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i The Herald Entered M Mcnnd-ctut mattv :iitntMr, tM, A th txwA oflfct at Monmouth. Ortgun. andr Uit Act of Muck! Wi RICHARD B, SWENSON Editor Publi.bw MONMOUTH, OREGON ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1919 Subscription Rites Oneyer $1,50 Six months Three months "5ct SOrts Monmouth Meditations used to warm up with. IOC Prune pruning is in full blast whenever the weather permits. The weather sharps are looking for an early spring. It will soon be up to the people to decide whether or not they want a soldier's memorial. Just at present Monmouth ap pears to be blessed with a few more than its share of dogs. Every time we have a clear day the up-and-doing householder thinks about that early garden. Independence is out after a me morial fund and is starting it with a minstrel show. It is one job to sell property and another thing entirely to keep it sold. The Willamette valley appears to have endorsed the League of Na tions idea. The recess sessions between flu bans have been brief this winter, but this last one appears to be fully taken advantage of. Passing strange to think in these dripping days that we must go twelve miles after a permanent water supply. It is sad but true that a great many wrongs are allowed to go un challen?ed for the sake of conven tionality. Now that Bro. Gilmore has a car, we move up a peg, there being one less in the line between us and the dealer's window. Speaking about industrial waste if only a portion of this hot air that is being passed around in the course of conversation could be The old timer has been indulging in more reminiscences. He says the road between Monmouth and Inde pendence reminds him of the early days when there were no roads. There are a great many women, and men too, for that matter, who like to be the whole show, but not many can get away with it as hand ily as Miss McLaren did the other evening. The trouble with most of these projects to benefit the returning soldier is that they have too much over-head expense. There is little left for him by the time the costs have been paid. W. H. Taft having been sitting for some time on the League of Na tion's eggs, now like a faithful bid die when the eggs begin to hatch, pecks impatiently at prospective in truders. Note his flaying of Poin de.xter. This is the month when the head of the house gets a confidential com munication from John Orr. John is a friendly fellow aid does not be lieve in slighting any one when he indulges in official correspondence. . Once on a time H. Hirschberg caused a survey to be made to Teal creek for a pipe line for a gravity system. Mr. Hirschberg has very kindly placed this work at the dis posal of the people who are work ing to improve the local water sys tem. Having conquered the Bolshevik! and the labor agitators, Mayor Ole Hanson was not able to command his own human frame and at the latest reports was suffering from a nervous breakdown. The newspaper man has a consid erable advantage over his fellow citizen in this particular portion of the glad and joyous new year. He does not have to bother with fig uring out his income tax. The human tendency is to think with the crowd. That is the most easy way for people of an indolent turn who do not want to be bother ed with too much brain work. But it is a good thing to have some one who"will dig up the interrogation point and apply it once in a while. Which makes a man like Borah an asset to the nation, although we fail to see the pertinence or strength of his reasons for opposing the league of nations. We are somewhat, curious to know I . .. T-" A,. now toenaior rierce proposes w If bv taxing substances carrying the "nlonmornrarino" if is P9CV enough to change a name and there is a large range to choose from, from axle grease to butterine. If it is just plain substitutes that are to be taxed how are they to be de fined? For substitutes may spring from the oils in peanuts, the cocoa bean, cotton seed and corn, from lard, tallow and from jams made of fruit. Syrups could also be con- sideredls substitutes. It would be something gf task to regulate the selling of them all. It does not seem possible that with returning and expanding busi ness in this valley such a road bed as that which the I. & M. abandon ed during war times will be allow ed to remain unused very long. An electric road is the proper thing. The Germans are just beginning to find out they were licked in the late unpleasantness. They have done considerable bragging about holding off the world and have paraded "Unter den Linden" as conquerors to admiring plaudits. But the armistice renewal terms which Foch required them to sign the other day jolted their compla cency. It was an active testimony to their standing in the' military world. - The Polk County Observer sneers at the alleged action of the local Grange in taking a stand in opposi tion to increase in salaries for coun ty officials. The truth islhe Grange went on record as favoring an in crease "for county commissioners notwithstanding the fact that the, court had previously turned down a project in which the Grange was in terested, the employment of a cour.. ty agriculturist. But it did oppose a general raise in salaries under the present unsettled conditions. When the country strikes its peace gate and if the times then show that sal aries are too low, the Grange will be among the first to urge proper recompense. The natural fault which most people will find with the League of Nations covenant is that it does not go far enough. x We have seen the result from the League of the thir teen original American colonies and the nation that has grown out of it and we associate the idea of a un ion of nations in a similar manner and fancy that the world can be self governed as we are, with na tions for states. There are, how ever, many new and different con ditions from those