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POLES DRIVEN TO GERMANY TO WORK Hun Commander's Brutal Order Issued to Conquered and Helpless People. LIBERTY BONDS BUILD TASKS Every Abie-Bodied Man Forced to Leave His Starving Family and Labor Under Shocking Condi- I tlons for the Oppressor. ... This I nave seen. I could not 4. believe it unless I had seen it through and through. For sev- J, eral weeks I lived with it; I X went all about It and back of -'- It inc., In and ll4 it una 4 X, shown to me until finally I .; j came to realize that the incredi- T X ble was true. It is monstrous, - ? it Is unthinkable, but It exists. j. It is the Prussian system. F. C. Walcott. c t"'M'lH't"M"l"I"M"f F. C. Walcott, a meinber of the I United Minion fnnd administration, and ' during the time America wan feeding the civilian populations of Belgian), Serbia and northern France an assist ant of Mr. Hooter In these Invaded countries, lias pictured in a graphic way tlie conditions he found among tlic people it was ills duty to help. After describing the terrible condi tions in Poland in 1016, the millions that were dying of starvation, the hundreds of thousands of defenseless people that had been ruthlessly cut down by the sword of the German con queror, he snys: In that Situation, the German com mander Issued a proclamation. Kvery able-bodied I'ole was bidden to Ger many to work. If any refused, let no Othet Pole give blni to cat, not so much as a mouthful, under penalty of German military law. Tills is the choice the German gov eminent gives to the conquered l'ole, to the husband and father of a starv Ing family: Lenve your family or die or survive as the ease may be. Leave your country which is destroyed, to work In Germany for Its further de struction, if you are obstinate, we Shall see Hint you surely starve. Staying with bis folk, he Is doomed and they arc not saved ; the father and husband can do nothing for them, he only adds to their risk and Suffering, Leaving them, he will be cut off from (ill family, they n:uy never hear from him again nor he from them. Ger many will Bel 151th io work Umt a Gor man workman Uiay be released to IlKhl aiiiiist his own land and people, lie Shall ') bulged in barracks, behind barbed wire entanglements, under m-mrd guotd,' He shall sleep on the hare ground wjth a single thin blan ket. Be shall be scantily fed and his earnings shall be taken from him to pay for his food. That Is the choice which the Gor man government offers to a proud, sensitive; high-Strung people. Death or slavery. When a I'ole (lave me that proclania tlnn, I was boiling, But 1 had to re strain myself. I was practically the only foreign civilian in the country ami 1 wanted .to Ret food to the people. That was what 1 was there for and I must hot for any cause Jeopardise the Undertaking. 1 asked Governor Gen eral von Beseler, "Can this be true?" "lieally, 1 cannot say," lie replied. "I baveslgnod sn ninny proclamations ; ask General Von Krles." S'i I asked General von Krles. "Gen eral, Ibis Is u civilized people. Can t ills bo trust" "Yes," ho said, "It Is true" with an nlr or adding, Why not? I dared not trust myself to speak ; I turned to go. "Walt," ho said. And ho explained to Me. how Germany, official Germany, regards the state of subject peoples. II Is hard for us to imagine such a condition In America as Mr. Walcott has described as existing In Hun-rid-don Poland, and yet that is Just what would oxlsl should our boys, and the hoys Of our nllles, now lighting In France toll to defeat the soldiers of this murder empire. This fair coun try of ours w ould be made Into a Ger .iiiin province; our people would lie the slaves of the .1 linkers of Germany, subject lo the beastly whims of the officers of Hie German army. In no war In which America lias ever cn gnged hnV the stakes been so great us In this present Conflict, Should wo, by any chance, lose; should the Hun, by tiny chance, win; our liberties, our happiness, everything Americans bold dear, would be lost. WILL "USE NOTHING GERMAN" Club Organized for the Purpose of Boycotting Products of Hun Manufacture. Chicago. High art and low art, music nud literature and dolls thai talk ami walk are to be taboo forever nud forever to members of a new club here, when they bear the "Made In Germany" stamp or Hnvor. "Use Nothing Gorman" Is the name of the club. And the women who have fortned It Bweur thai they mean what they sny, und thai after the war they intend that the kaiser dies not re CUperate from the ills lie has brought upon himself through their aid. The club expects to spread lis mes gtge countrywide, and thus to Induce women throughout the railed Stales ;to buck them tip lu Ignoring every thing Qermnn. Naughty Mamma's Boy. My husband, who Is at ("amp Slier man, wrote home and told us (his Joke the boys played on a "mamma's boy" " slio' wn's "ib'o' gont 'of "flic whole com pany. One night while lie was over to i lie Y. M. 0. A. they Hied up the heed of his cot with sticks and Hod a string 4 them, then walled until he got sound nslcpp and pulled the strings, out came' the sfttks end down went the bed. Ho nearly exploded he was so mad and