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About The Bend bulletin. (Bend, Or.) 1903-1931 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 15, 1913)
PAGE TWO Catholic Priest Is on the H Staff of a Railroad The Rev Gucymard of Seattle. Wash., lias been appointed traveling immigration agent for a groat irans-.i-utincntnl system, the Milwaukee railroad. The appointment made l Mr, Ilihhard of Seattle. Wash., and wn flushed across the entire I'liitcd Stales over the Associated Press wires as a novel and uniipie step in the history of railroad trans. I'.rtatio TKat a Catholic priest, while still holding his clerical stand ing, should he detached by his bihop i serve on the official staff of a i, droad company and he registcres! i- an cwployce on its pay roll was something quite unusual. Vet it was .1 simple illustration of the spirit of the Rreat West, it was in line with the policy of this railroad ami quite m accord with the missionary tradi tions of the church. Relative to his new work Father t.ueymani said in part: The Western states exemplify as " i other portion of this country docs tht, spirit of faith in it own vast possibilities; the spirit of confidence vi its own unlimited opportunities for those who ltnvc the energy and talent to lay the foundations of ma terial well-being. That faith makes of the average Westerner a typical 'booster.' Thoroughly convinced of the quality and quantity of his wares, he is an enthusiastic salesman, and viewing the vast field of operation he generously welcomes the advent of every newcomer. By nature and traditions and surroundings broad and hospitable and liberal he wishes to see others share in the proffered gifts that the country, with its won derful resources, holds out only for the asking. "That spirit is so alive and so common that it soon affects every one and converts the hardest pessi mist into an . enthusiastic optimist. I is so typical that one docs not feel himself in his right clement until the spirit is born in hirft, and when born it grows apace, tn all positions ii life we Westerners not only desire to see all enjoy material prosperity, but we wish to be factors live, rec ognized factors in this history of progress. A man is a stranger until this happy contagion touches him; he i not fully assimilated until he becomes palatable with the 'booster' contingent. The spirit is exempli fied in a remarkable degree in Mon tana. As large in area as New York, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Maryland and Connecticut; in agricultural possibili ties in arable land alone, ss.ooo.oou acre of virgin soil awaiting anxious ly for the plow; in mineral resources hundred of Mllious of tnu of every specie of mineral from gold to ce ment, and the at treasury barely touched with the little finger of do vcktpincnt; in timber ao.ooo.ooo.iKH) feet in virgin forests; in mauufactur- tnff possibilities water power that would move the wheels of a hemi sphere. "When these things and many more on the same large scale are taken in consideration how can we aoM being enthusiastic and like high mettled steeds hot at bit, ready to run and proclaim the glad tidings of good news. "I Mid it Mas in line with the pol icy of the Milwaukee railroad. This company is known as a great granger route. When it came to Montana iudnstrially and commercially it was like sending a fresh army corps com posed of crack regiments to solve a great problem of military tactics and sweep the field. For such a big or ganization in such a tremendous work it moved swiftly. It built 1400 miles of road through canyons and gorges ami along nigged mountain paths, as well as across rushing rivers and through long fertile valleys in less than three years. In that time it had built twenty miles of bridges, pierced twenty miles of tunnels and laid 200, ooo tons of 8S-pound rail. It now Colonizing Idea Practiced. "We are Milling and more th.in anxious to do our sh.ire. and since Catholics were early recognised fnc tors in the development of the coun try and now arc among its most alnahlc eitisenship, wc feel that we have the moral support and approval of our fellow citizens in bringing in others. The colonizing i4ea is the most practical, for it gives the Cath