OREGON CITY COURIERTHURSDAY DEC 25' ,1913,
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v Official Paper for the Farmers
M. J. BR.OWN,
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-Smilsc1' Three fires in successive nights,
' all at same hour, all starting in about.
the same place. This looks bad.
It-will be hard to convince many
' city residents that there is nothing
in the old superstition that fires go
- in bunches of three. -
Jonathan Bourne is now out oppos
ing government ownership of rail
roads and telegraph lines. He'll be
going back on Roosevelt next.
The Oregonian has finished up
bringing Booth out for U. S. sena
tor, and now it is said it will pull
John Burgard out for governor "in
the name of the people."
Judge Harris declares Spring
field dry. Judge Campbell de
clares Oregon City dry and
Judge Galloway declares Salem
and Stayton wet. When judges
disagree who will decide?
Stayton Mail.
After a little judges won't disagree
' over matters that voters decide, be
cause the people won't permit it. No
judge has any right to set aside the
voters' verdict and if they continue
to do it, you will see the recall of
judges in Oregon.
Robert Booth has "responded to
the call of the people," who "stormed"
his home three weeks ago and will
"submit" to being run for U. S. sen
ator. And it is my judgement that
"being run" will be all. there is to it.
We have too many millionaires and
big interest representatives' in con
gress now we don't want any more
Stephensons. Booth is a lumber king,
a man who stands behind banks, a
stand pat Republican, 'and that "call
of the people" was a call of the old
line politicians of Oregon an old
political trick that has moss on it.
Wheie the liquor interests are con
cerned, there are judges who seem to
be unable to see more than one side
of the case. While our state consti
tution gives the people of the cities
the right to make their own charters,
provided they do not conflict with
the criminal laws of the state, Judge
Galloway says that the people of
Salem did something ithey had no
right to do when they put prohibit
ion of the licensing of the sale of
liquor & in their charter. And he even
says that because there are other
ways provided in which the sale of
liquor may be prohibited, it conflicts
with the criminal laws of the state
to prohibit the issuances of licenses
by charter amendment. But then
Judge Galoway said the Bachelor's
Club had a right to sell liquors here
in defiance of the ordinances of the
city. Woodburn Independent
Polk County will have to pay a lit
tle over five dollars per capita for
every man, woman and child as its
share of the running expenses of the
state. It is almost time to call a halt
somewhere in the state expense roll.
The taxpayer does not object to pay
ing his money to make better schools
better loads and things of this nature
which comes in the regular county
levy, but when the state sends their
ultimatum to send over to the caDi-
tal city $74,670.00 and this sum must
be raised in addition to that required
to properly care for the county, many
taxpayers are beginning to "set up"
and take notice that public matters in
the state are of interest, and we pre-
aici mac men aspiring to state or
fices at the coming election will be re-
quired to answer many questions
aiong tne line or reducing state ex
pense. Polk County Observer.
W. S. U'Ren explains his
$1500 tax exemption, of course,
by the pretense that it will re,
lieve the fellow struggling to
get a start and throw the bur
den upon his rich neighbor.
But doesn't explain that with all
these exemptions counties will
be compelled to raise their lev
ies upon he property that is
assessed and in the end the lit
tle fellow will find that he has
been relieved of taxation on his
home and had it transferred to
his farm. He will then put in
his time wondering what ft was
all about until it duwns on him
that it is the old single tax idea
indirectly applied. Hillsboro
Advocate.
This is rather a leaky argument
from an editor as tight as Mr. Killcn.
If all the property in Oregon was
held by the "little fellow," and every
little fellow was a furmer, it would
work out as above, but I have an
idea there is a LITTLE property in
Oregon that the farmers do not own.
The Bank of
WISHES
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AND A HAPPY AND
PROSPEROUS
PUBLISHING COMPANY, PUBLISHER
FROST, OWNERS.
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Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
EDITOR
Always a green Christmas in the
Willamette Valley.
The Albany Democrat hands some
hot and heavy ones to Congressman
Hawley over his three years' failure
to accomplish nnything for naviga
tion up the river to Albany. The ed
itor says if he had accepted McAdoo'e
report and went to work on that line
his efforts would probably have been
successful, but instead he went after
a dream of expensive locks and dams
that the government engineers turn
ed down. The Democrat thinks Haw
ley had better be replaced by a con
gressman who can deliver some
goods.
Oregon is weighted down with
boards and commissions, with politi
cal jobs and deputies and assistants.
And Oregon is too little developed
to carry the load.
The fish and game commission is
little less than a leech on the state.
It costs big money and what are the
results? If we would close the
streams to commercial fishing we
wouldn't need any hatcheries and but
few of the many men who wear big
stars.
