The Herald
RICHARD B. SWENSON
Editor &. Publisher
Entered as second-claa matter September 1 1S,
the post ofnee at Monmouth. Oregon, under the
Act of Mirth I lt.
you how common such
were a few years ajjo.
things EflS nnquestionaUly greatly shorten
ed tne ien?tn oi its endurance, the
limit of threescore years and ten
Cnf V it) a reo I mi . Jnn.in.i., n.
I A small attendance at summer ffianV(?arg 'tlmt are 0UJ due
school does not sound as prosper- Students of loneeyitT have estab-
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MONMOUTH. OREGON
FRIDAY, JUNE 29. 1917.
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Monmouth
Meditations
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ous as a large attendance but it
has its advantages for both stud
ents and faculty. The latter are
not required to spread their ex
ertions over quite so large a mass
and the former get more in pro
portion. While the school with
its present number seems small
when compared with last year's
banner attendance, it is large
".hen compared with the attend
ance of few years ago, deemed
big at the time.
Some of Hindenberg's men are
probably wishing that potatoes
were as plentiful as iron crosses.
Uncle Sam is buying shoes by
the million and the task guar
antees him the understanding
sympathy of the father of two or
three robust boys.
Germany announces there are
no traces of new devices for ov
ercoming U-boats. It is just pos
sible that the netv devices leave
no traces.
Notwithstanding various
prophecies, optimistic and pes
simistic, the war will end about
the time the submarine is put
out of business, and this, if it
comes at all, will be within the
next six months.
The gentle breeze that ambled
in of! the ocean last Saturday re
minded many of our traveled fel
low citizens of Eastern Oregon
which is not exactly a testimon
ial for that section.
The Oregonian sees the call for
iron smelters in Oregon but says
that coal and the ore must be im
ported. If we remember aright
Curry and southern Coos coun
ties lay claim to all the requisites
for smelting iron, not only the
raw ore, but the necessary coal
and limestone. Speak up, Curry,
Oregon is looking in your direction.
We never miss the water until
the pump gets out of order. The
experience of Sunday forenoon
has started an agitation for more
water-in the reservoir. A new
well must be dug in the near fu
ture if Monmouth continues to
grow and the demand on its wa
ter system keeps on increasing.
At present the demand just about
keeps pace with the supply and
when a shut down is necessary
a shortage appears. There appar
ently is more water in the well
than one pump can take out but
it too has limitations and a sec
ond well is necessary if the city
plant is to provide water to all
who seek the service.
Many a sigh of reret will oc
cur at the taking out of the large
trees directly west of the Nor
mal and to many it will seem like
parting with old friends; but
they go to give place to the en
larged chapel which would be
compensation for the slaughter
of a whole forest.
Once in a while you come
across a young man and his best
girl in a buggy that has been
painstakingly washed. And the
horse, when it passes an auto,
walks on its hind feet and tries
to sit down on the cross bar in
its agony. This just to remind
Scene- the picnic grounds at
Rickreall. The sky is overcast
and occasional fine drops of rain
come down. The seats in front of
the speakers stand hold the usu
al harvest of relatives and mourn
ers. More energetic persons stand
up in front where they rest them
selves by standing first on one
foot and then on the other while
they obstruct the view of the be
fore mentioned relatives and
mourners. A graceful moss clad
maple that grows close to the
stand in ""the center aisle and
whose trunk has an angle of for
ty five degrees i3 seized upon by
three lusty youths who clamber
up where they can be both seen
and heard.
Just as a couple of dogs start
a vociferous skirmish on the
edge of the crowd, Supt. Crow
ley comes forward, gazes intent
ly in the direction of several
points of the compass, smiles
and says something about a can
ning demonstration. At this a
lady sitting three seat3 ahead of
you is laborously assisted to her
feet by her hushand and stands
on the seat where you can get a
fine view of the black silk she is
wearing. However, by moving
you manage to see a pleasant
faced lady step to the front of
the platform, smile and start a
competition with a talkative in
dividual in the refreshment stand
at the left who is expatiating on
the merits of certain wieners
which he wishes to dispose of.
