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Thursday, October 21. 1915.
SOMK SCHOOL V ltil 11KS.
Sfvevtccn thousand persons m
Ma.'Ni.'.tul's parade of protect against
.u-o of p".-lanity must Isavo pre
sciiieil a (oi-uiila'.'le aniiv. The
Ho'v Name Society ap
nourished in Maryland despite tho
proximity of t'onuress and the halls
of eiox ernnnnt ami we may asutno
that ti.e nnui-ter of profane vitup
eration has been deait a fea.-fu! blow
by the spectacle of sucli a t'oroo as
sembled to do battle. The incident is
refresliinc:. Tl'.e disciples of biasylic
inv and unhallowed speech have been
multipiyintr almost unciiecked i.nuVr
the ciunplii aliens and annoyan es of
modern life. Originally profane in
vective must have been inspired by
boilins passions or incited by power
ful provocation. No doubt the first
curses were applied in all sincerity,
although they implied a spirit of ven
om which rendered the impious prac
tice no more commendable. There
after they became matters of habit
and crept into the speech of peoples,
even as rank weeds grew into their
dit'.erent.
n.m't notify the editor when you
change your postofP.ee address. He i to $H0 an acro.-Conclou Times,
may lose track of you and you will
escape paying the last two or three
years of your subscription.
Don't forget to write on both sides
of the paper. The operator might
forget how to swear.
Don't write your communications
leivibiy. Deciphering them keeps the
editor busv and he is able to make an
to have occasional blunder, which promotes
good feeling all around.
Don't imagine that the newspaper
has anything to do. Newspapers
run themselves and the ravens feed
the printers.
LEXINGTON.
Herb Olden, of Eight Mile, was a
caller in Lexington Saturday.
J. H. Frad and family of Hlack
Horse, spent Sunday in this city.
Mrs. Itreshears and children have
gone to Walla Walla for a visit of a
month.
WHY Sl't'.MI YOl U OWX MONEY'
If any one should ask bow many
enrolled school children there are in
the cour.trv you can reply on the an-; gardens, and were transmitted from
thority of the federal commissioner
of education IM'.'HH'i.iom). You can
then say in addition to this, and up
on the same authority, that there are
216,000 students in et'llego and uni
versities and another Inn. 000 being
educated in the norma! schools as fu
ture teachers. Of the total school
going population there is another
67,000 that attend professional
schools. There still remains an un
classified 1,243,000 scattered through
out the country in other types of ed
ucational institutions than have been
mentioned. The grand, total in
school attendance is placed at 22,
000,000 employing a corps of 700,
000 teachers, tiflo.miO of whom are
engaged in the public schools.
Concerning t'.ie cost of this stupen
dous educational activity, which is
preparing Us army of 22, "00, 000 for
efficient ritizeasliin, the total esti
mate, as nearly as it can be determin
ed, is ITSM.OvO.ooo. That is a great
deal of money, but it does not look so
big when we are told that we pay
more than a third of that amount ev
ery year as admission to moving pic
ture shows and two-thirds more than
it for the intoxicating liquors we
drink. It contributes to our pride on
the other hand as we learn that the
cost of education in this country dur
ing 1914 was somewhat in excess of
the value of the cotton crop, a little
less than the value of the wheat crop,
and about one-half the value of the
annual harvest of corn.
There are other figures that show
the progressive trend of the schools
as a whole. They show that there is
some improvement in the character
and attendance in rural schools the
country over, and that the farther
west one conies the more manifest
the improvement. They show a per
centage of gain in high school attend
ance and in the completion of the
high school course, and an increase in
the patronage of professional schools
and in the enrollment in colleges, uni-
W. F. Harnett and Will Crow ship
ped two car loads of hogs to Portland ;
Sunday. j
Rov Tvler and family of Sand Hoi-,
t .I.,,- vi-iti,,.. tilt,1
If anyone ever doubted the ability j home of Lee Ueancy in this city,
of British diplomats, this is the time j Rev poweu, who was recently ap
for him to hang his head in shame. ; 1K,jlited to this charge by the Meth
Tne luring of Italy into the fray was;(Hlist flmrch( south, conference, held
a triumph itself, but the plans of the ; servrps i,ere iast Sundav.
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isruisu to permit, me i nuec. ciiaies j
to carry the expense of the war will j
make that feat seem trifling in com
parison if they succeed.
America is asked to supply the Al
lies with arms, ammunition and food
generation to generation, each gener
atiou added a few flourishes of its
own until the total product is now
somehting fearful to behold.
Profanity has become so common
place in the present day that it is ut
tered in our theaters and homes. Who
has not heard the witless comedian
set his audience in an uproar by some
oath which should have won him a
shower of decadent fruit? Hero and
villian alike may swear with im
punity. There are some depraved par
ents who carry profanity into their
homes and use it in the presence of
their children. Some perverse indi
viduals are so much the victims of
this unholy practice that every sen
tence is punctuated by a profane
flourish. Doubtless It is a mere mat
ter of habit wih the average user of
impious expletives. Possibly uncon
scious assiiniliation has much to do
with the swearing habits of many.
