FALLS CITY NEWS
KALL« CITY OREGON, SATURDAY. APRIL 8, 1916
VOL. XII
FACE THE FACTS!
Weeks Talks About Our Navy
and National Defense.
Insists on Military, Commarelal, Fin
ancial and Industrial Preparsdnes#
— Lot Ua Be Ready for Paaco as
Wall aa War.
By JAMCB B. MORROW,
In tha Philadelphia Record.
ONE of the WiMtkaea, eavo John
Wlncato, tho annalor and tho
Maeaarliuaotta
candtdatn
for
prnaldont- tolling aa they all did
among tha granite butnpa of New
Hampshire was ever noted for hie ac
cumulation o f i-aah or property.
They were farmers mostly, begin
ning with I^xmard Weeks, who, emi
grating from England In 1858. became
the head and source o f tha family.
Agriculture nt«rnly practiced among
the embedded rocks and Irremovable
bowlders tsught them to be resource
ful and to keep at least one eye open
to opportunity.
Ho William D, the father of the sen
ator. was a probate Judge, and once
essayed to bn a manufacturer
With
the cooperation o f neighbors, likewise
alert and adventurous, he started a
factory at I .ancestor tor making starch
from potatoes.
“ I will never forget the look on my
father's face," Captain Weeks told me.
when, oa a Sunday morning. Just as
we were leaving church, we saw men
and boys running down the street and
heard them crying: ‘The starch fac
tory Is burning .’
N
arademy III laincaatAf on a mint of n
teacher for their (Hatrlri school The
school wss then eloeed— a group of
the large hoys having carried the
teacher Into the road, slammed him
down In the dirt and warned him
never to return.
"Lick 'em and lick ’em good." the
prudential committee said.
“ W e'll
hack you up If you do.”
“ The third day.
Captain Weeks
told ms, "a big, red faced hoy took
his pen In hand and laborloual, be
K«n to write a letter that la. be aai
aeemlngly engaged In writing a let
tar; as a matter o f tact, he was show
•*4f off In ter* the school and expert
re nting .vwh Ik* new teacher When
No. 33.
Mrs. Grace Hulburt Wins Piano
Voting Closed at 4 O ’clock Saturday Afternoon and
Judges Count the Ballots.—Mrs. Hulburt
Leads by IQ8.950.
According to terms o f contest I handicapped on account o f the
the ballot box closed at 4 o'clock I times being very close, but on the
ordered to put hie pen and paper last Saturday afternoon and was l whole the contest has terminated
away, he smiled around the room st
The ■ very s a tis fa c to rily . The News
the pupils, who had stopped work turned over to the judges.
ing. and then resumed his writing.
count showed that Mrs. Grace | goes into practically every home,
" I took him by the collar, dragged
Hulburt had 174,«GO and Lota where they read, in Falls City
him out of his seat and gave him a
thorough whipping.
He turned out Bradley came next with 65.900. and vicinity.
to he the son or the chairman o f the
The Publishers’ Music Com-
Mattie Ferguson 7,175, Clara
prudential committee. The old man
never epoke to me again, not even Sampson 6.900, K ith Lewis 6,575, jiany o f Chicago, who furnished
when I met him In the road, ha rid- . Ruth Gottfreid 2.200, Iva N ew the piano performed their part o f
Ing In a buggy aud I walking to o i
man 2,075, Mildred Chapin 1,150. the contract right up to the dot.
from my work."
Went to Sea for Tw o Years.
The contest throughout was We have never done business
On his graduation at the Annapolis I
Naval Academy, young John Win conducted in such a way that with a company who were more
gate Weeks went to sea for a cruise ! there was no chance for any un pleasant to work with than this
of two years
Seventy men were In
Probably, b e c a u s e
his class, but there was room for only fairness, diligent work, improv company.
10 o f them In the navy.
The navy ing each minute as it went by each stood square up to the con
Itself consisted o f but five steam ves
the piano. tract and did not attempt to evade
sels classed as Erst rates, end they was what landed
were obsolete and unfit for active While there were several long any part o f it.
duty. George Harnett, bis room male,
We desire to thank the judges
went Into the Marine Corps and Is time subscriptions turned in we
now a major general and the com will say that Mrs. Hulburt turn and the contestants who worked
mandant of that branch of the naval
ed in enouirh yearly subscriptions, in the interest o f the News, as
service.
In Florida, where he had been en coupons and store votes to have well as themselves, and the peo
gaged as a surveyor on a railroad, the
ple who kindly assisted them.
late Midshipman Weeks learned that won the piano w ithout a single
an old Arm In Huston was going out long time subscription.
