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About The Madras pioneer. (Madras, Crook County, Or.) 1904-current | View Entire Issue (June 20, 1912)
THE MADRAS PIONEER Published every Thursday by PIONEER PUBLISHING CO. Subscription Rates One year 'on Six months JJ Three months o) Entered as second class matter August 29, 1904, at the Postof fice at Madras, Oregon, under the Act of Congress of March S, 1379. high school, and there is no legitimate reason why such ac ti6n should be delayed. Thursday, June 20, 1912. A Union High School It is a matter of pride and con gratulation that the business men of Madras are co-operating with the School Board in an ef fort to establish a union High School in this town. We cant conceive why the adjacent school districts to the north, northeast and northwest can offer serious objection to such a step. The only argument against the pro position is that an additional tax will be necessary for a few years. But such an extra expense will be more than returned in the course of a few years when your boy or girl will have to be sent to Prineville or Bend to get a common high school education. At present all of the districts hich are considering the proposed that school in conjunction with the Madras district, are paying taxes each year to maintain the county HighSchool at Prineville, and few of those outside of the Prineville district have ever en joyed the benefits, because those in the outside districts have not been able to meet the expenses n icessary to send a boy or girl to Prineville to attend the school. As soon as the union High School can show that its work is up to the required standard, this tax which at present is going to maintain the Prineville school, will be diverted to the union school, which amount, with the present school funds, would prob ably maintain the union school without any further additional taxation. There is every reason to believe that this necessary standard of work can be shown within a year or two, thus re ducing the period of additional taxation to a minimum. The advantages to Madras and the adjacent school districts are so apparent that we believe it would be evidence of unreason able short-sightedness to refuse to establish such a school at the present time. The marvelous development of the Northwest in the last ten years is the direct result of the efforts which have been made along educational lines. We do not mean educa tional work in its narrower sense as confined to the schools and colleges alone, but the broader work which has been done by the United States Government, the State Government, the rail roads and the large colonization companies, working in conjunc tion with the colleges in bring ing the result of scientific in vestigations of the colleges and laboratories to the ranchers, and the assistance these bodies, with their experts, have been to the ranchers in applying these advanced methods. These same organizations are the ones who have also given aid to the move ment tending to increase the practical value of the county schools. It seems but logical that a county suchjas Crook, which has so many resources, the develop ment of which is only begun, should do all possible to help her self. At present there are but two high schools in the county, one at Prineville, the cqunty school, and a union high school at Bend. Both of these schools are inaccessible from this, end of the cunty, and always will be on account of the necessary ex pense incidental to sending chil dren to either of these to attend school. If Northern Crook coun ty is to have any school facilities more advanced than district work, it must establish its own The Home Town People seldom stop to consider how much their town means to them. They take it too much for granted, and in counting up their hlnssnnrs make a superficial in- vpntarv that fails to credit the source from which many of their dearest benefits flow. It is easy tn overlook the home town in summing up the sources of one's hnnniness because the town is such a large, all-developing thing so larire in fact, that it's hard to see and the citizen blindly draws sustenance from it like an infant from its mother. Traced to their source, most of life's blessings will be found to have their root in that aggrega tion of human beings and human interests known as a town. The town is the unit of modern civil ization and is the channel through which civilization con fers its benefits. There is scarce ly a phase of civilization that does not