OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915.
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1 would gain much in mutual good will
in community advertising, and in en
joyment of the Christmas spirit.
Other towns have Christmas trees
why not Clackamas county towns 7
E. R. BROWN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER
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STRANGE, STRANGE IDEA
William Jennings Bryan, the per
son who "quit cold" while a member
of the Wilson cabinet, and who has
since then suffered a considerable
eclipse of his popularity, appears to
be in dire and desperate straits to get
publicity. His peace voyage to Eu
rope, where he hoped to end the war
single-handed, was neatly nipped in
the bud by the administration he tried
to embarass; and his still more re
cent criticism of the President's plans
in regard to national defense does not
appear to have gotten him anywhere.
And now comes this same Bryan
patty, and at a speech given some
where, says that he does not think a
national prohibition plank should be
put in the 1916 democratic platform.
There is no particular reason for
believing that anybody ever intended
to put a prohibition plank in the dem
ocratic platform any more than there
is likelihood of slipping one in the re-
pybhcan platform. Established po
litical parties have not yet reached
that stage where they feel that a
semi-alliance with the prohibition par
ty is necessary to strengthen their
fences.
Weird politico-personal upshoots
like the Bull Moose party, have found
it expedient in the past to try and
swing on to the end of the prohibition
kite; but otherwise the question of
prohibition has been left with the pro
hibition party.
Mr. Bryan, by mentioning the fact
that he doesn't think the democratic
platform ought to have a prohibition
' plank, is probably inspired by the
double hope that he will gain some
publicity and raise an emberassing
situation for the party of which he
was for a short time a mmeluer. It
would appear as if trie former six
teen-to-one enthusiast would like to
drag in the liquor question where no
body wants to see it. And of course,
his friendship' for the administra
tion would lead him to do this, if pos
sible. Mr. Bryan, being an avowed pro
hibitionist personally, and not being
so strongly an avowed democrat, may
also be planning a little prohi boom
for himself, and may hope to drag a
portion of the remains of his follow
ing away from the administration's
banner. However, it is very much to
be doubted if his latest flurry will
amount to much more than the other
flurries he has tried to create since
the day when he "quit cold" in an
effort to glorify himself and embarass
the man who made him secretary of
state Bryan is dead, politically; and
most people know it. One of these
days William Jennings himself will
discover it; and then we wont be
burdened with his funny ideas any
more.
MORE ABOUT PORTLAND
Writing in the Benton County Cour
ier, a correspondent says that "Port
land is trying to drive nails with a
sponge," and that the sponge is made
up of the aggregate brains of Port
land's commercial institutions. The
correspondent thinks Portland is long
on air and short on action. Maybe
he is right.
Last week the Oregonian had an
"inspired" story on one of its back
and inconspicuous pages to the effect
that the western appendix of the Un
ion Pacific system was going to build
a direct line over the Cascades to tide
water at Taeoma. The Union Pacific
already owns miles of deep water ter
minal lands in Tacomu, has a costly
tunnel constructed under the city so
as to be able to reach this terminal
land by an economical grade, and has
completed surveys of a line from the
end of the "North Coast system," at.
North laliima, to Tucoma. Severn
miles of track, in fact, have already
been laid on this survey.
When the Union Pacific made these
investments in Tnconia it had traffic
connections with Portland, just as it
has today. But the terminal plans of
the roud at Tacomu are so gigantic in
scope, and so costly as to investment,
that Tnconui has never for a moment
doubted that the Union Pacific would
eventually make Puget Sound its
western terminal. It would appear
from this that tho Union Pacific, after
trying out Portland as a terminal, has
found it sadly lacking; and that Ta
comu is sufficiently advantageous asi
a terminal to make it worth while to
build an independent line over the
mountains to reach tidewater, in spite
of the fact that . the Union Pacific,
through the 0. W. R. & N. even now
has trackage rights into Tacoma from
its Portland terminals..
Railroads are not moved by senti
ment, by fool hopes, or by dreams.
When a railroad establishes a terminal
at a certain place, it does so because
of sound business reasons, and because
more traffic can be handled at that
terminal with economy than at any
other point. Hence the decision of the
Union Pacific to resume its construc
tion to Tacoma after "trying" Port
land for five or six years (during
which time, its Tacoma investment
has lain idle) is a pretty sure indica
tion that the Puget Sound, and .not the
Columbia river, is the chief commer
cial artery of the Pacific Northwest.
