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The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Editor & I'ublldhcr KnUrt u mtokI-cUm nulUr Hatilmilwr I. ItKKI. th. putt utile, it Monmouth. Orivun. oiuJtr th. Act of Much I. 1H7W. IHHUKt) KVKItV K I 1 1 ) A V Subscription Rates One yi'ar . $1.50 Six monthi 76 cU Throe month . 60 ct MONMOUTH, OREGON FRIDAY, FEB. 1, 1918 lor Monmouth Meditations ( ioirf5 "Not all these deprivations are hardships" so the small boy solilo quizes when he hears that cantor oil is too expensive to be used for medicinal purposes. Thirteen is an especially unlucky number when it is found on the thermometer, south of zero. Not all the bunkers are on the war ships. Some of them occupy swivel chairs in Washington. In referring to .Vvy. McAdoo s oflicial titles you might abbreviate it to secretary of war, etc., with special emphasis on the etc. If Washington investigators get a little spare time they might devote a portion of it to the packers' trust and to Senator Jimmy Wadsworth of New York. Senator Chamberlain says the death of hundreds and thousands in the training camps is due to ineffic iency and Secretary Raker admits frankly that the department has made mistakes but aims to im prove. This is like the story of the boy with the bull dog which grab bed hold of the old man's leg. "Rear it, father, bear it," says the boy, "it will be the making of the pup." Profiting by his mistakes may make an efficient official of Mr. Raker in time but it is rather tough on the rest of the country. In the meantime a number of overworked railroad lobbyists are getting a vacation. Reading of the accomplishments of the bolsheviki in Russia does not furnish much of an inspiration for putting the I. W. W. in power in this country. Ry way of welcoming B. F. Swope back to Polk county, busy bodies immediately begin to scheme to induce him to run for office. And he would make a good official at that. Industrious, conscientious, patient, reliuble, Polk county could give him no better welcome back into our midst. If President Wilson's statement of aims in the war with its fourteen conditions has not brought direct results it surely has helped to that end in Austria and Germany. Re ports that filter through indicate that in both nations there is unrest and something of a decided nature is apt to come out at any time. Liberty bread is a diet the stom ach sufferer used to receive as a penalty for high living. Possibly the national stomach, having fed richly and luxuriously since the days of McKinley, will now be pos itively benefited by a little rigorous disciplining. A most notable effect of the war is the leveling of the barriers of so ciety Hie shams and pretense of class are never more openly exposed than when placed face to face with sacrifice and hardships. When it comes to living on rations end hand ling a bayonet, a stout peasant re quires more consideration than a king. The war has leveled class dis tinctions in many ways. Parks have been plowed up for wheat fields and the gentry have undertaken physi cal service for the common good. All of the governments of the war ring nations have been shifted with more or less successful effort to make the actuating powers respons ive to the wishes of the majority. If the war continues it is not un likely that the government of the United States too will be made mure responsive to popular senti ment. It is not unlikely that the powers and privileges of the presi dent which with each succeeding administration grew more pro. nounced and complete, and which are vastly greater than what was formerly the case, or than the con stitution ever intended, will be curbed. This may not take the form of the English government which is always responsive to the majority wish, but a change of some sort or another is bound to come. A New Song A new patriotic song composed by S. J. Eddy of Mason, Mich. The Flag of Our Country. Tune: "Columbia the Gem of the Ocean." Oh, the flag of our Country and Na tion, Floating over our people so true, The American emblem of freedom, Our flag of the red, white and blue. The banner that gives us protection, Always borne by our boys brave and true t Defending the homes of our Nation, Our flag of the red.white and blue. Chorus: Our flag of the red, white and blue, Our flag of the red, white and blue, The American emblem of free dom, Our flag of the red, white and blue. The red for the blood of our sol diers, The white for their spirits so true, The blue for the heart of our Nation Makes our flag of the red, white and blue. With the Stars for all States of our Union, And the Stripes for the Colonies true, Representing a united Nation, Our flag of the red.white and blue. The flag of the very best Nation, The flag of the bravest and true, The flag of the greatest creation, Our flag of the red, white and blue. The banner that gave us our free dom, Peace and Liberty, lasting and true; Upholding the rights of our Nation, Our flag of the red, white and blue. The railroads have only themselves to thank for the loss of private own ership; this is the conclusion of Bradford Merrill, after careful study of the records, which he makes pub lic in the article, "Railroads Them selves Prove" in the February number of Hearst's Magazine. Public ownership has become neces sary because the public has been systematically and for many years deceived and cheated out of its just dues. High finance sometimes seems too complicated to be readily under stood, but Mr. Merrill brings out with a clearness which cannot be withstood the sensational story of the rise of the New York Central lines to power, and the means which were taken to get every possible concession from the state, while seeing that the public never got the benefit of their success. The story reads like a novel of Big Business, or, with a change of details, like the depredations of the robber bar-' ons of the middle ages who held the 1 highways and exacted toll from ev ery one who passed. How money was borrowed from the state and never repayed, how railroads which never existed off of paper were cap italized at large figures, how sur plus profits were turned into this over-capitalization, and how, after all this, the railroads have put up a cry of a need for increase in rates which would put a burden of $400, 