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ALBANY. OREGON. THURSDAY. JANUARY 15
THE BERGER MENACE
The rest of the country has been quite unable to under
stand how Milwaukee could return a man like Victor Berg
er to Congress, giving him a majority over an able and patri
otic candidate supported by the Republican and Democratic
organizations. . . " .
Berger himself has said that his triumph "cannot ex
actly be called a victory of the Socialist party." This state
ment is supported by the fact that the Socialist party in his
district has a membership of only 5,000, whereas he received
about 24,000 votes. Where did the other votes come from?
A careful analysis shows that there was even more
"fusion" on Berger's side than on Bodenstab's. The latter
received the loyal, conservative, sanely-progressive "Ameri
can vote," regardless of party affiliations. The former had
the suffrage of all the disloyal and discontented. Unfortun
ately, these seem to outnumber the others.
. Of course the Socialist vote went solid for Berger.1
Xlorig with it went the anti-prohibition vote, which is veryj
laree in Milwaukee, and the vote of Milwaukee's numerous i
nrn-fim-rriflns who have never forffivon America for the Dart; And its heavy with the tragedy of man.
r.P nWrl in the war With these trrmins were ranged rhe(" W&rWt Canyon bear 'it? Yawhoae ears are dull and dead.
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many who were waiting for a chance to voice their discon
tent at the cost of living, at various kinds of industrial
wrongs," at profiteering, at the handling of the coal strike,
and at repressive measures taken to curb radicalism.
In short the Berger vote was a "protest vote." It rep
resented, roughly, a marshalling of all the discontented and
destructive forces against the confident, constructive forces
of society.
Viewed in this light, the re-election of Berger, futile
though it is in practical results, is not to be lightly disregard
ed. This combination of destructive forces is evidently
stronger in Milwaukee than anywhere else in America. An
observer naturally wonders, however, just how strong a
"Berger vote' 'there will be throughout the country next
fall.
One thing is sure it will not be diminished if Congress
merely contents itself with rejecting Berger again, and fails
to do all in its power toward peaceful reconstruction at
home and abroad.
t MULTNOMAH FALLS )
GUY FITCH PHELPS
Dedicated to All College Mea of the Slate
Have you seen mat Have you seen mat You who some and feed and got .
Have you aeen my marble. palace which I carved me blow on blowT
Have you read what I have written on a parchment white as snow T
It is on these chiselled towers in a golden rigadoon,
All the history of the half-gods and of me,
I have kissed it on the silence, I have told it to the moon, -
from my piny verge I glimpse you round your kale troughs heaped and high,
Where you blot my fairy circle with your feet;
For you come from social prisons, you are tainted with the sky.
And your garmenta reek with odors of the street.
You nave worshipped in the temples where tha Dagon creeds are taught
By tha Priests of Mammon organised of old;
And tha mildew of tha markets lies a canker on your thought
For you sell tha dreams and loves of men for gold.
Learn it then, ye stupid gssers, I am of the Undertime,
Ere the Palesoic agea I waa born;
With the blue flame of the planets I have made myself sublime,
I have d reused me in the glory of the morn.
On tha fingers of the Furies I have combed my lacy hair,
On tha aand and surge of oceans I have whirled;
With a rosary of kissea I have carved my ditsy stair N
To tha mystery and the wisdom of tha world.
W hen Caradoc giants thundered to awake tha sleeping earth
To the revelry of forces and of form,
I was with them in their labors. I was matron of their mirth.
And we shared the cosmic travail when the valleys came to birth,
And we awaddled them n vapor and in storm,
When the gods of fire battled from their flaming mountain thrones,
With the anarchy of Chaos on their breath,
When the laughter of the lightning shook tha terror-haunted tones,
And Destruction drove the awful car of Death;
It waa I who touched their temples with a cooling finger-tip
Till the boiling lava rage had died away.
And a breath as warm aa worship leaped from each burning lip
Rolled across the amorous buaom of the day.
