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The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-08-15
URGES STlCMNG TO BUSINESS
Physician Asserts That Too Early Re.
tirement Of Successful Business
Men Is a Mistaken Policy.


To old men who are thinking of re-
firing from active business DR.. VIII
liam j. Robinson, editor of the Medi-
cal Critic and Guide, gives the cele-
brated advice once rendered by
Punch ito young people about to
marry" namely, "Don't!" The coun-
sci often given to those of advancing
years, even by physicians, to take
things "easier," to give up this and
give up that-in short, to lead dull,
empty, vegetable existence, is unqual-
ifiedly bad, Doctor Robinson thinks.
although, of course, there are excep-
tions and special cases. He writes:
"An old man with very high blood
PRESSURE. e., high for his age
should not engage in business which
is likely TO cause him great excite
ment and throw him in fits of anger;
and man. who is showing symptoms
of senile dementia should not be in
trusted with important affairs; but
generally speaking, there is no rea-
son why man should give up his
work or narrow the circle of his in
terests, merely because he has cele-
brated the SEVENTEEN or eightieth an
niversary of his birthday. sThe gen.
eral condition of the man, his fitness,
should be the criterion, and not his
age in years. We all know that some
people at sixty are actually older
than some are at seventy or eighty.
"The advice to old men to retire
has sometimes, if followed, very dis
astr0us consequences. A man Of sew
enty or eighty is attending to his pro-
fessiOn or business in satisfactory
manner, and he feels well. Suddenly
he decides or is advised to retire and
take things easy for the rest of his
days. He dOes-and in a few weeks
or months that man is physical or
mental wreck and ruin. AS long as
he kept up his mental interests he
was all right. A sudden change,
sudden vacuum, ! might say, perhaps
the pernicious subconscious feeling
that now it is all over for him-all
that contributed to the disasten And
it is not the physical change so much
as the mental that is the important
factor. l, for one. am sure that men
tai activity, mental interest, has
life-prolonging influence, because
mental activity stimulates many, If
not all, of our vital processes. 1t is
not mental work that ever kills; it
is worry that does it, and even its
baneful influence has been greatly ex-
aggerated. We know of octOgena.
rians whose lives have been one round
of trouble"
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-08-15
Canadian Emphasis,

BY the bye, don't be shocked by our
damning and swearing. 1t doesn't mean
the same in Canada as it does over
here. It's natural to us. In Canada
everyone swears. My little boy-he was
six years Of age at the time-was
swearing one day in the kitchen and
the cook told him If he was not care
full his teeth would drop out. He looks
up at her--only six years Of age, mind
you--and says. Daddy's teeth haven't
dropped outl" What do you think of
that?-Gen. Alec McDougall, Canadian
Forestry Corps, in London Chronicle
Interview.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-08-15
Veteran Proud of Standing.

Edward P. Weaver, fOrmerlys of
Bangor, Me-, claimed the distinction
the other day of being the oldest Off
Ger yet graduated from the free gov
ernment navigation school conducted
by the United States shipping board
recruiting service. He is sixty-nine
years of age. Mr.. Weaver, who had
many years experience as a seaman,
decided while at New Orleans some
weeks ago to enter one of the schools
and train for deck officer for the
merchant marine. He passed the
rigid physical test without difficulty
and completed the course.
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-08-15
NO SUGAR FOR BEES

Sugar for feeding bees will be
extremely hard to get this year, due
to the Federal food control measures.
Oregon beekeepers generally rob
their bees rather closely In the fall, ="
says A. L. Lovett. entomologist of
o. A. c., trusting to the bees to
collect from scattered sources suffi-
cient honey 40 winteh them. When
this supply fails the bee men depend
upon feeding sugar for winter stor-
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-08-15

