FIGHT, BUY OR
SHOW WHY
That's What We re Up to In
the Third Loan.
THE
HUN
ANO
GOES
AMERICAN
WHILE
THE
MARCHING
BOYS
TIGHT
ON
L. D. FELSHEIM. Editor
JAS H. HOWE. Bu» Mgr.
Entered aa second-class matter at
the poet office at Bandon, Oregon,
January 2d, 1913, under tbe Act of
March 3d. 187».
SUBSCRIPTION RATES:
One Year (In advance)
11.50
Six Months (In advance).......... .75
THE OFFICIAL CITY NEWSPAPER
Phones: Office, »01; Residence, 311
DOUBLE EFFECT OF ECONOMY
When an American citizen, in
stead of spending $100 tor some
thing he wants, denies himself and
lends the money to the government
he performs a double service.
In the first place he furnishes the
nation with $100 to use in the pros
ecution of the war.
Secondly, he has relieved to the ex
tent of $100 the drain on our “goods
and services"; that is, materials and
labor. To make the article or ar
ticles he would have bought, or to
manufacture others to take their
place in the market, would require
materials and labor. In addition, to
get the article to him labor and
freight space would be required. By
doing without tbe article, he has left
free a certain amount of material to
be used for war purposes, a certain
amount of labor to be used in the
same way. and he has also relieved
to a certain extent the transportation
facilities of the country. This may
not be much in the individual case,
hut when hundreds of thousands and
millions of Americans pursue this
course it means millions and millions
of dollars loaned to the nation, tre
mendous quantities of materials left
for uses of the country In this war,
millions of hours of labor free to do
war work, and a vast amount of
freight space free for national uses
These sacrifices are easy to make;
are small and trivial compared to the
sacrifices that our soldiers and sail
ors mako dally while they offer con
stantly their lives for their country,
the greatest sacrifice of all.
WADS
It's up to thia—fight, buy or show
why!
Every American who can afford to
buy a Liberty Bond will be expected
to buy.
If he refuses, tbe searchlights of
public opinion will be so turned upon
him that he may be put into tha post
tion of having to explain why be de
nies the government the use of his
surplus money, if the plans of the
National Liberty Loan headquarters
at Washington are carried out.
Information regarding tbe standing
of every individual, his worth, his in
come, his Red Cross activities,
amounts which he has subscribed to
ths First and Second Liberty Loans,
war work which he has done, his
patriotlo attitude, and other details,
will all be carefully listed on a ques
tionnaire which will be kept on file
by the government.
Questionnaires, prepared in Spo
kane for use in Eastern Washington,
contain 34 questions. One has to be
filled out for every man, woman and
child above 15 years of age Among
the inquiries were, nationality, pres
ent occupation, name of employer,
other trades or occupations qualified
in. Liberty Loan subscriptions, earn-
lugs, Red Cross war funds. Red Cross
members in family, miscellaneous war
donations, war activities engaged In,
patriotic attitude, general reputation,
opposition to war work, if any.
Considering the fact that Oregon’s
percentage appears to be rather low
in comparison with other federal dis
tricts. the local Liberty Loan Commit
tee feels that it may be necessary to
adopt some such means here of re
minding the people that they must do
something to save the reputation of
themselves and their state. Cards are
now being prepared. The Information
for these cards will be gained by the
captains of the different city pre
cincts, after the cards have been as
signed to their proper districts by
postal employes. In the rural dis
tricts over the state, the work of in
dexing the inhabitants has been going
on tor some time.
Authorization for obtaining the in
formation comes front Washington.
When the system Is finally complete,
and when Uncle Sam makes the ac
quaintance of all his citizens and
knows their means and their obllga
tlous, then John Jones must be In
duced to make him a loan or be able
to give an excellent reason why.
WRITE A LETTER
Coos and Curry's booster citizens,
regardless of political affiliations,
are asked to write letters to Oregon
friends, urging the nomination and
electit n of L. J. Simpson for gover
nor
lie Is the only candidate for
the office who Is not a professional
politician. This is the first time Mr
Rimpson has aspired to public office
Mr Rimpson must, of necessity,
rely upon his friends -upon those
who know him best. And for this
reason his friends are asked to co
operate In a campaign of personal
publicity, where each individual can
do his share In the work
Let your
acquaintances and friends all over
eastern Oregon, In the Willamette
valley, along the Columbia or In
Portland, know that you are person
ally back of Mr Rimpson ’A rite Jii.'.t
ss you would talk, enthuslastleal'v.
