OREGON CITY COURIER, THURSDAY APRIL 9, 1914.
OREGON CITY COURIER
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Official Paper for the Farmers Society of Equity of Clackamas Co
M. J BR.OWN,
EDITOR
Here's betting the M. D's wish I mers' store, carrying about every
they had left Dr. van Brakle alone.
Illinois is goniB my. "nj . i j "1 t i ;
the counties are notv in line, many I city and have stood it for a long
n . l ..: I tima
of them embracing cities.
Judge Galloway has filed for the City skinned when it comes to mar-
bench. But lust wait un
til the prohibitionists get througn
with Judge Galloway. Banks Herald.
The farmers are getting "up on
themselves" these days. They are
coming into power through organi
zation and co-operation, and some oi
mi r i n...,uu . tViaaa Invs thpv will do for them-
j.ne oiii.a ooara vi "cmui u.0- .r'r, . . i ,,. j ;
ml a corf Hn. van Rraltle case on. the selves it this city doesn l ao n ior
ornnnd that, van lirak e is an l leirai mem, "u uu
appointee, r.r.d that, they do not rec
ognize him. They have chungcj
their minds since March 31, Then
they heard the evidence on the
charge of incompetency.
clucing train service iu icuuvt tv
WooV nftor wpnV the Courier is nnmn hoctinae freiirht rates are not
4:il.J ...UU nn varinnc KIlVl- :.lu nn.w.V. fUA n.nvniun nrnnt;5
men letters that mane reauers
think, and on subjects that bring out
discussion. Some have called them
as letters from the "Radical Squad,"
but in these days nearly every man
is a Radical along some subjects.
What stronger argument could be
made for prohibition of liquor than
the sweeping order by the secretary
of the navy that after July 1 liquors
of all kinds will be prohibited from
every vessel in- the United States
navy and from every naval station.
, If booze is bad for United States em
ployees, it is bad for any employed
No good ever resulted from its use
and no good ever will result. It has
caused more sorrow, more crimes,,
more remorse and ruined more hom
es than anything else in this contin
ent. Oregon is going to abolish it
next November.
WHEN YOU'VE HAD A-PLENTY
Candidates for governor come and
go. -
For years and years they have
bobbed up, made the same old prom
ises, been elected and then double
crossed the voters who have made
them.
Then, side-stepped by dumping the
unkept promises and responsibility
onto the elgislature.
Did you ever stop to think i that
the veto gives any governor the
power to make his pledges good? .
We wouldn't have had these for
ty tax-sucking boards and commis
sions unless tho governors of the
past had permitted them to be born.
Relief for Oregon isn't in the can
didates' promises, but in the candi
dates themselves.
There are fifteen candidates for
governor today, and each man has
about fifteen promises.
Take them down the line. How
many will make the promise and dec
laration good i
nnv nhanira if olppf.Pfl
" There is one man the Courier hon
estly believes would make some de
cided changes in Oregon's form of
government if elected governor.
The man is W. S. U'Ren.
The Courier believes he would cut
to the bone in state expenses and
would bring about a condition where
by a public employee would have to
give equal service of a private em
ployee for the salary, paid him.
When you voters nave been prod
ded until you won't stand it any
longer, try getting away from the
old party candidates, old methods
and try the administration of a man
who you are bound to acknowledge
has done much for Oregon and given
you a power, when you learn to use
it, through which you can give this
state a model and economical gov
ernment. When you get enough of what you
a regetting try U'Uon.
WON'T WE SEE IT?
that ,
We must take from those
have that which they
oUn.iii nnf Vinv And cive in
equal opportunity to those who
have not.
Tom Burns didn't say the above
in a street talk.
A soap box orator didn t preach
this from the streets of Portland.
An Anarchist didn't throw this
bomb at "American industries."
