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"" '' '. 1 4 - . 1)11 . . . i . -...,( I ,.,.,.,,.- . , 1 . , ' , , . . .' X PAGE FOUa fcAILY EAST OREGONIAN, PENDLETON.. OREGON, . ., MOltDAY EVENING, JANUARY. IMJW, Mrs. Macbwiney Keturns sifm J Bans u u o in n hxh i Oreftoniani rrrrrmii ii 'in ii ii .ii p' ihi iui iiJ irn lnni'ic? '1 HVll AN INDLTENDKNT NEW .TAPER PuhllnhM Dully and fteml-Weekly at IN rnlf'-lon Oregon, tiv the EACT OKICOoS'tAN ITIil.ISlll.Vn ro. Kiiterd at the fx-toft'iee at lendle tnn, or?uoii, aa aocond-clasp mail ana tier. OX SALE IN' OTHER CITIES Impanal Hotel News Stand, l'orlland. ON I'ILK ,T CIHrnto Rureau. 90S Security ttulidlm. Washington, l. O., liureau ItiL Four teenth Ulreet, N. W. MfMltrr f I hf Asae4ated Prrwa. Tha Asaoeiated rr..ss la exclusively tntiib-d to the usa for republication of II tM'wa dpatchea credited to it of lot othfTwiaft credited tn tliia papel d4 alao lha local newt pubhahed here in. J 6UDSCU1PTION IIATE8 UN ADVANCE! seieisiraeiis Pally, on year, by mall C 00 lHtly, six months, by mail S.on lMly, three months by mall .... l..0 tiiy, one month by mall .. . .fte ally, one year by carrier .. T.Mt . ally, six months by carrt.y. 3.7"- MQTBU i ally, thro' months by carrier 1.S5 wily, our- month, by carrier .t; emi-Weckly, one year, by mail 2.00 eml-WocK.v, six months, by mail 1.00 emi-Weckly, three montha by mail .60 1 It is owned by many who can afford to pay anything they wish for the things they use. . It is always bought be cause of its known value and its after economies. Uphona F.AUT1IS UK (Hy Frank L. Stanton.) Never teH me that I'm poor Trouble's flaR unfurled: Utile one there, In the door, 1-ovcs me ali the world! All earth's riches at my touch. Minco till e luvea me Just that much! Some sweet angel. In high place, (As all heuen knows.) . Dreamed of ruses and her face Mossomed like a rose! 1 In her Love life's joys Impearled, 1 Since she loves me "All the World!' Copyrighted for the East OregoniauTub. Co. IF WE CANNOT REDUCE THE DIVISOR LET US INCREASE THE DIVIDEND A PORTLAND newspaper which by virtue of its size and lo cation should be a great affirmative factor in Oregon de velopment but on the contrary takes a negative attitude, accuses the East Oregonian of being a defender of high taxes. The facts are that the East Oregonian is neither a defender nor a critic of present public expenditures in Oregon. Like any oth er taxpayer this newspaper would like to see taxes lower, but how are they to be lowered ? We do not know. Neither does the Oregonian. Despite all the space devoted to the subject .the Portland paper has not offered a single constructive sugges tion that could be of help to the legislature or any other tax lavying body. However, that shortcoming may be forgiven. To cut public oxpenses when state institutions are suffering from inadequate support and public employes are underpaid is not an easy task. But the assumption that the wealth of Oregon cannot be in creased because free public lands are no more is unpardonable. Away with such piffle. Has the development of California in recent years been through settlement of free public lands? Have Washington or Idaho more public land than Oregon? Those states have been f i rging ahead while Oregon has all but stood still. What is the iinswer? Manifestly free government land has nothing to do v. ith the subject. The good public land has been gone for many years. Public land is an incident of the pioneer era. It can not be expected in this day and age. All over the nation pro gressive states have been increasing in wealth and population without the settlement of any free land. Why cannot Oregon fro ahead? Oregon has a larger sparsely populated area than California or any northwestern state. Two thirds of this state never hears the toot of a locomotive or factory whistle or the clang of an electric car. There is not a paved highway in Eastern Oregon outside of Umatilla county. Now it is not necessary that this big region should go unused and unpeopled. There are opportunities galore for develop ment. One meritorious scheme is the John Day project which an be made to reclaim 300,000 acres of land at a moderate cost. It is estimated that if fully developed the now desert land of that project could equal the Willamette valley in productivity. ; The John Day project can be watered either through use of the John Day r er water by means of a long canal, or by pump ing from the Columbia, using the latent power at Umatilla rap ids, to