And the game protectors, what do
they accomplish except to draw sal
aries ? Case after case has been tried
in this and other counties and the
violators freed because juries were
not in sympathy with the restrictions
and would not convict.
The railroad commission it costs
Oregon big money, and is it worth
while ? Why do we appeal our charg
es of rate extortion and discrimina
tions to this body, when we have
courts of law whose business it is
to determine just such cases, and a
county attorney in every county in
the state whose business it is to pros
ecute such charges, just as it is his
duty to prosecute any violations of
state laws. Why a railroad or, utilities
commission in a state that has so few
railroads and public utilities as Ore
gon? Our state board of health it
would stagger you if you knew what
it and its side lines and side appoint
ees cost the state. And do its results
warrant it? 'Are you, Mr. Taxpayer,
getting value received ? You who are,
hold up your hands.
During the typhoid epidemic in
this city a little over a year ago, did
ever a state board of health official
cross the corporation limits of this
city? Only 13 miles away, yet did
a member of that board ever come
here? Did they ever investigate or
assist in any way to stop an epidemic
that was killing our people?
In a later outbreak the board did
send a man here to determine the
cause, and we laughed at his verdict.
He said the causes were private wells
and the milk dairies when we knew
better, because we knew the cause
was our water supply.
Each county can take care of its
health conditions, far better than the
state can, if the responsibility is put
keenly up to them, and the people
will put good men on the job.
And so it goes. There are a half
dozen cases with leaks in them. A
half hundred more could be put in
evidence. ,
Commissions, boards, appoint
ments, deputiel, aslsistants, clerjks,
and so on.
Politics, pull, graft, soft snaps,
patronage, easy money.
Legislatures, appropriations, new
laws, new jobs and big taxes.
Oregon isn't a New York, Illinois
Ohio or Indiana.
It will be, if we will let the people
come, but until it is more populated
and richer, it must be undeveloped
Oregon.
Wer'e drinking champagne when
cider is on the menu.
We have got to slow up and give
Oiegon a chance.
More of our institutions than the
initiative and referendum need prun
ing and reforming. The courts are not
above reproach. Judges giftod with a
sense of justice, who are able, and
honest, and willing to be governed
in their rulings by the acts in the
case instead of ouibblos and rpcnni.
calities, will be a welcome change. In
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.mi i iniiLiMcu iu.se winter, wnen a
certain police judge showed a dispo-
Kiuon uj evaae nis duty and decide in
favor of vice, he was promptly re
called. The recall is a verv effpetivn
weapon when men of unstable charac
ter occupy the judicial bench. It might
be used in Oregon to advantage at the
present time. In San Francisco it has
had the effect of making other judg
es more careful in the discharge o
their dutv. There are mnnv wrnn
that need righting. Eugene Register.
Oregon City
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CHRISTMAS
NEW YEARj
II
And yet they come. L. H. McMahon
of Marion county thinks the Progres
sives have a show to cop out the gov
ernorship, and that he is the modern
Moses to do the coping.
Once more Judge Galloway has set
aside the verdict ol the voters, declar
ing HarHsburg wet after the people
had declared it dry. Let the judges
rule.
Judge Campbell, at Oregon City,
pronounces the November election
there on the license question entirely
legal.He says the people have prop
erly expressed their wishes, and as no
fraud is claimed in the election or the
count, their will should be obeyed
Wouldn't it be refreshing to have
some such decisions in Marion coun
ty? Woodburn Independent. .
We look forward to the time
when temperance in all things
will be the rule rather than the
exception, for it is hard to im
agine a more disgusting spec
tacle than a drunken man. But
does prohibition mean temper
ance? Salem Messenger.
As much as any law means any
thing. We have laws prohibiting all
kinds of crimes, but crimes are com
mitted just the sme and the criminals
are punished. Our laws prohibit mur
der, but they hang murderers right
along in the Messenger's home city.
Such a question as the above is
rather a weak question from the ed
itor of the Messenger.
The last legislature passed a reg
istration law, which the supreme
court gave the k. o. to. At the time
the legislation passed it a companion
law was passed providing for the tim
es of registration, etc. Annulling the
registration law, we have to fall back
on the old law, and under it the new
law regarding registration books be
ing kept open cannot be complied
with, as there is not room and time
enough.
So here we are. How the spring
primaries are going to be held legally
under these conflicting laws, is the
question, and none have authority to
change except the legislature, and
Governor West says he won't call a
special session.
And it looks as if Oregon were go
ing to be a kid all its life.
Governor West applied to the em
erency board to provide work for the
idle men of the valley, but it was de
clared illegal. I suppose idle, hungry
desperate men do not constitute an
Oregon "emergency."
