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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.
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