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11UUI) IllYEi: ULuU'IEK. THURSDAY. .H'XE '21 UHS No War Savings Stamp Meetings on June 28thj TO THE PEOPLE OF HOOD RIVER: Last week you received a postal card bearing: the President's message and proclamation for June 28th as National Thrift Day. This postal card also provided for general mass meetings to be held at the various school houses in the districts on the night of June 28th, 1918. On account of the very thorough house to house canvass in Hood River County and the very busy harvesting season, the Executive Committee thinks it will not be necessary to hold these mass meetings. Do not let this interfere in any way with your pledges. Pledge yourself to the limit of your ability to pay, for Hood River must fulfill its quota of War Savings Stamps just the same as any other campaign which has heretofore been carried on. If the solicitors have not had the opportunity to see you and secure your pledge, make an effort to get information and sign your pledge before June 28th. This is important. Pledge your limit. HOOD RIVER MUST NOT FAIL. EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE, HOOD RIVER COUNTY NATIONAL WAR SAVINGS COMMITTEE. Courtesy of DeVVitt Motor Car Co. and Molden, Huelat, Sathcr Co. FINNISH COLONY EVIDENCES LOYALTY The loyalty of Hood Kiver's Finnish polony, families of which reside on ranches noted for their evidence of progresive methods, is Hhown by sons in the service. Five men, as follows, are already in the service: Arvo and William llukari, Toivo and Waino An nala and Kino Jukku. A. A. Hukari left Tuesday with a national army quota for Camp Lewis. The members of the Finnish colony follow with interest the struggle be tween the "White Guard" and the "Red Guard" in their native land. Faith is placed in the ultimate triumph of the latter over the "White Guard." characterized as hired thugs and strike breakers, who are armed by German weapons and officered by "Finnish Chasseurs," who are trained in the army of the kaiser. In explanation of the struggle in the homeland, the following communica tion, written by Santeri Nuorteva, rep resentative in the United States of the People's Republic of Finland, to a Fin nish paper, was submitted to the Gla cier : There seems to be considerable mis apprehension about the significance of so called "White Guard arid "Red Guard" struggles in Finland and I hope you will grant me, as representative of the government of the People's Repub lic of Finland, the courtesy of your columns to make clear certain aspects of the situation there. Our govern ment has been temporarily defeated by the Finnish aristocracy in conjunction with the German army. But the tight is not ended. The great majority of the Finnish people awaits the lirst op portunity to drive out the German in vaders, and the day of reckoning will come soon. It is impossible to understand events in Finland without considering the so cial and political background. Up to l'.K)f there was no popular representa tive in the government. The great mass of the people were totally with out political rights. Under the old feudal constitution most of the produc ing population were in a condition of virtual serfdom. Tenant farmurs were compelled to yield the wealthy over lords payment in labor. The inherited Swedish - speaking aristocracy, with feudal class privileges, were "able to continue under the old comititution mediaeval forms of oppression. In spite of this the Finnish people are probably the most literate in the world. Ninety-eight per cent of the population can read and write. A popular culture has grown up as part of the labor movement, along with a strong cooperative organization which is vital in the life of the people. In Finland, as in most of the liussian border provinces, the laW movement Iihs come to the fore as the only organ lzed force opposed to and seeking to crush the feudal system of privilege. The revolution "of 1905 established a single diet in Finland, bused on uni versal male and female suffrage, with proportional representation. In the first diet elected under this democratic franchise the Socialists secured 40 per cent of the members, by far the largest block among the various par ties. This strength was increase! in ' successive elec tions, and in 1916, the last legal election, the labor party se cured a clear majority in the diet. Most of the laws designed, to relieve the feudal oppressions under which the I great mass of the people suffered were i vetoed by the czar, through the intlu- j ence ot the aristocracy, which was in, close contact with the Russian bureauc racy. Finland was a grand duchy of Russia. The czar meanwhile was at tempting the Russification of Finland through a system of military terror ism, which was being opposed by the strong Socialist organization. There was a clause in the Finnish constitution providing for the indepen dence of the country when the govern ment of the cazr ceased to rule. In accordance with this, after the down fall of czarism, the diet declared Fin land independent. The aristocracy, seeing in this the end of their privi leges, managed to persuade the then Russian government to dissolve the diet. This wholly illegal action was carried out by the sending of Cossack troops to llelsingfors to crush the rep rescntaives of the Finnish people. New illegal selections were held, in which for one reason or the other large numbers of electors did not take part, and a so called "government" was formed, precursor of the "White Guard government" of today. Recent dispatches from Finland show that im mense election frauds were perpe trated in that election in order to de feat the labor party. It has