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The Herald Cnund l Mcood-claa. matter Smtembcr, WW. tn th txl orttc at Monmouth, Oravon, aifcir tht Kct of Mxrth I 1ITY RICHARD B, SWENSON Editor 4 Publukar MONMOUTH, OREGON ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY FRIDAY, JULY 5, 1918 Subscription Rate One year . $1,50 Six montha - 75 cU Three months 50 eta Monmouth Meditations A 14 The character of a man may be indicated by the kind of an outing he is planning to take this year. The prospect of a dry summer ahead of us makes doubly sure the prospect of eating small potatoes next winter. One of the joys of newspaper publishing is the occasional time when publication day comes upon a holiday With the Herald this co incidence has appeared twice this year -upon Memorial day and on the Fourth of July. While the ob servance of the nation's birthday is a past event when the Herald is read by its readers it is a future event at the time the paper is printed. Buying thrift stamps, which looks to some like a hardship now, will look like financial foresight about the time the stamps are to be cashed with interest attached. There is nothing too good for the pioneers, the men who blazed the way to the west and kept the home fires burning during the days when the country was finding itself. Judging from the feeling, some of the north winds of last week might have come from Mexico in stead of the land of glaciers and huskies. So far, few of the papers of this section have followed the necessities of the times and raised subscription prices; one of the few being the Western World of Bandon. How ever, it does not require more than one or two glimpses out of the wea ther eye to recognize the fact that if many of the rural newspapers of Oregon are to remain in business, they will have to do likewise. Whatever the necessity for labor in the work of harvesting in this section the demand and the supply will have to be better coordinated than was the case at Salem Saturday if the country is to reap the full value of labor and laborer. It is a little aggravating for the public spirited citizen who has put himself but to get help for the loganberry growers in the vicinity of Salem to notice that the pool halls of that city have the usual number of idle young men in these strenuous days. Doubtless the grower would prefer this talent to be in the pool hall to disporting its indolent actions in his berry field but we are in a period now when all who can must work. A sporting authority has said that a great deal of the American sense of justice and fairness is due to our national game of baseball which cul tivates these things as an attendant of the contests. He might have said that politics is the great American national game and a thing which has done much to establish the prin ciples of truth and justice in the minds and hearts of Americans, Feople under monarch ial form of government do not get the same op portunity to weigh men and meas ures and with all iU glaring faults our own political system does this thing. Sham, hypocrisy and bun combe, delude people for a time but with the training of a century and a half, Americans have become fair ly adept at detecting these failings and this talent redounds to their credit. The prospect of the passing of Ben Tillman brings up to the mind of the writer recollections of a certain hot night in Chicago just twenty years ago. The Democratic Clubs of the country were meeting in the Windy City and of course there had to be a central talkfest To this gathering came Bryan with his sil verplated oratory, enunciating his words with pride and distinctness and talking with all the joy of a man who deilghts in his own voice. There was Altgelt, the human fox with his rising inflections and para lytic gestures, one of the shrewdest and sharpest men who ever mount ed the American stump. There was Geo. Fred Williams of Massachu setts, whose every lineament dis played in him the gentleman and scholar, whose language had the clearness of a burnished helmet and whose ideals were as lofty as those upborn by any knight of old. There too, was the latter's exact opposite, Congressman Lenz of Ohio, harsh of voice, grove'ing in his ideals, who could attribute to his oppon ents only the basest of motives. In the centre of the group sat Ben Til lman, his white cl6 thing contrast ing with the somber hues of the garb of his associates. With a shock of white hair surmounting his lobster red features, he was eas ily the most conspicuous man there And his address was the most dis tinctive. Pungent and witty, with a certain'Jack of conventionality of the kind that politically inclined au diences are partial to, he shook his fist, clutched his white mane, wiped his parboiled features again and again with a white handkerchief and was occasionally interrupted by delighted outbursts of applause and laughter. Tillman probably is one of the most spectacular men who ever came before the great Ameri can public. Not intentionally dramatic, nor coarse, nor crude, he could be depended upon to say and do something unusual and of him it may be said at the close of his ca reer, he has lived to achieve the good will of friend and foe. The treatment of prisoners by the Germans has, since the war started, been a fruitful source of