THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVER, TUESDAY, APRIL 28th, 19H
Published Each Tuesday and Friday.
BY LEW CATE3
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the clyinipion spenders. A train de
luxe makes away with moro funds
yearly than an extravagant million
aire. An Atlantic liner has more lux-
urionsness than an average palace ill
England. One feature of this modern
extravagance has a political and soc
ial significance. It is to be hoped
that it contains no sinister implica
tions. It is 'that this extravagance
is universal. Millionaire and labor
ing man alike meet in the democracy
of the general abundance of good
living and possession of necessities
of life that fifty years ago were con
sidered luxuries.
OUR LITTLE BOW.
It is customary, we believe, when
a publication changes ownership for
him who assumes control to set forth
the aims and objects of such publi
cation and the policy it will pursue
in the future. To the writer this is
an easy task. Primarily our object
in becoming possessed of The Polk
County Observer is io make money.
This is understood. Not however,
that we except to amass great wealth,
for very few so-called country ik'ws-
impermen ever attain such an ex
alted position in the financial woild.
We do expect, nevertheless, through
earnest and conscientious labor to
more than keep the wolf from the
door. We shall strive to make The
Observer an important factor in the
moral, social, intellectual, commerc
ial and industrial advancement of
Dallas and Polk county, faithfully
and energetically endeavoring to till
the refiuiieinents demanded of a pro
irressive newspaper. It will stand for
all that is orderly, lawful and de
cent in social life, ever ready to con
tribute wherever and whenever possi
ble to the betterment of the com
munity and the material interests of
its people as a whole.
The Observer in the future, as in
the past, will keep in. keen touch
with every species of local activity,
nnd hopes to become a still greater
impersonal force in the upbuilding of
Dallas and the surrounding territory.
It will chronicle from day to day in
concise and comprehensive fashion the
happenings within its field, distin
guishing as best it can between legit
imate news and senseless gossip. In
brief, its aim will be lb completely
cover the newspaper field. The writ
er lias made mistakes in the past; he
will make mistakes in the future, for
to err is human, hut those errors
will be unintentional and without
though! of doing injustice, and hence
such errors should be subject !o leni
ency on the part of the reader. Po
litically, the policy of The Observer
will continue to be republican, with
which party I he writer has been af
filiated for lo these many years, re
serving the right of independence in
its expressions of opinion where good
of parly is concerned.
In entering upon our duties we de
sire lo express our appreciation the
18-carat variety to those citizens of
Dallas tbroiiL'h whose encouragement
we have cast our lot in this beautiful ! Posslble-
and pnisieious Willamette Valley
rily for their good otlices, and to so
licit the assistance of every public
spirited member of the community to
the end that Dallas may boast of a
newspaper in keeping with its pro
gress. We desire lo share ciedit with
the progressive element in the fur
ther upbuilding of this city.
Assuring one and all that we shall
appreciate any and all favors extend
ed us, we make oui little obesiance
ami "dig in." I.KW A. CATKS.
SPENDTHRIFTS
As noijible a ch.mue as any in j
pii".cnt from past manners ami habits
of society apcar in the financial J
anil economic coiiililinns. 1 lie pimr
of to.lav differ from ihoe of a half I
century or even of a generation airo.
CONSIDER THESE THINGS
Times of public enthusiasm and
public display are appropriate. They
do much, to arouse popular interest in
citizenship and in the progress of a
community. But. after all, it is in
the daily pursuit of community build
ing that the character and purpose
of citizens can best be measured.
Here is to be found (he steady level
from which to most truly judge how
high the real lovalty that abides rises
in the life of the people. The logical
wnv, in fact the only way, to build
this immediate section up to a point
where nature, human enterprise and
energy combined can reasonably an
ticipnte its being lifted is by a hearty
and general co-operation that shall
jealously guard every avenue which
leads to the ultimate goal, and by a
determination on the part of each
individual to aid in its further devel
opment. This is not to be brought
about by inspirational speeches and
addresses on the part of gifted men.
however valuable their suggestions
and pleadings may be; this is not to
be promoted by articles from the
press, however, timely and true they
may be in their conclusions; this is
not to be accomplished even by an
nual agricultural and industrial ex
positions, however splendidly carried
out may be this program or enthusi
astic may have been its promotion
by the earnest men who pushed it for
ward to success. While each is ad
mittedly a powerful factor in the for
ward march of progress our future
greatness deiends. in the final analy
sis, on the people of today and their
attitude toward one another. We
rich and poor, employer and employ
ed, business man, farmer, mechanic
and laborer, must exhibit faith in t he
present bv erecting a fence around
the home dollar, remembering that
money sent- abroad returneth not.
The "Made-in-Oregon" campaign
now in progress throughout this eom
nionweallh, and brought forcibly to
our immediate attention through the
efforts of the Dallas Woman's Club.
is one of vital importance lo every
inhabitant. When simmered down it
means protection to state industries.
But let us go still further and make
our campaign one of community pro
tection as well.
