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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03

as soon as he returned from his Euro
pean trip. However, Roosevelt is nc
less handy with the pen and the type
writer than with his tongue, and he
therefore will probably utilize these
other means to reach the public, now
that he is to be deprived of the op-
portunity to speak directly to the
people.
In fact, it is safe to say the public
will hear good deal from Roosevelt
during the coming campaign, even
though his physical disability will pre-
vent him from carrying out his plan
for a speaking tour of the country.
1t is not the Roosevelt way to. sit
down in idleness, simply because the
doctors have ordered him not to talk.
1t is a foregone conclusion, in fact,
that it will be a very busy summer
for the typists who will be employed
by the colonel to work out the politi-
cal messages and advice which he
planned to deliver personally.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
THE POOR TYPIsTS.

1t is now announced that Col
Roosevelt probably will be prevented
from taking speaking part in the
coming political campaign in this
country, it being explained that his
voice has failed him as a result of
his trying experiences during his re-
cent South American trip. Eminent
physicians. after a careful examina-
tion of the expresident, have advised
him his throat is seriously affected
and that it will be necessary for him
to exercise the greatest care for some
months to come. Especially has he
been warned against open-air speak
ing. or strenuous vocal exertions Of
any kind.
Undoubtedly it will be a severe
disappointment to Mr.. Roosevelt to
have his plans spoiled in this matter.
for it was his announced intention TO
take an active part in the pending
political campaign, and he even had
promised to make an extended speak
ing tour of the country, commencing
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
FRANCE TAKES OUR GOLD.

Exports of gold from this country
to France continue, and further en-
gagements for next week are report
| ed. The reason for this movement
of gold is explained as follows:
France is great creditor nation,
though industrially it is debtor ma
ton. just at this time, owing to the
Kaleidoscope shifts in politics and
ministries. France S financial affairs
are in nervous plight The inability
of any ministry to push through the
annual financial provisions for the
government does not signify that
France has suddenly lost its financial
resources or capacity; it merely indi-
Gates that some political horse-play is
going on, that would not take place
if the country were not in strong
enough posture to stand the strain.
France, then, is in momentary need
of our gold; and the fact that the
semi annual dividend payments are
coming on at the very moment when
government business is in such ano-
malous state. adds to the complexity.
1t is probable that the drafting of
gold TO Paris will slacken or cease
when the acknowledgements period is
past. 1t is very sure that with that
period past. with the political tangles
Strengthened out, and with the unpre-
'cedented American crop beginning to
move, this country will shortly be in
position to reclaim the metal that has
gone away from it, And it is because
American bankers understand this
quite well that they are showing no
over the continued ship |
ments of gold to Paris.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
THE CALL OF THE WILD"

These words have been used to de-
fine that primal instinct in man,
which has been the moving force in
the worlds conquest and civilization.
The ancient Greeks heard this magic
call and pushed ont from the towns
and cities they had builded TO form
colonies on hitherto unknown shores.
The tradition runs that it drove Eneas
and his followers from the ruins Of
Troy to journey over distant seas TO
the banks of the Tiber and there
found the Roman nation. Later it
urged on the Romans TO the conquest
of the wilds of Germany. Britain and
Gaul. 1t was in answer to this call
that Columbus made his perilous voy-
age across the broad Atlantic. 1t
led his followers. who colonized these
savage shores. to push on over the
Western prairies and the Pacific slope
and create an empire destined to be
the greatest in the world.
The tide of empire which has so.
long been flowing TO the Oecident is
now turning toward the Orient. The
savage islands of the Pacific and In
dian oceans have sent forth this call
and civilized man Is answering it.
1t has sounded from the jungles of
darkest Africa. the ieebOund regions
of the Arctic, and the unexplored Ant
oretie. and there will soon be no more
wilds. There are always adventurous
spirits who feel eabined. cribbed. and
confined in the cities civilization has
builded. who flee from their luxurious
life and obey with alaerity this i'm
peraetive call. They 60 forth to ex-
plore painless forests and untrOdden
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
THE FORMAL OPENING.

