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September 7, 1917
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TAKING THE RIGHT VIEW
MY HUSBAND AND I
By Jane Phelps '
TOO GREAT A STRAIN.
It is gratifying to learn the strike set for today in
Portland shipyards, has been postponed. Under normal
conditions every man has a right to quit work when he
pleases, and with or without giving any reason therefor.
Under our system of government every man is his own
judge as to when he shall work and when lie idle. That
is his own affair. There come times however when this
right is merged in the duty he owes his country, the rights
of the whole people collectively to have the use of his
services for the public welfare, his own as much as any
of the others. Such an occasion now confronts every
person in the United States. As a whole people we are
engaged in a war for a common purpose, and the individ
ual right, for the time being, becomes secondary to the
collective right. That is where Russians have not yet
learned their duty. Given freedom suddenly they have
the mistaken idea that they are absolutely free to do as
they please. That is why the soldiers have many of them
deserted in the face of . the enemy and permitted that
enemy to gain advantages as against the whole people.
When a man joins the army he loses his right to judge
for himself what he shall do, and must do the things his
commander judges best for the whole people. All of us
realize that a soldier cannot "strike" when the job does
not suit him. To permit that would render the defense of
the country an impossibility.
While the citizen employed in his usual pursuits can
under normal conditions quit work when and where he
pleases, this right is no longer strictly speaking his. He
who quits work necessary to the safety of the country is
just as guilty of desertion morally as the soldier who
disobeys and walks away from his work.
Ships are just now badly needed. They are as im
portant as men and munitions of war. Without them the
work of carrying on the war is impossible. The men en
gaged in shipbuilding are not working simply for this or
that employer, but for the safety of the whole country,
and because of this they have no right to quit that work
because of -wages or hours that can be adjusted satis
factorily without such quitting. We are pleased to note
that the men in the Portland yards have taken a broader
view of the matter, are going ahead with their work and
doing their full duty as citizens. The country appreciates
it and the men themselves will be glad later that they
took this course, the only one they could take and remain
loyal citizens.
Mr. Hoover has enlisted ah army under his banner
that can't be beaten. He has organized a force of thous
ands of housewives, to report as to prices charged by re
tail merchants in every city and town in the United
States. These prices will be sent to a board under Mr.
Hoover's direction, which will say whether they are rea
sonable or otherwise. Merchants who are making only a;
fair normal profit will not be disturbed, but where there
is a disposition to take advantage of the war to boost!
prices above what they should be, means will be found to!
call the public's attention to the fact, and it can be trusted;
to do the rest. It is not purposed to interfere with thej
retail business further than to guard the consumer
against the too greedy merchant, should there be such, j
Yesterday a nice looking rain cloud drifted up from
the west about 1 o'clock, that looked like it meant real
business. However when old Dame Nature, dust browned
and arid, turned a beseeching face skyward, that measley
cloud just put a few freckles in the dust browned face
aforesaid, and passed on.
Many of the schools of the east are dropping the study
of German. In many others where the study is continued,
the pupils refuse to take it up. Some teacher suggests
that the study should be continued because the boys will
need it when they march' into Berlin. It is hardly prob
able the Americans or any others will march into Berlin,
but if they do it will not be the boys who are now study
ing in the eighth or ninth grades. The war will be over
before they are old enough to take part in it, if from no
other cause, from the financial exhaustion of the coun
tries engaged in it. Laying aside any conditions pertain
ing to the war there is great doubt if any language other
than English should be taught in the public schools now,
or ever.
The schools are primarily to give every American
youngsters a chance for an education in English. Foreign
languages are for consideration by the individual rather
than by the state. The strongest objection to the teach
ing of German, and it would apply to any other language,
io tiiat ns LdugiiL in Lite puunu scnuuis n gets uie pupil
nowhere. Generally the teacher is not a German, and the
pupil after finishing the coursescan neither read, speak or
write German intelligently. . There may be isolated cases
where this is not true, but as a general thing it is the
fact. For the next several years the burden of taxation
is going to rest heavily on all. To make this as light as
possible we should do away with all frills, whether of
dress or education. Dispensing with German in the pub
lic schools will make a saving and one that will hurt no
one. Until the debts due to the war are paid off, the good
old English language is enough for the American youth
to absorb, and quite enough lor the American parents to
pay for.
It works considerable of a hardship on those situated
along the river and whose only means of shipment is the
boats, that the latter should be compelled to stop running
during the busiest shipping season. However it seems
this cannot be avoided as the low water has;:to be tarken
advantage of in making needed alterations to the locks at
Oregon City. Notice has been sent out that the locks will
be closed and the boats forced to stop running on and
after September 19th. It is stated by the government
engineers that it will take about six weeks, possibly two
months to complete the work, and of COUrse the boats Will j or who have certainly made hira miser-
be laid oil dunng that time. The management of the
steamer line tried to devise some plan by which one boat
could be kept running above and another below the locks
during the closed season, but found the expense of trans
fer too great to permit this.
