J C E N *R a L P O IN T CENTRAL POINT AMERICAN A a In d ep e n d e n t W e e k ly P a p e r !* i b l .» h e d at C e n tr a l P o in t, O r e g o n , a n d E n te r e d F rid a y o f ea c h w eek in the P o e t o ff ic e th e r e o f a t S e c o n d Claaa M r t i e r ______ _______________________________________ PAUL ROBINSON, Editor and Publisher SUBSCRIPTION RATES One Year ................... .................................................................... All Subscriptions Must Be Paid in Advance A d v e r tis in g R a te s G iv e n on ...........$ 2.00 A p p lic a tio n E D IT O R IA L The best man won. Every loyal American will observe Armistice Day, November 11. It is all over, and in some cases, was a dirty campaign. Now Armenia seeks a $50,000,000 loan from the United States. Person­ ally, we havn’t the money, and if we had it we would be afraid o f the security. The biggest thing in America— The Pacific International Livestock Exposition, has been drawing excep­ tionally large crowds all week in Portland, the metropolis o f Oregon. NAUGHTY, NAUGHTY QUEEN Radio owners have heard the Queen, thousands o f Oregonians have seen the Queen, Portland went wild, simply wild, over *he Queen. Queen Msiie ol Rumania, with her son and daughter, has visited our wonderful state this week and, ac­ cording to her own words she “ fell in love with us.” Thats all well and good. Oregon takes great pleasure in entertaining visitors and a beauti­ ful queen as a guest is received with much pride with the welcome. We like Her Majesty, Queen Marie and have read much about her democrat- is ways. We like her, we say, but our estimate o f her high character fell just a tiny bit when we are in­ formed that she smokes cigarettes. switch could shut o ff electric current from world use today? E. B. Criddle o f the Southern Sierras Power com­ pany, Riverside, California, shows the dependence o f humanity on elec­ tricity. He says: “ We are today living in what may well be termed the ‘electric age’ ; the age o f all others most replete with opportunity, action, romance. It has been called by some, and I think miscalled, the ‘jazz age,’ but, is not this very jazz a feeble if perchance a misdirected effort, to get into step, shall we say, into synchronism, with the spirit #of thetimes; to keep up with the inevit­ ably swift pace o f this age o f elec­ tricity which has linked together in intimate and immediate contact the uttermost ends o f the earth. A M E R IC A N failure to stop, look and listen be­ fore crossing a railroad track, or failure properly to observe traffic rules and safe practices on the high­ ways, will result in dismissal from the service. ' It logically follows that public regulation o f the same character would accomplish a like result, and with automobiles increasing in num­ ber, with proportional increase in congestion and hazard o f accident, the point has been reached and the time has arrived for affirmative legislative action in this regard. But compulsory automobile insur­ ance is not the solution; it will not reduce accidents; it will tend to in­ crease them by removing the last vestige o f personal responsibility from persons already careless. “ E— Embodiment o f mystery. “ L— Lightener o f burdens. “ E— Energy; light heat, power. “ C— Carrier o f winged messages “ T— Towering above all other. “ R— Revolutionizing modern in­ dustry. “ I— Irresistible, incomprehensible. “ C— Chained lightning. “ — Incomparable, untiring servant. “ T— The unknown and unkowable. “ Y— Yielding prosperity and happi­ ness. time ita trucks crossed railroad j tracks R »*« than 31,000,000 times T H E R O M A N C E O F E L E C T R IC IT Y It selects its drivers with proper j care, instructs them in safe practices What would happen if a giant and gives them to understand that Central Point American, paper. Yours very truly, Mrs. Robt Kyle, Medford, Ore. Dear Sirs: -------------+ ------------- I too, want to take advantage of J. E. Vincent came in as the paper your “ bargain month subscription” and I am enclosing check lo r $i 00 > u Out last week, and renewed his for renewal to your much appreciated subscription a year in advance. We Will Welcome You As A Shareholder IDAHO EDITOR W RITES PAPER Cambridge, Idaho, Oct. 25, 1926 Mr. Paul Robinson, Central Point, Oregon Dear Robinson: I have received a couple o f copies o f your paper and as is usual with your papers, enjoy reading it very much. I wondered, when I heard about a month ago that you had left Vernonia, where you would locate next as I felt you would not long re­ main out o f an editor’s chair. I am sure the people