is overlooked. This committee
alao deals with Forestry matters. A
Clip jfarrat Gmntr tExjirpfia ! ! erally
little action by the Oregon member
Published every Thursday at Forest Grove, Oregon.
might have brought the state’s forest
W. C. Renier, Editor and Publisher.
reserve tim ber largely Into use for
Entered as second-class m atter Jan. 12. 1916, at the nostotfice at Forest Grove, shipbuilding and airplane manufacture.
Oregon, under the Act of March 3, 1879
Nothin' doin'.
From the Appropriations Committee
Subscription Rates
Oregon got a little "small change” for
Paid in advance
On Credit
C rater I.ake Park, its two lish hatch­
$1.50 eries and its two life saving stations.
.ea-
$LM One year
Six months
M s S'" months
IBooks like this committee hail declared
.40 a moratorium on Oregon payments.
Three Months
*
Three months
Coast defenses? There is where we
THURSDAY. .MARCH 28. 1918
do not shine. We still have one coast
left. Fort Stevens, supple­
Scarcely a dav passes that we hour on the night of March 31st defense
mented
by
two
do n o t read of one or more schools This is to secure more daylight!,
# forts „ , on the Washing-
eliminating the teaching of the hours in which to speed up work.! super-drvadnaught
®f th?.Co!un.
'b,“‘. type A of single
of
the
the
vivi
iiu*ii language If Germany There is no penalty for not obey
German
keeps on with her atrocities, the ing the law, except the penalty of '1,ur V,*rm.“ny '» «^lut to -borrow'
LUMBER
If you art* going to build a
Silo, Garage, House, Barn
or Chicken Coop, U*t us tell
you the cost. We buy cheap
anti we sell cheap.
Our Mr. Copeland does the
buying for all our yards, in­
cluding this one. Everything, like Doors, Hoofing, Mould­
ing, us well as all Lumber and Shingles, is bought in car
lots. We get prices the man with but one yard cunnot get,
and we are willing to pass this saving on to you. We want
your business. Let us figure your bill.
time is not far distant when a being an hour behind the rest of , *m Kustil* cou,tl
*H the coast
German conversation will be the the country. For instance, if you umbiM
._!!!“** basin
oi th* Gateway to the Col-
without «1 any time living
signal for brickbats to get busy. fail to set your clock ahead you in danger itself.
telling no secret,
may he an hour 1; te whi n you for this situation I’m
is
as
well known to
Kansas farmers sell hides tojhe want
to take a train; if you are a our enemies as to ourselves.
packers for 9 cents a pound. The business
man,
your
competitor
(Copeland & McCready)
feather into which the hide is will be doing business an hour River and Harbor'* Appropriations
Phone 531
Forest Grove, Ore.
manufactured is sold back to the ahead of ypu and if you have-an for this service, as well as for w ater­
ways
in
general,
are
handled
by
the
farmers at So cents a pound. The appointment
(to get married or Commerce Committee in the Senate.
same farmers sell dressed hogs to buried' the thing
may be over
MARY ANI) HOPKKP
per cent on if 1,000 for unmarried
the butcher at 15 cents a pound. )Gng before you get to the ap How we have fared in that bill 1 have men.
Their sons living in town buy it pointed place. Better set your already pointed out in a former artiele.
Mary had a little lamb.
The
English
income
tax
rate
We
got
£150,000
out
of
twenty
millions.
it back at 50 cents. There are clock
But the wool-grower* nay
one hour when you We should have two millions.
also increases more rapidly with That
some innocent persons who won go to ahead
every year a million lamba
bed
Sund
>y
night.
W hat are our members on the Public the growth of the income than Of M ary’« go astray.
der why the farmers are Hocking
Lands Committees doing? We certainly OUTS, a $3 0(H) income being taxed
into the Non-Partisan league.— THRONE HI NTING
little lamba that Mary haa,
Oregon Journal.
Trouble; much trouble for those got a rotten deal on the Oregon & 14 per cent, $5.000 16 percent, These
With
aa white aa snow.
