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already made famous by Caesar, Joan of Aid and Napoleon; and Ac bade many of her courageous daughters to follow the **Stars and Stripes'* to &e same fields of glory

and there administer to the comfort of the noble wounded and pay a sisterly tribute to the honored dead. In a loyal response to the country's call state pride became aggressively

active and permeated every branch of endeavor. In what was known as ihe Third Liberty Loan, Oregon was the tirst state in the LJnion to subscribe the assigned quota, and Portland was the first city of her class in the nation to "i'o over the top." In the I-ourth Liberty Loan, Portland repeated tliis splendid record wlnle Oregon was the second

state to raise her quota $33,000,000 Iowa bcmt^ the

first Oregon met every demand made upon her in the struggle to win the threat war, and she now shares the honor of establishing a new independence Day—the Independence Day of the Nations—on which the world was made safe for democracy.'*

Ship BnOding m Oregmi. The IndiAStry Stifmdated by the War. Although possessing the best timber for

the building of ships of any state in the Union, Oregon had done little toward assisting in that industry. A few vessels had been constructed, but as a business shipbuilding languished. With the beginning of the "World War/* however, this condition changed, especially after the United States entered actively into the contest.

Thouaands of Men Are Employed in various parts of the state in shipbuilding, and it is impossible to secure sufficient labor to answer the demand. At present (October 1918) there are 51 steel ships under contract for construction, three of which have been completed. There are 75 wooden ships under construction and 20 others under contract to the French government. Twenty-eight wooden ships have been finished under private contract Approzi