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

one of the leading aviators and aero.
plane experts of this country. This
air craft, which embodies several i'm
portant innovations, expected to fit
her for the particular work intended
has been undergoing trial tests dur
ing the past week, and according to
reports she fully meets the require
ments and expectations of her build
ers and those who hope to pilot her
in the first trans-ocean flight ever
made by man. Lieutenant Porte, who
will be in cammand of this remark
able and somewhat hazardous under
taking, feels confident the proposed
trip will be successfully carried out
and if his hopes and expectations are
verified it will set a new and notable
mark of human achievement.
The name of this new air craft is
the America, and if she meets the ex-
pectations of those who pin their faith
in her ability to cross the ocean it
almost will be felt that the name it
self was an augur of good luck and
success. 1t is doubtless true that the
effort at a forty-hour flight is, in the
present state of aeronautic knowledge
and construction, II most venturesome
attempt. But if the ocean is ever to
be crossed through the air, the first
attempt must be made some time.
And, as it has been definitely deter
mined that this season and this craft
shall mark the initial trial, everybody
will earnestly hope for the success
that would mark a splendid forward
step in the new art.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07

as reasonably be made that the new
banking system, centering in the fed
eral reserve board, is a special con-
cession to the commercial, as distin-
guished from the agricultural inter-
ests. As a matter Of fact, these two
very different interests require differ
ent accommodations, and in most
countries this fact has been recognized
by the creation of very unlike systems,
each suited to its especial function.
1t will appear, in fact, that this pro-
posal Of commission of experts to
investigate this concededly important
question is deserving of serious con-
sideration. The ordinary investigation
of technical problem of this sort by
committee of congress must neces-
sarily be in large part devoted to the
preliminary work of informing com
mitteesmen about general principles
that would be perfectly familiar at the
outset to body of experts. The re-
suit is ii tedious proceeding, wasting
time and money, and producing a rec
ord from which it is well-nigh impos-
sible to extract the valuable and use
full parts.
In this regard the British practice
of royal commissions of qualified ex-
perts for such inquiries is far superior
to our own method. 1t is this method
that makes the royal commission re-
ports carry authority wherever they
are studied. Mr.. Milliken' s selection
as an expert to help manage such an
inquiry as is now proposed into rural
credits, would guarantee that the
work would be handled intelligentlv
and with the certain purpose of set-
ting directly at essentials. The oc-
rasion is a most fitting one for under
taking new and improved procedure
in Illuminating fields.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07
SEES THE LIGHT.

Commenting on The Observers edi-
torial with reference to promoting :he
Made-in-Oregon campaign, The Hills
bOro Independent has the following
Referring to the Made-in-O Oregon
campaign The Dallas Observer very
properly says that if Oregon manu-
facturers would use the methods en-
ployed by those without the state in
stead of depending upon a paid prop
aganda by professional propagandists
they might get more return for their
money. About the only manufactured
product that is not widely advertised
In Oregon newspapers is the made-in-
Oregon product, and it is an establish
ed fact that advertising sells goods.
True, money is spent on professional
boosters who claim to be able to de-
velop public spirit that will sell the
homemade product and funny side if
1t Is that they expect the newspapers
who are not recognized by the manu-
faeturers to get in and boost the game.
But, as The Observer well SAYS. l. this
money was spent in straiyht-out. legit-
innate advertising in the Oregon coun-
try newspapers there might 6e more
practical results even if there was less
hot air and fewer banquets attondcd
only by those who do not need con-
verting. The fellow the Oregon man
ufaeturer must reach if he would in
crease his sales is the man who buys
The eastern made goods and he can
'nly be reached by legitimate and
'killful advertising.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07
PENNY POSTAGE MOVEMENT.