San Francisco papers state that
there are 20,000 idle men in that city,
Portland papers don't state it, but
here are half as many in he Rose city,
There are 5,000,000 in the United
States looking tor work.
What is an "emergency" if this
army of the unemployed doesn't con-
stiute one !
Every man of them could be given
work by the states and made to give
. i : . j
vaiue received ior me wages, on nign
ways, irrigation projects, public build
ines, etc.
These men won't starve. If they
can't get food outside of jail they
will break in, and the people will
support them in idleness.
But you see if they make highways
and build public works, there won't
be bonds and contracts.
So there is "no emergency." Let
them hit back doors, loot postoffices
rob on the highways. It is of more
importance to Oregon to take care of
its fish hatcheries than or its men.
The advent of the parcels
post was the opening wedge
for government ownership of
public utilities such as railroads,
telegraph and telephone lines.
Every attempt to bring these
matters before our representa
tives in Congress has been the
means of raising the cry, "pater
nalism." But the start has bean
made, and it is safe to predict
that in ten years the Federal
Government will be in contrql of
the great' transcontinental pub
lic service lines of railroad, tel
egraph and telephon. Salem
Messenger.
Will some one get right down to
tacks and explain why, if corporations
can make billions out of railroads,
wire corporations, express, mines,
and so on, the government can t run
them and save these billions for the
people ?
If corporations ran our postoffices,
we would be paying live cents post
aire on every letter.
If corporations owned our high
ways, as they own the railroads, we
would be paying toll on every mile
we rode over.
If our schools were owned by cor
porations, every pupil would have to
pay high tuition.
If we had not adopted the parcels
post, the express companies would
still be gaffing us.
If the great corporations can pay
dividends on stock that is halt blue
sky, why can't the government make
it pay twice the dividends on a physi
cal valuation, and let the people have
the dividends?
The Panama canal has shown what
the government can do with great
projects, and the people will never
forget it
The government didn't let con
tracts, and let contractors sub-con-contract
and every Tom, Dick and
Harry take off a graft
They built a canal, beat all speed
records and notwithstanding the big
expense of getting all food supplies
into that country, they cut the cost
of living to the army of men way be
low what it is in Oregon. ,
Was this good for the people and
the country, or wasn't it?
It is stated that with the present
rate of travel, that the cost of trans
portation of a passenger from Port
land to New York is $14..50.
Now it costs us from $75 to $100.
If we could make this trip for a quar-
taer or half this expense, would not
government ownership f be of great
benef it to the people ?
There seems to be every argument
for and very little against govern
ment ownership of transportation.
There are better arguments for and
poorer ones against the ownership of
supplies of food and clothing.
Individual's Money To Loan.
$1,0003 to 5 years. '
$15002 years.
$1,0001 to 3 years.
$5002 to 3 years.
$;00 3 years.
$300 2 years.
On real estate, terms reasonable.
JOHN W. LODER
Stevens Bldvr.. Oregon City. Ore.
President Title & Investment Co,
uackamas tounty ADstracts.
MALVERN
' W. T. Milliken
Malvern sat at his cobbler's bench
with heart
As cold as were the snows that, ed
dying, fell
Without his lonely door. No wife, no
child,
No friend had he to cheer the declin
ing day .
Of life. Once smile met smile, and
wifely lips
Were raised to greet his coming. The
rare sweet
Music of childrens' laughter filled his
home.
But one, who seemed a friend yet
proved a foe,
Like the "fell snake" in Eden, ent'
ring in
To cloud the radiant circle of that
home,
Poisoned the mother's heart with lies
unfounded ,
Against the father of her sons, and
when, '.
Her soul recoiling from what seemed
his gjfllt,
She bore her children hence to seek
her father's
House, she added wrong to wrong un
wittingly By sending back unsealed her hus
band's missel
Which bore the proof that cleared his
name of wrone.
Then Malvern's pride revolted at her
scorn,
And from his heart heMmage thrust
ing forth, -
The meanwhile nursing thoughts of
black revenge
Against the quondam friend, he lived
alone,
And scorned all proffered sympathy
untu
Men drew apart and left him to his
gloom. . M
Some seven summers gave place to
winter's snows,.
And when the eighth had passed, one
night, alone
He plied his task by lamplight, when
a bell
Pealed out upon the . frosty air of
night
The song of "Peace on earth, eood
will to men."
