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THK 0ZKTTE.TniKS, HKPPXER, ORKi.OX. THT'RSTt ' Y, 1 FlUtl' IV . 11)19. PAGE THREk Go South, Young Lady, G' South Wsl ; i ,. j ' 1 i If "1 f A STURDY TBEE MONUMENT FOR EVER! YANK WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR DEMOCRACY Governors of Many Stales l.mpii .Plan Oft't-ml y American For trv .stH'iiithn to Honor Nation's Heroes. "Go south young lady, and get a close-up of summer styles." A nation at peace again and a general prosperity prevailing, sees society flocking back to the southland tor the winter months antl incidentally wearing new frocks which are forerunners for late sprint; in. (I summer styles On ihe rfefi a pussy willow of rose and white while or. the right a navy voile skirt hides under a navy blue tunic the frock of indestructible voile It is an afternoon frock V.'AXTi;i! Man with teams or tractor -to do cropping and plowing on farm 15 miles south of lone, Ore gon. Or would buy 8 horses and 3 letter.! pl'iw. stc - i ' CHAS. M. WAG. J,.'; trson St.. Port! ; - - "?';-. I will sell fc-: f .ii? best bulldinp Jots in Ileopi, ; r $ i.o i ,;:itli. The lots are i .VixlGG feet and true parale'iogiaiH-. each copier keiug a ri?ht angle, .:;.! U t is o kalf of a square. HARRY CUMMINOS. ( ' . STRAYED From my pasture, about 6 weeks ago, one 4-year-old bay mare, split right ear, weight 1300; one gray 3-year-old mare, no h",d- !m" !lea"v halter on, weight about 1100; one brown gelding ' 1 year old, no brand, left hind hock "V j-ie-2i - i . . - A.V i:..LOCK, Heppner. W A X TE 1 7" Ff "doze n copies each of t!. ... -,.,-s of ahe Gazotte- . , - V)- 11,18 and Jan. 2, l.-i... VH'l yay 5c. per copy Brmg M-.mi i.i this office and get vour monov. no was up from his farm nut: U:.ington on Monday, to attend to some business affairs in this city. He was accompanied by his father,' Sam Devlne, who is visiting with his relatives here this winter. BY HVK1.I.S LATliROI PACK, I'i-i-Milert, A. incc'can Forestry Association. Wntten especially for the Gazette Times. in what other way shall we honor th.- memory of the brave American soldiers and sailors who gave their lives-for liberty? That is a question which every community in the Vnited States has asked itself. It is certain that their sacrifice on the altar of freedom is worthy of the finest tribute that can be paid them.: This should include also the men i who offered their lives in their; country's service whether it meant : the supreme sacrifice for them or' not. They, too, are deserving of the nation's gratitude. What nobler, more inspiring, more appropriate memorial can be erected to the honor of these men than the living, growing tree? It will stand there and as it develops keep fresh in the minds of the present and of coming generations the deeds of daring which America's heroes per formed on land and sea in order that democracy and truth and justice might be firmly established here and throughout the world. , On this account the American for-1 estry Association suggests the plant ing of trees in parks, along the streets and highways and at other appropriate places as living monu-i oieiits to our lveroe3. ' There are few communities in the' United States that did not lose one or more of its sons in the great con flict which has just concluded. There will be memorials of various kinds, bronze tablets, stone markers, arches of granite and bronze and other forms, dedicated to their service. But this does not preclude the plant ing of trees. No matter what other kind of memorial is set up, there can he trees planted also. This suggestion already has re ceived the hearty Indorsement of governors of states throughout the i!iiiiMniiiiiiiiii!u!iiiiini:inMiiiii ;IMIIII"-V'0V'V- V,...tifi. I I I V-P A i l l' . 1 & I MIIIIItAV.l W.W.lv'i'ftyft Charles Lathrop Pack country, of the state foresters, civic and patriotic organizations, women's clubs and other associations. In a few places trees already have been planted in accordance with this idea. At Tacony, Pa., four trees have been planted on the lawn of the B'piscopal Church of the Holy In nocents. Two of the town's men thus honored were killed in action in France, while the others died in hospitals close behind the , battle lines. Relatives and friends of the Ta cony heroes participated in the cere mony, which included singing by the choir and a brief address by tht rector, Rev. Robert E. Edwards. Here is what two state governors and other officials say of the plan. Governor Lowden, of Illinois, says: "I am heartily in sympathy with the general idea, which I have taken up with the superintendent of highways of our state." Governor Capper of Kansas says: "It is most appropriate, I feel, that we should have living trees as memorials for our soldier dead, whose deeds will live for all time." Former President Taft said: "One fitting and appropriate memorial to our soldier dead would be rows of fine trees planted along the great through highways of our various states. They will stand there for many generations to come and keep frosh in the minds of all passers-by the heroic deeds .of those Americans; who gave their lives that freedom fd justice and truth might not per ish from the earth." Louisiana is planning to plant Hit miles of "victory oaks" and other suitable trees along Jefferson Highway, the state's principal road which runs from north to south and connects with the highway that ex tends on to Winniueg, Canada. Governor Pleasant has turned" the details of the worit over to M. L. Alexander, head of the state conser vation department. There will be a tree every forty feet along the road. Oaks will be used for the most part. Plan Kits in Wit Ij lttronsti uction and (hh1 I toads. Rows vf noble trees will add not only to the beauty and attractiveness of our highways but will be an actual support to them, helping to hold the ground firm and keeping it from washing. As the construction of good roads will be one of the big ieccustruction problems which the nation will have to solve, anything that will help in this direction should be encouraged. On all the roads leading out from every community in the United States there should be rows of trees. The American Forestry Associa tion is very glad to advise any town or community as to tree planting, suggesting types that probably will grow best in that particular locality and furnishing other helpful hints. Anyone can secure this free informa tion by writing to Washington for it. There are many reasons why trees are most appropriate memorials to America's soldier and sailor dead, as well as to the living. The iree is a living, growing thing, just as are the principles which America entered the war to defend. U stands for freedom. And the tree played an Important par; in the wianiug of the war. In a thousand ways, it was called into service. In areoplanes and gun stocks, barracks and trenches, piers and railroad ties, and in many other places it was demanded in immense -luantitics. The forests of France were largely sacrifices to the needs of the war. Thousands of square miles of her forest land over which the Germans advanced were devastatated' by gun and shell fire or by the trees cut down by the enemy. Anything, therefore, looking to reforestation of the world is most fitting. It means a rebuilding of some of the natural resources which have been lost through ravages of war. 1 0' 7T ? 