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VILLA, THE FLEA ON THE MEXICAN DOG
Villa is again in the limelight, this time with apparently
a real following. One statement is that he has an army
of more than 5,000 with which he captured Ojinaga, trap
ped a Carranza army of 5,000 in a mountain pas3 and an
nihilated it, and is now marching on Chihuahua, which is
reported to be poorly garrisoned and at his mercy. It is
..- further claimed the rebel coalition has a total of 40,000
, men armed and ready to try final conclusions with Car
' ranza. It may be the latter part of this estimate is ex
7 aggerated, but that Villa has an army of 5,000 seems to
be true. If it isn't so large it at least is big enough to
whip any Carranza force that can be concentrated against
it. The Mexican bandit has had a career that makes the
plot of a dime novel seem like the catechis.m His ups
and downs, up almost to the head of the Mexican govern
ment and down to hiding alone and wounded in the moun
tains; up to having millions in money at his call and again
broke not only to bed rock, but as the old miner put it
"down to the 2,000 foot level;" up to leading a victorious
army where ever he wanted to go and down to fleeing
for life and not only once but so often that each phase
' seems almost a habit, he is again at the top. It may be
possible this time he will stay there. No doubt just now
his whiskers, Carranza, would be mighty glad to welcome
. one General Pershing and an American army a few hun
dred miles below the border, and it may be he would like
to see them at the Mexican capital. He would feel safer
with the hated "gringoes" than with his own loved people.
In the meanwhile "Pancho" is doing about as he pleases
with Carranza's soldiers, and the' Mexican character is
such that a brief success will send thousands of Mexicans
-flocking to his standard. Uncle Sam having a real job on
his hands will pay no attention to affairs south of the
border so long as the troubles stay on that side of the
' line. However if thene is German money behind Villa,
as is suspected, he may make some break across the border
in order to embroil this country with Mexico. When the
present war is over, and while we have an army all ready,
the time will be ripe for settling not only Villa, but other
' trouble-makers south of the Rio Grande.
. Our good old Uncle Samuel has been trying his hand
at the German game of advising the enemy. The differ
ence is that he is advising them for their own good while
the German advice is for the good of the German militar
ists. It started with' the dropping of thousands of copies
of President Wilson's speech some time ago, appealing to
the German people and showing them the world was not
at war with them, but with the system which ruled them.
These were scattered on German soil by French aviators.
Other speeches of the president were also distributed in
this manner and apparently they are bearing fruit. The
French with a follow-up play advertised that whoever
surrendered to the French armies with the password of
"Republic" would not be treated as prisoners of war, but
I would be" permitted to work with the .democracy of the
j world and for the freedom of Qermany. Recent dis
patches state that hundreds of German troops are sur-
rendering voluntarily on the west front, giving the pass-
word: "Republic." Advocates of a German republic are
conducting a vigorous campaign from a neighboring
neutral country and are making firffe progress. Once this
idea gets hold of the German people it will stick and grow,
and the kaiser may yet find his deadliest anemy is the
j kind of work his spies delight in, passing information to
the other fellows. If the German people understood the
situation, that the allies have no designs on the integrity
of German territory, and no desire to continue the war
beyond the point where all danger of it being started
again through the militarists being left in control, it
would not take long to reach an agreement. It is only
ignorance of the true conditions that makes them stick
to the kaiser and have the burden of debt piled still deeper
on their backs.
"Republic", is a mighty catchy password.
Margaret Garrett's
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By JANE 'PHELPS
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AN INTERRUPTION
Two
Loaves
15 Cts.
The loaf
satisfies;
News from Petrograd, if it can be called such, shows
either and both parties in control. Reports are so con
tacting that the reader may draw any conclusions to
please himself. However reading between the lines, and
keeping in mind the character of the soldiers on the two
sides, those backing Kerensky wanting to fight and those
behind the revolutionists wanting to go home and get a
piece ot land, the hnal result can be predicted with reason
able certainty. Kerensky should, from the returns so far
i, come out the victor. One thins is necessary to a final
settlement and that is that considerable blood should flow
now to prevent a greater hemmorrhage later. Too peace
f ul a victory would be a calamity to Kerenskv. If he crets
back through streets reddened with blood whose shedding
was caused by unpatriotic Russians ruled by German
gold, it will clinch his hold on the reins of government,
and if he remains in control he will eventually bring order
out of the black chaos now existing.
