The Monmouth herald., August 31, 1917, Image 2

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FRIDAY, AUGUST 31, 1917.
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Meditations
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The sensible camper who
spends his vacation with his fam
Sly in the hop fields, is beginning
to go by, bag and baggage.
Since the stuff they are to con
tain has gone romping up in the
scale of prices, the lowly grain
sack is also increasing in value
this year. New grain sacks sell
at 15 cents.
Cookies of vetch and bread of
alfalfa are advocated but no one
has as yet had the hardihood to
suggest making angel food out
of saw dust
They are kicking against walks
in Independence despite the fact
that any one knows that concrete
walks are not made for the pur
pose of kicking against but walk
ing upon.
It appears positively that a few
fines will have to be imposed up
on speeders before automobilists
on Main street will realize that
thoroughfare is subject to the
12 mile limit
We extend greetings to Ern
est E. Southard, the new owner
of the Polk County Observer,
and trust his proprietorship will
be long and profitable.
It sometimes pays to be a free
spender. A certain ball player
when drafted, asked for exemp
tion to support his mother. But
it was shown that he was a tight
wad, had salted down a large
part of his salary, and his plea
went unheeded.
There is a tendency among the
newspapers to demand compen
sation for advertising the next
issue of Liberty Bonds, figuring
that they are as much entitled to
compensation for what they have
to sell as the lumber men or the
woolen men or the iron and steel
men or any other dealers in com
modities of which the govern
ment is in need.
The versatile Ford can wade
mud, swim stream, climb moun
tains, jump ditches, haul gang
plows, run a silo outfit and trans
port the whole family to the
beach or mountains, but it has its
limitations-it can not pass an
other auto and make the turn at
"Deadman's Curve" on the
Salem road at thirty five miles
an hour and remain right side up
when the feat is accomplished.
An acquaintance of our young
er days is with the American
soldiers in France. Writing back
to his parents from Liverpool, he
says the voyage across the At
lantic was a speedy one but
monotonous. When they had
passed a given point on the route
the soldiers all donned life pre
servers in case they, as he naive
ly puts it "had to get out and
walk".
weeks in 1841 "From that time
on they began to spread rapidly
through the northern states, due
to the same causes that brought
the normal schools into being in
this country an insistence on
the part of educators for better
trained teachers."
Official reports state that in
1916, 104.212,809 gallons of gas
oline were made from natural
gas in this country. Of course
none of this was obtained from
the vast amount annually allowed
to go to waste in the vicinity of
the national capitol.
Not every wife is anxious for
her husband to escape the draft
"See that my husband passes
your board" wrote a Wisconsin
lady to the exemption board.
"He'll probably claim exemption
on account of his wife, but he is
no good and does not support me.
In the army they will make a
man pr a corpse of him."
Although it is dry on the up
per surface there is not a great
deal of separating space until the
water bearing strata below is
reached, which is one of the
things that make agriculture pos
sible in the summer time in this
grand valley of Oregon.
Herbert Hoover whose name
now is on all tongues, was at one
time a resident of Newberg. F.
L Hobson, who has been con
ducting paving work in Mon-
The Oregon Voter speaks about
state officers who are playing pol
itics in handling the war situa
tion and says "Governor Withy-
combe, in Oregon, towers above
other Pacific' Coast executives in
his handling of military and in
dustrial problems of war time."
Oregon has certainly made a good
showing in every call of the na
tion whether for, men or money
ind the I. W. W. has had less of
a foothold here than in any state.
A great deal of the credit for
this is due to Governor Withy-
combe. He is ardently patriotic
and has never lost an opportun
ity' to push the state forward in
this regard.
According to Carl Ackerman
in his latest contribution to the
Saturday Evening Post pigs and
the resultant fats are about the
scarcest of all food products in
Germany and he cautions the
public of this country to conserve
their supply of pigs and fats that
we do not fall into the same
plight Out of a spirit of curios
ity, we inquire, why not fatten
human beings instead of pigs
with corn? If we must have fat
why not get it direct instead of
taking it after the pig has ab
sorbed and assimilated it? Corn,
that original American product
which is capable of dozens of
uses from the making of starch
and syrup to rubber and whiskey
is pre-eminently a fattening food.
