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About The Scio tribune and Santiam news, consolidated. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1917-1919 | View Entire Issue (March 27, 1919)
of blood to a dose aa soon THE SCIO TRIBUNE holacaust a* poaaible and wr want t*> «x-e auch UMCKD EVKKY THl’BBDAT HY t . L DVQGM, bditub AND r»or Entered at thè txstolWkl Scio, Oretfon aa rnscond class mattar. •uinwiurnoN. in advancb AT »NO or YBAlt 11.50 1.76 Al* MoNTHH_______________ 75 ADVERTISING HATE»: IxM-al ailverlising per line Arsi in* aertion ..... .... ...................... »1® Earh »ut>e«qu«-nt ins«-rtl**n per line .05 Display advertising First inseritori per ineh ............. ......... ■ '&' Each sul**»«‘«p*cnt inaertion. ................. I'- Advertia*-menl» sh*>ubi reach Ibis office noi later than Tu.-sday lo Irarare publi- ralion in tbe currenl iaaue. All foreign ativertiaemrnU must be paid for in advance of publication. / pledge allegiante Io my flag ana the Republk fot uhkh it »land», one pulton, tndtouible, ttith liberty ana J brin e fot all THURSDAY, MARCH 27. 1919 THE SAVIOR OF MANKIND? Th« katfue constitution may not be perfect. It may not suit the a settlement that, if possible, there partirular Ideas of any nation. But will be no more wars. it is a »tarter and can be amended President Wilson with his altruis as future rxjx-riencw develops the ________ tic views is the only man in the need. World to whom these people will MODERN CONVENIENCES listen. They believe that in propos ing the league of nations plan he is The many conveniences of today absolutely honest and that he is not 'inspired from selfish motives. They which everyone may enjoy have believe that he la not asking other come so gradually that we do no’ nations to do what the United States realize how necessary they are t< our enjoyment of everyday life. it not willing to do. A few days ago our electric light And President Wilson can tx»int plant was out of commission for to the (>ast history of the United States as an evidence that we are two days and we had to go back to Then we saw absolutely honest in our pn »ent pur the kerosene lamp pose to make the world a tietier what a great convenience the turn He ing <>f a button, which caused our place in which for men to live can point to the fact that we have homes to become flooded with light, always |>aid for any territory wr had become. If it was necnsary have acquired from other nations, for one to g<> on the streets for any that our frontier on the north is purpose th«* old lantern had to be maintained Inviolate without armrd r«|uiai tinned. If it. now becomes necessary to power of any kind along th-border, call a doctor at night or during the that we entered a war with Stann -lay we simply go to the telephone to fr**e oppressed Cuba, and a'ter on the wall and the trick is done establishing a stable government on The doctor, instead of harnessing that island withdrew therefrom Hr can point to the tremendous his team, bundles himself and pill strides our government has made in bug into an auto and is at the bed the progress of civilization and th«- side of his patient hours a* Miner accumulation of wealth under a rule than he could possibly have been in th«- old days and. mayhap, the life of moral, not physical power, Therefore, firing spokesman for of the patient aav«»| or the pain re the leading and most progressive lieve.:. nation of the world, he is in a post-1 Hut we get th«* full fruitage of these conv«*menres only when we tion to point ami direct a plan by add one other, that of good roads, which the nations of the world can i Il i» estimated that fl,000,000 live in peace and harmony by simply { will pave and macadamize our prin recognizing the fact that the weak cipal roads so that all neighbor- have the same right to live in the h—»da will lx* connected with the world that the strong have If President Wilson can gccom market towns- This is a large sum plish thia grand purpose. and h< of money for Linn county to raiw will, may we not truthfully *u*y h« in addition to our other taxes. Hut it can lx* done without hardship is the savior of mar kind? There are probably 5IMMI farm Strange to say we have m< n, s*n owners and business men in ijnn ators and representatives, who w«>ulu county. Now every one of the-*» defeat the formation of a league of could well afford to donate $2<M) nations just lM-cau*r they do not each t<> develop a system of gixtd like the exact wording of the pro highways all over the county. But