Oregon City courier., December 09, 1915, Image 1

OREGOM CITY
COURIER
33d Year
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9, 1915
Number 38
15
A YANKEE
FORMER PRO-GERMAN LEANING
IS GIVEN UP BY WORLD'S
BIGGEST TOY DEALER
WAR FRIGHTENS KINDLY SAINT
Owner of Magic Reindeer Comes to
United States to Make Arrange
ments for Filling Up Sleigh
There is no doubt at all that in
former days Santa Claus used to be
pro-German in his sentiments. In
fact many people have declared that
the old Christmas saint came of Ger
man parentage himself, and they have
pointed to his fat and jolly features
to prove it. Also. they have pointed
out the fact that most of the toys he
left at the bottom of chimneys the
nigh before Chrismas were marked
"Made in Germany," so it was quite
evident that he did a great deal of
business with the Fatherland.
This Christmas, however, things
appear to be somewhat different. A
terrific war has been going on in Eu
rope for over a year, and the toy fac
tories m Germany, that formerly
turned out so much of the freight that
Santa Claus carries through the sky
with him in his magic sleigh, have
been turning out other things than
toys. Along about the middle of Sep
tember, when Santa Claus took a drive
down to Germany to see about his an
nual load of toys, his reindeer shied
at a couple of Zeppelins and nearly
threw the old man out of the sleigh,
and right away he turned about and
drove just as fast as he could away
from the land where he used to be so
welcome. When he got back to the
North Pole he wondered what he
would do to get his toys this year, and
finally he decided that he'd go shop
ping around and see.
So he hitched up his reindeer again
arid went to France. There he found
aeroplanes scouting through the sky,
and great cannon were - booming be
neath him, while all the toy factories
were turning out bullets and trum
pets instead of leaden soldiers and tin
horns. It didn't take him long to de
cide that he couldn't do business in
France, either. So swinging around
he drove over to England, but there
the people looked so grim and mad
that he didn't stop. So he whipped
up his reindeer and came over to the
United States.
Here he found things about as
usual, only there weren't very many
toy factories. He found a few, and
hitching his reindeer in front of one,
he dropped in to see the boss. H3
told the boss that he had been getting
toys for many years from Germany
and France, but that this year they
seemed to be so interested in fight
ing over there that he couldn't get
his usual cargo of things to make
children happy. And he asked the
boss of the particular toy factory
where he had stopped if he couldn't
speed up the works and get out all
the toys that were needed here at
home.
The boss was a Yankee, which is
another name for a resourceful Amer
ican, and he scratched his head a min
ute and thought. Then he looked up
at Santa Claus and said:
"I tell you Nick, this is some order
you have dropped down on me, but
I'll see what can be done. You've al
ways bought your stuff in the old
world before, where labor was cheap,
and it will be pretty hard for us to
fill your order over here, where labor
is about the costliest thing there is.
But I'll see what I can do come back
in a month."
When Santa went away this toy
maker had a talk with a lot of other
American toy makers, and with some
designers and machinery experts, and
with businessmen in general. And the
result was that when Santa Claus
came back in a month the toy maker
showed him a lot of sample toys of
all kinds and asked him how he liked
them. And Santa Claus was so sui
prised that he couldn't speak for a
minute, for the American made toys
at which he was looking were the fin
est toys he had ever seen. And after
he recovered from his surprise, he left
a great big order with the American
toy makers, and felt happy, because
he knew he would be able to give all
the little children something this year
just aa he had before, in spite of the
war in Europe.
All of which is a parable, maybe.
Perhaps it isn't good for much except
to read to your small boy or your
small girl just before you put them
to bed. But even at that it is true.
