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Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-01
NINTH PIONEER REUNION
IN THIS CITY SATURDAY
Old Settlers to Hold Annual Gather
ing 1t WOman's Club All
Day. Aga

C. C. Simmons Of Mud Bay. who
was born at Washougal in 1845 and
was the first white child born in
Washington territory. will be guest
Of honor at the ninth annual reunion
of the Thurston County Pioneer &
Historical society at the Woman's
club Saturday.
Addresses by G. N. Talcott, retir.
ing president of the society, Frank
r. Spinning of the public service com.
mission. Mr.. Simmons. General Haz'
ard Stevens. George H. Hines, secre.
tary of the Oregon Historical society
and w. P. Bonney. secretary of the
Washington society, will feature the
days program.
The reunion will start at 10 o'clock
in the morning and after the routine
business has been transacted bas.
ket dinner will be served at moon in
the club dining room and the after.
noon will be spent in social way.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-01
LOGGER DIES FROM
INJURIES BY TRAIN
CHARLES A. CARTER OF UNION
MILLS STRUCK WHILE "BUCK-
ING" LOG IN WOODS.

Deafened by the noise of donkey
engine with which he was "bucking"
a log, Charles A. Carter, AZ years
old, was run over by logging train
on the South Bay spur of the Union
Lumber company Tuesday morning,
suffering the amputation of both legs
and his right arm, and died at st.
Peters hospital in this city early that
afternoon.
The accident occurred q short dis
tance from q sharp curve In the track
about four miles from the comp6hy6
headquarters at Union Mills. Carter
was standing in the middle Of the
track, "bucking" the log on one side.
and because of the noise made BY the
donkey engine did not hear the en-
gine whistle or the frantic shouts Of
the train crew. He was conscious
until short time before his death.
in spite Of his terrible injuries, and
absolved the train crew from all
blame for the accident.
First aid treatment was given him
at the place of the accident. he was
put on the train and hurried to
Union Mills where further meaical
attention was given. and brought to
Olympia on the morning train. which
was held at the mill 20 minutes for
him. A remarkable feature Of the
case is that he was still conscious
while being taken to the hospital In
the ambulance.
Carter was we'll known through
out the county, having made his home
here for 20 years and had been work
ing for the Union Lumber company
for the past two years. The family
formerly lived at South Bay but had
lately made their home on a farm
near Lacey. Surviving are the wild
ow, a son, Charles c.. and two
daughters, Sadie Evelyn and Iva Jen-
sine.
The funeral will take place at the
Jesse T. Mills chapel at o'clock
Friday afternoon and interment will
be made in the Odd Fellows ceme-
terry.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-01
GOVERNMENT PUTS
. LUMBER INDUSTRY ON
!. EIGHT.HOUR BASIS

+ Beginning today, the logging
!. camps and lumber mills of
+ Washington and Oregon will go
+ on basic eight-hour day by an
+ order Of the government, an
I. nounced at a meeting of the
+ lumbermen of the two states at
!. Portland Wednesday evening
:. by Colonel Brice P. Disque.
: commanding the spruce produc-
! ton division Of the signal corps.
= This is taken to indicate a move
!. for ultimate control of the in
:. dustry in these states by the
!: government, because Of the fur
:. ther announcement from Wash
:. ington that the government
:. would assume control Of the
!. spruce production.
!. ! i = !. !. !. !. !. !. !. :. !. !. !. !.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-01
FOUR SCHOOLS STAND HIGH.
All Grades Score 100 in Spelling
One Also Leads in Attendance.

High honors in the last spelling
contest were won by the schools at
North Star, Lindstrom, McAllister
Springs and Summit lake, County
superintendent Goss says in his
monthly letter to the teachers of the
county. each of these schools scoring
100 per cent in each grade.
The attendance banner was won
by the Summit axe school, with an
attendance Of 100 per cent. Super
intendent Goss congratulates the
schools on their success in the War
Savings Stamps campaign. noting
particularly that the Bush school, a
one-room school with only Is pupils
has bought $3.50 worth of stamps
and that "a per cent of the pupils al
the Bordeaux school are purchasers
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-01
MAY ASK BOARD TO
PASS ON BOND PLAN
COMMISSIONERS TO SEEK DECI-
SION FROM GOVERNMENT ON
100000 ISSUE.

