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r.i,K TWO TIIK GAZETTE-TIMES, 11EITXEK, OHEGOX, Till h'SPAY, APRIL 21, l'.v.U. THE GAZETTE-TIMES Our Molting- Forests. Tha lUprntr Gaaatt. KaUbltahad aiarck ID. 1HI T Iltpr.r Tim, S.atabllh4 Somkr It, 17 ConolMatd February lfc, llll ttt Thurad&T mornlnar of mmi tyvmfw Crmwtmmi ri'b.tahftd !-; in1 an!rad au tha Peatofficat at Happ rar, oraaron. aa aacond-claaa mattar. .ii krtik; -o Rim nun on APPLIt ATION SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Taar (I Uontha Thraa Months. Sinala Coptaa not !. . 1 U-e thy woods and templed hi',i " IW much do we love them? That is the question put forward bv the American Forestr' asocfation which is campaigning for a national foret policy. From a study of the puMic's affection in this direction it would appear that the dollars which the lumber brings are dearer than any sentimental emotion aroused. Here we are singing our delight in the trees, while lumbermen and pulp manufacturers are sawing off the limb on which -e are depending. In consequence the United States uses half of the world's white paper. LlHEK:TKJ iand makes enough paper pulp to ucaic a iic luur leei w me ana eight feet high forty-five hundred miles long yearly, a mushy path from Boston to Honolulu, and then some. No less than thirty billion feet of lumber go into paper, while seventy billion feet are used for oth er purposes. To people who live in cities, and most Americans do, this forest ques tion is remote, and is often looked upon as sentimental. They grumble MORROW rorVTT OFFICIAL FAPBB The Farmer's New Food Market. The breeding of game birds for food is increasing as an industry by leaps and bounds. The number of breeders has been doubling for two ; or three years past, and most of them are farmers. It has been brought home to every body during the last ten years that despite our thousands of game laws and tens of thousands of game ward ens, American game birds were rap idly disappearing. We now know that if this great American heritage wild fowl is to be saved to pos terity, not laws and not game ward ens will do it. It will be done by the farmer who breeds them for food purposes. Statesmen are beginning to see the folly of preventing people by law from producing food and selling it. The United States Supreme Court has just decided that notwithstanding the migratory bird law, and notwith standing any law that may be on the books, game can be privately bred and consequently being property, can. be sold for food. There are organizations in this country that! will protect any man who is inter- fered with in his right by over-zealous constables and justices of the peace. The farmer who breeds wild geese and duck, pheasant, grouse and quail, will find it very little more work than the common barnyard chicken, and yet he can sell these game birds for food, and for further breeding purposes, at eight to ten times the price he can get for a chicken. There are at least fifty millions of town people, men, women and children, who never go hunting, and nearly all of them have never tasted the delights of game bird food. There are millions and millions of them who would gladly go to the meat market and pay the price for a pheasant or a brace of quail or a wild duck. Why should only the hunters have the privilege of this food? Why shouldn't the farmer be allowed the right to stock the city shops with wild fowl for food pur poses, just as he stocks the market with grain and meats and poultry? and the Supreme Court of the Uni ted States, in ls'l;', decided that a refund should be made to purchasers, of land in odd sections. The Com-i missioner ruled that this decision of the Supreme Court did not cover the1 even sections, but the Secretary of the Interior has recently held that i the refund should likewise apply to the even sections as well as the odd. The lands involved are embraced in a strip forty miles wide on each side of the proposed line of the Northern Pacific along the Columbia River from Wallula Junction. Washington, to Portland. Oregon, which was for feited on account of the failure of the railroad company to construct the road. Applicants will have until December 11, 1921, to file applica tions for repayment, and may obtain application blanks by writnig to Rep resentative Sinnott. about high rents and the difficulty of procuring lumber, without connect ing such shortage with actual grow ing trees. The difficulty of impress ing urbanites. therefore, with the seriousness of a timber shortage is large for those who feel personally and keenly the approaching forest disaster. - i i The Wrong Way. The move to recall the public ser vice commission is not likely to gain any great headway, and it should not. We do not know that we agree en tirely -with the commission in its finding in the telephone case, but we do know that the members of the commission were elected by the peo ple. They are better servants of the people now than they were when they took office. They are just as good servants as they were when they refused to allow the telephone company to raise its rates, and we do not for a moment doubt that they used their best judgment in arriving at their decision. They knew that their action would not, and could not be popular. If they played politics they would not have been as liberal with the telephone company as they have been. If they have made a mistake, it is a mistake of judgment and not of the heart. One mistake is not suf ficient excuse for recalling men who are exercising all the qualifications that they had when the people select ed them for those offices. If the commission has made a mis take, there is a method of action open. That is to bring action before the commission showing that the rates granted are too high. If there is evidence which should have been considered, but which was not con sidered, there is a way to get it con sidered. If costs of material and of labor go down, it is only reasonable to expect a move to lower the rates. We know the members of the com mission. We have confidence in their honesty. We have confidence that their decisions are made according to the best of their judgment. They are human. They may make mis takes, but because of the fact that they are human we may well believe that they did not purposely make any error which they knew would be so tremendously unpopular. That much can be set down as fact. Remember that this is the first grave error they have been charged with; that it has not even been proved that they have made an error, and handle the matter in a sane and fair manner. Cottage Grove Sentinel. Slats' Diary. By Ross