OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MARCH 11, 1915.
OREGON CITY COURIER
Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth and Main streets,
and entered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as 2d class mail matter
E. R. BROWN,
Subscription Price $1.50.
Official Paper for the Farmers
E. R. BROWN
ON ADVERTISING
When the present managment took
over The Courier a promise was
made that our readers would be taken
into our confidence. And this is when
it starts.
Probably most people know that
one of the sources of revenue of every
newspaper is advertising. Some of
the money that The Courier makes
when it makes any comes from ad
vertising. However, The Courier is
a bit more particular about its ad'
vertising than most other papers, and
a ereat deal more particular than
some we could mention.
People are sometimes told that
"any advertised article must have
merit, because business men cannot
afford to misrepresent their wares in
the advertising columns of the news-
paper." That sounds very nice, but
don't you believe it for a minute. Ad
vertisers know, as do bunco-men and
three-card-monte sharps, that "there
is a sucker born every minute," and
a goodly share of the advertising done
in this world is done to catch the
"sucker."
There is a certain shoe firm in
business in the West that makes
shoes out of paper. The uppers are
made out of somewhat thicker paper
than the soles, but that is the only
difference. These shoes can be sold
for thirty-nine cents, retail, and a
handsome profit made. They are ad
vertised, but they are not advertised
in The Courier. People who have
bought these shoes have sometimes
worn them for a month, but usually
the folk who wore them as long as
that had rheumatism and couldn't
walk. The average man will go thru
one of these pairs of shoes in less
than a week.
These paper shoes are advertised,
however, because it is only by per
sistent advertising that the company
that makes them can keep on sell-
ing them. So it is with many other
lines of worthless goods many thou
sands of dollars ares pent annually
advertising them so that more thou
sands can be made in the profits
made from the "suckers" who buy,
Get the idea out of your head that
the advertised article is always the
best sometimes it is the best, but
frequently it isn't.
The Courier, however, doesn't
handle advertising unless it knows
the worth of the goods mentioned in
its columns, or the reliability of the
firm making them. That is where
The Courier differs from a great
many newspapers. This paper tries
to give its readers a square deal all
around that used to b ethe motto of
this paper under its former manage
ment, and it is more than ever the
motto now. "Bunk goods" are not
advertised in this paper. "Bunk mer
chants" cannot buy space in its col
umns. Every bit of advertising that is
presented to The Courier has to stand
the test of office examination by men
who know the advertising game. If
a man with a shoddy article tries to
get it advertised in The Courier he
is going to have a hard time. Some
people have already found that out.
And the chances are that more people
will find it out. Any paper that has
a circulation of nearly 3,000 as The
Courier has is always eagerly
sougnt oy "bunco men" in the busi
ness world, who want to take advan
tago of the pnper's standing and
cheat its readers. The Courier odes
n't propose to wittingly permit its
readers to be cheated through its ad
vertising columns.
It will be interesting to look
over our advertising columns while
keeping this thought in mind. The
readers will note that there are cer
tain articles and certain stores that
do not utilize our space. It does not
necessarily follow that all who don't
advertise in The Courier are not on
the square but when a merchant re
fuses t place his wares before 8.000
people every wek it must be either
because he CANNOT, or else because
he has a poor idea of business me
thods. The firms and the things ad
vertised in The Courier are reliable
and are worthy of patronage the
firms and the wares not advertised
in our columns MAY be worthy of
jinn uiiage, dui lr tney are it seems
strange that they do not avail them
selves of the opportunity of getting
Deiore itie Courier' large family of
steady ronders. We do know this
much, however, and that is THERE
ARE A NUMBER OP FIRMS AND
A NUMBER OF ARTICLES THAT
WILL NEVER BE ADVERTISED
IN THE COURIER FOR THE
SIMPLE REASON THAT THE
Business is Business
BuU-
Times are changing. Business is warming up.
There's less aloofness and more man-to-man fel
lowship. At the year's end men now not only
take account of theh" earnings, but also of the
friends they've made.
In this new order of business we're glad
to be among the leaders. Our officers are al
ways accessible. We try to know each depos
itor personally. We try to make all business
relations as human as possible. Call some time
soon and get acquainted.
The Bank of Oregon City
Thirty-three Years in Business
PUBLISHER.
Telephones, Pacific 51; Home A 51
Society of Equity of Oregon
EDITOR
COURIER WILL NOT ACCEPT
ADVERTISING OF DOUBTFUL
VALUE. And there are quite
number of papers that have not the
backbone to print such a statement as
this.
