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EVERY BODY
KNOWS IT
W hen YobWiir a
Tailor Made Suit
There li peculiar distinction
Id the fit att'l workmanship
which puta It Id a claaa by It
aelf, and the wearer lo a claaa
in- himself, with other tailor
garbed men.
When we make It your mitt
la made to fit you, and not a
wooden dummy. No two forma
re exactly alike, hence do ault
patterned after a dummy will
give you an exact fit, auch aa
you let when we take your In
dividual measurements.
$20.00 to , $50.00
And anywhere between
COPE T,,K TAILOR
Opposite 1'oat office Phone 105 W
SAYS STATE NEEDS
NEW NORMAL SCHOOL
I'urtlHiiil wpaier Man Touring;
Slate for Initiative HIM for
I ".-I., ll.-t. ! Si IiiiiiI.
Ontario
Laundry
Down Town Office
Everhart's
"What Congress has
don concerning a
Government
Armor Plant
ond hat peopla are
thinking about it"
a r al I a t ad) In
Ealilarlal CmiMAl
Thi- ' the litlt ol booklet
wc have ufrparcJ. Wo
hall bo glad to send
a copy froo to any
ona interested.
Bethlehem Steel Co.
Suutll lirllllahelll, Ha.
tailing I earning and Labor
THE OREGON
AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE
In it-, Su S tin. N mil l'urty eiylit Df
partint-nts in engaged la the great work
of n in 1 1 nx I .tinting aa I Labdr,
forty-eighth School Year Opens
SEPTEMBER 18, 1916.
Degree Course requiring (tir year
high acbool preparation, ate utfticd iu
the following.
AOftlCULTOSR, 16 lirnartmriiw;
COafatKRCH, i UcDarUaeDta; KNGIN-
BERING, ti Dcp.irtnuut. , MINUS, 3
DepartuienU , I'OKKSTRY, Depart
lent, HO MB ECONOMICS, 4 Depart
tents, and I'liAKMACY.
Vocational Couriu requiring an
Eighth Grade preparation for entrance
are offered in Agriculture, Dairying,
Commerce, Forestry, Home Makers, and
Mechanic Arts. Pharmacy with a two
year high school eutrancc requirement.
SCHOOL OH MUSIC Piano, String,
Band and Voice Culture.
CataloKue and beautiful illustrated
booklet free.
Address iuu Rbcistbae,
I w-l-le-i to 7 i) cobvalus. oaaooM
Prod ljckley, a special writer for
the Oregon Journal nf I'm 1 1. nut. Ih
In town In the Intereata of the pro
pound Kastern Oregon state normal
achooi at Pendleton. "The pioneers
of Oregon were Intensely Interested
In education." said Mr Ixckley.
"They gare, and gave generously,
lliui Oregon hIioiiIiI he In the fore
front along educational lines hut we
cannot keep ahreaat of the best if
depend on Inexperienced mid un
trained teachers The old saying
"that he who would teach must flrat
li taught" still holds true. Oregon
has but one iioiinal scliood, located at
Monmouth, and It Is unable to sup
ply more than a tenth of the trained
teachers required In the public
schools of Oregon. Kastern Oregon
la the worst auffered from this scar
city of properly equipped teachers aa
the graduates of the Monmouth run
mill school find positions In the
hcI Is of the Willamette valley
Kastern Oregon pays much higher
salarlee than do the achnols In west
ern Oregon but In spite of the high
salaries paid eaat of the mountalna
we do not secure normal graduates
aa teachers.
'The cost of the proposed Kastern
Oregon suite Normal school will
arnbunt to a tax of one-twenty-fifth
of it mill or tour cents mi each Hioiib
and itnll.li of taxable propers I
ery educator of prominence In the
atate la in favor of more adequate
normal facilities and the people gen
erally, particularly in aa Sara Oregon
fioor urh it m'IiimiI riic mil) thing
llsMtj to defeat It will he the apathy
or Indifference) of the volera. Every
person opposed to It will be sure to
vote against It while many of Ita
well wishers will neglect to record a
vote In Ita favor. Governor Jmni .
Wlthycomhe Is strongly In favor of
It ao, too, are W. J. Kerr, president
of the O A (' , P I. t'auiphell, pres
ident of the Stale University, J. II.
lelMII. BMatSaal at the Mon
mouth norm.il aghoal and J. A.
