THE A U R O R A
Oregon fox glove(digitalis)amounting to 1350 pounds. [
dried, has been gathered by Oregon school children and
given to the government. This was sufficient to produce!
800,000 doses o f the tincture o f digitalis, wnich is used to |
increase the fullness o f the pulse and increase arterial pres-;
sure. It is also almost a specific for the many cases o f ;
heart trouble and shock so common in warfare.
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/ pledge allegiance to my
flag a n d the republic for
which it stan d s,o n e N ation,
indivisible, with liberty a n d
ju stice to all.
U N IV E R S A L M IL IT A R Y T R A IN IN G
Patrick Henry said the only safe method o f
ju d g in g
The State Highway Commission’s lastest announce
ment concerning the paving o f the Salem-Aurora highway
is so ambignous that it is very unsatisfactory to the gener
a l public. While the commission disclaims any intention |
|of diverting the funds from Marion county, the indebted-!
ness of its other statements leave the public in doubt as to!
policy and intentions o f the commission, as to which per-1
¡haps, the commission is also in doubt!
the future is by the past. If this be true—and it un
doubtedly is—this war will not be the last. The hope
No one can be a citizen o f two countries, nor even pre
that it may be is founded on the false assumption that the tend to be—successfully. The man who does not love his
map of the world, after the Allies have won the war, will country is a worthless creature, deserving only the con
be permanent, and that political power in the allied coun tempt o f loyal citizens. Claiming loyalty and attachment!
tries will be unchangably fixed. This history o f the w orld: to two countries necessarily stamps a man as a traitor to!
even for the last 50 years proves that such a condition is! one. He who claims loyalty to both Germany and A m eri-!
well-migh impossible. Within the life-time o f men still I ca, or tries to be loyal to both, is a traitor to A m erica,!
living the most momentous political changes have occur-j and, in the words o f Theodore Roosevelt, “ no man can be
red, most o f them through war. Among those changes) a good American now unless he is an enemy o f Germany
and her allies, and a staunch supporter o f America and;
may be mentioned:
America’s Allies.” But it must also be remembered that|
The rise o f the Japanese Empire.
the
man who swears allegiance to the United States with-j
The federation o f the German Empire.
out
any reservation or mental evasion whatsoever, -and!
The obliteration o f Spanish power in America.
gives
up wholly another country for this one, and becomes
The federation o f the Italian States.
a loyal American citizen—it must be remembered that
The colonization o f Africa by European powers,,
these citizens, actually and legally and socially and spirit
The developement of the Dominion o f Canada.
ually are entitled to the same rights that other Americans
The rise o f the Australian Commonwealth.
are proud to possess. And, finally, they must perform
the same duties that is demanded from every citizen.
The abolition o f slavery in America.
The downfall o f the mighty Russian Empire.
T H E F A T E O F SERBIA.
There being no certainty that similar or greater chang
Serbia is a ruined nation. Accord
es will not take place during the succeeding generations, ing to a Geneva newspaper, one-quar
Always in the m arket for old i 1
there can be no assurance that this is the last war o f even ter of the population o f 3,000,000 which
Copper, Lead, Zinc, Iron, Brass, raj
it had in 1914 is dead, either killed in
Old
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the present generation’ Hence it is tremedously impor-j
(neatly folded) ,second hand sacks, gl
the war or victims o f disease or priva
and junk of all kinds.
tant that the nation be not again led astray by pacifist de-i tion. The survivors are permanently
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lusions into a state of unpreparedness. The future can be weakened. There Is no way for the
allied or neutral nations to send into
made secure only in two ways—first, by winning the pre-j Serbia enough food to sustain the peo
sent war, and second, by training and maintaining a fo rce! ple, and the Germans do not care what
Wants, For Sale, Etc
o f citizen soldiers pursuing peaceful pursuits under ordin- j becomes o f them. For Serbia, with her
Slavic opposition to Teuton control,
LOCAL AD R A TE .
