Oregon City courier., September 30, 1915, Page 4, Image 4

OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 1915.
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Pure mountain water for us next
week!
Councilman Templeton has been
"fishine and hunting" lately. As if
that was a new pastime.
"Two thousand five hundred doc
tors are needed" says a British army
authority. Evidently there has been
another "victory'' somewhere.
Tourist business in California hav
ing fallen off somewhat, Lassen peak
again breaks into eruption. Why
doesn't Oregon get a trained volcano?
We note that Estacadans have kill
ed another dog for a wolf. It would
seem as if the rugged dwellers of the
hill country ought to wear a new kind
of glasses.
The press tells us that a child of
twelve told John D. Rockefeller, Jr.,
how to make a profit of 40 cents an.
nually on a ten-cent investment. And
next day gasoline went up a cent a
gallon. Evidently John learned the
lesson.
Figures show strange things. The
state tax commission values Oregon
City property at $2,800,000 odd, and
West Linn property at $2,400,000 odd
Yet to look down at the two munici
palities from an aeroplane a casual
observer would never think they so
nearly balanced up.
Grade crossings are beginning to
be recognized in Oregon as not alto
gether advantageous. Some of the
effete Eastern states have already dis
covered this truth, and force the
railroads to build safe overhead or
underground passageways for traffic
every time a public road is crossed.
Maybe this will happen in Oregon in
2121.
Supposing the people of England
and France refuse to recognize the
"mortgage" that the bankers want to
put upon those two nations to secure
the half billion dollar war loan. How
will the United States banks go about
it to collect? Will we be asked to de
clare war and foreclose on the mort
gages with shot and shell?
Divine right seems to be slipping in
Europe. We have not noticed any
wild enthusiasm over the Czar's plan
to supplant his able assistants and
once again become boss of all the Rus
sias; and the papers haven't said a
word about Kink George for a long,
long .time. About the only way a
potentate can get in the front page
type these days is to die; and none
of them seem to be willing to do that
for their country though a whole lot
of them are willing to let the common
people die by the thousands.
MORE ABOUT EXPERTS
The Courier desires at this time to
give good cheer to those members of
the grange, and those individual farm
ers, who do not think that Clacka.
mas county ought to go to the ex
pense of engaging a Federal agricul-
rcsort. The plaintiff opined that the
railroad would endanger the lives of
some of his patrons, that it would put
him to much extra expense in the hir
ing of gatemen and watchmen to pro
tect nis patrons, and that it would
occupy room that might otherwise
be given over to amusement enter
prises. And he asked for ten thou
sand dollars as the damages that
would result to his place in the first
four years of the railroad's operation.
Considering that the average
amusement park thrives solely upon
the money contributed by people who
are brought to it by means of some
sort of a transportation line, the de
mand seemed peculiar. And con
sidering that the more lines of trans
portation that run to un amusement
resort, the greater its patronage, the
contention advanced seemed quite
humorous. Especially did it seem
odd, when the fact was considered
that before Coney Island, the great
est amusement resort in the world,
was hooked up with New York by
frequent and cheap trolley service it
didn't pay dividends. But after the
cheap trolleys started hauling New
York's millions to Coney Island, there
arose such wonderful things as Luna
Park, Wonderland, Dreamland, and
the other features which, constructed
at an outlay of thousands and thou
sands of dollars, returned profits to
their owners that made them mil
lionaires in a few months.
The jury in the case in point evi
dently thought that a transportation
line might be a good adjunct of an
amusement resort, for instead of giv.
mg the plaintiff the ten thousand dol
lars demanded, they gave him $150,
and premitted him to pay the costs
thinner and thinner. In the land
where the wolf has gone even charity
soup is not needed for an existence
and aside from that wo have known
the wolf a long, long time, in lean
years and in fat ones when the hunt
ing was good and we never knew
him to starve yet. And we will make
a bet with John Stark a bet of any
amount that we can slip by our Watch
ful sheriff, who is much opposed to
gambling that wherever the wolf
goes he will " get by'' without indulg
ing in thin charity soup.
Here's hoping, anyway.
CLEVER WORK
tural exnert. A bulletin of the De
partment of Agriculture, just come to I of his action. , The trial of the mat-
The land grant conference and the
water power conference do not ap.
pear to have amounted to much more
than any other political convention.
Americana are getting more and more
socialistic in their thought, and like
less and less to have a selected few
gather together and tell them what is
best. One of these days the politic
ians will discover this, and will adopt
a new line of buncombe.
