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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON A CHANCE FOR THE LANDLESS Squat on a Piece of Railroad Land and Take the Big Chance Eagle Creek, Ore'. Feb. 3, 1915. Editor Courier: I note your invitation in a recent copy of the Courier asking for sug gestions from readers of this paper as how to make it better serve the best interests of the people and Ore gon in general. Did it ever occur to your mind that you could do a grand work for the landless man, the jobless, by giving the people the tip that there are good homes in Clackamas county if one only has the courage to get out and get onto a piece of the 0. &. C. R. R. land? And why not? If the government wins, can anyone think the government will be so unjust as to kick off the man who is trying to make a home when they are taking the land away from the R. R. Co. be cause the company did not sell it actual settlers for $2.50 per. acre, and if the R. R. wins, will someone please explain to my weak brain how long Oregon is going to sit still and ai' low them to hold it and keep settlers off of it? There is room for lots of good men who are not afraid of work and that want a home, here in the Dover country. Will someone please ex plain why not to A. FARMERS' PROBLEMS (P. W. Meredith) Insects and some animals live on each other. Humanity has made its greatest mistake trying the same thing. Humanity has made its greatest successes in helping each other to live. Co-operation is the word.. Society, like the bee hive, has its workers and its drones. When food becomes very scarce there a some thing doing and now the drone ques tion is up. Our new commissioner, Mr. Knight promises to make Clackamas county an economical and efficient officer. Mutt. FOR USE, NOT FOR PROFIT Aurora Man Shows Local Illustration of Benefits of Co-operation Editor Courier: I notice in the Courier of recent date, where you speak of The Molalla Telephone Co., and The Beaver ween Telephone Co., charging only 50 cents a month for service, which is a fact. Then the Question is asked: 'If little company of about 250 phones charge so small a sum for service why do large companies charge three times as much ' The answer is this: The Molalla Telephone Co., and The Beaver Creek Telephone Co., are run for use only and not for PROFIT, as the large companies are. The Molalla & Beaver Creek Co are mutual telephone companies, run on a co-operative plan for use only; while the large companies spoken of are private companies run for profit only. The co-operative companies have no high salaried officials and no graft in the management of the company business and give splendid service for 50 cents a month. It's each for all and all for each. Question If the people CAN have telephone service for USE only and not for PROFIT only, why can't all of the wants of the human family be served for US ONLY and not for PROFIT ONLY as under the presnet private, haphazard way? U. Helgerson, Mr. Helgerson has no doubt asked these questions time and again, and they have never been answered. The Courier editor has asked simi lar ones year after year, but silence is the only reply. The question is, what benefit is for the most good, dividends for a few, or lowered expenses for the many? You can't argue against it, dodge it or forget it, that the co-operative use of these telephones is a mighty nice and economic system for the people who own the system. And if so much benefit on a little concern, why not of proportional ben efit on larger ones? Once more, won't some of you men or women who oppose govern ment ownership of railroads, steam- ships, telephones, telegraphs, mines, life and fire insurance, water powers and like public service concerns are for the best good of the many, the best good of the state or country. Please do pretty please. ELDORADO Mrs. Will Inman, who has been very ill with la grippe, is much better. Miss M. Bond and little Gertrude, spent Saturday and Sunday visiting friends and relatives in Portland, making the trip by rail on the W. V. Mrs. Robert Schoenborn had the misfortune of falling down stairs Saturday and injuring her anklo. Hiram Cordill, of Molalla, who has been visiting with his grand daugh ter. Mrs. Harry Schoenborn and fam ily, returned home Saturdny. The Sunday School, which was or ganized tho latter part of December, at thes chool house, is progressing raP'dly- I ,tU Mrs. Robert Schuebel and Mrs. John Anderson called on Mrs. Grace Lewis Sunday afternoon. Quite a number from our burg attended the swell dance given at tho old Gardner place by Mr. and Mrs. Norman How ard. All report a fine time and re turning home at a lute hour. There was a pleasant surprise party given for Mr. and Mrs Hurry Schoenborn lust Thursday evening. Games were played. Those present were: Mr. and Mrs. Howard Nation, Mr. ana Mrs. Herman Dietrich, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Spangle, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Striker, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Schoenborn, Mrs. Robert Schoenborn, Misses Gladys and Grace Schuebel, Miss Myra Bond, Miss Hazel Bullurd, Gertrude and Bernet Nation, Miss Elsie Schoenborn, Harvey and Earl Schuebel, Norman Bullard, Sidney Smith, Robert Snodgrass, Frank and George Anderson, Donald Schoenborn and Richard Schoenborn. Just as long as the county court is responsible for the