THIIMDAY. JULY 20 1939
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DEBT THREATENS DEMOCRACY
EAMON
In a thought-provoking article in Harper’s Hoy Helton
$
argues tellingly that debt threatens democracy, And he has
r.w«w
many a precedent with which to prove his case.
"What is it that gave Italy back to an absolute ruler!
comt
asks Mr. Helton. "Twenty-seven billion dollars of war l>orrow-
ings on top of an already heavy debt structure wen* more than
aam-
O&ANGCS.
her government could handle as a d» mocraey. What made Hit
According to James K. Clinton, in his book, “The Shamrock," real
ler the absolute ruler of Germany* What but national despair shamrocks
grow only in three counties, and all of them are noi in the
under the immense load of debt that had been saddled upon Irish Free State.
Germany by the Allies anil by our own super-salesmanship,
Although snakes are not as common in Ireland as they are in the
creating a burden which the Republic could not carry! A mas rural districts of the United Slates, there are a great number of varieties.
According to II. P. Garland, snake authority of Cambridge university,
ter had to appear in Russia, too. because of debt. . .
there
were known to be 78 different kinds of snakes in Erin in 1934.
‘More than anything that can ever face us as a nation, this
Two of the bullets went directly through Mr. Monahan's brain. They
problem deserves the united intelligence of all parties and all just didn't happen to touch vital points.
men.”
What happened abroad can happen here. And no one can
miss the ominous parallel that exists ¡»«‘tween the course toward
dictatorship taken by the European totaliarian states and th»'
Mrs. Ellen Jones of Eugene,
course we are so rapidly pursuing ourselves. A staggering debt
who was a house guest the past
made essential the artificial blocked-mark system of Germany
week of Mrs. Joe Premazzi, ac
companied Mrs Myrtle Lake and
a staggering debt could make necessary a “blocked-dollar”
Mi's. Wilbur Black to a shower
system here. A sharp rise in a nation’s debt makes inevitable
Fascinatine
*
Wednesday at the Bill Adams
more and more political control over its citizens’ affairs—and
home at Gowdyville, honoring
Idles Of
tdilha I. WatMa
that means eventual dictatorship.
Mrs. Adams.
Lost Mines
«» hu
Mr. Helton observes that it is not yet too late—that we can
Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Keene re
cently accompanied their son Con
still save ourselves as a democracy, by drawing in our belts,
rad and family of Creswell on a
THE LOST FIND
facing our issues squarely, and going to work to cut down th»'
trip to Oregon Caves and th«*
debt. But we cannot long delay th»> time for doing that—if we
Crescent City, California, and
are to retain the rights anil liberties of democracy for which 'T'HE Funeral range of mountains. home by way of the Redwood
A »»ast <>f I*eatb Valley, conceals highway.
our forefathers fought.
GOLDEN
PHANTOMS
The war department has decided to “retire” old army Early Predominating Nationalities
mules to spend their declining years in peaceful pastures. And Of the 3,172,444 persons enumerat
now even congressmen are asking for pensions._____________ ed in the first census of the U. S.
in 1790 it was estimated that 2,605,-
699 were of English extraction;
Scotch, 221,562; German, 176,407;
Dutch, 78,959; Irish, 61,534; French,
17,619; and all other 10,664.
Lightning’s Course Shown
Most lightning flashes pass from
top to bottom of the thunder cloud
but occasionally the bottom of the
cloud sparks to the ground and •
tree or barn or a transmission Una
is “struck by lightning."
‘See’ With Ears in Dark
According to a physiologist, if
you’re smart you can see in the
dark with your ears. Blind people
take greater advantage of the latent
possibilities of the human ear than
do persons with unimpaired sight. ।
Harry Rentle
Thornton Corners
i lost mine known as the Find. A
Mrs. C. W. Dwyre left this
man named Smith was its discov week to attend the S.D.A. con
PRIVATE INITIATIVE WILL PERSIST
erer, anti he went to New York vention at Gladstone Park.
with the first of his new wealth.
G. W. Downing of Suther-
It" has been said that even if a man were dropped down in s|>ent It lavishly, and at the end of lin Mrs.
is here caring for her mother,
the middle of a desert island, without food or sustenance, he wo months died of apoplexy.
Mrs. W. W. Cole, who is ill.
