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Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
GALuNGER FAYORS
WOMEN'S AMENDMENT

Washington. Feb. Ex-senator
Gallinger. republican leader, has de-
clared himself as in favor Of woman
suffrage amendment. which has pass
ed the house. Some other doubtful
republicans are said to be leaning
toward the amendment since the
conference with Chairman Hays, Of
the national committee.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
YANKEES ATTACKED
IN THEIR TRENCHES

With the American Army in
France, Feb. 2S.-The American
sector in France was again subject
ed to gas attack yesterday, with
little effect Tuesdays attacks caus-
ed Ave deaths and so affected most
ly not serious. German airplanes
are still active over the American
front.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
GERMANS SLOW UP
/ IN THEIR INVASION

London. Feb. 2s.--In advancing
into Russia Germany Is more resis-
tance. They have apparently been
unable to make much headway to-
ward petrograd from Pskov.
The Petrograd correspondent OF
the Exchange Telegraph says he has
reliable information that the Ger
mans have been ordered to halt the
advance.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
HEARST PAPERS ARE
BARRED FROM CANADA

Toronto. Feb. 2s.--Colonel
Chambers. chief press censor of Can
ada. announces that there is no
truth in the report that the ban had
been lifted on Hearst publications or
the International News Service. Reg
ulations will still be rigidly enforc,
ed against them in both Canada and
England.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
NEXT I.IBERTY LOAN
TO HEAR az PER CENT

Washington. Feb. 2S.--"The next
Liberty loan will bear interest at a
rate OF AZ per cent" said Represen-
tative Meeker Of Missouri on the
floor OF the house on Tuesday. 81
have that information. direct"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
ASSISTANT supERINrENDESr
STATE BANKS REAPPOINTEll

Salem. Feb. 2s, Superintendent,
of Banks Bennett announced yester-
day afternoon that he had reappoint-
cd Charles ". Stewart assistant SUI
perIntcndent. and that he had reap
pointed Marshall Hooper as exam
liner. A. A. Schramm has been pro
noted to the position Of assistant
examiner
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
WILL INVESTIGATE
/ Loss OF CHEROKEE

Washington, Feb. 2S.--Secretary
Daniels has ordered an investigation
by the navy board of the sinking OF
the tug Cherokee, with the loss Of
nine lives. 1t has been reported that
the navy was warned that the ves-
sci was unseaworthy.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
AVIATOR KILLED
AT LAKE CHARLES

Lake Charles, La, Feb. 2s--Lieu-
tenant william Magill, Of Jersey
city, was fatally injured and Lieu
tenant Telland Colman. Of the ma
rine corps, was slightly hurt here
yesterday. when their airplane fell
$50 feet Magill died soon after
ward
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
REPuTED RELIGIOUS CONCERN
~ UNDER SCRUTINY IN NEW
YORK
BOOKS AND PAPERS ARE SEIZED
Pastor Russell Foundation Is Head
of the international Bible Students
Association

New York. Feb. 2s.--Agents OF
the United States army intelligence
service. raided the headquarters in
Brooklyn OF the Pastor Russell Foun-
dation, a reputed religious organi-
xation. late today and seized a num-
ber OF books and papers.
The literature was turned over to
the federal district attorney to de-
termIne II It contained seditious mat
ter.
The raid was said to have been
made In connection with the arrest
recently OF followers OF the Russell
sect In Toronto. Ont. where five per
sons are on trial charged with pub
fishing and circulating q book cali
ed THE Finished Mystery" alleged
to be seditious.
The Pastor Russell Foundation II
the head OF the International Bible
Students association.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
8 CAMP LEWIS MEN
ACT As SCAvENGERS

Camp Lewis. Feb. 2s-Eight men
who claim to have relatives in Ger
many. have been made scavengers,
SO as not to fire at German trenches.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
GOVERNOR wTTHYCOMBE
WILL BE CANDIDATE

Salem. Feb. 2S-Governor Witty
combe says he will soon announce
his candidacy for reelection.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
$4,000 RIFLES ARE
CAPTURED BY HUNS

Berlin. Feb. 2s.--The German war
ONCE ofiicially announced that the
German armies had captured $4,000
rifles and 1000 machine guns at
Mlnsk. 3ii M
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 19??-1918, 1918-02-28
EARL W|THYCOMBE IS
ON WAY TO RECOVERY

