ST. HELENS MIST. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 12, IMS.
POUNDED 1881.
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COUNTY OFFICIAL- PAPEK.
THE NO-PARTY HUMBUG.
Defeat of all the various constitutional
amendments on which the California voters
acted Tuesday indicates that the Golden State
is becoming sane again, says the Globe-Democrat.
Among the proposals that went down to
an overwhelming defeat was the novel "no
party" amendment, which would have destroy
ed all party committees and prevented all par
ty tickets. The device was supported by Gov.
Johnson, who would have been given full con
trol of election machinery under it. lie has
had time and opportunity to perfect a personal
organization throughout the state and would
have had a great advantage over all other in
dividuals in future political contests.
California has had some unique political
and economic problems. Nowhere else have
corporations been more arrogant and more
contemptuous of the rights of the public. Their
domination of affairs brought about a revolt,
of which Hiram Johnson became the acknowl
edged leader. That he must have rendered
the state valued service is indicated by the
popular support that he has received. But
his frenzied utterances on general subjects
have given the outside world an unfavorable
impression. Californians must have been loyal
to him because of specific local reforms he de
manded. In the vote Tuesday, however, they
apparently reminded him of his limitations.
Ve do not infer that they reject all for which
he has stood, but they have emphatically an
nounced that they cannot support every
scheme he suggests.
Although party ties are looser than they
have been for a long time, there is no sign of
abandoning government by responsible par
ties and substituting the Mexican system of
personal leadership. This might work in the
municipal administration of small communi
ties, where every voter knows every candidate.
But it cannot work in large cities or in states.
Sentiment must be organized to be effective,
and no substitute has ever been suggested
'hat would perform the function as well as po
litical parties. California has saved itself from
a chaos of irresponsibility.
SOME SCRAPPERS.
We had occasion a few weeks ago to com
pliment the St. Helens High School football
team for their gentlemanly conduct away from
home and their endeavor to play clean ball.
We also published the complimentary notice
from the Ridgerield Rellector, praising their
conduct, which was read with much interest
by parents and patrons of our sdiool.
In contrast to gentlemanly conduct and
clean ball, we publish the following from the
same paper.
"Camas High School still holds its well
i arned reputation of trying to start some kind
of trouble wherever they go. While here on
Saturday last the visiting girls took a hand and
one of them deliberately struck one of the lo
(.al girls in the face to enable them to "cop"
our mascot doll. The loss of the doll is not a
very sad affair, but the unsportsmanlike way in
which it was secured reflects mighty little
credit on any High School body. Last year
at a basketball game in Washougal, the super
intendent's wife started a fight and took an
active part, and this year the school has a free-for-all
to their credit earned while playing
football at Hood River."
HOW MANY APPLES DID THEY EAT?
How many apples did Adam and Eve eat?
Some say Eve eight and Adam 2, a total of 10
only. Now we figure the thing out for dif
tcrently. Eve eight and Adam eight also;
total, 16.
Yet the above figures are entirely wrong.
If Eve eight and Adam 82, certainly the total
will be 90. Scientific men, however, on the
strength of the theory that the antediluvians
were a race of giants, reason something like
this: Eve 81 and Adam 82; total, 163.
Wrong again. What could be clearer than
if Eve 81 and Adam 812 the total was 893? If
Eve 811st and Adam 812 would not the total
be 1623? I believe the following to be a fair
solution: Eve 814 Adam, Adam 8124 Eve:
total, 8938.
Still another calculation is as follows: If
Eve 814 Adam, Adam 81242 oblige Eve; to
tal, 82,056. We think this, however, not a
sufficient quantity. Though we admit that
Eve 814 Adam, Adam if he 8081242 keep Eve
company; total, 8,028,056.
All wrong. Eve when she 81812 many,
and probably she felt sorry for it, but her com
panion, in order to relieve her grief 812.
Therefore, when Adam, 81814240fy Eve's de
pressed spirits. Hence both ate 81,896,864
apples.
