OREGON CITY COURIER, JUNE 6, 1913 OREGON CITY COURIER Published Fridays from the Courier Building, Eighth 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. Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co M. J. BR.OWN, - EDITOR Affidavit of Circulation I, M. J. Brown, being duly sworn, say that I am editor and part owner of the Oregon City Courier, and that the average weekly circulation of that Tmner from Mav 1. 1912. to May 1. 19- 13, has exceeded 2,000 copies, and that these papers have Been priniea ana circulated from the Courier office in the usual manner. M. J. BROWN. Subscribed and sworn to before me this 5th day of May, 1913. GILBERT L. HEDGES, Notary Public for Oregon The Eugene university has mighty good grit but very poor judgement. Voters, it simply takes a little sand to line up and show four or five men they don't own Clackamas county. Wonder where that fellow is who said that recall movement would die a natural death in thirty days? How many more times will the leg islature dare stick the big university appropriations in the people's faces? Don't leave all the work of the re call for a few men to do. It is a work for every man who pays taxes to take a hand in. And out of all these charges again st the county court, what defense has there been made except 0. D. Eby's bucket of whitewash? The new Oregon law that provdies for a physician's certificate of health before a man may have a marriage license, is a step toward giving human beings the same attention we give to hogs, dogs nd cattle. Our city garbage collection is good as far as it goes, but it does not go far these hot days. And we have some pretty stinking gabrage boxes for the flies to breed on back of many a house. It is a condition that should be remedied, and when we face it and take care of it we will have a more healthy city. Our senator, Lane, doesn't quietly sit back and wait for the second term before senatorial etiquette will permit him to second some motion. He is smashing musty precedents and pointing out grafting conditions to the old heads, and insisting they be given attention. But Lane comes from a state that has a record for doing things different. Let us see if we can't put some men in charge of Clackamas county who will run the county as they would run a private business, run it honest ly, cut out the politics and personal favors, let contracts and franchises in the open, get competition in all work and see how little, rather than how much money can be expended, and get a dollar's worth of service for every dollar paid out. Then let us see if the farmers of this county will have to pay a dollar and upward per acre in taxation. Because Oregon City presented a so-called commission form of govern ment and the people killed it, is no indication they would not vote to rat ify the right kind of change. This city needs business management. To day its management is a side lino of men who tnko it up when other dut ies are done, Somo day, when the need of busi ness management is forced into our faces by tho big expenses of the present worse than loose form of government, some man with brains and common sense will draft a char ter that will bo short and full of do things; that will have one capable niai,. im tho city as a manager does the mills, and tho people-will make it a law through the initiative. And the sooner wcj'nt the city under such a business govenunent, the sooner will it be a more desirable place to invest in. Do You Want to Be Dependent upon somo one for your care aud sup port in your old age? How do you ex pect to avoid becoming a charge upon your children or your relatives if you do not lay by something while you are youug and able to work? Have you thought of this? Prepare for old age by starting a bank account now. The Bank sf Oregon Citjr OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY II 11 Telephones, Main 5-1; Home A 5-1 SIXTEEN TO ONE If the taxpayers of Clackamas county want to put the county under new management and see if they can not get more value for less taxation, then they want to get it thoroughly into their heads that the most impor tant move is to sign the recall petit ions. Wihout sufficient signatures the matter can never come before the vot ers. An illustration of sleeping at the switch came to notice in the Gary salary increase referendum and it nearly lost out. Half of the petitions in circulation were not sent in until too late ta file the law. and several of them had to be returned because they were not properly acknowledgea Deiore a notary. More than enoueh were filed to re fer the proposition to the voters, but many more, on which circulators naa worked, were a dead loss. Now if the taxpayers want to re call tho countv court, it is simply up to them to get right on the job, fill the petitions ana sena inem in, ana as soon as enough come in, they will be filed and a recall election called unless they should resign. Time and time again