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1 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON. CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 5, 1917 OREGON CITY COURIER C. W. ROBEY, Editor and Business Manager Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth Street, and entered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as 2nd class mail matter. Subscription Price f 1.50. Telephones: Pacific 61; Home A-51 MEMBER OF WILLAMETTE VALLEY EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OP OREGON STAT E EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN , ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES THE GERMAN SPIRIT This is no time for mincing words, the United States faces one of th most grave situations in all its no ble history internally and against an enemy from across the seas. What is the attitude of the German peopl within our borders? The Courier has been steadfastly bound to its faith in the unquenchable patriotism of our Teutonic brothers, The Courier will remain true to that faith until the German-Americans prove themselves unworthy of it. And we do honestly believe that they will be the last on American soil to prove unworthy of the great bounties they have received under the protection of the flowing banner of our republic. The Courier takes the attitude, to a great extent, that the American of oher than Teuonic extraction will not permit the German born citizens of this country to be patriotic if they want to be. And we believe that hey no only want to be, but are, patriotic. It is not within the scope of the editorial imaginaton to believe that an American citizen of German extrac tion or birth will turn traitor to the flag that he once so solemnly swore allegiance to. Thousands of German born American citizens have remain ed faithful to their American vows through scores of years. They have ' lived, laughed and loved is our great country. They have reared under the Stars and Stripes some of the most creditable families in our land. They have cultivated our waste acres. they have mined our mountains, havq newn Irom our timbered forests the pathways of civilization and have erected over plain and hillside the monuments of industry and progress that have helped make our nation the glorious reality that it is. We have not the heart to believe that an inherent love of the father land will cause these fine citizens to renounce the bonds of their adopted country. We know that they .will not forsake the flag that is the mantle of grace and glory to their children. The German-American's love of the . fatherland is an exalted, sacred love. What American in Germany does not forever remember the land of the great eagle, of the free? Butnost of the Germans in the United States have renounced their government and their emperor in becoming American citizens. We do not believe that these citizens will be more traitorous to the banner of our nation -than natives of other countries would be. Benedict Arnold was not a German. When the ' United States faces a crisis that demands a united repub lic to face a common foe, we are con vinced that German-born American citizens will be in the front rank in protecting the shores of their volun tary adoption. Those of us who are of other than Teutonic birth or ex traction would feel the tug of human sympathy at our heart strings if the land of our forefathers was threat ened in war. Is it not then the most natural of probabilities that the citi zens of German blood feel the same sympathy for the fatherland? But such a sympathy does not mean disloyalty, nor does it mean that our German brothers are trai tors to their new flag. It means that with Germany ns a foe of our own nation the German-born Americans will, to a man, shoulder arms and all human energy to defy dishonor to our flag; to fight to the death for the glory of their adopted country and for its banner of Red, White and Blue. There is a tendency, nation-wide, to forget that the German is now an America)). We attempt to prevent him from being patriotic if we can. That is not a just American spirit. The spirit of the American, German born, as the Courier sees it after much reflection, is a spirit of patriot ism a spirit of sympathy for the fatherland, but an iron-clad demand from the heart und head for loyalty, influ- terest of your former ties to the fa therland, but God and America will show you no grace here nor hereafter if, in the face of a crisis, you fail to live up to the last letter of the faith America is placing in you as her cit izens and as protectors of her flag and honor. IS IT TO BE WAR? To us it seems as if the president were determined that, if at last war must come, it shall be only when there is nothing left for us but to draw the sword in self-defense. In to such a war the whole nation, with but here and there an exception, we believe, would enter under the sense of a solemn but compelling duty. Few men have ever shrunk from war with a more appalling dread than our great Lincoln. But of the two evils which confronted him and be tween which he had to choose, he chose it as the lesser chose it be cause in the name of humanity and freedom he could not do otherwise. . Yet even war may be kept by he roic and noble souls from becoming their pitiless and degrading tyrant. The passions