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About St. Helens mist. (St. Helens, Or.) 1913-1933 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 3, 1919)
Issued Every Friday by TAKING VP THK BLACK ' Tlie council will build a city dock; 11.- - i i.,,.ai u-m i.,t n mntract llllO KLltuul uvni .. v - - I for a now schoolhouse. In coming to tlwu.. rinMuinna. theae two bodies THE mST rrBLISIIIQ COMPAXT wh,ch ll0 M ,nuc, gratuitous work ' for the cltv, have acted wisely. They O. D. HEILBORN Vice President are looking ahead and taking up the and Manager. 'slack which will be caused by the 8. C. MORTON Edltor lending of the war. Each day labor Is unemployed SUBSCRIPTION RATES I there is an economic loss to the com One Year . . Six Months $I.!W: munlty. for every man not employed .78 1 U either a public charge or an iuw Inroducing unit, and since n is cer Entered as second-class matter.1 tain that a return to a peace basis . .a.i. nit .iik.Pniintni'iiiv tn u Rome lime nuu mui mv at St. Helens, Oregon, under the act after-war period of of March 3rd, 1879. OOUXTV OFFICIAL PAPER PAVED KOADB The suggestion made at the bud get meeting Saturday that the coun ty court buy a paving plant and be- reconstructloN and stability will entail thought ana 1 nrennrntion so that no stagnancy In I business will occur. It behooves those I In charge of public works to lay ! aside the Idea of waiting for a fall I In nrices of labor and material, start In NOW to make the improvements which are NOW necessary. Even If we have to pay a greater price for the new dock or the new school house, the placing of and employing of labor, from an economic stand point, it is far better than to have unemployed labor, which is a lqs due to the fact that it is Idle man power. As demobilization progresses and men who have been in their coun try's service are once again returned to their homes, preparations should be made to give them employment. Much public work Is needed through out this city, county and state, ami there should be no delay in prepar- ST. HELENS MTST. FRIDAY. TANUARY 3, 1919 A NEW YEAH'S KKSOI.l TION gin the construction of hard sur faced roads, is a wise suggestion andjing plans and executing the work opportune. There are certain sec- Such a course means permanent and substantial returns and the main tlons of the county, the south end es-itennnce o( meni wno after serving in peclally, which should have hard tne army or navy, are entitled to re surfaced roads. Take around St munerative employment when they Helens, Warren and Scappoost - return home .The Mist congratulates where traffic Is very heavy, automo- tlie city government and the school bile traffic particularly, and each bo.,r(1 on t)ie conimon sense and year nnd all of each year is required practicable plan they have adopted, to keep the macadam ror.ds in a i'hey did right, fairly good condition. Thousands of j dollars are spent each year to keep: , up the road, and then the results are! The telephone ccmpany has had far from satisfactory. The money! printed and Issued to Its subscribers expended has purchased nothing1 a telephone directory of ( olumbia which Is of permanent nature. For, county. The book is very handy, and this section, hard surfaced roads arein decided improvement over the old the only logical solution of the road , one which had Portland, Salem. As question. It would be far better to iorla, St. Helens r.nd other impor build just a little permanent roau't-t towns listed In the one book", each year, than to keep on spending. The only fault the Mist has to find money for maintenance, which, iui 1 that the officials of the company fact, is not a maintenance. idid not Blve any of the printers in In many other sections of the"' Columbia county an opportunity to county, the building of hard sur-lti(1 on the Jb- u seema tllat tlle faced roads is not necessary nor are company Is perfectly willing to take those sections of the county ready;811 the money possible away from for such roads. In many localities,! Columbia county, but when it comes the roads which lead to the sparsely jt0 "Pending money for supplies, etc.. settled communities, are hardly pass ln th town or county from which able in the winter time and are-tHey draw a considerable portion ot "rough going" even in the summer! h,e,r income, it Is another matter, time. These communities need pass- T',e Phon? company should realize able roads which will be passable ,llat ln orler to "Pbulld Portland, it the entire year. A farmer is a heavy necessary to develop the country loser when it takes him all day to! 11 B,m "- iruum New Year's resolutions are in order. Too often a resolution lb made end thought of only at tho time it is made. It Is not broken, it Is only forgotten or made as a resolution and not a resolve. There Is ono resolution which every business man and every otht man who Is interested in the growth of St. Helena and Columbia county should make and keep, nnd tin resolution should be something like this- "1. a business man or a resi dent Of the City of St. Helens. Col umbia county, Oregon, do hereby re solve that I will Join the St. Helen. Chamber of Commerce. That in Jolu ing such body, 1 have resolved that i will put my shoulder to the wheel and do my utmost to further the In terests and development of my homo town and my home county. That per sonal grudges and Jealousies shall not enter into Buy consideration ot the affairs of the body, but on the other hand they shall he eliminated