Oregon has its reward at last. A
new "farm paper'' has been started,
and announces that its editorial policy
will follow that of the Oregon Vot
er's Pamphlet in other words both
sides of all questions discussed will
be presented. If a number of our
"moulders of public opinion" among
the magazines would follow this ex
ample, people Would place more con
fidence in what they read. But the
Oregon System has accmplished some
thing, anyway it has apparently re
formed one magazine.
hand, should be read by every one of
these gentlemen; for it contains the
gladsome news to them, at least
that there are not enough agricultural
experts to fill the demands already
made upon the government for such
service.
There are over 1,000 such agri
cultural experts working in counties
throughout the United States, and
many of them are doubling up and
working in two counties, so as to
meet the demand. And the govern
ment regrets that it cannot train and
equip and otherwise qualify enough
men and women to fill the positions
that are open. It seems that our
Uncle Sam goes to considerable labor
to teach the experts to mix well with
people, and only selects such folk
as have ability to understand the
needs and problems of the ambitious
and progressive farmer. And men
like this are hard to find.
So those of us who don't want any
help from the government may cheer
up and take heart the chances are
that even if Clackamas county asked
for a Federal expert one could't be
found ready to take the job. Thus
do Fate, the great government and
the demand of other sections all con
spire together to save the Clackamas
farmer from being burdened by an
added fraction of a mill on his tax
levy.,
ter produced a fund of humorous
testimony, and as it thus made life
more joyous, maybe it was worth
Political cunning is not yet dead
far be it from such.
Not only is George C. Brownell
still with us, but just take a look at
Linn E. Jones, mayor of the county
seat.
Last week Mayor Jones told the
council that he thought it would be a
perfectly stunning idea if the heads
of all the committeees, when they
brought in their report on the pro
gre3s of the budget at the regular
November meeting, also submitted es
timates for the needs of their com
mittees in 1916.
In other words, the mayor wants
the council to make out a budget for
1916 right now.
Seeing as there will be a new may
or and some new councilmen next year
this is a classy piece of work. The
chances are excellent that any budget
the present council prepares will be
a lovely thing for the taxpayer to
feast his eyes upon. As the present
committeemen will not have the
spending of the money (in many in
stances), and as economy is the
greatest word in councilmanic lan
guage these days, any budget that
some fine apples to sell. On the next
farm to his lived another man, who
also had apples, but the second man's
apples were not as good as those
grown by the first man. In fact
some of them were wormy, and some
of them didn't ripen, while yet others
were blown off by the big wind, and
lay on the ground, where the indus
trious ants nibbled at them.
Now the first man, knowing that
he had fine apples, didn't worry about
being able to sell them, and he sat
under the hemlock tree that grew
near the porch and waited for the
buyers to come around.
The second man went down to town
and put an advertisement in the pa
per. The advertisement was perfect
ly true in its wording, and ran as fol
lows: "You can have no idea of the
kind of apples I am selling for fifty
cents a barrel unless you buy some
of them."
And the apple buyers read the ad
vertisement, and went to his place
and bought his apples; while the first
man sat under his tree and waited
for customers.
The moral of this tale is two-fold;
first, it doesn't matter how good your
product is, you cannot sell it unless
you advertise; and secondly you can
sell almost anything if you advertise.
Farmers and businessmen alike
ought to take this to heart. The
Courier is an advertising medium.
Not only that, but it only advertises
things that it believes are worth ad
vertising. All its readers read its
advertisements, and most of them
have discovered that advertisements
in the Courier mean what they say.
hvery merchant in Clackamas
county who doesn't advertise in the
Courier is cither missing a chance
to build up his trade, or else he doesn't
care whether he has any trade or
not.
THE HACKETT IDEA
IN REAL LIFE
It seldom happens in real
life that the "tail wags the
dog'' or that people "get the
tart before the horse."
They are merely extrava.
gant examples of things be
ing done in the wrong way.
They say there's a wrong
way and a right way to do
everything. In taking care
of your money the right way
is to deposit it in a good bank
like ours where it will be
perfectly safe yet subject to
your check whenever needed.
No need to tell about the
wrong ways to handle your
money. It's the right way
that needs to be known and
followed. Try this bank.
THE BANK OF
OREGON CITY
OldMt Sink In Clckimt County
Discussing a remonstrance against
the improvement of one of the down
town side streets in the county seat,
Councilman Hackett rose in council
meeting lust week and said that as
long as the property owners didn't
want the street improved the council
had no right torce an improvement
down their throats. Incidentally Mr.