Although the movement to secure
one-cent letter postage is being kept
up in this country. it does not seem
to be making much progress. Some
individuals and some business organ
izations have given this plan their
approval, but in a good many in
stances this apparently has been done
without any particular study of the
question and the probable effects of
the proposed change. The other day
a special committee of the Boston
Chamber of Commerce, to which had
been referred request that the
chamber indorse the one-cent postage
campaign, made a report which show
ed that it really had looked into the
matter, 1t recommended that the
chamber go on record against one-cent
postage for the present "Business
men, the committee said, "are will
ing to pay properly for prompt SER
vice
1t is well known fact that So
called tirst-class mail, carried at the
present two-cent postage rate, is the.
main source Of profit in the postal
service. With letters at one cent
there would be no profit, but loss to
be made up by taxation. Taxation
would fall upon the whole people. A
letter service at less than cost would
save a good deal of money for few
large business houses. 1t would not
profit at all the average consumer
whose postage bill is about dollar
year, and whose saving by one-cent
postage would be more than eaten up
BY increased taxes.
The postal service should not make
but it should as whole be
There is no general
lemand for one-cent letter postage,
which would make the postal service
| charge upon the public.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07
FRESH AIR AND SUNSHINE.

The campaign against tuberculosis
which is being waged all over the civ
ilized world has been productive of
one great good along educational lines
in that it has taught people the value
of fresh air and sunshine. 1t has
taught them to apply the simplest
rules of hygiene to the manner of ev-
cry day living. And yet there are
many households, singularly enough,
where there seems to be no faith in
such simple prophylactic remedies as
unadulterated air and unobstructed
sunshine.
Bacteriologists tell us that the di-
rect rays of the sun are the most eff
fective of bactericides. Old practi-
tioners rely upon fresh air more than
the administration of iron to restore
health and strength to the system and
to feed the waning red blood cor
puscles. But air and sun are so ut
terly common, you know. In many of
our up-to-date residences the whole
southern exposure of the house is Civ
en- over to flowers and ferns while the
children are kept securely in a north
room. The roses blossom, but the
children fade; the ferns thrive. but the
innocentS decay. We have hygienic
bread, hygienic plumbing. hygienic
hygienic rampant every
but We shut out the air as if
it were polluted, and follow the sun
around his course drawing down the
shades. The sun is life and the cir
is strength. They are the foremost
Of all therapeutic agents-better let
them in.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07
OUR SCHOOL SYSTEM.

There appears to be widespread dis
satisfaction with some Of the aspects
of our vaunted educational system,
and the attitude of severe criticism
maintained by the public toward it
are encouraging symptoms presaging
its reformation. No one who ponders
the abstracts of various addresses by
well-known educators of this and
other states can fail to be struck with
the note of discomfort that pervades
them. The teachers no less than the
parents recognize the fact that the
American school system, while per-
fectly sound in principle, is not al
together sound in practice. A pre-
paratory course for the ministry. med
icine or law is not the object of the
public school system. Some of the
boys are going to be laborers, me-
chanicS. artisans and what not. Not
all of them can become professional
men. 1t seems reasonable, therefore.
that we should give these boys in
school the things that will be useful
to them in after life, instead of striv-
ing to fill their heads with classics,
useful only. according to the authori- |
ty quoted, for three professions. The
intense practicality of the age, the
utilitarian tendencies of our civiliza-
ton strongly demand that less en-
phasis be put on the merely cultural
studies. Historically speaking, our
grade schools have developed as places
where youth may prepare for the high
school, while that institution in turn
has been closely articulated with the
college or university. This is all well
enough for those fortunate enough to
be able to complete the entire course.
But the fact has been more or less
iSHOICu lHdb lue great ludSS VI SCuOol
children finish their schooling without
either high school or university
courses. These young Adventures in
to real life should be as well equipped
as possible for their emprise. They
now waste many precious moments in
merely cultural study, when they
might be devoting their time to studies
hat will help them along the thorny
path of real life.
Common school education needs !
in practical directions.
It is a happy circumstance that those
who study education most deeply. and ,
hose who merely come in contact {
With its manifestations through their +
hildren are coming TO agree on that '
,oint =
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07

