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The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
Draft Board Asked to Explain

A letter received last week from Ad.
jutant General Williams by the draft
board called for an explanation of the
small number of men listed from this
county in Class /. The cotinty's "a
men, out of 600 registered, designated
as available for call is declared below
the average. If local conditions are OF
such peculiar nature as to warrant the
condition, board is asked to furnish ar
explanation before April 10, and if the
explanation is satisfactory. the classi-
fication will be allowed to stand The
letter, however, states that the full
burden of making the explanation
rests on the board
Members of the board state that the
small number in Class is easily ex-
planned when Hood River county's vol
unteer record is shown. Estimates
place the volunteers at from $50 to 30C
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
Bouquet For Local Merchants

So far as our observation goes the
merchants of Forest Grove and Hood
River are the best newspaper avertis-
er in Oregon outside the big cities.
For long time the Hood River Glacier
carried advertising regularly for every
line of business represented in the
town. While the record is not quite SO
good as that now, the merchants there
are alert, and the columns Of the Gla-
cier are we'll filled all the year round
with live, up to date advertising. New
berg has few good advertisers among
the business firms, but for number of
them no slumber robe is needed l. they
repose peacefully as it is.-Newberg
Graphic.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
fRANkTON OPENS
BOND CAMPAIGN

The Hood River county Liberty Bond
camaign was opened Friday night al
the Frankton district school where
patriotic talks were delivered by l.. 3.
Gibson and Rev. NJ. L. Hutton. Al
the meeting the Frankton service flag.
on which appear Is names, was dedi-
Gated, the presentation being made by
NJ. r. Noble
The Frankton boys in the service
are: Virgil Austen. Donald Nickel
sen, Carl Copper. Ivan Scheer. Archie
Eastman, Elliott Staten, Clayton Hepp-
ner, John and Burt Ledford, Ray
Nicholson. Merrill Miller, Arthur Kerr,
Edward Kreig, Earl Eby, Ramon
Glass. Fred Roberts. Avis Stockton
and Lodi Stockton. Children Of the
school participated in the program.
Mr.. Hutton was at Wyeth at noon
Saturday where he addressed employees
at the creosoting plant and coal bunk
erS of the 0.-W. X. & n. Co. The
men. it is said, will practically all sub
scribe for bonds.
Films left with us up to clock p. IN.
are ready for delivery the next evening.
Slocom 4 Garfield Co. m23ti
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11

In the District Court of the United States, fol
the District of oregon.
In the Matter of +. II. Shepard and Alice +
shepard, Bankrupts;
No 4720 in Bankruptcy.
Notice is hereby given that on the 9th day
OF March, A d. 1918, f. H. Shepherd and Alice
f. Shepherd, Of Hood River oregon. the
bankrupts above named, were duly adjndi
Gated bankrupt; and that the first meeting d
their creditors will be held at my office, sth
Floor Title 4 Trust Building, Portland, ore
gon, on the 9th dayof April, 1915, at $3.50 +. NJ.
at which time said creditors may attend
prove their claims, appoint trustee, examine
the bankrupts, and transact such other busi
ness as may properly come before said meet
ing
Claims must be presented In form required
by the Bankruptcy Act, and sworn 10.
4. M. CANNON, Referee In Bankruptcy.
Dated March ~, 1918.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
MRS. CASTNER WILL
GO TO CONVENTION

= Mrs. c. H. Castner, president of the
Oregon State Federation of Women S
clubs and chairman of the Woman g
Committee of the Oregon Council of
Defense, will leave on April 25 for
Hot Springs, Ark, where she will
attend the biennial convention of the
National Federation.
Following the convention, Mrs. Cast
ner will proceed to Washington, ID. c.,
where she will attend a conference of
the Woman's Committee of the Ma
tional Council of Defense. Mrs.
Castner is now busily engaged in
organizing the women forces of the
state to conduct campaign for the
sale of War Saving Stamps,
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
ASBURY WOMEN GET
FIRST BOND RECEIPT

The first receipt for an application
for a bond of the Third Liberty Loan
has been issued by the local committee
to the Asbury Methodist Church Ladies
Aid, who have used the funds in their
treasury for the purchase of 500
bond.
Applications for bonds reached well
toward the $4,000 mark Saturday.
Z. W Wooley. The Dalles representa-
tive of the Oregon Life Insurance Co.,
announced that Hood River county
would receive a 81, 600 apportionment
of his company loan subscription.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
Nature Cures, the Doctor Takes Fee

There is an old saying that mature
cures, the doctor takes the fee" but
as everyone knows you can help Ma
ture very much and thereby enable it
to effect a cure in much less time thar
is usually required. This is particu-
larly true of colds. Chamberlain s
Cough Remedy relieves the lungs, pur.
ifies the tough mucus and aids in its
expectoration, allays the cough anC
aids Nature in restoring the system tt
a healthy condition,
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
Notice to Creditors.

