THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVER, TUESDAY, JULY 7, 1914.
Published Each Tuesday and Friday.
BY LEW GATES
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works, no matter what his occupation
is, needs a day of rest every week.
It is one of the blots on our so-called
civilization that, oftentimes, this is
denied him.
CANNON ON WILSON.
President Wilson is engaged In
smashing precedents.
The president has delivered
bis messages from the rostrum
of tlie speaker of the bouse. In
that he has smnslied a precedent
of a hundred years.
President Wilson smashed an
other old precedent in abolishing
the New Year's reception. This
abandonment of an old social
custom Is not of importance,
but it reminds me of an inci
dent In the administration of
Lincoln.
On the morning of Jan. 1,
18(13. the president copied the
emancipation proclamation with
his own hand, working at his
desk nntll the hour for the New
Year's reception to begin. Then
be went to the blue room and
for four hours shook bonds with
thousands of citizens. At 3
o'clock in the afternoon Uncoln
returned to his desk with his
right hand so swollen that be
could scarcely hold a pen. but
after manipulating and massag
ing the fingers for a few minutes
be took the pen and wrote
"Abrahnm Uncoln" to the most
significant document ever issued
from the White House. Joseph
O. Cannon.
NEED OF SUNDAY REST.
Most of the arguments relating to
the advantage of a weekly day of
rest hnvo to do with the religious and
ethical phases of this problem, and of
course this is a point of view not to
he slightly dismissed. But the scien
tific study of the matter and its direct
hearings on human efficiency should
apjM'al to a still larger number of
people, even to secularists who do not
care for the religious aspect of Sun
day as a day of rest from toil. The
current number of The Journal of
the American Medical association con
tains an urticle giving the results of
such a scientific study of the question,
made by Dr. Martin, of the laboratory
of physiology at Harvard university,
and some of his associates, who have
devoted much time to a careful in
vestigation of the relation' between a
regular rest day and human etliciency
during the remainder of the week.
A number of interesting experi
ments were conducted by these investi
gators, who placed under observation
a certain number of medical students,
of average mental and physical quali
ties. These students were devoting
six days of the week to their regular
daily tasks. On Sundays they were
not strictly idle, but, of course, their
occupations ou that day differed great
ly from the weekly routine. The re
sults obtained showed that at the be
ginning of the week's work the nerve
tension was very high; then it be
gan to decrease until at the end of
the week it was very low. But, with
the day of rest sandwiched between
the week's work and the week to fol
low, the nerve tension again resumed
its high point.
The decline in the nerve tension was
due exclusively to fatigue. And fa
tigue is the great handicap of all!
work. A person is efficient in
ANOTHER CRISIS?
There are rumors of a renewed
crisis with Japan over the California
anti-alien land law and treaty rights,
and serious difficulty may arise, not
withstanding Mr. Green's assertion
ou the Chautauqua platform here last
week lo the effect that the Japs are
simply bluffing- A few days ago it
was announced that Japan again iiad
taken up this question and would
press for a settlement of disputed
points. And now comes a report 'that
the Atlantic fleet the pick and best
of the American navy, including some
twenty battleships and many smaller
craft will be sent to Pacific waters
next March by way of the new Pana
ma canal, and probably will remain
on this side of the continent for an
indefinite period of time.
Although Secretary Daniels dc
dares the latter plan has no especial
significance in connection with inter
national affaire, and is merely an ar
rangement adopted for the purpose
of having the bulk of the American
navy in proximity to the coming Pan
ama-Pacific exposition, at the time the
latter enterprise is being held at San
Francisco, correspondents and others
have been quick to jump at the con
clusion that the real reason for a new
naval plan has something to do with
the pending dispute between Japan
and this nation. It is suggested that
big naval fleets naturally are kept in
localities where there is the most ap
parent need of them, and that joining
the Atlantic and Pacific fleets the
latter already being stronger than ev
er before is a move that cannot be
explained by a pretended desire to
muss American warships in the vicini
ty of an exposition. Also it is sug
gested that this exactly would be the
plan of this government if it were
apprehensive of trouble wilh Japan,
and desired to be in position to check
mate any threatening move by the
latter.
