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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21

I'm that great human story
Mrs. Wigs of the Cab
bags Patch" Lovey Mar,
is made to say: When things
first got to goin' wrong with
me, / says % Lord, whatever
comes, keep me from gettin'
sour.
Here is the best of philo-
sophy. The fermentation of the
mind produces an acid disposi-
ton, such as Charles Dickens
describes in his sour old
Scrooge. Shakespeare gives us
an example of cynical bitter
ness in Timon and Athens, and
Hamlet is sour rather than
mad. But you need not go to
Shakespeare to find examples
of this malady of the mind. You
may find it nearer home, in
your own office, or circle of
friends, in the divorce courts,
and the business world.
Men, like milk, turn sour,
and they are correspondingly
disagreeable, says the San
Fracisco Bulletin. Such men
suffer a loss of magnetism, and
the gift of making or keeping
friends. Misanthropy. pessi-
mism and cynicism are conse-
quences of getting sour. They
are left in the pathway of
things which go wrong. The
remedy is a sound philosophy
of life. A dead fish may go
down stream, but only a live
fish goes up stream. An emin-
ent man said the other day that
he did not believe in the future
life, and confessed that his last
hour would be his sweetest.
This man is fighting with a
broken sword. Lovey Mary's S
philosophy of life is worth a
world of fears. For practical
purposes the honey of hope is
worth a barrel of vinegary
but brilliant doubts.
To keep under the stress and
strain of life is a high and no.
BILE achievement. When the
mind ferments its mental juices
turn into the gall of bitterness
and it develops into mega.
ton.
The negative mind never
thinks positively. Nor could il
do otherwise after it has ceas.
ed to live in the atmosphere OF
the great alternatives Wher
things go wrong the wise thing
to do is not to whine, but by
the exercise of the highest laws
of being keep from becoming
embittered.
1t is not the negative, but the
affirmative intellect that rule!
the world.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21

but unfarness and obstruction
from the controlling clique in
the United States senate. The
foreign relations committee
was packed against the League
of Nations. Leading senators
of the majority party indulged
in every device to harass and
to disrupt the work of the con-
ference. 1t may now be seen
how ridiculous was the criti-
cism because the tentative
treaty was not submitted to the
senate, how silly the senate in
voting to publish the draft as it
then stood. The draft that
they insisted on publishing is
already obsolete. Its publica-
ton in disregard of all ethics
of craftsmanship can serve on
ly to confuse affairs.
The senate would appear in 4
better light in this country and /
throughout the world had it
waited until the treaty was
completed and formally sub
We had child play
when there should have been
dignity and craftsmanship.
Good Republicans and good
Americans of all political faiths
have reasons for being asham-
ed of the senate leadership.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21

BERLIN, June 19-The German
government has curtailed the privii-
eyes extended to allied officers and
commissioners travelling in Germany
explaining its action on the ground
that instances have been uncovered OF
men who were travelling by official
permits carrying on political propa-
ganda and circulating abroad reports
Injurious to German interests
The government has decided to ex'
ercise active control of all credentials
and permits and will confer them
only on persons engaged in official
work
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21
FUNNYBONE
PING Canses worry.


Force of habit is a wonderful thing
said a Lewiston girl. Now my father
smokes a pipe Smokes a great deal
and then when he is going away or
anything his pipe is his first coHsidera-
tfon. Some time ago there was a FIRE
lin the neighborhood in the middle Of
the night.
Father was out of bed with the
first stroke of the alarm and rushed
downstairs. Mother and / were q
little longer getting there. When we
cot downstairs we found father with
a raincoat on over his nightdress' lean
ing as far out Of the back door as he
could gazing wildeyed at the blaze
down the street.
when he heard Us enter nc
brought his head in long enough TO
exclaim. Great Gosh, Alice. the
'Joneses's house is all afire ana l cant
find my pipe"
A Missouri constituent Of Senator
5 Erencer wrote the senator a long let
ter outlining some scheme or othei
~ hich claimed the senator's Interest
from the start. 1t looked like a pret
~ good idea and Spencer wrote th'
constituent 50. Just then he got tW'
teIegrams containing further details
Spencer called his stenographer.
Tear up that letter" he said 'anf
tale this one"
Then he dictated:
..Dear smith9Your scheme is NJ
good. Your kilograms cost m'
SILQs." -.-.----..
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21