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(From the Stars and Stripes, Official A. E. P. Newspaper.) It was the Prussian Guard against the American Indian on the morning of October 8 in the hills of Cham pagne. When it was all over, after the wire protected slopes had been trampled as though they were no more than bramble patches of thorny and leafless berry bushes and tliere were no more German gunners left in me eartn-banKed machine gun nests, the Prussian Guards were fur ther on their way back toward Aisne, and going fast, and warriors of thirteen Indian tribes looked down on the town of St. Etienne. The Indians one company jf them were fighting with tha Thirty-sixth division, made up of Texas and Oklahoma rangers and oil men, for the most part, and with the French this division was pushing away forever the German menace to Rheims. ine Millionaire company ' was the title that had followed the Indians from Camp Bowie, Wyom ing, and there followed them also a legendry of $1,000 checks carried by Indian buck privates, of buck privates who used to . spend their hours on pass in 12-cylinder motor crs, of a company football team that was full of Carlisle stars and had won a camp championship. Like LcatherstocklnK Tales. It was a company with a roll of names that was the despair of the regimental paymaster, ' who never could keep track of Big Bear, Rain bow, Blanket, Bacon Rind, Hohem auatubbe and the 246 other original dialect pronunciations or literal translations. In the company were Creeks and Sioux, Seminoles, Apa dies, Wyandottes, Choctaws, Iro quois, and Mohawks, all the old James Fenlmore Cooper favorites. Collectively, they owned many square miles of the richest oil and mineral lands of Oklahoma, and back home there were thousands of dollars in royalties piling up every day for the buying of Liberty bonds. It was a genuine surprise for the Prussian Guards when they found themselves facing this species of American fighter. Intelligence sum maries failed to tell anything about them but there were certain Guards who remembered that American Red skins in past wars had been chiefly distinguished by scalping the enemy and wearing paint on their faces. So it happened that when the end of the fight was Hearing, Prussian' (.uards could be scon running over ; the hiil tops, casting away their rilles. knapsacks, canteens sacrificing ev erything for speed. Mucliino Guns First. The Indians had as their first task the reduction of a group of machine i gun nests on a slope. They came out of a forest in true woodman style and dodged into shell holes that looked-up-, to where the enemy, was ln j'trenched. .Thtv reverted- to typical ! Indian tactics, show ing almost utter I contempt for the enemy's machine jgun fire, lifting their heads above the i rims of the shell holes, intent only on one thing searching with their keen eyes for the exact points from which the enemy was firing. I Having sighted those points, they slung their rifles over the top of the holes and fired deliberately and as . coolly as if they were shooting at deer. Usually a machine gun ceased to lire a few moments after the In dians had concentrated on it. One German sniper proved annoy ing to the Indians. He had dug in far in front of the machine gun nests, and, from the protection of a fallen tree, fired with German regularity. -Finally, a tall Sioux's imagination be came fixed with the idea of capturing this German, and he Jumped out of a shell hole in plain view of a score ot German machine gun men and raced up toward the sniper. Good Time for Footwork. The sniper tried one shot at him, then i ealized he was going to have to reckon with the Indian hand to hand. So he tried to escape by run ning. The Indian was close behind him, yelling and whooping, with his bayonet fixed. The German headed for his comrades behind the wire. But the other Guards, having had a good chance to look the Indian over, decided they didn't want to take any chances on the Indian's get ting among them, so they opened fire on pursued as well as pursuer. To escape his own fire the German turn ed aside and raced down the line with the Indian following Mm. For five minutes the chase lasted, with Ger man guns rattling every time the two men came too close to the German positions. It ended in an old dugout. In their first hours of real battle the Indians encircled and took almost a dozen strong machine gun positions. They did this In spite of German shell fire. In fact, they used the Ger man shell fire to reduce certain troublesonio nests. Having surround ed a particularly strong position, they would advance ahead, so that Ger man artillery observers would take it for granted that all the ground had been lost and would draw in their fire until their own shells would fall on the machine gun nest that was still holding out. J. II. Cox suffered the loss of a finger on Sunday afternoon. He was at work moving a house at the farm r.f Percy Jarmon on flutter creek, and when adjusting one of the rollers, his finger was caught and crushed so badly that amputation was necessary. Mrs. Luther Huston returned home from Portland on Tuesday evening, where she had been railed on account of the serious Illness of her mother, Mrs. A. J. Mcllaley. . Mrs. Frankle Luper departed for Portland on Sunday and will be in the city for a couple of weeks, making selection of her Spring millinery stock. CITY DEALS DIRECT WiTH FARMERS 1 1 mil A If V 7 1' M Hill! Jonn Q. McGrath, community secretary and postal agent. Park V ew school community center, at Washington. D. ., the first city community secretary, meets Mre.i Anna Plowman McKay, commun Hy secretary and postal agent of the food producers at 8urratts-, vBle, Md. These two communities are connected by postal motor truck which enables the people of Washington to deal directly with farmers of Maryland ,