olic at once the religious and educa tional advantages that he had in the community which he leaves The first question asked by a Catholic homeseckcr is, "Is there . church and a school?' to which is often added, 'Is there a resident priest?' "It is to meet this demand that mc opened the colony of St. Charles in the Smith River Valley. Wc have ti.000 acres of land in one body, sit uated in one of the best valleys in the state This laud is well within the range of the man of moderate means on terms that arc enticing. l is handled by honest and conscien tious om uers that have made every provision to help and interest the homeseckcr. We selected this par ticular territory in order to have something tangible and definite to offer to the Catholic homeseckcr, who, like others, is apt to roam aim lessly, spend his money and return dissatisfied to settle in sonic isolated district. "The colonizing idea, when prop erly carried out, is the most desir able because the man in a new coun- Quality IS Economy runs into Seattle on an almost per-j,. ..,. , , , , , , , ... ,r. no matter how favorable the icci roauocu mo oi mc niuji ucuuii- fill and best equipped trains in the world, all steel That was the spirit with which the work was begun and carried on. "The anecdotes and tales told about the Jesuit missionaries as they pushed their way through every mining camp and trading post in Montana read like a romance of energy, patience, bravery and self-sacrifice. Many a priest in Montana is still living out of whose life many 'acts of heroism might be culled for the basis of in teresting stories. Furthermore, a spirit of kinship, of mutual help, of harmonious action with all. creeds, brcsl in days of hardship and danger, still lives and now aids in the devel opment rf our state. conditions may be, needs encourage ment, support, counsel and advice. This he can get more easily in con grcgatnl groups than in isolated con ditions. "Wc are convinced that the asso ciations, the intercourse, the society, the combination that helps in attain ing this end is more quickly realized in a colony than in segregated modes of settlement. These arc the rea sons why I have been temporarily detached from actual parochial du ties by a far-seeing and patriotic! huhop; why a great, enterprising i rilroad company is co-operating! heartily with us, and why all Mon-I tana has said, 'God speed this new venture!' "Chicago Inter-Ocean. In the Varnish World the Murphy name is a Guarantee "Murphy Varnish Company," mi tho oan or on tlio lnbol of any Finishing .Material, settles the question of Value.. It means that (he Varnish, Color, Stain, Kuauie.1, Ivunleruio, or whatever else, is the .Most Reliable I'rotluel of the. Iciiul. 'Phis Reputation has been Secured at (Ireat Cost, through many years of persistence in the realrint,' of an Ideal. . Vou needn't be at all afraid that the .Murphy Standard will over be lowered. It is worth all it has cost. 'Phis Quality Reputation must be lived up to. Any Qiios Honing of it would sacrifice the Biggest Asset in the Murphy Husinoss. Murphy Varnish Company niANKUN Munmv. iv.lm AMiitr f rth t)nuflftll Vrntili OwntMny, t-imH, Mttlrftl CnJ CHICAGO. ILLS. The Varnish that Latta Longcat NIIWAKK, N. J. Make the Farm Pay More Money IIiih jmir farm mm n busine Imsls and it will pny lug dividend. Lot mo help mi to weixl out iinprofltnble. erops and venture to ii'pliin vour work to make your farm more, profitable. I have perfected mi ny-t keep Iteeord Hook m hleh mil show yim at u ghtnre What your profits urn on live toek mid IimIUMiihI rrnM- l hi nut of Inltor and mlseellnneoHii espouse wlileh rout Is too great for what it produces aereage ',ii'M- monthly and yenrly koIh or lo how imirh )on owe ntnl others one von, ele.. etc. Thin llerord Is the Itest, Knuimt ami Simplest ever de vised for the Drain, Truck and I'm 1 1 ISrmer, Stock llreedcr, lmry and Poultry Man. It costs but little and Mill be north hundred of dollars to you eyrh season. Mr. i: .1. Novnk. I'irst National Iktuk Hid. Chlengo Mho operates m farm in tlir Smith, wrote inn on August tilth, HUB- "Some time ago I nirehe one of your I'urm r'n Simple Heronl Mini r.iH.nlt-r t Until!'" bel Invest lit I Imve ever mml. I don't see htm