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About The Polk County post. (Independence, Or.) 1918-19?? | View Entire Issue (Sept. 16, 1921)
f THE POLK COUNTY POST published every Friday at Independence, Oregon. LUCI STRIKE, Alcrwl u second c I im mailer March 28, 1918, at the poatofflce at Independence, Oregon under the Act of March 3, 1876. CLYDE T. ECKE k Editor and P u b lish e r. ^ .C I G A R E T T E Subscription Bates: T H R E E MONTHS S IX M O N T H S ONE 50c. $1.00 YEAR • $2.00 Do you know you can roll enough fish so that thè emblem of our national independence might have one occasionally, i t is my con tention that the killing o f these birds should be stopped until the eagle has his day in court. Tike late Governor Riggs, I am informed, ex pressed himself as feeling that the time had come when the bounty put on the killing of these birds should be taken off.” 50 g o o d cigarettes tor lO c t s from o n « bag of A U TO M O B IL E M EN ACE. t eleea oth erw ise p rovided for, «ubacriptions w ill be stopped at expiration New President ot Normal Arrives to Take Position J " I t is more like a heme-coming for me and Mrs. Landers than a move to a new place,” says J. S. Landers, newly elected president o f the Oregon State Normal achocl, who arrived laat week from New Mexico to take up his work as successor to the late J. H A cker man. o f Oregon under President Ackerman Notice this delicious fla v o r w h en yo u smoke Lucky Strike — it’s sealed in by the tcasting process and the board, has been put in splen- jfid position for an immense growth in the inm ediata future. There was nevst a time when such growth waa more important, for the emphasis in education ia being changed and it it upen the normal school-teacher that we must depend fo r carrying the new emphasis to the public schools. "T h e Ge man system o f education we used almost to worship, Another One Discovered but it failed chiefly because ita purpose was Landers was in Oregon for twenty ■rong and its ideal was wrong. The following with Polk county sub We years before he went to Colorado and are now in a period o f change, the stituted fo r Linn would probably re afterwards to N ew Mexico. H e was German ideal o f mere mechanical e f tain the original " k ic k ” : fo r three years principal o f The Dalles ficiency ubandoned and the ideal o f "T h e moonshine’s bright on the old high school, for eight and a half years the development o f efficiency, a half years ing the new point o f amohaais. Pendleton. eity superintendent in He is personally acquaint ed with moat o f the members o f his faculty in the Monmouth Normal and familiar with the aims and policies ot his predecessor. University o f Colorado for three years and thence to Alberquerque, N. M., as 'T it summer, the rumhounds are becom gay; The corn top’s ripe in the field be "T h e teaching profession ia coming yond the hill to a sounder footing than in form er years. And the Whereas there was a steady frlling off in the normal training A fte r he left Oregon he went to the Linn county atill; character development, in addition to city superintendent and for sight and tendency to and seek to prepare there ia new apparent a return to if. Men who had aim >st entirely dropped out o f it are coming back and will, i think, stay Ha is a graduate o f Northern in it, now that salaries are made more Indiana Normal school and Valparaiso nearly equal to salariea o f other pro university. fessions. ogy. H e waa contemplating au offer o f " I believe that there will be about the ueanship o f the training depart 600 students in the normal school this ment in the normal achool at Las yea r—a material grow th in attend-1 Vegas, N. M., when called to Oregon anee "I For the old Linn county still, far and expact to see a continual a w a y ." and steady growth each year in fu — Benton County Courier. believe that the normal school ture.” — Poitland I’e'egram. University of Oregon C O N T A IN S : The College o f Literature, The Science and the A rts. The The School o f Architecture The and Allied A rts . The The School o f Business The Administration. The T h e School o f Education. Th e Extension Division. The PLEADS FOR KING OF BIRDS Fall Term Opens September 26 Eyes Tested 'and to O ’ r S e ll l* ’ Fitted. Lenses O p t o m e t r is t -O p ilc ia n BUSH B AN K BLDG. SALEM. ORE. PHONE 025 Vou [ Duplicated, j D r . C . |B. O ’N e ill i Eagles still «eem to be fairly nu merous in Alaska, whither they have been driven by the unfriendli ness of their fellow Americans in the older aetl.ed sections o f the country. Even iu Alu»ku the •laughter of the big birds is being proceeded with iu such a way that the tribe will soon lie exterminated. There the eagle is charged with eating too many fish. Eagles have always lived off fish, and it would seem a poor kind of patriotism to deny the eagle the food which he is Used to and which his ancestors have eaten for generations that can not be counted. The president o f the National Association of Audu bon Societies, T. Gilbert Pearson, has protested against the slaughter of the American eagles that have •ought a home in Alaska because they could find one nowhere else, and said: “ Th e good Lord oertaiulv mad* I Never in your life heard such dance music! Dance Record« JU ST OUT T O D A Y Underneath Hawaiian Sklaa i Fox T ro t) All She’d Say