4 OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1916 OREGON CITY COURIER C. W. ROBEY, Editor and Business Manager Published Thursdays from the Courier Building, Eighth Street, and entered in the Postoffice at Oregon City, Ore., as 2nd class mail matter. Subscription Price $1.50. Telephones: Pacific 51; Home A-51 MEMBER OP WILLAMETTE VALLEY EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION MEMBER OP OREGON STATE EDITORIAL ASSOCIATION THIS PAPER REPRESENTED FOR FOREIGN , ADVERTISING BY THE GENERAL OFFICES NEW YORK AND CHICAGO BRANCHES IN ALL THE PRINCIPAL CITIE9 RAINBOW HU(GH)ES, MEDICINE MAN "Boo, Boo!" thunders Rainbow Hu(gh)es, the carnifical and cantank erous medicine man of the G. 0. P., "Wilson did not recognize Huerta that was his cnrdinal sin a criminal ommission." From the east to the west, up and down the Pacific coast and back east again, Charles E. Hughes scattered his rainbow stuff and his calamity howling nonsense. He charged the Wilson administration with almost the entire calendar of crime and he laid great gobs of stress upon the Mexican situation a situation that was inherited by Woodrow Wilson be cause of the peculiar actions and lack of action in the matter on the part of Willie Taft, his rotund predeces sor In Portland everywhere he spoke Hughes, misguided leader of a bunch of rainbow chasers, derided Wilson and his administration, called him cruel harsh names and threaten ed to usurp his seat at Washington because Wilson had not recognized Victoriano Huerta, the Mexican mur derer. Of course old Rainbow Hu(gh)es didn't seem to be able to realize that Taft had failed to recog nize Huerta. He, you know, had a chance at -that job, but Taft didn't want Huerta's grime on Taft's hands. Alright, Bill slips the nasty job to Woodrow, which, we must admit, was clever of Willie. But Wilson, hu manitarian and all American, could n't see the idea in recognizing the Mexican murderer as president of a troubled republic, therefore he did not recognize him as such. Now comes Rainbow Hu(gh)es and in the folly of his ignorance and in want of a real issue, an issue that might be hoped to have weight enough to turn, the minds of honest, thinking Americans against Wilson and his policies, says that Wilson didn't rec ognize Huerta and thereby commit ted the greatest sin of ommission the world has ever known. Oh! what a crime, what an inter national calamity it was that Wilson should not have taken upon himself the pleasure of giving official recog nition to Huerta, to one of the foul est political blackguards who ever trod the earth a murderer of women and little children. What an evil thing it was that Wilson and Taft did not hold up to the world the dirty, bloody hands of Huerta and proclaim to all the world American faith in the man whose hands he held. Shame, President Wilson, shame upon you! Why didn't you besmirch the heart and soul within you that Huerta might be recognized? Why didn't you recognize him so that Rainbow1 Hu(gh)es, the bewhiskered medicine man, might have had something real to find fault with; so that Rainbow Hu(gh)es could hold you up to gaze upon as unfit and unclean because you had recognized a murderous Mexi can? But you didn't do it, Woodrow Wil son, and America loves you for your courage. Still, there is another side to it, After spreading his worthless and intolerable gospel of war from coast to coast. Hushes started east. He got as far as Nashville, Tenn., and thought there to spread some more of his tommy-rot. But Hughes forgot and spread the wrong brand. He said at Nashville: "I do not say that I would have recognized Huerta." There you have it, friends, and in it you will find the full cash value of Rainbow Hu(gh)es, the medicine man who switches dope when he finds one brand ineffective. We need not com ment further. Hughes traveled far and wide criticising Wilson and his human Americanism for not fecog. nizing Huerta. The medicine did not reach the hearts of American people and Hughes lost strength because he used it. Therefore, speaking truth fully at Nashville, Hughes didn't know that he would have recognized Huerta had he the opportunity. Neither does Hughes know how he would have handled the European submarine question, the labor laws he decries, the anti-trust laws, prepared ness, woman suffrage honest to goodness now, tell us truly, can you conscientiously vote for a man who doesn't know the first thing about the office he seeks, its responsibilities and its demands a man who has not the slightest idea what he would do if he was confronted with a ticklish situation while president. Can you vote for a man who has not the cour- age of his own convictions and who switches his medicine when he finds himself in disfavor; makes his treat. ment to suit the patient rather than to cure the disease? Woodrow Wilson has convictions- manly strong convictions and he has the manly courage to go with them. Woodrow Wilson dares