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If St. Johns Is Calling You Ii second in number of Industries. It seventh in population. Can to Portland every 16 min. Hat navigable water on 3 tide. Hat finett (tat and electricity. Hat two ttrong bankt. Hat five large achool homes. Hot abundance of purest water. Hat hard turface itreett. Hat extentive aewerase system. Hat fine, modern brick city linll. Hat payroll off 95.000 monthly. Shipt monthly 2,000 cart freight. All rnllrontlt hnve access to it. It gateway to Portland harbor. Climate ideal an'd healthful. STRONG SPEECH By Mr. Lafferty in House of Representatives Continued from last week. I have a bill pending, II. It. 9832, requiring that nil canned vegetables or meats have a state ment on tho label giving all the contents, with the percentage of each, as well as the year the product was packed. Mine is the only bill of the kind ever intro duced. The so-called pure food and drug act of .June 30, 100U, is very incomplete and ineffi cient, as Dr. II. W. Wiley has found. There is no reason on earth, except private greed, why Biich absolute safety should not be guaranteed the health of the country us is provided in my bill. The bill also provides that all packages, bottles, or otlur containers of food, drugs, or medicines put on the market for the interstate trade snail near a label giving the true contents thereof, with percentages of each. The people will never get these things if they fail to stand un for their rights. No great ro form was ever wrought without a terrible struggle, a fight to a finish, and many times blood shed. The fight 1 have been en gaged in the past three years has boon. grinding. I have with stood it. and am stronger phys ically and mentally today than over boforo in my life. 1 am in the fight to the end. No man can stand thu light that is made on him when ho under takes the battle for the public welfaro, into which I have en tered, unless ho lias a good mor al character. Otherwise ho would not last a month. There fore I want my old friends to have courage, and thoso who only know me by reputation to demand facts when tho dirty on slaught begins upon me by a united press during the coming fights. Were I guilty of an of fence that would oven amount to u misdemeanor, the enemy would have had me out of office long boforo this. Finally, just a word for thoso who toll. It -is for them that I am fighting hardest. 1 favor labor unions, and havo always favored them. I favor a universal eight hour day. I have offered a bill, H. R. 882G. making it unlawful for uny mill or factory engaged in shipping its products into the interstate trade to employ men, women, or children more than eight hours a day. If this and the other measures I favor de come laws, every man who works will bo independent he will bo ablo to take a vacation each year, ho will bo ablo to ed ucate his children, ho will be able to lay by a littlo for his old age, and in this life will be ablo to call his 'soul his own. Nothing less than this is justice. I deep ly sympathizo with all strug gling poor people of Portland, of whom I am one, left as we are without newspaper assist ance, but, thanks to bo God and W. S. U'Ken, we have a State publicity phamphlet through which all candidates may make known to tho voters their pled ges, independent of the news papers, and if I have my way about it the same kind of a pub licy pamphlet will be provided for Presidential candidates thru a nation-wide direct primary law: and at the coming primary, while 1 do not agree with all of Mr. U'Ren's single-tax ideas, I shall certainly go home to Port land and cast my vote for him for governor of the State of Oregon, if his name shall appear on the ballot. I also heartily favor the old age pension and industrial insurance laws recently put thru in England by Lloyd George. The newspapers have not men tioned the old-age pension law because it is opposed by the income-tax-paying higher-ups. But until conditions shall be changed so that a man who labors will be paid enough to en able him to lay by a competence; any man who works away his life for the good of the Com monwealth or the Nation should not be turned into the pocr house or made dependeut upon others when he is old and help less, I have introduced an old-age pension bill in Congress and I wish it could be brought to a vote to-morrow. 