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Shelton Mason County Journal
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March 4, 1921     Shelton Mason County Journal
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PAGE TWO ?- THE MASON COUNTY JOURNAL NEWLYWEDS CALL THIS WHITE SINGLE THE LOVE NEST This sweet, clean little home in the choice between the two floor white--a five-room single with its phms. pergola porch entrance, strikes the Both plans arrange for a built-in Pullman breakfast room. One large home-nest cord in the breast of many ewlyweds--the only indecision being sleeping room and porch while the other divides it into two sleeping Stick to Home Town Make It Best in State ed; that they endeavor at the same time to make it attractive to the young people and the children, to try and teach them that there is no bet- !ter place in which to live and in which to enjoy life than with their parents and amongst their friends in their own home town antd district. roon]s. The closet space arrangement is particularly well worked out. This home was built from plans furnished by the National Builders' Bureau at Slokane, Wash. I Improve the hotels and restaurants, J no matter how small they may be; let them get a reputation for puting up a first class meal, no matter how shnple and plain it may be; let it be good and appetizing. If your hotel is not adbquate, see that a new one is promoted and built because the tourist travel 'of the future is going to be sufficient to make a first class hotel the, is suitable to the needs of a commuity, pay a reasonable return on the investment. If there is a newspaper in the com- munity, let the business men support it. Don't let its existence depend upon outside advertising., which lures business to other centers, but see to it that it carries every inch of adver- tising that business men and locm 'corporations can stand so that its readers may be educated and inform- ed of the possibilities of doing busi- ness at home. Get your printing .done at home, encourage your local I am going to take the liberty of printery to expand, and to add proper suggesting some of the means by equipment if it does not *have at. which this can be done. Buy your paint, your varnish, the If there is not a live commercial materials and tools required in the organization or other public body in improvements I have suggested, in existence, let the citizens I have re- your home city, and bought by your ferred to immediately see that there dealers from wholesalers in your own, • is one. If the town has only three or, state, and manufactured, if possible, four hundred inhabitants let the bus:- ] within the state. ness men, the clergymen, the school l Form Social Clubs teachers and others get together and' fon a representative committee that Now, as to making the town more desirable as a place in which to live will take up the work which usually ,for the young people. Let this cam- falls to a commercial organization, mittee invite a few of the most prom- apd to go further than that, to cam- irent women in the town and dzstrict mence a movement to make that town as far as they possibly can, the most' to form one or more social clubs by which the women may become ac- attractive in the state. acquainted with each other, may in- Clean Up First. augurate social parties, social teas, There are many ways which will little dances, the dances that are l e cb a corn wholesome, in rivate houses rather suggest themse v s to su - : P mlft T -,ih* -tion ust two or than m public halls, where the chil- -": ...... :,'" ": ;:'--_ &_': a, .... Idren may be safe and enjoy friend nree. Tne palnlng ol me uu.x== and steres that re-uire ,mint the l ships one with another, frlenships 1 cleaning up of ever? yard nd veryl heeh :ne firedaolLore fe- I vacant lot which needs it, the straigh-1 - y l n h re pod anythmg else to keep them m their tenin= of all fences t at a g I- ' " " " hat home towns and {he renewing of all fences t • . . are dilapidated and an eyesore, the l Let t!ae whole commun!.ty, naug- 9lanCing of every front yard with l urae anenC spors, estam,sn enms shrubs, or flowers, and the offering] coul:ts, bowling greens, baseball, and of small prizes for the best improve-I x0oDatl groun([s an nave. me.r ment that has been made during the youngse.'s pmymg az somemmg m year in all matters of this kind. I an orgamzedandhealthy way. Keep Th on, mttee  ' might appoint an their, minds and thek' bodies busy,. Arbor Day and have the schools de-I e.t!aer at work or at play, from day- clare a holiday by which the citizens nght tofar. ..... and children as a whole 'can plant l Ano .nen, .le ea.cn one o;z nese trees and highways running throuhlcommumues mtermmgie wire zneir the town ar(t in beautifying pubS]el neighb.ors,, all having the same or semi-public laces mought, the same :(teas, ¢ne same I don't claim that "this can be done objects and institute an interchange all in one -ear but it can be started  of social features by having combined and if tt progressive movement i dances, comb!ned parties, so that tl.y carried on, it will not be .long before wm act variety anti change to their _l_att a town 's entirely changed and has wee., y ,social lize,, an(t instkue. become a thin of beauty and a de- friendly competition m athletics, ten- light to those "vho live ia it, and