One of the most surprising results
of the war in Europe has been the
transfer of the world's toy market to
the United States. American brains
and American desire to take advan
tage of a business chance have so rev
olutionized the toy market that it is
doubtful if Germany will ever again
be able to really compete for suprem
acy in this line. For while Germany
always had and always will . have
cheap labor, the American toy makers
have perfected so many new kinds of
machinery for making toys, and can
turn them out in such large quanti
ties, that America, with high wages,
POLITICS A-BREWING
National and County Situation Stirs
Interest Among Voters
Probably because Oregon City'p
election has got people to thinking
about it, and because the other city
elections have helped, there appears
to be an awakening of political inter
est throughout the county, state and
nation. W. P. Hawtey, Jr., who re-
cently returned from a trip through
the East, says that everybody back
there is trying to pick the leader upon
whom the republicans will pick their
hopes in 1916, and adds that Charles
E. Hughes, former governor of New
York and now a justice of the United
States Supreme Court, appears to be
the popular favorite.
Justice Hughes has announced that
he is not seeking the office, and while
many republicans are hopeful that he
will lead the party, efforts are still be
ing made to find a "strong" man to
run against Wilson, who appears to
be certaiii of the democratic nomina
tion if he will have it.
In the county there is less interest
in presidential timber than there is in
county timber. The fight for district
attorney and sheriff appears to be
looming larger than ever on the hori
zon. No new candidates for the dis
trict attorneyship have announced
themselves, however, and those al
ready entered in the race appear to
be marking time until the Honorable
Christian Schuebel decides whether or
not he wants to "sacrifice'' his private
law practice and really go after the
place. Mr. Schuebel says that if he
does make the race and should be
elected that he will "lose money''
through an enforced neglect of his
private practice.
In the offing about the sheriff's of
fice there are a number of candidates.
William Wilson confides to the Cour
ier that he will be a candidate for re
election, and that "the papers can't
scare him out." With the departure
of Mr.kHackett from the chief depu
tyship the first of the year to become
mayor of Oregon City, ,it is reported
that Mr. Wilson will "play politics"
in appointing a successor to Hackett,
and will take into his office a man
with a large following. It is even
rumored that the chief deputyship will
be offered to John F. Albright, a re
publican candidate for the sheriff's job
at the last primaries.
On the democratic side of the fence
it is understood that E. T. Mass, for
mer sheriff, will be a candidate if H.
W. Kohler, of Oswego--who ran
against Wilson last election, does not
want to make another try for the job.
hd Olds has also been mentioned as a
possible candidate for the nomina
tion. It is also said that W. A. Long
of Oregon City, may go gunning for
the democratic nomination for sheriff.
The Cat Came Back
Aurora has unearthed a cat that
has been missing for sixty years. A
warehouse was torn down recently
and a mummy cat with dry, white
skin and whiskers still in place was
found. After January 1 there will
enter into the mummified state some
of the inhabitants of that town, and
they won't be cats. (Woodburn In
dependent.) Linn Jones no sooner announces
that he is "out of politics" than they
shove him on the water board. That
is a funny place to go to get "out of
politics," judging by past perform
ances. can actually undersell Germany with
her low wages, when it comes to toys.
And on top of all that the toys are
BETTER TOYS.
Visit the shops in your town where
toys are sold, and see for yourself.
Never before has there been such a
variety from which to choose, and
never before have such substantial
toys been offered. And the toys are
more lifelike and real. Go to your
home store and look over the offerings
and see for yourself. Ask the store
keeper to show you what he's got, and
get him to tell you about the things,
and the prices. And then compare
them with what you formerly paid
for "Made in Germany" toys.
There are real railroad trains, made
in America, with American engines
with cow-catchers, to draw them, that
are as far ahead of the old "Made in
Germany" trains as American Pull
mans are ahead of the old single
truck cars that they used to have in
Germany. And American children
want American trains to play with
the absence of cow-catchers on their
engines has long been a sorrow to
American youngsters. There are
"character dolls" made in American
factories that not only look better and
more lifelike than the dolls we used
to buy, but they are better dolls and
wont break so easily. There are thou
sands of novelties in the toy line, sub
stantially made and faithfully repro
ductive of the "grown-up" things they
represent, that will bring joy to the
heart of any child and they are
cheaper and better than the toys we
used to get.
The war in Europe is a terrible
thing, but it has had one good result
it has made for better toys for lit
tle children all over the world. It has
made the United States the head
quarters of Santa Claus, and it has
given old St Nick a better line of
goods to distribute throughout the
globe. Even if you aren't a child any
more it will pay you to go to four
local store and look at the toys and
see what fine things you can get for
the children now; and how splendidly
American brains, skill and labor have
risen to the occasion .
