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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY. OREGON, THURSDAY JULY 1, 1915
OREGON CITY COURIER
Published Thursdays from the Courier
in the Postoffice at Oregon City,
E. R. BROWN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
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THE WESTERN CURSE
The West has many things of
which to be proud, and one thing of
which to be ashamed. We have the
most fertile fields of the nation, the
grandest forests, the mightiest peaks
and mountain ranges, the most mag
nificent of rivers, the greatest pro
duction of assorted food products, the
grandest scenery, and the most con
temptible of grafters.
We have gamblers whose play
with fortune wins our admiration on
account of its daring and its risks, we
have robbers whose boldness softens
our hearts towards their misdeeds,
we have politcians of such surpassing
cunning and skill that we are forced
to admit that they are "the limit," we
have peace officers whose bravery in
the face of peril is truly heroic, and
we have the meanest class of bunco
and con men extant.
We have the stamp of man, un
fortunately, for whom lynching is too
good. We have the cowardly, pet
ty, sneaking crook who fears to face
his victim, and who does his his dirty
work by mail with his dupe in the
East. We have the thing In man's
attire who sells imaginary agricul
tural lands to the unwary and trust
ing 2,000 miles away, and who covers
his trail so craftily that punishment
comes to him but rarely.
California and Washington for
merly had the monopoly of this sort
of game. All that is needed for the
"plant'' is some worthless stump or
alkali land situated near a thriving
agricultural region. This land is
bought by the operator for a song
and a morteaee. Photographs of
good lands are sometimes secured,
booklets describing nearby commum
ties are procured: and photos and
pamphlets are sent to a selected
"sucker list" along with an alluring
offer to sell, upon monthly payments,
land similar to that described. Often
times the promise is made that the
land purchased by the poor Eastern
dupe will be cleared and placed un
der cultivation, so that when the buy
er is ready to claim it, a producing
home will be ready. Such an offer
is apt to appeal to the Easterner,
and trusting in the fabled "Western
honesty" made famous by Bret Harte
and others, the deal is closed. The
scamp at the Western end of the net
gets the money, and the dupe gets
what the dupe usually gets nothing
but trouble, ridicule and loss.
California and Washington for
merly had the monopoly of this Bort
of cattle, but California and Wash
ington have stamped them out like
poisonous snakes, and now the
'fraid-of-their-shadow grafters are
infesting Oregon. It appears that it
would be a good plan to corral them
all and send them where they belong.
Oregon is a great Btate, it has vast
resources, and the prizes it has won
at the San Francisco fair will at
tract more than usual notice to it.
These cowardly grafters should not
be permitted to sully the fair name
of the state by selling worthless
lands, unseen, to trusting Easterners
who will believe what they rend of
Oregon in the public prints.
Oregon is too fine a state to have
the smirch of these sneaking and
cowardly robbers upon it. Lot us act
before the breed multiplies any
more.
YET ONCE AGAIN
Before the next issue of the Cour
ier goes forth to greet its readers,
and to receive their prizes or con
demnation as the case mny be yes,
we know some folk don't agree with
us there will have rolled around anil
pussed tho most weird holiday of all
on the American calendar. Wo thus
refer to the Fourth of July, the anni
versary of the birth of liberty in the
Western hemisphere, the day on
which we celebrate the independence
of this our native land.
The Fourth of July is a nationally
observed holiday, but it is not n nat
ional holiday. The greatest day in
American history has somehow been
left out of our formal holiday Isit
our only official national holiday, in
fact, is Thanksgiving. Also, oddly
enough, we have for many years
The man who runs an
automobile on a wheel
barrow income will
some day not be able
to buy a wheelbarrow.
THE BANK OF OREGON CITY
33 Years in Business
Building, Eighth Street, and entered
Ore., as 2nd class mail matter
been celebrating the Fourth of July
in anything but an American custom.
We have borrowed from the Chinese
the use of firecrackers and fire
works delightful things originally
invented and designed to frighten
devils and pacify the gods.
It is only of recent years that we
have looked askance at the Chinese
form of 'celebration with its Amer
ican improvements in deadliness and
noise-making abilty and have com
menced to observe the annversary of
our independence with something like
native methods. It now appears that
the "safe and sane Fourth" has come
to stay, however, so perhaps we are
really getting more American and
more patriotic, ana so are more
truly realizing what it is that we cel
ebrate every year.
