OREGON CITY COURIER, FRIDAY, FEB 28 1913 OREGON CITY COURIER Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Bihth and Main streets, and en tered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as second class mail matter. OREGON CITY COURIER PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER M. J. BROWN, A. E. FROST, OWNERS. , Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5- Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co M. J BROWN, EDITOR IS IT WORTH THE PRICE? ( I may be in dead wrong on this matter but I believe when the State of Oregon gives a boy or girl a free high school education, the State of Oregon or any other state, has done enough. When a boy or girl graduates from our high schools and wants more, then let he or she get out and dig for it earn it for the state has done enough. If the university turned out more teachers it would be a different proposition, but it turns out a never ending line of doctors, lawyers, preachers and so on, and I have yet to see a place in Oregon that is clam oring for more of these classes of professional men. There are about 16,000 students at Eugene and about 600 of these are from outside of Eugene. Now see what Oregon has to pay for their education. Here is the list the present legislature has handed out: Appropriating $75,000 for repairs and improvements at state university. Appropriating $50,000 for main tainance of university in addition to annual maintainance. Appropriating $100,000 for addit ional building at university. Appropriating $12,833 for improv ment of streets in university campus. . Appropriating $30,000 for univers ity summer school and extension work. And all this in ADDITION to the regular maintainance. This is a part of the cost of turn ing out a drove of lawyers, doctors. etc., every year. And it is my idea that we pay a awful price that we might far bet ter, as a business proposition, take the G00 pupils and send them to some college and pay all their expens es and let Eugene do what it cares to with the buildings. It would be a big financial invest ment to the state. There is just about as much need for a second state college as there is for the letter "n" in pneumonia. There is no reason in the world why th two should not bo consolidated, if we are to have both departments, and save the enormous expense of scpar ate colleges and maintuinances. There is no more reason for having separate state and agricultural col leges than for having separate col leges for lawyers, doctors and so on Here is the budget for the agn cultural college the legislature has just settled, let this one soak in on top of it: Appropriating $(i0,000 for purchase of equipment for suite agricultural school at Corvallis. Appropriating $0,500 for street im provements at agricultural college. Appropriating $107,000 for addit ional bflildings at agricultural col lege. Appropriating $50,000 annuully In addition to continuing appropriation for support of agricultural college. Appropriating $2,000 for library purposes and heating plant extension for agricultural college, Providing millage tax of .04 of one mill for support of agricultural col lege. And all this in uddition to the reg ular muintuinunce, Foot them up, over seven hundred thousand dollars extras m one year. Are they worth itT Where the state puts the boy or girl through our splendidly equipped high schools it has given them a splendid education, and I don't be lieve the state should give them a mil lion dollars a yeur more. REASONS. If there were less carping newspaper criticism of the law making body and less unreason able predjudice created against it and a stronger disposition to give the Legislature credit for the good it does do, we should have better men seeking places in that body. Many of our best citizens do not care to have their industry jr integrity wantonly assailcc -t the voters must make choice o .vhat is offered. This is part of the Oregonian's an- swer to the Courier's criticism of the unrepresentative legislature. Let us see whether it leaks or not. Will the Oregonian point out the in stances in the present legislature where the newspapers have "wanton ly assailed" the "industry or integ- rity" of representatives or senators who have stood right? Will it please line up the newspap ers that have assailed the men who have stood for what Oregon needs, and will it stand up the men assailed Take Clackamas county for an il lustration. What newspapers have as sailed the integrity of Dimick, Gill or Shuebel? ECONOMY. We believe in giving the legislature all that is duo it, and when once In a while or two wo flint that they have really put one over in the interests of economy and in compliance with their liefore-election promises, why, we just want to put it in capital letters and make it emphatic. And hero's one: McArthur's bill to substitute elec trocution for hanging of murderers was defeated Monday, and it was de feated on the arguments that RE SULTS WERE OHTA1NKD UNDER THE PRESENT SYSTEM AND AN ELECTRIC CHAIR WAS A WASTE OF MONEY. The 1913 Legislature has ex erted unusual care and industry in lawmaking, and has shown a more progressive spirit than any session in recent years. If its work and record are now to be assailed merely because knock ing the Legislature is deemed popular. Now let us have a look at the "un usual care and industry" 'of these legislators, and see if we can find that "progressive spirit" the Oregon ian sayg has cropped out bigger than in recent years. bchueuel s water power bul was killed and never a bill before the legislature hud more of common ju- tice in it. Was that industry ? His bill to permit farmers to burn slushings, under restrictions, and clear their land, was defeated because the timber trusts wanted it killed, and he only got a part of it through coming back with another bill. Was that an act of progression. Diimck's abolishment of the naval militia and its appropriation was killed, and ninety per cent of the peo pie wanted it abolished. Is comment on this "carping criticism? Dimick's abolishment of the naval supervisor law was a bill unanimous ly endorsed by the voters and tax payers, but the legislature stayed by the eudcational combine and saved its useless life. Is criticism of this steam roller deal "unreasonable prej udice?" When Speaker McArthur wedged a joker in the repeal of Chapter 202 and when both houses passed it and the governor found "127" had been put in place of it, does the Oregonian think the legislature "exerted unus uul cure?" The bill would have re pealed the purole luw. McArthur said it was "purely a clerical error." No doubt. 