Ia the County Court OF the State of oregon,
for Hood River County.
In the Matter of the Estate of Thomas J Piles,
Deceased.
Notice is hereby given that the undersigned
has been appointed administrator OF the Es-
of the State OF Oregon, for Hood River County
and has qualified as such. All persons hav-
ing claims against said estate are hereby re-
quired to present the same. duly verified ac-
o0rding to law, tosthe Undersigned admins
traitor, within six months from the date of
this notice, at the office Of A. j. Derby First
National Bank Building, Hood River. Ore.
Dated and first published April 4th, 1918.
DAVID PILES,
m2 Administrator
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
Fir Road Graded

The county is now engaged in grad.
ing the highway connecting the orchard
district of the East Side with the Fir
district, located in the timbered belt
to the east of the valley. Later the
road will be graveed. With the con-
struction by H. M. Sidney of saw
mill at Fir, traffic over the road has
become heavy,
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
Rheumatic Pains Relieved

81 have used Chamberlain S Lini.
ment for pains in the chest and lame
ness of the shoulders due to rheuma-
tism, and am pleased to say that it has
never failed to give me prompt re-
lief, - writes Mrs. s. n. Finch, of
Batavia, N. Y.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11
Farmer Bulletins for Housewives


by writing to Supt. of Documents,
Dept. of Agriculture, Washington, D.
c.:
No. 807. Bread and Bread Making
in the Home.
No. S0S. How to Select Foods.
No. 824. How to Select Foods.
No. SIT. How to Select Foods.
293 Use of Milk as Food.
No. 900. Homemade Fruit Buffers.
No. 87l. Fruits and Vegetables as
Conservers Of Staples.
No. 359. Canning Vegetables in the
Home.
No. III. Food for Young Children.
No 653 Honey and its Use in the
Home.
No. 565. Corn Meal and Ways of
Using it.
No. 249 Cereal Breakfast Foods.
No. 39l. Ect 1omical Use of Meat in
the Home.
No. Sal. Drying Fruit and Vege.
tables in the Home.
No 9l3. Curing Pork on the Farm.
No 1856. Garden Diseases and Insect
Control.
No. 1885, Beautifying the Home
Grounds.
No. 2l0. Modern Conveniences for
the Farm Home.
No. GOT. The Farm Kitchen as a
Workshop.
No. 36l. Removal of Stains from
Clothing and other Textiles.
Martha Fl. Bechen.
The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1918-04-11

Films, Cameras, Photo Supplies. -
Slocom Garfield Co, ms.tl
The Washington times., 1918-02-28
A Little Telephone History
netting Many Of Us Have FOrxOtteu-But 1t Is RstF
Bit Of Experience to Recall Right Now.
By EARL GODWIN.


Washington once had 500 rate for unlimited telephone
service
Congress sought to reduce this rate $50 in the act
The telephone company contested the act of Congress
and the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia held the
act unconstitutional.
1t is probable that the Supreme Court Of the District
of Columbia today would act differently.
The ground of decision that the rates fixed by Con-
gress unreasOnaby low the evidence being the tes
mony and accounts of the Chesapeake and Telephone
Company In 1898 the company had few than 1000
telephones in here and receiving average of 500
Tor every telephone IN 1t estimated that the new
law would cut the average receipts 7 per telephone
The company paying about $50 per phone In inter
est and dividends and was paying $500 per phone to the
Bell Telephone Company for and ransttes used
by subscribers and for various telephone appliances The
company claimed an average annual working expense OF
$720 per phone and the capitalization $40 per phone
of which 500 in bonds and the remainder in stock
The actual value of the plant found to be SAL 1856
against $95OOOO capitalization less than 500 real eap
tai per phone instead OF the $4,000 OF existing stocks and
bonds making the fair capital charge not $40 phone
instead of 500 large part of the 1920 due to the fact
that the telephone company had plant that not used
anywhere its capacity and this in turn probably
accounted for by the high rates then charged
large part of the capital outlay for underground
construction Business could have been increased without
great increase in material 1t is entirely possible that
the rates enacted by Congress had been put operation
the subscription list would have expanded greatly and 1T IS
probable that the real capital per phone would have been
speedily reduced to the neghborhood of 500 $50 at most
The claim of 81 per phone for working expenses seems
absurd when compared with the working for te
phones the widely scattered buildings connected with the
Interior Department at that time. This figure only
$6 AZ The same company which claimed it could
duce its rates from $OO to $50 made similar claim when
the Department of the Interior asked for rate reduction
The Government then put in its phones and the service
cost only $O25 for maintenance, operating cost depreca
tion and interest place of the $75 per phone originally
paid by the Government to the corporation.
At the time the people of Grand Rapids Wis, grew
tired of paving the Bell interest from $50 to 8 and asked
for reduction The corporation said it could not be DONE
The people took hold of the matter and installed service
of their at So year for residence and $o per Or
business telephones.
The Washington times., 1918-02-28
And yet I'll bet he fOrgets 10 mail
his Wife's letters.