there will profit by the work you will do to build up your community; I hope that they will ap­ preciate your efforts. I visited Central Point twenty-six years ago this fall. It was not much o f a place then but, judging from your newspaper, and that is the way most towns are judged, it must be quite a progressive little city now. I do remember the beautiful country around it and I know that you have located in a very desirable region in which to live. With best wishes for your contin­ ued success and with kindest regards to yourself and Mrs. Robinson, I am Sincerely yours, R. M. Scofield. “ Without electricity today, the wheels o f progress, and almost of existence, would be stilled until men could readjust themselves to the changed conditions, and revert to the candle, oil lamp and gas for lights; to fuel o f some kind for all heat; to horses and steam for power and for transportation, and to the bicycle and the small boy for carrying messages. Many conveniences now deemed necessities, would be gone forever. “ America leads the world in elec­ tric development. In 50 years we have seen the fantasy o f Alladin and his wonderful lamp surpassed a Can we, in our wild­ Thanksgiving Day, November 25, thousandfold. Thursday, as usual. We never have est dreams, imagine what the next experienced as much general pros­ half-century has in store?” perity as the country enjoys today. We fortunate few living in "The Land Where the Rogue River Flows,” FO R A H IG H W A Y T O U R IS T (as the Central Point American HOTEL adopts for a slogan) are doubly blessed with the things bestowed by Nature. Why not be thankful, and Central Point was visited one day on the day— proclaimed by our last week by Walter E. Kelly, an president as a day o f general thanks­ architect from Portland, who was giving, we can eagerly join the popu­ looking over the possibilities of lace o f this wide land in giving erecting a large fireproof, modern thanks to our alwise and just Creat­ tourist hotel in our city. He was or for the best t o be found on the especially impressed with the loca­ universe. tion on the corner, where the opera house recently burned, making the lot vacant. It is probably the best SH OP E A R L Y location in town for the hotel site. Mr. Kelly returned to Portland to make a report tothe men financing m With Christmas only a little more the proposition and a decision will than eight weeks ahead, the merch­ probably be made this fall as to ants and the newspapers are com­ whether the project will materialize | mencing to push the annual “ shop or n ot Here’s hoping; and a predic­ early” campaign. It is being pointed tion for its success. out that the autumn season already is well advanced and that the holiday shopping rush probably will be heav­ R E C K L E S S N E S S A N D R E G U L A ­ ier than usual this year, for bumper T IO N . crops and prosperity are supplying the people with ready money and making them feel both liberal and Only a relatively small per cent of optimistic. As a result it is anticipat­ automobile drivers are careless. ed that the coming holiday trade will But they are sufficient in number j take on “ bumper” proportions, to to make driving on the highways > correspond with the bumper crops hazardous. On a Sunday or holi- I and the general good times that are day many people refrain from driv- | gaining headway every day. And this ing because o f the hazard. It is j will mean unusually busy times in neither fair nor is it necessary that j shopa and stores, with a prospective careless drivers should drive others 1 “ rush” o f trade just before the ad­ o ff the highway, to which and on |' vent o f the holiday season. Antici­ which everyone has an equal right. pating an unusually heavy holiday Automobiles are safe, highways I i trade this year the merchants all are safe and driving practices must j over the country are planning to be made safe. make an extra effort to induce early An oil company, operating several | shopping and are earnestly advising hundred trucks, has not had a colli- I the people not to put o ff their shop­ sion or accident on the highways or ping until the last few weeks; or at railroad grade crossings for a 11 days, before Christmas. number o f yea's although during that i \ mm,r j You Can Share In the Wages of Capital Capital, like labor, earns wages. The wages of capital arc interest and dividends. You can share in the wages of capital by investing in Preferred Shares of this company. You will receive your capital's wages reg­ ularly— a dividend check by mail—every three months. 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