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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1915 OREGON CITY COURIER Published Thursdays from the Court and entered in the Postoffice at Oreg E. R. BROWN, EDITOR Subscription Price $1.50. THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES AS USUAL Last week the Courier made a few remarks about the price of wool as sold by a prominent Clackamas coun ty farmer, and asked the gentle and dignified Enterprise if it found in 26-cent-wool further proof of the "democratic business depression" that it has been yowling about. The Enterprise replies by dodg ing the question, as usual. It says that the paper business is punk here, that the local paper mills are only running six days a week, and that pretty soon the paper mill bosses are going to ask Heaven to help them. Then the pay-as-you-enter leaflet tells us that in 1912 there were 14,000 business failures, and that there were 3,000 more in 1914, and that water was pretty generally squeezed out of stocks after the Wil son administration came in. Continuing on its variegated way, the Enterprise says that if business is good now, it is because of the Euro pean war. We had rather fancied that the war had pretty nearly put business on the blink; but it seems not, according to the Enterprise. As the Enterprise appears to get it3 in formation regarding business con ditions from the Bo.urne Tainted News Service, maybe it would be just as well to give it some real news. Senator Chamberlain, returning 4 to his home state this week, mentions the following facts: "Times are better everywhere. California is prosperous. I found business conditions there better than they have been for a long time and constantly picking up. Here in Ore gon we have every reason to be op timistic. In New York and the East it is the same. Business is on the rise. The big industries are all busy, The steel business is the index of prosperity and the steel foundries have more business than they can at tend to. "And it isn't all 'destructive busi ness' like the manufacture of war material, by ..any means," he added, emphatically. "The railroads are buying steel products again and many of the largest orders are from the railroads. The railroads are building more cars, and thus open ing a market for Oregon lumber." MEMORIAL DAY Memorial Day, the national holi day devoted to honoring the men who have fought for the principles of American liberty, comes to us this year with more than usual meaning. The United States, it is true, has not changed very much since the 'cele bration of Memorial Day in 1914, but world conditions have undergone a terrible upsetting, and it is because of these chances without the borders of our land that the tributes paid this year to the soldier dead will have a deeper meaning for us. No man, wo man or child can take part in Memor ial Day observances this year with' out thinking of what is going on in the Old World. No person can lay a flower upon the grave of a soldier without thinking of the thousands of other soldiers that are buried under a few scant feet of earth in abandon ed trenches in Europe; and of tho thousands of other soldiers who will lie in similar rough graves before the European tragedy is completed. wo ceiourute Memorial Duy in these United States for two reasons, First, we bow in respectful homage to the brave men in blue and grey who fought for what they believed to be right, and whose battling cemented the nation into tho perfected cradle of liberty that its foundrs meant it to be. In honoring the men whe fought and lived through the Civil War, we aro also honoring tho men who fought in tho War of Independ ence, and who took up arms at sub sequent dates and times to preserve tho union founded by the brave lead ers of the original colonies. Second ly, when wo colebrato Memorial Day, we also pay tribute to tho spirit of American liberty, and look ahead as well as behind us. In honoring the noble dead we also find in their lives an inspiration for the future. The brave men who now lio in carefully tendered graves in our cemeteries, whether they wore blue Paying a Bill the Second Time , Because a cijeck is the best kind of a receipt, containing a full record of the obligation can celled, you are insured from paying a bill the sec ond time. When the bank returns your cancelled checks, file them for future reference in some safe and convenient place. In case the party whom you paid demands a second settlement, refer to your filed checks. His endorsement on the back of your check is sufficient evidence that you paid the bill. Bills paid by check remain paid. .THE BANK OF OREGON CITY 33 Years in Busjness er Building, Eighth and Main streets, on City, Ore., as 2d class mail matter AND PUBLISHER Telephones, Pacific 51; Home A 51 or grey when in life, and whose memory and valiant deeds we honor on Memorial Day, have a message for the people of the United States this year of grace, 1915. They fought for the solidity of the nation. They went through the hardships of - war for principles that they believed to be more sacred than life itself. They willingly endured the perils of cam paign and the ri&ks of suffering and death because they were defending American principles as they saw them. And at the end of the strug gle those of them who were left unit ed in upholding the undivided nation, They forgot factional differences they acknowledged the basic govern ment principle of majority rule, and they presented to the world the mir acle of the birth of a newer and stronger nation from the clash of two honestly differing sections. The grey-bearded, white-haired veterans who will take the lead