generation of baseball they have
plugged on and on, hoping against
hope and knowing it. but still comfort
ing their clubs with their presence. OF
late years attendance has slumped
rather badly. but the pep is still there,
and Brownie supporters are ready to
show it. Attendance this year already
has been decidedly encouraging.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21
PoRTLAND,S QUEER LOGIC
"a T the very time that Port
~ land is supporting a suit

~ T the very time that Port
II land is supporting a suit
to have rates from the in
land empire to tidewater based
on consideration of grades and
distance there comes news that
on another phase of the. trans
portation problem the Rose
city people are taking what APP
pears to be the opposite stand.
A story in the Oregonian yes
terday said:
Directors of the Portland Chamber
of Commerce Wednesday teIegraphed
the Oregon delegation in congress re-
garding the peHding amendment TO
the fourth section of the interstate
commerce act. covering the long and
short haul clauses. support was ask
ed for the principle that the railroads
make a terminal rate to port, and.
opposition 10 any change preventing
competitive short haul traffic was re-
quested.
That sounds like the Port
land position Isl that they want
rates based on natural condi-
tions when such an arrange
ment is to Portland's advantage
and want a lower charge for a
long haul when the terminal
rate issue is involved. If that
is it how can they expect to ar
que both ways without getting
trapped in their own logic?
If it is a sound principle, as
Portland contends in its fight
with Seattle that rates should
be based on distance and on
grades then the same principle
is sound with reference to
trans-continental shipments.
How can anyone contend diff
ferently?
~-~s~~~s~~~=~~~
4 During the war the federal
employment service filled a
tremendous need and did it
well. Both employers and
workers gained much by the
service. The same benefits can
be obtained in peace as were
obtained in war. Why the new
congress did not provide funds
for the service is a mystery.
SS~s~~~~~
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21
REFUSE WILSON AUTHORITY

WASHINGTON, June 2f.-A vote
of IL to > the house judiciary commit
tee today refused TO give President
Wilson authority to set aside the pro-
hibition enforcement legislation as af-
fccts light wines and beer under the
war time prohibition act. The vote
came on an amendment designed to
give the president way of partly re-
peaIing the war time prohibition act.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21

by some means-by and means-by
victories or diplomacy, or by bluff
Germany is very much like the
young lady who presented a check at
tn bank. The teller. after examining
it. said:
I'VE can't pay this over the counter
miss"
''The>youns lady smiled her sweet
est smile.
Then" she said, 'I'lI come
round"
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-06-21
AN NpEPENpEN'


. Pray for my soul. More things
. arc wrought by PRAYER
, Than this world dreams Of
, Wherefore. lei thy voice
? Rise like a fountain for me
night and day.
, For what are men better than :
sheep or goats
; That uourish blind life within
the brain.
IT. knowing God, they lift not I
hands OF PRAYER
Both for themselves and those Z
who call them friende
For so the whole round earth is !
every way .
Bound BY gold chains about the :
feet OF God.
-TENNYSoN. :
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
The Under Box

1t takes big contrast to awaken
many OF the common people, for the
special pleading of the interests COW
ers up ordinary evils.
WE HAVE SUCH A CONTRAST
NOW.
They assume we have a just gov
eminent.
The men go to the front to fight
the country's war; their families
have a hard time existing and some
even have to take charity as well as
harder work; the men, coming home,
find that "the cause" has thrown
them out of jobs and that a few So
called leaders have waxed rich be-
yond the dreams of avarice.
The dullest witted of them cries
out: 'NO, THERE IS SOMETHING
RADICALLY WRONG"
Here also lies another danger than
that justifable and much-to-be-
hoped-fog danger to the political and
business autocrats.
Those trustful slow wits who have
long been the despair of reformers,
when once awakened by such a con-
treast as this, become straightway
the most extreme of extremists.
They leave reformers, and even
long standing Socialists, far behind
in a blind rage against their be-
trayers.
THESE ARE THE REVOLU-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
Business Moves West