But the practice reveals a certain
coarseness of fiber and lack of refine
ment. The Holey Name Society is un
dertaking virtuous work when it sets
out to strip the unsightly weeds of
profanity from human speech. Ore-gonian.
to enable them to neat Germany
England promises to pay high prices
for the supplies. But with the war
costing $21,000,000,000 or more a
day, she hasn't the money.
Now she proposes to borrow it
from American financiers who benefit
by the war sales. They are to lend
the money deposited by American cit
izens in these financiers' banks.
Then later, if the Allies win, and
England Is not bankrupt, the loans
will be repaid.
This certainly is a scheme worthy
of great admiration. There will be
no immediate addition to the wealth
of America as a result of the much
praised war commerce, prices will go
up here as a result of heavy foreign
shipments, and while we operate the
industries on our own capital, Eng
land will receive the output without
paying a dollar form any years to
come. Seaside Signal.
XKAYSPAPKK DOX'TS
Don't take your paper home. Its
the most active and powerful factor
in building up your town, and to sup
port it would involve you in the work,
says the Woodbury, Conn., Reporter.
Don't pay for It if you do take it.
Newspapers are run on wind, and the
editor wouldn't keep the money any
way. He'd most likely pay it in on
his bills.
Don't fail to tell the editor how to
run the paper. He has nothing to
do but listen and keep his temper
sweet.
Don't put your name to what you
want published. It's the editor's
business to espouse unpopular
versities and schools of technology, j causes and take your chestnuts out
although standards of admittance in of the fire. What hurts your busi
many of these have been raised, neess might also hurt his but that's
KKF.I THE DUTY OX Sl'GAR.
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SiSm Order Early
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The necessity of not only preserv
ing every present source of Govern
mental revenue but of drawing more
heavily on some of those sources Is at
last impressing on the mind of Presi
dent Wilson the wisdom of retaining
the duty on sugar, at least until the
emergency caused by the war is past.
Beet-sugar production has proved so
profitable that it might have in
creased, without the protection af
forded by the tariff, and the consumer
might have benefitted by lower prices
had sugar become duty-free, but .the
disturbance of market conditions con
sequent to the war has deprived us of
the opportunity to prove by expe
rience whether that belief was well
founded. The fact remains that ex
clusion from the world's market of
the German, Austrian and Taissian
supply of beet sugar has held prices
at a high figure. It has impressed
upon us the wisdom of developing a
domestic, supply to supplement that
which we draw from our insular pos
sessions. There is no reason to be
lieve that under present conditions
removal of the duty would materially
reduce the price.
The question then naturally arises,
why not retain the duty and thereby
encourage increase of the domestic
supply to meet our own needs and at
the same time to give the Govern
ment sadly needed revenue? A duty
which adds only slightly to the price
of sugar brings in. so large a revenue
as to be wise from a revenue stand
point alone. It has been so recog
nized not only by protectionist coun
tries but by free-trade Britain also.
Were the present duty continued
for a few years without change and
then reduced, if at all, only by de
grees as It becomes unnecessary for
revenue and competition assures to
the consumers the benefit of reduc
tion the beet industry might be great
ly extended and firmly established.
Oregon soil is so well adapted to beet
growing that a sugar refinery is now
projectd for Medford, and one may
soon be erected in Portland. Oregon
offers an extensive home market for
beet sugar in the fruit canneries
which are becoming numerous. The
fertilizing properties of the beets are
also so great that the production of
other crops may be increased by the
use of beet pulp from the refineries.
The American people are having an
important lesson in the value of being
economically Independent of other
nations. Let us apply it in the mat
ter of sugar, as we are beginning to
apply it in relation to chemicals,
dyes and many other commodities,
for which we have hitherto depended
on imports. Oregonlan.
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Roasted Daily
Always Fresh
Closset & Devers
The Oldest and Largest Coffee
Roasters in the Northwest
H. S. Clark of Strawberry Flat,
was transacting business in town Sat
urday. He reports farmers in his
section preparing for fall sowing.
Mrs. W. F. Bamett, Miss Dona Bar
uett and Mrs. Francis Parker left for
Portland Tuesday to spend several
days visiting friends and relatives.
Ed Pointer is spending these days
in Heppner as foreman in charge of
the excavation work for the new Ma
sonic building going up at that place.
John Moyer went to Portland a few
days ago for medical attention. Word
was received later that he was op
erated upon and hopes are now held
for his Immediate recovery.
Mr. Gregg, our former station
agent, was down from Heppner Mon
day visiting friends In town. Mr.
Gregg says he expects to be employed
at a new station before long.
The Lexington It. R. station now
has a genuine agent. Elmer Slocum
of Heppner has taken up the duties
of the office and in a short time will
also have charge of the express bus
iness at this place.
The Pacific Telephone and Tele
graph Co. has bail a force of men
changing their line, through town.
The change will be for better service
than has been given to the public at
any time in the past.
The work on the new school house
is progressing very rapidly. The
brick laying for the last story will be
completed in a few days and then the
roof will be put on. It is expected
that the building will be completed
by December 15.
Word was received here that Thos.