Maybe Portland's commercial or
ganizations will now wake up, and
quit trying to "drive nails with a
sponge.'' Yelling about "Portland's
supremacy" and about the alleged
depth of the Columbia and Willamette
rivers, wont bring any railroads to
rortlanu. rortland must become a
manufacturing city if it is to have any
future at all; and in order to become
that, Portland men and Oregon men
must be willing to invest their own
money in Portland and in Oregon en
terprises. Just as long as Portland
and Oregon try to develop themselves
on borrowed money, and refuse to put
their own capital into their own de
velopment, just so long will progress
go past Portland's doors; and just so
long will transcontinental railroads
climb the Cascades to get to Puget
Sound. ,
We don't wonder that the Port
land Telegram now prints an alarm
clock at the head of its editorial col
umns, as an emblem. It is time some
thing woke up Portland.
WHY NOT DO IT?
Is there any particular reason why
we should not have a 'community
Christmas" in Clackamas county this
year?
Is there any reason why each of the
cities in the county should not erect
"community Christmas trees,'1 and so
spread the festive spirit more gen
erously than heretofore?
A "community Christmas tree" may
cost a great deal of money, or it may
cost next to nothing at all. There is
all sorts of leeway in the proposition,
so that the desires of each community
may be met. About all that a "com
munity Christmas tree" really re
quires is a few hours' f volunteer
work though the more effort expend
ed in regard to it, the more attractive
will the tree be.
The primary requisite is a tree, and
in Clackamas county trees are1 not
hard to get. Almost every city has
them galore within its limits. With
some timber owner to donate the tree,
a committee of citizens to haul it to
the center of the communiy and erect
it, and with a very little decoration,
the "community Christmas tree'' can
be made a thing of reality that will
spread the spirit of Christmas to all
beholders. Then, if more is to be
J made of it, exercises can be held about
the tree on Christmas and other fes
tive days of the midwinter holiday
season choral societies can sing car
rols, a band could play even a Santa
Claus might be procurred to give
away fruit to tho little ones.
The scheme is a simple one, and
would add much -to the spirit of
Christmas. It can be worked any
where; and wherever it is tried it will
be found worth while.
The county seat could have a "com
munity Christmas tree" with more
than usual appropriateness. It could
erect its street at Seventh ,and Main
streets, and about the base of the em
blem of goodwill to all, it could cele
brate its now elevator, its new water
and its new paving. Doubtless the
power company would be glad to vol
unteer electric decorations for the
tree in repayment for the city's ef
forts to stop the jitneys. And prob
ably there are enough public-spirited
organizations in the county seat to
provide decorations that would add to
the beauty of the tree in the daytime.
Oregon City has several singing or
ganizations and bands that probably
could be persuaded to furnish Christ
mas music on one or two occasions:
TIMES HAVE CHANGED
At last Friday evening's municipal
vaudeville entertainment, when the
city council met in special session, Mr.
Henry M. Templeton, the man who
made Fifth street famous, and who
admits he is Oregon City's only hon
est councilman, rose right up in
meeting and asked the city engineer
if the specifications of the Fallsview
steps hadn't been generously disre
garded when the steps were con
structed. Councilman Andrews and
the city engineer assured Mr. Temple
ton that the Fallsview steps had been
built according to specifications exact
ly, and wanted to know what had
aroused the keen suspicions of Mr.
Templeton.
Mr. Templeton replied that he had
heard that the specifications had not
been followed, and intimated that he
was on the verge of unearthing some
vast and horrid plot.
How times have changed. How re
markable it seems to have Mr Temple
ton smelling rodents upon the desert
atmosphere. How weird it is to have
Mr. Templeton posing as the astute
watchdog of municipal honesty. Just
think, he "heard" that there was some
thing fishy about the Fallsview steps,
and he wanted to know about it.
How times have changed. Mr.
Templeton now is on the alert to find
irregularity in city work yet it was
not so many months ago, when the
paying of Fifth street was a most ab
sorbing mystery of the municipality,
that Mr. Templeton was sitting tight
and not saying a word. At the time
and the measures that will be passed
will have just as . much to do with
you as they will have effect upon the
men of this community. You have
just as much at stake, you have just
as much interest in your city, as have
the men. And it is only fair and righ
that you should go to the polls and
vote, so that your opinion in regard
to the city s management may be re
corded. And besides that, there are
special reasons this election why you,
the women of Oregon City, should be
fully represented at the polls. What
these reasons are we do not need to
outline here you know them.
If it rains or snows or storms elec
tion day, do not let this keep you
from the polls. Make it a point to
go and vote, even if it is an incon
venience to yourself. Casting your
ballot is not only a duty of citizen
ship; it is the privilege of the free,
Western American woman. Be sure
that you avail yourself of this privi
lege, and be sure, also, that you do
your duty to your city and to its
people.
