THE POLE COUNTY OBSERVER, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1915.
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BY LEW A. CATES.
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NATIONAL DEFENSE.
No one would think of accusing ex-
President Taft of being an alarmist.
His modest conservation has been
manifest in all bis dealings with pub
lie questions and his natural inclina
tion is to avoid extremes and follow
a middle course. When, therefore,
Mr. Taft strongly urges increased pre
paredness for national defense, one
feels that the former president is
making this recommendation after
careful thought and mature delibera
tion, and with positive conviction that
he is right about it. Nor does Mr,
Taft even leave this point obscure, for
he sets forth the reasons that lead
him to believe that larger prepared
ness for national defense is a question
of pressing importance, which must
be decided speedily by this govern
ment for the safety and welfare of
the American people.
Addressing a meeting at Brooklyn
recently, Mr. Taft said: "The dan
ger of war with a foreign power is
greater than ever before. The Atlan
tic and Pacific oceans were excellent
barriers in itbe time of Napoleon. Now
we need a navy and coast defenses
.. sufficient to repel the convoy of any
force sent against us. Any nation
able to spare 250,000 men a month for
invasion must be the measure of our
naval and coast defense."
Those Americans who are inclined
to oppose the policy of larger pre
paredness should make a note of this
warning issued by the former presi
dent. To repeat his words: "The
danger of war with a foreign power is
greater than ever before." Mr. Taft
may, or may not, have in mind just
what power or powers are included in
this menace, but there are several
which may be included in the list of
those which easily could "spare 250,
000 men a month for an invasion of
the United States." In fact, when
we realize that there are more than
20,000,000 men engaged in the preu-l
nt European war it will be seen that
at its close there should be no il i til
-culty in detaching such a force as Mr.
Taft suggests tor ojieralions here.
. Mr. Taft has served both a -sec
retary of war and as president of
this nation and he therefore speaki
with intimate knowledge of the short
comings of our present system of na
tional defense. As he so well points
out, the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
no longer constitute a barrier of de
fense. Modern science has revolu
Itionized warfare, and especially naval
warfare. What the Biitish channel
was as a means of defense to England
one hundred years ago, the Atlantic
ocean is to the United States now. We
must prepare east and west for the
possibility of invasion. Any country,
as Mr. Taft says, which can spare
250,000 men for offensive purposes
here, and supplement this force with
an equal number in another mouth,
would have either coast at its mercy.
And it is time for the American peo
ple to bring themselves to a realiza
tion of this danger, and to prepare
a "very adequate defense" before
they are driven to it in the face of
dire danger.
the offense of Dr. Dumba in a dilfer
ent light. This is a typical fault of
several nations in connection with the
present war, however they expect
more than they are willing to give or
concede. They look only at one side
of the question 'their own side.
DR. DUMBA'S REWARD.
Dr. Constautin ' Dumba, the Aus
trian ambassador who' recently was
recalled from this country as a result
of being detected in a nefarious con
spiracy to foment strikes in Ameri
ean munition plants, is not to go
without his reward. The Austrian
emperor, so it is reported, has con
ferred an order of nobility on Dr.
Dumba, thereby to show official ap
proval of the retiring ambassador's
services, la other words, the Aus
trian government evidently holds that
Dr. Dumba performed no less than
his duty in striving to advance the
interests of his own nation even
though his conception of this duty led
him to undertake a thing flagrantly
and dangerously inimical to American
interests and the peace and welfare
of the American people.
It is entirely within the right of
he Austrian emperor to take this
course, no doubt, yet it is a procedure
that scarcely will contribute to Amer
ican friendship and esteem for Aus
tria as a nation. It amounts to noth
ing less than an intentional slap at
the American government for insist
ing on protecting its own rights and
interests virtual notice that Aus
tria has no use for this nation unless
she ean use the latter for her own
selfish purposes. Yet one readily ean
believe that had the situation been re
versed Austria would hare looked on
AUTO CAMPERS.
