Cottonwood Chronicle Newspaper, August 16, 1918, Page 1

4 VOLUME 26. NUMBER 33. COTTONWOOD, IDAHO, “ARMY DRAFT FOR AUGUST 25 Twenty to go From Idaho County This Time. The draft quota called from Idaho county to entrain at Grange- ville August 25 will take up the remaining men in the 1917 regis- tration and will also draw men from the 1918 registration. The quota from the state of Idaho this draft is 500 men, and from Idaho county is 20, but 26 men have been called to report at Grange- ville August 25, the six extra men being summoned to fill previous vacancies. These men will go to Camp Lewis. The names and present postoffice address of the men called, are as follows: Lawrence Lustig, Wheeler, Ill. James Stanley, Warren. Grover Sharp, Oberlin, Kansas. Henry Dempewolf, Oberlin, Kansas, Otto A. Wilson, Harlowtown, Montana, Carl H. Borum, Ferdinand. Clemens M. Riener, Cotton- wood. : Paul Albert Bogil, Cottonwood. August Wensman, Cottonwood. Darrell H. Culdice, Stites. Marion R. Butler, Cottonwood. Bill Schober, Cottonwood. Wm. J. Eller, Portland, Ore. Lawrence W. Uptmor, Keuter- ville. Joy S. Fogg, Grangeville. Floyd C. Barnell, Gelford, Montana. : Joseph L. Tribe, Portland Ore. Joseph M.: Ruzicka, Grange- ville, Geo. R. Carnum, Kooskia. Frank E. Sonnen, Cottonwood. John J. Uhlenkott, Keuterville. Ira D. Kerlee, Grangeville. Albert Wessels, Greencreek. Carlos M. Wiswell, Grangeville. Frank W. Albers, Cottonwood. Edgar C. Wortman, Grange- ville. Three Idaho county boys who registered in the 1918 registration for war service have volunteered for special service in mechanical work atthe University of Idaho and left for ‘Moscow yesterday morning, August 15th. They are Norval Johnson, of Cotton- wood; Earl Richey of Ferdinand, and Delvin Keeler, of Grange- ville. Johnston is an auto driver and musician, having played first trombone with the Grangeville and Cottonwood Bands. Keeler resides on a farm near Fenn and Richey is employed at the depot in Ferdinand. Prices Set For 1918 Wheat Crop The following is the Food Ad- ministration Grain Corporation buying basis for wheat harvested in 1918, for No. 1, 2 and 8 grades im accordance with the .Federal grain standards, delivered in ap- proved elevators and warehouses at Pacific coast terminals: MARQUIS The above prices are for bulk wheat. A premium of 9c per bushel. will. be. paid for sacked wheat on the basis of good-order sacks. Mixed wheat and wheat grading lower than No. 3 will be bought by sample at its value. sac PIE R. H. Kendall is able to be out again, after his recent motorcycle accident and narrow escape from death. It is almost a miracle that he escaped without any bro- ken bones. j Miss Margaret Shanneffy of Winchester has been engaged to teach the Stockereek school, com- mencing the 2d Tuesday in Sep- tember. She will make her home during the term at the Tomble- son place near the school. Among the strangers who vis- ited this portion of the country this week with a view of locating were Mr. and Mrs. H.C. Bailey and daughter, Miss Frances, of .|Coeur d’ Alene, who made the trip in their car, coming in by| way of Lewiston. Boys Register Aug. 24 All young men of the nation who have become 21 years of age since June 5th must register for the selective draft on August 24. This order was sent out from ‘Washington yesterday by Provost Marshal General Crowder, under a proclamation of the President. The purpose, it is announced, | is to add quickly to the almost exhausted class one to meet army draft calls in September. About 150,000 will register, it is thought. It is expected most of those registering Aug. 24th will qualify for class one and there- fore will join the army probably within a month after their names are recorded. FARMERS AND THE NEW BANKING SYSTEM The Federal Reserve Banking System with its thousand mil- lion dollars of resources stands back of its member banks and assists them in taking care of the needs of their depositors. Our membership in this system gives us special facilities for enabling farmers to plant, gather and store their crops. | . | The next time you come to town stop in and let us tell you how this new sys- tem enables us to help you. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK FRIDAY, AUGUST 16, 1918. WIN THE WAR Suggests Destruction of Berlin in This Manner. Sam Clark; editor of “Jim Jam Jems” of Bismarck, ,N. D., and one of the ablest and brightest writers in America, believes that airplanes will play a most im- portant part in winning the war. In the last issuie of his publication he says: ‘ Civilization stands at bay, gashed and torn by the ruthless fangs of the Beast of Berlin. For almost four years the world has bled'from the countless wounds rent agape by the buzzards of the air, by the serpents of the sea and by bloodhounds on land, Regrets are useless, repinings ‘are vain. | “What might have been’ has no place in the bloody present, for “the mill will never grind with the water that has passed.” What enchains the eyes of hu- manity is the future. There is just one business which! confronts civilized human beings —to win the war. All else can and must wait, All else weighs not a feather in the world’s scales of outraged