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HALSEY ENTERPRISE:!
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A PR IL *, 1922
School Essays
(B y Grace Robiueon)
W H E R E Y O U R T A X E S GO
independent—NOT neutral—uews-
I f •reeisn Easter Worship;
(by Edward G. Lowry)
(M f
paper published every Thursday,
by W m H . & A. A W H E E L E R .
Win. II. W h e k i . e k Ed ito r.
X I.
Mas. A A. W h e e l e r Business Manager
and Local N ews Editor,
HIRE GOVERNMENT HELP
The gun rose high into the sky,
On a beautiful Easter morn,
And the Grecian men did long and
sigh.
For ib i laud where they ware
bora.
olate ice cream sodas?’ ’ she said
ta m in g to the waitress
I t was done then, and ba thot
be might as w e ll enjoy it, but
every bite be took be tried to swal
low the lum p in his throat, but
a ll in vain.
B
He picked up the end of bis
eoat and oegan to tug a t it under
the table. He almost felt as tbo
he d id ’ut care whether M argie saw
him or not, for he was in utter
gony, when, oh! what was th a t be
heard jin g liu g in the lining of bis
tost?
Ho begin to tear a t it fervently
and out dropped tw o buttons and
one dime
He looked at i t unbe-
lovinglv aod then begin to smile.
Margie looked up just then and
with a surprised look exclaimed:
“ W hy, James, you look one hund
red per cent better a ll ready ”
‘ Yes, and I feel two hundred
par ceut better, ” be replied w ith
the a ir of a m illionaire, aa be
marched to the counter to pay for
those ice cream sodas.
The civil service commission hires
all employees In the classified service
Subscription». $1.50 a year in advance
of the government. The only thing to
Transient advertising, 25c an inch; per- be said about the classified service, is
m meni, 20c. No discount (or time that It has not yet been classified. The birds were singing m errily,
The flowers were bright end gay,
or sp ice.
But you shall hear what the civil serv
In " i ’.iid-ior 1’aiagraphM, ” S caline.
ike me hearts that were singing
ice commission bas to say about h ir
N o ad ie rtim ig disguised as news.
m e rrily ,
ing help, without comment from me
On that beautiful Easter morn
There Is an u tter lack of definitely
H A L S E Y , Linn Co.. Ore. A p ril 6, 1922 planned and well organised employ
Vith p ayers on their lipa
auu
ment policy In the government serv
thanks in th eir hearts,
Ice.
CHILDS A N D NEPOTISM
They gathered about a fire,
There Is need for a centralized em
bnnkiug Christ for his broken
ployment office with jurisdiction In al
A good deal baa been aaid alio 11 matters relating to employment.
heart,
The employment methods of the gov
R e ,ir . « m a u v e
Charles
Childs
Che
fu lfillm e n t of a Jewish
desire.
b a /i u j bis wife appointed stenog- em inent should be such as to serv«
for a model for private bualnesa.
i.ip b tr
at the stale's expense.
There Is at present no central eon- A s la in la m b u po n a rod,
We ifio te the Oregon Voter on the trot over the executive service short
Above the fire did place
siil'j .'t in another cjlu rn n .
I t is of the President. T h e President is a And while turning it they thanked
busy man and cannot concern himself
God
mp . dsr.-ibly customary for mem- w ith the details of the executive de
For tn# wondrous saving grace.
h r - <f the legislature and of con. partments.
The lack o f efficiency in govern The ro u te d lamb, the symbol of
gr«4. to find places for all the reL
ment offices has a marked effect on
G od’a love,
•lives whom they can attach to the private business.
There we» a man, hie shoes were bad.
Wus shared by one and a ll.
He had oo work, his face was sad.
p >'i 'C teat, and the resulting dis-
Definite Inform ation concerning the
W h ile to their gracious Father He found a jo b ; the boss said: “ No,
r ■; i 1 of talent in making appoint - number of federal civil employees In
above,
I can't take vou when you look so."
different branches of the service and
m n i is deplored by the Voter. the amount of the government pay
They in Christ's name did call. The man then had his shoes resoled,
His pants he pressed, he felt more bold.
