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NEWBERG, YAM H ILL COUNTY, OREGON. THURSDAY. SEPTEMBER 19, 1918
VOL. XXIX
DR. JOHN S. RANKIN
TELLS ABOUT FRANCE
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Of the B ig Feather Beds and the
Hospitality of the French
People
where we room has lost her son, a
lieutenant, at the front.
Poor old
thing— she cries bitterly every time
she looks at his picture. The French
are surely suffering— 35 men lost
out of a little village of perhaps
400.
If 1 ever get home, which I
think I shall, 1 will surely tire you
of my dlacription of these people
and countries. It- gives you a new
insight into life. I am a very poor
French student, only learned a few
at a rest camp, for the first time tn DEM AND FOB EDUCATED MT/W
about seven months, and it sure STRONGER T H A N EV ER BEFORE
seems good to be able to clean up
again.
I have bad four baths In
Pacific Colege has postponed its
three days. You see ^ am making
opening till September 30, in order
up for lost time.
that the pupils of tbe college may
Harry, Earl and R a y m o n d ^ « all
assist in getting in the prune crop.
camped close and are looking fine.
All students are expected to register
W e were together quite a bit at thq
oa the 30th, however, and work will
last front we were on.
W e have
begin In all departments October 1.
been on four different fronts and
In accordance with the earnest
tbe last time we had the "8quare
and continuous advice of the United
Heads” running so fast we could
Slates authorities. Pacific College
hardly keep up with them. The
Id seeking to keep up its work to
ground was covered with dead
t$e fullest possible extent. It is the
Dutchmen so we could hardly keep
afcn of the college authorities to
from runalng over them with the
mpke this “ the best year yet.”
caissons.
In fact, I think 1 did
That it is the duty of everyone
ran over one's arm one night. Our
vfbo can do so to attend college
losses in killed were small compared
should be 'elear from such statements
with thein.
a t these from President Woodrow
My battery was cited in General Wilson:
Orders st ^'Cantigny” and my Di­
“ T h a t.. . .. . .in so far as the draft
vision was cited by General Persh­
fepr will permit, there should be no
ing for our work in the big battle.
falling off in attendance In elemen-'
My regiment was' also cited by the
t«ry schools, high schools or col­
battle.
leges Is a matter of the very great­
August 10.
est importance, affecting both our
I started this quite awhile ago strength in war and our national
as you can see but will try and fin­ vfelfare and efficiency when the
So long as the war
ish it this time.
W e have moved rdhr is over.
twice in the meanwhile, and I think ^ epatinues there will be constant
are settlea for awhile now. W e are nted of very large numbers of men
camped in a good place and have aad women of the highest and most
(borough training for the war ser­
stables for our horses.
My billet is in what used to be a vice In many lines. After the war
mill, run by water power. It is a there will be urgent need not only
whole lot better than sleping out in tm trained leadership In all lines
the rain and keeping our horses on of industrial, commercial, social and
a picket line as we have been doing. civic life, but for a very high aver-
It has rained quite a bit lately and *ge of Intelligence and preparation
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it Is not uncommon to get up in the on the part of all tbe people.
morning feeling like n drowned rat. would therefore urge that the peo­
I have a dandy bunk now.
I ple continue to give generous sup­
made a frame 8 feet 8 inches by 8 port to their schools of all grades,
feet out o f~ poles and wire and and that the schools adjust them­
Ktretehed some old telephone wire selves as wisely as possible to the
across it for springs. I hung this new conditions to the end that no
from the ceiling by more wire, put boy or girl shall have leas oppor­
some hay on it, spread my blankets tunity for education because of the
over the whole works and am ready war, and that the nation may be
strengthened as it only can be
for a real sleep.
through the right education of all
Raymond got an H. S. Annual
Its people.”
the other day and it sure looked good
Hon. P. P. Claxton, United States
to me. It id* the first thing in the
0tAmisei«mer of Education, writes
line of s paper from home I have
in a letter to educators throughout
seen in s long time as I haven’t re­
the country:
ceived any home papers in almost
“ With the increase in the need
five months.
I have been lucky,
Somewhere in France, July 31.
Since t last wrote you we traveled
about 400 miles, twio days and two
nights on the train. The men pack-! wonU 80 far’ but 1 must learn more
ed into cars marked 8 homnos 40 W e will have to leave our lockers,
Chevaux, meaning 8 men or 48 perhaps lose most of our stuff we
horses. 8orely not very comforta- took with us.
