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About Sherman County observer. (Moro, Sherman County, Or.) 1897-1931 | View Entire Issue (May 24, 1929)
How Old Is World’s Early Civilization? Walter A. May & Son Store No. Ill More Babes On Farms Last Year Counj^Notes For — T h e P rice' of O n e K ent Local Item« A Link in the United Chain of Grocer» An unusual offer to introduce to you • Coffee — Lindsay Bread Knife, Value $1.00, One 1 lb. pkg. United Coffee, Value • 47c, Both f o r ................. ................. ........ ° yc Special Offer, Citrus House hold Soap, 6 bars for . . . 25c C itr u s H O L'ShH O W S O Æ * See our hand bills for Saturday and Monday Specials. MAY & SON A good assortment of Mens clothing and Shoes Grass V alley Saturday, May 25 75c A gang of sheep shearers came in Saturday and are now shearing for J. N. Maclnnis. A. A. Dunlap, Frank Haynes, G. C. 1 Young and others with their families Plenty of babies last year and . all We have been wont to hear, for 8pent Sunday at the Fleck orchard around low death rate on the farm | many years, that civilisation has ex- J near Rufus. did much to off-set the diminishing | isted on this earth for many thou- unfts 5UM is -------------------- Chas. jncvoM.IM McCutcheon back from , of rural communities. . I t s . W = s u t s x s - , xu x V 11928, while the entire ru ral death School closed Friday and the teach- per thousand, |fvred all the way from 10,000/to ers left Saturday for their h®mes, ex-| At that the farm population of the 5,000,000 years in their teach in g o n . - — — win remain United States was on January I, this th i, point. Now comes archaeologists | cept i t ,eMt oi the Field Museum-Oxford Umver- ne • , . *m, n year the lowest in twenty years, with sHy with the statement end wife and Aman-i Aman- itement that science I | W. G. Helyer and toUl of 27,511,000. The highest tion back only 4,000 dus von Borstel left last week to at-1 population the country has can trace civilization rist. This conforms tend the I. O. O. F. grand lodge and L wn Was in 1909 when the total vears before Christ. inis couxur«» i v«»» —- — — - - u . « „ j this «1 _ n.’Ll« with the chronology of » the Bible. Ex- I P/ikoVok Rebekah noaPPlhlV assembly at» a Medford th is |wag 32,000,000 persons. Relatively the farm has lost much more than periments conducted by a joint com- week. Bol>tel w1'' ” »scour» while wuuc away. .these figures indicate because city mission of the Field Museum and Ox- Roseburg ford University took place in Mesopo-1 Theo, and Harry Justesen are here populations have steadily increased tamia on the site of the ancient city from California, visiting a t home. A during the period. oi Kish which was founded immedi- COUsin of Fred Justesen is here from Thanks to the babies the n< -t rura ately after the deluge. - Omaha w itkhis wife on a visit. They 1 population los. was only 1 »8,000 in , ir n - fol I all picniced at Crooked river Sunday. 11928. The report speaks for itsell, as ' [ Ralph Rrisbine and family were up Many people look with alarm on loW8: Sr .• f I from Moro and went with them Sunn the 8teady loss in rural population, “That the Worlds earliest cmhxa- _ _ _ -------- seeing in it final disaster to agricul- tion was founded some time short y _ American Legion ture. Others declare that this bal- before 4,00» B. C. .s the '° " cl“ ,“” L (>^ 10nhji ewn^ started nicely last lance against the farm m ean, the leached by archaeologists of the FieJ Coacrete was poured for the ultimate salvation of farm econom- Museum-Oxford University joint ex- ' . d u Uy L to th, SMUred «adjustment of pedition of Mesopotamia, t nn«, L f f and wait for lumber. The car of supply and demand. ducting its sixth season of operations I off , r r * t^ ^ u ^ d ^ y morning and | Some satisfaction may be found cn the site of the ancien c y ’| , expected the work will now b e k y the alarmist in the fact that con- which was founded immediately after t p ditions are improving. Fewer per- the great flood described in the B i b l J r u s h e ^ I™ “ fann to A c o briongi g county line the city and there is a steady increase was overturned near th, ‘ movement from the city to the south of town one day IW w e« i . ............. BUSTERS’ GANG There were four men m the car. AU farm. Statistics show that in 1928 persons leaving the farm numbered escaped without any inj^ With all the old-time players there 1,960,000, an compared with 1,978,- but all were somewhat cut and 000 in 1927 and 2,165,000 in 1926. History. bruised, eye witnesses report that it ••The first few weeks ° £ theJ " „ „ a case of fast driving and loosing In 1928 those moving to the farm from the city numbered 1,362,000 ftB ent season, Prof. Langd , I COntrol of ear on a turn. compared with 1,374,000 in 1927 and have been devoted to hydraulic ex-J cavations below the modern water 1,136,000 in 1926. And then the babies, bless them! (level, reached in last year’s work, to virgin soil. Through these opera tions the expedition’s- archaeologists have now established ft scientific The Answer to Socialiam classification df the various periods from the beginning of civilization up- 1 R iotous Ramp- ward to the Neo-Babylonian period, Keaton on KlOtOUS lx p In the May issue of Vanity Fair, marked by the great temple of Nabu-J agC ¡n New P i c t u r e Aldous Huxley, onp of the most bril I nidus at the end of the sixth century, liant and original of the younger May 29 - 30 - 31 June 1 - 2 ¡Langdon reports. • I Buster Keaton battles with rum English authors, analyses socialism Ruin* Are U nder W ater I runners, navigates a burning and de and the Marxian theory of the exploi w xoxo ■This remarkably well-preserved serted ship through a ^ to rm , wreck. tation of the proletariat, and finds Ilemnle " the report continues, "which » theatre and a night dub, »nd 1»- it wanting. What is happening, or is likely to | temple, tne report ivuuu c ¡n ether strenuous and hllari- There will be 150 of the fastest runners in the in parts still preserves the cornl" ® ou, Bdventures in his latest Metro- happen in the future, to Karl Marx’s iu western walls, now stands on h L Ww M comedy, "Spite Mar- proletariat?” Mr. Huxley writes. northwest on the track. verge of a deep-cavity. Fourteen , j at the Moro Theatre, “ Briefly, this is happening. It is be meters below the pavement of the riage, piayii x coming a branch of the bourgeoisie— tempi., Where the last king of Baby- Satur ay. Come and spend the week. _ bourgeoisie that happens to work Ionia took refuge r® „alls as a millionaire In the plumage of his in factories and not in offices. For highly industrialized states, like Plenty of good hotel and rooming accommoda the ruin, of Pl»”’ ? » » ™ b" « customers, marries a beautiful actress X / u v d ’ o'f ¿ ^ p o t a m V k the and then Is utterly »ubmerged in com- America, there is tendency toward tions. equalization of income. There is $ site said to have been the place where ica. tendency for the unskilled workman Kish was founded immediately ^fte through Buster’s participation to be paid as much as the professional Plenty of entertainment for the evenings. the flood. Apparently the water leve come^throug^^ man. has risen about nine feet since that I downward from the “The equalization of income—that A big dance at the rink hall every night. happy consummation from which Mr. time. Tn ,hi, lowest stratum, now below mast of a ship in a storm snd such Bernard Shaw expects all blessings Shows - Concessions - Merry-go-round - Fun Galore automatically to flow—is in process of being realized under the capitalist system in America. What the im The people of Condon extends to you a most mediate futurp promises is a Vast pla cordial invitation. teau of standardized income— the " r r v r ; : “ ,', a s . - S / S » • • - - “ '• • plateau being composed of manual ooocoooo laborers and the bulk of the claa»>or Jenidet Nasr but also fine black ware, him and his love. . . . . clerks and small professional men— Jemaet nasr incised Dorothy Sebastian is the heroine Auspices Condon Race Assn. and some beautifully m aae inciseu * n»««.