Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, April 12, 1918, Page 2

Additional Local News N-E. Elmore of Baker, Oregon, is here visiting his sister, Mrs. McKeen Boyce. A. L. Creelman: of Lewiston is here for a few days, combining business with pleasure. Dr. J. E. Smith, the dentist, re- turned yesterday from a couple of days’ business visit in Spokane. John F, Nuxoll yesterday found a Ford auto-wheel chain near his home at Greencreek. Who’s is it? Atty. C. W. Greenough of Spo- kaneis here and at Grangeville this week looking after his legal business in the county. Dick Hanan, the painter, has finished some neat signs on the Parker store building and Dr. Schilling’s jewelry store. Miss Berger, an expert account- ant and book-keeper from Lewis- ton, has accepted a position in the business office of the Cottonwood Milling Co. Four cars of hogs were shipped out from here Tuesday—the price this week being 16}4c. The Cot- tonwood Milling Co. shipped two and the Farmers Union W. Co. two cars. Hans Pedersen and family left this morning for their new home at Terry, Mont. Henry Hussman went with their car of household goods, etc., and will return next week, Dr. Salsberg, the well known Lewiston eye specialist, is at the Cottonwood hotel to remain a short time only. Those wishing his services are asked to call as soon as possible. Father Baerlocher and John F. Nuxoll were in town Wednes- day from Greencreek.. Father Baerlocher, assisted by the three trustees—Barney Stubbers, John F. Nuxoll and John P. Jentges— are raising a fund in the Catholic parish and school of Greencreek with which to buy Liberty bonds and war savings stamps. So far the parish has collected over $700 for Liberty bonds and the school over $500 for savings stamps, with good prospects to raise much more. Warning to Auto Owners Get your car license NOW. You are warned against running on the road without 1918 license plates. See Sec. 23 of Chap. 52, 1917 Session Laws. All peace of- ficers are empowered to enforce this act. Calvin Hazelbaker, County Assessor. Ford Cars Orders taken for Ford cars at Hoe- ne Hardware. Stock Tonic Now is the time to commence feed- ing Stock Tonie to free your stock from worms. Hess and International stock food for sale at the REXALL drug store. Watkins Remedies, Etc. I have taken over the Watkins Remedies Agency from Ben Schroer of Ferdinand, and for the next two weeks will sell Watkins goods at my cream station in Coftonwood. Come in before May Ist. Wm. Wagner. "Ranch for Sale 440-acre grain and stock ranch on Joseph Plains. Some terms. Ad- dress Joe Tribe, Tillamook, Oregon, or call on Warren Tribe at the ranch. b15 Chickens Wanted I will pay 18¢ a pound for old hens, Guy Kimbrough, a prominent any number, and 30ca pound for 1918 , sheepman, age 27 years, was drowned in Salmon river. near Riggins, Friday while attempting to eross the river. The body has not been recovered. Joe Bies of Ferdinand visited at the home of his sister, Mrs. Matt Duclos, several days this week. Joe still has to use a crutch and cane, asa result of his serious accident last summer. Next Tuesday the public will chickens from 14 to 24 lbs., on Mon- days and Saturdays. -, Clark, the Junk Man. e Call for Wood Bids Bids will bereceived by the under- signed up to Tuesday evening, April 24th for the delivery of seventy-five (75) cords of four-foot wood, to be de- livered at the Public School ground in Cottonwood and ricked up for meas- uring. timber from which wood will be cut. Dated this 10th day of April, 1918 M. M. Belknap, Clerk. have an opportunity of seeing Cottonwood Independent School Dist. one of the prettiest patriotic win- dow decorations at the Hoene Hdw. store that they ever saw. Be sure to notice it. Dr. Schilling has just complet- ed, ..for Geo. Turner of Winona, a service flag containing 9 stars— representing 9 members of the Turner family now in military service of the country. -<An-enthusiastic meeting of our Patriotic League was held last night and much good work out- lined for carrying on the work for which it was organized. The membership now is nearly 100 and still geowing. Meets every Thursday night in I. 0. 