lection, they will conclude to "come
down" before the shooting begins
in other words, to make a clean breast
of it by frankly confessing they have
overlooked or neglected their duty,
and dig up the income tax which they
should have declared and paid at the
proper time. By adopting this plan
they probably will escape more lightly
than if they try to escape the pay
ment of their honest taxes. For,
while "uncle" may not get all the
tax dodgers, he is bound to get some
of them, and the penalties of the
law are quite severe for those who
either honestly or dishonesty fail to
pay an income tax in the manner and
to the amount prescribed by the stat
ute.
Of course Uncle Sam, in other
words the administration, is greatly
disappointed over this poor showing
of income tax payments, but suspect
ing that there has been considerable
evasion of honest income taxes due
the government, "unele" is going af-
ter the ones who have "welched
and thereby put themselves in the
class of tax dodgers. According to
Secretary McAdoo, "active steps will
Immediately be taken to discover all
evasions of the law, and large
additional amount of income tax un-
doubtedly will be collected from these
delinquents.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07
NOVELMANIA.

Some men of today hate the or
dinary more than their fathers hateC
hades. The college professor, seizec
with this mania for the new, pro
nounces all the cherished hymns as
doggerel, and various doctrines as
imaginations of the human mind. He
will advocate the practice of euthan-
asia as the most expedient way to
cure cancer, and prescribe a method
of diet each new moon. But the col
lege professor is driven to it by a
clamoring public, crazy with a desire
to hear him talk. The preacher who
does not hold the creed of the up-to-
date church is liable, like the noble
men S servants, to be stoned from his
parish with the epithets of old foggy-
ism and narrow-m -mindedness. And so
on down the long line.
Novelmania first introduced the
kangaroo walk, and the icy finger tips
for a handshake; it calls the end of
the school year the commencement,
and the butting into society the com
ing out. Novelmania in business is
at its best, because it has a clientage
trained to look for a prize after a
bargain as DeSoto sought the foun-
tain of youth, and to expect a gold
brick at the hand of every sleek-look-
me fellow in a fancy vest.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07
Subscription Rates.
CANNON ON WILSON,.
President Wilson is engaged in

smashing precedents.
The president has delivered
his messages from the rostrum
of the speaker of the house. In
that he has smashed precedent
of hundred years.
President Wilson smashed an
other old precedent in abolishing
the New Years reception. This
abandonment Of an old social
custom is not Of Importance,
but 1t reminds me of an Incl
dent in the administration Of
Lincoln.
On the morning of Jan. 1.
1868, the president copied the
emancipation proclamation with
his own hand. working at his
desk until the hour for the New
Years reception to begin. Then
he went to the blue room and
for four hours shook hands with
thousands of citizens. At 3
o'clock in the afternoon Lincoln
returned to his desk with his
right hand so swollen that he
could scarcely hold pen. but
after manipulating and massag-
ing the fingers for few minutes
he took the pen and wrote
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07
NEED OF SUNDAY REST.

