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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (July 18, 1918)
is to be helped, if production is to I be encouraged at minimum cost with I maximum results, then cut off the Pul.litbed Kerry Thursday si Lenta. Oresen by overhead and organise a worth Tas M t . S cott P vi . i i . mim > cosrasv while exhibition based on real serv- A. H. HARRIS. Manager ice during war time. Inter*4 *• »«cor.J rlau mail matter Febru ary 14. isti al th* iswl olllc* al lent». Oregon, under act of Congress. March 3 1ST» Charles M. Schwab is a prominent man these days, but in nothing is he Subscription prie« • St N'a year, tn adeane« more distinguished than in his hu mility. He has reverted the plaud Pittas» T apo a D Al. its heaped upon him back to the men lh the ship yards who have han ; dled the tools—done the hard work, in making his shipbuilding achieve ments possible. This paper has enlisted with the wvemment in the cause of America for the period of the war.............. MERGE THE SMALL FAIRS. The curtailment in the output of hot water bags may not be so seri ous a matter, a- making garden and climbing fruit trees are good stimu lants to the circulation, and with everybody getting up and hustling, the absence of the artificial heaters is not apt to be missed. At any rate these are not coddling times. NATURALLY HE WAS PEEVED EAT rpTATOES 0Lk save ^ vhiat Q? The Williams Realty Co. If the only answer to murder is Dog’s Failure to Observe Meatlesa Day murder more efficient, the only an Coat Indiana Gentleman Just swer to the demand for more food One Fine Ham is greater production. If greater pro duction must come it can come only Louis E. lailtner. constable In the from one source, the farm, the soil. coroner’s office. Is peeved and he has War gardens and war gardeners may a right to be. Wlngle, as be Is known about the be of service in the end, but the commodities which are need to win courthouse. likes to hunt, He also the war must come—so far as food likes rabbits as a food, A* rabbits I were selling for 35 cents apiece he is concerned—from the farms of the decided to go get some with the aid LIMITATIONS OF MAN. country, including Oregon. Men are essaying the tracing of ef of a dog and gun and thereby have tbe In the corn belt when production fun of bunting a* well a* the pleasure fect to cause, but their conclusions are decreased and hard times came, of eating and at the name time reduce in disagreement. unsatisfactory to tbe farmers and business men got be- the cost of living. generality of mankind, if not even to So he borrowed a dog from one of those who indulge In them. The world hing a better farming movement and the crops were increased. A dozen hl* friends and hiked for the country. is suffering ss It has not before suffer elements entered into the campaign The result of his marksmanship for tbe ed since the flood recorded in the Ge day was two rabbits, but Wlngle was for better farming, and not the least happy when be returned home with nesis of revelation; but what was said was the competition and inspiration 70 cents’ worth of game, so he put the by our American Emerson Is recalled; which was found in the county fair, dog In the basement for safe keeping, "It 1» the finite that has wrought and and the state fair. That’s why you and went to bed perfectly contented. suffered; the infinite lies stretched In will find real annual fairs all over In the morning, when he went to get smiling repose.” Contemporaneous the states where corn is the prin the dog hfs Jqy turned to gloom. The events are marching along, clothed In cipal crop, and in fact in several dog was there all right, but a per habllaments of blood; a part of com states, like Kansas, where wheat is fectly good ham. which was stored tn mon earth that but a short four years the crop which brings automobiles the basement, was gone. That Is. most ago was teeming with busy millions of it was gone, and wliat was left was to the farmers’ barnyard. unfit for use as food, because what engaged In the business of busy lives, A fact worth considering ha« been the dog had not eaten be had ehewed seems to be hungering human graves. developed in the conduct of fairs, or dragged over the floor. All this may appear clearer to The large exposition is of the most “That ham stood me three dotlara.” coming generations than to the present. value, real value to the producers of Said Laitner. when telling about tbe Just as we of the present in the light the district served. Dinky fairs, like Incident, “and I had half a notion to of history have a clearer understanding dinky railroads, are of value to the shoot the dog. not so much because I of past causes than was enjoyed by men who handle the funds but of mourned the loss of the ham. but the those who have lived when history was little real service to the common scoundrel is a traitor, as It all hap being made, says Knoxville Journal pened on ‘meatless’ Tuesday."