0. F. hall. Frank Wimer was in Wednes- day ftom his farm, his first visit to town for six weeks, since his family was taken down with smallpox. Every member of his ‘ - family, except one of the little girls, was afflicted: with it—nearly all at the same time. Frank has made a fairly good start with his spring work, having about 75 acres plowed already. The Chronicle will soon print a statement from F. M. Bieker of Ferdinand, explaining his attitude asa citizen and making proper apology for certain disloyal state- ments he is accused of making, and for which he appeared before the County Council of Defense at Grangeville Monday evening. The County Council has turned the case over to the State Council of Defense. Frank Kelsey expects to leave Monday for Portland, where he will be examined and possibly hay undergo an operation. Last July while indulging in athletics Frank fell and broke one of his shoulder bones. It has given him some trouble ever since, ‘and he thinks it will require an operation to put him in good running order again. He will likely be absent two or three weeks. No. 8. 15-16 “United People Insure Victory”---Borah Anticipating the Third Liberty Loan, U. 8. Senator William E. Borah has issued a sterling appeal to the citizens of Idaho to do their utmost for its success. The splendid record of the State in the two previous Loans will be exceed- ed if Senator Borah’s suggestion Is followed ‘by the residents of Idaho. Here Is what he urges: “This Is not a war of armies as i other wars have been fought. It is a war of nations and that nation , will win whose people are best. organized, most thoroughly united | in spirit and purpose and most, willing to contribute to the full : extent of their means to ald in the | cause. | “It Is no longer a matter of doubt that it is this Republic that must be the determining factor in . the war. The other nations with which we are associated have about reached their limit of power and sacrifice. It is up to us to end the conflict and to achieve victory. Let us lend our credit to the full extent of our ability to | the Government. Let us in that ‘Way support the best we can the brave boys at the front. Nothing will be so insuring to victory as a united, a determined, a willing people at home. Our united and determined support here may save the lives of thousands of our friends on the battlefield. 1! en- tertain no doubt that Idaho’s splendid record in this war will be more than maintained in the subscribing to this present call of the Government for funds.” ISN’T IT TRUE? When the power and resources of this Country can be applied effective ly, the war will be won. Are you doing your share? It has been reserved to the pro ducer of today to feel the satisfac tion derived from patriotism and per sonal profit at oné and the same time. It is not money, but goods an¢ service that will win the war. But as goods and service must be bought, the Government sells Lib erty Bonds. 3 Be doubly a patriot by producing Jmaking money, and buying Bonia Bidder to specify the kind of - THE BALANCE OF POWER > OVER THE TOP THRIFT AND CONSERVATION Last year at this time the great cry was conservation. This year it is thrift. Last year the nation was urged by the Government to conserve the natural resources and the products of the farms and fields and factories. Greater crops were urged, and canning clubs and city gardens were the order of the day. This year the nation is being taught the lesson of spending its money wisely. The nation is being shown the importance of putting every cent where it will do the most good. Conservation and thrift go hand in hand. The faet that the farmer is being told this year to be thrifty does not mean he is not to plant every acre available and till his crops care- fully and harvest them when they are ready for the reaper. It means that he must invest wisely the money he gets for the splendid crops he has demonstrated he is able to raise. The farmer, as a rule, can find some- thing for which to spend almost every dollar he gets. There always is ma- chinery to be bought or repaired, notes to be met, fertilizer to be pur- chased, harness, lubricating oil and groceries and clothing to be paid for in the neighboring town. But in the last few years most of the thrifty farmers have been so well paid for their produce that they are now “on their feet,” or more nearly so than ever before. This country has been good to them, for they have lived in peace and have been provided by the Federal Loan Bureau with cheap money with which to pursue the arts of peace. Any economies they can practice at this time will give them additional money with which to lend financial aid to the Government in its great war for right- eousness and fair dealing. Every dollar loaned to the Govern: ment is a practical protest against the plans of a greedy, unscrupulous, soul- less power intent on world conquest, and every dollar thus advanced serves to shorten the period of war and bring nearer the day of universal and enduring peace. “Who will dare to weaken our West- ern front by a single troop or a single gun?"”