BAYONET SAVES
Esoapo Gorman Shell Whon Ono
of Party Stops to Dig Up
Rollo.
SEE SCENES OF DESOLATION
Once nichly Cultivated Valleys
Speckled With Happy Vlllagci,
Now Dut a Godden Panorama
of Churned. Up Soil,
With tint French Annie In tho Held,
If ono f the put ty Inidn't Mopped to
dig up ii Iloeho bayonet from tliu road
wide. this piccu wouldn't linvu been
written.
Tim French ollleer-clinpcrouo titid his
charge luid tarried on thu way back
to Verdun from onu of tho outlying
for In to chnt with n hunch of Itcd
Cross nii'ii, miiiI Ineldeiilully to wiitch
the iiiitlci of n Hock of (Icriiinn air
planes tin they dodged In mid out
tinning tliu feathery pufTii of shrapnel.
Tho usual Unity artillery Mrnfo hud
been on for some hours. Hundreds of
ton of inctiit had been howling iiliovu
our bends from hoth sides, far up nnd
down tlui llm. At time there was ii
shot for every second. Itul ho fur tho
llochu targets hint been located n com
forlnhlo dlNtiiuco nwny.
Our olllcer hnd given tho word to ro
sumo tliu Journey, mid thu chnurrouni
wcro cranking up. when tho oppor
tunity of giuhcrlng In nnothor bnttlc
Hold souvenir Intervened. It Ih still
there.
direful figuring, conducted very
shortly thereiifier In onu of tho Ited
Cross dugouts nearby, convinced tho
whole purty Hint If It liudirt been for
thu Iniyoiiet episode our curs would
Imvo collided Willi tho big Itocho shell
JUNt nt tho inoiuent of ItH explosion
uhout n block down tho roud.
Tho experience hnd merely supplied
n vivid flmil touch to Impression til
rendy acquired of whnt tho soldiers
of Verdun have been undergoing In
the hint eighteen months. In thin re
gion Nature tut rt been given no oppor
tunity, iin kIhi Ihih, for exntuple, on
tho tutttletleld of tho Soiiimo, to rcpntr
iin bent she can tho ravages of wiir.
From the top of ono of tho hnttered
forts Unit now forum nn uubrcnkiihlo
ring uboitt Verdun recniitured from
the CeriniuiH with n viilur and nt n
Hiicrlllco of life Hint will innko Itn mime
lininortnl In history stretches out, ns
for as ten ply. iiiade-ln-Ceriiuiuy hlnoc
Uliirs cull reuch, u vltitn of utter devns
tutlon. Once thickly forested hills mid rich
ly Cllltlvnted vnlleyM speckled with
bnpiiy villages; now n sodden. grnylh,
moiioiouoiiM pniiorutiiii of churned up
noil, criss-crossed here mid there Willi
trenches, mid only nn nccnslwiul stump
or pile of crumpled Moiioh to evidence
ItH former benut.v. II'h like Notre
Paine de l.orette, VI my, U'.vtsehcte.
AloHNlueri mid I'lisschcndacle Itldgo nil
scrambled together.
All the forces of niituri- lire. Hood,
huri'li'iim; mill earthquake could not
have wrought Mich havoc. Only mini
could do II. Kveu looking liiickwnrd,
the only discernible color In the green
of the illxtnnt IiIIIh, the shattered red
tiled roofs of the fortress city, mid the
cluslerH of purple-wreulbed graes
where sleep the men who niiide the
inotio of Verdun "On no passu pun"
(No trespassers allowed I) n reality.
The (iermmis now occupy much tho
mine Hue us that from which the
crown prince launched Ills costly but
futile nttueli upon this stronghold. Pre
viously we hud traversed (he valley of
the Marne whose hiiidsciipe bears am
ple testimony to tho characteristic
French IrallH of dash, mobility and re
houreefiilness ; Just us Verilun'H piti
fully harrowed hillsides will always bo
ii monument to tho hitherto less famil
iarly known French qualities of tiro
less energy mid doited stubbornness.
