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The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
AROUND III CIRCLE

We recall no swing around the circle OF tins country
That has boon productive of the results hoped for by its
swingers. There was Andy Johnson. His was a doleIui anu
as he was himself. There have been many others. mr Dldine'
a speaker of peculiar magnetism and great peison': :
tr;hd Il and he lost ont BRYAN tried it and drew immense
crowds, but he didn't draw the White House.
People are queer. They run to see and near eieDlae A
The result is that the celebrity thinks 1t Is eVioence - 49,
~ hin, moi for b;e nrominence or the office he holds. There
is where they miss it, too. Wilson has generahy d srea'
crowds, as any president would have. But he will make mourning
by it. The senators are to decide. Already me! y 10 ~
aolnood With nrona oand;st letters that a further bombardment
hy the same or other writers will amount to nothing.
But Mr.. Wilson enjoys to the full the apparent aooraton'
1t is to him a very acceptable form OF recognluon- riis' oppo-
siton TO the leag,le was nil. Then it was a little sedluon. Tnen
ii was more apparent than real. Then 1T was partlsahsnlp'
doomed to fail. Then it called for a trip across the ceuntfy.
And after the trip it will be where it is now, II 0 more So
as Mrs. Darlington would say.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
AN EXAMPLE

The example of Winnipeg is still fresh in memory for the
emulation of the r~ed-blooded ciizenry of any other COM
munity threatened with a general sympathetic strike, such as
has been threatened at various points. Winnipeg was tied up"
as no place outside of Russia probably ever was. Policemen
struck, firemen struck, and the transportation, lighting and
heating services were shut off together with the closing OF
industry ofevery kind. The walkout of the bakers reduced the
bread supply, and milk was allowed to reach the city only by
the consent of the strike leaders. Members of the city gov
eminent as well as small politicians lent a hand to the re-
bellion-for that was what it amounted to-and for a time it
looked as if there were not people enough in Winnipeg out
side the unions-which We're in the hands of radicals and l. w.
w. crowd-and not in sympathy with them to raise even a
fl eble protest at the outrage, to say nothing of quelling the
disorder and rescuing the city from chaos.
But there were enough after all, and among those who
answered the call of a stout-hearted mayor for active service
were a thousand Canadian war veterans. Winnipeg came
through the experience in heroic shape, after the decent ele-
ment was modified. 1t was quickly discovered that that ele-
ment was in the majority. With its fighting blood aroused. it
made short work of the vicious agiators and their weak fol
lowing.
A general strike, of course, is bound to be unsound at the
core. 1t presents an ominous front, but manifestly any suffer
ing that Is brought on by such tactics must be shared to some
degree by the strikers themselves and their families. Anarchy,
left to run its course, would work its own cure. But no self
respecting community would permit it to run long. Winnipeg
crushed it. Now Boston has crushed it. Other American COM
munities will crush it if necessary.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
WE siiLl. BELIEVE, IN OWNERSHIP

We are assured in many ways that not all the railroad men
think so well of the Plumb plan, since it has been discussed.
and that some of them do not think of it at all. Among a group
of five the other day, as reported in indianapolis, not one would
90 more than smile at the suggestion. That is encouraging, for
the Plumb plan as an Industrial proposition is not as sound as
the Bryan free silver plan of q generation ago was sound
finance. Both involve regulations to which the conscience of
America has not yet been reduced, whatever NAV have hap
pened to the conscience of Russia under the Germanized Lenine.
The American people still believe in ownership of things
and they respect the owners and most of all do they respect
those owners who have saved their money. instead of living
riotously and who have acquired a little cottage even if it has
no fig tree. Ownership of that kind and of other kinds is the
basis OF the strength OF the American nation. And the Ameri-
can people are not going to repudiate that policy because some
hare-brained lawyer in Chicago has thought out another plan
of doing the same old thing that has been forbidden since the
ten commandments were handed down to Moses.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
LACKING THE SENSE OF SQUIRRELS

The new sociaiisiic party continues to announce that no
one who derives any income from rent or interest can be per-
mued to belong with them. We take it that they are ready
to hang. the man who does not spend all as fast as he makes
ii. The man who saves a part of his earnings, instead of
spending all for riotous living, might get ahead, he might have
q few hundred dollars in the bank, or he might put it into a
house, but interest ON money saved or money invested in a
house is a criminal practice in the eyes of the communists.
1t is unnecessary now to call attention to the fact that these
human beings have not as much sense OF providence as the
squirrels of the forest or the bees in the hives, for the squirrels
gather stores of nuts in the fall and the bees collect honey
while the flowers are in bloom. They are proposing to go back
to the stages of civilization that even the savages OF America
had outgrown when Columbus found them. And yet the doc
trines of these new tangled thinkers are supposed to be pro-
eressive i'm human affairs.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
WE WON THE WAR-SO DID THEY.

