The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., January 25, 1918, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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taras billions for the nation to
war far three
la Of
edil veto ton
th a t sum to ban
And were lit by
than two years. Than it took nanrty «n* ^ ta n *f HeU flaw
three dollars ef paper money to buy a
And ths Dhvil
it and re- dollar in gold; now it’s fifty-fifty be-
tween greenbacks and geld. Then
T
rich men mode millions by swindling
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of th s records of 10,- the government in army contracts, | ^ ¿ S b c k o y ^ f i r a t o d withftor.
mon passed for military servbe
He shouted over his shoulder,
by local boards and then rejected by
In a voice bud
riser. “
camp surgeerm show th at nearly 99
NO EGGS WITHOUT GRAIN. |"Come on you devilish imps,
cent of the final rejections were
ceased by defective eyes. Teeth wme
We are in receipt of n weekly news I Ws have no business bars.”
responsible for 8 J0 per cent, hernia, U-tter from the U. S. department of |.,w# m ujt beat it away from hare
T.47 per cent; ear, 6^4 par cent; heart Agriculture urging increased poultry I tM|
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to roam,
ih.eaae, 6B7 par cant; tuberculosis, pi oduction, so th at eggs may more and
^ av s the land of brimstooo
M 7 per coat. Attempts to evade m1'- more take the place of meat and help
which we have
itory duty by deception regarding win the war.
They want nil the
physical condition were vary few.
farins of the county to average 100
to n . each, iratoad ef t o T S i well
7 « don't
Brazil b a big country and it pro­ end good. Bot to save wheat and
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poses to do big things in ths world help win the war, the amount of grain I
»ubmarined on the sulphur son,
war far democracy. They are talk­ that* can be fed to poultry has b een |Tb*n
* leg n g h t qumk,^
ing about having two million soldiers cuf down by the government
No
And
on the western front next yenr-r-ssv- other feed equal to wheat can be “l have sense blood rotation,
•ral hundred thousand this year if had for the tame money, and lota of
Who’s due to arrive down here;
they can got transports. A tenth of people are putting their hens in the But I don’t want to moot him,
1 would be enough; and if all
nations which have declared war
“In fact he calls ms brother,
Germany during the past year
I But ha's got dm skinned a Mils,
id do even as wall ae that, it would
For ha’s a dirty, tricky beast
i be a question of knowing what
And full of things moat vile.*
to d# with all the men there.
“Whan I sea the man behind him,
We don’t hear So much about do­
That are in th at German ring,
ing ogr bit in the garden as we did a
I taka a glance a t my shoulder
year ago but there is even more need
For fear I’m sprouting a wing.”
of the war garden than there was
“i
haven’t time to linger
than.
D en t waste efforts on the
Or
explain any more.
parkings, though. Raw d a y doesn’t
So pack your grips and coma with me
promote vegetable growth.
There
And we’ll hit for a distant shore.”
the Stuff
resot das-
and th at the matta­
to stop mah I iff
1 »Mi they'd had Electric«,
when I wtt a bey”
• i *1 was forever tuning the grindstone,
churning, or as wine LndKng when I wanted
to go swimming, or fishing—nevsr had s
chance to net—always milking, cutting feed
or grinding com.
Electricity has taken the drud-
gery out of farm labor. Almost
every routine task on the farm, in
the dairy or about the house can
now be done by a G-E motor in A
fraction of .the time formerly re­
quired and without physical exer­
tion. Costs less than hiring farm
hands, too!
Let u s show you how -
OREGON POWER CO.
Phone 71
lf-170
Hark! Don’t you hear the American
gunners?
They’re busy with shot and shell;
And the first one that sights the
known to man, the savings
In grder that our soldier boys may
vott a t the November election this
year, Governor Withyeombe is to be
asked to call a special state election
a t the same date aS the primary elec­
tion to vote on an initiative law or
amendment that will confer this right
upon them. This is in line with what
was done in the Civil war when all the
men in the field wero permitted to
east their votes. But where the vote
is close , think how long wa May bo in
suspense waiting for the ballots from
France.
There seam to be lots of people
unwilling to do it voluntarily—that
is, save wheat and sugar for the ar­
lies—but one of those days a Hoover
deputy I« going to coma around and
make them 4» it.