The formal opening of the Panama
canal will be matter of interest and
Importance to the American people
as whole, and it therefore is fitting
and appropriate that it be observed by
an official ceremony worthy of the
occasion. This, we are told, will be
done, and the president himself is
planning to visit the canal in an offic-
ial capacity and participate in the ex-
erciSes of dedication. Another fea-
ture of the program already agreed on
will be magnificent marine parade
of warships from Hampton Roads to
Colon, and thence through the canal
and up the Pacific coast to San Fran
cisco. The president intends to board
the SUPERINTENDENT New York at
Hampton Roads. with his official fam
lily, and proceed to Colon conveyed
by the greatest armada the world has
ever seen. Vessels from practically
all maritime nations will be present
in this remarkable procession. which
will be many miles long. With the
president will be all of the highest
government officials and heads of the
army and navy. and distinguished
guests.
At Colon the president will leave
the New York temporarily and raise
his flag on the battered old Oregon.
which will lead the pageant through
the canal TO the Pacific side. How
Splendidly appropriate it is that this
historic vessel is to be given the honor
of leading the procession, and what a
fitting thing it is that Rear Admiral
Charles +. Clark, retired, who piloted
the old ship in its sensational voyage
around South America in the Spanish
American war, should be again on the
bridge. with the head of the nation.
This probably will be the last official
Of the Oregon. to which
of Americans pinned their
hope and faith at a time when so
much seemed to depend upon its sue
cessful eireumnavigation of the South
American continent.
That the president is TO attend the
great exposition in San Francisco Is a
matter of unusual interest. But that
he is officially to open the Panama
canal 10 the trade of the world at that
time is of much greater moment. For
this engineering feat has never been
and it is eminently appro-
pirate that it be inaugurater with suit
able ceremonies. We are, all of US.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
FREE ADVICE.

The maternal ancestor who permits
her sixteen-year-old daughter to float
about nights with a sport with a
weak jaw and weak morals merely
opens the front door to grief and dis
grace. If you are not cognlzant Of
the character of the company your
daughter keeps, or what time of night
she turns in, your roar when the
gossips get busy will sound about
as pathetic as Il wheeze from a jews
harp The girl who insists on spoon
ing with every sport within the cor
poration limits should be relieved of
her overflow of affections with num-
Der ten slipper laid fearessly across
the hiplets. We would sooner see a
girl oseulate with blind shoat
through Il barbed wire fence than to
have her change partners six nights
a week in the family parlor with the
lights turned low. 1t is sometimes
more difficult proposition to marry
off n girl who has been paved over
by every yap in the balliwick than
it is to fatten sheep on pineapple
ice. You cant gold-brick IA sharp
eyed suitor with secondhand goods
any more than you can make a bath
robe fit goat There are weak mind
ed parents who are going up against
the Judgment day with about as much
chance as a cross-eyed damsel at a
beautiful show Their children will
raise up and call them blessed. with
the enthusiasm of one-legged man at
n club dance.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03

before he thinks, quits before he hits,
succumbs to fright before he makes
his fight; the man whose hand is al
ways on the reverse lever. His imag-
nation digs bitches along the road
and builds barriers at every stage
of the way. You have met him. He
belongs to no particular class; the
world has known him at every evolu-
ton. His ancestors pitied Archmedes
and derided his promise to detect
the adulteration in the kings crown.
His grandfather would have condemn
ed Fulton to a padded cell eight years
ago no man could sail the air, and
he s the same who smiled knowingly
when Bell proposed to send his words
a hundred miles.
Don't let him worry you. If he
cannot be kept in the line of progress
shove him to the rear; the path of
cannot be obstructed by
him who cries failure before the start
is made.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
NEW MILITARY LAW.

Military men agree that the recent
adoption by congress Of an act to
bring about the coordination of the
regular soldiers and volunteers in
time of war was step of vast I'M
portance and one that will greatly
assist the authorities of this govern
ment if the time ever again comes
when it is found necessary to organize
an army of considerable size for ac-
tive operations in the field. Under
the new law militia regiments will
enlist in body, and they will be in
for three years ''or the war. - They
will maintain their separate existence,
and will be recruited to make up
losses, and so will live as regiments
with their honors and their records.
In the federal service they will be
under the control of the president,
who may displace old officers for in
efficiency and appoint new. Provision
is made for the transfer or regular
army officers to the militia, and so the
old scandal of political generals -
will be minimized. Volunteers can
not be called for until the state mill
tia has gone to the front. But vol
unteers for the state militia may be
called for in any regiment that has
been depleted by passing into the fed
eral service.
Many good things are expected
from this new law, such as obviating
the payment of bounties, doing away
with the short-term service and the
creation of a superior esprit de corps.
State militia officers will become Uni
ted States officers, with all of the
attaching prestige and advantages.
There may be other volunteer regi-
ments, such as we had during the
Spanish war. but they would be out
side the state militia and would be
United States soldiers with no state
connection.
At this time the regular service
consists of $4,000 men, besides $4,000
in the coast artillery. The paper
of the state militia. or Ma
tional Guard. is about. 10000. If |
both regulars and militia were brought |
up to full war strength they would
aggregate about $4,000.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03

down deep in our hearts, rather fond
of the pomp and circumstances of Of
fetal display, nor should we be asham-
ed of it. For certainly if ever the
American people had good cause for
patriotic pride, it will be when the
great canal is declared officially finish
ed and ready for business. 1t was
built with American money, by Ameri-
can engineers and its conception came
from American brains. 1t will draw
the nation closer together and will
change the map Of the world, Surely
President Wilson will not beIittle his
high office if he follows the program
as outlined for the formal dedication
of the Panama canal.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03