Cord;pal Morc;ar makes no fuss about it. He says that the
American army won the war. That is what we not only De
lieye. but what we think history will record as the last verdict.
But we must use that phrase with carefulness. we must
Understand what i'll means and what it does not mean. IL does
not mean that we went over there and whipped the armies VI
the kaiser, but it does mean that w e addeu uat ~
the allied armies that made that whipping possible. we dd
not whip the German armies in actual fighting, althoueh we
showed them how we could fight. No, we did II by po'enuai
fighting. The records Of the conferences with the German gen
erals reveal that it was the on-coming of the Americans that
took the hope out of them. They could not counteract tnose
100000 a month Of new men. They quit, and that is why we
did not have to do more fighting and thai is why VIC LOSE only
$4,000. where France had lost nearly twenty-five times as many
men.
Nor does it mean that England and France and Italy and
the lesser nations did not win the war also. We won it in the
last instance, but they had kept it won during almost four years
before we became an effective fighting force, or at least they
kept it winable. AS a matter of fact the French won 1T in the
first battle of the Marine, in the autumn months OF 1914. After
the German repulse it was never again possible for them to
come back in full force. And the French won it again at
Verdun. ta
And the British won it, too. They won it with their navy
every year and every day of the war. If it had not been for
that navy we would not even yet have become an effective
force over there.
And Italy won the war when Italy held back the German
hordes that might have entered France by the back door while
her armies were still bleeding on the Aisne and the Meuse and
the Somme. And even little Belgium won the war, it is pos
sible 10 believe, when she delayed the troops that were so eager
to gel at the throat of France before France could get ready to
fight. And the Russians won the war before they We're be-
trayed at Tannenberg and that by their own generals and
munitioners, giving to Won Hindenburg a military reputation
where he was entitled to no more than a reputation as a
butcher of men led into a shambles. IS.
In fact, all won the war, and each won the war. 1T needed
the forces and the resources of each in turn to win it. If we
We're the last straw that broke the camels back, we rust u"
modest enough to admit that we Were only the last straw and a
great deal of burden had to be placed on the back of that brute
before that last straw coulG l'rHak It. 1t is well AMI true and
proper enough for the Belgian cardinal, who was himself one
Of the most heroic figures in the war, to say these gallant and
generous things while he is a guest of America, but it must
not puff us up tosf1ach We had allies in the war who tough.
four years Ion, CT than we did and who sacrificed thousands
each where we were called upon 10 sacrifice only hundreds.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27
KEEP THESE FOREIGNERS

An all-American exposition is to be held in Chicago and
one of the objects is to hold those foreign-born Americans who
have been thinking of returning to their OWN countries. There
are said to be another million and a half Of them. We are
finding out that we cannot afford to let them go. We need
them and we are going to try to make them see that they need
rs. We need their labor and we need the products.
We have believed for some time that we would come to
this. There are a great many undesirable foreigners in this
country. But they are men who live in the slums and who
make speeches on soap boxes along the lines of bolshevism.
The men who are in the industries are desirable, no matter
where they were born and whether they can speak American
or not. During the war we were often so exasperated at the
conduct of some of them that we did not stop to discriminate
and we denounced them all. Now we are becoming of a differ
ent state of mind.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27

II congress is going to put a limit on storage what will the
packers do with the hogs if they come in a bit faster than the
consumers want to buy them, as is often the case? Will thew
tell the farmers to haul their hogs back home and continue to
feed them on high priced corn after they have fattened prop
crly? And then what would the farmers saw about the mack
ers? You see there are several angles to a lot of these ques-
tons that do not always concern the wise politicians who pre-
scribe laws for business interests.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27

If you ship anything nowadays it is safest if you send a
man along with it to see that it gets there. There isn't any one
else who is going TO care much about the matter and if part of
your shipment is stolen all you can do is to pile up your claims
with millions of others that have been piling up ever since
the benign government began to do things for us.
The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-27