posed constitution. They infer that they ruted not lx* a»k«*d to make the the U. S. will have to become a *»-«r t donation, but to simply loan the of arbiter ami l»e ever ready to send county that rum each and at five an army to Europe to settle any per cent interest as well. Now quarrel which mav ami protiably there Is not a farm owner in Idnn will occur between nations. Thi» is county who would not make th« not true. President Wilson is fir»t l«*an if he knew his farm would lx- an American citizen and then a citi conn«-ctcd with his market town bv zen of the world He will not con a first-chiKA load. So let's add this greatest conven cede a single right which America of them all to thgse we now ience deems as hers, even that of going to enjoy. Nobody will build roads for war if m-ceasary. But he and his us; we must do it ourselves with associate delegates will agree to our own money. settle any international dispute we president Wilson wields more power t -lay than any man has been able to command during the entire history of the world Rulers have been atiaolute monarchs over their own nation» an<l over other adjoin ing nations, in a measure, but such power ha* always lx-en supported by physical power. Fear has l»-en the basis. 1'eotde have submitted to power simply l>ecauas they were helple«» to do otherwise, as has t«-en the case with «mail and weak nations in submitting to the dictum of their more powerful neighlwrs. Hut here we havr one man. the president of a great people to be sure, who is saying practically to these Euro|iean nation*: ”Y<»ur rule of physical force la a failure, you are simply destroying yourselves by your methixl; tiwre is a better method, and this methixl is to agree to live in h irm >ny with each other to recognixe and reiqx-ct the rights of each and to accomplish by moral power what cannot tie done with physical force " President Wilson will accomplish with his ureat moral power and ran. may have by peaceable mean» if All other signal >ry na vincing arguments what has hereto, possible. fore been impossible lie knows (ions will make the same agreement. Senators Ixxlge, Borah and others that right now is the one propitious time in the world's history to ac are actuated by political or partnan eornplish this purpose He ha* motives, if so they are making a pointed the way and these nation* serious til under, Ixith for themselves which have worn themselves to ex and their (>arty. If they want to haustion seem willing to listen, to make Wixxirow Wilson president for be led. Four years ago these war-' the third time they have but to con weary peoples would not have list tinue their present tactics and de- ened; they were not then convinced feat the ratification by the senate of as they are now that physical force the treaty of peace A very large majority of the peo is s failure. They are now in the proper frame of mind to try the ple want the league of nations to win out. They want no more wars new and better plan. President Wilson could not possi if they can fie avoided and they bly have placet! himself in the ex think the proposed league furnishes alted position of moral power he a methixl which will mark the end occupies had he not prepared the of war. The Tribune believes that way. He at the tx-ginning yf the should either the democratic or the great struggle tried with moral republican party tiecome the cause suasion to get these warring nations. of the defeat of the league that to settle their troubles by peaceable party will lie annihilated and the means He asked each nation to men. senators or representatives, define in plain terms what its reasons who engineer the defeat will sink for war were to toil just what into political oblivion. Is*t the league la-come an established fact and it was fighting for. When for well known reasons the President Wilson will retire to pri- United States participated in the vate life feeling that he has accom war the president assembled such a plished more for the peace and hap great army to Europe that the great piness of the world than has ever war was brought to a dose within a fallen to the lot of one min to ac complish few months. So far as our "Monroe doctrine" When entering the war President SPRING IS HERE. WARNING ne busy in his fields and would re COUNCIL ISSUES fuse to quit the plow to look at Land Grabbing by Armsd Forts Or- new autos _______ dsrtd to End Paris - Ths »uprrroe war council Govrrn-ir OteoU n*»w has practic laaued a solemn warning to the world ally absolute ramtrol of the state of