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any language.
The regular army cailed nt the Graphic office aad la
never enlisted Illiterates, hut the the oourse of a pleaaaat conversa­
Draft Act brought Into the army tion she told of her eon who sms
B. M. W O O D W A R P
approximately 36.000 Illiterates and Just getting started In the world.
M l tor tod I
ns many more who were almost Il­ : When in high school he was a dil­
literate.
These soldiers could not igent student and n lender 4n ath­
sign their names. They could not letics. no team In the school being
Mo. SIS V in t
They considered well equipped that did
assidane#, mss «7 read the manual o f arms.
could not read their letters or write not hare him aa its lenderv But I
. fore he finished the course he re-
» st Mswbstt. Oreeoo, home. They could not read their
«tally orders posted on bulletin 1 ceived nn injury in a motorcycle ac­
boar4i In camp.
They could not cident that unfitted him for athletics
understand
signals
la
time of battle. 'and he branched o ff into a commer
$2.00 Por Y ear in Advance
The economic loss through illiteracy cial course, putting the seme push
is estimated at 6836,000.000 a year, Into his work that he had put Into
THURSDAY. JANUARY 16, 1919,
on the conservative assumption athletics. On completing-the course
that the productive labor value of ( he secured a position in one o f the'
The Hollanders appear to want
an Illiterate is leu by only SO cents departments in Washington, D. C.
somebody to tell them what to do
a day than that of an educated her­ A little later he answered an ad­
w ith "Th e Man Without n Country,
eon. Ten per cent o f our country vertisement of a firm that wanted a
who is Imposing himself on them.
folk cannot read or write a word. stenographer and typist, entered the
In view o f these facts. Secretary trial teet that was required and was
The wastefulness o f war Is indi­ Lane urges an appropriation for a later asked to call at the office,
cated by the statement that the systematic campaign to eradicate which he did, when he faced Andrew
Carnegie who told him his tsst was
government has an hand as a real adult Illiteracy.
most satisfactory; that he would
due of war activities whole train
loads o f discarded Rrpewriters.
It must hare been a glad day for given a trial and that if his
the prohibition war horse, W. P. in the office was of as high a
as he showed in the test he
The Albany. New York, Journal Elmore, of Brownsville, Linn coun­
have work there as long as ke
well nays that the people w ill ty, when he was privileged to father
wanted to remain.
the
resolution
In
the
■
legislature,
have learned a valuable leeaon
Then Mr. Carnegie said. “ Young
they have always la mind the Tuesday, ratifying the Federal pro­
man,
I want to say for your encour­
they must provide the hibition amaadement to the consti­
agement
that it was not alone on
And in the Senate there
they want the govern tution.
the
ability
you showed In your tent
was B. L. Eddy, of Douglas county,
to spend.
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that
you
were
chosen. The stability
formerly from Tillamook, who In­
TO SSSSSSSSB SSSSSSSSSSS
troduced and backed up the resolu­ o f character you showed when la
Oregon la the tklrty-1
tion there. , Neither is he in the high school had much to do with
n O tfy the prohibition
Jn surprise the young mi
class o f “ death-bed repentance” pro­ it.”
<e the
naked
Mr. Carnegie how he came to
hibition workers who now want the
urn more state
world to know that they are on the know about him, when he was In­
i t affective an«
water wagon,
Both these man formed that his record had ho
d ry w e ll was abend of
have been hammering the saloon li­ looked up and that it was learned
cense stigma these many years and that he was not only active and en­
The Influent* situation la Now­
have reason to he glad tha( ergetic but that he had led a ele<
here >a greatly Improved, no new
have been privileged to live to life; he did not smoke cigarettes or
cases having developed for several
such a change in sentiment on gamble or take on any of the other
d m , and i f people w ill exercise
question, not only In Oregon, vices young men are subjected to,
proper ears it no doubt can he kept hut throughout the whole country. when he was doing high school
work In his home town back in
under good control In the future.
Indiana.
Apparently the problem o f fur­
I f only more* hoys and young
Three PBasenger Open Model H-Slx-44 - $ 1695
Evidently the fellow who designed nishing work for returned soldiers
the cap that Is being worn by the ie not worrying Kansas, for at n men would stop and think and de­
jFive Passenger Open Model H-Six-45 -
1695
hoys who ate returning from across conference o f farm bureau officers cide to lay well the foundation nt
Four Passenger Closed Model H-Six-44 - 2185
th e sea was recruited froSn the and county commissioners recently the outset.
