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Alban "y Daily Defliocfat
Entered at the Postofflce at Albany, Oregon, as second
claw matter. ' ?
W. L, JACKSON Editors
end ' , and
RALPH R. CRONISK ! Managers
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ly published luesdays and Fridays. :
BUSINESS' MATTER
to ordering changes of address, subscribers should al
ways give Old as well as New address.
Established In 1865
TUESDAY, JULY X,
TREES FOR WIRELESS
iiim
On of the most remarkable de
velopments of -wireless telegraphy
ma recently mad public by Maj.
Can. George 0. Squier, chief signal
officer of the United State Army. It
to that trees serve th purpose of
wireless aerials.
All who know anything about wire
less communication are familiar with.
the usual wirs networks, raised high
in the air to catch incoming messages
and throw outgoing messages intej
the ether. It has long been supposed
that high buildings or poles, suri
mounted by these wires, were abso,
lutely necessary. . Th United State
government and the big wireless
companies, in their preparations for
- distant communication, hare reared
t enormous aerials of this sort. And
now Gen. Sqnier says that they are
entirely superfluous. All that any
body has to do, in order to handle
. .wireless messages, if he has the ne
t eessary sending and receiving instru
ments, is to drive a nan into a tree
a few feet from the ground and run
a wire from his instrument to that
nafl.' The higher the tree, the better;
but almost any tree will serve for
ordinary purpose. ; J
" CySn. Squier has jen in constant
eommunicationV with Europe for
th large; radio stations in England.
France, Italy and . Germany, with
owing out trees tor fin aenals.
He himself discovered this device
in 1904. His discovery, however, ft
eeived little notice. It appears to have
; been used by th American army dur
ing the war, though to what extent
' is not revealed. Its serviceability in
wartime is too obvious to require
comment.
No less obvious is th adaptation
: of Ui idea for amateur ,worlc Gen.
Sqqier aays that he has used trees
likewise for wireless telephony. Jhe
mere suggestion should arouse ! the
. enthusiasm of youthful amateurs!
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STAMPS FOR BIG INVESTORS
' -"Mill!!' t '
A good many of the devotees of the
Thrift Card and th W. S. certificate
are small purchasers, buying on or
' two thrift stamps a week or an oe
caslonal W. S. 8. when they se the
opportunity to ssve two bits or: five
bones. ' But there are a great many
other advocate of the thrift habit
who hav f 100 or more to put into
the W. S. 8. at on time. They have
been discouraged from investing in
stamps because the small denomina
tions made it fussy work to take
them In several hundred dollar lots.
For th convenience of these larger
investors th government is now is
suing War Savings Stamps in thou
sand and hundred dollar denomina
tions. They are sold on th same
basis as the five-dollar stamps, and
bear th" same interest.
It is Interesting to leam that Uacle
Sam had to issue these stamps of
higher denominations to meet a def
inite demand. It ahowa what any
sensible person has been aware of
right along, that th stamps are a
genuinely good investment, thst they
ar not of value only to th person
ovitk a very small income who must
work if stematlcally to save a quar
ter hers and a quarter then. They
are equally attractive to th man or
woman with thousand dollars to
invest at four per cent interest.
Th flu last year killed 6,000,000
people in India, which is more than
that plague-ridden country loses from
th ordinary plague in 20 years. And
yet some people refuse to take the
flu seriously.
-J!,"if :
PEOPLE ARE BUYING
Here Is an illuminating comment
ary on th American business situs
uon irora a source who accuracy
and impartiality no on will question.
It is taken from a bulletin of the
National City Bank of New York,
the largest and best known financial
institution in th country.
-IB business situation in the
United States haa improved very
much in the last month, and th out
look is encouraging. The idea that
the bottom waa about to drop out of
an markets, and that a grave period
f 'unemployment and perhaps social
usorder was pending, is no longer
entertained. Th people, north and
outh. east and west, has disposed of
hat bogie by simply continuing to
uy goods at th greatest rate aver
nown. W conclude that th great
ody of th American people are dis
osed to go along in a normal way,
vhatever th rest of the world may
fa, and aa their buying capacity is
about equsl to that of all the rest ofr
tne world put together, they can do
fairly well ,11 by themselves, if they
Thia statement is of interest not
merely because It shows real progress
toward reconstructive prosperity, bat
also because it indicates so clearly
the main thing on which American
prosperity is based. ,
It is not the foreign trade, of which
so much has been said and written
"hat is important, but it is not by
any means th main thing. Th main
Hing, and indeed the almost all-tm
portent thing, ia domestic buying, be
cause the buying canacitv of the Am.
erican people right here at home is
as great as that of all the reat lot
the world put together, and ail the
foreign trade we can possibly hope
to get will be a smsll fraction com
pared with thia tremendous volume
of domestic business.
