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WE FIT GLASSES When you have your eyes examine.!, it pay to have the highest skilled optometrist to do this for you. Our Optometrist is specialist in vision testing and he is equipt with the finest instruments for exnmin ing the eyes and making of glasses. We throfore guarantee all his work and invite you to come in and Have Your Eyes Examined HARTMAN BROS. CO. Hallmark Jewelers and Opticians SALEM, OREGON in I J Your Dollar's Opportunity Your dollar's opportunity is now. today! Set it to work for you. Give it the task of multiplying itself. In doing so it will perform its part in the world affairs. Everyman's money should be making use of this opportunity. Farmers, forinstance, can nor only feed the world; through businesslike handling of their farms and businesslike handling of their in comes they can help to develop the world . Thrift Is Patriotism Saving is a form of serving. It it one of the biggest forms of national service service to your country. Our first president said, "Economy makes happy homes and sound nations." The way to start right is to start right now I Saving is as much a habit is spending or puttingthings off. Once formed, it is easy to continue. But un like other habits, it is a good habit' Ivnk! . , . To Saw ' lj. Yowt Monf a 'ami Make ' low ' ill The Herald Ui rt ufttcr it Munmuuth. Orv?Qft. ttMdw Ui RICHARD B, SWENSON Editor & Publithw MONMOUTH, OREGON ISSl'RD EVERY FRIDAY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1920 Subscription Rtot One year $2,00 Six months $1.00 Three months 75 eta Fortim Advrtttmf RmMtntaltv THE AMERICAN PKLSS ASSOCIATION i no Monmouth Meditations hoc With fair weather, Morinuuth will be host to one of the largest crowds in its history Sunday afternoon No, we did not notice that any item of the biff program of work which the highway commission plansjfor next year, refers to Polk county. BANK WITH US FIRST NATIONAL BANK MONMOUTH OREGON For any thing you want or don't want try our bargain column. It will buy or sell for you, GOOD FURNITURE IS YOUR DUTY tO YOUR HOME- I X M tkaj IB f 'Bedroom Furniture No house furnishings deserve more of your thoughtful attention than the bed In which you rest after each day's crowded hours of work And the dressers and chif- foniers also outstanding features of the bed room present many opportunities for showing the good taste of the home owner. For the kind you wish come here. Our line Is Rich in Style We have a large assortment of all bed room furniture in the modern styles and finishes. There is no lack of attention either to the details so often neglected that make for comfort and convenience.- Prices, as usual, make these offerings unusual in value. Good Furniture Is Our Pledge to' You MONMOUTH HARDWARE :, J. E. Winegar, Proprietor Read your own Herald $2.00 per year With the state fair this week and the county fair next week the mammoth pig and the blue blooded pumpkin once more arouse the admiration of enthusiasts, From the exhibits it is hard to be' lieve that it was once said the Wil lamette valley was no pig country, That theory was disproved just as the theory that it is no corn country is being disproved. Theodore Roosevelt once predict' el that Alaska would within a cen tury, support as large a population as the entire Scandinavian pen insula, that with its enormous re' sources of mineral and great fish eries it would produce a nee as hardy and vigorous as any part of An erica. It is equally reasonable to believe that the entire rorthwest has but scratched the possibilities of future development and will mul tiply at no distant date its popuU' tion and business importance. A Seattle publication comes to us this week with propaganda favoring the Japanese side of the controversy which is one of the big questions of t'w coast. The question is dealt with from the standpoint of the employer to whom the opportunity of securing Japanese workers doubtless attractive. The other side of the question of course comes from labor which the Japs supply and from communities where the question of Japanese predominance among the citizens is aa real as negro domination in the south metime this question will have to be faced in this countrv and both Jes mutt have a chance to be heard. As the fast month of the campaign draws near Candidate Cox is cor fronted with a most perplexing problem. As the theories of Presi- ent Wilson trj at stake the latter i anxious to see his party win, He is planning now to take an active nterest and boost the party ticket. At the same time. Cox. rmvlno- erged from the west, might be expected to appeal to the large cities the east by leaning a little heav. on the wet issue. The question will not one of these moves off the other? Will not the appeal Wilson for his league offend those of the wets who are Irish and German? Will not anv Wnino- hv a "j to the wets offend Wilson's league friends, to many of whom Jt akin to a moral issue? The smash in prices last week led the Ford Company and two Chicago mail order houses developed some momentum' although not enough to achieve radical results in way of lowering the cost of liv- Business at present is too highly organized to allow any great amount of price reduction atone although the trend is evident the signs indicate that steadily lowering prices will continue for some time to come, We hear it asserted that wages must stay as I by the' ing. time and they are but fail to see how there can be much of i reduction In pric es until wages ire reduced. People talk about the high coat of living as' fioiigh the items of cost were mat ters that affect other people exclu sively. But the truth is every body Is Implicated; all to a gieat or less degree share In its advantages and are responsible for its extor tions. But the laborer, instead of