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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, AUGUST 19, 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
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ON BEING PENNY WISE
Maple Lane local of the state
grange has gone on record as being
opposed to the employment in this
country of a federal farm expert.
The local, in a set of resolutions pub
lished in the Courier last week, ex
presses the opinion that "we are al
ready afflicted with too much expens
ive and useless commissioners'' and
"we greatly fear that our l'J15 taxes
will eclipse any previous effort." And
primarily for these reasons Maple
Lane does not want the county court
to pay its share of the cost of a fed
eral farm expert who would labor in
Clackamas county.
There appears to be a confusion
of ideas among Maple Lane folk. In
the first place they fear higher taxes,
and in the second place they seem to
believe that a federal farm expert will
be about as useful as a road super
visor trying to make a hard surfice
road out of rolled, wet, sand. Maple
Lane is justified in not wanting high
er taxes; but the community does
Uncle Sam an injustice in thinking
that federal expert agriculturists
don't know their business.
If there is any bureau in our na
tional government that is doing real
and great work for the developemnt
of these United States, it is the de
partment of agriculture. Sometimes
the Department of Agriculture moves
in durk and mysterious ways. Oc
casionally it establishes an experi
mental station that does not appear
to be of material benefit to the com
munity in which it is placed. For in
stance there is the famous "Dutch
bulb farm" near Bellingham. Bel
lingham, and Whatcom county, Wash
ington, are more interested in mines
and fruit raising than in Dutch bulbs,
but in spite of that the Dutch buib
farm is doing valuable work. And
every government experimental sta
tion is doing good work, and is pub
lishing its findings in frequent bul
letins, which are of inestimable value
to those who study them.
Moreover, the government agricul
tural experts are men who are devoted
to their work, men who want to make
two stalks grow where none grew be
fore. They are not typical of many
government employees, who are on
the job solely for the salary they get.
They don't get much salary, but they
are on the job because a love of plant
life is born in them, and because they
would rather work around beds of
growing things than do anything else
in the world. And they can help any
and all who listen to their advice.
While the employment of a federal
expert in the county might add a frac
tion of a mill to the tax rate, there is
every reason to believe that a little
good advice on how to run a farm, or
how to rotate crops, on how to breed
stock, on how to abate insect pests,
might d6 a very great deal for the
farmers. In fact such advice that
the government offers would enable
the farmers to so increase their profits
that they would not object to paying
the fraction of a mill in extra taxes.
Clackamas county has some superb
farms. Clackamas county has a soil
that is filled with life-energy for near
ly all kinds of crops. Clackamas
county ought to be the banner farm
ing county of the Willamette valley,
for it has everything in its favor. But
there are many farms in this county
that do not pay the interest upVn the
mortgages that grace them and
these farms fail to pay simply be
cause the men or women who operate
them do not take advantage of the
opportunities that the soil, location
and climate offer. A federal agri
culturist, a federal farm expert, would
be able to tell these unfortunate farm
ers how to get double or treble tho
returns from the land that they now
get. Thus they would pay the slight
increase in taxation that might bo
caused if the county paipd its share
of the expert's salary.
It is to be hoped that the grange
as a whole will ask tho county court
to nvuil itself of the opportunity of
getting federal advice for Clackamas
county farmers. It is penny wise
and pound foolish to object to the em
ployment of such an expert on the
grounds that it would increase taxa
tion. The grange ns a whole seems
to take tliis view of the matter, and
local owing perhaps to local condi
tions and prejudices should go on
record as being opposed to the plan
The Courier trusts that when the
grange meets again in October, favor
able action will be taken in the matter
of securing the services of a govern
ment expert for this county.
HINT TO WRITERS
The Courier has long been proud
of the fact that it holds its columns
open to correspondents, and that it
offers a public forum from which any
man or woman may express his or
her views upon questions of public or
semi-public interest. The Courier be
lieves that one of the fields of a coun
try newspaper can perform valuable
service for the community it serves
is in offering a medium for the open
interchange of views of any subjects
which may interest the reading pub
lic. For this reason the Courier has per
mitted the greatest leeway possible
to those who favor it with letters or
articles. This paper asks only that
the letters be signed by the names of
the writers, as proof of the good
faith in which they are offered. If
requested the name will not be pub
lished. However, this leeway cannot
be stretched to cover personal abuse
or libel.
