i ( Page Four MALHEUH ENTERPRISE. Saturday. April 17. 1QK 3 T MALHEUR ENTERPRISE EDITORLALSECTIOi ) I CD T may be probable that all children are not in the same mental class as Winnifred, who at 12 years can speak eight languages and is almost a prodigy in mathmetics, but that all children might have j It 1 Tl 1 a vast amount oi dook Know ledge in excess of the present average is now a well known fact. The papers have dropped the Montessori method which is practically along the line of child education used by Mrs. Stoner only because it has WINNIFRED STONER ceased to be news. AND THE WORD DON'T This lady has elimi- n a t e d the word -don't-from her vocabulary, and why not? It is the everlasting don't that has cursed human ity for as many thousands of years as man has made history. Don't and threats of punishment have proved a failure, a prodigious and over whelming failure. It is proven almost beyond doubt that there is but little in the old cry of heredity; the old (8) dogma that the sins of the fathers shall be visit- (0) ed on the children, is on par with the doctrine of hell and damnation for all who believe not some certain things. It is not proven that a child born from de- praved and criminal parents, removed at birth and given to some family to raise who know ab- () solutely nothing about the parentage of the child t (3) (thus eliminating: the possibility of mental tel- epathy holding sway) will prove depraved. Al- i -ii y a i 'n:.. .. (O) tea to onspring. camming uus we eunie near tm) u) liii; domain in l u iiitiLaunvfeius ui vniisLictii x Science. Their doctrine of the unreality or evil, ap- plied intelligently if not literally, might be that after all evil is a state of mind as well as good. If Winnifred was never allowed to come in con- faf tnrt u'il hrlnn'tlinw rniilfl slip knnw nf pvil ? Tf she attempts to put her hand in the fire, instead of-don't-why not-that will burn vou? Instead of showing the child how NOT to hold a spoon, nEE33H HE Harney County News of a late date containea an aruoe laigcy quoting from President Farrcl, of the 0. W. R. & N. Co., giving reasons for failure to extend the Oregon Eastern at present. President Farrel. ouotes the i 1 i proving News, states that "the extension must wait un- i 1 . 1 111! A i - i'ImA A rrni 1 VM ui people are willing 10 iiive&u in uuiu u. i - ; , t ns ties; that the portion of the road now bum pro- as wi-i " " north 0f the great duces practically no revenue; that the land in around the co mti to h nwth ot J5rf Harney county is nem oy : ::, ,u:,.h tho ,1Rn . of water . - - mm 1 1 i ... 1 I ' 1 .r milll'l I' I VVIUVII viv NOT THE TKUE big companies wnicn retard v vu. v ,r . , . .1 1 r-. r. -m.r 1 1 i 1 U t A IMS HI' 'flL dUUUl ' icr,A&uiN aeveiopment anu tioS where a few years since grew a -. fv, flf KIT!!, n foti. fMnlf that sftffp-brush '. see thousands of carloads of pro- the construction of the Oregon Eastern to the ducc going into the crcat n ai M1 coast will divert all through freight from the nearer at home is the grea t Owjto county present hill climbing railroad the 0. W. R. & with it thousands o.a?'eT? N. ThP OrPnn Extern nresents no heavv while to the northwest is hrpgan an 1 Jam eso n grades from Nyssa to the coast and is a certain about ready to add their produce to me v, b ... i. J t, ,i i rr. nr. if t t,.A fni t h P PMt PHI UlUltltUdeS. competitor ior ail tnrougn tramc. vve rauier umeunwu - , . , ii.-i l. i ai r ct t i r,.nr i iroft v home, we nnd Vale in tnt timiPd hiiildintr. that todav the 0. W. R. & N. center of a country just as good, 1 ing at the con would, be a local road from Nyssa-Huntington fluence of the two greatest ya ei carrymfc to Portland on account of those same grades. streams in the northwest, with one i eserv on par As to the second reason: a road commencing tially completed cm Bully creek and Nith a wte at a point where traffic does not originate and for another on the Malheur unexcelled in oca endintr in a steep canvon through which it has,tion and cheapness of construction by anj loca- 1 1 1( 1 ; -1 TJ mn HOSE who are throwing their in fluence against the formatior ation if n wate? district for the con ttruction of the Warm bnrmg: ings 1 tUn nninil0 fllSTinC- iiroject nave im i'h tion of being willing to damage themselves for the purpose ot nnnnal nninions correct and at Cll MlliWiiwi , , . , i the wine time hurting ineir m their 230 ERHAPS the correct statement mi p ill P m belligerents? I 4 of this is the most euphonius "There am t no sich thing." Neutral commerce must be un obstructedwith neutrals. Sounds good, but what if the ul timate destination is one of the Witness copper to Italy and from thence to Austria. Food for civilians should not be delayed. Sounds good, but suppose the civ ilian already has a ton of grain and the army head takes that ton away from RIGHTS OF him, must another ton be supplied NEUTRALS to the civilian from the outside neutral. Germany complains that we sell goods of all kinds to the Allies. Is it not proper to sell goods to England or France or Russia just the same at one time as another? If En eland cannot convey her own goods through her power on the sea, of what use is her W navy? That's what she built a navy for. Sup- W pose Germany whips the navy of England and 1 gets control of the seas will she buy from the K United States or not? The United States is not f fighting