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H'r.e Seel,,, 1 n ST. JOHNS It tecoml In numWi of Induitrlei. I eve lh In population. Car to Portland evtry 20 min. Ilai navigable water on 3 (Idea. Hat (inett gai and electricity. I lai two alrong banVa. Ha live large achool hollies. Hut abundance oUputeit water. Hai hard aurface atrerta. Haa exteniire leweraae ayttem. Haa fine, modern brick city ball. Haa payroll off 95.000 monthly. Ship monthly 2,000 cart freight. All rallroada have acceai to it. It gateway to Portland harbor. Climate Ideal and healthful. ST. JOHNS Hat teren thurchea. Hat a mnt promiting future. Distinctively manufacturing city Adjoint the city ef Portland. I lat nearly 6,000 population. Haa public library. Tatabfc property, f -(,500.000. Hat large dry docVt, taw millt Woolen millt, iron worla. Stove workt, atbetts factory, Ship building plant, Veneer and exceliior plant, Flour mill, planing mill, tloz factory, and othert. Mote induttriet coming. St. Johna It the place for YOU. ST. JOHNS REVIEW Dtroted (o tb iBierciti el tbt Pcnlnnt. lb Manufacturlnc Center of (h NerthwcM VOI,. 8 ST. JOHNS, OREGON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 31. 1913. NO. !2 The Man Who Can't I can't do tilings that they want me to. I'd love to help them the way tliov snv! But I can't do things that will make me feel Ab if I had bartered myself away. I can not help it how t may seem And whether they charge it to greed or pelf For I must remember along the way I've got to live with myself. I've got to live with myself, rlmr'n ii. And keep respect for myself nnd hn As straight and true to myself as I'd. ask Some one else to be straight to me. If I did not act as my-conscicnce 1)1(18 I'd be a hypocrite so, good I can't do things that they want me to, I'd rather drift to the dust and die. I could not feel, if I did the things .. That often come to man to . do, That I-had boon square with my "own clear sense Of the right and high and the bravo and true. I must havo conscience, or what is life, For honor is moro than polf. And n man must act in a- way that shows That he's got to live with him self. Got to live with a conscious friend That will help him up or drive him down; Got to live with his shadow shapo In all the heat and dust of the town. Got to live with n comrade tried In manhood's Arc, that ho can trust To hold him true, with a heart inspired, That no may not stoop to the shameless dust. Baltimore Sun. Foul Play, Perhaps A body taken from the river neartho Union Oil Company's dock Saturday was identified by Mrs. Anna Wiltner and others as that of Jacob Weber, 40 years old, night foreman for the Port land Slabwood Company, at the Portland Lumber Company's dock, He had been missing since the night of December 12. Statements of some of his fellow workmen, who identified the body, indicate possibility of foul piay , , , Weber was a German and had no relatives in this part of the country. Ho boarded at the home of Mrs. Wiltner at. 5825 Forty-fifth avenue southeast His fellow workmen, who con firmed the identification of his landlady, said that Weber had had difficulty with some of the laborers employed under him several times, and that at one time several of them had attack ed and beaten him. It was a few nights after this occurrence that he disappeared. In the pockets were $61 cash. Mrs. Wiltner said he owned some property in St. Johns and that ha had about $2000 deposited in one of the banks in this city. Detectives Hyde and Vaughn are investigating the case. An inquest will be held today Ore gonian. To Double Its Capacity N. A. Gee started Monday morning to remove the old ware house at the woolen mills, to make room for a large addition to the plant that will be built at once. The new addition will'bo 80x200 fee1; in size, two stories high, and of brick construction, we understand. It will mean doubling the capacity of the plant, which is cheering to the people of St. Johns, as the wool en mills has proven one of the very beet and most steady indus trial institutions in the city. When you want a reliable medicine for a cough or cold take Chamberlain's Crugh Remedy. It can always be depended upon and is pleasant and safe to take. For sale by all dealers. Big Improvements In boulevard development, ex tensive pnving projects and new factories the Peninsula district promises to make substantial progress this year. To begin with, the Willamette boulevard, from its southerly