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The Herald RICHARD B. SWENSON Editor & Publiihar aUnd u M.-ond-claja mtttw Septtffllwrtl. IS. , tht port offlc it Monmouth. One on, nndar th Act of March 1 187. ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY Subscription Rate , One year - - $1,50 Six months -.' - 75 cU Three months - 50 cts MONMOUTH, OREGON FRIDAY, MARCH 1, 1918 Monmouth Meditations While the Valley & Siletz road was a lung time in building it is now making up speed to overcome the distance during the first few laps of the race. The road will be an important feature in the devel opment of southwestern Polk coun ty. If in the different lines that con tribute to winning the war: raising food, making munitions, building ships, etc., everyone was working in a self-sacrificing manner, there would be little trouble of strike or hindrance. But the profits that pile up in particular angles of the work, awaken the cupidity of other workers and there we have the strike germ. It is evident that the Germans are. not students of Emerson, for compensation, except for them selves, does not appear in the vo cabulary of their public acts. You may recall the scare that Boston managed to work up during the Spanish war over the question of the whereabouts of "Cervera's fleet". It was feared the fleet was about to bombard that town. After ward the scare became a joke and wonder was expressed how such a scare could have been effective. So some of our present war fears are doubtless worse in prospect than they will be in anticipation. Good roads arguments, just as sermons in stones and stories in run ning brooks, can now be obtained by taking to nature. The nearer to nature you get the greater the ar gument. There is an old saying that "mur der will out". We quote the fol lowing from Mr. Mickle's latest dairy and food bulletin relative to Peruna: "Distillate .9721; alcohol by volume 23.98 per cent; extract matter consisting largely of senna 3.7 percent. Quoting from the American Medical Journal: 'Only a few years ago Peruna was sold by the carload lot; where today it is sold by the case, the reason being that in 1906, the government noti fied the Peruna company that it must put some medicine into its booze, or take out a liquor dealer's license. The result was that a laxa tive was added.' " It got so that when the king went abroad, the people would desert the street; and if some unlucky one chanced to come within his range of vision, the king promptly made af ter him. Seeing him coming the subject would take to his heels. The king would rutJi on, belaboring the subject upon the back, shouting that he did not want his people to run away from him, that he wanted them to love him as was becoming to his station. To a man up a tree it would ap pear that the more candidates who line up for Governor Withycombe's job the better will be his own chance to retain it. Surely the governor's record in war activities should com mend him to patriotic Oregonians. The tendency during the lengthen ing days is for people to grow more optimistic. The whole of the year practically, is before us, the mis takes and hardships of past years are gone and now it only remains to steer our actions this year, that we may profit by experience. study, it was deemed that study must be frivolous. Real study con sisted in doing things that were distasteful. Learning to spell words that ordinary people never meet again in the course of a humdrum career, figuring partial payments, or extracting cuk root, learning the names of the bones in the toes, or memorizing the date when Car tier discovered the St. Ijwrence, were distinctly the thing. The man who is not an optimist in the spring does not reap a very big crop in the fall. , As will be noticed in our advertis ing columns, Monmouth now has a poet located in our midst in the per son of Albert Alderman. Indepen dence, which has been inclined to tilt its nose a little proudly because of exclusive distinction may now have to share the honors a little. We suggest that the Monitor poet and our own bard be induced to en ter into a tournament where the jingles may be tossed off for suitable prizes. Visitors in the Normal chapel are bound to be impressed with the charm the new curtain adds to the appearance of the whole. The only bright color in the room its richness and graceful draping sets off the whole in a very pleasing manner. If the ocean submarine was only as easy to get as the garden sub. and we had plenty of traps; accord ing to the demonstrations which Agriculturist Larson puts on occas ionally, the under sea pest would soon be disposed of. The days ate getting longer and the time when this section must en gage in its annual battle with the forces of nature draws closer. Each rural warrior must resolve to secure a larger portion of spoils this year than ever before. The German psychology in war is that it is more effective to terrorize and scare people into servility than it is to appeal to their intelligence and reason. The story is told of Frederick William, the eccentric father of Frederick the Great, that he was accustomed to walk the streets of Berlin and when he met a subject whose dress did not please him or whose person, in any way showed marks of carelessness or un tidiness, the king would reprove him, often taking his walking stick by way of enforcing his remarks. It probably will work out all right but the proposition to set the clocks ahead an hour during the summer certainly seems silly. Country peo pie, especially, do not have to resort to a false time in order to get up and secure advantage of the full hours of daylight. The people who will enjoy the new order most will be the children, who having been