The Courier is constrained to men
tion this just now because a number
of recent communications have con
tained matter .which the editor has
felt forced to "censor." The editor
does not enjoy the role of "censor"
he has troubles enough of his own.
Some articles have needed so much
"censoring" that they have been bod
ily thrown in the waste-basket, much
to the regret of this paper, and prob
ably to the regret of the writer, too.
Correspondents are invited to air
their views in the columns of the Cour
ier. But they are requested not to
take advantage of the security offer
ed by the printed page, and are re
spectfully asked not to make state
ments which they would hesitate to
make if talking in the presence of the
person whom they may be discussing.
One of our correspondents will notice
that his estimation of the character
of the late Chief Justice John Mar
shall was removed last week by the
editor of the Courier. John Marshall
is dead now, be has been dead quite
a long time; but the majority of the
people of the United States look upon
his life-work as being one of the fin
est things of American citizenship has
produced. For that reason the editor
of this paper, who believes, as do oth
er Americans, was constrained to
"cut" the views of the write regard
ing the entrepreter of the Canstitu
tion. Express your views freely and open
ly when you write to the Courier, but
be us liberal in your language as you
would like to have people in their es
timate of yourself. Then the Courier
will welcome you to its columns. But
do not try to vent personal spleen in
your letters, for the columns of this
paper are not designed to enable folks
to unjustly attack other people. This
is an American newspaper, it has
American ideals and American toler
ance of the ideas of the people, and it
believes in fair play. But that is as
far as it goes.
SANE MANAGEMENT
Proof of the benefits of "sane con
servation'' under tho Wilson adminis
tration is to be found in the report of I
the Forestry Service for the fiscal
year ending June .'10, li)15. Use of
the national forsets has been permit
ted whenever possible under tho san
ity of democratic control, and the
fanciful conservation of 1'inchot and
his chorts has been supplanted by a
reasonable appreciation of the great
woods of the United States.
IXiring tho fiscal year just ended
there was turned into tho national
treasury from tho forests under fed
eral control two and a half million
dollars, and increase of $10,000 over
tho receipts of the previous year.
This gain was made in spite of the
low lumber prices offered, and in
spite of tho demoralization of allied
trades by war. It is proof of the
it is' to be regretted that Maple Lane fact that .sense in administering the
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Safety.
THE BANK OF OREGON CITY
34 Years in Business
affairs of the national forests pays
well, both financially and in the bene
fit to the forests themselves.
Timber sales, which amounted to
$1,164,000, yielded on account of the
depressed condition of the lumber in
dustry about $79,000 less than those
of the previous fiscal year, but' the
gain was made possible by larger
revenues from other sources. The
grazing receipts, which totaled $1,125,
000, increased $127,000 over "last
year, and the water power receipts,
which amounted to not quite $90,000,
showed an increase of nearly $42,000.
The demoralization of the turpen
tine industry on account of the war's
curtailment of the naval stores mar
ket caused the receipts from the sale
of turpentining privileges on the
National Forests to drop about $9,000
as against nearly $15,000 last year.
The sale of special use permits, un
der which all sorts of enterprises,
from apiaries to whaling stations, are
operated on the Forests, yielded near
ly $78,000, an increase of $9,000 over
last year. There was a decrease of
nearly $.'37,000 in the revenue derived
by the settlement of trespass cases
in which Government timber had
been cut without intent to defraud,
the revenue from this source being
only a little more than $3,000. More
than $7,000, however, was collected
from other timber trespass cases.
Grazing trespass cases yielded nearly
$0,000, an increase of about $1,000;
occupancy trespass cases, which
occurred in only one of the seven for
est districts, turned in something less
than $250; about $60 was derived
from turpentine trespass cases, and
$GG0 from fire trespass cases, the
latter being more than $7,000 less
than the amount collected in the pre
vious fiscal year for damage to Gov
ernment property through fires care-
pavement for $1,10 per square yard.
Which would make it appear that the
Warren's were looking for an unrea
sonable prifit.
The same number of the Building
Record also has a brief announcement
to the effect that the Standard Pav
ing company, of 627 Pittock block,
Porland, was about ready to lay 14,
000 yards of asphaltic concrete in Ore
gon City. That is probably correct
but what happened to the Worswick
Paving company, that was supposed
to have received the contract? Did
it change its name, or did it farm the
contract out. And if it farmed it out,
what is it paying the Standard com
pany to do the work for?