celebrating Memorial Day this year know what war is. They, and they only, can comprehend what the slaughter and the madness of the Old World means to the men on the field and in the trenches -and to the wo men and children who are waiting anxiously at home for news from the battle line. These veterans of our great war, bowed now with age, the bitterness gone from their hearts, but with their minds still keen with mem ories of the campaign, know that war should be regarded only as a sacred privilege of right that no power should call men and women to endure the agonies of conflict unless there a principle greater than life itself at stake. And the celebration of Memorial Day this year must drive this fact home to us. The United States has never engaged in a .war of greed and of conquest. Every time, this na tion has gone .into battle it has done it because there was a popular clamor for the-upholdtng of American liber ty which had been threatened some way; The people of this nation whenever they have taken up arms have done it with a fore-knowledge of the. cost of war; and they have gone onto the fields of battle in spired by a devotion to true Ameri canism that has assured them of ul timate victory. When we honor our soldier dead, and our veterans, are honoring not only the men, but also the spirit in which the fought their" loyulty to ideals, and their will ingness to face death so that the principles in which they believed might live. This year as Memorial Day is ob served there are men who are clamor ing for the United States to enter the conflict that is devastating Europe, Some men would seek glory in such a war, others would seek the profits to bo had from furnishing war sup plies. Unprincipled newspapers are attacking the administration of Pres ident Wilson because he is trying to block the selfish aims of men who want to see the United States em broiled in conflict for purely person al reasons. Men who now seek war fare and newspapers which malign the President, have no comprehension of the spirit that we are honoring when we celebrate Memorial Day, They do not understand the noble self-sacrifice of the members of that grand army of the republic which marched on American buttlofields and of which only a few remain to tell the tale to the world, and who now rightfully call themselves The Grand Army of the Republic. It is of this that we should think this year when we celebrate Memor ial Day. We should hold steadily in our vision the nobility of the men whom we are honoring, and the sa credness of the principle for which they fought. If we do this we. will continue to be true Americans. If we do this we will show that we have learned tho lesson of our own wars, If we do this we will honor our brave men to the fullest degree and if we do this we will not permit our na tion to become entangled in tho Euro pean conflict unless direct attack is made upon our own native land or upon our rights and principles. But should our country be attack ed wo will know what to do. We know what war is, what its cost is and what suered principles make it justifiable. The United States, when she has fought, has always fought on the side of the right and it should be the Memorial Day prayer of every American that she will never fight on any other side. AS TO RELIGION We know a man wise beyond his day and generation who has said: '1 don't believe in arguing about re ligion. I can probably convince any man, in cold logic, that the religion he professes has flaws in it. But I doubt very much if I can offer him a religion that will seem better to nim after I have destroyed his faith in his original belief." It is really a matter of consider able ease to make any man or wo man dissatisfied with his or her faith. It is easy to tear down. But after a religious doctrine or dogma has been shattered, it is the most diffi cult thing in the world to put in its place something that will bear the strains and demands of trial and hardship. And no good is accom plished by destroying any faith that satisfies the soul that holds it. Re ligion is a good thing to let alone, Every thinking man and woman has his or her own conception of the De ity, of the Scheme of Things and of the Hereafter. They accept in whole or in part the teachings they have re ceived in their youth, and by adding ideals of their own, or modifying the ideals of others they get a religion that is satisfactory to them to a greater or less degree. It is indeed a serious matter, there for, to attempt to destroy one's re ligion once one has found it. The in tentions of the person trying to make conversions may be good; but in the end their efforts may bring much an guish to the hearts of those they are trying to help. So, quoting the man mentioned at the head of these' re marks, we say we do not believe in arguing about religion itself. The Courier has recently printed in its columns some letters from the Rev. W. T. Milliken, in which the lo cal pastor has criticised not the re ligion of another group of worship pers, but their methods of making conversions to their particular creed. To criticise these methods is the privilege of Dr. Milliken; even as it has been the privilege of others to criticise his methods. The columns of this paper are open to any per son who has views of current interest to express. But they are not open to pure religious argument. The Courier is forced to make this clear because of a number of letters it has received recently criticising the RELIGION of certain people and sects in this community. Dr. Milli ken's remarks have been misunder stood in some quarters, and people who differed with him have not noted that he has confined himself