ST. HELENS MIST, K1 uii, mw .
, l'OUXDKD 1881
Issued Kvery Friday By
TIIK MIST PUBLISHING COMPANY
Duvld 1v1m, Kditor.
Entered ns second class matter,
January 10th, 1912, at the Fostoffice
at Saint Helens, Oregon, under the
Act of March 3rd, 1879.
SUBSCRIPTION HATES
One year 11.60
Six Months 76
Advertising rates made known on
application.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
WHY THIS OMISSION?
St. Helens has missed a mighty
good opportunity for publicity in the
neglect to have the city represented
during the celebration incident to the
opening of the Celilo canal, which
lias riveted the attention of practic
ally everybody in this state during
the present week. From Portland to
the sea on the Oregon shore there
are two cities St. Helens and
Rainier.
The people of this city seemed
wholly content to sit idly by and see
the pageant pass down the Washing
ton shore of the Columbia. . So far
as this town was concerned the trium
phant passage of steamers from the
heart of the Inland Empire to the
sea was of no consequence whatever.
Most cities along the way were repre
sented In this history-making event
by a number of representative citi
zens. Perhaps the most effective repre
sentation any of them had was by
means of some young lady native of
the town. In the case of St. Helens
there are a number of young ladies,
whose lives have been spent here and
whose births took place on the very
shores of the mighty Columbia. Some
one of these maidens should have
represented the city in the cere
monials which have held the atten
tion of the people the entire week.
The opening of the Columbia river
to through navigation from Lewis
ton, Idaho, to the sea is of the
greatest importance to the entire dis
trict traversed by that great water
way. The whole adjacent country
will be benefitted. Every town and
hamlet should have been represented.
In this connection one of the cry
ing needs of St. Helen is an effective
commercial organization, one of the
functions of which would be to see
that the city was properly repre
. sented upon just such occasions as
has taken place during the present
week. One or two citizens should
not be expected to bear the entire
responsibility and expense of promot
ing and carrying out the matters of
public concern which equally benefit
everyone in the community.
The merchants of this city are just
now undertaking to enlist the co
operation of the business and pro
fessional men of the community in
just such a work as is outlined here.
The matter has been taken under
consideration and some plan will be
devised within a very short time
whereby, through the instrumentality
of the merchants' organization, there
may develop a strong commercial
association, whose function would be
to give attention to aTl matters per
taining to the public welfare.
PAID IN KIND
Probably no other word In the
English language has suffered so
much from the insinuations of bright
people as the word goodness. Good
ness has received so much patronage,
has been the object of so much con
descension and has been treated so
gingerly by those who make a show
of doing things that it would seem
to have been put forever In the shade
as a virile word. The very virility
of the word, however, has saved it
from extinction.
Goodness applied to farming means
good farming. Goodness applied to
shoes means good shoes. Goodness
applied to schools means a good edu
cation. Goodness applied to the fam
ily perhaps means more than applied
to anything else in this world. A
good wife, a good husband, a good
father, a good mother, a good
brother, a good sister a galaxy of
persons than whom nothing more en
viable can be found on earth.
Goodness is happiness and happi
ness is one of the chief ends of man,
according to the Declaration of Inde
pendencetheologians and philos
ophers notwithstanding. Just so far
as fun overleaps the boundary of
goodness, Just so far it leaves happi
ness behind. You simply take your
choice. " .
But of all burdens heaped upon
goodness, none are greater, none have
come so near crushing the life out of
goodness as has hypocrisy. Time out
of mind, throughout all lands, among
all peoples, have whited sepulchres
appropriated the garments of good
ness, casting odium and obloquy on
the noblest word In the language,
but the perennial life of the word re
appears In sweetness and strength
when a good neighbor appears on the
scene, when the Samaritan follows
the priest and the Levite, when a
mau's word is as good as his bond,
when even a good reputation counts
big in the courts of law.
Goodness has Its reward la the
whirligig of time. Smartness has its
day; goodness outlives that day.