Boothby died in the hospital at The
Dalles October 12. His mother, Mrs
Susan Boothby of this place was not
able to be present at the funeral.
Thos. Boothby will be well remem
bered by early settlers in this vicin
ity. He came here with his parent!
in 1S&S.
Lexington high school football
team paid Heppner high school a vis
it last Saturday. The game resulted
in a tie score and from all accounts
it was an interesting contest. Some
of the players were slightly injured
a common occurrence in all games.
Jim Kyle mayor of Stantleld, was
a business caller in town Friday.
I'ALL WORK.
The Heppner papers say that a flow
of artesian water has been found on
the R. B. Rice farm In Morrow Coun
ty with a flow of 240 gallons a min
ute. If artesian water exists in Mor
row County it is safe to say it can
be found In Gilliam County; all that
Is needed is Borne one with the en
terprise and money to go down deep
enough and the problem would be
solved. If Mr. Smith, the speller for
the O-W. R. & N. Co, would advocate
artesian wells in this county he might
accomplish something that would be
of real benefit. Dr. K. I. J. McKen-
zie of the Plateau Land Co. has the
money and Mr. Smith would do well
to put the artesian bug in his ear.
The money being spent in experi
menting with dry land alfalfa, corn
and the like would go far towards
getting the water that would make
Now is the time to prepare your
ground for fall seeding, or in case you
are unable to seed this tall, ior the
spring seeding. Early fall seeding
on well prepared ground Is the best
for this county. But owing to the
lack of early rains the seeding will
have to be done late, or early next
spring. Late fall seeding is prerer
able to spring seeding in most cases.
Get at the work as soon as possible
so that you will be ready to seed
when the conditions are favorable.
Double disk your ground so as to cut
up all stubble and trash and make a
mulch. This puts your ground in
Ideal condition for plowing, as it
breaks up the hard surface condition,
and when it is plowed It fits closely
in the furrow, uniting the two layers
of soil. This eliminates the air
spaces and prevents the loss of mois
ture. Plow a little deeper or shallow
er than you plowed before. If you
have been plowing eight inches plow
seven, or if you have been plowing
five inches plow six this time. This
varying depth of plowing prevents
the forming of a plow soie ano al
lows the plant roots and the moisture
to enter the soil. Follow the plow the
same day with the harrow as the soil
breaks up finer at this time ana does
tint hake, forming clods. Harrow
once or twice more before seeding,
Run the grain through the fanning
mill so as to free it from smut balls
and small weak seeds. Treat It a
couple of days before seeding so that
it will have time to dry; not more
than three days before seeding as It
is liable to become Infected again.
Treat it with formaldehyde, one pint
to forty gallons of water, and let it
soak about ten minutes. Stirring the
grain while soaking is a sure method
of killing smut germs. Seed from 45
to 60 lbs. of wheat to the acre, but do
not seed until there Is sufficient mois
ture to bring the grain up. Do not
seed too deep, but just deep enough
so that all the seed Is covered. Spring
seeding should be a little deeper.
Orren Beaty, Wheeler County Agri
culturist.
JUST RECEIVED
by
A carload of FAIRBANKS &
MORSE Gasoline Engines
direct from the factory
At Greatly Reduced Prices
At least 25 per cent un
der last year's prices
We are fully equipped for installing
Deep Well Pumps and
Irrigation Systems
of all kinds, and guarantee all work to
give satisfaction
When you want water
get our prices before closing a deal
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This Year has held
more of interest, of
wonder, of beauty,
of pleasure, than
ever before possibly
ever again.
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Botli Expositions
$55.70
The world-famous
Expositions
are now at their best.
The opportunity to
visit them is nearing
its end go now.
Make all arrangements with
J. B. HUDDLESTON, Agent
Oregon-Washington
Railroad & Navigation Co.
UNION PACIFIC SYSTEM
Mrs. Walter Cason came up from
lone Tuesday evening to be at the
bedside of her daughter, Mrs. Pearl
Henry, who 1b very 111.
People's Cash Market
Phone Main 73
All kinds of Fresh and Cured Meats, Poultry, Lard
We pay highest cash prices paid for Stock, Hides and
Pelts.
HENRY SCHWARZ, Proprietor
HELP WANTED MALK.
A man who will use his brain and
feet for eight hours . day con secure
a splendid position with good income
with the Pacific Mutual Life Insur
ance Co., Accident and Health De
partment. 301-2 Title & Trust
Bldg., Portland, Oregon.
The little one-month-old son of
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Tucker has been
quite 111 from an abscess on the up
per jaw, due to the cutting of a
Jaw tooth. The tooth was extracted
and the boy Is now on the road to recovery.
Jeff McFerren came down from the
mountains Wednesday with one of
the prettiest slx-polnted bucks we
have seen for a long time. He killed
the deer In the vicinity of Pole creek,
near the Potamus. He has sent the
head and skin to E. L. Qonty, a Port
land taxidermist, who will mount the
animal.
Henry Blackman, a former well
known Morrow county citizen, who
now makes his home in San Fran
cisco, arrived In the city last night
and is visiting at the home of Phill
Cohn.