*ní> K
-
destinies of the Immortal great na
Ilona stand so high that they can
not but have the right. In cas» of
bred, to nt ride over ealstencles that
can not defend ih> inadvea."
( Pro
feseor Onchen i
When the British
Minister at Berlin notified the Ger
man Chancellor that Groat Britain
was la Aoaor hound to defend Bel
glum's neutrality, the latter argue«'
that thia was 'Terrible.*' a war ''just
for a word 'neutrality' Just for a
•crap of paper " TAr pili/sl pre. the
trmbtr stpaiA'Oare of each lllrr
•»<««. la tAsf llrrmtutt believe <« cm
fnvfijtcd.
"If I am asked what we are I Ughi
Ing for,“ said Prime Minister As
qulfh. “I can reply In two sentences
In 'h>' flrot place, to fulfill an obliga
not only of law. but of
t Ion
honor, which no »elf reajirctlng man
could possibly have repudiated; sec
ondly. to vindicate the principle , .
that small nailonalltles are not to tie
crushed. In de flanee of International
good faith."
A nier lea was not a direct guarantor
like Great Britain of the neutrality
of Belgium, though tn various con
vent Iona lot which Germany also was
a signer I we plmiged to the main
leñame of the world principle of good
faith " But every nation was attacked
when Germany broke faith "The law
protmtlng Belgium which was vlo
laird was our law and the law of
every other civilised country. . , Il
was our safeguard against the neces
•ity of maintaining great armament*
f>»r Interest «■ Aoc'Sp it moialomrd
a.« fkr low- of aaliosi ua. a tubilan
full
taluabh'. pcrMoaral laterest '
I Elihu Root 1
In the hope of an enduring peace. In
the hoi«e of an advancing civil liât Ion
we can not forget Belgium
In the
hope for unmolested self development
In the M-nse of our own security tier
rasar y tn progresa, we Staat not forget
Belgium, until her wrongs aro righted
*****
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"A great net «•/ a.en y dratr* through
MN oc«un uj uuspeakablo fuiiu”
How Was the Last War Fund Spent?
a fair question and it is fairly answered in the
detailed and itemized reports that have been puh-
I ¡shed in the newspapers of every town and city of
the land.
You never saw it ? Then ask at the nearest Red
Cross Chapter, or write, for th«' Red Cross wants you
to.know where your money went
They say that Red Cross supplies have a way of
coming through on time.
Italy surely has found us not wanting in prompt
ness when her great trial came.
And Roumania—they said no allied nation could
get through to help her dire need.
Thia I» the seventh of a serica of
ton articlea by Professor Adamo.
FOOD CONTROL
MEANS VICTORY
Needs must”
It’s not always a cheap way
But diil you give that money to be
costs money.
saved —or to save lives? Arc you not willing to pay
five dollars or fifty to bring something of comfort to
a war racked, tortured mortal who hut for you would
surely die?
European Shortage Places Prob
lem Before American Govern
ment-Farsighted Policy
Adopted.
Food Administration A aka Aid
Ersi y American In Giganti»
Task I of Feeding Millions,
In the Red Cross there is no high salaried bureau
cracy, no extravagant administration expense. All of
the higher officials and nine tenths of the workers are
unpaid volunteers.
OREGON
Railroad I ime I able
Arrival and lh-|iarlure of I'aswnger
Trains
Woodburn-Suringtiwltl Brandi
7:55 am.
5:1» p.m
North
South
Corvallis & Eastern
To Alliany
of
To Detroit
8:11 n tn
1:14 p tn
Motor service discontinued.
It la the food problem over liter»
that uiak«-» a food problem over her«.
If »«• hi ,. «1 tu !»• suprvux-ly aeltlsb—
and auprvmuly sii<>rialgbt«<l w« ««uild
go on eating as mucii aa w» like aed
Gail H. Hill
whatever w« Ilk«, without much diffi District Attorney
culty or Interruption at lewat, until State Senators. S M. Garland and E.
D. Cusick for Linn ami I jumt .
the Gertuana «ainet
Bui st aro m>t doing thing* in that Representative», Charles Childs, W. I*.