MORE ABOUT WORMS
There has been considerable in some
of the papers recently about the worm
that lost Oregon the first prize on
apples at the San Francisco fair.
Oregon apple growers don't seem to
take kindly to the decision, and are
trying to say that this one worm
should not have disqualified - them.
Probably the worm wasn't all that
cost Oregon the apple prize; but as
long as the worm was there it was
a fine alibi, and was so used.
A new light has now been shed
on Oregon apples by the United States
which cannot be accused of playing
favorites." Thanksgiving day our
Uncle Samuel gave his soldiers, sail
ors and marines a special Thanksgiv-
THE NEW WAY
Over in Cosmopolis, Washington,
they are going to have a city election
shortly, and a mayor is to be selected.
Nobody has the slightest idea whom
the mayor will be, for there are no
candidates for the office, and the time
for filing nominations has passed.
Voters will be expected to write upon
the ballots the name of the person
whom they would like to elect mayor
and if a handful of electoi-3 happen
to write' the same name, that man will
be duly elected.
Cosmopolis appears to take even
less interest in its mayor than does
Oregon City, where only two candi
dates have appeared, and where both
are running on approximately the
same platform. There will be blank
spaces on the Oregon City ballots,
too and perhaps some group of citi
zens will get together and write in
the name of some other person than
the candidates already in nomination;
both of whom protest that they will
make no campaign for the office.
It used to be that there was a bat
tle royal for the office of mayor
everywhere. But of late the public
interest in mayors seems to have
fallen off, until in Oregon City we are
to have no campaign and in Cosmo
polis no candidates. Perhaps this
changed condition is a forerunner of
new days to come, when candidates
will not throw their hats into the ring
at all, and when offices will be filled
entirely at the will of the voter, by
writing in names upon the ballot. This
would be true democracy, true rule of
the people and it would be extremely
interesteing to see how it would work.
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of Legal Blanks you will find that it
will pay you to come to the Courier.
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the sudden redressing of Fifth street
wns under discussion, Mr. Temple
ton might have done lots for the city
if he had probed and questioned, but
never a peep was there then from his
lips. Yet now, with only the expla
nation that he had "heard" something
was tno matter with the Fallsview
job, he leaps to his feet in open coun
cil meeting and discharges abrupt in
terrogations at the city engineer.
Wonder if Mr. Templeton never
"heard" anything about Fifth street?
TO THE LADIES
Men are respectfully informed
right now that this editorial is not
for them. So if they nre real nice
and polite, they will read no further;
but will at once pass this issue of the
Courier to the lady who is with them.
This editorial is exvlusively for wo
men. Ladies: the Courier wishes at this
time to remind you that before it
makes its next appearance there will
be an election in the county seat, at
wnicn a mayor and some councilmen
are to be chosen. Ttiere are also
some other offices to be filled, and
some questions of general interest on
the ballot. And you. ladies, have the
right of going to the polls and vot
ing. The Courier hopes you will go, and
that you will carefully mark your bal
lot as your conscience dictates. The
people who will be elected to office, changed
ing dinner, and he tried to pick out!
luo ucm, lur ins ngnung men. ino
matter where the members of the de
fense were situated they got a real
American Thanksgiving dinner, and
the bill of fare was the same in all
climates supplies for the feast hav
ing been purchased or contracted for
months ahead.
And there was one item on tha
bill of fare thus universally served
that sheds some light on Oregon as
an apple-raising section. That item,
to be found in all the government
menus, is "North Yakima apples."
Probably there were reasons for the
selection of Yakima apples for Uncle
Sam's boys.
And probably there will go up a
wail from Hood and Rogue river com
munities, too just as there was a
wail over the worm at San Francisco,
But wailing will not accomplish the
desired result the only way to make
the Oregon apple supreme is to grow
the best apple in the world. Until
then there will be the need of worms
for alibis, and until Oregon apples are
the equal of other apples, Uncle Sam j
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to
Courier Editorial .'Moves Writer
Indulge in Verbal Fits
Editor, Courier: In your Thanks
giving paper, which I read while mak
ing a trip from Canby to Molalla over
the "modern" branch of the Southern
Pacific, you had an editorial on our
western supremacy regarding rail
roads. Maybe you knew what you
were talking about, but outside of
the last paragraph I don't think you
did. You don't mind this frankness,
do you?
I am a traveling salesman, and I
know something about railroads, both
the western ones and the eastern
ones. And the only "supremacy I
have found in the west is that the
lines are longer and the stations fur-
WHAT CATARRH IS
It has been said that every third
person has catarrh in some form.