J., 1. ttf tl.l.,t,JiitnlirlirtT ill itlitirtirl
' i TTTTT TTTTTT T i l l "
J CONQUEST AND KULTUR
From nil thlH It nppcnrH that
tho Monroo doctrlnu cntinot bo
JustlHed. ... So It remains
;; only what wo HuropeniiH hnvo
described iih an liiHplrutloii. And
t so It rcinaliiH only what wo Ku-
ropemiH nlmost universally con
II sldor It, nn Impertinence. With
ii uolHy cry they try to innko mi
Impression on tho world mid
(succeed, cHpeclnlly with tho stu-
I pld. Tho Inviolability of tho
Aincrlcun noil is invoiced wwi
out thero being at hmid tho
slightest means of warding off
tho nttnclc of u respectable Ku
ropenu power. Johannes Vol
lort, Alldeutscho IJtnttor, Jim.
17, 1003.
j H I I'l l I' 1 1 1 1 1 iT
Usually regarded ns n modern dls
cuho, appendicitis was known In Egypt
moro tlinn 0,000 ycura ago nnd wob
nccurntoly dcscrlbod In rocords Uint
attll oxlaL
AMERICAN LIVES
Then on through llio forest of tho
VoNKci down to wheni Franco In tho
early days of tho war plucked, and mill
lightly clutches, it bit of what lined to
bo hem. II'h only u few wjuiiro miles
Just about t-uuiil to tho plot of
ground that llclgltim now holds of her
own ravished country -hut cntlruly
HiilHclcut to ex(!inpllfy mid Justify an
other lino French trait, Intcnso prldo
of nccouipllshment.
"Alsaco ItecomiulHol" iroiidly rradii
tho kIku over ii little shop fronting tho
budly scarred old church In the public
Miuaro of Thami. Nearly all the old
signs have been changed from (lerinim,
but sumo havo been retained Just for
souvi'iilri. In this corner of tho "lost
FLYERS BREAK ALL
I'arls. Ho many speed nnd dlstnnco
records have been shattered and not
anil then surpassed again by allied
aviators that It Is doubtful If the best
performances will ever bu straightened
out and set down on the otllclal books.
Hut aviators have been Hying from
points In Knglaiid mid In Franco to
tho Italian front every dny. ns the
Hrlllsh mid French war olllces havo
outdone themselves In their efforU to
n-enforeo tho French aviation (serv
ice. Pilots Just breveted and thcro
went n certain number of Americans
among them soared Into tho air, and
following the lead of nn Instructor
or some veteran nvlntor, set their
course for Italy.
Youths who had not sat In nn air
plane two mouths before, duplicated
the feat of Itoland Chirms which
startled the world n few years ngo;
the traversing of the Italian Alps.
Flights of 100, 500 and 000 miles with
out stop were common occurrences.
And In nil cases the average Kpced
maintained was considerably more
than 100 miles an hour.
One of General Cadornn's flrst re
quests to tho French anil Hrltlsh was
for re-enforcements In airplanes nnd
pilots. Tho Germans bad assembled
several score of their best lighting nnd
bombarding escndrllles on the Italian
front nnd had struck suddenly In n
body. In one day thu German forma
tions had practically cleared tho air
of Italian lighting nlrcrnft, nnd they
followed up this ndvnntago by s tid
ing over Into the Italian Hues squadron
ufter squadron of bombing machines.
Incendiary bombs anil aerial torpe
NONE TOO OLD
That service to one's country recognizes no uge limit Is evident from
Ibis photograph showing Frenchmen too old to flght constructing trenches nnd
dugouts behind thu battle lines. ICiicb innn, n volunteer, has released n
younger man for duty ut tho front. Many of theso men served Franco In 1870.
WORK FOR MAIMED
Plan for Re-Education of Dis
abled American Soldiers.
To Do Helped to Rehabilitate Them
selves as Useful Citizens of the
Republic.
Washington. Now that our troops
havo begun to actually take part In
tho great wnr, u great problem will
soon hnvo to bo need. It will soon
hnvo to bo faced. It will hnvo to do
with tho re-cducntlon of disabled sol
diers. It will not bo enough for tho
government to place thoso who nro
permanently dlsnblcd In soldiers'
homes nnd nllow them to comploto
their cxlstcnco In material comfort,
but thoso who nro partially disabled
so ns tg innko them unublo to return
to tho occupations nnd trades which
they loft to servo tholr country will
hnvo to bo ro-cducnted In somo employ
ment which will cuiiblo them to reha
provlncch" (hero In no doubt how tho
people Hliiiid.
