THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, 1916
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GLAD TO MEET YOU.
With this issue of The Observer the
undersigned is casting his lot with the
good city of Dallas. We came here,
after visiting many other places, be
cause of the splendid climate this
community enjoys, the promising fu
ture this valley appears to have, and
because the city of Dallas itself is an
inviting one in which to have a home,
not forgetting the fact that we also
wanted to make money, although we
can give you assurance that no coun
try newspaper man expects to amass
a fortune in hi line of work.
We expect to continue The Observ
er, as it has been in the past, a news
paper which is in keeping with this
progressive little city. We are inter
ested in the upbuilding of Dallas in
an industrial and commercial way;
we stand for the advancement of the
community in a moral, social and in
tellectual way, and shall endeavor to
make the paper a factor in all civic
and community enterprises which bet
ter these conditions. The Republican
policy of the paper will be sustained.
We are new here and will make mis
takes, for that is the way of humani
ty. These, however, will be uninten
tional and without thought of doing
injustice. No doubt our readers will
overlook some of these errors at least
until our newness wears off. And we
want you to know that our latch
string is always out : we want to meet
you and become better acquainted and
will assure you that all favors extend"
ed ns will be appreciated and an hon
est effort made to merit your good
will H. W. BRUNE.
BOOST THE COUNTY FAIR.
The fall fair season again is at
hand in this part of the country,
v.mrn is a reminder mat our own
county fair is only a few Weeks ahead.
Preparations for this annual event
have been under way for weeks an.l
the managers of the fair are working
hard to make this year's meet anoth
er record breaker. They also declare
the prospects for carrying out this
plan are excellent. The fair itself
will be unusually attractive, they say,
while there are encouraging indica
tions of public interest, augmented
by conditions of good crops and the
fact that this is a political year,
which always adds interest to public
gatherings of this character.
Public aid and co-opeiation, howev
er, can do much to add to the success
of the coming county fair, and the
management of the latter relies on
the people of Polk county to do their
part in advertising the fair and there
by help to increase the patronage. All
that is necessary is an occasional re
minder to friends and acquaintances,
and if this plan is followed everyone
in this section will soon be talking of
the county fair and planning to at
tend it. The date of the fair is Sep
tember 10 to 21, ami it therefore is
time to put forth your efforts in mak
ing the biggest fair the county ever
held. It has always been one of the
best fairs in this part of the state and
deserve the aid and patronage of ev
try resident of the county.
I THE DANISH ISLES.
( There has been a disposition in
sjime quarters to criticise the price
yhieh this government lias offered for
tie Danish West Indies. It is argued
tint the islands are intrinsically
worth but little, and that $i",000.000
is en exhorbitant price, to pay for
them, even thomrh this nation can
make good use of them as a naval
base, and further eoneedine it would
b unpleasant and highly undesirable
to have them pass nnder the control
of some other European power, which
mi(fht cause them to be a menace to
American interests at some future
time.
matter what basis is used for
estuniting the value of these islands,
however, a little study of the ques
tion win convince any fair-minded
person tht the price which has been
offered by the United States is not
excessive. Vn compared with what
it iKTtmmr TOuia cost to acquire
mem ny tne aanent method of con
quest. And while we speak of this
method as "ancieu," it bv no means
obsolete, for it is followed even to
the present day by most nations, and,
has something to do with the present
great conflict in Europe.
Nearly every nation engaged in
this war, in fact, is counting on get
ting a share of territorial spoils, pro
viding its own side wins and a chance
is thereby provided to make new in
ternational boundaries and a redis
tribution of foreign colonies and is-'
lands. Yet it would be far cheaper
for any of these nations to pay a
round price for the terirtory it hopes
to acquire, for the actual cost of war
will make the cost of any territory
gained terribly expensive. England,
for instance, is paying something like
$30,000,000 for each day of war, or
considerably more than the criticised
price offered by this government for
the Danish isles.
War, in fact, is almost invariably
the dearest and most expensive way
of getting what a nation wants. And
it is a matter of no little satisfaction,
in this connection, to note that onr
own government long ago set the
style of bargaining and paying for
territorial acquisitions, rather than
trying to get them by force. It is a
style, moreover, that our European
friends should study and copy, for
they would find it far cheaper in the
end.
