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THE NEWBBRQ GRAPHIC, April 13, 1911 4 The philosopher, who said that “one of the greatest accom plishments is to be a good listen er” w as of course addressing himselt to the men folks. N ew b erg G raph ic N. W O O D W A R D Editor aud Publisher Published every Thursday montine : Graphic Bulldlnc. Mo. « 0 P in t Street Editor F. M. Brown has been elected mayor of Brownsville: Certainly he has not been in the newspaper business in that city many moons, else he would never have received a majority of the votes in a municipal elec tion. , I ot the poeto A re at Neeberg. Oregon, $1.50 P er Y e ar in Advance The calendar man evidently got a little mixed in fixing the proper positions o f March and April for 1911, if consistency is to be taken into consideration. L. W . Charles, better known about Newberg as “ W ood,” is now editor and manager of the Silver Lake Leader, which is owned by The Lake County Publishing Company. Success to him in the new role. Forest Grove w as the first city in Washington county ten years ago in point of population, bat the census taken last year rele gates the Grove to second place. Hillsboro has 2016, whife Forest Grove has only 1772 people. So says the Independent. Evidently there is something doing in Coos connty. T h e Myrtle Point Enterprise says: “The proposition o f bonding the connty tor the sum of about a million dollars for the purpose of building good and permanent roads is taking form.” Hunnewell, Kansas, has a new mayor and a new chief of police, both of whom are women, and they are starting in for a munic ipal house cleaning. Women, you know are accustomed to do ing house cleaning at this season of the year, and they don’t get tired out at it nearly as soon as the men folks either. Keep your eye on Hunnewell. Tom L. Johnson died at his home in Cleveland, Ohio last Monday at the age of 57 years. Twice he w as elected to Con gress and four terms he served Cleveland as mayor, but by the average citizen Mr. Johnson will be remembered longest as the man who made a long and brave fight for a three cent street car fare. The public almost univers ally believed in the honesty of purpose of Johnson whether they agreed with him or not. While in Los Angeles, March 28, the editor of the Graphic at tended the opening game of ball for the season and did his best to start the Beavers off well, but alas, and alack, they seem t o have been on the w ay to the cellar ever since. We shall hope for better results when the boys come north, but it is evident that McCredie will do well to be looking out for another Gregg if he hopes to keep near the top of D. C. Ashman has bought the the column during the season. Dayton Optimist plant ot B. L. The Graphic plant and all Barry and has began the publi other property held by the cation of the Dayton Tribune. The Optimist has been in the de proprietor is taxed to help keep funct state for many moons, up the state schools at Corvallis Dayton in the meantime being and Eugene, and consequently without a newspaper. M r. Ash- we are unable to see any good tnnn says he is there “to stay”— reason why we should be ex we have seen the same in print pected to give free publication to before— and we hope Dayton will the numerous bulletins and other make it possible for him to do so. advertising matter sent out by these institutions. Ot course the = = = = = = = The Washington County News men in charge know the value of says “ there is more building now advertising in the local papers in progress in Forest Grove than and they are going to get just as in any other town of its size in much free advertising as the the state.” Well Newberg is not newspapers will give them, but “ of its size,” the census returns there is a limit to “human endur showing that we have the Grove ance” and we think it is likely to beaten by close to 500, and con be reached in the near future. sequently the Graphic will not The fact is in these “last days” enter into a discussion of the every mail brings to this office building question, but we respect one or more requests for free no fully invite the News man to tice ot various promotion and ed look in and see what Newberg is ucational propositions, with the doing in the w ay of building accompanying words of explana anyway. tion, “you will understand, o f course, that this is not paid mat Editors of newspapers receive ter as its publication is not requests for all sorts of informa authorized nor provided for by tion, and as a rule, by the aid of appropriation.” When the paper their office files, a dictionary, and houses conclude to furnish print one of Uncle Joe Pulitzer’s al- paper free and the people who manaces, they are able to “ make set the type arrange to support good” to the inquirer. But the themselves without a salary, we Albany Democrat man got his can arrange, possibly, to give the other day when a lady read space for a larger per cent of this er phoned in for a pattern of a matter, and we are assured in harem skirt. When the copy boy advance that “ the courtesy will entered the front office a few be appreciated,” but under exist minutes later, he found Editor ing circumstances at present, the Nutting lying on the floor, bab waste basket must take care of bling incoherently, and picking the greater part of this class of at the fringe on a $500 Turkish “copy.” rug.—Polk Co. Observer. Explorers going out in search of the South Pole are unable to get front page notice in the big dailies,, which indicates a big slump in prices for “ Pole” news matter since a year ago. The Globe Democrat suggests that “South Pole explorers should be careful to bring back something different from short and ngly words. The frozen truth is much to be preferred.” Geo. C. Brownell, of Oregon City, is doing his part to sup port the dairy industry of the state by importing and breed ing Toggenburg goats. He now has six head of this breed and is very much pleased with them. Their milk is used in the family with entire satisfaction, being rich, easily digested and of fine flavor.