ST. HELENS MIST. FRI DAY. NOVEMBER 26. 1915.
I-XHJNDED 1881.
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COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
A WORM I" THE BUD.
Though Oregon is certain to capture many
tfold medals on fresh fruit entries, the Grand
Sweepstakes on apples has gotten away from
us. Just because a measly little worm, prob
ibly not in the apple when it started from the
Oregon orchard, showed up about a quarter of
an inch in the cali end of a Newton Pippin
when the jury cut it open, Washington, that
state made famous by Seattle rather than ap
ples, captured the sweepstakes on Winesaps.
In other words, Okanogan, think of it, Okano
gan county, had on display the best five-box
exhibit at the big apple show. Everything
was sailing along gloriously for the Oregon
fruit, and up to the time that dinky little
wormlet put in his dastardly appearance, Ore
gon apples had scored ninety-nine points. Ore
gon apples looked better than the best they
had the proper color, the size was uniform,
there was no blemish apparent, the bulge was
exactly so, and the pack from all view-points
was nothing less than championship calibre
hut just before the jury had entirely finished
:ts work one of the experts decided that he
wanted to taste an apple from that wonderful
display of Newtowns from Oregon. They all
looked alike and all were beauties. Even as
he gazed with a magnifying glass there was
no evidence that the apple of his choice was
anything but perfect, but neither did Eve have
i.ny suspicion of the result when she selected
an apple and gave it to Adam. In both cases
the worm was there and fatal was the after
math. Wljen the juryman slashed into the
Oregon apple with his cutlery he gave a yell
of dismay and Director Ravlin, in charge of
ihe Oregon showing, got just one glance, had
a fit and fell over in it. When he came to, he
swam out of the room in his tears, and left the
scene to the worm and Okanogan. After this,
forty apples were cut open, but nary another
worm. However, one was enough, in fact,
too many. A worm before a horticultural
iury is even more out of place than a woman
at an exposition with clothing above the'waist
'ine or below the knees and in this instance
it proved to be the straw that broke the cam
el's back, that, so to speak, relegated us to
"inocuous desuetude" so far as sweepstakes
are concerned. A worm, any sort of a worm,
'ong, short, slim, wriggly, quiescent or other
wise, counts just five points against the pos
sessor thereof, and the loss of those five points
was just enought to let the Washington fruit
nose out. The worst part of it is that it makes
no difference to whom the worm originally
lelonged. If the exact fact be told there is
trong suspicion among Oregonians here that
that dinky little worm was not born and bred
in Oregon, but instead that i spe"t it virly
days in Washington and was brougnt to the
txposition for the purpose to which i'. lcn
itself so effectively. The Washington pavilion
n the Palace of Horticulture is just across the
aisle from the Oregon showing, and it is be
lieved that that worm had been kept in hiding
or several weeks and at night had been train
ed to find its way to the Oregon fruit. At the
psychological moment his worship was start
ed on his way and told to do this dastardly
work, and he did it. That this was no Oregon
worm needs no other evidence than that he
bad entered the apple scarcely more than a
quarter of an inch. An Oregon worm in an
Oregon apple would have eaten from calix to
stem and back again forty times in the thirty
days since the fruit left the Oregon orchards.
There is one thing about Oregon worms
hey are real worms", full of life and are of the
get-up-and-go variety; that's the spirit of the
country. There is nothing aenemic about an
Oregon worm, while this particular specimen
was, as said before, dinky,, weak, completely
devoid of virility and wholly lacking in any
thing that would give it the appearance of
health. Still, it did a healthy service for
Washington and Washington experts here
have asked for him that he, or she, may be be
fittingly honored as the state's greatest friend.
NOBODY LOVES US.