Indications are that the county
commissioners at their regular meet
ing next Monday will ask the capital
issues committee of the federaEska.
serve board to pass upon the pro-
posed 100000 road bond issue to
be voted on at special election
March 26.
When the resolution calling the
election was being considered by the
commissioners at their meeting last
week, Commissioner Bennett then
proposed that the proposal be r.
ferred to the federal reserve board
for decision as to whether the ex-
penditures proposed would be ad-
visable during war time, but his mo-
ton then failed for want Of second
In the meantimbe. however, this
feature of the bond issue question
has attained such prominence that
the commissioners feel 1t should be
settled now after an investigation
and decision by the federal reserve
ooaru' . course wnich .ney say SMSy
nau presiousiy oecioeo 10 take 1e
iore issuing any OF tne Donds, y tne
p'an was sutnorized AZ tne eiecslOn-
gon ravlns ApprOscd.
IN tnis connection Commlssioner
sans po'nted OUT yestefae sseas the
Isosrai reserve Ooard' titeF - inves-
usa.lon' nad approved tns is.asnes
3 yovo'oVV worth OF Oonds ~ sne
ssste nisn~ay com"ission OF oreson
tor sns p.vins - soctions q tne
clnc anu Soiulno's n'snwsys - snsI
s1Ate shnounceMent OF tnis decssl0n
~ss sae Weoneso4y.
a.stone1 Dsms eApFesseu ne
opinion tnst tno completion q sne
psslns On 'no scinc nisnwsy
tween olympia ana camp sLeWs -
~ ieast % important - tne UFoson
pro1ects sno probably wouio Oe sp-
proved Oy the reserve Ooard' inee-
much - the government itseit = a.
vancine sSo'ooo towsrd ~ COM
tlon. Inc PAVING OF TINS nienvU
tAe nrs' "olA lug coMAlsss0 LnIll -. -
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-01
Garage EmplOye Burned.

Oscar Nell. an employe of the Cap
ital Transit & Repair Company. is
slowly recovering from severe burns
about the face. neck and shoulders
sustained the latter part Of last week
when. while working in the repair
department of the garage soldering
a gasoline tank. fumes Of gasoline
were ignited by blow-torch and ex.
ploded in his face.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-01
Poster Contest for School Children

Poster Contest for School Children.
All art pupils, high school stu
dents and eighth grade pupils are in
vited to participate In War Saw
ings Stamp poster contest. according
to an announcement by the state
school superintendent. The contest
will be in charge Of H. M. Hart OF
Spokane.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-01

Tumwater and Tenino made an ex-
cellent record in handling their
finances during the past year. the
state bureau of inspection reports,
the former reducing its bonded debt
$4,000 until It now owes $4,000.
while the latter is on a cash basis.
Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1918-03-01

Though no official announcement
has been made by the war depart
ment. indications are that the next
draft call will be issued the latter
part of April or the first of May.
Washington dispatches say.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
he Unfortunate
yplcal American