men will say "T Hnn't. want to siern the petition for personal reasons, but I will vote to recall." None of us like to do It. We would all rother George would sign and let us make our protest in secret in tne booth with the ballot. But about 1600 of us have got to havfl sand enough to stand up and lin un that 7000 of us may be given the ballot to decide the question of recall. Now are vou one of the 1600 men with backbone enough to be counted or are you one who hopes the recall will succeed but hasn't nerve enougn to get it where it can? The Courier office has a recall pe tition open to the public. We do not in anv manner solicit signatures, and those who sign it ask for it. Yet there is a long list of names of men who havB red blood in their' veins who come in and ask for the petition, and who are not afraid someone will see their signatures and report it to the county court ring. And such men are to be admired. Tf w had more of them we would have better government and less tax ation in old Clackamas county. Ana between vou and I. the man who dar es to go on record does himself far more good than harm but it s hard to make the fellow with weak cour age think so. EIGHT HOURS With this week the two long shifts at the Willamette paper mills went out for all time, and in place come the fhina oio-ht.-hnlir nhlft.Q. v...- I That the change will result in I great good for both the company and the hundreds of workmen there can be no doubt. Twelve and thirteen hour shifts are too long days and nights for any white man, and the men cannot work to the best advantage of the com pany under such exacting hours. The old Masonic law of dividing the 24 hours into three equal parts applies in justice today as it did at the building of King Solomon's tem ple 8 hours for work, 8 hours for sleep and 8 hours for refreshment and recreation. The Willumette mills have extend ed this shorter day to the shift men. The men will be much the happier, more contented and better able to do a good day's work, and there is bound to be a better feeling and closer relat ion between the men and the manag ers. On the whole we believe this move will be an investment for all con cerned and one that the other mills will soon follow. A man can't work 12 and 13 hours a day and think much of his job no mutter what the pay is. Give him 8 hours and he has time to see the sun rise and set, enjoy a few hours of le isure and see his family by daylight. The 8-hour day is fast coming gen erally, and coming to stay. CHANGING What a chancre in the newspapers in the last four or five years. And the speculation is, do they make senti ment or follow it? A few years ago a anewspaper was a party organ, and it would stand by fVin nartv and the party crook until the last bell ring. This was partly be cause a bit of patronage was aangiea on a string, but mostly because it was considered "loyalty" to party, or wrong. But the big papers set the chang ed pace, and the country papers have followed, and today a newspaper must be independent and dead honest or the women wouldn't use it for the pantry shelves. Three years ago the Seattle Post Intelligencer came out with the fol lowing announcement. It caused pim ples to rise on the backs of the poli ticals: The stern- logic of events has made it plain that the people of today look to a newspaper for broader leadership than the old party organ could afford, and this demand for independence of thought and opinion on the part of newspapers is too insistent, too strong, to be ignored. In poli tics, as in other things, the man ner and the methods of the day change, and we must change with them. Henceforth the Post-Intelligencer's politicl columns will be given to the advocacy of the mer itorius and beneficial reforms de manded by the people, whether they originate in the Republican, party or not. "r ' Independent thinkers demand this quality newspaper. Men won't read a parrot paper. You must come at them with the goods these days, not statements and assertions, the slavish newspaper, the organ grinder that nlavs the tune it is bid den to, is going down and out, because people are doing their own thinking and it insults them to tell them a Democrat is a fool and a Republican is a Solomon, and vice versa. Tndenendent thinkiner and a broad education of things doing are leaving no place for the grindstone newspap er. It's got to go just the same as many things are going and it ought to go. INTERESTING FACTS Here are some interesting facts about Japan that many of us don't know. And when you have read them forget that this little Tom Thumb ev er thought it could lick the great U. S. Japan is not as big as California. Japan's arable land, if placed in one body, would not make a greater area than that of the state of West Virginia, Fifty millions of people inhabit this small territory. A population of like density in the United States would exceed 1,000,- 000,000. Taxation in Japan is 85 per capita