FO REST
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 9, 1913
FOREST GROVE PRESS
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GROVE
PRESS
G E O R G E H U N T IN G T O N CU R R EY
EDITOR A N D O W N E R
Published every T hurtdey it ForeR Grove, Washington County, Oregon.
Entered at the Forest Grove, Oregon, Post Office as second-class matter.
States. However in order to assure a certainty
to business a permanent non-partisan board
should control this as well as other national
questions. Government by experts made di­
rectly responsible to the people is far more dem­
ocratic and satisfactory to the best interests of
all than any other system yet devised.
S ubscr iption R a t e s in A d v a n c e .
LaGrande has recently adopted the managerial
One Year..................... $1.60
Six Months........... 75 Cents commission form of municipal government.
Pendelton is now considering so doing. It is
P ho ne M ain 502. simply a matter of time until all cities large and
O p p i c e on M ain S t r e e t .
‘ small will forsake the old council system for the
more economical and satisfactory business meth­
No route to fame is there more sound,
Yet those who follow are so few.
od adopted to the need of each individual locality.
'Tis just this; pray to learn;
Learn to know; know to do,
Then do; but many yearn
To take a shorter way,
That offers quicker pay,
That’s why so many failures abound.
—J is t H un t .
In another place in this
THE R E A L W EST issue there is an article
VERSU S
written by Dr. With-
T H E " WILD W EST” ycombe, telling what a
real county fair, like
Washington’s, should be and why such a fair is
worthy of the support of all. How much better
invested is energy devoted to such a cause
than in promoting any variety of these so-called
frontier, round up shows, which neither uplift
nor educate. A wild west show neither depicts
the life of today nor yesterday. Simply by appeal­
ing to the curiosity and weakness of society they
are a means of transforming the cash from the
people to a bunch of would be champion cowboys
that largely never saw a real range roundup.
To most of ns also it is a far grander sight to
see a large exhibit of well groomed horse flesh
the producers of the country, than to see a
bunch of wild skinny useless horses doped with
high life and spurred and whipped, until in
agony they unseat their half shot and half baked
rider or simply wear out and give up. We are
glad that the directors of the Washington county
fair are working along the 1 nes advised by Dr.
Withycombe.
This is truly a practical age;
THE TEST OF but we are finding that prac­
THE ACE
ticability has as much or more
JS RESU LTS to do with the mental and
spiritual as with the material
We no longer dig ditches by hand but use im­
proved steam shovels. The schools no longer
require so much Greek and calculus as useful
studies in sociology and science. Likewise, the
religion of the day is being forced out of its se­
cluded nook as a distinct part of existence; and
is being considered in common with the whole
of life, in fact, as life itself, that is ones theory
of life in both thot and deed. And the old
creeds are giving way, not to antagonism, but
to a new and growing program of religious ac­
tivity in which the test of the worker will be in
saving men and women rather than souls. If
man will save his fellow man the Lord will look
after their souls.
Personally favoring a non partison tariff board
the P ress never the less severely criticizes the
part of the American press which for “ political
for financial” reasons is doing its best to discredit
the work of the present administration. The
new tariff is far from ideal, but undoubtedly is
as good as its predecessor and is a step in the
right direction fo ra lower tariff in the United
The American people are beginning to see the
joker in the so called “ home rule” bill. It is
simply the systems way of beating the game.
If a law is good enough for a law at all, the
larger the unit it affects the better. Uniformi­
ty of laws not only within the state but thiuout
the entire nation is a much desired reform.
The possibilities of dried fruit are just begin­
ning to become known. Forest Grove now has
a cannery and a fruit evaporator, both of which
are at present working to capacity and both of
which are planning immediate extensions.
These are the kind of industries that will help
build up Washington county.
The Pioneer says, “ How does the 'City of
Mollala’ sound to you” . A country cross roads,
in a good county, connected by a railway, now
incorporated and a thriving growing little city.
This is the history of the year 1913 for M dlala
over in Clackamas county.
