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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 1915. OREGON CITY COURIER Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth Street, and entered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as 2nd class mail matter E. R. BROWN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Pacific 51 j Home A-51. THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES PLEASANT NEWS It is to be noted that recent news dispatches announce that no rocks were thrown at the Liberty Bell while it was journeying through Eas tern Oregon. From Pendleton comes the statement of a special agent of the Oregon-Washington Railroad & Navigation company that the rocks that hit the bell were dislodged by the jarring of the train as it passed through a cut. The special agent is reported to have investigated the matter thoroughly, and to have dis covered that the small boys who were standing beside the track when the bell passed and when the rocks hit it had notihng to do with the bom bardment. This is pleasing news. Of course there may be carping critics who think it strange that the Liberty Bell special, proceeding carefully at a anned not. in excess of 23 miles an hour, should loosen rocks upon the side of a railroad cut in such a cur inns wav that thev bounced down and hit the most hallowed relic of Amer ican independence while passenger trains, dashing along over the same track before and after at much great er speeds had no windows smashed by similarly dislodged and bounding rnrks. And there mav be other carping critics who . will think that "boys will be boys" and that the rail rnml romnanv is erraeefullv lying to save the reputation of the state of Oregon. To some people, when a railroad company will admit that the sides of its cuts are so loose that a passing train is liable to jar rocks loose against the Liberty Bell, there is occasion for distrust and wonder ment. However, let that pass. Maybe ihn hnvB threw the stones in an ex- huberance of spirits; or maybe the . vibration of the train jarrea tnem loos. In either event, the railroad company has assumed the blame, and thus removes from the state the charge that the bell was not regard ed by. Oregonians with due respect. Real Americans who live within Ore gon's borders will be glad that the "investigation'' has resulted as an nounced, and they will hope that the explanation will be accepted else where in the spirit in. which it is made. And, also, real, true, patriotic citi zens who live in this state will for a long time feel grateful to the O.-W. R. & N. for saving the reputation of the state at the expense of the repu tation of its own cuts. That is truly heroic on the prt of the railroad company. Never again let it be said that the railroads have done nothing for this state! SIGNS OF SENSE It appears that with the advent of a democratic national administration there has come a change into the forestry service! and a change for the better. No longer do we have the l'inchot brand of conservation, which tied up thousands of acres of perfectly good agricultural land, and which made the West hate the feder al government almost to the point of treason. Instead we are having something that approaches a common sense control of our forest reserves, and the people no longer feel that the public domain is being cared for by a bunch of theoretical fools who never saw a fir tree. A recent report issued by the For est Service tells of the efforts that are being mado to eliminate from the timber reserves all land that is really agricultural land. To show what a change has come over the service since the days of the Pinchot fanatics, we quote the following enlightening paragraphs: "The Government is withholding from agricultural entry all heavily timbered land until after the timber is cut off. As soon as this is done, the land will be opened to entry and settlers will be able to acquire direct ly from the Government, without cost, instead of having to pay from $11) to $G0 an acre to land specula tors. For example, on the Kaniksu National Forest in Idaho and Wash ington, the Government's timber sales have been made to include much of the remaining timbered agricultural land. Within eight years fully 10,000 acres will be made available for settlement. Permanent homes will be established by the settlers, and there will be available for the use of communities approximately $225,000 for roads and schools, their legal share of the proceeds from the timber sales. Private ownership of heavily timbered agricultural land blocks farming development, says the article; government ownership in sures such development under con ditions that give opportunities to the small settler whose only capital is his strength and courageous persever ance. "To show how thorough is the land classification work of the Forest Ser vice, the Kootenai Valley in Montana maj De taken as an example, contin ues the article. Here a large river winds for 150 miles thru the National Forest. At many points steep, densely forested hills drop down to the water's edge, making the valley a gorge or canyon. Here and there bars in the river have resulted in de posits of silt, forming long, narrow bottoms, or level islands, which are very fertile. Part way up the moun tain slopes occasional benches of land afford a few acres of fertile soil. At first it was proposed to throw out the entire valley, a strip three miles in width on either side of the river. Ninety-five per cent of this belt, how ever, is non-agricultural land whose cultivation should not be attempted. Its best use to a local community, as well as to the country at large, is for timber growing. So