—Rural Spirit. Doubtless George C. is thriv ing on goats milk better than he did doing Oregon politics at Salem during the various ses sions of the legislature, in the days gone by, for he always as serted that playing politics was a losing game for him. standing on a level with the larg er ones. There were then no labor troubles, the poor were more re-! spected and the rich less toadied to than now. Every American heiress w as not seeking a titled husband, divorces were not con sidered quite as favorably then as now, marriages were happier, people were pore healthful, com munities more peaceful, society considered from a more sensible standpoint—character standing above cash. The editor of The Optimist is not a nonogenarian, not an octo genarian, not even a septuagen arian—but he will enter the latter list if he lives about four years more. So we have a pretty good idea of affairs as obtaining in this country since the latter 50s, and can remember many events pening along about 1855. We were only a tanners’ boy, living, however in close touch with the great city Of the coun try, New York, which we often visited. So it may be said that our "bringing up” w as in such an atmosphere as to give us a fair idea of conditions in both city and country. And first let us say that the same cry of “ the good old times w as just as prevalent when we were fifteen years old as it is now, and just as truthful, ac cording to our w ay of thinking. A n opportunity to get a limited num ber of pieces of Imported Saxony T ablew are at cost. SATURDAY ONLY Plate and Butter ‘T H E GOOD OLD TIMES. The Dalles Optimist s a ys : H o w often we hear people speak of “ the good old times,” or “ the good old days,” before the high cost of living cut any figure, when there were *0 many op portunities that it w as difficult to select from the best among them, when in every walk and every vocation any man of good habits and industry could soon Obtain »competency. There were no trusts then, no plutocrats, no great aggrega tions and consolidations of busi ness interests, the small dealers 37c & ¿3. j/ferchant ¿hardware then as now, and very shortly Other charcoal burners were in the field and the business was soon overdone, so that there was no money in it. One of the earliest recollections is the hearing of this man ex plaining to one of his sons the difference between “the good old times” and the then present Let us cite an instance; a near days. “ M y son,” he said, in relative of ours had amassed a effect,” the times when any man fortune along in the late 40s and of ability and integrity can ac early 50s by buying up some cumulate a fortune are swiftly cheap timbered land near New passing away. Competition is York and burning the wood into getting keener every day. The charcoal, which w as hauled to man, even the man o f moderate the Hudson river, fifteen miles means has no longer much distant, and then shipped by chance. The rich are crowding barge to the city, teams enoughUfee poor to the wall. If things being employed to load a barge go on in this w ay for a few years to its capacity in from one to longer I do not know what will tw o days. The freight was thus become of us as a people or a a very small item, and the ship country.” per could thus undersell his com The trouble was he could not petitors. Aside from that the See beyond the charcoal pits. It man in question put his output is a fact that this man owned up in barrels, which w as an in over a thousand acres of as fine novation, and the result was meadow, pasture and woodland that he soon amassed a consider as there is in the country, that able fortune. one of his sons later amassed a But competition w as as keenI large fortune by making and sell- Five Passenger Touring Car - ing hoopoles from only a small portion of it, and later several fortunes were made from it in the dairy business, and that every acre of that land, aside from the timbered portions, is worth lour or five hundred dol lars. “ The good old days?” The best of all days is today, the best of all times the present. There never w as a time in the history of the world when the man or woman of intelligence, integrity and industry could accomplish more than right now. But you can accomplish nothing by whin ing and growling and sniveling about thè times that are passed. The water that has flowed over the wheel will never grind again. You must be up and doing, with a clear head, a clean heart- is going a little too strong; but it is a certainty that if every human being in the country above childhood could be kqpt busy at some useful occupation for the next five years we would be mighty close to the millenium, and the nearest to à Nation without sin or poverty that will ever be approached. And there would be no further talk of “the good old days,” but great expectations and hopes for the better days to come. PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH Easter services will be held next Sunday morning. An ad dress to thecbildren will be given by the pastor. At 4 o’clock Stainer’s sacred cantata “ The Crucifixion” will be rendered by the combined choirs of the Friends You may take the dictionary and Presbyterian churches under and from it glean the name of the direction of M r. Edward every sin known to humanity— Dunbar. every one, every single one; and then we will sum them all up in T w o cows cuirelled on section one word—idleness! 3 t. p. 3 s. r. g. 3 w. Owner And we can almost say that please call and pay costs and every known v i r t u e comes damages. Phone 19a5. through industry. Perhaps that H. L. A m o t h . FLANDERS “20” A Written Guarantee Goes Investigate the “FLANDERS” before buying any other car S O L D ON ITS M ER ITS JOHN N. CROSBY & Garage and Auto Livery Phone, black 24, First Street co.