Churchill, state superintendent of
public instruction. Mr. Churchill
voices the sentiments of the educator:,
I hen he aays:
"Oregon's greatest need tor its ru
ral schools la the teucber who bus
h.ul lull pit -palatum to flo her work.
Such a preparation cm lust come
thru normal MfcOOl training
"1 trust that the voter, of the state
will Bgajfal Iu ruining the r-tundurd or
our Ncbools by establishing a state
normal m-IiuoI at I'cnitlcion. The hi
ration is central, the Interest of the
people of Pendleton in education
most excellent, and the large num
ber of pupils in the public schools
will give ample opportunity to all
M intents to get liie amount of lea h
lug practice required in a stundurd
normal school "
Ing and as the natural result It la ex
tending Into municipal activity.
There la more paving being laid, more
Iftowalkt built anil manufacturing
cities everywhere east of crtlcngo are
Just going forward by leaps and
bo ti nil a.
Prosperity HtartR at ChliaK".
"The real prosperity atarta at Chi
cago, tho there are evidences of It
r.-est to the Mississippi, but eaat of
Chicago It growa bigger all the way
until t'ltt'burg and New York are
I Just reveling In It. Why there ate
piece workers In many of the factor
lea that are making their 1100 per
week and Just spending It aa fas an
i In make It. t.lfe on Proadway to
day 14 astounding. The east today
with Its i.p'tulers surpasses the west
la IU palmy daya. It la certa'.nlv
astouls i nr
"Life for a buyer there Is not a
song, however. There are large
atocka of goods to be had, tho when ,
deliveries can be made la another
question However, the buyers, and
there are thousand of them In all
the centers gathered from all over
the country, are mighty cautious In,
making perrhase. Prices are, like
everything elae, vary high and men
.ire not loading up with gooda that (
may fall In price. It la a real prob
lem to purchase atocka of any kind
on the present market."
After his trip to Chicago, Cleve
land. New York, Washington and
other eastern points Mr. Hover went
south as far aa Tulaa Oklahoma and
returned west via Kanaas City. After
the hot season In that region Mr.
Hover declared that Ontario's warm
daya and cool evenings were a mighty
relief.
STOCK GROWERS FACE
DIMINISHING RANGE
ltiii.il Spirit I'luiMise- Hellenic for
DUMltllll of Public I an. I-
Nerd fi-.i. . ii.-i.
LOOKS I IKK Hi GHKta
WaOUt KI.KCTION NOW
ii iiiitinued from page one)
(iHEATEU TIBK MI1.KAOK.
Frequent use of our Sunday and
Week-end rates will add many miles
to the life of your auto tlrea. It
makes a nice change, too. Ask about
our cheap excursions. Agent O. S.
L. K. K. Co. -8S-36
muni made by men from all parts of
the country, it certainly appears that
a change is pending.
"It la almost impossible to igf
crlbe the prosperity the east is enjoy
ing Just now. There never has beep
anything like it. And it is not con
fined to war munition manufacturers
alone, tho everyone admits that It
was the war munition business that
started the boom and Is responsible
for its continuance
"With the manufacturing plants
making even the smallest of the MtSl
of I he belligerents, increasing the
size of their plants and spreading out,
there baa resulted a demand for the
materials of the brlckmaker, the
steel maker, the sash and door man,
the hardware man and ao on down
the line. Every Industry la benefit-
Tbe livestock situation in western
etatea is much confused because of
the uncertainty regarding the future
of the public domain I'n.l. i our
imhlie laud laws, a homesteader toav
take up 320 acrea of government land
and h hung thereon for three years,
secure title thereto During the put
few years, many millions of sages
have been taken bv homesteaders,
which has greatly limited the area
left for grazing sheep and cattle
Naturally, the land taken has been
the best grazing land Some of this
and has been found valuable for rais
ing dry land crops, but much of It
iluuhlc miiv tor grazing, and
an attempt to crop It has brought
disaster to many
No one can flint aii object ion to
the homesteaders taking evei
of land that can by any possibility
support him and bis family in a do
cent manner, but the public that de
pends on these range lands for its
future supply of meat and wool has
a right to inlst that lands only valua
ble for grazing be devoted to that
purpose.
In the western states, there re
mains about 270,000,000 acres ol un
appropriated government land All
of this land has been open to settle
ment since the beginning, and natur
ally that which remains is the very
poorest of all, that which no one
would have These hinds are large
ly desert or rough, broken rocky
areas and have a very low annual
rainfall.
