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The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1918-12-14

The purpose OF the National War
Savings committee Is to create an
army OF savers who will by saving. re-
loase labor and materials for the use
OF the government In the war. and
who will lend their savings to the
government to prosecute the war.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1918-12-14
RUSSIAN GENERALS
REPORTED EXECUTED.

STOCKHOLM. Dec, l+.-Genernl
Russky. General Demitrieff and NJ,
Rouchloi are reported TO have been
executed by the Russian soylets.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1918-12-14

The Red Cross has sent 2,376 wo-
men workers and 2,s2l men workers
to France for specialized work. Most
OF them are volunteers, but highly
skilled.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1918-12-14
BEND PUBLISHER TO
REMAIN IN BOSTON

PORTLAND, Dec, ii--Gcorge Pal.
mer Putnam. owner Of the Bend Boil.
letin. and formerly secretary TO GOV.
crnor Wi,hycombc has become assoc!'
nted with the publishing firm Of q.
T.. ru,ham's Song. Of New York and
London. according to information "a.
cciyed In Portland.
Mr.. Putnam went East last year to
take up special war work with the de-
partmcnt OF Justice. He entered the
field artillery officers training school
At Camp Zachary Taylor. KY. four
months ago. from which he VIII re-.
cciye his commission this month.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1918-12-14

Every American prisoner In Ger
many receive da big food parcel every
week from the Red Cross. Return
postals prove II.
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1918-12-14

BUY A THRIFT STAMP TODAY
The evening herald. (Klamath Falls, Or.) 1906-1942, 1918-12-14

Mr.. Putnam is known In klamath
FHlls, where h" visited and made an
address at the time the Strahorn rail.
road was launched.
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their undoing have been numerous
and unmistakable. Their gamble
with the future Of Russia, a gamble
In which Russia could only lose, Ger
many might win, and the leaders Of
the Bolsheviki would certainly line
their pockets, is almost over, II an.
other desperate throw will bring a
little more profit to them. they say
well and good: II 1t fails, they lose
nothing; hence the ultimate assault
on the Powers that have the resources
and the wish to help Russia.
That Russia collapsed was a pity ;
that In her hour of impotence she
was betrayed is q tragedy; but that
her betrayers have at length revealed
themselves in their true colors is not
II matter for regret. Rather It will
simplify the task that loyal Russians
and their friends must undertake. 1t
will remove many difficulties from the
path Of the rescuers Of the nation,
and light the road to the rescue Of its
people BY themselves.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-08-12
THE BANANA PUZZLE.
A Genius Wanted Who VIII Make
From the Fruit Flour That VIII Keep

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN-Str: Let
some genius make banana -four that
will keep.
Tbs banana In perhaps. nay. prob
ably the best article Of food prepared
by a benefcent Creator for the susie
nance OF mankind 1t grows in such
abundance that enormous quantities
OF the supply provided by nature go to
waste annually for lack Of consumers.
Or, rather because of the dfficulty OF
putting It In possession Of would be
con sumers before it spells.
For the banana, In more respects than
one, resembles the mamma that rained
down In the wilderness for the 1sraelites
to feed upon. 1t Is perishabls In the
extreme. II II be not eaten betimes 1t
Is hopelessly lost. 1t IL one Of the
most striking examples Of that prodi-
gality OF nature that requires the laying
OF a million eggs to insure the growth
OF n single shad.
Yet most excellent -four can be
made of the banana. More than thirty
wears ago ate delicious bread and cake
made of banana -four.
And the imperative demand of starv-
ing nations 10 to-day for -four. We
are stinting ourselves in the consumption
Of our fabulous crops OF wheat to feed
our allies. We do II gladly. but would
It not be better 10 increase the avail
able food SUPPLY
We could do It by converting the
waste bananas into -four but for one
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thing. Enough bananas to feed Amer
lea are rotting to-day for lack Of
eaters.
The one dificulty Is that banana -four
will not keep much better than the ripe
banana. Before It can be properly dis
tributed In the markets OF the world II
spoils. not 80 soon as a ripe banana
spells, but too soon for 1t to be valu-
able In the great world market.
The man who made the -four ] ate
80 long ago spent fortune trying to
stabilize 1t, but he died without sue
ceeding in that. The -four Itself how
ever. was exceedingly rich in the es-
sential constituents OF food.
He failed and many others have failed
in the same effort. for tho Importance
OF the problem has long been recog-
nized. II Is no new thing that / pro-
pound.
But, sir. the fact that everybody has
failed hitherto Is no reason why this
thing should not be done We live in a
day in which the doing of the impossible
has become trivial common place
There is great need for this to be done,
therefore II must be done. Whoever
does it will do much toward winning
the war that Is now imperilling all
civilization.
Whole nations are near starvation.
Countless tons OF good rich food are
going to waste. Who will find the
answer? DAVID A. CURTIS.
NEW YORK. August 10.
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A Lesion From "Distinsuis he'd
German Omccr."

