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Newspaper Page TextPAGE TWO THE ST. HELENS MIST Issued Kvery Krlilay ly THK MIST rilUJSIIINd tXl.MIAN O. D. HEILBORN....Vie President and Manager. B. C. MORTON ....Editor 81 BSCKU'TIO.V KATK8 One Year 2 00 Six Months 100 Entered as second-class matter. January 10th. 1918. at the l'ostofnce at St. Helens. OreKou, under tlie act of Marcb Srd, 1879. COUNTY OKrKTAl- TAI'KK Member Natlonat Editorial Asso ciation and Oregon Stato Editorial Association. OI K S.H KKO lAV Sunday. May 9th. is the Nation's Sacred hay. It's Mothers' Day. a day set apart whereby the nation may worship mother. And well may the nation orohip mot! er (or i: was she who first instilled in our hearts love of. country. It was from her that we learned our first lesson of truthfulness. It was from her now silent lips that came the message of truth and love and we now hear t'lat silent prayer for her boy tlie praver for manhood aid good cuijensliip. Her hopes were in her boy and she prayed to tlie Almighty tlia: UKIi boy would be a citizen in tlie lull meaning of the word. .Mi'l. looking backward, through a veil of years, we recall the sacrifices of an unselfish, noble woman and we honor woman hood, tier example makes us think of better manhood. The mothers o! many of us are with us. Perhaps they are wrinMeu and gray, but what if they are; every wrinkle shows a thousand hours of prayer and thought for her child; every gray hair, a sacrifice for the child who was at her breas when she came from the "Valley of Pain." And, locking backward today, we are thinking, and you, also, think of the days of long ago, and your thought is of mother. When you think of her, your thoughts have rer.ched the highest pinnacle of pur ity, for mother exemplified purity, sweetness, charity, self sacrifice and love. The mothers of some of us art with us; there are others of us whose thoughts go back to years distant or to a few months ago, when mother left us. We remember, even when the Great Eternity was betore her, that her thoughts were not of her self, but for her children and we re member the messiges of good cheer and lr.ve to those around her bedside. And we remember how that spotless soul, without fear of the eternity, went to meet her Maker. If we remember mother and her example, how good a world this would be. killing of pests, the eradication of weeds, the use of serums for diseases of live stock. The work of the county agent covers a wide field. While he Is teaching the farmer how to raise large and diversified crops lie Is also teaching the farmer's wife how to make gardens profitable, nnd th- farmer's children how to get started In the stock breeding business. Ho demonstrates met hods of farm ac counting, and ussists in the organ ization of marketing, purchasing and cooperative associations. When the tanner Is short ot help the depart ment of agriculture representative does what he can to relieve the situation. county will rote to deny them such education. KIU'CATK TO I NDKKST.WI) Stealing automobiles, if only for a short Joy ride. Is a crlmo. The Joy riders take out a $1000 or 12000 cur and bang It over the roads, probably wreck it. If tliey get It homo safo. It is considered a Joke. If they meet with a mishap and loave It some where on the road or In the ditch, It Is an unfortunate occurence. The auto owner Is enti led to some pro tection. It Is no Jcko to him to have $1000 of his proierty taken away without his permisiton and. possibly, wrecked. Courts lave been too len ient with auto Joy tlder thieves. OBSERVATIONS It, MISTY KlHNPKK At least they didn't offer Ilia Hounder anything. ' Morgan knowa that camel has nothlim on nowapapor man In wllhstandliu tha drouflit. Prof. Brumbaugh very rightly says that "tlie vital importance of educa tion does not lio exposed on the sur face of everyday lil'o." Yet we do find a great deal of it exposed on the surface. The world war brought to i-f.iit . condition of illiteracy in this country that was little dreamed of existing. In the past the census bureau has led us to believe that the percentage of illiteracy was no greater than 8 per c?nt, but army figures for men if draft age put It at 24.9 or one quarter of the population. Through psychological work it was found that 380,195 men were unable to read cr write and understand signs about the camp. As factory workers these men would be unable to understand a written or printed ord'r, or signs and instructions