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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, APRIL 13, 1916.
OREGON CITY COURIER
C. W. ROBEY, Editor and Business Manager
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FOUR DAYS MORE
When this copy of the Courier
' reaches you there will be just four
more days in which you can register,
Don't stop to read the balance of this
if you haven't registered, but put
down the paper and hike just as fast
as you can travel either to the county
1 courthouse or to the district registrar
in your community, and get your
name down on the registration books.
If you have already registered,
think of those of your friends who
haven't yet done so, and get after
them. Tell them that it is the duty
of every American citizen to vote and
. so have a voice in the management of
his country. Tell him it is not only
his duty it is his privilege; a privi
lege that was won at the cost of thou
sands of lives and gallons of blood.
The vote the right of expressing in
dividual ideas in matters of national,
state, county and city government, is
the greatest thing that we, as Amer
icans, have. It is what lures annu
ally to our shores thousands upon
thousands of citizens from other
parts of the world, where the people
are not allowed to rule, and where
the individual's voice in government is
weak and unavailing to a large ex
tent. It is, of course, a nuisance to regis
ter. But for that matter it is a nui
sance to get dinner and if you don't
register, the time may come when
you'll find it a whole lot harder to get
dinner. The popular remark these
days is "Drat the high taxes," or even
something stronger than that. And
one of the reasons why taxes are high
is because people who have the power
of selecting representatives, didn't
pick the right men and as a result
that bunch up at Salem looted the
public treasury and forced taxes up
to the highwater mark they have at
tained.
The best way to reduce taxes is
the register, and then when you go
to the primaries, nominate men whom
you know will cut down some of the
outgo of public funds. And after
nominating these men, the next step
is to go to the polls again in Novem
ber, and vote them into office; and
also to vote down the pet schemes of
conspirators who have drawn bills to
get themselves and their friends nice
fat jobs at the expense of the tax
payer. No man who hasn't register
ed has a right to roar about high tax
es, about the abuse of public power in
onice, or about anything else-
There are, as we've already said,
but. four days in which to register.
If you haven't registered already,'do
it now do it in the' first of the re
maining four days, and spend the next
three hunting up neighbors of yours
who haven't registered, and see that
they do. Don't waste time cursing
high taxes or incompetent officials
the reason for incompetent officials is
the same as the reason for'high taxes:
lack of interest on the part of the"
people, failure to avail themselves of
the privilege of voting. '
These remarks apply also to the
ladies though be', it said to the
credit of the women of Oregon that
since they have been accorded the
privilege of the ballot, they have used
it rather better than have the 'men.
However, some of the ladies haven't
registered yet. They ought to do so,
for the future holds just as much
woe and grief for the ladies as it docs'
for the men if the "spoilers" are to
be nllowed in office. Hence the. thing
for every citizen of Clackamas coun
ty ,to do now is to register, and ace'
that everybody else is registered.
To express it mildly, and also
briefly: REGISTER TODAY OR
SHUT UP KICKING AT WHAT
YOU GET.
MOSTLY POLITICS
Do not let the title of this outbreak
of editorial wisdom alarm you. Poli
tics is looked upon by many folk as a
fearsome and dreadful thing, but it
is in reality mostly hot air. And so,
to a large extent, are these political
remarks to be confined to glittering
generalities even as are the slogans
of the multidunious candidates now
seeking favor at the hands of the
voters throughout Oregon. Politics,
which is the favorite passtimes of
Oregon's native sons, is with us now
full blast, even as it has been every
springtime since the first weary trav
elers pulled in over the old Oregon
trail. So it is meet that the Courier
should have a few words to say about
the subject.
Politics has been described as the
science of enabling those who are out
to get in. This science is largely
built on promise, and is utterly with
out gratitude. True, there is political
gratitude; and this has been defined
by a great Oregon political leader as
"a quick forgetfulness of past favors
and an eager anticipation of favors
yet to come." When a candidate says
"vote for me and I will be. grateful."
he really means "vote for me and I
will be greatful for your vote azain
when I run for a second term."
