OREGON CIT.Y COURIER. THURSDAY JAN. 29, 1914,
Public Opinion
Letters From Tht People Subjects ofGeneral Interest
OLD'S ROAD IDEAS
Some Changes and Reforms that
Would Improve Present System
Editor Courier:
I see a great deal of discussion
about the proposed bond issue and
the Pacific Highway. Now I wish to
show the farmers of this county why
I am in favor of the proposed bond is
sue. In the first place I have always
been against perpetual indebtedness
on the account of interest bearing
bonds, for it is the interest that
draws, but in a case of this kind I
think that there is a chance for the
farmers of this county to get 100
cents worth of work on their roads
for $1.00, because the work will be
done under the supervision of a com
petent road builder and engineer, and
the point right here is that all of the
$600,000 will be spent under the su
pervision of that one head and not
69 superintendents.
I am not saying that there are not
some good road builders in Clacka
mas county in the supervisforship, for
we know there are. But gentlemen,
stop and think a moment.
Do you think that J. J. Hill, in his J
management on jus road for the ex
penditure of about $363,000, would
hire 56 different superintendents? I
do not know what you think, but I
don't think so.
Another point is that you will have
all of that 100 miles of hard surfac
ed road built in one year, and it
won t cost you one cent for mainten
ance for 5 years at least, and you
will have the roads while you are
paying for them.
There is a lot being said about that
money being spent on the Pacific
Highway for the sole benefit of au
tomobile people and machinery men
It may seem strange to you, but 1
mean it.
I for one, am not in favor of one
cent of that fund to be put on the
north and south road, commonly
Known as tne -racinc Highway. 1
want -to see it put where it will do
the most good for the most of the
farmers of this couny on the cast
and west roads, or the main trunk,
leading into the farming districts,
for they are the ones that will have
to pay the bill and then you can get
your produce to market at all times
of the year.
Now I am not worrying about the
Pacific Highway. We undoubtedly
will get some of that $238,000 of the
State money this year, and probably
all on the Pacific Highway.
I do not own an automobile, nor
do I ever expect to, but the reason
for my being on the highway commit
tee is to assist in getting away from
our present road building system,
for I want to see hard surfaced roads,
for I believe they are the cheapest
in the long run, and I cannot believe
but that our present method is
wrong.
I believe in the contract system.
' Some say that the contractor will
slight his work. Let us see.-
Suppose your road foreman and
engineer surveyed, estimated and
staked out a mile of road in front of
James Root's place at Borintr. I will
. use his name because we all know he
is pretty keen to look after Root's
interest, and the court published the
specifications and you all knew them
The engineers' estimation was SK.nno
the bid $7,500. Do you suppose for
one moment that Root would let him
slight his work? I think not. I would
make his bondsman guarantee his
work for 5 years, (and they will do
it.)
I believe in the division of the road
fund that is, create a bridge fund,
and I will give you my reason, and
will use even figures to base my ar
gument on. Suppose, for the sake of
argument, that Clackamas county
levies .08 mills for road purposes,
that is under the present system, and
it raises $200,000. The first thing the
court does is to divide that in two
parts, putting $100,000 in the iren
eral road and bridge fund. It only
takes $50,000 for the bridges and
that leaves $50,000 for the court to
peddle out where thev can tret th
most votes at the next general elec
tionnot saying that the presen
court will do it. but I heliuve it ),.
been done and may be done again
The chance is there.
Now if you would divide that fund
ny creating a bridire fund, fi mills fi.
roads; 2 mills for bridges and then
givo the districts what belongs to
them, that would put an end to the
political peddling of the road money
K. U. Ulds.
STATE HOARD LEECH
Dr. Turner says it is the mosl Ex
pensive Bunco on Oregon
By Dr. W. A. Turner, Naturopath.
A few cases alleged to be small
fuA mm vnnoioia, in Mt. Johns, were
to have been the foundation of a goo(i
old-time "scare" and would havt
been had it not been for the vigilance
or the Health IVfensc League of
J. UI UttllU.
ine political doctors had it all
framed up to frighten the people and
then round them up and vaccinate
them, reaping the usual harvest of
dollars, besides sowing the seeds for
iiuure ousiness. It was arranged to
1 , . : '"'vin r. wnite, the mo
cai politician, who is Secretary of the
State board of health, speak in the
nign scnooi last W ednesday mirht
mm uieii oner to vaccinate free (?)
all school children. Dr. Brooks, Mrs.
