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EM-TEES
NATIONAL PROHIBITION PROBABLE.
X.TAT10XAL prohibition- us a
n tion
It is told of Colonel Roosevelt that
In his school days ho wub once called
upon to rcclto a poem. Bravely ho
began: "At midnight, In hln gunrded
tent, the Turk lay dreaming of the
hour when Croeco, her knee " There
he faltered. Twice he repeated
"Grece, her knee,' then quit dead
The old professor looked at the fu
ture president over tho top of hlu
spectaclos, then remarkod: "(i recce
her knee once more, Theodoro. Per.
haps Bho'll go easier then."
...
A C. TIIA-ST
I do not like to Ho abed,
In Idleness, when 1 am 111,
To have to stay Inuctivo then
Is Just another bitter pill.
I want to kick tho covers off,
And rise with energy and vim.
And pitch into tho work that waits.
And wlpo It out, with ardor grim.
I But when I'm well, I like to He
To lie abed, of course, I mean.
II like to doze aud dream and doze,
Quiescent, Indolent, serene.
I When duties call, I fain would sleep,
Though I must earn my dally bread
I Confound the work! When I am well,
Oh, then I love to lie abed!
Sonicrvlllo Journal.
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lAVOTIIRIt IIST OF "IIOWIiKILS."
The latest list of queer and conso-
Iquontly humorlstlc answers written
on. evamlnutlon papers comes from
I ho University of tho state of New
lYork, at Albany, which grants T.e-
iKents certificates. Among those who
I wrote the replies woro candidates fur
teachers' positions, for qualification
I as law or modlcal BtndontB, and for
admission to colloge. Hero are Borne
lot the answers:
Thoro woro no ( hrlstlann among
kho early Cauls. Thoy were mostly
llnwyorB.
CHninto Is caused by tho emotion of
he earth around tho sun.
The skeleton Is what is left after
(lie Insldes havo been tnlton out and
I he outsldeB huve been taken off.
A blizzard Is tho Insldo of a hen.
George Washington married Mar
I ha CustlB and In duo tlmo bocame
I he father of his country.
The Btomach Is just south of the
lbs.
Tho alimontnry canal Is located In
I he northern part of Indiana.
The rosetla stone was a missionary
lo Turkey.
A vacuum Is n large empty space
Ivhere tho pope lives,
The government of I.iiKlnnd Is
limited mockery.
Georgia was founded by people who
liavo been executed.
Tho qualifications of a voter nt
school meeting are that he must
lo the father of a child for eight
k eekfl.
Achilles was dipped In tho river
ttyx to make him Immoral. This Is a
larlance on the classic story that "the
liolhor of Achilles dipped hliu In the
llyx and ho became Intolerable.")
war and food eonserva-
l.lt il ! 1 1
measure .seems iirouanie in tne near iuuire al
though sucli action will destroy a sourec of large revenue
for eoiiductiiig the war and paying government expenses.
The world shortage in food supply, due to crop failures,
decreased acreage, and wanton destruction of war, will
force the diversion of the grain now consumed in liquor
making into consumption as food.
It is not prohibition for prohibition sake that will cause
national prohibition but the question of wlui'ther the
people of the United States and her allies are going to eat
or go hungry. The; world's reserves of foodstuffs are low
er than ever before, the winter wheat crop in the United
States is a partial failure, and millions of men have been
withdrawn from agriculture for fighting and must be fed
as well as the people at home. , . '
It takes nearly two bushels of grain to produce a bar
rel of beer, and a bushel of grain is required to distill a
gallon of whisky, in 19.1G, more than 90,250,000 bushels
of grain were used in brewing ;;8,6:..'.,(.24 barrels of beer
produced, and 39,748,092 bushels of grain were used in
making whisky and distilled spirits a total of 130,000,
000 bushels of 'era in, worth more than $150,000,000 used in
making alcoholic beverage.
Herbert ('. Hoover, who had charge of Belgian relief
work and has been appointed food director of the United
States, at a meeting of the Council of National Defense
declared that biscuits were as necessary as bullets to win
the war and 130,000,000 bushels of grain will make some
biscuits. Mr. Hoover declares that prohibition during the
duration of the war, is an essential factor in securing vic
tory and the cabinet is giving the matter serious thought,
both as a measure for food and a measure for increased ef
ficiency. A grain census is now being taken by the' department
of agriculture. Though pot- complete, it indicates a serious
shortage. In many states, like Oregon, there are not gram
stocks enough in reserve tor seeding demands. . ine crop
conditions indicate the shortest crop in many' years' for
1917, and emphasize the need ot. conserving eyery-possi-
le bushel ot gram. ' . .
Alcohol is needed in the manufacture of munitions and
explosives, but scientists are already devising ways and
means for its manufacture troin waste products, wiuioui
using materials of food value and there are ample sup
plies of liquor on hand to supply all imperative needs dur
ing the period of the wars duration.
ARTILLERY
11Y BURTON 11 It A LEY.
Ouns! Gunn! tluna!