expenditure of our road money just so long should they appoint all supervisors regard less of the wish of others. The only remedy for this road sit uation is township organization. Di vide the county into 8 or 10 townships and assess all property, collect all taxes and keep road money at home. It is a very expensive occupation to build navies but Europe seems to find it a great deal more so to de stroy them. "Safety first." If we are not prepared for war we are not so apt to indulge. We are not prepared for education because we Bpend less for education for our children than for means to kill them. Our best road superviser is neither elected or appointed. His name is Dry Weather. President Wilson made a speech in Indianapolis recently and told how utterly worthless the Republican party really was. Ever since that Republican senators have been tell ing the people the same about the Democratic party. Neither has said that the other told any untruths. In 1912 both Democratic and Re publican parties promised us rural credit. Now if these parties can break their promises year after year and go before the people and get their votes just the same as if they had kept them then the people them selves are to blame for the failure of our popular government. We aim to have 85,000 soldiers in our standing army, 120,000 militia. Our military schools turn out about 26,000 trained soldiers every year so it appears to us that our army is suf ficient to kill everybody that comes to America in the next one hundred years that wants to be killed and it is awfully expensive killing people that don't want to be killed and might destroy the market for spuds and $4.00 per hundred flour. Secretary of State Bryan admits being tangled up with an invisible power in San Domingo and then is sues his ultimatum to Mexico to keep hands off of the oil property or the U. S. will interfere. When did Bryan get authority to declare war? We all get an insight now as to who is the invisible government of the U. Si The next time the Oregonian prints a cartoon of Uncle Sam you can see it is John D. with a mask. Our agricultural colleges have been a great help to the farmers in teaching them how to produce big crops, but after all we find ourselves being sold out of house and home to pay taxes to keep up our agricultural colleges. This will be remedied when our colleges teach us how to market our crops at a big profit like other well organized business institutions. Under our new banking system Russia has borrowed $26,000,000, and Germany $12,000,000, but peaceful American farmers, after giving the banks the use of their deposits free, cannot borrow a dollar on long time and give real estate security. Few people know that our U. S. has granted rural credit to the Philip pines in 1907 and it is very success ful over there. We are not capable of self government over here. Oregon has 12,632 mortgaged farms, which is 33 per cent. There re 6.8C9 mortgaged farms operated by tenants. Iowa, the leading farm state, and 51 per cent of the farm ers are mortgaged. Wisconsin shows the same amount. 50 cities of the U. S. have 4,46,326 homes, 3,196,941 being rented. This shows a wonder ful amount of prosperity for the few who own and collect rents. i i mi i except nsn. iny norse-power is sometimes strengthened by a cow and by added spice of the Courier is thy generous substitute fo r milk and honey and thy currents unenvied are controlled more by the meek and lowly of Salem than by the mighty legislature. Thy praises will ever be sung by the allopaths and rod and gun club. nair of our year. They Farmers add about national wealth every own umy auout one-tnird of our nation's wealth. They constitute over one-third of our population and our credit system is so arranged by law that the fanner gets only about one-tenth of our nation's credit, and pays a larger percent than other occupations. It is not generally known that con gressman Lafferty of Portland has a good rural credit bill that he intro duced some time ago. Congressman Lafferty has one of the best records in the House of Representatives, judging from the nature and objects of the bills he has introduced. The Congressional Record contains many literary gems and very useful and entertaining remarks of Mr. Lafferty. Robert Schuebel, state purchasing agent of the Equity, is organizing the Farmers' Union Grange and any local organizations into a chain of warehouses or stores, which will be able to buy at wholesale and also to supply consumers of farm products direct from the growers. This is what we are organized for. It re- FOREIGN COMMERCE "The greatest need, not of this county only, but of the wholo world, isr more ships to carry commerce." This is from an Oregonian editorial published a few days ago. Some time before that my heart strings were wrenched by an awful wail of woe coming from a Montreal paper. It was spread over a whole page in large type and was so lpud I could see it and hear it and feel it even in the bosom of my overalls. There were over a billion dollars (mostly English money I suppose) invested in manufacturing industries in Canada. There was a high tariff to protect these industries and worse than that, in many cases the people had taxed themselves to give big bus iness to get factories established. And in the face of all this those ungrateful Canadians had spent 700 million dollars buying goods made in