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teenth wreeU S. W.
Entered at the postofflce at Pendleton,
Oregon, u eecond-clasa mall matter.
Member United Presa Association.
telephone
Main 1
Official City and County Paper.
several weeks or until the affair was
exposed tn this publication. Maybe
too the "antls" elucidated to members
of the board why their newspaper or
gans denounce the members of the
board (when they are not around)
in very seurri'.ous terms and
trv to make honest farmers believe
the reclamation service Is filled with
pinheads, martinets and thieves.
A DIFFICULT PROBLEM.
THE DAILY OCCURRENCE.
It sometimes happens when we
scan
The newsy morning papers
That not a South American
Republic's cutting capers.
But this may always be looked
for
"When one takes up one's jour
nal, That somewhere some new gov
i ernor v
Is lined up for the Colonel.
It doesn't happen every day
That people sadly mutter
Because they are compelled to
pay
A higher trice for butter;
Conditions down in Mexico
Are sometimes not infernal;
The governors keep busy,
though,
In calling for the Colonel.
The war scares oft are shoved
aside,
We do not need them daily;
Sometimes the rich man's show
girl bride
Refrains from acting gayly;
But one thing we may always
see.
Its flashing is diurnal;
Some governor reports that he
Is lined up for the Colonel.
E. L. Kiser.
A duty for tomorrow go and register.
The Ground Hog did not see his
shadow.
Too bad the visiting board cannot
hear the Warner trial.
In yesterday's issue of the East Ore
gonian some Information was given
concerning the electric trust and the
workings of that rart of the octipus
that ramifies the northwest. It is not
a pleasing state of affairs that is re
vealed, by any means.
What frightens people though is not
so much the existence of Individual
trusts as the growing belief that the
country is becoming beset with "com
binations of combinations." Gover
nor Woodrow Wilson describes it as
"private control of business."
In a speech at the Jackson Day
banquet in Washington a few weeks
ago he criticised private control of
politics and then spoke in this way:
"Xow, the other hing that has been
privately controlled in this country is
the business of the country. I do not
mean'that each man's particular busi
ness ought not to be privately con
trolled, but I mean that the great bus
iness transactions" of this country are
privately controlled by gentlemen
whom I can name and whom I will
name, if it is desired; men of great
dignity of character; men, as I believe,
of great purity of purpose, but men
who have concentrated. In their own
hands, transactions which they are
not willing to have the rest of the
country interfere with.
"Xow, the real difficulty in the
United States, gentlemen, it seems to
me, is not the existence of great in
dividual combinations that is dan
gerous enough in all countries but
the real danger Is the combination of
the combinations, the real danger is
that the same group of men control
chains of banks, systems of railways,
whole manufacturing enterprises,
great mining projects, great enter
prises for the developing of the nat
ural water power of this country, and
that threaded together in the person
nel of a series of boards of directors
U a community of interest more for
midable than any conceivable com
bination in the United States."
Other public men are pointing out
the same problem and are discussing
how to handle it. Some congressmen
think they can accomplish good by in-
..t.A I- . 1 I
,,r9iiaiiii nnai wiey ciuas as liic
money trust. Others lay all trouble
to the tariff. Some think the solu
tion lies In regulation by the govern
ment of the prices charged by trusts.
Others favor the gradual acquisition
by the government of public utilities
and the improvement of the public
service with a view to greater and
greater participation by the govern
ment in the industrial and business
life of the country.
Whatever people may think as to
the proper course to pursue it must be
admitted by all that the people have
a problem to solve that is fully as dif
ficult if not more perplexing than
anything that ever tiefore arose in the
history of the country.
WHAT IS A SPOKT?
Councilmen should "line up" the
electric trust; not allow it to get them
into line.
When the new high school is open
ed it will be sadly deficient in a very
important way if it does not offer a
course in domestic science.
With over seven inches of rain
thus far this season the prospects fo:
a good crop are rosy. Umatilla coun
ty has the soil and when it gets a
satisfactory rainfall, as it usually does
the wheat crop is worth hauling in.
In many respects the coming prim
ary election will be the most interest
ing in Oregon's history. It will be the
first time voters have had a chance
to use the presidential preference pri
mary law. Register now and get
ready for the fray.
At the time the McN'amara's admit
ted their guilt there was a very gen
eral suspicion that "something had
slipped." It is not customary even
for guilty men to plead guilty unless
the state in some manner gets the
"drop" on them.
THE OREGON' JONAH.
The Portland Oregonian is enlisted
in the equal suffrage campaign that
is to be carried on again this year.
