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TBUB8DAY, DECEMBER 19, 1918,
It your subscription expires with
Che clone of the year it will be well
do renew at once and thus avoid
missing any copies.
Speaking of war relics, returning
soldiers will bear in mind that the
borne folks will be fairly well sails'
fled with an off hand description
o f the cooties.
"Be Sorry for the Boys a Bit" is
the title of a poenf from the pen of
W a Wheeler Wilcox which we
atom place to this week. It will
bear a careful reading by mothers
Stridently conditions in Portland
are getting back to "normal" again
since the signing of the armistice.
The usual number of burglaries and
housebreakings are now being not-
« 1 in the city papers.
While the war lasted longer than
snoot people thought it would, the
fellows who had "Inside informa
tion" and who asserted and re-as-
narted that it was likely to extend
over a period of six to tea years
proved to be the poorest guossera of
There is said to be a Jewish tra
dition that the only effective rem
edy for a plague is to hold a mar
riage ceremony in a cemetery.
Where is the Newberg couple to try
« u t this cheery proposition on the
flu ?
For years the idea prevailed in
th is country that one’s education
w as not quite complete until a few
months at least were spent in Ger
many. A number of our fellows
have recently taken up advanced
work over there and appear to be
good.
while
the
amount ’ly" the citlsens of LaPayette "de
sire and expect" the paving to come
bring pleasure for the time only
their way. and a very Interesting
scrap over the matter is to be ex
Does the flu bug select its vic pected. A paved highway is an **-(
tims at random by chance shots or set that is well worth striving for
does it carefully avoid the unafraid and with a little further extension
and happy-go-lucky
individuals ? of the system it will be hard to lo
This question was prompted on cate the fellows, who, with voice and
Monday afternoon when a thick, icy pen. fought the six million dollar
cold fog had obscured the sun's rays bonding bill two years ago. Even
all day long, thus adding to the Barnntt Y. Roe. who in Demos
discomforts of the increasing list of thenic and Ciceronian thundering
flu victims, and when a well de tones denounced the proposition in
veloped girl of high school age an argument held at Duncan’s hall
tripped along the street clad in a in Newberg during the campaign,
low necked, thin silk dress without has driven his new Chevrolet over
hat or wrap of any kind, and the paved road to Portland and out
boarded the train as chipper as a over the Columbia Highway and is
cricket on a balmy afternoon in the loud in his praises of the work and
says everybody sbould take their
month of June.
visiting friends for a ride over the
Verily, war In wreaking ven magnificent drive.*.
geance on the enemy is no res pec tor
of persons.
Joyce Kilmer, who
It seems that Senator Vinton’s
wrote the following lines, was killed proposition to plaqe a tax of a cent
in action in Prance, August 1:
a gallon on gasoline used by motor
vehicles is a fair proposition. Ev
I think that 1 shall never see
erybody wants good roads and this
A poem lovely as a tree.
is especially true of automobile and
A tree whose hungry -mouth is truck owners. It takes money and
pressed
lots of it to build roads that will
Against the earth’s sweet flowing stand the traffic these days but It
7 breast.
is S splendid investment if the
money is wisely expended.
With
A tree that looks to Qod all day
the tax as proposed the man who
And lifts her leafy arms to play:
does little driving over the roads
A tree that may in summer wear
will pay a nominal amount during
A nest of robins in*her hair;
the year, while those who are con
Upon whose bosom snow has lain; stantly pounding over the roads
Who Intimately lives with the rain. will pay more, and thlg. is as it
Poems are made by fools like me, should be for they wear out the
roads to a much greater extent than
But only God can make a tree.
do the moderate drivers.
