The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., January 18, 1918, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

The «aid monetary »took (cota and
MUaa aaad m money) to the United
State* on Noveeabor I, 1917, ia ea-
tkrated in Secretary McAdoo’a an­
nual report at $8,041,600,000. The in
creaao in the paat 10 month» haa been
$174,600/100, and in the paat throe
year* $1«2*6,600,000. In fie* year,
the portion of the world'a gold mone­
tary Block held by the United Statoe
haa tncreaaod from approximately
c no-fifth to more than one-third.
Borkman, who violated tha law,
claiming that it was not valid, have
each bean sentenced to a year in jail
and to pay a $10,000 fine. Thor* are
plenty of others in this country who
are trying to help Germany by arson
aad other erfaaos, who deesr vs oven
wore* than tha Goldman woman got
for several miles out from the shore
—a very rare occurrence—and the
farmer* are sitting up nights with
their potatoes to keep them from
freezing. And here potatoes have
been growing ia the open ground for
weeks and am now nearly a foot high
while cattle find abundant pasturage
on the range and the aspect of tbo
country is that of tho meadows in
mid-April rather than midwinter.
Last fall w* read about tho fuel
conservation department s* Washing­
ton which during tho semi-tropical
days of October eras keeping a big
building so hot that ovary window
had
to bo kept open, at aa outlay for
War credits extended to foreign
as great as would have bean
governments since tho United Statoe coal
in midwinter. Aad we not*
entered tho war total $4^*6,400,000. needed
that each weak bom clerks he Wash­
Of this Great Britain received $2/MK,- ington
keeping busy sending out
000; France, $1^000,000; Italy, tons of are
of needless letters
$600,000,000; Bornia, $*26,000,000; to every thousands
in tho country.
Belgium, $77,400,000; Serbia, $4,000,- Too many newspaper
men
are
nursing
noodles»
000 . -
jobs when rial conservation demands
that they all gut busy producing
something tho country and its allies
sorely need.
amounted to 41 millions. Six hun­
dred per cent annual income on an in­
vestment as Inrgo as that and as se­
cure, certainly looks pretty good.
Tho lid ia off her* now and tho fad-
oral food commission gives notice
that everybody in Oregon, Washing­
ton, Idaho, California aad Oregon can
oat nil tho moat they want providing
they will carefully refrain from pork
and nil hog product* on Tuesdays and
Saturdays—also for one meal on the
other days. In other words people
her* most eat all the earns as the
Jews for II meals a week.
Nothing will oo quickly atop the
turning of ammunition factories and
food depots In this coantry by enemy
aliena as the hanging of a few of tho
Kaiser’s agents caught rod handed in
that nefarious business. It is high
time for tho American government to
toko drastic action, aad save the
army and food of American soldiers,
even though o few Welter »poer-
melna do hove to stretch hemp.
According to tho records of tho co­
lectivo Service, country boye do not
show much phyeteal superiority over
thooo of tho cítiso. For parpóse af
com psrison saleetion wss moda of eit-
lea of 40,000 to 600/100 population,
and n correspooding set of countioo of
tho samo total oteo. In tho phyeteal
ezamtnation» 28.47 por cent of tbo
dty boyo wer» rejocted, as against
27.96 por cent of tho country boye.
an .incere a Iowa of coantry. aad giv­
ing aa much of their manna aa any
claaa of people to suppqyt the gov­ MUST USB POTATOR
ernment ought to rS«! Samuel G. In r-g *— A the feed
Blythe’, article on “Dive, and the nc unces that it ia goinj
Demagogue.” ia the Saturday Eve­ use of a certain perce*
ning Poet of Jan. 12. And thooe
newapapora which, in view of what
thaoa men are doing to aid that.*
coantry, arc now advocating the con-
flacatioa of private aatataa for the na­
tional needs, are doing their bit to
help the Kaiaer conquer the world. *
TRET.DON'T FEEL THAT WAY.
The military maatora of Germany
have maintained an attitada of aa*
turned groat contempt for America’*
war preparation* and America’* par­
ticipation in the war. The Kaiaer,
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Hindenburg, and Hertling have all
voiced thia contempt. Tat there are
lift anything. Let us tell you how
evidence* in plenty that ia fear of
America’* entry in fore* into tha war
next apring Germany ia meaning tre­
mendous force* on the western front,
is preparing to hurl masses at mon
lifting mortgages offhundreds
into the jaws of death in a desperate
of farms throughout the country.
effort to reach a conclusion before
tha might of America becomes effec­
tive.