to a criticism of the psychology or method of those with whom he differs, and has not criticised the beliefs of others. Any letter in reply to the questions which Dr. Milliken has rais ed will be printed by the Courier, as will any letters dealing with other questions where' method or cause or effect is discussed. But this paper cannot undertake to give space to profitless discussions regarding the intrinsic worth of any belief, or the creed of any sect, or as to the rela tive merits of any religions. The Courier holds no brief for Dr. Milliken or for those with whom he differs. This' paper is a forum for public discussions to a certain de gree; but it is in no sense a place for the setting forth of the creeds of any group or sect or church. If those of our correspondents who re sent Dr. Milliken's criticism of their methods desire to defend their methods, their letters will be wel come. Uut the Courier cannot print an argument for any creed or relig ion such is not either the duty or the right of any public newspaper. Religious arguments are profit less, and are good things not to start. MAYBE ITS FOOLISH The law is an odd thing, but it ought to be obeyed. People who don't like to obey the law ought to move. It may be cheaper at times to fight tho law and dodge it on a technicality; but nobody ever did that for very long and got away with it. There doesn't seem to be any par ticular reason why the people of Ore gon L-ity or lonkers or any other place cannot say how they want other folks and themselves to behave on Sunday. Nevertheless the law says that the people of a city in any state have to be guided by state laws in egurd to Sunday matters and can not legislate for themselves. That is one of the disadvantages in living in a state people who live in a com mon wealth are not so bound. But it happens that Oregon isn't a common wealth nor is New York. wnen the pool hall men sprang their little petition for a general Sun day closing in the council meeting last week, they stacked up against the law. If everybody in the city had signed that petition, the council couldn't have legally done anything lor them, the council cant close anything in Oregon City on Sunday that tho legislature has permitted to 'emain open. That is law. Council man Temnlston brought this out when he read a decision from he court of appeals in New York, in a case originating in Yonkers. ionisers, which is a town famous for many things and which is next- oor neighbor to the end of Broad- ay, New York, tried to close the movies on Sunday. The state Sab bath law in New York exempts mov- s from Sunday closing. Ruling on the case of a man arrested for run ning a movie show on Sunday in You rs, the New xork court of appeals said: "The legislature alone may com mand how Sunday shall be kept; hence the citv of Yonkers cannot in- pendontly compel and enforce Sun day closing by means of fines and imprisonment unless suclfr power is part of the law and policy irranted by the Legislature." , The same law-applies in Oregon, and in Oregon City. The council can not say what shall be permitted and what shall not on Sundays. The leg islature has already done that. All the city can do is .to prosecute viola tions of the Sunday law; AND RUN NING POOL HALLS ON SUNDAY IS A VIOLATION OF THE STATg LAW. The city is going to pass an ordinance to conform to this state law. The indications are that the ordinance will be enforced. All of which appears to be the closing word in the pool hall ques tion. Maybe it is foolish, but it is the law. IT APPEARS TO BE Something is wrong with the pres ent system of county management in the handling of its finances, when a warrant for over $600, payable to the road fund of the City of Estacada, issued in July, 1914, is not discover ed by the party to whom due, until May 1915. Similar warrants for amounts ranging from a few dollars up into the hundreds were also lying around the office of the county clerk, pay able to many other county towns. At present there is no system whereby a notice is sent to the proper town or city officials, advis ing them of the fact that money is awaiting their order. In the handling of any other kind of business, it is customary to send out credit memorandas to all parties, to whom money is due. But Clack a.mas, county does not do this. The extra amount of clerical work and the small item of postage that would be necessary to effect this convenience, would be a minute item of expense. The same notification should be That's what you hear everyone Avho has us ed a Champion Rake for any length of time say. The Cham pion Rake is good be eause it is made good, of wearing materials, sufficiently strong to take the hard knocks and last a long time. The Champion has quick acting and sure dumping device. It rakes clean and its rake teeth are made of the best spring steel that will not get out f shape. AND TITE CITAM TION.. RAKE.. IS SOLI) AT A RIGHT PRICE. , LET QUOTE YOU, US GOOD CALL AT ANY OF THESE STORES AND LOOK OVER THE CHTMPION. OR ANY OTHER LINE " O F IMPLEMENTS .THAT MAY INTEREST YOU. Sold By W. J; WILSON CO. Oregon City Canby Hardware & Implement Co. Geo. Blatchford Molalla, Ore. ' sent to individuals, advising them of warrants payable to their order, which are on file at the office of the county clerk. Today it is costing considerable money to advertise the list of uncalled for warrants, and many of them ultimately revert to the county, after being outlawed. Unless a man happens to read the county seat paper in which such a list is 'advertised, he never knows of the money due him. Recently the advertised list showed the names of many local taxpayers, who have such warrants awaiting their order at the. dark 8 office. W hy couldn t these warrants be mailed, to the party to whom due? (Estacada Progress.) They Are 70 Years Old ., ,, For some time past my wife and myself were troubled with kidney rouble," writes T. B. Carpenter, Harrisburg, Pa. "We suffered rheu matic pains all through the body. The first few doses of Foley Kidney Pills relieved us. After taking five bottles between us we were entirely cured.