If Adam had only been chipper enough to
have said when Eve proposed to eat the apple,
"not this eve; some other eve," the human
tamily would have been spared a vast amount
of trouble. Spokesman-Review.
Other places pay taxes also. Independence,
in Polk county, the city levy has increased 200
per cent, a levy of 20 mills having been decided
upon. Last year the levy was 7 mills. Inde
pendence is a wet town and the increase was
made no doubt to make up for saloon license.
BEST TAX OF ALL.
Congress may increase the tax on large
incomes. There is some sense to that, especi
ally if the tax can be so placed that it is not
passed along to the ultimate consumer. If Un
tax is so levied that it simply makes additional
burdens upon capital being used in productive
enterprises, it will be passed along to the dear
people as another fixed charge.
Income taxes assessed against corpora
tions or transportation enterprises are ulti
mately passed along. Income taxes assessed
against individuals, based on actual net in
comes accumulated each year from rents, divi
dends, interest and profit, are not so likely to
become a burden upon the public.
The best tax of all is the inheritance tax.
It is paid by people who did not earn the
wealth inherited. The community and the
country were factors in the creation of that
wealth ami should enjoy part of the inheri
tance. It is better to take it after the demise
of the man whose enterprise created the
wealth than it is to try to tax him too iiuicli
during his lifetime, thus hampering his iiulus
'.rial enterprise, which often is beneficial in
character. Oregon Voter.
ARE YOU EDUCATED?
A professor of the University of Chicago
has evolved a series of test questions for the
educated which, he avers, are the best eviden
ces of a real education. If you can answer
"yes" to all the questions you are truly cdu
tated. the professor says. Here are the ques
tions :
Has education given you sympathy with
all the good causes and made you espouse
them ?
Has it made you public spirited?
Has it made you a brother to the weak?
Have you learned how to make friends and
keep them?
Do you know what it is to be a friend your
self? Can you look an honest man or pure wom
an in the eye ?
Do you see anything to love in a little
child?
Will a lonclv dog follow you in the street?
Can you be high-minded and happy in the
meanest drudgeries of life?
Do you think that washing dishes and hoe
ing corn is just as compatible with high think
ing as piano playing or golf?
Are you good for anything yourself?
Can you be happy alone?
Can you look out on the world and see
Miything but dollars and cents?
We regret exceedingly that the Rainier
Review misconstrued our attempt at humor
when we gave our interpretation of certain
poker phrases used by the Review. It was not
intended as a criticism of an unfortunate
error, nor was it such, as no reference what
ever was made to it. The item was only a
play on poker terms and was intended as a
iriendly bout concerning that popular game.
We supposed the Review would reply in the
same friendly spirit and deplore our ignorance
in the seductive charms of poker. Instead, the
editor of the Mist is personally villilied and
billingsgate adjectives bristle throughout the
entire half column article. We were in hopes
that the newspapers of this county could dwell
together in peace and harmony and here our
very first attempt at supposed humor with our
neighbor, he fires at us his 16-inch gun,
charged with wrath and vituperation. 1 his
paper has no inclination to engage in person
alities and as we are innocent of intended
wrong, injury or criticism, we yield to the Re
view superior ability in that line.
More than $4,500,000 has been expended
in the last year in an effort to make New Or
leans rat-proof and prevent the reappearance
of bubonic plague, according to an announce
ment made at New Orleans Friday by Dr. R.
H. Creel of the United States Public Health
Service in charge of the work. The number of
buildings made rat-proof is 74,526. About
"000 old buildings have been demolished and
work is progressing on 39,301. Approximately
37,000 buildings still are to be made rat-proof.
Citizens of New Orleans have expended ap
proximately $3,861,000 on their property,
while the federal, state and city governments
have spent more than $600,000 in the campaign.
STATE AND COUNTY
I.ohanou- HI "I"1'1 ,,rl,,KU K,,,"K
, l'.ills City In planning 1"
water supply.
linker - Contrast for three nillo Ir
rigation ditch lot.
l'uhlle work ailils $:IM0 a week to
Pendleton payrolls.