HACKETT ELECTED
By PEOPLE
BOND ISSUE ALSO CARRIES AS
DO AMENDMENTS INI
TIATED BY STONE
VOTE AT POLLS NOT HEAVY
West Linn Votes to Take in Outside
Territory but Turns Down Law
Against Stray Cattle
Monday of this week voters in the
county seat elected E. C. Hackett
mayor by a majority of 204 ballots,
re-elected M. D. Phillips city treasur
er, re-elected Fred Metzner to the
council, and elected A. B. Buckles and
E. L. Moore to the council. The re
funding bond issue was authorized by
majority of 408, and the Stone
amendments to the city charter, pro
viding for jury trials in the recorder's
court and for the election of city
prosecutor and city recorder were also
carried. The election results did not
surprise citizens who had been keep
ing a close tab on the campaign.
The passage of the Stone amend
ments may be considered a direct ex
pression from the voters of what they
think of the logic of the Honorable
Christian Schuebel, who waged a bit
ter and eleventh-hour warfare on
them. The intimation that the Stone
amendments were in behalf of the
"wets,'' also advanced in an effort to
defeat them, was evidently not taken
seriously by the voters.
Aside from the county seat, West
Linn, Gladstone and Molalla held elec
tions on Monday. West Linn citizens
voted down a measure that would pro
hibit stock running at large in the
new city, and voted for the annexa
tion of Willamette. City officials
elected in West Linn were: Mayor,
J. B. ewthwaite; recorder, L. L. Por
ter; chief of police, P. J. Winkel;
treasurer, M. E. Clancey; councilmen,
F. J. Clark, F. A. Hammerle, N. T.
Humphrys, E. A. Leighton, N. C.
Mickels and Charles Shields.
Gladstone elected the following citv
officials: Mayor, Chambers Howell;
recorder, John N. Sievers; treasurer,
Thomas Anthony Burke; councilmen,
F. A. Burdon, C. W. Parrish and H. W.
Strebig.
In Molalla the election resulted in
the choosing of the following rulers
of the city: Mayor, W. W. Everhart;
councilmen, one year term, Tom
Worth; two year term, L. A. Daugh-
erty, F. H. Hendricksen, I. M. Tolliv
er; recorder, H. N. Everhart and
treasurer, J. H. Vernon.
In none of the three towns where
elections were held were there any
remarkable crowds at the polls. The
vote in Oregon City reached a total
of 1197, and in the outside towns a
similar lack of interest was apparent
among the electorate. However, in
all points the voting was sufficiently
pronounced in its results to show that
the general feeling of the people was
carried into effect.
In the county seat the election of
Mr. Hackett will lead to several
changes in municipal affairs. Coun
cilman Hackett, who will take the
mayor's chair the first of the year, will
be replaced by a councilman who will
selected by the city fathers.
Chief of Police Shaw will resign be
fore the new year, and the incoming
mayor will appoint his successor.
There will also be a change in the of
fice of city prosecutor, but it is be
lieved that Mr. Hackett will ask Re
corder Loder to continue in office.
ROBBERIES CONTINUE
Country Club, Near Milwaukie,
Is
Again Visited by Thieves
In spite of the efforts of Sheriff
Wilson to preserve the peace in his
bailiwick and put to rout all thugs,
thieves and crooks, robberies continue
merrily at the Waverly Country club,
between Milwaukie and Sellwood.
Sunday night complaint wsa made to
Multnomah county authorities that
another robbery had occurred in the
country club, and Monday word of
this got to Sheriff Wilson. The, sher
iff investigated and discovered that
$17 in cash had been taken from the
locker rooms of the club, in the rear
of the interurban station at Over
links. This is but one in a long series of
robberies that have taken place at the
country club, some of which' have
been from the locker rooms, and some
of which have occurred in the club
houRe proper. Facts regarding many
of these robberies have beens uppress
ed, club members not desiring to have
the notoriety attached to newspaper
reports of the pilferings.
