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ALBANY DEMOCRAT Entered at the postoinee at Albany, Oregon, untllitMmiittyr 'W. L. rjachMHi and Uaiph K. Cronlea Kditora and Managers Dally published awry evening axcept Sunday. Bvmiweekly published Tuvadaya and Fridays. KMTAUl.lHIIKO 1 (IS Business Matter In ordering changea of addreaa, aubacrilwra hould alwaya glva old aa wall aa new addraaa. Subscription Katea Dally Delivered by carried 1'er month bOc; Par year In Advanea $6.00 Ily Mall, In Linn and RouU 4 Benton County, Par year, In Advanea ..$4 00 Ootatda of Linn County and Rt. 4 Benton Co.. Par yaar, In Advanea -PJ Member of Tha Aaoclated Prraa Tha Aaaarlatrd Press la exclusively entitled to tha use for republication of all newt dUpatchoa creditod to it or not otherwise credited in this paper and alao tha local new. publiahed herein. All righU of republication uf apectal dlapatfhea herein araalso reserved. I'UONE tMJ ALBANY. OREGON, MONDAY. FEBRUARY 2 THE TOWN HALL New York City is building a "town hall," at a cost of $1,275,000. This, be it noted, is not a "city hall" or a "muni cipal building." It has nothing whatever to do with the housing or "operation of the city govrenmcnt. It is purely and simply a "civic center," a "forum for free speech," a place where citizens can get together whenever they fee tike it, and talk over public affairs. The old-fashioned town hall served both functions i was a place for transacting public business and also a place of informal public assembly. In recent times, however, the institution has developed into a "city hall" which, admir ably as it serves the former purpose, makes no provision for the latter. Hence New York's enterprise, which is particu larly notable merely because few people outside cf the me tropolis supposed that it had enough civic spirit for anything of the sort. Cleveland is doing the same thing; its "municipal audi torium," now under construction as part of its famous "group plan" of public buildings, will provide a meeting place for any public of semi-public purpose, accomodating perhaps I5,0(X) people. Various other cities either have a building for this purpose, or are contemplating one. Every city, town or village should have some such place of as sembly. The small town needs it just as much as the large one. There has been a disposition everywhere lately for the people to grow away from their local government and lost interest in it. and for the social clement of civic life to de teriorate. The present reaction tends to bring them back, to restore the relationship between city life and private life, and enable private citins not only to know what their public officials arc doing, but to know and understand each other better. TODAY'S EVENTS , . 4 Thia la tha day for tha groundhog to quit hia hole. Kt. Kev. John E. Gunn, Catholic blshod of Natchex, today celvb'atea tha thirtieth anniveraary of hia ord ination. Kt. Rav. Sidney C. Partridge, Epia- copal bishop of WeaU-rn Miaaouri, to day celchratea tha twentieth annivera ary of hia consecration. A great carnival of winter tporU, to continue two weeki. will be inaug urated today at Banff, tha well-known resort in tha heart of tha Canadian Rock lei. The annual Karmcra Week anJ llousekeepera' Conference will bein today at the atata agricultural co!- legea in Michigan, Kansaa and Utah. Tha annual charity ball of the Southern Relief Society, for more than a quarter of a century a brilli ant event of tha aocial aeason In Washington, will be held tonight at the New Willard. In recognition to hia public aer-icc in behalf of tha national budget - tern. United Statea Senator Meuill McCormick of Illinoia ia to be tender ed a dinner tonight by the Yojng Re publican Club of New York city. Comment of the State Press Snappy Glean Inga from Preaa af tha Valley tha Today's Calendar of Sports Racing Winter meeting of Cuba-American Jockey Club, at Havana. Winter meeting of Business Men's Racing Association, at Ned Orleans Field Triala Annual meet of Pinehumt field Trials' Club begins at I'inehurnt, N. C Annual meet of Albama Field Trials Club begins at Decatur, Ala. Boxing Jimmy Duffy va. Eddie Fitxsim- mons, 8 rounds, at NewarK, JM. J. Gene Tunney va. Al Roberta, 8 rounds, at Newark, N. J. Johnny Murray vs. Charlie Beech- er, 8 rounds, at Newark, N. J. Jack Perry vs. Steve Latxo, 10 rounds, at Johnstown, Pa. Let ua be Sure The war waa supposed to have made tha world aafe for democracy; let us be aura that democracy la aafe in America. Baker Herald. H H X N Z M Z H Z H Z H Z H Z H Z H Z H Z H Z H z: H Z Partisan Politics H Not only do Americana auffer a pen alty for maintaining the curse of par-1 1 tisan politics, but the blood and tear , JJg of millions in foreign landa cry to t u heaven against thf develishneaa of it " Brownsville Times. I BHZHZHZHg HAMILTON'S' HZIISHSilSII 5--rrryrr,M,Mu,M til Capital Puniahment The cold-blooded, premeditated murders perpetrated in Oregon in the past two years have brought about the belief in the minda of tha major ity of tha voters that there would be fewer murderera in the atata if there were capital punishment. Woodburn Independent. Prlcea L'p The Eugene Guard remarks that tombstone pricea have gone up 100 per cent. But that fact can hardly be aaid to increase the high cost of living. THE LEGION AM) THE SOCIALISTS Carried Too Far The ousting of Socialists from