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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 19, 1915)
trtfe oNAnio Anam AWttsT lft imr, I'AdKKlX ' i tv. Live News From Surrounding Towns And Country. Happenings of a Week IKI'ITLANI) ITEMS. MIaa Alma Troxell Is spending fi'w weeks In Ontnrlo. Mm, II. F llohnnnon has as her guests, her sister, Mm. Mohler, and idilldreii from Redmond, Ore. Mrs. F. VV. Oriep la In Portland at the bed aide of her brother, J A KliiK. who recently underwent a .i 1..11- operation. Hi. ha Kennedy and l. L Ingard left the (IrAt of the week for a trip to Bend, Ore. Mth. J M Itoyalon and daughter Josephine, returned recently from Twin Fall". They were accompani ed home hy a daughter. Mrs. Harry Hurl, and Mlt ! daughter. Frank F.ldrldge and family and C. M. Lackey and family left laat Thursday for the north fork of the I'ayette river to spend a two weeks vacation. MIaa Anna Hupp, who Ia visiting at the FrlAco fair, In a letter home slates that abe aaw a box of (Irani Fisher's apples on display In the Idaho apple exhibit. A great deal of Interest In the Malheur County fair, which will be held at Ontario, September 2 t to 24 IncluAlve, will be taken by the peo pie of tin- vicinity. Mrs K F. Hunter Ia planing to accompany her daughter, Olive, to l.ewlston 1 1 . i - fall, where ahe will make her home while Olive lakea a course In the state normal school Miss Father Kussell will be em ployed us clerk in the (iorham store after the lira! of the month MIaa I'rough, who Is employed there now, will leave to take up her school leaching for the coming wluter. A demonstration of a Hawsou app le grader recently received from Portland h Carry Tusslng, wan held till- week at hia packing house on Peiiuslyvania aveuue The grader Is suiil to he the beat on the market Wiley Middletou of Omaha, W It AdauiH of laigan, Iowa, and II. E Siniili of Walla Walla, Wash, were receut viHltora here They were here lu the luttgrests of their orchard tracts A car ot prunes have been whipped from the lienny a Co , packing house to North Platte, Neb The prunes won- grown lu the C. W. Young. W A. Morelaud aud Cary Tusaiug Or chard. The oll.cci.-, .r Hie Co operative Ditch Co , winch recent I) held a meeting at Xim Plymouth. were authorUeii to take steps to collect a debt of mhi i.i which the Canyou Canal Co . Is said (o owe the Hitch Company PAYETTE The Payette Feed A Flour Mill has reopened aud is operating under the nuuie of the Mapelte Mills They will be ready to receive wheat for milling aud feed grain lu a few daya. Mra. Jennie Hunan, wife of Clark Hunan, died at her home lu thla city ou Mouday, August silt Funeral itvIi'ch were conducted at the home and the body wan .shipped to Water loo, Iowa, for Interment MIaa Aurora Arment and Mr Chester MrCammon were united In marriage, Sunday, August 8th., at the home of the bride's parents. Moth inline, people are well known and highly respected In IIiIa community. The marriage of Miss QfMi White and Mr Paul Walker was sol .ninlzed at the beautiful country home of the bride, on Tuesday even ing of last week. The ceremony was held In an arbor on the lawn ie .in sixty mi.-. I- were present Mr. and Mrs Walker have gone to house keeping on Sixth street. Mrs. Frank Cram, who broke her right leg JiiAt below the knee, In an attempt to alight from a wagon, Ia reported by Mr Woodward as getting along nicely Mr and Mrs Cram with Rev. M. n Heed and wife left I'ayette for a ramping trip up Squaw creek. When they were near Four Mile hill, Mi- Cram felt when ahe started to get out of the wagon She waa brought to her home here. A bad fire occured over on the Oregon bench laat Thuraday, when the Klinefelter aeparator and about two hundred bushela of grain be longing to J M Boggess was burned at the Boggesa ranch. Kvery effort waa made to extlnguiah the Mate hut owing to the fact that everything win so dry, It was Impossible to stop It, and the seperator and grain were soon consumed In an effort to pull Hie separator out, Mr Klinefelter waa severely burned, particularly on the right arm Medical attention waa Immediately called. The loss Is severe to both Mr. Boggess and Mr Klinefelter, and the later states that It la hla Intention to get a new J. I. Caae aeparator as soon as possible NEW PLYMOUTH. I C Van I rin i. of Outario la a frequent visitor here, looking after hla lumber intereata. Arnold Ackerman la lu charge of the lumber office while F C Kder ia spending his vacatlou In Wisconsin The Field Packing house opened in.- .i.n August 10th Au order for half a car of Tragedy prunes has been supplied Miss Jessie tiardner cutertaiued at lliiner thia week lu honor of her i. .I- i Miss II... I Warner ol Wei Her. Covers were laid lor leu The Boy Scouts who have been camping at McFarlauds grove, have returned, and all report a fine time They were accompauied by Mr aud Mra W B Baker The Ackerman home waa the scene of much gaiety on Wednesday even lug, Auguat 4th , when their daught er, i. .inn. I.