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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (May 14, 1920)
THE POLK COUNTY POST diBiiaiiiniiBifl Th« Next War IN THE SPRING (By Minnie Burbank Harding) I'd like to know what gets inside a feller, in the spring! There’s something breaks away in ntered a« second class matter March 26, 1918, at the postoffice at him, an' tugs like everything! Independence, Oregon, under the Act of Murch 3, 1879. When I first spied the crocuses a- strugglin' toward the light, The way that somethin' pushed Editor and Publisher. CLYDE T. ECKER them up, reminded me a sight, Of those queer things inside o’ me a- Subscription Rates: try in’ to get out; It kinder feels like gladness, an’ THREE MONTHS 50c. you think you want to shout. SIX MONTHS $1.00 But when you think it over it’s sad things you’re glad tfbout! ONE YEAR $1.50 Uulees otherwise provided tor, subscriptions will he stopped at expiration It’s great to see the flowers bud, an’ leaves come on the trees, But you know you can't ever be nor Alibis for the profiteers, the big thieves and other od such things as these! pests that humans must suffer because they be are very It’s lots of fun to count the robins one by one, frequent and we presume this is the reason that evidence An’ cornin’, watch the time grow longer for from the bible in proof that the devil is not as bad as he the settin' of the sun; is painted can be submitted now with perfect propriety. But it sorter makes you solemn!, when you wonder ’bout it all, The flowers that die and bloom again, and die again next fall! If Hi Johnson is winning by the votes of pro-Ger An’ to know you’re most important, mans, as it is alleged, the little old United States must though you’re weak, an' poor have been a sub-station of Berlin’s all this time and we an’ small. Published every Friday at Independence, Oregon. (Our Dumb Animals) The world is not satisfied. No sooner are we thru with the most appaling war of history than we must begin totalk of another. If this last one was “hell," the next, j we are told, will be "heH" raised to the nth power. Here in our own ; country safer from attack than any other and where we thought we had been doing something which ; would end the mad insanity of war, plans are now being discussed to spend $100,000,00 for military train ing, and to put our military estab- j lishment on a $500,000,000 annual basis. The chairman of the* Com mittee on Military Affairs in the j House of Representatives is talking | already about ttie next war, which | he says will cost from $50,000,000,- j 000 to $75,000,000,000. We have n en seen estimates made for what are called necessary preparations for this next war, liable practically to exterminate the race, which would mean that for every dollar used for the expenses of our government, one half of it would be for military purposes. ■I I IB I I !■ ! I IB I I '■ ! I !■ ! I !■ ! I !■ ! I !■ ! I W I IW I I M 1 1^' ' '■ ( I I W i m M V I IM I III 8 Years Old To-Morrow This bank opened for business May 15, 1912, and following is a condensed statement of our business on date of the last call from the Superintendent of Banks, May 4, 1920. We feel very grateful to our many friends who have made this fine showing possible. Resources Loans, Overdrafts, Bonds and W arrants__ $267,224.72 Banking House, Furniture and Fixtures......... 17,800.00 Cash and due from other Banks..................... 78,322.62 $363,347.34 Liabilities Capital Stock ...................................................$ 25,000.00 Surplus and Undivided Profits..................... 7,018.88 Deposits ............................................................. 331,328.46 $363,347.34 To/tQ j FARMERS STATE BANK Independence Oregon The President should negotiate a The Profiteering Epidemic separate peace with the Senate be C. W. IRVINE, President. fore he opens negotiations for a (Albany Democrat) J. B. PARKER, Vice President. separate peace with Germany.— There is no question that labor, Norfolk Virginian-Pilot. C. G. IRVINE, Cashier. in general, is slacking, doing less GLEN C. SMITH, Asst. Cashier. The Post does not anticipate that the President’s work than usual, demanding pay letter will effect the Oregon senatorial situation to any with little regard to the service ren B. JONES great extent. A greater part of the opposition to the re- dered, and often with little regard election of Senator Chamberlain among the rank and file to the actual increase in the cost Candidate for the Republican Nom " ■ I I iiBiiiBiiiHiiHiiBiiiaiiHiiieiiiaiiiniiBiiBiiniiiaiiHiiiaiiniiaiiiBiiiHiiniiBiiiBiiiaif of the Democratic party comes from his continual advo of living. The country is suffering, ination for Secretary of State particularly in the vital building cacy of a vicious military service in which the youth of trades, from a tyranny of