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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (June 7, 1917)
Haft Mt. Scott Herald A* A. C. Townley, president of PEOPLE’S FORUM individual citizen, will become so stag nant that the very odors from its slimy the Non-partisan League, which y/rr surface will sicken and disgust good Pubi i. het Xvery Thursday at Lent». Oregon by has done things in the north The Meikae Of Political Indifference. healthy men ami only those who are Tw« M t S ott PVBUMIM OOMraWT west beginning with North Da Who among you knows the dimen diseased morally and politically can be J. HANGKR FOX. Managin» Editor. of the big Run ‘‘Sam" lately in | induced to guide the course of th* good MlNMHi<H»l»KNOVliH HYD1. New. Idttor kota and constantly extending sion» stalled at the l*unama Canal? Who ia ship state. I think that 1 can prove this J ALLKNJICNHAK. cuvuiaUug Managar. I its sphere of influence, bluntly there here that ia familiar with the Knteret aa aacond claaa mall mattar Fabru I to l>e a real and not an imaginary dan ary 14. l»14. at the po.1 ortica at tanta. Oregon. ' tells the statesmen in Washing deeds and miadwwds of Waahinirton’a ger slmply by reviewing a little of the under act of Congress, March Z. 1ST9. . ton that to encourage production last legislature? Who knows the llnan- history of the past. Rubacriplion price - SI a year, in advance and stop speculation the gover- cial basis on which thia atate ia run? Kiuvealtoul the year 1SH0 a great Are you a citizen? A citizen of the majority of the immigrants to this I'HOK»: T*iuw 7SH. P 41. ment must take possession of all world; of the Nation; of the atate: of country have coins from the Southern monopolized industry and com the town? * part of Europe. These |>eopie generally Improved Car Service. mandeer idle land. He says: I am not aatiatied with myaelf. I be are of the very lowest ty;<e of humanity. The Lents Improvement Club “There would be no labor short lieve I should be a better man. 1 be They are illiterate; they are used to a is considering the possibility of age on farms if farmhands saw lieve that 1 could be a better man. Al.v monarchical form of government. They securing improved car service on a chance to get farms of their citizenship ia not of the beat. Neither have l>een accustomed to the rule of the ia youra. And here ia the reaaon all the Mt. Scott line. Many people own. and if farmers got enough too many of the questions of common king who left nothing for them to think about but their own eelfish interests. think this District is as much of their production.” He is the intervat that aaked of me are anawered They dock into our great cities ami form entitled to a no stop ear on chosen representative spokesman with "1 dun know." there the nucleus around which the vic Hawthorne Ave. as the St. Johns for tens of thousands of farmers Political indifference ia the greateat ious though enlightened political bosses people are to such service south in the United States and some drawback to any kind of government;! organise their machines. This has been and especially is this the case in a de of Killingsworth Avenue. On statesmen with ears to the mocracy. For the government by the the case for a long time in the city ot New York, at least. This very ignorant the merits of the case regardless ground are wondering if they ‘ people presupposes that the people ac element votes not because it has any in of what the St. Johns people have will have to listen stronger to tually wish to govern. And the reason terest iu the affairs of ths state or na TART your wedded life right. The young man who Is con we think this section is entitled him than the food and land why the people do not wish to govern ia tional government, uot liecauae it wishes templating matrimony should hunk his money. After because, in the first place, they ace too to protect itself politically, but because he has furnished his home he should have something laid to such service. If the Haw speculators. busy making money; and in the second it ia induced to do so at the instigation aside for possible adversity. Wedded life means added thorne cars can care for the place, they are weary of the evil prac of the bosses. And remember the late responsibility for liim. The prospective bridegroom should traffic on that avenue in rush If Herbert C. Hoover is the tices of the politicians who have often impeachment of a boss elected governor a bank account today. It means happiness in the future. Well hours, they certainly can do so man to take hold of the food governed and imagine that there is of New York. <i gladly