- aud Margaret, were hostesses at a dancing parly given lu honor of Mr aud MIaa Wiudolph of Payette, and MIaa Florence Mc Laughlin of Spokane Arthur Heary of Portland. Mho Ia touriug the Northwest in the inter eat of the Ainvrlcau Produce Hi Auc Hou -- ii , spent a few houra here Auguat lUth Mr Geary ia eugag ed In lecturing In the large fruit cell tera, on the methods of marketing fruit to the large eaatern cities Mauy are eipected to attend the lee tur by Mr. Ueary at Fruitlaud. Aug uat Slat. NYS.SA NEWS. The fall term of the Nyssn Public school will open Monday, Septem ber Mk Another shipment of Nyssa's fam ous cheese, was recently made to Spokane. Hock Pollen went to Chicago last week with a car of mutton from Hie II Wnltera ranch. Four new furnaces are being In stalled in the school building These furnaces also act as ventilators In the rooms. Two fine Holsteln cows belonging to Dr. Saraxln, were killed by a weal hound passenger train last week at the crossing near Apple Valley. SUIT CASES TRUNKS Large Stock and Very Close Prices BE SURE and See Our Stock Befor Buying Malheur Ontario, BIT Yol'll PRESCRIPTION! F1I.I.FH AT HILL'S PHARMACY. Vou will get belter service for lean money Stock takeu to pasture, 11 per mouth, per head C H Trousdale. "Hue laat polut lu thousand of inatancea t though not lu alll the post ortUe department reiulrea the rallioads to carry the malla back aud forth between railroad atatlona aud IH.kt ottlcea. but paa (li.in nothing for this extra aervlce beyoud the i ate tot ei ing the rail trauaportattou I lit. railroada have no choice but to SSI fa Si thla additional aervlce gratia, or refuae to carry the malla at all. "Now for the remedies the railroad aak They do not aak to have the malla weighed dally or to bae each ahtpuieut weighed and paid for aep stately, aa la doue lu the caae t private shipper .jgjf MYs .1. M. RoMasoB anil daughter Miss I ,(.ii is.., returned Thursday of last week from an extended visit with relatives In Missouri. Mr. and Mrs Archie Sinclair have as their guests Mr. and Mr. J. W. Ilealichnmp of Twin Falls, Idaho. Mr. Ilealichnmp is assessor of his county. Many are making plans to attend the community picnic to he given at Arcadia drove. The Boulevard Orange Is In charge of the program ami other features The Misses I.ticy Thompson, Anna McDonald and F.dlth Irediile, who have DMA attending the summer nor mnl school at Monmouth, have nr rlved home Miss Alda McDonald, who is tak ing a courre In nursing at the Hood Satnaraton hospital In Portland, has arrived home to spend her vacation with her parents. Mr. ami Mrs K H McDonald A birthday party was given at Hie home of W ,. (iibsou. Tuesday evening of last week in honor of Hie MM., birthday of Walter John sou A number of the young people AND Mercantile OUR PUBLIC FORUM WILLIAM SPROLLK. On the Employment of the Employer. The employ meut of the employer la a phase of the la bor problem not o well exploited aa the employment of the employee, but la equally aa Im portant to the proa peitty of the coun try The employer wa never known to go on a atrike nor to ,.sk tor a reduction In hours yet the trend of our legislatures has been to discourage his activities Mr. Win Sproule. Piesideul of the Southern Pacific Company, when asked to discus em- pioymeul from the staudpoiut of the mployer. said lu pari. passed I plea-ant evening with games, music and refreshments. Construction work on the new pump house for the city well Is be ing rushed, and the pumping mach inery will soon be installed. The well was sunk to a depth of 205 feet and will no doubt supply an a huudnnce of water. CALIFORNIA EXPOSITIONS EXCURSIONS Via Oregon Short Line Daily March I, to Nov. 30 Yoil can go via Ogdttl, Salt Lako aikl l.os Anndos, and return via San Francisco, Portland and Huntington Of vice versa at a comparatively low expense and cover Most Interesting Scenic points of the Pacific Coast, including both Expositions. MAKE THIS YOUR BIG VACATION YEAR AND SEE THE WEST RIGHT. Ask nfc-onts for rates nnd further particulars or write, D. EBURLEY. (Jen. Pass. Agt., Salt Lake City. duties of life. The facta run quite to tile contrary It is the employer who la first out of employ incut. As a natural sequence he Is followed by the employ ce, who next find hlniaell cut of work. Luemploy uu-ut begins onty when the employer himself be gins to be unemployed When the employer is proaperoua aud hla ener gies are profitably employed, em plosee have abundant employ meut and they alse prosper. Hut why Is this period of unemployment T It Is because all business Is bewildered aud uncertain. It does not kuow whither it may proceed lu safety. It does not kuow with what snares its path iray be laid. This condiliou began with transportation and uow extend to all business The greatest trouble with this country today is that every busi ness which has been developed by the genius of the American people has become the object of unforesten at- lack