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About The Springfield news. (Springfield, Lane County, Or.) 1916-2006 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1918)
V PAGE ft THH SPRINGFIELD NEWS THURSDAY, MAY 0, 1918. 65th Artillery 1 Soldier Writes Doll Hinson, Springfield Boy, Tells of Safe Arrival In , England Mr. nnd Mrs. Fred Hinson received a lotter. Monday from thotr son Doll Hinson who left Fort Storcna a couplo of months ago for tho oast and later sailed for France. Doll Is a mombor of Battery C, 65th artillery A. E. F. The letter which follows was written somewhere in England. "We are at last on foreign soil, also stono, nil tho houses nro of brick bocauao they tiavo no lumbor to speak of. "It is pitiful in tho cities, you cannot rcallto what tho war has dono to tho English pcoplo who nro at homo and have to keep up all the work that has to be done, and most of it is dono by tho women and children and thoy show IL At least I hope our country wont be that bad, all the samo they seem to bo cheerful and nro there to sec It through. "We are in. tents and it is rather cold but warm in the day time and as wo may leavehcre soon have not got any' thing here except our packs but have to wait mtll wo get to Franco. Wo (nlthn nnf In Pranrn nmlln rnmn. certainly naVO 80n0 iroUDIO nnU tun It certainly Is good to bo on ground w'tl tno money here especially in ox again even If wo do not have ovory- change and buying. thing we had in the States. Our trip hore was well worth tho trouble of crossing tho ocean. It is certainly a beautiful country and clean, every thing is well kept up, hedge fence, "Well Mother, I suppose you worried about mo coming over and I guess It was rather dangerous but that's all over now. I am well except for a cold and feel fine otherwise." WHATS THE MATTER WITH OREGON? k IBHBKd V -1 BBBm bbkm&L.HbbbbbI BBBBhBBk r tiBEBBBBBBH BBbVbBBBBK' Aw WsH R. N. Stanfield. Republican for United States Senator. i"I have a very strong conviction that Oregon has been discriminated against by the National Govern ment in many ways. air. Stanfield shares this feel ing and promises, if elected, to correct it as far as it lies in his power to do so. Senator McNary denies that any such discrimination exists. He was quoted in a dispatch from Washington to the Oregon Journal assaying that he took no stock in the statement that . there iad .been discrimination against Oregon. Of course, if he believes there has been no discrimination he will make no effort to remove it." S. B. Huston, who withdrew from the Senatorial contest and is sup porting Stanfield Why do the Telegram and Journal complain that Seattle Is always taking payrolls away from Portland, and then attack Stanfield because he has built up an industry which benefits Oregon and Portland, creates a payroll and adds thousands of dollars to the tax list? Why has Portland lost so much toSeattle is it be cause there are elements in Portland always ready to knock any one who tries to help the community? Five lawyers comprise the Oregon delegation at Washington; there has not been a business man, farmer or toiler in the delegation in a generation. . Why has the Chamber of Commerce felt it neces sary to hire a special representative at a senator's salary of $7,500 a. year to look after Oregon's interests? - Stanfield never represented a corporation atr Salem.' Stanfield is no man's man. , ' Stanfield will not be dictated to and controlled by a political boss, by corporations or by newspapers, but he will serve all the people of his State, playing no favorites and giving a square deal. No one has ever said that Bob Stanfield is a doublc crosser, or that he is selfish or not liberal with his resources or his friendship. There Isn't a lazy bone in his body. He has been a toller all his life, and never held a cushy job. Raised on the range, he is no silk-stocking. Stan field has built up from nothing through constructive labor until today he is one of the genuine assets of Oregon. He did not marry his money nor did he in herit it he worked for it. Republicans know that Stanfield is 100 Republi- V can., ...He is not a 50-50 Demo.-Rep, IL' Paid Adv. by stanfield Senatorial League, 203 Northwestern HUSBAND GONE -SONS GONE HOME AND RELATIVES GONE A Fact Story Telling Just What the Red Cross Did for Mme. Pellier. By an Eye Witness MAUDE RADFORD WARREN This Is the picture 1 saw last Janu ary In Franee, and you have morel fully changed Iti Color enough there was above, the etcrnnl blue; In the background, fields of living green which the German shells could not prevent from creeping buck; In the middle foreground, a long village street so battered nnd burned that It was merely a canyon of cream-col ored ruins. In - front of one little broken house were .four figures In black an old woman, poking among the fallen stones In n vain search for sotnethlrg that could be used younger woman, seated on what hud once been a doorstep, with her face hidden In her arms; and a little boy and girl, who stared, hnlf frightened, half curious, at the desolation about them. The little boy held In his thin hand a Red Cross flag. All four were pale and gaunt; the faces and bodies of the children showed none of the round curves that make the beauty of a child. Tills Is their history: When tho war broke out, Mmo. Pellier, her mother and her four younger children were visiting her husband's mother In the north of France. Her husband and two elder sons were at home In Lorraine taking care of the summer crops. Then the warl The mother In-law of Mme. Pellier was 111 anil could not be left. Her old mother wns afraid to travel to Lorraine with the full care