HALSEY ENTERPRISE
Published Thursday at Halsey. Oregon
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Beware of ju s t how you vote on
the autoioobile license h ill this fall
as it is apt to prove a boomerang
In one b ill it la sought to cut the
license fee to about ooe-ba.I its
present schedule. T his is apt to
ca rry because of a reduction in
ta xatio n. To offset th is decrease
in revenue another referendum w ill
appear aod tbis is to increase the
ta x on gasoline, and, of course,
w ill be defeated because it is a
la x levy, ao the results are lik e ly
to leave us w ith a lower auto tax.
a hobble on onr road b uilding pro­
gram and eventually higher taxes
on other property to compensate
the auto license tax reduction.
Georgs E. Cham berlain for many-
years Oregon’ s leading p o litic a l
genius, died at his bonne in W ash­
ington, D. C., July 9. No citizen
of the stale was better or more fa­
vorably known p o litic a lly and his
opinions on national questious
were never far wrong.
We have promise of the th ird
p iT ty in the coming presidential
e sm p tig o . As the " B u ll Moose
p a rty is a past th io g w hy not call
th is new venture “ Bulldoze?”
There is a total of f 1.314,675 00
io federal aid funds for new roads
in Oregon provided t h i t Oregon
can raise fuods to match it. Can
it be Dunne?
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j ^ i u r sym pathy goes out to the
m oto rist who tears along tbe h ig h ­
way at 50 miles per to get some­
where and then wonders why.
One o, the serious problems con-
uBCtef w ith A rc tic explorations is
th a t of relieving the re lie f expe-
dition.
Her Choice
Of candies, fresh from the
factory, and packed in neat
and attractive boxes alwavs
makes a h it w ith her, if
bought at Clarks.
Better make a hit.
Clark's Confectionery
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glinted on the tin lantern
banging from the rafter« and lit
d im ly the spinning wheel in one
eorner of the cabin, the old hand
made (able upon which was the
fa m ily Bible, and the old style
chest of drawers surmounted by a
dim m irror. Occasionally a brighter
dame would lig h t op the ta b io so
that 1 could aee the long-barreled
Kentucky ride on tbe d-er horns
over the fireplace, tha poeder born,
tbe six-shooter and the saddlebags
on tbe wall, and the Dutch oven
and high legged iron sk ille t in front
o f the fireplace. Wherever 1 looked
1 could see reminders o f pioneer
days, such as the old tin candle
molds, tbe gourd th a t served as a
dipper, the bullet m old, the framed
chromo hr nging near the dresser,
the hand made coverlet under
which I was sleeping. Even tte
mattress took me back to pioneer
daya fo r it waa made of chicken
h air. Tbe old Seth Thomas clock
on tbe mantelpiece ticked o lf the
uou.-s as it baa been doing for a
century or mare.
The old daya and ihe old ways
have gone. No longer, io addition
to bexrmg 10 or 12 children, does
the housewife have to leach the
ashes to get lye to make reap, nor
scour tbe wool and spin and weave
it into cloth and dye it and make
c lo th in g for the fa m ily. No longer
does she have to cover up the coals
so that she w i'l not have to w alk a
mile or two to borrow live coals to
sta rt the fire. The ex team, tbe
canoe, tbe spinning wheel, the soap
kettle, ibe Dutch oven, the punch­
eon fioor, the stick and clay ch im ­
ney, are but memories now. Today
we pu-b a button and our homes
are flooded w ith lig h t. We set the
alarm and tha dinner is cooked
while the housewife is at a bridge
party. The hoopskirts, tbe bustle-
tbe whaleboue corsets, sun bonnets
and the voluminous petticoats have
a ll been relegated to tbe a ttic, w ith
tbe coonskio cap, tbe b u c kikin
jacket, and the homemade kuitted
weolen stockings,
1 have often wondered who
would be the rnoet astonished— the
pioneer w ouiei who crossed the
plains in tbe early ’40s, or tb e ir
great grauddaugbters of today —if
time could ro ll back its pages for
75 or 80 years and tbe two genera­
tions could mingle. 1 im agine that
our pioneer mothers would take
one scandalized look at the g irls of
today, w ith th e ir skirts above the
knees, their bobbed h air, th e ir li(
•tic k t, th e ir painted cheeks and
th eir absolute freedom and ia .i of
convention. 1 don’ t know whether
those pioneer girls, w ith tb e ir bux
oro figures tbeir rosy ches «. th e ir
braids down th e ir backs, their
skirts of decorous length, would be
more scandalized or envious. Cer­
ta in ly , tbe young woman of toda\
h a t been emancipated, and if tbe
b u y g irls of the past generations
coutidereil tbe ant, tbe g irls cf to­
day -onaider the b u tte rfly , and g
it one better.