Whatever mav be the truth of the
situation anil of course the adminis
tration authorities know the inside
facts better than anyone else it is
to be hoped the intimations of a re
newed crisis with Japan will prove
groundless, and that the two nations
will settle their differences in an ami
cable manner. That some of the new
land laws of this country have given
offense to the Japanese is a fact not to
be overlooked, but the statesmen and
leaders of that nation are too shrewd
to be pushed into a conflict with this
country without a settled conviction
of wrong and injustice on the part of
their countrymen. And even then
they would hesitate about tackling
something that foreshadowed positive
disaster, the prospect of which would
be increased by a strong American
one of the leading aviators and aero
plane experts of this country. ThiB
air cruf't, which embodies several im
portant innovations, expected to fit
her for the particular work intended,
has been undergoing trial tests dur
ing the past week, and according to
reports she fully meets the require
ments and expectations of her build
ers and those "who hope to pilot her
ine nrst trans-ocean liignt ever
made by man. Lieutenant Porte, who
will be in cammaud of this remark
able und somewhat hazardous under
taking, feels confident the proposed
trip will he successfully carried out,
and if his hopes and expectations are
verified it will set a new and notable
mark of human achievement.
The name of this new air craft is
the America, and if she meets the ex
pectations of those who pin their faith
in her ability to cross the ocean it
almost will be felt that the name it
self was an augur of good luck and
success, it is doubtless true that the
effort at a forty-hour flight is, in the
present state of aeronautic knowledge
and construction, a most venturesome
attempt. But if the ocean is ever to
be crossed through the air, the lirst
attempt must be made some time.
And, as it has been definitely deter
mined that this season and this craft
shall mark the initial trial, everybody
will earnestly hope for the success
that would mark a splendid forward
step in the new art.
naval force in Pacific waters.
SEES THE LIGHT.
Commenting on The Observer's edi
torial with reference to promoting the
Made-in-Oregon campaign, The Hills-
boro Independent has the folowing:
"Referring to the Made-in-Oregon
campaign The Dallas Observer very
properly says that if Oregon manu
facturers would use the methods em
ployed by those without the state in
stead of depending upon a paid prop
aganda by professional propagandists
they might get more return for tkeir
money. About the only manufactured
product that is not widely advertised
in Oregon newspapers is the made-in-
Orgeon product, and it is an establish
ed fact that advertising sells goods.
OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.
There appears to be widespread dis
satisfaction with some of the aspects
of our vaunted educational system,
and the attitude of severe criticism
maintained by the public toward it
are encouraging symptoms presaging
its reformation. No one who ponders
the abstracts of various addresses by
well-known educators of this and
other states can fail to he struck with
the note of discontent that pervades
them. The teachers no less than the
parents recognize the fact that t lie
American school system, while per
fectly sound in principle, is not al
together sound in practice. A pre
paratory course for the ministry, med
icine or law is not the object of the
public school system. Some of the
boys are going to be laborers, me
chanics, artisans and what not. Not
all of them can become professional
men. It seems reasonable, therefore,
that we should give these boys in
school the things that will be useful
to them in after life, instead of striv
ing to nil their heads with classics,
useful only, according to the author!
ty quoted, for three professions. The
intense practicality of the age, t lie
utilitarian tendencies of our civiliza
tion strongly demand that less em
phasis he put on the merely cultural
studies. Historically speaking, our
grade schools have developed as places
where youth may prepare for the high
school, while that institution in turn
has been closely articulated with the
college or university. This is all well
enough for those fortunate enough to
be able to complete the entire course.
But the fact has been more or less
ignored that the great mass of school
children finish their schooling without
either high school or university
courses. These young adventurers in
to real life should be as well equipped
as possible for their emprise. They
now waste many precious moments in
merely cultural study, when they
might be devoting their time to studies
that will help them along the thorny
path of real life.
