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About The Weston leader. (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946 | View Entire Issue (July 28, 1916)
lilpilonlalciei biscuits OIL C02SMTOVE L stove Lit cooking with city gas. havent a fection you've, missed comfort for year. Bake, broils, roasts, toasts. More efficient ot tb. eeM4 mm . . twlM MaiklMmM STANDARD For Sale by WATTS & ROGERS E.A1LROAD Shall they be detemiined by Industrial Warfare or Federal 0 To the American Public: Do you believe in arbitration x)r indus trial warfare? ' . The train employes on all the railroads are voting whether they will give their leaders authority to tie up the; commerce of the country to enforce their demands for a 100 million dollar wage increase. The railroads are in the public service your service. This army of employes is in the public scmceyour service. . - Ytu pay for rail transportation 3 billion dollars a year, and 44 cents out of every dollar from you goes to the employes. Oi all the Western railroad in 1915, seventr-five per cent of the train employes earned these wages (lowest, hiehett and average fall) as shewn by the py rolls Umnto Ata. Awmw Atmmm $1747,,.,- $1537 2fl71 $1056113-g 3094 2,,S 3076 271 2445 11378 1543 1454 1151 2789 1878 2933 ,93S 2045 1355 1311 2oU ! 1 973 854 ... 874 862 11ft 1719 957 1961 113S 1821 1107 Eagiaeers. CttaWfan fircows T L - -Mr nvrmMIt rn ( tAecrerfl train H K"J .- .. -- pioyes (including those who worked only part of the year) at shewn by the 1915 payroll were Psusagor ' Freight ' Ysed tester. .... . $2033 $1737 $121S Ceoiacters . 1772 1624 1292 Fim- ...... 1218 973 832 - . . 921 . 1000 1026 A 100 million dollar wage increase for men in freight and yard service (less than . one-fifth of all employes) is equal to a 5 per . cent advance in all freight rates. The managers of the railroads, as trustees for the public, have no right to place this burden on the cost of transportation to you . without a clear mandate from a public tri " bunal speaking for you. The railroads have proposed the settle ment of this controversy either under the existing national arbitration law, or by refer ence to the Interstate Commerce Commis - ion. This offer has been refused by the employes' representatives. Shall a nation-wide strike or an - investigation under the Gov ernment determine this- issue? ' national Conference Committee of the Railways fcXKMA LIE. CAmrn C.ii ii- .i"ff K.a- ' , IM lai, R It.. a tUrltor a. a. coapixa, r r..im v f.. rorrrx, c t fn-n 1. a- aiit, ml rii i r hi i lkiMltM4n f,- Co. t t-yr. Stc&ay, evenly dis tributed heal, un der perfect control makes a good oil , ttove wonderful for baking. A ' A A Koodoil it just If you New Per Hoi Ml. FtntoMCMkla Om r ' OIL COMPANY (OlBMlW Inquiry? Freight Yard A. a CSF.1C, 4mL fUmmfmr, St. I U. Urn Wrrnm C W. KOLKS. C 1 Mm L W. M.MASTU, Cm.1 Mmmmfmt, tfariiH mm I, Sri. i ill i.-i n j. mahcb, nft.n. taMknifM . JAM' BlSKU. Cal ' !- i .llr,.S, A. M. tCMorUL, . L. 8EUDON, flZVa liilurl Atot lIU-wn a. j. rroi. n -r WESTON LEADER CURK WOOD, fnWlihtr SimtCKIMION VATtt ' ." Strtcth M Tl. Vwr j..... Hi Mi. Kill ......... mi MiMtihu. ADvrHTWNR RATfl IVr Ittrh Nr iilli ........... IVr lmli, ( tHwri(n ..I W ,i 0 .ft .. 0 ) ..to A" .. ' .. 0 miDAV r.trtr M l wnk ! Vm Or,ta. at Mrw4 cUm Mil atHw, ttmi T0V1 10UULU." The Ejwt OregW-n cIom a t-adinc editorial entitled "Why Wtatoa t Eliminated." with the word: ,aOrron ha naaeed throocrh the lit tie town normal Ujr and flitdinff toch chrml unaatiafartury ha wiped them nit the late-with the exception of the MonmnuUi school. Th reconstruction period i now at hand and the Pemtl. tnn meaaure offer a n and meritor- ioui solution of the problem. So that's the reason, ia it? W has ten to welcome this evidence of Pen- dleton's self sacrificing and exulted spirit! "With characteristic or and earneatneaa" it ia asking Old Man Ore gon for 12S,0no down and t39,000 a year in order that he msy have a real. renuine. bfown-in-the-botU normal school in this secthw of the state. We are now enlightened. We had erroneously supposed from the soothing story slipped as by the paregorie push sent here from Pendleton