If the suffrage leaders desire success
it might be well for them to "Harveyf
ize" that support. The Oregonian
has been such a persistent foe of
everything that stood for the political
or educational advancement of the
state that some people may look upon
its advocacy of suffrage as a sign
there is something wrong with the
move. But perhaps the trend tow
ards equal suffrage is so strong that
the amendment can te carried this
fall regardless of the handicap.
MUCH TO EXPLAIN.
It Is to be hoped that in submitting
information to the members of the
visiting fcoard of engineers Mr. Bur
gess made it clear regarding the un
fortunate "accident" which caused the
anti-extenslonists to make use of the
corporate name of the Umatilla Wa
ter Users' association In fighting the
Extension. Also we presume be tes
tified as has Mr. Hurd that they were
warned about that infringement early
in December. Perhaps too he ex
plained why it was no correction was
ever made and why the unfair letter
to President Taft was not recalled. If
he did he should have told also why
it iras the answer to Secretary Fish
er'e letter of intjulry was delayed for
By the will of a wealthy citizen who
left .200,600 to the National League
for the Promotion of Physical Cul
ture, the French courts and the
French Academy have been confront
ed by a perplexing problem. The
bequest was made for the purpose of
encouraging "sport." In the French
dictionary there is no such work. The
term is well enough understood by thi?
public, but has no meaning in law
or literature. Hence arises a diffi
culty In construing the will.
It is believed that the academy will
adopt the word and define It as mean
ing: "A combination of muscular ef
forts intelligently directed, accom
plished by men and animals and reg
ulated with sufficient ingenuity for
mankind to find amusement in it."
That definition would Include danc
ing, as well as croquet and mumble-the-peg.
It would exclude lynching,
which has been defined as the king
of outdoor sports, and also poker and
other games whose adepts are gener
ally known among us as "real live
sports."
Whether automoblling as now prac
ticed can be defined as "a combina
tion of muscular effort intelligently
directed" is questionable; yet it pass
es undisputed as sport. On the other
hand, street-parading behind a brass
band on civic holidays, though gen
erally "regulated with sufficient in
genuity for mankind to find amuse
ment in it," is not called asport. Fi
nally, one man's sport is another
man's nuisance, as the frog in the fa
ble said to the boys that were
throwing stones at him. It would ap-
pers othat a sport Fh Hposes
pear that a sport is anything a sporty
person likes. If the French court be
wise it will set the bequest aside on
the ground that it Is opposed to pub
lic welfare. New York World.
for many years. Up to Dec. 1 the ar
rivals in New York were 781, OSS, de
partures 486,794; and in December
the departures are exceeding arrivals
by many thousands,
Only within recent years have the
Federal officials sought to keep ac
curate figures of emigration, but the
process of ebb and flow has always
existed since fast steamships began
plying. Alarmists yho have pictured
the dangers of immigration have of
ten blundered by considering the
gross figures only. In the- decade
1901-10 immigration rose tfTth enor
mous total of 8,796,000; but the net
gain from this source was much
smaller than the natural increase
through, births.
The heavy exodus this year is in
part due to slack work. Building ac
tivity has fallen off slightly. Railroad
work Is proceeding slowly for finan
cial reasons. But the custom among
our foreign-born residents of taking a
flying visit home is growing irrespec
tive of lack of work. This year a
special cause exists in the war in Tri
poli of which students of figures have
not taken sufficient account. Some
thousands of Italians have gone east
ward hoping for a chance to fight; but
a much larger number who had been
planning to go back "some time" have
seized the present occasion, when' po
litical differences are forgotten and
when the entire peninsula is in a pa
triotic festival spirit over "la terza
Italia." v
Sentiment counts heavily in that
enormous total of 486,794 re-emigrants.
And most of them will come
back.
this is so, perhaps, not altogether be
cause of the colors and the plctures
queness of the setting, but because he
has never seen anything liko it in
his own country. In the statos a
cowboy on a mule wou d be a curios
ity; and there is noth.ng in the table
lands and low, rolling hills of Mon
tana or Texas that can compare with
these rugged, eteep-sided plains and
valleys of Mexico. Then, again, there
is something so wild, primitive and
picturesque in the very appearance
and dress of the vaqueros, apart from
the country itself and the brilliant
colorings, that the stamp of com
merce fades into the background. The
mules and raw, breeding beef, the
short jackets, tight pantaloons, im
mense hats and altogether fierce as
pect of the riders, seem moni like a
pant of some barbaric pilgrimage than
a peaceful quest on a matter of hon
est business. It is probable that no
where else in North America, pos
sibly In the whole world, will one find
greater contrast between outward ap
pearance and inward purpose. From
"The New Cattle Country," by F.
Warner Robinson, in the February
Scribner.
THE FURNACE.