He left a map, a fairly accurate
would contrive to dig his thumb into th»' ground, plant seeds
Dallas Deere, who had been at
and live. This in itself is the most primitive example of initia ■ ne. showing the eastern part of San Ardo, California, settling up
Death Valley, and in the northern the affairs of his father, who re-
tive the xt ill to live. Only the indolent who would rather starve most
range of mountains a canyon
passed away there, has re-
to death than work and live would stand to have their initia had been drawn in detail. Near the cently
turned to his home here.
tive taken from them. Pungent proof of this is recorded by head of this canyon a red cross
Mrs. Frank Turner is quite ill
Harold Denney, able correspondent of the New York Times in marked the Find.
at her home with rheumatism.
Basing their itineraries on this
Moscow, seat of Communism which would destroy initiative and
Mrs. Myrtle Lake and son
private enterprise and substitute then for a system of paternal map. many people tried to reach Philip attended the Lake family
the mine, but with no success. Then reunion Sunday at the Skinners
ism by government through economic planning.
a “location notice," written pecul Butte Park in Eugene.
.
Mr. Denny in his most recent dispatch to the Times: iarly and apparently designed to
Mr. and, Mrs. Joe Premazzi,
“Living in Russia, one is constantly struck by the tremendous give clews only to those who knew Joanne Premazzi and Mrs. Ellen
driving power of individual initiative, the obstinacy of the in which were real and which false Jones picnicked Sunday up Sharps
creek with the Corbett Smith
stinct to be. one s own boss, to live by one’s own wits and to directions, was unearthed
family of Culp Creek.
beneath
a
location
monument
where
turn a protit whenever one can. . . But as the experiment has
Mrs. Claude Willey and daugh
the
copper
camp
of
Greenwater
worked out .thus far in Russia it has been found possible to
ter
and Mrs. Louie Hopper and
keep the individual profit motive even at bay only bv th»- con stands. The notice read as follows: baby of Sutherlin were visitors
“Notice Is hereby given that we, Monday of Mrs. Willey's parents.
stant and vigorous exercise of police power.”
the men that wrote this notice, Is Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Keene.
And in our own country, the “fellow-travelers” of these over the age of twenty one and are
Mrs. Louella Bartlett of Minne
same Communists and the cohorts of “pinks” and reformers citizens of the United States, Cuba, sota,
who had visited here with a
who would remak»- America on a new pattern, might well and the Philippines; we do this brother. R. B. Dixon, left last
drink deeply of these words. Like the experience of the Soviet, day locate one gobi mine. Known week, accompanied by her moth
they will fail, for they overlook or underestimate the factor as the Bryfogle, and more particu er. Mrs. Julia Gover of Cottage
Grove, to visit a sister. Mrs.
larly described as follows:
and that is human nature itself.
“Commencing at this big monu Oliver Doss in Sonoma. Califor
ment of stone on a cold rainy night nia.
SOMETHING TO CELEBRATE
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Shaun and
and running 35 hours with Indians
daughter
Carolyn of Ellsworth,
after him, come to a big canyon Iowa, were
house guests last
Ue might have several things to celebrate, in addition to that leads up to the north with two week
of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
the dams, if things continue to look on the up and up and we big rocks on one side of the mouth Gireau.
might see a revival of the old Bohemia »lavs, since it appears of the canyon, the one on the right
Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Fisher at-
as though the mining interest in that section has been <nven a round and smooth, and the one on tended the Fisher family reunion
the left rough and rugged. These Sunday at Skinners Butte park in
boost.
stand 20 feet high. Follow up Eugene.
Cautious residents, who are familiar with the mining his rocks
this canyon about five hours on
Miss Joyce Currier of Winches
tory of that section, however prefer to watch and wait. Regard- burros or one and one-half hours ter Bay was a guest Monday of
less.of the disappointments in the past, it’s good to have a on horseback you will come to the Mrs. Lyle Scott.
Art Smith attended a picnic
spint of optimism, and optimism is catching.
fork of the canyon. Take the left
at Skinners Butte park
At least we have something to look forward to and can hand one and ride hard for two Sunday
for former residents of Pine Val
hours
and
you
will
come
to
a
small
face the future in a little better spirits.
gulch leading up to the right. Go ley in eastern Oregon.