This year we have somewhat more
than usual to celebrate. We have a
greater independence than in years
past; or at least so it seems. We see
the rest of the world, from which our
forbears broke away in 1776 or later
the forbears of some of us only
left the Old World in the last gen
eration engaged in a mad game of
pillage and death. We look with un
speakable horror on the happenings
on the other shores of the Atlantic
and the Pacific; and then turn with
a new relief and a new thankfulness
to our own independent land to rest
our eyes from the encardanined
sights we have seen afar.
The thing that made our indepen
dence possible has saved us from
this war. It is not because we are
the United States that we are not
now engaged in a death grapple with
some other power; it is because of
the principles upon which our govern
ment was founded. We are a gov
ernment of the people by the people,
we are a nation wherein the majority
rules, we are a people who think as
individuals and yet who act as one
man through the President. Be
cause of the part the people play in
our government, and because of the
individual American habit of minding
one's own business, we are free of
the war. We are independent, Amer
ica is our home and our field, and we
have not only learned that for our
selves but we have taught it to the
rest of the world. And so we are at
peace, while the major part of the
rest of "civilization'' is anything but
that.
This is not all that the Fourth of
July means to us this year. It is not
the most important thing of which
we should think when we celebrate
but nevertheless it is a part of our
celebration this year. The rest of
the things we celebrate on the nat
ional birthday all of us know and
know by heart, and occasionally think
about. Most of us will think about
thorn fleetingly for a few minutes; on
Saturday, Sunday or Monday, when
the orator of the day draws his ad
dress to a patriotic climax. And so
as not to spoil the effect of that cli
max, the Courier doesn't mention
them in advance.
Go out and celebrate the Fourth.
If you can't go to one of the big
gatherings, have a private celebra
tion of your own. Do something to
make the day different from other
days, and sometimes during the dav
find time to salute your flag, find
timo to glory in your citizenship in
the independent United States, and
find time to say truly and honestly:
"I hank God, I am an American,"
l,EST WE FORGET
Some republican newspapers have
been having fits of joy recently be
cause the government's suit to de
clare the steel combine a combina
tion in restraint of trade has blown
up from the inside. The republican
papers seem to regard the failure
of the federal side of the case us a
"slap lit Wilson and his interference
with business." They tell us with
great labor that tho failure of the
government to win its contentions is
proof positive that the democratic
idea is all wrong. They remark that
maylio now the administration will
"lenvo business alone."
Taken all in all, they are having a
perfectly lovely time.
However, lest they enjoy them-
selves too much, and work up too
much enthusiasm, the Courier rises to
remark that the suit against the
"steel trust" was filed and instigated
during the administration of William
Howard Taft, and that the papers
were drawn up and filed under the di
rection of his Attorney General
Wickersham.
Both of these gentlemen were re
publicans, the suit was launched by
a republican administration and the
Wilson regime simply fell heir to it
along with a mass of other unfinished
republican business.
Now gloat, will you?
FOR MA AND PA
This is a little heart-to-heart talk
for mother and father. If you are
neither a mother nor father, and
don't ever expect to get in this use
ful class, you'd better pass these re
marks up.
The old song used to plaintively
inquire "Where is My Wandering
Boy Tonight?'' The song is now out
of date, and we seldom hear it, ex
cept at meetings of the W. C. T. U.,
and now that Oregon has gone dry,
we presume the W. C. T. U. will cut
the song from its list, too.
It might be well to inquire, how
ever, not only as to the whereabouts
of your boy tonight, but also as to
the whereabouts of your girl. It
might even be pcrmissable to
inquire as to where your neighbor's
children are.
Two Clackamas county girls were
recently taken to a reform school by
the peace officers of this district.
Two boys, who were accused of hav
ing contributed materially to the
downfall of these girls, were arrest
ed, but a jury of men found one of
them not guilty owing to a technical
flaw in the evidence, and both boys
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were turned loose with only a rep
rimand from the court. After "jus
tice" hud thusly dealt with the young
people in the case, some sage busy
body remarked that it was too bad
the parents of the girls hadn't
brought them up better.
Owing to tho double standard of
morals, which seems to be accepted
quite generally hereabouts, any
young lothario may gallivant around
the country and not suffer very
much, but any girl who makes a mis
step goes to the reform school or
worse if she is found out. One of
these days the father of one of these
girls is going to see the wrong of i
this sort of thing, and is going to
take a nice, powerful rifle and go
gunning for the boy in the case.
Then there will be a murder, a trial,
a lot of slush about the "unwritten
law," and ill feelings and general dis
satisfaction all around.
Don't you think it would be bet
ter, you mothers and fathers, if you
called a halt before this over-due
shooting comes off? Don't you
think it might be well to look into
the morals of the dances that the
young folk attend, and also into the
week-end picnics that are staged at
the various "parks" in this county,
most of which feature a Saturday
night dance?