foreign countries while their own factories were idle and then people were unemployed on account of psy chological depression. Would not that jar a fellow? Is it not enough to discourage manufacturing and drive people to train robbery? Now why is this? Why such a paradox? The cause is as plain as day. The workers in these industries don't get wages enough to buy back the stuff they produce or its equiva lent. After paying rent they have only enough left to buy back a cheap er grade of foreign goods, and the capitalists who get their money away from them in rents and interest and profit take the money to Europe to spend it or they buy foreign made the world, by bringing it into the same slavery they are in themselves. J. L. Jones. ANOTHER BROWN'S OPINIONS The Way a Clackamas Subscriber Looks at Courier and Other Things Clackamas, Ore. Feb. 3, 1915. Editor Courier: I see that you would like to know what your readers think of the con duct of your paper. I think it is just about right. I don't see why it does not suit everyone. It's columns are open to its critics as well as its friends. It is about my ideal of what a paper ought to be a clearing house for ideas. But, of course, if every one agreed with everything that was in it, it would be a dead one. It's editor is honest and fearless, and dares to say his own soul is his and dares to say that he owns his own soul; which is more than most editors can say, so let the good work go on. I read it more thoroughly than any other paper I take. Your stand for cutting down ex penses is alright. Why so many tax eating commission? What good is a fish and game commission to the general public? Even in the aristocracy-ridden old countries people who hunt must supply their own game keeper and hire the land to hunt over. And I don't see why a person with a hunter's license should expect to trespass on every farm he comes to. Or why should we be tax ed to furnish fire protection for the property of the timber barons. Does OPPORTUNITY If you favor war, dig a trench in your back yard, fill it half full of ater, crawl into it and stay there for a day or two without anything to eat, get a lunatic to shoot at you with a brace of revolvers and a ma chine gun, and you will have some thing just as good, and you will save your country a great deal of expense. Six Per Cent Money Loans may be obtained for any purpose on acceptable real estate se curity; liberal privileges; correspond ence solicited. A. C. Agency Co., 758 Gas, Electric Bldg., Denver, Colo. In the midst of Life we are in Debt! Some time ago Oregon City sent the Belgians a lot of charity and wo live exported millions of bushels of heat and millions of pounds of flour until the Belgians and our charity or. gamzutions are forced to pay $2.00 per 48 pounds of flour in Oregon City. Those who have a corner on wheat are singing solos with the gun makers while our charity institutions are closing their doors. Congress has been in session al most continuously for two years and they cannot spend the money as fast as our government collects it and by devoting all their time to the job. They fear they cannot shovel it out of the treasury by March 4th, and our president will be compelled to cull an extra session. For ways and means out of the dilemma we refer them to the Clackamas county dele gation in the Oregon legislature. Stop collecting. Thou bountiful, STRONG end ever generous Willamette from thy mys terious treasures we partake freely, Myers Myers How about your Barn Doors Do they stick- Jump the track or pull harder than they should We have the remedy n MYERS DOOR HANGERS. Tubular and Stay-on Styles. Get them now and put them on while the weather makes it bad to work outside. WHEN WE SAY We carry everything in ?arm Supplies WE MEAN IT We Want Yotst Trade on Gasoline Engine Engine Oil; Cream Separator Oil; Axle Greese; Wire Fencing; Post Hole Diggers; Oil Cans; Grind Stones; Single Trees; Hitches; Pitcher Pumps; Pipe and Fittings. Everything in Implements and Vehkles,-and at right prices W. J. Wilson & Co. Oregon City, Oregon Canby H'dware & Imp. Co. CANBY, OREGON OUR WINNER The Golden Pacific is Opportunity for the Man Worth While (By C. A. Reese) San Jose, Calif., Feb. 3, 1915. Editor Courier: It has been said that opportunity knocks but once at every man's door and once gone it is gono forever, Yet there, are those who tell us that the door of opportunity is al ways open, and a man doesn't have to wait 'till it knocks, but go right in and knock the persimmons. Either saying might be correct under certain environments. There are some environments too great for any man to lift if he has once got started on the toboggan slide, but on the other hand there are others that it's best to get away from and once away one can try again and stand a fighting chance of succeed ing. , Some men will succeed in any old place on earth, no matter how un favorable the outlook or how over cast the skies. Without a doubt there are success ful men in Kalamazoo and Oshkosh But the whole race cannot" cast their lot in pleasant places. But when a man knows that there is an Eden somewhere that can be reached by a little calculation, he cannot lay it to the door of fate if he fails to lift or get away from an environment that is holding him down to bed rock. Every man is to a great extent the maker of his own handicaps. He may have been born under a handi cap