St. Helens mist., March 26, 1915, Page 2, Image 2

ST. HELENS MIST. FRIDAY. MARCH 26. 1915.
FOrNDED 1881
Issued Every Friday By
THE MIST PCBUSHIXG COMPANY
David Paris, Editor.
Entered as second class matter,
January 10th. 191i, at the Postoffice
at Saint Helens. Oregon, under the
Act of March 3rd. 1S79.
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
One year $1.50
Six Months 75
Advertising rates made known on
application.
OOCXTT OFFICIAL PAPER
HIGHWAY SnTATIOX.
The highway situation throughout
the state, and especially in Columbia
county, has assumed a rery peculiar
phase. In the ordinary course of
events there is nothing so strikingly
strange about it; but events in this
county hare not been ordinary. Lo
calities hare been divided against sec
tions, neighbors contending against
neighbors, friends arrayed against
friends. And what for? As time has
passed along and conditions hare be
come better understood the ill feeling
engendered by the strife which grew
out of the highway situation is grad
ually but most certainly being dis
pelled. In the first place there never
was any reason for it. There certainly
has been no gain through it Condi
tions today are no different from
what they would hare been had all
those differences nerer arisen. Those
people in whose hands were placed
the management of affairs are doing
no differently from what any other
straightforward, conscientious, hon
orable citizen or official would hare
done or could do. The present county
court Is exerting its most diligent and
conscientious effort to do Just what is
right In the highway situation. This
ts nothing more than the former
court was doing, as events have most
assuredly proven. The outcome of It
all will be just the same. Perhaps a
little slower In development, but no
different in the end. The Influences
which were largely responsible for all
the difficulties in this county were
brought about by outside conditions
fTime is eliminating those factors
The process is slow, but like the
grinding of the mills of God, it's sure.
False representations were too nu
merous. Inacurate estimates of the
cost of bringing about certain ends
and accomplishment had an Import
ant part in the struggle. Faith In
unknown and untried authorities li
many along the pathway of conten
tion. Unfounded prejudices warped
the judgment of others. But the
outcome is Just the same. Today
Columbia county stands In regard to
ita highway in a chaotic attitude.
The former county court foresaw
these conditions. The present county
court is combatting them and exert
ing every honorable influence to
avoid the pitfalls which beset the
conduct of highway business under
the management of the highway en
gineer. No progress will be made
until there Is a change of manage
ment of state highway matters. The
highway commission has no faith In
its experts, and the process of elim
ination is at work. The contentions
of the former court that matters were
grossly mismanaged has gained the
day. Mr. Bowlby-s elimination is
certain. This once accomplished a
normal condition of affairs will re
turn and progress will ensue.
HELP THE KIDDIES.
The school children of Columbia
county have undertaken a work In
which they are certainly entitled to
unanimous and unstinted support
and encouragement, financially, mor
ally and otherwise. They are pro
posing to raise funds with which to
erect a suitable building at the
county fair grounds In which to dis
play the school work. In this noble
undertaking the entire population of
the county should sespondcheerfully
and liberally to the appeal of the
youngsters. They propose to raise
the funds by several means, none of
which will involve the outlay or con
tribution by any individual of any
considerable amount of money.
One of the methods of raising funds
which will be inaugurated will be the
sale of tags, another will be through
the medium of school entertainments
and socials, and perhaps the solicita
tion of donations. The details of pro
cedure are not yet definitely decided
upon. However, the campaign is to
be waged with rigor, and the popu
lace is In duty bound to assist. In
adequate quarters for the display of
school work of the county heretofore
haa had somewhat of a disparaging
effect, and the best results hare not
been obtained. Exhibits of school
work are each year becoming a more
Important feature at all expositions
and fairs.
The dates for the Columbia County
Fair were arranged this year for the
week preceding the state fair with
the idea foremost of permitting such
of the exhibits as were deemed
worthy to be taken to the state fair.
This was particularly the case with
the exhibit of school work. Hereto
fore there has been no official head
to take that work In hand. The re
cent legislature made' the superin
tendents of county school members
of county fair boards; hence better
school displays and better displays
of school work In the future.
