OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON A 'MODERN STORY OF. ANCIENT MOSES John Stark Brings Him Down to Date With a Modern Moral A short while ago the Courier ed itor was lamenting for a leader; told us we had been milling around in a circular muddle until we were dizzy. Well what has become of that score of great ones whose pictures adorned not only the pages of the press but fence corners also? These were announced with a nourish ol trumpets and great dabs of ink as the path finders of human progress. We heard, headed and followed only to met ourselves going in opposite directions and again returning in our own tracks. Now that we find out thru the Courier that we have been a band of sheep, I am wondering what has become of the shepherd. Has he, or they, gone to look up a better market for merinos or has he pocKet ed the proceeds and is toasting his toes before some official nrepiacei Or perhaps the wolf has appeared and our heroic shepherd has tanen to tall timber. Is it not this sheepish ,t.Qa nf nurs following leaders that has got us confused and brot us to the block? Now the moaning for a Moses to to Canaan. If he had look. ed up the acient files of the Courier he might have found out Moses led the ancestors of our pawn-brokers and seconded handed dealers out into the desert and then they were face to face with the problem he finds we are in; getting nowhere. Now that we see the fix we are in why not lead ourselves awhile, follow our own noses il we are without a notion i rai rums wo mav do better, hardly worse, Let us do our own thinking, after that leaders may have a chance to bring up the rear. Perhaps you being young, are not familiar with Moses, he was quite a hero in the days of my childhood, so hrief fiketch of him will not be out of place, as my recollec tion seems clear on that man's career. The subject had an interesting time of it at the very start on his earthly pilgrimage. A short time before his birth the legislature went our late lamentable session one better fin the line of eugenics. Instead of starting a public unuck factory, as proposed by Dr. Owens Adair and the old grannys of our law factory, this advanced school of human up lift made a male child of a certain uaA on nntlaw. So all the law a biding people of that time killed the boys at birth instead of waiting for t.n manhood an.l f:hr Ftian fioldievs c. inem, Mosea' mother was not patriotic, so bite hid tu kid among the wiy l'" .1 i., iua oinno-h wh'fe ho wai res cued by a princess, who perhaps used him in a breach of promise suit, af he finding out now he was jobbed, discarded the class and and caste idea and began to take an interest in the welfare of the brick makers. From that time on he was no longer "respectable." But he was game and never squealed. One "muckboss" abusing one of the "hands." He promptly put his light out, after Beelng none ol ine push were about and buried him in the sand. So far as I am able to find n,,t. that is the first case of saDDa- taee on record beating the citizens fc . , t,r, 1... -foul alliances ami i. w. w u Soon after that he got cold feet and left for the sheep country, pos sibly the Burnt River district. There being broke and out of grub he herd ed sheep for a few years, waiting for "the stink to blow away," which was the slang for "staiuie miuuw... While engaged in this pastoral oc ha iWfilnned the trreat lead i,ir, which he became justly world famous. One drawback with him was that he had an "impediment in his speech" while he was in "good aocietv" so much so tnai ne at;uiu..jr i..,(t.i oftor hn hecame a sheep herder. So when he had dreamed of organizing the big walkout ol uw hrifkmakers' union he was puzzled v, tn mnlro t.hn aneech to the gen eral manager of the works, if he 0.,nnovH in organizing the MmrWa. PerhaDS it would not necessary to make any public speech makers, that would be on the ..;- w wAi-fi ha to snrinff that w0 nf cold" stuff or declare wo a "Btjindini? at Armageddon bat tling for the Lord" he might need to dodge enough briciiDius to uuu pyramid. So he decided to look up his brother who was then a sort of a lackey for one of the bent families. He was not much given to hard work, but could talk. In case of success Aaron would be at the head of the hotair department, which was later accomplished. Of course it is good politics to get the family on the pay roll and nepotism was popular those days. During the time Moses was a princess' protege he mixed up with all the wise men so he learned sleight of hand tricks, which the workers thot were supematurnl powers and the king who was a lazy, dull fellow used to pass most of his time away at such entertainments the movies were not popular at that time. So h nrftetieed ud while herding sheep. One stunt was to turn his shepherd i crook into what Cleopatra canea me pretty worm of Nilus." At this he was a topnotchcr and impressed Pharaoh greatly. It seems that he did not have a great deal of trouble to organize the workers and did it so quietly it never got into the papers. At that time labor unions seem to have been practically unheard of. so some other appeal must be used than the right of the worker to establish rules governing1 working conditions. So Moses based his appeal to the "God of Israel." about which deity the king knew little and cared less. It would seem that