East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1917-11-08

W hllt AhN NdE Is ON l1S tNtiN'
work in support Of the boys at the
trent win he shouluered cheerfully by
men and women q little too old for
acrobatie service but not vet frosted
at the temples,
They win supply part of the money
ana most of the pep needed to sup
N and encourage u huge army in the
field.
II is for them to realize that we
have passed the period of doubling
and question answering.
We I've come to the days when
huEtiins niue. supplant conversation.
1t was all right six months ago to
spare an hour a day in trying to con-
Vince some enc with a vacant eye and
dark mind that we We're really jush.
fled in accepting the insolent challenge
thrown at us by Germany.
( NCu are to be forgiven IL, cVeh
/ three months ago yCu spent valuable
/ time trying to convince a sluggish
minority that
! First Government b2nds are a safe
/ investment.
1 Second Pro-Gcrman propaganda
/ arc to be hit In the head.
! Third. The allies are to he trusted,
Fourth. The Red Cross is above sus-
/ piciou and does not obtain either
money or knitted goods under false
rIetensesr
Fifth. All taxes which have been
levied are justified by extraordinary
ana unprecedented conditions.
sixth. This is not a rich mans war.
it was not precipitated by any Wall
street Influence: it is not concerned
over prival investments; it is not a
g., =
Seventh. Fair prom tses have no
value when th.y are mad, by Grim
iual VINO finds himself backed into n
CCruCI.
Eighth. The men in our training
camps aud aboard transports and sta
toned somewhere in France are being
slfeguardcd rs American soldiers
never before were looked after, as re-
sards wholesome food, proper sani-
tgtiou, prevention 0f disease, ana
moral suiCancc.
Why enumcratc further?
Abe Martin met a fcller down in
Brown County that never heard of
Tcny Pastor. and we have taxpayer
in our township who thinks the world
is flat,and you can find cabaret per
formers in New York city who don't
believe there is such a place as Iowa
and clairvoyants still find customers,
and you can name people who viii
consult a paten1-medicine "ad." in
preference to a doctor, and old JethrO
TIlford. over in shelby Township, car
Iics a dricd-up potato to keep off tho
rheumatism.
In every community you Will find a
Contrary-minded sediment Of he hu-
man race--people who keep thomscl-
YES somewhat In cyidenI by noislly
denying facts which are self-cvident to
all of their neighbors who happen TO
&c i'll the Iull enjoyment of sanity.
They are somewhat liz frogs. /. c..
they make an awful noise in proper
tiCn to their number.
Now il You will take the trouble to
check up in your immediate nelghbor-
huoo the people who, from the begin
ing of the war, have been fun OF
doubts ana questions and false alarms.
YOU win lind that they are few In
number and of precious little IMPORT
aHCe, except as atmospheric distur
bance
Also. old 1t ever occur to you
That the man who had bought most
llberaly of Government bonds never
questioned the safety Of his security?
That the woman who was knitting
the most seeks and sweaters never be-
lieved the silly stories about the Red
cross being a crooked institution?
That the soldier boy about to boaru !
transport and join his comrads of
France and Great Britain never was
known to doubt the sincerity OF the /
men with whom he was soon to join /
shoulders?
No. indeed,
-All the walls and misglvings and fish .
stories are put into circulation by Il (
few piCayune outsiders who were Just /
built to be obstruCtionists and some
how cant help it.
They are in a class with the Toric- /
who feaztcd the aristocratic British Of
flccrs while Washington's Army starv
ed at valley Forge.
They are hold over of the Val
laudieham clan that rcyilcd Lincoln
ana gave undetermined cpppcrhcad
support To the cause Of slavery, even
after II was doomed.
They are the kind oL-pcupl" VIII"
public improvements viii not
buy tickets for the Chautaupua. criti-
clio the minister If he smiles in public