MAKING NEW WORDS.
One of the well-known Fngllzh
words, cnbul, meaning a strong com-
blr.ation to curry out a pre<tetermlne<l
purpose, was made from the Initials
of the five British ministers, Cllffonl,
Arlington. Buckingham, Ashley and
Lauderdale of the cabinet under
Charles II. who signed a treaty with
France against Holland In 1073. The
word news Is fancifully devised from
the letters standing for north, east,
west and south an a weathervane, but
Its more probable derivation is from
new. A few years ago a western or­
ganisation of women took the uatue
•■Wimodaughsis," from the first sylla­
bles of wives, mothers, daughters and
sisters. More recently the organisa­
tion of Camp Fire Giris adopted Its
motto, “Wohelo,” the first two let­
ters of work, health and love. The
most recent example of the creation of
a won! from Initials Is Ansae on the
Gallipoli peninsula, made from the
Australian and New Zealand army
corps. In conjunction with such a
real name as Slnla It looks Turkish
enough to pass muster, but it Is only
an army emergency word devised from
a far-off military contingent and not
yet on any save the latest newspaper
maps.
Front the city dweller’s point of
view the fall of the year means morn­
ings when It Is a delight to leave the
house and a sorrow that the street­
car tracks are not further away; It
means Saturday afternoons and Sun­
days when a tramp along a lane or
over a field path brings recreation Jn
the truest sense of the word. When
nature puts on Its gown of russet and
gold and copper it charms away the
sense of oncoming winter blasts and
makes one forget the shriveling noons
and restless nights of midsummer,
says Rochester Post-Express. The
farmer turns with complacency to the
final Job of getting his crops trans­
mitted into a balance at the bank,
boys garner their booty of nuts and
openly pilfered apples, the golfer
takes %ls final swings and pledges him­
self to better things next year and the
coal man sings with Joy as he hears
the precious fragments tinkle down
the chu’es toward the gaping furnace.
The question has arisen in Phila­
delphia whether civil service examin­
ers are vampire proof, and whether
goo-goo eyes have more Influence in
landing Jobs than correct papers, says
Baltimore American. The question is
answered entirely in favor of the offi­
cial incorruptibility of the examiners
and the promise is made that any in­
tending Delilahs will be routed and
put to flight in great confusion If
they attempt vampire wiles. The rais­
ing of the question, however, goes to
show that even officialism cannot
wholly shake off the susceptibilities
of human nature.
mt Scott Herald
Published Every Friday at lamia
Station, Portland, Oregon.
Geo. A. McArthur...............Proprietor
Mexico Is expelling the Bolshevik!
Entered as second-clusa mall mat­
there and Informing other governments ter February 14, 1914, at the post­
of the plots to establish Soviets. Rus­ office at Lanta. Oregon, under act of
Conaroaa. March 8. 1819.
sia has done a favor to the world by
$1 50 a year
demonstrating past doubt the utter Subscription Price
failure of this form of government os­
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tensibly for the people, but really
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worse tyranny by the few than the
rule of kings, says Baltimore Ameri­
HAVE TO WORK IN RUSSIA.
can. Its results there are opening the
An announcement from Washington
eyes of other nations to Its perils.
explains why It Is that deportees are
so reluctant to return to Russia and
A London wife complained of her participate In the benefit* and beauties
husband being so Jealous that he of soviet government. They have to go
threw water on the kitchen stove after I to work after getting there; they find
she had cleaned It. clalmlug she the lot of a citizen of the soviet re­
thought more of the stove than she public quite different from the lot of a i
did of him. If the hot times he evi­ citizen of this republic, where radicals
dently brought about tn the house work nialnly with their Jnws, and
could have been utilised It would have | where every prospect pleases, only
been a great economical saving of man existing under the old order being
fuel.
