The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1909-05-15

proved the kernel vastly since the Pilgrims landed
in New England and the Cavaliers in Virginia.
The Illinois farmer is more ambitious. He has
produced few grains of corn without cob, whose
kernels grow something like those of oats, each in
its own husk at the end of stem. He is now at
work getting rid of the stem by careful selection
OF kernels to plant so as to make his new corn
grow more like wheat or rye
We do not know what the effect of this change
will be on the Indian corn plant, which is one of
the most beautiful in cultivation. 1t is we'll known
that the corn ovaries are fertized from another
flower on the same stalk. If this can be imagined
as an earlier form of the wheat plant perhaps the
corn of future ages will bear single punches of
complete flowers, afterwards heads of grain near
the top of huge stalk resembling that of millet
-Wala Wala Statesman.
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The Inland Empire Press Association, composed
of editors and publishers of newspapers and publ
cations in eastern Washington and Oregon, north
ern Idaho, western Montana and southeastern
British Columbia, was formally organized in the
assembly room of the Spokane chamber of COM
merce, May 8.
The objects Of the association are to promote
the fraternal relations of the journalistic profess
sion, and to unite more closely the agricultural,
industrial, commercial, financial and other mutual
interests for the purpose of substantial develop
ment and greater progress in the Inland Empire,
which comprises 150 900 square miles of territory
in the four states and province named.
At the business meeting, which was called to
order by N W. Durham, editor of the Spokes-
man-Review, the association endorsed the national
irrigation congress, which will have its 18th ses-
sion in Spokane, August 9-14 and pledged its sup
port and cooperation in making the meeting sue
cessful one.
At the close of the organization meeting men,
bers of the association were entertained by Joseph
P. Cohn, president of the Spokane baseball club,
at Recreation park, where the Tacoma Tigers
trounced the Spokane Indians in lively game to
the tune of 3 to g. The trip to and from the park
was made in special cars at the disposal of the
association by the Spokane & Inland Empire elec-
tric railway system.
Among the speakers at the banquet were H. L.
Moody and Arther Hooker, representing the
national irrigation congress; President Lorton,
William A. Goodyear, The Commoner Colfax;
G. A. Foresman, The Teller, Lewiston, Idaho; T. A.
Love. Pioneer, Phoenix, B. c.; Orno Strong The
New West Trade, Spokane; Rufus A. Wilson, The
Herald, Maiden, and Former Governor Folk of
Missouri who complimented the association upon
its broad spirit. He was elected the first honorary
member of the association.
Mr.. Folk, who was guest of honor, spoke of
his conception of the functions of the press and its
part in the upbuilding of civic righteousness say
ing among other things that in his public career
he found no weapon so mighty as the newspaper
that told the truth, and by the same token, there
10 borno FIJI
adding:
Publicity is the greatest power on earth to
wrongdoing. You may fill the penitentiaries with
wrongdoers and unless the public is informed and
aroused there will be no difference in the conduct
of public affairs; but let the people become awak-
ened to the real conditions and the wrong will be
righted In this you are quasi-public officials. and
in addition, you have duty as teachers of the
public; in fact you are keepers Of the public con-
science.
Wherever patriotism is as active as rottenness
there you will have good government. You, as
newspaper men, have great opportunity to en-
courage public patriotism. BY this do not mean
the patriotism of war; of rolling drums and of mill
tary spendor but the patriotism of everyday life,
of peace. A man who lives for his country has as
much patriotism as he who dies for it, and it is
this you should encourage.
This republic is founded on ideals. We are
made and governed by the things we cherish, and
the greatness of the nation does not consist of
mere acreage or in the strength of military arma-
ment, but in the purity of its ideals and in the in
tensity of their devotion to these ideals
This is great country but it does not consist
Of fertile fields or wealth of minerals and forests,
but in men and women of high ideals. After ALL,
the question of good government is simply one of
AGGRESSIVE citizenship"