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rAGE SIX VICTORY LOAN IS FAIR TEST OF AMERICAN PATRIOTISM IF IT GOES OVKIt THE T«>l\ NATIONS AN Alt Kl.t'OKH AN 111, 111 WITHOI'T A FLAM—TKFAM ICA «»I I H IAI.S « oVI lIiFM l'F.<»l»I.T \NII.I. RKSlM>\l> To GOYKRNM KMT's CAI.I—NATION M. CAPITA I CORRKSrONDKNT l»ls( I'SSFS ( H \ l!M > OF FXTIiW AGANCK. By AV \V. JERMANE. in the Scuttle Times. On Monday there began a test to determine whether American patriot ism is made of the same dependable stuff, now that the fighting is over That was its distinguishing feature when the Huns were pressing against the battlefronts in France and Bel gium. America has raised four large war loans by popular subscription. The one now at hand will be the fifth, and last. If it goes over the top, like the its predecessors, the American war record will be without a flaw; if it doesn't there will be a defect of con tinuity and cohesion that will cause deep regret and that the passing of the years will not obliterate. The end of hostilities has undoubt edly had a profound effect upon the public mind. Stress and strain are gope. The people are now thinking about the important readjustments that will permit the country to enter upon an era of unexampled prosper ity. But that in all the change any thing has happened that will en danger the loan is not believed by offi cials of the treasury. Glass Is Confident. Secretary Glass is eveu more con fident regarding the outcome than was his predecessor when loans were being made at the height of military activities. He was quick to see that the fifth loan would come under con dtions importantly different from any hitherto existing; and, by increasing the interest rate, making the exemp tion privilege more attractive, mak ing the loan a short one, and in va rious other ways having the govern-, 1 ment meet the public half way, and more than half way. he believes he bad overcome all difficulties and in sured the subscription In record time. One point that must be met is that there has been extravagance, even waste, in war expenditures; that proper management might have ren dered the fifth loan unnecessary. Let it be frankly admitted that this charge is true. It has been true of every war that ever was fought, and it will be true of all wars qf the fu ture, whatever the belligerent coun tries. War is the greatest prodigal, the greatest spendthrift, mankind has ever known, and it never can be any thing else. That is one of the strong arguments against it. It spends money just as freely as it sheds blood and destroys property, and all the humanising ln- ,_.i ■ 1 1 H CHEVROLET I N For Economical Transportation f ( IS The proper weight of an anto- ' VI mobile means more today than I H ever before. The heavier the ' H oar. the more gasoline it eon- I IB sumes. I VI The conscientious raanufac- i Kl turer of today considers this ' H 'tern of vital importance and • H builds accordingly. I ij)| All Chevrolet models are eco- I VI nomical in this respect. ■ jUI Immediate Delivery I im i || CAPITAL TRANSIT & REPAIR CO jj 315-317 Main Street ■ f, Olympia i Chevrolet "Baby Grand ' Tounr niJa.w.n.l g BllJu r _jL Ji IB —JL fluenres in the world cannot make it do otherwise. AN aMe Held I nuvoidahlc. It is likely that billions ot' Ameri can money were paid out to no seem ingly good purpose. That was true in England, France and Italy, and also in the former Central Empires and Russia. There would have been the same waste if the people who are inclined to make this point had them selves been in charge of operations, posing as great experts. A government at the head of a na tion at war can afford to take no chances. It must guard every avenue of ptissible or probable attack and take advantage of every opportunity for offense. This means money. Preparations are made for offense or defense at a score of points, and the struggle comes at only two or three of them. The money spent in getting ready at all the other points is wasted, iu the opinion of those who. after peace has come, endeavor to pass judgment on expenditures made while the fighting was at its height. Then, there Is the inevitable waste growing out of unpreparedness and lack of expert management. Amerca had a regrettable experience with airplanes, big guns, ammuni tion; it was unable during the first year of its participation in the war to take proper care of its soldiers, even in the home training camps. This experience proves just one thing, namely, the difficulty that must always attend the changing of a great peace loving nation, almost over night, from a peace to a war footing. A'es; there has been gross waste, but how, in the very nature of the case, could there have been anything else? It is well to kejlp in mind, how ever, that much of this waste, in an important sense, was more apparent than real. It is the unanimous opinion of all the great authorities, including those of Germany, that the immensity of American preparation in the six months preceding the armistice after .we had struck our gait, had more than any other one thing to do with 'compelling Germany to surrender. 