Arc tho pcnpt of Frnncc wnr-wenry?
Ve; no nro thosu of till ICuropo. Hut
(hey nro not wenry to tho point of
oven thinking of giving up thu strug
gle, ilcMpllo, or, rnllicr, because of, tho
fact Hint of all tho utiles Franco's bur
dens nnd her sacrifice In blood nnd des
olated homes has been tho greatest.
In n tour of the wnr r.oue and of tho
provincial towns behind the lines, from
tho channel to Switzerland, ono may
Hnd everywhere nbundant evidence of
ii relentleHs determination, among both
wildlerM and homefolks, to see the
thing through.
Hut tho predominant Mtitlment In
Franco today Is ono of Intcnso grati
tude that America has come In to help.
Any Heeling doubts as to the outcomo
were dispelled with the arrival of the
Hummlcs.
AERIAL RECORDS
does were rained on the Italian avia
tion Holds nnd the linngurs und Italian
aircraft burned together.
Hoth the French nnd Hrltlsh general
staffs realized that without Its "eyes"
tho Italian army might wander Into
traps nnd pitfalls. And they gnvc the
order nt onco to re-enforce tho Italian
nvlntlon service with their own es
cndrllles. Tho order went out to all
the aviation camps and schools In
Ungland nnd France. Within n few
hours tho orders were being executed.
IMIots hnvlng passed their brevets
were mustered out on tho fields. They
wcro told to wear two leather and rub
ber union suits Instead of tho single
garment they usunlly wear. Tho gaso
line tanks were filled ami they wcro
Instructed to follow the lender. Then
they soared off In long coveys, nil
headed toward the Itnllnn Alps.
Cover Vast Territory.
Homo of the Hrltlsh machines went
clear ncross Unglnnd, traversed tho
chnnpel, then soured over Franco and
scaled the Alps nnd proceeded straight
on to the Tngllumento lino without
over descending. French machines
Hew from remote corners of tho re
public over tho great mountain rnngo
and ncross the plains of Lombnrdy to
Udlne, arriving thero before the Ital
ians were forced to retreat from that
strategic railway center.
I may not even vnguely Indicate tho
number of nlrpluues that were sent
from France nnd England, but I can
state that the number of accidents was
as low as the average total for n day
at any of tho big aviation schools.
TO SERVE FRANCE
bilitate themselves ns useful citizens of
tho republic.
Although tho pluus hnvo not pro
gressed enough to mnko a formal
announcement of their scope, It Is
known that tho war department,
tho surgeon general's olllco, Is working
on tho theory that tho re-cducntlon
must commence In tho hospital whtlo
tho patient Is convalescent.
Tho government will probnbly fol
low closely tho plans of tho Canadian
government, which is to continue Ha
military control over tho badly
wounded until n competent bonrd con
sisting of olllcers, doctors nnd lay
men pronounce tho re-education com
pleto nnd tho soldier ready for now
endeavors.
According to ncccptcd theories, tho
ro-cmploymont of tho fncultics begins
In tho hospital bed with games and
puzzles which oxclto Uio Interest and
tako tho mind off misfortunes, Tho
badly maimed often Ioho courngo and
hope, nnd hnvo often after provlons
wnrs Insisted upon being supported by
tho government In soldiers' home
without effort on tholr own bohalt
MUST STIMULATE ALL CROPS
State College to Work Out Program
for JHggcr Yields.
Washington's contribution to tho war
cause will bo intensive stimulation of
crop production. At a conference in
Spokane Inst week of E. O. Holland,
president of Washington State Col
lego; K. F. Ilcnson, of tho state de
partment of agriculture, and Charles
Hebberd, chnlrrnan of the food supply
and conservation committee of the
State Council of Defense, it was de
cided that tho state college work out a
program at once for greater food pro
duction. "Winter wheat sowing in the state
was only 15 to 25 per cent of normal,"
said Mr. Hebberd. " Wo must depend
upon spring sowing to increase the
wheat crop. The situation as it ex
ists now is grave."
