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FRIDAY, DECEMBER. ?9, 1922. MONDAY. JANUARY 1, 1923. PAGE TWO ROSEBURG NEWS-REVIEW, INC. - Issued Daily Except Sunday H. W. HATKS President and Manager UKKT G. UATEd Hecretary-Treasurtir SUBSCRIPTION RATES la!ly, per year, by mail $4.00 Daily, n niuntlii), by mail 2.U0 Daily, three mouths, liv mail , l.uu Daily, single month, by mall 5u Daily, by carrier, per month 60 Weekly Nens-lieviow, by mall, ptr year 2.00 Entered a sucond churn matter May 17, IkJu, at thu punt office at lloseuurg, Oregon, under thu Art of March 2, Is 79. - RoeeauRQ, oreqon, mundav, January i, i2j. PLANNING FOK ANOTHER YEAR New Year's time is a period when many folks look ahead and think of the things to be accomplished during the coming year. Imaginary young people are specially alert to cherish roseate dreams of some big achievement they exjK'ct to reach before the end of the New Year. In the main this looking ahead is useful. People who drift along year after year without getting any goals to ambition are apt to be content with small achievements. The old fashioned father used about this time to lay out a certain sized woodpile for his boys to cut up. It looked big to them. They groaned in spirit as they thought of the innumerable swings of the bucksaw and strokes of the axe that would be required to work up the wood. But their spirits of achievement was incited by the laying out of a definite work to be performed. Father with the wise head knew that he would get more wood cut out if he gave the kids a mark to' aim at. Many business concerns at this time are looking ahead and setting certain marks of sales that they wish to make during 1923. Their salesmen are urged to bring in a greater total than they made in 1922. Aiming at a high figure stirs the energy of human nature. People who at first doubted if they could reach the goal set, often find that they not merely made it, but even went further. The community should have it marks of achievemdnt toward which it is looking with hope and purpose. Here in Roseburg our people may well make a New Year survey of their present condition and needs. It would be a helpful thing if our community organizations could lay out certain definite civic tasks that ought to be accomplished during 1923, and exert every energy to get them done. High purposes count in community work just as in personal ambition. But planning a program for the New Year without concerted effort to carry it to a realization counts for naught. It takes a lot of vim and vigor, coupled with a whole lot of push and energy to put a civic project over. But the staid old city of Roseburg lias not been neglectful of its needs during the past year and will ing hands and enthusiastic citizens are already looking forward to a year of many accomplishments in the way of improvements to the city and county. 'Its growth in a building way during the year just closed has been phenominal no boom, no inflated values, no wildcat schemes to inveigle the unsuspecting into placing money in shady enter prisesjust a good, sound, conservative growth that bespeaks an era of sound prosperity and good business judgment. To have the privilege of living in a section so delightful as the Umpqua Valley is, of itself, a pleasure afforded only to those who had the forthought to select this section of the state as a place of abode. Unequalled climatic conditions, unlimited resources, the benefit of the finest railroad and highway facilities, coupled with a diversity of soil, capable of producing bountiful crops, this section of the .-,tat w is, in reality the Garden of Eden. No wonder our people are prosperous and happy. No wonder their vision of the future is bright. It could not be otherwise. Therefore, wo take hold of each New Year with a firm and more pronounced conviction that greater things are to be accom plished and the spirit of progressiveness is with us always. o . A Detroit judge says the people who speed automobiles un reasonably are either weak minded or wilful wrong-doers. lie proposes to subject thcin to mental examination. If mentally competent they are to be given jail sentences. Some speeders show so much lack of judgment as to suggest that mental defects may have led to their exaggerated ways. But there is in the experience of fast driving a certain intoxication that sways the judgment of people who are intelligent enough, leading them to do thought less things or drive in a way which on reflection they would ad mit wrong. A still more disagreeable element of speeders are just plain road hogs. Appeals to reason will touch part of these folks, but others can be swayed only by stern assertion of authority. o Don't fail to mail a copy of the News-Review's Now Year edition to your eastern friends. Copies can be