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ALBANY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 8
FARMERS MAY BE FOOLED
A. C. Townley, president of the Non-Partisan league,
predicts that the organization will carry coming elections for
its collective ownership program in Minnesota and Wiscon
sin. While this seems doubtful the re-election of Victor
Berger, Wisconsin socialist, after his expulsion from con
gress for disloyal utterances, is significant.
Victories for the league are also predicted in 13 other
states where it is working and it is asserted that prospects
are most favorable in Idaho, Nebraska and Texas.
The league stands for straight socialism and has been,
closely identified with the most radical elements of labor and
politics for past two years. It appeals to the farmer on a
class rule program which if carried to its logical end can
only result in common ownership of land. So far North
Dakota has been the only state in which the league could
gain a foothold.
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NATION WITHOUT A BREAD-LINE
"At this hour, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, there is
not a bread line or public soup kitchen."
The foregoing quoted words were uttered by George M.
Reynolds, president of the Continental and Commercial Na
tional Bank of Chicago, perhaps the second largest banking
institution in the country.
Mr. Reynolds was talking to a staff correspondent of the
Washington Star, who was visiting Chicago to ascertain
the business situation and to gain the views of thoughtful
men upon the treaty, politics and kindred subjects.
George M. Reynolds is a Republican and in recent years
has been a heavy contributor to the Republican campaign
fund. But his quoted words indicate that he is not so much
a partisan that he will not admit an obvious truth, which is
that America never was so prosperous.
It is not to be supposed that Mr. Reynolds' intended to
deprive the Republican political leaders of their old-time
campaign cry that Republican success means the full dinner
pail. The fact is, however, he did that very thing and it is
significant that within a few days after the appearance of the
Reynolds' interview Republican chieftans announced the
full dinner pail would not be numbered among the L. U.
P. slogans in 1920.
"The preat mass of the neonle are orosperous and con
tented," was another utterance the Washington Star cor
respondent credited to Mr. Reynolds. Proof of this fact
was found on Christmas Day when organizations through
out the nation were unable to muster hardly a corporal s
guard to partake of bounteous spreads provided for the
poor.
Commenting upon the absence the bread-line, the New
York world, in a Christmas editorial said:
"Not in many years, if ever, has the number of homeless
and destitute persons been so small as this winter. It is an
encouraging condition. Plenty of work and good pay is the
general rule. With few exceptions, the cases of idleness are
those who refuse opportunities to work or belong to the
class of chronic lazy whom neither pride nor self-respect can
urge to earn a decent living. Short of bad health or hard
luck, the man out of a job and walking the streets can hope
for little sympathy." .
Without a Kick
in It
Fancy and Staple Humor and
Song (Alleged)
By A.
A Day In The Shop I
i
As soon a Mr. Hill turns off an :
ad, Mr. Lake, who is watching likej
the muchmvntioned hawk, swoops up-1
on it and carries it triumphantly 1
away. He set the metal on end be- j
side the sulg cutter. Disdainfully he ;
shoves the crumpled copy, upon which !
Mr. Hill has dumped the ad, into his
pistol pocket. He feeds the slug j
with one hand, pump the handle with
the other, and clip the blank end
neatly from the type-slugs, sighing
that Mr. Hill, like all typos, is so'
thoughtless as to set a 25 ad on a 26 Vi
slug when he could have changed 1
liners, if he had hurried, in 30 nun- j
utea, thereby (aving the floor man
4.7 minute at least. But some day
all these things will be, Mr. Lake
thinks, and so he goea to the ad-alley,
wiping away a tear for linotypers in '
general and, of course, none in part-,
ticular.
So interested doea he wax in the
real bargains offered by Mr. Banks;
in Hamilton's ad that he forget his ;
beautiful daughters for the moment,'
but Mr. Lake is reminded of them j
forcibly when he come across a cut '
of a resplendent young lady who
bought her coat at Sternberg's, and he
sighs for his fireside in Portland
when he throws a border around the
cut illustrating the Little Kleen Kid
in Koveralls.
Ha slugs out, leads out, hand-pick
an occasional display line, justifies,
throws on the border, ties up with
string, inks, prooves it up, and takes
the proof to the autocrats in the
front office, preferably Miss K., for
she finds fewer bull than the other
proof-readers. You must know, tho, j
that if you spell "Theatre'' like that!
he will mark it like this: Theater,"!
and there are some other things you
must know, likewise, one being that '
you must not josh her about Ernest
Smith that is, not too much; nor
should you ask her, if she is 1.2 min
ute late, if Peeblers Transfer has .
been running over her Ford again. I
(More later if we survive.) I
Comment of the
State Press
Snappy t; Irs in In its from lh
Press of the
Valley
It Was In Bennett
A Portland pastor brands man a
"nature' only fool." We gues the
pastor I right, admits the Uasutte
Times.
