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OREGON CITY COURIER,.. THURSDAY, APRIL 2.
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Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J BR.OWN,
EDITOR
. The State Board of Health is some
power, but there is a greater.
There may be a few wrong diag
noses and a few wrong surgical op
erations brought to light now.
An effort is now under way in
congress to cut out the "mileage
craft bill." Watch it get the blue
pencil. ,
What has become of the old-fash
ioned industrial plant that was go
incr to move across the Canadian bor
der if the tariff was reduced? Chi
cago News.
Dr. Smith, Democratic candidate
for governor, sees the way the wind
is blowing, and he hastens to resign
from the state board of health. The
Doctor is a good observer and a keen
smeller.
In the year ending with September
New York state collected over twelve
million dollars in taxes on inherl
tances. And yet the Oregonian tells
its readers if a graduated tax was
imposed on estates in Oregon it
would drive out our rich men.
They say the Oregonian is soon to
jump onto the famous Milwaukie
Tavern and endeavor to close up this
noted resort that has for years run
despite almost everybody and every
official. The Oregonian will be sev
eral years late, but the people will
endorse its efforts, even if the real
object is more to get West than the
tavern.
California workmen realize where
wages will drop to when Europe un
loads a hundred thousand or so emi
grants per quarter, and an initiative
bill is in circulation providing for a
minimum wage of $2.00 per day for
adults and $1.50 per day for those
under 18 years.
One hundred thousand dollars to
"investigate" general trade condit
ions," (want a job?) $75,000 to "de
velope foreign trade," (another pie
counter) $50,000 to "inquire into pro
duction costs" (high priced question
ing) and $50,000 to promote South
American commerce (another vacat
ion trip for congressmen.) These
are tail-end items in the $30,000,000
government appropriation bill.
Every dollar of the taxpayers'
money wasted is a dollar that yoii
have labored hard to earn. It means
consequently, so many hours of hard
work by those who labor for their
daily bread. If those who wasted it
put their hands into the pockets of
their victims and helped themselves
to it, the result would be the same, so
far as the owners of the money are
concerned.
PERVERTED MINDS
At a recent meeting of the city
fathers Councilman Templeton de
livered himself of some brief remarks
relative to the "perverted minds" of
newspaper reporters, and expressed
the opinion that newswriters who
printed "graft charges that might in
any way relate to the council should
be excluded trom that Doay s sea-
sions. At the same meetme Council
man Tooze, referring to exactly the
same thing, said that it was the un
rtnnhted dutv of the Dress as a work
er for the public wellfare, to expose
imy form of corruption or suspected
corruption in high places,
The history of the past hundred
years will sow that whenever there
has been an unbridled press there
has been a lessening of corruption
and graft, for the crook rears noth
ing so much as publicity, in very
recent times, right near home, news
paper publicity has bean the means
of cleaning up the questionable con
ditions and general unclean mess
that prevailed in the Oresron Naval
Reserve. Legislative "irregularity"
in Oregon and Washington has been
lessened through the efforts or i
wide awake Dress, and even the fay-
orite passtime of "log-rolling" hag
been discouraged by advance news oif
such arrangements published in the
papers of the state.
It would appear, tnen mac mr,
Tooze has been a closer student of
everv dav affairs than has Mr.
Templeton. Mr. Tooze probably has
observed that any "perversion" of
the newspaper reporter's mind has
really been only a desire to set facts
ueiore tne puouc mat certain inter
ests would much preferred to have
concealed. As a public official Mr,
Tooze has doubtless noted that vir
ion and ntrhteousncss are never
afraid of the white light of publicity;
and that those things which prefer
the gloom of kind forgetfulness on
the part of the press are not the
most desirable things for the public
good.
'in view or tnis, lr tnese conclus
ions are correct, it would De inter
esting to have Mr. Templeton explain
to his constituents, and to an inter
ested public, why it is that he would
have inquiring and wide awaKe news
paper reporters excluded irom me
council chamber. Is there anything
there that Mr. Templeton knows
about that will not bear the scrutiny
of a reporter with a mind "pervert
ed" solely with a desire to print the
truth as he sees it? Is there some
thing that Mr. Templeton would like
to have concealed from the public?