generate electricity for pumping purposes. Take your choice. Here is a chance to reclaim an empire and to vastly in crease the taxable property in OregOE. But not a Portland newspaper has gotten behind the move. Not a single organization in the metropolis of the state has taken of fits coat to work for this great cause. When a big booster ii eeting, attended by 2000 people, was held at Boardman last May not a Portland newspaper or Portland commercial organ ization had a representative present though special invitations were given. Portland was indifferent to a prospect of securing iiew agricultural territory that would rival the farming region between Eugene and Portland. This is no attempt to arouse prejudice against the metropolis. The East Oregonian likes Portland and the Portland newspa pers. Those newspapers are the best in the west in most re spects. But they are dead with respect to the real development possibilities of Oregon particularly in regard to irrigation and the tourist business. Washington and Idaho with no better ad vantages than Oregon, have distanced us in the matter of water ing the desert and they aire not stopping. In Washington a pow erful move is underway to put over the Columbia basin project f nd $100,000 has been raised for the preliminary work. Yet the Columbuia basin project, meritorious as it may be, is by no Means as feasible as the John Day project and will be much harder to swing. It will be noted, however that Washington is not ouittinff on that account and that they have even gone so far as to ask the president-elect to defer selection of a secretary of the interior until he can hear a delegation with facts as to the Columbia basin project. Mif Harding acceded to their request and quite likely does not know Oregon has irrigation needs. Oregon is afflicted with under development. We carp in campaign times about not getting enough reclamation money and during the rest of the four years make no real effort to get the money. We have more potential hydro electric energy than any other state and rely on outside coal and oil for fuel. Many Oregon newspapers are printed on paper made in Canada because they cannot get Oregon paper. We ship wheat to Michigan where it is converted into breakfast food and sent Lack to our tables. We send wool to New England where it is :nade into clothinir and returned to us at high pricess. We let hundreds of thousands of tourists go to California and rave i.bout the climate and scenery while Oregon has California amassed in both rejects. All the world knows about Yo- hemite.' Rainier Dark and Lake Chelan. No one knows about Wallowa lake and few about Crater lake. These scenic placis need better roads and thev need hotels. There is no hotel at all at Wallowa lake and the one at Crater lake has been a subject of unfavorable comment. We are at last getting some good roads at the auto owners' expense and important newspapers play up the highway expenditures as part of the taxpayers' burden in order to prove taxes are excessive. As an empire builder Old Man Oregon is a first class loafer. He iets the ranch go unfarmed and complains at mother be cause she needs a new dress and thinks the children should have i-onie shoes. Oregon was the first northwest state discovered; it has not yet discovered itself. We should wake up and the newspapers should be the alarm clocks. The Portland Orego iian would do well to hum a song of development and stop v orrying because the public land is all taken and taxes have irone up. We cannot well reduce the divisor but we have a good fh.'inrc to enlarge the dividend, 4 i : V X 1 f -v 4 I 8 t J It R 1 : -"ttS . i1- TO Crowds of singing childrea, wearing cashes cf Sinn Pel colors, sd scores of Irish sympathizers were at the pier to say goodby when Mrs. J! uriel MacSwiney. wife of the late mayor of Cork, tailed (or Ireland on the V. S. ship I'anhandle State. AlKiKXTI.XK I.1KIXY To ltKTAlXVIK IT TAItll'r1 Itll.L l'ASSKS Si:.ATF "Suffering, Shameful Neglect, and Injustice" is Charged in a Memorial to be Presented Wilson, Harding, Congress. nCEXOS AIUKS, Jan. 10. It is the belief of American Commercial At tache Freely here that passage of the proposed emergency tariff measure by congress, now apparently asxured be cause of Senator 1'enrose's latitude, ill "quite probably be followed by a discriminating prohibitive tariff on American goods, imposed as a retalia tion by the Argentine country." . "I do not believe, however, '"Feely added, Vthat the damage to Arsentine as a result of the emergency bill will be so great, but certainly it will cause ; i European business interests to rejoice, WASHINGTON", Jan. 10. (A. P.) ! due to the effect passage of the bill The system of rehabilitating disabled i would have no Argentine-American war veterans is denounced by t:e i business relations." American Legion as a ''failure which i should be remedied by consolidating ! PICS PliAW ATTKN'TION under a single head the three govern- j TO KlsTII.I.KItV DVfJOVT ment agencies engaged in that work." I MONTKSANO, Jan. I'l.