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T he M o n m o u t h H erald V OfQ Voi. XIV Monmouth, Polk County, Oregon, Friday, February 24, 1922 ^•ibr. Hty No. 25 There is No Land Like Oregon and Only One Willamette Valley Items of Interest N e w K in d o f F i u ttr e e G ra ft P le a d e d for th e U n fo rtu n a te \ n Objector Learning Chinese Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh sd- A few weeks ago some men went At Oregon Normal dressed a mass meeting in the In Famine District through Poik c >unty wanting to Is Attorney Pipes Christian church last Friday even i vaccinate fruit trees, siving they ing in behalf of a farm which the ' injected poison beneath the bark of Mrs. Ada Wallace Unruh of Port The following Interesting letter the tree which built up a resistance A spectator who listened to W. C. T. U. of the state proposes land, who represents the W. C. T. to establish near Corvallis. The “Judge” M. S. Pipes of Portland was received recently by Mrs. A. and enabled the tree to cope w ith U. and the Child Welfare Organiza farm has been purchased and with in the Independence highway com N. Poole from Miss Geneva Sayre, insects, diseases, etc. Mrs. M. Ml tion of Oregon, addressed the Nor improvements cost $200 per acre. plaint before Judge Kelley in Salem who is working with the missionar Harvey wrote to the Agricultural mal students at the chapel on Fri 0 . A. C. specialists looked over the last Friday must have absorbed the ies in China. college inquiring about this matter day of last week. Mrs. Unruh spoke Kihsien, Honan, China and the following is an extract land for the wom?n and have guar opinion that the word “verboten” in behalf of the newly established Jan. 12, 1922 from the letter received in reply. anteed that it is of high quality ^ *s about as formidable in Oregon Farm Home for Dependent Children, legal procedure as it is in common Well, I’ve been in China over and has no waste in it. “ There is absolutely nothing in located near Corvallis. She is an During the three months now. I’m very glad the proposition of vaccinating fruit ,, , . „ , A , , Mrs. Unruh is making a tour of life in Germany. able speaker who fully understands ,, . . , . .. the state raising funds to finance course of an hour’s plea Mr. Pipes to be here. Have had a very nice trees to kill borers and other in that vivid, concrete statements ap this project which the Temperance mentioned so many actions of coun- time this Christmas. All we miss sects or diseases. They have never peal to young people. Her talk i Union is undertaking for the de. ty and state officials and so many ionaries here had a Christmas din been able to put any material in was much appreciated. 1 alleged laws that violate the con- ner and tree on Monday the 26th. the tree that would be strong : pendent children of the state. The Junior p.ay, which was post- gave statistics to prove that a large 8t*tu t'on and are therefore void, W’e gave presents to each other and enough to kill the insects or diseas poned last Saturday because of the percentage of the children who get that the whole legal fabric of Ore had a real nice time. es w ithout killing the tree. illness of a member of the cast, into the industrial school could gon seemed tattered and uncertain. I teach three missionaries chil “ There is a considerable move The road south from Monmouth, dren each forenoon of [school days. ment on by various men to carry will be given on Saturday evening have escaped had they been sur February 25. These few extra, rounded with proper home in- perhaps fared the 'worst, in Mr. W’e have a school room and the chil out this work of vaccinating the days have given time for perfecting fluences. Almrst every boy and Pipes’ summing up of the facts. In dren each have a homemade desk tree and all of them must be classed some details and have thus rendered girl, no matter what their circum the first place it is the highway and they sit at. We have cloth black I with the rankest fakirs that we doubly certain an exceptionally stances, had at some time or other as such cannot legally be graded by boards and a bookcase. 1 have a have. good production. "Clarence” is a been guilty of indiscretions which market road funds. To do so would table for a desk and a chair. "One outfit that is vaccinating clever play and the parts are all if closely followed up and proseciit- j a ^raut* on The children are in the second, fruit trees to nrotect them against 'aw- *be sec- well taken. ed, would have put them under the ond place it is not the highway, as third, and fourth grades. The sec all forms of insects and diseases the law of 1917 specifically declar ond and fourth graders are sisters; have their material largely made Several students attended the displeasure of the law. This proj ed otherwise. the third grader is a little boy from up of brick dust. Another constit Christian Endeavor convention at ect is designed to provide home as He found the other contracts en another family. They are all such uent is sulphur with a little salt sociations and training for orphans Salem last week end. and dependent children wherever tered into by county court and nice little children. Just think! added. You can see from a list of The regular program which was [found. state highway commission for the They can talk both English and these constituents that the idea it to have been given this week by the They have a Chinese self is preposterous and would class Mrs. Unruh spoke at considerable grading of the section between Chinese. Delphians has been postponed until j length and was listened to with Rickreall and Holmes’ Gap and the teacher in the afternoon also. these men with the fakirs and the March 10 to make way for the close interest. At the close