Look over The Courier's advertise
ments, and then remember that every
reasonable effort is made by this
paper to accept only bona fide, worth
the-money advertising propositions.
If vou are eroing t buy anything, look
and see if it is advertised in The
Courier first and if it isn't, don't
blame us if you don't get your
monev's worth when you buy. The
mere fact that an article is advertis-
ed somewhere is no guarantee of its
merit, but if the articlei S advertised
in THE COURIER, it is reasonably
apt to be worth buying.
DRY STUFF
The Courier never had much use
for the saloon, and last year it had
the backbone to say so, and it turned
down advertising from the wets,
Under its present management this
paper is just as "dry" as it was in
former days, and it believes that Jan
uary first, next year, will be one of
the happiest New Year days that Ore
gon has ever had, for that date will
sound the knell of the booze shop
throughout the state.
This being the way this paper feels
about it, we humbly rise to ask a few
Questions. Oregon City has been
"drv" now for some time. It beat
the state to the common sense plan
by about a year, and the vote cast
showed that public opinion was pret
ty strong against the indiscriminate
absorbtion of Dutch champagne and
red-eye. Last month we closed up a
blind pig in this town, and this month
our esteemed council is going to let
our Chief of Police hire a Portland
sleuth to come up here and search
for others.
Our police force is said to be too
well known, locally, to obtain convict
ing evidence of the illicit sale of li
quor. Also our police force is small,
and has many things to do aside from
hunting pigs and tigers of the blind
variety. But we have a lot of clever
and wide-awake people in this town
who ardently are opposed to the illeg
al traffic in liquor, and who ought to
have enough municipal pride to volun
teer their service in stamping out the
traffic. Whv don't some of them
step forward and go pig-hunting?
Why don't some of the mothers and
fathers of those boys who come
home every night with a mouthful of
cloves take the trouble to find out
where the boys get the stuff that
makes cloves necessary?
A blind pig is the easiest thing in
the world to get evidence against.
The proprietor of such an establish
ment cannot be over-particular in re
gard to his customers, else he wont
have any trade at all. And we have
city officials who have repeatedly
said they were willing to immediate
ly investigate any complaint dealing
with offenses of this nature. Why
then, send for a Portland sleuth par
ticularly after the unpleasant exper
iences connected with the last im
portation of detective talent? Why
have the council tie itself in bow
knots to appropriate $99 for a blind-
pig hunt, when we have so much good
prohibition material at home?
It seems strange that there should
be so many people in Oregon City
who realize the evil of the saloon, yet
so few who will tell what they know
to the authorities? What is wrong?
WHAT TO EXPECT
The old saw tells us that "coming
events cast their shadows before."
And the Oregon Daily Journal tells
us that The Oregonian is "pro-German."
With all due respect to the
Oregon Daily Journal, we beg to dif
fer and we have no idea of rushing
to the defense of The, Oregonian,
either.
The Oregonian is opposed to the
presont administration at Washing
ton. Quite a number of "big busi
ness" papers are thus opposed; near
at hand, for instance, we have The
Enterprise with similar leanings.
The Enterprise doesn't think much of
The Courier because this paper is
democratic, and because it thinks
with the majority of people in the
United States, that Woodrow Wilson
is doing a man's work in keoping this
country out of war in these slaughter-
mad days.
Woodrow Wilson and his great
work do not need any defense by The
Courier, so let us get back to the dif
ference of opinion between the Ore
gon Daily Jaurnal and The Oregon
ian. When the Journal accuses the
Oregonian of being "pro-German," it
means that The Oregonian is adopt
ing the same underhand methods of
attack as were pulled Sunday night
in Portland at a pseudo Kobert km-
met celebration framed by certain
German-Americans in Portland who
are finding fault with the Wilson
brand of neutrality. The Oregonian
and these gentlemen are attacking the
stand of the administration because
the administration doesn't suit them
by the way it is behaving. They
want to see an end to democratic rule
at Washington, and a return to the
good old days when republican ethics
controlled the United States, under
which system of ethics might spells
rieht. Folk who sympathize over
strongly with Wilhelm Hohenzollem
don't like Wilson because he refuses
to recognize that Germany-s might
makes it right for her to do as she
pleases; and The Oregonian doesn't
like Wilson because he. is making it
harder for the republicans to get back
into the pork-barrel.
