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Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-06

with dugouts fer boxes, cannon for
orchestra, and an all-star company
in the front line trenches.
Thruopt the way the land was
pock-marked with shellholes. Be
fore we reached ST. Hilaire-au-Tem-
pie where we were to change cars
was surfeited with battle-ruinet
fields. They are dead now, and va
cant and silent they hardly hint OF
the life and feeling and noise which
filled them so lately. A storm has
passed. the land has not yet become
familiar to the calm which has fol-
lowed. There Is no meaning to the
quiet and stiffness, for the trenches
are there yet, and trenches do not
connote quietnecs and stiffness. A
spirit broods, as of waiting-and for
what? For the trenches to fill with
men again? Or will they disappear
and be smoothed away, that the life
of the land may return, and that
such another storm shall never more
pass that way?
changed at st. Hilaire-au-Tem-
pie for st. Wenchould where l would
stay for the night and go on to Ver-
dun in the morning. happened to
get into a compartment with four
soldiers who were following the
same route, on their way, I believe,
to Sedan. They we're all old-timers
who had been thru here during the
days of THE fighting, even before the
United States was a belligerent, for
they were part of an ambulance
unit, who came over at their own
expense and served with the French
armies All but one, | think, had
been in France three years.
We Joined forces, swapped infor-
nation and got off together at st.
Weneltould. where they had been
stationed about year previously
The boys who are home now must
know about Ste. Menehould. 1t is a
town OF fair size which had been
held by the Germans in the early
days of the war and until the last
days was close to the front lines.
Probably no other town SO near
the 'front.' said one of the soldiers
II was with, suffered so little in
Jury. Up until the very last 1t was
free from bomhardment. 1t is sus'
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-06
INDIAN MOUNDS PRODDED
TO DISCOVER SECRETS

Oregon Agricultural College, Cor
Wallis, June "a group of Indian
mounds in Linn county is being
prodded by Prof. J. B. Horner and
his class of history students, TO get
from them the story of their origin
Iand use Altho many times as old
as the gray pyramids of Egypt they
have never given up q tithe of the
lore revealed lg the great sentinels
Of the desert. 1t is now time to make
them loosen up, thinks Profes-
sor Horner, and reveal their secrets
of past ages
The first Of q series OF explora-
tions was made Saturday, May II,
by Professor Horner, so of his stu
dents, and delegation of Corvallis
and Albany citizens. Before visiting
the mounds the explorers inspected
the extensive collections of relics
taken from the mounds and exhibited
in the museums Of DR.. ]. l.. Hill
and j. G.. Crawford. OF Albany.
These relics consist of stone vessels
OF the earliest form of worship,
implements and utensils of a much
later date. and skeletons, beads and
arrow heads OF modern flat-head
Indians
DR.. Hill thinks the mounds were
built OF earth from the excavations
that. like small lakes, invariably ap-
pear alongside the mounds. Why
they were built, he does not pre-
tend to know. Being easy to dig in
they we're used as burial mounds by
mdde7n Indians, who" he says,
were lazy"
How the relics we're recovered by
excavations. which so far have been
shallow. was explained to the his
tory students. many OF whom ex-
pect TO assist In a systematic archae-
logical quest for the story of the
mound builders.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-06
SALVATION ARMY FUND
RAISED In TEN STATES

Word has been received that the
100000 drive for Home Ser
vice funds for the Salvation Army
in ten eastern states has been sue
cessfully concluded and indications
are that the quota set for the far
east will be oversubscrlbed by a
good figure.
The Oregon campaign for funds
will be conducted by the Oregon
State Elks Association, June 22 to
30. A total of s25O,OOO will be
raised in Oregon during this cam
paign to carry on the work Of the
Salvation Army in this state. One
half of the quota will be raised in
Multnomah county and the city Of
Portland:
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-06