of the two miles north of the end of the I study Chinese every afternoon get-rich-quick people. Junior play. address $80 was raised among peo paving from Corvallis as well as except Sunday. I will study this The use of any of this material the Dallas-Salem road to be void as way for two years and then won’t in attempting to treat the fruit ple present. A few excellent mu Rev. Mr. Van Nuys of Portland they violate the provision of the know near all, but will be able to trees is simply throwing monev addressed the students and faculty sical numbers served as a prelimin constitution which forbids counties take up some regular missionary away or rather giving it to some last Thursday morning. He spoke ary to the address. Mrs. C. C. to contract debts in excess of $5,000. work then, and keep on studying one to make easy money.” Yeater presided at the meeting. forcefully and inspiringly on qual Incidentally he said the $265,000 more. This language is very hard ities of leadership in individuals and bonding act, passed by the people Oh, I can talk now, but there are H is H a t in the R in g HIGH SCHOOL nations. Mrs. Landers sang two of Polk county was illegrl as the many things I don’t understand, Washington’s birthday being a P. O. Fowell of Route 3, Dallas, description of the West Side high songs at that chapel hour which and can’t say that I’d like to. legal holiday, no school was held was a visitor in this city Thursday. way, one of its projects, was not were much appreciated. This is winter. We are in N. but the High School students weie When asked about his political plans Miss Godbold. Miss Records, Miss for the coming campaign he said he definitely worded and might be lo Central China, so it gets very cold extended an invitation bv President Brainerd, and Miss Chandler attend had decided to make the race again cated anywhere in the county, and in the winter and very hot in the lenders to attend theaddiess in the summer. The Chinese don’t have Normal chapel which was delivered ed the performance of "The Return for representative from Polk coun this also violates the constitution. With these as the groundwork he fire for warmth so when it is cold by Professor Page of the O. A. C. of Peter Grimm” by David Warfield tv. It has been suggested that he went into detail, showing an aston they pad their clothes with cotton in Portland last week end. make a canvas for the senate but he ishing familiarity with what is not Next Monday morning Mr. Booth- thinks this honor this year should constitutional and found a multi to keep warm. They raise the cot by is scheduled for an assembly Miss Macpherson made a business go to Benton county as Polk has ton. China looks like a race of fat tude of instances to support his as people in the winter, and especially period talk. trip to Salem last Friday. had the joint senator for the past sertions. The boys play basketball at Falls the children. Their padded clothes twelve years. City Tuesday altho several of the Replying to him, Mr. Devers, A. W. Johnson, business manager make them look about as broad as team will not be able to go on ac who supported the commission in of the “ Norm” spent last Monday tall. If a little youngster falls over The chicken pie dinner given by count of illness. the suit, was brief and to the point. in Salem on Norm business. he just l.es there and can’t get up the Dorcas Society in the Christian Friday night Dallas and Indepen He said the market roads law is withou thelp, because of so many church dining room Tuesday even dence will play a double header at loosely drawn; that while it pro A motion picture, entitled "A ing was a pronounced success. The cluthes. Their clothes are usually Independence which will be a very Ten Dollar Raise” , will be shown in dinner was served cafeteria style vides market roads must be im terribly old, patched or ragged, so hard fought contest. If Dallas wins the chapel next Monday evening, and over one hundred fifty were proved by county courts it also pro they don’t always look so prosper they will have practically a clear February 27. This pcture was fed. Gross receipts were $70. The vides the commission shall make ous as it might sound. We are title to the county championship. scheduled for Saturday and is mov society is working to accumulate surveys, furnish plans and check really in a famine section, where ed to make way for the Junior p'ay, funds for a rew carpet for the up on the work. It does not spec famine aid is being given out, and If Independence wins, further ify that market roads which be they surely need it. This year it games will have to be played by “ Clarence” . church. come highways lose their status as wasn’t drought but too much rain Dallas. market roads. There are counties which caused floods and miles of Sickness takes six or seven stu in the state where the only market land is under water yet and this dents from school. roads are state highways and if it years crops all around here were Dallas notified Falls City, Inde is ruled the two must be kept sepa practically all ruined. pendence and Monmouth th a t they rate these counties must improve The famine aid money is given intend to cancel the return games roads which are not essential or out by giving work to famine suffer o f those towns, claiming she had leave their money idle in their ers when they are able to work. won the championship, but as those treasuries while they tax them There is a big canal being put in schools had not had the opportun selves in addition to grade their here for drainage purposes for ore ity to contest with Dallas on their state highways which they are re thing. This gives many work, and home floors, vigorous protests were quired by law to do. made, resulting in Dallas reconsid helps them. He