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About Mt. Scott herald. (Lents, Multnomah Co., Or.) 1914-1923 | View Entire Issue (May 9, 1918)
paign. The banquet, preside*! over by Judge Worden, and ad Published Ir«rj Tburoday »* L»nw. Oregon bj dressed by Frank McCrillis, will TM1 Mt S P » « « CobrASM « live long in the memory of those who like to cherish inspir J «ANUKK FOX. MUM J* ing thoughts, and the paving of J ALLKM 1MJMBAK, A UM Foster Road was a direct out • 4' 0 'S V‘ > *• Kut«r«1 •• »«V1..1 Cl»M mail matler F«biu K Si. ary u. l»l«.a* Ihv pusloBc«»* Leal» Oregon, come of this meeting. One of its uudvr act ol * oucrvM. Marti ». *»•»• greatest accomplishments has dubwrtpUon price • »l ie » »ear. lu mirane« l>een the awakening of the eyes Whv a Six-Cent Pare in Portland? of the city and county officials ■* w - I HOMO: T »« TSH. I* M- to the needs and the enterprise I of this community. For the sake another drive . of future needs it would be I wiser, perhaps, to “tell it not in The week beginning May 20, Gath” that the Club has suc We invite your attention to the following editorial demanded it will be discarded and some other method has been set aside as a week to cumbed so prematurely. Among froni'“AERA." the official publication of the American of control or operation substituted. be devote*! to the interests of the efforts that have l»een made Electric Railway Association, on this subject: “Incieaaed cost of labor, of materials and of capital, the Red Cross, and an endeavor to put the Club on its feet per will be made, which of course manently and avoid the distres “The reign of the .’»-Cent Fare—thut autocrat of have been met in every other industry, by an increased here in Oregon at least will be sing happening of last week, the electric railway industry—is paaaing. Statistics of price of the commodity manufactured, or the service successful, to raise another mil were permanent dues, regular increased fares granted, of applications for increases rendered. Everything—food, clothing, necessities and lion dollars. The attention of meetings, and regular advertis pending and other applications contemplated, indicate luxuries—has increased in price. This is something to our readers is respectfully called ing. The dues were soon found the undermining of his unbending rule and transition be expected. It is in response to the economic laws to be hopelessly inadequate, and which govern prices. No legislation can or will for any to a rule of reason. to this effort, and their loyal we believe that if they had been length of time prevent it. Excessive profits can l>e co-operation is demanded in the originally placed at the figure to curbed by law, but neither goods nor services can for 1 he war is but hastening the date of his departure — name of humanity. it has not caused it. For a number of years the close long be sold below cost. Wa do not think there will belw^rch _they were later raised, observer had little difficulty in forecasting the near much need of urging; our nation 25c a month instad of Wc "It ia pCiefctly apparent, then, that despite fran arrival of a time when operating economies, the shear is learning to give, and to give a >’ear a* at first, the calamity chises, or statute, ho business, even if it be a quasi ing of profits, the improvements in practices and opera willingly, cheerfully and well, iriiigrht have been averted. The public business, can be conducted at a loss without tion would no longer suffice to keep even the slightest With every bulletin from the meetings were never regularly financial and even physical ruin. The same economic of margins between income and outgo, and when the scene of the conflict in France scheduled, so each one had to be laws that apply to the price of bread apply to the price public faced either the marked deterioration of service, comes word of casualties among called specially; as a conse- of a streetcar ride. The fact that the state assumes no service at all, or an increased fare. the American troops; our own Quence the meeting of the Club the right to regulate the latter will in no way prevent boys are now suffering, now in failed to become a part of the “The time Is here. The question that faces the coun disaster if, in exercising the power, it puts the price need of everything that can be business habits of the commun- try is not as to the amount of profit that the owners below' cost. done to save life, heal wounds.' future attempt this of electric railways shall receive. It is a question as and lessen pain. The task of s^ep must be seen to at the “The public is squarely and fairly confronted with to the amount of service that the public shall receive, the alternatives of a service which will not meet its doing this that would be such start. Its regular advertisement or in some instances, as evidenced by those not few needs, or an increase in price commensurate with the a privilege to the mothers of on bottom of the Buy-at- roads which have gone into the junk pile, as to whether Anierica has perforce to be del- Borne page, a streamer going the increase in the cost of doing business.” it —the public—shall receive any service at all. egated to someone else. This en^’re width of the page, at a The foregoing statement of the situation must strike someone else is the American! of $_ a week, has probably “It is not too much to say that the situation involves the fair-minded person aa representing the actual facts, Red Cross, and it goes without done more to attract attention the future policy of regulation of public utilities. Regu ami, what is primarily essential, it represents the facts saying that every soldier’s Club to both local resi- lation was designed to secure, as the preambles to many as they apply to the whole electric railway industry in mother and father, brother and dents and inner Portland circles of the laws say, ‘the l>est possible service.’ If it oper which there is invested the enormous sum of approxi sister will give to the limit, with anything else. Although ates for any reason to prevent the giving of the service mately ?5,OOP,000,000 in this country alone. a glad and thankful heart for ¡this authorized to ran for • • • • - n von * T*«I« OO the privilege. The whole world, a year from July 28. that being with the exception of a few mil the date of the meeting author lion suns of Huns, takes off its izing it, we have discontinued hat to the Red Cross. Speed the ad. this week, as the Club has already run up a bill which the Drive along. it has not pmd. and we do not PORTLAND RAILWAY. LIGHT & POWER COMPANY. see much likelihood of those LEFT TO DIE ALONE. (Paid who are behind on their dues coming forward and paying Surely a sad way to die is to be far away from friends and their debts now. loved ones, with no one to ease In conclusion, while many -Mi KlM the passing moments, or to shed causes undoubtedly enntributed KgttAfria a tear, a still sadder sight is to to the death of ouf friend, the watch one passing away spurned Lents Improvement Club, we are ' by those nearest and dearest. constrained to remark tiut it Such a death occurred in Lents surely died of a broken heart, owing to the neglect »nd even last Friday evening. One who had dedicated all to opposition of its own members. IT WILL protect 1,000 soldiers from smallpox and the service of Lent3, who had The chief need of an improew- 666 from typhoid. It will assure the safety of 139 sol done more of late years than uent club is to draw all the in diers from lockjaw, the germs of which swarm in the anyone else to speak well of terests, especially the business interests of the community, to Belgian soil. Lents and to watch out for her gether. Unhappy is that com material interests, one whose IT WILL render painless 400 operations, supply 2 one object in life was the up munity whose business interests miles of bandages—enough to bandage 555 wounds. building of the community, was are pulling and hauling, geeing and hawing, faultfinding and discovered Friday evening in the IT WILL care for 100 injuries in th: way of "first- last throes of death — unwept, bickering, gossiping and slan aid packets.” dering, scheming and plotting unhonored and unsung. IT WILL furnish adhesive plaster and surgical The Lents Improvement Club against one another to such an extent that they do not even gauze enough to benefit thousands of wounded soldiers. was bora at an enthusiastic have sufficient cohesion to pull gathering of boosters January EVERY PURCHASER of a Liberty Loan B nd 24, 1917; it died May 3, 1918, together long enough to keep going the very institution that performs a distinct, individual service to his country for lack of sufficient nourish they need to cure them of their and to our boys fighting in France. Republican Candidate ment to enable it to hold up its ills. Undoubtedly someone will head any longer. The only one present at the time of demise arise who will again attempt the for State Representative was the undertaker, A. D. Ken task—another club will be bora, j and we pledge ourselves, pa-; BALLOT NO. 79 worthy. tiently, consistently and forever (Paid ad) Lents, Station During its short life the club to stand back of any such move has done many kindly and help ful deeds, has attempted many ment no matter how many may more, and had under way when be bora and killed before one finally survives and triumphs. death laid his untimely hand The King is Dead! Long Live upon it, great visions for a the King! united community and a pros perous and orderly business and Filling ’Em Up. residential district. It is too One hundred and fifty tons of choc bad that it never lived to see olate, 100 tons of cocoa and 170 ton* tbe completion of its crowning of condensed milk were purchased by achievement, the paving of Fos the Y. M. C. A. for American sol ter Road. This work is now un diers overseas. der way, but the Road Master’s office commenced at the fur A. A. BAILEY ther end of the project, leaving the Foster Road part of it to the last. It is devoutly to be hoped that it will be completed, Republican Candidate however, before the summer for dust becomes too thick. The Club has arranged and held j many public meetings, not the least successful of which was the mass meeting held the eve Primaries May 17‘18 of the city election last year, at Republican Candidate for which practically every candi An effort for a Second term date was present. The speakers j stated that it was the largest in the Legislature “Efficiency and Economy and best-arranged meeting of <°1 Tremont, Republican Candidate for Sheriff Thro'iith Harmon* ’’ Paid Adv. the kind held during the cam- (raid ad ) Mt. Scott Herald cott v li hii i Let’s Get at the Facts moc am t VOTE 100 X Yonr Fifty Dollar Liberty Bond HERBERT GORDON Multnomah State Bank GEO. T. WILLETT REPRESENTATIVE County Commissioner JOHN COOK, Advrrttara^nt ”•**«* f.,r |f(r * p ,