Has your bank a stocking room?
The Security bank of Oakland, Cal,
couldn't sell Liberty bonds without
theirs. Here Is how it works:
Mrs. Oaklander enters. II want to
buy Liberty bond, please"
"All right; sign here" says the
pleasant bank clerk.
After this the good woman hesitates,
bushes. She makes wavering passes
and then looks around with hunting
and hunted look.
The pleasant bank clerk knows the
symptoms and politely inquiries ::
"WOuld you like to use the stocking
room?"
Mrs. Oaklander retires to the little
side room and makes a run on "the
first national bank"
The gazette-times. [volume] (Heppner, Or.) 1912-1925, 1918-08-15

age or to bring the bees through in
the spring. Every effort was made
last spring to supply the extra sugar,
but food administrators are averse
to making further allowance for this
purpose. Beekeepers are urged to
allow sufficient honey for winter care
of the bees. This not only saves
sugar but insures that the bees will
winter we'll and be in condition to
reap the greatest benefit from next
years honey flow"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
OUR ITALIAN ALLIANCE

One of the best pieces of news of
the week is that of the arrival OF
American troops in Italy, to serve
by the side of the Italian troops an
der the triumphant command of
General Diaz. We have hitherto
urged that this should be done and
have pointed out the chief reasons
for it's desirability if not its neces-
sity. 1t is thus that our alliance with
Italy is perfected in form and is
made effective in spirit and in fact.
For this there is the strongest his
torical and sentimental as we'll as
practical warrant. A peculiar inter
est in Italy has long been cherished
in America. 1t may have been be-
cause of the personality of Garibaldi,
it may have been because of the I'M
rivaled and Irresistible charm of
Italy, it may have been because of
our simple love of freedom and
therefore our hatred of such tyranny
as was imposed upon that geo
graphical expression; whatever the
reason, the fact is that the first great
war for the liberation and unity of
Italy, fifty-nine years ago. was re-
garded with perhaps greater SYM
pathy in this country than any other
foreign struggle of the kind. No
where in the world was the expul-
sion of the Austrian Bourbons from
Italy hailed with greater satisfac-
ton than in America.-North Amer
lean Reviews War Weekly.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
HARRISBURG CUPS?

= Asst January when the snow lay
two feet thick on Harrisburg
streets some thousands of farm
ers came here from almost every
section of Pennsylvania to attend a
mid-winter exhibition of farm prod
ucts and tractors. 1t may be mad
deping or refreshing, according to
the frame of mind of our citizens, to
recall that weather. but this show
held in the midst of one of the worst
winters that has descended upon us
in many years was such a tremen-
dous success that a general demand
was made for it to become an annual
affair. The show started in 1914
in q side room of one of the city's
halls where some State associations
of farmers, wool growers, poultry
lovers and fruit raisers were having
meetings and by judicious use of
publicity 1T began to expand. Last
winter it was a real show and peo-
pie woke up to what Pennsylvania
could display in mid-winter, what it
had saved over from the fruitful
summer and the bountiful autumn.
1t is going to be held again.
The plan is to have this show in
the week of January 20 when the
various State agricultural. horticul-
tural and other bodies will be hold
ing annual sessions in Harrisburg
and the inauguration will take place.
1t will be a notable assemblage OF
the best of the fruits, grains. nuts,
eggs and other things that go to
make up our food supply and corn
will be king for a day with boys and
girls here from forty counties.
The point is that this show is go-
ing to be held again in Harrisburg
1t is going to bring many people to
Harrisburg. In years gone by the
prizes were ribbons and cups paid
for by either State officials or raised
by passing the hat among interested
men. There is no reason why there
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
TO THE DEAD KNIGHT

Sleep we'll, dead lad, Knight of the
Azure Blue!
Sleep well, thy stately sleep amid
the bloom!
Love holds thee dear; Faith halls
thee leal and true;
Proud Honor weaves rich chap
let's for thy tomb.
Dead in the splendor OF thy golden
youth.
Dead in the promise of thy dawn
ing day.
Yet ne'er to die. immortalized in
Truth,
A living star in Freedoms sky
alway!
Deathless to ride, in never-ending
flight,
Through vaulted domes of SPAN
less spaces far,
Close to the founts or quenchless,
radiant light.
Where. glory-crowned, Gods fade
less heroes are.
They hold thee not-these hills
where thou vast born.
Nor yet these hearts that love
thee. warm and dear;
Now art thou ray of that eternal
morn
That breaks in ceaseless splendor,
yee- en- year.
william p. F. Ferguson.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
NO 18th CENTURY PEACE!
kansas CITY Star