Elmore. F. II. Porter
eelflati and suicidal way
We are try
ing to make n gr. at rommoi |»"d of County Judge
D U McKnight
all of <>ui f«««-d. and all ur Hi« fuud of Commissioners. J. D. Irvine, and T. J.
th« allies, and all of the food we can
Butler.
get from Mouth American and other County tierk.........
|{ M Russell
iieutrala, and dividing II up fairly sheriff ...........................
I). II ll'slinc
among Atm-rlca. England. France, Bel
Treasurer ......... . .
W W Francis
gium and Italy.
Recorder .................... Velma G. Davis
TTil* d< >a not mean -hat all of th«
| Asa« asor
....
..
K. C. I isher
|u>o- le In the groat pool are going to
Ida Cummings
liavu the same ration, but means that I .School Supt...........
w» are trying to arrange to hav» | Coroner ....................... . Wm. fort miller
Dr. W. II- Davis
enough for everybody, so that th« sol Health Officer
D. W. Rumbaugh
dier» our soldiers anti tb«lr soldier»-- Fruit Inspector ..
will be well fed, as they hav« Io bo stock Inspector.............
D, Taylor
to tight hard and contlnuonaly, and
CITY OF SCIO
that the munitions workers and th»
Mayor.
.... F. T. Thayer
workers In all th« other nereasary In
Recorder»
.
....... J. S. sticha
dustrie*. and th« men and w<in>en at
... W. A. fro»«
home will all hav« enough to k«-ep Marchai ...
.... Roy 'helion
alive and well. Il Is absolutely oece*- Trvuaurrr .
aary to <to thia If the war la to bo won, Cuuncilmen, N I. Morrison, It Cain,
an«t we are going to do It. but It tneana
fre-1 Bilyeu, W E. Arnold, W. J
planning, working, arranging cooper
I hroma. J. M l.mdley.
sting, being careful, not wasting. aa*>
School Directors. F. T. Thayer, A. <»
Ing
Prill. J. L. Calavan.
And II means that ea«-h and every
J.
F.
Weaely, Clerk.
one of us has got to help.
Now, we hav« «rough snd mor« than
•rough food for ouroolvts, and th»
Government 1» going to oee to It that
wo keep here at homo a sufficient sup
ply of every eeaential kind of food t»
support our people. But »ver there
they simply have net enough. Lord
Rhondda ths English food contrellor,
recently cabled the American food ad
minletrator, that unlem we can eend
tfo allies before the nest
uropean
harvest 73.000.000 buohele of wheat tn
addlti»» te what had been eent up to
January 1 of thle year he could net
aeoure the people of the alllee that
they would have a sufficient supply of
feed to carry on the war.
He did not say anything in thle r-abl»
ALBANY. ORE
atmnt the other fond neexsaary. hut
he has told of these needs In other Meal* 35 and 50 cents
cables and by hla action» in England.
F«*r evample, hla latest regulation
Room 50c and Up
isxupela a radix tlon of meat eating 1»
U m Uadled kiagdcmt to a wUm«» of
GRANT PIRTLE. Proprietor
•
Linn County Officials
The cost of raising and collecting the last W ai
Fund was about one-half of one per cent., more than
covered by the hanking interest on the money.
L-e «
lighten just a little of the awful load of misery
there.” Your share is all that you can give
then a little more.
Will you hold up your end?
I
SCIO
M (IN KERS
Not one
penny of that Hundred Million has gone for anything
but War Relief.
1
WHY WE AR^
AT WAR WITH
GERMANY
Dentist
WEST SCIO
MEED 75.000,000 BU. WHEAT.
And of one thing you may !>e sure.
neutral state was pledged to defrnd
In irmi the neutrallty of Ita terrl
tory: and «ach of the great powere
pledgwl l'eelf not only not to march
troop» Into or through the neutral
Mate, but also to ald her. In esse
her terrlfory wer» vlolated
The world. thlnklng no nalIon so
base aa Io break It* Word, was rnm
pletely taken by aurprlse by the at
tack on Beiglum Hut we know now
from Gccsms atatCMeats. that Germer,
niilltary plane bad for years In'ended
to break thia tdedge German Hller»
lled aa to thio conslstently. and hed
sp t<> ^Ae hüt <fop
On th* mornln»
beforo the German troops advnnccd
the German mlnlster aaaured lielgium
ehe need feel no alarm. and In th«
evenlng of that same day he deltvrrad
hla Ultimatum.