Straight from the (boulder, and tell
them to pass the good word along
RISSIMI THE l i t«!
Compelling pro tiermans to kiss
the American flag Is nothing leas
than desecration of the flag
This
seems to be the sentiment gradually
forming following the recen* wide
spread epidemic of making the mln
Ions and deluded advocates of the
kaiser and his coterie, publicly nestle
their faces In folds of the banner of
our nation And such a more sane
view of sama Is hut a reiteration
of the fact that the great American
p pulace goes ahead with its efforts
f r brlng'ng the »ar to a victorious
c nclustin, unwilling to follow th>
leadership of the unthinking mob
*1 lie g'“aiost i isult offered t> Christ
waa the kiss if Judas
fo let the
kslsei worshipper neat le his lips mu!
face in the f i|<L. of our emblem, I
Judas up to date
Rendon has the longest distance
punch. Adt plane stock from this
faithect west c> mmimlty Is now on
ita way to help blow up tin* kaiser
From th* fashion reports It looks
a* If the Sprint gowns this year ate
going to be smaller than the bills
they coat
Cheer up
America's aoldferv In
France will do their sham of the
worlds work
Never fear
It's the girl who can't sing that
aeettu anxious for everyone to know
It
It la now nr never with Germany,
and now and forever »¡th the Allies
■w - I I I | | ,
All Americana know the moral
value of rooting for the home team.
DO NOT NEGLECT
YOUR TEETH
■y
EPHRAIM DOUGLA68 ADAMS
Executive Head, Hietory Depart
ment
Leland Stanford Junior University
A Clean Tooth Never Decay»
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WHY WE ARE
AT WAR WITH
GERMANY
SOME REASONS WHY
WHEAT MUST BE SAVED
“A Man Cannot Think. Work or Fight
When He 1s Hungry”—We Must
Feed Our Soldiers
"Th* object of this war Is to S*llv*r
th* fr** pooplss 0« ths world from th«
woeac* and th* actual power of a vast
military •stabllshmont controlled by an
Irresponsible government, which, having
eecretly planned to dominate the world,
procooded to carry out the plan without
regard either to the sacred obligation*
of treaty or the long-eelabllehod prac
tices end long-ohorlehed principles of In
ternational action and honor: . . , Thio
power io not the German people.
It le
the ruthless master of the Gorman poo-
Filo. ... It Io our buelnoea to too to
t that the hietory of the root of the
world Io no longer loft to Ito handling.”
—Freoldent Wlleon, Auguet Z7, igi7.
THE NATION AND MORAL DUTIES
The rulerg of Germany bellev* thal
they have the right to prevail over all
other nation*. They also believe that
the power ot the state is the only ob
ject for which Its rulers should strug
gle. Still further, they believe that
moral principles and ideas have no
place in determining tbe actions of
the state, since the sole duty of the
state is to get power. This is Ger
man political philosophy. American
political philosophy, from tbe very be
ginning of our institutions, has op
posed this theory, and now in this war
Is fighting against It. For the Ger
man theory necessarily carries with It
utter denial of the claims of moral
feeling, of international right, of hu
man decency and chivalry.
The German historian, Treltschke.
at whoee feet princes and rulers sat,
eagerly absorbing his teachings, de
voted his life to spreading this gospel
of Power. It Is true, he said sneer-
lngly, that "a stock of Inherited con
ceptions of integrity and morality is
a necessity for government,” (useful,
that subjects of the state be obedient),
but "the end all and be all of a
state Is Power.” "The state is the
sole Judge of the morality of its own
actions. It Is, in fact, above morality,
or. In other wjrds, whatever is nec
essary is moral.”
From this It follows, in international
relations, that there is no rule or
guide to conduct except self-interest
In this present war a follower of
Treltschke, one of the leading com
mon-school educators of Germany,
Kfrschanstelner of Munich, drives
home the theory. “The great lesson
which the German people has had to
learn la to think in terms of power, j
. Let no one here say that
small state», too. can have a national.
life of their own. True, so long as
the great stat** around them allow
them to exist. But any day may see
the end of their existence, in spite
of all treaties to the contrary.
Neither alliance, nor treaties provide
the least security . . . There are
no ethical friendships between states
in our day . . . There are only
friendships of convenience. And friend
ships of convenience last Just as long
as the convenience itself.”
Professor Eulenberg of Leipzig sums
It up, “All ethical considerations are
completely alien to the state and the
state must therefore resolutely keep
them at arm's length."
