OREGON CITY: COURIER, FRIDAY, JAN. 10, 1913
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OREGON CITY COURIER
M. J. BROWN, Editor.
It is estimated that sixty per cent of the taxes of
this nation are expended on our army and navy, which
leads a McMinnville man to enquire if it is a sensible
thing for a man to use sixty per cent of his income on
a bull dog? McMinnville Register.
It is said that the stock values of the express com
panies are going down, owing to the workings of the
parcels post. Let them. Do you want congress to take
Mr. Hitchcock's advice now and buy out the express
companies buy them up because their stock are
slumping and their business is going down?
The other day I read a novel idea of an assembly
man in Indiana to handle the liquor business. lie
proposes to introduce a bill that any person must take
out a license to drink, just as he must take out a li
cense to hunt or fish, and it is up to the license board
to grant or refuse the license. No person shall buy
liquor at any bar or from any dealer unfess he has a
license. It is certainly a novel proposition. It would
increase the revenues and reduce drinking, and the li
censes (some of them) would be interesting docu
ments.
The other day I ran across a copy of the Outlook
of two years ago, and I read there tnat Dr. Lyman
Abbot had discovered what was the cause of the high
cost of living. lie said it was due to the advance in
the price of everything one has to buy. t Doesn't it
beat all how these big fellows can think out these big
problems. After the Outlook's editor had told you
this it would almost seem as if you might have thought
it out yourself. The reason living is high is because
it IS high. Wouldn't have thought Itoosevelt would
have permitted the doctor to have beaten him to this.
. The law tells you you shall not drink out of a com
mon drinking cup; it tells you you shall not use a
common towel ; it says you shall not spit on the side
walk, and so on with regulation and laws for the pro
tection of health and for the protection against dis
ease. But have you ever noted any restrictions as to
the quality of water the law would permit you to use?
You may not drink water from a germ-laden common
cup, but you MAY drink germ laden water from a
common sewer from a private cup. If it is important
( The state legislature will convene in Salem the
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loui, ami wie wuoie eiaie win wuicn it vtim Keen in
terest. The initiative and refirendum has plainly
shown the legislators how i)ru:on fceU on various
matters, and now it is up to the legislature v follow
or get in bad some mre.
There is going to be a vigorous fight put up to ab
olish hanging in this state at the coming legislature,
and in case of failure then to take it to the people in
a referendum campaign two years hence. In view of
what the voters have just done to the proposition to
abolish hanging a legislator will hardly feel like inak
iug much of a fight at this session. The better way is
to let the people settle it, now that it has been put up
to them.
The vote in November showed that the people of
Oregon were out and out for retrenchment, and yet
it is given out that the incoming legislature will ask
for an appropriation- of five hundred thousand dol
lars for Oregon advertising at the big exposition.
This is a matter that we should not protest too hard
igainst. That Panama exposition is going to be a
whale and we want to keep up Oregon's end. Just
how much advertising we should buy is a question
but we don't want to be stingy. Theie is nut n state
in the Umon that, will receive more b-iuefi" fro mthe
Panama canal tlmn ours, and we don t waul to g
down to that exposition with any little thive cent
display. The point with our state is to get in lii
If other states have half million shows, we shou
light up equally. We can't afford to short skate on
this big show, for there will be too many people with
their .eyes on Oregon. Let us do things as right as
thurs in our class do them. It is up to us to so do,
come a reversal and freedom.
John Manning, former district attorney of Tort
land, made this observation the other ,!ay
If you will put in jail ono of (hj men who
would rather spend one million than go to j;4J
for one day, you will have ybur' wedge in and the
others will tumble over one another.
There's a lot of truth in that statement, but there
is as much in the statement that you CAN'T put these
big fellows in jail. They simply won't go to jail, am
yo;ii know it. Once in ten years or more possibly one
of them will have to be given a sentence, but a handy
president or governor will pardon h'-m. It is a deplor
able hut literal fact that the man with money ran stay
out of jail as long as his roll lasts. He has simply to
appeal, if he is convicted, keep on appealing, until a
fickle public has forgotten the case, and then will
The man who has jogged around a little and knows
a good thing when he sees it, is bound to say that the
time is coming when the Willamette valley of Oregon
is going to be the richest part of the great United
States.
There is no richer agricultural section in the
world today. There can't be. The valley will raise
anything that can be raised anywhere and raise it
bigger and more of it. It has everything that any sec
tion in our country has. Its mild climate, both winter
and summer, makes it the best country on earth for a'
iifds of live stock, for all kinds of fruits and grains.
and a most delightful place to live in. No heat no
old, no winds, no thunder storms, no insects, no rep
tiles and health in every rod of the big valley.
to abolish the disease-disseminating vessle, is it notj The big Pauaman canal is going to bring thous
even more important that the cup chall contain un-' auds and thousands of people to Oregon, and the re
contaminated water? suit is iroinur to be that vou will in time see this va
ley of the Willamette farmed almost as closely as is
Japan, and every inch of it made to produce.
