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Newspaper
Pendleton Eagle Valley News
Location
Pendleton, Oregon, United States of America
Date
Jul 17, 1913
Page
4
At city hall the friends of commission government for Pen Pendleton meet to plan one united step to have the new charter voted on again by the people. A draft charter will be submitted via initiative and a special election is likely. Unity among movement forces is urged to avoid defeat.
Editorial argues that arrest of I W W speakers in Portland upheld public order on streets and condemns anarchic rhetoric while stressing law applies to all, rich or poor, to maintain balance amid Balkan War power politics driven by postwar spoils disputes.
The article argues that Montenegro Serbia and Albania resist ceding Adriatic ports and territories fueling a new war. It notes Bulgaria’s unchanged share after Ottoman victory and calls for redistribution, while contrasting allied motives with racial religious tensions. In Cleveland a commission studies popular motion pictures and their effects on youth based on 1,600 student essays.
Walter F. Willcox, a noted statistician for New York health authorities, asserts that married men live longer than bachelors. He argues marriage brings discipline, and bachelors tend to ill health or wild habits. The debate resurfaces as a longstanding, unsettled subject with witty remarks and cautious conclusions.
George Clarke, a negro minstrel, confronted a lawyer during testimony. Asked if he is in the minstrel business he replies he is proud of it as better than his father's calling. When asked his father was a lawyer, the court erupts in laughter.
President Wilson closes his se rves with The Liberation of a People’s Vital Energies, defining liberty as a widened and deepened freedom that matches modern American life. He argues for restoring government control by unlocking lawful enterprise, unfettering energies, and energizing public vigor.
A survey of articles on governance and industry topics includes David Starr Jordan on interlocking directorates linking war and imperialist schemes, Arthur W. Page profiling War Secretary Garrison, Samuel P. Orth judging Germany’s state-led model, Harriet White Fisher Andrew as an ironmaster, Dr. Samuel P. Forbes on tuberculosis, E T Allen on Northwest forestry, Dana Gatlin on America’s amusement industry, and Franklin Fisher honoring nine patriotic inventors who served the government.
A playful riddle answer about corn as a meal option. It imagines twelve ears transforming corn into a complete dish, highlighting humor over culinary reality.
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