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• i '- THE Or •tO#| if . , ....... ‘ - ' « o . / . * . STAYTON MAIL ¿¿TAYTON, MARION COUNTY. OREGON. THURSDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1918 24th. Year, No. 51. THE PLIGHT OF THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY AND ITS CAUSES Christmas Greetings TI»** II1*! tWo inoli) I IH lift VI* WÌt ! Setter HIIIIIIII ¡Uff li I • lif th<* l#l* )I4 tli•• inni! ■ ■xtrnnrdinnry |io conld he umili' tlinn thè artici'- litii'iil ii|>»vt ìii'tUe liblnry of tln- i wrilten ny tl»» Washington corri* nomiti-v. A h Ai lutili ÌMtrut ioti *|>ondent uf tlu* New York Kv<*i*- clothe,l with authority ni'Vi'i In* i-ig l ’ont. Thin writer l>. s I»« < *i i in lori' <*< |iiii1 1 *iI. li il by h until ul' ln*' tlu I’residcnt h ciunn"lI lois i » I * ' h « Î - i t ni t ine • lili i'xs, ul tile cime of i* •'•I for him in season und out, nml vlutoi'i '•II* \\ 11r ami almo et nt t h«* : lias hem Ifrllfffi II v IH.... pt ed os tb** w i v nitmn* lit of vie tory. turn* to ! **P 'ke-:nian of the: Alim in ii t ratli-n.1 loi'. thi-ir approval. T«> The validity of h is i-rit iri sin is eli- the pet tM|l I lu)|He.!’ .1 Disk r lili»re bind h Herr« 1 by the 1rUet tha t he in one Hi|f ih t» ex ; ' •l*tc,| Itminiait«* fur n ■ f the fondest wOt sili) •ri"N of tlll’ | c.ntim lilt ioi ,| full Hilt IIIirity, ih«- I’rcsid ••lit, and ItHH Oit '*!» written 1 Hi nt t i !«■•:• e* to voters ai 1 about him «itti i litoti•r«itile fu i-1 ttioviltfc r » p i [>ntl in hin 1test ami ! •'.omeness. Ids rr JIKOIIH J’| !>r tlu* ili 1 rnoKt colivi iig nunimm-, calling tuinihh ed popolari t y of Mir. Wilson1 • 1t*oit g less Ill' ll end- Ih 1- enti .-l.li-« 1 roml iti Oli of bis oli litri Il to 1 rf . - party in or«l%r part v have been well c Xprese -d in 1 OI liitt ( l 1 that liir lull be 11 uLiix lered in ■he fol iowinif (Miraltrui of his • ,ii ties dur ! “ Mi Wilson, n h i* al iHOfpt ioti n. 1 ir run*t complicati <1 ill Pit*' rnatioi'ul «i iifat m»II*. luta gol ¡ntt on f f jv.ii it prrim 1* in the hi*- ItilllSI'l f out of t' • lieh with •tlu* trite miti iliaat ion, Wh at is tin |spirit of Amer ir il ' on ilumcnt ic tory 0! |'(»h 1 -Oil*44» T III HtlMll grant ing •pii-ht ioiiN. Tlu- • It of ih•nioeraey if course, whiMt the Fresi ch1 lit pt ch' il fot*1 the iiiumluti «t a him Itlifl t Mll|) ¡ml cpendent ,\ '-ars is till b'llg- •r tir|iirlid in th-- « s sharp-1 • IUtlH'1*atte a'td hiir«*! IH'm ♦ ic cliar YOt Trt of tl>10 1r tiitui ly 1 tl.< ip i ai. III the pros Hi'I'-r of the a«l\ i*4r*m w lin 1 mi-,'.' in ••III cm ifi ’ cn tic D.•moer ¿Its Itavi- fltieticie his a et i»•U h . or i n ♦ lie high III ily in t hr S«‘nate and «..Il be has hmit a rom ul hioUH |f., a la w “ lie lias mad H lili* tûtil' io ile a unir 1but *nuill one in tl.ic House III the next rotili re*)t the Repuhli ciilillg to take 1 «1.mitr itli hin. ••« rjçr i 'rr ri, ‘ who cniu. « ill hU Vie a majority of two Miirop - Mi ' and ;a f:»njortty ot has li 1 st the cont idruro or 1 tir in th<* Scili pres and tit •rfby r f j about forty -fi glit in i t lie 1 louse ! A uteri' * THE NON-PARTISAN LEAGUE? PROBLEM BOBS UP AGAIN UK STA Y TO N MAIL, with a conservative estimated representation of approximately four thousand readers. feels it appropriate and opportune to extend to its many readers Christmas Greetings in that spirit of good will and fellowship that bespeaks an appre- nation o f the loyalty and suppôt t they have given their local paper. e the advertising medium The Stayton Mail has be Linn Corniti* A- Business of a largo portion o f Marion sewhere are beginning to houses in SaK m, Albany and mention. Almost, every appreciate its value in this district for miles around is representad by a rea! live cor -rvtceg o ffth ese correspondents are re.