Ane explanation was easy. The empire
on whlch the sun never sets has always
thought CT Us as-well-bois sterous The
only American personally know who habit
giaLy suffers from checAered clothes and
patent medicine hats and patent leather
shoes and desire 10 buy all his drinks on
the city hall steps is regarded by his Eng
lish friends 'typicalIy' American. NV
friend has made an undoubted social sue
cess on the strength Of what his own people
regard as eccentricities. I am sure that
not very long ago most Englishrnen believed
that Americans prefer 10 enter hotels on
horseback and wear ruby buttons on their
more intimate garments.
so that when the American troops came
to France the British on the ground rave
them rather lirap-.ingered welcome. The
Briton IS a fine fellow-the more YOU see
OF him the better you like hir1-but he Is as
open as crater. He stares unpleasantly
when he IS curious. He watched the first
Americans in much the same manner IN
which he would have regarded troupe of
trained seals. No doubt he seemed 70 say
TO himself in his limpid mental depths.
these chaps VIII soon reveal themselves in
their true anlphibian identity. Meanwhile
all have to DO Is 70 stick around and see
who carries the fish.
"rThe private soldiers meet in cities occa-
slonally on leave, but the American frater-
nizes with the Canadian rather than with
the native born of the British Isles Ameri-
can and Canadian speak the same language
and sing the same songs and even share the
same swear words. The staff officers come
IN touch occasionally, but as the American
army marches with the French this contact
IS rather accidental. But IN the schools
the American and the British officers az
most literally drink from the same canteen.
They are treated precisely alike
"The Americans reach these British
schools by squads. but the squad is imme-
dlately broken up. The newcomers are
distributed among the British messes and
classes. All day long they work hard a.
the particular task that has been assigned
10 them, but after dinner IN the evening, a
glass OF Scotch -and-soda and d pipe fill in
the time until lights out is sounded at 10
o'clock. The JOB that all hands work at
after dinner Is that of really getting ac-
qualnted. The British crust breaks down
Immediately a stranger IS seated at his
table. The American responds Immediately
TO the welcome. He really likes the young
sters who are his class and table mates and
he regards them with little secret awe as
men who have made good at this great game
Of mankilling into which he is being inI-
tiated.
care they really chummy" I asked
everywhere.
Best Of pals was the reply everywhere.
Whenever I hear laugh at night am
certain an American is in the midst Of the
group. You should see em slap each other
on the back
What IS the difference between our fell
lows and yours2' I asked the colonel in
command al one school
- don't think there is any, he said.
after consideration. Our talk is little
different. That IS all"
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
JezVS and the PyussiQu Heel

spite Of the fact that revolutionary Rus
sia has abolished al the Czarist laws
against Jews, the German government
insists that laws pertaining to Jews
should remain as they were under the
Gar
The Gazette de Hollande" writes:
The laws of exception in regard TO jews
which were ri force in Czarist Russia have
rot yet been repealed in Poland. which is
occupied by the Germans, who maintain
thai The Hague conventions forbid them 70
make any changes n the existing laws OF
the country. This line Of conduct appears
the more fantastical if we remember that
one Of the first official acts OF the Russian
revolutionary government was to abolish
the special regime under VIII ch the Russian
Jews were living.
The comparison between these pretexts
and the arguments which the Germans are
employing IN order 30 proceed 20 the over
throw OF the administrative government in
Belgium IS suggestive and striking With
very few and slight notifications. the iegis-
lation of the Czarist government with its
evil reputation is still in force in regard to
Jews
"The repeated efforts made on the part of
Jews with the assistance of German Jews
and the Committee of the East-which was
founded with the consent of the German
government--hava failed completely in
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

country, who defend the Admin stration in
Discriminatory, impute evil motives to those
who assail it and assume an intolerable
byzantine attitude The Administration
itself is not wise if it shrinks from the
frankest and even the roughest criticism.
The winning of the war is everything. This
administration, any administration, is moth
ing in comparison. Only the Ad-
ministration can hurt itself, for instance,
by impatience Of disapproval, by adherence
to mistakes, by obstinacy. by clinging to in
competents under fire." by concealment of
unpleasant facts. War involves a continual
process of trying officials and kicking them
out if they don't conduce to victory. No
favortes be tolerated or spared. Make
good or get out" such is the homely COM
mand which Mr. Wilson viii have to en-
force in every department Of the national
service. If Colonel Roosevelt's own criti-
cisns are sometimes hasty and violent, his
principle is irrefragable.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
THE AMERICANS ENGLIsHMAN

