The Board man Mirror
Boardman, Oregon
PUIiUSHED EVERY FRIDAY
MARK A. OLBVHLAKD, Publisher
$ 2 . 0 (J PER YEAR IN ADVANCE
lOnti rod as second-class matter Feb.
1921, at the post office at Board.
man, Ore., under act of Mar. 3, 1879.
PUBLIC PAYS THE I'RICE OK
APATHY
The steel kings are cautious, bus
InBWslike, and deeply interested in
nyi-lm anul:is. Tliey always siudy
the mental reaction of the people,
The price of steel depends largely on
fuel condition, "but ttte steel men
know that despite the coal strike
the present is not propitious to ash
, lor more money. Kventuaily, . of
course, the coal strike will result In
an advance In steel prices. That is a
forgone conclusion, lint a till in t lie
prices now would react unfavorably,
and so th' great captain:- of the
.industry nth their teeth nel nwai"
. "der tag." Those whose buetnom jt
is to watch industrial nice, -ments
predict that .Inly will see the end of
tin? coal conflict. By that lim- (he
minors are likely to have reached
' the breaking point of endurance, and
it is then the public may ojrpeci to
read in those newspapers whose p'.'.b-
'ilshbft are ttie constant mil wil I lib
' 'vltdii'is Of the industrial prii'-sa agi nil
the accepted pi ouagunda preparing
the public mind for a lit I ot. the
pocket book. Both coal and sieo-i
will advance In price unless lite in,
forseen lakes place, and t li 'r is
lilely to be a race for Hie liist bid,
wltl the chances in favor Of th'
steel "men. Certainly someone ninst
pay tin' coil of storage !' produc
tion and of course the victim will
be. the good old patient public. If
the people only realized how much
their pocket hooks are stripped be
cause they fail l.o interest Ihem
selves in anything that dot s not
strike immediately into the home,
we might nee a revival of community
activity and a unification of public
opinion thul would result in more
harmon ioun conditions. Every day
the coal strike quite Ignored! by
mortgage on the Individual citizen,
who still pauses her days of Ufa se
renely anil unmindful of the fact
that he Is conl biliously caught be
tween the nether millstones. The
l,ord helps I hose "who help llicm
selves. ah8 ( otiHt ipient ly rood calf
is taken of the emit and stool baron i
below 1U20, and every indication I
is that from this time on any change j
is more likely to be upward than)
downward.
Great volumes of money have
been released for building purposes,
as forcast some months ago. The
result in building activity is found
:u all 'ions of ilu-Wilted Ktatet.
The price of materials has taken
a considerable tumble, and while
waes remain high, nevertheless, the
readjustment bus been downward
rather than upward. Experts agree
that prices, both for material and
lahnr never will reach the pre-war
standard, and with the inct ciusing
aclitivily labor certainly will hold!
tu own and material will go up In
price by reason of greatly increased
demand.
HOMKY PHiliOSOPHY FOB 1022
CHRISTAIN A. HERTER
Dont it seem fine to get into your
boat, lie face up in the sunlight tin'
drift down the stream of life with
out a care in the world? You pass
hundreds of rocks, the eddies switch
tin? boat from side to side an' you
get by safely, maybe with 'here in'
there a little scratch but not enough
to set you worrying. An' then you
gel it. Hump, an' over the falls win
go. Hoy, what a smash! It ou have
any thlnkin' apparatus left you see
where you tried to beat the game an'
it didn't work out. Old Cap Nature
says you've got to take hold of Che
oars an' row up stream if you want
to land safely. Sometimes you've got
to row mighty hard to make head
way but .vim might as well tackle
the Job, because, there's no ronjn
for argument. Every river ends tin
the rocks or in the mudbanks and
that's where the fellow lands who
drills down the stream.
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ONE -oAID, "I CANT.
t.ET GEORGE DO
IT." GEORGE DID,
AMD GOT TH?
CREDIT.
TIME TO BUILD VOIR HOME
If figures talk at all, they .are
imiv shouting to Ihoso who con
template building iiometi to ell bwy
and lot their contractu. Moreover,
they loll the same story in every
stale in llie union.' An 'examination
of the figuron just completed by
the Pulled States is now 2fi per cent
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June 28, 29, 30; July 1, 2.