1 also wish that Mr. George's industrial insur ance law would be adopted in ST. VOI,. to As a Man Thinks Harmful? Demoralising? Sin ful? That depends entirely up on the individual and associa tions. Henry Ward Beecheronce said: "I have numerous inquir ies as to what I think about church members attending thea ters. To such I ulwaysask, what do you think of it yourself? If you think it is harmful, then it is harmful. If not, under ration all conditions there is no harm whatever in" it." And so it is with dancing. Those who dance nurcly for the case and i grace which the pastime imparts to the mdividuul can derive no harm from it. Those who are demoralized by dancing would o led astray by anything else. Always taking into considera tion sclectness and respectabil ity, dancinir of itself ought not harm if tho individual person so wills it. the United States, so that poor laboring men and women, by paying a few cents a week in the way of revenue stamps to be canceled and placed upon a card, could create an insurance fund held by the Government, out of which surviving relatives would receive a reasonable sum for burial expenses and for their future support in case of the death of tho insured . The Portland News says in its ed'- torinl that 1 can devise more good reforms that never happen j titan any candidate it lias mot up j witn. Therje are 436 Members, of Congress. Whenever the peo-l pie of the United States elect j 211) Members -a majority who favor these roforms they will be passed. It certainly would be a backward step and would be postponing the happy day when these reforms will be realized for the voters to rotiro from Congress ut the very beginning of his efficiency a man who has had the belief, backed by the courage, to advocate these re forms, nt the cost that I huve in the past and do now advocate them, with all mv heart. I do not expect ncwspapiir support for some years to come. but through paid advertisements and through official letters 1 shall keen the public advised as well as I can. I shall spend every dollar of my salary in tho future, as in the past, for public print ing, clerical help, halls, and so forth, in order that I may win this fight. No person contribut ed one cent to my campaign last year. I shall decline to accept a cent from any source in tho fu ture. I am not required under any corrupt practice act to in clude in any campaign expense account what I pay out for offi cial printing between cam paigns or during campaigns, when such printing is such us goes with the omco i occupy. Congress has wisely given to its Members the postal frank in order that they may officially ad vise their constituents of their work, and had it not been for that postal frank the special in terests would hnve had me out of office long ago. These same special interests now wish to see the postal frank of Congressmen nbolishd. But it will never be done. In final conclusion I wish to say that in future campaigns, as in the past, l snail meet my con stituents face to face in every part of my district, and I shall in som way advertise these meetings. My standing chal lenge to any and all of the edi tors assailing me, and to any i one else having any reason to give why I should not have the confidence and esteem of my constituents, is hereby renewed to cover the full period that I shall remain in public life. And 1 want it noted that no one of them has ever yet accepted the challenge. I want to meet as many of my employers as possi ble. But 1 want the thousands of toilers whom I may never have the pleasure of meeting personally to know that I shall remain loyal to them to the end. (Applause.) Dr. Mclntyre. now of Phil adelphia, who some time ago pur chased several acres of land on the Heights above Whitwood Court, is surveying and clearing the land and contemplates build ing a fine residence in which he says he expects to spend the bal ance of his days. The doctor has been the country over and says there is no spot east or west that suits him as does the little scenic location above Whitwood, overlooking the placid waters of tha beautiful Willamette, Linn ton Leader. JOHNS ST. Cap. Snow on Parks Editor Review: You are un doubtedly aware that on ac count of poor health 1 took up my rvaiuuuti: un my iuiiuu. iuui undoubtedly are also aware that I temporarily abandoned my practice. I take this opportunity to say that i nave regained my health and today am free from aches or pains and feel myself better prepared to transact bus incss than I have been since was forty years old: in other words I am a monument of health. I have concluded to and have returned to St. Johns and taken up my line of busi ness expecting to spend the re mainder of my life among my mends in what to me is the beautiful city of St. Johns. Honceiorth l expect to do all in my power to ndvancc the growth and bcautuicalion of St. Johns. nnd the first thing that appeals to me is the question that has been before tho people of St. Johns so long and discussed so much thnt I feel inclined to say that like tho Mexican war it has become wearisome. Yet I know well that tho subject of Parks in St. Johns ought to be carried on and finally consumnted, for