The Courier doesn't believe in
j prudery or in blue-laws, or in trying
to curb the animal spirits of the
young. It doesn't expect the im
possible to happen. And, also, the
Courier doesn't believe in the double
standard of morals. The Courier
thinks it is just as wrong for a boy
to overstep the line as it is for a girl
to do it; and, by the same token, the
Courier thinks a girl has a right to
demand just as much decency in the
man she is going to marry as a man
has to insist on decency in the wo
man he hopes to make his wife.
For this reason this paper believes
that it might be well, at this time
in particular, for mother and father
to put on their wraps at night and
go and take a look around. Let them
go to the Saturday night dance, let
them stroll down the road in the dusk
or let them wander along the banks
of the river. Then let them go home
and think about what they have seen
and figure it out for themselves.
And after they have thought it out,
let them hold a family conference and
talk the matter over.
That is the only way conditions
will be bettered; and the sooner every
mother and father realizes that
THEIR daughter or THEIR son may
be contributing to the unhappiness of
this world, the sooner will there be
less sorrow and grief and repentance
when it is too late.
Think it over, ma; and you
likewise, dad.
do
FREE SCHOOL BOOKS
Frequent discussion of the cost of
free text books for our public
schools is one of the joys of our
present day civilization in Oregon.
Usually it is argued that free text
books would put too great a burden
on the taxpayer. To shed some
light on this, the Courier reprints
with pleasure the following govern-
ment report on the matter, taken !
from tlu Commerce Reoorts of June I
10".
Greatly exaggerated ideas prevail
concerning the total number of text
books sold in the United States each
year and the annual profits result
ing from such salos. Confidential
data obtained by the United States
Bureau of Education from 43 text-
book publishers in the United States i
how that their aggregate total
sales of textbooks for use in public
and private schools in 1913 amount
ed to $17,274,030. The aggregate
for public schools, elementary
and
high, amounted to $l4,Jt)l,ib
The total enrollment in public ele
mentary and high schools for the
year was approximately 18,609,040.
Excluding the elementary-school en
rollment of California, since Califor
nia prints its own elementary books,
the number becomes 18,213,786. For
each child enrolled in the public
schools in the United States, there
fore, the total annual sales of text
books is 78.3 cents. The total ex
penditure per child for all school
purposes is approximately $38.31.
The cost of textbooks is thus ap
proximately two per cent of the to
tal cost of maintenance, support and
eqipment. The cost per child on the
school-population basis (5 to IS
years of age) is 56.6 cents; the an
nual per capita cost of textbooks on
the total-population basis is less than
IS cents.
These figures indicate that there
is little ground for the fear some
times expressed that the introduc
tion of free textbooks will add great
ly to the cost of the public-school
system and will greatly increase the
rate of taxation for school purposes.
As a matter of fact, the cost for
textbooks is a relatively small item
in the total expenditure for school
purposes.
Bureau of Education officials feel
convinced that the figures obtained
afford a trustworthy statement of
the real facts about the size of the
schoolbook business. The 43 firms
from which data were obtained
handle probably 99 per cent of the
total textbook sales in this country.
Besides California, Kansas also now
prints its own textbooks, but the
plan was not in operation in 1913.
Wolf Howls
"SUBMARINE HITS WHEAT,"
says a newspaper headline. Ydu can
never tell where the pesky things
will get.
Great minds differ. Pastor Rus-'
sell says we are now entering upon
the contest of Armageddon. Roose
velt said that the last republican con
vention was Armageddon. Who's a
liar?
David Grayson, in the July Ameri
can Magazine, says "in the country
there is always such a consuming and
ungratified need of something to
Supply Goods?
engines, pressure systems, etc.
The
laugh at." Maybe so in the East, but
in Clackamas county the farmers
have the Oregon City council as a
perpetual source of mirth.
In the Spokane county jail re
cently, according to our friend and
philosopher, Robert Hunter Doble, a
prisoner volunteered to play upon the
organ brought in by a visiting evan
gelist. The evangelist balked, say-
ing: "What, you play on uoa s or
gan, you who have never been sav
ed?" Nice, Christian sentiment for
the evangelist, wasn't it?
In the current number of Farm
and Fireside appears an article en
titled "How to make the Hired Man
work harder." From our observa
tion of hired men we think it would
be much more interesting to have an
article on "How to make the Hired
Man Work.' After solving that
problem we might go on to the next
one, and make him work harder.