ary conditions, but thoroughly trained and equipped t o ! has stood in the way o f the Pan-Ger
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and invariable charge
meet instantly any war or threat o f war in any em ergency; man plan fjjf many years. It was on
the cards that the country must be of 5 cents per line is made for all ad
that may arise. This has but one meaning—universal abolished, so that Germany would have
vertising notices o f every description
military training for the future.
an easy path to Constantinople and in the news colum ns of this news
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beyond. There seems but one remedy
for this situation, one plan by which
the Slavs o f the Balkan district con
Thirty-six out o f 48 states have ousted the study of be saved from Teuton domination and
German from their official courses o f study. By the time Intrigue— the establishment, under the
school opens in September, German will be practically ab protection o f the allies, o f a Slavic
state in accordance with plans already
sent from our public schools. In many other educational I outlined by Serb statesmen; a state
institutions, German is an elective subject, and will be | that will include Serbia, Montenegro,
Croatia, Slavonia and part o f Istrla,
dropped because students fail to elect its study. It is being with a population o f about 10,000,000,
superceded b y French and Spanish in the cultural domain, able to hold its own against Bulgaria,
and by Russian and the Oriental languages in the realm or Austria, or any single country that
might try to break it up, says Detroit
o f utility. The ousting o f German is not due to the ani-j News. The Slavs o f southeastern Eu
mosities o f the hour alone. All America now comprehends: rope seem to understand the necessity
fo r union and to be ready for it. Un
more or less clearly that the spread o f Germanism through less they can combine they are at the
the introduction of German into our schools,and through mercy o f the Prussian program.
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the institution of a purely German press,schools, churches
and societies, was a deliberate attempt to denationize us.
Now that we know the, truth, it will be fatal to ignore it
by playing into the hands o f the Hun propogandists any
longer. The following passage in the official quarterly
publication o f the “ League for Germanism in Foreign
Lands” is sufficient proof o f the intent and desires of
these propogandists:
W e have fed the sea for a “ thousand
years,” but never as we are forced to
feed it today; it has become In the
last 38 rkonths a place o f quiet sepul
ture for tens o f thousands o f our fel
low countrymen, their graves un
marked except by the flowers of mem
ory. Where is the romance of the sea
which lured our seamen, as boys or
youths, away from the comfort and se
curity o f home? The great adventure
“ Work rendered in the interest o f the German school
has become the great tragedy o f mari
is a noble ».ervice rendered to the German nation,for the
time history, says London Daily Tele
most effective means o f perpetuating Germanism in
graph. Romance has been overlaid by
foreign lands is the school. Within its sacred walls the
realities o f crime and cruelty, which
strange land is transformed for children and teachers
are, happily, fresh In human experi
and parents into a fatherland.”
ence. The naval bluejacket thought
to fight in the open an honorable foe,
both sides using legitimate weapons of
The Salem Statesman complains there was no en war, in accordance with the immemo
thusiasm Friday night at the “ Victory” meeting there and rial restraints; instead he Is confront
that Salem seems unable to do things spontaneously. ed by men who have forgotten the
meaning of honor in word and deed,
While about every other city in tne country was celebrat and take pride in striking felon’s
ing, Salem heard the news with less enthusian than is blows. “Humanity after action,” was
m otto; inhumanity before,
usually shown at a ball game. What’s the matter w ith! Nelson’s
during and after action is the cry of
Salem anyway?
the Germans.
With the governor o f Iowa forbiddiug the use o f Ger
man in the churches and the South Dakota Council o f De
fense forbidding its use in telephone conversations, and
also in public or private in any conversation in which more
than three persons are engaged, it appears that language
restrictions are tightening up considerably-
If the estimable president o f the Salem Sedgwick
Woman’s Relief Corps, who protests against the use o f the
American flag “ as a decoration for the backs and radidia-
tors o f automobiles,” is looking for more worlds to con
quer, the Observer suggests that she and her organization
investigate the desescration o f the flag by “ Judge” D’Arcy
at Champoeg on Founder’s Day.
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engaged before he entered the service, j 1918, black sow and three pigs, which!
the government o f the United States, were taken up from my wheat field.
at its own expense, will re-educate 1 Owner can have same by paying dam-
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