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nates as prim ary roads the 11 <6
miles th a t com pete with railroads
and open up no new country, like
the Pacific highw ay, and as sec­
Prom pt’d’ etticient
ondary roads 1640 miles that lead i
auto repairing
farther away from the railroads.
Fisk
and
Goodyear
Tires and Tubes
The other roads, which “ ought to
Before buying tires be sure aud
be but a in ’t,” if built would a t.
investigate our prices
,
tract settlers to land th it lie« idle Ford parts & accessories always on hand
because its products, if it were cul­
tivated, could not be m arket d lor
want of roads.
alsey
garage
H
A nd if the work of the confer­
ence conies form ally before the
senate; then look oat for fireworks
No Washington correspondent Is bet­
An independent—N O T neutral— uetas-
ter known or more highly esteemed
paper. published every Thursday,
than Edward G. Lowry. T hat In It ­
by W m I I . A A. A. W H E E L E R .
self means that he has broad and deep
Wni. H . W h k k i . k x Editor.
knowledge of national and world a f­
Was. A A. W h h h l b « Business Manager
TAIL MAY WAG THE DOG
fa irs ; that he Is skillfu l Iu getting the
and Local News Editor.
news and tactful In w ritin g It, and
Mr. H ard in g , opening his farm that he has the confidence of the pub­
lic men w ith whom he comes In con­
Subscriptions, <1.50 a year in advance Conference, stated farm ers’ need
tact. But M r. Low ry has more than
Transient advertising, 2Se an inch; per
very nicely and the farm ers ap­ that. He has the really patriotic feel­
manent, 20c. No discount lor time
or space
proved of his statem ent.
ing that the intim ate knowledge of the
In '"Paid-for Paragraph«," S caline.
nation's affairs, which he acquires
But
they
back
the
farm
block,
No advertising disguised as news.
through his work Iu Washington,
w h i h he denounces, and they should be Imparted to the people of
Phone 205
R epresentatives of the district
want the St. Lawrence ship pas the country who have not his privileges,
attorneys
of the state and the state
H A L S E V , Linn Co., tire
Pel». 2, 192- sage to the lakes, which would gel In such a way that they w ill he led to
take that personal Interest In the doings m-dical association are drafting a
To See How Linn Does It
western wheat to m arket more of the government, which alone will
law to provide “ an im partial com­
After a P o itlan d meeting the
G O V E R N E D TOO MUCH
cheaply th a n via New York, and result In good government. He wants
mittee of e x p e rts” to decide the western slates extension service
H a rd in g ’s heaviest support comes the people to realize that It la their
government, answerable to them only, insanity question when it is raised conference is expected to visit 8.
The governor called wise head« from New York and New E ngland and that they only are responsible
in the defense of a person on trial If. H o lt's farm, near Scio, tom or­
together to consider the •eri-m where most of the funds to pull for Its good qualities and Its bad qual­
f
- r crime. W onder if those experts row sud he entertained by a series
problem of state finances and th»\ the p a r ty ’s <400,000 o a t of the ities. It Is this feeling that bag In
of conferences and dem onstrations
spired much o f M r. Lowry's best work. wi|i be satisfied with the <100 a
there and at other points in Linn
devoted tb e 'r atten tio n not to find hole are looked for, to sav nothing
Born In A tlanta in 1876, M r. Lowry day now charged for expert opin­
county.
ing ways of reducing expenses hut • < of financing fu tdrecam paigns, and was educated In private schools, the ions in such cases?
Saturday m orning, at the W ill
seeking means of prying additional New York and New E ngland want Georgia M ilita ry Institute and by priv­
iam G ilkey farm . L inn county
ate tutors, and began his Journalistic
revenue out of somebody’s pocket no St. Lawrence sh ip channel.
Opposition of dem ocrats to the club members will dem onstrate
career at the age of twenty-four. In
W hat this state needs is anothei
H a rd in g ’s friends eay he will 1904 he was gent to Washington and four-power treaty for revenge would feeding and fitting stock for exhi­
C harles G. Dawes to apply th- play a tru m p card against the bloc has been there almost continuously not be patriotic, but it would visit b itio n .
ever since. H e has been the political
D inner will be at the Riverside
scalpel to expensive excrescences. by cam paigning against its friends correspondent of Harper's W eekly, has poetic justice on the other party.