« nlovn with a relatively small number of black pottery The civilization at a« the actress and Leila Hyams play b WALT SEALE, Mgr. E J 1 RANDALL, Sec. i ' m t t f X counld be dated at a • painted blonde vamp. Edward peaks rising from it to more or less minimum date 3500 B. C. by the pic- Earle is convincing a. a stage leading giddy heights of opulence. On these tograph^c inscriptions found there, man in the backstage theatrical epi- peaks will be perched the hereditary tographic inMnpup tab- Nodes of the picture, and William owners of property, the directors of R V a J d e r ^ °ther’ Of industry and finance and the ex tBMwm«miiiiiiutiinhn ceptionally able and successful pro ° , the '‘i"’ ; ith " f E d ^ d ’ s X l c k , doctor of "The fessional men. Given this transfor mation of the proletariat intp a X £ d thaanld branch of the bourgeoisie, given thl^ equalization — at an uppreeedently “ So primitive is the script of these | nnd Ernest S. Pagano, high level and over an area unprec first attempts in writing that the verb edentedly wide — of standard im is not inflected end the noun not de which the ruins of the Sargonic come, the doctrines of socialism lose period prevail, confused with later dined. Moreover, it is now clear that most of their charm end the com the proto-Sumerian people, who are debris of the Hammurabi and Cassite munist revolution become# rather the real founders of Kish and the period, 2800-1200 B. C.; and finally pointless.” irimitive çities of central Mesopo- above the last, lie the vast ruins of the Neo-Babylottian empire. mia, are really Alamitcs. • - With each Monarch wood and coal range we will give a Colman Aero ,Gas camp stove, giving you a summer stove with your wood and coal range. With* each Monarch Elec tric stove we will give an Electric Cooker Pot This special offer is only good till June eight. Low Death Rate Noted In Rural Communities In creases Population Claims Founded on Bible Stories and Science Theory Agree » S S TWO STOVES Moro Hardware and Implement Co. Moro, Oregon. The HOLT __________ V,— _____ ___ H illside H arvesters A re H e r e ' “This is the substance of a report from Prof. Stephen Langdon d irec tor of the expedition, made public to- h J v hv Stephen C Simms, director the Field Museum of Natural 01 Music By Spring Race Meet •Movies Condon, Oregon. CONT/NU/TY We want you to see Models -?4, 36 and 38 either at The Dalles or at our Moro, Arlington, Condon * /• or Goldendale salesrooms. These harvesters are of the old reliable Holt line of 40 years stand ing, vastly improved and now being built by the Caterpillar Tractor company. Intd these advanced machine« are going thpaame high grade of work- »anshlp and materials that thousands of Caterpillar users will testify are found in the Caterpillar tractors. ». The new features and improvements of the 34, 36 and 38 were not developed from theory, but from actual experience in the field—from the experience and suggstions of wheat farmers, and from an ex haustive study of the problems of the men who operate the machines. The Reside is Here Awaiting Your Judgment! Cascade Tractor & Equipment Co. 217 How That D ate It Fixed “Sculptores are begining to appear “From the depth of this stratum at Kish, now completely soaked with the which undoubtedly represent the risen water of the whole country, it period of the mighty kings of Kish, seems obvious that a date before who ruled the land for centuries and 4000 B. C. must be assumed for the mode their capital a byword for tem founding of the first proto-Sumerian poral power in the early days of Su cities of Mespotamia. From this^ merian history. We are therefore at last upon point upward the field director of ex v ery solid archaeological ground. in cavations, L. C. Watelin, and his as Mesopotamian excavation, confirming sistants, T. K. Penniman and Rene or correcting what was known from Watelin, have been able to determine the equally deep series of strata at the ascending periods of history Nippur. The expedition hopes now through fifty-eight feet of debris with to find material which will make pos grept precision, aided by inscribed sible tracing the religion and political tablets from plain level upward. x ‘“There are seven stages of hupian history of Sumer.” history at this, the most ancient great capital in Asia. They have been Mme. Joan d’Albertip of Paris un