OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1916.
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BOY HAS HARD LUCK
Breaks Leg Twice due to Falling on
Wet and Slippery Walks
A few weeks ago, little Tommy
McCabe of Eagle Creek, while at
play; fell and broke his leg above the
knee. Owing to the. fracture having
occured in the fleshy part of the leg,
it "was only after considerable hard
work that Dr. Adix was able to set
the broken bones without the aid of
the X-ray.
Last Wednesday, Tommy, who was
able to be about on a crutch, slipped
on a wet plank, fell, and broke the leg
again and may be permanently crip
pled as the result, notwithstanding
the ability of the doctor to again join
the fracture. (Estacada Progress.)
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Alfred Cridge Discusses the "Jynx"
that Sits on Oregon's Back
Recently the Courier started a dis
cussion of the jynx" that is retard
ing Oregon's development; and in
recent editorial .this paper spoke of the
holding of land and resources for
"investment" as one of the .things
that was keeping Oregon back. In
line with this discussion, Alfred Cridge
has written a letter which is worth
careful consideration. While Mr,
Cridge is radical in his views, it ap
pears that this is a time for radical
ism if Oregon is to get rid of the
"jynx." The letter follows:
Editor, Courier: What are the men
and women of Oregon going to do
about land monopoly in Oregon?
The water power of Oregon is so
rapidly being absorbed by outside
speculators as to excite alarm among
conservative men.
The waterfront of our deep water
ports, and the accessible places on
our navigable rivers are pretty well
gobbled up and held out of use.
The farming lands capable of agri
cultural development are not in the
hands of the farmers.
The city lands of real value are in
the hands of a very small per centage
of the population. Three-fourths of
Portland is owned by one and one.
half per cent of the people. Count
off the mortgages and street assess
ments acting the same as mortgages,
and the small home owners have very
little actual interest in their homes,
The indications are that the small
h:m9 owner in large cities will be
come as extinct as the dodo bird in
New Zealand.
So far every attempt at making it
unprofitable to hold land out of use
has been strenuously and successfully
opposed by the organs and advocates
of special privilege.
The people have been told that
everything is lovely, and all the
workingmen had to do was to buy
a piece of land and become a land
speculator.
Now the speculative small fry are
being dispossessed. Lots on which
they have paid from 25 to 75 per cent
of the speculative and extortionate
prices asked by sure-thing real estate
gamblers, and then had to stop pay
ment on are demanded back at ONE
DOLLAR each: or the sucker is
threatened with a suit for disposses
sion and told that a judgment will be
held over him indefinitely.
As soon as clear titles are obtain
ed to these lots for $1 each there will
be started another land boom, if the
suckers have come up stream again
like the salmon.
What are the opponents of every
land and tax reform measure going
to do about it? You can dam up a
stream for a long time, but you must
provide spillways or out goes the dam
one fine morning.
The scheme to put more land on
the market for more suckers, by the
state backing irrigation and drainage
bonds will not relieve anybody but a
few speculators.
Why is not the irrigated and drain
ed land now idle in Oregon in use?
Because it is held out of use by big
and little speculators, who raise the
price in every neighborhood from 10
to 25 per cent every time a tenderfoot
gets hooked with a piece at fancy
prices.
Measures providing for a graduat
ed land tax; for .exempting small
homes, for allowing communities to
rule themselves and make such ex
emptions as the people might see fit
all have been voted down as single
tax.
But the opponents of these meas
ures have never even so much as sug
gested the slightest change that in
any way will make it easier for a man
to get a home.
Farmer and workingman are driven
off the earth unless they pay the price.
The farmer farming land for a living
does not own a tenth of the land in
Oregon, measured in dollars. The
workingman in the city does not own
a tenth, either. Who owns the land?
With land in Portland worth on the
market nearly $2,000,000 an acre, it
should not take long to figure out that
neither the farmer nor the working
man is getting any of the rentals that
make the land so valuable.
The forces of organized labor in
Portland have proposed a radical
amendment to the constitution which
would take ALL the rental value of
all land into the public treasury, and
loan the surplus funds to home build
ers in city and country.
"So radical it will never pass," says
the land speculator, confident that
previous votes will be repeated and
the measure overwhelmingly defeated.
