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THE ST. HELENS MIST FRIDAY. JULY 28, 1922 PAGE FOUR THE ST. HELENS MIST Iwutsl Every Frittali by r ilK MIST PUBIJ8HINCI COMPANY s. c. MORTON........ ..........Kdltor S V B C R IP T IO N HATES One Y oar............................... j * ^6 Btx Month»............................... * Entered as Januarv 10th. at St Helen». of March 3rd. »eccnd-claa* matter. 1912. at the Dost office Oregon, under the act 1879. COUNTY O FF IC IA L PA PE R Member National Editorial Aatocla- tlon and Oregon State Editorla. Association. NEWSPAPERS AM' JURY MI N. May 15 to June 15. according to tin- latest report of the bureau of sta tistics of the department of labor That means thut the cost of living, so fur as food is concerned, is prac tically stationary The cost of llv lug can not be determined to a nicety. At best these statistics are only an approximation, and a va riance of l per cent, one way or the other, 1» too negligible to jusmy an opinion that the cost of living is going up or going down. Numerous factors prevent a com plete return to the prewar basis of prices in the United States Freight rate is one of them; the generally higher wage level is another; exten sive unemployment, which is hut un other term for reduced production of commodities, is yet another Since the farm producers took their rent, justments early and in a lump. It is ttol surprising that the fall in food prices has bo«?n checked and tha part of the cost of living is approx imalely stable. As Industry drifts back to normal, production Increases and the freight rates come down with the Increased volume of traffic and the reduction of wages, the general trend of prices may be expected to be gradually, but no; sharply, downward. it takes time to adjust these matters aftei a violent disturbance like the World war. but the settling process is as sure as the settling of disturbed masses of earth after a violent earth quake. judge W A Harris, who is ... Vernon lu. requested Elmer Black bun, ,o clean ibe moss from the roofs of his sovorul houses In Si Hâtons Bint kbnrn dill U and 1 •* good example (or other property roof owners here. Dry moss on u might be the menus of starling disasm.us conflagration, for a -.„ark front the chimney or flue falling in to it, would quickly start a blu > The moss can In* removed with In He effort and possibly a fire averted The weather is warm and dry; ilia moss is dry. There is no sense in flirting with u danger which is up parent. limisi h > .are. ^rouM. ui-ko^hlm jsr«»\.- " ',im| ,r let uuv you u of your buck, ‘»11« musiir you : ° ,u‘ Y ellow or Buck Fever An Ulus ion that leads Hie victim lo Imagine , in 1. 1 , . I , ■ 11 In s r e s p o n s i b i l i t y b> li,, buck 10 somebody else yolir Job onto th ..lini fello« Il .vou'd ruther noi humlle II, tlie company prefers lo Ilici. 1.111 .1 man lor thè work llself The Forge ism Weekly Offerings of the RUTHERFORD REALTY CO YYI The Importance of an Accurate TIME-FIECE The attorneys who represent Or R M Brumfield, the Koaeburg den trains and for a hundred other tist convicted of the murder of Oeu- nis Russell. Douglas county recluse, Mistakes do not happen they a •• reasons a good watch is the in their argument to the supremo made, and their manufacture is an court, gave as one reason why a new extremely unprofitable business A only kind worth having. trial should be given the convicted side line always found contiecie I Kvery watch that we sell car man. that a change of venue should with it is the marketing of excuses have been granted because of the There is no market (or elthei pro ries a guarantee of reliability prejudice in Douglas county against regardless of the price you pay duct. the defendant caused by newspaper If you run an excuse factory, sell articles. it out and lake up a business ilia Your inspection is invited Judge McBride, who wrote the pays. Half the gray matter wasted ,>• opinion denying a new trial said in .lie excuse would prevent the error W H AT THIS UOI XTRY NEEDS. reference to this part of the appeal. every time ‘ 'The question is not so much wheth What tills country needs is not .1 Don't doctor symptoms. Get after er the prospective juror has read or new birth of freedom but the old- the cause of your mistakes. heard at second hand the purporteo fashioned two-dollar lower berth. Do you suffer from any of these Rel ia bit* J e w e l e r facts in the case and upon these What this country needs isn't diseases'.’ has formed an opinion, but rather more liberty but fewer people who Bunk ills, or c hronic Gassing An St. Helens. Oregon whether in the opinion of the trial take liberties with our liberty. affliction which causes the victim . > court he is capable of disregarding What this country needs is not u expend thousands yt good words try such an opinion and trying the case job for every man but a real man ing to put something over, only to fairly and impartially upon the evi for every job. get a couple of had words for Ins dence adduced in court. What this country needs Isn't to pains Use your hunk exclusively for "Take a case such as Guiteau or get more tuxes from the people but sleeping purposes and don't talk Czolgasz murder and try to secure for the people to get more front the in your sleep. ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ❖ < * ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ ♦ a jury whose members should go taxes. Mental Myopia A near-sighted in into the jury box with their minds' What this country needs ts no- ability to see beyond the immediate < I. I II *. I . K E I h I as blank as a sheet of paper in re more miles of territory but more act into all its important consequent- lation to the fact and the result miles to the gallon. es; a kind of "see’ sickness that of jf the would be a panel of men whose What this country needs is more ten compels u man to throw up lie- minds would be equally blank in all tractors and fewer detractors. job. Extend your brains and use them respects.” What this country needs isn't as a telescope. Judge McBride hit the nail square more young men making speed hut Mental Astigmatism — - Seeing upon the read. A man who does not more young men pluming spuds. tilings crooked. Straighten out you read the newspapers and keep up What tills country needs is more theories; you are wasting time try with the current events and form paint on the old place and less paint ing to bend your facts. opinions as to them, cannot be an in on the young face. Enlargement of the Ego. A di telligent juryman because he is not What this country needs Isn't a sease characterized by severe swell an intelligent man. It is not neces lower rate of interest on money but iug of the "eye." You may be will sary for him to agree with the news a higher rate of interest in work ing to stake everything on your own paper reports, though in most cases What this country needs is to fol judgtueut, ignoring the opinions of they tell the facts, nor is it neces low the footsteps of the fathers in others, but perhaps the company is is one of the most pleasing fea sary for him to agree with the edi stead of the footsteps of the dancing not. torial comments, but by reacting master.— Crescent. St. Paul. laiburopliobla— A fear of work tures of this wonderful aggre them he is given food for thought. otherwise described as "that tire I gation of l>oy talent They Oftentimes in the court room here ONE SPARK. feeling." Tills condition Is often in St. Helens we have heard attor blamed upon hookworm. If you ura will appear in a wonderful con The weather was hot and dry. No neys quiz the prospective juror as to that sort of a worm you certainly whether or not he has read "any rain for a month. The East wind won't have to watt long for tie- hoes cert in the moaned through the trees, m e pme thing about the case" before the Boob-itis, or Paralysis of the court. If the juror answers in the needles snapped underfoot. July in Gumption— Move out of the stai. *> L I B E R T Y I H E A T R E affirmative he is subjected to a the forest. grilling as to what effect the pun- The crash of falling trees. The bewilderment into the state of Mb lished reports of the case have had ring of axes. The s-w-i-s-h of saws. souri. Then the next time sotie n Next Wednesday Evening at upon his mind. To us it appears Logs, logs everywhere. Dry tops, tries to slip one over on you, t. l 8 :00 o ’clock. that an attorney would be glad to branches, and slashing. And amidst him where you're from Sleeping Sickness Don't i-otupl.i have a juror read the papers be all of these a puffing donkey engine. cause It shows that he is keeping up A glowing spark from the stack. A if somebody wreck» your train .f The Whitney Boys Chorus de with the happenings of the day and wisp of smoke. The hiss of burning reasoning while you are sluiiili.rln sire to thank striving to be well informed. Cer pine Crackling flames sweeping on at the switch. You expect your j..I tainly it shows that he Is more in ward. skyward. A living wall of to take care of you; why -tiouhln ■ telligent than the juryman who ac vivid fire. Black death and destruc you reciprocate? Atrophy of the Intellect Y » , knowledges that he never reads a tion. paper. The mind of the man who Is ONE L IT T L E S PA R K — und in its ing away of the gray ma or i „ u • .1 well Informed is open to reason, wake 20,000 acres of fire-swept by jumping at conclusions in».- <<4 of much more so than the man who goes land; 15,000,000 teet of burned tim giving the brains a little much :.••• : The power of r> . • Into the jury box with his mind a ber; four logging camps, 15 donkey- ed exercise Re blank. We repeat, Judge McBride engines, one locomotive. 35 flat cars. differentiates men from beast- Rutherford Building struck the nail on the head. 20 houses and three automobiles in human. Rheumatic Recollection D io Columbia St. St. Helens ashes, and $90,000 worth of prop Maine your memory for going lame . OREGON'S THREE SENATORS erty gone up in smoke. for this space. It all happened in the state of you abuse It. Memorandum ho. Oregon is always doing something Washington. It could happen in any are available. They cure that com that no other state has done. plaint. Prevent The productivity of the soil in the Columbia county forest. Softening of the Spine [f you be It pays. famous, fertile, fruitful Willamette forest fires. lieve you are right and the - r is the wonder of the world, but few- SEY EN PER CENT INTEREST. expected that soil to produce for Ore gon a third senator when no other On tiie ballot at the November state in the union has more than two. . lection will be a measure to fix the Tiie third senator, if news reports legal rate of interest in Oregon al are true, is E. J. Adams, of Eugene, six per cent with a maximum of sev the second best city in that