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ALBANY, OREGON. SATURDAY. MARCH 20
THE VANISHING TRAMP
The tramp is vanishing. The chief of police of Madison
Wis., submits some figures to prove it. He says that in the
last five years 2,605 hoboes who used to frequent his district
have disappeared. In 1914 the Madison police station
housed 2,820 tramps, in 1919 only 215.
The closing of the saloon is one reason given for the
vanishing "bo." The saloon with its free lunch counter was
the restaurant supreme c f this tribe. Also the cheap lodging
house has disappeared in many localities, owing to the in
creased cost of living, and the poor tramp no longer can
sponge his living from an inebriate and easy-going popu
lation. If he wants to eat he must work. Can you beat that
for cruel andinhuman punishment r
There is another reason for the disappearance of the
knights of the road, but it hurts their pride to have it told.
Drastic police regulations and a labor shortage during the
war put a lot of habitual loafers to work at home or in the
army, and they have to like work. It's humiliating, of
course, but it s true.
The passing of the tramps is a blessing. They were un
doubtedly responsible for much petty thievery and small
crime, with an occasional crime of greater gravity. More
over," their influence upon the youth of the country was not
good. It is not well for boys at the restless age to know that
there is an army of wanderers who can rove and loaf, and
go unhampered by the strong arm of the law.
Any agency that has contributed to riding society of
these derelicts is a blessing. Those who advocate lightening
prohibition restrictions might take this matter under con
sideration before demanding too great leniency in the manu
facture and sale of liquors.
Also, a country and a Congress which have so far con
spicuously failed to make good to returned soldiers, even
the crippled and maimed, should take heed lest because of
their inactivity a new army of wanderers serine ud to sue
ceed the old, a body of men restless, disgruntled and disillus
ioned; for it was in exactly such conditions following the
iivu war tnat tne present vanishing army of tramps had
its beginning.
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WANTED, COUNTRY DOCTORS! ,
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The country doctors are all moving to town, according
to a leading medical magazine. Thousands of the smaller
communities are without doctors, mere are two reasons
for this first, the war, which opened new avenues of useful
ness and opportunity to many of the physicians who entered
the service; and second, the automobile, which makes it pos
sible for the doctor to live in the larger community, keep in
touch and compete with the city physicians, and still take
care of a large part of his outlying practice.
Because of these two factors the little town far from the
city suffers without a doctor, or is able to get one only after
a long delay and anxiety.
To offset this shortage the magazine offers this sugges
tion :
'"Why shouldn't "some of the city doctors, especially
those getting along in years, who feel as if they would like
to slow down a little, move into seme of the beautiful country
villages, which nowadays have most city comforts and many
advantages which the city- does not possess? In such a
place a home can be bought for a song, with peace and quiet-,
and a garden spot, fresh fruits and beautiful scenery, and an
increasing number of people of large ideas, and poetic and
literary instincts, and little money."
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Why should England and France insist so solemnly
that they intend to repay our war loans? Few Americans
have ever done them the discredit of doubting it.
o
It looks now as if Constantinople won't be "Stamboul"
much longer.
WHY?
(By Guy r'itch Phelps)
Ah, why does ono sweet bud decay
Among its sinter bloom ?
One deer of all the fleeing herd
Fall wolf-torn in the gloom t
One pallid girl, with hollow chest,
Sink sighing in the tomb?
WhyT
Some walk by ways where dreams the
moon
Along the murmuring river;
And vows are spoken which unite
Their glowing breasts forever;
But others weep, Farewell! Farewell!
Whom fate has forced to sever.
Why!
Some meet and love and wed and dwell
Where sunny vines are hung.
And through the flowering, golden
years
They sing forever young.
But one unmated croons alone
Life's loss with dismal tongue.
Why?
One shines where wit and mirth make
bright
The music-maddened hall.
And round her beautious temples play
The wish, the praise of all,
And-one begs for the crumbs of love,
The crumbs that never fall.
Why!
Among the thousand woodland nesta
Which stir and sway and swing,
A hundred are by serpents wrecked
Of all the birds that sing.
How many flutter from the sky
With broken, quivering wing.
Why?
One hand is trained to sweep the keys
With magic touch and rare;
One walks where fouotained gardens,
breathe
Their perfume on the air;
Another in a hovel slaves
In rayless. blsck despair.
Why?
One child is born with blood as pure
' As some cold forest well;
And one is cursed parentally
With manias blacV as hell.
And work j from out a recking brain
-A devil's horrid spell.
Why?
Must buds and birds and derr and man
Be mangled much and torn?
Must something perish from the earth
That something else be born?
Does one lip sing becauae-because
Another lip must mourn?
Why?