but it will lift by a little hustling and the proper kind of pride. If I couldn't do well in Kalamazoo or Oshkosh I'd go to Milpitas or any old place on the Pacific Coajt where I could make good. If I was getting a hundred plunks per month in Kalamazoo and was not certain I could get it in Milpitas or elsewhere on the Pacific coast Id stay in Kalamazoo and Detroit and face the blizzard. A hundred dol lars a month doesn't grow on every bush, even in California or Oregon, or Washington.. But if I was as young as I used to be and was as full of ginger and certain that I knew my trade or what is better yet my self I wouldn't stay in Kalamazoo or Oshkosh or even in Detroit, but make a hike for the palm trees of California or the orchards of Oregon and Washington, away from the chilling blasts of winter and the coal bills. It's every man's duty to crack up the community in which he makes his bread and butter, but duty to home interests does not compel him to stay there and freeze to death. These reflections are caused by a letter from a nephew in Michigan, which is here appended. Detroit, Mich., Jan. 5, 1915. Dear Uncle Charley, No doubt you will be quite sur prised to get a line from me, but I will try and fill a page of things 1 hear and see. Now mother down in Florida sent me your Exposition song and though I never criticise tthe verses are quite long. The average song as I have found, must be short and to the point. E'er you gain the publisher's consent to run it thru his joint. Your rythm tho' I like quite well, because it held me in its spell, and I think I could do quite well to put it to the crucial test, and follow up your good advice: "Come West young man, come West." Now here in Michigan I can't at all complain, but I should like to go some place where profit means a gain, for tho I toe the century mark each month 'tis but in vain. And then again those fuel bills with which one must contend, just keeps a fellow busy and makes him spend and spend. Now young "Aunt Cal" appeals to me be cause her glossy slopes gives one a chance twelve months a year, and fills one full of hopes. No wolf comes howling 'round the door with winter's chilling blasts, but gentle zephyr- and bright sun alluring mo ments cast. I long to gather peb bles on that great Pacifio shore, and wander 'neath the palm trees as I have done before; to sit and watch the surf all day and think out lines in peace, and pen them on my paper, my endwoment from a Reese. Kalph Mounton. There are cities in the West I trow, Scattered along the coast From the British line to Mexico, Of which we proudly boast, And each of them is sure, I know, To prove a genial host To an invited guest. He'll come from Europe's stricken land, For hardships rendered fit, And in this country take a stand, That fact is surely writ; And fortune he will soon command As a reward of grit. Come West, young man, come West. If he should come to San Jose (Hosey) Within the coming year, Or any place upon the bay, His search would end right here, For he would surely want to stay To breathe our atmosphere, As millions can attest. Soon the golden gate will open, At the San Francisco fair, And a thousand times a thousand men, Will hustle for their share Of golden opportunities To be unfolded there To boom the Golden West. LOGAN Harding Grange held an interesting and enthusiastic meeting last Satur day. About thirty members were present, and one candidate was start ed on the road to membership. The Lecturer, Mrs. Belle Frink had pre pared a short program and there was a discussion on co-operation and also on the "Hoosier" letter in the Cou rier. All agreed that Hoosier had been misinformed about the lack of prosperity with Clackamas county farmers. It was1 reported that 15 Harding Grangers were at Pomona and that the whole grange had a special invitation to attend the next meeting at Oswego. Clear Creek Creamery Co. is en larging the plant to take care of its growing business and also to be bet ter prepared to take' better care of the business in general. Henry Babler has been in Port land on jury duty. Ernest M. Gerber is improving slowly in health. Harry Babler has been on the sick list. Miss Frebold is preparing for an entertainment at the hall in the near future. The Redland band will soon give an entertainment. Mrs. Rachel Ford from Sherwood, visited her sister, Mrs. P. A. Rob bins, last Sunday, accompanied by A. Crisell of Monroe & Crisell. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. McKin on Feb. 5th, weight 3 pounds. Neighbors have been kind to the family in their tribulations. Only a Ford There was an old man and he had a wooden leg, He had no money and he swore he wouldn t beg; He had an old piece of pipe and a twelve-inch board, And he said to himself I will build me a Ford. And with a gallon of gas and a quart or on An old piece of wire to make him a coil, With four big spools and an old tin can, He hammered them together and the damn thing ran. Shakespoke. Courier: For your further use, So cut the thing loos'; Others will want to know What makes the Ford grow. M. FOR SALE 14 acres, 4 miles from Oregon City on Tualatin Bottom, mostly cleared & cultivat ed Best of onion and garden ground, $150 per acre. Part cash, balance on terms. Call at C. J. Hood Lumber Co., 12th & Main St.' quires but little cash. CENTRAL POINT . Not having seen anything from this point for quite awhile we