Th» world has ne vor »een ao mm
plete a dental of th« blndlng effect
of the pledged Word
W’hy ha» Ger
tnany ao lost slght of the prlnclple
of honor among natIon»? Her own
snswer roveal» th* raus«. It la agaln
the plea of aMphf -The fats that H<-l
gl um has called down npon hersrlt
(not« th« hypoertsy of thlsl le hard
but not U» hard.
for th«
DR C. I . CHAPIN
Phone 277
But the Bed Cross found a way
nt Peace ran be built up."
t James
Bryce I Good faith between nations.
•« hr la era era. la the one and only
safeguard from a return tn barbarism.
Without It brute force. sheer aiipAt,
must role
Without It there is no
aecurlty in human relations—no no
curlty, even, for life Uself To keep
one's word, when once given, that 1»
ay
the evidence of the progress of cl*
EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS
lllzatlon, and the teat of It
Esocutlve Head. History Depart,
Hence the rase of Belgium become*
ment
the single greatest German offens*
Leland Stanford Junior University
against civilisation In this war. At
first. In our American Ignorance of
world rnodltiona. we did not swe thia.
•■Ths MMcl »V this •«' Is «• ««<••»•
We do see It now; more and more we
th* C m p*oplss o« tbs world trom th-
realise that until the crime against
msnscs an« th« sc tu» I pow*r oT s vssl
mliitsr, ostsblishmsnt controiiod kt s* R lgturu la atoned for. there can be
ir.vspvnsibis »•vprnmpcit. which. bs»»mj
no peace, and no hope of a world
mostly plsnnp« to d»«Wiests ths worm
pro« oodod to csrry out ths Msn without •t peace.
regard either to the esc red e»u»»tiews
What the the farts? Ry trenti«*
of treaty »r th« Ion»-«otdbllehod proc
tl.es and l«r»B ch»rt»h»d prlh<lpl»» o« lit. signed In 1*15. and again In I«.II. and
temationat action and h«r»or; . . . Thle
power le net the Oorman people
It la still again In 1«3*. thia last revision
the ruthleaa meet er or the Germ an poo
being tn effect In 1*14. It was agreed
pie. . . . It I* out bueinwee id oee to
form • perpetually
It that the history ot the rest of the "Br-lgtum shall
wo.«d « no Ion»#' l»,t <• Its handln»».'' neutral state
The five powers guar
“Fresident Wilson. August 77. 1*17.
aotee to It thia perpetual neutrality,
WE FIGHT FOR GOOD FAITH
aa also the Inviolability of Ito ter
“Th« faith of treat!«« Is the tmly ritory." These live powers were Aus
«wild t ouadatlew ow which a Temple tria. France. Great Britain. Russia
and Prsasta
By <Bch Iran Ikes U m
one pound per week per person. thia
pound Including the bone and other
waste parts tn the meat as bought in
the »hop
The alllee muat have more wheat,
more meat, more fata, more dairy prod
uct», more auger Their barveats were
very short Franc* had Iran than half
her normal crop of wheat and the
available shipping 1» small In amount
and constantly being Irtun-ued by sub-
marines. a>> that It la now practically
Impoaalblr to use any ably» for thehu-.g
voyage necessary to bring food from
Auatralia and other remote market*
The food muat cone* chiefly from
America In »peclflc flgurea It la nec
easary for ua to send to the attire
l.ioo.tas* tone of foodstuff* a month
Thia la a great responsibility amt a
groat problem,
The food must lx
found, and also the shl|»s Io carry It.
It 1» bring done, hut can only continua
to be done by the help and full Co
operation of all of ua over otir broad
land
IVe must produce ami sate
more
To aupply the wheat necessary until
the nevi fiercest, Wr must reduce our
consumption by from one fourth to
one third ; we must rut dow n our usual
average consumption of mm t a aud
fata by from 10 tn IM per ront and
dairy products by about 10 per cent.
Over there they are tightening tlmir
twits and doing everything they can.
They are eating war bread; they are
-uttlng down their augar In England
to two pounds per person per month,
and In France and Italy tn one pound —
how much are you eating) and they
are using ration cards for moat of the
staple* We muat meet aacrin<-e with
sacrifice If we don't, we are helping
to I< mm > the war Instead of helping to
♦tn IL
H. B. CHESS
Attorney •« Law
St. Francis
Hotel
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