hhvImmIv fan got ithiHg MitliiHit i." A iin iiHHer of my Hlmplet lleeord, you may write to me otteii m mi hI.Ii mImimi t list Keeping Track of Your IluslurM prolilema which innfrotit .voh. And In answer Ink I will she sou the lienelll of er devoted to the mIvihk of the runners' IxhImom dif flrultle. Write me IimIii.i. Voh obligate yourself In no wv, nud I will five von Information that will be of murh value to vow. A. C. nr.lCIl, Dept. I. H., Hlverilalr, Chicago, III. U. S. Parcels Post a Popular Institution The consummation of a desire on the part of the American public, par ticularly in the country districts, for legislative action in transportation matters that would bring them in closer touch with the large business centers bore its first fruit on the first day of the new year. The par icls post it now- a thing of reality, and in the few days of its existence has already demonstrated that it is) here to stay as one of the most; popular institution ever established by Uncle Sam. The fight for the establishment of the parcels post sys tem lias extended over a period of forty years. Opposition to it on the part of the large express corpora ttons has been very marked, while ' the public in general throughout that period has been slow to realize the I vast advantage that would result i "in active competition by the gov t'ltiient with the express companies. et now that the parcels post is a reality there exists a tendency among it- opponents to take the matter pi itosophically, while its advocates Ii.isten to declare its success.' It has been charged by opponents the measure that the inauguration i the parcels post would kill the i nailer towns. The argument atf-' iiued to support this charge is that' the farmer would purchase his sup pl'c from the large department ' stores of the cities in greater quan- titles than heretofore That the farmer will be brought into closer touch with the large dealer in the city canno be denied, but it must, also be remembered that the mer chant in the country town has at his command the same splendid sys tem of rural delivery that the depart ment store has, while the new sys tem permits of the carrying of many farm products. The masses of the people will of course receive the greatest amount of good from the system, which is as ft should be. Group of Men at Washington Who Spent Many Arduous Hours Figuring Out Parcels Post Rales r-V'sr'l ssssssssssssmr JsssssssssssBb ssssssssssssm ssssssssssssssssV .ssS A AHssssssk') Kfw '. 'to t HsfliK. hwViB kft Hh JmB&p 4jff A fissssiSssssssflisssssV ARsssssssssssssss&sssssssssssssssssssHBssssssssssfH sssBp ?-x 1 ' ''UBSrr&BaBBBUxBtBkMtimvKl&iK ffn WsWBWPWij iBmiii i iBniimBiiwiaMMa -SSBSsM BI mM. HHEsss&k.' ssssssm Kci' VillJHHIHHBHP JZX. 3SDC Ltft to rianti CUra L, v.k-j, A. A. Flstur, Hobrt B. 6hr, C D. Hurry, John C Koont. persons have deposited packages in llitge mail boxes on the street ror juirs stamped with ordinary mailing stumps and without a return address, i There is but one avenue open for the Will Form a New Alliance Just how much the new postal regulation will cut into the business of the express companies is hard at this time to predict It seems to be the general feeling, however, that on small packages, say five pounds and under, the Government will do the bulk of the carrying business on ac count of the lower rate. A com parative table of rates within the eight zones established by the gov ernment reveals a ratio of l to S in favor of the government in the first zone and 1 to 4 in the second, the ratio diminishing to l to 2'j in the eighth and farthest- In the carry ing of 10-pound packages the advan tage is in favor of the express com panies by only a few cents in the first three zones, while the govern ment holds the cheaper rate in the farther distances. This table seems to bear out the prediction in favor of the government in the case ot smaller packages. The zone system seems to have met with the least favor among writ trrs throughout the country. Advo cates of a uniform rate for the United States, regardless of distance, clamored loudly against the estab lishment of discretionary distances. Hut the fight for the parcels post system has been a long one, and ac cording to the leading authorities