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About St. Helens mist. (St. Helens, Or.) 1913-1933 | View Entire Issue (July 7, 1916)
ST. HELENS MTST. FRIDAY. JULY 7, 1Q16 rOVXlKI 1881. Issued F.very Friday ly TilK MIST I'VHI.ISIII.MJ COMPANY. S. U MOOHHKAl) IMitor S. C. MOKTOX ManiiBor Entered as second-class matter. Jauuary 10th. 1912, at the l'ostoltlco at St. Holous, Oregon, under the act of March 3rd, 1S79. SlllSCKlP'JION' KATFS: One Year $1.50 Six Months 75 Advertising rates nuulc known on application. COVXTV OFFICIAL PAPF.K. PAVING The countv roail from llio down town dis trict to the railroad station is badly in need of repairs and' doubtless the County Court ex pects to soon make these repairs. As a mat ter of fact, repairs have been made on this road for the last six vears and still we have no road. It is impossible just at this time for the Mist to find out how much money has been spent on this one piece of road, but we are informed that some $2,500 was spent last year. If this is true, and we think it is, we do not think we are netting anv return for the monev. for while we have a thoroughfare we have no road. We are informed that some contracting concern has offered to lav a hard surfaced road 16 feet wide for $2,200 a mile. If the hard surface they oiler is good, it would certainly be economy for the County Court to take up the proposition for it is just as foolish to keep on putting a little screenings in the thousand and one pot holes on this road, which the autos throw out the next dav, as it would be to attempt to bail out the Columbia river with a bucket. Moreover, this little stretch of the county's highway is probably used more than anv other piece of road in the county, and it is the Court's duty to make of it a real highway. DEMOCRATIC INEPTITUDE Nothing better illustrates democratic un fitness for government than the way in which the partv iii power is handling naval prepared ness." With a serious menace of war hanging over the country for many months, the ad ministration and congress has done practic ally nothing to make ready for war. Though evervone knows it takes years to build capi tal ships and months to train crews to man them, the democrats have waited until Mr. Wilson has brought us to the verge of open hostilities with Mexico before considering any genuine increase in our naval strength. The bill passed by the house against the protest of every wide-awake member made no provision for battleships and for only five battle cruis ers. It would have increased the personnel by only 11,000 men. Now the administration proposes to insist that the senate amend the bill to provide for two battleships of the dreadnaught class, four battle cruisers 'ami an increase of 20.7(H) men in the personnel. That is very good so far as it goes, but even it is not sufficient Tit this time. And if Mr. Wilson goes to war with Mexico this slightly enlarged program of construction " will avail nothing in the struggle. If the democrats had any foresight, anv practical sense, they would have been building ships and training, men months past. This sudden enterprise smacks of the IJrvan folly of raising an army of a million volunteers when an enemv has landed on our shores. What the United States should have is the means to prevent anv such land ing. Pittsburgh Gazette. WE OUT-GREEK THE GREEKS American boys even city boys even New York boys are often better developed physi cally than the ancient Greeks. And every rec ord of the ancient Greeks but one the broad jump with weights, which isn't practiced to any extent has been broken by New York city school boys. This was discovered recent ly when sixty boys equal to the best of the Greeks were needed for a Shakespeare masque at the great out-door stadium of the college of the city of New York. It was no long and discouraging task to find these boys. On the contrary, 2(X) applied at the first opportunity. Practically all of them not only met but surpassed the