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PAGE FOUR mmm .... 4eBv ..' AN IMMvl'KM'KNT NEWSPAPER. I'nMWjed imlljr aul Semi Wwkijr at l'ea- (1 u l ort, t'rt'j.in, hj the S.AHT Olil.i.nMA.N I I l.l.l.-UI.NO CO. Ratared at I be poanifflr I rendietoo. Ortrn. aa iw'd clnaa mail matter. Iwtibu 1 Offlrlil County Paper. Member Inltrd 1'na Anaoclatloo. ON 8AI.R IN OTHKR CITIFS. ImiTll HiiifI Siaud, Portland. Bowbui Nn On. rnfliaod, Oregon. ON KII.K AT OTilrniro Bureau, WOSI Security Building. Weahlngtiiu, 1 C, Bureau 501, Four Imib Krwt, N. W. grUW'KIITION RATES (IN ADVANCE) on year, by mail.. ....00 III Dionlhn, by mill JS' three month, by mall l- one irmriih, by mail M one year, by carrle 7M? it roontha. by earner 3 75 three month, by carrier ltiljr. stiy, lall. 11 ly, IHMIjr, I'll It. w month, by carrier Orml W Hrail V Hf ml W eealy, ene year by mall l..0 ees y, aix nontba. by mail to eeklj, (our muntha. by "", - .SO F.(.in. (Emeror William's room.) I. O. Aesir, thou soa ruler. Whom Nix and Nock obey; t. as the dawn glows guidon. Our heroes kneel to pray. II. We in ;rim feud are faring. Toward the distant strand: Guide us through storms and breakers. Vnto the foeman's land. III. If us the NeckNfchould threaten. Our shields no more avail; It thine eye's flaming glances Cause their attack to fail. IV. As Frithjof on Ellida. The sea undaunted crost; So guard thou on this Dragon Our son, pur hero host, V. When in the battle's fury. Gloves fall on gloves amain. And the Valkyries gather Around the foemen slain. Then shields, gloves clashing, ringing Like storm-wind o'er the sea. Shall be our triumph singing, Thou high lord, honoring thee. Charles W.Hubner. Translator's Note Emperor William has notable artistic and literary talent This poem, baaed on Teutonic mythology, was written by him some years ago. It breathes the same battle-rage spirit which today ani mates the nations in their world war. My translation follows the German text closely. i . JHE PRESENT POLICY EX PENSIVE. AVE you ever stopped to estimate the cost of bad roads in Umatilla coun- ty? This county spends in the neighborhood of $100,000 a year on roads. It seems fair to say that at least half that sum is expended each year in tink ering work that accomplishes little if any permanent good. The average road supervisor will work the roads when he has the time and not necessar ily at a time when work is needed. He gives first atten tion to the road near his own home and he may neglect more important work elsewhere. It is not a system to bring the best results. There are well informed people who declare that the county does not get 25 per cent on the dollar m the way of val ue from its dirt road work. Yet we keep on spending at least $50,000 a year in this manner. That expense would meet the interest on a million dollar bond issue that could be used in building hard surface trunk roads that would require no maintenance charges. If this county can afford to almost throw away $50,000 a year tinkering with dirt roads why cannot it afford as much for hard surface roads to the Columbia that will pay for themselves in one or two sea sons through the reductions they will bring in transporta tion costs. Is not a bad roads policy more expensive than a good roads policy? NEVER KNOWN TO BE RIGHT. HE Ferris bill now before lL congress does not pro vide for public owned electric plants. It merely pro- rides certain safeguards lor the public when public pro perty U taken by private con cerns for development purpos- The chief of these safe guards Is a provision to the ef fect there shall be effective regulation of rates and that the DAILY power privilopes shall be Ions-j a canal across the state to the vd for a limited number of j Mississippi and will get it. years only, not donated out-j ripht to a corporation. I The Dutch do not intend to It is an extremely reasonable !let anyone else capture llol proposition. The "people own1 'and if they can prevent it. the resources; whv should they not have some hold on the property when it is de veloped? A man who owns a cow will seldom agree to let some stray 'party that may come along milk the cow regu larly and keep all the product. He will insist that as owner he is entitled to some share in the blessing. The Ferris bill aims to pro tect the public to a reasonable extent in the matter of water power development. Because it does it is opposed by the el ectne interests. They Wish to Use the COW as they See fit and ; tc,d ot 8 n,,al notable increase in oil tva ; :!tn? number of farm tenants in both vti iuc viicri iu v jump 111 the creek. This is exactly the basis On Which water power develop- ment has thus far heen oon mem. nas inus iar Deen con- ducted m the northwest and all Over the Country. From a public standpoint such a policy is inexcusable The Ferris bill is inexi.ui.duie. i ne r ems iDiu 1S a Step towards the Sort Of re- torm this country needs and the fact the bill is opposed by our tory newspapeis is no re flection on the measure. If those papers ever took the right attitude on any subject they would feel bad for a week. WALL STREETUNAFRAID. 