A street Socialist didn't make
those statements. , , ,
. , ,. ... . , fiecreiaiy iveiuieiu ui ico.u..,v
Tlild TinnPI- Hni.n t llK6 tO DO COn- ..... ..!.!,. IA nrnrda in
... . .inn I'll I1IIUL HtlHl WICOG rvif ...
tmually bringing up the matter or Povtlnnd the other day.
providing better markets lor the Gove,.nment ownership of mines,
farmers of this part of the counuy, f t ri(lg rniir0nds, telegraphs, etc..
because, you know, a certain squad . ownership of the means of
set up the erythat the comments v stributing wealth,
breed hard feeling! between the P.V,,,, f ,.om tnose that have and
county and city. I si10id not have and give in equal
But the men who make and apply f U vthoae tt have not
such constructions are too short , opt u X f fc dock brings
s ghted to see across tho street. , ,,,: ' Brar The povern-
.,( nrniw.aiti.m for the exDense in-! pon-i.e of the many. ... .
E vp,f ifii our rnioDle could put The parcels post taues nunu.
thing, and a warehouse proposition
for uroduce.
Farmers get a raw deal in this
himp
Molalla and Canby have
Oregon
FINE!
In an editorial comment on the
fact that eastern railroads are re
ducing train service to reduce ex
nuea witn leuteia vu vanuuo omw - nign enougn, -wie uicguiiia" piww
jects by the public. The most of thls strong line of reasoning for in-
t.Unt- v..Va faaflavo if
If thpv wpr nermitted to ;
raise freight rates, they could
buy material for improvements
and could make improvements.
Thus they would decrease the
number of unemployed by giv
ing work to the mills and by
hiring more men themselves.
This would create more traffic,
which would employ more train
men, who would) buy !more
goods and thus create more
trade for the factories and more
traffic for the railroads,
Fine! "This is the dog that caught
the cat that ate the rat," etc.
The railroads will raise rates,
which will increase prices, and
which will cause a demand for high
er wages by the trainmen who oper
ate the trains which have raised the
ra.Then the railroads will want anoth
er raise, because wages have been
raised to meet the rise of necessities
caused by increase in freight rates.
Splendid! Grant it again.
Then will come the mills, factor
ies asking for raises in prices of pro
ducts, and workmen asking for a
corresponding raise.
Let 'em have it. Raise and raise
again. Let the manufacturer and
producer get any price they want,
and let the workmen and consumers
demand any wages they want, until
a fellow will have to take a wheel
barrow load of silver dollars to buy
a pound of eoda crackers.
This idea of the Oregoman is fine
if applied to a circle, where every
man passed it on.
But when you come to a line, the
fellow down at the end can't pass It
' "'And there are too many lines and
ton many at the ends of the lines.
COMING
mi innnnnnnn nt im
ration gooa i meio mc j.u,u,v.w- --
Mighty few of them would make P jn America, and I rather expect
lw. ta nnnnt.rv WAS made for
the whole and not for a part of
us. , ,
We can't afford to have fac
tories in which we have a hap
py and prosperous group at
the top and a suffering and mis
erable group at the bottom out
in the shops.
A nation is not well-to-do on
an average basis if that average
is midway between two terrible
extremes.
Now get this let it soak in.
If the city doesn't provide a mean
to take care of the stuff the far
mers bring in, one of two things is
going to happen, and perhaps fwo of
two things.
You will seo a public market es
tablished in this city by the farmers
themselves.
Or you will seo a co-operative far-
of thousands of profits from the ex
press companies and gives it to the
the peoplo.
Hood for the people Isn't it?
The Alaskan railroad is another
stop. , .
Tho rannma Canal was a great
demonstration of what the govern
Government ownership has started
ml it won t stop
Psychology cf. Saving
"Psychology" is a Hi; word and it stands for a big
thing, but the "psy. Imlogy of Biiving" is a simple
mailer. it. nuaiiN just t his besides the actual
amount of mon.-y i". nccumulnte by systematic
saving, you (jt t vi vy valuable mental effects. The
mind has a j,rent nili ience over the body. Sav
ing makes yon think success thoughts. It creates
in you a desnv to get ahead, and desire is the first
step toward attainment. Saving frees you from
worry about the present, and from anxiety for
the future. Therefore, the psychology effort of
saving is that you arc enabled to give your whole
attention and best efforts to your work. In short
when you save regularly, you can do better work
and more of it. Start Now.
The Bank of Oregon City
OLDEST BANK IN CLACKAMAS COUNTY
Pathetic "Inside Tale" is Revealed
Regarding State "Sentinent"
This is a little story of real life.
It is a sad story, but it may explain
the failure of a bright scheme if the
right man reads it. . .
