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About The Scio tribune. (Scio, Linn County, Or.) 1919-19?? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1920)
• ■ • a I V? «••’ - • •• «r . N * ‘ •s»« 1 A- THE SCIO TRIBUNE IMt KU KVKHY THt'KMbAY HY T. U trl'OGDt. Rtrmra AND Fitrre Entered at the noatoAee at Scio, Oregon as second class matter. •UKK'KimoN. IN A0VAJSCB «IX MONTHS II 75 I 00 APVKirTlNINi: KAT»' Local advertising per Im® first In sertion ............................................. 10 Each suha««|uent insertion per line. .06 Display advertising First insertion twr inch ...................* Each aube«x|uent insertion..................1ft Advertisements shouhi reach thia office not later than Tuesday to insure publi cation tn the current issue. All foreign advertisements must be paid for In advance of pubheation. Hence the spirit which prompts us to wish happiness to our friends and others, is a happy one It gives joy to the wisher and wish«« Ami the Christmas tree. W hat man or woman cannot hark back to child hood days and the joy and happiness which revolved around theChristmas tree. How excited we were as we assembled at the church or school house on the evening of Decernlwr 24. How our little hearts beat with the joy of expectation. Nor is the Christmas tree greatly different from that of our childhood. The children of today seem to enjoy the occasion as royally as we did in the days when we were kids Of course the fabled Santa Claus Is a myth, but if a myth what a lovely one to childhood. And what great expectations fill the minds of the little lx>ys and girls who hang up their stockings Christmas eve. j / plejgr allegiance Io my flag ana the Hepuhlk for which it »tondi, one And what joy it is to the parents tifai ion, InJtettible. »ilh liberty ana who are able to make their children I tut ice fur all. happy with a small money cost. And how joyously the boy or girl SCIO. OREGON. DEC. 23. 1WO calls out “Christmas gift” to the relative or friend. It la thia Christ- MERRY CHRISTMAS. tn as spirit which brings joy and hap (*hristmas-tide is again with its piness to almost everyone for ae all good cheer, mqieeialiy to th® young like to l>e happy and make others folks and children. It is the time around u» happy. Ami th«- simple of year for g’>od wishes and to mak«- words ’ Merry Christmas” coat us others about us feel just a little nothing and bring a waim glow to happier than at other U imi of the the hearts of Ixith ourselves and friends. In this spirit The Tribune year. Christmas has l>een adopttvl by editor an<l office force wishes each Christian churches as the annivers and everyone of its renders a merry ary of the birth of Christ This is and joyous Christmas. farmer has to sell ia a wrong time to increase the salaries of tearlier» or official« The laixsr wage has declined from 20 to 25 per cent and is sure to slide downward still lower, as will be the case with skilled me chanics. and teacher«* salaries should trend downward as well rather than upward. The law of supply ami demand should ami does apply in this mat ter. In war time when teachers were scarce they demanded and re ceived better wages Rut to fix an arbitrary salary l>ase«i upon flush times is m>t fair to taxpayers who have to find the money with which to pay them. We hope our legislators will view this matter from a practical stand* point and not sutler a political clique <>t school teachers to brow beat them into doing an unwise act. HAVE HARD JOB. 0>rrrtint|5 in rinse mir books at the rub of > the near tintinnii expressing hearty appreciation fur the business aub kiitb acts mm babe entrusteb tn us «M » hnmlb lentie a bebt lutpaib t IHr our best lineile« fur a Jtirrry (Lhrishit.is aiib a Happy Nrfo Tirar. iyittrrrdu yours, The Oregon legislature to aaaein- bl® at Salem next month has a hard job ahead. It will lie expected to appropriate large sum« of money usually by non taxpayers, while the people who will have th« bills to pay expect the members to answer “No** to all bills which call for the s|x-ndmg of money. Alx>ut the hardest “No** to MV will lie to the demand for the soldier bonus Their patriotism will be ap pealed to and very forcibly too. But boys, thia ap|«-ni should not be made to the state but to the general gov ernment. Uncle Sam demanded your service« and to him you should look tu requite your aerviex-a. J. F. WESELY ■ >! M SM-TOMM ‘•rri<>NS Psssiiox> •'«.ssTris- J. J.Barnes, W. F. Gill, J a Bilysa, J R Bavaaa, Mr» Jennie Wxrniw W F. (.ill i> C 1 !