OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1915.
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Oregon Gity Voters gf Moderate Means
DEC. 6, 1915
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Because if you don't, warrant holders are going to sue us for their money all at once,
and the courts will make you pay your share of the city debt forthwith.
Because we have pure water, improved streets, sewer, free elevator, good health and the
best little city in the state.
Because no adequate provision has been made to pay for the city's share of streets and
sewers.
This is Pay Day-Get Busy and Vote!
Vote 104-X-Yes, so the man of moderate means can have 20 yearly installments to meet his portion of our debt.
Vote 104-X-Yes, to compel the Mayor and Council to live within the budget or be subject to heavy penalities
Vote 104-X-Yes, and the city will borrow money at 5 percent instead of 6 per cent as we are now paying-This
Is Good Business. Vote 104-X-Yes, and the city can pay in cash instead of 6 per cent Warrants, which here
after are bound to be discounted if they sell at all Vote 104-X-Yes, for practically all of the merchants, busi
ness and professional men and women and men of moderate means, who study and know our financial condition
say it is the thing to do-it cherefor must he right!
WILLIAM ANDRESEN
L. ADAMS
M. I). LATOURETTE
JON W. LODER
C. SCHUEBEL
E. C. HACKETT
W. A. LONG
T. L. CHARMAN
T. W. SULLIVAN
R. L. HOLMAN
DR. HUGH MOUNT
C. H. DYE
E. R. BROWN
E. E. BRODIE
C. H. CAUFIELD
S. 0. DILLMAN
F. BUSCH
A. C. ROWLAND
BOARD OF TRADE
COMMERCIAL CLUB
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HOW ALL MAY HELP
Shop Early in the Evening and Go to
the Movies Afterwards
The Courier has received a letter
from the Industrial Welfare commis
sion relative to methods by which the
life of women employed in stores may
be made easier, and suggesting ways
in which a better feeling all round can
be built up between merchants and the
general public. Part of the letter
read as follows:
Editor, Courier: Aecently Miss
Bertha Moores who represents women
and minor employes on the Industrial
Welfare Commission of the State, and
the writer visited fourteen towns in
different sections of the State and
called at practically all of the estab
lishments employing women and mi
nors for the purpose of inquiring into
the operation of the minimum wage
and limitation of hour rulings which
have been promulgated during the
past two years "by this Commission.
We wished to learn whether the em
ployers found difficulty inc omplying
with the law, what the effect of the
law had been on the working con
ditions of the women employes, how
the latter regarded the law and to
discover and correct any violations or
abuses of it.
The most frequent complaint which
we heard from the employers con
cerning their difficulties in complying
with the law came from the merchants
who protested against the lack of co
operation from the shopping public,
especially the women. The latest
hour at which a merchant in the towns
of the state, other than Portland, may
employ women in his establishment is
8:30 p. m., (in Portland this is 6 p. m.)
Many merchants say that they ap
prove this provision of the Commis
sioner's Rulings because it shortens
their own and their men employes'
working day. In a ndmber of the
towns however, the moving picture
houses run one show from 7 p. in. to
8:30 p. m., and a second show from
8:30 p. m. to 10:00 p. m. The county
shoppers and the working people for
whom the stores are expressly Tcept
open on Saturday nights, come, it is
claimed, to the first show, that is
from seventy to eight-thirty, and
then just when the women clerks must
go home, these late customers flood
the stores demanding service. There
is no reason why this shopping could
not be accomplished from 7 p. m. to
8:30 p. m., and the show enjoyed from
8:30 p. m. until 10 p. m.
REMARKS BY MEREDITH
Rain water for sale.
Our foreign consuls should find a
market.
They can advertise the fact that it
can be bought in Oregon City.
DEEP STORY, THIS
Our paper mills are capitalized at
fourteen million and now we wonder
what they are assessed at.
The Liberty Bell reached its home
in Philadelphia on Thanksgiving.
Very appropriately the citizens of the
City of Brotherly Love gave thanks.
Now Tacoma gets into the lime
light again with a man who says he
knows about German plots to destroy
shipping. It is easy to get on the
front page of some newspapers these
days.-
Our state has a fund of $237,000
for roads. How much did Clackamas
countv tret for her share? Ask vour
OOO stata hichwnv commission.'
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who favor putting the people in bondage.
The supreme court has decided sev
eral months ago that the Southern
Pacific owned $2.50 per acre in the
0. & C. Land Grant. A lot of back
taxes are due on this land. What is
our county court going to do about it?
Farmers are much interested in our
county budget, and they will be sur
prised to find so little to whittle off
and retain the present system. The
present plan of state and county gov
ernment is very expensive and instead
of being a blessing to the people has
gradually become a heavy burden on
the taxpayers.
