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MUST HELP THE FARMERS
Owing to conditions arising on the Pacific coast, due
to the war, there is going to be a scarcity of labor for the
. farms. Indications point to the northwest being the cen
ter of the great shipbuilding movement, and this will take
thousands from other pursuits. There will be a tremend
ous demand for men in the logging camps and at the
mills, and naturally with high wages this will draw much
labor from the farms. Agriculture just now is the most
important of all our industries, for on that all others
depend. It follows therefore that some means must be
provided for aiding the farmers both in the immediate
future in getting his crops in, and later in harvesting
them. In a short time there will be a strong demand for
Jabor in the berry patches, and at present no means is
provided for meeting this demand. Then will come har
vest, and with the crops grown it is up to every person in
the state to see they are harvested. "God helps those who
help themselves." It is up to us to gain this assistance.
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:viore tnan mai it is ume 10 oegin rigiu now. me
farmers will not be able to handle their crops without
help, it is up to us in the cities to help save them or go
hungry. Some steps should be taken at once to organize
our forces and arrange for every person able to work
doing his or her share in this line. A home guard to help
the farmers is needed more than any other; a guard that
can be called on to be sent to farms as needed until not a
narticle of anv crop is allowed to go to waste.. Instead of
taking a vacation of two weeks or a month in the moun
tains or at the seaside, we should all arrange to take that
season on the farms where we can sure get all the outdoor
exercise we need, and at the same time assist the farmer
in his task of feeding us. Hard work will not appeal to
most city dwellers, nor can they do as big a day's work as
persons used to it but they can do something to help and
this they should do. The Commercial Club could do no
work of greater importance than getting an organization
perfected in Salem, one that can be depended on to go
where sent and to do whatever called on to save Oregon's
food supply. In the berry patche's the children can do
good work, and this should take the place of the hop pick
ing season for them and for many families. Five hundred
or a thousand Salem men giving up two weeks or a month
during the year to aid the farmers will go a long ways to
ward solving the labor problem in this vicinity, and with
the system in operation over the state all danger of loss
of crops will be eliminated. The outlook just now is that
city folks will have to get in and do some of the farm
work or along with others, tighten their belts from out
side instead of from the in.
While it is probable the stories of strikes in Germany
coming through English sources are somewhat exagger
ated, it is equally certain the reports from Berlin are as
much distorted the other way. Apparently the truth lies
somewhere between the two, and that the strikes, while
serious, are not yet serious enough to endanger the gov
ernment. According to a report coming from Amsterdam
20,000 munition workers are on strike and the production
of munitions is badly hampered. If , this should prove
true, it is far more serious than Gorman sources are will
ing to admit, for a shortage of munitions would be the
worst blow that could be struck the Teuton allies, speci
nllv -hist at this time. However, strikes of any kind show
the feeling of unrest is spreading. Undoubtedly it would
take more serious shape were it not for the iron hand ot
the military system.
The first war loan of $200,000,000 was over subscribed
almost before it was offered. It will probably be the same
with the big loan of $7,000,000,000. It is some money to
be sure, but if necessary in order to carry the war to a
successful conclusion five times that sum will be sub
scribed. This is a fight to a finish, and the only finish is
the end of Prussian militaryism.
It was not strictly in accordance with Sunday observ
?ree, but hundreds took advantage of the warm sun
balance all right, for there is plenty.
The once lowly spud, travels in the upper circles now.
At Seattle Saturday they were sold at $100 a ton or about
three dollars a bushel. At the same time" it is stated the
growers in the Yakima section are asking this price at
their farms. There is one satisfaction about the soaring
potato prices, and that is that most of the crop remaining
is still in the hands of the growers, and they will get the
benefit of the high prices. It is different with wheat.
Most of the crop passed out of the hands of the growers
&ome months ago and at prices averaging a dollar a
bushel lower than the speculators are holding their pur
chases at Wheat values are fictitious, due to shortage
no doubt, but still a price fixed by the gamblers since they
came into control, of the crop. It is quite possible the
government will take over the wheat in the country, and
sell it at a price near what the speculators paid.
According to the calender Spring began a month ago,
but it did not arrive in the valley until yesterday. The
sun came out in a pretty fair way considering it had
about forgotten how, and vegetation perked up and
started to hustle. It will have to keep this up for it is
about a month and some laps behind its usual date. It is
claimed the state, or the western part of it, is some 10
inches shy of rain, but if so it can get along without the
shine to get some of their garden seeds where they will
do the most good. The spade, hoe and rake had their in
nings, and many a good housewife has a load off her mind
as she thinks of the garden sass planted, and soon to be
part of the daily menu.