It pays to he a Seth Thomas.
«auks o f the designers of women’s held at Manhattan the committee
Five Passenger Closed Model H-Slx-47 -
2395
millinery, where one's proficiency on re-cdhstructlon offered the fol­
Is measured by his ability to create lowing resolution:
Seven Passenger Open Model H-Six-49 -
1985
N E W SPA PE R COMMENT
“ W e respect­
■“ something different.”
fully request the Secretary of W ar
Seven Passenger Cloeed Model H-Six-M
2785
When a man’s neighbors
w d the Provost Marshal General to
n “ gentleman farmer*’ It ________ _
In the course o f time fashions for adopt some such plan as will return
means that he Is not much
they
left
U U U IU O
I U C /
I C l 6,
«lothas that were once just the thiag the soldiers to the homes
farmer.
But when they speak
In
hut later discarded, are again at the earliest possible date.
him ns "a farmer aad n geatlema
udopted, and it looks now. with K ansas there has been sown to
Pioneer Builders of Vahre-in-Head Motor Can
it generally means that he la excel­
w o men's gowns being shortened at wheat this fall a record acreage,
lent in *
“ *
1 m th ends, like the style worn by amounting to possibly more than
PRICES F. O . B. NEW BERG
terion.
Mother Bve might be closely Imitat­ 10,000,000 acres, with a crop pros­
pect. which. If realised, w ill require
ed by the close of the season.
In Oregon 33 new laws are da-}
an army of workers to harvest next
year. The demands o f the farm for manded by labor organisations of
It was more than forty years ago
special benefit to organised labor,
labor in the early spring for prepa­
«h at Benj. F. Taylor wrote that ln-
but most o f them w ill fall upon
ration and planting the spring
Hiar eat tag book entitled “ The World
the tax payer with increasing ex­
crops is also great, and tn no other
•on Wheels,” and he had not seen
pense to meet and many new offices. things that Germany has accom­ occupation but at. the last minute NKW YORK’S ANTI-COLLAR CLUB
way can the situation so well be
o f those monster motor moving
Among these are bakery inspectors, plished for the world, its contribu­ the orders were changed and the
met as through the demobilisation
that now travel over our high­
boiler Inspectors, food inspectors, tions to art. literature, music and Third y o ix corps sent Instead.
A lawyer of Now 'Y o rk
of our soldiers and sailors in the
ways, heaped skyward with every
paint inspectors, creating safety science, when one thinks of what
Leighton
Frooks has organised nn
This
Is
a
city
o
f
about
6.0«0
in­
manner suggested.”
conceivable thing that can be pried
first officers for all corporations, Germany might have done for the habitants and ia about 160 miles Anti-collar league, to rriiovo man-
l oose about n homestead, ranging
etc. The demand for class legisla­ world, but for her false leaders, one from Paris.
The people here all j kind and to help to win tbs war, an
from a bird cage to a steam engine. L A Y IN G W E L L T H E FO UNDATIO N tion Is on the increase and the of­ feels like echoing Capt. Philip at seem to be very nice and o f a better
exchange says. W earing collars, ho
fice-bolding class and organisations Santiago;
“ Don’t cheer, boys, the class than we have been used to tolls ns, is undoubtedly detrimental
Once upon a time when the folks of all kinds are the most fruitful poor devils are dying.” Under our during the past two moaths.
Early in the war one of our sub-
to health, preventing (too movement
were going away from home they source o f legislation, producing a very eyes la dying the greatest of
Hadn’t had any mall for a long
•se ribera o f German birth who wi
o
f the neck muscles aad the flow of
Legislators, modern empires, in some respects time until today when I received
telling of the excellent qualities of gave the solemn .warning to the never-ending stream.
the blood. Few men do net wish nt
Kaiser Wilhelm, asserted with ea children that whatever else they watch your step.— Telephone-Reg­ the greatest nation o f our times. thirteen letters and it kept me
some
time or other that collars ware
ister.
dtd.
they
must
not
meddle
with
the
May it, ha the last of the empires! j pretty busy trying to find time
'thuaUsm that he was n man for the
never
invented. Approximately, 1 r
clock.
This
of
course
aroused
our
enough
to
read
them
all.
