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ALBANY, OREGON. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 27
DEMOCRACY AND COERCION
"There ought to be a law." It is one of America's fanv
ous sayings, heard a hundred times a day, in every walk o
life. Legislation might be called America's obsession. We
seek to cover every act of human existence with a law: we
make law cover both what is in law's sphere and what is, or
ought to be, only in the sphere of morals or ethics, we can
; not let the individual alone to develop; we must pull him up
every little while to see if his roots are just the same as his
neighbor s. If they are not well, then, there ought to be
a law to make them the same willy nilly.
The superintendent of instruction of Michigan has de
clared he will seek legislation making it illegal for high
school students to belong to secret organizations, on the
grounds that they are "undemocratic, create snobbishness
and graduate blase young boys and girls." It might be ask
ed of the superintendent if it is the organizations or the
schools that graduate the blase young folk he mentions. Be
cause if secrecy makes for snobbishness, where is the democ
racy of America headed, since in the United States joining
has probably been developed to its greatest extent in the his
tory of the world.-'
Going farther, the district superintendents of educa
tion in New York city seek to refuse a diploma to any high
school graduate in that city unless he or she signs a pledge
of loyalty to the United States.
Surely the New York board of education will be asham
ed to admit it necessary to adopt such a requirement for
graduation, as the district superintendents should have been
ashamed to foster it Will the board publicly admit that it
cannot inculcate, but must coerce loyalty? will the board
tell the country that the pupils it has had in its care for sev
eral years have not been taught love of their country, na
tive or adopted? What have the schools been teaching the
cnuaren, tnat tney are atraid to graduate them as unbound
free Americans, like their fathers before them?
In loyalty a thing of words, Americanism a formula to
be recited? . . ..
YOUTHFUL WISDOM
A newspaper tells of a young man who found, when con
sulting with bis hancee as to their financial plans, that he
was spending nearly $100 a month in amusement. Three or
four times a week they stayed down town to dinner, went to
a show and ate something afterward. Sundays they took
rides in hired automobiles.
. The girl decided she preferred a home of her own to so
many nights out. They both thought it more desirable to
own a car than to rent one. So they reduced the-outings to
. one dinner and show a week, the show usually a movie. They
took walks instead of motor rides. The result is that when
they are married in the spring, they can make a big down
payment on their future home. A small car of their own will
soon follow. The youth goes home early, arid the extra sleep
has increased his ability in the office. The salary is going up
as well as the bank account.
Moreover, they have just as good a time.
Soma of the old-fogy notions are not so bad, after all.
Joy may still be found in simple pleasures. Early to bed
does make a man healthy, wealthy and wise if he uses the
"PeP" gained to good advantage. A penny saved is a penny
earned, and a dinner or herbs where love and hope are guests
of honor is better than any amount of fancy dishes faced
through discouragement and the knowledge of a thinning
purse. Wise and happy are the young folks who can dis
cover these golden truths in time to use them.
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' By Guy Fitch. Phelps
I know camp tn the western hills
Where brave men dug for gold;
And some were young and strong a pin.es,
And some were bent and old)
And their hair was white aa sheep's wool la
When the shearers.waih the fold.
And the only woman we had in camp
Was a hecate queen, called Bell,
With a face as fair as a dream of God,
And a heart that was black as hell, .
And she caught men's souls aa you catch a fox,
In the grip of her fatal spell.
A preacher came, as preachers do,
Wherever there's earth or sky.
Or a man to live and curse his luck,
Or drop in the trail and die.
And he preached to us in Brown's saloon,
When the faro stakes were high.
We stacked our cards and heard hint out,
For the hecate queen was there.
With a chain of nuggeta around her neck,
And another across her hair,
And she swore the preacher should have his chance
In a deal that was fair and square.
But a Spanish devil drew his gun.
And he laughed as the killers do,
And he held a bead on the preachera hear! .
That was center and euro and true:
"Do you think, my heartiee, I'm shot enough
To gimlet the parson through T"
He touched the trigger a crash, a cry,
And I think you can guess the rest.
For the queen fell limp aa a cougar's pelt.
Her head on the preacher's vest.
For the bullet the Spaniard meant for him
Lay deep in her dripping breast.
I ' '
III not contend that her soul' was saved.
Or that it was sent to hell.
For sins aa black as the hair of hate
Were heaped on the hands of Bell,
And many a miner hinted things
That only a few would tell.
But the piuta flower, aa red aa love,
Weepa over her day and night;
And the young spruce trees like surpliced nuns
Say prayers in the soft twilight.
And the sago lily holds up its lips
With a plea that ia all in white;
And a hundred men, since tha preacher came,
Are playing the game dead right.
Comment of the
State Press
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Snappy .Gleasainge fresa the
Preaa of the
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Give It a Fair Trial
No one will seriously object to the
government making a fair trial of iti
powers to handle tha transportation
lines in peace times provided the gov
ernment will ge in and give good ser
vice, the Baker Herald says. In rail
roading aa in everything e'ae when
the income is not sufficient to meet t e
expense, the sheriff is standing close
by ready to' take charge.
Ash Swale Hunt Club
To Have Big Banquet
The program committee of the Ath
Swale Hunt Club are making special
preparation i for a routing time the
evening of tha first Saturday of Jan
uary. A fine banquet and a program
consisting of ipeeches and musical
program will be featured at that time,
invitations are being "sent to Albany
friends and others. The club li an or
ganisation of many years standing
and holds an annual Banquet each
year.
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State Chamber Work
With the completion of the first
year of its existence, the State Cham
ber of Commerce may be proud of its
demonstrated effectiveness, compli
ments the Oregon Voter. Being a
business organization, it was not
founded to do startling or sensation
al things so it has not reverted pub
lie attention as a legislature or a po
litical board might have done. Rather,
it has plodded on its daily way, doing
those things for Oregon business and
Oregon development that needed to
be done by.
Shopping it Swapping
She walked a thousand
Weary miles,
Up aisles and past
The counters.
She picked and chose,
And looked again
To get for Dad and Mom
And BilL
Tha very things they wanted.
Her feet were sore.
Her brain waa mush,
When ahe had finished shopping
And then,
Right after Christmas,
Dad, Mom and Brother Bill
Retraced the wearjr miles
She'd gone a-shopping,
And, on the quiet,
Did their yearly
Swapping.
Merry
v Christmas
We wish our many friends
and customers a very
Merry Christmas
and
A Happy New Year
Mountaio States Power Co.
East Knox Butte News
KNOX BUTTE, Dec. 27 Ada
Hampton died Monday at the Salem
hospital of blood poison. She is the i
ten year old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. ;
II. Hampton.
This is the second death in the
family within a week, having buried ;
their youngest child Inst Friday. The
family moved from this neighborhood
to Jefferson Jast October. They have
the sympathy of their many friends
in this vicinity.
Mrs. J. J. Caswell and baby arc
spending Christmas week with her
parents.
Mr. and Mrs. Roy Taylor of Mill
City are visiting the tatter's mother,
Mrs. Spratt '
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