find direct and specific expression in the life and organ ization of a town that is large e- nougn to have a school, a court house, a library, a bank, a mill, a factory, a church, a water works, a brass band, a newspa per and a railway station. Re Dresentinc education, jurispru dence, literature, finance, indus try, religion, hygiene, art and the commodities, these institu tions express all that is higest and best in human achievement. If civilization is good, then the home town is good, and the citi zens should be proud and thank ful of it. Instead of casting wonderings and envious glances at a distant New York,- let us glow with pride for our own lit tle city, rea izing that the differ ence is only one of degree and not of kind. , This town was built around the first store, not around a mail order catalocrue. The Dalles Chronicle. When Will the Bolt Come? The threat of a bolt from the Republican convention has gone so far that it has reached the point of a discussion among the Roosevelt forces of the. question when to bolt. Some would make the election of Root as tempora ry chairman the signal; others the seating of the contested Taft delegates; others the adoption of a platform indorsing the Taft Administration or opposing some feature of the new charter of democracy ; yet others the actual nomination of Taft. But some have proposed the ultra-revolutionary expedient of a bolt in the electoral college from any candidate other than Roosevelt. Such a bolt would be without precedent. Men chosen as Presidential electors have re gardedt the nominations made by conventions as binding on them and, if any were ever in clined to disregard the implied obligation, they have been re strained by fear of obloquy. The proposal to bolt comes from the states which held Pres idential primaries, at which each party nominated candidates for elector. It is contended that whichever electoral ticket should be successful in November, is bound by the preferential vote cast at the primaries rather than by the choice of the National convention, especially if the con vention should act counter to the preference expressed by the pri mary states. In most cases the names of men nominated for e lectors were placed on the ticket by the faction which was victor ious in the primaries and these men are presumed to be in sym pathy with the popular prefer ence of their states. There are exceptions, as we know to be the case in Oregon, but that is true in the' main. If the bolt shou'd be postponed until the electors meet in each state and if the Republicans should carry all the direct pri mary states, all of which are nor mally Republican, the possibility of a bolt would extend to 144 electors from nine states carried by Roosevelt among a total of 531 electors from 48 states. Should the bolt be nearly general in these nine states, the Republican electoral vote would be so divided between Taft and Roosevelt that, even though as a whole it constituted a majority of the whole college, neither Taft nor Roosevelt nor the Democratic candidate would have a majority. TIip pIpoMoti would then be made by the present House of Representatives. The Constitu tion provides that in such a case each state shall cast one vote. The party having a majority of Representatives from each state would cast the vote of that state for its candidate. Under this svstem the Republicans have a TYininritv in twentv-four. the --J w- - --- - m Democrats in twenty-two states, and two states Maine and Ne braskaare tied. In case the Republican Representatives could unite in each state they would have only twenty-four votes, one short of a majority, but the division in the party which brought about such a sit uation would render such unity highly improbable. Were they to divide according to their prefer ence as expressed at the primar ies. the convention states stand ing for Taft, there would be thirteen fo Taft, nine for Roose velt, two for La Fdllette, twenty- two for the Democrat, and two tied. In order to elect either of theirlnen, the Republicans would need not only to settle their dif ferences but to break the tie in either Maine or Nebraska by winning over a Democrat. The Democratic candidate could not be elected without capturing both tied states and winning over one of the Republican states. By postponing the bolt until the electoral college met, the Roosevelt men would thus invite practically certain defeat and would accomplish only the de feat of Taft. They might have a fighting chance if they bolted the convention and nominated a third electoral ticket in each state, though they could only win by gaining enough Democra tic votes to offset the Taft vote and many to spare. Roosevelt desires his own election as ar dently as he desires to defeat Taft. He will therefore be more likely to take the fighting chance of a bolt from the convention, if he fails to secure the nomination. Oregonian. DIRECTORY USITKD BTATK3 ..Wllllnm H.Taft ... ..