instead of opening the whole valley to public entry by settlers, the Forest Service has painstakingly surveyed every lit tie river bottom, island or bench, which contains enough arable land to support a home. Many of these patches are small, but their soil is so fertile that homes can be maintained on them by intensive truck farming or orcharding. In this fashion, more than three hundred farms have been carved out of this valley of the Koote nai National Forest. ' If for nothing else than this bring ing of common sense into the affairs of the national forests, the West has cause to be everlastingly grateful to the Wilson administration. THE LOOPHOLE Efforts of certain influences in Oregon City to so "regulate'' jitneys that there will be no profit to be mado by automobiles plying between the county seat and ortland may prove to be quite fruitless, even if freak ordinances designed for this purpose are bluffed through the coun cil. Portland s city government has been having its share of fun with the jitneys of lute, and has discovered that even if its ordinances hold good they leave a beautiful loophole for "interurban jitneys." This discovery was made when the Portland police undertook to "regu lute" certain jitneys that ply on a regular schedule between Greshnm and the metropolis. These jits had not complied with the fancy provis ions of the Portland ordinance, and the drivers of two cars were arrest ed and escorted to the police station. There an attorney employed by the jitneys in question politely told the police that the Gresham-Portland cars were not jitneys at all, but were public stages plying between Port land and Grcshum. They carried no passengers to points within the city limits of Portland, but all their traf fic was through and outside haul. And after discussion of the matter with Portland legal luminaries, the police let the Gresham jitney man' go. Efforts to embarass the Portland Oregon City jitneys may bring up a similar situation here, if the anti jitney cohorts continue their cam paign. The cars that run between the county seat and the metropolis travel about an eighth of a block within the city limits of Oregon City. They do not carry passengers to any point in Oregon City except their terminal stand, and they are like the Gresham jitneys, public stages oper ating between the county seat and Portland. And as such there is grave doubt if the city can "regulate" When you go into a shoe store you don't buy the first pair of shoes you see. You are personally fitted. Why not apply the same rule to the selection of your Bank? We are a Bank of Personal Service. T.HE BANK OF OREGON CITY 34 Years in Business PortlandrOregon City jitneys. It be lieves that they should pay a reason able tax for the wear and tear they give the county roads. But, at the same time, the Courier does not like to see the city attempt to "regulate" these jitneys when such "regulation" is only a bluff to cut down their profits. Oregon City can stand all the various kinds of transportation them to any great degree. The Courier holds no brief for the cil not the present one, but another quite similar to it once upon a time let certain interests keep the Oregon Electric out of this city; and has been regretting it ever since. When the Carver line franchise was up, this former mistake was the subject of much councilmanic oratory. And while the jitneys may not of fer the same sort of service that is to be expected from a railroad com pany, they nevertheless provide a means of transportation to Oregon City and the county seat needs all the means of communication with the rest of the world that it can get. Therefor it is poor policy to nag the jitneys and it is still poorer policy to do it if it develops, as in the case of the Portland-Gresham cars, that the city has no authority so to act. Better leave the poor jits alone, and put it up to the county to tax them for the use of the county roads. It will be cheaper, less foolish, and in the long run it will prove the best thing that can be done. THE KILLER In the days of old when your con quering hero went out to battle he killed a sheep or a goat or a bull, or maybe a captive man or two, as an offering to the gods so that he might get victory. And today when your cinceited pol- murderer he was made out." Before Gov. Whitman refused to commute Becker's sentence it developed that Rosenthal probably had been killed at the orders of Big Tim Sullivan and other high Tammany chieftans not because Rosenthal was going to "squeal on. Becker," but because he was going to "squeal on Tammany.'' Rosenthal was going to tell New York the identity of "the men higher up" men so high up that they con trolled Becker and the police depart ment, as well as the gangs of gun men on the East Side. It was for this that Rosenthal was shot down from the grey death-car and Whit man knew it. But Becker was head of the "strong-arm squad' of the New York police. For reasons of police poli tics he had blocked plans of Whti man the district attorney just as other police officials always fought Jerome; just as the police in New York have always warred against the county prosecutor just as the police do everywhere. And Whitman saw a chance to "get" Becker for this, and at the same time to make a play to popular favor a play that carried him into the governor's chair. And then, thinking that to pose as a killer would bring him fame and popularity elsewhere, Whitman kept on fight ing Becker the poor official goat of the Rosenthal mess and not only did he see to it that he was electro cuted, but he charged Becker with having assisted his first wife to die an unnatural death. That's the kind of a man