The funds necessary to carry out
what is yet but a tentative program
for placing a suitable building at the
fair' grounds will approximate $600.
There are fifty-four school districts
within the county. Should each dis
trict school raise $10 by whatever
means it chose, a fund of over $500
would result. It is estimated that
two thousand tags could be sold
throughout the county. Our opinion
is that this estimate is far too low.
However, It would appear to be an
easy matter to raise at least $200 by
that method. The undertaking is
decidedly worthy of the best efforts
of the children and other interested
ones, and their appeals for assistance
should meet hearty and liberal sup
port from the public.
When announcement of definite
plans is made, then should the real
work begin. It has been the ex
perience everywhere and upon all
occasions where support was solicited
for such a worthy cause the response
has been spontaneous and liberal,
and in this work soon to be under
taken by the school children of this
county it cannot be contemplated
that there could be any but the great
est encouragement given.
IS IT THE WHOLE PROBLEM?
There Is a sort of ostensible charity
that falls far short of the real article.
You will hear some one say: "I be
lieve my way is the right way; but I
am willing to give you the same right
and credit you with the same honesty
in believing another way is the right
way." This does well enough and Is
creditable enough when you are talk
ing of side issues. This, however, is
merely a hypocritical charity when
you are talking of something that
requires the united effort of you both
for its success. To credit the other
fellow with good faith in such a case
is merely to pamper your own miser
able little self-will. It is the height
of selfishness under the guise of
breadth, charity, benevolence and a
lot of other fine words. When it
comes to co-operating for the fur
therance of that which ought to be
done and which you are called upon
to help do you have simply got to get
into team work with others. Differ
ences largely center around personal
ity and personality never accomplish
ed anything worth while since the
world began. If a purpose is worth
while, you can afford to work In the
team even if you don't think or don't
believe in all particulars Just as the
others think or believe. Everything
that Is essential in this world Is com
mon and whatever Is peculiar about
your own thoughts, opinions or even
beliefs, belongs to the nonessentials,
no matter how much you may think
otherwise.
PUBLIC SEXTLMEXT.
Sometimes it is difficult to meas
ure, to weigh or circumscribe public
sentiment; the common opinion of
the people in general. This may
arise from your own lack of Informa
tion and insight or it may be that
there Is no common sentiment among
the people regarding the matter In
hand. There was no difficulty during
the middle of the nineteenth century
to determine how the northern states
regarded slavery from the moral
standpoint. There was much diffi
culty in determining just how they
regarded slavery with reference to
the union of the states and the course
to be pursued In Its treatment by the
nation as a whole. On the one point
their mind had been made ud. on the
other point a powerful minority could
prevent a common sentiment. The
same has been true of the prohibition
question. Prohibition as a moral
question haa received a much more
rapid indorsement than prohibition
aa a political question, and yet there
seem to be signs of the rapid ap
proach of the time for a national
proclamation of prohibition. The
hope of the world Is in a continual
change of public sentiment to meet
the continuous rise of new problems.
DO YOUR PART WELL.
One can very well believe with the
recent statements of an authoritv
that anything which will add to the
comfort of the animals, keep out
disease and save labor In their
is profitable investment When the
same authority goes on to sar that
every pound of gain In milk and meat
means 'proportional gain In profit"
we would be inclined to make It a
litOe stronger than this. After the
expenses of maintenance and care
have been met, then everr nonnd of
gain means much larger profit than
the previous proportional profit. La
bor and capital enter Into I've stock
production and the efficiency of that
labor measures the readiness of capi
tal to aid in the eutrrprise while the
country is waiting for the right sort
of rural credit. The man who puts
plenty of skilled labor into the keep
ing of horses or sheep or cattlo or
hogs and adds to that skilled labor a
fair measure of good business Judg
ment will find tolerable credit at
hand. Laws will not do it all. The
man must do his part and do his part
well.
I.IKE'S TRIP A LONG OXF
"It's a long way to Tipperary" In
any walk in life, and we all find It so.
