THE FOLK COUNTY OBSERVER, TUESDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1915.
Published Each Tuesday and Friday.
Office 617-618 Court Street
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AND ALL FOR WHAT?
The balance sheet f the European
war continues to pile up astounding
items of debt and losses, with practi
cally nothing as yet in compensation.
An apparently authentic compilation
places the public debt of England ait
the end of the current year at the
colossal sum of eleven billion dollars.
The debt of France will be very near
ly as mueh. Germany is apparently
more fortunate financially, her pub
lic debt being only about half that
of either of her .two principal adver
saries, amounting to about six. and
one-half billions. Austria owes al
most two billions and Russia nearly
eight and a half billions. Italy, which
has a comparatively small public debt,
has spent about half a billion since
the war began.
' This tabulation estimates that the
war has already cost the belligerents
, named eighteen billions of dollars, and
the end is not yet in sight. No mat-
.. ter which side wins, all the nations in
volved will emerge from the conflict
Itottering under a load of debt which
it will require many generations to
pay. There are no conceivable re
sults which will warrant the expen
diture of these stupendous ums of
money, to say nothing of the millions
of lives sacrificed.
Moreover, it is perfectly clear that
Ithe havoe wrought with the industry
and commerce of the contending na
tions must be added to the actual cost
of the war, and to the whole mighty
aggregate must be added the billions
of dollars lost ito the business inter
ests of the neutral nations, involving
also incalculable hardships to citizens
of those nations affected by the in
dustrial derangement. Surely nothing
that has been accomplished, nothing
that appears possible of achievement,
can justify this appalling waste of
blood and treasure, of which there
.does not appear at this time even any
prospect of cessation. And an amaz
ing fact in this connection is that even
today there is no agreement as to
what the present war is about, or as
to who really started it. How future
generations will scorn such seeming
stupidity.
substantial increase in field artillery.
If the navy, which will ask for an in
crease of $100,000,000, carries through
its plan making the total naval ap
propriation $248,000,000, the appro
pnations for national defense, includ
ing the army's $182,000,000, would
total $430,000,000. It is probable,
however, that in final form the appro
priations will not exceed $400,000,000.
One feature of tlie plan as outlined
is an increase of 50,000 men, besides
a large reserve force to be created
,through inducing men to join the
ranks by short term enlistments. The
national guard would also be given
greater encouragement by the govern
ment. This arrangement the adrainis
tration is hopeful of carrying through
at the next session of congress, be
lieving that not only democratic lead
ers will support tne measure, Due
many republicans as well.
. SMALL MERCHANTS.
' Upon the so-called Htevens bill, now
pending in congress, depends to a
considerable degree the fate of the
small merchant of the country towns
throughout the land in their struggle
for existence against the great city
department stores, and mail order con
cerns. It is a great economic ques
tion that is about to be brought
squarely before the American people
prior to the assembling of congiess,
and the success of the bill mentioned
is quite largely dependent upon public
sentiment. Every person in Dallas,
and elsewhere, who has kept his eye
open must have observed that for
some reasos the big city merchants
have been gaining ground, while the
tradesmen in the interior have found
the struggle growing constantly hard-
The money order issues, and bank
drafts purchased, clearly show that
preat snms of money that should be
used in trading at home, are going to
the mail order houses in the large
cities. And the department stores in
the pre a centers are monopolizing
' the trade, and the little stores are
becoming fewer and poorer. This con
dition is attributed to "cut-throat
competition," or price cutting, and
from every part of the country there
has come a demand for the enactment
of a federal statute that will enable
manufacturers of staple articles to
fix a price onjheir goofls and compel
the retailing at a standard figure, no
matter where the goods are sold.
The Federal Trade commission is
working in this direction, and the in
dications are that there is bad weath
er ahead for the handful of city in
terests that have been driving out the
smaller dealers, and growing opulent
and arrogant at the expense of -the
country merchants.
WORK OF TEACHERS.
A fine rumpus has 'been raised by
Comptroller Prendergast of New
York, by the suggestion that public
school teachers do not work as hard
as is commonly supposed and that
they should be required to give to
the school service at least a portion
of their vacations and days off. He
believes the present system is unbusi
nesslike and based on a wrong pre
mise. He does not think that teach
ers do more work in five days than
other people do in six. He is not
prepared to admit that teachers need
three months vacation each year t
when other people who also work at
occupations that strain the nerves get
along with from two weeks to a month
off.
Admitting that it is necessary to
close the schools .in the summer
months, because it would be difficult
if not impossible to get children to
study at that time, even if it were
for the children's good not to give
them the "long vacation," he does
not think it follows that the teachers
also need all that vacation. According
Ito his way of looking at it, much
work could be done for the school
system by the teachers during those
months that would sav money to the
cities' and not be a real hardship to
the teachers themselves after they
became used tdit.
