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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23
SERMONS AND SLEEP.

The French scientists are the most
consoling people in the world. They
are always working out some explana-
ton that affords consolation. Here
comes one with a theory about sleep
ing in churches that will be a re-
lief to both pastor and sleeper.
According to this French psycholo-
gist's theory, persons are inclined to
"doze" in church because of the de-
vout attention they pay to the SER
vices. In endeavoTing to fix every
word in their minds they put them
selves into a sort of trance. 1t is
about the same as what is called self
hvpnotism. and the more closely one
follows the minister the more likely
he is to find himself unable to re-
main awake.
For a good many years the pert par
agraphers have had a great deal to
say about church sleepers, and usually
the preacher has gotten the worst of
the argument. All manner of devices
have been suggested by the humorists
as aids to lengthy sermons, even to
the placing of electric needles in the
cushions to awaken the sleepers at the
pressure of a button by the minister.
But now that the inclination to slum-
ber in church has been accounted for
upon purely scientific grounds, the
remedy for the evil will probably be
abated in a practical way-perhaps
by encouraging the employment Of
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23

in numbers. By this standard, pro-
duction of animals would show a
large increase. The only decrease in
cereals is susceptible of a like ex-
PLANTATION. Rye has fallen off slightly
but barley has more than doubled.
Here has been transfer of industry.
In all there has been such improve
ment of methods and application of
intelligent industry to Agriculture that
the farmers alone probably produce
twice as much per capita as they did
Immediately after the civil war.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23
LOCAL NEWS.
+ f. + + + T. I. + T. j. - + + +

Misses Hazel Jewett and Rose Par
rott, who spent the weekend with
Mrs. Bot. Casey, left Sunday even
ing, Miss Parrott going to Monmouth
and Miss Jewett to Roseburg.
Miss Loree O'Connell, who has been
in Dallas for the last week, left yes
terday for Corvallis, where she will
attend summer school at o. A. c.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bennett, DIR.
Carey, Dorothy and Stuart Bennett
motored to Oregon City on Saturday,
returning home Sunday.
Monmouth will have quite number
of the Dallas young people during the
next six weeks. The following will
attend summer school: Alice Grant,
Claudia Brown, Lila McDaniels, Dora
Hayes, Georgia Ellis, Carolyn Gohrke,
Ruth Campbell, Beulah Balderee, and
Arlene Bennett
Mrs. w. Clark and Mrs. 7. j. Mar
ren of McMinnville visited their par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. V. R. Snyder,
on Sunday.
Miss Elva Lucas is visiting Mr. and
Mrs. Nathan Stone at the Stone ranch
near Pedee.
Professor Metzger left Monday for
Cahasset Beach, Washington, where
he will teach a bible class at the
Y. W. C. A. summer conference.
T. J. Hayter attended the annual
reunion of the pioneers of Oregon and
the Indian war veterans at Portland
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. A. Bennett went to
Oregon City by auto on Saturday,
made a pleasant visit and returned
Sunday.
Mrs. Belle Blake and Miss Maude
Byerley have come hither from Port
land to make their home with their
father, A. Byerley.
Mr.. C. V. johnson of Airlie, one
of the boosters for Polk county, was
in Dallas on Saturday, and took oc-
casion to pull The Observers S latch
string. Mr.. johnson is former
mayor of Corvallis, and was later ap-
IbIdlStu lbI llt blt VI vi NldllAl. llt
is in business at Airlie, and is enthus-
iastic concerning the possibilities of
that particular section of the country.
Mrs. L. E. Viers and daughters of
Chicago arrived in Dallas yesterday
on a visit to Z. R. Viers, who has
a fruit ranch west of Dallas.
DIR. Fink and son Arthur, who are
running mates, went to Portland on
Sunday with a view to purchasing an
J. W. Vogue. Portland confeetiOn-
er, was here on Saturday with an
party.
Counterfeit half dollars are in cireu-
atiOn in the Willamette Valley. Three
Of them will buy The Observer for
year.
Among those farmers to improve
their buildings this year is d. A.
Wright, about five miles southwest
IF Dallas, who has the lumber on the
ground for rebuilding his house. !
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23
HOW THE TARIFF WORKS.