Common school education needs
as reasonably be made that the new
hanking system, centering in the fed
eral reserve board, is a special con
cession to the commercial, as distin
guished from the agricultural inter
ests. As a matter of fact, these two
very different interests require differ
ent accommodations, and in most
countries this fact has been recognized
by the creation of very unlike systems,
each suited to its especial function,
It will appear, in fact, that this pro
posal of a commission of experts to
investigate this concededly important
question is deserving of serious con
sideration. The ordinary investigation
of a technical problem of this sort by
a committee of congress must neces
sarily be in large part devoted to the
preliminary work of informing com
mitteesmen about general principles
that would be perfectly familiar at the
outset to a body of experts. The re
sult is a tedious proceeding, wasting
time and money, und producing a rec
ord from which it is well-nigh impos
sible to extract the valuable and use;
ful pails.
In this regard the British practice
of royal commissions of qualified ex
perts for such inquiries is far superior
to our own method. It is this method
that makes the royal commission re
ports carry authority wherever they
are studied. Mr. Milliken s selection
;is an expert to help manage such an
inquiry as is now proposed into rural
credits, would guarantee that the
work would he handled intelligently
and with the certain purpose of get
ting directly at essentials. The oc
casion is a most fitting one for under
taking u new and improved procedure
in illuminating fields.
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great.. The capacity for much work
is of little avail unless one has the
endurance power to do it right along,
and do it well. Hence, Dr. Martin
concludes, that the day of rest is in
dispensnble to insure the highest ef
ficiency of whieh a human being is
capable. Kven in machinery, it has
proved true that intervals of stop
page will enable it to do better work.
And this is true, hi a higher sense, of
the human machine. The day of rest
is a relief from the daily routine.
There is nothing so disheartening, as
a rule, nothing so galling, nothing so
corroding as the routine work of ev
ery day, with no hope to escape from
it, unless one has means to take a
vacation. And if one works seven
days in the week, the slave of routine,
he soon becomes as interesting as a
mummy, and he ran think only in the
terms of the sordid surroundings of
his daily life.
Independently of all religious or
ethical considerations, the man who'
boosters who claim to be able to de
velop public spirit that will sell the
homemade product and a funny side if
it is that they exect tlic newspapers
who are not recognized by the manu
facturers to get in and boost the game.
reformation in practical directions.
It is a happy circumstance that those
who study education most deeply, and
those who merely come in contact
with its manifestations through their
children are coming to agree on that
point.
PENNY POSTAGE MOVEMENT.
Although the movement to secure
one-cent letter postage is being kept
up in this country, it does not seem
to be making much progress. Some
individuals and some business organ
izations have given this plan their
approval, but in a good many in
stances this apparently has been done
without any particular study of the
question and the probable effects of
the proposed change. The other day
a special committee of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce, to which had j
been referred a request that the
chamber- indorse the one-cent postage
campaign, made a report whieh show
ed that it really had looked into the
matter. It recommended that the
chamber go on record against one-cent
postage for the present. "Business
men," the committee said, "are will
ing to pay properly for prompt ser
vice."
It is a well known fact that so
called first-class mail, carried at the
present two-cent postage rate, is the.
main source of profit in the postal
service. With letters at one cent
there would be no profit, hut a loss to
be made up by taxation. Taxation
would fall upon file whole people. A
letter service at less than cost would
save a good deal of money for a few
large business houses. It would not
profit at all the average consumer
whose postage bill is about a dollar a
year, and whose saving by one-cent
postage would be more than eaten up
by increased taxes.