( I i VIco-l'rcsUIcnt... rhllnittler 0. Knox Beoreury of 8u a tfV MnoVcniih tverctnry of Treasury Vy tor U Klulior HnxrilturV of ItltOTlOf " ""' n Herniary liiVV . Jaiiio WIImiii . WIGKUrNllHlH A I lnrtiMl STATU Onwnlil West Secretary 01 w Tliomns . Knv TroMHier ' M. Crawford Attornc (lonernl..... t it Aldurman 8u,.t. I'ubllo Instruction V!k iVt'Xav Commissioner of Labor Statistics. , .u. KnU .::::.'::;.' ' ' . U. 8. Bcnatori.. Congressmen ... BKVKNTII JUDICIAL DI8TIMCT 'iVieonio'K. Chamberlain Jonathan llournc, Jr. i vv i. Ilnwluv I a. W. Latterly Judge Attornoy y- , w WIUon A tlnrtiL'V.. '"' Judeo rk CUOOK COUNTY Clcri Treasurer Assessor ............ rtchool Suportntondcut Coroner Surveyor Commissioners II. C. Kills ..Warren llrown ... T. N. llalfour ...Ualph Jordan ,J. I). La Kollutto It. A Kurd . l)r. K. O. Hydtf ,. ..Kretl A. Illce I It. II. Ilayloy I James lllco T1IK COURTS third each CincutT Count-First Monday In May M?.ffit&Klr.t Monday In November. MADRAS SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 22. . c. Hanford, dim, Directors. Clerk T. A. Long Jfilin McTaiEnart r. .8 Oray CITY Mayor , Howard V lleoorder ... Treasurer Marshall The possibility of Senator William Borah, of Idaho, getting the presidential nomination, as a compromise candidate is rather hazy, but such a thing is not impossible. And what a pleasure itwould be to the North west states to roll up a good big majority for the Idaho Senator. His career in the Senate has been one of continued activity, and had he done nothing other than securing the passage of the three year homestead bill, he would have 'done em ugh to warrant a term in the White House, according to the general opinion of Northwestern home steaders. However the prospects that he will be chosen are not bright, for he has been too active in the Roosevelt campaign for the Taft forces to support him as a com promise candidate. Sooner would Roosevelt support Root or Crane. Thus politics does make slaves of us all, sometimes regardless of the man we are asked to sup port. We have complained of the heat during the past few days. but imagine, if you can, the gen eral atmosphere in Chicago, where vile epithets and free-for nil muck-rakincr has been the ac knowledged program between the rival forces. The general conduct of the various near-boss-nawhn hfiva hp.an rfiHnonflihlG for the exhibitions at Chicago dur ing the past few days are enough to make every American ashamed. Councllmen. Turner Jackson ..D. W. Harnett ...K. NtaiiKianu O. A. I'earco (1. V. Htanton W. It Cook U Randolph J. L. Campbell 8 K. Oray DAMES AND DAUGHTERS. Mrs. E. M. Wnddell 1b tho newly elected poundmaster of Los Angeles, tho first woman In the country to oc cupy such a position. Miss Laura Q. Grant of New iork Una been appointed a member of the flro prevention luspectorH' burcuu or that city, of which thero nre seventy Ave. she being the only woman. Tho appointment of Mile. Edraco Cbandon as assistant astronomer at tho I'urls observatory marks tho ofll clal recognition by Frauco of feminine achievement In a branch of sclcnco ror which women have shown a peculiar aptitude. Tho Rev. Antoinette Blackwell, D. D., tho first woman to bo ordained a minis ter, now In her eighty-eighth year, Is the only survivor of tho speakers at tho first national woman's rights con vention, at which Mrs. Julia Ward Howo was the presiding officer. Ellen Snencer Mussey, who for a quarter of a century has held the posi tion of nttornov for the Swedish ana Norwegian legations In Washington, has been an active and successful law yer for thirty-five years. In 1890 she established tho Woman's Law Class, which has slnco developed Into the Washington College of Law, with lt founder as dean. Current Comment. Blr Thomas Linton wants tho Amer- lea's cup ngaln. Atlanta Constitution. Tho new Dreadnought Florida can make 22.0 miles an hour and Is meant to run toward an enemy, at that. De troit News. The per capita money volume is now smaller than a month ago and a year ago, which ought to destroy the last excuse for any further rise in tho cost of living. New York World. Uncle Ham has some cause to grow dissatisfied with his neighborhood. The next door neighbor to tno north rcruses to borrow and lend household articles across tho back fence, and the next door neighbor to tho south is always having a noisy family row. Nashville Banner. uesumru cnnociany io mwti inn hhiu nr . i u f. n1,u,ln .Irillln nllll.,ln. I ".. ''"t1 '"!" WHO flm. . " in-. vi'Mtawi M..wi.i.Vi .tiiiiAjjimii,', uurnn rhnmin.. t vukr-fttt.i ,y...uiv ... ... raiui. u'iwi ni iiriven uiivn.,,.,. w csHni-r-". lieid m on tno --w luu-ocro traot. Turoa R .wu wort . 