Hackett moved to sustain every re
monstrance offered at the session
and there were something over half
a dozen so it is safe to assume that
last week Mr. Hackett believed that
the council ought to obey the wishes
of the property holders of Oregon
City.
And believing that Mr. Hackett
thought tho council ought to obey the
wishes of the property holders, some
of whom elected him to office; it is
also reasonable to (think that Mr.
Hackett believed that the council
ought to obey the voters.
And if he does believe this, the
Courier would like to know what
made him change his mind for it
was but a few short days ago when
Mr. Hackett announced that "there
will be no more bond issues in this
town if I can prevent it."
Mr. Hackett is a prospective can
didate for the nomination of mayor,
should any body offer it to him. That
is, he is a receptive candidate, and
hopes that somebody will provide him
with a chance to run "on n platform
of strict economy." In view of this,
and considering the approaching mu
nicipal election, it would be very in
teresting to have Mr. Hackett explain
how it is that when property owners
ask for a stoppage of civic betterment
their wishes ought to be granted; but
when property holders ask for im
provements, and vote a bond issue to
cover their cost, 'their wishes ought
not to be respected.
Why does Mr. Hackett draw the
line?
AMUSING, AT THAT
One of the best ways of making a
living at least one of tho best as
far as financial success goes is su
ing a corporation. Many a nimble
jointed person will repeatedly fall off
trains and cars and "sue the company"
for an imaginary injury; and need no
other means of support. Also there
are people who make it a business of
suing corporations, not in hopes of
winning their suits; but in well-found
ed expectation that the corporation
win "settle for a much smaller sum
which only too often tho corpora
tions will do to avoid bother and pub
licity.
Of course all suits against cornor.
ations are not of this character. Many
suns are perfectly justifiable, and
are brought in good faith; probably
me majority ot them are. But even
at that, some of them are funny.
Recently the courts of this countv
were burdened with a leiral matter
that had its amusing side. A man
who leased an amusement park asked
for ten thousand dollars damages
from a corporation that was planning
to run an interurban railroad past his
FARMERS OF THE
MOLALLA COUNTRY
Are Invited to Inspect the
Fall Stock of Implements, Farm Machinery
and Vehicles, carried by
GEO. BLATCfiFORD
MOLALLA, ORE.
Case Plows and Harrows
Hoosier Drills, Bloom Manure Spreaders
Pumps, Engines, Etc.
from the stock of
Portland, - Oregon
ill
The Victrola keeps
right on playing
You can dance as much as
you wish, when
you nave a
Victrola in your
home.
Start any
time, stop any
time, have what
ever kind of
dance you want
a n d enjoy
every minute of
it.
Come !n an3 Kear trie newest Tangos, Turkey' Trots, One
Steps all the latest dances. And every one can have a
Victrola $15 to $200; terms to suit.
Huntley Bros. Co.
Exclusive Agents for
Oregon City
while. But to the onlooker the at
tempt to get that particular ten thou
sand dollars for the cause stated look
ed well, it looked funny.
JOHN WAS RIGHT
That is he was partly right. John
Stark is the party here referred to.
John didn't think much of the "Wolf
Howls," as they appeared in the
Courier, and said so.
Well, readers of the paper this
week will notice a decided improve
ment in the more or less literary
dish offered them. They will note
the absence of the "Wolf Howls." The
"Wolf," who so persistently howled,
week after week, has gone the way of
all wolves in these parts, and while
the county has paid no bounty on
his carcass, he is nevertheless drawn
and quartered as far as these columns
are concerned.
In a way we hated to slaughter the
old wolf, for in some ways he was
almost as lovable and tractable as a
collie dog. But in other ways he was
a nuisance and a savage and so we
had to put him out of his misery. And
aside from that he was getting lazy,
as any wild animal will that is kept
in captivity, and that is fed regularly.
Here passeth the Wolf.
However, John Stark was wrone in
one thing, the wolf will not have to
live on charity soup, which will get
the present city dads prepare will be
about tho finest example of "money
saving" ever prepared. They will
pinch each nickle so hard that the
buffalo bull will grunt, and they will
squeeze the pennies until the Indian
and Abe Lincoln will be sure that
things have tightened up since their
day.
And the beauty of it all will be that
the new administration will be embar
assed at the very start, and will have
to try to live up (or down) to the
mark set for it by the present council.