■■•!•.s I I < 1 oiDpany TN t •uf’tY **. SCIO ROLLER MILLS I N < ■< > ,« l-V.f« A I >-.!> KMKF.H V“ US'S Our Flour is as good as any made in the Willamette Valley not proliably true. The exact date of his birth is not known though the ATMF X./r.A GU.11MXTEED THE SEQUEL l>est writers and thinkers place it Ww «I- as <.»• i.sral Custom MlllIrtM Rusines« 4F F i«ar and t a»r» Nasi«* W|y«al fiouflhl anti E.B < ng a <4 for some time in the spring. rigur W • • in Fiatisi for Busina«« «sr»4 Will Traal You Right The demand to lx- made upon the (Inly a few months ago the people Christinas owes its real origin *o voted a millage tax of two mills to' state is purr graft, nothing more people generally known as heathens. support the elementary schools The nor less. You are simply trying to Al least they were not lielievers in proposition l<K>ke<l so fair that the exploit the patriotism of the people Christ, for he was yet unknown to N<>w is tliw rune to Purchase Your Fully half of you never p«*<>ple took hold of it readily. They I of Oregon them. , snielltxi the powder of a hostile gun said nearlv every ach<x>l district lev These people had observed that ies a stMrcial tax for its «chool and and were in the service but a short Ask th« <■ well known men why they purchased our plant: the sun seemed to travel south con ihey can make the diatrict levy two time. Yet we are told that these I II. Coix-lsii I. Crabtrv«-; Win. Volkman, Crabtree- Walter Blackbum. tinually until a certain date, then HciO: ••«■ory. Schk-nh, frabtn-e. O. B. Kecbier, Lebanon; Walter Po mills less Also the school tax would soldiers who never saw a hostile flag start back northward about I k-ce oi land. Sh«<!d. Ami many others. I m - largely incroam-d on timl>er lands, are the loudest in their demands. lier 25. This date is wrong, for the Paul Automatic Water Systems etc. The teachers argu«-d that dis Now as a matter of fact, boys, sun begins the return northward tricts could pay them larger salaries you were |>aid more than four limes Peri«- tun Milking Machine« (Nature s Milker) two days earlier. Early calendars This two-mill school tax is the main the wage of the Civil war soldier, were defective and the two days /Xnkrr F lol th Ctcam Separators. 1 he Only Self Bal cause of the increase of the state when we consider the depreciated seemingly lost were due to wrong at ted Bowl lax But if we make our disttict greenback. You were better fed calculation* special tax two mills lower the total and better housed. Yet the Civil EJetlhc \l »ring by Licensed and Bonded Men—Estimate« These heathens were sun worship sum of our taxes will not l»e very Cheerfully Furnished war veteran who came home able tiers. As the sun furnished light largely incrx*a>M*d. Hut the sequel bodied never wiu recognized until and heat which caused the giowth THE ELECTRIC STORE Inc. ia now bobbing 50 years after the close of the war. of vegetation, whicii was necvwury of thia millage tax 327 W kirnt st Phone Sk ALBANY. Old I» 0. Building to sustain the lives of themselves up. No, boys, wait a few years until Teachers’ salaries and flocks they assumed that the sun Uncle Sam gets his breath and ar terially increased during the ;>a*t ranges for the great cost of the war. was the father of creation; and they had some reason tu form such con year, but they are not satisfied with You are already being cared for in the raise. We are told that teach a way the Civil war veteran never clusion. ers are promoting a bill to l»e sub I rHE HOUSE OF QUAUT1 Hence they made December 25 a dreamed of. You are being edu festal day amt devoted it to feasting mitted to the legislature at its next cated. taught trades or professions, ’ Carrie« a line of the t>«-«t feeds on the market, knowing from ■ »[«rience ’ silty the iaapwtant point to cun»id«-r in buying feed »«MMion making the minimum »alarv the injured being cared for. etc. * a> and rejoicing and observed it annu ■ ; ally for ' g hen or young stock. . not lesa than $15u per month. This The Civil war veteran was never W a-o. > hts.