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The Herald D. E STITT, Editor. Enteroi u mooikI-cIiuw matter 8nlnbr 8, 1W. at th iKwt ortif lit vnnwut h. Oregon, ur.dt-r th Act of rch S. l.79. 1SSIK1 KVKKY KKin.VY Subscription Rates One year Six months . 51 50 cts Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY, JULY 11. 1913. THE STRIFE CONTINUES The Balkan trouble is like "Bunquo's Ghost," it will not down. The allies could not agree over the division of the spoils of war so Bulgaria is light ing Greece ami Servia, success crowning first one side then the other, while the slaughter is something awful. Addeil to the prospect is the attitude of Turkey which seems to be awaiting the turn of events to seize an opportunity to again take up arms to try and recover some of her lost territory and prestige. A good principle is worth righting for and dying for, too; one that is founded upon truth and that will bring blessings to humanity, but we are doubtful about the utility of a battle that is fought for pelf, and think that it is a useltss sacrifice of life. Some will argue that these troubles are the result of, or rather, the fulfillment of proph ecy well, we do not desire to combat that proposition, but strife comes as a result of the perverseness of human action and prophecy is the foreknow ledge of the conditions that should attain. These combattants could, if they would, find a better way to settle their difficulties, but they won't. Wilson Writes of New Freedom In an article in the World's Work for July, President Wilson has the following to say regard ing the "'new freedom": "What is liberty? "I have long had an image in my mind of what constitutes liberty. Suppose that I were building a great piece of power ful machinery, and suppose that I should so awkardly and un skillfully assemble the parts of it that every time one part tried to move it would be interfered with by the others, and the whole thing would buckle up and be checked. Liberty for the several parts would consist in the best possible assembling and adjustment of them all, would it not? If you want the great piston of the engine to run with absolute freedom, give it absolutely perfect alignment and adjustment with the other parts of the machine, s6 that it is free, not because it is let alone or isolated, but because it has been associated most skillfully and carefully with the other parts of the great structure. "What is liberty? You say of the locomotive that it runs free. What do you mean? You mean that its parts are so as sembled and adjusted that fric tion is reduced to a minimum, and that it has perfect adjust ment. We say of a boat skim ming the water with light foot, "How free she runs!" when we mean, how perfectly she is ad justed to the force of the wind, how perfectly she obeys the great breath out of the heavens that fills her sails. Throw her head up into the wind and see how she will halt and stagger, how every sheet will shiver and her whole frame be shaken, how instantly she is "in irons," in the expressive phrase of the sea. She is free only when you have let her fall off again and have recovered once more her nice adjustment to the forces she must obey ami cani.ot defy. "Human freedom consists in perfect adjustments of human interests and human activities and human energies. "Now the adjustment neces sary between individuals and the complex institutions amidst which they live, ami between those institutions ami the gov ernment, are infinitely more in tricate today than ever before. Xo doult this is a tiresome and roundabout way of saying the thing, yet perhaps it is worth while to get somewhat clearly in our mind what makes all the trouble today. Life has become complex; there are many more element.-, more parts, to it than ever before. And, therefore, it is harder to keep everything ad justed ami harder to find out where the trouble lies when the machine gets out of order. "You know that one of the in teresting things that Mr. Jeffer son saitl in those early days of simplicity which marked the be ginnings of our government was that the best government consisted in as little governing as possible. And there is still a sense in which that is true. It is still intolerable for the gov ernment to interfere with our individual activities except where it is necessary to inter fere with them in order to free them. But I feel confident that if Jefferson were living in our day he would see what we see; that the individual is caught in a great confused nexus of all sorts of complicated circumstan ces, and that to let him alone is to leave him helpless as against the obstacles with which he has to contend; and that, therefore, law in our day must come to the assistance to see that he gets fair play ; that is all, but that is much. Without the watchful interference, the resolute inter ference, of the government, there can be no fair play be tween individuals and such powerful institutions as the trusts. Freedom today is some thing more than being let alone. The program of a government of freedom must in these davs be positive, not negative mere- iy." We saw a pretty young girl the other day lake time and trouble to help a decrepit old man, who had become bewil dered and lost his way, find the car be wanted to take. Her kind ness and general solicitude made her look like a first cousin to the angels. Toledo Blade. What's