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JULY 21, 1914
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1 BIG OWNERS OF TIMBER.
THAT 1,691 timber owners hold in fee 105,000,000 acres,
over one-twentieth of the land area of the United
States from Canada to Mexico, is revealed in the
1 maps just published by the commissioner of cor
liorations at Washington, the first ever made of exten
sive forest holdings.
! They show that the areas of concentrated ownership
contain 755,000,000,000 feet of lumber, one-third of all
privately owned in the country. The few enormous hold
ings combined are four-fifths the size of Fiance and more
than two and one-half times the area of the New England
states. Their concentration in a few hands is due, Com
missioner Davies says, to "lavish land grants" and "loose,
ill-enforced land laws."
At a time when the policy of the inhabitants was to
destroy natural resources, not to conserve them, the spec
ulators who got the timber and were the only conservers.
They foresaw the vast increase in value of this land of
which Commissioner Davies speaks s6 eloquently. Timber
would have been more scarce and dearer than it is had
they not stepped in and prevented the land from being
cut and burned over for the purposes of grazing and till
ing. The land grants were lavish and the laws could have
been better enforced. Much can still be done to recover
grants of disputed title and to require proper forestry
even of privately owned timber. As it stands it does not
represent a loss to the community. Enlightened selfish
ness may yet harmonize with the public interest in its
conservation.
be excused so he can go home and prosecute his campaign
for the democratic nomination for congress. He'should
bo permitted to go just by way of example and encouragement.
The California Railroad commission has begun an ex
amination into the matter of the diversion of something
more than a million dollars of the United Railway's funds
into the Solano Irrigated Farms project, one of Pat Cal
houn's properties. It is thought the investigation will
disclose as bad a state of affairs as the New Haven, dif
fering only in the amount of the plunder.
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ii Late Yesterday f
The attorney general of California has given out an
opinion that where a church building is permitted to !x?
used for lectures or any other purpose other than reli
gious worship, it takes it out of the exempt class and
makes it liable for taxes the same as any other property.
This whether admission to such lectures or other enter
tainments is charged or not.
The worst feature of the wild-life-in-the-woods fake is
that the man who plays Adam is to be permitted to write
and send his stuff to the newspapers during his thirty
days in the woods. If it was the open season for fools in
southern Oregon, what a relief to the reading public it
would be.
As a sort of calamity anti-howl here is a statement from
an Indianapolis paper: "One hundred and fifty automo
biles are sold every day in Indiana, according to the rec
ords in the office of the secretary of state."
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j
1 The Oregonian management should watch Cartoonist
Reynolds. By showing that Woodrow Wilson is filling
the American workmen's dinner pail with cheaper' food
stuffs, even though it be beef from Argentine, eggs from
China, batter from New Zealand and mutton from Aus
tralia, Mr. Reynolds, assisted by the Oregonian, is open
ing the eyes of the workmen to a real fact. It is further
evident that this is being done without an injury to the
farmer, for prices are higher than ever before for most
food stuffs, not because the farmer or grower gets the
additional price, but because the fellows that corner the
market put the screws on and levy an unholy toil on the
masses. If the importation of foreign food stuffs will
serve to drive away these harpies, we should have more
rather than less of it.
Secretary of Agriculture Houston has issued dozens of
pamphlets on keeping house, raising babies, washing
dishes with the minimum of labor and also of soap, how to
eat fruit without a knife, several ways to cook eggs and
all that kind of information, about as useful and practical
aa that given the old farmers by the young college ex
perts. He also tells hubby how to assassinate weeds, rake
up the back yard, raise a small garden and make himself
generally useful about the house. These pamphlets are
especially intended for the newly wedded folks and are
designed to give them a start in the direction the secre
tary thinks they would go. He might spring the instruc
tions on Secretary McAdoo.
One of the best things in the boosting line that could be
done for Salem WOllhl be tn'clpnn un nnrl trim nn tlio irv
There are so many vacant lots and street parkings covered
with a rank growth of weeds and grass that the impres
sion given the visitor is one of lack of civic pride. Even
if scarcity of water or the exnensp nf irrirmtinn i tnn
great for some property owners and prevents the keeping
in iaw us green, iney mignt at least be mowed occasionally
and be kept trim and neat. If there is not a city ordinance
maKing it compulsory to mow tne grass and weeds, there
should be one and it should be rigidly enforced.
