Polk County observer., July 21, 1914, Image 4

THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVER, TUESDAY, JULY 21. 1914.
Published Each Tuesday and Friday.
BY LEW CATE3
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the Postofflce at Dallas, Oregon.
Office 517-519 Court Street
Telephone Main 19
THE CITY IS CRUEL.
Why this rush to the larger cities,
where an apparent wave of crime is
constantly sweeping, is beyond our
comprehension, when the rural realm
offers a peaceful and profitable life
that is incomparable. The multiplici
ty of crimes daily perpetrated in the
hii? cities of this country serve "to
call attention to the savagery of that
life. In the cities are brought to
gether the criminals of every degree.
The brutality of the low criminal who
is a primitive savage in civilized garb,
matched by the shrewd cunning, the
oppression, the lawlessness of the high
criminal. The present rate of savage
ry in the cities is directed largely
against women and children. Xatur
ally so, for in the city weakness does
not invite chivalry. It gives the
strong a chance to prey on the weak.
If in the city we have the brutal
villain whose crimes excite the horror
of civilized men, we have also the
sleek vallain who makes merchandise
of female virtue, who traffics in hu
man flesh by a system of white slavery
that would put to shame a savage of
the woods.
If on one side we have ignorance
and vice joined together, we have also
a flaunting luxury joined to a pagan
carelessness and a cynical disregard
of all poverty and suffering. The
savagery of the rich is no whit better
than that of the poor and there is
less excuse for its existence. The
city imposes hard conditions and if
it produces monstrous and ghastly
crimes in the slums it also produces
monstrous and hideous crimes in the
business world.
In the cities men are hardened by
the fierce rivalry of the times. In
order to get what they want they try
to take short cuts. They develop a
disregard of their fellows. The low
criminal uses crude methods, the high
criminal puts on the cloak of respect
ability. In the cities men and wo
men are largely given over to the
desire of pleasure. Self-sacrifice is
distasteful. Gross materialism too
often controls their desires. Natur
ally they fight each other just as
savages do. Of course there is hu
manity in the city, and unselfishness
and chivalry and rugged honesty, but
below it all is that fierce, insistent,
almost dominant, note of savagery.
threatened if the increase of this kind
of business is much longer quietly sub
mi' ted to. Inactivity or indifference
is a great danger, and leaves the road
clear for the mail order house to pro
gress at will. This competition will
not have the right of way, unless it
is granted them by the local dealers;
at least to a large extent. We would
not for a moment cast any reflection
on local dealers, only that it would
seem that the seriousness of the sit
uation has not fully been appreciated
until the growth of the competition
has become of monster proportions.
The local dealer must exert himself
for the maintenance of the trade to
which he is reasonably entitled. A
line of action must be directed ener
getically and systematically for the
preservation of the retail interests.
How shall it be doiief It must be
be done by meeting competition, by
publicity in favor of those buying, by
co-operating of local merchants acting
unitedly for the best interest of their
respective communities, by making it
known that a pride and interest in
the home town demands the support
of all, bankers, merchants, manufac
turers, clerks, laborers and farmers
in fact everyone in the community.
ing. Mr. Jones has stated before the
senate committee that he is in full ac
cord with the policy of the Interna
tional Harvester company.
HOPE FOR PEACE.
Since the resignation of General
Huerta from the provisional presiden
cy of Mexico there is every evidence
among American and other refugees
of an immediate movement to return
to the capital and points in the in
terior, where abandoned interests are
awaiting attention. Many Americans
who went to Vera Cruz during the
general exodus and refused to proceed
further pending some adjustment of
the affairs of Mexico, have expressed
their intention of returning to and
many are making actual preparations
to leave at once for their former
homes.
The the removal of (iuneral Hu
erta means permanent peace to Mexi
co is doubled in some quarters, but it
is generally believed there will be a
subsidence of anti-American senti
ment ami at least a period of relief
from the menace of actual revolution.
There has been during the last few
days a noticeable growth in the num
ber of Knglih. Germans over the gap
class of Mexicans leaving over the gap
toward the interior. Many of these
are owners or managers of hac:'iuia4
and mining properties, who are go
ing back to be able to resume busi
ness or to repair dam-.ge to property
occasioned by abandonment weeks
ago.
BUSINESS ABOVE NORMAL.
The wonj.-rful growth of the cata
log mail order houses reveals the fact
logue mail order house reveals the fact
that the business they are doing is far
above the normal increase in popu
lation. It is therefore a drain on the
collective communities of our coun
try. The existence of the retailer is
FREE ADVERTISING.
