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OREGON CITY, OREGON. FRIDAY, NOV. 17, 1911.;
29th YEAR.
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THAN ftJG FEED
Thanksgiving in the Stom
ach, not the Heart.
NOT LIKE THE PILGRIM DAYS,
We are Thankful if we get a Big
Chunk of the White Meat.
President Taft has ruled off the us
ual red tana and proclaimed Novem
ber 80 as Thanksgiving for 1911.
Today Thanksgiving means a lay
oat, a feed, aud that in about all it
does mean.
Many years ago the day meant just
what it Bpeiled Thanksgiving
Oar Pilgrim fathers had been up
against the real tning hitting the
chutes for fair and they were grate
lul and thankful that things were at
last breaking right. Thanksgiving
meant more to them than figuring out
if they couldn't land an invitation to
eat white meat of the turkey.
' We today look at this day much as
we do any holiday a few hours of!
from the daily routine, a chauge of
pants and a square meal.
lhe 80th of November is no better
nor more saored than any other day of
this old month. The purpose is to
get nil all palling together 011 one par-
ticnlar day to be a reminder that we
can all dig op something to the gnod
to be grateful for. It is a date to jog
our thankful bump aud -keep as from
chasing golden calves too far.
Any inau who can put away three
squares a day has a lor to be thaukfui
for. Grim old age creeps on every
day, and his sight drafts, death and
sickness have to be honored on Bight.
If Father Time has passed you by tliie
year yon should be more thankful
than if the dog catoher skipped you.
It is a disturbing Hue of reasoning
that each time a Thanksgiving trots
around, every mortal son and daugh
ter of ds are twelve months nearer
living with The Dead People.
It is said a death dreader may think
along these lines until relatives have
to send for Salem attendants to take
him down to the orazy factory to live.
Bat this all depends on whether the
person believes he has something to
be tuaukful for when. November 80
rolls arouud.
If he is thankful, certainly he re
oognizes a something r somebody
that has given him a row that was
not too hard to hoe, and where the
weeds were not too big to be kept
down, and if he does, . then the
thought of aosewood box, a shrowd
and a floral piece won't send him to
the bug house.
Some people yearly dig up thankful
' ness to a Creator because by compari
son they find they are better on than
the other fellow.
This is thanking God beoause he
handed out some soft ones to him aud
gave the other fellow the worst of it,
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and so fully selflsh . there is no real
srratitude in it.
Bo very often you will henr a fellow
say tie nas a lot to ds iiisukiui lor,
and then will cite some poor, unfortu
nate cuss, whom misfortune has
given the short end. aud draw com
parisons. And this same hard luck fellow will
look below himself and see another
who has got something in the way of
hard lines that he missed, and he can
be thaukfnl that he is uo woiso otf.
The man who has lost a leg can be
thankful that he has one left, when
lie sees a fellow who has had both
legs lopped off, and that he is better
off than the man who has only the
places left where the arms and legs
should be.
And if we carry this line of com
parisons way up to the head of the
causality column, there must be a few
lonesome, mntilated specimens of hu
manity who haven't reiv much to
hang their gratitude ou no legs for
thankfulness to Etand on.
There are thousands of different
men with as many different sets of
brains. Each figures oat his own lit
tle idea of a Supreme Hulnr, and I
irold that a descendant of Hum, who
sotB up his little mud image over in
Afrioa, and who pays to that idol all
the reverence his savage brain is
capable of, is as sore of a happv here
after as any reader of these lines.
This is carrying the Bubject pretty
far into the tropics, hut it is to get
you to thinking a few.
The right idea of Thanksgiving is
not to oompare how inuoh better otf
you aie than your neighbor, aud give
thauks in proportion, but rather that
the day slionjd be set apart for an in
ventory of the past year's business,
and to frame. up a system for doing a
little belter next year.
A world, a country, a state, a coun
ty, a home are what we make them,
aud you can make your own home a
hell or heaven.
Make it the latter aud (hen next
Thanksgiving day see if your booss
don't show you a balauce ou the hap
piness side of the ledger. .
Regardless of all beliefs and creeds,
a man owes it to himself, his family
and those ho associates with to make
this little stay on earth worth while.