end at Patton avenue to its northerly end at St. Johns., is to be paved with a hard surface improvmcnt, making it one of the finest driveways in Portland. The contract fori the first section of this ment was let some time ago. Between the city limits and St. Johns the boulevard runs through a district which belongs io uie county ouisiue uio juris diction of Portland and St, Johns, but the property owners have signed up a petition asking that that section be improved in the same way, agreeing to pay for uiu wuirv. Aiwa iiiuviuvo tui uii; paving the boulevard along its windings above the Willamette River, with the West Side in full view. Between Putton ave nue and Lower Albinft, Maryland avenue, which is part oi the Willumctte boulevard, has been opened on a slight grade down the hill to Delay street. It con nects with Goldsmith street, which is to bo made 80 feet wide to n connection with Larrabce street and the Broadway bridge. The development of this highway will probably co3l between $250. 000 und $300,000 and is consider ed one of the mosc important im provement projects on the Pen insula for the ensuing year. With the development of this highwny through Lower Albina will come n nicker transportation to the heart of Portland by way of the Broadway bridge. The St. Johns cars which aro now routed by way of Killingsworth, Williams and Holliday avenues, will bo routed over this thorough- faro. Tins route will reduco the distance between St. Johns and the business district of tho city about threo miles.-Oregoninn. The Great Red Plague Citizens of tho stato aro urged to inform themselves regarding this plague which is causing great suffering among boys and young men.and especially among the innocent girls and women of tho state. Parents aro urged to nrotcct their children, and pro vide clean, wholesome informa tion in place of tho unclean mis information they cannot now help getting. Send for uny of tho following freo circulars: For young men Circular No. 2. Tho Four Sex Lies; Circular No. 9. Sex Truths for Men. For older boys 13 to 18 years of age Circular No. 8,Virility and Phys ical Development. For Young er Boys 10 to 13 years of age Circular No. 7, The Secret of Strength. For Girls Circular No. i, A Plain Talk with Girls about thoir Health. For Young Women Cir cular No. 10, Physical Develop ment, .Marriage and Motherhood, . For Parents Circular No. 1, The Need for Education in Sex ual Hygiene, Circular No. 3, When and how to tell the Chil dren. Circular No 5, A list of books for Use in tho Family on Sex. Send 2 cent stamp with your address to Department D, Tho Oregon State Board of Health, 703 Selling Building, Portland, Oregon. Committee Appointed At a mass meeting called by C. J. Anderson at the city hall Saturday night for the purpose of selecting a committee to meet with the Public Utilities commis sion - uoon its alleged or antici pated visit to St. Johns, the fol lowing were appointed: Ran dolph Graden, C. J. Anderson, George Alunson, Arcme uaines, Charles Bredeson, Rev. Weisley, It is expected that the Commis sion will pay a visit to St. Johns to investigate into the water rate situation here, and the com mittee, as we understand it. is for the purpose of discussing the question with the commission then. Personalities were at tempted to be indulged in at the meeting.but Rev. Weisley sharp'- ly called attention to the object of tho meeting,, and cnttcism subsided. C. J. Anderson, who is most active in repudiating the old water rates and the water plant as well, was chairman of the meeting, which was fairly well attended. A Characteristic Reply Mr. Bryan, in the Commoner, has had a word to say about the rumors that he was to be offered a cabinet position. He takes for his text a newspaper utterance: "Woodrow Wilson's debt to Bry an is the bi'ggcst jjebt possible in American politics. Proper ac knowledgment of that debt is ex pected. Pop lar belief is that it will be paid." To this the Commoner nnswers : improve-("Cabinet positions are not to be regarded as currency with which to pay debts. A public oflleial has no right to discharge political obligations at the expense of the puwic. The men selected by Air. Wilson for the cabinet should be selected, not because of personal service rendered to him, nor even because of past services rendered to the party. A great responsibility rests upon him, and he will need tho assistance of tho best and bravest for his work. He ought to