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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.
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