All the I f the people will send in their
of business. One o f the partners had
news items it will be possible to
died and another bad become blind. other contestants, who worked
Henry Hornblower. a son of one of at all have received prizes com make the News a good paper,
the partners, and the youthful Mr.
one worth reading. Cooperation
Weeks bought the business, the lat mensurate with the efforts the«
ter borrowing the money with which put forth.
All were more or less is necessary.
to begin his career as a banker and
broker.
Hornblower acted for the Arm on — some giving France second plat»-
the Moor of the Boston Stock Ex snd some believing Germany was
stronger at sea than ourselves.
change. Weeks kept the books and
” 1 still think that In ships stone we
waited on the customers ae they ap
were the equal o f France or Oermany
peared In a few years the two young
and much the superior o f Japan. Our
men had oAlces all over New England
officers are the ablest In the world:
and In cities as for away aa Chicago.
"I got my Arst valuable business our crews are the most Intelligent. No
nation gives Us officer» the training
Idea rrom a famous New Tngland
dressmaker," Captain Weeks said to that Is given to the naval officers of
the United State»
And the men In
the writer o f this artlcl<. “ A friend
who came to spend the night at our our ehlpe. coming from forme and vll
lagea. In large part, are the Anest
house was talking to Mrs. Weeks
while I was reading a newspaper
I morally and phyelcally aAoat.
heaid her say that nhe had bought a
"In my days, back In 1880, 1st ua nay,
dress In Boston, and that aoon after,
the sailor on chore leave wh<" returned
on returning to the store, the pro to his ship sober was keelhajiled or
prietor, noticing her at the counter, otherwise punished by bis mates. All
asked If she had purclmsnd the dress
that has changed. Intoxicated sailors
she wss wearing at his establishment
are see no more on the streets. Our
On learning that she had. he said
men are sober, serious and capable.
" ‘It Is not right. Pb»aae give your
When an estimate of any navy Is
name snd address to tb s clerk and we made, the personnel, as well as the
shall correct the m atter at once.’
ships, must be considered.
A Story of Great: alue.
Lessons of tha War.
" ‘ But.’ the vom an replied, ‘the dress
"So I had thought that only Great
Is satisfactory to me.
W hatever is
Britain excelled us as a naval power
wrong Is so small that I t Is not worth
at the outbreak o f the war In Europe
mentioning.'
Captain John Wingata Weeks.
‘ Small to you, uadani,’ the man Since the war started. France and
Germany have geen building ahlps.
answered,
‘but very large to us.‘
"Th ere was no Insurance- the pol
Our rank Just now, therefore, ta un
'
"And
do
you
know,'
the
woman
icy had lapsed and the Ore swept
certain. But we have a good navy.
»w ay all of my fatbur's means and put told Mrs. Weeks, the dross was not
Still, It should be much larger.”
only
taken
back,
bui
It
was
kept
and
c burdensome mortgage on his farm,
“ Has the war taught tha world any
I
was
given
a
new
one.
two and a halt miles In the country."
naval lessons 7”
“
1
repeated
the
story
to
my
partner
If there had been a navy of a re
(Concluded on page 2)
spectable size in 1881 John Wingate next day,” Captain W w ike said, "and
Weeks would now be a captain In from that time onward we tried to
we
stead of a senator.
Nor would he please our customers before
ever have become a banker and thus thought o f ourselves and the probable
have set at naught all the traditions of profits we could mnkn In our trans
the Weeks fam ily for self-respecting, actions."
Three years w^o. folllowlng st once
capable and wholesome poverty.
Livestock Men Say Meat Combine
And yet a psychological analysis of his election to the u pper House of
Inherited traits might show that the Congress, Captain W t eks sold out to
Crushes Them.
senator comes naturally by his talents his partners and disposed of every in
terest
that
might
be
thought,
even
In
for public affairs and finance. Any
directly, to tnAuonce his Judgment as
Inquiry into his personality must In
a law maker. It It sa Id In New Eng M A N Y F E E D L O T S ARE EMPTY
elude the Wingates, the chief of whom.
land that he has ai'ways been very
John, an Englishman, emigrated to
careful about his repu tatlon as a bust Ex-Qovornor of Kansas Says "Finos
New Hampshire In 1660.
ness man. An anecdote told o f him
The W’eekses and the Wingates In in State street, the W u ll street of Boa
Are Jokes" and That Producers
termarried during the second Ameri ton. shows how uls sensitiveness to
and Consumers Pay Them.
can generation—the Weekses to con- I public opinion on on e occasion proved
tlnue as farmers, with an excursion highly proAtable to- 'his partner and
Competition Is Denied.
Into potato starch, as has been re- himself.
, corded, but the Wingates to become
A run on a han g in which Captain
Washington, April 4. —A former
soldiers, preachers and statesmen.