Revelry has its day; goodness out
lives that day. "Take thine ease, eat,
drink and be merry," and say to
yourself: "Thou fool." This is not
saying that goodness Wa its reward ;
so have other things their rewards
just as surely. It is not simply a
matter of morals, but a matter of
mathematics as well. You are paid
day by day in kind.
THE OREGON VOTER.
Volume one, number one, of the
Oregon Voter, a brand new thirty
two page, doublo column magazine,
published at Portland, has readied
our exchange table. The man behind
the gun on this new publication Is
C. C. Chapman, until early in this
year manager of the Oregon Immi
gration Bureau, and one of tho live
wires of this state. By reason of the
position Mr. Chapman had occupied
for a good ninny years. In which he
rubbed elbows with tho very sinew
of the state, he is possessed of an
Intimate knowledge of things, public
and private, which enables him to
deal some solar plexus blows to
things wrong, which are not rare.
Mr. Chapman's Voter is a reflex of
the man who makes It. It is the
liveliest infant we have encountered
for a long time, and its attitude In
dealing with questions in which debt,
public and private, are a factor, gets
right down to the meat In the cocoa
nut. There has long been a field yawn
ing fur just such a publication, and
Brother Chapman and his Voter are
starting out in a manner to indi
cate that the position will bo filled
admirably.
One of the themes which the Voter
devotes a great deal of attention to
is that of bonded indebtedness, and
the jolts it administers to that giant
of folly are telling.
We hope the Voter keeps real busy
along the lines it pursued in its first
number.
ATTENTION WILL DO IT
The habit of work itself is a men
tal stimulus, no matter what that
work is, when It is earnest, persistent
and enthusiastic. It is to learn to
look at a blank wall until the secret
door opens; to look hard and long,
to look intelligently and well, and
the secret door will open.
Attention, thought, earnestness,
persistence, enthusiasm these old
virtues will energize the mental fac
ulties and put to shame the lassitude
of growing years. The practical
question is how you can teach boys
and girls, teach everybody, to so con
centrate their mental vision that mys
teries will unfold one after another;
that the mind will grow to meet the
advancing years.
RURAL CREDITS
Notwithstanding the tendency of
some individuals who have been ac
tive in attempts to establish rural
credit systems to dogmatize on the
subject, It is evidently still a problem
filled with difficulties. It is the
unanimous conclusion that short-term
loans on farm land are too expensive.
In addition to high Interest charges
and commissions for renewals there
is the expense of frequent bringing
of the abstract down to date. There
Is always hanging over the head of
the borrower the fear that financial
conditions will be such at the matur
ity of the mortgage that he cannot
get a renewal at reasonable rates.
There is apparently general agree
ment that some form of bonded In
debtedness must be devised. It Is
urged, in illustration, that the public
borrows money in this way and that
our great Industrial development
would have been impossible without
the sale of bonds.
But here the agreement ends.
Some would have the national gov
ernment or the state lend money to
farmers at low interest rates. Others
would use banks with capital sup
plied by state or nation. Some would
exempt the capital of such banks
from taxation. Others would exempt
the bonds from taxation, using the
familiar argument that the land Is
already taxed. Two speakers consid
ered the problem before the Southern
Commercial Congress at Muskogoe
recently, Myron T. Herrick. who has
specialized on rural credits more than
any other prominent American, and
George Woodruff of Jollet, 111., who
has an Intimate acquaintance with
tho workings of the Farm Mortgage
Bank of that city. Doth protested
against state or national "subsidies
of the farmer." Mr. Herrick criti
cised exemption from taxation on the
ground of inequality. Taxes must be
paid and he argues that farmers who
are not borrowing money would Join
other classes of taxpayers in resisting
what would be a gross discrimination.