The Y. M. C. A. has'only opened
ble.
The officers were bat little
a
small canteen selling cigarette«,
better off. W e had a carriage with
cigars,
a little chocolate and a few
compartments, the same as the Eng­
cookies,
practicably all sold out
lish, but with an aisle running
within
a
few
daya.
through the car, the same as an
Every man must be in his billet
American car, except smaller, the
seats facing the same as In a sleep­ at 9 p. m. I go to bed early, and
outside o f thg i w barn and tho pig
er. We found a way of fixing the
reo, which are under the sami i >f
seat cushions, like a sleeper, only
as my home, keeping everything
«boat two feet shorter. Lieut. Hoes,
L ie u t Bunnle Burchard and myself perfumed witn a farmlike odor, I
s i t)' fine.
all three slept in a row, all spooning,
I Just disc iveied thit a. m. the
with our knees doubled up. When
roitoD
for a ¿tick like a br • *k stick
one turned over, we all did— got
that stands nrai M r bed-« — the ma­
some sleep and had a lot of fun.
W e changed cars 12 miles from here dam« uses it to put the beautifully
cojored bed spread hack over our
to a narrow gauge railroad, came
beds, so that It is smooth and nice.
within six and one-half miles of Our
She can Just reach acroai the bed
destination, and we walked that dis­
with the y a rl title*' when she stands.
tance. .
I will take off my hat tc the French
We are now billeted in a little
French village that has lost 35 men when it conies tc making a bed.
In the service, and they seem so Mamma would. ! am sure, have to
poor, so very poor. The streets are use the stick to tuck two little giri<-
narrow and full o f cows, horses and In bed if they were here; she could
chickens, and last but not least, a never reach to pin them in. but that
great many children.
They Judge would not be necessary, for you sink
the wealth of a family by the Biie of out of sight in tbe soft beds,- and
the manure pile on the street In besides the canopy keeps all the wind
off,
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front of the house.
One thing sure a bouse furnished
1 was billeted in one of the most
delightful rooms (after entering). as these are would preclude any pos­
We have the best rooms in the best sibility of moving. It would take
bouses, and the dear old people six men and a team of horses to
treated me like a king.
The old move the bed alone. Speaking of
man makes hand-made scissors--in horses. I saw six yoke of oxen yes­
f%ct. that seems to be the chief oc­ terday, four great white ones and
cupation of the men.
Of course two black and white. They were
very large and one of them very
they have their cqwa. their horses
cross. I do not know that I blame
and their farms, with some American
McCormick binders, but I am wan­ him any for they had their yokes
dering front my “ home.” The first fastened on top of their heads, with
thing one would naturally notice padding underneath, all fastened to
after our trip on the train was the their great horns, so that they though, in geting lots of letters.
bed._ Some bed. believe me! In the could not move their beads or brush
flroi^pjace the bed is about six feet the flies from their eyes, and they
PACIFIC COLLEGE NOTES
high. Well, it Is really five feet— were literally blinded with hun­
a wooden bed with high posts, two dreds of flies.
foot mattress, a feather tick and
then a great mammoth feather pil­
low, almost as large as the mattress,
covered with red, or some bright
color, then lace, or a sort of a win­
dow curtain draped over the pillow,
then two mammoth pillows at the
head, dressed in wliite, and from .the
celling drape da canopy of bright
colored material, like a tent, with an
opening where you crawl in when
you go to bed. Before bed time the
madame removes the mammoth pil­
low, the two head pillows and places
a long bolster for your head.
Everything seems to be built to last
for
centuries.
Greatgrandfathers’
clocks striking their chimes, great
chests, beautiful in their age. Ev­
erything, the streets and all, just
like the pictures I have always
thought were fiction. The floors arc
of stone, the wails of stone, the
roofs of tile and slabs of stone.
They climb up ladders to the sec­
ond floor, which have hay and old
furniture stored therein. The lad­
ders are on the outside of the
house. You have seen it all in the
picture shows. The narrow winding
streets, the chickenB, the dogs, cows,
children and the ladders to the mow.
The men are billeted in the upper
stories on hay mats. It is ail so dif­
ferent, so strange, and yet so inter­
esting.
The room that I was first billeted
in I gave up In order to be with Cap­
tain McMartln.
We each have a
bed of the same kind that I describ­
ed. the same style of furniture, clock
and all but not so large or elegant
- -no chair, but It is all right.