explain our banking system. A the rest of the day. problem, the speculator problem, something in the acts of governing that I hesitate to cite an example of this The time worn custom of re the supply problem, the bread will corrupt the morals of the most very thing in the very recent history of MULTNOMAH STATE BANK righteous. quiring the Mt. Scott two-car and butter question, then let him First, then, let us examine the first onr neighboring state, Idaho. Yet the political iudiffereuce of the Lents, Oregon train to stop at every street do it. But the farmer must excuse for the great indifference on the > through voters iu the state of Idaho a very cor crossing on Hawthorne Avenue know what he is going to receive part of the people and see if this phleg-1 rupt state official had himself renomin during the day in view of the for his crop else much of it will malic attitude is not largely reaponai- . ated to a position ot public trust and distance the people of this sec spoil because he will not be will ble for the complaints that these very houor. The discovery ot his dishonesty people are raising against the govern-1 tion live from the business center ing to pay high prices for labor ment of the nation and of the state in time to prevent tiis re-election may WHEN YOU WANT of Portland, with a Hawthorne and take his chance with the Herbert Spencer has said that the first t>e considered almost accidental. One of the leaders o( tile party on whose TO FIND OUT car nine-tenths empty leisurely- speculator. Indeed, many farm and greatest law of nature is self-pres ticket his name appeared told an ac w lie liter a thing is gissi or going along behind it, ought to ers will allow their crops to spoil, ervation. Man's first duty i< to take quaintance of mine t hat lie never could not, the first thing you ilo is be abolished at once. anyway, rather than pay what is up the struggle for existence. Of tiave is-en nominated in the wide world . course it is! And as civilization pro if the people of the state had been ' p> examine it chsiely. Thai Again the track from Anabel a reasonable wage for harvest gresses this struggle becomes more and is just what we want you to to Lents station ought to be im hands. Many a farmer has lost more difficult and exacting. For not awake. .Io with our lumlier. for if In a certain rural-school district in proved very- materially. The heavily rather than increase only are the natural bounties growing the southern part of this state not s you do, we are sun- you will place your order with IIS. probabilities are that if the Rail wages on a rising market in less and less, not only does the individ year ago the tegular election of officers ual man have to guard against the resulted in such a wretched personal on Collie down to our yard and Road Commission knew how poor normal times. elements and the lower animals, but the school Istard that the next day look around and you will this track is they would require there are the additional risks and dan when the real good citizens of the place Is- convinced that what we its improvement at once. With The reason wood is high is be gers of a more complicated, industrial, say is true saw what ha<i been done, thev held an an improved track such as the cause electric power is too high. community life. And beside all these indignation meeting ami called a special population of the Mt. Scott Dis If the price of electricity was cut dangers there is the one great factor election to oust the poor officers. Anil trict deserves and with a no stop one-third and thereby brought not met in the life of the primitive they did it easily. the menace of the other man in I had the pleasure of listening to the senice on Hawthorne Avenue within closer reach for cooking man, whose hands rest the monopoly of trade hearing of a young culprit iu one of together with an order requiring and heating, the demand for and the power to make the distribution Idaho's Justice of the Peace courts, ' the track to be cleared at the wood would be less, and if we of wealth one-sided despite the honesty about three years ago. The justice, who sidings from Grand Avenue to insisted as a people in demand and diligence of his fellow men. "Get could not si>eak the English language Lumber, Shingles, Lath, Sash and Doors, Nails, 50th street rigidly enforced we ing electricity at actual cost we all you can and keep all you have, is the plainly, did not know the meaning of of this enlightened age. And Builders' Hardware, Rooting and Building Paper the most common court terms; and tie ought to have a 30 minute sen ice soon would not thank any body slogan