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RICHARD B, SWENSON
Editor Publi.bw
MONMOUTH, OREGON
ISSUED EVERY FRIDAY
FRIDAY, FEB. 21, 1919
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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
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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
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I No need to look further for that which makes a home
See Us for Furniture
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Household comforts and
Household Necessities
Furniture,
Rugs,
Linoleum
1 See our line of 18-92
Aluminum ware
The ware that wears forever
Heaters,
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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
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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.
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