thought we would write and let the public know we were still awake. The farmers are taking advantage of tho nice weather to grub and clear up land preparatory to putting in crops. Thes ewing bee, which was held at Mrs. Fred Chinn's last week, was well attended in spite of the bad weather. A bazaar and social will be given at the M. E. church Feb. 20. Every body cordially invited. We are glad to hear that Frank Engle, after a long illness, is improv ing. Eula Brown was visiting at the home of Geo. Randull's, Jr. Sunday. Will Gieger was vistiing Russell and Charlie Chinn Sunday. We are glad to see so many 1 turn out Sunday evenings to hear Rev Coleman. East and West Clackamas $1.40 The Courier has made a clubbing arrangement with the Estacada Pro gress whereby the two papers are offered for one year for the bargain price of $1.40. Through this com bination you get both and eastern and western Clackamas county paper for less than the price of one county paper. Send subscriptions to either the Courier or the Progress at Esta cada, and you will get both papers one year for the $1.40. goods that are more fashionable. The big stores advertise that they send their expert, highly priced buy ers to Europe to get things that are sufficiently stylish and expensive to suit the cultivated tastes of the idle gentry who live off the miseries of the pauper laborers that produce the home made stuff. There you have it. Commerce consists mostly in moving the pro duets of pauper labor from one coun try to another in search of markets. But every country now is setting up a howl to buy home made goods. In that case why should we need more ships? The pauper Chinamen export their rotten eggs to Oregon and buy some thing cheaper. In Japan the indus trious natives export their good rice and buy a cheaper grade from China. It's a common saying I have heard it ever since I was a baby that far mers never eat anything they can sell. They certainly ship the best and keep the worst. That is economy. I am weary of economy. Does anyone think the people of Oregon could not raise enough eggs to supply themselves if they were permitted to use the unoccupied land? Could not the people of En gland raise their own apples if they would kick the landlords into the sea and recover the land stolen from them over 800 years ago? Looks to me it would be more profitable for them and much more consistent to establish liberty for themselves at home before starting out to convert as insure the state pay my insurance dues? And yet I think my buildings are just as much an asset to the state their property is let them their own property too. Our Clackamas county delegation at Salem are doing good work. They seem to know why they were sent to that place. Dimick and Schuebel are live ones. T. E. Brown The peom which caused the above poetical effusion on "The Exposition Song, was sent to my sister, Mrs. F. A. Moulton, of Eenstis, Fla., Let ter Day of- the Exposition, Dec. 15, and was offered by her to a local edi tor in Eenstis, but he refused to handle it on the grounds that it praised the Pacific coast too much. It is given below: POTATOES! Don't Read Too Much Editor Courier: Some of your correspondents seem to think they have to read all that is Where people pick up money "The Exposition Song" There's a country with a golden clime Where tempests seldom roar. A land of rain mixed with sunshine You've heard of it before; Three states which form our border line, The grand Pacific shore. Where mortal man is blessed. Tis a land of milk and honey, You may take a hunch from me, in the paper. It is not necessary ar more than to eat all that is in a cafe teria. I would as soon attempt to eat a barnful as to read all th.; stuff in a Sunday paper. Reading makes a full man, but it is not good to get too full. The leg islature has to regulate that. Some think 15 quarts enough, but others want 24. It all depends on the size of the tank. There ought to be gov ernment inspectors to measure the tanks and prescribe for each sepa rately. Next in order will be inspectors to prescribe what we shall read and how much, to secure a "balanced ration." I draw the line at reading a delinquent tax list. J. L. Jones. Butter w appers, you must have them. Get them at the Courier. From brooklet, bush and tree, And the urchin with his bunny A fortune great can see; Come West, young man, come West. Come West, young man, come West, And with the country grow. It's up to you to do your best Come out and hustle with the rest YouH win; YouH win; You'll win your spuis I know. Old Uncle Sam and young Aunt Cal Want all to have a home, - So he has dug a deep canal, Thru which all men can come To Panama from Aspinwall, Then up the coast to Nome; To find a better nest Soon the fleet of all the nations' Will come from oe'r the sea To establish new relations With our west boundary. Well have new obligations, And make new history To meet the coming test If you have any to sell get my price before you sell w. n. LUCKE PHONE Home A-72. pac. Main 448 Warehouses at Canby and Oregon City Dr. ICE L. G. DENTIST Beaver Building Oregon City Ph.nM Paolflo, 1221. H.m. A IS C. SCHUEBEL LAWYER DEUTCHER ADVAKAT Oregon City Bank Bldg. Oregon City OREGON FIREJRELIEF ASSN. Strongest Mutual in the West GEO. W. H. MILLER., Agen, 216 ?th St, Oregon City. H. M. THOMAS VETERINARY SURGEON DENTIST Call Elkhorn Livery Barn Oregon City 0reg(m V