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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1916.
OREGON CITY COURIER
C. W. ROBEY, Editor
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OLD SONG NEW WORDS
The "mourning" Enterprise has
tuned up its badly damaged fiddle
again and is chanting the same old
tune that caused Bossy, the acrobatic
bovine, to jump over the moon.
The ridiculous reasoning of the
Enterprise is mirthful its buffoonery
is that paper's only excuse for re
maining among us. Ever since that
fateful day when Bossy did her stunt
in the skies the Enterprise has been
frantically attempting to duplicate
the performance in its editorial di
gester and jumps sky-high over fact
into untruth in the exacerbation of its
putrid egotism, which would expuige
the democratic party and hold the re
publican party up to the horizon,
where it might be admired for its
wondrous deeds of thought and ac
complishment.
If the Enterprise devoted half the
space to the presentation of the merits
of the case of one Charles Evans
Hughes that it does to the defamation
of Woodrow Wilson, the chances of
Mr. Hughes' getting the votes of that
particular circle which is instructed in
the exercise of its franchise by the
Enterprise would be vastly greater.
Mr. Wilson casts aside the robes
of democracy or other affiliation for
the mantle of true and loyal Ameri
canism, which spells humanity in its
broadest sense. Yet the Enterprise
forgets that all men are brothers and
would have Mr. Wilson executed for
his misdeeds if its fevered imagina
tion could find any misdeed of which
the president is guilty. But, the
sniveler that has no patriotism can
see nothing worthy either in the
constitution of the nation or in the
man who is doing as much to perpet
uate that constitution in the annals
of the world as any other president
who has been at Washington.
If the voters do not care to re
elect Mr. Wilson, that is their choice.
While the gentleman is at the head
of the nation every man who loves
that starry banner above him should
lend the greatest possible measure of
support to the president. Treason
and venomous attacks have no place
in the mind or heart of true Ameri
cans and those who attack the man
who has been selected to lead them,
more than ever when that man is of
the stamp of American that Mr. Wil
son is, deserved all the condemnation
public can give. These crucial
times are, at least, the times when
Americanism should be paramount;
when the union should be bound tight
est with the bonds of that everlast
ing glory that was conceived by the
fathers of the great republic.
Yet, we have with us the "mourn
ing" Enterprise, chewing always at a
bite that is too big for its childish
mouth. Ranting in its surface fury
like the little boy who forgets the
honor due his mother and father, the
1 "mourning" what-not forgets that
democrats and republicans are broth
ers and sisters and that all who ask
for the protection of the American
flag should pay the tribute of respect
and aid to the president.
The Enterprise says that President
Wilson and the domocratic adminis
tration have nothing to do with the
prosperity the nation enjoys at pres
ent. It goes back east and garbles the
statements of a true American to get
evidence for its foolish assertions.
Mr. Hedges says he is convinced that
eastern prosperity is greatly due to
the war. Does that statement mean
that there would be no prosperity if
the war did not exist? The thought
is as utterly absurd as are the lies of
the Enterprise.
Bring your search home, you who
discredit the administration. There is
evidence of prosperity on every side.
Answer these questions, please, and
then take a long look at your form in
the looking glass of truth, See if
there isn't yet some hope of infusing a
little real Americanism into your dis
gruntled veins and a little true pa
triotism into your ignominious heart.
Do the local paper mills depend up
on war orders for their prosperity to
Safe to travel on
"A.B.A." Cheques are much safer to carry than money, "which
can seldom be recovered, In case of loss. It is easy to pay travel
expenses with them; they are readily accepted by hotels, ticket
office, and the beat merchants. Self-Identifying. Issued In $10.
$20, $50 and $100.
See "All Aboard The Magic Carpet" at the
Star Theatre, Tuesday, July 11th. It is a travel
photo play explaining the A. B. A. Travelers
Cheques.
THE BANK OF
and Business Manager
Building, Eighth Street, and entered
Ore., as 2nd class mail matter.
Telephones: Pacific 61; Home A-51
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day a prosperity greater than they
ever enjoyed befoe? Are they not
actually handicapped by the war; Do
they not employ more men today than
ever before and pay them better wag
es than ever before; and all in the face
of the war which is, according to the
treasonable Enterprise, bringing pros
perity to the nation that would be in
the last throes of death without the
war?
What would Taft or our friend
Hughes do today that Woodrow Wil
son is not doing? How could pros
perity be greater if Taft or Hughes
or any other idol of republicanism di
rected the affairs of the nation ? How
would Hughes or Taft keep American
troops out of war with Mexico and
preserve the honor of a nation?
Getting back home for the moment
Is the woolen mill here dependent
upon war orders for its prosperity?
