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THE INDEPENDENCE MONITOR AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County, Oregon, on Friday. Entered as Second Class Matter Angust 1, 1912 at the Post (Wlce at Inde pendence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLYDE T. ECKER, Editor NINA B. ECKER, Associate Subscription Rates: One Year $1.50 Strictly in Advance ADVERTISING RATES: 15c. per Inch lor one Insertion, 12 l-2c for two or more Insertions, 10c. on monthly contracts. Readers, 5 and 10c. per line Independence, Oregon, Friday, May 11, 1917 We cannot agree with some who contend that because of the war we should "tighten up" and sit down and wait until peace is again restored. We would rather advocate "loosing up" and tak ing advantage of the opportunities and fortunes of war. It is true beyond doubtthat altho America becomes an active participant, it will never be forced to suffer the real hardships of conflict. We I have no reason to fear an invasion even should our enemies triumph over our allies. It will take many years of recuperation before any of the active belligerents will be ready to fight again, and after that time it is generally presumed that the world will have become sufficiently civilized to prevent a repetition of the present horror. But in the meantime America will be obliged to sit back and unwittingly reap the harvest exacted from human blood. If the war continues for any length of time, America will grow fat, and it is loolish for any individual to hold back and refuse to take on flesh. TWILIGHT MEMORIES To M) Father, J. D. Reeves, Independence, ia Memory if Hit 56 Birthday, May, 16, '17 Push back the curtains from Memories' bright pictures, Heart, keep the tear-drops from dimming mine eyes; Blsnded with music, like incense, its sweetness, As I call baek the days from the years long gone by. Soft fell the shadows of even-tide, bringing Its mantle of sleep, soft, to wrap me around; No sleep came to still me, while I'd list to your singing, Matching each word with the sweetness of sound. Songs, then, you sang of the old-time plantations, Songs that your mother had sung to you, too; Songs from the days when in Love's adoration, You lo e 1 my dear mother, and won her to you. Hearken, yet memory! how tlearly he sings them, Sings those dear songs as he rocked me to sleep; How dear yet to me while old memories linger, And softly the years like dim shadows creep. Yes, come back old mem'ries! how bright are your pictures, Sweet are your treasures, those days bright and clean 'Twould gladden my heart, once more, father, to see ytu And hear those old songs by the singer made dear. Mrs. Jessie M. Sanders, Mountain Grove, Mo. We have noticed the mention in some news paper of the birthday of the Hillsboro Independ ent, which in itself is nothing remarkable for all newspapers have birthdays, but it is quite often made the occasion tor admirers to pass out a few llowers and say those things which are generally said when the funeral announcements have been printed. Personally, we seldom find anything on the editorial page of the Independent with which we agree, but we do admire the master hand that directs its editorial pen. . Among newspaper editors, there are many slackers and skunker", applying these two war terms to the newspaper field. The "slacker" never has an opinion and the "skunker" uses, buys or steals the handiwork of another and passes it off as his own. No greater compliment can be paid S. C. Killen of the Hills: boro Independent than to say that his worst en emy can never accuse him of being either a slacker" or a "skunker". OOOM400000000OOOOOOOOOODM0 9M00000000)000 THE INDEPENDENCE NATIONAL BANK Established 1889 A Sacceaaful Buaincw Career of Twenty five Year INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS OPPlCLiKfS AM) DIRECTORS H. HirschberjJ, Pres. D. VV. Sears, V. P. R. K. DeArmond, Cashier W. H. Walker, I. A. Allen, O. D. Butler Altho apan declared war against Germany early in the conflict, no Japanese troops have been sent to Kurope, and Japan has a splendid army ready for active service at any time. The United States, one of the last to enter, and with but small army of seasoned men, is expected to send a American forward and leaving the trained lap be hind is war "strategy" of some kind no doubt. THE OTHER KIND OF SLACKER I was talking with a bond dealer the other day. He was telling me what he thought about the future market in municipals. He said that a great many mon eyedmen, men whose incomes come from investment in secu rities, would unload municipals when the big government war issue