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THE TWO SWORDS
By Lcwii F. Crawford, President State Board of
Regents, North Dakota
("Tho Hymn of tltu Herman Mword" appeared In n Gorman paper publlnticiJ
In Lelprig, Germany, iind linn hecu widely copied In papers of other countries
A copy which camo to the attention of Lewis K. Crnwford, Hentlnel Uutte,
N. I)., president of tho htnto hourd of recent, Improved him o strongly that
lio prepared "Tim Ainerlciin Hword," n n contrast to tho nplrlt shown In "Tho
Gorman Hword.")
HYMN OF THE GERMAN SWORD
It I no duty of mine to hu either Just or co'mpmwlonato; It huIIIcc that
I inn mine-titled liy my exulted inlnxi.m, nnd Hint I blind Uio oye of tny cno
mle with mich ntreiim of tenr ns shall makii tho proudest of them cringe
in terror under the vnult of heiiveu.
1 hnvo slaughtered the old unit the sorrowful'; I have struck off tho brenHts
of women; utid I Imvo run through tho bodloM of children who guzed nt mo
with tho eye of tho wounded lion.
Dny nfter duy I rldo aloft on the whndowy horses In tho Vnlley of Cypresses
nnd tit I rldo I drnw forth the life blood of every enemy' won that dnres to
dispute my pnth.
It I meet nnd right Hint I Miould cry aloud In my pride, for um I not tho
flaming messenger of tho Lord Almighty?
aermnny I ho fur iilmve and beyond all thu other nation thnt nil tho
ret of tho earth, bo they who they mny, should feel themselves well dono by
when they nro allowed to tight with the doc for tho crumb that fnll from
lier table.
When Germany tho dlvlno I happy, then tho rest of tho world bnaks In
iimltc; but when Germany Buffer, God In person Ih rent with anguish, nnd,
wrathful and nvvnclnc, ho turns all the water Into river of blood.
THE AMERICAN SWORD
I mil tho American vnrd.
I have never been unsheathed except In the cause of Justice nud human
It)'. I punish only under solemn and compelling obligation.
In my presence national perfidy nnd dishonor never go unchallenged.
I opened In generous trust to all nations the portals of American oppor
tunity nnd gnvo cqunl right to nil In tho Inherltnnce created by tho toll nnd
blood of our ancestor.
In mo everything that Is good finds approval, everything menu meet rc
buko. My people nro enticed to love me by the gentle persuasiveness of tny Hfo.
I am the visual enchantment of the downtrodden nnd the oppressed; tho
emblem of national honor; tho embodiment of the world' hope. y
In mo I United the command of duty with tho lovo of Calvary; It I tulno
to traco tho hidden equities of divine reward and connect national wrong-doing
with It swift retribution; under me fulllllment add splendor to the gorgeous
Mosaic of our dreams.
0 kaiser! obsessed with power, drunk with passion, enemy of peace nnd
light nnd freedom throughout the world, slayer of age nnd Infancy, rnvlshcr
of virginity, spreader of contagion, flend Incarnate 1
Against thee barren Meld cry nut In protest; venerated work of nrt nnd
architecture, hallowed by the centuries, thou has crumbled under shell of
frenry; thou art wasting the tlower of tho world' manhood In red ruin
spurred on by tho grim reaper of Unto.
Thou International brigand, enslaver and robber of Itelglum, looter of
Benin, betrnyer of neutrals I thou art a plratu moiling mnd pn tho pathless
nweep of oceans, plundering nnd murdering on tho world' highway.
Diplomatic Intriguer, thou has faithlessly broken age-old treaties, thou
has torpedoed hospital ships, hombarded defenseless cities nud unleashed
liquid tiro and poison ga outlaw demons of destruction. In this epilepsy of
tho world' horror thou art not bowed with a sense of unfathomable guilt
and sodden shninu; thou, the arch guttcr-snlpo of civilization, nrt more un
sparing than Toniuemada, more cruel than Nero, more atrocious than Cali
gula, more crafty than Gcronlmo; thou hast loosed thu host of 111 upon n
peaceful world and darkened tho heaven with blasphemy.