been maintained by the supporters of the "White Guard" that it only recently became pro-German and then merely because they were faced by the neces sity of "saving their little farms and factories" from anarchy at home. The fact is that the junker elements in Finland, forming the "White Guard" leadership, were covertly plotting for German intervention in Finland from the early days of the war and actually sent thousands of r innish young men to Germany to lie trained in the Ger man armv. loday the White Guard leaders are openly boasting of this. In the issue of "K-aleva," the official "White Guard" newspaper, of March 2 last, now on my table, appears a copy of a laudatory telegram sent to the (ierman chancellor by the "White Guard" prime minister. It begins: "On this day, when the Finnish Chasseurs', who have been drilled in Germany, are returning to their fath erland to fight on Finland's soil for the freedom and independence of their country, the government of Finland is sincerely impelled to express to his maiestv. the German emperor, and to the imperial government not only its admiration of the glorious deeds of the German people and their illustrious leader, but also the gratitude, welling from the bottom of the heart of the Finnish people because of all which Germany has done for our country and for the Finnish 'chasseurs' who three years ago today voluntarly entered the military service in Germany." The coup whereby the Democratic diet was dissolved angered the Finnish people. As time went on they saw that reaction was in the saddle. Revo lution was in the air, and late in Janu ary of this year a great uprising of the people took place, beginning in the general strike. The "White Guard government" fled to the sparsely set tled northern part of Finland, leaving the capital and all the agencies of gov ernment, and all the popular manufac turing districts in the hands of the people's forces. A People's Republic was declared, and a provisional govern ment formed, which has apointed me its lepresentative in the United States. This government was immediately rec ognized by the Soviet government of Russia, At the time of this revolution the "White Guard" was formed, composed mostly of hired thugs and strike breakers, armed with German weapons and officers by the "Finnish chas seurs above referred to, trained in the army of the kaiser. This "butcher guard," as the Finos call them, would have had no chance to impose its will against the desires of the great mass of the Finnish people. Fighting alone, it was doomed. Hut the German gov ernment, spurred by the desire of making Finland an outpost of German imperialism and securing a road to the Russian arcti c ports of Kola and Ar changel, which would give Germany control over Scandinavian shipping, heeded the call of the Finnish junkers and sent 40,0(10 men. The forces of the provisional government, a hastily raised voluntary army of upwards of 100,000 men, poorly armed and more poorly fed, is no match for the German war machine. Finland has fallen. To day the "White Guard" is giving the German officers lists of their political opponents.and the Germans are slaugh tering the proscribed men and women by thousands. In this primitive fashion the system of Sulla, the "Whites" hope to manufacture a majority. For many weeks there have been stories in the papers about "Red Guard" atrocities. Many of these have been exaggerations and many down right lies. They have come mostly from German sources and reactionary Swedish sources and from pro-German "White Guard" leaders who up to a few weeks ago seemed to be able suc cessfully to camouflage their real pur poses from many honest American rep esentatives with whom they were in contact. That there have been killings by the "Ked Guard" that should have been avoided, 1 do not deny. In any country in revolution a certain ruffian element, devoid of principles, inevitaply bobs up to take advantage of the situation for plunder. The provisional government leaders have taken stringent measures to put down such persons. Hut there is also another element of honest per sons who, in the heat of revolutionary passion, sometimes see red. If the United States had inherited a foreign speaking aristocracy who in this war betrayed American democracy to the German military power, it is possible that here and there groups of Ameri cans would give short shrift to these rascals. But from the start the forces of my government have been under strict or ders to give "White Guard" captives all the rights of organized warfare, though the "White Guard" leaders have openly boasted that "Red Guard" captives were to be slaughtered as "bandits." The producing classes of Finland, strongly orangized, trained in over 10 years of parliamentary achievement, desire to establish in Finland a cooper ative commonwealth, without special privileges or political or economical exploitation of any kind. They are op posed by the aristocracy, leading the junker forces of Finland, willing to ac cept German vassalage to perpetuate their feudal control and keep the mass of the people in chains. The labor movement in Finland, which welds the great mass of the people to gether, is the onlv organized demo cratic movement opposed to mediaeval junkerism and German control. It is the form the democratic movement takes in Finland, as well as in Russia, and a necessary form. In Finland pud Russia the ideas of social and economic democracy are just as vital to this de mocratic movement as were the ideas of political democracy to the democratic movement in America in 1776. Surely the tolerant American people will be patient with the demo cratic movement in Finland and Rus sia. The American