A dispatch tells of the death of a
young woman in Illinois, "due to a
stroke of apoplexy superinduced by
the excitement of eloping." And al
though the papers may hold this up
as a terrible warning against elope
nients, there is very small chance it
will scare the girls.
We greatly regret that it is impos
sible to take without hesitation or
doubt the declarations of the armies
of Europe in reference to the number
of prisoners captured. If all claims
along this line could be substantiated
we should see all prisoners and no
fighters over there.
The members of congress are pre
paring to go out into the campaign,
the republicans to attack and the dem
ocrats to defend. The country in the
meantime is safe. With congress scat
tered all over the land the people are
not in any danger.
The defacto government of Mexico
has decided to return the railroads of
that country to the rightful owners.
Chances are the government has found
that it will cost too much to make the
necessary repairs.
It probably would be keen satisfac
tion to President Wilson if he could
enforce the eight-hour law on Mr.
Hughes.
SOMT TTTTWfifi
Old Age is no Bar to Work.
Mr. F. A. Patterson of Indepen
dence is a criterion which any man of
his age, and even younger men, might
pattern after with profit. Mr. Pat
terson with his life partner, lives in
a neat little home in a fine residence
district in Independence, where he is
surrounded by life-long friends and
relatives. However he is not content
to sit and pass the time in reminis-
cences of early days as many men of
Ins ripe old age are prone to do, but
kef ps busy a greater part of the time
in his large garden which covers fullv
half an acre. On this plot of irround
he raises vegetables of many descrip
tions and the ones that are Errowins
there now are an entirely new crop.
He has planted and raised two com
plete gaidens this year. One would
judge by the appearance of his onion
bed that this crop is to be a profitable
one. Mr. and Mrs. Patterson have
been blessed during their married ex
istence with ten children, who are all
living. For these stalwart sons anil
daughters Mr. Patterson still spends
many hours in his little work shop
back ot the house, fashioning a last
remembrance and souvenir of bis ac
tive working life and ingenuity. He
has selected pieces of white ash from
ordinary cord -wood and out of this
raw material be has fashioned rock
ing chairs which would grace any par
lor. About a year ago Mr. Patterson
conceived the idea of making each of
Ins chlren a present of a rockine
chair of his own make and design and
it took him 43 hours to perfect his
plans. Then he went to work and he
has now about finished the ten chairs.
He shipped one away to a son last
week. One of Mr. Patterson's sons
offered him a chest of fine tools with
which to work, but he refused, saying
that he wished to make the chairs in
his own way. a very primitve one.
the only tools being a smsll saw. file
and jacknife. The chairs are fasten
ed toeether with wooden pegs. Mr.
Patterson keeps as mentallv active as
he does physically. He is a staunch
republican of the old school and a be
liever in woman suffrage. His broad
high brow shows the possibilities of
an intellectual dfjrelnpment which has
not been neglected.
The ten sons and daughters of Mr.
Patterson who will be fortnnate
enough to receive a rorkine chair are:
1. I" H. R.. G. S F. C W. H P. C.
D. P N", A. D., and Miss M. L. Pat
terson, i
t OTHERS' OPINIONS
Signs of the Safety First movement
can be seen now in the care with
which the girls arrange heavy awn
ings to make their porches shady af
ter dark. Albany Evening Herald.
Oregon is one of the first to feel
the effects of the impending strike.
Here in Salem an order for $15,000
worth of green prunes was cancelled
because they could not be delivered
if the strike is declared. Reports
from the Medford section are to the
effect that the car shortage has caused
heavy losses to pear growers, much of
the fruit rotting. The recent order
will put the finishing touches to the
crop as there is nothing that can be
done with the fruit except to dry it,
and this is not profitable. Salem Cap
ital Journal.
Because he has decidedly pronounc
ed opinions, and some have taken ob
jections thereto. W. C. De Pew, of
the Criterion at Lebanon, says that
every man or woman who exercises
the right of franchise should stand
for some political unit. "They should
take a stand and have backbone
enough to let their preference be
known. Be something, first, last and
all the time. Naturally our first
thought is that it is the best to be a
republican; but, if you cannot be a
republican, be a democrat ; and if you
can conscientiously be neither, be I
progressive, a prohibitionist, a social
ist, an anarchist, btand lor some
principle, and don't go around like
an old mop without handle or wringer
a big slob looking for a soft place
to light after the f rny is over. ' '
There have been volumes of matter
written and published on the railroad
strike situation. To an ordinary cit
izen on whom the burden of footing
the bill for increases will fall, it
looks as if the time had arrived to es
tablish once and forever the principle
of arbitration.
