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leeember 6, 1918 . 8?8?
ffiHjj CHARLES H. FISHEB
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JUST OIL.
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Just before the cessation of fighting abroad, are men
warned that among the essentials in which conservation
was actively necessary oil was the most important. The
quantities of that precious fluid needed, with its by-products,
for war purposes, made imminent a dangerous
shortage.
Dangerous, indeed, When we consider the varied uses
of oil even in the normal state of peace. Beginning with
light and heat, its usefulness continues" through a range
of industries and domestic purposes which it staggers
the mind to contemplate.
Of its usefulness in the war Earl Curzon said, "The
allied cause floated to victory on a sea of oil." A French
senator declared that "the Germans expected to win be
cause they controlled great coal deposits, but the allies
won with oil, it being a victory of automobiles and rail
roads." The world looks mostly to the United States for its
supply of oil because American methods of drilling and
manufacture have placed us at the head of the industry.
American lamps blazing with American oil light
Hindu temple, African hut and Chinese workshop, replac
ing rags soaked in native oils whose murky, inefficient
gleams gave incentive to lengthen the "short industrial
day. A true bringer of light to them that sat in darkness
to it many of the ancient peoples of the earth owe their
firs real advance toward modern development.
Miss Mabel Wharton said in a recent article: "If oil
has meant light for the remote peoples, it has meant for
us the combustion engine and all it implies -the automo
bile, the airplane; the motor boat and hundreds of mach nes
hat do everything from crossing the ocean to turning the
buttons on our coats. Thus oil has spread throughout
the world a lubricant for the wheels of civilization."
THE POSTAGE REPEAL.
That the letter postage will drop from three cents
an ounce to two next July, if the new revenue bill is
passed in its present form, is most satisfactory news.
But perhaps the best of the postage provisions is
that of abolishing the zone rate for newspapers and
magazines. The country, according to the bill, will be
divided into two zones, instead of eight. Newspapers and
periodicals can be sent at the rate of a cent a pound with
in a radius of 200 miles and at a rate of one and a half
cents a pound anywhere beyond that.
If there was any one agency contributing to the win
ning of the war more than any other, it was the unify
ing effect produced by the wide-spread circulation of
newspapers and periodicals. It was largely due to them
RIPPLING RHYMES
By Walt Mason
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GREAT DAYS.
Things march so fast these fateful days, we are not
jarred by any news; there's naught so strange it can
amaze, or make us tremble in our shoes. We push our
selves around the town, and hear the latest tidings there;
some mighty king has lost his crown; we say, "Well,
well," or "I declare!" We hear of thrones that are ho
more, of captains on their bended knees, and hasten to
the grocer's store, to see just what he asks for cheese. An
ancient monarchy expires; we hear the news, and say "By
jings!" And then we talk of rubber tires, and gasoline,
and kindred things. We've heard so' Inany wondrous
tales of streams of gore and wholesale death, the most ex
citing rumor fails to make us draw a longer breath Per
haps in coming peaceful years we'll get our old time poise
again, and learn once more to sprinkle tears, and shud
der at a tale of pain. We see the junkman haul away a
load of sceptres, thrones and crowns, and beef because we
have to pay high prices for our handmedowns. We've no
perspective any more; we cannot grasp the news we read;
we sit around the Blue Front store, and let pur whiskers
go to seed.
EBoBob
that the great food saving of the past year was effected.
The Red Cross could hardly have done half its work with
out their co-operation. When it came to raising money
for Liberty bonds, Victory chests and relief, they were
invaluable.
The newspaper is needed for two things primarily. Its
quick dissemination of hews, and its intense concentra
tion upon matters of local interest Outside this field,
and backing it up, comes the magazine, treating more
leisurely and with wider perspective of current affairs,
unifying the thought of the people by spreading the same
ideas, east and west, north and south. No matter what
one's line of thought, he may find in his local bookshop
the magazine which interests him, secure in the know
ledge that others who think with him all over the country
can find it also.
To provincialize this united country by increasing the
difficulty of distributing such means of public expression
would be most unfortunate. That the complicated zone
system does not meet the approval of the senate finance
committee comes to the country with relief.
to be Mollie who had called him. No,
she would say nothing. It was the same
decision at which she invariably ar
rived. To say nothing because she
might hurt Brian or hurt herself in
his eyes.
He had promised he wouldn't forget
That meant he would see whoever had
called him, next Friday. Was there any
way she could be sure that it was
moine Jtvingi
Handel's kindness recurred to her, til
the more plainly because of this epi
sode. Would HE neglect her for an
other woman Would HE "be as eare
less of her happiness as was Brian?
"Brian, aren't you going to tell me
who telephoned? I am getting horribly
jealous thinking about her." She tried
to speak carelessly even laughed a lit
tle Not yet would she let him know to
what an extent her jealousy of Mollie
King had driven her thoughts.
