East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1912-09-21

lJAlll EhOI OINEUO
Club ut No. % Union Square" com
ments the World "Here is fur
nished three-room flat with every ar
ticle of American manufacture, all
labeled with the high home price and
the low foreign price. Baby clothes
raised in some cases 90 per cent, un-
der the tariff and perambulator
raised As per cent. should interest an
eminent third-term opponent of race
suicide In The Worlds own cham
Der of horrors yesterday we showed
a child's frock Of white nainsook with
Valenciennes edging for which the
material could be bought in London
for S1.O7, the New York price being
Sill"
\ chamber of horrors" for the
west would fittingly exhibit farm ma
chinery which is sold abroad by the
International Harvester company at
lower prices than in America. 1t
would show that wire nails used in
building the houses OF the west have
cost us as much as S5.26 per gross
ton more than the same nails have
been sold for by the same company
abroad. 1t would show that the
structural steel used in the bridges
of Umatilla county has been sold
abroad by the trust at prices ranging
from S4.21 to $3.50 per ton cheaper
than in America. 1t would show that
the steel rails used on the railroads
of the west have been costing as much
as S3.S4 per ton more than they sell
for abroad
The tariff is the most important is
sue in the election. The tariff is at
the very heart of the trust question,
as Governor Wilson has so clearly
shown in his speeches.
SS~$oSS~S
Pendleton is considerably in need
of the very sort of work Mr.. Cowen
is planning to do with
Work That the property he has pur-
Pcndleton chased on the north
Needs. side of the river former
dition
The town is crowded this fall as
never before. Though many new
dwellings have been erected during
the summer there has been a graf
dearth of empty houses. People who
have wanted to move into town so as
to secure the benefit of the schools
have found it almost impossible to
rent houses. They have had to buy
places in order to secure houses in
which to live. Sometimes they have
had to buy houses that were hardly
worth buying. When they have
bought they have usually driven
other people out of their homes, put
ting them to the Inconvenience of
| trying to rent houses when there are
none to be had.
There is need of a new residence
district and of new houses thereon
There is particular need just now be-
cause when the branch asylum is
opened many of those connected with
the work of the institution will have
to find houses here.
SO here's to Mr.. Cowen and Irving
ton Heights, with paved street and
concrete sidewalks.
~o-ses~ss~
On his itinerary the other day
Governor Wilson passed through a
college town in the
Wilson's Advice middle west and ir
To College addressing the stu
! students. dents he advised
them to take life
more seriously. Not to be boyish al
the time but to grow up and to learl
to think for themselves, not to b'
content with predigested mental food
1t is advice the modern colleg'
world seems to need. There is too
much of a tendency In colleges tow
ard high living and light thinking
There is too much premium on polisi
and not enough on real culture
There is too much swath cutting an
not enough work. Too much athlet
les and not enough physical training
Too much voice work and not enougI
brain exercise.
; Governor Wilson himself is a pro
duct of the American college of 3