accustomed to retire at eight o'clock will now be allowed to remain up until nine. Don't overlook the temperance lecture held tonight in the Christian church. The pull this time is for a dry union. Oregon does not often follow in the wake of Kentucky, but in the present case Kentucky is ahead having already adopted the dry amendment. Let there be no slips in this state. No one, who has had experience with other things can go into a ru ral school now and not note many advantages for the rustic pupil over those of a few years ago. The things that are interesting and have pleasure in them are not now kept sedulously in the background. For merly if a pupil took delight in a The first of March is here and winter is just about at an end. With green grass since early fall, it will be a winter which wlill be frequen tly referred to in time to come. While figures don't lie, they are sometimes extremely deceitful. Take the price of a product, agricultural and manufactured. It is the custom to compare the price given the orig inal producer with that which the ultimate consumer pays, and the constrast always brings out figures which appear to give an extraordi narily large proportion at the sel ling end. Now it is true that dis tribution is conducted on an unsci entific, wasteful and expensive plan. But for that matter, so is produc tion. Both could profit with the application of bettor system. But comparative figures do not tell the whole truth. For instance, Moran the Land Man, recently got out a list of real estate, etc., which he annually sends East, doing mission ary work for the Willamette, valley. In each instance where it is possible to say it, the list says "close to town" "near good school and church" "two miles from railroad" and in all cases it is evident that these facts add to the attractiveness and value of the land listed for sale. Here is a fact the farmer never thinks of taking into consideration when he sends to the catalogue house for items which he might buy in the town that supports schools and churches and helps to increase the value of his land. The dweller in the city takes the price which he has to pay for milk or cabbages or naval oranges; obtains knowledge of the price which the original produ cer receives and says "thieves, burg lars; to take such profits." Yet it is not all profit. It is the interest on money invested; the wages fori service performed. High as the price is, it is cheap to what it would cost him if he had to do all the work connected with the particular ser vice he complains of. If he had to raise his own bread, secure his own rice, oranges, sugar, he would find the price very much increased and considering will realize that if he exercises judgment in buying he secures the service at very much less than he could do the thing for himself. So with the farmer, if he had to get his own iron, make his own machinery, dye his own wool, weave, cut and fit his clothes, se cure from the original source the products which he does not raise himself, he would find that he is now getting the service at an ex tremely reasonable price. Every time a farmer or dweller in a small town sends to a mail order house for something which he could buy at home, he is injuring his own property. He is helping on the ac cumulation of money in the large centers of the country, which is ma king it possible for those centers to attract and increase greatly in pop ulation and which is killing the smaller centers until it is becoming difficult to retain sufficient num bers to insure competition. All this is bound to have its effect on the valuation of the farms in the countries surrounding such communities. 30C 30C in We Say Nothing But Saw Wood when some one tells us he can buy lumber for less than wc 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 3on DC on 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 MONMOUTH DAIRY j. m. Mcdonald, Prop- INSPECTED BY STATE BOARD OF HEALTH Come and see our fine herd of Jer sey Cows and clean, sanitary barn Milk 9c per quart Phone 2405 MONMOUTH, ORE. ft Read your own Herald $1 fj," vigorous exercises in chest expan sion, Monmouth people at the next community sing will be better pre pared for the grand work of drown ing out the stentorian notes of L. P. Gilmore, When we reach that stage of acquirement, won't we raise the roof? Having conquered the hoarseness consequent on the exercises of Fri day ni ght and taken a number of Prof. Pittman, who has been dreaming about the ethics of dairy ing, the psychology of the wool crop, the aesthetics of clover and timothy, the quintessence of egg production, is now preparing to resume interest in the ordinary affairs of life. It is the thrifty boy who has mon ey toinvest in thrift stamps, and the amount of his possessions in this regard might be taken as a'Jspeedo meter of his own thrift. Events at Washington have been comparatively quiet for some time past. Just at present the tide is out. It is due to come back again shortly and two of the things that will demand attention are the ina bility of the railroads to distribute food where demanded, and the fact that we have been deceived in re gard to the impending magnitude of the submarine menace. Benjamin Franklin invented the maxim "Always taking out of the meal sack and never putting back, soon comes to the bottom thereof." There are men in business who find the truth of this to their sor row. The man who dips into the meal sack of public regard, and nev er puts anything into it in the way of boosting for public enterprises, or giving practical evidence of pub lic spirit, soon gets to the bottom of the sack. F. W. Treaner, former Indepen dence hotel man, died in Eugene Feb. 16. .... .,, ., ...... .., , ...,t. .