Dallas should provide a free camp
ing ground for automobile tourists be
fore the opening of the 1916 season.
and invite these itinerant pleasure
seekers to partake of its hospitality
while journeying through this section
of .the Willamette valley. The move
ment has met with pronounced suc
cess in other towns to the south,, not
ably Roseburg and Ashland, and the
proposition should have the serious
consideration of the business interests
here. A considerable number of au
tomobile tourists carry tneir own
camping outfits, such as tents and
cooking utensils, but they must nec
essarily purchase supplies, and these
it is presumed would be bought lo
cally if camping grounds within close
proximity to the city were provided.
There could be nothing detrimental
to hosteliies or garages in the under
taking, for those desiring to put
up" at these places would uo so un
der any circumstances.
The national government is now
perfecting plans to establish camping
grounds for tourists in national for
est reserves, and with the beginning
of the new year more interest in the
matter of out-of-door life will be man
ifested throughout the country than
ever before. The plan here suggested,
that of providing a camping ground
adjacent to Dallas, would be but fol
lowing in the footsteps of your Uncle
Samuel, although in the latter case no
profit could accrue to his subjects. By
inviting tourists to stop with us over
night, Dallas would naturally receive
an unlimited amount of free advertis-
ng throughout the land, while nearly
all business interests would profit by
extending this privilege to 'the trav
eler.
In a communication to The Observ
er last summer Mr. Crider, who made
an automobile camping trip to Cali
fornia, spoke in glowing terms of the
communities making such provisions
for the accommodation of the wayfar
er, and commended .the plan itself.
One town mentioned in Mr. Crider 's
very readable letter went so far as to
furnish fuel, water and other like nec
essaries to the camper. The news soon
pread among tourists and hundreds
took advantage of the opportunity to
spend the night amid pleasant sur
roundings and with a hospitable peo
ple.
hile the Commercial club is casting
bout with a view to furthering the
material interests of Dallas, it might
with propriety consider the sugges
tion here offered. The plan has been
worked out successfully in other
places; it can be in Dallas.
throughout the battle area, one won
ders whether the life of the. Austrian
archduke, whose assassination was
made the pretext for the war, was
really worth more than the scores and
hundreds of thousands who have been
sent to death to "avenge" this slight
against royalty. In this case the
scales of justice seem sadly out of
balance.
SERBIA'S SAD PLIGHT.
The desperate plight of Serbia is
enough to elicit honest sympathy,
without laying the sympathizer open
to the charge of uiiueutrality. Ser
bia, almost surrounded by enemies
of vastly superior stiength, is fight
ing pluckily and desperately for her
very existence, and may have to give
up the struggle unless the "unex
pected" hapeiis. We are told that
even the women of Serbia are fight
ing side by side with their men folks,
which suHk'iently discloses the spirit
of sheer desperation which prevails
among the people there. But they are
being crowded back, slowly but sure
ly, gradually hemmed in and caught
between the jaws of a great military
trap closing from two directions, and
unless relief reaches them soon it is
inevitable thev must succumb in the
unequal coutest.
Serbia has been the football of the
present war from the start. In fact
Serbia was made the pretext for the
starting of this great conflict, which
already has wrought wastes and loss
es unparalleled in history. An Aus
trian archduke was murdered in Serbian-Austria,
as one of the products
of an attempt to hold a people in
oppression against their will. Aus
tria chose to hold Serbia responsible,
and sent an ultimatum that could not
be complied with, and that was not
intended to be complied with. Thougli
Seiuia went unimaginably far m
meeting this- cruel demand, still Aus
tria refused to be satisfied, and touch
ed the match to the train of powder
leading to the mine that blew up Eur
ope.
The entire area of Serbia is only
about 34.000 square miles. Its popu
lation before the war was 4.600,000.
Since the outbreak of the war it has
made heroic sacrifices to defend it
self and maintain its integrity, and
even if this hope is fulfilled it will
be a sadly battered, sorrow-burdened
and half-decimated nation that will
survive. And it may not survive, lor
the odds are greatly against it at
present and the great steamroller of
the war is daily crushing the life out
of this plucky little nation, whose
only hope lies in the speedy arrival
of relief from its ally friends.
Viewing this impending tragedy,
together with all the other terrible
destruction of life and property.
MUTUAL INTERESTS.