that th*- |x**sr»aloa of territory rain*-d Oregon by having two votes on the by torr«- will seriously prejtxllce ths «tale lx»ar<l of control. If he sue- claims of th->«*» who us«- such m<-»ns and set up sovereignty by coerrton. cre«ls in legally appointing a m-cre- This declaration was framed by Prsal lary of state to succee<l himself and dent Wilson appoints a man who will lx* srcre- While the solemn warning with re tarv, he will have done something gard to the gaining of territory by few men would do; he will surren force specified no countries. It covered der power wh«-n he has full warrant broadly the warrln« elements In ;he I’ll mine and thoee a. ound Vllna and of law to hold it. Th«* pr«*sent di Mtn burg, where b<>mbardm«-nla hats lemma the state is in will probably occurred, and also In the Caucasus, cause the pcoph* to vote to establish where the new <l«*orgian republic is the office of lieutenant governor As flsbting the new Amu-nlan republic, ^r' a mattrr of fact the state should, also Herblan inroad» on M a« well aa territorial occupation at -ig «mtabliah that office. We should not the eastern Adriatic. In Thrace and remain in a p*Miti<>n where a man.' In Poland greetly for power, could control the stat«. We may never have another The state hlitbway coninilmilon has Ben Ol«»tt who is willing to surren-¡ Instructed the caglneer to prepars plans and specifications for a numlter der pow er when h«* has it. legally. of new paving and «railing projects for which blds will be opened at the next m«x-ting of the commission. March IS. The Race Across the Atlantic Th«-s«' tnelud«1 Paring US mll«*a In <"o*» county bet»**-n Marshfield and If not this month, then anon at I'oqullle. paving In Umatilla county any rate, worn«- aviator is going to between Milton and the Wa.-hington cro»» the Atlantic in a heavier-than- state boundary; paving '• mil-« In Marlon county 1» v.**n Jef r»«n and air-flying machine. The desire of Hal*-m. pacing anti grading In Linn the United Stat* a navy department , county is-tsH-ti Albany and Tangent; to lx* first to accomplish the feat is paving 4 miles In J«» phine county highly commendable, and it is to lx* j between Wolf creek and tlrav* creek; ho(s-d that its ambition will be paving In Douglas county ««-»x-n Oakland and Yom alia and I* ->. n achieved It would lx- in keeping ; Dlllarti and Myrtle creek; paving In with our tradition« for us U> l»e first ■ Yamhill county between Bellevu* and to crows the ocean by air, after hav McMinnville: paving 3 miles In U iomo ing went the first steamship across I county betwre-n The Dall-s ami S* u- the water, am] after having 1«! the f*-rt. gradlnj; In Columbia c- inty be tween 8e*pp«>os>- and MeHi-ole. grad world in the development of trans ing and graveling in Umatilla county portation by rail between Echo and Morrow county line; It is th«- belief of an aviator whose - grading I mile In Ixiuglas county lx* ■pinion is entitled to high r«.*tq»-ct , tween Canyonville and Galesville; that only three otatacieti now im- grading in Josephine county on Smith hill ridge. tx-*le the making of ¡too miles an That Erank Acusta. found d- .«-I at hour by air. Tw*> of th«*se are me chanical; th«- thirl i« the feeling took bls own life, la the statement of akin to intense hunger which at tack a Coroner Hitter, of Douglas county, the aviator flying at the high ra'e after visiting the seen«* A'usta, who of »taw«!. The feeling hnjt not b«n has hunt«-d In the mountains In the analyze«!, if it were simple hunger south t'mpuua coua’.ry for more dtiui 2«> years, it appears, lost hl» footing it «mid lx* overcome by taking a and tell over a low ridge of r«x-k. his supply of fixel along; the explana rifle* being discharged tn the fall, ths tion pmbably is sound that it is an bullet striking under the left arm and affection of th«- n«-rv«-s of the atom coming out at tbv shoulder Despair ¡«ch caui«-d by excessively rapid mo ing of a»*btaute and fa-arful of a lingering d*-»th. Acusta wrote a brief tion But it Is safe to prt-dict that note stating ths fact, then dragged whatever it may lx* it will not pre himself several fret away, where he vent the voyage which Would lx* leau«*d against a log, drew his revolv made from land to land in some er and shot himself through the head. tlr«-at Interest is Ix-lng n..