In the battle ot today, they're tho ones,
They're tho bruisers in the fray
They're tho boya that clear tho way,
Throwing projectiles by tons
Heavy guns!
Yes, somewhere way hack of tho lines
In a nice, leafy bower or doll.
Is whero tho artillery shines
In glvln' the enemy hell;
The guns waddle up through the nilre
I.IUo a fat lady walks on her pins.
When when the command comes to fire
Well, that'8 whon the straffln' begins.
Tho muzzles heaves up to the sky
The lanyard Is pulled, there's a roar
The shells whistle, curvln' up hlghj
And then there Is more mr still more,
Tho gunners they sweat an' thoy smiles
As carriages shiver an' wronch,
An' way off some several miles
Tlrem shells has ubollshed a trench.
Your Infantry may ho O. K.,
Hut when you prepare (or n charge
If big guns ain't clenrln' tho way
You're gonta lie smashed, by nn' largo,
It's guns that rips bomb proofs to bits
An' barb wire eiitatiKleuieuts too.
It's guns gives the epemy fits
So Infantrymen kin break through!
Yes, you've gotta have the guns,
Heavy guns,
Throwln' shells by tons an tons,
Shells that's smashes an' that stuns,
They're tho bruisers of the fray
They're the boys that clears the way,
In the warfare of today, they're tho ones
llutly guns!
JOFFRE, GUEST OF UNITED STATES
. FAR AND AWAY BIGGEST MILITARY
F
Hero of the Marne Is Really a Great
Man and in Some Respects the
Kind of a Man That the World
Believed Extinct, Declares Russell.
By CHARLES ADWAKl) HFSSELL.
WASHINGTON'. Muy 1 I doubt
whether in this country we have ever
gotten hold of the whole idea nbout
Joseph Jacques Joffre, marslinl of
all the armies of France and guest
of the United States today.
Here is reully a great man, far
and away the biggest military figure
this war has produced, in some re
spects tho kind of man the world had
cynically believed to have become ex
tinct, a military genius of the first
order.
If he had lived in the great days
of tho Roman republic he would have
been n Scipio Africnnus, unbeaten
and unbeutuble. Living today, he is
5 1 a sense nn anomaly. He is un over-
spring soldier with a heart.
Savior of France.
I.'i S!in liiiit diiys of the wnr Joffre,
;:n f:ice if a million opposing
opinions-, saved France and saved
us no less.
, The Gerwnn plnn, perfected in
years of expert study, was to cut
through Belgium, enter France where
France was unprotected, get Paris
in two weeks, double back and crush
Russia with swift blows and end the
war in six weeks.
' "The six weeks' war" is what fler
mnn officers called it when in lfllll
they kindly described to me what
was nbout to happen.
Franco, - cursed, hampered and
hamstrung like the United States
with The Men Tlint Can't l'ut 2 and
2 Together, refused to believe any
such trenchery was possible. Almost
alone this man, Joffre, the cooper's
son from the south country, saw the
imminent danger and worked out his
own idea of the way to meet it.
Joffre knew France was terribly
unprepared. lie knew that except in
field artillery she was in no shape
to risk any decisive uction and could
not bo until the whole nation should
become thoroughly aroused and nil its
resources mobilized.
Fight Itcai Actions.
"Fight rear actions," was his word.
Delay llie enemy as long as possible,
but withdraw."
It was hard for some of his subor
dinates to follow that idea. Thoy
wanted to stand and fight. Any man
hat coy'dn't get through his head
what was required of him, Joffre
swept out of the way. All of the
fine old boys that were in the army
for show or on a politicnl basis he
Gen . tJ offrE' '
WASHINGTON, May I. ltcsolu
long adopted nt a mass meeting
Idled by the lord mayor of Liverpool
kpresslng gratification for the "great
laterlal asshtanro which the t'ulted
fates of America brings lo the coin-
i'jn ciiubo," and for tho moral sup
urt woro received today nt the Btato
cpartniont from Ambassador Pane at
loudou.
COMMUNICATION.
Ii tho Kdltor:
The Oregon Kally Journal and Mall
rlbiino have been misinformed. My
Inter. .Mrs. A, W. Williams, has never
I en "missing." Instead of coming
visit mo In Medford. she decided to
to Los Angeles. I have received
1.0 letters from her since her arrival
the southern California flty. At
i time has her whereabout been
iknown to her family.
MltS. W. 1. WKST,
, Mqtlford, .Muy 1.
TO LEAVE TURKEY
WASHINGTON, Mn, 1 - ml
vires fi'tnn l-nriMi.tinii.' say mhiio
lin'tiilit'i's ot' tlu A iiuTU-ii n I'mtmv
"tiit't will li'itvi' n- oun n-. nii;ini;i'
mi'Mt v.tn lie .mule nnl ilmt oilier
(irolt.iMv ill for AMil.i").iliir
lIUi-, wlnt U rcrm rntiy t i iun tvplm
frwr, unit pfnlmbly will In aMe tn
tnixi'l in nlutnl ti month. It U mii1
thM lln' Turkish ovi"nn.r'ti h; s ;in
tmunrcil thai tin- rutmf f !.)!.. -tun
I u n-liit iiui lrt wren th V-nii
Stnt" mill Tmkt'v i- nt n war hum--uii'
uiul llu it AuuTiriin titirii- mill
iiMitiiti.uw should be tivnUut nt be-
I'otv.