to his, etc., between picked groups from those who pass through it. each community. THE SblALLER IT IS, THE BETTER A CHANCE IT HAS TO GROW, ANff THE MORE OF ITS YOUNG PEOPLE WILL STAY IN IT AND PR OSPER The following address before the sponsors for a development movement Corvallis Commercial Club, January such as they have never yet attempt- 18, 1921, by Herbert Cuthbert, execu- tive secretary of the Pacific North- west Tourist Association, points out the weak points of our own 'commun- ity of Shelton. The prosperity of a state as a vhoh depends upon the prosperity of each indavidual part of it. It is not Now, as to Jncreasmg the business of that town. Let every Storekeeper practically throw all his goods out on the siile walk, clean up his store, fix his shelves and his show @indows, paint them, if necessary, and kalso- mine the store, and then put them back in a systemized and methodical manner so, that to his customers and to strangers his store has taken on the appearance and attraqtiveness of any store of its size in the larger Plan Home Amusements Just a word o the farmers of these communities. How many of their children are looking fowcard to leav- ing home for the same cause I have mentioned? I wish I could take some of them into the rural districts" of Endand where in many of the counties, such as Devonshire, for in- stance, the country life is the most f desirable of any life in the Old Coun- try,'whePe the homes are most at-'. tractive and the children have their own tennis 'courts, their own ponies and are engaged by a small remuner- ation to do their own particular work on the farm within reasonable hours. $ufflcient that the larger cities should increase in population and in the vol- ume of business transacted in them. It is of equal, if not greater, impor- sance that every small community in- crease in population, in production and m general business. If every rural community can pro- duce more, can procure more settlers, more residents, it will mean more lo'cal prosperity, a greater buying ower, and will add to the wholesale business aml general commerce of the larger cities, hence the entire state ill advance and prosper. For Community Development It is the aim of the Pacific North- west Tourist Association to develop every portion of the state from with- in as well as from without. There is no better way of doing this than to seek to create a forward,, movement in every community, no matter how small it may be. The stm4ing point fox such a move- rnent ' is to have every person already in the smaller commumties determine to stick to his own home town, to grow up with it, and to become a booster for it. It is betetr to be a lorominent citizen in your own com- munity than to lose your identity in a big city. If we can eradicate fi'om the ninds of the residents, and par- ticularly of the children,- the |dea that _there are greater opportunities, .and that it is pleasanter to live in a large city than in their own town, the foundation of the future prosper- ICy of that town is already laid. There is a grave and fundamental danger not only to the well being of the smaller communities, but to the state as a whole, if this attitude of mind is not Changed, a clanger so great that when it is seriously con- sidered, it is appalling. During nay trb east I heard one speaker make the statement that ninety years ago the population of the United States in the largest 'cit- ies was 4 per cent of the whole, and 95h per cent in the smaller cit- ifies and rural districts. Twenty years ago the largest cities had grown to 33 per cent, while toda] they have 50 per cent. It is est,- mated that if this rate of exodus from the country districts into the larger cities is maintained, in twenty years 80 er cent of the entire pop- ulation will be in the larger 'cities, leaving the rural towns and districts almost without population. He also stated that in a public school in one cities. Let hin sell as far as he can at the same price that the people would have to pay elsewhere. Let him FRIDAY, ]ARCH 4, 192 In these clays of electricity, when by clubbing together farmers that are fairly close to each other may procure electric light, in these clays of the phonograph, when each home may have an orchestra for the little family dance, m these days of the automobile when the whole family can run into a city, even twenty miles distant, to a picture show or otber amusement, in three-quarters of an hour's tim(.', there should be no difllculty in making community life in the st-ties of Oregon and of Wash- ington, and in the province of British Columbia the most desirable and the most attractive of any other life. I have briefly sketched a few of the things which might be done to develop the home r, own and the rural district. Many others will su'gest themselves to my audience and to the people at large. And now, where does this associa- tidn come in in assisting to develop the home town and the rural district from the outside? Will Attract TOurists Why, gentlemen, every time a fam- ily in an automobile, or on foot, or who arrive by train, come into. or passes through that little town, they will fall in love with it, they will say, this is the cleanest, the bright- est, the most attractive town I have been in. I want to stay here a little while, I want to see the surrounding country and