According to the report sent Port
land, the robbery Sunday night was
more extensive than the $17 affair
which Sheriff Wilson Investigated.
Councilman Templeton didn't do
anything for the city last month at
least there was no warrant for him
in the finance committee report. Too
bad you can't use lawn-mowers when
it rains.
The Courier $1.00 per year.
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HONORS FOR TEACHERS
Special Certificates for Instructors
Who Really Do Work
A plan for giving public recog
nition to those teachers of the state
who have proved themselves to be
progressive as well as successful in
their work! has been announced by
Superintendent of Public Instruction
J. A. Churchill. To all teachers who
meet the five requirements adopted by
the State Superintendent there will be
given "professional teacher's certifi
cates,'' which will certify that the
holders have not only taught success
fully during the preceeding year, but
that they are progressive and have
shown a proper professional spirit to
ward their work.
The certificate will be issued by the
Superintendent of Public Instruction
upon the statement of the county su
perintendent that all of the require
ments have been met and that the
teacher deserves especial recognition
of his attainments. While the certifi
cate will in itself not entitle the hold
er, to teach, it will be of great assist
ance to school boards in helping them
to select thoroughly progressive and
up-to-date teachers, who have been
especially successful in their work.
The requirements which must be
met for the Professional Teacher's
Certificates ,are as follows: 1. Hav
ing taught successfully for at least
eight months during the year 1915-16;
2. Having met all of the requirements
for a teacher in a standard school and
having complied strictly with the
laws relating to fire dangers and fire
drills; 3. Having sent promptly to the
county superintendent all reports re
quested by- him or required by law;
4. Having attended the annual teach
er's institute or teacher's training
school, and at least one local insti
tute; 5. Having read during the year,
under the supervision of the Univer
sity of Oregon or the Oregon Agri
cultural College, at least two books
on the teachers' reading circle list.
THIS IS STRANGE
Luncheon for County Officials to
be
Strictly Stag Affair
December 8, 9 and 10 are the dates
for a meeting in Portland of a con
vention of county judges and county
commissioners from all parts of the
state. The gathering is to be held in
the county courthouse, but a fancy
banquet for those attending is to be
held in the banquet hall of the Port
land Chamber of Commerce. The
banquet will be held Friday evening,
December 10, and it will cost two dol
lars a plate.
In announcing the banquet the ex
ecutive secretary of the Portland
Chamber of Commerce says: "Men
only will be present at this event. An
unusual line of music, stunts and a
varied snappy entertainment will be
featured. Only a very few addresses
will be given.''
That is a peculiar announcement
for a gathering of county judges and
county commissioners, isn't it? What
do you suppose the county judges and
the county commissioners are going to
do and see in that "snappy entertain
ment" that makes it necessary to bar
women?
It is a queer meeting, isn't it?
Land Patent Given
The government has granted to the
widow of Wesley Joslin a patent to
300 acres of land in sections 32 and
33, township 3 south, range 1 east.
The late Mr. Joslin never filed the
original patent given him, and a pho
tograph of the one granted by Presi
dent Grant was secured in Washing
ton and forwarded here with due
guarantee of its genuineness.
Starr Is Out
J. M. Starr, who was sentenced to
250 days in jail by Judge Campbell
for an alleged assault upon R. B.
Hayhurst, has been paroled after serv
ing a little over a month. Starr and
Hayhurst had an altercation resulting
from the efforts of the-former to tres
pass upon Hayhurst's land during the
pheasant hunting season.
One clear morning last week prov
es that the sun is still on the job
we had commenced to doubt it.
"It's a Long, Long Way to .the
Mayoralty" might be sung in certain
quarters in the county seat now.
ILL CITY YIELD
IT'S ITER BIGHT
REQUEST OF HAWLEY COMPANY
FOR SALE OF FILTRATION
PLANT STARTLES ALL
GRAVE QUESTIONS ARE RAISED
Right to Use Flume Sought by Paper
Concern, Which Bida $20,000
for Main Street Property
After the preliminary skirmishing
which has been going on for over a
week, the Board of Water Commis
sioners Wednesday night asked the
city council for "advice" upon an of
fer of the Hawley Pulp & Paper com
pany to buy the old filtration plant on
lower Main street for $20,000. M. D.
