ST. HELENS MIST, FRIDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1916
fWXDEl) 1881.
Issued Kvcry Friday 1''
THE MIST riltUSIUNU COMPANY.
S. I MOOUHKAD Editor mul Manager
Eutered as second-class matter, January 10th,
1912, at the Postodlce at St. Helens, Oregon, under the
act of March 3rd, 1S79.
SUBSCRIPTION KATES:
One Year !-50
Six Months 75
Advertising rates made known on niinllcatlou.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER.
THE UNPROTECTED PACIFIC
It is rather unusual for a bis Eastern paper
to speak up in favor of the great Pacific, and it
is a pleasure therefore to publish the following
from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat:
Admiral Blue is reported to have stated to
the Senate Naval Affairs committee that "the
navv is prepared to meet any enemy it could
possibly meet in the Pacific, at the present
time, as soon as it could get there." That, no
doubt, is true, for the only possible enemy in
the Pacific "at the present time" is Japan, and
our navy is unquestionably large enough and
powerful enough to meet any lleet that coun
try could assemble, or would be, as the ad
miral savs, as soon as we could get in the Pa
cific. But, the layman mav be permitted to
ask, how long would it take to get it there,
and could the Atlantic be left unprotected?
If we wanted to rush the navy through the
Panama Canal "at the present time" we could
not do it, and such an obstruction as that
which now prevents traffic through the canal
might be created, by accident or design, when
we desired to shift our naval forces to the
Western sea. This is a possibility rather than
a probability, but the admiral's statement
brings to mind the fact that it has become the
established policy of the Navy Department to
keep all of its real battleships in the Atlantic,
leaving our W estern coast wholly unprotected
by sea power.
The United States has not now a single
battleship in the Pacific Ocean, nor has it had
for a long time. There are three fleets in that
water, one denominated the Pacific, one the
Pacific reserve, and the third the Asiatic lleet.
The Pacific fleet is composed cf two armored
cruisers, five third-class cruisers, two gunboats
and ten torpedo boats. The reserve has three
armored cruisers, two first-class cruisers, so
called, and one third-class cruiser. The Asiatic
fleet is composed of three small cruisers and
nine gunboats. Not a single ship in the entire
lot is ranked as a battleship, and there is not
a gun of greater caliber than 8 inch. If we
should need our navy in the Pacific "at the
present time," for fighting purposes, every
battleship required would have to be taken
from the Atlantic, and would have to go
around Cape Horn, as the Oregon did in 1S9S.
We are unable to see any sign of such a need,
but still we wonder why the Pacific is left so
unprotected.
NATIVES ARE GAINING
The war has simplified the problem of as
similating aliens so far as mere numbers are
concerned. We are getting fewer immigrants
than for manv years. The net gain in the year
ending June 30. 1915, was only 50,000, instead
of the usual half million or more. With the
current of migration running so heavily the
other way, owing to immigrants returning
home for military service and other reasons
connected with the yar, it is likely that the
present fiscal year will show an actual immi
gration deficit.
We had reached the crest of the immigra
tion wave in 1910. when the percentage of
foreign-born residents rose to 14.7. After that
there was a steady drain due to the Italian and
Balkan wars, and then the present war. In
the four years, it is estimated that the net
gain of immigrants was no more than 1,0X.
000 altogether. In that period the percentage
of alien-born fell to 14.5. At the beginning of
19ir. it is probablv 14.1. If the war lasts for
another year or two, the foreign-born percent
age may drop as low as 13.5, where it stood
in 1900.
All this means an easing of the tremendous
immigrant pressure that we have felt for a
decade and a half. It means a bigger surplus
of native Americanism. It means less compe
tition in the labor market, less expense for the
schools and for charitable and penal institu
tions, less trouble in all the ways by which our
nation tries to absorb its raw material. It
enables the country to concentrate on the task
of turning into genuine citizens those who
have been with us for years but whose assim
ilation has lagged because of neglect and in
difference. Statesman.
President Wilson told the Chamber of
Commerce of the United States Thursday
night that America needed a real scientific
tariff board and he thought it was going to get
it ; that it needed a real merchant marine, and
that it was absolutely necessary some begin
ning be made at once to get that, too; and
that had it not been for the effectiveness of
the federal reserve law as a business prepared
ness measure there was no telling what com
mercial disaster would have overwhelmed the
United States with the present war. Of the
prospect for keeping the country at peace, he
said that while no hnmediate international
crisis faced the natioi. "we are merely holding
trouble at arm's length.'
During the last five years more than 14.
000.000 acres have been eliminated from the
national forests, and' more than 1,900.000
acres have been made available for the benefit
of 18.000 settlers.
STILL THE BEST SELLER
The oldest book continues to be the "best
seller." Year after year the Bible is away
ahead of any other.
Since the war started, publishers tell me,
millions of copies of Holy Writ have gone to
the soldiers. Our United Slates exports of
Bibles have been verv large the last year.
Many religions are represented under the
flags of contending armies, in which are found
Japanese, Turks, Algerians and Indians, be
sides the manv shades of difference in Euro
pean countries.
