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THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVES, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 12, 1916. Published Each Tuesday and Friday, Office... 617-619 Court Street Telephone Main IS BY LEW A. CATES. Subscription Rates. One Tear. .11.60 Six Month! .76 Three Months .40 No subscription taken unless paid for In advance. This is Imperative. Entered as second-class matter In the Postofflce at Dallas, Oregon. TWO SIDES TO IT. The British press has been bitter toward the striking miners in the Welsh coal mines and these strikers have been roundly denounced for their apparent lack of patriotism at a time of pressing need. From in formation furnished by consular re. ports, however, it would appear there are two sides to this story. It seems that the mining companies have been making exorbitant profits, due to the excessive demand for their product, and the miners simply are demanding a share of these profits. The Insoles company, for instance, whose average annual output ia 800,000 'tons, drop ped during the year ending June 30. 1915, to 545,000 tons, but its annual dividend was increased from six per cent to ten per cent because its prof it per ton was increased from fifteen cents Ito twenty-nine cents, or nearly double. The Fernhill collieries con tinned an annual sixteen per cent div idend on common stock on' an output of 118,000 tons less than the year be fore, which represented an increase of profits from $156,000 to $191,000 and profit per ton from twenty-three cents to thirty-four cents. The Windsor Steel and Coal company raised 420, 000 tons at a profit of fifty cents per ton. It is not altogether surprising that the miners, seeing their employers Reaping such a gjieat harvest out of the exigencies of the times, which . means, in large part, the necessities of the government, were not willing to continue to help produce these ex traordinary profits without a share in them. The government has quite ef fectually forestalled the distribution of extraordinary profits out of. the manufacture of munitions by taking over the control of the munition plants, and by treating the workmen as employes of the government and really in its service in as true a sense as if they were in the uniform and oc cupying the trenches. : The greed of the mining companies in this crisis and the new relation of the government toward the munition manufacturers may beget a prevail ing sentiment at the close of the war for some different status for the min ing properties which are natural re sources, and for that reason more con sistently objects of government con trol if noo ot government ownersnip than the munitions factories, which are artificial creations. The socialistic tendency in Eng land might be very successfully fed on just such facts as these, and if it should fatten on them, the owners of thfese natural resources, hitherto. would have to thank for it their own unpatriotic greed. guide them so they will strike a mov ing object, such as a warship, sub marine or Zeppelin. Moreover, itheir cheapness and ease of operation would permit them to be launched in large numbers, sufficient to make a veritable rain of death within, any given area. The only secret about ithis latest war contrivance is said to be the method of wireless control, which probably is about the same as that used to control the John Hays Ham mond wireless boat, which also is re ceiving the interested attention of the military authorities of this govern ment. With these two contrivances, both invented by ingenious Ameri cans, this government will possess weapons that will go far Howard en abling it to cope with any enemy that might attempt to force conclusions with the United States. In fact, with the aid of these two weapons of com paratively small force of trained ex perts could stave off an attack from any quarter, and especially when used in connection with such Other modern war weapons as the submarine and ithe aeroplane. WEAPONS OP WAR. The military authorities of this gov. ernment are said to be much inter ested in the invention of a New Jer sey man, who has contrived an aerial torpedo which is controlled by means of the wireless system. 