If not, why his remarks?
HOW ABOUT IT?
RIGHT THE WRONG
Governor West is behind an initi
ative bill that will be presented to
the voters this fall giving the gov
ernor power to remove from office
sheriffs, district attorneys, or con
. stables who refuse or fail to perform
their duties, or refuse to co-operate
with him in the enforcement of the
laws. As it is now, and as it has
been at Copperfield, the governor
has to make formal charges before
the courts and submit to their de
lays. Since Judge Anderson appointed
Dr. van Brakle as county health of
ficer, over seven months ago, the
state board of health has refused to
recognize him, therefore so far as
Clackamas county kocs there haa
not been any state board of health.
Have you noted any difference .'
Hasn't the county jogged along just
as well and haven't health conditions
been just as good and even better
than when the state board spread its
political wings over us? If we can
get along for eight months without
the aid of the Btate board, wonder
why we can't get along for eighteen
months?
The market page of a Port
land paper of recent issue con
tains reference to further ship
ments of onions from Spain bo
ing reported in the local mar
ket. Another item is that "a
shipment of 50 cars of onions is
due from Australia in San
Francisco within a week." Our
onion growers cannot be expect
ed to feel extremely grateful to
those representatives who voted
for that tariff bill. Woodburn
(Independent.
But our onion eaters can. There
are ever two sides to a proposition
and tho greatest good to the great
est number should win out. But
where is tho Oregon onion grower
that is not satisfied with $1 per
sack?
It's a dead wrong legal system
that makes it a crime for a man to
sell a drink of booze in Oregon City,
but makes the same transaction as
lciral as contributing a dime to the
church collection in Portland.
But it (local option) seems to be
the only way to work up a sentiment
and. make a showing for state-wide
liquor abolishment.
There is many a man who will
vote for state-wide prohibition who
has voted against local option, for
reasons given above.
With the great and growing senti
mtnt against liquor, and with the
women now having the ballot, it
looks as if Oregon would become a
dry state next year.
There is nothing good that ever
enme out of the booze firame. It's al
ways the player's lose out the three
shell game. .
There is no reason to have saloons.
No good ever conies from them. The
whole damnable road from making to
drmkinir is strewn with misery.
Let's push 'cm out of Oregon next
November.
i & , & v J J J J J
At the hearing of the charges
against County Health Officer J. A.
van Brakle Tuesday evening regular
physicians of this city admitted un
der oath that they had sent one man
suffering from typhoid fever to Dr.
van Brakle's office, and another suf
fering from dphthena. They had
diagnosed these cases before they
sent them to Dr. van Brakle, and
they were reasonably sure that the
men had contagious disease.
They sent them to Dr. van Brakle's
private office without telling him that
they were a walking menace to whom
soever they might meet. They sent
them into a public building, and in
to a waiting room where they could
freely mingle with passerbys and
other patients of Dr. van Brakle.
They either deliberately or thought
lessly sent men with communicable
disease out into the city crowds, when
every law and every teaching pro
vided that these two men should
have at once been sent home and
placed under quarantine.
There was no need of sending these
two men out, thus to endanger the
health of those with whom they
mingled. If all that was desired was
to have Dr. van Brakle see these
cases, he could have been summoned
to the office of the physician who
first discovered the nature of the
disease with which they were suffer
ing Just as other doctors were sum
moned there to examine them. The
dispatching of these men to Dr. van
Brakle'8 office thus needlessly, and
without warning Dr. van Brakle that
they were coming and bringing with
them germs of contagious disease, so
that he could clear his office of per
sons who might have happened to be
there, was an act of wantoness that
should not go unpunished. Espeo
ially is it so when it was done by
physicians of experience and of con
siderable standing in their proles
sion,
It was just about as nice a trick
as was the sending by early New
England colonists of a man suffer
ing with smallpox into the camp of
the Fequot Iindians. ihe colonists
did it deliberately with the intent to
spread the disease among the sav
ages. . Why did the doctors here send
these two men with known commun
icable disease to the office of a man
whom they refused to recognize or
support as county health officer?
