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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Oct. 28, 1921)
The Boardman Mwiw Boardman, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Mrs. ( luirc P. Harter, Local Editor MARK A. CLEVELAND, Publisher $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered aB becond-clafls inatter Feb. 11, 1921, at the post office at Board man, Ore., under act of Mar. 3, 1879. TRANSPORTATION AT ALL HAZARDS Whether the railroad difficulty is to be settled or not, it is to be hoped that both sides will have been chastened by the enormity of the calamity, threatened or actual. Railroad transportation la the most important necessity there is in a wide land that holds one hundred and live millions of human beings. It is more important than food and the means of buying food because both depend on transportation so far au the mass of that one hundred and five million human beings is con cerned. This nation cannot endure a pro longed cessation of railroad opera tion:!, anyway not until air and mo tor transportation become more im portant and dependable. As a mat lei' ill fact il tbOUld nut have to en dure a shutdown of traffic for even a week or a day. lien- is a problem for thinkers and statesmen to solve: ilow to insure orderly and adequate transportation facilities no mailer what happens in the way of human disagreement. AMERICA'S ONH POUT LAUREATE America has one poet laureate, John G. Nelhardt. John O. has made a national reputation as a singer of word:;, but having lived In Nebraska BMMl Of his life although born in Illinois the legislature of Nebraska only recently declared him I he state's POOl laureate hy Official resolution. This new star in our bright Mima nenl of national genius is praise be! not one of the blank verse tribe that is squeaking and shrieking Us way through our present history. Head this verse from Nelhardt 'k poem "Rattle Cry": "More than half beaten, bul fearless. Facing the storm and (he night; Ureal bless and reeling bul tearless, Here in the lull nt the light. I who bow not but before Thee, Cod of the lighting clan, Lilting my fists I Implore Thee, (live me Hie heart of a man!" A vivid picture, strong sense that thrills the very soul, u mighty pray er all in eight lines, or less than 5(1 words. Compare that with some of the cheap drivel often put onto the market by many. Nelhardt is 4(1 and a coiner, lie Is a product of the small town, Bharpeburg, 111., and Baaeroft, Neb. He will do greater and greater work and our bent wish (o him Is that he shun the precincts of (he big city and all that means to the lilerarv genius. THE MORNING AFTER THE NIGHT BEFORE ill li sf M COMMUNICATION AND REPRINT ON HENS AND POULTRY RAISING HOMEY I li nsornv for 1081 How often do we say to another. "Well, w.ii ate welcome to your opin Ion!" And how often do we mean It'.' Not once! Under the skin we are peeved at the other fellow's opin ion Vet what a humdrum world (his world would be If It were not that humans have different notions about things. Incidentally, next time you say to a man. "You are welcome to your opinion," try to say It wholelicartetl I) and with an expression in your face that shows plainly that) (you really mean It. Then note how that fellow warms up to you. You'll convert many a man to your own opinion by doing that very thing. WHEN THINGS . WRONG When things go wrong In your toilsome day, KB1 the whole world seems askew, don't tear up the house in a wreck less way the trouble may be with YOF! Vc build our house, stone by stone, an' finish 'em. bit hy bit . . hut we ortn'l (o swear at the build in' none, when one of the blocks don't fit ... . . . . For you are a block In the mlghtv wall, that grows by the Mas ter's hand ,' It's probable YOB don't fit at all, In the palace the Master planned This old world's apt to roll around in the way It was made to do . . . And. when ye grlt nln' (wxws ff ground, the man at the wheel is YOU f One of our most beloved subscri bers has asked us to publish the following article from the Portland Oregonian with the prelude written by a lady on the project, who is backward about signing her name, but is highly recommended by the aforesaid tn. b. s. as a contributor of note to eastern papers. Her ar ticle will prove not only interesting and of great help to the poultry business, but will also mark the ladies' ability as a writer: My Dear Editor. I am enclosing a clipping which relates to the poultry industry. 1 would deem it a favor if you can IpBre some of your valuable space for a reprint. The better part of my life was spent in the East, in the poultry bus iness. I recently moved to this pro ject with my husband, and we are planning on entering the poultry business on a large scale. You have ideal climate for the industry. We darted In the East with a five-hen "Hennery," and built it up to a 2000 business concern. Cur new county agent is a strong advocate of the hen on (he farm When you come to town, bring something to sell. You do it with the hen. While the future of the hen and ITTt effort has wonderful prospects, I cannot paint as rosy a tomorrow for bar, as the above article portrays. We did breed Orpington strain, from which the caponized cock dressed twelve pounds. Hut when the writer mentioned the possibility of the pound hen, and the 17 pound, 2 ounce egg, unwomanllke it may sound, I will say that the writer is a prevaricator. The mind may mount to prospective heights, bin some things are incomprehensible. There is no question but that the race