There is no denying the fact that
these industries control the prosper
ity of this immediate vicinity, and
they are handicapped directly by the
war. Their imported supplies are cut
off and they labor under conditions
that have not existed in decades. Yet
they are doing a greater volume of
business than they ever did before
and the war is responsible, says the
Enterprise.
There is no doubt that a certain
amount of eastern prosperity comes
because of the war, but that such
prosperity would exist without the
war, and in all lines of industry, is
only denied by the pusillanimous
minds of such as the Enterprise.
Whether or not you are of Mr. Wil
son's political family, as a true and
loyal American you owe the nation
your fullest support of its president.
Meanwhile, with the "mourning"
putrescence among us in the gay garb
of the Enterprise, we propose a cheer
to its slogan: "Let the republicans re
joice!"
IN THE DAY'S MAIL
The Courier ia filling a niche in the
life of Clackamas county people that
is a source of great pride to this pa
per. Like an individual, a newspa
per takes much pleasure from its
worthy accomplishments and some
times bemoans the mistakes that it
makes, usually through no fault of
its own.
A day has not passed within the
reign of the present management
without the addition of names to the
subscription list of the paper and in
ninety-nine of every hundred cases a
good friend is made of every sub
scriber. Occasionally someone writes the
office to say, as one did last week:
"Please stop my paper. I do not like
war nor the great statesman, Wilson,"
but such communications are so few
and far between that they only serve
to add zest to the business of the day.
As a matter of fact most of the let
ters received regarding subscriptions
say something like one that came
early this week: "Your paper seems to
have an ideal certainly it supplies
the news of Clackamas county to its
readers. Although I am 'off color'
politically I find The Courier partisan
ship stands on a true American ba
sis and I enclose M. 0. covering re
newal." The Courier attempts to furnish
the timely news of the county in a
readable form without fear or favor
and where an issue demands a stand
this paper is usually found ungarbled
in its attitude. It tries not to color
its statements for political capital and
avoids partisan politics to as great an
extent as the signs of the times will
permit.
It believes in construction and de
velopment; it is an abettor of all
things for the upbuilding of Clacka
mas county and its pages hold only
the advertising of those firms within
the county which are the backbone
of the progress that is coming quick
ly and surely to the happy common
wealth. Its advertisers are the men
who are up and doing things in the
county and the state and its readers
OREGON CITY
are the people who have the whole
interest of the county at heart.
The pages of The Courier are read
by people of all ages and in all homes
it is heartily received for its cleanli
ness and honor. And in so saying,
we would not have it seem that we
boast. Rather we are listing the find
ings of a search for the source of the
popularity of the paper, in effort to de
termine the cause of the rapidly and
constantly growing subscription list
and advertising patronage.
The Courier is a spokesman for
Clackamas county people, a willing
medium for the expression of their
opinions and, so long as they be just
and honorable, a champion for the
causes of progress, development and
construction of this great county,
state and nation.
Partisanship is a side issue. The
Courier furnishes the news and its
news is readable in any household and
by any member thereof. Those are a
few of the reasons why The Courier
fills an enviable place in the county
and why its subscription list, at the
present rate of increase, will double
within a year.
If you are not a subscriber we ven
ture to inquire: Why not? And at
the same time we heartily invite you
to enjoy membership in the great
Clackamas county family that is
bound together through a common
spokesman in The Courier.
SPECTATOR FIREWORKS
It is to be regretted that Hugh
Hume did not publish the Spectator
on the fourth of July. Its verbal py.
rotechnics, in the excellent English at
the command of the unnecessarily
sarcastic editor, would have made an
excellent feature for an explosive cel
ebration.
Mr. Hume condescends, through
the moth holes in the mantle of his
charity, to say that the Courier's de
fense of the formerly iniquitious
Friars' club, now a calm and peace
ful resort for the entertainment of
children and dyspeptics, may have
been based upon misinformation. Per
haps! Yet, the Spectator fires a bombas
tic volley, in saying that "since pro
hibition went into effect, the Friars'
club has been what it was before a
resort for the lewd and vicious, a
deadfall for the young, a rendezvous
for the debauched and depraved of
both sexes; a place of assignation; a
public pest house; the visible shame
of Clackamas county and the obvious
disgrace of Clackamas county offic
ials." The Courier is ready and willing to
admit that its statements were based
upon misinformation if those of the
Spectator are proved to be veracious.
The Courier would dislike greatly to
say that it had inhabited such a joint
as Mr. Hume is certain exists at Mil
waukie. It would regret to say that
it had cast its clean white form into
that vile den of debauchery and de
pravity for the sake of hurling bombs
of rhetoric at Clackamas county and
its officials. Nevertheless the Courier
is indebted to the Spectator for the
investigation it has made and upon
which, undoubtedly, it bases its broad
statements. The Courier, soused in
its own temerity, would not venture
such assertions as are made in the
Spectator without first having made
a thorough personal investigation.