being the least, shares greatest re sponsibility for high costs. Labor is the one big factor in the high priie of everything we buy. Therefore it ill becomes labor to seek to re- ducte the price of agricultural products for wealth is obtained from the land and if the farmer can not make money enough to buy the high priced products of labor there will soon be an end of big wages every where, A writer in the Youth's Compan ion callsattention to the difficulties of grammar as a study, He says that our grammar as constituting a branch of instruction in schools, is an adaption of the Latin system which, while it serves admirably for that language, is faulty and awk ward when it conies to classifying the elements of English. In other words the result is similur to what would happen if a surgeon skilled in separating and arranging the organs of the human body should insist on the same classification for whales. Whereas the Latin lan guage waa built like a machine, with modifications and additions as they became necessary or desirable the English language was formed as the hills grow at the terminals of glaciers taking the material as it is shoved onto them with little choice as to its character and uua itv. To classify such a mass under the divisions invented by the Latins at once confronta many obstacles. As technical branch of Instruction it presents the difficulties inherent in any inexact science; its standards are constantly changing. The termin ology of grammar differs radically from year to year just as do the ityles of clothing or of architecture and a knowledge perfected now with patience and labor may in a few short years become obsolete when some bright mind with new or orig inal ideas rises to make a new plan for analyzing the structure of our mother tongue. We have one rock of refuge, however from which it is hard to dislodge us; this teing the classics of the language as they have come down to us through the past. The man who is reasonably well familiar with the language of Shakespeare or Oliver Goldsmith or Washington Irving as a background for modern reading need not be alarmed at the move advocated in some quarters to do away with the study of grammar entirely. jet Ready for CHOOly For School Books and Supplies GOTO MORLAN & SON Monmouth's Urgent aud must complete Confectionery and Book titore F. W. LEONARD Boot and Shoe Maker with many years experience Repair work promptly and neatiy done See me in Boulden building next door to Herald shop : tMMtreMMmrMt MMMMtMtr treMmoM ! lINSUKAINUi! 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, reliable Jj companies. GEO. W. CHESEBRO Groceries & Provisions Good Goods and Fair Treatment C. C. Mulkey & Son In the name of clean sport base ball enthusiasts must insist that the players convicted of purposely aiding to lore games for the sake of gamblers should be hunted out and banished from the ranks of their associates. Attention at present is focused on the Chicago American league tea n where a number of players have been charged with and have admitted guilt In this dishonor able practice. Charges and BUS' picion of the sort have been made in big league circles previous'y but this is the first time that proof has accompanied the accusation. May we not suspect that this is only an other of the instances where war and its accompaniments have loos ened from their moorings the moral character of men and caused them to do things they normally would not have done? Previous to the war we are told that messengers employed by the banks of New York were in variably honest and the loss of val uables entrusted to them never oc curred whereas within the past few years, thousands, even millions of dollars have been lost through con- pfracies and sudden lapses in fidel ity attending these bank messen gers, it s in the air. Fire Insurance WALTER G. BROWN Monmouth Transfer We have Just bought a new truck and J are able to do all kinds of hauling and transfering. For work of this kind see Imm ordtri ) Gmt Call Phone 2003 House 18C3 POLLAN BROS., Props. A. MAR ANT Fire Insurance, Real Estate and Surety Bonds Reliable Service Salem, Independence & Monmouth Stage Leave Salem Leave Monmouth Leave Indencudonre U. L Depot Monmouth Hotal 7:00 A. M. 8:15 A. M. 11:00 A. M. 1:00 P. M, 6:00 P. M. 6:16 P. M. J.W. Parker, Salem, Oregon, Time from Monmouth to Salem, 1 hour. We make direct connection In Salem with buses for Portland, Silverton and Mill City and Stayton, We connect also with trains at Oregon Electric and Southern Pacific depots. Bum Hotl 8:30 A. M. 1:16 P. M. 6:30 P. M. Phones 44 and 616 For Sale Six room house, toilet and bath barn 6 lots, 2 J blocks to Norma school, located on Monmouth Ave. 10 ares of land, all in cultiva tion, good house and barn, mile to city limits, an ideal home" Price right. 7 room house. Plastered, city water and lights. 2 lots. Located on East street, for $1200. Terms. 4 Room house, 2 blocks to Nor mal. Price $600, terms. For Sale or Trade for Monmouth property 5 room house, modern conveniences. Lot 50x169 feet, on South Commercial Btreet, Salem, Oregon. G. T. Boothby. The Monmouth Cooperative Ship ping Association will save farmer's money in the sale of livestock, Ship with us and cut out middleman's profit. II you have stock to ship notify W. J. Stockholm, Mgr. tf Houses and Lots Houses with one acre. House ' with larger tracts. Very reasonable in price. See Moran. TLRN DUTY INTO PLEASURE by having us put in your home one of the new style handsome bath tubs. To bathe in one Is a delight ful luxury, You will realize that you never before knew all the pleas ure oi me path. Or come and talk it over. We will convin vn.i that at our moderate rates, the installment of the tub will hp good investment from several an gles of view. RICH & ELLIS Dallas s Ore. 512 MAIN St. PHONE 452