2. AST week, for the first time since the European war started, the stock markets of the country threw open their doors to free and unrestricted trading by the ab olition of the minimum prices on securities, wmcn were im posed when the exchanges were re-opened in December after a four-months' shut down. There is now an open market in which buyer and seller may met at any price level that demand and supply create. This action on the part of the stock exchanges is an offi cial notice to the country that business conditions are now in such a fundamentally sound position that no fear is enter tained by our bankers of any wholesale selling of our secur ities held abroad and the con sequent draining of our gold resources, which during the first few months of the war re strained the resumption of bus iness activity here. It is often said that the stock exchanges, reflecting the con census of opinion of the whole country, offer a broader and truer gauge of conditions than any individual opinion. But while this undoubtedly true, in the present instance Wall street which in the broadest sense means the financial structure of the country has remained blue long after the commercial world had seen the bright sky through the dark clouds. However, we are glad to have the Wall street official dictum in confirmation of our previously expressed belief that the tide has turned and prosperity is flooding rapidly back to high water mark. Boston Post. WATER FOR PARKINGS. 3F the East Oregonian is correctly infonrjed the time will come when wa ter rates may be reduced here through the fact operating costs are lowered under the gravity system. Going on that assumption this paper wishes to venture a suggestion. Provide an ar rangement that will reduce the cost of water for irrigation purposes and charge nothing at all for water used in irrigat ing parkings. Such a policy will promote better looking lawns and will help greatly in solving the problem concerning the park ings. The parkings are in re ality a part of the street. They are not privately owned at all. If a householder maintains his parking in first class shape he does enough and should not have to pay for the water used for that purpose. Is this right? Have you noticed the fact that few American ships are being sunk and that both the Germans and the allies seem very eager to do the right thing by Uncle Sam? Chicago thinks so much of: water transportation it wants' EAST OREGON! AN. rEXDLETON. OREGON. FRIDAY. APRIL 9, 1915. This is a big county and can do big things. I TENANT FARMING. I In a heating by the federal com-1 j mission on Industrial relations in Dal- j las, Tex., the bogy of tenant farming j In this country has been rulsed. Ask-, j ed what chance a tenant in this I county had to become a home owner, : i Governor Ferguson replied: "Not one ' fifty." And the commission was the northwest and the southwest of the country. Students of the subject agree that 'lhe Srow" of farm tendency is dis- ' ooura&in&- lf not actually perilous, to the best agrlcultura, ln,erests of the nation. What may be done about it? 'The article by Henry F. Norman in j the Dllily NeWs of v?9(d"' on the I udvanlase0U3 efeeta of c00')eration among armer3 Jn Ireiand is niumi- mating. He shows that there are now in Ireland 985 farmers' cooperative societies, with a membership of 104, "02. And agriculture In general is flourishing on the island. Cooperation, of course, is not suc cessful unless the farmers own the land. At least, it has failed where tenant farming predominated. This has been proved in Denmark, where farm cooperation is highly develop ed, as well as in Ireland. In both countries the spur to land ownership has been shaped by legislation mak- ing it easy for farm development. As a prelude to advancement through co-operation, land tenure must be en couraged among men who will devel op their own property with the aid of funds obtained at low rates of in terest. This is a policy that should be borne in mind by legislators in this country. They ought to appreciate the significance of the fact that by rea son of favorable legislation the sale of lands from landlord to tenant in Ireland amounted to 385,000,00J from 1903 to 1908, as compared with, $115. 000,000 from 1870 to 1903, with the expectation that by 1920 ab sentee landlordism will have become; merely a memory. ' ! HOW SAVINGS GROW. After publishing his "Poor Rich ard's Almanac" for twenty-five years and giving thirty-two years more as thrift teacher of his county, Benja min Franklin put into his will a provision to demonstrate the power of accumulated savings. To the cities of Boston and Phila delphia he left J5000 each. The money was to be put out at interest and allowed to accumulate for 100 years. At the end of that time he figured each city ought to have 1650,000. He directed that at the end of the 100 years $500,000 should be invested by each city "In public works which may be of most general utility to the inhabitants." The rest should then be put at interest for another 100 years, when the accumu lation should be divided one quar ter to the city and three-quarters to the state. When the first hundred years were past Boston found that she hal $663,923 to her credit from the Franklin fund. Taking $500,000. Boston established a training school for mechanics. The remaining $163, 923 was put out at Interest again. Philadelphia's experience with the original fund of $5000 was about the same as Boston's. Now, Franklin figured that at the end of the second 100 years, when the fund is to