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About Independence monitor. (Independence, Or.) 1912-19?? | View Entire Issue (March 1, 1918)
' PT i i THE INDEPDENENCE MONITOR AN INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER Published Weekly at Independence, Polk County, - Oregon, on Friday. Enured M Second CUM MsturAngua 1, 1D1Z at the Poat Office atlnde enaence, Polk County, Oregon, Under the Act of March 3, 1879. CLYDE T. ECKER Editor NINA B. ECKER. Associate SnoscrtpUon Rates: One Year $1.00 Strictly in Advance ADVERTISING BATES: 15c. per Inch for one Insertion, 12 l-2c for two 01 o?e iSertlo" lOc. on nontiuy contract Rubers, 5 end 10c. per line dependence, Oregon, a hipnni.'il event and an evil incidental to every politi cal campaign is the robbing of candidates by unscrupu lous newspaper publishers. While the number of tins class of newspaper pirates is very small, yet there are enough of them to successfully pursue the graft and thus darken the interior of every newsparr with the shadow of distrust and suspicion. The 'old head, who has been m the political game for several seasons, has paid the price and does not keep his hand on his poeketbook when lie en ters a newspaper office. He has learned the identity of the grafters and if necessity or political expediency re quires him to patronize one of them, he bargains for what . ho wants like iui old woman in a second hand store and pays for it as soon as he gets it. Hut the neophite in the political game enters and is welcomed with a smile, a sal utation "you're going to win" and the grafters golden text "I am doing all 1 can for you." The neophite Is pleased to hoar such apparently sincere promises and is led to believe that he has met an enthusiastic supporter of influence He proceeds to order advertising without asking the price and without paying for it. "Just send mo your bill," he says. Or finding it not convenient to visit the grafter's den, he sends an ad and writes, "Insert and send bill." Then when the Ides of November have passed and the elect have been designed by popular vote, the neophite gets his bill from the newspaper gratter. If among the lucky ones in the political lottery with an eye to the future he pays, but for the next one or two rounds he puts every newspaper publisher into the same ' class, tho eventualy he learns the clean from the unclean and acts accordingly. If defeated in the first heat, the neophite protests vehemently. If intending to stay on tho track, ho pays in a smothered rage. If he concludes to make his first heat his last heat, he throws off consider able lava and may pay. The respectable newspaper publishers wish there was some way of getting rid of the grafters but they do break in and their evil influence must bo tolerated, but it is our opinion and a view shared by a number of the old birds on the political roost that tho newspaper gratter extends his larceny habits into other fields of prospective income sufficiently to stunt his influence and his support and the use of his advertising columns is a detriment rather than a benefit. Mayor Hnrley has great admiration for the Ore gon delegation, but only as letter writers. lhe r failures nro numerous. They are posers consid ered from the back-woods, and little is heard of w hat they have accomplished for their own sta y Chamberlain has lost what little iniluence he had. McNary is too new at the game, Uawley is a stu k McArthur does not appear to have any weight, and Sinnott is looking only after the Eastern Oregon rab bit industry and Eastern Oregon interests. I n . 1 , they are a galaxy of "hind teat" artists.- ood burn Independent. If Mr llarloy is such a wonuer as m- uilwm to be and tbe Oregon delegation is as weak as he claims it is why doesn't he throw his hat into the ring and seek the seat now occupied by the "stick." If Mr llarloy is "on to" how certain congressmen get "things for their state and 'if a representative's ability is judged by the amount of "pork" he can secure for Ins state, we want Mr llarley in Congress just as quick as we can put bun there He has been leading the people to think, m a ser ies of articles written in Washington, that all a senator or representative has to do when be wants something tor Ins state is to run down to the department whn h t out.o s it rush in and demand, "1 w ant a quarter million s worth ot nork " This will cause thedignitied gent Ionian presiding over 'that particular department to get down Horn his high stool, wrap it up instantly and hand it over without narlev. So if the distinguished gentleman trom Astoria can pull this stunt, he should be sent to congress but Xt assurance will he give us that the first