where wages are less per day as a rule, than they are per hour in the United States. In Japan any person with an in come of more than $75 a year must pay an income tax. The Japanese with an income of $100,000, a year must pay one third of it to the government. The average farmer in Japan tills about two acres. The Japanese farmers grows the best rice in the world, but cannot af ford to eat it. He sells his own su perior rice and buys the inferior rice of .ndo-China. Many of the Japanese farmers cannot afford riee at all, but exist on a diet of boiled millet-seeds, with fish once a month. It can be understood that Japan looks with covetous eyes on the Phil ippines, for she needs elbow room, but when it comes to fighting the richest country in the world don t you believe it. ONCE MORE Once more the referendum has stopped the handing over of $275,000 to the University of Eugene, and this fall the voters will again kill it. How much longer a fool legislat ure will continue to shake this red rag in the voters' faces remains to be seen perhaps until an enraged people will kill the legislature as it has the university appropriations. There is beside this $275,000 gift a biennal appropriation of $425,000, and the most of the people who have signed the referendum think that no more appropriations for building and enlargement should be made until the voters of the state should decide on whether or not it is best to con solidate the two state colleges and save hundreds of thousands of dollars. Only referendums can be voted on at this fall's state election, but next year there will be an intiative meas ure given to the people providing for a straight millage tax that will take the up-keep measures of these insti tutions out of political influence, and that will take the board of regents from the control of professional pol iticians and give to the workers and the plain folks in general of the state a chance at regulating the manage ment of the institutions, to which their boys and girls look for their life training. The Equity Socieay has been up against the same old bumps that have stopped many an organization that has gone before and quit but it now looks as if they were going to get by these rough spots and start something that wiu stick and grow, When a bunch of men, alive above the ears, get together, determine they will pull together on a certain line, and then give that work just as much attention as they do their own pri vate business well, its just bound to work out. Oklahoma shows us what the Equity may do, and here is the Courier's bet that Clackamas county sustains its state-wide reputation of doing things, and that the Equity makes good. The Enterprise says that perhaps it would be worth while to hold a re call election so that the people be hind the movement could be squelch ed once for all. We heartily agree. I am betting Oregon voters will kill the "sterilization bill." The more one looks at this matter the less he thinks of it. The time may come when such drastic legislation will be necessary, but I don't believe the emergency is here yet. Preferential voting appears to have worked out generally satisfac tory in Portland's election Monday, and no doubt some of these days it will bob up as a state-wide initiat ive. And I don't know why a voter should not express a second and third choice on candidates. Of course the machine men know plenty ef reasons but not good reasons. The country believes in President Wilson and the people will bear a lot if necessary, that he may put through some of his proposed reme dies. Big business will hang out the red flag, and start the scare if pos sible, but this big strapping country, growing by leaps and bounds, and with the greatest of crop prospects, can't have a real unhealthy panic if it wanted to. Gov. West slipped one over, on The Dalles Monday when he made a raid on the "red light" district and gath ered in about 40, with quantities of booze and proof, and the sheriff is now very busy explaining it all. The cquncil members don't like his inter ference and are trying to justify themselves, but West will get away with it, just as he has gotten away with all his raids, and the pros pects look good for some men to do white slave time. The direct election of U. S. Sena tors will mighty soon rock two of our country's brightest rascals to sleep if they dare to run. They are Pen rose of Pennsylvania and Root of New York, both gients intellectually, yet ever working for the interests of the big business. These men are migh ty Btrong with money, and as weak with the people, and if either dares to get where votes can decide, he will go down for the count. And I am bet ting they are both too wise and too cowardly to take the chance. There can always be enough thoughtless voters found who will sign a referendum or initiative pe tition, when smooth circulators are pflid 5 cents per name to get them. And enough have been found t o ref erend the