Waa Umh-Hum iToddle) Soma Little Bird (Fox T rot) Toddle (Fox Trot) Tha Naughty Waltz (W a ltz) Gloaming Tima (W a lts) I Lost My Heart to You (Fox T rot) Pining (F ox T ro t) Yan-kaa (F o x T rot) Star. Unemployed Set Fire to Lumber Yard. Airplanes Cross ths Desert In Hours, Whsre Transportation by Rail Would Taks Years. Region» that would have to wait many years before they could be tra versed by railways are now quickly mastered by aerial transport. News conies from the British air ministry that a new air route has been opened- up across the desert between Pales tine and Mesopotamia. Notification has been received o f the arrival at Bagdad o f three airplanes o f the royal air force,, which have flown over this route. The new- route is about 580 miles long. It is an extension of the pres ent Cairo-Ramleh route. I t starts from Ramleh, where the main royal air force airdrome in Pales tine, passes through Amman (east o f the Jordan) and Kasr Azrak, where landing grounds have been prepared, and proceeds thence in an almost straight line across the Arab ian desert to Ramadie on the Eu phrates, and thence to Bagdad. The distances between the prin cipal stations are as follow s: Ram leh to Amman, 65 m iles; Amman to Kasr Azrak, 55 miles; Kasr Azrak to Ramadie, 400 miles; Ramadie to Bagdad, 60 miles. Engine Run by 8un Power. ▲ novel engine Is operated by sun power at Mead, near Cairo, Egypt. It consists of flve 205-foot boilers placed on edge and In the focus o f flve chan nel-shaped mirrors. The engine’s beet run for an hour yielded 1,442 pounds of steam at a pressure of nearly 16 pounds a square inch—equivalent to 63 horse power. An acre o f land la occupied by the plant Hartman's Eyeglass Service Keeps an Eye on Your Eyes “ That girl gave me quite a start.” Disappointed over their failure to ob “ How so?” tain Job* In n lumber yard In IOast Lon don. England, which advertised for 50 “ She has such big freckles.” men, 5,000 unemployed laborers broke “ 1 thought she was wearing a into the premises and set Are to a dotted veil.” — Louisville Courier- stock of lumber valued at $5.000,000. J d u ii 1. H ARTM AN BROS. Jewels» and Opticians SALEM. ORE. ~ Complete Extinction of Eagle Fore shadowed by President of Na tional Audubon Societiee. Graduate School. School o f Journalism. School o f Law. School of Medicine. School o f Music. School of Physical Education. School of Sociology. A high standard o f cultural and professional scholarship has become one o f the outstanding marks of the State U niversity. For a catalogue, folders on the varioue schools, o r for any information, write T H E R E G IS T R A R . U N I V E R S I T Y O F O R E G O N . Eugene. O re. “ A p p eal Seamen and Then Flee to Interior. Large numbers of Germans are ship | H E LP FROM ABOVE. cabin floor; ping at German ports on American- I bound vessels us seamen, at wages of The hopper is shining and bright; Help came from the skies when a one cent u mouth, Chairman A. D. Las B y ’ n bye some guy comes a knockin’ ker of the shipping board, has advised man walked off the sea wall into the at ths door— Secretary of Labor Davis. Potomac river. The pilot o f a sea The belief was expressed by Secre Then my old Linn county still, plane. 500 feet in the air, saw him tary Davis that the Germuns lire per good nightl plunge into the water and, swoop mitted to land In this country ns sea ing down, enabled his companion men and then flee to the Interior. "W e e p no more, my lady, Until u treaty la signed with Ger flyer to drag the drowning man to O weep no more today! ms ny. it was explained. It will not be safety.— Indianapolis Nexvs. One song w e’ ll trill fo r the old Linn legal for German citizens to enter the United States. IN S TY LE . county still, professor o f philosophy and psychol to All the vacant place. B ull D urham The hooch lies stacked on the little for teaching as a Ilfs work, Wops make whiskey all tha day. A New York magistrate before whom many speeders are brought for trial, recently pointed out the- serious growth o f the automobile as au instrument o f death, says a writer GENUI NE in the T h rift Magazine. He alluded to the fact that during the 19 months o f American participation TO B AC C O in the war, 48,000 o f our soldiers W# want you to havo tha were killed or died o f their wounds boat paper ior " B U L L .” So now you oan recelvo in France. During that same period with each package a book 91,000 persons, mostly children, ol 24 leaves ot U L U * . - were killed on the streets and high the vary finest cigarette ways o f this country by automo paper In the w orld. biles. We have learned through the cen turies to regard Mars as the symbol of ruthless cruelty and death. T o HIS P R IV ILEG E. day we must consign the old war god to a quiet and comfortable seat “ A feller has a right to hold hi* in a rocking chair while Mercury own political opinions, hain’t he?” assumes the role of the bloody sourly demanded a neighbor. butcher. “ He has— if he holds ’em I” re plied the gaunt Missourian. “ I t ’s WORK FOR CENT « MONTH only when he gets to s’ inging ’em at Germans Enter United States Ports a* me that 5 object.” — Kansas City MAKE A JOKE OF DISTANCE Autos Trucks Tir^s and Accessories Gas Pump Safe and Office Furniture Brohan Moon (F ox T rot) Laaralng (F ox T rot) Auto Util ¡ties Co Dallas, Ore. Salem, Ore.