time ion gresman llarley starts a drive for "pork" some depart ment head would not throw hmi out. Mr llarlev and the Independent notwithstanding, w, nolo by tho daily press that the Ori senators am es pecially Mr. McXavy, arc continuously busy m t he .it i Us of V state they represent. Not perhaps getting a Friday, March 1, 1918 large amount of "pork" or numerous offices for friends but securing relief and assistance for worthy constitu: ents and enterprises. The Congresional , Record has been withdrawn from circulation outside the city of Washington in order, it is told, to save paper. With the Kecord gone, we will not be able to learn much about what is going on in Congress for the daily newspapers give that branch of the government but little space and that is generally colored in the inter est of the party. And the people should know more about congress and what is going on there. If the Record was generally read, the country would be better off for the masses would soon learn their friends and enemies. It would be far better to let the Record circulate and con serve on some other publications. For example, the weekly letters sent by the bureau of public information to weekly papers which are seldom read and never publish ed as all the "news" it conveys has been printed in the daily papers several days before. President Campbell of the State University has gone East. For the sake of the University it is hoped that he talks with nobody connected with an Eastern school or college while absent. Somebody might send another eam outlage message to the Oregonian. Without? going into the question of whether the Non Partisan League is good, bad or indifferent, if the princi ples and policies of t ho opposition to it in Oregon are the antidote, the cure would be STAY IN EUROPE SHORT WRITES HIIXSBORO SOLDIER That mail service to and from Franco has greatly improved is indicated hy the receipt this week by Mrs. G. II. Carter of a letter written on January 20 by her son in France, only about three weeka be ing required for the letter to cross the Atlantic and the breadth of the American continent. He acknow ledges receipt of letters and news papers from Ilillshoro und says he likes 1 lance better every day. The soldiers are learning more French every nay, ho says, and when they get hack friends may not bo able to understand them. Speaking of coming hack he makes the signifi cant statement that he does not be lieve the return is very far distant, all other soldiers who have gone abroad. None, of course can give his reason, but after arrival all ap pear t become convinced that the enil of the war is not far distant. I'ersoiu who have commented upon this believe that it is the result of the iKsv arrivals gaining an inkling of preparations made hy the allies which were hinted at by Colonel MarMillau in his address in Ilils Im)io when he stated that he could not divulge plans, but his hearers could -est assured that the Germans could never break through and would certainly he driven beyond the Iihine. HillsGoro Indepen dent. ALL HAVE THEIR UNDER-DOGS Gcrd Reasons Why People' Sympa tic Are With the Fellow Who I Temporarily Down. Our sympathies naturally travel the line of likes that Is, the things we feel In ourselves, we feel In others. We ap plaud the underdog, because we so often have been the under dog. We like to lift the other follow up when he Is down, because we also have been down. Sympathy starts at hoineor else It lsu't sympathy. Your periodic moods of failure and disappointment are your under-dogs. So, Instead of walking past these under-dogs of yours und casting no sympathy their way, pause to give them your heart and your hope, and soon the picture ami fact will be your over-dogs Jour rlctorles and your genuine aetilevppientS. No under-dog can possibly appeal In lmiortance to the uuder-dogs of your daily exerlenee. Perhaps jum will applaud alone the under dogs of your personal gloom ami shadows, but what of It? As Low ell says: "lnlly. with souls that ctlnge anil plot, we Slnnls climb and know It int." What difference, what odds, so long as over your "nut tinned bond the skies?" Courageously cheer the under-degs of your experiences and stay promTy hy th.-tn umil their fight becomes n fac tor of vour klng-dilp. Ueorgo Matthew Adams, in .5km1 Housekeeping. GLASS STAINED BY X-RAYS Experiment Hve Shown The) Pro due the Sam Effect at the Light of the Sun. It Is well known that glass exposed for long to sunlight acquires a violet Out. In very old houses the windows fnrlnfr south ort often dlstinctlv vio- I let. Kperiment recently nude In the ! laboratories of the General Electric j company at Schenectady with X-ra.vs prove that these can be used to dye jgbiss tn many colors, principally an - amethystine violet aud an m!r '! I low. hut also green sml bright yellow. ' These colors, a.