"it sounds as though all these years that we
have been talking about the ties Of blood
and hands -the-sea have really
been disliking each other Come to think
Of it, the peoples have not been talking
about these things. Only professors ana
editors and that form of exportable COM
modify known as diplomats have been talk
ing them. Away back home in Abilene,
Kan. and Wimbledon Common, London, the
sturdy taxpayer had used the mother
tongue to lambast the other fellow of
nights.
The Americans are qualified rotters,
Mr.. Smith of Wimbledon, was saying not
so long ago; why don't they do their bit y
'''I want to see Germany licked MI.
Smith. of Abilene, used to say. but had
just as Lief see England get little licking,
tool!
Back of it all, both sides had considera-
bic respect and admiration for each other.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

claim to be the voice OF the American people
q whole.
There was every reason for some mis-
understanding by England Of the methods
and the character of our kin across the
Atlantic. And chief among those reasons
was the fact that the great majority of
our relations with the United States were
more Of financial than diplomatic
nature. Again, not only was the financial
news thus given a disproportionate impor-
tance, but the more picturesque reports of
CRIME IN an enormous extent of partially
civilized territory we're too often deliber-
ately picked out and labelled American
estimate of our own national character
would be proportionately influenced if they
read only the items of our police courts
or the horrors of our sums
Americans not ignorant of the i'm
projections of their South and West but
IN these matters, too, they ask their older
critics to remember that neither South nor
West compose the total of their various
and varied states. To one valid excuse for
their imperfec. information the English
public may doubt lay claim.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

termined the Kaiser to build a German
feet at all costs; with the result that To-
day he is faced not by Dewey Chi
chester only, but by the whole English
speaking on both sides Of the Atlantic
and in every quarter Of the globe
In "Everybody's' for April there IS
also a discussion of the closer bonds Of
friendship which the war is drawing
about these two nations This article,
by Herbert Corey, is in breezy vein, and
gives, by the way of contrast. what may
be called typical American valuation.
Great Britain and the United States,'
he declares, "are getting acquainted
by twos-in France. Friendship may
follow
This statement he admits, has "a sort
Of hollow ring Indeed
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
The New York Sun (Ind.)

Colonel Rooscvelts philosophy OF inter-
national altruism and national duty is not
borrowed from Mr.. Wilson. He was preach
ing the same doctrines in his own charac-
teristic fashion when Woodrow Wilson's
name and fame scarcely exceeded the
boundaries of the Princeton campus There
is difference, say, between the ideas
of the President and those of the -Pres-
dent in regard to what must be done. The
difference appears only when we begin to
consider the manner of doing that which
must be done to crush the German menace
TO win the peace of overwhelming victory.
Here the two distinguished gentlemen part
company.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07

planning. The President is the centre of
national authority and action and he must
De supported.
Bat disrcgarding the series of admitted
mistakes that have been made, Colonel
Roosevelt does a great public service by
raising his voice to educate public opinion
To the need of making preparations on the
theory that the war will not be short. In
August 1914 as all can see this coun-
try was guilty Of a great bfunder when it
failed to enter the war when Belgium was
violated. But no one is warranted in COM
planning Of fellow citizen on this ac-
count. Az far as we are aware, The North
American Review and 'The Globe had "A
monopoly Of the view that neutrality was
impossible in the presence Of the issue
rnised hut neither the President nor
Colonel Roosevelt saw the reality, although
they both now see that il it had been rec
ognized at once the would have been
over long ago The Coloneps eyes opened
within three months, while the Presidents
remained closed for two and IA half years,
but except in the matter Of quicker percep~
tion the mistake was the Same. Hsxs was
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
The Kaiser Meddled in
L The Spanish War

Mr.. Cook notes Spanish War incl
dent which was not known at the time.
but should be widely known now" AS
soon as America had declared war on
Spain, he says
"the Kaiser secretly proposed to England
and France that their three fleets should
prevent the Americans from ever reaching
Cuba at all. II he had succeeded no ma
ton in the history Of the world would have
been more bitterly humliatcd than the
United States, for they would have been
entirely powerless to carry out their orig1-
nal and announced intention. and they we're
completely at the mercy of the three fleets
had they desperately determined to fight
passage through by accepting war against
them all.
"The English Foreign Secretary, however,
told the Kaiser that if the English feet took
any part in the war at all it would be to
stand between the Americans and anv Euro
pean ships that barred their way Charac-
teristically enough, the Kaiser retorted (in
larger fleet would have taken Uncle Sam
by the scrutf of the neck
fie tried to do so, little later in Ma
Mia Bay, when Admiral Won Diederich after
threatening Admiral Dewey, found to his
discontinue that English diplomacy was
not limited to empty phrases, and that Ao-
mlral Chichester was perfectly ready to
hoist the Union Jack beside the Stars and
Stripes.
THAT incident, combined with the reali-
zation that his telegram to Kruger was
actually an empty piece of braggadocio, de-
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
Methods by Which
4vA Circulation Is Obtained