at that time there was only one God. Perhaps as civilization had not been carried very far inland that was all that was nec cessary to look after things. Two more have been added to the force since then, which divides the duties into three eight-hour shifts andi makes it lots easier all around. Mos es, however, took his snake-rod and showed Pharaoh some new and start ling stunts, but the old duffer just njoyed the show as a kingly peroga- tive without costing anything but he refused to cancel the bonds he held against the Hebrews. Bonds were at that time marked on the backs of the workers with a whip lash or perhaps ear marks or brands. Now in our civilized (?) time and country bonds are written on paper it is much cheaper and the worker is told that he is a "free citizen of this glorious epublic where every man a a king." So the worker need not be guarded but will work all the harder to pro duce "interest on the bonds." Of course had the king given a release he would have lost the labor and the snake show in the bargain which was mors than he would stand for. so he told Moses he was "too adical and that the interests of cap ital and labor were mutual and the Jews were not fit for self govern ment, in fact they had always got along peacably until such agitators as h created strife." Perhaps you have heard almost the same if you ever were around where many wage workers are employed. When persons are once in some high position and make their appeal to God it is not easy to crush out their aspirations or the hopes of their followers. This is aptly shown in the clash at arms at present in Eu rope. It is history back to the very dawn of recorded movements of bod ies of men, the appeal to the occult the belief that an all-controling force is in harmony with such move ments stimulates all mankind to ereater and more heroic action There are students in anthropopathy, if I understand them correctly, who insist that we and God are really the same substance, that when we appeal to that higher ideal, called God, we merely and perhaphs unconciously call out the Supreme Being in our own acts. This would therefore seem to explain why such movements reach such climaxes and explain the cohesiveness of such large aggrega tions of men in motion. (Doubtless you understand all that I don't, but perhaps that is what the editor meant by alluding to the powers in our uone boxes.) but compare them to the negro in an exprt at snake business, and he Hail Columbia when the crash of con federacy came. The ex-slave wept- he was lost, alone in the great wil derness of capitalistic economies. As soon as the speech making was over and the re-echos of the hurrah had died away and they turned to ward the east without the harsh com mands of the task master, facing an unknown country and to them an un comprehendible fate, one extreme following another, many wanted to go back. It taxed the ripe mind, the masterly intellect of Moses to prevent the foolish stampede. He, having ex periences in life of freer environ ment, was not minded to obey a master. Right here we have the ex planation of the psychology, the mys tery of why men will Ibe bamboozled bv such frauds as Teddy, Bryan and scores of others of equal standing in politics economics or religion, slaves of habit, no initiative. "They not to reason why." Obey is the only word they understand. Having once again turned their faces eastward, toward the rising sun. toward hope, again imbued with a resolve to own and inhabit some soil of which thy would be the mas ter. The master? What a master of whom? Master of themselves! Could these toilbent brickmakers catch the meaning? Can you catch the inspiration, you who read this storv written bv one who has also made bricks without straw? Moses, who no doubt had travelled, took them into "dry territory," which was infested with venomous snakes of the real thing. Here many were bitten and died. When they went to the drugstore with a prescription reading "Sp. Frumenti one gal., sig. made a snake of brass for them to look at and look hard so all that looked that way were cured. Some contend Moses was the originator of drugless treatment in the form of suggested therapractics, dui ii is likely he got the idea from India. He continued his literary work and has taken his place among the world's most famous historians. Manv incidents "worthy of note connected with this great "back to the land" movement, the leader is however refered to the unabridged history, which may be had at bra gain prices this time of the year. This item, so replete with interest, deals more with the psychology of the movemnt than its historical feature. The workers, who had always been driven to their tasks were hardly fit to conquer other peoples and take possession, so time was taken to al low another generation, one which had grown up under freer environ ment to fight the final battle of in dependance. In a like manner the Amercian people have so long been merely fol lowers of leaders, who have led them the past forty years around in a circle in the capitalistic wilderness. They do not comprehend what liberty means. Always ready to iouow a leader who can make noise enough to confuse them. Let us resume our narrative for a brief final note. The voune generation were now ready to do something for themselv es. Moses, who was able to lead them