O, I saw tha Life Gods dancing through tha winding sunbright valeal
And the song they sang together it waa aweet:
There were ephods on their foreheads, there waa might upon their hands,
Ana me sanaais or creation on tneir leet.-
And they called the living creatures from tha earth and from tha deep
Where Omniscient pulaea quivered in the slime;
And they woke tha etegosaurus, from hia sullen, sunless sleep.
And they hung their forest mantles on the Neocomlan steep,
When Existence kissed tha rosy lips of time.
When the dinosour waa mated, and the mammoth cubs were bred,
And the condor's cloudy pinnona took the air;
When the Neolithic giant heaped tha aedge grass for hia bed,
With a million tears of rapture I was there.
O I know the irised hour when the gleaming grass waa made!
When the flowers spread their passion on the sod;
And I touched the brow immortal in Hedikel's golden shade.
When the first man took the image of his God.
In my crystal heart I imagined back the woman'a wondrous face "
E're the fatal fruit had touched her with its stain; -
And I kept a rainbow smiling over Abie's altor place,
And I washed the dripping, goary handa of Cain.
Ah, the song I sing is written of the history of tha past.
Hear it then and understand it ve who can: '
It ia what waa First, and now la, it ia what shall be at last.
roroc
Do you. know what I am telling ail that soul and sense have uid
iiince the serpent's winding, reeking trail began?
O. I know how many mornings have been gendered in the akv?
j I could number all the forests which grew old and had to die;
couia leu you u i aarea to, an tne must and should and why
Of the agea and the aeons and their plan.
I have kissed the brow of Wisdom, I have washed his Seven Locks
When he brooded where the peaks of Purpose shine;
I waa with the Angel Beauty on the Tertiary rocks,
For the secrets of the Builders all are mine.
Do you know that in the midnight there are mystic bugles blown?
When the mints o'er hang the valley and the stars are dim and lone,
Then the spirits of the sages, of the ones who grieved and died.
Of the wooed and of the wooer, of the bridegroom and the bride:
Of the loved and of the lover, when the dark is deep and wide.
With their bright brows girt with flowers dance around my opal tide.
Look upon me then and see me, listen till ye hear my voice,
I'm the prophecy of agea which shall make tho-world rejoice;
For the clouds are all my brothers: I'm the sister of the sea,
I have slept upon the bosom of Eternal Destiny,
And whenxI shall cease my singing, then the world will cease to be.
THE CENSUS MAN
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The census man is on his rounds. Be nice to him, or her.
He is not a book agent nor a lightning rod agent nor a
salesman for wildcat mining stock, nor merely an impertin
ent inquirer into what is none of his business.
" Uncle Sam has to know the life-story of each of his
nephews and nieces once in ten years. He sends the census
man to find out the necessary little details to keep in his con
fidential records. Every one can help Uncle by not wasting
the census man's time.
Insist, first of all, upon seeing his credentials.. Nothing
is to be gained by entertaining Raffles unawares. Having
satisfied yourself quickly but thoroughly. that the man at the
door is indeed the government emissary, answer his ques
tions quickly and accurately, and the deed is done and over
with.
People kick a good deal less about the cost of automo
bile tires than they do about the cost of shoes. And yet, as
everybody Knows, tires cost more than, shoes.
CORN
Why feed wheat , and oats when
1 CORNIIS1CHEAPER
Accordingly"
Will buy your wheat and. oats
M. G. REED
Phone 129-R.
Res. 482-R.
Office over'
State Bank Building
I EDITORIALS of the PEOPLE j
I I
Would Protect Roada
Editor Democrat
I would like a little space in your
valuable paper to express a few
thoughts on a subject of vital import
ance to the tax-payers of Linn county.
As our taxes are mounting higher
and higher each year and large per
cent of this money so collected go to
road building and improvement of our
roads, we feel it is our duty to know,
if possible, if we are getting value re
ceived for our money. As he use of
cars is more and more common, each
year, it ia imperative that we havei
roads that will maintain the use of j
cars throughout the winter season, as i
well as summer. The fact is the peo-1
pie of this community have donated i
their time and labor with their teams
being pulled over our roada In winter.