It's a long way to an Ideal. We have
to go a long way before we realise
any lofty, noble sentiment. It's a
long way for the boy who Is leaving
school to go before he finds himself
established in life, Influential, a
leader in his community or state or
nation. It's a long way for the boy
who leaves the farm and goes to
town. Eventually he may be a
power in business, or a leader of men.
but it's a long way to go. It's a
long way for the boy with nothing
but his hands and his brains, who
hopes some time to have a home of
his own, with the "sweetest girl" he
knows as his life partner. Then it's
a long way to go before his children
are educated and well settled In life;
by that time he is pretty nearly ready
to go. It's a long way to go for
young man to obtain complete mas
tery over his appetites and his pas
sions, to train his mind to work
smoothly at will, and his hands to
turn out a satisfactory product. Iff
a long way to the realizatin of any
good thing.
TWO MILLION ARE JOBLESS
There are 2,000.000 persons un
employed in the United States whose
yearly earnings should be about 11,
250,000,000, according to Theodore
N. Vail, president of the American
Telephone and Telegraph company,
in the annual report of the company
Just Issued. These unemployed are
now living at the expense of savings
their friends or the public, and what
is needed to bring about their re
employment and the return of pros
perity Is a restoration of condition'
which would inspire confidence in
the securities of public service and
manufacturing enterprises to enable
them to obtain capital for extension
and improvement.
JOBLESS AND THOUGHTLESS.
Leslie's Weekly.
The loudest who now clamor for
employment are those who never
pay the slightest attention to the
need of wholesome legislation, in
viting capital to embark in new en
terprises, and give labor its oppor
tunity to follow gainful pursuits.
The jobless crowd that demand;
employment from city, state and na
tion, is the one that listens, open
eyed, to mouthy demagogues Dis
claiming their destructive doctrines
at street corners, from barrel-heads
and soap boxes.
The Jobless drive out the job
makers and then seek the bread line
for substenance. They are the easy
victims of self-seeking demagogues
and self-constituted champions of
the common people. The jobless with
few exceptions have themselves to
blame for the troubles they face In
every period of depression.
There isn't a workingmen in thh"
country, of middle age. with a trace
of memory left who can't recall
other periods of depression through
which we have passed, and who
doesn't remember the reasons for
them and the warnings sounded by
thoughtful statesmen against eco
nomic policies that tend to destroy
the nation's p-osperity.
The trouble is that the recurring
panics' come at Intervals of twenty
years, and during this period a new
generation of voters rises, untaught
by experience, eager to listen to all
the seductive sophistries of the
silver-tongued demagogue, and to
follow the false notiocs of those who
deal in political buncombe and allur
ing promises of golden Utopia.
We have been passing through a
decade of trust-busting and railroad
smashing; the muckrakers have had
the floor; the sensational press has
been driving the captains of Indus
try Into exile. Misled by the clamor
against high prices which were
world-wide and uncontrollable, the
masses have permitted nolitlcxl Mu
tators to undermine the foundation
of Industry, upon which high wages
and national prosperity must alwavs
rest
SWAT THE FLY.
The open season for flies Is here.
Swat him. But while we are nre-
paring to swat the fly are we making
any provision for swatting the things
which harbor him? Is the back yard
clean? Have you left piles of manure
standing near the house? If so, re
move It at once or your swatting of
the fly will have little effect In
other words, remove the cause, then
tour warfare on the fir will avail
TWENTY YEARS AC0!
The Mist of March 22, 185.
Joseph Pupont made final proof
on homestead entry No. 7310, before
the county clerk Tuesday, for tl.e
northeast quarter of swtloo 25,
township 5 north, rauge S west.
Sheriff Ooau made a hauditome
turn-over of cash to the treasurer
last Saturday, amounting to $200.
Mr. Doss says the receipts for the
week were far ahead of the corre
sponding week last year.
The residence of John Frantx, near
Houlton, caught fire Tuesday even
ing, and had it been discovered a few
minutes later the house would have
been consumed. Fortunately It es
caped with only slight damage to the
roof.