Last week a certain Portland man
who has announced his candidacy for
the Republican nomination for gov
ernor summoned to his "headquar
ters" a well-known political "fence
builder," and gave him a trunk load
of cards. ' i
"Frank," said he, "I want yo to
take a canvass of the western part oi
the state for me and see what my
chances are. While you are travel
ling around tack these cards up. 1
can't give you very much money, but
if I don't give you enough, wire me
for more. Only hold your expenses
down, for money is tight and the cor.
rupt practices act is strict."
Thereupon he handed the fence
builder an envelope, presumed to
contain expenses for the trip. The
fence-builder took the envelope and
the bundle of cards and went out of
the office. When 'safely away 'he
opened the envelope, and found in it
a new five-dollar bill.
He eazed unon it with interest,
and then folded it neatly and put it
in his pocket. Following this he
snent three hours burning the bundle
of cards in his pocket. Early this
week he reappeared in the candi
date's headquarters, looked the can
didnted squarely in th eye, and
said:
"Gus, I have thorouehly reviewed
the situation, and I think your chanc
es are rotten," -
ABOUT THIS TIME
Comes now and is at hand that
season of the year when the fancy of
vouth lightly turns to thoughts of
light clothes, new hats and balbrig
gan underwear, when the usual crop
of candidates prepares to erupt in
its most violent force, when the let
tuce seeds we planted appear above
the surface of the soil as miniature
thistles, and when poets are inspir
ed with rhymes with "spring" and
"bring" and "ring." This Is also
the most dangerous season of the
year to go afield, for the industrious
ant has wings and endeavors to fly
with a grace it never can master, us
ually ending disastrously in the eye
of the nature-lover. Aside from
that the flowers have pistils, the
bullrush is out and the trees are
shooting. (Note: the foregoing is a
joke, the point of which is to be not
ed by 'reading the sentence just pre
ceding out loud.)
In other words, Spring is at hand,
and mankind begins to feel the an
nual unrest that culminates Jn sum
mer life in a tent, with all its Incon
veniences. Spring is mostly felt In
cities, where the sedentary folk note
the cessation of rain and the reap
pearance of the blue firmament. In
' he country Nature has so ordained it
that peopie are usually too busy
vith plowing, harrowing and plant
ing to note the more distressing
svmptons of the season. But to the
citv man' this is a time of mourning
nrd sadness. The office man medi
tates on fishing and neglects his bus
iness the merchant draws from the
cellar last year's lace curtains and
displays them in the window as "cool
summer goods;" the laborer moves
slowly from task to task, gazes at
Mie green trees and wishes he had
in automobile; the banker gives the
first preliminary shiver as he thinks
what his wife's summer vacation will
Mat. him.
Among the fairer sex, this is the
time of the year when the matron
-razes fondly at the mail-order cata
logue and wonders whether or not
she can get into a "cute Parisian
bathing toque" (whatever that its),
when the spinster of uncertain years
convinces herself that lawn with in
sertion stripping is not immodest for
i waist, and when the sweet maiden
ceases wearing a hat and announces
to her parents that "all the girls are
going to the mountains this year and
I want to go too." Spring is the
rreat Season 'of change, of breaking
away from the old, and of new and
extravagant ideas.
(Note No. 2: This is a "timely"
editorial. Every well organized pa
per ought to have one like this, Just
as it ought to have editorials on
Washington and Lincoln during Feb
bruary. Incidentally these lines
were inspired by observing that the
lime in the mortar used In the erec
tion of Oregon City's new postoffice
is working out through the walls,
causing the building to bloom as with
a faint frost. Thoughts of "bloom"
load to thoughts of "spring" so
why explain further?)
GUY T. HUNT
Garfield Candidate for House and
What he will Work For
Guy T. Hunt, of Garfield, who re
cently filed his .petition for tho Re
publican nomination for Representa
tive in the state legislature, was ask
to become a candidate by hundreds
of people livinti in his own section of
the county, where he is best known.
In reply to the petition, Mr. Hunt la
sued the following statement:
"I will use every .honorable effort
l ' V-, 1
- It r I
in support of any measure that I
feel is for the best interest of the
people of this county and the state at
large, regardless of origin.
"We need fewer and better laws.
We are spending too much money
yearly in our county and state affairs
for the results obtained.