Season Tickets Now on Sale
TEN SHOWS FOK $8.00
HICll SCHOOL STl DKNTS $1.50
GRADE PUPILS $1.00
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Exceptionally fine entertainment offered this year
Pho le or rite for Tickets Now!
Christian A. Herter, private secre
retary to Secretary Hoover, who has
gone to Russia to study conditions In
the Volga famine area.
RAIL EMPLOYES GET
ANOTHER WAGE GUT
Chicago. The United States rail
labor hoard, pruning nearly $27,000,
000 from the annual payroll of 325,000
railway employes by cutting clerks,
signal men and stationary firemen
from 2 to 6 cents an hour, announced
another wage slash, bringing total re
ductions under the board's orders up
to $135,000,000, beginning July 1.
The clerks were cut 3 and 4 cents
an hour, according to their classifica
tion; the signal men 5 cents and the
firemen 2 cents.
Approximately 1,290,000 railway em
ployes will share the total reduction,
which has brought vigorous protest
from every union organization In
volved, and will result In a strike vote
being taken by 10 railway labor
bodies.
A disuniting opinion, protesting
against any reduction, wtis included in
the decision, as was the case in the
two previous -Cuts from the mainten-ance-of-way
laborers and the shopmen.
BRIEF GENERAL NEWS
Germany Saturday paid the regular
monthly installment of &O,tH)U,0UO gold
marks for reparations.
Premier Nikolai Lenin has been
ordered by his physicians to leave
Itussia ami enter a sanitarium at Dres
den, in tSaxouy, according to reports
from Moscow.
The liipior business in British Co
lumbia under government control will
amount to approximately $ 1 0 .Hi Ml , lion
ami profits will total nearly $3,000,000
for the year, it Is reported.
The North Dakota Wheat Growers'
association, which controls between
10,000,000 and 15.tinti.000 bushels of
wheat, lias jone.l the Northwest
Wheat Growers' as, i ciatlon.
Sumni r tourist fares, which are
lower than foe several years, have
stimulated railroad travel westward
tremendously, according to reports
from Chisago paaaoagM agents.
A comprehensive agreement cover
ing all pints - of Mexico's external
detit problem was etgMd in New York
by the Mexican minister of finunce,
lie la lluerta. and the international
committee of hankers on Mexico.
Life For Oregon Woman's Slayer.
JaokafB) Mich. George Strauh. ton
eased tlajnr of Alice Mallet, pleaded
guilty to first degree murder in the
Jackson county court, and was sen
tenced to confinement at hard labor
'or liie in Marquette prison Miss Mal
lett, former Ontario, Ore., girl, who
was matron at a girls' home, was
murdered about ten days ago. having
apparently Uaan attacked with an ax.
r head wju crushed and her botlv
dated In a night attack us she was
u route to her home.
V. estern States Get Wore Loans.
Washington, W. Agricultural
and llvestoc' loans for the northwest
aiiuouitce I bj ie war finance corpora
tion Ir.clutU1 the following: Oregon,
$4e ViMht ..am, $Jt.mni; i,iho.
Se .ator H Wins In Maine.
Portland rf Saator Frederick
Hale. rtfu,l'lii an on an ,at i,tor
in the state .caries The vote cast
for him was larger than the total for
hlS tWO OBBOUI lltS
Great Morvtch Beaten In Rsee.
Ne Vprk - .Vforvfrh. hailed as
An. erica's unbeatable 3 year oil. we
beaten In tuo Carlton stakes at the
Aqueduct track by Whiskaway by
eight lengths.
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BOARDMAN?
Because the
Climate is Good,
People are
Sociable
Intelligent
Enterpri sing
Town is New and Growing
Location Well Chosen
Half way between The
Dalles and Pendleton
On O-W Railroad
On Columbia River sj
Soil Will Raise Anything
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Water for Irrigation from
West Extension of
Umatilla Project
McKay Creek Dam
Will be built, assuring
more acreage under
wate r.
Boardman is a New
Town But Not a
Boom Town
Write Secretary of Commercial
Club
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