The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald., March 29, 1918, Page PAGE FOUR, Image 4

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SHEET
T h e tin s fa r
o f ths taxse o f 1*17
w ill aspiro one week from today, an
Friday, A p ril 2. Unless they a re paid
on or before that day sa interest
a lty o f eae per east w ill apply,
mma thtag w ill happen oa the
e f every aaoath sa long aa
unpaid. Besides that i f
h a lf is M t paid oa or befors
6, a worse thing will happen
is a penalty o f five per oent in
tion to the in terest w ill apply a f
th at data. Rssaeatber yon turn
only until A p ril 2 to pay the first
h a lf w ithout beginning to g o t in
V E S T M UCH D E PE N D S O N US.
A m wa go »bou t our daily t u lu In
wace and la fitjr man am dying: «va ry
ainute on the battlefield* o f Europe
a seve civilisation. Our own gallan t
as horrible
to the history o f c iv il or
U r t o and
at 20, 20,
bombarded tm
and children in them wan-
w ith the sole ob­
ject o f in flictin g suffering. A ll this
>»■« bean done not in
and pas­
sion, bat b y the calculating fe ro d ty o f
soldiers. ”
T h fc
The above was not w ritten, though
it m ight have been, yesterday, la st
weak, last month, or last year. It ap­
peared in the English F ortn igh tly Re­
view February, 1171, shortly before
the surrender o f Paris.
Frederick
Harrison, the w riter, is s till alive. Its
sere true then, ere true
Julius Ceaser in his Commen­
taries narrates events which show
that even before the tim e o f Christ
the Gormans demonstrated the pos-
o f a ll the rudiaMnts o f tiy ir
“ kultur.”
It to no new
thing; and hundreds o f thousands o f
men w ill have died in vain in this war
i f this sinister thing is not absolutely
and u tterly exterm inated forevci by
the forces o f civilisation arrayed
it.
fc eegjiy wnri quickly made with the aid of
ROYAL BAKING POWDER
If used three *im*R a week in place of white bread by the
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familtoa in the United States, it would save m ore
than 900,000 barrels of flour a month.
O ar saw Had,
The Provost Marshal General baa
ordered “th at ‘man actively, assidu­
ously and com pletely engaged in
planting or the cultivation o f a crop,’
but who are listed in class 1 and with­
in ths new quota, should bo d a te rs d
and dem araliW an arm y.
Pood is
until ths and e f ths new quota.“
strength, and w ithout a perpetual
supply o f strength the w orld w ill
stand in danger o f totterin g, weaken-
luff
fa llin g in to uttar chaos. A
man cannot figh t, think or w ork, i f he
o f bread a day m ay hurt a little , but is hungry. U m A llies today are prac­
remember it ’s a life or a lim b the tica lly w holly dependent upon the
Upon this
boys a t the fro n t are risking. Pain­ United States fo r food.
less patriotism won’t help much. Cut nation rests the responsibility o f pre­
down on wheat and sweets until it servin g the w orld from Prussia nism.
This is the task o f the people o f this
hurts.
nation.— to produce and save food
S ake at w ar-savings stamps havo enough to keep a steady stream at ee-
run as high aa $2,000,000 a day. This ssntial supplies m oving towards the
amount provides the Treasury
fron t so long as it shall be necessary
about one-tenth o f the entire amount to w age this war. I f a t any tim e we
now being expended by the N ation fo r fa il in this, we must in evitably go
the war. W hile $2,»00,000 is only 2 down, w ith tbs A llies, to defeat. This
cents a day fo r every man, woman, is no exaggeration, but a serious fa c t
and child in the country, the entire It is the purpose o f the U . 8. Pood
cost e f the w ar is but 20
Adm inistration to bring the realisa­
capita a day.
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tion o f this fa ct home to every Am er­
ican man, woman and child, and to
Restriction in the nao o f
enlist the active aid o f our hundred
w hite flour, if continued fo r a year
m illion people in producing and sav­
tw o, m ay result in deereasing doctor’s in g food. The Food Adm inistration is
bills.