eventually they will say, this is where I wan to live. California, Florida, and other tour- ist states don't rely altogether upon their natural scenery for their at-' tractiveness to strangers, and the people of these states know this. They depend upon the home life, the attractiveness of their cities, towns and villas'as to lure the people to stav there and to become permanent residents. Tbe Pacific Northwest Tourist As- sociation is spending a small revenue, compared with the objects for which it exists, in the most' effective pub- licity that is being carried on today in the United States. It is attracting thousands of people every year, both by automobile, by train and'by steam- ship, into Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. It is for us to sell our states while they are here, and there is no better way of selling them than to imuress upon our visit- ors the one truth which we all be- lieve, that there is no other place in the United States or in Canada in which life is so well worth living as it is in Oregon, Washington and British Columbia. If the ideas I have ventured to submit to you are carried out, this fact and this truth will be more emphatic than it has ever been before, and we will soon have a very much larger population and a very much increased prosperity through- out this beautiful land of ours. ' T UNION " '1 Francis Butler has been quite sick' with measles but is slowly conva- lescing. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. GOee and Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Pritchard of Shelton were dinner guests at the Kennedy Tavern ,on Sunday. Mrs. W. A. Nobles entertained the ladies needle Club at her beautiful new home "The Olympic ]Ianor." Wednesday afternoon. Mr. Henry Kruhoffer came in from Bellingham this week and tells us he has come to make Union his future home. Sounds good. We thought we saw streaks of lightning all around Union Saturday and Sunday but come to find out it was only Captain Robinson's new Ford. Thos. Purdy and Henry Kruhoffer have purchased the C. C. Hauptly stock of merchandise and will con- solidate the two stores. Here's wish- in them all kinds of success. stir. and Mrs. J. G. Johnson, Oscar Johnson and Emil Johnson were in Union on Monday. "Mrs. Elizabeth Cain has gone to Seattle for a month's visit with rel- atives and friends. Mrs. M. Kennedy and Mrs. Gordon McKay went to Seattle to celebrate George Washington's birthday, not their own. They report a good time. And still it rams. One dozen Premium or Arrow pen- cils for 40e to anyone bringing this slip on Monday, March 7th. Journal Stationery Shop. I The Best Way The best way to clean your teeth is the natural way; that is, with a care- fully selected polishing sub- stance which is abrasive enough to remove all stains and adhering particles, yet so finely ground as not to scratch the enamel: Such a substance is th basis of NY-DENTA TOOTH PASTE I( cleanses right. • ' TOO MUCH PROGRESS to pay the bill depresses the man who has put the savings out of his labor into a home or has invested hi :apital in a business or factory Some optimist has asserted that or fill; when he finds himself pen- "the first hundred years are the al: J through excessive taxation, he hardest." His dictum cannot be dis- is impelled to' the conclusion that puted, because nobody INes long progress is a luxury which he would enough in these fast times to see willingly forego for the sake of hav- how things go in the second hun- inl the ease and comfort of the days dred years. But refutation appears wt his community was less "pro- to have come from Jeffersontown, Ky., which at the age of 126 years as a munidipality, has petitioned to have its charter revoked so that it may revert to the simplicity of vil- lage government and thus shake off what has become burdensome taxa- tion, accumulated through some of the processes which go under the name of "'progress." Citizens to put matterc onciselv, prefer to ge along with fewer of {he costly elaborations and thus escape taxation which has reached a bulk that bows their backs. Since no reasonable obje'ction can be raised to granting the revocation of the charter, there probably will be presented to the rest of the country the spectacle of a small city revert- ingto the simplicity of village or- ganization and administration, and the change may prove so satisfactory that other tax-burdened communities will be tempted to follow. Seattle and most of the other cities of the country which have disting- uished themselves bv their progress- iveness, are a long way" from the end of the first hundred years and the inhabitants thereof, it may be assumed, hope the first hundred years are to be harder than following cen- turies. Of course the taxpayers who are now wobbling under the "tax bur- den will have passed away yhen the century ends, so that what comes after 'ill not directly cancers them; but tbe person of speculative mind, or who has a liking for figures, may' divert himself with what the tax rate will be twenty-five or fifty years from now if each succeeding admin- istration keeps the pace that has been maintained in recent years. If continued extensions are being made to municipal enterprises, and great power plants, water service and oth- er activities in the management of which there is 10, 20 or 50 per cent tincture of politics and more or less general inefficiency, the inevitable re- sult will be proportionate increase in taxation to the point of actual con- fiscation. There isn't mueh consolation for the individual or the municipality in the assurance that the first hundred years are the hardest. And there must come a time, in the near future, I when the citizens of Seattle will feel as the citizens of Jeffersontown feel about the desirability of hving the products of progress at a cost which takes much of the Joy out of living, rat last out of owning property. ogress is cesirable; it is admirable when it is brought about without burdensome expenditure; but when the price of progress is so high that gressive."