It is only justice that a man be
given a chance to vindicate himself; to
wash away the sins of other days,
and we do not say that Mr. Wilbur of
the Friars' club, now Friars' park,
will not come out right side up in
spite of the untimely attack of the
Spectator.
The Courier herewith informs the
Spectator that this paper and the
officers of Clackamas county are
pleased to know that the Friars' club,
a non-existent institution, is a notor
ious and crime-sodden black hole
hole where all the inferno that can
climb from Hades is commanded by
the red devils of infamy into the de
struction of virtue and manifold other
crimes. The officers advise us that the
Spectator is a power for good in the
community because it has discovered,
by personal investigation or other
wise, the condition that officers had
thought ended after themselves mak
ing investigation and issuing their
statements upon the actual findings of
that search for crime.
Maybe Friars' park isn't the holy
place that it might be, but the Cour
ier, unacquainted with Manager Wil
bur, ventures the assertion again that
it is not the moral pesthouse that the
Spectator would have us believe. We
rely in Clackamas county upon the
word of duly elected and honorable
officers to as great an extent, almost,
as we do upon the bombastic opinions
of an editor so "soused in the temer
ity of his own ignorance" as to give
these officers, and the law itself, the
sordid details of his imaginary
"what's what."
FEDERAL AID
The concrete proposition in regard
to federal aid in road building is as
to whether or not the nation's money
is to retard or advance the cause of
good roads and the building of the
same now. There is a great question
in the minds of more than one author
ity on road building, and some of
these are right here at home, as to
whether the federal aid plan is to be
a success. There is the possibility,
as one prominent in road affairs has
Pointed out. that, if the,
helps the several states in building
their public roads the governments of
the states will only execute enough
road work each year to get within the
provision of the federal aid plan.
That is to say, the states will build
only as much road as is absolutely
necessary in order to get federal
funds.
The DrODOsition ia liko n KDrfoin
class of labor. It does nnlv n.q nmnh
work as it is paid for and stops
promptly wnen the whistle blows. In
the case of the state nnH lnW. tVn,
question is the same. Will the state
oo any more man it is paid for; and
will it not stoD its Pood wnrlt tVin mo.
ment it has answered the require
ments ot the federal aid plan? Nat
urally, it is to be hoped that such a
sad state of affairs would not be the
result of the plan, but the matter pre
sents food for thought, and presents
a subject for untangling before the
plan of federal aid goes too far.
Recently both houses of congress
passed what is known as the
Shackleford bill, providing that the
federal treasury can be called upon
for road building funds to the extent
of $25,000,000 annually, and this
money is to go to the states engaged
in road construction. It is planned
to bring the Mt. Hood loop road, part
of which is in this county, under the
terms of the Shackleford bill as one
of the first roads to benefit by the
plan. The fund is to be spent by the
federal department of agriculture to
help the states with road work. Ap
portionment of the fund is in hands of
the secretary of agriculture, and the
office of roads will exercise a general
supervisorship over all roads aided by
federal funds.
The bill will answer pleas of the
states as expressed for many years at
each session of the house and senate.
There is that feature, however, unpro
vided for, which may mean that the
state road builders will quit minute
the whistle blows.
Plenty of rain ?' Good crops? Al
right, friends, let us not complain.
Oregon City is to build a 5,000,000
gallon reservoir. Quite a little city,
yes!
Good roads have occupied the pub
lic attention for the better part of a
decade. About time to act.
A fellow begins to realize that he
is old when the recruiting officers re
fuse to enlist him for military ser
vice. To the copperhead club, lead by the
Oregonian as a result of the unani
mous ballot of Oregon newspapers,
we would suggest the election of the
"mourning" Enterprise.
The German army is drawing its
last breath I Germans defeated on all
sides! Funny statements, when one
reflects that Germany goes right
along with the war.
A sage and prophet has suggested
that the explosions in the war zone
are responsible for the continued rain.
fall. If the Enterprise could see that
statement it would change it and
blame President Wilson.
Valley towns are stirred to action
by the near-accidents resulting from
the careless driving of young chauf
feurs. Boys under eighteen are
often irresponsible and the action
against them is worthy of emulation.
curious cordoba;"
This Spanish Town Is So Compaot It
Looks Like One Building.
Cordoba Is scheduled on the Euro
pean Itinerary as a half day stand.
Those who gckfrom Seville to Granada
and those who' go from Granada to Se
ville take Cordoba on their way. Fit:
teen minutes for the cathedral, five for
the alcazar, an hour for luncheon and
on to further discoveries that Is the
Cordoba program. The hotels of Cor
doba arc, In consequence, unpalatlal, a
circumstance in itself which endears
the little town to the Judicious. I do not
believe there is a lift in all Cordoba,
and If your wife wishes for any reason
to buy a new hat she must go out of
the hotel for It, and then It will be
three years old.
