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4 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 1916. OREGON CITY COURIER Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth Street, and entered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as 2nd class mail matter E. R. BROWN, EDITOR AND PUBLISHER Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones, Pacific 51 j Home A-51. THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIES LEGS AND BRAINS "Blind indeed is the boy, or girl, or man, or woman who, in this age of progress of moving pictures, does not know the graceful curve of a woman's ankle or the sickening details of the so-called modern problems Last week Portland papers circu lated in Oregon City, had a picture of unusual indecency. A picture of a woman's leg, naked from the toe to the waist." So remarks the holier-than-thou Enterprise, and holds its timorous hands before its blushing face as it copies the prudery of the Portland Telegram. Just think of it! Things have come to such a pass now that we are all fa miliar with "the graceful curves of a woman's ankle." Gosh! And in this age of short skirts and fur-topped footsies, too. And then think of that picture that made such n impression on the En " terprise "a woman's leg, naked from the toe to the waist." Such a leg must have been an anatomical cur iosity, and been well worth seeing. Personally we have never seen legs that extend to the "waist;" even tho we have been at Oak Grove and Co lumbia Beach in summer time. What can be the matter with the old lady over Barlow's store, that it shudders so at the fact that human anatomy is now being demonstrated on the movie screens? And why shouldn't "the so-called modern prob lems" be discussed in the silent drama? Why shouldn't this be an age of progress? Does the poor old Enterprise want to return to hoop-skirts and panta lettes, or would it prefer to go even further back, and have all women veiled and kept behind stone walls? i Or is it just trying to cater to a cer tain class of frumps, who are so evil minded themselves that they can see filth and dirt in the handiworks of the Creator himself. If this is an immoral age, as some people allege, the way to cure the con dition is not through a prudish drap ing of the human form in fif-leaves. The way to cure any immorality that may exist is through education; edu cation ,of the most liberal variety. There is nothing, the matter with the human form, nothing immodest in "the graceful curve of a woman's ankle." We see them every day, everywhere. God made them, just as He made legs and arms and shoulders and feet and hands and faces and the boney cages called skulls that are supposed to hold brains. Lewdness there may be, but using draping cloths will not cure lewdness. And there is not half as much lewd ness in the movies as the dear press agents would have us believe. The national board of censors which is endowed with brains, as well as with morals takes care of that. Most of the lewdness that is exciting gullible papers like the. Enterprise and the Portland Telegram lies in the minds of the readers of those papers, who swallow whole the bait of the press agent, who declares a show "daring," and thereby draws a crowd. If these prudish moralists didn't like td see pictures that they vainly imagine are rotton, and didn't flock to the theatres showing them, the theatre managers wouldn't advertise pictures as being of that variety. When it conies to efforts to better ing the morale of the community the Courier will not yield to any paper that sees legs that reach from the toe to the waist, or that is shocked at the graceful curve of a woman's ankle. The Courier has never had prudish (its of this sort but it has asked, begged and ii.iplored, repeatedly, that some thing ACTUALLY BE DONE to bet ter life for tho boys and girls of this community. Tho Courier has wearied its readers with appeal:) for some line of concerted effort to establish a pub lic playground in lha county seat, to provide some meeting place for tho young people during our long rainy season a meeting place where health ful exercise may be had and where boys and girls may just be natural. And has the Enterprise ever utterod a peep in this line? You bet it hasn't. To provide healthful recreation for tho young citizens and citizenesses of Oregon City might cost money; to give the boys and girls chance to develop their bodies into the full bloomo f health, so that they will be better men and women, would require an outlay of a fraction of a cent on the part of every taxpayer in this community including the Enterprise. And it is far cheaper to prattle about the shocking possibilities of the graceful curve of a woman's ankle than it is to DO SOMETHING to help our boys and girls. Ignorance, block-headedness, blind ness to the results of having our boys and girls run up and down the streets, staring longingly in the store win dows at "modes and gowns" and won