Thus the significance of th "buy
now" slogan becomes clearer. While
going after foreign trad it would be
folly not to stimulate domestic trade,
because only a little increase in do-
ingmestic buying by individual eitl-
rene and business concerns wilf ae
eomplish more toward restoring boom
times than all the orders that manu-
'acturers can get abroad.
Sage Roaster Her ,
G. W. Harris, who was a resident
of Albany many years ago and who
always maintains a lively interest In
Albany affairs and people, came
down from Eugene last evening to
attend the Knights of Pythias lodge.
Mr. Harris and Dr. J. L. HiU ar the
only surviving members of the orig
inal charter membership of Laurel
Lodge No. 7. Mr. Harris formerly
corresponded for the Democrat under
the nom de plum of th Sag Roos
ter, his writings always being en-
Joyed by a larg circle of friends.
Germany's Big Mistake.
Th distinguished Danish vegetarian.-
Dr. M. Illndhede, haa made the
Interesting, dlscorery that Oermsny
owes her downfall to the" pig. Ia
1914 she bed over 2S.U00.000 pigs to
feed. For the flrst five months of
the war slsughtenng waa discouraged,
at th cost of enormous reserves of
foodstuffs. Early In lfll.l this poller
waa- reversed, son hy April the num
ber of pigs had 'ieen reduced by 8A
per cent. Then "a reaction In favor
of plea set In. sod their numbers
were kept at about TO per cent of the
pre-war figure. Kot till late In 101T
and early In 1018 was the fatsllty of
this mistake realised, and then It was
too late. Doctor Hlndhede arguea
that Denmark avoided starvation by
killing her pigs earlr.
ALL FEARED MOON
Soldiers Regarded Orb of Night
at Their Enemy.
Lie hted Read a Which' They Wtr
Maying, and Thy Oav Inemy '
I Qunner a Chanoa te Deal
Out Death.
"Ttie war la ended ; the battleflelda
ar being cleared of their debris ; th
rusty wtr Is being rolled p Th
nights can be spent In beds, yet the
men of the One Hundred and Nine
teenth field artillery vea now look at
the aky with dread. says U L: Ste
venson In th Detroit News.
"The battlefields are not dlstsnt. i
Nor ar th daya distant wheo th
moonlight waa a menace to th On
Hundred and Nineteenth.
"We were riding back from Tool, a
little company of Detroit men, who
had celebrated a birthday anniversary
In that old. walled city. W had been
discussing many things, principal of
which waa the homecoming, plana tor
the future and those whom we wished
were with us. Then the mooo swung
over those forts on the MM. concealed
no longer, and fell a silence ever the
veterans. , . , ,
They seemed to draw into them
selves. Cam a loud report and the
artillerymen half rose In their seats.
It wss only a rear tire, yet the effect
on keyed-up nerves wss the same as
though the blowout had been th de
tonation of that which had dropped
from the aky.
"And simultaneously all damned the
moon, as though that Inoffensive orb
had been th causa.
"Then they told me of thoee nights
marching along the highways help
less; Jerry sweeping low sod spray-!
tng lead at them from the machine
guns, of bombs that were silent until
they spoke In serents of death. They
spots also of the night when Buck
waa killed, when Chaplain William A.
Atkinson, now quite recovered. Isy In
a pool of blood; wheo other with
whom I had eaten and slept and ramp
ed ap at Grayling, had fathomed the
great mystery.
"It seemed to be a relief to them,
a lifting of the weight, and I said noth
ing though all the beauty of the night
had departed. Strange scenes danced
sbout my eyes; the gaunt unfinished
military hospltsl on the left waa a
gray ghost; those winking lights
gleaming now, but not long ago had
they shone they would have been an
Invitation to death were far away
flares, the deserted ammunition dump
was snlmsted with sweating figure, i
"It was aa though a weight had
been lifted when we entered MinniM I
Clear and distinct In the bright light ' f
a eentry, a sisiwsrt reuow, nis
naturally larg build magnified la the
sllrer beams until he waa a giant The 1
way he carried himself, the fit of his '
uniform, told thst he wss a veteran. I
"And he wss shsklng his fist at th
mooo r"
The Aloha Club
Will Give A Dance
SATURDAY NIGHT .!
At There Hall
Everyone j Invited
5 Electric fan have been installed
422 1-2 Wert First St.
Raima Cathedral.