All you get out of this lite is what
you hold out. You can't clip coupons
from government bonds after the
lum ral, bat you can live decent and
honest, and in this way get interest
on your investment as you jog along.
And no matter what your beliefB of a
future, a clean life givts you a let
in on the ground floor of the great
hereafter a a piay-it-ssfe chance.
If 1912 doesD't carve the turkey just
to suit you, take your piece of the
neck and bo thankful. While you
watoh the big pieoes of whi e meat go
to the other side of the table, remem
ber there is some pretty good licking
on a w nig.
A sneak thief tntnird the homo of
W. W. Laurie at aiEighteeuth street
Monday night, wtieu Mr. Laurie
heard him aud wont after him- with a
gun. The burglar made a run for it
and in his huny dropped a pair of
trousers, but stayed with a coat, vest
and some articles of jewelry. Ic later
developed lie had eaten his supper in
the kitchen and had a lunch rolled up
in a paper.
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WHERE NOAH'S
Strange Legends of the
Zuni, Community.
A MAN GREATER THAN TAFT-
Strange Sports and Customs as
Seen by the Courier Editor.
A little more of Zani and it people
aud then to other places, and I will
state that this Indian village has been
the most fascinating spot, from a
newspaper viewpoint, that I ever
tried to describe and the hardest to
make pen pictures of. Zuni and its
strange people must be seen. Words
can't draw the pictures.
In a previous letter I stated that I
was there during one of the Indians'
sport days, and in relating ttie sports
I negteted to tell of one novel aud in
teresting toot race.
By white men it is called the
"stick race", but the Indians have a
gutteral handle for it, with several
syllables, that a Yauaee could never
remeuihor.
Small sticks about the size and
length of a lead penoil are prepared,
and the ends are stained ied, to make
easily distinguishable, and thAi two
teams of runners, r.s many on a side
as ore to enter, start the raoe.
Each Iudian has iiis partioular stick
and this ha throws with his toes, and
the taoe is won by the team that can
cover a certain number if miles the
quickest, each runner carrying his
stick with him or rather throwing it
ahead of him with his feet. - He muht
not touch it in anv manner other than
with hiB bare feet. Riders on ponies i
aoQompany the runners to keep waton
where the sticks' fall and point them
out Ofteu they will drop into a
bunnh of cat-claw or oactus bed and
the Iudian mu.;t fish it out with his
bare feet
And it is simply wonderful how ex
pert these half-naked youngsters be
come in handling this little piece of
wood with their toes. They would
pick it up as quiokly as I could with
my hands and throw it as far.
. They run these races from five co
fiteen miles, straight out and baok,
and over prairies covered with all
kinds of vegetation that pierces and
cats and abounding in diamond rattle
snakes, tarantulas and lizzards.
I saw only the send off of the race,
uor I could not keep up with the pro
essiou, and as there was not a white
man or English speaking Indian in
the crowd I could not learn the dis
tance or how soon they would return.
It was over an hoar before the first
runner got in and the trader at the
store told me my Indian won.
About a mile from the Zuni pueblo
there rises a cliff, one of those strange
mesas that dot the southwest, shoot
ing straight up from a perfectly level
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paririe. The idea that these places
give me is that once upon a time this
country was a tea, and these mesas
islands. The water subsided and the
islands stood.
I was a full half hour gaining the
top of this cliff. The sides were steep
aud the soil crnmblitg, sinking, shit
ting sand, where I stepped up twelve
inches and fell back eleven.
But I made it and it was worth
while. I judged the elevation was
about five hundred feet, and on top of
it were mauy acies of level, dried-up
an'd cracked-open laud, eaoti orack
the borne of countless big, black,
hairy taratulas the great spiders that
almost defy yoa to molest them. And
I didn't molest them. I well remem
ber a little incident iu Texas a few
years ago, when I got cue of these
big fellows away from his hole and
tantalized him with a long brush. I
remembered of now he finally jumped
at me and I haven't teased tarantulas
much siuoe.