and does fol low the dictates of his own con science. "Boo, Hool" cries the G. 0. P, medicine man, "I do not say that I would have recognizerlluerta." And America laughs in pity nt the child ishness of the man. THE COUNTRY WEEKLY The editor of an eastern country weekly, addressing the National Edi torial convention recently on the sub ject of "The Country Weekly as an Influence," said, in part: OUR CRIMINAL WASTE OF FOOD When a calamity such as the San Francisco earthquake, the Dayton flood or the sinking of the Titanic occurs, the world stands aghast at the frightful waste of life and property as measured in dollars and cents, and the whole world pays the penalty. But these happenings cannot bo averted. They are costly but infrequent part of the price of our modern civili zation, and constitute but a small fraction of the waste cost of the world. We wouldn't burn a forest knowingly, but we would bum the lumber that conies out of it. Nations do not waste their big things willingly. Only a great war can bring a nation to the point . of destroying life and property recklessly, as part of the game. But there is a waste that is going on constantly that is more costly even than war, as costly as war may be; for war accomplishes something at least it settles a quarrel. The waste we refer to is the waste of little things, for these in the aggregate prove as cost ly, although loss noticeable, than the waste of larger ones. While little indulgences, such as drinking, smoking, candy and sodas, are not particularly waste, they are not profitable expenditures. They get us no where and do no particular good. But even passing these as permissible, the most inex cusable waste is in the line of food. It is not what comes in at the front door, particularly, that counts, but what goes out of the kitchen. The total cost of food in this country cannot be even approx imated, but eminent authorities place a dollar a day as a fail average for the food value of the American people. This means a cost of about $.r,?.00,. 000,000 each year. 'So eminent an authority as Dr. Wiley es timates that at least one-quarter of this is wasted. And this is entirely possible. Notice as you dine at restaurants how much untouched food goes back to the kitchen not to feed some poorer mortal, but to go out in the garbage. It seems so per fectly natural for some people to merely play with a dinner, .sending choice cuts of meats and fowls back to the garbage can. We waste more than we eat. If the Doctor is right, this means a food waste of $1,300,. 000,000 a year and the pity is it does no one any good not even the pigs, for they would thrive better on a less costly diet. One large country hotel a few years ago lost most of its herd of 300 hogs from feeding "swell swill." This food, if conserved, would feed all the poor. It would build ten battleships, It would buy all the land in some states. It would pay off the na tional debt in a single year, It would run tho government for twelve months. The waste of money cures it self, for soon there is no more to waste. There comes a time when tho bank account runs dry and tho easy money flows no more. But this frightful waste of food can go on year in and year out and yet we wonder why living costs so high. It takes four years to raise a porterhouse steak, and to send half of it back to the kitchen is an economic crime. If you waste a forest, soon tho last tree will he cut. If you .waste land, it will soon be barren. If you waste time, you will never succeed. If you waste money, you will soon have no more to waste, but you can keep on eat ing food until wou you can eat no more, and wonder why you are poor. Better take inven tory of what goes out in the garbage bucket and see how much you contribute toward this enormous sum, so big in its proportions that we fail to grasp its magnitude. THE BANK OF OREGON CITY Oldest Bank in Clackamas County "The existence of the country weekly is admitted but as to the real, ity of its influence, that is not admit ted by many a superficial scribe and is too seldom asserted by the country editor who could and should wield such influence. So keen and compe tent a studentof journalism and its problems as Professor Thorpe of Kan sas has well said: 'The country newspaper is the nucleus of commun ity life and the country must meas ure its progress by the community. The country editor exerts more of an influence on the community than any other agency. He is the advance agent of its civic progress, the stim ulus of its social life, the big brother of the church, the patron saint of the school, yea, he is the kind and gen erous recording angel on earth who ignores and keeps from his readers at the family hearthstone the sala cious morsels of sensation that his metropolitan brother seeks out and spreads broadcast, our country friend emphasizing the good in men and the successes that follow effort as his more conspicuous brother of the city