Mrs. Jacob Georgo was tendered
a thorough surprise last Saturday
evening by a number of her friends,
the occasion being her birthday. The
evening was spent in card playing,
and the hostess as well as the guests
had an exceptionally pleasant time.
M. ('. Gray, the telegraph optvator
at this place, intends moving to Cali
fornia about the first of ApriL Mr.
Gray has traded offices with Law
rence Maxwell, well known here, who
Is located at MoJava. about ninety
miles east of Los Angeles.
The little town of Houlton ts fast
becoming an interesting rival to St.
Helens In the way of population.
Houlton possesses many attractions
in the way of a residence place, and
since the plank walk Is completed
many of our town people are taking
up their abode there. Good water,
good school, handy transportation
and good society are playing trump
hands at Houlton.
Mr. S. Slaser returned last Sunday
from a six weeks' visit to Oklahoma
territory, where he went to close
negotiations for a life partner, which
he was successful in doing. The
ceremony was performed at the home
of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
A. J. Morris, on the 6th of February,
nd after visiting for several weeks
Mr. and Mrs. Salser started for their
future home. Mr. Salser and his
estimable wife will take up their
residence on the E. E. Quick place,
which will no longer be known to
Mr. Salser as Bachelor Flat. The
Mist extends congratulations and
wishes the newly married couple un
bounded happiness.
There is a movement on fool by
the people living along Scappoose
bay to have the channel deepened so
as to permit of larger steamers run
ning further up the bay. We are
told that the people will petition
congress for an appropriation to
carry on the work, and it is intended
to dredge the channel from the
mouth of the bay to the Honeyman
place, and then to keep the channel
open it Is proposed to turn Scap
poose creek into it, and thus have a
strong stream of water the entire
length of the bay. This once done
will prove a great benefit to the
Scappoose country, enabling the far
mers to ship their produce from
their own places, at greatly reduced
rates, and affording a splendid
chance for some enterprising steam
boatman to establish a paying busi
ness. It is hoped the scheme may be
successfully worked out, for. Indeed,
it carries with It many advantages.
J INDUSTRIAL REVIEW
Concrete is to be used for another
industry on Vooa bay.
Coos county has purchased a steam
shovel for road improvement work.
The new iaw requires the publica
tion of tax budgets by all tax-levying
bodies.
Sluslaw will get $112,500 from
congress for harbor improvement
work.
The state fair board will have
erected a rest bungalow on the fair
grounds.
The Conner Creek mine. In Baker
county, has been leased and will be
operated.
The Southern Pacific Railway Com
pany Is to erect a modern depot at
Cottage Grove.
A vein of what Is said to be good
quality coat has been discovered near
Klamath Fails.
Springfield hopes to have one of
L ."i" bet "U!r factories es
tablished there.
The contract has been let for the
erection of a United Lutheran church
building at Silverton.
During the last two weeks of Feb
iV? coast mlll "Ported about 21 -000.000
feet of lumber.
The lambing season ts fairly on in
Eastern Oregon, and shearing will
begin the first week In ApriL
F. F . Patterson, of Roseburg. haa
organized a company to Install
commercial fruit drier at that place.
The construction of the Hermlston
Imatilla highway haa been begun
Part of this highway U to be hard
surfaced.
Main street, in Oregon City, Is to
be Improved with bltullthic, with a
two-Inch wearing surface on a con
crete base.
ni.TfL. of regenU ontem-
?tanii"fcth.?J.reeU0B of three 'ac
tional buildings at the state unl
Tersity, Eugene. 1
Business interest, at Rosebnrg
r7,.i1COUr!rlnf,.Kei,,aU Brother, to
Install a sawmill it... -i ...
railroad extending into the timber
a. u. roxley will establish a brick
and newer nunuu u ...
