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OCTOBER 26, 1916 The increased cost of milk would be a good thing for the country if it should lead people to keep goats. For some reason goat’s milk has never been popu lar in America, although in Europe, es pecially in France, Italy and Switzer- j land, it is much esteemed, particularly I for babies. A goat can be kept at small expense where it would be impossible to keep a cow. Garden waste and roadside browse will support it. A small shed affords sufficient shelter. A goat is far cleaner in its habits than a cow, and re quires only such care as a child can give it. Let us get goats. WHAT IS THE STEEL TRUST UP TO? Stilts are all the rage. We have a pair for every boy in the valley and we want every boy to have a pair. Come into the store and see them, also learn how you can he a possessor of a pair ot these nicely painted and praeticall arranged step stilts, Do not wait until the other boys get ahead of you right away. American newspapers have overlooked the deep significance that apparently lies behind the visit to Japan of E. H. Gary, chairm an of the United States steel corporation. From long extracts of Gary’s speeches in|Tokio, we learn that the “ judge” is soft-soaping both Americans and Japan ese is believing that establishment of steel mills in Japan will cement the friendship of relations between Japan and the United States. What the steel trust really wants in Japan is a chance to exploit the cheap labor of the orient just as it already is exploiting im m igrant and Negro labor in this conntry. The capatalists and and the “ drys” very little is heard the government officials of Japan are about the infringement of personal lib wise to this, and while they inav let erty, although it crops out in argu Gary enslave the poor coolies they will m ents heard in the bar rooms and have no false ideas about his steel mills other places where the wei and dry linking the two sides of the Pacific in a question is usually discussed. closer bond of brotherly love. W hat It is not an infringement of any one s ever the Japs may be, thev are not fools. personal liberty if a majority of the peo Union labor thinks that tbp real ple of anv state should, bv their votes, powit is that Gary hopes to cheapen la decide to abolish the saloon. It is the bor in this country by depressing the restriction of a privilege—a license. demand—which lie plans to do by using It will be no more of an infringement new mills in Japan to fill steel orders of personal liberty than the passage and from the far east. Incidentally, steel enforcement of the Harrison drug act made by the United States steel corpor- ; was on the personal liberty of the dope ation will also be much cheaper because users. the freight cost will be much lower than j If it is an infringement of personal if made in the United States. liberty for ttie majority to decide to stop And about all America will get out the sale of strong drink, then is it not nn (<f it will be dividends to steel trust infringement of the milkman's person stockholders. al liberty w hen a city says to him that he cannot sell milk unless it comes within PERSONAL LIBERTY. certain restrictions? Is it not an in Opponents of prohibition have l>een fringement of i>eraonal liberty to quar- wont to fall back upon the claim that entine a whole family on account of a any proposition to abolish the saloon is | contagious disease in the home? Is it a blow at personal liberty—that a man not an infringement of personal liberty has a right to drink and get drunk if he if the law says that gasoline must be soi l wants to, and that to prohibit him from getting his drink and becoming drunk, is and kept in red cans only? Is is not an an infringement of his personal liberty. infringement of personal liberty if the In the present campaign of the “ wets ’ , hardware dealers are prohibited from Cloverdale Mercantile Co. storing dynamite in their places of busi ness? Is it not an infringem ent of per sonal liberty when the community de cides that no one shall carry (¡rearms? Is it not an infringement of personal liberty to say to a hnnter that he may not slaughter all of the game that he may meet? And one might go on down the list of prohibited things. Society resolves to throw safeguards about peo ple for the majority. Few laws are ever passed but what some person has his personal liberty infringed upon, hut it seems that it is only in the case of liquor prohibition that complaint is made tbar one's personal liberty is being infringed. Notice for Publication. (pr iiLiHif kr ) 0:5073 04708 DEPARTMENT OF TIIE INTERIOR U. 8. LAND OFFICE at Portland, Ore gon, September 23, 1918. Notice is hereby given that Ernest E. Lightfoot, of Hebo, Tillamook County, Oregon, who, ou May 26, 1911, made Original Homestead Entrv No. 0:5073 for the sw li, ne '4 and e J* nw of se '4, section 3, township 4 south, range 10 west, and on September 1,1016, made Additional Homestead Entry No. 04703, for w ' a nw *4 of se t4, section 3, all in tow nship 4 south, range 10 west, W il lam ette Meridian,has filed notice of in tention to make final five vear proof, to establish claim to the land above de scribed,before the Clerk of the County Court for Tillamook County, Oregon, at Tillamook, Oregon, on the 9th day of November, 1916. Claimant names as witnesses: G eo rg e W. Bodvfelt, of Beaver, Oregon; Charles Jensen, of Hebo, Oregon; Al Gardner, of Tillamook, Oregon; Oliver P. Mattoon, of Hebo, Oregon. Proof made according to law nnder which entry was made, and Act of June 11, 1906. N. Campbell, Register. Notice for Publication. U ’U BLIHIIKB) 03896 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. U. S. LAND OFFICE at Portland, Oregon, September 20th, 1910. N is hereby given that Augusta Fowler, of Beaver, Tillamook County, Oregon, who, on August 14, 1913, made Homestead Entry No. 03896, for e % of se >4, Section M , Township 3 South, Range 9 West, W illamette Meridian, has tiled notice of intention to make final three-year proof, to establish claim to the land above described, before the Clerk of the County Court for Tillamook County. Oregon, at Tillamook, Oregon, on the 1st day of Novemlter, 1916. Claimant names as witnesses: Ernest Haag, Arthur Haag, John Kumni, and Jacob Niklaus, all of Beaver, Oregon. Proof made according to law under which entry was made. N. Campbell, Register. oti ce