We are in clined to think that Mr. Joseph
H. Choate puts it a little too strong when he
says that the United States is one of the most
hated nations in the world today. It is unhap
pily true that hatred is now the dominant
emotion in a large part of the earth, and that
some of it is directed toward us. But hate is
a hard word, representing an active passion,
and we do not believe it is the feeling with
which we are regarded by any nation in gen
eral, although there can be no doubt that there
are many individuals who would like mighty
well to get at our throats. However, we have
no doubt that no nation under the sun is more
generally disliked than ours. There is hearty
dislike, and, in truth, some hatred for us in
;ermanv. because of our stand on the subma
rine question :.nd because of our sales of mu
nitions to the allies. The same feeling exists
in Austria. Great Britain, to say the least,
has no love for us. The mass of her people
seem to think we ought to have made common
cause with them, and we ought not to inter
fere in their blockade operations. Russia, of
ficially, has never liked us, and the same is
true of Turkey. France, we may hope, is our
friend. nd Italv seems to bear no grudge
ngainst us, but Spain has not vet forgotten
'93. Japan would like to have a bout with us,
;,nd upon our own hemisphere we are regard
ed with feelings that range from unfriendly
Indifference to actual hatred.
There are many reasons for this attitude
of the nations toward us. Some dislike us fur
one thing and some for another, hut there is
one emotion that influences all of them, more
or less, and that is envy. The United States
is the richest nation on the globe.- Although
we are Lut 6 per cent of the world s popula
tion it is estimated that we have one-fourth of
its wealth, and we are continuing to accunui
i;.te wealth in a way that excites the jealousy
. nd the cupidity of other nations. To imagine
that, under such circumstances, we can for
ever continue to live in "splendid isolation," is
a very prettv fancy but a very impractical one.
The United States must be prepared to pro
tect its own. It must guard its treasures.
When dislike and envy unite it needs but a
trillc to create open hostility. lllobe-Dem-ocrat.
. OLDEST FIR TREE.
News has been received by Portland of
ficials of the Forestry Service that the Doug
las fir found in the Washington forest in
Western Washington, reported to be- more
than HX) years old, is bv the count of the an
nual rings 1144 vears of age. It still is the
oldest Douglas fir of which the authorities of
the Forestry Service have record.
The rings were counted by the ranger on
duty near Finnev Creek, where the monger
tree was found The tree has been cut down,
the stump partially burned and 50 feet of the
trunk sawed into wood.
For the first 500 years of the tree's growth
it attained a radius of 27 inches and tin.
other 644 years added only 14 inches to the
radius.
The oldest hemlock on record is 545 years
old and was found somewhere in We.-tcrn
Washington. It had attained a diameter of
61) inches. The oldest red cedar vet discover
cd by the forest officials was found in the Sno
iiuahuie forest, was 100 inches in diameter and
! 137 years of age.
The oldest yellow pine in Eastern Oregon
is 687 vears old, its diameter being about four
feet. Five thousand trees were examined in
the growth study.
Give this serious' thought: "You don't
realize what a nervous strain you are putting
on a man in the cab," said a Southern Pacific
locomotive engineer the other day to an Ash
land automobile driver, "when you dash up
toward a crossing just ahead of his train.
There he is in his cab and he knows that he
can't stop his engine. There you are in your
r.utomobile speeding toward the crossing just
ahead. You probablv know that you are
ioing to stoj) just at the edge of the track and
look up and laugh at him. He doesn't know
but what you are going to trv to dash across
? head of him. It's a joke maybe to you. To
him it's a few seconds of the most intense
agony. Whv do you do it? When you see
a train coming and know that you can't make
the crossing and don't even intend to try to
make it why don't you slow down and give
the engineer the assurance that his train is
:ot about to hurl you into eternity?"
Portland has a trunk mystery. A man
lilled his companion for hisnoney; cut up his
body, placed it in a trunk and dumped it into
the river. If the guilty wretch is apprehended
the severest punishment is the penitentiary for
life. Perhaps he may be allowed to serve
eleven years, the average life sentence in Ore
gon. The scaffold has its terrors but the peo
ple of Oregon have voted it out of existence.
