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The Boardman Mirror Boardman, Oregon MARK A. I.EVKI..VM), rublisher Printing is the Inseparable com panion of achtevewent. R. T. l'one MOW KIKVL CKKOIT 1HLI, AND THE SMALL FARMER (Article by Oregon Cooperative Hay Growers). The advocates of the rural credit legislation which lias just been ap proved by the president have said great tilings lor it. This was true ot l ho War Finance corporation, which gave little if any relief to small farmers. T he new hill, however, was Framed with the idea of providing cheaper money lor agricultural ex pense, cheaper money to finance livestock operations and to offer marketing organisations certain fi nances at reasonable Interest rates. The farmers of the Irrigated dis tricts have been giving this bill considerable study and have built a (..tain amount of hope thereon. The Hay Growers association have ttls obeen studying I he pi nMem pre sented by Oils bill, with the hope of securing belter finances for their members than they at present enjoy. Business men feel that If it is pos slbl to obtain cheaper money for the small farmer, (hat every reasonable effOrl : hould be put forth to forward the movement. Just how disirable and just how ai sslble is this federal money, and what in US I be done to secure it? And Is thin wilhin the reach of the irriga tion farmer? In answer tO these questions it seems possible to slate with reason able accuracy that tho interest rati' which will be charged by Iho federal government will be 5 Mi per cent. 'I his money niUBt either be han dled by a local bank or by a criedil matlon for Am for Ihls parllcu lar purpose; and inasmuch as the allowance of 1 Ms per cent is not sufficient to Justify banks In taking care of Iho mailer, it soma almost Osrtaftl thKi If any choap money Is to he SWSlir i for the Stnoll farmer hi this district a credit association list he c atablliihed. h mi agricultural credit cor- Ltsi have a minimum cap i 1 of $10,(1110. The subscrib tOCk could be assured Inal Interest upon same In ysars of the corporation, as Id eii advisable for Iheir pro Ion thai the full 1 V4 per cent be liarged anil thai any earnings from ' i source be thrown Inlo a reserve fund. This corporal ion would have a rsdiSOOUnl privilege with the fed till lni i mediate creel 1 1 hanks of IM Hum s its capital slock. farmers desiring loans through thtl (his association would be end Mad lo three ynrs time upon paper operlv secured for the purchase of livestock, ll would make funds read lly accessible for the purchase of livestock for winter feeding. There also seems to be no question hut 1 1 in t il would provide money for farm operations wilhin reasonable amounls, and funds for cooperative marketing associations. The saving would he found in (he difference be tween 7 per cent and the rates now paid. This subject should have consider e further study by every inter-,-lod farmer, and if it shall prove lo as desirable as It now appears, here should be no real difficulty In nandng such a corporation, VKTBRAN8' H17RHAV Til IKS TO PLACE RBHARILITATBD Ml The veterans' bureau fci asking the cooperation of the public to as slst in placing ex service men re habilitated by vocational training The government has done its lies I by these men to overcome all handi caps and equip them for life. The public now owes them the right to prove their mettle, stales a letter re ceived by (he local lied Cross from (he Portland office of tho Veterans' bureau. One hundred fully trained men In many different lines are now being turned out monthly in the northwest, and this supinlv will continue for everal years. The largest linns In Industry have realized that those graduates are no longer sub stand aid. bill on a productive par wnh ible bodied men. The Portland Chamber of Commerce Is putting fOrth lis efforts lo absorb u fair proportion of the trainees in the eii. If other purls of Oregon will respond In utilizing their share of these men, the public will have paid Its debt to the man who offered him self to his country He does not ask charity, tie seeks only Hie chance to prove himself The local Red Cross receives n monthly list of graduates who are ready for employment If you have an opening, will you not try out the nmn who sacrificed and sufered and who. hnving overcome his handicap now wants the opportunity to make good ? rboiif or send News lo l,eo Knot If ou will phone or send In any news or other matter ou wish to publish In the Mirror to Leo Hoot at the postofflce he will forward It to the office. Anything