to protect them from accident. It has been pointed out that our illiteracy problem is not confined to alienism, nnd this is in a very large measure true. Our late secretary ot the interior, Mr. Lane, says "an un. informed democracy is not a democ racy, that people who have no access to the mediums of public opinion, the messages of presidents, and the acts of congress" can't be expected to understand why they all must contribute due share of energy or property or fealty to the welfare of the country. Simmered down the deplorable fact Is apparent that 25 per ent of the men in this country lack un under standing of the most important med ium in the spread of common ideals. To overcome this we must educate continually and ever more exten sively or the whr.le of our social welfare, comfort and h.nppiness will disappear in a gulf of llu mast un speakable misery nni anarchy. Let ?very voter remember that n liie twenty-first day of this month he. will be called upon to vote a futu.e guar antee of public peace and prosperity or he will vote to overthrow this country into a coming calamity, the spectacle of which be con now glimpse in the malstrom of terror now settling down upon a benighted Russia. Want to bo th most beaut If ui woman In Ani.riia, sister? Hike I your dal'.y buili In milk and sleep between black she its, and ycf will 1 bo as nutty as the Paris bauty who ' advocates this met! od of beating the ' wrlukles In the r.ic9 of life. Candidates for office never go on a strike. The only thing that cau.-j the candidate any worry Is a possible lockout. Provldencrt still smiles on HI.; Helens. The fish are lltl:i good metaphorically speaking and prices are good for the fishermen. j i From any angle you look nt It. It occures to the Misty Itoumler that some of the candidates have been picked before Ciey are ripe. This little observation will be verified May 21 and they are ill good men, too. Along with overalls ought to go rubber collars which not only re duce li-undry bills, but would pro ne a harmonious ttiJ ilform. A pound of ruuin. M tl ynt In a rory ord,, .n cause more nmhiw,.i...... "i than a case of I.. .H front door used t0 eauia One way, of oo.i-se. to reduce the high cost of living is for everybody to quit working and stand around and talk about it. I English Judges object to trying lthe Kaiser "by n law th y do not know." They nilg'it look up an old copy of the Ten Command-no.' ts. PUBLIC FORUM THK MAKIII AtiK PHOlll.KM ' Ol'Il EDUCATION A Ij INSTITUTIONS THE COUNTY AGENT There comes from the federal de partment of agriculture, says the Spokane Spokesman-Review, an in teresting report showing what the cour.ty agent, sometimes known as the fr.rm demonstrator, is doing to carry the gospel of scientific agri culture into various parts of the country. The report covers only county agent activity la 33 northern and western states clthoush the south first enjoyed the benefit of th's particular kind of extension work. The department of agricul ture began its "states relations ser vice" in the south in 1903 and it was not until 1911 that the county agent first made his appearance "in the northern Now York state. But the system has grown so fast that during 1919, In the northern and western states alone, 1200 agents conducted 90,660 demonstrations be lore an aggregate of more than a million persons. Such subjects were discussed as corn selecting, seed corn testing, the control of smut upon oat and wheat seed, treatment oi the diseases of beans and potatoes, the growing of the soy bean, alfalfa and sweet clover, the building of silos, the pruning and cultivation of orchards, the establishment of drain age and irrigation systems, use of lime and chemical fertilizers, the At the coming election, the voters of the state will sty whether or no our educational institutions will con tinue to oper-.te with the degree of efficiency we desire, or whether they will fall far below the standard Ore gon should maintain. The O. A. C, University cf Oregon and Monmouth Normal College cannot cper.