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About Cloverdale courier. (Cloverdale, Tillamook County, Or.) 190?-19?? | View Entire Issue (Nov. 16, 1916)
Cioverdaie Courier Published Every Thursday Praak Taylor, E ditor and Publisher. “ Entered a«second-class m atter, Nov em beclilth, 19i)5 at the postoftii** at C'lo- verdale, Tillamook County, Orcu«*n, un der Act of Congress, March Jrd, 1878. S ubscription R ai ; One Year, in advance........................ $1.00 Si* M onths.................................................50 Three Months........................................ 25 f Single Copy................................................ 06 A dvertising T hnksgm M Good Eats R a te s Displayed Advertisements, 50 cents per inch per month, single column. All I ocal Reading Notices. 6 cents per line for each insertion. Timber land notices $10.00 Homestead notices 5.00 Political Announcement Cards $10.00 J ob D epartment My Job Department is complete in every respect and I am able to do all kinds Commercial Job Printing on short notice at reasonable prices. THURSDAY. NOVEMBER*16,1916 HOW TO KEEP THE BOYS ON THE FARM. If you want to keep your boy on the farm, take him to the eity. You cannot persuade the boy that the best place for him is on the farm, so don’t try it. Try him out by giving him an inter est in the farm earnings. Don’t make the drudgery alone exclusively his. Don’t keep the boy away from the city, thinking that if he knows nothing of city life he will not want it. This is one of the common mistakes too often made. Take him to the eity; take him to the theaters?’ and to the workshops. Let him see the fullness of all the en joyments of a city. Point out to him the other side. Let him see for him self that there is more and harder drudgery in the city than in the country. Show him the luxurous, well-kept of fices of the men of affairs and also the headquarters of the common la borer (with all due respects for the latter) but as an example it suffices. The boy will see without being told that he cannot occupy one of the offices w ithout titting himself for the position. He will also notice that fairly good posi tions are not yawning for takers. He w ill also discover that he cannot spend any am ount of his time with the amuse ments the city affords. Let him wander through the streets where the beautiful homes of the rich adorn the handsomely paved thorough fares, and too, let him view the alleys and by-ways where the poor reside, Education—practical and personal, is w hat the boy netds. He needs to know just where lie must start in when tie decides to shift from farm to citv life. If, after he has lamiliarized himself with all the conditions of city life, tie decides the city is where he wants to take his chances for success, the sooner he makes the start the better. He will be a misfit on the farm, a tragedy of life too frequently witnessed bv fathers and mothers. VIOLENCE V ERB’S LAW AND OR l SR Two steamerloads of the I. W. W. agitators and organization went to Everett, Washington, to assist the striking shingle weavers break down open shop sentim ent and in resisting their landing the sheriff was shot, six killed and many wounded. When there is a contest in the United States between violence on the one side and law anil order on the other, the latter always prevail*. Blood may be ehed in the struggle, but the outcome is Pickles Boiled Cider Olives Chili Sauce Oyster Cocktail Sauce Celery Sweet Potatoes Asparagus Tips All Kinds Fresh Fruits Little Gem Pea Mince Meat « & CRABS, LOBSTERS, SHRIMP, ETC., FOR YOUR SALADS Cioverdaie Mercantile Co. law and order. As a people w e believe in the rule of law, we believe in a government of law to which all men, high and low, rich and poor, are alike subject, so that when there is a challenge, such as that at Everett, it is promptly met by cit izens. The I. W. W., if one may judge by utterances and acts of members, be lieve violence is necessary to gain ends sought. They have asserted the need of violence as a reform agency. They have intense grudges against what they call the employer class. They differ from most of the socialists. The dom inant element of socialists fav ors political action in contract with direct action. The dom inant element believes in bringing about changes in government through the ballot and official action. The I. W. W. be lieves in stirring things up by a chal lenge of orderly processes, this is called “direct action.” w hile political action is regarded as indirect. The government ot the United States is one of polilical action. It may be changed by a vote of the people. When an effort is made to change in any other way, Americans, with few exceptions, rally for law and order and offer their lives far that principle. . It is difficult to imagine anything of value that can he gained by the course of the E W. W. No city, no com munity, will permit the overriding of law bv violent procedure, for to remove the life and property safeguards we all enjoy. THE SLAB CREEK SAGE SATS Those who look for trouble are apt to find fault. Men with money can keep their friends by not lending it to them. It’s a poor love letter that can’t create a sensation if read in coutt. • Young man, marry a parlor orna ment if you can afford to hire a cook. Many a m an’s morality doesn’t get being bnsy until he discovers he shadowed by a detective. The man who sits down and waits for something to turn up will succeed in tim e. His toes will turn up. A man may class his wife as a bird of paradise during the honeymoon—and as a parrot latter in the game. Doctors used a lance to bleed their patients in former days. Other methods are now employed. ’Tis better to have kissed amiss than never to have kissed a miss. Poets are born, and occasionally one is paid. A man who trusts no one doesn’t know what real disappointm ent is. Begin with an umbrella when you start in to lay up something for a rainy day. The easiest things in the world to forget are your other troubles when you have the toothache. Be a dreafner if you will, hut get up and hustle when the alarm clock jingles. There’s plenty of room at the top, because nearly everyone wunts to get in on the ground floor. One pair in a hammock heats three <1 a kind. Easiest thing in the world—to sug gest a remedy for the ills of others. Life has been described us a game of give and take—and most people give a lot more trouble than they are w illing to take.