that is not such a bad idea if it did not knew equally little about court proced- , from Lents to 2nd and Alder. for dumping a truck load of slab entail the preventing of your neighbor's He had to dismiss a case bscauee For the past two years the wood at our side door—the dirty, getting what he deserves. But that is ure. be confused the terms defendant and writer has been living in Long wet, unwholesome, abominable exactly what it does entail. plaintiff in preparing the papers of ar ISOth St., 4 blocks from Foster The result of this uneven struggle for Beach. Cal. 22 miles from the stuff! rest. And the justice ot the peace in existence is a dual one. There are the adjoining precinct was compelled to depot in Los Angeles. From hundreds of thousands of able-bodied delay a marriage one whole day while he definite knowledge of the case “Vacant Lots Called to the men who have lost interest in the ac studied the ceremony. the Pacific Electric 2 and 3 car Colors, ’ ’ reads a head line in an quisition of wealth. They tramp about 1 could cite you many more interest trains make this distance mak exchange. Now if the Govern the country living by the things that ing examples of the evil results of polit ing all the stops in the two cities ment will conscript all the food they can steal or beg. They do not ical indifference in the United States pretend, at least to themselves, that and the country between in 53 speculators and send them to they are among the producers. They and in the state of Oregon. But I think minutes and the limited trains France our food problems will be have nothing to be taxed and they are that I have already shown that the menace of political indifference ia real, make it in 45 minutes. These in a fair way of being solved. Tabor 2181 naturally indifferent to the problems of 5927 92nd St. S. E. and not merely imaginative. Htill the government. What does it matter to local trains make stops through danger lies not alone in the election of the tramp if a Republican or a bemo- a distance of ten miles almost as Our idea of a “work of super cratic president or governor is elected? poor officers. It lies not alone in the 99 frequently as the Mt. Scott erogation,” as the preacher What he wants ia the,biggest cigar or vast sums of the people's money that these poor officers waste, or steal, or mis cars do east of Division Street. would say, is the Department of the best bowl of soup and he will vote appropriate. The danger lies not only The Herald together with the Agriculture telling the people for the man who gives it to him. in the maladministration of public in Jersey Bell Butter Improvement Club stands for how to have “wheatless” and Of course the rest of the working class stitutions. Political indifference threat more rapid transit into the city., “meatless” days. The informa are harder pressed on account of the ens the very foundations of democracy. FRUITS AND VEGETABLES ALWAYS FRESH great body of idlers; and, consequently, Our legislatures can not now be trust It invites discussion of this and , tion is entirely superfluous. their struggle for existence takes on a TOMATOES PLANTS NOW IN ed as they were in the colonial and other subjects of interest to the keener aspect and they are deprived of early-statebood dayB. Why? Himply community through its open, the time it takes to get an interest in because the people have ceased to watch the political welf. re of the country. them. The average voter in this state Forum. Let us hear from you FISH WHERE ; All honor to the organizations that aim thinks that he has patriotically accom in our next number.—J. A. D. Mt. Scott Herald You Thinking of Marriage ? S MILLER MOWREY LUMBER CO. Yard at Lents Jet. BECKER’S MARKET “Extra Choice Meats If Portland has anything to be , THE FISHING'S ashamed of in the election just GOOD passed it is that over 50 per cent of her citizens remained at home, notwithstanding the importance of many of the measures and the great issues at stake in the elec tion of a Board of Commission ers. The people who failed tn vote are responsible for the re sults of election, not those who went to the polls and voted their convictions, regardless of what their convictions were. The article from the pen of R. F. Bennett, Supreme Deputy of United Artisans, which appears in another column of this issue on the “Menace of Political In-1 difference, ” is exceedingly time ly and we call the attention of the “stay-at-homes” to it in the hopes that they may profit by its I perusal. —M. G. H. | The FISHING IS GOOD “Elephants are afraid of mice, but the mice don’t know it. Big business that is not on the square is afraid of common men who have votes, and these common men know it.”