after K bsd launched its campaign, that Weston ia entitled to an Eastern Oregon normal school but that Pendleton just had t go after it to "keep La Grande from getting it." . . ... Nevertheleae we would ask the es teemed East Oregoniaa for fight upon a few additional points: Was not the Pendleton normal school endorsement "railroaded" bat fall through the Eastern Oregon institute with but few of the teacher knowing its nature?. How many teachers voted on this resolution? Why, if large-town normals are so popular, did Umatilla county outside of Weston cast a majority of 500 vote against the badly needed Southern Ore gon Normal at Ashland, which in 1910 had a larger population than Pendleton! Weston gare the Ashland school a ma jority of 299 at the 1914 election. Did not Pendleton, boweeer,. vote against that self-same large-town normal? Why, ditto, did the small-town nor mal at Weston receive in 1914 nearly ten thousand more votes than the large town normal at Ashland? W hy doe not Portland seek to take the small-town Monmouth Nor mal, or Spokane the small-town Cheney Normal? Is it because they are lacking in public spirit or merely in conscience less acquiaitivenew? Why did the voters in the general election Of 1910 turmdown the normal schools at both Ashland and Weston and support the normal school at Mon mouth, which is a smsller town than either? Why is the smsil-town Cheney Nor mal the school most favored in Wasb- inrton by Oregon students? A a matter ef fsct the esteemed East Oregonian is merely talking for effect, with dbingenuooinese sur prising in a pioneer newspaper we bad hitherto respected for its spparent candor. As a matter of fact the East Oreffonian is as well sware as is the Weston Leader that smaD towns snd large towns have nothing to do with the normal school problem in Oregon. It well knows, ss does the Lsadeb, that the Weston Normal was closed by the state senate in 1909 through the in fluence of a Pendleton political bos and a Pendleton state senator. The boss was deeply peeved at Weston be cause this town helped to defeat him for the Oregon governorship, after he had left the demoeratie for the republi can party. He played the game of pol itics in the old way by rewarding his friends snd punishing bis enemies. He punished Weston by striking at the Westen Normal, which bad not injured him. His senatorial henchmen had also to close the Monmouth and Ash land schools in order to reach the Wes ton school. We fancy thit he is rather proud of this feat and will not deny it He is now one of the sponsors of the Pendleton bill. - The Monmouth Norms! was reopened by popular vote in 1910. It fought for but one school-itself. . Fighting for three schools, Ashland snd Weston were both beaten. They were beaten again four years later .Polk county, home of the Monmouth Normal, voted heavily against them in both campaigns. The results showed conclusively that Oregon wanted but one school snd that little town normal" The East Oregonian' flub-dub re solves itself into a' feeble slap st the Monmouth Normal and a slap at the voter for maintaining it. It's a crook ed crutch for a lame cause. Closing his eye and shaking with one of his characteristic laughs, Joe Hodg son remarks that the wheat berries are growing so big they'll be apt to choke his turkeys. It would be easy to convince Wes ton that a part of the Salem trough ha been transported to Pendleton," remarks the Athena Pre. Kaiser Wilhelm , is so busy now-a- dsys "keeping up a front" ss to jus- fy the suspicion that he has too much front to keep up. Whether Wilson is re-elected or not will depend upon the number of inde pendent and thoughtful voters in the republican party. orrcsua k rnrouTo sotsu. (Text of negative argument submit ted fur the voters' psmphlel) The Eastern Oregon Stale Normal School was established St Westen in !tsS5 by legislative enactment. This achoul is still In existence. It plant wiwU of four building. vcvupyiiig ten sere of grouiuj donated by the city. These Include a commodious ad ministration building erected in 1901, having three stories snd a basement; a young women's boarding hall, young men's dormitory and gymnasium