THE POLK COUNTY OBSERVER. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14,
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HELP LIGHTEN THE LOAD.
Help lighten the load!
Humanity stumbles ahead on its road
Urged o'er the deserts, beset by the
goad;
Many bend under burdens of hunger
and care
And women must suffer and toil and
despair ;
And even the children astray in the
strife,
Are bowed by the weight till they
weary of life.
Hark! unto each soul that is hero, not
slave,
How clear sounds the call to hi
and be brave.
Help lighten the load!
the
Help lighten the load!
With all of the strength that
heart can command,
With all of the power of brain and
of hand,
With wills set to sacrifice, struggle
and dare,
With love that seeks ever each burden
to share,
With unflagging endeavor that stops
not to nsk
The length of the journey, the cost of
the task,
Come, sons of the kingdom! Come,
children of God !
And -along the dark path lv the
world's anguish trod
Help lighten the load!
The Outlook.
strong advocates of the plan of pro
viding military training and service
for every able bodied cittzen, and
this is a question that has yet to be
settled by the people of this country.
Such a plan will cost something, to be
sure, but the cost would be small as
compared with the cost of actual war,
even a small war. Yielding to the
public demand for better prepared
ness the last session of congress in
creased array appropriations approx
imately $"300,000,000 a year, yet this
would pay the war expense of any
one of the principal belligerent na
tions of Europe less than two weeks.
Tf, therefore, preparedness will Jielp
to prevent war, or will shorten the
time of an unpreventable war, it is
the cheapest kind of insurance. And
this nation has made only a start in
real preparedness.
HE IS OUR PRESIDENT.
The Observer is Republican. It
fought for Charles Evans Hughes for
president. The people of the United
States in their sovereign capacity as
electors have chosen Woodrow Wilson
as president. Until the probable con
tests are over The Observer will hope
that Mr. Hughes was elected.
But in the meantime Mr. Wilson is
the President. The Observer will
uphold President Wilson's hands as
far as it is within its power to do so.
As an American this is its plain du
ty. It is its further duty to give the
benefit of every doubt to the presi
dent of the United States. Tt will
do so. The very heavy burden of
proof will rest with the accusers of
the president's actions.
Woodrow Wilson is now The 01-
server's president; he is our presi
dent.
WAR HELPS GOOD ROADS
In an indirect way the European
war is claimed to be helping the good
roads movement in this country, which
is explained in the following roan-
ner. 1 housands of American tourists
who formerly went to Europe have
been kept at home during the past
two years, and many of them have
tuken to touring this country in au
tomobiles. American merchants, ho-
telmen and others have discovered it
is worth while to make an effort to
ittract this trade, and of course the
first essential is good roads. There
fore, a keen rivalry has sprung up
letween different states and sections
the matter of good roads, and
both east and west this additional
nfluence is having the effect of hast
ening road improvements.
Nor is this new influence entirely
confined to the United States proper.
Tlie same thing, we arc told, is re
sponsible for a very energetic good
roads campaign now under-way in the
Hawaiian islands. Hilo, the second
city of the territory, has led the way
and has constructed handsome con
crete boulevaiils leading from the
wharves throughout the business sec
tion. The outlying districts, under
the management of a progressive lo
cal government, liave put their high
ways in thorough order and auto-
mobilists may now enjoy motoring ov
er hundreds of miles of perfect ma
cadam highways amid charming scen
ery. It is now asserted that the is
land of Hawaii offers a motoring par
adise without a peer in'tlie world.
would avail against his handicap of
vnnth. inexnerience and inherited
iloht.
Alfred Carlstead set his teeth and
went to work. The first year was not
marked by success. More friendly
advice to give up was forthcoming.
F ast year was the fourth year of his
experiment, Alfred Carlstead, 23
years old, with two brothers younger,
owns the farm clear and well-equipped,
even' debt incurred by the fath
er has been paid, and the boys have
more than $20,000 in the bank.