11ns machine is described as somewhat resembling a marine torpedo, but much smaller and lighter, being only about seven feet in length and with a diameter of one foot at the head. It is de signed to carry 1"0 pounds of high ' explosives, is profiled and graded in practically the same manner as the modern aeroplane, and carries signal mnrks and lights to enable the wire less operator to control Ms move ments. It can travel from six to ten miles and its movement is very rapid annroximatiiitr 250 miles an hour. It is intended to explode when it strikes on object, although it doubtless can also be made to explode in the air, by the same wireless impulse which con trols it. should it be deemed desirable to "fire" it in this manner. And the cost of one of the flying torpedoes is only $75, making it alioiit the cheap est "messenger of wholesale death now in military use. If this new invention lives np to its reputation it would appear to be a formidable and valuable weapon in military tactics. What chance would an army or fleet have against a foe which could launch whole flocks of these flving torpedoes T The small ness and rapid flight of the latter would make it almost impossible for an enemy to protect itself against these air torpedoes, while the death dealing power of each of the latter would be as great as that of the larg est shell fired from modern monster cannon. Nor would it be ' guesswork in finding a mark for these air tor redoes, for the operator fan send CHECKING THE SUBMARINE. England apparently has made con siderable progress in her efforts to cheek the operations of hostile sub marines. For instance, the question often is asked as to why the German submarine fleet confines and concen trates its affairs apparently on mar chant vessels, while making no at tempt to hinder the transportation of great bodies of troops from England to France. This query is being re peated just now, moreover, because of (he changed attitude of the war along the western front. It is apparent that the British force in northern France has been materially strengthened and that Kitchener's army of three mil lions, if not in actual existence, is at least being approximately reached. Of course it is perfectly plain that the English channel is as good fight ing ground for submarines as is the Irish coast, and the facilities for un der-sea warfare are apparently as good as those existing in the .Atlantic ocean. But we hear very little of any attempt to blow np the British trans ports conveying troops across the channel to France. Indeed, there is no (recorded instance of the loss of any such vessel, although military transportation across the channel has been going on for more than a year. The answer to the query above not ed will probably be found in the fact that the submarine dreads the war ship. Modern naval equipment has practically made the dreadnaught im mune to submarine attack, bo fair. indeed, has progress in this direction been made that submarine nets hav been spread broadcast in the Englisl: channel, and the under-sea terror is caught as easily as a fly in a spider'i web. Of course, it would be impos sible to apply such a remedy in the Atlantic ocean, but the extension of the seheme to the great steamship lines is likely to occur. and destruction of human lifej made without reason and void of ennobling, patriotic or humanizing impulse, there has still been lacking a something needed, not to prove, but to dramati cally illustrate, its wholly un-christian character. This comes in the killing in battle of Anton Lang. The name is not written in any Who's Who, or in any encyclopedia or dictionary of names, but it is more world-famed than many appearing in such publica tions. For Anton Lang was the Chris- tus of tile Passion play at Oberam mergau. Countless thousands of pil grims, from every part of the Chris tian world, have seen this man, cnos- en not only for a sltriking resemblance Ho the Nazarene, as his lineaments lhave been drawn for us by old mas ters, but for attributes of character which accentuated the likeness. A man of peace and also "a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief." he had moved through Ithe pictures of the Passion play in so much of the seeming of that divine li that mul titudes who had seen him raised up on . the cross as a sinless atonement wept at the sight. His name, linked with that of Oberammergau, has gone around the world. The incidents of the story mid to its tragedy. Anton Lang, still young man, was called early to the colors. But his soul so re cited at the scenes of death, pain, grief, mis ery and desolaltion everywhere around him, that he fell into n serious ill ness and had to be invalided. Back in the quiet of the Bavarian moun tains, he rallied. No sooner was his recovery complete than he wa3 order ed again into the lines. There he has died, a hero's death it is true, but death which will go far to increase the horror and detestation, in sane minds, of a war without cause and without glory. For who can say that the hand which sped the fatal shot was not thalt of some man who knew of him, and had learned to love him. as the world image of the Prince of Peace ? Globe-Democrat). OTHER THINGS A Rare and Curious Collection of Fact and Fancy. "The time has come, " the walrus said "To talk ef OTHEE THINGS: Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, Ann caooages and kings." The Walrus and the Carpenter. Because the school house is over crowded