The lady says, "A nation wide
movement is in progress" but is
interrupted by the opposition
with "Wieners, wieners, they're
hot, they're juicy, they're five
cents". The lady got a brief res
pite and said "some means to
cope with this waste". Then the
lady in the black silk determined
to retire, and the exit and ensu
ing conversation drowned' every
thing else for a full minute. But,
returning to the platform; the la
dy speaker, still smiling said "No
doubt you all want to know how"
but was here interrupted by a
strident voice from one of the
concessions "Here you are, gents.
A bow legged, blue eyed, red
haired baby for ten cents. On-ly
ten cents".
The canning demonstration la
dy did not give up but continued
to smile and continued to talk but
it had begun to rain again. Sev-
Mrs. C. R. Butler
eral umbrellas were put up aheadt Mrs. M. S. Fittman
and the remarks from the plat
form were drowned by remarks
addressed at the umbrellas by
people whose lane of vision had
been eclipsed. Also at this time a
re-union was taking place two
seats ahead and the exclamations
over various things of mutual in
terest to the group drowned out
all else from the hearing.
HEALTH AND LONG LIFE.
On
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Way to Attain Tham It to
Ifedarata In All Things.
Sickness and death have always
existed in the world and always will
so long as man's physical constitu
tion remains what it is. Tiny body
is evidently intended to last only a
certain time, although man Jiimself
health and
Companion.
longevity. Youth's
Th Tarantula.
The stinjj of the tarantula (a name
derived from Taranto, a town in
Italy), the most venomous of spi
ders, was popularly supposed to pro
duce a disease called tarantism,
which could bo cured only by music
or dancing, and the dance which
cured it was called turantcllnv You
can see the peasants dance the ta
rantella now, but without waiting
for spicier bites.
A Bird Mystery.
After years of study devoted to
the topic Professor Alfred Newton
of Cambridge stated that without
doubt bird migration is the greatest
mystery in the entire animal king
dom, "a mystery." be added, "that
can be no more explained by the
modern man of science than by the
simple minded savage of antiquity."
Roll of the Red Cross
Jessica Todd
Corenne Pennington
Catherine Schuneson
Helen Schuneson
Jean Strachen
Marion Richmond
Olianna Olson
Anna Kleinwachter
Mrs. Paul Riley
Miss Alma Riley
Mrs.CA.Nott
J. Carl Bowman
Mrs. J. S. Miller
Mrs. C. Lorence
Ruby Ann Lorence
Mrs. E. S. Evenden
Cassie Stump
Mary Campbell
Mary A. Criteser
Armilda Doughty
Paradine Doughty
Anna Thompson
Mrs. A. J. Haley
T. H. Gentle
Dorothy Cox
Bertha Kleinwachter
Grace Ziegler
Mrs. N. S. Stewart
Mrs Harriet Richards
Mrs. Fannie Stewart
Peter Ingermansen
Mrs. P. H. Johnson
Mrs. Fannie Guthrie
Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Swenson
Mrs. L. W. Waller
Mrs. E. J. Perkins
Mrs. F. S. Powell
Mr. and Mrs. K. H. Sickafoose
Mabel Lorence
H. K. Sickafoose
lished the rite that the animal
body, including man's, should en-;
dure, barring accident, five times'
as long as it takes to reach full ma- J
jority, as marked by the complete,
ossification of the bones. In man '
that period is about twenty years, jUJ
anu a man snouid therefore live to
round out a century. That he usu
ally lives only half or three-quarters
as long is his fault and the fault of
big ancestors.
A French writer once asserted
that a man is as old as his arteries,
meaning that the degenerative
changes of old age were dependent
upon or measurable by the degree
of hardening of the arteries. That
is undoubtedly true to a certain ex
tent, but epigrams do not solve
problems of even explain facts. It
affords slight comfort to know that
we are as old as our arteries if we
do not know how to prevent them
from aging prematurely.
Fortunately we do know many of
the causes of the presenile degen
eration that cuts us otT before our
time. Heredity counts for much.
Some families are long lived. In
others most or all of the members
die young. That sounds hopeless,
yet we can do much by hygienic liv
ing to lengthen our days even, if
we come of a short lived family.
More than that, we can transmit to
our descendants a still higher de
gree of stamina. The other causes
of parly aging may be summed up in
the one word excess overwork,
mental or physical, worry, overeat
ing and even oversleeping. Modera
tion (not insufficiency) in all things
eating, drinking, working, play-
iiil', Hiecpinz is tne secret of
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