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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01
SEEMED LIKE THE SAME

1t was a new railway and the
trains were slow-oh, very slow :
On one occasion the driver q
one of them found his progress
still further retarded by cows
which trespassed on the line, ne
eessitating the stopping of the
train while he drove them off.
When this had happened for
the third time in half an hour,
a bored and weary passenger put
his head out of the window and
addressed the driver:
do you really mean to say"
he inquired gently, that we've
caught up to that COW again."
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01
HoOT MON,

An American girl was bringing
an English girl home with her,
and toward the end of the voltage
remarked:
1T is delightful to feel that
one is SO near home. We ought
to sight Sandy Hook this after
noon"
Shall we?" exclaimed her
friend. That will be nice Don 4
tell me which he is. l can al
ways pick a Scotehman out of a
crowd"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01
Folks. Is Ii Wet or Dry?
SALOON TOO POMERFUL

"Wet" and DRY" Editor:
The man who engages in a
business that debauches and de-
stroys men and women and pau
perizes and criminalizes them,
and, worst of all, the child that is
innocent is usually the man
licensed to control this terrible
engine of destruction and it's twin
brother and sister, the dope in
dustry and the vice district. May
God in His mercy forgive those
who help such things on.
YOURS FOR JUSTICE.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01
EUROPE AS AN EXAMPLE

"Wet" and DRY" Editor:
l have travelled all over the So
called old continent, Europe,
and haven't found one city, viii
Iage or town where l couldn't get
glass of beer, wine or whisky.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01

The children from infancy are
used to alcoholic drinks-of
course, in small quantities.
was surprised to see 1t, because of
the temperance methods used with
the children in the United States.
During my journey from Vienna
to London l talked with a Euro
pean scientist on prohibition and
he gave the following answer:
I'm our continent you will find
less drunkards than the United
States, and here there never has
been a law proposed to govern
the use of alcohol. Our men are
strong and healthy and still one
and all they drink. Seldom you
find cases of appendicitis here,
our women are good mothers, our
men are good fathers, and every
one drinks beer, whisky or wine. F"
1924 North 49th st. S. p.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01
AN AWKWARD MOMENT

~ shamefaeed youth struggled
along the street gripping IN his
arms a full-sized dressmaker's
dummy. A carter sDied the
blushing youth. and his face lit
mp.
Urry up, old chap" he said.
in a stage whisper; 'sr fathers
after you"
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01

swap ads. 40 words > times
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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01

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The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01

Vacation BeIle-We've known
each other such very short
timei You should not expect me
to allow you to kiss me so
quickly.
Vacation Cut up-Let's do II
slowly, theni
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01

The Colonel admits that he at monkeys,
stoat 'em alive"f
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01

Teddy's river beats Doc. Cooks north p
hollow. He can show 'em the river.
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01

What's the use being a king if fello
horses are to be threatened with assassinati
The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1914-06-01

Pennsylvania politics presents Palmer
nnd Penrose.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10
AN IDEAL LOCATION.

That Dallas is an ideal location
for woodworking institutions of var
ious character is at once made appar-
ent by the almost inexhaustible supply
of raw materials at its very threshold.
The only mystery is that long ere
this capitalists have not sought this
favored locality for the safe invest
ment of their wealth in manufactures
of this kind. The peculiar adaptable
ity of the woods found on the sloping
mountain sides and in the valleys of
this region for the manufacture of
thousands of articles of commerce
should attract attention, and bring to
us a tin-pail brigade numbering hun
dreds, if not thousands. And The
Observer believes that if our resources
in this direction were intelligently
made known to the world this end
could be attained. Capital is ever
seeking new fields for investment; the
timber resources of the eastern states
have practically been depleted, and
other locations must be found for the
successful prosecution of numberless
businesses requiring the very woods
found here in such magnifcence and in
such great abundance. Furniture of
almost every description, woodenware,
cooperage, veneering, willow-ware,
buggy boxes, baskets, and a thousand
and one other articles of every day
use might be proftably made in Dallas
and shipped TO every section of the
country.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10
DESERVING THE SHIP.