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By
Or. Arnold Bennett H a il
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B O B B IN G
B A R B E R IN G
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. F.u
BATHS A N D
?ene.—The judgment and taste for good
literature shown by University of Ore­
S H A M P O O IN G
gon students improve markedly during
Agent
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the four years here, it is declared by
Hub Cleaning Works
Pat Mornssette, instructor in English,
Albany Laundry Every Tuesdav
who has just completed a series of ex
perimental examinations. A group of
five sonnets, evaluated by leading crit­
ic* of America, was used.
Nearly every freshman picked a
poem clamed as trite and usual. Second
year students put in second place the
t»e held to be mediocre. Juniors were |
much more accurate, but showed a ten- 1
deary to rate everything alike. The
senior report, however, was all that
could be hoped for, says Mornssette.
“ We started for the W illam ette “ There was no confusion of good and [
bad, no toleration of the hackneyed or i
valley w ith three wagons, but •
trite. Judgment of seniars is accurate
I
had to abandon one on the plains,' and strong.’’
Other data on progress male by stu­
said George Connor, wnen I inter-
dents of English will be given out latei I
viewed h im recently at Brownsville
by Mornssette, who is completing a re­
“ We had a fo ur m ile team ou one search problem in this field.
■ wagon aud four voke of oxen ou
the other. We could sure organize
PEACE GROUP FORMS AT U O.
a baseball nine or a brass band or
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Eu
■ moat a nyth ing else, u our fa m ily , gene.—An organixstion which hat for
for there were 15 of ue children. I its purpose ■'education for peace." has
been formed at the University of Ore­
waa born in Indiana. A p r il 27, gon, wtih both students and faculty as
1859. My fath e r A J. Conner, was; members. The group will be known as i
born iu I 111 hoi-. J l' mother'» | the Eugene Coaneil for the Preventioa j
of War. E. E. DeCou, heal of the de­
maiden uame was M ary Ann Col-1 partment of mathematics, was elected
> iu b . 1 waa 5 years old when we president, and William P. Maddox, as
came across the plains in 1864. We sistaat professor of political science
was chosen secretary. Dr. L L. Wirt.
settled about 12 miles from Salem Near East relief worker, was a guest I
in the heavy tim be r between How- and speaker at the organization meet- j
el! Prairie 'and Preach Prairie mg.
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M IL L E R
Sunday. Only
Charles Murray in
| "The Gorilla"
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We lived t ill 1876, wheu mv father
bought a place on the Saotiem 9,
mile« from A lb a n y . On November'
s 9, 1880, 1 waa married
1 Monday, Tut>. Wed.
n Charlie Chaplin in his
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Greatest Picture
Z ‘ The Circus"
to Paulina
Davie I had Ihreechildren by mv
first wife. A fte r her death I m ar­
■ ried E lla Hoefer. We bad two
bove Me live on the Caiapo ia.
about ( ix miles above H olley.'*
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“I t ’s the Light-Running
Grain Binder”
T h at’s what users everywhere say of
the Light-Running New John Deere.
When you put this new binder in the
field and see how easily it pulls and the
steady, good work it does—you, too, will
Want a
Light-Running
New John Deere
The use cf a wide drive
Wheel with extra high lugs,
improved cutter bar, roUer
end ball bearings, easier and
better lubrication, easy-run­
ning reel, improved lighter-
draft elevators with flexible
capacity and smooth-work­
ing binder attachment with
improved packer bearings,
make the John Deere the
lightest-running binder ever
b u ilt.
Large o il cups, easy to
get to, make oiling a simple
jo b , thus reducing wear and
lightening the d ra ft.
Improved reel, great ca­
pacity elevators, levers easy
to reach, handy bundle car­
rier and an all-steel quick-
turn tongue truck are other
im portant features of the
L ig h t- R u n n in g New John
Deere.
Come in and tee tha Rew John
Deere next tune you are la town.
Ini p ro v e at I . o f O.
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J “ Hook and
Ladder No. 9”
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Acetylene Welding
H int & Adams,
Corvallis. Ore.
The teaeher in the public aehoola tc
day, wbooe miaaion is the training of i
T W IN N E Y , so tbe story
boy, and girls for participation in ! OLOMON
west, was talking io Jake Bingham '
democracy, is facing greater difficulties
than in any other period of our na about a job. There was plemy to be
tion's history. The problems of today! d-.ee and Jake him self was cot Just
that challenge constructive democracy I crazy to overwork. Ue meant to do a
are vastly different from those of the j great many things which never got
early days cf the New World We are j done. There was a well curb which
prone to worship the past as the great 1 had needed fixing fo r a decade or so.
lay for American democracy. We think the fence* were down or leaning in
of the New England town meeting as many places, and the corn ought to
the ideal democratic accomplishment, i have been plowed a week ago.
We sigh as we compare with it the ’ "W ell, when could you come?” asked
inefficiency f city government of to­ Jake, thinking that Solomon would
need a few days possibly to get his
day.
