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The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Editor & Publisher Entered u Mnml-Ua mittar September i the put office at Monmouth. Ortvon. under the Act of March J. 1ST. ISSLKO KVKKY FK1DAV Subscription Rates One year $1.50 Sii months 75 cU Three months 60 eta MONMOUTH. OREGON FRIDAY, JUNE 1. 1917. Monmouth Meditations The grand keeping qualities of the bean render it a favorite with the garden gang. 'The trouble with Russia is. that while its head is in the stars its feet are in the mud. Some of the maxims that Hen Franklin coined are being fol lowed now days with benefit to all concerned. The cyclone that cavorted through the north Mississippi valley last week appears to have been an echo of the one that struck the Hindenburg line. Every now and then a subma rine is reported in the Pacific ocean. About the only body of water that has been immune to date is our own Great Lakes. It has been discovered that tin cans have value and collectors who are picking them up are also improving the great American landscape. The same transports that car ry troops across the ocean should carry back prisoners. It will bal ance the population of the two continents and it will be an easy matter to find work for all. It was an enthusiastic dairy man who figured out how prom inently the dairy business has been connected with war past and present. There are Cowpens, Bull Run, Moscow and Bullecourt. The only 'difference between holding up a man on a back street and relieving him of his valuables and holding him up in the cost of living is the differ ence in methods. If some of the bouquets that have been handed to Senator Lane since he died had been handed him while he lived, he might still be living. Not all the dead of this war are to be killed by bullets and bursting shells. The numerous gardens in Mon mouth are improving its appear ance. The vacant lots, thorough ly prepared for seed are much more attractive to the eye than the same lot grown to weeds and grass, untrimmed and ragged as many of them too often are. One of the hardest things that LaFollette ever tried to side step will be his record on liquor legis lation in Washington. He used to have the habit of "calling the roll" on various politicians with whom he contended, and we sur mise that when he comts up for re-election next time, the roll will j be called on him several times. ' What better way could the evening of Registration be ob served than by attending the meeting for the unveiling of the Lincoln statue in the training school. All are cordially invited to attend and bring along a choice for officers for the parent-teachers meetings during the coming year. One of the numbers on the Red Cross program Thursday night was a violin solo by Miss-Eliza beth Levy of Salem. On Wednes day evening she was presented by William Wallace Graham of Portland in a musical recital at Salem. In June she will be pre sented to Portland's musical world. Miss Levy has appeared on the Salem Lyceum Course and on Saturday evening she appear ed as violin soloist with the Port land Symphony orchestra. Mon mouth was given a rare treat in hearing this young artist. "Buy a Home" is the slogan with which the real estate agents of the country plan to start a lit tle activity. In times of war and uncertainty people who have ready money are naturally anx ious to place it safely and real es tate is bound to be favored by many over any kind of paper se curity. This is a reason why the real estate move is not as un promising as it looks at this time and why real estate values may be expected to increase. By the time the French rela tions with America are more in timate they wilf acquire a little better understanding of Ameri can game' of politics. They want Roosevelt to come to them for the influence his name will have, just as if that is not the very reason our American powers are determined that he shall not go. Anybody will admit that the op position to Roosevelt is partisan. Such of it as gets to the public print is of the cuckoo type that sneezes whenever the adminis tration takes snuff. We heard a great deal during the last campaign about Mon mouth being too small for a state normal, and the idea is still in dustriously cultivated in the neighborhood of Pendleton, The truth is that some of the most in fluential normals in the country are located in small towns. De velopments show that students can be taken away to neighbor districts as effectively and this year Monmouth students will have practice in four outside districts. Good roads help this this matter which is another reason why all Monmouth people should vote for the road bonds. The big trucks which are grow ing more numerous are the fore runners of the many which will transport a great deal of the freight of the rural districts on short hauls when we have hard surface roads. The trucks are capable of paying for