Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-10-12

tnE Ndls MISS 2u0nAlC Ac Aut
of several books dealing with the Ore
gon country, including ga Story of
Oregon" and "Happy Valley" At
the time of the Panama Pacific Expo |
sition, Miss Munroe was the CORE
spondent at the fair for Portland pa
per and contributed numerous newsy
letters concerning the Oregon building
and Oregon visitors.
In her sketch in the Red Cross mag
azine, she points out the intense ma
tive patriotism of the west, and espe-
cially that west comprising the i'm
mense cattle and sheep ranches of east
ern Oregon, that region sweeping from
the Columbia river south to the bor-
ders of California and Nevada, which
embraets at least two thirds of the
state of Oregon. She pictures with
graphic deftness the endless business
of cattle, the breeding, buying, sell
ing and lassoing of cattle, the minutiae
of ranch life with its environment of
cook house, bunk house, and in short,
the hundred and one picturesque de-
ails, that combine to make frontier
life thing Of eeaseless fascination to
the fictiOn-bred eye of the easterner.
Then Miss Munroe flashes the high
light of war on all this teeminG ad
venturOus activity and the spirit which
rose to meet the demands of the war,
Probably" says Miss Munroe,
among all the industries of the Ma
tion none is so crippled as the cattle
industry, whose operation requires men
experienced both in the work and in
the country, The work of the stock
country is not learned in book, nor
in season. But just what do they do,
those left at the back of the north
western cantonments2 The detail, af-
ter all is unimportant when the spirit
is right; and the spirit-well, they
are the old men and the women folk
and the children of those who have
gone to the front; and they applied
themselves heroically to the task.
"And the hOmesteaders, so eager to-
get on with their plans-well, they saw
they couldn t do it this time. The
dream would have to wait. All the lit
tie cabins that housed so much hope
are empty, and the tented cities have
vanished; their occupants have gone
to help save the crops on the already
producing ranches-women, young boys
and old men have mounted moving
machines and swallowed dust while
they toiled from sunrise to sunset.
Young women in towns heard of the
pressing need for workers in the hay
fields and joined the ranch women; In
one locality 5000 city school teachers
offered their vacations for the next
year. -
mo-" Miss Munroe goes on, call
the bravery has not gone to the front
and all the loyalty is not in the east.
The war work of the women in the
northwest has by no means been con-
fined to supplanting the men in fields
and shops. They have shouldered the
burden of meeting Red Cross needs as
staunchly as though that alone were
their war responsibility. The Red Gross
is thoroughly organized throughout all
the western states with a membership
in many almost tallying with the pop
ulation.
The writer mentions among other well
known features of Red Cross activity,
the Superfluity shops, the Salvage
stores the berry picking of the school
children to accumulate earnings for
the Red Cross, and this, as yet, novel
mode of contribution in country dis,
triets:
"Every morning." she says, ''young
women go into the cities and towns
with baskets full of rosebuds which
they sell on the streets for the Red
Cross; the ladies' aid societies of the
churches have automatically become
Red Cross societies, as have so many
of the organized clubs; all this in ad-
dition to the knitting which seems to
have no beginning and no end. =
GA short time ago." Miss Munroe
Loyalty reminds us, the name Ore
gon was flashed over the wires as
the first state over the top in the
third liberty loan; she had been well
among the first in the second liberty
loan and in the first liberty loan, and
also in supplying Red Cross ammuni-
tion and in getting her full quota OF
enlisted men at the presidents first
call for volunteers. She has not been
Stacker in any department of nation
al service since we entered the great
war,-and Oregon pretty well repre-
sents all the other western state"
LARGE number of the members and
friends of the First Baptist church
partieipated in a pleasant social, held
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