deserts. to scale rugged mountains and
pillow unnavigated seas in search of
new worlds to conquer.
When all these worlds have yielded
to human progress, the spirit Of con-
quest will no longer sway the hearts
of men. and that ancient prophecy
that "The nations shall learn war no
more will be fulfilled Then and
then only will the redeemed and re-
juvenated earth become fitting abode
for aspiring and enlightening man.
Then the triumphs he seeks will be
those of art, scie nee and philan-
thropy, and human life will have a
value and contentment never known
when the "Call of the Wild" was the
motive of mankind
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
ART FOR ARTS SAKE.

One of The, Observer most val
ned contemporaries complains of the
intellectual life of its community and
thinks it is in decidedly bad state,
all because lecture delivered by an
able orator and distinguished educator
was attended by only forty persons.
From the news columns of this sane
publication it is learned that the
theme upon which the lecturer dis
coursed was "The Artist and His
Ideals" and The Observer rises to
remark that if more than forty people
of that community are interested in
this subject it is most extraordi-
nary town.
Why the plain citizen should be
interested in the artist and his ideals
more than in the miner and his meth
ods, or the tinsmith and his tricks, is
social puzzle that has never been
solved. The artist serves Il useful
purpose in the commonwealth, but
why should he be more highly esteem
ed than the tailor, the carpenter. the
blacksmith or the printer does not APP
pear from the records. Many persons
deem it intellectual and quite superior
to profess an understanding of mat
ters outside of the daily struggle for
bread.
The history of Italy. the home of
the artist and his ideals, shows that
when art was at It's highest state,
those that cultivated it the most en-
Enthusiastically were like the Borgais.
men sunken in the most frightful
depths of vice and crime. There is
nothing in art, per Sc, to make a man
better than his neighbor, notwith-
standing the evident contrary opinions
of our esteemed contemporary.
Arl Is the minister OF luxury, and
while all mankind loves luxury it is
not the highest praise of an honest
citizen that he is extravagant in his
food, that he is fond of purple and
fine linen and that he covetS fine
paintings and statuary and costly Jew. I
els. 1t is the cant of the times that
these are the things that culture
strains after, but they are only to be .
obtained by the depression of the .
it was only in Egypt that .
a nation labored for an age to build .
a tomb. and the annuls of midiaeval /
Italy show too truly the result Of
national possession of art.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03

There is a gradual and continuous
drift from other occupations to farm
ing, dairying and fruit growing, and
the demand for small tracts of land
suitable for family support and a
profit is increasing. Were some of
the large ranches of this county, many
acres of which are practically idle un-
der the ownership of single individ-
uals, subdivided into small farms,
each with its building improvements
and intense methods of agriculture. it
would mean addition to population
and increased production.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
ARE WE BETTER?

An editorial in the Biblical World
publication by the University of
Chicago and edited by the faculty of
the Divinity school there, has set up
a large-sized theological controversy
by frankly questioning the value of
the scriptures in ethical teaching.
Christ s use of wine is cited as an
example of matter that controverts
the ideas of total abstinence. 1t
points out that the effect of the ira
ditional use of the bible as a compen-
dium of ethics was the presence in
the church of vast numbers of con-
scientious Christians who are "entire-
ly devoid of sensitiveness to those
moral issues which are most real in
our modern industrial and social
life. -
The Observer steadfastly maintains
that the average man of today is far
superior to the man of biblical times.
The average Christian of today has
the elements of morality, virtue and
sobriety far more thoroughly estab-
lished within him than had the men
who established the church and car
ried forward its divine mission in the
apostolic age.
If this be true what has been the
fruit of all these centuries of preach
ing and teaching? The standard of
was never so high as now.
Things were tolerated and regarded as
quite proper during the last fifty years
that would be wholly out Of place
now. The world is moving forward.
We are living in the brightest and best
day of the world S history. The men
who taught and wrought in bible
times were superior when measured by
the standards of that day, but they
would be wonderfully deficient if liv-
ing now.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03

If You wish to "air your views
on any subject pertaining to munich
pal improvement send them to The
Observer. Sign your communications.
not necessarily for publication, but as
an evidence of good faith. An hon.
est discussion of local affairs will
have a tendency for good.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
SENSIBLE HINTS FOR THE FOURTH OF JULY

Enact the signing the eclarato
II there are chimes have "Ameica" played
Keep piano music going all
in
Print patriotic freedi distribution.
Sing these he bandco
Have strings of lanterns
Make 1t a Homecoming family
Let the boys have campfire dinner.
An automobile parade picture
Send up small balloons with attached
athletic
Free entertainments halls children
porch
Exhibit relies
Each or thirteen the original
Use red white and blue blue candles
children like to put uniforms march them If
without fireworks.
AT the raising
the
matches and other aquatic torches
Betsy Ross making the American flag the Boston
Declaration Wahngons
Journal
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
WHAT INDEPENDENCE DAY
DID FOR ENGLAND.

