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ALBANY, ORFCON. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 9
TH ECLUH OR THE GANG
is
A young lad was sent to the reform farm. The cheif
officer welcomed him kindly, and said, "You won't feel so
very lonesome here, Jim; there are 30 other boys from your
neighborhood here already."
"Yes," said the boy, "I know them all; but there were
70 boys in our gang."
The 70 boys had lived in the sort of neighborhood which
exists in almost every community, a neighborhood of squal
id houses, dark and ill-ventilated, of narrow streets, and of
families in whic hthe parents were pitifully poor and either
pitifully lazy or pitifully hard working. The mothers almost
without exception had been forced out to work to earn
money for the family needs, and the sort of work which
women of this class can get to do is always that entailing
long hours away from home. The children grew up forlorn
neglected, with no place to play but the dirty streets, with
tew outlets but evil ones for their natural activities. It
no wonder they ended in prison.
If our jails and corrective institutions are not to be fill
ed with young offenders bred in such surroundings, the sur
roundings must be improved. There must be better nous
ing conditions, breathing spaces where people can get air
and sunlight, playgrounds and settlement houses which
shall afford the growing youth of a growing city a place for
healthy pleasures and the development of clean ideas.
It might just as easily have been, there are 70 boys in
our gymnasium class" cr "in our hiking club" as 70 boys "in
our gang." Growing youth must do something ; what it does
depends largely upon what is nearest at hand.
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JOHN BROWN'S GRAVE
Included in the sale of a 1,200-acre plot of timber land
in the Adirondacks is the grave of John Brown, one of
America s few martyrs. Lumbering operations will be car
ried on, says the purchaser, who proposes to make a fortune
out of the timber in the tract.
Well, the rasp of the saw won't bother John Brown,
neither will his sleep be troubled by the blows of the lumber
jack's ax. The placid woods that have so long bowered his
last bed may be denuded, but that will only bare to new eyes
the modest little monument which marks the grave and
recounts the deed of John Brown at aHrper's Ferry. Per
haps even a greater monument may result from this appar
ent sacrilege.
A banker has bought Johrr Brown's grave, and he may
exploit it, but it goes without saying that no banker would
ever have underwritten the idealistic exploit that brought
John Brown to the gallows and undying fame. Advancing
commercialism holds no terrors for the dead hero, nor does
his grave demand a more pretentious stone to mark it. For,
though they built him a mausoleum of Carrara marble, yet
will he remain always in memory the simple-minded martyr
to a noble cause. 1 hough they plough up his bones with a
steam shovel and his body no longer may "lie mouldering
in the grave," his soul will go "marching on" in the memories
of thousands of his countrymen and in the annals of the
nation.
o
Sir Oliver Lodge says that the next world is merely a
phase. Anyway it phases most of us to think about it.
o
The presidential candidate who really would like, the
women's vote has only to promise a steady supply of sugar.
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A tecturer says that "common honesty will solve un
test." Yes, and uncommon honesty will solve the rest.
The Anker-Holth
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Self-Balancing
Bowl
Cream Separator
See it at the
HAZELWOOD CREAM
STATION
H. L. Stenberg.'Mgr. ; 128 West Second Street
A lot of the men who are hollering loudest about "ncr
sonal freedom" would be willing enough to have smoking
pro united tor women.
All the same, Holland would be tickled to death to get
rid of the Kaiser. She simply doesn't know how to let go
ot mm.
TODAY'S EVENTS
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Thursday, Kibrunry. ID, 1020
Centenary of the birth of John
Tuintr, for many years bihop of the
Roman Catholic diocese of Pittsburgh.
The annual convene ion of the Mel
o Distributor's Associ.ijioti of Amer
ica will meet at Atlanta today for a
three-day session.
Seventy-five thousand men and o
thers hive been invited to attend the
fourth annu.il community conference
lo be opened at Columbus toduy.
Stockholders of the Great Trunk
ruilw.ty system meet in London today
to ratify the agreement between the
Canadian Government and the com
pany for the acquisition of the system.
The National Society for Vocation
al Education and the Vocational Kd
uc.itio,, Association of the Middle
West will open a joint convention at
Chicago today.
