FÄLLS CITY NEWS
KALLS CITY OREGON, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25. 19t«
VOL. XIII
G. SOWERS DIES IN
REGULATIONS OF
DALLAS HOSPITAL
RAILROADS WRONG
Limiting Without Giving Assistance
Declares Attorney Thom
Embargo Is Planned -
To Prevent Exports
FLOLRAL OWNENRSHIP PREFERED
Radical Change Demanded at the
heraing at Newlands Before
Joint Committee
Washington, Nov.
23. The
railroads o f the country today
made a Hat demand for a revolu
tionary change in the relations of
the government to the railroads.
General counsel A. t\ Thom, o f
the railroad executives’ com
mittee, told the Newlands joint
congressional committee, investi
gating interstate commerce con
ditions, that unless the present
system o f railroad control is re
formed. government ownership
o f the entire railroad system o f
the country is inevitable.
Mr. Thom opened the testi
mony for the railroads with an
outline o f the position the rail
roads take concerning railroad
regulations.
He declares the
present system has almost com
pletely precluded new railroad
construction, and has endangered
the credit o f all railroads.
"T h e growth o f the country is
dependent uponincreased i abroad
facilities,” he said. "T h e gov
ernment must aid in securing the
funds necessary for expansion ”
He declared that the govern
ment has limited and restricted
the service and incomes o f the
railroads without taking any
steps to help them meet the in
creased expenses.
Counsel Thom referred to the
recent embargo imposed by the
railroads and the present short
age o f freight cars to prove that
the railroad facilities are far from
adequate to care for the needs of
the people.
He declared "th e
cost o f living is daily advancing,
owing to a shortage o f supply
which might be remedied by se
curing access to new areas o f
production.” and said less con
struction was done in the past
year than at any time since the
Civil W ar.”
He outlined conditions restrict
ing railroad credit, as follows:
"Railroad revenues are not
controlled by investors, but are
limited and fixed by several
branches o f govermental author
ity, which do not recognize re
sponsibility for assured results to
investors.
"T h e present system o f regu
lation is based on a policy of re
pression and correction, and not
on a policy o f helpfulness and
encouragement.
"T h e outstanding obligations
o f the railrdads have already ex
ceeded the financial rule o f safety.
"T h e investor must accept se
curities with no assurance o f a
surplus o f earnings.
"T h e railroad business is large
ly controlled by political instead
o f business considerations.
"W e may debate about what
has caused the present conditions
said Mr. Thom, "b u t we cannot
debate about what the people
need.
" I f the public is not assured o f
adequate railroad service, the
question o f what are sometimes
termed,
I think improperly,
‘state's rights, ’ is not involved,
for such a condition would nec-
essarialy mean either larger and
better national regulation
or
government ownership. I f the
regulation o f transportation facil-
ties privately owned should fail,
government ownership must fol
low, and then all' power o f the
state over the railroads would
disappear.”
A Newspaper Tragedy.
A man eager for election news
REDUCED PRICES
came into this office this week and
picked over our pile o f exchanges.
On* Tim« Protperout Merchant of
Retail Qrooors Propose Campaign to
One that he looked at elicited a
This City Pastes Away Wed
Urgo Upon President Necessity of laugh o f derision and he said he
nesday Morning.
Kooping Wheat for Homo Use
E. Sowers, at one time a mer
chant in this city died Wednesday
morning at the Dallas hospital.
He went to the hospital the- latter
part of Septemlrer to undergo an
operation for hypertrophy o f the
Prostate gland which he had been
suffering with.
Mr. Sowers w'as a native of
Indiana. He left Indiana and
went to Kansas where he resided
for some time and moved to Mis
souri, and then came to Oregon.
He homesteaded near Brownsville
and proved up on his claim and
went into the mercantile business
at Independence and then came
to this city and Irought the grocery
business o f a Mr. Watkins. He
had been a resident o f this city
for fifteen years or more.
The deceased leaves a former
wife at St. I/juis, Mo., and three
sons, one a chemist in New York,
and one a Ueutenant in the U. S.
army in the Phillippines and one a
surveyor at Spokane, Washington:
also three daughters, one Mrs.
George Mahrs, o f Dmisana, form
erly lived here. He was 72 years
o f age.