for community good. I further re solve that when joining this body, that I will take Interest in its meet ings, its work and its plans, nnd I will do my part toward making the St. Helens Chamber of Commerce u body which will stand pre-eminently for the good and for the advance ment of the Interests nnd develop ment of tlie community." If those six Swedes who gave their residences rs from Columbia City when they voluntarily gave up their first citizenship papers in order to escape the draft, still live In Columbia City, a delegation should wait on them nnd politely, but firmly request them to move to another place. If they are not pa triotic enough to serve this country, and do not wish to go back to their own country, they do not fit In any where or any place. They certainly do not belong in tills community and are not wanted here. Their names are published elsewhero In this Is sue of the Mist. Superintendent King is to bo con gratulated on the good work he ha? done for the St. Helena Bchools. He has worked under great difficulties and handicaps which would make most men despair of success, l'rot. King, however, notwithstanding the difficulties which confronted him, has kept right on with the work and if he was discouraged, he did not let the fact be known. The schools are now beginning to run on schedule time and do scheduled work and much credit Is due Trof. King and his able corps of assistants. HYSKELL WRITES OF RED CROSS To the Editor: Regarding the present campaign for Ited Cross funds, my remarks In your last week's Issuti huve boon V.k en as personal by :. number of people who declined to subscribe, and It seems advisable tint I go a bit fur ther In the matter. I wish to st. te f-ankly tint I re gret having said onythlng to offend a woman. What I said was not meant as personal to my iiillvlilunl. but to describe a type of slacker. Anvone who may feel V.'H ho or she Is true to that typo will apply "'' views as they see fit. When n s-ihjecl like the "Ited Cms" Is considered what do our perso-ml feelings amount to, anyhow? The Ited Cross. I would like, If possible to get this thought over. The term "Ited Cross" really menus serv ice to the stricken and the suffering nil the destitute. It Is synonymous with the Golden Kule, "do unto others ns you have them do unto you," If you were the stricken and thev (he fortunate. We who have our little farms or stores or shops, ns the case may be, here In Columbia county, and who sit by our comfortable, firesides, and -end the newspapers, should be able to visualize thoso wretched women and children In llelgium and Kranee, who nfter four years of war come hack to the places that were their homes places that are now ashes or wreckage, fields that .ire ragged shell holes half filled with tho win ter's rains. How many of these wom en come back with more than the dress on their bodies? How many of these children come bnck with shoes mil stockings? Cod knows. Am! manna does not fall from lleavei, nowadays. Somebody or some organi zation haB to supply the breed for hen horror-stricken peoplo and look after them through the long winter or they will die In tin wretched shelters that are now be ing erected around their ruined hearthstones. Of what consequence, then, nr our personal feellngo when we nre br.wled out for refusing to give tho naltry dollar wo are asked to give to keep the Ited Cross organization to gether and continue Its work In stricken Krance, llelgium, Poland. Armenia, Hussla nnd every land where tlie Hed Crops brine; succor to these destitute and suffering people? 1'nder tlie conditions that we know exist, the honor of a memhnrnhlp In the Ked Cross, and tho grace of giv ing a dollar, are privileges that we Each and everyone of the Mist's i should ptrlvo for. The niehershlp of advertisers report exceptionally good I the lied Cross In Columbia county Christmas business this season. The' this winter ought to be ;ho sum total American public is quick to follow of Its population, men, women ann the advice of the government. When children. Tho campaign Is not yet ST. HELENS PORTIAND AUTO FRANK HIIEPAItl), Prop. NCIIEDII.K A. M. Lv. St. Helens 7:30 Warren 7:46 Scappoose 8:00 Ar. Portland Lv. Portland 10:00 Ar. St. Unions 11:60 Nntiirtlityn mikI Humliija Special trip leaving St. Hulons 0 p. in Leave Portland Up m. LINE1 P. M. 1:30 1M6 2:00 3:20 4:00 6:60 Tho Mist Is still $1.60 per year. All Hum Cull at Hotel Courteous Treatment HTOP AT ORCADIA HOTEL TIIOH. IHIUHTER, Prop. Cli li ken IMimcr, fiO rente lUtea $l.2!3 r Uy ami up HMi lnl lUtea Ut Iteft-ular Hoarder -"( ft Jufcramw should be made in several hours. He Is also, a heavy loser, when the roads are ln such condition that he cannot get his produce to market. It would be good business if the county court would buy a paving plant and in a community which now has fairly good macadam roads, start the laying of a hard surface road, n fslr rental for the use of the plant should be charged to each district ii, which the work is done, and in this manner, the cost of the plant would be gradually absorbed by the dis tricts which the plant has served. It would not be fair to the road dis tricts In which no paving is done, to make them pay (out of the general road fund) a proportion of the cost of a plant which will not serve thai district. The hard surfacing of roads ln Columbia county is a good idea, but it is a question which requires deep study, so that justice may be done to all, and at the same time, economy