With a piano player at the head of the Polish government
and a poet heading the Italian armies into Fiume, who says that
artists are too tempermental for other things? Or, perhaps,
these are wholly tempermental times.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22
STATE AID ASSURED
SAYS W. |. THOMPSON

To the Voters of Umatilla County: -.
AS a member of the State Highway
Commission. 1 have been asked to
state its attitude If the proposed band
issue on the part OF this county carr
ries
am not in position to commit the
other members of the Commission,
but will pledge myself as a member
of that Commission to work for co..
operation on the Iart Of the state as
outlined in the proposed plan for the
distribution of the bond money. 1
have received assurances from tho
other mer'iters OF the Commission that
they will cooperate and that they will
take into consideration what this
county will do If the bonds carry.
feel satisfied that IL additional
funds are provided by the Legislature
for expenditure by the Commission
that there will be no question but
that the plan OF cooperation adopted
will be carried out. The Legislature
appears be of one mind to provide
ten million additional funds to 10
placed at the disposal of the state
Highway Commission.
fSlgned.l w. L. THOMPSON.
state Highway Commissioner.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22
NOW OR NEVER
IS CASE FOR
THIS COUNTY
C. P. Strain Pleads for Ac-
ton Because State Bond
ing Limit Nearly Reached
STATE LIMITED BY
THE CONSTITUTION.
After Coming $1O,00O,0O0 is
Gone it Will be Too
Late.
G. p. STRAIN

County Assessor and Executive
Secretary Roads Comniittee.l
The Ten Million Bonding Act Of This
Legislators and tho Six Million Act
OF Two Years Ago Practically Elx-
haust State Credit For Roads.
Section Z Of Article XII of the state
constitution was amended in 1919 by
vote of the people fixing two per cent
Of the assessed valuation of the state
as the extreme limit of state bonds
for highway construction.
Including the ten million dollar
bonding act now pending. and which
wflI surely be passed. there is sixteen
millions of state bonds virtually au-
thorized. The assessed valuation OF
the state is less than one billion at
this time and will probably fall In the
near future through exemption ce
notes and accounts from taxation and
the general decline of values due to a
return of pre-war prices. The six
teen millions then. closely approach
es the future road bonding limit OF
the state The State Highway COM
mission now offers us $5T6,0O0 OF
state aid which we can get BY @dopt-
ing our county bonding bill on March
T. II we adopt the bill we can meet
the states demands and get the state
money. If we defeat the county
bonding bill the s5Ts. 600 of state mons
ey will be afportioned and expended
elsewhere. in which case the prc5a-
bilities are the fun bonding resources
OF the state would be exhausted be-
fore we could make provision through
a new and later bonding act TO match
dollars with the state.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22
FACTS VOTERS MAY WISH TO KNOW BEFORE .
CASTING VOTES AT ROAD BOND ELECTION
Umatiila County Road Program

Umatiila County Road Program
Special election March 4, 1919, to
vote on a Bond Issue of S1,050.00O.
The sale of the bonds. if voted, and
the execution of the program to be
contingent on the state cooperating as
promised.
Highway Convention of January IS,
1913. Held at Pendleton, Oregon.
Delegates Present.
Adams. T. Lieuallen and J. o.
Hales.
Athena-H. A. Barrett and Frank
Berlin.
Echo-F. t. George and Joseph
Cunha. 9.
Columbia Frank Waugaman and
Walter Blessing
F'reewater--J. r.. Saylor, w. E. Put,
nam and II. s. Murray.
Helix-Carl Engdahl and lie Roy
Ponland.
Holdman-R. o. Earnhart.
Hermiston-J 7. Mcknight and ],
F. Mcknight.
Mllton-H. NJ, Cockburn and S. A,
Miller.
EenuletOn-N. Z. A AOhSl SAIL
George Baer II. j. Taylor and ]. A,
Fee.
Pilot Rock. n. Burgess, C. G.
Miller and X. G. Warner.
Stanfield-R. a. Holte, NJ. c. Bar
ager and ]. NJ. Kyle.
Ukiah-I. r. Lawrence and james
Mossie
umatilla-w. Dobler and A. E,
Mcfarland.
Umapine-Lou Hodgen and Lane
Hoon.
weston-F. d. Watts. G. w. Stages,
Sim Gully and G. De Graw.
Farmers Jrnion-W. w. Harrah, A.
J. Gin and r. Bissinger.
Road Designated in Bill.
ing laws money secured through the
sale of county road bonds must be
expended on each particular road and
subdivision of road designated in the
bonding bin and not elsewhere.
Advisory Committee.
In pursuance to a motion adopted
by the convention of January i6, the
county court appointed committee
to advise the court in all road matters
incident to the road program adopted.
The committee to he composed of one
member from each road district ana
one from each city in the county, is as
follows:
No. 1 CCottonwood)-J. f. Casper.
No , (N. Miiton)-D. c. Sander
son and Lou Hodgen.
No. Is. MiIton)-C. L. Demaris
and II. NJ. Cockburn.
No. CWeston)-S. ], Gully and
Clark Wood.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22