The Oregonian is more or less of
a republican paper, so it might be
expected to find fault with this ad
ministration. It is about as republi
can as is The Enterprise it is
stronelv republican when the cam
paign sack is open, and the rest of the
time it. is as republican as may be
convenient under local conditions
But at this time The Oregonian is
narticularlv bitter against the Wilson
administration because the manner of
doing business at Washington is not
at all pleasant for ambitious uregon
rennhlicans who have longings for
senatorial honors.
And one such person is at present
in control of The Oregonian. In en
deavoring to step into the place
made vacant by the death of the late
and honored Harvey W. Scott, Mr,
Piper has also stepped into some of
Mr. Scott's ambitions. Mr. Piper
would like to be the next United
States senator from Oregon. If his
nlans work out as he trusts they will
ha will onpose Harry Lane at the
next senatorial election. If Mr.
Rnnsevelt is accented as the "last
chance" candidate of the republicans
to get back into power, The Oregon
ian and Mr. Piper will become ardent
Roosevelt supporters, quite regard
less of the remarks they have both
made about Mr. Roosevelt in the, past.
And as long as Wilson neutrality pre
vails, The Oregonian and its editor
will not think very much of Wilson
neutralitv.
And that is why the Oregon Daily
Journal is misled into calling The
Oree-on "pro-German." It us
merely a coincidence that The Ore
gonian and certain pro-German people
are yapping in the same tune just
now if Wilson neutrality favored
the Germans, the first roar in oppo
sition would come from the sanc
tum of the Tall Tower.
FOLLOWING THE SUN
Throue-hout all history man has
ever sought the sunlight. The earli
est traces of civilization have been
found in that zone on either side of
the equator where the days and nights
are so divided the year around that
there is sunlight for a major portion
of the time. The human race itself
is said to have advanced from the
anthropoid within this band of the
earth's surface, and the movement oi
humanitv has always been first
from the north and south towards the
center, and then to the west in chase
of the setting sun.
In the old world the first civili
zation that we know in our history
was at the eastern end of the Medi
terranean. When Fhonecia was tne
leader of the world's culture, bar
barians lived in the regions to the
north and the south. At that time,
or in an earlier age, another civili
zation was vibrant with life in Cen
tral America, and another race was
living out its destiny in the middle
of the Pacific shore of what we now
call Asia. And to the north and
south of these settlements, where the
days were shorter and the nights
were longer, were barbarians.
The phocnecians moved to the west
and established colonies along the
shores of the Mediterranean. At
various times barbarians swept down
from the land of shorter days and
longer nights and overran these col
onies, fiometiimes wiping them out,
and sometimes grafting on their civi
lization a new blood that led to high
er advancement as in the case oi
Greece. Grecian development was
the most wonderful in all the world,
for from the early days of barbar
ism to the Golden Age of Pericles it
spanned an advancement in science
and art that has never since been
equalled.
Greece sent her people into the
west and established Rome, barbar
ians swept down on Rome and the
amalgamated race made the Roman
nation the glorious thing that it grew
to be. Rome sent her legions west
ward and northward, carrying civili
zation and law; Huns and Gauls
swept down from the land of night
and altered Roman life as well as
their own. Europe was peopled and
civilized by repeated deluges from
the north - and reaching westward
still, European civilization sailed over
the then unknown Atlantic and founa
ed a new order of things in Amew
ca. Here, too, the same old law has
carried on its invincible work, and
still sweeping to the west civiliza
tion has spread its wings over the
most wonderful government of all
tme, these United States.
Europe now is plunged in a war
that surpasses all conflicts of the
past. Peoples that have dwelt in
harmony for years are flying at earti
other's throats and civilization stands
aghast at the slaughter and the suf
fering. Madness, the mania to kill,
fills the air of the old world and to
what end?
"Whom the Gods would destroy
they first make mad," says the an
cient Greek proverb. The religion
that recognized the Grecian gods en
dured for over eight thousand years
in the form in which we today study
it in what we are pleased to call
mytnoiogy. Before that the same
pan-theistic theory held the minds of
men, and the poetical worship of in
dividual deities who ruled over the
several aspects of the universe
stretches back into the dim mists of
time that antedate the Phoenician
civilization. Beside this sweep of
time the scant 2,000 years of Chris
tianity is indeed brief; and one can
not help but think of this when view
ing the madness of "Christian" Eu
rope in this day of carnage and tor
ture. "Whom the Gods would destroy
they first make mad." So said the
Greeks, who followed the sun in their
turn of the world's development.