Who has not observed how in ths
last 40 years markets and manufac-
turing have been moving west
NEARER AND NEARER THE
SOURCES OF THE RAW MA.
TERIAL?
The big grain markets, with their
terminal elevators and mills used to
be in New York City and Buffalo.
NOW THEW ARE IN CHICAGO
MINNEAPOLIS, DULUTH AND
KANSAS CITY.
For the same reasons the steel in
terests are gradually moving their
blast furnaces and foundries to Lake
Erie ports and to Duluth, that is,
nearer the Minnesota and Michigan
ore which they use.
The new elevators and mills plan
ned by the state of North Dakota
likewise carry the secondary indus
tries in the grain trade another jump
nearer the source of supply.
The state packing plants to come
soon will do the same thing.
THIS JUMP is THE NATURAL,
LOGICAL DEVELOPMENT AT THE
PRESENT TIME.
Rather it has been the logical
thing for many years, but our rail-
roads and other special interests To-
Gated farther east have held it back
artifcially for obvious profit reasons.
The railroads, for instance, make
it cheaper to ship grain from west.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09

If he can, we might as well ad-
NIT that these laws are on our
statute books to hit at the working
class only.
We might as well admit that vi
olence to maintain conservatism is
all right, whereas preaching VOL
ence as means of reform is all
wrong.
BUT THE COUNTRY CAN NOT
BE MAINTAINED ON THIS CLASS
DISTINCTION.
If conservatism by violence rules,
we may expect in the words of
Shakespeare "these violent delights
to "have violent ends"
We do not follow the internal
workings of the labor movement
very closely wits its controversy for
and against Mr.. Gompers, etc., but
when we saw in a conservative Spo-
kane labor paper the other day the
headline: Samuel Gompers Lauded
by Taft" we began to think there
was more to the anti-Gompers fac
ton than we had suspected If We
were editing a paper friendly to Mr.
Gompers we would not have men
toned it, for a man is known by the
company he keeps. Then, too, there
is the authority of the scripture for
the point that a man can not serve
tor please) two masters.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
THE WORKER
(Berton Bralev)

(Berton Braley)
| have broken my hands on you
granite,
have broken my strength on YOU
STEEL
I have sweated through years of your
pleasure,
have worked like a slave for your
veal.
And what is the wage you have paid
me?
You masters and drivers of men
Enough so [ come in my hunger
To beg for more labor again.
| have built you the world in its
beauty,
| have brought you the glory and
spoil,
You have blighted my, sons and my
daughters,
You have scourged me again to
my toll.
Yet | suffer it all in my patience,
For somehow I dimly have known
That some day the Worker will con-
quer
In world that was meant for his
own!
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09

IlONISTS WHICH PLUTOCRACY
MAKES BY ITS EXPLOITATION
AND DENIAL OF POLITICAL
RIGHTS TO SANE BUT radical
GROUPS.
They and the plutocrats force
revolution rather than reform by
evolution.
BOTH FACTIONS IN SEVERAL
EUROPEAN COUNTRIES HAVE
ECLlPSED THE SANE LEADERS
AND CITIZENS WHO WORK FOR
A u + Z U A TIE REFORMS BY
PEACEFUL MEANS. Of the two
the plutocrats are far more respon-
slble for reform by revolution than
the slow wits.
And Europe at present should
bring to our people who are awake
the lesson that they must redouble
their efforts to push those reforms
which will bring in better day for
the people and END the power of the
plutocrats.
Unless they succeed in this, more
and more unjust conditions will some
day awaken the slow wits to a blind
rage for sweeping changes at once,
and we still have the serious malad-
justments Europe now has.
THIS is NO TIME TO YIELD
TO SPECIAL INTEREST AGGRES-
SION OR EVEN SPECIAL INTER
EST DEFENSE.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09

