THE .MALHEUR ENTERPRISE
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 1916.
$lalfjeur (Enterprise
County Official Paper.
PUBLISHED EVERY SATURDAY
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1 EDITORIAL
Published by JOHN RIGBY
Entered as second class mail matter
in tho Postofllce, at Valo, Malheur
County, Oregon.
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STATE PUBLICATION OF TEXT BOOKS
,VpplHE OREGON VOTER asks: ."Which will
1 1 L J von have trifled with hv noliticians the
B9 heads, or the feet of your children?" We
might reply by saying we hope that pol
iticians will trifle with neither, but we under
stand well enough that your politician who is
for reform with an office attached will trifle
with anything no matter how inportant or how
trifling the matter with which he trifles.
Manufacturing shoes at Salem would be a
serious matter indeed. To trifle with the sole
is indeed serious. We doubt of Oregon raises
'a .enough calves to make shoes for its own popu-
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lauon let aione enougn to maite a reai Dusiness,
but a trip down Washington street on a fine af
ternoon clears up the doubt somewhat.
To go into school book publishing is almost
as recurrent in state politics as smallpox with
out vaccination or the single tax propaganda
in Oregon. California has tried it and made a
failure and now Oregon wants to try it. This
experience is like toothbrushes and babies ev
erybody wants their own.
Somebody is peeved at the book trust, so
called, and has found a way to make them dig
up a lobby fund; at all events that's what it
looks like.
There is no doubt that Oregon pays too
much for text books. The makers have robbed
every state in the Union and have been made
to be good in some of them. It can be done. If
a little agitation on the subject will bluff them
into dealing fairly with us, well and good, let
us carry it right up to the point where they
are sure we mean it, but for heavens sake let
us quit before it's too late.
Personally we favor the furnishing certain
public school text books by the state free to
pupils and let them buy them at the best possi
ble rate ; but we would like to see some of them
sold at $100 per volume and then thrown in the
river. Latin, for instance.
THE PRESIDENT
P
I RESIDENT WILSON has been elected
and he ceases to be an object of abuse
and should receive the unstinted and un-
qualified support of the American pub
lic. Disagreeing with his policies is one thing
and harsh criticism is another. The people of
the United States have made their wishes
known and even though the 149 solid votes of
the South are hardly to be taken as an expres
sion of the will of those states in entirety, the
result is at least legal.
The only great difference in the two part
ies, which vitally affect the daily life of the peo
ple, the democrats were permitted to skillfully
keep from discussion, that is the tariff. This
subject, dry to most people at any time, became
a matter of indifference while times were pros
perous. It is only during the ebb of prosperity, dur
ing times of street walking and hunger, that so
dry a subject is permitted to come to the front.
'Whether the Presidential tariff board will be
so constituted as to give us real and genuine
scientific management of this complex sub
ject remains to be seen. Should they do so the
democrats will have come over to the republican
view and the difference will be completely de
stroyed between the two parties and the entire
result of elections will be official changes. The
outs want in and the ins want to stay.
FADS AND FAKES
rREGON seems to have become somewhat
LLj sane and if some way can be found to
plfij destroy the effect of the Tax Limita-
tion Amendment the result will have
been excellent.
The brewers, with the help of irrepressible
Col. C. E. S. Wood, put up a bad job on them-
selves and have made Oregon dry, except for
bathing purposes. It is doubtful if the prohis
would have come forward witli their amend-
ment had the liquor interests kept silent. The
country was flooded with literature for publica-
tion showing the value of alcohol as a beverage
and attempting to prove that it was an agent
of morality. These interests are .nothing if not
.ignorant. They take no consideration of edu-
cation and believe people will read nothing but 9?
their effusions going directly against all mod-
ern investigation. They may make up their
minds, if they have such, that prohibition has W
arrived.
By prohibition we mean high proof spirits M
will no longer be tolerated as a beverage. It gs
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lget rid of the sentimental nonsense of personal
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i -'spirit enthroned will well compensate for a
year's struggle against an inordinate thirst.
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EXCimMGES
INDUSTRIES ARE TO BE
LIMITED
The Trainmen's unions are Roinfr
beforo western legislatures to secure
laws limiting number of cars that
may bo hauled in a train.
The program of artificially increas
ing their pay by act of Congress is
to bo followed up by artificially mak
ing more jobs at increased pay.
Reducing volumo of tonnage and
cost of putting it over road would
bo at expense of both shippers and
railroads.
A law limiting the load n farmer
might haul to market would bo an
outrago and would raise tho cost of
necessaries of life materially.
American railroads havo tho high
est paid Inbor and tho lowest per ton
milo freight rate of any country in
tho world under present system.
Transcontinental railroads havo
spent hundreds of millions buying
bigger cars, heavier engines, cutting
out curves and reducing grades.
All this investment was made to
haul bigger trains, increase tonnage,
reduce cost of freight and gain great
er speed in reaching markets.
Then employes renew their fight to
mako this investment for progress
and efficiency in transportation worth
less and demand limitation.