On top of the mesa I found ruins of
Indian life that must have dated far
baok of Zuni, rains almost obliterated
by simple time. The trader said he
had lived there fifteen years but had
never been on this top. Me said the
Iudiaus called the cliff To yo-al-la-na.
and their legend was that when the
Great Spirit drowned the earth, the
Zunis found refuge aud safety there.
But as Noah isn't here to verify this.
uuu u unto L 1 1 U XUUUUb.VU V. JUUi io-
ford the flood, for there may not be
anything authentic about it.
When I left Zuni 1 well knew it was
for the first aud last time, tor it is too
far irom the market -places to be
handy, and the weary stretches of
sandy road don't make one yearn for
the second tiip. Aud when we were
out a half dozen miles I stopped the
rig and looked baok at Zani, that
grey, mysterious dobie village, and 1
took a farewell look of the most in
teresting odd spot I ever visited.
' Remote from civilization and very
little affected by the Spanish inflaenoe
of the old days and the American in
fluence of the present time, Zuni re
tains almost wholly the customs ;of
the days before the conquest and the
weird, strange viil ige makes an Amer
ican pinch himself to know that he is
not dreaming, and to look at his note
book to convince himself that he is
not in some savage island, but is
realty almost in the center of his own
country.
And there it stands today, out in
the edge of the Great Dry Land, in a
valley of thousands of acres, and
there its people live as they did long
before the new world waB dreamed of.
it is one of the many wonder spots
of which the southwest is full, and
which our country neglsots, and one
need not travel to other lands to sat
isfy a longing for the curious ftew
Mexico and Arizona are ill ed with
them and Zuui is but one of the
hundreds of wonderful places of the
North of Zuni, perhaps a hundred
miles, is the Navajo laud, and what
a wonderful difference there is be
tween the Navajos and the Zunis.
The government " has given this
tribe a large reservation, bat if the
whole state of Arizona was given
them they wouldn't stay within
bounds.
The Navajos are rovers, fighters,
weavers, silversmiths and all that the
Zunis are not. No bunching up with
these fellows and no degeneration.
They scatter and bide all over their
own reservation aud in the forest re
serves. Ou the way to Zuni the driv
er went out of his way and a half
mile back from the road to show me a
Navajo home.
The stone house was hidden where
one might pass it a dozen rods distant
and never know it was there The
family was away and the door was
locked the padlock showing that Lo
was fast taking to the white man's
ways. Back of the house was the
orode wooden frames where the
squaw wove the world famous blank
ets, sitting ou the ground for weeks
and weeks. No doubt she and her
master were then in Gallup bantering
away the blanket she had worked on
for three months trading it off for
ten'dollars' worth of the white man's
goods.
The Navajos are a splendid tribe of
our first Ameiicaus. Fighters, every
man of them, prnud a Italian country
and a tribe that bends the knee ves,
slowly and very Btnbbornly to the
white man's law. They soatter, hide
their homes, and mix with other
tribes, aud they are rich in jewelry
and stock.
It is the Navajos who have made so
much trouble for the Tiffauys of New
York who own the big" turquoise
mine twenty miles from Sunta Fe,
and who recently overpowered the
guards, plundered the mine, aud sent
word to Tiffany they would kill him
if he ever returned.
It is rather a sad thought that the
Indian must go, that every year the
white men shufHe his deck ani make
new restraints, and he is now up to
where he must faoe payment.
The Indian was born to the simple
life and nature never fitted him to
fight the white man under rules of
survival. It is natural for the red
man to follow the lines of last resis
tancenot to compete. Work moans
to him simply to live, with little
thought for the morrow. For ages
his people have lived in the great
west, with the groat out of doois all
his own, and his habits are too- firmly
rooted to ever be made over to the
white man's laws and restraints.
And Lo is going down for the
count, for be doesn't know aud can
not play the game.
As the west fills up he will be el
bowed out. The white man covets
his lands aud the white man will
have them.
The white man's reasoning is that
nothing should lay in waste, if a
white man wants the waste, and you
will see the reseivations contracted,
the Indians bandied closer and closer
and soon lie will be but a memory.
Bat before I forget it, let me tell
you a little story, not relating to the
Indians but a story of a sorry little
old man who was bigger for a tew
minutes than President Taft ever will
be. .
