Oregon City courier., July 20, 1916, Image 1

GON CITY
34th Year
OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, JULY 20, 1916
Number 18
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SEYMOUR DIRECTS
ACUITIES
SEVEN MEETINGS IN THREE
DAYS ATTENDED BY PUPILS
OF 24 SCHOOLS
WILL GREATLY BENEFIT FAIRS
State Leader Praises Spirit of Chil
dren and Work of the Coun
ty Officers
Interest in school industrial club
work in Clackamas county is booming
as a result of the campaignwhich will
be completed today by H. C. Seymour,
state leader of boy's and girl's clubs,
County School Superintendent Cala
van and a corps of assistants. Since
Tuesday Mr. Seymour and his aides
have been more than busy conducting
meetings throughout the county in the
interest of industrial club activities,
and the great amount of good accom
plished by the strenuous hours this
group put in can only be measured
by the results that will be manifest at
the county and state fairs this year
and in the future.
On Tuesday meetings were held at
Gladstone, Milwaukie and Beaver
Creek. In this series the schools of
Jennings Lodge, Jones' Mill, Clacka
mas, Parkplace, Oak Grove, Arden
wald, Harmony and Carus participat
ed in addition to those in the districts
where the meetings were held. On
Wednesday the school houses at Wil
lamette and Mt. Pleasant were the
scenes of the meetings attended by
industrial club members from Willa
mette, Canemah, West Linn, Mt.
Pleasant, Twilight and Clairmont.
This morning a meeting was held at
Macksburg and was attended by pu
pils of that district in addition to
those of Needy, Dryland and Lone
Elder. This afternoon a joint meet
ing is being held at Barlow which is
attended by Barlow, Canby and
Mark's Prairie pupils.
At each meeting the keen Interest
of the majority of pupils has been evi
denced in the club projects. Mr. Sey
mour points proudly to Willamette,
Mt. Pleasant, Beaver Creek, Twilight,
Milwaukie, Oak Grove and Jennings
Lodge as the homes of some of the
most excellent clubs and club workers
that he has seen on his travels about
the state. The children in each of
the districts which sent delegations
to the several meetings, as well as the
parents, are alive to the value of the
project work and show their interest
in the work by their attendance and
questioning at the meetings that have
been held.
In addition to Mr. Seymour, the
state leader, and County School Su
perintendent Calavan, the meetings
have been addressed by Miss Helen
Cowgill of the extension department
O. A. C; N. C. Maris, field worker
for the state department of education
and Judge Grant B. Dimick, president
of the Clackamas county fair associa
tion. The principal topics for discus
sion have been, of course, club work
and county and state fairs, but these
subjects proved highly interesting in
the manner in whjch they were pre
sented. There are fourteen distinct club
projects under way among the pupils
of Clackamas county schools, although
the principal interest among the
young club members seems to center
in the corn, potato, gardening, sew
ing, canning and baking projects, ac
cording to findings of Mr. Seymour.
In this county there are 493 girls en
gaged in the sewing club projects; 300
boys and girls in the gardening pro
jects and 60 in the pig clubs. This,
says Mr. Seymour, is considerably
above -the average for the state of
Oregon. And considering the mani
fold attractions for youngsters else
where at this time of year the leader
considers the attendance at the series
of meetings just held to be remark
able. That the parents should take
such an active interest in the work of
the children is another source of pleas
ure to the officials.
"The project workers," said Mr.
Seymour this morning, "show an ex
cellent spirit in all their work. They
seem to have a definite purpose, an
end in view, so to speak, and are pre
pared to work for every prize that is
available for them at the state and
county fairs. I find that Superintend
ent Calavan has been visiting the
schools about the county at the even
ing meetings, in addition to his regu
lar visits, and has created, in this
way, a great deal of enthusiasm. He
is a sincere worker in the interest of
industrial clubs in the schools of his
county and should certainly receive
the praise of the people, especially
the parents, of the county. The pres
ent plans in the minds of most of the
boys and girls indicate a most suc
cessful and unusually valuable dis
play of project products at both the
county and state fairs.