seems to emphasize the bad, chroni cling the failures of life, the wrecks of effort. The opportunity for influ ence is big before the editor of the editor of the country weekly and it is an influence, which, when availed of, is always for good on a broad and generous plan. "They who do not recognize ,the pre-eminent influence of the country weekly emphasize its triviality and its barenness. As a matter of fact its triviality as compared with its city contemporary is more apparent than real and its barrenness pertains rath er to the individual than to the class and need not exist at all. An able defender of the craft wrote a few years ago: 'When you consider that the country paper is owned by its ed itor and that the man who writes the funny things about country papers in the city journal is owned by the cor poration for which he writes, it does, n't seem so sad. When you see an item in the city paper poking fun at the country editor for printing news about John Jones' new barn, you laugh and laugh. ...for you know that on one of the pages of that same city daily is a two-column story in regard to the trimming on the gowns of the Duchess of Wheelbarrow. And it is all the more amusing because you know the duchess does not even know of the existence of the aforesaid city paper, while John Jones and many of his neighbors take and pay for the paper which mentioned his barn.' " INHERITED MEXICAN PROBLEM The republican campaigners, from the fault-finding Hughes down to the humblest cross-roads statesman, have nothing to say of the Mexican prob lem save during Wilson's administra. tion. They carefully ignore every thing before March 4, 1913, and one short, non-committal sentence covers all they dare say of the future if Hughes is elected. They never mention the "humiliat ing" incident of the American citizen taking out a certificate of registra. tion from the British Consulate at the City of Mexico to secure protec tion to his property. But this hap pened when Roosevelt, the doughty, was president in 1908. They never refer to the letter President Taft in 1911 wrote to the governor of Arizona, who had tele graphed him that unless the Ameri can government acted, the people of Douglas, Arizona, would have to va cate the town: "I cannot order the troops to cross the border, but must ask you and the local authorieies, in ease the danger occurs again, to di rect the people of Douglas to place themselves where bullets cannot reach them." If one finds cowardice in dealing patiently with Mexico, can he find anything more cowardly than this? It was Senator Stone, democratic, of Missouri, who first insisted that President Taft be authorized to em ploy force to restore order in Mexi co, and it was Senator Root, republi can, of New York, the ablest cham pion of Hughes and a bitter critic of Wilson, who said then that even a inreat; oi iorce would oe to reverse the policy of the United States and take a step backward in the path of civilization." And Senator Lodge, re publican, of Massachusetts, backed him up. Tho Mexican problem has been a national, not a party problem, ever since the passing of Diaz. Able and honest men of both parties have agreed and disagreed over it have agreed and disagreed with their own party heads over it. It should be dealt with by the people as it has been dealt with by our president thought fully, conscientiously, justly. FORD ON THE TARIFF he says that those who oppose the law do not know their business. And this same hardheaded, analyt ic business man a man whose brain power has created millions of dollars even while it was creating comfort and happiness in thousands of homes says of the tariff question: "I want to say that a protective tariff is nothing more nor less than a hot house remedy. It may make bus. iness sprout for a little while, but its effect is artificial and it can never produce a hardy business plant." The worth of the Ford remarks is in the fact that he was talking busi ness from a business standpoint. Ford is a republican and he is not telling what he knows for the Wilson cause. ' TREASON OR WHAT? In commenting upon the Courier's report of the recent republican ban quet in this city, the Columbia Herald of Houlton, Ore., has the following remarks to make: "In a speech at a republican ban quet, held in Oregon City last week. Gov. Withycombe said: 'The Wilson administration has made a disgrace of the United States.' "In God's name is there no con science left in the old party calamity howlers that would bring a blush of shame to the cheek of one who would utter such damnable treason against the administration of such a man as President Wilson, especially coining from the lips of our state executive? "Now let every voter in Oregon carefully size up and compare Pres. ident Wilson's almost miraculous ad ministration with the disgraceful ep isode of strife, discord and misman agement in state affairs in the past two years by peanut Governor