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THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1915. Published Each Tuesday and Friday. Office .617-519 Court Street Telephone. , . . .Main' 19 BY LEW A. CATES. Subscription Rates. One Tear.. $1.80 Biz Months. . . , Three Months. No subscription taken unless paid for in advance. - This Is imperative. Entered as second-class matter the Postofflce at Dallas, Oregon. NEED OF MORE REVENUE. The need of more revenue for the government, and how to get it, hare brought the present democratic ad ministration to something of a dilem ma. For some time now government expenses have exceeded the govern ment income, which itself is cause for worry. In addition to this, it practically is a foregone conclusion that congress at it's coming session will decide on a program of greate; military preparedness, meaning anoth er large expense for the government and calling for additional revenue that simply must be provided, in some way or other. , Two things are plainly responsible Jfor the fact that Ithe government revenue nas zaiiea io Keep up wixu government needs the disturbance to foreign trade on account of the great European war, and the reduction of the tariff by the last congress. As a consequence there has been a deficit on the first of July of nearly $50,- 000,000, and it is steadily piling up. The cash balance in the treasury is now down to about $100,000,000 and it is decreasing steadily from day to day. It is manifest that the Wilson administration must "strike the rock of the nationul. resources" as Hainil ton did to the end that "streams of Irevenue may gush forth. ' ' But the president is opposed to any increase in tariff taxes. His party is committed against that and so, ap parently, the easiest door for the least unpopular kind of taxation is closed. But if we are to spend large ly increased sums of money in blind ing sIhpb and organizing an army, '. we must find some way to pay for it. The people are not going to take kindly to a retention of the "war tax" in a time of peoce. The little all proportion to the amount of rev- nue produced. A bond issue to pay the current expenses of the govern, ment proved unpopular in Cleveland's lay and would make people wince again. The income tax might be tin -nnBA In Pant ia llL-alir tn ko An 'export tax on war munitions could be made to give to the government part of the huge profits now being made bv American manufacturers or war materials. But when all is said ana mme, iiiv mum is uiii to find it very hard to avoid a grow ing 'deficit and eventually a bond is sue, unless President Wilson backs water on his tariff position and gives his consent to an advance in certain tariff taxes for revenue purposes. " '' For these reasons, the recommenda tions of the president on the matter of government revenue will attract more attention than any other por tion of his forthcoming message to congress. And according to Wash ington reports (he president is giving many hours of anxious thought to this problem, and regards it as on of the most difficult questions he hasj faced since he assumed his present' office. MEDICAL EXAMINATIONS. In a plea for every man and woman in the United Stntos. to join in a movement for annual or other peri odic medical examination of them selves, this movement to lie formally launched on December 8, the Nationul Association for the Study and Pre vention of Tuberculosis presents fig ures in a bulletin issued (recently which show that very nearly 100 per cent of the supposedly well people of the Tinted States over 30 years of age have some physical defect or im pairment. About 70 per cent of these impairment were of a more or less serious nature. There were besides about 30 per eent of defects of a minor character. ' The figures which the National as sociation presents are based upon Hie careful studies made by the Life F.x tcnslon 'institute among two highly specialird groups of people, the first group consisting of workers in the Ford Motor company of Detroit, and the second group consisting, of em ployes of commercial bouwj. banks and trust companies in New York. The records of these examinations show that practically none f those examined, men and women, are nor mal in the strict sense nfthe word. Another striking fart in the examina tion is that only 10 per ceit of those who were impaired were aware that there was anything the matter with them. This fact alone, the National Tuberculosis association point out, is sufficient to make every man and wo man in the United States give care ful consideration to the necessity for at least one physical inventory of bis entire body a year. , . ' URGING PEACE CONFERENCE. Mrs. Henry Ford, wife of the De troit automobile magnate, has con sented to finance a new movement in tended to hasten the restoration of peace in Europe, through the calling of a peace conference ot neutral na tions to discuss the possibility oi tind- ine a just settlement of the war. furtherance of this project Miss Jane Addams of Chicago, president ot the Women's Peace party, has dispatched about 10,000 telegrams to the local president of women's clubs in every state and section of this country, sug gesting an immediate telegraphic ap nea! to President Wilson to call Deace conference of neutral nations. This evidently is intended to supple ment and join with other similar movements having in view the calling of a neutral peace conference. And unquestionably it is hoped to put so much pressure on President Wilson that he will feel under obligation to ioin this movement by officially issu ing the call, as requested. Conceding there is practically a universal desire fon the restoration or peace, however, (and this applies to the people of the fighting nations no less than to neu tral countries), the lurther tact snouia not be overlooked that there also is such a thing as unwarranted outside meddling at an inopportune time a mistake that might do more harm than good. There is nothing as yet to show 'that the belligerent nations are sufficiently ready for