The revised tariff has been in force
for more than seven months. The
figures available show that since the
beginning of last October to the end
of last month exports decreased Sll3.-
012.555, in comparison with the cor
responding period in the previous
year. AT the same time imports in
creased S23,625,493 As a result the
trade balance for the seven months
ended in April was less favorable by
$l36, ,63S,04S than for the same months
in the previous year.
This is a very large shift. but its
is made more impressive
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23

when it is noted that last month alone
the alteration in the relation of i'm
ports and exports compared with the
April figures year ago converted an
export balance Of $53,890,849 to an
import balance of $10,271,872, total
change of $64,162,721 adverse to the
United States.-New York Sun.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23
PLAN is INEFFECTIVE.

The organization and re-organiza-
ton of associations with view to in
ducing patronage for Oregon manu-
featuring industries can amount to
comparatively little under the present
mode of procedure of these societies,
extensive in scope though their work
may be, for the reason that they do
not reach the consumer, the individual
member of the community upon whom
the producer depends for support.
| Just now federation of all the or
CARNATIONS in Portland that have
heretofore put themselves on record in
support Of state institutions has been
effected. The consolidated societies
are composed chiefly of men who are
connected in some manner with the
production of commodities, and others
who are not solely philanthropists.
The purpose is to inaugurate state
wide campaign to make Oregon made
goods second nature to the Oregon
consumer, and to this end hot-air mer-
chants will be distributed over the
commonwealth to attend various con-
ventions and meetings, where nine
tenths of those attending such gath
erings are already preachers but not
practitioners of the same doctrine, as
is the case with the ineffective Made
in-Oregon banquets, which are so eX-
tensively given at individual expense
for the benefit of the manufacturer.
The key to success is legitimate
of Made-in-Oregon goods by
the men who make them. Eastern
eXpend thousands up
on thousands of dollars annually in
Oregon to bring their goods to the
everyday attention of the purchasing
public, while the home manufacturer
draws more tightly together his purse
strings and watchfully waits for the
community booster to develop his bus
mess by means of a home-expansion
in his behalf. There can be
but one way in which the desired end
may be speedily and effectively ac
and that is-as egotistical
as our opinion may appear to be
honest straightforward, legitimate ad
iertising in the country press, the
2nly medium of publicity extant that
successfully appeals to the consumer
1T the fireside.
No great gift of business sagacity
IS necessary to solve the problem
which is now perpleXing the Oregon
He need only follow
n the well-beaten path Of thousands
If others to gain the goal The mon
" annually expended for cheap ora
ory in an endeavor to persuade con-
sumption of state products is prac-
ically thrown to the winds. The
ooner the penny promoters realize the
rue condition of affairs the sooner
Ill Oregon will be benefited.
The booster who confines his arou-
nents alone to boosters, as III the
ase at hand, for none except those di- !
ectly interested are reached, is like
INTO the horse that diligently and la
oriously travels the tread -mil-it gets ,
Iowhere. The manufacturer should
the scriptural injunction,
the Lord helps those who help them
elves"
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23
CHEAP ELECTRIC CARS.

