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According to state capital gossip, - R. A. Booth and
W. B. Barratt are expected to resigrr as members of the
state hidvwav commission in the very near future. As is
usual in such cases, it is a "pressure of private business'
which is eriven as the cause for the contemplated action
During Mr. Booth's reign, and this is about what it has
amounted to, more than S50,OO0,OOO has been expended
bv the commission on the highways. Mr. Booth has
become so autocratic in his ideas of road improvements
that he has at times attempted to ride roughshod over
statutory regulations. He has recently received a couple
of jolts at the hands of circuit judges, and of course these
were not well received in the seat of the mighty. JUr,
Booth's ideas of road building may be of high character,
but they have been a little bit too exhalted for a public
servant. As far as Mr. Barratt is concerned, he has
been largely a figurehead on the board any way.
Oregon Country
in Brief Form
Walter L. Tooze, Jr., as chairman of the Republican
state central committee, is shaping his plans for an
active campaign. In selecting his executive committee
he has included E. C. Kirkpatnck of Polk county, who
is regarded as a, war horse in party affairs. The other
members of the committee are : Bruce Dennis, La brande ;
Lloyd Riches, Vale: Harold Baldwin, Pnneville; Roy
D. Smith, Hood River; Willard L. Marks, Albany; George
Neuner. Jr.. Roseburg; John C. Uvendall, Marshfield;
E. E. Blanchard, Grants Pass; Sumpter S. Smith, Med
f ord ; Mrs. Lee Davenport, Mrs. C. E. Runyon, Mrs. A. M.
Dibble, Mrs. Julius Louisson. Mrs. W. M. Cake and Mrs.
F. 0 Northrup, Portland; Mrs. Louise Perozzi, Ashland;
Mrs. John A. Carson Sr., Salem; Mrs. Anna M. Lang,
The Dalles, and Mrs. Henry Henningson, Oregon City.
Community spirited Dallas folks had to dig up about
$400 to make good with the Ellison-White chautauqua.
Yet they recognize the chautauqua as an asset morally
and financially to the extent that a contract for a 1923
performance has been signed with about 80 sponsers.
The Monmouth chautauqua, given by the Cadmean com
pany, proved a financial success to the local guarantors.
Of course Monmouth has in the Normal school a big
asset for chautauqua attendance. Independence has had
no chautauqua this year, nor is there much prospect of
one for next season. There is some opposition here i May, according to official tabulations
i. i. At. - -1 i. 1 i. X - 11 1.1 J 1 -1 T 1.1. ..I .1 . , ...
iiul lo uie cnauiauqua, out iu uie xneuiuus empiuyeu vy uie
Ellison-White company. From, a business standpoint,
the contract is all one sided. The company demands a
guarantee of a specific amount but gives no selection in
the program or choice as to date. On the other hand, a
chautauqua performance on the whole is of the things
worth while and consequently musbe of benefit to any
community.
The Grant county fair will be held
at John Day, September 27 to 30, in
clusive. Bend's bonded indebtedness bat
been decreased $53.21 in the paat
year and one-half.
The annua! summer session water
carnical at the Oregon Agricultural
college Is scheduled for July 21.
Two persons were killed and 513
were injured iu automobile accidents
in Portland during the month of June.
The Ladles of the Invisible Empire
is the name of a new organization
which filed articles of incorporation
at Salem. ,
September 2 has been announced
as the day on which the cornerstone
of the million-dollar Elk's temple will
be laid in Portland
The forest fir situation in the
Tillamook country is becoming rather
grave, according to the latest reports
received from there.
With the cherry harvest nearlng
completion Wasco county is now turn
ing its attention to the wheat, and
harvesting has started.
The huckleberry crop In the Blue
mountains this year will be unusually
large, according to Floyd Kendall,
United States forest ranger.
Although the highways of the state
were crowded with motor vehicles
July 4, less than a dozen arrests were
made by state traffic officers.
Forest fires along the line of the
Tillamook branch of the Southern Pa
cific have handicapped passenger and
freight service to some extent.
H. J. Overturf of Bend, whose ap
pointment as an appraiser for the Spo
kane farm loan bank was recently
suspended, has been reinstated.