B H the principal real objectiou is roll are not readily available.
When the sun sank low th at Easter He hurned back the boss to see
An
official
register,
or
blue
book,
And talked and smiled in different key.
th i< more than half the appointed
dav,
Is Issued every two years. It is out
Job's yours," quoth boss, w ith air
an 'bees
are
absolntely
un- of date long before It Is printed.
Below the western sky.
sublime.
The
men
retired
to
sing
and
pra
,
”
A
smile and N E A T N E S S win each
-n • ■isary. Where thereis nothing
A provision o f the civil service ru l-s
time,
T ill the sun rose again in the s k '.
to > but dtaw a salary the iocotu- theorethully gives the civil service
commission authority to collect and
pale >t and unfit can d o it as well
maintain complete personnel s ta tia
(B y Preston New ton)
a-* i ie ablest. Tnese people always tics. T he labor and expense involved,
however, practically prohibit the col The Racing Mule:
in i tage to do that one thing well
lection and compilation o f reliable sta
Ir. Childs writes to the Oregon tistical data.
t ’ nr the happiest man you ever saw,
I have a mule that goes ee-aw,
In addition to the lim its of the com
V>, er :
mission’s authority Is the alisence of He goes a m ile in a minute h alf.
A fler Mrs. Childs’ illness I did authority to enforce Its findings. The H e’s just as spry as a year-old calf.
n employ a private stenographer commission can make recommenda
ex »pi for a few days and the cost lions to the departments and offices I hooked him to the shay one day
of my stenographic work to the and urge their observance, but It can To go to town to get some haje,
st ite was very much less than lb« not enforce them.
\ s 1 was on the short way b ac k ,
Congress passed what Is known a
m i o u i i I expended
by the average
I bad to pass the racing track.
member. To he exact, my sleuo- the civil service law January 18. 188.'!
g ipliic help during the last legis. This set created the United Slates' ie turned in through the open
g a te ,
i . live session cost the state $145 civil service commission. T he law w a
Intended to cure In part the evils
\n d h it the d irt an aw ful rate,
«a against $225 expended by mem
from the dust of the road when an
traceable to the spoils system, which
ba 1 tin b ile of wir- -bound li y
hers who employed a stenographer grew out o f the four-year-tenure-o,'
toing. You cannot afford to risk your
ast
to
the
back
of
my
old
shay.
f i r the full time
office act of 1820.
sight lor the lack of glasses or goggler.
During the first 40 years a fte r the
foe first half m ile or once around Com« and have us fit you w ith a pair
uis speedy mule sure covered that w ill save your eyes and not detract
Whan President H arding an . iH-gunlzatlon o f our government, ad
minlstrutlye practice w ith regard Io
ground,
from your appearance.
iiniinced his hostility to the “ farm the cjvll service seemed to conform
he tugs were made of rubl>er ami
bloc” ha d id ’ nt know it wa« to the Intention of the founders. The
stretched
loaded. I l was announced that h Constitution fixed the term of no of
.
ml
stretched
and stretched and
ficer In the executive branch o f the
would camp lign against ita a n j. government except those of the Pres
stretched.
portare this fall. Ha found it bigge I dent and vice president. It was th.
Jntil this mule was eating hay
than lia expected and th at the fa r. established usage during these fits.
tight out of the hack of my old
40 years to perm it executive officers
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A L 9 A M K 0Wg*ffi
n i t r e have
a good many vote« except members o f the cabinet, to hol.l
shay.
Now he wr-ultl soonar think of office for un unlim ited period during M ter the bay was finished up
H aro ld A lb ro .
1« slowed down and the sha;
The practice was
handling a hedgehog w ith bare good behavior.
