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Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-12

der, but both times it rolled off. Again the steel snout slipped under the big rock. An, perfect balance this time. Up and up. The rock tOppled. And it is an actual fact that that great steel shovel juggled and balanced it like one sees a sleight of hand man balance the billiard cue on his chin. Now it is steady and the boom swung around and the shovel eased that boulder off gently into the car.
 And then back again. as quick as a cat went the big hand and down it went into the very bowels of the heaps and piles of apparently unas- sailable rocks, for all the world like a child's hand into a little pile of peb- bles. Rocks weighing five hundred pounds each were churned aside or crushed or swallowed in the nav of this "dipper" Around swung the boom to the car. But the big boulder was in the way The great "dipper" did not open at the bottom and drop it's great load of rock. Instead it fum- bled around in an apparently aimless fashion for moment and then "nosed" the big rock over and around until it was out of the way. Then it emptied its cargo in exactly the right spot.
 Some teamwork between the man on the boom and the man at the en- zine inside the steam shovel proper. Between them they endOw that steel claw. swinging loose yet tense as an athletes hand. from its great chains at the end of the boom, with human intelligence and resource and accom- plishment. Never a word do they eX- change with each other, these two men. and yet both of them, the man cut on the boom and the man back by the engine. juggle their levers and guide and handle that claw as though their two sets of hands were directed by one brain. It is uncanny how they both think and act in the same groove at the same moment.
 Some of the steam shovel work on this mountain side is tremendous The explosions blast off great boul ders and these are piled up as though a part of the scene of the original chaos of the world. Too big for the shovel, they slip off the jaws of it's cavernous mouth and slide about in most rebelious and manageable fashion. The utmost Of craft and skill are required to make speed m this work The great rocks break and splinter the ore cars. But there are SO many of them that they must be handled in this way. They cannot
 r.. sN ..F., the rocks are broken more and the mountain composition is softer the great shovel goes through the piles of debris like an N-ray through cheese Even among the most stubborn rocks
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-12

craft, had much of earthly goods and pow CT, and these were multiplied, even as Jes- us decreed in His parable And yet this Carpenters Son, who had nothing, had all. He had His gentle piety and His unselfish- ness, and neither the Roman rulers or the Jewish priests could take these away; no, and they could not destroy them, for it is upon these that the hope of the world rests today.
 And these pilgrims upon earth today, who having little, lose that also, may well take heart from the Great Example of the One who barred human nature and spared 1t not. You may lose your money for the worlds hands are outstretched for it; you may lose your position, for the stern and hard of the world will not hesitate to take 1t from you; you may lose your good name, for the envious of the world will not hesitate to darken 1t, but all the forces of the world together cannot destroy your own faith in yourself and your own respect for yourself, and these kept close together always in the heart, emit a glow of con scious happiness that never entirely dies, no matter what else betide You can al ways DC SCnllS ana klIlO dIlQ ana no man or clan or circumstance can take these away from you. You can cling to your ideals and your sentiment and love your old time friends. You can err on the side of mercy and charity always and never go wrong with yourself.
 To him that hath these little things that are, after all so great, shall be given; not gold, power or fame, but an inward satis- faction; the happy consciousness of hav- ing been better than we really are; of hav- ing risen little above ourselves in the long, hard, rough, selfish race of life.
 To him that hath shall be given The Romans had everything. The Nazarene had a cross. An, but later He had crown. And we carry our crosses, large and small, every day. But if we carry them with courage and are gentle and fair with our fellows and true to ourselves; if we smile often and hum little tune as we plod along, surely when the soft twilight comes to announce the great darkness, we, who have so little, and who have lost so much of material things. will, after all, have a very great thing to sustain and tighten us on that longer, stranger journey that all of the sons of men must take at the close of some near or distant day.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-12
Poets Corner
PULL YOUR WEIGHT