Scandinavian countries California Land Grai.t Bill, and th a t’a $10,000 «¿0 per cent, and $15.000 Are torn fleece
by
doga,
and wolvea,
Portland has at least one ci’izen neutral
per cent, while our correspond- The prey of every cayotea
which had rather starve than join about all that'» been doing in that j 25
foe.
who deserves a place in the Hall civilization
ing taxes for married men are re­ And Mary'a lamba are not like those
in the war against' committee of late, affecting Oregon. spectively
of Fame, if he means what he say- German barbarism!
two thirds of 1 per cent.
The
committee
room
has
the
air
of
a
when he announces that he will Germany’s design is now clearly cem etery; bnt I sup|iose the clerks 11 .< per cent. 3* j**r cent and 5 Belonging to liiqieep;
alone they’ll not come home
not keep any of the profits of a make Finland a minor German draw their salaries as usual.
|>er cent, and only slightly more If Or left grow
up to be aheep.
shipyard in which he is a stock­ to
Irrigation question I dealt with for the unmarried, due to the
monarchy. It is even announced,1 in The
holder and vice president. This semi
So
Congress
haa been asked to help
my last article. Our representatives smaller amount exempted, the
- authoratively, that Oscar, stood
man’s name is Eric V. Houser the Kaiser’s
rate
being
the
same.
The
W
est
to
save its aheep.
a pair of trays. Montana
son, has been walked pat off on with
and he has two sons in the ser­ elected for the fifth throne,
Including
M
ary's
little lamba
over
twelve
million
and
that Arizona seventeen. We got less than COVERNMKNT INSFRAN( E
vice and he is the owner of the the Aland islands are to and
And
Ihnac
of
Miaa
Bopeep.
made
Multnomah hotel. Long may he a second H ligoland, with be
NEEDS NO COLLECTOR For on these little lambs de|iends
position
r,ve
million-
though
we
put
in
over
ten.
live and may his tribe increase and power to shoot up anything Die difference was in the kind of rep­ Soldiers, sadois, or their bene­ The wool for soldiers’ socks.
until John Rockefeller and his coming
ta t ion Montana and Arizona had. ficiaries under the soldiers and And if we would have wool enough
rt'-‘,entat'ori
tribe are benevolently assimilated. Sweden out of N o r w a y and i resen
Indian affairs? We haven't even sailors’ insurance law need not We must conserve our flocks.
E. M.
Time in its flight is almost cer­ T h a t Germany meditates some hetta ab,# to appropriation» for im- « “ P 1^ attorneys or claim agents
indi-!
Provement
*,h1
ne*'M new building» to collect the insurance, according
tain to bring every one into their sort rtofa cleanup is plainly
the largest
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modern Indian school in 11°
,n
Treasury Department.
Department I G ; B- Abrahani of Gaston,while
own rightful place. The standing irated by the sudden 1 and unani for
the
Northwest,
Chemawa.
Our
Indian
Circulars
have
lately
been sent c.ulUnK w‘/ od at his home yester-
of the Sioux savage of the early mous attack, by the German Affairs representation is "cultus. ”
out
by
claim
agents
and
l<ay* cautfhl his ax in a ciuthes
day is. for instance, much higher newspapers, on Norway, Sweden I will pass up the Ways and Means offering to assist persons attorneys
line and the blade fell on his
entitled
than it was formerly It is re-; and D. nmark. on the ground that Committee of the House, because our to the benefits of this insurance in lshoulder,
cutting an arjery. Dr.
membered t h a t many of the! they have been strongly leaning member thereon only took his ap[>oint- collecting their claims.
Kauffman
ays it will lay him up
treaties made by the Sioux with toward the entente,
"'t'lvs and Abraham, who
at the beginning of the present The procedure for the present a- ; ^,r
the civilized whites were kept.' But can you blame the king of| ment
lion
and
collection
of
insurance
'n
service as
session.
If
the
chance
is
offered,
he
but Kai>er Bill and his crowd j Prussia? When you’re in the 1 should work and vote to remedy the claims is simple. Blank) may be volunteer, *he will se'ective
forego
going to
have broken all they ever mad- kinging business and have hung, iniquitous burden of taxation imposed secured from the Bureuu of War-1
for a fortnight. He is
with civilized people. The Sioux on until a lot of sons have grown on the North and W est by the Kitchin Risk Insurance at Washington.
sore alsiut his accident
was not such a bad fellow after Up y0U have to go hunting for bill.