Our national government costs us
eleven hundred million every year.
Our railroads make a clear profit on
watered stock and all after deducting
for depreciation and overhead charges
of an equal amount, and I think I
am safe in saying that the banks of
this country charge us several times
eleven hundred million for the use
of our own credit. Farmers must get
interested in their budgets also.
The supreme court of the U. S. gave
our congress until January 7th to
dispose of the, Oregon-California rail
road land, and if congress failed to
act by that time we know not what
is to become of these 2,400,0,00 acres,
but we think the railroad should pay
back taxes on $2.50 per acre valuation,
and if the railroad refuses' for our
county officials to proceed to sell the
land the same as if it belonged to
farmers.
President Wilson has signed up for
a larger army and a larger navy, but
he signed for only half of what the
jingoes wanted. I have studied a long
time to find out what we needed a
large navy and army for and it has
just reached my consciousness. We
must have it to guard the cripples and
graveyards of Europe to prevent them
from attracting our Oregon Naval
Militia.
We are to have a Land and Loan
measure to come before the people
for our approval, and the voters
should become familiar with its pro
posed ways and means to better our
conditions.
Marine Terms Sprout out all Through
Novel Tale About Youth
Fearing that his runaway son
would carry out an often expressed de
sire to enlist in the United States Ma
rine Corps, Morris Kanue, of Leopold,
West Virginia, has written to the
Pittsburg recruiting office of the "sea
soldiers'' as follows:
"U. S. Marine Cops,
Pittsburg, Pa.
"I hereby warn you not to em
ploy or hire my son, Anthony
Kanue, as a submarine of the
Navy. He has run away from
home and I think he has gone to
Pittsburg to enlist. He is only
17 years old, in proof of which I
am only 39 myself.. If he comes
there whale him within an inch
of his life and send him back to
me.
His father,
MORRIS KANUE."
Sergeant Michael DeBoo, in charge
of the Pittsburg recruiting office of
the United States Marine Corps, has
assured the anxious parent that the
boy will not be enlisted should he ap
ply, but that "whaling'' him is out of
the question, and the father should
"paddle his own Kanue."
BUY AT HOME STUFF
Teachers' Examinations
Notice is hereby given that the
County Superintendent of Clackamas
county, Oregon, will hold the regular
examination of applicants for State
Certificates 'at Masonic Bldg., as fol
lows: Commencing Wednesday, December
15, 1915, at 9 o'clock a. m., and con
tinuing until Saturday,' December 18,
1915, at 4 o clock p. m.
Wednesday Forenoon Writing, U.
S. History.
Wednesday Afternoon Reading,
Physiology, Composition, Methods in
Reading, Methods in Arithmetic.
Thursday Forenoon Arithmetic,
History of Education, Psychology,
Methods in Geography.
Thursday Afternoon Grammar, Ge
ography, American Literature, Phys
ics, Methods in Language, Thesis for
The taxpayers, instead of the tax
eaters, should take charge' of govern
mental affairs in Oregon or be
shackled and chained to a wall of tax
ation that will prohibit prosperity
with the working people.
The cost of loaning the school fund
of Oregon is less than one percent.
If Oregon can loan money with so
low cost our U. S. government could
do even better still.
The government loans to bankers
at two percent and could loan to farm
ers in small or large amounts for the
same money with even better security.
If we are to have rural credit why not
have a good system for the farmer?
P. W. MEREDITH.
This Story was Confided to. us by One
of the Best Local Boosters
"It's funny how one's best intent
ions fail sometimes," said an Oregon
City businessman the other day.
"Take my store, for instance. We
are boosting the trade at home idea
all we can. The other day a man
came into "my store, shopped around
and finally went out. I met him at
the door and asked him if he was sat
isfied. He said he guessed he was.
I noticed he didn't havo any packages
under his arm, so I asked him if ho
had secured everything he wanted.
He looked at me a minute, and then
answered slowly that he had a pair
of shoes he'd like to exchange for the
next size larger.
"I told him to show 'em to me, and
he stepped out to his wagon and
brought in a pair of rubber boots. I
looked them over and saw they were
Sears-Roebuck goods, and I told him
that he couldn't, expect me to change
them, that he'd have to send them
back to the mail order house where
he got them. Then I thought I saw
an opening for a little sermon, so I
began to preach buy-it-at-home to
him, told him how easy it would have
been to exchange his boots if he'd
bought them of me, and all that sort
of stuff, and wound up by telling him
how we always tried to accomodate
our customers and do them any favors
that we could.
