TO THE LIBERTY LOAN WORKERS
State Liberty Loan Headquarters,
Portland, Oregon,
April 6, 1918.
To Ten Thousand Fellow Workers for the Liberty Loan in Oregon:
We set out today upon the accomplishment of a tremendous task the
raising of Oregon's share of that part of the National Defense Fund known
as the Third Liberty Loan.
Let us, each one, take to the work tn hand with our hearts confident of
but one ultimate result VICTORY.
Let us keep constantly in mind that a prompt and overwhelming sub
scription to the Third Liberty Loan Bonds is exacted of us. Faltering in this
duty is virtually equivalent to an expression of willingness to abandon our
boys who are in the trenches, suffering and fighting for us.
; Thoroughly sweep the field on the canvass I No man should ask
solicitors to come a second time in this effort.
In soliciting subscriptions see that they are enrolled before leaving. A
task of this magnitude well begun is half done.
1 With the Spirit of the First Line Trenches let every man and woman
do his or her duty.
"This war," said President Wilson, "must be won, not by the Government,
but by the strength of the American people."
In the spirit of "WE-WILL" we will win.
Sincerely yours,
EDWARD COOKINGHAM,
Robert E. Smith, Executive Chairman Oregon State
State Manager. Central Liberty Loan Committee.
WHY WE ARE
AT WAR WITH
GERMANY
By
EPHRAIM DOUGLASS ADAMS
Executive Head, History Depart
ment Leland Stanford Junior University
WILL OUR TOWN WIN AN HONOR FLAG?
OwuAJk VVjKJ. JOm
In order to stimulate Individual subscriptions to the Third Liberty Loan,
to create community activity and to mobilize, systemize and unify the
initiative and energy of citizens and districts in the accomplishment of a
.national purpose, an honor flag and honor roll system has been adopted by
'the Treasury Department for the Third Liberty Loan.
This Bystem is outlined by the Department as 'follows:
1. A specially designed honor flag, officially adopted as the Third Liberty
Toan flag, will be awarded to all communities upon their attainment of their
assigned quota.
2. A small individual poster, containing a reproduction of the honor flag
and a blank for the name of the subscriber, will be awarded to each subscriber
for display in his home.
3. A larne honor roll, containing at the top a reproduction of the honor
flag and the slogan, "Help Our Town Win the Right to Fly This Flag," and
below space for the names of all subscribers, will be posted In a conspicuous
place In the community.
4. A large honor flag will be awarded to each state upon the attainment
of its quota, the state flag to contain the names of those subordinate groups
which have attained their quotas.
6. A nationul honor flag will be unfurled at Washington on which will
be presented the returns from all the states.
OREGON'S QUOTA
Fifteen Per Cent of the Population
Should Subscribe to 3rd Loan.
The fact that Oregon in the First
and Second Liberty Loans shows a
percentage of only 8.77 per cent of
the population subscribing to Liberty
Loans, which was less than the aver
age for the I'nlted States, and com
pares unfavorably with othr states.
makes It wi eiisary for at least 15 per
cent of th" population to sutmcrlbe to
the Third Liberty Loan, In order to
bring Oreuon Into the same standing
as her BtKter states.
Or com 8.77 per rent of Liberty
Loan subscribers Is Insignificant be
sltle New York's 1S64 per cent, Chi
cauo't Vl.Z'l per cent and Minneapolis'
12.04 per cent.
Canada's recent "Victory Loan"
campaign, translated Into the I nuea
Slates method of accounting, shows
a peri intake of H3 of the population
siib-M rlliini! f'r bonds.
Headquarters of the Third Liberty
Loan of the Twelfth Federal Reserve
D!t,iriit ar In receipt of letters, call
Ins attention to the fact that many
bank have suhncrlhmi to previous
loans so liberally that their capacity
Is somewhat curtailed, and It will be
nccary for 1.'. per cent of the In
habitants of a clven community to
lbm rlbe to the loan In order to fill
fill the di sired quota. With the melt
diffused prosperity on the I'srlflr
Coast. It is felt that this should not
he ili'f.mlt. snd from the country dis
trli's ttii re should be a hintier per j
i iitat'e of subs' r'.pt Ion thn from
the lr;e. metropolitan renters hre
lhre is apt to b a greater proportion
of the population Ihliig In comparative
pmerty
WE MUST OVER SUBSCRIBE
Aount of Losn ls1wH for Oregon
IS the Minimum.
