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The Washington times., 1917-12-05
JEWISH WAR RELIEF
REACHES $l,5OO,OOO

NEN lORE. ncc =. Amri ,rau
Jews a." fast hearing their goal "r
Sa,OOOG0" f"r Jewish war relief aud
jewish wslfar" wurL IN the Uuil-.
States army and navy
reports today from EIaHN srCti".~
81 IL" country indicated that the iUud
may b" "v"rsubscI ib.d NcstrIdaN
total subscriptions was reported To- be
S"9I I,o"". which brings the total 81"
date up to 81 500. 900.
The Washington times., 1917-07-08

to the gymnasium and the athletic
field overtrain their bodies and un-
dertrain their minds, with disas-
trous effects upon both.
Regard only for the bodily APP
petites and needs produces self
Indulgence, moral alteration, de-
generacy and crime. The ideal
preacher Of the evangel Of health
must be broad-minded enough to
include all these things in his
range. He must possess q strong
mental balance; he must be .
Washington in sanity Of judgment
and q st. Bernard in the power to
arouse interest and inspire action In
muItitudes Of his fellow creatures.
He would have q very difficult
mission, yet / believe he might
succeed, for, as other similar
movements show, the world is still
full of people whose strongest So
eiai instinct is that Of following
the crowd and chasing after q
leader with q bell. But the cause
is one which deserves something
better. The principles Of health
full living ought to be taught
rather in the home and the schools,
beginning with the most elemen-
tary, than from the platform Of
tabernacle"
Teach your children the laws Of
health by example before they can
understand preeept. Your own
table, and the manners that pre-
vail around it, will be their first
and most impressive school. Clean
illness, exercise, respect, and care
for the body, the necessity Of fresh
air, regular habits as to sleeping
and waking, avoidance Of injuri-
Gus food, the cultivation Of re-
straint, knowledge Of how to deal
with the beginnings Of illness, ae-
duaintance with personal peculiari-
ties, some of which are sure to be
of an unwholesome nature-au
these things, and many others Of
ike importance. ought to be abb
sorbed by the young as they absorb
a knowledge Of their mother
tongue.
This great war is a wonderful
teacher Of the laws Of health.
Aside from the marvels Of surgery
that it has given birth TO, it has
impressed the principles Of health
full living upon millions Of minds,
and if, by good chance, the young
Americans who have recently an
swereded their country's call to
arms should, after all, not have to
shed their blood in battle for the
worlds freedom, they will have
acquired bodily virtues Of inesti-
mable value to themselves and to
coming generations.
The Washington times., 1917-07-08

Two calls, the philosophers say, supreme-the call
of God and the call of the state The state has commanded
its physically fit ten million more, to stand forth and be
counted that about twentehpar may be selected to bear
in defense of the nation tradition ancient
cety ITSELF and because and ancient therefore inevitably
foreign to the present generation in its true meaning.
This nation had indeed thought all ancient
history So had England and France Not another peo
pie in the world The price of that dssenson being
paid blood and To the end that peace
shall be unanimous object sincerely sought and sincerely
conserved the United States about to contribute freely of
its manhood. Already it has given of its money Soon
begins the taking of men, No democracy loves war; yet
resoutey does grid the ons when Lbery hand beckons
Youths the country have registered their for
service $4,000 in the District of Columbia This they do in
obedience to the command of the President issued by dec
ton of the Congress 1t is the law of the land made by the
of sovereignty set up by the people themselves
America it MEANS has entered road down which there is
no returning The march is forward War between the
United States and Germany declared April but only
does the call to reach the hearts of the citizens
But are the emotions of our youth the today as
they we're in 49, in 61f There less patriotism less
love of freedom less love for the rights of man, and
less ardor for human liberty yet there clear compehen
sion of issues today hafcentury ago. easy under
standing of terms. Goals still unxed the objects to
the layman, underlined.
All the more is the response to be considered as
markable feay to state calm confidence in chosen leaders
For the hosts come forward today some reluctantly TO be
sure some tmidy, anxiously regretful of
teria os fearful of DEATH maccusomed to sacr
fee but the great ungudgngy resigned to the wisdom
of the Government that declares the state in danger and the
liberties of its people menaced by the germ of Weltmacht
Europe went to in frenzy of strange JOY, with
bands playing, flags ayng, hearts beating and minds hu
manly Indifferent what the future held in store America
goes in different spirit in much less enthusiastic mood it,
indeed enthusiastic at all. America has two and
half years of war; the ecstases gone the victories
ephemera the paths of glory leading often to the grave
and the decision still at anxious distance.
The Washington times., 1917-07-08
The Spirit of a Nation
CONSUMPTION Law Means-The Issues of the War;
ans-The Issues of the War.
By DAVID LAWRENCE.