Mrs. d. B. Blue submits the fol.
lowing letter from her son, G.. v
Blue, giving the concluding chapter
of his interesting journey thru
France:
U. s. Naval Port Office.
La Pallice, France
(Care Postmaster, New York;
April 16, 1919.
Dear Mother. Comes unexpected
ly a moderately quiet and laborless
afternoon; therefore, seizing oppor.
tunity heartily by both hands and
shaking them as II he and / were
old friends, commence another and
final chapter on my late leave.
The train out of Rheims for Yer
dun runs for quite a distance north
ward before turning south and east.
In other words one goes thru the
territory which was German for four
years. Here are their trenches, their
dugouts, their camouflaged roads,
their graves. 1t was the black-gown-
ed, middle-aged woman opposite me
I'm the second-class compartment who
told me this. Her home had been in
this part Of France, near Chalons.
isur-Marne, believe, before 1914.
Her eyes wore an expression that
had never seen before; it was as IL
she were constantly seeing some
thing that she would always see, and
at the same time as II she were
looking and watching for something
that she would never see again. The
look disappeared for a moment when
one spoke to her, while she smiled
and answered.
This trench-scarred land was one
labyrinth OF barbed wire; and the
remnants of a highly perfected sys-
tenn of camouflage cast a peculiar
garish. theatrical effect over the for
mer battlefields. Roads were SCREEN
ed over and hidden from the view of
scouting air-men; creeks were cum
ningly disguised; trees, saplings,
shrubs and branches were woven to-
gether. set up. strung along. alto
gether arranged with the precision
of stage setting. In way that is
what they were. The wings and the
back drop and forest scene Of the
worlds greatest drama, when the
house was sold out all seats taken.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-06
SENATE COMMITTEE
WOULD RETURN WIRES

The senate interstate commerce
committee Tuesday unanimously
recommended favorable report on
Senator Rellogg's bill for the i'm
mediate return OF the telephone and
telegraph wires to private owner
ship. Existing rates would, under
this bill, contints 60 days
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-06

Hood River Contract to be let
soon for paving the 22-mile stretch
Of Columbia Highway between here
and Cascade Locks.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-06

Oregon City-Hawley Pulp & Pa
par Co. TO expend s150,00O imme-
dlately upon construction of addi-
tional pulp mill At this point
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-06

Roseburg-First building for new
box factory about completed.
Ashland tidings. [volume] (Ashland, Or.) 1876-1919, 1919-06-06
G. ,Od Cues and TIPS

! lard players prefer this place
bee 70 they know that they can get
Coz IS cues; and modern equipment
mai a lot Of difference in the pleas
ure ? the game.
" KNOW It.
Pr ianity, gambling and other un-
desira lie elements are absolutely
TABOO here. We invite GENTLE
MEN only.
This is a clean, congenial amuse-
ment hall for decent clean-cut fell
lows.
AInuit'S Billiard ParlOr
"Clcan Sport for Regular Fellows"
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20
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THE SURE REMEDY.

Despite the efforts of the govern
ment and all other agencies operating
for the purpose of reducing the cost of
with few exceptions continue to ad-
vance. This fact seems to prove that
the real remedy has not been applied.
The solution of the high cost of liv-
ing problem lies largely with the work
ers-the producers-who are the
heaviest sufferers from it, They can
solve it, not by quitting work. not by
working fewer hours, but by increas-
ing production.
On August %. elected representa-
tives of the employees of the Midvale
Steel & Ordnance company. the Cam
bria Steel company and subsidiaries
assembled in conference at Atlantic
City, n. J.. and adopted a set of reso-
lutions regarding the high cost of liv-
ing, its cause and remedy, the spirit
OF which, if-put into operation by
working men generally. and by all
other producers, would do more in a
month to bring down the cost of Iiv-
ing than could ever be~done by all the
strikes, or lockouts, or reductions OF
hours of labor. or Investigations. or
criticism imaginable could do in years
I'VE believe" said those representa-
tives of the steel workers.:
The only sure remedy for the high
cost of living is increased production
and the Sterilization of prices in con-
formity with wages now being paid.
And they resolved:
That the persistent and unceasine
demand of workmen employed in all
classes and kinds of industries for a
shorter days work and an increased
wage in order to meet the present high
cost OF living Is uneconomic and I'M
wise and should not be encouraged.
sWorkmen who are idle, either on
strike OF otherwise. are not only add
ing nothing to the quantity of life's
but they are still further curtaiIing it.
Strikes for higher wages or for short
err hours of employment, whether sue
cessful, from the strikers standpoint
or not, cannot possibly avail to relieve
in any measure the cause for the COM
plant upon which strikes are popu-
larly based: The high cost of living
They can have only the opposite effect
that is. of increasing, Instead of re-
| docing, the high cost of living.
Living cost is high because the sup
ply of necessities is disproportionate
to the demand. The worker feels it;
it pinches him. But he cannot. i'm
prove matters. or better his own po-
sition by quitting work or by reduc-
ing the hours which he devotes to
production. Such action only aggra-
Yates the condition from which he is
! suffering and against which he COM
! plains!
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20
SANDRA THE JEALOUS
BY JANE PHELPS