Every patriotic American should
urge the world to consume corn
and can the Kaiser. , .
The Commonwealth Review, is
sued by the University of Ore
gon, contains in its latest num
ber, a lengthy and interesting
article on Teachers' Institutes by
E. H. Hedrick, of the Monmouth
high school. Prof. Hedrick finds
that the first teachers' institute
of which any record remains,
was held in Hartford, Conn., in
1839. Henry Barnhart was the
originator of the idea and he as
sembled 26 young men teachers
and formed a class which he
taught for six weeks with the
lecture and observation methods.
The name "Institute" was
first applied by Supt J. S. Den
man in New York to a summer
school which he held for two
Many people rejoiced in the act
of President Wilson when in
a communication to the exemp
tion board he gave a few needed
words of advice. While he did
not change the rules of exemp
tion he asked that they be freely
interpreted. The spirit of the
military is no different here than
it is in Germany or in any other
country, and the tendency is to
arrogance and a disrespect for
civilians and civil institutions.
Many incidents are coming to the
surface indicating the tendency
of the military to ride rough shod
over the rights of people in civil
life and up to the time the pres
ident's warning was issued the
tendency of the examiner was to
become stricter and stricter until
the claimant for exemption might
well be compared to a prisoner
accused of crime under compul
sion to prove his innocence in ord
er to retain his freedom. It is a
good thing for us that we still
have a civil power able to call the
military to account
The farmers of Washington.
Oregon and Idaho in a recent
meeting in Spokane, went on
record as favoring $2.50 per bu.
as the price of wheat for next
year. No one really believes that
wheat is-actually worth $2.00 per
bushel. But it is the most con
venient of all staples and there
is a shortage. Therefore a high
price is guaranteed to induce the
planting of many more acres
that the supply will be very much
increased. But the wheat grow
ers get together, resolute to the
effect that wheat is worth more;
that the store keepers are getting
more than the farmers are and
ask for a minimum of $2.50. It
is the old story of human greed,
the more distasteful that it is ex
hibited at a time when the call
is for unselfishness and sacrifice.
If they had been offered a $2.50
minimum they would doubtless
have stood out for $3. What a
world this would be if each per
son was able to make any price
he wished for his product. Trade
unions give a hint of the result
THE PLAINSMAN.
I'M out again In the great apacee,
i Far from men and the little placea;
rm out again where tha heart facaa
Tha lone plains and tha eklea. '
I'm out with the wind no hand can aaddle.
Out and away from wante that addle.
Out where the atridlng aun can etrnddle
The world.
AND, oh I'm full of acornful pttlei
For dweller In streets and narrow
cities.
For the trade songs fti trade ditties
they chant!
And I wish I could smite out of creation
The He they call their clvlliiatlon-
A lie that la but soul dissipation.
8oul deceit and cant
I'M out again In the great spaces.
Far from men and the little placet;
t'm out again where tha heart faces
The lone night and the atari.
And I wish 1 knew how to untether
All pent lives te. the wide world weather
And aay, "Come. come, let us ride to
gether away."
TJHR one hour'a sense of the Infinite
prairie
la better than all the years men bury
In crowded walla aad, mad or merry
Or vain.
And one star's light has more of heaven,
Has more In It of the great God leaven.
Thaa the seventy myriad lights and seven
Cities beget tor gain.
-Cale Toung Rice.
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THE OLD QUAKER ION NET.
OH, the quaint old Quaker bonnet.
And the dear old beada that don It
How placid and serene tha face within
What a neatness and completeness.
A calm and restful sweetneu.
As set apart from all the taint of sin!
AH, the tender Quaker voices!
" How they cheer na and rejoice us
With appealing music all their own.
With a tone of gentle sadness
Chime a note of subdued gladness.
Triumphant o'er the sorrows they hare
knowol ' '.
OR, the dear old saintly faces.
Mirroring the Christian graces,
Tn a radiance of beauty kow complete!
Let us these old faces cherish.
And the memories they nourish,
Ever, ever as a benediction sweet
-Charlei Dennis.
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