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l«aa than two months u 4 » half.
German and Austrian dsad would
require another six weeks for re­
view and the whole total of n
killed in the war on both sides of
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months before they would all p
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Profit Buy Beck es -Etiquette
and Deportment.1*
tired of his job. The President re­
cently said something must be done
with the railroads and at once, but
he had no program to offer. He,
too. realises the failure thus far o f
Government control.
Tw o weeks
after the President spoke Mr. Me­
Adoo appeared with his new plan.
The truth Is that there has been
breakdown In the whole business,
and that the President and Secre­
tary MeAdoo realise It. The latter
meets It with the extraordinary ree-
lendatton that the public per­
mit the Government to continue its
hopeless experiment for five years
Will Congress 4c Itf Not If the
tools of the United States have
anyth tag to Say ahoot It. and they
BIG
“ Madam,” he began, as the doer
opened. “ I am selling a new book
on ’ Etiquette and Deportm ent.'“ I
“ Oh, you are?” she responded.
“ Go down there and dean the mud
from your feet.”
“ Y es’m. As 1 was saying, madam,
I am sell— ”
‘ T a k e off your hstl
Never ad­
dress s strange lady at her door
without removing your hat.”
“ Yes’m.
Now, then, as I w
saying— ”
‘T a k e your hand out of your
pocket N o grtitleman ever carries
his hand there.”
“ Y ee’m. Now, ma’am, this work
on ‘E ti— ”
“ Throw sway your pipe.
If
gentleman uses tobacco, he is care­
ful not to disgust others by tbs
habit”
“ W a it Put that dirty handker­
chief out o f sight and use le
grease on your hair in the future.
Now you look s bit decent.
You
have s book on ‘ Etiquette and De­
portm ent’ Very well, I don’t want
i t I am only the servant girL Go
up the steps to the front door and
talk with the lady o f the house.
She called me a dow n-right no-
doubt-about-it idiot this morn­
ing, and I . think the book you’ rq
selling is just what she requires.” —
Irish World.
As s war measure, our railroads
were taken over from their owners
by the Government a year ago
THUXSDAY. JANUAKY 2, 1919,
They were running in good order
Start the new year right by pay- and many of them were paying div
l a v a year’s subscription for the idends despite the refusal of the
Interstate Commerce Commission to
Graphic.
permit them to increase their rates,
Force of habit has a lot to do and despite the action 'o f Congress
w ith rate’s make-up, but writing it under duress, in increasing wages
1919 will come easy in a few days. to the extent of nearly a quarter of
a billion dollars a year, says Leslie’s
4
Investigations being made go to Weekly.
The
first
thing the Government
aitow that the government officers
did
when
it
took
over the railroads
who improved Hog Island did not
hesitate to put their snouts into the was to do what the railroads had
been forbidden to do under penalty
trough.
o f the Anti-Trust law. The Gov
eminent pooled the earnings of the
When the Doughboys get
home we suppose that on Decora­ railroads, established the use of
tion Day the “ G. A. R. Jr.’s” will joint terminals and combined the
A ll {his would
follow the gray and grlssled vete­ competing’ roads.
have been in direct violation o f the
rans In the
Sherman Anti-Trtut law had it been
H yon must h avi a bottled pro- done by the railroads themselves.
Then the Government cut o ff
d s e t to start the New Tear right
patronise a home industry and pull some Pullmans and observation
th e cork from a bottle o f Jones cars, discontinued some of the fast­
est and most popular trains, ceased,
■m.*a Loganberry Juice.
distributing free time-tables or ” fol
f e times o f stress some localities ders," which had always been given
seem to be hit harder than others. so liberally by the railroads to in­
T ak e Salem, our Capital City, for quiring passengers, restricted the
•■stance, with the flu raging there dining car service and -summarily
and t h e convening o f the legislature put an end to many things that the DISPATCH RIDERS OF TODAY
railroads always had done as com­
naty tw o weeks away.
peting lines, in their desire to se­ Successful Uas of Airplanes Is a War
ef Movement Wae Strikingly
cure the patronage of the public by
No, the editor of the Graphie
Demonstrated.
mat an applicant for -a derkahlpaabr giving the best, quickest and moM
any other position at the coming bi- luxurious service.
As we drove up the hill near
Next
the
Government
raised
onaial session o f the legislature.