it can be but a short tunc when parks will bo an oasis of plea sure and tndispensible. Now 1 propose to pass an opinion as to how the site for a park should be located on grounds possessing the advantage of drainage, as it would be unsanitary if it hud not perfect drainage. The size of a piece of ground selected for a park is not so material so that it is of a reasonable size, say not less than two and one-half acres. The situ selected should be such us to accommodate the greatest number of people, taking into consideration the modo of ap proaching said nark, not only for tho people of St. Johns, but as well those who from tjmo to time visit our city and choose to .spend .urujidlo. Jiour in the park. I for ono fnvor small parks located in such a manner and at such a point as will ac- .nmmnrintn fi,nninilt nr tho citi- 7e,l8 in thnt iocnity. In other words, a small park in my judg ment properly selected and lo catcd is of more value to the people thnn a large park care lessly located and without drain age. 1 bpo that tho park busi ness had called into activity a largo number of people, thereby of necessity making it hard or difllcult to get a satisfactory un derstanding, as there are so many interests concentrated in the location of n park. My idea is that there should bo u park com mission slolected and clothed with the authority to mako se lections suitable for parks, and then that committee proceed nnd make their selections and locations of tho vnrious parks or resting places. By so doing tho park committee can agree much easier than can all the citizens of St. Johns. This committee to be always open for suggestions of every name and naturo from the people at large. I havo no personal interest in the location of parks beyond these facts: The parks, first, must be sanitary; second, they should be located on some public thoroughfare and possess as great a view as is possible to ob tain. Apiece of ground abso lutely nude of timber, if well se lected, can bo made into a park with no moro expense than it would cost to change a jungle into a park. All the difference there would be is the planting of the trees and the time that it would take for their growth. Large parks now standing in the state of Kansas where there was not a forest of any kind origi nally within 25 miles, of the spot where the park now stands. The landscape gardener, as I call him, used skill in planting trees as to kind and position, and to day the park that I havo in mind is state wide known as the most beautiful park in the state of Kansas. Hence it is possible to have tho same results in Oregon. The expense of doing so, 1 as sure you, will not exceed the expense of changing a jungle into a park. As an individual I may differ with the public. It would seem almost necessary that a park should be located some where on Willamette boulevard from the fact that it will always be the most fashionable and most desirable for residence as well as business in the near future, and it must be of necessity the route used by persons going and coming to our city, as it fur nishes a greater amount of river scenery than can be had by the selection of any other street in Devoted to tbe Inttretti of the I'enlniula, the Manufacturing JOHNS, ORKGON, FRIDAY, Vincent on Vaccination St. Johns, Oregon, Feb. 314. Editor Review: "Save us from our friends." This should be the prayer of all genuine reform ers. From thoso who mako ex travagant statements and at tempt to dispute everything oven remotely associated with that which they wish to overthrow. Often the greatest error is but a slight misapplication of a tre menduous truth. And all the more dangerous because of its nearness to truth. Such un error is Vaccination against smallpox as now applied, which method is now practically the same as that accidcntly applied by the In i lie mains ooioro jenner. And in trying to rid ourselves of tho or ror it only lays tho whole move ment open to ridicule to attempt to deny that smallpox is trans missnblc. Sonic apparently can wallow in it" and enjoy perfect immunity and to understand ant produce that immunity for others is a prouicm wormy oi study. In the action and reaction be tween certain diseases and the human system an airent is pro duccd which tends to limit the disease and produce an immun ity toward the same and similar diseases. Tho use of serums. bacterids, toxins, anti-toxins. etc. , is an effort to make use of this immunizimr airent which is obtained byculivating the germs ol disease outside of the human tody. smallpox vaccination is a method of producing the immun izing agent by cultivating the germs of disease within tho hu man body. From nnv nossiblo standpoint of modern scientific medicines this must be cons tier ed as a useless folly little short of a