Of course the day may come in
Oregon when some men of youngish
age, experienced in the ways of this
world, and discouraged at present
management of public affairs, may
seen omce not because they want the
salaries and the empty honor that
goes with the job, but because they
want to give the people a little bit
better government than they have
ever had before. Such men should
be of reasonably independent means
they should have enough to eet them
selves three square meals a day and a
place to roost at night, and they
snouia not be ambitious to own auto
mobiles or summer villas by the sea,
Such men could probably fill public
office just as well as public office
is now filled and perhaps a little bit
better.
If the day ever conies when men
like this will run for office in Oregon
men or women who are not connected
with past political history, the voters
will probably flock to them in throngs.
Let the average voter once be con
vinced that a candidate seeks office
merely to see how well he can fill
that office, and his election is assured.
Yet it is to be " remarked that not a
single candidate has yet thought of
tnis. JNot a single slogan says "give
me office so I can have the fun of
trying to be a good public servant
and seeing how much money I, can
save the taxpayer". Not a sinerle
candidate has yet said "all I want to
be elected for is to prove to my fellow
citizens that a man can hold a public
job without becoming diseased with
the waving for bdssism".
Everybody in sight so far wants
the office to "reform present evils"
or "to lower taxes", or ;'to serve the
people loyally".- Everybody with
hat or cap in the ring is going at the
thing with businesslike forethought
and system,' is carefully measuring
words of double meaning, so that, the'
voter will now believe one thino-
and yet' so that latter'jhepvoter will
be unable" to find therein any 'defin
ite promise." in short,, all. the' Oregon
candidates now seeking a job' are care
fully preparing' a verbal alibi that
they can use at the next election.
when they are, asked whv.th'ev didn't
live up' to glittering promises' made-'.
ine courier, out rof curiosity,
would like to see. some candidate
como out who' was a lover ofall man
kind, a man ' of broa'd tolerance, of
average( common, sense. A, man who
took the typically. American humorous
who could smile when he asked for
political,' support, and who could say
willingly a'nd openly .before hand: "If
you elect me I. will plav the irame to
the best of my ability, and I will try
to keep expenses down. I will trv to
be decent and human, but I won't
promise the impossible." Some can
didates have approached this attitude,
but they haven't any of them attain
ed it yet.
The Spectator said, in brief, that it
was the duty of parents to bring chil
dren up in righteousness; and that
when children went wrong, it was
more often the fault of the father
and mother than of the child.
A couple of weeks ago the Courier
was struck by this same happy
thought, and in an editorial compar
ing Kansas and Oregon, mentioned
the fact that at least one Oregon
judge seemed to have realized that a
deliquent mother was to blame for
her child's missteps, and should be
punished for not giving the child a
fair start in the world. However, it
is seldom that the mother is herself
to blame. In nine cases out of ten
it is the father's fault; either because
the father holds himself so aloof from
the home life that his children hardlv
Know him, or because the father leav
es entirely to an already overburden
ed mother the task of giving his and
her children the ethical training they
ought to have.
Bringing up a child consists of
more than teaching it to say "please"
and "thank you," and in sending it
to bunday school at ten every Sab
bath morining. Bringing up a child
consists of more, too, than telling it
to be home at nine in the evening,
and scolding it if it isn't in when
the curfew rings. This, in fact, is
the least part of bringing up children.
To the average child the world is a
strange place, a place to be closely
watched, and to be noted in every de
tail.. And if the active mind of the
child notes that dad comes home with
the smell of booze on his breath, that
he swears at his wife or doesn't even
speak to her at all, and that he goes
out right after supper and doesn't
come home until everybody is all
asleep; that child is pretty apt to
disregard the teachings of the mother
tinue to Oregon's credit, and for the
sake of Oregon's future citizens.
WE HAVE WITH US
This being the season for wild
things, outbursts of human cussed
ness, and general sprouting and
growth, we have with us baseball
games, pink and green sporting ex
tras, fishermen and fisherwomen,
press agents of circuses and outdoor
parks, political candidates of carious
kinds, and T. Roosevelt. All these
manifestations of spring are reason
ably well known to the American
people, and one can be pretty sure
in advance what each one will do,
or try to do. That is, each one but
that modest lily of the spring field.
