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The Washington times., 1915-04-29
THESE MODERN WOMEN'S
CLUBS

Gentlemen whose principal argu-
ment against suffrage is that women
are incapable of interest or partici-
patton in public affairs would find in
teresting reading in the summary of
reports to be presented to the bien-
nial council of the General Fedora
tion of Women's Clubs, to meet next
month in Portland, Ore.
Committees on music, art, and lit
erary study one might expect to find
there. About them centered the chief
interest of women's clubs of bygone
days. But they now form the least
interesting portion of the women's
clubs work. More stress is laid on
the study of home economics, and
on the educational department.
Bristling with plans and suggestions
are the reports of committees on
civics, legislation, public health, cur
rent municipal and State government
problems, and civil service reform.
Campaigns in various States to OBJ
tain a wider use of the civil service
principle are detailed. In many COM
munities the women have taken the
lead in movements to develop rural
schools, and to establish vocational
schools in cities. In the department
of home economics the women not
only have studied kitchen manage
ment, but have conceived that the in
terest of the housewife extended to
the grocer, to the packer, and to the
meat dealer. Their efforts toward
sanitation measures of various sorts
have been notable.
The legislation committee is found,
not urging any pieces of pet legis-
lation, but laying down a broad pro-
gram for the study of reform meas
ures, and urges that women study
carefully the needs of particular
States or communities before back
ing any proposed statute making.
The Washington times., 1915-04-29
BACK TO CONVERSATIONS

From Broadway comes news that
the cabaret is to be banished. 1t has
cost too much to the restaurateurs
and there is even intimation that
some of the patrons have managed
to vocalize the sentiment which q
great many of them feel, that the
cabaret at any price is a nuisance.
Time was when so old-fashioned
an art as conversation, which is far
and away the greatest institution on
earth, was cultivated as an incident
to eating. That was in the day when
eating was a less expensive and a
far less demonstrative affair than
nowadays; when folks ate because
they were hungry, rather than be-
cause there was a riot going on in
the place. Conversation was pos
sible, was pleasurable, and was i'm
proving.
The cabaret and the band have
relegated conversation. Talk does
not thrive in competition with a
brass blare or a vaudeville show
The alleged tired business man may
want a circus with his dinner, but
there will be doubt whether he wants
it because he is tired; more likely
because he wants to get tireder
He has been getting tired of it for
long enough now, and is to be ex-
cused.
Thus it may be hoped the dining
public will return to a regime of
conservation for conversation. Moth
ing needs promotion, uplift, encour-
agement, any more, unless perchance
the almost obsolete art Of letter
writing. In the old days when peo.
pie had to write with quills and
cramps letters were aplenty; now
that tipping machinery and stenog.
raphers are everywhere to make il
easy, nobody writes at all, except al
cord wood rates. So with dining anC
conversation; we seem to have faller
Oll llIlc WilSH SdlllS 10 dCIudlly y
regarded as more important thar
the conversation that by all means
should be rated far above it. How.
ever sublimated, eating is after al
just feeding; while talking is the
means by which all the thought anG
inspiration of the world gets it's first
formulation, its primary impulse
Nearly all people think better anc
faster under the warming influence
of association with congenial fellows
Two minds, isolated, may both bt
mere flint; but strike them together
and one of them will be flint, the
other steel; and the contact brings
the spark.
The cabaret has threatened Il
drown out the art of talking. W.
have had a veritable Noah's flood o.
devastating distraction from tn,
finest of all arts; and therefore it il
good to see, in the ukase from tn,
metropolitan lobster zone, an oliv,
branch brought back by the dov,
seeking where the privilege of "jus
talking" might be re-established.
The Washington times., 1915-04-29