Thou art chased by tho maddening billows; tho deeps In mallco open to
receive thee; ashen faces turned toward llamo-llt skies, appeal for vengeance.
My presence give courage to endure the appalling strain and omnipres
ent peril of battle.
1 bestow Huperhumnn nerve, sleepless caution, capacity for sacrifice, nnd
tho Justlco of my cause palsies the hand of brutn! might and insensnto ambi
tion. I pity tho victim, not the violator; the sorrows I brine wear no weeds of
mourning.
I open a new urn In history; I lire the human soul with new daring nnd
now hope; I will survlvo this conflict nnd pronounce Its sentence
When tho name of knlser shall hnyo lost It stench nnd boon covered with
tho dust of countless centuries, I shall still be glorified ns tho mainstay of de
mocracy tho peacemaker of tho world.
Bill and the Bank
President
Mates on the Good Ship of Thrift
It was long nfter bunking hours nnd
only tho assistant Janitor and tho haul:
president wore "on tho Job" In tho
great Chicago banking Institution.
Tho executive, having cleaned up tho
mass of 'busbies on hi desk, lighted
a long, pencil-shaped cigar and lolled
back In Ills swivel chair. Illll, tho red
faced, good-natured member of tho
clean-up brigade, cuterod tho ofllco
and bonded for tho waste basket. Tho
bunk president remembered thnt 11111
had bought a $100 Liberty bond In tho
second campaign.
"Arc you having any troublo In
mooting tho payments on your Liberty
bond, Hill?" asked tho executive.
"No trouble, sir," replied tho Jan
itor. "1'vo dono n bit n plnnuln' nnd
trlmmln', though, hut It nln't given mo
any trouble. I'm better off for th'
plnnnin' and trlmnitn'."
"I Imnglno you hnve woll, a sort o'
bottor opinion of yourself for saving
up and lending your nionoy to tho
government," said tho president.
"I'm sorry I ain't young enough to
bo 'over there' with tho boys," uald
mil, "but slnco I nln't thoro nnd
won't bo thoro unless tho array noods
men with rhoumntla In ono out o
ovofy thrco Joints, I fool It nocoBsnry
to do what I can do horo at homo,"
"It's u flno thing to bo a bohdbold
.or n ronl partner In tho great Arm of
Upclo Sam A Co.," eali th6 Wcsl
d&t "One really has a hotter 6pa-
Ion of himself when he feels that ho
In lending a hand."
"You have bought n Liberty bond;
your wife tin trimmed hero and
there In order that you might havo tho
necessary money, and your daughter Is
buying tho war-savings stamps," said
the bank president. "Your llttlo homo,
Illll, 1 doing Its full duty, nnd you
ought to bo thoroughly proud of It
Including yourself."
"Oh, I nln't doln as much as I'd llko
to do," iffild Illll, blushing at tho com
pliment, "hut I'm doln' nbout all I can
do, so I really nln't ashamed of my
self." "I'm trimming, too, mil," said tho
bank president. "This clgur I'm
smoking costs Just one-third as much
as tho ono I've been in tho habit of
smoking, nnd I'm not smoking ns
ninny cigars a day ns I used to smoke..
I'vo hnd my shoes resoled for tho first
tlmo In 20 years. It used to bo that
every tlmo I'd run my heel down a
llttlo I'd chuck tho shoes nnd buy a
new pair. I'm going to wear this suit
of clothes until It wears out, no mat
ter how glossy It becomes. I'm go
ing to"
"Oh, but you don't huvo to pinch
thnt way," Interrupted Illll a bit apolo
getically; "you can afford to wear tho
best."
"I know It," Bald tho bank presi
dent, "but I'm going to bo thrifty my
solf. As you say, thcro's real sport
In playing tho gnmo of thrift. Tho
government can havo nil I'vo got. I
mean that. It has boon good to mo
and I'm going to try to show my ap
preciation I'll bo right thcro when
tho third loan Is out."