This sounds rather revolutionary,
but for that matter so does every
thing that is entirely different from
the order of things to which we al
ways have been accustomed. We .have
pome to take it for granted that
teaching is unusually nervous work
and that the school teacher needs the
summer rest as much as his or her
pupils. It will take more than an
efficiency expert to convince school
authorities in,general, and educators
in particular, that this is not so. And
if the hours of work were substantial
ly increased for school teachers, would
there not appear immediately a de
mand for proportionately increased
salaries?
Mf. Prendergast also maintains that
the business of teaching is conducted
with too complicated an organization;
that the school system generally needs
simplifying. He says so much work
is done in the average city school that
is a mere matter of routine and form,
that it would be possible with a busi
ness like system to increase the net
amount of instruction and at the same
time decrease the liuntber of teachei s,
even though the present hours of
work were retained. Of course the
teachers generally scarcely will agree
with him on' this point, any more than
they will on the other point which he
raises. But it is something to think
about, just the same.
tions on distilled spirits despite the
fact that wines are paying high tax
as a result of the emergency war tax
law enacted by the last congress; the
enactment in prohibition states of
stricter enforced laws; the discussion
of total abstinence and prohibition by
press and popular magazines, and the
marked decrease of their liquor ad
vertising; the growth of anti-alcohol
sentiment in the medical world these,
with the endorsement of national con
stitutional prohibition by hundreds of
influential organizations and the out
spoken declarations of men prominent
in the official and' political are or
the United States and other nations
in favor of prohibition and total ab
stinence, have given a marvelous im
petus to the movement tor the banish
ment of John Barleycorn from the
business, the social, and the political
life xf the civilized world. The ma
jority vote on the Sheppard-Hobson
bill in the United States house of
representatives on December 2, 1914,
even though it fell short of a decisive
victory, was a triumph for nation
wide prohibition.
The white ribbon contingent of the
prohibition element is praying for the
success of the temperance cause at the
polls in Ohio next month, and in Ver
mont in the spring, while encourage
ment is being extended to co-workers
in California, Florida, Kentucky, In
diana, Louisiana, Michigan, Minneso
ta and other near-prohibition states,
which are fast approaching the moun
tain top of state-wide prohibition.
Verily, the nation is doomed to "spit
cotton."
Goethals in higher esteem than ever.
It would have been easy for him to
regard his task as completed, and to
insist that some other be assigned to
the work of repairing the damage to
the canal in order to restore it to
service. But he, more than any other
man, perhaps, knows just how to go
about this work, aided by the expert
ence he has had in getting the canal
in shape in the first place. And he
willing and anxious to "stay on the
job" until the canal again is cleared
and opened for traftic.
It is this devotion to duty that has
won the unbounded admiration and
approval of the American people for
General Goethals. And now that he
again has shown an unselfish willing
ness to submerge personal plans and
convenience to the public good and
welfare, the people of tlns,nation will
more than ever feel like honoring him
and holding him up as a conspicuous
example of a rtnly patriotic American
citizen, one who freely gives his very
best efforts for his country, so long
as the latter is in need 01 his sei
vices.
WILSON FAVORS PLAN.
The president has approved Secre
tary Garrison's plan for increasing
the army, and the matter will be pre
sented to the congress with the back
ing of the administration. The prop
osition aft laid before the chief execu
tive of the nation calls for an annual
expenditure of $182,000,000, an inn-ease
of approximately $"5,000,000.
According to the plan as devolved by
the secretary a considerable amount
of the increased appropriation would
be devoled to coast defenses and a
WOMAN'S CONQUESTS.
Looking backward over the past
itwentv months of momentous sue-
esses teniiierance aovocates nave gooa
and sullicient reason to be proud of
their achievements. They should feel
encouraged for future crusades
against alcoholic victories. Glancin;
over victories and forward to probable
ones, one might epitomize the move
ment in retrosect and prospect as
"a movement of victorious yester
davs and confident tomorrows." Dur
ing a period of twenty months there
were chronicled an unprecedented
number of prohibition victories. The
temperance transformation of Russia;
the anti-liquor measures in effect in
German, French and English military
circles; the complete abolition of al
cohol in the United States navy and
in the Panama canal zone; the out
lawing of the liquor traffic in Virgin
ia, Colorado, uregon, asuingion,
Arizona, Arkansas, Idaho, Iowa, Ala
bama and South Carolina; the major
ity vote for state-wide prohibition in
both branches of Utah's legislature;
the triumph of the enemies of the
saloon in a large number of counties
and cities; the upholding by the Uni
ted States supreme court of the con
stitutionality of the prohibition pro
vision of the Indian treaties making
one-fifth of Minnesota dry; the vic
torious prohibition elections in forty
five of Minnesota's counties; the bat
tle royal for prohibition in the dis
trict of Columbia; the total abstin
ence rules enforced by many indus
trial railroad corporations; the
decrease at the rate of $1,250,000 a
month of the internal revenue eollee-
MAINTAINING ROADS.