—Indi man and woman who are expected to anapolis News. Tribune. The finite works and suffers; loyally patronize them. The educa "the Infinite lies stretched In smiling tional value of an exposition in repose." The finite reckons time by Thought of Others' Safety First. creases with its size until it becomes For remarkable coolness and a most years, days and hours; with the in too large to be easily comprehended. commendable sense of humor under finite a thousand years are but as a A little, struggling fair, can have but dangerous conditions the navy depart day. little educational value even for the ment has just received an account of small number of producers who can a young sailor whoso nerve will alwnys Our most potent contribution to win attend it. coming from adjacent be remembered, although his name ning the war In the year has been In does not appear in fte reports. When farms and villages. loans, amounting to over $5.000.000,000 In sections of Oregon it might not the army transport .Antilles was sunk and the flow of munitions and supplies be possible, to develop expositions of the armed guard supplied by the navy, from our industries, factories and fields. in command of Lieut. R. D. Rlsdale. considerable size, because the coun displayed splendid conduct, remaining The nation has responded nobly to the try is not developed, but in Mult calmly at their station while the ship call for sacrifice and service. Notwith nomah County it certainly should be was sinking and making no move to standing official and semiofficial mis possible to establish an exposition leave their posts until ordered to save calculations and muddling that possi worth while, worth while to the themselves. It was when the ship had bly could not be avoided, the people, agricultural interests of the state, to gone down and the men were strug as a whole, have overlooked these ml»- the farmers of the county and to gling in the water that this unknown chances or grimly resolved to make hero came Into being. He was a mem the business men of Portland. At the best of them, and have submitted the present time small or county ber of a gun crew and when rescued was on top of an ammunition boxjf^th good'grace in a single purposed fairs are held in Clackamas County, which had floated clear of the ship in determination to get on with the war. in Washington County and at Gresh an upright position. When the young This voluntary disciplining is the most am. Each of these fairs is located man saw the ship coming close to him, convincing evidence of the national at near Portland, and it might be pos he signaled for them to be careful, titude toward the war, the most com sible to combine them and make a stating that the box on which he was plete answer to the occasional com real agricultural show at Portland floating contained live ammunition. plaint of popular Indifference or the which would draw men and women need of arousing the country. Fam By Airs. Robt. J. Burdette. from all parts of the state and really The tiring line is now in your klt- ilies and communities that have seen do god to the agricultural interests their nearest and dearest set out for chen. of Oregon as well as the communi Knock out the breadline at your the front, who have pinched and de ties immediately -- rigid. nied themselves to buy Liberty bonds, The state legislature has appropri table. It has been said that the Revolu ated money to aid in the develop tionary War was won by men fed on war stamps, subscribe to the Red Cross ment of a manufactures and soil pro hasty pudding, sin other words, corn and kindred campaigns, to save food ducts exposition at Portland, a com meal mu.-h. Let it be written in his and fuel, to sacrifice and serve, are mendable enterprise if effectively tory that the wlnr ng of the present fully alive to what this struggle means handled. There is but little need w-ar was made possible by the United and why it must be won. of four shows in a field centering at States eating potato-x. Give the Children Milk. The manner of < ating, the time of Portland, with ample transportation Milk is one of the moat important eating and even the kind of foodstuff* service by steam and electric rail food sourt 3 the hvman race pos roads, and many thousands of motor eaten are largely a matter of habit. sesses. For the proper nourishment We do not desire to break ourselve* cars. There cannot be efficient serv entirely of the habit of eating or life of the child. It is absolutely indispen ice without tremendous loss in over would not prove worth living, but it sable and its use should be kept up In head expense and duplication of ef can be made to prove