'Harm' t'i ' truly d rib's the
frame of m.nd of the Third Liberty
.i n er.i usUon of the tut en th
ve of tt.e b'i drtt.
The l an f three billion hlh th
S.rr.urv 'f the Treasury has Just
ii;.. I t"f from th Nation la Ut ttilcl
ifcuui amount. a I vi
"Quotas for different districts will
be announced within a few days,"
says State Chairman Cooklngham.
The quota of the state Is $18,495,000.
Portland will be alloted approximately
half the amount or $9,000,000. While
It Is apparent that a $3,0u0,ooo.000
loan can be absorbed more readily by
Tk. nhl.,1 rt thlo uuar riolivnr
Iha f rA nnnl nf th uvnriri from thf? '
menace 'and the actual power of a vast
military establishment controlled by an
Irresponsible government, wnicn, naving
secretly planned to dominate the world,
proceeded to carry out the plan without
regard either to the sacred obligations
of treaty or the long-established prac
tices and long-cnerisnea principles ui in
ternational action and honor; . . . This
power is not the German people. It Is
the ruthless master of the German peo
ple. ... it Is our business to see to
It that the history of the rest of the
world Is no longer left to Its handling."
President Wilson, August ii, isu.
THE GERMANS AS A CHOSEN
PEOPLE.
The foundation cause of this war Is
Germany's firm belief that she alone
has the right to direct the progress of
the world and to exploit its resources.
For the last thirty years the military
autocracy of Germany has seen to it
that this belief was taught in the
schools, and today that autocracy is
reaping the benefits of a blind obe
dience to its will. German political
writing of recent years is full of the
idea that the German people is "God's
chosen people, destined to impose Its
'Kultur' upon all other peoples."
"The German soul Is the world's
6oul, God and Germany belong to one
another." "Germany is the center of
God's plans for the world." "We hope
that a great mission will be allotted
to us Germans . . . and this Ger
man mission Is: to look after the
world." "Germany is chosen, for her
own good and that of other nations,
to undertake their guidance. Provi
dence has placed the appointed people,
at the appointed moment, ready for
the appointed task."
"The German people Is always right,
because it is the German people, and
numbers 87,000,000 souls." "Kultur Is
best promoted when the strongest in
dividual Kultur, that of a given na
tion, enlarges Us field of activity at
the expense of the other national Kill
turs." "The attempt of Napoleon to
graft the Kultur of Western Europe
upon the empire of the Muscovite
ended in failure. Today history has
made us Germans the Inheritors of the
Napoleonic Idea." "The further we
carry our Kultur into the East, the
more and the more profitable outlets
shall we find for our wares. Economic
profit Is of course not the main motive
of our Kultur actlvlty, but It Is no un
welcome by-product." "Our belief is
that the salvation of the whole Kullur
of Europe depends upon the victory
which German 'Militarism' Is about to
achieve."
These quotations are hut a few of
hundreds of like expression, and the
last one cited is from a manifesto
signed by thirty fire hundred Herman
professors and lecturers. Reduced to
simple terms, the German belief at the
beginning of this war was: "God di
rects Germany. Civilization advances
only by combafa between Kultiirs In
which the stronger and God-directed
one has the right to prevail and must
prevail. The Immediate and present
object Is to make ,ur Kultur prevuil
In the East (in 'Muscovy'), and In ac
complishing this we shall also gain
economic advantages. This Is the Aral
step In our world domination.''
Where does America stand In this
theory of a "chown people "? America
denies that theory; she denies that
God has chosen any one people as
Ills own; she asserts ruihcr that there
are many civilizations, each with Its
own merits and defects, mid that to
the reotile of the United States than
If the loan had been placed at twice j Mrh mllst hp ' ft ""' working nut of
that sum, nevertheless I wish partlcu- i own problems.
Vte Americans are unable to under
larly to Impress upon our small army
of volunteer workers and upon every
citizen of Oregon that it will be no
puny task to raise $18,000,000."