Definite plans will be formulated at
n meeting in Spokane January 25.
Stops Sale of Dread in Quantity Lots.
The sale of bread in quantity lots by
bakers and retail merchants has been
forbidden by Charles Hebberd, food
administrator for Washington. The
ruling is effective at once and applies
to bread dealers whether licensed or
not.
"Tho food administration for Wash
ington rules that the sale of bread in
quantity lots three loaves for 25 cents
is a wasteful practice an encourages
over-consumption and the leaving of
stale bread on hand in families," says
the instructions sent to bakers and re
tailers by Mr. Hebberd. "You are
notified that effective at once, quantity
prices arc to be discontinued. In fu
ture you will make loaf price only."
The distributors have been notified
that they may make the price either
eight or nino cents each, but must not
make the price dependent upon the
number of loaves sold.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
Wheat Bulk basis for No. 1 grade:
Hard white Blucstem, Early Bart,
Allen, Galgalus, Martin Amber, $2.05.
Soft white Palouse bluestem, forty
fold, White Valley, Gold Coin, White
Russian, $2.03. White club Little
club, Jenkins club, white hybrids,
Sonor, $2.01. Red Walla Walla Red
Russian, red hybrids, Jones fife, Cop-
pci, $1.98. No. 2 grade, 3c less. No.
3 grade, 6c less; other grades handled
by sample.
Flour Patents, $10.
Millfced Spot mill prices: Bran,
$33 per ton; shorts, $36; middlings,
$46; rolled barley, $6062; rolled
oats, $62.
Corn Whole, $84 per ton; cracked,
$85.
Hay Buying prices: Eastern Ore
gon timothy, $2526; alfalfa, $24
per ton; valley grain hay, $24; clover,
$22; straw, $8.
Butter Cubes, extras, 4546c per
pound; prime firsts, 45c. Jobbing
prices: Prints, extras, 464Sc; car
tons, 1c extra; butterfnt, No. 1, 52
53c, delivered.
Eggs Fresh ranch, current re
ceipts, I7(j(:48c per dozen; candled,
50c; selects, 65c.
Poultry Hens, Inrge, 20c; per
pound; small, 18c; springs, 1819c;
ducks, 20c; geese, 1418c; turkoys,
live, 20(22c; dressed, choice, 30
30Jc.
Veal Fancy, 1516c per pound.
PorkFancy, 1718c per pound.
Vegetables Tomatoes, $2.50 per
crate; cnbbnge, lS2Jc per pound; let
tuce, $2?12.25 per crate; cucumbers,
$1.3507)1.75 per doron; peppers, 15($
17c per pound; cauliflower, $2.25
2.50 per crate; sprouts, 10llc per
pound; artichokes, 85c $1.10 per
pound; garlic, 78Jc; squash, ljc per
pound; pumpkins, ljc per pound; cel
ery, $3.504.52 per crate.
Potatoes Oregon, $1.25. 160 per
hundred; Yakima, $1.501.75; sweet
potatoes, 4Jc per pound.
Onions No. 1, $2.502.75; No. 2,
2 per hundred.
Green fruits Apples, $1 2.25;
pears, $1.25 2.25; grapes, 7c per
pound; cranberries, $13.5016.50 per
barrel.
Wool Eastern Oregon,. 5060c per
pound; valloy, 55 60c; mohair, long
staple, 55c.
January 4, 1918.
Cattle
Med. to choice steers. . . .$ 9.7610.50
Good to med. steers 8.75 9.65
Com. to good steers 7.25 8.40
Choico cows and heifers. 7.00 7.85
Com. to good cows nnd hf 5.76 7.35
Cannors 3.00 5.60
Bulls , 4.50 7.00
Calves ; 7.0010.00
Stockors and foedors.... 6.00 8.00
Hogs
Primo light hogs $15.3515.50
Prime heavy hogs 15.4615.60
Pigs 13.6014.60
Bulk 15.00
Shoop
Western lambs $13.0013.50
Valloy lambs 12.5013.00
Yearlings 12.0012.60
Wothors 11.7612.25
Ewes , 8.0010.00
STATE NEWS
t IN BRIEF. I
Walter Meals, a well-known resi
dent of Josephine county, committed
suicide by shooting himself in the
forehead with a .32 caliber rifle, early
Sunday morning.