Most of the arguments relating to
the advantage of a weekly day of
rest have to do with the religious and
ethical phases of this problem, and of
course this is a point of view not to
be slightly dismissed. But the scien-
titic study of the matter and its direct
bearings on human efficiency should
appeal to still larger number of
people, even to secularists who do not
care for the religious aspect of Sun
day as day of rest from toll. The
current number of The Journal of
the American Medical association con-
tainS an article giving the results of
such a scientific study of the question,
made by DR.. Martin, of the laboratory
of physiology at Harvard university,
and some of his associates, who have
devoted much time to IA careful in
vestigation of the relation between
regular rest day and human efficiency
during the remainder of the week.
A number of interesting expert
ments were conducted by these investi-
gators, who placed under observation
a certain number of medical students,
of average mental and physical quail
mn
ties. These students We're devoting
six days of the week to their regular
daily tasks, On Sundays they were
not strictly idle, but, of course. their
occupations on that day differed great
ly from the weekly routine. The re-
suits obtained showed that at the be-
ginning of the weeks work the nerve
tension was very high; then it be-
gan to decrease until at the end of |
The week it was very low. But. with
the day of rest sandwiched between
the week work and the week to fol-
low, the nerve tension again resumed
its high point.
The decline in the nerve tension was
due exclusively to fatigue. And IA
hgue is the great handicap of all
work. \ person is efficient in pro-
portion as his power of endurance is
great. The capacity for much work
is of little avail unless one has the
endurance power to do it right along.
and do it we'll. Hence. DR.. Martin
concludes, that the day of rest is in
dispensable to insure the highest eff
ticiency of which a human being is
capable. Even in machinery, il has
proved true that intervals of stop
page will enable it to do better work.
And this is true, in higher sense. of
the human machine. The day of rest
is a relief from the daily routine.
There is nothing SO diSheartenins. as
a rule. nothing SO CALLING. nothing So
corroding as the routine work of ev-
cry day, with no hope to escape from
it. unless one has means to take a
And if one works seven
iays in the week. the slave of routine.
he soon becomes as interesting as a
and he can think only in the !
erms of the sordid surroundings of /
lis daily life. /
Independently of all religious or b
thical considerations, the man who :
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07
ANOTHER CRISIS?


There are rumors of renewed
crisis with Japan over the California
anti-alien land law and treaty rights
and serious difficulty may arise, not
withstanding Mr.. Green's assertion
on the chautauqua platform here last
week to the effect that the Japs are
simply butfing. A few days ago 1t
was announced that Japan again had
taken up this question and would
press for settlement of disputed
points. And now comes a report that
the Atlantic feet-the pick and best
of the American navy, including some
twenty battleships and many smaller
craft-will be sent to Pacific waters
next March by way of the new Pana-
ma canal, and probably will remain
on this side of the continent for an
indefinite period of time.
Although Secretary Daniels de-
clares the latter plan has no especial
significance in connection with inter
national affairs, and is merely an ar
rangement adopted for the purpose
of having the bulk of the American
navy in proximity to the coming Pan
ama-Paciic exposition, at the time the
latter enterprise is being held at San
Francisco, correspondents and others
have been quick to jump at the con-
clusion that the real reason for a new
naval plan has something to do with
the pending dispute between Japan
and this nation. 1t is suggested that
big naval fleets naturally are kept in
localities where there is the most ap-
parent need of them, and that joining
the Atlantic and Pacific feets-the
latter already being stronger than ev-
er before-is Il move that cannot be
explained by a pretended desire to
mass American warships in the vicini-
ty of an exposition. Also it is sug-
gested that this exactly would be the
plan of this government if it were
of trouble with Japan,
md desired to be in position TO check
nate any threatening move BY the
after.
Whatever may be the truth of the
of course the admins
ration authorities know the inside !,
acts better than anyone else-it is
o be hoped the intimations of re-
lewed crisis with Japan will prove
and that the two nations
will settle their differences in an ami
able manner That some of the new
and laws of this country have given
ffense to the Japanese is fact not to
e overlooked. but the statesmen and
aaders of that nation are too shrewd
0 be pushed into conflict with this =
ountry without settled conviction :
f wrong and injustice on the part of
leir countrymen. And even then r
ley would hesitate about tackling
omething that foreshadowed positive :
isaster, the prospect of which would
e increased by strong American .
avail force in Pacific waters. II
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07
TO FLY OVER OCEAN.

Interest is increasing in the pro-
posed attempt to fly across the At
lantie ocean this summer. using the
large heavier-than-air machine which
has been constructed under the per
sonal supervision Of Glenn Curtiss.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07

The Observer is gratiied over the
determination of the council to i'm
prove the sanitary condition of the
city. While Dallas is probably one
of the most healthful places in Ore
gon, no chances should be taken.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07

If You don't get at first what You
ask for don't give up and sit down
in despair. but instead make a stir.
howl and make a noise. and work at
the same time for the accomplishment
of your object.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07

works, no matter what his occupation
is, needs day of rest every week.
1t is one of the blots on our so-called
civilization that, oftentimes, this is
denied him.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-07