Mr. Woodruff would exempt the de
benture bonds from taxation, using
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atlon." The Joliet plan of amortlzu
tlon, by which twenty-year bonds are
paid out in forty equal semi-annual
payments, appears to have been a
success. It reduces to the minimum
one of the greatest dangers, that of
over-valuation of the security, for
with each semi-annual payment the
security becomes stronger. Congress
and the various legislatures have few
more urgent problems before them.
While immedlute action is desirable,
the devising of an equitable and
workable plan is more Important still.
JOY RIDING INTO DEBT.
(Oregon Voter)
In one county 71 per cent of the
farmers who were delinquent in pay
ment of 1913 and 1914 taxes were
recent purchasers of automobiles.
A county official told this to me on
a recent visit to Portland. He had
checked over the tax roll and marked
the names of delinquents who had
bought machines within the lust two
or throe years.
Nearly throe of every four were
lotting tlioir tax penalty pile up along
with the expense of new tires, oil and
gasoline.
A few years ago In Portland It be
came tho fashion to mortgage the
home in order to Indulge In tho pleas
urable recreation of spinning in one's
own cur over the nlco new pavements
which cost $10,000,000 of bonded in
debtedness to provide.
Tho fashion bus spread to the
country. Terhnps the health, pleas
ure and fuller enjoyment of life more
than compensate for the embarrass
ment mi d worry of debts overdue.
Perhaps it would have been wiser to
have waited Just another year. Per
haps not. It is an individual prob
lem. When it comes to the community
itself rushing pell mell into costly
expenditures and hastily assuming
bonded indebtedness, it is more than
an individual problem. What's the
matter with taking it a little easlor?
What's the mutter with paying as we
go? Sort of an old-fashioned doc
trine, littlo heeded In these days, but
ought wo not go Just a bit slower for
the sako of feeling surer of what we
are doing,
KINGDOM OF BREADTH
While there may be a miserable
kind of zeal manifested by narrow
ness, the real stimulus of life comes
from breadth.
Exclusiveness is petty, mean,
shriveling. The more costly its dress
the plainer is its nature exhibited.
Nothing is more open than the
provincialism of caste in education,
than the provincialism of ethics in
the professions, than the provincial
ism of luxury In club life.
He who enjoys the blue of the sky,
the green of the grass, the sparkle of
the dew drop, as well as he who is
in tune with common childhood, with
the comradeship of everyday life, has
no need of foreign plasters on his
grip.
Breadth is commonness; nothing
more, nothing less. Specialism may
point to brilliancy, but it spells nar
rowness the best you can make of it.
The higher you get, the more pointed
you are.
Common sympathies, common Joys,
common sorrows, common hopes,
alone give breadth.
The man of parts must pay a big
price for his attainments. The states
man, the scholar, tho philosopher, the
poet, the captains of finance and in
dustry all have their reward but
all lack the breadth of humanity
which is reserved for common folk.
Except ye become as one of these
common folk, ye can not escape the
bonds of narrowness, ye can not enter
into the kingdom of breadth.
ERROR IN LAW.
By means of an error made by the
last legislature the salary of John II
Lewis, state engineer, is doubled and
If Mr. Lewis deslros he will have a
right to draw $6000 annually.
The mistake occurred through tho!
hasty methods employed during the f 1'luntn Ikln Manufacture
closing hours of the legislature In on Iurge Ht-nle.
passing the bill consolidating the of-' ' '
flee of state highway engineer wltliL Mr8 U'an . r6 of Amorlcnn
flint nf flirt atuia ftn trliind
In Jamming the measure through! T" enlurglng the lnt
before adjournment a clause was In-I "'"V" pIanU t0 mect tho ''"""ds
sorted to the effect that wherever af.,e!J)rr,eesInorSuC!Ire0t,
In any law the name of the state high dyestuffs, the supply of which for
way engineer appeared, the namo merly came almost excliiHlvpiv fr,..,.
"stato engineer" should be placed. I
No exception was made to the pro-!
ii i , , ...
