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PREVENTION OF THE GREAT STRIKE
Big Business and such patriots as Pierpont Morgan
attack the president because as they put it, "he sur
rendered to the railroad workers and in a panic passed
the eight hour law." This like many other charges
against President Wilson, is made for political effect and
has not even the shadow of truth behind it. Anyone who
has read the story of the threatened strike and the sub
sequent action of congress and the administration
knows that there was no dispute between labor and
congress. Labor asked nothing of the administration nor
did the railroads. It was a dispute between the two, an
industrial fight, the old one between, capital and labor.
Neither the railroads nor the men asked congress to
take a hand or extend any favors. The administration
went into the controversy of its own accord, and for the
reason that the country was more interested in it than
either of the parties. If the strike came it meant in
describable calamity. It meant the paralyzing of the
business of one hundred million people and the loss ol
perhaps more than a billion dollars. The administration
went into the matter for the protection of the people and
its efforts were successful. Mr. Hughes, Mr. Morgan and
others, the representatives of the classes, criticise Presi
dent Wilson for his course. What would they have had
him do? Keep hands off and let an industrial quarrel
ruin thousands of innocent people, Including the farmers,
prunegrowers and lumbermen of the.Northwest. Is that
what Mr. Hughes would have done? If so, it was fortu
nate for the country that Wilson and not Hughes was the
president at the time. If the strike had not been prevent
ed the situation here in Oregon caused by the car short
age of the Southern Pacific, would have been nothing to
it. There would have been the same conditions over the
whole country as if there had been no cars whatever any
where Every factory would have closed down, every
mill been idle, every industry killed. There would have
been millions idle and many of these without means ol
living. There would have been chaos, perhaps anarchy
had the" condition remained long enough for hunger to
drive the unemployed to desperation. Here in Oregon
not a car would have moved and not an industry con
tinued in operation. Yet because the president took any
and all means at hand to prevent this condition, he is
criticised and condemned, by railroad magnates, big
business and Candidate Hughes. Mr. Hughes is criticis
ing the president's course and saying he should have in
vostipated first, that he should have refused to act until
he had studied the question and was certain he was
right. This has a tinkling sound, pleasing perhaps to un
thinking folks, but it is sounding brass and tinkling
cymbals only. Mr. Hughes is discussing a theory. He
said nothing, made no suggestion, elucidated no plan for
a settlement of the controversy, although speaking daily
from the public platform until the Wilson plan had been
adopted then he began to find fault and complain over
the way it had been done.
On the other hand President Wilson was facing a con
dition and a serious one at that. He did the best he could
and the people appreciate the wisdom of his course.
The Oregonian is uneasy over the good work of the
Rainy Day Club which advocated short skirts for rainy
weather, that should come to not less than four inches
from the ground. It calls attention to the fact (supposing
of course that it is a fact) that the club has not only won
out but has several inches to spare. Our contemporary
is alarmed lest the club forget to quit before well before.
Don't be alarmed brother, a woman can always be depend
ed on to never rest until she has run things to extremes
and the bottom of her skirts are just now a long ways
from either.
The Pendleton Round Up is over for the year, and this
time an Indian, Jackson Sundown, rs the Winner of the
title of champion broncho rider. He earned the title too
for not a dissenting voice was heard when the great
crowd not waiting for the judges yelled as one man for
Jackson Sundown. Sundown is a full blood Bannock
Indian, 50 years old and stuck his mounts like a burr.
His main rivals were handicapped by drawing mounts
that did not buck up to their usual standard. It is a strik
ing example of the American idea of fair play, and an
evidence of true sportsmanship, that race prejudice was
entirely absent. Sundown won the decision and it was
given to him by the great audience of I'AOOO in a way that
must have made him the proudest Indian that ever ap
peared before a White audience. Another feature of the
affair that will prove doubly pleasing to him is the
magnificent $350 saddle which was the prize.
Due to railroad connection Coos Bay is coming to the
front in Oregon affairs. A telegram Saturday announced
that a full trainload of cattle will arrive in Eugene today
over the Willamette-Pacific. . The train will consist of be
tween 15 and 20 cars and was loaded at Myrtle Point yes
terday, by the Dement family. The lush grasses on the
tidelands along the streams running into the ocean near
Marshfield, make the Coos country an ideal dairy section
and also a great stock country. It can be depended on in
the future to furnish quite a percentage of the beef cat
tle used in the Northwest. When the Coos country hits
its gait with coal, lumber, livestock, myrtle .wood and a
wealth of mines not yet even dreamed of, it will with its
shipping added to its other resources become the second
city in Oregon. ,
If the course of true love never runs smooth Archibald
Alexander can console himself with the belief that he has
that kind. Six months ago he eloped with a lady now his
wife. He declares that although married but six months
he has poured'out his affections at the rate of $100,000 a
month, and to date about $600,000. Did she appreciate
this? Not according to Archibald who says she scratched
his face and hit him with a high heeled shoe. He humbly
submits in his complaint asking for a divorce that this is
an inadequate return for the money. He is right. For
that amount of money spent so foolishly she was entitled
to hit him with a double barreled base ball bat.