Councilman Henry Templeton, who
sharpens the city lawn mower for a
dollar a throw every now and then,
remarked last week that if the pool
halls were closed on Sunday the
boys would go out in the woods and
gamble. We wonder where Mr.
Templeton discovered that all the
Oregon City boys were born gam
blers, and were only kept from
ii
wagering their pay-checks by the re
straining influences of kelly-pool and
billiards?
The Rev. T. B. Ford evidently
reads his Bible, and profits there
by. Last week he invited the mayor
and city council to. attend patriotic
services in his church, and duly sep
arated the sheep from the goats by
adding that the mayor would be
given a seat on the platform, and
that seats for the council would be
reserved in the body of the church.
Queuy which are the goats and
which the sheep?
-
Other ministers, too, are men of
discernment. The Rev. Dwight New
ell Hillis, who will appear on the
Chautauqua circuit this year, offic
iated, soon after taking the pulpit
at Plymouth church, Brooklyn, at a
banquet tendered a man who had
been an usher in old Plymouth for
fifty years. On each table were two
bottles of wine that is, on each table
but the press table. On the special
banquet board reserved for the news
papermen there were two bottles of
wine at each place. Yes, there was
a good "write-up" of the banquet in
all the papers the next day.
Who says the country newspaper
has not taught the world something?
How often have we read in the Bing
ville Bugle some such item as this:
"As we go to press Farmer Brown's
barn is burning. Full particulars in
our next issue." And now comes
Consul E. A. Wakefield, stationed at
Port Elizabeth, and in the Daily Con
sular Reports, says: "The market
for ostrich feathers has improved
further particulars by
next mail.'' We wait in suspense,
even as we used to do when we read
the old-fashioned country paper.
And now the unkindest blow of
all has fallen. Portland papers
please take notice. In the Daily Con
sular Reports for June 16 is a two
and a half page article on "Harbor
Improvements at Portland, Oregon."
And by whom do you suppose it is
written? No. Mr. Piper No. It
is by W. B. Henderson, of SEATTLE,
WASHINGTON. It has come to
this a Seattle man has to boost
Portland! Well, we are glad some
body did it, anyway.
Another fond dream of our child
hood is shattered. We used to think
orange marmalade was made in Dun
dee, Scotland, and that it 'was al
most next to haggis as a native
Scotch delicacy. And now we learn
through the assorted news that our
Uncle Samuel, at Washington D. C,
sends us that "so great is the demand
for marmalade in London that Span
ish shippers are still sending bitter
oranges, which have just arrived on
the English market. It is, of course,
abnormally late for the fruit."
Man wants but little here below,
but he wants that little mighty bad.
Here are some of the things that
Great Britain wants, according to the
Board of Trade Journal, of London,
England: bent timber, bronze pow
der, cheap playing cards, chip boxes
(British gamblers must be pikers!)
dolls' eyes, Kaffir mirrors, military
badge buttons, mouth harmonicas,
slate paper, tin bootlace tags, lumi
nous paint, pea jackets, prepared nat
$1,635,000 Hidden
In This Year's Goodyear Tires
Here are amazing facts:
Goodyear Fortified Tires
contain five costly features
found in no other tire. They
have other features not com
mon. If we omitted those features,
this year's probable output
would cost us $1,635,000
less. We could add that
much to our profits. And
you would never know it until
troubles came.
This year's improvements
alone will cost us $500,000
yearly. Most of this goes
into extra rubber all into ex-
trawear. And
weshailspend
on research
$100,000 this
year to find
other better
ments strll.
GoodJIyear
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Tires in Stock
OREGON CITY Pacific Highway Garage
Otto Menke
WOODBURX S. E. Brune & Sons
H. F. Scholl
ural foliage for decorations, Scotch .
wool pants and screw stoppers. Isn't
that a heluva list for a nation that is
at war?
Times must be hard in New Zea
land. An American consular officer
reports that there is a shortage of
gas pipes. In this neck of the woods
when a man goes looking for a piece
of gas pipe the sheriff usually be
gins to expect a hold-up.
Fine chance to sell two Fords.
Consul Chester Donaldson, at Port
Limon, Costa Rica, reports "-there are
no agents or dealers in automobiles
in this district, but there are two
possible purchasers.''
And now, ladies and gents, let us
conclude this meeting by rising and
all singing together:
The boy stood on the burning
deck, .
But did not seem to care;
He said . "I've just come from
Frisco,
And its hotter
down there."
R. I,. Holman and T. P. Randall,
Leading Undertakers, Fifth and Main
St.; Telephones: Pacific 415-J; Home
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And that was our third re
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These extra features
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