Western world., November 21, 1918, Image 5

Lodge Directory
Old Glory
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BANDON LODGE No. 130
A. F. & A. M.
Stated communication Friday aftei
the lull moon of eacn month, sojourn
iH^bter Mkaons eoruially uiviteu.
E. W. SCHETUER, Secretary.
By ELLIS PARKE* BUTLER
ot Th» Vi»uunt»»
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS
Delphi Lodge Ao. 04, Kiuglits ol
1*jthia». ..Meet» every Monday even­
ing at kuighl» hall. V i»iilug Kulgh<»
invited to attend.
CHAS. F. PAPE, C C.
VIC. BREUER, K. oi R. ü S.
BANDON LODGE No. 133
I. O. O. F.
Meets every Wednesday night at
the 1. O. O. F. hall. Visiting odd
fellows always welcome.
W.~A. PANTER, N. G.
PHIL PEARSON, See’y
OCEAN REBEKAH LODGE
No. 126
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Meets on the second and fou. j
Tuesdays of each month at the Oda
Fellows hall. Visiting Rebekahs al­
ways welcome.
LENORE HUNT, N. G.
LELIA FISH, Secretary.
Professional Cards
DR. R. V. LEEP
Physician and Surgeon
Office in Llllngsou Bldg.
Phone 8U4.
BANDON. OREGON
DR. H. L. HOUSTON
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON
Office at Bandon Hospital in
Fahy-Morrison Bldg.
Hospital 4 92
Bandon, Ore-
Office phone 491
4-1-19
I. N. MILLER
Attorney and Counselor at Law
Notary Public
Rooms 1 and 2, First Nat’i Bank Bldg.
Bandon, Oregon
DR. FRED COVELL
CHIROPRACTOR
Office Hours: 9 to 12 a. tn.; 2 to
5 p. m.
Opp. Hotel Gallier
Office in Bandon Sanitariupi,
Bandon,
Oregon
Why Compare Beef and
Coal Profits?
Swift & Company has frequently stated
that its profit on beef averages only one-
fourth of a cent a pound, and hence has
practically no effect on the price.
Comparison has been made by the Federal
Trade Commission of this profit with the
profit on coal, and it has pointed out that
anthracite coal operators are content with
a profit of 25 cents a ton, whereas the beef
profit of one-fourth of a cent a pound means
a profit of $5.00 a ton.
The comparison does not point out that
anthracite coal at the seaboard is worth at
wholesale about $7.00 a ton, whereas a ton
of beef of fair quality is worth about
$400.00 wholesale.
To carry the comparison further, the 25
cent profit on coal is 3!/2 per cent of the
$7.00 value.
The $5.00 profit on beef is only U/4 per
cent of the $400.00 value.
The profit has little effect on price in either case,
but has less effect on the price of beef than on the
price of coal.
Coal may be stored in the open air indefinitely;
beef must be kept in expensive coolers because it is
highly perishable and must be refrigerated.
Coal is handled by the carload or ton; beef is deliv­
ered to retailers by the pound or hundred weight.
Methods of handling are vastly different. Coal is
handled in open cars; beef mutt be shipped in
refrigerator cars at an even temperature.
Fairness to the public, fairness to Swift &
Company, fairness to the packing industry, demands
that these indisputable facts be considered. It is
impossible to disprove Swift & Company's state­
ment, that its profits on beef are so small as to have
practically no effect on prices.
Swift & Company, U. S. A.
DR. F. A. VOGE
DENTIST
PYORRHEA SPECIALIST
Telephone 1222
Ellingson Bldg.
Bandon, Ore.
DR. S. C. ENDICOTT
Dentist
Office
11441
—Phone«—
Rew.
11»H
Office tn Ellingson Bldg.
BANDON. OREGON
F. J. CHATBURN
ATTORNEY-AT-LAW
Practice in all
courts.
Office
in Racket Store building on Second
Street, Bandon, Oregon.
GEO. P. TOPPING
Attorney at Law
Practices in all Courts. Office
Over Bank of Bandon.
•c. R.
BARROW
ATTO .NEY AND COUNSELOR
AT LAW
NOTARY PUBLIC
Farmc. i' Phone:
Office No. 4S1
Residence Phone 143 •
Office over Skeel’s Store,
Coquille, Oregon
JOHN NIELSON
Notary Public, Insurance, Real
Estate and Book-keeping
Bandon, Oregon
DR. ARTHUR GALE
Physician and Surgeon
Phone»: Office 851; ree. 852.