Salem, Feb. 2S.---The governor
received word today that six sur
geons decided. following CONSUL
tation that Earl Withycombe VIII
iecoye.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02
Chamber Condemns
Use of Flags for
Collecting Money

The Chamber of Co'.nrrce has adopt
ed resolutions against the use OF the
United State flag as a receptacle for
money offerings in professions parades
o--on any occasion; and the use Of the
.hg as a drape for speakers stands.
Gradually and generally throughout
the country, there has developed the
practice Of carrying the United States
flag horizontally in professions for the
purpose Of receiving contributions from
bystanders. While the purpose for
which the money thus contributed is
most praiseworthy the Chamber con
tends that such use Of the flag is neither
digniiied nor proper for the emblem OF
our country
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02
To Have Perfect Skin
Throughout the Summer

This Ia the season when che who
would have llly-whte complexion
should turn her thoughts 10 mercOlized
wax, the firm friend OF the summer girl.
Nothing so cffectually Overcomcs the
Soiing effects Of sun, wind, dust and
dirt The wax literally ahsOrhs the
scorchrI dlscolored. wlthered and
coarstu.d scarf skin, bringing forth a
brand new skin. clear, soft and grishly
beautiful II also unclOgs the pores, re-
moving blnCkheads and increasing the
skins breathing capacity.
hie AZ any drug store, applied nightly
like cold cream. md washed or morn
ines. viii gradually improve even the
worst uHWp'oylOu There In nothing bet
ter o. the removal " tan, frecklrs or
hlotCh"H tAhyN
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02

list. These women must apply to the
chairman OF the woman's conn 'tee
of the council OF defense OF their own
county, says Miss Hickey. In ca.c
there is no registration office in the
county, the applicant may then apply
to Miss Hickey for enrolment.
II is desired to secure lie full quota
this week Women who wish to find
an outlet for patriotic impulses and
to render vital -erWce to the govern
ment should seriously consider enlist
ing in the student nurse reserve, SAYS
Miss Hickey The nurse stands side
by side with the fighting forces in the
first line of defense; sic saves mum
berless precious lives and h lps to
keep alive the faltering courage and
spirit OF wounded men. And back of
the fighting line is he great body OF
industrial laborers and food producers
whose services are Just as essential to
the successful issue OF the war as the
work of the soldiers and sailors. Here
life and health must be preserved and
here Is work for the nurse which is
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02

DUBLIN.-The Irish Times records
disturbances in Westmeath provoked
solely by novel written by Brnsley
Maonamara, a native of Devlin The
book is full OF local color and the in
habitants visited their indignation on
the father OF the author, who is a local
s-hoolmaS,er and attempted to evict
HIM from his school They were not
successful but they prevented their
children from attending the school
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02
MANY BOYS MADE
HAPPY BY FUND
Tobacco Takes the Gloom Out
of Warfare,

II am taking the greatest pleasure it
dropping the Our Boys in France To-
baeco Fund a few lines to let then
know how much appreciate thelr
kind doings" writes Private Lloyd
Hickman. Base Hospital No. g. Some
where in France, in thanking the fund
for the tobacco sent 81 received some
tobacco from the fund and thought how
many Of the boys had been made tc
feel happy since coming over here
Talk of Fund.
Some of my company boys said
should tell the fund that they hardly
knew how to thank such kind friends
As many times we sit and talk OF how
il would be il there was no such fund
and how we would have to do without
tobacco.
"I don't know to whom this letter
may go, but ! hope they will feel as
good as we do when we receive to-
bacco from them.
Times Collecting in State.
81 thank you one and all for your
kindnes and hope you will excuse me
for my delay in telling my apprecla-
ton"
The Oklahoma City Times is the au-
thorized agent for Our Boys in France
Tobacco Fund in Oklahoma Contrib.
utors may send money TO the fund IN
care of the Times or may contribute
through retailers in their towns who
are authorized by the Times to receive
subscriptions, The Times is distrlbu'.
ing to retailers subscription sheets and
collection boxes for the fund.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02
STATE ENR0LLS
HALF HER NURSES
Quota of 55 Should Be Filled
This Week,

