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About Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927 | View Entire Issue (Sept. 26, 1916)
THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVER. TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1916 Published Bach Tuesdar and Friday Office Telephone. .617-519 Court Street Main 19 BY H. W. BRUNEI Subscription Rates. One Year.., 11.60 Six Months 76 Three Months 40 for In advance. This is imperative. No subscription taken unless paid Entered as second-class matter In the Postomce at Dallas. Oregon. HUGHES AND FAIRBANKS. opposition to this step, however, and hjad it not been for the recent strike crisis and hurried action of congress in adopting an eight-hour law, it is probable that many years might elapse before this question became a live and leading issue. Close observ ers now claim the situation has been entirely changed by this revolution ary eight-hour law, and they insist tlilat the problem of government own ership looms immediately ahead. This may be so, and if it is so the only tiling for the American people to do is to face this problem and settle it, in a way that promises to best protect the rights and interests of the public md promote the wel fare of the nation at large. Of course there are many angles and phases of the situation winch first must be giv en careful consideration, but after all this problem is no more difficult or complicated than others which have faced this nation and have been solv ed in a wise and satisfactory manner. Ijike many other problems, moreover, the solution of this one will doubt less appear more easy after it is once tackled with seriousness. Already the government ownership proposal is not the bugaboo it once was, and in time the actual accomplishment may come about simply as a matter of coui-se. RE-OPENING OF THE SCHOOLS. The reopening of the public schools marks the ending of the long summer vacation land the commencement of another term of studious application by children and young folks. To many of the latter the resumption of school seems like work, and some may even deplore the necessity of returning to books, recitations, drills and discip line. Yet it really is a rare privilege which is thus afforded to the young people of Shis day and age, an op portunity which they should appreci ate and gladly embrace, instead of shunning and regarding it us some thing of a hardship. Educational training is what makes men and women intelligent, efficient and capable of assuming the real du ties and responsibilities of life and citizenship, and a lack of early edu cational training is a handicap that invariably is deplored by those who Wave failed to secure this great and immensely valuable advantage.' Of course there are some who manage to get along and even succeed, despite tilie lack of an early educational train ing in schools, but usually it will be found that such persons have mating ed to ediuaate themselves, through (persistent application und much la borious effort, and their condition would liave been still .lietter, nnd their success greater, if they could have enjoyed the educational oppor tunities open to practically every American boy and girl today. And even if school attendance is regarded as something in the nature of work, it is work worth while, for it brings returns wlhich often are ov erlooked. Educators-, for instance. maintain that each boy and each girl who finishes a high school course vir tually "earns" an average of $!) a day for every day that the pupil at tends school. This is computed from official statistics showing the average earnings of un-educated laborers, and of persons who graduate from high schools, the latter, in the course of an average life, actually being com pensated at a higher rate sufficient to pay them if!) a day for every day of school work. Nine dollars a day is pretty good wages, land if the boys and girls could be made to understand that this is their reward for school "work." they would be less inclined to lament their lot and more inclined to pitch in and do their best to master school studies. Even this, however, is only a minor part of the compensation for edhoo! work, for the latter helps to make better men and women, who are of more, use to themselves and to the state, and who learn how to live and enjoy life rat the same time they ai-e gathering the rudiments of education. HEALTH ABOVE ALL. Wihat proflteth a man tluot he gain the whole world yet lose his health? Naturalists say that long ago the prehistoric waters were infested with a species of enormous shark which finally became extinct by reason of the workings of its voracious appe tite. Thus nature eliminates the over-fed. The desire for ease of life and plentiful diet is ufliiversinl and is the great stimulus of man and animals alike. When man becomes greedy and takes more ease and food and drink than is his share, nature dis cards him. In the race for power and place. for ease of circumstance and relief from the stimulus of hunger, the mod ern man is apt to forget that unless he is careful of bis body he will soon be made to suffer for the infraction of nature's inexorable physical law. With the loss in body tone comes an equal loss in mental acuity and the brain which for a time was able to operate despite the complaints of an over-fed, under-exercised, self-pois oned body, stops working. Statisticians have, discovered that the mortality rate of persons in the United States over 45 years of aire is increasing. The strenuous life of to day is not alone responsible for this Lack of health-giving exercise, super fluity of