feel freo to select for each place tho man best fitted for it; in no other way can ho hope to measure up to the expectations of the public. Ho need not he should not, con sider any service that Mr. Bryan hus rendered to him, or to the Ipublic. Mr. Bryan has been abundantly rewarded lor any thing he has done, and docs not feel that the party or any indi vidual in tho party, owes him anything. If over ho holds any ofllce, it ought to bo given, whether by appointment or by election, with the view to the service that can bo rendered in connection with tho work yet to be done; not with tho idea of re warding him for anything that ho has done. And tho rule which is hero laid down for Mr. Bryan is tho rulo which he believes should bo laid down for all." Women for Jury Duty Tho bill of Helen It. Robinson. Stato Senator, to amend tho con stitution to permit tho Legisla ture to puss a bill admitting wo men to jury duty precipitated a heated quarrel jn tho Legislature at Denver, Col. Senator Williams attacked the bill on tho grounds of morality. "I should unto to sco tho timo come," said he, "when my wifo or my daughter would bo chosen for jury servico und bo locked in a room with several men ju rors overnight or for soveral nights. I should hato to see tiio timo como when my wifo or my daughter wero forced to appear in court and show cause why they Bhould not servo on a jury. There aro many criminal cases in which it is a crime to ask a woman to listen to tho evidence." Senator John Hecker, of Denver, replied in defense: "Women have equal suffrage. If they want to sit on juries I can't see why they shouldn't. When tho liquor question was brought up in Donver it was tho women who voted tho town wet. Tho women of this town drink more high balls and cock tails than tho men do anyhow and they smoke more cigarettes a day than the men do. I can not see why they shouldn't be allowed to serve on juries if they are anxious for it" The bill was passed on second reading. We May Get It Yet Independence has offered the promoters of the glass factory, who were recently looking over the Kenton and St Johns factory districts with a view of locating here, a bonus of $20,000 and a free site of eight acres, accord ing to word received here. It looks as though the promoters were making a very serious mis take in locating so far from the central market and labor market as well. It means a double haul for the railroads so doubtless they are congratulating them- selvles. Peninsula Herald. In spite of the above gener ous offer made by the people of Independence last week, the pro moters have not given up the idea of locating in St Johns. Several of the leading spirits in the proposed glass factory visit ed the Ogden farm again Tues day and made a careful inspect ion. Mr. Ogden has placed a most reasonable price on his fifty acres, and there is a strong prob ability that St Johns will yet secure the plant, which will be a huge one. Moves to Jersey Street T. P. Ward, the pioneer ment market man of bt Johns, has recentlv removed his establish ment from the Holbrook building to the Old Star Meat Market building at 205 South Jersey. Mr. Ward is n landmark in St. Johns. He came here when the city was just casting aside its swaddling clothes, and stayed right with it through thick and thin. In spite of the keenest competition in the meat business at different times, he has never lost his nerve, but kept right on doing business, giving tno people only the best meat, when lie could have made more money by selling inferior meat. He hus ever placed quality above any thing else, and in consenuence ' has enjoyed n steady und faith ful patronage. Unlike many of I tho latter day meat vendors, he would rather keep his meats in tho bulk until called for than cut und snrcad them out for display. where dust and other particles settle upon them. He has seen about thirty-five meat merchants come and go in St. Johns, and he is tho only one of the many who has mado a "stick" of it. No man ever attended to busi ness more strictly than Mr. Ward. In fair weather and in foul ho is ever to be found nt his post from the early opening hours until closing time at night. Ho is do serving of unmeasured success, and is receiving a fair share of it. He will bo glad to meet all his old patrons as well as new ones in tho new quarters, Whore they will bo assured of the same courteous treatment and prompt servico as has been the case in tho past Tho