His son, Elmer Sowers o f Spo-
kane, Wash., came immediately
when informed o f his father’s
demise. Up to the present time
no arrangements have been made
for the burial.
WM. FORD DEAD.
Wm. Ford, who had a paralytic
stroke two week’s ago died at his
home at Bridge|>ort Saturday
night. Services were conducted
by Rev. James (\ Erwin at the
M. E. Church Monday morning
and interment made in the city
cemetery.
Mr. Ford was a pioneer, having
lived in the vicinity of Bridgeport
since 1853.
The deceased is survived by his
w ife Mrs. Ford, and four children.
Ralph Ford o f Eugene, Mrs. W ar
ren Frink, Mrs. Nell Sears and
Miss Flora Ford o f this city, and
five grandchildren.
MARRIED
A t the residence o f E. A. LaDow
Nov. 19th, W yrick A. Bancroft to
Ruth L Magee. E. A. I^aDove
officiating. The couple will make
Dallas their home.
Mot Tamale Supper,
The Indies Aid Society o f the
M. E. Church will give a Hot Ta
male Supper at the church, W ed
nesday evening Dec. <»th, from
5:30 to 8 o’clock. Come and bring
your friends. Price 25c.
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THANKSGIVING SERVICE
At Methodist Church Thursday
10:30 A. M. Sermon by Rev. Er
win. Special music. Every body
invited. Service to last only one
hour, dismissing in ample time for
dinner.
Old Whipping Post
Favored by Bishop
Toledo, Ohio.— Bishop Frank
Dumoulin of the Episcopal diocese
oi Toledo, in an address lust night
upheld the whipping post for
“ moral lepers.”
“ Shooting is too good for the
mural leper who dares to take
from another man all that m dear
to his heart,” ho said. “ Physical
fear is the only method ol reach
ing such men. I would revive the
old whipping post and lash the
home-breaker before his fellow
men,” the bishop said.
wondered how in the world the
We Now Have In Effect Reduced
Prices on Ladies Hats, Ladies
Cloaks. Childs Cloaks.
people stood for such a sheet.
San Francisco, Nov, 20.— A na
tional campaign is planned by re
tail grocers to urge on President
Wilson the necessity o f placing
an embargo on the exportation of
wheat and other products to keep
down the high cost o f living, ac
cording to Frank B. Connolly o f
this city, chairman o f the execu
tive committee o f the National
Retail Grocers’ association. He
said:
"W e are considering the ad
visability o f placing petitions call
ing for an emoargo in every re
tail grocery in the United States.
Each grocer under this plan
would urge his customers to sign
the petitions, and they probably
all would, e&pecially when a cus
tomer complained about the ad
vance o f prices o f Commodities.”
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Wilson May Propose
Peace af Early Date
Neutral Countries, Almost Without
Exception, Look to President to
Father M ovem ent to End War.
Washington, Nov. 22 —The ser
ious discussion of peace prospects
iu belligerent countries has made
a profound impression upon ad-
ministration and diplomatic circles
here.
The intimations from European
capitals that President Wilson has
a pence movement under way weie
interpreted here to mean that the
diplomats and consular officers of
the United States are sounding
opinion uhrua I, among tli? people
as well as the governments of the
lighting nations.
Diplomats will not discuss what
tha near future may have in store
tor the world, but those from neu
tral countries, almost without ex
ception, look to President Wilson
to set on loot soon a movement
that will give the belligerents an
opportunity without loss of prestige
to any, to discuss possible peace
terms.
Would Do Away With
Electoral College
Portland, Or., Nov. 20.— Carry
ing a proposed amendment to Uni-
t<d ¡States constitution abolishing
the electoral college, Senator George
Chamberlain of Oregon is en route
to Washington today. He believes
the electoral college is obsolete and
lliut the president should he chosen
by direct, popular vote.
fn explaining that the electoral
college system might frustrate the
will of the majority, Chamberlain
pointed out just before starting east
that in the present election 5,000
votes in California might have
swung that state to Hughe) and
elected him, whereas Wilson had a
popular lead of 400,000 votes
throughout the country.
Chamberlain said his amend
ment would he proposed so it could
become effective before the 1920
election.
KILLS A BEAR.
Wm. F. Lee, Wiley Gardner and
Cecil Smith killed a black bear and
her cub in Glaze canyon near the
farm o f Mrs. W olfe Wednesday.
