THE GATE CO ND ENSED STA TEM ENT OF THE MALHEUR COUNTY BANK NYSSA. OREGON At the Close of Business December 31, 1927. IABIUTIES BESOUBCES Loans and Discounts Overdrafts ...... $429,526.92 239.36 Hanking House, F urni ture end F ixtu res..... Other Reel E state.......... W arrants .............. . .... 13,500.00 6,006.61 Capital Stock.... .... Surplus and Profits Bills Payable.... ..... Rediscounts _____ Deposits .................. 26,000.00 57,804.32 NONE NONE 553,790.0b 2,739.63 U. S. Treasury B o n d s. 100,000.00 Cash and due from banks .......... ......................... 84,761.84 Total Cash Reserve ..... 184,761.84 Total »636 774.86 Total »036 774.30 Securities Pledged or Surety Bonds Furnished for Deposits^ NONE O FFICERS A N D H. J. Ward, President DIRECTORS John Ray, V.vo 1 . ^anient J. P. Dunaway, Cashier .. O. G. Bauer, A ssista n t Cashier 11. A. Diven, Assistant Cashier 1 . F. Reece J. J. Sarazin G. L. Phillips The service of this bank has been developed from experience and intimate knowledge of the needs of our depositors. We desire to render always a little MORE service than you expect. CITY J OURNAL, NYSSA, OREGON of modern life, it has already caused the death of almost; With the big news of the day coming from automobile many persons as were killed in all the American armies, show rooms, it may be that the world is getting better since the founding of the Republic. after all. A new process has been devised to make paper money MOVIE CENSORSHIP wear longer. Now if they could find a way to make it During a recent debate on the question, “Should there buy a little more. lie Federal supervision of motion pictures?” the affir mative was upheld by Canon W .S. Chase of Brooklyn, who incidentally indulged in some loose talk on the sub 16920812 ject. 1» 4 1 a . w — ------------------------------- « > He declared among other things that the motion pic H. D. Holmes ture is a school of crime, and attributed the kidnapping We are and killing of Marion Parker by the young fiend, Hick handle any , t ï ï j1 » ; Transfer and Baggage • • man, to the fact that the murder was a frequenter of itieg. and when It Pnntin ► 4 to Service, we the movies. can only refer yon to ; All kinds of hauling ir ; That such a statement is not only ridiculour but vicious oar customer! or ask that you give us a trial. City limits .s evident to any sane person. In all cases in which motion pictures deal in crime the criminal is brought to justice before the story ends. We have never seen i picture in which the criminal escaped. Therefore there » I I I M M 4 « 44 m m « W 4 t t s nothing in moving picture plots which might encou rage a person to believe that he could commit a crime No Better Time Than ind get away with it. NOW Federal censorship and supervision of motion pictures vvould merely add another lot of officeholders and an To Oil Harness for Spring dready overburdened public. If such athing were pos Work able, any censorship which might be invoked had bet- Auto Tops Made and Shaving, Hair Cutting ,er be applied to such idle talk as Rev. Chase indulged Repaired m concerning the cause of crime. Hot and Cold Baths Shoe reparing neatly done Roy Pounds, Prop. Queer names recently given to streets in a new ROSS PARKINSON Nyssa Oregor Nyssa, Oregon suburb of Berlin are translated as Valley of the Fishes, Ice-bird’s Way and The Way of the ¡Seven Ends. »♦♦♦♦ ♦ ♦ ♦♦♦♦♦ ♦♦ ♦ ♦ » ♦ « M l »»» Our office boy says he don’t see how bankers can keep a secret when every bank has a teller. We don’t BERTSCH believe this boy is going to turn out right. Of course we will admit that the pioneers had wolves :: and Indians to contend with but at that we don’t know C. Klinkenberg that these were much worse than bootleggers and reck :: Between Lawrence Gas Station \ \ less motorists. and Ford Garage PROMPT DELIVERY The greatest optimist we know of is the statesmanpj SOLICITS A PART OF YOUR \ \ vvho believes it is possible to increase appropriations; Reasonable Rates Patronage and reduce taxes at the same time. PHONE 15 They say Secretary Mellon is holding the key to ! G. E. BERTSCH the 1928 campaign. That is better than being left to V ............. .. « hold the bag. Republicans vaunt the elephant and Democrats the | donkey, but watch both animals lie down before the camel at convention time. BOND L O A N S ! N O T A R Y PUBLIC i New York now has six million inhabitants and we INSURANCE wonder how many of ’em know that milk comes from cows? GOOD PROSPECTS The year 1928 seems to be starting off with good prospects. Secretary of Commerce Hoover, whose duty it is to keep his finger on the business pulse of the coun try- and who usually does a good job of it, declares that all signs for the coming year are good. Among other things Mr. Hover declared: “There is an ample supply of credits at low rates; the somewhat larger stocks of goods which were accumu lated during the summer are being reduced; there is no consequential speculation in commodities; the crops have been abundant; wages are at a high level; we are re covering from some partial unemployment, especially in the automobile industry. There is peace in most sections of the labor world except bituminous coal; there is more peace in the international world than at any time since the war; the foreign world is recovering its economic- strength and buying power; therefore, our foreign trade is steadily increasing. After pointing out that the