change in location has ucen decided upon on account of greater conveniences. A Noteof Warning If, you wanjti&beauly congress for your course, do not book mo; if you want a quartet, do not book mc, for I am not one of those- I lack four good singers of being n good quartet and threo bad singers of being a bad quartet Neither am I .an orches tra or a trained animal or a hatchetrcss. Also I do not swear in public. Thc80 latter facts may bo against me; I know they keep my prico down, but I'd rather be poor than wealthy and crazy or ashamed of myself. As already indicated, I am not beautiful. As an infant, I wasn't homely. When I wns taken out in a baby buggy folks would stop on tho street to look nt mc. If I wero taken out in ono now, they would probably do the same. But while I urn not beautiful I am gentle and playful, and a little petting will make me purr, roll a catnip ball and cat out of your hand. After these few remarks, it is your own fault if you miss hear ing one of tho best humorists that ever appeared on a St Johns platform. Gillilan will be at tho H. S. Thursday, Feb. 13. Spray Your Fruit Trees J. E. Stansbery, fruit inspect or, and his deputy, Charles O. Windle, viBited St Johns this week. Mr. Stansbery, it will be remembered, was here last year, and notified a number of parties to either cut down their defective, fruit trees or havo them sprayed. He now states that most of those whom ho thus notified have done neither, and that ho is now serving no tice upon them to cut tho trees down. If this is not done, they will be cut.down at tho fruit in spector's command upon his re turn in about one month. The inspector is determined that no infected trees shall remain un cared for or allowed to exist long in St Johns. So it is up to tho owners to act accordingly. A raise of $12,000,000 a year in the payroll of the United States Steel Corporation, the greatest concern of its kind in the world, was announced Tuesday by E. H. Gary, chairman of tho board of directors. The adjustment of wages, which goes into effect on February 1, will be shared in by about 200,000 employes of the United States Steel Corporation, but the greatest increase goes to those laborers who are paid the lowest wages. Typewriter ribbous for sale at this office; 50 cents each. High School Notes Next Saturday night tiro bas ket ball team of tlic James John High School will ,plny the fast McMinnvillc II. S. team. Mc- Minnville is a strong contestant lor tho state championship, and 11 uie nome team ucicais mem, they also will have something to say about the championship. About two hundred people watched the two basket ball games played in the High School gymnasium last Friday evening between the home teams and their opponents from St Helens. The boyB game was slow and rather one sided, the final score being 32 to 13 with James John leading. Cochran starred for the home team, scoring 18 of the 32 points made. This is the sixth successive victory for tho James John team. The girls' game was also a victory, the score be ing 10 to 5. This is only the second game that tho girls have ..1 1 .1 ... 1 11 wiycu una icrm, nnu since nicy mvo won both of them, they de- Borvo as much creditustho boys. Gertrude McCarty did the star ring in this game, scoring G of tho 10 points. After tho games n large number of tho James John pcoplo escorted the St. Hel ens folks down to their bout and as the boat pulled out they gave tho "Locomotive Yell" for the visitors. This is tho first year that James John has played St. Helens and tho association has proved very pleasant Saturday the Freshmen enter tained the faculty und upper classmen in a most delightful manner. All decorations and games of tho evening carried with them the suggestion of na tional patriotism. After being greeted by "Uncle Sam," wo played the lively games of hunt ing lost stars and identifying states of tho Union. Tiio merry company grouped cheniBelves for refreshments under the banner of their soveral native states, and each group nttestcd its ipy alty by appropriate "booster yells." bBhl bshl Don't talk of lSxnms again I Wo now turn to review and tremble with fear at tho things wo find that wo do not know. Final examinations begin next Tuesdny. Tho English History class is working very faithfully al thoir term's report. Some already have them completed and are corresjwndingly relieved in mind. Gillilan. tho man known tho world over as tho author of "Off again, on