Fine and impris­
onment is liable to be the lot of those
who are bound to do ju st as 'they
bank book to th s one that
will
We used to hear a great deal about
the to \ dodgers, but tbs war has de­
veloped an entirely new class—the
th rift dodgers. No m atter how loud­
ly anyone may vaunt his patriotism
he b helping the Kaiker if ha insists
on Ms old time peace diet regardless
of the needs of mu- allies la Europe
and of the impossibility of supplying
thorn with bread and sugar unless we
coeds of the sale of lands within her And yet, in any event, imagination
t orders for her own reclamation pur-1 was bound to fall fk t short of the ra-
P«**s-
I ality. No doubt some of th at spruce
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will illuminate the skies of northsast-
D raft timaa today aren’t much like I ern France aa they fall Maxing to the
those in the Civil war. Then we re-1 earth. What prodigeee of valor and
member that a number of young men I daring may be performed with ethers
wc knew went to Canada to evade the I as the air sUpa of which they form a
call to the'Colors. Now goihg to Can- part are steered ap and down and ev-
ada wouldn’t help a little bit, because leu loop the loop to outwit the Huna.
Canada and the United States stand In the biasing coals before me what
together . -Then our township issued pictures are to be seen of th at war in
bends and hired its quota of soldiers the air which may be so waged as to
from among the newly arrived immi- put an end to all wars.'
grants from Europe.
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Now mil Europe Is at war and all I If Hoover wasn’t on the job and
immigration has ceased. Then there seeing that sugar was economised, we
were no restrictions, except those lm-1 should probably be paying to or 40
peoed by a lank pocket book on using I rents a pound for ft and finding H
all the white flour and sugar one cared mighty aqgrce at that. Saving sugar
to.
Then government bonds were I and wheat for oar allies is the way ih
sold by men who made a commission which everybody can help to win the
on them ; now'the Rod Cram and lib-1 war. The man or woman who isn't
w ty Bond worker« receive no pay far I willing to do this b ths worst sort of
thoir services. Then it cost lass than 'a slacker.
to
Get one of
account with this bank. I t
doesn’t take muck to sta rt
an account and it will grew
emazingly if you give H at-
lis only * cents. In other words, con­
gress in its inscrutable wisdom has
mtacted th at four pounds of mail
shall go th at f a r for just half the
price that two can be se n t Honestly,
wouldn’t you rather take President
Wilson’s judgment about any m atter
than that of the whole caboodle of
senators and representatives who
lmve emeshed Uncle Sam in such a
snarl of red tape? ______ ‘ *
FARMERS & MERCHANTS BANK
Commercial and Saving Deposits
OREGON
COQUILLE
LUM BER
Our Retail Stock
Is Complete
Estimates for all kinds of building
GLADLY FURNISHED
draft bw .
Elght per cent of the 9,684,506 men
re giste red undec the selectivo Service
b w are colored.
Of theee nearly
909,000 heve been cailed and more
than 76,000 ha ve been certifled for
Service. Out of ovory 100 colorad
men cailed, M wera certifled for Ser­
vice and «4 w e n rejeetad. or dis-
cbarged, while out of every 100 white
cítisens cailed, 96 wera certifled for
handiest
these books by opening aa
DON’T MISTAKE THE CAUSE.
There are said to be people in Ore­
gon so wanting in patriotism and so
utterly selfish that rather than cut
down their rations of sugar and white
flour they are willing to risk having
the Germans do it for them—and then
they would probably get the chopped
straw and turnip mixture those Ger­
mans have already been reduced to at
in
days of trouble.
PLEASING THE KAISER.
The attack Senator Chamberlain
ade on the administration of Preai-
two, it seems to os, th at the slacker I dent Wilson in a speech at New York
at the fable is a Tittle meaner ban
Saturday is one of the most
that other slacker, who is bound to heartening things the Kaiser has
keep out of tbs army to save his {heard since the victory on the Italian
precious hide.
troni. Any indication of dissension
E gesassese
land divided councils among our bad-.
Every school teacher is asked by in* men implies th at the division
Commercial Club every ’Wednesday
the government to volunteer immed- •m#®» Wa enemies for which Ger- evening at 7:S0.
iately for urgent and important work A»”? u all the while working is
I The Senator’s course indicator that
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be must be suffering from a bad case
The only criticism the Sentinel has of megalomania. Incidentally it re-
fa a u k s of the Chamberlain Bill for caU*
pronostications we have
clearing the title to the Southern Or- >»tely seen in tjrn press and met in
egon lands, paying Coos and Douglas o '* private correspondence, that
counties the delinquent taxes on them Chamberlain was slated for a place
and opening them to entry a t 92.50110 President Wilson’s cabinet If so,
an acre, a synopsis of which is else-Ih* has evidently' spilled that kettle os
where published, is that only 26 per
cent of the net proceeds will go to the
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two counties in which the lands are I
FROM THE SAME TREES,
located, while 40 per cent goes to the
The writer has been burning spruce
reclamation fund bringing water on millwood mostly in Us fireplace so far
soma
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