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Thursday, March 25, 1915.
RUSSIANS OA IN.
After six months' siege, the Rus
sians have taken the Austrian strong
hold of Przemysl, together with
50,000 troops. The surrender was
made on March 22 without a fight.
This is considered one of the most
important victories of the war in the
east. Thus Rusia has gained im
portant ground and removed the
last barrier in Galicia to their ad
vance westward on Cracow. She will
now be in position to concentrate her
large fores on the attack of the
passes in the Carpathian mountains
and on Bultowina. In commenting
on this victory the Oregonian of
Tuesday says: "It comes opportune
ly for "the allies, at the time when
Italy appears about to take the
plunge into war, for it may hasten
the decision. It may influence
Austria to abandon the renewed at
tack on Serbia and Montenegro, and
the dual monarchy will need more
than ever to stand on the defensive.
"The fall of Prszemysl also has a
serious bearing on the position of
Germany. It clears the Russians'
way to Cracow, which is on the bor
der of Silesia, and may compel the
Germans to concentra t e much
strength at Koenigshutte, in the
southeastern corner of that province,
for the protection of the important
city of Breslau. This point is not
beset with the same kind of difficult
ies for an invading army as East
Prussia, but is well fortified, and rail
roads furnish facilities for rapid con
centration of troops.
"The heart of the Hapsburg mon
archy, however, will not be in danger
unless the Russians should break
through the barrier of the Carpath
ians into the Hungarian plains in
great force. Galicia and Bukowina
are merely outlying provinces, and
the Austrians are now falling back
on their strongest defensive line,
which is the mountains."
WHAT ARK WE COMING TO?
Leslie's Weekly.
Worse than the brutalizing effect
of the world-wide war upon coming
generations must be the effect In this
country of our coddling the weak and
palavering with the wicked.
We are putting a premium on beg
gary and crime, a discount on thrift,
independence and grit. We are sub
stituting luck for pluck. The self
supporting bread-winner is making
way for the self-seeking bread liner.
What self-respect will be left in
the children of those who are being
taught by the sensational press and
tearful uplifters that they need no
lunger depend, as their fathers did,
on their own exertions for a living,
but that bread lines will give them
their food and "Bundle Day" their
raiment by day and municipal lodg
ing houses their bed by night.
There are unemployed among the
deserving poor. We have had these
in every period of acute depression.
True, also, that many who suffer
now, most of them in fact, suffer be
cause they were improvident. If they
'.:ad been prudent, they would have
looked ahead and provided in days of
plenty for the rainy days of want.
"Sweet are the uses of adversity!"
A season of suffering always means
a lesson of sacrifice. Now with high
er wages and shorter hours of work
than ever before and the highest re
turns to the wage earner given in any
'and, bread lines and free lodging
houses and "Bundle Days" have be
come the vogue.
The "movies" have taken the place
of the savings banks among the
pleasure-loving, thoughtless crowd of
improvidents, unrestful, unhappy,
go-lucky, with no thought for the
morrow. To these the bread line and
the soup house and "Bundle Day"
afford all that they need. Why should
they worry?
What kind of a new generation
will spring from the loins of those
who are taught not the meaning of
self-sacrifice, self-respect and self
dependence, but that the world owes
them a living? From such we shall
surely breed a generation that will
believe that if the world does not
give them an easy living, they will
have the right to take It by force.
Isn't this a good time to cut out
and paste in our hats the sensible'ad
monition of the late Robert J. Bur
dette, in his address at the conven
tion of the American Bankers' Asso
ciation, in Los Angeles, in 1910,
when he said:
A little bit out Of every pay envelope,
enough to patch the leak in the roof,
enough to provide for the "rainy day,"
enough for the little holiday once in a
while, enough for a new book and an
evening at "the show," enough for the
dreary days of sickness.
Enough to pay every bill when it is
presented. Enough to take up the note
when it is due. Enough to save the
man from becoming the unmitigated
nuisance that is always borrowing
quarters and halves, knowing they are
obligations too small to Justify a dun.