And not only this valley but all Oregon will be set
tied and developed. The big railroad men of the na
tion all have their eyes on this state. They foresee its
future and posibiliteies. This Pacific state is going
to come some in the next few years.
January 1 the state of Wisconsin started to run its
own insurance business, and the movement will be
watched with the keenest interest, and if it makes
good it is sure to grow and bo adopted by other of
the stales. There is no reason in the world why it
should not make good, yet at the same time it wil
have fighting it interests more powerful than the gov
ernment itseir tne great old line insurance compan
ies, and they will kill the experiment if it is possible
to do it. liut it will only delay the matter, not down
it. This matter of state and government ownership
of what the people most use and need will not stay
down. The people are alive to the injustice of big
profit taking, and public ownership is bound to come,
In England and Germany a public office is a pub
lie trust. In this country it's a private snap.
In England and Germany a man thinks more of
the lofty principle and the little blue ribbon of honor
than all else and the olllcials consecrate themselves
to the people's good. In this country the candidate
wants to know "what's in" the job, "where's the stuff
kept," "how much of it is there," is it nailed down?"
"who is watching it," and so on.
Can the office holders of this country he made to
look at public office as an honor it affords of render
ing a service to the public? Can the politicians be
educated to that point where a badge of honor is worth
more than a bribe? Perhaps, hut I don't want the
job of principal. The job will last too long.
The one dominating impulse of the American in
this aeroplane age seems to be get in while the getting
is good. We all seem to think that there is a time
coming when this country is going to run dry, and
that we want to get plenty of water while it is ruu
ning. We foresee that it is to be a light of survival in
vthe time to come and we all hustle to get fixed before
the time conies. We are as crazy as gasolined bed
bugs. We are crazy for money, yet crazier to spend it.
We are on the high gc;u all the while, all looking
for a chance to make "a killing" just a big bunch of
gamblers. And about the only way you will get hon
est work out of public oflicials made from this mater
ial will be through fear of the consequences. That is
the end this country will have to play the slate pris
on end.
INDEPENDENCE
HACKED 11Y A HANK ACCOUNT YOU AUK IN DKP UN
DENT. WITH A COMl-'OllTAliLK SUM TO YOU R
CREDIT YOU NEED ASK FAVORS OF NOBODY. YOU
A H E IN A POSITION TO TIDE OYER THE EX
PENSE OP ILLNESS. ACCIDENT, MISFORTUNE, OR
LOSS OF POSITION OR LAY-OFF. THIS INDEPEN
DENCE COMES AS THE RESULT OF SYSTEMATIC
SAVING THAT ANY MAN CAN MAKE. START A
SAVINGS ACCOUNT IN OUR SAVINGS DEPARTMENT
AT ONCE. DON'T WAIT UNTIL YOU HAVE A 1HU
AMOUNT. SAVE WHAT YOU HAVE AND LET IT
BE EARNING INTEREST WHILE WOU ARE EARN
ING MORE. WE PAY 3 PER CENT. ON SAYINGS
ACCOUNTS.
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, The Bank of Oregon City
Oldest Bank In Clackamas County
One of the remarkable things known to have
happened in western Pennsylvania is reported
from Franklin, where James P. Borland, editor
of the News, has received a letter from 'i candi
date thanking hi mfor his support in tht recent
election. If any newspaper man of the state can
beat it, or even tie it, we would be glad to hear
the particulars. Titusville Herald.
Support a candidate for all there is in you and if
ie wins out he will forget the newspaper's help and
attribute his success to personal popularity. If he
loses, he will attribute defeat to lukewarm support of
the newspaper and never forget you. And likewise
(lie opposing candidate will never forget you.
If tin; newspaper fellows would only play the same
game the politicians do, the individual game, they
would have far less enemies, more business in the job
nd and the bank book balanced in black ink.
The business way to run a paper would be to dodge
a stand, say something nice of all of the bunch, never
oppose anything unless it was so weak it could not
stand alone, play policy and make money. This is the
Castor ia idea. Some work it and it makes good. The
only drawback is that a mail must be a moral coward
to iko it work and some men can't play this part,
We take all kinds of pains and spend all kinds of
money on the education of our children, or I should
say PAUTTAL education. We teach them grammilr
that they may handle the English correctly and pass
as some class; teach them arithmetic that they may
e able hold down a job; teach them the symitrological
ompostamentability of the biaccocaticus botoniuul of
the bug; teach them Latin, Greek and all the needed
and un needed rules and regulations of the came of
ife except the laws and regulations of health, to
avoid disease, how to eat, drink, sleep, bathe,breathe,
n short, how to live correctly. This part we cut
out, and we grow stronger in the head and weaker in
the body. We breed giant intellects in our young men
ind put an old man's body on them at forty.