Madness we have now in Europe
have we any race that is following
the sun ? What is that horde that is
sweeping down on the civilization of
Europe from the, land of short days
and long nights, from the realm of
snows and of bitter winters? What
is Russia doing in this war? Is she
merely an ally of Great Britain and
France, or is she more than that? Is
she blindly and unknowingly obeying
the law of mankind, and in her
awakening is she sweeping down over
Europe, to bring in her wake a new
civilization for which the present in
habitants of the old world continent
are not ready?
What of Russia and her millions
of people, ignorant, stolid, long-suffering
under an autocratic rule be
side which the rule of ancient Roman
Caesars was free ana easyT Xlussia
is now awake, from sea to sea, and
her people are for the first time
united in a movement to the west
and into the band of sunlight that
girdles the middle of the earht. Will
this war be the signal that will start
her people down into the sunlight
and into a new life of progress and
development, such as will in time
eclipse all advancement in the his
tory of the globe?
Russian genius in times past have
given sparks here and there that have
made the rest of the globe rub its
eyes. Russian accomplishments in
the arts and sciences have been re
markable, even if few and far be
tween. Russia at her best, in the
favored upper circles, is worthy of
greater things and now Russia in
all her might is moving down out of
the winter night into the sunlight o?
central Europe.
It is a thought worth contempla
tion. There must be some recom
pense in view for the slaughter and
suffering of this European war, there
must be some outcome still locked in
the secrets of the Future that will
bring a good out of the evil of con
flict. Civilization always goes on
it always has gne on in the past in
the wake of the sun. Is Russia now
ready to play her part in the pro
gress of the world, and is that what
this European madness means?
WAR HITS SOUTH
Tenant farmers all over the South
are up against it hard. Their land
lords have insisted on nothing but
cotton being planted. A tenant who
planted a few sweet potatoes was a
thief, and if he planted corn he was
dispossessed. On account of the Eu
ropean war cotton ' brought nothing
last fall. The banks, landlords and
speculators have it. The store credit
of the tenant is gone. He knew little
farming but cotton; now he is for
bidden to raise cotton. Millions are
in distress. They have never been
allowed to keep a cow, raise pigs, to
have a garden, to raise grain. With
credit and supplies they might man
age. Just as they get to the point
of raising other stuff along will come
the end of the Eurpoean murderfest,
and they will be ordered to raise
nothing but cotton again.
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ANOTHER PAPER SOLD
M. J. Brown and A. E. Frost, for
mer owners of the Courier, have pur
chased the Corvallis Republican and
will take charge at once. The Re
publican is at present a daily but it
is the intention of the new owners to
change it into a weekly. Newspaper
men from all over the state are com
menting on the deal ana predict great
things for the future of the Repub
lican. The reporter of the Morning En
terprise says in part:
"Mr. Brown left the city several
days ago but Mr. Frost was retained
here by E. R. Brown, who now con
trols the Courier, as foreman."
This reminds us of the advertise
ment that appeared in a recent issue
of a well known paper, which read as
follows:
"Wanted A piano by a lady music
teacher, with carved legs.
Wolf Howls
Baseball is next.
,
Right now it is the garden.'
Pretty soon it will be the orchard
And after that it will be the grand
stand.
"Fisherman's luck" is what you
will have to call what the legislature
did.
Look out for a stranger in town
with a $99 thirst; the. council has
put up "the price."
Farmers are beginning to come in
again, the country roads are getting
so that they can be used.
The. Corvallis Republican will not
become a democrat. It is a safe bet
that M. J. Brown won't change color.
"Skis for soldiers 800 years old,"
proclaims a Sacramento headline.
They probably need them to get
around on at that age.
An Oakland paper headline says:
"Women oustrip men by big major
ity." Same here, neighbor, especial
ly when summer waists come in.
Golden spike six feet long at Mt.
Angel. And then they say that Ore
gon gold mines don't pan out well.
Still, that's a rich farming country up
there.
Supposing the council had taken
Chris at his word and let him resign,
do you think he would have done it?
It's a long, long way to Congress,
boys, and this job's very good.
Be a boster for your home town,
and don't get your embossed letter
heads made somewhere else, espec
ially when you run a print shop. How
about it, down there over Barlow's
grocery store?
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3,200 lb. fine dapple gray Team; Harness and Wagon; 1-3
Horse Gas Engine; 2 Cows; 2 Brood Sows; I Hay Rope;
1 House, 16x24; Delivered am v o ace in town Cheap;
Slabwood $3.00 per Cord Deliverer.
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