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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 30, 1915.
OREGON CITY COURIER
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"NOW IS THE TIME"
January the first will soon be with
us. January first is that peculiar day
when we all make more or less reso
lutions, and when we get mad when
we date letters "1915" instead of
"1916." This year it will also be
. the day when we will bravely and
boldly take a drink of beer or booze,
just to show that we don't care even
if the state has gone dry. In fact
it is a safe bet to make, right now,
that more beer, wine and liquor will
be consumed on the first of January
than was drunk in any day in 1915 in
Oregon. For it is human nature to
show one's independence; and lots of
people, many of whom voted for the
"dry" law, will take a drink on New
Years just to show that their person
al liberty has not been one whit cur
tailed. And after taking that drink
as a sign of individual independence,
people will settle down to the new
order of things and obey the law as
the majority always does.
- January first will also find the
Northwest waking up to a new era of
prosperity an era that bids fair to
outrank all former periods of "good
times" as far as development and
progress go. With the lumber barons
planning an outlay of many hundreds
of thousands in this section to open
up and develop new timber holdings,
the Northwest is bound to be pros
perous; for the lumber resources of
the Pacific Slope are the backbone
and ribs of this section's wealth. And
not only will the new development of
these vast timber holdings directly
bring a new prosperity to this Farth
est West, but the very development
work itself is a forecast of better
time to come for the timber barons
would not dump their capital into new
logging roads and new logging camps
did they not foresee a coming need of
new building and structural material.
The outlook is that the Northwest
will rebuild the Old World in this year
of 1916. It appears from many sourc
es that the conflict that is draining
Europe of its men and that is piling
up ruin, grief and sorrow, cannot
much longer continue. And as soon
as the great war stops, there will be
a cry for material with which to re
build the stricken cities. And much
of that material will come from- the
virgin forests of the Northwest, where
great stands of fir have been waiting
through centuries for the call of man
In our possessions of fir we have the
most wonderful of woods; a timber
from which can be fashioned every
thing from heavy joists to the- thin
nest of veneers, and the grain of
which can be so cut and stained as
to imitate every other kind of wood
that there is. Into our treasury of fir
there will be sent thousands of men,
and from the work which they do will
spread prosperity in every line.
Nineteen sixteen bids also to be a
lively year in other ways. Not only
will the approaching end of the war
stimulate the manufacturing arts; but
the return of the Old World to sanity
will also stimulate the finer phases of
man's nature. In addition to that the
lessons thut the war hus taught this
country will bear fruit and the sup
plies which we have learned to manu
facture ourselves, instead of import
ing from abroad, will call for the
erection of many new factories and
other plants. And then we will have,
in Oregon, a lively political season
and everybody knows that Oregon is
happiest and wealthiest when engag
ed in the gentle pastime of selecting
its best (?) men to fill public office.
With this outlook before us, the
Courier wants to wish everybody a
happy and prosperous New Year, and
hopes that the desires of all will be
fulfilled at least in part during the
next !i(iO or so days. And, since we
have so much prosperity ahead of us,
and since the outlook is so good at
this time for a year of plenty would
n't it be a good plan rigt now to start
putting away a nickel or so every duy,
so that next year we can all of us
buy the sort of Christmas presents
that we will want to give at the end
of u prosperous year?
ON THE SQUARE
proposed purchase of the county fair
grounds at Canby should have no
great difficulty in getting signers to
their petition. The expenditure of
$7,950 for the' purchase of a county
fair grounds is a matter that con
cerns every taxpayer in the county,
and it is not a matter to be settle.' at
a so-called "taxpayers meeting,
when in a minute of enthusiasm the
scheme'was given endorsement. Sev
en thousand nine hundred and fifty
dollars is a lot of money, when it has
to be raised by taxation; and the
people who will contribute this money
should have very much to say about
the way it is to be spent.
While Estacada's protest against
the purchase of the Canby fair
grounds may be caused by commun
ity jealousy, in this case Estacada and
the entire northern section of the
county has every right to be jealous.