The Portland Evening Telegram
has resorted to questionable methods
in its fight against the lumber mills
and interests of the Willamette val
ley. With irradiant front page ar
ticles this metropolitan sheet has been
attacking Oregon's largest tax-payer,
the Southern Pacific railroad, as well
as the state's greatest revenue pro
ducer, the lumber industry. Port
land is evidently the entire state with
The Telegram. But Portland was on
ly a small part of the state when the
same irreproachable sheet so eagerly
attacked the saloons and asked the
state's support for statewide prohibi
tion. Portland is the, entire state in
the untruthful and unwarranted at
tack that is receiving the attention
of the winged newspaper.
"How do you stand f Are you tor
or against Portland? Are youi in
favor of seeing everything filched
away from us by the railroads? We
permit impositions and exactions such
are steadily driving away trom
us payrolls already secured that have
contributed mightily to our upbuild
ing. Is tins DusinessT is mis com
mon sense? hy should we not light
any road that is fighting us? The
Southern Pacific is not a Portland
road in any sense except in the sense
of exploitation. Portland is not in
the field asking for anything but a
snuare deal."
With such illogical and 'childish
arguments The Telegram is attacking
the very fiber of Portland's exist
ence. It is cutting to the quick the
hand that feeds that. city. But the
great fortune of the thing is that The
Telegram does not very well repre
sent Portland. The Chamber of Com
merce, which has received virulence
from the evening paper for its inac
tivity in the quarrel, pays little at
tention to the paper, and the citizens
who have built up Portland while the
Telegram has been striving for a live
lihood among them, do not find much
time to sympathize with its rabid ut
terances.
The Telegram doesn't think. The
Willamette valley lumber industry
needs, and needs badly, any slight ad
vantage it has in railroad rates. Port
land has the advantage of water
transportation that is denied the val
ley. The Telegram attacks the rail
road company because, it gives the
valley that advantage. That paper
would see Portland enjoy the lumber
business that the valley mills have.
It would take this business from the
valley. But what if the valley took
the lifeblood from Portland by send
ing its orders for merchandise to
California? What if the valley did
not ship its crops to Portland for the
brokers, and the jobbers, and the
shippers to derive a profit therefrom?
What if the valley refused to allow
Portland to supply its markets with
finished products? It is just possible
that the illogical Telegram would sing
a different song perhaps its swan
song.
"The Southern Pacific is not a
Portland railroad," says The Tele
gram. Perhaps no more a Portland
road than it is an all-Oregon road,
as it should be. But if the Southern
Pacific got too far away from Oregon
and Portland to be forced to contrib
ute its many thousands of dollars
each year to the treasury of the state.
not to mention the direct payments to
the treasury of Multnomah county,
and the city itself, then The Tele-j
gram would well what would happen
to it? If the Southern Pacific did
uot support, thousands of Portland
workmen, paying them top wages and
enabling them in turn to pay their
taxes into the beautiful city some
thing else again, isn't is? But the
people of Portland are not to be in
fluenced by such unwarranted attacks
upon its heart strings. Portland can
not get along without the trade from
the Willamette valley. It would per
ish miserably from the face of the
earth. Portland can no better do
without the Southern Pacific, even
thouch that road "is not a Portland
road in any sense except in the sense
of exploitation," than it can do'with-
out the Willamette valley should such
attacks as .The Telegram is making
be successful in ruining the prosper
ity of the vslley through the crip
pling of its greatest industry. The
Chamber of Commerce and citizens of
Portland should put the lid on the
attack and turn a deaf ear to any
thing of a character that threatens
the great eity's welfare.
of the American Revolution are pro
moting patriotism to a marked degree.
The flag presented to Judge Belt last
Thursday by a representative of the
order is of silk, hand embroidered,
and fouir by six feet m size. It will
be held unfurled by a bailiff while ap
plicants are taking the regulation oath
to support the constitution and laws
of the United States and to defend
the flag of this country and what it
represents, thus making this import
ant ceremony still more impressive. It
was thoughtful of the originator of
the plan to furnish each court of the
state with the emblem.
The National Institution for Moral
Instruction has offered a prize of $0,
000 for a moral code. Are we to
understand then that the ten com
mandments have become obsolete?