crime. Tho modern use of tox Ins. etc.. is not tho unmutlificd success in its presentBtage of de velopment that some had hoped. jia iv mis ucen suown to uc in -1 I 1 L A , , ino with soma great truth.n truth glimpsed bv Baracelsufumd Hip- pucrnu's, amipaniaiiytippiicu uy Hahnemann, and it has boon ap- Hied with certainly as much suc cess (to bo very conservative) and with practically none of tho drawbacks of the disease graft ing method. All thnt has been done with toxins for other conditions has ecn done with no thought of nny rnecessity of infecting the system with any disease. Wo aro told that typhoid fever n the u, b. Army has been re duced in one year from hundreds of cases to only two, and this without producing any festering soro and general systemic pois oning by a disease product graft ed directly from an animnl into the human blood. No days or weeks of suffering.no deaths, und none maimed for life. This same method can bo applied to small pox just as easily if the medical profession will get out of thu rut which one Jenner started to d g a hundred years ago. They have shown themselves tho way, but it may require the emphatic pro tests of tho people to drive them to it. I mako no reference whatever to my own homeopathic method of protection, but insist that the regular school should revise their methods to correspond with their own methods in other diseases and forever purge themselves of this ancient abomination. I shall not attempt here to en ter into lengthy consideration of the merits and demerits of vacci nation, suffice to say that I have enough evidence to convinco my self that even if thero were no better way it would still bo a oily and a crime. 1 am willing to allow to others the right of their own opinions in the city of St. Johns, and I as a itizen would favor the location of a park on the boulevard as 'ark No. 1. becond. I would fa vor the selection oi a site lor ark -No. 2, if it can be properly done, between what is properly known as the rrench Block, and the Cut or North Bank railroad, as the street car furnishes ac- pmmodation to and from a park uus located, and it would seem fitting that in like manner small parks should be located on suit able grounds where they will ac commodate the greatest number of people in its locality. Here tofore 1 have expressed no inter est in the park question ut all, but now that I am a citizen here to remain, I feel a special inter est nnd believe that the question of parks should be settled while the discussion of the park ques tion has been so extended. I have the honor to remain. yours to the people of St. Johns. Lap, is, u, bnow. REVIEW Center of the Northwest ' FIJBRUARY 6. 1914. Speaks for Itself The statement was made at the vaccination meeting held in the , high school recently thnt there' were 400 cases of smallpox on the battleship Ohio, and that -10 deaths had occurred. Dr. White communicated with the physi cian in charge concerning tho truthfulness of this report, and the following is the reply, which speaks for itself: Dr. Calvin S. White. Secretary State Board of Health, Portland, uregon -Dear bir: At your re- quest I take pleasure in copying from the Army nnd Navy Regis- tor oi January ii, just received, ine following report ot the re cent smallpox situation aboard the U. S. S. Ohio. 1. Under Notes on Naval Vessels:" "The Ohio is at Philadelphia January 10, the period of quar antine ending at midnight Janu ary 1G-17, and will remain at Philadelphia until January 21. thence proceeding to the East coast of Mexico." 2. Under the capton, "Small pox on the Ohio:" "The following information in regard to cases on board tho U. S. S. Ohio was received on Jnnu- ary I) by radiogram at tho Navy Department: vases irom tno u no in camt at Guantanimo, Cuba: Following actual cases oi smallpox (here is given the names of patients): total 22 patients, all received from the Ohio, ant aro now con valescent. 'Cases at quaran tine station, Delaware Breakwat or on the Ohio: Inspected wimp, consulted quarantine ofll ciuls on January 1). Case of An- derson, L. decided not smallpox. This makes last case January 2, nnd quarantine period complete morning January 17 if no more cases. Last inspection by Pub- uc Health Service of officers. ship and men takes place Janu ary i i, ; lor people in camp morn ing .January 17. when they ro turn to ship. All arrangements wm uo mndo to get nwny by noon seventeenth. "Tho fol lowing men here havo mild cases of varioloid: D. H. Name. R. K. Pond. A. O. M l or. Are isolat- ed and doing we " Yours very tru y. J. A. B. S n- ciair, A. A. burgeon, U. S. Nnvy. the matter, but when an attempt is mndo to forco this thing imon thoso who are unwilling it is my tight to tho bitter end. In our present on domic tho lealth officers all united to ad- viso that tho schools bo not clos ed. Why? In order to uso tho over of threatened suspension rom school nt a critical time in their work to forco vacc nation upon unwilling nnd innocent vic tims nnd for no other reason. We were told that it was thought letter to keep tho children in school where the teachers could watch thorn and detect anv sign of tho disease, but the very ones who wero supposed to need watching, tho unvaccinated. were to be excluded nnd loft to tho tender mercies of their sup posedly careless and ignorant mothers. 