from some quarter or feels the tarsal or danger of attack. , Our laws which formerly were precise aud del tulle, have blanketed busiues with Company Oregon loose generalities called crimes, which the men who drew the laws and the men who Interpret those laws cannot themselves define with any precision Even when they endeavor to expound those laws they make them more ob scure and more mystifying than be fore. "There Is nothing more distressing to an employer of labor than to turn away good men who desire to do good work; but until all wuk up to tbi fact that unless the employer l prosperous the employee Is failing in proBperlty, we will have little Im ptovement Wnen we have I. a in... the lesson that In this nation we art simply a big Industrial family. In which we all prosper together or w do not prosper at all, we will then have promise of relief from the mis understandings and cajolements which Increase unemployment and destroy the comfort and the prosperity of the average man. "I urge relief from the fuds, fancier and Isms which have tilled our streets w It li unemployment and put away tin dinner pall of the working man empty upon the shelf in the impoverished home I urge the restoration of con .hleiice In the fact that American men if business are the peers of any in ihe world. I urge that the American workingnuin cannot be prosperous un less the American men of business prosper. I urge that prosperity can MNM to ua only with the full dlnnei nail. Finally. I urge that the public IntSTSSl In tranRportutlon Is that it hall I. .. prosperous In order that It -nay be a successful and energetic ild to nil the business It Is designed o serve." OUR PUBLIC FORUM OTTO KAHN. On I nun. dig Farm Loans. Every citizen who desires to be romc capable It. business should study banking, and every farmer who wants to see tin business of agrl culture properly financed should tudy diligently the financial sys tems of other In diistrlea All oth.l Hues of Industry have developed Ilium lui facilities adapted lo their needs .. have all sorts of financial syn lent, a authorized by law or cus .mi to deal in a certain line of sc utitli s. but In none of these flnan lal channels will farm securltlc. iiivcl without a bonua In the way or n excessive rate of Interest or heavy llscounta ihe most powerful financial instl ut ions lu America are prlvute banks. nid they are the most important to he hiiunciul life of industry, lu no i ne of business does honesty, elfl lency aud stability make more Im icrative demand than upoa private junker, whose greatest asset Is the nuudcucc of the buying public In hi business Judgment and Integrity. Mr Otto Kahn of Kuhn, Loeb At Company. when asked to state the relation of the private banker to the business of the nation, suld In part: "One of the most Important func tions of the private banker la to be in- lustiiiment for untitling tbe unmet- needed for the efficient con lint and det clopinenl of railroads and i lit-r Industries. He docs this by buying securities In bulk from those ut.. -ding capital, for which purpose he usuully associates himself with a large number of other linancial houses, ',rca: ami sinaii, uiu ioiuuuk. mui , culled u syndicate. Having In this a ay ...minded the buying transaction. if offers to the public the securities purchased by means of advertising i in ulurliug and through the fucili tie or the retail bouses, included lu lie syndicate, many of whom employ j ravsitag salesmen Of course, the, b. uker aud the syndicate count on a ....... nabb- profit for their services; , in the other hand, they run tbe risk I ..f (he securities, which they have! tlebuilely bought aud paid for at a I lived price, remaining on their hauds I wholly, or lu part. If the public, for. one icason or another, should be un- , willing to buy them. The selling or an unties is a highly apecluli .-d Irate requiring much experience, or- saaMaUaa, machinery and scrutiny Ibis Is one of the reason why cor porations do better In offering securi ties 13 the public through bankers thai ii th.-t offered them direct The allllLgaMt of the public to buy de- i nda upon their coutldeuce iu th .itttMitlv .....I Ihtt i.iHtriiiMi.t of II. m sM 4 "The lijt is thai the post omce de banker who makes the offer, and a partment weighs the mails, and re .i.uktr who attempts to mislead the i adjust the pay of the railroada. only public, or who I deficient in care or judgment would very soon liud him ielf without customers and, there- , o.e. out of busluesa. In many Eu- I op.-uii countries, tbe function of the i it ate banker intlude the placing of .loi.d.