one of the classes is forced to meet in the cloak room. Teachers, since teachers first were, have been Homing a class in .rue- cloak room, and somehow or other it has always been very unpopular with refractory ooys. -We imagine that class meets pretty irequentiy too. Speak, teacher, to the little boy. and beat him when he sneezes. He only does it to annoy, because knows it teases. THE CHRISTUS. A touch was needed to complete the horror of the war drama in Europe. them wherever he chooses and even Great as have been its devastations . AFTER THE WAR. Edward F. McSweeney of Boston, chairman of the directors of the port. presented a report at the convention of pout authorities which has just been in session at Los Angeles, in which he deals with Borne features of our exKrt business which hav hitherto escaped attention. He rc gnrds our present export trade as pro ceeding under an artificial stimijla- tion; and points out that of the pres ent billion-dollar trade balance in our favor over $700,000,000 are exports solely for war munitions ammuni tion, horses, auto trucks, army shoes foodstuffs, etc., trade which will cease the instant the war comes to a close. This leaves a balance of only $300. 000,000 of exports of what might be termed "regular merchandise," an export smaller than that of any year since 1909, and almost $200,000,000 less than in the year before the war. "Comparing the present year of exports from the Lnilled States with that of the year before the war, we find we have exorted only 32 per cent as much agricultural implements. 52 per cent as much sewing machines and 33 per cent as much steel rails The most lamentable fact in connec tion with these figures is that we are losing as much, if not more, to the countries which are not at war as to those which have given up domestic pursuits to take up armed conflict,' says the report. The report continues to sav that last year's figures show that our sew ing machine export trade in 1915 was nly 54 per cent of the 1914 figures. to South America but 20 per cent and to allrf Africa, Asia and the Pacific islands it was but 35 per cent of the previous year. Our exports of the staple merchandise which we-hope to sell under normal conditions aftler war are smaller by a large percentage in practically everything except war orders, and we are losing our export trade much faster to the neutral countries than to the belligerent ones. INTER-COUNTY BRIDGE. If the present inter-county bridge across the Willamette river at Salem were unsafe to traffic, thus endanger ing the loss of life and property, it would be only reasonable to expect tjie governing bodies of the counties of Polk and Marion to provide ways and means to eliminate thalt danger by the construction of a new span, but such does not appear to be the condition which obtains. There seems to be no immediate danger of (the structure collapsing under the strain of travel, and therefore the procras tination on the part of Polk county is to be commended rather than criti ciscd; and especialy so at this time, when it is with difficulty that many tax-payers meet the obligations im posed upon them to liquidate expenses necessary for the conduct of govern mental affairs. Examinations of the physical condition of the bridge in question does not reveal "danger, and why the Marion end of the prop osition is insistent is beyond our com prehension, unless there is a hidden desire to change the location of the structure for the promotion, of the welfare of Salem, in which case Polk county is not interested except in the neighborly way of wishing it contin ued prosperity. The suggestion that this county cur tail other funds for the ensuing year and dump the tax-payers' money into the construction of this bridge is not met with favor by the county court, or its constituency. The only avail able fund open to curtailment would be the highway fund, which is al ready inadequate to meet the heavy demands upon it, and which woufd be entirely out of the question. The court has undertaken road projects that must be earned out, while new improvements are being petitioned for with warranted insistency. The old motto, "home first, our neighbors af terwards," should, and doubtless will, prevail in this instance. The in ter-county bridge may, possibly, be an inconvenience to traffic at times, but so long as its safety is assured there can be no valid reason for haste. Never Touched It. Although five western states were shook by an earthquake last Saturday night, there was nary a wiggle in the Willamette valley. Monitor. It was under the window of Har ry 's adored one that Harry and Char ley were going to warble a sweet lit tle ditty. Gaily Harry touched his guitar and launched- merrily into "Meet Me by Moonlight, Alone. Charley failed to join in the alurins duet, out took to bis heels, and be ing noticed