Latourette, of the water board,
brought the matter before the coun
cil, and set off the fuse that is secure
ly tagged at its other end to one of
the biggest municipal explosions yet
on record. Prompt action on the
part of Councilman Meyer, however,
stopped the fuse from burning its en
tire length, and after a good deal of
maneuvering the matter was finally
landed safe in the hands of a com
mittee, who are to report within 9
week.
Mr. Latourette read the Hawley
company's letter to the council. The
letter is addressed to the water board,
and asks for a 60-day option on the
old filtration plant on Main street,
declaring that if the company finally
concludes to buy the property the
sum of $20,000 will be paid for it.
According to the letter the company
desires to purchase 386 feet frontage
on the east side of Main street, nortli
from the present sulphite mill, and
on this site promises to erect a re
inforced concrete building. The let
ter says that the mill company desires
solely to "deal in real estate," and
does not desire to purchase any water
rights or leases, with the exception
of the present city flume. If the com
pany buys the property, the letter
states, the output of the mills will be
increased 60 percent, and 200 more
men will be given employment.
After reading the letter Mr. Lat
ourette informed the council that all
the property now covered by the old
filtration plant had been deeded to
the water board, and that this body
could dispose of it as it desired. The
board, he added, however desired to
have the advice of the council in the
matter and would abide by its de
cision. The matter would also be
put up to the taxpayers, according to
Mr. Latourette, in an effort to get
public sentiment in the case.
Mayor Jones suggested that the
council Would probably like to think
the matter over. Mr. Templeton
reached for the Hawley letter, and
asked if the paper company also
wanted the fire house at Third and
Main street.
Mr. Latourette answered that the
Hawley company wanted the entire
block, but that the matter of obtain'
ing the fire house would be taken up
later. He added that the filtration
plant would be no use in its present
location if it was desired to use it
connection with the South Fork
water system, and that as far as the
pumps were concerned, the Hawley
company would be willing to make
room in the basement of their pro
posed buildings for the pumping plant;
so that the city would have an emer
gency water equipment. With the
$20,000 to be realized from the sale
of the property, if the deal went
through, Mr. Latourette said the
water board proposed to build a high
level reservoir that would contain
enough water to supply the city ten
or twelve days, and so provide a sup
ply in case of trouble on the pipe
line. The sale of the property, he
added, would bring several thousand
dollars of taxable property into the
city, increase industry, and cut off
the present expense of $260 per
month for employees at the old fil
tration plant.
Mayor Jones said that he had talk
ed of the matter with Mr. Hawley and
had been assured that the city could
have room in the basement of the new
mill buildings for the installation of
a water wheel and an electric generat
or should the city desire to establish
a municipal electric plant. In reply to
this Mr. Latourette volunteered the
information that the lease the city
had on water rights from the Willa
mette Transportation & Locks com
pany was solely for pumping purpos
es, and that the city couldn't install
an electric plant.
Intense opposition to the plan was
known to exist among the council,
many members of which do not see
any need for haste in the matter and
wonder why the scheme is trying to
be rushed through the present coun
cil. Mr. Hackett, the incoming mayor,
is among those known to oppose it,
and other councilmen do not like the
idea of the city giving up its flume,
which carries "priority water rights,"
guaranteeing to the city first use of
water from the basin, no matter if
the river is so low that all other
flumes have to go dry.
(Continued on page 10)
BUDGET ALL RIGHT
Adoption of Amendment Will Not Mix
Up County Seat Affairs
While the council of Oregon City
adopted a tax levy of ten and a half
mills, the voters at Monday's elec
tion, by passing favorably upon the
refunding bond issue, have adopted a
levy of 14 mills. County Assessor
Jack is empowered by law to extend
either levy upon the tax rolls, but the
chances are that he will extend the
14 mills levy, as it i sa rule of the
court in Oregon that any initiative
measure takes effect immediately up
on its passage.
