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MONMOUTH. OREGON
FRIDAY, AUGUST 3. 1917.
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Monmouth
Meditations
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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
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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.
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