We have received no mall.
I
write in sections, a few lines at a
time. Wb have some real hardships,
but not so fa d as we will have when
we move to the front. We are out
of all danger now, and will be for a
month yet.
We have been very
short of rations, but are messing.
Seven of us are now eating in a fine
old home with a piano in the room.
They probably have six horses and
twelve cows, so they are rich. The
foods are obtained from the com­
panies in the regiment. We are not
allowed to buy. any food except milk
and eggs from the French people. I
must tell you that the old lady
Since beginning this letter I was
given an opportunity to take a long
ride with the Colonel, going to all
the nearby towns and the Division
Headquarters.
Then he told me
that 1 was making good and he had
me slated to be sent to school which
if true, will be very good news.
The country looks a great deal
like the trip to the Coast from Dal­
las. on through K ing’s Valley, the
roads are magnificent, built o f some
sort of crushed limestone that forms
a sort of cement, and makes a very
white dURt, which covered everyone
on the road.
I said awhile ago that the coun­
try reminded me of parts of Oregon.
There is a difference in the setting.
You never pass a single farm house.
You will see in the distance the red
tile roofs, the church steeple, with
a cluster of trees, and as you speed
along the beautiful tree bound roads
you suddenly find yourself In the
narrow winding streets of the vil­
lage. the children, chickens and
dogs scattering in every direction.
The larger cities, as at Division
Headquarters, are the same style,
narrow, crooked streets like Oregon
roads. The trail becomes a high­
way and continues into the the
streets o f the town, only here the
toot of man first made the path,
then the trail and finally the street
and road centuries ago.
There still remain evidences of
the German Invasion of this coun­
try, which I believe, was in 1870.
One old man at Division Headquar­
ters told us today, with tears stream­
ing down hte cheeks, that he had
lost six sons at the front, and our
dear old grandmadame showed me
the medals that her son, the lieu­
tenant.had won. crying all the
while.
The French have suffered,
and look forward to deliverance by
the Americans. It surely is a cruel
old war.
All of you write add tell me every
little thing. It will read mighty
good to me. You almost cry when
others get letters and you get none.
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LETTE R
FROM
FRED
H O RNING
August 2—
W e are now back from the front
Of the men who have graduated
from Pacific College during the in­
cumbency of President Penningtqn,
almost two-thirds are now in war
work, some in the army, some in
the navy, some in government em­
ploy along other lines, and some in
the Friends War Relief service un­
der the direction o f the French and
American governments.
Of last
year's men in college, just half are
in war service. The other half are
planning to go on with their edu­
cation, as the government advises,
or they have already taken up ag­
ricultural work or are planning for
war work of some sort.
Miss Addle E. Wright, head of the
History department of Pacific Col­
lege last year, has accepted the po­
sition of matron of the girls' dor­
mitory, Kanyon Hall, for the coming
year.
The position is one of re­
sponsibility. and it is felt that Miss
Wright is admirably fitted for the
work.
Every student who completed the
commercial course, of Pacific Col­
lege last spring has an excellent po­
sition. and there are continual calls
for others who have taken this
work. The commercial department
ought to be well filled the coming
year.
There never was a time
when the call was so great for those
who were commercially equipped,
especially along the line of short­
hand and typewriting.
Colonel Rees, head of the work of
the Student Army Training Course,
in advising Friends' colleges to go
on with their regular educational
programs, without military training
says, to quote his own words:
“ There is no higher type of loyalty
than that which members of the So­
ciety of Friends have shown in
their unselfish service abroad, and
if they maintain their colleges in
this crisis and go on wltb the educa­
tion of those who are available for
it, that, too, will be a fine piece of
loyalty, and the government will
heartily recognise It as such.” Col­
onel Rees gives the assurance that
no college will be discriminated
against because of its lack of mili­
tary training. This sort or work is
neither expected nor desired of the
Friends’ colleges.
No. 50
* larger attendance than
that
w(jth TEACHING FORCE OF
1 wh,cl\. last year closed. The work
THE N E W B E R G SCHOOLS
' will Include the regular college and
preparatory courses, and in addition
Following is the list of teschar*
work in vocal and instrumental mu­
for the Newberg schools tor tha
sic, and a thorough course in com­
coming year.
mercial studies, including shorthand
A. C. Stanbrough, Superintendent.
and typewriting, for which there
C. L. Van Wormer, Principal o f
is such great demand.