famous, en per cent on contracts and notes. fertile, fruitful Willamette already- It is initiated by the same man Al referred to. bright who two years ago sought to On the government pay roll Sen have passed a measure making four ator" Adams appears only as secre per cent the legal rate of Interest. tary to Senator Stanfield, but when Without discussing the m*-rils or it comes to the conduct of the busi demerits of tiie measure, its very ness of the government, Adams sponsorship should condemn it to seems to be about as much a senator lailure. The memories of Mr Al as anyone on the job, and we have bright's use of the initiative are not no Intent to huit the feelings of Sen very savoury ones. His motives have ator Stanfield when we make this re been openly impugned and, if halt mark. of tiie charges made against him in When Stanfield picked Adams for connection with the several petition.« his secretary, and augmented the sec he has circulated are true, lie lias n > retarial salary to an extent to make right to receive support for any it possible to keep Adams on the job, measure that he places on the ha! it M to your Ix'9t interests to know he did so knowing that Adams was lot.— Astoria Budget What that paint is its pnading not a man to sit still In a menial position. He did so. unquestionably, capacity—its appearance—its dura- We will have better government for the purpose of taking advantage when people learn to speak of the of Adams' abilities as a go-getter, government as "w e ” instead of j i! i^’ ^ ° li ar,! ike man-who-p.iys- equally for the success of the Stan "they.” the-bill and who loses if the paint field administration and for the goes wrong. Make sure of g«x>d good of the state of Oregon. Stan results— the most satisfy |(,ry a„,| field must have known when be turned a man like Adams loose to economical job—by Laving ‘ your perform many of the senatorial (jNIVIRSITY0» O r MON painter use duties that Adams would he by many spoken of as the real senator. So that we have no fear of injur S h e r w in - W il l ia m s P a in t ing the reelings of Stanfield in speak ing of Oregon’s three senators. p r e p a r e d It is fortunate for both Stanfield and Oregon that Stanfield was finan than any Giber prepared cially able to put Adams on the job „ It - is . Itottcr . and he shows that he has the inter TheVb" Yu:'nk" ’ ° Co. r «.«I * ests of the state of Oregon at heart The Sherwm- Williams ,fev„,ir,| ¡„ when he is willing to divide the sen quality ,n every pro., -s of m.tnttf.,, ,,„«• atorial honors with his secretary. They make all their litis«.d oil; own and T h « U N IV E R S I T Y (^ O R E G O N Many would chafe at having another operate large mic and |„„| miner take some of the honors, but evident contains: ly ft is not so with Stanfield, for Bmebers, and make their «Iry colors in T h e college o f Literature. Science lie persistently keeps Adams on the , ,a.r8fSt and Is-st erjiiipixd dry color tnd the A r ts with 22 departments. job despite criticism of his own abil plant in the United State-,. ! he rrsu lh are ity which such criticism has brought in the floods. The profetaionsl achoola of A rc h i upon him and despite the division of tecture— -Buaineaa Administration - honor I'rot.s I your interests and your Education-Graduate Study Law - Again we say that Stanfield is to projictty with S\VI*. be complimented for putting the in Medicine— Muaic—Physical Educa S'# *#// it terest^ of his state above any honor tion -S ociology. which might come to him through handling the senatorial job alone and The 47th Year Opens October 2,1922 unaided— Cottage Grove Sentinel. i ì ‘»|» Viti III YIMJI YR IT IW I lilt IIOMEH, I TI'V, N| m Kin I’ll Y DI s I.OYNS. I NSI IC Y Ni I ip , , . ’ R I VI'VI-S, INV EHTMCN IS Y N II I ON Y I Y Y \< I IMI H I I M I l l . ••Stilt rh*t> at furti o f HOUSES I,.,, fa roti **x| Moili.iii 4 room plastered. paid up. .ewer and ti. <• if I ••»••ii block from school, 5 minutes walk to city hall 11 Ibi h Your tarins lu reason V. . • ' t 1 ' 1 1 t ! « .oil 5 room lion 1« und iw.« dandy soil lo In, ne*ur river 1 * ' 1 III«« lx uring I III II, place for co» and c ih k«-h 1 aui | •M.i simp ut $1370. Very easy terms .1 Good 7 roi ■ Ml llOII H«* und V. aere lu ■ hole.. Kill'!* it m«$ liti’ IV 111, 1 ! fruii no rock und Hu«* locution. $ 1 Mil) T« 'His Iii.il \N Good 3 1 « ..III liolls. m ur < ul holle $liurcli. »Uli 1. iift h .it pr.Ki «•us) to Ill H lu *'|l FARM S ; rain u m« ui Extra c ho Ice* 30 in re«. Hto« k«*d and equipi •’ll. gl>o ! [iltf i l l V iM dear Ml He*I of I* lildtllKH. KOod on hard, I o vii..* 3 tnih'H oUt III in Si ll«dciiM Only $ (if, OH Im gumt • MK 1 <•« l.llts O •hole. irui ( 'In* i n •JO act*«*.*. .1hotit all dear l.ii «* «locked and « m | O I militine N««l t>r » eM 1 "I'jl'M OUi. «] . <\ «•<! \ MIIUO at f 1 .«<»o and i 1 "ui terms rock j.- row •1 “ My one outstanding conviction, after sixteen months In Hie Presi dency. is that the greatest traitor to his country is lie who appeals to prejudice and Inflames passion when sober judgment and honest speech are so necessary to firmly establish tranquility and security " Presi dent Harding at Marion, t> . July I. cannot be overestimated. l*oi ------------ » ------------ M Y M l Al TU RE OF M l* T Y K EK keeping appointments, making o n EYt'USEM l N PROP kl'. Y 11 I . I . Cl 3 4 lì in .ir «■ i. h in. 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