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New Year's Edition
Section 2, Pages 1 to 12
VOL.. L.VI.
PORTLAND, OREGON, MONDAY, JANUARY 1, 1917.
NO. 17.507.
THE GITY Of ibc
New Tteari . prom
o Portland an aCbievements al
Pint- and industrial' dy.
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THE STATE OF OREGON
By Governor James IViihycombe.
WITH bountiful crops during the last year and bright prospects for another season of great
production, Oregon- well may face 1917 with satisfaction and assurance. We have been
slow to feel the full effects of the prosperity which unprecedented world conditions have forced
upon the Eastern states, but now Oregon, too, is experiencing the quickened pulse of trade awak
ening in all the branches of her industries. The products of our fields, forests, streams and
workshops are in demand and at profitable prices. And we well may' look for a continued period
of economic prosperity, and perhaps for even new fields of opportunity and expansion when the
world war has ceased and international trade relations are re-established.
But our satisfaction with the peace and plenty which surrounds us at home should be tem
pered by the constant recollection of the strife and want which is laying waste so vast a portion
of ' our . neighbor lands. Today we should realize more than ever before the imminence and com
plexity of the problems of nations, and the fact that while fortune thus far has been kind to us.
; yet, at any time, a single incident may plunge us into unprecedented difficulties. And such
realization should make us sober-minded and each one of us ready to place his small contribution
of patriotic loyalty and public service at the disposal of the Nation, or whatsoever portion of the
National establishment each may most readily support.
One of Oregon's great opportunities lies in the expansion of its trade with foreign lands. We
should make every effort to equip ourselves to enter that field on a big scale. It will be one of
the factors for immediately stimulating the industrial development of Oregon.
This , is "a time for economic growth, for commercial preparedness ; . and especially, to my
mind, it is a time for renewed and sincere interest in those things which go to make and keep
a Nation truly great love of country and honor to its flag.
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INTERSTATE REALTY ASSOCIATION
By F. E. Taylor. President.
mHE members of the Interstate Realty Association join with me in extending.
-L through The New Year's Oregonian. a most cordial welcome to the people
of the world to visit the great Pacific Northwest an empire comprising Oregon.
Washington. Idaho and Montana, that for its wealth of natural resources, produc
tiveness and scenic attractions has no equal in America. This section of the United
States is on the eve of its greatest development. Its future is without limitations,
not only because of the diversity of resources, but also because' of the expansion
of trans-Pacific commerce that is bound to assume tremendous proportions after
the European war. Great opportunities in industrial and development enterprises
await capital; thousands of small farms are available for persons of limited
means. It is the mission of the Interstate Realty Association to disseminate these
facts and to assist prospective investors and homeseekers to become properly
established in the "Land of Opportunity."
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By Ben Hur Lamp-man.
Biding here beside the sea, "where she sets
her salmon free.
Was our lass. Oregon. nith her hills
around her
Resting on their paddles then, laughed the
bearded trapper men.
Shouting, "We have found her!"
"Never such another one ever shone the
sun upon.
As our lass Oregon, smiling in the dew;
Lads, we'll send a message back, a prom
ise and a presage back
Here are dreams come truel"
Who shall sing the couriers, the fleet-foot-
' ed promisers?
Who shall sing the faint trail, turning
to the dawn?
None may pay the debt to them, the
blown-bearded trapper men
Crying, "Oregon 1"
Toss a hundred years aside, loose a white
sail on the tide.
It is dawn for Oregon, build ye as ye
may;
Lightly on the youth of her, the freshness
and the truth of her.
Rests a single day.
But a day for Oregon are the scores of
years agone.
None may dream a dream of her but
it shall come true;
Homes are in the heart of her, with toil
and peace a part of her.
For you and you and youl
Biding here beside the foam, where she
calls her wild geese home.
Was our lass Oregon, with her hills
around her
Laughing through the river mist come the
trappers to the trysl.
Shouting, "We have found her!"
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FARMERS' EDUCATIONAL AND CO-OPERATIVE
UNION.
By J. D. Brown. President of Department of Oregon and Southern Idaho.
IN closing the records of the past year the farmer becomes aware of the fact
that it has been a year of unprecedented prosperity. It has been a year
of unusual production, good quality and high prices for nearly everything the
farmer has had for sale. The consumer, however, must not be led to believe that
the average farmer has received more than a fair wage to compensate him for his
industry and intelligent effort. If the consumer looks for the underlying cause
for the high cost of living; he will find that a sort of mania for taking big profits
has possessed a large part of the middlemen. Until a new marketing system is devel
oped through the agencies of the Government, in co-operation with the producer and
consumer, we can expect to suffer from the rapacity of the middleman's greed. The
Oregon farmer may, however, turn to meet the new year with a welcoming smile,
for prospects were never better for his development and his progress. Under the
leadership of the farm organizations, the farmer is marching on to the achieve
ment of those better things that will make for his advancement and his prosperity,
and upon the prosperity of the farmer will be built a better civilization among us.
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