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