SHOULD MAKE YOU THINK Comments on Current Topics by Stark of Maple Lane Pshaw! Do you ever get tired of reading my dope? Well, someone or more than one must write for the Courier or it would not be "different." That is one great reason for my writing, and so long as the Courier is keening open house I shall try to get inside so if you don't like my stuff iust get in ahead and crowd me out. Really ,it is a pleasure to me to see vou try it. It won't take much from j J . t f fUa run- any 01 yOU 10 pub Hie u quit. Now altogether, boys and girls, et a. tiMcil and push it along and see Vo. intorest.inO' it will be to us all Now just suppose the corporation known as the U. S. (unlimited.) Sup nnsfi this company was in the busi ness of producing all the things need ed and used by all the people, and you ,aA nnn share of stock in this com pany and no one held any more or less than you do. Then you would be owner in part ot all tne ramuaua, uunco, lot teries, farms and all other useful en terprises. Do you think you would need fear want? Do you think your family would meet distress in case you were "called away?" Now then, you know full well that those you Jove and cherish would be surely taken care of if you could no longer pro tect them. It is up to you to work and vote for such an economic system in stead of the present industrial anarT chy. But will you? . Governor Foss of Massachusetts, said that if the railroad men went on a strike he would convene the legis lature in extraordinary session and make striking unlawful. Here is a chance for a think or two. One is: you see how easy it is for any thing to be legal or illegal, just write a few words on paper. Observe it ib not pretended he can make striking wrong, but unlawful. Being unlawful it is iust as "right" as it was before such law was written. Another idea which occurs to me is that this same Foss "was elected Gov ernor by the working mens' votes. Do you think capitalists would be fool ish enough to elect a man to office who would use the powers of office against them? Another thing bear in mind that Foss was, if I am not mistaken, the head of the delegation of his state in the convention which nominated Wilson, like himself a friend of the working man," one of the never work himself kind. Moral Never vote for one of them, elect nothing but workingmen. Wilson used two gold pens get that to sign the tariff bill, then gave them both away. Do you know who paid for those pens? Then you know who pays tariff. Did you get one of those gold pens f Will tne tanit Dene fit- you? I am not a resident voter of Ore gon City so it is not my put-in, but I have that curious streak in me to wonder why the elevator .don't put in. As an illustration of the wasteful! ness of the competitive system I saw an employee of a business House six blocks from the store, delivering an armful of packages afoot. It is likely the selling price of his errand was not two dollars. On his way he passed two other places in the same line of bus iness. The same house runs a delivery wagon. About the same time your Uncle Sam was also delivering goods, but i each man has a district and schedulo time of delivery and all goods come from one central business house. If the merchants would got together they could eliminate much of this waste of human effort. Think it over, the waste of time to carry this armful of the common nec essities of life in the normal state of a community. We kick nbout the high cost of living yet maintain wasteful methods. The same conditions obtain among farmers. Each will . travel over the same road hauling a handful of pro duce to town, where frecniontly an or dinary express wagon would haul the products of a dozen farms. If you will observe the railroad companies have eliminated much of this waste; the manufacturers are doing likewise. One half delivery wagons could be dispensed with in Oregon City and furnish prompt delivery service if the people and the merchants would co operate. Just Riippnse some merchan ts firm would tnko a notion to do all the business for the people of the city, and that would not be such a very largo house either, do you suppose that firm would tolerate such waste? Now the people of the city are such a firm if they will only understand the situation. Then why don't they act in their own interest? Last year a woman, whose name I have forgotten, was n candidate for Mayor of this city, but fortunately she was defeated by one of our sound bus iness men. You know when a man makes a succoss of his business it proves his competency tc run the pub lic business. If this woman had been . elected we would not have been riding the elevator all these many months. See the many weary stops we have been saved! Its brains that count. One of the "infulablos" in Seattle got it mixed a little. Ho issued an in junction against soiling Socialist pa pers on the street, and proceeded to fill the jail with such citizens of this alleged republic as refused to Rtand for the judicial outrage. Finally other judges came forward with the promise to iiberate the prisoners on habeas corpus proceedings. No doubt this po litical bum had nursed such ideas all his life. But as an act of charity I am willing to think his mind is unbalanc ed, for it is not likely