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UNIONISM'S SERIOUS MISTAKE
Union labor especially on the coast and in the ship
building trades- has made a grievous mistake and con
tinues unhesitatingly in its course. With 90 per cent of
those engaged in building wooden ships at Portland al
ready on strike, yesterday 5,500 steel workers went out.
This practically ties up all yards. One company has
eleven ships on the ways and this is but a fraction of the
work that is being held up. If Union Labor cannot see its
mistake we suggest a perusal of yesterday's dispatches
other things was this:
"The strike order also included the Willamette Iron &
Steel Works, but only a few of the men left that plant,
rnv, w;iioioffo rdnnt is nin on the oten shop policy.
Here is an object lesson Union labor will do well to
heed. No strike -was ever won against public sentiment.
Here is a non-union plant where the men keep on working
because there are no paid walking aeiegaies iu sui u.
v,i Tho mihlip will be auick to notice that it 13 tne
non union men who stick to their jobs and do not desert.j
their country in the hour or ner mresi neeu. iuc
will begin to do a little thinking along lines it has not
generally pursued, and will draw its own inferences from
such different conditions as prevail in shops where union
ism prevails, and where it is absent. It will notice that
the less unionism the more industrial peace. It will come
to the conclusion, rightly or wrongly makes no difference,
that unionism is contrary to the principles of democracy
and against the public peace. When that conclusion is
reached it will be an uphill job to maintain even the
semblance of unionism. We do not know what the differ
ences are between the employers and the men in the ship
yards for we have heard many different stones concern
L i-' Tf mottm nnt hnwpver what those differences are,
the men in the shipyards owe a higher allegiance to the
union than to unionism. It is their war they are sup
posed to be assisting in fighting-and they are slackers.
If they think the public is either going to forgive or for
get it they have another long spell of thinking coming.
At Seattle it is said 14,000 employed in the shipyards
will go out within a few days. They are of course in the
same boat with the Portland strikers. As there is a likeli
hood of the strike lasting a month it would be a good way
to settle it by simply stopping all work in the yards.
There is an opportunity now to make the shipbuilding in
dustry a permanent one on the coast, where many men
would be employed permanently and at good wages. This
opportunity, the men themselves are destroying. This is
another of the serious mistakes they are making.
Pendleton, Oregon, the home of the Round-Up Show,
is a good town one of the biggest small cities in the
world. During the Round-Up this year and it has hap
pened every other year since the institution was founded
the two newspapers of that city, the East Oregonian
and Tribune issued special numbers for three days that
would have reflected credit upon a city of 100,000 popula
tion, and these editions were made possible by the patron
age of the local businessmen whose advertisements filled
many pages. It has come to be that a town may be quite
correctly judged by its newspapers, the community that
lacks the enterprise and local patriotsm to stand back
of its papers generally taking a similar attitude toward
all other home industries and institutions. Pendleton is
a good town and the annual Round-up is the greatest
show west of the Mississippi river because both town
and show have good newspapers to boost them into public
notice. If Fendleton businessmen had starved its news
papers to death the Round-up would not now have had a
fame as wide as the nation itself. '
HE FURNISHED THE MATERIAL
Senator LaFolette says he has accumulated material
for numerous libel suits against newspapers which he will
bring "when the courts are free and open." No doubt he
senator is correct as to the material, and if he keeps his
eyes on the papers from this on he will accumulate ma
terial for many more libel suits, that is if he can prove
the statements in the newspapers are not true. His
speeches in the senate, some of them, are of such a char
acter that instead of mulcting a newspaper in damages
to his character any right minded jury would say it was
impossible to libel a senator who gave voice to such trea"
sonable sentiments. The best thing the pompadoured
gentleman from Wisconsin can do is to return to his neck
of the woods and remain there in well earned retirement.
The arrival of the troop train Sunday eight hours late
is another sample of the Southern Pacific's management.
Delays are sometimes unavoidable, but there was no rea
son why the good people of Salem who had arranged to
feed the boys as they passed through, shouldhave been
kept all day without any information as to the time the
train would arnve. It was simply another case of the
company's utter disregard of the rights of others, when
congress was forfeiting its land grant it should have gone
still further and forfeited its franchise. A railroad that
runs on the Vanderbilt plan of the public be damned, that
deliberately holds up the industries of a whole country
deserves to be put out of business by the people, or power
that created it.