dering how they can get the price to bedeck themselves like peacocks; and then, in all to many instances finding "the easiest way" that is the idea of the Enterprise when it comes to bet tering the morals of our future citi zens. Truly, the poor sheet that emits its daily squawks from its lair over Barlow's store is a pretty poor med ium through which to prate of "mod ern problems. Prudery is not modesty, ignorance is not mental safety, and being "a perfect lady" is not necessarily being a good citizen. The Enterprise, and people who like its "high moral tone," ought to forget ankles and legs for a while, and turn their attention to the other end of the human body the end where the brains are supposed to be. made public in a long time. And the best thing that the new administration can do is to live up to it live up to it in the same manner in which it started. The council is not to be blamed for making the regular January meeting a Kilkenny cat-fight. It was not the council's fault. It was the fault of the "spoils system," and the "spoils system" has no place in modern day municipal government. TWO PAPERS Recently the Courier received two newspapers. Both of them were an nual editions. One was the Sellwood Bee, and the other was the Oregon ian. The Oregonian was about the same as last year's annual, only it didn't have as much advertising, and it wasn't as interesting reading. Maybe this is because Mr. Thomas, who used to "get up" the Oregonian annual, has been elevated to the job of city editor. But at that the Ore gonian, annual was a nice souvenir of Portland, showed the Oregon metropo to be progressing, and to have some very nice scenery near it. The Sellwood Bee's annual was big ger than any previous number, and had a wonderful variety and amount of advertising. It contained a lot of newsy reading about Sellwood and the southern part of Portland, and it showed on every page that the people of Sellwood, andof other parts of Portland, too, think the paper is worthy of a lot of support. For a paper the size of the Sellwood Bee, and printed in a plant as small as the Bee's, it was a wonderful production,, and reflects the greatest credit pos sible on the Bee's staff. The Sellwood Bee is an institution in Sellwood that has the hearty support of the com- road is going to traverse the state of Washington. Central Oregon will be opened up by an east-and-west railroad this year. Bankers on the Federal Reserve board, who are not given to ground less enthusiasm, say that prosperity is everywhere in evidence in the West. All this is very, very sad, indeed for Jonathan Bourne and the Enter prise and the other calamity howlers. It is sad because all this is happen ing BEFORE election, while the Wil son administration is still in the sad dle, and while the country is under democratic rule. Isn't it just too mean for anything the way facts have knocked the props out from under the lies that have been sprung to discredit Woodrow Wilson and his policies? THE NEW ALLIES Reaching across the political gulf of Brownellism, the Honorable Christ ian Schuebel and the Honorable Bill Stone now shake hands. . It was the Hon. Bill Stone who con ceived in his mighty brain that won derful amendment to the charter of Oregon City which provided that here after the city prosecutor and the city recorder should be elected by a vote of the people, and should not be ap pointed by the council. It was the Hon. Bill Stone who made it possible for The Honorable Christian Schuebel to hang onto his job, even though he be unwelcome to the administration. It was the Hon. Bill Stone who forgot the historic enmity between his legal god-father, George C. Brownell, and Christian Schuebel; it was the Hon. Bill Stone who buried the hat chet, and who handed the Honorable tons were invented to prevent era harassing disasters. It is a good button. NEXT WEEK Next week has been declared "let ter writing week," and all good Ore gonians have been asked to write to "the folks back East" and inform them what they are missing by not coming to the Coast. It is a good idea, and everybody ought to pile in and help. The East 'needs educating in re gard to the West, and the West can stand it. If the right kind of letters are written, some Easterners may come West to live, and so get a taste of a heavenly existence before they die. . The letters don't have to be gush ing affairs, and they don't have to be lies. You can tell the truth about the West, about Oregon, and still make it seem attractive to the folks at home. In fact the more truthful the letters are, the more will they accomplish. Writing home about the place in which you are living is a good idea, and it ought to have some cheery news about this country in it, and ought to help make the people on the otheT 'side of the mountains wish they'd come out with us. The West is a great country, it has hundreds of advantages, and there is lots of room here for more people. Make a point of writing to