average price of non- agricultural goods has fallen in the past twelve months while the prices of agricultural products have risen Mr Hoover decares that “manufacture and distribution have by savings and diminished profits accommodated themselves to this system of decreasing profits without INTERESTING NOTES reduction in the level of wages and therefore in the na tional buying power, and adds that “the great extent to Pigmies of New Guinea average about four feet in which industry has accommodated itself to lower prices height. by decreased costs makes for a sounder condition foi Schools for the training of elephants are conducted the ensuing year.” ir. the Belgian Congo in Africa. It’s a good idea to stay on the “long’ side so far as your Uncle Samuel is concerned. Protests are heard in Spain against the encroachment of American billboards. POLITICAL GUESSES The French government will participate in the trade fair at Leipzig, Germany, next spring for the first time Political writers, politicians and others may be ex since the fair was established 700 years ago. pected to flood the news columns with their predictions from now until the presidential election is over in Nov Japan’s rapidly growing population is said to be mak ember. And about 99 perc ent of all their guesses will be ing the food proposition a serious one. worthless as usual. There is a strange thing, though, about political pre The first balloon ascension was made by the Montgol- dictions. No matter how wild they may be, there will bi ier brothers of Paris in 1783. sóme to believe them, and after time proves them to bi Professional tea tasters sometimes classify as many merely foolish guesses those making the predictions will a 400 samples in day. have lost nothing in prestige. Lincoln, Neb., was first called Lancaster, but was re Ordinarily when one “talks through his hat” and sub named for the martyred President in 1867. sequent events show him up he is more or less discredit General Henry Knox, the first American secretary of ed as a prophet. For example Charles D. Hilles, who declared on the eve of the presidenta! election in 1912 war, died at the age of 56 from swallowing a chicken that Taft would win over Wilson and Roosevelt, is now hone. getting considerable space for his forecasts of coming La Salle, the French explorer is the first white man events, in spite of the fact that in 1912 Taft carried only to enter what is now the state of Kentucky- in 1669. two states. Many who confidently predicted the elec Kansas ws seperated from Missouri and made a ter tion of Bryan each time he ran are still doing business ritory in 1854. at the old stand. Well, people have to read a certain amount of trash A world congress of engineers will be held in Tokyo, anyway, so possibly political dope is as harmless as any Japan- in 1929. thing they could waste their time on. 'Ihe United Kingdom now consumes ten times as much grapefruit as it did five years ago. WORSE THAN WAR Whatever else may happen during ,1928, it is a prac tical certainty that more thn 25,000 Americans will be Another surplus seems to be that of stolen Mexican killed in traffic accidents and another 750,000 injured. “secret documents.” It is strange that the awful death toll of automobiles Radio: A device used chiefly for broadcasting a tune' does not serve as a warning toautomobile drivers and called “My Blue Heaven.” pedestrians like, but it appears that it does not. While Wonder why General Motors doesn’t hire a funny a slight lessening of the accident rate in proportion to man to make up some Chevrolet jokes. the number of cars in use has been noted, the total num ber of casualties has steadily increased. Those new prohibition agents’ finger-prints may indi Many jiersons who worry over germs or minor dan- cate whether bootleggers’ money is likely to stick to gers of other sorts will take chances on the highways j their fingers. which are bound to sooner or later end in disaster. The modern girl doesn’t wait for Ix>ap Year when she; As recent statistics show- three times as many casual makes up her mind to get her man. ties result from automobile accidents in a single year as Some fellows who think they ought to get elected to| were suffered by United States forces during the entire ofice display much originality of thought. World War. The war cost more lives, but the automl- Slogan for supressinga Latin-American revolution. ( bile is responsible for more injured. “Shoot the generals and you shoot all. Among the yearly automobile death* are those ol A lot of unheeded advice is given, the most futile be about 7,000 children of school age, the gv-'itest number being between the ages of six and twelve years. The ing that offered youngs folks concerning marriage. Poisibly we might have more great men in future if f eatest number of accidents occur between five . nd six o’clock in the afternoon. Drivers and pedestrians are son ei ne would build a log cabin for them to be horn in. equally at fault in their responsibility for accidents ac Dr. Will Durant savs a man over thirty is incapable of cording to the best estimates availnbel. loving. But some of them come close enough to the real While the automobile is an indespensible convenience thing to get by with it. Job Printing CATE CITY JOURNAL i! phone 5NysM- 0re«on NYSSA BARBER SHOP I BARBER SHOP;! CITYDRAYLINE NYSSA REALTY CO. 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