The Republic's Bsttls Hymn. I
Harry Van Dyke, former Amerlran l
minister to the Netherlsnds, and now ,
a chaplain In the United States serv- ,
Ice, has composed in additional stsn- j
is for the "Battle Hymn of the Re-
public." Here It Is: I
"We- have passed th cry nf anguish j
from the victims of the Hun
"And w know our country's peril If .
the mir lords will Is done I
"V will fight for world wide freedom i
till the victory Is won;
"For God It marching on "
filanfleld. Or. (To the KdHor ) I
read with a thrill Mr Van Dyke's ad
ditions! s'sma to "The Ilsttle Hymn
of the Republic," snd, with the vision
of my only son. Just passed 2". as he
left us a few months sso, eager lo no
over and do his hit tn help avenge the
wrongs of H'lslnm and France. I am
constrained to add to more tnis
as my Interpretation of Americas an
swer to th cry of anguish.
W hsv pledged our lives and for
tunes
To help freedom's raus sdvsnr.
Rent th (lower of our young manhood
To th shell torn fields of Franc.
W will overcome repression,
All must hit sn equal rhsnr.
For God Is marching on.
Tru and lnsl hearts are beating
Ws sr soldiers ery nnn,
And r satan s host defl ating.
When overthrow the Hun.
Out from lleithim thy'r retreating
Wbn th victory oo.
Fur (j i4 Is ttiarrhlng on
II E. ALLI.N.
stand, or sympathize with, a people
who conceive of thi'inwlvin as a chosen
people, chosen of (iml a people In
whom all things and in Hons, however
Inhuman or brutal, are regaidcd as
permissible, even holy, l mine of a
faith In their superior tnUsion and
civilization. To in mo ft a hi In f it
direit ri o'tii , nut of a liadinu. lut
of a laijaing ciwlizntmn.
I This German Ideal. !iti expressed
merely In theory, even though taught
; In Germany for the ,it thirty vests,
I stirred but Indifferent Int. rest In other !
j F.tiropesn nations In this :ir Gir
many has revealed In the (inid nlmn
j of her theory a lii'it for world pner !
)st th ripens of other po,.-s, a lai k 1
(Of g'io'1 ful'h. a l.ru'.ilii liuii have J
' stamped her theory a Involving a re
' turn to tatl.niKth J
liy the ppliion of G.-rnwm theory !
We were foned, uh llllt r'v. to no to I
r Hut today ktoi tdat th'te '
was no et" at" from a s.tt lt n I so '
ront radii lot v IdnU i;-itii irn mi-
tlOlllIc Ol. JeilS MM- 11,1111 B!,d I.Vg"
(they ll he iihl' d o it i i t it... t.,i c
cause of this ir ... i h i, ; i, in . .1
of a dominant ln'l ti 1 1. Id nl,
by Gertrsut s II tl ' I -i : I. , 1 1 . ti 1 1 l
In srtns. Aiutri't it e Hint piee.nl,
or e shall rifli
M.V14....AI. M.M.i ic t,.lt
V A N Y
Csmianv ln.s H. st .he his th
tlijht to qn,ina'e the ml It .-r
militaristic itrrs.r I ',ivs tint
this sr Is s (. on ird iii h wot d
domination, but Hi ;.rn t 1 d'-tt 'id
for lac (,ffi rtiitv r. ,t s.it tn.d i-h
itistnt isl gains In I nro '..r tnr
tintr.tli folitusl rnitiif hi" Ik n fid
of the trrms of f r .,
sn1 I'xlat those terms r t sin imsl
lerej Ibe M"Uri lief.t U1 tolis l,se
nerved to J.rove that f,nt has for a,
long time been public opinion. Is now
official opinion. The quotations will
show this.
First, the more general purposes:
"If we come victorious out of this war,
we shall be the first people on the
earth, a rich stream of gold will pour
over the land." "Expansion of our
power both East and West, if possible
also over seas: political and military
domination combined, Indissolubly con
nected with economical expansion, this
Is our war aim." "The territory open
to future German expansion must ex
tend from the North Sea and the Bal
tic to the Persian Gulf, absorbing he
ixetnerianas and Luxembourg, Swit
zerland, the whole basin of the Dan
ube, the Balkan Peninsula and Asia
Minor."