diet, lack of restoring sleep, over-stimiMation, the 'high pressure of the race for power, wealth and posi tion, plus physical neglect these bring early decay. The goal is reach ed, wealth is amassed, honor, liosi- tion and power are just being grasp ed when the apple of accomplishment turns to the ashes of dissolution. The brilliant mind becomes clouded, the steady hand is no longer accurate, the eye which once ga.ed fearlessly on the "whole world is dimmed and it is not long before the final break-up oc elli's. All of this was entirely pre ventable. Other things being equal it is the man who leads the well-balanced life who lasts the longest, whose work to the end is uniformly the best, he who neither over-works nor over- questions as to my business and my identity I have laairued the name of my illegible correspondent. I have wasted nearly an hour and I am deJ cidedly irritated." , The above experience is ono tlhat occurs daily in business life. It is an experience tjhat we have all had at some time or other, and there is no reason for it. It causes worry, trou ble, delay and expense. Legible writ ing seems 'a small thing in itself. In its power to save or make work it is often an important factor. President Wilson, we are told, wel comes the efforts of the republican leaders to make a campaign issue of the eight-hour law; Another case, it would seem, where everyone is satis fied. Rents Rickreall Farm. Louis Husser has rented his Rick reall farm to J. N. Woods for a term of vears. to take cllect uc-touor i Mr. Husser and Miss Marguerite Husser will move to Dallas to live, Vnr 11 time Mr. Husser will not en gage in any business. Dayton has decided to hold a corn show in November. Professional Cards DENTIST W. C. SCHAEFER Office over Fuller Phaimaoy. Office hours from 9 to 12 a. m.; 1 to 5 p. m. Dallas Oregon It is to be hoped that Henry Ford's new tractor will not mark the going of the horse. The horse will still be needed to pull the auto out of the mud in Oregon. 'General" Coxey of Coxey army fame has tiled papers as an Indepen dent candidate for United States sen ator from Ohio. Probably hopes to catch the hobo vote in that state. JJENTIST M. HAYTER Dallas National Bank Buiulding Dallas Oregon ATTORNEY AT LAW OSCAR HAYTER Dallas City Bank Building. Dallas Oregoi i 1 11 The "big show" will be staged just six weeks from today. OTHERS' OPINIONS plays, neither over-cats, over-drinks, Good Roads Spirit Marching On. The Dalles Chronicle Coos coun- ,y, in the southwestern part of Ore gon, iurmshes an object lesson m the matter of sensible road building;. For years its only highways were the ocean, via Coos bay and its rivers and inlets. Heavily timbered, its first roads were mere trails, hut event tually the heavy e.euse of opening roads through the forest had to be undertaken,' not to take into account the grading of hills and building of bridges. For the first few years the work was of the customary liaplnizzanl character and then the farmers woke up 10 uie iact tliat it didn't pay There is a rainfall of 05 inches in that section, most of it during the winter and the rood problem in the mountain districts and on the low lands was a difficult one. At first the roads were largely corduroy; lat er the rock Uugbway and this was succeeded by the plank road. About live years ago, the progressive citi zens acknowledged the fact that large sums of money were being expended every year without any permanent highway resulting; that the system of repairing and patching was all wrong. A campaign for sane road construe' tion was then begun, and a road de partment was organized with the idea of giving the taxpayers real roads for the money it was taking from him. Jt is a big countv, but they did away with tllie old system to a grea- extent, and put the work under t.lie direction of a practical road build- During this time they have been expending more than $200,000 a year in permanent roads; the old super visor system has been relegated to (he scrap heap and in their places are patrolmen (on the svstem adopt. ed in British Columbia Ions' fl-P-nl whose business it is to patrol sec tions of the different liiuthwnvs SIBLEY & EAKIN Attorneys and Abstractors. The only reliable set of Abstracts In Polk County. Office on Court street Dallas, ... Oregon BROWN-SIBLEY ABSTRACT CO. 610 Mill street, Dallas. Only up-to-date set of abstracts o Polk county. Posted every morninf from county records. rininYour.Lisi Of School Supplies WE have alltht things you need for school text books, drawing materials, tablets and other sup plies, including the CONKLIN Self-Filler so well adapted to students use. Students evervwher say this efficient fountain pen means better work and better grades. MIS FIHino Fountain Pen NON-IEAKABLE FOR SALE AT S. B. TAYLOR Civil Engineer and Surveyor Office. City Hall Phone 791 or 542, Dallas, Oregon Olive smlth-Bicknell Teacher of PIANO and ORGAN Studio 401 Court St. Classes in Fundamental Music Training Hayter s Book Store 428 Main Street HIKES ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION CO. SURVEYORS, ENGINEERS AND CONTRACTORS Phone 502 616 Mill Street DALLAS :: OREGON ATTORNEY AT LAW WALTER L. TOOZE, JR. Dallas National Bank Building " Oregoi, t d, suits cleaned and pressed: no charges for repairing. Phil Begin. 