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ALBANY. OREGON, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25
DENOMINATIONAL WASTE
A speaker at the Interchurch Council at Philadelphia
declared that there are in the United States 100,000 super
fluous churches, built at a cost of $500,000,000. That is a
very respectable sum of money to waste, particularly in a
form of enterprise where money-raising is so difficult and
painful a process. Still more lamentable, according to any
standard of efficiency, is the waste of effort represented in
trying to keep all those poorly patronized churches running,
w hen there is so obvious and simple a remedy at hand.
"The typical rural village," says a New York paper,
"with its half-Jozen starveling churches, could to advant
age sell five of them, reserve the best building for union
services and pay one clergyman at least a brick-layer's
wages."
Then; would be a human problem to confront, of course,
in deciding which of the churches should be kept, and which
pastor should enjoy the brick-layer's wages; but surely that
problem might be solved, if everybody concerned set about
it in a Christian spirit. It has been, in many villages and in
local neighborhoods of many cities.
Denominationalism no longer operates as a serious bar;
it is today little more than a tradtion. It is natural therefore
that among enlightened church leaders there should be a
strong demand to square church organization with the needs
of the time.
More important possibly than financial considerations
is that of public servce. A "communty church" is pretty
sure to foster a better community spirit, whereas the arbi
trary separation of the citizens into several different church
organizations tends to interfere with such a spirit. A pros
perous, active, up-and-going community church would be a
power for good in many a town that is now scattering its
civic energies, or has never even discovered that it has any
such energies.
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MAKE BAD MONEY GOOD
A fool for luck, every time. Here the Bolshevist gov
ernment in Russia has been working the printing presses
over time in an effort to produce enough paper currency to
meet the needs of the people tor some medium of exchange
Night and day th presses have been running, according to
report, until the value of the ruble has almost reached the
vanishing point. Russian paper money is absolutely worth-
lessanywhere but in Russia, but it has to be accepted as legal
tender inside the domain, by comjnand of Lenin.
And then, when the paper money had almost obliterat
ed the ruble, when there was more currency afloat than
there was property in the country to back it up, what hap
pened? A streak of purest luck in the shape of a vein of
purest gold. I wo valuable gord fields have been discovered
in the Urals, which, the engineers report, will increase Rus
sia's gold output 60 per cent in two years, if properly work
ed.
Now, if this isn't like all the rest of the news that has
come out of Russia, Lenin may be able to float himself a
while, longer, and make good on the snowstorm of stage
money his printing presses have stamped, what it will do
to the gold standard in the rest of the world, low as it is now,
remains to be seen, or for the wise financiers to predict.
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The federal trade department reports that "whiskey
and punch sets sell well' in Chile and Peru, and "wine ser
vices are extensively purchased, lsn t that fortunate
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The "finest farm in America" has been left to a college.
The Anker-Holth
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Self-Balancing
Bowl
Cream Separator
See it at the
HAZELWOOD CREAM'
STATION
H. LStenberg, Mgr.
128 West Second Street
And think how the boys used to go to college to get away
from the farm!
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"Wilson Pronounced Fit." Must be so, from the fights
he's started.
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Just now it's mostly the High cost of poltics.
TODAY'S EVENTS
General John J. Pershing is to be
entertained today as a truest of the
city of Boston.
Attorney lienor! A. Mitchell Palm
er, candidate for the Democratic presi.
dential nomination, has accepted an
invitation to address the Kentucky
li'ltislnture today.
Democrat of Iowa meet in Suite
convention at Des M lines today to
name the delegates to the national
convention.
The Nutionul Fraternal Congress
and the American Fraternal Congress
are scheduled to meet at Chicago to
day for an important conference on
problems of the day.
Thirty-one radicals, indicted under
an Illinois Mate law, are to be ar
raigned in the criminal court in Chi
cago today for a hearing.
Organization of a Council of Agri
culture for British Columbia is ex
pected to result from a conference of
the Provincial farming bodies to be
held today at Victoria.
Comments of the
State Press
Tax on Harhrlora
The public treasury is In need of
money. If men insist on a life of
single blessrilneta or tingle cussed
noss. Mippoe they pay for their
avoidance of duty. One huuilrid dul
l;ir ,i year each from 7,uih),IK0 men
would assist n.it. naly in the pay
ment of interest on the public debt
ami such .1. tax would be eminently
eUitnbh. Pendleton Tribune.
tration upon ,1 president, will, we
think, prefer that he retain tome
authority aid power lailier than leave
the fate of the country entirely 10 a
eongrvis which has, unfortunately, all
too often demonstrated its incapacity
and its nerd of a min In the driver's
rat who can emek a whip an well as
rluik his tongue. Astoria lludget.
like Casahiaura
Lebanon Criterion
ll Is Kometlung of it ipiestion among
hi f. lends in I. inn county us to just
white Hon M A. Miller tiinU in th.'
einiiover.y lu-iwon the two most
brllliuit tar on the horiion of the
democratic sky.