"The great difference between the
industrial club plan of effort and the
old-fashioned juvenile contests is that
the child goes into the work with a
definite purpose. He works through
out the year and gets credit for the
work he or she accomplishes. The
SQUABBLE UNCOVERS
OFFICIAL CHARITY
PALMGREN SISTERS AIR FAMILY
STRIFE IN SHERIFF'S
OFFICE
Family strife engendered hate in
the hearts of two sisters, caused one
of them to faint on Main street and
brought to light on Saturday the
beautiful spirit of charity that rests
in the breasts of the law's worthy ex
ponents in the Clackamas county court
house.
Frieda E. Palmgren, sister of Mrs.
Marie Notdurft, whose home is be
yond Willamette, came to this state
from the southeast recently at the so
licitation of her sister, who wired ex
pense money for the trip. Arriving
here Mrs. Palmgren was confronted
with a request for the payment of the
money advanced. Trouble started in
the home that harbored the sisters,
and on Saturday, the younger, Mrs.
Palmgren, prepared to leave the
house.
To the departure Mrs. Notdurft
objected and to show her objection
held the younger woman's trunk and
personal belongings. This brought
Mrs. Palmgren to the sheriff's office
where, with the assistance of the en
tire force of county legal talent, in
cluding the district attorney, justice
of the peace, sheriff and deputies, a
replevin action was started to recover
the things. The officers went to the
Notdurft home on Saturday afternoon
and took possession of the trunk after
a wordy tilt with the mistress of the
house, who is said to have mutilated
much of her own property in her rage.
Returning, Mrs. Palmgren fell in a
faint in front of the court house.
It was then that others learned of
the sweet charity that had its home
in the stern hearts of the law's ex
ponents. Mrs. Palmgren had had no
money to file papers in the replevin
action. District Attorney Hedges,
John Seivers, Sheriff Wilson and Dep
uty Hackett "chipped in" to raise the
fund and the lady was on her way re
joicing. But the trouble started Monday
when Mrs. Notdurft appeared before
the sheriff with a score of telegrams
and letters from her sister dated
from large southeastern cities where
she had sojourned with a "Spanish
gentleman," prior to her departure
for Oregon. The telegrams were
mostly requests for funds, and were
all marked "collect." Mrs. Not
dorf submitted them to the official
as a proof to him that she had not
done wrong in holding her sister's
property. But by Monday she ap
peared repentant and brought several
little possessions of Mrs. Palmgren's
to the sheriff's office for delivery to the
banished sister and her young son,
who are lodged with friends near the
city.
Fainting was one of Mrs. Palm
gren's chief fortes, said her sister. It
has served on many occasions to bring
sympathy and aid when she was in
need. "She dolls up in silks," said
the older sister, ','and then faints at a
convenient time and place." Dr.
Frank Mount attributed the last spell
to over-excitement.
COYOTE MASSACRE
Beaver Creek Farmers Take Up Arms
Against Coyote Pest
A coyote massacre has been order
ed as the result of the organization at
Beaver Creek this week of a Coyote
club, with a purpose all its own. Coy
otes have been troubling the farmer
so much of late that drastic steps
were necessary. As a result a num
ber of farmers gathered to form the
extermination club, elected W. F. Har
ris president and J. Hoff secretary,
and outlined a plan of action.
state agricultural college, the federal
department of agriculture and the
state educational department cooper
ate with the children to bring about
the greatest measure of success in
the work and are constantly behind
the little folks in any effort they
make. The college especially is send
ing out literature at all times to the
club members. This literature, in ad
dition to the personal attention that
is given to each case, starts with the
preparation "of the ground, in the case
of the gardening projects, and takes
the workers through the various stag
es of crop production by helping in
seed selection, planting, cultivating
throughout the season and the finalse
lection of seed and crop specimen for
exhibition purposes. This, as is evi
dent, improves the quality and inter
est of the school displays at the fairs
and is a wonderful aid in the general
work of the pupil.