Over half of Oklahoma county's
quota of fiity-iiye women for the stu
dent nurse reserve has been filled, re
ported Irene Hickey, who has charge
Of the registration office at the Cham.
Der OF Commerce. The other halt
might easily have been filled by this
time had it been possible to use all
the applicants. Numerous letters have
been received from counties all over
the state from women wishing TO en-
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02

which is now practically closed The
population is, however not united in ap-
proyal of these methods Of literary cen
sorshp and the event has led to the
breaking up OF the local Sim Fcin and
Volunteer organizations, the leaders OF
which discouraged The protests.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02

thus, | think, guarding in their hearts
the seeds OF glorious days and II wac
we who saw them only with earth-
dimmed eyes from which the inerusted
scales OF many petty years were yet
10 fall Atlantic Monthly.
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02

who were to US so commonplace in
the humdrum days OF peace. 1t is as
II their youthful figure, stood sill.
houetted now against the eifulgence OF
the dawn, their common clay struck to
glowing radiance But they were ever
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02
Maxim Gorky.

LONDON, Aug 2-The arrest Of
Maxim Gorky the Russian author and
revolutionary, has been ordeJrd by an
investigating committee of the soviet
government says an Exchange Tclc-
graph dispatch FROM Copenhagen. The
Pctrograd correspondent OF the Daily
Express reports that Gorky's paper has
teen suppressed permanently
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02

They 60, always with gay whimsical
ties upon their lips, these beloved boys
The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-08-02

just as important, though less spectac-
ular, than the work on the firing line
in France.
The Washington times., 1918-11-10
Work Is Necessary For Happiness
Continued from First Column.)

Continued from First Column)
before this earth started before Eve and Adam began
their fooshness that the angels got dissatisfied Milton
bases his great poem in the effort of Lucer to make him
self master of Heaven he could not be contented without IN
dividua power How much less could the little,
man, who slaves away his life to pay mortgage and
something be content in place where he could
anything? It would be like living in the Capitol forever
Rely upon it, there hope and explanation in those
words:
"In my Fathers house many mansions; if it were
not so would have told you"
In those mansions are endless movement and change.
They great the universe which is endless space
endless time The speed of light goes times around
the earth in second, and light could travel million
years without reaching the farhest great suns the outlying
mansions of infinite activity struggle and change in which
man. gradually developing will find plenty Of opportunity
for all his efforts.
We may all alter Gansborough's words little and say:
1--WE all going to Heaven, and all going together"
Possibly when this earth to end it must end
as all created things do we its inhabitants shall all
on together to the next mansion Of the many in
which we shall forever live and improve.
What Is your idea Of Heaven? Could anything in it
take the place Of work?
The Washington times., 1918-11-10
Mysterious Freak of Natures Laws

something else having the same
density. But iron, being several
times denser than the water, sinks
rapidly.
When Immersed.
Yet II the block Of wood In your
problem were large enough to bear
up either the man or the chunk
Of iron 20 as to keep them out Of
water. like a raft, for instance,
Zach would press It down into the
water with the same force and to
the Same depth. II the weight OF
the man sank the wood six inches,
the equal weight OF the iron would
sink II exactly the same amount.
Only after they became immersed
IN the water would q difference In
their residual pressure on the wood
be perceived, As long as they were
kept by the wood above tho sur
face OF the water their weight
would simply be added to that Of
the wood. and the latter would be
proportinnateiy deeper immersed.
The Washington times., 1918-11-10
By Garrett P. Serviss.

ponds upon the relation between
the weight and the sic, or bulk, or
volume Of the bodies concerned.
The denser a substance Is, the
greater will be Its weight for a
given size. A chunk Of iron weigh
ing 200 pounds would have a bulk.
or volume. equal to about 4-sths Of
a cubic foot, while a human body
OF the same weight would have a
bulk OF about Is cubic feet. This
latter Il not far from the volume
OF a quantity OF water Weighing
200 pounds. 80 that when a human
body is put into water II has not
much moro tendency TO sink, after
1t has once reached the point OF
total immersion, than an equal
bulk of water would have in the
same situation, II Ia as II that
quantity of water had been re-
placed by an equal quantity Of
The Washington times., 1918-11-10
Work Is Necessary For
Happiness
What Would Heaven Be Without Anything to Dot
HappinesS