had at this office, ready for mailing, for five cents. ' It will give them a good insight into the resources of this wonderful and most productive section of Oregon. This county cau accommodate several more-thousand people without overflowing. o . Some rainfall for the past twenty-four hours, but the soil probably needed a good soaking, otherwise the locid weather prophet would not have called forth the deluge. o Seven million dollars worth of booze landed in New York to quench the thirst of the natives during New Year festivities. Look out for an epidemic of blind-staggers. o The automobile siweder and road hog ought to make a solemn resolution never to do it again. And they should keep this reso lution inviolate. Come tin. boys, let's put the New Year over with more vim and vigor then e r before and keep her going for 3ti.") days. o . Beginning today you can write it 1923 if you tan only for get the old year. o Did you notice how easy we slipped into the New Year .' o : She's off with flying coiois o A happy New Year to all our a bright mi ' happy New Year. readers. PICKINS Br BERT 6 BATES HAPPY NEW YEAR SOAKS Glad to see you all So sober this eve Because we didn't Hardly expect it Well, we guess the calendar dis tributors are all done. We hope so, bi-caiiHp we've go ho many sticking around the sunctuiu that we huven't got a place to hang our coat and bat. if Wonder what 1923 hat In (tor for ua? Vf f; Soma mtorm, wasn't It. Did it fade your Xmas necktie? 3 All of those desiring to start the new year with a little old-fashioned "cheer" are urged to attend a mass meeting at the morgue tonight to make funeral arrangements for the party. POME He sipped his soup in silence, It sounded awful dumb; He stuck his fork into it And stabbed the waiter's thumb! :: After standing on the corner of Cass and Jackson sts. for a half hour during the storm yesterday as the sweet young things were tripping along to church we arrived at the conclusion that Santa Claus must hava distributed a lot of silk onea. e Noth ng is quite so pitiful as the feller with false teeth who chews to bacco and has to take out hia teeth every time he expectorates.' ;: ;; . AH the work some girls do is confined to fussing with their hair and putting an extra coat of paint on their maps. w .? W Most people say "Happy New Year" without thinking what It means, just the same as they mutter, "Howdy do." The street cleaning dept will not have to turn out now until summer owing to the heavy rains of the past few days. : a WINTER Rain ' Sleet Cold Feet Tim N. Ump. river In quite hitfh this week, which makes it difficult for the B.-ilmon to swim normally. The village spooners always like to s-e high waters because it means no electricity. EFFICIENCY HINTS FOR BUSINESS MEN Bs careful about hiring any young man who asks you If you have any hcoch In your desk as soon as he comes In. Do not hire a young man who comes in, sits on your desk and swings his feet. Do not engage a paralytic If you are looking for a man to carry heavy safes. : a We've always noticed that the feller who hates to pack in the wood likes to wind up the phonograph. ' Lots of people read this colyum quite seriously and when we make a pun at some friend's expense they tip toe up to the victim and whisper in his ear that we've got a lot of crust to print things like that about him and try to get him all roused up so he'll take a healthy punch at our nose the next time he meets us. Cosh we're glad there are a few broad-minded folks left on the old universe. OUR NEW YEAR'S WISH We sincerely hope that every reader of this dept. of uplift will inherit all the hap piness possible in this world and that they can at least squeeze a smile per day out of our efforts during 1923. We're mighty glad the boy scouts are t.iking down the circus posters in the windows of their newly acquired club rooms. That's what we call do ing a "good turn." Wouldn't this bo a funny world if fill of us would walk up to each other and just tell 'cm what we think of 'em without mincing words A whole lot of us would find out that we're not so popular as we think we are. "Happy New Year Is a misnomer when aa.d over a glass of sody pop." 3 Battling For a ,Y.V-.-,?iv.T.7?r--r-r.v.