1t is getting more and more difficult
for the papers which started out with
the democrats to stay in the ranks,
and a number of the most conspicuous
ones have dropped out. 1t is no one
thing that the secession is based en-.
Some that have given up supporting
the party are red hot for free trade,
but disapprove of the Mexican policy.
Some cannot stand the free trade, but
think the antitrust program is all
right. While others think the regu-
lation of business and non-regulation
of the unions is the great defect of
the administration. The most con-
spicuous papers in the East that were
all democratic when the administra-
ton started out and are only partly so
now are the New York Times, Post
and World, and the Hartford Times.
All these are now so critical of the
administration that they read as they
used to when the republicans were in
power. The Mexican policy is lot
popular with the people and the bus
iness policy is in even greater disfav-
or, and the newspapers simply reflect
the predominant sentiment. The open
detection of the great papers of the
party seems to have little effect on the
party program, although the newspa-
per correspondents do represent that
some democratic congressman think
that the antitrust program should be
put over till after the next election
while the president wants to push the
bills through at this session. This
may, however, be merely a policy of
expediency and represent no change
of view on the merit of the bills. One
of the original supporters of Wilson
was the Outlook, but is it now ex-
critical.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10
THE ENGINEER.

The fact that a competent engineer
can save the city many times his sal
ary by preventing poor and faulty con-
struction, by careful devotion and
study to the one line of his profession,
that of improvements and construction
by the most modern and efficient
methods, is one that the general pub
lie is slow to realize. Sometimes we
congratulate ourselves on the dollars
we "save" by dispensing with expert
services, and later discover the dol
lars lost by eXorbitant prices for poor
| ly executed work. To have con-
struction properly started is half the
battle, and competency must necess-
arily be at the helm to eliminate fu-
ture expense and dissatisfaction. Ex-
pert authority in command means that
the city will have pride in its appear
ance and the character of its public
work, obtained with the least possible
cost.
Comparatively few cities of the
smaller class have persons outside of
the civil engineer, who has the train
ing the perfect knowledge of munich
pal and general technical work, or
the time to give gratis for the purpose
of carefully and accurately planning
and supervising the execution of
work. The experiences of many
towns throughout the country with
construction contractors or improving
companies, where incompetency has
been in supervising authority, are in
deed sad. A councilman may work on
the theory if he is not wrong he must
be right-whereas the engineer is a
creature of mathematics and definite
notes, and data, which if left to the
o'Olu SOuhClludlI NOulu DC lOSl, lOl-
gotten, or so confounded as to be
absurd. The competent engineer has
the figures and records, and the abso-
lutte instrumental process of arriving
at perfect conclusions at both ends.
Common sense indicates that a man
whose interests are in the city has
the incentive, if not harassed and
hindered, to make good and win re-
spect and trust, and honestly serve
the people. Deal with him as if he
knew his business and if asked for
advice the engineer is the technical
If he shows himself in
fire him, that is the easiest
way to get rid of trouble.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10
PROPOSAL FOR BIDS FOR
STREET IMPROVEMENTS.