Weeks was a (Mrector, though he
Paine Wingate, for example, the great
Kansas
Governor, W. R. Stubbs,
owped but $900 o f the stock, threat
grandson of John, was a member of
oned,
so
be
feared,
t
o
Injure
his
stand
and
a
former
Missouri judge. W.
¿he Continental congress and later a
Ing In the community.
He spent a
Senator from New Hampshire.
H.
Wallace,
who
said they had
day and a nlifht at the hank, pledged
A Big Man Physically.
two-thirds of all th e property he and learned by raising cattle them
John W ingate Weeks of Massscbu
his partner owned Ifor tbv payment of
.•stie. In his name, therefore, goes back tue banks debts an d put through a re selves that meat packers, by price
to the middle of the seventeenth cen habilitating pla-n under which the fixing combinations, were crush
tury. Perhaps his gifts are equally as shareholders v.-ere assessed 50 per
pleaded
ancient. W herever they originated, cent, ou thfttr holdings. The bank ing livestock growers,
tie has made good use o f them. He Is was saved, 'out some o f the fright with a House judiciary subcom
well-to-do— but has less money, per ened shareb olders »o ld out. Their In
haps, then Is often represented—and terests w ' ,re promptly bought by mittee today to aid in inaugurating
Republicans In Massachusetts have no- Captain V/eeks. T h e bank prospered sweeping reforms in the packing
tlfled tho country that he Is their can snd late f waa com bln
with other
didate for president. I f he Is nomi largo b anka
Bostotn Ananclera say industry. They appeared as coun
nated at Chicago In June, the main •hat H lfi H ornblower and Mr. Weeks sel for Western
growers and
reason wilt have been that he la a iiltlm '%tr|r made »250.000 on the stock
feeders.
business man. His candidacy, then. I w*1*’ ch they purchased when the bank
will be something entirely new In na
Speaking on the Borland resolu
*'Jemed to be on the verge of ruin.
floral politics.
i
When I asked Capialn Weeks about tion, now before the subcommit
In his measurements. Captain W eek'
the matter, he said: “ f was a young
Is a large man. A reasonable gur i(| man and couldn’t afford to be a di tee, which would order a* Federal
at his weight would be 250 poi' ndR
rector In a bank that had closed Its Trade Commission inquiry to de
Ills stature, perhaps, Is five fee , gnr)
doors In the faces of its depositors,
eleven Inches. His eyes are f ra tnd
many o ( whom were poor and most termine whether the packers are
his manner Is frank and hear t_ ^ ht]p j o f whom were small merchants and violating the anti-trust laws, they
at the naval » « d e m y he
llow| , wage-earners.”
■ raise a 112-pound dunabl/jn above h)a
• How." I askeA him. Inasmuch as indorsed the proposal strongly and
head with his right hen#
Them kneel ' he was a sailor himself once, and Is suggested making laws prohibit
Ing with one leg, he cr,U|d aiowl’y ra)ap now on terms of Intimacy with many
ing the restraint o f trade in food
an 87 pound dumbbell with his left
high officers, ’’would yeu describe the
stuffs generally more stringent.
navy o f the United 8tates?’’
S i h J F E T " ? " ' h* could lowor
«A
i i : •kwildsrs and slowly
" A t the outbreak o f the war In Eu Jail sentences instead o f fines
and simultaneously put iboth dumb
rope," he answered, "our navy. In my
bells above his heed tha second time
opinion, was the second best In exls were particularly urged.
£ r>Uth‘ ha n > recom tence. Authorities for whom I have
‘ ‘Fines are jokes,” Mr. Stubbs
mended by his principal tg> the “ pro- great respect did not agree with me.
4.ent)al committee" that c plied at the
“ They are not effec
They ranked our navy , third or fourth declared.
JA IL P E N A LT Y ASK ED
Continuing On The
Lookout for Bargains
Of Merit For Our Customers
Recently we bought an excellent table
peach now on sale, special
. 15
1 gallon coal oil
.15
Perrydale Sunshine flour, per sack $1.30
An excellent table Pea, per can
. 10
•
A good grade canned Salmon,
per can
.12 1-2
3 cans Astor or Country Club milk
.25
12 l-2c dress Gingham, now priced
.11
Our idea is to sell as low as possible along cash price
lines with the expectation o f making collections on
time accounts at short intervals.
Remember our 3 per cent coupon slips.
they represent money to you.
Get them
Selig’s Cash Price Store,
tive. The producers and the con
sumers pay the penalty. Anyone
who juggles with the prices o f
food when millions are struggling
for bread should be imprisoned
and not fined.
“ Meeting and Beating Competition".
Feed Lots Declared Empty.
“ Forty per cent o f the feed lots
in this country are empty because
o f present market conditions.
Nearly every stockman that I
know believes that there is a
packers’ trust.”
