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. SPKEU
The essence of every contract now
adays is speed. The world sems to
have acquired the speed mania to an
alarming degree. Yesterday the press
dispatches contained an announce
ment from a well known British man
ufacturer of airplanes and dirigibles
that therg would be a machine built
In a few years that would travel ar
ound the earth in one day. In 24
hours it would circle the globe the
shade of Phineas Fogg must have
turned a flip flop when he got that
by wireless. The inventor claims that
by traveling with the sun he would
have a twenty-four hour daylight trip.
A British dirigible has just called
on us, took tea and blew back home.
Speed the word itself has taken on
a new meaning. All of us over twenty-five
years of age can remember
when the 2:30 horse waB speedy. The
"cannon-ball" flyer that nii'.du forty
miles an hour on the rails was speedy.
Not today. The whole world demands
and is attainlng'a speed hitherto un
dreamed of. There is scarcely a sin
gle daily paper that does not contain
the report of an automobile accident
earring death and destruction in its
wake and that is directly traced to
the mania for speed.
The man who drove a good team a
few years ago and confined his trav
els to a fifty or a hundred mile radius
and who had time to look around a
Utile before venturing Into a blind
railway crossing, now goes five hun
dred miles from home and rushes in
to a danger tone at twenty, thirty,
fifty miles an hour.
Leather is tanned now In a few
daya the same result that used to
take months. In lens time than It
used to take to get the saddle on the
horse that started on the many day
relay trip west with the malls,
today the word Is flashed clear ar
ound the earth.
One wonders If people nowadays
are not missing sonie'.liin in this
speedy, efficient existence. Hoes the
man who gets in his car and "steps
on It" for a run of one hundred to
five hundred miles know as much of
the interesting things that are grow
ing and living near him? Is he able
to enjoy a reposeful hour, walking In
the woods or along some stream,
studying and admiring nalurs? I
think not. He gets his nature study
at the movie show. A mnri-vl man
in a close, smelly dark room takes
a film that was taken fium the life
and "edits" it so as to get the most
action iu the shortest length of film.
He reads only the headlines of his
daily. The writers who have spent
hours of toil searching for a new way
of saying the sume thinss, in older
to attract his jaded mind, lose their
audience because they cannot put a
three column story In a ten line head.
It would benefit anyone to get
away from the influence of speed for
a season and consider the things that
are not desirable when speeded up.
Is the time coming when a man's
span of life will total a doien years?!
Will humanity speed up until nature
responds and speeds up her efforts
so that a man can go through the
whole of his life span, from infancy
to maturity and death In a few years
that now take sixty? Th"re is the
baby beef, unknown a few years ago.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERU INTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Briefly Sketched for Infor
mation of Our Readeri.
Following the election of new of
ficers by the East Lake Health Re
sort, stockholders In the company will
visit the lake Sunday to look over the
improvements already made there,
and to decide on plans for operation
and development into a first class
health and pleasure resort. At pres
ent about 40 guests can be accommo
dated in the hotel put up last summe
and in addition tents have been p
up and bath houses constructed for
those who wish to take advantage
of the hot spring.
The directors will also take steps
toward keeping the road into the
lake open for a longer period of time
during the year, as onfler ordinary
conditions it is blocked with snow
until the early part of the summer.
New officers elected are Fred Shin
taffer, president: EInar Meisted, .
president! John Bellet, treasurer; and
H. H. DeArmond, secretary. Bend
Bulletin.
Due to the rapid growth of Wheeler
the local postofflce has been made a
third-class office.
All Portland hog price records were
smashed Saturday when hogs were
quoted at $23 a hundred pounds.
The Lebanon cannery Is taxed to
Its utmost to care for the loganberries
offered for canning at this time.
The Oregon state highway commis
sion has let contracts for approximate
ly too miles of road paving, to cost
S1.713.11S.
Kecords at the Portland city health
bureau show that births from January
to July have exceeded the number of
deaths by 37S.
W. A. Reid, secretary of the Marsh
field chamber of commerce, has re
ceived an offer of the secretaryship
of The Dulles chamber.
David C. Sanderson, publisher of
the Freewater Times, died suddenly
In his room at the Benson hotel In
Portland, supposedly from heart dis
ease. Deputy Secretary of State Koser
announces that the 1919 1920 volume
of the Oregon Blue Book will be ready
for distribution the latter part of this
month.
Coventor Olcott appointed Arthur
Berridge, of Portland, as a member of
the state board of accountancy to suc
ceed W. R. McKenzle, who has re
signed. Owners of nearly 3000 acres of
prunes In Lane county became mem
bers of the Oregon Fruit Growers Co
operative association at a meeting held
in Eugene.
Bend, McMlnnville, Klamath Falls
and Astoria are the latest Oregon
towns to make application for organi
zation of local chapters of the Ameri
can Lesion.
Governor Olcott and Mayor Baker
of Portland have extended an invita
tion to President Wilson to accom
pany the new Pacific fleet when It vis
its Portland.
Construction of the Port of Astoria's
fl .000,000 export pier No. 3 will be
started Immediately by the Founda
tion company, whose officials and staff
of engineers are now In the city.
THE WORLD
OWES YOU A LIVING!
But it is up to you to collect
the obligation. You. owe to
yourself and to your family
the comforts and convenienc
es of a good home. Build the
new home or remodel the old
one NOW. Don't wait for
lower prices they won't come. All
commodities are on a new price level
just as well get used to them. It
takes less beef or wool or wheat or
hay to build a house now than it did
the same kind of a house five years
ago.
Come in and talk it over with us or,
drop us a line and we will come and
see you.