PULL YOUR WEIGHT The pillows are heaving behind, The breakers are foaming before; We need all the strength we can find, Each ounce you can put to an oar. Are you doing the best that you can To keep the old galley afloat? Are you power or freight? Are you pulling your weight Are you pulling your weight in the
 boat? IL isn't the task of the few The pick of the brave and the
 strong; It's he and it's 1 and it's you Must drive the good vessel along Will you save? Will you work? Will
 you fight? Are you ready to take off your coat? Are you serving the state? Are you pulling your weight Are you pulling your weight in the
 boat?
 Arthur Guiterman in Life.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-12
THE ACME OF MANS POWER AT WORK
 ON THE SAC HILL

Standing on the crest of Sac Hill the other day. this newspaper man watched for hours with fascinated interest that completely possessed him, the work of a steam shovel. The horseleech's daughter of the scrip lures never clung closer to a victim than does this big shovel to the side of this mountain. It represents the acme of mans power arrayed against the most majestic and massive of nat ure's creations, a mountain. The of fensive of the steam drills and steam shovels and powder blasts against Sac Hill might we'll be compared to the war on the western battle front. As George Mier, superintendent, well said: We have no three inch guns but we have three inch drills, and our steam shovel batteries might well be called the heavy artillery of our of fensive."
 If man has ever devised anything that represents at the same time so much cunning and power as the steam shovel, this newspaper man has nev- CT SGNl u III dNllOus IL To U ht iaihN steam engines, the locomotive, the stationary and the surface, possess infinitely more horse power, and the steam crane represents more actual force, but they have not the cunning and the scope and the versatility of the steam shovel. Engines must run on track; they must revolve in one orbit and work in a rigid line, doing only one thing in one way. But the steam shovel works like a giant hand with a human brain to direct 1t. It has range and resource. Its power is more shOwy. In other words, it plays to the grand stand. It does impossi- ble things.
 Watching this shovel load an ore train the other morning, this news paper man found himself bending for ward with his hands on his knees and shouting words of encouragement Go the big steel ''dipper" as though 1t were a human being. Down went the steel nose to the ground and then it rooted forward like the prehensile snout of a wild boar. right into piles i of crushed and shattered rocks. One i of these rocks had not been shattered. It was a boulder, weighing at least ! five tons lt was so large that it would not begin to enter the mouth of the "dipper." In fact, it looked 10 be about three times as big as the shovel that was "nosing" it about. i Twice did the persistent, resOurccful, crafty "dipper" almost get the boul-
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-12
THIS LITTLE GIRLS
 ROSEBUDS NEVER DIE

The newspaper man met a friend on the street the other day, and, having an eye for the beautiful, remarked a red rosebud pinned on the lapel of his coat. The newspaper man was moved to comment upon the beauty and the freshness of the rose bud against such a dark background. His friend received this praise for the rose as a tribute due and worthy, and then made explanation as follows:
 It is my little daughters rosebud. She has gone away upon a visit, and the last thing before she left she took me out in our yard and pointed out all the roses in bud and bloom and gave them to me. They are hers, you know; her own peculiar and private property. Yes. she gave me her roses. She said that fresh bud was sure to bloom every day and she desired that wear a new one every day for her. And I do. Seems as if she is with me when I look down at the flower"
 And the man looked down at his rosebud with eyes that saw not be- cause of the mist that fiImned them and in which he saw the bright, beau HUI AdCC uA HIS hbllC SAAA SO AdA away and yet so near.
 The newspaper man saw brighter light than the sun and heard a sweet CT sound than the wind in the valleys. An. 'tis a hard, stern. sordid old world. to be true, but praise be, the Master softened it and soothed it and glorified it with the radiant glow of sentiment for His benedietion when he sent it spinning.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-12
PICTURESQUE FARLEY
 ALONG MEXICAN LINE