--Post-Intelligencer. BEN SILVERMAN Modern Custom Tailor You may now have your suits made to your measure right here in my shop. I am $carrying a full line of Detmer woolens and in- vite you to step in and look these goods over. I invite your patronage. @ Select cloth and have your suit ftted to your taste. My ears of tailoring experience place at your service. € Workmen Bldg. SHELTON, WASHINGTON BECOME AN Aulo, Truck, Tractor Mechanic Big opportunities offered by these rapidly growing industries. Also on farm you can reduce costs and get more out of your automotive equipment. Enroll in SEATTLE Y. M. C. A. AUTOMOTIVE SGHOOL (Day and Evening) One of 75 Y. M. C. A. Auto Schools, with nationally standard- ized equipment and instruction. Standard motors, sectioned chassis and selected electrical and machine shop equipment. Three fully equipped laboratories and repair shop. COURSES:-- 1. General course. 2. Ignition, starting, and lighting course. 3. Machine shop course. Expert, experienced instructors, whose pmTose is to give each man the bes individual service possible.. Small classs10 to 12 men to a teacher. "RUN FOR MEN, NOT FOR MONEY, AND AL- WAYS MOST SERVICE FOR LEAST MONEY." All of Y. M. C. A. privileges--gymnasium, swimming, so'cial and use of facilitiesfree. Dormitory rooms in association building, with homelike sur- roundings and influences, open to students at special rates. For catalogue and infornmtion, write Room 216. UNITED Y. M. C. A. SCHOOLS FOURTH AVENUE AND MADISON STREET, SEATTLE You'll Find Them Here Or aim is to carry everything in the Station- ery line. Among other things our stock includes: Albums, Gummed Labels of the smaller cities .all the boys and cant an up-to-date line of goods, girls who contemplated remaining even though his quantities may be there always were asked to put up very small, but wherever he has a their hands. Fifteen per cent oft hem small line of goods, let him put the did, He asked those who contemplat- greatest possible stress on the fa'ct ed at some future time leaving their I that he can procure in the short#st home town and district to live in the I possible time anything that he does larger cities to raise their hands, and not happen to have in stock, just as 5 per cent of them raised their hands,flwell as if he people themselves, and :He also stated that the business of/much better in fact, ordered it from thesernral districts, through the ac-/the mail order house. tivzit.ieti s of the mail Order houses, was! ......... , • ] JUlIU up ommunuy going to the larger cities not in their own state, but to other states of the . Wherever possible let the store Union, in the same proportion, keeper put someone younger than _ _' .... himself, or some other person, behind e¢ome name uoosers h counte ^ ,. ' t e r for as many hours, as uur association wisnes to inaugu- possible during the day and let him rate a campagin throughout this state lrive out am_angst the farmers and and the state of Washington that will country residents, make their ac- stop the exodus of population and of quaintance, tell the that he has an bumness, and I believe that remedies up-to-date, attrative store, that to can be applied which will effectually buy from him means the upbuilding do this. . .... of the community in which they live, I have atreacty auggese(l one mean and that more prosperity in their com- .--and that fib by having the citizen munity means more prosperity for m.emselves ecome more loyal ana t]e people.he is calHng.upon, the in- tngger Doosers zor me F name u)wn. crease m the value oIcne)r real ea- I suggest that they, m turn, cam- tate and of their holdings; so that he mence a campaign in their towns for and they 'can be one in the Up'build - a cleaner, a more attractive, a more ing of the trade and business of up-to-date town, and that ,they be the their own community. . . There is nothing that has destroyed country life more than to make the children work from daylight to dark without any hope of remuneration, and without any home amusements or recreation. Fir Drug Store 'Once a Trial--Always Nyal' DICKINSON'S GARAGE carries a complete line of Tires, Tubes and Accessories, epairing and Overhauling at reasonable rates. Agents for the "DORT" car. RIGHT ON THE HIGHWAY Hoodsport, Washington Bibles, Books of all Kinds Brunswick Phonographs Phonograph Records and Needles Crepe and Tissue Papers Dennison Goods Eversharp Pencils Fiction Filing Supplies Fountain Pens Greeting Cards Inks Paste Office Necessities Paper, all kinds Pencils Pens Sheet Music Stationery Typewriter Paper Typewri[er Ribbons Woodstock Typewriters Wall Paper Journal Stationery Shop