The
name
of
the
person
in
service
?n<
S‘D
S that no one ne»d think
all. He wanted only a^small part thrones, or you run great risk of I will speak of the Naval Affairs w ho w as killed o r in ju re d , an d he was trying
of the earth, while the pre-ent your sons going hunting for your Committee, however. The Congress- th e relatio n sh ip w hich he bo re fo boro Argus. to sidestep. Hills­
day savage wants it all.
own. History is loaded with in­ man who represents us on that com the person making the claim,
Spraying Stone Fruits
stances wherein eager sons didn’t m ittee is supposed to tie a "live one.” should be given.
SET YOUY CLOCK
wait until pa really wanted to But I've not noticed that he got us any
Corvallis, Ore,, March 26.-
M
AHEAD SUNDAY
quit. One of the big disappoint­ naval base appropriation for the mouth
Brown
rot of stone fruit*, Cali­
MOTC SolflllTS ( «lilt'd
President Wilson has s’gned ments in the great Napoleon’s life- of the Columbia. T hat’s the thing he The Washington county draft fornia Peach
Blight, causing fruit
the bill, passed by both houses, was that he couldn’t find thrones should work on now, if he’s working board has called William J. Ruff, pot of peaches,
other
directing that all clocks in the enough to suit all his relatives — this year. We may seriously need that Henry M. Clemens, Wilbur L destructive pests and and many
diseases
United S ates be set ahead one Portland News.
naval base if the scene of naval activ- Thomas, G u s Olson, Gerhard may all be greatly reduced by
ities is transferred to the Pacific ocean j Classon, Jesse G. Cunningham, proper methods which are set
F. C. HARLEY
on account of the Russian situation. j Francis A Porter, Jacob Weil, forth in the new bu letin, Spray­
The Quick and the Dead By Mayor
of Astoria
By the way, this Congressman and | Guy VV S ockman, Joe Seder. ing Stone Fruits, just olT the press
one of his colleagues were offered a j C* cil I) Bennett and Winfield at 0 A. C
Washington, D. C.. March 25—1 estry. Appropriations, Coast Defenses, ; place on the River and Harbor Com- 1 Dill to appear at Hillsboro to- Of all the fruits, none are mote
have been making a “ little journey,” Commerce, Indian Affairs, Irrigation of m ittee of the House, and both turned morrow for entrainment for Camp 'important in the present war
as Elbert Hubbard used to call it, to Arid Lands, M anufacture], and Public it down,, though it is the most impor- i Lewis. This is the final quota o f' **mefgency than the stone fruits,
that mammoth marble pile, the abode Lands (two members on last named.) tant committee, from Oregon’s stand- Washington county for the first!
prunes and canned peaches
and cherries form an important
of the “ quick and the dead,” the It has membership on five other com -; point, in the list. Why did they do it? draft
part of the food stores of the
mittees, but, a s 'th e y are practically Ifthere is any voice coming from the
National Capitol.
Fight Grain Smuts
nation anil the army abroad.
I acknowledge obligations to Hon. “deadones,” it is unnecessary to name tombs, perhaps we shall have an an­
Alvan T. Fuller, Congressman from -them . In the House it has representa- , swer later. But it looks to me that a A new bulletin just ofi the press
Massachusetts, for some of the inspi­ tives on Ways and Means, Naval A f­ very great opportunity to serve our at O. A. C. gives complete in­ VNalter VV’atkins, who enlisted
ration for the excursion. Being presi­ fairs, Public Lands, and Irrigation of state was thrown a w a y by these formation as to best methods of in the navy as a fireman Nov. 1st
treating seed grain for the elimi­ and was sent to Mare Island
gentlemen.
dent of the Packard Motor Car Co., of Arid Lands, all alive and kicking.
Boston, and accustomed to doing busi­ With this bunch of picture cards in Robert Harper, aged 52 years, nation of smuts. Do your part, shortly thereafter, arrived in this
for your copy of this bulletin c i t y Thursday evening for a
ness according to the American method, their m itts, you'd fairly-.expect th e 1 residing
at Gales Creek, was Tues­ send
today.