> tested thing leas than |u hours. In the In the C«x>» bay section in the bill summer time it «raid lx* made in lntroduc>-d by Reprv»«utatb e Jones, laylight without »tx*ci|i effort of Lincoln and I’olk eountl«» provid If the <>«’an can lx- crossed, then ing for an appropriation fo< con the last «»rn*-r of the world can o« struction of a Roosevelt coax, blab explored II <« Wells once pre- way paralleling the coast lim- t>* - ween dicte«l that air craft wouhi permit Astoria and the I'alltorula Un* a die lane« of approximately 3« hi ni tes t he the building of cities on plateaus estimated cost of th«- |>roj«-ct is IS,- now inac«-*»il>l«- < Ine may wonder j Ooo.oou. half of which is to be <*->pro why anvotw* would want to buil<! a p ria ted by the state and the r« n. al ti city on a remote p'ateau, but that de r to be obtaiu«-d from a twlcral Arrangements are feeing is lieside the point, which is that source made by the rommer* ial ixxltes of n en ar«- never aatisfie-i until they Coos county and the C<x s County have obtained the unattainable, lie- Good It.ads association to send a d«*!e velopment of the ajrplane will ix* gatlon of representative men to Sal* ¡n the means to th«* realization of a to urge the passage of the bill by ths great spiritual ambition The Ma bouse and senate. Counties may have Io* «1 I .. -a zama, the arctic explorer, the'delver placed on ths ballot at the ape* tai et.-c- into mysterious caves, and now the tiou on June 3, although no other aviator, are cast in the same mold. state wide measures may b-- voted on It is to lx- hop«l that our navy ( except th >se enumerated -n the i«,- a -department will do lh<- thing right latlve enactment »uthorlring tha elec while it is making its til-ins W<- tion. 1 his is the decision reached In an «pinion g! .* a to Listr-* t A-t -■ want a »-»’op, cont.nuous flight i <;--to!i «r . : Mari from »»ore to shor«- This w.il General Brown. chall'-o. «* five imagination of th • Hords ha-.e been sold and the con world a« nothin.' else «»uld «Io. To ; tract l«-t to the Warren Construct .on trust t«> a im«i hine which wou’ I eompany for th*- < >n»truc*.; n work n the Teel nee-i to pau.*»* in mi<i-<»«-an to take ( mtraaiias to |1. - >0* ■rojeef at »'«.ho. i. r g -<> the an fuel would be to win by a fluke, it nounc- went of the uoevtora. Th*- we w-*n ¡«1 all. What we want to work will c.wr..;s au extension of sra* demoMtra'ed is not that some j the project, by means of which about fl-er taking a desperate chance can 18,000 acres under the project and get acriMH. but that th»* ve tore is 4«W» acres on Butter Cr«-*’k will be pul under water practical and can l*e I ¡prate*J The Bond Athletic club is organii Doubll«-»* it s nn«l can lx* One is Ing as a subsidiary unit the Bend Rod tempted to v«*nture the guess that and Gun dub. with the purpose of it will lx- d >ne »ome time in 1919 bettering fish and game conditions In central Oregon Heretofore there have Oregon an ______ been dynamiting of streams. Fishing »00.034 Trocps Are Bsck fom Francs. and hunting out of season and other Washington Troops returned rrv»» Infractions of the game protective Curopr and debark«*d in the United laws The new organisation intends Htat«-n total (00.034. according to a to cooperate with the game warden's There is no doubt alx>ut it. The hens an* cackling. r«xwters crowing, girls are para-1 mg th«* streets wear ing low-neck dresses with diminu tive kirta. farmers are plowing, young lamlxi and goat kids are plentiful, and John Kelly keeps the door of his store wide <>|ien. Ye», -pring is here, full of pron - I m of a Imuntiful crop for our far mers. If the aphids will lie gixxl and the sewn propitious. Ort gon farmers will harvest abundant crops As go ,,i prices are assure«] our far- met» w ill be on easy stn-et next fall. And the afort-sai«! farmer is making full ti •• of the g<wxl weather; early an«; ate he is on the job. He is not an H tv-ur man; on the other hand ab >ut lti hours daily are necessary for him to get away wsth the crowd ing work. A little later, however, he will have leisure to talk politics or am other old thing which seem« beneficial t«r publ'e interests. Ye. spring is here; the young lady arrived all in a bunch Friday of i.««t week, «»incident with the ■nival of the Altmnv automobile »hi In fact it looks as though the Albany people had sutmidized the Wilson said we want neither indem being interfered with the league afoi •• ■ J Miss Spring to date hei nity nor territory; or in effect say will practically create a .Monroe arrival with good weather and not ing we are here to bring thia great. doctrine for evrry nation in Europe. to.» .»non. for the farmer would then alatranaet by lbs war d«parta»«mt office 18 doing away with tbeae evils.