of hate and revenge it so inevitably tends to arouse may be held in check, and will be by those whose patriotism is of that higher type which recognizes a kinship wid er than any single nation s bounds. If as a nation there is nothing for us to do but take up arms, then let it be with malice toward, none, with charity for all, with every vestige of hate and revenge banished from our hearts, with selfish aims and ambi tions slain before we stain our hands with the first drop of a brother's blood. Only thus dare we unsheathe the sword and go forth to war. Only thus can war become to us anything else than a crime dragging us down into the depths of ineffable shamo. There is no man against whom we can fight who is not our human bro ther, who is not worthy of our love even though in freedom's name we try to strike him down before his weapon reaches us. There is no room in this world for hate. Treachery, deceit, murder, cruelty yes against these our wrath may burn, but to hate our neighbor, whether he live at our side or across the sea, is to be guilty of something worse than war. Dumb Animals. PRISON REFORM The Courier is not ready to criti cise a man or an institution for stand ing flat-footedly upon the platform of honest conviction, and we believe that is the ground occupied by E. E. Brodie and his Morning Enterprise in connection wifh prison reform. As a member of the prison survey board Mr. Brodie has made an exhaustive study of the methods and the results of the prison reform propaganda, for propaganda it certainly is, and he is fired by the highest ideals in his ef forts in behalf of a new and modern rison for the state of Oregon. But honest conviction does not spell "right," and we are firmly con vinced that in this case Mr. Brodie and the Enterprise as his spokesman are wrong. He attacks the Courer because of an editorial we published recently and intimates that our thoughts have the gray hairs of age in their beards. In spite of which we are ready to go the Enterprise editor one better us prison reformers and propose a scheme that will eventually eliminate nine tenths of the demand for barred chambers and guarded walls for the confinement of our err ing brothers. Modern prisons, fitted out with all the comforts of a line hotel, can not be expected to do away with crime and criminals. Mr. Brodie's brand of penology demands every element of comfort for a criminal that the right eous enjoy. Unhappily many of us outside prison walls are denied the comforts we might have in a prison Mr. Brodie's school of j mouth. Wouldn't that man fight to the last drop of blood to keep out of ithat hole? Wouldn't he be less' apt I to do the fiendish things he does if he I knew that for his sins he would be punished? We have taken away capital pun ishment. In a measuie that was good and progressive step. But it would be public insult and human in jury to plant the thief, the murderer, the panderer in a castle of comfort able luxury where everything that mortal could want is supplied. The murderer and his ilk would clamor for the confines of prison walls. Crime would be inspired by the thought of the joys of prison life, for the average criminal is not accus tomed to the bountiful board and the bouncing bed that Mr. Brodie would provide for him. The Courier defies Mr. Brodie to show to any thinking person any fact or facts that will deny in any manner the assertion that the Brodie brand of penology does not mean the in crease of criminality. Mr. Brodie knows as well as oth ers that to provide a modern hotel for the entertainment of our desperate criminals will be to provide an inspir ation for hardened citizens to take liberties with the laws and with the idea of landing in the elaborate, cheery home provided for them by the state. There isn't a criminal in the Ore gon state penitentiary who does not know how to avoid its forbidding walls and its dank atmosphere if he so desires. There would be no desire to avoid its comforts, under Mr. Bro die's plan; it would be as popular as a seaside hotel in midsummer. And Mr. Brodie cannot reconcile these facts with his theories as to prison reform. The way to prevent crimiitality now and forever is to make crime as unpopular as human minds can make it. Our prison reformers since they came to earth have done little for the world aside from increasing crime. Mr. Brodie knows that, too. In the days when the evildoer was locked in a pillory on the public square we saw few citizens fighting for opportunity to enjoy the clammy clasp of the steel bracelets. When the lynching bee was at the height of its popularity as a form of public amusement there were fewer cold blooded murders than there are today. We do not for one moment condone the lyncher, nor do we have any sym pathy for any other form of barbar ity. But we do believe that for his crimes a man should be punished. If punishment means pink teas in pret ty prisons and theatrical entertain ments before plushed seats, splendid banquets with musical accompani ment, then bring on the punishment. To those of us outside the prison fence whose home is the four bare walls that engulf our downy couth, whose entertainment is largely our reams of a better, fairer land, great er civilization and a tighter bond of brotherhood among all humans, the prison of Mr. Brodie's conception would be