TH E MONMOUTH H ERA LD , MONMOUTH, OREGON F R ID A Y , JU N E 8.
P ag e 2
Thinks Judge Malone
R p n t n n r ’n n n t v ’K R
In the app o in tm en t o f W ade
lone as highw ay com m issioner to
ce< <1 It A.* Booth it is locally
tr ’ G ..
. Pitre»- has m a'h a
py *«l#ct*on- ju d g e M alone ia well and
p s t '* avor*b*J 'tnow n to * n um ber of Mon*
moifth people who believe he will
Ms- m ake good in his im p o rta n t job. The
sue- C orvallis G azette-T im es in a recent
felt issue had th e follow ing to say:
hap
' ‘Ju d g e M alone is one of ^.he best
_
and m oat favorably known men in th ia
section, reg ard ed as abso lu tely above
p a r in all th a t goes to m ake up a first
class citizen. It is g en e rally conced-
ed th a t he has th e technical ab ility
and th e good common sense to serv e
th e s ta te ad m irab ly on th is v ery lm-
p o rta n t com m ission. Ju d g e M alone ia
an A lsea product and w hile in th a t
.v alley m ade a business sucess th a t
was m ore th a n casual. W hile th e re he
w as m ost in stru m e n ta l in g e ttin g th e
road w ork done th a t m ade th a t o re
| tim e inaccessible co u n try easily tra -
j versib le a t an y old itm e of th e year.
Then he cam e out to be co unty ju d g e
fo r B enton county and d u rin g his
te rm s of office handled th e business
of th e county to his cred it and to the
a d v a n ta g e of th e county. C onsider
able fit st class ro ad w ork w as d- -«
d u rin g th a t tim e. W hen he w ent out
of office he w ent into road c o n tra c t
w ork, and has been in th e gam e m ore
o r less ever sin ce;th e recen t m onths
being in th e autom obile b u sin ess.”
YELLOWSTONE
N A T IO N A L P A R K
34 00 square miles ol marvels,
beauty and color— nothing lika
i t on earth — leaping geyser«,
growling grotto«, boiling cauld
rons, nature’s moat fantastic
formations, in tha m id st of
which ar« magnificent hotels,
charming cottage villa«««, 800
miles of matchless boulevards
and all tha comforts of home.
It talk U e UfU-
Un« story ol ftaturV* wondorload.
Our
T hrough S l eepin g C ar
Service DAILY between Port
land and West Y ellow stons
makes the trip very comi or table
Not Such A Bad Place
L i n r rtprm n t a h m n u i t
y o u r tttnorury m ud mrrmngi
E x-C ounty A g en t, P aul C a rp e n te r,
now sta tio n e d in B ak er county, 1« one
of th e few who see th in g s occasion
ally, not positively connected w ith
th e ir own individual w elfare. It is
such men as Mr. C a rp e n te r who help
to m ake co u n try new spaper w ork pos
.sible. In th e “ P ine V alley H erald ” re-
Icently he saw a com m unication from
' M onm outh and p ro m p tly clipped it
and se n t it to ua. He say s “ I t is som e
tim es o f in te re st to see how we a p
p e a r in th e eyes of o th e rs.”
j We ta k e th e re a d e r into o u r co n
fidence and here is an e x tra c t from
th e le tte r.
'....‘‘L ast N ovem ber we le ft S unny C a l
ifo rn ia, I would say W indy C alifo rn ia
and w ere glad to g e t back to O regon
ag ain . We w ere side trac k ed a t M on
m outh and really it isn ’t such a bad
place. The tow n is filled w ith O regon's
splendid d au g h te rs and a few of hei
sons. They have a fine te a c h e r’s n o r
m al here.
W e a re ju s t tw o blocks
aw ay and room som e of th e g irls for
th ey a re all “ g irls ” even if th e ir h air
is silv ered by y ea rs som e of them
have given to teach in g o u r boys and
g irls. • • •
In stea d of snow we had ra in th is
w in ter an d a re now h av in g nice sp rin g
w ea th er w ith m any b ea u tifu l flowers
G ardens a re com ing up and th in g s
seem to be g row ing w ell. S tra w b erries
will soon be ripe.
T he churches a re well atten d e d . In
m any w ays M onm outh is an excep
tio n ally clean tow n.
An E x-P ine V alleyite,
M rs G eorge N estler
J«H . O’N EILL. Tr*w«lia*
A fgnt, w ith b « u iu u * rU rt
a t 006 P it lock B lock. P o rt
land. will cal) paraoaally
a n d a /r a n g * a l l delMUa;
d ro p him a card or addraaa
WM M eM U R IU Y
One*
CO F A IT H F U L -
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All in d ica tio n s point in th e sa m e di
rection
The best w a y to g e t a house
in M onm outh a t p re sen t
is to b u ild one
MONMOUTH LAUNDRY
Electrically equipped with
washer and mangle. Home
kind of washing done. Easy
on the clothes. Lace curtains
a specialty. Prices reason
able.