If something less than forty stab in their d istricts in the fall elec w ritten many articles for the periodi­ A p re tty strong lantern would Iu com m unity ball, then a lecture on
clearing land.
com m issions, with their salaried lio n s , hut the law m akers are not cal press and since 1913 has been the revuired to reveal much p a trio t­
A lsn S a urday on Jam es Cald­
Washington correspondent of the New
deputies and assistants ami secte sure th a t he can give them as hard York Evening Post, and for a consid­ ism in either party except during well’s farm near Riverside, three
taries and stenographers and type a wollop in those elections as the erable time the managing editor of a cam paign.
T h a l’a governm ent miles from A lbany, under auspices
that paper. When Germany started
,‘ot the O. A. C.. there will be a
w riters, were excised from the body farmers can; their dilem a is dire.
1 by party.
the World w ar the government natur­
.
field dem onstration of burning,
politic a reduction of the ta x b u r ­
The farm ers have alw ays been a ally found Im portant work for M r.
If <295,000 may necssarily be b lasting and ¡(lulling stum ps, al
den m ight result.
sort of tail to the political dog. and Lowry. F o r two years he was a t­
sizes and shapes.
The most mod
If the mem bership of th e law- have been wagged by it a t will tached to the American embassy In spent in a cam paign for a senato­ ern m ethods will be employed,
London, and then he returned to be­ rial nom ination, as Newberry says
m aking body were reduced orie- but it looks as if the tail is growing
which we suppose iucludes Mr
come a captain In the aviation section
it was, what use is there in run­ Zysset’s burner.
h a d or one-fourth better laws big enough to wag the dog.
of the signal corns Then he was as-
Halsey Garage
Foote Bros., Props.
ning a candidate who cannot pay
so much and has no friends who
will?
m ight be enacted at less expense.
We are taxed to death liecm -e
we are governed to death.
W H A T A VICTORY I
M r. H arding got considerable
com m endation for self-effacement
when he let Secretary H ugliesstate
A m erica’s sta illiu g proposal tor
four nations to scrap the war ships
they were building and some more
and build no more for ten years,
if Mr. H arding sidestepped a few
days or weeks of applause in th at
course, he also sidestepped m onih«
of steadily-increasing agnny amt
d isap p lin tn in n t that have spread a
sitk ly pallor over Mr, Hughes*
countenani e, d¡mined the spatkle
of bia eye, dulled the vigor of Ills
nt Meles slid aged him, in ap p e a r­
ance, 'en years iu half as m any
moons.
The other nations accepted “ in
p rin cip le” the proposals of Mr.
Hughes, which he aium unced as
A m erica’s irreducible m inim nin.
and applause reverbrated from all
over the world.
And then Ilia conference got
down to work and gradually the
bottom of our “ irreducible m ini­
mum’* d e s 'ended until now it c a n 't
be discovered with a telescope
One of our dem ands was an open
eh iwing of the 21 dem ands to
TO GALVANIZE A CORPSE
Jim m y Cox and a southerner
with the historic appellation of
H arrison are trying to get together
the scraps th a t rem ained when the
dem ocratic party exploded with
its own gas at San Francisco.
The p arty still owes $200,000 of
ihe debt it incurred in the last
cam paign, but when H ard in g opens
up on th e (arm bloc and Cox on
the league of nations issue, which
will not down, there m ay be
enough enthusiasm to get both
parlies out of debt and raise new
purses for the fight.
Especially
so if m any of the candidates have
such friends as innoceiTt Mr. New­
berry had, to buy offi.es for them
whether they want them or not.
As paved roads increase, so do
f u t'l autom obile accidents.
In
1016 there were 66 such in Ore­
gon, 79 in 1919 and 89 iu 1920.
The coroner ol Crook county,
where t h e e w ert no autom obile
accidents, says:
” Cro>k county
people drive carefully. Our roads
don’t stand speeding. Too rough.”
If the fatal speeders killed on.y
them selves we m ight regard the
situation com placently, for they
can he spared, hut unfortunately
they sometimes ca rry passengers
which Japan, w ith a club, had in- who have common sense and these
•bleed C hina to assent.