which the thir teen states encountered. Compar isons between the two can not be sharply drawn and we must expect that the new and larger union will work cut in many ways differently from the way our cwn Union did i I No need to look further for that which makes a home See Us for Furniture 1 I! Household comforts and Household Necessities Furniture, Rugs, Linoleum 1 See our line of 18-92 Aluminum ware The ware that wears forever Heaters, k 9 Ranges MONMOUTH HARDWARE CO. It is a road that will have to be traveled t p at time and number of notable achievements have luvn made in the present cov enant. Its greatest weakness, we think, is that it docs not include all the nations of the world. In the course of time, when matters ad just themselves I bit, what is to prevent Germany from starting an other league in which she Is to be the guiding spirit? Even with all in one league there are bound to be ri:ilries. The fact that we were united and unarmed did not prevent us from undergoing our civil war. Time alone will tell whether Mars is really banished from the earth. The phenomenon of momentum is not confined to solid substances. Ideas, impulses.or concerted action of any kind have t) have first the actuating power to get a start, but when put in motion, move forward with much less effort of propelling force than during the period of ac quiring a start, and often on the lust phase of action, roll on without being pushed at all. . Many of the so-called war activities have now reached this last stage of their car. ar. With the necessity for which they were created disappearing, it naturally follows that a flood of money is falling into uses for which it was not designed. As far as practical results go i great deal of it is being wasted. QUOTAS OF LOAN WILL DEPEND ON WARSTAMPSALES Oversubscriptions of January and rebruary Savings lam paign Allotment to Re duce Loan Task Victory Liberty Loan quotas of the Twelfth Federal Resarv District are to be determined In some, measure by the amounts loaned the government by each district in War Savings Stampi during January and February, If a district oversubscribe! Ita War Savings Stamp quotas for the first two months of the year, ita Victory Liberty Loan quota will be decreased to the extent of the oversubscription. Conversely, If a district falls to reach Ita January and February Stamp quo tas, Its Liberty Loan quota will be increased. When Lewis B. Franklin, director of the War Loan Organisation, was In San Francisco recently, he revealed that on the day the armistice waa signed there was In progress In Wash ington a meeting to formulate plans for the continuous sale of Liberty Bonds such a plan as governs the sale of Thrift and War Savings Stamps. Moreover, the Liberty Bond and War Stamps work was to be closely coordinated, These plans were Immediately dis carded when the Germans signed the armistice and when Secretary of the Treasury Glass took office he an nounced that the Victory Liberty Loan would be the last, la the faoe of sug gestions that the Victory Loan be put on a cold commercial basis, he added that the men making those sugges tions were discounting the patriotism of the American people and he would depend upon the patriotism of the American people rather than place se curities of the United States govern ment upon a plane with the paper ol private corporations. Books, Stationery Candy, Cigars Electric Light Bulbs Souvenirs MORLAN & SON Monmouth's largest and mint complete Confectionary and Hook Store The banks used to buy United States bonds bearing 2 per cent Interest be fore the war. That's how good the credit of the United States is. The $100 you put Into a Victory Lib erty Bond will be worth $125 plus In terest when prices settle down, A dol lar is worth what you can buy with It. Better have the bonds of the United States In the hands of 30,000,000 ordinary citizens than concentrated In the hands of a few rich men. Think of that when Uncle Sam offer) you a Victory Liberty Bond. Don't think you have sacrificed be cause you may be paying for your Interest-bearing Fourth Liberty Loan Bonds. These fellows back from France legless, armless or sightless don't think they have sacrificed. They simply think they did their duty. The Victory Loan coming In .April Is the last Liberty Loan. Then the war 1b over for yoj. It will be still going on tor 1,000,000 Americans In France. , A. N.Halleck buys junk of all kinds and pays highest cash prices. - 6tf Monmouth Grange 476 Meets the Second Saturday in Each Month at 10:30 A. M. Public Program at 2:30 p. m. to which visitors are welcome, P.O. Powell, Master. Miss Maqqie Butler, Sec. Building Material From Roof to 'Cellar Oregon Fir and Hemlock Lumber Douglas Fir Silos The Gold Mine of the Farm Lath, Mouldings, Fruit and Duller Box es, Cedar Posts, Green and Dry Slab wood, Cement, Wall Plaster, Lime, Bfick, Shingles, Rooting, Windows, etc. Willamette Valley Lumber Co. Phone Main 202. Monmouth, Oregon 5J1 HOC For any thingyouwant or don't want try our bargain column. It will buy or sell for you. CITY MEAT MARKET Huston Bros. Props. Fresh and Smoked Meats We buy veal and hides Phono 2302 We are In the market for all the Beef Cat tle you have and will pay top market prices Sell Us 'Your Beef Cattle 1 INCITE? AMr-ITt 5 INSURANCE! On City or Farm Insurance on three or five year policies, we take notes payable in yearly installments. Bonds of all sorts sold. Let us place your Insurance with old, reli able companies. GEO. W. CHESEBRO Shorty gets a hunch from the Captain "When you get such reaL, lasting tobacco satisfaction from a small chew," says the Captain, "it cn't cost any more to chew this class of tobacco." Good taste, smaller chew, longer life is what makes Genuine Grave ly cost less to chew than ordinary plug. Wrlti Hi: Genuinb Gravely DANVILLE, VA. for Mill on thcwlnl pl(. Peyton Brand REAL CHEWING PLUG Plug packed in pouch. : I X X X