With- ycombe's administration, which would disgrace Hades in its palmiest days, and note the difference. "And yet Governor Withycombe; the corporation henchman who ar. rayed his influence against the school children in the interests of a railroad corporation, has the supreme gall and brazen effrontery to stand up in public meeting and spew out the treasonable utterance: 'The Wilson administration has made a disgrace of the United States.' "Shame! Shame!!" Obituaries J. S. Barnes News of the death of J. S. Barnes. a prominent Wilsonville farmer, was received from a Portland hospital Monday. Mr. Barnes had been under treatment for blood poisoning which developed after a rusty nail pene trated his foot and brought on lock jaw. Eleven of a family of 15 chil dren survive with the widow. Mr. Barnes was 53 years old and came to Oregon from Iowa, his native state, several years ago. Interment was in the family plot at Hood View cem etery. Mrs. Minerva Ryel Mrs. Minerva Ryel, granddaughter of Mrs. Minerva Oatfield of Concord, died at Vancouver, B. C, on Thurs day as a result of an attack of infan tile paralysis. Mrs. Ryel was daughter of W. R. Oatfield and passed her childhood days at the home of her grandmother at Concord. She had many acquaintances in this coun ty and in Portland, where she attend, ed school. She was married to Clar ence Ryel two years ago and lived in Portland until recently, when they went to Vancouver. Mrs. Ryel was ill two weeks and at the time of her death her grandmother was at the bedside. Whatever Henry Ford, the automo bile manufacturer, may have been as a peace advocate, he has few super iors in the business world in the United States. Mr. Ford has become one of the most remarkable of bust, ncss men in the world, and his busi ness methods and the success he has achieved as a manufacturer, have been heralded throughout the world as the accomplishments of a master mind, a mind that knows and does and that knows why it does. These being the facts, what Henry Ford says about business is taken as authoritative by the millions who ad mire the man. He is hardheaded, an alytic and speaks only when he knows what ho talks about. That, even, was the case in his peace expedition. He knew what he was setting out to do, and he would have accomplished his admirable purpose had he not been hampered by the shoddy work of les. ser minds. Henry Ford, speaking of the eight- hour day, said that such a day had been the order in his great shops at Detroit and elsewhere for three years and the increased profits in that time have been enormous. Henry Ford says that the federal adoption of an eight-hour railroad workers' law will help make the eight-hour dav general throughout ihe country and Mrs. Julia Mum power Mrs. Julia Mumpower, wife of J. L. Mumpower, died Monday evening at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Mary Hatton, at the age of 77 years. Mrs. Mumpower, whose maiden name was JuUa Baxter, was born on a farm in Marshall county, Illinois, way to the mountains. The writer January 11, 1840, her mother having come to that place with an ox team of emigrants from Virginia when Il linois was still a frontier state. On March 19, 1857, she became the bride of J. L. Mumpower, who was also of Marshall county. After several years 1'esidence there, where their five chil dren were born, they moved to Ne braska. Thirty-four years ago last July the family came to San Francis co and thence to Portland by water and made their home on a portion of the old Horace Baker donation land claim, near Oregon City, where the elder Mumpowers have- lived since. Deceased was the . step-daughter of Horace Baker, a pioneer of 1846. who operated Baker's ferry, where Bak er's bridge now is, long before a bridge spanned the Clackamas river. One of the first persons the Mum power family was Mayor Hackett's father, who presented the children with some fine ripe cherries. Mrs. Mumpower had been an ac tive member of the church of Christ since the age of 15 years, a member of the local Mothers' club, a firm sup porter of woman's suffrage, and it was her earnest desire to vote for prohibition in the coming election. As a neighbor she was a kind and loving friend and a helpful comforter in times of sickness, fier health began to fail a little more than a year ago, and she was confined to her bed con stantly the last three weeks of her life. Her surviving children were gathered about her when the end came. The family history records four deaths in the 59 years of Mr. and Mrs. Mumpower's wedded life and none in the forty years immediately following their marriage. Deceased is survived by her aged husband, who recently became a pa tient at the state hospital in Salem; three sons, L. D. Mumpower of Glad stone; Grant and Will Mumpower of Stone, and daughter, Mrs. John Hat ton; twenty-one grandchildren. A I 5 A Hurry-up -for-School Breakfast For the Children "(let up, .sleepy heads! Time