0 Consistency. Thou art a Jewel, not found extensively among the vnluables of school authorities and honlth boards. When n child may bo excluded rom school because of its good lealth. because it has not an an gry, putrid, unnatural soro upon uo uuiiy, it BUCIIIH UIKM1L UIIIO that parents should sit un and take notice. A. W. Vincent, M. D. The Care of Overshoes When buying overshoes be careful to see that you get those that have not been left over rom last season. Even tho best quality will deteriorate during the heat of summer and wear out much faster than the new stock. The cracks in rubber overshoes, which will soon result in holes, rendering tho shoes useless, may be nicely mended with a piece of surgeons' adhesive plaster. Fit a piece of rubber or thick felt into tho heel and cover this with the plaster. It will be a proctection against wear. When rubbers look old apply a coating of patent leather shoe polish and they will look liko new. Dr. Calvin S. White, state hehlth officer, thinks it best to keep the library closed the full three weeks, or until about Feb ruary 15th. Members aro re quested to return all library books putting them through slot in box at back door. . NO. 12 COUNCIL MEETS1 Matters of Importance) Receive Attention ; All members were present at i the regular meeting of the city council Tuesday evening, Mayor Brcdcson presiding. Upon recommendation of tho water and light committee, an arc light was ordered installed nt the corner of Seneca and Tio- ga streets had been improved. At his re quest a committee was appoint ed to serve witli him in a fur ther investigation, which com mittee was composed of Alder men Garlick and Vincent. The chiim of Attorney H. E. Collier for $09 as fees und costs on the Willamette boulevard case pending before the Supreme Court, was held over until thu case has been decided. Chief of Police Allen reported that there wore only two new cases of smallpox that had do velnped within the past six days, and that quite a number had been released from quarantine; that at present about 18 families were under quarantine, whereas u couple of weeks ago there wero in the neighborhood of thirty cases. C. C. Woodhouse communicat ed that he would sell his quarter block of land at the corner of Philadelphia and Willamette boulevard to tho city for park purposes for $2180, exclusive of street improvements, which amount to over $500. A remonstrance of about 50 pou cent.of the property ropre sented in the proposed improve ment of Willamette boulevard oh jectetl to the improvement, the reason given by Mr. Chipmnn being that the property owners were under the impression that tno improvement would no car ried oii to Richmond street in stead of torminating at Burling ton street. Tim remonstrance, while holutcd, if not out of or der, was referred to the city en gineer to ascertain the exact amount of property represented upon it. I ho following bids woro re vived for tho improvement of Willamette boulevard between Burlington street and St. Johns avenuo: Joiiries iv Huckton, S18, 727.80: Star Sand Co.. $17.- 570.20; Haven Bros., $17,021.70; McuinniH Bros., no total: An drew & Harror, $17,00.08; V. W. Mason. $l7.2-ir.JH ; J. Ilahn. $18,280.1)1; Warren Construction Co., $20,581.70. Bids woro re- forrod to tho citv engineer to check up. I ho following bids woro re ceived on tho improvement of Hartmnn street; T. A. Sweeney & Co.. $7.130.38; Star Sand Co.. $0,GG8.2S); McGinnis Bros., no to- tal; Andrew & Jlnrror. $7,2:51.81; B. Kilkenny. h,82M; V. W. Mason. 0.017.-12; Cochran-Nut-ting Co., $0.71)1.15; Knowlos & Knowlos. $7,315.00. Tho bid of V. W. Mason being tho lowest. ho was awarded the contract. Prof. C. H. Boyd, chairman ol tho citizens' park committee, re ported that the committee had unanimously decided that it would lie host to lay matter of acquiring parks over until June or July. Alderman Martin stated that Mr. Markwart had agreed to re duce tho price of his land for park purposes $200, leaving a balance of $(5300 without im- provemont indebtedness, or $(!, 800 including such indebtedness. It was decided that tho noti- tioned for improvement of Mo hawk street between Fossenden street and Central avonue pro coed, while tho proposed im provement of Mohawk street be tween Fossondon and Swift boul evard be not done at this time owing to an excess cost of about $800, estimated. An ordinance amending tho sewer regulation ordinance pass ed first and second readings, and an ordinance accepting deeds for property on Burr street was passed. lho committee on securing conveyance for moving firo ap paratus m case of fire roported that Mr. Oihus had agreed to at tend to this with his auto at a rate of $5 on each occasion. Alderman Wnldref made a mo The city attorney stated that ho had invuHtiiriitrwl tlio rrmltne. KiEet'siS SM-lg chise was given, yet the service !.l.'