NOV. 29, t93J hew relation to his neighbors. RIALTO Brownsville Saturday Gloria Swanson in “ZAZA” A beautiful and impressive Production De Luxe the laughingstock of the country for hiring hint by uilstake, and they're Ir ritated. But after seeing him perform tonight, I wonder If he can't make good” " If ha could feel like anything but an underling, he'd aucceed," eald Jen nie. “That’s hla heredity,” atated the colonel, whoae live stock operations were based on heredity. "Jim's a scrub, I suppose; but he acts as If he might turn out to be a Brown Mouse.” "W hat do you mean, pa,” scoffed Jennie— “a Brown Mouse!" “A fellow In Edinburgh," said the colonel, "crossed the Japanese walts- Ing mouse with the common white mouse. Jim's peddling father was a waltzing mouse, no good except to Jump from one spot to another for no good reason. Jim’s mother Is an al bino of a woman, with all the color washed out In one way or another. Jim ought to be a mongrel, and I've always considered him one. But the Edinburgh fellow every once In a while got out of hla variously-colored, waltzing and albino hybrids, a brown taouse. It wasn't a common house mouse, either, but a wild mouse unlike any he had ever seen. It ran away, and bit and gnawed and raised hob. It was what we breeders call a Mende- llan segregation of genetic factors that had been In the waltzera and albinos all the time— their original wild an cestor of the woods and fields. I f Jim turns out to be a brown mouse, he may be a bigger man than any of us. Anyhow. I'm for him." "He'll have to be a big man to make anything out of the Job of a country school teacher," said Jennie. “Any Job's as big as the man who bolds It down," said her father. Next day Jim received a letter from Jennie. "Dear Jim," It ran. '“Father says you are sure to have a hard time— the school board’s against you. and all th a t But he added ‘I'm for Jim, any how!' I thought you'd like to know this. Also he said, 'Any Job’s as big as the man who holds It down.' And I believe this also, and I'm for you, too! You are doing wonders even be fore the school starts In getting the pupils Interested In a lot of things, which, while they don't belong to school work, will make them friends of yours. I don’t see how this will help you much, but It's a fine thing, and ahowa your Interest In them. Don't be too original. The wheel runs But, (rue to his belief lh honest, thorough work, like a general prepar ing for battle, he examined his field of operations. His manner of doing this seemed to prove to Colonel Woodruff, who watched It with keen Interest as something new in the world, that Jim Irwin was possibly a Brown Mouse. But the colonel knew only a part of Jim's performances. He saw Jim clothed In slickers, walking through rainstorms to the houses in the Wood ruff district, as greedy for every mo ment of rain as a haymaker for shine; and he knew that Jim made a great many evening calls. But he did not know that Jim was making what our sociologists call a survey. For that matter, neither did Jim ; for books on sociology cost more than 25 cents a volume, and Jim had never seen one. However, It was a survey. To be sure, he had long known everybody In the district, save the titmmses—and he was now a friend of all that exotic race; but there Is knowing and knowing. He now had note-books full of facts about people and their farms. He knew how many acres each family pos sessed. and what sort of farming each husband was doing—live stock, grain or mixed. He knew abont the mort gages, and the debts. He knew whether the family atmosphere was happy and contented, or the reverse. He knew which boys and girls were wayward and Insubordinate. He made a record of the advancement In their studies of all the children, and what they liked to read. He knew their favorite amusements. He talked with their mothers and sisters— not about the school, to any extent, but on the weather, the horses, the automobiles, the sllo-filllng machinery and the profits of farming. Reallj’, though Jennie Woodruff did not see how such doings related to school work, Jim Irw-In’s school was running full blast In the homes of the district and the minds of many pupils, weeks and weeks before that day when he called them to order on the Monday specified In his contract as the first day of school. Con Bonner, who came to see the opening, voiced the sentiments of the older people when he condemned the Take the T rain COMFORT and SAFETY plus DEPENDABILITY L ow Round Trip Fares reduce the cost of travel $4. 