Woodhurn - French I'ralrlo drain
age survey completed.
Myrtle Point Is to have another
now postollleo building.
l.a CJrnndo Heaver Creek Irrigat
ion storage dam completed.
Sluslnw salmon are being shipped
to all parts of Pacific Coast.
!,ano county would hard surface
from Kugeno to llarrlnhurg.
Sprlnglleld Kugcno Jitney ordin
ance approved hy popular voto.
MakerTwo sawmills here will
pend $ IS, 100 on four drykllus.
Kugene - County court plans a
fauno water reservoir at poor farm
The Western t'lilon Telegraph Co.
reports SO per cent Increase In bust
ross.
i.u. n-.i h.. : u.iu: c.i cf .in ()- w. i;
& N. railroad connection at an early
day.
Ilaker -Prospects are liright for
iho opening of the old Conner Creek
mine.
Salem Mott farm of 111 acres,
;ou Ih of city, to he planted to pep
permint. Alhany college completes $210,000
endow meat fund, some to go for
buildings.
Astoria - 15, 40S.0D0 feet of lum
ber shipped from lower Columbia
:awiuilh; in October.
North lleml (iuy Lombard, Port
laud capitalist, is planning electrir
lino to Shnset May.
Portland Vista house lo he erect
ed at Crown Point on Columbia high
way, will cost $ IS, 1100.
The lime Industry of Southern Ore
gon boosted by shipment of 110 tons
to l.aue county for fertilizer.
Florence- - K. II. Miller shipped
:irst carload of cattle from Tslllroos
lake over Willamette Pucltlc.
Pendleton Macadam roud to
Washington state line to ho saved
from destruction by being hard-sur-laced
witli Warrenlte.
Toledo Lumber steamer fair Held,
left here with .r,f l.nui) feet of lum
ber and steamer llandoii is expected
In a few days for .mot her load.
The proposed Sunday blue law
would go far toward completing the
established reputation for freak laws
in Oregon. The state has been
pointed out as nn object lesson In
experimental legislation long enou ci.
The Oregon Trunk railway (Mill
line from Columbia river south)
shows net loss of Income for past
year of $:!(), I7; net Increase of rev
enue over 19t4, $22,4'J4. Operating
expenses reduced blow t'Jll,
411.
Central Oregon railroad construc
tion may have to bo llnanced In San
Francisco. Portland capitalists ure
not responding wit h $l,r.l0,000 cap
ital to build the connecting railroads.
Mr. Struhorn oilers to raise from
four to idx millions In the I'.ust.
The defeat In California, October
20, hy overwhelming majorities, f
the non-partisan bill and a long
Urlng of equally foolish amendments,
would seem to Indicate that the vot
ers of California have become ex
tremely tired of fad government. In
their zeal to take a whack at the fool
reforms tliey took no chances hut
slaughtered nil measures proponed
with equal zest and delight.
V W V conference games this year presage
a close struggle, although O. A. C.'s
20 to 0 victory over tho famous Mich
igan Aggies Rives Ht team a great
initial prestige. Ten thousand per
sons may see tho name.
Kugene's business district will bn
decorated; so will tho campus and the
fraternity houses. A luncheon Will
lie served lo the nlttmnl on the camp
us nt noon and a dnneo to which tliey
will he admitted (reo will ho given In
tho new Kugouo armory after tho
game. (Inventor Wlthycombe, Cong,
ressinan "Pat" McArlhur, Presidents
Campbell and Kerr and other not
ables will be In tho receiving Hue.
NOTICK TO (TtK.DITOKH.
In the matter of the estato of Clar
ence Kugene Thorp, deceased. No
tice Is hereby given by the under
signed administratrix of lha above
named estate, to tho creditor! of and
to nil persons having claims against
tho said estato to present their res
pective claims properly verified to the
said administratrix at the law olllco
of (ilea It. Metsker, In the Columbia
County Malik building, St. Melons,
Oregon, tho same being the place for
the transaction of tho business of
said estate, said claims to be pre.
sented wlililn six months from the
d.ite of the publication of this notice,
to-wlt: within six mouths from the
Mb day of November, 1916.