*- *>-:n The highly appreciated and deserving of spe< ;al mention for their promptness and the wide variety and newsy feature of the items furnished by theif. each week. The S 'ay ton Mail has nearly nin« hundred regular subscribers, must of which represent a,; entire family. It will he found on the library table of nearly every suli- s c r il r for a full week and is i¡ot only read by the entire family hut by neighbors and friends and is in every .nonce a family paper. The Stayton Mail takes this opportunity o f extending to its many readers and advertisers its appreciation of their supi*o-t in the past and ex t *nd to each its kindliest good wishes for a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year. i PH-» ine |MH| “ The Atlant ie er control Il V l’ot»? ( ¡«'lierai Burleson al the time of, tin- announcement of tin- transfer of t 're e l 's activities to Europe is What is more, thè feeling of hos t il it y t«, tin* Adiuinistratioii, which denounced by the President's i..*ovt wa inamfesti'd at the polls in No- loyal I ruin Is as a colossal blunder vein her, has grown in intensity. ’ ’ The Cabinet is superannuated The newspapers, at last lingaggcd and in a rut, and .Mr. MeAdoo h ami unfettered, are speaking their dmtild not have h«"*n |H*rinitted to ( h a s Stevenson w its arrested I C g !’ P Pfl flDCDiTKlV mind* \\ •• Mi-ldom *< e a paper ot i|iiit his offices until after .Mr. Inst Saturday night bv ConstaWe-v AuMhtt U ti'U ltn A llu ll any eoiiseipienee that «does not ; \\ ¡león s return. The Presìdi nt ha* been abut* Henry Smith, near Stayton, being «•ontani sharp gritieism of the Wnshlncton. — (Special.) — Ju st be President ami hi advisers, ami til g his doors to qualified advisers wanted Ity the Government for this stateinent appliea to Demo- and depending too much on his evading the draft law. Stevenson fore leuvlna for l-'runce to superin tend the demobilization activities of cratie as well a s Rc| iihlrran or i-wn judgment a n d the counsels of registered at Mehama last June those organizations which recently guns. Tin* | ample one meets, of all i* small body of * provincially and never filled out bis quostion- took part ¡n the United W ar Work politieal affiliations, are of ...... minded adviser«.’ naire. He was arrested al Ktigene Campaign, Raymond B. Kosdlck, voice in I'ondemuittg such acts as! ’ l i e hasn’t consulted Repuhli for the offense and gave bonds fo r chairm an of the Commission on Trnln- t|„. appeal to voters, tin- proposed cans a* well a s Democrats on for his appearatiee. hu t fa ile d to put mg Camp ActWitlc*. wa* interviewed journey of the President to Ku- oign affairs. in an appearance at the re q u ire d with regard to the present altaatloa of to p e in th e company of Georg. “ He is attempting to manage! time and coiuieqncntly w a s want- tw) by thP <’reel, a n d the seizure of the cables the Government ’ in a personal a m i, ed l.y the fe d e r a l authorities . aim, demobilization ..f more than a t a time when th e freest com- private way which d o e s not square Stevenson'a honds were p la ce d two mmlon men three tliouaaml mile« munii-ation is a public necessity. with his professiona of deiuoe- at $500 with Mike and Ike Bass fn,ni home Is on«* which will tux all as signers. He was found at th** - our social n<wi;nr<' mid Mr. Kos- If it is ever possible to judge po racy.’ •*He has failed to take the poo-1 O. B. Myers place and placed in illck. “It Is above uii u morale prob litical probabilities from tin- ex lem, nml It must be fuccit a* such, with pressed opinion of many men, an pie into It in confidence with re- the Stayton cooler till Monday the full coo p er*:lo n of fam ilies anil gard to what he means to do at morning when he was taken to election held today woidd give the frlenil* here In this country. If It Is to Republicans such a majority in the Peace ( ’onferenee, or with his Portland by W. Richardson, mu- he solvtst successfully. Every one who hot h Houses of Congress as they arrangements for the transaction j of tin* state’s officers, where In* has a son. s brother, must help. "W hite the war was on our boys of executive business during his was turned over to the govern- have not had for many years. were fully occupied; they were still What lias brought about this ahscncc from the country.’ ’- Col- meut authorities, ft I lei! with the spirit of adventure, * . amazing revulsion of feeling? No lier’s. looking forward rather thnn back. IN BAD WITH TURN THE BOYS’ T O U T S THE M VERN M EN r 3 ^E,VARD. SAYS F 3 S 0 ICK. EDWARD DARBY STANDING OF INFLUENZA VICTIM DOLL CONTESTANTS The doll contest at Beauchamps Drug Store lias seventeen contest ants so far and according to tlu* vote east up to Wednesday even ing it is going to he a close race for first place Mr. Beauchamp informs us that the contest will (•lose at ti o clock on the evening of Tuesday, Doe. *24. ami as soon as tin* remaining votes can he counted the winners will he an num.... .. Better hurry and see that your favorite little one gets her share of the votes. The stand ing of ............ so far are Helen M ie lk e ......................... Helen R ie h a r d * .................... Wilma M on tgom ery........... Mary Lamhreeht ................ Lotiine T h o m a s .................... Agnes C l a r k ........................... Marie Deidrieh .................... . .flint» XMAS SERVICE AT M. E. CHURCH O il Sunday at a m an d « : J | 1 70,000.000 raised In the re- Kilward "Darby, n former resi }>• X m a s h y m n s w ill b e su n g; oen, Wa r Work drive Is to he dent of Stayton and well known ill the M. K. church. The title ot i UK,.,j j,rot.|,«.|y to bridge over this pe- here, «lied at Ins home at l.osline, thc morning service will he “ The rtod by providing recr«*ntlon and Oregon, last Thursday *of pneu Bells o f Bethlehem ," nil«! tlu* e v e -1 am usem ent But no amount of mere monia, following influenza. ning .sermon, “ The First P e a c e m«»ney expended In such a way will be . enough. Wtint these boys reully want Kdwin Darby was horn ami _ no, diversion, but human Interest raised near Stayton and lias a Convention. relatives here a n d I On Sunday at 10 a. m.. there I and sympathy. T hese things express- number of imniediate around th i* ini medial« vicinity, will be held the annual X m as: ^ m letters from home wiil warm . . . , their hearts and emtte a home nt- RIGHT Stayton Mail program in the church. A Sliver ,no8p|„.ro around them, even while lie is a brother of Claud Darby of collection will be taken for thej they are absent from the family circle. . __ n j / s _____ "Such letters may lie a very neces- Stayton. II«* leave* a wife and an . , Mry anChor to wtndwant in the adopted child, two brothers. Claud Amertcan Red Cross. ■ — - - ■ » , . , case of some boy a The thought of and Georifb, and a sisttT of j some one waiting for them, counting Astoria. ! on them, will more thnn anything The funeral was held today at j else, make them hold hack ami think Salem from tlu* Rigdon untertak j twice before plunging Into s lt^ tlo n s ing narlors. which might mean harm uml uuhap RED CROSS KNITS THIRTY SWEATERS ..2701 . . ‘2(il>n CITY COUNCIL WILL IMPROVE WATER ST. p m iM ..2546 ..2460 . . ‘2215 ..2160 ..2015 ..2155 •I- socks for our boys. ..2000 ..2625 A. Thoma had circulated a p< - A. C. Connut, of Manning. Ore tit ion a no ing the citizens and h ai s tccatnled in raising about gon, at ii\ed last Saturday for ¡1 Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lesley $BVMK) which will alvi h» np-! v- it with his lirolher in Inw, (' Iv K r r m f . Mr ('«mani w a s taken stten I ’fl ll • runnra! of Rev’. I plied to 11«** street fund. Wor ki s'.