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PRESIDENT READS
LEAGUE COVENANT
R. Morgan
Moro, Oregon
S h e rm a n
Z D e x x tle t
V E TE R IN A R IA N
Proposed Constitution Provides
For Union of Nations to
Office on Firat afreet,
To My Patron«: If you csnaqt $•* me
direct by phone at Moro, please call Korn
A Co.’s <«r«4«. who will promptly notify
me when I return to town.
Settle Future Troubles.
OREGON
Paris.—President Wilson was tbs
oentral figure of the plenary peace
conference when ha read the coven
ant establishing a league of notions.
There was added Interest to the ses
slon, aa it was the last gathering of
the delegates prior to the president's
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departure, as well aa being the occa
Physician and Surgeon.
sion of presenting the document with
which his name la Identified.
As ha oloeed the president laid aside
Moro, Oregon.
the document and spoke of what had
been accomplished. The deliberations
Office in residence*.
of the commission had been most In
structlve, and throughout the proceed
togs there was an undertone of en
thuslasm to the great work being ac
complished, he said.
W. C. B ryant .
President Wilson was followed by
C. J. B right ,
Lord Robert Cecil, head of the British
commission, league of nations; Leon
Bourgeois of the French commission,
and other leading figures of the con
ference.
The proposed league of nations, aa
A ttoroeya-at-Law
outlined to the covenant read by Pres
ident Wilson, will consist of represen
0
totlvee of the United States. Great
office» at
Britain, France, Italy and Japan, to
gether with representatives of four
Tb« Dall«a'«n4 Moro, Or«. ether statea
The council will meet as often aa la
neoesB&ry, but Bt low t ones a ysMr, at
whatever place may be designated
Any matter within the scope of action
a m e s s te w a r t
of the league or affecting the peace
of the world would be dealt w i t h
MORO.
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N o dark nights.
A<Unw: MORO, ORE.
SUMMARY OF LEAGUE
OF NATIONS COVENANT
N o gas to explode.
N o pressure tank to blow up.
Executive council to consist of rep
DEPUTIES
resentatives of the United States, Brit
N o water to carry.
L. Schsdewita,
Dr Jo« »sunder«,V S
ish empire, France, Italy and Japan,
Kent, Ore
Moro, Ore,
N o lamps to fill.
and representatives of four other
Chas. I. Everett, W«»co.
states.
N o matches to burn.
Council to meet at least once a year.
N o smoky chimneys to clean.
Permanent international secretariat
to be established.
Tara a Switch aaywkcr« day ar wight
Majority of states represented at
aad get a good stroag flood of light.
meetings shall decide all problems.
AU TO T R U CK
President of United States to call
Far Saia By
first meeting.
DRAY
Expenses borne by members of the
league.
Envoys shall enjoy Immunity during
Phone Main 314 M oro, Oregon sessions.
New member admitted by two-
thirds vote.
Freight artd Exprem
Ageat for Wasco sad Sherman Counties
Monitions making to be curtailed.
Handled Promptly. Moving
High contracting parties to preserve
against external aggression, territorial
Efficiently Attended To.
Integrity and existing political Inde
pendence of all states members of the
league.
Arbitration made compulsory.
Pannsnent court df International
Justice provided.
All treaties shall be registered with
secretary general.
P o r c e la in B a t h
Tub.
Small liberated nations shall be pro
tected.
All obligations Inter'se inconsistent
with terms of covenant shall be abro-
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Amendments taka effect on three-
quarters vote.
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w . N. JO N E S
BORN OF W A R
WILLIAM H. TAFT
It 1s difficult yet to value accurately
or to some lnstaacee to perceive all
the war has brought to our national
life or pruned from tt. The things
we think little now may appear to
posterity the greatest. The Thrift
Stamp idea seeips to be one of these.
Originated as a war emergency meas
ure. It has taken hold; has appealed
to the common sense of America, and
may yet shape the destiny of the
nation.
It to patent, now that the war is
over, that the Thrift Stamp has come
to stay, if we get nothing elee out of
the war but the habit of saving, which
begets the corollary simple living, we
UlU have reaped the full fruit of the
war. For a thrifty democracy Is a
firm democracy, a potent democracy,
a democracy strong enough to pre
serve Itself.
A man who saves Is a better cittoen
than the man who does not save. He
becomes a stockholder In his govern
ment and he Is jealous for the wel
fare of that government to war and
In peace. In war he will fight for It
with his life. In peace he will protect
it from those who would tear down.