CLAIIA TIIOHP,
Administratrix of the Katato of Clar
ence Kugene Thorp, lleceased.
tilen It. Metsker, Attorney for Ad
ministratrix. 46-5
sor
SPECIAL
I have purchased the black
smith shop formerly owned Ly
B. Thompson, and will now be
permanently located.
A. L. Robenolt
HOULTON, ORE.
Blacksmithing and General Re
pair Work.
Phone 114.
A complete ticup of the mills of western
Oregon will result unless quick relief is
brought to the lumber industry in the form of
more cars. This was the information received
by the Oregon public service commission.
Reports received from all portions of west
ern Oregon showed that instead of a better
ment of conditions the car shortage was daily
becoming more marked. Already a number of
lumber mills had been forced to close and dis
charge their men, the commission announced,
and other industries were declared to he feel
ing the ill effects of no cars.
The wreck of the Santa Clara off Coos
Bay harbor, developed an armv of beachcomb
ers and pirates. Great quantities of liquor
floated ashore and drunken characters had
things their own way. No one was in author
ity and the looters looted without interference.
One is reminded of the pirates that infest the
coast of Patagonia.
In Oregon 22,998 automobiles and 3123
motorcycles have been registered during 1915
as against 6877 automobiles and 246 motorcy
cles for the same period in 1914.
The play of "Naked Truth" attracted the
men and "Damaged Goods" the women. The
former to see the nude and the latter to secure
bargains.
PURE
MILK
AND
CREAM
Furnished Doily by
LONE FIR DAIRY
Cade Broi., . Proprietors
ST. HELENS. OREGON.
Phone 107-6.
Our fucllMlrft and equipment
for handling; dairy products
enable us in supply llm lxnt
grade of milk and cream, willed
It Mrlctly snnllnry.
Wo are anxious to secure
mora riiKtoniers and promise
KimmI service.
Satisfaction guaranteed In
every rcNMrt.
TOAST TO THE HORSE.
In these days of automobiles, when
ninny people are trying to throw the
horse onto the Junk-pile and call him
"old-faHhloned," It Is well to read the
following well-deserved tribute to the
liorso, written hy some unknown au
thor: "Hern's to Hint bundle of senti
ent nerves, with tho heart of a wn
mun, the eyo of a ga.elle. the courage
of a gladiator, tho docility f a slave
iho proud carriage of a king and the
blind obedience of a soldier; the
companion of the desert plain, that
turns tho moist furrows In the spring
uroer mat au the world muy hnve
ubumlunt harvest; that furnishes
tho sport of kings, that with blaz
ing eyo and distended nostril fear
lofHly leads our greatest generals
through curnngo and renown, whose
blood forms ono of the Ingred t
tnut go to mako the Ink In which all
I'lstory Is written, and who finally
In black trappings, pulls tho proudest
and tho humblest of us to tho newly
sodded threshold of eternity."
HOMECOMING IS
STATEWIDE
A statewide homecoming and re
union that Is not ninrm, for mlmin,
but for all citizens Is to a !llturu
1,8 on-0. A. c. IlIlnimI f00t.
mil game at Kugene, November 20
ton thousand Invitations aro being
nt. Fifteen hundred O. A. C root
"s aro .xpected. Special trains are
to hn run from Portland.
Comparative scores rt,lwni)t
LUNCH
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RUTHERFORD
BUILDING.
. Helens, Oregon.
Ifcadimrler for
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MKAT Tit MATS
MT. HOOD H-K CHKAM
High tirade
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MtUlM AND TOIIACCO
Lunch nt nil hours.
Str. IMLDA
Rates between St.
Helens and Port
land, 50 cents one
way 75 cents for
the round trip.
Tickets good until imcd.
Jhmt leave, SI. Helen. 7 :r. n m.
Helurnliiff leaves I' l.tll.ill.l . Ill .
Arrive nt St Helen. 4 .,-, n. m. "j
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