.y. . . .c JI,t,Ko18' nnd t,,Ly tion that if th CapleK tract St. Johns is Calling You Hat eyn church. t. Hat n most promising futur. Distinctirely a manufacturing city Adjoint the city of Portland. Hat nearly 6,000 population. Hat a public library. Taxable property, J54.500.O0O. Has large dry docks, saw mills Woolen mills, iron works, Stove works, asbestos factory, Ship building plant. Veneer nnd excelsior plant, Flour mill, planing mill, Box factory, and others. Mora industries coming. St. Johns it the place for YOU. ' HIGH SCHOOL Items of Interest Regard ing School Doings This is examination week in the High School, and it is un usually quiet, for the pupils are all either busy writing what they know or at homo cram ming. A new clnss will enter from the grammar school at the begin ning of the new term. Last Saturday night the H. S. 1 1 . I lil -a aro duly elated. On Friday evening, Feb. G.the first team will play the Alumni in the H. S. gymnasium. In the dual debate with As toria last Friday night, the affirmative teams' of both schools traveled, while the negative teams remained at home. This gave the home people an oppor tunity to hear both their own teams. The debate was hotly contested at both places. At Astoria the leader of the nega tive was especially good, for his argument was splendidly assem bled, expressed in vigorous Eng lish, and convincingly delivered. The unwarranted statement was made, however, that the district debate manager had sent a defi nite interpretation of tho -question to all the schools of the dis trict. St. Johns had not receiv ed such information, und hence wo placed our own interpreta tion upon the question, u stand which our debaters, Hazel Hall and Maggie Dickie, clearly sup ported and defended, in both di rect argument and in rebuttal. The judges of this debate woro C. W. Mullins of Astorin, Pro fessor Loo of tho Wnrrenton school, and Professor Bradstad tor of the Seaside school. Their decision was .'! to 0, in favor of Astoria. At St. Johns the throe judges. Prof. Carman of Lincoln High, Prof. Anders of Washing ton, und Judge Stevenson, gave the decision to the homo team by a vote of 2 to 1. This victory was fairly won by tho clear ar gument and effective prosonta tion of the negative team, Cath erine (jensman and hum Hay. At the close of tho debate they wero commended, especially for their evident thoughtful shap ing of their argument to moot that of their opponents and for their spirited delivery. Row Weislo sorved most acceptably as chairman of tho occasion. I he interest shown in our work of debate this year by both the student body and tho patrons of the school has boon most gratifying. Tho teams havo done hard work; they have done good work for tho school, and they appreciate the loyalty shown them. We havo fino ma terial for debate in sight for noxt year, and aro looking for- wnrd with hope for now victo ries and new honors.--Roportor, could bo socured for $11,000, tho' Cook tract at $5,000. tho Stoarns Alton tract at $13,500, and the Catlin-Markwart tract at S9.800. clear of all indebtedness, and muking a total of $30,300. bo offered for park purposo that they be placed on the ballot at a special election the coming sum mer, lho motion received no second, although it procipituted considerable discussion. The city attorney stated that tho city had closed its case on tho water rate case with tho Railway Commission, and that it was now entirely in the hands of the Commission. Believing that alfalfa is of very vast importance, to the livestock interests of tho statu, the State Superintendentof Pub lic Instruction has set aside thu entire second week of March as "Alfalfa Week." Every school in Oregon, including the ono room country schools, will bo expected to placo special empha sis on the subject ot alfalfa. In the lower grades this instruc tion will be in the form of story-, telling by tho teacher and com ments and questions by the pu pils. In the upper grades, all the written composition of tho classes will bo on the subject of alfalfa and its relation to other industries. An electric massage, only oii im town. Gilmore' burber shop, adr.