and s elsvo IS.rUnd Bieamship o.. president' cottage, When fully equip- which, in th opinio of th ' !Litk. '- a v.l... nf'aHomey, prscMcally puta Orto P ,h P1""' repreeen d value of hbKU)1 , u, of bu,iee if the about 178,000. U U still owned by the 1(WuUoB ,utlned by the state, but is now occupied under lease higher court a s) Tuesday's Cretan by the Weston High School and gram, mar grade. '' Why should the voter of Oregon be asked to provide 1125,000 normal school plant at Pendteton when ITS, 000 plant is already available at Wee ton, located but 21 mile from Pendle ton in the same county? It is signifi cant that the Pendleton argument avoids all reference to the existence of thi tat property. The Weston Normal waa maintained until 1909, when because of certain ad verse political influence and through no fault of It own it felled of an ap propriation in the -state senate, si though supported is) the lower house by a vote of two to one. It waa then the largest of three normal schools In the state, having a regular attendance of 278 in the normal department and s strong training department. Its work was accomplished on the modest main tenance of 917.500 per year, ine Monmouth Normal now receive 939,' 000 per year, and id addition waa grant ed 50,000 for buildings by the 28tb leg- ialative assembly. ' With similar sup port the Weston, Normal would un questionably have attained to at least equal rank and usefulness. Through a bill Initiated by the leg' Ma ture the Weston Normal ssked the peo ple in 1914 for a maintenance tax of only one-fortieth ef a mill, while Pen dleton is now asking for one-twenty-fifth of a mill. Weston's request wss denied by a majority of 17,895. In th am general election similar tax for the support of the Ashland (South ern Oregon) Normal was defeated by a majority of 25,602. In the face of thi decisive adverse vote but two year ago th Pendleton measure w regard as s defiance of the people's mandate and abuse of the initiative. Weston waa content to wait for evidence of a change of sentiment In Oregon along normal school line. . Th Pendleton biH constitutes a re turn to "logrolling" aiethods. It clear ly Indicate the fear' of (U sponsors to go before the people on the merit of their own demand. 'Why seek to "val idate" well-established institution that are m no sense in peril? Should the necessity ever sri,, their, security ean and will be assured, .by. the passage of a measure entirely independent of a mill age tax for PendleUra'e benefit. Pen dleton has been generously treated In being granted the Eastern Oregon Hos pital, which received a total appropria tion of 9308,659.25 from the 28th legis lative sssembly. ' Normal schools sre undoubtedly need ed in Southern Oregon and in Eastern Oregon. The school. t Weston should be supported. Weston I in attractive little city with adequate train service, beautiful surrounding, sgreesble cli mate, healthful conditions snd an ample gravity supply of pore mountain water, During the Weston Normal's long ca reer not one death occurred among it student body. - Weston is in faet an ad mirable location for state normsl school. It is s "small town," yea; but so is Monmouth and so sre numerous normal school towns in th East. Wes ton ha In th past supplied an entirely adequate number of pupil for an em eient oractice school, and can do so 8 (rain. .v. v Why should the voter of Oregon spend $125,000 for something they si- ready possess? Whv, should they tax themselves one-twenty-fifth -of a mill when one-fortieth of a mill all that waa asked of them and which they de nied two years sgo is sufficient? Logic snd economy slike suggest the defeat of the Pendleton bill, with view to the ultimate recpening of the Eastern Oregon Norma! at Weston. (Signed by V. D. Wtta, S. A. Barnes, E. O. DeMoss, Wm. MscKen lie, Clark Wood.) Notwithstanding ' the esteemed Esst Oregonisn's "smell town" twsddie, about the only difference between the Weston snd Pendleton normal school campaigns is that Weston lost every Eastern Oregon county except Uma tilla and Pendleton will also lose Umatilla. -'---''. '' 'If you see an editor who pleases everybody," remarks a Georgia paper, "there