THE SCARLET CROSS
Margaret Widdemer
Of the Vigilantes.
Whatla It (lint you do today, who lift the Scarlet Cross?
For all Hi.' withered world In down kn.rtiin and In loss,
a- '. ail the world heart clashing sword, .and heart no sound leas piaia
What can you do who lift the Croat, but 1 6 en I to fight again 1
We guard the women left alone, fceartbraxen for their dead,
Wt iiaMe.the children wandering abera all save Fear has Hed,
We raise again the broken towns swept down by snot and aboil.
We heal again Uio broken souls hopeless itom learning Hell
Oh, the wbo saw but Orlef and Hate aae now our red sign plain
We anv tbe kiiiI world's soul alive tiiat Wwi-tainl nearly slnln I
Compare Your Baby's
First Four. Years
With This
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Ill-
Bombardments Cannot
Drive This Woman Back
She Thinks Coffee for Soldiers
More Important Than Safety.
Tho following eifrects ire taken
from a letter, written by a Hed Croat
Canteen worker, Helen McKlhone, an
American woman and college graduate
now located In a district almost eon
atantly under bembardment:
"Foyer dea Allies.
"Harle-Ouc.
"Things look very black to aae. I
am discouraged nt tho big outlook of
affalra and also at my tmtll doings.
but It may bo Abe blsckness that comas
before down. J.et us hope to. Our
men certainly naad help now at much
at the poll us. am beginning to
tee those who have been at tho
front. , In fact, I an beginning to too
tome of the results of (Ills life. They
are tick and homesick, and worse
things have happened to them. Sev
eral have oald : 'All we ask lo to get to
the front and do what wo have to da
Anything la better than this Ufa. . . .'
This morning wo btd more Americans
than f hara aaan l..f. a ,. !..
sxsaass m BBSS) asj ovru UTK'IT lit UMW llWf.
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One came up to me here tt 1
drawing coffee from ,g niiinniie as
fust us J uouid till cups and, pointing
to bis pipe, mild. "I'ohac, inline.' I
snld, 'Io you unt some tobacco T' He
NtBtt stunned for a moment and
then aald: 'XMi you know It nenrly
gave ioc a tit lo hear you speak F.iig
llsh. 1 haven't ihaard a woman apeak
English In flv Months.' Ho aald he
had been walking about In the cold
since four o'clock last night He
couldn't Bud a hotel or a bright light
because, of com se, everything It closed
and darkened on account of the bom
bardmenta. . . . The Americana are
very fond of ham sandwiches. They
eat .much more than the French sol
diers, and when they Mi-mi came In and
ordered alx egga apiece it caused con
sternation throughout the land. The
funniest thing of ail la to kcar the
Sammies grandly urging these wealthy
f.ngiixh girls to 'keep the cliaiiKt- -oh,
keep the change I' ... We start the
day at Ave and work continuously un
til nine, when three fresh cantlnlenas
relieve us. At rive we go on for tu
evening shift from Ave to eight, Hits'
H it the moat exciting and exhausting
at the shifts. There It a certain time
when they come down on na like a
flood, eight or ton deep around the
counter and three or four hundred al
together ha this little room, as eager
and tired at schoolboys."
The foregoing letter indicates that
our soldiers look to the Red Cross
Canteen at tu oasis In a desert. They
would not have It If It were not for
your lied Croat.
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A Business Should be
as Big as Its Job
If bigness is of benefit to the
public it should be commended.
The size of a business depends upon the
needs which that business is called upon to
serve. A business should be as big as its
job. You do not drive tacks with pile
driver or piles with a tack-hammer.
Swift A Company's growth has been
the natural and inevitable result of na
tional and international needs.
Large-scale production and distribution
are necessary to convert the live stock of
the West into meat and by-products, and
to distribute them over long distances to
the consuming centers of the East and
abroad.
Only an organization like that of Swift A
Company, with its many packing plants, hun
dreds of distributing houses, and thousands
of refrigerator cars, would have been able to
handle the varying seasonal supplies of live
stock and meet the present war emergency
by supplying, without interruptien:
First The U. S. soldiers and the Allies
in Europe by shipping as much as 800 car
loads or meat products in a tingle week!
Second The cantonments In the United
States.
Third The retailers upon whom the
American public depends for its daily
supply of meat.
But many people askDo producers and
consumers pay too much for the complex
service rendered?
Everyone, we believe, concedes the effi
ciency of the Swift fit Company organization
in performing a big job in a big way at
minimum of expense.
Swift ft Company's total profit in 1917 waa
less than 4 cents on each dollar of sales of
meat and by-products. Elimination of this
0rofit would have had practically no effect on
live stock and meat prices.
Do you believe that this service can be
rendered for less by any other conceivable
method of organization or operation?
la t18 little Marie, wna pern n
lege not fur from Mesleres. U
Artlennes.
In Itfj-i. Aliirlc's father, called lo the
colors, fell at the Murne. And Murle
and her mother stayed In the village,
which wat now In the (Jerinnris' hands.
