ST. HELENS MIST, FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 13. 1918
Issued Every Friday by
THE MIST PCBUSIIING COMPANY
O. D. HEILBORN. . . .Vice President
and Managor.
8. C. MORTON Editor
SCBSCIUPTOOX RATES
One Year .f I.SO
Six Months 78
Entered as second-class matter,
January 10th, 1912. at the Postofflce
at St. .Helens, Oregon, under the act
of March 3rd, 187.
the travelling publle will feel. Stay
with It, Potter and Quick, and each
of you will earn the thanks of the
pedestrians who value their lives or
limbs.
COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER
OREGON, THE FIRST STATE
COLUMBIA, THE FIRST COUNTY
In all war activities, Oregon ranks
first. The percentage of volunteers
in the army and navy from the grand
old state of Oregon, is larger than
that of any other state la the union.
In Red Cross subscriptions, Oregon
was the first state to go over the top
and in Liberty Loan subscriptions,
Oregon has been first in every loan.
Of course we all feel proud of the
record our state has made, and justly
are we proud. But coming right
home, we people of Columbia county
also have something of which we are
proud and that is, while Oregon as a
state is first among all the states in
the Liberty Loaus, Columbia county
is first anions the Oregon counties.
The average for the entire state in
Liberty Loan subscriptions Is 140
per cent and Columbia count) 'b aver
age on all three leans is 170 per
cent.
The Fourth Loan is now facing us
and residents of the county must be
a unit in maintaining the enviable
record the county has heretofore set.
The Loan Drive does not open until
September 28th, but the majority of
us have made up our minds just what
we are going to do, and having made
up our minds, let us do it NOW.
Wh.it is the use of waiting for the
last week or the last day? Better bo
a week ahead Instead of a week be
hind. Go to your bank NOW and
subscribe for your bond or bonds.
CAMOUFLAGE
Publisher Jackson of the Oregon
Journal is endeavoring to have the
law requiring the publication of the
delinquent tax list, repealed. "Marse"
Jackson, cays it will be a saving to
the taxpayers. You prope-ty owners
who have paid your taxes on time,
have never noticed a charge for pub
lication of delinquent taxes, have
you? "Mirso" Jackson's fight Is
against the Oregouian and ho Is try
ing to camouflage to cover the real
issue. The election of Chamberlain
and West on the "non-partisan" de
mocratic ticket is sufficient evidence
that "Mtirso" Jackson is ri;lit there
cn the camouflage stuff. Heretofore
he has gotten by with it, but it re
mains to be seen if he can put a
single tax bill under the guise of a
tax economy proposition. Read the
bill aud judge for yourself.
LOANS FOR CATTLE RAISKRS
Secretary McAdoo announces that
the war finance corporation has per
fected its plans for making direct
loans under the provisions of Sec
tion 9 of the war finance corporation
act to individuals, firms, and cor
porations, whose principal business
Is the raising of live stock, includ
ing cattle, sheep, goats and hogs.
The corporation has decided to
create, under authority of the act,,
two agencies, one at Kansas City and j
one at Dallas. These agencies will
be known as the Cattle Loan Agen
cies for the War Finance Corpora
tion and their business will be con
fined entirely to the consideration
of applications for direct loans to
cr.ttlemen.
THE BANKRUPT NATION
I knew a nation, In the days of olf,
Called Germany: a smiling land and
fair.
Respected and admired everywhere:
Wealthy In science, literature and
gold.
Today she stands a leper-land, un
clean And rotten to the vitals with disease.
Draining the cup of ruin to the lees;
Hungry, bedraggled, foul-mouthed
and obscene.
Gone Is her virtue, gone her decent
name:
Hers are the blackest crimes on his
tory's page:
Murder seems good to her insensate
rage:
In lies and broken vows she takes
no shame.
Bankrupt and scorned, she faces
endless night, '
Wrecked by the Prussian creed that
might makes right.
Kenneth L. Roberts in "Life."