,, Germans need not be accused of es-
pecial animosity toward the Eng
lish; they confess it with all frank
ness. The execution Of prisoner
for such an offense as in the case
noted, is utterly without warrant;
the German announcement of the
facts to the world may very well be
regarded as retort to the utter
ances of Lord Kitchener and Premier
Asquith in parliament this week,
when they served notice that for
such excesses Britain would take
full measure of recompense when
the war ended.
In the matter of vicious treatment
of prisoners, neither Germans nor
British can claim clean records. The
British threat that crews of Ger
man submarines would not be
treated as prisoners of war; the fact
that they have been held in solitary
confinement, and that the punish
ment of pirates has been pointedly
suggested for them, is not to the
credit of the British government.
The officers and men of the subma-
rines are doing the duty to which
they were assigned by their govern
ment. They are not to blame for it.
The punishment that civilization
metes out to pirates, the penalty
that has traditionally been imposed
on spies, ought not to be for men in
their position. 1t is not understood
that any such penalties have yet
been exacted; it is to be hoped that
none such will be; and it seems that
some neutral government might very
well undertake program of medi-
alton intended to ameliorate the
rigors that are persistently reported
from both sides.
Such a duty to humanity rather
obviously could best be performed
by the United States. 1t has been
designated by both sides to perform
such functions of guardianship over
the rights of prisoners as can be
assumed by neutral; it has sent a
commission to investigate the facts
about treatment of prisoners; and
everything points to it as the power
best qualified to represent the bet
ter sentiments that are being buried
all too deep under mountains of
hatred. The possibility of long-con-
tinuing anomosities nationwide in
character, or friction and even of
wars, in future, growing out of this
developing bitterness between whole
peoples, is one not lightly to be dis
missed from consideration. There
ought to be proper and appropri-
ate procedure by which the United
States could serve mankind and the
future of the world in this matter.
The Washington times., 1915-04-29
RebeW Orchestra Closes
Its Seventeenth Season

The seventeenth season of the Rebew
Orchestra concluded last evening with
the annual concert embodying tho best
OF the years work.
Concerted numbers by the orchestra
under the direction of H. w. Weber IN
cluded two movements OF a Haydn
symphony. Keller Bela's Hungarian
Lustspiel." Sanford's Lincoln Cen
tennial." the Indian intermezzo "Aisha,"
"Silver Lining and Home. Sweet
Home the World Over" Anniversary
march written by G. J. Weber was
given. its first presentation.
The assisting soloists were Miss
Emma Cohen, soprano; Miss Ada Bote-
Ter, contralto; Frank Goebel. tenor;
Raymond Moore, baritone: H. b.
Schmidt, clarinetist, and Alfred NJ. Rod
rick. reader. Miss Margaret King and
Mrs. Sue Barrows Jennings were ac-
compansts.
The Washington times., 1915-04-29

may be that their military authori-
ties anticipated this very thing
Without doubt they prefer to let the
Germans carry the added cost, in
men and material, of the offensive
at least until the fearful tax shall
have definitely turned the scale of
numbers and resources in favor OF
the allies. =
Kitchener has raised two million
men; but he"has less than half of
them on the Continent. The other
half, and more, are not doing much
damage to Germany at this moment
For the purposes of today's opera
tions, they are as useless as If they
had never been enlisted.
Perhaps, moreover, they are not
going to the Continent at all; or not
until after a decisive naval contact
shall have taken place. England
would be in sad straits if she should
get two million soldiers on the Con-
tinent, and then, by reason of a
naval disaster, lose control of the
sea. She would be at the mercy of
Germany, which might land COM
paratively small army and overrun
the country. Surely it seems the
part Of discretion to keep the coun-
try in secure possession of a great
fighting force until all danger of a
naval debacle is past; that is, until
naval battle is forced and the Ger
man fleet destroyed or rendered hors
du combat.
If this view seems reasonable to
us, if it in fact represents the policy
of the British government, then it
may safely be assumed that the Ger
mans have guessed that it was the
British plan. So, believing that Brit
ain could not hurl all her force into
the fray so long as the naval issue
remained undecided, Germany has
avoided that issue, and prepared her
avalanche for the spring drive that
she is now conducting. 1t is at least
an interesting and a plausible ex-
planation of the military situation
which the cables are describing to-
day.
If Germany has the power in men
and munitions to wage another
years offensive campaign, then it
must be assumed that the end is in
deed long way off. That Germany
shall win the war, this year or next
or any other, is beyond belief. The
final factors of weight and riches
are against her. There are no su-
permen; just men, averaging about
the same in military potentiality,
and placing the probability of vic
tory decidedly on the side that can
count most of them. Therefore, if
Germany can hold the offensive, as
seemingly she hopes to do, this year,
the allies will have to wait till 1916
for their turn; and two years of the
war, "beginning in May" becomes
a perfectly possible conclusion of the
calculation.
The Washington times., 1915-04-29
MAY I-.AND THE BEGINNING