Knowledge of health should be one of the first
things to he put up to any boy, and the school is the
place to start. Physical culture should be taught,
and the boy or girl made to understand that lungs,
liver, stomach and the rest of the organs are of as
much importance and should be developed as highly
as the brain cells.
The other day when there was a fire alarm I saw a
man of forty-live run half a block, and if he had been
compelled to have run the rest of the block he would
no doubt have fallen exhausted. He was simply yel
low with the pallor of exhaustion. And this man
should at this age be able to hit a half mile up at a
lively clip before breakfast.
We should give our dogs, horses, hens and pigs a
little less attention and our children more. We are
breeding a race of physical wooklings. We see chil
dren half blind and almost toothless at fifteen. We
see little tots with worn out stomachs and half sick.
This is a great start for a youngster.
Somes day our schools will teach a little less of
the dead languages and considerable more of living
In commenting on the growth of single tax the
American Economic League of Cincinnati, O., says :
In Oregon there is even less ground on the part of
monopoly. There one-third of the voters are firmly
in favor of single tax. Two years of education will
easily bring over the trifle over one-sixth needed to
give a majority. Conditions in that state make it im
practical for monopoly agents to resort to acts of
tnuggery that proved so successful in Missouri.
"Even if no further efforts at propaganda were to
be made by Single Taxers in the United states the
coining of the single tax can now no longer be prevent
ed. The rapid spread of the single tax throughout
western Canada is alone enough to Insure its adop
tion in this country. Single tax propaganda will only
hasten that event.
"Even Charles II. Shields, manager of the Oregon
plutocratic campaign, has admitted that had Oregon
adopfed the single tax it would be very difficult to
keep it from spreading to the neighboring state of
Washington. lie will find it difficult anyway. Wash
ington is too close to Canada to let false statements
about single tax receive the same consideration as in
Oregon and Missouri. One city in that state, Ever
ett, has already voted nearly two to one in favor of
adopting it for local purposes. That vote marks the
beginning of the end of monopolistic power in the
United States."
In a speech in Portland the other night II. G.
Wagnon said that there was possibly one thing that
would break up the trusts and that was the public
ownership of the railroads.
And then another man will as positively state that
the scheme is impracticable; that what is everybody's
business is nobody's, and that the only way we will
have development of our country and the extension
of railroads to the developments will be by the enter
prise of big capital.
AVhat's your view?
What if some millionaire company should come to
Oregon and make us the proposition to buy up our
public roads and agree to keep them in good repair
for us? Why we would go straight up at the very
proposition. We would see in it the greatest power
that could be used as a pinch. We would consider it
as a most dangerous proposition and we would not
even consider it.'
And what's the difference between the dirt roads
ind the steel roads?
We own the great postoflice system and make a
success of it for the benefit of the many. If private
capital owned it you would be paying three cents for
letter postage. We own our postal savings bank and
are making of the ma splendid Kinross. We are start
ing a parcels post that is just about cutting in half
the rates of the express companies. Any reason why
we should not enlarge the circle and take in other
things? Show me.
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Bad Men Are
Logical
Result of a
Mistaken
System
By FRANK MOSS, Assistant
District Attorney of New
York County
E are rearing gun men by the hundred in New York and
other large cities today. A friend of mine in charge of
certain mission work in-New York city has talked to me
of this. He found boys inhabiting his neighborhood
ORGANIZED INTO GANGS and at the start believed this to be
a manifestation of boys' innate love of adventure.
The country boy who goes to Sunday school mid says his prayers
may in his week day playtime become a member f mi iiniigiiinry band
of pirates bold. It is the spirit of romance at work in hii.i and does no
harm. . ,
But these boys in my friend's district were" not filled with the
spirit of romance, for when lie asked them what they called their
gangs he was informed that one gang's chosen name was "THE
YOUNG TOUGHS," another gang had selected as it clan name
"THE YOUNG CROOKS," and so on. m
In other words, in these youths public schoolboys, mind you
had been implanted NO IDEALS ABOVE THE IDEALS OF
TILE CRIMINAL. The good people of America would lie amazed
if tbey could know the youthfulness ami the apparently respectable
demeanor of many of the younger criminal generation .which the
prosecutors have to handle.
