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Ml PAGE FOUR SEMI-WEEKLY BANDON RECORDER, TUESDAY, 6CT. 27. 1914. 9 A 9t Representative W. C. Hawley Republican Direct Primary No minee for Re-election to Congress The people of Oregon sent Representative Hawley to Congress because he was clean and especially equipped to serve his native State. He has made good, securing more than $3,000, 000 of federal funds for improving waterways etc. in First District. He was the first to oppose "Secret" reports on homesteads and mineral claims and is working for revision of public land laws and the elimi'iation of every acre of agricultural land from the reserves for homes of prospective settlers. A vote for Representative Hawley is one for a Faithful, Honest, Able and Successful Public Servant. (Please read his record and platform in voters' pamphlet) Republican Congressional Committee, W. J. Culver, Chairman. o i Adv.) G. E. W I L S O N GENERAL BLACKSMITH E All kinds of light and heavy ically shod. Derormities cripples and get their feet knows a foot Uarl Clifrord, the scientific horse $ shoer. Tie checkers, splitting mauls, and all kinds of tie makers tools. All t. .jj...j..;..j...j,....;...j..;..j..,j...I..jj..t.,.4.4.4..j..j City Meat Market A FULL LINE OF SELECT FRESH AND SALT MEATS ALWAYS ON HAND. MODERN METHODS AND COURTEOUS TREATMENT COM HINE TO MAKE YOUR TRADING HERE A PLEASURE. YOUR PA TRONAGE SOLICITED. Phone 193 Geo. Eroman, Proprietor j A. D. Mills Real Estate Fire Insurance Notary Public Rentals Good Lots in Azalea Park, $25 Down and $10 per month. Bargain in Business Lot on First Street. EQUIPPED WITH WIRELESS S. S. BREAKWATER ALWAYS ON TIME SAILINGS From Port land Every Tuesday at 8:00 I M. From Cons Bay Every Saturday at Service of the Tide. Confirm mWUw llirouuli Mamlon Wnrclioiisc Co, PHONE Ml Job J'i jiillng l TJw fkntUWwUly Kwdr uf(k work. Horses scientif remedied. Bring m your adjusted by. a man that work guaranteed right. SEMI-WEEKLY Bandon Recorder Published every Tuesday and Friday by Tiie Recorder Publishing Co., Inc. Entered at the Post Office at Ban don, Oregon, as mail matter of tho second class. C. E. KOPE & A. W. STUAUT Editors and Managers. Make all chocks payable and address all communications to the company. Subscription price, ?1.50 per year, in advance. Saloons and the Boy. Itosoburg News: The arrest last Saturday of a notorious saloon keep er for the alleged sale of intoxicating liquor to two boys brings to mind most forcibly one of the greatest dangers of the saloon that of tempt ing boys to drink. The saloon is de pendent pon new recruits to its great urmy of drinkers. Every year sees its old standbys die and some one must take their places. When docs the saloon find its new victims? Where can it find them but i nthe toys and girls growing up to man hood and womanhood? The saloon Aires the young to its bar with open ..rms. It attempts to create an ap petite for liqor in tho youth of the and. It welcomes tho boys and it nakes no difference whose boy it is it greets the boys with generous land and starts them on tho road to liquor. And that is Just one of the many things the liquor business does. It is no respector of home or honor. Tt feeds on all who come. It encour ages the spending of money over the har by frequent treating. It assists the weak to drop farther down in tho mire. It aids and abctts criminals. It violates all decency and all laws made to protect the public from its operations. The saloon, which does all these things nd more, now comes before the people of the state and th epco ple of Roseburg and asks that it be jermitted to come back here and be rin its awful operations all over igain. We are reminded of a few erses written on this subject which are worthy of repetition here. They are entitled "The Saloon Wants Boys: 'Johnson, the drunkard, is dying they say, With traces of sin on his face. He'll be missed at the club, at the bar, every day; Wanted a boy for his place. 