China seff.T too.
wanted them made public, bul
Ja p a n dem urred, and Jap an w ss| Everybody approves the par-
the winner.
sage of a soldiers' tio tu s bill by
congress, but nobody w ants the
money la'serl >n a way th at
ill
increase his taxes.
The general
cry is “ w ait until the tax b u rd e n
o f the country is leas.”
There is
economy in th a t proposition Judg
ing by th e recent past, when the
tnx burden is lesa the bonus will
cost lesa also, for there will not be
m any soldiers left to pay i t to.
A nother was the retu rn ol the
S h an tu n g concessions t?> China.
A ller m uch palaver Japan lias
prom ised, what she did at Paris, to
w ithdraw when silo considers the
I me opportune, which m eans tl.ai
J ipan has wou th a t point.
Then we wanted Japan to get
out ol bilieria.
O ur " m a s te rly ”
diplom acy has consented th a t h er
troops shall slay there u n til »he
gets ready for them to leave.
Poland has banned lieer with
We wanted the uncom pleted Jap­
more th a n 2 | per cent alonhn',
anese vessel, (he M utsu, scrapped,
1 t >n d rbiking places to one for
but politely co n sen t.d th a t an
each 2500 and to restauranta and
older and less form idable war m *-
abolishing saloons.
Mexico p re.
chili« should be scrapped ¡natsml
poepa to prohibit the cultivation of
Th .•re have tieen a number of
the maguey p la n t, from which the
victories won in (he ootif. renes, ¡
national drink ia made.
And in
but it is dilficult to discover any 1 the U nited stale« prohibition pro­
nation except Ja p a n tlrat has!
hibits liquor selling as effectively
scored any of them .
as it does larceny.
1 be result of th e conference, I
when it gets before congress for sp-1
I’»v o'ogiets of (aduinhia Uní-
proval by one house and financial ! varsitv h e v e decided nn an investí,
M pport from Imin, if it ever do... I
g a lló n n i p o k e r to iearn whv the
will look about as much like
g a m e has auch an aitraclio n for
A m erica's original and universally 1
il» devoteea.
These investigators
applauded plan as t i e leigoe of
mav «haré ihe usual (ate of the
nations pact looked like its original rnstic viaitor who aterís in lo in ­
sell when Lodge s “ reservations” vestígale Ihe social evil and ac.
had been tacked to it for sen ate quirea em pty pocket» and au un-
rial CODsIderatlou,
lutiuuaie Uabit.
S AV E
MONEY
Edward G. Lowry.
alatant m ilita ry attache at London and
on the British front In Flanders, and
was with the American Army of Oc­
cupation In Germany. For his valu
able work he was awarded the Brit
tali M ilita ry Cross. Recently he wrote
Washington Cloae-Upa," a series of
character sketches of eminent figures
In the national capital, which the
country Is reading with vast enjoyment.
F o r two years M r. Lowry has been
making a close study of the business
of the government. He Is given credit
In congress fo r his aid In passing the
budget bill and In bringing abont the
naming of the Joint committee of the
house and senate to Investigate and
report upon the adm inistration and or
ganlzatlon of the government executive
departments. He now wants the peo­
ple of the United States to know the
details of the United Slates govern
mnnt, which Is their business. He be­
lieves the knowledge o f these deta la
w ill make of them better Americans
and give them a better government
No man not Imbued with M r. Low
ry ’a high Ideal could have carried out
thia study o f the government business
so exhaustively and painstakingly as
baa he. Probably he now knows mere
about it than any other man In the
world.
W ith extraordinary persever­
ance aud dogged persistence he went
a fte r hidden facts and m ultifarious de
• alls— and got them. Nothing was too
big for hla comprehension or too small
for hla attention. At one tim e he went
to a member of the cabinet with the
statement that the government had on
Its payrolls, exclusive of the officers
and men o f the army and navy, one
employee fo r each «8 people of the
United States ten years of age and
over engaged In gainful occupations
It took that cabinet officer, with the
assistants he had at his command, a
considerable time, and considerable ef­
fo rt to vertfy M r. Lowry's statement,
but he found It to he true.