lhanSaS City Starl
Four years of war and the Ger
why the. world is in arms against it!
Witness the old Eighteenth Century
peace formula it is proposing and
which 1t appears to think ought to
end the war in way comfortable,
satisfactory and pleasant to every
body.
Picture 1t as the German leaders
complacently sketch 1t in their latest
peace outline, made to King Alfonso.
German autocracy. its red sword still
unsheathed, negotiating at council
table. Belgium, Northern France,
Serbia and the Baltic provinces are
pawns in it's hands to be traded in or
held back as advantage dictates.
The slave merchant is crying his
wares. What is he offered for Bel
gium? What for the iron mines of
| France? For himself, he admits he
needs some coaling stations, for he
expects to have big navy and mer-
chant marine after the war. And
| OF course, he wants his African colo
nies back. Surely nothing is simpler
to arrange, as he sees it. He shoves
in one of his pawns and takes out
a naval base in the Pacific. Ile
shoves in another against the dis
mantling of Gibraltar He sets aside
a nicely calculated portion of his loot
and suggests that the handing over
of the Suez Canal would be about
| the proper offset to that.
This is the Germans idea of war
and this his notion of peace; to grab
all he can get before the police ar
rive and then open a negotiation for
the return of minimum of the loot
in exchange for a guaranty of his
| possession of the remainder.
That is the basis he seriously pro-
poses for a negotiation to end the
| war. That is as near as he has come
to an understanding of what the
democratic allies are fighting for
He thinks this war is just another
of the sort of which his own history
is full, war for territory, idemnity,
trade concessions, dynastic advantage
and that 1t can be ended when the
diplomats are ready for the swap
ping stage by another Congress OF
Vienna. He thinks democracy cares
as little for its dead as he cares for
his, and will sit down with him on
the field of their sacrifice and trans
mute their blood into the base cur
rency of diplomacy-"rectific of
influence" freedom of the seas"
place in the SUM-" These are his
counter coins minted on the fields
of slaughter to which he has led his
people. and with them he expects
to dicker and traffic with America,
of which he knows so little that he
imagines her coming to peace con-
ference jingling the same kind OF
coin.
This swollen trafficker in blood
has his lesson yet to learn. America
is fighting for other things and will
not stop until they are won. And
one principle to be established or
| these fields of sacrifice and suffering
is that this devoted blood shall pay
no fee to wars base broker. There
will be no market day for Germany
honest .tradesmen' who come eS
pecting to match hecatombs with W
and strike a balance in a gamblers
agreement to knock off play for the
present and cash in their chips.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
THE BAGMEN

lFrom the Johnstown Tribune
The Democratic National Commit
tee is sending bagmen around the
country gathering money from rich
Democrats. The money is to be
used in the Congressional elections
this fall Why the necessity for
money to preserve the Democracy +?
Why not permit the plain people to
vote without undue influence?
The fanatical organs of the De-
mocracy are attempting TO influence
the elections by proclaiming that the
test of patriotism is voting for Dem
ocratic candidates. This un-Amer-
lean slogan is dinned into our ears
by local authority. Yet, that au-
thority was so Negligent that 1t did
not provide candidates to be voted
for in the Democratic county pri-
mary.
The bagmen OF the Democratic Ma
tional Committee are after rich
! Democrats for money. Is II feared
that a Republican Congress will
show up the weak places? Is the
case so desperate that it is deemed
necessary to buy votes? Something
akin to a panic affects the Demo
cratic party leaders. What is there
to hide2.
Is it significant that the Job OF
raising money has been taken over
| by the Democratic National Commit
tee, whose chairman is the rulina
power in the War Trade Board? Ir
other times the Democratic Congress.
sional Committee raised the money
Does 1t make . better impression
upon rich" Democrats to have the
bagmen represent Chairman McCor.
mick, rather than Chairman Ferris
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
German Alarm at the New Zionfsr1

