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About The Boardman mirror. (Boardman, Or.) 1921-1925 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 25, 1922)
The Boardman Mirror Boardman, Oregon PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY MARK A. CLEVELAND, I'ubllnher 2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE Entered as seeond-clasB matter Feb 11, 1!21, at the post office at Board Dlftn, Ore., under net of Mar :i, 1 879. Printing is the Inaeperable com panlon of achievement. R. t. Porte AMEND MOTOIt I MM I I ACTS Sixth seven person were Killed and five hundred and sixth-four in lured in automobile accidents during the week ending July 17, in twenty seven cities in the United States, ac cording to figure compiled by the United Press. Think of It In only twi-nt.i -seven cilies. Our present laws practically invite everybody, In cluding the phynically and mentality unfit, the near blind, the deaf, crip pled, crook and narcotic fiend to drive a machine, and this fault of OUr laws m one of Ihe most direct oauaefl of the majority of motor ac cidents according to Police Judge, Edward j. Tyrell, of Ban Franc iaeo More strict laws before a driver can obtain a license to drive in Cal ifornia are being advocated, under which a oourae of Instruction and ex amimtlion will be required before per mil is issued Oilier states are con ldering adoption of such legislation. Motor aCCidenta, due to drivers carelessly, negligently or thoughtless ly running into trains and street can are becoming so freciueni that th transportation companies Instead of always paying damagea asi in the past are aboptlng a uniform system of starting suit to collect damages from the motor driver offender. If be has no respect for his life or thf lives of others he may have some re spec! for his poeke! hook. PRINTER'S ink HELD need OF UP-TO-DATE FARMERS Farmers should use more printer's ink. Those who have used it, both in postera and catalogs And thai it Increases their business) and oilers a convenient way of marketing their produce al home. This is the deletion of th depart ment of Industrials journalism at o. A c, which is making a survey of farm advertising In Oregon, and which dealres to obtain samples of UOSegSfUl advertisements and Printed matter used hy Oregon farmers. The department asks all rural newspapers to submit samples of other printing for farmers as well as ad vert isilnen Is The material will be used to build up an exhibit at the collect to utiuiutat tin use of printer's Ink u) Oregon i farmers, and to assist farmers who ask the college for suggestions and advice on advertising and printing. That the business farmer is begin ; ning to realize that he musY use the j columns of his local peper to adver I tise his produce is indicated in a j contest for rural newspapers of Ore ! gon which was conducted at the re cent convention of the state press as sociation conducted at Corvallis. In the papers Which carried the largest amount of rural news service the farmers were users of advertising space. Not only did many editors cooperate in the matter of free pub licity to the farmers, but actually gave preference to stories of unusual happenings! In the rural communities. Names for farms are becomiit as popular a-s the use of advertising and printed matter, it Is shown. The grower of produce is taking a tip from national advertisers and giving his products a mark of identif icaton, which results in increased business and stimulates a local market, as well as serves as a trade mark. JESS WILLARD Going to fight though fat and forty .9 After traveling across the continent you; wonder how Columbus could avoid discovering America. My father says the paper he reads ain't put up right; He finds a lot of fault, he does, perusin' it all night ; He says there ain't a single thing in it worth to read, And that jt doesn't print the kind Of stuff 'he people need; He tosses it aside and says it'.-j strictly on the bum Hut you ought to hear him holle v hen the rtper dosn't come. He reads about the weddin's and he suorts like all get out; He reads ihe social doin's with a most derisive shout. He says they make the papers for the women folks alone; He'll read aboul the parties and he'll fume and fret and groan; He says of information it doesn't have a crumb liul you ought to hear him holler when the paper doesn't come. He is always first to grab it and be reads it plumb clean through, lie doesn't miss an item, or a want ad that is true; lie says tbey ilont know what we want, the darn newspaper guys. I'm going to take a day sometime and go and put 'em wise; Sometimes It seems as though they must be deaf and blind and dumb lint you ought to hear him holler when the paper doesn't come. - Wartebury American The fellow who watches the clock in hardly expect to be anything but one ot i tie nanus. Former champ Jess Willard is going to get his chance this fall to regain the crown he lost to Jack, Dempsey at Toledo three years ago. Tex Richard is going to stage the bout at Jersey City. Jess in train ing at l.os Angeles looks all of fat anj loity an shown here. GAMp LAWS ARB BROKEN LOCAL SPORTSMEN SAY Hunlers in Umatilla county do not understand that the season on both blue and ruffled grouse, sometimes called brush or native pheasants, will be closed this year, according to local sportsmen who declare