poub Polk County Observer Published Semi-Weekly at Dallas, Ore on, by the OBSERVER miNTINO COMPANY Office Phone. Business office Main 19 Press room Main 19-2 EUGEM2 FOSTER. W. II. TOTTEN. Entered as second-class matter March 1. 1907. at the postolllce at Dal las, Oregon, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. Subarrlntlon Ratesi One Tear SI SO Six Months 75 Three Months 0 Strictly in advance. The way to build up Dallas is to pat ronize Dallas people. SCHOOL JOURNALISM. While The Observer has been an enthusiastic supporter of higher ed ucation, and has been doing all that was possible in aiding the state uni versity in its fight against its foes, there is one branch ot learning taught at that institution which we do not believe will attain the object sought. We refer to the much her alded and widely advertised chair of "jonrnalisra." Primarily, we do not believe that a "journalist" can be successfully tutored in any edu cational institution. However, it may be possible to manufacture "journalists" but when it comes to "newspaper men" they must secure their education in the practical school of experience, at least so far as those who manage and edit the country newspapers are concerned. A university school of journalism is largely one of theory. A high pric ed instructor, who has gained his knowledge of the business, if he has any practical understanding of it, from the metropolitan newspaper, may be nil right to tell the class how the big daily is conducted, and how the news is handled, but he is en tirely at sea in the country newspa per office, for the reason that the gulf which separates the city daily from the country newspaper is wide, and the two publications are con ducted on entirely different lines. While all news is essentially news, wherever found, there is a great dif ference in treating it successfully The writer has had more than years experience in all branches of the newspaper and the printing bus iness. He has served on metropoli tan dailies and country weeklies and he knows the wide difference that ex ists between the two. And he has found that the young fellow who WATER YOUR LAWN. One of the most important ad juncts to the city beautiful is green and well kept lawns. Sad to relate however, this matter is overlooked to a great extent in this city, and only comparatively few of the grass plats surrounding the dwellings are kept in a good slate of preservation during the dry months. In this con uection many people declare that the water rates are too high to pernui of the liberal use of water on the lawns and that, therefore, they can not afford to keep them in good con dition during the very dry weather, 1 lie tact is that, unless a yard is large, the average family could keep their lawn in good condition without the expenditure of an additional cent to the water company. The minimum amount of water which a patron may use is now placed at a point where it Is practically impos sible for the average family to use their full quota during a month and many could still water tlieir lawn sufficiently to keep it fresh and green and still remain within their limit. Those who have been fearful that the keeping up of their lawns might be too expensive should try the ex periment one month. Read your own meter. Look up the figures today and then go ahead and water yourj lawn, keeping track of the water you use it is a simple matter to check it up yourself, and if you find that you are running over, or are using more water than you feel you can afford, you may easily stop further consumption for the lawn. You will at least have added materially to the appearance of the city, and if the people generally win adopt una course, they will be amply repaid in the satisfaction of doing their share in building the 'ci'ty beautiful." FRIDAY, JUNE 6th, 1913, POLK COUNTY OBSERVER . . ""IIIa? Professional Cards im4mf mm' I I: (S(nlflilTflll(fl!llSfl l! RHPfn?Mlil I HIMES EssSc wU UirUVii U UWi) M VH-TU II liUl CU 1Wll I S Y I Engineering and Surveying. i3l tiUa II 111 4. IB Uti U 1 VS f Plans Drawn and Estimates Cheer is imam Z - w - w Accompanied by a body guard of state militiamen Governor West in vaded the city of The Dalles on Sun day and made a spectacular raid on the red light district, and in his us ual boastful manner pulled off a very satisfactory stunt, from his standpoint, . at least. No objection can be urged against the results sought to be accomplished by these sensational raids on the part of the governor, and if they were carried on with the sole idea of enforcing the laws, no one could bring forth criti cism of them. But the trouble is that the governor cannot do a job of this kind without making himself the central figure, and posing as the only individual in the entire state with moral stamina sufficient to en force the law. Probably the officials of The Dalles might have been dere lict in their duty; possibly conditions there might have been improved, but i a letter from the chief executive to -J 1 .. .. . . ... the proper parties would undoubted ly reached the same result that the Governor and his militia men accom plished. But, in that event, the press notices would not have been forthcoming and the