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OUR BOYS OR OUR DOLLARS.
The governor,, responding to the request of George
Rodgers, former Salemite, but now building ships at As
toria, for permission to give employment to the state
prisoners, paying them full wages and guaranteeing to
return them when wanted, and to make good citizens of
some of them at least, says he doubts the legality of us
ing the prisoners in competition with free labor. The gov
ernor may be right so far as the technicalities of the law
are concerned, but as a matter of fact they would not be
in competiton with free or any other labor, in the sense
of interfering with the earnings of such labor. Their em-
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BACKACHE KILLS!
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ple little backache." There isn't any
ployment would not make the wages of free labor any i?Ml,h lt,In"-v b? thc first warn-
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would give each ot them a handsome little start financial- iselt ,n the nv ot an incurable aw
Americans having had it brought home to them that
the war could not be won without ships have responded
splendidly and are building a merchant marine at a speed
never before dreamed of in all history. They have had
it impressed on them that in order to sustain the allies
and to supply their own armies in Europe that food con
servation was necessary and the response to this was a
voluntary curtailing of food consumption, and the using
of substitutes for such foods as were needed by the al
lies, that is an example to the world of nation-wide sac
rifice, such as was never before heard of. Not that the
deprivation has been to the extent of causing suffering,
but that the voluntary going without the foods we are
accustomed to is one of those smaller sacrifices that are
the more difficult in the making because they are small.
They have responded generously to the call for money
subscriptions, and over subscribed the amounts asked for.
Now, however, within about six weeks another call will
be made double that of any previous one, and we must
prepare to meet it, as we have met all other demands,
cheerfully, gladly, and with a heatiness that will show the
world that America is in the war with every dollar she1
has and everv man. until it is finished, and finished right,
We must bear in mind that this is not a fight for points,
but to a finish. Either German militarism must take the
count after a knockout blow, or the balance of the world
must take it. It is possible, perhaps probable, the war
could be won with the armies now in Europe, but there
is not a preponderance of man-power with the allies to
make this a certainty, and certainty is what we must have.
With the present forces tolerably evenly balanced it would
take years, and cost a tremendous ton oi lives Deiore
the Hun could be beaten. To avoid this, and to leave no
doubt as to the result, another call for men will be made
&oon that will enable us to send an army of five -million
men into France, or Russia if need be, and to thus over
whelm the Hun by numbers alone. This will shorten the
war, and it will reduce the death toll immeasurably. The
call for men will be made before that for money, but the
latter will come soon. So soon that it is time now to be
gin to weigh the situation and to get ready, those of us
Who do not have to go to the front, to do our part.
The call for six billion dollars means that each man
woman and child in the United States, if the money was
raised on a per capita base would have to subscribe $60.
There is a vast number that can give nothing toward the
good cause, no matter how much they may desire to do
so, and it is up to those who can, to subscribe enough to
make up this deficiency. The scales are balanced before
us. In one end of the balances is placed our boys and in
the other it is up to us to place our money. It is up to
us to say whether we will let the money side of the balance
swing upward, or more than counter-balance the end
with our boys in it. To maintain the army proposed will
require that every American, every lover of freedom go
deep into his or her purse and see to it that the money
end of the scales is the heavier. It is a question of bal
ancing our dollars against our boys, and there can be but
one answer. It will require that we deprive ourselves of
some things perhaps, but who will count that deprivation
against the loss of the brave young fellows who are offer
ing their all and counting not the cost? Oregon's quota,
it is stated will be about $: 57,500,000, and this means about
$40 per capita, this being less in this state on account of
:he greater wealth in the east. As it is, the sum is about
double any before asked, and as Oregon has gone over the
top on all other occasions of this kind, it is safe to assume
she will do so again. It means the quicker ending of the
war, the speedier coming of world peace and the eternal
destruction of l'russianism, and autocracy. An army of
five million striking autocracy's chin and a six billion
dollar sack striking it in the solar plexus at the same time
will do the work. Be ready when the call is made to put
the weight of your money into that solar plexus blow.