The postal sen-ice should not make
money, but it should as a whole bej
self-sustaining. There is no general
demand for one-cent letter postage,
which would make the postal service
a charge upon the public.
tection, they will conclude to "come
down" before the shooting begins
in other words, to make a clean breast
of it by frankly confessing they have
overlooked or neglected their duty,
and dig up the income tax which they
should have declared and paid at the
proper time. By adopting this plan
they probably will escape more lightly
than if they try to escape the pay
ment of their honest taxes.- For,
while "uncle" may not get all the
tax dodgers, he is bound to get some
of them, and the penalties of the
law are quite severe for those who
either honestly or dishonestly fail to
pay an income tax in the manner and
to the amount prescribed by the stat
ute.
Of course Uncle Sam, in other
words the administration, is greatly
disappointed over this poor showing
of income tax payments, but suspect
ing that there has been considerable
evasion of honest income taxes due
the government, "uncle" is going af
ter the ones who have "welched"
and thereby put themselves in the
class of tax" dodgers. According to
Secretary McAdoo, "active steps will
immediately be taken to discover all
evasions of the law, and a large
additional amount of income tax un
doubted!? will be collected from these
delinquents."
NOTICE
TO
ICE CONSUMERS
Those persons desiring ice
in the residence districts are
requested to display their "Ice
Wanted" card the first thine
in the morning, as only fore
noon delivery is made in this
territory.
Those customers not have
ing cards are requested to call
at the plant and get one, leav
ing their street and number.
DALLAS ICE CO.
NOVELMANIA.
Some men of today hate the or
dinary more than their fathers hated
hades. The college professor, seized
with this mania for the new, pro
nounces all the cherished hymns as
doggerel, and various doctrines as
imaginations of the human mind. He
will advocate the practice of amthan
asia as the most expedient way to
cure cancer, and prescribe a method
of diet each new moon. But the col
lege professor is driven to it by a
clamoring public, crazy with a desire
to hear him talk. The preacher who
does not hold the creed of the up-to-
date church is liable, like the noble
men's servants, to be stoned from his
parish with the epithets of old foggy
ism and narrow-mindedness. And so
on down the long line.
Novelmauia first introduced the
kangaroo walk, and the icy finger tips
for a handshake; it calls the end of
the school yenr the commencement,:
and the butting iuto society the com-1
ing out. Novelmauia in business is:
at its best, because it has a clientage!
trained to look for a prize after a
bargain as DeSoto sought the foun-i
tain of youth, and to expect a gold
brick at the band of every sleek-looking
fellow in a fancy vest. I
Genuine Hand-Carved
Teak Wood
WE ARE SHOWING A BEAUTI
FUL ASSORTMENT OF GENUINE,
HAND-CARVED TEAK WOOD, IN
SERVING TRAYS, COLLAR BOX
ES, PIN TRAYS, JEWEL BOXES,
HAIR BOXES, AND A DOZEN
OTHER BEAUTIFUL DESIGNS.
EVERY HOME SHOULD HAVE
A FEW OF THESE BOXES FOR
KEEPSAKES.
PRICES FROM $1.50 TO 5c.
Hayter's Book Store
428 Main Street
RURAL CREDITS PROPOSAL.
A number of the leading farm jour-
But. as The Observer well sav? if this'nals of ,lle ,untr-. together with rep-
money was spent in straight-out, legit- "tatives of certain agricultural or
iniate advertising in the Oregon coun-Ionizations, have petitioned the ehair
trv newsnaners Ihero nimht!.. tnnr.inK"n of ,lle U0U! and senate commit-
practical results even if there was less
hot air and fewer banquets att-m.od
only by those who do not need con
verting. The fellow the Oregon man
ufacturer must reach if he would in-
INCOME TAX DODGERS.
According to a statement given out
by Secretary McAdoo, of the federal
treasury department, the proceeds of
the first federal income tax collection
amounted to onlv a little more than
one-half the sum that had been es
timated and anticipated. In other
words the federal authorities, figuring
on what information was available.
thought tbey could count on about
$54,000,000 being collected under the
federal income tax which became op
erative last year, the assessment be
ing on incomes for the last ten months
of the calendar year. Instead of that
sum being paid with taxable incomes,
however, it oppears that the total
collections amounted to only $30,750.
