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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
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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
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eyelids. Prof. Hodge was forced
by popular demand to repeat the
lecture in which he described the
lives of these dogs.
Brown & Sibley, attorneys and
abstractors, 610 Mill Street, Dal
las, Oregon.
Cheeky, Indeed.
"1 hear," said Lou to his friend
Dick, whom (he happened to meet
one morning, "that Maude has bro
ken her engagement with you."
"Yes," answered Dick ; "it's true."
"Well, I'm sorry, old man. Why
did she break it?"
"Why, merely because I stole a
kiss," said Dick.
"What!" cried Lou. "Why, she
muet be crazy to object to having
her fiance steal a kiss from her."
"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"
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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
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thereof in the Monmouth Herald, a
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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,
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