Shipment of lumber from Bend dur
ing the month of June was at the
rate of 30.7 cars a day, a new ship
ping record for the Industry there.
The biggest three-day celebration
ever held in Union county was" held
at Elgin. Eighty horses participated
in the races before 5000 spectators.
The Roseburg city oouncll- has put
Into effect an emergency ordinance
limiting the loads of trucks operating
through the city to 400 pounds to
each Inch of tire width.
Valuation of imports in the Oregon
district for five months ending with
OREGON HAS I
65,423 WARDS
or
Oregon supports, partially
wholly, C5.42S mentally or physically
defective persons.
These startling figures as to the
burden that the producers mut al
ways carry on their shoulders, in ad
dition to the effort of supporting
themselves, were announced In a
report just published by the Univer
sity of Oregon, which is making the
report actod under the direction of
the United States public health ser
vice at the request of the stnte leg
islature. Work on the report was
begun in 1920.
Some of the 65,423 are being cared
for in public institutions and a few in
private institutions but the fact re
mains there are that many who must
be supported by the rest.
Community institutions, including
poor farms, take care of G5,04D, while
9874 are cared for in all manner of
public and private institutions.
.Pelinciuonts persons both old and
young whom the stnte could not allow
at large make up 30,141 of the total
Dependents make up 29,555, and
these include 54 blind, 156 deaf, 12(1
crippledj and 43 tubercular. There
are 3994 insane and 1733 mentally
defective, including GO neuro-mentnl
cases. A lew hundred cases were not
classified.
By means of a teachers' referen
dum, the survey was able to include
some salient facta about school
children.
Out of an enrollment of 32,480
children this, of course, being only a
part of the enrollment in the state- -the
teachers reported 9742 who were
not as far advanced in their school
work aa they should be at their ages.
Causes for their being retarded were
classified by the teachers as follows:
Parental, 1199; economic, such as
living conditions, 90(5; environmental,
Wiry
and
Conkey
Walker
&
OSXHI
1484: miswIlaneouH. 1034; tetn
mental, 524; physical, 2147, and
tal, 2(527.
In an unnamed city where 2M
children were found to be retarded oti
an average of 1.89 years, estimating
the cost yearly for each child ai
$52.50, the cost to the taxpayers was
125,020.
Mental testa were given 123 prison
ers in the penitentiary, which showed
that 40 percent were of average in
telligence, 8 percent were of high In
telligence, 51 percent tended to be
dull and 22 percent were defective.
At the industrial school for girls,
33 girls were given the test, and only
two had normal mental capacity, 8
pera-jwere subnormal, 15 were on
men. lerllno and 8 wr mentally
ai mo nvnwti lor n,y, out of it
males, result were: Subnan
average normal, 27; mihrnmi
borderline, 43, and mentally
SO,
At the school f)r the
deaf only two out of 33 blind pr'
were mentally defective, and
out of 03 deaf persons werte
lacking. Oregon JounwU.
(Jet your hop tickets at the E
prise office. Special facility
handling them promptly and !
ively.
Concerve Moisture in Orchards
Due to the present draught, orchar
dists who do not have irrigation
6hould take care of the moisture sup
ply. Moisture can be conserved by
cultivation but not added to. As
long as the dry spell lasts growers
are ttrged to cultivate thoroughly at
least once a week as late as the mid
dle to the latter part of August.
This will maintain good growing con-
bark peeling well. Oregon Expert-
ditions, sizable fruit and prevent the ment Station.
"draught
station.
spot." Oregon Experment
J
Growth of Nursery Stock Curtailed
The growth of nursery stock ana
young trees will be somewhat cur
tailed this year because of the severe
dry spell. Anyone desiring to bud
trees should plan to do this by Wis
first to the tenth of August depend
ing on variety in order to insure th
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Vacation Trips
Cost less this year
Why not take advantage of this opportunity to
realize big profits in transportation costs to
Tillamook County Beaches Newport By-the-Sea
Crater Lake National Park
Oregon's Forest. Lake, River and Mountain Resorts
Oregon Caves National Park
Shasta Mountain Resorts Yosemite National Park
or
I (lines) J
Eastern Cities
Via The Scenic Shasta Route
On your way East stopover at
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For further particulars, ask agents
Southern Pacific Lines
John M. Scott,
General Passenger Agent
were $3,194,347, as compared with
406,846 for the first five months of
1921.