Excessive asset
not asking you to
it only
fatten s the doctors’ poekot books. It tlous food fo r another equally nutri­
is assy to form injurious habits o f tious food fo r another equ illy nutri­
eatin g and dislike a suggestion to re­ tious food, thus saving the vita l
form . W o p refer to pay the doctors' staples needed by our arm ies and the
blis.
Now U ndo 8am says reform arm ies and the peoples o f the A llies.
and we don’t want to ba
W e must, during the next three
Florence W est.
months, save wheat especially. Our
surplus has already been skipped
The t iiid lib erty loan to open A p ril abroad, and a hundred m illion bushelf
2, w ill bo fo r 22,060,000,000, and all
over-subscriptions at 4M par cent in­
terest.
Bonds o f the first loan, bearing 3V4 wheat, you are contributing towards
per cent interest, and o f the seco
the hundred m illion bushels needed
lorn at 4 per cent, m ay be converted over there by our figh tin g men and
into tka now bonde, but thoee o f the the exhausted people o f Belgium,
third loen w ill not be convertible into Prance and England, who have fo r
any future issue.
m ore than three years been bearing
^ Oregon men had anticipated a call the brunt o f this w ar. Keep this
fo r a t least six billion dollars a
in mind and bring it before the mind*
eoi.sequentiy figured qn raisin g fifty o f your thoughtlees friends and neigh­
m illion dollars in O re jo «. This w ill bors.”
a tou t eut it in two, m aking the state’s
G E R M A N S A L W A Y S SA V A G E S .
quota about 226,000,000, t o t o f eow
an effo rt w ll bo made to fa r exceed
“ E very villa g e th ey have passed
this.
through has been the victim o f what
is only organised p illage. E very city
has been practically sacked, ran­
sacked on system ; its eitisens plun-
White modKaaboeSUt. "Beet War Tima Beeipee”
R O Y A L B A K IN G PO W D E R OO., D ep t H ,
In U s announcement o f his candi­
dacy fo r renom ination Gov. W ithy-
tars.
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combe w ell says:
According to a report from N ew
Oregon has given tw enty thousand York and Chicago o f some o f the fffc -
o f her sons to the grea t w orld war. tents o f this parcel post m atter to
These men ace the dower o f our the troops, a 12-hour inspection o f the
young manhood and w e have no clear- parcel poet as it was being searched
oe duty than that o f lo ya lly support­ fo r inflamambles and, exploeivea dis-
ing them, providing fo r their health cloeed, am ong other things, 1,642
and com fort'an d safeguarding their boxes o f matches, 261 cans e f solidi­
m orals.
I hall continue to render fied alcohol, 224 cigar ligh ters (a ll o f
thorn every service in m y power.
these o f the greatest menace to the
Under our form o f governm ent the safety o f the s U p ), 1,248 cakes, 8*18
conduct o f a foreign w ar devolves on packages o f candles, 1222 bars o f
the President o f the United State*, chocolate, besides countless scores at
who is com m ander-in-chief o f the useful, as w ell as useless, articles, in­
A rm y and N avy. I shall do every­ eluding a bouquet o f a rtificia l flow ­
thing in m y power to assist the Pres­ ers, a baby ou tfit and a bottle o f whis­
ident in m aking the power o f this key.
country effective in th e great world
The question this state o f affairs
con flict I shall particu larly exercise raises is :
W hy send apples and
every power and authority which I
possess to prom ote a maximum effi­
ciency . in our local industries which
are related to the w ar activities. No;
other duty i* so pressing or a t this
tim e so im portant as th at o f winning
the yrmr. N o sacrifice is too grea t i f
a t practically wholesale prices.
The question w ill have to ba an­
swered by the relatives o f the sol-
diers, or it w ill, o f m ilitary necees
vast quantities at matches, which en­
danger the ship and which is a pen­
iten tiary offense to place even in the
domestic m ails?
Tw o-thirds o f the articles found in
a 12-hour inspection tour when work­
ing the soldiers’ parcel poet are on
General Pershing’s canteen lis t and
sold in retail quantities to the soldiers
GOOD
NEWS.