Lora C. Little and myself wore on
hand at the schoolhouse and every
one entering was presented with anti
vaccination literature and nearly
everyone personally expressed them
selves as being opposed to the foul
rite.
Being solidly opposed to what ho
had to say, Dr. White found himself
up against a hard proposition, but he
went ahead and delivered the set
speech, learned by heart and much of
it quoted from the public health re
ports. It has rarely been my misfor
tune to listen to such a lot of drivel.
He not only failed to make out a
case, but the bulk of his remarks was
a distention of facts, some of the
most unreasonable and illogical yon
ever heard. The medical profession
as a rule, have little regard for the
truth when they present their theo
ries, and this address was no excop-
The audience was told that if ih
would be vaccinated twice they would
never have smallnoy n Inner th,
uvea. I hey were told many other wa 'hough sometimes
things also that were so disgustingly case of Kunshot wounds
far from being facts that they
promptly showed their resentment
ana tnis opposition wj iu Bupciouw
ous obsessions bv asking him ques
tions that soon got him over his head
in deep water.
It had been arranged to have Mrs.
Little present the other side the
anti vaccination side, and the school
board evidently pro-medical, had
Prof. Boyd, the principal, beg and
nlead with Mrs. Little to pledge her
self not to speak in opposition, out of
"respect" to Dr. White.
Dr. White met Mrs. Little in a
joint debate at Woodstock last win
ter and she promptly tied him in a
hard knot, so he had reason to fear
her prowess.
Why the taxpayers of Oregon
should be bled $5,000 a year to pay
Dr. White to run around over the
state and advocate allopathic medi
cine is no mystery. It is because these
medical politicians have fastened
themselves on the jthroats of the
people like leeches to suck the blood
they can get, in the shape of money,
out of the people. It is ime to get
busy. Some of you good people let
someone lead by getting a writ of
injunction to put the allopathic ille
gal state board of health out of bus
iness. It has no lawful existence, as
it stands today, because it is compos
ed exclusively of doctors oi one
school, being unconstitutional and
class legislation.
Let someone start the good work
and we will have no more "scares"
of any kind.
Goitre in Women
This disease affects many girls
and women and is one which the
medical fraternity confess that they
know little or nothing about, altho
they claim to have a serum tor it and
should that fail, a surgical operation
is a sure cure.
The young women of today have
been left a heritage of weakness from
their mothers and grandmothers. Wo
men usually lead more or less sed
entary lives, eat largely of candy,
sweets and pastry, suffer irom tight
lacing and burden the hips with
heavy clothing. These habits have
made each succeeding generation of
women more nervous and liable to
disease than their ancestors were. In
fact today it is almost impossible to
find a woman, yoking or old, who is
free from disease, although she will
tell you she "is perfectly well."
Goitre is an enlargement of the
thyroid gland in the throat and there
are two kinds: simple, in which the
gland is only enlarged, and a more
serious form called "exopthalmic," in
which the eyes protrude or pop out.
This form is accompanied with ex
treme nervousness, rapid heart ac
tion, hysteria and meloncholia.
While tho medical fraternity con
fess they do not know the cause of
this disease, the more modern and up-to-date
schools have long known the
chief cause is directly associated with
the ovarian and uterine organs, for
few women escape these troubles, ow
ing to bad living habits.
first comes derangements of the
stomach, liver and bowels, causing
congestion. Then follow diseases of
the uterus and ovaries, which sooner
or later affect the thyroid gland. An
operation to remove this gland is of
course the result of medical ignor
ance. Just as well cut your nose off
wnen it runs, tor the effect only is
removed and tho cause remains.
Goitre is quickly and easily remov
ed by any drugless doctor without op
erations or serums. I have removed
hundreds of thorn with a correct di
etary and my fingers, and have never
lost a case, and today have several
lady patients who are being rapidly
cured by Naturopathic methods.
When signs of this disease appear
consult a drugless doctor at once and
save both health and money.