"I'll bo rtdln' along with you, sir,"
said Bill with a chuckle.
And now Bill and tho bank prcsldont
aro mates on tho good ship Thrift, j
GOD
ROAD BUILDING LARGE TASK
Pretldent of National Hiohwaya Asso
ciation Tells How a Great Sys
tem Can De Built.
Thanks to tho pushful, pervnslvo
motor car, American road building ha
"got a move on" at Inst. Thcro I ev
erywhere tho cry for roads. Tho draw
back has been that, n yet, thcro hn
been no co-ordlnntlon of theso multi
tudinous enterprise. The president
of tho National Highways association.
Charles Henry Davis, In a recent paper
stated thnt we spent Inst year $240,
0r5,007, or more thnn two-thirds the
total of money expended so far on the
construction of tho Panama canal
for road Improvements throughout tho
country. Mr. Dnvls' contention I that
good roads, roads that run for thou
sands of miles through state nfter
state, ore, properly, not the responsi
bility of tho state, but of the nation.
Ho would hnve tho federal government
build n system of nntlonnl roads Join
ing tho West with tho East, the North
nnd tho South, connecting every part
of the country, ns Is tho ense with the
national highways of Europe, nnd, us
history shows, such as wns the essen
tial equipment of every flrst-class
power of tho paBt, according to tho
Boston Evening Transcript.
How would such an enormous con
struction be pntd for and kept up?
"Suppose," asks this eminent engi
neer, "tho government built 100,000
miles of properly planned roads, and
ut tho same time purchased, say, 800
Qood Road Needed.
feot of land on cither side? This land
would so continually Increase In value
and in demand for leasing on long
rental, that the cost of the road and
the land purchaso would soon bo paid.
A rental rato of $0.06 per acre would
pay the Interest on the cost of con
struction. But such would rent nt vast
ly higher rates In cities nnd towns,
high enough to give thu nation an In
come equal to Its total annual expendi
tures, from these nntlonnl highways
ulonol"
GOOD HIGHWAYS IN ONTARIO
Approximately 65,000 Miles of Road
In Province 43,000 Miles In
Fairly Qood Condition.
Tho province of Ontario has ap
proximately W.OOO miles of rond.
Moro than l'J.OOO miles havo been
treated nnd nro In fairly good condi
tion. About 20,000 miles nro well'
graded earth roads; about 8,000 miles
aro surfaced with broken stone nnd
about 10,000 nro surfaced with gravel.
In tho city of Toronto thcro Is one
motorcar to every twenty-flvo inhab
itants. INCREASED VALUE OF FARMS
Influence of Road Improvement on Ru
ral Property Is Described by Bal
timore Financier. '
Tho Influenco of rond improvements
on tho value of rural property tvas de
scribed In a letter recently sent to tho
Manufacturers' Record by tho president
of tho Bulttmoro Commercial bank,
who wroto : "Around my homo town In
Virginia property could be bought
thrco years ago for $00 to $80 an aero.
Wo put a flno road soveral miles
through that county, and today yon
cannot buy anything for less than $100,
and somo is held nt $100 per acre,"
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i STATE NEWS
! IN BRIEF.
Twenty Pendleton German havo reg
istered as enemy aliens with Postmas
ter Tweedy. All but four have- token i
out their first paper. Several havo
served in tho German army.
Hereafter physical examination will
bo mado .of boys committed to tho
state industrial school for boys, and
parole violators must report to the
superintendent at least once a month.
Colonel Disquo's inquiry among men
of tho Loyal Legion has brought a 25
ccnt rise in tho North Bend mills and
tho lowest pay for tho three industries
is $3.75, commencing a once. Tho
mills remain on 10-hour shifts.
Tho service flag given to the Meth
odist Episcopal church of Drain by the
Epworth League last Sunday has been
given a permanent place on the wall
under the United States flag and will
remain till tho close of the ytar.