Hearing of jhc appeal of Victor
Birger, convicted of interfering with
the draft, which w.i4 docketed for the
Circuit Court of Apprils at Chicago
today, has bee postponed until next
month.
After a lapse of several years be
cause of the war German opera is to
be restored to the repertory of the
Metropolitan Opera Company of New
York with a matinee performance of
Parsif il today.
An unofficial State convention of
the Republicans of New York will as
semble in New York City today to
select a slate of four delegates at
large to be recommended for election
in the primaries. It is expected that
the slate will be made up of Elihu
Root, William Boyce Thompson, and
senators Wad-worth and Calder.
Today's Calendar
of Sports
Comments of the
State Press
Nerve Specialist
Anyway. President Wilson has re
covered his health sufficiently to
stave off tho nilroad strike for the
time being. The Oiegonimi's spec
ial correspondent at Washington is
the only celel.rtited nerve specialist
who will considers Mr. Wilson a hoo
lissly sick man. Kugcnc Guard.
Fight Reds
The suggestion that wo go bark
to the little red school house to fight
the Reds is well mule. Has anyone
henrd of seditious utterance from a
own who, like Lincoln educuted
hinisulf by reading the history of the
United Stales, Pilgrim's Progress,
the Bible and the Life of Washing
ton? Oregon Journal.
The Great Poindrxtcr
The Poindexter cuudidacy for the
presidency has not swept the state
of Washington with the devouring
cigernrss of a prairie fire; yet the
republicans arc bearing up pretly
well in the circumstances. The state
central oemmitter has given the great
Poindexter movement its solemn en
dorsement. Oregonian.
Waning Industry
A couple of Portland policemen en
gcd In a running fight the other
night with robbers who had looted a
I shoe warehouse. Bank robbing is a
1 waning industry since other things
i got so much more valuable than
money. Eugene Register
; Cure For Inf'uenxa
A warm Oregon rain with the wind
' blowing in from the west and south
Grangers Against Labor I'urly
Tim grangers of Lunc county rc
pud.ato the so-called Farm and Labor
party, and so far as We have hollo d
no grange has endorsed It in Oregon.
Demand that C. K. Spencj mnsier of
i"rt At I'lith Frnl-
Onec mors respected, nu mber of
t' o m. il eal fraternity l as risen lo
iMenre thai the dross of the. modern
femillo lima i, in lend r l'er I n.' ity
suscepliblo o dli.'us.i. In il' t 'i ' st
the slate grange, make cloir through '"SI' I' Fr.t'ih ili.e'er t,t i an'
the press his position In connection who ciuninhm. tie ii i . , ; '.,. : .,t
with the new parly, recently oriianl- ''O'h ends, iliia -'01 r . ' the
led at a meeting in Salem, 1. iim.li In 1 mv nii'iv rnvr'niif of the body is
solutions adopted by the F.evinlng an mid lo its aeration, tends to a bet-
Star Kriuige uf tiresham Frl.lny night. I' ' f ' "'" " t !'"l ecu
Kugene Guard " " ' iriiilnni t'i the nervous system.
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laden with the healthful salt of the
Pacific ocein, is the most effective
of all Influenza remedies. But we
can't always get it when wc need it
most. Eugene Guard.
Racing I
Winter meeting of Cuba-American j
Jockey Club, at New Orleans. '
Winter meeting of Business Men's ! ,
Racing Assn., at New Orleans.
Prevented Ratification-
Politics, which has long prevented
the ratification of the peace treaty
and the return of the world to peace,
is now preventing the relief of the
Skating famine stricken peoples of eastern
International championship tourna- Europe and Asia Minor. Capitol
ment at Lake Placid. N. Y. : Journal.
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Go". . In Wheeled Chair
Cuban amateur championship tour- From Paris comes the report that
nament, at Havana. j ,kirts will not be any narrower this
nasmngton s Birthday tournament, ) year. If they had, the dear ladies
at Belleair, Fla. ! would have been forced1 to do their
Men s handicap tournament, at Ash- ; shopping in a wheeled chair. Van
ville. N. C. i couver Columbian.
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