advertising fea ture would have been overlooked. comes to him as a "journalist" fresh from the college class, with a diploma and a theoretical knowledge of the business, is about the most helpless individual in the business. He knows how it should be, accord ing to his pleasing theories, but he finds out that he is absolutely ignor ant of how it. really is. The average newspaper proprietor knows this full well, and it is the bright young fel low, brought up in the harness, who has learned the game from the roller washing in the back room to the method of estimating the cost of a job of printing, or the rate on a big advertising contract, who has, in other words, served in even' capac ity of the newspaper and the print ing office, who makes good, and who will be employed in preference to the college "journalistic" graduate, every time. Real journalism cannot lie learned from books. Books may tell you how to construct sentences and the proer use of the language, but they cannot give you the "nose for news" that every successful newspaper man in 11.x t possess. Bonks cannot give you that sense of being "there" when things happen, that ever-present something that guides the trained and exX'iienced ieHrter in gather ing the news and reporting it cor rectly. Many diploma - hearing "journalists" have found this true time and again, and while they have been entirely familiar with all the pretty theories, and have had a great command (if the English language and could construct pleasant sound inir and delightfully rounded sen tences, they have found themselves entirely unable to write the story of a biit news event and tell the peo ple in simple language, what they want to read. The college or the university may lie ideal in the cout ruction of "journalists" but newspaper men work up from the bottom in the har ness. That "reformed" minister who told the Willamette valley editors re cently that he had saved i.MO in six years in a town of ."00 people, is entitled to a place of honor at the right hand of the Most Monstrous Prevaricator of the Aninias club. He related to those gaping editorial hu mans, that he didn't know a thing about the printing bu-iness. he took the paper when it wax run down and had a circulation of only 11. and in the six year he has built it up in uWriber and outfit until today he has typesetting machine, improved prrs.se. doesn't owe a cent and has $$.000 in the bank! And he made it 11 nt of his newspaper in bis little country town of 500 people! He's a "journalist." SIX BIG DAYS THREE PROGRAMS DAILY Twenty Splendid Attractions HEAR THEM The White City Band Ben Chapin Harrell, the Boston Magician f Karl Steckelberg, German Violinist I Chicago Male Quartette Miss Kearney Thaviu Grand Opera Co. Senator Burkett The Artists Trio Frances J. Gable, Poet Humorist Georgia Jubilee Singers Dr. Andress And Many Others DENTIST B. F. BUTLER Office over Fuller Pharmacy Office houra from 9 to 12 a. m.; to & p. m. Dallas Oregoi Our Chautauqua Comes July 4 to 9 Season Tickets will cost Three Dol-1 lars, with fifty cents off if pur chased before opening day Studebakers at a Sacrifice Never before have the people of Polk County had the benefit of low prices in buying a buggy. See them Before the Assortment is Broken l All from the celebrated Studebaker line, all equipped with auto ' mobile seats, 1000 miles axles and modern and complete in every ; way. You Never Saw Better Values for the Money OPEN BUGGIES FROM $60 TO $75 TOP BUGGIES From $80 to $125 While in Portland recently Mr. Crider took advantage of an offer from the Studebaker distributing Agency which enabled him to bring nine of these superior vehicles to Dallas and offer them at prices that are 10 per cent lower than they are quoted at the fac tory. The offer came through the desire of the company to close out a job lot of their 1912 output. CRIDER'S GENERAL STORE DALLAS, OREGON Honrs: 9 a. m. to 5 p. m. by appointment. other hour. Phone 1414 DR. D. G. REMPEI CHIHOl'KACTOrt Nerve Spoclullsi an-I Splnnl Adjusts 114 Court St., Dallas. Oregon. E. N. HALL FUNERAL DIRECTOR and EMBALMER Parlor First Door South of City Hall on Church St. Phone 1433. Dallas, Ore?on Dr. Louis G. Alt man TT Til - J xj.uiciirtnin; iiyiuian, General Practice. Special attention to Asthma, Dronsv vjuu kjiuuca oiiu iklieuillttlism. Office and Res. 296 N. Liberty St Phone Main 147. SALEM, 0R DENTIST M. HAYTER Dnllas National Bank Building Dallas Orejo, I ATTORNEY AT LAW OSCAR HAYTER Rooms & and 6, Uglow Bldg. Dallas Oregoi G. O. IIOLMAN LAWYER Office In Wilson Building. ATTORNEY-AT-LAW D. H. UPJOHN Rooms 19-2G Dallas National Bank Bids' DALLAS OR EGOS ATTORNEY AT LAW WALTER L. TOOZE, JB, Dallas National Bank Building Dallas Oregoi There will be Seventeen Programs I This is not a Street Fair and not a Revival Meeting Why all this talk about abolishing prize fighting because one of the bruisers was killed by an accidental blow at Calgary recently T There has been evidence for many years that prize fighting has had its share of deaths, but so has base ball, foot ball and many other sports. This isn't a defense of prize fighting, for, so far as we are concerned, we -wild manage to worry along even if the i