Margaret Garrett's
Husband
By JANE PHELPS
TIME FOB EEFLECTION
Senator Lewis yesterday declared Germany's reply to
the Vatican's peace note was "a degrading insult to the
pope and to the United States."
LADD & BUSH, Bankers
- Eitablished 18G8
CAPITAL
$500,000.00
TRANSACT A GENERAL BANKING BUSINESS
" SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
It was an unusual scene in congress yesterday when
that body turned its guns loose on one of its members,
Congressman Heflin, and gave him a very uneasy half
hour. He had stated he could "name twelve or fourteen
congressmen who had acted suspiciously," and when
Representative Norton of North Dakota demanded he ex
plain and name the congressmen the house cheered and
when Heflin undertook to dodge, hooted and jeered him.
He was not able to name anyone, at least did not do so,
and threats were made to punish him, which means, if it
means anything, expulsion,
Oregon by going dry has saved those who frequently
crooked their elbows and looked at the ceiling "through
a glass darkly," from having to put up a dime and a
nickle for the privilege, instead of the customary ten
cents. Beer too would have been six; cents, or perhaps
even higher. Let us be thankful then that this calamity
was taken from us before it happened
Have you visited the Pig Club 5 and., called on General
Pershing? If not don't neglect to do so beiore a noay.
The club will sell its exhibit before the fair closes and you
will have missed something if you fail to see what this
hustling bunch of young Americans have accomplished in
the way ot stock raising. , i .
Polk county folks can amuse themselves during the
balance of the week while waiting for the ferry to make
just another trip before they can find room on it, by
chanting that good old negro hymn:
"I went to de ribber and I couldn't get across."
Governor Withycombe has issued a proclamation set
ting aside October 9 as "Fire Prevention Day." It's a lit
tle late in the season, but as the governor says so, it goes
just the same.
Even divorces are feeling the effects of the war in that
the demands for alimony are about twice as large as be
fore it.
ii Rippling Rhymes i;
by Walt Mason
WAR TALK
I leave, my work to roast the kaiser
throughout the neighborhood; my wife re
marks that I'd be wiser if I would saw some
wood. She says I ought to feed the cattle
and dig spuds with a spade, while I am
planning siege and battle, retreat and am
buscade, 'lis ever thus with wives, my
masters, great things they do not heed:
they care no hoot for war's disasters, if
there are cows to feed. To plan great wars
I'm amply able, and wish to, but wife begs
that I will crawl beneath the stable and
gather all the eggs. Oh, there are times
wnen i m disgusted because l nave no
chance to point out all the punk, dingbusted boneheads
they've pulled in France. I know just why the war goes
slowly, and I could tell them how to put an end to strife
unholy, and break the Germans now. But when I start
my explanation, mv wife gets on my trail, and drags me
from my congregation, to pack a water pail. She doesn't
care to hear of trenches, or of the German slump; she
says I ought to take some wrenches and fix the kitchen
pump.- She doesn't care about the navy that sails the
dark blue sea; she says I'll have to stir the gravy while
she is brewing tea. And thus the patriot's rewarded, who
loves the rag to chew; there's always something punk and
sordid that he is billed to do.
CHAPTER XIV.
"I should like to take dinner with
John Kendall, tonight, Margaret. He
has the manuscript of a book he wauts
me to read and help him pass on."
"Why I didn't know you were inter
ested in things of that sort," I replied
with a sinking heart at the thought of
the evening alone.
"You didn't I why I have always been
interested in books literary work of
any kind."
"Oh, I knew you were a book worm,
but I thought it was only to read them
here at hone."
"I used to help John a lot before
mother died. That is I pretended to
help. Really I did it because it was a
pleaiure, and mother always encouraged
me to spend much of my time with
John.'"
Even as he talked I felt he was mak
ing a mental reservation in his moth
er's favor. I had said nothing to make
him think I was pleased to have him
spend the evening with John Kendall
poring over some old stupid manuscript.