No. (Mountain) )-Richard Morri-
son.
No. SO (Athena)-Chas. Kirk, b.
B. Richards and H. A. Barrett.
No. 10 (Adams)-J. o. Hales and j.
T. Lieuallen.
No. IL (Helix)-Carl Engdahl and
Carl Kupers.
No. IL (Vansycle)-W. B. Nuckols
Nd. 13 (Juniper)-Hugh Bell.
No. 14-(Union)-R O, Earnhart.
No. 10 (F'ulton)-R. ]. Cresswen.
No. 16 CYoakum) Bond.
No. Il CUmatilla)-W. ]. Dobler
and A. L. Mcfarland.
No. 1S (Echo)--w. ]. Wattenburg-
er and w w. Howell.
No. 10 CHogue) Thomas Heddle.
No. 20 (McKay) c, Dunn.
No. II (Vinson) k. G. Warner.
No. 20 CPilot Rookie. j. Miller.
L. C. Scharpf and John Wynn.
No. 23 (Wnlow Springs)
Ely.
No. "a (Uklah)-I. r.. Laurance.
James Mossie and A. S. QUAINT of AL
bee.
No. 25 CMeacham)- u. d. Casey and
W. B. INOSSs
No. 26 (Gibbon)--J. F. Thompson.
No. 80 CProspect)-Frank Hold
man.
No. 80 CFairview)-AlexM McCorken
No. So CFerndale)--J. b. Saylor..
No. 5-(Goodwin)-H, ]. Taylor,
No. Sc CHermistonl-J. F. Nc
Naught and E. L. Jackson.
No. 81 IN. Holdman)-A. F. May.
No. SO On. GiTlnand) d)-Cliff Bellin-
ger.
No. 80 IS Juniper)-E. J. King.
No. 40 CE. Pilot Rock)-Walter
Wegner.
No. Al Cstanfield)-M. C. Barager.
w T. Reeves.
No. AZ Is. Reservation)-E. L.
Swartzlander.
No. as On. Reservation)-L~ L.
Mann.
No. A (Colum9ia)-Frank wauga-
man.
There was appointed by the court
an executive committee and an eX-
ecutive committee and an executive
secretary to assist the court in pre-
senting the road program to the elec-
tors of the county at a special cleo
tion which has been called for March
18th. 1919. The polls win be open a.,
the usual voting places from s o'clock
a m. to S p. m.
Executive Committee.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22
ON National Highway.

The Pendleton to Morrow county
line road down the Umatilla river via
Nolin, Echo. Stanfield. Hermiston and
Umatilla, and the Pendleton to Wash
ington state line road through SAKE,
Havana. Adams, Athens, Weston, Blue
Mountain, Milton, F'reewater and
Ferndale will constitute a link seventy
miles long in a great national highway
leading through Spokane and the yell
lowstone Park. to the east.
The road from Pendleton to the
WASHINGTON state line is to be paved.
That portion of 1t between Milton and
the Washington state line viii serve
as market road of commanding i'm
portance. It here passes through the
center of the wonderful Milton Free
water fruit district where smooth
roads are so important in hauling the
tender fruit to market in light wa
CONS and trucks. other portions of
this Pendleton to Washington state
line road will serve mainly as a road
for local and tourist travel.
The road from Pendleton down the
river to the Morrow county line Is to
be graded and graveled at this time.
II will serve a double purpose. II
will give a large section of the coun-
try on both sides of the river a con-
venient outlet over water grade to
trading centers, and win constitute a
portion OF the Columbia Highway.
II this road program is adopted by
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22