prize ring was abolished, but the point is, why single out prize fight ing as a mark for protestation football has been far more fatal. Is it because the latter sport is father ed by the rich men's sons in the ex clusive Eastern universities f Your Grocery Phone-13 (SIMONTON & SCOTT) I I I , Z , J ATTORNEYS AND ABSTRACTORS BROWN & SIBLEY Abstracts promptly made. Notary Public, Collections Mill St. Down-stairs. . Dallas, Ore SIBLEY & EAKIN The only reliable set of Abstract In Polk County. Office on Court street Dallas, ... Oregon legislation by a certain church so ciety against ministers who follow side lines, calls to mind the story of one who worked at preaching and undertaking. The combination seems an ideal one. but completeness seems to demand that he should have been elected coroner. Now that it is all over we can't help thinking that if that Michigan editor had Wen brought up amongst the Bourbon influences in the Sunny South, he would never have violated the amenities of good society by in quiring into a gentleman's bibacity. There is one point about Bryan's gape juice proclivities that has been overlooked it will never fall to his lot to be obliged to vindicate his so briety in court. The mint bed in President Wilson's back yard has no attractions for him. VOUR Grocery Troubles grow less when you deal A with a Grocery firm whose Groceries are Stan dard as well as Fresh and Palatable. Prompt ser vice at the store and quick deliver' mean much to particular customers to whom we appeal. A satis fied customer is our friend. When we do up a bun dle of Sugar, Coffee, Spices, Davis Hard Wheat Flour, for which we are exclusive agents, the new customer becomes permanent and the old customer is satisfied with his purchase. Become a customer if not now one Market Price for Fresh Butter and Eggs SIMONTON & SCOn 525 Court St. DALLAS, OREGON e i I LUMBER Editorials of People. h the Signed communication will b print ed under this head from responsible, parties, but their pulbk-atlon does not necessarily Imply that they express the sentiments of the editor. DISPOSAL Of CITY GARBAGE Sanitation On of the Priori pl Question. Facing D-lLu. Editor Observer: If we are to continue rity of health, something should be done by the eity eouneil in the wav of sanitation; how to dis-; I pose of our garbage and rubbish so as to have a clean city is the prob lem. It is unsightly aa well as un-; healthy to dump it in the alleys or pile it up one the corner of our lot. We should have an incinerator, or at least a dumping ground outside of the citv. and a garbage wagon either owned by the city, or a private on authorised by the city to haul the stuff away at the experts of those who want the rubbish hauled away. It seems to me that this natter should receive immediate attention. IRA WAKEFIELTX. ' Dallaa, Juaa S. Enjoy your meals in cool comfort this summer. Electric breezes make better appetites, and aid digestion. Contented and happy in body and mind no matter how hot it gets that's the feeling in the electric fan home. The Electric Fan Insures Comfort In Every Part of the House In the kitchen it drives out heat, smoke and odors. In the bedroom it produces pleasant and refreshing sleep on the hottest nights. On the porch it keeps flies and mosquitos away. All at a cost less than a cent an hour Purchase from any electric supply dealer. Prices from $8.50 up. Oregon Power Company 605 Court St. Telephone 24 Phone 1183-2 R. L. CHAPMAN -TNKRAL IHRECTOK AX1 EMUALMEH Calls promptly answered day or nlgbl Dallas, Oregon. Olive Smith-Bicknell Teacher of PIANO and ORGAN Studio 712 Oak St. DALLAS OREGON' LODGE DIRECTORY UNITED ARTISAN'S Dallas Assem bly, No. 46, meets on first and third Mondays cf each month at Wood man hall. Visiting members made welcome. MILLIE M. STAFRIN, M. A. WILLIS SIMONTON. Secretary. .KEIJEKAIIS Aim Ira Lodge No. M meets first and third Wednesday each month at Odd Fellows' HalL NOLA COAD, Noble Grui &iORA COSPER, Secretary. I , . ! WOODMEN OF THE WORLD Dsl- las Camp No. 209 meets In W. 0. I W. Hall on Tuesday eveninf 4 I each week. R. E. REED, Consul Coa ; . a. a ikes, clerk. The Mew Home Sewing achine When We Hand You Our Estimate of the cost of the lumhr you rouire you can depend upon it that the fg ures will be as low at firft-iUsa. well reasoned lumtter can b sol.l f.r hon estly. If you 1'f.y more you jy too much. If you pay 1, m y. u pit l.ss either qurlity or quantity. Dallas Lumbers Logging Co NOISELESS RUNNING SPLENDID FINISH CRAVEN BROS, Agents DALLAS, ORE. I A. F. & A. M. Jennings Lodge, K 9, meets second and fourth FridW of each month, In Masonic hall Main street Visiting brethren wel come. E. A. HAMILTON'. W. St 1 1 WALTER S. MUIR. Secretary. West Side Marble ! WorKs G. L. HAWKIXS, Proprietor. MOXCMEXTS, HEADSTONES A CTRBIXG. Complete line of All L-U-et De m " BARHAM BROS. CONTRACTORS and BUILD All Kinds of Mill Work Doors, Window, and Buildin, Material at Lowest Pn West End Court St D-Uaa, Oref Observer Ads Bring Results Dallas Iron Worts Mactiintaa roaixtryrof- V Maker. SltVHILL WORK A SPECX-LT We are prepare to c r W1 Iron and Braaa work. Lumber tr and Stock work on hand. Ws th r-rt and chtapt Stamp Pn ttt market PrtcM rwaao-