Smokers' Doom Impend
latlmiiun F.xprrns
Smoking on all occasions and every
where should bo curbed, in Justice to
those to whom the odor of smoke It
offensive, and there ate many of this
elat. Hmokers themselves will itrilil
unlly force drastic restrictive, If not
prohibitive luws, if tiny do not keep
v 11 In n reasonable bunds. They
siiould 11 11.. 11. In r ill. I 1I1.1 1 1 1 an.!
lawlessness of the liiplor inteie-.ls
Were lv-.Mllsil !e fur i. ,lilt.ttil
Widow With Warm Feet, Attend!
Klmer (inffrn is looking out for a
widow with warm feet, as he has been
sleeping wi:h a hot iron. He's lieen
Imvmg goo. I luck trnpping; he has 13
ii:hv but no owl yel. The old man is
running opposition trapping for jack
rabbits, as he's out of meat and it's 4
groundhog case. Oh. how happy we
will be over in the promised land!
Scio Tribune.
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Today's Calendar
of Sports
Raring
Winter meeting of Cuba-American
Jockey Club, at Havana.
Winter meeting of Business Men's
Racing Assn., at New Orleans.
Swimming
Central A. A. U. 150-yard back
stroke and 400-yard relay champion
ships, at Chicago.
ltaskrthall
Central A. A. U. championships, at
Chicago.
Boxing
Benny Valger vs. Johnny Kilbane, 8
rounds, at Newark, N'. J. .
Arlos Fanning vs. Joe McGowan, 10
rounds, at Springfield, Mo.
Charley White vs. Cal Delaney, 10
rounds, at Cleveland.
Kddie Fitzsimmons vs. Dennis
O'Keefe, ID rounds at Racine.
Chick Huyes vs. Dutch Brandt, 12
rounds, at Lewiston, Me.
.-short Skirts and l.ow Necks
linker Herald
The dress r. formers will have to
find some other platform than ill
health upon which to stnge their at
tack on modern feminine attire. The
world is full of fine, strong, heilthy
girls in short skirts and low nrcks.
If the morals of the world can't stand
the low nrcks and the short skins, it
is the morals of the world which are
unhealthy; the f,M lire all to the
good.
Man In Driver Seat
The politicians at Washington
would doubtless like it better if they
were not subjected to so much execu
tive in terference, but the people, who
fix the responsibility of an adminis-
Very ModeraU Vacation.
A young draftsman for a I.oulslnnn
ittm-Rin company saw one of the
colored laborers otT duty one morning.
When he found the old negro hack
niraln In the factory that nfternnon he
accosted him In n tone of moek nil- I
r Ii.kI lr ms,, SI. ..a .11.1..'. fl ...... '
J ''.-. .'.'"-sr. .i.'iii i wn-v JIIU
off this nvirnln;;?"
The old man never questioned the
authority of the younester to call him
down, hut meekly replied: "Yes. turns.
Ah Jet hnd to go to a funeral ills
iiiawnlnc: hut don't y know. Loss. Ah
only I n off three days scare Ah been
a-workln' henh?" ,
Three days? That 'Is a lot of time
to luxe. How lung hnve you heen
here?' deinnndcd the draftsman of six
months' service with the firm.
"Well, boss. Ah been a-norkln' In
dls shop fer a little over thirty years."
The draftsman hastened bnck to his
blue-prints. Youth's Companion.
Tea Not Feci. Siyt Court.
Now that the appeal court has defi
nitely decided that ten Is not a "food."
some one will have to define the word
"food" a little more clearly.
t.'p till now we have boon led to he
lleve that any li.pild or solid that has
a fond vulue Is a food. In this con
nection some of the legal urguments
were somewhat confusing.
"You do not Invito your friends to
ent tea leaves" ergo, tea, which can
not be "eaten" Is not n food. Hut
then neither do yini nsk your friend
to "eat" cocoa -essence or "drink" tne
fhltimKt of soups, both of which are
usually regarded as food.
' Dietetic experts are more convinc
ing. They refuse to recognlxe tea ns
a food simply l"nuo It contains bo
nourishment. I.niiil'.n Chronicle.
Its Styie. i
"There's a flue building."
"Why. It Is as dilapidated as It can
be."
"It Is a fine building all the same, j
I is o fv.llco court."
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We are able to ofl'cr at this time a few pieces in
Ivory L'namcl Dressers at attractive prices.
Well made and finished, with plate (lass mirrors,
an adornment to any bed room -
Three Draw or si.c $.$.00
Four Drawer size $18.50
The same dresser in golden oak finish at $17 and
$17.50. Other Dressers at $9 and up.
With the approach of spring you will want to re
place that old rug with a new tloor covering. Come
in and look over our splendid assortment?. Here are
a few attractive pieces which we have to offer:
Fibre Rugs, 9x12 $12.00
Grass Rugs. 9x12 $11.00
Fibre and Wool Rugs, 9x12, $13.50
Heavy Axministe Rugs, 9x12 $1:1.50
Smith Velvet Rugs $19.00
When in the Market for Furniture, AwiW Over
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Planning that Garden j
With the first appearance of Cock KoKin signs of
spring bring thoughts of that garden that will furnish
you with so much pleasure in the making and so much
luxury and real satisfaction in the eating of your own
grown vegetables a few weeks hence.
But to garden you must have tools, and our tools
arc of the right kind and quality. Better look over
yours.
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Garden tools of all sorts. You can always depend
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