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OREGON CITY COURIER, OREGON CITY, OREGON, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1916
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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
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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
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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. It restores appetite,
aids digestion, checks and removes
inflammation, and thus enables the
membranes, through which we breathe
and through which our food is ab
sorbed, to do their woik properly,
Forty-four years of success, with thou
sands of testimonials, have established
it as the home remedy kver-Keady-
to-1 alee. Its record of success
holds a promise for you.
THE PERUNA COMPANY
COLUMBUS. OHIO
You can obtain Peruna In tablet form
for convenience.
The Three Great
Stock Foods
BERKSHIRE for Hogs. Puts on Fat
H0LSTEIN for Cows. Makes Milk
PERCHERON for Horses. Keeps Them
in Condition
New Seed; Vetch and Clover
Country Produce Bought
and Sold
Brady Mercantile Co.
Main Street and Eleventh
Pacific 448 Home 3238
Undergrade Crossing On Twelth Street
stream. The waterwheels actuate
I the pumps mounted on the platform
and the device may be moved about
I at will. The inventor claims that the
' machine will generate 10 horsepower
! in a five-mile current. 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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