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grant « pah « imi.Y courier PAO» eight 1 OurWdshinoton Letter fl» W LÛD*l«y «ATURDAY, DRCFM1IER ««. H»»< High School News Notes II) Irene Ja> Washington. Dec. 11.—Ostensibly, iflan. is continuing his probe of congress is providing the nation with Bureau of Internal Revenue and "Who's Cm*) Now" Given llefore Report' Show More Nallies oil the a pleasant surprise. It has. to all Prohibition Unit. It is currently re IloiM» Ill'll Suaient Xsveanbly appearances, buckled down to work. ported that he was inspired by per !-ast week euded the second Secretary Mellon A very clever play was presented However, books should not be judg sonal motives. wce'.s of school mid the reports ed according to their covers. A cas and the senator had an argument before the assembly Friday after- we.e again given out. A decid'd »Vho's The skit, entitled ual survey of the first week’s doings over tax matters. The investigation noon names ap increase In the number-of would indicate that the elections had was the outcome of the disagreement ; Craay Now." was given by the toi- peering this week on the hon- McRey- a chastening effect and great things betweeu the two richest men in pub-Rowing people. Eleanore The list | nuids, Mary Day. Howard Knapp. or roll will be noticed. That lie life. could be reasonably expected Is as follows: Seniors, Milt Ur |Syd ^'oung. Howard Kunar and IX* The time of the senate'has l»een is the picture the world views today. Stanley Lawton. Donald Nel. Miss McReynolds. Behind the scenes, in official Wash- taken up with prolonged debate on Monte Seybold. Lawrence Bchagldt. Aubrey Walker. | an old maid, advertised in a maga- ington. conditions are decidedly dif the Muscle Shoals project. Several >*:llin Whorley, Syd Youug, Alleg- legislative propositions have been Line for a husband and Howard ferent. ra Ausland. Catherine Carrell, Her- answered call. Syd offered to dispose of the. property in , Knapp the It Is true that the elections that Ford. Juanita Goff. Anna Hen brought out the political trimmers. Alabama but there are no signs of Young, an escaped convict, stopped rickson. Jean Herron. Dot Lund- agreement on any plan or any like-I In and caused complications. Mary Those who strayed from the fold burg Ruth Newman. Marjorie Snl have been humbled but not entirely lihood of an early compromise, j Day. as the negro maid, was a huge 1 der. Juniors: tanern Batman. Htll subdued. In the cloak-rooms of the Though President Coolidge has indi success and Howard Rimer, as pu- Brocklcy, Harold Larson. Harold 'liceman and Monte Seybold as truck senate and house, where frank opin cated that he should favor a quick .Mansfield. Hollister Miller, Frances : man were equally as good. disposition of the "white elephaut" ions are exchanged privately, the Rahm. Helen Bunch. Bessie Falve.v, —* — subject of enforcing party regular left over from the war. the various Edna Griffin. Margaret Hammcr- ity is a favorite topic. Some honest groups of legislative agents work- 1 I». <>. Own forvi Gives Talk Hefore baeher. Alice liar* -y. Marjorie i'ai ly believe that the removal of so- ing on the matter continqe an agita- iwr, Grace Patton. Wilma Sheely, High School called "insurgents'* from majority tlon which will make settlement dif-j Ellen *Sm it h. Sophomores: tlrval ficult. posts on important committees, will | The third of the lectures provided Jass. Luther Lucas. George Perry. Congress must talk about some help the two principal parties. Oth i by the Rotary elub was given Thurs- Ixatta Burrell. Pauline Harden. Ee ers are convinced lhat the banish thing whether the subject is import day forenoon by Mr. P. O. Crawford, ther Hawkins, Katherine Howard ment of Senator LaFollette and his ant to the nation's welfare or not. It who is affiliated with the Oregon- Ivy Murphy. Geneva Oils, Olivo Ov- friends from party councils was a seems reasonable to believe at this 1 California Power company. He erton. Doris Patrick, grave political error. It is predict time that only appropriation bills spoke about choosiug engineering son. Maud Starna. Wlse ed that this public ostracism of the will be enacted at the short session for a life occupation. He told of his Freshmen: Duncan Cor. There is a like several senators and congressmen beginning March 1. Kuth past experience and it was an in- stance Baker, Beryle will pave the way for a legislative lihood that serious attention will lie spiration to the students. Farmer. Celia Frye. Julia Uigler. Dot branch rm ilX < mm iMiMiMv siiou ix<, i r rm mt < >i i i in \ i iti: i< »u< >it ic< >u < humid » crisis after the holidays. The tangle