At night all the tourists are gone to
Seville or Granada, and you and the
Cordobans and the stars share the
amenities of Cordoba's one boulevard,
of which everybody Is very proud, be
cause It Is much superior to anything
that Paris or even Madrid can show.
It was a lucky chance which caused
them to build Cordoba so handily be
tween Seville and Granada. It has pro
vided a still little buckwnter for the
traveler's repose, a spot where he may
forget that American bars exist, eat
his meals untroubled by the squeaking
of a tango bnud and adventure himself
among the mysteries of a bill of fare
Jelly printed lu blue and Illegible Span
ish. You could put your hat over Cordoba,
and very little would protrude. It is
tho compactest little town. From the
tower of the cathedral It oil looks like
one building. Vou can hardly perceive
the streets, so closely do they wriggle
among the houses. The roofs are yel
low, brown, gray, red; the walls and
their shadows every color In the world.
Among the buildings the green of
palms, orange trees, lemon trees, chest
uuts. soothe the glare struck eye. The
Guadalquivir snakes through Its rich
plains from the faraway flat hills (red,
gray brown, yellow), and over till are
the great sky of the south and the huge
sun of the south, which Imposes si
lence on the world till ulght shall set
the guitars abuzzlng.-Williara Calue
In Century.
Self Possessed.
Mrs. Mnuyklds There Is one thing
about our girls they are always self
possessed, 1'iipa Mauyklds (grimly)
Yes, they're too self possessed. I wish
they'd get some one else to possess
them.
The Point of View.
"Why so sud, old man?"
"The doctor wants my wife to travel
two months."
"I understand. Sorry for you." '
"Understand? No, you don't She
will not go."-l'Uegende Blatter.
Good Reason Too.
Chollte And you like a beard on a
man's face?
Mollle Yes, on some men.
"But it hides the face."
"Yes; that's the reason I like a
beard." St. Louis I'ost-Dlspntch.
Forced Sale
I am forced to sell my home to
prevent mortgage foreclosure. Will
sell at great sacrifice 2 good lots with
5-room house, in Gladstone. See my
agents
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AUCTIONING OFF A WIFE.
Last Case of a Once Rather Commm
, Custom In England.
It was long a popular belief among
the Ignorant In England that If a mau
sold his wife at public auction such
a sale had all the legality of a regu
lar divorce. The latest case of the
kind on record occurred In 1832.
John Thompson, a farmer, bad been
married for three years, and he and
his wife agreed to separate. Thomp
son brought his wife Into the town of
Carlisle, and by the bellman announc-.
ed he was about to sell her.
At midday Thompson placed his
wife on a large oak chair with a rope
or halter of straw about her neck. He
then made this announcement: "Gen
tlemen, I have to offer to your notice
my wife, Mary Anne Thompson, oth
erwise Williams, whom I mean to sell
to the highest and fairest bidder. It
Is her wish as well as mine to part
forever.
"She has been to me only a bora
serpent I took her for my comfort,
the good of my home. Bi t she became
my tormentor, a dome '.e curse, a
night Invasion and a dal devil.
"I speak truth from my heart when
I say: 'May God deliver us from trou
blesome wives and frolicsome women!
Avoid them as you would a mad dog,
a roaring lion, a loaded pistol, cholera
morbus, Mount Etna or any other
pestilential thing in nature.'
"Now, 1 have shown you of her
dark faults and failings. I will iutro
duce tho bright and sunny side of
her and explain her qualifications
and goodness. She cau read novels
and milk cows. She can laugh and
weep with the same ease that you
could take a glass of ale when thirsty.
Indeed, gentlemen, she reminds me of
what the poet says of women In gen
eral: "Heaven gave to women the peculiar
grace
To laugh, to weep, to cheat the human
race.
"She can make butter and scold the
maid. She can sing Moore's melodies
and plait her folds and caps. She can
not make rum, gin or whisky, but
she is a good Judge of the quality of
each from long experience In tasting
them. I therefore offer her, with all
her perfections and Imperfections, for
the sum of 50 shillings."
The woman was finally sold to one
Henry Wears for the sum of 20 shil
lings and a Newfoundland dog. Man
and wife parted in perfect good tem
per, Hears and the woman going one
way, Thompson and the dog another.
Boston Trauscript.
Leaves for California
After spending most of the week
in Portland in attendance at the sum
mer school for the Episcopal clergy
of the state, the Rev. T. J. Williams,
rector of St. Paul's church of Oregon
City, returned on Friday and the fol
lowing evening departed for San
Francisco, where he will join Mrs.
Williams and spend about a month
in the south. Mr. Williams former
ly had a charge in San Francisco and
has many friends there.
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