Both houses congress tackled the army bill today. In
the senate it is likely the bill will go through quickly, but
in the house there will be considerable opposition. The
majority of the committee reported favoring the volun
teer provision, and making the selective conscription a
secondary matter to be used only in case the volunteer
system is not satisfactory. It seems probable the bill will
be passed with this provision attached. One of the fea
tures of the fight is that Representative Kahn, republi
can, will lead the battle in support of the president's
measure. It should be disposed of during the week.
The British and French claim since the last drive com
menced a week ago that 33,000 prisoners have been taken
and also 330 guns. Since the great struggle at Verdun,
the prisoners have been counted by the dozens, sometimes
! hundreds, but it remained for the present drive to send
the figures up in the thousands again. At the same time
the losses by the Germans have been unusually heavy.
Estimating from the daily reports it seems probable the
total of losses including prisoners will run close to
100,000.
YOU KNOW YOU HEED
A GOOD COURSE OF MEDICINE.
We Recemmend Hd' Saraanarilla
and Peptirvn Pills.
It ta found I fiat many people who
feel in need of a goml tonfc'. an im
mediate uplift, of pore MckkI and
acremrth get wonderful help, perfect
malefaction, in eouree of Hood's
Sarnaparilla and Peptlron Pill.
Hood's Karaaparill ia especially
recommended for conditions that are
radically or characteristically ecrof
ulmin or dependent on impure- blood.
Pentlroo Pills are recommended for
conditions that are radically or char
acteristically anemic and nervous.
All the ing redlcnts In this combina
tion work together In- harmony, and
are absolutely harmless. No opiates,
no heart-depressants, no habit-form-in
f drugs.
Why not begirt taking these 'two
medicines one before meals, the other
after as noon as you can jet them.
STATE NEWS IN BRIEF
Hood River reports the snow deeper
in tlie upper valley than any previous
year at thin season.
Viang are going forward for the en
tertainment of the Grand Army men
and their wive at the state encamp
incut at Forest Grove in June.
Bums lias sent .1" of her boys to en
list in I'ncle Sam's navy. The second
group left the home town Friday nirht
and thtf whole town turned out to see
them off-
Mrs. Evaline Collard, who was born
at McMhinville, in 1855, died at Camas.
Wash., Thursday.
The two-yenr-old daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Sloan Thompson nnrrowly escaped
death Thursday afternoon when at
tacked by a swarm of angry -bees at
their home on Butter Creek in Eastern
Oregon.
Mrs. Susanna Peterson, pioneer, who
lived in Linn county 71 years, died at
the home of her soil, Walter C. Peter
son, in Lebanon, Friday night, at the
age oi vi. .
THE GRAND
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Wlr Engagement of
$f&W 4 Played to 26,000 IWK
h V S Paid Admissions Ml vMiS 'fiF
If you can handle an adze you are sure of a job at
good wages at any of the many shipyards in the state. In
fact you can get a job at the yards if you are willing to
work, and can tell a crosscut saw from a sledge hammer.
The yards will have to educate their laborers, and from
present indications the iobs once learned will last for
several years.
Quite a difference between Germany holding the
American ambassador because, it was claimed, Germany
feared the United States would not send Bernstorff home,
and this country granting safe conduct to the German
embassy at Pekin, across our territory, and also across
the Atlantic, if the Germans do not torpedo the ship that
carries them.
While figuring on your vacation this year forget the
call of the mountains and the lure of the seaside and take
an outing in the fields. You will help the country in this
way, and you will help yourself. Besides you will have a
better idea of what you owe to the men on the farms who
feed the world. .
There should be no danger of a meat shortage in Ore
gon, not if the long eared jack rabbit, so numerous as to
be a pest, is given a chance.
LADD & BUSH. Bankers
Established 18GS
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
Transact a General Banking Business
Safety Deposit Boxes
.SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
AMERICANS
Since talk of war is flying wide, and flags
hang from the outer wall, I note, with
pleasure and wTith pride, the hyphenated
crowd is smal) Tha men who came across
the sea, to make their home upon this shore,
and found the countiy of the free is all the
blue prints claim, and more, are seldom
traitors to their salt, this has become their
mother-land; and if war comes they'll glad
ly vault upon their chargers, lance in hand.