THE BAD BOY IS NOT SPORADIC, A CREATURE SPRINGING UP
IN SPITE OF WORTHY EFFORTS TO GIVE EVERY BOY A CHANCE
TO BE A GOOD BOY. HE IS THE LOGICAL RESULT OF A MIS
TAKEN SYSTEM, AND THE ARMY WHICH HE 18 ENLISTED IN.
INIMICAL TO LAW AND ORDER, PUBLIC DECENCY AND CIVIC WEL
FARE, IS RECRUITING FAR MORE RAPIDLY THAN ANY OTHER
ARMY IN THIS NATION.
Finances Automatically
Regulated Would Steady
Business
By ROGER W.
BABSON, Statistician
Mass.
of Gloucester,
One of the big and serious problems that this west
ern land is up against is how to get the people to leave
the cities and make homes in the country. It is not
only Oregon's problem, but the problem of every sec
tion of the United States.
Talking simple life and back to nature and all that
ine of stuff is good talking material, but not one in
one hundred of those who talk it and advocate it
ould be pulled out on a ranc h with a rope. It is an
age of bunch up, of crowding, of seeking for entertain
ment and excitement of living the champaigne life.
Hack east, a trip through the fanning sections will
show you a class of old farmers. The young fellows
simply will not stay on the home places, but leave for
the shops and factories of the cities and towns. And
back east there are plenty of mills and factories to
go to.
liut Oregon is not a manufacturing state, not yet.
And when the newcomers nock to the cities there are
ar more job hunters than jobs, and then we have con-
tions that make us take notice, u e have hunger, des-
erate men, agitation and trouble.
And what are we going to do about it. When men
won't go on the farms ; when they can't buy a hoe if
they wanted to farm ; when prices of land go up, be
cause a bunch of speculators force it to go up; when
rain after train dumps its load of human beings into
the valley every spring, and when soon the great ships
will be bringing thousands of workers here every
month what are we going to do to provide a means of
iving for this army.
Hut we simply forget it. We say this coast coun-
ry will certainly boom for a few years. It certainly
11, but unless some means be provided for the exis-
nce of these boomers Oregon will have some troubles
uit will make the present W. O. W. disturbances
ook like mothers' meetings in comparison. Its a
ase of having too desirable a country of beggers
it ting on gold mines.
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HE government should keep track of general conditions BY
MEANS OF CHARTS, which are based on government
statistics of crops, bank clearings, railroad earnings and the
other principal factors in business. When the chart showed
that business had become extended above the line representing normal
conditions the interest rate should be raised and the currency in
creased. These would tend to BRING CONDITIONS BACK TO
NORMAL. When businesa was depressed below normal interest
should be lowered and currency reduced, which would again tend to
bring them back to normal.
ALL THIS 8HOULD BE DONE, NOT BY THE DISCRETION OF
EITHER BANKERS OR POLITICIANS, BUT WITH MATHEMATICAL
EXACTNESS BASED ON BUSINESS CONDITIONS.
The tariff is a stimulant to business, and we don't want a stimulant
all the time. The problem will be solved only when the tariff serves
the PURPOSE OF STEADYING BUSINESS. Some day we will
have a tari'T board, and it will recommend that the next time business
is normal all the schedules shall be cut in two. After that they will
change as business changes.
American Women More Eager
to Spend Money Than to
Spend It Wisely
By Mrs. LILY HAXWORTH WALLACE. Cullnt y Expert
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Councilman Tooze staled Tuesday niffht that he be
lieved the people of this city would ratify by their votes
any .reasonable action the peopU might think necessary
to give this city pre water. There isn't the least doubt of
this. The people simply want to know that the proposi
tion is risrht: that ik wi 11 not have to he ilnno over laler
on, and that the work is done for what il is worth. It is
children, and that wilt be a start for a stronger andia n!?ller 'hat siniply ML ST bo remedied, andbur. people
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iiruuze una, ana mere is not tne least dount in
j world but what they will favor the right remedy.
BELIEVE THAT THE HOUSEWIFE IS LARGELY RESPONSE
BLE FOR THE HIGH COST OF LIVING IN THIS COUNTRY
YOUR REAL TROUBLE IS THE COST OF HIGH LIVING.
THE WOMEN ARE MORE EAGER TO SPEND MONFV THAN
TO SPEND IT WISELY.
The Frenchwoman, even the Englishwoman, manages her house
hold expenditures far more economically.
The American housewife apparently DOES XOT KNOW
HOW TO COPE WITn THE RAPIDLY C1IAXGING CONDI
TIONS in the United States. In former times, when the country
was large and the cities were small, the food supply was eorrespond
inglv large and the demand small. Now this gt.ate of affairs ha3 been
practiVallv reversed.
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