And in addition to being restricted
in the amount of load to be hauled,
they should be required to use tha two
faced, wide tires on rear wheels. This
would greatly aid in the preservation
of winter roads.
Very respectfully,
E. E. MUNSEY.
Lebanon, Ore., January 11, 1920.
Comment of the
State Press
1
Snappy ' Glean Ings' from
P'eas of the
' Valley .
the
Loyalty Law Wanted
We are inclined to wait until the
to help improve the roada aa well as man raised in his sins before we
dragging upon quotas, of taxes for
the county to spend on the roads. And
did it willingly. And in addition to this
attempt lo reform him. We arc also
inclined to wait until the taeds of
anarchy and sedition have been sown
we are willing and have voted a $2,000 nd the jungle developed befora we
special road tax in our district to be ; attempt to stamp it out, remark, the
expended on our roads in the hope that ' Baker Herold.
we might have roads that wa could
travel over in winter with our cars.
But here ia the proposition. Ws are
tip against aa soon as the winter
: rains set in and the roads begin to
j soften up after the aummer travel,
here comes the man with his two or
; three ton truck and loads it to the
; last .pound .it will pull with wood or
; apples or whatever he finds to haul,
i then drives over tha roads day after
j day until the gravel put on the roads
is cut clear through and into the soil,
I until a car can scarcely get over it at
all.
i Now it seems to me it is time for
the County Court to get in car and
take a few observations from the road
conditions above seferred to, if they
haven't already, and then seek the co
i operation of every county court in
i the valley in the passage of a law by
i the present legislature to restrict the
! loads of heavy trucks to not exceed
j 2500 pounds over any road after the
fall rains set in. ' With the exception
of a few people along the Pacific high
I way, we can not have paved roada to
travel on and hence tha only remedy
to protect the winter roada is to re
strict -the 8,000 to 10100 pound loads
At Itast that hat been the happy-go
lucky system America ha followed
for the past quarter century.
Farmers Are Warned
The Portland Central Labor Coun
cil has its trap all baited for tha Ore
gon farmer says tha Gazette Times.
It has called a meeting to be held In
Salem this month to form a "politi
cal" alliance. Unless the farmer hat
lost much of hit native threwdnest
he will tee the trap beneath tha bait
and yet the labor unions pull their
own chcalnuts out of the fire.
O. A. C Students Vote
Ratification without amendments
or rcservat ons was the choice of 286
ttudentt of the 7ffl who expressed
their choice in the League of Nationt
referendum yesterday. Caxctie
Timet
Born Lucky .
Governor Olcott wat born fuckyj
or he earrlet a rabblft foot in his
pocket Statesman.
Good Used Cars
, FORD On ton Truck. Excellent shape, just overhauled, re
painted. Electric, lights, storage batter, real bargain.
Don't fall to sea thia one. Hurry.
CADILLAC Touring carA real bargain, new paint, tirea
almost new, perfect mechanical condition, absolutely
guaranteed.
HODGE Touring, new top, good tirea, Just being overhauled,
bargain for someone.
1917 CHEVROLET Touring Now tirea, excellent mechanical
condition. Car only run 3600 nil Us. A real buy.
Remember wa tell you tha truth about our uaed car and
are very careful to overhaul every one wa have. Then we
know what we are talking about. Don't forget to sea the ones
"I'd now. uirrT..ij't
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Our Sale Continues
There kaa been ready reaaoaae to the announceaeat of our
' Clearance gala of Suits, Costs, and Drew. Wa atill have a
ne aeaorlaeat of Coats and Dreaaea which wa are selling at a
Great Reduction
Ysn Can't Afford to Miaa Thia Great
1 MONEY SAVING EVENT
SUITS
COATS and
DRESSES
M .
Every garaeat la eurStore la sacrificed to make room for
oar coming spring stock.
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