It is in constant, steady contribu
tion of its citizens, in cash, in time, in
good words spoken and earnest efforts
made for its prosperity, that greater
community development is to be made
It 's doing things that
count. Tliey are not necessarily large
things done in a spectacular way. in
fact, these show up large, but they
are only worth while as giving im
pulse to the actual, practical every
day life that we each live and in
which the community must always
most largely depend for its onward
march. Let's do things with a single
purpose that w-e shall not only be able
to demonstrate our past glories and
our present progress, but what is of
far more significance shall reach for
ward to the things that are bevond
and get a grip on the future that
shall eomieI us to letain our place
among the most progressive and stir
ring communities of the entire coun
try. There is no legerdermain about
ilevelopment of a locality. It
would like to get a momentary peep
at the individual who would approve
of such an unlieanl-of thing.
While the Observer, like Dr. Wiley,
has reached that stage where it con
fines its kissing entirely to immediate
relatives and babies, it is not because
it fears the transmission of grms.
Keminisceiitly speaking, imagine a
darkened moon on a moonlight night,
with the beams playing tug around a
couple idly swinging in a hammock
while the niid-summer zephyrs gently
waft from the distant- meadow the
smell of new mown hay let the anti
kissing society attempt to invoke the
referendum in such a case and see
what would happen. All the ob
structionists this side of the , azure
blue-couldn't sustain it. The pair
would immediately shift their base
of operations to a more secluded
spot.
Stop kisingf It can't be done. So
long as good red blood courses through
the yeins of the American youth and
the adults and the aged, too, so far as
that is concerned that most delight
ful sensation which is experienced
when lips touch and arms clasp, nnd
"two hearts beat as one" will con
tinue to exist. Disregard the edict
of the crusaders and, in the language
of the poet, go to it.
CAPTAIN GLENNON, IN
COMMAND. OF WYOMING.
WE BEG TO DIFFER.
A valued exchange, heretofore con
sidered as possessing more than an av
erage intelligence, in printing a news
story says "it's an old man's fault
if he's poor." Of times it is. The
aged men and women, who drug out
their weary lives in a hopeless effort
to hold on are frequently the victims
of their own sins. The old man who
begs a crust of bread may be a
wretched record of on illspent life.
And yet he may not be. He may
be more sinned against than sinning;
he may be turned out into the storm,
as was King Lear, by his ungrateful
'hildren, or by the ungrateful cliil
Iren of his neighbors. The tottering.
reciepit, dissolute old man may be
the senile child of the boy who work
ed at 8, of the young fellow who was
cast into jail for a trivial offense.
It is not true today that the right
eous in their old age never beg bread.
The chances of life are many, and
a man may 'work and save, and yet
in the last hour 'be penniless nnd
friendless. The honored bank may
break, the trusted friend defraud;
even the insurance company may fail
to insure. And there are men, hon
est and intelligent men, and great
men and genuises, too, mho cannot
keep their heads- above water, and
who are driven by their very human
ity into a penniless old age.
N The statesmen of America, and all
Americans are statesmen just as much
as all mole hills and all mountains
are elevations, are dividing on the sub
ject of the continued utility of the
Constitution of the United States. To
some it is Holy Writ, a fetish, to
others it is a Bible, a document to be
interpreted reverently perhaps, but(
in the light of history and science;
they do not consider it inerrant. To
another class it is a rhetorical treat
ise, with some absurdities in state
ments and prolific of misunderstand
ing. They point to the fact that
through this Constitution we are rul
ed by men who have been in their
graves for more than century. They
hold that it was written for a col
lection of small farming communities
whose aggregate population was less
than that of our largest citv today
Photo by American Press Association.
Captain James H. Glennon ls'in com
mand of the Wyoming, the official
flagship of Rear Admiral Charles ,T.
Badger, commander in chief of the
Atlantic fleet.
conveys our thoughts across conti
nents and under seas, and makes it
possible to communicate with man
in mid-ocean.
From present indications the Chau
tauqua to be held in Dallas in June
will be an unqualified success. The
talent secured for this event is of
the highest order, and Manager Miles
is extremely proud of the program
as arranged. This annual event can
not fail to prove beneficial to Dal
las, and every citizen of the com
munity should put a shoulder to the
wheel and make it even more success
ful than the most sanguine expecta
tions of the association under whose
auspices it. is conducted hope for.
As a result of the recently enacted
democratic tariff law, Oregon is re
ceiving from China eggg fit only for
the crematory, beef from Australia
and potatoes from other foreign
countries, while the home pi mincers'
potatoes are either rotting in storage
or selling at a low figure. Tubers are
coming iuto eastern seaports by ship
loads, absorbing freight charges and
beating our farmers to the markets
in their own country.
If the farmer of the, present day
does not succeed it will not be be
cause he is not being offered every
possible assistance. The United.
States department or agriculture is
conducting extensive investigations to
solve his problems, while the state is
co-operating along the same lines
through agricultural experiment sta
tions.