"Well, the man listened to me, and
then he walked over to the wrapping
desk and picked up a parcel that would
just about comfortably fill his wagon,
and threw down a handfull of gold
and silver in payment for it. Then
he turned to me:
"I just bought twenty-nine dollars
worth of stuff here,' he said, 'and I
thought that maybe on that account
you'd trade these rubber boots in.
But 'since you wont, well, good-day.'
"And he walked out. Now I'd have
changed those boots in a minute if I'd
known how much he bought in my
place, and stood the loss. We want
to be accomodating but you see I
thought he was just trying to palm
off some mail-order boots on me. It
doesn't always pay to preach, does
it?"
Primary Certificate, Science of Edu
cation. Friday Forenoon Theory and
Practice, Orthography, Physical Geo
graphy, English Literature, Chemis
try, History of Education.
Friday Afternoon School Law, Ge
ology, Algebra, Civil Government,
Childhood and Adolescence.
Saturday Forenoon Geometry, Bot
any, School Administration.
Saturday Afternoon General His
tory, Bookkeeping, Methods.
Very truly yours.
J. A. CHURCHILL,
Superintendent of Public Instruction.
"SOMEBODY SLIPPED"
Molalla Egg Market Invaded by
Pickled Product, It Seems
,Some farmer has been running
pickled eggs on the merchants for
fresh eggs. It has resulted in a loss
to them as they passed through the
local candler and were detected after
being shipped to Seattle with the re
sult that there was a Berious loss in
the shipment.
Under the provisions of the pure
food law the merchant as well as the
farmer offering limed or pickled eggs
as fresh eggs are liable to severe pen
alties. It is no joke to run counter
to the federal pure food law and the
practice should be stopped. The mer
chants are on the outlook for the per
sons putting these eggs on the mar
ket. The pure food laws are especially
valuable to the farmer as they pre
vent cold storage eggs or imported
eggs being marketed as fresh, thus
coming into equal competition with
the fresh article. It is strange thut
farmers should violate the very law
that is worth so much to them as a
protection. (Molalla Pioneer.)
OREGON USES WOOD
Forest Service Report Show State
Absorbs Much of Its Timber
Over a million and a quarter board
feet of wood is used annually in the
mines of Oregon for props, lagging,
ties, and. riffle boxes. '
Oregon consumes 536 board feet of
lumber per capita annually.
In 1914 in the construction of ships
and boats at the ship building yards
of Oregon and Washington, nearly
13,000,000 board feet of high grade
lumber and timbers were consumed.
Australian frontbark contributed
35,000 board feet to this total.
To repair the spokes, tongues, and
reaches of broken wagons, the black
smiths and wheelwrights of the towns
and cities of Oregon and Washington
used over 400,000 board feet of oak,
ash, hickory, etc. The average cost
per thousand board feet of. this raw
material was over one hundred dollars.
YET ONCE AGAIN
An-
Occasional Correspondent Has
other Outburst of Ideas
Editor, Courier:. I see by the daily
papers that the park authorities in
San Francisco are reported to have
refused permission to erect a statue
of Jesus Christ in Golden Gate park,
on the grounds that the park is public
property, and that nothing of religious
significance should be therein foisted
upon the people.
Somehow one hardly expects this
from San Francisco, of all places.
And one is also led to marvel at the
action of the park authorities. l am
not overly well acquainted in the city
by the Golden Gate, but I suppose
that in common with other cities, its
parks are decorated with classical
statues of Diana of the Chase, and
possibly of Mercury, and maybe with
a marble or plaster replica of Apollo
Belvidere. If such is the case and I
surmise that it, for American cities
have a fondness for classic art I
wonder why the park board drew the
line at Jesus?
Is there any more religious signifi
cance in a statute of the Carpenter of
Gagilee than there is in a statue of
some diety of a bygone age? Is there
anything strictly sectarian about the
Man of Sorrows, who is honored by
about 25 percent of the world's popu
lation? Is there any sense at all,
on any grounds, of barring a statue
of the Christ?
Back in Boston, which is a city in
Massachusetts, they have in two of
the public parks statues of noted min
isers. And Boston was glad to get
these memorials. Nobody has yet
offered a statue of Christ to Boston;
but if such an offer was made I pre
sume it would be accepted in the same
spirit it was offered.
Now that San Francisco has drawn
the municipal line at Jesus as a park
ornament, I wonder what will be the
next "limit" of this marvelous city.
It strikes me that this action of the
California park authorities is so very
ridiculous that it merits comment
even comment from such a pen as
mine. And if you think this comment
ary worth printing, I hope you will
permit me to sign it, as usual,
T. LORD C.
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