of the four children. De fore they could all start together tho Germans Invaded. Bad news Is allow ed to come Into northern France, nnd so as the months passed Mme. Pellier I en mod that her village home had been i bombarded and that her husband nnd two sons hod been killed. Except for the Belgian Relief Commission, which operates In northern France nlso. she and her little ones would have starved outright. At the best they were un; dernourlshcd. Then tho great push began, and hopes for France grew high. But as the French soldiers ad vanced they hod to bombard the north ern towns. Mme. Pellier begged the Germans to let her go nwny with her children even Into Germany. This wns refused. She tried to seek safety In some cellar whenever there was a bombardment. Nevertheless a shell killed two of her children. Found Her Home Gone. Ing Into Switzerland nnd then Into lluuto-Snvole. From there they went to Lorraine Mine. Pellier hoped that, even though her village hml been bom barded, her home might have oncnped. She found nothing except her bare fields. You changed that picture, you Amer icans, who can navur he bombarded, who can never lose through war tlvo out of the seven don rest to you. It was not your husbnnd nnd children who died; not your wife who was widowed; not your little ones who mmo back, bony nul tubercular, to a home that had vanished. Not yours, but only the grace of nccldeut saved you ; not yours, but It might have been and so you changed the picture. You could not build up with your own hands that heap of stones Into a homo. nor till the fields, nor bring Mmo. Pet tier buck to hopo nnd tho chllilrm hack to health. But through the Red Cross you saved the remnants of thnt family thnt had suffered as you might have suffered. Home gone; husbnnd gone; brave soldier sons gone; little, tender hoys torn Into shreds I That womnn's face would have shown you whnt she had suffered her face agnlnst the batter ed ruins the1 Germans bnd made. At last she and her mother nnd her two remaining children were repntrinted. They knew the Infinite relief of cross- Things the Red Cross Old. You took the mother of Mme. Pel lier to n Red Cross hospital to be treat ed for anaemia. You took the little girl, who was In the first stages of tuberculosis, to a Red Cross sani tarium. You found a place which could be made bnhltable for Mme. Pel lier near her fields which she wns unxlous to till. You gave her clothes and furniture; you got her seeds: you lent her Implements. You sent a vis iting doctor to watch over her health and that of her little boy. You sent nurses, who achieved tho mighty vie- I tory of making her nnd the child tuko ' buths. Later you persuaded her to lot ! him go to a refuge not fnr nwny wliero I he might attend school nnd whero she J could often visit him. Through tho help of your Red Cross hope and cour age and ambition have come back to ' that woman, nnd she Is rebuilding her family life. The biggest thing one hu- man being. enn do for another you, It you are a helper of the Red Cross, j hove done for thnt mother. Red Cross 1 I saw Its work every, where In France In fields and In , blasted vlllanci: In hospitals and schools and clinics; In refuges and ' vestiaries for widows and orphans and ' for the sick children of soldiers fight- , Ing to keep you safe from the enemy. ' This symbol of help hns a doublo i meaning now for Americans, who hnve j always taken for granted the blessing ' of snfety. It stands for your willing- ! ness to pay the prlco of exemption, of I pity, of sympathy. A bitter, hlnc-lc road tins road of war. but ncros It, like a beacon of hope, you huve Hung tho Red Cross. HAS LICENSE SUSPENDED Loyd Johnson Forfeits Right to Oper- ate Motorcycle Loyd Johnson, son of Oliver W. Johnson of tills city, has l'md his motor cycle license suspended from May3 to May 13 on account of his fast and reckless driving. Young Johnson had been cautioned many times and arrested and fined three times for speeding and riding on the sldowalks.but this having been of no avail, several of the citizens and officers of thlscity took the matter up with the State authorities, and the re sult was the temporary suspension of his license to operate his motorcycle during the period of ten days between May 3rd ond May 13. If, during that time the young man appears before the court and proves that he ia com petent to operate his machino accord ing to law, his license will be returned to him. If he cannot provo himself, capable tho license will be permanent ly rovoked. Lane Has Labor Surplus A surplus of farm help In Lane conn ty Is reported by N. S. Robb, tho : county agricultural agent. Ho warns I farmers that if thoy do not plan to j keep help In tho early part of the sea son thoy cannot expect to bo nblo to ; get men for haying and barvost. 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Word has boon received in this city by Mrs. No to Itowe from her son, Nicholas Lainberty, saying that bo has been transferred to tho United States arsenal depot at Augusta, Geor- gla, and that bo likes tho work fino. I Mr. Lamberty wont into sorvic6 March 18 at San Francisco, and for- awhile was stationed at Angol Island. Uo was then transferred to Jackson- Patronize Home Industry EAT EGGIMANN'S War, Oat Meal and LibertyBread Day or Night PHONE 51 YOU GET ALL THE NEWS THAT'S "MADE IN SPRINCFIFLD" EVERY THUR8DAY ( '' IN THE , . SPRINGFIELD NEWS ' ftyfjscr'pt'0" $1.60 per year " , Phone 2 ELECTRICITY ' For light, heat and power. "Mnde -In Springfield." Oregon Power Co, JOB PRINTING Made in Springfield At the New Office ' UUUKUUUIIUlUKi 1UIUUUU, UJCUU. 'Hp, Flprlda, and went from tbbro to 'EU8t3, Georgia. r