'V T H E NEW BERCI ORAPHIC solemn third term pledge, and one o f the things that adds most has thbs opened the way tor the to beauty. T o be up-to-date, a belief that he will be a candidate city street must be bare and hot again lour years from now. In and shadeless. Published si Even an occasional tree on a turning against Mr. Taft, he has O n es: Graphic 1 repudiated his own former judg­ business street is held to be the I ut N.wburg, Ora*on, Xa farad ut the | ment. But he has a powerful mark o f ¿ ’village, and therefore and dynamic personality. He is a disgrace to the city’s pre­ $ 1 .5 0 Per Y ear in Advance a natural advertiser. His very tensions.—Eugene Register. for this season. You’ ll find the stock phraseology is a wonderful pub­ The Graphic respectfully com­ THURSDAY, JUNE « , 1912 mends the above for the consid­ licity getter. eration o f some o f oar home peo­ It is plain that Mr. Taft has Doubtless every printer in the and we guarantee the prices ple who seem to be siezed with a country has been thinking that not the power to get close to the 8 x 10 tents, 8 ox. with pegs $ 7 .5 0 Camp stoves.. ....... .....$ 1 .2 5 and up the “ high cost o f living” in his people. The achievements ot his desire to go forth with an axe shop has been up to the limit o f administration have been great, when they see a shade tree grow ­ Tent fly for 8 x 1 0 te n ts................... 3 .7 5 Gasoline sto v e s 3 .2 5 and up ing any where in town. Some endurance for some time, but it but they have not peen specta­ Kerosene stoves................ ..... ............ $ 3 .0 0 and up have charged that the Graphic is seems that the end is not yet, cular. Like Grover Cleveland, Look over our large lines and give us the business if we can give you the quality and price. since the Portland wholesale President Taft’s real worth will responsible for their having to We’ ll do it all the time. sweep up the fallen leaves, on ac­ houses have recently sent out be better-appreciated after the notices that ok! prices are with­ smoke o f battle has cleared count o f the agitation made by this paper in the past, encourag­ drawn and an advance is to be away. There is much truth in the ing property owners to set shade made all along the line. In­ trees about their premises. We creased costs of raw materials statements set forth in the above plead guilty to the charge and and advanced wages in the mills by the Oregon Register. History only wish that the suggestions are given as the reasons for the will put Taft down as one of the great presidents and the unwar­ we made had been more univer­ advance. ranted attacks that are being sally accepted and put into prac­ Many ot the readers of the made on him by his traducers tice. During the Lewis and Clark Graphic will be saddened by the will be forgotten. Fair and while riding over Port­ Just what the Chicago conven­ news ot the death of Prof. Chas. land on an'observation car with E. Lewis, which is .noted else­ tion will do no man can foretell, where in this issue. Prof. Lewis for everything is up in the air. It some tourists, the sight seers be­ w as one of the finest men it has is a safe guess that neither Roose­ came almost hilarious in their ever been our pleasure to know. velt nor Taft are really- at heart exclamations o f delight and ap­ He was a forceful instructor in as certain of success as their pub­ preciation when the older resi­ the school-room and the influence lished assertions would indicate. dence section o f the city was he exterted for good over the The fact that the Roosevelt reached, and they saw the fine students he came in contact with forces are catching frantically at growth ot trees and shrubbery is telling in the lives ot many to- every technical straw' regarding with the attendant cool shade dav. Had he been favored with the organization o f the conven­ that was so inviting on that Au­ good health and a strong phy tion and the seating o f delegates, gust day. They said that so many sique he would have been one o f is good prool that they regard of the cities they had visited in the West were almost barren o f trees, the big educators and strong the final outcome as doubtful. Many republicans are hoping but that Portland was more like ministers of his day. that the Taft and Roosevelt their home cities in the far East­ The minute the Albany Demo­ forces will prove to be so evenly ern section o f the United States, crat struck our table this week pitted against each other that and this seemed almost like get­ we felt sure that something out neither can be nominated, and ting back to the home land. Since nature has done eveiy- o f the ordinary had taken place that a new man may be selected in the Democrat office, and when for standard bearer who has not thing necessary to make tree the wrapper was removed and been mixed uj> in the much la­ growing easy here in the Wil­ the improved make-up and gen­ mented family row. Should this lamette valley,'no home need to eral appearance o f the paper be the result o f the convention go treeless and without shade if w as notetfour presentiment was there vyould then be some reason­ home makers will only put forth confirmed. M r. Nutting w h o able hope for uniting the party a reasonable amount o f effort to had been the editor for many for a vigorous campaign, while supply the want. ^ years, and who had a style that if either of the tw o prominent was all his own and needed no candidates should be nominated Quaint Signposts. copyright, is out o f the harness now, after so much bad blood In the neighborhood of W arm - and the Democrat is under the has been aroused, the party brunn, in the Silesian mountains, management o f Wm. H. Homi- would be handicapped from the there are