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THE ENDEPENDENCE ENTERPRISE
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iwnrprNDENCE ENTERPRISE
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cond class matter. Published every Friday morning.
W.J.CLARK.
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MEMBER OF THE STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION
THE MOTHER'S CHRISTMAS GIFT.
It never come to Christmas but I think about the times
We used to save our pennes and our nickels and our
dlBa&
And we bunched them all together, even little baby brother
Put something, for the present that we always gave to
mother.
We began to talk about it very early in December,
. .'Twas a very serious matter to us children, I remember,
And we used to whisper nightly our suggestions to each
. . other, .
For by nothing cheap and tawdry could we show our love
Hers must be a gift of beauty, fit to symbolize her ways ;
It must represent the sweetness and the love that marked
her days
it must be the best our money, all combined, had power to
And beomething that she longed for ; nothing else would
f satisfy.
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, Then it mattered not the token, once the purchase had been
'' ! made
It was smuggled home and hidden and with other treas-
) " ures laid, '
r And we placed our present proudly in her lap on Christmas
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1 ' And we smothered her with kisses and we laughed her
i r, tears away.
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It never comes to Christmas but I think about the times
' We used to save our pennies and our nicikels and our dimes
And the only folks I envy are the sisters and the brothers
Who still have the precious privilege of buying for their
mothers.
THE MOTHER'S SHARE.
i The bosom of every loyal Oregonian- swells with pride
- when he looks back over the record of his state since the
'' nation entered the great war last April. Every call that
has been made Oregon has been answered. Every duty
that has been placed upon us has been faithfully discharg-
ed. In every branch of the national service Oregon men
" are doing their share. And their share has been done free
: ly and without pressure because of the love of liberty and
justice that they breathe in the very air about them. So
prompt to the army's and navy's response to the army'sand
navy's call of need that we are known from the Atlantic to
the Pacific as the Volunteer State. It is a proud title.
" For all of this, let us place the credit where it belongsXet
us be ready to say frankly that but for the mothers of Ore-
gon we should not have won so distinguished a place a
i mon the states. For that is the truth. It is the mothers
' j who are responsible for the splendid showing that has been
, i made. And Independence mothers have borne their share
- of the credit given our state.
It is the mothers who must bear the brunt of war always
: and everywhere. The young man who offers his life to his
" country is embarking upon a great adventure. He is en
, tering upon a life of activity and variety. He has the loyal
'! and hearty support of his fellows to sustain him in all the
; trials that may come up. He is entering upon a new life
t and to the young that which is new is always alluring.More
i j than all else, he is in the thick of what is going on and has
work to occupy him every minute.
But the mother's part is the waiting part She must
': stay at home and watch the papers and yearn for news.
I She must smother her apprehensions and find solace for
i her heartache in the knowledge that she is doing her duty.
Yet, in the fact of all this, the mothers of Oregon have
'. done their duty and have sent their boys out cheerfully to
k do the nation's work. They have realized that the cause
is ntip wnrthv nf nnv jsnnn'fip.ft that mav he made and have
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' ; put aside their personal feelings ana tneir personal gneis.
i Tt is thft mother's of Oregon who have made the state's
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; i Independence and the adjacent country have a great
stake in the war. One full company from Polk county
! has been sent out and in additions many volunterred for
i various branches of the service. 1 nereiore independence
A of fViia fimp t.n welcome the mothers of
, I Oregon, and in its welcome their is deep sympathy m their
disappointment of their son arouna me nnswnas tree 10
share with them in the festivities of holiday time.
LIGHT THE GREAT CIVILIZER.
; i The men who are converting our waterpowers into elec-
i trie1 light are the missionaries of civilization and progress
i the light-bringers who are elevating the moral standards
-; and health of humanity. .
The effect of a well-lighted city upon individuals and
the community conscience, the deterrent of crime and de-
, generacy, the saving of police power, minimizing the evil
r that breeds in the dark, is all good.
XTw mucin 4-Tio m-oof Ast rivilizer in tne world is li&rnt.