justice. Let us front facts. With a heroism hitherto . un- known, with a courage more dauntless than ever before paint- ed on history’s page by crimson brush, the Allied forces have fought on land the maniacal le- gions of Hundom, trained for for- ty years for their bandit foray. Step by step, yard by yard and mile by mile have been literally washed by waves of blood. There is not a foot of contested soil but that has drunk its fill ofgore puls- ing from heroes’ veins. But that does not win the war! As General Foch pithily puts it: |“A purely defensive battle, even | well conducted, does not result in a victor and a vanquished. It is simply a game that must be be- gun over again.” Further he apt- ly adds: “To maintain our po- sition is not synonymous with be- ing victorious, and even prepares fora defeat.” These are weighty words from the pen of the ablest defensive strategist in human his- tory. The best defense can but prevent annihilation, and it brings no victory. “Victory by attrition” hasa sonorous sound | but it echoes far down futurity’s roads. ‘Victory by starvation” sounds alluringly bloodless, but the vast rich acreage which has passed into Hun dominion makes that end but an elusive will-o’-the- wisp. ‘ Let us look at the seven seas, Germany’s fleet will not give battle. The vast superiority of the Allied fleets holds the float- ing armaments of Hundom in jleash, embargoes her commerce land nullifies her fleet, but it does nomore. It isa negative, fruit- {less and indecisive victory. It prevents, but it does not conquer. It saves the Allies—a most_ tre- |mendous result—but it does not |annihilate the foe. Beneath the sea, in its slimy ooze, lurk the Hunnish serpents. No divice rids the seas of their |poison fangs. They take their |tolls. The amount sucked into the serpent’s maws varies, but never ceases. Despite their rav- ages, the vast ferriage of men and supplies. continues, and will con- tinue, but the serpents are not de- stroyed. Their fangs are not drawn nor their venom dammed. They have, as was expected, made | their slimy way hither and taken \slight toll. Increasing production rines, but does not destroy them. The serpent is scotched, not an- nihilated. Beneath the sea, as on its surface, we gain another negative, fruitless and indecisive AIRPLANES WILL of tonnage ‘nullifies the subma-} ee Pe eee ae victory. The Huns are balked, but. we do not conquer, The ser- pents breed, hide and strike again —not victoriously but incessantly. On the earth, on the sea and beneath the sea; the Huns cannot conquer. But neither have they been conquered. The warfare of almost four years comes toa stale- mate in the most awful conflict of all time, Facing facts harms no man, and such are the facts, General Foch sums it all up when he says: “Modern warfare, to arrive at its end and to impose its will on the enemy, recogonizes only one means—destruction of the enemy’s organized forces,” A representative of the French Government in America but re- cently said: “If ( may deliveran unofficial message'to America it is, ‘For Heaven’s sake, send us 20,000- aeroplanes and _ pilots at once,’ ' We can hold the line, but to defeat the Germans we must have the mastery of theair.” We believe that is the frozen truth. Consider it carefully. From ‘the outset of the war.the Huns, by the air route, have per- sistently raided London and Paris while Berlin has sat in as serene safety as if she were on another planet instead of the center of the output of carnage on this planet. Submarines at their fastest on the surface can make but twenty miles an hour and below the sur- face but 10 miles an hour and yet they raid our coast. The Allies, in resources for mak- ing airplanes and equipping them with trained pilots and ammuni- tion, are enormously superior to Germany. Aeroplanes will trav- el hourly a hundred twenty miles through theair. France affords every facility fora base and for the starting and for the return flight of these destroyers. And Berlin and practically all of Hun- dom remain untouched of war. Let us be aggressive, let us car- ry on a determingd offensive. The ways of theairareopen. Let us win and let us win by the open way, bythe certain way and by the way that will paralyze the foe at its very scurcesand fountain heads. Conflicts there would be, but in the air the Allies can mob- ilize flocks of eagles enormously superior to the Hun buzzards. To destroy noncombatants is repul- sive—but it is necessary. And the huns started it. Let us carry the war to Germany—where it started. Let us bomb Berlin. Let us lay waste the Hunnish lands as they have devastated Belgium and France. Let the Huns taste of thatbitterness they have so freely forced between the wan lips and down the parched throats of millions of innocent women and helpless children! Loose the eagles! Let them drive their sharpened’ beaks into the rotten brains of the Hun buzzards! Bonds are bought with lavish hands; taxes are paid willingly; the Red Cross and the Y. M. C. A. are nobly sustained. Amer- ican youths offer their lives—-their all. No nation in the world ap- proximates America in resources, nor surpasses it in patriotism. Treasure and lives offer in