to be found some very cu­ W hen y ou b u y a S tu d eb a k tf-E -M -F " 3 0 " o r S tudebaker- rious signposts. One seen by a writ­ brook. One by one the old tim start. F landers 20 y o u get m ore fo r you r m oney, dollar fo r ers in the Oregon newspaper dollar, than in a n y oth er car bu ilt. New York with her ninety un­ er in the W ide W orld represents a farm laborer sharpening his scythe, field drop out and give place to instructed delegates will be in a on which is inscribed in the old Si­ T h ere m a y b e oth er g ood cars— b u t w hat is their p r ic e ? others. When a farm changes position to g o a long way to­ lesian dialect, “ T o Giers village, one T h a t s th e rub. I f th ey really are g ood cars, th ey neces­ hands the new owner usually ward dictating a get-together hour.” The signpost is well carved sarily cost m ore because com p aratively few are bu ilt. S om e puts some money, along with a policy, and the chances are that and painted in natural colors, so p oor cars, y ou kn ow , are high priced to o , so th at th e d ea ler lot of hard work, into new im­ they will show their hand when that it appears very lifelike. A n­ can fool y ou b y cu ttin g th e price. W h at a car is rea lly other signpost in the same district provements and in clearing out the right time comes. * w orth, n ot w hat it costs, should b e you r standard. represents a schoolboy carrying a the fence corners, thus adding As for results, it looks from slate bearing the name o f the near­ T h e S tu debaker C orporation has th e largest and best value to the farm and encourag­ this distance that one man’s est village, toward which the boy is au tom obile fa ctories in th e w orld. W e cou ld bu ild and sell ing the neighbors, by example, guess may be about as good as p o in tin g .__________________ an y com petin g ca r to d a y fo r less m on ey than its present to spruce up. Similar improve­ anothers. Very Young. » price. In y ou r S tu debak er-E -M -F “ 3 0 ” or F landers “ 20” ments are usuallv made when A new member of the harbor you get fu ll value, because th e biggest factories and the newspaper plants c h a n g e in CITIES AND TREES board in a New Zealand town was best brains in th e in dustry bu ild these c a n .. ownership and so the march of attending its meetings for the first It is indeed strange, how, at tim e, ana the board was discussing progress steadily goes forward Success to the Democrat under this day and age o f advanced a proposal to place two buoys at the building o f cities beautiful and entrance to the harbor. “ I beg to the new management. the constant advocacy o f civic propose an amendment,” said the new mem ber, “ that one man should PERSONALITY IN POLITICS beauty by various clubs, that be placed there instead of two boys, stately trees o f fifty to one hun as the latter are too young for such dred years Old are allowed to be responsible position!” The result o f the New Jersey primaries is but another p roof o f torn from the residence section ot H is Old Hums. , a tact that has already been well any tow n laying claim to either “ N ow that you are fam ous, Mg, established. President Taft is pride or sense o f beauty. No one R im er, we propose io place a tablet not popular with the masses o f thing adds more to the beauty on your form er home in this city.” “ W ell ?” the people. This has been reit­ o f a tow n nor elicits more favor “ W hat would you wish us to erated in state after state where able comment by the prospective y r primaries have been held. Even newcomer to a place than an Our New Art Catalogue Will Interest You—Send tor It “ Y ou m ight say that I was evict­ in Ohio, his own state, the pop­ abundance o f shade trees in the ed fo r nonpayment o f rent,” replied tow n’s residence districts. The the somewhat im bittered poet,— ular vote went against him. During the four years that he intrinsic value of one or more W ashington Herald. Detroit, Michigan has been in the White House, graceful shade types half a cen­ Russia's Rsyal Train, Taft has shown that he is really tury old on a residence lot is al­ The Russian royal special train exactly the kind of public man most incalculable, while the com­ is the heaviest and the m ost luxu­ the American people think they fort and beauty which they add rious in Europe. When it was con­ N. E. Corner First and Washington Sts. Phone Black 2 4 admire. He has played no poli­ to the home are likewise inesti­ structed it was devised to stand a charge of dynam ite, and it cannot tics to secure a second term. He mable.—Albany Herald. It is indeed a pity that there be taken fast over most o f the Eu­ has carried out the politics ot his A Wall Br*d Customer. “ B at” — began his wife. In the old days, when every man ropean lines because their rails are party calmly and judicially, with­ are people in the world who look too light. T he train contains a In the privacy of his home the “ They ehoufd be exact,” protested who had any pretensions to being e out regard to the possible effect upon a tree as merely food for chapel, a library, bathrooms, draw­ village batcher was tellin g his wife the man. “ I can’t for the life o f me gentlem an carried a sword, it was upon his own political fortunes. the axe and the fire. The manner ing room , dining room and bed­ o f the arrival o f a new resident. see why they shouldn’t say seventy- the custom for men when they met “ She came in today,” he eaid, two m illion and one. I f one’s true, to show that they had no intention He has proved that he is not a of thinking of the early pioneers, rooms. The servants’ quarters are with enthusiasm , “ and I can tell sail-trimming politician. to w hom a tree was an impedi­ at the rear and consist simply of an '