and permanent roads wilt be linked together. The suggestion, however, shows that the people ot the county are awake to the fact that good roads are necessary for the development of the county, and instead of being a tax or expendi ture, are an asset and a good investment. the over. The committees are still recelv- . ill nivr.i.i,. "ST. ."Zt lL IL ? i home wl h their home patrons ; nro I the authorities said "retrench.' Zm u 117 I : itlded coniMtlli nlte. en e met. Piiu'U: did it. nnd when they said Ing money is good business. Some of the high ; "''uy all you ordinarily would at officials of the phone company should i -nristmas time, they did that, too. n honest man Is truly honest who learn this. The Mist has received an an nouncement to the effect "that the first book on reconstruction has just been published, and it is by a west ern man known all over the world Dr. David Starr Jordan. There is nothing which savors of 'pacifism in this book the book li. courageous from start to finish sanely optimistic." If the Mist remembers rightly. Dr. Dpvld Stan Jordan was an ardent pacifist. As the prospectus of his books states, he is famous, but to our mind, the opening stanza should be changed to Infamous. Jordan was a pacifist, but not so radical as some of the other One hundred per cent efficiency Isjdenies thnt ho ever made a fool of tne American public. In biblical days, a man sold his birthright for a mess of pottage. Benedict Arnold betrayed his coun try, but he received a price. Those six Swedes who betrayed both Swed en and America when they gave up their citizenship in order to escape serving in tlie U. S. army are about on a level with, or possibly lower than was Arnold. "If you intend to work, there Is no better place than right where you are; if you do not Intend to go to work you can not get along any where. Squirming and crawling misguided bretheran. If the eminent! plaPe T'p eVdo S gSod iiciir..yima tounow i,e cu,r.ageousAbI.aliam ,jncoln. voa- no iiiiint nave uiiangeu considerably . m since the time he was so outspoken T. c. ,, , . , . as to the United States entering the1 ,Tlle,st- Helens Mist Is getting war. Dr. Jordan's book should haveiclon8 'ears " completed thirty no more nf a nio.Q i h ai ! seven last week. From tlie start it nan ii a kuuii ioc.il paper anu ns name peculiarity of the Columbia Valley gives It distinction. Ore gonlan, December 28th. home than he should have harl nt the time he was working for "peace at any price." Many a man's originality is due to a defective memory. himself. It Is The Time For Good Wishes Clean-Up on Heaters This is the time of year that you need a good heater. ': have several of those good UNIVERSAL HEATERS in stock, and we are going to sell them to you at a special price, and just at the time when you need a heater most. Special Prices Regular $20 Heater, Special price $18.00 Kegular $18 Heater, Special price $1600 Regular $16 Heater, Special price $14.00 Vou can't afford to he without one of these heaters. They are economical on fuel consumption and make the house warm and cheery. e have only a few of these in stock, so and make the home comfortable. you had better take advantage of the reduction in price E. G. DITTO EVERYTHING IN HARDWARE France Is now producing about one gallon of milk where two nnd one-half were produced before the war. Available milk in Paris has been lately selling fcr 32 cents per quart, but its use is limited princi pally to young children and the sick. The success of the Chamber of Commerce means success nnd devel opment of St. Helens and surround ing country. In the Hd Cross membership I drive Columbia county Is again ; among the first counties of tlie Btate. The Coming Year JUST THE SAME AS THE PAST YEAR MASON'S FOR -LUNCHES -SOFT DRINKS TOBACCOS CIGARS FOUNTAIN DELICACIES Mason's St Helens. Oregon when everybody turning over a new leaf, or think ing of doing so. If you are making any new resolu tions let one of them be to ileal with us in the future, for ' hat is one of the surest wavs to have cause for gratitude at the end of the coming year. Here we give you (lie best values obtainable, the most super ior service and charge the lowest prices. CREAM PUFFS RAISIN BREAD DOUGHNUTS Ram sey s BREAD We cairy a nice line of CANDIES and LIGHT GROCERIES Drop in any time ant try a cup of our GOOD COFFEE Thank You A Clean Slate WII'K off the worries and cares of P'MS and start anew. I'M'' is going to be just what we all can make it. Let's gel together and keep together here in St. I Icletis jni as we've been doing si long. With your initiative plus the incentive the Columbia County Hank lends we wager the New Year will be l'luspiron- as well as Happy. SMKRMAN M. MILKS. President MAK'I "IN WIIITK. Yicc-l'iesiilcnt A. L. ST(.)NK, Cashier ti. M II'I KS. Assistant Cashier QabhimhifiSTottngTBtittk ' ST HRt.PNrt .irCT V- OPf CON IN coi3f loU CuJn t V The People's Market IS THE PLACE YOU CAN ALWAYS SECURE The Best of fleats GROCERIES, FRUITS and VEGETABLES Give Us a Trial and be Convinced The People's Market Phone 40 St. Helens, Oregon Buy an Automobile Now I am Columbia County Agent for the following well-known cars The. Maxwell The Handsomest, the Most Durable and Econo mical Moderately Priced Car on the Market The Hudson The Car of Quality and Performance The Chalmers Everyone's favorite in the medium priced car I can give quick delivery on any of the above mentioned cars SEVERAL USED FORDS AT A BARGAIN J. H. FLYNN ST. HELENS, OREGON