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RICH A RD B. SW ENSON
Editor & P ub lisher
First National Bank
MONMOUTH, OREGON
MONMOUTH, OREGON
FRIDAY, JAN. 21. 1921
ISSUED EVERY F R ID A Y
en the advantage. ^The legislation
and busiress practices of the past
fifty years have conspired to drive
industry to the large cities. We
believe the excess profits tax w ill,:
if given a chance, help to restore a
better balance of trade and popu
lation in the rural districts and
large cities.
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If anything goes wrong with
your business or farm, brother citi
zen, do you blame the market con
dition, circumstance, competitors
and God knows who? No sir. Not
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THE AMERICAN PRESS ASSOCIATION
if you are the right man. You will
get up early and stay up late and
Monmouth’s larg est and most complete Confectionery and Book Store
will hustle yourself to find ways to
overcome all obstacles. Because
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of you don't you will fail.
The judge’s friends tel! us that +-fr+++++++++++++++++4+<
the circumstances were always
against him such as high cost of
material, labor, etc.
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Right you are—but that should
have been only a spur to the judge
with many years experience
Community ambitions and rival to find ways end means to do the
Repair w o rk prom ptly and n ea tly done
ries, when they are healthy, are an work cheaper and better than any
incentive to progress, but when they Other county of the state. Then jl See me in Boulden building next door to Herald shop ! I
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county, where their influence is ncg en his ability. We never have * * * * ********************** ft***#***»-#*#******#*****«#
ative rather than positive—when clai ned that the job of a county
they evolve into a first class ruction judge is a soft one and that is the
a
where each would rather stop the reason we need a man who really i-
On City or Farm Insurance on three or five year jj
whole works than not have its way, can do things for the best of the
* policies, w e take notes payable in yearly installments.
they are a detriment and a stum county in spite of everything.
if
We c;;n prove that things can be
bling block in the way of advance
Bonds of all sorts sold.
done if there is enough will power
ment.
Let us place your Insurance with old, reliable
behind it and our good judge has
It is entertaining how much
companies.
GEO. W . CHESEBRO
furnished the proof himself. Since
more positive the theorist is in
the recall started there has been * 9 * 99994999999 * 99*49449999999449949999999999999994949
his theories than the man who bases
more road work done than in the
his beliefs on actual experience.
previous two years. Gravel has
I Recently the Review of Reviews in
been distributed all over the county
terviewed certain prominent people
roads have been scarified, graded
on the m atter of determining their
and money for road work spent
opinion on business prospects for
freely. But here again the judge
1921. Practically all of them ex
ha.4 shown bad judgn.ent and his
pressed the opinion that the peak of
unfitness for the office he is holding.
high prices had been passed some
November, December and January
time since and the belief that busi-
are about the three worst months
| ness on a safer foundation would
in the year to do road work effi
be resumed during the year ahead.
ciently. Much money is spent that
Prof. Fisher of Yale and Prof. Per
could have been sayed, if the road
son of Harvard were positive in
work had been done in the right
their predictions and the latter set
time of the year. And much done
April, 1921, is the time when con
at this time will do the roads very
fidence would be restored and pros
little good and will last only a
perity begin.
short time. Those arguments of
W A LTE R G. B R O W N
The manner in which candidates his friends that the judge was not
for postmaster are shying their to blame but the circumst-i.e»?,
hats into therir.g indicates an early cannot hold good as Robinson has
spring, the fear of a dry summer, shown that if enough pressure is
brought forth, things can be done.
or something.
The highway commission has
The man who has burning
done hundreds of miles of road
thoughts on highways, and roads,
work in nearly all the counties of
and new ways of taxin? automo
W e h ave ju st bought a n e w tru ck and
the state without much friction the
biles, and who has not communicat
are able to do all kind s of h au lin g and
commission has changed roads in
ed his thoughts thus early to the
other counties and has come to an
transfering.
For w ork of th is kind s e e
legislature, is slow. Everybody else
understanidng with the courts, ex
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in the state has been ttffere ahead
cept with Polk county. Why? The
POLLAN BROS., Props.
of him.
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It is to be noted that the people road program worked out as good
who are urgent for the repeal of as they know how to the best of
the excess profits tax are people the state in their opinion. But
who are affected by it directly. It is this program did not agree with
the large concerns who complain of the wise plans of our judge and
its hampering influence and who some other citizens and therefore
insist it is passed on to the- public. the deadlock. But who will suffer?
Bran, Mill Run and Corn
It stands to reason that a sales tax The highway commission, the state
which would affect the small dealer or Polk county? $20,000.000 will
Poultry Su pplies
BO NE, S H E L L a n d GRIT
¡as well as the large one, would be b> spent in 1921 and 1922 by the
I passed on to the public. But we highway commission and how much
surmise the excess profits tax has of this money will go to Polk
j a few good points that are not gen- county if we do not come to any
! orally understood. It is not paid understanding with the commission?
Very likely none. The other
by the small dealer whose profits
! are not large enough to come with- counties will get so far ahead in
FR ESH AND CURED MEATS
in its scope' The small manufac the next two years with their roads
turer and the craftsman who com- th*t we
^e unable to catch up
Pork S a u s a g e ; S w e e t , S o u r a n d Dill P i c k l e s
pete with the larger shops are giv- in the next ten years. Can you | J
F R E S H FISH ON F R I D A Y S
picture for yourself how Y’amhlili,
Passed by G overnm ent Inspector D ecem ber 2
Marion end other neighboring
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counties will ben efit through their j
Form er piare of C ityM arke1 • •
t-
good roads and Jhow we will*sink
| t ! I I I 1 | . | I !■*• ■
back in mud* dirt and filth?
Dallas, with its big payroll should j
M O W T H C V 'C tE OOIM'
be at least twice ~s big as it :s now.
T O G IV C B R E A K F A S T
# * ^ 0 0 0 8 TO T H E
What is the m atter? Let us wake
POOR DUM B C O W S.
up,
open our eyes wide and take a
S A W D U S T . TREATED
W IT H M IL D A C I O S .
new hold on life. Life is good,
M A S B E E N FOUND
noble and beautiful.
TO B e O O O O CATTLE
Let us forget all little selfish in
PECO.
terests; let us c nibine and join
hands for greater and bigger things; j
let us get Polk county to the front
again; let it be once more the
blue ribbon county not only in pro
ducts but also in thought and spirit.
E D W . J. HIMES
My good fellowmen if we will
C ivil E n gin eer and
keep these ideals before us we can
Office and residence
not go wrong. So let us think and
Surveyor
Kurre Apartments
act accordingly. All of us for a
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