out of Egypt into the wilder ness, could not lead them to the land of corn and wine. Some people TIMBER ROADWAYS IS A SOLUTION S. B. Cobb Advocates Ventilated, Well Constructed Lumber Roads. The following is an novel idea of solving the road problem in Oregon, as given by S. B. Cobb of Portland, before the East Side Business Men's Association. The novelty is in its newess. In part Mr. Cobb said: ' "Now it costs, (estimated), $16,- 000 Der mile to lay hard surface roads and perhaps S18.UU0 or $i, 000 is nearer right. Where there is a steep grade a horse cannot get a footing but falls. I propose, that the product of Oregon saw mills be used to building roads not tne or dinarv plank roads that do not give good service, but a well constructed, well drained and well ventilated timber roadway that will cost about half what the hard surface coats. Ail the material used will be Oregon ma terial Oresron made lumber by Ore- rrnn lahnr and Oreeon men. A hard surface roadway is made from mater ial from Trinidad and from cement from outside the state." "The timber roadway that I pro pose must not be confused with the plank roadway, which is an expensive roadway and gives little service. The timber roadway I propose is to be built on entirely different lines, and is in no sense a plank roadway. The old nlanks were laid without regard to grain, ventilation or drainage, and soon worn out and was aiscaraeu The timber road proposed by thi new plan will be laid in pieces 6x6 verticallv with the grain and not nat. These pieces will be laid on cedar pieces which in turn will rest on a Such seems to have been the case in this the first great revolt of unreauited labor I ever read about, It seems that the theory of injunction against labor agitators was not de t that time and not until such reptiles as Grosscupp mcn in German means "bighead,") and W. H. Taft, was it generally used. How ever the oppressors of labor became active in imposing new burdens up on the exploited stranger within their gates. Just why the most prominent citizens did not deport Moses as was done at Bandon in a similar affair, where the state clown made such noise about the rights of citizens, history does not say. Matters got worse between the worker and the shirker and the Cairo Daily Astonisher told the workers not to listen to the walking delegate, that this undesirable citizen was in terfering with prosperity; you know the dope. Many times Moses sought to placate the king with his snake rod performances and speeches thru his brother. "Nothin' doin' " was all the reply he could get. So Moses organized an "inner circle," a . sort of a night rider affair. These were men who were well acquainted wun the private affairs of the "respect able families" as they had been pressed into domestic service by thflm. During all this time the workers were becoming more devout in their religious rites, many of them were rather new to the ruling class but us the brickmakers claimed it was worship to their own deity little at tention was paid to it. One of these pirna WAR tn sprinkle blood on the door posts to keep the evil genius away. When all was ready the first gen eral direct action in labor disputes was successfully pulled off, with the result that all the prominent families had a first-class funeral on their hands when they awoke the next morning. It is clamied to have had a tremendous effect upon the senti ment as to whether or not it would pay to build any more pyramids just at that timo and building operations came to a sudden and unexpected halt. Instead of pleading to go, these despised workers were peremp tnviiv ordered out. So unexpected . . . . ... U..1,J was the order that tne women uimcu the unraised dough into bread an annual festival is said to have its or igin in this event. The property holders were so anxious to get them out tluit their women folk gave up their earrings and other jewelry if they would just leave. At first the question was raised how it was that no funerals were among tha workers and wholesale ar rests were threatened. The dofensc was that the avenging Lord had kill ed the oppressors' children because they had killed the children of the workers as proof of the occult source vhiiiit.il thn Wood sDNiiklea uoor Myers rih' Myers How about your BarnDoors Do they stick Jump the track or pull harder than they should Wc hare the remedy n MYERS DOOR HANGERS. Tabular and Stay-on Styles. Get them now and pot them on while the weather makes it bad to work outside. WHEN WE SAY We carry everything in Farm Supplies WE MEAN IT We Want Your Trade on Gasoline Engine Engine Oil; Cream Separator Oil; Axle Creese; Wire Fencing; Post Hole Diggers; OH Cans; Grind Stones; Single Trees; Hitches; Pitcher Pumps; Pipe and Fittings. Everything in Implements and Vehicles, and at right prices W. J. Wilson & Co. Oregon City, Oregon Canby H'dwarc & Imp. Co. CANBY, OREGON OUR WINNER I A Novel and Nourishing Dinner Served by Maple Lane Grange The dinner furnished by the men of Maule Lane Grange baturcjay, Dec. 5th, was a substantial ana nour- ihine one. This entire attempt was as novel as it was successful. The brothers not only prepared the vic tuals, but served them as well; and when dinner was over they also wash ed the dishes and did the general house cleaning. The arrangements were as systematically made as tne German