M an u factu ring o ptician.
changed In 1820 by the four-year-ten
caught up.
hands than o f t r r u iiiig them rough. ure s e t T he spoils system, ns It was
(e turned back out into the road
He announces a policy of “ bands officially described as early 'as 1835
im l lumbered home with his big
o ff” in the coming elections. He's was Introduced and extended until II
ATTORNEY A T LA W
load,
permeated the entire civil service o
a shrewd old guy.
the country.
be next tim e I go to get baled
201 New First Nat'l Bank Bld’g
The fundam ental purpose of the civ
hay,
In the interest of British rule in II service luw was to establish. In the
'll go around the longest way.
Albany, Oregon.
In d ia Armenia has bean sacrificed parts of the service covered by Its
provisions, a m erit system whereby
to the murderous Turks and the
(B y M earle Straloy)
selection for appointment should he
latter have been given back about made upon the busts of demonstrated
e Cream Soda«:
all the territory they forfeited in relutlve fitness, without regard to po
LAWYER AND NOTARY
litic a l, religious, or other such con
James Osborne came nut of the
the world war. The principles ol siderations.
(ate
whistljug
m errily as be
jm tiee and self-determination of
T he act requires that the rules shall
B bowmsvillr , O regon
tartei^ up the walk for town. A h
peoples in international a d ju s t provide, among other things, for open if a sudden he saw M argie sitting
ment were discarded when Unc e competitive examinations for testing >-» the porch of her bua«e just up
the tltuess of applicants for the classl
Sam, ihair sponsor, turned slacker. tied service, the making of appolut- t ie street, slid oh! his heart just
vent p itty-p at, for he wauted to
nenls from among those passing with
Pine
'c u t'' B illy out.
The senate holds up (be free-aeed highest grades, an apimrtlunment of
“ H ello , Margie !" he said: “ S .y,
appointments In the departments at
graft hill of the house and that
■ me atul go for a walk w ith me,
Washington among the states and ter
waste of fuude may be prevented ritories, a period of probation before I in awful lonesome ’’
501 Lyon a t, Albany, Oregon.
“ Oh! suie, James, I ’ ll be ready
this year. The secretary of agri- .ibsolule appointment and the pro
it ju s t a m inute. ’ ’
culture, like several of his predecee. hibition of the uae of official authority
to coerce the political action of any
They started down the street
sors in office, opposes the fraud, lieraon or body.
•
lU g lu n g aud talkin g g aily, and
and so does -Senator McNary of
In 1883. the year In which th# civil
ioiea chuckled to him self when
Oregon, who Manda well with the service law was enacted, 18,024 post
he I toys cast envious glances at him
W IL D E Y LODGE NO. 65.
lions In the civil service were made
beu they passed.
farmers, bloc or no bloc.
Regular meeting next Saturday
subject to competition.
The entire
Then— oh! why did th at notice,
number of positions In the federal
— —— ' O •» 1.1. ■ ■
—
night.
Sps
-ial Ice Cream Sodas 10 c ,’ ’
A linotypar in the Albany Dam. executive civil service on June 20.
iv-t
to
spring
into
sight?
1018. was 480,327. At the height of
ocrat calls the organized move Io
Jamev appeared not to notice, for
the war expansion there were approx
low er taxes the “ t axpayers Seduc imately 1.000.000 men and women em did ot he know that his pocketbook
Office 1st door south of school house
tion league.”
W e n i.l’ nt know it ployed In the federal executive civil ici.i <<ue dune? B ut just then M a r
Halsey, Oregon.
service, about 700.000 of whom held
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in slow course to the “American E x
peditionary Force« In France,” and
finally found him whom It patiently
T h a t thunder tn the soli, st first too
sought. H e delayed not long to answer,
deep within it to be audible, bad come
and In tim e she held in a shaking hand
to the surface now and gradually be
the penciled missive be had sent h e r:
came heard as the thunder of a million
“Ton forget all th a t comic ta lk about
feet upon the training grounds. The
me enlisting because of your telling
bugles rang sharper; the drums and
me to. I ’d w ritten my fath er I was
fifes o f town and village aod country
going a t the first chance a month and
side were the drums, and fifes of a
a h a lf before that day when you said
war that came closer and closer to
IL M y mind was made up the first
every hearth between the two oceans.
