OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY AUGUST 5, 1915.
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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.
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