the compromise was necessary in order to secure the passage of the meas ure. A natural consequence of the zone system is to give the advan tage in territory to firms located in the ceptcr of the country, houses on the coasts' being restricted to activ ity within a semicircle, In its final significance the parcels' post menus simply the extension of the fourth class of mall matter by making the weight limit in tllnt class tl pounds instead of 4, as at present, and the substitution of a sliding scale of rates according to distances foi the flat rate of "one cent an j that, mndattif It's most unhealthy to ounce or fraction thereof." All give fish and pickle to so young a li(iiors, poisons, explosives or art!- child.' clci having a bad odor arc excluded ",'l'U,e , v.OI".an fr0"110! ,mo" l,,c' , .i is . i , i i i 'Huh she said, 'don't you try from the list, while books n iw !: ,0 teach me how to feed babies. Why, Icnging to the third class will not young feller, I've buried seven I'" he rarricd by parcels post. Willi its few days of trial the sys tem has already presented some per plexing problems, due to a misun derstanding of the rules governing it. The new regulation demands the use of the special parcels post stamps and the delivery of the package att,,- i i. .i J i . " ,' . 1 .. , ;,. .. ... "t "red, uut the shot was heard all mc iJUMuuikc. caujr uiuiiitc arc f OVcr the country. Wall Street Jour reported in the large cities where knal. lr.uo .South America routes the information thai the three gre.it stale of Argentina, llraiil and Chile iri !,. form u'ltal !a lt'l,t lit A II f , postal authorities in the communities, , fof ler m(()a e(f where these n.tnnces occur, namely.! Thc ac,on ()f jMe f ( send the package to the dead letter) frll,inK ,,, u aclwf(I , rc office or identlfiea.Iou. This pre, , ,,, w) (mt sent, the possibility of loss to t he, , ,,,,,, ,c c nvove sender, since, in the absence of writ- m fom ief a, R ffrou Jia ing. it may eventually be destroyed. VBURC- T,c fe ewM() riic.c instances, however, in com- ,,,, ,, ArKcnIWi ,,,, ,)clwee, ,e panson to the vast amount of good, Un(tei, SBM a,)(, Chlei n t)c (u to result from the new system arel me ,,etwccn ,a a( A ,, but few, and a few month, of aclve arr cle,, exnm()M of (e lffjc(i operation will reduce the errors to aj ,, ,nc)rrcd y e ,,,, ",,nlmMm- republics. Frc.piently in times past i these states and others of Central and South America have been sub jected to humiliations because of thc dictation of foreign powers. It Is to avoid a recurrence of these huiuilU llons that the alliance is formed, The principals in the formation of this union scoff at the objections of outsiders that the alliance Is foolish in the absence of real perils threat ening them, Hut the old story of thc man who locked the, door after the horse was stolen seems to serve as a sufficient warning, and they point out that because the thief Is not now In the act of stealing, he Is nevertheless ready to do so the first chance he gets, The step taken by these republics is nn indication that, at least in their own estimation, they have reached the age of political discretion and need no longer live under the pro. Uctlou of Uncle Sam. As to what effect it will have on their future re lations with tis and with foreign pow ers It Is difficult to say Will the alliance resent Uncle Sam's attempts to enforce the Monroe doctrine If iii future it becomes necessary to do so? Or will not the union help Uncle Sam to enforce it? She Felt Duly Qualified Dr. Harvey W. Wiley said the other day in Washington of a well known canning concern: "These people, when we objected lo some of the poisonous chemicals used in their canned pea and aspar agus, laughed at tis, They said we were ignorant and inexperienced. They pointed out that they had been many years in business, and that they turned out millions of cans a year "It reminded me of a woman whom I once saw in my young days feeding n babe a few months old on bits of fried fish and pickle. "'Don't do that,' I said. 'Don't do Country Gentleman. President-elect Wilson has his hands full if he satisfies both thc Hast and the West in his selection of a Secretary of the Interior. It cost Uncle Joe Cannon $3013 to