It has a right to be even more than
jealous, and no fair-minded citizen
will object to signing the petitions
to place the question of the Canby
purchase on the ballot. The present
fair 'grounds at Canby may be worth
the sum asked; but that is no reason
why they should be purchased by the
county. It is not the place of the
county to make realty investments.
The chief purpose of a county fair
is to display the things the county
can produce. And this display ought
to be made in the most accessible
place in the county. The site should
be .not only accessible, to the residents
of the county, but to people from
outside and the Canby site is served
by only one railroad. In addition to
this it is a long way from the nor
thern section of the county; a long
way by train and road, and an incon
venient distance, too. It ought to be
easy to use $7,950 to better advantage
than 'by buying the old fair grounds
at Canby; and if this sum must be
used for the purchase of a display
spot, the place ought to be selectde
with a view to its accessibility to
every portion of the county and to
Portland for the county is just as
anxious to have Portland people and
tourists see its fair as it is to have
its own people see it.
The Courier has no spot in view
for the fair grounds. It is not boost
ing for any special locality But it
seems to the Courier that any coun
ty fair, to be a success, should be lo
cated on a tract of land lying some
where in the angle formed by the Es
tacada und Oregon City interurban
lines; for this angle is not only trans
versed by the main line of the South
ern Pacific, but it is also cut by the
fast-growing Carver line, and is just
as accessible to folk who live along the
line of the Willamette Valley South
ern. If the fair grounds were located
somewhere Within a radius of three
miles of Milwaukie, say; all sections
of the county would receive an equal
shore of transportation conveniences,
and the fair would also be near
enough to Portland to draw a heavy
attendance of outside visitors. And
in the final run, it is the outsiders who
will be impressed by the display of
the county s resources who will do
the most good to the county for
they will be moved to invest in the
section that yields the rich produc
tion shown.
The Courier does not believe that
the county ought to purchase the
present fair grands at Canby. It be
lieves that these grounds ought to be
abandoned as the site of the county's
annual display of its resources, and
that some other and more centrally
located site should be selected. Then
there will be time enough to talk
about county ownership.
WHERE IT PAYS
Estacuda citizens who are plan
ning to invoke the referendum on its
(luvornment statistics show that on
an average the person who stops his
or her education at the end of gram
mar school earns $250 per year. Those
who continue through highschool
average about a thousand dollars a
year in salary; and those who take
four years additional training in a
technical school or university average
annual incomes of $'2,000 and over per
year. Hence it would seem that it
pays to keep the boy or girl in school
as long as is possible.
Of course there are exceptions to
18811916
(J The growth of a solid, steady reputation cannot
be pushed or hurried. The commercial trademarks
which have become household expressions were not
thrust upon the nation by a "whirlwind campaign"
of advertising, but by the constant repetition year by
year of claims which were made good to the letter.
To win permanent, inseparable friends takes time
and testing; it is so with a bank just as with any
other business.
fOur friends have made us what we are; we be
lieve we have had a hand in making them, too. To
retain the old by continued fidelity and devotion,
and thus attract the new, is our constant aim.
THE BANK OF OREGON CITY
Oldest Bank in Clackamas County
these averages. Edison, who didn't
have much of a school education, has
an income now that is dizzying to
contemplate. But Edison studied
outside of school more than many a
university graduate ever studied in
his whole life. And in the other di
rection, there are college graduates
who are driving horsecars for a dol
lar and a half a day.
It stands to reason, however, that
the more the mind is trained in youth,
the greater will be its success in grap
pling with the problems of later life,
and the greater advantage will thai
mind haw in earning a comfortable
living for the body over which it rules.
Hence it is the duty of every parent
or guardian of a youngster to keep
that youngster in school just as long
as the youngster will stay. There is
no sense in driving a boy or girl to
theh igher institutions of learning if
the boy or girl really doesn't want to
go, or hasn't the mental alertness suf
ficient to absorb the training given.