Vet, in spite of my reluctance to let
him see that I was not so self sacrific
ing as his mother, I could not suppress
an expression of dismay.
"Your mother was old and didn't
mind being alone."
All the more reason why she should
have minded it. Don't sit up for me
I shall probably ho very late. If the
book is as unusual as John says it is,
I shall get too interested to leave It. ' '
So you are gome?" I asked, as
tonished that he should persist when
he saw I objected.
Yes. Don't sit up!" and before I
could voice a further objection he was
gone.
1 returned to the breakfast table and
hastily drank another cup of coffee. Del-
la spoke to mo and I had to swallow
lump in my throiit before I could an
wer her.
Why don't you go over and have
dinner with Mrs. Barton, ma'am," Del-
la Mid. She had heard Bob's parting
admonition, so knew of course he wm
to be oot.
For a moment more I could not an
swer. I was tfraid 1 was going to cry,
and before a servant. Then all at once
1 felt an overwhelming self-pity. Pity
for tho wom&n who because her hus
band had been encouraged by his moth
er to neglect her, thought it all right
to net the sanio with his wife.
I may have been was wrong in
having such sentiments. But they came
of their owii volition; and I had not
strength of mind enough - to dismiss
them. But after teHing Delia that I
would let her know if I decided to dine
out, I had time for reflection. I was
ab!n after a while to thrust from my
. J jt - i, iA ! ........ Tt. I-
mum me inougiii oi any ""i" i schloigenwuist
rart to neclect or wound me. I must " . ...
And He Did
IllrTOP THAT "ROCK"!
( HERE-PETE? j J
: The Daily Novelette if
KAMARADE.
(Synopsis of preceding chapters:
Travis Twiggs, a young hardly-e 'er-do
well, having been registered, called for
examination, and drafted, enlists in the
army and is made a motorcycle scout
because if his experience with pelo iron
ies. On the afternoon of his first day
at the front, he is delivering a letter
in English cipher from a French gener
al to a Russian commander-in-chief
when suddenly he sees a German motor
cyclist bearing down on him at top
speed. Throwing on the Bloogenbixz
clutch and. leluasing the dingerator,
Twiggu turns tail and races across the
Belgian scenery for dear life. Yelling
liko mad, the German pursues, and the
two machines race up hill and down dale
across ditches, through ereeks and over
fences. Finally the German unslingmg
his automatic, fires a round of shots
and punctures both Twiggs' tires, forc
ing iwiggs to stop suddenly and hard,
agaiust a stone wall.)
. - Conclusion.
"Well " panted Twiggs, as his teeth
chattered, "1 am your prisoner."
Tho Ocrman's eyes rolled with sud
den terror.
Xol Ncin! Nicht!" he cried, "Ach,
doogenf letter, nein! I
"r-ll to be your prison-
, ' ' . . : . . .. 1 j0j erl or three weeks I have eaten noth-
hoie outside interests which oeenpud fa new Germa rationa
him as a single man, and were then per- saIt.an(1.r,prmpr SB.n(JwiphflH a dav
fcetl, legitimate. I wa. at fault, not w ounce It sorrow meat Now
Ikb. 1 had not impressed the fact ot : ?a B nlt ounce .r 8Parrw meat; 0 w
' .. v "iii. if you do not make'me your prisoner
my . Iter devotion, my wJ ingness to j m both
suppiy ine piaco x .i i you are mv prisoner! " cried Twizes
Knew anu 'l6leml aIld marched him off to a full
upon mm. . ,
Tnen. too. he might have Dorrowea
the manuscript and read
ia his -life before I
him, sufficiently upon him,
a. uuuia 1 x TT til 1- 1
I''ft I eTfouldcal have the sympathy of many friends in
him UP at the office and if he-had not,""8 community.-Aurora Observer.
alreadv accoDted John Kendall a dinner
invitation he would probably be grate'
ful to me for the suggestion.
' ' Is Mr. Garrett in f " I asked tho of
MANY HOPS PURCHASED.
It is reported that Morley & Mount
Silverton hop buyers have purchased
the Ray Morley lot of 130 bales at 351
f ice bov who had answered the tele-.