"We are Americans' they cry, "and will
be while this life endures; the flag that
''IIT kJI t fSl . wVAWf-f i r- v - r V v r V i r ftll "(- r " w- -l - V
as it is yours. Our loyalty's to Uncle Sam,
who gave us welcome to his shores; if warfare comes, just
watch us slam the stuffing from the foreign bores."
Americans, wherever born, in Berlin or in Broken Bow !
The hyphen is a thing of scorn, when there is threat of
war and woe. Americans, when shades of gloom are on
our Uncle Sammy's brow ! Americans, there is no room
for any other people now !
v I
wondered that the tomb didn't onen to
;a mother '8 appeal.
hc lias beautiful home; but it 's
under a nail, a pall of powder smoke
aud blood. The little boy, who yester
day clung at her left knee ami listened
and smiled at her folk songs is in the
Herman navy; the lad who listened and
smiled at her right knee is in the. U. 8.
uavy, and tomorrow, or next week or
next month the message may come that
they have met aud killed.
The other night she got off a train at
fcan Diego and went to her hotel. She' "-'
was very tired. She had recently come
from a hospital. But a big crow'd with
a band of music was at the hotel to
greet, her. There were shouts of wel-
A bald eaglo of exceotionnllv laree tome crlos fr sight of her
Late estimates are to (he effect that
10 per cent of the Fstcm Oregon
wheat has been winter killed.
Harold Filer, 19-year-old elevator
operator, was instantly killed at noon
yesterday in the Meier & Frank store,
at Portland, when caught between his
car and the fhaft. The body was re
leased from its tightly wedged position
by Deputy Coroner Smith an hour later.
Fishing in the McKenzie and Willam
ette rivers is at its height for the
.spring season and anglers daily are re
porting good catches.
size was cnughfr Friday in a trap set bv
Herman Knudia for a wildcat. The
bird wns taken to Astoria, where it was
presented to L. C. Henrys, who will
have the bird mounted, by permission
of tho state game commission.
SCHUMANN -HEINK'S HYPHEN
(Portland Daily News.)
She is a great artist and public fa
vorite; but she is a home-loving woman
and, first of all, a good mother.
Hlie was born in Germany, but loves
America.
(She has a great suiishining face, with
a generous smile for everyone, any one;
but her soul shivers and her heart
writhes in torture.
She stands up before thousands .and
men hchumami-Heiiik stentieil f,,i-tli
and sang "The Star Hpangled Banner."
GOVERNMENT WINS
(Continued from page one.)
ante of the decision of the. United
States Mipreme coi;rt in the Oregon and
California land grant case can scarcely
be realized insofar as it concerns the
future development and settlement of
the state of Oregon.
The grant lauds consist of approxi
mately 2,300,000 acres rcnnlii (',.,.,
nil- v UllLUimU io
original granting act. Much of this
work of classification has already eea
made, and, now that the supreme eeurt
has finally determined the controversy
between the government and the rail
road company, the lands will be threwa
open to the public in the shortest pos
sible space of time.
. Some Open to Entry.
This means that the agricultural lani
will be subject to entry, under the
general provisions of the homestead
by actual settlers. The scttlem
will be required to pay the govern
ment .fl'.")0 an acre for the lam?, fifty
cents at the time of filling, and
when final proof is made. Final proof
will depend upon settlement, and culti
vation to all practical purposes the
same as under the homestead act.
The ( hambeilain-Feriis act also pro
vides that the laud classed as timber
land that bearing not loss than 300,
000 board feet of timber to the forty
acre tract shall be sold to the highest
bidder, under competitive bids as rapid
ly us a normal market may be found.
The purchaser of the timber is yven a
certain agreed time within which to
remove the timber, and when that has
been done tho stump lands arc to be
classed as agricultural lands and thrown
open to entry and settlement, under
tho terms of tho homestead act, but
without cost to the settlers.
What the decision means to Oregon
development can be visualized by the
at least 800,008
Washineton hnnml
and of that total probably 8(10.0(10
acres arc capable of immediate agri
cultural development. It is estimated
that more than nun .i.;n;, ,.. . .l. ., , . .. .,
; j ... ,. , .. . ....... aun ui lut'.raci tuat it tnrows
rlST: ? I!'r tM fVr VVL be ela?d. s firicultural-;acre. of agricultural land open to set
v.;",;,..:";'; u""1' l,,t "I'-i"""1 " mousnnos ot tlie acres of the tiers in tracts of 160 acres at a. nrice
plausc of the delighted throne, but over npricnltnrnl 1,,,, . , V I lratts 01 10u atres aT a P"tB
: .... - . c nlc , , ... ,,( lift. - nf I on
uy i" lie round in the state.