a highly pleasant place to be. It would be a temptation to for sake the straight and narrow path for the prison home he would provide for us, where we could exercise mod erately, eat the best food in the world and sleep on better mattresses than we can provide for ourselves and at the same time bear a burden of taxes to supply the criminally vicious in mates with life's blessings. We believe that the criminally in clined will be the most staunch sup porters of the movement for a new prison. Why should they not prepare for themselves a home of comfort, in case of "eventualities"? To the personal knowledge of E. E. Brodie there are scores of families in Oregon City this very day actually suffering as compared with the in mates of the Oregon state prison. Can we not more humanely, more hon estly and with greater hope for the eternal grace of God, spend our spare dollars to correct the conditions in which our prison outmatos live than to make life a pathway of roses for the evildoers within the walls? made possible to travel from market place to market place. A good im pression of a state's enterprise means additional investment and greater de velopment. It is a dangerous notion that a state can grow and succeed as a commonwealth by building up a lot of isolated principalities around mar ket places. It is the most stupid sort of provincialism. Oregonian. A NATION ON WHEELS The present amazing growth of the automobile industry ' has more than justified the wildest hopes of its pioneers. In 1916 more than a bil lion dollars' worth of motor vehicles passed from manufacturers to users. About nine tenths of these were pleas ure cars, the remainder being trucks and delivery cars. Perhaps if you see the figures in cold type you can get a better idea of the strides of the business for 1916 over 1915. These figures have been gathered from man ufacturers by the National Automo bile Chamber of Commerce: Passenger cars sold in ' 1915 842,249 Passenger cars sold in 1916 1,5525,578 Retail value of motor vehicles sold in 1915 $691,778,950 Retail value of motor vehicles sold in 1916 $1,088,028,273 Sale of motor trucks during 1916 were nearly double those of the pre vious year, and the export trade also shows a healthy increase, shipping risks notwithstanding. Altogether the motor vehicles now in service in the United States number about 3, 500,000. With an estimated average capacity of five persons to a car, these motor vehicles could at any giv en time carry one-seventh of our to tal population or, to put it differently, would be able to give every person in the United States a full day's joy ride once a week andTepeat it every week thereafter, the gasoline supply per mitting. The nation's production of motor cars call it birth rate if you ike now considerably exceeds 5.000 daily, and yet all this has happened within the lifetime of the average horse. And, in the face of it all, pros pects point to a still greater record for 1917 to meet the unsatisfied pub lic demand. What a tale for histor ians to tell! Farm and Fireside. Daughter in Terrible Shape Women bear troubles more bravely than men. They smile and suffer pain uncomplainingly where a man demands a doctor and nurse. A Mitchell, Bagdad, Ky writes: "My daughter was in terrible shape with kidney trouble. I got her to take Fo ley Kidney Pills and she is complete ly cured." Aching back, sore mus cles, stiff joints, shooting pains In sides, rheumatic aches, are indications that the kidneys are not working properly. Foley Kidney Pills cor rect bladder troubles. Jones Drug Vo. The Vulcan Chilled Plow is Different from all other plows. 1f It is different from others as a result of the years of care fully worked out thought in every part. Take the three most important parts of any plow and note the Vulcan build: THE MOLDBOARD Thii it undoubtedly the moat important part of a chilled plow. It must be properly haped and prop erly made. In the Vulcan It IS. The Vulcan mold is mide of the very beit grade of charcoal iron, correctly and perfectly chilled. It ti strengthened by three grey iron ribi cast on the back of the mold. THE POINT The Vulcan Point is ffac chilled in such a manner that prevents "scooping out" at the junction with the mold and shin. The Vulcan Point is corrugat ed, which makes it outwear and stay sharp longer than any plain point. Thia it a patented feature. THE SHIN Ii full chilled. Became of thi. fact and ita position the separate Vulcan Shin al ways maintains a keen edge. Vulcan Chilled Plow parts interlock In such a manner as to form a perfect whole. Almost as solid as If it were one whole piece. hit - m Myy-'J --Tr ' - n -, - THE VULCAN CHILLED PLOW Will work where any other plow will work and some places where others will not. We want you to try thia plow and will protect you with a guarantee that means something. Write us for (ull details. Implements Vehicles TELL US YOUR NEEDS East Morrison Portland, Ore. Spokane, Wn. Boise, Ida. Our Line of Disc Harrows Spring Tooth Harrows Cultivators and Garden Tools The Largest Stock The Best Goods At Right Prices W. J. Wilson &Co. Oregon City Geo. Blatchford M0LALLA, OREGON MRS. BURR EXPLAINS OREGON'S GREAT SECRET without quarter to any' other ninu- designed by ence, to the United States of Anieri- r penology! ca. I Show a man the liry hole of hell