Two years ago such laws were de
manded in all western states nnd de
feated becauso it was plainly a rnovo
for forcing moro trains.
To multiply trains over single
tracks is to kill the next movo for
greater efficiencyelectrification of
all western railroads. Hofer in Ore
gon Monufacturcr.
FARM AND HANK WORK
TOGETHER
About $20,000 worth of oxcoption-
Uy good dairy cattle have been
brought into Marinette county, Wis
consin, as a result of our plan of prac
tical co-operation between banker nnd
farmer in tho purchase of cattle, says
Howard I. Wood. I don't know of
anything ever done in any locality
which has had a moro marked effect
in building up dairy farming and im
proving dairy herds.
Tho bijnKers put up a fund oi ?3&,.
000 to start with. Farmers wishing
good dairy cattlo did not have to
make any initial payment, but were
required to show that they could take
care of a valuable cow. When they
purchased they gave bankable secur
ities, such as chattel mortgage or se
cured note, the time being from three
to five years to complete payment.
Monthly installments anil quarterly
installments wore provided for also
and payments could, be made at any
of tho 11 banks in the county. Inter
est was charged at six per cent. Two
years ago ono carload of cattlo was
purchased at a time. At present they
arc bringing in four and five carloads
at a time.
This move has enlarged our county
in a farming sense more than nnyono
can tell. Last spring tho same prin
ciple was extended to grains, grasses
and seed potatoes.
PUTTING UP HENS IN GLASS
Each fill finds tho farmer or poul
tryman with a few fowls upon his
hands which for various reasons, prin
cipally that of age, would turn out n
source of loss if fed through the win
ter. Many have discovered that such
fowls will show a greater profit if
put up in glass cans for tho family's
consumption during tho winter than
if dumped upon the market at the
timo all poultry prices aro at their
lowest level. Wo have canned chick
en for tho past two years with perfect
success, a record that any enrcful
person can easily duplicate, writes
Maurice II. Decker.
Our method is as follows: Tho
yearling or two-year-old hens are
cleaned nnd cut up into pieces as if
for boiling nnd packed into quart
frruit jnrs, bones nnd nil, except the
breasts from which tho meat is cut
and the bono discarded. A level tea-
spoonful of salt is placed, on top of
the snugly packed pieces nnd the jar
filled with cold water. Rubbers aro
fitted to the jars and the tops put on
loosely. If tho jars havo screw tops
they aro screwed on about half way.
If of the wire-fastened variety tho
clamps aro left up.
Tho jars aro then put in an ordi
nary wash boiler upon a frame of
lath Which prevents them comiiiB in
contact with the bottom. The boiler
is filled with water up to the edges
of the jar tops and set upon the
stove. After the water has commenc
ed to boil it is kept boiling for three
hours, when tho cover is removed and
tho jar tops screwed or clamped down
tight. The cover is replaced, and the
jars boiled for five minutes longer
when they arc removed to a place
safe from drafts to cool.
Older hens tnan two years and
males aro boiled in a kettle for an
hour beforo being placed in tho jars,
after which the method of procedure
is the same. Chicken is easier to can
nnd keep than some vegetables, such
as beans, corn and squash, and is
greatly appreciated by the busy house
wife who can quickly prepare a chick
en dinner in case of unexpected com
pany without tho labor of killing,
cleaning and dressing, to say nothing
of the danger of choosing a profita
ble laying fowl by mistake.
WHY GOLD
WAYS '
PIECES ARE AL-DOCTORED"
Why don't jewelers melt up ?10
nnd $20 gold pieces in order to use
tho metal in the manufacture of gold
jewelry? Indeed, gold pieces were
used some forty years ago by enter
prising jewelers and with success, too
until tho practice was topped in a
those days jewelers bought enough
$10 and $20 gold pieces for the work
in hand. The gold was melted, the
necessary alloys were added, and all
manner of fine Etruscan work was
turned out.
It was not long, however, before the
government began to wonder what
was becoming of its gold pieces. The
officials kenw the people were not
hoarding gold, so a quiet investiga
tion took place. It was then discover
ed that the makers of gold jewelry
were to blame. Having found the
cause, it was not difficult for the offi
cials to find a cure. They did it by
"peppering" the coins with iridium.
Resembling black emery in the crude
state, iridium requires a heat of 3,
542 degrees Fahrenheit to melt it.
Gold, on te other hand, can be melt
ed at 1,913 degrees Fahrenheit. It is
easy to see, then, how the unsuspect
ing jeweler, melting up his gold pieces
at the temperature required, got a
large number of unmelted specks of
iridium in his metal when it cooled.
You can imagine his dismay when
his analysis and deductions revealed
that he had been trapped.
It is estimated that the man who
ships 20 cars of grain containing 20
per cent of moisture pays freight on
1 car of excess water, using 15 per
cent moisture as a basis.
Would You Give $10 for $20?