he gets before Wed nesday noon will be In time. 11 mmmmmmmm mmm .ul rnTiNTY OREGON A NEWAND GROWING TOWN wmmmmmmmmmmmam HOOTS! VH00! B0ARDMAN PUBLISHED EVERT FRIDAY $2.00 PER YEAR IN ADVANCE-- Entered as second-class matter Feb. 11, 1921, at, die postofflce at Hoard-i 1 man, Ore., under act of War. 3, 1879 15 Indian Lodge Tales By Ford C. Frick niiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiii THE GARDEN OF THE GODS TN THE nestling vales and on the grassy plains which lie ut the foot of the Great White mountain that points the way to heaven lived the Cle. sen People, Here they dwelt In happiness together. And above them, on (lie summit of the mighty peak, Where stands the western gates to heaven, dwelt the Munitou. In order that the Chosen People might know of his love, the Munitou stumped upon the peak the Image of his face, that nil might see and wor ship him. And there euch day the Chosen People came to pray and wor ship, where the first bright rays of the rising sun embossed the Image in i heir golden floW. There In happi ness they dwelt, their reulm extend ing Just as far as they might see the face of Munitou over hill und plain. nd the land was fair und the chosen tribe was envied by all the dwellers if the plains who knew not Munitou. Hut one day, as the storm clouds played about the I'euk, the Image of the Munitou was hid. Lotv. hanging ClOUdS swept down from out the sky and crept to earth In mist and fog and rain, and the happy, smiling face of Miinltmi was bid, and none could see It. And down from the north swept a barbaric host of giants, tuller than the spruce Which grew upon the moun tain side und sii great that they shook the earth with their strides. With the Invading hosts came ter rible beasts, unknown and awful In their mightiness, monstrous boasts that would devour the earth and tread It dOWtt. And us they came on the Chosen People were frightened, and In their fear they Hod to the Holy Mount, for In the sight of their titanic foes they were as grasshoppers. As the Invading tribes came on, the Chosen People fell on their faces and prayed to Munitou for aid. Then came to pass a wondrous miracle. The clouds broke away and sunshine smote the peak. And from the very sum mit, looking down upon the valley and the plains appeared the Munitou him self. Sternly he looked upon the In vaders, and as he looked the giants and the beasts turned Into stone. As then they stood, the giants stand today. Their scattered bands, now rock of red and brown, are found to cast and math, tinie-uorn and scarred, with legs deep burled in the drifting Minds. Some holder than the rest are near the mount, and some are far away In sheltered canons as If they SOUgbt lo bid. Some hold their KhleldS uplifted as If to meet the stony ga.e of Munitou, while others. rroUchOd In horror, were struck dumb and turned to stone there where they stood. The iieasts the giants drove Hre stranger still - big, clumsy ele phants with clumsy trunks; camels ii ml massive hears ami timid deer; .month, glossy beaver with Hat, scnly lulls; huge frogs and timid turtles. All were changed and stand today as they stood then when, living, they detled the Manltou. They covered all the valley these living men ntid hearts now turned to stone. And If you doubt this story, Q and see tlieiu Standing there today us they stood then. Time worn and gtay they are from countless storms, half-hurled In the sweeping sands, and vet If you look Closely you can see their forms, the glaiits and the beasts that hoped to steal the laud where dwelt the tribesmen who were our fa thers. When the white men came they called the spot the Harden of the Hods, because, they say, the rocks are .Meat and odd; hut we who know the story of the race slill call It "Valley of die Miracle," for here It was that Manltou gave aid lo save his chosen people and left there these rocks and forms of men nil turned to stone as warning to nil of us who may some time attempt detlance to him and his commands. Note -The I'tes for years lived on I he eastern slope of the Rockies, with their big town situated near what Is now the city of Colorado Springs, This legend refers to the tlarden of the Cods, just outside the city of Manltou --a spot t tint has heroine world fa mnus for the unique beauty of its rock formations. Hearst's Son Elopes With Idaho Girl. Marlines, Cat. (ioorge Hearst, son of William Randolph Hearst, ami Miss Blanche, Wilbur, daughter of o K. Wilbur of Idaho Falls. Idaho, eloped from tho University of California at Berkeley and were married here. Roth