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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Jan. 5, 1917)
The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Editor & Publisher Entered u Romnd-clua matter September 8, 1908. t in tKt olHce it Monmouth. Oregon, under the Act of March S. 187S. ISSUED RVKKY FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year - - $1.50 Six months - - 75 eta Three months - - 60 cts Monmouth, Oregon. FRIDAY, JAN. 5, 1917. 1 101 ) Monmouth Meditations Have you learned to write it, 1917? Had you noticed that the days were getting longer? Let the word go abroad that to buy cheaply you must buy in Monmouth. To the Monmouth housewife just at present, dry wood in the wood shed looms up close to money in the bank. Nothing helps out the fraternal feeling like a union feed. When you have broken bread with a man he is no longer a stranger but a friend. It is only when some one speaks of enforcing it that we realize the provision of the constitution that every man, between the ages of 18 and 45, is a soldier. The usual legislature displays the greatest consideration on the work of spending money but the session that begins this week will in addi tion have to dig up a few plans for raising money. There were enough Christmas books to last into the second week all right but in a week or two more the supply will be exhausted and then the young idea will turn into the normal channels once more. After all there is nothing like health and the man who is able to negotiate three square meals a day and do a man's work is more to be envied than he who is too feeble to clip his coupons. The Norm theater has a list of good attractions booked for the near future. The moving picture makes it possible to bring high class attractions to you and exhibit at a very moderate price. If you are undecided in choice as to something for a New Year's reso lution, you might take some you adopted last year. Very likely they have not been used enough to dam age them any and will be just as good as new. By the end of this week we are promised Main street will be thrown open to use again and then those of us who have forgotten how a wagon or an automobile looks will have a chance to get used to the sight of them again. Any missing automobile parties might be referred to Monmouth. Doubtless when the back street has been dried out several autos will be discovered that Bill Jones has not been able to locate in his rescue service. Some men don't need a great deal of encouragement to stock up with liquid refreshments, preparatory to a dry spell. The dry spell ahead, however, is a little the dryest of anything Oregonians have yet experienced. The sheriff of Polk county is using the plan of a registered letter to summon jurois but the county is not yet ready to countenance the transportation of convicts from the count)' jail to the penitentiary by parcel post. We like to get all the news and can only do it through co-operation with our subscribers. If you go forth into the world yourself, or have friends come to abide with you and are ashamed of none of these things, please let the editor know. Those people who sat up to see the new year when it made its ap pearance report that it looked very much like the young 1916 who put in an appearance a year ago. And in addition to that it looked very similar to twelve o'clock on any other night. All one had to do during the past two weeks to realize that the Nor mal was not in session, was to arise before daylight. Everybody has been taking advantage of the chance to catch up with lost sleep and there are few lights visible along Main street at seven in the morning. It was some Alabama editor re cently who expressed the opinion that Browning and Whitman were dull and uninteresting and that Irvin Cobb and Samuel Blythe in spired one to tears rather than to mirth. All of which reminds us that it takes courage to be candid. In the matter of Rural Credits and Farm Loans the commission reports that the number who have applied for loans is only seventeen times as many as those who have received loans. A relief to the needy agri culturist that can accommodate only one eighteenth of those who apply for assistance, surely has not filled a yawning need sufficiently to shout over. When United States senators were to be elected there used to be some glory in being a legislator. Possibly other emoluments besides glory. But now when the only job is that of fitting the developing and ex panding needs of a growing state into a financial straight jacket, it is small wonder a legislator is not an object of en"y. Oregon could nor mally find room for ten times its population. The New Year's number of the Oregonian is calculated to make people who live in the state proud of Oregon. It is not as spectacular as California but it is more practi cal. Oregon offers to the newcomer more than any other state in the Union. It has more undeveloped land that is better worth the labor of the settler than any other state in the west. Although an old state Oregon has been neglected by capital. Development reached the west coast in the south and north and has bent with the coast finding a meeting ground in Oregon. Rail roads are projected in Eastern Ore gon that will bring thousands of