my husband suld had you been lis- tealug yon. could have heaid h uuu. v This is one of the light tanks which played s.ich an Important part in the recent, allied drive on the Montdldier-Amions front. Known In the Hrltish army as ' Whippets", they are' also In use by the French. No American communique has mentioned their use as yet. Tho "whippet" is said to be able to' outspeed and outmaneuver a man. Their greatest use has been in crushing the machine gun posts which the retreating Germans left behind to hold off pmsuers, The enormous bag of prisoners was due to the "whippet's" ability to drive lanes through all obstacles, evade hostile artillery fire by their speed and maneuvering ability, and even force the surrender of artlileiy. A large part of the Fourth Liberty Loan probably will be needed for the building of such land "destroyers". "What are thoso Vefdampft Yanks yelling about now?" said Fritz on Pa rade. "The SchweinpiKS have just heard that the Fourth Liberty Loan was oversubscribed fifty per cent," the Sergeant In Special Charge of Baby Killing said. The Cyclops has no more completely disappeared than would Freedom from America if the HuU conquered. Do your part in crushing the Hun by buying Liberty llonds today. The German sergeant and sixteen men had j;ist reached safety alter a glOllons retreat of ".7 kilometers from the Alsne. "Whst made that Yank so marl wheh he couldn't catch up with us?" inquired u corporal when they had re covered their breath, "He was all hopped up with a re port that the Fourth Liberty Loan was way oversubscribed," said the ser geant, who had been in the United States and knew how those things worked, Parry the Allied punches as he will, there will be one battle from which the Kaiser will reel back whipped, his power forever crushed. As you would have every ounce of your muscle aid ins such a Ijlow, buy YOUR limit of FOUKTH LIBERTY LOAN I10ND3. It is not the size of your subscrip tion, but its proportion to what you can honestly afford, that will mark when the FOURTH LIIIERTY LOAN is past whether or not you are 100 per cent American. And if you are not 100 per cent American you are 100 per cent Roche. Fitter Fritz, Free France Buy Lib erty Bonds. Many Feeble-Minded. A cotnphte census of the feeble minded In the United Slates has never !con taken, but It is estimated that there Is one feeble-minded person to very 250 of I ho population, Of up. proximately -lon.ooii In all, according to :he scorclnry of one of the New York nental hygiene organisations. About 12,000 men have been rejected from ;he new national army on account of lorvous and mental disorders; und ne-thlrd of these wore rejected on ICCOUnt of fccblc-i .Indedness. Liberty Bonds or German Bondage, f Buy over here to win over there Liberty Bonds. Its Kind. "They sny that at marriages in the f til tire there will be a strictly Ameri can wedding march." "I suppose It will be something on the order of a two-step." Paradoxical. Squabs What made poor Grlggsby so light beaded? Squlbbs Well, there are differences of opinion, but he attributes it to heavy thinking. m v 1 'Vsco ' Tread We Set Tire Standards Why is it that United States Tires are setting new records for mileage and serviceability ? Why is it that the sales of these tires are constantly mounting by leaps and bounds ? The answer is found in the fac tories where United States Tires are made. Standards of construction for these tires are higher than ever be fore known in the tire industry. Makers of tire fabrics tell us that the standards we have given them for United States Tire fabrics are higher than any previously known. Likewise through every process of construction from crude rubber to finished tires we have set new and higher standards everywhere. These standards work out on your car in the practical economy de manded by war-times. United States Tires will raise any car to higher efficiency. There is a type to suit every con dition of service. The nearest United States Sales and Service Depot dealer will cheer fully aid in selecting right tires for your requirements. United States Tires arc Good Tires FARM COIN, CROPS AND FIGHTING SONS AID WINNING WAR Shiploads of Bacon a Mere Item in Procession of Food to Fighters, Civilians Nowhere has appeared a more suc cinct reminder of the enormous re sources of the American farm and the farmers instant readiness to meet any war demands than a brief dis patch from London recently announc ing the suspension of the ration limit on bacon. Owing to the accumulation of stocks of 97,000,000 pound3 of bacon from America, the dispatch said, the ration ins of bacon would be abandoned for the time. Since this enormous stock was for civilian requirements and probably a much greater quantity had been safe ly landed for allied army need3 it does not require extreme Imagination to visualize the long procession of cargo ships which has steamed across with this one item of the food sup ply. All the cargo space of from eight to twelve freighters of average size would be required to transport 07, 000,000 pounds. WHEAT GROWN DESPITE SABOTAGE Despite the burning of grain ele vators, the torpedoing of wheat