to get up !"' Mother's voice rings cheerily out niul Hoods the room with a radiance as exhil arating as the morning sun streaming in the windows. In a trice there is a riotous scramble from cozy beds, laughiu. faces scrubbed until they fairly shine, school clothes doneil, and then breakfast! Mother Must Have Them Off to School on Time, and in the "ELECTRIC HOME" the Task is Easy. Grape fruit and puffed rice with cream are on the table in a jiffy, and while the little ones are eating, mother is at tillable with them frying pancakes of just the right brownness on her ELECTRIC TOASTER STOVE. USE PREPARED PANCAKE FLOUR OR THE FOLLOWING RECIPE: Two cups wheat Hour, Three tablespoonfuls baking powder, One and one-half cups of milk, Two eggs, One-quarter of a cup of melted butter. , One-quarter of a teaspoonful of salt. Mix and sift the dry ingredients; add milk and beaten eggs; beat well and add butter; beat again and take to the table in a pi teller. When griddle of toaster is thoroughly heated, pour batter on and bake without grease. And coffee, made in an ELECTRIC PERCOLATOR, always rivals her pancakes. She puts into the percolator the required amount of cold water, and to each pint of water adds three rounding teaspooufuls of coffee ground fine, but not pulver ized. She puts the cover on the percolator, turns on the current and lets it perco late for fifteen minutes. Then she serves it mellow and hot and wonderfully ap Portland Railway Light (8b Power Company I I The Electric Store Phones Home A-229 Pacific Main 115 Andresen BIdg. 619 Main St. daughter, Mrs. Annie Underwood, died several years ago. The funeral was held from the church of Christ on Clear Creek Tuesday afternon and interment was in the Logan cemetery. PLANT IS UNIQUE Portland Man Installs Apparatus in Clackamas Near Gladstone In addition to the many Clackamas county people who have seen and wondered at the floating power plant stationed in tthe Clackamas river near Gladstone a delegation of Port land Chamber of Commerce members visited the plant last week and mar veled at the invention-. They believe, as do others who have seen it, that it will, if properly manufactured, have a good and extensive effect upon irrigation problems in the west. During the inspection by the Port lnad men the floating plant lifted water to a height exceeding 50 feet, with power generated from the cur rent of the Clackamas river. Its principal is that of the undershot wheel. The apparatus consists of a float ing power plant to be anchored in the What- Does Catarrh Mean? It means inflammation of a mucous membrane some where in the head, throat, bronchial tubes, stomach, bil iary ducts or bowels. It always means stagnant blood the blood that is full of impur ities. Left alone, it extends until it is followed by Indigestion, colds, congestion or fever. It weakens the system generally and spreads its operations until systemic catarrh or an acute illness is the result. Peruna Is the nation's reliable remedy for this condition. 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The faster the current, of course, the more pow er may be developed. The small I pump now in use on the experimental plant does not use much of the power 1 which the wheel is developing, serv ! ing only to demonstrate, what a larg I er pump could do. It is claimed that lands contiguous to a river may be irrigated at 25 per cent of the cost of present methods. Mr. Berry declares that the small machine now in use is capable of ir rigating 160 acres of land from a five mile current. The committee from the chamber's bureau of industries and manufac tures which witnessed Friday's tests was made up of O. E. Ileintz, H. O. Tenney and John Wolf. Mr. Berry hopes that a factory may be estab lished for making these floating pow er plants as a result of the inspection by the chamber officials. Moderate exercise in the open air prolongs life. KILLING FROSTS Reports Form Several Sections of y County Indicate Heavy Damage The early frosts of the past few evenings have resulted in the loss of many thousands of dollars on the farms of Clackamas county, estimat ing the loss from reports from pros perous farmers in these sections where crops have been damaged, if not altoeether destrnvpH. Courier several different sections have reported losses from the frost on Monday evening. At Redland, for instance, the frost nipped the late corn and the damage there alone will run into the thnn. sands of dollars. At Hazelia other crop damage was done and in every direction some cron or Dortinn nf -rnn was affected by the chill. At Red land observers report the tempera ture to have been at. ahnur. an nlinvo zero on Monday night and Sn other more remote districts the mercury went even lower than that. President Wilson announces can. structive plans: Mr. Hue-hes threat ens us with war and one of those old time republican tariffs. 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