This editorial good friends is abstract speculation.
anything is certain, it is that you, whatever may
be left of you after DEATH will spend all eternity somewhere
"A one manner another
You may lie in the ground until the Angel summons you
70 your punishment reward.
You may fly of to Heaven through infinite space as
soon those around you whisper Hes dead" Whatever
happens when you stop breathing the remains Of you will
60 on forever
Intelligence and faith both tell that there must be
another me that existence like time once started can
never end majority Of human beings believe IN rather
indefinite way in Heaven where the good live forever,
rewarded during endless billions of years, not for doing
anything in particular here but for emitting to do certain
things that Divine wisdom forbids
It viii interest you to read again intimate descrip
ton of life in Heaven Saint John the Divine and
described it in Revelation fourth chapter John writ
ing his description for the churches Of Asia We
cannot guess how he would have written for people in
Washington he begins right in the middle Of things as
follows;
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

Marriage, No Eating Drinking, No Debts, No Bank
Account, No Getting Ahead Falling Behind? Would
You Be Forever Happy IN This Picture, with Your
Wings and the knowledge That You Need Never
Worry Again. That the Bad in Hell Would Stay There,
and That You in Heaven Would Stay There?
Or Would You, After Few Trilions of Years,
Feel Inclined to Start Business of Some Kind or Cut
Down a Tree, or Look for Something Imperfect That
You Might Make 1t Right?
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

the block of wood. or. to state
It IN another way, all the down
ward force that he would bring to
bear on the wood while his body
was immersed would be only the
very slight difference between his
weight and the weight OF an equal
bulk OF water.
A Lifting Force.
In fact, when totally immersed,
he might exert no downward
force at oil upon tho block Of
wood, but rather q slight lifting
force, for In some circumstances
the human body IL little lighter
than water. The proof Of this Is
found In tho ability Of practlced
swimmers to feat on their backs
with the face partly out Of wa
ter,
You notice that everything de-
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

This Is Picture of Paradise as Many Children
and Adults Imagine 1t. Many Think That Such
Heaven Would Suit Them. What Do You Think
About 1t?
Eternity Is Long Period of Time, Rather Difficult
to Imagine, Coming and Going We Do With the
Rapidity of Electric Spark at the End of Wire.
Would Heaven Suit YOU as Pictured Here?
Could You Live FOREVER Contented with Gold
Streets, Beautiful Music No Marrying or Giving in
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

A block Of wood capable Of
buoying up in the water a man
Weighing 200 pounds would not be
equally capable Of buoying up a
piece Of iron Weighing 200 pounds.
The reason IL because, bulk for
bulk, the iron Is about seven and
one-half times heavier than the
water. while the human body IL.
bulk for bulk. nearly Of tho Sams
weight as the water, from which II
follows that the weight Of the man
would be so nearly eounteFbal-
Gneed by the pressure Of the water
that he would almost float without
assistance, and all the additional
buoyancy that he would need from
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

You read of this Heaven and are perhaps disturbed
feeling that you could not be at home there for billions Of
years always watching with nothing to do your
account
You feel that it would all be enjoyable but realizing
that nothing could 60 wrong and that you could not
be Of any possible there except among millions
playing your harp you might say without lack Of respect
anybody 81 going to get tired Of this before is
m over and the hard part is that would be
would live within sight of those four and twenty elders
and the beasts fQ of eyes before and behind through
al Eternity forever and forever You couldn't even 90
az And this makes it worth while to discuss earnestly
md respectfully the kind Of Heaven that modern men would
select
In every certainly and in every individual prob
ably, you would find different idea of Heaven.
The last words Of the great painter, GainsbOrough
eve are all going to Heaven, and Van Dyke is of the
company"
80 BE would not have wanted Heaven with everything
already painted he would have asked permission to paint
So it is probably with men, as a rule. They would
crave the right to work even in Heaven the excitement of
success following failure the mental pleasure of enjoyment
based accomplishment not on bounty benevolence
The English clergyman and wit, Sydney Smith, said
my idea Of Heaven is eating foie gas to the sound of
Erumpets."
But he did not mean it. His real thought was in his
aying Praise is the best diet for u.s. after ALL
What would Eternity be without the stimulus of praise
FOR good work and criticism for bad?
The red Indian wanted a happy hunting ground in
which he could hunt and his meat. he would HAYS
6islied the idea Of Heaven with the bison ready
aught and cooked The Turk another ASatic would be
content with Heaven that Mohammed should have
been ashamed to suggest It place to which dead
turks did take their wives where they and lived
nth strange, beautiful young ladies made Of solid musk
girls that grew Old and where the Turks drank wines
vithout getting drunk.
Good enough for Turks-that would suit no American
The Greek philosophers would have asked pleasant
grove in which they might forever argue about their
fsyorite theories.
What is the thing that all Americans would ask for
In their Heaven? Is 1t not chance to work. struggle and
Lmpr9Ve7
Would you not after billion years Of "bss" without
Ft beg permission to 60 back to earth and be the man
the hoe. and plant and raise family, and plan
ave your boy better of than you began7
Dc Bible tells that It actually happened In Heaven
Continued In Last Coiunn1
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