CHAPTER CXLIII.
Then there tame a day when I could
not rise from my bed tlio 1 tried until
1 fainted. Mother came up to see why
I had not come down to breakfast and
found me lying on the floor. She and
Norah revived me then she sent for the
doctor.
"There seems to be nothing partic
ular the matter," he told mother after
an extensive examination. "I guess it
is just a nervous breakdown. Rest and
nourishing food will bring her out all
right," and patting me on the hand in
ins fatherly way he and mother left inc
with Norah. I had know the doctor all
my life, and m a way his friendly little
pat comtorteu me.
"Shall I write Tom you are ill?"
mother asked when she eaine back.
"No, indeed! just let he lie quietly
a few days. I 'll be all right, and 1 turn
ed my lace away that she might not
see the tears of weakness.
"Very well dear. It shall be just as
you say. But if you want him tell me,
won't you?"
"Yes." I answered. "If I wanted
him." Uod alone knew how I wanted
him. But 1 hud come to the point where
I believed he never would .take me back.
I had completely lost hope that he
would forgive me; and as time had
passed 1 hud realized to a certain ex
tent the seriousness of my actions, es
pecially that of my relations with Carol
Blackloek. And while I knew myself
innocent of tiny unfaithfulness, I saw
how it must look to Tom or anyone
who knew what I had done.
Unavailing Regrets.
I hated my clothes, many of which
had been paid for with Curol Bluck
loek's money. And until I was taken
sick I wore the simplest things I had.
Some of the extravugant things I had
not even unpacked. I was ashamed to
let mother see them. So I wore only the
clothes that lorn might well afford to
give mo -instead of the ones for which
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THE LAST STRAW.
( Translated from the Hindu)
For a thousand days and a thousand
nights had Ashbar Bey, king of rug
weavers, laboied on his masterpiece.
And now at List it was finished, a thing
' cf beauty and a joy for everybody.
1 had lost my home and my husband. ' ine eyes ox sustiua Uhenn, the rug
Perhaps there are people who will niereuuut, widened as ne gazed,
not understand how 1 can say such a Allah be praised! ho cried devout
thing. How it can be possible for a ' ly- " The rug is indeed a ycaballahl
woman to lose her home and husband 1 ( Jim-honey J. I have a rich American
because of her love for finery. But there 1 customer oil hand, a uiuu who loves rugs
are manv other who WILL understand.
who either have lost their usband's love
The lower house of congress yesterday, after ten hours
allowed for debate passed the greatest revenue raising
bill ever passed in the world. It provided for the raising
by bond issue of $11,538,945,460. Of this vast sum it is
purposed to loan the allies at the rate of $500,000,000 a
month. The bill passed without a dissenting vote. This
should be a pointer to the Prussian miliarist as to whether
America is united in its determination to prosecute the
war to a finish. It should - counteract the exhiliration
caused by the capture of Riga.
It is suggestive at least, that when the office of the
Socialist Editor Germes who has been identified with the
I. W. W's more or less, was raided, he asked permission
to send a telegram, and this being permitted he wired
Senator LaFollette.
A barge crossing the Gulf of California and carrying
200 Mexican cavalry was wrecked a few days ago in a
sudden storm. It sounds much like a story from the
danger zone. However in this case it was not a sub
marine, but a real air-raider that caused the damage.
Now the proper thing to do is to hope it will clear up
until after hop picking is over. At the same time the dry
spell might continue long enoukh to cover the state fair.
The managers of Riverside Dip have a good eye for the
weather. They ordered the Dip closed yesterday, and in
the afternoon it couded up and a gentle sprinkle was fol
lowed during the evening and night by a real rain. It had
been so long since Jupiter Pluve had used his old sprink
ling pot in this section that he was awfully chary about
beginning, but he got down to work all right.
LADD & BUSH,! Bankers
Established 1863
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
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by Walt Mason
ONE LITTLE HELP
I buy the helpful magazine, and read it bv
the evening lamp, and then attach a stamp
that's green, a little sticky one-cent stamp.
1 hand it to a postal clerk, and to some sol
dier it will go, and maybe cheer the hours
that irk, and hearten him to face the foe.
And thus, in divers little ways, we all can
help the soldier lads, who'll spend their ar
dent, toilsome days far, far from home, in
foreign grads. "Her is a magazine from
home," a soldier cries, and wipes a tear;
"some fellow with ?. thoughtful dome, in
God's own country, sent it here." My aunt.
whene'er she has a elznee, does Red Cross
sewing with a bunch of kindly dames who used to prance
to bridge whist game, pink tea or lunch. The hands that
used to flash the cards now play the needle fro and to,
and reel off linen, yards and yards, which, is a goodly
thing to do. We all can help, if we'll but try, if not in
large ways, then in small, and comfort soldier boys who
sigh where surgeons walk the whitewashed hall. j
If t;
able, and ruined his business career by
their desire to wear expensive and beau
tiful clothes they could not afford.