>
As the result of Ms careful studies j
M r. Low ry has w ritten s series of ar
tid e s on the business o f government
Income and expens«'; where the money
comes from, and how and for what It
Is spent; whether the organisation of
the business side of government Is effi
clent or Inefficient; whether the gov
eminent W M ta l the money ue idve It.
T h e s e rie s Is aet Iu ally sens,- p o l l t l
' «I
Loss of $203,000,000 Annua'ly
in United States.
To Effect Complete Exterm ination of
Rodent Pests United Efforts of
Every Home O w ner and
Tenant Are Needed.
(P rep a red by th e U nited 8 (ste> D ep a rtm en t
o f A crlcu lt u re.)
M en‘s full cut blue
ebambray
li i- i
raking expedition
II
Work
Men’s good weight
outing flannel Night
Shirts, all sizes $1
Boys’ splendid qual­
outing flannel
90C
Night Shirts
Men’s leather faced
T o Illustrate the enormous damages
which rats annually accomplish In
grain and com fields, the experience
o f the state penitentiary farm , cover-
canvas Gloves, the
ch eap est
Work
Glove you can buy
25c
a pair
M e n ’« Jersey knit
Gloves, splendid for
work or driving, 2
pairs.... .......... 25c
Mail us your order.
BLAIN
Rats Menses Food Supplies W ith Dis­
ease and Cause Much Loss and
Waste.
CLOTH ingcò ]
The store with a squaie
deal for every customer.
„ muck |
r e lie s
• «needed, acknowledged facta
Damage
totaling
1200,000,000 in
stored foodstuffs, grain, field crops, and
• i d l e r liijurahle materials Is done by
rats iu the United States annually.
Oniy the united efforts o f every home
owner and tenant can effect the aboil-
lion o f these rodent pests. The Bio­
logical Survey, United States Depart­
ment of Agriculture, ia starting a big
campaign against rodents throughout
the eastern United States. Much a l­
ready has been accomplished In the m at­
ter of control In the Western aud Mid
•lie Western stales, where effective co-
operation was secured. On the other
hand, residents of the Eastern aud
i Southern states, as a rule, have been
exposed to widespread ravages and
attacks from rodeuts for auch long
periods that they have become so
accustomed to the nuisances as to ac­
cept them as a m atter of course. Uncle
Sum Is doing his utmost to awaken
these sections to the need for eradicat­
ing rats.
S h irts............. 75c
ity
facts I
T b e s e tj
ENORMOUS DAMAGE BY
RATS TO FOODSTUFFS
ALBANY, OREGON
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facts come from the men In t h e g o v ,’ ” ctfon »re offered in 146 in e liln -
em inent— from the government Itself I t,o n s o f l««rnmg
T h e re a re w. II
—and they are all facts that every *'|»ipp*«l theaters in 17 college-
American cltlsen Is entitled to know * 7 schools have o u td o o r theater-
and should know.
The n u in tier of these in s titu tio n s i
T .hX . r ’rle* " f articles on this suhjco w in c h ” gi m ” nr chapel may I.
c lm L h, ? ‘,hY0UL T" * ’
** ' , *n«lorm «l i, to a tempora
b Z ^ d h, ¿ 7 * «"""L’ Tb7 * h”" ld Pl«» house probably includes
ol the schools
• «rested In the w elfare of the nation ,,r
„ I _ in the country
,
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V otn
j of these classroom plays have be
put on Ihe professional stag» am
Î0» bigi}*«) CVBHURNUVD
have » u p success,
|
!
ing 2,500 acres, at Baton Rouge. La.,
is of Interest. Last year a 200-acre
field of com was planted on this farm.
The rats worked their way through
the field, stealing all the seed before
the kernels ronld germinate. The field
»as planted a » w in d time, and again
the rats overran the prospective corn­
field, leaving In their w ake paths of
destruction.
Undeterred, the farm
manager planted the field to m m a
third time, and ultim ately secured a
poor stand, which resulted In the pro-
ductlon o f about one-third o f a nor­
mal com crop.
Changed A ir Helpe Plants,
Recent experiment» have shown that
crops a m be Increased from one and
s h alf to four times by an alteration
In the s ir which the plants breath«.
