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WHAT IS YOUR TELEPHONE
11 WORTH?
The Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Company, has built
up a telephone system in Oregon from 7027 stations in-I 900 to
9452S stations in 1920. This development was secured for the
most part during a period when cost of labor and materials was.
normal. During these 20 years the Telephone Company has
carried out its part in the building of Oregon. Its operating
expenses have increased faster than its revenuefor the last
five years it has been operating at an increasing dehcit. This
condition cannot permanently continue.
New capital cannot be obtained by public utilities at all
except when rates are such as will afford reasonable assurance,
with efficient management, of earnings sufficient to car for leg
itimate fixed charges and establish for them a basis of credit.
This does not mean that rates should be such as m themselves
will supply new capital, but that they be such asto justify cap
ital investments in competition with other business ventures.
The proposed rates represent a very small increase to
the individual user from to 11 cents per day. In the ag
gregate they represent to the Telephone Company sufficient to
enable it to continue to serve the public, meet its payroll obliga
tions and show a reasonable return upon a legitimate invest
ment. "
Adequate service is dependent upon adequate rates.
Vhe Pacific Telephone and Telegraph Co.
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pcoplo who chooc to devote part of
tho Sabbath to harmless diversion
will certainly not permit any denial
of tho privilege If th 'TurtUn
Sunday" movement ever gets past
tho preliminary stage of agitation,
it need only afford occasion for rid
iculo, not apprehension. , Our law
maker well know that their politi
cal bread isn't buttered by tho big
uta, and will promptly kill all
fanatical measures.
FORGOTTEN AI.KKADY T
Tho nation demanding that ita
young nun fight its battle mut at
least see that ita sick and disahled
defender! are properly eared for.
It may theorise that they ge the
gift of their young manhood to their
country in time of need; but when
all they haw ha been given, the
nation is a despicable itigrat tlmt
will permit ita invalid soldier to bo
roduced to beggary and privation.
When the tocsin of war again re
sounds throughout tho land, such a
nation may perish, for it has taught
its youth to fear tho sling of in
gratitude in return for their patriot
ic seal.- The national commander of
t!ie American l-egion finds thai "ten
thoumiul disabled veteran are dying
in cellar, poor houses and insane
ayluma." Whatever her fault,
Germany would never be guilty of
neglect like this. Even in defeat
and distress, she has endeavored to
look after her disabled "veterans.
The State of Oregon should indeed
provide some sort of a soldier bonus
measure to atone in a degree for the
callous disregard of it soldiers dis
played, through bureaucratic mis
management, by the federal gov
ernment After a comprehensive survey Tho
Editor and Publisher (New York)
miiks The Portland Orvgonian a
one of twelve ' newspapers in the
United States having the best edi
torial page. The Oregonian is tho
only paper west of Kansas City in
the list. Oregonian generally will
take pride in the distinction thus ac
corded their great pioneer newspaper.
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CERTAIN fine typci of
tobacco- previously uied
for export, plied up In the
United States due to the high
rate of exchange. From these
high grade tobaccos we have
manufactured "111"' (ONE
ELEVEN) CIGARETTES
a new product a quality
product "We of tobacco never
previously used in cigarettct in
this country.
Finally
try them!
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ftsMt ocn tfk If urn Its 6ht.
To Prohibit Pistol Totins
Painless Parker
The Famous Dentist
PEOPLE living
a hundred miles
or more away
come to my offices
to have their teeth
fixed up. I make jt
rule that those
from a distance
shall be waited
upon immediately
and their work be
completed first, so
they, can go back home
soon as possible.
Years ago I discovered how
to extract and fix teeth with
out hurting, and was so
successful that people
called me "Painless"
Parker. My practice has
grown until I now have
as
IS
twenty-eight odlces,
and all my associ
ates in these offices
have been taught
how to practice
painless dentistry
as well as I can do
it myself. We have
fixed up the teeth
of over a million
people, and call our
way of practicing
"the- E. R. Parker System.".
