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«.
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