—Sunnyside Ga zette. Big business that is not on the square need not be afraid of common men who have votes when those common men stay away from the polls as many of them did in Portland last Mon day.—M. G. H. | : j ♦ a ♦ t ♦ ♦ i I I ♦ I | ♦ In this town. J 5 The home merchant CAN SUP PLY YOU« EVERY WANT ? A | When you deal with him you KEEP THE DOLLARS IN * « ♦ TOWN ♦ SHOW roup CIVIC PRIDE. ♦ i TRADE AT HOME ‘ ♦ ♦ ♦4 ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ Published by order of THE LENTSIMPROVEMENTCLUB to awaken in the heart of the lalxiring plished bis full duly to his government man that interest in the affairs national, if he has voted for his state senator and but at best, these attempts are not half representatives. He probably has not successful. The interest stirred up by seen more than half of the men he voted the tlaming speeches of the politicians for on the legislative ticket alone; and is transient and local. In their ignor he has not the vaguest idea about the ance, made by poverty unavoidable, members from the other counties. Yet they are too often led to extremes that he complacently chuckles down the defeat the ends they hava in view. finffy neck of hie bathrobe as he reviews But the great political indifference the victory of the party, till the January manifest toward the government of the papers begin to arrive. He now liegins United States does not stop vyirh the to grumble at the prospective rise in working cla“ses and the professional taxes anil deplores the general depravity tramps. The well-to-do part of the of the members of both houses. It was, population is perhaps as much to blame I believe, the tax receipt that inspired as are the mem I ers of the tailoring the poet to w rite: classes. This leaves the vested inter “Legislators’ lives remind ns, ests and the bosses paid by these inter We can make our lives a pest; ests, and a comparatively few from And, departing, leave behind lie Feelings of relief and rest." each of the groups mentioned above and All tiiat the legislature is loosing is the immigrants to manage the govern ment. In so short a speech I will not being gained by the governor. The in have the time to prove all these asser- ■ crease in the powers bestowed on the tions and will, tnerefore, have to ask govenor, which whs l>egun in New York you to take them for granted. I can a decade ago and which has spread over now begin on the real subject of my the entire country, means, after all a speech, THE MENACE OF POLITICAL reversion to the more monarchical forms INDIFFERENCE. .( of government. This is but a tendency Young orators especially are wont to at present, but it is a certain tendency; use the expression, "Our Splendid Ship and it means that the government of of State.” I do not object to the use, j the people, by the people is passing, • but I should like to learn on what, suiciding. Yet the case is by no means hopeless, waters this splendid ship floats. Does it traverse the wide ocean of democracy? The remedy is evident. First we must Does it Hoat in the rivers of monarchy? j begin to read, to follow the deeds of the <> t does it remain tied up in the harbor | legislature arid the national congress. of despotism? Democracy, of course! We, you and I, must experience the <le- You answer; and so far you are right I -ire to sit in the legislature, in the Court think.’ What then is the menace of room, in the governor’s! hair an<l on the school board. We must get our friends political indifference? To carry out the figure a little far interested. We must see to it that the ther, the answer can be stated thus: men who represent us anywhere are The menace of political indifference in good men. And all of this we will do. the United states is the danger that the For I have ample faith in the American waters of democracy, if allowed to re people. I believe that I will lie a better (Continued on Page I) main unstirred by the interests of the I BUY GOODS MADE AT HOME Yonr wants In Sheet Metals supplied at rock bottom prices. Quality Guaranteed See me for Chicken Ranch Supplies, Troughs, Roofing, Garbage Cans Why pay more and lose your time by going down town? A. S. PEARCE; The Tinsmith, Foster Rd. (Opposite P.O.) OUR SERVICE IS YOURS Try it! That's the only way to tell. Use the phone. Come in for vulcanizing, tire change, repairs, adjustments or anything else. When you are stallo, I on the road with tire or motor troubles use the phone, let us help you, we will get you stalled in a hurry. 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