How about it 7
WAS IT "FRAME UP?"
Evidence in the van Brakle case
showed that almost every doctor in
the city was in waiting for the pa
tient to return from Dr. van Brakle's
office where they had sent him.
How strange, how very unusual
that all of these doctors should "just
HOLLISTER
"If the people of this congression
al district only could know Ferd Hol
lister as I know him, there would be
no question of his nomination or el
ection to congress."
ine above is a paragraph in a
WOULD BE INTERESTING
An Oregon City man stated to the
Courier he was going to wait until
after April 1, then tender his full
taxes to the collector with six per
cent Interest, and let him do what he
would about the matter.
"And I would like to see the court
or jury that would make me pay
more; I would like to see the court
or jury that will make me pay Clack
amas county 12 per cent interest
when I have to accept Clackamas
county warrants at 6 per cent," pro
tested this taxpayer.
And the Courier would like to see
the 'JURY that would force this man
to pay usury interest rates to the
county and yet ask him to take
county warrants at half the interest
rate.'
mere is notnincr rair aDout tne
present? tax law, and unless the com
ing legislature kills this tax commis
sions's pet, the people will take it in
hand,
PERPLEXED PORTLAND
I am opposed to the licens
ed saloon and liquor traffic,
i Every town that sells a sa
loon license thereby becomes
, a partner in the profits of the
i saloon business. No other
. revenue costs the taxpayer so
M much as the share they get of
tho profits of the liquor traf
fic. Durinir all the time I
have been working with others M
in the movement for laws to
increase the people's power "
. in Oregon, the saloon interest
has been one of the most per-
A sistent opponents of any and
every proposed improvement
in government. W. S. U'Ren.
t i . ! J J . J J
Itch! Itch! Itch! ScritchJ Scratch
Scratch! Tho more you scratch, the
worse tho itch. Try Doan's Oint
ment. For eczema, any skin itching.
50c a box.
Decision of the state supreme
court that anexation of Lents, Ken
ton and other suburbs to Portland
was illegal, because only the outside
towns voted on the question, where
as Portland voters should also have
voted on the matter, is going to
raise complex excitement in the
chief city of the state. The commis
sion form of government and the
present administration was elected
by the voters in the outlying terri
tory, Portland proper voting against
it by some l,bl)U majority. " Presently
there will be a tax-payers suit start
ed to restrain Albee and the commis
sioners from doing anything, and if
the beans are spilled the commission
form will be declared ousted, Rush
light will resume as mayor and the
old council will take up its duties.
Also bonds and other things will be
nullified. Big business is straining
every effort to prevent such a calam
ity.
DOCTOR'S MISTAKES
Roger W. Babson of Wellesly,
Mass., has been getting his name in
tne Dig papers right along.
And each time in better position
and with more stories on the head
lines. He's a statician with a splendid
nose. And he pokes that beak in
where the fellows don't want him to.
The doctors call him an "icono
clast," "meddler" and "agitator."
Don't blame them.
Babson has been digging up med
ical statistics, laying bare doctor's
mistakes, and the New York Sun
publishes his figures.
Babson got it into his head that
there was more poor guess work
than good diagnosis in cases that
went under the knife, so he went
in to find out the proportion. He
took the statistics of the hospitals in
Massachusetts, 2,500 post mortem
examinations, covering seven years,
compared them with the history
blank filled out when the patient en
tered the hospital and the death cer
tificate. And he found
The doctors were right 230 times.
And were wrong 361 times, out of
591 cases.
OVER GO PER CENT WRONG
GUESSING.
Which reminds the Courier editor
of a joke he heard in Portland the
other day.
A funeral procession went down
the street. Two men were watching
the erection of a building and as the
hearse went by one said:
"There goes another one of the
doctors' mistakes."
happen" not to be busv on these two personal letter received from a res-
days, and every one ready to respond ident of Coos county by the editor.
io me- can to come to ur. strick- And tne editor nas every reason
lands ottice at the same hour both
days.