best of the ancient Greek standards both in measure ments and in physical tests. The sixtv who had most time for rehearsals were chosen. Civilization, which has freed us from the superstitions of exposure and torture in de veloping strength and courage, has, of course, brought with it possibilities of ease and soft ness unknown to earlier peoples. Put the advantages of sanitation, better food, and bet ter knowledge of how to live seem to have more than compensated for any of the dis advantages. ARMY SNOBBISHNESS The army caste system, which maintains an unbridgeable social gulf between officers ami men, has disappeared from the British army, under the stress of heavy losses and the necessiiy for officering a great volunteer army. It disappeared from the French army at the very beginning of the war. It has gone from the Russian army and other European armies. Only in Germany and the United States are the rigid distinctions of military caste still ob served, says the Oregon Statesman. One of the valuable by-products of service in Mexico is likely to be the upsetting of this absurd system which has developed in time of peace. It is wholly contrary to the spirit of American life. Our army, aside from the necessities of discipline, ought to be as demo cratic as our civilian life. And it probably will be, if the Mexican campaign entails the rais ing of additional forces and protracted service in the field of large numbers of volunteers. The presence of the national guard, and its absorption into the regular annv, will be a powerful factor in this demoralization. ilian troops will not swallow the arrogance which, according to annv tradition, goes prop erlv with gold braided uniforms. The guards men and the new volunteers will laugh at snobbishness. And llie endurance of common hardships and perils will have a wholesome tendency in the same direction. Hereafter it will probably be possible lot an American annv officer to be friendly and sociable to his enlisted men. when off dul. without incurring the scorn of his brother ofli cers for making a "vulgar exh'bition of democracy." The Gem Theater PROFESSIONAL CARDS SUBLIME AND RIDICULOUS As : national snectaele. that Oregon inven tion, the presidential primary, proved to be sublime and ridiculous. It was sublime in the sense that it recorded accurately the aspirations of the majority ol the republican voters for the nomination of Charles K. Hughes for president. It was ridiculous in that it provided tin machinery gratis whereby 5S.07o republican voters (mure than the number who voted tor Hughes) rewarded a simple-minded Chicago self-seeker for his ambition to be recorded as a vice-presidential nominee of a sovereign state before a national convention. The presidential primary proved that rS. 076 republican voters in Oregon were sil 1 sheep. They voted without pride or purpose simply marking an X in front of the one name printed under the vice-presidential head. Yet. nearly all of these same voters cast their ballots for Hughes, and thus contributed directly to his nomination and possible elec tion. This experience will probably result in some amendments to the presidential primary law: so these silly sheep voters can be protected from opportunities to make their state ridicu lous. The much-berated legislature will have the job of working out the remedy. What is needed is an adoption of the partv convention plan to the ideais of the primary The voters of Oregon will not swallow a con vention's recommendation merely because it was recommended, but thev will be glad to have a representative partv convention nuet and make recommendations, so thev can be criticised and perhaps followed. The Oregon Vote. U. S. ENGINEER CAPTURED BY CAN ADIANS O. P. M. (ioss, consulting engineer of the West Coast Lumbermen's Association and the Association of Creosoting Companies of the Pacific Coast, has entered on his tempo rary detail special service for the province of British Columbia. He