better worth the diet as long as possible. Not only fort. Why not combine three or four living if we change some of the habits. does It contain all the essential food of the shows and make one really Suppose we cure ourselves of the element* In the most available form worth while? Why not combine the hand-eating habit and see if we do for ready digestion, but the recent scientific discoveries show ft to be es premium money and give premiums not consume less bread. If you were pecially rich In certain peculiar prop to put your bread and butter on your which would warrant producers in erties that alone render growth pos- giving time and effort to the show, plate and eat it with a knife and fork sible. It would reduce the amount of bread instead of offering paltry dollars eaten at once. In some of the Oriental which hardly pay the cost of trans countries men carry strings of bright It la not enough to take off your hat portation in many cases? Why not red wooden beads that are known a* to the flag—take off your coat and make the show big enough to gain "Conversation beads,” and they w«m roil up your sleeves, and having mads publicity worth while, to draw from unable to talk unless they have them those preparations, do something use the outside men and women who are in their hands to play with and pasa ful for America and her cause. interested in the country and in its from one hand to the other. We seem Write letters to the boys In France. development? Why not build for to need something in our hands at table or we feel the meal is Incomplete the future and build wisely and with and that something is usually bread. They are In another quarter of the globe, under strange skies and In lone vision? Forget this habit and save wheat. It If the real purpose of a fair is to you must continue the hand eating some places. Don’t begin ’’nothing has happened this week out of the or gather a lot of bunk sideshows into habit, bold a hot potato. dinary." a group to offer the amusement- hungry farmer and farmer’s wife Make no mistake about the After Haying that there weren’t any questionable amusement at unreason American soldiers In France, Germany place which this Decoration able cost, then there is no need of announced that she had licked a lot of day of 191» will hold tn the a truly representative show. If the Amerlrnn soldiers. It Is probable that real purpose is to give a few men history of the greatest repub one statement is just as true ns the the expenditure of money to aid in lic of all time. It is one of other. building up political machines or to the red-letter days in the most line their own pockets with a few tremendous chapter of the Owing to the war the poaching egg easily earn'd dollars, then there is world life of the American has almost disappeared from the mar- no need of an effective exposition. people. kei. The average egg now thinks it But if the people of Willamette Val has Jone its full duty when It acram- J ley are to be served, if agriculture blea. who is siiccesshil surrounds himself with every svailabh modern devi«« for saving hi* time and money. I'he business man who falla ..........an AUTOMATIC TEL* EPHONE simply closes his establishment to thoussnds of |H»»ib!« customers. H<> may never know the teal reason for liia failure In buainese. THINK IT OVER. Solicits your Property lor Sale 4Ü It's Up to Ua. "Germany** war of starvation la a challenge most of all to America.' says a Food Administration Bulletin "Against Germany's lust for dominion, America* purpose la to establish the society of nations. Against destruc tion. America * alm Is healing Against mastery. America's ideal is service. "We cannot surpass tbe steadfast nest of Britain, the courage of Italy, the exaltation of Fiance. “We cannot excel the Allies In hero Ism. tn endurance, la fortitude. Our force in battle, though it may be de ctatve. will not be a* great as their*. "We can hope to contribute most to the common causa from our larger resource». To relieve desperate pri ration America can supply food. "Giving up wheat is a little thing com peered to their death struggle—tu which our soldiers are splendidly sharing "A little thing—yet we can do It with greatness of spirit Supporting our army and adding wholehearted service to humanity, it is In America's power to defeat forever tbe paasloa of co« guest "Now is the hour of tssttag Wheat la the teat." THE PORTLAND BUSINESS MAN We have the Buyers, you have the Property I ahik Distance Everywhere COME AND SEE US CALL A 6221 Williams Realty Co. Home Telephone and Telegraph Company of Portland, Oregon 8206 Woodstock Avenue Tabor 4934 •*»rwBat»stn«tws»*ti»»*»*»*t*t*W*tstsmQ For A Home ; When You Want to Move Set* : Call Tabor 7707 KERN PARK CABINET SHOP ; S. c. SMITH R. C. 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