please explain the following
perplexing problem. A man weigh
ing 200 pounds Is buoyed up in the
water by a block Of wood; would
the same block OF wood Just as
readily buoy up a piece OF iron
Weighing 200 poundsT'-A. NAL
liBs, Chicago
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

Revelation, Chapter &.
- After this I looked, and. behold,
= door was opened in heaven; and
the first voice which / heard was
As Il were OF a trumpet talking
with me: which said, Come up
hither. and will show thee things
which must be hereafter.
y 2-And Immediately was in the
spirit; and, behold, a throne was
set in heaven. and one sat on the
throne
8 Sand he that sat was to look
upon like q jasper and a sardine
stone; and there was a rainbow
round about the throne, in sight
ike unto an emerald.
4 And round about the throne
were four and twenty seats; and
upon the seats saw four and
twenty elders sitting, clothed in
white raiment; and they had on
their heads crowns OF gold.
Sand out OF the throne pro-
ceeded lightnings and thunderings
and voices; and there were seven
lamps of fire burning before the
throne. which are the seven Spirits
OF God.
6-And before the throne there
vas q sea Of glass like unto crys-
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

tai: and in the midst of the throne,
and round about the throne. were
four beasts full of eyes before and
behind.
7-And the first beast was like
q lion, and the second beast like a
calf, and the third beast had a
face as a man, and the fourth
beast like q flying eagle.
Sand the four beasts had each
OF them six wings about him; and
they were full of eyes within: and
they rest not day and night, saying.
Holy, holy, holy, Lord God AL
mighty. which was. and is, and is
to come.
e-And when those beasts give
glory and honor and thanks to him
that sat on the throne, who liveth
for ever and ever.
10-The four and twenty elders
fall down before him that sat on
the throne, and worship him that
liveth for ever and ever, and cast
their crowns before the throne,
saying:
11-Thou art worthy, oh, Lord. TO
receive glory and honor and power;
for thou hast created all things
and for thy pleasure they are and
were created.
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

MRS. T. R. MURPHY, Rosslyn,
Va.-Could you not publish the
answer to "ROck Ne to Sleep,
Mother?' 1t is just as sweet as
the original, which / greatly en-
loved in The Times.
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

A. NJ. S., a mother, insists that
there should be a law in Washing
ton, strictly enforced, requiring
girls of ten to sixteen years Of age
TO be in their homes after 8 o'clock
at night, and compelling mothers to
know that they are home. Return.
ing from a visit to a sick friend one
night at II AZ the writer found a
neighbours daughter talking with
three boys. "The language was APP
pallinp." she declares.
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

A soldier sends q poem about an
alleged private who broke himself
down and died from saluting officers
In this city. He claims that the
camps are full Of privates afflicted
with sore arms caused from one
days visit here.
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

SAM GASSENHEIAIER and FRED
ERICK sCHWAB, long together in
the rubberneck-wagon business, are
no longer business partners.
SCHWAB has all the sightseeing
wagons and SAM is running the
Howard House, which he bought just
before the war began.
SCHWAB believes Washington will
swarm with people for many years
after the war.
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

JOHN ABSOLUTE is now divine
into poetry. This is it:
Backward, meander backward, o
time, in your fight
/ want to buy q hot dog for 5 cents
tonight,
I want to buy for cents an egg
sandwich, too.
I want to buy for 10 cents = big
Irish stew.
The Washington times., 1918-11-10

Thousands Of washingtonians re-
cited that old poem when they were
kids In school. To them that boy Is
still standing on the deck. How
they sympathized with him.