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About The Coquille Valley sentinel and the Coquille herald. (Coquille, Coos County, Or.) 1917-1921 | View Entire Issue (July 26, 1918)
o f id W o o T S d e lle il the ritlsens o f the United States moo by t u o and bjr Inverting in Government Wn» Loam. Even 26-cent Thrift Stampa trill bate build teat bridge to Farthing. Wa anil tbam, also War Savin«» Stampa ami “ PEAT FOR FO O TS INTENTIONS” “ General Foeh is not only a scisnti- fle soldier and a keen analyist, but Is s devout Catholic with a touch o f the think much about tha b fttle o f tha mystic,” says a London correspondent o f the New York W orld. “ History ballots hare in Oregon this fall. q s f— — — « mny ask in vain whether tea great Oregon people paid $10,070,079 o f staU gist ascribes the German breaks income and exeeee profits tax to Unde <um this year. There were sixteen districts in the country teat paid lita . No recall petitions have yet been filed with County Clerk Oddy and It Is beginning to be feared tbat the satire movement in some unexplained way The Coquille country never does things by halves. Wednesday night’s dance netted over $400 for the Red Croas. Now let’s braco ourselves for the Fourth Liberty loan drive which begins Sept. 28 and clones Oct. 18, The unreliability o f the United Press urns strikingly demonstrated last Friday when it paddled the rumor that Soissons had bean taken with 80,- 000 prisoners as a bald statement o f fact. Any newspaper or news agency loses vastly more than it c*n possibly gain in trying to make a scoop by telling what is expected to happen as having actually taken place. Our new wheat crop must be re garded as important factor in main taining the strength and morale of the armies and people in Allied Eu rope. Such an achievment can be ac complished only by regarding the coming crop o f wheat as a means for building up a reserve practical and efficient in its possibilities. No mere assets o f domestic convenience can equal the importance o f an adequate reserve.— U. 8.* Food Administration. “ Lest Sunday s mysterious message was whispered by the priests in thou sands o f parishes to tha girls com municants under their charge. They were asked: ‘Pray fo r the intentions o f General Pooh.’ “W ithout understanding the mean ing o f the meeaage nay more than did the priests who gave it to them) the children prayed, and one o f the great defensive snccsssss o f the war was quickly fallowed by a brilliant attack. Thors ,<s direct confirmation o f the natural inference tent General Foch him self asked the prayers o f tbs child ren, but no other explanation seems to fit tbs facts. “Tbs use o f the word ‘intentions,’ which seems to have been universial in the meesnge given to the children, now is seen to refer to the aecretely planned Franco-Am erican offensive. Had General Foch only desired pray ers teat tha German offensive might be stopped, be hardly would have used this word.” A t first blush the thought is that praying fo r intentions o f whose char acter mm knows nothing ia not a very intelligent prayer. But it ia as much so aa tha prayer Americans are offer ing by the tens o f millions daily for the ruccess o f the allied armies. Many times in the dark days o f tha past year, while the Germans ana their-allies were winning ground and taking many prisoners in Russia, in Italy, an,’ m France, we have felt that the Almighty would never permit a people who treated the entire moral law, delivered among the thunders o f Sinai, aa a mere "aerap o f paper,” to d.m ini te the world. In the early days o f the war we were sure our country could not afford to stand an idle spectator and sec the English and v rench beaten down to the dust And inter when the skies were darkest, while we did not expect the Almighty to intervene and do for us what see could and ought te do for ourselves, ere did expect him to nerve the arms o f our soldiers for such work aa they have been doing in France; and ws were sure that the God of Israel who sent his angel o f death to blot out the hoot o f Sennasherib, is reigning yet; and that if all else faded he would break in pieces the German The real solution of the good roads BOW IT S DONE IN K AN 8A8. problem is to make a toll road o f ov Here are some new wrinkiee in the ary public highway permanently im bone dry business in Kansas that we proved end charge every traveler upon find in the American Iseoe: it until the expense o f improving it “ A Topeka citisan went to Kansas is paid. This is done in the case o f City last week and started home with six cases o f bear and a quantity of whiskey. He had hardly crossed the “It v u begaafi that, fai tha trench system, tbat tha Germana fought Juat imagine a law like this in Ore hard, though aome lurrendorad with gon applying not only to auto* but out fighting. Tara o f tbam ran fo r ward, ahouting ‘Kamarad’ to tha to ahi pa and boa ta aa wall young American corporal, who did UNCLE SAM MIGHT In view o f the probable shortage of would have killed tBam but fo r an o f newspaper in the United States during ficer, who