Congressman J. B. Thompson has broken the record in
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congress oy teuing tne exact truth about his desire for a
lay-off from his arduous duties of holding: down his seat
in the legislative halls. He says frankly in a letter ad
dressed tothe speaker of the house that he would like to
THE ROUND-UP
The l'ortlnml letter farriers ami mail
lerks had a joint picnic nt ltonneville
yuiidnv.
I-4i no county claims to have more
rural schools, more stanilnrdizeil sellouts,
and more rural teachers than any other
county in the Htate.
(lervais had n eeleliration Saturday
that would have been creilitable to u
eitv nianv time its iw: Anion; other
things was a f lvinjf machine ami u fire.
flight twice over the little city.
The yellow beetle, it is reported, is
doing much ilimmije to the elm trees
throughout the valley, especially about
Ashland. A hunching of the leaves is
one of the indications that the busy
little pests urc at work.
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llcrniintnn is planning for nn addi
tional reservoir to supply water for its
irrigable lands. It will have a enpaciry
equal to a body ot water coveini;
10,00(1 acres one loot deep.
The annual agate cnruivi"! it l'ort
Orford will be held August i, 7 nml S.
t is a great event in which fiiit. vbole
part ot tlie coast takes purr, mm a lug
piciue dinner is served.
Xot only excessive speed but also ex
cessive anil iiiinecessuiv pupping :inl
hugging are under the ban nt The
Hailed, and thief of 1'idice Kurtz an
nounces that all fiends in.iv as well
prepare for rigid iiinipliaiii'e.
lOagle Valley is trying to give its
greatest llnnest Homo leslivnl next
fall, and the linker Hern hi testifies that
whnt Kiigle Valley tries to do, it does,
so we may lie assured of a gre-it
event."
The Owl heartilv indorses the de
cision of the Hcaverton school board
"to get a higher priced man to sunt
intend the destinies of the school chil
dren of this vicinity, and pay $1000 per
vear.
Koting progress, the l'ort Uo.'k
Lapp & Bush, Bankers
Transact? a General Banking Business
Safety Deposit Boxes
Traveler's Checks
Timen says: "The mail that left Tort
land on Tuesday evening at 7 p. m., ar
rived in 'ort Rock Weduesdny after
noon at 4 p. in. This is coming through
in 21 hours, quite, a difference from
three to five days as it was a few years
ago."
A fire swept over quite a lnrije ace
tion of the country near The Dalles
Saturday. The damage was not large
though there were at one time more
than 40U men called Out anil fighting
the flames. The timber in that section
is scrubby and of little value.
Eugene Register: The people of
Goodpasture island are building a cablo
suspension foot - bridge across the
stream. The briilgo will be 400 feet
long and - feet above the water at
low water. It will, cost . $2."0. The
posts on each bank are 25 feet long, 10
laches in diameter at the small end
and set seven leet in cement.
Washington. Bear-Admiral Ramsey,
retired, a member of the Schley court
of inquiry, died, aged 80.
New York. Becky Etlalson, an 1. W.
W. sentenced to three months in prison
for inciting riot, declared a hunger
strike.
Panama. Four hundred pounds of
dynamite exploded prematurely at
Cucaracha slide, killing five workmen
and injuring 18.
Portsmouth, Eng. Lieutenant L. C.
Hordern, army nviator, was killed and
his mechanician badly injured by their
biplane's fall.
Falmouth, Eng. Sir Thomas Lipton's
Shamrock IV and its couvoy, the Erin,
were driven into Falmouth harbor by a
storm.
Albany, X. Y. The New York Cen
tral ' stockholders voted 1,513,406 to
77.5 in approval of a merger with the
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern.
Chicago. The seventh annual con
gress of American Espcrantists opened.
St. Louis. icilcral Judge Adams
authorized Receiver Pryor of the
Wabash to issue $10,000,000 in receiv
er's certificates.
San Francisco. Mrs. Alfred George
Thompson, wife of a Los Angeles busi
ness man, sued for divorce charging
cruelty ami failure to provide.
Los Angeles. William C. Ralston ar
lived to begin his Gubernatorial cam
paign tour of Southern California.
Ventnrn, Cat. Francis.), llenev suoke
in the interest of his candidacy for the
progressive senatorial nomination.