The fact that the county seat's
budget for 1916 is based on a ten
and a half mill levy, and that under
the amendment the city will have but
seven mills 'to expend on its general
expenses, will not mix things up very
much, in the opinion of City Recorder
Loder. Mr. Loder says that much of
the 10 V-i mill levy is taken up with
interest on outstanding warrants, and
with sums for the payment of a part
of the indebtedness. These amounts
will now be cared for by refunding
bond issue, and so the city will not
have to plan on expending money for
this purpose. The result will be that
the remaining figures in the budget
will just about equal the seven mills
allowed under the amendment half of
the new 14 mill levy being reserved
as a payment on the new issue of re
funding bonds.
"The city will get along just about
as it had planned," said Mr. Loder,
"and I do not believe that' the coun
cil will find itself in any way ham
pered." If any shortage of funds does de
velop. The cutting will come in the
street department, and probably there
will not be much of a cut there, as
the city's share of the county road tax
is expected to provide enough for all
street work.
BUY-AT-HOME STUFF
Oregon City Firm Distributes Adver
tising Printed Out of Town
This buy-it-at-home campaign is
great stuff. All the local merchants
and businessmen are back of it heart
and soul. They all say that every
penny spent in Oregon City is a penny
kept at home, where it can go round
and round and help on the prosperity
of Oregon City. Sure.
Councilman R. B. Cox is an en
thusiastic supporter of the buy-it-at-home
idea. He doesn't think Portland
jitneys ought, to come into Oregon
City and compete with Oregon City
jitneys, or with the saintly Portland
Railway, Light & Power company,
which pays taxes here and does other
things. Mr. Cox is also interested in
the Oregon City Ice Works, and he
thinks everybody ought to buy Ore
gon City ice and coal and other things
like that. Sure he does.
And this week, leaflets bearing the
advertisement of the Oregon City Ice
Works and urging the people to buy
their coal of the Oregon City Ice
Works have been distributed all over
town. Buy-it-at-home stuff, Sure.
And the advertising leaflets were
printed by the Modern Printing Com
pany, Pittock block arcade, Portland,
Oregon.
Buy-it-at-home stuff, SURE!
MRS. QUINT DIES
Barlow Woman Whose Life Was
Largely Spent Pioneering Passes
Mrs. Harriet R. Quint, of Barlow,
died at the home of her daughter, Mrs.
R. E. Irwin, the day following Thanks
giving. Funeral services were con
ducted by Rev. Dr. Love, of the Spiri
tual church, Portland. Mrs. Quint
was 82 years of age, and is survived
by two daughters, Mrs. Irwin, of
Barlow, and Mrs. Susio Chase, who
lives in South Dakota; and by five
grandchildren.
Harriet Relief Brown was born in
Cass county, New York, in 1833.
When she was 12 years of age her
parents moved to Michigan, where
they settled upon a donation land
claim. In 1857 she was married, to
Obed W. Quint. In 1870 they moved
to Iowa, locating on a homestead. Af
ter four years they moved to Sioux
City, Iowa, where they resided till
1892, when they came to Oregon, set
tling at Barlow. Mr. Quint died in
1899. He was a veteran of the Civil
War. Mrs. Quint's father and two
brothers lost their lives in the ser
vice of their country.
Mrs. Quint was a kind and loving
mother, a faithful friend, possessing
the true pioneer spirit of hospitality.
PAVED ROADS ASKED
County Boosters Want $60,000 Ex
tended on Hard Surface Work
Backed by T. A. Roots, Ed Olds,
Sam Roake, the Honorable Christian
Schuebel, Dr. J. A. Van Brakle and
others, the Live Wires of the Com
mercial club this week adopted a reso
lution asking, the county court to
spend at least $60,000 in 1916 for lay
ing hard surface roads, in Clackamas
county. The Live Wires estimate
that a hard surface redress can be
laid on five miles of good macadam
road for the Bum that may be raised
by a two-mill levy, and that such a
road would not need any maintenance
charge for at least ten years.
The resolution has been forwarded
to the county court for consideration,
and when the matter comes tip a num
ber of county taxpayers who have a
knowledge of road work will argue
for the new plan before the commissioners.
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LIKE THESE. EH?