told him not to. Than a D m continuance o f Die war the United little later ha waa wounded by a bul State government is demanding teat let, and aa ha stumbled to hia kneea newspapers conserve their supplies by two Germane ran at him with bayo cutting off free exchanges and free net«. Ha bad hia finger on the trig ger o f hia rifle, and abet one dead aa But tha ether Now we can suggest a way in which he cama forward. ‘drew near with bayonet lowered. the United States government can save thousands o f tons o f paper. Last Then,’ aaid tha corporal, who ia no year the Hreald o f this city was more than a boy in looks, ‘I knew 1 merged in the Sentinel Ever since had to get up and fight like a man.' "H e stood up in epite o f hia wound, then we have been receiving from five and, with hia flxt bayonet turned aside to ten circulars a day from the differ ent government officials at Washing a lunge which the German made to ton and Portland, moat o f which it is kill him, and than swung up hia rifle impossible for us to use in any way and cracked the man’a skull. “The other youngster figures that, except to w rite copy on them. Certainly it is worse than a waste to aa he g ot two and a third Germans send two copies o f all these publics- fo r eeeh one o f hia wounds, the bal tions to one office. Multiply this waste ance ia much in hia favor deapito tha in the oftf ease o f burdening the mails fact that the odda were greatly with stuff sent to the Herald by a against him from the first This is thousand— for there were that number how it happened: “ A fter going through the enemy's o f weekly newspapers discontinued wire near Vair wood, he found him lns( year and it is expected an equal number in addition will be this year— self under fire from a machine gun and you begin to realise what a spend hidden in a wheatfield, and waa thrift our Uncle Sam is while urging wounded badly in the thigh with an the strictest economy on the part of armor-piercing bullet designed fo r all members o f his fam ily. F ifty use- tanka. "H e fell at once, but staggering up lass circulars a week to this office for a newspaper no longer published again threw a bomb aji the German means' 2600 a year. For all the news gun-crew and killed four o f them. papers that died in 1917 this would One ran and disappeared into a dug- m e e »' 2,500,000 wasted circulars a ou t The American corporal followed year. Then add forty more needless him down and the man turned to leap circulars each week to the entire 25,- at him in the darkness, but he killed 000 newspapers published in the Unit him with his bayonet “ He went up from the dugout again ed States and the total runs up to over to the light o f day above, and a Ger forty million useless pieces o f printed matter with which C m malls a.'V year man soldier wounded him again, but ly cumbered, and millions o f dollars o f he paid a price fo r the blow with hia own life. the people’s money wasted. “ Another German attacked him, wounded him for a third time, and waa GERMANY’S PEACE PROPOSALS. killed by this lad whose bayonet was Germany begins her peaco offensive so quick. whenever events begin to be unfavor "That made six Germans, and the able; but it is always such terms as seventh was a machine-gunner whom she could only dictate as a victor that ho sh ot By this time the American ■he proposes. O f course, she may be corporal waa weak and bleeding from asking more than she expoets to get his wounds, and while he lay, unable on the horse trade principle; but she to go farther, he hoisted a rag onto has g ot to get down off her high horse his rifle as a signal to the stretcher- before the allies will pay any atten bearers, who came and carried him tion to her proposalr Indeed, the back." only tern s to be thought o f in deal ing with her are unconditional surren der. We know that treaties are no more than a “ scrap o f paper” to bar moment after she deems it to her ad vantage to violate them. Bo, why make them 7 She must conquer or be conquered; there ia no other outcome to the war. Her disposition is typi fied by that o f her private soldiers who after raising their hands and shouting “ Kamerad” in token of-su r render will shoot you in the back the next moment if they get the oppor tunity. They ora a poople as wall as a government upon whom no depen dence can be placed, and tha only course is to crash them, no matter at w fat cost. She will have to come to understand that peace terms arc some thing about which she will have noth ing whatever te say, and that her people are to be governed in the fu - 800,000. For the month o f May those allotments totalled $6,M>0,000. Thirty thousand commissioned officers are al- loting fl.000,000 a month to their fam ilies; noncommissioned officers and privates, M.000,000,000. In addition nearly $60,000,000 o f Liberty loan bonds o f the second Lib erty loen will have been paid for by members o f the Arm y and will bO turned over to purchasers during A s- gust, the payments having been made out o f allotments made fo r the pur pose. 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