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About The Ontario Argus. (Ontario, Or.) 1???-1947 | View Entire Issue (March 16, 1922)
r c I I ; 1 r ONTARIO, OREGON, THURSDAY, ONTARIO, OREGON, THURSDAY. MARCH 16, 1922 QH dhttarta Anjua County Official Paper ) An Independent Newspaper Published Tliurtdoyi at Ontario, Oregon, and entered at tha Ontario post offlco for distribution as 2nd class mattor. Q. K, Alkan, Managing Editor SUUBCllIPTION Ono Year, 12.00 11USINKSS IS MIPJIOVJNU Thoro Is no escaping tbo laws of imturo. Thoso laws apply to tbo activity of mankind as well as to tlio luanlranto plrasos of nature Ono of tho most certain untl well found ed of tbo ascertained laws Is tbat: "action and reaction tiro oaunl." Somotlmes nion forgot that bust HOBS Is subject to such laws and tboy attompt to avado tliom. At otbor times men, witnessing a depression In business, loso hope. Tboy do not renlrlo that an day follows tbo night, bo prosporlty comes after adversity. It has ulways been so, and nlwuys will be. During tho past year business con ditions In Amorlca, and in ull tho world liavo experienced tbo dark hours of depression; this In Itself manlfostod tho Immutable law, for it was but tho reaction from tho In flation and unoxampled expansion and prosporlty of tho war period. Kvldoncos of tho return to busi ness normalcy ara to bo found in overy day's uows. For example the reports of building portnl(s in cities of 100,000 or moro for February show tho largost volume In several years. Tbo light of a now business day Is dawning. On tbo Pacific Coast lumbering Is Increasing, mills nro resuming operation nud tha domain! for mill products Is assuming tho pro-war normal. Hero In tho interior tho products of tho raugo nro commanding bettor prices. Tho sheop and cnttlemon nlromiy seo bettor times ahoad, In fact tho shoopmeu aro well ouTfio road toward n completo rocovery of prosperity. Theso aro but a fow of tho signs of tbo tlmos. With their comlni; thor Is departing the spirit of posslmlsm which bus been all pro vailing Men aro taking courage and nro going forward, business onterprlsos long contemplated nro being undertaken, and ero wo nro awuro of tbo change wo will And that tho pendulum of business act ivity has swung forward. brilliant one, Is not without merit. It hns been colorless, It Is truo, tor no big questions of stato craft havo boon up for consideration. Ho has been lucky. Thcro Is no knowing what ho would do in a crisis. Thoro is however, a goncral ba llot hero In Kaotern Orogon that Mr. Olcott considers irrigation a falturo, and siuco tho wholo futuro of many Hastern Oregon communities is de pendant upon Irrigation, It Is to bo regretted that tho head of tho stato government entertains such ideas. Ho can not bo In sympathy with tho aspirations of this section. Whllo Eastern Oregon has not had ono ot Its citizens chosen for tho gubernatorial chair sluco tho lato nineties, when Governor Moody was elected; and now has no candldato of Its own, it might bo fitting to oxnmlno tbo rocords ot tho vnrlous 'candidates to seo how tboy stand upon tbo questions peculiar to this section of tbo stato. Bo far as tbo Argus is aware, Louis E. Uean, who though born and rnlBcd in tho Willamette Valley has a longor rcsldonca in Eastorn Oregon, and a groater familiarity and sympathy with tbo alma and aspirations ot this section than any ot tho candidates mentioned. Mr. Uean rodo tho raugo In Eastern Oicgou for noven years during tho Impressionable years of his young manhood. Tho knowlcdgo ho then Kalnod. tho sympathy which ho matured at tbat tlruo for Eastorn Oregon has bcon reflected in seven sessions of tho loglslatura. Ho has been with Eastern Oregon In Its strugglo for recognition at tho hands of tbo lawmakers at Salem. lloforo determining upon a favorlto candl dato wo suggest that tho votors of this section oxamlno Mr. Bonn's record. flllllllllllllilllllllllltlllli t ! - IIIIIIIIHIIIKlllillii Till! 10Vi:it.OHHII!l' HCUAMHI.K Evoryday witnesses tho ontry of a now gubernatorial caudldnto Into tho arena. Tho political ring Is cluttered with political hats, many ot which nro already battered beyond hope. Soma ot tho boys In their Itch for office have thrown their good judgmont In with their som boros. As tho rosult ot tho crowding ot tho candidates It appears that Gov ernor Olcott will havo but llttlo troublo lu lauding tho prlzo. This Is to bo rogrotted, over hero In Eastorn Oregon at lenst: hut unloss all political signs fall that Is to bo tho result. Tho Argus doos not mean In this observation to imply that Oovornor Olcott is unworthy ot support. Ills record, whllo not a VALLEY VIEW Alumni nvirv linn.n In Hiln tinlirh borhood has boon visited by tho flu miring mo last two or inroo weens. O. II. Moollor has boon confined in lil Imil for noarlv two weeks with tho tlu and It will be sorao tlmo buforo ho will bo ablo to carry on his work. Tho attondanco at school has bcon vory smalt for tho past two weeks. A tow returned Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Wyllo Frnkcs and chlldron visited Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Armstrong last Thursday. Tho O. W. Doan family havo nearly all boon sick with tho flu. All havo recovered and ara ablo to bo out ox copt Mrs. Dean who Is just ablo to sit up u llttlo. Miss Lois Halstoad was sick two days last wook and Mrs. W. J. Shaf for substituted for her. Mrs. W. It. Flock and daughter Madolluo vlsltod for a taw days at tha drlflu homo last wook. Wyllo Frakes hns purchasod ton turkoy hens and a gobbler aud given tlumi to (laorgo Stewart to ralso jilrds on shares. Minn Mnrirnrnt ftrlffln was Uliablo to tench ou account of sickness tho first part ot tho wook. Airs. i-iock, nor iitinr aiiliHlltiitml for her Monday and Tuesday, nnd Mrs. W. J. Shaffer on Wednesday. On account ot extra nuiies causou liv an mlipll alrkting 111 town IlOV. Young was unablo to preach at tho school houso last Sunday. Mrs. nans uu una iwo uoys uro quite 111 with tho flu. Itor. Snow ot tbo Sunday School Union will preach at tho school houso Ciimlnv Aii tin una nn his way to Ontario last Sunday ho callod at tho A, F. Hurr homo. Tho boll for tho now scuooi uouso has arrived nnd judging by Its stzo timrn nnml lin nn oxcuso for tnrdnl- ness whon It rings to tho call tho chlldron to school. MILLINERY FOR EASTER A visit to our storo will reward, you with n study of tho most distinctive nnd alluring of nowest millinory creations. This display includos tho nowest do-, signs and tho richest mntorinls in Pat torn Hats and Tailored. Yqt tho prices aro extraordinarily roasonablo. . 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