Normal Production of Sunshine
The days are not only getting long
er but are Improving greatly in qua!
Ity. Register.
It Won't Co..
Newspapers that blame President
Wilson because a republican senate
has failed to ratify the peace treaty
are at least to be complimented on
their nerve, comments the East Ore-
gonian. But they have a hard job on
their hands even with Jonathan
Bourne at tho publicity helm.
Let Ceorge Do It-
David Lloyd George evidently loves
the Irish, since he is trying to make
two Irelamls grow where one feebly
languished before, say the Guard.
Analyse His Chill-
One writer says he Is trying
through a study of the personality of
Carranba to determine just what it
is that Mexico need. Approaching
the matter from that angle, why not
decide on a shave and a haircut, ask
the Telegram.
Poor Poindexter
"Talk tires Poindexter," a head
line inform us. Now we know why
he la so anxious to exchange his sen.
atorial seat for the Present's chair,
exclaim the Oregonian.
Court Orders Girl
Freed From School
Reliable Service
You will more thoroughly enjoy the HOLIDAY SEASON If yon know
your money and valuables are safe.
We depend upon our STRONG VAULTS and not upon mechanical de-
ro protect your money ana your valuables.
SAFETY DEPOSIT BOXES FOR RENT
Where Valuable Are Safe
The First National Bank
"Old and Reliable"
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The First Savings Bank
"Where Sartng. Are tiafe"
Four Per Cent Interat on Savings.
Farm Loans, and Agent for Federal Farm Loans.
Down With Autocracy
.Miss K., the autocrat of the front
office, lost her dignity today. A citi
zen came in, pulled out a fat wallet
and said he wanted to "pay hia pre
scription to the Democrat, by heck."
It was then that Miss K. was seized
with St. Vitus dance.
SALEM Holding that juvenile
court officials could not commit a min
or to an institution on a delinquency
charge without consulting the parents
and without showing a distinct viola
tion of law. Circuit Judge George G.
Bingham issued a decree Saturday by
which the release of Constance Chesh
ire, 13, from the girls industrial school
Is ordered.
Natural History Note
We heard via underground sesourcea
that Everett Earle Stanard had in
mind the following stanza for hi
natural history series in his "Pep,
Peperino and Allspice" column in
Ye Herald. So we are beating him to
it:
The beastie called ornithorynchus,
Is a queer little, rare little dinkus.
He has feathers and hair
And fins here and there,
And bill like a backyard duckinkus
The musk commerce, an essential
ingredient of almost all perfumes, is
obtained from a sort of eland, or
pouch, of the male musk deer and it
is secreted only during certain sea
sons of the year. The musk deer is
a small animal, seldom more that 22
inches in height It is becoming more
and more scarce every year, and at
the present rate will eventually be-
come extinct.
If You
Keep Money
in the store or office, it's subject
to loss by fire or theft.
If you keep checks too long
before depositing, they're some
times returned marked "No
Funds."
The safe way ia to have a
Check Account with thia bank,
and deposit daily.
Capital & Surplus $90,000
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216 West FirstSt.
Brown & Leigh
numbers & Tinners
With Barker Hdw. Co.
Pulling'
Together
At a county fair a flam
boyant ?ien advertised: "The Strang
est Sir.ht in the World!" Those who
paid a dime to sec the marvel found in
the tent ten farmera pulling to
gether cn tt rope. . . It is different
today. Now thou".;md of fanners, or
Canized as tl-e American Furm Bu
reau Federation, are pulling together.
And they'll ;ct what they want, says
Folks who think the farmer is going to
l;cV on being the national goiit, feed
ing tht-'world and talcingitskicksinpayt
have another think coining to them.
Pulling together, the na
tion's larmeta can con.
trot their mtiketscan
prow that they are not
to hlamr for the high cctt
of living, that thev arc
not profiteer. Stand
ing ihouldcf to shoulder
With the farmera of the
whole nation is THt
Country Okntlk
MAN. Weekly it tells of
the itrvr gla and sue
crura ol tarmrra every
where and ol the prac
tical methods of tr oae
who are making money.
If you are interested In
farming and the farmera'
movement, you should
subscribe at once. It
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year for M big, helpful
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Let me tend in your order today!
W. G. Cowgill,
Phone 1118, P Q.Box 24, Corvaliii, Or.
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JANUARY 12
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