the roads they use and will do so if given a chance. Only a person who wishes to retard progress and hold us back in our struggle to come into our own, will vote against the bond issue which comes up for decision next Mon day. Memorial day calls up the most distressing part of war. The crack of the rifle or the boom of the cannon come to us when we think of battle. It is ' exciting to read of the bayonet j charge or the aeroplane con-: tests, but the windrows of the dead is an awakening reality. One day in the early spring the meditator stood in the national cemetery on the battle-field of New Orleans. Facing the south, behind U3 stood the Chalmette monument to the memory of the famous victory.lt is built on the site of Jackson's headquarters on that memorable day. In front of us, in the distance -was pointed out a group of three trees w here tradition says the British general Packenham was killed. A long low ridge was to be geen where time had failed to smooth out a breastworks used by our soldiers in that fight. But there was nothing any where to suggest strife and bloodshed. The sun shone quietly down, birds chirped in the trees, cattle were feeding in the distance, nothing there to suger, the battle but the monu ment and the rows and rows of graves. The graves were of Civil war heroes. There were 10,000 of them within that en closure and while many were marked with name, regiment, brigade and state in the North from which they came, over half of them were marked "Un known." A colored attendant was washing the small head stones, which in that climate soon become grimy and dingy. One cleaning lasted about a year and when he had finished it was time to start over again. That cemetery is a partial evi dence of the price we paid for "Liberty and Union, now and forever, one and inseparable." Contributed I'm sitting here a-thlnking of the things I left behind, And I hate to put on paper what Is running in my mind. We've dug a nillion trenches and clear ed ten miles of ground, And a meaner place this side of hell I know is still unfound. Uut there's still one consolation, gath er closely while I tell: Vhen we die we're bound for heaven, For we've done our hitch In hell. We've built a hundred kitchens for the cooks to stew our beans; We've stood a hundred guard mounts and cleaned the camp clean. We've washed a million mess kits and peeled a mllliou spuds; We've rolled a million blanket rolls and washed a million duds. The number of parades we've made would be hard to tell, But they'll not parade in heaven, for we've done our hitch In hell. " We've killed a million rattlesnakes that tried to take our cots, And shook a million centipedes from out our army ox We've marched a hundred thousand miles and made a thousand camps And pulled a billion cactus thorns from out our army pants. And when our work on earth Is done, our friends behind will tell, "When they died they went to heaven, for they did their hitch in hell." When the final taps is sounded and we lay aside life's cares, And we do the last parading up the shining golden stairs, And the angels bid us welcome, and the harps begin to play. And we draw a million canteen checks and spend them in a day. It is then we'll hear St. Peter tell us loudly with a yell, "Take a front seat. Third Oregon, for you've done your hitch In hell." WISDOM. WREN I hav caai to break my wlnsa Against tha f.iultlness of things, AnJ learned that compromise, wait Behind each hanllr opened rate. When I can look l;f In th eyes Grown calm and very coldly wise. Ufa will have given rut tha truth And taken In eichangt-my youth. Sara TeaMala. Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All kinds of transferring done promptly and on short notice FRANK SKEEN, Proprietor. Monmouth, - Oregon MONMOUTH DAIRY j. m. Mcdonald, Prop- INSPECTED BY STATE BOARD OF HEALTH X Come and see our fine herd of Jer- X I sey Cows and clean, sanitary barn I Phone 2405 MONMOUTH, ORE. C. G. GRIFFA, Plumber and Steam Fitter. Carries In Stock Bath Tubs, Toilet Fixtures and all kinds of Plumb ers' Supplies, nickel-plated or otherwise. All orders attended to promptly and work guaranteed. MONMOUTH, - - OREGON WATCH TALK A watch you should have and one you would take pleasure in carrying and show ing to your friends is the new South Bend 19 Jewel Special adjusted to 4 positions. (The watch advertised in May 19 Saturday Ev ening Post) We have this watch in stock in 16 and 12 sizes, cased in open face 20 yr. gold filled cases. Price $28.75 WALTER G. BROWN Watch Repairer and Jeweler. Perkins Pharmacy. See Us We are agents for The Capital City Steam Laundry We call for and deliver work. Work is absolutely guaranteed WALKER & SONS WOOD SAWED to Order H.B.MORSS, , Successor to E. E. Rake Country'orders solicited Phone 720 PURE CANDIES are best for old and young Our line is "Up-to-Date Walker and Sons 1 d Good Printing is the Product of the, Herald Print Shop 4
