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RICHARD B. SWENSON
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would make prohibition odious,
still that is a rather fantastic state
ment. The people who voted in the
. law that will make the import of
any kind of beverage intoxicants
illegal, were people who had seen
the effect of a modified prohibition
and felt that they wanted more of
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Monmouth, Oregon. '
FRIDAY, NOV. 17, 1916.
Monmouth
hMitations
Pendleton made a game fight for
the Eastern state normal and did all
that brains and money could do to
influence the voter to her way of
thinking. But economic conditions
were against the project. Her ex
perience will not encourage others
to try for the school location by
popular vote right away. The nor
mal regents are best fitted to handle
this matter and it is to be hoped
that the matter will be left to them
in the future.
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That week of sunshine was a little
chilly but it had all the ear marks
of the real thing.
It's a whole lot easier for some
men to criticise whiskers than it is
for them to raise a beard.
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The husbandman finds little differ
ence in the ground that is too dry
to plow or has a frozen crust that is
equally discouraging-.
Here is the kind of obituary a
Georgia editor gave one man : "Poor
Jim Jones slung his earthly gar
ments on a limb and swam the river
yesterday. He did not stand back
because the water was cold but
plunged right in and struck out for
the other shore and met the angels
smilingly. Jim was a poor man but
had his subscription paid to his
home paper and got there in good
shape. Peace to his memory."
. Among those who do not find
much difficulty in reconciling them
selves to the election day results are
G. T. Boothby, W. H. Steinberge
and the Weston Leader.
This is the season of the year
When the dairy cow, the pride of
the family and a prop of domestic
economy, settles down in earnest to
a winter of usefulness.
i Now let state statisticians figure
up the amount of money Oregon
has sent to California during the
past year for alcoholic liquor, and
appropriate the same annually as
an extra fund for good roads.
I A new burden has been packed
on the shoulders of our public serv
ants. They will now have to solve
the puzzle of how to forward the
public welfare and still dodge the
meshes of the six percent law.
i Not having any particular use or
necessity for the cold wave we have
just passed it on over the mountains
and are allowing our neighbors on
the other side of the backbone to
get a few samples of what is com
ing to them.
An effort is consistently made to
make the ocean a winter as well as
a summer resort. Those people who
are afraid of a little cold, may at
this season of the year take to the
ocean side cottage where they will
find plenty of fog and rain but more
moderate thermometer record.
Among the important auxiliaries
of the modern educator is the "phono
graph and the moving picture. Their
ability to reproduce music and ora
tory, to transport scenes and pre
serve nature are unique and of great
advantage to the child working to
understand the possibilities of life.
Having kept us on the anxious
seat for nearlyd week the Portland
papers now seem tame and un inter
esting. It is hard to conjure up an
appetite for submarine outrages and
the latest defalcation when we have
been given such an alluring line of
dope as concerned pluralities and
electoral votes.
The feeling is not local but pre
vails up and down the valley that
before other nsrmals are established
the Monmouth normal should be
strengthened and improved. To this
end the recommendation of the
board of Tegents that $85,000 be
spent on the Monmouth school next
year will be particularly timely. '
While liquor men will tell you that
many of their way of thinking voted
for the dry law in the belief that it
An encouraging thing from across
the water is that the peace talk con
tinues to grow in volume. The Ger
mans are pressing this end of the
war game hardest and it is to be
noted that the notion of a world
union to enforce peace finds consid
erable sympathy with them at pres
ent. The records of the Hague
tribunal show that for years the
Germans have been the one obsta
cle to ideas of future peace and their
change of front now looks hopeful
to say the least.
A certain hop man was heard to
express the statement that he was
going to retire from that particular
line of agriculture and it is not at
all unlikely that others will follow
in his footsteps. . The bane of the
hop grower is the manipulated
market, it being a commodity with
so few outlets that it is easily hand
led by operators who are in a posi
tion to work the levers. The bottom
land that grows the hops is the rich
est in the valley and put to other
uses will yield proportionate returns.
It speaks well for the people of
Oregon that the money argument of
the Brewer's amendment had so
little influence with them. The shape
of a dollar held up before a man's
eye looks pretty large and pretty
often ethical abstractions and ques
tiijns of morality and social welfare
are secondary considerations. The
liquor business has been made
pretty attractive to the tax payer in
a great many places and receives
on that account a consideration it
never could hold on its own ac
count.
der supervision and is working for.
It has not worked very seriously on
the high price of paper as well as
jfood but has investigated both and
now that the election is over may
'be expected to act The idea has
! in it a kernel of much promise and
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here s hoping it may worn um
well as it promises. ;
. John J. Ingall's poem on Oppor-
tunity is admired by many ana its
statement that opportunity comes
but once is denied by many others.