"Just before harvest time the col
lege will send full instructions as to
the preparation of the exhibits which
will be placed at the fairs and I do
not hesitate to say, after observing
the interested work in all projects in
this county, that the Clackamas coun
ty fair will be the most successful in
history from the view point of the
school participation. This will have a
Ltelling effect at the state fair also,
and Clackamas should be well to the
front among the exhibitors in the
school department."
Mr. Seymour was strong in his
praise of all who are concerned with
the advancing of industrial club pro
jects and activities in this county. He
especially commended Superintendent
Calavan for his interested effort.
CUCH FAILING
SAYS BEAUCHAfVlP
CHAUTAUQUA LECTURER SCOR
- ES SEVENTH DAY CHRIS
TIANITY CRIMINAL WAVE DISCUSSED
Humorist Deals With Serious Prob
lem. Says Lodge Is Doing
Work of Churches
Seven-day Christians, rather than
seventh-day Christians was the sub
stance of an unusual and highly in
teresting theme discussed by Lou
Be&uchamp at the Gladstone Chau
tauqua on Saturday evening, when a
great audience assembled to greet the
witty and popular lecturer.
Mr. Beauchamp diverted from his
humorous, yet weighty, address, en
titled "Take the Sunny Side," to dis
cuss the trend of present day religious
and Christian tendencies. He scored
the church with stern words and
pointed to its shortcomings in the so
cial scheme of the community and the
nation, and called attention to the rea
sons for these shortcomings. A large
measure of credit was given to the
fraternal organiations that have ap
peared throughout the nation and
which increase in membership and
importance as the sphere of the
church constantly becomes smaller.
Mr. Beauchamp said that the frater
nal society was filling the place of the
church in the community and that un
less Christians awakened to their po
sition the church would be replaced to
a great extent by the lodge.
If more ministers would preach
sermons upon present day subjects
rather than upon the threadbare, an
tiquated theological topics that the
church-goer is usually forced to listen
to, more men would be active Chris
tians and the church would not be
utterly failing in its mission as it is
today," said the speaker.
"There are two reasons for this
criminal failure of the church to do
the things that Christ commanded his
followers to do, and the things that
are now done by other agencies than
the church. First, the church boards
pay their ministers less than the av
erage unskilled laborer receives, and
less than a man, wife and one child
can respectably live on; second, the
fault lies with the people in the con
gregation, who will energetically
hound the police to close gambling
dens and public dance halls, and who
will return home to play bridge for a
prize or to enjoy themselves at a pri
vate dance hall. The church mem
bers and avowed Christians are play
ing cards while they scorn others for
the same thing and while the frater
nal orders are doing the Church's
work. That is why men keep their
religion as well as their property in
their wives' names.
"When the minister is under-paid
and under-fed; when the minister
must continually" worry about the so
cial demands of his hypocritical con
gregation without 'starving himself
a'nd his family, he cannot be expecte
ed to find time to get the information
and ideas he must have in order to do
justice to his work' in the pulpit.
"When the membership of all the
churches in the United States in
creases only 2 per cent, annually far
less than the increase in the popula
tion during the same time something
is decidedly wrong. What would you
business men think of your business
if it increased only 2 per cent, in a
year's time?
"The United States not only leads
the world in progress, but it leads the
world in crime. In proportion to pop
ulation the number of murders in the
United States was 16 times as great as
in Engla-nd during 1908, 13 times as
great as in v ranee and 4 times as
great as in Spain. There are approx
imately 136 murders to every 1,000,
000 of the population of the United
States, and only about one in every
67 murders pays the penalty for the
crime with his life or with life im
prisonment. Seventy per cent, of ar
rests now made in the United States
are of boys and girls under 19 years
of age, and the increase of juvenile
crime shows no sign of being check
ed.
"1 nrmly believe that when we
ceased to allow the Bible to be taught
to the young people while they are
in school, we unloosed this flood of
juvenile criminality."
The failure of up-to-date religion
and the undeniable facts in connec
tion with the criminal page of the bi
ography of these United States were
so capably presented by Mr. Beau
champ that they served to awaken
many a slumbering conscience in the
large audience. The tinge of guilty
color spread to the face of more than
one real religious person in the audi
torium. Perhaps this is why, when
the speaker returned to the humor
ous side of his lecture, "Take the Sun
ny Side," his wit was so enthusiastic
ally applauded. Perhaps the smiles
and the hearty laughs still cover up
the unquestioned truth of Mr. Beau
champ s statements.