1 She knew all about our big guns, then being turned out in the required numbers, all about our alrplarie con struction. our reserves of men and money, and her military leaders saw a campaign In 1919 that would re produce east of the Rhine the same devastation that had been wrought in Belgium and Flanders. American "waste" shortened the war by at least a year, and kept the number ot American dead at 70,000 instead of increasing it to probably TDK WASHINGTON STANDARD. OLYIIHU. WASH.. FRIDAY an would have been the case had the 1 \< 1 ;< campaign been made. In various other ways America si.• in money with what is now regard • t it. some places as reckless prodi gality. It will be sufficient to men tion one of thet.i. tjllistliin of NN heat. The guarantee ot 'lie pric >f the 1 1 ' wheat crop to the American farmer is to cost the people a billion dollars 'I hat means a high price for flour and bread to the average con sumer. at least for another year, and yet, earl) last fall, when the guar antee was made in order to swell the acreage ot winter wheat, then about to tie planted, the war was at its max imum of fury, and everybody whose opinion was worth repeating was talking about peace in from two to five years. Fortunately for the world, peace came in November, but the govern ment must keep the pledge it made to the farmers. There isn't a right thinking man in the country who will say that it ought not to do so. Bet ter high bread for another year and "waste" in other directions than an increase by fivefold at least of the number of American graves in France. The question of war extravagance is to come up in tlie new congress. Two or three months ago the Repub licans were jubilant over the political advantage they were to secure through a series of sensational dis closures. Latterly, however, they have undergone a change of front. The investigations will he made, hut there will be little political capital in them. As good an authority as Frank \V. Mondell of Wyoming, who will be the Republican leader in the new house, recently announced that they were not to take up a great deal of time. The Republicans are to feature the great readjustment program which confronts them, having made up their minds that the country will not be in any humor to encourage a_ flamboy ant hunt after the sensations led by all the Peeping Toms and Paul Prys on the Republican side. ❖ ❖ * •> ❖ ❖ * •:* ❖ ❖ ❖ CHEVROLET AGENTS ❖ ❖ SELL SEVEN MORE ❖ ❖ FOUR-NINETY CARS ❖ ❖❖❖❖•> ❖ ❖ * ❖ Seven Chevrolet Four-Ninety cars have been delivered during the past few days, six touring cars and one roadster, by the Capital Transit & Repair company, Thurston and Mason county dealers. The roadster went to H. P. Richardson of this city and the touring cars to W. M. Huggett of this city, C. C. Duffy, Tenlno; W. F. Hutchinson and James Frew, Shel ton; W. W. Wymore, Delphi, and Carl Turner, Rainier. EPWORTH LEAGUERS TO MEET Rig Conference on Centenary Plant in Tacotua Next Tuesday. Following along the lines of the Methodist centenary world program conference recently in Seattle, there will be held next Tuesday at the First Methodist Episcopal church. Tacoma. a district mobilization rally of the Epworth League. Delegates from every league chapter In the Tacoma district and from outside points are expected. The conference plans to begin to mobilize the 13,000 members of the Epworth League in the Northwest behind the campaign of the Metho dist centenary. Rev. J. H. Secor, pastor of the local Methodist church, will be one of the speakers, his sub ject being "The Strategy of the Cen tenary." A similar conference will be held in Centralta the following day. 18th Engineers Route Home. The lgth Regiment of Engineers, with which a couple of local boys went to France, sailed from Bordeaux April 16 on the transport Texas for New York. William Bailey, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. N. Bailey of Ward's Lake, is returning with the organiza tion. while Roscoe Fullerton, son of Judge and Mrs. Mark A. Fullerton, who went overseas with the' regiment, was later transferred to the 469 th Engineers. The 18th Engineers reg