THEN CONSIDER
YOU ARE GETTING MORE
FOR YOUR MONEY WHEN
YOU HUY
Idaho Pine
IT IS THE BEST IN QUALITY
IT IS OF BETTER TEXTURE
AND WILL LAST LONGER
YOU CAN STAIN IT, PAINT
IT, OR FINISH IT NATURAL
WE .MILL IT PERFECTLY
WE SPECIALIZE ON
Quality and Price aye furnish plans free
MATT SANDMEYER
THE PRICE IS ALWAYS
RIGHT
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INFORMATION K
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MAIL SERVICE IN AND OUT OF
VALE, OREGON
8 a. m. train carries mail for Onta
rio, west to Huntington, up tho Pin
and Pumpkin Vino roads. No other
mail goes out at 8 a. m., oxcept Sun
day, when all mail goes to" main line.
Mail closes 7:30 a. m.
11 a. m. train carries mail for On
tario and all points cast. Mail closes
10:15 a. m.
10:45 Brogan train carries mail for
Brogan, Jamicson, Ironside and Boni
ta. Mail closes 10:15 a. m.
1 1 :00 p. m. Riverside train carries
mail for Harper, Juntura, Wcstfall,
Riverside, Barren Valley and points
in Harney county. Mail closes 12:30.
2:35 train from Brogan carries mail
to Ontario and all points east nnd west
on main line. Mail closes 2:00 p. m.
Mail Into Vale.
10:40 a. m. from Ontario.
11:00 a. m. from Riverside.
1:10 p. m. from Ontario (mail
from west.)
2:00 p. m. from Brogan.
8:00 p. m. from Ontario (cast and
west.)
Mail for Rural Routo N. 1 should
be in ihe office ta 8:30 a. m. in order
to go out the same day.
JOHN P. HOUSTON.
Postmaster.
TIME CARD OF RAILROADS
VALE. OREGON
Trains due at Vale from Ontario
and Riverside
No. 139 leaves Ontario 12:15 p. m.,
arrives Vale 1 p. m., leaves 1:10 p. m.
for Riverside.
No. 140 leaves Riverside 7 a. m.,
arrives Vale 10:45 a. m., leaves 10:45'
a. m. for Ontario.
Trains due at Vale from Ontario
No. 98 leaves Vale 8 a. m. for On
tario. No. 142 leaves Vale 2:35 p. ,m. for
Ontario.
No. 141 leaves Ontario 10 a. m., ar
rives Vale 10:40 a. m.
No. 97 leaves Ontario 7 p. m., ar
rives Vale 7:40 p. m.
Trains due at Vale from Brogan
No. 141 leaves Vale 11:00 a. m. for
Brogan, arrives Brogan 12:05 p. m.
No. 142 leaves Brogan 12:30 p. m.,
arrives Vale 2 p. m.
Homedale Branch
No. 140 from Vale, Tuesdays, Thurs
days and Saturdays runs through to
Homedale.
Main Line Trains due at Ontario
West bound
No. 19 6:33 p. m.
No. 17 4:22 a. m.
No. 75 (Pony) to Huntington 9:35 a.m.
East bound
No. 0 G:33 p. m.
No. 18 2:51 a. m.
No. 4 12:12 p. m.
No. 76 (Pony) to Boise 8:50 a. m.
CIVIC CLUB MEETINGS
The Civic Improvement Club holds
its reeular meetinirs on the second
Thursday of each month. All inter
ested in civic work are cordially in-,
vited to attend.
Library onen from 7:45 to 9:30 on
Wednesday and Saturday evenings and
2 to 4 Saturday p. m.
ANNA M. WHEELER. Pres.
AMY RURING, Sec'y.
PROFESSIONAL CARDS
R. G. Wheeler R. D. Lytl
WHEELER & LYTLE
Practice in all
Courts and U. S. Land Oflico
Collections
Nelsen J31dg. Vale, Ore.
PERCY M. JOHNSON
Land Attorney
General Land Office Practice, Town
ship Plats, County Maps. Room
203 Nelsen Bldg. Next door to the
U. S. Land Office. Valo. Orecon.
JNO. R. WHEELER
Attornev-at-law
Practice in all Courts and United
States Land Office
Drexel Bldg. Vale, Oregon.
Ground Floor
Geo. E. Davis Bruce R. Kester
DAVIS & KESTER
Attorneys and Counsellors-at-Law
Vale, Oregon
Julien A. Hurley G. A. Hurley
HURLEY & nUR LEY
Attnrnpvn nnrl rnttncnlnro.nt.T
Nelsen Bldg. Vale, Oregon.
DR. CARL J. BARTLETT
Physician and Surgeon
Offices over Vale Drug Store
VALE ORF.fiON
Dr. Pauline Sears Dr. Harriet Sears
Yale Ontario
OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIANS
Graduates of American School of
Osteopathy, Kirksville, Mo.
Office opposite Malheur Enterprise
VALE LOCAL OF TnE SOCIALIST
PARTY
Meets on every Friday evening of
each month, at the Hayes building, ob
liquely opposite the court house. Vis
itors always welcome.
The population of the United SLsIm
has increased by 24,000,000 people in
tne last 15 years, and the number of
beef animals has decreased 6,000,000
and sheep 10,000,000, while hogs hve
"icrea? pmy 11,000,000,