May is two days away, and Kitch-
ener looks more like a real prophet
than he ever did. He did not warn
his countrymen of the specific thing
that is now happening in the recru-
descence of the German offensive;
but he did tell them that the war
would really begin in May. It is
not unlikely that, being a soldier,
knowing how Germany must fight
her war, he even. anticipated the
magnificent burst of power that
country is noY putting forth.
Germany his had nine months in
which to discover that the war could
not be won as she set out to win it,
in few weeks time. Her enemies
have had nine months in which to
develop their forces and equipment
to point comparable in numbers,
perhaps in quality, with those of
Germany. They were comparable
in neither regard at the beginning.
Yet Germany did not win as she had
confidently expected. So far as we
can now tell, there has been no de-
cisive action, by land or sea, east or
west, though the battle of the Marne
may loom, at the end, as the real
decisive engagement of this period
of the war.
When Kitchener said, 81 do not
know when the war will end, but l
do know when it will begin-in
May" his statement was generally
construed to mean that by May the
allies expected to be ready to seize
the offensive and make it their war,
just as in earlier stages it had been
Germany's war. But it must be OBJ
served that Kitchener did not say
this. Perhaps he foresaw that Ger
many would be able to do just what
she is doing. Perhaps the promises of
"spring drive" by the allies were
unauthorized. 1t is quite possible
that the military authorities of Lon
don and Paris had reason to believe
Germany would be able to do what
she plainly has done: fill up the
ranks, call on the reserves, rush out
new material, and by dint of her su-
perior administrative machinery
come to May 1 in such strength as
yet to dare attempt the big offensive
which she has launched. If all this
was foreseen, then the London talk
about a "spring drive" must be
classed as bluff and buncombe to
keep the public feeling cheerful.
Today, it looks as if Germany and
Austria had another first-class of
fensive shot in their locker. They
are showing no sign of that decima-
ton or discouragement that their
opponents have claimed to detect in
their forces. Seemingly they have
prepared a new thunderbolt and are
hurling it with as much confidence
and determination as nerved their
great initial smash into the war
Paris is again nervous; London is
worried; the spring campaign is not
opening as the British and French
public thought it would though il
The Washington times., 1915-04-29

States say in unmistakable terms:
I'VE do not like you. and we do not
want YOU" But they will not submit
II at the same time America undertakes
to say that they shall not expand in
their own hemisphere as seems to them
best calculated to meet the necessities
of their situation.
They will not quietly permit the
Americans to block them in both direc-
tions at the same time. They recog-
nize the Asiatic continent as their spe-
cial sphere. and they demand supremacy
In IT, They point to the fundamental
economic necessity OF their situation
and say that 1t must dominate their
policy. In that they have the support
OF historical precedent
II is worth while for Americans to
think about these things before the
United States is committed to a dan
gerous position in the far east.
Copyright. 1915. by the Chicago Trtb-
une)
The Washington times., 1915-04-29
Many Events Arranged
For Washington Today

Polrs-"so Much for 30 Much" BIS and
s:i5 d. m.
B. r. Keith's-vaudevilie, aiS and Sis p. m.
Cosmos-vaudeville. continuous
Casino-yaudeville. continuous.
Gayety-BuriesQue, 2:15 and s:15 p. m.
Crandall's-Photoplays, II .. m. to II D. m.
strand-Photoplays, II a. m. to II .. m.
Garden-Photoplays. II Q. m. to II p. m.
krcade-Dancing, D. m,
Washington vs.. Athletics.
The Washington times., 1915-04-29
Meetings and Entertainments
To Be Held in Every Sec
ton of the City BY Various
Societies.
Today.

Meeting, 10 a. m, Gridiron room. New WILL
lard. Western Insurance Bureau. Supper
dance in red room.
Dance. Alumni OF st. Cecilia's Academy. oak
room. Raleigh. s y. IN.
Concert, st. Pauls Church choir, banquet
hall. Raleigh, 8 p. m.
Meeting, electrotypers and stereotypers.
Raleigh, p. m.
Odd Fellows-Columbia, No. 10; Salem. No
%; Excelsior, No. II: Covenant. No. i3.
Knights of Pythias-Franklin. No. 2.
Woodmen OF the Word-Class initiation. ODD
Fellows Hall. -.
Supper dance. red room. New willard. Z
p. m.
Meeting, Home Club Chorus. II jackson
place north west, 7:<5 to s:l6 p. m.
Meeting. Camera Club II JackAon place
northwest, p. IN.
Modern Woodmen OF America,-A. r. Talbot
Camp. No. 1912.
Meeting, G. A. r. executive committee. at
headquarters, I p. m.
Meeting. Elementary Graded Union west
study room. Public Library. $50 p. m.
Meeting. Capital Poultry and Pigeon Asso-
ciation. west study room. Public Library.
1880 y. m.
Young Women's Hebrew Association. install
lation OF officers at headquarters. 8 p. m.
Luncheon OF Builders and Manufacturers
Exchange with address by Major Raymond
Pullman, Superintendent OF PolicS. CONT
mental Hotel, 1 p. m.
The Washington times., 1915-04-29
Amusements.