absconding by his com panion, the words ran like tins "Then Meet Me by Moonlight-Alone hey, your 're a h 1 of a fellow." The next day Hairry received a note that read simply: "Are vou out of employment f " And those who know say there is now a coldness between Harry and Charley. Blessings. Joy holds as much of lovelihood As any sorrow ever could. Grief holds as much of beauty still As any horn of joy can spill. Mary C. Davies. Of course it is just possible that Mrs. lialt, .President Wilson's fiance. had some hand in his recent declaration in favor of woman suffrage. Just pos sible. Pete Greenwood says it is Ithe most possible thing in the world. The signs would seem to indicate An early embarkation Of our forlorn, J. Barleycorn, On a prolonged vacation. Jerry Owen. The smallest school teacher in Ore gon, in the opinion of E. J. Moore, county superintendent of Lane country schools, is Guy Frum. He is 20 years old, 414 feet tall and weighs 80 pounds. When we read that, we at once pictured Frum as teacher of that cloak room class in the Dallas school. We just wondered if lie could handle em. (THE 6QOP OUPQE B,AHES TO 80 8IRP SHQOTINS ) OUOGE, SHOOTING IS GOOD NOW. ILL I THKt'sASOI U'K OH V StTTER.VOU SUPPLY TOE MM. TOBACCO I 1 TO THUKSBW , LCW FOR AHUHTIN6 THIf. J WHEN you're tramping all over creation after game, you don't want a big bunch of ordinary tobacco sweating in your hip pocket. There is to bacco satisfaction for two, and plenty of it, in the sweat-proof sanitary pouch of Real Tobacco Chew. A little chew of pure, rich, mellow tobacco seasoned and sweetened just enough cuts out so much of the grinding and spitting. ASK YOUR DEALER FOPW'B CUT CHEWING TOBACCO.IT IS THE NEW REAL TOBACCO CHEW-CUT LONG SHRED, The un-Holy trinity: Tom Catherwood, The German army and Cigarettes. , Prospects Bright. Note the doctor's smiling visage, See the nurse's happy smile, As they hustle and they bustle, Humming gaily all the while, Bandages are placed quite handy, Anesthetics are near by, Splints and instruments are ready, Arnica is also nigh. Why, you ask, these preparations t Why this joy amidst such gloom f simple answer tootlialrs coming, And their business soon will boorn Ed. Goeway. What Ails Them? It is astonishing that so many pe destrians get sea sick while crossing the Log Cabin street bridge late at night. Monitor. It remains to be seen whether the democrats are going into the next year's canvass with the war cry, "He kept us out of war. " But it is very certain that the republicans will as sert, "He kept us out of work." . When a man is old enough to know better doing a foolish fling won't make him look Young. Maybe He Will. We admit that Polk county has more aggressiveness than old Yamhill in going after prizes at fairs, and the only reason Yamhill does not surpass her is lack of energy in getting her products together. She has the goods. If Polk 8 energy could be transferred to Yamhill eountv wil it would be the greatest eountv in the state. Al Snyder will agree to this. Telephone Resister. From which it is evident that our contemporary has the same high re gard for the general Polk county cit izen as it has for A. Y. R. Snvder. ho started this exchange of boquers in the first place. SUMMONS. In the Circuit Court of the State of Oregon for Polk County. Depart ment Ho. I. E. A. Thurston and Margaret Thur- ton, Plaintiffs, vs. G. A. Hurley and Virginia L. Hurley, his wife, julien A. Hurley, unmarried, W. E. Lan- dreth, W. 0. Landreth, Lizzie B. Lan- dreth, Mabel I. Landreth, J. L. Lan dreth, Walter Landreth, R. R. Lan dreth, and also all other persons or parties unknown, claiming any right, title or interest, estate or lien in the real estate described in the complaint herein, Defendants. To G. A. Hurley and Virginia L. Hur ley, his wife, Julien A. Hurley, un married, W. E. Landreth, W. 0. Landreth, Lizzie B. Landreth, Ma bel I. Landreth, J. L. Landreth, Walter Landreth, R. R. Landreth, and also all other persons or par ties unknown, claiming any right, title or interest, estate or lien in the real estate described in the complaint herein, the above-named defendants. In the name of the State of Ore gon : ion and each of you are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint filed against yon in the above entitled court and eause on or before six weeks from the date of the first publication of this summon! ; and the plaintiffs for want thereof will the plaintiff' for want thereof will take a decree against yon as prayed for in their complaint herein, to-wit: That plaintiffs are the owners in fee of the following described real prem ises, commencing at the Southwest comer of Fractional Block No. 1, in Henry Hill's town of Independence, Take less than one-quarter the old size chew. It) will be more satisfying than mouthful of ordinary tobacco. Just take nibble of it