The education alone could not have
done this. Pluck and grit and self
control and stick-to-it-ivencss were
needed also. But not all the pluck
and persistence in the world could
have turned the trick without the
technical knowledge the boy had ac
quired at the university. The Dalles
Chronicle. '
DARING WHALERS.
Thank goodness we will not have to
go through it again for four long
years.
Of course we will have a good old
Thanksgiving regardless of the elec
tion.
THE WOMAN VOTERS
In last Tuesday's election a new
factor entered the political arena. Tt
was Mrs. and Miss Voter. In twelve
states the women, as well as the men
voted on the national ticket. Tt is
estimated that there were about 2,-
000,000 women who cast ballots out
of the 4,000.000 who were niwilificd
to vote in the suffrage states. And
while it is not definitely known.
guess that they decided the question
in these suffrage states is not amiss.
Appreciating the immrtance of the
woman vote botfh parties made stren
uons ecorts before the election to se-
enre support of the women. Campaign
literature was prepared especially fo
them and campaign orators addressed
them with arguments intended to in
fluence them in the support of a par
ticular ticket. The genernl lielief that
the division among the women voters
would bear a similarity to the divis
ion among the women voters would
bear a similarity to the division
among the male voters, however, did
not work out, for apparently a ma
jority of the women votes in the
states west of the Mississippi voted
differently tlian their brothers and
husbands if figures of former elec
tions may be used as a basis.
The result of the election furnishes
a new problem for politicians and
office seekers the problem of satis
fying the women voters as well as the
men.
OTHERS' OPINIONS
PREPAREDNESS AND PENSIONS
An interesting comparison between
the cost of preparedness and the cost
. of pensions is drawn by a writer in
the eurrent number of Leslie's maga
sine, supporting an argument that
reasonable preparedness always pays
in the long run. Since the civil war
this nation has paid ont in pension
the enormous sum of 4,940.000.000.
whereas no such amount would have
been required had the government
been really prepared to deal with the
sitnation at the commencement of
that struggle. It would not have been
necessary to pat so many men in the
field and the dispute would have been
ended more quickly, and the result
wonld have been a saving of many
millions of dollars to the eorernment.
Many enlightened public men are
1901 Advertising Answered.
Again the Oldsmohile demonstrates
the longevity of advertising. Prom
Hearne, Texas, there recently arrived
at the factory an inquiry for one of
the original curved dash Oldsmohile
rnnalMiuts. in resionse to a series of
advertisements run in 1901 the first
automobile advertisements ever print
ed.
The elapsed time between the date
of the advertisements and the post
mark on the inquiry is more than 15
yea in. which is probnbly the record
for any individual advertisement.
unco Deiore (lie umsmoDHc receiv
ed a long-delayed inquiry from its
original series of advertisements,
Inst year, when, a prosjiect wrote for
ii curved dash ear, from Evergreen,
Va.
This was considered so rentarkable
at the time that it was commented on
by advertising men throughout the
United States. That, nfter the lapse
of a year, the advertisement should
reeat, is even more astonishing.
McMinnville ean be placed on the
map again on Tuesday by making that
excursion to Knsene a hummer. The
Commercial club at Eugene will show
the visitors a good time. If you can
spnre the time, take that trip and
see the valley and one of its most
progressive anil growing cities. Al
ready many farmers have signified
their intentions of making the jour
ney. alcMinnrille ews-Kenorter.
Book-Learn ing on the Farm.
A striking example of the benefits
of academic agricultural training is
set forth by the case of Alfred Carls
tead, graduate of the University of
Minnesota, Carlstead 's father was a
farmer of the old type who in a life
time of hard work was able to ac
cumulate only a farm paying a very
modest living, a few long-used imple
ments and several debts. When he
died bequeathing this estate to his
three sons. Alfred, the eldest, was
just about finishing his agricultural
course at the university. Alfred was
nineteen.