Nancy
on September 12 to . the near­
T his for the relief and peace of freight and passenger rates to un­
at tad o f the members from Yamhill, heard-of figures, though the rail­ est corps headquarters a two-seater
roads had been forbidden to make airplane coming from the S t M ihiel
Happy as the proverbial “ clams at even a moderate increase. Past
front volplaned down toward us,
high tide.” the Matthews Bros, of ger rates os Pullmans were almost W illiam Slavena M cN utt writes in
th e Yaqulna Bay News', are master­ doubled, and on ordinary trains in­ Collier’s. W e could see the observer
in g the intraeacies o f a recently creased' by fifty per cent. Freight in the rear seat standing up and
purchased linotype machine
Hap­ rates advanced from twenty-five to
looking down over the fuselage. As
py. o f course, when the wheels go forty per cent
the
plane buzzed over us not more
W ith all this, the service became
sound as they should when being
than
200 feet above, the observer
the worst on record.
The equip­
M anipulated by amateurs.
swung
his arm and a small white ob­
ment was permitted to detereorlate,
ject
with
a two-foot linen tail spread
delays
were
constant,
connections
Our physicians, who have be
rerwhelmed with flu calls, say were seldom made and the conveni­ out behind the speeding plane and
tere are not so many new cases ence of the passengers the last thing came to earth like an arrow. An
For instance, the orderly picked it up and sprinted
*w but that the later ones seem thought of.
I be more severe. They say poo­ through service from the North to with it to headquarters.
ls cannot be too careful in deal the South, which had always been
I t was a report from the fron t not
ig with this plague and that the of the greatest convenience to both ten minutes old. I t would have
sections, was discontinued and pas­
inger is far from beinç over.
taken a foot runner the entire day
sengers from Northern to Southern
Judging from the way some fam points were compelled to change at to collect the m aterial in that z
1 1 !» in Newberg are indulging in Washington and sometimes to wait port and return with it ; it would
luxuries these days it is evident that many hours before they could re­ have taken a dispatch rider on a mo­
there is little cause for protest at sume their journey, ^ »is entailed torcycle hours; it took the airman
minutes, and as the orderly picked
the high living cost. On Tuesday severe hardships.
For the first time in our history up the message the plane above was
afternoon in walking a distance of
a block on First street ten dogs passengers were divided into classes hanking around and heading again
w ere counted, all of which appeared as in Europe. W e had two classes fo r the battle line.
to be in a fair state o f preservation First, those that rode in the coaches
Planes are more than the eyes o f
at three cents a mile, and, second,
the army in a war o f m ovem ent
D. M. Nayberger, the Yamhill those that rode in the Pullmans at
They are the means o f communica­
asunty merchant prince, starts the three and one-half cents a mile.
Mew Year right by placing a full Before a first class passenger could tion as well. The army that owns
fruge advertisement in the Graphic. ride in a Pullman he was obliged the sky holds s short and certain
In case this tendency becomes conta­ to buy his train ticket, often at mortgage on the earth below.
gious we shall give each individual great inconvenience.
NOW JUBT PLAIN "BILL.*
The a la carte service in the din
patient g il the skill and attention
necessary to bring them through ing cars was abolished and everyone1
W illiam I I had more than fifty
safely, using the latest. mgrt ap­ compelled to eat a set meal and pay
titles—
more probably than any Eu­
from a dollar and upward.
The
proved and up-to-date methods.
ropean
sovereign except the Aus­
man. woman or child who wanted a
In the long hard fought years for qup of tea and a slice of toast in a trian emperor. H e was German kai­
prohibition in Oregon -the Orego­ dining egr paid one dollar for it all ser and king o f Prussia, margrave o f
nian editorials touching on the ques­ the same. A ll these Inconveniences Brandenburg, grand duke o f Lower
tion were on the other side, though and hardships were accepted with­ Rhineland and Posen, duke o f Sile­
norsidonslly there appeared a dis­ out a murmur by a pratriotlc public sia, Glatz, Saxony, Westphalia, En­
couraging note regarding the use of because we were at war.