-:rrvr-- Kvery western state has a battle on for tax reduction. Governors are preparing their message to make this the fore most issue to be presented to the legislatures. They are racking their brains to see how they can keep their campaign promises to trim the overhead in some way. The old song about the three departments of government, ad ministrative, judiciary and legislative, has done service in the past. Rut the people who pay the taxes know that so far as they are concerned, these three departments do team work when it comes to getting the money. No case can be cited where one department has ever laid a straw in the way of another department increasing taxes only by a governor's veto. In most of the western states there is strong talk of junking so-called useless or superfluous boards and commissions if there are any such. It will bo denied by all of them that they are fifth wheels on the wagon, all will contend the state could not get along without them. Just the same Illinois, Idaho, Washington, and other states have junked them and reduced taxes, dumped hundreds of useless officials, and exist. Left to a legislature the evils of these ulcers sapping the revenue and life-blood of the commonwealth, will not be abolished. They rule. Where the multitudinous excrescences have been scraped off the body politic, it has been done by heroic, action of some chief executive. Governor Cullom in Illinois and Governor Hart in Washing ton, backed by strong business men, used the club on the legisla ture and got results. Without attacking the schools or the development of the highways, a number of states have got great relief by adopting the cabinet system. Then the Governor and the heads of the departments do team work in the interest of the people instead of the countless army of office-holders. , The people will demand good officials in office, but they are tilso demanding application of business principles in public ad ministration. 1 ' There is no excuse for a state or county or city government not having at least as good a system of conducting affairs as a bank or corporation. ' The average state has about a hundred boards and commis sions and all are interested in 'getting larger appropriations and levying more taxes. ' ' ' . At least that is the way it works out. Taxes have gone up two to four hundred per tent in the average state, population and wealth half as much. If this is not reversed where will we be at the end of the next ten years? That is the record for the past ten years. They blame it on the war. The cabinet or department system reverses this and sets tram work in motion to cut out duplication, dead timber and profes sionalism. ' Under the department system there is an efficiency depart ment, and all departments are bound by its findings where re trenching is possible. The heads of the departments the Governor as to what can be give better service. That is what they are created men and women into places to see of it for themselves. Are we capable of this step of government continue to mean the is the issue. o temporariness that comes ui'h the of the enduring character of Ihe best thing SrTJ J.-f L fhuD ihe Vicissitudes of this changing lime and uith lite consciousness of of the foUotcing verses: . -& rr "v. snaa ueais us cna&ces on me uncertain stage, But, wtile our whilom may increase with age. We seldom-in, hcweveriard we try. Jk) Gao3 promise most to our insistent youtii, And diamonds glitter to oar later Sig But melancholy spades cur topes amaze'ii And leave them buried after .all, forsoctfhyT? ZT . i 1 f ve coast u:e ncnes 01 Our gains, cur losses, and our gain withal, Our greatest gain, the one that once so small, Ever increasing, stays with us always: Joy after joy approaches and departs, h7 But we have kept the fellowship of hearts! Lower Taxes - 1 meet each week to comer wun done to economize here and there for. The old spoils system put how much they could make out progress or shall state and local exploitation of the people? That flight of a year, it is pleasant to think in life, unfailing love, as does the write! at s -a .1 i ine nassirtfr eavs. I. ABRAHAM THE SILK STORE I : " -' I r MATERNITY HOME 902 N. Jackson Mrs. D. Patients privileged to vvvv.VAvv.,.v.vv.;vAV', SB Hew Bear'! GreeUno f TUINK of an Kiryptinn pyra midthe Rphlnx, for In stance, that atone forged bead of a man. It stolidly stares out of sightless eyes over the wastes of sand. Now think of a big town clock In the forehead of that hard face. The hour hand has been wagging around and yet around for ail these centuries. And now It marks the beginning Sof another New Year. Does the ! stony face smile? No. Do the ; granite lips move to hid us, of this age, a Happy New Year? No. If we speak op to the broken ears ' do they heart Never. . i ' , (Such a Senseless heartless thing " Is time. It knows us not nor cares for us. It has no eyes to see us. whether we be Greeks, Egyptians or Yankees. As well might be the countless grains of the desert snnds, we and the generations gone before us. - Our laughter and our tears are alike to time. If we' living beings carve a cloek on Its brows; If we renew Its wheels as they wear out; If we wind It day by day and appoint our children to keep It going after us; If we make Its Iron tongue strike the hours on a bell, It yet Is nothing to the sphinx of Old Time. We only are