In one Of the dispatches printed in
THE BUN yesterday, describing the
progress Of civilization in Europe, this
occurrence Is reported:
zone of the German prisoners is a
| regimental commander, who tried to
hide his papers by thrusting them into
his trousers leg at the knee.
They made q bulge which looked as
IL he were trying to conceal a cabbage
head.
when asked II he had anything hid
den at the spot indicated by the pointed
finger OF our intelligence officer he said
there was not, and was furious when a
disposition was shown TO doubt him.
Finally It was necessary forc!bly to
search him. and while this was being
done he swore horribly and reviied the
brutal coarseness Of the British nation
and their utter lack OF courtesy toward
a distinguished German officer.' as he
styled himself"
This incident adequately and accu-
rately epitomlzes the attitude Of true
Prussian trained Germans toward men
Of all other races Of mankind and
forecasts what the result of that at
titude Is going to be.
The German officer told an obvious,
Immediately demonstrable falsehood !;
he lied in the face Of the facts, in de-
fiance Of the physical evidence dis
tlnctly presented by his own appear.
ance to his captors. His exposure was
complete, and he swore horribly, re-
Wiling the brutal coarseness" Of the
British nation made manifest In Its
soldiers who refused to believe a lie
even when 1t was told by n "distln-
guished German ofiicer."
And 50 he was searched by force
and by force exposed and his papers
taken from him.
In the same way Germany has told
and lived lies to the whole world !;
Germany has been furious with rage
when the world refused longer to
imperll Itself by accepting or ignoring
German Lies: and Germany Is now
undergoing the process of being edu-
Gated by force to recognition OF the
intention Of the world no longer to
endure her false and treacherous
course, even though Potsdam calls it
distinguished and no man doubts that
| II Is German.
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to the message picked up near the
mouth Of the Patapsco. IT, miles
from the Atlantic. The presumption
is against authenticity. No name like
Ramman or Rummon appears in the
lists Of crew and passengers given out
by the Navy Department. The only
Chicago men on those lists are ARTHUR
ERrcK ALExsoN, carpenters mate ;
JOHN DEWEY FLANAGAN, seaman |;
GEORGE WASHINGTON Horr. seaman |;
GEORGE A. LAUDGREN, quarterma ster /;
CHARLES CORNELIUS LIGHTENHoME,
! coxswain, and WILLIAM PATRICK Nc
NICHOLAS, water tender. Although
the note was written with blue crHyon
on waxed paper evidently In haste"
1t would be difficult to distort any Of
the names into "Ramman" or Rum
mon." Coxswain CHRIST. DAMAvARA's
surname might under stress be writ
ten to look like Ramman, but his
Christian name could not be twisted
into John, and his home is given as
Lemnos, Greece. However, his Ameri-
can home might be In Chicago.
Twenty-Five Johns appeared on the
Navy Department lists Of the Cy-
clops's company, Of whom only FLAN-
NAoAN came from Chicago, and to
make Ramman or Rummon OF any of
their surnames would be difficult.
The name Ramman does not appear
In the New York city directory or in
the New York telephone list. Ram
moon Is found in the latter. In the
Chicago telephone book Rammon Is
given twice, Its bearers being ERNST
Of 1881 Clara place and REINHARD
Of 2ST0 Elston avenue. The form
Rummon is not found in any Of these
comprehensive registers.
RAMMAN is a deity of the Babylonlan
pantheon. and a Syrian god. his name
signifying "the roarer." 1t occurs
frequently In the Old Testament I'M
der. the form Rimmon. A storm god
presiding over the rainy season and
hOobo, 10 8CilluS VI tlle Udltle
onslaught, and IL a god Of orncles.
He IS held to be symbolical of
retributive justice. Some perverted
scholar may have assumed this de-
ity's name to trick the public.
The possible play on the phrase
rum one" in "Rummon" will imme-
diately occur to readers Of the note.
1t Of course would reduce the docu-
ment to the status Of a fools Jest.
The nature Of the contalner, the
origin Of the paper. which is said to
have been similar to that used to
wrap tobacco, and the character Of
the crayon used In writing the note
are undoubtedly now under inquiry {;
and 1t is beyond question that some
authority In the science Of hydrog-
raphy has already begun to investi.
gate scientifically the possibility Of
tidal course from blue water to
the spot on which was found this
interesting but We fear. unauthentic
message.
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A Message From the Cyclops?

