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About Independence enterprise. (Independence, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 6, 1912)
TEN PA0E8 PAGE FOUR THf INBirBNMNCE WT FIMeE, INitPCNOENC. 0K0N gmlcprutlcurc (fi'tttrrpriue HENRY E. BROWNE, Publlhi Entered at the postofflet at InJe pendence. Oregon. U second claet matter. PUBLISHED EVERY FRIDAY Address all communications and rn.ke all bills payable to The Enterprise. SUBSCRIPTION KATES One year in advance fcU months in advance . - .71 Three months in aavanc .6 PREPARE OR IT Repeatedly fall rains overtake the h .rvests la this country and grain to. the fields is damaged to an alarm ing extent more or less every fall. Again the inevitable has happen ed. Conditions existing as they have alwers existed in the Willamette val ley could scarcely continue without a loss of a somewhat serious nature. It came again this year. The les son was brought home to the farmer and the price is paid. The loss of property is a! ways a dreadful thing to bear, but when it can be prevented in a measure It Is even more serious. It is easy now to say what might have been done to avert the damaging effects of the rain upon the crops, but might it not have been wiser to put the theory into practice before it was too litfe? These conditions are not only prevalent in the vicinity of In dependence, but the whole state of Oregon has suffered loss by reason of neglect to prepare for the rain and it is going to continue so long an the harvest is left in the fields until the arrival of the thresher which is often too late. It can no longer be said that the weather in Oregon can be depended upon. Rain comes whether we ex pect it or not and as long as farmers persist in leaving the grain without stacking or without shelter, just bo long the state of Oregon may ex pect loss front the damaging rainy periods which, of late, are sure to put in appearance. to sell goods but to be polite to those who buy. The public official, ap pointive or el"c'e1, who Is not courte ous to the citizens with whom he comes in contact, is unworthy his of fice. The American people are bann ing in this reswd. It haa not been long since politeness was looked upon by the average employe of a corporat ion us an it to be neglected. Politeness should be cultivated jiot merely because it makes charac ter and life sweeter and sounder. Politeness pays. BLESSING OF FORGETTING f THE ART OF POLITENESS The pleasures of memory have been sung in every language and In all households, but no one sings the Joys lot forgetting. Yet happiness is se cured and lite sweetened by the many things we forget as well as those we call to mind. The world needs to forget and the world should, in a sense, respect w forgetter. Cruelty of church and par ty, the inquisition and the witch trial, should be lost arts. The church needs to forget Hersey hunting and Jewbaitlng, narrowness of creed and laxity of life, will be blotted from memory as from imitation. Individu als need to forget Passion and dis trust, sin and suffering and sorrow, need only to be recalled where for getfulness would mean return. Education means letting go an well as acquirement. Youth md man learn by forgetting. To catch in the whis pering gallery of the world inspira tion from the highest the claraor of the cold must be dulled into un reniembered silence. Thus the uni verse becomes a University and the primer is laid aside for a guide book through the stars. There is much in every life that is not worth imprint on the curious tablet thai: we call our memory. Pic tures that io mental portrait gallery would wish ever to recall. Inscrip tions that no memorial monuments should ever be Stories that no mind's literature should seek to hand down to coming years. How much ould the world and the world's child ren give could memory elect from its storehouse only the things that It would wish to preserve in the alem bic of the brain and heart? Queer freaks memory serves us all. What we should forget sticks burr-like. What we would remember goes unreached and unregarded. The great event slips unremembered by and we seize unforgettingly upon a ribbon's color or a sunset's hue "Lest we forget." Indeed some of us would be better did we not remember. to be fiimlUar with the nwue of some particular newspaper, they come to the postmaster with a requeBt this he le tn be dropped In the box of some papar, they come merely ad dressed "newspaper. ' They, represei t all classis of people from day labor ers to b kei's capitalists. So rapid has been the spread of org.uiUed publicity, ti.iul so genorm'ty known Is the fact that there is wide awake and uctlve commercial