HARRIS SPUR, Tex, May 11.-Par- leys which are held between Mexican and American troop commanders pa- trolling opposite banks of the Rio Grande in this sector or the Big Bend district are picturesque affairs and at tended by much of the color of the southwest and Mexico.
 recent one was held at the Sant0 NinO Ford, four miles below here on the river where Colonel George T. Langhorne. commanding the Big Bend military district, and Colonel Martin ez Ruiz. commander of the Ojinaga district opposite the Big Bend, met and discussed ways of stopping snip ing across the border which came near causing trouble in this district recently.
 Drawn up on the American bank Oi the Rio Grande was a squadron of Un- ited States cavalry with a full field pack on each of the saddles and the men carrying their rifles and wearing side arms. Young cavalry officers in command of these troops were clean shaven, their boots were polished and they wore the broad brimmed. low
  instead of the more narrow brimmed regulation army hat. Civilian scouts are attached to the American troops with the characteristic garb of the plainsmen: high hat, high heeled cow boy boots, leather chaps or high leg gings and leather coats elaborately trimmed. They point the trails. read the marks in the roads and trails for the officers and guide the troops through the passes and along the trials of the unchartered Big Bend.
 Coming out of cloud of dust the Mexican command appeared and dis mounted opposite the American troops. The commander and his staff crossed the river on a flat bottom fer " boat to be received with the defer ence due his rank by the American commander and his staff. C-l the next trip the Mexican colOnel's wife cross ed to the American side. accompanied by two of her friends from the MeXi- can camp. This rosy checked Indian girl in her "middy" blouse, riding skirt, and champagne cOlored high shoes, was an interested witness to the barley which was held under a cottonwood tree.
 While this was in progress Ameri- can and Mexican officers fraternized. discussed the good points of their rifles and pistols. rode the troop horses and exchanged "reminiscences of the camp and trail in broken Span ish and English. When the barley broke up everyone shook hands with everyone else, the men from Mexico piled into the flat boat and recrOssed the river shouting "adios" Co the Am the foothills to their camp in can yOn.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-12

and the superintendent called his con gratulations upon this ''shot" that had been drawn so fine that it moved the shoulder and yet had not spilled sin gle rock down the mountain side. Not even a pebble hit the roof of the oil tank" proudly declared one of the men, waving his paw in manner that embraced the mountain side and all that portion of the universe lying to the southwest of his position.
 Yes, old Sac hill is doomed They are probing around among its vitals right now.
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-12

the shovel loads an ore train in eight cen to twenty minutes.
 That material progress has been made on Sac hill in the past month was apparent even to the untrained and amateur eye of the newspaper man. The four benches" that lace the hill from behind are cut in deeply like the advancing lines of steel in a battle position. It is as though four great shelves had been cut into this hill. Its sides are covered and carpet ed and piled with boulders and frag- ments of shattered rock. In front Of this devastating line are the steam drills. Then come the powder men with their blasts. linen the steam shovels, relentless as fate. And last. the ore trains that bear the mountain Away. They are all here in this bat tie that the Phelps Dodge forces are waging against the mountain. The sappers, the engineers, the artillery. the infantry and the lines of com municatiOn.
 A month ago the task looked to be insurmOuntable. Yesterday the ter TOTS of the rockbound hill had depart ed. IL had been torn by powder and tanned by the steam shovel Its vast ness had been reduced so that one might see the approach of its end. The work has been defined. The benches" have assumed proportions and dimensions that are clear cut and stand for something definite And these men who fleck the mountain side like foam strands on the wave. and who look so puny and insignifi- cant with their crowbar and shovel and drill. each enc of them has en- tered heart and soul into the battle. They can feel and sense" their prog ress Impossible things have been ac- complished. Granite difficulties have been overcome; the giant Despair has been Overthrown by Greatheart
 This newspaper man could see different look on the faces of the men who are fighting Sac hill from that which he saw month ago. The men at the drills smiled. That man out on the boom Of the steam shovel was actually disdainful as he conquered the big bOulders, one after the other. The Mexican with a CrOwbar grinned as ne Tolleu ten lOu nOulutT lIOm dangerous balance to a flat and com monplace solidity at the foot of the hin. The engineman flirted his ore train around the curves in jaunty fashion. George Mier actually talked little about his work. whereas a month ago he had only drowned at the mountainside and talked of other things.
 The mountain is moving" on its way to the dump. Anyway, that is how 1t seems to the newspaper man after morning spent among the men who are fighting so well on this bat tie line
 They fired a "shot" that morning Three thousand pounds of powder un- der a shoulder. No noise at all The shoulder merely lifted in a helpless shrug and a gray cloud arose above the bubbling rock. It was most successful shot" Every one said SO. The foreman congratulated the pow der man and the loOkOuts hailed the men on an ore train with joy. A grimy man with crowbar came around from behind a rock and waved his hand happily Co Gerald sherman
Bisbee daily review., 1918-05-12