I vile, according to their way of think-
1 Ing. The Washington dispatch says
A dog in Newfoundland save«! 92 that this Information received Is
lives on a shipwrecked vessel by car­ authentic. As soon as deportees arrive
rying them a rope after struggling In Russia they not only are assigned
with a heavy sea to reach them for to certain tasks, but If they object
over an hour. It Is a grave reflection they are Informed that "there la ma­
on human nature that many men live chinery for dealing with such cases"
their entire lives without being near It’* a sad world, says New York
as useful to humanity as this one Morning Telegraph. If an alien in
dog.
our midst advocates the overthrow of
this government, we send him home;
A Spanish town mutinied lately be­ If sent home, he Is set to work. What
cause the local government had not Is to become of the old-fashioned, pic­
supplied enough bulls for the bull­ turesque agitator?
fight It Is a pity that a nation like
Spain fias not at this stage of the
Now that practically eveiy one In
world thrown off so much of her prim­ the United States appears to ngree
itive savagery.
that the profiteer should not be tol­
erated, It is about time to define a
Absence of horns on cattle has profiteer, legally and other« Ise. -<>
been brought about by selective that all may know what the rascal
breeding. It is the Idea. Just possibly, looks like, for of course it Is obvions
of some sympathizer with the dog that that he has Joined the pursuing crowd
all these years has been tossed around that Is seeking him. One trade period­
for worrying that cat
ical objects to the profiteer, yet in
the same breath decries any effort to
A conference of wheat growers has lower prices. While not saying that
determined that the cost of growing there has been any profiteering In
a bushel of wheat to Insure the farm­ sugar, remarks Christian Science Mon­
er a 20 per cent profit Is $2.77. May­ itor, It Is fair to ask If anyone be­
be, after all. the old methods were the lieves that some of the sugnr men. for
best
Instance, are being abused If they Are
either asked or force«) to lower their
You can get a pretty fair $1.25 shirt prices, say 50 or 60 per cent, or even
for $2.50 after It has been reduced more, from the war figures.
from $4.50. All you have to do Is Just
keep your eye on the bargain counter.
Pietro Mascagni, famous Itnllnn
composer, hoisted the Red flag over a
We do not question the cabled as­ destroyer at the Livorno navy yard on
sertion that Paris has 8.000,000 rats, the Adriatic.
How much better It
but to complete the record we would would be if he and his fellow-country­
like to have the name of the man who man, Gabriele d’Annunzlo, could col­
laborate on some great oratorio of
counted them.
peace.
Instead of that these song
birds are rumpling up the world us
sadly as they can, says Los Angeles
Times. Although given to poetry and
music they do not know what a rest
Implies—and they wouldn't let their
country have It If they did. If we
could only trade our stormy petrels
for a wren I
Reference to the offlclnl constitution
of soviet Russia shows that there Is a
large grim Joker In the alleged prom­
ise of free land to the peasants. The
peasants are given the land to work,
but the central government dictates
the crops that are to be raised and
the prices the peasants are to rec. he.
Property In land is vested in the
soviet state. Instead of being free
landowners, the Russian peasants are
slaves to the land, Just as were the
serfs In former days and the helots of
ancient Sparta.
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Before the gentler sex as a whois
discovered that "woman" Is a wort!
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that carries no Invidious distinction, UITY i‘ltol'1 RIA A SPI CIALTY
politic folk had to use the word "lady1* Farina amt Arraus* «'ellrrtloua, l.oana.
It*nt*la anil llualnv»* Chaurva
a great deal. It was possible to get a
Port laud. Ore.
The One-Way-Charie Company
"wnshludy," for Instauce, when to Phono 216-43
look for a colored woman to do the *
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wash was hop«>less. America'« demuo-
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racy, Jealous of Its rights, has risen
At the Ccttfge Restaurant
a stage or two since then und “wo­
Wo can move you out of the
muddy street.
man” la a respectable word again. But
Acro» from Post office
It was left to old I'ennaylvaula to ap
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ply a distinction.
In Pennsylvania
any woman can bo a "lady,” to be sure,
but It wll’ cost her 26 cents, says Mil­
waukee Journal. Township election
laws make classes.
"Housewives,
h..useke«‘i>ers, servants" and so on
must pay 20 cents to register for vot­
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ing ; stenographers, clerks and book­
keepers pay 25 cents; doctors and law-
yers, 30 cents. But a "lady” must pay
40 cents. The class, It Is naively ex­
plained, corresponds to “retired" for
a man. Pennsylvania tins baubles for
her citizens—baubles that cost from
5 to 20 cents. You can be a lady In
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Pennsylvania for 20 cents extra—If
you can stand the classification "re­
tired." The way to be a lady that
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grandmothers used to tell little girls
was harder, but It had the merit of
convincing other folks than the reg­
istration clerk.