Grades.
Anyone interested in education for
Alma E. Stone.
tbe coming year shoul& apply to
Leona Jackson.
President Pennington for informa­
Daisy Newhouse.
tion and literature.
Effie Terrell. ^
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..Mabel Rush.
M ISCELLANEOUS SHOW ER
Josephine Bradley.
G IV E N MISS TE88ΠM YERS
Nell D. Chapin.
Zella Williams.
Allte McDonald.
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A very pleasant social affair was
Murl Hod son.
tbe miscellaneous shower given in
Laura C. Morris.
honor of Iflas Tesste Myers at the
Wilma Duncan.
Fred L. Ames home last Tuesday
Tbeo Duncan.
evening on account of her approach­
Anna Baker.
ing marriage to Earl Plnney.
Grace Wilson.
A very clever mock wedding which
was staged by the guests caused High School—
H. A. Wright, Principal.
much merriment.
G. W. Brace, Science and Math­
The guest of honor was then pre­
dated with a large basket laden ematics.
Ruth Romig, English.
^
with mysterious looking packages
Mary
E.
Jonas,
History
asé
and her friends were asked to guess
their contents.
The untying of Mathematics.
Evadne Harrison, Languages.
ribbons revealed many beautiful
Jessie Harrltt, D. 8. and D. A.
gifts for the bride-elect to Mse In
Olive
Wilson, D. 8. and Science.
her new home.
Elma
Paulsen,
English
a
Those enjoying the affair were
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the' Misses Tessie Myers, Grace History. *'
Myers, Effle Plnney, Sadie Switzer,
VelmaMcConkie, Tessie Oard, Gladys
Nichols, Evah. Hadley, Ruth Not-
tage, Blythe Owen, Sylvia Cornell,
Mabel Homibrook, Cora Conway,
Maude Everest, Merle Yarnell, Ed­
na Forsyth, Stella Badley, Lula
Cory, Claire Gumealus, Eva Parrett,
ttye hostesses, Mina Ames, Lena
Hornlbrook Frances and Lelah Hev-
l&nd. Mrs. Myers, Mrs. Pinney and
Mrs. Byron Brown.
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MR. A N D MRS. F. M. B R Y A N
FA R M IN G IN
IDAHO
Following is a letter received
from Mr and Mrs. F. M. Bryan, of
Jerome, Idaho:
Kind Sir— Eaeloeed
find
check
N E W B E R G CHURCH SERVICES
Baptist
What is the most discussed and,
perhaps, the least understood topic
that has connected itself with tha
Baptist church? Yes, you have ft.
“close communion.” It is the sub­
ject of the most Jokes, the occasion
for the bitterest disputes, the rea­
son for the most hard feeling, aad
tbe victim of the poorest logic o f
anything that is called “ Baptistic.’*'
It might be a good plan for some o f
us to get cleared in our thinking:
on this subject. It is accordingly to.
be the subject of the sermon next
Sunday morning. * - “Clone Commun­
ion— Is It ‘Baptistic* and W hat If It
Is?" This i$ our tqgic for the dis­
course.
You are invited to come
and bring your friends if you are
interested in the doctrine of "close
for the renewal of our subscription.
We feel we cannot get along without
our home paper. ^Although very
for labor, wages have increased to busy we find time to read home
such an extent that the temptation news. *
becomes ever stronger for the older
Mr. Bryan and I are very pleas­ communion.”
boys and girls to leave school and antly located on a 240 acre wheat
The Sunday school meets at 10 a.
work for wages, and for teachers to and alfalfa farm. Mr. Bryan fills m. You will find a hearty welcome
leave their work for other forms of the position af irrigator and myself there for you. Men. come and help
employment in which the pay is as cook and housekeeper.
Have us find the good things in the book
larger. But for the strength of the|i250 tons of hay in the stack and of Romans.
country in war and for its welfare will commence the third cutting the
B. Y. P. U. at 7 p. m. in the Sun­
and safety after the war Is over, the 26th of this month. Farm help is day school room.
means and processes of education so scarce the neighbors exchange
Evening union service in th\
must not be neglected nor allowed work when possible. Otherwise the Baptist church at 8 o’clock.
to become less effective than they women make hands in the field. It
are now. No boy or girl must have is a common sight to see girls run­
Presbyterian
less opportunity for education be­ ning all kinds of farm machinery.
cause of the war.