will promote the Use of creosoted wood block paving in cities of the Canadian Northwest. Some weeks ago the Canadian government officials addressed a diplomatic note to the West Coast Lumbermen's Association asking for Mr. Goss' service covering a period i weeks. The request was immediately granted but the trip was delayed owing to important engineering work which the association- at that time, had under way in Oregon. EVERY-DAY PHILOSOPHY? If you don't like the United States of Amer ica better than any other country on the face of the globe why not return to the country you love more? , Never give advice to another that you are not willing to take yourself. Don't advocate war unless you are willing to let your boy become a soldier. Before you find fault because "Christianity has failed" in some certain particular, just asl. yourself how much your personal action iua have been responsible for failure in some other direction. VALUE OF A PETITION A business man of Birmingham, Ala., drew up a petition asking the city council to appoint a committee to hang every minister of the gospel in town. He circulated the document among thirty of the city's leading citizens, in cluding many influential bankers, merchants and manufacturers. And twenty of them sgned it. For the fiscal year ending June 30. 1915. 5.0K4 persons were killed and 6,44-S injured while trespassing on railroad tracks, an awful loss. While we are living in a new country, and it is a great convenience to be allowed to walk railroad tracks, is it worth the lives it costs? We enact laws to protect people against impure food, adulterated and alcoholic drinks, but we allow them to be killed b thousands. Is not a law in the interests of society, prohibiting trespassing by walking along on a railroad track, sorely needed in this state ? ' ' it i f ' , s ,v 1 i- mi . h ,. : i .-. 4 -s The Divine Sarah Bernhardt in the famous of lltlSTAN lllltYUU it JEANNE DORE n,,. detalU of tint Hlory urn ho In tensely triiKlc that '"' 1,",H "" "l',lM' I ,,., ilernhar.1t fotild portray ht ,m)Ul,.,. role no let..-, a in hit rent ofj ,,,,, ..minio ,l facial eM.teMHlon ontd depict I'efopt tint rainera the fullne s of I ho manifold pioedhlllt It's In .l,olopla Inc. which I ho rolo ex art.".. This Hill-Mid Photoplay hi In all c..-:elilialr the acme of fame arllni; ;in, I .. 1 1 i-1 r ami (lie arrival of Hit pliollipl.l la "HI" I" I"'""11 I'''' elilliitiiin al ilii' Hi 'i'iiealer on Jul) !l as the ni'isl important period f tlie mi rent season dr that theater. A Memphis (Tenn.) newspaper, the News Scimitar, explains that "one reason why Amer ica is great is that she leads all countries in the production of coal, iron, steel, copper, silver and oil. She is also the champion produecr of cotton, corn, wheat, oats, hay and tobacco, and is second to South Africa in the produc tion of gold." It might have added other rea sons are its great fraternal beneficiary soci eties, its free public schools, its great state uni versities, its churches, and its building and loan associations, and still left many other good things unnamed. 1 .11 . T' Si it..- - -t 1 S'-KNK KltOM TIIK I'!. AY "JKAN'NT. IHiliK" Till' licnjamin Harrison McKec, born in the lute House during the administration of his grandfather, Benjamin Harrison, has reached New York, having been invalided home from the front, where he has been fighting "some where in brance." Remember "HabyMcKee" of I larrison's timo ? 1 In umc ,,,,;. .. ..i ,v , l.,,, i t- 'i cii.irai ter in officialdom at Washington from lK'j to' WHITE SOX TAKE TWO GAMES I Continued from Pare 1 ) Win 1 1 1 :t Mi I Alt. II. I'd. A. K Kiiiiiins. ::ii 4 u i ;t o llonalihton. im :l 1 0 t t) lirai kelt, c ;l 1 7 I 0 llateinan, Hi 4 ill) 0 U HeoTO', rf :i I 0 0 Krii k:-.on, i f 4 U 0 0 0 (Iril'fitli, 1) ;S 0 2 :( 1 Calvin, If :t 0 2 0 1 Kotula, p 3 0 1 4 0 Totals ::u r. 24 12 2 St. Ileleim :', 0 0 0 0 0 U U 2 llils I 0 U U U 0 u u 0 -- 1 Wood Innil 0 110 1 OOUII I 2 Mils 1 0 0 1 0 I) 11 0 ;i-f. Summary: Karneil ruim St. Ilel ens 1, Woodland 2. Left on haseK St. HeliMirt 2, Woodland 4. Threo- hase hit Stcvcnu. 