—George Clemenceau, Premier of France, Dec. 25, 1915. If you fail to buy Liberty Bonds you will weaken the front! “We could not have endured such aggressions and survived as a selif- respecting nation of free people.”— Secretary of the Treasury McAdoo, at San Francisco, Oct. 11, 1917. Ameri- can blood calls to you. Buy Liberty Bonds. SHALL WE SEE IT THROUGH OR QUIT? The Government is finding it nec- essary to call upon us three times within a year to provide by subscrip- tions to Liberty Loans, sums of money hitherto considered of fabulous pro- portions, These facts should im- press upon us 28 no mere words could do, the intense seriousness, the stern necessities, of the situation. Continued acquaintance with the more serious aspects of life is apt to breed indifference, and to distort our mental vision. As the soldier shud- ders with horror at his first sight of carnage, but later becomes hard- ened, so are we apt to become com- placent under conditions which call actually for increasingly strenuous effort. The Liberty Loan with its original accompaniments of novelty and noise appealed to our national love of a new sensation. In the Third Cam- paign much of the novelty will be lacking, but the serious purpose be- hind the campaign will have grown. Our money was needed when both the First and Second Liberty Loans were floated, but it will be more than ever needed when the Third Loan is called for. Our army has grown, our national pay-roll has grown, the needs of our allies have grown, the necessity of forever banishing the un- speakable menace of Prussianism has grown. No longer can we hope that the entrance of this country into the struggle will induce an early peace More arrogant, more desperate than even the German Government puts forward its impossible claims upon the rights and life of humanity. Our Government in its growing need is calling upon us to give up our luxuries, is conscripting the lives of our sons, is controlling trade, labor, and prices, with an ever increasing earnestness and firmness of pur. pose. The test of our personal strength of character and determination is at hand. Your Government pleads with you very earnestly to preach and practice both before and during the next Liberty Loan Campaign a stead- fastness of purpose, an unselfish pa- triotism, which shall reflect the spirit of a man who having set his hand to the execution of a necessary task would rather lose that hand than draw it back. This is the spirit of our President, of our allies—it is surely our own. “This Is a war of peoples—the peo- ple behind the fronts.”—Major Grayson M. P. Murphy of the American Red Cross, Jan. 20, 1918. YOU are a part of Democracy’s Battalions. Buy Lib- erty Bonds. farmer everywhere loves peace. The American farmer espe- cially loves peace. Since the dawn of history, the farmer has been the man who suffered most from war. All that he possesses lies out of doors in plain sight and is spoil of war—his house, his grain, his livestock. The flames that light the skies in the rear of every invading army are consuming the things that yesterday represented his life work, and the life labors of past generations of farmers. Everywhere the farmer is a warrior when war is the only thing which will make and keep him free. He cannot rally to the colors as quickly as can the dwellers in the cities, because it takes longer to send to the farms the call to arms. It takes longer to call the farmers from the fields than the sity dwellers from the shops. Many do not hear the first blast of the trumpet. Others do not at first under- stand its meaning because they have not had the time to talk the matter over with their acquaintances. Instead of reading half a dozen extras a day, the farmer may read weekly papers The only. He must have more time in a sudden emergency to make up his mind. It is impossible to set the farmers of the United States on fire by means of any sudden spark of rumor. But when they do ignite, they burn with a slow, hot fire which nothing can put out. They are sometimes the last to heat up; but they stay hot. In a long fight they are always found sturdily sarrying the battle across No-Man’s Land in the last grim struggle. The American farmer will give all that he has and all that he is to win this great war against war. This war was at first hard to under- stand. No armed foo had invaded the United States, The night skies were aot reddened by burning ricks and farm houses. No