The Courier is $1.00 per year.
COUNCIL WILL TALK
JITNEY FRANCHISE
MERCHANTS OBJECT TO SER
VICE THROUGH OSWEGO
FROM PORTLAND
A new angle appeared to the jitney
franchise business which is to be tak
en up for final disposition at the meet
ing of the city council to be held to
night. An application will be made
by Harry M. Shaw of Eugene, for a
franchise to run a jitney service be
tween Oregon City and Oswego and
from Main street in this city to Moun
tain View. It is understood that Mr.
Shaw's petition provides for a regular
schedule of daily runs between these
points which are not now served by
any means of transportation.
It is unquestionable that the people
of Oswego should have a means of
getting to and from the county seat
without the necessity of the round
about trip through Portland and down
the east side. It is also admitted that
the Mountain View district is enitled
to any service that it can get. And in
granting any franchise that will aid
the three communities mutually the
council is but doing its duty to the
public.
However, the duty of the council
in such a case as this does not extend
beyond Oswego. To allow a jitney be
tween Portland and Oregon City, even
though it does also serve Mountain
View, would be a criminal injustice to
the Portland Railway, Light & Power
company. This is certainly one case
where the cry of "corporation" and
"monopoly" does not hold out in the
minds of public spirited persons.
If Mr, Shaw will conduct the proper
sort of a business between Oswego
and the county seat and between Main
street and Mountain View he is en
titled to any favors the council can
bestow upon him. To extend a ser
vice beyond Oswego should not be con
sidered. 1 At any rate the Mountain
View service should be considered and
a franchise granted to anyone who can
successfully Operate cars upon the hill.
In their insistent demands for ser
vice the residents of Oswego have
been accused of selfish motives. It
is said that they are not so anxious
to get service into Oregon City as they
are to Portland, but bring the county
seat into the. matter because cars
would not run alone between Portland
and Oswego. Several attempts to se
cure a franchise for the entire dis
tance have failed and if the council
does its duty all other requests for
such franchise will fail.
There is not a single businessman
in this city who favors a jitney ser
vice that will be in direct and fatal
opposition to the railway company,
one of the heaviest taxpayers in the
county. The jitney saps the life blood
of legitimate transportation enterpris
es and should be tolerated only where
there is not other suitable means of
travel. By no means should compe
tition with the P. R. L. & P. Co., be
permitted by the council.
At any cost the council should do
all that it possibly can to create a jit
ney route between Main street and
Mountain View and between Oswego
and Oregon City, but no farther. Such
a service is greatly needed; it would
not be in competition with the city's
heavy taxpayer and would be a boon
to Mountain View residents. Other
wise, let the jitney regulation remain
in its present admirable state.
STATE SHOULD HAVE
LAND GRANT MONEY
COMMERCIAL BODIES ASKED TO
AID IN SECURING EQUIT
ABLE DIVISION
To secure for the state of Oregon
her just share of the money derived
from the sale of the Oregon-California
land grant the Portland Chamber
of Commerce and valley clubs are
co-operating to further a gigantic
campaign which will take many forms,
including that of writing letters to
the congressmen and senators from
this state. Congressman N. J. Sin
nott has introduced a bill which pro
vides that 40 per cent, of the revenue
assigned to the reclamation service
shall be expended by that service for
the reclamation of Oregon lands.
This is known as house resolution
16597.
Monday, July 31, has been fixed as
the day for mailing letters. The let
ters should be directed to any mem
ber of congress with whom any Ore
gonian is acquainted. If Oregonians
do not know congressmen, it is prob
able that the residents of this state
can reach members of the senate and
house through getting in communi
cation with influential people in the
states where they originally resided.
To all Oregonians who have given
the matter any thought, it is appar
ent that the members of congress
from the eastern and southern states
cast their votes on the Chamberlain
Ferris bill without giving the state of
Oregon that consideration which is
rightfully to be expected from legis
lators of the United States.