have been prominent In college activities. One million or more foot of fir tlm ber In tho Stuslaw forest on the Alsoa rlvor 12 miles troia W'sldport has been sold to the Lar son Logging company at 11.25 per 1000 fset. according to sn nounwement st the office of Ralph 8 Shelley, supervisor of this forest, st Bugeur. This company will cut the timber, drag it o the Also, raft It town thst ut renin to the logging rail way and then haul It to tho Yaguin tiver, where It will agaiu be rafted to the mill st Toledo. Q 0. W. L. . (On With Laughter; Who's Yours? My hero is The BuHan of Swat, For five and twenty W'ves he's got.. An opportunity is a good deal like u v. asp, it takes a lot of experience to know how to grasp it without getting stung. It's Old Staff. "That young man stays to an un earth I v hour every night, Gladys," said an Irate father to his youngest daughter, "What doe3 your mother say a'.out it'"' 'Well dad sho turned lo 'hat nion hav Gladys replied, as i upstairs, "she says t chung. d a bit." The wages of sin have not yet Increased. There is evidently a sur plus of labor in this particular field of endeavor. g D o p o o Z Q A man must he all right when' 1 f ' is small son admits that "dad's a Z gOOd scout." E When the minister begins to tell W about the luck he had fishlne he 02 descends tO the level Of the ordinary ia angler. v rata Avenue, im-w voir, waiter has been arrsted for failing to report C the finding of a $1,000 hill which he C picked off iho floor, but it will be -J hard to convict him. He can say ho j O thought it was a tip. U The scarcity of girls on the street is (iiu io tne iaci tiialiuany of them hair to grow out again. are Bitting a home wailing for their, fid In speaking of husbands, it was the homely girl who said, "Money isn't everything." Why Not Broadcast an Alarm clock? i 5 A radio fan has his set located S near his bed. The other niirht he ! S climbed in bed, put his head set on and turned on the juice, and then he went to sleep. The next morning the headset was still on his head when he awoke and the radio was giving the market quotations. One of natures saddest sights Is a Smart Aleck of IS trying to give an Impression lhat he is a Hard Boiled Fgg. A formula for success: More hone In the hack and less in the bond. When a motor knocks all the time there Is something wrong with ii. And it is the same with a man. If Franklin caught the hghtnln' The fact should cause no wonder; For scores of married men Have lone been catching thunder. When a Utile boy discovered a cucumber growing out In the garden it was something new or him so he rushed lino the house and exclaimed: "Mamma, mamma, there's a pickle growing on our squash vine." The man who can bottle up wrah ta all times is a corker. his Travelling will become higher when airplanes displace trains and automobiles. , The newlywed that expects to he ihe master of his bouse soon finds out that he is only the paymaster. z o w z p o I z Q The will be world. Ii ridge. new Hudson River bridge the most costly one in the excepting, ofcourse, Auction Wanted Young woman for hang ing up, shaking out; and folding, Wages twelve dollars weekly, with bonus to start Apply Tabor Laundry Works, 446 Dathhurst street.- Tor onto Evening Telegram. Ii Is wise never to make friends of fools or fools of friends. , Petulant Wife I cook for yon all day ami what do I get? Nothing! i Husband You're lucky! I gel indigestion! The modern maid hasn't failed to notice that after Dad Is through urowling about rouge, lipsticks, and ebrow stuff he beats it to the mir ror to comb the hair over his bald -lKt. O W M P Molt,, for Married Men You must not throw upon the floor The wife ou cannot stand. Bar many a single man might love That wife to beat Ihe band. Recalling the happy days, some poopleean't recognize national pros perity because so many associated it with the time when the silk shin was the national flag. . - BOARDMAN - MORROW COUNTY, OREGON- WHY BOAR OMAN? : :i.;ii..r.'M,!i;i;n:.:;ii:ihii ii'vi; i i;ii;tniii;ii!miii .'mi; iintiu i w immiiiii iui imimnmii HimniunmHHiiM- Because THE CLIMATE IS GOOD THE PEOPLE ARE SOCIABLE INTELLIGENT ENTERPRISING TOWN IS NEW AND GROWING LOCATION WELL CHOSEN HALF WAY BETWEEN THE DALLES AND PENDLETON ON O.-W. RAIL ROAD 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 BOARDMAN MORROW COUNTY, OREGON P E t"1 O O d td o w c is 2 n o C H w w o 2 td o w B o w to a o z td K a 2 CO o so o z td td C o a z c to to a c z to td o z to td O o a z o to w o z 0 H0ARDMAN- MORROW COUNTY, OREGON-A NEW AND GROWING TOWN