"A few good paragraphs upon one page
cannot give its tone to whole paper; and
when Englishmen told of the enormous
clrculatlons that are obtained by methods
which they rightly hold in absolute abhor-
renee, they cannot be blamed for misunder-
standing a nation to whose support such
methods owe their origin and their success
The real sentiments of Americans tow
ard US as Englshmen are at first equally
unlnteligible. The original Panama policy
and the Venezuela message made them more
uninteligble still. And in this it must be
admitted that the slower methods of Eng
lish diplomacy and of the English press
had the advantage Of restraining a too
hasty Judgment Nor was this moderation
of that day alone; it is as extraordinary
in time in extent. To take a few in
stances: there was the Sackvile- West at
fair, of which memories have lately been
revived there was the Bering Sea alter
cation; there were the diatribes of Mr.
Blaine, with the crowning incident of his
elevation to the Cabinet, an incident which
alone would have justified serious COM
plication' with any European power; and
then there was the Panama Canal.
"Iet England realized throughout that
all this was tie fault of a defective system
of internal politics which had no bearing
at all upon international relations Moth
ing was more characteristic of Americans
than to allow the continuance of state OF
affairs which they admitted to be bad.
They trusted to luck that all would turn
out right in the end. Nothing but cosm,c
disturbance hitherto unequalled in their
history has cured them"
The writer finds in American history
singing reproof for pacifsts in Eng
land:
after American independence had been
sealed at Yorktown in 1781 it was realized
by the best men in both countries that our
colonies had revolted in order to recover
the liberties which every Englishman re-
garded his natural Inheritance; liberties
which, significantly enough, had been in
this case curtailed by a German monarch
The War of 1912 stamped the character of
permanence on the American nation as its
Civil War gave it conference and indivisi-
bllity, and let it be remembered to-day
when every Englishman is grateful to TIE
United States-that if Lincoln had once
yielded to the clamor for a premature peace
before his weary four years of war were
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
The New York Evening Sun (Ind.)

Let US prepare for three years war
and begin now to make ready an army of
100000 men," says Colonel Roosevelt. ad-
dressing the people of Maine, and, over their
heads, all the citizens of the United States
As ever, the Colonel sounds the note Of
manhood and courage and urges on the
country councils of wisdom and foresight
In war it is strange to see the impulse,
the leadership coming from without the na-
tional Adm nistration. But the fact is un-
deniable and becomes more and more IN
sistent day by day. Yesterday it was Major
General Leonard Wood, to-day it is Colonel
Roosevelt, whose voice is raised for en-
thusiasm and energy in the conduct Of the
life and death struggle in which the United
States is engaged.
New-York tribune., 1918-04-07
4 Difference in
a F orei gners y

The English have always liked Amer,-
cans better than. Americans have liked the
English, said an Englishman who has spent
the better part of his NE in the Uniteo
States. just now he is a lieutenant in
regiment of the Guards, but down in Mem
phis, Tenn he is known as colonel You
call US foreigners. An Englishman applies
that title only to those who speak another
language
But do the individuals Of the two peo-
pie like each other? asked
"'Certainly not replied the colonel de-
cisively.
"Tet, of the hundreds of American officers
who have passed through the British train
ing camps back of The line, or are on their
way through, l have not heard Of one who
has not come out of his experience with
better liking for the Britisher Not all of
them cheer for their hosts, bur as broad
proposition they have found the Briton
bully sort. The Briton declares the Arneri-
can most likable chap Neither thought
in advance they could ever learn to like the
other. 1t was not until they got acquainted
that the process Of liking began II IS still
individual liking-not liking IN mass
1--WE were delighted to find your chaps
so modest the Britons say.
THAT IS put in the plural because so
many of the Britons have remarked upon
their delight. The first time heard it l
only thought that the particular Briton was
naive. The next Briton seemed somewhat
tactless. But when i came from every