Mrs. C. E. Stewart, Prop.
Oregon Fir and H em lock Lumber,
Lath, S h in g les, Lim e, C em en t, etc.
Estimates cheerfully furnish3d.
M onm outh L u m ber C om pan y
BUILDING TILE
Made in Monmouth
make the best and most
economical building mater
ial you can buy. In long
wear and low cost of upkeep
there is nothing that will
compare with tile or brick.
The appearance of such a
house is always attractive
and it holds its selling value
better than a frame house.
Drain Tile in all Sizes.
Ask us about them.
Central Clay Products Co.
L. W. Waller, M anager
«R D M
re«l
w ithout actually own ng and us ng on«. T ha
ateoe cna of th e m would aava you m ig h t ad d m any
m inuses dally to your leisu re tim e. L et us show you
how. W e hava fully equipped ca b in e t! on d.ipiay now.
Good Furniture Is Our Pledge to You
M O NM O UTH H A R D W A R E
J. £~ Winegar, Proprietor
E:gh*y-Five Years
a Mormon
¿poem
&
X
MU hue! Redmond of Salt Lake
(Try. Utah. 101 years old. for 85
years member of the Church, Is the
«Ulcer living Mormon. H e attended
the recent annual conference. •
UNCLE J O H N
O f anything th a t comes my way, I ’ve been inclined to
taste. . . . It's been my privilege to see th at nothin' goes to
waste. . . . a n ’ when a feller boosts me, from the bigness in
his heart, I tell him th at I ’m “ much obleeged.” . . . I allers
*
do my part.
T IP S
^ I get in a mud-hole— an ’ my neighbor
pulls me out. I ’m apt to do the same fer him
—it’s only turn about. . . . I never let a
favor pass w ithout a recom pense, as any other man would do,
th a t’s got a lick of sense. . . .
But, when it comes to givin’ “tips” there’s a principle at
stake. . . . T h eir blame extorted hand-out is a holdup an’ a
lake! I try to pay my hired help the wages th a t’s their due.
but as to furder dividends, I ’m a tight-w ad through an’
th ro u g h !
They bait me in the varnished kyars, an’ places where I
cat. . . . They flatter me from every hand—you never seen
.A .
the b e a t! They even call me
"S enator” when I am of f the
range,—and th a t’s why I'm so
devilish slow in p artin ’ w ith my
change!
O L K S are funny w hen it comes to ru n n in g their
common business You think you run your busi
ness p retty w ell I think I run m y business p retty
well W e all like to think we run our own individual
business about as well as it can be run. W e live
p retty well and all said and done we are all p retty
auccetsful. Yet we com plain bitterly about taxes.
Taxes consume much of our incom e which, could
we use it for ourselves, would greatly multiply our
pleasure, increase our com fort and em bellish our joys
In life.
W hy should we have burdensom e taxes? W e don’t
have to have them unless we w ant them. W e com
plain about taxes as if they were being imposed by
some tyrannical im perialistic m aster who has us by
the throat and at whose feet we are helpless.
, W h a ty s the g o v e rn ^ -n t* I'|»e governm ent is you
^ a n d I.—w e who think-ourselves so deucedly sm art,
such cICver business rRvn. W hile we boast of our
ability to run our individual business we complain
again st our u tter inability to wisely adm inister our
com m on business.
Contem plate the post office W ith all its faults it
is a w onderful institution.—more wonderful than any
private business It is our com mon business. Your
business and my business is absolutely dependent upon
it. and we run it so well that me can send a letter
from Chicago to San Francisco for tw o cents. If the
American Express Com pany were operating the post
f>sy a ~ood qu arter for the delivery
office, von would I pay
of that letter *na don't yon forget tt
\ \ hen it comes to handling the big package, our
actnal trade, we b a rd it over to a private com pany
F
The pride of a thrifty housewife Is her
kitchen — especially If It Is not only spick
and span but also up to date. There are
many things now tnat the modern kitchen
requires. Among them are the labor savers,
time savers and waste savers that experi
ence has proved so helpful. Let us supply
you with
A kitchen Cabinet, for Instance, has
more conveniences In It than you can
BUSINESS CHIOS
IN EDISON-FORD
MONEY SCHEME
How to Eliminate
AU Tixea
U tility
F u r n itu r e
Y o u f K i t c h e n IN'eecfc
•e* and a vaat «it«n»ioa ol govern-
^
m «at control o v .r Industry. U th a
Eighteen convicts from th e Oregon
.p e d a l prlvlleg* of borrow ing m o s
, t * t* p enitentiary a re now employed
e y w ithout in te re st la really a boos
at McMinnville, w here they are cut-
and la gran ted only to ce rtain groups
tin* wood for the m unicipality.