Which, as a natural cinch, they wont
be able to do.
And then what? Why, at the end
of 1910, when next year's council finds
that it has exceeded the budget that
it had no hand in the making, the
the present councilmen can throw out
their chests and exclaim: "Well, by,
heck, them boys couldn't save money
for the people the way we did!"
All of which is so funny that it
ought to be killed before it happens.
But at that, this year's council has got
to find some way to get praise and
if it can't get it now, it is not to be
blamed for stacking the cards so that
folks in the future will look back at
it and say that it was good.
The mayor is sure some clever guy.
And more than that: the man who
doesn't advertise in his home paper,
so he can tell the people of his
neighbourhood what he has to sell, not
only shows that he doesn't care very
much about business; but he has no
license to holler when the mail order
house slips into his field and under
bids him.
IX HIDING AGAIN
PERSONAL STUFF
There, once was a man who had
Comes news over the wire that the
Rev. Dwight Nelwell Hillis, who has
for some years been trying to fill the
shoes of the late and great Henry
Ward Beecher, in Plymouth church,
Brooklyn, has become deeply involved
in financial difficulties. In "confes
sing" this to his congregation Dr. Hil
lis unloaded a verbal spasm in which
he made of himself a hero, and in
which he pattered a lot of guff in re
gard to the temptations with which he
had been beset, and the lure of afflu
ence. But boiled down to plain En.
glish, Dr. Hillis had not only been
living beyond his income, but he had
been speculating in a manner which
no man of his income should have
attempted.
Dr. Hillis is a minister of the gos
pel. If you or I, gentle reader, did
what he had done, our neighbours
would say harsh things about us, and
not waste any sympathy upon us.
Our creditors might even throw us
into court. We could "not alibi with
any mock heroics about being weaken
ed by the desire to become financially
powerful. The grocer and the butch
er would stop our credit and business
men would refer to us as a deadbeat.
Yet we note that nothing like this
happened to Dr. Hillis. A majority
of his congregation voted to "stand
by him,'' and all were "deeply mov
ed." Some people even thought it an
'outrage" that some of Dr. Hillis'
relatives should have sued him for
slander because he tried to "pass the
buck" of his financial difficulties to
them. . The fact that Dr. Hillis, the
idol of certain professed Christians,
had feet of clay, does not seem to
materially have lowered the idol in
their estimation rather has it exalt
ed his position, and sympathy
lavished upon him.
There appears to be something
wrong with the particular brand of
Christianity that is indulged in by
these supporters of Dr. Hillis. If he
had not been a minister of the gospel,
he would have received entirely dif
ferent treatment at their hands. Yet
the Man who founded Christianity,
and who originally enunciated the
teachings which the modern-day
church is supposed to follow, drew no
such nice distinctions. To Him things
were right or they were wrong, and
the social condition of the guilty
party was of small consequence.
It is too bad that Dr. Hillis fell
from grace and stepped off the
straight and narrow way. It is too
bad that anybody does this. It is
particularly unfortunate that Dr,
Hillis did it, because he was in a po
sition of leadership, and his life
should have been a nTodel for others
to follow. But there is no excuse for
th"e mock heroics over the predica
ment in which Dr. Hillis finds him
self there is no reason why when a
minister goes wrong he should be giv
en bouquets and should be spoken of
as one "more to be pitied than scorn,
ed." He betrayed his trust and be
cause of the size of his trust, and be
cause of the high position in social
affairs that he held, the betrayal was
all the greater. And in trying to
cast the blame upon his nephews, he
showed a cowardice altogether un
worthy of the stamp of man he pre
tended to be.
Dr. Hillis is entitled to about as
much sympathy as is any other man
who tries to "get rich quick." Per
haps he is entitled to a little less, for
it is not generally recognized that it
is the sphere of the ministry to be
come financially affluent. The min
istry is supposed to "minister unto
the sick and needy, and to comfort
those that are in sorrow." And it
does not require a seven-passenger
limousine and a fine residence and an
overflowing bank account to do this.
The Carpenter of Galille was never
a rich man, and He never wanted to
be; yet His influence upon the world's
history has been remarkable. His
very life was a protest against the
excesses that wealth brought in its
wake. And it is indeed a bad sign
for His true followers when a Chris
tian church, .so-called, will "stand be
hind" a man who has done what the
Rev. Dwight Newell Hillis has done.
"It would do this Hillis party a heap
of good to have to take his medicine
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