his Wtfe's letters
The champion letter mailer Of
this or any other town is F. N.
CARR.
He mails an average Of 2,315, 29S
letters and packages a day.
He had mailed on February %,
162, 066, 1928 pieces of mail since he
started to keep track of it, about
two months previous.
In one day he sent over to Merritt
D. Chances postoffce SIS bags.
The Washington times., 1918-02-28
Peace, War, Mexico.
Continued from First Column


Another Red Gross drive in May. Another one hun
dred millions to be raised"
When money is taken from the public hundred
millions at time is it not unwise to have it managed by
private individuals responsible to nobody in particular?
Are not such sums sufficiently important to be managed
by the people the United States through the Government?
The Government apparently stands back of the Red
Cross drives The stamp of patriotism and almost Of COM
pulsion is put upon contributions.
How many hundreds of millions in all to be collected
in the name Of patriotism and spent by private individuals?
How much care shown in the auditing and spending Of
these gigantic sums?
To what extent does the Red Cross establish sort of
independent diplomatic body of its in Europe dealing
with foreign nations its account apart from the
United States-as for instance when the peoples govern
in Russia accused the Red Cross using its money and
its automobiles on behalf of the Cars faction?
few rich gentlemen chose to spend two three hun
dred millions of their money making friends in Europe
that would be all very well.
But when school children appealed to- and clerks
are almost blackmailed and business morally
creed into contributing such should be handled BY
THE GOVERNMENT and not by self chosen distributors
of national munhcence The Red Gross does much admirable
work But it do much well as the Government?
And should lin agency for the SOLDIER welfare remain
outside of Government control?
The Washington times., 1918-02-28
Old Mystery UnsOlved By
Best Men
By Garrett P. Serviss

experiments appear to have been
uneXceptionable in reputation for
honesty Of purpose and truthful
ness. Yet doubt remains whether
their work was conducted with all
the necessary precautions that
should surround an investigation
OF that kind.
Kinds Of Proofs.
One Of the greatest sources OF
deception is the failure to recOg-
nize the vast difference in the
kinds OF proof that are required to
establish different propositions. II
tomorrow morning, long after the
hour when the almanac says that
the sun should rise, the darkness
OF night continued. many ignorant
persons might jump to the conclu-
sion that the sun had gone out or
had failed rise; others a little
better informed would say that
the earth had stopped rotating;
but those who fully understood the
mechanism Of the solar system
would perceive the impossibility Of
a sudden extinction Of the sun or
an arrest of the earth's rotation
without the occurrence OF i'm
mensely more tragical conse-
quences than the simple continu-
ance Of nocturnal darkness. and
they would rightly look for the
cause of the phenomenon In the
earth's atmosphere without going
outside to find some unknown force
at work or some miraculous inter
ference taking place with the
regular processes OF nature.
You can find a good lesson in
your own letter. You say: Nov,
this table was exposed to all wit
nesses and was surely not raised
by the person or thing on the sly"
UnCuestionably you say exactly
what you believe, but your evil
dence would not be accepted IN a
court of science without cross-ex-
animation since you offer no ac-
count at all of the precautions, eX-
periments, etc, that you used to
test the correctness of the appear
anceS.
| do not mean to assert that
there is no force like that which
De Gasparin and Thury supposed
that they had discovered; ! only
mean to say that acceptable proof
of the existence Of such force or
of any other force beyond those
known to physics, has not yet been
produced. 1t would be folly to
aver that science knows every
thing about the forces of whose
existence it is already sure, and
that being so. its only proper
course when something not imme-
diately explainable occurs is to
strive to find the explanation in an
uncommon turn taken by other
wise familiar things.
The Washington times., 1918-02-28
Hold Tight To All The Joy
You Can
Wilson Woodrow.