The people in this state surely con­
Morning service at 11, sermon by
“ If the war Is long, we shall need serve in every way. They use no
pastor. "Jesus in Social L ife," of the
very large numbers of men and wo­ grain sacks but haul in wagon boxes
series on Jesus in the Book of John.
men with scientific knowledge and to granaries or elevators.
Evening sfervice at 8, union ser­
The farmers ar? expecting to get
trained skill for the grades of ser-
vice in i he Baptist church.
vice which cannot be rendered by ! a good price for their hay. as there
Sabbath school at 9:15 and Y. P.
the millions of men and women of a are thousands o f sheep wintered
S. C. E. at 7.
lower grade of education, and with­ here every winter and the scarcity of
Neglecters of Christ’s church,
out which the efforts of these mil­ hay will be a great help to boost
neglect Christ.
So choose some
lions will be of little value. When prices here where it is so plentiful.
Christian church andattend it faith­
We have had a very warm summer
the war is over and the days of re­
fully
construction have come, the call up­ but it has been favorable to the
on this country for men and women growth of crops, with plenty of wa­
Christian
of the highest aiukbest training for ter.- Every garden has an abun­
. |
help in rebuildin^^he world will be dance of melons and tomatoes.
Services for the week are as fol­
Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Bryan.
large and Insistent.
For our own
lows:
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good and for the good of 'the world
Sunday morning at 11 o’clock C.
we should be able to respond gener­ BANANAS CALLED AID TO
R. Chapin will give a patriotic ad­
ously.
Conditions in this country
IDLENESS IN LEGEND
dress'* on the Fourth Liberty Loan.
and our position among the peoples
In the evening ' the pastor w ill
of the world will require of us a
Bananas, according to a legend cur­ speak on "Keeping the Command­
higher level of Intelligence and civic
righteousness than we or any other rent In tropical countries, ar# the orig­ ments."
inal “apples” of the Garden of Eden
people have yet attained.
This
Tuesday a Iter noon at 2 o’clock
—along with the serpent and Mrs.
must be insured largely through the Adam, the cause of man’s fall. At Indies’ Aid meets.
education of our schools.
Midweea prayer, meeting on Wed­
least, they tend to serve a similar pur­
“ I am therefore writing to you. . . pose in these tiroes, because they are nesday evening at 8 o’clock.
Y. P. S. C. E. and Junior En­
asking your assistance in a nation­ almost equal to the coconut palm a«
deavor meets at 7 o’clock on Sunday
wide campaign for keeping otir an aid to idleness.
schools of all grades and kinds up ' An acre of bananas will yield 50 evening.
A cordial invitation is extended
to their full measure of efficiency, times as much food as an acre of po­
tatoes and 150 times ss much as wheat. to you to attend any services.
and to prevent as far as possible any
The banana is immune to almost every
falling off in attendance."
plant disease and has fewer Insect
Pacific College, following the enemies than any other fruit. It will
Free Methodist
advice given by the government au­ grow on poor land, if need be, and
thorities, is following the course will distance any weed or shrub that
There will be Sabbath school and
suggested for the Quaker colleges of tries to contest its claim to soli and class meeting hut no Sunday even­
the country, in the fullest accord sunlight.
ing services in the Free Methodist
The Imnana is the “ neither fish, church while Rev. Htght Is away
with the United States government.
The courses of study will be changed Hesh, nor fowl" of the plant king­ on a vacation.
dom. It is usually classified as a
a bit on account of the war. but the
Geo. G. Edwards, Class Leader.
tree, but It Is not a tree. Although I t '
main college will seek, as advised attains a height of 30 feet there is j
by the government. “ That Friends no wood (liter in the stalk. The|
Dundee Church
should go straight ahead with their hunches of fruit on the dwarf varie­
college program as formerly, en­ ties are often heavier than the re­
The Sunday school service will be
It ts not a held on Sunday as usual at 10 a. m.
deavoring to give the best education mainder of the plant
tn their power, emphasizing the es­ palm, nor an herb, nor a hu«h. nor a conducted by E. H. Ahderson, and
sentials of good citizenship, giving shrub, and it la not a vegetable. In i the pastor will preach at 11 a. m.
some distant way It may he related
the most efficient physical train­
(o the grasses, but the relationship This being the last service before
ing.’’ etc.
Is so distant that it stands In a class conference It will be o f speial in­
Already the college is assured of a by Itself.
terest.
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