Germany and will deliver goods to her if she, Germany, can keep her ports open and her J seas free from floating mines. The United States is not fighting the Allies, therefore why put an embargo on goods. England has made passed for 60 miles out of 76 cannot be expected to have any traffic. Imagine the 0. W. R. & N. commencing at Huntington and ending at Pen dleton, where would they realize? The Oregon Eastern is a splendid standard road with the best of bridges and concrete cul verts intended for heavy transcontinental trains and rolling" stock, an absurd construction for a local road from Vale to Riverside. Harney Valley is one of the few remaining wheat growing countries yet undeveloped in the west. Its elevation and somewhat greater rain fall than in the lower valley ensures a fair crop tion in the west. her We find some ten thousand .blockade good against Germany, why not Ger acres already under cultivation on the Malheur and 30,000 acres of splendid land awaiting only the act of the people under the water to add their produce to the worlds markets; we find twenty thousand acres under the Bully creek system about to receive the life giving water stored by the energy of an enterprising citizen; we all know what this work would mean to our popu lation. Vale escaped temporary annihilation last fall. It is the open threat of the same power that the destruction ol Vale will again be at why not always show how TO hold it, eliminat- are being sold on the strength of the advance of grain every year. The Oregon Western. Col-'tempted, and before us is a simple and complete onization company is the greatest single land method of forever settling the controversy. By holder in the county. Its lands are for sale and j putting the water on the land around the town () 8 ing don't. If we desire to memorize anything do we not continually repeat it ami why not do the same to the child if we desire them to learn any thing. Application of knowledge comes to all later. We learn that two and two make four, that six times nine is fiftv-four, and a lone time after learn that nine pounds of rice at six cents () per pound amounts to fifty-four cents. We are all anxious to hav; our child obey, and what child would disobey if they were never told-don't. Webster had a vocabulary of some 9,000 words. Bryan has, perhaps i n equal vocabu lary (less wise perhaps) ; now .suppose the baby commences to talk at two years and useful words are taught to the child at the rate of one each day (perhaps too much for the first year but the increase win age would:' more than make up) for ten years, at twelve years the child has a vo cabulary of 3600 words as against some live hun dred of most smart children of that age under our present methods. J ; ' Old methods must make way for new as fast as the old are shown inadequate or wrong. The world will learn from the present war, not learn it, but have the knowledge brought home to them, that constant talk about fighting will cause a fight. We all know that about boys and men. In school, constant talk about one boy being able to whip another will surely bring on a row. In a town constant talk about the ability of someone to whip someone else will result in a row. Na tions are but an agglomeration of men and boys, mostly boys. Away with-don't: Away with threats of punishment in either this world or the next. God made men to be happy and he never made a threat nor said-don't. He made man to live on land and the sea will drown him. He made fish to lie in water and taken from its element chan ges fn.m lifj to what we call death. Co ( Speaking of recall: It's a good thing for some editors that the people cannot recall them at a special election. In this connection nerhaps Hamlet's words might be appropos: "If all men got their de- .Tts, who of us would 'scape whipping." se Watch Mexico the day peace is declared in Europe. Ten million soldiers free to settle all diplomatic questions. The day of "watchful waiting" will come to a close and the dawn of a day of settlement will have arrived. Who will pay? Let Bryan answer. If Colombia was robbed at all whv pay any hing short of the entire amount? Why trv to mottle for 62. per cent? One thing which makes us find so few noo- -.1 1. ..... . . . . ... ) pie who appear reasonable and agreeable in con- ) versation is, that there is scarcely anyone who dues not think more of what 1 e is about to say than of answering precisely wl at is said to him. 0 The cleverest and most complaisant people con- tent themselves with merely showing an atten- do) tive countenace, while we can see in their eyes (o) and minds a wandering from what is bald to them, and an impatience to ret irn to what thev wish to nav ; instead of reflect ir g that it i a hall Cj) method of plonking or purhiuuHng others, to be H studious of pleasing oneself; ami that lUtming () well und uiuwering well i one of the grcati -rt ?) K'rfH'tlnn that can attained in nnei!i- i) tion. Muxlini. ment of the Oregon Eastern into the country. The sale must naturally be slow through the de lay in building the road. Wheat nor in fact any thing can be raised except stock, until there are transportation facilities furnished. Harney county has one valley containing 300,000 acres and another with 200,000 acres. It has the reputation of being the best irrigated of any county in the state and its irrigated lands produce