and stamp every trifling dlscour-
agement or worry or disappoint-
ment as awful" And today,
when we are living through one
of the greatest crises of history
and the greatest cataclysm the
world has ever known, it is sure
~ necessary to hold tight to all
the joy, all the courage, all the
cheer we possess or can assidu-
ously cultivate. In the face Of
the tremendous tragedy of the
war it seems rather contemplate
to complain of petty personal in
conveniences.
know and l venture to say you
do, too, people who so persistent
" say, awful" that they don't
know when they are using it. l
cut my finger slightly the other
day. An acquaintance saw that
] wore no glove and that my hand
was bound and Immediately ex-
claimed:
Study People.
You've hurt your hand! How
awful! How perfectly dreadful"
1t was nothing of the kind. 1t
was temporarily announcement, and
that was all.
Why stress the unpleasant
things? Our days are mainly
made UP of trifes. moro difficult
than agreeable in many lives. But
why concentrate our attention on
the difficult things. and thus weave
for ourselves an irritating shirt Of
Nessus?
Who are the happy people you
know? Have you ever made a
study of them? They are those
who feel and express the Joy Of
life. and would still feel It and still
express it in poverty, in sickness
and in sorrow. They ask very
little Of existence; for they are the
people with a yisiOn-the inward
vison Of beauty. and beauty SHIN
mers about them wherever their
feet are turned.
! know a woman who was living
for a time IN a sky-light room with
only one narrow window in il, SO
near the ceiling that one had 20
stand ON a chair to look out Of II.
She didn't, however. call attention
10 that fact; she always spoke OF
it AS her Eastern window OF di-
vine surprise" She rejOiced in the
way the sun fell through it early
in the morning, and said it was
like frame enclosing a wonder
full picture of the sky.
I do not remember the details o.
that room, whether 1t held rare and
intrinsically beautiful things or
cheap and commonplace ones. !
recall only its effect Of beauty aud
its atmosphere of charm and re-
pose.
Thou hast been in Eden. the
garden OF God, and thy vesture is
as a ruby"
The Washington times., 1918-02-28
By Mrs .
SN'T it awful?

ISN'T it awful?
How often do you hear that
= phrase? Every day. More
times than you can count if your
experience corresponds to mine.
And it is very rarely used in ref
erence to some deep personal al
Fiction or universal calamity. 1t
usually describes some entirely
trivial happening forgotten as soon
as it is told.
There isn't one person in ten
using the phrase habitually who
really means it. Its constant eX-
preston is largely a matter of
habit. 1t falls automatically and
mechanically from the lips.
Then, too, a rather mOurnful
outlook on life is supposed TO in
dictate stability of character. II
we laugh too much and enjoy
things too gaily we are convicted,
in the microscopic minds of all
this worlds prize and solemn
asses, of frivolity and lightness OF
nature. A serious mien and re-
pressed manner is taken as the
outward and visible sign of in
ward profundity. 1t Is a sort of
a hold-over from the old Puritan
ideals.
The condemnation Of the Isn't
it-awful people falls heavily upon
the weather. The weather Is a
universal scapcgoat. If the sky is
so cloudlessly bright and the air
so deliciously fresh that it would
stamp one as a hopeless knocker
TO cavil at it, we hear the languid
and grudging admission: Nice
day, isn't it? Heaven knows we
need it, after the awful way It
rained yesterday
The fact is that we find long
succession of sunshiny days mo-
notonousl we want them sand
wiched between a few RAINY ones
Just for variety.
Behold, a Vision.
The other evening / was hurry
ing down the avenue at twilight.
1t had been a sloppy day, but just
as | lifted my eyes to see if an
other rainfall was imminent | saw
a vision of beauty. The tower
cleaned impalpable and evanes-
cent through hazcs of fog, and
behind it the moon swung up be-
tween the flying black clouds. 1t
was dreamlike and mysterious.
Then suddenly a harsh, unmodu-
lated, feminine voice disturbed my
contemplation.
THE crossings are awful, it
said. 1.-THE walking is simply
horrible today"
Why is it not the part of true
philosophy to determine to take
the days as they come, enjoying
to the full the pleasant things
and minimizing the discomforts?
Why always qualify our pleasures
The Washington times., 1918-02-28