'Simons, the gambler, was killed in a fight, He died without pardon or grace. Someone must train for his burden and blight. Wanted a boy for his place. "Wanted for every vicitm of wine, Someone to live without pardon di vine Havo you a boy for tho placo?" Get in on This! I do not pine for human gore, yet boldly I assert I'd like to slap the brainless yap who calls a girl a "skirt." Peoria Journal. I pine not to bring others woe I trust I'm not so mean; but I would like to swat the bo who calls a girl a "queen." Houston Post. I pine to see no injured gink clutch at himself and wnil; but I'd likti to boot the crude galoot who calls him self a "frail." Now York Evening Sun. I am not prone to violence, but I should like to maul and kinck and muss tho inane cuss who calls a girl "some doll!" Judge. I do not wish to seem a crank, but always get a pain, and want to club the awful dub who calls a girl a "jane." La Follott's. I do not care to kill the guy nor wish to hear him screech, but I could poke the senseless bloko who calls a girl a "peach." Marquette, (Wis.) Epitome. I hanker not to murder, but I may commit it when I laud a kick upon tho hick who calls a girl a "wron." Luke McLuke Says: When tho husband thinks ho could havo dono better and tho wifo thinks sho couldn't havo dono worse, nomn ilivoreo lawyer gets tho prlco of n new runabout, A lot of inoii wonder why girls cIohu their uy whim thoy uro boing MhkimI, lint If tho mrn would look Into minor tlmy would sco tho run nun, Tlio war In Kurojio tnvm to Jmvu ujihut n wholu lot of nun In till roii. Iry. Hut Mother dlou f u wurM- li!Ull'U(-i (0 ,Vi (hp Wtlkll iluv ot jioiuul until VmUmihy. UIiiiii Molltiir Ikih lliriiu of four fwf Imlr tJiv Imts ti duff n BUSINESS IS NO SALEM SUFFERS BUSINESS LOSSES FR0MDRY RULE Store Property Rentals Drop $75 a Month in City BANK DEPOSITS OFF $300,000 Fourteen Business Houses Quit in Less Than Year. School Attendance Less Many Oregon papers have been loaded down within the past three weeks with repeated assurances that "Business is Pine in Dry Towns." The three most important Oregon cities to become "dry" nine months ago were Salem, Oregon City and Springfield. If business is fino in those cities' the taxpayers nnd most of the business men would like to have the "drys" explain just what they menu by "line." 11 they had snid "business is thin," then they might have been more easily understood. Let them answer first nboiit conditions in Salem. Ex-Councilman John D. Turner, of Salem, an attorney, is sponsor for the following facts about that city. Salem wont "dry" December 1 Inst cloying 15 saloons, three restaurants and two wholesale houses mid withdrew liquor pormits from eight drug stores and cut off an nrinunl license revenue of $13,400. Ninety men and a monthlj payroll of $5,700 woro put out of com mission. Most of the men have loft tho city. All buildings vncnted by theso concerns nro still empty, except Bix, which havo been occupied by ten ants who havo vacated other buildings, soveral of tho best buildings being boarded over and used aa billboards, More, than fivo hundred'modcrn dwell inga nro "for rent." Store property rentals on Stnto street havo dropped from $185 to $110 a month, but "busi ness is fino." Fourteen other business planes have closed sinco December 1 last, aside from the saloons nnd restaurants. In eluded aro three shoo stores two by sheriff and one voluntarily; ono of the largest drygoods stores hns boen sued for tho first timo in twenty yours. Scores of clerks havo left the city, causing tho loss of moro payrolls te tho city, but "business is fino." A lending prohibitionist promised to build 10 now dwellings if the city went "dry." Nino houses woro begun, two havo tho windows nnd doors in, but havo never been finished; no work has been dono on tho others, besides their bare frames. Building permits from January to August, the last nine wet months of 1013, were $3SS,025; from November, 191,1, to September, 3014, tho noxt oloven "dry" months, they wero $120, 000 less, or $20S,1CO. The grammar school opening day en rollment in 1913 was 1510; on the same day 1914, H09, but "business is lino." ilnnk deposits show a decrease of $309,942 since tho town went "dry,'' oven after allowing for tho $4S5,0H0 deposited this year from sale of bouJi