As America saves from this day on
so shall she grow in benign power and
Oopyrlaht by Moffett
Ex-Prealdent Taft, who presided In the eyes of mankind. "A bank ao-
count for every American citlsen"
over the Northwestern peace confer,
should be one of our national slogans.
enea held In Portland.
The Thrift and War Savings Stamp
Idea is freighted with a mighty change
for the better in our national life.
The Thrift Stamp Is. backed by the
iTnlted States government. Without
doubt It Is the greatest Investment
ever offered and It Is in such a form
that every American, b’.g and little,
ewi take advantage o' IL
Copenhagen. — The German govern
ment on Sunday night accepted the
Prevention Rather Than Cure.
allied terms for the extension of the
To cure Is as expensive as to pre
armistice, according to a dispatch to vent, and prevention eliminates the
the PolltlkSH from Weimar.
The loss, as well.
meeting at which the acceptance was
decided upon,' the Politlken’s qprrea-
;pondent says, waa attended by leaders
of the various parties. Erxberger had
been instructed from Berlin not to sign
the document without obtaining au
thority from the government
Replying to a request by Mathias
Erxberger, head of the German arm Is
tlce commission, for a delay In the
signing of the armistice terms until
Monday morntog. Marshal Foch had
declared that the armistice expired at
B o’clock Monday morning and that
the last- hour for signing would be 6
o’clock Sunday afternoon, to order to
be able to Issue the necessary orders
to the troops.
If not signed then. Marshal Foch
said, he would be obliged to leave
Treves and the armistice would no
longer be In forca
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LEAGUE
Senators Poindexter and Borah Scored
for Potty Faultfinding.
Portland, Or. — William Howard
Taft, ex-presldent of the United States
and president of the League to En
force Peace, expressed the opinion
while here attending the Northwest
eru Congress for a League of Nations,
that the oovenant for a league of na
tions presented to the peace ooafer-
enoe to Parts by President Wilson
Was a "real covenant with a bite In
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Ha scored Senators Poindexter and
Borah for what ho termed petty fault
finding with the plans for arbitration
and peace, and expressed the hope
that the peaoe oovenaaA would he
adopted. Mr. Taft said; "It to^ he
duty of our senate to ratify the treaty
when It arrives there. I feel sure it
will, to spite of the opposition of such
men as Poindexter, reoelve the neces
sary two-thlrds vote."
F i v e G e n t«
193 9.
W hen the Fat Years Return
WIN $3 A WORD
BY WRITING A
VICTORY SLOGAN
Good Victory
Liberty Ixran
slogans are wanted by the general
publicity committee of the Twelfth
Federal Reserve District with head
quarters to Ban Francisco.
The oommlttee will pay as high
aa IS a word.
First prise will be $30, second
prise $10. and third prise, $10.
Slogans should be limited to IQ
or 11 words.
Bend all slogans te SLOGAN
EDITOR, Room SOI. 410 California
Street, San Francisco. California.
The contest closes Saturday,
March 11.
There are no Liberty Loans ahead
of you after the Victory Loan, so
mortgage your future for Victory
Bonds. Thousands of our soldiers and
sailors mortgaged their futures.
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Ambulance 1-3«. Waatern Front.
Whan the fat years return, and, rich
and free.
You half forget, as men have ever
done,
The price once paid for your security.
Thinking too much of fortune lost or
won.
Too much of pride and laughter, food
and ease.
Or of some public favor cheaply
earned.
Oh, then turn back the page and think
of these
Who gave their bodies for freedom
to be burned—
For these lived, too; they, too, loved
ease and laughter.
Sunlight, the green earth. All that
you still keep
They had. and more—vision. If yon
come after
And dare forget them, burled so
young, so deep,
And dare forget this faith for which
they stood—
Ah, but you will not, being of their
blood!
—The Outlook.
Start figuring now on your personal
Your boy will be a better man than
you are If you give him .a weekly al quota of Victory Liberty Bonds. If
lowance for Thrift Stamps. Let him you don’t, start figuring on increased
taxes.
buy them hlmeelf.
Be Specific.
For buslhess purposes, for social
purposes, for any purposes In life, a
rule that should admit of no excep
tions to; "Be specific in everything
you say. Don’t take It for granted
that vague/ general statements will
properly convey your meaning." Gen
eral statements, pieuse remember,
leave wide room for Inference, and
there Is always the liability that a
Wrong Inference will be drawn.
Queer Find at Pompsll.
A soap-boiler’s shop was among the
things discovered In the excavation at
Pompeii several years ago. The city
was burled beneath volcanic ashes A.
D. 79. It Is said that the soap found
In the shop had not lost all efficacy,
although It had lain under the eshee
more than 1,800 years. Soap making
was quite a business to a number of
the Roman dtles at the time that
Pompeii was destroyed.