dab in almost every western oliy, that at first thought it might seem peculiar that so many people should turn to fie newspapers for Informix tlon rather than to the regularly or aMsed publicity bodies. The reamui however, is very simple mA easily understood. The newspaper supplies kind of information that promotion literature cannot give. To the skeleton of cold ruet it adds the flesh and blood of real, every da' l'fe. It tells what the people of its territory are doing, and what they are accomplishing. It tell the bad along with the good, and It gives a well proportioned picture of the life of its community that can be understood by the man who Is earn est Iy trying to decide whether it will be to his Interest to break up his home at id leave his friends for a new country and Jiew people. The value of promotion literature is not to be discounted. It presents In a form that can emally be under stood the material advantages of Its particular community, and It gives m array of facts and figures hat can be obtained in aio other way. It puts irt the service of the man who wants information a body of trained experts who are re:idy to answer questions nul to advance arguments, and It has the time and the facilities to take up Individual problems. It is necessarily limited, however, to the presentation of the high lights and the person who is seeking a new home wants the shadows that make the picture complete. The newspiaper is an admirable supplement to the work of the publicity man, because It fills in the little touches that he Is unable to give. Every issue of a nwespaper is a more or less complete picture of the life of the community that it serves. The accuracy and the proportion of the picture wre affect ed by the ability of the paper.or with equal truth it might be said that the excellence of the paper is determined by the accuracy and proportion of the Dlcture that it presents but good or bad. It gives the would-be home-mak er a view of the section that he Is Interested in that he can obtain In no other way. Eugene Morning Reg ister The American people suffer a great", deal of Incivility from the' corporations that serve them. These eorporations, created by the public, depend upon the public for support. It is difficult to understand, therefore, why there should be such ganeral toleration of rudeness and neglect on the part of employes of these cor porations. Civility should be insisted upon. Politeness is due from man to man no matter his position or occupa tion. A railroad conductor, porter or brakemaa, who is rude or disobliging, should receive sharp rebuke. A clerk ought to be called upon not simply HOW THE NEWSPAPERS HELP. Probably every newspaper in Ore eon receives In its mail every day requests from all over the United staton for BimDle copies. These re quests come from people who are looking with favor upon Oregon as a future home, and who are trying to form In advance some conception of whrt they will find when they get here. Only a small number of the requests are accompanied by money to pay for the papers that ere asked for, but to the credit of the newspap ers' it can be said that the seekers for tafsrmation are seldom disap pointed. The requsete are In various forms. Some of them come direct to the newspapers from people who happen TY7E ARE pleased to an W nounce that our new store is now open for busi ness. Our lines carried will be Dry Goods Clothing Ladies' and Gents Furnishings Shoes Our aim will be to please you. New Goods will ar rive! every day until our stock represents the most complete line of merchand ise in the city. We especially invite you tocall and inspect our merchandise and get acquainted. Yours very truly, L. Ji. Cary Next Door to Lerona Hotel OOP MEN I We have Brooms Lanterns Hop Sewing Twine Sulphur Pots and the Best Hop Thermometer that can be had Craven & Huff Hardware Company Announcement TIFTER many weeks of preparation, during T which the store was entirely remodelled and refurnished, we are pleased to state that we are now ready for fall business. Our stock con sists of Men's, Boys' and Youths' wearing ap parell. Everything we carry isnewand of the world's leading makes in those lines, such as Schlon Baltimore and Sophomore Clothing, Mallory and Stetson Hats, and Biltrite and Regal Shoes. You will find our Furnishing Department to be of the same high standard. We cordially invite your inspection. Whether you buy or not you are assured of courteous treatment. Our motto is and always will be, "The Best Value for the Least Money" Wm. Herzog LEADING CLOTHIER Second Door South of Post Office Independence, Oregon 4 THE KEEN KUTTER STORE Oregon. Independence, 1