ' .05 24 49 35 14 25 49 37 12 I .50 26 46 33 13 11.13 27 49 31 i 18 I .05 28 54 36 18 .32 Summary: Mean temperature 44 degrees; maximum temperature 64 degrees, date 8th. Minimum temper ature, 22, date Feb. 1 and 3. Total precipitation 7.17 inch plus. Num ber days clear, 3; partly cloudy, 7; cloudy, 18. C. D. THOMPSON, Cooperative Observer. All kinds of Commercial Printing at the Courier Office. Envelopes at tha Courier Office SOLDIER LETTERS Nice, Franco, January 25, 1919 Dear Mother: -If all army life was as nice as I have had It for the past few days I'd become au army man for life. I have been granted a seven-day leave of absence at Nice. On the way down I visited Paris and Marseilles. Saw very little of Paris, however, but expect to see it better soon. I only had a chance to see some of the main part of town, to ride on their wonderful subways, and to take In a show. I wish you could have been along to see Just how the other half of the world lives. , It Is far differ ent than we have been used to at home. Nice Is one of the garden spots of the world. I like it much better than Paris. There are the shows, fine stores, beautiful homes, and Alpine scenery Into which we go every day. The government stands the hotel expenses and puts us in finer places than any In our little town. Officers are out of luck In this town. It is all for the en listed men, and nothing Is too good for him. You van' Imagine how It will Seem to leave this wafm bright little paradise for the bleak, cold, shell torn region . I will have to go to when my leave ends. This Is the nearest to being out of the army of anything I know. l Tomorrow I go by auto to Monaco, Monte Carlo, and the Italian, border. Will try and drop you a card from Italy. The Y. M. C. A. has leased the Ca sino on the beach here. It Is a gor geous affair.' There, Is a large bil liard and pool room, canteen room, a theatre, writing room, library and dance ball. We have orchestra music morning and afternoon, and about two orchestras In the evening. There are a great many nurses and Y. M C. A. women here, so we have plenty of girls to dance with. Most of them are here on leave the same as we are. The past day or so I have spent taking tram car rides and hikes to the mountains, but expect to go on some longer trips by auto and bicycle soon and see more of the French 1 5,jg22Kg ' ' , 1 BuylheRYePound Size and Save Honey l&ucaritbuYBelter Coffee. EVERY CAIIGOARAfilD Also Packed in 3 and Lib. Can WHY? PROOF THAT THE BILL IS PAID The returned cancelled check is the most positive proof that the bill is paid. Pay by check and be protected. We solicit your ' account, subject . to , cheekt Josephine .County Bank , amusement places In Nice from now ou. I leave on the 3 1st for tho com pany. Am going up on a small hill now to look through telescope Into Italy and out on the Mediterranean sea, so will say good-bye fof thin tlmo. DANA. Junuary 28, 1919 Dear Alice: Today Is rainy, the first one In many days, so I'm Inside tor tho morning. Went to the Italian border yesterday. Wo followed the sea road out and passed through Monaco, the llttlo principality of the man who carrlod on so much research work of the ocean and It's life. Wo spent an hour or so looking aj his museum of natural history and aquariums. It was certainly fine. Then we wont to Monto Carlo and went through the casino there. It was no place for a "small town boy's" crap game. You can Imagine how elegant the place was. leaving Monte Carlo we sped on to the Italian border near Menton and had a fine little five Course dinner. We then spent an hour or so at the border walking Into Italy a short distance. We mail ed cards home from the Italian side, see if they come through. The Ital ian girls we saw there were very pretty and unpalnted, very much un like their French sisters. We came home by way of the high mountain road and passed a Turble on top of a rock mountain where the old Romans had built aJ tort, tower and city. I'll send the cards later. The old tower was build In 18 A. D. The si roots of the town are so narrow as to allow only a narrow sidewalk. Tho moun tain scenery here Is as beautiful as any In Colorado, and as the French have fine roads to all parts of them, you can enjoy them a lot more. I expect to spend the rest of my leave seeing the French amusement places In Nice Itself. I'll hot yon would be tickled to doath to have been here too, you'd sure have a regular time probably want to paint up like the rest of these little mid gets here. You don't see these Am erican girls here doing that, though. They Just stay good American girls like they are, and the boys well, a lot of them say they're coming back home. Love to all, DANA , In a lotter dated December 29, and written atkLangres, ho states: My course here Is onded and I've got ten by, so I'm eligible to promotion to the grade of second lieutenant, but as .the war Is over I don't get the commission nor do any of the boys. It soems sort of funny to us here to read of boys in the State get Ing commissions when we over here after being In the fuss don't get em." C, D. AM EXT, Co. A, 23rd Engineers, American Ex. Forces, France. France, Feb. 12, 1919 Dear Sister Edna: Will try and write you a few lines this evening. I've started several times and something always happen ed so I didn't finish. I haven't heard from any of you for ever so long, but guess if anyone was, sick, you would let me know. Well, I had a great time Satur day. One of my pals took upon him self a French bride, and as I was a friend of the family also, I was best man, an experience which I will never forget. Neither the bride groom nor myself understood more than half of the ceremony, but It made no difference as the bride's parents were present' and vouched for his sincerity. To me it was comic, rather than solemn. After the ceremony was over the dinner commenced, and I'll say I never saw anything to equal It. We started to eat at 12:80 and hadn't finished when I left at 6. The bridegroom just told me they didn't quit until 11. Tbey are fine people and think they are both contented. The bride is very pretty and very smart. She was dressed In white silk. I think they will give me one of their pic tures. I'll send It home If they do. 'Hoping all Is well and with much love I will close, your brother", ALEX WATTS. A. P. O. 702, American Ex, Forces, France. Monarch's Compliment ' A pretty compliment was that Philip IV of Spain, himself a, painter, ten dered to a greater artist, Velasquez. When Velasquez had finished his fa mous picture "Los Menlnns," which includes not only Philip and his queen, but the artfst himself, brush In bund, he asked of , the. king,. "Is anything wnntlngT" "One, thing only," answer ed Philip; and taking the pnlette from Velasquez's hafiiis, he painted on the brenM 6t the artist's llgrire In the pic-' tore the Cross of the Order of Santi ago, the most distinguished In Spain, Children's Colds- To make your distressed baby ciisy nnd comfortable, give J'ohy's lluuey miJ Tor. It is just whnt children ought to have (or levcrish colds,', coughs, "snuffles" and tight wheezy brcuthing. It stops croup, too. Foley's Honey ?5 Tar tastes good and the little ones like it. 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