VAGARIES OF SCHUEBEL RULE
MAY BE AMUSING, BUT
THAT'S NOT POINT
TIME TO QUIT MONKEY SHINES
Serious Questions Raised by Lawyers
as to Ability To Enforce Recent
Enactment if Attacked
Last week the Courier mentioned
casually that it would have some
thing to say this week about the Hon
orable Christian Schuebel and some of
the city legal business with which he
has been connected since he has en
joyed the decorative title of "city at
torney.'' The Courier wasn't going
to spill this stuff when it first got
next to it because the spilling of the
bean-pot may not do the city any
good; but the Honorable Christian
Schuebel is so cock-sure of himself,
and is also so sure that the Courier
is related to a long-eared quadruped,
that it is perhaps just as well that the
stuff be spilled.
In a letter in Sunday's Enterprise,
the Honorable Christian Schuebel in
timated that the Courier was a jack
ass or a mule his language is a little
hazy, as usuifl, and it is hard to get
his correct meaning. Maybe the
Courier is a jackass or a mule, but
the Honorable Christian Schuebel
should not be so scornful, and should
remember that both the jackass and
the mule have aided America in ac
complishing a great deal of its pres
ent glory. Even in this day of auto
mobiles and flying machines, the
United States maintains several hun
dred mules for mountain artillery
uses, so it would appear that at least
one breed of long-eared quadrupeds is
of considerable value.
Last week a reporter ofthe Cour
ier asked the Honorable Christian
Schuebel if it wasn't a fact that the
so-called ""Jones anti-booze law,"
which Chris drew, wasn't worthless as
far as law went. The reporter said
he had heard it was worthless be
cause the city charter doesn't give the
council authority to regulate the sale
of liquor anywhere except in saloons
and liquor stores. Mr. Schuebel pooh
poohed the idea, and quoted the char
ter, to wit as follows:
"The city council has power and
authority within Oregon City to li
cense, tax, regulate and restrain bar
rooms, drinking shops pro
vided that no law or part of law au
thorizing any officer or officers of the
county of Clackamas to grant tavern
or grocery licenses shall apply to per
sons vending liquors within the limits
of said city."
The Courier reporter had heard this
section of the charter quoted before,
and he asked the Honorable Christian
Schuebel if there was anything there
in to give the council power to pass
an ordinance "regulating"' the sale or
disposition of liquor in private resi
dences, or outside of "barrooms and
drinking shops.''
The Honorable Christian Schuebel
crawfished and hemmed and hawed a
minute, and then he said that the lo
cal option law, which was still in force
gave the city power to do as it sweet
ly pleased in regard to booze. And
furthermore, the Honorable Christian
Schuebel remarked that he'd like to
have some "smart attorney" give him
a run on this law and carry it into
court if he didn't think it was good.
Then, just for full measure, the Hon
orable Christian Schuebel announced
that if he was "city attorney" next
year, violations of the statewide pro
hibition law would be prosecuted un
der the city ordinance which he drew.
The Honorable Christian Schuebel
has a right to his opinions. And so
have other attorneys. And quite a
number of other attorneys, including
some of those in the city say the Jones
anti-booze law isn't worth the paper
upon which it has been typewritten,
because it goes beyond the powers of
the council as set forth in the char
ter. Now the Courier is "dry,'' and it
wants Oregon City to have a good
prohibition law, since the majority of
people have declared for prohibition.
But it doesn't feel that the Honorable
Christian Schuebel knows more about
the charter than some of the other at
torneys or more about the law than all
the other "smart attorneys'' of the
city, as Chris calls them. And if the
Jones anti-booze law isn't GOOD LAW
it is time that somebody took a fall
out of Chris on it, and got a GOOD
LAW enacted. And inasmuch as the
charter doesn't say anything about the
power of the council to regulate booze
outside of "barrooms and drinking
shops," and inasmuch as the chatrer
denies the council the right to take
advantage of county laws and pow
ers, it looks to us as if the foot of
the Honorable Christian Schuebel had
slipped.
Then there was the matter of the
city budget that was brought up by
the reporter to Chris. The law says
the budget must be published twice.
The Honorable Christian Schuebel
says the budget was printed twice;
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LAWS