THE AURORA O B S E R V E R
LUDENDORFF LEANS ON A REED
Field Marshal Ludendorff, thorough
T H U R S D A Y , J A N U A R Y 30, 1919.
ly Prussian, dismisses America as a
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Entered a 9 second class matter March 23, 1911, at the postoffice at Aurora; war. In doing so he pits the German
"w ill to ftin” against the “ will to an
Oregon, under the A ct of March 3, 1879.
nihilate" of the allies and reckons on
the instability of the Americans! This
attitude is so typical of the entire
course of junkerdom that It might be
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dismissed" without serious or extensive
1 pledge allegiance to my
consideration. The military leaders of
fíag and the republic for
Germany planned to avoid any inter
which it stands,one Nation,
ference in the war on the part of
indivisible, with liberty and
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America, to be accomplished by fac
justice to all.
tional divisions among our people, says
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Omaha Bee. This failed, but Its fail
ure has taught the Potsdam plotters
bno lesson. In their purblindness they
A U R O R A STREET PA V IN G
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The contract price o f the Salem-Aurora P
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$2.07 per square yard covering 16 feet of hard surface! do, they have no thought of fighting to
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and 4 leet o f shoulders. A t this price, it would cost the; Americans with having entered the
property owners on each side of the street $5,75 per front!
conflict for any reason more noble or
I worthy than the sordid considerations
foot to pave the remaining part of the Aurora streets that animate, the Germans. In meas
along which the highway extends, fo f the paving alone. uring his opponents by his own stand
ard, Ludendorff is preparing for even
greater disappointment than he has
Grading and concrete curbs would be extra.
yet endured. He is leaning on a reed
In other words, it would cost the owner o f a 50-foot when he banks on success to be
frontage $289.80 to pave from the curb out to meet the achieved by reason of failure of Amer
icans to be steadfast In the great job.
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16-foot strip o f state paving. In casd the legislature
should require cities and towns through which state paved
It Is cheering to learn from the
roads pass to pave the remainder o f the streets, the cost | department of agriculture that in Au-
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would naturally fall upon the abutting property.
I spring wheat to an extent which will
THE RUSSIAN SITUATION.
Russia must be brought to know
that true liberty puts upon itself rigid
6elf-restralnts. The real possessor of
freedom is the one who makes a con
scientious use of it, says Providence
Journal. I t is in the most highly de
veloped form of society— where we
might expect the least trammels—
that the most trammels are self-im
posed. Consciousness of power rouses
in any right-thinking man the desire
to employ it sparingly. It is the yel
low-streaked mind that lends itself to
selfish schemes of aggression.
The
bolsheviki are political parvenues.
They have had no experience in gov
erning themselves or anybody else.
They are carried away with the idea
that liberty is a gift from the gods, by
virtue of which they may rule their
unhappy neighbors with blood and
iron. They are as crude and danger
ous as a small boy with a buzz-saw.
We can only hope that out of this
tangle of theories, this welter of suf
fering, peace and order will eventually
arise. Surely the insanity of the pres
ent lawless processes cannot go on for
ever. From where the helping hand,
the guidance of experience and' wis
dom is to come, it is not yet possible
to see. But somehow the hapless Rus
sian people must and will be saved
from their worse selves.
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I \ O t )e r t M o r r i s
E V O LAIT1 O N
A n immigrant boy,
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he fan errands for a
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Philadelphia store—
worked, studied, saved
a little out of meager earnings against later needs. And
during the Revolutionary war Morris, gave generously
of his resources for the blessed cause. His savings
helped make the Nation.
It is unlikely you will be called on to supply
funds to conduct & war for Independence, h is quite
likely, though, that you will need savings to tide you
over a family sick spell or save you from misfortune.
Have you set aside anything for the rainy day?
From the western front the shortest
route to Berlin lies through Belgium,.
crosses the Rhine at Cologne and con- |
tinues north via Minden, Hanover and
your next salary Add to the nest egg every pay day.
Spandau.
The
wear
and
tear
of
war
add 21,000,000 bushels to the crop.
Watch the fund grow in a safe place and be able to
I This will make a spring wheat harvest doubtless has deteriorated the road
face the future courageously and independently.