202 and 127 are SO nearly alike. When the bill providing for state life insurance at cost was killed was it "carping criticism" to intimate the big insurance companies killed it? Was it "unreasonable prejudice on the part of the newspapers becnuse they criticised the killing of the bill to provide free employment bureaus and cut out the Portland shark bureaus? Haven't the newspapers a license to nrp when the senate mafle a joke of Schuebol's nnti-lobby bill one of he most needed luws in Oregon? Hadn't the newspapers a right to protest when they run the roller over Gill's bill to repeal tho Thompson swamp land drainage law? And so on with tho vicioius bills to kill the initiative; the bills to take away the people's power we could tring them out in dozens. And then after a wild scramble of a wind up to find a legislature going back for an extra week for the openly expressed purpose of passing vetoed bills over the governor's head bills they know WILL bo and SHOULD be vetoed. And then in tho wind up to read tho following press dispatch from the state capital, which shows how care fully our representatives are looking Wc Would Serve You Do not think of this bank as being merely a pluce to deposit your money. While the primary function of a bunk is to safe-guatd the public's fuml, we feel that our obligation to the community requires n great deal more of this bunk. It is our desise to render our patrons every service and accommodation that can reasonably be expected from vs. Wc want our customers to come to us freely when our advice will be ot value. It frequently happens that our business exper ience enables us to make helpful suggestions . in business matters, and we are anxious and willing to do what we can for your best business interest. THE BANK OF OREGON CITY Oldest Bank in Clackuma County to the interests of the "dear peepul and are putting aside their own am bitioss in their zeal for the Oregon lan's "unusual care and industry:" If the senate agrees to be good . and pass the pet bills of the house, that body will reconsider and pass the senate bills. If the senate won't be good its pet measures will stay killed, that's all. It's an underground under standing, but it's an understanding. And we wonder that people should ask "Why a Legislature?" They charged extravagance and they pledged economy, and then they went down to Salem and rolled us, The income tax is now in force and you fellows who are getting more than $5,000 a year better ditch it. Dimick, Wood and Kellaher were the only senators to vote and work against the passage of the millage tax per the state university of Eu gene. The tax will raise $270,000 year. Representative Stephen of Nebras ka, has introduced a bill in Congres providing for popular election of post masters in the third and fourth class towns. Here's a 10 to 1 shot it gets the ax. The head machinists of the legis lature say that in the present extra session only the clerks and stenog raphers as are "absolutely necessary will be retained. Now don't get sar castic and ask questions. John Henry Patterson, president of the National Cash Register Co., was decorated with the Legion of Honor of France, and now ne is decorated with the stripes of a prison uniform. It has taken years to close the prison doors on the big fellows, but we are sure beginning to get them. Things are unbalanced when the legislative expenses, totaling $01,471 carry $15,000 for senators' and repre sentatives' salaries and mileage and $46,471 for other items. And one of the items that makes the budget top heavy is "stenographers, clerks, etc, $33,000." President-elect Wilson has an nounced that there will be an extra session of congress called for April He does not state what the nature of the business will be, and the fel lows will have time to worry a lot and build a house on it between now and then. The house put H. J. Parkinson, the Portland labor leader, on the punish ment list Saturday when it cut out a bill of $250 due him as an employee of Attorney General Crawford in col lecting data for a supreme court ap peal. And Parkinson will put the ref erendum on about $250,000 college ap propriations later on. A senate bill to re-emburse a pur chaser of land canceled'' by the state was passed by the senate during the present session. Later the passage was reconsidered and the bill killed. Then Friday last it was given an in ection, brought to life and passed again. No later reports have been received. At a lecture in Portland Monday night on "The Abolition of the legis- uture," J. A. Jeffery showed up that the ways and means committee at Salem was the arbiter of all legisla tion, and that no members can hope for recognition of a bill if he does not stand in with the measures dear to that committee. Miss Kathlene Whitcomb of Port- und, who is visiting with her aunt, Mrs. T. L. Charman of Seventh and Jefferson Streets, in this city, was the guest of honor at the home of Mr. and Mrs, M. D. Latourettc, of Fourteenth nd Main Streets last week. The evening was devoted to cards and