Some opposition has developed to
Judge Tears plan to retain a road
master throughout the winter months
in order that the rural highways may
be patroled during a time when the
greater amount of serious damage is
done to roads by reason of the wet
weather. The Observer is convinced
that the patrol system eliminates
waste and saves large expense, pro
vided, of course, that the proper prin
ciple is followed, which is necessnry
in every successful business. It is
doing the small things, admirably ex
pressed by the proverb that "a stitch'
in time saves nine." When ruts be
gin to appear in a well rocked road
they should be given immediate at
tention, and when drainage is inter
rupted the obstruction should be re
moved, thus . keeping the subgrade
dry. If when chuck-holes begin to
develop they are filled with a few
shovelsful of gravel it is the stitch in
time, and saves much repair work the
following spring, when possib a
wagon, load of gravel might be neces
sary to bring the highway back to its
former condition. A hoe or spade
would eliminate any obstruction to
proper drainage, where later a day's
labor with a team might be required
to repair the damage created by
"dead water" soaking into the sub-grade.
The patrol system is practical, and
should be adopted by Polk county in
the interest of the tax-payers, who
are annually raising large sums of
money for the construction and re
pair of highways in all parts of the
county. The few hundred dollars that
might be saved by dismissing the
roadmastcr until work is renewed in
the spring would be, practically
speaking, returned a thousand fold
through the patrol system if the work
be thorough. One who is familiar
with road construction, and the main
tenance of highways, certainlv can
appreciate the value of constant vigi
lance, especially as regards' rocked
and graveled roads.
A deluge of second-hand exhibits
from county and state fairs are' ar
riving at the Oregon building at the
Panama exposition, and in many cas
es these are pronounced worthless by
those in charge.
Of course the president doesn't
want to be bothered with an extra
session of the senate. between-riow and
December. Woodrow is busv with
other affairs.
In the confusion of greater clashes
the dumdum bullet seems to have been
lost sight of.
Dear reader, eat an apple. This is
National Apple day. ' '
OTHER THINGS
A Rare and Curious Collection
of Fact and Fancy.
SHOP EARLY.
With Christmas only a little more
than teu weeks ahead, the merchants
and the newspapers are commencing
to push the annual "shop early" cam
paign. It is being pointed out that
the autumn season already is well ad
vanced and that the holiday shopping
rush probably will be heavier than
usual this year, for bumper crops and
returning prosperity are supplying
the people with ready money and mak
ing them feel both liberal and opti
mistic. As a result it is anticipated
that the coming holiday trade will
take on "bumper" proportions, to
correspond with the bumper crops and
the general good times that already
have returned and are gaining head
way every day. And this will mean
unusually busy times in shops and
stores, with a prospective "rush" of
trade just before the advent of the
holiday season. Anticipating an mi
usually heavy holiday trade this year
the merchants all over the country
are planning to make an extra effort
o induce early shopping and a-rei
earnestly advising the people not to
put off their shopping until the last
few weeks, or days, before Christmas.
The Dreamer.
I am tired of planning and toiling
In the crowded hives of men,
Heart weary of building and spoiling,
And spoiling and building again.
And I long for the dear old river
Where I dreamed my youth away,
For the dreamer lives forever,
And the toiler dies m a day.
John Boyle O'Reilly.
The Rev. Messrs. Stewart are min
isters of the gospel in different de
nominations and preside over church
es at Independence. That is to say,
one is a Methodist minister and the
other is a Baptist. Genial christians
in that pleasant little city distinguish
the gentlemen by calling one the Rev.
"Sprink" Stewart and the other the
Kev. "Dip" otewart.
A little cigar, a real dainty little
thing, brandished itself fragrantly
from Doc Cherrington's lower lip one
day last i week. County Clerk Robin
son saw the odious fumigator, mistook
t for a cigarette and said: ' "Doc,
I do believe you'll be riding a bicycle
next time I see you." .
SUMMONS CASE NO. 4720.
In the Circuit Court of the State
of Oregon for the County of Polk.
Harrison B. Riley and William C.
Niblack, Plaintiffs, vs. Mary Augi,
Frank Laundry, and the unknown
heirs 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 hairs oi 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 ooutheast quarter and North
half of the Southwest quarter, Sec
tion four, Township seven South of
Kange eight West, Willamette Me
ridian, Oregon.
Jn the name of the State of Oregon,
you are hereby required to appear and
answer the complaint hied against
you in the above entitled suit within
six weeks from the date of .the first
publication of this summons, to-wit,
on or betore the 1th day ot .Novem
ber, 1U15.
