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VOL. XIII FALLS CITY NEWS DANCING BARRED; C H A P EL EN FO R C ED KALLS CITY OREGON, 8 ATU KD A Y, SEPTEMBER 30. 1916 DEMOCRATIC PRESS DISPLEASED Criticism o f the Democratic Administration in passing the Adamson "Eight-Hour B ill" is not confined to the Republican Toboceo Will Be Frowned On and Press. Newspapers o f unquest Drinking Not Tolerated Thie Tear, ioned Democracy in no uncertain Edict Announoee. terms denounce Wilson’ s coward Salem, Or., Sept. 28.—"Blue ly surrender. laws,” placing a ban on tobacco, cigarettes and dancing, has been Charlotte, (N . C ) News: The promulgated by the faculty o f trainmen are not on trial in this Willamette University. The new controversy. Neither are the rules are almost the sole topic of railroads o f the United States. discussion on the campus. Democracy is the defendant at 'The faculty’s edict governing the courthouse. student activies is much more se vere than any enforced in past Greenville, (S .C .)N e w s . One yearB and declares that all social hundred million American citi activities must lie subordinated zens, who had most at stake, "to conserve health and to pro were not consulted by their rep mote scholarship." Midweek dates resentatives in the Congress o f are to be avoided. the United States who surrender Whereas daily attendance at ed their legislative power. cha|>el was semi-compulsory last The country has paid dear for year, this year all students will thie "peace at any price.” A be required to attend, and the most dangerous precedent has edict advises that "persons not been established. Where will this fully approving this requirement policy o f surrender end? What are requested not to matriculate." has become o f ‘ the rule o f reason’ Eight absences from chapel will which is supposed to govern the mean automatic expulsion from settlement o f economic questions in this Republic? What has be the university. Among the regulations which come o f our sacrosanct doctrine, have been printed and distributed hallowed Dy the fathers, o f ‘equal among the students are the follow rights for all and special privi leges for none?” ing: " A student who uses intoxicants Houston, (T e x )P o s t:— It is as if or cigarettes severs his relation to a court had first executed a pris the university. "Th e use of tobacco is discour oner and tried him after the aged and will be looked upon with funeral. There was no investi gation o f the merits o f the con disfavor. "Students are forbidden to hold troversy between the railroads dances and are requested and ad and the men. There was no de- bate. The railroads are to be vised not to dance anywhere.” compelled to stand and deliver, and the people are to be compell WASTE OF PUBLIC MONEY. ed to stand and deliver, and it is In older countries like Great the Government that will hold Britain the census is taken and the gun in their faces. made public in twenty-four hours. Newport News, ( Va ) Daily In our country the census bu reau has become a continuous bur Press:— We are told that Cong den and is continually seeking new ress acted in the interest o f peace. But is peace so sweet as to be jobs. To keep the army that is em purchased at the price o f liberty? ployed in the bureau busy they Greensboro, (S .C .)D aily News; are now investigating what it — Mr. Wilson before surrendering costs to delivei groceries. to the single-bore opportunists The census experts pretend to who are managing his campaign, believe that the high cost of living should rather have pronounced is due to the high cost of operat this invocation: “ God help the ing delivery wagons. Republic.” What the federal government "T h e "D a ily N ew s” once more intends to do ai>out it after they feels itself undone. Upon more find out what it costs no one than one occasion this paper has knows—probably set more officials sought to support the President, to work. only to find that he had changed It might be all right for the gov his mind, or his position, some ernment to spend a lot o f money times overnight. Only yesterday on this work if it had not already we recorded an earnest desire to been done very thoroughly. support Mr- Wilson in this crisis, The Harvard college bureau