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FRIDAY, JULY 27, 1917.
publicity, who enjoy a row and
who never resign anything in the
shape of office.
Monmouth
Meditations
3
The Germans have their hands
on the fruits of victory and are
having a hard time either to let
Ro or get away with them.
One item on the bill of fare
that has not increased in price is
advice. It is as cheap andplenti
ful as ever.
In Josephus Daniels a great
war correspondent has been sac
rificed to make a mediocre secre
tary of the navy.
Some time in the future the
rain which we lacked last winter
and this summer will be returned
to us with good measure.
Some of the citizens of Polk
county were as much interested
in the first selection of the draft
as though the men selected had
to respond to the first call.
some ot the spring grain in
this section is so light that its
most profitable use will be rained
by turning it into a light crop of
hay.
Having come to this country
to supply us with all lacking in
formation as to its people and
its ambitions, the Roumanian
mission will probably be with us
for some time.
Vacation time comes around
regularly with its alluring call to
the woods or ocean regardless of
the fact that the wherewithal! to
finance it has been taken by the
patriots who control the necessi
ties of life.
Measured with the opportu
nity which the last six months
has given him to display his
character, LaFoIlette shows up
ike a counterfeit coin. The arts
and resources of the politician
have never seemed so contemp
tible as now when the time is here
to think in terms of national wel
fare. Measured by the standard
of national interest, no states
right advocate ever showed a
more narrow devotion to the sel
fish demands of locality and per
sonal profit than he has. War is
astern and inflexible sifter of
merit from the great mass of
pretense not only in military but
in civil life. Peace has its heroes
but if the war lasts some of them
are apt by the acid test to show
how thin is the gilding that cov
ers them.
This is the season of the year
when the parents of children of
Normal school age are investiga
ting the labor and business con
ditions of Monmouth and Moran,
the land man. is besieged with
otTers from various sections to
trade for Monmouth property.
The race for publicity between
Mr. McAdoo and Mr. Daniels is
getting interesting. While Mr.
McAdoo is working the depart
mental news letter game with
vigor, Mr. Daniels has a certain
advantage in being able to work
over and extract a little second
hand glory from the official dis
patches of the admirals of the
It would seem impossible to
witness the spectacle "Birth of a
Nation" without a stronger re
sentment against the tendency of
official Germany to war and keep
the world in arms. The spectator
is apt to acquire new zeal in his
antagonism to war through this
picture which more than half a
century removed from the scenes
depicted comes back again to
probe old wounds, to encourage
old hates, and to demonstrate
that war never settles anything.
he picture is actual evidence
that the militaristic idea that
war is necessary and beneficial
is wrong. It reflects the feelint?
of conquerors and couquered
which has lasted through a lone
period of years, especially of the
latter. A sensitive high strung
people, subjected to the humilia
tion of dictation from any foe.
generous or otherwise, especially
with the complications which
the negro question injected, are
bound to suffer through the re
construction period. The civil
war and its consequences was
not only a curse to the south but
to the north as well. It has crea
ted an unnatural division in pol
itics, a division that has been
worked to a' profit by interests
seeking private advantage. No
one familiar with the barriers to
economic development which
our civil war caused would want
a condition to come upon the
world where such wars would be
of common occurrence.
OREGON NEWS NOTES
OF GENERAMNTEREST
Principal Events of the Week
Eriefly Sketched for Infor
mation ot Our Readers.
Rogue
A strike of fishermen on
! itiver lasted only a few dava.
I The Oregon Baptist assembly will be
navy when the same are given to! ,al "IV""6 fair grou,,d3 3
the public.
President Wilson acted wisely
in the shipping board dispute by
gently but firmly easing both!
Goethals and Denman from their!
. -'i ui ciover seen in Linn
seats Of Vantage and thus cutting county . going to be extremely short
me uoruian Knot mac nas held , ai'corumg to late reports.
this branch of the public service.
Xewberg hag Inst two of Its pioneers
In the death of Elihu B. Collard and
Henry J. Noble.
Dried cherries are to be a product
of the Eugene Fruitgrowers' associa
tion cannery In Eugene.