The Chamberlain-Ferris act, which
nas open sustained hr tli
presence always
her head, its awful
felt, hangs a sword.
You've heard her sing "Mein Sohn!
and she took your soul into the Yall
One might, at first view, fancy an
supreme . incongruity between entrance into a
rv.fmirr ri'v-ii,io ..c i . a t. . -. . . .
nf tlm Slimlnw nf Pn(i in .oK. "i ' ' , ""t Tracr oi i war and the simultaneous observance
you'd " ovedand slmU, bf ""mediately classified of " Kindness to Animals Week." But
heard her v "Death let ml" !?. , i!Bn,d PTa .,to entry' settl'nt and I a war for humanity and a week for ha
ntarunercry, iwatu, let me in! and i sale, under the o-enernl term. f .n.. i:.
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VHUSDanaand
" By Jamie FMps
A VISIT FROM MRS. HENDERSON
CHAPTER XXV
I was just getting ready to go to
market the next afternoon when the
door bell rang. When 1 answered I
was so astonished to see Mrs. Hender
son, 1 was almost rude. I kept her
standing so long before asking her in.
that she laughingly said:
" Aren t yon going to invite me to
come m, Airs. Kanuallf
"Oh, please do!" 1 replied, embar
rassed.
SJlie explained that she had been
away, so unable to call until now. 1
told her that Tom had met Mr. Hen
derson in the street and that he had
uformed him of their absence.
She chatted awav unconcernedlv of
her trip, places she had visited; promi
nent people she had seen. She was verv
vivacious and attractive the night I: it, p0uk. ,i i.,
im-i ui-r m fur rcsiauittiu uui l luougni
her even more so now. How 1 envied
her her poise, her ease of manner. Ev
erything I said sounded so stilted, my
remarks ho trite. Should I ever ac
quire what I had commenced to think
a ew ork manner f
A Plethora, of Invitations
"I want you and Tom to dine with
me some night next week, Wednesday
if it is convenient," she said as sin-
rose to go.
"Thank yon! it will be all riaht for
me and 1 thiuk Mr. Kandull," I re
plied, glad of the invitation; but at
the same time wishing she would not
call my husband "Tom." Really it
was beginning to get on my nerves.
I'.very woman I had met who knew
Tom called him by his given name.
That is, those who knew. him before
wo were married.
We were becoming very popular 1
thought as I once more dressed for the
street. 1 was going' out with Vivian
Morton, Everett Crandell had invited
himself for the evening with us; and
now dinner at the Henderson's. It was
flattering surely, bu t
Again rose the question of clothes.
What should 1 wear at a formal din
ner I had nothing but the white dress,
my wedding dress, which I had worn
at the restaurant supper when we met
the Hendersons, and which 1 had since
worn several times- It had lost much of
I had it clean
ed would not be wearable.
Tom ' would have to give enough
money to pay for the cleaning, or he
would have to buy me a new dress
"That's" all there is to it!" 1 said
aloud as I made mv dinner prepara
tions. lorn is Early
"Who were you talking tot" Tom
asked. He had come in so quietly 1 had
not heard him.
" Myself, .' 1 answered as I returned
his kiss.
"It's a bad sign to talk to vourself
dear! is dinner almost ready t"
"Almost! but your are early?'
"Yes, I hurried home to sec if I
could help. What, are vou going to fix
up for Crandell and the rest?"
"Just a-rnrobit! don't you think that
will be enough V
"Yes, and while you are wetting
dinner, I'll run around to that little
store: ,a the corner and get eome
beer." .
"That little store" as Tom called it.
was the very shop where 1 had opened
an account withoift his knowledge I
knew thnt if he went there the propri
etor would probably inform him of the
fact.
"Telephone for it, Tom!" I returned
hastily, "I want you to help me here."
"It seems foolish to phone when th
place is so near. What i8 it vou want
me to do " '
"Go telephone for the beer first,
then I '11 tell you, ' I replied, and noted
with relief that my little ruse had
worked.
While Tom was telephoning I won
dered how I was to keep the knowledge
that I had run in debt from him in
definitely. I realized he would be very
angry if he found it out.
1 wonder if it is not these little ways
that husbands and wives grow apart;
the little deceits, the lack of confidence
which in the end separates therof
(Tomorrow Curiosity- concerning Vi
vian Morton)