And
out
o
f
Its
bitter
anguish
and
■people. Evidently the Kaiser stood
McAdoo
wants
the
railroads travail may there arise In the future
I am feeling pretty good only for America, 115,000 man and 100,000
¡for "w e. the people." since his for­ curiosity and those who gave the
Well, who withtmt foreign interference, a new, a bad cold and there Is no chance women are engaged in m aking "this
tune at the beginning of the war Is admonition were hardly out of sight kept out of polities.
put
’em
in.
and
who
ia
using
every an honest, aad a glorious democratic, of getting rid o f it at present for It suffocating harness and nmieanoe for
before
there
was
tiptoiag
on
n
chair
to have footed np the neat little
effort
to
keep
’em
there
by
retain­
in
front
of
the
mantel
where
the
been raining nearly all the our throats.” Thousands more are
State to help point the way toward
o f ffS.000.000.
family clock had tiek-toeked the ing government control. In direct the goal of all mankind, liberty, time since we arrived here.
engaged in washing end ironing
violation of all promises and assur­ fraternity, eqaallty!— The Nation.
time away for many long years.
Cannot, say when we are going them. Valuable time, too, ia used
Valley Canning Co. Is show-
It was a very long mantel for It ances when they were taken over?
to get to come home but the quicker in making the button-holes in shirts
faith in Newberg by beginning was placed over one of those open
Looks like McAd«M to us. He says
The annual Chautauqua o f naxt It comes, the more pleased I shall be. to which the collar ia attached, and
on an extension o f the plant fire places that were built when It only cost the governident $136,-
No more for the present as you
summer should be a successful one.
in the way of s concrete building Indiana forests were being cleared 000,000 more to run them a year
thousands art making eollar buttons,
Ws would like, however, to make a know I have all those lectors to
199x133 feet with basement 76x100 of great oak, walnut and hickory than it did the cmpanles. Such a
which labor would bo more usefully
ggestion to those who have the answer. With my best wishes for a
•set, which will add some 23,000 trees, and plenty of space, some six triflin g sum o f course does not
utilised
in a collarless country. M r.
Chautauqua In charge. Take It for Merry Christmas and a Happy New
feet o f floor sp«me to the plant to eight feet, was allowed for roll­ amount to much, but Me forgot to
Brooks
also
says, “ N o author over
Year
to
both
yourself
and
Mr.
what It Is worth. When you start
which already covers a surprising ing In the “ hack logs” that were figure in the many millions o f taxes
W ith love wrote anything worth reading with a
to sell settson tickets refrain from Thorne I shall close.
amount of ground. Mr. Rupert, the always required for "throwing out not paid under government control,
eollar on,” and he believe« President
any spirit o f bagging, n character­ and kisses, your son,
manager, has repeatedly .told our the heat.” But those old time fire but which the companies would have
.
Fred W. Keyes.
istic o f some of the Chmutouquas of
W ilson always remoras his collar
people that his company stood ready
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places and the muscle that was re­ had to dig up. Government control the past.
Just offer the tickets
“when penning his grant messages.”
to build just ss large s plant here
quired to feed them during the long of railroad, telephone and telegraph with n statement of what their pos- —
M AR RIAGE U C 1M 8E 8
— And Edison has to take off his collar
as the people will Indicate by their
tines, with their millions of employ­
winters Is another story.
»sion means. We haven’t seen a
baton he can invent anything.
patronage they want. Nothing fair­
The clock was opened snd behold, ees, would result In the building o f Chautauqua season ticket that was
Elisabeth Ann Hurner, Catlton,
er can be asked for and It Is up to
with the tingling of the spiral an invincible political machine. Just not worth twice the price asked. to Erdest Arthur Biens, Platt Co.,
the people of the community to give
spring that was colled around the drop McAdoo and Burleson out of But a kind of psychological blunder­ Nebraska.
liberal patronage to this growing
striking bell, sweet .toned music, the politics, see that promises made the ing has had an effect to hurt Chau­
Jennie Vera Slneox, Amity to
home institution. Many more acres
first music we ever heard, filled the companies are kept, and there will tauqua.
Heretofore the purchaser William Martin Richter, Amity.
o f berries are wanted and any who
room.
It was wonderful and the be no need to worry.— Jefferson has been made to feel that he was
Luslla Ruth Bower, Amity, to
may be Interested will find the com-
pa«s letter last
spring was touched again and Review.
giving something, making a sacri­ Christopher Lawrence, Amity.
ly ready to lend full encourage-
Oda Opal Buell, Sheridan, to Murl niobi"
again.
fice. Let him feel, instead, that he
■ "M ssSsS
a
it to liberal planting.