'I'wu-iia.si! hlU CeorKo, llntekett. Donhlo play .Monro to Melionald to Sh.-veiiH. Slruek out Ity Salve.. n, 12; hy Ko tula, C. I law; on lialhi - Off Salveson, oil' Kotula, :t. Ilalk - -Kotula. Time - 1 :f.o. Cmpiri' Mel. In. !'"iond name -- SI. Helen, All. II. I'D. A. i: "all, rf 2 II 2 II 0 ArinsprlKer. lh . . . . 2 I 5 (I (I Stevens, 2I :t 1 1 .lamieson, c :t 1 n i( Midioiiald, ss :i 11 0 2 0 Krakke, :',li ;j n ,1 1 1 ''' rry, i f 2 0 a 0 I Peterson, If ;( n t, Monro, p 0 U 0 0 0 SillVOBOII, p 2 2 0 i) 1 Total:; v;; 5 21 ,. Woialhind ,,, All. II. I'O. A. K. itohiiiuM, :iii 4 1 1 Kotula, s 4 1 () llraekett, r ., , (( ( (J llati:man, I li 4 r, () () (,i('"r'!' rr 4 2 I 0 hrlekson, ef 0 n I tJrit 1 ii li , 21. :t i) o (,iillvi"' lf 2 0 11 i) 0 lionalilson, p 4 ., () ''""tiilr. s 1 s r. I Kl- ':leiin 2 0 0 () 0 (I 1 - .2 1 0 I I) () I .5 y""111""' 1 0 0 0 1 0 0 ' lll,H 12 0 2 11 1 - s Summary: Karned run:i--St. -oiiH 2, Woodland 1. ,e,t ,;,.,v St.. Helens f., Woodland 10. Three Imsi; hit -SalvoHon. Struek out-'-y lioiinhlKoii, !l; ,y Salvesoi,, 1 a.se on l.allH-orf Halv ,, ; ()ff Donaldson, 1. Ilalk - Salv.m,;,,. ' ,. niiiKH pitched hy Moore, 1; ,y Salve '-x-.n. v.mtw,, . m,;: N'oU's of llie (;aines. In hoth bchhIoiis ISrnklco playe,! sl hang up nanui at ll. third Hlatlon It wan qulto nmuHlim- to u,,, f'1(i lo boo blBHUvo iiluyli. "ItlnK u,om '"' ';0Ky" wlt" Kol,,'H grounder. iMiiuia iiitio (oijined 1 h. that the Sox . ft it all to S.ilvi'son The.'o was v ry little "pep" de.plat ) The Hetond came waa better as :l.ere was route work to do all '.he time. Ill the fll:;t t;.lllie, or the 2" Woiel laml pUlollls, tw.-lve retired hy the rlillieout loutiv Salvesoii had e ce li in control K :u!a really deserve.; a no hit SMItie, fur the l euterflelder nil jllilKed Steve's hard delve. It wan fur, tiiiate for the Sn that ho did, olle'rnlse llallacli'n tats would have liei-n smeared with a coat of v. hi'ewash. Just to show (lie hrenks: Wood laud i;ot five hl.s off of S.ilveain tthllo St. Ileli lui one hliiKlo off of Kotula. Still ena won dm name Help, Help - IN, lice, police. I.IVi: hioiti; 1,1 vk TOWN H. II. SON.NKI.ANI), I'rop. FRKSII & CURED FISH POULTRY IllO.ill.ss I'lione U,.M, ('72 ST. HELENS MARKET I reo Delivery E. VV. KETEL St. lleleiiH, ()ir. ContracLor-.-Builder I SIIMA IUS, .,.VNH ' inint Work u Hiioclully I'hoiHt Coiinrctioii t.OI I'm li, ,,, oo wan un lutercMtecl from hi,, iiolnt of ad van i hase. a; I'ei-I.atnr al. lirsl Krom a spectator',, ulatidpolnl, the first Rumo wan llslle,H. u Lynch & Tunzat on Iho Hlrnuil SANITARY BARBER SHOP i:vi:ity ci-htomkk hatihi iioi, YOU'RE NEXT w. iii:i.i:h I'.. A. ROSS rUNfRAL DIRECTOR lIC I N', o EMBAlMri Band DnilJin, St. n.,. -".Utl Btiiinm I'Ikkw lonely U. Ilel DR. C H. WADH PHYSICIAN AND SURCt0N DR. W. R.DINIIAM DCTNTIST Ok- in Bk B.,,11,,,, O. I r 1 Ol. IlliCllS . Q logon A. c. TU'KKK , DKNTIST ST IM I.I NS, OkHtioN HI l III III ,;, tR. L. GILBERT ROSS PHYSICIAN AiiU?OE0 "' Ft. Hcb DR EDWIN ROSS PHYSICIAN A SURCEOH itffU k IN HANK in IllMMl C DR. ALFRED J. PEEL PHYSICIAN A SUKCEOH MiiwiiiIf IIuIIiIIiik ST. II HUB DR. H. R. CLIFF PHYSICIAN A SUKGtOH I'liuiiv Hutu la n I 'll. Kn lli GLKN li. MHTSKER ATlOltMIV (llllco in Hunk 1 : ii lid trie Kt. Ili-lens Orn. I'lionn 17 M. . MILLER ATTORNEY ATLAVI Si. Helens Orepi MilMV To LOW N UlC I'AKM MdUT;.iW E. J. ROBERS0N 702 1 itle ami Trust M Portlaiui. Oregon PURE MILK AND CREAM FumUhed Daily I ST. HELENS DAIfl S. N. CADE, ProprieW ST. HELENS, ORECON, I'lione 107-6. Our fiM-IUUr "l NlulpfJ for ImiKliliiK lry l" ItllnlllltN dm to Hlllll' ll" Krnilo of inllU mill rrem. U Mi Icily HanKary. Wo are nnxloim to moro ruHUimcm nml P"1 i Khh1 hoi vice. HittlNfaitlon Kiiurn every roHMM't Steamer HooHofi fHtiti.v Hiii:rii llP K.(;i!iwI0JiH n iMtonli". 1 1 u...i... iti'nl'le ''H Ive C..IIH Ht Krl I'lionn UH