Amusements.
National-"The Chocolate Soldier" 2:1S and
s:l5 p. m.
Columbia-"The Spring Maid" z:15 and BIS
y. m.
Belasco-Joseph santley in "All Over Town. "
S:15 D. m.
The Washington times., 1915-04-29
Will Display Temper.

Japan will display a temper and n
tenacity about this Chinese enterprise
that she has not shown about either the
San Francisco school children incident
or about the California alien land legis-
Llation.
Tended they may be. when the AmerI-
cans in California and other Coast
The Washington times., 1915-04-29

This is the development of domestic
Industries that has served to solve the
closely similar problem that confronted
Germany not so many years ago. 1t
Is the German experience, In fact. that
furnishes the example which many OF
the leaders of japanese though regard
so hopefully as marking the path for
this country to follow.
1t IL not so Ions ago that many q!
the crowded Germans were seeking
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Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-03-12
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LOCAL NEWS.
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Special dinner for farmers at the
Imperial hotel, 25 cents. Try it once,
and you'll be a regular customer. 1O4f
All White Clover Butter is now put
out with coupons, and if consumers
will carefully save them, the coupons
will assist them in securing beauti-
full set of dishes. A sample of these
dishes may be seen and further infor-
nation obtained by calling at the T.
S. Townsend Creamery Company's
office. 102-4t.
Call on The Polk County Observer
for printing of any kind. There s
nothing too large, and nothing too
small for it to turn out in the latest
approved manner We print every
thing. And prices are guaranteed to
be satisfactory. Let us give you an
estimate on your next job Of printing.
Order your cabbage plants from w.
R. Tapscott, phone Dallas 1143. 92-tf
Farm loans; five years time with
optional payments at current rates Of
interest. Write for information, Ore
gon Title & Land Credit Co., 209 U. s.
National Bank building, Salem, Ore.
Calls famous meals.
Hop Growers, Attention.-Le us
furnish you hop supplies. Rock bottom
prices. Barham S warehouse, west of
public school, Ash street. 95-tf
Dallas has a sawmill cutting over
100000 feet per annum, and fur
nishing steady employment to IT'S
workmen.
Jno. R. Sibley, Lawyer, 61O Mill
street. 94-tf
Calls famous meals.
Stop those leaks with Wonder ce-
ment. Barham Warehouse Co. 79-tf.
When you want insurance or surety
bonds, call on Prichard.
Or. C. L. Foster, dentist, City Bank
building, Dallas. 73-F.
DR.. Rempel, Chiropractor, 513 Church
See Barham Manufacturing Co. for
prune trays and boxes. 79-tf.
The Dallas Wood company is ready
to furnish you with mill wood. Good
loads and good service. All wood
cash on delivery. Phone 492. 1O3tf.
DR.. Stones Heave Drops cures
heaves. Price 81, for sale by all drug
gists.-Adv. 79-tf
Our Abstract plant is posted to-
date every morning from Polk County
records. Brown-Sibley Abstract Co.,
Jno. R. Sibley, manager. 94-tf
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-03-12
LAST GREATIWEST

Just opened by the Grand Trunk
Pacific railway, now completed
through the great Nechaco valley,
British Columbia, to Prince Rupert on
the Pacific ocean. Most productive
soil, plenty Of wood and water, eli
mat mild and equable, being west Of
Rocky mountains where the winds are
from the warm Japan current. Album
dance of outrange. A fine farming
and stock country just being develop
ed. Great opportunities for energetic
men in farming and stock raising. We
have lived in the valley for over seven
years and know it thoroughly. We
can give true information on all con-
ditions there from actual personal
knowledge. Inquiries answered fully
and truthfully. We have some OF the
best lands for sale and few choice
tracts to exchange for improved or
partly improved Willamette valley
lands. E. P. Hazen & Son, Belling-
ham, Washington. 86-St.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-03-12
NOTICE OF GUARDIANSHIP.