Thp average grade for all milk dls
tributed within the city, of Portland
is as high as that specified by law
for certified milk, according to Dr
D. w. Mack, chief daicy and milk
inspector.
Men above the age ef 15 years out
number women ia Portland above. the
same age by 5841, according to figures
which have Jost been released by the
department of commerce at Wasbing
ton, D-. C.
D. L. Hamilton, aged forty-two, died
at Klamath Falls from injuries receiv
ed when a tagging track upset, crush
ing his body and pinning him be
neath a stream of boiling water from
a burst radiatsr.
A statewide association of poultry
men probably will be organized at
the national convention of instructors
and investigators in poultry hus
bandry at the Oregon Agricultural
college this month
Because of the increasing distance
between mills of the ftrooks-Scanlon
Lumber company of Bend and the log
ging camps, a new 5-ton Baldwin
locomotive has been added to the com
pany's transportation facilities.
Lack of cherry and" berry pickers
is hindering operations at the can
nery of the Eugene Fruit Growers' as
sociation, and may cause a loss of
a great deal of fruit on account of
allowing it to become too ripe.
The big sawmill of the Booth-Kelly
Lumber company at Wendllng was
totally destroyed by fire last week
and it was with difficulty that the
planer and other units of the plant,
as well as the whole town, were
saved.
S A total of lfi'4 tfiaeh prs wer rA-
quired to instruct the 3921 children
enrolled in th& Union county schools
during the year ending last June, ac
cording to the annual report prepared
by Mrs. A. N. lvanhoe, coiwity school
superintendent.
Because of the damage resulting to
macadam roads from the open cutout
on automobiles, Herbert Nunn, state
highway engineer, will go before the
legislature at its next session and
ask that the traffic laws be amended
so as to curb this evil. .
Elvie Kirby, alias James Owens, and
John Rathie, slayers of Sheriff Til
Taylor of Umatilla county in 1920 paid
tho ptnalty lor their crime on the
gallows in the state penitentiary at
Salem. Rathie was the first of the
two men to mount the gallows.
There was one fatality in Oregon
due to industrial accidents during the
week ending July 6, according to a
report prepared by the industrial ac
cident commission. The victim was
A. N. Garrett, salesman, of Portland, i
AAotal of 448 accidents were reported. '
A NEWSF iPER'S TWO
SOURCE&OF INCOME
Subscription and Advertising Are the Only Sources
of Revenue a Newspaper Has and Often the Sub
scriptions Do Not Pay for the Cost of White Paper
Advertising today, especially in newspapers, is the
greatest business getter there is. This is acknowledged
by men who know. People read advertisements in news
papers. They have been educated to do so. Every mer
chant in our town ought to advertise. You remember
the story about John Wanamaker? The first day he
was in business his receipts were $24.04. He kept the
64 cents and spent the $24 the next day in advertising.
We all can't duplicate this feat, but according to the best
statistics available three percent of the gross sales should
be put aside for advertising.
Possibly you will say, "I don't need to advertise. 1
have been in this town thirty yCiw and everybody knows
Probably they do, but did you ever stop to think of
iW TllZlSe f CC 80 lour feIlow competitor adver
tises? He may advertise the same goods you have in
your stock but the people don't know you have tticm
Sdther SW T thVal.e bGcause advertises:
did advertise" m0Pe bu8incss you would do if 'ou
We know of one merchant who advertised -i lot nf
goods at 19 cents a yard. They cost him 27 cetL He
took a clean loss, but while the sale was go ng on he
the oVeTgZs8 12 G thWwiih
tne otner goods and the result was that he cleaned his
shelves of the old goods and he broke even on the deal
Advertising and good buying liquidated his "stock with-
adverfaTnpVonortiotln WT. but we all can
auveiuse in proportion to our business Results will ho
it depends on the service you give L to hi
your business will be. k to how successful
What is done in the biir cities an ,i i u ''
in this town if you will show hi be.(lone "fifa here
advertise. Make buSne Za Vn?' m am
this newspaper. g od You can do through
t.