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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
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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
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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
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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)
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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
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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
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All Kinds of Mill Work
Doors, Window, and Buildin,
Material at Lowest Pn
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SltVHILL WORK A SPECX-LT
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Iron and Braaa work. Lumber tr
and Stock work on hand. Ws
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ttt market PrtcM rwaao-