PRICE FIVE CENTS
AYS OREGONIAN
IS VERY WEAK
XOCAL WRITER : TAKES ISSUE
WITH THE GAZETTE-TIMES
HISTORY OF STAIE PAPER
'A Psychological Study" , from Pen of
"E. M." An Interesting Recital of
that Writer's Argument Why Ore
gonan's Editorial Page is Weak
Editor Gazette-Times: This
5- -L ' 1H . , . .
10 a BLLtxu&s woriui xsot only
are we all, except the preachers,
totally ignorant of its origin and
01 us. aesnny, out not one in ten
thousand of us care, ' or ever
think about the matter. It is al
so strange that we should be at
this moment, after 1900 years of
Christian civilization snvprvhnsrw
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. vi& iiiaamg ui armamen is ior
wiwi uuier s uesirumnn. ns won
AS in iigmcr - all mnnnn
ioui, ior. the piling up of vast
" . '; -
1a uut uuiy aDsoiuteiy useless to
us, , but actually lessens .V. our
TMPJxanra end J
;k uugua VCLL CI1VA.
VRjlt etranrfoB All i .' 1 -
Vyi. c4.1 W UI IV -
Hig of tha inner resesses.ofout
rninnn ocnofi iihr na 4- u
ceit of one person of the perfec
tion of his own mentality and the
uouiuie assurance 01 otner per
sons that the mental products of
the first person are all rot.
For instance, in your editorial
of last Monday you say that one
reason why the Oregonian is so
widely read is. "its strong editor
ial page." Now perhaps it will
be of psychological interest to
yourself and your readers to
tnTTT Vl n 1 . J- ' i
" "'ai me present writer is
so strongly perverse and ab
normal in his cerebral functions
that he actually thinks the edi
torial page of the Oregonian is
not Orilv weak, nr 'at' hoot nnl
fnrmhlv.-fooWo Knt Tan ; i
ar 7 w Ul
and hardly fit for an honest man
to read ;that it quite" frequently
goes off at a tangent to the fact,
and even in ellipses and para-
Palace Theater
TO-NIGHT
S-
-i
James Keane & Co.
in
"Dr. Jekyll and
Mr, Hyde
In Three Scenes '
v
Five motion picture films will
make iip an interesting pro- -
:: gram. l .'
"The Warrior's Sacrifice"
A pathetically fascinating story of
how the absence of her warrior sweet
heart and false news of his death caused
. a tuveijr uiaiaen to wea . a ncn young
nobleman. The soldier returns, learns
of his sad loss and dies as a soldier
should fighting for his country. This
feature film will move every audience
and arouse intense emotion. - ;
"Duel in Mid-air".
"Bill, the Bill Poster"
"The Major and the Judge"
"Haps and Mishaps" "
bolas regarding the public wel
fare, so that it often flies in
diametrically opposite directions
in the course of a few years, or
weeks, or even in the same issue:
that it teaches that1 the people
are wholly unfit to govern them
selves either by initiative of
referendum , and '.it even more
loudly proclaims that thev are
incapable of,, properly selecting
their own . representatives and
that these should be . selected by
the peoples worst enemies, the
professional politicians and the'
agents of the coroorations and
trust deliberately gathered into
an .assembly',' for that purpose:
that what it has more than once
emphatically denounced as "trea
son and dishonor" it has subse
quently recommended as a pa
triotic duty, the violation of a
representative's solemn pledge
which made his election possible:
and that if you think these and
many - other characteristics
"strong," ' it surely must be
much in the game sense that the
term is applied to ; butter moral
rancidity! " '
Now isn't it truly wonderful
that any mortal man (and the
writer knows of one or two
others similarly afflicted) should
have. such perfectly" unaccount
able mental aberrations?
Of course the real and normal
apperception is that the Oregon-
ion is the paragon of virtue and
morality; and of course,' -almost
without exception, our states
men bankers, merchants : and
even our professors and preach
ers (at which latter especially as ;
ur-it-teachers:: of i ethics the I
writer has often : irreverently
wondered) so adopt it; the most
pleasing daily perusal and edifi
cation of which must consequent
ly be sure of their chief comforts
and solaces. How then can
these wonderful hallucinations
on the part of the present writer
be accounted for? He used to
go to Sunday - schools just like
the normal kid and has never had
any political bee buzzing in ; his
cranium. Do you really imagine
that, since politics is out of the
question, there can be any danger
of ;the case developing into
simple logomachy or else into
the far more , serious case of
dollaritis? ;
I would not dare to write this
during a political campaign; and
even now I have a creeping idea
that it might be a good, thing if
you would . kindly- endeavor to
create the impression, however
paradoxical it may seem, that it
is not me that is E. M. !
I
1,1
Monroe, Dec. 1. -Born to Mr.
and Mrs. Wm. Rickard, a son.
"Lloyd and Clayborn' Bonney,
of Eugene, are visiting in this
vicinity. .
Mr. and Mrs. Harrison Cart
wright have decided not to take
their trip until later. ;
C. Starr was a Corvallis visitor
Tuesday. '
J. 0. Whitaker was a Corval
lis visitor Sunday. s .
School at District No. 21 was
closed for. several days on ac
count of the high, water.
ONROE
OTIS
C. ILvdlerzItt
Will be cleaning feathers
an mattresses for a short
' time only. - - . ,
, Phone 470" :
THE G.-T.
TAKES EXCEPTION TO AN ITEM
PUBLISHED RECENTLY
INFERS INSULT TOUR. GATE
Philomath Writer Says Paper Should
Name Politics of Miscreants . Who
Happen to. be Something' Other
than Prohibitionists. .