Mrs. Lyle Scott, who had spent
up this about one-fourth of a mile
It is easier to ruin a reputation than make one. or repair you will come to a small water last week at the Leroy Halverson
home at Mowich, .returned home
one. Tar sticks tighter than whitewash.
hole. Sometimes it’s a dry hole. If Friday. Jessie Lee and Billie
it's a water hole when you get Louise Scott stayed with their
One thing in favor of capital punishment is that the man there, water your animals, fill your grandmother, Mrs. Aden Miller,
canteen and then go on until the at Walker, and Lyle Lemon at
who is executed for murder is not likely to commit another.
gulch forks again, then take the the Tice Wagner home in Eugene
right hand one until It forks, then during their mother’s absence,
of the nudLst sideshows at the two big fairs of lead up the left one Just a little
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gireau and
9. 9 should be: "When the belles are sweetly peeling.”
ways and you will discover the find son Charles spent Sunday at Clea-
we have been unable to locate, The wox lake near Florence.
Bob Roner of Gowdyville visit*
♦
2mn?
that the European dictators are a little off-cen canyon is yet, and we take this
The
means of locating the big find.
ter. I he whole world shivers when they turn on their axis.
map of the above described prop
Since the theme of the New York Fair is “The World of erty will be furnished to anyone on
to the undersigned. Lo-
Tomorrow.” it’s no wonder it wasn’t quite finished on opening application
rated this first day of January,
1902.
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING GAINS for the registration of climbers.
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pbe ascent is described as com-
SAN FRANCISCO, California— paratively easy for experienced
Mountain climbing is gaining in alpinists, and in addition to offer
popularity as a summer diversion ing rare scenery, temperatures
in Death Valley National Monu- jre far cooler than on the valley
ment, T. R. Goodwin, monument 'floor where thermometers regls-
superintendent, states in a cur- ter as high as 120 degrees in the
rent report to the National Park shade. Another paradox is the
Service regional office of the De- fact that snow lingers on the
partment of the Interior.
summit often until mid-summer,
A popular destination for climb- Presenting the novelty of snow-
ers is the summit of Telescope balling in Death Valley.
Peak, 11,045 feet high, offering
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one of the longest vertical climbs There are 3,280,000 federal
in the United States The peak is state and local government em-
not far from Badwater, the low-
, .. „-n™« .
est point in North America, 286 P oye8’ not «^ting 339,000 in the
feet below sea level.
army and navy and more than
A new permanent register box 4.000,000 on various relief pro-
has been placed on the summit' jects.
group of the neighbors were In
vited.
Mr und Mts. Glenn Llnebaugh
nn«l son of Cottage Grove and
Robert Landwehr of Astoria wore
guests Thursday evening of M«
and Mrs. ('laude Arne Miss Joh-
anna Landwehr >f Antoría was
also a guest at the Arne home
during the week
Miss Lily Darby of Yoncalla
wan a guest at th»' J A Schnei
Leon Lancaster of Mosby creek der home to attend the Schneider*
Bob Monna* nuptial«.
was a visitor • Sunday
Whitman.
Mr. and Mi's. George luiyng Corduroy is truly n royal fab
were guests last week of their ric. It was first used to make
son-in-law and daughter, Mr. and hunting garments for French
Mrs George Duerst, at Gresham. kings. 'I They named It "corde-du*
Miss Esther Smith, who is em- roi," which means “cord of the
ployed in Eugene, is spending her king "
vacation here at the home of her
parent«, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Smith.
The Neighborhood club held
their annual picnic Sunday in
Layng's grove with most of the
members and their families at*
tending.
Mrs Della (Tan»’ left thin week
Bicycle, Key and
for Gladstone park to attend th»'
S.D.A. convention.
Gun Work
Mr. ’»nd Mis. Tonis VanProoyn
anil baby of I^itham were Sunday
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry
Lawn Mowers
Williams
A picnic supper was held »town
Sharpened
by the river Wc»lnesday evening,
honoring J. A. Schneider on his
birthday anniversary, to which a
cd several days last week with
Charles Whitlock.
The Conrad Keene family of
Creswell were Sunday visitors nt
the W. A. Keene home
Mr. and Mrs. Dick Nolan anil
two children of Los Angeles were
house guests last week of Mr. and
Mrs. Clarence McDaniel«.
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