the living ones. Time Is not alive. And if there were no living ear of man or beast on the vast Sahara there would be no sound of the striking clock. ' Jit We spenk lrf" error of the New jl Year's coming. It Is we living souls who come and go. Time never comes, never goes; Is not new, not old. Time Is a fetish, an Imaginary thing. Jinn is all. In fact, since the soulless beasts take no note of time, anil Ood's measure is Eternity. ffJWhat we do on Ner Year's day -ills to tnke note of our existence. Away back bf us are multitudes of human lives to whom we real ize our relation. We say back of us. Why not say before us? For they are the procession thut passed this way. Are we the head f the column, or Is It they who hove gone before? In either view we are all one. It Is Humanity that Is passing over the enrth. The Sphinx is nothing since It has no soul'to see us pass, or to hear us as we pause anil toss our cups In the air before him In a New Year's festival. Instead of the pyramid let us J look up to a Father. How differ ent the thonght! Eyes has He and He sees us; ears, and He hears our thankful acclnlms. Hands has He, which extend themselves to sustain us, to help the toddling children, to npbear the aged, "For a thousand years In thy sight are hut as yesterday when It Is passed, and ns a watch In the night.'' JlWe think today of brotherhood. We are conscious alike of our mortality and cur Immortality. Life seems sweet and we are glad tn he ullve. I.lfe sems all em bracing, all conquering, fur we have survived so many trials and yet are living. (II In vain does one seek to put It -.n words, this mli lity shout of men Into the faces of the aged stnrs and to the sunrise. "A Ilnppy New Yrsr." It Is day of tinkling bells and music with dancing feet. Yet poor Indeed mnst h the mind that cnnniit al re to say; "When I rmisliler Thy heavens, the work of Thy Anger, the moon nd the stars, which Thnu hart ordained, what Is man that Thou are mindful of hliuT' And so give thanks. Arundel, piano tuner, Fhone 1S9J ' '4 5 US :3 EEiaagaaggiH I si St. Phone 490 Cornvvell have their own doctor WARFARE ON CRUELTY The Oregon State Humane Society" has made, arrangements to have all? rnPH of erili.llv In nnimnl. nr.. I h.n i - j wuu tuiiir ren prosecuted by the stale. Starving sVck in the lung wet. cold snowy and freezing winter in Oregon I is altogether loo common and shnuiii! bn made Impossible. The State Humane Kocloty has adopted plans to presume all cases of neglect und niarvaiion of live stock under the Mala laws. Names of owners, and r.pof lfic state ment of kind of stock and where to bo found should be leported to State Manager Swant.in. Portland. An officer will be sent, or Ihe local officers Informed, and the machinery of the District Attorney's otfite set in motion. . State Officer Tlosa Churrhlll Willi make a tour starting New Yta.-s dayj of Ihe big range and cattle counties! of Eastern Oregon. I Death of long suffering starvatlra.l m water to drink and freeslng In thfl blizzards among the sage brush Billj llanley says must stop. HIGH SPOTS IN YEAR'S SUMMARY Oregon's agricultural yield for 1M$ agKieBatsd .. 313.0OO.o, In which ts- ineluded - a Z3.WU.0 bushel wheat crop, a 4,000,0UU ton hay crop, 7.0U0 000 boxes of apples and 40,000 pound of prunes. The state's timber harvest for thf year was more than 3,0u0.000,000 feet The timber and lumber industry pn duced $110,000,000, giving employmeir to 45.000 workers, who received an a gregate of $70,000,000 in wages. An additional $12,000,000 was in vested in Oregon's hiKhwav svste ) this year, which was productive of ft: miles or pavement. 290 miles of rork and gravel surfacing and 336 miles of new grade. Tortland invested $23,000,000 In neiv buildings during 1922, a new hich rei ord. Of this sum $12,0Sti.020 wer, Into the construction of 3323 new ret. dences. Oregon sends the highest perceti age of her young people to colleee i any state in the Union, while Tor land leads all sister cities in the pe centage of her boys and girls enroll! In the public schools. And. too, Por land's" public library records the lar. est per capita circulation of books c any library in the country. POSTPONE P. T. MEETING The Rose school parent Teachf association will postpono their mer ing scheduled for Jan. 1 to January at which time the regular meetio will be held. o Singer machine, slighllv used, at bargain. Singer Store. Jackson St. PROFESSIONAL CARDS OB. M. H. Pl.vi.cn mirosract! injriiciu. 1J w. Lna Bt. At Last The Boot and Shoe Machine Did Come CARTER'S TIRE SHOP Can Half Sole and Heel 1 Rubber Roots and Shoes Repair Anything In the Rubber Line 445 NORTH JACKSON ST. HOTEL UMPQUA "Rosebnrg'i Finest." SEW AXD MODERN The people of Douglas county are Invited to make their he' quarters here. W. J. WEAVER. Troy.