the Eastern folks you know next week, and tell them about the place where you live, and why you like it. And if they answer your let ter write again writing letters is a pleasant occupation for almost any evening or Sunday, and aside from the good it will do back East, it may even cheer you up a bit yourself. With Portland figuring on giving the unemployed 50,000 dinners at a nickel each, it would seem that there is great graft in the average two-bit meal. Let us all go on strike for nickel meals. REAPING THE WIND The "spoils system" is rotten, and every now and then this fact is re discovered by some people who should have known it before. When Mayor Haackett appointed L. E. Blanchard chief of police in the county seat, and so ended for the time being the political battle that has for years waged around the office for years, the Courier believed he did a most praiseworthy thing. When Mayor Hackett continued in service Patrolmen Woodward and Cooke, and so kept two diligent, com petent and reliable policemen in the city's service, the Courier was more than pleased with the new adminis tration. Patrolman Cooke has shown himself faifthful and efficient for many years; and Patrolman Wood ward is a policeman who is as fine, upright and active a man as any mem ber of the police department of the great eastern cities. And when Mayor Hackett, in his message to the council, called for ex pedition and real action in the water power tangle, the Courier was only too glad to say that at last it was beginning to appear that the county seat would come into his own. The new administration started in splendidly. And then came that sor rowful exhibition of last week's coun cil meeting. Then, in spite of the noble beginning that had been made, the "spoils system" cropped up and with it came disaster. Mayor Hackett should have known that the day of the "spoils system" in municipal affairs is past, that particularly in the North west the citizen and the taxpayer de mands efficiency, and will not tolerate political preference. And there is hint of more of the "spoils system." The management of the elevator has been taken out of the hands of a perfectly satisfactory com mittee a committee that had a bal ance of $172 to its credit in the bud get account and has been turned over to another committee which will, ac cording to report, fire the present ele vator employees and attempt to fill their berths with "the faithful." This is not the way to run a city. It is not good government. The Courier has nothing against the man or men whom Mr. Hackett may have desired to reward. They doubtless deserve a reward for the work they did for the mayor during the campaign. But the mayor him self should reward them; he should not try to reward them with salaries that come out of the pockets of the taxpayers. Mayor lfackott's message to tho council read well; it called for co operation, progress and harmony. It was as tine a document as has been How It's Done It's a very simple matter to open an account by mail. Send us the checks you have re ceived, or a money order, draft or personal check for the amount you wish to deposit and state in what name you want the account to v stand. We will do the rest. tuiiiiiiiBiiiiiiiiiiiia WE PAY 4 PERCENT INTEREST ON TIME DEPOSITS THE BANK OF OREGON CITY , Oldest Bank in Clackamas County 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 Co.'s Line of FARM MACHINERY and VEHICLES The new police chief in the county seat is a militiaman. And now the cops are wondering if they'll have to wear uniforms and drill every night. It might not be a bad plan to adopt. The Oregon City Woolen mills an nounce that the shortage of dye-stuffs wont bother them, as at the outbreak of the war they bought up all that was in sigh. Maybe that was what caus ed the shortage elsewhere. Fishermen on trial for having used nets above the dead line in the river, testified that they were not fishing at' all, but were simply picking up rocks from the bottom for ballast. The proverb says "a poor excuse is bet ter than none." Local preacher says dancing is wicked, because it brings people into too close proximity to each other. It might be pertinent to ask how the preacher found that out presumably he never tried it. TRUCE IS CALLED He Could Hardly Go "About two years ago I got down on my back until I hardly could go," writes Solomon Bequette, Flat River, Mo. "I got a 50c box of Foley Kid ney Pills and they straightened me right up." Common symptoms of kidney trouble are backache, head ache, rheumatic pains, soreness and stigness, puffiness under eyes, blur red vision, sleep disturbing bladder troubles, and a languid, tired feeling. Foley Kidney Pills help to eliminate the poisonous waste matter that caus es these symptoms. Jones Drug Co. J. H. DARLING DEAD Well Known Citizen of County Seat Passes at Mountain View John H. Darling, a resident of Ore gon since 1881, and a man widely in interested in civic affairs in the coun ty