desperate or he would not have shot
the butler"
He was not bad-looking. young and
dark. 1 saw his face quite plainly"
$50 that you would know him
again."
>~"No-at least 1 do not think so. His
features-no. could not recall them.
1t was just an impression of a young
man more than anything else
Barrett had brought some music
and we played and sang until about
half past ten. Then he rose to go.
did not urge him to remain longer
Everett might come in and be I'M
pleasant.
I was nearly ready for bed when
he finally came home I had loitered
over my preparations, and it was
nearly IL O'Clock.
early" He did not kiss me-just
stood and glowered at me.
"I had caller. 1 couldn't very
we'll go to bed"
who called?"
Barrett Edmonds." Then I re-
Leola, Everett's first wife, never tried
to hide anything she did-that no
matter If she knew it would make
Everett awfully angry, she-told him,
and that altho he would try to make
her promise not to receive people
again.. OF go pldCeS, ne never COulO,
1 would do the same. SO 1 added:
'I called him up and asked him to
come"
you mean that you telephoned him
after I had gone out?''
Yes. 1 called Alice Sloane and
Dagmar Stewart, but both were out,
then I called Barrett. We had a de-
lightful time. He brought some
music. But you mustn't blame him
because I was up. He left about hall
past ten. I have been Gwadling
thinking. 1 did not realize it was sc
late. Where did you go?"
Never mind where 1 went. Get tc
bed"
AS he turned away to his dressing
room, 1 thought I heard him mutter:
1T will not let another''-then the
door closed.
could not sleep for some time try
ing to make out what he had meant
Did he think I was going to be like
Leola, and have my own way, be indis
Greet in spite of him? 1 hoped so.
(Tomorrow-Irma Barton invites
Sandra to lunch.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20

she looked fully eighteen, and only
her eyes and dimples gave her away.
II just did it for joke, and because
Molly, your sister, said / never could
put it over. We went to school
together. And at commencement last
week you didn't come up you know,
and I'd liked your picture so much.
and I did want to see you so Molly and
I arranged it with Tommy's mother
She's a.dear, and well, it did work
out, didn't it?''
ST suppose Molly told you lot of
stuff about me?"
mo" honestly meeting his eyes,
"only that you'd been over there so
long that you needed some one to
cheer you up and make you take an
interest in life. Did-did you like the
fudge?'
Loved it, he answered. earnestly.
Wen have spaghetti tonight, if you
like, and supply even a chaperon If
you'll come up"
But she shook her head.
IT can't. but-but you know the way
out now. don't you? You might give
me back my pencil now and the snap
shot"
Steve smiled.
Maybe you think I don't know
when I'm engaged" he answered.
There's no comeback. You're going
to make good on all that Betty
promised me-"
(Copyright. 1919. by the Mcclure News
pepper. Syndicate.l
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20
WALTER KEMP AN UNDESIRABLE
ACQUAINTANCE.
CHAPTER LXXI