THE XEW CATTLE COUNTRY
WHY IMMIGRANTS GO HOME.
Excepting the after-panic . year
1908, when emigration from this coun
try was 100,000 more than its Immi
gration, 1911 will show the smallest
net foreign addition to our population
This Is Mexico Mexico of the cat
tle country, the new cattle country.
And the fouju men riding silently
across the clearing in the glow of the
sunset were Mexican cowboys. They
sat gracefully astride mules, with
their scrapes (blankets) wound close
ly about them, each with a chunk of
raw beef, bleeding and uncovered,
dangling from his saddle. They were
going into the mountains on the first
night of the great rodeo (round-up)
which would begin on Babicora Plain
in the morning.
This mountain phase of the work
is only one of the features of the
Mexican cuttle business that excites
even the American cowboy's emo
tions. There are other things that
greatly impress him the Immense
sizes of the rodeos and remudas
(herds of saddle-horses taken along
by the vaqueros for use in the ro
deos), and the extreme poverty, slm
plicity and primitive, dare-devil fear-
lessneu-s of the vaqueros. But after
ne nas seen and pondered over these
things, after he has lived for months
on the Mexican range,, and has taken
part in a dozen rodeos, his most last
ing Impression of It all is this picture
In the foothills these solemn, mule
mounted Mexicans, riding at dusk
through a pool of crimson sunset. And
The following essay Is furnished by
a reader who Is afraid George Fitch
may not find time to do justice to the
subject;
"The furnace Is the original cause
for the necessity of the phrase. "The
perversity of inanimate objects.'
"It's efficiency at producing pro
fanity is unsurpassed, even by the
proverbial Most collar button.'
"It is claimed by some that the
furnace was Invented by the coal
man, but there -is no more proof of
this than there is that the ice man
invented hot weather, that John D.
invented oil or that the milkman In
vented water.
"There are two 'sets of rules for
running a furnace.
"One Is to turn on the drafts, in
which case it will burn out, and the
other is to close the drafts, in which
case It will go out of its own accord.
"It is similar to the clgarettlst in
that it is usually brlk and robust at
bedtime, but completely down and
out when it is time to get up in the
morning.
"It is built of heavy, galvanized
material, and Is firmly attached to
the basement floor. This is to pre
vent it from being precipitated Into
the alley each Sabbath morning.
"When the weather Is bitterly cold
the furnace should be careful'.)'
wrapped in blankets to keep It from
freezing.
"The requisites for running a fur
ness are one shaker, one poker, fif
teen cords of kindling, fifteen tons
of coal and an unlimited amount of
patience.
"No two-flat building Is complete
without a furnace, and few two-flat
buildings are comfortably warm with
them. Any man who lias successful
ly manned a furnace for two seasons
can die in peace, knowing that if his
most bitter enemy's wish should
come true he will at least be famil
iar with his new job. TOD HUD."
Famed for ifs Cooks and
c
To mention the South is to sug
gest "good cooking." The South
is the home of Cottolene, and more
of the product is used there in pro
portion to the population than in
any other part of the country. This
is simply because Southerners know
that cotton oil is a pure, vegetable
product, and the best cooking fat
known. Cottolene is made from
choice,refiried cotton oil, and packed
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The drug store that serves
you best.
The
Pendleton Drug
Co.
Is In business for
"Your Good Health"
REMEMBER THIS WHEN
XOU HAVE PRESCRIPTIONS,
OR WANT PCRE MEDICINES
Two Old Maids
Anna What do you think Mr. Bh
lund charged me for sewing on a pair
o: soles on my shoes T
Clara Don't know and don't cars
Anna, he only charged me SSo and
did fine work too yes, but I don't
like him.
Anns, Well, well, you evid ntly do
or you wouldn't care.
Men's soles sewed on for SOc
Full line of men's fine shoes.
A. EKLUND
Main Street
inie
in sealed, air-tight tin pails to insure
its cleanliness and freshness.
Why take chances with lard and
inferior imitations when you can
get Cottolene-- the original cotton
oil cooking fat and still the best,
most healthful, most economical in
the market?
.Cottolene will aid your cook to
make a reputation. ,
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Nature's Gift from the Sunny South"
BRING IN
YOUR
PONY
VOTES
In order to avoid confusion
as to standing of contestants in
our big Pony Contest, we would
like to have all votes cast as
soon as possible.
Standings of each boy and
girl in the contest, are now dis
played at our store.
Tallman Co.
You'll get the best meal
in Pendleton at the
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Particular cooks
Attentive Service.
For Breakfast
Ranch Eggs
Buttermilk Hotcakes
Good coffee
Every day
We invite your patronage aid
aim to please you.
A clean kitchen
Regular Meals
25c
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v.
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