Thompson, State Highway Commits
sioner, that the state of oregon pro-
poses to match S576. 600 with Umat-
tIlla county; and that the federal
government has $4,000 to match with
the state. which will be used in Uma-
tilla; and that, unless the county meets
the states proposition, this money
VIII be withdrawn to be re-apportioHeo
and expended elsewhere. This re-
minds us that, when Shakespeare said,
There Is a tide in the affairs of men,
which taken at its flood. leads on to
fortune" he uttered a truth which ap-
piles to the road situation in Umatilla
county at this time.
Commissioner Thompson Informs
US that according to preliminary sur
veys made by the state highway de-
partment, 81 ,676, 900 will construct all
the roads designated in the caption of
this article. and that the respective
sums indicated therein will be pro-
vided by the state from the funds of
the state and nation as stated. The
roads provided for In this program ag
gregate 226 miles In length and reach
entirely across the county from east 70
west and from north TO south.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22
People Want Highways.
State to Mate

We are nOw InfOtmed by W. I.
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22

L. Rodgen, Umapine; s. A. Miller,
Milton; L. C. Rogers, Weston.
NJ. r. Chessman, secretary, elected
by the committee.
c. p. STRAIN, executive secretary, APP
pointed by the county court
Bond Money to BE Expended ON the
Excerpts from County Road Law
Under Which Bond Money
Will BE Spent
Chapter 29s. General Laws of Ore
gon, 1917. under Section 20, provides
as follows
Except in case of emergency. or
the determination by the county court
to use convict labor, all work esti-
mated by the roadmaster to cost
$4,000 or more for the job or project
shall be let to contract. but work so
estimated to cost less than $4,000 or
in case Of emergency, or for the main
tenance of county roads and bridges.
or as provided by Section % of this
act. or the use of convict labor as pro,
vided by law, may. in the discretion
of the court. he done by day work
under the direction of the county
court and supervision of the county
roadmaster: provided, however. that
any county owning and operating its
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East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22
c. r. STRAIN SHOWS WHY UNA TLLI.A COUNTY
SHOULD VOTE ROADS BONDS ON MARCH Z
County Court Viii Sell
Bonds Only AS Needed By
Demands of Road Building
tho voters Of UmatllIa County:

Umatila County:
to be voted March
the county of Umatia county, pledge
the Highway Comm
value Of the proceeds
he bonds
competent
will faith
the will sell
the bonds only as needed entered
effort expedite the work with
efficiency outlined
provement may be "a
c. MARSH Judgea
G. Ii DUNN1SG. county Commissioner
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22

Thomas Campbell, Hermiston. pres
ident: F. T. George, Echo: F, s, lie
Grow. Athena; y. Burgess. Pilot
Rock: d. II. Nelson. Pendleton; w,
". Harrah. Farmers Union; Leroy
Penland. Helix; ]. NJ. Kyle, Stanfield; /;
East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1919-02-22
a Market Road

The Pendleton TO Cold Springs roao
Is pre- eminently market road. II
leads across the west central portion
OF our wheat belt and Will give many
producers an outlet through the Co
lumbia river to tide water. 1t is the
history of rates, too, that river trans
portation has a powerful bearing upon
them, not merely at the point touched
at a navigable river. but also in the
back country for miles into the inter.
lor
The road leading from Pilot Rock
south through Nye. Albee. and UlIiah
to the Grant county line is another
market road of great importance and
which is urgently needed. other than
public roads that vast stretch of terri
tory embracing southern Umatilla ana
northern Grant counties has no means
of reaching market. The existing
road does not meet the demands upon
It at all. 1t was not laid out original
ly upon proper grades and now it is
worn out. Those people out there are
worse Isolated through lack of trans
portation facilities than almost any
other people in this republic. Their
situation in this respect has not Inn
proved since pioneer days. Not onls
for thoir sake. but for your own, 1t is
highly expedient that relief be granted
them. Their fine dairy products and
timber furnishes supplies
which our cities and farms need.
The Havana to Helix road and the
school to .Umapine road
are both market roads. reaching ex-
treme'y fertile and productive dis
tricts.
The Pcndleton TO Meacham roa"
win form a portion of trunk high
way for summer travel and at the
same time answer local demands as a
market road for the south reservat-
tion and Cabbage Hill.