But the Bible, written bv forty different
authors, over a period of ldM years, is the
book of books and has been for centuries.
If all that the Bible teaches about the here
after were false, the world is still enormously
bettered merely bv the vast circulation of such
inspiring literature among the generations of
men as thev come and go. Philadelphia
Ledger.
LIFE
Mrs. H. A. Iteming is the author of this remarkable
mosaic, and the statement is made that a year wat
occupied in searching for and tlttliiR tho lines
Why all this toll for triumphs of an hour? Youa-,.
Life's a short Summer man Is but a Hower; lr.
Johnson.
I!y turns wo catch the fatal breath and die. Tone.
Tho cradle and the tomb, alas! now nigh. Prior.
To be better far, than not to be. Sowed.
Though all man's life may seem a tragedy; Spen
cer. Hut light cares speak when mighty griefs are dumb.
Daniel.
The bottom is but shallow whence they come.
Sir Walter Raleigh.
Thy fato is tho common fate of all; Longfellow.
L'nmlngled joys here no man befall, Southwell.
Nature to each allots his proper sphere. Congreve.
Fortune makes folly her peculiar care. Churchill.
Custom does often reason overrule. Rochester.
And throw a cruel sunshine on a fool. Armstrong.
Live well how long or short penult to heaven.
Milton.
They who forgive most shall be most forgiven.
Bailey.
Sin may bo clasped so close wo can not see Its face.
French.
Vile Intercourse where virtue has not place. Som
erville. Then keep each passion down, however dear
Thompson. Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. llyron.
Her sensual snares let faithless pleasures lay.
Smollett.
With craft and skill to ruin anil betray. Crabbe.
Soar not too high to fall, but stoop to rise. Mas
singer. We masters grow of all that we despise. Crowley.
Oh, then, renounce that impious self-esteem.
Ileattio.
Riches have wings and grandeur is a dream.
Cow per.
Think not ambition wise because 'tis brave. Sir
William Davenant.
The paths of glory lead but to tho grave. Cray.
What is ambition? 'TIs a glorious cheat. Willis.
Only, destructive to the hre.ve and great. Addison.
What's ad tho gaudy glitter of a crown? Dryden.
The way to bliss lies not on beds of down. Francis
Quarles.
How long we live, not years, but actions tell;
Wutkins.
That man lives twice who lives tho first life well.
Herrick.
Make, then, while yet ye may, your Cod your friend.
William Mason.
Whom Christians worship, yet not comprehend.
Hill.
Tho trust that's given guard, and to yourself be
just. Dana.
For live we how wo may, yet die we must. Shakes-Peare-
Spokesman-Itevlew.
A man in Missouri, born in 1896. had his
hair cut the other day f..r the fust time. He
was born during the free silver campaign ami
his fool father named him William J. Bryan,
and declared that his hair should not be" cut
tmtd Bryan was elected president. The voting
man's hair was near three feet in length and he
went by the name of "Sissy." The foolishness
of the father and the poorboys humiliation,
were the subjects of commiseration in the
community and had reached such a high state
that when the man was finally shorn of his
locks, the mayor issued a proclamation stating
that a cat 'o nine tails would be used on any
one that would hereafter call him "Sissy."
Each day for the last month 10(A) men have
enlisted in Canada for service overseas. Train
ed men are being sent across the Atlantic at
the rate of almost 500 a day. The number of
otiicers and sergeant instructors is increasin"
rapidly through training in Canada and the re
turn of disabled men from the front. Military
camps will be opened in each province as soon
as the weather permits.
Under the direction of the Imperial mu
seum of Petrograd, agricultural lectures are
being given for wounded soldiers in 83 hos
pitals in and near the Russian capital. Patients
who are able to do so arc also encouraged to
visit the museum, where cinematograph
pictures on agricultural subjects are shown
once a week.
Henry Tyson, a rancher living near Rose
burg, is the father of 21 children. He probably
never heard of the birth control organization
winch ,s )t.,jr agitated by a few spinsters ami
childless women.
Seth Bailey a newspaper man of Crams
I ass. was held up and robbed of $27 in Salem
the other .lay. Wonder where in thunder he
got so much money?
How blessed it is for brethren to dwell
together in unity. This adage does not apply
to the sisters, as they will do as they please
anyhow.
SCHOOL PREMIUM LIST FOR SCHOOLS OF
COLUMBIA COUNTY. OREGON. 1916 j
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
M AMAL TRAIMMi
Host exhibit Manual Training, High School. Ind.
P., oil IM
Host exhibit Manual Training. 71 h and Sth tirade.
Ind. I'upll
Host piece Cai pouter work, High School grade,
Ind. Pupil
Host piece Carpenter work, (irainmar School
Rest lilrd House (limited to three from each
school) . . . .