T h e method Is s simple one. and eoo-
slsts of Increasing the proportion of
varbvuK acid U> tbs a il.
Caiapooia grange No. 414 met io
regular session S aturday. Ja n . 28,
for iasta lla tio a of officers, W orthy
M aster H. 8. A ckerm an in th e
chair.
The installing officers and oth er
visitors were A. Miller, Miss* E a st­
m an, Mrs. W. O hling, M rs L.
Weetcot, Mrs. M Shoal from near
Albany and Mr. and Mrs. W.
Phillips, Mr. aud Mrs. Bradford
and Mr- W adell of Brownsville.
The usual good din n er was en ­
joyed at noon.
Mr. and Mrs. W illiam W heeler’s
kind letter to the grange was read,
in which they sent th eir best wishes
and thanks for the rem em brance
sent them from the grange.
Mrs. O hling explained the re­
port which is to be sent her from
the home economic com m ittee.
Bro. M iller urged all who can
to attend Pomona grange the fifth
S aturday in April at M orning S tar
grange, 6 miles north of A lbany
on the Jefferson road.
Discussion of state tax funds and
public service telepone rates was
had.
Our officers were duly installed
on the new plan used a t the n ation­
al grange and the work was well
put on.
Please remember our next a ll.
lay m eeting, S atu rd ay , Feb. 25.
>ome out and help our new m aster.
Granite Reporter.
Shedd Shots
H arry Poland is building a large
-hicken house and expects to go
nto the chicken business.
Mrs. D. F W est spent a few
lays at the Poland home lately.
Leo Jenne is visiting w ith his
uncle and a u n t, Mr. a ^ d Mrs.
George D annen.
A. D. E lder and wife are con-
em plating a visit w ith relatives in
California.
Mrs. W. Y. Shearer was au
lvan caller S atu rd ay .
Al­
Mr. Coates is still on the sick
list.
He is suffering from partial
paralysis and is not able to be
»bout b u t has a good appetite.
Mrs. Gregory went to A lbany
Saturday.
Mrs E sther Groves, whose home
is in N orth D akota, has ju st a r.
rived for a few weeks’ visit wi h
her pareuts, R. C. Farw ell a i d
wife.
Mrs. T. J. D annen is suffering
from sore th ro at.
M aster George A. D annen has
inflam m atory rheum atism .
At
last accounts he was able to be up
and around.
Mrs. Castlem an, m other of Mrs.
F. H. Brock, was so seriously ill
a t the Brock borne Monday th a t
her children in C alifornia and else,
where were sum m oned.
Beaver State Bea vera Busy
Oregon protects the beaver, from
which th e state takes its nickname,*
hut the anim al m ust keep bis ac­
tivities w ithin bounds or take th e
consequences.
Ju st now he is in
the lim elight because of bis m is.
chievous activities.
Amos Ramsey of Halsey is one
of the sta te ’s trappers and when
beavers become a nuisance slate
trap p ers are sent to reduce th e ir
efficiency.
Mr. Ramsay has ju st
come from a trip to Clear creek,
Lane county, where by dam m ing
the creek the anim als had been
flooding fields and pastures.
He
caught seven there, five of which
were as large as eighty pounds
apiece.
Tuesday Mr. R a m a 'y started for
Scio, where ihe big rod«nta wen
dam aging orchards.
He expects
about a m o u th ’s work there.
The trappers get tw o-thirds of
the proceeds from the anim als
caught and the state o n e.third .
When in luck the trap p er makes as
high as <75 a week.
A n o th er tra p p e r is on th e job in
eastern Oregon and T rapper Ames
hoe left hie qnest in th e m ountains
for wolf and cougar and gone to
Riddle to cope with a beaver men-
ace there.
A tabulation a« of Septem ber last,
statin g price per thousand board
feet on actual sales of lum ber a t
the mills on five standard varie­
ties ol southern pine, shows an av­
erage reduction from <61.50 to
<20 71 since M arch, 1920; and for
Douglas fir from the northw est,
an average reduction from <44 15
to $11.94—a deflection in price ex­
ceeding th a t of any other building
m aterial or com m odity.
If other
prices hod kept pace there would
he little call for com plaint by
builder».—JJsnuf»ctur#i,