"The American College of 'Surgeons"
Under the plea of protecting the
dear people from, "quack surgeons,"
the A. M. A. has decided to establish
a surgical "400" for the ranlrnl nf
the practice of surgery and proposes
iu uiiruuuce a nui in every legisla
ture to establish a new degree: "mas
tor of surgery." The primary obioct.
of course, is to make n corporation I
ana mrow all surgical practice into
the hands of a few, thus enabling
mom to cnarge extortionate prices
and monopolize the business, also to
dictate how much of the big fee shall
be split with the family doctorif
any.
This is another move of the poli
tical doctors of the A. M. A. to dic
tate "medical" legislation and the
people should lie on the alert and de
feat it when the A. M. A. tools pre
sent it at the next legislature. Hut
the fun is yet to come and a kilkerry
cat time can be expected when these
apostles of the carving school begin
to fight among themselves to iWi.l,.
"Who's Who."
Naturopathy Defined
A lady in Clackamas C'nnntv vo.
cently wrote mo asking "What is a
Naturopath?" For the info
all I will state that a Naturopath is
a doctor who knows all that a medi
cal doctor knows, except medicine
and surgery, which are obsolete and
barbarous, and much that tho M. TV
doesn't know. Personally I know both
medicine and surgery, but don't, prac
tice them.
Naturopathy is curing disease bv
natural methods. I studied the Nature
Cure in Germany and follow that
system, which includes a thorough
knowledge of scientific fasting and
lietetics, by drotherapv, electricity.
magnetic healing, mental suggestion,
psycho therapy, inunction or anoint
ing with oil, internal and external
baths, and any and all other natural
methods of aiding Nature to heal, in
cluding Swedish movements, osteo
pathy and chiropractic.
We have found that nearly P,r per
cent of all disease comes from wrong
mm eating, drinking and slocnim
and the German Nature Cum X'.-itnvo.
path is the only doctor of anv school
who knows the real chemical values
of food and the chemistry of cook.
hg.
Ve believe that sickness is n nf.
fort of Nature to expel morbid Pois
onous matter from tho system and
that it should bo helped and not sup
pressed by medicines and serums.
We take no stock in the crazy
germ" theory, which like v:i,vi lot
ion, is only a superstition. Disease
makes germs, but germs ifn n.if ml.
disease, unless transmitted by per
sonal contact. Drugs and serums in-
erfere with Nature's efforts tn ni-il
disease and cure nothing.
1 here are no siinevflons mni in
the body and surgery is a step back-
useful in
and acci
dents. We cure people in one-fourth
tho time an average M. D. can, and
our work is thoroughly done without
drugs or operations, and our fees are
much smaller. We are cheaper in the
long runs for your physical and fi
nancial welfare.
(Questions relating to health mat
ters will be answered if addressed to
me care of Hotel Edwards, Portland,
Ore.)
"CONFISCATION"
John Stark Defines the Word as Ap
plied to this Generation
Confiscation! In hoc signo vinces!
according to Bill Nye, means "The
tail goes with the hide." Alfred
Cridge says it means making the
cross X at the right place on the bal
lot, sign.
Be that it may let us spell this
word CONFISCATION. Now
pronounce it.
I am breaking a buckskin bunch
grasser nowadays and while he is an
ornery scrub is the best I have, also
the worst, so I make the best of it.
He pretends to shy at objects and as
1 am no mind reader of cayueses or
cigar Indians I give him the benefit
of the doubt, so I lead him up firm
ly to the object to get closely ac
quainted. Tha result is that he doesn't
let on so badly next time. Now that
is the way I shall go about this fate
ful word. I want you to get used to
it. I used to shy around it too, but
that was before M. J. Brown went
shinbone hunting in the Santa Clara
country.
We are now going at electric speed
in social economics and pay no atten
tion to block signals, until we gather
up some slivers to start out anew.
But what has that got to do with the
capalistic word do you ask? Well,
just this
gambled for them by loaded dice. Th3
men who built those roads are never
heard of in our modern scheme of
obtaining a living without labor. But
you will argue, then ,ou will take
them from those who fioUght them,
and that is highway robbery on -a
larger scale.