of Business Research has already and we ventured the opinion that made this investigation and fur the press generally would be glad to do so. But we likewise ex nishes it free to any merchant. O f course, it has one drawback pressed the hope, despite reason in that it was done without an ap and experience, that Mr. Wilson would stand by himself. It was propriation from Congress. It looks as if the functions of a work o f superogation. WILSON BUTTONS The boust of the disposal of 500 Wilson Buttons and the signifi cance attached to this remarkable feat is in line with a candidates enthusiasm after visiting a certain neighborhood. He said, "E v e ry body is going to vote for me. I only found one man who refused to take my card.” WIT AND WISDOM OF WOODROW OvpjrrfirMwtbf Doubled*?. r® Since the settlement o f the dif ficulties o f the lumber company here preparations for beginning logging have begun in earnest. The rebuilding of the large shay was commenced last week and parts were shipped to the machine shops at Salem. It will take about a week at the shops and three or four days to re-assemble. They have room to deck between six and seven million feet o f logs for the day when the mountains are filled with snow and the log ging camps must shut down. That the company will put in logs very naturally creates a sus picion that they intend to saw the said logs into lumber. labor Organizatona Perhaps his managers concluded that there was neither wit or Wisdom and are trying to forget. Lest our Indpendent friend and publisher o f the Indpendent pa per at Independence should ac cuse us o f a lack o f Indpendence we shall assert our rights o f Ind pendence and publish extracts o f Woodrow’s speeches made while he was Independent. AT RIGHT PRICES N ew Outings marked at the old price o f 10c a yard N ew Warner Corsets priced from $1.00 up N ew Silk A rt Thread 10c, $1.00 a box SPECIALS IN GROCERIES Canned String Beans - 10c “ Hominy - 10c “ Peas - 10c “ Sauer Kraut - 10c “ Peaches - 15c - 25c 3 Cans Astor Milk 3 Boxes Quaker Corn Flakes 25c SELIG’S, Cash Price Store, “ Meeting and Beating Competition” . Labor Organizations "W e speak to exclusively of the capalistic class. There is an other as formidable an enemy to equality and freedom of opportu nity as it is, and that class is formed by the labor organizations and leaders o f the country.” — Or. 308 X YES IS A VOTE FOR YOUR CHILDREN Wilson at a dinner in New York. M ch 18. 1907, Since the fall of the Independ- " I am a fierce partisan to the enc bridg the Itemizer is inclined open shop and everything that to suspicion that the recall might makes for individual liberty, and be worked to some benefit. I should like to contribute any thing that might be possible for me to contribute to the clarifica FO R SAL E tion o f thinking and the forma Sixteen tons oat and wheat hay. tion of right purposes in matters Good clean hay. $10 per ton in o f this kind.” — Or. W ilson's reply barn or $12 delivered. Also 40 to an invitation to address antistrike Road Island Red laying hens, 80c advocates at a banquet, dated Jan. each. F. E. Wells, phone Blue 53 12, 1909. EXPERT OPINION Goods Extract« from Wilton Speech«« " I f it is not right on the part o f the workingman to organize then there ought not be a right on the part o f capital to organize. It is the organization that makes capital strong, and it is not fair, from the legal point o f view or WILL ENFORCE SPEED LAWS anyother point o f view, to pre- Semaphores were placed at the I vent the rest o f the men dealing crossings on North and South with capital from getting strength Muin streets to warn autoists to with organization that only or turn to the right. It is said that ganization brings.” — At Fall River. the lamentations over these "ob Maas., September 26. 1912. structions" Sunday morning were | | Fall Klver 1« a tlrong labor union town.—ltd| long and loud and were likened Justice for Labor unto the wail o f the Whangdoodle " I am for the laboring man. in travail. Justice must be done him or there It is true that it will be difficult to make some of the turns at a i can be no justice in this country. rate of speed greater thau thirty I We must all be partners in the miles an hour, yet it is no* likely I game o f government and no one to cause anyone to miss his dinner ! man must be allowed to play the part o f a hog. ” — At Chicago, April or cancel a date. 6. 