The average criminal can hold up and butcher
with the assurance that if apprehended and
convicted, he will soon be a free man again,
ready for another crime.
The great storm which has prevailed on
the coast could not find its way up the Colum
bia, so we were exempt from its ravages.
There was no discount on the rainfall, however.
It is a matter of great convenience to Un
people of St. Helens that the through even
ing train for Astoria stops at this station
This gives the business men additional time in
Portland.
While the cast is wading around in snow
;nd the mercury hugging zero, roses, asters
i nd chrisanthemums are still in healthy bloom
in flower gardens of St. Helens.
It was an Irishman who made the state
ment that he was absolutely neutral in this
foreign war. He said he did not care which
country whipped Germany.
The average citizen certainly had occasion
to give thanks for many things. In these days
of Wilson prosperity, you ought to be thank
ful that it is no worse.
Eastern Oregon wants Congressman
Maw-Icy to run for the United States senate
against Harry Lane. Hawlcy is a great vote
catcher.
Although retired for a good many years,
Binger Hermann's double compound hand
shake has never been equaled by any candidate.
The St. Helens cannery has put up 10 000
gallons of saner kraut. Should Europe hear
of this Germany will immediately sue for
pace.
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The gates of the great San Francisco expo
sition will close December 4. It has been a
financial success.
Roseburg shipped 10.000 turkevs. There
is some gobble to that town.
Candidates will begin to show their faces
r.fter New Years.
PATRIOTIC FLAG
PRESENTATION
JuiIbo Eiikin Accepts Fluff tor Co
lumbia Comity,
following the address of V. II
nillurii, representing tho har la ne-
Cfullni! the fliK. Juilno Kakln In ac
cepting tho ling ns rcprcsetitlntt tnai
court and Columbia county, spoke as
fellows:
In accepting tins fluR. so nicely
presented hy the Sons of the Ameri
can revolution, I wish, as representative-
of tho court and of the
Court of Nuturnlliatlon, nnd In that
sense, as a representative of the
County of Coluiulilii, to express the
fxallllcatlon of tho county ami of the
court at this presentation and of the
patriotism which hus hnhued Its pre
sentation to tlilf) thurt.
Wo sometimes wonder and t
know I have, nml I think many tlx
wonder why wo put so much sirens
upon the flag In connection with our
national duli.u and service. Tho
ift a ;..vu!lful thiiin'; tills Hub
:!.:i;d e'.d lvl:d ''ml.reldered. lie
slurs ui uli Morkt'd m t hand und
the rihhons constituting tlio flax are
sowed together hy hand; It is of silk
iiid beautiful in the combination or
colors, and It Is beautiful to look at.
hut that does not explain tho pat
riot lm which ,lt la supposed to Inspire-
and which I believe does Inspire
every truo American; and I feel. In
thinking over thli matter, as to what
this Hug represents and why we
should lay so niu.'h stress upon It,
that 11 Is uo sacrilege to say that I
believe It stands within the purview
of the peoplo of this nation In tho
S.H110 relation that religious symbol
stand to religion. It stunds to Am
erican peoplo Just us the cross
stands to tho Christian religion or
She crescent to the religion of the
Turks, or of the temple of Diana to
the religion of tho Creeks, and so It
does represent an Idea. The flag in
itself is little more than a combina
tion of colors, but tlm Idea which It
represent Is tho llfo of a nation nnd
consequently it means ail that the
aatlon which it represents means to
tho Inhabitants. There Is tho gen
eral idea that It means I ho union of
the states of the nation. Wo have a
nation composed of many Btates un
der separate and subservient govern
ment and they are united, and ns
said In the revolutionary times, an.
one and Inseparthle, and the Hag
represents that inscnarahlo charac
ter, but it means more than tliut to
the American peoplo. Wo are no', a
nation that we would call homogen
ous, that Is, a nation of ull one kin 1,
but we are a nation composed of
every element on iie faro of the
earth. With very few exceptions, all
these elements may become a part o(
our national system.