L
rearranged the hyacinths, recall
ing the compliments Mr.. Kemp had
paid me, and the ease with which l
had eonversed with him.
+ ut is because he is nearer my own
age" said aloud, land because he
doesn't treat me like a child. But he
isn't nearly as handsome as Everett"
that handsome man was very much
to be desired as husband.
When Everett came in / told him
at once of Mr.. Kemp's call, and men
toned the flowers.
You received him again after what
1 said %
why, yes-you didn't say should
MT" I was cowed at once, in spite of
my resolutions not to be.
''Well. L say so now. Do not re-
eeive Walter Kemp in my absence. II
is such men as he who cause trouble"
He said nothing of the flowers, but
went up to dress
Eat your dinner, Sandra," he said
when after. a few moments we sat
down to dinner. After dinner Everett
left the dining room quickly. and as
1 followed him, said, Il am 1oing out"
please take me, Everett. 1t is so
lonely alone.'
THAT is impossible"
s'Will you be late?''
81 do not know. Go to bed by 10
o'clock
He kissed me carelessly and left me
to spend the long evening alone.
wouldn't do it! I'd call up someone,
or go somewhere.
I called Alice Sloane, then Dagmar
Stewart. Both were out. Then sud
den impulse seizing me, / called Bar
rett Edmonds. He said he would
come, and thanked me for asking
him.
I was already dressed, SO asked him
to come early.
It wasn't quite $50 when he APP
peared- I was awfully glad to see
him, and told him SO. He, like others,
had read of my accident. and the bur-
glary. Later, he told me he had cut
my picture from the paper and had
framed it.
you were very brave" he said
when I had answered all his questions
anent the burglar. Most women
would have screamed. Had you done
so. he might have killed you. He was
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20
QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS.

Q. What did the Span,sh-Amorican war
cost the United States ?-E. T.
A. This cost US a hundred and for
ty-one million dollars. There were 30 men
killed in action. and 1.46J we're wounded.
Q. Who was Joyce kilmer, and in what
battle was he killed Pr. X.
A. He was bern in 1886 and was a grad
uate of Rutgers college. For teveral years
he was n news writer on various New York
newspapers. lie contributed many short
stories and poems and sketches 10 the
metropolitan papers and magazines. He
was recognized as of the leadin &
American poets He was killed in action In
France ia the battle of Ourcq.
tAny reader can get the answer to any
question by writing The Topeka STATE
Journal Information Bureau Frederic T.
Haskin. Director. Washington. D. G. This
offer applies strictly to Information. The
Bureau cannot give advice on legal medi-
cal and financial matters. 1t does not
attempt ia. settle domestic troubles, nor
to undertake exhaustive research OH any
subject Write your question plainly and
briefly. Give full name and address and
enclose two-cent stamp for return postage
All replies are sent direct to the inQuirer.)
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20

" conquered by 1t. Here is the case
of Anna, for instance. Anna, Ia years
old and pretty. had been in New York
lust three days when she was brought
weeping into the headquarters of the
bureau of missing persons the other
morning.
Encouraged by the adventures of a
moving picture heroine, who arrived
penniless in New York and became a
great actress all in a thousand feet or
in a nearby New England town, in
spired by the same brilliant ambition,
arriving in Manhattan a trifle better
off than the movie heroine had been.
with ten dollars in her pocket.
For the first two days, she wan
dered about the streets hoping to be
discovered by some admiring manager
or director, which was what had hap
rened to the movie heroine. while her
money supply rapidly dwindled- On
the third night being very much dis
couraged and a trifie frightened. she
went again to the movies for succor.
There she received another inspiration.
Take things into your own hands"
was the motto which saw the movie
heroine happily thru her trials this
time, so Anna decided also to take
things into her own hands.
Going out of the tneater at half
past ten, she went up to the first we'll
dressed man in the crowd and eX-
planned her circumstances to him, ask
ing him to help her find some cheaper
lodgings, as her money was almost
gone. The gentleman pleasantly
agreed to do so, and suggested that
they take taxicab.
Lucky she happened to pick out
one of our men, said the policewoman
who told this story. Lucky for him,
too. He had been searching for her
for the past two days, and had her
photograph in his pocket. Her people
have been Wild
girls who leave home because it is I'M
pleasant. These represent the major
ity of the cases. and require the most
delicate handling on the part of the
bureau. In every case, an investiga-
ton is made OF the girls or boys
home conditions before the runaway
is returned. Sometimes he is not re-
turned at all, but is placed in an alto
gether different environment.
Our great problem" declared a DO
iicewoman of the bureau, lis that pre-
sented by foreign born parents and
the born child. The home
in this instance is in process of ad-
justment and seldom does it keep pace
with the progress of the child"
But, really, all the interesting things
that happen in the bureau of missing
persons cannot be crowded into the
space of one short article. One thing
must be added. however. If you want
the bureau to help you trace a missing
member of your family, do not write
to it direct, but take the matter to
your local police department 1t will
get IN touch with the bureau, and you
Will get much quicker action.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20
DOROTHY DIX TALKS
BY DOROTHY DIX
Worlds Highest Paid Woman Writer.
Which Do You Prcfer?-2.