given to the MacFadden Alma He left these us high lights of Harper, Margaret Hooper. may come when votes are required banking bill as relatively little oppo his speech: Never be satisfied with Longworthy. Marie Moon, Marie to pass the various appropriation sition has developed on this propo your present position in life: build Strack. Marian Turner. Buena Weth- begin to come, they must be treat average American would starve to 'mineral wealth of the golden state. sition. bills. a broad, strong foundation, and al erbee. Lillian Williams. Cora With- ed right and welcomed, and thus death on. I In other words, those who delved Representatives of organized labor Congress has been peaceful for a ways learn the fundamentals of ev am. Julia Wright. others will follow. Such people are There are tens of thousands of Into the soil to make It produce food are working vigorously to bring week—almost too peaceful. Politi erything perfectly. Some students deserved special easily assimilable and In one gener such people In these United States ¡stuffs, have produced a greater about a rebuke to President Coolidge cal prophets say it foreshadows a mention because of exceptionally ation they will be as Ideally Ameri and they can bq secured for this re - wealth than Ihose who sought tho — • — • — for his veto of the postal salary bill snarl during the elosing hours. If high grades. The following recelv- can as any of the other native born. gion with a well-directed campaign .gold. The earn»» holds true of every at the last session. This subject Basketball Season starts with 'ludi the malcontents, and they are quite ed a grade of 93 or above In all Interest Wisconsin, with Its German and of publicity and co-operative encour-lpart of the country, We all live off more than any. other legislative meas- numerous in the present body, be their subject^: the soil, and the soil Is our most Dutch farmers, has been developed a gement. ts an unending source of bother ure come exasperated at the punishment Basketball season has started In Barbara Hoftmelster, Louise How profitable source of existence. Study Our country will produce many wealthy dairy state. Into a very concern in the senate and house meted out for their political trans and earnest, This Is the first year we ard, Russell Johnsrud, Dorothy Minnesota was developed princ Ipal- things that have never been tried the soil for more than what may he fact that the president vetoed The gressions. it is barely possible that have had a boys’ team and we are Barnes. Catherine Dabble, laiuise ly by the Scandinavians, TRe here, but wAtch ought t<> be tried- found under It, and you will dis they will seek revenge at a crucial the measure giving specific reasons erpecting great things from them. Holman. Lucian Lu- as. Vernon Trim swamps ot northern Indiana and There Is no doubt that fruit, ber- cover It contains untold wealth, for his action, brings out a delicate hour. The appropriations bills, pro The girls are showing great Inter ble. Lillian Fosbery. Virginia Held. lower Michigan were redeemed and rise an<l vegetables of every desertp gives employment to more people viding billions for the operation of situation for senators and congress est and Coach Brown has great Katheryn McVtcar. Ruth Mosher, Le- made to bloom like gardens by tlon can he grown in largo quantl- than the mines, and will help sus men who were elected in November the federal government, must be en hopes for them. ora Patton. thrifty Dutch settler* who plunged! ties, but as lumber has been one of tain more happy homes and people acted into law before March 1 when on promises to support the adminis the chief sources of weslth, not than all the El Dorados ever discov It though they are small. They wars in celery culture, making worthless the present session ends. Unless tration's legislative program. enough attention has been given ered. lands valuable, now selling for hun seems that even the minority mem laid down just before the war. The the majority can make the so-called other sources. It ■hould be a matter for coni mer- fleet Includes three small torpedo dreds ot dollars an acre. “rebels" tractable by that date, an bers are reluctant to take up the The rugged hills that are not cap- .clal clubs, chambers of commerce In Switzerland the farmer does at least until after the holi- veto, uoats and four fairly modern sub extra session will be required. And. able of cultivation ar« loaded with and other such bodies to make a marines. two launched in 1916 atid not ask about the fertility of the, the president does not favor the pro days, The postal salary bill pro mineral wealth of _____ undiscovered and real study of the productivity of the soil, but merely wants a site for his I marked increases in the pay of vides nun in 19IS. two gunboats launched posal to call another session in the undeveloped possibilities, Much of |soil and ways and menns to secure proposed farm — he will see to its j approximately 350,000 postal em- spring. in 1916 of 1,100 tons each and sev fertility. Every bench that will the lumber cut here could be turned the wealth laying at their feet. ployes averaging about $300 each. eral lesser craft. Even the 'regulars'' among the Paris, Dec. 13.