In 1013 a potter wns pasted up on
the door f tho village church, and
that night Marie's mother vanlabed,
along with a scone r more of other
women.
In 1016 Maria wat stfai living In that
village existing through Uie charity
of the few elderly talk the Hermans
permitted to stsy.
lo 1017 Msrle, with ail the children
under fourteen years and all Uie old
people left alive la Hue village, waa
bundled Into a crowded car and
shipped Into Germany, round throngs
Su-ltaerleud and thence Into Kraut,
arriving at Bvlan. Mho waa underfed,
of courte, emaciated, ttckly. dirty, loo
lightly dreased for the time of year.
And the came Into Kvlan with not s
relative, not s friend left In sil franco
to take care of her.
Wbo took her? Your Ited Croat t
Over there In Bvlsn your Red Cmsa
took charge of her, cared for her la
the Rod Croat Children's llosnlisl.
clothad her, fed her, built up her
strength, taught her to play and then
helped the French authorities II nd Iter
a HOME.
Multiply Marie by 000 sod you will
have some Idea of Just one day's work
your Red Croat doet al Bvlan. It Is
only one of the Red Cross activities In
France, to be sure hut for Juat that
one tlone can you help being proud of
it? Can you help being glad you tire
a member of It. supporting Its great
i work of humanity T Can you help want-
i Ing It to go on helping the Maries and
, the "grand daddies" that come in at
! Evlan?
WIIKX (IIKKINH MM BKMT
Chickens in any general ("heme of
poullry production, of nurse, mual
lako first pIhcii. They am beat adapt
ed to general conditions, take u wider
Lingo of feeds anl convert them, per
iiapa. with tin; grsattH margin of
profit. fhlrkciiH, heller than any
other class of poultry, utilize table
scrapa and the general run of waste
from the kitchen door, all tho way
from apple and potato parings to sour
milk. Chickens far surpass til
other kinds of poultry In salvaging
waste grain from tho stables, from
shed or lot where the cattle are fed,
and from hog pint. During the win
ter months, on farms where any
ronalderahle number of live stock
aro kept the hena -would take their
living from these sources with only
i light additional feeding from time
to tins, Chickens aro great destroy
era of Insects, Including many injuri
ous forms, In yard, pasture, and
orchard They utilize, also, many
grasses and weeds, and seeds from '
tho same, that would otherwise he1
of no use. Except In isolated Instanc
es, the part of wisdom would be, un
doubtedly to keep more chickens
than all other kinds of poultry com
bined, but there should be, In a ma
jority of cases, some of all the other
common kinds of poultry.
o-
It Is claimed that Mtlmnlan.
Georgia, lias tho largest Jackass In
tho state Now hunt ui the list of
Georgia's representatives In Congress
I and start a guessing contest.
Last year's Cornell football team
Is going into tank service They will
nur the ordinary lank armament and
weapons. Rut theae may not be
necessary, for the football yell Is
likely to scare the enemy to death.
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
It is most important when your Ford Car re
quires mechanical attention that you place it in
charge of the authorized Eord dealer, because
then you are sure of having- repoirs and replace
ments made with genuine Ford-made materials
by men who know all about Ford cars. So
bring your Ford to us where satisfaction is
guaranteed. Prompt, efficient service at all
times and Ford cars if you wish to buy; Run
about $435; Touring Car $460; Coupelet $56
Town Car $rt95; Sedan $645; One-Ton Truck
Chassis $600 -all f. o. b. Detroit.
BURNS GARAGE
BURNS AND CRANE
It Is said that when Lenlne finish
es hit work in Russia ho will come
over here And sho.tly after hit
landing we predict a scarcity of fea
ther pillows In his Immediate neigh
borhood.
Cut This ihn It Is Worth Money
DON'T MISS THIS. Cut out this
slip, enclose with five cents to relay
A Co., 2136 Sheffield Ave., Chicago.
III., writing your name and address
dearly. You will receive is return
a trial package containing Foley's
Honey sad Tar Compound, for
coughs, coldt and croup. Foley Kid
soy Pills and Foley Cathartic Tab
lets. Sold by Reed Bret.
Wants To Help Other Mi
M. W. Tsylor, Calvert, Ala
"To Whom It May Concern
om mended Foley Kidney I'll
nest i have ever used. I tried i
eot remedies, but none gave
iter like Foley's. They restore)
Isr sctlon of kidneys and bladdi
relieve backache, rhumatir
surr joints, sore muscles. Ha
Reed Bros.
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THE TRAIN THAT SAVED
A NATION
How the Red Cross Helped
Rou mania.
Thass questions snd others srs answered rally
snd frsnkly in the Swift A Company 1018 Year
Book sent frss on request.
Address Swift A Company, U. 8. Yards, Chicsgo
Swift & Company, U.S. A.
