HEAVY WORK ON THE FIGHTING LINE
(Continued from pa<e 2)
dard of the vast majority of Ameri
can citizens of German birth or des
cent. for they have been in America
long enough to become American
ized; to have imbibed American
ids as of liberty and arlf government.
Such as these we can fraternize
with an*I treat them as equal fellow
citizens and neighbor*. But we will
lie leery of the German emigrant
hereafter. rt’r prefer that they re-
main in the fatherland and assist in
earning the money with which to
pay the enormous debt they will
owe the other nations of the world.
We don't want them l>ecause they
are a nation of cowardly bullies,
liars, violators of women and ene
mies of civilization.
It is possible that with years * f
right education the German peoptv
may become worthy of association
with right thinking arxi right acting
people. But this will lie when a
new g«*nerati«>n of people have for
gotten the diabolical acts of this
war anti when the German men ami
women of today have |«aid the price
of their infamy and unworthiness to
civilization, when the twins, coward
ice and brutality, have disauj>ear«*«i
from the German character. We
know the penalty is a fearful one
vet we know it is justly merited.
The Portland Telegram must be
very much afraid that Walter M.
Pierce is to lie Oregon’s neit gover
nor. That paper objects to the use
of and allusions on the Pierce cam
paign cards to war measures and
our boys over there, and thinks
such cards are next door to sacri
lege. At the same lime the Tele
gram urges the re-election of Gov
ernor Withy combe because of his
patriotic acts
Why may not Sen
ator Pierce be accredited with pa
trio turn as well as Governor Withy-
combe? May not a native born
American citizen lie just as patriotic
and just as zealous in support of the
war as an American citizen by adop
tion even if he was made a citizen
in Oregon? The Telegram is so in
tensely partisan that it thinks re
publican pnlrioUsm is several shad« s
better than democratic patriotism.
Politics are not adjourn«*! in the
tone of that paper by ny manner of
means, yrt we give it credit for u
strong leafier in support of President
Wilson in a late issue.
H. F. Ramp. a former Albany
merchant but now a resident of Sa
lem. is registered as a bond slacker.
He has not bought a bond of either
issue. Being the socialist candidate
for governor Ramp's refutal to as
sist the government which protects
him is a slain on Oregon socialists
as a party. His son Floyd is now
doing lime in the federal peniten
tiary at McNeil island for interfer
ing with the working of the draft
at Roseburg.
WOMEN AND THE WAR
By MRS. HENRY P. DAVISO*
Treasurer War Work Cowncfl
National B—rd Y. W C A
In an Illinois prairie town lives «
• !dow wbo launders oeventewn t«a» j
hets of wash s
week and every
night thanks <««»d
for having pat
pity
Into
the
hearts of women
To her came ooe
day a letter from
her only eon. He
was then at Cnmp
Funston, Kansas,
learning to be a
soldier. The let
ter beggwl her to
coin* «ml see him
bstorw hv was
soul to Francs,
The mother
the
Ila
opened
Mr«. Davison
In
which
bank
rhe had been boarding her dimes an i
quarters against thia day. Th*- mom y
waa scarcely enough •
"N«»verthel«w*
she started
Hh*’ walked the first
eighteen miles
Then her strength
gave out. and she took a train
She did not know that visitors to
Camp Funston stay lu Junction City
eleven mice aaay
So she got off
the train at Fl»rt Kiley
An officer
set her right and she reached Jun«
Ikm City after da>k. Some how she
found a rooming house
Sotuo on*,
there stole five dollars from her
fivtf of the pre« u> *a dollars she haJ
earned over the «wh tab and saved
by
walking.
Terror stricken,
she
crept out of the house »hen no on*
was looking.
Later in the night a soldier found
her trumbllug In the atrrel. and took
her to the rooms of th* Voting Worn
ens Christian
Association,
room
which the War Work Council had
opened as a cl*.irlu !:i i e tor trou
bios
The poor frightened woman
wav put to bed. but she was too
miserable tn sleep
Th«* matron got
up at daybreak, built a fir«*, and com
forted her
Th«* son's comniandltM
yffh-er ws» reached by tclephon«*
early in th«- morning, ami th« bo>
rame to bls mother no ibe first trot
ley-car he could catch.
The two »tx-nt Ion«, low voiced
perhaps the
last
hours together
will have thia side of
hours they
I
Every moment was as pre
heaven,
clous as a month had been last year
The old lady had atilt «Hie present
worty The boy's bad cold might turn
into pneumonia if she left hitn. But
sb« had not u»on»ty enough to stay
another night ami buy a ticket h<>m<
When the matron told her that bet
b«*l waa free, she broke down ami
cried and cried
"I did not know there was so much
pity left In the world. she SoblHid
Nh» stayed till h«-r boy's cold was-
better
Then she »ml back to her
seventeen washings and her memo
rtea
»
Because of the certainly of Just
such cases as thl" was <»overnm«mlsl
sanction given to the activities of the
War Work Council of the Y w C. A
From the l"aeitle to the AianHc
fh-ld extends
Every state In
Vnioa has Its member». Urgent
peals for help are 11» cause and
When th** l't.:i.d 'll li i ebl«* rd
th«- «real war the Young Women a
Christ Ian Aaavs-latlou was, as always,
wurkins among women
Wilt» the
call to new duties Its members did
not abandon their old responelbllllt»«.