was out, and put all their money into these bonds. "Why?" I asked. I am al ways eurious to know why the wheels go round. "Because these bonds are free from taxation as property; and the income from them is free from income tax. And you know the income tax is going to be boosted quite a good deal. Soj thesa bonds are just the ticket." ' There is immunity for you! There is the ne plus ultra of slacking! And yet we bawl out the poor, cigaret-smoking human who hides his slacking behind a marriage license, because h wants to save his measly car cass! And we won't bawl out the 'prominent citizen', who has more money than he needs, for hiding his money and himself, a moral slacker, behind bonds issued, unnecessarily, to finance the nation's necessity? Maybe we will, though. Carrie C. Van Orsdall in Pacific Echo, SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH TO BEAT GERMANY IS URGED An Appeal For Mobilization of Sa vants Is Sent to Allied Countries. Because of their great fervor for war and con scription, the smart men who comprise the edi torial stafls of the Portland Oregonian, Telegram and News ought to make excellent soldiers. As it seems to be taken for granted that an enthusiast makes the best soldier, it will be a serious loss to the country if no way can be found by which they could waive all exemptions and enlist. Farm labor is scarce, but fields are not going to waste as a lot of the "farm preparedness" litera ture says. It appears to us that at least half of the fellows going around telling the farmers how to farm are a surplus burden to the taxpayers. Wdabluirtou.-An Hppeal f..r an inter, national lnohillzatiou of scientific re search facilities to U1 In tlip defeat of Germany lias tieen ailtlressetl to the scientific societies of Knlund, France, Italy aul Ktissia by Ir. George E.' Hale, chairman of t!,e National Re search Council, recently created to work out with tU Defense Council technical feature of military and in- dustnul prohleius. Pr. Hale-, who Is foreign secretary of the National Academy of Sciences, sent this cablegram to the Royal Society of England, the Acndemle des Sciences. Taris; the Academie dos Sciences. Pet rourad. and the Academla del Uneel. Rome: "The entrance of the United States Into the war twite our men of science with yours In a common cause. The National Academy of Sciences. acthi through the National Research Conn. oil. which has been designated by Pres- Mient niiwa and the Council of Xa. Uonal Defense to ruoMliiw the research racuuies of the country, would gladly co-operate in any scientific researches still nnderlytng the solution of mllitarr or lndustri.il problems." Leaillnu testile ein ns have offer-.! to the Coum-ii of National IVfense their servi.-v in !n...ilizinj ,-,nin-trj's tes'ilt- re-'-oiir f..r war. Alex ander II. Mover of New York lias put forward a p un i.. make M-iir.iMe for the foiim i; a xa-t :iiii-nn!t of inform, tlon coiict-t niiij i.-ti.e u..li,.. !.,(. ters liav,. 1,tu soul to ...i Ueiartuieut ! asUtitf If their l"ier may serve as advise: in purchasing and iiinect in government si:pilies. THE BLOOD SUCKER We have some little respect for the man who has the stamina to break into a house when ne knows the man and the gun are both at home. He has to take his chance of getting a shot from the man behind the gun. But the man who sits in his up holstered, luxurious office chair, basked by his millions of ill-gotten coin, who gets a corner on one or more lines of food stuff and boosts the price out of reach of the laboring class, who have little of this world's goods, in order that he may add more to his pile of blood money, is th e lowest, most contemptible thief on earth. He knows there is no law that can reach in this country and he caras not how many poor little children have to go half fed and clothed that he may add to his pile, nor how the poor widow has to struggle with poverty and disease from lack of proper food and clothing, to provide for her little ones until she finds rest in the grave, just so he can buy spuds at $1.50 and sell at $5 and up, that he may increase his bank roll. It is the one un answerable argument that there is a hell. Because if there is not a hell to take such an individual when he dies, and we say it in all reverence, the Almighty has made a mistake. Oswego Times. Butter Wraps $1.00 per 100 MonitorOffice For Spring Housecleanlng Mere surface dusting or brushing in nnt . Mm. T-i . , .- . -..7.,i,iK. , norougn clean- j ing draws out both "outside" ; nd "inside" dirt without scatter- j mg it in the air you breathe. 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