000,000 on the nation's cost of liv ing, is a startling revelation which the public has been sorely needing and which clearly explains the rea son why the railroads have forfeit ed their right to the unquestioning trust of the public to whom they acknowledge no obligations. This question of government ownership is one of the most important in our present domestic affairs, and it is one which no one after reading Mr. Merrill's article in Hearst's for Feb ruary, can fail to understand. hoe 30C Rural Life Week February 17th to 23rd has been designated by the Rural Depart ment of the Oregon Normal School as "Rural Life week". There are 180 students now in attendance at the Normal School who are prepar ing for rural work next year and are doing their practice teaching in Mountain View, Oak Point and Elkins rural centers. "Rural Life Week'" will affect these Normal students and those three communi ties. The course of study is being vital ized in all of the work that is taken by material that is strictly rural. The problems in arithmetic are brought from home and bear upon whatever principles are being taught in the 'schools. Reading, as much as possible is based upon subject matter that deals with the interests oj the county. Agricul ture is not merely the reading of a text book, but the study of some particular agricultural problems. Special emphasis just now is being given to dairy census and a milk test for each district with accompa nying arithmetic to prove or dis prove results. The music and art are related to the farm. The games which will be taught between now and "Rural Life Week" are to be games that have sprung from the soil representing the various nation alities which relate to farming. The study of hygiene will relate partic ularly to rural life with application to the farm home. This work is to culminate in a two-day rural life program in each of the rural cen ters. This two-day program will con sist of a forty-minute sessoin by the children and will terminate in a forty-minute session by the adults. The Extension Division of the Ag ricultural College is co-operating with the Normal School to make this "Rural Life Week" a success, and through its industrial club workers, the county agent, the home demonstration agent, and oth ers, the various problems that are uppermost in the minds of the peo ple will be treated. Miss Marvin, the State Librarian, a representative of the State De partment of Education, and the County Superintendents of Benton and Polk Counties will co-operate to make the week a success. If a soldier were built like a prof iteer, he would lay down, say, ten per cent of his life for his country. A request for more than that would come under the head of "confisca tion." It takes all sorts of people to make a world; including of course, the woman who pays one dollar to the Red Cross and eighteen dollars for a knitting bag. We Say Nothing But Saw Wood when some one tells us he can buy lumber for less then we charge. We don't care to argue with a man who judges solely by price. Don't you make such an error. Buy our lumber and buy satisfaction with it. You'll be money in pocket in the end besides. Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. Monmouth, Oregon 30C 30C Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All kinds of transferring done promptly and on short notice FRANK SKEEN, Proprietor. Monmouth, , Oregon CITY MEAT MARKET Geo. Sullivan, Prop. Fresh and Smoked Meats Hams, Bacon, Boiled Hams, Minced Hams, Bologna. Etc Fresh Fish on Fridays The highest cash price paid for poultry, veal and all kinds of hides. Free delivery. Phone 2302 Monmouth Oregon J To prove that it pays to keep a highly bred laying strain of chickens, I have received orders this last week for 6 cockerels and 17 hens from Eastern Oregon and Washington. Besides 3 cockerels in Monmouth, 100 day old Leghorn chicks, future de livery, and a 50 egg incubator lot of Leghorn eggs. My fowls have been laying all winter, marketing a case and better a week thru January. Some people are complaining about their chick ens not laying. If thisjis a fact take my advice and sell them off while the market is exceptionally high. Then this spring se cure some hatching eggs from highly producing layers of the breed you like best and get a new start of A. No. 1 fowls. Do away with those old crossed up breeds that your grandmother gave you. that only lay a few eggs in the spring of the year un der the most favorable conditions. Some people scoffed at me for paying $1 .50 a setting for hatch ing eggs from Corvallis College three years ago, but my invest ment was O. K. for I secured the right kind of stock. I reared 115 nice pullets on a city lot the year I sold qut my grocery bus iness. Those pullets began laying in the fall and in eleven months they brought me in $368.00 as a side issue to my var ious lines of farming. Last spring I sold from two pens of Leg horns consisting of ten hens each and two pens of Barred Rock consisting of 12 hens each, $178.00 worth of hatching eggs and hen hatched day old chicks. Could have sold more of them had I been able to spare them. This in addition to the chicks hatch ed for my own use and the eggs from the general flock that were marketed at the stores. There was a general complaint last spring about the eggs from the heavier breeds not hatching well. From the best of authority it was due principally to the cold, backward spring. I guarantee all the eggs to hatch good that are secured from my pens, if they do not I will make them up to you by replacement. A great many poor hatches are the result of poor care of the sittnig hens. If you will place them by themselves give them good warm, roomy nests, litter to scratch in, plenty of clean fresh water, good dusting box of ashes with plenty of louse powder sifted in same and not allow the laying hens to trample over them you will get a great deal larger percentage of chicks. For all around utility fowls there is no doubt that the Barred Rocks are the best breed. For eggs alone I would secure the white Leghorn as they are great layers, eat less food and are fine foragers. I can furnish you hatching eggs from winter layers of both these breeds, the price is within the reach of ev ery one. $1 for setting of 15. A. H. CRAVEN Read your own Herald wr SO
