THE NEWBBRQ GRAPHIC, April 13, 1911
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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
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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.
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‘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
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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-
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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!
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