Office in Ellingson Bldg.
BANDON. OREGON
Ju.l IO O. -< .14.
It Is hard to be really Just to out
solves. A great many of us nre m< re
lenient with our own faults than with
those of other pe. pie, while not a few
censure themselves far more harauly
for a false step than they would thin:
ofcensuring another. What we sh >ul<
strive for Is to be nel’ier too exacting
not too lenient where our shortcomings
lire < icernod. hut to give ourselves
'tw k . tit of simple liistice.
Daily Thought
When Chimpanzee “Come» Out"
Light is the task when many share
A 'himpunzee “comes of nge" at
:he toil.—Homer
shout fifteen years.
I have a small boy—a four-year-old
—«nd the other day I made him a
“boat" out In the baek yard, with a
sail thitl he can raise and lower, and
at the top of the mast 1 tacked on a
“flag'' to flutter in the breeze that
blows continuously here on Long la-
land. The "flag,'' like the sail, 1» a
piece of old canvas. It flaps tn the
breeze like any flag, but it does not
mean a thing! I can look out of my
window and see that “flag” fluttering
and not feel the sl.ghtest emotion of
any sort. I made IL I know it 1»
nothing but a piece of old canvas,
ripped from a large piece and nailed
there.
Borne day—but God forfend any
anch day—that "flag” might have a
meaning for me. I mlgl t look out of
■y window and see it fluttering there
and know that my boy would never
agr.ln look up at It in his play and
the sight of the poor rug might till my
heart with agony.
If any neighbor
then came into my yard and laid rough
hands on that flag and tore it down
and trampled on it I think I would
kill him. The poor rag would be sa­
cred because of the memories that
Clung to it.
It Is because ft means so much, is
the symbol of so much, that our na­
tion’s flag is so sacred that the man
who detiles it deserves to be shot
down in the act.
A flag Is a symbol, a sign, as the
cross Is a symbol and as the triangle
is a symbol. The mere silk or bunt­
ing of the flag are nothing. A burial
squad tramps through the woods bear­
ing the body of a dead comrade, and
digs his grave and covers him over in
his last bed. On the ground lie two
bit« of wood. They are nothing but
bits of wood, to be burned, or to be
left to decay. The dead man's com­
rades pick them up and bind one
•cross the other and plant the cross
thus made at the head of the grave.
Now the bits of wood have become a
sacred sign and whoever destroys thai
cross, or defiles it, or throws It down
Is indeed a dog. The bunting and the
silk of our flag are nothing; not un­
til they are assembled In the Starsand
Stripes of our flag and thrown to the
breeze as the symbol of loyalty and
patriotism do they demand our rever­
ence.
Why We Honor the Flag.
We honor the flag because of what
It stands for. Those who dishonor
our flag dishonor all It stands for. In
days like these, when our nation Is at
war, there might be placed under the
dome of the capitol at Washington a
great book of a thousand pages. On
the first page might be Inscribed the
American's Greed, proclaiming a be­
lief In national honor, national Justice
and national honesty and a belief In a
free government for this free Ameri­
can people. To Washington then
might be called all the people of the
nation, to sign, one after another,
their names In the great book so that
all America and all the world might
know how each man and woman and
child stood, until all our millions were
enrolled. There is no need of this.
The American’s Creed is written In
the Stars and Stripes of our flag. Our
flag stands for all that could be writ­
ten in the great book at Washington.
It stands for honor. Justice, national
honesty and a free government, and
when the time of stress comes, as at
present, the flag Is at hand, ready to
be raised In twenty million homes, a
proclamation of loyalty as valid as a
signed and sealed book. Our flag Is
not a gaily colored decoration to
brighten our towns and villages; It Is
a creed—an “I believe”—to tell our
neighbors, our nation, and the whole
world how we stand.
It Is remarkable to what an extent
flags, even the simplest tell the na­
tional stories. I chanced upon the flag
of the little grand duchy of Luxem­
burg a few days ago for the first time.
I hnd long been familiar with the
Luxemburg coat-of-arms, which Is a
standing lion on a barred shield, sur­
mounted by the ducal coronet, and I
had Imagined the flag of Luxemburg
would be something like that. It is
three straight bars, or stripes, of red.
white and blue. These are the colors
of France, but they are arranged on
the flag of Luxemburg as are the red,
white "nd black of Germany, and not
perpendicularly as In the French flag.
The flag tells Its own story. The peo­
ple of Luxemburg speak German;
their sympathies are entirely French.