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A Happy New Year
Leisure Is freedom from responsible
direction and social need. Work Is
the sinews of society, but a society
based on leisure would disintegrate
Into an aggregation of hoboes. There
Is Indirectly, however, a social value
In leisure. Individualistic as It la, leis­
ure wisely employed develops the
personality Into a better functioning
social unit, says Chicago News. Leis­
ure may be used for recuperation or
education. Thus society, that Increas­
ingly powerful master of our Ilves,
finds It wise to supervise a tunn’s leis­
ure as well as his work, ills leisure.
In u word, becomes voluntary, pleas
ant and yet useful employment. Thus
Is leisure transformed Into a positive
asset not only to the Individual, hut to
humanity.
TO ONE AND ALL
“The Best Meat at Lowest Prices”
is the motto of
Eggiman’s Meat Market
Real Tire Economy
Ten European nations engaged In
the grent war show a potential loss In
population of 35,000,000 persons since
1914, according to figures compiled by
the Society for Studying the Social
Consequences of the War. Causes for
the abnormal falling off In population
were attributed as follows: Killed In
the war, 8,819,000; deaths due to
augmentation of mortality, economic
blockades, war epidemics, 5.901,066;
fall In birth rate due to mobilization
of bfl.ooo.tiOO men between the ages of
twenty and forty-five years, 20.260.<»*).
That Is Just one more thing to think
of by those who speak so lightly of
waging war.
Tire economy depends, not so much on the
original cost of the tire, as on its final cost
l>er mile of service.
You can readily appreciate the difference be­
tween paving $30.00 for a tire that runs 10,-
000 ni:I ‘s as compared with paying $21 each
for two tires that average 1000 to 5000 miles.
There is a very real and a very
good reason why more jieople ride
on Goodyear Tires than on any
other kind. Their combined ex­
perience has proved that Good­
year qnalty and service mean low
cost per mile of service.
Call at our Authorized Goodyear
Service Staton for real tire econ­
omy
Money Is being raised In Great
Britain at the rate of $50,000,000
monthly for the promotion of housing
schemes In that country. Plans have
been approved for more than 200.000
bouses so far, am) work has been be
gun on 80,<XI0 bouses. Announcement
of these fuels come* from the British
minister of health. Greet Britain has
passed the talking stnge on the way
to relieving Its housing shortage. The
United States is less fortunate.
The Austrian archdukes and arch­
duchesses In exile have been compelled
to go to work to earn their own live­
lihoods, It Is reported, as the war has
cut off their revenues, says Baltimore
American. The Austrinn aristocracy
has been among the haughtiest In
Europe, and It will do them good Io
be made by a not unkind fate to real­
ize they are mode of the same human
clay as other people.
The provisional President of Mexico
has refused permission for the right
by the socialists to establish a soviet
university In Mexico City on the
ground that It would be used to dis­
Inventors nre working on a device
seminate Bolshevist doctrines. Mex­ to prevent listening In on wireless
ico Is wise to apply the preventive telephone conversations. Why don’t
principle of the safety-first movement they Invent something like that for
In this respect, and Is giving a lesson regular telephones?
to other nations which have been
more lenient or less far-seeing to their
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C. H. TURNER
The French Academy of Sciences
has Indorsed the American rocking
Sucessor to
Tremont Housefurnishing Co.
chair as the most hygienic of seats.
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Thus new fads give way In turn to 6021 72nd St., S. E.
old customs, and It Is not Impossible
MRS. A. STEINMAN
that tiie new science will Indorse old
Mother Nature In the cuddling of
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“Spirella, the World’s Best Corset”
The British high commissioner of
Palestine has taken up his residence Phofles: Office 640-73.
Res. 643-5«
in the pnlace which the kaiser built Hours: 8 a. m. to 5 p. m. Evenings
by Appointment.
for himself on the Mount of Olives.
It was probably done for convenience,
DR. 0. BRIMMER
but the fact has a significance palpable
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for anything connected with it. Such
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a peace-loving lot, ns they were, It Is
5228 72nd St. S. E., Portland, Or.
Peter Larsen
B. Winters a wonder how the war ever happened.
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