workmen's compensation bill, and the people will vote on it in November and bury it. The law as passed stops ambulance chasing, cuts off the grafting damage case lawyer and gives the injured employee the full verdict, and the people of Ore gon will see that it remains a law if the future can be judge by their past good judgement on referendum propositions. Some dav Oretron voters will get pocket book results out of the great power given them by reform laws, but there will have to be some radical i chances in system first. There will have to be a prying loose of useless ; salary drawers; abolishing of need less commissions and getting public offices down where the official will run it as he would have run it if working for a corporation. We have cot to chanere an expensive state leg islature to a business commission; we have got to have capable county and city managers, hired because or anil ity to make good. From city council to county court and on up to the crovernor's office is one great, need less waste of public funds, money paid out in thousands for value re not received. But the taxpayers have' the initiative and a strong DacKing demanding this looting shall stop. I The people have the power to enact' laws to change the whole leaking,1 grafting system, and when goaded hard enough they will change it. ' DEFENSE The Enterprise is defending the county court again. This time it has quit the dangerous ground of false statements that voters deny over signatures, and giv es three splendid full-grown reas ons why the recall should stop. 1 Because a recall election failed to recall the county judge of Klamath county Monday. 2 Because it will cost considerable to hold a recall election in this county- . 3 Because Judge Campbell of this city decided against the injunction in Clatsop county for cruising the tim ber at 12 and a-half cents per acre. The people of this county know nothing and care nothing about Klam ath. It is Clackamas county where our grievance is. That Judge Worden beat out the recall has no applicat ion or significance to our movement. That it will cost something for a recall election in this county we all know. It won't, cost any $5,000 unless the Enterprise throws its harpoon in to the printing to the handle, but the taxpayers have it figured out it will be cheaper at that price than the present price. Because Judge Campbell vacated the timber cruising injunction in Clat sop county has no more to do with this county than the vindication of the Judge of Klamath. If the courts decide that the taxpayers shall pay four and a-half cents more per acre than we pay, that is Clatsop's and the Judge's business. We have not served any injunctions. We are after the county court that makes these many contracts without competition. The Enterprise will have to make heavier defense than this. It will have to defend the matters on the first page of this paper. THEY are what the taxpayers want to know about. STOP IT William Phillips has a letter on child beating on page 2, that every father, mother and teacher should read, and a position this paper heart-: ily endorses. It always appears to me so brutal for a big man or woman to strike a little child not big enough to strike back to rain blows on a poor little tot who had disobeyed the laws laid down by teacher or parent. Where is the parent or teacher who does not do wrong? And what if a judge of a court should punish them with blows of the fist or lashes of a whip ? Kid's are kids, they will ever be and who would have them otherwise? They will break rules and commands. They are like puppies, they simply cant keep in the path of commands all the time. And what right has man or woman to strike them in punishment? The Courier editor has some kid dies. They are as mischievously bad as most kids and they don't alwaj obey the Big Chief literally. But they are not pounded into obeyance when they forget. There's a better way, and that way doesn't cause joy and satisfaction when the. father leaves home for a day or two. There is occasionally a child born vicious and bad on which kindness does no good. But such a child is Un natural and the parents are to blame. As Mr. Philips says they should be fined for having brought it into the world. Pounding is brutal , inhuman, de generating. A whipping takes the sand out of a child, and does no good. In New York state a teacher dare not strike a child. Too many costly prosecutions have taught them bet ter. And there should be a law to for bid any person striking a child. I have seen a man arrested for pound ing a horse, and many a man witness a child beating without a protest And who ia the Oregon legislator that will forbid child beating by law? The county this year will be called upon to spend considerable money on betterments and to pro vide widow's pensions, and to oth erwise meet current .expenses. If $5,000 is added to this outlay either one of two things will re sult there will be certain