At what is known as the Christianson Farm
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
The allies have taken steps to gain
possession of one ”*f the long-range
guns which the Germans used to fire
upon Paris.
The Philippines legislature Just
closed has passed an appropriation of
30,000,000 pesos to extend universal
free education in the Islands.
Drastic laws to eback the spread of
radical propaganda were advocated In
the senate by Senators Thomas, of
Colorado, and Weeks, of Massachu
setts.
United States senators and con
gressmen, members of the two naval
committees of congress, will come to
the Pacific coast aa guests of all the
chambers of conuneroe, in March.
Direct appeal to President Wilson
to settle the present strike of more
than 32,000 metal trades workers la
Beattie and Tacoma was said by ship
yard strikers to ba to contemplation
by them.
Exclusive of expenditures by Belgi
um. Portugal, Romnanla, Austria-Hun
gary and Bulgaria, the total cost of
the European war waa fixed at $179,-
000,000,000 la an official estimate
made public and baaad on data In the
hands of the federal reserve board,
the secretary of the territory and the
bulletins of the Swiss Society of
Banks.
Premier Clemeneeau »hot.
Paris. _ M. «¡eorgea Clemenceau,
France’s aged but vigorous premier,
wa« «hot and slightly wounded aa he
was entering his automobile for a
drive. Five shots wars fired by the
assassin and It was at first reported
that the premier had been wounded
In the head. It developed later, how
ever, that the woual was In M. Clem
enceau’s shoulder and he apparently
la not dangerously hurt. The would
be aaaassin was arraatad. He to fair
with long hair and to toll of stature.
League Loyal to Kaiser Being Formed
Weimar.—An urgent appeal to all
Oermans to unite to prevent former
Emperor William from being delivered
up for trial, was published In the
Landes Zeltnpg Deutschland, a new
government organ being issued here
The appeal to headed "League of Oer-
man Men and Women for the Protec
tion of the Parson. Freedom and Life
of William.” Field Marshal ven Hla
denburg to sponsor for the league.
* Senate Bill Would Curb Reds.
* Washington—A measure dealgned
to check radical agitation was Intro
duced by Senator J ones, of Washing
ton. It would punish- parsons who
urged resistance to tow or changes to
the form of government with five
years’ imprisonment at hard labor or
a fine of $6000. Allans convicted
would be deported after serving -sen
tences. ~
London Papers Praise Nations League
Loadon.—The London new «paper«
generally praise the draft of the league
of nations. Many hall It as the most
Important and moat memorable docu
ment to history, and oongratulate the
especially FrwsMeat
Pacific Cos«t Troops Return.
Now York.—The transport Canopic
arrived Wednesday with 34 officers
and 1101 men of the H id Infantry of
the 41st division (former national
guard troops of Waahlagton, Oregon.
Moatana, Idaho and Wyoming.
Eight miles southeast of Moro, five miles south and a little
west of Monkland,
2 2 Head of Horses
All in the prime of life and ready for Spring work, as follows:
Bay Gelding, weight 1500.
Bay Mare, weight 1400.
Black Gelding, weight 1400.
Black Mare, weight 1600.
Dark iron grey Gelding, weight 1350.
Bay Mare, weight 1250.
Brown Mare, weight 1450.
Brown Saddle Mare, 4 years old.
Four Mules,
Two bay Geldings, weight 1300.
Black Gelding, weight 1550,
Bay coach Gelding, weight 1200.
Black Gelding, weight 1250.
Black Mare, weight 1150.
Brown Gelding, weight 1400.
Two black 2-year-old Geldings.
Brown 2-year-old Gelding.
7 years old.
Also the following Farm property:
4-year-old Cow, soon fresh
3-bottom 14-inch John Deere Plow
16-foot Kimball W eeder
Nearly new Double Disc
Benicia 4-disc Plow
ao-foot U -bar Harrow
18 hoe Monitor Drill
’ g-foot Spring Tooth Harrow
14-foot W agon Bed
40-sack capacity Feed Grinder
Four sets W ork Harness
One Buggy
Double Bedstead and Bed Springs
16-foot Corrugated Roller
Was Postponed on Account of Bad Roads to
TUESDAY, FEB. 25,1919
Sale Begins at 11» a.m.
Free Lunch at b on
TERMS: All sums of $20 and under cash in hand. All sums
over $20 approved note bearing 8 per cent interest due Oc
tober 1,1919; or 5 per cent discount for cash.
H. H. C H R ISTIA NSEN, Owner.
G. B. BOURHILL, Clerk.
C G. HULS, Auctioneer.
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