Never is a long time. Labor unions
are stubborn powers. Defeat doesn't
scare them. If the Peoples' Land and
Loan measure receives even a third
of the vote, then there will never be
another land boom in Oregon. It is
the most sweeping measure ever for
mulated on the land monopoly ques
tion. It beats the measure proposed
in 1912 for being radical.
If it is defeated the labor unions
will go right on with the agitation
AND SUBMIT IT AGAIN, perhaps
somewhat modified, but certainly not
weakened. '
The land monopolist statesman,
and the land monopolist newspapers,
and the land monopolist politician,
must propose some half-way measure;
or as the number of home owners
grow less in Oregon in proportion to
population, and the little speculators
get squeezed out so that they do not
line up with the landlord so often,
there will be an increase of the vote
for the radical measure, and louder
and more shrill squeals of the land
hog.
Every vote for this radical meas
ure is a notice to the land hog to get
a move on himself. Every vote is no
tice to all manner of people not to
speculate in Oregon land.
Wise bankers are already hedging
in on loans on idle land. A farm with
slight improvements and large areas
of half improved land, or unimproved
land, is not considered good security
any more. The wise money loaner is
looking closely to additional security
when he does loan money on idle land,
and e' will look still closer if this
proposed measure secures a big vote.
The small speculator is doomed
anyway.
The half farmer, half speculator,
may get some cheaper loans from
Uncle Sam and thereby slip by a few
more years.
But every time that such a measure
as the Peoples' Land and Loan meas
ure is proposed, it means notice to
vacate any land you have no use for
yourself.
What are "we, the people of Ore
gon" going to do about it?
ALFRED D. CRIDGE.
STRANGE, STRANGE THING
Politician Takes to Writing Poetry
Long Before Election
The following verse we guess it is
verse was handed to the Courier last
week by one of our local politicians.
The writer will soon announce that
holding office is one of the writer's
fondest hopes.
(Note: please observe that we
didn't say "he" or "she" yet.)
Now the Courier likes to please of
fice seekers, and so we are going to
publish these verses, or poetry. But
we wont tell you the writer's name,
but will consistently regard the se
crecy of the author's nom-de-plume.
Maybe you'll find a hidden message
in the outburst, and then you'll know
how you want to vote on this par
ticular candidate. The politician s
verse runs if you call it running as
follows:
Spring Goods Arrive!
"OWED" TO NANCY
Move a balky mule? It can't be did!
So paste these warnings in your lid.
I tried it once her name was Nan
Now I'm a sad and wiser man.
She balked one day 10 miles from
home;
I bowed she drubbed me on the dome
saw some stars, and sighed: "O
Queen"
She politely bammed me on the bean.
I know she can bet a bucking bronc,
The way she tapped me on the conk.
The more I'd smile and try to please
her
The more she bumped me on the bee
zer.
O, I'd forgive that! I'm no slob!
If she'd only not nailed me on the
knob.
I'm so indignant I can hardly speak,
To think she lammed me on the peak.
It made me shudder in my sox
To get dinged on my pet brain-box.
said, "My, but youre an ornery
mut!"
She grinned and cracked me on the
nut.
She surely must have gone loco!
The way she biffed me on the coco;
So don t blame me if I rave some
I'm busted on the cranium.
I can't see straight my brain is dull,
Since Nancy whiffed me on the skull.
I know she meant it well enough,
But just the same, I think it's tough,
Altho 1m bandaged and laid in a
ward so neat,
My dreams are of Nance and her fly.
ing feet. . ,.
Why, even with Nursie I'm now in
dutch,
Because I've talked of "Nance" so
much.
So please excuse this lonesome tear,
(1 11 get even with Nance if it takes
a year!)
hope quite soon my Nursie will see
My heart's in a fix like my head used
to be;
Then she'll understand that "Nan's"
only a mule,
And my head's so cracked I'm a per
fect fool.
And she'll have compassion on my
heart,
And help to keep it from coming
apart.
Then I'll build her and Nance a new
pole corral,
And love hem both while they treat
me so well.
FOREST PERMIT REVOKED
Government Wants Power Sites De
veloped, and Not Held Idle
The District Forester at Portland,
Oregon, has just received a copy of
the decision by the Secretary of Agri
culture, David F. Houston, in the
Washington Railway & Electric Com
pany case, citing trie circumstances
which caused the revolution of the
permit held by that Company on the
Sultan River water power projects in
the Snoqualmie National Forest,
Washington.