1 : ' . . w l1'. . ' r Livery & Feed Stable ED. PLASTER, Proprietor. BEST OF ATTENTION TRANSIENT HORSES. STABLING " wiinuux f bed, 10c: SAD' DLE HORSE, 5c K7.T2H RDER WITH US 'v ""vnuxiti iuu YOUR GAR DEN McCann & Collins' Old Stand Opposite Hotel Gail Dr. W. L. Holloway Chiropractor Office over Stafrin's Drug Store. Phones: Res. 882; Office 522. ' " ' , ". nuns oi me clillerent hirfliwavs, nor over-sleeps, lie who maintains a make small repairs, see that the standard of simple healthy diet in drainage is kept up to the standard GOVERNMENT OWNERSHIP. There is a widespread feeling that the eight-hour law which has been adopted by congress lias advanced the cause of government ownership of the railroads by many years, and may re sult in causing this question to be come a live political issue within a short time. The principle establish ed by the enactment of this law is certainly far reaching, for it is an assumption of federal authority over the wages paid to the employes of in terstate carriers, no less than over their hours of employment. And hav ing gone thus far congress cannot atop, but must proceed to exercise this authority in further anl larger regulations, nntil it logically leadi to final decision on the long discuss ed question of government ownership. As a matter of fart it would ap pear that sentiment in favor of gov ernment ownership has been growing steadily for a number of years, and it in a notable fart that a number of prominent railway heads, darinc tie past few years, have exprewd the opinion that government owner ship of the rail system is bound (to come. There is still a good deal of moderation, who offsets mental work with physical recreation, who is as honest with his own bodv as he is with his own business. Wlien suc cess comes to such a one his physinu and mental condition is such that he can enjoy in peace of mind and con tentment of body the fruits of his laliors. The regulations of IT. S. Pulili Health Service state: "Ft is the du ty of officers to maintain their phy sical as well as their professional fit ness. To this end they shall lie al lowed time for reerettion and study whenever their official duties will permit." If the government regards it as essential that its sanitary ex pert shall be safeguarded in this way, is it not equally important to every citizen that he similarly main tain a high standard of physical in tegrity T WHY NOT WRITE BETTER. 'I have just spent ten minutes per sonally trying to decipher a signature at the end of a letter of considerable importance," said a business man the other day. "I have taken the letter into the office of an associate and in terrupted him in the midst of his dic tation in order to find out whether he is better at deciphering hieroglyphics than L. He isn t I bare asked my seeretary to figure out the scrawl, if possible. He has come in with three possible translations all different front mine. As a last resort I have been compelled to telephone to I lie concern with which 'Mr. Scrawler' is associated to find out his name, for I have business reasons for wish- ng to write to him directly. After tactfully answering several office boy and reiort any work that cannot he done with the equipment provided. In this way chuck holes are kept filled up and. mud puddles are drained out so the roads will not cut up. Coos county has 635 miles of road ways, and this method of scientific construction gave such excellent re sults that last May the county voted ir-iou.nim bonds and levied enough ad ditional so tliiat next spring they wil' have a fund of nearly .(KiOO.OOO avail able for jiernianent road construe-tion. The story of Columbia county ha, percolated to every part of Coos county, but they have an intelligent and economic system of expenditure ana tlie misfortunes or mismanage ment in Columbia countv in no wav deterred them land the bond issue earned overwhelmingly. They have only 13,000 population, but they have the right idea of the road question and the nerve to put it through. More than that, five years of scientific construction and main tenance has convinced the most skep tical that good roads iav for them selves. The good roads mui moving with tremendous strides and ii the voters of Wasco county will take up the consideration of it with iu uumr ana a determination to look into it from all sides, there is no doubt the economy of construc tion, me saving in maintenance, and the lessened cost of travel and haul ing will he so apparent that there wui oe only little opposition to bonding. - Now is the time to get your peaches and pears. Dallas Gro- eery company. 4 THE CELEBRATED BERG MANN SHOE F. N. Woodry The Live Stock Auctioneer Farm stock sales a specialty. If you want what your chattels are worth I can get it for you. Give me a trial and be convinced. I guarantee satisfaction. No sale too large or too small. I work for the man that employs me. Address 1140 South 15th St. Salem, Oregon. Phone) 511. Tk. of." San Francisco, 1915. -luugenana nearest water-proof r Wsers, Cruiser. Mjr.ers, Sport8InM 'rtDreShoe. Strong Shoes for Boys Mlnnf a John Happy Improving. John Happy, the Pioneer bov wlu. was injured recently, U convalescent. Dr. Free t), D 1 Iand "Pecialist, will" Z-t ronimue to make reg-. each-i. tt- . . "anas Call n.;V u...," W "ates. uuieu fourteen Team' penenee over 7900 cases trelt " Are You Looking for a Good Bus iness Place? If SO. ther. i. . OA . nJ . . n oy zo loot, one story building on Monmouth's main street for rent Monmouth w the home of the state normal school with a 600 enrollment, the year 'round, ( The building has been ntted as a 1 . uranary. j R. M. SMITH, MONMOUTH Peache and Desn f. ; MGroW y: ; DR. FOSTER CHIRQPRACTIQ sanitaWm PrTTJTOw. "vn. uj, mil USED TKWL .LS ELECTRIC TfY1. Y?nv SEUJOM FjAILS. APR,! J flu IL. AND ml IK F.J, CITYBAEf - West MOHuTBRE You I of the cost of 4 you cm depene ures wiflbeu seasoned ltk estly. If T" much. If J either in P DALLAS ' SeePsf forpe' ning-