1t really begins to look as though
the septic tank may be constructed
after all.
The day book., 1914-06-20

Smith is a dubious prospect.
Some of this ineffectiVeness on the
part of the, pitchers is due to the
support accorded them in the field.
At the most critical moments the sup
port explodes and spills the game.
The pitcher then becomes unsettled
and the opposing batters hop aboard
for rally that cleans up the fray.
Corriden has offended so often on
this Eastern trip that 0'Day finally
benched him in the middle of the
game yesterday and the vacation is
apt to last long time for the sorrel
top. Saunders, a colegian, reports
today and will get into the midst of
things Immediately. The team can't
possibly go worse than in the recent
past and the youngster may develop.
The same goes for the catching de-
partment. Bresnahan is out again
temporarily with his busted thumb
and should have a long rest. But with
Archer on the hospital list there can
be no long lay off for Roger. In the
meantime, Needham is doing the
backstopping.
Tom can get away with the job in
fair shape But he does not steady
the, pitchers, cannot throw to bases
as well as either of the regular back
shoppers and will hit many points be-
low them. .'....-
Sooner or later a young catcher
will have to be added to the Cub ros-
ter. Archer and Bresnahan can't go
on forever Their long service is
against them and they are more sus-
ceptible to desperate injuries than the
young fellows.
Now is as good time as any to
try Hargrove out and let either show
the goods or fab and slip back to the
minors. The team can't do worse
than lose. 1t makes little difference
whether the game is kicked away by
one run or ten. Hargrove lacks ex-
nerience hut he has stood I'D on the
The day book., 1914-06-20

start the reconstruction. There is no
hope for high position this year and
experiments would not be costly. The
box office might be hit, but no safes
are overfowing because of the coin
the West Siders have already coaxed
through the turnstiles.
And experiments now might mean
a winning team in the future that
would compensate for the present
slip-ups.
Tearing batting was all that saved
yesterdays game. label hurt his arm
in the first and Lavender dealt seven
passes and four hits in four rounds.
His support was also mediocre. Che
ney was a little better as relief
pitcher.
Zim poIed two doubles and two sim
giles, Good double and single, Leach
a homer and Schultz and Sweeney
two singles each.
Schultz is hitting just as effectively
as he did during the early part of
the week and is playing up to the
form of which he is capable. He has
strengthened the attack of the team,
but more power is needed in the de-
fensive section.
Seldom has baIIpIayer advanced
so far in two weeks as has Russell
Blackburne The SoX second base
man began to hit during the visit of
the New York Yanks and has kept
consistently at it against the East's
most effective pitching. In the pinch
or starting rallies he is there with the
willow wand and has made the Sox a
more formidable aggregation.
With the confidence this batting
streak has given him Blackburne has
picked up in his fielding and is cover
ing all the ground there is between
first and second bases.
And also let's chronicle the fact
that John Collins is becoming the
dandy pinch hitter, with a healthy
Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1914-03-28
BUOU IHEATER

1t is a pleasing anu varied program
of first-class turns that is nightly pre-
sented at the Bijou theater by all the
principals and members of the chorus
of the Spaulding Musical Comedy
Company, now in vaudeville The
management announces a complete
new change of program beginning
with Monday evening. The bill for
tonight has number of surprises in
store for theater-goers
The De Won Sisters are down for
several musical and dancing numbers.
Miss Hattie will offer THE Whippoor-
will" assisted by the chorus. Margar-
ct De Won will be heard in THE Sill
very Moon In an original interpre-
tatiCI. of THE Grizzly Bear, rhe De
Won Sisters will introduce new special
ties. Paisley Noon sings The Valley
of the Moon" an adaptation from
Jack London's late novel.
The Outlaw" is a twenty-minute
skit, in which George Spaulding,
James Guilfoil and Miss Wood are to
be featured, The playlet is full of ac-
ten and reYolEes around a seasonable
plot Two feature pictures are in
luded in the program. The SpauId-