Just enough in the bank so that
when your wife needs a litle etra
money for the little emergency de
mands in the household, she won't
come to you with the air of a woman
who has made up her mind to suicide
or murder, and doesn't care very much
which.
That's thrift. That makes a man
rich on a salary. Earn; save; lay by
enough to keep the wolf away from the
door when the hearse with its sable
plumes halts to receive its freight of
nothingness.
THE COMMERCIAL RODY AND
THE COMMUNITY.
The Oregon Country is the name of
the journal published by the Portland
Chamber of Commerce. The Febru
ary issue is a progress and prosper
ity number, and it deals with a viery
large number of important matters
pertaining to the prosperity and pro
gress of the Oregon country. The
following appears as the leading
editorial in this issue and we are
glad to give It a place of prominence
in the columns of this paper, and to
Indorse the sentiment therein so well
expressed:
"Now that the various commercial
organizations have had their annual
elections and have formulated plans
for inducing prosperity it Is but mete
and proper that more consideration
should be given to practical work
rather than revelling in the theoret
ical. If every community In the state
would reduce its commercial body in
to a practical business organization
such as is conducted by our success
ful merchants, and would give that
organization the financial and moral
support necessary to carry out the
program for the Improvement of the
community, this year would prove to
be one of progress and prosperity. It
is no small wonder that some of the
smaller towns in the state have not
made the progress they deserve.
The almost invariable trouble has
been a crystallization of the individ
ual spirit rather than the unification
of the community spirit via a well or
ganized commercial body. In order
,o have a good working organization
there is really no necessity for heavy
contributions. Smaller contributions
backed by unified effort is a sure re
jipe for communal prosperity.
A little individual effort for the
common good goes a long way. A
display of true communal spirit is
sure to impress the investor be he
tourist, farmer or manufacturer.
A commercial body properly con
ducted is a civic necessity. It is an
investment that realizes no end of
profit to every member of a commun
ity. It is to the community what the
traveling man is to the jobbing
house the business getter. Contri
butions to commercial bodies should
therefore not be charged to Expense
rather does it belong under "Investments."
AN OM FRIEND.
A few years ago the advertising
and publicity campaign of the brew
ers and distillers was conducted
ipenly in the name of the liquor
dealers' associations. Then the
rising tide of public opinion got on
;he nerves of the men In the cause
and they adopted a new and more
euphonious name, the "Model Li
cense League." High license was the
cure when the liquor dealers had
found they had to accept regulation
in some form.
A still farther step has been taken
by the highbrows who would think
for the nation, and keep the booze
flowing. They are now the "Nation
al Home Rule Association." This or
ganization, now thoroughly on the
defensive, is carrying on the publicity
campaign which its predecessors
made such a sorry mes of. It has
Issued a pretty booklet showing what
been in Kansas and Maine. This
presents arguments showing how
much more temperate any communi
ty is when there are open saloons and
personal suasion by the Sons of Tem
perance, the W. C. T. U., the Good
Templars and other similar organi
zations. It is the old story. The one law
the liquor men fear and dread above
all others, is a prohibition law. Now
that Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Col
orado, Arizona, Iowa, and perhaps
other states, have adopted prohibit
ion within a year, the friend of the
bum could almost weep for an old
fashioned rally of the Sons of Tem
perance, with a hurrah campaign for
signers of the pledge while the sa
loon remained open just around the
corner. The distillers and brewers
ridicule prohibition because it pro-
hiblts, because it reduces the sale of
liquor and makes their occupation
unsafe. And that is the only reason
they seek to discredit it. Their op
position is sufficient to prove its
efficacy and value. Enterprise Re
cord Chieftain.
Harney Overrun With Rabbits.
According to reports from Baker,
Harney county is waging a war on
rabbits and during the past month
more than 100,000 of these pests
have been killed there. This whole
sale slaughter is due to the five cent
bounty which is being paid on these
animals. Harney county is overrun
with the rabbits, so the report says,
and crops have suffered greatly for
that reason.
Roy Whitels of lone spent several
days in Heppner on business this
wek,
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