eating the sum of $1585.45,, which
claim has not yet been approved by
the Board of County Commissioners
Of Sheridan County. We also fine
that there are disputed claims fol
material furnished account of gophe,
poison material and equipment
amounting to 100000 to $4,000
which claims have not BEEN so far
as we can ascertain presented to the
Board Of County Commissioners. We
recommend the said counties of
Sheridan and Roosevelt apportion be-
tween themselves upon. the basis
heretofore referred to any amounts
which may be found due and allowed
upon said claims last referred to.
IL We find that the expense Of
the Adjusting Commission shall be
borne equally by the Counties of
Roosevelt and Sheridan.
Dated at Plentywood, Montana,
this 25th day Of April, 1919.
JOHN HURRY,
Judge of District Court, Seven
teenth Judicial District, State. of
Montana.
F. A. WEINRICH,
Chairman, Board of County Com
Roosevelt County,. Mon
tana.
JOHN ANDERSON,
County Commissioner, Roosevelt
County, Montana.
r. E. PATCH,
County Commissioners, Roosevelt
County, Montana.
J. C.. TIMMONS,
Chairman, Board of County Conn
Sheridan County, Mon
tana.
j. d. MATKIN,
County Commissioner, Sheridan
County, Montana.
R. G. TYLER,
County Commissioner, Sheridan |
county, Montana.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
The Grand Jury

The farmers of the county are
agains asking about a Grand Jury;
whether one is to be called or wheth-
er it is to be stalled off and prevent
ed if possible.
The Producers News is now as it
always has been, in favor of calling
a Grand Jury, which should be called
as soon as seeding is completed and
when it will not interfere with the
basic business of the community.
Last summer petitions were sent
to Judge Hurry containing hundreds
of name of taxpayers praying that a
Grand Jury be called and the alleged
wrong doings in Sheridan county
thoroughly gone into and investigat-
ed.
Judge Hurry promised to call the
Grand Jury but because of circum-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
Preaching on Violence

Speaking recently before the Hi
nois Manufacturers Cost association
in the gold room of a big Chicago
hotel, John H. Kirby proposed tn
organization of a secret society t.
fight union labor.
He is quoted as having said:
"a cabinet officer has sent en-
issaries all over the country,
presumably aiding industry but
really PROSECUTING for the Ameri-
can Federation of Labor. His
agents have no right to come in
to your industries, creating dis
turbances between employers and
employees.
After the war in the South
we organized the Ku-Klux Klan
to put carpet baggers out of
business and we should organize
to end carpetbagging now.
What is it going to result in
in these days of Bolshevik pro-
paanda, unrest and disturbance?
Should we not take counsel and
protect ourselves ?"
THE QUESTION NOW, ARISES:
CAN JOHN H. KIRBY OF THE
EMPLOYING CLASS VIOLATE
THE LAW AGAINST INCITING
TO VIOLENCE AND PREACHING
VIOLENT METHODS WITHOUT
BEING INDICTED?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09

loIal SO Il, 22O2.3
7. We find the difference between
the value of the property within anC
belonging to Sheridan COUNT at the
time of the creation of The new coun
ty and the Indebtedness as 1t existed
at such time to the sum Of s49l,U1O.-
%.
8. We find that Sheridan Count
should assume of the total indebted
ness as it existed at the time of
the value Of the property within and
belonging to said Sheridan County
and retained by it plus 60.33O2 Der
cent of the difference between the
entire property within and belonging
to Sheridan County and the total in.
debtedness, amounting in the aygre-
gate to $642,783.84.
8. We find that Roosevelt Coun-
ty should assume of the total indebt-
edness as it existed at the tine of
the creation of Roosevelt County, the
value of the property within and be-
longing to said Roosevelt county ana
retained by it plus 39.b69S per cert
OF the difference between the entire
property within and belonging to
Roosevelt County and the total in
debtedness, amounting in the aggre-
gate to $201, 418.53, for, which last
named sum Roosevelt County is in
debted to Sheridan County in ac-
cordance with the act creating said
Roosevelt County and for which sum
Roosevelt County should deliver to
Sheridan County its warrant in pay
ment thereof together with interest
thereon as provided by law.
10 We further find that there
are outstanding seed grain liens and
contracts upon which there is due
the sum of S89,378.32.
IL. We further find that there is
due and unpaid as delinquent taxes
upon property within the boundaries
OF Sheridan County as it existed at
the time of the creation of Roosevelt
County the sum of $178,476.97.
II. That said outstanding liens
and delinquent taxes were not taken
into consideration as a part of the
adjustment but it is the finding of
the Board of Adjusters that all COL
lectlons made subsequent to Febru-
airy 18th, 1919, or which may here
alter be made on account of seed
grain contracts or liens and delin-
quent taxes shall be by the County
reasurer of Sheridan County pro-
oortoned between Sheridan County
and Roosevelt County in the follow
ng rate, to-wit: 60.33O2 per cent to
sheridan County and 39.6698 per
'ent to Roosevelt County.
IL. We also find that there is,
disputed claim made by Valley Coun-
y against Sheridan County in con-
lectlon with the maintenance of de-
hospital at Glasgow aggre-
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09