«-k while here and is under the I>nrhy, which was held at Salem will start i nimvliately. cure of Dr. B« niu-hamp. loth >. Liva Davie ............... ............. Jean t 'ladek .......................... Marie Weidner .................... Hilda Trask ........................... Alice Kleeker ...................... Mildred ) lat ton .................. Lneile Caspcll ...................... Lucille Dow n i n g .................. f o r I hem. ••We havn raised the cleanest army has ! In the world. We have kept It cleun. The Stayton Red Cross sontOO sweaters to Salem th i, week, which goes to show that the ladies of Stavton have been hard at work for the boys over At the last council m eeting the there. The last allotm.-nt of [•ouncil appropriated $ 200.00 to y a r n has l>een received atul it re- he used to Improve W ater street quested that the ladies call and The Xe w Northwest, “ official for years has taken the position, paper of tin* city of Missoula,’ ’ that big business was always raan- and official organ of the Non- aged by robbers and corporation« Partisan l.i gue for Montana, out- by ciit-throlts and he was let out. lines fairly the political program Dorman and the New North- of this party. west offer a radical program of It |>al)lishi's tin* call to battle denouncing all war profiteers in to carry the state two years * pBc of the fact that they are pay. ”h uce, attributing its failure at ing 80 per cent excess war ptofitg t i e re,;, nt .'l"dion in Idaho and tax. Montana to “ combination of «or They offer power to the farm- * ninstaiiei's. ” • pis at one-fifth what it costs to D. C. Doiman, state chairman of produce it now without consider- the Le ague says of the prospe *t ing th<- effect that would have on in 1920: " W e do not anticipate a tH*• labor employed in producing drouth, v.ar or pestilence followed power. hv a heavy snowstorm on election j They denounce the state offi- eif.U of ( aliforiua as conspirators' 11° ’ ' ’ in s tn tir - that as a and enemies of labor for convic- I -»lit i")1 <■ anizatio', tliey had tion of Mooney and the homb- itotl i..^ to *,..»**, as they started sters who blew up. the prepared- with nothing ami In- claims “ over tiess pa’ ade. 1 Oft official-- elected. Among these! In ar> article copied from The ffieers tv • tv. nty op more leg Public or the frqut page of the i-latoi- and a Supreme Ju d g e.“ New Northwest (issue of Nov. 28) The r* *t are county officials. 'th ey endorse this sentiment in Careful analysis shows 1-1 out large type—get a copy and see for 0; 96 representatives and four out yourself: of 4 1 'senators endorsed l.y the “ We know Kngland'* share in Non-Partisan League in Montana j checking the sweep o f the French w 1 re cled -d but ,ome of the* • are Revolution, so that its work is *ound husines- men. j now only being completed. Is The League first claim-*«! tho* America to play* the role today* election of Riddick to Ciyi-zve#- that Ktightnd played a little more bu» Riddick repudiated the league, than a century agof • • • The openly and it branded him a* determination of the role that we worthy of the support of no con are to play in the world is in fhe i>-tent Leaguer. hands of our democratic agitators The League lost the election of ami organizers.’’ Tack Ilall. a member of the Pub Airing such sentiments Dorman lie Service Commission who had and Graighead ask the patriotic always attacked capital and eaf- farmers of Montana to come e:i*d to radicalism as a public of- through with another $16 each for final. the next two years to the number The business elements of the of 25,(»00 to 40.000 members for state supported Lis* Dennis, who campaign of 10*20 in these stirring had a good reenrtTaa county trvjus- words: tire? and recorder at Great Pans. “ How many are ready to renew and on a square issue he won by your pledge? Have your answer five thousand. (and your money) ready when the Here was a public official who organizer calls.’ ’ A PAIR OF ACES W. D. Shaff They call tne an Aee, an Ace of the sky. When high o'er the cloud lamls sometimes I (In the blue above earth's shell- swept plain. War-worn an<| sodden with life's red rain) Fly swift as a meteor now here, now there, Battling with foes on those fields of air Where whine of shell and the bul- Now. however, the fighting ts at an lets ping end They are going to remain, most Tell me Death is near and eager of them, many months doing work to sting. which will lie neither exciting nor particularly Interesting. They will get lonesome, bored and terribly home- * ..4056 Serial No. 1132 / r jl i -t. iii 1"fi| And it w ill not In* a tner m ajority. Il w ill ooiistitut l'xnrahli* <>i posi timi t « » tli pian». and indii'ii'n ni tln> A iliiiin iitra t imi z •C "-I” . ' " ■»*«“ , * • ” nut whu„ „c believe our »«.idlers wilt staml the present t«*st—the hanlest of strong aa It was «lien It left us. all In some ways— as bravely aatl su ccessfu lly.»a«they have stood every other test of tludr manhood and en- durnm-e, it is our duty to give them 7 ‘tmve Ml(i, ran ,ie, , he «•Ill hecln aiow. nt ou«-«*, not only to satisfy tln-lr home hoi (rings, hut to turn their thoughts from tasks already ......lmpllsluHl In the long years uf Ute of thorn." Ben Geld.-n transact ed business at Sal« in Monday. SAME OLD STORY NOTHING NEW The Guard Iteld a regular meet ing Monday evening. It was ex pected that a captain would be elected that night, but the head moguls informed the hoys that there would be no election. This has been the state of affa irs'fo r some time and the majority of the members, who have to quit Work along before dark and drive in to attend the meeting, have become sort of disgusted with the way things are going. When Mr. Lambert was proniot- ed from Captain to Major it was understood that a Captain would he elected right away. But when the few who have been running the Guard in their own way found out that their candidate was not going to he electe«l they sort o f staved the hoys off from electing a new captain. In fact the whole deal is a farce from start t i fin- aiid it is t ;me that the “ bull” 1 «* tied tip before there is a stampede. An Ace so they say. Well I'm not Its high As another card in this «leek of life. I'm onlv # two-spot—your asking whvf Well there's more than war in this world of strife And somewhere out in the C. S. A. Tliere’s a card that holds o ’er my heart its sway, Her spirit is calling from over the And my heart throbs madly and a seas. tear drop starts, And bids me have courage. Bo W! en I think of my royal Ace pf patient and wait. Hearts. For God ever holds the keys of our fate. Oh. Ace of Hearts, 1 remember well in the blue of your sky, he no Thv magic power, when under the cloud of «despair, spoil I am longing for you, oh Aee of Of votir starry eves, I vanquished the Air. ‘ fell In the lists of love. Words can I ’m— er— what does this mean? not t«*ll Me here on a eot. Of the vibrant thrill when the All bandaged up and— seems as if hour of fate. I were shot. Bearing fruitage rare, gives « Let me think if I can for I'm ly soul its mate. ing here For that hour 1 knew when your |So weary and tire«! and my head kiss divine feels so <juo««r. As a smile of God*, linked your heart with mine. Who's this ht-iiiling o ’er? Why a eroaa of red Now I circle and wheel I see on lu*r gown ns she pillows heron in flight. :nv head. And the slow drifting clouds hiilejW hat. you, Sweetheart, here. Ah the euj-th from sight. 1 God «loth not part Yet I 'm nev« r alone as bourn on The Aee of the* Air from the Ace the lirefre - of Hearts.