It was the eve of Christmas. Malvern
sat
List'ning with bitter heart, great with
the thought
Of happier time e'er hope was dead,
self-slain;
When through the storm a feeble wail
As of a child in anguish. Swift he
threw
Ajar the door, and drew across the
portal
A tiny girl, whose rags scarce served
to cover
Her trembling frame. When he had
chafed her hands,
And given the fragments of his ev
ening meal
To appease her hunger, he stooped to
ask her name
And mission at his door that bitter
night.
She told of father lying in a hut
Pain racked, his orphaned children
crying out
For bread, and how, like star of hope,
the light ,
Of Malvern gleaming o'er the snows,
neid out
A chance for refuge, he arose.
Asking the child, meanwhile, "What
is your iatner s name ;
It was his bitter enemv. stricken
Even unto death. The swift exulting
mooa
Flooded his brain Here then was his
revenge!
Seizing the child's thin arm he thrust
her forth,
Bidding her go and bid her father die
And rot like thing unworthy that he
was.
But when her wail was swallowed by
me nignc
A cloud of horror rested o'er his soul
And haunting voices whispered "Mur-
derer!"
in anguish Malvern called aloud to
God,
When, like a flash, came back the
words from heaven:
"Our debts forgive as we have others
shriven; , .
as tnou nast aeait with others, so
with thee!"
Swift starting to his feet, his sin dis
cerned, Eager for pardon, hatless. he sDed
Until he overtook the weeping maid
And brot her back from out the wind
and storm
To where his firelight glowed in
grateiui warmtn;
Then, heaping high her arms from
out his store,
He filled a hamper full of Christmas
cheer
For starving mouths, and followed on
to where
The man who wronged him lay in
uiresi neea.
Next Morn
With upraised hands that hue had
telt the clasp
Of hands that, not in vain, had grop
ed for pardon.
With lips that late had voiced a full
torgiveness,
Light hearted, Malvern sought his
nome, and, en'ring in,
He bowed his head in prayer. And
forth acain
The voice from heaven spoko peace
to Malvern's soul.
"For me thou hast the least of these,
my cnuaren,
Fed and clothed, and hast forgiven
thine enemv:
Thou hast so done to me. Thy sin is
snriven.
Six peaceful days passed by, and New
Year's eve
Fell clear and cold unon a waitine-
world,
Which watched, expectant, everv
passiner hour
Until the downing of another year;
While myriad windows cast their
starry erlow
Across the snows to mock the lights
in heaven.
Then Malvern bowed his head in
prayer to God
That Christ might watch o'er those
ne had torgiven,
And, lost in reverie, he missed the
lifting latch,
Nor knew, until the sweetest soul on
earth
Fell weeping at his feet to plead for
pardon,
And children's loving arms his neck
encircling
Enforced their mother's plea. Within,
the willing bond
Of his embrace he drew them to his
heart, his lost
Restored again as by a wond'rous
gift of heaven.
With sobs beyond control, the woman
Told of how, that day, by agonized
endeavor,
The one who wronged them sought
her father's home,
Although he risked his feeble life in
coming,
And there confessed his sin with bitV
ter tears,
And told the tale of Malvern's brave
forgiveness.
And, when at midnight's hour the
chiming bells
Pealed forth their welcome to the
new-born year,
He rose with peaceful heart, to stir
the fire;
And, as he saw its gleam again re
flected In eyes in which the love-light flamed
anew,
Upon his soul there ' fell a strange
sweet calm,
And Malvern knew, with joy, his sin
forgiven.
LIBRARY REPORT
Splendid Showing for Carnegie Li
brary for First Year
To the Honorable Executive Board
and Members of the Oregon City
Library Association.
Ladies and Gentlemen:
I have the honor to present to you
the librarian's report of the work
done by the library from January
first to November thirtieth of the
current year, the report being a
month earlier this year than last.
The statistical report is appended.
We cannot make a comparison of cir
culation by classes with last year, as
no statistics by classes are available
for last year. The total increase in
circulation, however, in the past el
even months over the previous twelve
months is 1800.
The chief events of the year's ac
tivities are too well known to you to
require a report; namely the occu
pancy of the new building and the late
campaign for a county library.
You will notice tne record oi lau
volumes donated. This report could
not include the J65 volumes which
are the result, to date, of the book
dav recently planned and promoted
for us by Mrs. Meta Finley Thayer,
through her" department in tne en
terprise. As the book day was Dec. 2,
these must go into next year's report.
The 130 (volumes, however, includ
ed some very valuable gifts. In this
connection, distinctions may seem dif
ficult to make, since all gifts are ap
preciated by the library in the spir
it in which they are given, am two
items--are especially note-worthy. The
first of these in point of time is the
gift, by Mr. Rockwell, of the latest
edition of the Standard dictionary.