The War Work Council waa ft>rm<-d
aa aa emergency measure to take
rare of the women who were caurht
in Mime of the mares of war. ju-t aS
the luvrvnt organisation has taken
car« of them through many years of
¡■ear*
The varied activities decided
ipon by the War Work Co tncll fol
low closely the nr* <ia of the differ*
■nt cvrmmunlHca of the cvxintry Heo
-rlaneo trained In the iii<-th*»la of
he organisation
were
sent
out
broadcast
They were Instructed lu
-eport to the National Hoard of th»
Young Women's t'bnatlAO Associa
tions in New York the line« of work
which could be beet followed In the
various localities
Thea« »«■<r*tari«a
•ork In close c<Mi|>crallon with mln
isters. women a clubs. chambers of
onimerrv. churches, military officials,
«nd charttatde societies.
The rec
ord of a day s doing's of a sec.clary
reads like a novel, an economic
treats«, and a i* syr -bological «a ay
all compressed in:» a line-a-day entry.
A secretary s* nt out by th« War
Work Council must be equal to any
mergency
Miss IdHIan Hull at Chib
lieothe. close by t'atnp Hhertnan. bur
ying along the street at nightfall
am» upon a forlorn couple
A |fo>
il»h soldier had fount! a Job for hl»
vlfe, so that ah« might come on
iutn Cleveland
When she arrived
he waa refused the place be* »use
Their umney
■ho spoke no English
had bee* all »pent on the railroad
(are. »nd the soldier area due back
st Camp
The situation was bad
Thanks to Mias Hull a ChiUtcothlan
house wife now haa an imJusIrious
.»nd grateful domestic, a Soldier la
happy, and at soldier's wife Is sate
Army folks often bennftt even more
directly from th« seeretarlea work.
In Bremerton. Washington, a socrw*
■ary was accosted on the street by a
a slender •
al lor
Hhe wai
sod be had ml»l Ink en her for i
"May I walk along with you?'
asked
' Surely." she rejdled with mature
mderstandlng and Intuition
"'What
la the matter* Are you h<>m«»l«,k *”
The lads story cam« out with a
rush
Yea. be waa homeslrk. so
hopelessly, deatutlringly heart • 11-k • ■ <t
he waa on the verge of dea«rttna
Hut this woman gave him scolline
She
symiailhy and encouragement
saved him to his country.
From north, south, east and west
these pioneer secretaries sent In
their reports
The appalling •!*«■ of
tho undertaking was revealed to the
War Woik Council, Hyatemai nation
Out
of tb« work was the flrat step
of the multitudinous phaiea certain
linos of work were revealed.
11** •***■■■*** • 1
. »
J* • • <« J*’’
'
Th«powerful American artillerymen, with trage crowbar*, are work I ns
fast to set their heavy gnn Int» position to hurl Ita shells at the retreating
Iluna. It la a difficult job. for the earth la pitted with shell crater«.
Scio Produce Company
Wants Your Business
Will pty Cash for Eggs, Poultry, Veal. Hogs, Hides
W ill buy Cream in any quantity for the
Oregon Cieamery, Portland
I et us get acquainted.
If you have a grievance
make it known and we will endeavor to rectify it.
Bring Us Your Cascara Bark
W e will give you a Square Deal
FRED GISELMAN, Proprietor
OUR GROCERY DEPARTMENT
FOLGERS
clean
We curry h full
Ten, Coffee,
< Tinned Goods,
tart, everything
for the table.
lint* of
Spices
and in
needed
HIBLER 8 GILL CO
’■mvKMW
l*«SSII>CMT, W. F. Gill.
Hernsranv, U. <’. Thorns
Ht't V'»SUM >1«
(Continued
J. J . Barnes. \V. F. Itili,
A. Bilyeu, J. R. Barn so,
Mr». Jennie Warner.
J
-pt.
SCIO ROLLER MILLS
'HPoH*IKt> hKKMItm WM
I
Our Fluur is as good as any made in
the Willamette Valley
A I Eli Y
Privileges of th* Poor.
F
*A*.
Inspiration
Women of
»•cd are Ila sard)
The fll I
of the War Work Council la tr«m«nd-
»us.
Will you show me any other people
outside of the fnlry books who can
put the most fearful calamity on like
a cloak and doff It at will, who can
augment their families to seven or
eight children overnight, and reduce
them as readily Io five or six on the
following day If It hut eeem to them
advisable? Where oatalde their ranks
is there anyone capable of persuading
you that It is a privilege to sl»>ep odd
no that some Hsrtus you never saw or
care to see shall, be had his allegort-
cal mule, go better wormed? Wbo
else, being neither of your kith nor
kin. has such power over you that,
with a mere bloodshot eye and shiver
of the shoulder«, they can turn your
automobile. your furs, your warmth
and all your pleasant pleasures Into
I mad »« apples of discomfort ?—Mura
Bpencer Porter, In the Atlantic Maga
zine.
REMEMBER THE TU5CAN1A JIUY A BOND
S.ICK
K.¡XT E E! >
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