The railroads passing through Amiens are now out
of range of the German guns, permitting the operation
of trains, which is a great help to the allies.
ly when their terms were out, and at the same time would
prevent them taking so many useless vacations, and keep
ing so many searching the woods for them.. There is con
siderable merit in Mr. Rodgers' proposition.
Portland will fight the petition of the Portland Rail
way Light & Power company, filed with the Public Ser
vice commission asking for an increased rate for powrer
and lights. Ihe company contends that the increased
cost of labor, material and supplies makes higher rates
necessary to prevent loss. It looks as though there was
a determination on the part of those who have the regu
lating of public utilities to see that no company of this
kind suffers loss. This is a commendable spirit, but how
many firms, companies and businesses that are not so call
ed public utilities, are there that have to carry on their
business at a loss and wait for change of conditions?
Most of the newspapers in the country are in the latter
class, their expenses having doubled with no increase in
rites for advertising or subscription. There are many
other businesses in the same condition. Just why there
should be such tender solicitude lest some great corpor
ation should have a decreased dividend,, while the small
fry can pocket their losses and wait for better days, is
hard to account for on other than the theory that these
be the days when the big corporations are in the saddle
and are doing the riding.
The Germans officially admit the allies have made
gains in Picardy, but their admissions are not to say the
least, startling. The German headquarters gave out an
official communication from Berlin Saturday saying:
"There has been lively activity on the part of the enemv,
between the Yser and the Ancre." This is no doubt correct, J
but the activity on the part of the Germans discounts
that of the allies because the latter are giving the Ger
mans a boost to help them answer a hurry up call.
It is estimated the prisoners taken in the drive -on
the Marne and that in Picardy will total about 60,000, and
apparently the end of the catch is not in sight. Another
such a move as Hindenburg made in his "victory offen
sive" and his armies on the west front will be wiped out.
Not Jess than a quarter of a million of-his men are lost
to him since the drive began, and some estimates place
the number much nearer the half million mark. Those
put out of the fighting were his picked men, too.
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HE WIFE ::!
By JANE PHELPS .
A FRENCH MOTHER'S LETTER.
Rippling Rhymes I
" by Walt Mason
THE GIVERS.
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
ALL THE THIRD LIBERTY BONDS ARE NOW
HERE.
THOSE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL
AT THE BANK
"I'm proud of all my fellowmen; they dig, and dig,
and dig again, to help each worthy cause; they are a credit
to the race; they shell out coin with princely grace, like
Col. Santa Claus. One "drive" comes on another's heels,
and we are asked for many wheels, that we may squelch
the Hun; and men who haven't much to spare, whose
shelves are, peradventure, bare, keep digging up the mon.
We have to cut out this or that, a car, a picnic, or a hat,
that we may buy a stamp; we have Jo make the kind of
noise one makes when helping out the boys in far-off field
and camp. The man who earns his meagre pay by toil so
hard it makes him gray, will split his little pile ; the woman
who goes out to scrub, or works around a steamine tub.
chips in, with beaming smile. I know a man who wrought
ior years like Adam's yoke of sorrel steers, that he might
own his shack; at last, the final payment made, he went
some joyous tears and laid the burden from his back.
And then upon his mind it dawned that every man should
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ouy a Dona, and in our struggles share; and so he sought
the loan graft men, and put the mortgage on again, and
jaugned to see it there. The proper spirit is abroad; no
loyal man will hide his wad, while there's' a Hun about;
we do not contemplate a strike; the more we give the more
we like this thing of selling out
Anarchist Newspaper
Raided la Chicago
Ch'ieaso, Aug. 12. Chicago polico
niiil federal investigators todnv waded
through a mas of material collected
in a raid early Sunday on an alleged
anarchist newspaper plant. It was in
dicated further German plot trails had
been uncovered. Twelve have been held
for investigation. Officr aaid two of
them were member of the anarchist
propaganda group and that their corre
spondence would show German monev
foad been used to propagate general o
cial unrest and to foster opposition to
the war.