in Boston. Tho decrenso, therefore really should bo $794,942, but "busi ness is fine." Tho nttondnnco at the "Cherry Fair" thi'i year was about one h"lf what it was tho last "wot" year. The Ministerial Association before tho olec Hon which made Salem "dry," told tho Cherry Fair promoters that they would mnk" im for th" donations usu ally made by tho saloons, b-t u:terly failed to do so tins year and tho pro motcrs refused to I.jI 1 thet m. nival. Tho "Cherrinns," consisting of 100 real bnostors, but of no prohibitionists, then pledged their personal member ship for tho neeessary funds, requiring tho payment on their part of 50i. rub it in, the Methodists then turn'ii their church into n restaurant, put th kitchen in tho pulpit nnd couipeli'i' with the legitimate rcstnuriiiitM for th' little IiuhIiicsx that their proprietor: hnd hungrily looked for us n ponHibli Minimi godsend. niulnens must bo "fine" in imv ct, when hiilldiug permit, piyrolU, bunt depiltK, hiilikrilptrliii, elotwi etorcn, pupulHled duelling. drprr-ufd rim 1 1, Valium, nt'liiiiil ciiriiliN"iit ch'1 rmnW" KUlUtlr nil fell mi 4rour w..iv o llleiul furt. May Itf th pM.liiiitii.nl i iiifttn Hint ihu "ngtitUjutf IiuiJuim" I fine (I'ulil AilvurllmtiKinl VtMwyv mJ Job Printing at Recorder office CLACKAMAS AND OREGON CITY HIT BY EMPTY TILLS "Dry" Regime Followed by Query las to Receiver CITY WARRANTSUNSALEABLE City Council Calls Election November 9 to Itaisc Levy 8 Mills to Pay Debts Oregon City and Clack- I amas County, of which Ore !gon City is4he county seat, present as lamentable a condition in a b u s i n e s s sense as a defunct corpora -, lion about to go into the ' hands of a receiver. In fact, a receivership for Ore gon City already has been seriously discussed by cer tain of its creditors, and Judge Campbell of that city has declared his willingness to declare such a receiver ship, if formal application were made to him, as he would for "any bankrupt corporation." A special election has been called by fh.o city for November 9 "to relieve the financial condifari.a of the city," the purpose being to vote $250,000 5 per cent, bonds and to increace the tax levy eight rtAUti in or der to take care of the new indebtedness. On the part of Clackamas County the County Treasurer is confronted with an empty treas ury for the first time in six years. The Morning Enterprise, a radi cal prohihitionist dnily of Ore gon City, in explaining this sit uation, says "the condition is con sidered the result of the amount of delinquent taxes on the county's tax rolls. County Treas urer Tufts refused the first war rants on the general fund Mon day (Octohcr 12, 1914)." Business must bo "fine" in a city and n county when tho treasuries of both nro empty becauso of lack of money coming into their strong boxes, with a special election called by tho city to increase its tax levy, with a ro ceivership threatened and with "dan ger" signs strung along the .length of tho business portion of Main street by "order of tho City Council," which read: " Danger Mnin Street Declared Dangerous All porsons traveling on Main street between North side of Moss street nnd South side of Third street do so at their own risk." llnnks nro refusing to cash Oregon City municipal wnrrnntB. Sines Janu ary first tho city has issued $39,901.03 in theso wnrrants, according to tho re port of City Tlocordcr John W. Loder, nnd these vurrnuts nro still unpnid. Tho city tax lnvy in 1913 in Oregon City wns eight mills. Two weeks af ter tho city went dry tho council in creased this lfy to 10 mills for 1914t and oa November 9 there is to bo n special elation hi Id at which tho voters will be askod in sanction an additional levy of eight mills to meet th" rtunici pal indebtedness. Yet "busiaf.ss is fino in dry towns," and Oregon City is doing well. Vacant buildings now stnnd on Main street, the chief business thoroughfare of Oregon City, ns monuments to the memory nf one gnrnge, one clothing btoro, one rt-ataurant and ono livery barn now clotcd up, but formerly did good business. Fourteen vacant Btnrcs lino both sides of Main street, nud three vacant lots imik tho places whero