, r -.. ruruaQO Will
hare manufactured and installed eon-
each ' cost $ l
. Manr , counties are protesting
against the extrar.gsnce of the stale
highway engineer. Some eoVnUe,
charge that work ha. cost thirty pej
cent more than necessary.
m.LA" ,lndartri' accident com
mission has Inaugurated an economy
program, and rnmmi..u.!. .7'
...a,, la to do the worlt of the seX
,vVwv-vj PROFESSIONAL CaT:
a,lUnniVlll vvrinivii a
The ship purchase bill Is no more,
but what have you?
Give us the noiseless roller skate
and we care not bow many there are.
Farmers' skyscrapers: a silo noar
EiiKlcwood, Kan., Is to be G5 feet
high.
Hid the elongated loaf of rye
bread get the Idea from the dach
shund? In time of war. prepare for peace. ;
All the neutral nutions are to hold a
couferouco.
Driving tho Turk Into Asia won't
save Armenia. The salvation of Ar
menia Is emigration.
Our protests to England and Ger
many are at least as effective as
grandma's "Now, don't boys."
History wasn't considered of much
Importance 6000 years ago, and no
body cared for the verdict of pos
terity. Something has been found that Is
more delilx'rate than the supereme
court; the interstate commerce com
mission. All the mountain stales are going
dry. Will the transcontinental roads
run faster trains to the Pacific coast
to please tourists?
Betting on horse races has been
legalised in Nevada. We see Nevada
Is determined on being the play
ground of America.
Chantauquas are looking for all
real orators; they are so scarce that
they have to piece out with persons
who ouly happen to be well adver
tised The cat license hill in the Massa
chusetts legislature haa been killed.
In view of how little the law every
where does for cats, they thrive
amazingly.
A poultry expert says ho can tell
the sex of an egg by looking at It.
This Is far superior to the hen her
self, who can't tell an egg from a
porcelain Imitation.
International diplomacy, on ex
amination, seems to consist of a
treat deal of tergiversatory corre
spondence accompanied by Just aim
ply trusting to fool lurk.
Lincoln's old ax has been founl
Is there anybody living now who will
be as famed as Lincoln? If so, bet
ter be gathering up the souvenirs
while the gathering Is good.
Neutrality la telling someone that
vou will not discuss the war with
him because your opinions differ
from Ms. and then sticking around
until he nags you Into a red-faced
arjumcnt.
One superintendent of education
says that the Introduction of mili
tarism into the public schools would
be "organized insanity." Suppose
ne minks flaunting the American flag
over the schoolhouse Is going far
enough.
Portland's new trolley trains are
to consist of two 2 (-foot cars con
nected with a smaller car known
locally as "two moms and a kitchen
ette." These three cars afford room
enough to get the necessary thirty
or forty signs on Portland cars.
FIRE! FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
See E. E. Quick. St. Helen, and
Insure your property in the Oregon
Fire Relief Association of McMlnn
vllle. Oregon. Don't put It off
MchStf W. L. WARREN, Agent.
LUNCH
MASON'S
RUTHERFORD
BUILDING.
CHOICE
Confectionery and Cigars
QUICK SERVICE
LUNCH
ANY HOUR.
LARGE ASSORTMENT OF
BOX GOODS.
AN UP-TO-DATE
Jewelry
Store
COMPLETE STOCK OF
Watches
AND
Clocks
EKH MCH RFPAIRIHGl
VON A. GRAY
Jeweler.
K. A. ROSS
FUNERAL DIRECTOR
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T. S WHITE
FUNERAL DIREUOR
Houlton
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DR. ALFRED J. PEEL
PHYSICIAN A SURCE0H
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DR. H. R. CLIFF
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CEORCE H. SH1NN
ATTOPNEY-A T LAW
St. Helens Qnm
HERBERT-W. WHITE
ATTORNEY.AT-LAW
St Helena Oreg
M. E. MILLER
ATTORN EYATLAW
St. Helens . Oregoi
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ST. HELENS, OREGON.
Phone 107-4.
Our farilitk and equip4
for ha lulling dairy V10
enable as to anpuly tlx
grade of milk and cream, wW
la strictly uaiLarr.
We art smxioas to new
wore customers 1 pro1
Kood MTV Ire.
HatlafartloB guarsnleed
very respect.
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