showed that the Polk county The common people live in mud ering. court had signed the market road houses with paper windows and dirt Monmouth won from Airile in an grading contract as a party to it, floors and straw thatched roofs. It interesting game of ‘ basketball last that the road had for years been a doesn’t take much rain to make Friday, by a score of 20 to 14. market road and the pioceedinps their houses fall in. Have seen Home of Monmouth's .new players declaring it such was regular. many a family out of a home until covered themselves with glory. This As for the constitutional limita they built another ore. makes twojdefeats for[A|rlie by the tion of county debt of $5,000, he The richer people, who are far in I ocals. contended this was in excess of the minority, have houses built of 1 ne members of the girls basket county assets. At the time the gray brick as we have. We never ball team were much disappointed contracts were entered into he said, ece^wooden houses. Wood i^ very there was in the highway fund of scarce. It is hard to get what wood we need to burn even. the county $60,000, every cent < f Every where we go we see walls. which the court could liav^ used on that m atter had been settled in There are walls around all the cit these particular projects had it been Multnomah *county before Judge ies. Each home has a wall around so inclined while the total sum of McCourt and a certified copy of the it, even ours. Things would all be the contracts and outstanding war proceedings of Unit trial was placed stolen otherwise. Our gate ¡stocked , rants on the highway fund was with the evidence. at night. We go down the street, $ 17 , 000 . The court thought it be«t Only a few witnesses were called. but don't see the houres for wal!s, i to uae the bulk of its money on In addition to Mr. Devers District or not more tian the tops of them^ j other road work in the county, Attorney Helgerson represented the All seems so strange at f rst. spreading the state work out commission and county court and The Christian Chinese are very tlirough a period of a few years and D. E. Fletcher of Independence as nice. I do like to hear them sing | he contended this was not in viola-! sisted Mr. Pipes. Fifteen days They sing the same tunes that we tion of the $6,000 debt limit. were allowed for the filing of briefs do, but the words are in their lan As lor the location of the road | and Judge Kelley's decision is ex guage. I am lear'.ung the Lord’s prayer in Chinese now. he refused to go into it, stating j pected to follow shortly. . _ __ _ Opportunity Equality American Heritage Prof. J. R. Page of the depart ment of sociology of the Agricul tural college in Corvallis was speak er of the day at a George Washing ton program in the Normal chapel Wednesday morning at the chapel hour. Many high school students, who were given a day's holiday, at tended and there was a liberal rep resentation of citizens of Monmouth present. Prof. Page’s address was largely inspirational and he held up Amer ica as the land of opportunity where “ potentiality” became “ ac tuality” and where all had equality of opportunity. It was a mistake, h.» said, to assert all men were cre ated equal. There was a great gulf between the idiot and Thomas A. Edison. But that each had an equal chance to develop was the glory of our institutions. Washington and Lincoln, he said, were properly regarded as the high record mark of our statesmanship although the start in life of each could hardly have shown a greater contrast. Washington was of aris tocratic ancestry, his people were thorobreds and he himself was rat ed as the richest man in America during his life. Lincoln, on the other hand, was of the most humble origin. He was born in a building that would not be considered a good pig pen and after removal to Indiana the family lived a year ¡n a house that had on ly three walls. At the end of a year they moved to a house which had four walls but which had neith er window nor floor. Lincoln’s father was a religious enthusiast who did not think his son needed an education and the one year of schooling that Lincoln got was not with his father’s approval. Without a doubt, said the speak er, an autocracy would make us a much more efficient govern ment. We could grow wealthy faster, de velop our resources more quickly and become stronger and more pow erful as a nation. But it took a democracy to develop Lincoln and make him the peer of Washington. No one suspected Lincoln would become a great executive; no one imagined the poor gypsy boy would become a great evangelist, Bur bank, Ford and Edison as poor boys would never have been developed and made successful under any gov ernment but a democracy. In their cases potentiality became actuality. to learn that the * Falls City team had disbanded, thus preventing a matched game at Falla City, Tues day evening. On account of so much illness in the commuunity, Dr. Bower^ox was unable to speak to the High School student bodv on Monday morning. “ Dad” Sickafoose is still in Port land attending the second session of the Federal Jury. Daisy Ferguson I. M. Davidson, a former resident of Monmouth was buried in Port land Thursday. He was the owrer of two lots on the corner of Main and Warren streets, one of which was taken by the city a year ago for paving and other costs. Mr. Davidson has not lived in Monmouth for many yenrs. He was married twice, his first wife being a Bently, a name formerly prominent in Mon mouth. W. !• I andis, who has spent lhe winter visiting his sisters, Mrs Ha ger and Mrs Ebbert and other re'a- vites in this county has returned to his home in Idaho. He is employ«d in the Bunker Hill mine in the t'oeur d ’Alene mountains, perhaps ihe largest lead and silver mine n the w jrld.