-ue on the present Income. The expenses of these Institutions have increased Just as h .vo the expenses of the indi vidual. The attendance at all Insti tutions has increased. There are so many students that they cannot be taken care of. Enlargement of the institutions, that is, if they are to take care of the students. Is absolute ly necessary. Columbia county has scholars at all of the colleges named, therefore, it is Columbia county's duty to support the Institutions. They must have more money on which to run. A friend of tho M!st told us the other day that he was afraid that the mlllage bill would not pass in Columbia county. The Mist took ex ception to his remarks and believes that the voters of the county will cast their vote in favor of maintaining the Institutions of learning for a vote for the mlllage bill Is a vote for edu cation. The sons and daughters of Oregon are entitled to educational adv...ntr.ges and the M st does not be lieve that the peoplo of Columbia , To tho Editnr: The amorous state of Mary Plck- ford, heroine of numberless photo i plays, which led to her divorce anil 'marriage with the" dashing Douglas 'Fairbanks, n fellow-player, lias evoked considerable comment and thrown wido the floodgates to a tur bulent stream of opinion respecting the rights, and duties, the whims anil fancies of those who have embraced , the connubial state or who look with : pleasure upon tho prospect of It. As a consequence of this vurlety of opin , ion one becomes almost lost in a con fusion of Ideas ranging in valuo from frowning rignr'sm to brazen license. There must, however, ho some sane nnd proper way of viewing the marriage problem; ell other prob lems wh'ch beset the mind of man are capable of a just and reus inalile sc'lut'cn; laws govern the material world about us, laws govern thought -nd liws regulate all the other rela tions between men laws that are conformaUa to reason. Hut some of our contemporaries declare that In this important human ; relation of marriage there Is no law ' which Is so unreliable. On the other h; nd, I believe that most of us will : hold that reason Is the glory of the ; natural man and tint a condition or 'dea which fails to square with right , reason is not good, i.nd cannot be ac- cepted by a normal human being. If only to clarify our Ideas a hit, : I suspect that little leeway granted to cold, dispasslona'e reason In this ' growing discussion of tho marriage j relation, would dispi a few Illusions ,and reveal a number of facts well I worthy of serious n edltatlon. If the editor deeniB It advisable, and mayhap of some worth to the reaaer, l will prepar3 a paper or two , r.n the nature of n arriage a phil osophical dissertation, considering the question from tiie standpoint of reason alone. JEREMY KRAM. ,'Duko" Wellington ran truly b. said to be "hot-footing It" In his quest for the lowly vote to put bltu across for the nomination for sheriff. Ily some hocus pocus he got ditched at Vernonln tho ether day and walked from there In to St. Helens. . There wus wisdom In tho reply of a man, who whoa asked by a friend tho other day If the figure of a woman acquaintance was "made up." replied: "I can't say; never saw her in a wet bathing suit." Tho rerent cle. uup In our city wan fairly thorough and wn present a spotless appearance to the vis, tor. So much so, In fact, that the rasua. stranger within our gales is moved to remark on the cleanliness of our streets, alleys and vacant lots. However, a few piles of rubbish, evidently overlooked by drayman, ar ) yet In evidence. I There is one loyal democrat In the 'county, anyway. 11 II. Hunting Is he.idtng off any default proposition by getting Into tho game for sheriff l and comes out In the limelight of j publicity by announcing bis rnndl i ilai-y. While his name will not ap ' pear on the bi.llot, as be did not i tile, his name written In will do the trick. You know, of courtm. that Man ager East staged a bunch of saury eyed beauties In Ills popular little Liberty theitre last Friday night. Well, thereby hangs a little story too good to suppress. Secretary Storhi has a 3-y'ir-old youngster who has ull the ear-marks of his dad aa a close observer of events and things in general. Saturday morn ing he arose from his little couch, dressed In a costume that might puss for Oregon mist, ami striking a pose that seemed to him about as tho girls posed, said: "This Is tho way the girls looked anil acted last night." And the Rounder will tell the uni verse that that kid is somo observer. The Mist force ought to be an Up standing religiously inclined organi zation, considering the close, prox imity of the office to a place of wor ship. We freely admit, though, that ;ho atmosphere doesn't seem to have hail any noticeable effect on said iorce. counting from the edltor-ln-chlef down. The Rounder hasteus to add, however, that his time here Cms been brief and time may yet work wonders. Property is Changing Hands Fast . . - i...m.m farm MrltllM full ran lia, v . . 