To Irene Westfall, Infant Child
Christiana Badders; John C. West
fall and Mary E. Westfall, his wife
Mary F. Westfall; Mary Fraundenel
and Rudolph Fraundener, her hus-
band; and Helen Westfall; and to all
others concerned:
You and each Of you, are hereby
notified that Frank [. Westfall has
filed his petition in the County Court
of Polk County, Oregon, asking that
Mary f. Westfall of Amity, Oregon,
be appointed Guardian of the Estate
of Irene Westfall, infant child, which
estate consists of an interest in real
property located in Monmouth, Polk
County, Oregon, and said Irene West
fall being a nonresident of the State
of Oregon.
You are further notified that by or
der of Hon. j. B. Teal, Judge of said
County Court, Wednesday, the 31st
day of March, 1915, at the hour of
ten 'clock in the forenoon of said
day, has been set as the time, and
the County Court room in Dallas,
Polk County, Oregon, as the place for
hearing said petition, and all persons
in interest may attend at said time
and place and show cause, if any they
have, why a guardian should not be
appointed as prayed for in said pc
tition.
This notice is served upon you by
order of Hon. j. B. Teal, Judge of the
County Court of Polk County, Ore
gon, made in chambers on the 3rd
day of March, 1915, the date of the
first publication hereof being Friday,
March 9Th, 1915, and the date of the
last publication being Friday, March
26th, 1915.
FRANK [. WESTFALL,
Petitioner.
WALTER L. TOOZE, JR.,
Attorney for Petitioner. M.5-M.26
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-03-12
FALLS CITY ROAD IN TROUBLE
Put-Put- Puts of Gasoline Motor Car
Frightens Team of Horses.

The Salem, Falls City & Western
motor ear might take heed from the
suit filed against them yesterday af-
ternoon and place a Maxim silencer, a
smoke consumer and a gas absorber
on the end of their exhaust pipe,
Archie Claggett alleges that because
the motor ear stopped at the intersec-
ton of Union and Commercial streets
on February 6 of this year and sput-
tered out gas, smoke and noise with
unrestrained ''put-put-puts," that his
team became frightened and one of
his horses reared and fell, breaking
a leg.
He alleges that the car was stopped
so that the rear end extended nearly
half way across Commercial street
and he was obliged to drive his team
upon the car tracks. The horse that
broke its leg was so badly injured
that the animal had to be shot. He
claims sl75 damages for the loss of
the animal. with So for the decent
and sanitary interment of the animal
and $50 special damages, bringing the
amount up to 500, which is the sum
sought by the plaintiff.-Salem Jour
nal.
Polk County observer. (Monmouth, Polk County, Or.) 1888-1927, 1915-03-12
Advice to the Growers.

1t is an old adage which time and
experience have justified, to plant
when seed is cheap, through abundant
crops the year before, and plant some
other crop when seed is costly,
through shortage the previous season,
The high price of product caused by
a crop shortage the year before usual
ly induces over-planting Of the same
crop the following year, with a resul-
tant over-production, which cannot be
marketed proftably. The low prices
ensuing results in an under-planting
and a consequent high price.
Potatoes offer a concrete example
of this condition. Two years ago
there was an over-production of pota-
toes. A year ago few potatoes were
planted, and there was resultant
shortage and consequent higher price.
Now seed potatoes bring fancy
price and everybody is planting pota-
toes, which, with a favorable season,
will again be drug on the market,
for what is true i'll the valley is true
Of the entire country.
Farmers before planting their seas
on's crop should consult the local
produce and commission dealers, and
the market master, whom they must
depend upon to market their crops.
They keep in touch with general con-
ditions and are in a position to offer
good advice. That advice is this year,
do not plant too many potatoes. Plant
onions and other crops they recon-
mend. Plant the crops there was an
over-production in the past season.
The marketing end of his crop is
too often neglected by the farmer, as
well as the orchardist. now that we
have canneries as well as wholesale
produce dealers, their advice should
govern the years crop. Growers
should, if possible, contract their
yield in advance, thereby eliminating
or minimizing the chance of failure
and insuring remunerative results
Medford Mail Tribune.