Thoee
The dates for the other numbers who have access to paved roads,
of the lyceum have not been fixed, such as we have between Newberg
as lyceum bureaus are all "up in and Portland' aifd up the Columbia.
the air," owing to? the flu that Is River, will save enough In the wear
prevalent all over the country and and tsar of their machines in one
which knocks out all man-made ar season to make It easy for them to
rangements for public gatherings. pay an extra tax and such roads are
The Ellison-White burepu Is furn going to be demanded for the main
However, the
ishing bed and board for a lot of arteries of travel.
lyceum people who are held up in people must understand that It
Portland' and the heavy cost entail costs money to build such roads and
ed scatters into thin air all visions if they demand this class of work
of profit for the year. To add to they must make up their minds to
the
necessary
pressure.
their grief, Mr. Ellison, who went stand
to Australia some months ago to Paved roads don’t come by chanced
superintend their Chautauqua and It takes money to "grease the
lyceum work which they started in skids."
that far away clime this season,
has been held tip in quarantine for BERNSTORFF AND THE AMERI
several weeks on account of the flu
CAN PRESS
and doubtless he Is fully persuaded
’ere this that the flu "bug is not to
Ambassador Bernstorff paid dear
be sneezed at.
ly for a bit of knowledge he could
Where is the man of a more
magnanimous and forgiving spirit
th a n the local newspaper publisher
w h o cheerfully capitulates when he
A soldier stationed at Vancouver
I s requested to say some nice things in discussing the cigarette question
About the late lamented and highly in the columns of the Oregonian
esteemed fellow eitizen, who, when says: “Six months afeo when I en
la good health, persistently turned listed I wondered what kind of a
a deaf ear to all appeals made to soldier I would make if I didn’t
Aim to pay up his delinquent sub- j smoke. I was willing to be con
scription account.
vlnced and ready to take my first
smoke if anyone would offer a good
In Germany, when the price of reason why I should start. To my
mews paper rose to six cents a pound surprise. I didn't find anyone who
tk* government made an allotment would even offer me a cigarette the
ot print paper to the publishers second time. Every fellow wished
mad also gave assistance to the he was as lucky and had never
newspapers by bearing part of t).e started himself.
I have asked a
advanced price.
In this country thousand or more men during my
when the price of paper went to time here what they think about
*ix and three-quarter cents the smoking, and have the first one to
government increased the p «tags find who doesn’t say he wished he
on newspapers and asked for more had never started. When fellows
.free publicity.
who have tried tobacco for a num
ber of years say they would be bet
Here are some figures to ponder ter off without it can we blame a
«over. The cost of the war to all university president for suggesting
belligerents up To January 1. 1919. at a public meeting that “those who
is estimated by the Federal Reserve want tobacco should be expected to
Beard at two hundred billion dol buy It themselves?”
ta il
Deaths from starvation in
Europe since the war began were
-Practically all the men who are
4,750.000, as compared with 4,250 - in the army were busy when they
4190 killed in battle. No figures aie entered the, service, and if business
a t hand to Indies*« the number who activities resume normal conditions
must go through life maimed as a we see no reason why the returning
result of the war
soldiers may not be easily absorbed
with the hum of industry that must
Of the many suggestions made re come with the progress of the coun
garding a fitting memorial for Ore try that is naturally to be expected.
gon soldiers, the one fty building a Those who have been farmers will
highway encircling Mount Hood ap naturally go back to the farm and
peals to us most.
Such a road others will return, very largely, to
would be easily accessible from the the avocations to which they were
Columbia Highway «and the two accustomed before entering the ser
Many who were students
combined would make a scenic vice.
drive that could hardly be equaled should, and no doubt will repume
In the world. Mount Hood is the their studies and complete their
Logged-off
pride of Oregon and such a road courses In college.
would make it comparatively easy lands, swamp land and irrigation
for visitors in the state to see the projects which are being discussed
grand old mountain peak at close in connection with the problem of
finding satisfactory employment for
range.
the returning soldiers we think will
The Graphic is not read as widely not avail very much.
With the
a s ths Oregonian but copies travel usual cutting of government red
la many directions regularly, reach tape the boys will be pretty well
ing subscribers In Canada, England "absorbed” before said wheels be
smd France, and even invading gin to turn. This is our guess.