A bottle containing the su6joined
message was found Friday on the
shore near the Baltimore quarantine
station, where 1t had apparently been
cast up by the seq:
Captured by German submarine of
the coast of Virginia. Our ship Cyclops.
JOHN RAMMAN Tor RUMMoN], Chicago"
Obviously this message may be the
work of some joker of immature
mentality or a hoax perpetrated by a
German. But the possibility that 1t Is
fraud will not prevent careful ex-
animation of the document and its
container by the authorities. The dis
appearance of the Cyclops is one of
the great mysteries Of the war on the
seas; should this word from the
ships company be authentic 1t would
be the first to come to us.
The United States naval collier Cy-
clops, 1900 tons, on her way from
South America with more than 300
eouiS u ~ Va MUM hcCucu
manganese. sailed on March 4 from
Barbados and was due at an Attain
tic port nine days later. On April IA
the Navy Department announced that
she was overdue and that no trace of
her could be found. Since than not a
life belt, not boat, has been reported
to give a clue to her fate or the fate
of her personnel.
Numerous theories have been put
forward to account for her disappear r
ance. 1t has been suggested that she
turned turtle In an upheaval Of nature,
that her cargo shifted and her heavy
superstructure for coaling ships car
ried her down. that she was captured
by German submarines and used as a
supply vessel for them, that she was
betrayed to the enemy or sunk by trai
tors In her crew or among her passen.
gers. Most Of the theories woven
about her disappearance have seemed
preposterous, but none has been toe
unreasonable to be considered.
! There should be little difficulty in
establishing the probability or i'm
probability Of authenticity attaching
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A Movie Hero.

They throng each night to watch him on
tho screen
Portray in melodramA or romance
A dsshing musketesr of oidsn France;
A Western rAnohman. rssoluts and lean;
A faithful page. who rsscuss some fair
queen
From prison walls; a Spanish don. whose
lance
Holds back . horde OF viiIeins from ad-
vance:
An English lord. through danger gay and
keen.
They do not guess. as bending breath
lessly
They thrill with rapture at his pictured
art.
That In a muddy trench across the sea
In France to-day he plays his greatest
part;
Nor that tho daring deeds they crowd "a
view
Now. of his own young Gsiiantry. come
true
CHAlLoTTs BscEnL
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LOUIS THE DESPISED.
His Views Of Woman's Dress Arc
Read in the Catskills.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SUN--Sir: Louis
Is not so supreme as he thinks he IL.
I have ascertained that, The other
morning when the vacationists assem-
bled on the veranda here I thought
would change the usual current Of small
talk into a more profitable and inter
esting channel. I read to them Louis 8
reflections in THE Sun on women and
dresses, in which he dilated upon per-
sonal experience in the Catskills and
had tho courage to say that IAN intel
lectual does not care for a girls
dresses
Whether his remarks were too deep
for my audience. or whether the break
fast or the weather was too inimical
TO cerebration. my effort to excite an
intelligent discussion proved abortive.
There were plenty OF sniffings and snort
ings and chatter Of opinions after
finished reading the letter. out OF which
I caught these: THE idea What does
he know about girls dresses?" who
is this fellow, anyway? l never heard
OF him before" who cares about what
he thinks" and others OF like dis
parsging character.
What might happen TO Louis II he
were here dare not predict. Verbun
sap. T. e. w.
PALHNv11Ls IN TEE CATsKrLLs.
August 10.
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welcome Evidence OF Presidential
Temperament.