THE other day l witnessed
surprising action at a friends
house. A table was exposed in
the center of the room and the
guests were invited TO put their
hands on the table with their
palms downward. During an
hours time a person would ask
the table to rise, and the table
would rise according TO the times
It was asked to. Now, this table
was exposed TO all witnesses and
was surely not raised by person
or thing on the sly. Would appre-
Ciste an explanation. &C. r..
Bronx, y. ""
THE curious phenomenon that
you witnessed, known as
"table-turning" or table
tipping" has played a large part
in modern mysticism. In the mid
die of the last century, when
spiritualism was a new sensation,
table = turning was popular
method OF getting into communi-
cation with the Spirits" Michael
Faraday proved by means of a
very simple apparatus, consisting
essentially of a table with a
double top, the upper one resting
upon balls supported by the lower
one, that it was the hands of the
sitterS that moved the table, and
not the. table that moved the
hands.
Scientific Tests.
In some of its alleged forms,
however, the phenomenon assumes
the character Of deviation" i. e.,
the whole table is said to rise
bodily from the floor and pass
from one place to another, drag
ging" the sitters (who must now
be standers) along with it. Such
conduct on the part of an inani-
mate object-if anything of the
kind ever really occurs--is not so
easily explained by the operation
of known physical laws. 1t is only
fair to say that about 1854, when
table turning was attracting much
attention, both in America and in
Europe, the Count de Gasparin, as
sisted by Prof. Thury, Of Geneva,
Switzerland, convinced themselves
by a series Of experiments con-
Quoted without the aid of profess
siOnal mediums, that there exists
some unknown force, which they
called "ectenic force" associated
with human beings and capable Of
moving objects, such as a table,
even without physical contact.
What their idea of the nature Of
this supposed force was is indi-
Gated by the name they gave it,
"ectenic," coming from a Greek
word meaning strain" They I'M
agined that the state Of strain TO
which the nervous systems of the
sitters, or operators, we're sub
jected by long fixing Of the atten-
ton produced or brought into nc
ton a force capable of acting
across space upon material objects.
The persons concerned In these
The Washington times., 1918-02-28
HEARD AND SEEN

FRANK WOoDFIELD reminds me
that the Chamber of Commerce
Booster Committee meets, at luncheon
tomorrow In the Chamber Of Com
mercs quarters.
The Washington times., 1918-02-28
Peace, War, Mexico
And Things in General.

Mr. ROdeheaver, William A. Sundays musical genius,
will fly over Washington initiating the Angel Gabriel and
playing Brighten the Corner Where You Are
Francois Noije of 1904 street northwest, writes:
Were Gabriel doing that musical stunt would sing
play, Where Do We Go from Here?' -
Very appropriate song What would you suggest?
Senator Lodge the arisocrat of the Senate (dans lie
royaume DIES aveuge les borgnes ros finds that Mr.
Hoover is Handicapped by railroads" Mr.. Lodge and
other distinguished Republicans could deficiencies in
the rairoads-whle private had control of them
They railroad troubles only now after Government
The Washington times., 1918-02-28
Real Estate Item.

Real Estate Items
PARKER ANDERSON was notified
that his real estate in Cleveland Park
was being sold for taxes. Whereupon
Mr.. Anderson tore the roof off the
District Building and reminded the
tax bill boys that he had asked four
times for bill, each time to be told
his property was not listed. In other
words that he had no house and lot.
Come to find out they had given his
Cleveland Park property an address
which would place 1t in the middle OF
the Potomac river. about where the
Three Sisters Islands are.
The Washington times., 1918-02-28

Two colored boys had a fight in
the rear of Arcade market and
Sherman Grant was slashed across
the shoulder and hand with a knife.
He was taken to Emergency Hos
pital.
The Washington times., 1918-02-28

MAJOR ]. C. HEMPHILL took me
to Huston Thompson's Bible Class
Sunday. Half the best men in town
were there-the other half were
asleep.
The Washington times., 1918-02-28

Mr.. Thompson's Bible address was
a wonder. Another feature was AL
ONO TWEEDALE passing the hat.
Another was the appointment OF
RUDOLPH KAUFMAN as pub
licity director for the class.
The Washington times., 1918-02-28

With a name like that hOlC could
you ezpset him to keep out Of q
scrap?