Mr. Wallace, who v rosecuted the
James train robbers, heatedly de
nounced the alleged packing com
bination.
“ We are after a worse crowd
now than the James boys,” he
declared. “ These fellows steal
more money in a week than the
James boys did in their whole
careers."
On one occasion, the judge as
serted, he received only one bid
on a bunch of cattle at the Kansas
City yards, and learned later that
they were divided between two
packing concerns.
Arthur Meeker, vice-president
o f Armour & Co., questioned the
accuracy o f the judge’s statement
regarding one buyer for two
houses. W alter L. Fisher, attor
ney for the American National
Livestock Association, injected the
declaratian that he would be able
to prove that such a practice was
not uncommon.
Cattle Divided by Packers.
“ Fisher produced a sales slip
from the Kansas City yards, which,
he declared, showed that one buyer
had bought 86 cattle from a raiser
and that Morris & Co. and the
Cudahy Packing Company had
divided them equally.
The session was enlivened by
exchanges between Mr. Fisher
and Mr. Meeker over the proposal
o f the packers to submit their
books to the Department o f A g ri
culture to prove that they are not
making an unfair profit and the
counter proposal o f the producers
that a tribunal with subpena
powers make the examination.
Once Mr. Meeker declared that he
was willing to have an inquisitor
ial body with subpena powers con
duct the examination, but later
insisted on his original proposal o f
leaving the proposed investigation
to the Department o f Agriculture.
M. L. McClure, of Kansas City,
president o f the National Live
stock Exchange, testified that re
stricted competition wras respon
sible for the failure o f cattle
raisers to make money.
that the country learned o f the
Schools Visited by
leadership o f
Supf. Reynolds
this
hard-riding,
hard-fighting cavalcade.
No in
trepid youth rode at the head o f
During Week of March 27-31, 1916. the column which made forty miles
a day over hills and desert waste
Visited
the Indep e n d e n c e
Schools last Tuesday and Buena
Vista
Wednesday.
Found
the
schools in very good shape. W ed
nesday evening I went to a very
enthusiastic meeting o f the P a
rent Teachers Association at West
Salem. This meeting was very
well attended and a good program
was rendered by the pupils o f
the school.
Thursday 1 went over the Red
Hills to Pioneer. Visited the
school in the morning and held a
rally4n the afternoon. They did
not have a very good attendance
as the people were too busy farm
ing. A good program was ren
dered by the children. Frank M.
Neal is teaching at Pioneer.
Friday I visited the Oakhurst
School in the morning and held a
rally in the afternoon. Had a
good attendance with a large
number from the Teacher’s Train
ing Class from the Kails City
High School. A good program
was given by the children and
an excellent lunch served after
the Round Table Discussion.
Miss Mildred Chapin is the
teacher at Oakhurst.
Friday evening a Parent-Teach
e r’s Meeting was held at Hop-
ville in conjunction with a basket-
social. The receipts o f the even
ing were $24.75. A very pleas
ant social evening was spent.
OLD MEN WHO ARE NOT OLD.
It was with considerable pride
and admiration that the country
followed the progress o f the dash
ing cavalry column which broke
all marching records in the first
few days o f the Vilia chase. Hale
and hearty youngsters, seasoned
by months on border patrol duty,
they were fit for just such an ex
ploit. But it was with a shock
and finally dashed fifty-five miles
in one stubborn ride and struck
the fugitive Villa column at the
peep o f day. A man of sixty-four
is Colonel Dodd; sixty-four, and
booked for retirement for old age
in July.
The fact that the leader o f this
exploit must pass out o f active
service because o f an arbitrary
age limit fixed by regulations is
another evidence o f how slowly
Americans adopt the efficient mili
tary methods o f European armies.
W’ho can name a distinguished
leader in Europe under sixty-five?
One of the great Generals in com
mand before Verdun is eighty,
and yet his daring and aggressive
tactics have gained for him the
sobriquet o f “ The Devil o f Metz.”
Dewey at sixty-four was in his
prime, and for many years after
his retirement age the great Am er
ican commander was well equip
ped mentally and physically for
active service. General Miles at
seventy was able to make the
ninety-mile test ride in less than
a day without inconvenience.
The mere age of sixty-four does
not indicate that one is an old man.
He may be younger in mental and
physical vigor than the man of
forty-five or fifty. He who has
led an active and normal life may
be at his highest state o f useful
ness and professional efficiency at
sixty-four. 1 1 he is mentally and
physically sound the chances are
his judgment will be better and
his wisdom riper than were he
fifty-four. The retirement age
should not be fixed arbitrarily.
There are men who are unfit for
further service at fifty. There
are others who are at their best
at sixty-four. Half a dozen Gen
erals have proved this in Europe,
and Colonel Dodd has provided
cumulative evidence.—Oregonian.