And if you fail to appear and an
swer for want thereof, the plaintiffs
will apply to the above entitled court
for the relief prayed for in the com
plaint herein, to-wit:
A decree adjudging that plaintiffs
are the owners in fee simple of Lot
6, the Northwest quarter of the South
east quarter and the North half of the
bouthwest quarter of Section 4, Tp, 7,
S., R. 8.W., W. M.,X)regon; that the
claims of the defendants, or either
ot 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 lorever 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 or said land.
I his 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 4th
day of October, 1915.
Dated at Dallas, Oregon, this 4th
day of October, 1915.
A. C. SHAW,
Attorney for Plaintiffs, 819, Yeon
building, Portland, Oregon. '
First publication, October 5th.
Last publication, November 16th.
Observer wane ads. do the btx.
West Side Marble
WorKs
O. L. HAWKINS, Proprietor.
MONUMENTS, HEADSTONES AND
CURBING.
Send It By Parcel Post
Bend us your laundry by parcel post
The ruial carrier la now authorised to
transact this business. It coats but a
few cents. We'll return It promptly.
DALLAS STEAM LAUNDRY.
GUARDIANS NOTICE.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned has been duly appointed
Guardian of the estate of Henry M.
Betiiry, an incompetent person, by the
Hon. County Court of Polk County,
Oregon. All persons holding claims
against said estate should, present the
same to .the undersigned for adjust
ment, and all persons owing said es
tate are hereby notified to settle same
with said guardian.
J. D. SMITH,
Guardian of the estate of Henry Ml
Berry.
SIBLEY & EAKTN, .
ERNEST HANSON
Carpenter and Contractor, Wall-pa
pering and Fainting, Cement
and Brick Work.
512 Orchard Ave. Phone West Red 63
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prices
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You Our Estimates
Last week Herman Hawkins went
hunting with a cold on his chest. Now
he's got a mustard plaster.'
Keeps Her Own Secret. .
Miss Lenora Brown is taking a va
cation from the postofflce, her broth
er Hinton filling her place there. She
left on the 1:30 train today (Thurs
day) but where she s going she will
not tell, but look out, there has been
several going away from Willamina
this year without telling where -they
were going but the boys were usually
ready to meet them with the tin cans
upon their return, and we surmise
there is something of this nature this
time. lllamina Times.
Professional Cards
DENTIST
M. HATTER
Dallas National Bank Buiulding
Dallas Oregon
S. B. TAYLOR
Civil Engineer and Surveyor
Office, City Hall
Phone 791 or 542, Dallas, Oregon
REAL PATRIOTISM.
Colonel Goethals is no quitter. He
has withdrawn his resignation as gov
ernor of the Panama canal zone and
will set about the task of repairing
the damage done by the latest land
slide, which promises to tie up traffic
through the canal for an indefinite
length of time. For this decision, the
American people will hold General
Hank Serr, the w. k. and belinguous
grandfather, called on the Gov. and
Tom Kay at Salem last week.
Bill White, the debutant proarnosti
cator of atmospheric phenomena, says
the drv belt may extend to include
independence because Col. Matthews
sells seven bottles for a $ and Brother
Whitney sells only five.
About that new typewriter the
connty bought for Sheriff John Orr:
e have received from the manufac
turers a testimonial written on the
machine hy the w. k. keeper of Polk
county lodgine. "sin ce-udsine yure
antomati q doble&action tgpe. wryter
l have used No otherr: l un hesittta-
ttingly prono nee it to be al azd MncH
morre then the manfacturs sad It
tftud be. dueRinj the ti.ime it hes
ben in Our osfice! it has paid for
iOself 3hree tiMes -ej. in the sAvinj
os Timd an d labr." lOhna W. orr
'pilK county, sheeruf, dallas, OrE-
anE.
Somebody sneaked up and" regulated
the court house clock last Thursday.
Al. Rushlight. Portland's w. k. ree-
nlator of civic affairs, was in town
Thursday. So also was Bill Himcs.
the polite joyrider.
Martin Luther Bovd announces.
with pride, that he was on a jury lat
week. And here we've .been a whole
week trying to figure out why that
jury hune until alter supper, and
then found a verdict in ten minutes. ,
BROWN-SIBLEY ABSTRACT CO.
610 Mill street, Dallas.
Only up-to-date set of abstracts o'
Polk county. Posted every morning
from county records.
of the cost of the lumber you require
yon can depend upon it that the fig
ures will be as low as first-class, well
seasoned lumber can be sold, for hon
estly. If yon pay more yon pay too
much. If yon pay less yon get lest
either in quality or quantity.
Willamette Valley
Lumber Co.
Olive Smlth-Blcknell
Teacher of
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