Well, what did you think of Lieut. Perigord's talk in the City Park tonight?" asked one Bisbee citizen of another on the street Saturday evening after the rally was over ''I do not see, replied the citizen to whom had been submitted the question, how any man of draft age, or few years over, for that matter, who has any health and strength at all, could listen to it and not go and enlist" The brave young French idealist and priest and soldier brought to the Warren district wonderful and stir ring story from that gallant, golden, glori- ous land of France. And his audience rose to him. They cheered him again and again It was not to him alone but to France. greater than ever she has been in the two thousand years of her wayward, wondrous reign as queen of the nations, that the Ari- zonans paid such an unusual tribute last night We are at war in earnest; heart and soul as well as the body to fight and give and to do for the cause.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15
Because America
Keeps Her Promises
She Loses Big Ship

Washington, Mar. 15.-The giant
Dutch liner Nieuwe Amsterdam will be
sacrificed as a transport ship by the
allies because America keeps her prom
ises.
The great vessel will not be includ-
ed in the Dutch ships to be taken over
next Monday by the United States and
the allies and as a result probably will
drop out of transatlantic service for
the rest of the war.
Release of the 10000 ton vessel
looked to for transport service-is the
result of President Wilson insisting
that since the Dutch government was
promised (under the negotiations pend
ing before the allies determined to
take her ships) that the New Amster
dam should be allowed to return, the
United States must abide by her prom
Use. Once she gets back to Holland she
will be subjected to the same German
threats as all other neutral vessels and
it is believed by officials here that
The Netherlands government will hold
her in port for the duration of the war.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15

Earl Pearcy, who vas formerly or
chardist at the Oregon state hospital,
is one of the men included in the new
draft from his district. He is now fruit
inspector of Douglas county and will re-
sign that position to go into the service
of his country. MI. Pearcy is in the
city today in answer to the notification
of the sheriff hat he was called.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15
Arlie Walker and Harold Dimick o

Arlie Walker and Harold Dimick OF
Willamette university left today for
Forest Grove where they will meet the
affirmative team Of Pacific University
tonight in a dual debate between the
two institutions on the question: ere
solved, That the United States should
adopt the essential features of the New
Zealand system of arbitration for labor
disputes. Pacific University's mega
tive team will come to Salem and debate
Willamette's affirmative team, the lat
ter consisting of Otto Paulus and Myrtle
Mason. The debate will begin at 8 p. m.
and will be held at the university chap
Ell. Admission is free. A short musical
program will precede the contest. The
judges are to be State superintendent
Churchill, Carl Sox and Prof. Jenkins
Hopkins, of Portland.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15
Professor Bouquet, of the oregon Ag-

ricultural college, spoke this afternoon
at the Commercial club auditorium on
War Gardens. The lecture is one Of a
series being given over the state by
the college in the interest of garden
ing, and was given here under the aus
pieces of the Council of Defense.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15
The funeral of the late Mrs. Margart

The funeral of the late Mrs. Margaret
f.. Breyman will be held at 2 o'clock
Saturday afternoon from the family
home, at 619 Court street. Services will
be conducted by Rev. William Eliot, of
Portland, and interment will be in the
family lot in City View cemetery. Word
has been received from Senator and
Mrs. Chas. McNary, of Washington, that
they will be unable to return to Salem
to attend the funeral.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15
COMING EVENTS

March 15.--Third Annual De-
bate Between Willamette and
Pacific universities, at William
cite chapel.
Marcn iT.-Laymen 3 Mission
airy Movement convention.
March 22-23.-'f County Fair"
Red Cross Benefit at Armory.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15