Immediately, the Fourth of
July is noisily observed to oele-
brate tho adoption of the Dec
iaration Of Independence, Es-
sentiaIIy, the celebration has a
deeper significance and one
which the Americans ought to
know more about than they do.
It recalls not only our own in
dependence, but tho triumph of
the English people over the :
crown and the reIegation of the ..
king to his true place in tho .
English system of government.
BY the English system of gov
ernment we mean not only the .
system in England, but the sys-
tenn obtaining in the United .
States, the systems Of Canada, .
of Australia, of all the truly in
dependent powers which have .
grown up as result OF the .
great English movements of ad-
venture and of colonization .
which from time to time ex- .
pressed English energy, or the :.
English spirit of revolt, or that i.
of unrest, from the days of :.
Elizabeth to the days of Vic
toria. I.
To those who know the deveI- :.
opment of English popular gov l
ernment tho Fourth Of July :,
marks the time since when no 1
English monarch has dared to de- 1
mand the right to tax English !
people at home or in distant 1
colonies without their consent. !
The struggle was long, and the !
crown fought hard for its pre- 4
rogative, but despite this the I
principle of English liberty sur !
vived under what were appar- I
emily most untoward circum- !
stances, the crown became what !
it is, and a republic was estab- :,
lished which has become the :.
strongest nation in the world. !
The Fourth of July is the day :,
on which we celebrate the rule :.
of the people here and abroad, :.
the growth of individual liberty I;
and the absolute dependence of !
the crown in English lands I
Harper's Weekly. :,
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-03
THE MAN WHO KNOWS.

The Observer not infrequeutly
comes in contact with the man who
knows il cannot be done; who shrinks
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-11
STOCK SELLS OFF-RALLIES.
PROFITS and LOsses in Rishts Wiped
Out by Court Ruling. :

New Haven stock on the exchange yes
terday showed little disturbance as a re-
suit OF the court decision against the bond
issue. After the first pressure OF mod
crate amount OF stock on the market,
which sold at the opening 3 points down.
the stock Immediately recovered and from
70, the low point Of the day. advanced to
70. The existing issue OF convertible de-
bentures gained az points on the failure
Of the new issue,
At the office of J. y. Morgan & Co. It
was said that no arrangements have been
completed for new financing to take the
place of the debenture issue. The report
that the Morgan group which purchased
the SAT, 100000 notes In November had
agreed to extend them for three years was
denied at the office.
All contracts In the convertible bonds
when issued" as well as contracts In the
rights TO subscribe to them, are of as a
result of the court decision. There has
been active trading In both bonds and
rights from the time the bond issue was
announced IN June. Many curb brokers
and members OF the Stock Exchange have
paper profits on their trades, which are
now cancelled The losses through the
courts action. however, are Offset by the
| relief Of those who bought contracts when
they were high and have sustained paper
losses OF from 1 to nearly 8 points by the
decline In the price OF the bonds. The
range in price has been between 1O7 y
and l0l Il, the high prices ruling at first
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-11
CAT ATTACKS FAMILY;
5SHOTS END ITS LIVES
Animal Maddened by Charge of
BurkshOt Bites Two
Persons.

MIR. and Mrs. Herman Grote of 21O
East Thirty ninth street have for long
time had black and white cat which
was the pet OF all in their furnished
room house.
Some person discharged shotgun
loaded with buckshot in the yard of the
house last night and n large number OF
the shot landed In the cats body. The
cat did not lose all OF Its nine lives, how
ever. 1t dashed into the house and at
tackled everybo In sight
First it jumped at Mrs. Grote, but did
no more damage than tearing her dress.
Her husband ran TO Mrs. Grote's as
distance and the cat scratched his ears
severely. lie got grip on its tail. swung
II about and hurled it under the bed.
The animal dashed from there and at
tackled Jack Grote, years old, biting
him In the right leg. Mr.. Grote threw
"A bed quilt over the cat and sent for DIR.
g. G. Cudmore of 2i6 East Thirty ninth
street The doctor cluterized and dressed
the wounds.
Policeman Frauenberger OF the East
Thirty-fifth street station went TO the
house TO kill the cat The policeman
took it to the cellar. The animal leaped
at him as he unwrapped the quilt. Not
until he had put five bullets in its body
did the cat succumb.
DIR. Cudmore was satisfied that the an
imal was not mad, but was simply In
agony from the buckshOt wounds.