that he was drunk all this time. One result of this judicial A. S. S. was that he aroused new Socialist ac tivity. Further-more It illustrates the folly of the blind worship. of courts. What kind of patriotism is that. when a corporation -in this country will make and equip war vessels for other countries? Not long ago a Camden firm finish ed a cruiser for China. The same firm will build and equip a war vessel for the U. S. You are then requested to snow your patriotism by standing up and being shot to pieces by guns made in this country for that purpose. We nine Just enough of you get in the J and the Canal is finished and we have eame as per invitation from the a bonded debt over us and our chil editor recently and see how easy I drens' heads, and a few millionaires have become so accustomed to the ways of capitalism that we see no thing extraordinary in such acts. Can you? John F. Stark I WHAT OF THIS REASONING? P. W. Meredith's Ideas of How to and Not to Build Good Roads TTVlH-nr fVilirier! I am oppoing nearly all the good mils nrnnositions that are popping up, even to Senator Bourne's scheme, . .. 1 J J inn. .A because it necessities a uunu wou. If we have to issue bonds to build roads, issue the bonds in the same form as bank notes ana pay me iauur er with them, The State could do this independent of Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam issued bonds to build the hitr ditch called the Panama Canal own the bonds whose cnuaren win draw interest from our children and we Ho not want our children and dren born in bondage. Now when payday comes Uncle Sam will have to pay the bondholders in cash with interest, sometimes in gold in advance so he could just as well pay the cash in the first place to the la borer who digs the canal or builds the road for us poor hayseeds. You take the queston of bonds and interest out of the road question ana our million aires will not be interested at all They care not about us clod hoppers whether we have clothes, schools or anything else if they cannot draw in terest on it. In the richest country on earth in the finest climate on earth, with the most industrious and intelligent people on earth it seems very strange that we cannot raise the cash to pay a few laborers to build good roads when we have over four million idle men readv and anxious to work. Our government does not have to issue bonds to get money to buy post age stamps. They issue the stamps and they could issue the money for any good post roaa proposition. P. W. Meredith. WHO WILL ANSWER? A Lady Asks Some Tight Questions About Bonds and Interests Clackamas, Ore. Sept. 24, 1913. Editor Courier: Interest is the wolverine that eats the life out of business. If one half of the money of the world was put out at interest for twenty years at five per cent it would take all of the other half to pay the interest at even as low as 5 per cent. It seems to me that it is robbery pure and simple to force people to pay interest on money that is used for improvement. When private property is bonded to build or improve public highways, it is simply a piece of injustice verging on the ignorance of the past ages to force the parties to pay interest on such bonds. Why don't the government let the people have the money on the bonds at their face value without interest? Viola Burr. WHO DO THEY HELP? A Lady Voter Asks What Good the Saloons Do to a City Editor Courier: I would like to help in the great and glorious work of getting the sa loons all voted out of existence. I do hone, now since the women can vote, that they will remove that awful curse out of our fair land. What are saloons for anvwav? Did you ever know a saloon that was a beneut to tne community ( Or a saloon that increased the val ue of property around it? Or a saloon that made a man a better citizen, husband or father? Or a saloon that brought joy to the heart of wife or mother? Or a saloon that brought sunshine or happiness to a home? Or a saloon that helped men to take better care of their families? Or a suloon that increased the wag es of working men ? Or a saloon that aided men in se curing good positions? Or a saloon that stood for the best morals in the world? Or a saloon that causes a decrease in drunkencss and crime? Or a saloon that helped our boys to make good men? Or a saloon that helped to do any Or a suloon that caused a decrease Why are there not enough sensible people that are ashamed of the sa loons in their town, to vote them for ever out? You ought to be proud to live in a city that had no such dis graceful places in them. "Oh," cry some, "the revenue is a great thing. Well, it would be bad to have the jails and penitentiaries empty and so many happy homes, happy wives and children, with father at home with them and having plenty to eat and wear, instead of giving all or nearly all to the saloon keeper. Mrs. J. L. Mumpower. LOGAN Mrs. Lottie Kirchem had a quilt ing bee Inst week and all the girls wove present. Tho cat was turned loose and made a jump so we are lookintr for more wedding items. Mrs. Myers has a sister visiting her. She is from Nebraska. Mr. Dambach is teaching the North Logan school. Another automobile in Logan. Er nest Gerber is the happy owner. F. 11. King attended the recent state and county