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The Herald D. E. STITT, Editor. Knterad as Mcond-clam matter StpMrnb 8. t th post offic At Monmouth, Oraton. under the Act of Marc i. 18TS. ISSUED RVRRY FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year - - $1.50 Six months - - 85 eta Three months - - 60 cts Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY, NOV. 6, 1914 Thanksgiving Proclamation President Wilson has appoint Thursday, November 2tHh as a time for National thanksgiving, mill asks the citizens to assemble and give thanks for blessing ex tended. In his proclamation he said things worth repeating and remembering, hence, we repro duce the body of it as printed below: "It has been vouchsafed to us to remain at peace, with honor, and in some parts to succor the suffering and supply the needs of those in want. We have been privileged by our own peace and self-control in some degree to steady the councils and shape the hopes and purposes of a day of fear ami distress. Our people have looked upon their own life as a nation with deeper compre hension, a fuller realization of their responsibilities as well as of their blessings and a keener sense of the moral and practical -significance of what their part among the nations of the world may come to be. "The hurtful effects of foreign war in their own industrial and commercial affairs have made them feel the more fully and see the more clearly their mutual interdependence upon one an other and has stirred them to a helpful co-operation such as they have seldom practiced before. They have been quickened by a great moral stimulation. Their unmistakable ardor for peace, their earnest pity and disinter ested sympathy for those who are suffering, their readiness to help and to think of the needs of others, has revealed them to themselves, as well as to the world. "Our crop's will feed all who need food; the self-possession of our people amidst the most seri ous anxieties and difficulties and ' the steadiness and resourceful ness of our business men, will serve other nations as well as our own. "The business of the country has been supplied with instru mentalities and the commerce of the world with new, channels of trade and intercourse. The Panama Canal has been opened to the commerce of the nations. The two continents of America have been bound in closer ties of friendship. New instrumen talities of international trade have been created which will be also new instrumentalities of ac quaintance, intercourse and mu tual service. Never before have the people of the United States been so situated for their own advantage or the advantage of their neighbors or so" equipped to serve themselves and man kind. "Now, therefore, I, Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of America, do hereby designate Thursday, the 26th of November next, as a day of Thanksgiving and prayer, and invite the people throughout the land to cease from their wonted occupations and in their several homes and places of worship render thanks to Almighty God." . The New Alabama The operations of the German cruisers Karlsruhe and Emden bring home to us again the fact that, of all the hiding places on this globe, the sea is the best. In their separate seas, these cruisers have voyaged up and down, chasing and sinking the merchantmen of the enemy, cut ting off provisions and supplies from the ports of England and France. They are the Alabamas of this war. and the damage they have wrought must already come near to approximating all thut done by the Confederate priva teer. In the West Indies and a'long the Atlantic shore of South America, the Karlsruhe has bet-n as much a terror to British ship ping as the old-time buccaneers were. In the East Indies and the Bay of Bengali, the Emden is sending a steamer to the bot tom every few days. Both are, of course, frantically pursued There are probably half a dozen cruisers after each one of them. But so vast is the sea and so wary are the Germans that, so far, the Karlsruhe and the Em den have sailed the oci-hii as, seemingly, they blessed well pleased. The Alabama succeeded in keeping the sea for more than two years. Who knows but the Karlsruhe and the Emden can elude pursuit quite as long? Toledo Blade. ' THE RURAL THE FARMERS THE CUSTODIANS OF THE NATION'S MORALITY. Co-oprration of Church, School and Press Essential to Community Building. By Peter Radford. Lecturer National Farmers' Union. The church, the press and the school form a triple alliance of progress that guides the destiny of every commun ity, state and nation. Without them civilization would wither and die and through them life may attain Its great est blessing, power and knowledge. The farmers of this nation are greatly indebted to this social triumvirate tor their uplifting influence, and on behalf of the American plowman I want to thank those engaged in these high callings for their able and efficient service, and I shall offer to the press a series of articles on co-operation between these Important influences and the farmers in the hope of in creasing the efficiency of all by mu tual understanding and organized ef fort. We will take up first the rural church. The Farmers Are Great Church Build ers. The American farmer is the greatest church builder the world has ever known. He is the custodian of the nation's morality; upon his shoulders rests the "ark of the covenant" and he is more responsive to religious In fluences than any other class of cit izenship. The farmers of this nation have built 120.000 churches at a cost of $750,000,000, and the annual contribu tion of the nation toward all church Institutions approximates $200,000,000 per annum. The farmers of the Unit ed States build 22 churches per day. There are 20,000,000 rural church com municants on the farm, and 54 per cent of the total membership of all churches