The Company has held priorities on
these power sites for more than nine
years, during which time no construc
tion has been attempted, and the only
expenditures have been those for
examinations and surveys and out
lays incidental thereto. The Company
has had an opportunity to present the
matter verbally to the Secretary, but
they have failed continually to
comply with the terms of their per
mit, and could not give any assur
ance that if their application for an
extension was granted they could be
gin development, the Secretary has
decided that the extension should be
denied.
The Secretary states that the De
partment is desiious of having the
power sites under its jurisdiction de
veloped and used. For this reason it
grants permits to applicants under
which full opportunity is given for
determining whether or not a project
is feasible, and whether it can be de
veloped in a reasonable time, but it
cannot allow sites to be held indefi
nitely without use.
FROM MAPLE LANE
Robert Ginther Writes on Twelve
Years in the Oregon Senate
Editor, Courier: It is one of the
curious facts of history that false
ideas of government die hard and lin
ger on long after defeat as a constant
menace to the steady progress of
correct principles of popular govern
ment. This is universally true.
When man, in his struggle for im
provement feels that he has Won a
great step forward, and he pauses to
take a rest, suddenly, and surrep-
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OREGON CITY'S BUSY STORE
Buy It in Oregon City Always
titiously, often in the .disguise of a
"convert," the old enemies of pro
gress make efforts to "come back."
George Washington, in his immor
tal statement: "Eternal Vigilance is
the price of of liberty," was right.
When he said this, it was no doubt
his greatest hope that the future
citizens of this republic would remem
ber his words. But unfortunately this
advice has been almost forgotten, un
til too much of liberty has been lost.
Oregon stands at the head of the
awakening states of the Republic. We
took the lead in breaking up the
gangs" that for years checked the
growth of better government. Other
states have slowly followed in our
footsteps, and others are coming. Let
us hope that every state in this Union
will soon have thrown off every ves
tige of political ideas that have proven
so disastrous to our people. Oregon,
as well as other progress states, must
be on the alert constantly for those
"standpatters" and old political trick
sters who ever are the enemies of
progressive government. Every coun
ty in the state must continually be on
the watch for those old-timers. This
brings me home to our own county,
I notice that our own George C.
now is going over this county in his
old-time fashion of the past. Boast
ing of the fact, I believe, that he
spent twelve years in the Oregon Sen
ate. It would show better taste if he
said little or nothing about it, in my
opinion. When ne tmnKs nacK to tnat
time and remembers how he got there
Senate from this county, have a dif- FOREST NEWS NOTES
ferent record. From the viewpoint I
of popular government they can point I what Uncle Sam is Getting Out of
like honest men to their records. In
my opinion it would be a backward
step, and I say this with all the cour
tesy your past record commands if
the people of our county should per
mit you to block legislation again
that they want. Better it will be for
us if we send men who have kept
abreast of the times, and whose only
ambition is the general welfare of all
our people in every walk of life.
ROBERT GINTHER.
WILHOIT HOTEL BURNS
Resort Known for Half a Century
Goes Up in Smoke; No Insurance
Early this week the Wilhoit Springs
hotel, construction of which was start
ed 60 years ago by John Wilhoit, was
burned to the ground, and with it went
two cottages at the well known Clack
amas county resort. The hotel and
cottages were the property of the
Wilhoit Springs Mineral Water com
pany, and the loss is estimated at be
tween eight and ten thousand dollars.
No insurance was carried.
The hotel, a 40-room structure of
rustic build, was closed at the time,
but one visitor was occupying quarters
in the building. It is believed the fire
started from a defective flue. Nobody
injured in the blaze, such em
ployees as were in the place getting
out safely, and fighting the fire with
for that was before Prohibition and a bucket brigade. From the hotel
the Corrupt Practice Act became a
part of the Oregon constitution if his
conscience has become awakened in his
declining years, he should refer to it in
a rather bashful sort of way.
Twelve years in the Oregon Senate!
The scar is there yet, George. And
now you have the nerve to ask us to
send you to the House of Representa
tives, just to please you, it would be
a useless burden there, for you must
remember that your type and class
have nearly disappeared. You would
be lonesome up there.
A new generation of well-meaning
men have come upon the scene, gen
erally. Your confidential manner,
such as whispering in the ear, patting
on the back and Bhaking hands, etc.,
is no longer effective. You would be
a lonely wanderer in our legislative
halls. We would be throwing away
three dollars a day, George, for forty
days. You are using the same "gags"
you used twenty years ago, I notice.