The Chamberlain-Ferris bill pro
vides the means for the disposal of
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TO
NATIONAL FORESTS BENEFIT
, BY PASSAGE OF ACT TO
HELP STATES
NATION PAYS HALF THE COST
Streets in Towns of 2500 or More Not
to be Improved With Federal
Appropriation
The sum of $85,000,000 of federal
funds is made available for the con
struction of rural roads, by the pass
age of the federal-aid road bill which
became a law on July 11, 1916. Of
this sum, $75,000,000 is to be expended
for the construction of rural post
roads under cooperative arrangements
with the highway departments of the
various states, and $10,000,000 is to
be expended for roads and trails with
in or partly within the national for
ests. The act limits the Federal gov
ernment's, share in road work in co
operation with the states to 50 per
cent of the estimated cost of construc
tion. Federal aid may be extended to
the construction of any rural post
road, excluding all streets or roads in
towns having a population of 2,500 or
more, except the portions of such
streets or roads on which the houses
are, on an average, more than 200 feet
apart.
Five million dollars is made avail
able for expenditure during the fiscal
year ending June 30, 1917, and there
after the appropriation is increased
at the rate of five millions a year un
til 1921, when the sum provided is
twenty-five millions, making a total of
seventy-lve millions. In addition, an
appropriation of $1,000,000 a year for
10 years a total of $10,000,000 is
made available for the development of
roads and trails wholly or partly with
in the national forests.
The class of roads to be built and
the method of construction are to be
mutually agreed upon by the secretary
of agriculture and the state highway
departments. ,-. . ... . .
The act provides that after making
necessary deductions for administer
ing its provisions not to exceed 3
per cent of the appropriation for any
one fiscal year the secretary of ag
riculture shall apportion the remain
der of each year's appropriation in the
following manner:
One-third in the ratio ' which the
area of each state bears to the total
area of all the states.
One-third in the ratio which the
population of each state bears to the
total population of all the states.
One-third in the ratio which the
mileage of rural delivery route and
star routes in each state bears to the
total mileage of rural delivery routes
and s,tar routes in all the states.
The various states securing aid un
der the provisions of the act are
charged with the making of needed
repairs and the preservation of a
reasonably smooth surface, consider
ing the type of the road, but are not
obliged to make extraordinary repairs
or undertake reconstruction. If, after
due notice, a state fails to maintain
a federally aided road properly, the
secretary is required to refuse further
aid until the road has been poperly
repaired at state expense.
The objects sought through federal
aid to roads in the national forests
are thus explained by the secretary of
agriculture in his annual report for
1915, in which he recommends such
legislation as well as federal aid to
rural post roads:
"The real agricultural problem
within and near the forests is to make
possible the successful occupancy and
development -of the lands that already
have been opened to entry or actually
patented. The mere private owner
ship of land does not insure success
ful use of it. In Oregon and Wash
ington alone there are about 3,000,000
acres of logged-off land, much of it
agricultural in character, now lying
idle. In this condition speculative
holding of the land for higher prices
plays a large part. Another cause is
the lack of transportation facilities
a settler may clear lana ana raise
crops upon it, but he is helpless if he
can not market them. There are
great areas of fertile land unused to
day on this account. In many sections
near the national forests pioneer con
ditions still exist. The population is
small, and the task of road building is
beyond the means of the residents,
There is little or no demand for tim
ber, and the receipts from the forests
which go to the community are small
The fact that the public property is
not subject to taxation makes such
communities feel, and very justly, that
the forests are not contributing
enough to local development.
Buys Coal Business
The coal department of the Ore
gon City Ice and Cold Storage com
pany has been purchased by E. A,
Hackett and will be combined with the
wood and fuel business already estab
lished under the charge of Mr. Hack
ett. By the sale the ice company di
vorces itself altogether from the sale
of fuel and will devote itself strictly
to the ice and cold storage business.
MILLIONS
STATE ROAD 1
MRS. MYERS KILLED
IN MOTOR ACCIDENT
MACHINE ROLLS OVER EMBANK.