This gives us a very fair equipment
of dictionaries, as we had already
bought the International. The second
of these important eifts, and the
most valuable gift the library has re
ceived, is that of Mr. and Mrs. J.
Hedges , consisting of twenty-two
volumes of the drama of the world,
beautifully printed and bound. This is
a really unusual addition to a library
of this size, as it supplies us with at
least one representative , drama of
each langugae, period or school of the
the drama, from the earliest days
enacted to the present. In addition to
these texts, there are scholarly arti
cles on the drama of each division,
whether by nation, language, period
or school.
Since the opening of the schools
this fall, I have been able to visit each
room of the public schools once. Since
these visits, there has been a marked
inirease in the number of children
coming to the library, so that our
children's shelves are practically
empty all the time.
I have begun a series of book talks
for the high school pupils. There
were twenty-five present at the first
one of these.
, We are constantly using the State
Libiary s books, borrowing whole col
lections on different subjects for from
six weeks to three months, and ob
taining special books for individuals
for shorter periods. We are supplying
our German readers by . borrowing
from the State University Library
If we could haVe a few new novels
for our fiction readers and a good
many new children's books right now,
we could do fairly effective work tor
the winter season with these resourc
es. We should have at least one hun
died dollars' worth of children's books
of our own selection.
Respectfully submitted,
Helen Price,
Librarian,
Book Account
Additions
Books purchased 239
Books donated 130
Total Additions 369
Net increase 345
Volumes in library 2136
Withdrawals
Worn out 24
Summary
Total number of volumes in the li
brary 2136
Number of volumes added during the
year 369
Total circulation during the year
....10673
Largest daily circulation 82
Smallest daily circulation 9
Average 32
Percentage of children's books cir
culated (last 6 months) 31.8
Percentage of adult fiction circulat
ed (last 6 months) 55
Number of books repaired in the li
brary 104
Number of newspapers and period
icals received regularly 40
Number of borrowers' cards issu
ed 505
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unporup.r.c as your cwn
and pc:hr;p:i more tedious but
is her slivrrih us great?
Wcnicn who arc nervous ar.d
f retLl r.:i J easily fatigued prompt
ly gain strength and natural cn
c,ry ty taking Scoffs Emulsion
aftermealsbecause it is essentially
nourishment not a drug that
stupefies or alcohol that stimulates
there is pure, rich medical
'nourishment in every drop which
nature appropriates to enrich the
blood and upbuild the latent
forces of the body.
Probably nothing is more popular
with physicians for just such con
ditions than Scott's Emulsion.
Avoid substitutes called "wines",
"extracts" or "active principles"
they are not cod liver oil.
Insist on the genuine Scott's
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Tketfe is no substitute
f ot Royal Baking Pow
der for making the
Best cake; biscuit and
pastey Royal is Ab
solutely Pure and the
only baking powder
made from Royal
grape cream of tartar
Total number of cards in force 163'4
Number of days open during eleven
months 334
Hours open each week 56
Get your letterheads and envelopes
printed with the name of your farm
on them. The Courier will make them
cheap for ou.
PORTLAND PROPERTY
TO TRADE
For Farm or Acreage
8 room plastered house, bath, toil
et, gas, 3 lots each 25 x 100, situated
on graded street, cement walk, 'i
block from carline. $3,000.00. Will
trade for equal value or might assume
some on farm property. -DILLMAN
& HOWLAND
Over the Courier Office
Oregon City, Oregon
Special fliinoiiiiceiiieiit
WILLIAM GARDNER.
the well known JEWELER of Oregon City
announces to bis many patrons that
he has succeeded in procuring
' the services of
01a JL Scbillina
eW-Sight Specialist
OF PORTLAND
from 9 o'clock a. m. to 5 p. m.
. Every Day.
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If you have a mortgage on your farm, or if you wish to bor
row money for development purposes , or if you want to sell your
farm, it will be to your advantage to fill this out and return to us at
once.
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Rev. Smith's Sunday Services
Rev. E. A. Smith will preach the
coming Sunday at Highland, Sunday
morning at 11 o'clock and at Alberta
at 3 P. M. At 7:30 he will preach at
Henrici school house. The subjects
at Alberta and "The Bethlehem Man
ger" at Henrici.
The Logan Sunday School will cel
ebrate Christmas next Sunday with
appropriate exercises,
will be: "The Voices of Christmas,"
, . Library Notice
The public library in Oregon City
is still free to all residents of the
county, although without county sup
port. Reference questions will be an
swered by mail or by telephone, Homo
M. 69. The library has on hand a
supply of good magazines from which
22,1914. . .
it will be glad to give numbers to
people in the country, or to people
who are ill. These need not be return
ed. .
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