Dallas and vicinity offer the home
builder all the requirements for a
contented life. The soil, insures oo0
crops. The merchants want the pro
ducts of the farm. The rural 'ele
phone goes to the door; the climate
is superb; transportation facilities are
fair. Withal we offer the home-builder
our "best room" in Dallas.
There is comfort and joy in the
thought that we are to have a good
apple yield this year. Otherwise we
might have to eat Ben Davises.
The modern mother does so much to
snare her children it is a wonder she
i the
They earn more and I hey svn.l in
an increased nmdier of wavs. Nor
are the rich of PU4 similar to the
wealthy of 1SS1 or of 1Si4. The lux
ury of the two eras has little in
common. This s'1hIs ostentatiously
where that scnt quietly if lavishly.
Americans arc credited by KuroH-aus
with being the pioneers in modern
comes about alwavs because those
who are a part of it are true and
loyal to its best interests in little and
unobserved but very practical ways.
ABOUT OSCULATION
The proposition to completely abol-
jish the gentle practice of osculation
j by anti-kissing crusades and health
societies is the subject for scol: by
I those of us who have a grain of sen-
luxuiiousncss and wasteful squ mder- j timentality left in us. If. as alleged
ins. Annual expenditures of Ameri-jby tbt instigators of this proposed
ran tourists abroad aic rated as reach- wide-spread movement, life is to be
ing several hundreds of millions of jwrw-ked or shortened as a direct re-
dollar. They demanded the syharit-sult 0f aisease germs transmitted
ie caravansaries of bmdon i!ed fn,m 0M person t0 ,nother by the
modern holds, fourteen of which last: kissing route, let ns welcome our
year are said to have enjoyed a t urn-j fate. What a cold, cheerless world
over of f 12.0tHUhlil. Catering lo the this would be without spooning: with
luxiirious tastes of ln,ln's foreign 'out the time-honored custom of kiss
rlicnts from all over the world hasingr just before good-night is -.aid.
become one of the modern Babylon's j Just imagine, if you can, a kissless
most profitable businesses. courtship. Can one contemplate a
Hut railways and steamships are jmore uninteresting predicament T Wr
' , ,i ..i c ..i.:
. , L -i flOCSn I. llllUK UU sunn: piuu oil iimni
they say that it was written by those ' , "if
who had not. nor could have had. any;1" V'"s lm "lem-
conception of our territorial exten
sion, physicial resources and com
mercial -development and
Apart from what these
schools may think, it is certain that
the Constitution was made for man,
You may shatter, yon may breik
the speed ordinance if you will, but
''"er' the scent of gasoline will cling to it
various ; .,.
im.
Shears. Sawbuck & Co. were not
and not niauj for the Constitution, irepiesented at the "Made-in-Oiegon"
It. therefore, can and doubtless will .banquet last Wednesday evening,
be changed. not- suddenly as j
by annihilation, but gradually and
by substitution. "Our little systems
come and go. they have their day
and cease to be." In the light of
endless time and space the Constitu
tion of the United States is a little
svsteni and transient.
KILL THE CATARRH
GERM-USE HYOMEI
It's the direet-to-the-spot method
vou breathe it. Do not delay and
a .nfffl- f n.m catarrh liond
If the Apostle .Paul could again , , hmn(.hitis or sniffles. it U not
walk the streets of ancient Tarsus and onv nedless and annovs vour friends.
view the strange phenomena of elec-ibut dangerous to your general health.
trie illumination he would be non- Besnn the Hyomei treatment at
plussed at the progress made bv hisionfe- " ne VL l"v , TVA-
J. , . . . , . est. and surest way to clear the head
birthplace, notwithstanding the fact, . niM ,nd r-nnanentlv banish
that he was a booster for Tarsus I catarrh.
for did he not speak of himself as! Hyomei being medicated air im
"a Jew of Tarsus, a citizen of no'm''''!.'' reaches the sore and irri
.. .., , , t tated membrane and tissues its an-
mean cityt" A news item . say, Tar- tj heaUng begins
sus now bas its streets lighted by at onfff
electricity, that force which has revo- You will surely like Hyomei ita re
lutionized transportation, sent its lief is not only immediate but last-
ravs of light into the remote corners-in- Money "fnnded by JLonrad
of the earth, given potency and power ' V . ,. -,,, ontn,l.(W size.
to innumerable pieces of machinery, jp. everywhere sell Hyomei
GREATEST
BARGAINS
EVER OFFERED IN DALLAS
Table Sets Chinaware
Tea Sets : Glassware
Toilet Sets Leather Goods
Post Card Albums Dolls
TO BE SOLD AT
ONE-HALF REGULAR PRICE
See Our Window Display
VALUES FROM 20c TO $1.00
EVERY ARTICLE TO BE SOLD FOR
10 CENTS
These goods must be sold in order
to make room for the largest, and
most complete stock of high-grade
Pianos, Phonographs, Records,
SheetMusic and Musical Merchan
dise in Polk County.
WILLIAMS MUSIC HOUSE
500 COURT ST., OPPOSITE GRAND THEATRE
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