Notice is hereby given that sealed
bids will be received by the under
signed, Auditor and Police Judge OF
Dallas. Oregon, until $50 o'clock p
m. on Monday, the Goth day of July
1914, for the grading and macadami-
zation of eight (S) blocks and the in
tersections contained therein, in said
City. Said bids may be for all or any
part of the following described work,
| to-wit:
l. For crushing the required
amount of rock, which will be approx
imately $500 yards.
2. For delivering the required
amount of rock upon the above men,
toned blocks and intersections.
3. For crushing and delivering the
required amount of rock upon the
above mentioned blocks and inter
sections.
4. For the preparation of the sub
grade and the macadamization of the
above mentioned blocks and intersec-
tions.
). For the construction of approx
imately 1900 lineal feet of curbing
upon the above mentioned blocks.
Said delivery of said crushed rock
shall be from the City's rock quarry,
located about 3 miles northwest of
Dallas, to and upon the above men
toned blocks and intersections.
Said improvements shall be made
at the time and in accordance with
the plans and specifications as out
lined in Ordinance No. 23O of the
City of Dallas, Oregon.
Each bid must be accompanied by a
certified check for ten (10) per cent.
of the amount bid, payable to the
City of Dallas, Oregon, said check to
be forfeited to said City of Dallas, in
case the bidder shall fail to give
good and sufficient bond and execute
a contract for the faithful perform
ance of the work for which he bid.
The envelope containing the bid
must be addressed to Charles Gregory,
Auditor and Police Judge, Dallas, Ore
gon, and marked "Bid on Street I'M
provements. "
Bonds equal in amount to the con-
tract price will be required for the
faithful performance of the contract.
The said City of Dallas hereby re-
serves the right to reject any or all
bids.
Done by order of the City Council
of Dallas, Oregon, made and entered
of record on the Sth day of July,
1914.
Witness my hand and the official
seal of said City of Dallas this 9th
day of July, A. D., 1914.
(Seal.) CHAS. GREGORY.
Auditor and Police Judge.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10
IOWA MAN STUCK
WITH PITCHFoRK

A farmer living in the Northern
part of Iowa stuck himself in the leg
with a pitch fork. The wound would
not heal and for two years he had a
running sore. He tried all the COM
mon salves and liniments and some
times the sore would heal, but it al
ways broke open again. Finally he
healed it up to stay healed with AL
lens Uleerine Salve.
This salve is one of the oldest rem
edies in America and since 1869 it has
been known as the only salve power
full enough to cure chronic ulcers and
old sores of long standing.
Aliens Ulcerine Salve acts by draw
ing out the poisons and healing the
sore from the bottom up. 1t is so
powerful that it heals new cuts and
sores in one-third the time that COM
mon salves and liniments take. And
it heals burns and sealds without a
scar. Sold by The Fuller Pharmacy,
and other leading druggists. 2-Fr.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10

examinations for licenses to practic,
medicine.
Obviously this information should
be given wide publicity, particularly
in the interests of prospective medi
cal students. Before selecting a med
ical school the student should know
whether the training furnished and
the diploma given by that school will
qualify him for examination and fol-
a license to practice medicine in any
state he may choose. The fact that
recognition has been withdrawn OF
withheld from certain medical col
leges, is not always given publicity
by state boards and, of course, is not
published in the announcements of the
colleges affected. Some students,
therefore, have not been aware of the
conditions until they had matricu-
lated, or even until they applied for a
license to practice. Hundreds of stu
dents who have entered low-grade
medical colleges, have spent large
sums of money and have devoted three
or four years to study, or have been
graduated before they learned that
their diplomas were practically worth
less.
This is wrong and places lifelong
handicap on these students. Infor-
nation regarding the non-recognition
of low-grade medical colleges by state
boards should be in the hands of ev-
cry prospective medical student when
he chooses his college. This know
ledge will enable him to avoid the
serious mistake of making bad start
on his life's work. The intelligent
thus informed, would certain
ly not waste his time and money in
a low-grade institution, when in the
same time and with perhaps even less
money he could obtain training
in thoroughly well-conducted medi-
cal school which would not only bet
ter equip him for his profession, but
would also enable him to render bet
Ter service to the people who will de-
oend on him for medical attention
IL hygienic instruction.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10
THE MEDICAL SCHOOL.

According to The Journal of the
American Medical association there
are at least thirty so-called medical
schools in this country whose diplO-
mas to graduates are practically
worthless, on account of the low
standards of these schools and the
consequent refusal of state boards to
recognize the credentials issued by
them. 1t is claimed that in from
fourteen to thirty-two states the di-
plomas of more or less large pro-
portion of these suspicious schools are
not considered acceptable. In these
states the graduates of these schools
are not even admitted to the required
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10
NEWS FROM MONMOUTH.
Interesting Information Concerning
Normal Town From the Herald.