military, chiefly thought out by Brother Swallow, following is the picturesque setting: Chief Cooks Switter, mixer ana Swaller; Head Waiter Jeff, Mutt nd McGintyj Drink Slingers noo. Lew and August. Bill of Fare No iced" fruit Surprise Fuaaing, Roast Kartoffel ktew No iced" fruit Surprise Pudding Dessert Fried Cakes (pancakes; Dutch Pie (Saur Kraut) Drink Lactal Fluid Still Liquor One of the sisters (Mrs. Ginther) on behalf of themselves, composed the following lines in nervous antici pation of possible results: Just behind the table, hubbies, We are eating beans and stew. We have eaten the Kartoffels, And have left the shells for you. Don't fear, our humble servants, For our lives we are at ease, Tho we're worried and feel weighty, Yet we know you've tried to please Just behind the table, hubby, You men charge for half a day, Glad you didn't charge us hubby, For when we re cnargea we iau io pay. Shells thev hit us. hubby darling, Wished vou'd heard our irantic yells. Wasn't wounded much dear hubby, For they were Kartoffel shells. Just behind the table hubby, Deep we are in gory scenes, For each of us assassinated Fourteen pounds or canes anu beans. War and all its horrors, hubby, Mav create dere for home But the menu you've presented Makes us long to be alone. Just behind the table, hubby, Moans of misery you can hear. While you cooks are frying weenies, Painful sighs are drawing near. Worry not nor fear the morrow Tis today the food is piani, Yet all of us are. fondly hoping You men will surely try again. tw na hp had advano infor- rock or gravel foundation. Between rh p esc ip io s f , d Wan e h matn thru the kind offices of the the cedar bearings there will be drain the prescriptions lined oecause t a ht distHct of age ditches and for ventilation, which young men wno nau g.auuateu & fthead) he g()t old connect with cross pieces, are to De tne SOOa lOUtliains nuu never, icaiucu feet amj jet tnem t0- get along as.sp'ea tu uie ueum ymtca, Tfin rnnsemientlv d d not know tw ,.lrl. flthers sav he trot to De sunic Deiow tne sunaue uub what it meant, so they told the cus tomers that, owing to the tariff and the orders on contraband of war, they were out. Latin, it might be observ ed in passing, was then not much us ed as it was not dead yet. Langu ages, like persons, don't amount to the hovels they were living much until they are dead. nnntrt nil in. This had the euect vo oiib on the panic to get them out. After the unuesirauius iwtu muv. Moses was at that time very busy. Not only was he directing the move ments of the wandering Jew but out bag and baggage and reason be- much of his time was devoted to nt OUt "life uu "f- b U,.t,,,.o U wna nn this iournev that frt v.muu.irr. IT.KP r It UllWUCU uu-i v...v.... - - . ..... l.-i i Vit w-wv .. I XI J. U...r Unil KoATt inll. on tne ruiers uuii u-j "" j bed, so Pharaoh called out the regu lar army and was going to hunt down the criminal labor leaders, so he started out in pursuit. Moses saw them coming, so when night came on and they were tired from their forc ed march they became an easy prey to the axes of the fugitives, who then spread the report that these had perished in the red sea. Of course it was the sea which flowed from their cut throats. The next morning they hud a great holiday, Mosa making a speceh by proxy and his sister played several popular selections on the phonograph. F-R-E-B-D-O-M, magic word, so much abused and misused. This was the position these ex-slaves were in could they but know it. Could that idea but have been understood by those with the slanted brow. I can he wroto a book known by its sub title as "How the whole thing starts ed; why and by Whom," which lias caused no end of criticism and com ments even to this day. He also wrote "Lord's Desert Law," a book of a similar title is used a good deal in this state, but from what I can sec of it it was either deliberatelyp er verted or just a bunglesome job. Strange as it may seem the Moses' version is found in most homes but nobody ever reads it, tho many people will declare they implicitly be lieve it. This is not a paradox but a fact. So it was quite a while before he took any interest in the snake scourge. Anyway, it seems that those most affected were old people, and it did not much matter as they always wanted to "go back." Finally he took the matter in hand as he was UCBb nicy luuiu. Vv..w.u j r - i , , ... , .. a job higher up. It was reported , more inches. There will be a small manv vears after that he held a se cret meeting with another anarchist out in the hills. At any rate he mysteriously disappeared and the young fellows forded the river and started something that could not be finished in eight hours, so the day was stretched out to suit even our "wisest men" on the "Nonpartisan league" as the exploiters and their allies called themselves at the last election. I should like to follow the story of the most interesting people and their dramatic struggle for librety, knowing you are interested, but I will close with an apostrophe to that word Liberty, Wondering if your idea of liberty consists in yelling for a wordy tax eater spouting over a painted rag in order to hypnotize you while going thru your pockets, or do yoiif eel like saying? "O Liberty! Goddess of my only deity, in thy vast and unwalled temple, thy worshippers stand erect. They