4 5 On »«'.e doily Lim it 15 days $3.?5 On sale Rn. Sat. St Sun., lim ited to Tut. to P O R T L A N D Low Round Trip Fares to other points Roomy, well bested and ventilated equipment makes traveling on the Southern Pacific a pleasure. You know that irrespective ol rain, fog, snow or other unfavorable condi tions the train can be depended upon — that efficient and courteous South ern Pacific meu will look after your com tort. Ask agent for a Southern Pacific tim e table and for information regarding fares, etc.., or write J O H N M. SCO TT, Assistant Passenger Traffic Manager, Portland, Oregon Southern Pacific Lines HAL3BY ENTERPRISE PAGE 3 Pine Grove Patters By Anus trn u e ll: iEnterprise Oorreepondeace) Fred Sylvester went to Portland M r and Mrs. Charley Carlsou and Friday to visit his mother, who is two sons drove to Portland Wednes quite poorly, and attend the funeral of day. his nephew, who was killed in an air Mrs. Tom Hutchien of Corvallis is plane accident in Texas. attending Mrs. Emma Gregory. Mrs. O. M artin is seriously ill in a Stewart Arnold and wife of Marsh Eugene hospital. field came to Shedd Wednesday to R. K. Stewart visited his son and visit Stewart’s parents, M r and Mrs. fam ily at Mabel and relatives in Eu Charles Arnold. gene last week. Dale La M arr and Miss Merle Pugh Mrs. M. Settle and baby are visiting were among those from Shedd who at the R. K. Stewart home before rttended the big game Saturday on joining M r. Settle at their new home Evgene. • in Marshfield. Mrs. Emma Gregory has been quite The pageant given by the Oakville ill but is reported somewhat better. Mrs. Effie Brock is cooking for the ladies was well attended and much enjoyed. boarders. Miss Helen Ritchie went to Port land Tuesday to visit friends. Bert Minckley and M r. Albertson were Salem visitors Friday. Prof. W illiam Allingham of Port Mrs. Henry Freerkson, Mrs. Agnea Clark and Mrs. Lyman Coates spent land was up inspecting his farm prop Thursday afternoon with Mra. Frank erty which he inherited from his uncle the late W illiam Shepherd. Shumate. M r. and Mrs. Bert Haynes spent The revival meetings after a tyo Sunday with W. E. Hover and fam weeks* sessions ended Sunday night. ily of Harrisburg and enjoyed a birth Lyman Pennell and son, Leland, day dinner given in honor of W. E. drove to Portland last week . Hover, Delta Haynes, Mrs. M yrtle Ivan Dakin, who has been working McManus and Miss Virginiu Smith. near Junction City, stopped in Shedd, There were fourteen present. one night last week on his way to Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Johnson, M r. Portland. and Mrs. Smith and baby, and M ra. M r. and Mra. E. E. Coon gave a Clevenger and son of Albany visited party Sunday for all their friends, the at the Albertson home Sunday. occasion being their wedding anniver Clyde Johnson preached at the sary. • <• »> Pine Grove church Sunday morning. 'W i n t e r ! (Too late last week) Yes; it is almost boro. That means H e a tin g S to v e s See our new and complete line of Heaters We solicit your stove Repair business. H IL L & <s. M r. and Mrs. Otto N e ff are enjoy Mrs. Dal. Duncan returned Friday ing a visit from M r. N e ff’s father from Hermiston, where she had been from Kamas. visiting her son. Floyd Nichols was a Corvallis visit Eddie McEivain left Thursday for or Saturday. Portland to make his home. L. E. Eagy spent Thursday in Cor C. L. Pennell of Pendleton visited vallis. Mr. and Mrs. Grant McNeil were his brother in Shedd a few days be Albany visitors Saturday. fore going to work in Scio. W ork is progressing rapidly in the remodeling of the M. E. church. Revival meetings are being held at the U. P. church. Clyde and James Crawford return ed last week from Canada, where they have been working for some time. Guy Porter of Albany has been helping work on the M. E. church. “T hat Feller’ll Never Do." school as disorderly. To be sura, there were more pupils enrolled than had ever entered on a first day In the whole history of the school, and It was hard to accommodate them all. But the director’s criticism was leveled against the free-and-easy air of the children. Most of them had brought seed com and a good-sized corn show was on view. There was much argu ment as to the merits of the various eutrles. instead of a language lesson from the text-book, Jim had given them an exercise based on an examina tion of the ears of corn. The number exercises of the lltile chaps had been worked out with ears und kernels of corn. One class In arithmetic calculated the percentage easiest In the beaten track. Yours, Jeunle." Jennie's csntlnn made no impression on Jim— but he put the letter away, and every evening took It out and read at Inferior kernels at tip and butt to the words, “I'm for you. too!" The the full sized grains In the middle of colonel's dictum, “Any Job's as big as the man who holds It down," was an the ear. All the time, Jim Irwin, awkward Emersonian truism to Jim. It reduced and uncouth, clad In bis none-too-good all Jobs to an equality, and It meant Sunday suit and trying to bide behind equality In Intellectual and spiritual development. It didn't mean, for In hla Lincolnian im.le the fact that ho was pretty badly frightened and much stance. that any Job was as good as another In making It possible for a embarrassed, passed among them, get man to marry—and Jennie Woodruff's ting them enrolled, setting them to “Humph!” returned to kill and drag work. Wasting much time and labor- tug like a heavy-laden barge In a sea off her “I'm for you, too !'