description and controversy and many tales are told by prisoners escaping from that land of the astonishing brutality to which they have been subjected and the hardships which have been their lot while in the hands of the sub jects of the kaiser. These stories in many instances have challenged credulity, but evidence piled on evi dence has now established their truthfulness. Explanations may be found in a number of reasons for relapse into barbarism on the part of a people who have had a' high reputation for culture. It may be an off shoot of that doctrine of ter ribleness, designed to overawe peo ples with whom the German nation is at war; the idea advanced by the German military that with an ex hibition of violence, opposing peoph will submit their liberties rather than undergo the treatment expect ed to be visited upon them. Aga much of these hardships visited on prisoners may be the common things which Germans inflict upon themselves. Thus the German trained to discipline and refusal obey means punishment. The Ger- man avoids the punishment by sub mitting to discipline. The prisoner refuses to become efficient accord- ingto the German mind. Then follows the punishment. The aver age German is apt to be amazed that any one can find anything wrong in that. Again the brutality may in the early period of the war, have sprung out ofja confidence in success. The Germans felt they were headed toward a place in the sun, a larger inheritance. They were sublimely confident that their neighbors would hand over to them all the best they had in the way of land and resources, and would also pay them for theirirouble in going after the same. Naturally feeling that they would never be called to account for any excesses they might commit they were inclined to be short and irritable with anything that imposed as a barrier between themselves and their destiny?. Now it is simmering into their heads that they may not be success ful in this great war. Retaliation and retribution things undreamed of during the first two years of the war, now loom up as very real facts.' An evidence of this is found in new agreements which Germany is making relative to the treatment of prisfwers some of which are surprisingly broad. Ex changes will be more freely made. Men of forty five or over who are the father of three or more children will be released unconditionally. Civilians who have been interned or held as hostages will have the Privi lege of returning to their homes. The prospect is that prisoners will be much better treated in Germany than they were in the earlier years of the war and this fact is one of the most favorable signs along the front at present. . The matter of the King's Valley mill having been discussed some lately A. N. Halleck says the mill was built by Roland Chambers in 1854. His mother, then Miss Lu- cilla King, made the bolt of silk for the sifting of the first flour. .The burrs were made from stone dug from a mountain near Corvallis and were cut and fitted by people in the valley. This was the first mill in this section of the Willamette and previously it had been necessary to go considerable distances to get wheat ground. Miss King was a daughter of the original settler for whom the valley as named and who crossed the plains in 1845, settling in King's valley in 1849. Books, Stationery Candy, Cigars Electric Light BUlbs Souvenirs MORLAN & SON Monmouth's largest and mot complete Confectionery and Book Store m 30C DC hoc Building Material From Roof to Cellar Oregon Fir and Hemlock Lumber Douglas Fir Silos The Gold Mine of the Farm Lath, Mouldings, Fruit and Butter Box es, Cedar Posts, Green and Dry Slab wood, Cement, Wall Plaster, Lime, Brick, Shingles, Rooting, Windows, etc. Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. Monmouth, Oregon on DC DOC Liberty bonds of the first and sce ond issues and those obtained by converting bonds of the first issue into 4 per cent bonds can be conver ted into 4i per cent Liberty bonds during the six months period begin ning May 9 and ending November 9 1918. The new bonds will be dated May 9, 1918. . After November 9, 1918, no fur ther rights of conversion will attach to the 4 per cent bonds, either the original bonds of the second loan or those obtained by conversion of bonds of the first loan. All of the 4J per cent bonds are nonconverti ble. Bonds for conversion may be sur rendered at any Federal reserve bank or at the Treasury Department. Registered bonds must be assigned to the Secretary of the Treasury for conversion, but such assign ment need not be witnessed. On conversion of registered bonds registered bonds only will be deliv ered, neither change of ownership nor change into coupon bonds being permitted. Coupon bonds, however, may be converted into registered bonds up on request. Coupon bonds must have the May 15 or June 15, 1918, coupons detached and all subsequent coupons attached. ; Coupon bonds issued from conversion will have on ly four interest coupons attached, and later must be exchanged for new bonds with the full number of coupons attached. Monmouth Transfer and Feed Stable All kinds of transferring done promptly and on short notice FRANK SKEEN, Proprietor. Monmouth, - Oregon CITY MEAT MARKET Sullivan & Morrison, Props. 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