History must record the courageous therefore,
the deliberate step of the United States For to enter the
most destructive of all wars having witnessed in horrible
detail the completeness of its swoop surely to be assessed
differently from the mpusive plunge at the very beginning
when victory always and enemys strength
simple of exhaustion. America entered with full
knowledge of what the casualties might be- of the suffering
and death that had BEEN America entered nevertheless
not in anger to wreak revenge not to gain territory out
lets to the national advantages but for IDEAL the
ideal that all created free and equal and have
right the pursuit of human happiness The free states
wrought BY an advancing civilization stood in danger from
without their happiness and life threatened Mitarism,
brushness the rule of the hand instead of the rule of the
mind had out of Prussia in hungry fame msguidedy
thinking to illuminate the world, but resolving, the
less to burn away that which others had by genera
tions thoughtfuy bulded if only to accomplish its object
America still wants peace. Its hundred of millions Sc
crety pray for it. They yearn for it. do the mothers
and fathers of the German youth and the mothers and
fathers of British YOUTH and the mothers and fathers of
French youth No suppress that yearnng But
there peace the wise who lead this nation
and sister peoples until the philosophy of Prussianism
defeated until the German people themselves realize the
stupendous failure of the mtarists who essayed world
domination until the people of the Central Empires under
stand that they have given away of their life and
character than they possibly regain by prolonged ad
hesion marisc system. 1t is prevent the spread
of philosophy containing germs of destruction to human
liberty that America calls her able bodied today
And while fighting that disease it is essential
that some of leaders and OUR OWN PEOPLE
SHALL NOT FALL VICTIM TO THE SCOURGE ITSELF.
Mitarsm the rule of military necessity is contagious once
is declared. The who go forth to fight those
who will be of the fortunate half million who shall
be selected to defend the honor of the nation will journey
across the sea check the flow of marism the
Somme to drive back whence it in the hope that
it may die eventually of its demonstrated impotency
therefore the duty of those who stay at home Amer
lea that while the youth of the country check mill
tarsm the battlefront there shall arise its counter
part homehat the issues of democratic control dear
American hearts shall not be caught in the fire of military
necessity, which knows lava philosophy that rent
Europe asunder and made it the cadron it today Only
by the crushing of that philosophy the world be made
safe for democracy.
The Washington times., 1917-07-08
You Pay Too Much For Electric
Light In Washington
Continued from First COIumn-)

It read: "sir: pay five thousand dollars year for
the exclusive use of this pew.
Evans wrote on the same card: 'You pay too damn
much" and handed back the card.
What Fighting Bob Evans said to the Episcopahan,
say politely to the people of Washington and add
you ought not to stand it.
Washington pays too much for electricity and the reason
is as clear as electric light.
The dear street company is the RIGHT hand, the
electric power company the LEFT hand of the p
vate ownership
The power company sells its current for next nothing
to its dear brother the carhen doubles and tbles
the price of the current that YOU use to make little
honest profit
You pay too much that the car trust may pay
little.
But you won't pay too much always if you make
a fight with newspaper to tell about it.
This newspaper acquainted with either the left
right hand that nice private ownership electric individual
But we acquainted with of the methods of inter-
rupting corporation robbery. YOU WILL GET YOUR
ELECTRIC CURRENT CHEAPER, fellow citizens if you
care to take the trouble.
The real remedy of course for corporation exortion
OWNERSHIP BY THE PEOPLE OF PUBLIC UTILITIES
This will all the United States and ought to
come to Washington FIRST OF ALL
The GOVERNMENT is here hundreds of thousands Of
intelligent CITIZENS here The Government and the
intelligent citizens between them establish in Washing
ownership and vndcate the democratic idea
that the people should rule themselves
The corporations that have hitherto exploited the public
enrichng and supporting each other always putting the
load on the pubics back will if they wse light
in time.
Government ownership TODAY could be arranged
basis of fair compensation for real value Government
ership DELAYED and complicated by much corporation
rascaty might result in serious loss to private ownership
Ask the who interested in express companies be-
fore the parcels post came in.
The Washington times., 1917-07-08