music. A luncheon was served during the evening. The Salem dispatches give it out that the Progressive clement of this congressional district is urging Senat or Dimick of this city to be a candi- iite for congress two years hence gainst Mr. llawley. If the situation nd sentiment in '14 is anything like t was last summer, Dimick could get way with it easily. Had he been a candidate against Hawley then he ould have won in the Republican pri maries or at the pools as an independ ent Republican. As dirty a bit of Greaser work as ever disgraced wnat is cancel a republic, was the assassinotion of for mer president Madero of Mexico, un- er a cowardly pretext. Madero spared young Diaz when he failed, and he lost his kingdom and his life because of it But that is the Mexi can way. And this is the country and people the capitalists would have us conquor and govern. Well, we would ave one of the biggest bunches of trouble we ever tackled. OVER HIS HEAD Governor West used the axe on the big appropriation bill of $1,230,000 Monday, and both Houses promptly over-rode the veto, and the bundle of fodder is a law by right of steam roll er might. The governor vetoed the bill be cause 74 different items were rolled in one ball and he had to kill the whole works to take every blooming appro priation that had been tied" to it. In the list of job-making and pol ltical-serrving appropriations that could not stand on their own crutches, were $24,000 for naval militia, $50,- 000 for immigration work, $40,000 for bounties, $25,000 for Portage railway, $12,000 for state board of horticul ture and many other like sections. Governor West said to the legisla ture in his veto message: "I am returning II. B. No. 628 with my disapproval, for further consideration, leaving it to you to act for the best interests of the already overburdened taxpayers of the 'state, or to force from their pockets by doubtful legis lative methods, questionable, un just and excessive charges." And our "reprsentative" legislature went on and "jimmied" the bill through. It is against the wishes of the vo ters; it is against the protests of the great majority; it is against the. pledges of the representatives to the people who elected them. Schuebel and Gill lined up with the governor and stood with him against this bunco game. Dimick told the sen ate what he thought of the three shell game in this characteristic way: "Here jju have big appropria tions for the so-called horse doc tor, the alleged forest protection, and the naval militia, all blank eted in one bill. Your ways and means committee have don this just because the governor cannot veto specific items. I, for one, am willing to stay here and help get out of the hole the ways and means committee have put us in." OF COUNTY INTEREST. One of the house bills the senate has approved of does away with the 3 per cent rebate system and also abolishes the 10 per cent penalty im posed by present law upon delinquent taxpayers. It further makes the county treasurer instead of the coun ty sheriff the tax collector, and it re quires the roll to be made out by the assessor instead of the county clerk. One per cent per month is still to be charged as interest on delinquincies. SWAT THE FLY And Swat Him in the Short, Quick and Effective Way. A great many cities all over the country now "swat the fly." They dp this beacuse a dead fly is the only kind that carries no germs. We know certainly that as we do away with all carriers of infectious diseases, just as surely do we kill disease itself. We know the fly to be one of the worst culprits in spreading disease, typhoid being his specialty. So very properly we aim to exterminate the fly. In this, as in other undertakings, there is a long way and a short cut. The obvious method is to "swat the fly." But a no less certain means is to destroy its breeding places, for a fly that never was in even safer than a dead one, so far as its disease car rying propensities go. Filth feathers the nest of this pest. In any accumulation of refuse it breeds and propagates by the millions The potential capacity of a singl manure pile, considered as a habitat for flies, has never been computed, Multiply this many times and you have the problem Oregon City has to deal with. The approach of warm weather makes his problem a serious one. The manure pile, individually and collect ively, stands as a menace to tho health' of Oregon City. WHAT SHALL WE DO WITH IT? I That was an edifying remark of Representative Forbes when Schuebel wanted to know how much longer the house was going to hang on. "Those who don't like.it may go to hell." The senate has passed Representa tive Schnoerr's bill reducing license fee for demonstration automobiles from $10 to $2.50. GETTING EARLY START. Some time ago the Courier told you that hte next move big business would make would be otward the land thut the open acres and the lax ways of the farmers presented a golden opportunity for investment for' big money, and that the time would soon come when you would see the move ment start on this coast It has start ed. Foreign capitalists have pur chased a $500,000 tract of land in the Coos Bay country and will try out farming on scientific and co-opera tive lines. And I wonder what will become of the little farmer, running it alone, by the side of this big syn dioate. The "blue sky" bill has had its front teeth knocked out in the sen ate, and if it becomes a law now it will be a Castoria concoction that won't hurt or help much. The sen ate has knocked out the provisions the bill was drawn to cover, the right of the public service commission to supervise issues of stocks and bonds of the railroad corporations and to be in a position to squeeze the water out of them. The senate took awaythis I power by exempting the railroads, j Mighty nice of them, 'eh, Southern i