Whit man is, it appears. That's the calibre of a "republican possibility for presi dent." Well, maybe Becker died in a e-ood cause, then. Maybe it was worth his death to thoroughly "show up'' this Whitman praty. But at that we'd rather be Becker the supervisor system? Isn't that something nice to tell people out side people who have never seen Clackamas county roads? BUT WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO SAY TO PEOPLE WHO HAVE SEEN THE ROADS, or who have traveled over them ? How are you going to justify the squandering of $368,214.85 on the things that are called roads hereabouts? WHAT WAS DONE WITH THE MONEY? Wolf Howls C. C. Chapman, who publishes the "Oregon Voter," tells of a dairy in spector who found a farmer strain ing milk through a pair of overalls, and then asks: "Why strain the milk, why not drink it straight?" This reminds us of a butcher we once met, who sold us meat that de veloped crawling things after we took it home. We took the meat back, and showed the reptiles to the but cher. "That's funny,'' he said, "the weather has been cool, too. Them things don't usually grow in my meat before the middle of summer." It is odd how lightning strikes in unexpected places. And also how people who are not at all concerned sometimes take offense at remarks that appear in the newspapers. A couple of weeks ago in these Wolf Howls it was mentioned that some people who were doing .what they called God's work ought to realize that God could do His own work quite It's the little things in life that count RIGHT NOW, MR. FARMER You will have need of a number of little things for your harvest work Binder Twine Bale Ties Tank Pumps Harvest Oil Pitcher Pumps Hitches Singletrees Etc. It's a fin thing there are 3 stores in this county that can supply all your needs promptly and at low prices- Soli By W. J. WILSON CO. Oregon City Canby Hardware & Implement Co. Geo. Blatchford Molalla, Ore. The ines that it can get. The city coun- iticinn goes out to make a race lor the republican nomination for the presidency he kills a man so as to curry to popular favor. Moaning this Whitman person, governor of New York, and spoken of as the head end of a ticket of which Jonathan Bourne shall be the hind end. The only reason wny Whitman re fused to commute the sentence of Charles Becker was because he thought that if he deviated from the plan of killing Becker, which he originated when he was district at torney of New York, he would be weakening his political chances. Whitman knew there was a doubt in the Becker case, he nearly broke down when he gave Becker's wife an inter view an interview which he tried dishonorably to dodge, by the way he besmirched Becker's character at the last minute, and he set his biased judgment up against everything, say ing that HE "knew" there could be no new evidence. In other words Whitman killed Becker to make a political boom. And when Becker thus died, so died also all future chance for Whit man in public office. As Mrs. Becker told the governor when she was making a last plea for her husband's life: "Charles Becker was no saint, but he was not the foul in the chair than Whitman in the presence of his own conscience. THROWING IT AWAY According to a report compiled by John Y. Richardson, expert account ant, and published under the records of tho insurance commissioner, Clack amas county spent $31)8,214 for its roads in 1914. Only four counties in tho state snent more than this j Multnomah, Clatsop, Jackson and Co I lumbia. And the lust three spent ' Ku.t.ina tli,.v hnml ci- sues. According to the report, then, Clackamas county spent more of its taxpayers' money for road work than any other county save Multnomah during 1914. Bond issue expenses do not come out of the taxpayers' pockets the first year. Clackamas county spent road funds at the rate of $9.99 per capita, while Multnomah spent it at the rate of $2.75 per capita. And these figures do not in clude sums that were spent on briges and ferries. WHERE IN THE NAME OF SER VICE DID THIS $308,214.85 GO? Over three hundred and sixty thou sand dollars spent on roads in this county in one year last year. Isn't that a fine thing to have on record as a state document? Doesn't that make you proud of your county and satisfactorily. And the only person who kicked about it was Rev. W. T. Milliken! The Gresham Outlook suggests that Henry Ford ought to make his cute little automobiles two feet short erso they could get more of them on the road. Why not make the roads longer, instead? We know a young man who has been buying five-pound boxes of candy for his lady love about twice a week, and then helping her eat 'em. Lately he complained of feeling poor ly and visited a doctor, paying him three dollars for medical advice. "Your stomach is out of whack," said the sawbones, "better stop eating rich food and live on dry toast and tea for awhile." -The question now is: "shall the youth stop buying candy for his love, or just stop helping her eat it? In a list of standard Swiss dye stuffs we find a pretty color scheme of the present European slaughter fest. Among the colors we note "Persian yellow,'' "Bismarck brown," "Alsace green," "Mikado orange," "Victoria blues," "English navy blue" and down at the end of the list "NEUTRAL RED." Some of the colors seem to be quite approrpiately named. The Port Elizabeth (South Africa) ostrich feather market reopened last month, after a dull fleason. Here are the classes of osrtich feath ers that were sold: "very ordinary fpmminas." "narrow lemmmav "good femminas," "poor chicks, rub bish," "poor whites," "ordinary long blacks," "good drabs" and "ordinary tails.'' Sounds like a sort of social