000, which is $23,250,000 short of the
official 'estimates, and which makes
such a hole in the anticipated federal
revenues that it is now claimed the
tees on banking and currency, asking
the appointment of a special commit
tee to investigate the rural personal
credit plan devised by R. C. Milliken.
Mr. Milliken has given many years of
crease his sales is the man who hiivs s,u"-v lo ,lus subject, lamilianzmg
the eastern made goods and h can ' mmsrl1' w'" t'1 European and other treasury department will close the
only be reached bv legitimate andi0"'' nio't',s fr such systems. He j fiscal year with a probable deficit of
skillful advertising." jhas received for his project the tenta-
live indorsement of many leading
TO FLY OVER OCEAN. spokesmen of the agricultural classes.
Interest is increasing in the pro-. for whose iw;nl henofit this v&tm
FRESH AIR AND SUNSHINE.
The campaign against tuberculosis
whieh is being waged all over the civ
ilized world has been productive of
one great good along educational lines
in that it has taught people the value
of fresh air and sunshine. It has
taught them to apply the simplest
rules of hygiene to the manner of ev
ery day living. And yet there are
many households, singularly enough,
where there seems to be no faith in
such simple prophylactic remedies as
unadulterated air and unobstructed
sunshine.
Bacteriologists tell us that the di
rect rays of the sun are the most ef
fective of bactericides. Old practi-J
tioners rely upon fresh air more than .
the administration of iron to restore
health and strength to the system and
to feed the waning red blood cor-
puscles. But air and sun are so ut
terly common, you know. In many of
our up-to-date residences the whole
southern exposure of the house is giv
en over to flowers and ferns while the
children are kept securely in a north
room. The roses blossom, but the
children fade; the ferns thrive, but the
innocents decay. We have hygienic
bread, hygienic plumbing, hygieni
kitchens, hygienic rampant every
where, but we shut out the air as if
it were polluted, and follow the sun
around bis course drawing down the
shades. The sun is life and the air
is strength. They are the foremost
of all therapeutic agents better let
them in.
I 1
OF COURSE?
And consequently you must be
interested in fresh fruits. We
can supply the housewife's
wants in any quantity at JUST
THE RIGHT TIME, and at
lowest market prices. See us
about it, or telephone for quota
tions. It will be to our mutual
advantage.
Loughary Grocery
DALLAS, OREGON
NEW PLUMBING SHOP
512 Main Street.
After having been with Gay
Bros, for six years I have opened
a shop at the above number and
solicit your patronage.
H. H. RICH
I am in Business for Your Health.
Phone 452.
It really begins to look as though
the septic tank may be constructed
after all.
posed attempt to flv across the At
laiitic ocean this summer, using the
large heavier-than-air machine which
has been constructed under the per
sonal supervision of Glenn Curtiss.
is intended.
It is not fairly to be charged that
this proposed legislation is in the na
ture of special consideration for a
special class. The charge might juit
about $7,000,000.
When Uncle Samuel goes in to a
matter of this kind he usually makes
a thorough job of it, and it is there
fore safe to say that the income tax
dodgers will soon discover there is
someone on their trail. Perhaps for
their own peace of mind, as well as
for their personal safety and pro-
If you don't get at first what you
ask for don't give up and sit down
in despair, but instead make a stir.
howl and make a noise, and work at
the same time for the accomplishment
of your object.
L
The Observer is gratified oyer the
determination of the council to im
prove the sanitary condition of the
city. While Dallas is probably one
of the most healthful places in Ore
gon, no chances should be taken.
When We Hand
You Our Estimates
of the cost of the turner you require
jx-j can depend upon It that the fig
ures w:ll be as low as first-class, well
seasoned lumber can be sold for hon
estly. If you pay more you pay too
much. If you pay less you set less
either nullity or quantity..
Willamette Valley
Lumber Co.