The daily gazette-times. (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1909-1921, December 02, 1909, Image 2

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Newspaper Page TextTHE DAILY GAZETTE-TIMES Published every evening except Sun flay. Officer 232 Second street, Cor vallis, Oregon. PHONE, 4184 Entered u second-class matter July 2, 1909, rat the poetoffice at Corvallis, 'Oregon, under act of torch 8, 1879. SUBSCRIPTION RATES daily" Delivered by carrier, per week......Jt .15 Delivered by carrier, per month...- .50 By mail, one year, in advance 5.00 By mail, six months, in advance.... 2.50 By mail, one month, in advance.... .50 N. R. MOORE . . CHAS. L SPRINGER, . . . Editor Business Mgr. SENATOR BOURNE'S OPPORTUNITY would be obtained and at the least cost. The Senator should be able to work out the details. so we leave the proposition here. FAVORS PARCELS POST The business men and 1 mer chants of the smaller towns are generally credited as opposed to the parcels post The Spokes man-Review, of Spokane, thinks ?ny mechfnt-" , On that advan- acting as agent for a concern 16 cated ' outside of the delivery limits of the rural route. The result would be to increase the business of local merchants and country stores by facilitating consumption and the delivery f goods. - It is of incalculable im portance that these small dealera throughout the United States should not be driven to the wall." "The reasoning of the post master general is sound. Quick delivery is a big advantage to According to an editorial in the Washington (City) Times of recent date Senator Jonathan Bourne, of Oregon, is making a considerable noise about the necessity of business methods in governmental expenditures. He has made enough noise to attract tiie . attention of eastern papers and these commend him for his attitude in the matter. Node tail is given as to jnst what changes Senator Bourne would make, so there is no way to judge of his constructive ability, but if he is doing nothing more than arousing others to a proper consideration of the leaks that come through faulty systems of buying and careless checking he is dbing a good work. In the estimation of the Oregonian and many others such work as this will hardly answer for the lack of oratorical or literary ability on the part of Jonathan, but there are those who are prone to be lieye that there is now too much II. i . i t j n ' - statesmen witn new laws m their heads, and too many that . are little intent on seeing that the everyday business affairs of $e nation are conducted in sIl "a way that the Waste each.fey is not larger than the revenue from additional taxes levied every little while. If Jonathan j will constitute himself a sort of growling watch-dog over ex-' penditures, and occasionly get busy in a genuine effort to start a few dollars out Oregon's way, the majority of the people will forget that he has money (one of the really great crimes of the age, especially . when it is inher ited or grafted, one of which , is inevitably true when the sum is a large one) and concede that he is at least as "big" as some others with greater reputation , for musical mouthings on the floor of the Senatorial chamber. But just here the G.-T. would put Senator Bourne next . to where it is possible to make a saving great enough to cover the annual deficit of the postoffice department. Let him find , a way of cutting off hundreds and thousands of tons of . literature sent from government offices to where it is not appreciated and not wanted. Every, postoffice in this country handles yearly , a large quantity of bulletins, re ports, costly maps and much junk of that kind sent to people and public organizations prefer- ring not to take it from the post- office. It costs : hundreds of thousands of dollars , for the . paper on which4 ..this overflow is printed, other thousands for. ex tra people to handle it, arid thousands' of dollars are7paid the express compariies for carrying it as mail. All of this junk could easily be cut to one-third, a two-third financial saving be made and everybody as well sat isfied. The G.