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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
DALLAS REALTY.

The Dallas real estate maket, the fna
and conclusive barometer which in
dicates the prosperity or decay of {
community, is reported firm by loca
traffickers, than whom no other citi
zens are more zealously directing at
tention to the advantages of the city
and the natural resources of the sur.
rounding country. These men stimu.
late the confidence of capital and
guide the investment of money by
wise and safe discounting of the city Is
future. While there is no great ac-
tivity in realty, transfers are con-
stantly being made, and the number
of new dwellings that naturally fol-
low in the wake of such transactions
testify to the growth of Dallas.
Within the knowledge of The OBJ
server Dallas has never had a real
estate boom and the manifestation of
activities are not discredited by any
of the ephemeral characteristics of an
artifcially stimulated movement.
Booming has been persistently dis
corpaged, and the hotbed methods
of the boomer have no place here.
The people of the community have
been satisfied with that legitimate
permanent growth that meets and sup
plies an actually existing need. 1t is
a story of solidity, as will be told by
the increase in assessed valuations for
the present year. With this founda-
ton of conservatism to support the
predictions regarding the
outlook for the future, the real estate
field must necessarily command re-
spect. The reports that there is an
demand for sites are har-
1ingers of an assured progress. They
forecast the future which the wise in
7estor must anticipate to reap the full
of possible success. They
hallenge the attention of all who are
'eady to follow the beckoning hand
If opportunity.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
TO BAR DECEPTION.

Ever since the enactment of the
federal pure food and drug act it has
been customary with practically all
manufacturers and compounders af-
fected by this law to stamp the goods
produced by them: Guaranteed
under the food and drug act. "
What this label really meant was
simply that the manufacturer guar
anteed the contents of the package to
comply with the law. But what the
average consumer took it to mean
and the dealers of course took no
pains to change this impression was
that the government guaranteed the
contents to be pure and wholesome.
The deception, of course, was OBJ
vious, and because Of this fact there
has been persistent protest ON the part
of certain public spirited citizens, who
held that the government should not
sanction or become party to a petty
deception of this kind. As a result
of this protest the department of ag-
riculture, which is in charge of the
enforcement of this law, has finally
announced a new ruling, to the effect
that after May l, 1915, the deceptive
label will not be permitted The de-
lay in the application of this rule,
it is explained, is to allow old stock
bearing this label to be worked off,
also to premit the manufacturers to
use up the packages, bottles, etc., al
ready supplied with the label
As a matter of fact this rule should
have gone into effect long ago. The
label was distinctly misleading, and
its deceptive character is capitalized
by the same type of manufacturers
who used to put ground cocoanut
shells in pepper, and water, coloring
matter and alcohol in patent medi-
zines.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
HUNGER AMID PLENTY.

Nothing will better illustrate the
finding of Investigators that the high
cost of living in this bountiful land
is largely attributable to imperfect
food distribution than an instance of
waste from Eastern Oregon, Wash
ington and western Idaho. In these
sections the farmers are engaged in a
systematic slaughter of rabbits, which
have become so numerous as to en-
danger the crop. Prizes have been
offered and great local interest is
displayed in the struggle of the COM
petitors to excel. At the last account,
more than $4,000 pairs of ears had
been accredited to the various ac-
counts kept at the registration head
quarters in Idaho. The carcasses are
either buried or left to rot on the
surface.
In the large cities of the country
charitable organizations and munich
pal authorities are experiencing the
annual difficulty of feeding the per-
ennial brigades of men and women,
who, like the grasshopper of the old
fable, refuse to lay up store for
the unproductive season. Many of
them go hungry, or at least not suf-
ticiently fed Food, especially meat
in all forms, is high in price. Still,
within easy reach of both Denver and
San Francisco, where penury pinches,
this enormous waste of edible food is
going on. If the money contributed
for prizes had been used to charter
refrigerator cars, now idle in large
numbers, this immense quantity of
meat might have been conserved and
shipped to points where it would have
brought relief. No doubt these facts
can be applied to other forms of food
waste.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
VOTE THE BONDS.