of producer», th« lint to be changed
from Urn« to tim e, «omebody mu»t d«
With delegates present from all
eld« who nr« to b« th« fnvored
lodges In th e Rogue riv er valley the
group* and w hether th a t »omebody 1«
Southern Oregon Odd Fellows asso-
C oagre.« or F ederal w arehouse direc
j elation was organised at Medford.
tors who are «ubject to p artisan op
W. F. B oettcher of The Dalles was
polntm ent nnd rem oval, th« Question
elected president of th e Oregon Re j Weuld Open W ay for Politics! Med who la to receive free money will un
doubtedly rem ain In politico nnd will
tail Je w e le rs’ association a t th e 16tb
dling W ith Business and Compli
recu rren tly become of g reet m om ent
annual convention held in P ortland.
1
cate th* Conduct of Trad«
m election dny approaches.
Dr. C larence W. G reene of the :
“Mr Edison contend» th a t his com
and Finance.
T eachers' college, Columbia univer- |
modity dollar« will be sounder than
slty. New York city, has accepted the |
'
f 0 ld dollar» because ‘th e re In the
The w eaknesses of the Edison Ford w afehouse Ues the actu al w ealth, the
office of p resid en t of Albany college
T he P o rtland Ju n io r league has rais
commodity money schem e to abolish j thing» w« « at and w ear and mu»t
con
ed $11,000 dedicated to the support of tb s
standard and do aw ay with sum s to live.’ At firm, he says, only
a few basic com m odities are ta bs ac
tb s children's orthopedic clinic of the m onetary instability, In terest charges cepted. such ss grain, cotton, wool,
and
speculation
In
farm
products
ara
university of Oregon school of medi
rice, legumes, fnts. flax and tobacco.
exposed by W illiam T. F oster, Dlrno- Manufactured articles, he w arns us.
cine.
to r of the Pollack Foundation for will not he satlsfnctory to r th is pur-
The annual Je rse y picnic for the Econom ic R esearch, In an article la
m em bers of the Linn County Jersey the Proceedings of th« Academy of pose.
“If, then, a w arehouse full of tobac-
Cattle club will be held at th e J. G. Political Science. He shows th n t tbs
g u aran tees the soundness of the
co
n ear Gllkey sta tio n on only resu lt of the plan would be to notes Issued ag ain st It they m ust be
Holt
Ma* 19
ag g rav ate the ev ils^ it aim s to cura. j redeem able In tobacco. They are. in
Charles M. Snider, for th e la st eight T h ere is presented herew ith the first ! fact. F ederal Tobacco sole*
e p an
years editor and publisher of th e W av «r a series of articles, prepared by th* m ust provldo In like m an n er or e
mr ml F 1 ■ T U O t C S 110(1 S O OD.
T UrlDer*
co N ew s-E nterprise, died suddenly at A m erican B ankers' Association, rs- j more,
e r*‘ there would h a re to be as many
his Sherm an county home of h eart viewing Mr. F o ster's argum ent.
different kinds of tobscco notes as
disease.
T he plan provides. Mr. F o ster ex-
were ( r a des of tobacco. Every
plains,
for
governm
ent
built,
owned
on#
w^0
uae(j m oney In exchange
A wage advance of 40 cents a day
for employes of the Brooks-Scanlon and controlled w arehouses, to which WOuld need to have a t hand the latest
Lumber com pany and th e Shevlin- producers m ight bring basic commodl- , m ark et quotations on all products ac-
tles raised on A m erican soil, on which ! ceptsd for storage, as they approached
Hlxon com pany of Bend, has been an
th ey wish to borrow money. A gov- In m ark et value the esta s e
nounced.
vslne, in order to estim ate the relatlv*
em in en t ag en t would grade the pro
Irrlgon claim s to have produced the d ucer’s goods and hand him two value* of different kinds of d o lla rs
S alt Cod Notes
first straw b erries grown In Oregon pieces of p aper—a m ortgage certifi
“Everybody would have to observe
this season. N. Seam an and son made cate and an equity certificate.
carefully w hether he had G rads A
th eir first picking from a sm all garden
Thv Edison-Ford Plan
K ippered H erring notes or G rade X
patch May 3.
/
The m ortgage certificate could be Salt Cod notes. If th e re was a strik e
W inter w heat in Oregon show ed a exchanged a t any national bank for ! 0j bitum inous coal m iners he would
very decided Im provem ent during F ed eral R eserve notes up to 50 per I board Bitum inous Coal notes. If there
April and a production of nearly 19,- cent of the average value of the goods was a slum p In cotton h* would try to
000,000 bushels Is forecast by th e bur for the previous twenty-five years. In get rid of Cotton notes.