reside in the country. The farm is the power-house of all progress and the birthplace of all that Is noble. The Garden of Eden was In the country and the man who would H?t close to God muut first get close to nature. The Functions of a Rural Church. If the rural churches tiMtey are go ing to render a service whlah this age demands, there must be co-operation between the religious, social and eco nomic life of the community. The church to attain Its fullest mea sure of success must enrich the lives of the people In the community tt erves; It must build character; devel op thought and increune the efficiency of human lite. It must serve .the so cial, business and Intellectual, as well ts the spiritual and moral side of life. If religion does not make a man more capable! more useful and aiore Just, what good Is it? We want a practical religion, one we can live by and farm by, as well as die by. Fewer and Better Church. Blessed Is that rural community which has but one place of worship. While competition is the life of trade, it Is death to the rural church and moral starvation to the community. Petty sectarianism la a scourge that blights the life, and church preju dice saps the vitality of many com munities. An over-churched commun ity Is a crime against religion, a seri ous handicap to society and a useless tax upon agriculture. While denominations are essential and church pride commendable, the high teaching of universal Christianity must prevail if the rural church ts to fulfill Its mission to agriculture. We frequently have three or four churches In a community which Is not able to adequately support one. Small congregations attend services once a month and all fall to perform the re ligious functions of the community. The division of religious forces and the breaking Into fragments of moral effort la ofttlmes little less than a calamity and defeats the very purpose they seek to promote. The evils of too many churches can be minimized by co-operation. The social and economic life of a rural community are respective units and cannot be successfully divided by de nominational lines, and the churches can only occupy this important field by co-operation and co-ordination. The efficient country church will definitely serve its community by lead ing in all worthy efforts at community building, In uniting the people In all co-operative endeavors for the gen eral welfare of the community and In arousing a real love for country life and loyalty to the country home and these results can only be successfully accomplished by the united effort of the press, the school, the church and organized farmers. TAUGHT BY THE SWALLOWS. How a Railway Tunnel Was Built Through a Sand Bank. A colony of bank xwullows taught a young but olwervlng engineer bow to build a tunnel tlmt tils more learned superiors had refuxed to undertake. North or Burlington, Vt., lies a broad auud plain IiIku above the level it Lake Chmnplain, throiiKh which the Central railroad was to lie carried by t tunnel. The Hand, dentltute of moist ure, would not cohere, but crumbled away as noon nx an excavation was made. After several contly trials the engineers decided thut the tunnel was Impructlcnlile. A young man In the engineer's office said be could tunnel the snnd bank at a small coxt. lie said he could build the tunnel for so many dollars a run ning foot, hut that be couldn't expect the railway people to act upon bis opinion when so many American and European engineers had declared the project Impracticable. The mnnagcrM. bowever, gave him a contract to build fifty feet of the tun nel. On the face of the sand hank be marked the line of an arch larger than the proposed tunnel and on this line drove sharpened timbers Into the tinnk. Then be removed six feet of the sand and drove In another arch of twelve foot timbers, removing six feet more of sand. " This process be repented un til be had space enough to begin the masonry. As fimt as the masonry was completed the space nbove It was filled, leaving the timbers In place. He pierced the bank with the cheap est tunnel ever built, which now stands as firm as on the day It was finished. Be was asked whether there was any suggestion of the structure adopt ed by him to tie found In the books on engineering. "No." he mild. "It came to me In this way: I was driving , by the place where the attempts were made and saw that a colony of swallows bad made their homes In the bank. It oc curred to me that these little engineers bad disproved the asaertlon that the sand hud no cohesion. As every swal low's home Is a self sustaining tunnel without masonry.' 1 thought that by extending their method I could con struct a larger tunnel. The bank swal low Is the Inventor: I am simply bis Imitator." 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Prayer Meeting Wednesday 7:30 p. m. BAPTIST CHURCH. G. A. Pollard, Pastor Sunday School at 10:00, a. m. Morning worship, - 11:00 a. m. Christian Union Endeavor, 6:30 P. M. Evening worship. . -. 7:30 p.m. Prayermeeting Wednesday, 7:30 P. M. Professional Cards Dr. Laura Colby Price. Office and Residence North east corner of Clay and Knox streets.' Telephone 2004. B. F. SWOPE, Attorney at Law and Notary Public. Home Phone: Office, No. 1320, Residence, No, 3712. Office in Cooper building, Independence, - Oregon W. F. SCOTT Contractor and Builder All kinds of Carpentering and Repair Work done in a workman-like manner. Let me figure with you on that new building you are soon intending to erect. IOC A Q o D D DC 30E V. O. BOOTS Fire, Life and Casualty , INSURANCE Losses Promptly Paid OVEN e YEARS' EXPERIENCE Tradk Mark Dcaiana Copyright Ac. AnronftMndlnfl ihirh unrt 4mintlnn nit qittcklr Mwinin our opinion frw whatlier Ml hiTontlnn It probithlf patflntntilit O, tlnni trlotlr oon nd en 111. 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