CHAPTER LX.
As I listened I was at first indig
nant that Bob sould discuss me, what
ho considered my faults,' with anyone.
Then I thought: Perhaps if he makes
John Kendall understand how much I
disapprove of all that takes him away
rroin me, it would make it easier tor me
the coming winter. Then they spoke
again:
" What did you think of the story J"
John asked, "now that I know 'what
you think of the writer, I am curious as
to tho real business side of the affair."
"Crude, but promising!" Bob had
replied, then as he launched into the
subject, dissecting the story 'as was his
fashion, I went into the dining room
and prepared a little supper. I did not
caro to entertain John Kendall, but I
did want Bob to have something, and
couldn't very well avoid asking John
also.
"There seems so little in one's life
without congenial companionship. Per
haps that is one reason I never have
married," John was saying when I re
turned to the living room after giving
Delia her orders. "I know my friends,
but who can know whetner a woman i
will prove an addition to one's happi
ness, or the reverse. Marriage is so often
a matter of propinquity only. They
meet, they desire each other, thby mar
ry. The end, rather tho outcome, misery
for life."
"Oh, you are a confirmed bachelor! "
Bob said rather ruefully. I thought then
censured myself for ailowing such au
idea to enter my mind.
' ' There are worse things in the world
than being a bachelor. Honestly Bob . , , , -TT
I don 't know a man whom I really envy '44444444,,44,,,..,
a married man I mean. That may
sound hard, but there are so many un- 4 .
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1 fal
The bread that's clean, pure,
good, snow-white; fresh every
day and always right is
11 It SAP
with the taste that
the loaf with the
flavor that gratifies.
Try it for toast in the morn
ins. At All Grocers.
CHMY CITY BAKING CO.
While calling on Americans to use corn instead of
wheat, to eat corn bread instead of the kind wre have been
used to, the food administration should also call on the
manufacturers of corn meal to "come down." Wheat in
Chicago is worth $2.25 a bushel and corn is selling at
around $1.18. Yet four is selling at five cents a pound
and cornmeal at eight. That is a thing of quite large pro
Samuel Gompers is too old a bird in the political game
to be caught with chaff. President Townley of the Farm
ers' Non-Partisan League yesterday called on organized
labor to join with the farmers to "help win the war." He
made a strong appeal to have the farmers and labor join
hands to fight everybody else. Labor leaders fear be
coming part of an organization which can, and perhaps
may overshadow theirs. The failure of the party in North
Dakota is not encouraging and Gompers can be depended
on not to get tied up with anyone who can then tie up
'labor.
While fixing up the school budget it would have pleased
portions and should not be overlooked. Making the corn! many good citizens if the expense of teaching any and all
meal cheaper will go far toward making it popular, and
will do more for food substitution than printed tomes
sent out by the ton, most of which are simply a waste of
paper and postal charges.
j foreign languages had been eliminated. It is a dead
waste of money. , :
Lord Northcliff is one Englishman who realizes the in
competency of many of those who have had the manage
ment of the war. He talks right out and asserts that
America will not stand for this kind of management, nor
will it. The time for putting men in place for past serv
ices is not now. What is demanded is that those placed
in power be put there, not for past services but for what
they can do now. . Results will be the only object, and not
reward for past services.
Camouflage is defined to be "the art of making things
.that are seemed to be things that ain't.'' The University
of Oregon has opened a course in this branch. The gov
ernor while passing on that flax superintendent bonus
might take a few preliminary lessons.
Ecuador, being shut out of the war in Europe, is hav
ing a small one of her own in the shape of a revolution.
The biennial state election seems a long way off, and
yet, in less than a year it will be over, and people will have
ceased to figure out how it happened.
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According to the latest reports Kerensky is eith
Petrograd or he isn't.
