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FRIDAY, FEB. 22. 1913
Monmouth
Meditations
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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
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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
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