Where the present automobile craze
will end is beyond anything but pure
speculation. but that it will continue
to grow and spread for some time to
come seems to be the safest kind of
a prediction. The limit has not yet
been reached in the simplification and
cheapening of the gas propelled ma
chimes, and now comes celebrated
expert, the consulting engineer for
the General Electric company, who as
sures us that in ten years electric
cars will be in general use on the
streets of every American city, and
that they will be so cheap, both in
original cost and for operation, that
practically everybody can afford them.
This rather remarkable prophecy
was made before the annual conven-
ton of the National Electric Light
association, the speaker being Mr., C.
p Steinmetz, recognized as one of the
foremost authorities on electrical ap-
paratus and appliances. His audience
was composed of men of highly tech
meal training, and it therefore is safe
to say the speaker gave no undue lib
critics to his Imagination, but confined
himself closely to the truth and cold
facts, as befitted the occasion. If this
prediction is verified, however, it is
easy to see it necessarily will mean a
practical reorganization of the trans
portation problem of cities, and espec-
tally of the larger cities. Conditions
at present are bad enough. In large
cities constant efforts are required to
keep the streams of automobiles NOV
ing. The difficulties of this situation
are numerous and are trying alike to
operators of motor cars and to pedes-
trians. What will happen when the
price of a serviceable electric car is
reduced to $500 or less is problemati-
cal. Yet there must always be some
provision for those who travel on foot,
for the majority must continue to
walk, on down town streets.
Mr.. Steinmetz says that electric
motor cars will not only be so cheap
that they will be in universal use,
but he believes the electric lighting
companies will be able to charge these
machines and keep them in repair and
presentable condition at the very low
rate of $40 a month A vista of at
tractive possibilities opens before the
mind in contemplating the fulfillment
of this prophecy. For example, cheap
machines will develop suburban dis
triets and permit workingmen to live
in attractive and healthful surround |
ings, thus doing away very largely
with tenement problems and housing
perpleXities. 1t would be hazardous to
question Mr.. Steinmetz's authority in
this matter. In the realm of science
everything is possible. And it seems
to suppose that with men
Of learning all over the world devoting
themselves to such things it is only
question of time when automobiles
will be a household necessity and so
heap that only the poorest families
will be without them.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23

Believing that if the republicans
would win in the approaching cam
paign it must be through an organized
force, the party managers are busy
laying plans for more thorough or
ganization in every quarter. Mere
talk and announcements are ineffect-
i've, and unnecessary. The cold, hard
facts, honestly presented, should be
sufficient to win a victory.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23

When we read in the dispatches
that six thousand persons foundered
and beat their arms and legs in a
surf area of less than ten miles at
Atlantic City we arrive at the con-
clusion that our own little bath tub
has certain superiority to watering
resorts on the sea-beat shore.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23

The valuable man to a community
is he who does the most efficient work
for the community and not the one
who merely strives for his own sue
cess.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23
HELLO, BILL.

"Hello, Bill" i" called out a country
man to an acquaintance Saturday
night at the carnival, and the two
huskies grasped hands in friendly
greeting, which suggests that there
is something of a real hearty good
nature in the expression. It is the
expression of eomradery, not only of
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23
SPECIAL SALE OF
POSTCARD ALBUMS

I have just made purchase of 100
Postcard Albums at unheardof low
prices, and am going to share these
bargains with my customers.
The regular prices of these albums
ranged from 25 cents to $780,. Il am
going to sell them at 10 and rs cents.
You cannot afford to let your post
cards lie scattered around, when you
can get an album for a dime or
quarter. These cards will be more
highly treasured by you as time goes
on, and some day you will be glad
you kept them.
Watch for the display in our show
window.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23

Entered as second-class matter in
the Postoffice at Dallas, Oregon.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23
BY LEW GATES
Subscription Rates.

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ative.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-23

Legal blanks for sale at this ONCE.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-04-29
SHIP MANY FOWLS TO ALASKA
Will Be Used for Food and to Produce
Eggs for Citizens of the
Territory.

Oakland. Cal-Six thousand live
fowls shipped to Alaska on one ship
is the record made by chicken ranch
near Oakland. The consignee is Rob-
ert Browning, who has ranch near
Skagway. and intends to use the fowls
as egg producers and for food. Mr.
Browning says the chickens stand the
Alaska climate well and the eggs sell
for huge price during the winter. He
has placed an order for next year for
$4,000 chickens from the same Ala.
media county ranch. contingent on the
success of this shipment.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-04-29
TO AID UNEMPLOYED WOMEN
New York Society Devotees Arrange
Elaborate Pageant to Assist
the Unfortunates.