Comments of the
State Press
I'aya big Income Tax
One Portland firm paid Income tux
of $4,600,000, and sevcrul of $1.000,.
000 or more. N.unr of these profi
teers are not divulged hut thry really
ought to be. They are the principal
reason for the high coal of living.
Eugene Guard.
TODAY'S EVENTS
(irocify Business Hit
Tile whuloule grocery liouset nre
being hit in the rye with decline In
pries, nri'ording to good information.
Hut sympathy Is Licking to some rx
trnt, for l is believed the s.imr whole
snle houses did very well on the ris
ing markrt which lasted for right
smart spell. linker Herald. '
Champ ('larks Price
r.x-Spekrr Champ Cl.irk t divi
sion not to run for senator is doubt
less prompted by a belief that the
leader of a nnriv in the hoUs i a
bigger man than private In the rear
r.mk In the riiate.-lrrgoiijnii.
New Spring Styles
The new spring styles but a prem
ium on slimness of figure. Looks
like the anil fat quacks have iuIinIcI
ixed the fahion makers. Astoria
Budget
People For Hoover
The fact that Hoover delegates
were elected by democrats in New
Hump. hire primaries and that thou
sands of republicans wrote Hoover's
name as their choice in the Minnesota
primaries, both again! the expressed
wishes of Mr. Hoover, that democrats
in many states nre declaring for him
and that republicans In other stairs
are organising for him, rmphasises
the popuUr recognition of hit desir
ability and also shows that.the people
are hrenking away from the control
of the politicians. Capitol Journal.
Saturday, March 20, IViO
Today maiks the beginning of
Spring.
The Michigan Slate Federation of
Women1, Clubs it 2ft years old today.
Minnesota Kepuhlicaut meet at St.
Paul today to elect ileli gales to the
national convention.
Six of the leading American col
leges for Women V'sss.ir, Wellesley,
Smith. Ilnrnard, Kadclirfe, ami Ml.
Ilolyuke, ur0 engaged in a debating
contest tonight on the aubjr of "col
led Ivr bui gaining."
The haitli'ship Miirylaml, the lar
gest war vessel ever built for the
United Slates (iovrrnmeiit, la to bo
Inunrh.d today at the yards of the
Newport News Shipbuilding und Diy
Dock Company.
Major (irtieral lawnurd Wood and
Senainr Miles PoinrVxter of Washing.
Ion, l, C, today to discuss plans for f
the ikmocraitr oig.mliallon of communities.
Sunday, March 21. ID JO
Fifth Sunday in latnt.
Today is the Persian New Year.
Centenary of the birth of Horace
Fairbanks, governor of Vermont
1870-78.
The Koman Caiholic dioresses nt
Crookston, Minn., and ilismark, N. I ,
today complete their first decade.
The Jewish Publication Society of
America will hold ila thirty. srrond an
nual meeting in Philadelphia today.
Demands of Ex-Soldiers
Washinirion disDaiehes sav ihat the
leaders of both parties in congress
have airrerd that the demands of the
ex-toldicrs in the Great War ran re-
scivc no attention at this session of
congress. This will be a great dis
appointment to many. We are not
inclined to criticise ihe nWLInn h.
cause the whole matter is a trouble
some one Ruirrne Kriristrr.
Do You Know That!
Only a little more than five years
ago Sir Auckland Guides, who Is to
become the Rriil.h ambassador at
Washington, was lecturing on anato
my at Medill University.
Michael, t'anlina 1-ague, the Roman
Caiholir Primate of All Ireland, Is
familiarly known among his people
as "Michael of the Mount," from the
eminence On which his splendid ca
thedral and palace stands.
Dr. Itertha V. Thomson is eliv
health commissioner of OOtkosh, Wis.
New York women have patented
more inventions than the women of
any oihrr State.
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The suggestion sounds practical and tempting. Almost
anybody might wish he were a city doctor, so he could sep
up first.
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Portugal's cabinet resigns under fire' If it hadn't it
would have been fired anyway, so what is the difference?
President Wilson refuses to surrender in the Adriatic
dispute. So do the Italians and the Jugoslavs. Now what
do we do?
o
Hardly anybody seems to be for Hoover except the
independent voters. The question that is puzzling the poli
ticians is, how many of them are there, in each party?
o
American money 'may not 6e worth much, at present
prices of commodities, but it's still the best money in the
world. Hang onto it!
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Beef soup in 30 minutes. Peaches
canned in 8 minutes.
Pressuro cooking and canning is
recommended by the Government and
by Domestic Science experts every
where. See articles by famous auth
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and the Modern Pricilla of November,
p. 41. Watch Pictorial Review for
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you will see It
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