Fort Wingate and Fort Defiance
are a hundred miles apart, and the
soldiers were being taken from one
fort to the other to harden up the
legs, S3 'twas given out, but I have an
idea the war scare in Mexico might
have had a little to do with the exer
cise. Anyhow they were being marched
np the mountain and marched down
again. Ahead of us was a little dried
5 THE OLD
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Shall it be a Joke, or be
a Real City?
THE PEOPLE HAVE THE MEANS
Here are a Few Views of What
May be Done. Think it Over.
Sena'or Bourne gives it out that he
expects the next river and harbors bill
will carry an appropriation lor deep
ening the Willamette both above and
below the falls.
Of course the senator had in view
that this work would follow the com
mencement on the government locks
here, When he gave out this state
ineut he couldn't have had any idea
that work on the big canal might be
hang up and a great navigable river
blockaded wihle manufacturing inter
ests, railroads, eleotric lines and
politicians put the lemon-squeezer
onto the government hard enough to
make it quit the project or come
through with the coin.
With a government; free canal here,
with a deepening of the ohannel above
and below the falls, with poblio docks
in Oregon City and with the coming
of the great boom that will follow the
opening of the Panama canal, Oregon
Oitv and the Willamette valley would
be in pretty good shape, thank you.
And it seems so funny that a oity
should not be in shape to aocept big
government appropriations when they
are handed to it, almost forced onto
it, and;that it turns up its ocld feet to
future appropriations.
It feem$ to very funny that tome
men will quote James Hill's state
ment that the railroads are oarrying
freight cheaper than the boats to New
Orleans, and an item in some paper
that the New York Oeutral railroad is
carrying freight oheaper than the
Erie caaal.;between Buffalo and Al
bany True? Bare it's true, but bless your
t eyeglasses it is the Erie canal that
foroes the New York Central to un-der-biu
the cheap rate of the Erie
canal to get the bnsiness.
If the Erie saual wasn't there yon
can b t your ohances of heaven, and
win, that the New York Central's
freight rate would be op in the
clouds.
What do the ptiople of Oregon Oity
and the upper valley oare who pulls
their freight if the rate is low? If an
open canal makes theJSouihern Paoifio
nuder-bid the boats to get freight, the
oanal has accomplished all we ever
hoped tor it to do If . a boat never
passes through it.
And this argument is equally true
of a poblio dock in Oregon Oitv,
Provide a nieauB for competition and
competition will oome. If you want
oheaper rates foroe them, by giving
those not in the freight aud passenger
"understanding" a chance to kick
in. ,
, In New York state a big powdered
milk company (one of Standard Oil's
by-products) closed up a number of
cheese factories, through paying a
higher prioe for milk, and then later
bought up the factories.
The farmers taw the daugorouB
power of thA big corporations, and in
several places nreoted new cheese and
butter factories, through co-operation,
equippedthea aud had them ready
tu run when the combine foroed down
prices of milk.
And just the mere menace of these
idle factories foroed fair prioes.
There's the idea.
It Oregon Oity wants to keep within
speaking distance of its last name it
has got to get op and sorap for it, and
not depend on Portland's oliarity.
If we want a 10 or 15 oent rate so
that Portland's working people oan
oome here and make homes here, we
have got to do something stronger
than "please. "
If we want a cheap rate on freight
both in and out we have got to play
the oards nature dealt to us and make
the Willamette foroe the others to
oall.
Take what the government has al
ready given as and go after what is
promised us, and we might just as
wen nave some or the big boats com
ing down here from the Columbia and
break up that Portland clearing
house.
Bat fighting government looks and
oity docks won't ever bring these to
pass.
up man driving a pair of oayuses that
looked as u a feed of caotus once a
day was the best they ever got. The
officer rode ahead and asked the two
teams to pull oat and let the soldiers
by, but the man and his rims paid no
attention, and kept the road. The
next time the West Point fellow
thought was a splendid time to shine
in authority, so he rode op and com
manded :
"Get out of the road and let the
United States soldiers by."
The old fellow didn't evn tilt hi
chin as he drawled out :
"Yoa go to hell and get out of the
road and let the United States mail
by."