In something of the same way the
flag of Great Britain tells Its story,
with the St. George's cross of Eng­
land, St. Andrew’s cross of Scotland
• nd St. Patrick's cross of Ireland com­
bined. The true story of Prussianlsm
• nd Its brutal aggressions Is told by
the Germnn flags. The German em­
pire. so much boasted, Is shown by
Its flag to be but a footstool on which
the king of Prussia wipes his feet, for
In Its center Is the black eagle of
Prussia, crowned, and the black cross
of Prussia la smeared all over It. The
German emperor Is Prussia and noth­
ing but Prussia —a military autocracy
bolding Bavaria. Wurttemburg. Sax­
ony and all the other states In pawn,
Just as the klng-kalser would like to
hold New York, California and all of
America, arid as he now holds help­
less Luxemburg and brave Belgium.
The black In all the .German flags Is
U m black of Prussia, and black is the
color that was chosen by the pirates
and cutthroats.
Every one knows the story of our
own flag, with the thirteen stripes that
signify the thirteen original elates
of our Union, and the stars, one for
each state in the Uuion today. Wheth­
er Betsy Ross or another first sewed
together the stripes and stitched the
original thirteen stars In place on
their blue field matters little, for flags
are not made In that way. Our flag
was made when the wise fathers of
our nation decreed that this should be
a union of sovereign states and that
no kingly crown or imperial eagle
should uppear on our banuers. The
long deliberations and deep wisdom
of the founders of the nation made
possible a fiag of thirteen stripes when
they decreed that each state should
continue Its individual existence un­
der the national government, and in
effect decreed the many-starred blue
field when they said that new states,
as they became worthy, might enter
the Union.
Even then our flag was not a ting.
It had to win a place for Itself ard
a right to existence. It was as if the
stripes were not yet welded together
or the stars riveted tn their place«.
Through the long years of the Revolu­
tionary war the American lighting
men gave their lives and shed their
i red blood that the flag might become
a permanency. Each dying soldier by
his death gave life to the ting. It was
born of their blood.
There was no "separate peace" made
by Massachusetts or New York or Vir­
ginia, to tear one of the thirteen
stripes from the flag or to rip one of
the thirteen stars from the blue field.
Year after year, cold, hungry, half
clothed, beaten about and buffeted,
retreating and advancing, the Revolu­
tionary heroes who had at first fought
under a dozen different flags, fought
under the Stars and Stripes, making
it a flag. When the struggle ended
at Yorktown the flag was already sa­
cred, made so by the blood of those
who died for the freedom of their
fellow countrymen. Our flag was not
made by those who worked with
needle and thread but by those who
died for high Ideals.
The blackest
traitor that ever betrayed our country
might sew silk or bunting together;
our flag was made by Washington and
his men, Jackson and ills men, Lin­
coln and his men. The great minds
and great hearts and brave men and
women of the past made our flag a
real flag. They made the flag for us;
today we are making it for those who
will come after us.
Must Be Made Again.
I say we are making It, because you
and I, I hope, are doing all we can to
help our army and our nnvy win the
fight against the blood-reeking autoc­
racy that wishes to unmake half the
flags of the world and put the modern
flag of piracy In their places. For
this Is true: Each flag that is a real
flag must be made agalr and again
with the passing years. It la true our
flag has been made and perpetrated.
In times of pence It has been a flag
of peace and a truer symbol of peace
than the white flag of submission. It
has also been a war banner as glori­
ous as any thnt ever floated above the
hands of armed men. Again and again,
when brave men fought for what they
believed to be right and Justice, our
flag has been torn by shot and shell
and drenched with blood.
It has
gone forth at the head of armies, silk­
en and fringed with gold, to come
back torn and tattered but a more
splendid ensign of liberty thnn It hnd
ever been before. It has left our ports
floating from proud ships and has
sunk beneath the waves when the but­
tered ships went down and was a
greater flag then than It bad been.
Like the phoenix It has arisen from
every flro of trial In renewed glory.
And on each Flag day. It will float
from the staffs of a million American
homes, perhaps from ten million or
twenty million, but its greatest glory—
the greatest glory of Its 140 years—Is
that It will float In the breezes of
France nnd Flanders beside the flags
of Belgium. France and Great Britain,
and on the seven seas of the world, In
the world's greatest combat against au­
tocratic brutality. No longer the flag
of a group of colonies, Old Glory has
become the banner of a world-power,
the emblem of the mightiest free peo­
ple that ever existed.
