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The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Editor & Publisher Entered u Moond-cUm mttr September 8. IS the poet office it Monmouth. Oregon, under the Act of llu-chS. 1879. ISSUED EVKRV FRIDAY Subscription Rates One year Six months 75 cU Three month -. 50cts MONMOUTH, OREGON FRIDAY. AUGUST 10. 1917. Monmouth -m m- t j I iW Meditations A We are just a week nearer those soaking rains than we were seven days ago. The urice of hay starts in at a high figure but the quality is ex ceptionally good. The suspicion lurks that if the powers could agree on how to apportion the loaves and fishes we would have peace tomorrow If the Germans are stirring up anti-draft strife it is odd that the sections affected are those where very few Germans are lo cated. Now in this good old vacation time is the opportunity to paint up, fix up, clean up and get up in line, ready for next fall and winter. There is no truth in the rumor that the Kaiser has abdicated but somehow it was hard to keep from admiring the rumor any way. Some of the I. W. W. trouble springs from the fact that cer tain employers have their fists in the purses of the public and, grabbing handfuls of dollars, will not share with their men. A town the size and import ance of Salem deserves a better depot than the one the S. P. maintains for it. And a splendid location for a new one would be about a mile nearer town. Mr. Ambassador Gerard talks like a man who has absorbed so much information that he will positively burst if he attempts to carry it any further. Three dollars a hundred is what dairymen of the east are going to ask for their milk this coming winter and they have a habit of getting what they ask for. It costs only three cents a week to have a Herald of your own yet pome people will go to twenty five cents worth of time and trouble to borrow from a neigh bor in order to read the latest. It is interesting to know that bread made of American wheat, after paying high ocean freight, sells in Belgium for 40 per cent less than in America; in France for 30 per cent less, and in Eng land for 20 per cent less. Tho invention of printing the reformation; the fall of Constantinople ?used the dis- rnvPrv of America; the develop ment of a military system by the eccentric father of Frederick the r.rpat caused the European war; the war has crsed our abandon ment of the policy of isolation. T.lttlp rpremonv appears to have attended the exit of Little from a Montana mining center to the sweet and glorious hence forth. And little sympathy has koon mnnifpsted for him by tne average citizen. He thrived on trouble and grew sleek on ciass hate. , We surmise that the Belgians, like the southern negro will ap- npfll to our sympathy better at a . . . i distance than close at hand. And if the refugees come to the Wil lamette vallev they should be scattered around a little and not localized in colonies. They can he most valuable as citizens only as they absorb our customs and language and the colony plan does not encourage either. Coos county which is securing good roads with money raised by voting bonds, is being investi gated by its business men to see if in the work accomplished there is value received. Our idea of 7.pro in the development of a new country is clearing land and de- veloninor a market while paying interest and principal of a debt accumulated by paying $7.00 per day, road making for the work ot man and team. that a man owes something to land for the privilege of owning it but such is the case as is fre quently demonstrated. The railroads have good reason to complain about low freight rates for it must be aggravating in this season of riotous charges when it is the custom to hold up the helpless wherever met with, to be bound with regulations that prevent their sharing in the sport Neither is it fair to ask them to do business at former rates when operating expenses are very much higher. Never the less right now they illustrate theability of the government to hold prices to a reasonable level. It is encouragement to the effort to give Hoover a chance. We are fighting for .the safety of democracy and the abolition of militarism but neither one figures very highly in proposed peace terms so far suggested. But be cause they have not been put in the foreground it does not signi fv that they are not being con sidered. The final treaty of peace may not mention either, but still they will be in the minds of all and the fact that they are issues will have a strong effect. Our war of 1812 was fouehtasa protest against the "ritrht of search" and when the treatv was signed it contained no mention of the subject. Yet the result was secured for the alleced right was never, again exercised by England , against us. on DC IO Materials From Roof To Cellar K Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. . Monmouth, Oregon Read your own Herald $1 year Scenic artists may plan land scape effects and grass and trees and shrubbery make a combina tion pleasing and attractive to the eve: but a good substitute is the field of potatoes which Jacob Smith is growing on the ground around the band stand. It surely stands in marked contrast to the weeds and grass which covered the same spot a year ago. Many travelers say it is the best pota to patch they have seen in the valley this year. It is a cold day when the sec tional interests of Polk county can not find something to scrap over. The coast highway offers the latest opportunity. We hope snme rnmnromise mav be arrang ed and the matter settled with out bloodshed. Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All kinds of transferring done promptly and on short notice FRANK SKEEN,' Proprietor. Monmouth, Oregon Russia in its foreign relations has always been an uncertain quantity and to be relied upon neither as a friend or an 'enemy Because it turned from his en emyto his friend it one time saved Frederick the Great from annihilation. ' It was alternately the friend and enemy of Napo leon. When the latter signed his famous treaty with Czar Alexander on a raft in the Dan ube he thought he had suprema cy at last. Yet in a very short time he was starting his legions on the disastrous march to Mos cow. If statements were only facts, "keeping informed would be a comparatively simple matter. But the trouble is, there is so much we learn one day that has to be unlearned the next that it is most bewildering and leaves us constantly in a state of mental uncertainty. Good Printing is the Product of the Herald Print Shop "Germans Prepare for Peace" runs a headline , telling of the iarge ships being built in the shipyards of Hamburg and Brem en. It may dawn on people s minds before long that the sub marine is designed for additional purposes besides starving Eng land in the immediate future. Every ship sunk will make less competition when peace is con eluded. In the meantime we are hustling to build wooden boats, which will be finished about the time the war is over, which will be too small for actual across- ocean commerce and which will in the very near future, be tied up to rot in various creeks along our shores. The government allows eligi- bles listed in the draft . but not actually chosen, to volunteer in the various departments of army and navy. So many Oregon boys have chosen the navy that the government has closed down on the fnllowine: Landsmen for veoman and electricians; plumb ers and fitters, shipwrights, ship fitters, blacksmiths, boilermak ers. painters, printers. Enlistments in the following ratings are limited to 25 men per week: Apprentice seamen, Ma chinists' mates, coppersmiths' firemen, 1st, 2nd and 3rd class; hospital apprentices, 1st and 2nd class, (only two per month) landsmen for bakers, 2nd class bakers. 3rd class mess attend ants, landsmen for ships' cooks, 4th class ships cooks. There is unlimited demand for musicians, machinist mates and cooks. All previous service men entitled to re-enlist MONMOUTH DAIRY 4 J. M. Mc DONALD, Prop- INSPECTED BY STATE BOARD OF HEALTH i .- 4 Come and see our fine herd of Jer- is , sey UOWS ana cican, saiuuaiy 3 t Phone 2405 MONMOUTH, ORE. For any thing you want or don't want try our bargain column. It will buy or sen ror you. It is hard for people to acquire the idea that they owe something to the government for the pro tection it gives them and that this applies to everything they own. Neither is it easy to see NOTICE OF FINAL SETTLEMENT Notice is hereby given that Paul Tacheron. administrator of the estate of Laura M. Tacheron deceased, has filed his final account as such adrmms trator in the County Court of the State of Oregon for the County 6f Polk, and that Saturday, the 8th day of Septem ber. 1917. at the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon of said day, at the court room of said court, in theCounty Lourt House in Dallas, Polk County, Oregon, has been appointed by the said court as the time and place for the hearing of objections to the said final account and the settlement thereof. Dated and first published August 10, 1917. Paul Tacheron Administrator of the estate of Laura M. Tacheron, deceased. Oscar Hayter, Attorney. C. G. GRIFFA, Plumber and Steam Fitter. Carries In Stock Bath Tubs, Toilet Fixtures and all kinds of Plumb ers' Supplies, nickel-plated or otherwise. All orders attended to promptly and work guaranteed. ' MONMOUTH, - OREGON . Mrs. Wm. Borgman of Los Angeles, California, spent the past month visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Miller of this place. For Cold Ice Cream and Thirst Quenching Drinks try WALKER & SONS Watch for the submarine stories