It is short and to the week's visit with his wife and
Representative Fuller, having been an Oregon Congressional delegation to
day
declared
insane,
Dr.
E.
H.
other relatives. He has so far
official occupant of the south wing of win a few “ pots,” wouldn’t you? Let Smith examining Harper wras of point; free for the asking.
confined his seamanship to trips
the capitol for a few months, has made a us analyze the game.
homicidal tendency, and hw has Now is the time to get pre­ between the Island and 'Frisco
discovery. First, he discovered he was A Senator or Representative who imagined
some time that the pared for the spring spraying. and is anxious to be assigned to
a member of a committee (Expenditure fails to get his work in at committee neighbors for
were
against All fruit trees must l>e sprayed some ship. They must take good
in the Interior Department) which, as meetings misses more than half h is , him, and he said plotting
he
was
going
he expressed it, had "no public busi­ chance to win, for it is there that bills get them before they got him to) with Lime-Sulphur. Call in and cate of the boys, however, as
Walter has gained 20 pounds
ness to justify it» existence,” and, are whipped into shape for considera-
since enlisting. He mentions hav­
second, he discovered there were sixty j tion by the Senate and House. Sure,
P
L,Uk’r * ing seen Ralph Emerson, Will
standing committees of the House, he has another chance in open session, have been coming on for a year I
Heretofore,
he
has
been
of
a
quiet
'
y
’
Lasham and G uy McNutt oc­
“ more than half of them as useless but he has discarded his best cards. di position. He is a son of David ; Job printing phone 821.
casionally at Mare Island.
u -
and unnecessary” as the one mentioned. I t’s like drawing to a deuce.
Main Street Lumber Yard
-1
Fuller tendered his resignation as a | How did Oregon fare in the Military **a rPe r - ~ H ll sboro ArgUS.
member of the committee named, in a Committee? In no way that you could AMERIC AN AND ENGLISH
letter to Speaker Champ Clark, Feb. notice. Yet that committee considers
INCOME TAXES
every particle of army appropriation
25th.
Incidentally, in this letter, he hand­ and army expenditures. An Oregon In comparison with the tax
ed the House of Representatives a Senator is chairman of it. Yet Oregon levied in England on incomes our
package o f h o t stuff. He raised a got no military post and no army can­ own income taxes are moderate,
ruetion. The "dead” began to resur­ tonment. There is no better place on indeed
rect and walk about in their grave the Pacific coast for a great military In England the tax on incomes
clothes, talking incoherently. Fuller post than Ft. Stevens, O re, or, pass- °f $1,000 is 4,1-j per Cent, in
ing the deal, Vancouver, Wash., near America nothing.
laughed; so did all Washington.
I immediately wondered, what about Portland. O r e g o n offered several In England the tax on incomes
those “ quick” and "dead” committees, splendid sites for army cantonments; it ?f $1,600 is 6;!^ percent; in Amer-
ica nothing for married men or
and how fares it with our Oregon Con­ got zero.
gressional delegation in this line-up? I In a special sense the Committee on heads of families, and 2 per cent
made a hasty survey of the situation, Agriculture and Forestry looks after on $500 for an unmarried man
with the following results: Oregon has the interest of the farm er, but I notice In England the tax On an in-
P*** Cent; in
memberships in the Senate on these that, while the farm ers of the South Come of $2,000 18
committees, all active and im portant were takan care of by this committee, America nothing for a married
Military Affairs, Agriculture and For- \ the Oregon and W estern farm er gen- m an or head of a family, and 2
The Pacific Market
Under the new management, this market has been
stocked up with a tempting line of
Fresh Beef, Veal, Pork
Mutton and Poultry. . . .
Hams, Bacon, Sausage, Hamburger, Wieners, etc.
Also Bread, Cookies, Pickles, Spices,
Fruits and Vegetables.
Fresh Fish Tuesdays and Fridays
Free Deliveries
We pay Cash for Veal,
9 a. m. and 3 p m.
Pork. Hides, Poultry
Phone 03 01
and Eggs