HOUSE TUH""LljH LllflBEH REDMOND, CULVEB,
PtANS COMPANY MADRAS, GATEWAY
L. E. SMITH, District Manager
Sheriff Anderson of ISaker has re- '
turned from San Francisco with
Charles Connors, the alleged Haines
hank robber, who Is now locked up
In the Baker county Jail awaiting trial.
Senator I. U Patterson of Polk coun
ty, mentioned a a possible selection
tor warden of the Oregon stale peni
tentiary, denied emphatically that he
Is or ever had been a candidate for
the position.
Excavation has started for the 170,
000 engineering laboratory building at
the Oregon Agricultural college ail
(horded by the legislature, the con
tract having been let to Hoover A Mc
Neil, of Albany.
A group of Scandinavian merchants,
financial men and traders visited In
Portland and placed contracts for big
quantities of foodstuffs, manufactured
goods and raw products and for the
construction of ships.
Fire louses in Oregon, outside of
Portland, for the month of June ag
gregated 4fi.S54, according to ft
statement by Stale Fire Murslml Har
vey Wells. Albany. Hood Itivor and
Ma-slil'ield suffered the heaviest loss.
Clatsop county la In need of school
teacli.-s and unless application are re
count for existing vacancies soon,
several country schools will be with
out instructors next full, uccordlug to
O. II. Ilyluncl. county Hiiiierlntendent.
Seth L. Roberts of Cortland was ap
po':;ed by Governor Olcott to succeed
J. W. Ferguson as a member of the
state board of accountancy. Mr. Fer
guson resigned when ha became a
member of the Industrial accident com
mission. The grain yield of Clackamas coun
ty for 1919 Is to be larger than for
many years, and the farmers, who
have planted much of their land this
year to oats, wheat and other grain,
are optlmistio over the outlook for a
large harvest
The war mineral relief committee
will arrive In Portland July 24 and
will remain one day Investlgatipg'the
claims of chrome mining Interests in
Oregon for reimbursement of losses
sustained while producing ore for the
government ,
According to reports from Washing
ton the Pacific fleet and Secretary of
the Navy Daniels will visit the Co
lumbia river liurliors when the new
fighting division of America's navy Is
sent to take up Its position on the
western coast.
One million dollars worth of state
highway bonds were dollvered by
State Treasurer Hoff to a syndicate
headed by Carstens A Karles of Seat
tle, who bid them In at the monthly
meeting of the highway commission in
Portland at $94. US, the Issue netting
the state $942,600 with accruod Inter
est from June. i
Hereafter convicts who violate their
paroles by the commission of a crime
will be returned to the state prison
to serve the full maximum sentence
without any hope of further consid
eration for parole by the governor or
the state parole board. -
Blame for the epIclemlcTTfTtnall pox
which has resulted In 650 cases In
Portland since It began In December
is fastened by Dr. George Parrish, city
health officer, upon nefflclency and
red tape In the Portland office of the
United States shipping board.
. Dr. F. V. Holllstcr of Portland was
elected president of the Oregon State
Dental association at the close of the
annual convention In Portland. He
has been secretary of the association
for the pant year and Is a member of
the state board of dental examiners.
Pcndlcton"s newest financial Insti
tution Is the Inland Empire bank. It
started with a capital of $250,000,
which Is exceeded by only two banks
In the state outside of Portland. J.
W. Maloney, for 36 years a resident
of Umatilla county, Is president of the
bank.
Fred M. Hesse, of the Hesse-Martin
Iron works of Portland, has been ap
pointed by Governor Olcott a member
of the state board of engineering ex
aminers. He will take the place of
J. C. Strange of Portland, who was
unable to accept the appointment (or
business reasons.
With the shipment through Bend ot
a large quantity of lumber and tank
materials by Jason Moore, who holds
options on the nitrate deposits at
Summer and Abert lakes In Lake coun
ty, it is Indicated that there will be
considerable development of these de
posits this summer.
Oregon has nearly $30,000,000 in
highway building funds in sight for
the years of 1919-2021, according to
Information received by the depart
ment of industries of the Portland
chamber of commerce from Roy A.
Klein, secretary of the Oregon state
highway commission.
All of the Oregon Congressional del
egation was present at a bearing on
the Hawley bill appropriating $2,500,
000 for the Roosevelt highway held by
the house committee on public roads,
In Washington, An appeal for the high
way was also made by Louis J. Simp
son of North Bend, Or.
Stolen property worth about $1000
was recovered by the Portland police
after a workman had plowed up two
sacks of silverware and other articles
from a cache at Sixth and Main streets.
The stolen goods had been burled un
der the porch of an old house, which
has since been torn down.
REWARD
We note that Road Supervisors and
property owners make a practice of burn
ing weeds, , that accumulate along the
fences adjacent to our power lines. This
practice is dangerous, as it damages the
power lines and places the life of persons
who may come in contact with a down
wire in danger of instant death.
We are compelled to offer a reward
to stop this dangerous practice. We will
pay $25 to any one giving us information
leading to the arrest and convidion of any
person who in any way may cause our
lines or any of our property to be dam
aged. Des Chutes Power Co.
City Meat Market
J. W. HORIGAN, Prop.
Choice Home-Made Hams, Bacon
and Lard
Fresh Fish and Oysters
Fruit and Vegetables in Season
Correct lubrication
for your automobile
With Zerolene, the Stand
ard Oil Company offers you
scientific service in lubri
cation. By exhaustive study and
actual tests our Board of Lu
brication Engineers baa de
termined the correct consis
tency of Zerolene or your
casks of automobile. Their
recommendations are avail
able for you in the Zerolens
Correct Lubrication Charts.
There is a chart for each
tnsks of car.
Zerolsna Is correctly re
fined from selected Califor
nia crude ell. It is the product
of the combined resources,
priMC and eqnlpraeat of
the Standard Oil Company.
Oat a Correct Lubrication
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