time there was any talk of war, and
A ll the otd symbols became symbols
you had about as much responsibility
bright and new, as If no one had ever
for my going as some little sparrow or
seen them before. “Am erica“'w a s lik e s
something. O f course i don't mean I
new word, and the song “America'”
didn't pay any attention te the differ
was like a new song. A ll the dusty
blatancies of orating candidates, seek ent things you said, because I always
did, and I used to w orry over It be
ing to rouse bored auditors w ltb “the
cause I was a fra id some day It would
old fla g "; all the mechattlcal patriotic«
get you Into trouble, and I'm mighty
of schoui and church and club; all
glad you’ve cut It out. T h a t’s r ig h t:
these time-worn, flaccid things leaped
suddenly Into living color. T he flag you he a regular girl now. You always
were one, and I knew that all right,
became b rilliant and strange to
strange w ith a meaning th a t seemed I m
»eared to w rite to you s T I
new, a meaning long known, yet nevyr', WM te talk to you, so I guess you know
known till now.
>
I was mighty tickled to get your letter.
And so hearts that thought they , 14 sounded blue, but I was glad to get
knew’ themselves came upon ambushes “ IL' ' v
“ " bet I ’ll w rite • to
“ y o u ! ’ I don't
■*— '•
You
of emotion and hidden Indwellings of suppose you could have any idea how
spirit not guessed before. Dora Yo glad I was to get your letter. I could
sit here and w rite to you all day If
cum, listening to the “ Star-Spangled
they’d let me. but I'm a corporal now.
Banner,’’ sung by children o f Im m t
When you answer this, I wish you'd
grants to an out-of-tune old plsno In
say how the old town lw>ks and If the
a mission cluhrooro, in Chicago, found
grass In the fro nt yards is as green as
herself crying w ith a soul-shaking
heartiness In 'a way different from oth It usually Is, and everything. And tell
me some more about everything you
er ways that she had-cried. Among
think of when you are working down
rhe many things: she thought of then
was this i . T h a t the banner the chil at tha Red Cross like you suUl. I guess
I’ve read your le tte r five million times,
dren were slnglng.ahout was In dan
I mean
ger. T h e great country, almost a con and that part ten million.
tinent. had always seemed ao untouch where you underlined thut 'you' and
what you said to yourself at the ICed
able. so safe and s u re ; she bad qever
been able to co n d elve.o f a 'hostile 'Cress. Oh. murder, but I was glad to
read tl:a t l Don’t forget shout w riting
power mighty enough to shake or even
la r It. And' since so great and funda nnythlng else you think of like that.
“ W ell, I was interrupted then and
mental a thing could not be Injured, a
this Is the next day. O f course I can’t
war for Ita defense had appeared to
tell you where we are, because that
be. In her eyes, not only wicked hut
ridiculous.
At last, less and less darned censor w ill read this letter, but
I guess he w ill let this much by. Who
vaguely, she had come to comprehend
do you think I ran across in a village
something of the colossal German
yesterday? T w o boys from the old
hreat. and the shadow that, touched
this bright banner of which the Im m i school days, and we certainly did
grants' children piped so briskly In the shake hands a few tim es! It was that
nlsslon cluhroom.
old foolish Dutch Kruseme.ver-and A l
She began to understand, though bert Paxton, both of them lieutenants.
she could not have told Jusf why, or I heard Fred M itchell Is still training
how, or at what moment understand In the States and about crazy because
ing reached her. She began to under they won’t send him over yet.
“I f you have any Idea how glad I
stand that her country, threatened to
was to get your letter, you wouldn't
the life, had flung Its line those thou
sands of miles across the sea t n stand lose any tim e answering this one. Any
•n d hold Hlndenhnrg and LuiWndorff how, I ’m going to w rite to you again
•n d all their kaisers, kings, dukes and every few days If I get the chance, be
crown princes, their Krupp and Skoda cause maybe you’ll answer more than
monstrous engines, and th eir mons one o f 'em.