1912. It is to be hoped that this ordin ance will be observed as the safety Below are extracts from some o f the pedestrian depends upon o f Woodrow’ s speeches made be the carefulness of drivers. They fore the presidential bee had lit will be surprised at how easy it is in his bonnet, and do not appear to obey the laws when they know in the campaign book, "W it and they must. Wisdom o f Woodrow Wilson.” LOGGING OPERATIONS N o. 5 Tribute to the American Laborer "Y ou know what the usual That the County Commissioners standard o f the employe is in our should need the opinion o f an ex day. It is to give as little as he Labor is pert bridge engineer to determine can for his wages. standardized by the trade union, if the Independence bridge was and this is the standard to which constructed properly or not seems it is meant to conform. No one to be a joke. According to report is suffered to do more than the In the bridge very promptly fell average workman can do. some trades and handicrafts no down as soon as the false work one is suffered to do more than government were being expanded was removed, scarcely giving the Defending one libel suit for workmen time to get out o f the the least skillful o f his fellows for the purpose of making jobs. can do within the hours allotted $100,000 and prosecuting another way. Such being the case the to a day’s labor, and no one can for $1,000,000, Henry F ord is like Commissioners certainly need no work out o f hours at all or volun FALLS CITY CAPTURES PRIZES ly to lose some o f his pacifism. expensive expert testimony to de teer anything beyond the mini As usual the citizens of Falls mum. cide that it fell down. City and vicinity caried off most of " I need not point out how eco nomically disastrous such a regu the prizes at the County Fair. J. Luther Burbank’s turning to lation o f labor is. It is so unprofi S. S. Powell took the lead in farm Wilson indicates that, having Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ellis o f Dal table to the employer that in and garden produce. Inasmuch achieved success with the thorny las were in town Thursday. some trades it will presently be as Polk County puts up the coin cactus, he wants to see what he I W. M. Stevans of Portland was not worth his while to attempt and Falls City the exhibits, why can do with a lemon. anything at all. He had better in town the first of the week. stop altogether than operate at not move the whole show over to an invariable loss. The labor of this city? __________ Maine Guardsmen on the Mex At the annual meeting of postmas America is rapidly becoming un ican border were permitted to ters In Washington recently the first profitable under its present regu I1ARRIS-CR00K vote in the late election. They assistant postmaster general lauded lation by those who have deter W. N. Crook o f Monmouth and went Republican in the ratio of tha postal savings system. That must mined to reduce it to a minimum. two to one. I f this is to be taken have been a bitter pill tor Postmaster Our economic supremecy may be Miss Eva Harris of this city were as an indication o f the trend of General Burleson, who sat on the same lost, because the country grows married last Saturday at Dallas. political opinion among the men platform with hts assistant. When the more and full o f unprofitable ser- The bride is the daughter of down there, we will bet a big red postal savings bill was passed Mr ! van t».” — Dr. Wilson in a baccalaur Burleson, then a congressman from Mr. and Mrs- W. T. Harris and is apple there will be no "Johnny Texas, voted against It. Every vote eate sermon, Princeton. June 13. 