From what The Observer can learn
concerning the situation, it appears
that if Dallas would retain the county
fair itmust provide permanent site
for the Institution. This opportunity
is now offered, and the proposition
should not be rejected. Independence
stands ready to meet the requirements,
andSif we fail to vote the bonds nee
essary for the purchase of grounds
we may lose the fair. Can we afford
to sleep at the switch? The cost is
comparatively small, being an addi-
tional tax of only four-ffths Of a
mill on the assessed valuation of the
city. This expenditure will be return
ed many fold in the years to come.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02

other candidates already have an
nounced themselves. Moreover, it is
generally understood that Governor
Colquitt is prospective candidate
for the senatorship, and his friends
are said to be quietly working in his
interests.
If Mr.. Bailey would cut loose from
big business and special interest asso-
Citations, and sincerely devote himself
to advancing the general public inter
cts and welfare, he would make a
very creditable representative of Tex
as in the upper branch of congress.
He is man of conceded ability and
unbounded energy, fine public speak
er and a shrewd parliamentarian. In
his previous experience as senator,
however, he allied himself with the
bipartisan Reactionary interests,
which caused his popularity to wane
before the advancing wave of pro-
gressiveness in politics. Possibly he
thinks the progressive wave has spent
its force in Texas, and it is also pos
sible he finds encouragement in the
recent success of Senator Penrose in
Pennsylvania. The standpatters of
both parties, in fact, are evidently
looking for political reaction that
will give the representatives of spec
ial interests better show in congress.
And if this hope is verified Bailey
may again become one of the 'big"
leaders in the United States senate.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
PLANNING A BIRD CENSUS.

According to Washington report,
Uncle Sam is planning to take bird
census of the United States. Of
course, it will scarcely be possible to
make an accurate count of the wild
birds, but under the plan proposed
it is hoped to secure fairly reliable
enumeration of the native birds in
different sections, thereby providing in
formation that will be interesting as
well as valuable. To secure this in
formation a limited number of OBJ
servers will be selected, to cover prac-
tically uniform areas in different parts
of the country. To each of these a
tract of from forty to eighty acres
is assigned and they are expected
at various times during the summer
months to zigzag back and forth
across their assigned area, counting
the birds as nearly as possible of
the various species. With all the re-
ports in and tabulated, it would. be
possible to get at least an approx
mate idea of the number of robins,
wrens, bluebirds and so on which in
summer time tenant different sections
and latitudes.
While the actual bird population
cannot by this plan be determined,
the department of agriculture, which
has the matter in charge, believes that
by taking this record over the same
area for a number Of years it will be
possible to ascertain whether the pres
ent state and national laws are eff
fective, and whether native game and
birds are increasing or
in number.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02

one another in their quarrel over the
spoils.
These subject races have been steep.
ed in horrors too long to be held to
the strict responsibilities of civiliza-
ton. The shame falls upon the pow
ers that have by intrigue kept the
Turks in Europe a century too long,
egged the Balkan peoples into war
with delusive hopes, and drove them
at one another's throats with bitter
disappointment.
The game of revenge and spoil has
been played. The game of humanity,
if there is any humanity in govern
ments, is to rustic the Ottomans out
of Europe and put the Balkan peo-
Piles under some sort of supervision
till they learn to live together.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
HORRORS OF WAR.

An insight into the real horrors OF
war is revealed in the report which
has just been made by the Carnegie
peace foundation concerning the
atrocities which occurred in the Bal
kan region during the long drawn
out conflict, first between the Balkan
allies and the Turks, and later the
allies themselves. 1t would appear
from this report that the Balkan atroc-
tiles were about as hideous in their
enormity and inhumanity as anything
chronicled in history. Many of the
details that darken this report are
fairly unprintable, and it takes vivid
imagination to even comprehend the
situation that is pictured.
Fortunately, religious war, which
was the real character of the Balkan
conflict at its start, has disappeared
from most parts of the earth, though
it still hangs over the Mohammedan
fringe in North Africa and South
Asia. 1t should have been expelled
from Europe long ago, by herding the
Turks across the Bosporus to live with
their own. The intrigues of Euro
pean politics that have kept the Turks
in their bloody foothold have almost
as red a record of massacre as the
Thirty Years war.
The christian people that have lived
in a Turkish shambles for five CEN
turies have learned more than the
oath of retributory vengeance. They
have supped on horrors till the fever
Of revenge leads them to turn on each
other, when Moslem victims are lack
ing. But the first mach of the allies |
through Macedonia and Thrace was
hardly more stained with murder. ar
son and outrage than the reeoil of
The Greeks. Bulgars and Serbs upon ]
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
THE JAY WALKER.