INVITE BRITISH AND FRENCH
MISSIONS TO VISIT GOTHAM
V A SHIN i iTOX. Ma V 1 . - Mayor
Mil'lul aiul ft rommittoo of Xw
Vniki'i c.imo wtv today mid invit
ed hutli t In Mrtiih and Kivnrh huh--it'iu
i (hat rity beforo n'tiini-
I " to Kill imp,
JOHN A. PERL
UWDERTAKHB
l-n.ljr AslstnU
BH SOl'TH IIAKTI.VMT.
I'buno M. 47 JUid 47-J-2.
Austomol'tle Hoarse Service.
Ambulance Service. Coroner
put out of business with one wave
of his hand.
Jofi're had an infallible sense about
the right man for the right job. He
discovered Nivclle, the great soldier
now directing the French advance:
ho picked Pctain, who proved one of
the ablest commanders of the war;
he picked Foch, Senail and .Maun
onry. lie threw the dead wood right and
left. He upset many pet plans and
wrecked many personal ambitions, but
he saved France, and be saved us -no
less.
He and the Belgians made the
-leminn road to Paris live weeks long
instead of two, and when they ar
rived they came in the shape he want
ed them to come in and on the spot
be had picked out for (belli, nml
right and gave them the wallop that
did the business unit constituted the
greatest victory and the most de
cisive. Truly a Great Man.
Franco and nil the rest of tus hung
on that battle.
When he let go the flerman rear
guard never stopped running until it
got to the river Snnr in Alsace mid
only stopped there because officers
put steel chains neross the bridges
so there might be n chalice to reform
the routed brigades.
If Von lOuck's troops bad contin
ued to fight ill tho open, they would
have been knocked over and the war
might have ended that week.
He is n great man, this marshal
of France, but he is also kindly and
modest. lie lias tho iron jaw of the
unshakable victor, an expression of
the grimmest resolution ulways and
yet the most iiict, unassuming mil 11 -ner
and a temper nothing can ruffle
or disturb.
There never was a commander so
easy lo approach or so patiently
careful of the welfare of his men. II
is a strange combination.
He fights like a bulldog, but one
of his hobbies is to save human life
wherever he can. France never met
CTOMACHAiWnts
The Nation's Curse
SAN' FRANCISCO, May 1. How
the higher officers of the Russian
Baltic fleet at Helslngfos, the capitnl
of Finland, were killed during the
Russian revolution, how the admiral
himself though he had gone over to
the revolution, was also killed, and
how as the result of the revolution
Finland had regained all of her for
mer International privileges and
rights were related here today by 0.
S. Westman, shipbuilder of Helslng
fors, who has come here to purchase
supplies for his plant.
"During thev night of March 10 I
was awakened by shooting in the
streets," he said. "Fighting contin
ued tor two days, the sailors of the
Baltic fleet attacking their officers in
their homes. 1 have heard estimates
as high as 4U0 as the number of offi
cers killed.
"Admiral Pepenln, one of Russia's
ablest naval commanders, was among
those killed, although he bad gone
over to the new government, and was
the man who arrested Governor-Gen
eral Seyn, later turning him over to
the revolutionary chiefs. He was
hated by the sailors. Leaving his ship
the last day of the revolution he no
ticed a sailor did not salute him. He
reprimanded him, when the sailor
took his rifle and shot the admiral.
"The sailors had lists of all the of
ficers and their homes. They killed
most of the high officers and spared
the younger ones. The sailors did not
barm a single civilian and maintained
order In the city."
All laws passed since 1908, when
Finland was entirely ruled by Russian
officials, wore at once repealed, and
the Fins are to elect their own par
liament again, Westman said. .
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with greater good fortune than when
such a man came to direct her armies.
Wanted No lioroizing.
Wlien the anniversary of the bat
tle of the Mnrne came round many
persons wanted lo celebrate. Gen.
Joffre set bis face like flint ngainst
anything of that kind. He had two
reasons, that I thing ought to get into
history and stay there, lie didn't
want any heroizing of himself and he
said :
"Too many sons of France lost
their lives on that battlefield for us
to be mnking merry upon it."
Not Grant himself, file Silent Mnn
of History, was of fewer words Hum
this taciturn, dominating figure.
Even Lincoln was hardly of a kinder
heart.
Franco loves him with nn affection
far beyond nnytbing recorded nbout
Napoleon because he is more than
a brilliant und successful general, he
is n fine, generous and genuine man.
In nil France he is known by but one
name, "Good Old l'opn Joffre." I
think thnt is glory enom.li.
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