Equity meetings at Port lund and Colton, and reports import ant business transactions. W. E. Cromer is drying a large amount of prunes. F. W. Eiebhoff lost a valuable crop recently. Tho Japanese who have been dig ging potatoes for A. Mostul, are now working for Julius Busch. Homy Kohl has been on the sick list. Foley Kidney Tills Succeed Because they are an honestly made medicine that relieves promtply the suffering duo tow eak, inactive kidneys and painful bladder action. They of fer a powerful help to nature in build ing up the true excreting kidney tis sue, in restoring normal action and relieving bladder discomforts. Try them. Huntley Bros. Co. Bennett Thomas A. Thomas of Beaver Creek and Miss L. M. Bennett of Orenco, Ore., were married at Orenco Wednesday, October 1, bv Rov. John firiffith Mr Thomas was raised i n Reaver fVenb- is well known in the county, is a pub lic spirited, popular farmer and a live Equity worker. Miss Bennett was born in Nebraska, was a school teacher, and has taught several terms in the county. They will make Beaver Dreelr their home. Temperance and the County Library Editor Courier: In the Courier of the 16th instant, Mrs. A. M. Waldron answers my in quiry about the County Library Bill by preaching me a right good temper ance sermon, and in reading it care fully, I don't see anything wrong with it, and I wish that every voter in the state viewed the temperance question as she does, for I am strictly a tem perance man myself, and my wife was a strict temperance woman, and I have often felt very lonesome since her death, and if I could find an in telligent widow that had as good tem perance principles as Mrs. Waldron has, there is no telling what might happen. But it is pretty hard to get a sat isfactory answer to my question out of this reply that Mrs. Waldron makes as it is hardly probable that the coun ty library would solve the temperance question. We have got to rely on other sources than the library to accomplish our aim in temperance. It would undoubtedly be a help in the general diffusion of knowledge, but I think we find about as many well informed men that are in the habit of using liquor, as we do of the ignorant class, but on of the princi pal reasons fer me voting for woman suffrage was the hope that they would put down intemperance. ' Respectfully yours, George flicinbotham. (Note Through an error in the make-up a wrong heading was put over Mrs. Waldron's letter in last week, which made it appear to be an answer to Mr. Hicinbotham's letter of enquiry regarding library matters, but was not so intended.) HIGHLAND The South Highland School will give an entertainment and pumpkin social at the church on Hallowe'en at 8 P. M. They expect to make enough . 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The ladies are expected to bring a decorated pumpkin having their name on it and also a box ot luncn The gentleman buying the lady's pumpkin is entitled to eat supper with her. Kverybody come and have a good tune, lion t forget the date, Hallowe'en Friday at 8 P. M. sharp Tho Highland School is progressing nicely, and there are thirty pupils en rolled this year. The School Board is going to install tho Waterbury Heating plant, which will bo greatly appreciated by the teacher and pupils. Big Fire at Sandy There was a disastrous fire at Sandy Monday morning, which de stroyed a large part of the business section. The loss is placed at $10,000, with insurance amounting to about $2,800. The buildings destroyed include the central hotel and restaurant, Bell Brothers' livery barn , Miller's shoe store, and saloon buildings belonging to 11. B. Edwards and J. O'Del. The losers announce that they will re build better than ever. SAFEST LAXATIVE FOR WOMEN Nearly every woman needs a good laxative. Dr. King's New Life Pills are good because they are prompt, safe, and do not cause pain . Mrs. M. C. Dunlap of Leadill, Tenn., says: "Dr. King's New Life Tills helped her troubles greatly." Get a box to-dav. Price, 25c. Recommended by Hunt-1 ley Bros. Co. TWILIGHT Recently Totem Pole Ranch laid claim to the growing of an onion weighing a pound and four ounces. Later a Washington man came into the lime light with a three pounder. The last liar always has an advan tage over his earlier competitiors. In our next primary election let us have candidates for our county and state offices that will handle the pub lic's affairs as they would their own. Many 40 acre tracts with inferior inv provements in Oregon, pay taxes in the middle west. George Kline and family will in the ' the large farms in small tracks of 5, near future, again take posession of ( 10 and 20 acres, I think to the great their ranch in this neighborhood, after . advantage of the state, six months' residence in Portland. It is not my purpose in this article J. F. Spiger has traded the front to discuss this advantage, but to speak ten acres of his place for a house and I of how a man with a family to main lot in Portland, and gives possession tain and properly educate, is to live the first of the year. on a small farm. It cannot be done by When Oregon City merchants were paying 35 cents for eggs Friday of last week, one grocer at Liberal paid his customers 40 cents. Compe tition evidently does not aways bring