I t is reported that Gardiner is hav­
ing m ore trouble w ithin Lor schools.
A short tim e ago ono o f tLe teachers
resigned fo r th i alleged cause o f poor
hoalth, and a new tenchey was em­
ployed in o ir place. The news comes
now that this one was diccharged last
week fo r pro-German remarks and
feelin g.— Umpqua Courier.
known to man, tha savings
bank book is th e
w ill
w United mates army
first
af ths samps in tha
try hi mm to tm days, asrmillag to
com «
in
one that
handiest
in
days o f trouble.
G et one o f
those books by
opening an
account w ith this
bank.
It
doesn't taka much to start
an account and it w ill grow
sm asingly i f yon g ive it at-
FARMERS & KRCHUnS BANK
Com m ercial and Saving Deposita
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OREGON
LUM BER
Our Retail Stock
Is Complete
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Estimates for all kinds of building
GLADLY FURNISHED
TOO M UCH S E N T T O S O LD IE R ?.
That the parcel poet mails to sol­
d i « « in France are grea tly burdened
by reason at so many unnecessary ar­
ticles being m ailed, and that there
m ay arise a necessity fo r curtailing
the parcel poet p rivilege to soldiers
shown in the follow in g statement
not by the postoAce depart­
m ent
Recently a governm ent transport
reached France carryin g to the sol­
d i « « a t ths fro n t 715,980 le tte n and
886,840 pieces o f parcel poet and
newspapers. The le tte n weighed 814
tons and the parcels and p a p a « in
excess o f 118 tone.
B y reason o f
the balkiness o f the m ail, this ship­
ment took up in excess o f 12,000 cub­
ic foot o f space on the tran sport This
means a slice o f the/ ship’s cargo
space 100 foot long, 10 fo o t high, and
12 fe e t wide.
The 718*80 le tte n
went Into 846 sacks but the pieces
o f pared poet aad p a p a « requ ire«
7.452 sacks. When this m ail was un­
loaded a t a French port the le tte n
fillod com pletely one o f the small
F rssx * ca n , which a n h a lf the sics
at ths Am erican m all ca n , but the
paresis and p apen required a train
o f 19 eo n .
The m ail that is unloaded from the
«hips m ost frequ ently w a it days at
tha port before c a n can ba spared
the heavily hardened railroads
la France to
ity , be answered drastically by tho
authorities in France charged with
the responsibility fo r the success of
this w *r.
Of All the Books
C O Q U ILLE
I shall stand in the future, as in
the past, fo r rigid law enforcem ent
and fo r a cleaner and greater Oregon.
Oregon is firm ly com m itted to the
principles o f prohibition and equal
suffrage and, w hile they are no longer
issues in this state, I shall continue
to g ive these causes m y fu ll support.
E very legitim ate phase at state de­
velopm ent should be supported, but
at this tim e when our country is en­
gaged ip the most terrib le w ar in the
world’s history the m ost rig id econo­
m y should be observed.
138 Wfflkm S l , New York
FOOD w ill w in the w a r
G O VEBNO R’S P A T R IO T IC W ORDS
Tbs Coquille people did
the W heat
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YOUR ORDER
E. E. JOHNSON
will have our special attention
have alw ays given grea t satisfaction.
I couldn’t recommend them too high­
ly.”
. P rice 60c a t a ll dealers.
Don’t
sim ply ask fo r a kidney rem edy— get
Doan's Kidney P ills— the same that
Mrs. Strattan had.
Foster-M ilbum
Co., M fgrs., Buffalo, N . Y .
a
IT s E asy to Sehd Him
poach o f
Real GRAVELY Chewing Plug
_ Tkat’a thn tobacco fo r hhn—Real Gravely
Ckwwmg Plug—condensed q u a lity -th e moot
tobacco satisfaction in the smallest space, ready
lo giro him tho solid comfort o f tobacco wherever
be happens to be.
JBem eay m u a stow s* Real Gravely Flee. and he w01