Among those lipid 1 Linda Jose
"the dynamite girl" arrested months
agro when found in the union station
here with a suitcase load of dynamite.
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The committee on public information
issues the following:
Mis. Wilson permits publicatio of
the following letter as illustrative of the
view point of the mothers of i'raiiw::
Madame Woodrow Wilson:
Washington, D. C.
Madame: It is from the mothers and
women of France that I send you these
words to prove our gratitude for thc
comforting and brotherly support that
these young Americans bring us with
such noble enthusiasm, and who aro not
afraid of leaving their families, their
country, and their hopes to comexto our
rescue. Alas! I, myself, have given my
belovud son to my unhappy and cruelly
tried country, and I can understand the
pain of those who see their sons zo so
for, so very far away. Tell them, those
mothers, those women with the sublime1
hearts, how near we are to them in
thought, and how moved we are at their
sacrifice. They are our sistsrs through
suffering and agonizing worries and we
are brought together tmuuga thc same
sorrow. That we will never forget. It
would make nw happy, Madame, to cor
respond with some of thoso of tliC30
mothers, if ,thcy will send mo a few
lines.
Very respectfully, Madam,?, I salute
you.
MADAME M. B.VEBON,
No. 1, Due du 14th Juillet, Pan-Basse
Pyrenees, France.
EIGHTY GERMAN PLANES
REPORTED DESTROYED
Result of Two Days Fighting
Officially Reported By
Air Ministry
London, Aug. 12. Destruction of
eighty Gorman battle planes and the
probable loss of 42 others which are
reported driven down out of control,
was claimed today in. the official com
munique issued by the British official
air ministry. The failure of 33 British
airplanes to report to their base also
is" noted. Destruction of the eighty
(torman planes occurred August 9 and
10.
(Intense air fighting Was been in
progress ovejr the battle area. Ton af
ter ton of bombs has been dropped by
the British air forces, principally up
on bridges and stations in the Skmimo
valley. All records for uso of small
anus ammunition in firing upon troops
from airplanes, have been broken.
In addition to the battle planes re
ported destroyed, the communique
claimed the destruction of two hostile
bombing machines, one of which was
a huge airplane carrying five engines,
laden with bombs. Two enemy mach
ines have been brought down by anti
aircraft &uns. (Jne British maejhine
previously reported missing has returned.
German Airship Downed.
London. Aug. 12. A German airship
W89 brought down in a battle off the
coast of Holland yesterday, in which
British light naval forces and aircraft
engaged German aircraft, the admiralty
announced todav.
"A Gorman airship was brought
down in flames north of Ameland (an
island in the Xorth ken, four miles off
the Dutch coast)," the statement said-
"British light forces, with aircraft
accompanying, reeonnoitercd the west
Frisian coast vesterdav morning. Ger
man aircraft attacked them,
motorboats are missing."
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CHAPTER 111.
But talk as she might Ruth (till
remained unconvinced. She loved Bri
an Hackctt; she would marry him and
be poor for a little while if neces
sary. Not that Ruth was unfeeling, or
that she did not love her aunt, the
only mother she ever hail known; bnt
she loved Brian better so she thought.
At least, she loved him in a different
way- But all her coaxing, her wheed
ling could not change her aunt' deci
sion. m
"You must choose between us," was
her invariable reply.
If Mrs. Clayborn'e hkd stormed and
been cross and disagreeable, as peo
ple were in the novels Kuth had read,
it would have been much easier, in a
way. But Aunt Laura was just as
kind and gentle aa she always had
been, save when thev were talking
of Brian then she simply gave Buth
her ultimatum. She was even gentle
and kind when Brian called. But it
was a cold, calm kindness which held'
him off so thoroly that he remarked
to Kttth:
"Mrs. Clayborne, your aunt, doesn't
like me."
"Why do you say that? She doesn't
dislike you; she told me so."