labor. the land will be compelled to “ soldier,” thus creating in It is natural and easy to criticize YOUR SUPPORT APPRECIATED this country military aristocracy and a system that organized labor for this. And yet says the G o o d Ju d g e (Paid Advertisement.) would eventually ride to a fall presumably at the cost of there are, as usual, two sides to the question. Why has labor embarked FOR JOINT REPRESENTATIVE millions of lives. You get a lot more genu on this relentless career of profit ine satisfaction from a lit eering? Because capital has been, I hereby announce my candidacy tle of the Real Tobacco 00*00*0«0000*0000000<XKX)0000 »HV'/liXW'OOOfluOOOWXKp and is, profiteering. Chew than you ever got for the office of Joint Representa It was the big war profits of Amer tive for Polk and Lincoln counties, from the old kind. ican business men that gave work subject to the will of the Repub THE RHYMING SUMMARIST You don’t need a fresh men the idea. Seeing how much lican Voters at the primary election chew nearly as often, money was being made by their em May 21st. the good, rich, real to A. G. Williams hits the hill on high ployers and exaggerating it in GEO. T. GERLINGER. bacco taste is so last many cases, they “wanted theirs. And believes it is a duty (Paid Advertisement.) ing. That’s why it They are now getting theirs with a To push the Chautauqua o’er the top, costs less to use this class vengeance, in nearly all the skilled In Latin, "Sig soc tooty” ; of tobacco. trades; but employers, jtoo, as ta. FARMS AND ACREAGE WANTED W e’re with A1 in his bravo fight Any man who uses the real rule, are still doing the same. And if our purse is caving, Tobacco Chew will tell you It is now one big orgy of profit For real service and results list that. eering on the part of capital and your property with us. We have To melt the ice labor both. six salesmen with machines. We And get the price, Put up in two styles In most talk about profiteering, inspect and photograph your prop We will cut the shaving. the critics think only of dealers, erty and advertise extensively, and ! particularly of retailers. They are have a demand for property at all j RIGHT CUT is a sh ort-cu t tobacco Look at the bunch of pretty girls, only a part of the unfortunate sys times. Fred W. German Co., 7321 W-B CUT is a long fine-cu t tobacco Who for a Max are going, tem. Where is the manufacturer Chamber of Commerce Bldg., Port who is not making money today, de land, Oregon. 4-3 Now if we were a nice young man, Weyinan'-BT'tJtOh 'C o m p a n y . 1107 B r o a d w a y ..N c 'W YÓWdCìty spite the high wages he has to pay W e’d try our hand at beauing; —making far more than he ever Sadie wants a new bathing suit made before the war? Head the But with prices upward flocking, corporation reports. There is case For economy’s sake after case of unprecedented percent DO YOU LIKE SAUSAGE ages earned, and on top of the I A. G. Williams, Prop. § One she’ll make ■ abnormal dividend rates, stock div and does sauspge like you? From a last year’s stocking. All kind of barbering ■ isions amounting often to 100 or 200 If so, you will be fond of per cent of the investment. These done end satisfaction | The baseball boys are running wild our sausage. Our country stock dividends, too, thanks to re guaranteed. L a d i e s ’ | And stealing many bases, cent Supreme Court decision, are un pork sausage is mighty shampooing and mas- “ touched by the excess profits tax; They hit the horsehide on the nose saging given special at good and fine in flavor. We though they are built of excess prof And at the umps make faces; tention. Shine in con its. want you to try our hams It will soon be too hot to work Everybody profiteers—except the nection. and bacon also—the choic And w e’d take up real estating, unorganized salaried person, the miRiiiniiN uwiniiiwiiniinininniii But lack the wind, est and best. man or woman of fairly fixed pay or income, but of whose hide come, So here w e’re ninned, in one way or another the extor Its nix on dissipating. TALLEY B 8ILETZ tionate profits of all the rest TIME TABLE People are probably no worse now • ♦ • • « O O O O O O O O O O O 0 * 0 0 O O O O O O v , . . I j v K X J O O O O O O O O O O O O Ô O 'X X i O O O O than they were before—no more MILLER A SMITH Effective April 1, trains will grasping or cruel. Human nature run aa follows: does not change much. But there is ELECTION, MAY 21 No. 8 arrives from Hoskins certainly dominant temporarily a 0:15 A. M. daily a spirit of selfishness which is im No. 4 arrives from Camps posing great hardship on helpless 4:00 P. M. daily except Sunday millions and demoralizing economic No. 1 departs for Camps processes and social standards. 10:50 A. M. daily except Sunday What is to come of it? Possibly Established .1880 No. 8 departs for Hoskins the cure lies in the very excess. 