curing the rights of the Jews in Eu-
rope and the East" 1t has been de-
nounced by the Zionist organization
In Austria, Switzerland and Holland.
who declare that it is a German in
strument to offset the favorable ef-
rect upon the Jewry of the world of
the declaration in favor of Palestine
on the part of Great Britain, France
and Italy" In support of their con-
tention they adduce as proof re-
cent article in the Jewish review,
Nord und Sud, from the pen of its
president, DR.. E. Fuchs, who wrote:
England does not care anything
at all about the Jews, but is simply
using them as means to gain con-
troll of Palestine and to weaken Tur-
key. The question has arisen as to
how to offset England's political
stroke in such way as not to in
Jure Turkey and also to withdraw
from English Influence the Jews of
neutral countries and the non-Zion-
lists OF England. The Zionist papers
OF Germany have adopted a very
straightforward and patriotic atti-
tude toward the English bait. They
have accepted the friendship of that
country. but have curtly reclared
that as Jews they must remain neu-
trail, and that the Turkish Jews
must remain loyal Turkish citizens
without participation in the struggle
of the nations
I'VE have been approached by a
number of German national Jews
who wish the Centralverein to issue
a declaration against Zionism. This
we have declined to do. We must
oppose these extremists. Our gov
ernment has been able to support the
Zionists without weakening Turkey.
1t could not leave to England the
prestige of a monopoly of Jewish
friendship. Jewish colonization in
Palestine can be made to strength
en- Turkey and create for her great
economic power. Tt would not in
jure Turkey at all If the Jewish col
onists received cultural autonomy
instead of political independence,
thus giving the color of a Jewish
state while at the same time remain
ing loyal citizens of the Turkish
Empire"
While this program may satisfy
the Jewish inhabitants of Germany,
1t does not appear to meet the ap-
proval of their coreligionists in Aus
tria, for we find the Vienna Morgen
Zeitung saying:
1.-THE prografs~of the Central Or
ganization can not arouse enthusi-
asm among the Jewish masses. It's
demand of actual equal rights may
succeed on paper, but it will have
no real value"
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
Word From Captain Hall

The first direct word from Captain
James Norman Hall. author of High
Adventure" (Houghton Mifiin Com
pany) who was shot down behind the
German lines, after an air battle
with the German flying circus"
comes in letter to his friend, Paul
Rockwell, Paris correspondent of the
Chicago Daily News. "You have
doubtless heard that I am now a
prisoner in Germany" Captain Hall
writes. During the combat l had
the misfortune to break one of the
wings of my aeroplane. Then a
shell from small quick firing gun
struck my motor and 1t was all up
with me. My right ankle was bad
ly broken in the landing, so that ]
am now In n hospital and likely to
remain here for some time. The
time passes very slowly and 1 have
suffered great deal with my ankle
but am being kindly treated here
and therefore have a great deal to
be thankful for. I am not yet at q
prison camp" Captain Halls moth
er. however, has received word that
her son is a prisoner now at Camr
Limburg. :
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
"OH, GO TO H, MOTHERp p

T HIS was the parting shot of 6
drunken young soldier as he
left his home station in the
northern part of Pennsylvania for
camp. But the young soldier was
not talking. 1t was booze.
The story comes from Clarion in
this State, where several hundred
citizens. including some drafted men
who were leaving for camp, entered
the bar-room and Office of the larg-
est hotel in the town and demolished
the fixtures, glassware and mirrors
as an expression of their indignation
over the refusal of the proprietor to
close his groggery during the depart
ure of the young soldiers for the
war. This booze dispenser, who had
previously refused to close his place
when other young men left for the
front and who had taken in nearly
$1,000 on that day, barely escaped
coat of tar and feathers and a ride
out of town on a rail by concealment
in the house of a relative.
1t was on the first occasion three
weeks ago that the drunken boy
came from this bar-room and when
admonished by his mother because
Of his condition slapped her on the
face and said: "Oh, go to H,
mother" 1t was too much for Clar-
ion to stand.
What an awful memory for a
mother and what still more awful
memory for a son going to war. And
all because greedy hotel proprietor,
without patriotism or consideration
for the community which he is al
legged to serve, refused to close his
bar while the soldiers were leaving
and their friends were wishing them
God-speed.
Is it any wonder the sentiment for
the absolute prohibition of the liquor
traffic is rising higher and still
higher?
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
An Amazing War hterlude
philadelphia North Americana