raiding parties robbed us of our cattle or horses. No saber-rattlers insulted our women. It seemed to many of us that we were aot at war—the thing was so far off. We did not realize what a giant war aad become—a monster with a thou- yand arms that could reach across the seas and take from us three-fourths of werything we grew. But finally we saw that it was so. If the Imperial German government iad made and enforced an order that 19 American farmer should leave his THE WAR, THE FARM AND THE FARMER By Herbert Quick Member Federal Farm Loan Board own land, haul grain or drive stock to town, it would have done only a little more than it accomplished by its interdict againsi the freedom of the sea, What was the order against which we rebelled when we went in- to this war? Look at the condition of the American’ farmer in the latter part of 1914 and the first half of 1915 and see, When the war broke out, through surprise and panic we partially gave up for a while the use of the sea as a highway. And the farmers of America faced ruin. I know an Iowa farmer who sold his 1914 crop of 25,- 000 bushels of wheat for seventy cents a bushel. Farmers in the south sold their cotton for half the cost of pro- ducing it. All this time those por- tions of the world whose ports were open were ready to pay almost any price for our products. When finally we set our ships in motion once more, prosperity returned to the farms. But it never returned for the farmers of those nations which remained cut off from ocean traffic. Take the case of Australia. There three crops have remained unsold on the farms. No ships could be spared to make the long voyage to Australia, So in spite of the efforts of the Gov. ernment to save the farmers from ruin, grain has rotted in the open, Millions of tons have been lost for lack of a market. Such conditions spell irretrievable disaster. Such conditions would have prevailed in this country. from the out- break of the war until now if our Government had not first resisted with every diplomatic weapon, and finally drawn the sword. Why did we draw the sword? To keep up the price of wheat and cot- ton, and to protect trade only? If someone should order you to remain on your farm, and not to use the pub- lic highways, would your resistance be based only on the fear of loss in profits from failure to market your crops? By no means! You would fight to the last gasp! Not to make money, but to be free! When a man is enslaved, all he loses in money is his wages. But the white man has never been able to ac- cept slavery. He has never yet been successfully enslaved. There rises up fn him against servitude a resentment so terrible that death always is pref- erable. (This is the first of three articles. The second to be published next week.) FOR YOUR Government will buy for our boys ‘Over There”: 4 $50 Liberty Bond will supply four months’ sustenance in the field for one of our soldiers. A $100 Liberty Bond will supply 200 pounds of smokeless powder for one of the big guns. A $200 Liberty Bond will equip and uniform four of our bluejackets, A $500 Liberty Bond will supply 180 of our boys with gas masks, in which to face one of the dead. liest menaces of the trenches. A $1,000 Liberty Bond will buy gaso- line enough to drive one of our submarines 2,000 miles in our campaign against the underseas raiders of the Kaiser. A $2,000 Liberty Bond will supply 520 thirteen-ponnd shells to sink German submarines, Every Liberty Bond you buy helps actively to shorten and win the War. “Protection the Allies afford us may weaken our sense of duty.”—Taft, Feb. 4, 1917. Have you weakened? Do your duty! Buy Liberty Bonds. | INFORMATION Here are some of the things your , Liberty Bond money loaned to the, U. S. Loans To Farmers Now Nearly $50,000,000 Nearly twelve million dollars was loaned out to farmers of the United States by the Federal land banks during the month of Jan- uary last. On February 1 the total amount loaned out to farmers by these banks since they were established was nearly $50,000,000, the num- ber of loans closed being 24,000. The amount applied for at that date was $260,000,000, representing over 100,000 applicants. The total loans made by the va- rious banks were as follows: St. Paul $9,760,400 Spokane 8,930,075 Wichita 8,643,200 Berkeley 3,666,600 i Omaha 3,210,190 Houston 3,124,412 New Orleans 3,025,255 Louisville 2,927,900 St. Louis 2,296,480 Baltimore 2,114,200 Springfield 1,614,665 Columbia ..... 1,469,055 What are you farmers going to do for the Government now that it is asking for the Third Liberty Loan?