- Philemath, Ore., Nov. 29, '09. '
Editor Gazette-Times: -
,: In regard to the item in your
last issue referring to the mik
stolen from the back porch of a
Baptist gentleman, allow me to
say, through the columns of your
paper, that it seems to me quite
an ill will that would attempt a
slur upon " a prohibitionist ' and
also the Christian ' gentleman
mentioned in that communica
tion. - - '-'.-
"You manfully(?) asserted that
a prohibitionist did the deed.
If you know that to be true, then
I ask you, the next time you re
port an offense committed by a
Republician or a Democrat, to
mention his. politics.. 1. .. 'i'" ' '
I believe I voice the sentiment
of two-thirds of the leading citi
tens of ; Benton county when I
assume the position that without
the Christain and prohibition in
fluence of that county your pros
perity and : that of your city
would fall far ' below the stan
dard of today, since the business
men have almost unanimously
acknowledged ; that the ; voting
out of the saloons have materi
ally increased their business.
' M. J. Bradford.
When the weather is bad and there's
nothing doing in a business way, there
is very little doing in a local news way,
so the public can not reasonably ex
pect much. ' ,
THINKS
SLURRED
RO
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GLIMPSES OF
BJORNSON'S LIFE
Famous Norwegian Novelist,
. Poet and . Patriot. .
AMUSING BENT IN HIS HOME
How a Young Student and the Novel -
ist's Wife Figured In One of His Fa-
vorite Ideas Greatest Pleasure That
His Poetry Ever Gave Him.
Of Bjornstjerne Bjornson, the aged
Norwegian novelist, dramatist, poet
and patriot, who was born at Kvikne,
Osterdalen, Norway, on Dec. 8, 1832,
and who was recently stricken with
an attack of arterio sclerosis, an Inter
esting anecdote is related by Kristof
f er Jansen, the minister-poet, who spent
a number of years in the United States.
In the first article hs ever published
Bjornson announced his firm belief that
a new generation 01 pojets would soon
arise, in Norway. It was one of his
favorite ideas, and he reverted to it
time and again. One who heard more
of it perhaps than anybody else was
Miss Karoline Reimers, 'who in 1858
became -Mrs. Bjornson. Shortly after
BJORNSTJEENE BJORNSON.
their wedding Bjornson promised his
wife Jestingly that he would keep her
in pocket money by paying her $1 for
each new imaginative work by a na
tive writer that took his fancy. x
"They will be coming! They will be
coming!" he cried triumphantly. "I'll
have to work hard to keep, my prom
ise." ..J' .
' But they did not come. Months
passed, and if Mrs, Bjornson received
any pocket money it was not owing
to the merit of any native poet or nov
elist, Bjornson himself was" then best
known through "Synnove Solbakken."
which he had published not long be
fore. ';.
. Visit From 'a Young Poet. .
Charmed by. this, beautiful piece of
(Continued on Page Two)
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PRESS COMMENTS
GLOWING
NORTHERN PAPERS BOOST ROY
ALLY FOR D0D0. '
BIG SHOW IS A
All Agree that the Music is Superfine,
Principals Excellent, Chorus .Large
and Good Looking, Stage Pictures
and Drills Superb.
Winnipeg Man;, Oct 15.
"Mr- John Cort, in his revival of
that merry and tuneful comic
opera, 'King Dodo, ' ' has got the
majority" of modern so-called
musical plays, comedies, fantasys,
and farces, etc., who. visit " the
city, from time to time, beaten to
a frazzle in well nigh every A&
partment connected with stage
production. -"Tribune.," ' '.:
Spokane, Wash, Nov. 5.
"King Dodo" is just as well
worth seeing as ever, and in
some way there is a big. improve
ment over former - companies.
IUs worth, seeing to see the
pretty girls; it's worth seeing to
hear the good ' voices, and it's
worth t seeing -to : look at the
you wm nave : an evening or
genuine pleasure with "King
Dodo." "Press.":
Tacoma, Wash., Nov. 11.
"King Dodo" as bright and
lively as ever, carried the Ta
coma theatre audience last night
by storm. "Times." .:
It is a snappy show. A large
audience greeted "King Dodo"
and he kept them chuckling all
the time. Singers of real charm,
together with elaborate costumes,
and many of them. "Daily
News."
"King Dodo" is one of the
most elaborately costumed musi
cal plays seen here this season
as lively as ever there are a
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greater number of good voices in
the company than -in the usual
comedy - or comic opera,
-"Ledger."
Seatt le, Wash. , Nov. 15.
"As soon as the action had got
ten fairly under way the ice
melted into rivers of mirth,
jollity and applause; very few
more finished presentations of
comic opera have ever been
seen in Seattle. "Star."
Georgeous revival of old "Kins:
Dodo;" the company is one of
excellent balance. The piece
bristles with the familiar song
h;ts and eyerything was encored
"Post-Intelligencer.
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Winter Courses, January 4th to Feb
ruary 18th, 1910.
Practical work, lectures and
demonstrations will be given in
such vital subjects as general
farming, fruit culture, animal
husbandry, dairying, .poultry
keeping, the business side of
farming, . forestry, . carpentry,
blacksmithing, mechanical draw
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'tl'ipourses.'' begin Jan
uary 4th and end February 11th.
Fmerscekr-Febriiary.lith
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A cordial invitation is extend
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Good accommodations may be
secured at reasonable rates. No
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entrance requirements. Promi
nent lecturers have been secured
for special topics. The , instruc
tional force of the College num
bers 100. Excellent equipment.
A special feature is the farm
ers' week whjch comes this year
Feb. . 14th. to 18th, Lectures,
discussions and a general reun
ion.
For further information ad
dress Registrar, Oregon Agricul
tural College, Corvallisj Oregon,
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