- Although we were both in the seventies we are as vigorous as we were thirty years ago." Foley Kidney Pills stop sleep disturbing bladder weakness, backache, rheuma tism, dizziness, swollen joints and sore muscles. Jones Drug Co. Wolf Howls As may be judged from perusal of this column, we never tire of reading and enjoying Uncle Sam's "Daily Consular Reports." They contain a great deal of information, some of which can be understood. In a re cent number we note that the follow ing materials that are necessary in the manufacture of dye-stuffs are now made in the United States, to wit: "dinitrobenzol, dinittrotoluol, phenylenediamine and toluylenedia mine." There are also a few other things that were formerly made only in Germany. If this war keeps on, maybe the United States will not only be able to make these things, but will learn how to pronounce them as well. The Estacada Progress tells us about Tom Morton, the trapper of Estacada. According to our neigh bor, one night last week Tom land ed a skunk in the middle of the night, in a trap set for wood rat. Inasmuch as it all happened inside of his tent, he is now offering for sale cheap: one mattress, One pillow, one pair pajamas, and other supplies. Skunk, trap and tarpaulin were last seen floating down stream, with Tom sleeping under the trees.'' Truly life in the Oregon country stilr has its perils. The same number of the Estacada paper also contains the following sage remarkji : "With Oregon City raising a h5wl about the condition of their fish ladder, eastern Clackamas anglers should register a kick Champion Tedder has saved many a crop. It kicks the hay into light fluffy bunches, turns it over thoroughly and permits the sun to cure it through and through, instead of half baking it. We can prove to you that the CHAMPION TEDDER will give you more for your money than jt Ji Ji J Ji Ji tt against the perpetual closing of the fish ladders in the River Mill and Cazadero dams, for there are more sensible reasons why they should re main open than closed." We always supposed, too, that fish ladders were meant to be used. ' In spite of our civilization, the times have their peril. A friend tells us that he got on a streetcar in Portland the other day, and when that vehicle of progress reached the corner where he wanted to alight he signalled the conductor. The con ductor didn t stop. the passenger, who was a pretty husky man, remon strated, saying, "Why didn t you stop?" The conductor looked at him in disgust, and then said: "Why in blazes should I; can't you jump? ; Speaking of conductors, we had an adventure of our own with Interur ban Fare Collector 1472 the other day. He slipped us a Canadian dime along with some change, and we mildly objected, saying that we'd no ticed that conductors didn't like to take Canuck or Mexican money, tho they never hesitated about passing it out. 1472 informed us that Canadian money was legal tender in Portland and that we were altogether too fus sy. Under protest he took back the foreign cocin. Three or four miles later, as the car travels, he returned to us, shoved a Canadian half-dollar under our editorial nose and said "I don't suppose you know what that's worth, do you?" .We told him we were not interested in coinage freaks. Quite likely if we'd been in a talka tive frame of mind we would have discussed the ethics of the European war, the high cost of living, and other things. The moral is, if 1472 slips you Canadian money, shut up and be 'thankful that you .got any kind of change. Strange things come into a news paper office. If the average paper printed one-half of the material sup plied it by kind friends and others there wouldn't be enough trees left to make wood-pulp. Ye editor is not only told all the little scraps and pet ty jealousies of the town, but busy informers of one kind or another keep him posted on the "inside" of doings in the world at large. And in addit ion to this we always have the pro fessional press-agent with us, look ing for something for nothing. And the meanest of these is the press agent of the third-rate "fraternal insurance" society, who notifies the paper 'to exact publication charges from the benificiary. Some folks are too "small" even to notice. Sometimes folk are unkind enough to criticise the council of Oregon City. Once in awhile we try to have fun with them ourselves. But the county seat's solons never did any thing like the old New York board of aldermen, who one day passed a res olution that read as follows: "When ever the first Monday in July shall fall on a Sunday or other legal holi day, taxes shall Be payable the fol lowing Tuesday.'' Jt We greatly admired a cartoon in RAKE any oilier. LET US DO SO. ji ji jt jt jt ji ji ji ji jt ji jt ji ji ji ji We sell the Blizzard Silo Fill- Ji era, the Sandwich Hay Press- Ji es, Myers' Hay Tools, Stover Ji Gasoline Engines Everything Ji for the farm and road. Ji tt $ ? t,t (t The the Oregonian last week, showing W. Ilohenzollern holding President Wil son's letter in both hands. The only thing the matter with the cartoon is that The Kaiser's left arm is para lyzed, and is always draped artistic ally over his sword hilt. However, maybe Wilson's letter galvanized the war lord into unusual activity. June being