Normal Town From the Herald.
Monmouth Grange will convene il
regular session at ten O'Clock Sat
urday. The subject for the program
in the afternoon will be "Flowers.'
Mr.. Black of the O. A. C. will address
the Grange on "Home Arrangement
of Flowers. "
Allen 7. Clark, of this city, Johr
Nelson, of Independence, B. F. Butler
of Dallas and P. j. Mulkey of Airing
ton, left last Wednesday morning fol
the Mckenzie River to fish and will
not return until next Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Craven will
leave next Sunday for three weeks
fishing trip to Cascadia and will &C
from there to Crater Lake where they
will spend a week, after which they
will go to Bondon for a visit with
Mrs. Craven's parents.
Among the improvements now 60
ing forward in Monmouth is a new
house in the western part of town
which James Goodman is having built.
j. W. Leask has his new residence
about completed, and the plasterers
are at work ON C. H. Parker's new
house.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10

new battleships each year, and every
body who has questioned the wisdom
of this policy has been attacked ant
ridiculed as "little navy man.
The present administration has gone
in strongly for battleships. Congress
has been told that we have not hall
enough dreadnoughts, although we are
at present maintaining a force Of
more than fifty thousand seamen and
the total outgo for Uncle Sam s navy
is more than $1OO,OOO,OOO annually
That one big ship that is going to
cost twenty millions represents the
outlay necessary for not less than
two hundred sea-going submarines,
and probably as many more aero
planes. To man these new war ma
chimes might require altogether three
or four thousand men, but even if we
had a thousand of each type there
would be needed naval force of not
more than twenty thousand. Our ma
val expenses would shrink to the eX-
tent of probably, $70,000,00O a year
if Admiral Scott s ideas were to be
adopted by the men at the head of
our government. When will they be
adopted? Perhaps not for ten years
to come. The political momentum of
seventy millions year, or $700,000,-
900 in a decade, is a huge power.
The private builders of warships. the
navy yards, each with its crowd of
politicians and its labor union Or
ganization, the contractors who supply
a hundred different things that go
to make up warship, and the thous-
ands of needless naval officers who
would have to get a living some other
way if common sense ideas like those
of Admiral Scott were to prevail, con-
stitute altogether huge machine
which cannot easily be put out of
business. One result may be accom-
plished if the British Admiral s views
are given proper circulation. The
Hon. Joseph Daniels extravagant
and indefensive scheme for establish
ing a government armor plate fac
tory, at an alleged cost of $5,000,000,
which would not be actually less. than
S20,0O0,000, may be defeated, as it
deserves to be. The development of
4 sound public opinion on this ques-
ion will be much helped by the i'm
orovement in aeroplane, now going
,orward at such rapid rate. The sub
marine boat was an American inven-
ion, and our government might well
lave led the world in declaring its
'fficacy as a means of naval defense.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10
THE COST OF CIVILIZATION.