-T. respectfully suggests to Senator Bourne that if a list of bulletins, records arid such like were sent occasionally to', those on the government's " mailing list, and at least a smal charee made for literature of , any' sort, a far t better . service this is the result ; of a lack of knowledge of the facts in the case. It takes up the case of the Colfax, Washington, merch ants, who went on record as opposed to the parcels post, and makes the following pertinent comment: "Inquiry made by merchants of Colfax disclosed that $3100 was sent in a- single month by money orders through ihe Col fax postoffice to two mail order houses in the east This is naturally a matter of much con cern to the business' men -of Col fax and some of them, evidently without a complete understand ing of the plan of the postmas ter general, seem to regard it as a reason for opposing the pro posed parcels post over rural de livery routes. ' "The purpose of the parcels post is to give country merchants exclusive .delivery over rural routes, and it would minimize the very evil of which the Colfax merchants complain. As the proposed parcels post is not in existence it certainly can riot have contributed in any way to the building up of . the business which mail order houses now have through the Colfax postof fice. '" ' , ; " ' "; "Under the parcels post, as recommended by the . postmaster general, a. country merchant, for example, for 25 cents could have delivered to ore of his customers a package weighing 11 pounds, and mail order houses would be excluded from this privilege. It would cost, the mail order house $1.32 to send 11 pounds by mail, and the package then would not be . delivered by rural carrier. . 'The plan is clearly set out in the annual report of the post master general for 1908. "This rural : parcels express," says the report, "is to be con fined entirely , to naral routes. JNd merchant or dealer not a bona fide resident of the town in which the distributing postoffice is located, or on the rural route, would be permitted goods delivered at' the proposed special rate, and packages would not be accepted from any person tage Spokane's great, jobbing trade has largely been built up. The' proposed parcels ' post would give that advantage to country merchants. " . Philomath (Continued from page one ) ... That there is more or less of fatality and broken bones in a game of football can not well be denied. That there is as much danger as excitable persons are trying , to make the public be lieve may be successfully re futed- There, is a determined effort of anti-football people to oust the game from school sports and public favor generally. This is their right and privilege, but they should stick to facts. It is Ind., and A. J,; Bowman, of Grand Rapids, Mich. , are , guests of President R. S. Kindel at the A. N.' Haines home. They visit ed the chapel exercises at the College of Philomath Thursday morning arid O. B. Bowman gave a very ; interesting talk to the students. Pres- Kindel told the students that the reason for his "happy look" and "broad smile." was because of his guests but they thought he looked very natural. Miss Cathey rendered two in strumental numbers. Mr, Page visited last week at the home of Mrs. Keezel. He left Saturday for his home in Kansas. Mr. and Mrs. John Eakin ar rived last week from Grass Valley to visit relatives. H IT" TT 1 TTTi lit miss nazei winoei nas regis tered at the College of Philomath since Thanksgiving. . Her home is in Harrisburg. Prof. J. B. Horner, of O. A. C, 'will deliver his famous lee ture "Oregon Literature" at the Brick College on next Friday ' . T"k f TT- evening, rroi. . tiorner is differs widely from the usual comedy opera in that there is not a line from the beginning until the end which can be mis construed. It is funny, but the fun; is clean, there is not a line at which even the most captious could take offense. The other reason is in the music. There are more than twenty as charm ing musical numbers as have ever been given to a? work of this kind." From the openine chorus until the finale there is a flow of melody that not only pleases the ear, but is of the quality which once heard is hot easily forgotten. "King Dodo" is being presented -with all the attention to detail tnat cnarac- terizes all of John Cort's produc tions. The scenery, properties and effects are all new and the costumes are gorgeous in their beauty.- pleases his audiences with his lectures. 