-i secured by farm mortgage ' kMMJg ot this nature are issued in targS quautitle by mortgage banks who buy mortgages on farms and! :'.i-r real estate and deposit them as canty for their owu bonds, which i S ih. ir turn are sold to bankers It is ' to be hoped that similar Institution ' till in course of time, be created in ' t i.tTki thus placing the farming lu- I ustry on a par with other important mil r tries in facilities to obtain capi- : OUR PUBLIC FORUM R P. SCHWF.RIN. On the Seamen's Bill. WANTED -Girl to do general house work. Puaue zONX. The A 111 1 1 . -a ii plowmen are Inter ested In sea com merce. It Is eipen slve and likewise humiliating to have to salute a forelgu flag every time a farmer wants to ship a bushel of wheat, a bale of cotton or a pound of farm products across the ocean. The Amer I cau v awt farmer is entitled to tbe protection of bis flag in sending his products across the sea, and congress should give such encouragement to shipping interests as la necessary to meet for eign competition in ocean commerce. A recent bill known aa the seaman's bill became a law under the president's Ignature and Mr. R P. Schwerln, vice president of the Pacific Mall Steam ship company, when aBked to define this law and outline Ha effect upon American steamship lines, said in part: "The bill provides that no ship of any nationality "shall be permitted to depart from any port of the t'nlted States unless she baa on board a crew not less than seventy-live per centum of which, in each department thereof, is able to understand any or der given by the officers of such ves sel, nor unless forty per centum lu the first year, forty five per centuttvgjk In tbe second year, fifty-five per cent um In the fourth year after the pas sage of this act, and, thereafter, sixty-five per centum of her deck crew, exclusive of licensed otllcers and apprentlcea, are of a rating not less than able seaman.' "The oversea trade of the world Is competitive; therefore, the original cost of the ship and the operution of the ship have to be reckoned with In the keen competition of these rival nations with one another. The Orien tal sailor Is obedient and competent and Is the cheapest sailor In the world. It Is, therefore, manifestly clear that If this law applied to all nationali ties in the transpacific truftlc, all would he on the same economic basis, but It works a sl;le hardship to all tbe ships of the world, except the Japanese and American ships, aud with the latter It works two hard ships. With the European, the cost of constructing a ship is no higher than the cost of constructing n Jap anese ship, but if they hud to pro vide European crews, while the JujL anese operated with Japanese . i. .. . the condition of competition would be such that they could not overcome tbe handicap and they would be driven off. Hut the American ship would have to contend not only with the tremendous increase of cost of wage In the substitution of the European crew for the Chinese crew, but also the greater Initial cost of the ship. As the Japanese have now doue away with their European olficers aud Japanese crews, all of whom speuk a common language, there Is no diffi culty for tbem to comply with all the conditions of the bill and continue their Japaneso crewa with Oriental wages "The law, therefore, Instead of as sisting the American ship, Adds an other heavy burden, while It places none whatever upon the Japanese ship, but, on the contrary, turns over to the Japanese the traffic of the Pa cific ocean, which the American ship Is forced to forego by act of congress of the United States." OUR PUBLIC FORUM RALPH PETERS. On Railway Mall Pay. r A controversy has been raging lu the coluuius of the press between the railroads aud the Federal Post Of fice Department over the questlou of proper compen sation tor haudling the Lulled State mails. Mr. Halph Peters, rli.tuu.uii of tbe railway mall committee, when aaked to auto ; the railroad side of the controversy to the American farmer, said iu part: "ihe railway mall pay questiou i will be settled -aud aettled petiua 1 nently aud with Justice to all con cerned a soon as the American peo ple realize that the whole subject, 1 while seemingly complicated aud tech nical, bolls dowu to a few simple ! points of fair business dealing whlt.h j no on.- need be a rate expert to un derstand once in four years Thla compels the railroada to carry the increase iu the mall tounage during the luterveniug year without pay manifestly an in justice in the case ot a rupidly grow ing business. One cousequeuce has been that last year the railroads Car rie! fully half the parcel post for nothing "A second point is this: lu addi tion to carrying the mail, tbe rail roads are required to operate many traveilug poat offices for sorting aud distributing the mails while in liausil. But the post oflice department pays tor such poat offices coly wheie tht-y occupy whole cars, and pays nothing lu tne many cases in which it merely requires the gjgsj of post office apart ments iu combination cars, although such apartments differ from the full railway post office cars only iu aue. More thau 4 200 apartments of this character have been fitted up, aud are maintained for the exclusive use of the post office department. r4jl HUH ylALli Y and LOW I'KIC ES always go together at Hill's Pharmacy. Cawatl V I J J