one to two tons of wild hay per acre. Why? Why not more? Wild hay is the best stock feed in the world and can be raised at no cost. With an area of nearly six and one half million acres Harney has no railroad. The O. E. ends in Malheur canyon and has no traffic and Harney might raise millions of bushels of grain but has no transportation, an absurd and unbusi ness like condition, brought about by railroad speculators and illogical from an economic ope rating standpoint. Give Harney county a railroad and the lands of the great P. L. S. company and of Mr. Han ley's company will become so valuable that they cannot afford to raise wild hay, but will either produce greater crops themselves or will let someone else farm the land, the latter being most )robable. Put the Oregon Eastern into the wheat growing section of Harney and a revenue will be produced even though fears of competition stop the road far short of the coast. T iii HE Vale Hot Springs offer an op portunity for some energetic promoter to reap a mild harvest for himself and at the same time render the county and thous ands of rheumatics a great ser vice With an inexhaustible sup ply of water coming to the surface at a tempera ture of 21G degrees V. within 1500 feet of a town paying $8.00 per ton for heating coal, the spring containing medicinal elements unequalled by any spring in the world, we have PROMOTION a combination hard to beat. OPPORTUNITY There is no necessity for a heavy first expenditure. An income can be assured with but a trifling expend iture compared to the benefits.The entire town can be signed up for heat and hot water. A moderate sanatorium would prove a revenue producer from its inception, a green house gar den would produce a big income from year round vegetables. Owned by progressive citizens who have their money locked up in loans to the community, which cannot be withdrawn without great luuv'i, the springs offer great inducement for outside capital. and on the country south and west of us, our po sition is made absolutely impregnable. Cover ing the sagebrush plains with grain fields and the benches with fruit and corn not only settles the future of Vale but adds to the happiness and wealth of the county, state and nation. It is fortunate that those who are attempt ing to delay the matter of irrigating our vacant lands are few and that their influence is not great, but there should be no opposition, not one voice should be raised in resistance to the formation of an irrigation district. Those Pre - eminently Entrancing Orna ments of the human family can go some when they get ready. "What is fame? The advantage of being known by people of whom you yourself know nothing, and for whom you care as littls Stanislaus. "Truth does not do so much good in the world as its appearances do evil." Maxims. Get your swatter ready. If you use it as well as some of our citizens use the hammer not a fly will live to lay eggs in the ham. many make her blockade good against the Al lies? If she is not able to do so must we help her? That's war. As a matter of fact, charity and a humane feeling for others foreign to us in language and in fact has induced the United States to help Germany and that with the consent of England. What right have we to feed the conquered people of Belgium? Germany has conquered Belgium and acts, in every way but one, as monarch of that coun try; she provides no way for feeding the con quered. Not even the great ancestors of the Germans, Attila and Alaric were so savage and brutal in their treatment of conquered foes as are the Germans today. They complain of our attitude toward them. England has not called on us to feed German prisoners through charity. Belgians are Ger man prisoners in fact and Germany has boasted that she has food for all and only protests from principle. She takes advantage of her isolation and power and refuses to assume any obligation if one of her submarines sink a neutral on pass senger ships. The facts are that in a war like the present the exigencies of the belligerents make the law and that will be the law until a greater power makes a new one. Vanderbilt said "the public be damned." Warring nations : "Damn the neutrals." It was a lucky thing for some of Vale's elite that the city marshal was busy beating up a bar tender the other night. Ontarian : Geological formation of the up per SILURIAN age. "Pitiful, who fearing failure, therefore no be ginning makes; Why forswear a daily dinner for the chance of stomach aches?" Matthew Arnold. () (0) Suid "BIi:: "I cannot kneel." A few ban) raps with the rolling pin and a dig or two on the shins with the family noker, and he knelt with ilacrity, or something like that. "He only judea right who weighs, compares, And, in trrmt M-ntrna which bin nia pMmouna , iumt iilumlojih charily." Wordsworth. m At Freeman's Store New and Nobby Styles in "Anieli?Lad7Sho jjtgtcoming in and being opened up. JV ; a i. a a a a ft vi t a ((.)) (!) " K AT f 1. . i ( Mm &4f i i it l it u j n i i i i a THIS week we will open for your lncnAAflAm li. TY . inspection, a lot of Hon CO Alt. rons, House Dresses, etc., all pric ed to save you money in the pay ing. 1 J The nev fipri; s Waahgoods are here in a great variety of p.aterm and coloi-in We will o plwsed to show you all the newest KOOUS. UV knou thewivv are riuht. ;i Paul G. Freeman ffVt Vf? fr. (t .. S- V - v ... a.. , I I