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ALBANY, OREGON, TUESDAY, JANUARY 27
DEMOCRACY AND COURTESY
A writer who has been "autohoboing" over the country
for the past four years, and who has in thai time covered
pretty thoroughly the main roads and the towns situate
thereon in 33 states, tells woeful stories of the discourtesy
und incompetence .of the merchants and hotelkeep'ers.
Not all the bad ones are in the small towns, either; One
of his stories runs:
"A rather distinguished English journtlist who has been
lecturing in the country, the best and most thoughtful of
good fellows, was buying cigars at a small side-street shop in
New York the other day, and as the clerk slammed down the
change. Sir John abstractedly said, 'Thank you.' The clerk
retorted: 'What the hell you getting sarcastic about? I
give you your change as quick as I could.' "
An article in another magazine by a diplomat's wife
says: "The relations between people and their servants
in Denmark are very civilized. The servants understand
that respect does not mean servility, and the most aristo
cratic of the Danish landowners makes a point of giving a
great dinner on the anniversary of any of his old servants,
at which his family and friends assist without a trace of
condescension."
Somehow or other in America people have never learn
ed that each and every one of us is in some degree a public
servant, and that "respect does not mean servility."
We are so afraid of servility, so afraid some one will
think we are not so good as some one else, that we are afraid
to be courteous. .
If we could but learn that lack of respect, courtesy.
frendliness, if you will, to the other fellow is based on lack of
respect for one s self and one s own job !
It is the biggest business man who is most unassuming.
It is the woman whose family had servants for generations
who is not afraid to be as courteous and respectful to them
as she would have them be to her.
Surely respect and courtesy should be universal in a
democracy.
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A LESSON FOR CRIMINALS
TODAY'S EVENTS
Fifty . years ago today the Uni
versity of- Michigan- admitted Its
first women student Miss Maddia
Stockwell, of Kalamaioo.
Samuel Gompers, the veteran pre
sident of the American Federation of
Labor, celebratea his seventieth birth
day annlversity today.
Rt. Rev. Thomsa J. Walsh, bishop
of the Catholic diecese of Trenton,
X. J., today celebrates the twentieth
anniversary of his ordination.
Many Presbyterian clergy and ed
ucators will journey to Albany Ore.,
today for the inauguration of Dr. A.
M. Williams as president of Albany
College.
Senator Robert L. Owen, mention
ed as a presidential possibility, has
accepted an invitation to address a
Comment of the
State Press
Snappy (ilran Inia from
Press of the
Valley
ths
All Towns The Same
To make farm life attractive is good
for Salem. The mure boys and girls
who stay on the farms the faster
pSulvm will grow, remarks the Slates-
man. Salem will grow Juat as fast
as she can have orchard and garden
and farm-and livestock products to
manufacture and ship.
Sails and luecae
"Why man, on the batlleflelds, there
were only two prescriptions used, salts
State convention of Democratic wo- -...i i 1.1 ...... n tk.t ...
men of Oklahoma, to be held today j ..nce on the fields of battltf!" yells
at Oklahoma City. ,n.L AnJ th. Ll)Wl, bili ,)rolm,ied
The case of Truman H. Newberry j by , of patriotic reward was
of Detroit, and numerous others in- j ,t rest. Oregon Voter. j
dieted on charges of fraud and cor- j . '
ruption In connection with Mr. New- Coming to the Coast?
berry's election to the United States! President Wilson is reportyl to be
: senate In 1918, la to be called for coming to the Pacific coast fur long
trisj today in he Federal court at: rest. If ho. stays out here long
, Grand Rapids. enough to get acclimated, he won't
Minneapolis, Northern Pine Man-1 mind much the still lunger rest he will
uf actum s' Association. take beginning in March, 1921 Ore-
Spokane, Montana Lumber Manu- gonian.
facturer's Assaciation. i .
Lexington, Ky, Kentucky Retail Essential Difference
Lumber Dealers' Association. The essential difference between an
Toledo, O. International Shipmaa- American and a Red ia that the
Cleanup 1
of
Dishes
We find ourselves with a considerable quantity of
high-grade dishes in broken lots, which we will close
out at less than wholesale prices. .
COME AND SEE THEM
Holman & Jackson
I'll! I III
ten' Association.
Today's Calendar
of Sports
:
Racing
Winter meeting of Cuba-Ameri
can Jockey Club, at Havana.
Winter meeting of Business
Men's Racing Assn.. at New Orleans
Trotting
Opening of ice race meeting at Mt
Clemens, Mich
Boxing
Joe. Thomas vs. Sammy Krause,
12 rounds, at Columbus, O.
World's Debt Is
Now Two Hundred
Billion Dollars
NEW YORK, Jan. 26 A. P. The
world's debt was estimated by the
National City bank at two hundred
billion dollars aa compared with forty
billions in 1914.
It was a grewsome New Year's party that was given
Cook County Jail, at Chicago, on January 1. Sheriff Peters
invited 200 inmates to attend the execution of, a prisoner
who had murdered a man. and his wife. The invitations
were compulsory. They were given to the "pick" of the 600
inmates those who were considered the most hardened.
"I think it will have a good moral effect," the sheriff
explained. "When they are released from jail they will have
something to remember."
They will, indeed. And many a one of those 200 prison
ers, when moved hereafter to commit some violent crime,
will see rising up before him that dreadful New Year's spec
tacle, and will be deterred by fear, if not by conscience.
A few years ago public opinion might not have tolerated
this sort of thing. Now the public is in a sterner mood.
Bitter experience with law-breakers has led to a belief that
"coddling" criminals does not pay. There is no desire to be
unjust or cruel, but there is a strong desire to emphasize
the harsh side of the law rather than the merciful side.
Excessive harshness, of course, is to be avoided no less
than excessive gentleness. As a temporary recreation, how
ever, from a centimentality which obviously encouraged
criminals to more flagrant defiance of the law, the present
tendency toward severity may have a wholesome result.
' Within the last ten years the man
ufactures of substitutes for leather
has become an important industry.
The cheif ingredient of the substi
tutes is cotton.
To wind the great clock in the
tower of the British House of Com
mons it formerly took two men work
ing three afternoons a week. An
electric motor now completes the task
in twenty minutes.
American would clean it up and the
Red would blow it up, comments The
Oregon Statesman.
(iooe) Life
We cannot control the evil tongues
of others, but a good life enables us
to despise them. Thompson. Exchange.
MAUjAUMM
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For Overtime
There are some people who think
that the creation should have been
finished in five days instead of six,
with double time for overtime. Exchange.
Oregoniaa Remarks j
From Albany comes the story of a
thief tossing back into the bedroom
a husband's rifled trousers aa the wife
awoke. And men "fall" for that! I
All Schools of City i
Gather Rags And J
Paper for Victrola
All the schools of the city are still
in the market for old rags and paper (
which they aro shipping to a Port- j
land firm to raie money to buy a
victrola. The school securing the
largest supply accord n? to the UJi.i- I
ber uf students is to rccfii a r!0 ;
prize and the second highest to. The
students from the variout schools of
he city have been -jut again today
doing a big business. The Democrat
m?d an incorrect statement Satur
day abo it the plan as it "was report
ed that but one school was in the
comett while it really includes
all the school of the city.
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Your own meal-time work can be reduced to a
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od that has been developed by science. It enables you
to sit at ease with everything needed before you. You
reach instead of walk.
A small payment puts any Hoosier model at work
in your kitchen. Small amounts each week soon pay
,the balance. This ease of purchase leaves you no ex
cuse for continued drudgery. Come and select your
Hoosier soon.
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Masonic Temple Telephone 78
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