Significantly singular! Very unus
ual! Business must have been on
the bum on these - two "particular"
occasions, wnen two men had been
sent to van Brakle s office.
singular again, more than "pass
ing strange" is the fact that while
the charges against Dr. van Brakle
grew out or happenings of many
montns oetore, some back to Ucto
ber last, yet they were only brought
to a hearing on the last day of the
following March just three days
oeiore a suit before Judge Campbell
to nave ur. van Jtsrakie ousted.
Do you suppose the doctors were
so very busy that they had not time
to bring these charges before?
Or did they hold them all these
montns waiting for Tuesday night?
Were these occassions "happen
stances" or were they American Med
ical Association politics?
Were these actions on the part of
tne physicians or uregon City for the
good of the people or the goat of Dr.
van -.Brakle an osteopath 7
Are these physicians fighting for
the health of the people or fighting
against a competition they fear
the drugless doctors?
these suspicious circumstances
would not be tolerated in political
parties for thirty days. The people
would rise up and break up the ma
chine.
And it is not far off when people
of Oregon will rise up and abolish
the laws which give the A. M. A,
the power they have to oppose the
power to try a competitior by a jury
or tnose in competition.
to believe the writer is right.
Mr. Hollister has unquestioned
ability. He is a splendid lawyer and
successful business man. He is a
thinker, a man who takes the initia
tive, and a man who succeeds.
Clackamas county Democrats will
no doubt come down the line solidlv
for Mr. Hollister at the primaries,
for if he is nominated next month
he is the size of a man who can pry
Mr. Hawley loose from this district
and break up the half breed .Republican-Democratic
combination that has
greased the way to keep Mr. Hawley
on a job that he is not big enough
for.
Hollister is a progressive. He will
do things. He will represent Oregon,
instead of Massachusetts, and west
ern uregon will have a man in Wash
tngton to work with our two live
wire senators.
The way to beat Hawlev
nominate Hollister.
ow to Detect the
Alum Baking Powder
"Which are the alum baking powders',
how can I avoid them unless they are named?"
asks a housekeeper.
Here is one way: take the can of a low
priced powder in your hand and read the
ingredient clause upon the back label. The
law requires that if the powder contains alum
that fact must be there stated. If you find
one of the ingredients named alum, or sul
phate of aluminum, you have found an alum
Dating powdet
There is another and a better way. You
don't have to know the names of the alum
powders. Use Royal Baking Powder only;
that assures you a cream of tartar powder,
and the purest and most healthful baking
powder beyond question.
is to
Trapped.
His Wife 1 met our maid Anna just
now on the street and she pretended
not to gee me.
Her Uusband-You ought to point
out to Anna the Impropriety of such
conduct.
His Wife But how can I? You see.
she had another girl with ber, and It
was quite evident she didn't want ber
friend to know she was working for a
woman who wore n two dollar and a
hal' hat-New York Post.
A Divided Village.
In ;he readjustment of boundaries
after (he Franco-Prussian war the lit
tle vlllnge of La Schlucht was divided
between the two nations. France and
Germany meet In the middle of the
hinlii street, mid an the boundary Hue
follows a sldiitiiiK course it Is possible
for a French and a German soldier to
pose for a joint photograph, each re
maining wlthlu his own territory.
Accidents will happen, but the
best regulated families keep Dr.
Thomas' Eclectic Oil for such emer
gencies. Two sizes 25 and 50c at ail
stores.
STYLE IN OLD ST. LOUIS.
Dress of the Men and Women There In
Colonial Times.
Monette In his history of the valley
of the Mississippi tells of the habit of
dress which prevailed in St. Louis in
colonial days. Here is what he has to
say:
"The leggings were of coarse linen In
summer, and of deerskin in winter.
The principal garment for the men In
cold weather Was uenerally a coarse
blanket capote drawn over the shirt
and long vest. The capote served the
double purpose of cloak aud bat for
the hood attached to the collar behind
hung upon the back and shoulders as
a cape, and when desired It served to
cover the whole head, and especially
among the boatmen, voyageurs and
courseurs de bols the head was envel
oped in a blue handkerchief, turban
like, as a protection from the solar
heat and noxious Insects.
"The same material, of lighter qual
ity and fancy ' colors, wreathed with
bright colored ribbons and sometimes
Bowers, formed the fancy headdress of
the females on festive occasions. At
other times tbey also used the hand
kerchief in the more patriarchal style.