Pacini? Nine Year Old Youngster Tries Kid nap Game for Joke. There has been some uneasiness at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Allen in this city for the past week, the cause of this being the notes received by their little daughter, Velma, in which she was threatened to be kidnapped. One of the notes received stated that it was from a man with a crooked finger and that he would call at the Allen home on February 28 at 12 o'clock and at that hour he would steul little Vema and take her far away. this was the limit, thought the mother, and she at once notified Chief of Police Shaw who has been working on the case. An investigation was made and Tuesday a little school boy, about nine years of age, and son of prominent residents, confessed to being the big mysterious man with a crooked finger, and stated that he only did it as a joke. The parents however did not consider it much of joke at the time, nor would any par ents, who had received such epistles. It has been the custom of the little girl to deliver milk to the neighbors close by, but her parents fearing for her safety have done the chores for the little girl.. The little fellow, who played the joke" is fond of moving picture hows and can always be noticed mong the other children on the front seats. He no doubt imagined he was to be a chief actor in one of the photo plays but before he could steal the little girl, who was several years his senior, the curtain went down on the first act, and he wag prevented from taking the part of a "terrible desper ado" in the wilds of Oregon City. The first letter came in a valent tine, and nothing was thought of this but when it became a usual ocourence it was then about time to "nip it in the bud" thought the parents, and they did. Velma has resumed her dut ies in carrying the milk, while the kidnapper is at his home busily pre paring his lessons for school for the following day, not dreaming of the anxiety he has caused the parents of the little girl. He has decided that he will wait until he is of age before he will kidnap a girl since the "lecture" he received a few days ago. The lit tle boy is one of the brightest and most attractive looking little chaps in this city, and if he retains his good looks until he is a man there is no doubt but many an Oregon City young woman will attempt to kidnap him, but will not warn him ahead of time, so that they will lose in the game. This lud has already made his de but on the stage before an Oregon City audience not as a desperado, a kidnapper or cut-throat but only in a pie eating contest and was one of the favorites on the stage and one of prize winners. What the Civic Committee is Doing, The Civic Committee made the fol owing report to the Live Wires Tues day: The committee wishes to report that during the later part of this week re-inspection of the ground covered in the first trip will be made, Again special attention is called to altogether prevalent presence of dis ease breeding manure piles. At a time when the rapid approach . of warm weather makes these nuisances es pecially dangerous, it is earnestly recomended that every effort be made to wipe out this health menace. The committee also wishes to report that negotiations are under way to secure a weekly cleaning of the suspension bridge. The Willamette Pulp and Pap er Company, thru the efforts of Mr. McBaine, has agreed to furnish the necessary men for the purpose of hosing down he bridge. The necessary hose and a suitable place for storing it remains to be supplied and the com mittee is at present in favorable com munication with the county court re garding this part of the proposition. Maple Lane Equity Notes. The Maple Lane Local of the Farm ers Sociey of Equity held their reg ular meeting Wednesday evening Feb 15th. Five new members joined at this meeting. A vote was taken to see how many were in favor of having a sell ing agency at Oregon City, and it was found every member of this local was strongly in favor of it. Mr. F. E. Parker was appointed delegate to the state convention to be held in Portland, March 1st. The next meeting will be held in the Maple Lane Schoolhouse Mar. 5th 1913 County Grange Convention. 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' We make a specialty of installing Water Systems and Plumb- . . ing in the country 20 Main St. Phone 2682 Comparative Digestibility of Food Made wiSli different Baking Powders From a Series cf Elaborate Chemical Tests: An equal quantity of bread (biscuit) was made with each of three different kinds of baking: powder cream of tartar, phosphate, and alum and submitted separately to tte action of the digestive fluid, each for the same length of time. The relative percentage of the food digested is shown as follows: Bread made with Royal Cream of Tartar Powder; 100 Per Cenit. Digested 1 Bread made with phosphate powder: I 681 Per Cent Digest kTI Bread made with alum powdery 67 Per Cent-. Digested These tests, which are absolutely reliable and unprejudiced, make plain a fact of great importance to everyone: Food raised with Royal, a cream of tartar Baking Powder, is shown to be entirely diges tible, while the alum and phSsphate powders are found to largely retard the digeoticn of the food made from them. Undigested food is not only wasted food, but it is the source of very many bodily ailments. Money to Loan. I have various sums of money on hand to loan on real property, for long or short periods of time. WM, HAMMOND, Lawyer. Beaver Bldg., Oregon Gily. Treasurer's Notice. I now have funds to pay county and road warrants endorsed prior to Apr- ru 9, 1912. Interest ceases on such warrants on date of this notice. Februory 28, 1913. J. A. Tufts, County Treas. SUMMONS. Audrey Meredith, 'Plaintiff, vs. John Meredith, Defendant. 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