Old Glory’» New Birth.
Never were the stripes of onr flag
brighter or the stars more brli’.'ant on
their field of blue than they at today.
In field. In mine, In factory. In home, In
garden, In camp, on ship. In trench and
In battle line the men and women nnd
the children of our vnst free empire
are united In one greet cause, and the
free flag of a free people floats over
them, unstained and unspotted.
From generation to generation, sine«
Old Glory was born, flags have died,
but Old Glory has hnd new birth. The
white flag of royal France and the
standard of Napoleon have gtv‘-n way
to the tricolor, but Old Glory still
waves. From generation to generation
our flag Is bom anew, re-created In our
hearts, ever better loved and more sa­
cred In our eyes, because It Is the flag
for which onr heroes have «lied and be­
cause it Is the symbol of the only gov­
ernment that can endure—a govern­
ment of the people, by the people ».id
for the people. It Is the flag of no king
or czar or emperor, but your flag and
my flag and the flag of the brave boy
who has gone with n song on Ills lips
to die that we may remain free. Earth
has no greater glory today than Old
Glory. For a century and a half It ha*
floated above our soil, a sign that we
are free. Today It floats on alien
breezes. In foreign lands, not for con­
quest but as an earnest that all na­
tions that desire freedom shall heuc^-
forth be free.
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IN CHARGE OF Y. M. L....
Dr. E. M. Wylie, who hrs arrlv, I 1
England from the U’.i' d S
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take c >mplete chirr* « f i ,
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work of the Y. M. C. A. ... Gr. ..
aln. The work th
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has done for Amer'
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land and France '■ s ■ ee'.id t.t •
from ull sides, »t cannot >e o- r-
■tated thnt it Is a stimulating and in­
valuable factor in the high : : 1« f
our troops.
OIES LIKE A GOWAik;
Ex-Czar Wilts at Death; Propped
to Post.
Collapses When He Pace3 the Flrlni
Squad—German Paper Give» Ac­
count o* Execution.
Amsterdam.—With two hour« given
In which to prepare for the <’t <1. NIc' *•
Ins Romanoff, former Russian eni| eror,
was taken out by his executioners In
a state of such collapse tl t it was
necessary to prop him against a post,
says the I.oknl Anzelger of Ri-riln,
which claims to hnve received from a
high Russian personage n account of
the emperor’s last hours.
Nicholas wns nwnketied at five
o’clock on the morning of the day of
his execution by n patrol of a non­
commissioned officer and six mon. 11»
was told to dress nnd was then tai n
to n room where the decision of the
soviet council was communicated to
him. lie was Informed the < x ■■ itioa
would be cnrrled out In two hours.
The former emperor. It Is added, re­
ceived the announcement of the sen­
tence of death with great calmness i t
when he returned to h's bedro. tn lie
collapsed In a clmlr. A1 er a few ir i-
utes he asked for a priest, w ti
whom he was allowed to remain un­
attended. Subsequently he wrote s"V-
eral letters.
When the escort arrived to take him
to the plnce of execution Nicholas at­
tempted to rise from bls chair, but
wns not able. The priest and a sol­
dier were obliged to help him get to
his feet. The condemned man de­
scended the sinlrs with difficulty aud
once he fell down.
As he was unable to stand without
support when the plnce of execution
was reached, he wns propped nri’- t V
post. lie raised bls ii. ■ el-; and
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to be trying to speak, but the rln-S
spoke nnd he fell dead.
BEE STINGS KILL QUICKLY
Aged Man Succumb» In Ten Minu* x
After Deing Wounded In
Wrlata.
Philadelphia.—Ten minute« '.f’pr bo
hnd been stung on both wrists by be. s,
Clargo L. Hume, slxtv ix y us
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resident of San a
The bees’ stings acted m a violets«
poison, physicians stated, pi btr ■»
because of Home's unusual p
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condition. llume was -tung
ilo
beea when he attempt; I to destroy •
hive close to ills h ne.
Physicians, when ’<■ ' of the p ul' -r
case, stated thnt there »n« ■ !»• '
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Ity that the poison Inl'ttd ■■ thq
bees struck an artery and wa- in >
dlately conveyed to tne heart ■
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death. It was also said ti. it tin- >. r*
stings may hnve acted ns a vl »lent i I-
son because of an un
il pliy '1
dltlon.
The physicians st !d tb it so
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a death from bees’ stings »iis very
unusual.
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