' What 's that t " she knew he was
sparring for time, that he had heard
her.
'I asked if you weren't going to
tell me who telephoned?"
''No I am going to bed," and stif
ling a prodigious yawn, he left .the
room.
'(Tomorrow Suspicion Becomes Cer
tainty) , -
If Great Britain insists that she must maintain the
largest navy in the wor d then her protestations that she
was waging war on militarism and to insure the peace of
the world were not sincere.
The National Non-Partisan League is only a little
more radical and unreasonable than the Russian bolshe-viki-if
we may pjudge it by the latest platform of prin
ciples issued from St. Paul. .
Wardens may come and wardens may go but Joe
stays on torever.
Safe
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r Infants
Invalids
,fixtiA,-.rtu..;r.'ri'i no Cooking
A Nutritious Diet for All Ages.
Quick Lunch; Home or Office
OTHERS ara IMITATIONS
PUlL-TCinHEPOUCIES
These are going to be the principle elements
of commercial success from now on. With a
taste of pulling "one for all and all for one"
which we have had for the past 20 months
we should be past masters at "putting 'em
over" around these parts.
The United States National Bank
will be found a powerful puller for
prosperity.
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IBank
Oregon.
TJ. S. SHIPS NOT SENT TO PERU
"Washington Dec. 6. Reports from
Peru that itliitee American warships
wcro to bo sent there were 'denied to
day at the state department.
THE WIFE
By Jane Phelps.
BRIAN RECEIVES A MYSTERIOUS
TELEPHONE MESSAGE.
CHAPTER CIII.
That night Buth found horself com
paring Brian with Mr, Mandel in a far
different spirit than ever before. She
had carried a hurt in her hoart so long
(because of Brian's intimacy with Mol
lie King, and his seeming determina
tion to belittle her work, to find fault
with her because of it while he reap
ed as many of the benefits as did sho)
that Mandel 's actions stood out in re-,
lief. And she now knew he cared for
her
As her employer 's thoughtf ulness, his
kindness, appeared before her, so did
Hnan's seeming selfishness, his thought
lessnoss, also stand out. Was she los
ing her lovo for Brian, and in its place
learning to love Mondel.
For tho first time she wavered. (She
was not certain. "Whnt. an awful
thing," she thought, "for me, Ifor.ny
woman, not to know whethor she loves
her husband or another nianl " Why it
was almost as if already sho had been
unfaithful, when in reulity she never
before- had Allowed a thought of loving
anyone savo her husband to enter her
mind.
Brian was late in- coming home.
When ho did come he was absorbed,
not talkative; evidently there was
something on his mind.
'Chilli we ask Xenyon and tiara in
to play cards " sho asked, not entirely
to please nini, uut necouso it wouiu
make her stop thinking.
''.No! I don't want to play tonight.
I'm not in the mood."
''Anything gono wrong "
("No why''
'"You arc usuoily keen enough to
piny."
''That 's no sign I am tonijjht."
''What bhall wo do, to "the
movies I"
"No."
"To a ptov'.'"
"No."
''Wlnt is tha matter Brim f J Know
something lus giuu wrong."
"Can't u man want to stay quielly
at home without something being
wrong?'-'
''Jiiot you. I never knew you to aet
like this. Do tell me what ails you."
"I told you nothing! .Now please lot
mo read."
liuth said nothing more, but she was
watching Brian's face and, saw that he
was not reading; or ir he was, that he
hud no interest, in what lie, read. Sud
denly the telephone shrilled. She an
swered it before Brian could do so.
'Is Mr. Haekett there?" it was a
woman's voice.
"Yes, would you like to speak to
him this is Mrs. Haekett."
"What is itf" Kriau had taken tho
receiver from Ruth.
"Hello, this is Haekett Oh, hello
no, not tonight No 1 Said next Fri
dayoh, yea I won't forget good
night."
''Who was it, Brian t"
''A business call,' he had resumed
reading
"But it was Woman.'
''Women have business which has to
be attended to occasionally."
There was nothing convincing about
Brian's answer. Ruth was sure he was
hiding something. What had he meant
about next Friday-just a week hence.
She was going on a short trip just un
til Saturday on that day; could it be
possible that Brian hnd made an en
gagement for next Friday, and whoever
he had made it with had mado tho mis
take, and had called him up to find
f-ult because he had not kept his en
gagement I
The voice too, she imaglnod sounded
like Mollie King's, Yet she would be
foolish to say so if it turned out not
APEOVE REFORM PROGRAM
Copenhagen,. Dec. 6. The Bavaria
workmen's and soldiers' councils have
unanimously approved the German gov
eminent 's electoral reform program.
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