New York.-The recent failure OF
two of the large department stores of
this city resulting in throwing over a
thousand women and girls out of en-
ployment, is the cause of this charm
ing tableau pose by Mrs. Allan Camp
bell Qeft), and Mile. de Gonzales
(righD, to say nothing about Tiger"
the young lion cub loaned to the So
ciety women for this particular pur-
pose, by the management of the Bar
mum & Bailey circus.
Mrs. Peter Cooper Hewitt and other
women of society arranged what was
probably one of the most, If not the
most elaborate of social events, and
the ladies who organized the Confer
ence on Unemployed Among Women,
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-04-29
U1OrLd
AUSTRALIAN EXPERIMENT IN DEMOCRACY
By URLTER LDILLIRMJ, IL
ofthe School ofthe Unseny Missouri

continent. Western Kansas is dupli-
Gated, though on an ampler and more
arid scale, ia western Australia, and
Queensland resembles, to a degree,
New Mexico and Arizona.
1t is "a new country as well as
varied, in which the experiment of de-
mocracy is on trial. This excuse for
any delinquency or failure is urged by
every Australian.
A White Mans Country.
The experiment is being made by
white men. Australia is deliberately
a white mans country. A few abo-
riginal blacks survive, in color black
er than the so-called Guinea negro
once known in America and in indus
try, about on the same plane with his
LATEST and latest youthful descend
ant. Some Chinese and Japanese re-
side in the coast towns, admitted be-
fore the policy Of Australia for the
white man" was entered upon, but
Altogether the non-whites are negli-
gible fraction of the entire population
and, unless the governmental policy
be changed, as does not seem within
the range Of probability. will SO re-
main. immigration is sought in many
ways, but this immigration must be
desirable and white. No black, yell
low or brown man need apply. He is
not rejected on account of his color
That might lead to international COM
plications. He is rejected on other
grounds, illiteracy, knowledge of no
language, or for other reason The
law is administered so that no col
ored man can get into Australia. A
captain, on whose steamer five China
men came as stowaways, was fined
$4,000 At the Queensland ports Gus
toms officers are specially vigilant in
looking out for undesirable immi-
grants. Two grave, military appear
ing individuals, wearing caps that bore
the label H. M. Customs" might have
been seen in my cabin, as the steamer
tarried at Brisbane. They turned over
every article of furniture and every
bit OF bed clothing in the berth to dis,
cover whether or not a Chinaman had
been therein concealed, with or with
out my knowledge. l was not to be
permitted to disturb the Australia
for-the-white-man" policy
Regarding only one part of Aus
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-04-29
WINS BIG LUMBER HOLDINGS
Edward Hines of Chicago Is Victor %
Famous Fight With State Of
Mississippi.

Jackson, Miss-Edward Hines Onf
cago lumberman, has won his famO1'
fight with the state of Mississippi IL
volving timber holdings in the sOu'r
ern counties, valued at about hllesl
million dollars. The supreme eou''
held that a foreign corporation IS 10.
amenable to the statute pronlDl"ns
timber holdings by any corporation IL
excess of $2,00O,00O in value. the us
cision upholds the constitutional
of the statute, but rules that II COZ
be made applicable to domeSuc 'O'
porations only.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-04-29
WOMAN POLICE CHIEF
Girl Editor of Michigan Paper
Surprises People.
Miss Blanche ingalls, Takes Post Of
fered Her In Joke and Stirs
Up the Town by Her
Reforms.