On further investigation n faded
Liquor men declare that an is getting his full money's worth Alba Dickey. Sheridan.
sh r
printed label was discovered giving amount o f more than 5 billions of and more. In other words, remove
Mary Elisabeth Stator, McMinn­
Ralph Marls, of Portland, who the maker’s name— “ Seth Thomas, dollars has been paid to the federal from Chautauqua all Ideas of ehar- ville. to Van- Bryan Ssnrs.’ McMinn­
graduated from the North Pacific Thomas ton. Connecticut." That was government by the liquor dealers Ity. The Chautauqua Is a business, ville.
Dental Collage last summer, being an Interesting old timepiece dad Its snd give this as a reason why their s worthy one. Conduct It as such.
inducted into the army service soon faithfulness In marking time so Im­ traffic should not be discontinued. Then you’ll have the “ standing
after, and who has since been sta­ pressed the writer as the years went This amount of money, they claim, room only” sign out before you
tioned «st military camps in Georgia by that later on, when he was fit­ has been paid etnee 1862. The re- know how it hnppsned-next summer.
aad Virginia, in writing home says ting up a horns o f his own, a "Seth gretable fact Is that the govern­ — Hood R iver Glacier.
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Re has been surprised at finding so Thomas" clock was bought which ment was ever in partnership with
ay o f the soldiers from southern Is still doing Its part well la ticking the saloons. The liquor rflen forgot LE T T E R FROM F. W . KEYES,
•
j
to state who paid the five billion.
who are unable to write o ff the time.
SON OF MRS. T. H . TH O RNE
After peering successfully through the depreating period« of
Not very long ego we heard a The ultimate consumer Is the man
own names, in this connec­
unoertain crop conditions, the shortage of labor, the "flu "
Tonnerre, France,
tion It will no doubt be n surprise jeweler remark that In buying n who paid the bill and there are
epidemic, etc., necessitating the neglect of my veterinary prac­
November
to our renders to reed the following clock one should, above everything thousands of ultimate consumers
tice, I w ill now be in position to devote my fu ll time to the
My dear Mother— Your
from Leslie's regarding the Illiter­ else, select n “ Seth Thomas,” which now being given rest cures In pad­
same and w ill answer a ll calls prompty. Information and
acy among men of draft age: “ The further confirms our conviction that ded cells as a receipt for their con­ latter of »November 6th
advice freely given. Charges as reasonable as possible under
war revealed aa extent of illiteracy this man Seth Thomas whose name tributions toward the five billion. day and I assure you that I was very
present conditions. T ern s strictly cash unless credit is ai<-
In America almost unbelievable. lives after him. must have been one Pethaps "those were happy days” glad to hear from you, also that
ranged for previously.
Secretary of the Iaterlor Lane points who looked ahead snd saw the ad­ but these are more restful nights.— you had such a nice visit in Pendle­
DA. 8. L. B R O W *. V E T E R IN A R Y SURGEON,
ton, Pomeroy and Spokane.
•out that there are 700,000 men of vantage of laying well the founda­ Corvallis Courier.
Graduate
o f Wahtngton State College, Veterinary Department.
W
ell,
dear
mother.
I
am
very
glad
tion
for
a
business
career
ns
n
man-
d a f t age in the United States who
Office
at
Commercial Bans. Phone Black 111. Residence
facturer
of
a
household
nn
ssuity,
It
is
all
over
and
I
hops
before
many
We
are
witnessing
tbs
greatest,
« s n o t read or write In English or
corner
8hertdan
and lferldlan streets. Phone Blue I.
the swiftest, the most dramatic trag­ months ws shall be on our way
la any other language. There are and acted accordingly.
W e were slated originally
Some time ago an Indiana lady edy the world has ever beheld. Rome.
6.600.000 persons over ton years
o f age who cannot read or write la who was visiting In this community. When dne thinks of all the great to go to Germany aa tho army of
Newberg Graphic
Revised Prices
T h e assurance of material lo r quantity
prod u ctio n o f Ruick cars enables the
Buick M otor Com pany to establish the
follow in g prices on the various Buick
models, effective January first, 1919.
These prices w ill not be changed during
our present dealers’ selling agreements.
«
Buick M otor Com pany, Flint, Michigan
Benson
St Palmer, New be
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