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I Have you beard of what happened
lo Roumanla when that stricken nation
1 stood In rsgs sod starving before the
anocg ee eyes or the world ? We had
tbosght ourselves grown used to trag
edies until this greater horror struck
a blow that 'roused atlU untouched
sympathies.
iiu jvj we ten so DOltilesa, you snd
I, so terribly wesk Id our shinty to of.
ter aid. Hut were wet After sil,
were we not the very ones who car
rled new life snd hope to the heart of
Roumanla T You shall be your own
Judge.
Fighting with the dsspsratiss of da
apalr. the alinttered Rounianlau nrmy
still struggled lo bent off the Kaiser's
bloody Huns, who were mercilessly
trampling the life out of the little
kingdom, And the Kslter smiled bru
tally at he saw his wolves at work
and knew thai from behind the lines,
attacking the fighting men of Itouiiia
ua from the rear, entering the homes
where mothers clung to the frail, die
torted forms of their babies was star
vation. '
No country sronnd Itoiimsnla could
help her ami America was too far
away. Thousands would die before
supplies held In our own couutry could
be sunt her.
Hope wits gone. Death by hunger
and by the dripping sword of the Kal.
ser was closing in a brave Utile na
tion was being lorn lo pieces
Then came the miracle. One morn
ing the streets of .lassy, the war capi
tal of Itoiimnnlii. swelled with sounds
of rejoicing. A cli.v where the day lie
fore there wns heard nothing inn the
walls of the starving snd the liuneniu
lions of those mourning their dead
now was awakened by ahoiim of Joy,
You, my friend: you who have help
ed In the heroic work of Hie American
Ited Cross, hud gone lo the rehciie of
Itoiimaiilit. A train of ,'il big freight
cars packed to their utmost capacity
with food, clothing and medicine, tons
upon tons of II, had arrived In .lassy
after making a record breaking trip
from the great atore houses f lbs
American Red Cross In Russia. Other
trains followed It ; thousand were fed
and clothed and nursed hack lo health.
For wt eks mid even lo this day the
brave people of Itouiiianin are being
cured for In coiiiiIIcns niinilieis by our
nn n Ited ( 'roHN.
So was iiomniiniii helped, snd when
history r 'ds how this lusi fragment
i i .i sturdy nation was kepi out of the
bSlldl of the terrible linns II will give
the victory to your American Rod
Cross.
THE CHEAT WAR HAS MADE
CIGARETTES A NECESSITY.
"Our hoys must have their smoker
Send them ii,.;., icitc--,!" This ia a
familiar appeal now to sll of us.
Among those most in demand is
the now famous "toasted 'cigarette
LUCK Y STRIKE. Thousands of this
f.r.'i ntc brand have been shipped to
France. There is something home
like and friendly to the bo) a in the
sight of the familiar green packages
With the red circle.
'I in homelike, appetizing quality
of the LUCKY STRIKE cigarette is
largely due to the fact that the Hurley
tobacco used in making it has been
toasted. "It's toasted' waa the "slo
gan" that made a great success of
LUCKY STRIKE in lest than s yesr.
Now the American Tobacco Co. Is
nuking 15 million LUCKY STRUCK
Cigarettes s dsy.
A good part of this immense pro
duction is making its way across the
water to cheer our boys. The Red
Cross has distributed thousands of
LUCKY STRIKE Cigarettes.
For
Lend Him
ENOCH MORGAN'S
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The moment you put
it on you say "Hello"
to comfort and "Good
bye" to cramped toes,
crowded feet and the other
foot troubles that mar your
comfort and your peace of
mind. Here it it take a
good look at it:
For Governor
GUS. C. MOSER
Republican
President Oregon State Senate
fiS j I r
$6.50 - s .
Sturdy and serviceable and
substantial isn't it? And
every bit as good as it loks.
Made on the famous Munson
last specified by the V. S.
Army worn by all our sol
diers and thousands of men in
civil life.
Our registered trade mark
BUCKHECHT-ii stamped
on every pair for your pro-
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MnuUctnf r San Kc.nci.ro
You can get the fiiickliec.it
Army Shoe in your town. If
your dealer does not cairy it,
writs ui direct.
uBBBbBc M
A Patriotic Amer
ican. A Native of Wis
consin. Age 47
For 27 years a
resident of Oregon.
A Vigorous cham
pion ot the Rights
of the People.
For a vigorous prosecution of the war to a victor
ious conclusion.
For strict business principles In management of
State Affairs.
For Rural Credits Extension, Irrigation.- Drain
age and Development of all our resources.
For assistance by Portland capital and business
to every section of our great state.
For the rights of both Labor and Capital under a
scheme of mutual co-operation.
I or Good Roads but Fighting the Paving Trust
We are paying about $5,000 more per 16-foet
mile of Bitulithic Pavement in Oregon than is being
paid in Washington. Lst us build good roads in EVERY
Countv in the State - (live Every County A Square Deal!
kleet MOSER and you will forever banish the
subtile influence of tin- Paving Trust from Oeegon
IHMIUCS.
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