Science has shown that nasal catarrh
will continue to serve Washington I t.. ,. i i
j uueu iuuu.aies a general weakness
apples on state occasions
And this reminds us that some
years ago when the Portland Y. M. C.
A. gave a dinner to Portland newspa
permen, they served Wenatchee ap
ples. Evidently there is something
more than a single worm in Oree-on
apples, and the condition ought to be
of the body, and local treatments in
the form of snuffs and vapors do little,
a any good.
To correct catarrh you should treat its
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ther apart. I suppose it is wonderful
that the western railroads handle the
traffic that they do over single-track
lines, but that phase of the matter
has never been impressed upon me.
Some other phases have.
For instance, I was traveling over
a western road that had one terminal
at the tidewater of the Pacific and
the other at the Missouri river trans
fer some years ago. I was on a
"limited train" probably so called be
cause it was limited as to the number
of water tanks at which it stopped.
One of these stops was at an Eastern
Washington town, and just as we
finished our quarter-of-an?hour wait
there for orders and started to pull
out, a freight train consisting of
two cars of eggs and sixteen cars of
railroad iron came down the grade
and climbed into us.
After the jar was over , we went
up to the head of the train and look
ed "at the two locomotives that had
been welded into one solid mass of
junk that blocked the track abso
lutely, and then we listened to the
engineer of the freight train explain
how it happened. -
"I had orders to pass you at the
siding at the top of the hill," he said,
"but I was low on water, and there
was no tank there. I thought I
could get down here and fill up be
fore you started.''
Ana Decause ot tne "supremacy '
of that engineer's thought we stayed
in that Eastern Washington town all
day, while the hot sun scrambled the
eggs in those two busted freight cars.
and a wrecking crane started at the
other end of the freight and threw, the
cars off the track one at a time so
that the "United" couli' be pushed
through with an engine chat came up
behind us on the next following train
six hours later. I never saw anything
like that happen in the east.
At another time I was on a coast
train going from Seattle, to northern
points, and near Muckleteo we got
caught between two mud slides. The
mud slide from the side of a hill that
bordered the sound right down into
the salt water, and there wasn't any
place to build a track around the mud
to a relief train. In the east they'd
have found a way to get around the
slide, I think.
mayDe we've got lots or "suprem
acy" in our railroads out here, but it
takes an editor to find it out, I guess.
TIRED DRUMMER.
taarcor-s note: mvery time we
travel on the Great Northern we get
a grouch; too. Butj ust the same we
maintain that there are railroads in
the West that have a vast suprem
acy over the cute little lines in the
East.)
High school students who cannot
yet come to the University because of
finances often enroll, as do school
teaochers who want Ho prepare for
examinations for higher certificates.
Many a human interest touch is con
tained in the letters received:
"We have a boy who would like
some more education but can't be
spared from home just at present,''
writes an Oregon woman.
"Please pardon my envelope. I
would have to ride ten miles to get
another. I am so glad- you didn't
seal yours so I could use it," writes
a Crook county girl.
A man who holds down a homestead
near Sheridan, Oregon, wishes to uti
lize his spare time in the best pos
sible manner, and asks for courses and
pricesN"which are an important item,"
he says, not knowing no correspond
ence study fees are charged, beyond a
postage' fee.
Housewives sometimes enroll, "to
avoid stagnation," as one of them put
it, and on young farmer enrolled in
an 'Introduction to Philosophy"
course.
FISH WORK SHOWN
UNIVERSITY AID TOLD
How Higher Education is Taken into
Homes Throughout State
Times that in some localities are
not so good as they might be are
swelling the enrollment in the correspondence-study
department of the
State University. Most of those who
enroll seek university credits toward
a degree, and since October the en
rollment has been 15G.
Films to Advertise What Government
Is Doing for Finny Tribes
The work that the United States
Bureau of Fisheries is doing in the
interest of the fishing industry of the
country is soon to be illustrated by
the use of motion pictures. In con
nection with its fish-cultural opera
tions, the Bureau of Fisheries has se
cured temporarily the services of an
expert operator, who has been assign
ed to duty on the upper Missippi
river, to take views of the rescue
operations and the activities in con
nection with the propagation of the
fresh-water mussel.
The film maker will later go to the
Great Lakes to take views illustrating
the whitefish and lake-trout opera
tions. On the completion of this duty
he will be assigned to other fields.
The entire work of the Division of
Fish Culture of the Bureau of Fish
eries will be fully illustrated when the
motion-picture tour is completed, and
the results will be available for exhi
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in this branch of the work of the De
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