be distributed, each fund ought to amount to about $20, 000,000. But Boston's fund at the end of the first 100 years exceeded Franklin's estimate by $13,923. So here's a problem: If Boston handles the fund as suc cessfully In the second 100 years as she did in the first, how much in ex cess of $20,000,000 will it be Franklin's demonstration was im pressive: $5000 will go Into $663,923 how many times? Nearly 133 times. Waan't he amply justified when he said: "Money is of a prolific na ture." What sort of a demonstration can you make? JOHN OSKISON. WISDOM AND FOLLY. "Thou are a fool," said my head to my heart, "Indeed,, the greatest of fools thou art. To be led astray by the trick of a tress, By a smiling face or a ribbon smart ' And my heart was in sore distress. Then Phyllis came by and her face was fair. The light gleamed soft on her raven hair; And her lipf were blooming a rosy red. Then my heart spoke out with a right bold air; "Thou art worse than a, fool, Oi head." If wisdom's height is only disen chantment. As say the cynics of a certain school, And aagea grow more sad In their id ' Tancement, Then folly la the wisdom of the foot Since fools know happiness through lack of knowledge, And see things fair because they shut their eyes, . Then anyone can tell, who's been to college. That wisdom kt the folly of the wise. CURRENT THINKING t j the styl r-l f .1 rresn rrom me most designers. And "get this" particularly You needn't tax your pocket book for an ex tra dollar over your usual expenditure, because these are Bond $15 Prices POSED AS MAN FOR THIRTY YEARS BOSTON, April . Death has re vealed the fact that Albert Beaudoin, who posed as a man for thirty years, was really Florentine Beaudoin. She assumed the part of a man in her work and her daily life and lived with her sister In the outskirts of Boston. She worked as a "hired man," on a farm and in a paper mill. THIS MA Y ENTERTAIN BENEATH THE STARS. A gloriously clear spring moon sil vered the tints of forest and (lade that lay cooUy spread out before the silent pair. 1 Reverently he turned and (axed on her beautiful face. How he loved her! ' A longing to confess his passion welled upward from his very soul, but the words would not come. I "Darling!" he murmured. ' But she did not hear him she thought he was swearing at the weather, I Then courage came to him. 1 "l love youV he whispered, a little got0 Jbi I I CtJ C'DC "Springing" a lot A ' 0f surprises these Spring days notably the smart suits that are leading showing here new models i w ds of America s f nan Cloth to $30 based on quality and style feature adds nothing to Come look 'em over no obligation to buy. 1W1 Pendleton's Leading Clothiers louder, and, trembling at his own daring, stood watching the effect of his avowal. Joy and all that sort of thing. Her color came and went In a most bewitching manner. Her Hps trem bled with unspoken words. He silently took her little hand. "I love you!" he repeated, with much feeling and little originality. Slowly the heavy lids opened wide, showing a look of expectancy In her violet eyes. With eyes still wide op en she half turned from him, and sneezed! "UKED" THE BLACK OXF. v A street corner orator was address ing an audience which consisted mainly of small boys. His subject was kindness to ani mals, and he urged his listeners to treat our dumb friends with human ity. Just as he reached the end of his harangue a lady walked past lead ing two little dogs on a double leash one white and the other black. The speaker seized .his opportunity. "Now, suppose those dear little an imals began fighting," he said, loud ly. "After hearing what I have said, what is the first thing you would do?" A paralyzed silence fell over the crowd. A very small boy In the front row eyed the two dogs critically. "Well, guv'nor," he said, at last. "I think I'd go a dime on the black one.' SY THEATRE Mutual Movies ' 2 Reels KEYSTONE COMEDY MABEL NORMAND and Fatty Arbuckle Special 2 Reel Adults 10c Children Be WMim C r ore- es WHEN SCOT MEETS SOOT. The lady was the owner of a small shop, and her squire acquired the habit of seeing her home, and carrying the cash bag that contained the day's takings. It was generally heavy. "You must be doln" weel," remarked the gentleman, frequently. "Oh, ay," the lady would reply, It's a guld bit business." But she did not disclose that besides the moder ate drawings, the bag contained the counter weights. The canny lover only discovered that fact after mar riage, i Chicago Mill Men Strike CHfCAGO, April 8. A strike or der calling out 3000 mill workers to CASTORIA Fofloiautt and Children. Tils M Yos Han 'Always B&ngtit Bears the Signature of IT SPEAKS FOR ITSELF WHEEL BASE 110 INCHES lODii O00TEI0S 07011 CAR Fully equipped with extra tire, tube and tire chains, de livered to you all ready for the road for 8900 Pendleton Auto Co. Phone 541 812 Johnson Street EIGHT PAGES cost. whom was denied an Increase in wav es was issued here and was followed a few hours later by a lockout which forced nearly as many more workers) from the shops. f g You can always depend on OUR WORK WE WILL clean, spot and press your clothes RIGHT Work called for and delivered to any part of the city. Satis faction guaranteed we know how. MODEL CLEANERS. Our Motto, "Quick Service" Lester It Shanafelt Tel. 321. 114 B. Webb St