—(U. P.)—A fleet hold soil Is cherished and the soil ■ Into a finished product instead of There Is room In this county for It is said that legislators from rural Republicans and Democrats are not without a flag, lying in the Port of built up as one would build a house | being shipped o»t In an unfinished five or ten thousand more people. districts who were enthusiastic sup in harmony on major tgatters. While or other structure on a plot of state. It Is an old country, and during Its porters fo the postal salary bill be Bizerte, in the northeast corner of apparently united on the proposi Length of Month Differ» ground in this country. Gold was the Incentive of many existence there have been thous fore election, are now in a quandary. Africa, may soon weigh anchor as a tion that expulsion was necessary There are three kinds of months In Such hardy and thrifty people of our first settlers' migration to ands of people coming and going. Though there has been .much talk negligible naval factor und st?am in the computation of time, The lunar for party discipline, some ill feeling to international relations, ruffling would hail this country as an ideal this state, yet there has been more Why let them go3 Keep them. Help about agricultural legislation at this but not by month Is 28 days by law, has developed because of committee session, the signs are against the the smooth waters of Euro peau actual facts. It varies, sometimes spot to build homes and farms. They | wealth taken out of the soil In the then to help themselves.—Crescent assignments and patronage. Long peace. It is the Wrangel flotilla, proposition. If congress follows the being 2t> ’ 4 days, though It may differ would make good on land that the form of farm products than all the ('By Courier. ago. a sage said that man is so con president's recommendations It must which took refuge in a southern as much as six hours In the length stituted that he detests w'hoever await the report of the recently ap French port at the time of the of time. does not resemble him, or whoever pointed agricultural commission. Wrangel debacle before the victor refuses to share his political pas Chairman Haugen, of Iowa, speak ious soviet legions. sions. Conditions have not changed. The arrival of the fleet caused ing for the house agricultural com The average legislator here today is mittee. has made clear the fact that France considerable annoyance, and fond of saying that the end justifies no drastic agrarian measures will be has been a heavy expense ever since. Great DevClopnwnt In I lie Near Fu the means. His choler rises, how presented at this session. He takes When Wrangel's men were driven to ture Is SeM Here ever, when a colleague is elevated to the position that it would be folly the sea, they boarded the boats they a higher post. It is amusing at That Del Norte county has room to attempt haphazard measures had appropriated from the estate of ' times to note a legislator struggling when a scientific body, such as the old Russia and headed for friendly ' for development goes without say between party needs and personal France had been very ing. There are thousands of unim- agricultural commission, is now at havens. gain. Yet it is an ordinary event work trying to find a way out for sympathetic with the Wrangel cause ’ proved acres in this country that which leaves its mark on law-making federal aid to farmers, Haugen was so when the troops arrived here they can be made productive and many in Washington. one of the authors of the McNary- felt quite at home and many landed 1 blades of grass be made to grow Then France was 1 where oYie grows now. We Aave a A week has passed and there is no Haugen bill which the president op and remained. evidence of the congressional inves posed at the last session. The bill faced with the problem of the alien 1 great deal of cut-over lands that are tigation mania returning to plague ultimately failed because of the un- navy, which she solved by arranging ' subject to redemption and a high the country. Only one official in economic lines upon which it was