“Consider, on th» other band, the
th is way the producer would obtain a
eau of ag ricu ltu ral economics.
sim plicity and definiteness or a gold
loan
of
money
w
ithout
incurring
any
Tw enty-four m a rk e t roads have been
»«cured dollar. All the world knows
designated by th e Linn county court expense to r the use of the money and precisely w hst Is m eant by the con
v ertlb llity of a paper certificate into
upon which the s ta te and county m ar he would still own the goods.
“His equity certificate Is his evi gold. All the world accepts the gold
ket roads funds will be expended. A
total of $88,582.66 la available for this dence of ow nership," Mr. F o ster says. In exchange. Us value Is known In
! "H e may keep It. sell It or p resen t It «very m a rk e t It Is readily tested,
work.
a t a bank as security for a loan. H*
Twenty-four feet of snow blocks the or anyone to whom he sells It can prs- storsd, preserved, divided, tra n sp o rt
ed. Moreover, th e re are the gold re
McKenzie pass a t the Bummlt of the sen t It at any tim e w ithin a year, to- l e r r e i m aintained for the very pur-
Cascades, according to H arry Q. g eth er with the ex act am ount of moa- pose of conversion and for no othar
Hayes, trap p e r and guide of McKenzie ey th a t has been loaned, and recedve ; and available on dem and.
bridge, who crossed th e sum m it a few the goods.
"From one of Mr. E dison’s a u th o r
days ago,
"If the goods a re not rem oved with lzsd statem en ts, how ever. It seems
th a t his plan does not provide tor
A storia has been designated as a in one year the G overnm ent m ust sell
Federal Tobacco notes, F ederal Flab
q u aran tin e port for ru m in an ts and them and thus g et back the money It ao tss and the like. In fact. It provides
swine arriving from a foreign coun has loaned. T his Is to p rev en t an ac for no new kind of money w hatever.
try as the re su lt of a new o rd er Is cum ulation of goods and to m ake sure No m atter w hat com modity the farm er
sued by th e U nited S tate s d ep artm en t th a t the money will be self-canceling. deposits w ith F ed eral agents, he takes
As ico n as the farm er repays th* his m ortgage certificates to a national
of agriculture.
loan or th e G overnm ent aells the bank and there exchanges It for F ed
A cablegram has been received at
goods an am ount of m oney Is de era l R eserve notes. They ar* Just Ilk*
Oregon City from Edw ard E. Brodle,
stroyed equal to th e am ount th a t was s a y other Federal R eserve notes.
m inister of th e U nited S tates In Slam,
"V ary well. It th ere Is nothing m ors
advanced
This. In all essen tials, Is
than th is In th« much-discussed Edi
now en route w ith hla fam ily to the
th e Edison com modity-money plaa.
son plan for a com modity money that
United S tates, th a t they have cancel
More T aaee
Is sounder than gold money th is part
ed th eir tour In China and a re com ing
"M ost men will be Im pressed by the of the plan ran lah es Into thin air. Tha
d irect to the U nited S tates via Japan.
fact th a t It Involves additional taxes, Edison money Is not sounder than
They will a rriv e h la ; 28.
additional corps of political appoint- gold money, for If ia gold money.”
i
This a good tim e to have your
papering dene. Let’a do it.
C. E. F e tze r
I *
1 Neodlecraft Shop
Independenc a
P hone 4 »21
H em stitch in g , D ress m aking.
N eckw are. S tam ped goods.
Baby Boudoir, P ack ag e goods
Leave o rd e rs a t P c m b e
Snail’s for H em stitching
that is conducting our common business and soak-'
ing us for i t Tne railroads conduct our common
business We do not run this which is OUR busi
ness. We let private interest here impose itself on!
our business. Every butines in the United Ststes is
as dependent on the railroad as it is on the post
office. W e complain about freight rate when the rail-
roads fo to the Interstate Commerce Commission
and roaist they have a right to dividends.
We give sway franchises, recklessly, and then we
do not insist on the contract with the recipient of the
franchise being enforced.
^
New York City stands on an island but little morff
than a mile wide and about fifteen mile* long That
little island ts so crowded with people that its real
**!*?* ha? ,b* highest assessment of any land in the
world. And yet if Mewstfork ,iCny. had n o t given-
her water front she Would earn etioughmofleV
as foolish’
. . I * . i Pe
business enterprises upon which
b° * T " '•
dependent
If we
7 h .7
* "ou* h *° ®wn *"d opvrate the business
m at is the common denom inator of all individual
business
f0Bdu« 0“ individual
.
run the common busi
ness with s profit for L S that would wipe out the
W a, ” fí,TTW',' , «bout which we complain and which.