The Salem-Silverton highway, paved by Marion coun !' of 343,000,000 bushels, or a total wheat bed and the rolling stock. It will be
harvest of 899,000,000.
This is 101,- a long, hard road to travel. There is .
ty, will be short-lived—if the statements of the Salem 000,000 bushels below the expectation another and shorter road to the capi
Capital Journal are true. The Journal declares that the last spring, but it is a pretty big pro tal of the German empire. It lies in a
straight line through the air. A man
paving “ looks as if it would about two years before it will duction, just the same, •says Buffalo on a suburban train was discussing
Express. The wheat situation is bet-
be necessary to build it.” It also adds “ the state high ; ter than it has been for two years, but the war. “ I wish,” he said, raising his
way work is o f a much higher standard and will probably , n o tin g uke the free use of wheat can voice, “ that a thousand American
be expected before the end of the war. bombing planes were going to drop
prove cheaper in the long run than roads o f the Salem- i With the encouraging wheat report bombs on Berlin at two o’clock tomor
Silverton type.” How about this “ two-year” talk about we have a discouraging corn report- row afternoon.” The whole car stirred.
the Salem-Sllverton road? Is it mere paving trust prop-, that is, there was deterioration in Au A thrill passed through everyone at
gust which cut the prospective crop the very thought. The road to Berlin
aganda or is it true? The Observer has addressed an in-1 down by 317,000,000 bushels to 2,672,- Ues through the air. Any afternoon at
quiry to County Judge Bushey, Commissioners Goulet and 000,000 bushels. Corn lost 171,000,000 two o’clock that a thousand Ameri
can bombing planes drop bombs on
Hunt and to Roadmaster îulver on this point, for the bushels in July. We need all we can Berlin, that afternoon at three o’clock
get o f all kinds of grain and this loss
benefit of our readers.
will be felt, though, of course, not so the war will be over, says New York
severely as would a heavy loss in Herald. The bomb fest that will end
the war is not as near as Jt should be.
wheat.
But it is coming, and the German high
A Salem dry goods,firm is putting on a “ Legislature
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Up to the present time all shipbufld
Special sale with wool dresses at $18.65, silk at $24,95— ing records were held by the British, the waves above the Lusitania will
shrilling for vengeance and will Newspapers and Magazines!
and Mrs. Thompsen is the only lady in the legislature! They had a highly developed industry cease
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! that had been in full operation for gen gently murmur “ Peace.”
But there are numerous “ old women” fussing around the erations; most Important of all, they
The Aurora Observer has due it from
capitol, pussy-footing back and forth from the executive had the yards and large numbers of " The kaiser’s remarkable address to The following clubbing prices, are in two good nurseries four or five hundied
skilled workers to assure them first the Krupp workmen at Essen speaks
T O D A Y but are SUBJECT TO i trees and some other nursery stock,
office and the legislative chambers, to whom “ good goods” place. After April 6, 1917, it was nec of his death-defying navy and of its force
CHANGE W ITH O U T NOTICE^-due to j which it promised to order by Decem-
may appeal at “ sale” or other prices!
essary that the United States, under beating the enemy, but fails to ex- the fact that newspapers and magazine ber 15; gut the nurseries have agreed
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extreme pressure, should create the plain why in face of a victory it scur- j p n « * are steaddy trendmg u pw ard:- | ^
That he left no
yards, recruit and train the workmen ried back to port.
j date depending on how long their stock
Both 1 Year
and turn out the materials before it Stone unturned' to shorten the war
While tne big drop in the price of butter and eggs could hope to increase in any consld may be true from his point of view, Daily Oregonian and Observer. $ 6.00 i holds out. To dispose o f this stock we
will sell it at the following low prices,
will bring joy to the consuming housewife and her family, erabie measure the American rate of but it was only when he found the Daily and Sunday Oregonian
if ordered at once:
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Apple tre e s _____ _________________ 15c
the dairymen and the farmers who are paying ruinous, production and the annual output, war going against him. It is signifi Daily Journal and Observer___
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Plums and Prunes______ _________
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prices for feed have little to encourage them to continue In spite of persistent efforts to mini instead of “me and you,” and that he Daily and Sunday Journal and_.