again, gone again, Fmnegan, will bo hero Febru ary 13th. Ho is known as a prince of entertainers nnd as this is tho last number of the Lyceum Course, a large audience should greet him. Tho Klatawa iliko Club will take another hike. All tho girls wishing to "hoof it" aro roquest ed to meet nt tho High School at 10 o'clock, Saturday, A. M. Installation of Officers Tim fnllmvlmrnfllrors wnrfi fn. stalled at a recent meeting of Holmes Lodge, K. of 1', : C. C: F. L. Babcock; V. C, E. R. Maxfield; M. of F J. R. Welmer; K. R. S D. F. Hors mnn M. of A.. V. W.Mason: M. of E., A. W. Vincent; M. of W.. R. M. Kearns; 1'rclato; A. Uari NelKnri! Inner Guard. L.F.Clark: Outer Guurd, J. E. Hiller. Building Permits No. 3 To F. Tufts to erect a dwelling on Ivanhoo street be tween Maple Btreet and Weyer haeuser avenue; cost $1000, No.4 To Michael Mackey to erect a dwelling on Buchanan street between Smith avenue and Hudson street; cost $500. REVIEW'S LEGAL BLANKS The following list of lecal blanks are kept for sale at this office and others will be added as the demand .rises Warrantv deeds. Quit Claim rtola Uonlltr nllrl Plinflfl Mnrt. gages, Satisfaction of Morages, Contracts for Sale of Realty, Bills of Sale, Leases. All these blanks nt the uniform price of 30c per dozen. Don't forget about Monday be ing bargain day for envelopes. One hundred printed for 50 cents. 'PI. ia nvliui will tin tnninrninfwl ilUD Jll , . wvi ti'" only for a limited time. Leave your order now, Council Proceedings A petition for tho improve ment of Buchanan street from FosBendon street to Swift avenue was presented at Tuesday's meet ing of the city council, and refer red by the Mayor to tho city en gineer and street committee for recommendation. The street has not been wholly dedicated, and it will be necessary to institute condemnation proceedings or in duce tho owners of tho land not dedicated to dedicate enough for street purposes. A petition wns received for tho improvement of Fessendon street from Oswego to Smith avenue with concrete paving, and a res olution was adopted directing the engineer to prepare the nec essary data for such improve ment. The firo department called at tention to the fact that a counlo of firo hydrants wero out of re pair. Referred to the Btreet committee. Tho chairman of tho street commmittee was authorized and empowered to drain off standing water and otherwise repair Olympia Btreet and Fessendcn Btreet The city attorney stated that ho hnd received a communication from tho Public Utilities Com mission rcaucst nc him to mcot with that body in their rooms in Portland Saturday morning nt ten o'clock, and also requesting that no action bo takon toward enforcing a recent ordinance passed by tho city council pro viding for penalizing tho water company for any nttempt to col lect tho old water rates until af ter a conference had been held with the city nttornoy nnd Rich ard Montague, tho nttornoy for tho water company. Tho Com mission stated that tho engineers would bo ready to tako up tho water situation hero in a very few dnya. Water hydrants wero ordered installed at the intersection of Erie and Grcsham streets and Mohawk and Bradford streets. A report submitted by the firo department covering its opora tions during the past year was accepted. Tho engineer having discover ed that tho sowor on Fillmoro street wns not deep enough to drain all of tho Anderson proper ty, ovor which there has been considerable contention, coun cil decided to havo this property stricken from tho assessment roil and the city bear tho burden for tho sewer improvement, on mo tion of Aldermun Hiller. An ord nnnco was passed pro viding for tho assessment of tho Fillmoro street sower. An ordinnnco providing for holding tho city primary elec tion on March 8th was also passed. All members were present with Muyor Muck presiding, Achieving the Superman To nrovent tho propagation of criminals, imbeciles und others whoso mental or physical condi tion might tend to retard tho ad vancement of tho raco.a bill was introduced in tho Utah House of Renresentat vess Monday by Dr. Jane W, Skelfield, providing for a state bureau ot eugenics to govern marriages and for tho sterilization of tho unlit, it tho bill becomes a law, a certificate of physical and mental fitness must bo obtained before a mar riage licenso issues. Certain criminals and tho incurable in sane would bo subject to sterili zation. Tho bureau would not cnlv control marriages, but