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FREE SPEECH
Free speech is certainly a blessing! With
out it life would be distressing. It is a boon
we long have cherished; for it our well
known fathers perished. It is the rock on
which this nation was built, to all men's
admiration. While I am privileged to chat
ter, I'm gay, no odds what is the matter.
While I can roast our statute makers and
call them mutts and boobs and fakers, I'll
stand for all the laws they re passing; my
safety valve is harmless sassing. Free
peech, sweet boon! We must not lose it,
2 ana tiierej.01'0 jiever slmnm abuse it. Snmfl
gents, who wish to awe or dazzle, are work
ing free speech to a frazzle ; they hand out sentiments ex
otic, they're saying things unpatriotic; they're toiling
like so many yeomen to dish up comfort to the foemen.
These skates, to whom tact is a stranger, will put our free
speech graft in danger. Because of guys who've no dis
cretion, no common sense in their possession, I may be
pinched when I'm unreeling a mild and harmless line of
spieling. So I maintain we should be stopping all ven
omous and rancid yawping. ( j
THE WOED.
congenial marriages that it makes mo
shy of the entire proposition. '
Bob made some inaudible reply and
I stepped to the door and askod them
nut thn HiiTM-ipr'Tii'lla linil t.nlrt mo was '
iTld nelTaK 1m had traveled six hun-
them alone. As usual their conversa- "j miie to see Vab great Twombly
tion had not interested mo, and I was Kails, and now, as he stood "on Ma
thankful when a few moments after- jone's precipice, gazing at that indes
ward I heard the front door close, and eribaMe vouma of korsmoo3hing water
I was again alone with Bob. . . , . n tlfw1 . !
Whr. xuaa tlm writer VOll SW for . .. ...j,. vvnax; u
ecstatic Tapturo, he knew his journey
naa not been m vain.
In vain he searched in is mind for
an adjective to fittingly describe the
mighty spectaclo.
"Thrilling no, that's not it. Noble
slamditious inspiring slosbun
derful grand- no, none of them seems
to just fit," mused the poet.
I Ll I I 1 JL . . L ... 1
T !, BiA T,ntl,;r tn von Mnr-' m mu U .u mm, .M
7 "'" - , ' . , . who, if it had not been for his promin-
hnrflnun vnn urn sn (iotftrmmea to ' ... . i..
ent ears, would have been quite insig
nificant, spoke.
"Majestic!" he breathed.
Oswald Leezicks seized his hand and
John Kendall!" I asked, and once more
I noticed the dull flush creep slowly
over Bob's neck and face before he
answered:
"A find of John's whom ho tought
promising so wanted my advice."
"It is strange that a publisher, an
editor even should want the advice of
a real estate man."
And He Did
3C jfc
garet, because you aro so determined to
dislike Jolin. sut 1 nave an interest in
his publishing house and from now on
I rather imagine I shall be as keen to
discover new writers as he is."
I
wrung it.
"Sir, I thank you! " he exclaimed.
"Hajestic! The word of words! Stran
ger, you have a soul that understands! "
I The other spoke again:
j "Yes, Majestic." And producing a
box from under is arm, he resumed,
"Want to buy a Majestic Cholera but
ton! Two for a quarter!"
I Oswald Leezicks grasped him by the
seat of the trousers and with one mighty
Kobert Garrett you don't mean to
tell me that you have gone into business
with a man I dislike, aud who is in
evevv way uisagreeauio to nie-
I have a small interest in bis busi
ness, yes."
"I shall not allow you to spend your
time with him because of your foolish
action. You are married to me, ana X
shall insist that you spend your time
Tavu me." . i,,, ,(. v;, ,.4.,; ki,
I shall spend my time as seems best I,," r: rn
to me." Bob replied quietly. "You have -
objected to my friends my mosF inno- qt John Kendallt
cent pleasures ever since our marriage. whv!"
I have begged you to share both friends j
and pleasures, but you have refused overspread is face. Could it
rlENRf' PULLDOWN ONE W,
OF THOSE 75nKLF.i fvM cSl
THflT SHELF FORME?
I !