Day after day as I lay in bed grow
ing weakeT and weaker I thought of
these things. Day after day I fretted
for Tom, for the feel- of his - arms
around me, his kisses on my lips. And
when each night closed me in ana he
hnd not come, 1 lay staring at tho ceil
ing, hopeless, almost praying to die. Yet
not quite desiiing'to go because of the
children. But I. had grown so weak that
they seemed far off, and unreal. Only
the loss of my husband was real. Only
Tom seemed to matter.
Mrs. Werner Pleads.
There came days when for hours I
seemed to drift away from everyone
When I would come back with a sort
of start to find mother bending over
me her eyes tilled with tears.
" Let 1110 send for Tom? she pleaded.
"No, he wouldn't come."
"Let me try?" she coaxed. "I. must
do something Sue. The doctor says there
is nothing the matter with you save
something he cannot help. That you are
worrying yourself to death. Do let ine
send for your husband. No matter what
has separated you his place is here
now. "
But I was stubborn and still refused
the permission she sought. She had giv-
en her promise never to send lor nun
without my consent, and I knew she
would keep it at least I believed she
would.
I had not seen the children for days.
Mother Van the only one who now cnine
into my room. Then I did not remember
her. They tuld me afterward that for
days I lay either unconscious, or quiet
ly whispering of my love for Tom, and
my desire that he forgive me.
Then one day I opened my eyes to
find Tom standing by tho bed. I thought
it an hallucination, and yet 1 stretched
out my hands to him.
"Tom, dear Tom," I murmured as
he took them in his firm grasp and then
leaned over and kissed me, while I felt
something wet and warm drop on my
face. "Have you come to see me dief
I'm glad, Tom, please don't leave nie
again.
"Xo, dear, I" never leave you
again," he replied, then the old doctor
held a glass to my lips, and after Tom,
still holding my hands, I drifted off to
sleep.
When I awoke Tom was still beside
me. Afterward mother told me that 1
had slept for hours, but that he would
not move from his cramped position for
fear he would disturb me.
"Do you know me, Hue?" ho asked,
again bending over me.
"It is Tom," I replied, then again
fell asleep.
Tomorrow The Xew Life.
even more than ho loves his wife and
only son. I will fetch him."
And he departed and returned anon
with a certain Bahib Kelly, from Now
York, whoso eyes ulso grew wide as
he gazed.
"Oh boy I" he cried in the quaint
language of his laud. That is a wizz, a
corker! I'll give you fifty thousand
bones for it and no questions asked. '
Ashbar Bey reverently smote the
ground with his forehead.
"You must be a king in your na
tive luud," lie said. "Take it, and
adorn your 1 a luce amidst a thousand
fabulous works of art.'
"Well," said Kelly, as he tucked the
rug under his arm, "I don't know about
no pulace, but 1 got a champeen race
horse that can pass onything on the
road, and this little run '11 look pretty
well draped over the side of her stall."
"Blishmallal" (Well I'll be darned),
said Ashbar Bey, and fell over in an
unconscious heap. An hour later he ap
plied at his brother's chewing gum
factory for an inglorious and permanent
job as assistant taster.
Kiired Lover and
Then Suicided
Oakland, fal., Sept- 7. After shoot
ing and killing Albert Williams, age
3."), Mrs- Catherine Vickies, age 28, to
day held one of Williams' fellow
workers at bay with a revolver while
she drank a phial of chloroform.
She fell unconscious to the ground
beside Williams' body.
The murder and suicide occurred in
the wagon yards of a bill posting com
pany, where Williams was employed.
Mrs". Vickies hnd waited forty minutes
before Williams appeared.
I Those who have been watching since
ux latest Wisconsin eastigation for the
kaiser's face to turn as red as his hands
finny be gratified, but it will be wrath,
not shame, that will do the coloring.
And He Did
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Hood Iiivcr, Or., Sept. 7.
A gopher which burrowed into
the main canal of the Fanners '
Irrigation company, enuxed a
washout today, tied up the en
tire irrigation system and forc
ed two score of farmers to drop
their work to repair the break.
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STOMACH TROUBLE
One dose convinces.
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and other reliable druggists
The career of Mayor Thompson may
well bo emulated by all American
youths who dc not expect to be presi
dent some day.
On 'Wheatless Days'
Eat
POSTTOASTIES
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WHEN WOMEN BANK
It is then that they apply strict business prin
ciples to the art of making or saving money.
Without the system and safety of a bank ac
countit is a complicated matter to keep track
of and regulate incoming and outgoing money.
With a Checking account at the United States
National Bank for household, business or indi
vidual purposes, one gains an automatic record
of every cent received and spent.
We shall be glad to exfdain and demon
strate just how the pay by-check
method .applies to your requirements.
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