people into the state. The Ore gonian has the development of the state well pictured out and makes the best sort of missionary litera ture to send back to the home com munity. According to the blue book Mad ras, Oregon, had 365 population in 1910. Culver was not large enough to be noticed by the census taker. These towns have had considerable front page space devoted to them recently because of their county seat fight. Madras was victor in a recent election but Culver took to the courts, until Monday, lead by U'Ren the lawyer, Madras people repaired to Culver and bodily took a major portion of the county records therefrom. One injunction had been quashed and the Madras people wanted to act before another injunction could be obtained. Of Edison we are told that two irti portant inventions were made of no use to him because of legal en tanglements. One such suit has been in the courts since 1876 and is not yet settled. Lack of faith in legal proceedure accounts for the Jefferson county raid and also for the condition in Arizona where two governors are seeking supremacy. We allow lawyers to make out laws and then when the test conies, be cause we have no faith in them, take the function of laws into our own hands. Peace continues to be the one ab sorbing topic across the sea and although the answer of the Allies to the central powers was not confirm atory to a hope of an early agree ment, nevertheless the door leading to such an agreement is by no means closed. Reading the answer from the combined opponents of Germany one must be convinced that many of their contentions are based upon the eternal principles of justice. But at the same time the idea will not down that those same principles of human justice are be ing used as a lever to secure an end that is not just. A second wrong does not right a first wrong. It is true the course of Germany has been one subversive to international morality. Not only have they co veted what was their neighbors, but have deliberately set about to take it from them. True they did not plan to steal in the night, as burglars do, or as a great many nations have done. They simply made up their minds as to what they wanted and then went out to take it as a big boy takes away the possessions of a little boy. In a measure they have succeeded. They wanted an open sea port and they took it in Antwerp. They wanted room for development and they have found it in a pathway to Asia. The relations of Germany and Turkey have been close in recent years but they are now closer. It is German soldiers and guns that have kept the passages of the Dar danelles from being taken. The German emperor logically will be come dictator of Turkey. Exactly as in such a measure the German activities have been unjust their enemies would be strong had they been just, If they had gone into the fight simply to repell the Ger mans, to drive them out of Belgium and the Balkans and demand repar ation, they would have been en titled to respect and sympathy. But France has been promised Alsace Lorain, Italy has some Austrian territory to regain, Japan was given a city in China, Russia wants Con stantinople and the Dardanelles and England has Germany's African colonies and wants most of all to humble Germany, an economical rival. Thus it will be seen it is not entirely an exalted altruistic spirit for the betterment of the world that holds the Allies together. They may talk of outrages and treaties broken and various other things but what they are fighting for, is the loaves and fishes. Therefore President Wilson's query is particularly perti nent. What are you fighting for? The more times it is asked the better. The human mind is a very simple organism. It is hard for it to think on both sides of a question. But if the question is asked fre quently enough the embattled pow ers may think themselves into a saner mood. 6 per cent FT r0" r first class farms. H. E. Morton, Dallas, Oregon. DR. FOSTER CHIROPRACTIC has opened a treating room at the Monmouth Hotel where all who desire treat ment will find him on Mon day, Wednesday and Fri day of each week. All day. Electricity in all forms is used in his practice. Elec tric blankets and general treatments. For deafness he seldom fails. Lady attendant. HOC 5c nor: n The Roof Over Your Head M A 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. If is the best and for that reason, the cheapest to use. Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. Monmouth, Oregon HOC 3on Q o D 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 of hides. Free Delivery. Monmouth, Phone Main 2,102 Oregon Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All Kinds of Transferring Done Promptly, and on Short Notice GORDON BOWMAN, Proprietor. Monmouth, Oregon Independence Electric Co. Lighting Fixtures and Supplies Electric Wiring and Repairing Estimates Cheerfully Furnished Free. AH work guaranteed to stand City Inspection. We do contract work. in with Rowe's Jewelry Store. H. J. Rowe, Mgr. Phone trouble and repair wo k, Main 62 1 1 . We will come BOOKS, STATIONERY, Electric Light Bulbs Electrical Supplies We are developing into a line of Musical Instruments See us for anything of this kind MO R LAN & SON Monmouth's largest and most complete Confectionery and Book Store I