chronologically end archaeologically derwent a successful operation for identified as follows i, the removal of 22 pounds of fat. “Below water level, and sixteen to nineteen meters below mound level, A NEW 1929 Buick 4 door sedan the earliest period between about 4200 and 3500 B. C.; thirteen to six complete equipment — Must be sold. teen meters below mound level, the George N. Crosfield, Wasco, Oregon. brick tomb era, coming down to about 3200 B. C»» next higher*, a thin layer First Cat: I hear you had an ad of stamped parth laid over the ruins of the great Sumerian age, also about dition to your family» Mrs. Cat. Waa • 3200 B. C.; above the last, a layer of it a boy or a girl? Second Cat: Qh, Just six of one a period of décident civilization, nlarked by broken sherds, 3100-3000 and a half-dozen of the other.— B. C. ; next higher, a red stratum rich Lehigh Burr. in gold, silver, precious stones, pot tery, copper and inscribed tablets, A MASTER SIX Buick touring, and containing stage towers in plano good rubber — A wonderful buy for convex bricks, fixed definitely at _________ __ B. C.; then ______ _ someone — See George N. Crosfield. 3000-28000 still higher, When the St. Francis Dam — a part of the municipal water supply system of the City of Los Angeles went out, 'destroying one of the City’s power houses and its electric transmission fines, it took the light and power companies less than a minute to restore service after the power failed. During the great Mississippi flood practically all of the cities, towns village« in the flooded area were continu- i ously supplied with electric service. Should anything happen to a generating station in any • city of size in the United States, temporarily putting it out uf Luoine»!», the interruption in service would be brief, This has been brought about by the expenditure of hun dreds of millions of dollars by the light and power in dustry on interconnection, or “hook-up«.” What is this worth in dollars and cents to a community? -r* - I ' '-‘z. Sculptorea A re Found. Harvester and Tractor Parts are carried at our Dalles, Moro and Arlington houses Combined • I' Pacific Power & Light Company ALWAYS AT YOUR SERVICE A NEW 1929 Buick 4 door sedan complete equipment — Must be sold. GeorgeAN. Crosfield, Wasco, Oregon. HOLT 307 Court Street, The Dalles “THE STORE FOR PAINT’’h Decorators and Painters Dealers In Sun - Proof Paint Florhide Enamel Waterspar Quick Drying Enamel Velumina W all Paint (Better than Kalsomine) We have a large assorted stock and up-to-date Wall Paper. Mail orders receive our best and prompt attention. A post card will bring you our Catalog of latest designs in Wall Paper. COME IN WMEN IN f HE X Roundup ! at Tygh Valley, June 1 -2 Program Consists of Regular Roundup Évents Dancing— (Music by Pats Aces) and Moving Pic ture Show Evenings.- . ” ' - . ' E v erett W ilso n , M a n a g er • ■ V ' J--* ** —— S——I— ■ ■ • . - ^#1 I - Whoopee! Let’s Go! X i DALLES ,■# ■» a deep atratMW five meters thick in Wasco, Oregon. < Harvesters R. C. HEWITT & CO Business and Peace A world founded on credit, con fidence and prosperity means a world of peace, but a real peace movement must be linked with the interests of the business world- Any peace movement may express ethical or religious ideals but must rest on a sound concept or embodi ment that is an expression af an in dustrial whole. A permanent modern peace move ment must be a natural product and outgrowth of the industrial era, as in dustries within each state or nation have to be placed above and made se cure against disorder and rebellion. * The growth and development modern nations is a process pf in dustrial paeifioation and the same process must produce peace between nations. • Peaceful investments of capital to create conditions that secure payrolls and distribution of industrial pro-, ducts will be the final solution. Investments of capital, running in to billions, and people generally en tering into partnership with business, will produce a community of interests throughout the world which wifi ba the greatest of all guarantees of in ternational peace. The Dalle* Eat» Third St. —V . V / ) ? •