Second, the imtnediafe aims: "Our
relations with Turkey have drawn us
into this war, ... the Bagdad
Railway must be extended by us to
the open sea, even to India Itself."
"Belgium must remain under German
domination . . . there exists no
hetler line of attack for the German
army in a future war with France,'
whom it Is necessary "to weaken to
such a degree that Bhe can never again
be daingerous to us." "Will anybody
believe that we will hand over the
lands which we have occupied in the
W est, on which the blood of our peo
ple has flowed?" "We are not an In
stitute for lengthening the life of
dying states."
But it is on Poland and Western
Russia that Germany has all along
nxed her eyes. "We ought not to
let fall the sword from our hand be
fore we have assured our future. Our
eastern boundaries must not remain
where they are." "Livonia, Kurland
hsthonia, have been for more than
seven centuries sister-countries united
through German traditions. It Is true
Germans do not yet represent 10 per
cent of the inhabitants; but their char
acler filters through the whole." "Let
us bravely organize great forced mi
Stations of the Inferior peoples. Pos
terity will be grateful to us. We must
coerce them! This Is one of the tasks
of war. Such forced migrations may
appear hard, but It is the only solu
tion. . . . The Inefficient peoples,
discouraged and rendered Indifferent
to the future by the spectacle of the
superior energy of their conquerors,
may then crawl slowly towards the
peaceful death of weary and hopeless
senility." The writer of this was here
viewing especially the non-Qerman
population! of douth America.
How Is America interested In the
European political and territorial re
suits or thlB warT Well, first, we ore
at war. Germany believes that peace
now, on the terms she outlines, means
a Germany victorious. That means a
continuance of military autocracy In
Germany a continuance of an aggres
slve policy a continuance of German
faith In Its special destiny to rule the
world.
Against that German (dal we are
fighting. But we are also fighting
to save the Americas from the "next
step" In German Imperialism. In the
first year of the war, the one great
fear expressed by German officers was
that, a long war In Europe would
"cause America to wake up." Wake
up to what? Not to the need of
American participation In (he war,
The German officers thought America
negligible for thin war. But they did
and do, fear that America would
awake to the danger to herself, her
Ideals, her Institutions, her Interests,
and that being awakened, Germany
ncjI step In world domination would
lie harder than the present one
There Is no hope of a changed Oer
many of establishing those peaceful
and friendly relations which should
deiermlne International conduct If
Germany gains her objects, or any
purl of them, In (ftis war. She has
set her heart upon certain material
"liieits. We must see lo it that she
does not gain them. Then her first
step blocked, we may hope that her
people may awaken from their dream
of empire. We fight for a world peare
yes; but we also fight for self pre
ervatlon. and our best chance to save
ourselves Is this present moment -nou).
YOUR SPRING SUIT
Will Cost You Much Less if Ordered How
1 have jusl put in a big stock of new
Woolens,includmgVorsteds,Serges,etc.
bought at a bargain and which will be
passed aloiir to my customers at equally
attractive prices.
These goode were carried over from last
reason by the wholesalers ami by buying
heavily 1 was able to secure tut 111 at last
season's prices. This means a big sav
ing over ji resent prices of this season's
new goods, while the quality of last
year's goods is away above this year's
offerings.
The benefit I receive from this proposi
tion is that I am able to continue in busi
ness under war conditions the direct
saving goes to my customers.
Come In, Gentlemen, My Stock and Prices Will Please You
Louis Pearson,
MERCHANT
TAILOR
Buy a Liberty Bond :
And Save by Having Your J
Shoes Repaired at
Bowers' Shoe Hospital I
Modern Machinery Methods I
Main Street Heppncr, Ore. I
?
ify
1 Have Now a New
Line of Furniture
On hand. Will take in old 011 now furniture.
1 also handle
NEW SINGER SEWING MACHINES AND SUPPLIES :
HEINDEIIR OF THE FAR NORTH
And good Second-Hand Machines in good order. J
1 also buy old iron, rags and junk. Old iron $10 1
p r tun. f ill and mmj what I have.
j H W. VKRDOT, Second-Hand Store j
: IIKITNKK, OKWiON
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Years Ago From Labrsdor Hsvs
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