Bell-ans
Absolutely Removes
Indigestion. Onepackage
proves it 25c at all druggists.
BOX SHOOK BULLETIN OUT
Suggests to Oregon Millmen Where
Markets Are and Are Not.
I'liiversity of Oregon, Eugene, Ore.,
Sept. 22. A fifty-six page bulletin that
is intended to give the results of u
survey of the box shook market in for
eign countries hus recently lieeu
published by the school of commerce
of the (.'Diversity of Oregon. The bul
letin Is primarily for the millmen of
the northwest.
The countries covered by the survey
were: Mexico, West Indies, republics i
or i-ioutn America, (.treat -Britain and
Ireland, China and Japan, Australia,
Canary Islands, Dependencies of the
I'nited stales, India, Spain, Sicily and
Italy, Western Greece, Palestine". Bri
tish Guiana, France, South Africa and
Burma. The market for shooks, cloth
boards ami staves, was covered.
The purpose of the bulletin is to cov
er for manufacturers a great amount
of expensive pioneer work.
The bulletin, wherever possible,
gives import figures and values, pack
ing materials, names of principal im
porters, uses to which the product is
put, present source of supply and
other esemtinl information that a firm
desiring to enter a nev, market com
monly is compelled to fend a man to
get.
"A careful study of this bulletin
will show that under normal condi
tions. Oregon box mnuufartiirers have
a splendid field for expanding their
trade into foreign countries, said H. B.
Miller, director of the school of commerce.
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some time in the future. Are you pro
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Or you may have personal obligations,
their maturity hastening on.
Or perhaps you have a loan on your life
insurance a mortgage on the happiness of
your heirs.
There's no better wan to create a cash
reserve to pay off' maturing obligations
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Saving to extricate yourself from debt
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An effort is being made to line up all the college
graduates on the side of Hughes, and to get them to write
the ignorant farmers and laboring people and enlighten
them as to how they should vote. If college men know
anything they will know enough to keep clear of that
mess, or their standing in the community will have a still
further downward trend.
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SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
The war has not only made the cost of living higher
and many articles scarcer, but it has finally given it to the
wearers of celluloid collars, right where they wear them.
The celluloid collar supply is exhausted and no more will
a morlo nn jnrminf. nf t.Vip wnr It is mflrlft nartlv from
fusel oil which is used in making explosives and cannot be j
spared for neckwear. There is also a big demand for;
it for making windows in auto tops, and of course the
auto is more important than men's neckwear. Fusel oil
is a by product of alcohol manufacture, and Russia stop
ping the making of vodka, cut off the supply. j
The republican national committee announces that
Colonel Roosevelt will take the stump for Mr. Hughes j
sometime in October, but the date has not been flxed or ;
the place agreed upon. The committee is evidently try
ing to agree on the place where he will do the least harm. ,
It is certain of only one thing however and that is that i
the place will not be St. Louis or any other point where
there is an appreciable German vote. The Colonel never i
said a truer thing than that credited to him just after he
had met the elephant at Chicago and was stepped on, that ;
is: "I am out of politics." He might add that "I will
never come back."
Now it is in order for some of those politicians who
are criticising the president for the way in which he
settled the impending railway strike, to get busy and out-j
line a ulan which will prevent the great walk-out in New!
York City next Wednesday. If they can do a better job
than the president, now is the proper and accepted time to
prove it. .
RipplfngRhumQs'
WOODROW'S VIEWS
To Woodrow's office I went faring; he
talked a while or vital things. "The hang
downs Charley Hughes is wearing, must
shock the thoughtful soul, by jings. Shall
we have whiskers in high places? This
is the question paramount the voters
call for shaven faces all other themes are
no account. There's no excuse for wear
ing clover like Fairbanks, Hughes,' and
other gents; the days of spinach long are
over a shave now costs but fifteen cents.