China. Recently a resident of Chi
cago wrote that he had read one of
In commenting on the proposed
She Major Clark letters in the paving of the road from Newberg
Graphic and asked to have a copy to (be Junction of the LaFayette
rant skiing another one of the letters' and Dayton roads near the North
sent to bis address. This week a Dayton Southern Pacific Railroad
lady sent In for extra copies, saying station the coming season, the Day-
she wanted to send papers to Can Loa Tribune eaye: "Obviously our
ada and Scotland. In this coaaec- peoale desire and expect the com-
tlon It may not be amine to say tkatUleUon of the road to McMinnville
a couple of dollars Invested in a by Dayton In the near future,” but
year’s subscription will make a very adds this:
"County Commissioner
acceptable holiday present for a Allan Informed ane of our citlsens
friend. Fifty-two times daring the a few days ago that the route from
year will your token of friendship the Junction to McMtaavIlle had
he recalled by the friend yon thus aot yet beea ■elected." "Obvious-
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C A S H P A ID F O R E G G S
have had gratis from any well-in
formed American editor or publish
er. says the Spokesman-Review. WHISTLE TOO BIG FOR ENGINE
"The fact of an American, newspa
per being subsidized can never be
The passenger train from La
kept secret," he told Berlin in one
Grande
arrives late every day. to
of his letters which fell into the
the
inconvenience
and annoyance of
hands of our government.
The readon is apparent. It is im many patrons. Travelers gather at
possible for a newspaper to have a the station and wait and wait, lis
concealed policy. All its thoughts tening for the whistle of the engine.
and actions stand out in the clear When this is heard they go to the
gaze of public scrutiny. The Amer platform, expecting to see the train
ican people are the most intelligent any moment, but often half an hour
and analytical newspaper readers in will pass before It rounds the curve
the world and are quick to detect a below town and comes puffing in.
newspaper’s deviation from the What happens between the time
public service to ulterior manipula the whistle is first heard and the
tion. A newspaper that sells Itself time the train gladdens the eye of
to the railroads or any other pow the waiter, remains a mystery. It
erful special interest soon betrays is a cause of much speculation and
its slavery. A newspaper fed on many Jokes have been cracked over
brewery subsidies is required to the slow and uncertain train. A
earn them and the public soon sees man at the station the other day
where Its editorial policy is head
ing. In the same way the public
noon drew a correct conclusion from
the pro-German propaganda of the -
few obscure or uninfluential sheets |
which the German ambassador was j
able to buy or subsidize.
Bewailing his Inability to hire
decent newspaper men to carry on
his propaganda^ Bernstorff frankly
told Berlin that "It Is particularly
difficult to find suitable persons for
help of this sort, and to this, as well
as the Lusitania case, we may at-
tribute the shipwreck of the Ger
man propaganda initiated by Herr
Dernberg.”
A newspaper must, of necessity,
’ BREAK UP A C0LB M A DAY
"wear its heart upon its sleeve."
Its duty and allegiance, of course,
are to the public, and it is an utter
impossibility for it to serve two
masters.. Moreover, the public is
Thu Loading
not long In finding out what mas
ter It Is serving.
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proposed a remedy. "They ought
DEAD COW 8TTLL USEFUL
to Jack up the whistle." he said,
"and put a bigger engine under It.
There’s no such thing as waste in
The whistle is all right, but It's too
Germany. A cow which died of con
big for the engine."— Enterprise
tagious disease, says the Ochsenfort
Chieftain.
(Bavaria) Journal, was ordered to
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be burned in the retort of the local
NOTICE TO MEMBERS OF
gas works. It was calculated that
MINNESOTA ASSOCIATION some 79 cubic metres of gas was
generated as a result.
On account of t h e ' epidemic the
date of the annual meeting of the
Subscribe now for the Newberf
Association has been changed from
January 1, to January 31. By or Graphic.
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