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DEDICATION 



I dedicate this book to the memory of my 

 beloved mother, Mary A. Withycombe, a 

 very spiritually minded Christian woman 

 who gave up a fine home with cultured en- 

 vironments to bring her four sons and one 

 daughter into a pioneer country, in a for- 

 eign land, where she could see them grow 

 up into business around her, one of whom, 

 James Withycombe, became the Governor 

 of his adopted State, and died during his 

 second term. At a memorial service held 

 for our War Heroes and the Governor at 

 the Oregon State Fair, 1919, Circuit Judge 

 Stapleton said there ought to be another 

 gold star in the flag for the Governor, as 

 the war work brought on his death. George 

 A. White, Adjutant General of Oregon, in 

 writing in The Oregonian of the world war, 

 said some kind things of Governor Withy- 

 combe, as follows : "There was always to be 

 found firmly behind the right the unflinch- 

 ing suport of James Withycombe, then Gov- 

 ernor of Oregon. Not once in all the mobili- 

 zation and later draft did he ask for a 

 single favor or exception, although the 

 power of arbitrary was in his hands and he 

 might have done otherwise. Time and again 

 he was sorely pressed by the insistent pleas 

 of politicians who wanted to traffic in the 

 solemn trust that sends one man's son into 

 battle as the leader of other men's sons. But 