1 C A 1 l 1 TTT II 1 Mrs. Aiirea wooa snopped m Corvallis. between trains on Thursday. King Dodo . Of all the comdey opera suc- demonstrated beyond a shadow very fine speaker 'and always of a doubt that lists of fatalities this year have been outrageously padded, that public opinion might be arrayed against . the game. This is unfair, unjust. That football is a good sport is practically the universal opinion of school men throughout the country. These urge that the rules be modified to make dan ger of serious accident very inf re-r quent, but few are willing that the game be abolished: Cer tainly its friends ' should never permit it to be abolished through misrepresentations of facts. A list : in ; another column of this paper shows that of 26 deaths attributed to football this year, at least 10 are wrongly credited. Friends of the gams should pass j this corrected list on to enthusi-1 asts and newspapers elsewher . ' Transfers, LAFFAN THE PUBLISHER. How The real estate transfers for the week ending November 27th, 1909; were a follows:- Wm P Taylor et al to C H Worth ington 60 acres near Alsea $300. Wm P Taylor et alio WJ and Lulu P Vernon 20 acres near Alsea $400. Evan McLennan to R E Heater lot 3 and north 1-2 lot 2 bl 14 Wilkin's Add Corvallis $1.00. J G Norton to C A Troxel and wife lot 5 bl 2 County Add Corvallis $10. J E Runkle to F O Gray 46.41 acres south of Corvallis $10. F O Gray to J E Runkle lots 3, 4, 9, 10 bl 3 N B and P Avery 's Add Corval lis $10. ' United States to Charles Reed 27.64 I acres in Kings Valley. , P L Cate and wife to T J Pettit and Pdtoi- TTvitt-o M 93 WilUn'd ArM Pniiral. cesses which have been produced iig $32oo. in recent years no work of the William Wolter to M M Long and j l j ' .. William Kittredge land souhtwest of B-iiiu uas Burpaoseu in popularity Corvallis $10. that" Ot .FlXley and Luders' . A J Williams to Mary E Felger land "Kine Dodo." which comes to near Philomath $1. ., , - . , , J Charles E Witham to Elvin Witham tne opera nouse next Friday, ; lot 24 College Crest Add Corvallis $780 Dec. 3. The reasons for ."Kme- Cynthia E Henkle to A W Watkins Dodo's" popularity are explained. In the hrst place it lot 74 bl 21 Philomath $10. pdi.li 111 lUb UO VI 0 X IlllUUlelLIl yJ. caoiljr . MprinHn V. WofVine fr A W Watlfino A' ; The Eugene Morning Register celebrates its tenth 'anniversary by installing a fine new ; Cox Duplex press.'" and giving - ihe ; public an insight into the paper's growth! The Register is a very excellent' newspaper in th Wil lamette's newest' and finest city. Its growth has more than kept pace ' with Eugene's rapid : ad vance, arid today the Register is ai route, . a paper that would bie a credit to to have . . .. j ui . i: any city coiisiueraoiy larger. It is to be congratulated on . its ' achievements. 1 tx JLET ALL YOUR TROUBLES Don't worry "over what you shall give your men friends for Christmas THE MOST ACCEPTABLE PRESENT IS A BOX OF FINE CIGARS OR A PIPE I have the largest stock ever shown here in at tractive Holiday Boxes of 12 to 100 Cigars at prices from 50 per box up. Pipes to Suit Every Fancy X)ME AND SEE JAGK MILNE, Seccmd St. Noted Art Critio and Journalist Helped a Green Reporter. William M. Lallan, publisher and. principal owner of the New York Sun, who recently died of appendicitis at his country home In Lawrence, N. Y. . was well known as a man of letters and an art connoisseur of note. - As a newspaper man Mr. Laffan's In fluence was farreaching. ' As an art' critic and as an aid to J. Pierpont Mor-' gan " he did a work that placed hint high In the ranks of the men' who have helped in the art education of ; the-. United States. It 'was to art that he devoted his time when he could escape from the exacting business of attend ing to many details connected with the management of his newspaper. ' : , Apropos of Mr. Laffan's interest irt art a story is told of his kindness to a. green reporter who In 1892 went to the American Art galleries, in New York when Sutton and Kirby were a craze among the elite to write somethingr about an important sale of art objects. Pretty soon he was in a daze. He had. served an apprenticeship at fires, mur ders, funerals, police courts, ships- . news, obituaries, etc., but did not know the real meaning of jades, celadon,. Flambe and Souffle, eggshell, lacquers, Diamio, Netsukes, coupes. Tisha-lre. faience, Satsuma, Cinnabar, inros, kln kara, in-deu and a hundred and one- things with which the catalogue wast packed. He was In a deqse sweat of: ignorance when a big man sat downr . beside him and asked if he could be of assistance. "If you understand any thing about this sort of rubbish. yes. I don't know what is worthless andJ what is not" For more than an hour after the sale." ended this man sat there, patiently leading the reporter up to an apprecia tion of the fictile arts and suggesting: a list of objects worth mentioning in a description of the sale. The reporterr thanked his good Samaritan without: asking his name and hurried to his of fice. The newspaper account of the sale attracted more attention In the office--than anything in that line that had oc curred there for many years, and the- green reporter's stock jumped away: above par. No one of the subeditorse dreamed that be possessed so intimate a knowledge of ceramics as the article indicated, while the city editor made grumptious inquiries concerning the- : whyness and whereforeness of thw youth, who hitherto had scarcely been noticed among the staff. It was for tunate for the reporter that the sale had ended, as that fact alone enabled! him to rest on his laurels. But he be came curious at last to know who had helped him write so brilliant an article and dropped into the art galleries to in quire. Mr. Kirby listened to his de scription of thejnan and guessed he? did not know him. There was no one connected with the association that an ! swered it. "Why, there's my man now, over there looking at that picture,''.. said the reporter, having discovered his friend, who, of course, had a way : of haunting art galleries. "Oh.", said Kirby, "that's Mr. Laffan of the Sun. Yes, he has a way of helping people.. Finest judge of art in America." " HAIR RAISING CONTEST".. 3rd Corvallis Opera House, Friday, Dec. TfltlH PflDT Presents a Mammoth New Production in His Revival of the JUnil bUnl GREATEST OF COMEDY ; OPERA SUCCESSES -V H ' Sk ' V. i VJf. '; XNG DODO. ''Replying to Tour Favor Of the 11th" By PIXLEY and LUDERS With ELEANOR KENT as Piola, WILLIAM FRIEND as King Dodo, Zoe Barnett, William Herman West, Laura Millard, Osborn Clemson, Louise Mink, Charles J. Udell And an Exceptionally Attractive Chorus of 50 More Real Song, Hits than Mere Ever , Written for a Comedy Opera The Tale of a Bumble Bee," IT1 Do or Die," 'Tor Love I Ltvi Aione," "Diana," "The Eminent Dr. Fi," A Jolly Old Potentate," . "In he Garden of My Heart,' "Two Hearts Made One," "Claim Thou Thine Own," "The LadVho Leads," "True as the Stars Above," "Gay Butterfly," "Good Night Dear." - THE PRieES:-$1.50, $100, 75c- 50c. SEAT SALE OPENS. Wednesday, 8 a. rxi., Graham & Wortham's Drug Store Positively No Free List G. A. R. Members In Germantown, Pa, Growing Whiskers For a Sword. Barbers in Germantown. Pa., are-' melancholy, while dealers In a hair re storer s are jubilant over a wnisKer growing contest which has startedi among the members of Ellis post. No. 6, G. A. R. The veteran' having the lotgest whiskers on Jan. X next wilt be given a sword by N. K. Ployd. Thirteen soldiers have entered the? contest, and. as they have been In bat tles which have been won by a hair's ' breadth, they are not averse to a whis ker growing race which may not be won by a close shave. The contest, it appears, grew out or remarks made at a meeting of the post- One veteran who had hair on his heaa and none on his face called another who had hair on his face and none one his head baldheaded. The veteraa with the hair on his face contended;'' that his whiskers contained more hair than the other veteran had on hia. head. Then all the veterans who were either baldheaded or "baldfaeed," as it ; were, took sides in an argument on whiskers. ' It was then that Comrade Ployd, to stir the ambitions of th beardless ones, came out with his prop osition. . " Melville H. Freass, who up to a short time ago had the longest whis--kers, is picked as the winner. ! Corridor of Nations For Big Hotel. There shortly will be a "corridor of" nations''' on the steam heated roof of the Hotel Astor, in New York, leading to the belvedere, where tropical plants have been massed in profusion. The corridor of nations is named; because of the ivory tinted cabinets lining ei ther side of it that will contain flags of different nations." The glass door off each is to have a small flag In view Indicating the large flag folded within. , When a well known foreigner stops aft the hotel it 'will be easy to select the-' flag of his country and let it float from" I the flagpole. '."'" Total Eclipse Of the Moon, i There will be a total eclipse of tho mpon, visible generally throughout th "Unlted States, on the morning of Nov. 27. The moon will enter the earth's shadow from the southwest at 2:11 a. m., and totality will begin at 3:14. The total eclipse will last till 4:36, withr the middle of the eclipse at 3:55. The mdon1 leaves the shadow at 5:38; andt the eclipse Is over. The above times are for localities which keep eastern! standard time. For central time set. back one hour from above.