will be a glass plate over bis face and he will not be standing up." The railroads sfp becoming so de fenseless that Pennsylvania male 1 renorted in the dispatches to hsve kicked sn engine off th trsck. . Of every sixteen' Umatilla county people fifteen are still persons, while one owns an automobile. Although fed well enough, the Mus covites seem to be getting Hungsry. Along the Atlsntie coast th shsrk's fin may mean the bather's finish. A eertsin individual who takes a Pen dleton . daily but refuses to take the Weston psper is nevertheless suffi ciently condescending to ccept work m grading Weston', street. We are dseply appreciative of the fact that his objection doe not extend to taking Wenton money. Nevertheless w would humbly suggest thst Pendleton is th proper rlc for him to "live and move ami have his being.", IHHAJ.JL-. . I To much bras has agln ruined the Puter push. . v- k. ! . Iry Iw Is Ttireaiewwl. Circuit Judge Morrow today ren dered a decMoa. overruling the de murrer to the complaint la the suit of Wadhams A Co. lst the Fran. Journal. Judge Morrow holds that th pro vision of the prohibition law limiting to wholesale drugalata th riant to lin. port alcohol in large quantities la In violation of th Interstate commere clause of th federal constitution. He holds that any genuine menurariurer may Import as much alcohol as he de al rra tor hie own use. Th Webb-Kenyon act. which was relied upon by the atate la this suit." said Judge Morrow, "la so phrased thai It reads to prohibit the Importa tion of liquor or alcohol for us In violation of law. It applies In stales which have absolute prohibition, but the Oregon law provide a manufac turer ean have alcohol but he cannot Import It. As the possesion of alco hol by a genuine manufacturer la not unlawful. II la In violation of the In terstate commerce clause ef the fed eral constitution to attempt to pro hibit him from Importing such alcohol directly himself." Judge Morrow dev iated his dectsloa follows the decision of the ITnlted Biatee supreme court In -the rase of the Adams Express company against the state of Kentucky. He pointed out that, while the re sult of his decision might be th springing up of many parudo manu facturing plants. It would be up to th district attorney and other taw enforcing officer, in enforcing the taw, to keep a watchful eye out for blind plgger masquerading a manu facturing plaata. Beginning July 10 Wood's Auto Stag will charge th folio Ing fares: Weston to IVmlUton. SI.OO; round trip. 91.60. Intermediate point at prupon lunate rates. J. O, Woul WALLOWA LME PARK - -Breath of the Pine" 4,500 abuts res-level. In the POWDER RIVER MOUNTAINS near Joseph, Oregon. Eat, sleep, play, live out-of-doors. A delight ful mountain-lake resort. Good Ashing. .. For full information, fares, - tickets, etc-, ask & S. NELSON, Agnt 0-W.R.R.&N. tiM.iiiiimi... .t A A 500,0001 to loan on good wheat land at 61 Rr . Gl. Lucas I Resl Estate and Loans Weston, Oregon Uniting learning and Labor THE OHECO'I AGRICULTURAL G3LLEGE In it Sis Schools snd Forty-eight De partments is engaged in the great work 01 uniting beaming ai iswr, -rorty-elghtb School Year Opens SEPTEMBER 18, 1916. Degree Course requiring a lour-yeer bizh school pre Deration, are ottered ia the following! AGRICULTURE, 16 Departments' ; COMMKRCR, 4 Depsrtments; KNGIN ERRING, 6 Departments: MINEH, S Departments; FORESTRY, Depart ments; HOMR ECONOMICS. 4 Depart ment; and PHARMACY. Vocational Courses reqnfring an Eighth Gmle pre pa ration for entrance are offered in Agriculture. iMirying, -Commerce, Forestry, Home Makers, soil Mechanic Arts. Pharmacy witn a two year high school entrance requirement. SCHOOL OF MUSIC Piano, Suing, Rand and Voice Culture, CaMlogoc and beautiful illustrated booklet free. " Address THK RlWlT, 1 vJ-UMSloS-M) CO V ALU. OH ROOK SOMETHING TO CROW OVER However, we'll let Mr. Rooster do what little crowing may be necessary. . We merely wish to ssy that we will appro ciste your pstronagejn our line snd do our best to earn your good opinion. Rolled Barley, Oats and Wheat; Baled Hay, MillstufTs and Chicken Feed. 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