1 111 1 it n ' ........ - - ftirTwar a nil on u.y term W l r 9Ul,tHHi worth of at aim January fin. Mill nut ll Jfoura If It U prl.cl right i-iwMnbl H-riiis. I' wu lo ur a" Ua. II plastered house, one block from highway, mur depot fcj garden soil. splendid buy n ery puay trrms. HrlS 6 It. modern house In Columbia Para. If umbed ami wired. H good, imnemeni. nouan in iuou rrpair. Tries, 9laouj III Bfll UM ' v. i it bouse with all modern convenlencea.Hai nice slni-n n. whlte enamel plumbing and leclrlcl lights 71 i which Is fine black loam; itimt fruit and burrl ij: pavement and high school. Price 9IN4NI.ini; t-,rnil ( It. bouse with lots. White nnsmnl plumbing (nd Um lights. This is a splendid value at Hhh.ii. tt,? Will HBIIUI-7. 5 It. modern house, river view. Has basement, guns, thw, yard, 2 nice garden lots with fruit and berries, ('ink.-! chased for $WM.M on easy terms. Will gl( aatZ possession. Csu'l we Interest you In this? ( It. house with lwo lots for sale cheap. House Is modnni. sltd and wired. Onl) a half block fro City Hall. It u J worm your wiiua iu son una. ACREAGE 40 A. back of Doer Island, 20 A. cleared, balance c.uy to rltr, ft fumlly orchard. Darn 40 x 80. Well water All fan This Is a snap at 4immmm. $900 cash. 20 A. near Yankton, i A. In plowland, 6 A. oats and vmHl ft. balance Is very easily cleared. Is til fenced anil bu ul b room nouns aim lair oarn. i an oe nan ror Si! loo. Tni 20 A , Yankton District on county road, t A. cleared and ill faa (iood pasture. All year springs. I small hounti of ttt three rooms each, good barn. 1 horses, n u4 m huriiessi'S tnd two plow harrows. This Is a good barn-' 'J.VHI. Small cash payment will handle, balance tint j 13 A. on Columbia Highway near Warren, all umlxr cultlntk' Fine orchard and two good wells. room houw ud pa barn, gnrage, hog houat and chicken houiw. Tntti J cross reared, m ine lariu tools witn the place. TbSli bargain at 7inni.ini. If you are Interested In a farm Ihliai; 5 A. near llonryniun. U A. under cultivation, 1 A. fins orttut all fenced. There Is a good 6 room house and iood ha snd outlier outbuildings. Three wells. Home Mod at' household furniture, will sell with or without thi an t omn in and let us name you a price for this. RUTHERFORD REALTY CO. PHONES Office, 123; Residence B-38 a a st1 Mist Want A. for Results. Tuesday afternoon A. M. Holt and C. I). Morgan, ex-local editor of the Mist, were seen paddling across the Tiver In a boat, and a wild, throaty .volced rumor Immediately n.t lihat they had some sort of a cash ,ver there. Hut 'twas a false alarm. They only went over to look at Holt's fru t rarm or It will be a fruit farm when he gets some fruit trees on It. St- Helens Iron & Marine Works Foot of St. Helens Street St. Helens, Ore. A completely equipped shop for all kinds of machine work, marine work, welding, bra ing, general machine and blacksmith work. Bring us your ork. No job too small, none too large. Prices reasonable consis tent with good workmanship. J. W. AKIN, Mgr. G. B. DUCKWORTH. Asst Mr W. A. LEVI, Sec'y.-Treas. JUST ARRIVED NEW LOT OF RUGS Small rugs in Axminster, Velvet, Brussels rag, and grass. Room size, in Wool and Fiber, Fiber, and Grass. Also some of those Congolium Rugs at the same old price. In view of housecleaning time we have some house ladders, 4, 5, and 6 foot. E. A. R0S Masonic Bid)!. X I. 1. I.'l" Helping the Community Prosper PROMOTING thrift is yet another way the Columbia County Bank has for encouraging prosperity. Unless spending is done judiciously a false, un stable condition obtains in the home and in business. The basis of success is saving, and the Savings Account facilities afforded here furnish both a means and a reward for the practice of thrift. Liberal Interest on Savings. Soft Light; Not Dim Light To have plenty of light without unnecessary brightness use NTIONAL MAZDA Five In a Blue Convenience Carton! me' St. Helens Hardware Co (Successor to E. O. Ditto) Telphone57 St. Helens, Ore. Garden Seeds All kinds sold in bulk or packets. EveErything i stock for the farm or garden. Fertilizers A good investment. PHOSPHATE, LAND PLASTER. MORECR0P LIME, BONE MEAL AND GUANO. Best results are obtained by the use of fertilize) A trial will prove it. Plants Cabbage plants are now ready, other plants can be supplied in season. Columbia River Canning Produce Company P CO NTr LLfMtlU CGU