Los Angeles. I. ,1. Evans was found
Riiilty of the second degree murder of
Mrl .Mundell at the Hawtelle. soldiers
home. Doth were civil war veterans.
Out of Debt
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At breakfast time, at eve, at noon, t
eat a cabbage anil a prune, as oft I've
done before; 1 smile
ami . chortle as I
dine", for whnt I eat
is strictly mine, and
paid for at the
store. No man can
say to mo, '"You
loon,, you ought to
puy me for that
prune, beforo yon
eat the same"; no
man has mortgage,
Miiim nr li.m nt.mi
IffW" A j the cabbage, rich
WfiK J and ' green, with
uW, .. .I 7 I A
from the rill tastes better than a pint or
gill of grape.juiee bought on tick; and
when 1 ve chewed my victuals down.
I'm the serenest guy in town, with
conscience smooth and slick. Oh, bet
ter tar tor any man, a can or soup, a
pail of bran, a nickel's worth of tripe,
than are the viands l ien and rare, winch
cause n gent to tear his hair when
monthly bills are ripe. 'Twere better
far to gnaw a bone that you may truly
call your own, than eat a cherry pie,
and have the merchants look askance,
and tell you htnt your name is Dance,
when you drop in to buy. The worst
old scheme invented yet is flint of going
into debt; it keeps the people broke
within my means I always keep, and
while the others wail and weep, 1 sit
in peace and smoke.
Ailftms Nrwsiuper Sfrrloft
Ideal Statesman Is the Man Who Would
Lead People Awau From Extremes
By Former Prudent WILLIAM H. TAFT
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THE MAN IS ENTITLED TO BE CALLED A STATESMAN WHO, HAV
ING AUTHORITY, DEAL9 PRACTICALLY WITH PROBLEMS OF
GOVERNMENT SO AS TO MAK& THE GOVERNMENT BEST SERVE
ITS LEGITIMATE FUNCTION OF ENCOURAGING AND PERMITTING
THE FREEST AND MOST EFFECTIVE PURSUIT OF HAPPINESS BY
THE COMMUNITY GOVERNED AND BY ITS MEMBERS.
Tlint tlie ntnehine nnd boss rule which were the handmaids of threat
cried plutocracy and corrupt political control are now anathemain the
minus or the people and that growing out of this crusade and as purl
of it is a spirit of brotherly Ioto and greater interest of all for one nn
one can fail to appreciate and approve and rejoico in. Cut ACCOM
PANY1XG TI1KS5K GREAT CHANGES FOR GOOD HAVE COME
EXCESSES, and those who were advocates and doubtless essential to
the accomplishment of this reform in the public hate lost their states
manlike qualities and are now encouraging the extremes to which a peo
ple aroused under sucji danger ore prone to go.
THE IDEAL OF STATESMANSHIP TODAY IS THAT OF THE MAN
WHO RECOGNIZES THE REFORM AND REJOICES IN IT, BUT WHO IS
ABLE BY CLEAR THOUGHT AND INTELLIGENCE OF THE PEOPLE TO
REACH THEM IN A POLITICAL WAY AND LEAD THEM AWAY FROM
THE EXTREMES WHICH WOULD SACRIFICE THE INESTIMABLE BOON
WE HAVE RECEIVED FROM OUR WASHINGTON, HAMILTON, JEFFER
80N, MADISON AND LINCOLN.
TAXES ON THRIFT.
There is but one practical solution
of the high cost of living, and that is
to raise your own produce. The home
garden in a great measure will do it
and do it effectively. It will stop the
paying of money to the ' vegetable
man and the grower a big saving.
And thoso who are so situated that
they can raise their own poultry and
eggs, milk and butter, and a pig or two
for winter s meat, with a change now
and then from pork to poultry, may
oe said to be directly on tne line of
independence, with every cause of the
high cost of living completely blocked.
1). 1). Lynch. St. Paul.
The recent extension of the parcel
post system, making provision for the
lirect delivery or tarm produce from
the producer to the consumer, is a long
step in the right direction toward re-
lucing tho high cost of living, as It
will tend to eliminate the great army
of middlemen, now between the pro
ducer and consumer, each of whom
must have his "bit" added to the final
cost before it reaches the consumer.