The crop of clover seed In Linn
A movement hn heen i
-vv .mmuU fll
New men have been named and1" n '? r8anUe ",e South'rn
u Oregon Deve nnment hr.l
the chances are that the work
will proceed with less friction
and greater results
least had the sense to resign
The salmon run in the lower Col u m.
bia has started again, after the inter-
Goethals, at ru',,Uoii "used by the June freshet.
1M summer school which has been
la session at Oregon Agricultural col
lege t.,r ih
Friday
Hecause of the spread of forest
fires In southern Oregon an emergency
call has been sent out for more fire
fighters.
Superintendent Pollock, of the Alsea
hatchery, distributed 40,000 young
rainbow trout in streams tributorjr to
Alsea river.
William Thomas, about JO yean old,
committed suicide at the Davis home,
south of Reedville, by hanging him
self from a rafter.
The fourth annual meeting of the
raclfic Coast Association of Port
Authorities will be held In Portland
September 4, 5, and 8.
President Wilson has sent to the
senate the renominatlon of Frank S.
Myers to be postmaster at Portland
for another four years.
Arrangements are under way for a
ipeclal meeting of the Cattle' and
Horse Raisers' association which Is to
be held in Lakeview September.
Forest fires are burning more gen
erally In the Butte Falls, Prospect and
woodruff Meadows districts, and Dart.
ly In Crater Lake national park, than
for 10 years.
J. C. Hill, of Curry county, credits
Ms dog with Increasing the family
bank account by $129, as a result of
the animal locating a coyote den and
Killing six pups.
Fifty business men of Prlnevllle have
formed a Crook County Defense Guard
for the purpose of assisting Sheriff
Knox in any kind of an emergency
tn at might arise.
The conference of the Oregon Assn.
ciation for the Prevention of Tubercu
losis, and the Northwestern Tuberculo
sis conference will be held in Portland
uctober 15 and 16.
A. J. Oglesby, pioneer of Lane conn
ty and prominent in its affairs in the
early days, died at Dreltenbush
Springs, east of Albany, of heart dis
ease, at the age of 76.
State Dairy and Food Commissioner
J. D. Mickle has gone to Atlantic City,
in. J., where he is to attend the annual
convention of the National Associa.
tlon of Dairy, Food and Drug officials.
The Marlon county court has signed
up a contract for the construction of
a new steel bridge across the Willlam
ette river between Marion and Polk
counties at Salem. The bridge will
cost $237,901.
The United States engineering crew,
under Walton Haydon, has completed
the survey of north and south Cons
rivers, for data for use in government
work of deepening the channels and
removing snags.
The president has renominated Her
man Wise postmaster of Astoria and
lra. C. Mehrllng postmaster at Falls
City. The senate confirmed the re
nomination of Edward O. Worth, surveyor-general
of Oregon.
According to Jackson F. Kimball,
head of the Klamath-Lake Counties'
Fire association, there have been
twenty-four forest fires in Klamath
county In the last two weeks, with
practically little or no damage.
The schools of Hood River may open
two weeks earlier lhan usual this
year, In order that a vacation may be
called if necessary at the height of
apple-picking season to allow the stu
dents to participate in the harvest.
As a result of the recent I. W W
disturbances in the neighboring coun
try of Klamath, the citizens of Grants
lass have organized a group of 60
men Into a home defense company
und?r the command of Sheriff George
Lewis.
Incendiary destruction at Klamath
Falls of the new milk house and new
pasteurizing equipment of the Wil
Hams dairy, Is evidence, say officials,
that the menace of the I. W. W has
not yet been removed from these vi
cinities. The Modoc Point irrigation project
on the Klamath Indian reservation
will be completed in about three
weeks, according to Project Engineer
H. . Hincks, of the Klamath agency.
This project embraces about 6340
acres of rich laud, and was started in
1912.
Because of the war and the Im
portance of the food supply, the direct- j
ors of the Jackson County Fair asso-!
ciation have decided to abandon the 1
horse races, bucking contests and
motor races, which have rhrnai..
ed county fairs in the past, and con
centrate upon the display of agricul
tural products and foodstuffs.
Corporation Commissioner Schulder
man, in a statement issued relative
to the business of the cornnratmn
j department, shows that for the year
enueu June 30 the operating expense
of that department has been 7.7 per
cent of the revenue received, which
sets a new record in the cost of the
administration of any department, the
report declares.
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