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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
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