15c
Observer _______
7,00 j Peach es..___ ___ :_______________
20c
in the business unless there is an immediate drop in the! mize the success of our hurried war takes care to make a special address Weekly Oregonian and Observer
2.25 < Pears___ ________________
methods.
It .has been a marvelous CO the women. This war for democ Semi-Wkiy Journal and Observer
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erries_____
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25c
2.25 i
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achievement, reflecting honor upon racy "is making some headway, even Daily Telegram and Observer..
5.00 j Walnuts (seedlings)______________ 30c
American enterprise and skill, upon with kalserism.
Pictorial Review and Observer.
3.00 \ Walnuts (g ra fte d )__ ___ $1.00 fo $1.50
American shipbuilders and ship work-
Quince____________________________ 40«
Pictorial Review 2 years and
Before getting Into this war the
25c
Observer one'year__________.J* 4.00 A pricots___ ______. . . . _________ _
The petty outbursts of politics in the House at Salem ¡ ers.
United States government reasoned, Modern Priscilla and Obsèrvar.
10c
2.50 Currants_____ -________ ________ _
bid fair to ruin whatever chance ever existed of securing
Hindenbuvg’s familiar instructions parleyed, persuaded, almost prayerful McCalls and Observer ____
2,00 Gooseberries____ ________________ 10c
some o f the few really needed laws!
to his generals to do their work with ly besought the “ imperial German gov Gos d Housekeeping, Observer.
2.50 O rn am en tals......__________.25c to 50c
(A fter Feb 15, 1919 $3.00)
Roses..______ ____. . . . _______25c to 50c
out pity because no general who look ernment” to refrain from indiscrimi
4.00 Grapes,dozen. ___________
$2.50
ed for success could be less than sav nate and uncivilized methods of war Review of Reviews, Observer.
Blackberries, dozen_____ 1______ $1.00
age is bearing fruit.
His generals fare. The Hun idea was to reduce the vVumans Home Companion and
Observer _________ . . . . . . __ _
3.00 Red Raspberries, dozen____ ______ $1.00
have tried to live up to his theory, \yorld to ruin and despair, and then
v’ Onnins Home Companion two
Black Raspberries, dozen_____ T_ $1.00
God. knows. I f there Is any brutality spread Deutschland uber alles. Kais-
years and Observer one year
4.25 i
Loganberries, dozen___________
$1.00
tliey have failed to inflict when oppor erism could not be persuaded to desist Today’s Housewife, Observer..
1.80 |
tunity offered it was because it had from this idea. But now kaiserdom Is T'O av’s Housewife two years
escaped their reading, or they had nôt Worried about the ruin that the contin
ci Observer one year...:___
2,25
Varieties
the brains to Invent it, says Seattle uation of the war will spread over Ger i • nh’s Comoatiion,.Observer...
3.00
Appiè trees—Nearly all varieties.
Post-Intelligencer.
Yet they are no many and Austria.
Pears-*-Bartlett, Anjou, Winter N el
match for the cool, smiling, humane
lies, Bose, Fall Butter, Flemish Beauty,
sk us for prices on other clubs
Foeh, and his equally cool and smiling
The kaiser says the enemy’s modes
Idaho, and Comice. ,
Send us your order now
of 'warfare are reprehensible.
They
lieutenants..
Plums—Peach Plum, Reine Claude,
must be, from a Hun standpoint, for
Satsuma, Petite Prune, Silver Prune,
and a few others. No Italian Prunes,
The feat of the two British flyers the allies have bombed no hospital,
The Aurora Observer
Peaches—Early Crawford, TElberta,
In one machine who captured sixty- wantonly killed no women and chil
Aurora, Oregon
Hales, Fitzgerald, Charlotte, Salway,
five Germans,' and flying around, them dren and do not torture prisoners.
herded them into the British camp, They have adhered a* closely as pos
The Review of Reviews ($4.00) one j Lovell.
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would have aroused only derisive sible to civilized methods, and it is year and the Aurora Observer ($1.25)
Cherries Gov. Wood,pentisti, Black
smiles if Set forth In a work of fiction. easy to perceive how this conduct both one yearfor $4.25, during January Republican, Lambert, Bine iioyal Ann,
May Duke, Etc.
