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FRIDAY, JAN. 19, 1917.
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Meditations
As for Thomas W. Lawson, it is
hard to tell where he will break out
next.
The marshal is planning, when
the next shower soaks up things, to
subject our Main street paving to a
thorough face scrubbing.
Now, to make our little cold spell
more agreeable we ought to have
from eight to ten inches of the
beautiful. Say, who was it threw
that brick?
The people who are accustomed
to come to Monmouth to trade are
as pleased over the resumption of
travel on Main street as our
merchants themselves.
At any rate no buds have been
forming this week, although now
the complaint is that pasture and
growing grain are faring ill in the
sunshine and frost.
The farmer who has stock or pro
duce to sell wonders why any one
should complain of high prices. He
usually fails to find any thing very
high at his end of the selling game.
Not all the discoveries of war
will be lost at the conclusion of
peace. For instance, the poison
spray, invented for trench encount
ers, is said to be grand stuff for
killing flies.
It was a strategical blunder on
the part of the committee who were
investigating leaks, to let Lawson
go in the first place and then only
resummons him when goaded to
action by partisan sarcasm.
Speaking of fraternities the most
popular one just now is that which
has a sneeze for a warning sign, in
which the pass word is any word in
which the n is not sounded and in
which the honors are given by blow
ing the nose as a trumpet.
Thirty thousand teachers are ex
pected in Portland during the early
part of July at the sessions of the
N. E. A. This will bring visitors to
all this portion of the Northwest
and Monmouth will get its share.
It is not too early now to lay plans
for an appropriate welcome.
We observe in the esteemed Ar
lington, Cal., Times an adv, that
reads like this: "Warning! Anyone
dumping rubbish on my premises
will be prosecuted. W. J. Hole."
It may be an atrocious pun but we
arise to suggest that the California
rubbish collectors must in the future
seek out a different hole for dump
ing purpose.
The optomistic stories of the
metropolitan dailies now ring truer
than they have at times past. Too
frequently tliev have had the sound
of one who whistles to keep up his
courage but now with each day
bringing accounts of fresh starts in
the saw mill business, more ships to
be built, railroads entering on con
struction, the notion has strong
backing that good times are close
at hand for the northwest.
It is not always western advanced
ideas of progress that travel east.
For instance, the I. V. W., hither
to unknown there, is beginning to
be felt in the centers of industry.
The burning of an $80,000 ice house
at Twin Lakes, Wis., within the
past two weeks, is laid to the I. W.
W. and their latest activity at the
same spot is said to be the secret
invasion of the cook houses and the
pouring of kerosene on the eatables
to make a new supply necessary.
Harold Bell Wright's story, "Eyes
of the World", the subject of one of
the latest movie features, is a story
that lends itself unusually well to
filming as its scenes are laid in the
country from which come a large
portion of our successful films. The
foothills with their chaparral and
sage brush and stunted live oaks
which have served in turn for por
tions of Europe, Asia and Africa
may now produce scenes of their
very own. Redlands, which for
years was the home of Wright, will
also get in the picture although
some of the sketches of the book
have been a little too realistic to
suit the citizens of that town, and
that the personality might not be
carried too far were done elsewhere.
One of the hardest nuts which the
present admiristntion has had to
crack is the problem of getting
soldiers with which to meet the
popular demand for preparedness.
The National Guard plan is practi
cally acknowledged a failure. In
times of stress people are willing to
sacrifice for the common good, but
for police duty, to ask a young
lawyer, dentist, journalist or farm
er to give up a promising period in
his career for the leveling work of
a soldier, whose only work is to
maintain order, is more than good
nature can stand. Now the tenden
cy is toward military education in
colleges and schools and we doubt
if this will be allowed to go into ef
fect without protest from the moth
ers of the land.
Goaded on by continuous com
plaints and burning with the desire
to do something spectacular in the
way of combating high prices it is
not unlikely that the Federal com
mittee will dp serious injury to the
storage business. The farmer is
especially interested in cold storage
and any thing that would result in
permanent injury to the cold stor
age system would injure him. The
consumer is also interested for cold
storage is the balance wheel that
acts as a leveler of prices and length
ens the seasons during which a pro
duct can be marketed. The fruit
business is strongly interested, but
most of all the butter and egg busi
ness. The storage principle has
done more to place agriculture on
an established foundation than most
farmers realize.