If-your teeth are bothering
you, and you want them put
in good shape without hurt
ing and without pay
ing a fancy price, come
to our nearest office,
which you will find
located at
WESTON LEADER
CLAHK WOOD, I'ubluli.r
MRS. H. GOODWIN, AuiiUnt Editor
SUUiCKIPIION HATES
St.ictiv in Adnct
The Year 12 00
Six Month .' I 00
Three Month 0 50
)Iarry Bowmer, who years ago
published the Weston Leader, is now
running a paper ut Oak Harbor,
Wash., which contained the follow
ing slam in a recent issue: "A
Seattle boy. visiting in Walla Walla they invariably find weapon corneal
died of sleeping sickness. Yrs. that d on prisoners taken into custody.
Indiscriminate carrying of small
arms must cease, report tho Pend
leton Kant Oregonian, a a resultof
an edict that has gone forth from the
office of District Attorney Keatr.
because of the universal carrying of
small arm.
This gun toting has rome to light
lately through arrests made by the
neaco officers of the county, when
seems entirely possible."
Advertising Rate
Display, Regular, per inch ......20c
Display, Transient, per inch ....25c
Local Rcadcre, per line 10c
In attempting to discredit Hoov
er' work in behalf of Poland. Sen
ator Reed refers to liolshevik Kua
sin a "a friendly power." Wo as
sume that the troublesome Missouri
senator regard the Red Russian ef
forts to bolshevize America a Simon Vho
FRIDAY. JAJt. 21,
1921 pure benevolence.
Few of the men bearing small arm
have the authority to do so, the dis
trict attorney pointed out, and this i
due he says to a disregard of the
state law by persons selling pistol
and revolver.
"Pistols, revolvers and automat
ic must not be sold to any person
doe not present a permit,"
755 Main Street, Pertdleton
"HI-HGHT" UTHH
DRY
Pnttrtlt al tilt pottofllc si Wellon. Ortlos
si tcond-clif wtllmsltf r.
PUNCH rtOAKDS.
At .a recent meeting Oregon dis
trict attorneys discussed the sub
ject of punch boards, with results
(ii any) that have escaped our at
tention. One of thoni was disposed,
to regard these dime-snatching de
vices as harmless, but such was not
the view of the majority. Perhaps
the punch boards used for selling
candy boxes and the liko may be in
nocent enough, although they lure
the sporty young man to spend
many -a dollar for something he
doesn't want, even though his best
girl may be pleased thereby. But
there can be no two opinions as to
the character of the punch board
which offers gold money prizes in
tho guise of watch charms, together
with watches, rings, knives and
other glittering plunder. Such con
stitute an enticing and dangerous
form .of gambling, and many
Senator Johnson doesn't want to
see Root, Hoover or General Wood
in the cabinet. This should constl- uj, t,rccncf
I :. . m '
luio eontjusrvc k round ior ineir ap
pointment, their qualification;! oth
erwise being unimpeachable.
Perhaps a saving period of intro
spection may some day enable a
certain celebrated "flivver" manu
facturer to behold in his mirror the
reflected visage of an equally cele
brated ass.
While the president-elect i play
ing golf in Florida, it might be
well for resourceful office-seekers to
plan a strategic greeting at tho
nineteenth hole.
Confronted with the usual army
of job hunters', our printer president
will perhaps find less difficulty than
his predecessors in distributing the
"pi."
quoted from the state taw. "These
permit to purchase small fire arm
may bo obtained by responsible par
ties from the justice of the peace in
A dealer who does not
require the permit is violating the
law. Thi office will prosecute any
and all rase coming to its notice
where any of these provision are
violated.
"The state law even prohibits the
display of small arms for sale. A
dealer may have .them In stock for
sale, but pistols and their kind must
not bo displayed either in the show
case or show windows."
Frequent report of sale of pis
tils to persons who have no right to
carry concealed weapon have come
to the district attorney' office. One
such case is now in process of prose
cution. '
ROW'S Us THI
To Have Your
HARNESS
OILED AND
. REPAIRED
AUTO TOPS
Will Make You
a New One or
Repair the Old.