-y-"- ; worse than the disease. sentnai, wno conducted toe experi ments, are due to modifications of the physical structure of the glass and not to chemical alterations. The color can be made to penetrate to any desired depth, from a mere surface tint to complete coloration of the entire sub stance. And the same method can be applied to tinting porcelain, enamel and precious stones. An Interesting and Important fact about this glass that hns been colored by long exposure to X-rays Is that It becomes Impervious to the radiations that have transformed It. Thus it can be used as a protection against the glare of the sun or the snow and against the X-rays themselves. Miner Live Long. It Is an extraordinary fact that even when deaths from accident are Includ ed, the rate of mortality among miners of Great Britain is materially lower than that among any other big class of labor, except agriculturists, and ap preciably lower thun the avernge rate of mortality among males. This fact was discovered by Doctor Tatham, while acting as superintendent of sta tistics In the office of the registrar gen eral Doctor Tatham points out that while the risk of fatal accidents among the coal miners Is jnueh greater than among other males generally, their risk of death by disease Is much lower, being 16.6 per cent less than all occu pied males, and 23.2 per cent less than that of all males. While coal miners appear to suffer more than the aver age mortality from bronchitis, they show marked Immunity from consump tion, their mortality from that disease being less than half the average. From diseases of the nervous system their mortality Is 18 per cent lower; heart disease, io per cent lower, ana rrom fCrlSPWW'ltlaWj than amon all nI. Hereafter there wil be a show at the Isis every night except Sunday with a change of program every day except Thursday. On Monday and Tuesday nights Triangle shows are hooked. Watch the Triangle program as it is a bunch of good ones. B F. JONES. Candidata lot Representative Folk and Lincoln Counties, May Pri- mariea. (Paid Advertisemen.) THE ON SHIPBOARD YOU GOT TO BE NEAT! CHEW W-B CUT A NO YOU WONT MUSS UP THE SHIP. THE INDEPENDENCE Established A Successful Business Career of Twenty Five Year , INTEREST PAID ON TIME DEPOSITS OFFICERS AIND DIRECTORS H. Hlrschberg, Pres. D. W. Sears, V. P. R. R. DeArmond, Cashier W. H. Walker, L A. Allen, O. D. Butler at the churches ( BUTTER WRAPS PRESBY TKRIAIS AT THE Dr. H. C Dunsmore, Pastor !;HS"hp- MONITOR OFFICE I3ARTIST Sunday school at 10. evSnT every Sunday morning.and : Yamoreg Collection Agency Wenwie'ou'toSoureervices. McMInnvllle, Oregon Strangers cordially welcomed.- J RESULTS. TAKES THE BLAME METHODIST ? Thos. D. Yarnes, Pastor. iOA. M. Sunday SchooL T 1 RTITI FR 11A.M. Morning service. 1M. 1 . L)v I I il 3. -OO P. M. Loyal Temperance legion. ATTriRMFV AT I AW 7:30 P.M. Evening service. r I lUIMMCI-rt 1 - W CHRISTIAN Bible school at io a. m. Practice in all GouiH THE. FRESHMAN BUENA VISTA HIGH SCHOOL Friday Evening, March 1 Characters Worden Guy John The Freshman and "Picadilly" Jerome Raymond Hall "Hugs" Stevens Clarence Loy "Owl" Griggs Gilbert Loy "Tiny" MeUrath Lesley Loy Sophomores of Lakeville University. Professor Lock . . Cyril Reynolds Professor of Mathematics and Astronomy. Horace Harold Reynolds Colored factotum and oldest inhabitant. Mary Lock ' Alma Wells Daughter of Professor Lock. Judith Hlair Marjorie Reynolds The President's daughter. Miss Porter Hazel Van Avery Of an aristocratic family. Violet Lena Snyder Whose mother keeps a boarding house. Music Misses Hazel and Mildred Van Avery. Act I. Scene The University Campus. jonu Vorden, on his way to tne registrar s omce meets Jerome and Stevens, who promptly haze him by making n frout o University. j M ary Lock, thinking he is a to fix the garden wall oi tne IjOck nonie. Act II. Scent Garden of Professor Lock's home. Mary Lock gives a tea party and in the course of events finds out Worden is a Freshman. In trying to help the other Freshmen, Worden is caught and Mary promises to help him. Act III. Scene End of Astronomy lecture-room. The Soph- mnor,.s look orden in the j aid of Mary he escapes and warns the Freshmen. In the ; explanations that follow, they find out who Worden really I IS. OLg SAILOR AND THE RECRUIT AND THEN YOU DON ' ON'T ACE MUSS UP YOUR FACE WITH A BIG WAD, EITHER. y n v x NATIONAL BANK - lbBtf Prather center of interest. real brick-layer, engages him lecture room but with the THAT'S THE IDEA A A I NDr-J SATISFYING AND CLEAN CHEW