The boy's friends advised him to
sell the farm and go to the city to
lake a living. They laughed at his
idea that his technical education
The Effect of Good Roads.
To determine as far as possible the
exact dollars and cents effecj on a
county of the improvement of had
roads, specialists of the Office of Pub
lic Roads and Rural Engineering of
the department made economic sur
veys in eight counties in each of the
years from 1910 to 1915, inclusive.
This study of the increase in the
values of farm lands in the eight
counties reveals the rather interesting
fact that following the improvement
of the muin market roads the in
crease in the selling price of tillable
farm lands served by the roads has
amounted to from one to three times
the total cost of the improvements.
The increase in values in those in
stances which were recorded ranged
from 63 per cent to 80 per cent in
Spotslyvania county, Va.; from 68 to
194 in Dinwiddie county, Va. ; 70 to
80 in Lee county , Va. ; 25 to 100 in
Wie county, Va.; 9 to 114 in Frank
lin county, N. Y. ; 50 to 100 in Dallas
county. Ala.; 25 to 50 in Lauderdale
county. Mass. ; and from 50 to 100 in
Manatee county, Fla. The estimates
of increase were based for the most
part upon the territory within a dis
tance of.l mile on each side of tihe
roads improved.
Tn Spotslyv-aniai county a careful
record wins mado in 1910 of .35 farms
located on the road selected for im
provement. Of the 7 farms sold in
1912 the prices actually paid show in
creases of from 37 to 116 per cent
over the 10T0 valuation. The average
value after the roads were improved
was $28.26" er acre, as compared
with $17.31 previous to the improve
ment. In 1913 four transfers of farm
land were on the basis of $30.11 per
acre, whereas the properties were
listed in T010 at only $13.89 per acre.
It appears that the 1,451 acres sold in
1913 increased in value $28,500. or 80
per cent, or from $24.46 to $44.10 per
acre.
In Dinwiddle county, Va., the
tual price of 43 farms sold or offer
ed for sate from 1909 t 1914 ranged
in price from $8.38 to $43.74 tier acre
liefore the roads were built, and from
$24.0 to $5.60 per acre after the
roads were improved.
Tn Lee county, Va., a study of eight
tracts along tihe roads before and af
ter improvement indicated that these
liruiwriies increased anout ,$i3 per
acre, or ahout (I per cent.
fn Wise county. Va.. a study of
eight representative farms located on
roads showed that they increased in
value from an average of $49.06 per
acre Detore improvement to $79.44 af
ter the roads were improved. There
were increases in valuation in other
sections of from $60 to $90 or even
$100 per acre.
In r ranklin county. N. Y., the fig
ures seem to indicate that the change
from earth, sandy, and loam roads to
)iinunous macadam was followed
hv increases averaging $12.50
acre, or about 30.7 per cent.
Jn Dallas county, Ala., careful in
vestigation seemed to indicate that
road improvement has added at least
$5 to each acre of land within a half
mile of improved roads. Tracts sold
at from $8 to $10 per acre were sold
again after road imDrovement i
from $20 to $25 per acre.
in i..-iuderuale county. Miss., tihe
total assessed valuation of real prop
erty outside of the city was $2.757,.
54H. This increased in 1914 after
road improvement to $3,183.80!), or
15.4 per cent. Local real-estate men
place the increase in land values on
account of improved roads at from
25 to 50 per cent.
In Manatee county, fla., Careful
study of sales and real-estate records
indicated that the improvement of
roads has added from 15 tolOO per
cent, or at least $15 per acre, to the
selling price of all lands within one
half mile of improved roads. This
would give a total of $611,000, or
more than twice the value of th.
bonds issued. News Letter, U. S.
Dept. of Agriculture.
Risks They Take When They Dive
With the Harpooned Anlmsl.
Many of the Japanese whalemen are
most expert and daring men. After a
whale has been cornered, harpooned
and Is slowly giving out from exhaus
tion the nimble expert of the whaling
crew must prove his mettle.