iment was organized at Camp Murray under command of Colonel Bates i'Cavanaugh and was among the first ito go to France. Atteivd Funeral of Dr. Wells. Quite a number of Olympia people and residents of the western part of the county went over to Shelton Tues day afternoon nad attended the funeral of Dr. Charles H. Wells, .who died suddenly in a San Francisco hotel the latter part of last week. Dr. Wells had practiced his profession in Mason county for more than 30 years and his funeral was attended by one of the largest crowds that ever gath ered in Shelton for such an occasion. Buy Mill at Oukvillc A. P. Wilson and Oscar Bleck schniidt have purchased a small mill, which they have set up on the latter's place near Oakville. They will cut railroad ties Wilson only recently completed logging operations near Ottulaska Hogs High at St. I/ouis. ST. LOUIS. —Hogs sold on the live stock market, here Tuesday for 121 a hundred pounds—ls cents higher than any former quotation at the local market. IMIVTK Kill THK KTOKALK * IIATTKKV * "The motorist who will examine I tli. buttery of his ear regularly every wc-k and he.ed the following instruc ltion> will eontinue to receive satis factory service from his battery day after day," says Hurton Troxell of the Capital Transit & Repair cotn pan. local dealers in Chevrolet pas senger cars and trucks. "Don't allow your storage battery to stand in a discharged condition for any length of time. Should the bat -1 tery for any reason become dis- [ charged, have it fully charged at once at the nearest garage or charg ing station. A battery when in a dis charged condition sulphates rapidly, j making charging extremely hard and in time entirely destroying the ele- I incuts. | "Don't allow dirt, water or any pieces of metal to come in contact 'with or remain on the top of your j battery, inspect regularly and keep I clean. I "Don't continue to crank your en (Ki hp with the starting motor if it j does not start after a few revolutions Something is wrong with your igni tion system or carbureter. Locate and remedy the trouble before again cranking the engine. Just turning the engine over will not help you start, but it will exhaust your battery if continued for any length of time. "Don't forget to turn 'on' the igni tion switch before attempting to start the motor. "Don't forget that you must restore in the battery whatever current has been withdrawn for starting. It re quires about 20 times as long to re store current to the battery as it takes to remove the same amount in starting the engine. "Don't turn on all the lights of your car and leave it standing for several hours. Qonserve the battery supply by using only such lamps as . EXTRA TESTI ■ Every yar£ of fabric used in ) ■ the construction of Racine ' ■ ined against flaw in warp or \ 1^ RES / TI7E invite your critical inspection of j Racioc Extra Tested Tires. You can depend on them to yield more miles of good service, no matter where you use them. An extra test protects each stage in their construction, just as the jBMMj extra test for perfect fabric insures the highest quality fabric. H K Racine Country Road Tires g|Bßf | The famous "Country Road" is specially &I K designed for rough road usage. It leads [I H mrnim iml , the fabric tire field. 5000 mile guarantee. ;I H Pllllr' Racine Multi-Mile Cord Tires —the peak QI I j of cord tire value. Come in today. Let §1 H J CAPITAL TRANSIT iUH I ' & REPAIR CO. HI 3 315-317 Main Street Olympia . <jjjj Eov Your Own Protection Be Certain Every Racine Tin \ You Buy Bears the Name vjSSjy Radne Rubber Company APRIL 25. 1919 are absolutely needed to prevent ac cident.. "Don't allow the battery to become' loose on the brackets." Lives Ijecture on Alaska. J. L. Burnside, who has been con nected with the leading commercial and transportation enterprises of' Alaska tor several years. ga\e an illustrated lecture oil that, country at the high school auditorium Friday j evening, under the auspices, of thej Lincoln Parent-Teacher circle WILLARD STATION FREE TESTING AND FILLING WE CARRY THE ONLY STOCK OF WILLARD BATTERIES BETWEEN TACOMA AND ABERDEEN WE SPECIALIZE ON REPAIRING ALL MAKES McNeill Battery Station Opposite Capitol 210 East Sixth Street OLYMPIA A large number of the members of St. John's Episcopal church joined in the annual parish dinner at the church Tuesday evening. Kev. K Franklin Hart, the rector, presided, a number of interesting talks were made and several musical 1 utnhers presented. Corporal Frank E. Bradshaw of Olytnpia and Corporal Johnes M. An- I drissen of Rainier, arrived at New | York Easter Sunday with the 316 th Suppl> Train.