The public is learning that there is
nothing free in business. All little
courtesies, accommodations and gifts
cost money and the expense must be
taxed up against the business. When
the railways were liberal with trans
portation to various classes of citizens
whose favor they desired the fare
paying passengers bore the burden on
traffic or it was assessed against the
frieght department. The expense of
"deadheads" at a theater had to be
borne by the ticket-buying public.
These falsely termed "free" things i
are gradually being eliminated. It
required action by congress and the
several state legislatures to abolish
railway passes and telegraph frank:
Theaters have been forced to reduce
or abandon the free list bv necessity.
It is likely that the abuses of free
delivery service will have to be check
ed, being now one of the large ele
ments in the high cost of living.
The newspaper is one of the last
institutions to attempt to correct this
abuse of giving away the very thing
it sells its space. The newspaper.
like a train, "runs anyhow." This
has led many advertisers to insist on
"free" notices accompanying, antic
ipating or following paid advertis
ing. Not all kinds of business de
mand or expect such treatment. If
all advertisers made such demand and
the so-called free space were exactly
proportioned to the paid advertising
it would be merely tantamount to a
general reduction in the advertising
rate. There would be no particular
injustice in it, but there would be
nothing rational about it. But as
only certain classes of advertisers
make the demand, the others paying
for their space at regular rates, the
injustice to the latter is obvious. The
general advertising rate must be
adequate to cover all advertising space
and the advertisers who ask no do
nation must pay their own share of
the cost of that demanded by others.
The injustice is so apparent that the
best newspapers of America are striv
ing to abate the practice.
The subscribers to a newspaper buy
it for the news it contains. The news
paper, to keep t ait li with them, must
determine what is news, uninfluenced
by advertising contracts. To consider
certain matter news and run it as
such merely because it is related to
advertising it not fair to the reader.
The ideal of a newspaxr is to give
its readers all the things they will
read with interest and the things they
are entitled to know, under the im
plied obligation of the subscription
contract. This ideal can not be at
tained until the last votiire of the
"five reader" with advertising shall
have been eliminated.
MUST WORK LEGITIMATELY.
Mrs. Weathered, who several
months ago held a Made-in-Oregon
banquet in Dallas in the interest' of
the manufacturers of the state, has
severed her connection 'with that or
ganization, because I lie manufactur
ers' campaign for business was not in
accord with her views of what should
be done. While in Dallas on Satur
day last, Mrs. Weathered expressed
the opinion that if the Oregon manu
facturers were to cope with those of
the east they should follow their plan
of' securing publicity, i. e., through
advertisements in the newspapers of
the state.
This coincides perfectly with an
editorial published in the columns of
The Observer several weeks ago, and
afterward reproduced verbatim by
more than one hundred newspapers
of the state. The manufacturers of
Oregon are constantly scheming to ex
tend their trade within the state
through some cheap john method in
stead of expending their money in le
gitimate channels, and the sooner
they conform to practical business
methods the sooner will they succeed
in coping with their more business
like eastern competitors. Experience
has taught the Oregon manufacturers
that banquets and hot-air dispensers
are failures in inducing greater pat
ronage, and are now seeking to form
ulate other publicity schemes whereby
them may gain the patronage of con
sumers through appeals to their loy
alty to home institutions and home in
dustries, published without considera
tion by the press of the common
wealth. While The Obseiver religiously be
lieves in fostering home industries.
and the construction of a fence around
the home dollar, it does not believe
that the press of Oregon should be
called upon to fight the battles of the
manufacturers, any more than it
should be solicited to enhance the bus
iness interests of any corporation or
private individual without remunera
tion. That Oregon-made products
should have preference, all things be
ing equal, goes without saying, and
we sincerely hope and trust that con
sumers will become educated to this
point of view and insofar as possible
eliminate foreign-produced goods of
whatsoever character, but the manu
facturer should remember the scrip
tural injunction that the Lord helps
those who help themselves.
Mrs. Weathered is to be commended
for her attitude in the campaign.
While one of the most able publicity
workers in the great coast country,
her efforts to expand trade for the
manufacturers by feeding the con
sumer dainties bought and paid for
by the consumer was a flat failure.
And rightly so.
senting the actual cost of transporta
tion, but the members of congress hav
never been able to bring themselves t
the point of relinquishing this nie
little contribution of spending money.
To the members who travel consider
able distances to attend congressional
sessions, tne mileage allowance
amounts to a respectable sum. And
even when many members traveled on
passes, there never was any hesitation
about accepting the allowance made
for traveling expenses.