seat, died at his home in Moun tain View addition Saturday. The funeral servces were held Monday, with the Rev. W. T. Milliken officiat ing. Following the remains to the cemetery were many friends of the deceased, and A. Mautz, E. E. Dixon William McLarty, H. Van Hoy and C. W. Swallow and M. Gaffney acted as pall-bearers. Mr. Darling was the son of John and Amanda Darling, and was born near Clarkesville, Ohio, October 17, 1849, and later moved to the state of Nebraska, where he married Miss Amelia Smithberger. He came with his family to Oregon in 1881, and set tled in Oregon City. Mr. Darling is survived by his wid ow, Mrs. Amelia Darling, of Oregon City; two daughters, Mrs. Myrtle Beard, of Oregon City; Mrs. Pearl Armstrong of Santa Barbara, Califor nia, and only one son, John Darling, of Portland. His only brother, F, M. Darlig, resides in this city. BROTHERS MEET HERE munity, it has done much for the Sell- Christian Schuebel a goodly lease on Write some letters next week and wood district, and it evidently intends seventy-five dollars a month of the then keep on writing them, to keep on being of service. city's money. 1 If the people of Portland in general The Hon. Bill Stone has shown that ; JUDGE CLEETON SPEAKS gave the same kind of support to the he is a great legislator, a great law- 1 uregonmn that the people of bellwood maker. even as is his new-found Portland Juvenile Head Discusses have given to the Bee, what a wonder. friend and ally thc Honorable Christ- j rroblems of Crime Among Young ful paper the Oreconian would be. ci,ki if ,00 m, w rcm I And if the Oregonian did as much for , Stone who did all this, and thus makes Jude T- J- aeton of Multnomah Portland as the Bee does for Sellwood, ' himself 'the lesser member of a new county, spoke on juvenile court work consistently year in and year out,!pajr of alphabetical twins, the Hon. ! Tuesday in the county seat, and was 7f,T ; iC- S- and the IIon- B- S Between listened to by a large and attentive uei tut oaDer. . i ..... j i u:v. i u . ' Tl, n,i oomria n Ko. oa t,o ,i . WBUUIlt"uw I audience, among the members of , nier. out we suspect inat it is uiv ... . unto others, so will others do unto you Our congratulations to the Bee and we mean them. VERY SAD INDEED Even the Oregonian says business is improving. Congress declares that Roosevelt's charges against the Wilson adminis tration were groundless. The Great Northern Railroad has established a new record for profits. Northwestern lumbermen expect the biggest season of all this year. The Carver line is soon to issue bonds to the extent of $10,000 a mile and do much extension work. Even the Oswego cement plant is again declared to be on the vertre of doing business. American shipyards have more work on hand than they can do. Wheat prices threaten to establish a new record this spring. Another transcontinental rail- Hon. B. S. A GOOD BUTTON Buttons are designed to hold things together. The first campaign button of the coming presidential campaign has made its appearance in Clackamas county. Ex-sheriff E. T. Mass has it, and wears it. The button is a simple little affair, not so very decorative; but it is designed to hold things to gether and it ought to do it. It has just two things upon its face a picture of President Wilson, and the popular American slogan "Safety First." It is a good button, and it ought to be a popular one with Americans. It is a good button with which to hold things together, a good button to wear on one's coat, as near the heart as is possible. In short it is a button that just about fills the-purpose for which but- which were local people interested in welfare work and County Juvenile Of ficer D. E. Frost. Judge Cleeton told of the work the juvenile court is do ing in Portland, and advocated a greater sympathy with children on the part of law officers. In the course of his talk Judge Cleeton said that he believed " the work of the juvenile court should be more corrective than punitive, and crave if. na hifl nnininn thnt the hesfr. fway to deal with young delinquents was to appeal to the individual pride of the children brought before the bar, and urge them to do better mainly for the sake of feeling better. Hearty applause greeted the judge's remarks. With ten inches of snow reported at Seattle, we have yet another cause to congratulate ourselves on living in Oregon. Here we have just enough of the "beautiful" to make things cheery. George Reddaway Doesn't Know Rela tive at First, and Doubts News George Reddaway has been in the county seat for 20 years, and during much of that time has run a grocery store on the hill. Occasionally he got a letter from his brother John, whom he last saw when he was 19, and when John was 27. Tuesday an elderly man walked in to Reddaway's store and looked around. George Reddaway stepped forward and made pleasant remarks about the weathr and asked him what he wanted. The stranger said he'd dropped in to see George.. George said that