gem , Pomerania, Luneburg, H ol­
Now, after the war is over, and
the weed. Now the Oregonian is
stein-Schleswig, Magdeburg, Bre­
unite a consistent supporter of pro­ when patrons o f the railroads are
men, Geldern, Cleve, J u lien and of
hibition, while it goes so far as to eager for the restoration of the old
the
Csssubee, landgrave o f Hesee
■«aeowngv the tu t o f cigarette*. order o f things. Hr. VCAdOO sud­
V erily, times and seasons and 'men denly asks for five years more in and o f Thuringia, prince o f Orange,
and newspapers make some queer which to experiment with Govern­ count-prince o f Henneburg, count o f
ment control. He admits that the the Mark, o f Ravensburg, o f Hohen­
tl<
Government has not made a success stein, o f Lingeh and Mechlenburg,
The fellows who argue that a of its efforts during the past year. o f Mansfield, Sigmaringen, Ver­
He knows, what the public should tagen, and o f H ohenzollem ; bur-
w ar is a necessary e r il' coming at
Intervals to kill off a sufficient know, that the Government's ex­ jrave o f Neurem burg; siegneur o f
number o f people to make room for travagant and inefficient manage­
Frankfurt, Rügen,. East Friesland,
the constantly increasing popula­ ment has led to heavy loss in the
Paderborn, Prym ont, Halberstadt,
tion, ought to be satisfied with the operation o f railroads, in spite of
Munster,
Minden, Osnabrück-, H il-
decimation made in the population the tremendous increase in freight
deshefm,
Verden,
Kammin, Fulda,
o f the world In the recent man k ill­ and passenger rates.
in g bout. A mere naming of fig ­
It looks as if Mr. MeAdoo was Nassau and Moers.
ures enumerating the dead is so d if­
ficu lt o f comprehension to the hu­
man mind that comparisons are re­
paired for most of us.
Here are
some estimates made by the New
York Tribune that are appalling:
I f the British dead alone, for tn-
atnace, were to march down any
street SO abreast, and with the rows
on ly three feet apart they would
pass a given point from sunrise to
sunset without a break for ten long
d ays
It would take another 11
for the French dead to file
the same thoroughfare. Bus­
s’s tosses la killed would require
• time o f more than five weeks
pass tbs given point In the spec-
end the dead o f all
M
could not be
vsNtx
LESSON
POBIDD1M DIET.
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“ Now, getting down to brass
tacks,” continued the sideshow man­
ager, “ why— ”
“ I daren’t,” interrupted the Hu­
man Ostrich, who had been/ill. ‘T h e
doctor says I mustn’t touch solid
ood fo r at least a week y e t” — Buf-
alo Express.
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continuing throughout the month
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offering the entire stook at ONE-HALF price and lest This stock must
be sold in eider to make room for our Urge new and up-to-date Use of
spring goods.
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R egular $5 tailored and sprat hats at $1.50 each
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FIGHT YILLOW FBVBR.
“ D o you object to your boy’s
THK SUGGESTION.
studying the German language?”
“ N o t a bit. It won’t make the
Miss Caustic— These me
slightest difference. H e never learns oritkiae so severely the wearing o f
his lessons.”
overalls and trousers by women at
work, amuse me.
GOOD-BY, GRACH
M r. Curious— W hy so?
Miss Caustic— Because the
' M yrt— I see Groce is going into-
who
are the loudest in a—
war work.
are sure to be the oaos whoos
Gert— France?
wear
the breeches at boom, f
M yrt— No, married.
D r. George R. Vincent, president
o f the Rockefeller foundation, an­
nounced recently that with the ces­
sation o f hostilities in France the
foundation was prepared to direct
its activities, largely diverted into
war channels, bade into ways o f
peace.
Its
international
health
board would renew at once in co­
operation with local authorities in
South and Central Am erica its com­
bat against yellow fever.
Dr. W illia m C. Gorgas, retired
from the post o f surgeon general on
account o f age, soon w ill sail to take
charge o f the foundation’s fight
against yellow fever. The poeitioa
o f director o f yellow fever work,
which General Gorgas now occupies,
was his, Doctor V inoept says, until
the war compelled him to relinquish
it and the foundation to suspend its
efforts.
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“ W hat is Miss Soreleafs age?”
“ It's very uncertain.”
“Tear
“ She won’t adm it that she has
ever ridden on a horse-drawn street
car.” — Birm ingham Age-H erald.
GA« WITHOUT MITER.
The Editor— M y dear sir, we can't
publish nonsense tike this— it's not
poetry ot all, it’s an escape o f goo.
P oet— Ah,
I
see.
Something
wrong with the meter.— London T it-
Bits.
MAYBE BO.
■ABILY MOVED.
“ Any; Any Old Place I can H aag
fy H at Is Home, Sweet Horae, to
fe.’ Do you remember that song?”
“ Tee. WhGt brings ft to mind T*
’ T h e kaiser. H e’s said to be b p
m L
I wonder if he’s singing it
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