do not cringe nor bow the knee and the dust has never felt the im press of their lips. Thou askest nothing of man but the things that good men hate the whip, the chain and the dungeon key." John F. Stark. The Courier and Journal $1.75. Twice a Week space between the pieces for drainage and ventilation. When these bxb pieces become worn they can be turn ed and more wear secured.. A gas oline machire can be sent out on the road and the pieces can be worked down to 6x5 pieces and the life of the timber roadway prolonged. Construction of these timber road ways throughout the state would do much toward putting idle sawmills and idle men to work besides being built of Oregon material. This plan miirht be subject to some change but I am satisfied that laid under the direction of a competent engineer would be an excellent road and give all-round service. "Gentlemen of the East Side Bus-j iness Men's Club, I have submitted this plan for your consideration from a purely unselfish motive as a citizen and business man, who will be glad to help the lumber industry of this state. The lumber business is vital to the state, to the machinist, the mrchant, the laboring man and to every one in the state. I propose to submit this plan to the county commissioners, and ask them to make a test of the timber roadwav." At the close of Mr. Cobb's address he showed a working model of the timber roadway, and further explain ed its application. A "MEN ONLY" MENU Washington County Troubles A great deal of interesth as been aroused by the action of the County Commissioners in barring auto del livery trucks from the roads during the winter months. It is understood that other counties will lollow cms lead, and that the men who have been competing for freight hauling, etc., will find it impossible to ply their trade in the wet montns. There is a question, first ot all whether the County Court has the right to prevent the use of the roads by any particular class oi venicies, but even if they have this power, is it advisable to exercise it.' u tne trucks can be barred from the road, could not the same authority make them pay a reasonable fee, that might be used in keeping up the roads ? Forest Grove News-Times. Get Your Licenses Early Unless motor vehicles owners who wish to drive their cars alter De cember 31 of the present year apply at once for the 1H15 license plates they may find themselves without ap propriate license tags and sub ject to arrest for violations of the laws, according to a statemeni maue by Secretary of State Ben. W. Olcott. - there were over ziuu iuuwh vemtie motor cycle and chauffeur licenses is sued this year and it is likely that ,the greater part of the holders of these licenses will desire renewals. As a consequence, Mr. Olcott is of the o pinion that those desiring renewals should appiy promptly in order to avoid the rush which must surely come the later part of the month. Governor Will Practice Law Governor West gives it out that after his term of office expires early in January he will engage in the practice of law in Portland. He and Claude C. McColloch, ex State Sena hnr from Baker County, and Gover nor West's lieutenant on the floor of the senate at the 1913 session of the Legislature, have formed a partner ship to be known as West & McCol loch. .. . It is also reported that he will do some newspaper worn along legisla tive lins for the Portland Journal. A DISGRACE TO OUR CIVILIZATION "Third Deeree" and Court Methods Relic of Puritan Days Recently the Courier had some com mnts on tho methods used by the iheriff's department and district at torney to force out a confession thru the "third dogree" and how on trial the, man pould not be compelled to testify.' The Richmond, Cal., Herald re printed the article prefaced with these observations: "Havo vou noticed that every mag istrate, police officer and district at- tornov assumes that every person ar- estcd, no matter wntit lor, is guuvy :nd should bo classed along with mat df actors and treated as such? It is is a singular way of looking at the matter uner the laws of thi sgreat tate and nation, but it is true, never theless. "The law savs that every man ac cused of crime is supposed to be in nocent until he is proven guilty, but the sheriff, the police, tho magistrate and the district atto.-ney assume that he is euiltv and all the great machin ery is brought to bear to prove the theorv correct.' He is tortured ana nat?eed at and threatened to com pel him to make a confession and when he does sav something it is useu naninst him at the trial and if he says nothnig at all it is told at the trial that the prisoner was morose and stubborn and refused to talk, and this is used as incriminating evidence, And all this is done by men who are sunnosed to be officers of the court and are seeking after nothing but the truth. "But that is only One phase of the fool methods employed by a lot of sensible men and for no other reason than that the same tactics were pur sued by somebody a hundred or a thousand years ago. It is a sense less and unfair custom and one which is a disgrace to our civilzation." Checks Croup Instantly You know croup is dangerous. And you should also know the sense of security that comes from always hav ing Foley's Honey and Tar Compound in the house. 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