As a gruzlng proposition it would
require approximately fifty acres to
support a cow a year, or seven to
eight acrea to support a sheep. Un
der existing land laws these lands
can never be settled, and congress
seems to want all these lands In pri
vate ownership at an early dale To
secure this end, it has been proposed
to enlarge the homestead from 320
acres to 640 acres. Hut a 640-acre
homestead Is still far too small to
support a family, and Its enactment
would simply destroy our range live
stock Industry and put nothing in its
place until these lands were bought
up In large tracts so aa to permit
again the handling of livestock on a
commercial basts Congress, how
ever, loka on 640 acres of land as a
gigantic tract, and will probably nev
r give more than that amount away
If these lands are to be disposed of
to the homesteader, common decency
demands that he be given enough
land so that he can reasonably ex
pect to make a ralr living To do
this would require that the home
steads range In site from 1,280 acres
up to 6,400 acres on the poorer lands
This would necessarily mean that tin
government would first have to clas
sify the land, which ought to be done
anyhow. But congress would never
consent to give this land away In thin
manner, ao It Is Idle to discuss the
proposition
The wisest disposal of this remain
ing public land Is lo classify It and
sell It for stork raising purposes. Of
the remaining 270,000,000 acres, on
ly a small area, less than r, per rent,
will be found suitable for producing
crops, let the government classify
this land, and If any farming land be
found, hold It open for the home
ataaders; the balance should be ap
praised at Its grazing value and sold
to the stockmen, using every care to
see that It Is divided up equally be
tween the presents users, both large
and small. This would leave the
present generation of stockmen In
business and would mean an Increase
In the amount of meat and wool with
out going through a long period of
decline, such as Is now the case. The
sale of this land should net the gov
ernment around $400,000,000, which
should be divided among the states
on n basis of the income I nun Its
land. This money should he used:
Klrst, to pay off the cost of national
Irrigation and reimburse the farmer
on government Irrigation tracts all
he has paid In on his water right.
This would relieve these farmers of
' Inn, I, i, ami live I hem money
with which to develop their lands.
After this was done, 1300,000.000
would remain to these states One
half of this should be devoted to
building better roads and the bal
ance go Into tin- school fund or be
loaned to farmer, on long time land
mortgages. Such a scheme would
be sensible and practical. It would
remove the public domain from poll
in ilevelop our Irrigated lauds, give
us good roads and good schools, re
duce taxes and increase Hie meat aup
ply of these atatea fully 30 per cent.
Rural Spirit.
For Artesian or Natural
ICE
Call up COLD STORAGE
The Only Sanitary Ice
in Town
Phone 157-R
The Palace
Meat Market
Opposite Dreamland
l lll.sil MKATH
Mil MKATH
. t l.l l MKATH
SAVSAQJS
I.AKD
Better meats for the same
money
Pricea Never High Quality
Never Poor
Come iu and see the new
market
Telephone 111
STEWART & WRIGHT
Proprietors
ATTKNTIOX FAIR STtM'K HOLD
ens.
All stockholders of the Malheur
'niinty Agricultural association will
please call for their fair tickets at
the office of the ciiy recorder on or
before September 16, 1016
C. M HTKAHNS.
Secretary.
H. F. Scott came down from above
Vale on hueslnees Wednesday
Curt Ingle left this week for I'nl
ty where he has a homestead
Bailed Hav
First Cutting
F. S. BAILEY
Telephone N S
Vale Hot Springs
SANITARIUM
VALE, OREGON
Board, Rooms and Baths.
Massage, Diet, Rest
RHEUMATISM OUR SPECIALTY
DR. THOS. W. THURSTON, Superintendent
THE 0SB0RN MILLINERY
Fall Fashion Display Begins
September 7
At theOsbprn Milliiun Store. Ladies wishing
individual and unusual hats will lind tlniii here
Our oolleetion of nrnaniriils. sigretts, Cuicy
feathers rod flowers now ready for your luspeo-
tinii at niir wll known popular prices.
I hut Qoods Out Flowers
THE OSBORN MILLINERY
Successor to
Grove & Riley
A REAL GOOD
time always assured
by the showpx or
look for the name
on the theatre tills
and then
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ftsk, your MtW