Did yoiyever hear the little Ger
man maxim: "Caveat Emptor?" Well
never mind just what it means, but
I am sure when you are out buying
you never risk much on a shaky ti
tle. These roads were never bought
from the men who built them. The
people have paid for these road J
many times over and it is high time
that they took possession of what
rightfully belongs to "them. "
I am aware ithat all my neighbors
who hold a cord or two of railroad
bonds, will seriously object and say
"that if I had done as they; did not
go to the circus 49 years ago but in
vested that quarter in railroad se
curities, I could be as well off as
they; that I did not look ahead far
enough." The fact however remains,
that as people we can rightfully con
fiscate the railroads with a clear
conscience and in a simple way, once
we can see the way to go about it.
What was the first move toward
building any railroad? Was it not in
obtaining a charter? Yes. Well then,
what the people gave they may take
from whom please? From the people,
also take. Take away the charter and
how will the so-called owners operate
them? It can't be done, but we needs
must have railroad service, now that
we have got the habit, and who is
there but the people to give that
seTvice? But what will -'become of
those securities, will you ask? I don't
know. They might make good cigar
lighters, if their holders smoke.
At present we see signs of move
ment for government ownership of
equal rights with every other citizen
Those who are living in a foreign
country and claiming title, will need
to come to American courts to prove
their claim. As Dooley aptly said
"Court decisions follow the election
returns." We will know in advance
what they will get.
If a little digression from the main
topic is allowable, I make reference
to the child born into this world
without its knowledge or consent, and
finds, when it arrives at an under
standing, that it is heir to debts
made generations ago, which it must
pay tor if it will live on this earth.
Now I claim, with all the empHfc.
sis I can bring to the question, that it
is a crime and anyone is justified to
repudiate such . debt. Conservation
has become quite a fad. It is applied
in many forms, but there seems to
be no one to demand conservation of
the most precious of natural resourc
es, namely the children. They may be
exploited to death to pay interest on
debts created by railroad gamblers
many years ago; but no four gold
-pens are used to sign a warrant of
freedom for the child.
You have been led past this ugly
object on life's highway this once
and the great word confiscation has
done you no harm. Just think of that
on your way to the ballot box next
November, and then remebmer the
motto "In the Sign of the X Con
quer."
John F. Stark.
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tourist a comprehensive idea of
Portland's beautiful residence dis
trict Plans ot the metropolis and of
Multnomah cotnty now include the
hard surfacing of this route to the
county line, and the county line is
only eight miles from Oregon City,
thus leaving but eight miles of new
permanent road to be built.
"As this route now exists there
are no bad grades. In fact there arc
but two short hills, and on these the
grade is light and probably will not
need to be bettered. One hill lies just
to the north of Clackamas, and is
about a fifth of a mile long, and tho
other lies northeast of Gladstone,
and is possibly a third of a mile
long. Otherwise the route is so near
ly level that it takes a surveyor's
transit to tell the difference. The
roads already laid out are 60 and 80
feet in width, so no extra right-of-way
would be required.
"The ereat factor in favor of this
route to my mind, however, is that
while the route furnishes all attrac
tions for the tourist, it also follows
tho main-traveled route of the far
mers and the produce men traveling
eiher to Portland or Oregon City.
East of Clackamas there branches
from this route the main road up the
Clackamas valley a road that now
carries a greater daily tonnage than
any other highway in the county,
and that is in summer crowded with
automobiles journeying to the upper
reaches of the Clackamas river, sure
ly this traffic should be taken into
consideration in routing the Pacific
Highway.
"They talk of bonding the county,
mainly to build this link of the Pac
ific Highway. If the route I have
outlined is adopted, I can see the
justice of such a plan, for all the far
mers who will benefit by having this
superb route to Portland built, will
be willing to stand their share of
its cost. They will realize that the
Pacific Highway, aside from being a
great trunk road through the state,
is also a great benefit to them and
will enable them to carry their pro
duce to Portland or Oregon City mar
kets with ease, and they will be glad
ito help pay for it.
"However, if the Pacific Highway
should be routed down the west side
of the river, or even down the east
side, it would not benefit this vast
farming area one iota, and it does not
seem right that these men should be
asked to stand its cost. The adoption
of any other route will require he
construction of more new, perma
nent roadway, and so will increase
the expense, without giving benefits
in return.