would be belter off with less red meat and more eggs. To live Mill years even without pain or bodi ly ills, would be no inducement. All I pee would be Uttered and cluttered And how manlike the writer tells you of the transformation of the 150 pound woman to the 2000 pounder Manlike with all the conceit and egotism of the sex, is now perfect: He will remain the 150 pounder! If sat on, I assure you his vanity will need a coat of varnish. And. my deal editor, can you name one of these "Immortals," who can rustle I he dollies for 300 children? He could not even furnish (he "squares " The writer has overdone, over drawn the possibility otfWhite meat, and scientific thinking. Rut, neigh bors, don't overlook the "hen on the farm." We so often strive for the big things and go "into the red" where the little things added togeth or. put us on the right side of the ledger. New York. Oct 1 :l W E. D. tokes. president of the Patchen Wilkes' Slock Farm. Inc.. Lexington. Ky., has some modern ideas on eggs. Stokes says that eggs are among the foods that modern man has substi tuted for the raw rump steaks bit from the shanks of musk oxen 11 feet high. 50.000 years ago. but the palaeolithic Neanderthal. He says these fellows used to eat raw hunks of hairy mastodons and juicy slices from the tall of the sporting Diplo dus. Moreover, he says that the critters who Infested the Miocene age munched and munched and munched on the tender ribs from the slr)e of the young Wuahelodus. He rather inclines to the opinion that from our sabre-toot hed ances tors Who. chewed up red meats and flung the bones of their victims yards deep all over the floor of their stone age caves, and who, while shedding hot tears before burying their grand fathers and grandmothers, tore out succulent tidbits from the corpse and ate them with feelings of love and reverence, we have acquired our hunger for the flesh pots of Egypt. Hut, he says, as civilization ad vanced and American missionaries pushed their way into the heart of Africa, the natives gave up the old custom of eating red meats raw for the more agreeable custom of seiz ing on good fat sky pilots whom they tied to green poles and elevated on forked sticks over a roasting fire until properly done, whereupon they served them with native fruits and seasonings and then ate them up. ThUi by inference was established a preference for the paler white meals, the round-steak of a mission ary being a shade between veal and chicken. Now, he continues, it's 70 years since the red meat question was agi tated throughout the country. On account of this agitation he believes that red meals have a tendency to foster cancer germs already in the human system. To prove this he points to the fact that our hospital and cemetery rec ords show that one in every seven has cancer, on which account scien tists are telling the world to eat fish, poultry, fresh milk and eggs be cause they are white meat. He says If we folloyv the laws of. heredity as taught by poultrymen we would live to be 500 years old and von then would be in full posse- ion of our mental and physical powers ind there would be no ills, pains, or mffering in the world. The world has got to be reduced to stock-farm standards if it would convert a Hottentot into a Lincoln, a CeCll or a Napoleon. If a hen by scientific breeding can be made to weigh 20 pounds Instead of 1 14 pounds, and if she ean be made to lay 300 eggs a year ins:cad of 15. It follows that If the same principles be applied Bclent iu ally to the hu man family women who now weigh but 150 pounds can be made to weigh 2000 pounds, and instead of having 15 children in a given period they can have 300 children. Why not? The musk oxen that used to stand 11 feet high while the palaeolithic j Neanderthals bit chunks from their backs have been shrinking up some- i thing aw ful, while the hen has been j developing from a pound and a half j to 20 pounds. So, a woman weighing 2000 pounds would be about in the right proportion to a musk ox 11 feet high, and the New Jersey white hen specialists would seem to have it in their power to develop the 20 pound hen into a bird weighing 3 68 pounds, and laying eggs weigh ing 17 pounds two ounces each. Stokes says the egg-producing hen of tpday is energetic, overscratch Ing and nervous. She is an unnatur al mother, who won't "set" because her whole nature has been perverted, and she is intent on doing one thing only laying eggs. She eats grain, and as corn is today less than 50 cents a bushel, the best white eggs actually cost less than 12 cents a dozen to produce. The White Leghorn hen is so high strung and nervous that high fences ire necessary to keep her from going crazy. Her flesh is stringy, tough ind not fit for eating. Although she produces from 200 to 300 eggs a year, she rarely raises any offspring. The famous White Leghorn hen, La dy Englantine, with an egg record of 315 a year, produced only 12 grow ing chickens, and Lady Cornell, with a record of 28 5 eggs, never raised a single chick. Intensive breeding and functional excitement have converted the white egg into a symbol of appalling truths and ridiculous nonsense so ludi crously and tragically compounded as to resemble this absurd and almost, if not quite, incoherent belch upon red meal in general and white eggs in particular." fade JctetJbsH A COUNTER REVOLUTIONS IN THE FORM OF SQUARE MEALS FROM AMERICA ARE REACHING RUSSIA. COPt HUNT tOgl -ua Kyt,, -3TER SCRV CO. 'Phone 609 4MIIMMIHMftttMMM DR. L. C. 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