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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 3, 1917)
The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Ed.tor & Publisher lies" and "Tinos" and other im ! posters who form the nucleus I of what we hope will be, before The Times financial strength is in its advertising. It is a recog nized vehicle of this sort of pub- EnUrvd w Mrond-cjftM matter Sn-trab i la. tb im ?: M Mixwoutfc. Onmo. unam tb ArtrfXwtfel im. the war is over, a thoroughly ncuy ana is souenc ootn oy Duy reoreser.tative colony of kings ;er and seller. Its Sunday edition IIKD EVEKV KKIDAY in exile. Collier's Subscription Rates One year - - $1.50 Six month - 75 cU Three month 50 f U MONMOUTH. OREGON FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. 1917. (0 IOC Monmouth Meditations on Just at present the motto of the householder is "can what you can and dry what you can't". The demand for automobiles appears only limited to the capacity of the manufacturers to turn them out Reports from the vicinity of Pendleton are to the effect that the fall sown wheat is a fair crop, much better than first reported. This is the season of the year when people leave home and civ ilization and exert themselves in behalf of pleasure for a short time and then return home for another year of rest and preparation. Clothing manufacturers say that the scarcity and high price of wool will considerably modify the style of men's toggery for next year. Patch pockets and cuffs must go and if the war lasts two or three years longer there will be no pockets of any kind. They won't be needed anyway. Like the Irishman's flea LaFol lette is a hard man to locate and classify. Alternately he runs from one quality to another and about the time you are ready to prove him a knave and a villain he turns out to be a prophet and a patriot For a mixture of big and little qualities it would be hard to find his equal in Ameri can politics. While people from one coast to the other have been berating him because of his pe culiar stand on various phases of the war, LaFollette was burning midnight oil and putting in an astonishing amount of work on a revenue bill entirely separate from the committee bills of both House and Senate. LaFollette in his bill ignores entirely increased taxes on the necessities of life which have been a feature of the committee bills and has worked out a complete scheme whereby the necessary revenue will be raised by increased taxes on liquor and tobacco and increases in the income tax, but most es pecially by heavy taxes on the excess pn nts ot tne war dusi- ness. Certain newspapers will not favor this plan. Neither will certain senators and representa tives. But it will appeal largely to the sense of fairness of the people and if their interest is aroused, everything else will have to give way. It is quite likely that LaFollette's proposals will occupy a large part in the revenue bill as finally passed. is its pride especially because of the features that go to make up its bulky whole and because of the immense amount of reading it carries. Its news columns are always viewed with, suspicion be cause of the tendency to color them with political bias and be cause the same tactics are em ployed to exploit the glorious climate and real . estate attrac tions of Southern California. Building Materials I fiJJXJXrLnjuxrtrruu u j u xrutrnirirTii " J ' ' ' " " m ' I 1 ii it J There is a philanthropist in Portland who is manufacturing those old home stand by s, real Graham flour and real rye flour and a few others and he is mak ing money at it The modern miller saves the best part of the wheat kernels for the stock and charges double for it when he mixes in a little to make com mercial Graham a3 we know it Vacation ideas differ. In fact, it is something different that we are all after. For instance now when the Normal faculty loses no time in leaving town for vari ous places of interest, Mr. Pitt man, who has spent a major por tion of the year in traveling over the state, stays at home in order to enjoy his vacation. It is hard to keep these weath er records straight The Lebanon Criterion states that within the record of man in the Willamette valley a rain never came between the 21st of July and the first of September. Weather sharks of Monmouth remember it differ ently however and state that a rain during the coming August would have one or two precedents to encourage it The words of no person of other lineage could have the same effect as these, spoken by Otto H. Kahn, in New York: "Speaking as one born of Ger man parents, I do not hesitate to state it a3 my deep conviction that the greatest service which men of German birth or ante- ceedents can render to the coun try of .their origin is to proclaim and to stand up for those great and fine ideals and national qual