'Is the time far OF when we shall
have health evangelists as well as
soul evangelists like Billy Sunday?
This would be q wonderful world II
we could place q powerful speaker
In that big tabernacle after Mr..
Sunday gets through and let him
make an equally effective appeal
for health preservation and the
building up Of the body.-S. w. r"
T THINK you are right as to the
good effects that might be
wrought by an evangel Of
health. A revival Of interest
IN the care Of the body would be a
vast aid TO the cause Of the right
kind Of religion, which is not the
kind that often characterizes
minds weakened by physical ema-
citation and choked by the weeds
Of superstition, which flourish with
special luxuriance when the brain
Is iIl-nourished.
should suppose that Mr.. Sun
day himself would have more con-
hdence in q "trail-hitter' whose
nerves, arteries, and muscles were
in good working condition than in
a downeast dyspeptic or q vietiP
Of malnutrition in any Of its
forms. We ought to renew in
some way the old Greek apprecia-
ton Of the beauty Of q healthy
body. After all, the body is the
basis Of all human effort, achieve
ment, and enjoyment.
Everybody wants to live as long
as he can and as pleasurably as
he can on this earth, no matter
what his views may be as to the
place or nature Of future existence.
Even John Bunyan was in no
hurry to reach the bank Of the
deep, dark river that marked the
end Of the wanderings Of his i'm
mortal Pilgrim.
Aseetics who teach and prac-
tice the modification Of the body
have done no good to the cause Of
religion and much harm to that Of
civilization
On the other hand, It is easy to
overcultivate the bodily instincts
An athlete, as such, is not an ad-
mirable representative Of homo
sapiens, notwithstanding his i'm
mense repute in ancient Greece.
Artists who find nothing worthy of
their brush or their chisel but the
naked human form are not pro-
noting q healthy civilization. Col
lege boys who devote one hour to
intellectual work and eight hours
The Washington times., 1917-07-08
You Pay Too Much for Electric
Light in Washington
This Can Be Stopped and Will Be Stopped If Those That
Pay the Bills Care to Take the Trouble
What is needed in these days is plain speaking.

What is needed in these days is plain speaking.
The well known Fighting Bob Evans feeling the need
Of religious consolation, entered respectable Episcopal
Church in New York City. He. picked out the best
pew and down-next to stiff old gentleman and his
prim SON. The old gentleman stared severely took
card, wrote on it, and handed it to the sailor.
CONTINUED Bottom Of Last Column)
The Washington times., 1917-07-08
LAST WORD TO BUYERS

To shoppers and all buyers in Washington, The Sunday
Times says THE LAST WORD.
The last thing Sunday evening, the first thing re-
membered Monday morning by the careful housewife the
thoughtful buver, is WASHINGTON SUNDAY TIMES ADJ
VERTISEMENTS.
Merchants and other advertisers find the LAST chance and
the BEST chance to impress the public buying mind on Sunday
in The Sunday Evening Times-he home paper.
The Washington times., 1917-07-08
Speaker Champ Clark ALMOST
the Father of Woman Suffrage
and Flying Machines
Let Him Work Now to Realize His Vision

In prophetic vision Mr. Champ Clark fOresaw the flying
machine and Woman Suffrage simultaneously We sent a
reporter ask him just when he adopted Woman Suffrage
as his child Here is his reply:
So far as now remember my first public utterance
the subject of Woman Suffrage made in speech de-
lvered in Bowling Green, No. home town. July A. 1890
And here is an extract from the speech which Mr.
Clark refers delivered twenty years ago. when he was
very young man:
"Gaileo correct-the world moves; and it moves
rapidly time Many subjects bruited Sun
dry things prophesied Among these flying
chimes and Woman Suffrage Both certain to come
the rising of tomorrows American ingenuity will
accomplish the first. American of fair play and
justice win bring the latter since first got
the hang of the Declaration of independence have be-
heved that Woman Suffrage is inevitable. There is
wisdom in buttng heads against stone wal-it is
coming, not tomorrow, but it is the way"
have not changed my opinion those two subjects
since We have the flying machines and Darius Green is
indicated Woman Suffrage is making amazing progress
the first Speaker to administer the oath of office
female Representative in Congress My twenty-seven-
yearOd prediction is being fulfilled than thought
CHAMP CLARK
TWAS wise useful Champ Clark vision that put Woman
Suffrage and the flying machine together And curiousy
enough the flying machine and Woman Suffrage are arriving
together.
The flying machine completes the transportation prob
lem.
Woman Suffrage will complete democracy's problem.
The flying machine changed mans view of the earth
and his conduct of From height of thousands of feet
the flying earth stretching out before him. and by
wireless telegraphy tells what the enemy is doing
When shall have been carried to greater heights of
democracy by Woman Suffrage the human will have
better clearer view of government and will be better
race
Mr. Clark who knows that TODAY is the only day for
good work should his important power bring about
NOW the realization of his vision of years ago.
There could be better day for doing justice than
this day of war; with the of enrolled for service
and for death.
The time has gone by for classifying with In
dians, idiots, children, and the lower animals
The nation will deserve greater the for JUS
tce that has been forced upon will find the time NOW to
do justice the millions of American women that supply
soldiers to the army and courage to the nation.
Rather inconsistent to ask the Kaiser for justice to the
world while America refuses justice to women.
The Washington times., 1917-07-08