HOME TO ROOST
One of the Willamette Valley pa
pers last week contained the follow
ing: "Oregon City's fire department
. . . served notice that if its
work was not enough appreciat
ed to merit contributions from
the business men to help it de
fray the expenses of the big
tournament it would disband.
Similar comment upon municipal
unpleasantness was to be found in oth
er papers. Oregon City's business
men must enjoy knowing that they
were thus advertised. They got this
noteriety because local correspond
ents of Portland papers sent out en
thusiastic accounts of the way which
the Live Wires and the Commercial
Club had failed to get assistance for
the firemen. Thus throughout the
state Oregon City business men were
branded as stingy and so exceedingly
penurious that they wouldn't help
their own firefighters get up an "en
tertainment fund" for visitors to the
city.
It was a peculiar situation, all
them. They are well worth reading
and considering:
The trouble with the rich Willam
ette valley country is that too much
money goes out and stays out.
Very few banks are increasing their
deposits, and a lot of them are de
creasing. Automobile buying is sending a
steady stream of gold out of this val
ley and it doesn't come back, and
there are a thousand other means of
keeping the money of this section go
ing everlasting east but eastern con
cerns not only make the most of what
we produce, but they own the most of
our lighting plants, railroads, water
powers etc.
We ought to come alive and take
what means we have to keep our mon
ey at home.
We ought to commence locally. We
ought to pave our own street, light
our own city, do our own building and
produce more of our own stone, brick,
cement blocks, tile, etc.
We could keep hundreds of thous
ands of dollars in Corvallis every year
that now bids us good-bye.
We would have far more employ
ment for our workers and far better
business conditions for our city if we
would come alive and stop these
drains of our cash.
Corvallis could organize a fire in
surance company (for Corvallis alone)
and keep every last dollar of the great
insurance premiums that monthly
chase back to New York and stay
there, and not only keep this money
at home, but save property owners a
lot of money.
You'll say this is an improbable one
and "can't be done.'' But it CAN.
There are many w&ys in which we
could wonderfully help ourselves and
our business, if we would.
The Courier for job printing.
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veniences in your home and about your place as well as the city
man. IT IS A FACT.
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Affords tou every convenience of water under a reliable and de
pendable pressure. Not so expensive to install as you may think.
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OREGON CITY
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lessly or wilfully started in or near
National Forests.
ABOUT PAVING
things considered. The visitors w'ho
will come here will spend their money
with Oregon City businessmen. The
crowds who will witness the firemen's
tournament will spend their money
nr in local stores. Local business will
The Ore iron Biiildinir Record
Portland, last week contained some in-j P1.0"1 hy the gathering more than
teresting information for county seat;wm ulc '"emen yei local uusiness
and other taxpayers who are inter-men couldn't put up a bit of "side
e.sted in paving streets and highways' money" until the firemen and a com
liii.il snrfnep. P.i.ls wnm nmn,,i , nuttoe of the councilmen went out und
CHRISTIANITY?
ill Portland lor paving a portion of
'Washington street, and figures sub
Ti.it toil ran from 81 to $1.11 per square
yi.rd. The contract for the work was
1M to the Oregon Independent Paving
company for asphalt at 84 cents per
square yard.
Asphalt is good pavement. It is
the most popular hard surface pave
ment in the world. New York uses it
exclusively, even on Broadway, where
traffic is so heavy that it is contin
uous for 24 hours a day. And it
wears. If asphalt can be laid in
Portland for 84 cents a square yard,
isr.'t it remarkable that councilmen
and county commissioners bent on
saving money for the taxpay
ers should award bids for paving at
figures in excess of this?
In the same bidding, the Warren
Construction company offered to lay
bitulithic at $1.41 per square yard.
Bids on the same pavement were sub
mitted by Oscar Huber, who offered
to put down tho patented Warren
People advise the young to go to
church. They say that in church
things that are good will be learned.
People also tell older folk to go to
church. They say that church has a
refining influence.
And the churches get together
every now and then and hire Billy
i Sundav to come and hold revival ser-
pracically forced them to come vices. They do this so that their at
through. I tendance records may be bolstered up,
It was a peculiar situation, and one and so that more people will join the
that should not have arisen. The fact ' church and receive its refining and
that local business houses later put
up approximaoly $800 for the firemen
makes it appear that some one start
ed the story for his own personal ad
vertising yet the merchants got the
benefit (?) of the unpleasant ad
vertising in the first place. It would
appear that by now the harm is done,
and cannot be remedied.
