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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
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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
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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
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Milk 9c per quart
Phone 2405 MONMOUTH, ORE.
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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.
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