Chile now wants to borrow some
$15,000,000, and naturally is looking
to this country to supply it. And as
the United States is now in the bus
iness of accommodating its friends
and neighbors, doubtless Chile will
get what she wants.
OTHERS' OPINIONS
Don't Set the Brakes.
Editor: It every citizen will dis
play as loyal support as The Observer
does to second the efforts of the men
who today are trying to advance the
interests of Dallas, three very desir
able results will follow:
First, those men, whose generosity
and patriotism prompt them to devote
their time and energy for the common
good, would feel that their efforts are
appreciated.
Second, backed by the unanimous
support of all citizens, projects could
be more readily accomplished and dif
ficulties attacked and surmounted
with more courage and determination
Third, every citizen, humble or
great, poor or rich, will be more like
ly to secure benefits from the work
of these men.
It is not necessary that we should
all contribute money to the cause of
attracting diversified interests to our
city. It is not necessary that we
should all contribute. time to the work,
bu it is imperative that every man,
woman and child should shout, sing
and lisp the praises of those who step
aside from their daily tasks and take
up the people's burden.
I hope you will pardon this intru
sion into your columns and pardon al
so the degree of emphasis I seek to
express in conveying the above
thought to the public. As 1 have at
tempted for years to assist in accom
plishing results of this kind, no man
knows, better than 1 do, how hard it
is to create a general, favorable sen-
eiment for a good purpose when one-
third of the community approve, one
third "damn with faint praise," and
one-third are indifferent or opposed.
Remember the story of the locomotive
engineer, who was crowding on the
last pound of steam to make the top
ot the hill, when the brakeinan, a pes
simist, who knew it couldn't be done,
set the brakes. Don't be a brakeman
who uses the brake. Get off and push.
Dallas is over the divide. The hard
sledding is past, if we all pull .together
and no one sets a brake. -Optimist.
R. L. Cornell, Missourian, printer,
Monmouth scout master, musician and
Normal school student, accompanied
the Normal school orchestra to Dallas
on Friday.
NOTICE OF APPOINTMENT OP
ADMINISTRATOR.
Notice is herebv ?iven that the un
dersigned, S.S. Duncan, has been by
an order of the County Court of Polk
County, State of Oregon, duly ap
pointed as the administrator of the
estate of Irvin Dunn, deceased, and
he has duly qualified as such adminis
trator.
Therefore all persons having claims
against said estate are hereby notified
and required to present the same
properly verified, to the undersigned
administrator at his office in the Coun
ty house at McMinnville, in Yamhill
County, state of Oregon, or to said
administrator at the residence of H.
L. Fenton, at Dallas, in Polk County,
State of Oregon, within six months
from the date of the first publication
of this notice.
Dated this the 25th day of October,
1015. S. S. DUNCAN,
Administrator of said estate.
FRANK W. FENTON,
Attorney for said estate.
Date of first publication of this no
tice is October 26, 1915.
Date of last publication of this no
tice is November 23, 1915.
THOUGHTFUL.
Thst the presence of the stsrs and
stripes will make judicial proceedings
in naturalizing aliens more impres
sive must be admitted by every patri
otic citizen, and hence it may be
said that in presenting the Polk coun
ty circuit court with a flag to be
displayed on such occasions the Sons
NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT.
Notice is hereby given that the un
dersigned as executors or the estate
of John H. Ground, deceased, have
filed their final account in the County
Court of the State of Oregon, for
Polk Countv, and that Saturday, the
20th day of November, 1915. at the
hour of one o'clock in the afternoon
of said day, at the court room of
the said county court, in the city of
Dallas. Oregon, has been appointed
by said Court as the time and place
for hearing of objections to the said
final account, and the settlement
thereof. ROBERT F. GROUND
WILLIAM H. GROUND
JOHNNIE M. GROUND
Executors of the estate of John H.
Ground, deceased.
U D. BROWN J. R. SIBLEY,
S7-5t. Attorneys for the estate.
And this secret spake
Life tin to me:
"Behold I am that which must
ever surpass itself." Zarathustra.
In each succeeding act we must be
greater than in the one previous.
We must surpass ourselves.
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