stances, largely unavoidable, kept
delaying until the Twentieth Judicial
District was created and new Judge
was appointed for the district.
The Grand Jury is now up to
Judge Conner.
The Producers News does not
know what position Mr.. Conner
takes upon this important subject,
but it is under the belief that, if the
old petitions filed with Judge Hurley
is not sufficient to justify him in
calling the Grand Jury, that if new
petitions are filed, the Judge will call
the much discussed and talked about
Grand Jury, as the taxpayers de-
sire.
THE PEOPLE WANT A GRAND
JURY.
WHY NOT CALL IT AT ONCE?
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09

ern North Dakota to Minneapolis OF
Duluth than from the same place to
Fargo, but every man must recog-
nize such a railroad-made condition
as absurd and flying in the face of
reason and efficiency.
TIE farmers and the consumers
must stand the expense of it and the
monopoly profits drawn from it.
The forces arrayed in it's favor
and against logical business develop
ment are and have been so strong,
however, that many have despaired
of change for the better.
BUT, BY THROWING THE
WHOLE POWER OF THEIR STATE
AGAINST THESE MONOPOLY
FORCES, THE FARMERS OF
NORTH DAKOTA WILL BE ABLE
TO BREAK THEM.
The farmers will thus open up a
great new business development
profitable to themselves and to the
consumers, because it will embrace
not merely the state-owned enter
prlses but cooperative and private
business ventures now strangled by
the tribute-taking East.
LET US KEEP IN MIND THAT
THE NORTH DAKOTA FARMERS
Fl A E FUNDAMENTAL BUSI-
NESS EFFICIENCY ON THEIR
SIDE; WHEREAS THEIR OPPON-
ENTS HAVE VERY EXPENSIVE,
ARTIFICIALLY MADE CONDI-
TIONS.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09
OUTLOOK.

Mr.. Reinold, rural school Inspector
of schools, and Mr.. Mosher, resident
of the Dillon State Normal, gave, in
teresting talks on our purposes of
education at the Outlook school, out
lining methods and principles in
teaching. Mr.. Davis, chairman of
the War Savings Stamps Assn, al
so sought to organize the children
of the schools into clubs. Miss Will
son, our county superintendent,
stayed over to make the regular SUI
pervision of the schools. Outlook
has very good school and it's high
school has made strong advance.
The producers news. [volume] (Plentywood, Mont.) 1918-1937, 1919-05-09

The opposition and the fault find
ing of the more reactionary press on
President Wilson's Fiume policy
probably has two explanations.
There is a desire to discredit Wilson
at any cost, but more than this is
the more or less open hostility to our
war and peace aims as announced by
the government in the midst of the
conflict. These sedition-hunting pa
pers and the interests back of them
merely tolerated these aims as u
means of arousing war enthusiasm,
and they had little idea that Wilson
would try to make good on them.
They are greatly troubled that what
they thought was to be mere adver-
Using to put the war across on the
gullible people at home, Should figure
in actual peace making.
We are getting ready to do
number Of things in line with Italys
grabbing of Fiume and Japan's grab
bing of Chinese territory, and the
squelching of Italy and Japan would
maize bad precedents for our little
territory and trade-grabbing moves.