MENT, KILLING ONE, INJUR
ING THREE OTHERS
One death and one severe injury
was the toll of an automobile acci
dent on the new Oregon City-Park-place
hard surfaced road last Thurs
day evening when Mrs. W. H. Myers,
3001 Sixty-Second street, Portland,
lost her life and Mrs. W. G. Kent, pro
prietress of a rooming house in Port
land was painfully injured. The ma
chine being driven by young Mrs. F.
W. Orpin of Portland ran off the
hard surface into soft earth and turn
ed turtle over a small embankment,
pinning five of the six occupants be
neath it. Mrs. Kent is the mother of
Mrs. Orpin, who owned and drove the
machine.
Mrs. Myers, whose life had gone
when aid arrived to remove the stays
of the top of the machine from her,
was strangled to death. She was
thrown in such a way that her neck
caught on the wire of a fence at the
sje of the road and the stays of the
top rested on the back of her neck so
that she could not move. Frantic
efforts on the part of her companions
to remove the car from its position
were .ineffective. ' . '
The occupants of the machine, in
addition to Mrs. Myers, were the driv
er, Mrs. F. W. Orpin, Mr. and Mrs.
R. A. Wells and little son of Oregon
City and Mrs. W. G. Kent of Portland.
The party was en route to the Chau
tauqua at Gladstone from this city,
where they had just finished a dinner
party at a local eating place. Mrs.
Orpin could not account for .the acci
dent beyond the fact that the machine
could not be controlled in the soft
earth at the side of the road. She ad
mitted being an inexperienced driver
and those who saw her soon after at
tribute to her frantic efforts to do
the thing properly the accident which
cost the life of Mrs. Myers.
The accident occured during day
light hours just a few feet beyond the
Southern Pacific tracks on the new
road between Oregon City and Park-
place. The driver had just complet
ed the descent of the rise beyond the
track .when, attempting to get her
proper position in the road, the car
wont off the surface into, the soft dirt
and immediately turned over.' Mr.
Wells', who had his young son in his
lap, hurled the youngster,' from the
tar into a clump of bushes as soon
as he saw that an accident was in
evitable. This saved the little fellow
from injury and he was the only one
of the party nob- badly bruised.
The following day a coroner's jury
exhonerated Mrs. Orpin from blame.
In its report the jury said that Mrs.
Myers' death was caused by "stran
gulation resulting from being under
an accidentally overturned automobile
driven by Mrs. F. W. Orpin and the
jury believes no blame is attached to
Mrs. Orpin or anyone." The jurymen
were Maxwell Vietor, G. E. Long,
George Hall, W. N. Trudell, J. B. Bow-
land and Sam Jones.
Mrs. Kent, after several days un
der treatment at the Oregon City hos
pital, was removed to her home in
Portland early this week.
RURAL CREDITS IS
FORUM HOUR TOPIC
GOVERNOR AND DR. MACPHER-
SON SPEAK. MILL ROAD
TAX ADVOCATED
Farm, farmer and farming were
the themes of several highly interest
ing addresses at chautauqua yester
day morning when the forum hour
was devoted to a program designed
to instruct and entertain the agricul
turist.
The session was presided over by
C. E. Spence, master of the state
grange, and Governor James Withy
combe was the most prominent speak
er. Others who addressed the large
audience were Dr. Hector Macpher
son of the Oregon Agricultural col
lege and J. D. Brown, president of
the Educational and Cooperative Un
ion of America. President W. J.
Kerr of the state college, listed for an
address, wus detained at Corvallis and
could not carry out his part of the
program.
Dr. Macpherson explained and dis
cussed his hobby, "Rural Credits," in
the cause of which he is one ( of the
state's most ardent workers. Mr.
Brown's address was along lines or
agricultural improvement and devel
opment, in which the Educational and
Cooperative Union is so actively en
gaged in many communities. ,
"Agriculture is the basic wealth of
this nation and the greatest problem
before the nation today is that of pro
viding cheaper money for the farm
er," said Governor Withycombe in
the course of his interesting address.