that inquiries are constantly being made by the un informed as to when the seasons open They are closed and there will be no hunting of the birds this year. That the law is already being violated is a statement made by one sportlover, who declares that he has information that grouse has been killed. From the same source the statement emanated that venison has been eaten recently by local people. The deer hunting season does not open until August 20. Umatilla county sportsmen have joined with other sportsmen over the sftate in opposing the recent sugges lion put forward by State Forester Elliott that because of the danger of fire the huntln gseason be held closed until heavy rains fall on the range "There is much less danger of fire being started by hunters than by others who stay In the woods only a short time", a local man slated today Nearly all hunters are lovers) of the woods, and a great number of them are pretty well versed on wood eran anu ordinarily, they are cau- l ions." r mm I his is the amusement age. The crae lor amusements foretells the doom ,,t present day civilization. If von .ire a carclul reader of history AMlISr- vou w'" "e the 1JTMT similarity between lYlLiN 1 this age and the MANIA ceded "the "falfof Greece ami Rome. We are march- kl toward the same precipice. The Increased population of the world and the extra facilities alTorded us nuke it possible (or a quicker de cline The people fcem to have 101 rotten all aliout life's more seri ous work and sre engaged in i mad competition for pleasure. Thrre are more people trying to commer cialise this tendency or mania for muSentent than ever before, and. for financial considerations they are furnishing more kinds of amuse ments I'roprietirs ..re being shattered, principles .irr being abandoned, and characters sacrifices in the mad rush to reach the Ueach ol Fri volity and 1 Measure. JIBC D.D.L.L.D1 JjAm D.D. 11 I AJtuCSJllK The old people have become in sane on the subject; the middle aged are intoxicated; snd the youth 01 the land are hopelessly engiilfed. Babies are born m the mad house ot Jan snd are being rocked in the rradle of indecency. The amusement mania or pleas ure insanity seems to have afflicted eighty-five per cent of the popula tion. They are today spending mil lions and millions of dollars for a lay of lolly or a nightnde of moral fatality. They do not seem to arce with anyone who is trying to cure them of this awful malady. They are not willing to co-operate with anyone who is trying to reform the amuse ments now being used for the de struction of society. The Honorable William H. Hays deserves the unstinted praise aed support of all Christian people in his ellorts to clean the filthy screens and wash out the cesspools of mov ing picture studios. Every virtue-loving woman in the land ought to come to his support and demand the closing of every theatre which exhibits any picture with an immoral subject or false coloring. If you are Oot willing to support men who are trying- to cure the populace of their mad amusement insanity then you should prepare the funeral cortege for the wrecked bodies of your sons and daughters. Help us to trest your malady, re form your amusements, ami direet the people in the road of sanitv and moral development. jooem T ty- UNCLE JOHN W hen you hear a feller grumble at the hill he has to climb, an later, see him crumble in despair, you wouldn't err in jedgetntnt, if you bet yer bottom dime, that he has built the cross he had to bear. This thing we call hu manity, is full of human freaks, with fitful an' imaginative brains. There's very few that's brave enough to scale the highest peaks. -that knows enough to come in, when it rains I With blessin s all around us, we embrace the things We pander to the vicious annetite We undertake the vet) thing that's sure to leave us worse, an' shet our eyes to even thing that's right (Then is it any wonder, that we flounder in the sea. and wallet Witter waters, tempest-tossed? Too often we imagine tumble has to be, when we only need the rudder that W e'll find it smoother sailin' if we banish every ocki .".ii cure me lmpertec tiontu Dttrown, The trouble's ps l -i I Iri s in our little ivory hand and trouble's hard to manage -in a bone I PBitOSOPHT WELL AFTER ALL as that c u i se. K-ii'l . SI': 1 Since we are all out helping), to make the world 1 . iter wl. not do it in half the time? H we put the time spent m kicking ll o corrr, ting, gee. what s hole v .ould knock n the. things we do i I like' Uost peo ple ho don't kick a "what's the iw" becSUM thc mink they are powerless, so they waste their time grumbling. That's not it There's oo use ktefctng because there never can he an end to the cause tor kick ing As soon as one thing's cured another bobs up hen we're shav. in by wireless there'll be a kick because the static shakes the raior. Meantime suppose we all bun iri an better ilimg. od meantime also smile. WHY BOARDMAN? Because the Climate is Good, People are Sociable Intelligent Enterprising Town is New and Growing Location Well Chosen Half way between The Dalles and Pendleton On O-W Railroad On Columbia River Soil Will Raise Anything Water for Irrigation from West Extension of Umatilla Project McKay Creek Dam Will be built, assuring more acreage under water. Boardman is a New Town But Not a Boom Town Write Secretary of Commercial Club