ities and traditions which they inherited from their ancestors, and to set their faces like flint against the monstrous doctrine and acts of a rulership which have robbed them of the Germa ny which they loved and in which they took just pride, the Ger many which had the good will, the respect and admiration of the entire world." Old King Alcohol has been slipping from his throne. No more than a good push is need ed to get him out altogether. He will be little regretted. His reign was cruel, his benevolence hypoc risy, his courtiers hired men. He Whatever might have been the influence of Harrison Gray Otis and the Los Angeles Times pre vious to the dynamiting episode, neither one of them have been of commanding influence since that time. The experience of Mr. Otis with labor unions seemed to have soured him on all kinds of progress. For the past four years the Times has positively reeked with re-action and while it has been at all times dictator ial in its attitude in political mat ters, it is doubtful if within that time it has backed a single can didate, municipal, state or nation al who has been politically suc cessful. Its opposition tq Hiram Johnson amounted to monomania, its political news was strongly biased even to the headlines and the Times never lost an oppor tunity to make Holy Hy as they called him, distasteful. The more the Times opposed Johnson the more popular he became and ; the same with others until it NO TYPHOID FEVER SCARE AT MONMOUTH, IS CLAIM Monmouth. Ore., July 27.-The rumor that Monmouth had an epi demic of typhoid fever circulated in all parts of the state, is retuted by Health Officer Price, who says that not a single case of the malady exists in the city. The-shortage of water for domestic use is thought to have started the rumor, for the sup ply became so short last week that it was turned off entirely for two days. President J. H. Ackerman, of the normal school, threatened to ad journ the summer school if ,the trouble continued and Water Super intendent Moreland at once reme died conditions. The above printed as a news item in the Portland Telegram comes close to our idea of zero in boosting for your home town. As community advertising it rep resents the sharp end of nothing whittled to a fine point If it had any foundation to stand on there might be some excuse for seek ing the ear of the reading public, but with just enough possibility to give plausibility it will give rise in the minds of thousands, to suspicions that things are true that are in fact not true at all. No one in Monmouth knows any thing about a typhoid epidemic; Health Officer Price had never heard even a suspicion until shown the clipping. Nor had she been interviewed or questioned concerning such rumored epidem ic. The city water was not "turned off entirely for two days" so consequently it could not have been turned back on again because ot any alleged threat of President Ackerman's. The water was shut off from a portion of the city during the sleeping hours of two or three nights in order to accumulate a small surplus in the reservoir for fire protection, and during some of the hottest days so much wat er was used for sprinkling and irrigating in the lower part of the city that a supply could not reach the dormitory and an ap peal had to be made to the citi zens to use less water so that all could have a share. These are the only facts on which the story could have been based. The head ing which the Telegram gave to the item implies doubt and whether or not any such rumor existed in the state previously. it will now. was like the Kaiser who once said that "he hid no friends, on- 'came to be said that if a politi ly dupes." He will make a shab- cian could get the Times opposi by figure even among the "Nick- tion his standing was achieved. The man who stops his little "ad" Is not so very wise, bedad, Because his advertisements tell The public what he has to sell ; And it his "ad" is not on deck The people pass him up, by heck, And none of them will hesitate To trade with merchants up-to-date To stop your "ad", we would re mark. Is just like winking in the dark ; You may know what it means, but gee, Nobody else can ever see. So do not for a moment think That when you cut out printer's ink You're saving money on the side; 'Tis merely business suicide. Canadian Grocer. Geo. Sullivan, Hjalmar and Ermine Gentle and D. L Wil liams are now owners of Fords since the receipt of a new ship ment at the garage last week. From Roof To Cellar Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. Monmouth, Oregon 01 on Read your own Herald lfJrer Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All kinds of transferring done promptly and on short notice FRANK SKEEN, Proprietor. Monmouth, - Oregon - tr - MONMOUTH DAIRY j. m. Mcdonald, Prop. 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