The skilled Jap, after Jumping upon
the animal's back and cutting two
gashes In the head, one on either side,
through which a rope must be run and
tied, cannot always perform his work
in one trial. Often the animal makes
a deep dive. But the little Jap must
hold fast to his quarry and dive also,
trusting to the fates that his own air
supply In his lungs will last as long as
that of the whale's.
The Jap Is safer from being drowned
than from being crushed by the Infu
riated animal's tall. If the little Jap
lets go It usually means his death, so
he hangs on to the diving quarry. Fre
quently these whalemen lose their
lives from drowning, but the members
of their crew look upon this misfor
tune with something of a fatalistic re
gard. But the main business In band Is
the capture of the whale. As the fight
progresses and the maddened, fright
ened mammal grows weaker and final
ly is dying the boat crews row closer
to the body and pray for the ease of
his departing spirit Members of the
crew will call out the words, "Joraku,
Joraku, jomku !" and on the third day
after the mammal has been hauled
ashore a service Is held and prayers
offered for the sulmal's future content
ment of spirit
As soon as the animal has been tow
ed to the shore line he Is cut up, the
Japs making huge excavations and
penetrating Inside the animal's body,
as though entering a mine shaft or
gallery. It is a grewsome sight, but Is
looked upon purely as a matter of
course among the Jap whalemen.
Exchange.
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YOU'RE not sorry for gophers
their faces all swelled out thev
pockets in their cheeks to hold stuff 20
Hut you esn't help feeling sorry for a maa wuibsI
oftobscoo-he isn't even fstliaf satisfaction. W-frticu
bacco-full of satisfaction a Unit cam, i riling i,e.i
much ohewing and spitting. ':'
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It Will Stim'uist You Mentally as Well
a Physically.
In a letter to Robert Grlmshaw of
the New York university William Mul
doon gives advice that it would be well
for every man and woman, boy and
girl In America to take to heart He
says:
"I was taught In early manhood not
to- throw my shoulders back, stick my
chest out, draw my stomach In or bold
my chin down like a goat preparing to
butt, but to always try and touch some
Imaginary thing with the crown of my
bead. If one tries to do that first un
derstands how to try and then tries
he doesn't have to pay any attention
to the rest of his physical being. That
effort to touch something above him
not with his forehead, but with the
crown of his head, will keep ever; par
ticle of his body In the position that
nature Intended it should be.
And as a boy 1 was advised to fre
quently back up against the wall und
make the back ol my head, niv shoul
ders, hips, heels all press against the
wan at the same-time, and hi thai way
get an Idea of whin was straight, or, in
other words, how crooked I was becom
ing by drooping."
Both to young and old Mr. Muldoon's
"hold your head up" suggestion Is In
spiriting. Try It The effect physical
ly and meutally Is immediate. When the
head goes higher the Impulse is to deep
er breathing. A man finds more elas
ticity In his limbs. He steps out with
more ease. There Is more spring to his
gait He isn't a lumbering, shambling
creature, but a man alive. With the
elevation of the nowii of the bead
there seems to come clearer thlnkim?
a mora buoyant feeling and a brighter
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S. B. TAYLOR
OiTil Engineer and Surveyor
Office.. City Hall
Phone 791 or 642. Dallas, Oregon
Olive Smith-Bicknell
Teacher of
PIANO and ORGAN
8tudio 401 Court 8t
Classes In
Fundamental Music Training
Dayton Corn Show Thia Week.
Plans are finished for the Dayton
orn show Friday and Saturday of
mis weec tar enrn b said to be
plentiful and pood this year and it
is thomrht a larpe number of grow
ers will compete for the prises offered.
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bka River The "Old Oregon" al tliU
neer" Trails wonderful in scenic . sec I
toric interest. Automatic Signals ffMor th
entire main line, and 1,140 miles "'and
track are gnarantees of the high tKhich
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