Reporters tell a story which the
cameras confirm Us far as they can
that when the Quistconck swept down
the smoking ways President WILSON
''let loose" with the muscular and
vocal abandon Of a perfect fan watch
Ing a player on the home nine slide
In with the winning run.
+ Good for WOODROW WILSON! The
prompt benefit which doctors tell US
comes from complete giving way.
physically. vocaAy, mentally, to Joy
Gus emotion. was in evidence. even
before the President reached Wash
ington on the return trip. At Hog
Island he was too tired" he told
shipbullders, to make speech. At
Baltimore he spoke cheerfully for
twenty minutes to soldiers.
Once. on a dusty road In Mr.. VIII
sons first campaign for the Presi-
dency. his automobile baked. and the
cars carrying reporters halted with
the disabled one. The reporters
roasted on rail fence and sang
campus songs. The distinguished
candidate regarded them from a dis
lance only a little time, then ap-
preached the singers and asked IL he
might Join In. He was invited to the
roost and lifted up an excellent voice
heartily In a chorus.
There is a side in tho Presidents
temperamental makeup Of which the
people would like to see more.
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Even in these days OF constructive
recess Congress responds to calls for
consideration OF subjects Of great i'm
portance, although 1t Is supposed to
meet only to adjourn. On one of last
weeks meeting days Senator NELSON.
who never bothers with matters of
minor consequence, presented a petit
ton by Mrs. MrrTIE c. HUBBARD of Man
kato. Mimi. demonstrating against
n tax on musical instruments" The
remonstrant-and mark well the word ;
the lady does not ever pray" as do
male petitioners - started something
the end Of which no Congress may
ever see. Senator BANKHEAp. presid-
ing, deftly gave the first sidetrack i'm
petus to the petition by referring It to
the Committee on Finance. Futile!
Suffrage and prohibition may boast
their tons OF petitions. but will car
load lots be able to carry to Washing
ton the petitions for and against this
poorly concealed conspiracy to use the
taxing power to Kill music? II must
cal instruments survive they will know
they have been In light.
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A Clear Road in Russia.

The Trotzky-Lenine declaration of
war against the Allies, with whom
the United States seems to be num-
bered by the German agents who rule
the Bolsheviki, clears the atmosphere
and gives us one stable point from
which to study the situation In Rus
Bia. TRoTzKY and LEVINE have at
last been compelled to throw off their
masks and to acknowledge their mas
ter. For months they have main
tained a pretence Of independence.
arousing in some cOnflding hearts the
hope that eventually they might aban-
don their German course and do
something for Russia. This hope was
not supported by any act of theirs
since the abdlcation Of the Car, nor
by anything that was known OF their
previous careers.
Now LENINE and TRoTzKY and their
mad or corrupted or merely stupid
,lupes have disclosed themselves for
what they are and what they have
been: the agents of Germany, doing
Germany's work in distracted land
under such cover as Is available
Enthusiastically, they could not
make their declaration honestly; they
declare state Of war, but explain II
is really state of defence.
Fortunately for the worlds future
the Bolsheviki are not the Russians
TRoTzKY and LENISE are not the
mouthpleces of the Russian people
1t is easily believable that their be
lated open adherence to Russlas en-
envy. Germany, and their snarls al
Russia's friends, the Allies and thu
United States, record their realiza
ton of the approach of the over
throw Of their rule in the parts OF
Russia where they have maintained q
despotic ascendency. The signs O.
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GERMANIZED LATIN.
A Student Who Never Heard OF the
"W" Sound OF "V."