Why in the name of all that is sen
sible should employers and employes
be left to fight out their labor battles
by force at the expense of the pub
lic, when other questions between in
dividuals and corporations are set
tled in courts of law?
The world would soon come to
pretty state of affairs if some of the
rest of us decided we would refuse to
abide by court decisions and settle
our own difficulties by force of hand.
There would be just as much sense
and right in it as for the railroad
brotherhoods to refuse to arbitrate.
The claim that no justice can be se
cured by arbitration is poor argument
for if we take that ground we are
practically admitting that our judicial
system is a farce and that there is no
justice in anything. Any decision ren
dered by a judicial body is not likely,
to please both sides, but the mere
fact that one side or the other is dis'
satisfied is no criterion that justice
has not been meted out in as liberal
a manner as the case warrants. If
the most powerful leaders in this
country began to use force simrjlv be
cause the courts failed to always give
mem ail they demanded in then
pleadings, what would we come to!
Yet this is exactly the situation in
the present strike, the brotherhoodi,
refuse to arbitrate because they claim
tney nidn't get sufficient results in ar-'
bitration meetings held a few month?
Dallas
ago. Such action as this is forcing
me nay wnen there will he a court of
arbitration and these matters will bf
settled on their merits jurt the same
as any other case between individuals
or corporatioLS. Exchange.
Dallas
"What's in a Name?"
O'er the name of a rollicking, laugh
ing stream,
Men argue, dispute and
For a poet, it seems. Ini l,,,.! . j
At.d he loves his name the best.
Polk
The stream leaps rocks and laves the
Dallas,
snag,
And races o'er bowlder and sand;
!he joins not the strife, nor cares a
ra?
For a name men think so grand.
r ages sue laughingly lippled and
plaved.
As she nourished the deer and the lea
The call of her G.vl aim .-. u ,'
in a life quite happy and free.
She slaked the thirst of the Indian
brave,
Who drank of her waters clear,
And when at last be found his grave
one sanz for the
Dallas
When first the lip, of the white nian
sipped
From this chattering stream of mirth
If eountins in tnn l. .-
- ' "a up-
A million or more on earth.
Call her U Creole or RickrealL
No fault to find has she:
bile the world roll
men fall.
' on and proud
She will find her
wy to the sea.
It is thus of relipoos creeds I taint
The name matters not a whit;
If tired and thirsty men may drink
Or lave in the wators of it.
All those performing their tasks each
day,
As happy and free ns the creek,
Will find their. God hard by the way,
The Jew as well as the Greek.
F. W. Parker.
My Work
(By J. C. llerbsinan)
My work is "just a job"
Or a Wonderful Opportunity
It is a "meal ticket"
Or Life's One Big Chance
It is "just a eoniuioii-place"
Or a Vision of Urcat Possibilities
It is a monotonous, dull, dead grind
Or The Joy of Life
Its end is dreud disappointment
Or The Promise of a Great Reward
It spells servility
Or Service
Tt reduces a man to slavery
Or recreates him. into a Master of
Men
It changes man into a narrow, selfish
monster
Or to a Godlike Being "Who Loves
His Fellowmau"
It withholds, grasps, hoards with the
spirit of the miser
Or it Gives, Helps, Loves, Serves
With the true Spirit of Brotherly
Love
Which of these, Brother, is the con
ception of your work?
ELECTING A PRESIDENT
16
Roosevelt
Decisively
Defeated
Parker
In
1904.
ROOSEVELT.
TIIE Republicans, pleased
with the successor of Mc
Klnley, nominated Roose
velt In 1904. A split had occur
red in the Democratic party over
the question ot tree sliver. Wil
liam Jennings Bryan had a large
following, but also had many
bitter enemies. Alton B. Parker
of New York was agreed on
as a compromise candidate. He
was supposed to have no decid
ed views on the issue. Bw
ever, before the convention ad
journed he came out in favor of
the gold standard.
Roosevelt was overwhelmingly
elected, and Charles W. Fair
banks of Indiana was chosen
vice president, while Parker's
running mate that year was
Henry G. Davis of West Vlr
ginia. (Watch for th. flection of Tft
in 1903 in our next inue.)
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