until you find the strength chew that suits you, then see how easily and evenly the real tobacco taste comet, how it satisnes, bow moeh less yon have to spit, how few ohews you take to be tobscoo satisfied. That's why it is Tkt RealTobaa Chew. That's why it eoste less in the end. The taste of pure, rich tobacco does not need to be covered up. An axocM of licorice and sweetening makes you spit too much. One small chew takes the place of two big chews of the old kind. ((Notice bow the salt brings oat the richVtobacco taste.)) WEYMAN-BRUT0N COMPANY, 50 Union Square, New York Ctf WorKs ,: 0. L. HAWKINS, Proprietor. MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES AND CURBING Polk County, Oregon, thence runningi 11 e CSJ- Matl1a North 162 feet, thence East 200 feet. " t?5l OIUC VXOXUVG thence bouth 162 feet, thence West 200 feet to the place of beginning, and that you and each of you be by said decree forever barred and en joined from claiming any right, title or interest of, in or to said premises or any part thereof. This summons is published in the Polk County Observer for a period of six weeks by order of the Hon. H. H. Belt, Judge of the above entitled Court, made at Chambers this 31st day of August, 1915, and the date of the first publication will be on the 3rd day of September, 1915, and the date of the last publication will be on the Bth day of October, 1915. SIBLEY & EAKIN, Attorneys for Plaintiffs. SUMMONS CASE NO. 4720. In the Circuit- Court of the State of Oregon for the County of Polk. Harrison a. KiJey and William C. Niblack, Plaintiffs, vs. Mary Augi, frank Laundry, and the unknown hens of Joseph Augi, deceased, and each of them ; and also all persons or parties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in the real property described in the com plaint herein, Defendants. To Mary Augi, Frank Laundry, the unknown heirs ot Joseph Augi, de ceased, and also to all persons or parties unknown claiming any right, title, estate, lien or interest in and to Lot 6, and Northwest quarter of the Southeast quarter and North half of the Southwest quaiter, Sec tion four, Township seven South of Range eight West, Willamette Me ridian, Oregon. In the name of the State'of Oregon, you are hereby required to appear and answer the complaint filed against you in the above entitled suit within six weeks from the date of the first publication of this summons, to-wit, on or before the 17th day of Novem ber, 1915. And if you fail to appear and an swer for want thereof, the plaintiffs will apply to the above entitled court for the relief pravefl for in the com plaint herein, to-wit: A decree adjudging that plaintiffs are the owners in fee simple of Lot b, the rthwest quarter ot the south east quarter and the North half of the southwest quarter of Section 4, Ip, S., I!. 8 W.. W. M.. Oregon; that the claims of the defendants, or either of them, of any right, title or interest in or to said lands are void and of no effect, and that plaintiffs' title to said lands, and every part thereof be forever quieted against the claims of the defendants and all persons claiming by, through or under them, or cither of them, and that defend ants and all persons claiming by. through or under them, and each of them, be forever barred, enjoined and restrained from claiming or setting up any right, title or interest to all or any part of said land. This summons is published by order of the Honorable J. B. Teal, County Judge of the above-named County of Polk, duly made and entered the 4tb day of October. 1915. Dated at Dallas. Oregon, this 4tn day of October, 1915. A. C. SHAW, Attornev for Plaintiffs, 819 Yeon building. Portland, Oregon. I first publication, October 5th. Last publication, November 16th. Send It By Parcel Post Send us your laundry by parcel post. The ru.al carrier Is now authorised to transact this business. It costs but a few cents. We'll return It promptly. DALLAS STEAM LAUNDRY. Professional Cards DENTIST SI. HAYTER Dallas National Bank Buiulding Dallas Oregon - S. B. TAYLOR Civil Engineer and Surveyor Office, City Hall Phone 791 or 542, Dallas, Oregon BROWN-SIBLEY ABSTRACT CO. 610 Mill street, Dallas. Only up-to-date set of abstracts of Polk county. Posted every morning from county records. Olive Smith-Blcknell Teacher of PIANO and ORGAN Studio 401 Court St. DALLAS OREGON DENTIST B. F. BUTLER Office over Puller Pharmacy. Office hours from to 11 a. m.; I to t p. m. Dallas Orego, DR. A. McNICOL OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAS Rooms 5 and tlglow Building DALLAS. OREGON SIBLEY 8c EAKIN Attorneys and Abstractors. The only reliable set of Abstracts In Polk County. Office on Court street Dallas, . - Oregon ATTORNEY AT LAW OSCAR HAYTER Dallas City Bank Building. Dallas Oregon ATTORNEY AT LAW WALTER L. TOOZE, JR. 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