In a Name? University of Oregon, Eu gene, July 10. - "Friskey," "Winey" and "Berry" are three dogs. What's in a name? Well, in the interest of science, Friskey was brought up on whisky, Winey on wine, and Berry on beer. Not that they ever drank to excess, oh, dear, no. Just a tablespoon President Wilson Reading His First Message to Congress i?W"'tfi 1 n BVmcYra v- i :j -4m I Photo copyright, 1913. by American Press Association. THIS picture makes! history It records one of the unusual events In the offlVlal life of the United States. It shows President Voo!row Wilson rending his first message to congress tx'fore both brunches seated Id the house. Not Is 112 years had n president of our country done that before. Washington did It So did the second president John Adams. Wilson reverted to this old custom been use he said he wanted to Ret In closer iouch with the national legislators to show that he was human Slid not a were slats uiiii-lilii. us he himself explained to congress. in a glass of milk before retiring and all that sort of thing. Now these moderate drinkers had three brothers and sisters that were very dry, teetotallers, in fact Prof. C. F. Hodge, of Clark University, now a member of the University of Oregon Sum mer School faculty, raised them all as an experiment in the Bi ology of alcohol, and he guaran tees that the dry side of the fam ily was and is entirely dry. Month after month these dogs have been under scientific obser vation, as part of a great series of experiments now going on in most of the big laboratories of the country, to determine on a basis of absolute fact the real effects of alcohol on the system. Scientists hope to be able to sub stitute tested and proved fact for much of the overdrawn and untruthful pictures that are used on both sides of the liquor con troversy. The sad history of Friskey, Winey and Berry is not conclu sive. But if booze didn't do it, they all certainty had tough luck, compared with their dry brothers and sisters. The "drinkers" never amounted to much as re trievers, they became a sleepy, lazy lot, which Prof. Hodge has big charts of experiments to show; distemper came along and left them blind and helpless though the brothers and sisters were passed over lightly, and all three ended up as invalids while the other three were still leading the strenuous life. Prof. Hodge throws on the screen many pictures of these dogs, and maintains to the satis faction of his audience that any one can pick out the "alcoholics." They have a peculiar, droop-eyed expression, apparently always having had to tip their heads back in order to see under their C. G. 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"Well," explained Dick, "the trcwAle whs I didn't steal it from bur." Lippincott's. Metaphysics. Oliver Wendell Holmes was a classmate of Dr. Clarke at Harvard, and, according to the reminiscences of the latter, the Autocrat of the Breakfast Table was us witty then as later. One day the two were talking of metaphysics, when the bright tongued little great man ex claimed: "I'll tell you, James, what I think metaphysics is like. It is like a man splitting a log. When it rs done he has two more to split 1" Professional Cards Dr. Laura Colby Price. Office and Residence North west corner Main and College streets, one block west of the liberal store. Tsleuhan 56. Dr. J. O. Matthi . Physician and Surgeon Oflice in Postodice Building Calls answered promptly both day and night. Both Phones. Dr. J. B. Grider DENTIST Oflice over Post Office Monmouth, Oregon V. O. BOOTS Fire, Life and Casualty INSURANCE Losses Promptly Paid WALTER 0. BROWN Notary Public ' lllank Deeds, Mortgages, Etc. THE Weekly Oregonian The test Weekly Journal of the Northwest. Gives all the News of the World. Price per year $l.f0 Herald one year l.(H') Both papers for 2.00 Be a Booster evry Day SUMMONS In the Circuit Court of the St ate of Ore gon for Polk County. Dept. No. 2. Ida B. Phillips, Plaintiff, vs. Louis Phillips, Defendant. To Louis Phillips, the above named de fendant. IN THE NAME OF THE STATE OF OREGON: You are hereby required to appear and answer the com plaint filed against you in the above en titled suit and court, within six weeks from the date oi the first publication of this summons, to-wit: on or before the 1st day of August, 1913:' and if you fail so to answer for want thereof, the plaintiff will apply to the Court for tho relief therein demanded, to-wit: For a decree dissolving the bonds of matri mony now existing between you and the plaintiff, for $15.00 per month ali mony, for the custody of the minor child of plaintiff and defendant, and for her costs and disbursements in said suit. You are further notified that this sum mons is served upon you by publication thereof in the Monmouth Herald, a weekly newspaper of a general weekly circulation in Polk County, Oregon, and published at Monmouth in Polk County, Oregon, pursuant to an order of Hon. John Teal, County Judge of said Polk County, made and dated on the 17th day of June, 1913, at Dallas, Oregon. This summons is served upon you for a period of six successive and consecutive weeks immediately prior to the 1st day of August, 1913, by publication as afore said. The date of the first publication of this summons is June 20, 1913, and the date of the last publication thereof will be August 1st, 1913. B. F. Swope, Attorney for Plaintiff,