The "jay walker" is new tern
that has come into use and is beins
employed to designate an opposite ex
treme of the joy rider. The latter
as everyone knows, is a term applied
to reckless, careless persons who
either drive or ride in automobiles, al
speed that is faster than safety and
prudence warrant, and who thereby
endanger themselves and others using
the public highways. The "jay
walker" ION the other hand, is a per-
son who carelessly and negligently
courts danger and accident to himself,
by disregarding the ordinary rules of
safety and depending on luck, or the
alertness and caution of others, to
save him from mishap.
Perhaps he crosses the street in the
middle of the block, instead of using
the regular crossing, or suddenly steps
into the street from behind or between
vehicles standing near the curb. Or
he may cross corners diagonally. or
stand in the street paying little or no
attention to vehicles which may be
approaching him. Or he may delib-
erately attempt to cross the street,
disregarding warning signals and
practically defying the driver of an
auto to run him down, and apparently
delighting in the aggravation and in
convenience which his stubborness
causes to others. All these things
are done every day, and if accident
follows the clay walker" and others
are ready to loudly protest against
the "carelessness of auto drivers in
general, and to insist the laws should
be made more severe and the penalties
more heavy.
Yet the "jay walker" is himself a
menace to public welfare and safety,
no less than is the joy rider, and for
the public good both need to be sup
pressed. The clay walker" literally
forces emergency situations which are
hangers to others as well as himself,
md his example also has a pernicious
md undesirable influence. There are
plenty of fjaw walkers" of both SEX
IS, who need to take this lesson home
md reform their ways. Common
tense calls for reason in all things,
md the cay walker" needs to cul- :
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02

not being raised-that is the long and
short of it.
Strangely enough, the reduction in
supplies of Germany's livestock close
ly parallels the same experience in
this country. From 1907 to 1912 the
number of horned cattle fell 100000
in Germany, and over 100000 in Prus-
sia alone. Keeping in mind that the
rapid growth of cities necessitates
an increasing proportion of bovines
for milk production, the reduction in
the supply of meat animals is prob
ably greater than would be apparent
from these figures. The same is true
in the United States.
Germany used to be a great sheep
country, also, but it is found that
since 1873 the number of sheep has
fallen from 25,000,O0O to 5,SOO,OOO.
The loss in sheep was for long time
approximately compensated by in
creased production of hogs; but since
1907 the number of hogs has been
falling, also.
Increasing prices has not served to
the production of meat ami
mails in Germany, nor here. Density
of population in the older countries
seems to impose demands ON the land
that can be met more profitably, on
the whole, by raising other things
than meat. So the meat output of
the countries that a generation ago
led the world are growing less, and
the world must look to new countries
for new supplies.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
DALLAS WINS AGAIN.

CONTINUED from page 1.)
to Campbell. Two hits. Two runs
7. Tucker out, Rice to Boydston
Ditmar out, Myers to Boydston
Houck out, Woods to Boydston. NJ
hits. No runs.
Cooper went to bat for Hayes ant
flied out to Cleve Wood. Preston flee
out to Cooper. Boydston hit for two
bases. Myers goes out L. Larkins tc
C. Larkins. One hit. No runs.
s. L. Larkins hits safely for one
base. C. Woods flies out to Preston
Campbell. flies. out. to. Boydston
Campbell flies out to Boydston
One Hit. No runs.
Tooze hits safely for one base and
steals second. Serr hits safely for
one base, Tooze going to third. Serr
caught between first and second, Cleve
Wood to C. Larkins. Boydston strikes
out. Rice hits safely, scoring Tooze.
Woods flies out to Houck. Three hits.
One run.
8. C. Larkins gets first and second
on Preston's error. Cleve Wood flies
out to Boydston. Larkins goes to
third. Tucker hits felder's choice.
Larkins goes home. Serr fumbles
ball. and Larkins scores. Ditmar hits
safely. Houck gets first on error by
Myers. L. Larkins strikes out, end
ing the game. One hit. One run.
The line-ur follows:
Hopewell-C. Wood, catcher; Camp
bell, shortstop; Cooper, left field; C.
Larkins, first; Cleve Wood, pitcher;
Tucker, right field; Ditmar, third;
Houck, center field; L. Larkins, sec
ond.
Dallas-F. Boydston, second; Ny
ers, pitcher; Tooze, center field; Serr,
R. Boydston, first; Rice,
third; Woods, shortstop; Hayes-Coop-
er, right field; Preston, left field.
Time of game, l 80 Umpire, Will
Iiams.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
GERMANY IN SAME FIX.

Germany seems to be in about the
same fix as this county with respect
to the scarcity of meat and steadily
mounting prices. Nothing could be
more simple than the explanation
which has been offered by the German
imperial authorities for the higher
meat prices which are causing the
Germans to complain, much as the
people of this land are complaining
with respect to the same matter. The
German authorities, after a very
careful investigation, declare that
meat is scarce and high simply be-
cause the native supply has fallen
far below the demand. The meat is
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02

Down in California they have new
cause for worry. Since the women
gained the ballot it is claimed the pro-
portion of girl babies has largely in
creased, and the men are commencing
to wonder "what is the answer. "
More Girl babies will, of course,
mean more women voters later on,
but even if this is to be considered
a menace the men see no easy way to
stop it.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
AN APPEAL.