-r's Blind Fiour « strictly Montana hanl 1 ally. j We need and ark your patronage. means that no district, large or coddled in this manner- You ate ' * Some three centuries later Cone- small, may pay a lets salary than simply asking too much from the J D. DENSMORE fantine, the Roman emperor, thot thia sum. A daily wage of $7.50 class of people who stayed at home to organic the Christian church, or >waeeeeeeeee»eeee»ee-»»oooeeee>eeoeee»»eeeeee«eoeeeooa a laxly of people who accepted Christ l>er dav for <> hour«' work and the and produced grub for you; who are numerous holidays thrown in. and as the son of God. As the exact less able bodied than you, and who date of his birth was unknown the these holidays seem to come very are just as deserving as you are wise men whom Constantine assem frrquentlv. Wait a »pell. The Tribune admits The Tribune favors paving teach bled in congress at Nicr. fixed the your cause is deserving and the ers an adequate salary. Hut the size dale to occur on the great heathen country has great respect for you. of the salary should tie bawd upon holiday. December 25. But when you assault congress or merit. Some teachers are well This action had a double purpose; the stab- legislature you lower your worth $150 i>er month whil«- others to fix an exact date for the birth of selves in tho • stimation of congress, are not worth half that sum. and the savior of the world, and to bring legislature and people. an influence to tiear uix>n these hea there are still others who arc dear The government paid you every thens or sun worshipper». No reas at any price. cent she agreed to pay in money The law now protects t«»acheni in good as gold. Any other pay you onable objection could or can be resigning their contracts for nearly may get from the government will found to this action. The people any old excuse. But if the school I m - due to the gratitude of the peo then nor do they now know the true board deems it for the best interest ple date. Th* only data they had to Rut don't go after it from jL AS of the sc I mmi I to discharge a teacher state or nation with a demand, for work from were the legends and writings handed down from father for cause, too often the teacher can if you do you will injure your own to son during the three centuries collect the «alary for the full ternr. cause. The United State« has never for Which had claimed, Reside«, the of contract. edicts of Constantine had great in It is a p«x>r rule which does not gotten her soldier« of anv of her fluence upon the minds of the mass w >rk both ways. A teacher of merit wars. She has granted pensions, es of the people which were densely is rarely discharged, and there arc provided horn««« and fomi for those I las the I lixxl, Racine, Ajax 1 ires and l ubes ignorant. In fact the people of that many inferior teachers who hold who would accept and favored them ] [ I he Shell. Monogram and Monomobile Oils day were but little removed from their jobs by virtue of their con In many ways. In due time the sol I he Detroit Batteries - Battery Service Station tracts only. Moreover, the really diers of th«* European wsr will he the animal creation. :: ALL KINDS OF REPAIR WORK Rut whatever the date may be it meritoriou« teachers hold down the recognize*«] and cared for, We honor J ; Electrical Work a Specialty is the t.'hristmas «|»irit which counts job year after year. you boys for what you have done; W. L. COBB, Proprietor, a —the desire to be happy and to With the general decline of living nor was it your fault that ssne of make others happy around us. costa as well as for the sluff the you were not sent to France. a FARM IJGI IT & POWER OUTFIT i SCIO CASH FEED STORE ; The Cletrac way Makes Fanning Pay BARTU MOTOR CO SCIO GARAGE t