German-Americans, we grant you I and tell him that for his sins he must with a whole-souled delight the in- suffer by being cast into its yawning Ts B WUILI lllllill Oldest, Largest and Strongest Bank in Clackamas County." BESSSESSB On Forming a Banking Connection 111 reeking your approval and patronage of The Bank of Ore gon City we believe we shall be doing you a favor, as well as benefitting the institution by directing your attention to the facilities and services available. First, we have departments for Checking, Sav ings and Time Deposit Accounts. Then come Hank Money Orders, Travelers' Checks, Let ters of Credit and Collection Services. Also, Foreign Exchange and Loans. Undoubedly you will find such banking conveniences adapt able to your requirements. (3 THE BANK 0FOREG0N CITY We learn from the trustworthy Or egon Voter that at a meeting at Ore gon City the other day C. E. Spence asserted that "Oregon has the best system of market roads of any state in the union." Mr. Spence was indignant because other speakers had made invidious comparisons between the roads of Oregon and those of Washington and California. "Oregon," he said, has spent more money, per capita, for her roads than either one of those states. The difference is that they put their. money all on the main highways and Oregon scattered it out over her mar kct roads. Mr. Spence is master of the State Grange. He prepared for the state pamphlet the argument opposing the 1(5,000,000 bonding issue. In that ar gument he offered as one reason for his opposition the statement that im provement of market roads is of more importance than improvement of the roads designated in the bill. Yet "Oregon has the best system of mar ket roads of any state in the union!' from another contemporary we learn that in the last ten years there has been expended in Oregon at least $ 10,000,000 for roads and that "we have literally nothing to show for it." Perhaps Mr. Spence is right. though why, after Oregon has spent more per capita than any neighbor ing state and has the best market roads of any state in the union, he should insist upon spending more on market roads is not clear. And if Mr. Spence speaks truly, it is little wonder that the last-named contemporary believes that we have nothing to show for the $40,000,000 expended. How could it learn the truth? The Spence picture is of a sort of archipelago innumerable lit tle islands surrounded by a sea of mud. How can any Oregonian or any passing traveler learn the truth? Oregon has the reputation of being road-backward. It will continue to have that reputation unless it be Repeals: Crazy People Injure Indi viduals to Get Homes Clackamas, Rt. 1, April 2, 1917. To the editor: If war is caused through business methods as Mr. Howard says in last week's Courier, that will make it all clear to the edi tor. The foundation of our nation is home, country and liberty. Those are the principles that won our free dom from England in the Revolution ary war. These are the principles that freed the negros from slavery, and these are the principles that this nation rests on today. Now, then, if business is carried on in the United States so that it endangers our homes, our country or our liberty, it must be carried on by crazy people who do not understand the principles, or by unprincipled people who do not care and we know any man or woman who does not want a home somewhere would be a crazy individual. We all want homes and good homes, and this county is plenty big enough for all the people that are here or all that may be born here for a good many years. And in regard to our liberty will say with all our boasted rights remember that the old government does not give us the right to trample on the liberty of our neighbor. And he who robs his neighbor of his liberty, his home or his country is in danger of losing his own. A tyrant is one who has no respect for anothers' rights and that, as Mr. Howard says, is the great trouble to day. Men and women forget that there ever was any law to govern business methods, and become a band of lawless individuals seeking whom they may rob or plunder. Honest business methods do not harm any one. But this underhanded way of breaking up homes so at to split up families and robbing people to help others who ought to be out on a homestead is one great cause of the trouble today and this is the danger which our nation is in danger of crazy people injuring private indivi duals to get their homes and proper ty and opportunities. MRS. VIOLA BURR. THE MOTHER OF A BOY After the Grip What?