"Advocates of the Sellwood, Mil
waukie, Oak Grove route point to the
hard surface street work in Milwau
kie, say that thia will reduce the
cost of the new construction. I do
not want to seem selfish, but I can
not see how the three-quarters of a
mile of hard surface in Milwaukie is
sufficient to offset the savings that
can oe made by the adoption of the
route I have outlined. The route thru
Gray's Crossing and Clackamas is the
shortest, has the minimum of grade,
serves a vast stretch of farming
country, and requires the least am
ount of new construction. I think it
should be adopted."
W. S. GORBETTS ROAD IDEAS
In the rush after easy money cer
tain far-sighted gentlemen have
mortgaged the earning power of fu
ture generations. The undreamed of
child of tomorrow has been capitaliz
ed. His creative capabilities have
been discounted, and the account
thus drawn has built mansions for
the successful dealer in futures.
Now approaches a time when we
must begin to stop! Look! and listen
to the shrill cry of the babe born in
debt,
I am aware that the word con
fiscation arouses some very smug
and satisfied persons to alarm. I
wish I could alarm those who nre
hearing the burdens laid on by un
seen hands; that another crusade
; railroads and we are told that it will
be a great benefit if the government
would buy tho railroads. Let no one
be deceived by this move. It simply
means that the capitalists want to
unload a big debt upon the whole
people; have a government guarantee
for a safe and perpetual income and
the price will be alright so far as
the holders of railroad securities are
concerned. The job will no doubt suc
ceed. It will finally be argued, and
will confuse many, that it is a mild
and practical form of Socialism.
Such will not be the case. It will
merely be an aggrevated form of
state capitalism. Don't let them fool
you on that question,
mobilists and tourists as may desire
to take advantage of the Pacific
Highway has been formulated by the
Rev. L. M. Haworth, of East Clack
amas, and by him has been laid be
fore the Clackamas Local of the
Farmers' Society of Equity for act
ion. Mr.' Haworth's scheme takes in
to consideration the matter of econ
omy as well, and aims at the locat
ion of the great arterial highway be
tween Portland and Oregon City
along such a route as will answer the
needs of all concerned.
"It seems to me." savs Mr. Ha
worth, "that the chief requirements
of the Pacific Highway shall be di
rectness of route, absence of difficult
grades, economy in construction and
availability for all classes of traffic.
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There is but one safe wav to oro-
might bead toward the east nmW ' ceeil in tlir rail ma ,1 nnuofinn That- ia
the motto: "In the sign of the X collective ownership by all the people, 1 Bearing these points in mind, I have
Conquer." j confiscating the last rusty spike in been convinced after a careful study
Take the railroads. What? Take the whole, system. Pay not one cent ! Jh! J?rAUs Hw6
the railroads awav from the men who ,, . i . .. . , , .land and Oregon City that the log
built them, will you ask? Oh no, not 011 the whole shootlnS match. Those jcal line of this portion of the great
from the men who built them, but PtHP'e who claim ownership, if they' highway should be by way of the
take them from the sharpers who are American citizens, will have East Ride in Portland, Gray's Cross
ing, LiacKamas, uiaastone to uregon
City.
"Such a route, while answering all
the requirements of a section of a
great trunk road from the Canadian
, border to southern California, would
j also prove a boon to the greatest
number of farmers in the lower Wil
lamette and Clackamas valleys. I(
would provide a hard -surface road
easily accessible from the territory
adjacent to Oregon City, from all
portions of the Clackamas valley,
from the Sunnyside district, and from
the rapidly developing territory lying
along the Mt Scott road. Leading to
it are some of the best roadfe in the
county at present: and it also pro
vides the shortest amount of new
roadway that will have to be built
"There are many alternative
routes through Portland to Gray's
Crossing, all of them now hard sur
face for practicably their entire dis
Itance. Such routes would giv the
Slams Dimick, the Live Wires and
The Pacific Highway
In readme: of what the Live Wires
have to say about road building, it
makes a fellow think a few new
things that comes under the head of
a taxpayer's duty. One of the duties
of a taxpayer, I think, is to write his
opinion and send it in to the paper,
on road building and to read other
opinions of Live Wires and lawyers.