* way. “That feller'll never do," said Bon CHAPTER IV ner to Bronson next day. “Looks Ilka a trump In the schoolroom.” The First Day of School. “Wearln' hla beat, 1 guess," aald Jim Irw in was full of his Emerson's "Representative Men,” and his Car Bronson. "H a lf the kids call him 'Jim ,'" aald lyle's "French Revolution." and the other old-fashioned, excellent, good Bonner. "That's all right with me,” replied literature which did not cost over 23 cents a volume; and he had pored long Bronson. "The room wns as noisy as a can- and with many thrills over the pages of Matthews' “Getting On In the cut," was Bonner's next Indictment, World." His view of efficiency was “and the flu re was all over corn Uko that It Is the capacity to see oppor a bwgpln." “Obi I don't suppose he can get tunity where others overlook It, and away with It," aaaented Bronson dis make the most of It. All through his life he had had his gustedly, "but that boy of mine la as own plana for becoming great. And tickled as a colt with the whole thing. all the time he was bare-footed. Ill- Saya he's goln' reg'lar thia winter.” “That’a because Jim don't keep no dad and dreamed his dreams to the accompaniment of the growl of the order," aald Bonner. "He le u Newt do plow cutting the roots under the aa be pleasve.' * “First time he's ever pleased to do brown furrow-slice, or the wooshing of the milk In the pall At twenty-eight, anything but deviltry,” protected Bron son. “Oh, 1 suppose Jim'U fall down, be considered these dreams over. A t for this new employment, he ssw and we'll have to fire him— but I wish no great opportunity in I t He went we could git a good teacher that would Into the small, mean, lll-psld task ss git hold of Newt the way ha seems a part of the day's work, with no to I" knowledge of the stirring of the nstlon CHARTER V for a different .sort of rural school, and no suspicion that there lay In it T ha Promotion ef Jennie. any highway to success in life He I f Jennie Woodruff was the canea of rather wondered why he had allowed Jennie • sneer to sting him into the Jim Irw in s sudden irruption Into the course of action which put him In thia educational field by her scoffing . at the Idea of a 1 farm hand's ever being able to marry, she also gave him the opportunity to knock down the driver of the big mo torcar, and perceptibly elevate him self In the opinion of the neighbor hood, while filling hta own heart with something like shame. The tat man who had aald “Cut It out" to hta driver, was Mr. Charles DUly, a business man In the village at the extreme opposite corner of the county, Mr. Dllly was a candidate for county treasurer, end wished to be nominated at the approaching county convention. In hla part of the county lived the county superintendent—a candidate for renomlnatlon. He wes Just a plain garden or field county su perintendent of schools, no better and no worse than the general political run of them, but be had local pride en listed In his cause, and was a good politician. Mr. Dllly was In the Woodruff dis trict to buUd a backfire against this conflagration of the county superin tendent. He expected to use Jennie Woodruff to light It withal. That la. while denying that he wished to make any deal or trade—every candidate In every convention always says that— he wished to say to Miss Woodruff and her father, that if Miss W w druff would permit her name to be need for the office of county superintendent of schools, a goodly group of delegates could be selected In the other corner of the county who would be glad to reciprocate any favors Mr. Charles J. Dllly might receive In the way of votes for county treasurer with bal lots for Miss Jepnle Woodruff for su perintendent of schools. Mr. Dllly never Inquired as to Miss Woodruff's shuttles as an educator. That would have been eccentric. Mist Woodruff never asked herself If abv knew anything about rural education which especially fitted her for the task; for wss she not a popular and successful teacher—and was not that enough? So are the officials chosen who supervise end control the educa tion of the farm children of America. When Jim Irwin started home from putting out his team the day after his first call on the Simms family, Jennie was waiting at the gate to he con gratulated on her nomination. “1 hope you're elected," Jim aald, holding the hand the had extended; "but there's no doubt of th at" “They say not," replied Jennie; “but father believes In working Just as If we didn’t have a big majority for the ticket Say a word for me when on your pastoral rounds." “All right said Jim, “what aha!! I say you'll do for the schools?” "Why," aald Jennie, rather per plexed, ''I'll be fair In my examina tions of teachers, try to keep the unfit teachers out of the schools, vlalt schools aa often ns I can. and— why, what does any good superintendent 1 do?" “I never heard of a good county superintendent," said Jim. “Never heard of one—why, Jim Ir win I” Mr. and Mrs. Richerson left Thursday for Portland. M r. Richer son has been connected with the A. D. Kern company. I “I don't believe there la any euch thing," persisted Jim, "and I f you do no more than you say, you'll be off the same piece as the rest Your system won't give us any better schools than (enterprise CarraspondaBce) ws have—of ths old sort—and we Mrs. W. A. Springer of Corvallis need a new kind." “Oh, Jim, Jim I Dreaming aa of visited her sister, Mra. E. A. Starnes