the best results. Mrs. Miendl, who has been here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. M. Lazelle, during the last sickness and death of her brother, M. J. Lazelle, returned to her home in Portland Sun day last. A school election has been called for next Tuesday at seven P. M., for for the election of a clerk to succeed the late Marshall Lazelle. Tom Kelland's wife Sundayed with friends in Portland. Potato harvesters are busily en gaged this week in the potato fields. In addition to a poor stand generally, many report their crop small and un merchantable, while others report a larger potato but few in a hill. We hear of no imperfection aside from a slight rust in some fields without much if any, damage to the spud. But very little fall grain yet in the ground jn this locality. Had the rains continued the pres- APRON LEVER lndpt"dnt of S.attr Control Fdinqfrom4to20l tier aero J S M LOWEST-DOWN MACHINE , 1 BecailMApronRllMsUnderRedrAitlf AVERAGE HEIGHT J fCLT B INCHES; ent week, many smid rrrowers contem plated the temporary withdrawal of membership from the "Look Pleasant Club." Miss Elizabeth Soerber of Spokane, is a guest of Miss Marie Harvey at Totem role ranch. We would rather be Baker or Ed' die Collins of the Athletics, than President Wilson. There is not only more clean gain in their income but the plaudits of their legion of base ball fanatics all over the United States when a hit is made, is surely mspir ing. 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SET GUNS AND TRAPS Farmer Suggests This Means to Stop Thieving of Poultry Editor Courier: Being a citizen and taxpayer of your county and thinking that I have a grievance I thought I would ask a space in your valuable paper to air the same. I have been a resident of this state for 66 years and I fully understand the drawback to the advancement of the state in large farms of large Jand holdings by individuals. I have witnessed the cutting up of many of ; general larming as on tne large tarms. Hence a different system must be adopted. I have lived on a large farm and know something about that. I now have a small farm of 10 acres on which my wife and myself are trying to make a living. We are old people. My wife is 68 and I am 77. We have plenty of hay for one cow and horse and some to spare; plenty of vegetables, plenty of fruits, both large and small; plenty of vegetables. Our principal income is from poultry, however. For instance on the 1st day of Oc tober, 1913, we had 6 dozen eggs and at 35 cents we were getting $2.10 per. day. It took 50c per day to feed the flock, leaving a net income of $1.60 per day. On the 2d some chicken thieves visited our poultry-yard and took about 50 of our hens and ont he 3rd we got 2 dog. eggs or 70c worth early enough to pay for feed. This is not all, for on the 5th day they visited W. B. Stafford's, taking 7 Orpington pullets worth $10.00, and A. C. Warner's, taking .8 Orpingtons, .worth about $12, and relieving Mrs. King of 14 jars of fruit. They have INDEPENDENT RAKE TwthteifrriOiflCTpOTdSpHnqSlwl High Carbon Beater Teeth set staqqered, forminq sptral.glv Inq wide delivery. 57 Northwest's . Greatest Impement and Vehicle House PORTLAND, ORE. SPOKANE, WN. BOISE, IDAHO visited my place three times in the last three years. Now here is my grievance, and the point I want to discuss is how are we to rid ourselves of the thieves? Un less we can do this in some way the most profitable part of the small farm is gone, for it does not pay to raise poultry for them I talked with his honor, the County Judge, and also with Commissioner Smith, but I hardly think we can ex pect any assistance from them. I have no doubt but they both would help but they do not seem to see their way clear to do so. So it seems as though the remedy is left with us small farmers and I am going to suggest that all the poultry men set guns and traps about their poultry yards. I suppose this will bring on duscussion. If so,w e will discuss it then. G. W. Dimick DON'T LET BABY SUFFER WITH ECZEMA AND SKIN ERUPTIONS Babies need a perfect skin-covering. Skin eruptions cause them not only intense Buffering, but hinder their growth. DR. HOBSON'S EC ZEMA OINTMENT can be relied on for relief and permanent cure of suf fering babies whose skin eruptions have made their life miserable. 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There are 22 acres of land in cauliflower and late cabbage. There were three acres of sweet corn, and many a day Mr. DeBok disposed of 100 dozen in the Oregon City mar kets during the summer. There is an acre devoted to the poultry yards. Mr. DeBok was among the farmers having individual farm exhibits at the Oregon State Fair, and was awarded many premiums, among these was the special prize from Burpee Seed Com pany which was a $20 cash prize. This was for the best collection of vegetables. Mr. DeBok's exhibition attracted much attention of the fair visitors. His children carried away many of the premiums in the Juvenile department at the Clackamas County Fair. ' Before coming to Oregon, eight years ago from Idaho, he was super intendent of a farm consisting, of 225 acres, and in connection there were ocer 100 head of livestock.. 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