A man or woman who subscribes
tor a Liberty bond and pays down
only anomlnal amount, simply tor
the purpose of getting his or her
uame In the paper is a slacker of tho
worst kind and does not deserve the
protection of the gallant boys n
khaki who are now pouring out their
blood on the battlefields of France.
RECKLESS DRIVERS A MENACE
In Recorder Quick's court Wednes
day afternoon, was hailed a certain
party charged with reckless driving.
After hearing the testimony, the re
corder Imposed a fine of 25 and
cost and admonished the young man
to not make it again necessary for
court action as to reckless driving.
The recorder is right. The speed
fiend and the reckless driver should
have no 3tanding in court. He shows
utter disregard for the lives and
safety of others. He is a menace and
the sooner he.is curbed, the easier
LABOR'S GREAT RECORD IN WAR
Figures made public by the war
department August 1 speak eloquent
ly concerning what labor has done
for tho war.
Since April 1, 1917, the army of
the United States has been supplied
with 5,377,000 overcoats, 8,069,000
woolen coats, 10,507,000 pairs of
woolen breeches and 55,958,000 pairs
of wollen socks. Motor trucks to the
number of 17,988 have been Bent
overseas and 9,860 motor ambu
lances have been provided. These
nre merely a few items that show
what it means to speed up for victory.
- What's the use to watt until the
week afterwards when you can buy
your Liberty Bond the week before.
You have made up your mind to by
a bond, so go to the bank and sub
scribe for It now. Columbia county
must be over the top the morning of
September 28th, when the drive begins.
The state highway commission has
received word from the government
authcrlties at Washington, that nec
essary road work In Oregon should
be continued. This ruling must be
quite a shock to those penurious tax
payers who are in favor of stopping
all work for the porlod of the war.
Good roads and successful war work
go together.
The Liberty Loan Day at the Coun
ty Fair Is Thursday, September 19th.
Instead of Baying "How Do You Do"
ask this question, "Have You Sub
scribed for your Liberty Bond," and
If the reply is In the affrimatlve, then
ehake hands.
Mayor SaMon appointed a dock
committee ani it was his honor's
wish that suchVommlnee investigate
the dock sltuatron andu-eport to the
council. The cdrnmltteX obeyed the
mayor and madel their recommenda
tion, but theia, recommendation
might as well not have been made,
for the matter still hangs fire.
Columbia County is the first coun
ty in the state as to subscriptions for
Liberty Bonds. It's a good record.
Let us keep it first. The banks have
application blanks you may fill
them out NOW.
It seems poor business to allow
the telephone company to put Iq new
poles In the sidewalk along Columbia
street. All the poles will have to be
moved and whenever the phone com
pany has to put in a new -ne, it
should be put In the right place.
That auto truck driver who ran
over and killed one dog and wounded
another and then didn't even stop to
see what his reckless driving did,
didn't have a heart one thousandth
part as big as the dumb brutes he
killed or maimed.
Good-morning! For your bror.kfast
this morning, how did you like your
St. Helens bread, made of St. Hel
ens' flour and buttered with St. Hel
ens' butter.
Columbia County First
IT LEADS THE ENTIRE STATE IN LIBERTY LOAN SUBSCRIPTIONS
Quotas for Three
Liberty Loans,
174 per cent.
Official Subscrip
tion Third Loan,
$290,800.
Percentage of
Quota, 370 per
cent.
SATURDAY SZPjQQ
Average for En
tire State, 140
per cent.
Official Quota
' for the County,
$78,504.
Percentage for
the State, 167
per cent.
We must keep up the glorious record Columbia County
has made. Hand your subscription to your bank NOW.
Don't wait until September 28th. Better be a week
ahead than a week behind. Subscribe for your Liberty
Bond NOW.