But the average child, in good health,
will develop sufficiently as it grows
to get the full benefit of all the edu
cation that can be furnished; and it
is the duty of the parents to see that
the child has his advantage..
We are reminded by the govern
ment statistics quoted at the begin
ning of this spasm of a man in Mas
sachusetts, who called his boy to him
the day after he graduated from col
lege, and showed him an itemized ac
count of the money that had been ex
pended on "raising" him. The total
was close to $25,000. Said the man:
"Son, I have invested in you an
average of a thousand dollars a year.
Now it is up to you to pay dividends
on that. I don't begrudge the money,
but I want you to regard yourself at
least as much. as you would a piece of
machinery that cost $25,000; and I
is that the small towns have too many
business houses. They are paying
rent, taxes and insurance on too much
for the amount of business they do.
"If Woodburn had one implement
house and about two good general
merchandise stores, you would have
no reason to "holler" mail order
house, for then they could meet prices
that are impossible for them now and
yet they would make dollars where
they now make cents. Six or eight
years ago Woodburn could support
more stores than she can today, by
about twice as many, because the Or
egon Electric on the west has cut off
trade and the Willamette Valley
Southern has cut off trade on the east.
"I have never found Woodburn a
good trading point for the reason that
every resident has a small farm
where they raise their own potatoes,
fruit and garden vegetables, and some
of them have a cow or two. Not quite
all of them grow apples, but for those
that do not, I see that your mer
chants have a good supply of Hood
River apples. Yet they say, 'Spend
your money at home.' I say, 'Let the
town practice what it preaches.' If
they did you would all be buying wood
from the farmers instead of .buying
Washington coal. Your mills has dis
carded their steam engines and put in
electric motors because they had to
spend a few dollars with the farmers
for wood. I think it is time that
Woodburn should start spending its
own money at home."
The Courier has heard similar com
ments from some of the farmers who
live near Oregon City, and it has
printed a few letters from them, too.
It prints this Woodburn letter here to
add to the general store of informa
tion on the subject, and also because it
may possibly contain some hints that
will be helpful to Oregon City boosters
ing car on the interurban to bring its ;
full quota of packages round pack
ages done up in the familiar box form,
packages that gurgled when shaken,
and which leaked when dropped.
s If everybody in Oregon City didn't
get all the booze they wanted with
which to stock up for the "dry spe'.l,"
it wasn't the fault of the gity admin
istration, for not a hand was raised to
stop the steady inrush of packages of
bargain wet goods. iCnowing how
ardent the police usually are in en
forcing the law, it can only be con
cluded that the "higher ups" must
have passed the word to be blind; for
practically nobody was molested or
compelled to use the express com
panies to bring in their liquid joy.
Hence banish forever the charge
that the administration was narrow,
hide-bound, Puritanical and strict.
Let history proclaim the truth, and
let it' be known to all that never was
a greater "liberality" shown, and that
never before was the law so univers
ally winked at. And let there be
praise for those who thus demon
strated an unsuspected liberal side of
their make-up; for it ought to be
known that the milk of human kind
ness runs in some veins. For the las
two weeks of the year the famous
Jones anti-booze law, which was
drawn by the "city attorney" was the
deadest "dead letter" ever knowh in
these parts. And so does the ad
ministration stand revealed as kind
ly to the erring more kind than ever
would have been suspected.
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CHANCE FOR ECONOMY
The Hubbard Enterprise last week
remarked that it 'didn't see much use
in post masters. It finds that the
post master in a small office eats up
most of the profits, and thinks that the
A Prosperous 1916
May Father Time deal kindly with you
and yours during the new year
May he bring brightness into your
home and may his foot prints be up
on the right side of your bank book
May he often incline your feet in our
direction and may your business be
of such a nature that when the new
year has grown old we will both
look back and say "A very good
year indeed."
W. J. Wilson & Company
10th and MAIN STREETS, OREGON CITY, ORE.