Yet the Courier can see where local
businessmen in "standing on the
necks" of the correspondents who sent
out the first story.
IT GOES HERE TOO
The Benton County Courier of last
week contained the following re
marks, and they apply here with just
as much force as they do in Corvallis,
so we are tickled to death to reprint
elevating influence.
And here is a sample of the stuff
that Billy Sunday hands out to re
fine and elevate people who go to
church. This is what he said of a
certain historical character:
"Pilate was a lick-spittle, low
down, free-lunch, how-pouched,
pliable, plastic, ward-heeling,
whiskey-soaked, graft politician
of his day.''
Is this Christianity, and what the
churches stand for?
FOR BUSINESSMEN
The mail order house of Sears, Ro
buok & Co., of Chicago, a concern
which next to the Ford Motor Com
pany, disbursed the largest dividends
in the country, is going after Oregon
business hard. Two- car loads of
their catalogues have just arrived at
Roseburg to be mailed there by par
eel post to people living in the sev
eral counties of southern Oregon.
They began this plan last year in or
der to take advantage of the zone
system of parcel post charges. There
is no question but the large mail or
der houses are making business dull
for the merchants of many small
towns, and b draining the country
of money retarding its advancement,
but it does little good to preach
against the mail order evil. They go
out after the trade and get it, quite
frequently because the home mer
chant is too sleepy even to advertise
in hin lnppl nnnpr Thp nannle nf his
community do not actually know his there. "If they had Bryan they
name. This moves the New York Sun
to throw the following fit:
George Sylvester Viereck,
Son of the Fatherland,
Gives me a heluvan eaache
With his little German band.
The Oregon State Jewelers' associ
ation, having determined at its recent
convention that there is to be a year
ly change in style in jewelry, we may
expect out wife to come to us and ask
for an up to-dute wedding ring, so as
to be a la mode.
T. Roosevelt, formerly a national
figure, refused to speak in a Califor
nia city because W. J. Bryan had been
stock or the prices he puts upon his
goods because he fills his shelves and
warehouses and expects people to
come and look for what they want.
The mail order houses and city de
partment . stores go out to the people
with the message of the bargains
they have to offer, in the newspapers,
or through catalogues, and they keep
everlastingly at it. Too many local
merchants set down and kick over con
ditions brought about by the big city
competition instead of going out and
trying to remedy conditions by get
ting the right kind of goods at the
right prices and making that fact
known through approved methods of
advertising. Salem Statesman.
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Wolf Howls !
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ran't have me." said the Colonel.
Wmch makes us wonder which was
the worse fate to have to listen to
(Continued on Page Five)
IN ALL OUR
NEI
GHB0RH00D
Truth will out. Southern Pacific
press agent material sent to the
Courier during the past week gloats
upon the record for safety made by
the road. Part of the gloat says that
the Southern Pacific "operated 52,000
passenger trains every month or
64,000 during the year." Probably
one set of these figures is correct;
but we would like to know which set
the press agent imagined.
In the same envelope came also a
spasm about steel passenger coaches.
It says, in part: "the first steel pas
senger car ever built in the United
State is on display in the Southern
Pacific's exhibit" at the Fisco fair.
We wonder why it was taken out of
the service? Continuing, the press-
agent remarks that the S. P. has 5156
steel cars "of all descriptions," and
that the "main line coaches are 60
feet long and seat 72 persons." Rail
road men call them "tin-can cars, '
but the press-agent neglects to men
tion that fact. People who have rid
den in all-steel coaches on the Mil
waukie, Northern Pacific or Pennsyl
vania lines will readily see why.
According to the Albany (N. Y.)
Journal, Georpe S. Viereck is a poet,
but has been unable so far to find a
word that would rhyme with his last '
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at
SAN FRANCISCO
and
10 Days at Los Angeles
are allowed on all tickets to the East
This will enable you to see the two wonderful world
Expositions without loss of time or extra expense.
Scenery enroute is unsurpassed. Every mile pro
tected by Block Signals. Four fine trains each
way daily Portland to San Fra'ncisco making connec
tions for the South and East.
Let us send you our illustrated folders "Wayside
Notes," and "California and Its Two Expositions."
SOUTHERN PACIFIC
Our local agent will be glad to give you full informa
tion and an itinerary of your trip or you may address
John M. Scott, General Pass. Agent, Portland, Ore.
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