GOOD WORKMANSHIP
WHITMAN'S
HARNESS STORE
Milton, Ore.
Phone 122
Unorganized Relief Effort.
There are certain nromisinir lirn
man that Germany realize. .ho will Bt ,000,000 starving Chinese
has been tempted thereby to spend be able to get anywhere by aittinir nort1 Prt of China, Is being brought
Although unorgnnlzed in this
county, the appeal for relief of the
in the
money needed by his family. They down and feeling sorry for herself,
are worse man laro, craps, cnucK-a
P. T. Harbour
PHONE
273
It will become .an ideal "readjust
ment" when the man who has been
getting more than he needs will be
needing more than ho gets.
THE WESTOff FILLS
will ROLL, GRIND or CLEAN
' , your grain, and will give prompt atten
tion to orders for anything in its line.
International Stock
and Poultry Food
"Hay, Rolled Barley, Oats, Wheat and
Millfeeds. Chicken Feeds, includ
ing Corn, Wheat, Scratch Food, Bone,
' Shell, Grit, Meat Scraps and Fgg Mash.
WOOD and COAL
J. A. LUMSDEN - - Proprietor
luck, poker, twenty-one or other old-
time games of chance wherein, if
honestly conducted, the player had
a "run for his money." The man
who "bucks" tiie punch board plays
against outrageous odds worse, J" Thursday's Oregonian Terry
even, tban the slot machine now pictorially presents tho view that too
happily taboo. ' If thi ort of punch many builders spoil the cabinet. .
board is to be permitted, let us call
back the white-hued and slim-fingered
knights of the green cloth
and toll them to release the tiger.
to mind by the W. C. T. U. and other
charitably inclined bodies. Articles
dealing with the terrible conditions
existing among these suffering jhjo
pie are referred to by Mrs. Charles
Uetts, secretary of the local W. C.
T. U. as published in tho Country
Gentleman, The Curtis Publishing
Co., publishers, Philadelphia, and the
Christiun Herald, Now York City,
both of which are receiving dona-
Thc Industrial Workers of the tions. Address, Christian Herald
World arc not finding the world so China Famine Fund, Bible House,
easy to "work" as formerly. New York City, in sending money,
The Country Gentleman,
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NIFTY CLOTHES
DESIGNED RIGHT
MADE RIGHT
PRICED RIGHT
WESTON BATHS, BARBER
and TAILOR SHOP
R. L. Reynaud
Kxposure of the collar profiteers above,
i;hows that the public has been like-
wiHc.getting it in the neck.
as
Portland has been given exciting
occasion to be afraid of its "Shadow."
"nE NOT AFRAID V
Prohibition of the liquor traffic is
in lino with the democratic theory j
of government "the greatest good . Easter Sunday arrives early this
of the greatest number." This sort year falling upon the 27th day of
of prohibition is sound in theory and March,
will ultimately prevail in practice '" i
with the passing of a thirst-trained
and law-dodging generation. Sun
day "blue laws," however, are the
straight-laced offspring of intoler
ance and bigotry, and would re- What is wanted is not a bigger
strain individual liberty without congress, but bigger congressmen,
commensurate benefit to the race.
These facts are so well understood Dispensed With Surplus Employes,
that such law can never be en- L. J. Shannon, the new - county
acted in this free and enlightened roadmaster; has been directed by
republic. Prohibition laws were the county court to dispense with
largely brought about through the all surplus employes under his di
support of drinkers themselves, fa- rection until such time as a definite
miliar to the point of disgust with road oroirram can be shaned tin nd
moon memoas. dui tne minions ul work can be resumed.
CchangettuT I
pLDimes
)causes
f Mi
Weston, Orcton
Cash for chickens. J. R. Reynolds.
WESTON
I CASH MARKET
FRESH MEATS
OF ALL KINDS
HIGHEST CASH
PRICES PAID
FOR LIVESTOCK,
HIDES, PELTS, &c.
HASS & SAUER I
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