If for nothing else than for the sake of suffer­
ing humanity, let United States step in and
demand peace in Mexico. President Wilson
would probably personaly help break up a dog
fight, he might even separate two drunks.
Certainly Mexico is as unaccountable as either.
We venture that the new tariff, a new Batkin
war, or a new Mexican revolt, (notice the word
N E W in each case), will not interfere nearly so
much with American business matters this week
as the world series. We only wish the Beavers
had a chance at the winner.
Now is the time to begin planning and pre
paring for the 1914 Washington county fair.
The directors will be pleased to receive sugges­
tions for improvement as it is their desire to
make the fair an annual event of great value to
this county.
In this day when people fly up-side-down, when
pictures not only act but talk, when we speak
thousands of miles without any connection
except mother earth and the atmosphere, be
careful about saying, “ It can’t be done.”
This is the time of year when all early and
late workers realize that we are in actual need
of a twenty-four hour light service and the en­
couragement of all should be given the city
council in furishing such a service.
The business outlook thruout America is par
excellent this fall, and the only drawback comes
from foreign causes.
P. U. FRESHMAN’S
LETTERS TO “ DAD”
A ctual L etters
By a Real
F reshm an to His
F a th e r
The “Press” Will Print This
Boy’s Actual Impressions
Each Week
Then we began to sing. One of i Before removing to our new
the songs we sang was some-! quarters we wish to reduce stock
as much as possible. We have
thing like this:—
on hand some Seneca Stock Pow­
“ If I should die
der, one of the best made, which
Don’t bury me at all,
we offes at half price while they
But pickle my bones
last at Littler’s Pharmacy.
in alcohol.
Put a bottle of booze
Sewing machine extras and
At my beau and my feet,
needles fi r any machine made,
And then i Know
My soul wib keep.”
for sale at Staehr’s Bazaar.
Pretty soon the bunch broke up.
I’m getting along pretty wei
wan my stuuies. 1 saippeu iii
ole period tile other uay to g>.
walking with one ot the stuuenu
wtio is a tine looking Uignilieo
sort ot a fellow who never speaks
but when he says something.
By the way, Dad, I find that I
am still a little bit short ol
change. You see the books,
stationary, board, etc. count up.
If you could give me a little ad
\ance on my regular it would be
very acceptable at th.s tiu.e.
Thursday, A. M.
D ear D ad :—I am beginning
to get wise to the fact that col­
lege ¡3 a whole lot more than two
or three buildings. The spirit
of the students is felt every­
where. There is something in­
spiring and uplifting about it
which makes a fellow feel full of
ambition and energy.
G ood b y e f r o m
There are two men’s societies
J ohn
at P. U., the Gamma Signas and
P.
S.
—You
might
send
me a
the Alpha Zetas. Last Thursday
couple
of
ties,
etc.
when
you]
night I visited the ' amma Signa
think
of
it.
society and had a mighty fine
time. After a short program j
JOHN M'GRAW
they had a debate in which it:
was 'decided that Uncle Sam j
should fortify the Panama Canal. I
When we were about half
down stairs one of the fellows]
said, “ Lets have a shirt tail pa­
rade.”
There were fifteen or twenty
of us; dignified, sedate Seniors, j
smart Seniors, important Sopho­
mores, and several Freshman.
All rushed to the dressing room,
tore off coats and vests and then
forming in a line issued forth in­
to the starlit night. Then start­
ed the wildest prancing march I
ever heard of. We each clung
with our hands to the shoulders
or back of the next man and all
swaying in unison we started up
the campus shouting “yip, yip”
or something that sounded like it
at every step. We certainly
were a crazy looking bunch with
our shirt hanging down over our
trousers, our hair befrousled and John McGraw, v eteran m anag e r of
New York Giants, whose team
our wild actions. Suddenly we the
will again participate in the w orld’i
halted and formed a circle in te r ie s baseball games.
front of the girls dormitory. 1
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ifi
Phone 901
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