Every reader of historical anec-
dotes has smiled over the picture of
George III sitting in a daze at his
dinner. pathetically trying to con-
centrate his wavering wits upon
the problem of discovering how the
apple got into the dumpling. Many
fairly well-informed persons, how
ever, have found a mystery much
IKE this in recent news from Rus
sia. They have become aware of a
large Czecho-Slovak apple in the
Siberian dumpling, but how it got
there and what it's presence por-
tends they could not clearly explain.
Yet the uncertainty of the public
mind on this vital matter seems less
remarkable when it is recalled that
the government itself only recently
awoke to the facts. Some Off
Gals, said a Washington dispatch
OF June 18, have been laboring un-
der the impression that these
Czecho-Slovaks were people of those
races resident in Russia. No SYM
pathy for the movement exists
among those officials who believe
that the Russian situation will ad-
just itself. They hold that as a
military factor the organization will
have no effect" The facts are, of
course, that the Czecho- -Slovaks are
not Russians by birth or residence,
and that as "a military factor" they
nave accomplished something the
American Government has held
would be beyond the power of all
the Allies combined.
In a war engaging nearly thirty
nations and Transforming the life OF
the whole world, the story of these
daring bands is unexampled in ro.
mantle appeal and inspiration. Iso.
lated, unsupported and only hall
armed, they have established them
selves across a continent. While
the statesmanship of great Powers
has hesitated and evaded, they have
opened the way for the salvation OF
Russia and for preventing German
domination of eastern Europe and
Asia. Surely 1t would be one OF
the finest ironies of history IL the
project of a Prussian world empire
were to be shattered by these for.
mer victims of Teuton autocracy
and If helpless Russia should be
freed by Slav little brothers" who
once looked to her for liberation.
1.-THE North American then gives
the story of the brave efforts of the
Czechs and Slovaks, two branches OF
the same family, to get out of Rus
sia to the aid of the Allies. And on
this dauntless force will concentrate
the armies of freedom for the de-
iiverance of Russial.
Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-07-29
ENTERING FIFTH YEAR

" O-DAY we enter upon the fifth
year of the great war. Yes.
terday four years ago Austria
declared war on Serbia and precipi.
tated the conflict which we know
Germany had plotted for many
years. Had we known then what we
90 now we would have been in the
conflict as soon as England and al
most as early as France. But 1t is
with only the last year of the wal
and that ahead in which we are for
the moment interested.
AS we cast our eyes back over the
twelve months just closed we see the
Russian collapse, the Italian defeat
last autumn, the stupendous drives
of the Germans against the Allied
armies; and the wonderful defensive
operations that have again and
again checked the enemy when sue
cess for him seemed near at hand
But, as Secretary Baker said last
week, transcending the significance
of any event in the actual theaters
of the war, Americas full participa-
ton in the conflict, involving the
transportation overseas of more than
a million men to engage in it, must
remain for all time the great, out,
standing feature of the fourth year
of the struggle.
1t is upon America that the en-.
tente is relying for the men and re.
sources to turn the tide.
The Secretary of War points out
in a review of the situation that a
year ago the number of American
troops going to Europe had not be.
gun to assume large proportions. A
few regulars and some Natlona
Guardsmen had been sent to France
but most of the big. military trainine
camps We're still being built and the
men selected as the first contingent
to be called to the colors were still
ir citizens' clothes. Until August l
1917, the total number of American
soldiers taken overseas was 26,967.
Soon after that date the movement