profu- sion. The Huns sent their slimy sea serpents to America. Let us send our eaglesto Germany! Let us make some “No Man’s Land” in German soil. Let not all the des- erts bein Belgium and France. Let the Huns from their own dev- astated lands, irom their own ruined cities, from their own slaughtered ranks of innocent wo- men and prattling children, learn the lesson of bitter reprisals. Loose the eagles! Lay waste Germany! Bomb Berlin! Win the War! phar eS Neal Fell of Culdesac is here visiting friends. He is an enlist- ed Canadian soldier from Calgary and is off ona furlough, * + LOCAL ITEMS OF INTEREST Condensed for the Benefit of Chronicle Readers. Norman Truitt went to South- wick yesterday fora visit with his parents, Grandma Gaul came over from Lewiston Sunday for a visit with relatives here. Wilbur Bryant went to Spo- kane Wednesday to buy a Feder- al truck for his farm. Mrs. August Van Dyke of Lew- iston is here visiting relatives— Mr. and Mrs. Jake Captein. Hubert Hattrup and family have moved from Keuterville to the Turner residence in town. Mrs. Geo. Poler. Jr., and child of- Moscow visited relatives in Cottonwood the last of the week. Misses Marion and Edna Ber- ger and Rena Seubert were Lew- iston visitors Sunday and Mon- lay. Nick Adams and daughter of Clarkston are combining business bind pleasure in}\Cottonwood this eek, Mark Lies left this morning for Highwood, Montana, on business in connection with his extensive land interests there. C. W.\Williams and family of Lewiston visited relatives—the J. A. Keller family at Winona a few days this week. Mrs. A. A. Martin and son Boyd went to Lewiston yesterday where the little fellow will receive treat- ment for his throat. Milo Adkison of Culdesac visit- ed old friends in Cottonwood sev- eral days this week. His father was formerly a blacksmith here. A. D. Lidstone, who finished special machine work on the new Cottonwood Milling Co. elevator, has returned to his home in Spo- kane. The Cottonwood Milling Co. has just bought another G. M. C. truck from the Hoene Hdw., mak- ing two of these big machines now in use at their mill, Charley Hamill of Greencreek left the last of the week in com- pany with Chet Rhett to San Fran- cisco, where he expects to enter the radio service of the navy. Mrs. Frank Taylor and child- ren and Mrs. Ernest Black of Lewiston were guests the first of this week at the home of the for- mer’s sister, Mrs. H. C, Matthies- en. Mrs. Sennett, who has been vis- iting her husband, Mr. Sennett of the Cottonwood Highway District office, and also her sister, Mrs. Warren, returned to her home in Spokane Sunday. We Do a General Bank- ing Business Courtesy Our Motto COTTONWOOD STATE BANK Cottonwood, Idaho $2.00 PER YEAR. Cottonwood Read and’ ‘Street Improvements The Cottonwood highway dis- trict will provide the first maca- dam road construction in Idaho ° county and as further illustration’ of the good highway sentiment of this enterprising section of Idaho, the people of Cottonwood: will build over one and one-half miles of macadam street. The highway district work is now in progress and will embrace six miles of high- way northand south of town, at the town limits, connecting with the improvement to be “made ‘within the corporate limits. The, work will represent the highest standard of macadam construc- tion. ‘ ¢ Engineer Fred Warren, who built the fine macadam roadin the Tamany-Waha district, is the’ engineer for the Cottonwood high- way district and is now handling the work being’ done here. The . - grading forthe highwayis now in progress, being handled under ~ contract by J, B, McCullough, and will be finished by Sept. 15. The district will directly handle the macadam surfacing and three stone quarries are available, mak- ing the longest haul not to exceed amile. Thedistrictownsacrush- er anda roller andthe workof surfacing will early becommenced, The grading for the highway is 24 feet wide, while the macadam sur- facing will be 16 feet. It will be eight inches deep in the center. with six inches. on the sides.’ It is this type of construction that . was carried out ona portionof | the Tammany-Waha road’ built by Mr. Warren and use’ has prov- its superiority, It is hoped to have the six miles completed dur- ing the fall or early winter.. z The Cottonwood district by vir-' tue of its location is assured of the north and south highway and the good roads work now being done is anticipating the highway. The state highway law forbi use of state highway monies with- in incorporated towns, and so Cot-. tonwood as a municipality is pro- viding the macadam : road within the city limits under_ the special - improvement plan. In addition the authorities here will bp Bary the street that leads to the depot. This street work will include con- crete curb and sidewalk. 3 eiiedigattn To the Public: The new legislation requires that every citizen desiring to vote in the primary election on Tues- day, September 3rd, must register with the registrars of their pre- cincts before the evening of Sat- urday, August 81. Votes cannot now be sworn in on election day. Registration is mandatory. Grangeville, Aug. 14, 1918. A. F. PARKER, Democratic candidate for County Clerk. ;