T. Roosevelt.
This Roosevelt person, it appears,
is going to "spill the beans" for the
republicans at the national conven
tion. Just how he will spill them,
however, is a matter of some doubt.
If he pussyfoots around and lines up
enough . uninstructed delegates to
force his nomination to save a split
in the party, he will spill them as
far as results go. If he doesn't round
up enoughand splits the party again,
he will also spill them. And if he is
neither nominated or successful in
splitting the party, he may spill the I than a Western girl from Clackamas
body in Clackamas county would get
behind "Queen" Rose, who has been
nominated as a candidate for honors
at the Portland Rose Festival by a
representative group of county seat
bachelors, and make Miss Rose Upte-
grove the county's candidate. Over
in Eastern Oregon all of Umatilla
county has gotten behind Pendleton's
candidate for queenly honors, there
by, showing the right spirit, and a
winning spirit.
Miss Rose Uptegrove is a young
lady who will make an admirable
queen of Oregon's big summer festiv
al. She has personal charm and win
ning ways, and she also appears to
be a young woman of sound common
sense. Born west of the Mississippi,
and having spent the greater part
of her life in the Coast country, she
is typically a Western girl, and so
would do well as the ruler of a West
ern festival. Portland has insisted
for a number of years that the Rose
Festival was an Oregon celebration,
and not a Portland one; so it is but
fair that An Oregon girl and not a
Portland one should be its queen.
And what is more typically Oregon
than Clackamas county? What com
munity in Oregon can boast of more
pioneer history than Clackamas coun
ty? And what would be more fitting
beans quite as effectually by either
supporting or not supporting the con
vention's nominee.
In politics Roosevelt is "heap bad
medicine." Suppose he isn't nominat
ed and doesn't manage to produce a
party of his own. Suppose he gets
right m behind the republican nom
inee and tours the country speaking
for him. Everybody will say that
the nominee is "Roosevelt's man,"
and everybody who under other con
ditions would refuse to vote for
county for queen of Oregon's distinc
tive festival ? '
It will be Queen Rose if Clackamas
county at large will get in and help.
Oregon City will do its share cam
paign manager Kelly will see to that.
And as the county seat at heart de
sires to be on good terms with the
rest of the county, and has lately
shown new evidence of this; it would
be a' fine way for the county at large
to reciprocate by helping elect Miss
Rose queen of the forthcoming fes-
LOOKING FORWARD
Tho truth crops out in unexpected
places. A recent number of the Spec
tator, Portlnd's weekly review of so
ciety, big business and other things,
mostly paid for, contained editorial
comment regarding the wisdom of
prosecuting parents for the crimes
committed by their minor children.
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business to look after early and late. .
But we are never too busy to give our advice as
to any impending business transaction which you
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want our advice, don't be afraid to ask for it. We
may not be able to advise you but we have our hand
on the business pulse most of the time and you arc
certainly welcome to our knowledge of business
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The Courier makes this correction
because some people have endeavored
to read into the wording of the Cour
ier's story of the occurrence some
"politics" that wasn't there at all. As
the French say, "honi soi qui mal y
pense."
His Age Is Against Him
"I am 52 years old and I have been
troubled with kidneys and bladder for
a good many years," writes Arthur
Jones, Allen, Kas. "My age is
against me to ever get cured, but
Foley Kidney Pills do me more good
than anything I ever tried." Many
people suffer from kidney trouble who
need not. suffer when they can get
Foley Kidney Pills. Mr. Jones, in a
railway ties were recently forward
ed by the forest branch of the De
partment of Lands to the Great East
ern Railway Co., of England, which
selected two sleepers from its stick
which it obtained from the Baltic and
tested them all under similar con
ditions. The results of these tests
show beyond a doubt the superiority
of Douglas fir for railroad ties.