Chesaning, Mich.-Following scath-
ing criticism of the police in the COL
umns of her Newspaper, Miss Blanche
ingalls, was put In charge of the
Chesaning police department by the
village council. The position was
proffered in spirit of sarcasm, but
Miss Ingalls, accepted before the Of
fer could be withdrawn.
For long time Miss ingalls, had
not been in sympathy with what she
termed lax law enforcement" and she
threw the light of publicity on every
flaw in the village government she
could uncover. She has put into ef-
feet large number of reforms.
Some of the reforms are:
Card games in saloons or poolrooms
prohibited.
Playing dominoes for money barred
Throwing dice tabooed.
Eighteen-year age limit for poolroom
frequenters established.
Ten O'Clock closing order promul
gated.
Blanketing horses on streets or
dered
Miss ingalls, is fearless in the dis
charge of her duties, and in enforcing
the aforementioned order she tackled
the so-called bad man" of the Sec
ton and subdued him. He is Tom
Ederley, who has whipped nearly
every man in the county and whose
i
neither sex.
Ederley drove into town on dry
when sleety rain was falling. His
horse, warmed by the brisk drive, was
left standing unblanketed and steam
ing in the cold while the man entered
a saloon. Miss Ingalls, followed Eder-
ley into the barroom
Here you" she called to him, "go
out and blanket that horse"
Ederley enjoyed brief moment of
laughter
"Oh, 1 guess I'll not blanket the
horse" he answered, roughly.
You hear me-" Miss ingalls, an
swered. And l want you to blanket
him right now
"Aw, mind your own business"
Ederley grunted, as he poured out an
other drink or whisky.
Drop that drink and get out of
here Miss Ingalls, ordered. I'VE
want none of your ilk in Chesaning."
There was a sudden movement and
sound of breaking glass and liquor
trickled over the bar. Miss ingalls,
had knocked the glass from Ederley's
hand as he lifted it to his lips. Then
she locked her fingers firmly in his
hair and conducted him to the side of
his buggy
Now, goi" she said
Ederley got into his buggy and then
looked at her
Well, I'll be d-dl" was his com
ment as he snapped the reins over his
horses back.
This is only one of the numerous
experiences the militant editor has
had since she became responsible for
behavior
In about six months Chesaning will !
be the model village Of the country, |
Miss ingalls, believes.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-04-29

land in settlement, though oldest in
geological years. Though discovered
and named in 1906 by a forgotten
1870 that Captain Cook, sailing the
South seas, rebound the island CON
tinent and baptized it into the Brit
ish empire Nor did occupation by
white colonists begin until 1887, and
the first colonists were convicts
Australia should be a land of Sc
lected population" runs an old and
cruel saying, for our fathers were
sent out from England by the best
Judges!" Only within the last third
of a century has Australia, through
growth of population and advanced
legislation, taken any considerable
part in the worlds affairs Australia
has no ancient crust of privilege to be
broken up by the plowshare of pro-
gressive legislation. The soil is clear
to the seeding The political husband
man has had an unusual field, of
which he has not been slow to take
advantage
Continent of Marvellous Riches.
The discovery of gold in 1851, at
Bathurst, west of the Blue noun
tains, turned attention to the mar
velous richness of Australia, which
had been comparatively unknown.
source of Australians wealth. 1t is
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-04-29
GALLANTRY MAY PROVE FATA..
Woman's Suffrage Movement d
France Suffers From Attitude Of
Dandies and Washers.

Paris.-Gallantry may prove fatal
to the woman suffrage movement ID
France. The first suffrage parade tool
place here, but ended in failure oF
ing to the attentions addressed to tho
women by crowd of dandies and
Washers, both old and young BreaE
ing through the lines, the men over
whelmed the women marcherS VIII
their attentions, Sinking and boVilg
and raising their hats. Finally H
leaders appealed to the police, and tl'
streets were cleared of the ma:hes
Then there was no one else LETT 70
view the parade, and the women were
escorted to their hall. where tnsg
made speeches to one another.
Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1914-04-29

was successful from a financial view
point in the pageant which was seen
at the Waldorf-Astoria and which
eclipsed the spectacular elaborateness
of all previous pageants. One of the
features Of the pageant, called ''Veni-
tas Venetae"-meaning a masque of
magnificence, was the appearance of
the trio pictured here, in 1.-THE Temple
of Love" tableau. Mrs Hewitt engaged
the interest and cooperation of
Messrs. F. H. Markle. playwright, and
Albert Herter, the architect, for the
production and staging of this mid
Lenten pageant, and practically every
body registered in the Blue book" and
Who's Who" was present to help
swell the funds, which were applied
to such worthy cause-helping the
unemployed women.