At any rate opportunity loomed
large before Chas. E. Hughes one
day during the recent campaign and
if he had seen it and taken advant
age of it he mieht now have been
the president elect This was when j
he was met at Mamath junction dv
a delegation of California Progres
sives asking that he use his influ
ence to give Hiram Johnson a square
deal. A big meeting had been ar
ranged at San Francisco and John
son was not invited. Here was
Hughes opportunity and Roosevelt
or Wilson would have seized it eager
ly and made a grand stand play that
would have echoed from one end of
the country to the other. Each would
have said "Why certainly he must
be invited or I myself will not at
tend. Johnson, governor of the
state, who was vice presidential
nominee of the Progressives four
years ago, the Progressives who are
now our allies, he must be there, or
I will not be there." Such a state
ment would have warmed up the
California Progressives toward
Hughes and would easily have given
him the vote of the state. It would
have had its influence in Washing
ton and Oregon. But Hughes took
the judicial view of it. He said, in
stead; "Let California settle its own
troubles." Afterward when by force
of his personality Johnson had
wrenched the nomination for U. S.
senator from the Republicans,
Hughes sent- his congratulations.
Johnson might have turned around
with the memorable words of Sam
uel Johnson to Chesterfield: "Is not
a patron, my Lord, one who looks
with unconcern upon a man, strug
gling for his life in the water, but
when he reaches firm ground, en
cumbers him with his help?" But
that was not Johnson's sort. He be
lieved that the issues were bigger
than men. He knew that his own
election was safe and went up and
down the state talking for Hughes.
On such small things rest the desti
nies of men and nations.
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The Roof Over Your Head
Here's to the partisan. Long may
he flourish, the man who rejoices
and exults in victory and is down
cast in defeat, who knows what he
is for and why he is for it As for
the band wagon man, the man whom
the prophet describes as being
neither hot nor cold, who waits to
see where the crowd is and then
joins it, who would cheer just as
loud over the grave of his grand
mother as over that of a political
antagonist; he is anathema and
leaves a bad taste in the mouth.
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will be a good one if it is made of our shingles.
Made of the best materials, well seasoned, if prop
erly put on they will, last- for years. Same way with
our lumber. It is the best and for that reason, the
cheapest to use. ' !
Willamette Valley Lumber Co.
Phone Main 202. Monmouth, Oregon
Among the progressive laws en
acted during the past four years is
that maintaining a Federal Trade
Commission. The workings of this
commission have been attached
with great public interest because
of its unusual character. By this
means unfair competition is dealt
with. The company which has to
deal with opposition that has one
price in one section of the country
and a different price in another
finds here a proper recourse. The
tactics of monopoly, the working of
dummy competitors, unfair label
ing of goods, the publicity of facts
concerning supply and demand are
. all matters the commission has ui
Portugal's Decline.
Portugal bus not always been the
small alluir that it in today. The
little country once meant a great
deal more than it docs at present.
To Portugal belongs the honor of
having been the leader in fifteenth
century exploration and discovery.
Her great prince, knowu as "Henry
the Navigator," may well he called
the father of deep sea navigation
It was owing to his zeal that the
voyages bognn which were to end in
the circumnavigation of Africa and
the finding of the way to India. Un
til well into the sixteenth century
Portugal was rich in colonial pos
sessions and was not without great
weight in the diplomacy of Europe,
but by the close of the century her
decline began.
Slam.
The kingdom of Sinra covers an
area of about 200.000 square miles,
and the last census gave a total pop
ulation of 8.149.4S7. The highest
temperature of about 10G degrees F.
in the shade at Bangkok is usually
reached in April and May and the
lowest of about 52 degrees in De
cember and January, the latter two
mouths being the most suitable for
tourists and commercial travelers to
visit northern Siam. The sunken
: and written language is Siamese, but
for commercial purposes the Eng-
lish language is in general use.
Dldnt Awe Him.
The members of a Greek lettet
fraternity from a southern univer
sity were bein? shown tlirnmrh tl.o
library of congress. They were ap-
I parenny stneKcn dumb with admi-
i rauon 01 me Deauties or the hum.
' ing. But the atmosphere of ae
! was dissipated when one of flip nar.
ty, a red headed youth, exclaimed
fervently:
"Gee. fellows, wouldn't this mV
! a dandy frat house?" St Louis Republic.
CITY MEAT MARKET
GEORGE SULLIVAN, Manager
Always on Hand: Fresh and Smoked Meats, Bologna, Minced
Hams, Boiled Hams, Ham and Bacon
Fresh Fish on Fridays
The highest cash price paid for poultry, veal
and all kinds ot hides.
Free Delivery.
Monmouth,
Phone Main 2302 '
Oregon
Monmouth Transfer and
Feed Stable
All Kinds of Transferring Done Promptly
and on Short Notice
, GORDAN BOWMAN, Proprietor. -
Monmouth, Oregon
Independence Electric Co.
Lighting Fixtures and Supplies
Electric Wiring and Repairing
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished Free. All work
guaraneed i and Ci jr Inipec in. Wed cn rac wrk.
in with Rowe's Jewelry Stare. H. J. Rowe, Mgr.
Phone trouble and repair wo k, Main 621 1. We will come
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