states, after they achieved their independence, went through six years of political chaos before they achieved stability. The much more far reaching economic and social readjustments which the great mass of the Russian people desire, cannot be accommplished throughout that great population, in that huge territoy, in a few months. In Finland our task is somewhat easier, because the foundation has been laid in over 10 years of parlimentary organiztion. Only a continued German occupancy and a German peace can keep Finland safe for autocracy. PROF. JL T HORNER VISITS LOCAI. FRIENDS Prof. J. B. Horner, of O. A. C, ar rived here last week to interview pros pective students of,the; college. Prof. Horner is endeavoring to interest young high school graduates in a course at college before enlistment. "The government is discouraging young men from enlistment before they have taken advantage of courses offered at institutions of higher educa tion," says Prof. Horner. "We hope that we can get as many of the young men, just leaving high school, as pos sible, into our courses. " Prof. Horner, who was a guest of W. F. Larawaygwhile (here, said on his departure for The Dalles Saturday : "Oregon is in the world war. Young men are nobly responding to the call, and youngjwomen are filling the posi tions of trust made vacant. But to count most for their country they must he thoroughly trained for the crisis. "Uncle Sam accepts the trained and the untrained. He places the trained in command with handsome salaries and marvelous opportunities. But the untrained do the bidding of others, who by nature may be their inferiors. They may attain eminence, yet the road is longer and more arduous for them. Hence one trained soldier is found to be worth manv untrained sol diers. "Many a high school graduate is saying to himself, 'Shall I go .to col lege, or shall I enlist at once for mili try service?' The U. S. Commissioner of Education answers thus : 'The war department has made it possible to do both. You serve your country by going to college.' "How is this to be done? The sec retary of war on the 8th of last month answered, viz: Enlistments will be purely voluntary, but all students over the age of 18 will be encouraged to enlist. The enlistment will constitute the student a member of the army of the United States, liable to active duty at the call of the President. It will, however, be the policy of the government not to call the members of the training units to active duty until they have reached the age of 21, un less urgent military necessity compels an earlier call. "This new policy aims to accomplish a two-fold object; to develop as a great military asset the large body of young men in college, and to prevent the unnecessary and wasteful depletion of the colleges through indiscriminate volunteering, by offering the students a definite and immediate military "INVINCIBLE" TRIPLEX POWER SPRAYER Manufactured in the northwest to t .'t the conditions, strongly built, plenty of power and displacement, and fill do your spraying thoroughly and cheaph. Capacity eulllcieiit to maintain four lines of hose, with two noz :les each, operates two guns, uniform pre-sure evenly maintained at any point. The Triplex Pump guaranteed test (100 pounds working pressure. Send for catalog, and see demonstration. J. E. FERGUSON, AGENT, HOOD RIVER, OREGON statu;. Z "Tic colleges and universities of Oregm are promptly furnishing their Quota! of trained men and women for the war. The Oregon Agricultural col lege las already sent about 1200 men and vomen, and will soon send as many more. To accomplish this, a large stu dent body is necessary. Last year mere were registered tn all U.NOO stu-dents-the following having come from ! HoodRiver: Frances Castner, H. L. j Cooptr, Glen Corey, Myrtle Husbands, I E. H. Shank, W. O. Sheppard, Esther i Husbinds and R. H. Waugh. Some of i thesewill return, and ten others have1 signited to come with them. . , MR. APPLE GROW ER Dor't place your order for a grading j machne until you have seen the 1918 mode1 CUTLER. A new sorting table j is usel, which will rdduce your cost of i sortin,' by 40 or 50 per cent. The fruit i is moed across in front of the sorters and isrevolved slowly so that the sort- j er cai easily see any defects and only j picks out the culls and lower grades, i The redominant grade passes auto-j maticilly into the grader without any handing by the sorter, and it is this ! fact vhieh results in the maximum I output per sorter with minimum cost per bo;. Don' buy a machine just because its first cist is low. It's very easy to drop $i in wages by using an ineffici ent gniler. CUTLER GRADERS pay for themselves in a 6hort time. We vill have a demonstration in Hood liver in the near future, notice of whicl will be given in the papres. CUT.ER MANUFACTURING CO. For Wiit and For Sale signs at the Glacier i'fice. U. S. TREASURY CERTIFICATES JZf It is expected that the Fourth Liberty Loan will he for $6,000,000,000 and that the bonds will be offered late in October. In order to provide war funds, in the mean time, and in order to provide investors with a present investment that can later be converted into Liberty Bonds the United States Treasury is now offering Treasury Certificates bearing 4 interest. These certificates are in denominations of from $500 to $100,000. The first issue will be dated June 25l.li and subsequent issues will follow every two weeks. These certificates are especially desirable for those who may now have funds which they plan to invest in (he next Liberty Loan and we shall be Rlad to furnish further information to anyone who may be interested. 3 c Butler Banking Company MEMHER FEDERAL RESERVE SYSTEM o