tlirf-e other store formcily r I (uid, but which hnvo burned down. Ho little has liren the dmmind for busi ness property that the burned strue turcn wero never rebuilt. Hut "butf new Is fino in Oregon City. " The KntnrpriM printing office, wlileh formerly employed u Urge fnrco nf pilnlor and bonkblndurs, and often worked night mill tUy to fill urilern, is nmr omin!liiK its job ilnwrtiiniit crmr hut five dny u weak, yet Tho Morning Kii'.hv'Iiw l wi of Die jtfipttrt tint M j'iiti 'tit OoMMillfti of On Vwlrti r Wut "burUiu li ! U dry txwwi," SVm'Krmr u( Hnwhi, 1'wlintul, OtHfjowJ T TINE' S , SPRINGFIELD IS j MERE GHOST OF ! OLD BUSY CITY I Prohibition Makes Formerly j Thriving Center Barren 'BANK DEPOSITS $57,000 LESS Two Blocks of Vacant Buildings Line Main Street in Place of Busy Stores The city of Springfield, in its present cobwebby, stagnant condition, today presents a picture, as com pared with its thriving, bustling condition of a year ago, that would make the angels weep. A year ago every store was fillell and crowds of people thronged its streets. Every merchant was making money, practi cally everyone who wanted work was employed. Every one seemed happy and con tented, except the prohibi tionists. Today Springfield looks like a deserted village, business is par alyzed, and more than eight or ten people on its main street at any one time would actually he the cause of excitement. l et the Committee of One Hundred says: "Business is fine in dry towns." Springfield went "dry" at the election, last fall, tho saloons closing January 1. Let the "drys" tell all about those "fine" business conditions in Springfield after nine months' operation of their "business the ories." Although a much smnllcr city than Salem, tho bank deposits in Spring field havo fallen off in tho last year over $57,000. When Mnin street finally is read justed in tho next month or two, prne tically two blocks of storo buildings on each side of tho street west of tho Southern Pacific tracks will bo desert ed, but "business is fino." A real estate salo is unheard of nnd would bo impossible on nny pnrt of Mnin strcot, but "business is fino." Tho Springfield Toggery, tho best gent's furnishing store, is now boing closed out by n receiver, but "business is fine." Tho I.a Franco Confectionery Storo, ono of tho b(;t in "wet" days, has closed out, but "business is fino." O. W. Johnson's Hnrdwnro Storo, tho best of its lino during "wet" days, already has been sold out by a re ceiver, but "business is fino." A. J. Henderson, tho leading dry goods merchant, occupied n doublo storo n year ago. Today ho occupies but ono storo and will tell you his business is "about hnlf" whnt it was a year ago, but "business is fino." Tho city has ran into a $5,200 deficit from an excess of expenditures over income, although tho "drys" promised that less police and court expenses would make a surplus, if Uio people would vote tlo $12,000 saloon licenses out of business, but that's "fino busi ness." Tho prohibitionists a year ago prom ised to reduce tho tnx levy, but havo increased tho lovy this year by fivo mills, but "business is fino." Not a foot of permanent strcot im provement work hns beon dono, ex cept tho construction of a smnll bridge over u creek, nnd Hint wns paid for by a bond issue. Streots and sidewalks nro in a deplorablo condition, and tho prohibitionists nro now petitioning tho council to "doublo" tho oxpenso levy. If tho local taxpayers, but a few of whom aro "drys," vote down this pe tition, the city confronts tho same pos sibility as Oregon City, viz., tho ap pointment of u receiver, but "business is fino in dry towns." Trolii Speaker Fined. SKAHIDi:. J. A. AdnniH, u prnhibt Hon Hpciikor and worker, served out a fivn dollar fine in tho Keasldo jail for fulling to obey the local onliuiiuccs regulating street uponklng. Adams, ivhn boiihtH of having been nrri'sled -li times mill of having nerved 1 1 Jiill yen tiiii'cn, dei'lurcK Unit ho prefer jail Minimum In wylng fliivs, its Hiey glv hi in more iiiilorlily mid eiiulile him to ilriiH larger Hiidiiiim. Upon complii Hun nf if jail lurm liurn lie Jf town Mi Willi. "t M.