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MONMOUTH. OREGON
FRIDAY, JULY 13, 1917.
Monmouth
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Porterhouse steak is high but
it is cheap compared with Con
gressional pork.
The Root which we sent over
to Russia appears to have been
the feeder for the ginger plant.
Cherries are reported not so
large a crop as common but the
flavor is up to the usual propor
tions. Our Main street paving ap
pears to have a surface excellent
ly adapted to the cracking of
jokes.
A glance at the morning head
lines warrants the suspicion that
the Russians and beginning to
rush.
The honor of being queen of
July might this year with propri
ety be placed with the Royal
Ann.
The war is easing up the work
of detectives, for any occurrence,
mysterious or dreadful, can be
laid to the Germans.
There is hardly a ripple visible
on the surface of the political pot
but we look for the same to make
up for lost time when this epoch
marking war is over.
It must have penetrated into
the understanding of Austria
Hungary by this time that it has
small glory to hope for by en
gaging in war.
The indications are that about
all Congress will get around to
do to the high cost of living
problem will be to lay flowers on
its grave.
It is now the fashion in South
Carolina to tell of the good old
days when decanters were used
to hold something else than cu
cumber pickles and catsup.
There must be something
wrong with this section of the
Willamette valley for it doesn't
seem to have its proper share of
the Eastern potato bug.
In the matter of the war the
aeroplane and the submarine now
have the center of the stage and
one of them is directly over it
and the other directly under it.
More water is an urgent need
for Monmouth and cheaper
water is also eminently desirable.
To get the combination is the
puzzler with which the city fath
ers are now contending.
Chicago is threatened with woe
and calamity. A whisky dealer
says 2.000 saloons will go out of
existance there when the snpply
of whisky is cut off. Parched
deserts will seem damp compared
to the Windy City.
Not everybody wa3 able to af
ford the trip to Portland and the
expenses incident to the N. E. A.
To these there is still the Dallas
chautauqua with a fine program
which can be attended at a mod
erate cost
While this country has respon
ded liberally to the calls for finan
cing the war, for the Liberty
Bonds and the Red Cross, have
taken the conscription in good
part as a necessary and proper
move and are willing to accept
taxation to raise money for the
great struggle, it is shameful to
think how our people have suf
fered extortion at the hands of
speculators without any real ac
tion by the government to pre
vent it.
A teacher who makes a busi
ness of selling ideas has to go to
market to get a fresh supply once
in a while-so reasons Prof. E.
S. Evenden. He has taught six
years in Monmouth and he thinks
a year of instruction is now due.
Which is one reason why he has
obtained a year's leave and will
attend Columbia university dur
ing the coming year. The ex
pense of the vacation will be
made a little easier for him be
cause of a research scholarship
recently granted to him by the
New York institution. His stal
wart figure will be missed in
Monmouth by many people who
hope he will actually return when
his doctor's degree is secured.
Over half a billion bushels
more corn than in 1916 is the
record which the government
crop estimators find for 1917.
Thirty eight million more bushels
of wheat than last year, thirty
three million more bushels of
barley than in 1916, are some of
the figures that give hope that
the farmers themselves will do
what the government has proved
itself unable to do-to lower the
cost of living. These figures also
should put a crimp in the talk
about starvation which has been
the foundation rock upon which
the food speculator has thrived.
Oats will exceed last years crop
by two hundred million bushels.
Irish potatoes will show an in
crease of one fourth over the
previous year. Rye, rice and
sweet potatoes all show substan
tial increases. All of which looks
well for the prospects for cheap
er living.
It doesn't take long to get the
soldier point of view, the place
from which war looks like the
conducting of a business, just as
it does to the leaders in Germany.
The United States is by no means
immune from catching the fever.
Samuel Blythe passed through
China and Japan and immediate
ly sat down to size them up from
the standpoint of "man power".
He figured, that in the long run,
China was strong and Japan weak
because of relative population,
exactly as a German statesman
would have figured it. A writer
in a recent Collier's goes to con
siderable pains to prove that sol
diering is a desirable occupation;
that for a young man it rivals in
value similar years spent in col
lege. This writer educated him
self in the army by self imposed
study tasks during leisure time.
He claimed that soldiers were
healthier than their fellows in
the business world and asserted
that statistics proved it. although
he did not quote any figures nor
the authority. As for the debas
ing influence of a soldier life, he
said it was nonsense; that the
average dissipation of the com
mercial youth was greater than
the dissipation of the soldier. He
asserted that old soldiers lived
longer than their fellow men in
commercial life, but rested the
! statement on his bare assertion.
He said that soldiering in war
never was a deadly occupation.
That statistics showed that mor
tality was as great in civil life;
that while modern warfare was
more deadly in actual contact
than warfare of other genera
tions that it wa9 more healthful
to the wounded, who were saved
by modern care and the average
of mortality in battle in compari
son to numbers engaged was no
greater than in anv period of
warfare. These bits of evidence
are interesting as showing the
process by which a nation may
evolve from peaceful thought to
warlike action.
Eureka, California is being
probed by federal officers to see
what has become of various arti
cles that were abroad the cruiser
Milwaukee when she was wrecked
on the beach near that city. It
has been demonstrated that "sou
venirs" of the wreck such as sil
verware, furniture, clothing and
miscellaneous articles are in pos
session of citizens of the city,
with no other explanation for
possession other than that they
are remembrances of the wreck
to be saved for the edification of
posterity. Perhaps the most
startling find of all was a navy
revolver in the hands of the
Chief of Police of the city, who
explains that it had been left in
his keeping by an officer of the
Milwaukee, an officer whom he
can not recall by name nor even
describe. It is always considered
by dwellers along exposed ocean
spots that wrecks are a part of
their perquisites along with the
crabs and rock oysters. It is said
that in certain localities the chil
dren are accustomed to petition
in their prayers that God will
send them a nice wreck in plenty
of time for the winter's need.
The harvest is apt to be anything
from clothing, beer or flour to a
mariner's compass or live stock.
Many a sack of flour has been
fished out of the ocean with only
a thin crust around the outside
spoiled by the salt water.
Perhaps the most remunerative
wreck of any that has occurred
in Coos connty in recent years
was the Santa Clara, wrecked
just inside the entrance to Coos
Bay in the fall of 1915. Although
the wreck was in a lonely spot, a
small city of tents sprang up on
the nearest shore as if by magic.
For a time there was a question
as to whether the wreck was a
wreck or not. The owners ran a
hawser from the boat to a tree
on the shore, thus mooring the
boat to the beach instead of to' a
wharf. But it had been a lean
year in Coos county and the pi
rates as they came to be called,
felt that they needed that cargo.
So, some time at night when no
one was looking, the rope was
cut. It was a rich cargo contain
ing everything that would sup
ply the needs of a thriving com
munity. There were even one or
two automobiles on board. Cases
of shoes, large shipments of flour
and groceries and about a hun
dred bags of parcel post, all were
dug out and distributed. When a
man had hauled his spoils to the
beach, he had actually to sit on
it to prevent some one else from
stealing it from him. One man
actually tried to get the courts to
make a man restore to him cer
tain sails which he himself had
taken from the wreck. Not hav
ing the usual hoisting machinery
they put in explosives and blew
up the decks to enable them to
get at the stuff. This is a-nong
the customs of the coas; and
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