-The coun- This change and the remedial sugges- j ty farm ahead two fat pigs and tlon will be presented by the legion to;,Kobej;t Muilhan started an S.-Uay jail President Wilson President-elect 'sentence nil because of a little moon- Harding and to every member of con- shine. Aluir is the man who escaped a sress in a memorial directing attention i few weeks ago when the sheriffs to the "suffering, shameful neglect force raided his place near Montesa- and injustice" which the legion asserts i no. Noisy pigs drew tile attention of marks administration of the affairs of the war veterans. Colonel F. W. Galliraith. Jr., nation al commander, will personally deliver a copy to Senator Harding at Marion". The legion asserts that the function of the three agencies which deal with soldiers, the Bureau of War Risk In surance, the federal board for voca tional education and the United States public health service "must be.coordl nated, their machinery decentralized and all three placed tinder the com mon control." "To do this," the memorial says, "there must be a new law which shall place the unified organization under a single administrative head," for this new organization, the legion asks an appropriation sufficient to buy, build equip and enlarge hospitals. Pills providing for this have been Introduc ed in congress. The memorial asserts that the Unit ed States ha been more liberal than any other nation -to disabled soldiers, but that it has failed, in a large meas ure, to' make its provisions available. This is attributed to "an astonishing state of divided responsibility and wasted effort among the government agencies." METHODIST BISHOl TO SPKAK AT V. OF O. UNIVERSITY OF OREGON, Jan. 10. Dr. William O. Shepherd, bishop of the Methodist church for the Wash ington and Alaska division, will be in Eugene January 13 to 16. A commit tee composed of faculty students will be chosen to make preparations for the bishop to meet all Methodist men rmd women on the campus. - He will speak at the next student body assem bly and to the women of the univer sity at the "V. M. t. A. meeting Thurs day afternoon. the deputies who were searching for a still, and it was discovered that the pigpen concealed the entrance to a cavo dugout. Muir went out another entrance as the officers entered. They took possession of a complete home brew outfit. He was unable to -pay a fir.oof JlT.O and costs assessed by Judge Lewis Bignold. Nl'.fiOTIATlOXS Ntrr AIX F.NIi:i). LONDON, Jan. 10. (A. P.) The peace conference between Lloyd George and Father O'FIanagun, act ing president of Sino Fein, Is broken oft'. Negotiations are not altogether ended, says the Daily Mail, but O' I'lanagau will not lie patty to further exchanges. '' ' jaws f jppi"" ' Hy favorite Movie is a close-up' 'of myself eating POST TOASTIES -says (fdc&fy Superior Corn Flakes The (Moline conaumptlMi It unuMtally low -Tb tir miltaf la unutuftlly bifh ELLIS-SCHILLEI1 CO. Main Mild Water Nts, lliotie 650 --ijs ,y I i - - - la W . Elks Dance ' The third of the Winter's informal dances will be on Tuesday, January 11th at the Elks Temple. Dancing, Refreshments, Cards Be there for a real, good, get together time. Visit and enjoy yourself. x Admission S1.00 Elks Only T-TP IV ATT ADVERTISERS demand their 111 J-13 moncg wonh aU publica. m lion will provide circulation reports verified by the Audit Bu ll reau of Circulations'. j IT IS ONE OF THE MYSTERIES OF THE ADVERTISING H world that while all manufacturers demand verification of H weight and quality in the material purchased, some of them H still buy advertising space without knowing what they are J paying for.' '' ' SUCH ADVERTISERS, HOWEVER, ARE NOW EXCEPT- ional. Most of them demand verified A. B. C. circulation H statements before placing contracts. : i 1 IN THE CASE OF THE EAST OREGONIAN THE DEMAND 1 is immediately met. The EAST OREGONIAN is a mem- M ber of the Audit Bureau ot Circulations. lilllllillll 73 m r3 Si m 3 r3 'H E 3 Ii ii r-s