, i.m -t r tt . cenis, me v. xj. vicit iot oi xo utiles u
phone. "Tins is Mrs, Garrett." '' '. w M w,.li loi
"Yes. but he s busy on the other " , , . , " s, "
ie, uui i u j mimitea. cr0P of 76 lia,eS at 16 cents. and tle
phone. He'll be thru in a few minutes. J
hold tne wirej-- - " , ... - ,
EIGHT PEOPLE OUT OP
TEN REALIZE THAT
THEY ARE IN THE
WRONG VOCATION
But there is no excuse for
'remaining in a line of work
that does not bring out
YOUR BEST.
There is no reason why
your son and daughter
should not find the vocation
for which they are best
fitted.
Vocational counsel, the
newest science known to
educators and the business
world, enables a person to
KNOW whether they should
be engaged in a professional,
mechanical, or commercial
pursuit. -I i 3
Vocational Counsel is not
Phrenology under a new
name, neither is it Palmis
try, Clairvoyance or any so
called "Fortune Telling."
It is a scientific study,
phychological in character,
the result of the best morals
of some of the world's lead
ing educators and business
men.
Vocational counsel is for
You and your Child. Don't
put it off- -The most import
ant choice in life is the
choice of a vocation The
choice has to be made and
as Solomon has said, "In the
multitude of counsel there is
wisdom."
m I would like to be of as
sistance to you. I have
studied Vocational Counsel
for a number of years, in the
University of California and
elsewhere. The charge for
my service is small. I guar
antee satisfaction. After
October 1st my office will be
located at Room 2, Salem
Commercial building.
Before that you can ar
range an interview bv
phoning 1355.
JAMES M. HEADY
OPEN LITTLE RAILROAD.
you
"Yea."
"Hello, Margaret; what's upt"
"Oh, Bob, 1 have just thought of
such a nice plau! we won't have to be
ated this evening after all."
"What in the world are you talk-
inir nhmit. Marsraret! Come to the point
nui.'klv as nossible. I have a busi-
nfa nrtnninlment Tight UOW."
"Whir it is thisl vou borrow the
manuscript and bring it home and rend
it, then we can be together."
"Don't talK nonsense, ma's""
I've already told John I'd dine with
him. Run over to Elsie's if you don't
tn ho alon. Good-bve." and be
fore I could say another word I heard
the click of the receiver a. Bob hung
It was all my fault, I thought as I
turned disconsolately away, tears of dis
appointment in my eyes. Had I told
him mv plRse BEFORE he had prom
i"d to" dine with Mr. Kendall he would
hopn as nleased as could
be. "But as I was too late, I would call
KUi., and ask her if she wanted me.
"rjuielj ! " she replied to my question
.i wlH-thrr it would be convenient
t, hve me tc dinner. "But how does
it happeu that Bob is out again? re
ferring to the night I called Tom.
' I il cinlnin when I come over.
I tuppose it seems strange that a
woman n.nrlv thirty years old should
havo acted so foolishly. B,ut I think
even no.v that when one is as old as
was I when I married, they are more
nt to be dependent on the man they
nmrrv- liavo fewer outside interests
than 'the Toung frivolous girl who, re
gardlfSF o'f her marriage still keeps up
her frieai'fhip with her chums.
(Tnm rr-.w " Amused Tolerance' )
MRS. CLASS DIES SUDDENLY. .
Lewiston, Mont., Sept. 25. P. B.
Earling, and other officials of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee and St. Paul today
completed inspection of the new Win-
nett branch as far as it is completed.
I j They announced the company would ac
cept freight at Tiegan, which is about
half way between Crassrange and Win-nett.
Mrs. C. W. Clark died suddenly
Thursday night at her home at Wolfer
Prairie, 'and was buried Saturday, at
ha I. Ci .O. P. cemetery near Aurora.
The services were conducted by Frank
Dennison.
Mrs. Clark had beon ill for sometime
but her snddn death was a great shock
to her family and friends. She passed
awar before a physician could reach
her home.
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salts tie tilings that
doctors cqy ell child
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She ia survived by her husband C. W.