THIS SPACE CONTRIBUTED TO THE WINNING OF THE WAR BY
H. S. MASON ST. HELENS, ORE
EDITORS SUPPORT I
WAR PROGRAM
HUte Asoclatlon Denounce Propa
ganda of C. 8. Jackson
The following resolutions were
adopted at the recent session of the
Oregon State Editorial association at
Coos Bay, August 9, 10. 11, 1918
The association fitly denounced the
two Jackson bills relating to the
country press and exposed the mo
tives behind those two initiative j
measures:
Resolved, that the members of this
association pledge their continued
and undivided support to the govern
ment in all Its activities designed for
the successful prosecution of the
war, that we fully realise that the
winning of the present great con
flict Is paramount to all other issues
now before the people of the United
States, and with this end in view tho
State Editorial association pledges Its
undivided support to the government
in Its prosecution of the world con
flict that we may have a lasting
peace only on those terms dictated
and promulgated by the allied forces,
without the earmarks of having been
made in Germany.
Resolved, that we are not in sym
pathy with the campaign being wag
ed by the magaxlnes to do away with
the plan of paying postage under the
tone system; and that we believe
that the government should make t
distinction between thoce papers
whose primary purpose Is that of a
news medium and those publications
devoted more exclusively to enter
tainment and special features; and
that we recommend that Congress
simplify the tone system of paying
postage by abolishing the present
method of making a different charge
for the news sections than for the
advertisings sections.
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of Yourself and
Resolved, that we deprecate the
dishonest practice existing through
out the state of members of one poli
tical party registering as members
of another political party fcr the
purpose of nominating the latter's
candidates for office, and we urge
upon the legislature the desirability
of taking the necessary steps to
abolish such species of political corruption.
Whereas, the National Non-Partisan
League has announced its Inten
tion to Invade the State of Oregon in
behalf of Its propaganda and organi
sation, and
Whereas, the advent of said Lea
gue Into this state Is Inimical to Its
well-rare for the following reasons:
1st. That Its leaders have failed
to support the government In the
prosecution of the war and have
made seditious utterances.
2nd. That it Is Hobs controlled and
holds its causa lies and meetings be
hind closed doors.
3rd. That In Its atempt to further
its propaganda It has, sought to In
timidate public officials and the
press.
4th. That it seeks to foist UDon
the peopln of regon radical changes
In our system of government at a
time when all our energies should
be devoted to the single purpose of
winning the war.
Therefore, Be It Resolved by the
State Editorial association In con
ventlon assembled that we heartily
congratulate the National and Ore
gon State Orange on their outsnok'en
opposition to the Farmers' Non-Parti.
san League and do hereby urge every
newspaper In the state to warn Its
readers against the aims, methods
and records of said league.
Whereas, a bill has been Initiated
by C. 8. Jackson and his attorney, R.
W. Hagood of Portland, which said
measure comes before the legal vot
ers of trie state of Oregon at the
November election, 1818, the purpose
of the bill being to limit the charge
for newspaper publication of all legal
notices.
And, whereas, such rate nurnntin.l
vl.: 30 cents per column inch of nine
lines or solid brevier type the Inch is
only 3 1-3 cents per line for each In
sertion which Is 25 per cent less than
the i prevailing commercial rate,
against 6 cents per line, the present
lievalling price for the publication
of al( legal notices, Is unjust and un
fair In every particular to ih.
paper publisher's of the state.
Therefore, be It resolved, that It Is
the sense of the memhr. r a, ai...
Editorial association, now In regular
session, that the newspapers of the
state launch a nubllcltv rnmnn I am
that the taxpayers may be apprised
oi me true intent of the Impending
law, that It Is nothlnr mnr. . I...
a w uB IODI1
than the mailed fist of the Portland
Journal which under the disguise of
alleged economy, Is attemntln in
carry out a pet measure and punish
tne country press because they have
not, In the past, aad will m.i i v,
future, bow to the will of the self-
siyiea czar of newspaperdom, and
which would endeavor to crush the
country press Into submitting to a
most unreasonable, unfair and unjust
THAT'S just what you do when you
deposit your money in this hank. You
gain both cash and credit resource fcr
yourself and contribute to the financial
worth of the country as a whole.
The Columbia County Bank has dedicated
the services of its personnel and its facilities
to Government, Community and Peoplr in
Winning the War. Make use of them.
Begin to prepare now for the
Fourth Liberty Loan
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