When the history of this war comes to comes under the ban of kultur.
only
1 English Walnut—Franquette a n d
be written, its incidents will make it
Mayette Seedlings 4 to 6 feet.
The Japanese cabinet has been
read like an imaginative romance.
kR. B. F. GIESY
Gooseberries—O r e g o n Champion,
obliged to resign owing to the failure
Poorman, Victoria, Chautauqua.
Certainly the king business Is not of its members to curb the food spec
Currants—Perfection, White Grape,
The food profiteers every
w hat it used to be, - Young Crown ulators.
Prolific> Cherry, Red Cross,
Black
Prince Charles of Roumania has de where are beginning to realize what
Naples.
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war
is
like,
and
that
when
everybody
clined to desert his recently acquired
All this stock is guaranteed good
bride, even though she is of humble else is under restrictions, their modest
matured stock, true to name, and free
birth, in order to be sure of succeed- request is not going to be heeded of
Boti; Phones
from disease. Send us your order, or
ing-Jhis father on the throne. Thrones only asking to be let alone.
Office at Residence
come in aud talk it over. W e can save
are so unstable nowadays.
you money.
The comics make a blunder in por
Cuba is to send a force of 20,000 to traying man with no apparel save a
W m . H EIN Z
the war. Cuba has gained freedom barrel with both ends knocked out.
N. C. W ESCOTT, Pub.
A U C TIO N E E R
No American Citizen need be told in these days that the Americanization of j herself after years of oppression, and In real life there never was a man In
Aurora, Oregon
the whole allied-born mass o f residents among us is o f immediate and vital con knows what it means to other nations. the world who was lucky enough to ; » Live Stockand Farm Sales a Specialty
cern. Hence the Observer, wishing to do its share toward accomplishing it; has | So she has lined herself up alongside have a barrel accessible- when he had 1
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t e r m s R e a s o n a b le
made arrangements with the United State Bureau of Naturalization by which! her own liberator and friend to help Idst his duds.
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Phone
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(Mail—Aurora
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its readers may have questions concerning their individual and citizenship rights fight the battles of world liberty..
Tobacco Is regarded as a necessity. | .
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answered free of charge. The subjects covered are naturalization laws, filing
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declaration of intention (first papers), petitions for naturalization (second pap W he worst of it is, the prices of tbe The nonuser, can never understand why !•
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some
forms
of
it
could
rank
as
lux
ers). Knowledge o f government.required of applicants, places where free pub most worthless and needless of »11
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lic school classes in English and citizenship may be found, the free distribution articles of merchandise go higher and uries.
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o f “ The Students Textbooks” to foreigners, and questions o f citizenship rights. are ki keerer demand according to
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I f you want to know what a man
Always in tbe market, for old
The Observer will be glad to secure answers to all inquires of every charac their worthlessness.
Copper,
Lead,
Zinc,
Iron,
Brass,
Is, find out what kind o f phonograph
ter and invites its readers to ask any questions they wish. Questions should b«
Old Newspapers and Magazines
SOUTH BOUND
addressed to the the “ Americanization Column” ; Observer, Aurora, Oregon,
This tax on Incomes exceeding $1,- records he buys.
(neatly folded),second hand sacks,
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Such questions will be answered directly by letters by the “ Bureau o f Natural 000.000 Is griug to be terribly hard cm
and junk of all Icinds.
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ization” and also in these columns. The person making inquires must sigi a lot of moyte stars, U all we’ve raid
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Spanish influenza Is just old-fuftr a A U R O R A
their uatqq and address as evidence o f good faith,
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toped grip with ft MÜÜftïY t ttlft J É ' R
Start an account at this bank w ith a part o f
Multiply your money in our care.
AURORA STATE BANK
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The Hurry Call!
FO RD SO N T R A C TO R
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THE AMERICANIZATION CORNER
QUESTIONS REGARDING THE NATURALIZATION LAWS
AND CITIZENSHIP FULLY ANSWERED
IN THIS COLUMN.
Physician
and Surgeon
Aurora, Or.
THE AURORA OBSERVER
E. M. HURST