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About The Monmouth herald. (Monmouth, Or.) 1908-1969 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 22, 1918)
The Herald Editor 01 Entered u Mcond-fU. m. th peat offlct it ttonrootiUl. Aftf Mirth I 1ST. NSON anlUt .50 w4 AtwitulS Thre months 75 cU 50 cU MONMOUTH. OREGON FRIDAY, FEB. 22. 1913 Monmouth Meditations 3 which if taken literally would swamp the presses with material relative to the various activities of the war, As a result the bulk of it goes into mayor 0f Astoria. the waste paper basket without ev en the formality of opening. Doubt less some really important things are neglected because they are lost in the mass. If the government would take ninetyflve percent of the people engaged in this sort of work and put them in the trenches, or to knitting sweaters, or filling cartrid ges, and would reduce its contribu tions to a single sheet, it would stand a much better chance of get ting publicity. like to know what the mayor of As toria is driving at: w'icti er for the good of Oregon or the good of the I hoc Toniirht is the song fest in the Normal Chapel. Get out and join in the festivities. Talking of "Thrift", Mrs. Stine brought to the office two good sam ples this week, one a glass of very pretty jelly made from dried apples, and the other a nice white tar of soap made from some cracklings and a little lye. Another victory for Uncle Sam's Kitchen Brijale. The wood which was saved during January will come handy for warm ing purposes in March. Attendance on events in the high school assembly room is fine for cul tivating punctuality. The "list minute" arrival has a grand o p r tunity to stand up. The generals who have had charge of local gardening during the past year will have an opportunity occa sionally to salute a superior officer this year in the person of Field Mar shal Larson, county agriculturist, with headquarters in Dallas. The wind that arnbh d dwn upon us Tuesday night had all the famil iar qualities of the kind that origi nates in the vicinity of Medicine Hat. It is a constant struggle with the Red Cross managers to keep as many members as possible on the active list and an inactive member is about as valuable to the organization as a last year bird's nest. As for the Russian situation, the more you read about it the less you know. Candidate L. J. Simpson is the latest aspirant for the governorship to recognize the value of the Herald as ai alvertising medium. Mr Simpson was reared in a country where they are accustomed to do things without waiting on ceremony and here's hazarding a suspicion that in his charge on the honors of office seeking he will be both seen and heard. Some of the heftiest guns on the political horizon appear to be seek ing the range with the Non-partisan Alliance as the target. R. R. Bristol of Corvallis, the gentleman who painted the Herald sign and also did other signs in Monmouth.in all proving himself a first class workman, was sent to the insane asylum one day this week. He took to walking in the open air without clothing claiming that the proceeding was a short cut to ro bust health. While in Monmouth he claimed that ventilation was his life aim. He painted signs to make money with which to finance his crusade for better ventiliation. He carried a bit and brace and was continually inviting himself to bore holes through window frames, which holes were designed to let in the air and lengthen the life of the dweller inside. Bristol received an injury to his head in college hazing which possibly was the cause of later pe culiarities of. character. Room! boom! At first sound, one might mistake it for the roar of guns across the sea where the Ger mans and Russians are putting on a little tragedy of their own. But it is only Oregon sneezing during the prevalence of a little belated winter weather. Come out to sing tonight, good for what ails you. It's There's many a man working for from five to ten dollars a day, who sometime will wonder how he ever happened to be such a mut Jr3 to think of striking for more. Some slide into the army by a side door under the impression that they will have it over the men in the trenches when it comes to hard ship and danger. But they all look alike to a piece of flying shrapnel. The Germans are not so much af ter peace with Russia it seems, as for a piece of Russia. Nothing is more exasperating than the fool friend who reminds you of your faults for your own good. A strike now in any sort of pro ductive effort looks like an exhibi tion of emotional insanity. Nature is generous but she never fails to avenge her wrongs. A little boy when his brother gets the bigger piece of pie, sits down to cry: but when he gets a little older he goes on a strike. This fur nishes the reason for most strikes Some one is getting a bigger slice of the Die than the man who is striking. Just before their drive toward Venice the Germans made a big pre tense at invading Petrograd. Now before the western drive they are trying the same trick again. The prospects for fireworks along the road to Faris appears exceptionally-good. To see the furs and wraps come out one would think that 30 above was cold weather. The man who sticks to the com bination is the consistent winner. Don't plan to leave the polishing of the hoe handle to some one else next summer. Whatever the quantity of the po tato crop next fall let us hope that the quality will be a few points higher than the 1917 variety. The following by a writer in the Saturday Kvening Post contains food for sober thought: "The fact cannot be too often remembered that though the Prussianized Ger mans have had the, reputation of being the master war makers of the modern age they have in the atro cious conflict which they forced up on the world in August, 1914, won more by deceit than by arms. This will probably astonish posterity more than it seems to astonish us. If we discovered that a champion prize fighter had conquered his ad- ersaries by low trickery by pois oning their food, let us say, or by tripping them up, or by throw ing pepper in their eyes instead of by fair fighting, we should know how to rate him. Indeed, no bruis er could win the championship by such means;'for in the ring there is an etiquette that forbids striking below the belt, and the contestant who disobeys is ruled out. The German war code, however, recog nizes no etiquette; the Prussians, deaf alike to shame and to honor, permit themselves every license and refrain from no inhumanity. They boast of making "Anything to win" their motto. It is not by accident that the Prussian, who has been for a cent ury the bully of Europe, is also the chief sneak among modern peoples. The bully is usually a coward, and sneaking is the coward's natural practice. Wo have already heard more than once from the Prussians the coward whimper when the Al- ies retaliated on them the punish ment that they had exulted in ap plying first to the Allies. The sub marine, unlawfully used, the most despicable weapon ever employed by man, fitly symbolizes the modern German'.at war; its very essence is deceit. The nation that stoops to employ such a weapon illegitimate ly will as a matter of course shrink from no other practice of deceit or of cruelty; and 60 we find, as I just now asserted, that the Ger mans have thus far won more by deceit than by arms." It stands to reason that before the German prisoners in Russia are released and before the Russians set I to work heartily to raise wheat for the Germans, the Russians must be placated. The kaiser will hardly withdraw his armies from the east ern front while the Russians are in a mood to rise up and slaughter. There has been considerable bunk in the news from Russia during the past week. Now, during this lull in the ex citement the patriot cultivates that contagious smile and gets ready for the next Liberty drive. People are inclined to get blue It is the standing joke of news paper sanctums, the amount of gov ernment stuff which is received, headed'Tor Immediate Publication" over the prospects on the European war front and this is the juncture where the announcement is positive ly made that Thomas A. Edison has invented a device that will surely locate submarines and make the nav- igation of the high seas by that sort of craft an exceedingly dangerous operation. There are some of us who would We Say Nothing But Saw Wood when some one tells us he can buy lumber for less than 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 lunil.t r and buy satisfaution with it. You'll be money in pocket in the end besides. , Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. 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