leg- j H Islative seats, the wholesale arrest of i J aliens, the suppression of newspaper . ... .. . i i I.: sre and otner publications, me urcanwiK up Ol meemiB" n imp. ...... ( s naal(n then occurrencea are new srl to our land and foreign to the mode of government formerly known aa American. All of them may be a natural reaction against intolerable alienism and crime, but in all these directions the rebound has carried the country too far. Baker Herald. Notice Knight of Pythias Notice The Pythian sisters are expecting all Knighta at K. P. hall Monday ev ening, February 2, at 6:30 sharp banquet and program. FRED HOFLICH, C. C. 30J-2 War Price Garden "War gardens" did their part dur ing 1918 and 1919; the department of agriculture ia advising "war-price gardens" for 1920. Prices will still be high and that vacant lot can be made to produce table vegetable. Get an early start too, the department ad vises. (East Oregonian. ADITORIAL Time is valuable. Whether we better time In giving service, displaying new merchandise first or how not, we have accomplished something. The store is an organization of individuals. Individu als who are trained to save time and to use it are good people to know. The great Cecil Rhodes gave as his last words to the world, "So little done, so much to do." And yet he had created and lord ed over an Empire, made millions and spent mil lions, worked unceasingly, and . gotten wonders done, while he was still in the early forties. Dy ing, he regretted that time had winged it way so fast. When time is so valuable, why should we not use it more and more advantageously as we grow older and learn more truly its worth. Surely enough, the measure of one's life is the sum of his days. Days are time. Whatever we accom plish we do in time. Time is taken and consumed whether we idle it away or build strongly in its use. He who carves the monument of his life eas ily and idly, carves in snow to be reduced to noth ingness with the first vicissitudes of the elements. He who carves in solid granite, working, sweating, poring, carves a life to be remembered through the ages. A store is but an organization of individuals. An institution whose lcyal Americanism will certainly not be questioned is the American Legion. 1 his great patri otic organization, through its governing body, has joined with the New lork Bar Association and various other im nortant organizations in condeming the action of the New York legislature in ousting five Socialist members. Says the Legion : "We look with disfavor upon every effort to overthrow the right of representation or deny to the properly elected representatives of the people the right to sit in the bodies to which they have been elected, except when they have been shown legally disqualified." This last, quaifying clause is evidently intended to cov er such cases as that of Victor Berger, who was refused membership in Congress not because he was a Socialist, but because he had been found guilty of criminal disloyalty. The five legislators, apparently, were ousted not because of personal offenses, but because thev beloneed to the So cialist party a fact which, however lamentable, has never been pronounced a crime or a legal disqualification for office. The best opinion everywhere is at one with the Legion in this matter. It is reassuring, too. to find that the Legion despite some rash acts on the part of members here and there, is disposed to prove its patriotism not by blind denun ciation of everything not approved by good Americans, but by reserving its condemnation for cases deserving it, and by safeguarding the real foundations of American liberty. Called meeting, St. Johns IxKlge, the members and of ficers are requested to meet at Masonic hall Sunday. February lt at 2:30 o'clock by order of the Worshipful master. GEO TAYLOR. Sec. Minus a Town With a paved road cutting off two thirds of Harrisburg'a territory L;m count;- would soon be minus a iow.i up this way. Harrisburg Bulletin. On Busineaa William Gum, one of the old timers uf the I.?banon secelioi . wa. an Al bany vi.itor again today. H Z H Z H Smart Millinery for Spring Every day's express brings us something new in hats for Spring. Among these new and late arrivals are many unusually attractive novelties in the newest wide side brim hats, pokes, turbans, tricomes and some four-cornered shapes trimmed in bewildering vari ations of pleasing loveliness. Women who know recognize our ability to give each patron perfect millinery style and cor rect becomingness. The Coats and Suits of the Newest Spring Modes are already being display ed in our READY TO WEAR SECTION S II s II s II Z II s II s H s II r M S II s II Z H s tfl s H s H S H r H B H S H S H S H S H IB H ;S ill hzhzhzhzh HAMILTONS'zhzhzhzhs The Anker-Holth ajg Self-Balaneing Bowl Cream Separator See it at the HAZELWOOD CREAM STATION H. L. Stenberg, Mgr. 128 West Second Street Albany's RITG Merchants Here you will find a real collection of good quality Rugs Wiltons, Axminstcrs, Fiber Brussels. Grass, Conoleum Rugs for every room in the house, ones to harm onize with every type of furniture with every tone of hangings, with every color of walls. Priced from $1-25 to $125 00 Fisher-Braden Co. "The Store With a YeIcome" ALIVE BANK FOR LIVE PEOPLE Whatever your desire and ambition is for the year 1920. 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