Perhaps the time will come when
senators and representatives will be
come convinced tha,t the twenty-cent
mileage allowance really is excessive,
and should be reduced in the inter
ests of the taxpayers, which is to say
the people. Certainly none of these
congressional members would likely
countenance a similar bonus to agents
traveling for private business con
eerns. it thev were the ones who had
to pay the bills. But should there
after all, be any difference between
the conduct of private and public bus
iness, when it comes to such matters 7
Would it be any worse for a traveling
man to demand twenty cents a mile
from his employer, over and above
his regular salary, when the actual
cost of travel was only a fraction of
(hat rate, than for the people's repre
sentatives to work this petty graft?
And it is a petty graft, and only one
of many that cause frequent criticism
and complaint. Why is it that official
representatives always are so free
with the people's money, even when
they are niggardly with their own?
Is it. impossible to have the public's
business conducted in the same eco
nomical and careful manner that
invariably observed in the conduct of
well organized private business?
Kansas, with its million-dollar
wheat crop, one automobile for every
eight families, its prohibition and re
markable prosperity, is wonderfully
lucky to be enjoying such privileges
without income. Under the federal
income tax law, while Uregon pays
$909,000, Missouri $657,000, Connec
ticut and Rhode Island $733,000, Cali
fornia $SSO,000, Kansas contributes
only $49,960. All the western states
except the Dakotas, Xew Mexico and
Arizona paid more income tax than
prosperous Kansas; yet notwithstand
ing they are not boastful.
President Wilson will continue his
watchful waiting policy until the Mex
ican situation is more clarified. And
then he will probably wait watchfully.
He believes that no other nation will
recognize any new government until
the United States has indicated its
attitude.
The editorial visitors to Dallas last
Saturday greatly appreciated the
drinking fountain in the public square.
They watched passing pedestrians
quench their thirst with sparkling
water from this source with plaud
its for those who were instrumental
in its establishment.
KEEP HANDS OFF.
Believing that "every tub should
stand squarely upon its own bottom"
The Observer can see no good and
sufficient reason why the progressives
of Polk, or any other county, should
give their party endorsement to nom
inees of another party. The progres
sive party was created because the
now members thereof were sorely dis
pleased with both of the older politi
cal parties, and having made new af
filiations they should stand bravely
by the ship or completely desert it for
a more substantial craft, rather than
to undertake a distribution of patron
age that must ultimately mean its
downfall. If the progressives are not least it should be good for men in
inclined to name a local ticket they; need of more grit.
should keep hands off, permitting the J
vote of its nartv members to be cast' Those members of the Willamette
Saturday was a busy day in Dallas.
Besides the temperance rally at the
citv park and the meeting ot the
Editorial association at the library,
the socialists and democrats each held
a session at the court house.
The land of the silo, remarks a
writer is one of he agricultural pa
pers, is always the land of prosperity.
And Oregon already is largely a "si
lo" state, and becoming more so every
vear.
The so-called sand cure for stomach
troubles is again being boosted. At
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if every subscriber paid up promptly,
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efforts at newspaper making, please
let us have a substantial expression
of that appreciation.
than twice as much now than
before Dr. Toel performed the
operation.
Dr. Toel does not confine him
self to the. use of a single elec
tric machine. He has many
different ones and consequent
ly is able to use that particular
current which is of most value
,ln treating each particular
patient. adv
DR. TOEL.
Four Years Study at German
and Swiss Universities and the
Large Hospitals of London,
England. Over Thirty Years
experience in His Specialties.
NOTICE
TO
ICE CONSUMERS
Office, 619 Washington St.,
Dallas, Oregon, one-half block
east of the S. P. depot, from 9
a. m. to 12 noon, 2 to 5 p. m., 7
to 8 p. m., Sunday, 10 to 1 p. m.,
telephone 1303.
Specialties:
Cancer and Tumors.
No knife and no loss of blood.
No plasters and pain for
hours and days.
Polypus, Goitre, Piles, Fistula,
tism, Liver, Stomach, Kidneys,
Bladder, Prostate, Asthma, I
Diseases of Women, Skin and
Nervous Diseases, Neuralgia,
Neurasthenia, Gout, Rheuma-!
Bronchitis, Catarrh, Dyspepsia.'
Constipation.
Those persons desiring ice
in the residence districts are
requested to display their ice
Wanted" card the first thing
in the morning, as only fore
noon delivery is made in this
territory.
Those customers not have
ing cards are requested to calt
at the plant and get one, leav
ing their street and number.
DALLAS ICE CO.
Patients from out of the city,
wishing to consult him must in-!
form him before hand by letter;
or telephone of the time of ar-;
rival of their trains to make sure
that they can be seen the same
day. adv !
MRS. WALTER L. TOOZE
without dictation from the leaders,
Bv
Valley press association who attend
ed 'he semi-annual meeting in this
city on Saturday were favorably im-
pressea witn uauas.