im provement work left undone and unprovided for, or there will be a deficit in the county, funds. Enterprise. Come on with a few more $50,000 contracts for bridge building and tim ber cruising and court house building and let them without competition.! $5,000 is but a drop in the bucket compared with what the taxpayers have had and will have to buck up. If JK.nno will shake off this svstem. it will be a bargain day deal for this county. The. Enterprise is about six months late with its "retrenchment" suggestions. SAME OLD QUESTION F. A. Jones Wants to know Why the Enterprise Doesn't Defend Charges Editor Courier: Why is it that the Enterprise is always printing something to try to scare the voters away from the re call ? I notice a sketch in most every issue of the paper telling something about some other county; how they failed with the recall or how the tim ber cruise benefitted the tax roll. Another time it referred to how Mr. Olds was hooted down and out at a public speaking at Needy. Now voters and taxpayers, if you will only notice, you will have to ack nowledge that the Enterprise has not made any answers in regard to how the county, court has handled business affairs. It doesn't make any difference to us what other counties have done. The idea is if this county could have had the timber cruised for $5,250 in stead of $27,000 for three month's work. And it is this and other such contracts unknown to the people that the recall is based upon. If any of the complaints headed on the recall petition are untrue, why doesn't someone disapprove them so that the people will see whether they are doing wrong or not? I have cir culated a petition in my neighbor hood and have found three voters out of forty voters that have refused to sign. I am a subscriber both to the En terprise and Courier to be sure that I will get the right news at both sides of this county affair. Oh yes, if Ed Olds is harming the recall election, why doesn't someone answed his letter in last week's Cour ier ? F. A. JONES The "Habeas" is Handy Clackamas county is certainly treating J. C. Ainsberrv. the man who shot Fred Reams of Willamette with several kinds of mercy. Two weeks ago he was released on habeas corpus proceedings by Judge Beatie, but Sheriff Mass at once ar rested him on another charge of being a jail breaker in Wyoming. Governor West refused extradition papers, so Judce Beatie azain released him on habeas corpus proceedings and he was rushed out of the county in an auto. Indicted for assault with a danger ous weapon, a parole breaker in Cal ifornia, a jail breaker in Wyoming ex-convict in Arizona yet turned fro here. It isn't every man who has a telephone company behind him. No Substitute Could Do.. This No inferior substitute, but only the genuine Foley Kidney Pills could have rid J. F. Wallich, Bartlett, Nebr., of his dkiney trouble. He says: "I was bothered with backache, and the pain would run up to the back of my head, and I had spells of dizziness. I took PnlAv's Kidnnv Pills and thpv did the work and I am now entirely rid of kidney trouble. Huntley Bros. Co. Comparative Digestibility of Food Made with different Baking Powders From a Series of Elaborate Chemical Tests: An equal quantity of bread (biscuit) was made with each of three different kinds of baking powder Swtartar, phosphate, and alum-and submitted Satelyto tte action of the digestive fluid, each for the same length of time. The relative percentage of the food digested is shown as follows: Rr1 made with Royal Cream of Tartar 100 Per Cent Bread made with phosphate powder; 68V Per Cent Digested Bread made with alum powder; 67 Per Cent Digested These tests, which are absolutely reliable and unprejudiced, make plain a fact ofgrea t tton to everyone: Food raised with Royal, a cream of tartar Baking Powder, is shown to be entirely diges tible, while the alum and phosphate powders are found to largely retard the digestion of the food made from ethem. . . Undigested food is not only wasted food, but it is the source of very many bodily ailments. SHOULD THE OLD PREACHER BE SHOT? Text, "The laborer la worthy of hie hlre."-I Tim. v, 18. Sometimes It seems to pay better to be a faithful horse than to be a faith ful minister when old age comes on. I know a wealthy family in the sub urbs who have retired their faithful old horse Dobbin. Two new horses, Firefly and Wireless, do the honors for the family when company comes from town. Time was when Dobbin was the pride of the community. His black, glossy body and magnificent head al ways caught a second glance from every horse lover. Now he's retired; the pasture Is his. The children hug his face affectionately. An occasional trip to town marks his only duty. One day he was found In the pasture corner, leg broken no one knew Just how It happened. "Doe" Briggs, the veterinarian, was sent for. He shift ed his cigar, shrugged his shoulders and said something to the horse. The mother suddenly