The Road Supervisor Law, for in
stance.
Your record in the Senate for
twelve long, weary years, if we had
access to its records handily and
knew the secret manipulations you
engineered, would reveal a record of
broken promises, and if promises were
kept, it is my opinion and was the
opinion when you failed of re-election,
that you were sure first that you se
cured enough others to defeat the
measure yoi; were pretending to work
for. In other words, the voters of
Clackamas County thought they "saw"
at last. And they discovered you
seemingly correct.
Your successors in the Oregon
the flames spread to two neighboring
cottages.
The hotel and the cottages sur
rounding it have annually been the
mecca for thousands of people seek
ing health and a vacation in the Ore
gon woods. While many of the cot
tages stilt remain, the resort will not
be opened to visitors at the usual time
this year; but will open somewhat
later when the hotel has been rebuilt.
Plans for reconstruction are already
underway, and the new hotel will be
larger and modern in every respect.
With the extension of better roads to
Wilhoit it is felt that the resort will
become even more popular, and in re
building accommodations will be pro
vided for a big rush of tourists this
year.
Public Domain Briefly Told
Reports on wood-using Industries
have now been issued by thirty-three
states. The data embodied in these
reports were obtained in co-operation
with the Forest Service,
states. In the eleven western
states included within the Pacific and
Mountain groups, primary power in
stallation from all sources and for all
uses has increased 240 per cent from
1902 to 1912, or more than two and
a half times as rapidly as in the re
mainder of the United States. '
Primary power installation in the
electrical industry in the western
states has increased nearly forty
seven per cent in the three years
since 1912.
According to the latest report of the
Secretary of Agriculture, 120 public
service corporations, out of a total of
1500, claim to own or control a total
of 3,083,000 undeveloped water horse
power, or 80 per cent of the total
water power at present developed and
used in public service operations.
A study of mistletoe on the Whit
man National Forest in eastern Ore
gon shows that the deterioration of
western larch in the more open and
exposed stands, is due to the mistle
toe parasite.
German Coffee Cake
Made Without Yeatt
By Mr. Janet McKenzie Hill, Editor of
the Boston Cooking School Magazine.
There is no warm bread quite as appro
priate for Sunday morning breakfast as
German Coffee Cake, yet it Is seldom made
by housewives who do not bake their own
bread. 1 K C double raise Baking Powder
Is used It will be Just as good as if raised
with yeast and it will have the further ad
vantage of being fresh and warm. Save
this recipe and try it next Sunday.
K C German Coffee Cake
Two and one-fourth cup sifted flour;
S level teaspoonfuls K C llakinq Powder;
I level tcaspoonmi saa; z
tablespoonfuU melted but
ter; i tableaponfula sugar;
1 igg; milk.
DAVIES WAS THOUGHTFUL
Man Didn't Like to be Constantly
Forced to Seek New Servants
Declaring that his wife was so rude
to their household servants that he
had to be constantly seeking new
cooks, chambermaids and other assist
ants, C. L. Davies has filed suit for
divorce in the circuit court from Essie
E. Davies, whom he married in Spo
kane in 1907. Davies also asks the
custody of their minor children.
It appears that Mr. Davies was a
thoughtful, kind-hearted man, and he
hated to see discord in his household.
But he says that his wife was so very,
very rude to the servants that they
wouldn't stay; and so he had to make
regular journeys to the employment
bureaus.
Sift dry ingredients together, beat the egg,
add milk and butter to the egg to make one
and one-quarter cupsi itir all together with
inverted spoon to ititf batter,
Turn into
biscuit pan and spread even. Brush top
lightly with melted butter. Sprinkle sugar
and ground cinnamon over the top. Kike
in moderate oven.
Dutch Apple Cake or Prune Kuchen ran
I be made with this same batter by covering
the top with pared and sliced apples, or
cooked piunes with the pits removed.skin
sides down. Dredge with sugar and cinna
mon the tame as for Coffee Cake.
"The Cook's Book" contains 90 Just such
delicious recipes. You can secure a copy
fret by sending the colored certificate packed
in 25-cent cans of K C Baking Powder to
the JaquesMfg. Co., Chicago, being sure to
write your name ana address plainly.