My foes would fain obscure the issues by
talking things that cut no ice, and think
that wild and wooly tissues of sophistries should well
I suffice. They are accomplished verbal f nskers, and dodge
! around from theme to theme, but, friend, the crucial
j theme is whiskers make note of that; it is no dream.
; Shall whiskers desecrate this, dwelling, that mighty
! statesmen used to know? If once it starts, there is no
j telling how far the whiskers fad will go. My, friend, the
: issue's plain before us, and never to the rear it drops; let
I us, our bright flag waving o'er us, stand up for razors,
mugs and strops."
EASTWARD
Thru the Inland Empire
Grand Canyon of Col
umbia American Wonderlands
Glacier and Yellow
stone Parks
Round Trips at Low Fares Daily
until Sept. 30 via The North Band
Road. Stonover where von 1 ike
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North Bank Rail and
26 Hours Sail
on the ships of DcLuxe Service,
8. S. Northern Pacific and Great
Northern, for
San Francisco $32.00
From any Oregon Electric Ey. point
Ticket includes meals and berth.
Thia route saves Time and Money
and is a Delightful Trip.
Homeseekers' Fares
Sept. 2i to Oct. 8
From Middle West to Willamette
Valley.
I se.l prepaid tickets.
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CLIFFORD TAKES A HOLIDAY
M)m
C HA IT KB XXX.
My food choked me. ru I didn't at-1
teuit to eat. drunk my" coffee ana,
lifter attending to Kdith's bath, I went
back into my room und threw myself on
the led. Would I ever get accustomed
to my loveless existence f I lay there
for a while and tried to think out, but
the loss of my sleep after being up so
lute the night before mnde me drowsy
and I fell Blt't and did nut waken un
til Kate came for her orders for lunch
eon. Jr. Hammond will be here. Kate.
Have lunch promptly, and we'll have
some fried chicken." It was a favor
ite dish with Clifford.
After Kate left the room I bathed my
face, arranged my hair and put on a
dainty house dress he had never seen.
My rest had calmed me, and I made up
my mind that he should take no. dis
agreeable memories away with him.
Bustling for the Departure.
Kate brought his bags dowu from the
ettic and I busied myself by laying out
on the bed the thing" I thought he would
need a pile of underwear and socks.
Ms handkerchief and pajamas. I did
not know how long he was to be gone,
but supposed about a week, so laid out
his clothes accordingly.
"Hello, lunch ready!" he called as he
came in the front door,
"Ye, Mr. Hammond," Kate answer
ed from the dining room. "It's all
ready to serve."
"Call Mrs. Hammond, then; I haven't
a minute to lose," nnd I heard li tm
draw his chair out and sit down.
"I'm coming. .Clifford I heard."
" You'll have to excuse me. but, Kate,
give me my luncheon quickly. Fried
chicken! That's fine. I'm as hungry
as a wolf. Too bad I haven't more
time."
"You go ahead, Clifford," I told him
as I poured his tea. "l'ass everything
to Mr. Hammond first, Kate."
I could eat nothing, but he was too
IniMV to notice. H liuri hi a w pi v IrtitlfnH 1
at me, and I felt my lip tremble is I
thought of how I had dressed for him.
And, although my dress was new and
most becoming, I might as well have
worn any old thing.
When he rose from the table I did
also, and followed him upstairs. "I've
laid out your things for you, Clifford,"
I ventured, in hopes he would speak
kindlv to me.
"That little dab of stuff: You must
be crazy to think I could get along with
no more, clothes than that." he grumb
led as he opened this chiffonier drawers
and threw shirts and underwear on the
bed.
An Unexpected Revelation.
"I thought that was enough to last
a ween," x replied. .
"A week! Who said I was going to (Mondav
be gone a weekf I shall be a ray
month probably." He was leaning over
his bag,- so did not see the amazement
I could not hide.
"A month! "
"Yes. "Have you any objectionst I
am going to tke iny vacation now in
stead of later."
"But I shall be so louely!" I wa
stunned. He was going to go away
with that gay crowd and leave me alone
for a whole month.
"faok up nnd go home and make a
visit."
"Verv well. I will " T ,j
the spur of the moment.
"I put some money in the bank ta
your credit this morning. You will havo
plenty for your expenses."
"Thank you." I said, then, "Do tou
want to see Edith before you gof " "Ho
had fiuished packing and was looking
at his watch.
"Yes. if you hurry; I have but five
minutes!" "
I ran to the nursery and brought
Edith to him. He pinched her cheek,
hissed her, then carelessly kissed me.
After he had reached the front door
he turned and said:
"Don't worry if I fail to write. IT1
try to keep you posted as to where I am.
however."
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