"The dress of the matrons was sim
ple and plain. The old fashioned short
jacket and petticoat, varied to suit the
diversities of taste, was the common
overdress of the women. The feet In
winter were protected by Indian moc
assins or the more unwieldy clog shoe,
but in summer and in dry weather the
foot was left uncovered and free ex
cept on festive occasions and holidays,
when It was adorned with the light
moccasin, gorgeously ornamented with
brilliants of porcupine quills, shells,
beads or lace Ingeniously , wrought over
the front instead of buckles and on the
side flaps." St. Louis Times.
As She Caught It.
The use of the telephone frequently
results In some very funny mistakes.
Prior to a meeting of the State Fed
eration of Women's Clubs In Chicago
a young wouiuu wns asked over the
telephone If she would take two dele
gates to the convention. She agreed
to do so. mid on the' day appointed
showed up at the hull with two Jelly
cakes. Bustuu Trn nscrl pt.
Circular Evolution.
"Jim" en-uud boy.
".Inmes"-olIli'e boy.
"Brown" clerk.
"Mr. Brown"-head clerk.
"Rrowif-jnnior member of the firm.
"Jiiines" siin-lii-liiw of head of Arm.
"Jliu"-heiid nf the tirui aud power
on the street.-Ufe.
The Courier $1.00 a year.
Spring Laxative and Blood Cleanser
Flush out the accumulated waste
and poisons of the winter months;
cleans your stomach, liver a ad kid
neys of all impurities. Take Dr.
King's New Life Pills; nothing bet
ter for purifyfing the blood. Mild,
non-griping laxative. Cures con
stipation; makes you feel fine. Take
no other. 25c, at your Druggist.
jaj' Ii3y' Seeds re no! an eipfiineiit iSjf
KJ they are lefrcd in ourlaboralary end Jjf
Ejf trial a 'l"hcy are ipi-cMy jW
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fjf The Chas. H. Lilly Co., Seattljjf
A "WET" TIME MONDAY
ARE YOUR DEEDS
AND PAPERS SAFE?
The old saying about, "locking the barn
after the horse is stolen" applies well to
people who keep their valuable papers
where they may be burned or stolen.
We have instalK
icii.
pense, a system of
our line lire and
which may be uset
pense; by our customers
their papers safe. lietter
sorry.
at considerable ex
document boxes in
uirglar proof vault,
(at a nominal ex-
for keeping
be safe than
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
As the Courier gets it some
thing is going to break in booze
circles pretty soon and we will fix
that date on April 10.
They say there are all kinds or
trouble among the big "wets" in
Portland because time has been wast
ed in giving the "drys" an unoppos
ed field to get in their st.itewide
"dry" work, and that Mond.v of
this week there wns an all-afteniom
conference of the Retail Liquor Deal
ers Association, the brewers tind
others at which time Mr. Kelly, head
of the retailers, and Paul Wessinger,
of tho Weinhnrd Brewing Co , s-nU
some real naughty and shocking
things to each other, and tho con
ference was not anything along the
program of a. .mothers meeting.
And the result, so the Courier
wireless states, is that the Oregon
Home Rule League is going to get
into the running, just as soon as
tho wheels and gears can be polish
ed and greased, and locals in every
precinct are going to start some
thing. "And we are going to spring a
surprise on April -0," added one of
the men.
Dr. van Brakle has been the best
county health officer Clackamas
county has ever had. He has been
too good for the A. M. A., and now
the State Board of Health is expec
ted to fire him.
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Circulation Ovei 2H00
I, M. J. Brown, editor of .
the Oregon City Courier, do
affirm that the average week- M
ly circulation of the paper for .
the past 12 months has been
2650 copies, printed and cir
culated from the Courier of- .
fice in the usual manner.
M. J. Brown.
Subscribed and sworn to .
fore me this 24th day of
March, 1914. .
Gilbert L. Hedges, .
Notary Public for Oregon.
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M J . Jt - . !
The Courior and tho twice-a-week
Portland Journal, three papers each
week for $1.75 is some bargain.
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