"I see the solution of the cheaper
money question in the rural credits
measure which is to go before the
people at the November election. This
measure is one of greater value to
the farmer than any that has been
presented in years and it deserves
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CHAUTAUQUA IS PROFITABLE.
PROFIT WILL NOT BUILD
NEW AUDITORIUM
1000 INHABIT TENT COLONY
Persons From All Walks in Life Help
to Make Twenty-Third Session
a Success
A literal blaze of glory brought to
an auspicious close the twenty-third
annual Willamette Valley chautauqua
at Gladstone park last evening. The
burst of glory in its literal sense was
in the great fire works display that
followed the regular evening program
at which the Kaffir Boy's choir en
tertained a great throng with their
unique music. Unique in that there is
but one Kaffir boy's choir.
From all points of view the chau
tauqua this year was probably better
than any ever held in the long and
successful life of the important Clack-
amas county institution, Through
out the thirteen days of the delight
ful program there were 1000 persons
encamped in the park. This mass of
people making up the Gladstone park
tent city erected 235 tents, and in
many cases beautified them with flow
ers and greens that the outing might
be the more enjoyable. The canvas
covered community was inhabited by
people from all parts of this county
and from many sections of the state.
The campers came from as far east
as Hood River and from as far south
as Eugene. They were all serious
minded folk, seeking the knowledge
that is available to those who will de
vote themselves to the classes that are
carried on each day by the most ca
pable instructors that can be obtain
ed. The ticket sale, although it did not
total much more than that of the
previous year or so, was very good.
Approximately 12,000 single admis
sion tickets were sold and 700 season
tickets were pa.id for. The final audit
of the booTs of the" chautauqua naso-i '
ciation will probably not show a great
profit, but the directors feel satisfied
in having reaped any profit as a re
sult of the efforts for which the com
munity praises them. The profit will
not build the new auditorium, but
that structure will be ready for the
programs next year without a doubt.
The expenses incident to a success
ful chautauqua assembly are astound
ing. The primary outlay for such
things as the program, the park and
pre-season advertising represents a
cash outlay of more than $5500. Then
there are inumerable minor oxpenses
that mount up into large figures when
totalled. '
The program this season was so
splendidly blended as to hold excep
tional interest for all classes of chau
tauqua patrons. There were series of
classes attended by persons of all
ages and their instruction ranged
from Shakespeare to gymnastics.
And to make the whole more welcome
a liberal sprinkling of genuine enter
tainment was blended into the pro
gram each day with baseball games
and the like. The platform- held some
of the nation's best talent in all lines.
There were humorists and rich con
tralto voices; there were native Ha
waiian musicians and first-rank poli
ticians; there were popular lecturers
and moving pictures, a range of in
struction and entertainment that had
not an equal in the northwest this sea
son or in the past. And the promise
is for an even better chautauqua next
year.
People from all walks of ljfe made
this session of chautauqua successful.
Their interested and unselfish . co
operation with the management did
much to encourage that loyal group
of workers and enabled them to put
the spirit of success into their work
in behalf of the community. The
churches played an important part in
the assembly. Several denominations
established camps at the park and
maintained headquarters for the mem
bers of the respective congregations.
In fact everything seemed to conspire
to make the thirteen-day period one
of exceptional merit, even though old
Sol did desert the cause for a time.
The history of the twenty-third annual
chautauqua at Gladstone park is a
history merited by facts.
Gladstone park is pointed to by
chautauqua workers everywhere as
the home of the west's greatest chau
tauqua and with the erection of a fine
new auditorium next year this desig
nation will be more appropritB"'than
ever. ,
The Wrong Man
The distinction of writing a letter
which appeared in the last issue of
the Courier over the initials "J. B. C."
has been given to J. B. Carter of this
city by certain of his friends. Mr.
Carter positively had no connection
with the letter in question. Mr. Car
ter had no knowledge of the commun
ication before it appeared in the pa
per. Suffice to say that J. B. Carter
is not the J. B, C. who wrote the let
ter in question. .
ASSEMBLY C
OSES
FIREWORKS