peace to make concessions that would promise to be satisfactory to the other side, and not much chance of peace until this point reached. Ill other words, while both sides naturally desire peace. neither side is sufficiently victorious to dictate terms to the other, and neither side sufficiently exhausted to be willing to accept harsh and arbi trary terms imposed by the other side. Both are anxious for peace, but each stubbornly determined to "fight it out" until it either is whipped and thus compelled to submit to dictation. or until the other side is placed in this predicament. This being so, it goes without say- ing that anv outside movement to luierco t ie neuieerenis wuum w IJ -A o-arded'bv the latter as perniciously meddlesome, and such movement prob ably would meet with speedy rebuff, no matter how good the intentions mieht be. It is a case that parallels onr own experience during -the. civil war, for if neutral nations had urged a settlement of the- war while the lat ter was in progress1 both sides unques tionably would Save,- responded: Mind your own business, or some- thins to that effect. And this situa tion has its counterpart in Europe to day, where neither side s truly ready for peace, although hoping tor ano anticipating the time when peace , will he restored. However, no,, harm proD- ably will result from the activities of individuals and organisations in try ing to encourage and promote peace talk and peace movements. INTERNATIONAL TOAST. Next Saturday, which will be the fourth dv of December, will mark the closing of the Panama-Pacific In ternational eygttion at San Francis- ,. ,i scored a tremendous success both frofy an durational and from the financial standpoint. And in connection with tb'e. official closing certain ceremonies will be observed tbal. "undoubtedlywill attract wide spread attention and arouse much in terest. At noon on that day, for in stance, it lias been arranged that an ternntionol toast will be presented bv President- Wilson, and all nations. organizations and institutions partic- patine in the exposition will he asK- ed to join in this toast at the exact hour of noon. San rranmro time. The toast itself, it is announced, will he a " message of peace and good will o all mankind," calculated to inspire thoughts of world peace, world ser vice and world patriotism. The arrangement of this ceremony was a happy tnougiu, anu uu iiiortune time possibly could have lun eolected for carrvintr it out. It has been worth something to the world that while all of hurope has been engaged in the destruction of lives and property, and in exhibiting he worst passions of the human race. America has been exemplifying to the world the beauties and advantages of peace. ' While Europe has been prostrate. America has entered into a season of unprecedented prosperity. which is growing larger and larerr with the passing months. The San Yaneiseo exposition has been the medium through wmen aimn s mis sion in the world has been displayed, and the service planned for the fourth of" December is as fitting as it is nnupie. The second monthly Sales day. and the first under the auspices or the Dallas Commercial club, held last Sat urday, was pronounced success, al though the attendance might have heen much larger. It showed, how ever, what the persistency of one man , may accomplish. Mr. Davis original ly undertook to promote this institu tion, and later when it became a com iuunity affair that gentleman was named chairman of the commercial organization committee which took hold of the work and carried it to suc cess. And that the succeeding event will prove even more complete than that of last Saturday there can be lit tie doubt. The fanners of the rural realm are co-operating with their city brethren and if this continues along the line on which they have started Sales day will not only become a per manent community institution, but will be one of the biggest and best of its kind in the Willamette valley. To the committee in charge of the af fair much credit is due for its until' ing efforts. PROSPERITY WEEK. When business was prostrated. more than a year ago, and the wail of the pessimism prevailed throughout the land, the electrical industry, with its investment of approximately $3, 000,000,000, sensing a demoralized trade condition, determined to switch the public mind from gloomy forebod- lnes, and as a result Llectncal Pros perity week was developed with the sole thought of wiping the fellow pos sessing that depressed feeling off the map. The magnitude or this impor tant event, which this week reigns supreme in every community through out the land, is a great big example of what can be accomplished by co operative effort. Although the coun try has passed back to prosperity through a logical chain of influences, the promoters of Electrical Prosperi ty week did mueh in restoring busi ness to normal conditions, having the endorsement and hearty support of other great industries in their under taking. When the present week is a matter of history, it may be said with truthv that, the initiative and en terprise of the electrical industry has again been asserted. But. Electrical Prosperity week ac complis'hes more than this. It shows how industry may take advantage ot recent progress in applying electricity to improving business conditions, and epecially as regards -'transportation, power, light, safety, cleanliness and economy in production and distribu tion. In the language of Thos. A Edison, ' ' never in its history has elec tricity offered such wonderful help in every commercial department of life. It promises horseless, smokeless, dirt less, noiseless cities; and so many big economic revolutionary thing3 that it would take a volume even to list them." William Jennings Bryan is a good illustration of a man possessing the confidence of a large following, final ly wearing out the patience and trust of the very men who have backed him. He is a great talker' and small doer; and is most seriously lacking, like all great talkers, in that constructive common sense that