SELLING THE ENTIRE
Mitchell, Lewis and Staver Cos
Line of FARM MACHINERY and VEHICLES
JHea r Amy;-
a9 feel so Ae freshed ifiii moAnina thai
af'll pay you ike leticA of owe you. a? just
haven't fell like wriiina foA a lona time,
lut yejieAclay my new furniiuAe came and
of fixed up my liedroom. 771 y , how slept!
oft makei you feel io much moAe.eheeAful
and happy to wake up in a beautifully fur
niihed LedAoom.
Vou want to Le caAeful thouah when you
Luy youA fuAniiuAe. Vhile you aAe at it,
aet the aood kind that will laii, like J did.
Qi evcA'
jCou.
(P,S.a9'm deliahted with my new fuAniture.
Louaht it fAom
FRANK BUSCH
Leading Furniture Dealer
11th & Main Sts. Oregon City, Ore.
about by simply giving it their &p-
proval. There is not a particle of
doubt that efficiency, economy and bet
ter service would be promoted by dis
continuing the practice of rewarding
political workers by giving them jobs
and salaries as postmasters and no
other reason to continue this practice
than that it "suits the politicians"
and .offers an incentive to play the
game.
When, however, the people get the
worst of it in' the long run, in waste
fulness, inefficiency and deterioration
of service, why should the public hes
itate to throw this slovenly and loose
system into the discard and insist on
the substitution of a better system,
based on real business rules? And
in thinking it over they should re
member that Mr. Taft says this would
result in an annual saving of at least
$4,000,000 while the chances are the
economies which would, follow would
greatly exceed even that estimated
amount.
WRONG, BROTHER
want you to know that I expect at
least as much of you as I would of
such a piece of machinery. I should
hate to think that all that money was
just thrown away."
Whether this little homily had its
effect on the boy or not we do not
know but the boy is now head of a
transportation company, and is paid
$18,000 a year for the manner in
which he conducts the business. And
$18,000 a year is a pretty good divi
dend on an investment of $2.r,0H0. It
would appear that in this case edu
cation paid and it will be found that
in most cases an education pays.
county
who want to see Clackamas
patronize its own resources.
" "Buy-it-at-home" is a fine idea, it
is the best idea that there is but
to be a success, EVERYBODY must
do it.
TRI E LIBHRALITY
THE OTHER SIDE
Oregon City is not the only com
munity that has been conducting a
founded, and never was so great an
injustice done. And while this may
be a late hour in which to acknowledge
it, the Courier would rather be "bet
ter lato than never."
Anvbodv who has in the nnst nr.
uuy-u-ai-nome campaign . wood-.cused the members of the outgoing
umunasaiso oecn tnrougn the throes ; city administration of being narrow
ot trying to hoop its money m circu-' minded, of being martinets in dis
lation at home, and has belabored the 'cipline and of being ultra-strict in the
iiu meriorneaimg with tne mail-order; enforcement of law, certainly could
house. And a farmer writes to the not have looked about much during the
Woodburn Independent about it, and past two weeks. For never Was
gives his side of the case, saying in greater leniency given a wayward
Pnl"t; 1 populace.
"You say the home merchant is on ; With the state going "dry" the first
the square, because he has to be to of the year, and with Portland liquor
muke good, and if he sells you any- houses selling all sorts of wet stuff
thing that is not as represented, you at rock-bottom prices, it would have
can return the goods. All very true, been indeed cruel for the city admin
but do you suppose that if all these istration to have enforced the "dry"
mail order houses had not sold their laws which stand upon its statute
goods just as represented, that they books. It showed their true liberal
would be enjoying the nrosDeritv thpv tv tw thv -i.'.i c. i,.
