The Weston leader. [volume] (Weston, Umatilla County, Or.) 189?-1946, 1915-07-30

a public swimming pool, so that he
citizens will not have 10 drink the sam
water in which they bathe and bath
In the same water they drink" /"
London and Berlin furnish the onl
contemporaneous example Of such
Damon and Pythias attitude.
Perhaps. however. walla walla bath
ers impart n desirable flavor 70 III,
Garden City's water supply.
Such a clever twist Is given to /
time-honored theme by "Carveth" II
the Pacific Woodman that we ar,
moved to reproduce his etfusion:
When you bark TO the voice Of IN,
knocker,
As you list to his hammer fall.
Remember the fact
That the knocking act
Requires no brains ut all.
When you list to the growl of tho
growler,
AS you bark to his ceaseIess growl,
You will please recall
That dog is all
It takes for an endless howl.
As you watch for the kick Of the
kicker,
i As you notice his strenuous kick,
You'll observe the rule
That stubborn mule
Is great at the same old trick.
The knocker. the growleI. the kicker
Fault-finders, large and small
What do they need
| For each daily deed?
No brains, no sense just CALI
"The big stick was not mentioned
by Christ at all. says B.yan; and Il
is likewise obvious that Christ never
encountered a German torpedo.
ITO 20 to war with a mad nation at
this time would be like challenging an
insane asylum. - Bryan.
Does Mr.. Bryan seek to provoke
both his own countrymen and the 'tmad
nation" to regret that he was not
aboard the Lusitania?
Murphy's cartoon in Mondays Jour
nal. portraying Uncle Sam as The
Lone Fireman" who seeks to protect
the structure Of international Law
against both German and English
flames, affords a striking example Of
the highest type Of the cartoonist's art,
We fancy that II Umatilla Indian
were familiar with the present trend
of German Kultur he would substitute
an "sn for the ar"
Colonel Roosevelt showed his teeth
to the railroad minions at Los Angeles
and got special car, and few bites
would probably secure for him an en-
tire train.
Uncle Sam has prepared program
for Mexico, but needn't expect much
applause when he has to handcuf his
audience.
A Japanese editor says the white
race is weak, yet it doesn't follow that
we need yellow streak from the
Orient.
Junction City, Kas. ID. McGinty, a
farmer, had an entire wheat field of
40 acres ruined when the Republican
liver overfowed and the fish ate the
reads off the wheat.
Now If that had been the Demo-
ratio river the fish would have carried
he wheat to the farmers granary and
hen Topped into his wagonto be hauled
0 market. n
Permit us to make a suggestion for
,uyers' Week at Portland august Q
0 14) In fact, we are going to make
without permission: When the mer-
hants Of the Northwest in convention [
ssembled discuss ways and means Of
ghting the catalogue houses, let them J
onsider the employment Of the ablest J
ress agent they can secure, whose I
uty it win be to supply readable arti- (
es regularly TO the country press. {
be campaign of publicity against the :
reat and ruthless octopi Of the trade .
iould be strong and persistent instead 7
feeble and sporadic. Every news J
lper in the Northwest should be sup
led each week with the copy Of an !
ticIe setting forth the reasons why (
e local merchant should be patron <