All, it is women who have CIV
en- the costliest hostages to for
tune! Out into the battle of life
they have sent their best below
ed with fearful odds against
them. oh, by the dangers they
have dared. by the hours of pa
tient watching over beds where
helpless children lay, by the in
cense Of ten thousand prayers
waited from their gentle lips to
heaven. charge you give them
power to protect along life's
treacherous highway those whom
they have so loved!-Frances Il.
willard.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
CAN HE COME BACK?

Ex-senator Joe Bailey of Texas is
said TO be planning to again become a
candidate for senator from his state,
to succeed Senator Culberson. The
term of the latter will not expire
until 1917, but Senator Bailey evi-
IDENTIFY thinks ii is none too early to
get into the game, especially as two
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
IN THE MIDST OF LIFE.

"In the midst of life we are in
DEATH" When the matchless phrases
of the Book of Common Prayer were
being nodded the worlC was never
free from the smoke of battle and the
clash Of swords; there was fighting
to the death in the streets of every
large city; all merchant ships carried
guns, for piracy was part of the rec
ognized business of the high seas
epidemic diseases were scourges that
men knew not how to evade or avert !;
adventnrer sailed to unknown lands
and were never heard of more. The
chance of death was part of the or
dinary life consciousness of every
man; the songs of the very street told
of men marching to the grave with ban
ner and bugle for honor that cannot
die; the great lord erected his tomb
with as much care as he built his
palace. And so, as matter of course,
the worshipper recognized the famil-
lar presence of death in life.
The sword now rusts; we have tam
ed the world and done away with the
unknown; we have learned how to
drive away pestilence And men for
get death. They have ceased to sing
about him. He steals on the old by
degrees, but the strong and the en-
thusiastic give no thought of him, and
still the old truth abides.
Just now it comes to us with re-
sistless power. A magnificent float
ing structure, the temporary home of
hundreds Of strong men and women,
lies at the bottom of the st. Law
renee river, and scores have found
watery grave. The Empress of Ire
land, with her load of human freight.
was enghlfed in ninety feet of water
within the short space of fifteen min
,utes from the time she was rammed,
carrying within its seemingly impene-
trable frame hundreds, who passed
not by fading as the leaf. but with
full hands and leaping hearts, out Of
the midst of life. They went to their
beds after a day of rest without sus-
picion that their life work was done.
They awoke to few minutes of
bewiderment and prayer, and then
they went out. But yesterday. as it
were, they peacefully slumbered upon
one of the great structures of the high
seas; today they sleep where archi-
tectwal beauty, except that made {
without hands, is unknown. {
We of this advanced age, heir to I
all preceding ages, know many things. l
We have measured the flood of the s
great river; we know how much the
'kyscraper bends before the roaring '
gale; we have invaded the heights c
md the depths, but before the great f
mystery that lies beyond the end of i
ife we stand as men stood at the f
lawn of time. We walk by faith 4
llone. We reach out TO the immut f
lble things beyond the grave by the I
heer strength of belief We cannot t
lttain TO them. "The chambers of p
'ur minds are too narrow for eter- il
lal veritieS to turn round in The a
hannels of our thought are too shall I
Ow TO float the leviathan vessels of
ternitv - !,
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02

day by automobile, and will probably
be accompanied by number of fans.
The team will have at least two new
players, and the tossers are going out
to win. The Sheridan team has been
strengthened since appearing here two
weeks ago.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02

Even the lawn mowers undergo
changes in style, and the man with an
old-fashioned machine is always Won
dering when he can afford to invest in
one of the new and improved patterns.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02

Oregon needs DR.. Withycombe at
the capital. Some of the old legis-
lative hosses are liable to be mighty
sick during the next session.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02
+ LOCAL CHURCHES :
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The Woman's Missionary society
of the M. E. church will entertain
all similar organizations of the city at
the home of Mrs. Theo. Harrington of
514 Levens street on Thursday after
noon at 2:30.
The meeting of the quarterly con-
ference of the Methodist church will
be held tomorrow evening at 7 80. DR..
James Moore of Salem, district super
intendent, will be present.
E. S. Gardiner of McMinnville
preached at the Baptist church last
Sunday in place of Mr.. Day.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-06-02

Home grown garden truck will soon
commence to cut down the cost of
living for the man who is industrious
with the hoe.