would keep a record and use sucn knowledge for the purpose of furthering the human welfare or, as one Representative declar ed, for achieving the "super man Explains Itself Grand Ranida. Mich.. Jan. 20. Currin's Pharmacy, St. Johns, Oregon, Gentlemen: Yours of recent date for 300 additional 101 a Wnnthnr Chart Calendars at hand, and we aro sorry to say that we cannot fill your order, as our Oregon edition is entirely ex hausted. Wo have, however, booked your order for 1,000 for 1914, for which accept thanks. Rflirrottinir our inability to serve you in this instance, and thankintr you for order for 1914. we remain. Truly yours, Grand Rapids Stationery Co. The Library Open Hour: I too to 5 30 nml 7t09t3oi1.ru Sunday; 2i30 to 5(30 Brown-Through the Mill. We havo the Outlook's word for it that it has rarely printed a Btory with more human inter est than "Through the Mill." It is the autobiography of a boy la borer. It is in the form of fic tion, although the incidents are substantially true; and, regarded as fiction, it has both humor and pathos. The atmosphere of mill life is reproduced as it can bo only by one who has breathed it Talbot Railway Conquest of tho World. Here we have tho story of the building of railways the world over told with recognition of tho inscinntion ol the life nnd achievements of great railway engineers. The greatest tunnels, the triumph of tho engineer over the Rocky Mountains, tho inva sion of the Fnr East, tho just nnished railway-over-lhe-sea at tho end of Florida, tho plans of the Capo to Cairo railway, the longest so-called toy railroad in tho world these arc only speci mens taken nt a venture of a great vurioty of topics capable of. picturesque and at times oven ol romantic treatment. There are many sores of photograpliB of high interest. Thorndlko- Animal Intelli gence. Mr. Thorndike has submitted animals especially dogs, cats, chickens nnd monkeys to certain tests, for tho purpose of finding out what are their mental opera tions. Thus, for example, ho has put an animal, when hungry, in an enclosure from which it could escape by some simple act, such as pulling nt a lock, press ing a lever or stepping on a plat form. Food was then left out side, nnd the actions of the an imal observed to ascertain whether they act simply on im pulso or think it over, and act on decision. Palmer Over tho Pass. A vivid romance of the down right west and the complex East, its principal scene a region of Arizona between desert and mountain range, made fertile by irrigation nnd tho labor of a atraight forward, lawless people. Robinson- Tho New IHstory. Under this title Prof. Robin son makes out n strong case against popular Iiistory as it has formerly been written. "Here after," ho thinks "tho historian will aspire to find out not only oxactly how things havo been but how they have como about History has to recognize that it Is based on siBter sciences espe cially on the newer sciences of man which aro now in a iKsition to rectify muny of tho commonly accepted conclusions of tho his torian." As a specimon of tho defectiveness of much that passes for truo history Prof. Rob inson's critique of two represen tative text books shows how fur from reality aro tho commonly accepted notions of tho fall of Romo in tho 5th century A. D. 320.1 M779G, A profound analy sis of law in relation to govern ment customs, climate, religion and commerce, It is the great est book of the eighecnth contury. - Parsons, Newman- Apologia pro vita sua. 282 N553. No autobiography in tho English language has been moro read. Barry. Paston- Letters. 82G P292. Ho race Walpolo declared that tho Paston Letters mado all others not worth rending Duthio. Percy- Reliques. 821,08 P432 "Itwasa chanco finding of Per cy's Reliques of ancient poetry by Sir Walter Scott, when ho was only twelve years old that mado him a poet'' The Jayne Theatre The contest waged at tho now theatre in the Holbrook block for an appropriate title for samo closed Saturday evoning. Quito a number of names were sub mitted, but few showed origi nality. The judges, consisting of C. C. Currin, H. W. Bonham and A. W. Markle, decided in favor of "The Jayno Theatre," submitted by Miss Annie Seol, who was awarded the $5 cash prize offered for the name ac cepted. Rex Bolen won tho sec ond prize with the name "Scen ic," and Gladys Salmond third prize with tho name "Tho Peo ple's Choice." Gilmore's Barber Shop a spe cialty on childrens hair cutting.