yore I Why can’t you be practical I Thursday. What do you mean by a new kind of D. I. Isom went to Eugene Satur ! rural school?" "Good N ight," Said Jennie Curtly, day. “I t would be correlated with rural rrtiy have suggested, but a weTT-to-do , life. It would get education out of the Mrs. A. E. Whitbeek and Mrs. J. farmer, whose wife did her owu work ! things the fanners and farmers' wives F. Isom called on Mrs. George Work- much of the time, not because the are Interested In as a part of their inger one afternoon last week. colonel could not afford to hire “help," lives." hot for the reason that “hired girls” C. A. Troutman and wife of Albany Jennie looked serious, after smoth were herd to get. ering a laugh. visited Mrs. Troutman's sister, Mrs. The colonel, having teen the glory “Jim," aald she, "you’re going to D. 1. Isom Wednesday of last week. of the coming of the Ixird In the have a hard enough time to succeed triumph of hla elde In the rreat wer, Lee Ingram and fam ily visited Mrs. In the Woodruff school. If you confine was Inclined to think that all reform yourself to methods that have been Ingram's sisters, Mrs. Hawk and Mrs. had ceased, and was a political stand Clover at Springfield Sunday. tested, and found good.” patter—a very honest and sincere one. “But the old methods," urged Jim. ( Mrs. C. E. Mercer, who Is visiting Moreover, he was Influential enough I "have been tested and found bad. so that when Mr. Cummins or Mr. her parents, M r. and Mrs. D. I. Isom, 5 Shall I keep to them?” Dolliver came Into the county on po spent last week in Florence visiting litical errands. Colonel Woodruff had I “They have made the American peo her husband who has almost complet always been called Into conference. He ple w hat they are." aald Jenuie. "Don't ed his work of making a road at that was of the old New Eogtand type, be be unpatrlotlo, Jim.” lieved very much In heredity, very "They have educated our furm chil place. much la the theory that whatever la dren for the cities," said Jim. "This J. N. Burnett and B. E. Cogswell Is right. In so far at It has secured county is losing population—and It s took a load of dressed geese and tu r money or power. the beet county In the world.” A very respectable, honest, Ameri “Pessimism never wins," said Jeo- keys to Portland the first of the week. i nle. M.s. W illiam Curtis of Lebanon can tory was the colonel, fond of hla "Neither does blindness," answered visited her »on, Chester Curtis, and political sway, and rather soured by the fact that It was passing from him. ! Jftn. “I t Is losing the farms their fam ily one day last week. He h id now broken with Cummins and dwellers, and swelling the cities with Dolliver ae he had done years ago a proletariat” Lon Chamlee, pastor of the Halsey For some time, now, Jim had ceased Christian church, and his fam ily took with Weaver and later with Larrabee —and thia breach was very Important to hold Jennie's hand; and their sweet Sunday d'nner at the J. F. Isom home. to him, whether they were greatly con heart days had never seemed farther cerned abont It or not awsy. L. IL Armstrong and fam ily were Such being bar family history, Jea “Jim." said Jennie, “I may be elect Sunday visitors at the E. D. Isom nie was something of a politician h er ed to a position la which I shall be home. self. She was la no way surprised obliged to pass on your acts aa teach er— In an official way, I mean. I hope • Chester C u rti* and fam ily spent when approached by party managers on the subject of accepting the nomi they » ill be Justifiable.” Sunday evening at the home of Mrs. nation for county superintendent of Jim smiled hla slowest and saddest Curtis' parents, M r. and Mrs Charles schools. Colonel Woodruff could de smile. liver some delegatee to hla daughter, “I f they're not TU not ask you to Tandy, near Harrisburg. tbongh be rather shied at the pro condone them." eald he. “But first posal at first, bat on thinking It over, they must he Justifiable te me, Jea •V-MJtV wanned somewhat te the notion of nie." having a Woodruff oa the county pay “Oood night" eald Jennie curtly, Shopman— Yea, Mr, you want a roll once more. asd left him. Jennie, I am obliged to admit, gave narrow man’s comb? (T o be continued) scant attention to the new career upon Facetious Customer—No, I want which her old «weetheart seemed to I T S T H 1 U F K IR P a comb for a stout man with rubber be entering. She was Io politics, and teeth.—I-oinJon Answers. was playing the game as became the "Whet la that edifice?" daughter of a local politician. CoL “Bankruptcy court.' Satiafactioo guaranteed Albert Woodruff went South with the Phone 112 Y Price >.1,50 "I had heard to, but could hardly | army aa a corporal In 1W1, and came hack a lieutenant Hla title of colonel FR E D B JO NES believe it.” was conferred by appointment as a "What aatonuhee you f" member of the staff ef the governor, "The number of people that pull long years ago, when he was county ALBANY up there in automobiles "—Louis auditor. He was not a rich n u t , u 1 Piano Tnner for leading a n tic Me es in ville Courier-Journal. Alford Arrows Piano Tuning and Repairing (Continued in column *) Albany