THE MILEAGE GRAFT.
a close vote the house of repre
scntatives has decided to retain the
present mileage allowance of twenty I The Sheridan Sun publishes in brief
cenis a mile each way for members of a history of the remaikable growth of
congress in traveling between their' that prosperous little city since the
homes and the capital. This action conflagration, one year ago, when the
FAVORS THE TRUST.
President Wilson's appointment of
Thomas I). Jones, a director of the
International Harvester company, as, followed a spirited debate, in which j town was practically wiped out of ex
governor of the Federal Reserve the charge of "mileage graft" was'istence. The article is profusely il
Board. created by the new currency j freely made by members in favor of lustrated, and shows enterprise on the
law. is attracting wide attention, cutting down the present allowance. 1 part of the publisher.
among farmers. In a statement be-! When it came to the test, however, 13Jj
fore the Banking committee of the members voted in opposition to the! If it is true, as reported, that the
senate. Mr. Jones is said to have proposed reform, to 1 in favor of it. I United States commissioner of e.Iu
admitted that, as a director of theand the old arrangement therefore 'ration is in favor of the gradual elim
harvester trust, he voted not to ac- j will continue. inaiion of women as school teachers,
cept terms proposed by Attorney Gen- This mileasre allowance is one of the 'a large number of people will be in
eral Wickersham, the republican at-! time honored perquisites of members ! favor of the elimination of the eom
torney general, who had proceeded of congress. The rate m as fixed when ; missioner.
aminst the trust. Mr. Jones was
elected a director of the harvester
trust by the votes of George W. Per
kins of the Pierpont Morgan com
pany, Cyrus McCormick and Mr. Deer-
the country was comparatively new.
and travel much more expensive than
it is today. There frequently has
A Chicago university professor is
planning to weigh the moon. Of
been talk of cutting the mileage al-l course, it should be heaviest when it
lowanee to a figure more nearly repre-j is full, yet that is when it is lightest
Suddenly Taken Sick With,
Muscular Rheumatism. 1
Mrs. Walter L. Tooze, Jr., of !
819 Washington Street, the wife
of the well known Dallas attor
ney, was on Sunday morning'
early suddenly taken sick with
a very severe attack of muscu-!
lar rheumatism on the right side
of the neck. Hard lumps form-!
ed in the muscles and the con
tractions caused so much pain
that she could not move her
head to the slightest degree. Dr.
Toel, who has his office In the
same building, was called out of j
bed and when rinding tnat nis
his patient could not be moved
from her bed on account of the
excrutiating pain the slightest
movement caused her, took one
of the many electrical machines
he has Into Mrs. Tooze's room
and applied the current to her
there.
In 20 minutes Mrs. Tooze was
almost entirely free from pain
and could move her head around
without inconvenience. A few
hours later she was up and could
cook the family dinner as usual.
This shows best what electri
city will do if applied by a phy
sician who has had many years
of experience in Its use, for
Mrs. Tooze had, while Dr. Toel
as . away during- tne winter.
three different attacks of the
same disease. The first time
she was in bed four days with
the most horrible pain; the sec
ond and third times she was bed
fast for two days each attack.
Notwithstanding all the treat
ment she was obliged to suffer
for such a long time, while this
time she was free of pain after
twenty minutes of Dr. Toel s
treatment.
But electricity has shown its
great value In her family In an
other way.
On June 12th her little son,
20 months old, underwent an
extremely difficult surgical op
eration at the hands of Dr. Toel.
Dr. Toel performed the opera
tion without shedding a single
drop of blood, by means of elec
tricity, and the child was never
compelled to stay in bed a single
day.
The wounds have long ago
been healed perfectly and thej
child is free of all its nervous
I HI
OF COURSE?
And consequently yon 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 as
about it, or telephone for quota
tions. Jt will be to onr mutual
advantage.
Loughary Grocery
DALLAS, OREGON
NEW PLUMBING SHOP
512 Main Street.
After having been with Guy
Bros, for six years I have opened
a shop at the above number and
solicit yonr patronage.
H. H. RICH
I am in Business for Your Health.
Phone 452.
I LUMBER V
I OFFICE
When We Hand
You Our Esti
mates of the cogt of the lumber you require
you 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 get less
either quality or quantity..
Willamette Valley
Lumber Co.
6-0 FARM AND CITY .LOANS.
May be obtained to repay mort
gages, remove encumbrances, purchase
or improve real estate, from one to
ten years' time. .. Special privileges;'
correspondence invited.. . A. C. Gen
eral Acencv. 767 Gae Electric S1H
trouble now, while Mrs. Tooze Denver, Colo, or 444 Phelaa Blag,
claims that her son eats more San FranciacA Calif, j