The high cost of living is errone.
ously defined; the expression is mis-
nomer. What we complain of is the
high cost of modern civilization; the
civilization that has reduced the la
borer's working day from twelve to
eight hours; the civilization that pro-
hibits and regulates child labor; the
civilization that builds and maintains
free public schools and insists on COM
pulsory attendance; the civilization
that taxes itself to provide institutions
to care for the blind, the insane and the
helpless defective the civilization that
provides hospitals for the sick, pub
lie parks and play grounds for the
poor, enacts pure food laws, maintains
quarantine boards and sanitary in
spection officers to protect and safe
guard public health; the civilization
that promotes education by free pub
lie libraries and state supported uni
versities; the civilization that builds
and supports churches in every COM
munity in town or country, contrib
utes literally to build associations
for the encouragement of right liv-
ing and a higher standard of morals.
All these evolutionary evidences of
progressive civilization must be in
cluded in the present cost of living.
Another important cause affecting
the cost of social progress, is our
self-imposed standard of living. We
demand better houses to live in; bet
ter clothes to wear; better food to
eat; more holidays and recreation;
better, quicker and more luxurious
means of transportation and communi-
cation. Fine furniture, carpets, rugs,
and decorations are not confined to
the palaces of the rich, but are found
IN the houses of the average citizen,
the common people.
Invention has cheapened and multi
piled the things desired by the hui
man family. Luxuries of the past
have become common necessities of
the present. The cost of living is
largely self-imposed, a cultivated need.
Before the days of railroads and re-
frigerator ears, local communities had
TO provide their own wants and nee
essities. Their food was limited to
things grown in their immediate
neighborhood. Fresh meat was main
ly a winter fare, and fresh vegetables
a summer diet; each available only in
their season.
The modern printing press with its
rapidly revolving self-aeting meehan-
ism, together with the wizard-like
Mergenthaler type-setting device has
cheapened and multiplied the demand
for printed matter. This emblem of
civilization, while primarily cheap as
contributes largely to the
high cost of living. The advertising
tax gatherer tolls everything we
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10
THE BATTLESHIP CRAZE.

The United States is now about to
build one battleship that is going to
cost twenty millions of dollars. The
"big navy" shouters have been bonn
harding Congress for years with de-
mands for the laying down of two
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10

drink; everything we wear or use
breakfast foods made familiar b
some fancifully advertised name pu
in attractive packages and sold t
: consumers at 10 to 25 cents a pounG
while the grain or meal from whic
they are made, equally wholesom
and palatable, is worth two or thre
cents a pound. This profit of tw
hundred or four hundred per cen
is divided between the manufacture
and the newspaper and magazines EN-
ployed to exploit and attract publi
attention by expensive alluring ad
vertisments, appealing to the moderi
mania for haste and domestic conven
ience, regardless of expense.
The American farmer is the chiel
beneficiary of the present high price
of food stuffs, but, of course, the
farmer is immune from criticism OF
responsibility for the advancing price
of farm products. The packing COM
panies are not responsible for the
present high cost of living; on the
contrary, their economies in conserv-
ing and saving by-products previously
wasted, have resulted to the general
benefit. The grumbling of the average
consumer at the present size Of his
grocery and meat bills comes largely
from the comparison of the lower pric-
es prevailing years ago when agri-
culture furnished employment for
two-thirds of our population. As
late as 1890 the ratio of urban to
rural population was 40 to 60. Land
was cheap and the farmers SKINNED
the cream off their fertile fields and
sold it to the city consumer Tor for
export) at skim milk prices. Beef
and pork sold at five cents a pound,
butter ten cents, eggs six cents a
dozen, chickens ten cents each, pota-
toes and corn ten cents a bushel and
all farm products in proportion. This
was clover for the urbanite but hard
ship and hard times for the farmer.
We are now suffering from too much
city life has become tempt
ingly attractive. The men who feed
the world are no longer undesirable
longer poor and neglect
ed The parcel post, the rural mail
and telephone are at his service. The
engine, the steam thresher,
the self-binder, the riding plow and
the gasoline motor help to tighten his
labors. He lives on independence
road and the city dweller must ac-
knowledge the farmers right to
fair price for furnishing our tables
with food stuffs more varied and lux
lrious than could be obtained by the
of kings and princes, two
centuries ago.
The North American Indian lived
,heaply; his house was little better
han the wild beast S lair; his clothing
vas homemade and never changed in
his food supply had little
rariety and was not the product of
scientific farming; he lived in friendly
with nature and never
lreamed of delicatessen luxuries. No
me desires to turn back to the days
f cheapness and barbarism. Let us
ejoice that we, live in the civilization
f the present day, without grumbling
t its cost.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10

year curtailing public improvements,
Dallas is forging forward and will
pave eight blocks in the residence
section.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1914-07-10

Although William Jennings doesn t
remember just what George Williams
said, he disapproyes of it on general
principles.