Vision In Mm Ulrl tllirliuav ,ninl..l..l
"" '": "i uuiiiiiiiirue nas announced It wus
act which places the salary of the devoting much attention to the prog
stuto highway engineer at $3000 a' f688 ln American dyestuff manufuc-
year,
Attorneys say this section fixing tho
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Runny euginuur s salary was not re- uinonni nyprouuets ovens nt an ottt
poaled and therefore if the other pro- lny of 1,000,000. I'lants at John
vlsldn of tho new law Is followed1 om' in'.Li?' nd;, YounKHtown,
changing the name of state highway! X?
engineer to state engineer, Mr. Lewis other in the south, all are Increasing
would be entitled to draw this addt-l or eatabllsliinK facilities for benzol
tlonal balary. I PIrod1,ucl'on' A Pl'mt at Marcus
In the consolidation bill provision "0 "urroYnSnrtes on
Is made that the deputy engineer to a large scale. ""ern.otnatog on
bo appointed, who is now Cantine.l . u ,8 ll0PG1 "'"He works will pro
shall recelvo $3000 annually. ' ,uce ,mo"l ot 1,18 aniline oil and salts
required by American color works
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. CURRENT COMMENT
Rheumatics also fly northward
with the wild geese.
A monument Is proposed to Truth.
Why, It Isn't dead, is it?
Those "daughter" not-let Ics aren't
much for pouce. No wars, no daugh
ters. When we consider how easily rad
ishes are rulsod they hnvo no okmiho
to be hollow.
Tho busiest man bus had his front
yard covered with gravel and sold his
luwu mower. i
Put French dressing on It and
you'll never know what the salad la
composed of. j
The consensus of Cuban opinion is
that prize fighting has bull lighting
skinned a mile. !
Bubonic plague Is again in Havana.
More enthusiasm for rut tights und
less for bull lights,
Don't believe moro than half you
hear, and if It is from Mexico don't
boliove any of it.
Could one but run as fast as mon
do In the movie films one rould make
a fortune nt footracing.
We don't believe Nlotpsche Is tho
cause of tho wur. Everybody is si III
arguing over what hn means.
Turkey continues to wonder what
is the mutter with her. Did she i-vor
consider abolishing the harem?
We'd rather somebody else should
stamp out typhus fuvor than run the
risk of typhus fuvor stumping us out.
Old Scouts do not think of organ
izing, but they muy havo to. Every
body's rlghtB are in more or b-;i
peril.
Turtle soup Is tho kind we're In
when our automobile turns turtle.
This kind three for a nickel, but one
is enough.
Signed arguments about the war
sent to people's columns tend to be
come markedly similar both In tone
and substance. ,
Colonel Roosevelt wants to coma
back. Thore's room for nil In the;
fold, even thoso who fly off the han
dle occasionally.
An altruistic baseball munngt-r
would fence in his bull park with
lumber containing at least M2 knot
holes. Why knot?
Having read that Judge Tuft and
Colonel Roosevelt shook hands, we
might suspect each is having his right
hand treated for frosl-blta.
Antiseptic screens for kissing urn
now advocated. Judging by expert-,
ence, In twenty years from now there;
will be a law compelling that kind.
Mr. Setdel, who was mayor of Mil
waukee, Bays "socialism Is a euro fori
poverty." We'd like to sen a little'
tried at some experiment station first. I
A curfew law for tho boys thut
embraces summer night when thej
moon is full is nothing less than !
cruelty. Want to crush out ull boy-
lsh romance? j
If they really are going to partition
Austria, Germany by rights Is en-1
titled to much of the north central
portion, bringing Pun-tlnrmnnlsm to
its realization.
Shall men wear cotton, suits In
summer? That's for tho laundries to
say; and, Incidentally, tho Btroot car
companies, who muy or muy not
scrub the cur seats.
Those 2000 Americans who have
worried It through for four years in
the City of Mexico will do all tho r
unionlng and "reminiscing" for forty:
years after the revolution is over. !