But this alone will not reduce- the
high cost of living, for it is not at all
likely that the farmer will continue to
sell his produce at the present price,
when he finds the middleman removed,
but will proportionately raise the price.
oo tno delivery direct from the pro
ducer to consumer eventually will prove
of greatest benefit to the farmer.
l'erhaps it is only a matter of time
when every man of family wiio depends
upon his daily wage will be forced to
press into producing service a portion
of his back yard, even though be may
nave but a single lot, as a plot for a
home garden, to reduce the present cost
of living.
And right now is the time to con
sider this matter if you are going to
do anything in the home gardening line
this year, raising vegetables to lower
your individual cost of Jiving ami to
enable you to have a larger margin of
savings in the bank.
The seed companies will furnish vou
with catalogs and nt the hardware store
you can get tho few necessary tools.
Then go to work. You will ienrn bv
experience, and your henlth and your
appetite will improve while you turn
barrenness into beautv and vour bach-
yard desert into an oasis of productive
ness.
And here is a hint which vou will
find valuable it" you reatlv want to save
money by means of your home garden
plant and cultivate not onlv those
things which you can eat right out of
your garden during the summer, but nl
o some vegetables that you can store
away or preserve for winter use, such
as potatoes, tomatoes, beets, carrots
beans and parsnips.
Hire as little help as possible. Let
most of the work be done hv yourself
and your family, if you want to make
your garden pay.
And as you watch things crow unaer
your care, consider likewise how your
bank account will grow with your eoii'
stant attention and the eompond inter
est which the bank pavs on deposits.
T. D. McOBKUOR.
FBTJIT CANNING TIME.
Children Cry for Fletcher's
The Kind Yon liaye Alwaya Bonght, and which has been
In uso lor over 80 years, has oornotue elnntare ot
and has been made under his per
Bonal supervision since Its infancy.
y. Jiteou44 Allow no one to deceive you 1h this.
All Counterfeits, Imitations and " Juat-os-grood" are bat
Experiments that trifle with and endanger tlie health of
Infants and Children experience against Experiment
What is CASTORIA
Castorla is a harmless snbrtltuto for Castor Oil, Pare
goric, Drops and Hoothlnff Syrups. It is pleaannt. 16
contains neither Opium, Morphine nor other Karcotio
substance. Its ago i ts guarantee. It destroys AVornis
and allays Feverishucss. For more than thirty years it
bus been in constant use for tlie relict of Constipation,
, Flatulency, "Wind Colic, all Teething Troubles and
Diarrhoea. It regulates the Stomach and Dowels,
assimilates the Fowl, glvinr healthy and natural Sleep.
The Children's Panacea The Mother's Friend.
GENUINE CASTORIA ALWAYS
I Bears the Signature of
The Kind Yea Have Always Bought
In Use For Over 30 Years
that
Gather all the folks together
From baby up to dad!
Xever mind it if the mother
Makes you just a little mad!
Tie that apron tighter, Willie,
'Cause you're going to stain
suit;
Ves, I know you're feeling silly.
But we're got to can this fruit.
There 's the baby eating cherries!
Make her stop it, someone, quick!
Well, you know she ate those berries
And they made her awful sick!
Take the little seeds out, honey;
That's the way; just see how cute!
Stop, you boys, this isn't funuy;
She shall help us can this fruit.
Say, you'll have to hurry, father,
If you're keepiug np with Fred!
Yes, of course it's all a bother
When the other one '9 ahead!
Just you wait tilt time fpr eating!
Then I bet this sauce '11 suit!
You'll be glad we hi. I tais meeting.
When we canned lot of fruit"!
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One of the most prominent advertisers in the
country says he makes it a rule to increase his ad
vertising appropriation whenever business slackens
and he doubles and trebles it in times of severe busi
ness depression. This, is his logical conclusion:
'The new customers that I get when times are
hard, I always keep when times become good.
"They come to me largely from those who lose
them because they fail to continue their publicity
campaigns.
"A business depression in this country never
lasts long and it is always seed-time for me. The
harvest follows when prosperity returns."
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House of Half a Million Bargains
Comeand aee the biggest wonder In tho history of Salem. We hpy asd
tell everything from a needle to a pieee of gold. We pay the bighert
eaah price for everything. Monster stock of all kinda of grain sacks.
H. Steinbock Junk Co.
S"3 Btate Street. Salem, Oregon. Phone Main 22
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