close at hand, we feel we can do nothing better than to close these rambling remarks with some advice to brides, which we clip from a New York paper. The advice is so unusual that it is good. "Slip a tiny vinaigrette bottle in thepalm of the right hand glove after filling it with some good smelling salts and sniff this gently at the dragging mo ments, when you feel that you will drop if they don't hurry up and get through. "Try to forget sometimes that you are going to be married at all, for this brings about the comfortable ease of mind one needs the best part of the time to be really well. There will be plenty of time afterward to remember everything. "Eat nourishing food and give up some of the courting hours to quiet sleep, for a wedding with a tired, bride is never much of a success." Let us figure on your printing. Courier. MRS. BURR ON LAW Correspondent Believes Too Many , Statutes Are As Bad as Too Few Editor Courier: Law is a certain code or rule that is given out to keep order or to keep man from injuring or-harming his fellow beings. Now' in making law one should be ever on hisf guard that he is not setting a trap to catch in nocent and unsuspecting people. If law is made to keep one human be ing from injurying some other hu man being. Would not man be breaking the law when he created a law to catch innocent and unsus pecting people when they had no thought whatever of wronging or harming their fellow beings. A tyrant is an unreasonable be ing or creature who has no respect whatever for the rights of his fel lowman. The evil in mankind often leads him to prosecute just for the sake of prosecuting, and such a hu man being is a creature who needs to be guarded, else he breaks more laws than the man whom he prose- cutes. All things should be governed by reason, and to make one law to con flict with some other law is a point to be taken into consideration, else man lose his reason and instead of creating law to keep man from im pairing or hurting his fellow men his law would be but the law of tyrants, who had no respect for the right of fellowmen. I. have often heard it said that someone had no respect for the law. If a law is something which does no one any particular good and by not obeying such law onedoes(not harm or do injury to his fellow beings why should such a law prosecute a fellow being, where a man or wo man does no harm in not paying any attention to such a law. If a man was away out in the woods by himself he would not need any laws but the law of nature. But as soon as his fellowmen begin to inhabit the same territory, then the law of fellowship would begin. Every law that man makes should be a law to keep order and 'to keep every man from doing that which would injure his fellowmen. Every law would have to be created with reason, sound thought and good judgement, else some laws would conflict with others and the result would be confusion and would probably terminate in war. When human beings reach the point where they are hounded or are governed by a small mind they sel dom or ever harm their fellow men, but we would have to have laws to guard innocent and harmless people or man would lose his reason and nothing but brute force would re main, and we surely do not want brute force, else they throw us in a lions' den and that would unques tionably be brute force. So let us all be governed by reason and be ever on guard, and if we see a fellow being injured or harming his fellow do all we can to keep and protect innocent and honest people both great and small. And when a human being loses his reason and seeks to injure his fellow men keep a look out that he does not do it, and that will be a law of pro tection rather than a law of prose cution. We need laws of protection and only prosecution when it becomes necessary to keep man from harm ing his fellow beings. MRS. VIOLA .BURR. R. L, Holman and T. P. Randall, Leading Undertakers, Fifth and Main St.; Telephones: Pacific 415-J; Home B-18. SHRINERS TO BE HONORED Seattle To Give Lodge Men Royal Welcome at Huge Convention When the hundred thousand "or more nobles of the Shrine and their wives arrive in Seattle in July for their annual Imperial Council, the biggest convention the. Northwest has ever seen, the eastern visitors will find a separate day designated for each section of the Northwest in special tribute to its importance. British Columbia, Tacoma, Port land, Spokane, Idaho, Montana, Ever ett, Bellingham, Grays Harbor, Brem erton and the Inland Empire will be honored in this fashion. The cities which will have days named for them will include Tacoma, Portland, Spokne, Everett, Belling ham. For the other sections special events and days will be marked in order that each may be drawn par ticularly to the attention of the tour ists. Details of the tentative program as announced by Nile Temple include an entire week's events beginning Sunday, July 11. On that day, when the special trains are arriving, relig ious services will be held with Bishop Frederick W. Keator, Potentate of Afifi Temple, Tacoma, and Rev. M. -A. Matthews, Imperial Council Dele gate from Nile Temple, respectively, in charge. Both clergymen are prominent members order. of the Shrine Alleged Burglar Caught Sheriff Wilson arrested a man giv ing the name of Reuben Blue at the Clackamas tavern Saturdav nip-lit The prisoner was carrying a sack in which were what Sheriff Wilson says was a complete set of burglar tools. How are you fixed for letter heads and envelopes? Courier. How's This? We offer One Hundred Dollars Reward for any case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. P. J. CHENEY & CO.. 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