Heavy heavy, what hangs over" The to this
ancient conundrum will be given by surprised spies
The Washington times., 1917-07-08
WASHING
Evangel of Health Might Be
Preached in Temples

The Gospel of the Care of the Body Would Be More
Efficiently Taught at Home and in the Schools-Teach
Your Children the Laws of Health by Example
D. .aEA D Sau;.a
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-12-19
REGULATIONS MADE
FOR GRAIN M|lLERS

New York, Dec. 19.-In the regu-
lations prescribed by the food ad-
ministration for the guidance of
millers announced yesterday, are the
following:
mo licensee. after December 20,
shall use more than 264 pounds of
clean wheat in making ls6 pounds
OF 100 per cent flour"
From the 100 per cent flour so
produced the licensee may at his op-
tion remove not more than five per
cent OF clear or low grade flours,
none OF which may be mixed with or
sold as feed. The 95 per cent OF the
1876 pounds of flour remaining shall
not be subject to further sepasation
or division.
Bran Is to be sold at price per
ton not exceeding 3S per cent Of the
average cost Of wheat to the miller
Shorts" and "mlddlings" are to be
sold at approximately 50 per ton
above the price OF bran, mixed feeds
at not more than 81 above this basis
and flour mlddlings at not more
than 50 above the price Of bran.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-12-19
DANIELS QU|zZED
BY CONGRESSMAN


Washington, Dee. Secretary
Daniels was the nrpt witness before
the house naval affairs committee
investigating the activities OF the
naval department.
He told how the navy was build
Ing isi ships and said that he was
proud OF the way the navy had met
the test. A sharp tin occurred be-
tween the secretary and Congress
man Brltten when Britten asked
what complaints had been made to
his department by Admiral slmms.
Daniels replied that Simms had been
given everything that the depart
ment could give.
lie characterized any contrary ru-
mors as "a mess of gossip" which
shouldn't be banded about" He
said there was perfect understand
ing between Admiral Sims and the
department.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-12-19
EVEN LEGAL ADVISORS FAIL TO
COMPLY WITH PLAINLY STAT
ED DIRECTIONS
STIFF PENALTY FOR FASEHOOD
Federal Attorney Issues Another
Warning Against Attempts to Get
Into Preferred Classification

Portland. Dec. l9.-The adjutant
generals ONCE has again sent out
a warning urging all reglstrants to
exercise extreme care In the filling
out OF the questionnaires sent them.
Untrue answers are apt to bring
down upon the head OF the maker
thereof severe punishment.
In this connection an Official
warning that should be carefully
noted by every draft registrant has
Just been issued by Clarence L..
Reames. United States attorney for
Oregon. This warning says:
I'm connection with the filling
out OF the questionnaires. word has
been received from the attorney
general to prosecute vigorously
those who make statements therein
that are false.
I'm view OF the fact that false
statements In support OF claims for
exemption or deferred classification
constitute grave menace TO the
fair and equitable enforcement Of
conscription. we have been request
ed to give wide publicity to the fact
that such material false statements,
even when the facts have been dis
torted only slightly. will be prompt
ly prosecuted
Attention should be further d.
rected to the fact that all exemp-
tions and discharges made prior to
noon on December Is will thereaf-
ter have no validity. and to the fact
that every person who has registered
and is not yet In military service Is
required to fill out a questionnaire.
Draft registrants may rest assu,ed
that the personal questions they are
Obliged to answer In regard to their
domestic business conditions will
be seen only by the proper authori-
ties. Members OF local and district
boards are forbidden under severe
penalty from divulging such infor-
nation.
Even though registrant is per-
fectly sure he understands all that
is required, in the. auestionnaire. for
his own protection he should con-
suit one OF the members OF the var
ious legal advisory boards for ad-
vice. This legal advice is free.
Questlonnaires are now being sent
out by local boards at the rate OF
five per cent each day, except Sum
...s------
IH~AiA -
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-12-19
AGAIN IT'S REPORTED
DOtSHENMI FAILING