remembered a visit the children had to make to town. A pistol shot was heard In the direction of the orchard. When the children re turned Dobbin was gone. So Dispose of tho Old Preacher. An eminent divine of the last century, now dead, proposed, with delicate Irony, that It would be an act of humanlta rlanlsm, when the old minister had passed his usefulness and become a burden to himself and others, he should be taken out to some secluded place and shot This would relieve many an embarrassed congregation quickly and cheaply. An unpleasant business, of course, but In the language of a busy world, "business Is business." When a minister passes fifty or fifty-five years of age. If he had any sense of propriety, he would die. After a short and pa thetic illness any congregation, no mat ter how unsentimental, would gludly stop In its course for half a day, prefer ably Sunday, and give him a funeral that would be worth while. Beautiful flowers and complimentary resolutions would give a tone to the obsequies not easily' gainsaid and would be a proof of the final devotion of even tbose who had been lukewarm during his Incum bency. When the pulpit committee would staLd, hat In hand, before some populur young minister giving blm a flattering call their kind manner of concluding the pastorate of his prede cessor would be impressive and carry great weight. Some clever person has recently said that at thirty the minister is Idolized, at forty criticised, at fifty martyrized, at sixty oslerized, as sev enty canonized. The 8even Ages. Another very pertinent pamphlet gives the minister's seven ages. First the divine summons. Young Samuel in the temple. The awakening voice call ing to lay aside other ambitions. The next, days of preparation, sharpening the sword. Hard work and much sac rificerich men's sons do not enter the ministry. Seven to ten years of the best days of his young manhood must be given in preparation. Christ took thirty. Then he's on the firing line at a small salary, possibly In debt for bis education. Books must be bought, and they're expensive. There is a contin uation of hardship and sacrifice, but youth doesn't care. At the fourth pe riod he's In the heat of conflict. The sun's at meridian, the battle fiercest He's busy raising money for churches, but not for himself. He's not allowed to dabble In outside business. Rigid self denial Is still the rule. Children are to be educated, appearances to be kept up. There's a thousand charitable demands on his Income. What of the rainy day to come? That's the night mare! Then comes the turn in the tide. Scarcely perceptible, but surely going out Hair is turning gray. Church committees turn away "Too old." Now the shadows are lengthening. Nerves are strained to keep up with younger men. Voice is broken, brain is Jostled. Other men are forging ahead he can't keep up. At last Gethsemane he's pushed out! The church elves Powder; Digested 1 mm a pittance, about ?3' a weelt, pos sibly ?4, which he tries to supplement by peddling life insurance. "U. 8. A., Retired." Suy, church of God, wake up! You are not fair! The secular United States government takes care of its old sol diers; we neglect ours. It is a pretty severe defeat which compels an army to leave Its wounded to die on the field. The church is thrilled by passionate appeals for the salvation of the hea then, education of the negro, endow ment of colleges, building of new churches, until amid clangor of appeal, exhortutlon and entreaty the trembling voice of its old ministers Is unheard. Manna doesn't fall nowadays; no raven to carry food; no fish comes with coin, in mouth to preacher's net A mansion In the sky will not cover a defenseless head on earth. The church Is the earth, ly bank where God's promises to his faithful servants must be cashed. These men have cnttered the seed.. The, church Is enjoying the harvest. These are the camels that carried the gold and silks and gems of the church across the desert while they fed on brambles. The crime is not that the old minister Isn't allowed to preach, but that he Is not taken care of when Ineffective. No wornout minister has a right to kill a church any more than a church ha? a right to kill a minister. Retire the generals at a comfortaWe support and put younger men Into tha field. Had Enough. The reformed burglar, upon his re lease from Jail, was Inclined to be a bit facetious. "Simply state," he re marked to a reporter who chanced to be in the vicinity, ''that under no cir cumstances will I be a candidate for another term." Proving that burglars, as well as comedy actors, have a sense) of humor Judge. He Was Mentioned. "Did your rich uncle mention yon In his will?" "Yes." "Lucky dog!" . "Not at all. He specifically mention ed the fact that I was not to be given a dollar of his money." Detroit Tree Press. Had It Hidden. ' The mnn was looking at bouses. "Where's the lawn?" 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