Tho work of registering Germans at
tho Bend postoffico is now practically
complete. To date 25 have been regis
tered, and, although tho time for regis
tration has been extended, it is not ex
pected that any more will appear.
State Veterinarian Lytle sayB he has
received reports of a great outbreak
of rabies in Northern Klamath county,
causing heavy losses of cattle. Rabid
coyotes are said to be running rampant
in the country there and attacking cat
tle freely.
After several hours of grilling by
the Bend police officials, assisted by
State Fire Marshal H. H. Pomeroy,
Mrs. Ed Hansea confessed on Saturday
night that it was she who had set the
three fires in her home which finality
resulted in its destruction.
Chan Dick, a Chinaman who was ar
rested by the Astoria customs authori
ties Monday night on a charge of hav
ing opium in his possession, was ar
raigned before United States Commis
sioner Carney and held under $500 bail
to await the action of the Federal
grand jury.
C. E. Stewart, fruit inspector for
Lane county, has ordered the destruc
tion of pear and wild apple trees
within the city limits of Eugene found
to be infected with fire blight. The
trees in the city have been the' source
of infection, Mr. Stewart believes.
Two of the 454 accidents reported to
the State Industrial Accident commis
sion during the week ending February
7, were fatal. They were: William
Lake, of Deer Island, killed in logging
operations, nnd B. A. L. Christenson,
of Cornucopia, killed in mining opera
tions. The experience of Justina Ileuper
man, the 13-year-old girl who ran
awny from home, intending to seek
her fortune in San Francisco, was
brought to an end Sunday, when she
was found at the home of John Frame,
in an isolated and little-traveled sec
tion of the forest, five miles west of
Marshficld.
When asked Monday whether he in
tended to pay his income tax or not,
Governor Withycorabe replied that two
years ago he offered to pay the tax,
but was informed that it could not be
legally accepted. If it is found now
that it can be accepted he says he will
pay it, and if it cannot he will pay
considerably more than that amount to
patriotic causes.
For the first time in more than two
years the Southern Pacific company
has overcome its car shortage in Ore
gon and Saturday reported to tho Ore
gon Public Commission a surpuls of 91
cars. The surplus was 38 closed and
53 open cars.
McDonald & Vaughn, of Marshficld,
who have a three-year contract for
cutting spruce nnd white cedar on the
Coos Bay peninsula, in the interests of
tho government aeroplane programme,
havo a crew of survoyors in tho field
laying out the logging road which is to
tap tho area, and will construct the
camps as fast as possible. Dr. E. L.
Holt, secretary of the state board of
eugenicB, is advised by Attorney Gen
eral Brown in an opinion Saturday
that it is the duty of tho board, when
over an inmate of .an.institution de
sires to appeal from its findings, to
forward .transcript of all tho proceed
ings to tho Circuit court of the county
where tho institution is located in
which the inmate in'-question is con
fined. Tho board of, directors of tho Salem
Commercial, ,club haa ' practically ap
proved a plan for tho hiring a com
munity roporter to meet problems of
the community as thoy arise. Among
other things ho will be called upon to
furnish Eastern publicity for tho city.
His main duties will bo to interest the
farmers in growing products that aro
marketable directly in Salem, and his
immediate duties will bo to handle the
labor shortage, which is said to bo con
fronting somo Salem industries.
'War Recipes
Cut oat tho following recipe and
paste them in your cook book to help
you Hooverize. They hard been
thoroughly toted by Instructor and
special lecturer in the department
of home economic at the University
of Washington.
Washington Shrimp .Salad h-1 tb
granulated gelatine, I c cold water 1J
c vegetable broth (water from cooking
celery or peas, etc) or meat broth, 1 c
shrimps, 2 tb lemon juice, 1 c cooked
peas. Soak gclatino in cold water.
Dissolve in hot broth and cool. Add
shrimps, lemon juice and peas. When
set turn out on lettuce leaf, and ' servo
with mayonnaise. The meat broth is
improved if cooked with bay leaf, 2 or
3 peppercorns and slice of onion, .and
attained before being used for the
jelly. Chopped celery may be molded
with shrimp.in place of peas.