DUAWINti
llest Drawing (iraiumnr School (Limited to
twenty from each school) 2.01)
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llest writing Urnmmar sciiooi, rainier system,
llest Writing High School, Pulmer system
it:t ok i ION
Host Decorated School exhibit 10.00
MAP
Limited to tlircv from cm li m liool
llest Map of Oregon and Washington by liny
tlrnmmar pupil (IS In. N. and S.l 3.00
ICI I Alii I S
Vegetable iuul lu riiKed by the pupil chll.it liitf
..n i i ...I. I.... I... ...... ......II ml
lll'M lIMircuilll I.K.U.MU'M ti., .111.1 iu'
llest display potatoes, 15 lbs
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l. llllilj lirilo imt lu .,..., iHii..tn ....
14. llest display Carrots tuot to exceed li! ramus).
15. llest display Siiuash (not to exceed II siuu.sli)..
lti. llest display Cabbage (not to exceed ti head) . . .
17. llest dl.-pla.v Pop Corn (10 ears)
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llest display Cunned Fruit, C.irls over 14 (.1 ts.t 2 00
llest display ('mined Fruit, (ilrls under II ( ft is.) 2.00
JULY AM) CANDY
20. llest display Jelly
CI. llest home-made Candy
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Ileal loaf of Ulead, girls over 14 1.00
llest loaf of Dread, girls under II I Oil
llest Cake, girls over 14 1.00
llest Cake, girls under 14 1 00
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llest plain Needlework, girls over 14 (3 pieces I. , 1.00
llest plain Needlework, girls under 14 (3 pieees) 1 00
llest fancy Needlework, giilt over 14 (3 piece I.. 1 .ml
llest fancy Needlework, glrl.i under 14 (3 pieces) I U0
llest fancy Dress, girls over 15 1 no
llest Tailored Dress, girls over 12 and under 15.. I 00
l'.est display of llaud Sewing, girls over 1 t (3 pes) 1 00
llest fancy Shirt Waist, girls over 14 1. 01)
llest fancy Shirt Waist, tirls under 14
llest display Hand Sev.lnj:, girls imd.-r 12 (3 pes I
llest display Hand Sewing, glils under 10 (3 pes.)
llest Dressed Doll (hand sewlngl girls, under 12..
llest Dressed Doll (hand sewing) (;irls over 12...
llest hnnd-mudo llutumholest odx) girls over 14.
llest hand-made lluttunliules (six) girls under 14
llest Darned pair of Sucks, glib; over 14
llest Darned pair of Socks, girls under 14
Hoys of same age may contest with girls in Making
llest lluslness Letter. Crammar School (limllcd to
10 from each school I
llest llusiness Letter, High School (limited
10 from each school I
llusiness Letter must W h
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T. 5 WHITE
Mr.
ended similar to the sample herein given.
, st- Helens, Oregon, Sept. no. 111 Hi,
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Hainler, Oregon.
Dear Sir:
Yours of
(Form spelling, punctuation, painga'phing,' ii'eainess. Palmer writing
beuilge'l) '" "", 1,r""-"ml f":"l"" "' l' our letter UVtl'
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o.ird , rS! ,m,li,"n ,'"l"."s !" I'"1"'. ""'"od premium counts 50 points
bird premium counts H5 points. The School H(rli,g lUo most points w is
he Silver Cup; premium fur second-best exhibit will he ,.. , oil, r"-
he third premium for best ge,.ral school exhibit will be live do II sa
premiums to be hesed upon the above men.lon-d points. In-llvl, al on
lums count points for Sell to which pupil belongs I'rem-
r , N "''."I11 "J1'"" '"' l'''ii"'d after 12 M. sharp, the II, st div of tl,
ginninga0, rUMl J'"1""1 knight or ll.ofalr. be-
The County Superintendent shall select Judges for ludirlni- i, i i
exhibit, lie shall assign space to the varies Sclu Is w 1 . . "'
their exhibit, and shall be In full charge of Z ScZl ".xMldt
NO'I'K'K
Lxhihltors must place their exhibits In the Fair hull I Intra . .
them at the close of the Fair The Seii..n ,.n i. ., .KM '"' 1 r,'ni"V1'
Party in charge and w IM ,!, .rvM ng i Z hi ' ' an- rt' " ,"",,!,
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left until thi.t time. " f "'L ,l'lr'1 ''"': "M'lblls mst ,(!
F.ach School must exhibit by Itself
Tho third day of the IVIr will b Children's Dav
dcs,r!,r tx ir: -tes" ,nar.o",,'K;:"""!
the general County Lxhlbit. ' y ,l0 H ,,y '" ' tbe.u with
The following garden seeds may be had for t li.
lettuce, muskmelon d radishes; also, c, r,a In (lower i ' W h"",H'
government seeds, and those who want inlXJ """U'
J. W. AI.I.K.V f . . V . .
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DR. H. R. CLIFF , .
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tilllcn Hours; 9 n. in. to U a. in.
2 p. in. to 4 p.m., 7:30 to 8:31) pm
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chance business. i real estate, that would .tart you on the road to
mind to accumulate that ,um. for there', no telling when .uch an Jnor
tun.ty will present itself. Ppor
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