he was ready to be seen, and wanted to know what was next on the program. "You don't know me, do you," said the stranger, smiling and holding out his hand. George shook hands with him, but said he didn't know him, even at that. Then he bethought himself of confidence games, and got on his guard. "I'm your brother John," said thc stranger, "and the last time I saw you was in Michigan, 39 years ago.i You were quite a young man then." George didn't believe it, and asked some questions. Finally he was con vinced that John Reddaway was his brother, sure enough; and the two then sat down to a real old-time visit. County Seat Elevator Jobs Not at Present Political Plums S. McDonald, the well-known pro hibitionist,, who, it is claimed, formerly .worked at juggling beer kegs in the county seat ' agency of the Weinhard brewery, will not run the municipal elevator. That is, he wont do it just yet.. He didn't do it the first of this week, when ho expected to do it. It is true that his former partner in a real estate ven ture, Councilman E. D. Van Auken, told him that he could go to work, and told Ellerd Bailey to quit the job but after the preliminaries had been gone over the scheme fell through. ' Mayor Hackett denies that he had anything to do with the mix-up over the elevator jobs. He says the mat ter of employing elevator operators is entirely up to the members of the street committee, of which Mr. Van Auk?n is chairman but it was Mayor Hackett who told Bailey and Shock ley that they could continue on the job. It was Mr. Van Auken who told Bailey that the new mayor had given orders that he quit his post, but Mr. Hackett says Van Auken had no right to use his name. In spite of all these denials, some body last week tried to hand the two elevator jobs to S. McDonald and John Confer. When the move was first sprung the elevator men called up Councilman Albright, chairman of the old elevator committee, and Mr. Al bright and Mr. Templeton got busy. Assisting them in their efforts were Messrs. Metzner, who with Templeton and Albright is a member of the old "solid five" in the council, and Messrs. Andrews and Cox. Mr. Andrews is the councilman whom Mayor Hackett "accidentally" left off the committees, and Mr. Cox joined the insurgents be cause one of the elevator men whose jobs were threatened goes to the same church that Cox does. After the new "solid five" had laid plans for a dynamite session of the city council for Monday evening, at which time the elevator tangle was due for an explosion, Mayor Hackett squashed the dream of Councilman Van Auken, and also the hopes of S. McDonald, the well known prohi bitionist, who admits he has "helped put down whiskey, rum and gin," and of Mr. Confer. This little episode, breifly detailed here, is all that appeared on the sur face over the week-end of the "har mony" that prevails in the present county seat administration. If you are sick and have tried everything else and did not receive help, try Chiropractic Spinal adjust ments and get well. Hoeye & Stone, Chiropractors. STINGY MAN, SAYS WIFE Though Hubby Was Worth $10,000, He Made Her Work in Hop Yards Berthold Fleischhauer, who was married in Portland in 1903, has been sued in, the Clackamas county circuit court for divorce by Mrs. Marie Fleischhauer, who alleges in her com plaint that her married life was far from a happy one. Her husband, she avers, is worth upwards of $40,000, yet she charges that he denied her the necessities of life, refused to buy he decent clothes, and even forced her to work in the hop yards when she wanted "pin money." The Fleischhauers have one child, a girl, eleven years old. Chiropractic removes the cause")f grippe. Stone & Hoeye, Chiroprac tors, Caufield Building. Better Late Than Never Swedish New Year's service will be held in the Methodist church in Ore gon City next Sunday, Jan. 16, at 3 o'clock p. m. All Scandinavians are most cordially invited to attend. John Ovall, minister. The Courier is $1.00 per year. Forger Worked Here? County seat police officials believe that Terrill Pope, who was arrested this week in Portland for passing bo gus cheques on grocery ' stores' and meat markets is the same man who sometime ago passed a worthless cheque on H. P. Brightbill, a local gro cer. Terrill's scheme was to step into a store, order a small amount of gro ceries sent to an imaginary address, and tender in payment a cheque rang ing from $10 to $35, and keep the change. That was the scheme work ed at the Brightbill store, and the de scription of the man who did it tal lies with the description of Terrill. Let us send you a sample of the Classiest Letter Heads you ever saw. Write us for prices. WHAT CATARRH IS It has been said that every third person has catarrh in some form. Science has shown that nasal catarrh often indicates a general weakness of the body; and local treatments in the form of snuffs and vapors do little, if any good. 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