It was found that under compres
sion Douglas fir will stand 5,695
pounds per square inch, as against
the Baltic timber mark of 3,950
pounds per square inch, while red
cedar made a very creditable show
ing against the Baltic timber of 3,407
pounds per squre inch. Tests in ten
sion were even more favorable for
Douglas fir. This is shown by the
later letter, savs if it was not for
them he would never be able to work fact tnat it would take 11,450 pounds,
in the hay field. Rheumatism, aching or more than 5 tons, to pull apart
back, shooting pains, stiff joints, all a 8t,'clc of Douglas fir having a cross
have been relieved. Jones Drug Co. section of 1 square inch, whereas just
nan mat weignt would sumce to pull
apart Baltic timber, and only 3,300
pounds were required to separate
cedar.
BEST BY TEST
Douglas Fir, When Tested with Other
Woods, Proves Its Superiority
Two Douglas fir and two red-cedar
How are you fixed for letter heads
and envelopes? Courier.
to the effect that home is the ideal
spot. The child will wonder silent
ly, probably why it is that dad
doesn't think home is all that mother
say it is; and having already learned
that actions speak louder than words,
will disregard the kind words and
dwell upon the actions.
And if this child later "goes
wrong," it isn't the mother that is
to blame. It is the father, who silent
ly taught the child contempt for
home and a contempt for its mother.
And it is the father who should be
prosecuted not so much for what he
has done, as for what he hasn't done.
The time will come when we will
realize this, and when the inherent
right of every child to a proper bring
ing up will be so thoroughly under
stood that our homes will be happier,
tnat dad won't go out to lodge so
often, and that the family circle will
really be a circle and not just a
curved line with a couple of gaps
where father and the boy are absent.
And then we will have less child de
linquency, less population in our re
form schools, less rowdyism on the
streets, and no double standard of
morals. In Oregon it appears -that
this day is already in sight on the
calendar, for a Portland judge and
tne Portland .Spectator have both re
ceived a glimpse of the future. When
both a jurist and a society magazine
see the light, the light itself must
truly be near at hand.
Let us hope that progress will con-.
Roosevelt himself vifl Scratch 'up tival. The individual effort will not
"Roosevelt's man." On the other 'be much votes will be found in all
hand, suppose Roosevelt opposes the the newspapers, and more can be
republican nominee. He will keep bought at trifling expense. And every
from that unhappy goat the remainder vote that is given to Miss Uptegrove
of the "progressive" vote, and he will will be the means of bringing Clacka
stampede to a certain extent his fol- mas county more and more to the
lowing away from the ticket. Just attention of the thousands who will
where he will lead those he stam- see the Rose Festival,
pedes cannot be guessed he might 1 Let's all boost for Clackamas coun-
lead them to the prohibitionists or to ty and for "Queen Rose."
the socialists. i
Last week when T. Roosevelt told j A CORRECTION"
some of his friends what they would
have to do in order to nominate him! In its account of the raid on the
he took a paste at the "hyphen," Hotel Belle last week, the Courier
among other things. A good deal of said, among other things, that Dis
the potential Roosevelt support lies trict Attorney Gilbert L. Hedges was
with the "hyphen," for the simple a member of the raiding party. Mr.
reason that two-thirds of the hyphen-1 Hedges was not in Milwaukie during
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than the ordinary our feed is.
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more, though we feel sure
you'll find it worth more
after you have noted how
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ated Americans want to see the Unit
ed States at loggerheads with either'
one side or. the other of the warring
European factions, and they figured
T. Roosevelt would bring this situa
tion about if he had a chance. By
taking a slam at the hyphen T.
Roosevelt hasn't helped himself any,
and he hasn't helped the republican
party which is the hope of the "hy
phen." In short T. Roosevelt appears
not only to have signified his inten
tion of spilling the republican beans
this year, but he has already got the
bean pot tipped over on its side and
the lid loose.
. A NICE THING TO DO
It would be awfully nice if every-
the raid, but met the party when it
returned with the confiscated liquor
late in the evening. He was present
in the sheriff's office when stock was
taken of the spoils, and as many of
the other members of the party were
also present, the Courier's reporter
surmised that he had been with the
raiders all evening.
The district attorney's office, how
ever, planned the raid, accumulated
the evidence upon which it was made, i
and the members of the raiding party
received -their instructions late in the
afternoon from Mr. Hedges before
leaving for Milwaukie. And the
deputy district attorney was with the
official party when it descended upon
the resort, so the office was represent
ed throughout the entire proceeding.
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