"What is it then? Does she freeze
me out because I am poor? For, freeze
me she does."
"It is because of nie, Brian. She
is fearful that I will be unhappy when
I get away from her, this lovely
home."
"It IS lovely, but Oh, a beautiful
homo doesn't make people happy! I
have known lots of people who had
Moly homes who fought likte cata
and dogs."
BUI AX MAKES A PROMISE.
"You don't quite understand, Bri
an," Ruth was anxious that her lover
should like Mrs. Clayborne, "Aunt
Laura; has been very indulgent to me.
I can't romember her ever denying
nie anything money could buy, and"
"Why should she? Uncle savs sho
is as rich as mud. She is old and you
are young, and I guess abe'd have a
hard time getting anyone else to stick
as close to her and tho place as yon
have. You told me, yourself, that you
never had been away from here "
"No, but Brian, I didn't have a
penny. My father was poor. Aunt
Laura was his sister, and her money
came from her hiubnnd, not from our
side of the family. So you see it was
awfully good of her to take me in
and treat mo as she has."
t "Sho ' has had value received,"
BritTn answered with all a lover's con
fidence in the virtues of the girl he
loves.
"Silly! I have given her nothing
but love. And oh, Brian! Mammy
wants to know if sho can 'go north'
with us. ion know she has taken
care of me ever since I was ten years
old."
"Why Ruth" Brian looked dis
tressed for a moment, then bright
ened at a thought, "she won't per
haps bo able to come right away, but
after a while we will send for her
that is, if your aunt can spare her."
"Why, Mammy ia mine! She be
longs to me!" Ruth had imbibed all
the southerner's ideas of the colored
servant. "She calls me 'her baby1
yet."
"You're my baby now." Brian
gathered her in his arms and kissed
her.
"You think I can have her soon?"
Ruth was still thinking of Mammy's
when Mrs- Clayborne had told her
Ruth would not be able to take her.
when she left to marry a poor man."
"Yes, very soon, my baby." Brian
had JiU kinds of faith in his quick
success. In a way, he was niecurial
lh believed fully that, because ho
was rather smart, perhaps clever in
some things, aaid attractive in ap
pearance, he was bound to 'get there
quickly,' as he express"d it when talk
ing of his prospects. That these very
things he valued so highly were of
little ot no use in the fight for finan
cial emoluments, he had yet to learn.
So, with the hopefulness of youth, he
promised Ruth that ahc should have
her old Mammy, as well as many other
things, very soon.
There was one trait Brian Hackctt
possessed, of which Ruth knew noth
ing because sho had never seen him
under thc conditions to call for its
expression; Brian was of aa intensely
jealous disposition. But he could
easily see that the young men of the
town held no attraction for Ruth, and
there was nothing else of which ha
could be jealous at this, period.
Al'XT LAURA'S STIPULATION.
When Ruth told her aunt that Briaa
had promised that she soon could have
Mammy Rachel, if she could spare
her, Mrs. Clayborne said:
"I'll let her go to yon any time yoa
can assure me that she will have a
good home. I cannot prevent your mar
rying whom you wish; I shall not at
tempt to, beyond letting you know
my wishes and the consequences, if
you go against them. But I can an4
will prevent any of my old servants
leaving the only home they ever have
known until I am positive that thoy
will be comfortable. And nowaday
an extra one in the family is some
thing of. a hardship for a poor man.
Remember, Mammy was born a slave,
right here ou this plantation. Of
course 'aha is free. Mr. Clayborne
freed them all But she is still a
child still looks 'to eomeone to take
care of her whilo she lives. No, she
cn'nnot go unless I KNOW she wili
be comfortable. Then she can come
to you if you still ineist in marry
ing before Brian has shown himself
capable of supporting you."
"He can support mo, Auntie! The
very idea of thinking he would ask
me to marry him if he couldn't! He
can't give me quite as much as yo
have, right away, but he soon will be
able to, then I'll send for Mammy."
Tomorrow--A Trip to New York.
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