'U A boy can run it. ' r u ciqjo b(T,H lat IDO emsnypo " win pull from 3 to 6 breaker plow, t, .'" lnn.linur tlav! null 4 to 0 uluhbln nlnw. ,n . v. .'' tula 10 tTiT niuiauiM'Ki ....... , O...J.....B, ouwiuji wood or oa inn hv iffi j jr"H fccS." 11 For liijlllng clover, wll drive nny medium alio hullor inl .7 T tons. ilcllyeruiK a maximum power nt a mlnlniui" Tom eS, m GaSlW An ennlno Umt will do theao thtiuw U well woriiriiiv . "Ul tton on Uio egg that you caa possibly want U yours fo7tt W H . . xa . "0wii madras, Sales Solicitor IA RumclyJProducts Co., Inc. i 7" -A 11 vregon 1 111 l liH 4 DANGEROUS How to Toll Thl Plant From Virginia Creeper. A correspondent writes that he was recently poisoned by mistaking poison Ivy for Virginia creeper. Ho asks if wo can tell him how to tell one plant from tho other. It is tho easiest thing In tho world to do this. I'olsou Ivy has n three parted leaf, nmpelopsls or Virglulu creeper u five parted leaf. Tho lattei Is of rampant climbing habit. Tolsou Ivy seldom growH to n greater height than threo feet. It mny over run an old stump or a heap of stone and have the tippeuranco of being a vlue, but a close examlnntl&n will fihow you that It does not really climb. It generally makes a bushy growth, sending up a mas of slender stems from its spreading roots and covering a considerable amount of space. If one studies tho structure of the peculiarities of the two plants it will be Impossible to mistake ono for the other. Some persons complain that they find It difficult to exterminate poison Ivy. They mow It down and In a little while It sprouts and boforo long thero Is more of It than ever. It cannot be killed by simply mow lug it. But if after mowing It the ground in which it grows is sprinkled with kerosene and burnt over it is not a dililcult thing to kill. All tho roots may not be killed with one application however. If some of them send up sprouts cut these off close to tho ground and pour keroseno over tho stub nud about It, enough to saturate the soli well. This will generally put an end to tho nui sance. Domeetio Reminiscence. "You ttso tho long distance telephone a great deal whon you aro uwoy frot home?" "Yes," replied Mr. Meekton. "It keeps mo from being homesick. Tele phoning from a pay station makes me think of a conversation with Henrietta. As soon ns tho operator and I have said 'Hello' to each other sho proceeds to tell mo how much money sho has to have." Washington Star. W. R, COOK AND' GILLIS DIZNEY ELEC School Meeting Endow. Committee In Effort! HlQh School it At the annual meeting Madras School District It 1 1 a a. 4 lla JUUfk LUC ICLIL11IW Uf of the Madra3 school ff$ director of the school to succeed A. C. SanfonL' term 01 omce expires m Mrs. Gillis Dmey wi clerk of the board, to S. E. Gray, who hass lArtirri in t n m i'mi ht lv since the establishment district. A vote oft extended to Mr. efficient services he has the district. The meeting endorsedjthe of the committee appoin . .min mfrn Kr 1 Miuir ia. iwiu il. l. l hnnrn ttihkr ail U1U f)WIVU uvu.- ... i , 1 . .. Ra a pencliuires wai ; nnrniosnrv to Dreoare ado! ... n.hMi mum rooms in incswwv. hcrh school purposes..,. nn miHi nrPSeM yo persuua m. r ( meeting, whicn wa over by Dr.T.A.lM. The Annual Baseball Elegy. Tho IjIk Bonir clanfts tlio tlmo or openln Tho',ftyounB iccrulta hako linndn with you and mo, , And as tlioy bushward ntart wo'ro bouna to Buy "You'll do next eeaaon, kid, maybo, asiybe." Cincinnati Enaulrcr, mmm M -n..n... M.UHrU.,3tHfl QhfiCrlbe for the Med" U.J... DIai. Alfa Itrlnrr IP HI ll f The New MILLS 1 MADRAS FLOUR Are Now Making Three Brands of Flour MADRAS FLOUR (straight) Hir.HT AND PATENT (1ft grade). ; DESCHUTES FLUUK n All our FLOUR is of natural color The only right color, flavor and.qua,'de ah u.nrio fic oiacss for their g,a nil UICIIIUO Clio 111 uv wiiww - Madras Flour x . H. F. DIETZEL. Propria. Mill