M) HE DID
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V',
7.
it be possible no, she was simply a
writer. Had it been anyone else I might
Now, I shall do as seems best without
reference to you, but if you feel that
- n A ivmti. iiu
vuu eau u "T""" " - have but not a writer.
wile i Shan be more timn pieaseu. nw , f Bob
If being a companion means be- , . . . . ...
. ".. . ' , ...... anent his havme a small interest with
coming one or tl.at tfonemmn set you
are so tend ot," I interrupted, "I or time j g. aone m
suau ut'coiiiu a cuiiiiuiuim
Backing Heme Industry
Means Bigger Payrolls
g one of that Bohemian set you
, fond of," I interrupted, "I never f
lifinAinn a nntnnil " I
,i T3..'- t i.n nmw'eago station, t
s'poil my life, offend my friends
, f, f1:l" liko most women I
eago station, talking to this woman wri-
wondered how she
were pretty, etc. But un-
uever thought or be
ing jealous of her.
(To Bo Continued Monday)
V . v
Very well. Bui,
you to
because
have asked you to know anyone save
men aud women wnom you, anyone
should be proud to know. If you aro
too small to appreciate them I am not"
" ion iorget iioo xuai 11 is uoi-uubu
I love you so much that I have no care
nor thought for others. Then those ar
tists and bookish peoplo bore me, I
want vour society, not theirs.",
"Verv well. Margaret, we won't dis
cuss it further," and he turned to his t)le
paper, suddenly l rememoereu wiai
when I had asked him about the new want to 0(.casionallv
writer he nad seen, ne naa not toia
me if it were a man or a woman. So
I inquired:
"Was it a man or a woman you
Three hundred women in the north
west aro now employed as engine wip
ers and probably about the same num
ber of men have regular jobs as dish
wipers-
Salt Lake City reports Indians on
e warpath again. It was the Ute
who put the Ute in Utah and they just
want to occasionally renunii the coun
try that tin y are nor. all dead yet.
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Last week but one vessel above 1,600 tons was sunk by
submarines. This is cheering news, but it must not be
taken to mean the submarine menace is over. It is Ger
many's only hope and she will make desperate efforts to
increase the number of sinkings. Besides it is quite pos
sible the Germans are up to some scheme that caused a
temporary withdrawal of her U-boats from the danger
zone. Conditions are such that even with partial suc
cesses in Italy, and with Russia torn by dissensions weak
ening one of her strongest enemies, Germany dare not
admit that her submarine warfare is a failure. That hope
gone from her people and the consequent safety to the
allies, and especially America's transports, admitted, what
is there left for the German people to hang a hope of
final victory on? The leaders know this and will not
give up pushing the submarine activities to the limit.
When they do admit it peace is not far away.
These two earthquake shocks on Mount Rainer must
have rattled the citizens of Tacoma. A dispatch from
that village telling of them called the mountain "Rainer."
No individual making his home in
Oregon can say to himself "I have no
sleep interest in bigger payrolls for Oregon. ' '
In some wav or nthpr pwrv TArnn
. r""--
in this state is benefited by circulation "
of payroll money.
In past years, and even now, Oregon 'a
effort has been principally directed to
marketing the natural resources of the
state and cavinc no nttt
ing up payrolls.
Consumers and merchants must give
preference, on terms of equal price and
quality, to products of our factories.
If the manufacturers of Oregon can
grow to a size that will enable them to
reach out into other states, the increas
ed business means bringing just that
much more money into the state in
which the payroll is maintained.
We have formed a habit of thinking
that the lumber industry is the back
bone and ribs of all our prosperity, and
yet several single factories, in compara
tively smau eastern cities carry more
people and pay more money in pay
rolls in tiie manufacture of one auto
mobile, than our entire lumber industry
of Oregon amounts to.
This is true of the Overland Automo
bile company it is true of several
others. Several auto tire factories may
be similarly compared.
And yet, if our lumber was diverted
to finished products made here, think '
of the thousands that would be added
to our population to obtain the neces
sary workers.
Oregon people must get in back ot
Oregon products and demand them from
merchants in all lines of trade.
OurWapt 'Ads arc
theyarebound tobnngrfbe
Results uou wont
Try Otiq loMorrow
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