Corvallis gazette. [volume] (Corvallis, Benton County, Or.) 1900-1909, 1904-03-01
OUR BRAINY CONTEMPORARIES.

II OUR BRAiNY CONTEMPORARIES.
s'The S William S Randolph Hearst S P resi-
denial s boom is still S resounding ups and
IS down the S. land $.''-Burlngton Hawkeye.
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For swiping their own code of signals and thus
sinking four torpedo-boat destroyers, doubt the
Russians regard the entire japanese nation as lot
|of brutal sonsovtches- Statesman.
The story of Lots wife turning to pillar of
salt cannot longer be doubted A young lady here
the other day put her foot upon dry goods box to
tie her shoe and two young men who were passing
turned to rubber.-Medford Mail.
1t is getting fashionable for banks to advertise,
and it is to be hoped that the lawyers and
doctors will see their way clear to take into
ables man to make his fortune in half a lifetime
instead of a century.-Salem Journal
Fire drills in the public schools should occur
with at least sufficient degree of frequency to IA
niiarize the children with what is expected of
them. They should he followed with some def
mite system and not at haphazard. This should
particularly apply in cases like Portland, where
the schools built of wood and therefore are like
ly to burn much more rapidly than though they
were of stone brick construction n-Portland
Journal.
An uneducated child has chance in So 900
of attaining distinction factor in the progress
of the age. A common school education increases
the chance nearly four times. A high school edu-
cation increases the chance to the common school
child 23 times giving him 81 times the unedu-
A incre he
of the high school boy nine times, giving him 21o
times the chance of the common school boy and
500 times the chance of the untralned.-Eugene
Journal.
The introduction into the Lower House of Con-
gress of service and age pension bill, by Repre-
sentative Suiloway, chairman OF the Committee on
siastc adhesion to its principle and enthusiastic
opposition. This bill, which, well-informed
respondents say is confidently expected to pass the
House, provides pension of eight dollars mouth
to every veteran of the Civil War who has attained
the age of sixty-two years without regard to disc
bllity; to those sixty-six years old, dollars a
month; and to those reaching seventy twelve dol
lars mouth. It further provides that where a
man rendered two years Or more service he shall
receive a pension of two dollars a month in addi-
ton to the regular rates. Mr.. Sulloway's bill also
increases the pension of those now drawing the
further provides that the pension of widows who
married soldier prior to January I. $780, shall be
increased to twelve dollars month In the mat
ter Of calculating the amount that will be required
to satisfy the demands under this law, there
are great discrepancies between the figures given
by friend and foe. AS there are at present some
two hundred thousand veterans who have not appli-
ed for relief and it is thought that comparative
ly small portion of these would apply under the
new bill, it is estimated, in quarters that not
over one hundred thousand names would be
added to the rolls, entailing yearly expenditure
of fifteen millions. 'Twenty to sixty Millions is
the estimate of the New York Sun, which calls
this bill aud its appropriation 'the most stupendous
of campaign funds" It. is stated, on apparently
good authority, that President Roosevelt favors the
passage of this bill; and it will be made part of
the Republican policy. While the bill in many
details has been altered from that proposed by the
Grand Army, yet maintains the principal features
OF that, and recognizes besides length of service
ani ag> o. tie beneit arie--Argonaut.