Farquhar. Friday? went to a Fish supper tonite & wen he cum home he sed it was the best supper he seen in a long time & he wo6d of eat a lots more only he diddent have but 1 nife to eat it with. Saturday Are dog Bnzz has ben sick & pa got fritened & thot he mebby mite have rabbys or sum thing so he cunsulted with ma & she sejested or ruther she told him to get sum stricknine or poysen & put him out. Pa got it of coarse & without my nollege he give it to the poor pup. he give him a hole dimes wirth & then turned his hed away so he woodent see the traggidy. Finely he looked in & there was Brizz a wagon his tale & he got better from that instance. Ma sed that 1 time whitch ignorants come in handy, pa had give him to much. Thank Heven. Sunday Clear and sunny. I de sided not to go to s. Skool. But ma spoilt the day by saying If you dont go to Sunday Skool I am going to lam you. There was only but 1 thing for me to say & I sed it. I sed I wood go. Monday the teecher ast Jake to give a sentense with the wird custom in it. Jake was stoopid so I slip him a peece of paper whitch I had rote on it The Chickens eat Are garden & pa Custom. Tuesday dureing this evening I met Jane down town & I ast her wood she like to have a ice cream Sunday. She replyed & sed that is a good wile to wate & she wood just as leaf take it then. Whitch was what I ment in the 1st place. Wednesday pa was a argueing on polatiks with a (Vend of hissen & the man ast pa was he in favor of ekual rites. Pa sed You betcher boots I yam in favor of ekual rites. Mebby he is but I dont think he will ever get them. As long as ma stays here at are house. Thursday herd the teecher frvk about the State of Mind & not a wishing to dis Play my ignorants I looked in my goggraphy for a hour & cuddent find such a state. Jake said mebby it was in Rushia. The Right Idea. Normalcy is not a question of price or a question of wage. It is merely a question of fairly steady! employment with the dollar buying as much as it ought to. Whether;, the fanner receives $1 or $10 for a dav's work, makes no difference so long as the bushel of wheat or day's work will obtain as much of the nec essaries or comforts of life in one case as in the other. What we mean bv normal times is steady employ-, ment, as much as in the nature of things is permissible, paid for by a tabilized dollar. In normal times people do not live upon their savings, but the latter accumulate, and con stitute the sole and onlv form of new wealth which can be created. It is this which flows into new undertak ings and makes possible a healthy expansion in industry in supplying a sound demand Pacific Banker. Pure Ice, Full Weight, Prompt Delivery Courteous Service There are four points that satisfy our patrons. Do we serve you? If not, just phone Main 362 or ask one of our drivers. Once a customer, always a customer. MADE AT HOME FROM PURE WATER JAMES G. COWINS M FOR PRINTING THAT HAS REAL CLASS SEE THE G.-T. One of the objects of the perpet uation of the Government Savings organization, which still continues to market the smaller securities of the United States Government, is to in crease the number of savers in this country. The Government Savings organization has in charge the dis tribution and sale of the 25-cent Thrift Stamps, $1 Treasury Savings Stamps, $5 War Savings Stamps, and the $25, $100 and $1000 Treasury Savings Certificates, which are kept constantly on sale at all post offices and virtually all banks. As part of its work, the Govern ment Savings organization has devel oped family budgets and budgets for school children in an attempt to change the system which Dr. Wheat on characterizes as "Pay expenses first and save what's left if there is anything." The first item on every budget, the Government Savings or ganization contends, should be "Am ount Saved." Soap Little Girl (iim Near I. racing Life. Mary, the little daughter of Mr. anil Mrs. W. J. Beamer, came near losing he life by drowning on last Thursday afternoon. With her little brother, she was playing along the bank of Willow creek at the Beamer home, the Eph Eskelson place, a short distance from the house, when the bank gave way and Mary was thrown into the stream. The little boy Immediately gave the alarm but before assistance came and the girl was finally rescued, she was carried quite a distance down stream by the rushing waters. The creek is pretty high and had it not been for the prompt action of the little four-year-old brother, who gave the alarm, Mary would doubtless have perished, as she could not battle the swift run ning waters alone. High taxes and constant agitation for more pay and shorter hours are having their effect on industrial ac tivity. The process must be reversed if we wish i return of stabilized con ditions. Reasonable taxes, fair pay and full efficiency should be our motto. Fanners Are Undismayed. After seeing published a lot of unreliable statistics, compiled by white collared "farm experts" who never plowed an acre of land in their lives, that the cost of producing bushel of wheat was all the way from $1.50 to $2.00, the undismayed farmers are sowing a more than av erage acreage of wheat in the face of dollar a bushel prices, in many wheat states the best wheat is hard to market at a dollar but the wage agitator keeps howling that the cost of living is not coming down. Eggs are lower than for twelve years and so is all the farmer has to sell. With high spiritsand patriotism, the far mers are not going to quit growing crops and feeding us all. Under these conditions labor can not expect to hold to a war scale of wages. It must take its cut along with producers. Representative Sinnott has been notified by the Commissioner of the General Land Office that a refund of $1.25 per acre will be made to purchasers who paid $2,50 per acre for land in even numbered sections, as well as in odd numbered sections, inolved in the primary limits of the general route of the Northern Paci fic Railroad from Wallula Junction, Washington, to Portland, Oregon, forfeited by Act of Congress in 1890, $2.50 per acre was charged in stead of the regular price of $1.25 on the theory that the building of the railroad would enhance the value of the land. The road was not built Reedsport planing mill has order for doors that will take two months to fill. Fifth oil drilling company operating in Klamath Falls district. State Institutions except blind school filled to overflowing. Special White Wonder Laundry Soap An excellent soap for laundry use. 4 for 25c Phelps Grocery Co. Phone 53 Look to Your Paint Is It Giving You Protection? 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