4:15 P. M. daily When the disease gets bad enough, AN ACCOUNT in a commercial bank is the most Freight service 2:30 P. M. on it may cure itself. When the "mid Tuesdays and Saturdays convenient aid to modern business. It systema dle class” organizes, and the goug ing becomes universal, with every tizes payments, is a check on all expenditures and ï BALLOT T ITLE S AS FOLLOWS body profiteering on everybody else, shows you just where you stand each month. C O N S T IT U T IO N A L M E N D H E N 'T —Referred to th e p eop le b y th e then everybody may come back to 302 X Yes L egislative A m w ol>. Open one with us today. It will pay you to do so. SW OPS & SWOPE a reasonable and honest basis. L IM IT A T IO N ' O r I P ER C E N T S T A T E IN D E B T E D N E S S didn’t know it. But it is not true; Hi is going down the track plainly marked with a " P ” while all his competi tors are labeled “ S. P .” By that sign he is conqueroring. “Just as Man to Man” I THE WIND MILL SHOP | City Meat Market STATE ROADS Vote 2 X Yes For 4% S t a t e ¡1 303 No Bond Limit F O R PCJflW Afi £‘. IT •'TO A D S.^Purpose: T o am en d Section 7 of A rtic le X C of t.fi« >» :sti .1 ion o f trie S ta te of Oregon no as to perm it th e cr ea tio n -ftlrb t? ; Eihriurt in clu d in g previous d eb ts a n a l in bilHiee for t h p .i.~ p nr* t : o u i.f.u ig a id m a in tain in g perm anent roads to th e a m o u n t i f lox.r f er e .u t o f th e RN^eeeed valu ation o f all th e property in th e S tate of O re ton, in stead o f tw o per cen t as now provided b y law. NO PHCPcHTY T & - K O DIRECT TAX NO INCREASE L AJT9 LICENSE FEES NO m m z t? GASOLINE TAX Keep these three facts, in mini!. The present auto license fees and gasoline tax wiil pay both the principal and interest on all the bonds under this amendment, and will yield an annual surplus besides for other state highway work. No additional taxation of any kind. FEDERAL FUNDS fi/JST BE MATCHED Oregon must have s ufficient Highway Funds to match Federal apportion ment* or Oregon cannot get the benefit of Federal money for Oregon Itoada. Increasing this constitutional limit is a necessity. Unless limit is increased, either state roads cannot be completed for many, many years, or must be finished by direct property taxation. This measure averts direct property tax for itat« highway* and makoa early completion possible. Let’s get the roads built now. liCSiT:» fro.; Pru:ai Sou.-sci vU.»cient to Pay Principal anrf Interest. T U fact th at revenue* f. m in to H o w »ec* and gasoline tax, w ith o u t increase o f present rat««, w ill be am l e t . v ay t ri.tcipeu and interest'»!-. these bonds, is d e a r ly art f rth b y official figures In th« B u t« Psrr.ph et. mailed to « w r y registered voter R efer to S tate Tam - h ist lo r verification F. i m b »« to s tab»« earvfuUy I t p i^ vi* th at no p rop erty tnx is required and th a t present rates for auto Herns* foes 1 1 J gtn tt\ will redeem principal an a in terest and y ield surplus besiass. F r tu tor* t T *b!ee, P am p h lets or fu rth er Inform ation, w rite to OREGON ROADS A N D D E V E L O PM E N T ASSOCIATION t . L WKffWB. f * * * 24> 1st h r t* l The Independence National Bank t C. ClArtUll C hns fin d * fiswBw. L L M r Cain'jit.gn IB vdquarters, 311 W orcester B u ild ing. Portland, Oregon VOTE 302 X YES For 4% State Reed Bend Limit Member Federal Reserve System LAWYERS The American Doller (From the Birmingham Age-Herald) Office over Craven A Walker’s Store The American dollar looks as big Independence, Oregon as a cartwheel to a German, a Frenchman or even an Englishman, but looks to be about the size of a pre-war dime to the average Ameri can. TO REALIZE THE MOST MONEY U N A P P R E C IA T E D . “Oh, George, dear,” said the anx ious girl, who had been waiting while her lover interviewed her fa ther on matrimonial topics, “what did papa say t" “Agnes, my love,” replied George, diplomatically, “1 don’t think your father’s friends half appreciate what a vigorous speaker he is, or what a wonderful command of language he possesses.” The fanner doesn't need to save daylight He doesn't waste any.— Grand Rapids Herald. I We buy everything you want to sell and sell everything you want to buy. Cash or trade. Bring in everything you want to sell and I will sell it for you on a commission. MAX GOLDMAN Officers and Directors H. Hirschberg, Pres. C. A. McLaughlin, V. P. Ira D. Mix, Cashier W. H. Walker D. W. Sears O. D. Butler w iin in iiin iiB iia!iin i!U iin iin iin in iiaiiaiin iiin iin in iii >iiHiiniiiaiiHiininu I ! INDEPENDENCE WOOD YARD l ■ DICKSON & MATTISON, Props. * “ ------Dealers in------ jj j All Kinds of Wood j HBiiaiiiBiiiaiiiniiBiaiiiaiiaiiwiiBiiiBiiiBiiiniiaiiiniiBMaiiaiiiBiiiBtiiBiiiBiiMiiiaiiia" Your neighbor would like for you to subscribe for The Post yourself so you wouldn’t bother borrowing his copy.