"The Oregon Code as regards
roads and highways needs thorough
revision. , .
"Laws regarding schools, taxes and
labor should have careful and thot
ful consideration. If nominated and
elected I will use every effort to the
md that when my work is done, you
will feel that your confidence and
judgement was not betrayed, and'
that you can irutniuny ana wuungiy
say 'well done." ,
DEFENDS MRS. EDDY
Mr. Seeley'a Reply to Attack on
Christian Science Founder
Portland, Ore. April 7, 1914.
Editor Courier:
It is not surprising to learn that
Rev. Milliken believes that he has
proved all of his claims against
Christian Science and that nothing
now remains but to watch it disap
pear. It is well indeed for Christian
Science that the world is little moved
by one man's personal opinion on
questions of such importance, espec
ially when the opinion is conceived in
the cloister of secular prejudice and
noisterea up with such gross mis
statements that their untruth can
readily be determined by any fair
minded investigator.
Theological dogma and ecclesiasti
cal custom rebel against aught that
disturbs their self-satisfied content
ment, even though that which is of
fered would bring moral and spiri
tual betterment. An orthodox' cler
gyman writing in one of America's
ieading monthlies, has recently given
the gist of the whole matter. "Men
do not condemn a movement," ha
says, "unless they feel its influence
penterating their prejudices and false
positions and awakening them to un
welcome truth. The church has de
nounced and persecuted whatever has
not accorded with its inherited tra
ditions and formulated beliefs." '
The lash of persecution endured by
Jesus at the hands of the Pharisees
has had its ' counterpart in every
great religious reformation the
world has ever seen. Luther, Cal
vin and Wesley endured the world's
condemnation as the price of drawing
a step nearer to an understanding of
the Christ. In this age the God
loving woman who was courageous
enough to face the combined forces
of established creeds in order to
show mankind the way to that practi
cal Christianity taught by the Naz
arend, has been spared nothing by
her prsecutors. With the spirit of
forgiveness which characterized ' her
whole life, when reviled she reviled
not again; knowing that her life work
for the cause of humanity will when
its full import becomes recognized,
be the fullest answer to those- who
slander and malign her. The life of
Mary Baker Eddy has been correct
ly recorded in book form by Sibyl
Wilbur. A copy of this biograph is
in almost every public library.
A few of the many mistakes madt
by Rev. Milliken can be briefly ans
wered here. None of them are new
and all of them have been many tim
es disproved that their further repe
tition challenges the good faith of
the one employing them. '
Mrs. Eddy was born of highly re
spected and well-to-do parents in
the farming community of Bow, N.
H As a child she manifested a deep
ly religious nature and early become
affiliated . with the Congregational
church at Tilton, N. H., near her
home. The pastor was one of her
instructors. In speaking of Mrs.
Eddy's unusual mental endowment he
said: "I never had a pupil with such
depth and independence of thought.
She has some great future, mark
that. She is an intellectual and spir
itual genius."
In 1843 Mary Baker was married
to Major Glover, at her father's
home in Bow, leaving soon after for
Charleston, S C, where her husband's
business, as a contractor, was locat
ed. Within the year Maior Glover,
while in Wilmington, N. C, on bus
iness, was taken ill with fever and
died.. The funeral services were
those of the Masonic order and the
interment was in the Episcopal cem
etery at Wilmington, not in the Pot
ter's Field, as Rev. Milliken alleges.
A Masonic escort accompanied the
young widow back to her father's
home, where a son was born to her
four months later. When the child
was five years old a rearrangement
of the father's household was caus
ed by his second marrrage. Mary
was given a home with her sister
who had two young children of her
own. Against Mrs. Glover's most
earnest entreaties to her father and
sister, her young son was taken from
her and placed with the family nurse.
This separation from her son was one
of the greatest trials of Mrs. Eddy's
me. in spite ot repeated attempts
to bring him again into her home,
she was often frustrated, and when
a young boy he was taken west
where his mother was unabl to com
municate with him.
In 1853 Mrs. Glover married Dr.