mares all true statesmen. Bryan has talk ed himself to death politically. An exchange says there will be no typographical errors in heaven. This information is sufficient in itself to cause the worried publisher to forth with seek everlasting salvation; and especially so when he glances over his sheet fresh from the press and finds pottering spelled "puttering," and incensed "incenced." About the only thing not yet affect ed by the European war is the Sunday paper comic supplements. Ihe origi nators of funny pictures apparently see no chance to work the war into their line of business. The European war has added to the proserity of this laid, but the Eifr opeans are paying a terrible price for extending us this favor. BRICK BUILDING TO GO UP. Frame Destroyed by Fire Recently Will Be Replaced. A new two-storv brick building will be erected on the site of the recent fire at Independence, and a clean-up of the premises is already under way. The remains of the Fowler restaurant are being removed and the charred timber, warped pipes and tin cans that marked the scene of the disas trous fire of several weeks ago, will soon entirely disappear. E. Fluke of the fluke Johnson grocery com pany is snid to be the man behind the operation, but several other person are interested with Mr. Fluke. A mod ern two-story building will be erect ed, large enoneh to accommodate the business houses that were forced out bv the fire. "Put in the Brick." In the matter of the mail our tn- cle Samuel has some peculiar rules. for instance the foreman ot the tn- terprise mailed a package of printed matter to Thomas Prince of Dundee. (a distance of about three miles) this ; week at a cost of 23 rents. The gen- j tlemanly clerk stated that, bad the , parkas weighed one and one-half pounds more, the postage would have i been but 9 rents! So it seems that I half a brick could hare been tied up inside that parkase and a dear fav ine of 14 cents made thereby in pos-! tagc Xewberg Enterprise. J OTHER THINGS . A Rare and Curiftus Collection of Fact tnd Fancy. The other night the writer stood in the presence of a small assemblage of Elks when the dial told of the dying day, and obedient to the custom of that fraternity 'they paused to unite in a salutation of sweet remembrance. And we pondered auew over the grac ious custom proclaimed by the eleven cliimes, which is to recognize an hour tor the direction of thoughts toward absent brothers, 'toward friends of other days; for reflection upon their virtues, and' for expression of hopes as to their wellbeing.; lie they cross ed in adversity or joyous affluence, Elks' send to each at this stated hour the message that absence shall but endear and that affliction shall but in tensify their lasting friendship. A si lent toast is " mythically dirunk. (to those suffering 'the burdens of sick ness and distress, t) those denied the companionship of friends, to those weary and far from home. They drink to youth and age, to those in the portals of promise, and to those in the vale or long shadows, 'to those crouched in anguish 'neath the majes tic wing of death, and to all in every land, who, under infirmity, dwell in the twilight of peace. They drink to those from among their number who have gone to that bourne from whence no 'traveler returns, and in memory's hour pray that they may cluster round, as in days agone, to listen to the supplication ithat he who guides o 'er all the universe shall "Lead us on, O'er moor and fen, o'er crag and tor rent, 'Till nisht is gone. And with the morn, 'those angel faces smile, Which we have loved long since and lost while. It was the well-taught lesson of brotherly love, the fundamental prin ciple upon which 'this great fraternal organization, the influence ot which is felt 'throughout the civilized world, is founded. It was a lesson worthy of emulation. Breeze Gibson says it's a good thing to give thanks before we eat the Thanksgiving dinner, because it's pretty hard to get up a thankful feel ing afterward. 'Mid the excitement of a late fire the other night, H. C. Seymour and Dr. Starbuck played the O. A. L.- U. of 0. football game over again. The fire was out long before 0. A. C. established an alibi. Life's Two Mirrors. The mirror that time holds up to you today tells a tale, a pretty story of a life that has just begun; of hope and happiness; of illusion and mystery; of youth and impulse; of fun and tolly. But sometime in the by-and-by he will hold up another mirror before your face, and yon will not want to look. It will tell a tale of a life well-nigh spent, of patience and knowledge; of endurance . of hap piness and understanding; of wasred opportunities ; of deeds that are done and cannot be undone, and -perhaps of remorse and repentance. Orville Schultz was on his high horses lost week, and those same horses were certainly some travelers. We have Orville 'g solemn oath that he rode 475 miles, in thirty minutes. That dogone horse must 'a rambled right along. "When you mention the world beating 0. A. C. hens," says C. B. Williams, the sportive railroader and telephoner, "1 must beg to remark that there are some chickens in Inde pendence. ' ' District Attorney Sibley says he will see that the county vaults, where confiscated liquors are kept, are as "dry" after January 1 as any of the city's well-known depositories. Heavy Tax For Independence. A twenty-mill tax levy was author ized by the city council of Indepen dence on Friday evening, when the vote of the previous meeting was rat- tied. Councilman Faddock was the only dissenting voter, he maintaining that an eighteen mill tax was suffic ient. It seems to be a general opin ion that the twenty-mill lew was nec essary in view of the conditions that confront the city administrators this year, but with a cautious regulating of the affairs of the city, hereafter, such a tax will not be required again. Twtce-a-Week Observer SI. 50 a Tear. FOR LIVESTOCK DR. KORINECK'S REMEDIES ARE THE BEST HEALING AGENTS KNOWN FOR DISEASES OF HORSES. 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