, Tu fVcn who love
of evil nature. Ths same may oe saw ux r " "cs
flight It exa.ts alrnoSt much as
it purifies, it is the enemy 01 oau m c - gt cure.
People with devils in them should hiita
It is no less than marvelous how a light bath will nne
mind of demons. , i.vflVS been
In telligence is most akin to light. It wsala s oeen
the poetic figure most in use in describing mental esolu
tion. ... ... iu i,V,f ciin.
When you feel that atavistic tug, sit in we -light
pr electric light
HOW CAN OREGON SAVE THE SUGAR INDUSTRY.
Unless the people and press and business interests of
Oregon get busy this state will lose the beet sugar factory
built at Grants Pass, xl v-i,:, Voiw
It will be dismantled and moved to me
and this will be the failure of the second sugar beet indus
trv attempted in Oregon. , . .
This is a serious matter and grows out of the very simple
fact that labor conditions are such that beets cannot or
will not be grown here. , , .
rru v,fl,ioi foofa cimwpH that sutrar beets couiu De
grown containing sufficient saccharine matter to warrant
the plant being built.
Capital came in ana Duut a moaeni sugai i.,
ble of handling the product of from six to ten thousand
thousand acres of sugar beets.
So we have the capital, transportation iacuiues, uic
and climate and are lacking on two lines common labor
and irrigation. -Cr.mmar'i
nroroniViitinn wpnt so far as to otter
farmers free use of pumps to irrigate their beet lands and
co-operate in other ways.
The long warm summer snouia nave turneu uu a uumr
er croD of sue:ar beets in Oregon, enough to run two factor
ies and another was offered.
Rnt AA rnt. nnnlv thp water, and it takes common la
bor to weed the beets in the rows, to thin them, to hoe them
and cut off the tops. , j
At Independence and Stayton aoout uu acres oi uut-w
wprp rmt-. nnt and ahnut S00O tons of beets were sent to the
factory at Grants Pass by railroad an even 100 cars of
beets left Independence alone.
Will the commercial clubs, the state industrial organiza
tions, the various boards of agriculture and labor depart
ment of the state help ?
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What do other states do in such emergencies i uo iney
make an effort to tret labor to make the crop or do they let
failure overtake industry?
This is a serious situation and a test case or wnetner tne
state of Oregon and Polk county is an efficient common
wpalth anH pan save a ereat industry. A factory could be
located here within a year if the farmers would exercise
the same energy as do the Yakima Valley larmers.
There is no real excuse lor losing tne second sugar in
dustry the one at La Grande went the same way f or
lack of the raw material.
Sugar beet growing and sugar manufacture are highly
profitable industries in all the states around us and failure
is a state and county disgrace.
The live stock industry, the dairy industry, skilled labor
and the pride of our county and state will all suffer if we
do not save this industry.
CHURCH UNITY.
Protestants are joining in an effort for church unity.The
plan is to hold a worlds conference some time the coming
year either in America or Europe, to secure representation
from all denominations, and to agree, if possible, upon
common grounds of faith and church government.
Unity of effort is desirable if Christian churches are to
accomplish their greater work in the world. Disagree
ment as to minor questions of faith should be easily brush
ed aside, for evangelical churches have long been growing
into agreement that, after all, there is little dispute as to
essentials. The day is past, or passing, when "immersion"
and "sprinkling" shall divide Christian men and women
into rival groups.
Church government may prove a more difficult problem,
but if the conference will agree that such questions are not
matters of conscience, a serviceable, working, understand
ing should be possible.
The conference should enter upon its task with full ap
preciation of causes contributing to multiplicity of chur
ches. It is not, necessarily, the excess number of church
edifices that dwarfs church ?effort, but rather the
number of small and insufficient organizations. 1W
working in harmony one with the other. Preventable
waste in Christian activity, if it could be determined in dol
lars and cents, would stagger the ordinary person not wed-
aea to creed and dogma.
Another phase of the problem is the determination of
some people to be leaders. Churches, lodges and clubs
have been organized to give these people opportunity for
leadership. If the world's conference cannot change hu
man nature, a plan may be devised for regulating it.
M Merry M
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