The bears had been killing Allie
Teal’s goats and eating Mrs.
W olfe’s apples and they sent for
Mr. Lee and his dogs to bag them.
No. 13
It was poorly printed, typogra
phically incorrect and filled with
patent medicine ads where there
should have been home advertis
ing.
The man had evidently never
been in the newspaper business.
He was going through town and
was anxious to hear something
from his home community—some
thing that the big dailies did not
print.
He wanted,
Mens heaviest all wool regular
$8.50 Mackinaw at special price
$6.95.
Procure your needs o f above
at greatly reduced prices.
perhaps, to
know who had been elected con
stable in
Podunk
township or
how the fight for sheriff had come
out in his old home community.
That was o f more interest to him
than the number o f votes Hughes
got in California.
And right there was the excuse
for the dinky little paper that he
scorned so much. The natives
who get it regularly fail to ap
preciate it. They do not under
stand the handicap under which
th e
editor-publisher-business-
nianager-reporter-foreman - j o b
artist-devil-compositor w o r k s .
They fail to appreciate the strug
gle he makes to have the “ dinky
little sheet” even as good as it is.
But if it should stop publica
tion, then they would appreciate
it. I f it should suspend, the very
merchant who has contributed to
its demise by his failure to ad
vertise and by sending to the city
for his stationery and by buying
his envelopes from the govern
ment, would he one o f the first
to call a public meeting to see
what could be done about it.
The little dinky paper is the tie
that binds the community to
gether. It records the birth of
the babies and announces that all
parties concerned are doing well.
When the baby grows up it tells
all about all the principle events
in its young life; it makes a re
cord o f its little parties; it mourns
with the parents when the child
is sick; it rejoices when it grad
uates from high school and goes
to college; it recounts with pride
and o f times exaggerated gusto
when it gets married, and writes
a nice piece about the bride even
though she sent to the city to
have her invitations engraved; it
informs the community when the
bride becomes a mother and a
grandmother and finally com
pletes her cradle to the grave his
tory by sorrowing with the com
munity when she passes to the
great beyond.
The little dinky paper gets be
hind every good movement in the
community. There is nothing for
the moral or business betterment
o f the town that it fails to boost.
And just how many o f them are
setting “ 30”
for their own
careers. The high price o f paper
and ink in the past year has
caused many a man who has
never made as much as his work,
investment and efforts are en
titled to, to fold his tents like the
Arabs and silently steal away. A
list o f several hundred such was
published the other day that had
to make up their last form be
cause o f the prohibitive price o f
print paper. And they will be
missed in the little communities
in which they flourished, if
“ flourished” may be used to de
scribe their existence.
Even the bigger dailies are be
ginning to feel the stress o f war
priced paper. They have started
a movement to limit the size o f
SELIG’S, Cash Price Store,
“ Meeting and Beating Competition” .
Let Us Help You
ON YOUR GROCERIES
Do not feel alarm ed about the advancing
prices. We alw ay help anyone trying
to Keep dow n the Board Bill.
Some Specials for Saturday
One pound can ground Coffee for 25 cents.
Ask your neighbor about this.
Valley Flour by the barrel
Ground Chocolate in 1-lb tins
$7.00
30c
Arm & Hammer brand Soda 1-lb pk 5c
Mince Meat, per package
10c
Carnation Milk, per dozen
1.10
Bring your m ail orders to us, w e can
help you. Others cam e to us and are
satisfied.
WE DELIVER
Falls City Logging
M E N ’S
&
Lumber Co.
SHOES
L A T E S T STYLES,
$ 4 .00 T O $5.00
WORK SHOES,
$ 3 .50 T O $4.00
:: l o g g i n g s h o e s , t h e b e s t g r a d e s ;;
L O W E S T P R IC E S FOR C A S H A T
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THE SHOE STORE
MRS E. FOASHEY
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the Sunday issues for fear that spised till it ceases to be,— that
will be substantially missed and
the paper supply may become en
sincerely mourned in many a
tirely exhausted. Most readers
locality this winter where the ad
couTd get along without the big vertising and subscription rates
magazine sections and colored have not kept up with the price
supplements, b u t the
little o f p a p e r . —Corvallis Gazette-
dinky” local sheet, so often de Times.