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at Shivelr's opera bouse November 20
31, 8 p. m., takes in the whole world's
description as to a world's main
differences, we cannot give all the
differences in a world for the want of
time so the ESS AY can be read in
one evening, bat will give the princi
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SUN, MOON. BTARd and EARTH,
as main differences, the rest are all at
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is classed as differences.
We show the way that a world com
menced to form in the beginning if
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differences holding substances unto its
finish, or the end of a world's pro
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gas started in a world, the result of
heat aud gas, the coarse a It takes, tin
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way the world makes its waters, the
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conrse they take. The way vegeta
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classed to some extent, the way all
seeds are germed by a world, the Way
they divide growing two ways while
circle motion holds control. We fig
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differences for it, we figure that a
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its substances.
We figure gas as a renderer, we fig
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We put out positive and negative
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tor tidewaters, the way the world
worts to put them into action and
the RAINBOW, difterenoes.
We reckon a volcano from the be
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with the explosion. We put oat the
way a world makes its COALS, and
why they oome soft and hard COALS.
We pat oat how a world makes its
DIAMONDS, we put out how a world
makes its OILS, and its ISIN-GLASS.
We figure ' the substauces for all
minerals, and why there are differ
ences iu minerals. We give the reas
ons for a moon oomiug later each
evening. We have figured a whole
world, we take in a little of ZO
OLOGY, and extend soma toward a
human race, and the whole world is
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THE MAYOR MUDDLE.
Prospects of a Four-Cornered
Lively Political Scrap
The mayor question in Oregon Oity
is assuming a very interesting phase.
Everybody seems to have his favor
ite man whom he would like to see
mayor, aud the result is it now looks
like a four-oornered fight.
Friends of William Andreien stand
firm, feeling perfect safety in the hon
esty and fairness of their candidate.
Mr. Audresen, being the first to enter
the raoe, states that he is in it for
earnest, and he would sorely poll a
very large vote.
Later, friends of Grant B. Dimick
began to urge him to allow his name
to be used as a prospective candidate
for the ollloe. and for some days his
office was overrun with citizens who
have pressed him to make the ran, un
til he has been plaoed in a position
where it is difficult for him to not ao
cept, but realizes that it would take
muoh of his time. Mr. Dimick said,
"When I was first approaohed upon
the subject of beooming a candidate
for mayor I stated that I did not de
sire to run for the place or serve in
that oapaoity. for the reason that it
took up a large part of a man's time if
he carefully looked after the details
of the work. The committee compos
ed of some of the heaviest tax payers
in the city showed the expense" ao
oount of certain funds which they
considered exorbitant and also other
items of expense which seemed to
grieve thbni. 1 have had no criticism
to offer for the reason that I have
never investigated any of the charges
made, bat if the charges are true,
then it shows the necessity of moder
ation. "The road and street improvements
are a neoessity and no city or county
will grow without them, but in ac
complishing that work the most econ
omical method should be adopted bo
as to not make the burden of taxation
too heavy."
The late announcements make the
matter the more amusing and inter
esting in that A. L. Beatie wishes
to take the mayor's ohau over unto
himself and through the urging of a
bunch of friends stands ready to an
nounce himself as a candidate for the
office.
News current on the Btreet this
morning indicatoa still more interest
ing mixup. It became known that a
host ot friends of E. G. Can Held were
making a decided move to have his
name placed upon the city ticket fur
trie ollloe of mayor. If Mr. Ca a field
should decide to ran it is well under
stood that the chance for argument
1b reduced to a minimum.
In the matter nf au exeoutive for
our oity the Courier only wishes for
a fair, honest man, as there are num
erous questions coming up this year
tnatwill need the counsel of a man in
whom the citizens may place implicit
confidence, and is confident from the
list of aspirants they willl he able to
make a good and satisfactory selection.
Must Each Column be Labeled?
Some one on the Oregon Oity Cour
ier every once in a while writes a
"true-to life" articles which for real
merit is rarely found in the ran of
small newspapers. The latest from
the pen of this unknown writer is:
Marsiraeld Evening Keoord.
And then the Record reprints
Courier article. "
Is it necessary for an Oregon editor
to sign his name to every article be
writes to convinoe newspapers he did
not steal it?