to have the crews remain aboard and state of cultivation. Jt is a natural - - ■ -, —- quiry is now on the boards. Senator drawn calling for heavy drains on take care of the ships and armament. scenic country and well adapted to But now France has recognized such use» as would make a Swiss James C'ouzens, Republican, of Mich- the public treasury. I the Russian soviet state, which mountaineer glad. claims authority over everything that There are Wonderful possibilities l*elonged to old Russia. This claim right here at home and our men of naturally includes the navy, and it affairs ought, to turn their time and is expected here that the soviets, in attention to making a study of ways adjusting differences between the and means to improve this region. two countries, will demand that the Heretofore there has been no ap •Story of the Bible, Vail Loon ..... _ ....... $3.00 ships be turned over to them. They parent effort made to secure perm Just So Stories, Kipling................ ... _...... $2.50 will probably also refuse to reim anent settlers and home builders, Etiquette, Emily Post ......... .............. .............._ $4.00 burse France for what the navy has but merely to permit people to Americanization of Edward Bok...................... $1.00 cost her, and they may even refuse come—and go. Every tfcme a man to extent amnesty to the faithful comes here he is an asset, and every Story of Mankind, Van Loon................ $2.50 crews. Under such circumstances, time one move« away the county Outline of History, Wells .... $5.00 can France in honor surrender the loses. 1 If an effort were made to The State of the Nation. Beveridge......... $3.00 ships. secure home builders Instead of Roosevelt’s Letters to His Children $1.00 Other nations are vitally concern- floaters, , the count)« would soon Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain $2 50 ed. If Russia gets the fleet she will show the result,:. Tho more real have the supremacy of the Black homo owner:; wo can secure and Huckleberry Finn, Mark Twain ............ $2.50 Sea. and also the Eastern Mediter keep, the better it will be for all A Book of Operas, Krehbiel ...... $2.50 ranean. The Greek navy is very those already here with their mon- The New Decalogue of Science, Wiggain........ $3.00 feeble, and the Turks have practic ey invested. ally no navy at all, so they naturally If our native Americans w 111 not view with alarm the idea of Russia take to the soil and hew out homes, getting these boats again. Roumania make the land smile and grow and Bulgaria are very interested, crops, then let us look to tbo kind A full line of popular Copyrights at 85 cent3 each. each thinking of their own interests of people who will—Americans of and each jealous of the probable foreign birth, who are 'ised to dig naval strength of the bolsheviks. The ging and working and developing j situation is such that old-time diplo homes -Swiss, German, Scandinavi mats are recalling the famous line an, and others who love the moun-[ I of Kipling. "There will be trouble in taitiH, vales, streams and forests, i I the spring." and know how to hew homes out of The fleet inciudes two cruisers, the primeval forests and bush. one of which, the General Alexeief, There are thousands of such already I launched In 1911, is of 23,000 tons in this country and they would come : and has some very effective arnia- here and buy lands It the informa , rnent. Thia vessel would be a for- tion were, placed before them. Cement — Doors — Sashes — Roofing Printing pamphlets and promts- I i niidable man-of-war In any Russian Flooring — Lumber — General Milling v.ater. The oilier cruiser, the Gen- euously scattering them Is not an I eral Kornilof, baa a displacement of effective method ot securing such 6,575 tons, and is over twenty years people. You will have to have an old. The auxiliary cruiser 1'Almaz organization and every mac here 214 South Sixth Street Grants Pass, Oregon displaces 3.300 tons. join In a co-operative campaign to West G Street Phone S9 There are seven destroyers, six of work for a common end for the When such people1 which are comparatively modern, al- common good. DEL NORTE COUNTY, CALIF Come io MazW Books for Gifts C. E. Rusk’s Tales of a Western Mountaineer............................. $2.50 DEMARAY’S Building Materials Three C’s Lumber Company Playthings from the World’s Shops A matchless assortment of box paper 25c Decorated China Salad Dishes 79c Big assortment of Children’s Dishes for...................................... 10c up to $2.00 Toys for every one in the family Large assortment of 28-in. Mamma Dolls $2.98 THE C. & B. ECONOMY STORE I >