FRIDAY, DECEMBER. ?9, 1922.
MONDAY. JANUARY 1, 1923.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Beginning today you can write it 1923 if you tan only for
get the old year.
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Did you notice how easy we slipped into the New Year .'
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She's off with flying coiois
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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?
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Soma mtorm, wasn't It. Did it fade
your Xmas necktie?
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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!
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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.'
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AH the work some girls do
is confined to fussing with
their hair and putting an extra
coat of paint on their maps.
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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.
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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.
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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."
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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.
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temporariness that comes ui'h the
of the enduring character of Ihe best thing
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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?
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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!
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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!
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I. ABRAHAM
THE
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MATERNITY HOME
902 N. Jackson
Mrs. D.
Patients privileged to
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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.
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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
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- 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.
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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.