There is a certain element with
whom it is popular to denounce the
high cost of education, but the
European war offers a fine chance
to prove Prof. Evenden's assertion
that the years spent by the youth of
a nation in school adds in actual
dollars and cents to the resources
of a nation. An educated people
are an asset of immense and almost
incalculable value to a nation. Con
trast the Germans and their allied
enemies. The Germans have fi
nanced their own preparations and
have upheld Austria and Turkey
while the Allies have borrowed not
only in the U. S. but in Canada and
Australia. The answer is that the
educated, directed intelligence of
its citizens have enabled it to do
that for which its enemies have
had to pay immense sums.
The world will regret to hear of
the death of Admiral Dewey, the
hero of Manila bay, where he was
another instance of American good
fortune in having the right man in
the right place at the right time.
Unspoiled by flattery, his uncom
mon sense as well as his courage on
that memorable occasion when he
expressed his indifference as to the
torpedoes in Manila harbor, have
endeared him to the American pub
lic. Of that memorable year in
Manila, Kev. . A. Elkins, who
was a private in the volunteers
there, has a number of mementoes
which he values highly. Many of
these are sketches made at the time
of the taking of the Philippines,
illustrating numerous historical
events which took place there.
These are views of the ruins of
fortifications, water front, etc.,
made on the ground by the young
soldier as he indulged his fancy for
this kind of art Views of hospitals,
the trenches, the charge, and of
actual warfare give one the sense
of personal touch or nearness to
historical events and are very interesting.
Some one spoke of Ben Hur the
other day, and it took an effort of
the memory to recollect it. Lew
Wallace's book, which directly owed
a large measure of its popularity to
a recommendation gien by Presi-1
j a. r r ii i I I
oeiu uarneia, nau a great vogue in
its day, helped materially by the
fact that the nature of the story lent
itself readily to stage productions.
Since the manufacture of books has
been cheapened what a flood of
them there has been! And how
fleeting is the popularity of a book
or of its author. A few years hence,
should you speak of Harold Bell
Wright, it is likely you will get this
response "Let me see, wasn't he
the man who invented the flying
machine?" Conversing with Nor
mal students the other day, we
spoke of Sam Weller and none of
them had ever heard of "Samivel."
Not so very long ago the grammars
were literally filled with quotations
from Dickens: "All the girls were
in tears and white muslins," etc.,
"Just at this moment there was an
other tap at the door, a sharp point
ed tap that seemed to say, 'Here I
am and in I'm coming' ", were some
of the samples that were brought
forth to sharpen the wits in sentence
construction. It is a little early yet
to forget Dickens.
The coast around Eureka, Cal.,
appears to be well fitted to become
the graveyard of the Pacific. Many
wrecks have occurred there, the
cruiser Milwaukee being the last to
lay its hull on those sands. There
are few things more graceful than
a trim ship breasting the waves, re
sponsive to the slightest movement
of the rudder, and there are few
things more awkward than that
same ship when it piles up on the
beach. On the water the strength
of a man will move a thousand
times his weight. On the land that
same weight requires powerful en
gines, heavy cables and special ap
pliances to move. With such an
obstacle as the cruiser Milwaukee
to exercise around, the unharnessed
breakers will show their power.
They will suck the sand out from
under it and pile it up on the farth
er side, digging its grave bit by bit.
Equally helpless becomes the prop
erties of the land when they take to
the water and the things of the sea
when they take to land. Like the
boats the whale is helpless when it
gets caught in shallow water.
Sometimes the wind and tide strand
one of these monsters of the deep
upon the beach and then the forces
that destroy the ship destroy him.
What power there is in the foaming
waters! To realize it best one must
stand on the end of one of the jet
ties which men have reared to com
bat and counteract the force of the
breakers. Steady, methodical, pow
erful, the strongest works of man
tremble before their onslaught. In
their grasp the strongest swimmer
is helpless. Wood and iron have to
be well braced to prevail against
them.
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