Can we wonder that the German
Foreign Secretary spoke of the broken
treaty with Belgium as a "scrap of
paper?" or that the school children
of Germany celebrated the sinking of
the l.usitamaf or that German agents
In America, smoothly friendly in ap .
pearance, secretly plotted, before we
were In the war, to destroy our in
duatrlea, our railways, even our Ilves'’
Is there no such thing any more
its a common humanity—no "decent
respect to the opinion of mankind."
as Thomas Jefferson stated It In the
Declaration of Independence’ Is our
Meal of righteousness, yes, even of
unselfishness. Impossible In Interna
tlonal politic*? This war. if Germany
is defeated, may deride these gues
tions. but if Germany wins, the strug
gle has but lUSt begun
This American democracy of
denies. and has always denied.
German theory; It asserts that
laws which formulate the duties of
men toward each other are binding
u pon nations equaliv with individuals
For centuries civilisation has been
slowly advancing from Ignorance.
prejudice and selfishness toward sym
pathv. understanding, and a desire to
see 'ustice done, whether between In
dividual* or nations, Tbe 'be all and i
end all" of a state is not Power—it
la Justice
And the German government has
left us in no doubt as to the results
of her theory. In application
That
government has broken a solemn
treaty with Belgium, ordered the mur
der of innocent hostages, bombarded
unfortified towns, torpedoed unarmed
passenger ships, destroyed works of
art where they could not be carried
to Germany, plotted secret war against
neutral nation» all of them actions
she once pledged herself to forego -
has lost. In short, all sense, appar
ently, that she Is dragging the former
good name of the German people
through a mire of dishonor, the stain
of which will not be removed for
generations
Against this mad phi
loaophy and mad government the war
must be waged, until they are de-
feated. or there Is no safety for m< n
or nations.
"We have the preservation of the
world on our hands
Every single
living human being In this republic,
from ocean to ocean, should make It
his or her special purpose to save
food •
These are the words of E F Cullen,
personal representative of Herbert C.
Hoover, in a recent address
“Men will resist any power but the
power of starvation,” said Mr Cullen
"Hunger In the final analysis, is the
only force that can weaken a nation
and demoralize an army
Food Is
strength, and without a perpetual sup
ply of strength, the world can stand
in danger of tottering, weakening and
falling Into utter chaos A man can
not think, work or fight if he is hun
gry
"The allies today ar* practically
wholly dependent upon the Unite,!
States for food.
Upon this nation
rests the responsibility of preserving
the world from I'russianlsm This is
the task of the people of this nation—
to produce and save food enough to
keep a steady stream of essential sup
plies moving towards ths front so
long as it shall be necessary to wage
this war If at any time we fail in
this, we must inevitably go down, with
the allies to defeat This Is no ex
sggeratlon, but a serious fact It is
•he purpose of the United States Food
Administration to bring the realize
tion of this fact home to every Amerl
can man. woman and child, and to en >
list the individual aid of our hundred
million people tn producing and sav
ng food The Food Administration
Is not asking you to oat less; it only
urges that you substitute one nutri
tious food for another equally nutri
tious food, thus saving the vital ata
plea needed by our armies and the
armies and peoples of the allies We
must, during the next three months
save wheat especially Our aurplu«
has already been ahtpped abroad, and '
a hundred million bushela more are
needed When you eat a altce of bread ’
lea*, omit the crackers with your soup i
or otherwise conserve on wheat prod
nets you are contributing towards thr
hundred million bushels needed over |
there by our fighting men and the 1
exhausted people of BUgtUM. Franco
Thls Is the third of a serl»* of ten
and England who have for more than I artlelos
hv Professor Adams.
three years been bearing the brunt of
this war. which is our war Keep this
In mind, and bring it before the minds
1.116.OOC tons of sugar will be save,!
of your thoughtless friends and neigh the first year if each of us uses one
bora ”
ounce less each day This will keep
suxar plentiful and cheap.
If you want work that lasts;
if you want it done with no
mor* pain than th* prick of
the needle; if you want your
Pyorrhea CURED, or if you
want to KEEP FROM GET-
TING PYORRHEA, see
are authorized Thrift Stamp »elJlng
stations. This profitable, simple and
safe investment draws four per cent
Uiterewt, compounded quarterly, with
the privilege of turning it into mon
ey upon ten days' notice. Sav* for
those who are fighting for you, and
do "your bit" to win the war.
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