It is to be feared that In so mo
backyard soils the pictured envelope
which is stuck In the end of the row
arter the seed in it la planted will bo
the prettiest thing ever Been there.
One Interesting feature about tho
Btory of the French olllcor who was
acquitted of killing his wife because
she persisted on accompanying him
to the front Is that maybe it Isn't so.
Why not make the man who Is Just
learning to run his automohllo curry
a red flag? Rut, on second thought,
It isn't necessary. Anybody will
notice half a mile away what Is tho
matter.
Men eat most of the pies; women
know they are not good for tho com
plexion. A St. Helens matron says
"pie-eating being America's besetting
vice, it might be a good thing to (lis
pense with it altogether." Truly.
Hut it's the old story of Eve and the
apple, Who Invented pie? Cnrtulnly
not man. "Tho woman tempted mo
and I did eat." '
AMERICAN-MADE DYES
iiiiim uio eaiuilllHll ng new mini.
aermnny. and which has been cut off
nrrat ,,rlta,n'B nral'nrgo against
German commerce. The donnrtmen
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"uu iounu a notnwnrthv
! Aflvnnn
One company hns nrnvl.lo.i t i
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AN UP TO DATE
Jewelry
Store
COMPLETE STOCK OF
Watches
AND
Clocks
EXPERT WATCH REPAIRING.
VON A. GRAY
Jew.l.r. ST. lit IS NS
PURE
MILK
AND
CREAM
Furimhed Daily by
LONE FIR DAIRY
Cade Brot., Proprietor!
ST. HELENS, OREGON.
I'lmlie 107-6.
Our farlllllfK nml e-"iilmrnl
fur lianillliitf dairy product
I'liiiMcH iin to Hiiiply tlin lnwt
Itrailo of milk uml t-rritiii, which
l i Mrli tly miultiiry.
Wo nro untlouft U mm-lire
mora riMmm-nt mid iromlfl
KihmI Horvltr.
Satisfaction gtmruiilitil In
every rrsMt t.
LUNCH
AT
MASON'S
RUTHERFORD
BUILDING.
St. Helens, Oregon.
llcahiiartTK for
I'rank's (Utility
meat treats
mt. hood ick cream
IIIkIi Hrudn
com i:tiom:ry
( l(i KS AND TOII ( CO
l.tiiii li nt all bourn.
New Restaurant
RE-OPENING OF
Grand Cafe
ST. HELENS, ORE.
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W. C. Campbell, Prop.
Str. IMLDA
Rates bctweeu St.
Helens and Port
land, 50 cents one
way 75 cents for
the round trip.
Tickets good until used.
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Keturninjf leaves Portland 2:110 t' m
Arrive nt St Iielem,4-4r,p.,, '
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Office lloura: a. m. to 11
2 p.m. to i p.m., 7:30 to 8.10 1
8t. Melons, Oregon.
GEORGE H. SH1NN
ATTORN EYATLAW
St. Heleus Oregon
HERBERT W. WHITE
ATTORNEYATLAW
St Helen Oregot
M. E. MILLER
ATTORNEYATLAW
St. Heleus
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ST. HELENS ROUTE
via WUUmiu Slomb
THE KOPI V BOAT
STR. AMERICA
Leave rortlnnd dally -2:" '
(Hiinilav 1 .1ft D. nl.)
Arrives Ht. Helens - - 6:00 J
(Hunday 3:30 p. m.)
t.nnvp. Mi llnlnna - - - 6:18 "
Arrive. 1'ortland - - 10:
H HOLM AN. Aft
Mnkei all way lnndlngs. Whsrf ' H
Aidor atreet. l'honos:
A-4204.
FRANK WILKINS. Bt Holoni Al'
A FRESH SHAVE
Adds tone to any
man. That's wliy
we are so busy aud
tlicre are so many
tony people in tliis
town.
j IS Cant Ton.
LYNCH A IIALHTKAD.
5 St. Hltn, Oregon