Ba: the comparison is unfair. It effects together.
“ Right now," Solomon answered.
leaves out of account the tremendous
difference in the nature of the prob- . "There’s work to be done here, and
lean to be solved. The New England doDe rig ht away. 1 ain't one o f the
town meeting was confronted with such ‘ puttin'-off kind. What I say is. If a
problems as the location of a town well, > thing has got to be done, do it right
the building of a schoolhouse or its re i away—not tomorrow, nor next d jy .
pair, the fixing of the salary of th» ! nor next week, nor as soon as you can
school teaeher, or the maintenance of get around to IL ”
I have had a good deal to do my­
the highway.
With the Industrial Revolution, how­ self w ith the putting-off kind—men
who had the best intentions in the
ever, came a new set of problems, g
gantic ia size and complicated in na 1 world, who were going to do this or
tare. The factory system with its dan I cease doing that, but who set no par- i
gerous machinery created tremendous 1 lic u la r time fo r the consummation of
eitiea, out of rural communities. The the ir purposes.
I bought a clock of Johnson four or
public utilities, with their financial
power and political control threatened five years ago. I t was a good clock,
to vrst them with autocratic power, I but there was a flaw in the dial when
seemed to spring up overnight. The j it was delivered. Tbe clock was got
industrial eity came, with its problems ' in celebration o f an anniversary, and
of morals, diseases, sanitation and in spite o f the fact that it was not
engineering projects, and challenged t perfect it seemed best to receive it.
" I 'll see that the thing is made
the deepest learning and tbe most con
structive statesmanship that the nation 1 good, Mr. Clark.” Johnson assured me.
could produce. In these facts the care- I "The last thing 1 should want to sell
ful observer will find little basis for you is an im perfect article. I'm ex­
the pessimistic worship of the past, and pecting a new shipment in next week,
ltuple challenge to the dynamic Ameri­ and 111 sure make it rig ht.” I've
called Mr. Johnson several times
canism of the future.
The new problems of the day demand ; since. He was each time just on the
more than the casual study of the . verge o f doing something and he
patriot; they demand technical research, - thanked me for reminding him. That
infinite patience, and a capacity for I was five years ago, as I said, and the
sustained, patriotic interest. The eiti I clock is as it was when I got iL John­
tens cf today are called upon to grappie , son is evidently one of the p u ttin t-
with the vexing problems of water sup i off kind.
ply, involving tremendous engineering ! Smithers is going about on crutches
feats; they are to solve complex ques- I having ju st gotten out a fte r some
tions of sanitation and public hygiene i weeks of nursing a broken leg. There
based upon the learning of technical was a loose board in the walk leading
science; they have to adjust innumer f from Smithers’ back door to the gar­
able conflicts between the interests of j age. He had seen it himself often and
the public and private enterprise in , Mrs. Smithers had culled bis atteL
public utilities and public service; they tion more often than he had himself
must protect the health and limb of the ' noticed i t He bad meant to fix iL A
employees against ail manner of disease single nail properly employed would
and accident without unduly impeding have done tbe work, but he was one
the processes of production; they must of the putting-off kind and. going out
attack the mighty struggle between to the garage in the dark, he had
labor and capital, protecting the inter­ tripped and cracked a bone.
There are ail sorts o f thiugs we
est of the public, with impartial justice
can put off i f we are that kin d —an­
to either side.
These problems can not be solved by swering letters, paying calls or the
momentary appeals to patriotic fervor. monthly bills, joining the church, giv- j
They are not amenable to solution by ing up tobacco, taking out life insur­
the application cf good judgment and ance— anything that does not ahso- '
common sense alone. They require the lately have to be done on tbe moment '
patient research of the scholar and the But putting off is merely a habit and
technical efficiency of the expert. Back a very bad habit which, once fsLcu
of these there must lie the eternal vigi­ into, gradually possesses us.
CSV ttil. Western Newepacer Cnlon )
lance of the public, whose sustained in-
terest will stimulate the fidelity and
efforts of its servants, and whose ulti­
mate judgment upon the results ! D E L B E R T S T A R R j
achieved must afford a rational and en­ j Funeral Director and Licensed J
lightened system of rewards or punish­
Embalnier
ments for official effort.
L A D Y A S S IS T A N T
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Brow nsville, Oregon
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L iteratu re Student»
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General Blacksmithing
By THOMAS ARKLE CLARK
Dean of Men. University of
Illinois.
President, University of Oregon
Whiteside & Locke •
JIM HORNING
THE PUTTING
OFF KIND
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AKTS FUND AIDED
UNIVERSITY OF OREGON. Ba
gen».—A total of (S00 was ad led to
the funds of the Fine Art* Building
of the University of Oregon as a resalt
of dancet givea at manv Oregon eitim
oa University Dar, Mareh f3. lt i » an
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of the eemmittee. All affairt were
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