Relma cathedral Is to he rehnllr. or
rather restored, for Franc haa taken
second thought and decided that such
restoration Is far mora desirable for
the future than a splendid structure,
wrecked by wsr sad left to stsnd In
melsncholy demolition ss a perpetual
reminder of Its own destruction. It Is
even said that "the cold gray of Ha
masonry has turned under fire and
flame to delicate rose and-ocner tints
that will only add to the beauty of the
rehullded church." The plana for the
restoration are being made under the
direction of Mr. Deneux. architect of
the French historical monuments, snd
the first practical atepa have been tak
en toward erecting temporary roofs
ever th nave, aisles, crossing, and
ebaneeL Fortunately, mot than three
quarters of the wonderful stained
glass of the cathedral was preserved
Intact and can now be put back. A
few years hence, when the high-pitched
slate roof has been sdded. It Is
predicted that the cathedral will have
recovered not a little of Its old-time
beauty.
The High Cost of Economy.
Economy Is something practiced by
people who don't hove to economize.
Mr. Wealthy buys eggs by the doa-
ens and pots them down In wster
glaas. Mrs. Poor never could afford
more than one dozen eggs at one time
regardless of price.
Mrs. Wealthy buys flour and sugar
hy the bsrrel st a great savins. Mrs.
Poor buya hers by the pound and It la
expensive.
Mrs. Wealthy takea advantage of the
sales and gets real bargalna In fur
niture, ahoea and clothes. Mrs. -Poor
can only look In th dlsptsy windows
longingly.
In short Mrs. Wealthy uses her head
where Mrs. Poor must us her hus-
bsnd's salary.
It la a pathetic fact that It takea
money to economize. O. W. Gabriel
la the New Tork Sun.
Wher He Would Hav Been.
In the pouring rain tbe other day.
James O. Balfour, the banker, waa
atandlng I front of the Quaker City
bank, of which he Is a director, when
an Irlshinso darted across the street.
Mr. Bslfnur. with that kindly and
consoling msnner which Is habitual
with blov offered a pleasantry. "If
this wss good liquor," be said, "you
wouldn't be coming so quick."
If this wss good liquor," tbe Irish-
msn flssbed bsrk, "I'd be Jumping
down the sewer bole." Philadelphia
Ledger.
The Sample Store 1.
WE CAN AND DO aav our customers money on every article we
sell. Why? Because we do not buy from th middleman; no deliv
ery expense, no chance accounta to lose. Which meana a aaving,
COME IN AND COMPARE PRICES.
Men-a Auto Union Suit . .
M.u'e Bh. Bib Overalls . M M
Men's Khaki Panta '. '.
Men's Summer Work Shoes II.W. . tXU
Boys' Bib Overalls Me. 1 1. St
Boya' Khaki Coveralls tlM
Men's Black Drees Sox 1 S5c
Men'a Dress Shirts, without collar SHe, $1.25, I1.4S
Men's Dress Psnts . 4.K5, I5.4S
Mens Work Pants I 4S. IMS. 12 49
Suit Cues $3.25. $175. $1.2S
Ladies' White Canvas Shoe $2.20, $2.5. $J.H5
Child's Gingham Dresses $1.25. J 1. 45
Misses' Gingham Dresses $1.69. $1.79, $2.69
109 Weit First Street ,
Albany, Oregon
To the Public
Wa ar continuing our usual policy of aervlca plus uaU
Ity whit an Insurance adjustment is pending. Our many .
friends hav bean loyal and sympathetic, and w ar grate
ful. Th First National Bank haa extended financial sup- ,
port and our plant will b sbullt at one,
D. E. Nebergall
MEAT COMP AN Y
NONPAREIL Barber Shop
Modern and Efficient
W wake a specialty of Student and Children'a Work. Expert serv
ice for alL Electric Maaaaglng and Shampooing.
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Insures you th, beat of results.
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Irviris .Garage
J24 Hroadalbin Street
Weather Report , 42 to 77 degree. Th riser fell to l.Z
Yeaterdsy tempsture ranged from feet 1aj9
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Tell It To The Maijines-
The Soldiers and Sailorsj Your
Friends, Everywhere
THAT ALBANY'S BIG
ViCTORY CELEBRATION AND RECEPTION
TO SOLDIERS AND SAILORS
WILL BE TIIB BIGGEST EVENT OF THE KIND EVER HELD IN THE WILLAMETTE VALLEY
The Loyal Legion of Loggers and Lumbermen
Will aaslst with their preaence, at age a series of thrilling Isnd snd wster contests. Something Do
ing Every Minute
Patriotic and Industrial Parade, brimful of New Stunta and Feature; Baseball Came, Street Sporta,
Amusing Contest
POSSIBLY AN AIRPLANE EXHIBITION
BIG FREE BARBECUE AT NOON
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HILARIOUS DANCE AND MARDI GRAS IN TIIB EV E.NINO
The City's Open and the Lid's
Off to Every Man in Uniform
COME!!
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