In connection with the Red Cross
Country Fair to be held next Friday and
Saturday at the armory, announcement
was made today that Dr.. Harold Bean,
son of Judge R. S. Bean, of Portland,
would speak at the armory Friday night,
March %, at 8 o'clock. DR.. Bean has
just returned from the front line
trenches in France and will speak upon
what he saw and experienced on his
European trip. His address is expected
to be an interesting one
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15
All Around Town

j. A. Rench and family have left
for Winslow, Arizona, where the for
mer will be employed by the Santa FC
railway. Mr.. Rench has been employed
in the wholesale department of the ID
j. Fry drug store.
Patton Plumbing o., 1886 Chemeketa
Phone 1896. We do repair work. Soyes
and furnaces coiled. II
We pay 100 per lib. for choice veal
calves this week. Midget Market, 1851
state st. Phone l76. 3-l5
Before the war prices on a few doz-
en- linen napkins, some linen table
cloths and table linen, by the yard. Blu
ren s Furniture Store, 179 Commercial
street.
L. @. Cary, aged 76, who is an in
mate Of the county poor farm, was
taken in charge last night at the north
Salem Friends church by Officer Mariel
and Officer Smith and placed in the
city bastile where he is held awaiting
an examination as to his sanity.
.
1.-THE best'' is all you can do when
death comes. Call Webb & Clough Co.
Phone 100. If
Evangelistic meetings, Leslie Meth
odist church, 1880 every evening, OK.
cepting Monday and Saturday. Come. tt
=
Any quilt or comfort in the house at
cost while they last. Buren, Furniture
store, 179 Commercial st.
Phillip Elliott and Dewey Prohst of
the Salem high school debating team,
left today for Forest Grove whore they
will debate tonight with an opposing
team representing the Forest Grove high
for the debating championship of
this section of the state.
Pigeon pie supper Friday evening
beginning at $3.50 p, m. served by the
Ladies' Aid society of the First NJ. f,
church in the church parlors. Every
body welcome. Price soc 3-15
Remember, Red Gross benefit dance,
Liberty, Saturday night, 3-l5
In the announcement yesterday of the
funeral of Tillman A. Howard the name
was inadvertently substituted
Tor that of Howard. The funeral was
leld from the Rigdon chapel, the Elks
charge. Interment was in the /.
}. Q. +. cemetery.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15

Harley o. White returned last night
from Portland where he spent yesterday
investigating markets and endeavoring
to secure supplies of mill feed and
wheat flour substitutes. Mr.. White stat
ed today that the onZy thing there was
in Portland in the way of substitutes
was rolled oats and a limited amount
of oat flour. No corn meal or corn flour
could be had and the supply Of barley
flour was very scarce. He estimated that
the supply of wheat flour substitutes i'll
the northwest is sufficient to last only
about ten days. Millers and brokers say
they cannot take orders at all and pro-
mise to fill them within thirty or six
ty days. in the meantime, the big ques-
ton is will the people buy flour straight,
without proportionate quantities of
flour substitutes, or will they not. A
normal supply of flour is on hand. Mr..
White also found it practically impos-
sible to get orders for mill feed filled.
The automobile owned by George
Fletcher of Salem was badly damaged
this afternoon in a collision at the cor
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15

An Irish program will be given in
Claiming hall at the Unitarian church
corne of Cottage and Chemeketa SITS.
Saturday evening, March 10th S:15,
followed by a social time to which the
Salem public is invited. No admission.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15

The Willamette had fallen nearly ten
inches since yesterday up to an early
hour today, according to the govern
ment gauge, which showed just an even
five feet above low water.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15

A good time to buy a wardrobe
trunk, is now. We carry the largest
stock of luggage in the city. G. s.
Hamilton.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15

Fine Period dining room furniture
at the same price you pay for ordi-
nary furniture. You get better values
at Hamilton Is.
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15

The dance with the proper reputation
the orchestra with ~iazzation which
causes the sensation of this great gem
GRAFTON at the armory Sat. night
Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1918-03-15

expeditionary force. His ancestors for
generations back have been Officers in
the English army.