“But see here, cut out that 'sent you
trous other engines of men made Into
You've got the
armies.
Through the long haze of to be killed ’ stuff.
misted sea-miles and the smoke of wrong idea altogether. W e've got the
land-miles she perceived th a t hrown big job o f our lives, we know that, hut
line of ours, and knew It stood there we re going to do It. There’ll fie mis
takes and bad times, but we won't full
that Freedom, and the Nation Itself
down. Now. you'll excuse me for say
might not perish from the earth
And so. a week later, she went home ing It this way. Dora, but I don’t know
juat how to express myself except
and came nervously to Ramsey’s moth
er and found how to direct the letter saying of course we know everybody
Isn't going to get back home— hut lis
she wanted to w rite. He Was In France
As the old phrase went, she poured ten, we didn't come over here to get
out her heart. It seems to apply to her killed particularly, we came over to
give these Dutchmen h— I!
letter.
"Perhaps you can excuse language I f
She w rote:
I w rite It w ith a blank like that, hut
“Don't misunderstand me. I fe lt that
my hitter speech to you had driven you before we get back we’re going to do
to take the step you did. I felt that 1 what w« came for. They may not all
o f them be as bad as some o f them—
had sent you to he killed, and that I
It's a good thing you don't know w hat
ought to be killed fo r doing IL but I
knew that yon had other motives, loo.
we do. because some of It would make
I knew, of course, ttjat you thought of
you sick. As I say, there may be quite
the country more than you did <Jt me.
■ lot o f good ones among th e m ; hut
or of any mad thing I gpuld say— hgt
we know what they’ve done to this
I thought that what i.s a ld might'Have
country, sod we know what they mean
been the prompting \h ln g . the word
to do to ours. So we're going’ to a t
that threw you Into j t ap hastily and
tend to them. O f course th a t’s why
before you were reedy, perhaps.
I
I'tn here. It wasn't you.
dreaded to bear that terrible responsi
Don t forget to Write pretty soon,
b ility. I hope you understand.
Dora. You say in your letter— I cer
Handles Town sail Country Property
"My great mistake has been— I
tainly was glad to get that le tte r—
G ive him a call and see «I he can fix thought I was ao ’lo ttc e l’— it’s been
well, you say I have things to do more
on up.
In my starting everything w ith a
Important than 'glrla.' Dora, I think
thought I’d never proven: 'ilia t w st Is
yon probably know without my saying
the worst thing, and all other evils
ao that of course while 1 have got Im
were lesser.
I was wrong.
1 was
portant things to do, just as every
wrong, because war Isn't the worst
man over here has, and everybody at
Electric
H a irc u ttin g . Massaging evil. Slavery Is a worse evil, and now
home, for that m atter, well, the thing
I want to tell you I have come to see
that la moat Im portant In the world to
and Shampooing.
that you are making w a r on those that
me. next to helping win this war. It's
Cleaning and Pressing. make slavery
Yes. you are fighting
reading the next le tte r from you.
those that make both war sod slavery
"Don't forget how glad I'll be to get
«nd yon are right, and I humbly rev
It. and don't forget you didn't Jiave
erence and honor all of you who are
anything to do w ith my being over
ARCHIE CORNELIUS In this right war. I have come home
T h a t was— It was something
to work In the Red Cross h ere ; I work
And you bet. whatever happens
there all day. and ail day I keep say
fro glad I came! Don't ever forget
ing to m yself—but I really mean to you
th a t!" .
F z p e rt
workmanship. Walrhe«
sn 1 —It's what I pray, and oh, how I pray
Dora knew It was “something else."
clocks a specialty.
It : 'God he with you and grant you
H e r memory went back to her first rec
ths
victory!’