- Did it leave you weak, low in spirits and vitality? Influenza is a catarrhal disease, and after you re cover from the acute Btage much of tne catarrh is left. This and your weasness invite further attacks. The Tonic Needed is Peruna. First, because it will assist in build ing up your strength, reinvigoratmg your 'lgestion and quickening all unctions, becona. Because it aids in overcoming the catarrhal condi tions, helping dispel the inflamma tion, giving me memoranes an oppor tunity to pertorm their (unctions. Thousands have answered the ques tion after grip by the proper use 01 tma great tonic treatment. You nay proflt by their ex perience. Liquid or tablet form both aate and aatia factory. THE PERUNA CO. Columbus, Okio n urfut. CtntiiLgxitive . frtca 5 U flJ i (From the Baltimore Sun) I didn't raise my boy to be a coward; I want my boy to go if there is war. I want to stand and watch him proud ly marching, , I want to gaze upon him from the - door. 1 do not want to lose him or to keep him, I only long and long to have him be A man whene'er his country comes to sweep him Into her surging legions of the free. I do not want my boy to be a craven; I love him, and I'd hate to see him go; And yet I'd rather lose him, sadly lose him, Than have him hide in fear to face the foe. I've prayed with all the spirit of a woman For peace, and that our struggle might not come; But if it does I want him brave and human; My boy must march away with flag and drum. I'd give him, yes, a thousand times I'd give him, With all he means to me of love and joy; Because I would not love him if he wasn't My ideal of a woman's kind of a boy. I do not harbor hate or yearn for vengeance; I would not crush a violet with my hand; But if it comes to fighting, then I want him To be a man and struggle for his land. When You Buy Supplies You Waul the Best (looils For I In Least Money. As a Reasonable Business Proposition You Buy it, From the Finns That Not Only Have Hie Itepulal ion ol Honest Dealing Bui Have the floods and Financial Aliil ily to Supply You at the Very Lowest Prices. LARSEN & COMPANY Carry the Largest Stock ol Goods in Their Line in Clackamas County GROCERIES Wholesale and Retail Building Material Lime, Cement, Plaster, Fire Brick, Building Brick, Drain Tile, Land Plaster, Hydrated Lime, Fertilizers, Etc. Flour, Feed and Grain Field, Flower and Garden Seeds Poultry and Dairy Supplies We are Agents for Pratt Food Co. and Carry a Comploto Line of Poultry Regulator and Remedios for All Animals We are closing out our Hardware, Granltcware, Crockery, Cutlery and Kitchen Utentials at Greatly Reduced Prices where similar laws were endcted R. F. D., but the. F. is useless and a four years ago but have not yet been misnomer. put into operation because of the , The city MBn,g mai, .g "A good deal of confusion exists." ' m"n' T61 .time.s says Dr. MacPherson, "as how to pro- L Zn t , " V .B , .. . , .. " ?" : ne Belongs to one class that-, rmwivoa I want my boy to go if we must enter This mad world conflict raging in its might; With all it means to me to have him leave me, I'd give him to his country, help him fight; For, so I think a mother does her duty, And keeps her faith with honor and with God; I didn't raise my boy to be a coward, I'd rather have him dead and turned a clod. ceed to get a loan. Intending bor.;free deUvery u.iuu.u van up uieu Luuiuy representative of the state land board, who can supply them with blanks and give them instructions. Loans may be made for 10, 20, 30 or 36 year periods. Borrowers are ad vised to take the 36 year loans, which can be paid,. principal and interest, in 35 annual payments of six dollars each and one the last payment of about ten dollars. If unable to pay sooner they may pay as fast as they please, and interest will be stopped on all partial payments as soon as made." On the contrary, if there is one class of citizens whose property lies out of doors, fully spread out before the eyes of the assessor, it is the farmer; and, whether he pays direct ly in purchased or canceled stamps for the full cost of rural delivery, it is in no sense free, and should not be so designated. RURAL DELIVERY R. F. D. is Misnomer, Farm and Fire side Magazine Declares Do you know what R. D. means? Then write it R. D. No. 1, or what ever your number may be. Perhaps some will say the legal letters are R. R. means railroad, and R. means nothing; F. means free, and we love the word in the Land of the Free in a free country, but not in so-called free delivery to the self-respecting, tax-paying rural citizen. The word rural tells where to go; delivery what to do; and that is suf ficient, but not too much, direction. Write it R. D., and ask others to join in making it the standard form. R. L. Holman, Leading Undertaker, Fifth and Main St.; Telephones: Pa cific 415-J; Home B-18. CREDIT LOANS TIMELY State Land Attorney for This County Can Advise Farmers of Clackamas county, who contemplate making loans from the State Rural Credits fund may secure blanks and instructions by applying to the State Land board attorney for this county, W. A. Dimick, Oregon City. It is also suggested by Dr. Hector MacPherson of the 0. A. C. department of rural economics, who assisted in drawing the bill, that the loans be negotiated as soon as possi ble. General interest rates are like ly in face of war. conditions to rise as much as one per cent in a few months, and eventually put the federal loan measure entirely out of business as well as render the operation of the sfnti lnw miiph hnrilpr Kni)i iam been the course in British Columbia, C You Have Seen the Rest Now Look at the BEST Not only the best Cream Sep arator but one which we can sell you at much less than you have been accustomed to pay for a first class article. That's why we want you to come in and examine the It is the cream separator sensa tion of the age. More machines of this manufacture were sold in Sweden and throughout Europe last year than of any other make. Come in and let us explain the Viking to you. WM. E. ESTES III 3rfc"?nf5SV) i SEVENTH & TAYLOR STS. "ON THE HILL" OREGON CITY, ORE.