ships, and sabotage and arson in the grain fields of the country, the American farmer has gloriously played his war part by producing sufficiently big crops to feed the allied world, as his sons have hi ought fear in to the hearts of the enemy at Cantigny anil Chateau Thierry and in the Rheims Soissons battle. Now we read that others besides von Kuehlmann believe that Germany cannot win by force of arms, as those Germans not dupes of the propaganda-fed German press already know that England could not be starved by von Tirpitz' ruthless sub marines. llut far from being satisfied with this major part in winning the war. the farmer has played a liberal part in financing the struggle. Last spring, with seed and implements to buy, and all the pre-harvest expense of wages and maintenance, not an agri cultural district In the west failed to meet or oversubscribe its quota of the Third Liberty Loan. FARMERS FIRST IN LIBERTY LOAN Oregon, almost purely an agricul tural and stock-raising state, was the first in the district to announce its quota exceeded. The farming districts were uni formly more prompt in meeting their assigned obligation than were the metropolitan districts where banks and factories were concerned. With the coming of the Fourth Liberty Loan, which will overshadow any previous financial triumph of the United States by two to one, the farmers part should be relatively easier since he now has turned his matured crops into cash. The Fourth Liberty Loan, calling for twice as much as any of the previous war funds, all of which were epochs in the country's history, will show the United States really buck ling down to business. 4TH LOAN CALLS FOK FULL EFFORT Despite our present training in thinking in nothing less than six figures, the Fourth Liberty Loan is a huge sum and will require a long, strong pull from every citizen if it is to be accomplished in three weeks from September 28 to October 19, allotted. There is no more doubt of the ful fillment of the loan on schedule time than there is that the American army will throw von Hindenburg and Lud endorff back across the Rhine. And as surely as tens of thousands of tho bravest of American youth will lose their lives in the fierce combats in which the Hun will be forced backward out of France, just so surely will the raising of the great Liberty Loans not bo accomplished without every American marshalling the last dollar of his resources, and abating every unnecessary expenditure. ' Killed In Battle. Leo Sturtevant. half brother of RoSs Catron of this city, was killed in ac tion on the battlefields of France, July 20th. He was a member of Co. M, 162nd Infantry, and enlisted In the service at the beginning of the. war between the United States anU Oermany, at bis home in Lebanon. With other members of his company be was first detailed to duty in guard ing railway bridges in eastern Ore gon, and visited his brother in this city. .. . Catarrh Cannot Be Cured with LOCAL APPLICATIONS, as they cannot reach the seat ot the disease. Catarrh Is a local disease, greatly in fluenced by constitutional conditions, and in order to cure It you mupt take an Internal remedy Hall's Catarrh Sfedi clne is taken internally and acts thru the blood on the mucous surfaces of the system. Hall's Catarrh Medicine was prescribed by one ot the best physicians In this country for years. It Is com posed of some of the best tonics known, combined with some of the best blood purifiers. The perfect combination of the Ingredients in Hall's Catarrh Medi cine is what produces such wonderful results in catarrhal conditions. Send for testimonials, free. F. J. CHEN TCI' & CO., Trops., Toledo. O. All Druggists, 75c. Hall's Family FUla for constipation. Notice of Final Account. In the County Court for Umatilla County, Oregon. In the Matter of the Estate of William R. Scott, deceased: Notice is hereby given that the un dersigned administrators of the estate of William R. Scott, deceased have filed their final account and report in said estate and that the above on titled court has fixed Saturday. Oct. 5, 1018, at 10 a.m. of said date, as the time when, and the County Court room in the County Court house at Pendle ton, Umatilla Co., Ore?., as the place where any and all objections if any there be to said final account ar d re port, should be filed on or before said date. Dated at Athena, Oregon, this 0th day of Sept., 1913. Ethel Garfield Scott, W. R. Taylor, Administrators. SUMMONS. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. Maxine W. Wallan, Plaintiff, vs. Claude E. Wallan, Defendant. To Claude E. Wallan, Defendant above named: In the name of the State of Oregon, you are required to appear and answer the complaint of the plaintiff filed against you in the abovn entitled suit or before Saturday the 5th day ot October, 1918, which said date la six weeks from th 3 date of the first pub lication of the summons, and vou will take notice that if you fail to appear and answer the said complaint or otherwise plead thereto within said time the plaintiff for want thereot will apply to the court for the relief prayed for in her said complaint on file herein, to-wit, for a decree of the court dissolving the bonds of matri mony now and heretofore existing be tween plaintiff and defendant, for an apsolute divorce from the defendant, for the change of plaintiff's name and the restoration of her maiden name to her. This summons is published pursuant to an order made by the Honorable Gilbert W. Phelps, Judge of the tbove entitled court, on the 19th day of Au gust, 1918. The first publication hereof will bo made on Friday the 2Hrd day of Au gust, 1018, and the last publication on Friday 4th day of October, 1810, Dated this the lllthday of August, 1918. Will M. Peterson, Attorney for Plaintiff, Residence and postoffice, Pendleton, Oregon. "Six months of war among the ireat powers will bankrupt the world," said economists before Au gust. 1914. Now, with the Allied Powers pre paring to end tho war in its sixth year, the least of their worries is finance. Make your Fourth Liberty Loan sub scription a heavy one oversubscrip tions will make the American army that much stronger in morale. Can you imagine the feeling of the boys at the front It the Fourth Lib erty Loan Is undersubscrlbed? And their corresponding elation at a smashing oversubscription? By the way, can't you stretch that Fourth Liberty Loan subscription to a little larger size. Every dollar makes them holler Buy Liberty Bonds. Bring "Fourth" your savings Buy Liberty Bonds. Billions for Defense or Billions for Indemnities. Knock the Helm out of Wilhelm Liberty Bonds. A little for bonds or all for the Kalnor. Peat and chalk are being' extensively used for brlquetlng In Canada. The peat Is mixed with coal breese and then pressed Into briquettes. Such fuel has been found efficient and eco nomical. Chalk also, of which there are large deposits In Canada, can be converted Into a profitable fuel. If the chalk Is pulverized and then combined with a certain percentage of breese and solidified tar, the mixture being compressed Into small briquettes or pebbles about the shse of an egg. the briquettes burn with perfect satisfac tion. The fuel has the advantage of being smokeless, lias a high caloric value, awl lftjri)3 ffVcly. Wulugo Jiwraid, . .. Notice to Creditors. In tho County Court of the State of Oregon, for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of Jacob Federer, Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons whom it may concern that Lena Feder er has been appointed administratrix of tho estate of Jacob redder, de ceased, and she has qualified as such. All persons having claims against the estate arc required to present them with proper vouchers as required by law. within six months from date hereof to the said administratrix at the law office of Will M. Peterson in the Smith Crawford Building at Pen dleton, Oregon, one of her attorneys in the administration of the estate. Dated this the Uuth day of August, 1918. Lena Fedeter, Administratrix. Will M. Peterson, William S. Nash, Attorneys for Administratrix. Notice to Creditors. In the County Court of the State of Oregon for Umatilla County. In the Matter of the Estate of Jos. Anton Federer, Deceased. Notice is hereby given to all persons whom it may concern that Lena Fed erer has been appointed administratrix of the estate of Jos. Anton Federer, deceased, and she has qualified as such. All persons having claims against the estate are required to present them, with the proper vouchers as required by law, within six months from date hereof to the said administratrix at the law office of Will M. Peterson, in the Smith-Crawford Building, Pendle ton, Oregon, one of her attorneys in the administration of the estate. Dated this the :10th day of August, 1918. Lena Federer, Adminstratrix. Will M. Peterson, William S. Nash, Attorneys for Administratrix. You'll find more tobacco sat isfaction in the condensed Real Gravely Chewing Plug than in a thick piece of ordi nary tobacco. Peyton Brand Real Gravely Chewing Plug 10c a pouch and worth it CravetylaiUtomachlonter it cottt no more to claw than ordina ry plat P. B. Gravely Tobacco Company Danville, Virginia THE PARKER BARBER SHOP A. J. Parker, Proprietor Shaving. Haircutting, Massaging, Shampooing. 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Pricj. deceased., has filed her final account and report in the ad ministration of said estate; "thaj. the County Judge by order duly mad- and entered has appointed Monday the 30th day of September, i!US, at the hour cf ten a. in., as the tine and the County Court House at Pendleton, Umatilla County. Oregon, as the place where all objections and exceptions to Un said final account and -report will be heard and a settlement thereof made. Dated this 2:rd day of August. 1918. Mary E. Ptice. Administratrix. Will M. Peterson. Attorney for AlminUrratrix. 7 HE UNIVERSAL CAR If you think you will be in need of a Ford Roust aabout Car for this season, we would adviseyou to plaeo your order at once, aa the production Jias been de-.reased Almost 60 per cent whoih means we will n t bs able to supply "the de mand when harvest lime comes. We have the "Henney" Truck bodies in stock to put on for your order at once. 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