A deal was closed at Seaside a few
days ago whereby J. A. Prouty, of the
Prouty Lumber & Box Co., secured
tho mill owned by the Nchalcm Lum
ber company at Timber.
Secretary of State C-lcott issued
48,632 automoble licenses during the
year 1917, as compared to 33,917 for
1916, an increase of approximately
15,000, or nearly 50 per cent over
1916.
All Coos Bay industries, with the
exception of. the Coos Bay Shipbuild
ing company yard and the Bay Park
sawmill, did not observe New Year's
day, but continued work on govern
ment force needs.
William Ackrcs, of Roseburg, 103
years old, died Saturday at the county
home. He was a Kentuckian, born
in 1814. He has relatives in Coos
county. He was the olderst white
man in Douglas county when he died.
The Indians of the Shaker faith on
the Klamath reservation have decided
to combine with the original Shaker
corporation of this sect at Olympia,
Wash., and Sergeant Brown left for
that point Saturday to complete the
arrangements for the local organiza
tion. Rain, which has fallen almost con
tinuously during the past 10 days, has
been the heaviest ever known in
Clatsop county. Owing to the illness
and death of Weather Observer Rost
no accurate report of the rainfall has
been kept, but it is believed to have
smashed all previous records.
Lena Briggs 12, of Eugene, bor
rowed $5 at the Bank of Commerce
in February and invested the money
in eggs under a plan of loans by the
bank to boys and girls who are mem
bers of the pig and poultry clubs. She
already has received returns of $11.36
from her project and ha3 25 pullets
and 18 cockerels left.
The Public Service commission has
granted to the Portland Railway,
Light & Power .company a horizontal
increase of 15 per cent on all of its
freight rates on its interurban lines,
with the exception of the rate on
wood, which remains unchanged. It is
understood that the road was particu
larly desirous of securing tho increase
in the rate on wood.
Bandon has quarantined against
Marshfield to prevent spread of scarla
tina in that city, and the Bandon
health officers declare several school
teachers who visited in Marshfield dur
ing the holidays will be quarantined
promptly upon returning to Bandon
and kept under surveillance for 10
days. Three new cases have occurred
in Marshfield within the past two
days.
Heppner celebrated New Year's day
under sunny skies and with a temper
ature of 65 degrees. Thus far the
winter has been mildest on record and
stockmen are jubilant. Grass on the
ranges is still growing, nnd indications
are that Morrow county will plant the
greatest acreage in her history this
winter. Some uneasiness is felt over
the fruit crop, as many of the trees
are almost ready to bloom. It is
feared that freezing weather later may
prove disasterous.
Union County went over the top in
the Red Cross membership drive by a
margin of at least 500. Belated re
turns coming in from outlying pre
cincts will bring the total above tho
quota of 5000 for the county by 500
or COO. General Manager Kiddle has
dismissed his workers.
State Highway Engineer Nunn has
gone to Clatsop county to take charge
of tho work on contracts on tho Lower
Columbia River Highway recently
taken from the Warren Construction
company. What mode of procedure
will be followed in completing this
work has not been stated.
County Agent Jay L Smith is an
ardent advocate of greater hog pro
duction in Coos county, and in support
of his contention calls the attention
of ranchers to the fact that they aro
Inqtnrv mnnfiv liv nnt tiMlitnc whant
r, j j ..f,
and corn ' in greater amounts. Coos
county has drawn several first prizes
for corn in shows for 1917, and Agent
Smith says producers can command,
high returns f moro hogs were raised.
Botween 1600 and' 2000 educators,
roprsenting every county in tho state,
attended the sessions of the 17th an
nual meeting of the Oregon State
Teachers' association, which opened at
9 o'clock Wednesday morning In the
Lincoln High School auditorium. Both
morning and afternoon sessions were
devoted to tho consideration of tho
business of tho association. The pro
grams for Frday and Saturday were
dovoted to addresses by prominent ed
ucators and tho discussion of educa
tional topics.