register, doesn't it? Our Uncle Samuel, at Washington D. C, who sends us the Daily Con sular Reports, gives us an interesting sidelight upon life in England in a recent edition. Consul Samuel M. Taylor, at Birmingham, writes that "the trade in cheap jewelry is good and getting better. Expanding brace lets are in demand, - as are lockets, wedding rings, signet rings and dress rings selling at about $25. Wristlet watches for soldiers are also widely sold." Thus we see that Tommy At kins, before leaving for the front, buys a lot of cheap jewery for his sweethearts, and gets in return a "wristlet watch." Ain't that cute? , .. ' And speaking of these Daily Con sular Reports, the Courier hopes that folks notice that we ourselves never take any credit for the wonders that the reports contain. Not so with the Scripps-McRae papers, however, we see that they often publish them. and say over the top "written for the News by Consul So-and-So at Such and-such-a-place." This is the cheap est graft in the "special correspond ence" line we have seen. Consul Homer M. Bying,ton, at Leeds, England, says there is a good chance for fire-engine firms to un load something at Tadcaster, and to prove it tells us this thrilling tale "Recently the fine old English country estate of Healaugh Manor, near Tadcaster, was threatened with destruction' by fire, but the Leeds Fire Brigade raced to the scene on their motor engine and, with the as sistance of the York Fire Brigade (horse-drawn engine), which arrived later, succeeded in saving the main building. Tadcaster is 9 miles dis tant from York and 14 miles distant from Leeds, but depends upon the fire brigades of these cities (summon ed by telephone) in serious confla grations. The Tadcaster Parish Council are reported to have consider ed the proposition of purchasing fire apparatus upon several occasions, but each time the scheme was rejected." Last fall we raved about 'the im portation of Chinese eggs and Aus tralian butter, and local farmers did not like the competition of foreign sources of supply. And now Consul General Anderson, at Hongkong, tells of the shipment of 30 tons of Pacific Coast butter from an Francisco to China, with contracts for 20 tons a month more. This American butter sells in South China for 50 cents a pound, gold. We suppose Chinese dairymen will now kick as the Oregon dairymen did last year. Turn about is fair play. "An American consular officer in Ireland'' reports that a manufacturer wants at once "three or four hair- teasing machines." Further reading brings out the-fact tnat tne teasers are wanted for "working pig's hair." It seems almost cruelty to use a ma chine to "tease" hair, doesn't it? Better stuff next week. TAFT AND BRYAN Opposite Stands Taken by PartyLead ers of Former Days It is nuite interesting to note the "sterling democracy" of W. J. Bryan fhpse davs. While President Wilson is being lauded by ex-president Wil liam Howard Taft, and while the ior- mer reDubilcan leader is calling upon all true Americans to support the President, Willie Bryan is saying but little. Mr. Taft has directly praised President Wilson's last German note, pronouncing it a document that will make much history. Mr. Bryan has not said a word about it. On the other hand Bryan has yap ped about the "unfitness"' of including in the democratic platform planks fa voring universal suffrage or prohibi tion. Universal suffrage and prohi bition are at the heyday of their pop ularity now, and in condemning them for democrats, Bryan can hardly be said to be throwing roses in the path of the administration or his party. And while considering . Bryan's "negative support . of Wilson," it is also interesting to note that the New York Tribune, the most fervidly "stand-pat republican'' paper of the United States, recently remarked edi torially that it was folly for the re publicans to oppose Wilson at this time of national crisis. It would be better, said the Tribune, for repub licans to endorse Wilson for president in 1916 than it would to put up an op posing candidate, for Wilson's hand ling of American affairs in the Euror pean crisis has been such as to make antagonism of him little less than treason. With Taft and the Tribune speak ing as they do of the President "friend Bryan" cuts a sorry figure in the democratic camp. BIG DEED FILED Molalla Branch of S. P. Turned Over to Parent System Formal transfer of the Canby & Molalla railroad from control of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern to the ' Southern Pacific was made this week, when a deed covering the property was filed with Recorder Dedman. The consideration involved is given as $115,506.43, and makes this the larg est deed filed here since the transfer of the Oregon City locks to the gov ernment. The Southern Pacific system is ab sorbing all the lines and trackage of the Portland, Eugene & Eastern, which was incorporated to control the elec tric lines of the big railroad system in Oregon. While the transfer is made to the Southern Pacific, actual opera tion of the old P. & E. lines will be under the title of the Oregon & Cal ifornia railroad a subsidiary of the Southern Pacific. The Courier for job printing. Office phones: Main 50, A50; Res. phones, M. 2524,1715 Home B25L, D251 WILLIAMS BROS. TRANSFER & STORAGE Office 612 Main Street Safe, Piano, and Furniture Moving a Specialty Sand, Gravel, Cement, Lime, Plaster, Common Brick, Face Brick, Fire Brick . D. C. LATOURETTE, President. F. J. MEYER, Cashier. THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF OREGON CITY, OREGON CAPITAL $50,000.00. Transacts a General Banking Business Open From 9 A. 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