Doesn't the published name of the
editor stand for anything in this
stater
School report cards, ap
proved by the county super
intendent, at this office.
COL. HER GEJS
A HARD OUi.
Live Wires Resent His
Canal Pipe Dreams.
HE THOUGHT HE SAW THINGS,
Organization will Make State
ment to Refute his "Findings."
Col. Hofer of Salem came in for his
at the Tuesday session of the Live
Wires, when O. D. Eby gave his
views to the bnsiness men of what lie
thought of the Colonel's "investiga
tion of the oanal matter here.
Several weeks ago the Salem Colonel
oame to Oregon City, but his coming
didn't seem to Inspire the interest
that the governor's party did. Trie
mills didn t shut down, the Commer
cial Club didn't meet him with a
brass band and a possession at the
depot nor was there any banquet ten
dered him. In tact the people didn't
seem to take bim at all seriously and
he was permittedlto make all the "in
vestigation" he carod to all by his
lonesome.
The facts were that the people ot
this oity did not see that he repre
sented anything but himself, that he
was no authority on the matter, so
they let him go down and look at the
falls and take notes to bis heart's con
tent.
But the Uolonel THOUGHT he rep
resented something, anyway, and lie
thought (at least he said he thought)
there was a great conspiracy here to
defeat the oanal ; that the people of
Oregon City who favored the govern
ment's west side routs were in a deal
of some kind to kill off the whole pro
ject and then he went home and on
the front page of his newspaper told
of his great "findings" and promised
an excited publio ho would lay bare to
the bone the very inside motives of
this oonspiracy, etc., eto. He also
stated that the weBt side oanal would
oost somewhere up nto the mtillions. '
There is no proof that the Salem
luminary had been drinking on this
ootasion, and the business men here
were at a loss to aocount for his hal
lucination. They finally oouoluded it
was just a noise.
Bat when the ghost-seeing Colonel
sprang his "oonspiracy" on the Salem
board of trade, aud when several
Willamette valley organizations
seemed to have swallowed it and be
lieved Oregon City was deliberately
blooking the great work then Mr.
Eby and the Livo Wires . thought it
was time to make denial of this non
sense, and that body will soon issue a
statement that will no doubt blow
away the Salem editor's soap babbles.
John W. Moffatt, president of the
Oregon Engineering and Oonstraotiou
Co., declared that this oity loses
1100,000 every year because .of the
oondition of the west side looks and
for the additional teason that the
Claokamas rapids are a bar to naviga
tion and retard the growth and pro
gress of the oity. A oommittee of
Mr. Moffatt, L. Stipp, J. E. Hedges,
B. T. MoBain and F. S. Tooze.was
appointed to take the matter up with
the war department.
B. T. MoBain, shipment manager of
the Willamette Palp & Paper Com
pany, was appointed to represent the
Commercial' Club aud the Live Wires
at the rate hearing before the state
railroad commission at Salem this
wees.
The matter of a pubiio dock was
taken up, bat nothing definite was
done. Two propositions are being
considered, one the present Seventh
street dook, and the other at'Eleveuth
Btrset.
Remember the Little Tots.
Thanksgiving season is almost here
audjwhile we are making preparations
for this happy time let us not for
get the little orphan babies, at St.
Agnes' Home, Parkpluce.
The Sisters of Mercy have upwards
of seventy-five little tots to provide
for aud some help from the oharitable
friends in Oregon City and surround
ing country would indeed be appreci
ated by the sisters aud the children
would enjoy the pleasures of a real
Thanksgiving.
Home Protection, not Wall St.
Two weeks ago a congressional oom
mittee was in Portland telling the
people about the Aldridge central
bank idea, and how it would prevent
money panics.
But these congressmen didn't tell us
of any idea that would protect the de
positor against suoh bank lootings as
at Seaside or Vancouver, Wash.
When we have national legislation
that will at least guarantee the de
positor he oan get his money back,
the panio fear will be taken oat of the
country.
And unless we get such legislation
the postal banks are going to put the
cleaner on the state and national
banks and make deposits mighty
scarce.
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Etc.
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