Now, It becomes a part of tho du
ties of certain courts in tho I'nlted
States to take In these foreigner;:,
theso aliens, born in other countries,
as citizens of the t'nlted States, end
by so doing, they I "( cine equal par
ticipants with tho-e who have hern
born In this couutr, and then tho
question arises, "Vnt will Put
mean to them?" 'Will they still
remain Russians, or will they re
main Italians, will they remain tier
mans, or will they rennln Hrltlsh, .ir
will they forget those native policies
to which they were born nnd thriw
them asldo and adopt only those poli
cies which they adopt in swearWt;
i-.lleglance to the American govern
ment?" In my judgment, there is a mure
important moaning to this flag than
that of unity of stales; it means that
they shall cast aside all their native,
Inborn sentiments of nationality and
cleave only to that which they have
adopted in becoming citizens of tills
country. Therefore, this means
unity, not only of states, but it
means unity of tho Individual with
tho body of the state, and that, In
my Judgment, Is tho truo meaning
of tho American flag, r.nd in that
senso I havo used I; In naturalization
in tho Clatsop County Naturalization
vjuii, wnKro wo rave so muny to
pass through the examination, and I
have always held up the flag to them
ae tho symbol of what they would be
expected to become when thoy tuke
the oa:h of r.lkglanco and renounce
allegiance to their farmer country.
That. In my judgment, Is the moan-
lug of the flag ac It Is presented to us
today, nnd in behalf of tho ueoDlo of
Columbia county and In behalf of the
court, I wish to express the grati
tude and appreciation of the countv
and of the court to the Sons of tho
American Revolution for this pro-
seniauon; and I also wish to extend
our appreciation of thanks to Major
Sllva and Mr. Schnabel, who have
lagen upon themselves the duty and
the trnultln nr i
u,g l,,.re wllll U(j
this morning and making the presen
tatlon. t assure them that wo fully
uiirB:.Bi0 meir efforts and on he
...... . t.lt court, i will assuro them
that we will make full use of the flag
in bringing citizens from foreign
parts into amalgamation, or atinmm.
Ing to do so, with tho peoplo of the
cn.ici suites, for It is In tho unity
I or nmulKunmthm of tho peoplo that
como Into our country with thn
who aro born Into this country upou
which depends tho i.trength nnd per
manency nnd vigor of our nation,
therefore I wish to again thank
them for their trouble and tho pu
trtntlo presentation of this flag.
I also wish to express our appreci
ation of tho presenco here today of
tho St. Helen High School. We
fully appreciate It and 1 hope, that
you will receive soino llttlo further
Impression, ut least, In regard to pn
trlotlsm und tho duties of American
cttlieus, by your being present hero
today, nnd this feature of tho session
of tho court will now bo adjourned.
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I have purchased the black'
smith shop formerly owned by
B. Thompson, and will now be
permanently located.
A. L. Robenolt
HCULTON, ORE.
Blacksmithing and General Re.
pair Work.
Phone 114,
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Adds tone to any
man. That's why
we arc so busy and
there ate so many
tony people in this
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St. Htltni, Oregon
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Tickets good until used.
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2 p.m. to 4 p.m., 7:30 to 8:10 pa
St. Ilolons, Orciton.
M. E. MILLER
ATTORNEY ATLAW
St. IIclcus Ongon
ST. HELENS ROUTE
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THE PEOPLES BOAT
STR. AMERICA
Loan Portland dally -1:30 P
(Sumlay J: 30 p. m.)
Arrive St. Ilelons - 1:00 P
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S. N. CADE, Proprietor
ST. HELENS, OREGON.
Phone 107-6.
Our rcllltli anil e-inlpn""
fp handllnK dulry Vf
enuhloa us to supply I'1 J?
(ratio ut milk nl '" ,
in strictly sanitary.
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rnnre riistonicw and Pf"nl""
gornl awvlce. .
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every resjiect.