F
o
r
you
must
wta
and
H A I.S B V
ollection of him In school: from that
OREGON
yon w ill win.
time on be had heen Just an ordinary,
“Forgive me, oh. please— and I f you
everyday boy, floundering somehow
w ill, could you w rits to me? I know
through his lessons In school and
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,
sccumnlatiowof
«rticlra no longer^ieetle»t, or succeednt you have things to do more Important
through his sweethearting with .Mills,
than
'girls'—but
oh.
couldn't
you.
by better ones which aomehody would
aa the millions o f other hoys floun
like to obtain
An advertisement the
dered along w ith their own lessons
aiae of th ia costing 25c. m ight find a
Thia letter, which the had taken
and their own M illas. She saw him
buyer and covert what i t P À O H
''•re not to dampen, as s)ie wrote, w p it
swinging his hooka and romping home-
«pw ggly trggjj )atç jqçj
C H A P T E R X V I.
LOOK AETER YOUR SOLE!
Have era fixed at Jewett's
Protect Your Eyes
O ptom etrist
C .C . B R Y A N T
Amor A. Tussing
k . Peterson ¡ £ X Sb”
Dress Shoes
a Specialty
I. O. 0. F.
W. J. Ribelin
w as as bad as that, though some ol poatilona subject to competition. On
the members have been seduced Inly 31, 1020. the entire number of
in to the advocacy ol insane pla> s federal executive civil poaltlona, as
nearly as can he estimated, had been
lor the cut-down of expenses.
reduced to «91,118. Approximately
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A prize light m ty lie lea, ohje -
lionahle than some other fights, sod
a I tío « match less so than a prl e
fig h t, h u t to th e fam ily ot the in, n
who i* killed in one of them th *
distinetiou is without much diffe
ence
A skunk by any other nan
would smell as sweet.
B y experim ent a u ianoen learn
just how much slugging or boozing
or aut >mohile speeding it will lake
to k ill him, hut the knowledge
comes too late to do him any good
450,000 of these were subject to com
petition, or. In other words, In the
classified service. The force ta atilt
slowly hut steadily decreasing
During the 10 months of our p artici
pation In the w a r the civil service
commission gave competitive exami
nations under the ctvtl service law and
rules tn slightly less than 1,000.000 per
sons, and about 400 000 persons with
tested qualifications were supplied by
the commission to the service. A nor
mal year's business I t about 200.000
persons examined and about 50,000
appointed
W R I G H T Ä P O O I .F
ICRNSKD FUNERAL DIRECTORS
HXRRISBl’RG
LEBANON
W agner Had Own Grave Oug
W h ile still In the pi line n t ||f,.
was * whim of W arner, the great con
poser to have Ids grave dug I d h
OWt garden.
I’hone 33
Phone 15
Branches at
Brownsville,
Islsey
/•
rb oas
Phone 37CI5.
ISA. Fraak K»fk, >lg
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tie did notice, and turning to
• «me* exclaimed, “ James, you do
ook ns if you were about overcome
vith the heat, you do look so fiust-
«led. You ought to have an ire
ream soda It would oool you off,
nd you would fee! Iota b elter.’’
W hat was poor James to do? He
rtedto appear unconcerned aud r«-
issured M argie that he was feeling
II I'g h t, hut somehow the words
•ist
leaped
from his mouth
'W o u ld 'n t you like ao ice creep*
sods, Margie ?”
" O b jja u .e s , vou are so thotful:
O f course, I would just k v e one.”
'« into the place tli-y went.
I never ean lin d en and hoe
lames managed to liy> th ru the
• 'St few minutes
Hi« face turned
ot, cold. red. purple, but it di t
io good. Presently the wailres-
• peered and Janie« found h im seli
«»mg. “ M irg te , I don’t feel
veil, you get just one sode, and I
»ill watch you eat it
1 f»e| like
I oould'nt eat one.''
“ O h! no. I would’ nt do that
.V til you plegse h r jii| ui two choc-
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FARMERS
id
VAbH
9
Jrora Ute
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