To THE EDITOR OF THE SuN--Sir In
answer to Luclen C. Chaffins letter APP
pearing in THE SUN on August s re-
garding the pronunciation of "Veni,
vidi, Wei" and asserting the German
~" and the Latin 'v'' were pronounced
alike, wish TO say that in this re-
spect IL. C. c." was and Is utterly
misinformed have studied Latin on
both continents and was never told to
pronounce q Latin "v'' like an English
Nv" as. for example, IL. C. c." as
serts he was in "Weeny. weedy.
weekly" was told to pronounce It
like a German w." which Is like the
English "v" The German "v" is pro-
nounced like ~" as in Foolish fancie
OF feeble faculties"
w. V. HARTMANN.
RosELLE PARK, n. j., August 10.
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Spurs Must BE won.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrN sly
seems that Industry" Is so auN IS ="
please everybody that although ~
doesn't say he's able to ride cen
jackass he wants to wear spurs.
Even spurs" wouldn't do ~ al. pee
cause Mr.. and Mrs. Boswell and a ''
little Boswelts would be sure 20 ASH
where did you win your spun
Advised by modesty, let ''H .'''
wear sandals These woad
that he is economical as wei o.
dustrious Then let him lisieH "'.'
patriotism whispers Industry '.''
sands OF men left more impor'a"' ''.
than yours that they might uNN"i
American flag. Follow them ! HH'
for your spurs"
JOSEPH L. Hou,iNs'
JAMAICA. August lo.f
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The warning OF the War Indus.
tries Board to the manufacturers OF
passenger automobiles Is fair. II
gives about five months for the re-
adjustment Of their business that is
made necessary by war needs. Cur
failing the supply Of passenger cars by
80 per cent. will not be enough, the
board believes; so the manufacturer
and the public must also believe 1t.
There may be no passenger cars pro-
duced at all.
Agencies may be made smaller, and
garage keepers may stop swelling
their fortunes, but the factories will
go on making trucks and war ma
terial. There will be no economic
harm. The persons who yearn to
motor will put their money In the
next Liberty bond Issue. After the
war they will have cars, perhaps at
prices lower than the present.
There are now about 100000 mo-
tor vehicles In the United States.
The American has gone in for motor
Ing pell nell; and while there was
peace and plenty it was good,
healthful way to invest surplus cash,
not to mention the convenience and
the benefit to business. About one
family in seven or eight keeps a car.
These will continue to keep them, and
some fathers Of families will be glad
that the old styles must do.
Rhode Island has. or had a year
ago, 10000 motor vehicles. That is
twenty to the square mile; or n chr
to every thirty-two acres of land.
The number of cars in California and
Iowa Is approximately one-tenth Of
the population. With little crowd.
ing, on laps and running boards, all
the people of both States could 60
motoring Mt the snme time. In Kan
sas. relentless foe Of the Joy riding
money devil, motors are almost as
thick as they are In Iowa. All
through the wheat States and the
corn belt the chug Of the motor has
drowned the cry Of the grasshopper.
On our own fair island the pedes
trian has often decided, in spiritual
convention assembled. that there are
too many motors. Manhattan has be
tween 10000 and $4,000 cars rowing
! her $4,000 little acres. To see them
rushing along the streets, using from
four to twelve gas eating cylinders
to convey a solitary passenger, the
stranger from Mars might imagine
that power was as cheap rs Mr.
GARABEp WHATsHIsNAME predicted II
would be in the day Of his great de
vice. No more passenger cars fol
Manhattan might break few brittle
hearts, but the traffic policemen would
not object.
The ruling of the War industries
Board will bring Joy to the second
hand dealer. His business will take
on a dignity It has not enjoyed. Every
car will be made the most of now
and not until its innards are beyond
hope will 1t 60 to the scrap heap
there to be turned into steel ships.
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We do not know whether General
MARCUS warning against overcon-
fidence and hope Of early collapse Of
Germany's armies, issued on Satur-
day in Washington, was designed to
suppress any particular optimist, or
was intended merely to moderate
popular expectations based on the
great victories the forces under Gen
eral FocH have recently won. His
words were sound, although we have
observed no general tendency to over
estimate the effects of the battles
that have gone 50 gloriously against
the Crown Prince and Prince RUP-
PREcHr. Americans generally recog-
hlze that the road to the Rhine Is not
open yet Germany Is still powerful.
But while grave injury would re-
suit from exaggerated conceptions of
what the Allied and American troops
fighting on the western front have
actually accomplished, injury just as
grave may be wrought by timidity in
acknowledging what they have done.
The first thing that Is essential to our
success In the war Is the destruction
of the deliberately constructed theory
that Germany Is unconQuerable.
Not once but many times General
PERsHINa has urged Americans to rid
their minds Of the monstrous myth
bf Teutonic invinciblllty. One Of his
most notable messages to his fellow
countrymen consisted of twelve
words. They were:
Germany can be beaten; Germany
must be beaten: Germany will be
beaten"
And Germany to-day ia being
beaten, beaten by men Of all civilized
., nations, beaten in all kinds Of war.
fare, beaten In the open and beaten
In her carefully prepared positions
beaten wherever her abhorrent mill.
tarism and Its boosted product, the
German army. show their heads. This
we are entitled to proclaim with con
hdence and with joy; and this We
may proclaim without forgetting for
moment that arduous labors and q
long period Of violent fighting are still
ahead of us.
Moreover. the beating Germany ha.
been getting does not give the measur,
Of the beating the civilized nations
Intend to give her. Where her shat
tered divisions flee to-day from a re
deemed land, Germany Is receiving
only a foretaste of what IL to happier
to her; for the operations now ir
progress in the words Of our Chiei
Of STAFF, must not be mistaken fol
the offensive that will be launched
against the Hun when the Allies ant
ourselves are ready to begin the
final advance on the stronghold o.
hnuoo n}ty'o worSt human opop,too