Stockholm. Dec. 1s.-The Maxi
malist regime is slowly but surely
riding to fall.
Information from travellers reach
ing here as we'll as anti-Bolsheviki
newspapers smuggled by way of
Haparanda indicate even the Petro-
grad garrison no longer supports
the I.enine-Trotsky ring.
Twenty-six OF Russia's provinces
and territories have formally re-
fused recognition of the Bolsheviki
government" Every Bolsheviki
claim from Petrograd must be heavi-
ly discounted.
Terrorism reigns in Petrograd,
The cleverest intriguers of the old
Russian regime are aiding the ex-
tremists in playing on the minds OF
the ignorant masses of the soldiers
by fairy tales that there will be an
Immediate revolution in Germany.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-12-19
HOG SHIPMENTS ARE
SWAMP|NG PACKERS


Chicago. Dec. 19.-Owing to
transportation difficulties, there Is a
glut of hogs on the Chicago market
and more than the packers can con-
veniently handle, so that there is a
tendency for drop In price below
the $3.50 per 100 which J P. Cot
ton, head Of the meat section of the
food administration. informed stock
men would be the minimum price.
Mr.. Cotton today reaffirmed that
statement and asked farmers to hold
back their hogs for that or better
prices until the packers could get
caught up with their work.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-12-19
LONDON VISITED
BY ANOTHER RAID
sixteen TO Twenty Aeroplanes Try
to Bomb NetropoIis-KiIIing Ten
nm InJuring Seventy

London, Dec. 1s.-Ten persons
were killed and seventy injured in
London during last nights air raid
outside OF London. five we're In
jured.
One German aeroplane was sbo,
down and another is believed 10
have been destroyed. From 1s n
20 raiders engaged n the attack
They divided into six groups each
group endeavoring to get over the
city but only five plains succeeded
In dropping bombs within the CITY
limits.
An oficial announcement OF the
raid says:
Hostile airplanes crossed the
Essex and Ken coast about s:15
O'Clock and proceeded toward Lon.
don. Some Of the raiders reached
the London district and dropped
bombs. Bombs also we're dropped In
Kent and Essex.
Reports Of casualties and damag,
have not yet been received. Oul
guns and airplanes we're both in ac
tion."
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-12-19
ATTEMPT UPON HOME
Of GOV.;; Terrorism

Sacramento, Dec. 19.-Governor
Stephens last night gave out a state
ment in which he says that the at
tempt to dynamite his home was due
simply to the reign of terrorism
among the pro-German and l. w. w.
enemies within our gates
Combined efforts Of the police, the
sheriff's forces and scores of individ-
uals, up to an early hour tonight.
had failed to produce any tangible
clue to the identity Of the persons
responsible for the explosion.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-12-19
FRISCO MAN IS SHOT
BY DIVORCED WIFE

San Francisco, Dec. 19.-With
three bullet wounds in his back,
Frank DaRoux lies lowering be-
tween life and death inca local hos
pital as the result OF an attack upon
him by his recently divorced wife,
on crowded down town street.
Mrs. DsRoux accompanied her
former husband to the hospital fol-
lowing which she was arrested. The
immediate cause of the shooting was
DaRouxs refusal to remove an at
tachment he had placed upon his
ex-wife's furniture.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1917-12-19
OREGON CITY MILLS
ROASTED BY MISSION

Portland. Dec. l9.--The report of
President Wilson's labor commits
sion. headed by Secretary OF Labor
Wilson. made public today, says that
their efforts to settle the Oregon
City paper mills strike failed be-
cause the officials of the Crown Will
lamette Paper Co.. with headquar-
ters In San Francisco, refused to ar
bitrate. The report criticizes these
officials severely, saying that the
strikers offered to agree to any set
tlement made by the arbltrators.