There are plenty of men who live
up to the letter of the marriage con-
tract, who are faithful to their wives
and support them in comfort. yet who
sin against the whole spirit of mar
| riage, because they never do one thing
to make their homes happy. show
their wives particle of affection or
tenderness They seem to think that
they have done their full duty by re-
framing from flirting, and that all any
woman could ask to make her happy
is just the privilege of coEtempia ting
that impecca BILE Joseph that she drew
in the matrimonial lottery.
So IL Is no>wonder that the woman
who is married to the man who is
faithful. but unsentimental and cold,
and cross. feels that she has asked
for bread, and gotten stone, and
that she envies the woman who has
a chivalrcus and romantic husband.
even if she has to divide her angel
food with rivals.
On the other hand. the woman who
is married to the loving, lovable phil
anderer, who cannot see a feminine
ear without whispering soft nothings
in it, has times and seasons when she
thinks that she would trade off all of
her husbands charms just for the GER
tainty of knowing that he was all
hers. no matter how disagreeable he
might be. 1t seems to her that the
wife who never has cause to be green
eyed. and who never has her soul torn
10 tatters by fears and suspicious, and
who does not live in dread of losing
the dearest thing on earth TO her is
the only happy woman.
She knows that the very qualities
that make her husband so adorable a
husband are her undoings. because
they are an instructive part of her ma
ture, which he can no more change
than he could the color OF his hair or
eyes.
The sensitiveness that makes him
strument upon which every passing
woman's hand plays. The chivalry
that makes him SO tender to her, also
makes him the prey of his pity for all
other women. The thing in him that
makes him want to make her happy
makes him want TO make other women
happy. too.
Such men never make model hus-
bands Their wives never fully trust
them. and are no more entirely ham
by than are the wives of the good.
faithful. unsym pathetic husbands
For love. tenderness. romance. chiv-
airy are all emotional qualities that
either flood a mans soul or is barren
and dry of them, so that there is none
for any woman. The theory of the
lover who is Ice to all the world but
fire to one IL beautiful theory. but
1t isn't true. Men aren't built that way.
And there you are. ladies'. Pay the
price and take your choice.
Copyright. 1913, by the Whee.e- Syndicate
Incl
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20

The people Of this country are ready
to take off their hats to pluck and
ability wherever found, and there is
no room for doubt that the news of
Lieutenant Maynards safe arrival at
Mineola Saturday was received with
high degree of satisfaction every
where His accomplishment ranks
with that of Hawker. the first man
to fly across the Atlantic. While FOL
lowers of Eawker probably will be
few for many years to come, the Fly
ing Parson" has blazed trail which
promises to become an established
highway for those who are in hurry
to get from one side of the continent
to the other. Suitable, convenient
landing fields and repair shops along
the route now are in order.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1919-10-20

The American public has more mon
ey at this time than was ever circu-
lating before among any people in the
world. and it Is not squanderins all of
it. With the statement of govern
ment official that $500. 900, 600 is lost
annually in wild cat securities
comes the report of the secretary of
the treasury that within the last
twenty-five months s1.107. 900. 900 has
been invested in thrift stamps. war
saving stamps and treasury certifi-
Gates. To make our prosperity COM
mensurate with our money supply
only needs more work on the part of
those producing necessities.