I are today. The size of the whole thing and that they permiteed each ineom-j
Carping critics have accused some
of our city officials, including our
"city attorney," of being narrow mind
ed, and of being almost Puritanical in
their enforcement of laws to the let- ters and conducting the postal depart
tor. Never was a charge more un-, ment on the same basis that Drivate
official with the decorative title and
the official pull might just as well be
dispensed with. The idea seems a
good one, and other great men aside
from the editor of the Hubbard En
terprise, have approved of it. Among
them is William Howard Taft, about
whose ideas on the subject the Polk
County Observer editorializes as fol
lows: "Ex-President Taft says the gov
ernment could save at least $4,000,000
a year by simply abolishing postmas
Portland is an inland town whose
leading and influential citizens are
conservatives. They seek to bring
that city back to its former state with
a little additional glory. Their inten
tions are good enough though their
methods are peculiar and ancient. It
might be a good thing if their leading,
influential and conservative citizens
gained further and necessary knowl
edge and modern ideas. They could
send a. dependable and broad-minded
committee to Tacoma, Seattle and San
Francisco to "do a little learning."
(Woodburn Independent.)
Say not so, brother. No committee
of Portlanders could learn anything
from Tacoma, Seattle or San Fran
cisco. Portlanders are so cock-sure,
so positive of their own superiority,
and so contented with their own ways,
that even Jehova Himself couldn't
teach them anything. Portland, in its
own estimation, solved the riddle of
the universe forty or more years ago:
and ever since that time Portland has
been living according to the precepts
set down in the first issue of the Ore
gonian. Portland is the one thing on
earth that will never change, never ad
vance and never admit that it might
be wrong.
here in Oregon we only get one of
'em at a time.
Convict in Idaho distributed his
prison earnings as Christmas presents
to his creditors outside. Verily, an
honest man.
If Christmas was any criterion,
the closing year has been a pros
perous one. Postal employees and
express men all report a record business.
If T. Roosevelt is as "politically
dead" as some of us would like to be
lieve, why are the republicans so an
xious to get a "standard bearer" who
will be acceptable to Roosevelt?
Relief supplies sent to Serbia are
being sold in Serbian stores, it is
said. This is not the first time in
history that graft has spoiled char
ity. There was San Francisco.
Seven Oregon lads have won prizes
for corn in a nation-wide show at St.
Paul. They used to say that corn
only grew' in dry climates but then,.
Oregon isn't so wet as some people
think.
The Oregonian gives a review of
the resources of the Yakima country,
"leaving fruit statistics out of con
sideration." What's the matter?
Doesn't the Oregonian care to admit
the superiority of Yakima apples?
It is still to be noted that the pro
hibitionists have not yet advanced anv
substitute for the saloon. During the
campaign they promised that they
were going to produce it as soon as
the state went dry.
Another sign of "democratic pros
perity" is to be found in the govern
ment report which savs that silk
hosiery is being more generally worn
than ever before. Apparently men
are "putting money in the wife's
stocking."
Happy New Year, everybody!
Two more days and the lid goes on
all over Oregon.
business is conducted. He sueeests
that deputy postmasters, selected for
ability and efficiency and named un
der civil service regulations, could and
should be the real executives in each
postoffice, and further declares that
this would put an end to "intermin
able politics and actual waste' which
now permeate the postal system and
handicaps it in rendering service to
the public. Moreover he believes it
is not fair or right to 'devil' the presi
dent with factional fusses, bickerings
and strife that always accompany the
selection of each new postmaster.
The whole system is wrong, waste
ful and needlessly disturbing, in his
opinion, and he thinks the time has
come to look for a better system, bas
ed on sound business rules and regulations.
The suggestion is really a good one
and should be carefully and earnestly:
considered by the people of this coun
try, who can easily bring this change
"The dying year is on his final
bier" sings the poet. Yes, and in
Oregon he's on his final beer, too.
A combined thunder storm
blizzard hit the East Sunday.
and
Out
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Home B25I, D251
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Office 012 Main Street .
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Willamette Valley Southern Railway Co.
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u uepunure ot irains at Oregon Citv
Arrive Northbound
8:20 A.M.
10:55 A.M.
2:20 P.M.
5:20 PM
Daily Freight Service (except Sunday). ' ' -
The American Express Co. operates over this line.
Leave Southbound
7:25 A.M.
10:00 A.M.
2:30 P.M.
6:55 P.M.