Tha taro Liberty Loans in thia coan­
try no doubt had a great psychologi­
cal effect upon the German mind. The
ease with which the tremendous sums
of money were raised, the enthusiasm
of tha workers and of the subscrib­
ers and of, indeed, the whole nation,
and the heavy oversubscription to
both loans are evidences that cannot
be disregarded that tha American peo­
ple are in earnest, that they are be­
hind the American Army aad the
American Government, and are will­
ing to make the sacrifice*, required and
known to man, tha savings
to support to tha utmost our Nation
bank book is the one that
at war.
will soma in handiest in
That money talks ia aa old proverb,
and the voice of the billions of dollars
days of trouble. Get one of
representing the First and Second Wo are not naked to go hungry—
Liberty Loans was heard acmes the yet. There are plenty of substitute
sea and carried conviction even to the graine—corn, barley and oats amoag
them. The ninety million bushels
about
to bo shipped to Europe will bo
OUB MEN NEEDED IN FRANCE followed
by other millions of bushels
From an old Kansae friend, who re­
cently returned from e trip to Europe
where be had unusual opportunities
for learning about conditions on the
western front, w* learn that it is
expected there will bo 600,000 or 600,-
000 American troops in Franco by
spring; by midsummer there should
bo at least a million and most of
them on the firing Une. But he can-'
veyed one very disquieting piece of
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information end that was that there
were French regiment* which, before
the Americans entered tha war had
lost their nerve and determined not
to continue any longer a fight which
they deemed hopeless. No one could
question their valor, for they had
doae all that men could do in tha
fighting before that time; ami since
the Sammies began to arrive they
have recovered their pop. Still, we
had never imagined that any portion
of tho French army had cosn* so hoar
going to pieces as the Russian troops
did entirely and the Italians partially.
GOOD NEWS.
Certainly we did not get into thia war
a moment too toon; but now that we
are in we all fully realise that we are
there to see the finish. Our weight
added to that of the anise is going to
bo enough to win tho war—and tho
more heartily we stand behind our
soldiers and our government, the fow-
or American Hvas will be sacrificed
and the quicker will victory perch up­
on our banners. It is so true no to
bo self evident, that it win coot us
leas to win tbs war now timn it would
to loco it
KERR WAS SQUARE
The doubts that arise In some quar­
ters as to tho integrity and square have always given groat satisfaction
dealing of President W. J. Kerr, of O. I couldn’t recommend them too high­
A. (X, most nil fads away before the ly.”
Price 60c a t all dealers. Don’t
statement of tho facto in the case by simply
for a kidney remedy—get
the Beard of Regents of that institu­ Doan’s ask
Kidney
Pills— the same that
tion- It is aa wo thought probable Mrs. Stratton had.
Footor-lUlburn
at tho time tho daaial of the regents Co, M fgrs, Buffalo, N. Y.
of tho Kansas Agricultural College
that they had offered Dr. Kerr a $»,-,
000 salary to come to Manhattan wore
first published. They had not made
an outright offer but were no doubt
GRAVELY*
feeling him out to see if he would ac­
cept such an offer. What Dr. Kerr
*t*t*d to the O. A. C. regents was
that ha was “being considered” for
the presidency of another position but
that he had not boon elected to E
Boards do not usually elect presidents
until they are assured that the pref­
erred honor will be accepted. Wows
no reason on account of anything that
has occurred in connection with Dr.
K errt course in this matter to hold
hhn in ony lose esteem than hereto­
fore. Tho Sunflower state wanted
him and was bidding high for hhn.
Oregon tolt that she could not af-
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THE PLUTOCRATS ARB PARIOTS
There are some people who per­
haps naturally think that because so
many of the plutocrats of the busi­
ness cantors on the eastern coast got
their groat wealth by shady moans
Of cours* there hay* been, as there
always will be, men who ears only to
fatten off their country’s necessities
in times like this; but that there Is
any such sentiment or purpose now
amoag tho millionaire* of Wall street
They are giving their own servies*
to tho government in hundreds of In­
stances without - any compensation
whore they could continue to on joy
income* of from $28,000 to $60,000 a
year by drawing their old corpora­
tion salaries. Mar* than this, they
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