We must take note that they are
talking for Oregon City and them
selves. Yes, we know that all lawyers
talk for themselves and their pocket
books, even when they talk on build
ing roads.
Let us see about these road over
seers. Let us say that we have 4 or
6 overseers appointed in each coun
ty. That means 4 or 6 more salaried
men in the county; a little more po-l
litical graft.
Judge Dimick says that the ap
pointed road supervisors have no
knowledge of practical road building.
He compares the work being done,to
Pendleton road engineering. Well, it
is a great comparison for sure, but
he doesn't stop to compare the am
ount of rain at Pendleton as in Clack
amas county, and I giess most any
of the 69 road supervisors would see
iarxner than that.
I don't think any practical road
builder would trv to use the cm mo
system of road building in crossing
a siougn as ne would in going over a
hill, and we have both in Clackamas
county. Lots of farmers
good roads if they have $5,000, but
" realize mat they cannot
have that kinds of roads all over,
and also realize that lots" of rural
mail carriers would be well pleased
if they just had an old rancher's rnnH
to travel instead of taking the mud
for it, he had a punchem road by his
placa so that he could get rural mail
service.
Mr. Dimick says that $400,000 ex
pended in four years and poor re
sults to show for it. I suspect that
if every cent had been spent around
Oregon City the rest of the county
could go to .
Our District No. 21 has had some
thing like $7,000 expended in the last
4 years and we think we are pro
gressing nicely in roads, but I must
say that over half of the $7,000 ex
pended has been' special road tax.
Some of the Live Wires say that
there are too many small districts. I
think there are too many large dis
tricts where the work is all done for
the money and not for the road and
as a result of the
located on one side of the district
and not being interested on the far
ther side of the same district, and
so, consequently, they have good
enough roads on their side of the dis
trict If the other side should want
w vote a special tax the supervisor
ana nis inenas could vote it down.
uiauiita siiuuiu ue aiviapii Krt
mat an oi the tax payers would be
interested in the whole district
Just one remark on the Pacific
Highway. It is a great idea, but I
think we should let them build it
who will use it, and everyone should
not have to chip in. I would not care
to help a farmer over in Eastern Ore
gon put in his crops, at least not
when mine were not yet in. I don't
believe in helping to build a long
auto road as long as I haven't an
auto myself.. If f had the auto, I
wpuld first want a decent road to
reach the main road.
W. S. Gorbett
Where is the Authority?
Editor Courier
Noticing in your paper of Janu
ary 22nd an article on "Music in Eu
rope and America."
I would like to know where the
writer gets his authority for saying
that America is more advanced in
the world of music than Europe.
We acknowledge that the Metro
politan Opera House of New York
City is one of the finest if not the
finest of its kind in the world. But I
would like to know where we gtt the
talent for such places. We certainly
have to acknowledge that its to Eu
rope that we have to go for that,
i Furthermore, I would like to know
where we could produce choirs to
equal those that tour this country
yearly from Europe.
We may have the best of rag-time,
but when it comes to classical music
we are compelled to take a back seat.
J .Price.
VIOLA
A large number attended the fu
neral of II. P. Mattoon Friday, Jan
uary 23.
Professor Hawley is teaching a
very successful school pf twenty
eight pupils.
Ed Miller, who has been ill for
some time, is improving.
D. C. Fouts and sons have been
doing some fine work of late with
their Feeder Hay-Baler. Mr. Fouts
stayed faithfully to the job and was
amply rewarded at the end of one
week with five nice bales of hay.
Clarence Ray, who was reported ill
of rheumatism, is better.
The Misses Christina and Janet
Graham are home from Estacada,
where they have been attending High
School.
Mrs. William Young has been ill
lately, but is now able to be out.
E. T. Bateson is contemplating a
trip to Portland in "the near future,
with a load of fat hogs.
F. E. Cockerline, Viola's successful
poultry man, has given up black
smithing and is aiming to devote
more of his time to his poultry.
Jim Seivere and the Coop brothers
are grubbing on J: E. Lacroy's farm. .
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