Patterson, who later was made a
prisoner of war at the Battle of Bull
Run. It was through his wife's ef
forts that he was later released from
prison and returned to Tilton. His
infidelity caused Mrs. Patterson to
secure a divorce from him in 1873,
and not as stated by Rev. Milliken,
during his confinement in prison. In
1877 Mrs. Glover was married to
Dr. Asa G. Eddy, whom she has re
ferred to as a "true man" and their
marriage a "blessed and spiritual
union." (Retrospection and' Intro
spection.) Dr. Eddy was the first
of Mrs. Eddy's students publicly to
announce himself a Christian Scien
tist. . In 1910 the Concord Monitor paid
deserved tribute to Mrs. Eddy when
it concluded an editorial of fulsome
praise of her life work by saying
that her memory would "long be
cherished in Concord, the city which
by her and through her has been so
much beautified and benefitted."
Within the past few weeks Gover
nor Felkner of New Hampshire spoke
of Mrs. ,Eddy before the Daughters
of New Hampshire Club, in Boston,
as the "Granite State's greatest wo
man," "She has left the impression
of her work not only on New. En
gland but on the entirew orld and
we are proud of her." Such trib
utes of respect from those who are
not followers of Christian Science
and from those who have lived neat
Mre. Eddy and have known well her
whole life, expose the unnatural
lengths to which her enemies have
gone in their efforts to besmirch the
character of a pure and noble wo
man. Her place as one of the
world's greatest benefactors has al
ready been established through the
testimony of thousands of her fel
lowmen whose lives have been saved,
their health restored and their sins
destroyed through the demonstrable
understanding of the Christ, Trutk
which she taught and practiced.
In his effort to explain away the
cures effected by Christian Science,
the critic makes wise to say that.
"The secret of it all is suggestion."
Such a statement reveals the entire
ignorance of the one (making lib.
Mental suggestion forsakes God and
siezes puon the carnal mind as the
power through which to work. Its
suggestion with the conscious under
as often evil. The allv of witchery,
mesmerism and hypnotism, it is the
Beelzebub of ancient and modern
therapeutics. It ever fails to find
the cause of disease and is quite con
tent to deal only with effects. Chris
tian Science destroys the power of
suggestion with thee onscious under
standing of God and man's true re
lationship to Him. Its healing works
are accomplished as individual man
learns to know that he is in truth
God-governed and that no claim of
evil, mortalitv or disease can deprive
or separate him from the life of har
mony, health and happiness which i9
God's gift to man. The Psalmist
Is the Housewife's
Greatest Help.
WHAT so tempting to the
laggard appetite as a
light, flaky, fruit short cake or
a delicate hot f)iscuit?
Royal makes the perfect
short cake, biscuit and muffin,
and improves the flavor and
healthfulness of all risen flour
foods. It renders- the biscuit, hot
bread and short cake more di
gestible and nutritious, at the
same time making them more
attractive and appetizing.
Royal Baking Powder is in
dispensable for the preparation
all the year round of perfect
foods.
writes of the one God who healeth
all our diseases and forgiveth all our
iniquities. Such is the God of whom
Jesus said "The Father worketh thru
me" and such is the God of Chris
tian. Science, the God who is Love,
"the same yesterday, today and for
ever," whose laws understood and
demonstrated performs in the present
age the same works accomplished by
Jesus and the early Christians.
Paul Stark Seeley.
Most any man with red blood in
him will back up a on a frame-up
deal where a dozen conspire to give
one lone man the worst of it.
DAVID E. LOFGREN
David E. Lofgren of Portland, is
a Republican candidate for re-election
as joint representative for Clacka
mas and Multnomah counties. Mr.
Lofgren is a large property owner
and taxpayer in this county, being
one of the promoters of the 12,000
acre Swedish colony at Colton, which
now has about 100 families and is
rapidly growing. His opponent is a
stock broker in Portland.
That story on the Methodist
church as printed last week did no
body or no cause any good, and simp
ly furnished material for street jok
es. Its publication is to be regretted.
Children Cry
FOR FLETCHER'S
CASTOR! A
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.
Who the Republican and Demo
cratic nominees for governor will be
is absolute guesswork. The matter is
entirely up in the air, and there are
few men who will even make a guess.
It is remarkably noticable that the
voters are clamlike. They do not
express their preferences, and there
is an absence of booming and a lack
of enthusiasm. But when the pri
maries shall have decided the can
didates, no doubt the high geer will
be used" and politics speeded up.
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Oregon Commission
1 1th and Main Streets :: Oregon City