09. comes marching home” business east against it was oast by a Demo an excellent young woman. before election—because, while ernt. Not one Democratic congress The groom is an energetic young Wilson was not in politics in there are about 100,000 Guards man voted for U. ï e t President W il farmer living near Monmouth. men in Texas, a lot o f them come son says the Republican party has not 1909 and did not seek to pad his Their many friends send greet from States that do not permit had a new Idea in thirty years. Whose speech or mislead the public— Its Idea was It? different now. 1 the voting of soldiers in the field. ing wishing them happiness. ONE NORMAL NOT ENOUGH Oregon has but one Normal School. Thla school is located at Monmouth. Excellent as Is the work of *his school It is utterly unable to supply but a small part of the need for trained teachers for the State. O f m o r e t h a n 6 COO s c h o o l t e a c h e r s In th e p u b lic s c h o o ls o f O r e g o n , b u t 13 p e r c e n t h a v e b ee n t r a in e d f o r t h e ir p r o f e s s io n o f t e a c h in g in N o r m a l S c h o o ls . It la a well established fact that our one Normal School cannot supply the needs of the entire state. That la why we ask for your work and vote for the proposed Eastern Oregon State Normal School at Pendleton, Oregon. GIVE EASTERN OREGON SQUARE PEAL E i g h t c o u n t ie s In t h e W illa m e t t e V a lle y h a v e e m p lo y e d d u r in g th e peet f iv e y e a rs . 203 t e a c h e r s w h o h a v e g r a d u a ted fr o m th e M o n m o u t h N o r m a l a s a g a i n s t 39 M o n m o u t h N o r m a l S c h o o l g r a d u a t e s f o r th e e i g h t le a d in g c o u n t ie s of E a s te r n O rego n. D u r i n g t h a p a s t f iv e y e a r s th e a t t e n d a n c e of s t u d e n t s fr o m n in e W illa m e t t e V a lle y c o u n t ie s w a s 877 s t u d e n t s aa a g a i n s t «1 s t u d e n t s f r o m n in e of t h e le a d in g c o u n t ie s of E a s te r n O rego n. Owing to the crowded condition of our one Normal at Monmouth and also the distance and expense of attending, students from Eastern Oregon are com pelled to go to neighboring states to secure their training as teachers. ONLY COSTS J i_ CENTS PER »1,000 T h e a n n u a l m a in t e n a n c e c o s t o f t h e p ro p o s e d S t a t e N o r m a l S c h o o l In E a s t e r n O r e g o n a m o u n t s to b u t one 25th of a m ill o r 4 c e n t s on a t h o u s a n d d o lla r s o f t a x a b le p ro p e rty . I s n 't It w o r t h t h is to h a v e y o u r c h ild r e n t ra in e d to b e c o m e u s e fu l a n d p r o d u c t iv e c f t l i e n s ? STRONG ENDORSEMENTS Among those who etrongly endorse the establish raent of the proposed Eastern Oregon Normal School are Governor Withycombe, J. H. Ackerman. Presi dent of the Monmouth State Normal; Vf. J. Kerr, President of the Oregon Agricultural College; P. L. Oampbell, President of the State University, Robert C. French, former President of the Weston Normal, and practically all of the leading educators o f the State. J. A. Churchill. Superintendent of Public In struction. voices the senU/nents of those who are most familiar with the need of more adequate Normal facilities when he says: " O r e g o n ’s g r e a t e s t n eed fo r It s r u r a l s c h o o l s la th a t e a c h e r w h o h a s h a d fu ll p r e p a r a t io n t o d o h e r w o r k S u c h p r e p a r a t io n c a n b a st c o m e t h r o u g h N o r m a l S c h o o l t r a in in g . " I t r u s t t h a t th e v o t e r s o f th e s t a t e w ill a s s i s t In r a is i n g th a s t a n d a r d of o u r s c h o o ls b y e s t a b l is h in g a S t a b s N o r m a l S c h o o l at P e n d le to n . T h e lo c a t io n la c e rrtra i. t h e I n terne t of th e p eo p le o f P e n d le t o n In e d u c a t io n m o a t e x c e l lent. a n d the la r g e n u m b e r o f p u p ils in th e p u b l ic s c h o o ls w ill g iv e a m p le o p p o r t u n it y to s t u d e n t s t o g e t t h a a m o u n t o f t a a c h ln g p ra c t ic e r e q u ire d In a s t a n d a r d n o r m a l s c h o o l. " AU the above educator* insist that a Standard Normal School must be located In a town of 6000 or more population and having enough grade pupiia for teaching practice. VOTE RIGHT • y v o t in g Y E S f o r N o. 30S y o u w ilt help t o § ! » • t o t h o s c h o o l c h ild r e n o f O r e g o n t h a s a m e a d v a n t a g e « e n j o y e d b y th e s c h o o l c h ild r e n o f o u r n e ig h b o r in g ataSaa. V a t s Y E S fo r N o. 30S. Eastern Oregon State Normal School . By J. M. QwlfWi, Soey, Asndlaton, Of«. (PsM advertisement)