Rissoto 1 c rice, 2 ts fat, 3 c canned
tomato or 3 c broth, 1 ts salt, J ts pep
per, 1 c chopped meat may be added.
Turn the rice into a pan which con
tains the hot.melted fat. Stir the rice
until it assumes a golden tinge. If
the rice is stirred with a fork the
grains will not be broken. Add the
broth or the tomato, which has been
pressed through a sieve. Add the salt
and pepper. Cover' the pan. Cook the
rice for twenty minutes. When well
cooked it will be tender and all the
liquid will bs absorbed.
Italian Polenta 2 c corn meal mush,
1 c grated cheese, 1 ts salt, i ts pep
per. Make the corn meal mush in a
double boiler. Add the salt and pep
per. Add the grated cheese. Cook it
until it melts. Pour the mixture into
a greased pan. When it is cold cut
it into ' two-inch squares. Fry the
squares in a small amount of fat.
Another method: Arrange a layer
of the seasoned mush in a greased bak
ing dish. Cover this layer with one
half of the cheese. Arrange a second
layer of mush and cheese. Cover this
layer with breadcrumbs. Brown in a
hot oven.
Cheese Fondue 1 c grated cheese,
1 e bread crumbs, 1 c milk, 1 egg, 1
tb fat, 1 ts salt, J ts mustard, ts
paprika. Mix the cheese, " bread
crumbs and milk in a double boiler.
Cook this mixture until the cheese is
melted. Add the beaten egg, the salt,
mustard, and paprika. Cook till thick
and perfectly smooth.
NORTHWEST MARKET REPORT
Wheat Bulk basis for No. 1 grade:
Hard White Bluestem, 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, So
nera, $2,01. Red Walla Red
Russian, red hybrids, Jones fife, Cop
pel, $1.98. No. 2 grade, 3c less. No.
3 grade 6c less. Other grades hanledd
by sample.
Flour Patents, $10.
Millfeed Net mill prices, car lots:
Bran, $30 per ton; shorts, $32 per
ton; middlings, $39; mixed cars and
less than carloads, 50c more; rolled
barley, $6668; rolled oats, $66.
Butter Cubes, extras, 48c; prime
firsts, 47ic Jobbing prices: Prints,
extras, 52c; cartons, lc extra;
butterfat, No. 1, 55c delivered.
Eggs Ranch, current receipts, 48c;
candled, 50c; selects, 52c per dozen.
Poultry Hens, 25J26c; springs,"
24; broilers, 2930c; geese, 1618c;
turkeys, live, 2425c; dressed, choice,
30c.
Veal Fancy, 20e per pound.
Pork Fancy, 20 Jc per pound. -
Sack vegetables Carrots, $1.50 per
sack; beets, $1.50 2.00; turnips,
$1.50; parsnips, $1.602.00.
Potatoes Oregon Uurbanks, $1
1.25 per hundred; Yakimas, $1.50;
Bweet potatoes, 55ic per pound.
Onions Oregon, buying price, $1.75
per hundred.
Green Fruits Apples, $12.25;
pears, $2.25; cranberries, Eastern.
$17.60 pet barrel., ' '
February 14, 1918.
Cattlo
Med. to choice steers. . . .$10.3511.50
Good to med. steers. . . . . 9.3510.35
Com. to irood steers. . . . . 8.00(ffli0.00.
Choice cows and heifers. 8..00 9.50
Com. to good cows and hf 6.75 8.15
Cannors 4.25 6.25
BjiUa .... 5.00. 8.0,0
Calves v ....V. .1, j7.50ll.b0
Stackers and feeders.... 6.50 9.50
Hogs
Primo light hogs $16.7617.00
Prime heavy hogs 16.6016.75
Pigs 14.5016.50
Bulk 16.0016.75
Sheop
Western lambs $15.0015.50
Valley lambs 14.5015.00
Yearlings 13.0013.60
Wethers , 12.6013.00
Ewei 9.0011.00